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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) 1893-08-01 Volume 4 Issue 3 Pages Page range in volume 73–108 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 18930801 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin The HMutbor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vou. IV.—No. 3.] AUGUST 1, 1893. [PRicE SIXPENCE. CONTENTS. PAGE | PAGE Warnings and Notices See es ee as oe ee age Guy de Maupassant ... ae oe ies a cas ae ise eae: Lterary Property— Feuilleton. ‘tA Method of Advertisement” ... ae os ae UE 1.—Editor and Contributor ... ies ee Ae gee Shean So-So Sociology aes ee a Sg ae Se oe en 206 s ; 2.—Editorial Announcements ae ea er we wets A Bridesong of Britain Bs tbe tee aes ay oy yee OF 3.—The Ethics of Mutilation ... ‘ a oa eae Ses ke Correspondence— 4.—Authors and Editors See are see oe eae see oO 1.—Payment for Interviews... oe SS a wae ee 8 A Hard Case. ‘The L. P. A. Limited” a es se 00 2.—Copyright in New Zealand i ne ise ane wee, C98 Omnium Gatherum for August ... ees aes ae ae tee SOE What the Papers Say— American Notes and News. By the Editor ... acs ses Bee. | 1,.—The Preternatural Story... oe Ses ae fe sae 90 The Congress of Authors ... cae ae te ace ee ce oe 2.—Withdrawn from Circulatien ... ay ar cue ces oo Notes and News te cae se aye nee eee oe Gow (ae At the Sign of the Author’s Head oe ae Lae Ses ne 99 Notes from Paris... ne ag ots ee as sre ae 0 New Books and New Editions... BE ue ae oon wow LOT PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 1. The Annual Report. That for January 1892 can be had on application to the Secretary. 9. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary Property. Issued to all Members. 3. The Grievances of Authors. (The Leadenhall Press.) 1s.. The Report of three Meetings on the general subject of Literature and its defence, held at Willis’s Rooms, March, 1887. 4. Literature and the Pension List. By W. Morris Coxxss, Barrister-at-Law. (Henry Glaisher, g5, Strand, W.C.) 3s. 5. The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By S. Squire Spricex, late Secretary to the Society. Is. 6. The Cost of Production. In this work specimens.are jiven of he most important forms of type, size of page, &c., with estimates showing what it costs =, --- ‘xe more common kinds of books. Henry Glaisher, 95, Strand, W.C. 2s. 6d. 7. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. Squrrz Sprices. In this work, compiled from the papers in the Society’s offices, the various forms 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. 8. 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.Lrny. Eyre and Spottiswoode. 1s. 6d. 9, The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By Water Besant (Chairman of Committee, 1888—1892). 1s. 74 ADVERTISEMENTS. The Society of Authors (Sncorporated). PRESIDENT. GHORGH MBREDITHEH,. COUNCIL. Sir Epwin ARNOLD, K.C.LE., C.8.1. ALFRED AUSTIN. J. M. BARRIE. A. W. A Beckett. RoseErt BATEMAN. Sir Henry Berens, K.C.M.G. WALTER BESANT. AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, M.P. R. D. BuAcKMORE. Rev. Pror. Bonney, F.R.S. Rieut Hon. James Bryce, M.P. Hatt CAINE. EGERTON CASTLE. P. W. CLAYDEN. EDWARD CLODD. W. Morris Cougs. Hon. JoHN COLLIER. W. Martin Conway. F. Marion CRAWFORD. Austin DoBson. A. W. Duzsoura. EpMuND GossE. Tuomas Harpy. J. M. Lety. OswALD CRAWFURD, C.M.G. THE EARL or DEsaRT. J. Exic Exnicusen, F.R.S. Pror. MicHasEt Foster, F.R.S. Rieut Hon. HERBERT GARDNER, M.P. RICHARD GARNETT, LL.D. H. Riper HaGearp. JEROME K. JEROME. RupyYaRD KIpPuina. Pror. E. Ray Lanxestsr, F.R.S. Rev. W. J. Lortie, F.S.A. Pror. J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN. Herman C. MERIVALE. Rev. C. H. MippLETON- WAKE. Lewis Morris. Pror. Max MULLER. J.C. PARKINSON. Tue Ear. oF PEMBROKE AND Mont- GOMERY. Sir FREDERICK PoLiock, Bart., LL.D. Wa.rerR HERRIES POLLOCK. A. G. Ross. GEoRGE AUGUSTUS SALA. W. Baptiste Scoonzs. G. R. Sms. S. SqurrE SPRIGGE. J. J. STEVENSON. Jas. SULLY. WiuurAm Moy THOMAS. H. D. Traut, D.C.L. Baron HENRY DE WoRMS, F.RB.8. EpMuUND YATES. M.P., Hon. Counsel—E. M. UNDERDOWN, Q.C. Solicitors—Messrs Freu~p, Roscor, and Co., Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Secretary—G. Herpert THRING, B.A. OFFICES. 4, Portugan StrEEet, Lincoin’s Inn Freips, W.C. Now ready, Third Edition, with Additions throughout, in demy 8vo., 700 pages, price 15s. AN ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, From the Earliest Periods to the Present Time. WITH NOTICES OF EMINENT PARLIAMENTARY MEN, AND EXAMPLES OF THEIR ORATORY. CoMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES BY GHORGEH BBW ERY JEN NiNGe. CONTENTS. Part I.—Riseand Progress of Parliamentary Institutions. Part II.—Personal Anecdotes: Sir Thomas More to John Morley. Part III.—Miscellaneous. 1. Elections. 2. Privilege; Ex- clusion of Strangers; Publication of Debates. 3. Parliamentary Usages, &c. 4. Varieties. Apprnprx.—(A) Lists of the Parliaments of England and of the United Kingdom. (B) Speakers of the House of Commons. (C) Prime Ministers, Lord Chancellors, and Secretaries of State from 1715 to 1892. Opinions of the Press ‘¢The work, which has long been held in high repute as a repertory of good things, is more than ever rich in doth instruction and amuse- ment. ’—Scotsman. ‘Tt is a treasury of useful fact and amusing anecdote, and in its latest form should have increased popularity.”—Globe. ‘“‘Tts advantage to those who are seeking seats in Parliament, or who may have occasion to assist as speakers during the electoral campaign, is incumparable.”—Sala’s Journal. of the Present Edition. “Tt is a work that possesses both a practical and an historical value, and is altogether unique in character.”—Kentish Observer. ‘We can heartily recommend this work to the politician, whatever may be his party leanings.”—wNorthern Echo. ‘Here we have the whole company of Parliamentary ge siege past and present, reduced to puppets, so to speak, and made to repeat their best and most approved rhetorical performances for our leisurely entertainment, which is not less enjoyable from being allied with edification.” —Liverpool Courier. = Orders may now be sent to HORACE COX “Law Times Office,” Windsor House, Bream’s-buildings, E.C. cuaaatal The HMutbor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT. Vou. IV.—No. 3.] AUGUST 1, 1893. [PRIcE SIXPENCE. For the Opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the Authors alone are responstble. None of the papers or para- graphs must be taken as expressing the collective opinions of the committee unless they are officially signed by G. Herbert Thring, sec. 1. Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and requests that all members not receiving an answer to important communications within two days will write to him without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered letter only. FP Oe AGREEMENTS. T is not generally understood that the author, as the vendor, has the absolute right of drafting the agree- ment upon whatever terms the transaction is to be carried out. Authors are strongly advised to exercise that right. Inevery other form of business, the right of drawing the agreement rests with him who sells, leases, or has the control of the property. pe WARNINGS. EADERS of the Author and members of the Society are earnestly desired to make the following warnings as widely known as possible. They are based on the experience of nine years’ work by which the dangers to which literary property is especially exposed have been discovered :— 1. SeriaL Ricurs.—In selling Serial Rights stipulate that you are selling the Serial Right for one paper at a certain time only, otherwise you may find your work serialized for years, to the detriment of your volume form. VOL. IV. 2. Stamp YouR AGREEMENTS. — Readers are most URGENTLY warned not to neglect stamping their agreements immediately after signature. If this precaution is neglected for two weeks, a fine of £10 must be paid before the agree- ment can be used as a legal document. In almost every case brought to the secretary the agreement, or the letter which serves for one, is forwarded without the stamp. The author may be assured that the other party to the agree- ment never neglects this simple precaution. 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. 3. ASCERTAIN WHAT A PROPOSED AGREEMENT GIVES TO BOTH SIDES BEFORE SIGNING 1T.—Remember that an arrangement as to a joint venture in any other kind of busi- ness whatever would be instantly refused should either party refuse to show the books or to let it be known what share he reserved for himself. 4. Lirerary AGENTS.—Be very careful. You cannot be too careful as to the person whom you appoint as your agent. Remember that you place your property almost un- reservedly in his hands. Your only safety is in consulting the Society, or some friend who has had personal experience of the agent. Do not trust advertisements alone. 5. Cost oF PrRopucTion.-—Never sign any agreement of which the alleged cost of production forms an integral part, until you have proved the figures. 6. CHoiIck or PuBLISHERS.—Never enter into any cor- respondence with publishers, especially with those who ad- vertise for MSS., who are not recommended by experienved friends or by this Society. 7. FUTURE Worxk.—Never, on any account whatever, bind yourself down for future work to anyone. 8. Royaury.—Neyer 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. g. PersonaL Risx.—Never accept any pecuniary risk or responsibility whatever without advice. 10. Resyectrep MSS.—Never, when a MS. has been re- fused by respectable houses, pay others, whatever promises they may put forward, for the production of the work. 11. AmeRicAN Riauts.—Never sign away American rights. Keep them by special clause. Refuse to sign any agreement containing a clause which reserves them for the publisher, unless for a substantial consideration. If the publisher insists, take away the MS. and offer it to another. G2 ti ti AES EE SSRIS 76 THE 12. CEssion oF CopyRigHT.—Never sign any paper, either agreement or receipt, which gives away copyright, without advice. 13. ADVERTISEMENTS.—Keep control over the advertise- ments, if they affect your returns, by a clause in the agree- ment. Reserve a veto. If you are yourself ignorant of the subject, make the Society your adviser. 14. Never forget that publishing is a business, like any other business, totally unconnected with philanthropy, charity, or pure love of literature. You have to do with business men. Be yourself a business man. Society’s Offices :— 4, PoRTUGAL STREET, Lincoun’s INN FIELDS. pec HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. 1. Every member has a right to advice upon his agree- ments, his choice of a publisher, orany dispute arising inthe conduct of his business or the administration of his pro- perty. If the advice sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor, the member has a right to an opinion frem 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 without any cost to the member. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publisher’s agreements do not generally fall within the experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not seruple to use the Society first—our solicitors are continually engaged upon such questions for us. 3. Send to the office copies of past agreements and past accounts with the loan of the books represented. This isin order to ascertain what has been the nature of your agree- ments, and the results to author and publisher respectively so far. The Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The infor- mation thus obtained may prove invaluable. 4. If the examination of your previous business trans- actions by the Secretary proves unfavourable, you should take advice as to a change of publishers. 5. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro- * posed document to the Society for examination. 6. The Society is acquainted with the methods, and—in the case of fraudulent houses—the tricks of every publish- ing firm in the country. Remember that there are certain houses which live entirely by trickery. 7. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen- dence of the writer. 8. Send to the Editor of the Author notes of everything important to literature that you may hear or meet with. 0 AUTHOR. THE AUTHORS’ SYNDICATE. EMBERS are informed : 1. That the Authors’ Syndicate takes charge of the business of members of the Society. With, when necessary, the assistance of the legal advisers of the Syndi- cate, it concludes agreements, collects royalties, examines and passes accounts, and generally relieves members of the trouble of managing business details. 2. That the expenses of the Authors’ Syndicate are defrayed mainly out of the commission charged on rights placed through its intervention. This charge is reduced to the lowest. possible amount compatible with efficiency. In consequence of the immense number of MSS. received, it has become necessary to charge a small booking fee to cover postage and porterage expenses, in all cases where there is no current account. 3. That the Authors’ Syndicate works for none but those members of the Society whose work possesses a market value. : 4. That the business of the Syndicate is not to advise members of the Society, but to manage their affairs for them. 5. That the Syndicate can only undertake arrangements of any character on the distinct understanding that those arrangements are placed exclusively in its hands, and that all negotiations relating thereto are referred to it. 6. That clients can only be seen personally by appoint- ment, and that, when possible, at least four days’ notice should be given. The work of the Syndicate is now so heavy, that only a limited number of interviews can be arranged. 7. That every attempt is made to deal with the corre- spondence promptly, but that owing to the enormous number of letters received, some delay is inevitable. That stamps should, in all cases, be sent to defray postage. 8. That the Authors’ Syndicate does not invite MSS. without previous correspondence, and does not hold itself responsible for MSS. forwarded without notice. 9. The Editor will be glad to receive the titles of pub- lished novels available for second right serial use. It is announced that, by way of a new departure, the Syndicate has undertaken arrangements for lectures by some of the leading members of the Society; that a “Transfer Department,” for the sale and purchase of journals and periodicals, has been opened ; and that a “ Register of Wants and Wanted ” has been opened. Terms on application to the Manager. There is an Honorary Advisory Committee, whose services will be called upon in any case of dispute or difficulty. It is perhaps necessary to state that the members of the Advisory Committee have no pecuniary interest whatever in the Syndicate. NOTICES. HE Editor of the Author begs to remind members of the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 6s. 6d. subscription for the year. THE 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? Communications for the Author should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate to the Editor any points connected with their work which it would be advisable in the general interest to publish. Members and others who wish their MSS. read are requested not to send them to the Office without previously communicating with the Secretary. The utmost practicable despatch is aimed at, and MSS. are read in the order in which they are received. It must also be distinctly under- stood that the Society does not, under any circumstances, andertake the publication of MSS. The Authors’ Club is now open in its new premises, at 3, Whitehall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for information, rules of admission, &c. Will members take the trouble to ascertain whether they have paid their subscriptions for the year? If they will do this, and remit the amount, if still unpaid, or a banker’s order, it will greatly assist the Secretary, and save him the trouble of sending out a reminder. Members are most earnestly entreated to attend to the warning numbered (7). It is a most foolish and a most disastrous thing to bind yourself to anyone for a term of years. Let them ask themselves if they would give a solicitor the collection of their rents for five years to come, whatever his conduct, whether he was honest or dishonest? Of course they would not. Why then hesitate for a moment when they are asked to sign themselves into literary bondage for three or five years P Those who possess the “Cost of Production” are requested to note that the cost of binding has advanced 15 per cent. This means, for those who do not like the trouble of “doing sums,” the addition of three shillings in the pound on this head. In other words, if the cost of binding is set down in our book at eight pounds, to this must now be added twenty-four shillings more, so that it now stands at £9 4s. The figures in our book are as near the exact truth as canbe procured; but a printer’s, or a binder’s, bill is so elastic a thing that nothing more exact can be arrived at. Some remarks have been made upon the amount charged in the “ Cost of Production” for advertising. Ofcourse, we have not included any sums which may be charged for inserting advertisements in the publisher's own magazines, or in other magazines by exchange. As agreements too often go, there is nothing to prevent the publisher from sweeping the whole profits of a book into his own pocket, by inserting any number of advertisements in his own magazines, and by exchanging with others. Some there are who call this a form of fraud; it is not known what those who practise this method of swelling their own profits eall it. Oe AUTHOR. 77 LITERARY PROPERTY. I. Epiror AND CONTRIBUTOR. HERE is one point touching literary pro- perty which is of great importance, and which has never been satisfactorily settled, namely, the return or non-return of rejected manu- scripts. On many occasions both parties are in the wrong. The editor screens himself behind a notice hidden away somewhere among the advertisement columns of his paper. The contributor is careless in sending up his name and address or the necessary stamped envelopes. In a properly organised business establishment there should be no difficulty. It seems to be entirely and absolutely unfair that a contributor should be bound by a notice that he has never seen. Many contributions are sent without any reference to the columns of the paper. Under these circumstances, is a contri- butor bound? It is to be hoped not. Tf a contribution is sent wittingly and with full information, there can be no doubt on whom the onus lies. Take, however, another not uncommon case. An editor writes, saying he would be glad to read any contribution forwarded from A. B.—this editor having a “ no-responsibility ” notice in his paper.—A. B. sends a contribution and does not get it returned. On repeated application, the editor retires behind the notice. Is he respon- sible ? This is the editor’s weakness. It is counter- balanced by the contributor’s carelessness. He forwards an MS. under a pen-name. He writes under his own. No stamped and ad- dressed envelope is inclosed. Worse still, the MS. is forwarded without name, without address, no stamped envelope is enclosed, and often no stamps. Under these circumstances, notice or no notice, the editor’s responsibility is enormously lessened, but is he not still liable as the most irresponsible of legal bailees, however such an individual may be defined ? The following is thrown out as a suggestion: All MSS. received by an editor with insufficient or no address should be carefully and orderly placed aside (not in the paper basket), and upon application being made by a faulty contributor, he should pay a search fee, say of 2s. 6d.,and the stamps for postage in addition, if the MS. is found. Seeeaenee eer i 18 THE AUTHOR. This fee would cover any expense the editor might be put to, and would save many and many miserable disputes as undignified on the part of the editor as they are irritating to the author. Another suggestion would be an MS. clearing house. This, however, requires combination, and, from a chemical point of view, editors and pub- lishers are not combinable. Il. Epirror1aL ANNOUNCEMENTS. It might be of some advantage to the readers of the Author to have a few of these notices placed before them. The subjoined are a promiscuous collection from all sorts and conditions of periodicals, and may therefore be of more use from their variety than if they had been more carefully gathered and assorted. It will be observed that some notices, while inviting the contributions, at the same time state that the Editor is not and will not hold himself responsible. Some papers will not be responsible for acci- dental loss. Others will not be responsible at all. Others only if certain conditions are regarded. There are a few that acknowledge MSS.—a courteous avowal. The reader is, however, left to judge for himself. The Times, To CoRRESPONDENTS.—No notice can be taken of anony- mous communications. Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. Advertisers are requested not to send stamps. Post-office orders to be made payable to Mr. George Edward Wright, at the Chief Office. The Lancet. Eprroriat Norice.—It is most important that com- munications relating to the Editorial business of the Lancet should be addressed exclusively “To the Editors,” and not in any case to any gentleman who may be supposed to be connected with the Editorial staff. It is urgently necessary that attention be given to this notice. It is especially requested that early intelligence of local events having a medical interest, or which it is desirable to bring under the notice of the profession, may be sent direct to this office. Lectures, original articles, and reports should be written on one side only of the paper. Letters, whether intended for insertion or for private information, must be authenticated by the names and addresses of their writers, not necessarily for publication. Local papers containing reports or news paragraphs should be marked and addressed “ To the Sub- Editor.’ We cannot undertake to return MSS. not used. Saturday Review. Noricz.— We beg leave to state that we cannot return rejected Communications ; and to this rule we can make no exception, even if stamps for return of M8. are sent. The Editor must also entirely decline to enter into correspon- dence with the writers of MSS. sent in and not acknow- ledged. The following note is now added to all proofs. ‘‘ Please note that the sending of the Proof does not carry with it any Contract that the Article will either be accepted or published.” Athenzeum. No notice can be taken of anonymous communications. Daily Graphic. Sketches have been received from J. S. N., Croydon ; F. D., Limerick; T. H. L., York; J. J., Newcastle ; W. Cc. M., Dublin; A. G. W., Barbadoes; A. D. MedJ., Stirling; L. E. L., Greenock; H. S., Leeds; F. A. F., London Wall, B.C.; R. J. C. T., Lancaster ; J. MeM., Bel- fast; A. E. H., Edinburgh ; R., Brighton; M., Bros.,, Cheapside, E.C.; J. M., New Bridge-street, E.C.; H. W., Upper ,Norwood, 8.E.; E. C. M., Birmingham; P. O., Bristol; M. D., Paris; M. I., Cowes; S. and Son, Read- ing; C. H. M. J., Cannes; E. A. §5., Blandford; C. R., Gateshead; G. G., Tunbridge Wells; T. J. B., Ashbourne ;. F. W., Crouch End, N. Notice To ConrripuTors.—The Proprietors cannot: hold themselves responsible for loss of or damage to MSS., sketches, or other contributions arising from any cause: whatever. A sufficiently stamped and directed envelope must accompany contributions where their return is. desired. The Strand Magazine has no notice. London Society. Notice To CoRRESPONDENTS.—MSS. sent to Editor should bear the name and address of the writer, and must be accompanied in all cases by a stamped directed envelope, for their return if unsuitable. Copies should be kept of all articles. Every care is taken of the papers forwarded by correspondents, but no responsibility is assumed in case of accident. The Editor cannot undertake to return rejected poems. All communications should be addressed to the Editor of London Society, to the care of Belgravia. To CoRRESPONDENTS.—All MSS. should be addressed, prepaid, to the Editor of Belgravia, 31, Southampton-street, Strand, W.C. Every MS. should bear the writer’s name and address, and be accompanied by postage stamps for its return if not accepted; but the Editor cannot hold himself responsible for any accidental loss The editor cannot undertake to return rejected poems. Answers. “Pur Monry IN THY PursE.”—One guineaacolumnispaid for original contributions to Answers. Short, bright articles, dealing with strange occupations and curious phases of life, are the most acceptable. No copied matter of any kind is. required. Payment is made immediately upon acceptance. MSS. are not read unless they are accompanied by a large fully stamped addressed envelope for return, and in no case are MSS. returned unless this rule is complied with. <A de- claration of originality must be enclosed with every contri- bution. Contributors must write on one side of the paper only. The full name and address of the author must be written upon the MS. itself. Short contributions are much more frequently accepted than long ones. Articles must not exceed 1400 words in length. All contributions to be addressed to Answers, Manuscript Department, 108, Fleet- street, E.C. Wuy Don’r you ComprTs ?—One guinea is sent every THE AUTHOR. 79 week to the person who sends in the best “storyette,” written on a postcard. The anecdote may be original or selected ; but, if not original, the source from which the story is copied must be named. No religious anecdotes will be accepted. The name and address of the sender must be written plainly at the bottom of the postcard. Answers reserves the right to use any anecdote sent in. Westminster Gazette. Notice To Conrrisurors.—The Editor of the West- minster Gazetle cannot hold himself responsible in any case for the return of MS. or sketches. He will, however, always be glad to consider any contributions, literary or pictorial, which may be submitted to him; and when post- age stamps are enclosed every effort will be made to return rejected contributions promptly. Piccadilly. The Editor cannot be responsible for the safety or return of manuscripts forwarded for approval. Subscribers are particularly requested to forward all communications con- cerning changes of address or additional copies to the Publisher. All communications for the Editorial Depart- ment of Piccadilly should be addressed to the Editor, 248, Craven-street, Strand (end of Northumberland Avenue, opposite the Hotel Métropole). Black and White. Notice To ContriputTors.—The Editor of Black and White does not in any case hold himself responsible for the return of rejected contributions. He is, however, always glad to consider MSS. and sketches; and, where stamps are enclosed, every effort will be made to return rejected contri- butions promptly. Sala’s Journal. The Editor cannot undertake to return unsolicited contri- butions ; therefore all authors forwarding MSS. to Sala’s Journal are earnestly requested to keep copies thereof. The Idler. To Conrrisutors. — Contributions are invited, and receive immediate consideration. Stories and articles sub- mitted should be short. All MSS. (type-written preferred) should be addressed to the Editors, Talbot House, Arundel- street, London, W.C. Every MS. should bear the writer’s name and address, and be accompanied by stamped envelope for its return if not accepted. The Editors cannot hold themselves responsible for any accidental loss. The Builder. All statements of facts, lists of tenders, &c., must be accompanied by the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication. We are compelled to decline pointing out books and giving addresses. Note. — The responsibility of signed articles, and papers read at public meetings, rests, of course, with the authors. We cannot undertake to return rejected communications. Letters or communications (beyond mere news-items) which have been duplicated for other journals, are not desired. All com- munications regarding literary and artistic matters should be addressed to the Editor; those relating to advertise- ments and other exclusively business matters should be addressed to the Publisher, and not to the Editor. The Hospital. Noricz To CoRRESPONDENTS.—AILl MS., letters, books for review, and other matters intended for the Editor should be addressed The Editor, The Lodge, Porchester-square, London, W. The Editor cannot undertake to return rejected MS., even when accompanied by stamped directed envelope. St. James’s Gazette. The Editor cannot undertake to hold himself responsible for the return of rejected contributions. The Rural World. Norice.—All communications of a literary character for publication in The Rural World should be written upon one side of the paper only ; be addressed to the Editor, 95, Colmore-row, Birmingham; be accompanied by the name and address of the writers, and reach that office not later than the first post on Wednesday. The Guardian. 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An author, of the sex usually victimised in such cases, had a work accepted some years ago by a “religious sweating establishment,” and received for it the modest sum of £10. It sold well, which presumably benefited its publishers, though it made no difference to her; but, not content with their profits from its production m its original form, they have since republished it with a new title and in a totally different cover, the author not being either consulted or remune- rated further. We are not concerned with the position of a purchaser of the work in question who, already owning it, parts with his money under the impression that he is buying a new book, that is a matter which rests between him and the publisher. As to the position of the lady, we can only say that, if she has parted with the copyright of her book without securing any dis- tinct agreement as to the conditions under which it was to be published, she has acted in exact con- trariety to the advice which we unceasingly reiterate in these columns. It seems clear, from the judgment given in the case of Lea v. Gibbings, that an author thus circumstanced has only one remedy, and that is, damages in a libel action for detriment to reputation. If, however, the book is published anonymously, it would be very difficult to show direct damage. The conclu- sors secs 80 THE AUTHOR. sion must, it seems, be drawn, therefore, that, under the above circumstances, the writer has no redress. — IV. AvurHors AND EpITors. The late Auguste Barbier wrote a sort of ‘one book” (among several others) called ‘“‘ Iambes,” which was all the rage in Paris about 1830. chiefly, of course, for its political acridity of satire. Dentu was the publisher of these Tambics, and the poems were republished by him in 1837, 1864, 1872, and so on. But Dentu’s being defunct, the business was bought by Capel, Goupil, et Cie., who proceeded in ordinary course of trade to bring out another edition, on their own behalf, upon the occasion of Barbier’s death, which occurred not long since. But the poet’s heirs objected, and pleaded that, in default of any stipulation to the contrary, an agreement between author and editor has a character strictly personal to each of those par- ties thereto. This view has now been confirmed by the French commercial courts, and the con- tract of Barbier with Dentu is classed under the exceptions in Art. 1122 of the Civil Code ; one of the grounds of the judgment being that the author chooses his publisher, for his own personal reasons, aS a quasi-collaborator ; whereas the reputation and acts of any substituted publisher might be morally and materially damaging to the book and its success. Another equitable point laid down, is that it would be impossible to subject any author and his works to all the successive transfers to which the business of a publisher is commercially ex- posed. The court decided, therefore, that Auguste Barbier only treated intuitu persone with Edouard Dentu; and the latter’s successors are enjoined not to issue any new edition or any new print (tirage) of Barbier’s “Iambes”’ on penalty of £8 for every ascertained contra- vention. This is a most important decision, as bearing upon the often-canvassed case of a publisher’s bankruptcy. Until something definite be done here for the protection of the only property the law deserts, perhaps it would be well for each agreement to be made personal to A. B. and C. D., the author and his chosen publisher, sub- ject to the subsequent power of the author to continue the contract with the publisher’s suc- cessor. J. ON. A HARD CASE. «Tye L. P. A. Limrrep.” CERTAIN Literary Publishing Associa- A tion Limited is engaged in the production of a monthly journal. As the journal ig not of much interest to the public, it natu- rally does not pay, and is soon on the verge of failure. The L. P. A. Limited thereupon looks round on the gullible and irresponsible body of would-be authors, and with the view of choosing an editor for the paper, iuserts an advertisement in some well-known literary review. In a short time the answers come pouring in, and a young lady who has got a spare £100 to invest is duly elected to the position on a salary, provided she takes up 100 £1 shares. Young authors with £100 to spare are rarz aves. But there are not a few people who, fancying they have a literary tendency, and fascinated by a literary connection, will produce some spare cash for investment. The case is all the more probable when the investment is painted in glowing colours, and rich rewards in the shape of dividends and a salary are offered to the too easy dupe. The money is paid. The shares are subscribed for and allotted. Limited companies are delightfully irrespon- sible bodies; there is no vulnerable point im the armour; fighting with them is like fight- ing with thin air. You waste your own energy without any tangible result. As a con- sequence the young lady of literary aims and unbusinesslike qualifications, loses her £100, and never gets a farthing by way of salary or dividend. The Authors’ Society is implored for advice and assistance, but alas too late. The shares are allotted. The directors cannot pay a dividend if there are no profits. No fraudulent statement has been made, and the manager has perhaps drawn cheques for the £100 as salary. An action is useless. It is an expensive luxury to go to law against an insolvent body. So the L. P. A. Limited “ drags its slow length along.’”” No doubt when it wants another £50 or £100 it will start another paper, or find another editor, or perhaps get a fresh director on the board. Who knows? Men must live, and there is no better method of facing the battle of life to the initiated than clad in the armour of a limited liability company. eh Lo THE AUTHOR. 81 OMNIUM GATHERUM FOR AUGUST. Subjects for Books or Articles.—The curious curse of the 18th Article; the Excesses of Des- criptive Reporting, with a few words on the use and abuse of the Interview; the Rivalries of Colleges, Schools, and Watering Places; Com- pulsory Swimming Lessons for Girls and Boys in Elementary Schools; Wedding Presents; One Parliament, One Session; August in Ireland. Publication by Subscription—This mode of publication was the rule and not the exception in the last century. Now it has become the exception and not the rule, but the exceptions seem to be on the increase in the case of county histories and the like, eg., Mr. Cranage’s “ Architectural Account of the Churches in Shropshire” is being brought out in parts, with a notification that it will be impossible to proceed with it “unless a certain number of names are guaranteed.’ Such a very safe mode of issue might perhaps be more widely tried. Illustrations. — Quality before quantity is wanted here more than in any branch of pro- duction in connection with literature. Really good illustrations, such as those of, I think, Turner to Roger’s “Italy,” are too rare, and instead of such we have far too frequently good letter- press choked by pictures little wanted. The Vacant Laureateship. — Mr. Gladstone has announced in the House of Commons, in answer to Mr. Cobb (see the morning papers of the 22nd July), that “there is no intention at present of making any appointment” to the vacant Poet-Laureateship. Lord Tennyson died on the 7th October last. The honorarium attached to the post is about £100 a year, the annual butt of sherry having been commuted on the death of Southey for an annual £27, or, as some say, £29, so that about £80 has been already saved. But does the appointment rest with the Sovereign or the Prime Minister? If with the Prime Minister, how is it that the late Prince Consort offered it to Rogers (who at the age of eighty-seven refused it) before its accept- ance by Tennyson. The Dead Languages.—The resurrection of the dead languages is nowhere better accomplished than by the representation of Latin plays, suchas the Westminster play, and Greek plays, such as that of “Andromache,” so finely given by the ladies of Queen’s College in Harley-street, nor, as I humbly think, can the languages themselves be more encouragingly taught. Copyright.—No less than three Consolidation Bills of importance, dealing with copyhold law, VOL. Iv. the law of the administration of estates, and the law of trustees, have been in this session sub- mitted to a joint committee of both Houses of Parliament. Would it not be possible for the Government to introduce, and submit to this joint committee, a Copyright Law Consolidation and Amendment Bill? The amendments of sub- stance would be few, though important, and the controverted points very few indeed. Or perhaps an amending Bill might come first, and a consoli- dating Bill afterwards, in the fashion of the Lunacy Acts of 1889 and 1890. However this may be, it is to be hoped that those in authority have read and marked the indignant denuncia- tions against the form of copyright law which were transcribed from a recent judgment of Mr. Justice Chitty in the St. James’s Gazette of the 21st of last month. Mr. Justice Chitty’s words were these : I could wish, if I am at liberty to express a wish, that the Legislature could devote some time to the consolidation and amendment of the mass and congeries of statutes which represent the result of the legislative mind in such a manner that it is difficult to understand their meaning. I think it a matter of great importance to all interested in international copyright that those statutes should receive attention, and the statutes placed before, I will not say the courts, but Her Majesty’s subjects in such a manner that an ordinary man could understand them. Handwriting. — Bad handwriting increases labour and cost of proofs, and decreases the chances of acceptance of MSS., besides its waste of the time and temper of editors and such like. I respectfully suggest that those of us who write badly should take lessons in handwriting, but if we can’t stomach this, we at least take the trouble (a) to dot our i’s, (6) to cross our t’s, (c) to loop our e’s, (d) to put in at least our full stops, and (e) to write our own names and the names of others with perfect legibility. Advertisement of Review Notices.—The plan (see, e.g., some of the advertisements of ‘ Dodo’’) which prints unfavourable as well as favourable notices is much to be commended. It is fair to the public, it checks careless reviewing, and I cannot help thinking that it greatly helps a book if really good. J. M. Lety. H SEE 82 THE AUTHOR. AMERICAN NOTES AND NEWS. Buffalo, July 2. a following remarks are for novelists alone. Tf the bookstall may be accepted as an indication of popularity, it will be useful to note the books offered for sale at the bookstall of a reat American hotel. Everybody knows that a bookstall forms part of that little world, com- plete in all its parts, known in American as a hotel. Moreover, if we consider that the hotel in ques- tion belongs to Boston, and is one of the best and largest of that intellectual centre, the works offered may be accepted as some indication of the taste of the higher average. The catering is, of course, only for a passing crowd: visitors at hotels are literary butterflies; they only hover ; only the lighter works are wanted by them ; help to pass an hour is all they ask of Literature Here, then, written in alphabetical order, is a list of the authors whose books are on the stall of the Brunswick Hotel, Boston. One or two foreign writers appear in translation. Grant Allen. John Harberton. Robert Appleton. Fergus Hume. Duke of Argyll. Rudyard Kipling. J. M. Barrie. H. O’Meara. Paul Bourget. J. MacAlpine. Rhoda Broughton. A. McLeod. Mrs. Campbell-Praed. Fitzgerald Molloy. Christabel Coleridge. Alan Muir. Marie Corelli. Mrs. Needell. Robert Drake. Gilbert Parker. Alex. Dumas. Albert Ross. A. Finlay. Clark Russell. A K. Grew. Paul Schobert. Gunton. This list contains, you will observe, eleven American, thirteen English, and three French writers. But it is a very short list. If we look into the long rows of books exposed at the stall of a great railway station, we shall find the propor- tion of native to foreign authors somewhat changed. There are a great many American novelists of popularity whose very names are un- known with us. One of them, Mr. Albert Ross, is represented in the above list. It is, however, difficult to form from the bookstalls any trust- worthy conclusion as to the popularity of an indi- vidual writer. For this reason, that books and authors offered for sale vary in the most remark- able and unexpected manner ; but of the thirteen English writers in the above list perhaps one alone—Kipling—or two—Barrie and Kipling— may be found on some other stall. These two writers seem to me the two British authors most popular this day in the States. At the same time, one may meet the books of Conan Doyle, Hardy, and others almost as often. So far as one can judge, and speaking generally, all those novelists who in Great Britain enjoy popularity, large or little, are in corresponding demand in America. As to the question of American rights and their value, novelists may take note (1) that serial form is very difficult to secure, for reasons which it would take too long to explain; (2) that, never- theless, they must most carefully reserve their American rights in their agreements; (3) that they must remember the blessedness of expecting nothing ; and (4) that American publishers, like their British brethren, are men of business—some of them, like some of our brave Britons, “ sharp,” which means—what we know. A Buffalo paper in a literary letter gives what professes to be the opinion ofa librarian. Now the opinion of a librarian can only be of value if he isa large librarian, and if he knows the demand. upon the works in other libraries. This opinion has a “journalistic” flavour, #.e., I rather believe thatthe writer invented his librarian. However, he places Hardy and Conan Doyle at the head of contemporary novelists in point of American popularity. It must be owned that the American public might do worse. Edna Lyall is very popular. Mary Wilkins, however, is the most popular of all the women novelists in America to-day. “Latterly there has been a revival of Mark Twain’s books.” Did Mark Twain, then, ever fall off in popularity? Of modern poets who are in the greatest demand? Tennyson, Swinburne, Browning, Shelley, Wordsworth ? Presumptuous islander! Eugene Field, Will Carleton, and James Whitcomb Riley; while Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes are still in steady demand. Nothing is said about other branches of literature. We have already more than once spoken of the tradition or the prejudice that the British people do not buy books, while the Americans do. I do not believe that this belief has any basis whatever in fact. The Americans, from all that I can hear, do not buy more books than we do. Perhaps they buy the dime novels, from which will now be excluded all the best new books. But books to keep; books to put on shelves; books as friends and companions, they do not buy, I am quite convinced, in anything like the same proportion as our own people. There are sixty millions of them as against our thirty-six millions. Those who live in the towns are much THE AUTHOR. 83 richer in proportion than those who live in our towns. There ought to be a demand for books, considering the excess of numbers as well as of wealth, nearly double our own. Is there? Certainly not. You can see, down below, that an American publisher considers 5000 is a very large circulation of a popular book. Yet, with us, a very popular book at 6s, runs into tens of thousands. I think that cultivated Englishmen and women buy all the books they can afford. They cannot afford to buy allthey read; therefore cir- culating libraries must exist ; their shelves are not large enough to contain all that they would buy, but they buy all that they can affordto, They buy all that they can find room for, and, so far as I can learn, the Americans as a rule, do not. Yet, so far as my inquiries have led me, more books are read here than at home. A book-shop, whether in America or at home, may reveal many things and suggest points for reflection. I have seen two very good book- shops indeed—that of Little, Brown, and Co., in Boston, which I take to be one of the best book- shops—or stores—in the whole world, and that of Judd’s, in Newhaven, which is an admirable example of what a book-shop in a university town ought to be—that is, it reminds one exactly of Macmillan’s, of Cambridge. From these two shops one may understand the position of living English writers of the better sort in America. I have no hesitation whatever in saying that either the publishers, or the booksellers, or the public of America, possess wider sympathies, or greater intellectual curiosity, than our own. For here, side by side with the American authors, are all— actually all—whom we ourselves have selected for honour. Let us remember that there is a vast mass of American literature which never gets to us at all; that there is a period—1620-1775—when what is American is British also ; that the history of the colonial times, forgotten and neglected by ourselves, is full of human and of political interest ; that there are men belonging to that period whom we simply cannot afford to forget, if we are to maintain the continuity of our national life, and to understand our own development ; that since the Year of Independence there has been carried on an experiment—an example—in government and society unlike anything ever seen before in the world’s history, and productive of results which can only be understood, and that most imperfectly, on the spot; that the colonial his- tory, the national history, the ways and thoughts of this Republic of the present; the hopes and fears of its best men—because they are almost as full of fears as of hopes—are all to be read in VOL. Iv. its modern literature; that in such a place as Little, Brown, and Co.’s, one sees all the books in which these things are written; and that in no English publisher’s lists; in no English book- seller’s shop; in no Englishman’s house, can these books be found. Of course we get the novels and the poetry; but the graver books, the biographies, the histories, as a rule we do not get. It may be contended that all that is really best in American literature comes to us. Perhaps, best for purposes of opinion, of right under- standing, of forming a just conclusion of the nation. We want more than the really best; we want some of the second and third best. For the function of literature is not always to present reason, opinion, fact, and fancy, in its best and noblest form, but reason, opinion, fact, and fancy as they exist, and as they can be presented by the average writer. For example, in the reign of Queen Anne the opinions of the average citizen are far better illustrated by John Dunton—plain bourgeois—in his “Athenian Oracle” than by Addison ; and the present tendencies of America drift and opmion may be more fully revealed by the third-rate essayist, poet, or novelist, than by Lowell or Holmes. “ Then the talk drifted to the always fascinating topic of the profits of authors, and one of the company asked of a publisher present : “ What do you call a successful novel, nowadays? How many copies should be sold, and what does it mean to the author P” “‘ Well,” said the publisher, ‘“‘ a very successful novel will sell 5000 copies, but the average successful one means about 2000. A novel must sell the latter number before it pays either publisher or author. Of course, I speak now of a novel bound in cloth that sells for a dollar. Take a sale of 5000 copies of such a novel. The entire proceeds of such a book will fall considerably under 5000 dols., for it must be remembered that a dollar book is not always sold for 100 cents. A 12mo. novel contains about 250 pages, or 75,000 words. Ona rough estimate such a book will cost the publisher about 30 cents a copy. This includes composition, printing, and binding. The entire expenses, including a royalty of 10 per cent. to the author, the usual rate, and the advertising, will amount to 50 cents. For this book, which costs the publisher 50 cents, he gets from 60 to 65 cents, leaving him a profit of from 10 to 15 cents. This profit is generally increased somewhat by the retail sales of the publishing house. Publishers are bound—and this is for the protection of the bookstores—to sell a dollar book for a dollar. Enough books are sold by them at this price to bring up the average profit, say to 15 cents. Thusa publisher who sells 5000 copies of a novel will make about 750 dols. out of the transaction—not a very large profit for the capital invested and the risk involved. The profits of the author at 10 per cent. will amount to 500 dols., that is to say, his labour of writing and revising and his time, for which he is not certain of any return, not to mention the mental wear and tear, will bring about seven mills a word. Magnificent pay, and yet he is a successful author. Of course, there are some books, but they are very few, which make a phenomenal success, and these are the ones which mu 2 eRe PD GR Re 84 THE AUTHOR. are read about from one end of the country to another. Most publishers say that it hardly pays in this present era of cheap paper-covered novels to publish the more expen- sive cloth-covered editions.” —Bufalo Courier. The above is interesting, as it affords some in- sight into the American cost of production. A book of 250 pp. @.e., 153 sheets, of 300 words to a page, costs, including advertising, 40 cents a copy. Remark that this means 500 dollars, or £100, spent in advertising the average book. Are the exchanges and “our own publications,” which cost nothing, inciuded in this estimate? In other words, the publisher’s initial liability on an average sale of 2000 copies is £160—less the minimum number of copies he knows he can place. The difference is the “risk,” which, as usual, is duly trotted out. If 5000 copies are sold, the author gets, at 10 per cent., £100; the publisher £150—“ not a very large profit for the capital invested and the risk.” But why the investment of the publisher should produce half as much again as the investment of the author is not stated. In England the publisher would invest in the case of a successful author just nothing at all, except, perhaps, some of the adver- tising charges, and there would be no risk. Niagara Falls, July 5. The stalls, both of the railways and the hotels— for in this country literature is not left to be found but is offered—show piles of American magazines—so do the railway stalls at home. But where are the English magazines? They do not exist; they are not apparent ; no one inquires for them. The “thoughtful” magazines — are there no thoughtful readers in the States? Apparently not, unless they are satisfied with their own thoughtfulness as illustrated by the Forum and the Arena and the Atlantic Monthly. But what does it mean that the American magazines have obtained so firm a hold in Great Britain, while our own wholly fail and are never seen on this side? It is a question admitting a great deal of explanation. Perhaps this may indicate the nature of the answer. An American magazine means business. It is provided with a highly-paid editor, and, in the case of successful magazines, a highly-paid staff of servants. The editor and his assistants are supposed to give their whole time, their thoughts, their strength, to the interests of the paper. They must be always thinking of it—providing material well ahead ; engaging writers at rates of pay which would make some (so called) first-class English magazine editors to jump ; they think of their readers, you see, and lay their lines and set their bait to attract and to catch them. Compare this with the casual editing of an English magazine. Where is there any thought for what is wanted ? Where do we find continuity of subject, serial papers (not serial fiction only)? Papers of the moment, papers of passing interest, there are in plenty. But these are not what the reader wants ; he gets them already in the daily papers ; he knows beforehand all that the writer in the monthly or the quarterly can tell him ; nor does he care twopence for the opinions of Lord A. and the Right Hon. B. about questions of the day which are decided for him every morning. It is not true, as some Americans say, that they have killed our magazines, but they are inflicting deadly injury upon them, and they will continue to do so until our people change their ways. The autograph hunter has hit upon a new and most creditable dodge. Audacious invention is, I find, called by the American Press “nerve.” This inventor, therefore, must be owned to have a wonderful nerve. He writes: “ May I trouble you, my dear Sir, to send me the present address of your aunt, Mrs. Maria Brown (sister to Thomas Carlyle), if she is still living? I might obtain her address elsewhere, but in order to save time I address you personally. Thanking you in advance, &c.” Dear me! Is it possible that the world credits me with being the nephew of Thomas Carlyle, upon whose face, in the flesh, I have never gazed? Alas! the poor man is mistaken, he must be undeceived. Let me sit down and write a letter of explanation: “My dear Sir,—The lady whose address you ask, Mrs. Maria Brown, sister of Thomas Carlyle, is not my aunt, nor can I claim the honour of any kinship with that great man. Nor can I give you her address, or any information concerning her. I remain, &.’’ Here follows the auto- graph. Oh! hunter of signatures—Nimrod of letters—wonderful is thy craft. Behold! the net is spread; the trap is set; and the silly fowl is caught. Albany, July 17. I have just learned from the New York Sun that Mr. Buchanan is having a “ quarrel” with me. It generally takes two to make a quarrel, and I am not one of the two, However, I hope that Mr. Buchanan is thoroughly enjoying him- self. When I get home I dare say I may find a few remarks to make. But that cannot be for some weeks to come—not, so far as the Author is concerned, until the September number. cman, Water BaEsant. pee ¥ t | & THE AUTHOR. THE CONGRESS OF AUTHORS. T is hardly possible, at a date when the Literature Congresses have but just com- pleted their work to take anything like a a philosophical survey of the week s proceedings. We have. however, thought it best, even at the risk of offering our readers an incomplete and imperfectly {digested report, to summarize the series of events that have made the week just ended noteworthy in the intellectual history of Chicago. If we may not tell the whole story, and if our coign of vantage be too near the object for realisation of the proper perspective, our report may at least embody the salient features of the Congresses, and point a possible moral here and there. As has already been stated in these pages, Congresses to the number of five were planned for the week ending July 15, their subjects being Literature proper, Philology, Folk- lore, History, and Libraries. They have provided an intellectual repast, bewildering in variety, and quite beyond the assimilative powers of such rash mortals as may have attempted to partake of all the courses. They have been characterised by many notable contributions to both general and special culture, as well as by many of those dis- cussions and comparisons of diverse views from which a subject often receives more light than from some more formal method of treatment. The Congresses were happily opened on Monday evening, July 10, by a general recep- tion given to such of the participants in the week’s work as had at that time reached the city. The reception began with the usal introduction and handshakings, and ended with a few speeches of welcome by representatives of the World’s Con- gress Auxiliary. followed by responses from some of the more distinguished guests. Under the latter category come the remarks made by Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, Mr. Richard Watson Gilder, Mr. George W. Cable, Mr. Walter Besant, and Dr. Max Richter. In the course of Mr. Warner’s remarks, a tribute was paid to the beauties of the World’s Fair, and the speaker concluded with these words : I fear all the time that the Fair will disappear, and, as I say, I grudge every moment spent away from it, for it will go, like everything else that we have created by hand. And when it has gone these poor scribblers who have not money enough to create it, and many of them not imagina- tion enough to put it into poetry or into romance even— because I don’t know anybody, except St. John in the Apocalypse, who has hit it off at all so far—these poor scribblers will have to take up the task of perpetuating this creation of beauty and of splendour, and the next generation that wanders about Lake Michigan looking at the ruins of Chicago—the distant generation of course—will have to depend upon some wandering bard—who even then won't be 85 half paid, I dare say—for the remembranee, for the descrip- tion of the great achievement of this city of Chicago in 1893. Mr. Gilder, in a few well-chosen words, contrasted the literary art with the arts of form and colour, pointing out that the very subtlety of the former makes its discussion difficult. Hence the speaker concluded that a Congress of Authors must of necessity for the most part deal with the physical side of literature, with “ the relation of that art to its presentation through books to the public.” Probably the most noteworthy incident of all this speech-making was to be found in the applause that interrupted Mr. Gilder when he said: “I, for one, would not have the countenance to stand up before a World’s Congress of Authors if within a short time we, as a nation had not wiped out the unbearable disgrace of international piracy.” The sentiment thus expressed by Mr. Gilder had many an echoin the subsequent proceedings of the Congress of Authors. The Tuesday session of this Congress was devoted to the general subject of Copyright, and it was pecu- larly fitting that Mr. George E. Adams should serve as the presiding officer. The enactment of the Copyright Law of 1891 was, as our readers will remember, largely due to the efforts of Mr. Adams, then a member of the House of Representatives. Major Kirkland, who introduced Mr. Adams to the audience, gracefully alluded to this fact, as did also Mr. Gilder, when his turn came to share in the general discussion. That the services of Mr. Adams had been appreciated, and were still re- membered by those present, appeared in the applause that followed every allusion made to them. The discussion was opened by the pre- siding officer himself, who read an admirable paper upon our copyright legislation, past and future. He took an eminently sane and practical view of the question, making clear the funda- mental distinction between a copyright and a patent (a distinction too often neglected), but still averring that our future legislation is sure to be based upon the broad considerations of public policy rather than upon purely theoretical grounds. “The question of the so-called moral right of an author in his book is not likely to arise in any future movement in this country for the enlargement of authors’ mghts by Congress. Such legislation will be supported on the ground of public policy rather than on the ground of just protection of property.” Dr. 8. S. Sprigge, late secretary of the London Society of Authors, followed Mr. Adams with a brief paper on “The International Copyright Union,” sent to the Congress by Sir Henry Bergne, the British Commissioner at the Berne Conference of 1886. 86 Dr. Sprigge also read a paper of his own upon the present complicated condition of copyright legislation, English and international. The re- mainder of the session was given up to an informal discussion, among the participants being Mr. Gilder, Mr. George W. Cable, Mr. Charles Dudley Warner, Professor T. R. Louns- bury of Yale, President C. K. Adams of the University of Wisconsin, and General A. C. McClurg. There was general agreement among the speakers in deprecating the necessity of the “ manufacturing clause” of the Act of 1891, but there was an equally general agreement in the admission that the law, with all its defects, is vastly better than no law at all. Even Professor Louns- bury, who proclaimed himself one of the irrecon- cilables, admitted the justice of this view. The injury done to writers by the condition of simul- taneous publication also came up for discussion, as well as the inadequacy of the term at present provided. “Nearly all our great American authors have outlived their copyrights, which is a ridiculous perversion of justice,’ said Mr. Gilder; and Mr. Warner, echomg the opinion, allowed his wit to play upon the thought, greatly to the delight of h's hearers. The copyright question was again brought for- ward, at the Wednesday session. by Mr. R. R. Bowker, editor of the Publishers’ Weekly, who read a carefully prepared paper upon “ The Limi. tations of Copyright.” We may also mention in this connection, as an illustration of the interest taken by foreign countries in the work of the Congress, that a representative of the French Syndicat pour la Protection de la Propricté Litté- raire et Artistique, placed in the hands of the committee, for distribution among the members of the Congress, a pamphlet, ‘‘ Note sur l’Acte du 3 Mars 1891,” especially prepared and printed for the purpose. After congratulating the Copy- right League upon the successful outcome of its labours, the pamphlet adds: “Il ne saurait se présenter une occasion plus favourable que celle de la réunion du Congrés de 1893 pour exprimer les remerciements des intéressés & tous ceux qui ont eu confiance en l’esprit de justice du peuple Américain.” The special subject of the Wednes- day session. “The Rights and Interests of Authors” was introduced by Mr. Walter Besant, who also presided over the ses- sion. Myr. Besant’s paper summarised the history of the London Society of Authors, ex- plaining also the reasons for its existence and the difficulties with which it has had to contend. A recent editorial in the Dial, upon the subject of the Society, gave the principal facts embodied in Mr. Besant’s statement, and it is unnecessary to repeat them here. To the majority of those who THE AUTHOR. heard them upon this occasion, they were doubt- less new, and, as presented by Mr. Besant, they were given the added force that always charac- terises a man’s spoken words upon some subject to which he has devoted years of active thought. The following is one of the passages of more general interest contained in Mr. Besant’s paper :— We have made a careful and prolonged inquiry into the very difficult subject of the present nature and extent of literary property. A writer of importance in our language may address an audience drawn from a hundred millions of English-speaking people. Remember that. never before in the history of the world has there been such an audience. There were doubtless more than a hundred millions under the Roman rule around the shores of the Mediterranean, but they spoke many different languages. We have now this enormous multi- tude, all, with very few exceptions, able to read, and all reading. Twenty years ago they read the weekly paper ; there are many who still read nothing more. Now that no longer satisfies the majority. Every day makes it plainer and clearer that we have arrived at a time when the whole of this multitude, which in fifty years’ time will be two hundred millions, will very soon be reading books. What kind of books? All kinds, good and bad, but mostly good; we may be very sure that they will prefer good books to bad. Even now the direct road to popularity is by dramatic strength, clear vision, clear dialogue, whether a. man write a play, a poem, a history, or a novel. We see magazines suddenly achieving a circulation reckoned by hundreds of thousands, while our old magazines creep along with their old circulation of from two to ten thousands. Hundreds of thousands? How is this popularity achieved P Is it by pandering to the low, gross, coarse taste commonly attributed to the multitude? Not so. It is mainly accomplished by giving them dramatic work stories which hold and interest them—essays which speak clearly—work that somehow seems to have a message. If we want a formula or golden rule for arriving at popularity, I shoulé propose this: Let the work have a message. Let it have a thing to say, a story to tell, a living man or woman to present, a lesson to deliver, clear, strong, unmistakable. * The demand for reading is enormous, and it increases every day. I see plainly—as plainly as eyes can see—a time—it is even now already upon us—when the popular writer—the novelist, the poet, the dramatist, the historian, the physicist, the essayist—will command such an audience —so vast an audience—es he has never yet even conceived as possible. Such a writer as Dickens, if he were living now, would command an audience—all of whom would buy his works—of twenty millions at least. The world has never yet witnessed such a popularity—so wide spread—as awaits the successor of Dickens in the affections of the English speaking races. The consideration must surely encourage us to persevere in our endeavours after the independence and therefore the nobility of our calling, and therefore the nobility of our work. But you must not think that this enormous demand is for fiction alone. One of the things charged upon our Society is that we exist for novelists alone. That is because literary property is not understood at all. As a fact educational literature is a. much larger and more valuable branch than fiction. But for science, history—everything—except, perhaps, poetry— the demand is leaping forward year after year in a most surprising manner. Now, in order to meet this enormous demand, which has actually begun and will increase more and more—a demand which we alone can meet and satisfy— & 4 od 3 4 i ; i] : ) THE AUTHOR. I say that we must claim and that we must havea readjust- ment of the old machinery—a reconsideration of the old oo new appeal to principles of equity and fair play. The remainder of this session was taken up by a paper on “ Syndicate Publishing,” sent by Mr. W. Morris Colles, of London, by ‘Some Con- siderations of Publishing,’ a paper sent by Sir Frederick Pollock, and by a discussion in which part was taken by Mr. Besant, Mr. Charles Carleton Coffin, Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, and Mrs. D. Lothrop. The general subject of ‘Criticism and Litera- ture” occupied the Thursday session of the Con- gress. Over this session Mr. Charles Dudley Warner presided, and read the opening paper, his subject being “The Function of Literary Criticism in the United States.’’ Mr. Warner’s paper is so sound and so suggestive that we feel justified in reproducing a somewhat lengthy extract :— There seems to be a general impression that in a new country like the United States, where everything grows freely, almost spontaneously, as by a new creative impulse, literature had better be left to develop itself without criticism, as practically it had been left—every tree to get as high as it can without reference to shape or character. I say, as practically it had been left. For while there has been some good criticism in this country of other literatures, an application of sound scholarship and wide comparison, there has been very little of this applied to American literature. There has been some fault-finding, some ridicule, a good deal of the slashing personality and the expression of individual prejudice and like or dislike, which characterised so much of the British review criticism of the beginning of this century—much of it utterly conventional and blind judgment—but almost no attempt to ascertain the essence and purport of our achievement and to arraign it at the bar of comparative excellence, both as to form and substance. I do not deny that there has been some ingenious and even just exploiting of our literature, with note of its defects and its excellences, but it will be scarcely claimed for even this that it is cosmopolitan. How little of the application of universal principles to specific produc- tions! We thought it bad taste when Matthew Arnold put his finger on Emerson as he would put his finger on Socrates or on Milton. His judgment may have been wrong, or it may have been right; matter of individual taste we would have been indifferent to; it seemed as if it were the universality of the test from which our national vanity shrank. We have our own standards; if we choose, a dollar is sixty-five cents., and we resent the commercial assertion that a dollar is one hundred cents. It seems to me that the thing the American literature needs just now, and needs more than any other literature in the world, is criticism. In the essay by Matthew Arnold to which I have referred, and in which, as you remember, he defines criticism to be “a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known a 1 thought in the world,” he would have had smooth sailing it he had not attempted to apply his principles of criticism to the current English literature. And this application made the essay largely an exposition of the British Philistine. The Philis- tine is, in his origin and character, a very respectable person, whether he is found in Parliament, or in Exeter Hall, or in a newspaper office; he is incased in tradition. 87 The epithet, borrowed from the German, would not have stung as it did if Arnold had not further defined the person to be, what Ruskin found him also in England and Wagner in Germany, one inaccessible to new ideas. Now, we have not in the United States the Philistine, or Philistinism, at least not much of it, and for the reason that we have no tradition. We have thrown away, or tried to throw away, tradition. We are growing in the habit of being sufficient unto ourselves. We have not Philistinism, but we have something else. There has been no name for it yet invented. Some say it is satisfaction in superficiality, and they point to the common school and to Chautauqua; the French say that it is satis- faction in mediocrity. At any rate it is a satisfac- tion that has a large element of boastfulness in it, and boastfulness based upon a lack of enlightenment, in literature especially a want of discrimination, of fine dis- cernment of quality. It is a habit of looking at literature as we look at other things—literature in national life never stands alone—if we condone crookedness in politics and in business under the name of smartness, we appiy the same sort of test, that is the test of success, to literature. It is the test of the late Mr. Barnum. There is in it a disregard of moral as well as of artistic values and standards. You see it in the Press, in sermons even, the effort to attract attention, the lack of moderation, the striving to be sensa- tional in poetry, in the novel, to shock, to advertise the per- formance. Everythingisonastrain. No, this is not Philis- tinism. I am sure, also, that it is not the final expression of the American spirit, that which will represent its life or its literature. I trust itis a transient disease, which we may perhaps call by a transient name—Barnumism. Another paper of importance, sent by Mr. Hamilton W. Mabie (who was unfortunately absent), had for its subject ‘‘Criticism as an Educational Force,” Speaking of the change that has of late years come over the spirit of criti- cism, Mr. Mabie writes : It was not until criticism passed into the hands of men of insight and creative power that it discovered its chief func- tion to be that of comprehension, and its principal service that of interpretation. Not that it has surrendered its function of judging according to the highest standards, but that it has discovered that the forms of excel- lence change from time to time, and that the question with regard to a work of art is not whether it conforms to types of excellence already familiar, but whether it is an ultimate expression of beauty or power. In every case the artist creates the type and the critic proves his competency by recognising it; so that while the critic holds the artist to rigid standards of veracity and craftmanship it is the artist who lays down the law to the critic. As an applied art, based on induction and con- structing its canons apart from the material which literature furnishes, criticism was notable mainly for its fallibility. As an art based on deduction, and framing its laws in ac- cordance with the methods and principles illustrated in the best literature, it has advanced upon a secondary to a leading place among the literary forms now most widely employed and most widely influential. Mr. H. D. Traill, of Oxford, sent to the Con- gress a paper upon “ The Relations of Literature and Journalism,” from which we quote the open- ing paragraph :— There never was a more promising subject for people who are fond of a good discursive debate, not likely to be brought 88 to an abrupt and disappointing close by a sudden agreement between the disputants, than the subject of the relations between Literature and Journalism. A discussion of it combines almost every possible attraction—ambiguity of terms, indefiniteness of area, uncertainty of aim—everything in short that the heart of the most ardent controversialist could desire. I have been privileged to hear many such discussions and to take part in some of them, and on no occasion can I remember to have met with any debater so pedantic as to ask for a definition either of Literature or Journalism, at any stage of the argument. A sound instinct seems to warn people that if they were to do that the particular debate engaged in would immediately branch off either into a prolonged and probably technical inquiry into the precise meaning and limits of the term Journalism or into an interminable and almost certainly violent dispute as to what constitutes Literature. The latter question in especial is full of “ excellent differences ” for those who care to discuss it, because, according to some theorists on the subject, there would seem to be scarcely any written or printed matter—when once you have risen above the Post Office Directory—which is not literature; while, with the very superfine class of critics, the difficulty is to find any- thing that is. Literature begins for the former almost where it began with Dogberry. Anyone who could have ‘pleaded his clergy” in the middle ages would, in their view, apparently have been a literary man. Between this estimate and that of the superfine critic who claims to confine the name of literature to some limited class of com- position which he happens himself to admire, or perhaps affect, the gap yawns enormous, and I for one have no intention of attempting to bridge it. The true definition of literature no doubt lies somewhere between them ; and will be fixed on that auspicious day when it is found possible to determine the exact proportions in which form and matter enter into the constitution of literary merit. In the mean- time we must content ourselves with admitting that form is certainly, if in an undefined degree, the more important of the two. It would be dangerous to admit any more than this in a day when so many m‘nor poets are abroad ; for a considerable number of these, while particularly careful of form, have reduced the value of their matter to a vanishing point, and any encouragement to them to carry the process yet further is to be strongly deprecated. Still, this much, as I have said, must be admitted: that it is primarily form rather than matter which constitutes literature. Among other papers presented at the Thursday session was that sent by Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, who took for his subject “The Future of the English Drama,” and forecast it with an optimism quite excusable in the writer of so many serious and successful plays. While this session was in progress, the subject of “ Litera- ture for Children’? was under consideration in another hall of the building, and papers were read by Mrs. D. Lothrop, Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, and Mr. Hezekiah Butterworth. In the after- noon, a programme of authors’ reading for chil- dren was carried out in the presence of a very large audience, composed mostly of young people. “ Aspects of Modern Fiction” was the general subject of the Friday session of the Congress. Mr. George W. Cable was asked to preside, and the choice was no less happy than that of the chairman for the three preceding sessions. Mr. THE AUTHOR. Cable followed the example of his predecessors in the chair, and read the opening paper, his sub- ject being: ‘‘The Uses and Methods of Fiction.” We extract a passage from the close of this paper : We live in a day unparalleled by any earlier time in its love and jealousy for truth. In no field of search after truth have we been more successful than in science. Our triumphs here have kindled in us such energy and earnest enthusiasm, we have been tempted, both readers and writers, to forget that facts are not the only vehicle of truth. In our almost daily triumphant search, through the simple study of facts as they are for the human race’s betterment, we have learned to yield our imaginations too subserviently to the rule and discipline of the fact-hunters, and a depiction of desirable but as yet unrealised conditions across a chasm of impracticability is often unduly and unwisely resented. The world will do well to let its story-tellers be as at their best they have ever been, ambassadors of hope. The fealty they owe is not a scientific adherence and confinement to facts and their photographic display, however benevo- lently such an attitude may be inspired, save in so far as they may help them the more delightfully to reveal the divine perfections of eternal truth and beauty. Yet if it is true that there is no more law to compel the fictionist to teach truth than there is to require the scientist to be a poet, there are reasons why in more or less degree, and in the great majority of cases, he will choose to teach. One of these reasons lies on the surface. It is that in fictional literature, at least, Truth, duly subordinated to Beauty as the queen of the realm, is her greatest possible auxiliary and ally. No page of fiction ought ever to contain a truth without which the page would be more beautiful than with it. As certainly when truth ignores beauty as when beauty ignores truth, a discountfalls upon the value of both in the economy of the universe. Yet, on the other hand, beauty in the story-teller’s art, while it may as really, can never so largely and nobly, minister to the soul’s delight without the inculcation of truth as with it. Hence it is that fiction’s peculiar ministry to the human soul is the prose depiction, through the lens of beauty, to the imagination and the emotions, of conflicts of human passions, wills, duties, and fates; a depiction unaccom- panied by any tax of intellectual labour, but consistent with all known truth, though without any necessary intervention of actual facts. Or, more briefly, it is the contemplation of the truths of human life as it ought to be, compared with the facts as they are. Tf this is the fictionist’s commission, is not his commis- sion his passport also in the economist’s world? It would be easy to follow out the radiations of this function and show their value by their simple enumeration. In the form of pure romance it fosters that spirit of adventure which seeks and finds new worlds and which cannot be lightly spoken of while we celebrate the discoveries of Columbus. In all its forms it helps to exercise, expand, and refresh those powers of the imagination whose decay is the hectic fever and night-sweat of all search for truth and beauty ; of science and invention, art, enterprise, and true religion. Often it gives to the soul otherwise imprisoned by the cramped walls of the commonplace, spiritual experiences of life refined from some of their deadliest risks, and cuts windows in the walls of cramped and commonplace environ- ments. At its best it elevates our conceptions of the heroic and opens our eyes to the presence, actuality, and value of a world of romance that is, and ought to be, in our own lives and fates. Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood followed Mr. re THE ‘Cable with a paper on “ Form and Condensation in the Novel.” We print a portion of Mrs. Catherwood’s remarks, regretting that we have not space for them all. Whoever attempts a novel is supposed to have a story to tell ; and the manner of his telling it is almost as important _as the story itself. It is always—whatever variations the theme may take—the story of a man and a woman; often a sad, often an absurd story; but one which is as fresh with every generation as new grass with the spring. The dear little maid whom you now call the light of your house will soon reach her version of it. She tells you in confidence, and with a stammer on the long word, that she has a prejudice against boys, and you know what that prejudice in the course of a few years will do with the incipient men who are hanging May-baskets or doing sums for her. It seems to me the best form for this story is the dramatic form. We want intensified life. “It is the quality of the moment that imports,” says Emerson. Of what interest are our glacial periods, our slow transitions that change us we know not why? Everyone can look back on many differing persons he has been in his time. And everyone is conscious of undeveloped identities hampered yet within him. The sweetest and sincerest natures have repressions and conc eal- ments. Itis the result of these things which makes the story of life. You may put a microscope over a man and follow his trail day by day ; but, unless he reaches some stress of loving, suffering, doing, you soon lose interest in him. I delight in Jane Austen for the quality of her work. In the same way I enjoy the work of Mr. Howells. It is ‘their dramatic grasp on the commonplace which makes these realists great. The most dramatic treatment cannot wholly present the beauty of one human soul, and the sternest analysis cannot reach all its convolutions of evil. Shakespeare knew his human soul. When we are very young we complain that he pictures us unfairly ; but when we are older we know. He took the great moments that counted, and presented his men and women intensely alive. I have heard there are authors who do not rewrite and condense, who set down at the first stroke the word they want to use; the word which creates. But I never abso- lutely laid hands on one. The growth of a story is usually slow, like the growth of most plants. It is labour and delight, pain and pleasure, despair and hope. You cannot escape a pang. You must absolutely live it through; and then try it by the test of ridicule of common standards, by the gauge of human nature. I heard a judge say when he was a college student he kicked all the bark off a log in the campus, and wore out the backs of a new pair of trousers, trying to write a poem; and he made up his mind he was no poet. If the spirit of art had really been in him, he would have recognised these agonies. It is not easy to speak the word—except when it is easy; when you have those moments of clear seeing and that condensing grasp of your material which sometimes pay for days of worthless labour. The remaimmg papers of the session were as follows: “The Short Story,’ by Miss Alice French; “The New Motive in Fiction,” by Mrs. Anna B. McMahan; “Local Colour in Fiction,” by Mr. Hamlin Garland; and “ Ebb- Tide in Realism,” by Mr. Joseph Kirkland. The Friday session of the Congress seemed to arouse a more general public interest than any of the others, and was distinguished from them by the VoL. Iv. AUTHOR. 89 fact that all the papers presented upon this occasion were read by their authors. Our account has thus far dealt almost ex- clusively with the special subject of the Congress of Authors. When we consider the fact that this Congress has been the first of the sort to be held by writers in the English language, and the other fact that there existed in this country no definite association of literary workers to take charge of the arrangements, there is reason to congratulate the committees in charge upon the outcome of their enterprise. To the non-resident Committee of Co-operation, and particularly to its secretary, Professor George E. Woodberry, who laboured long and strenuously for the success of the work, a special and hearty word of recognition is due. It is true that there have been many disappoint- ments—that some who should have taken part in the work declined the invitation to do so, and that others who had promised their help aud their presence failed to come forward at the final moment—but, with allowance for all these mis- haps, it must be admitted that the Congress achieved a distinct success, that its sessions were dignified and thought-provoking, that it attracted the serious attention of a considerable and influential public, and that it has paved the way for a better organisation of authorship, and a better understanding of literature both in its commercial and its artistic aspects. The pro- ceedings of the Congress of Authors will have many echoes in the periodical literature of the coming weeks; and, if they shall be subsequently published, as is hoped, in permanent form, their effect will be felt far beyond the moment, and is likely to make itself apparent both in predicable and unpredicable ways. Of the four remaining Congresses of the week we have not, upon the present occasion, space to speak in detail. We must be content with say- ing that they brought to Chicago exceptionally large gatherings of the four classes of specialists to whom appeal was made, including many Euro- pean scholars of the first rank; that their pro- grammes covered a very wide range of original research; and that, in spite of the tropical temperature of the week, and the counter attrac- tions of the World’s Fair, they were attended by audiences commensurate with the interest and importance of what the proceedings had to offer. —From the Chicago Dial, July 16. NOTES AND NEWS. HE publication of the Author has been delayed, in order that the Report of the Chicago Conference should appear. Only a resumé can be published for this number. So There wasa pleasant gatbering at the Author’s Club on June 26 to welcome the Dutch writer, Mr. Maarten Maartens. Mr. Oswald Crawfurd C.M.G., was to have presided, but, being un- avoidably absent, Mr. Spielmann took the chair, surrounded by a company of about sixty authors and their friends, amongst whom were P. W. Claden, Barry Pain, J. E. Muddock, Dr. Todhunter, Sidney Lee, James Baker, Raymond Blathwayt, Moncure D. Conway, Fraser Rae, and Douglas Sladen. The toasts proposed were but two—‘ The Queen,” by Mr. Spielmann, and “ The Guest of the evening, Mr. Maartens,” by Mr. Douglas Sladen. In_pro- posing Mr. Maartens’s health, Mr. Sladen introduced the author by his real name, Van de Poorten Schwarz. Mr. Maartens, in rising to reply, said he should be afraid to make a speech to them, but, as he had always heard that authors were not good after-dinner speakers, that took away the one fear which might have dulled his joy at their kindly reception of him; a joy which was now as unclouded as their London sun—this summer. He felt that he had proved that English literary men were always heartily glad to w.leome those who tried to do their best; and, in concluding, he said he must commit what he had been told in England was an indiscretion—he must not only respond, but propose a toast, “ Suecess to the Authors’ Club,” which was drunk heartily by the guests present. No other pen than that of “the anonymous writer in the Azthor,’ who has so curiously moved Mr. Andrew Lang to wrath, can worthily reply to Mr. Lang’s strictures, but we venture to call the attention of members who have not seen Longman’s for July, to some of Mr. Lang’s facetie. ‘‘ When,” says Mr. Lang, ‘an author has written a book, he sends it to his friend the publisher. The publisher replies, ‘Dear Smith,—Thanks for your MS. We are prepared to produce it in such and such a shape, on such and such terms.’ Then the author either says ‘ All right,’ or he says ‘ You offer too much, Til take so and so,’ or he says he would rather have better terms, and the pair agree or disagree ; in the latter case the author tries somebody else.” Is there not something inimitable in that ‘ You offer too much” ? THE AUTHOR. It may, perhaps, be further permissible to point: out that Mr. Lang has, in the heat of the moment,. been betrayed into a slight inaccuracy. “ The critic in the Author,’ he says, “ decides that there is a prejudice against literary men “‘as a set of needy mendicants.” The critic in the Author decided nothing of the kind. His words were: “There is no doubt that some of the contempt which has been freely poured upon the calling of letters, and is still poured upon it is due to the prejudice which regards literary men as a set of needy mendicants.” It is not exactly fair to quote the contributor to the Author as responsible for a libel against which his remarks were a vigorous protest. The renovation of the grave of Dr. William Maginn in the churchyard of Walton-on-Thames —if it can be be identified, and Mr. Michael Macdonogh has thrown some doubt on this detail —is a cause which must commend itself to all those who are associated with the literary life. Maginn was not, perhaps, a great genius, but he was a genius, and few of the Fraserians achieved so many-sided a reputation. At once a poet, a satirist, a critic, and a scholar, Maginn deserves to have his memory kept alive in spite of his follies and foibles. If the spot where he lies buried cannot be placed beyond doubt, it is to be hoped that the movement which has been set on foot will not be allowed to rest until some memorial has been raised elsewhere. ee NOTES FROM PARIS. Paris, July 19, 1893. E were sitting on the terrace of the house that overlooks the park and the Seine beyond. It was after dinner and quite dark, just the time, over the cigarettes and the coffee, to listen to strange stories. And Daudet was telling them as he can tell them. I presume that there is no man less superstitious than Alphonse Daudet, or one who less believes in supernatural phenomena, yet he declared himself unable to explain what happened to him one night as he was walking out in the woods of Meudon with his friend Alfred Delvau. That night they were pursued for hours by a horrible laugh. Daudet imitated the laugh, and one of the men who were listening to the story said, “It must have been the laugh of a mad woman.” “ We first heard it,” said Daudet, “as we were walking along a hedge-side. It startled me, ; ; THE AUTHOR. gI coming in the silence of the night, and I asked Delvau if he had heard it too. Just then it came again. Delvau cried out to know who was there, but there was no answer. We walked on, and again and again we heard the laugh close to our ears, but coming us it were from the other side of the hedge. Unable to stand it any longer I dashed through the hedge cutting my face badly in so doing. But there was nobody to be seen, though I searched carefully for a long time. No sooner had I returned to my friend, and we had begun walking on again, when once more we heard the ghastly ‘“He-he-he-he-he.” Delvau reminded me that there was a lunatic asylum for females in the neighbourhood, but that explained nothing, as no woman was in sight nor to be foun’ by the most careful searching. And, though neither Delvau nor myself were at all supersti- tious, we got thoroughly frightened, and the end of it was, the laugh continuing, that we simply took to our heels and ran for miles as though a pack of evil spirits were at our heels. I have never been able to explain to myself whose laugh it was.” Daudet then told us of an adventure, which he had in Germany when on a foot excursion, with Delvau, along the banks of the Rhine, and how they happened into a murder-inn. Daudet had imprudently shown some hundred-frane gold pieces, the sight of which had excited the cupidity of the people of the house. After they had retired te their room, Daudet standing at the window overheard some people in the next room, who were also standing by the open window, talking together, and though he could not under- stand all they said, he heard enough to warn him that an attack was being planned. He acccrd- ingly awoke Delvau, who, by the way, always used to go to sleep directly after the evening meal, to noctambulist Daudet’s despair; a barricade was thrown up, and the hunting-knives unsheathed and held in readiness. When a few minutes later the thieves entered the room, the sight that met them so appalled them that they ran shrieking thence. “We did not go to.sleep again,” said Daudet, “as you may imagine, but left the inn, without being troubled for our score, as soon as day broke.” I was saying how rarely it is that nowadays romance, though earnestly pursued by many of us, ever comes our way, and how this had been a fortunate adventure, when one of the ladies, I think it was Jeanne Daudet, the granddaughter of Victor Hugo, came from the drawimg-room and said: “ De Maupassant is dead.” We had all been chatting merrily till then, but this piece of news thus proclaimed in the dark struck silence down upon us, and there was a long pause while we waited for Daudet to speak. But he said nothing, and it gradually impressed itself upon us—from this very silence of his—that, being an invalid himself, this shadow of death had chilled his heart. Someone at last broke the painful silence, saying: “It is perhaps a mercy.” Another said: “ One might almost say, ‘ What, again?’?”’ But we were all ill at ease, and we felt that this was a catastrophe on which no com- ment could be made. But then the New Jour- nalism broke in upon our reverence. An able editor on hearing the news had at once despatched a man down to Champ Rozay, and a letter was handed in, brought post haste from Paris, praying the dear and most honoured master to write an article on the man and on his death. I shall not forget Dandet’s face, as, by the light of vestas which we struck and held for him, he read the letter. Of course he refused. “I have nothing to say ; I can write nothing. What can be said ? Poor De Maupassant. Did we not bury him two years ago?” Emile Zola has been made an officer of the Legion of Honour. This distinction has pro- voked a great deal of spiteful attack against him. Rochefort, in the Jntransigeant, on the morrow of his promotion, “went for” him in true Rochefortian style. He said that it was shame- ful that a man of letters should accept such a decoration from the hands of the people who govern France, and he went on to criticise Zola’s work in no kindly spirit. He said, to begin with, that he would give every line that Zola ever wrote for Daudet’s one book ‘ Sappho,” an opinion shared, it may be mentioned, by many. He also said that Zola’s books had no heart in them, and resembled a gallery of lifeless wax- work figures. He then pointed out—and I thought it petty on his part, a Saturday Review process at the best—a number of mistakes which Zola has made in his books, as where he speaks, in the “Faute de VAbbé Mouret,’ of the “lizards hatching their eggs,” and similar little slips, which are all too pardonable. Edouard Drumont, the same day, attacked Zola most ferociously in his Jew-baiting paper, La Libre Parole, in a three-column article, headed “Zola, or the Reward of the Pornographer.”. I had not patience to read Drumont’s article, which smelt of hysteria, and I only mention it to show that there are in Paris many whom Zola’s hard- earned laurels vex. oe THE AUTHOR. I personally was very glad that Zola should te so distinguished, not that I attach any impor- tance to decorations, but because the public does, and because if ever a man deserved distinction it is Emile Zola. Leaving the literary merits of his books out of question, no one can fairly deny that there is a hero in this little man, who has fought successfully such a fight, and has come out victorious. Every man of letters should have Zola’s bust or his portrait in his study, even if his taste has banished Zola’s works from his bookshelves. His patience, his industry, his courage, are qualities which should be taken as examples, all the more so that they have brought him to so splendid a victory. Zola was created a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1888, and was severely criticised for his acceptance of this honour by his so-called “school,” who drew up, and sent in to the master, a protestation. I saw him at the time, and asked him what he had to say about this protestation, which, if I remember rightly, was to the effect that it was treachery on the part of the head of a school of freelances, fighting against all recognised standards, to accept official patronage, this being tantamount to surrender. Zola told me that he had decided to take the red ribbon because it was a great triumph for the literary ideas he had fought for, ideas which had been reviled and persecuted from one end of Europe to the other. Personally he did not care a fig for any ribbon, red, blue, or yellow, but he was delighted to show the idiots in France (this with a growl), and the idiots out of France, that the Government appreciated the literary value of his work, As to the protestation of the school, he said: “I have no school. I never pretended to have any. Icannot help people imitating me. I am completely independent, and I intend to re- main so.” It was then that he first spoke of his contesting a seat at the Academy. Just ten years before that, at the mstance of Gustave Flaubert and of Alphonse Daudet, the red ribbon had been promised to Zola by a Minister named Bardoux. It was Daudet who, dining with Bardoux, and being consulted by the latter as to whom he should decorate, had pro- posed Zola’s name. Bardoux was delighted. with the suggestion, and said that the matter might be considered settled. Zola, in consequence, was invited to call upon Bardoux, and, after his call, everybody, himself included, expected to see his name figure on the honour-list of July 14. It did not, however, appear, nor on Jan. 1 following. Bardoux had probably been worked upon by Zola’s too numerous enemies, and so changed his mind. Zola used to say, when decorations were spoken about in his presence: “ I was very nearly decorated by Bardoux, and that suffices.” ‘To- day he is officer of the Legion of Honour. It ig true that Quesnay de Beaurepaire is com- mander. Here is a little story about Emile Zola which shows his kindness of heart Some weeks ago a young student named Zimmer was arrested and locked up in Mazas on the charge of trying to break into a room, the door of which had been sealed up by the Russian consul and a French magistrate, pending the settlement of a dispute as to whom the papers, left in that room by its former tenant, a Russian student, who had com- mitted suicide, should be handed. The papers were of a nature to gravely compromise a number of Socialists living in Paris and in Russia, and had been claimed by the Russian consul fora very obvious purpose. It was alleged by the authorities that a conspiracy had been formed amongst a certain number of students to get possession of these papers and to destroy them. Anyhow, Zimmer and another student named Julien were caught by the detectives set to watch the house, near the attic where the compromising papers were stored, and it was alleged that they had already broken one of the seals upon the door. It may be recorded that, thanks to the efforts of a very brilliant young barrister, Mr. Raymond Daly, who, by the way, has succeeded poor Child as Paris correspondent to the New York Sun, both Zimmer and Julien were acquitted. Well, whilst Zimmer was in_ his cell at Mazas, finding prison life very dull, and having nothing to read, he wrote to Emile Zola, and, telling him of his ennui, asked him to send him a copy or two of his books to help him while away the time. The next day a huge packet was delivered to Prisoner No. so-and-so, which was found to contain Zola’s complete works, together with a kind letter bidding the young man keep up heart. Zimmer told me this himself on the night of his liberation from Mazas, and I could not help wondering how many distinguished English novelists would have responded in the same way to a letter from an unknown person lying in durance in Holloway under a charge of burglary. I think it should be a point of etiquette in the literary world that no person engaged himself in the production of books should write criticisms on the works of others, and that editors of news- papers and reviews should not employ critics who are authors at the same time. What would be | i | i | i i THE AUTHOR. 93 thought of a man who, wanting to have an opinion on a parcel of tea put on the market by one importer should hand it for examination to another importer, who has no dearer wish at heart than to see his own packets of tea univer- sally accepted as the best and only valuable. The opinion of the critic, who is also an author, cannot but be biassed by his own interests, and it is quite natural that he should use the weapon wrongfully placed in his hands to destroy, as far as in his power lies,any and every competitor that may come his way. I know one or two gentlemen who eke out incomes derived from the production of literary wares by commenting on the literary wares of fellow authors, and I am sorry to say that in every case they show them- selves as ferocious as does a dog fighting for his Lone. Let there be critics certainly, but let these be critics only and not competitors of the people upon whose productions they pass judg- ment. It may be noted that in no other profes- sion but the literary profession is the critic the competitor of those whose works he criticises. Rosert H. SHERARD. GUY DE MAUPASSANT. —_—__— ()' the many sad events which it has been one’s fate—in this world of sorrow—to see, I do not know of any more sad, more poignant than the long agony and most unhappy death of our dear and great master. These are a tragedy so appalling that to express its horror one should have the pen of Aeschylus or of Sophocles. Let Guy de Maupassant be conceived in these last bitter days. Let one remember how he, reluctant, was inexorably driven down, down, from a fair sun-lit pinnacle, into the valley of the shadow of death ; how, recoiling from the hideous spectacle of this valley of night, and knowing that he might never retrace his steps to the lofty, pleasant eminence from which he had come, he essayed with a sudden stroke—I refer to his attempt at suicide—to enfranchise himself, and with reason to abdicate life also. But it was not to be, and into the night he was plunged, and, away from our eyes, who, wandering on the borders of the pit, could only hope, and against hope, that he who was lost down there, might have no recollection of aught in the world above from which fate the Furies had hounded him. Oh, the pitiful groping of his in that shadow land, the dumb wonder that must have been his at his environment, the poor aching head throbbing to remember, to understand, the eyes straining to pierce the night. In God’s goodness in time the end came; the sounds of the pitiful struggle in the night became fainter and fainter, and the rest was silence. It was a long agony, but for the divine mercy it might have been prolonged and with it our un- availing sorrow. The night has closed in on him, but his work remains in luminous and splendid testimony of the master that he was. This aristocrat of letters will be remembered in the days of democracy to come. He will be looked back upon, when literature also has succumbed to trade, the typewriter having supplanted the quill, the noisy newspaper having, by bribing these and starving those, robbed the muse of the last of her sons, as we look back on the artificers in other walks, the workers in metal and glass and leather, the weavers, the carvers, and gold- smiths, and regret, in the shoddy in which we are set, that the cunning of commercial specula- tion has taken the place of the cunning of glorious hands. When vulgarity is everywhere, he will be remembered as one of the last in whom not anything was common. Just as we finger with admiration tinged with regret the brocade found in an old armoire, which, in the days of Louis the King, was worn 'y a great marquise, and compare it with the lewd passemen- terie of B.rmingham or of Leipzic-on-the-Elbe, so shall we admiringly turn over these pages of his, and sigh for the days when the man of letters had a lofty ideal of style and the consciousness—akin to heroism—to realise it. Not one sentence shall we find in which this ideal was forgotten; from first to last the work of de Maupassant is that of a master. This entire refinement of style, this utter loathing of vulgarity, explains his choice of subjects. This was a gentleman running tilt at the vices of a vulgar and an unchivalrous age. The cowardice, the cruelty, the meanness of men, the degradation of women, who have always been in harmony with their natural mates and influ- enced by them, so that in knightly days we had heroines, and in cunning days we have tricksters, are all the outcome of the substitution to the high ideals, first of physical force, of personal courage, of ambition, of glory, which charac- terised the days of aristocracy, of the low ideals of the days of democracy, of cunning and com- merce, and all the petty meannesses of the shop and the counting-house. There was something of the Don Quixote in de Maupassant’s attitude towards his contemporaries. He was a gentle- man, and he scourged the want of gentle quali- ties in an age where money has replaced honour. His habits might be described, and conversations 94 quoted which would confirm this view of what prompted him in his choice of subjects, but for that space is wanting. And it is moreover—in the freshness of our sorrow—no pleasant task to dwell upon him, even in warmest eulogy. Paris, July 21. Rosert H. SHERARD. oc FEUILLETON. A Meruop or ADVERTISEMENT. HEY were friends, and lived together in f3 dirty chambers, in a dirty Inn, and quar- relled o’ mornings, and o’ nights became confidential, and would sonorously narrate what they had done, and shrilly swear what they would do, and would rail at the timidity of editors, and the purblindness of the reading world. For they had literary designs, though as yet they had not found the road to public recognition. When, therefore, one of them, Mr. Joshua Jones (I refer to the now celebrated historian), burst in upon his companion, Mr. Robert Treves (for a brief period much be-paragraphed as Robin Trefusis, the minor poet), and exclaimed, “I saw my chance and took it,” he excited in his friend’s mind only a languid curiosity, much disappoint- ment having made the bard sceptical as to the value of any chances likely to fall to either of them. “Been to the club, and sneaked a new umbrella ?” he asked, looking wearily from the pages of a parchment-covered book, and twisting up the tip of his flaxen beard. “No,” replied Jones. ‘“ This is a real chance.” “Mr. Sims has given you a thousand pounds to write a melodrama without a baronet in it? No? Going to index a book about Rameses II., or to catalogue the MSS. in a brewer’s library ? No? Hold on! Utknow your limits, and must guess it soon. It is literary—eh?”’ “ Yes—I suppose so.” “Then you're going to do the historical serial for the Family Gazette—‘ Count Robert of Roc- Amadour’ or ‘Eugene, the Cavalier: a Tale of the Civil War’? No? Well, what?” “T’m going to do the poetical T’s for the New Literary Biographical Series. It looks like a long job. You've no idea how instinctively people whose names begin with T drop into poetry or ”—noticing his friend’s bow’’—er—into maudlin slush. I’ve just ordered all the books that have ever been written about Tennyson, Thompson, Tupper, and similarly obvious people. But there’s a heap more of them, and I’ve got a free hand to THE AUTHOR. put in and leave out as I like. And T’ll tell you what—I’m going to give poor old Robinson Taylor a show. He shall have his say at last, poor dear old chap! I shall swear right out that he was a thundering fine poet. He really wasn’t bad, you know.” « Robinson Taylor! Why he couldn’t write a cent! He had a trick or two, and that sums him up. What can you say about him?” “T’m going to say something, anyhow. Poor old Taylor! I remember his first effusion. He was about fifteen, and very cherubic, all dimples and smiles. And he brought me a piece of black introspection beginning, ‘I am a man fulfilled of sin and shame.’ And we roared over it. No! He never got a show while he was alive, and Tm going to give him one now that he’s dead.” “Robinson Taylor! Well, you're a staunch friend. You're prepared to record a heap of lies in a standard work because you rather liked a mediocre man as a schoolboy. It’s a prize _per- formance in log-roling. I wish I was dead. Perhaps you’d boom me. It might be worth my while to commit suicide. Would you boom me, if 1 did? I’m as good as Robinson Taylor.” “Better, my dear chap. I can say that con- scientiously.” « And I’ve been waiting a dreadful long time.” “ But you’ve never done anything.” “ Why, that’s true,” assented the poet musingly. “There’s deuced little of me in print. But. doesn’t that make what there is more precious? This is a commercial age, and the scarcity of my wares should enhance their value. 1 have a. notion that that is what is called political economy. And I’ve got a book ready, you know. Tt’s not my fault that it has not yet been pub- lished. All that is wanted now is the common publisher to reimburse me for my risk, in giving up so much time to what is probably going to be an unremunerative task. And all that could be worked, if I died, and you boomed me.” “Yes, it could” (absently). “ My book, I say, would be printed and would go, if I died and you boomed me.” “ Yes, it would” (indifferently). ; “My book” (beginning again very slowly, and stopping as Jones at last looked attentively at him) “What do you mean? ”’ said Jones. “Nothing,” said the poet hastily. “ Nothing. I’m only a little mad.” And he burst into laughter as the full development of his idea became manifest to him. * * * * * Mr Rutherford, the famous publisher of small editions, was an enterprising man, and Treves entered to him, knowing that he need not scruple i! 4 ay { i THE AUTHOR. to lay bare his plan, because it was a flighty and irregular one, while he could show that the chances of practical success were fair. Mr. Rutherford listened politely, smoking slowly as his visitor talked, and then replied promptly— “Yes. It’s a goodish idea—quite a good idea in fact. But,I must not be mixed up in anything of that sort. Understand me there. I shall be innocent, brightly radiantly innocent. But the chance of selling sufficient copies to pay me for putting the book on the market is so good, if you can really secure an advertisement of that sort, that I am willing to print your poems. You’ll be reviewed everywhere. I do not offer you any money for them, for you are a new hand, and it would be absurd to do so. But I refrain from charging you anything. And if you like to tell any one that I gave you a hundred pounds or so, why do; I shall not contradict you. The statement would reflect great credit upon both of us. AndIJ’ll help you to work the fake, if you are quite sure that you will be discreet.” “Tm not likely to talk,” said the poet. ‘Tm ashamed of the dodge. But I’m going to do it, because J will be talked of.” “Do you tell your friend, the biographer? Or is he to genuinely mourn a deceased friend in our “Ql to.” “Yes. Well it would certainly be injudicious, to keep him in the dark. If he stands in with us, only pretending to think you dead, he will say nothing of you except the good. But if he thinks you are really out of the way, and that you can never reproach him for his virtue, he might be tempted to do his duty—to be exactly honest—and so on.” “‘That’s the man!” said Treves. ‘‘ He would swagger about his honesty, and would slate me right and left, and take credit to himself for the pain he was causing himself. I'll tell him.” And this is how it came about that Robert Treves’s book was published, and this is why some six months later the poet disappeared on to the Continent laughing, while the following para- graph appeared in the New Literary Biographical Series : “ Treves, Robert (Robin Trefusis). Born July, 1862, at Ovington Manor, Norfolk. Died May, 1893, at Davos Platz. By the premature death of this young singer, England has lost a poet who, as his voice grew stronger—more certain in execution and more extended in range—would have done her high honour. His youth, in as great a degree as his fastidiousness, accounts for the scantiness of the work he has left behind him; but by none of our recent verse-makers I shall tell him. It would be brutal not 95 has his dexterity of treatment been excelled, and few have been inspired with loftier themes. The brevity of our notice has been dictated not by the obscurity of the poet, but by the fact that a biography can take cognizance only of perform- ance, and not at all of promise. But if the per- formance here has been small, it has been good, and the promise very great. No record of the poets of the Victorian era can be considered complete, without mention of the name of Robin Trefusis; and some of the more individual and characteristic portions of his one slender volume will be found to constitute a valid claim to his admission into this Series.” * * * * * “And now,” said Mr. Rutherford gleefully, ‘* it’s time for me to work the racket.” So he sent letters to all the literary papers explaining the fact that Mr. Treeves was still alive, and that his name had got into the bio- graphical series by a culpable error that was likely to give great pain, not only to Mr. Treves’s immediate friends, but to all lovers of English literature. Then the erring biographer was ordered by his employers to make an abject. apology in all those literary papers for’ his egregious carelessness, and he did so. And the incident furnished copy to journalists of all sorts for many days, while the book received serious attention from every review of note in the kingdom. So that it is not surprising that in the absence of Mr. Treeves his bed-maker was inter- viewed in a society paper, and the great British public were duly aroused to the fact that the new poet wore side-spring boots, read the Daily Telegraph, and threw cigarette ends all over the floor. “Tt’s working beyond my expectation,” said Mr. Rutherford, and he prepared a second edition, with a black cover to it. ‘I begin to wonder the chap does not come and ask for some money.” Then an omniscient and an indefatigable statesman, who was sparing time from the government of the Hmpire to deliver a lecture on the “ Evolution of Poesy” to the Asiatic Society, quoted from the book. Immediately two school- fellows of Robert’s wrote to the papers about him. One gave anecdotes to prove that he was a morose and stupid boy. The other described him as a perpetual ray of clever sunshine, the darling and despair of his tutors, the tyrant and idol of his companions. And thirteen requests for his autograph were sent to his chambers. And a parody of one of his poems appeared in Punch. And a man who knew him at Cambridge called to borrow a trifle. Briefly, Robert Treves was on the road to fame. “ Now Ido wonder he doesn’t turn up,” said 96 Mr. Rutherford. “If he doesn’t want the bread, surely he would like the butter.” And he got a cheap edition in paper covers with the sub-title, “ From beyond the bar,” and an édition de luxe in white vellum, limited to two hundred and fifty impressions, with a copper-coloured etching of the poet as a frontispiece. And still there came no news. “ Where the deuce is he?” said Mr. Ruther- ford, at last, with a little irritation in his voice, addressing Mr. Joshua Jones. “ He can do me another book if he likes. He can’t really write very much—at least I don’t think so, and he would soon wear thin—but he’s a safe draw just now. Write to him, and ask him about it. Tell him I'll pay for the next one—and stretch a point and give him something on the old one too, if he likes. Where is he Te “< FIe’s in Paris,” said Jones. “ He telegraphed this morning from there, saying that a letter wo 1d follow.” “Capital! Then there’s no bother about it at all. Write to him and tell him so. If he hasn’t got anything by him, let him set to work and translate some of those new French beggars —Sensitivistes and Hystériques—you know. And let him use the simplest and oldest ballad metres, particularly when the sentiment is com- plicated and new. He might take ‘ Old Mother Hubbard’ as a model. I can sell him. Tell him that. I can sell him. I know a man who draws vile clumsy things on the wood, with Durer’s perspective and Bouguerau’s faces, and he’ll illustrate the book, and we'll get the tail- pieces from tra ings at the British Museum. You write about it to him at once. There’s money in it just now. But he’s got to be quick. You write at once.” * * * * * Mr. Joshua Jones promised, but he never kept his promise. For that evening he received a letter from his friend. “My dear Jones,” it ran, “We have played a dirty trick, and I leave you to repent, for I always shirk a duty. I have read what you said of me, and also what all the critical people have said since. I know that Ihave run into editions, but I also know that I have written nothing par- ticularly good, and that I can never write any- thing so good again. J have decided therefore to restore you to your position as an accurate man by constituting myself a dead poet. Yes, when you read this I shall be a dead poet. You needn’t worry about me, I shouldn’t worry much about you.—Yours very sincerely, “ RoBert TREVES. “P.§,—Tell Rutherford I fancy he will see his THE AUTHOR. way to a new edition upon the strength of my furnishing this new advertisement. “ Second P.S.—I haven’t a relation in the world nearer than the cousin who black-balled me for the Blenheim. Have my things sold, pay your- self for your trouble, don’t pay my debts, give our admirable Mrs. Thompson a fiver for the article which appeared in ‘‘ The Smart Review ” about me—I am sure the editor has not troubled to do so—and send the balance, with my dog, to the Dog’s Home. Good-bye.” O. J. ee $0-SO SOCIOLOGY. 1. Philosophy helps Man to be serene ; science, to be sure ; religion, to be sane; and misfortune, to be strong. 2. Everyone was born, and will die, in debt to human society. 3. There are two main kinds of history—the popular and the precise. 4. Who learns only on authority, believes only by memory. 5. The greatest are those who can, if they must, best stand alone. 6. The rare is equally liable to reverence and to ridicule. : 7. Without pain, no progress; without pleasure, no permanence. 8. Self-conceit differs from self-confidence, as dreams from deeds. g. Contempt is a common compliment from the contemptible. 10 The present seems degenerate to the degene- rating. 11. Who thinks too little of social opinion is a cynic : too much, a slave. 12. Candour is virtue or vice, according to motive. 13. Absence of heart is no sure sign or proof of presence of head. 14. Right religion and sure science are twin phases of true truth. 15. Only the useful ever deserves to be. 16. The highest use of beauty is not to please, but to raise. 17. Nature may often seem hard, but can never be unjust. 18. No one ever broke a natural law; it simply broke him, when unwise enough to try. 19. Nature’s chief function is to grow ; Man’s, to adjust. 20. Who knows character and understands circumstance may foretell conduct. 21. In life, as in light, focus makes for force. i . Vs iS i i H . i i i ] i q 3 i We THE 22. Cleanliness, as much as courage, is a phase of brain-power. 23. Creed is much more a matter of chance than of choice. 24. Shallowness is as readily mistaken for optimism, as pessimism for poetry. PHINLAY GLENELG. ——— rr A BRIDESONG OF BRITAIN. Sunny of soul is Britain. This day does her heart behold A world spread wide for her goings upon ways by her seers foretold. Faces thereon and thereover shine back on her throne from afar,— Faces of children made bright in the light of her rising Star. Up from their eyes it ascends towards its zenith of hope, and its goal In that Sabbath of kindreds and kingdoms foretold unto man by his soul. One blood, of one speech, one purpose, to her loyalty of purpose fast, Her babes eat fruit of her sowing; yet the stores of her storied past Wane, and are small accounted, by wealth which her sons shall bring, Tilth of the wastes, and tribute of ocean, and garnering Freewill gifts of the soul, all the broad Earth’s hidden store Hoarded of time and chaos from the spoilers who spoiled before. Oh, Crown of the one great kindred, wax mighty! let Earth resound Thy praises, our Island Mother, by thy young lions guarded round In the gates of thy seawalled fortress! Therefrom shall the nations seek Ensample of freedom, wisdom in counsel, aid for the weak *Neath the shield of the ‘‘ Peace of Britain,’ man’s armour of breast and brow, Wherefrom in spray shall the swords be splintered, where- through no blow May shatter the orb she upholds to the sun, or avail to break Her spirit’s purpose, or hinder the thing that her hand would make. To the teeming promise of time heart-awakened by marriage bells, An answer of praise and rejoicing in the bosom of Britain swells : Music above and about her is one with a psalm in her breast Rising on high, carried wide on all winds of the Hast and the West, And of North and of South by her offspring. Oh, hymn of the loyal and free, Oh psalm of our love and our longing, ring ever by land and by sea Increasing in prophecy, valiant, victorious, a song of desire ; Ring proud over palace and city, ring blythe over home- stead and byre. Strong swordsong, attempered of Saxon, of Norman, of Celt and of Dane, Where ploughshares are forged of the swordblades our smithying wakes thee again. AUTHOR. 97 This day thou art thundered by cannon, rung out by the jubilant bells, Our lovesong, our bridesong, our birthsong, a song that forestalls and foretells. In the ends of the earth, and those gates of the foe which are ours, let it rise. Ring it north, ring it south, oh ye bells. ring forth to the skies. Hope of Britain, Tall city belfry, hidden hamlet spire, Ring out, ring out your loudest, proudest chime : Ring hope at dawn, ring joy at eventime ; Ring round your cadences of crowned desire. Land and sea are listening To your merry marriage madness ; Quiring to the chimes ye ring Choruses of loving gladness. Ring for Britain and her Queen, For the world-spread commonweal Basing one far-sheltering throne, Fullest hope the years have seen, Kindliest longings men may feel, Widest bond the world hath known, In kinship, kingship, all our own. Ring; Ring Britain’s marriage peal. Britain calls to this day’s feast Her first and foremost, last and least. On her breast this marriage night Shall her gems outshine the sky, Every hill be tipped with light, Every happy home be bright With a realm’s festivity. Not upon her sleeve is worn Britain’s heart. Her smile and tear, Every hope which she holds dear, Consecrate this marriage morn Of sailor Prince and English Maid, On whom her love and trust are stayed, To all her children yet unborn. Oh, happy bridal pair, To whom all hearts are gathered as ye stand This day to plight your lives, your native land Crowns you with love and prayer. Give back untarnished into Britain’s hand These crowns which all may share ; So, from the unnumbered loyal breasts Whereon our Greater Britian rests, Win ceaseless increase of your love and prayer, as she, Our Queen, hath harvest of our prayer and love From seed of lovingkindness, purity, Womanly wealth of sympathy above, Past record amongst rulers of mankind, And, best resource in need, That Light whereby to find High hope and righteous deed. Such gifts she gives us. Make her gifts your own, That so these buttressed bases of the throne May stand; which through Victoria’s reign have grown To golden strength, beyond each ’dizened story, On warrior-builded tombs where sleeps an empire’s glory. Great is your vantage to have been Our own from birth, and dear to England’s Queen, Beloved in girlhood, wifehood, widowhood, Revered for love of him we name “the Good” ; Mother of Princes whose fair courtesy Is timely helpful to our empire’s wants, Princesses whose nice-fingered charity Lays welcome usury on the gift it grants. 98 THE AUTHOR. With these, with you, with her rejoice, IL. Prince and peasant. Britain’s voice Pours forth her blessings at this festival, Copyricut in New ZEALAND. In faith, in hope, in love, in joy for all. It may interest readers of the Author to know : _ that there is no provision for registering copy- Fly, fly Bridesong of Britain. Flash from her bosom in right of books in New Zealand ; therefore that ares of fire. ae g : f Wing, wing till thy world-girt ring shall cling deep-linked P9 tion of the Act of 1886 which provides that ., |. with her sons’ desire. registration in a colony is sufficient to secure Go where the Sunlands, go where the Norlands greet thee, copyright throughout the British dominions is meet thee with mirth again. strangely inoperative as regards the colony afore- Gather all greetings of Sunland and Norland ; twist them as strands of thy marriage strain. Brood and ’bide upon bridegroom and bride ; ’bide in bless- said. The ‘ Copyright Ordinance,’ 1842 (N.Z.), ing and brood in love ; reads thus :— Sing them a mirth-song; bring them a birth-song ; hold Whereas it is desirable that the copyright of books them and help with thy hymns above. should be secured by law to the authors thereof: Be it Evermore, over sea and shore, bid thy glad hope soar with enacted by the Governor of New Zealand, with the advice her bright wings spread. and consent of the Legislative Council, as follows :— Speed thine own towards the Great White Throne, with the 1. The author of any book which shall hereafter be Psalm of Life which awakes the dead. printed and published, and his assignees, shall have the From the farthest height of thy path of flight let thy light ole liberty of printing and reprinting such book for the be bright unto distant lands. full term of twenty-eight years, to commence from the day Take meet reward as seer and bard in meed of the deed thy of first publishing the same, and also, if the author shall be faith demands. living at the end of that period, for the residue of his Loud be thy song in the strongholds of wrong, yea, loud natural life. and long for the right’s increase, 2. If any person shall during the period or periods Zealous and leal to the whole wor\d’s weal, till the last blast aforesaid print, reprint, or import, or cause to be printed, peal from thy lips in peace. reprinted, or imported, any such book without the consent in Fly, fly Bridesong of Britain, speak with her sons from clime writing of any author or assignee of the copyright thereof, to clime. or shall, knowing the same to have been so printed, reprinted, Warmth of the Sunland, strength of the Norland, blend or imported, without such consent as aforesaid, sell, publish, them, bind them with chime and rhyme. or expose for sale, or cuuse to be sold, published, or exposed Byer to echo, ever to eddy, ever to throb in the breast of for sale, or have in his possession for sale, any such books time. J. A. GoODCHILD. without such consent as aforesaid, every such person shall be liable to an action at the suit of the author or assignee, in which action double costs of suit shall be allowed, and shall also, upon a verdict being given against him in such action as aforesaid, forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds CORRESPONDENCE. to the use of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for the public uses of the Colony, and the support of the Govern- ment thereof. es L The following is an extract from a letter PayMENT FOR INTERVIEWS. : ‘ : : received by me from the Registrar of Copyrights, Sir,—The interview nuisance has assumed pro- Wellington, dated March 2, 1893 :— portions that seem to call for drastic measures on In reply to your letter of the 27th ult., I beg to say that the part of the interviewed. Not only is every there is no provision for registration in the colony under popular writer expected to grant interviews to the Ordinance of 1842 (quoted), neither is there any Act representatives of all and sundry journals, but under which ordinary letterpress books can be registered a practice is springing up of forwardig an in New Zealand. examination paper in advance of this ordeal. If It may be asked, “Then why doesn’t the New the practice is to continue, I wish to suggest that Zealand Parliament make provision for regis- the least the editors and proprietors of periodicals tering?” That is the point ce Why? can do when they solicit a favour of this character B. R. F. 1. is to intimate the terms they are prepared to pay ————09Oq.< for the privilege. It should be made a matter of i business. This would take away any sense of WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. ungraciousness from a refusal. As it is, one is under a sort of compulsion to comply. Specu- I lative interviewers, too, threaten to become a a : s serious plague to busy writers. XY 2 Tur PRrEerernaturat Story. © HERE is an article in this month’s Author,” the Poet went on, after a pause, E “on the preternatural story, which seemed to me to be full of knowledge and obser- THE AUTHOR. 99 vation. In it there is quoted the remark of a well- known London publisher, that nowadays people cared for nothing but fairy-tales.” “T should think,’ the Ordinary Man said, “that they must be much harder to write. The limits of the preternatural are much narrower than those of the natural.” He was here told, almost unanimously, that he was talking nonsense, “JT don’t think so,” he cortinued. ‘“ As long as you are dealing with the natural, you may repeat yourself freely and make as many varia- tions as you like on a common theme—the ordi- nary human love-story is an instance. But when we come to the preternatural, repetition is not so easy; it always suggests plagiarism. I have never read a story—since ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’—that dealt with a divided personality without thinking that the author was indebted to Stevenson.” “That,” the Poet said, “ would be an argu- ment in favour of the fairy tale—the story of the preternatural. If it is more difficult, it is more desirable. And I don’t want the ghost story to die out.” “Yes,” the Mere Boy said; “tell me not in Christmas numbers ghosts are but an empty dream. But why are we all getting so literary ? I started by talking about the hangman.” “But surely,” said the Poet, “you couldn’t wish all the rest of us to end with him ?”— Barry Parn, in Black and White. Il. WITHDRAWN FROM CIRCULATION. The relatives of Claude Bernard, the French author, are engaged at the present moment in buying up copies of a book of poems which they think is below the reputation of the celebrated physiologist. This is not the first instance of an author’s works being withdrawn from publication. M. Alexandre Dumas, fils, once published a book called (very appropriately) “‘ Péchés de Jeunesse.” It was in verse of poor quality. M. Dumas never loses an opportunity of buying up a copy. M. de Mazade and Wilkie Collins have done the same thing. So have Feydeau and Sainte-Beuve. Victor Hugo published a satire in 1819 entitled the “ Télégraphe,” which he subsequently sought to suppress. Many works have been practically withdrawn from circulation because their authors subsequently changed their political opinions, and on one occasion the Rothschilds contributed greatly to the success of a book by Toussenel called the “ Juifs rois de Epoque” by buying it up. <A recent edition of the same work passed unnoticed. Louis Napoléon was the providence of publishers. He tried in 1834 to suppress the ‘‘ Révision de la Carte d’Europe,” by himself, as well as many other publications. In more recent days the books of M. Turpin, the inventor of mélinite, and of Maitre Cléry, the eminent Paris barrister, have been suppressed for political reasons. The task of exterminating a book which has once been printed is, however, by no means an easy one. It recalls the Biblical massacres in which one warrior, the sole survivor, always escapes to tell the tale—Pall Mall Gazette. Pec “AT THE SIGN OF THE AUTHOR'S HEAD.” R. WALTER BESANT has prepared for the August number of the Contemporary Review a revise of his presidential address at the opening of the Hoxton Library and Insti- tute. It will bear the title ‘The Associated Life.” “ Round the Red House Farm ”’ is the title of a lengthy sketch of Warwickshire country life which Mr. George Morley has written for the Queen. It deals with the natural history of the landscape lying between two farms near Offchurch Bury, the seat of the Dowager-Countess of Ayles- ford. The Record Press are publishing a book by Mr. Morley, entitled “Rambles in Shakespeare’s Land.” The same writer has written a paper on “Shakespeare Commemorations,’ and also one entitled ‘Literary Islington,’ both for early publication in London Society. Dr. Karl Leutzner, the well-known author, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of the United Kingdom, at a meeting held in London on the 28th of June. Mr. Frankfort Moore’s novel, “I Forbid the Bans,” is being translated into German by Miss Adele Berger, and Baron Tauchnitz has already added it to his Continental Library. Messrs. Hutchinson have a cheap edition in the press, which will be ready immediately. The large demand for Annie 8. Swan’s new book, “ Home- spun,” will delay the publication until early in July. The Briar Rose, the organ of the Rose Club, a literary society for women, has just been issued. It is edited by Miss Mary A. Woods, and is a publication which appeals to literary beginners. “Dust and Laurels” is the title of a study in nineteenth century womanhood, by Mary L. Pendered, to be published shortly, in one volume, by Messrs. Griffith, Farran and Co. 100 A new serial by Mrs. R. S. de C. Laffan, entitled “Through the Ranks,” will commence in an early number of All the Year Round. Messrs. Jarrold and Jarrold, publishers, Nor- wich, are about to issue a complete uniform edition of the same writer’s works, “ Lewis Draycott” and «Bonnie Kate” being now in the press. Other novels will follow in due course, each work costing three and sixpence. The serial story for boys, now running in the Strat- fordian, will ultimately be published in volume form, illustrated. Miss Amy Reade, the author of the circus story, “ Ruby,” which attracted a good deal of attention a few years ago, and of “ Slaves of the Sawdust,” is engaged upon a new novel, to be entitled “Zerma,” Miss Reade has for collabo- rator, Mr, Alfred T. Story, author of “The Old Corner Shop,” and other novels. Many Inventions, by Rudyard Kipling (Mac- millan'and Co.). It is pleasant to welcome a fresh volume from the hand of the master writer of short stories. No reader will be dis- appointed with the new volume as a whole or will see any falling off from the author’s crisp- ness of expression, vigour of narration, and keenness of observation. He is a true artist. He studies his subject; masters the detail and places it before the reader, so that the veriest dullard can follow him and almost fancy himself as keen an observer as the author. Perhaps the best story in the book, if it is possible to make a choice, is “The Record of Badalia Herods- foot.” Its lurid realism is wonderful, and yet how artistic and pathetic. Again, as in Mr. Kipling’s former volumes of short stories, the variety of subject, apart from the literary and artistic merit, would save the volume from the paper basket. There is no monotony of the oft repeated sentimental love story, or of the as wearisome tale of hair breadth escape. The book is thoroughly true to humanity, though drawn from so many varied sources; as such it is a work of the highest art, and will appeal to the widest public. Songs, Measures, and Metrical Lines, by J. C. Graham (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., Limited), is a pleasant little book of verse. Some of the lines about the country and the flowers are particularly fresh. “Summer” has a distinct poetic thought well expressed. Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Chesney, K.C.B., M.P., the author of “The Battle of Dorking,” “The Private Secretary,” “A Dilemma,” &c., has just completed a new novel, which, under the title of “The Lesters,’”’ will be published in the autumn by Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. THE AUTHOR. “Dan’l’s Delight,” by Archie Armstrong, which has been running at St. George’s Hall since Easter, was withdrawn on July 8 to make way for a new piece. Mr. Arthur Dillon is reissuing his book of poems, “ River Songs and other Poems,” with Messrs. Eden, Remington. The volume will appear shortly. “Church and Dissent” is the title of a new book by the Rev. Richard Free, B.D., author of “The Decay of Nonconformity,” “ Lux Benigna,” &c., consisting of a series of lectures which will shortly be published in one volume. Miss Peard’s new novel, ‘“‘The Swing of the Pendulum,” will be published this autumn by Messrs. Bentley and Sons. The characters are English, but the scene is chiefly laid in Norway. The Publisher's Circular announces that a Civil List pension of £200 has been granted to Mr. John G. Evans, to enable him to continue his researches in Welsh literature. A pension of £75 has also been granted to Mrs. Minto, widow of Professor Minto, and one of £50 to Mrs. Frances E. Trollope, widow of Mr. Thos. A. Trollope. Mrs. Waugh has translated with marked dexterity ‘The Two Countesses ” of the Baroness von Ebner Eschenbach. The volume has been published by T. Fisher Unwin in his Pseudonym Library. “Gearing and the Economical Transmission of Power,” by M. Powis Bale, A.M.LC.E., has just been published as No. 1 of their Technical Series by Messrs. Wm. Rider and Son Limited. “The Index to Periodical Literature of the World,” covering the year 1892, which has just been issued from the office of the Review of Reviews, is a monument of industry and enter- prise. Not only does it give the contents of the principal periodicals of the world for the year under review, but it gives a classified table of magazines with their editors, addresses, and some extremely useful remarks. Issued at a merely nominal price of 5s., the publication deserves the support of every man and woman of letters, and it would be impossible to find for them a better investment. In spite of the “ bad times,” of which we have heard so much, yet another firm of publishers has commenced business—Messrs. Bliss, Sands, and Foster, of 19, Craven-street, Strand. Mr, Grant Allen has written a new story for Messrs. Raphael Tuck and Co., entitled “An Army Doctor’s Romance,” which will appear in the Breezy Library. i 1 it FS THE AUTHOR. “ A Man of Mystery,” a novel by Mrs. Har- court Roe, will shortly be published by Messrs. J. 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The description of life in the Alma Mater on the banks of the Cam gives Mr. Payn opportunities for humorous sketches of professors and ‘students, and he shows himself in the light of an excellent raconteur. This part of the narrative furnishes some delightful reading; we seem to be listening to the best talk, incisive, racy, and to the point. Space will not allow us to quote some of the wise and witty sayings, ‘tinged it may be with cynicism, which are the outcome of Mr. Payn’s philosophy of life, and which are not the least entertaining part of this attractive novel.” DAILY CHRONICLE: ‘“Mr. James Payn is here quite at his usual level all through, and that level is quite high enough to please ‘most people. - The character drawing is good. The story of the master sounds strangely like truth. . A book to read distinctly.” DAILY GRAPHIO, ‘ . . . 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It is new and thoroughly original, and worthy of the ingenuity of the loser of Sir Massingberd.” BATLEY REPORTER: ‘. . . . Is most attractive reading.” HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH AND CHRONICLE: ‘Mr, James Payn’s latest story, ‘A Stumble on the Threshold,’ which has been the chief attraction in the ‘ Queen’ during the last few months—where, by the way, it was most admirably illustrated—has just been issued in two handsome vols. by Mr. Horace Cox. The story is written in Mr. Payn’s happiest vein; it sparkles with wit, the characters are most unconventional, and the old, old theme is worked out on quite novel lines.” HEREFORD TIMES ‘* With all their sparkle and gaiety, Mr. Payn’s novels would not be complete without the dread Nemesis, mysterious in operation, and casting suspicion for a time on every side but the right one. The novel is thoroughly attractive, and a credit to the practised hand which penned it.” THE OBSERVER: “.. . . 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