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Lermina October 15, 1890. thinks, is determined by two special motives, HE Congress which was held in London ' irreconcilabirreconcilablele antagonism to Enorland.JUngland , wwh\chhich T last week under the auspices of the Inter- country is specially interested in the matter, and national Literary and Artistic Association was an internal struggle between the east and re-union of eminent literary workers, west of America itself.' We do not a p.A. leasant — know I and, it is to be hoped, will mark an advance in that there is any irreconcilable antagonism | more than one question affecting the well-being in the matter, but there can be no doubt j of letters. The proceedings throughout were that America is like a house divided against i marked by great cordiality and good-will ; itself. ' The most bitter detractors of the pro- i and no doubt our visitors have departed firm posed law,' said M. Lermina, with refreshing i i in the conviction that while it may be true directness, ' belong to regions the least blessed | we English take our pleasures sadly we have with intellectual characteristics. For the con- | nevertheless a chivalrous sense of the claims of stituents of the representatives of Kansas, i hospitality. The general effect might be more Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Texas, the striking—some would perhaps say, more satis- rights of intellect have no real and tangible factory—if the representatives of British litera- being.' In New York, New Jersey, Boston j ture had taken a more prominent part in the and Philadelphia, however, more enlightened discussions, though it may be said that the ideas prevail, and in these places, it is needless foreign delegates were so thorough, so full of to say, public opinion is entirely in favour of ' their subjects and the spirit of universal the Bill. In considering the arguments urged brotherhood, that little remained for English- against International Copyright, M. Lermina men but to listen, admire, and applaud. singled out for his shafts two gentlemen from The object of the Congress was, broadly the great State of Illinois who have distin- speaking, to assist in securing to the producer guished themselves by their violence of asser- of literature his or her rights in the products tion and perfect innocence of logic and * sweet of his or her labours ; and under this compre- reasonableness. 7 We mean Messrs. Hopkins hensive heading were discussed most of the and Payson. Mr. Hopkins is of opinion that important ^q uestions connected with books an author is not entitled to protection inasmuch considered as literary property. The terms of as he simply sets in circulation ideas which he the Berne Convention were criticised at some steals from others. Further, Mr. Hopkins length, and modifications and alterations thinks that a writer who is worthy of the nanio suggested. M. Eugene Pouillet had much would not work for money. He would work, that was pertinent to say concerning transla- we presume, for fame, the fun of the thing, tions, and M. Victor Souchon ably championed and the good of the bucolic communities who the cause of the musical composer. Nor were raise hogs and send men like Mr. Hopkins the artist and the dramatist forgotten. But to the national legislature. It seems that tho the chief interest of the Congress centred in inhabitants of the backwoods and immeasurable M. Jules Lermina's paper on ' Copyright with prairies have a great fondness for books that the United States.' We hope American law- are given to them * without authorial expense/ makers will condescend to read and consider and Mr. Hopkins is troubled lest this nice what M. Lermina said. The American op- taste should be disturbed or denied. Finally, ______fig ; &¦ ¦ =9 Oct. 15, 1890 The Publishers' Circular I 343 Mr. Hopkins considers that an author is well A pocket volume of selections from the paid if the pioneers of civilisation in the West J.poetical works of Robert BrowningCT has i»j ust ¦ condescend to read his books. We believe been published by Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. # that different sentiments obtain among authors * * themselves. Mr. Payson does not trouble A study of ' Confucius the Great Teacher ' • himself to go so much about the bush. Being will be issued immediately, by Messrs, Kegan less subtle and more bold than Mr. Hopkins, Paul, Trench, Triibner & Co, he goes bravely on the Robin Hood principle, # * Cardinal Newman's ' Arians of the Fourt h that his friends who have the power should ? take and that those Century has been translated into moder n should keepJL who can. Greek, ' Other countries take an interest in us because # # we are a source of profit to them/ he exclaims, and this is held to Messrs. George Routledge & Sons announce be sufficient justification for a cheap edition of Dr. Samuel Smiles's 4 Life of declining to be just. The Copyright Bill, urges George Moore, Merchant and Philanthropist.' Mr. Payson, has no other object than to open to foreigners the vast market of the American ' Our Dead, Where are They ?' is the title of reading public, and, moreover, without exacting a volume edited by Mr. T. H. Stockwell, any corresponding advantage in return. As which Mr. Elliot Stock will issue shortly. to getting any advantage in return the matter , * * * will be entirety in the hands of the American ' Virginie : a Tale of One Hundred Fears people. The Copyright Bill may be passed, Ago,' by Val Prinsep, A.R. A., will be published but there will next month by Messrs. Longmans & Co. be no clause ¦a. compelling\—* readers to buy forei # gn books unless they like. It is to * * be presumed that if no benefit will be derived A new and revised edition of Dr. Smith's from buying English books, for instance, then ' Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities ' no English books will be bought, and there will is announced by Mr. John Murray. be justice between man and man. Among the * points brought out by M. Lermina was the one * Leaders in the Northern Church/ by the on which we have already more than once late Bishop Lightfoot, has just been issued by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. dwelt, viz., that dear books need not be a result of International Copyright. # * # ioi A fourth and popular edition of * The .BoBondmanndman , ' bvby MallHall UaineCaine., is announced hvby The relations between authors and pub- Mr. William Heinemann. lishers have ever been a fruitful topic of # * # interest ; nor does the interest in the subject Mr. Edward Stanford will bring out at at all diminish as time passes. During the an early date a volume of statistical papers by past week the matter has been elaborately Mr. G. B. Longstaff. The works will be illustrated with maps and diagrams. discussed in the columns of the Times, and both authors and publishers have expressed thoir views. Of course the commercial aspect Dean Goulburn has written a biograpo j . hy«/ of— of the question has been uppermost, for even his friend the late Dr. Burgon, which will shortly«/ be JLpublished by«/ Mr. Murray.%l It will in literature finance has a peculiar and ir- be in two volumes. resistible fascination. We shall bo glad if the present correspondence, the bulk of which we The ' Essays of Elia ' will, wo learn, be the reproduce, will lead to a better understanding next volume in Mr. Walter Scott's Camelot of some of the intricate questions connected series. Mr. Ernest Rhys will furnish an intro- with the production of books. We think it duction. will show at least this much, even to the most # * # ^p^ » f rm m w — ^^ ¦—¦" W ^—*¦ ¦" ^ j^fc j. ^^^ . ^m ^ '^i w "» *^ ^^^"^ ^"^ w ^ ^^ ' ^ ^^ ^^ • ^^ *~ P^^k ^^ **^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^* r** ^^ casual reader, that publishers are not altogether A. Conaii Doyle's story,^ * The Sign of the indifferent to the pretensions of authors. It Four/ which recently appeared in Lippincott' s is published b would now be well if authors could arrive at a Magazine4/ ,/ A y•/ Mr. SpencerM. Blackett. clearer comprehension of the claims of publishers. * # . A work by the late Prof. Lorimer entitled •<>«—— 4 Studies National and International ' is announced by Messrs. Green & Sons, of Edin- Booft $ and I(umou^ of burgh.—_ g-j -— # Boo& -w £ A¦—w v—^^ newm^ ^p^ "m*" m v book- ~^" -^^ —^ ^-^ - ^ b¦ y¦ the- — — — ~ — author_ * of * Woodland ,_ A now novel by Mr. Eraser Rue may be Moor and Stream ' is promised shortly by _ , expected at an early date. —^_Messrs ^ . rBlack*^ ^ ^ wood^— &^. hone.tf* ^* Jt~P * isA saidII .A to> deal^B ^K & ~ j» ^^ h» -.- L-^- - -- — m Mr.^ v ^^4fc W Eobert^H^ W ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^* Dennis^"^ ^^ »^^ which1 * ^-» — ^ -v — ^ Mr.- Murray will Messrs. Richard Bentley & Son. shortly issue. The book contains much romantic information. * * * # '• Theme Datesuates ofor Yariouslv-shanedv ariousiy-snaped Shields.Shields, ? * with Coincident Dates andExamples/ is the title ' Applied Geography : a Preliminary ofor a small volume whichwnicn Mr. Georsreueorge GlazebrooVulaze brook, Sketch,' by Mr. J. Scott Keltie, will be pub- of Liverpool, has issued for private circulation. lished at an early date by Messrs. Philip & Son. It is described as an attempt to classify and We understand that the book is mainly a date the various shapes found in heraldic reprint of lectures delivered by Mr. Keltie. shields, principally in England. # JA. * M. # ? The late Miss Naden is to have a more ta H ^» r ~^"r " ¦ w - ~m- w — P^^m^ rtfV i^M ncessV^b ^** ^** ^* ^^^ B^^»^"- ea^^ t^^ rice^^ ^» has^™ ^"" shown her interest in complete biography than that Mrs. Daniell ~- -— _- Adventures in the — — — — ____- - — — — v the — —^ —^ *- translating ^j letters by ' ^^**^ ^^^^ ^^^ a ached ^ tt to her essays recently^ published. Life of Count George Albert of Erbach ' from The biography will be edited by Mr. R. W. the German of Dr. E. Kraus. The work, Hughes, and will contain contributions from which is illustrated, will be published by Mr. Profs. Lapworth and Tilden, of the Mason ¦ ¦ m - - — — - — - ^^ John Murray. f j ^^ i ™ -^^ ^^ nr » Science College, and by^ Dr. Lewins. Messrs. Bickers & Son will be the publishers. • * 'A Double Knot ' is the title of a three # # volume novel by George Manville Fenn which Messrs. Swan Sonnenschein will shortly will be published immediately by Messrs. publish ' An Introduction to Phonetics, English, French,, and Cxftrm an ' bv Miss Laura. Rnam AH H^ »«^^ V .^ •* ^^^ ^r ^^ ^~ -^^~-^m* i ^^ w — — F rench Methuen^^ & Co. The same firm announces for and German/ by Miss Laura Soames. early publication a new story by L. T. Meade, In the French part the author has baen assis- m .__ __ _ — — w ¦^^ ¦^^ ¦^ l — __ — ^n^ «w- -* * ** ^ ^jr m ^^ entitled The Honourable Miss : a Tale of a ted by^ M. Paul Passy, editor of Le Maitre County Town. Phonetique, and in the German part by Prof. Victor, of Marburg, editor of Phonetische Studien. # Count~^m^ ^ta" ^^^ ^mr^ ^f Tolstoi'^^^^ - *^ ^^ r^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ s'^^ new~— '— —r ¦ ~ book— ,¦ ' Work While # issued by Mr. * * Ye Have the Light' will be 1 Choral Odes from the Greek Dramatists/ William• w a*^M ^mt «««^v ^* •* ^ Heinemann^^^^^^ -^^ ^^ ^— —^ ^i^ ^^^™ ^^ -^» i— ^^ ^_ -^ in¦ ¦ the— - —— course— of a week or volume of ' Reinemann s a volume of translations edited by Mr. Alfred two. It will form a ' Pollard, will be issued immediately by Mr. International Library.' The succeeding volume b Matilda David Stott. We understand that the volume, in the same series will be ' Fantasy,' y besides versions by the Brownings Serao. and Mr. — Swinburne,' contains specialJL renderingsqj b*}y such * # eminent scholars as Mr. Ernest Myers and Dr. Mr. John Sampson , York, has in the press Verrall. a little volume entitled ' Oberammergau and - - - - — -— __._ _. _ — - _ ,— _ ^_ _ ^ . 4t ^ ^^ ¦ ^.^ » *fc .^ i ' '-' ^ f -^—' T ¦ — W BackJLri^ ^^ ^^ ^ in^^ Ten Days,' by Miss Edith Milnor, The Socialists are not to have things all y of Lumley 7 &c authoress of * The Lil , and their own way-y . Mr. Thomas Mackay,/ is— — ge— ttingO another volume from the pen of a new sporting together a volume made up of Essays b^ y Mr. writer, entitled ' First Flight/ both to be Herbert Spencer, Mr. E. S. Robertson, Mr. issued at popular prices. George Powell, M.P. , the Hon. Auboron Herbert, and others, the aim of which is to counteract the Socialistic influences of the age. * Ruthi'a Legacy ' i» the title of a a lory It will bo entitled * A Plea for Liberty : a Protest against the Socialistic Tendency of dealing with a Kussian non-political secret 7 society which will be published immediately Modern Legislation. Mr. Murray will be the by Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. The author publisher. deals with motiveless crimes and has provided novel and sensational incidents relating to a The iii»t volume in the now ttorioa of booka subject never before treated in fiction . which Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston ¦ ¦ ¦ ^» ^—^ ^^ —¦¦ ~^ » ¦ ¦¦ ^ —' ^^ — — ... .-- , torical^¦r ^^r ^^ ^*m ^*^ ^.* ^»« study based^ ^^ ^ ' ^— upon^H documents for the has been assisted in the preparation of the most part hitherto unpublished, by Horatio F. work by Mr. Ralph Disraeli, the Duko of Brown, with 22 facsimiles of early printing, Rutland, and other political friends of the in large )post 4to. with 22 facsimiles of early great Conservative leader. The series is under printing. the editorship of Mr. Stuart J. Reid. f a w - -m Oct. 15, 1890 The Publishers' Circular i 345 4 Civilisation : an Historical Review of its operation. His health has not been good for Elements/ in 2 vols., will soon be issued by some time, owing to over-work. Mr. Rudyard Messrs. S. C. Griggs & Co., Chicago. The Kipling has also, we are sorry to hear, had to author is Charles Morris, of Philadelphia, leave his desk in consequence of illness brought who is already well and favourably known as on by over-work. He has taken a sea voyage a thoughtful and scholarly writer. This work and it is to be hoped will return fully restored. promises to diverge widely from the course usually pursued by historians on this subject. Boston (Mass.) has a Tolstoi Club, which It seeks to set forth, in clear and simple was organised two years ago by Dr. Hale. language, the evolutionary steps by which the It has a membership of about 100, and holds human race has passed upwards from primitive its meetingsCj in a room in the Parker Memorial savagery to modern enlightenment and in Building. It already has a library ; and one , of its pet projects is the founding of a place of this wayt/ to discover the true p± hilosophy of X */ similar in human progress. With this end in view, rational recreation for the poor, the topical method is adopted, and the facts of plan to the People's Palace in London. history are used to illustrate and embellish The November number of Harpers Maga- rather than to form the ground-work of the zlne will contain a paper on ' Our Italy,' by strneture. Charles Dudley Warner ; a story entitled l A Halloween Wraith,' by William Black ; * Der • T *T~ ¦ pi MeisterIk JT • » trunk/t 1 » the• 1 FestiT71 1 v al Play*1 of/• Rothen-TPW 1 * burg, by E. W. Mealey ; ' Urban and Com - Theodore Child mercial Chili,7 ' by%/ ' , and an in- Hole% and Il ew$ stalment of Daudet's ' Port Tarascon '— all illustrated. Mr. Bentley's trade dinner will take place at Stationers' Hall on the 21st inst. The series of free lectures to be delivered at the South Place Institute during the coming We understand that Mr. A. Conan Doyle winter will include * Siberia,' by Prince Kro- will contribute a serial story to the next volume— t/ potkin ; ' Bulgaria,' by Mr. J. G. C. Minchin ; of the Cornhill Magazine. ' Portugal/ by Senhor J. Batalha Reis ; ' The The Rev. Philip Wicksteed has, we learn, Lost Tasmanian Race,' by Mr. James Bon- been appointed warden of the new Settlement wick ; and * Systems of Tribal Policy among at University Hall, Gordon Square. the Bantu Race in South Africa,' by Mr. John Miss Annie Mozley is the editor to whom Mackenzie. Cardinal Newman entrusted his letters written We understand that the memorial stonea while he was in the Church of England. of the new buildings in connection with the The forthcoming number of the English Printers' Almshouses will be laid by the Historical Review will contain an article on Baroness Burdett-Coutts and Mrs. W. H. 4 Dollinger's Historical Work ' by Lord Acton. Collingridge on Saturday, the 18th inst., at As Lord Acton is specially qualified to write Wood Green. It is also expected that Sir on Dollinger the article will have a peculiar Polydore de Keyser, Mr. R. Littler, Q.C. , interest and value. C.B., Mr. W. Clowes, treasurer, and others will take part in the proceedings. We are requested by Messrs. Gilbert & first number Rivington and the Hansard Publishing Union AmongKj the contributors to the to state that the option of purchase given to of the Critical Review of Theolog ical and the Hansard Publishing Union having expired, Philosop hical Literature will be Principal the contemplated amalgamation will not take Rainey ; Profs. A. B. Bruce, A. B. Davidson, place. Marcus Dods, Macalister, Plummer, Candlish, Laidlaw, Gibb, Iverach, Reynolds ; Dr. Mr. Quaritch's annual trade sale dinner Hutchison Stirling, Dr. Stalker, Dr. Walter will take place at the Freemasons' Tavern, Smith ; the Revs. G. Adam Smith, D. M. Great Queen Street, on the evening of Friday Ross, Yernon Bartlett ; and Mr. A. Taylor. next at fi ve o'clock. The catalogue of the works to be offered is before us and bibliopoles At a recent meeting of the Cardiff Cor- may expect some rare treats. porationnoration., a letterletter was readread, fromirom Mr.lur. H.xx. M.ivi. Stanley stating that ho would be unable to We have received a copy of the special— 1 «/ 1. fulfil his engagement to visit Cardiff and autumn number of the Warehousemen arid — — '* acce^* w ^^ ^^ ^-^ ptf*^ ^^ the^^ ^^ ^^ freedom^^ ^^ ^"^ ^-^ ^"^ ^" of the borougJ j h. All pM re- Drapers Trades Journ al . The reports upon ceremon y had been made, and the parations for the past season's trade throughout the United a costly silver casket, which is now useless, Kingdom , and the articles upon the autumn was specially ordered. Mr. Stanley's excuse fas ons hi , will be fotind of particular interest. was pressure of business in preparing for his In the report of the inaugural dinner of the American tour. London Booksellers' Society in our last issue on the upper por- it With reference to the fire was stated the Secretary mentioned inciden- tion of the premises of Messrs. G. W. Bacon ¦ ¦ -- .—. —^ ^^^ ^ ¦¦ tall— — — ^^ ^ ^^\ — ^^ ^^ ^^ — — ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^" ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ r-*^ -^^ ^^ ^v mm ^ ^ ^^ p^^ y thatamong the gentlemen to whose efforts & Co., Limited, on Saturday afternoon last, of much of the success of the Society was due which some reports have appeared which are ' - - - — — r * ' ^ » ' ^ « v -^ ^«» n^ v r -™^- rfet ^ wm v^ -*rf mi m *m± 4. m* m* ^hr ^ ^ur rs ^ ^tfmwm^^^ Vft " was Mr. J . Newton.^ We should have*^ « said ¦*». »*»* #^ ^ A -B. aw Mr. erroneous impression , A. calculated to convey an Newton . wwee araree able to statestate,, thankstnanks to thetne unitedunnea We regret to learn that Mr. Fraser Rae effort s of the member s of the Fire Bri gade and has atel y had to under go a painful surg ical Salvage Corps , the same was confined to only (I & == i i346 The Publishers' Circular Oct. 15, i89o one room, and the business will in no way be my first hero suspended over the brow of a interfered with. precipice, with the villain just cutting the rope ; The Dundee Advertiser of the 7th inst. my second hero had just been dropped into contained a notice of the death at Downfield the-^^ ^^ . h Atlantic— — -^ —— — — — ,-y and a monster shark was within— v^v of the widow of the late Mr. Frederick Shaw, ten yards of him ; and my third hero was falling—— from— a balloon. Now,j before next bookseller, Dundee. The name recalls some ^ interesting reminiscences of old Dundee. Mr. Saturday comes around, I have to rescue all three of these fellows from their respective ._ ._ __ __— —.. Shaw,j who was in business for nearl half a y^ and leave them again in still century, succeeded Mr. Donaldson, whose predicaments, shop in the High Street, at the head of the more terrible straits. And yet this doesn't Vault, was a howff for the worthies and a count for art. Why, the work is hard enough to bankrupt any dozen ordinary news-centre of the day. Mr. Donaldson was inations, in business for over 40 years, and between the imag two names, Donaldson and Shaw and that of ^*«p » , Mr.•»» »»• Kidd^b a *b 4 , who^ succeededa _ Mr.^a ^» S~^~ - haw_ , the^ busi-* ^ ness has been kept going for over a century. Journalism in the United States sometimes Conlinenfal !QoTes j______,— _ _ _ pays.j ^ An American~ paper— — states— — ^ that last While the venerable advocate of revocable year the New York World made a net profit vows of celibacy in the Anglican Church is of £240,000. The receipts from the Sunday edifying an astonished public by denunciations World alone are enough to pay the entire of sweating publishers, yet another account of expenseA. of the establishmen 7 leaving t~ he~ t, ^ Our Lord's ministry is published in Paris. earnings of the paper on the other six days and of the Weekly World as clear profit. The eloquent Pere Didon, of the Order of Probably the New York H erald is earning Preaching Friars, is the author of this work} , £60,000 or £80,000 a year. There are other which bears the simpj. le title,/ ' Jesus Christ. It papers in New York which earn small fortunes is in two volumes royal 8vo., illustrated by mapsX and_ pX lans. The publishersX, are MM. Pfon, every year. The Chicago Tribune makes a ' net yearly profi t of £40,000, and the News Nourrit .— -^- The .^ pr the Modern Books desirable to purchase. TfV ' _ nt possession^m of geni- — us— - he^^ deemed^r _ ^» ^^ I ^ the«* .Bt •» ^^ leas^B, -^^ f ^^ t^ p* questionable. The Englishman pondered a former work contains numerous specimens of Ex-Libris,W and the latter is illustrated by%f manyV - -w r — — -» — ^ few moments, and then-^ p^ ^ — named™ n^- sw^* ^ ^i^ ^*m these^ ^^ vmpt ^^ «^ four^b x»p* %» ^ *b^ f I 1 M *^f a ^Bm ^B* ^B a • ¦ names : Tennyson, Stevenson, Meredit* h, specimens of book illustrations. Kipling. The American -had never before If few authors have merited more recogni- heard the name of Kipling, nor had I ever tion from an admiring public than Victor Hugo, heard it, when, a few weeks later, he told me certainly very few have been so much honoured to listen for it. I should like to have a dollar by handsome editions of their writings as the for every time I have heard it since !' ogreat leader of the romantic school of French writers sixty years ago. The great romance, » ¦ ¦*¦»¦ J»- In January/ — " «¦ ™»-"• "-^ • ^~— •"• ^^ » WA ^^ m/ ^- ^ V^ • |T A JLA ^ Messrs. Percival & Co. will 4 The Mise'rables,' is in course of publication in publish the first number of a new quarterly inal magazine to be 4 volumes 4to. , with 250 etchings, after orig called The Economic Review. designs by Georges Jeanniot. Volume I. lifts It will be concerned chiefly with the moral already appeared , and volume II. is promised and social bearings of economic problems ; but this month. The succeeding volumes will bo it will also include more technical articles The dealing published at intervals of two months. with special aspects of our industrial Notre Dame de Paris has already system same writer's ' ' , or treating of the historical condition appeared in two 4to. volumes, with 73 etchings and development of some particular period. after Luc Olivier Merson, and i The Toilers of The first issue will contain contributions by the Sea/ also in two volumes, with 75 etchings, the Bishop of Durham, Dr. Cunningham, atterafter DuezDuez., is in preparationnrenaration.. TheJLhe publishernublisher is Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Pro- M. Emile Testard, who is producing a complete f essor Symes, of Nottingham, and other well- edition of the dramatic works of Moliere which known men, and the staff is an exceptionally unpublished strong one. will contain more than 700hitherto The Rev. W. J. H. Campion, designs by Jacques Leman and Maurice Leloir. Jt^eDleKeble CollegeCollecre., the liev.Rrv J. Carterrjarf-.pir., ExeT^xoffirter published College Each of the thirty-two plays is , and the Rev. L. R. Phelps, Oriel separately. Sixteen have already been issued, collegeCollege, have consented t,o n.c.t »h n. "Rnn rrl nf , nave consented to act as a Board of and Nos. 17 and 18 (' Le Me*decin malgre' lui ' Editors. and * Me'licerte ') appear this month. Another This is how a writer of sensational stories edition orof MoliMoliereere in lbmo.16mo.,. with notices bypy Tents his grievances in the columns of The Auguste Vitu, and illustrations by Louis Leloir, MM - JSpochy JLP-P UIAMW *** . X/V^ ^ »* . PUT^^ •*-* Mt B_«r VW PJ^ 4»^ h^/«>W ** -^ •»• • -™* *' — — — th and it must be admitted( the gentleman is also in course of publication. The nin has cause for complaint : I am running volume, containing ' L'Impromptu de Ver- three stories in serial form at present. In sailles,' is juBt published by the Librairie dee the m last chapters that were published I left ±5iDiiopnues. 1= fl Oct. 15, 1890 The Publishers' Circular i347 M. E. Flammarion (the old well-known firm of the German People in the time of the of Marpon & FJammarion having terminated Carolingian and Saxon Kings ' ; ' Contributions in consequence of the death of M. Marpon) has to the Organisation and Competence of the added to the Bibliotheque Miniature (which is Papal Heresy Tribunals ,' by Dr. C. Henner ; l a series of microscopic reproductions of Sditions and The International Convention on Railwa'Vy de lux e) ' Daphnis and Chloe.' Freights,' by Dr. Josef Schwab. Theatre-goers learned with regret that the Centralblatt fV ilr BibHothekswesen (Lei\ pziJ_ g:_ * ^ excellent company of play actors collected by Otto Harrassowitz) contains an extremely the Duke of Saxe Meiningen ______represenM tations,/ has been dissolved. HerrC. W. partnership between Fust and Gutenberg, Allershas executed, and Herr Friedrich Conrad, and the action brought by Fust in order of Leipzig, publishes , about forty-five drawings to recover the interest of 6 per cent, on the representing the principal scenes in which capital advanced by him to Gutenberg, are i Die Meininger ' were seen to the greatest importanX t and curious. The other articles in advantage. the number are of the usual high standard to Herr F. A. Brockhaus announces the ap- which this excellent bibliographical periodical proaching publication of about a dozen different has attained. catalogues of his large and important stock of second-hand books in zoology, botany, mine- ralogy< >v y _, THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY ~ , palaeontology,Oi/ classical pJ. hilology,Ot/ and ' ' ' archaeology, and German language and litera- AND ARTISTIC ASSOCIATION. ture. Booksellers are invited to apply for copies of these catalogues. The Twelfth Annual Congress of the members of the above Association was opened on Satur- The C. F. Buchner _» in amberg_¦ 'sche Verlag< B announces an au day the 4th inst. at the Mansion House, when thorised German translation of the foreign delegates were welcomed by the Ten Years in Equa oria ' X t ,/ and the Retreat with committee appointed to receive them. The Emin Pasha,' by Major Oasati. The prospectus and delivered a grace- tells us that Mr. Stanley thought he had found Lord Mayor presided, ful and appropriaXXX te address,/ to which M. Louis in Emin Pasha a riddle, and that one purpose tual president of the Asso- of Major Casati's book is to give the public the Ratisbonne, perpe ciation,s repX. lied. Sxpeaking -J of the cordiailtyv of solution of this riddle and to prove how mis- * ,s x the reception accorded to himself and his taken Mr. Stanley was as to the character of colleagues in London and other places where the man whom he rescued. Strange that Dr. Congresses had been held, M. Ratisbonne Schnitzler should have left to another man, asked whether it might not be explained in and that man a foreigner and not a German, the task of the fact that some few amongst their modest explaining and justif ying his erratic body of workers had arrived at fame in their conduct ! own country. But they had no need to be On the occasion of -th e hundredth anni- modest on account of the idea of which they versary of the birth of Theodor Koerner a new were the exponents and the devoted adherents. edition of his complete poetical works in one That idea, that mission, was the revindication volume royal octavo has been published by of rights, long unrecognised, belonging to in- Herr A. Slottke, of Berlin. The volume com- tellectual labour, of its material and moral prises a biography of the poet, in which the independence, of the right which it had first poems are embodied in the order of their of all to exercise freedom of thoug*_¦ * ht;' next the of their brains should ¦_. ri product -composition,r and includes some hitherto unpre-X ght that the sented poems and Koerner's correspondence. be neither travestied nor robbed ; and finally that there should be recognised in it the most Herr F. A. Brockhaus, Lei Xpzi g,~J announces * * ' sacred ,r personalx ,1 and inviolable ri *g—' ht of pro-¦*¦ the authorised German translation by H. van perty. Was not the proprietor of all proprie- Wobeser of Mr. Jephson's new w ork, ' Eniin tors the author of a book, who was at once Pasha and the Mutiny in Equatorial The \J ^ _ Jfc x»» -v ¦*- a tm ^r ¦***, ja. «u« the\J X m. \J architect%AtX X«/Jl AX V\«/ V^ ** and\m*A thev * A X^ builderf*S *-« ^ ** of' his* m.**r edifice^^ ^^ \• publisher takes the opportunity of stating that He might add that the property of the intellect he hopes at no distant date to be able to shone outside_ and that its light was a benefit announce a work by Dr. Schnitzler (Emin to all the world. Their idea^^ was that in Pasha) himself. cosmopolite association all the y merging in a i At Home and Abroad is the title of a new workers of the mind, and extending a hand to book for girls by that popular author, Sophie all their comrades in the same labour, they Verena, to be published shortly by H. W. would be commencing a great and fraternal Miiller, of Berlin. union between the intelligence of all nations. Association had done in I The Brothers Paetel of erlin What the Literary , B , have pub- their days for the great cause of others and for lifihed ' A Narrow World,' a volume of novelties tli Air r»wn ri c/h t. n.11 fchfl world knew. Everv by Use Frapan their own right all the world knew. Every ; and a second edition in one one of their steps had marked a distinct pro- volume of Ossip Schubin 's recent story, ' The thus that they had seen arise History of a Genius.' gress. It was ¦ »_ - ._. ._.¦» ._ _-« _¦»— w ——-• -— — —¦ r VAA V FV- * ¦-* M. Bernaerts, had himself declared to be two special motives—in the first place, irrecon- .. -_ —__ ^— - — —-j _ inspired by their deliberations. Their history cilable antagonism to England, which country^^ -^^ . mt^A%.imv A » was well known. It had been from time to was specially interested in the matter, and, in —— .___ _ - — — ^_ — — — — . . - ^ -^ time written hy their indefatigable secretary, the second,j an internal struggle between^^ thev ^ ^ ^^ assisted by M. Pouillet. It was a history East and the West of America itself . The which they did not intend should cease, but most bitter detractors of the proposed law ^1 ^B a A B ^B . ^B ^B AH a ^_ _ be- »/ / * ^ which they intended should continue until longed to regions the least blessed with int el- ______they^j had broug—^^ ht into universal agreement^-j lectual characteristics, which were strictly - - - — - --_ .-w- - -- W such refractory countries as Russia and the industrial,j and where authors and publishersj ^^ ^^ ^^ Pfc^ United States. practically had no existence. For the con- Herr Carl W. Batz spoke as the representa- stituents orof the representatives orof HansasKansas., tive of Germany, and was followed by M. Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, and Texas, the Huertas (Spain), M. Wouvermans (Belgium), rights of intellect had no real and tangible Dr. Max Nordau (Austria-Hungary), M. being. They made little,both of the dignity and -V -—. -r— — — — . — —-— Morel (Switzerland), M. Armand of the security of authorsj Herman, ^ , whom they treated Ocampo-~X\O (Argentine Republic)X • , ' M. DumaresqJ- as speculators and monopolisers as soon as they (France), and M. Chaumat (representing the claimed the reward of their labo u rs. On the French Ministry of Justice). M. Eugene other hand, writers might congratulate them- Pouillet also replied. Mr. John Leighton, selves upon having been defended by the repre- F.S.A., in the course of a speech on the sentatives of the States which constituted the piracy of works of art, said he was, perhaps, intellectual elite of the country»j . New York,7 New— ~ • the onl«/y member Xpresent of the Art CopyriX •/ Oght Jersey, Boston , and Philadelphia had struggled __ _ _ _ Committee who, about thirty years ago, for rigcj ht and vjustice ,/ and it would be to them that codified the Acts relating to painting, engrav- the victory would be due if it should ever be ing, and photography. Since then he had gained. Analysing the arguments against assist ed at the Antwerp Congress, and last the Copyri( X «/ gCJ ht Bill,/ the paperX XT cited those of year at Paris, when the International Congress one of its greatest opponents, Mr. Hopkins, of sat at the School of Fine Arts. From the long Illinois—according to whom an author created experiencex. he had had,/ he should advocate a nothing. He simply used as a means of produc- union of the whole of the arts, literary and tion the elements with which his predecessorsx, artistic, musical and dramatic. had furnished him, and drew from books and On Monday the proceedings were continued libraries ideas which he merel•jy set— in circula- under the xpresidency •/ of M. Louis Ratisbonnc,/ tion over again. Mr. Hopkins added besides and M. Eugene Pouillet, a vocat of the Paris that a writer who was really worthy of the Bar, reviewed the Berne Convention on the name did not work for money. It was only _ _ - - _ —j_ rights of authors, with special regard to the fair,J uponX this pointL ,' remarked the paperjj - ,j to ri*jg hts of translation. The developmentx of a thank Mr. Hopkins for that mark of esteem, national literature was hampered by the possi- but at the same time to observe that a writer,7 bility of every one being able to avail himself even the one most worthy of the name, had of thp. r.hefs-d7 ap iivrps af foreign writers wit.h- oi the chefs-d opuvres or foreign writers with- the rigr_j ht to live by•/ his work tljust as any•/ other out loosening his own purse,-strings. Why, human being. Mr. Hopkins did not seem to asked M. Pouillet,I should publishersX run the notice that in refusing to an author the right risk which always attends the production of a of remuneration he was closing the door of a new work when they can publish one the literary career to every one without fortune and success of which is already confirmed ? without patrimony. It was the doctrine of Therefore the Congress of London was asked silencing the poor in all its cruelty. Other to affi rm the followingG> Xproposi X tion : * That arguments were that the interests of the translation is only a mode of reproduction, author were antagonistic to the interests of the and that the right of reproduction , which public generally, because the rem uneration constitutes literary property, necessarily in- claimed would tend to increase the price of cludes the right of translation.' books. Mr. Payson, of Illinois, had asked , In the evening the Lord Mayor enter- 4 What is there in common between us and tained the delegates and a number of other other countries ? They are only interested in •guest ' s at dinner in the E(_»•/gy Xptian Hall of the us becau se we are a source of profit to them.' Mansion House. It was England, and England alone, that would ^ On Tuesday the Congress resumed ita sit- Xprofit b•/y the law. Wh dy should America favour tings in the theatre of the Society of Arts, the publishers of that land of feudality \ As to John Street, Adelphi, when the subject of authors,/ there was 'no need to speakX of them. Copyright in the United States was ably treated They were paid at home. America owed them in a paper by M. Lermina, who expressed the nothing. The Copyright Bill had no other profound regret of the Association at the result object than to open to foreigners the vast of the discussion of the International CopyriX tl countries was not the princiXXXle of protection States would onl *, p y accept those conditions they even without reciprocity inscribed on the would obtain the agreement and the signature law ? And — to speakx onl •/y of Engoland — of every man who could hold a pen. what connection was there between a At the conclusion of the paper the writer — - - — — —— — — — — -^_ - ^_- --^^ —m- — _¦¦ ~^^- ^_ _ ^___ "-" __ regCT istration at Stationers' Hall and an oath invited his audience to vote the following^^v ^ ^ - W * ^—_. ^-i ^^^J^^^fc of allegiance to the Queen ? Had not England resolution : * That this Congress offers its always offered a Treaty to the United States, most sincere thanks to the public-spirited men and had the Association lost the recollection who in the United States advocate the great -~— — m -VV ¦• — -¦- ¦_¦ —^ ™ '^ W^ -1 ^^-r -^ ¦ H ^p^^-B^pV ^_T"W of a project submitted for its consideration b ^ -^ ^^ -^^ m ^ ^_ ^ B y cause of literary and artistic_. propert______y ; and, A ^k ^ft _¦« ^k b . ____ the Board of Trade in 1881 , which established fully confident of^ the ultimate triumph of good the principle of reciprocity between the two sense and justice, send them their warmest countries 1 Let the United States enter into encouragement in inviting them to continue the Convention of Berne, and they would at the struggle/—The resolution was unanimously once acquire proof that no condition would be passed. imposed upon them which would wound their In the evening M. Gustave Roger read sentiments of American loyalty. Leaving a paper on the rights of dramatic authors. On other arguments on one side, the real reason Wednesday M. Victor Souchon dealt with was the question of cost, and even here the copyright in musical works, and M. A. difficulty was more apparent than real. Owing Chaumat, avocat of the Paris Bar, discussed to the priceX. at which books could be producedX copyright in newspapers and periodicals. in America, Gordon's Journals, which cost 21s. The Convention of Berne had provided that in London,7 could be bougC3 ht in Chicago<—> for a newspaper articles published in any of the __ gn ^ i ^y — — — . dollar and a half. The protection of forei countries belonging to the Union mi^^g ht be re- authors' rigCJ hts would 7, therefore,7 it wa3 urged<-* ,' produced either in the original or in a trans- involve a formidable augmentation of the price lation in the other countries of the Union unless that in a of books. It was singularO ,? however,' the writers or publishers expressly prohibited country which piqued itself upon being emi- it. It would be a sufficient prohibition if a nentlvy Xpractical ,/ the representativesX of the notification appeared on the title-page of the ¦ ¦ — -~ ^ — ~— ^ ~^ ^ ~ ^^— i — — ^-^ ^- " i ^ ^--f ^--» ^-- ~ ^- ~ ^^ ^--^ ~_^ ^^P » ^___ ~^^ r ¦ -i ______h ___i ^_P people in Parliament should have been so journal in which the article^^H appeared.^B^^^ ^ N^ ^--^ ^^^^^ ^^^H ^ The^^_ ^ poorly armed with reliable documentary infor- prohibition could not apply to political articles mation uponX the subjectst» with which theyf or the reproductionX of the news of the day4/ or dealt, for a man at all cognisant of the state of ' occasional notes ' ; but as to ' articles proper ' » _ — — ^_^^ affairs in EuropeX could easily«/ have controverted dealing with non-political i subjects i ^^ ,^p M.— Chaumat^^^ ^^ ^^ ^»^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ the last argument. Leaving England out of was of opinion that they were as much the pro- -»~ ¦ ¦ m — — ¦ — — ' -™1 " — —-" "~~ ^"- — -~ " - ¦« _ »' ---¦ ^-- --• ^*_r v ^_ "^ ^-- *-* "^ the question , the price of books there being perty^ of the writers as published works, and high on account of special circumstances, in their reproduction ought to be at the discre- France in SpainJ, f and in Germany,•/ / the JLprice tion of the writer. ,* , _» q^ of books had come down to the lowest limit of Considerable— discussion- — — — — __— -— followed¦ ^- ^ ---»^—— -i . v -^^ ^—- ^_i ^ p in^__i ___i ---_ the- ^-« ^__ - ^ dfc ¦ ¦ ¦ — — ^^ ¦ v __ -~_™ _ »i_ authors more respected 1 Could the Americans in theory and principM le the^—^ smallest^^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ newspaper^^ t T ^*-» »- ^ ^f^ ^ ^h_^ ^- ^ cite the case of a single work for which the article was as much entitled to protection aa author's rights were not paid in some form or the best novel or scientific work. In practice, another, and yet, with the exception of some however,however, the authors orof nenfiWRnanorwspaper articlesarh'p.ip.a editions de grande luxe, the price of which did were very pleased to find their articles repro- ¦ ¦ — — ----- , , ^^ , ¦ Hp -i v w wv_ - m not rule at about A\2k tr.fr.,. 2A marksmarks,, or "Ah2k pesetas ?I duced by rival journals.¦ This was-^ an^ ^m ^-« agree-¦^- " -' VHI h ^^ ^¦- ' I Was it supposed in America that the rights of able and welcome compliment. To this there — — — ^^ ^ ^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ¦ ¦ ^_^ _ ¦_» ^__» _is authors were not paid on all these volumes ? are of course excepti_i ons,^ p and therefore^^^ "^ ^^^ ^^^ if^^ ^.^ the^i^ k ^^^ Did not Tauchnitz pay English authors for author and publisher were agreed on some plan _ ..._ — _ .__._ _ _ — , ___. , ______—, — ____ . ____ i i w _>^ -^^ -«- -^ *^#v ^h^ ^**' r^ _r ¦ ¦« "v^ _v ^ » • reproducing cheap editions ? And, as a matter to Aprotect certain articles he offered no objection.«| ^^ ^^ ^^ of fact, \A era not contracts daily entered into —Eventually the propositions contained in M. between publishers of London, Leipzig, Madrid, Chaumat's ^aper were substantially agreed to. etc., and European authors ? That should On Friday afternoon the members of the ~*~ ¦ show¦ ^-» «* ^^ V' V W that^r ^"» "^ ¦ i . ^^r the^t* ^^ v^ ~»^ respect¦ ¦ ^ »^"~ ¦ *~ -^^ ~^^ ^^ for— ¦ - ¦ the— author~— 's rigr jht Association assembled in the Mansion House, was in no way incompatible with cheap books. where the formal business for the conclusion r -^^ ~ _ -^ ¦*i « ^& r t «• ^ ^ ¦'^^ ^^ ^^ ^r ••* * ¦¦ ^^ ^» ^^ ^™ ^™ -w ^ *" ¦—* ^^ i ¦ ¦ » ^^- -™- ¦ * ' -^ — .— -_,-. V ft. UAAVJ V/ JL JL \. J. If UP V/llV>VUVyM» , X 1L\J In what concerned the^^ special relations between of the Conference^^ *. ^- 'AJLVrV ' was effected. The presentI^JL V>O\3AJl M the United States and England, it was to be Committee was re-elected, and it was decided observed that the price to be paid to authors to meet next year in Berlin on the invitation would not be increased by the coat of trans- of Heir Schweichel; President of the Berlin "W* 1 - ¦ • t "W" • ¦ ~WTT m ¦—¦ « -^ r "^^ ^ ^^ ¦ ^^ ^k^-^ —¦ *— h^^k — -— '^ — ^^ ^ — - ~- — - - - - ¦— ^t^ j ^ ' ^ 0 * ^^ J^^^ ^^^^^ lation,^ the language beingB the same, and it was J ournalistic ana JLiiterary U nion. owing to this cause that Belgium was able to w^^ -m ——> treat with France for the reproduction of works on better conditions than those between Eng- How Literary Men Work.— According to land and Germany. And, finally, was it the Household Words, Carlyle was not only a man fact that the demands of authors were such as of genius but a hard and systematic worker. i ¦-— ~ _PV f> _ ¦—'- —r —-- — - »-— - * ¦ — — h to~ — ^ make^-1 ^ _ -^ ' *^ ^"^ ^^_ " the^1* ^^ "^ ^^ -^ augmentation^-^ —^ ^ ^^ _-^h ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ * i ^^ ^— ^ of price appear^ h so His habits of work during the busy period of his formidable ? The rate could be fixed at 10 per life in Cheyne Row were characterised by great cent, on the published price. It would be an regularity and industry. No book hack ever insignificant increase when considered in com- worked harder, began earlier, or left off later. parison with the respect for a ri^ht and for the A walk before break fast was part of the day's entrance by a great and admirable nation upon duties. At ten o'clock 111 the morning, ¦ | » _ BXH ^^ -^ * I P 1350 The Publishe rs' Circular Oct. 15, 1890 whether the spirit moved him or not , he sat members of the commission. It was due to down with pen in hand in the small attic which one member of the Commission, Mr. John was his literar y workshop, and laboured hard Samson, that they had been able to procure a till three o' clock. Nothing,c? / not even the large number of books at a very low cost. opening of the morning letters, was allowed to When the list of newspapers and periodicals distract him. This spell of work was followed was before them they would see that they had by walking, answering letters, and seeing been chosen from the leading literature of the ¦ ¦ friends.— - One— — of— —¦- his—»¦ ¦— ^™ ¦ ¦ favourite—^" ^^^ • -^^ -^-^ ^mm ^^ ^» "^^ relaxat^^ ^^r ^^ —i w w^^^^r^^r i*• on^^ ^"^" s¦ ™ was¦ w ^m w w*^ day.•/ Every*i school of thoug(j ht and politicsj . —~ I riding in. an omnibus, a taste—by the way, had been considered, and in the magazines I which was also characteristic of the they•/ would find those most commonly%i read 9 M ¦ _ late Victor m I Hugo. In the evening he read and prepared and which were in the greatest demand, so for the work of the morrow. In early life he that all who used the room would find wrote with great rapidity, but in later years something to satisfy their needs. With respect ~— -^^v^0 m — ~ — ^— ^— ~^r w w ^^v ^^^ ^v-^ ^^b ^^ ^^p ^^ ^^ ^^^r ^^H ^OB^H ^^^» ^ ^^m^^B ' • ^^P H^^B ^^^ the pace^ became slower and the method^^ ^"^^ more^H ^^^T to the reference library, they had received a laborious. He corrected and re-corrected his donation from Dr. Cook,/ of Church Street,7 of *later works with extraordinary care.' The Rev. £25, to which the commissioners had added J. G. Wood stuck to his desk still more closely. ^100 ;7 and ,J under Mr. Samson's guidanceO ,7 ¦ - ¦ —- — -* ^ Jm. the biograp^ ^» — hymj written^^ ^ ^ b^^ yW his^t~ ^ sonf^ v-*' •& j» andmw** ^^ k pub-b ^ x-a w^^ they had expended the money in every branch lished by Messrs. Cassell & Co. we are told of literature they could think of. In the ¦" •¦ ^ if k_ »^fc thai ' only_ » a—— man—' —— — — of—¦" -™ the»• — — strongestPkf w^ *« «^ h_> W constitution^^ V-' ^^ J^^ V^& ^ ^^ V^^ A name of the commissioners be declared the could have performed the work which the pre- reacting room and library open. -~ —- -~— ^t ~ — — '^ ^^ ¦ ¦ ^^ » ¦ ^b ¦ paration of these two work^^ ^ s^^ involved.^ ^ ^ T V-^ ^k » ^^ ^/b # The^^W 4& ^ ^^ lOi three-mile run immediately before breakfast was now almost the only regular exercise Tedbj- Kococo Sttle ..—Hue; Rococo style, zm that my father allowed himself ; and during offspring of the Baro^uej to wlaich it is closely • almost the whole of the rest of the day, from related"Ij T ,, had1 T its* i biith1 1 1 in• FranceTTT1 , where1 it" 1 half-past four or five o'clock in the morning-, gained triumphs in the reigm/ ©f Louis XV. until nearly eleven o'clock at night, he was (1715-177 4), and thence was introduced into hard at work at his desk. The two hours' Germany^ Ornamentad bookbinding was not sleep after dinner—regularly from two o'clock spared b^ this intrudeir.. In one respect the till four—probably prevented him from break- Rococo isb preferable to- irhe Bswoque style, in ing down altogether. But perhaps the greatest that it exMnbits more of the neat, the refined, marvel was, that the character of his work did the elegant*. The Rococo period- was that of a not seem to suffer at all from its quantity, and morbid, eaequisitely luoturiou» and innately that he could write as brightly and freshly frivolous generation. All of these; character- a — m — - —~ -— — ^^ ^^ ^-- — -^^ -^ ¦ -mr ^r^r ^h b^ ^ ¦r' ^f^B- rfK ^M^B w V m*mm his health by this close application to work The decorafciMMfc of dwelKngsC3 ,/ the Graft of the can hardly be doubted. He suffered greatly jeweller, and the work o£ the bookmaker were from sleeplessness at night, and had he brought under its domination. The weighty deferred his rising to a more orthodox hour, framework caaite to be aa. organised being, the ~ ~ — — — woul- - — — d have gainedg-j no real * additional reposej ^~ ~ — — ba»«L ornament vanished entireluy and scroll- by doing so. And probably the ill health of 1877 work becai»e very mack negjj ected. The and 187 8 was caused almost as much by the franae encircl«d the x.paaaeli j, whic]^/ luxurious reaction after all this incessant labour as by as it was>; contained more of vegseteublfc orna- the worry and anxiety of the time. * meaiiation,/ never showing,KAT a film basis,7 but everything ai odds and ends, destitute of synun£tmcal development.. Suchis> the Rococo Stoke Newington Free Library.—The style. The word, althougjx of Freaich oiigin, is openingJT C? of the temporary*¦ v A.premises devoted to notcomprehejoided by thikFrench ©f to-day, who the purposes of the Stoke Newington Free reieirrftfer to triethe i sitylesii.vl ft 01of JLouiaTjnuifv X.XV.V /r JbinallyFinallv the Library took p]ace on the evening of Saturday Rococo in the- nineteenthi centuiry gave birth the 4th in the reading room, Defoe Road, to that pedantic style which in a half-hearted , IOStoke Newington. The Rev. Prebendary«/ narirow-mi^dcd way imitated th© ajitique, but j Shelford presided, and there was a large only retain«sd the bar» forma. In old book- attendance. •The chairman, in opening the binding establishments one can sometimes proceedings, said that Stoke Newington had come across* stamps of tlais period, viz. : Greek the excepJL tional advantage<-> of startingtJ a JLpublic vases, ; even* the Grecian fillet, still in use, library without opposition , not even a poll owes its existence to this sty 1ft. Each of these being necessary, and he thought the commis- atyles has. been recalled into use since the feel- sioners and the i nhabitants might congratulate ing of weariness over the inexhaustible themselves on the good feeling prevalent iu Renaissance became apparent. The downward the parish on this subject. Since the time tendency of art since its abandonment of the the commissioners had been appointed by the Renaissance has been pointed out. Moreover, Act they had been very actively engaged, and we have ourselves witnessed w ithin the past the first result of their endeavours waa the ten or fifteen, years a remarkable advance in opening of a temporary reading room and art after its return to the Renaissance, and I library. Hereafter they hoped to found a the art of bookbinding is not last in the long | the II lending library, and he should like to say that line of crafts which have been benefited b;y I a great, deal had been done towards bringing change. Of course the word * stylish has the matter to a successful issue by several been greatly misused, and the expression I ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ -----1—1- -'•- — -— l -¦------tcp y . IHH r r 1 t 1 —:: <& Oct. 15; 1890 The Publishers' Circular 135I ' stylish bookbi nder ' was at one time a house- Thackeray's Grammar. — No modern ¦»¦» Bar ¦¦ « ¦¦ «*¦ ^ ^ - ¦*» «¦<« «mt-»<»-* ^r 4* m -arv ^r •** • I ¦ w -aw •** ¦ « ^^ w aBV.».»M.rW «Va»^^^ W w ^^ «» ** ******m hold word in Lei JLpzi g.%7 Certainl yw one should author, probably, wrot* e by instinct,7 b^ yJ geniusW^ , think twice before abandoning one style, which and by dint of elaborate , care, so excellent a ~~ has not been g^ BBBBh iven™ ~™~ ¦ a-^ ^B" fair^b^bt ^b» ^b» ^bb » bbbb amo^b^^bt *^^^^B"»™ ^Br- un-^bf^bbbb. aa. t^v of^^^ «bbbi time^bp vb^ ~»*b»^^ ^bv inbbk bbbb^bbb style as Mr. Thackeray. Yet not even Scott which to ingratiate i tself among artists himself was more careless of grammar as far ^ - m w w ^^ ^^ ™ ^-^ —~ ¦ —» *^b»^™ ^bbbp ^bibf BBB. -^ -^— -^^^r ' ^^» ~bb^ ^bb° ^™ ^^ *bbb— bb^bt ^b^ ^^™ » » —— ^bp" ^» , ^bp~ ^^" ^^™ %VK» ViAV V .WAV-' 11 W IAUV/ V-?--. UAiV »Uk/VXUUV/UtJ WiAVi generally,^ in order to turn to another of which as the vicious use of the superfluous * and ' little or nothing is known except that it caters with the relative, ' and which,' i and whom * ^~ ¦ ~ — ^W ¦ -™* -^B^ ~V^BT ^B» Vb'^B* *^B* ^BP ^V^^ ^BB"^B» B^P ^^" T ^BT B.B. bB> BBB ^BBV ~ |~ ^BBh ^BIB ^ BBB BBBp BBBP ^B^p ^B* BB. BB* BBBBi m to an over-excited taste and incontinently is concerned. ' Pendennis' is particularlx %fy rich in hurries one into the perils of shallowness,— ' and which's ' standing where they should not ; J ournal jur Buchhinderei, and here is a specimen of a sentence which 1 men and hangels ' may be vainly invited to parse : ' Indeed, Miss Bunnion having con- sidered Mr. Pendennis for a minute, who gave Tastes in Reading.—There are fashions himself rather grand airs, and who was attired in books as there are fashions in dress. in an extremely fashionable style, with his Tastes vary ; but when a writer becomes very best chains, shirt-studs, and cambric _ rageCJ / - - the ' ,' as we say,«/ 7 tastes are com- fronts,/ was set down,/ and not without reason /, pliant. Hawthorne was wont to remark sar- as a prig by the poetess, who thought i t was donically that politicians had no conscience, or much better to attend to her dinner than to if they had , it was as elastic as india-rubber take anyV notice of him.' What an outcry1/ and as black ;1 and certainlyr popularj. X taste7 in *fl ¦ a A ^B M A . M . bbi Bk , • * * would be made by learned reviewers over such the matter of reading, as of other things , is a crime in a modern author's work ! These very adaptive and elastic. We are sometimes are among<-> the ' slipsi. of the penX and of the inclined to wonder now-a-days at the tastes printer ' which the author says in his preface and the patience of our ancestors, who would he * saw and would recall.' How odd it is that, pore with delight over the somewhat tedious a book once printed off and out of our hands, epistolary pages of Richardson, or even we cannot open it but we see blunders which over the more concentrated pages1 G> of Jane escaped our notice in all the weary reading of Austen, to which her keen knowledge of repeated proof-sheets ! Does some fiend in character and motive within a widened rangeo the printing office thrust in fresh errors, or imparted new accesses of interest. Yet it is not wherefore are our eyes thus suddenly opened too much to say«/ that Xprobabl «/y the readers and when it is too late ? A little bad luck and a V^Bp B^B^K ^B^ ^Bj ^^ B ^m^^r ^^" ^BB- ^" ^^B~ ^-^^ P^BB> ^^» ¦ ¦ ¦ -^^" ¦ ¦ ^^^- ™ "» ^^ ^ m ^BB-^ — — H ~^ "^ — ~~ — ^— ~— critics of the end of next century will wonder grea^BBBI ^BB* ^B^^B" t dose^^ ^B ^ of^BBT —^" carelessness^B ^ may explain the as much at some of our predilections. They mystery. — Andrew Lang, in Longman' s may find some difficult y in accounting for the Magazine. immense success that has attended the half- theological, half-sentimental creations of Miss Edna Lyall, informed though they are with a generous but never rebellious free thought, or Simpkt n, Marshall & Co.'s (Limited) even the •/furore created--- b,/y the---x problem-haunted - Annual Dinner.—The annual dinner, organ- chap in ised b Simpkin ters of * Robert Elsmere. Sometimes y the assistants of bbB Messrs. , ' , _- _ _ »_ 1 ^b ^_ am am Bm bM ^^k ^^~ _ _ *h _ a moment of reaction,7 one is tempt. ted to CDgo Marshall & Co., Limited, took place at the wholly with Mr. Andrew Lang, and prefer the Holborn Restaurant on Saturday, October 4. story of simple adventure and invention—the Mr. F. H. Miles presided, and was well 4 »,- w~ r— ——— — —— — » — — _ ...._ — ._ _ .. Company Treasure Island of Mr. R. L. Stevenson,I or supported by the directors of the ^ ^ ^B *BL BBt B 'BBt M « ^Bi . A ^ BB* ^^ — the dashing anachronistic, but wild, fantastic who had cordially accepted the invitation sent * CleopaA tra of Mr. Rider HaggardOU . Certainl J the assistants. The vice-chairs were occu- y by iBB ' _ ^qBB"- ^~ B^BF- B» ^^BBi . d^^ta b ^ ^B» ^Bl - ^ B the one excess does something to generate its pied by Messrs. J. R. Blade and A. Kliegl. -~ ^Bfe ^B, B^ ^BP ^BB T B^B. W BBI BB) ^^T ~— » ' — ' ^ P»^ toasts-•— — -^ — - ~ had been- heartily— opposite.XX The truth is', that, ' vj ust as the sciences Af ter the usual oscillate, so do tastes and appetites even in the received a very pleasant musical programme >BB* ^« BB I M ~*^ W 9 ^"^ B^ B^ ^F- B^ ^^ — ¦»¦ -^ — W - — — . _ _ refined sphere of literature of the fictitious followed.Bh ^^ T M ^Bb ^ ^ B' Bf B| ^^^ ^b^l. V All^ . B^ B^^ did• ** BBt ^^ so well that it would be kind. One school overdoes its speciality,JL 4/ / and invidious to particularise ; but we cannot refrain people get sated and demand an indulgence in from mentioning the capital singing of Messrs. the very opposite. And so the pendulum A . J. Woodford, H. 0. Foreman, R. Pitson, vbt m '^» bbi ,bb ^ ^ b ^ — — ' ^^ ^m ^^ ^^ ^m^-^ — ¦—¦ ^ bbb ^ ^ ^—^ '-^ *-' ^ - - ~ — sw—ings o . Sometimes all the ragecj is for realism,7 and^^ fa P.^ Cockram| , , also tho violin solos of Mr. and the realists out-Herod Herod ; and then V. Barwell, and the humorous songs of Mr. A. once more comes in fantasy, extravagance, and Kliegl. A most enjoyable evening was con- all manner of caprices and eccentricities. We cluded by the singing of Auld Lang byne. 7 owe something to the writers who manage to unite the two tendencies, and as it were stand » ¦ r mf surpx ' ise / with invention and incident, mystery•//, r , Ti^ad^ G^ange^ and sensation ; imparting new interest to every , , „ day affairs ; and who, while catching hold of Mr. William- Downing,QJJ of" the- Ch- aucer's Head the sublime , ethical principles that penetrate Library, Birmingham, has found it necessary -r — — ¦ ¦ ¦ ~--- — , r - - _,--. _ all^ l ^^B^—i fe-^-" ,V manage• ' "^ -¦- _"—^ » to invent^ as well as to repre-M" to remove to 5 Temple Row (one door from sent, and so reveal to us the very spiri t and Bull Street) aa the quieter locality better secret meaning of the life amid which we move. suits his business. He hopes to make the These are the writers who have most chance new place as congenial to f riends as possible. to live.—Alex. H. Japp in The Sun. It will remain the Chaucer s Head Library. ffi L. ' . . . ,£C — ¦ f—-—= — —~ : : ""~~~ - _... , - . • — •-SI Ti f I352 The Publishers' Circular Oct. 15, i8go The firm of Groombridge & Sons is being Congress the commercial morality of the country turned into a limited liability company, with without beingt? temptedj- . to ask,» in which depart-. j- . — a capital of £50,000. ment of the college of Billingsgate did he take his degree ? The picture he drew of the trading j W. Wilson Harris has sold his business at life of the country—and the country is nothing College House, North Dulwich, to Mr. C. B. if not trading—is so dense in its tones that he Brown. During the eight years Mr. Harris has left no room for a single ray of sunlight has had the business he has worked up a large anywhere. He says there i3 * endless adul t eration 1 and lucrative connection. Mr. G. Larner of almost everym/ singO le article of commerce '; ' ' nearl •*y made the valuation. Mr. Harris's new address everything is adulterated with something else ; ' 4 is Caithness Terrace, Upper Tooting,'S.W. it was an age of advertisements, of egregious , — v ^^r ^^^ 1 h ¦ —m- — - m— — —m- -m,m m, . I —* - ¦ m^ mmW mm^ mrmI m mmw^r ^—^— ^ — ~^ ^~ *mm frauds, of monstrous^ ^_*^^ m*^^ assertions^^^ Wmf ^* ^ and lamentable^^^ r j — — ^-f^p^f--—-=—= credu'ity. Hardly anything stood on its own merits, but had to be bolstered up by lying and — - — — -_- _ mmmw -mmm- ¦ ¦ —— ~mw* ~mw* h mmmrmmmt -mmr ^^^mmm m^f m r Mm^m ^mi ^ » —| | ~ ^^V mm mmm~mmm mmm- ^s ^^ mmmW H H —^ — ^-^ — ~~ — ~ boastful representation^^ ^^ to^ gain^^ ^ ^ * the public favour ;J ' In fllemo^iatn ' rotten and dishonest trade, soul-poisoning, body- de^troy in^f , world-demoralising trade,' and a Alphonse Kaer. host of other epA. ithets too length^J \yJ to printJL anew, i We regret to learn of the death of M. Is the description true, or was the Archdeacon Alphonse Karr, the well-known author and suffering from dyspepsia at the time of the journalist. About two weeks ago he went out deliverance of his speech ? Does his own duringc? a storm and remained some time bare- personal experience give him cause to justify his headed and in shirt sleeves in his garden. He words ? For they are so sweeping in their then spent half an hour in a sailing boat, re- condemnation that nothing but actual experience turned home soaked through, and refused a can justify his calumniation of the whole people change of clothing. A couple of days later in- of this land. Happily he has made one reference —¦ ~m ~^v mm- ~mr-mmi flammation of the lungs came on, to which he in his castigation—m— — — — — ^^- ^h — — — ^^^^ thatmmr mmm mmm ^^^V ^^ can^m^ ^v — ^^ be* ~mmr~ ^mmr- putv^^ mr- to the— proof.m: — — Karr who was of German He said • he might expose the dishonourable succumbed. M. , customs which tainted the trade of the publisher, origin, was the son of Heinrich Karr, a com- mwm-mmm mm mi m -m r h w m- mmm ~r* ^—^— ^| ^ and sp¦ ^^ e^mm* a^B*-^p k—m -mmm of^g^- mmmm sweam^m* V W * mm** mmmf ^mTt™ mf ing^K ^^ mWK ^p ^ k pW~ ublishe^^^V ^^^^ ^^ ^H F| f ^^^^^* ^^mW rs^^^ W^ ^ , whom , without-^ — mmr a-^— —* poser and pianist of some repute, and, though blush, would toss to the author perhaps a born at Munich, he was educated in Paris. For hundredth part of what, by bargains grossly in the Col- ¦ ™~ ~" -™" ^™ ~»^ V ~- mmmm~ '^¦^ ^»^^ *^ m mT m-*mr mmmm-mmr ~mm- h eld a profess orshi '^ p '.^ ^ '^ ¦ W ^^ I a short time he p / ^^^ ^M *** ^k^V m^ ^ ^» ^^ inequitable, they had obtained.^ ' Of publishers lege Bourbon, but disliking the life he took he has had a tolerably large experience—few to journalism and authorship. He was an persons in this age more than he—he has had eccentric but brilliant writer. More than once dealings with a goodly number of them. The population of Grea Bri ain xce ds 30,000,000 ; his boldness led to hi gI f hlyV dramatic situations. t t e e Of late years, however, M. Karr has been the nu mber of leading publishers is considerably ^^ ¦¦"¦ ^^ ^mT mmrmm- «^ mmt -^* m^f rf^ ¦ living in retirement at Saint Raphael. His less than 100,my andm^ im^mt t is— r upo%_^^ V^^' ^* n^mrmWk thi^^ flh^ ^ sW*m m' limmm* ^M m^K mmtr^m imm* t^m ed^m^ ^ •"Wm number^^'^ ^^^. ^^ ^^'^h ^ ^i^ ^h^ ' Journey Round My Garden ' has enjoyed in one branch of t rade he has scornfully focussed some popularity in England. the attention of the whole world, and of necessity more es pe*• ciall*y uponXT the few publishersr^ with Pbofessor Thorold Rogers. whom he has had dealings, for it is not to be We greatly regret to record the death of supposed that his libellous terms spring from w W — ' - W ~ mm •¦ ¦ m\ m ^mtm* mm -*m*f ~*m* ^-" » ** ^m^ ** W *~K Jmt ^^^ T ^ . m J * ***** "S^ ~m* W^mT fk*S W**^ ^^ »-^tf ¦ * * hearsay^ onl ^ ^^ Prof. Thorold Rogers, which took place on Mon- y. Here surely he must be speak- ing from his own personal experience, and not last r after a protractedJL and painfulM. illness. day«/ , from his inner consciousness. What have his James Edwin Thorold Rogers was born in 1823 ~H^-^ own publishers¦ "¦- ' to— ™" say"~™ r ™~^ ¦ to^m* —mr the "¦" ^ ^^ charge"*^ ~ mm y^] m^ fllh Wk " ^^^ ?ft AndBWk m** m^ ^ if^ & ^^ his^ i^ A% 9*mT and was educated at Southampton , at King's charge in relation to them falls to the ground, College, London, and at Oxford. At Oxford then the picture he has presented to the nation he was distinguished as a classical scholar and is a sham, a cynical libel upon his age, and a for a time was classical examiner. He was origi- dishonour to himself. nally educated for the Church, and was for a The Venerable A rchdeacon's speech is so over- -~- — — — — — - MAH « -—¦ , m-mmr - 1 ¦ * ~ —' ^~ - - - — — -wv » ^*h ~*rm * *m , ~>~ m — M 1886 , but failed to make his mark. As a poli- more receive it as additional** ^ T *B ** «^^ «* eviden^^ V ^* ^ /%\ ^ * 4 J% cAh*' e^^ ,¦ ifA A . such|h _/ * ^* X_^ ^ tical economist, however, he held a high place, evidence were necessary, of the inability of the as his various writings, particularly his ' Six clerical mind duly to gauge the facts of life, and «» ^^ ¦ ¦ ^ * ^ n ^kr 'B* mmm- _^ - ~^J mm m Centuries of Work and Wages ' and his to present them in that gar^^ b~>^ thaV JK ^ ^ i tm^ mi^^ — m ^t gVl ^k ht* ** ^^# " bef| | ^ ^^ of^>^ 1^ ' History real benefit to the public of Agriculture and Price s in England prove. weal. The spirit visible / throughout the speech proves the truth of the Mr. Rogers held a professorship at Oxford and _^ m , ^ k m\ ^m\ m\ mt m^ mt Jta *. ^~ ^ ~ words he himself quoted ¦ ^ "^ ^*^ ^^ ,¦ * The" ^^ *~S service9^mW Vtff ' Ml W A ^^ \ ^/ of^J JL m GodV *• V^ >V"* was well known in political circles as a vigorous has become a thi ng of words and ceremonies.' speaker and a man of vast knowledge on all I have the honour to be, Bir , economic questions. Yours obediently, »vt J. Russell Endkan. Canterbury, Oct. 4. AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS. The following correspondence, which ex- ¦ ¦ ' - » • ' ' — ' ¦ —*** **^ »-* —-*-» ^ —* W*mT ^Mf-^T ^UmT -*m^ ^^Vh .¦ Jt k «# Jft. Sir ^* * \ ^/ 0m J *H W B*^ -m fV Wt^T ^ * i*" ** "" * ™ plains itself , has appeared in the columns of ,—Mr. Endean 's account of my paper is a the Times during the past week :— misrepresentation into which he can only have been misled by hasty reading or imperfect reports. SIR,—It isimpossible to read in the Times of to- He makes out his case (1) by misstating its day the wasted wealth of vituperative phrases with whole purpose ; (£) by omitting sentences which which Archdeacon Farrar described m the Church showed that its object, was entirely different from to ,» - -^ ir —- ' " ^ Oct. is, 1890 The Publishers' Circular 1353: 111 1 11 1 ., , . . that which he states ; (3) by attributing to me First of all, let us repeat the passage from ¦ ¦ ¦¦ »"~ r — — — — — " -^ ^ " ¦ — ™' ~ ™ b ^*^ — ^^ w «*v ^ » ^pr ta m ^» r vp^p>^bi^p> ^p^p> w^p" w ^"^" ^^^^^^p^p^fc ^mr _ sentences which I was avowedly and by name Archdeacon Farrar's speechX to which Mr. Russell quoting from others ; (4) by picking out words Endean refers. It is in the following words :— apart from the context which explained their bear- *I might expose the dishonourable customs which ing ; (5) by a free use of unwort hy personalities. tainted the trade of the publisherX *, and speakA. of The keynote of my paper was a sentence sweating publishers, who without a blush would omitted in all reports. It was:— * There are tens toss to the author perhaps a hundredth part of -- — — — — — — — — —— — — -^— ¦—- - -w- -™~ ^p- ^^ ^i*~v **^^» »^ —•^r ^^*^^m-^^ -^v ^^^"^^ p^ ^™.^» ^ p^h^^v ^pk^v ^Pjp ^ h ^™ ^^ ^ ^^ ^™ ^»"^» T — - — — - - _ _ - — — — of thousands of honest tradesmen in England. what,f y»/ ba Cj ains gr^-j ssl j j the b rg o ^y inequit able, ^y had To them my remarks have no applicability.' obtained.' Such was what Mr. Endean calls my ' calumnia- We shall now proceed to show how far this tion of the whole people of this land.' I was languageC7 O is app—J. ± licable to ourselves in our dealingsO called upon to deal with the acknowledged and with the gentleman who has made use of it. More . notorious sins of t rade, not to eulogise its virtues ; than 20 years ago we projected a work which was J^ta^^ __ — _ _ _^ -»- ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ and—~ w . I stated— _ — thus— _ _ emp^—^-^ *«^ m. - ha^^ ^pi ^^^^^ t^H icallf^ ^^f ^^*^P^ ^^ y,f ^m at^^ &^r ^^ the^B^ ^^^ ver»|| ^~ y¦ to be a ' Popular Life of Christ.' The whole opening, that against the trade of England, as a scheme of that work as well as its general charac- whole, I was not making any charge. ter was conceived in this house. The idea having A s to adulteration, is it not a fact that—^- _ there been put into a concrete form we entered into are dishonest traders who adulterate almost every negotiations with one or two popular writers for article of commerce which is worth adulterating ? the production of the book ; but these negotia- The authorities and proofs of the fact to which I tions falling through, our attention was drawn to referred more than justif y what I said. Mr., now A rchdeacon, Farrar. It is no disparage- The sentence, 4 It is an age of advertisements, ment to Archdeacon Farrar's present position to of egregious frauds,' &c, is not mine. It was say that at that time (1870) he was comparatively q&oted, as I stated at the time, from the Spectator unknown , and had certainly not gained any great of August 30. reput ation in literature. We laid before him 1 To insinuate that I spoke of the trade of the prj . opoa. sal that he should write- a-- Popular— - x Life ^ ~^^ A B . A A ^ A ^PA '^ 4 England as * rotten and dishonest, soul-poisoning, of Christ ' on the lines suggest ed by ourselves, body-destroying, world - demoralising,' shows a and offered him for the copyright of this work the _ _ want of ordinary fairness. What I said was that sum of £500,j with an additional sum of £100 as all such trade constitutes a national peril and a a contribution t owards the expense of a visit to national sin. Is not trad e in evil literature soul- the Holy Land in connection with the writing of poisoning ? Js not the sale of drink to drunkards the work. This otfer he accepted, and he duly body-destroying 1 Is not the exporting of foul prod uced the book which has since attained so refuse liquor to the hapless races of Africa world- wide a fame. We were the first to recognise, not demoralising ? It was of such forms of commerce only the exceptional merit of his work, but the that I was thinking in those words. popularity which it quickly attained, though we M y remarks on publishing were prefaced, as venture to point out that such popularity was at j_ _ _ will be seen from my%f manuscript,7 with the words,j least in part to be attributed to the heavy expendi- 'There are many publishers who are the soul of ture on which we embarked in order to make it honour.' Those with whom I have personally known to the reading world. In fact, we doubt ^^ » •dealt are, with scarcely an exception, intimate if-H4 -^^ r —p™ ^^-» •— — - • ^-_ - — , — — — — proved the existence of unfair customs and con- ofa^ advertising.'^ ¦ , ^>^^ "^^ ^ ^ ^m p^«* ^ 9m ^ WBm* m Archdeacon^"" ^^ ^ ^»^ ^ — ^— ^ ^^" ^ ~ ^^ ^^ ' Farra^ r duly received ventions among some publishers, and it was with in 1873 the sum we had agreed to pay him for ref erence to these that I "said, in words which writing the ' Life of Christ ; ' but in consideration —i- p- ^ b pi m -^ ^^^ p ^ b^ ^ p- p ^ .' ^ ^»™ ~— ~* — ^— -^— ^-~— ¦ - — --¦ -- Mr. Kndean chooses to omit, that an author of of^^^ ^Qq the^ ^f -^^^ successp^^ ^^^^^ ^ ^ r^s n _ t of^fc _^ the^^ ^™ ^ ^^^ work» ™ -*^ r ^™ *— — we™ w paid him in 1874^ very large experience (whose name I mentioned) an additional sum of £200, in 1875 a f urther sum even ventures to say, * There are knavish pub- of £350, besides an honorarium of £100 for the —^ -m ~- —— — **' «pr v —¦ — w — h ¦¦ V* f m^ ^^^ W^^ *-* *W A ^b^^ ^* ^ ^^^ P» ^ ^, f *» ^f** ¦¦ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^-*— ^^^ ^k^^ ^m ^ ^m ^^m -*.^ ^ lishers and sweatingC2 publishersJL ,r ' whose dealings—O preparation of an index ;y in 1876, £200, in 1877, of which I quoted his description—are of the kind £260, in 1878, £205, and in 1881 , £100. Thus for to which I have refeiTed. the work for which we bad covenanted to pay I only write this letter to remove a misunder- only £600, and which was absolutely our own standing due to the om ission of the words and property, we voluntarily paid in addition £1,405, sentences which put my meaning in its true light. making £2,005 in all. We leave your readers to m mK #4 pfc a p« ^^ « ¦ ' ¦^ Your obedient servant, determine^ , .^ m- j f^ ^^^ 4^ ^fc ^ K^ Mk m**m\ ^ m whether^ ^ ^^ v ft #¦ ^^^ suchp^ > ' ^>*^ ^^#* action^ .'^ b ^h^ ^ ^v p^ ^ is^^ "^ to"^ "%^ be* ^" rega~^ ¦—\ rd ed F. W. Faeuar. as dishonourable, or whether those who take it are open to the taunt of being * sweating pub- lishers.' __. ______does not exhaust the story of ~ his however, but,¥ We had not intended to notice the T , language which Archdeacon Ifarrar has seen fit to our dealings with Archdeacon Farrar. After he use with regard to the oorumercial morality of had written the * Life of Christ,' he agreed to this country in general, and of publishers in par- write for us a similar ' Life of ISt. Paul.' By this time both he and ourselves knew the pecuniary ticular, feeling that charges so vague and so 4 p"~ manifestly exaggerated might safel y be left to valueW K'^v A ^ ¦ ^^p ' of^^r ^"* his^* J. * ¦ PS ' work.w w ^^ ." ^^ ^ For"— ^-' ^^ the— — — ^^ writing^^ — — ^^^% of St.— Paul ' the judgment of the public ; but your corre- we agreed to pay him t he sum of £1,000 down. spondent in the Times of to-day makes an appeal Subsequently Mr. Farrar informed us t hat , in W f± J| f^^F ^fc w P* ^fc^ r^ m ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ t o those publishers who have had transactions consequence^^^ ^ ^ ^% ^ JM ^ ^* ' P^ ^ ^ ^^^ of the great^T B success of the * Life of wit h Archdeacon Farrar to say whether the Christ,' he had received an offer of £2,000 and a charges which he brings against the ' trade of the royalty from another fi rm of publishers for a publisher ' are or are not well founded . similar book. Although under no compulsion to p-^ ¦ ¦ -~~ p— — vpws ^ ^pp 1 for the ! — *~^ - -^ -^ — •—' ^p" — p^ *¦» v w H4 m/ mm * ¦ * ¦ payment p" raised our own As* we"• ^ are well—' known^^ as the** publishersW*^ ^** » r*** *» "^* ^^ tm f*^ of^^ *** d o so, we at once three of Archdeacon Farrar's most important 4 Li fe of St. Paul ' to the amount thus offered to £Q fBj ¦ . —^ . . . wurks, we think we are entitled to ask you to him¦¦ {^t ^4 ^V by*^' ¦ another^PP^V ¦¦ ^P| ^*r ^** P~ ~** ^.P^ P1^ house.^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ —- "i ^^r ^ Thew ^^ *^ v result^ — ~~ is that he has ^— ™^ ~^r-— ¦ - ¦ ¦ i —'-^ *-*^ p^ ^m ~^W p^v* IV VP"V f T r p^^ ^Jph ^.P* plK^Pk V P>% ¦Pb^ PJ 0M pm V ^b ~ including a royalty " **^ *~~ ^~ p^ ^ H^^ up the present date; allow us to make a brief statement in rep^^ ly to^ received to , I Mr. Russell Bndean's letter. of £2,333. 17*. \d.t a sum of £4,333. 17*. Id. for ¥ '- I ' I 1354 The Publishers Circula r Oct. 15, 1890 this particular book. Again we leave your readers it did not occur to me that his words had any- thing to do with the publishers of his own books. to jud«l geO whether there was anythin«f gO, inequitableA in a bargain which had results such as these for As for the strength of these words, no words the author. could be too strong to be employed concerning A third work was also written by Archdeacon the knaves and sweaters who infest the shady Farrar for us. This was ' The Early Days of side of publishing, as those who work for this Christianity/ We agreed to pay him the same so ciet y have had every opportunity of discovering. terms as for the ' Life of St. Paul/ He received I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, £2,000 on writing the book, and it is only because Walter Besant, this work has failed to attain the success of his Chairman, Executive Committee,. earlier books that— the—— — — — — i/ paid— to The Society of Authors (Incorporated), 4 Portugal additional royalty^z ^ him has amounted to the comparat ively small Street, Lincoln's-inn Fields, W.C., (Jot. 8. sum of £400. We have thoughtQ-y ^ it .only just,j both to our- Sir,—If your readers will refer to Mr. Walter ^ ^ ^ selves and to Archdeacon Farrar, to give an Besant's pamphlet on ' The Literary Handmaid explicit statement of our relations with him as of the Church/ they will see on pp. 7, 8 the —— -^— publishers^ ¦b — — - - - — ,^ p and— —— — — can—^» -^ —*~ —* *- onl^f ^^"^^" ~~ y» repeat^"^ ^^P» W*^P" ^PPP" ^PPP*^P» ^P^ that^P» -^™^^-^ ~™- — ~»- we¦» « -^ppr leave-^^— ~^»* ¦^ ¦- ^ - -^ yourj ~^pr — — passages about * knavish ' and • sweating pub- readers to judge whether the heated language he lish ers ' which I quoted. But now that Messrs. used at the Church Congress has any appli cati on Cassell have thought it necessary to write to you to ourselves. and to tell the world that they gave me £2,005 for We are, Sir, your obedient servants, the 37 library editions and very numerous other Cassell & Company (Limited). editions of the 4 Life of Christ,' will they tell the La Belle Sauvage, Ludgate Hill, E.C., Oct. 7. world also what they gained by that book ? I did not (as they assert) protest against 4 the Sir,—May I be allowed to call attention to a iniquity of advertising,' but against . rude, false, point which has been curiously overlooked by and immoral advertising. I had nothing to do Messrs. Cassell in writing to you this morning ? with their mode of advertising my book. It was The firm might, had they chosen, have taken - to me altogetherC? distasteful '; and whwy do they•/ their stand on the letter of the agreement. If a not say that 20 years ago I wrote to request them man undertakes, in any kind of business, to execute to abandon one of their methods of advertising _ _ _ a certain piece of work for a certain sum of money, it,7 which seemed— — to me vulgar^j and unworth. y ? I ^ there is nothing more to be said. The agreement have published during nearly 40 years with must be kept.j . But Messrs. Cassell & Co. have Messrs. A. & C. Black, Messrs. Macmillan, not done this. They have taken a much higher Messrs.— Longman— — —- ,/ Mr. Murray,,%/ ' the managercz? of and a more honourable line. They admit, by the the University^^ Press, Messrs. Isbister, and others. words of their letter and by their recorded action They all possess my confidence , gratitude, and in the case, the principle that in literature, as in esteem. everything else, the producer should be paid in It is most painful to me to be rudely forced proportion to the value of his work. Therefore into these personal matters. I protested in my they made, over and above the letter of their . paperAAOagainst thingsO notoriousl*>y wrong.»J I saicl agreement, various additional payments to the no word to pain the * thousands ' or ' tens of distinguished author (not, as they say, unknown thousands ' of honest traders, whose integrity anjl at the time) from whom they had acquired a very honour— —I acknowled— _ fJged at_. the very outset. valuable property. On this principle also they Your obedient servant^ , advanced the payment, for the second book, from F. W. Farrar. £500, offered originally for the first, to £2,000—a Athenseum Club, Pall Mall , S.W., Oct. 8. very considerable leap. Messrs. Cassell &c Co. have published in your Sib,,—Archdeacon Farrar, in his reply to my columns—I assume, with the consent of the author letter of the 7th, charges me with * misrepresenta- —the fi gures belonging to one side of the trans- tion,' with 4 misst ating its whole purpose ' (of action. They ask whether there could be any- his speech), with * omitting sentences which ¦ ¦ ¦ • m . m pm pm a « « ' ^ m v thing^ inequitable in a bargain which had^ results^ sh ow ed that its obje cts were entirel y different such as these for the authors.' fro m wha t he states ,9 ' with * attributing«_J to him Here is the point which they have overlooked. senten ces which he was avow edl y by name Equity regards both sides of a transaction. It is quoting fro m others ,' with * picking out words ! not enough, when A and B do business together, apart from the context which explained their for B to tell the world what A has made out of bearing,' and with a ' f ree use of unwor thy per- it ; he must also tell the world what he himself so nalities/ My answer is , the aut horit y up on has made out of it. Unless the fi gures on both which I wrote my let ter is t he report in the sides are given, it is impossible even to consider Times of Sat u rday las t, to which I refer red , and the question of equity. in ans wer to the foregoin g I submit my letter to Will , therefore, Messrs. Cassell & Co. be tested by that report, and I challenge Arch- complete the statement of the case ? We shall deaco n Farrar to subs tantia te thereb y any one of require (1) the gross amount received by the sales the charges he has so freely made. Everything of each book ; (2) the exact actual cost of of the nature of * insinuation ' is con tai ned in producing—i.e., printing, binding, paper, and his letter this morning,c~jw and fro, m which myi, engraving—each book ; (3) the exact and actual letter is wholly and completely free. sum spent in advertising the book ; (4) the various Messrs. Cassell's letter is what might have | sums paid to the author—but this we know been expected—it is a direct denial of the grossly already ; and (5) the amount, which can be extravagant charge made by the Archdeacon determined by subtraction v from the above data , against the publishing world. But it does more realised by the house. The world will then be —it again shows how extremely dangerous it is in a position to consider the question as to the for those who live in glass houses to throw sjtones. equity of the transaction. The professed object of the Venerable Arch- «w*^^ -w- —~- ¦ ¦ 1 i«-«-v ~"n~" «aa -^-^ vpppv rspr «i bi ¦*• ¦ ¦ ¦ -— ~- , ^^ ^^^r ™ MM ^^pM*^*!* ' wm ^r%Jv ^m, va*'%' — — --p^- ^ **r ij— mi wp ^ nw * ¦¦ * p» ¦ "• *~f-^ vtpt* ^ ^ - ^^ ""^ p. w p » ™*\ ¦ • " ^pp- • • — -^ -j ¦ — SpeakingKT ^f^ aa one who simpTf lyJ read the Arch-\/*4 deacon Farrar's speech^n* was^ tQ show the 3emo- deacon's speech in your column s, I may say that ralising oupidity of human nature, and how , MY — - jj ¦ i -j n. .. ; i .|i .. f * trm —*- ! ¦ ¦ ¦ | J- ' " « : I Oct. 15, 1890 The Publishers' Circular ^55 I lowering to the character is the love of money, in the profits, why not the artist, and the paper- I the baneful influence it has when too ardently maker,¥ and the printerA. ,¥ and the binder*, and the~ I pursued. What answer can the Venerable Arch- office boy ? I deacon give to the statements of Messrs. Cassell A merchant over here agrees to take for a I upon his agreeing to write the * Life of St. Paul ' long period all the wine that a comparatively I for the sum of £1,000, and with which bargain no unknown champagne grower can produce. The I doubt he was perfectly satisfied 1 But he fell a wine is sound, drinkable, and of moderate repute. ¦ I¦ victim to the sp*¦ irit of competitionA. he so ardently ______. ______- I Cassell's letter of yesterday, may^ I ask. r-r-w P__» him-_-_ — ^r^ ____ i to-V - ^ as well as its general character, ' was conceived I state straightforwardly through your columns in this house.' Let us supposeA i. that at the time I whether he had his relations with us in his mind of publication the public were not in a humour I when he poured forth his denunciations upon to buy the book, and that Messrs. Cassell & Co. I English publishers at the Church Congress ? If lost the fee they paid to the author and, say, I report speaks truly, he has not hesitated to say £5,000 spent in advertising and a similar sum _ _ _—. -_ _.__ _ spent in the production of the book. Would the I all manner of thingsf—j against us behind— our— backs.— I I call upon him now to tell the whole world Archdeacon have returned his fee or "any part of I what he has to allege against us. I told him it ? During the course of my publishing experi- I years ago I was prepared for such a course. ence I have never met with a single instance in I I submit that our profits in connection with which— a-- sing^j le penny| •/ was returned to the pub-A. I his works have nothing to do with the case. To lisher by the author of an unsuccessful book. I quote from Mr. Walter Besant :— 'If a man Mr. Besant says that by the words of their I undertakes to execute a certain piece of work letter ¦ ™ ~~ — *^*~ —^ ,«¦ and^^^m ^ataa. ^p»^b by— ^^ ¦ their»•» ^» ^™ ^p^ — ¦ recorded™ *^"~ ~^*~ ^^ ^^ -^ —^ *^^ ~"~ — action~~ — ~^— ~~ -^ —^ - in— the case~~ — — ,ipi I for a certain sum of money, there is nothing more Messrs. Cassell & Co. recognise the principle I_ to be said.' I have-- never received from any,, author that in literature, as in everything else, the pro- I a complimentary contribution for the loss we ducer should be paid in proportion to the value I have incurred in publishing his book, and I fail of his work. But this statement is Mr. Besant's. of a I to see that the fact— of our having_> of our own free The extra payments made to the author suc- I will adopted a more liberal course towards the cessful book are not made as a matter of right, I Archdeacon affords any justification for his scath- but with the purely selfish object of again secur- I ing denunciation of published. ing his services. ______I I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, I— am,j Sir._ ,,.^_ your obedient servant. , I Oct. 9. Thomas Dixon Galpin. Andrew W. Tueb. The Leadenhall Press, E.C., Oct. 9. I Sib,—Authors and publishers alike owe a big I debt of gratitude to Mr. Walter Besant, the dis- Sir,— In the controversy respecting the return I tinguished Chairman of the Society of Authors, by*/ pAT ublishers of the Xproceeds from sales of works I which has done much, and will do more, to place committed to their charge, allow us to give our I the rights of author and publisher on an equitable experience of the high principle evinced by writers I footing. But Mr. Besant goes too far. As I ¦ when works do not sell. I gather from the Author , the organ of the Society A well-known guide-book came to our hands , —^ _ - — j . I of Authors, he is broadly of opx inion that profits some years ago, and we had to provide for the should be shared between author and publisher. cost of about the third of it, including an ample If Mr. Besant will put his theory into practice advertising sheet, and that portion was bound up ~- ¦* j ¦ I—— -m^ m ¦ ¦ ^MBpm ¦ w ^—i ~P ^_^V ¦ i ¦ ^a> sr^V ^h ^V H ^^ .^h ^B by^ droppW ^^ ing^^ writing^* *^ *^*^—' ^H—b and—— ^H ^'^H startingB^ ^^*^ v H^^ h publishing,B^^ ^ ^^r^v *^^ v^ ^^ *w p^^ B P^. ^.* I^^^B with the remainder of the work containing the — ^ - — — ,_.- -.--— will give him three years to modif y his views or st9 r »* reeB^ ^rf ~^rf t^fc" referenc«^ '^^ f*. ' ^^ «p^ ~^^ ^^ ^^ e~^^ sWmW and»^^ ^4*^ 'fc ™ K sI -* o^^ ld^^ ""-' ^ to"^ ^^ the'— " " —•* p¦'^ ublic and the close his premises a ruined man. Mr. Besant's trade. Our claim was to be paid by bills, none of ¦ opinion¦ — ~~ ™ ** ** ^^ *+•*+ that^^ *^" »*t ^^ there ^^ d*^* %^ ^% ^^ is^v v*- ' nom* *± x^ risk#^ ** N/ b«^ withv v j« ^^m^ ^ aK^ v goocfHk ^^ ^^ ^^ _i bookw\^ ^ x ^-^ **^fe is^% fk^ which were ever met, and, when pressed for pay- r-~r ——• a ^^^^^ ¦^ ¦^ ^mw r^ ^"^ ^^ ^p ^^ ^^^nr^ ^^* m ^ h ¦ h ^^ h 11 qa ^ ^ ~— — - — ii - — — - ^j m fatal error, and if he will back it by taking ment, the supposed owner of the book simply^ the losses on bad ones his services will be cheap said he was hopelessly bankrupt and the book to any publisher at £10,000 a year. The pub- belonged to his sister. Our claim was never paid. lisher who understands his business does not, In another case, where we went to the expense thinks Mr. Besant, take a * bad ' book. But from of printing a very voluminous family history, this point of view no publisher understands his when finished , the compiler simply told us we *fc p» mm m* ^**m w *B1*^ w ¦ ^- p' p"*^> ^p* ™ *" ^ir r*-r mi ¦ IB ^*r •.* t-^ ^*- mmr 1 • w -^ '— —- -^- — — - ¦"— - - business, for, as often as not, a good book is passed must rel^*^ *• y on the sale of the work to recoup our- over by the public and a bad one devoured. If selves for the heavy expenditure he had incurred, an author is to share profits with the publisher, and when months afterwards he was traced to I ¦¦ ¦¦ ri r ¦ m—i— -* —¦- -— he must in equity be made a partner in the bosi- flashy#vp* ^i r ^B4B W chambers^^ pr ¦¦«¦«T> ^p ^fe^t^w ¦ m* ^m^ p^ ^^" hep^^ft ^pT set¦ w ^^ p~ ^pr us^m^ m^*r at^v^ 1.* defiance^^ ^,-r- — • — , and said— ness, and then he shares losses also. he had nothing, therefore he could not pay, and | I The sale of a book is very often due to its left it to us to make him a bankrupt, which we j ¦ ¦ clever illustrations, and if the author is to share did not do, to save more expense. 1356 The Publishers ' Circular Oct. 15, 1890 • ) 4 In another case, where a local history was wish to produce a certain bookcase. To its pro- produced by us at our own cost , and where we duction was necessary a paper manufacturer, a paid the reverend and most learned author 100 writer, a printer, a proof corrector, a reader, a guineas for plates in his own possession, the work bookbinder, a billposter, and others. The joint ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ — — ^pi ^ ^ h ^ ^ —r — m entailed upon us a loss of upwards of £350, not productionB^^T ^H * | , ¦* ^^p f^te ^^» ^ ^^ » ^^* ^fc ^^ ^ T ^™^^ of^^^» ^^ ^ these^P" ^^fc ^" ^^^" ^^^" ^^ ^r emp^ ^^ • ' ~^ K*^ loyes™^ ^^ r %V ~^ ^^F working^ * ^^^ out Messrs.^ one penny of which did we apply to the author Cassell's idea was an article which sold for more for on account of our arrangement with him, nor than cost paid in wages. To that profit they -— *¦• ^fe *9 n r »» F w « ¦ ™^ ^»-«^ -^^ —» —^ — -— — — — - - — did he ever offer- - - one— — penny¦— — — to us— in— — return— — - — for— — wereV • *• ^^ as^ clearl^ p* ^k ^^^^v- ¦* y entitled^^ p* ^*^ ^* ^ ** ^ ^^ as Messrs. Map^ le to the ^ our heavy loss, though we had paid him at first profit on their bookcase. A merchant who makes 100 guineas. £5,000 on a cargo of wheat does not pay his We would ask the publishing world where is clerks an extra sum for their services ; if he did the reverend gentleman and author who has ever he would have to claim from them when he made voluntarily recouped publishers for heavy losses a loss. Messrs. Casseil very generously made after printing works which did not sell and never their employe Canon Farrar a present of £2,000. paid even the money expended upon them ? It His not over-refined reply is, * Well, it's not is believed that the • Life of Christ ' was judici- much considering your income.' ously advertised, and the work being made well Canon Farrar may possibly have some day to — — year o help him known by^f that means,r in our opj_ inion ' made ' employ a curate at, say, £200 a t Archdeacon Farrar as an author. The question is, in his clerical duties. Immersed in literary pur- would the reverend gentleman have recouped suits, he may have to throw extra work on that Messrs. Casseil for their largeO outlay./ if the work curate, and would doubtless compensate him by a mt^ ¦* ^r^ ^^—' —- ^v ' — - - — had been a failure, or could he have obtained bw\ *r o^^v nus^M, ^4 of^^ ^k ,¦ sayR^^ % J ** j ,m £100.w^^ t X' * # And^k^^b fl r ^^^ if^ ^^ that^-* curate tuin> from his bankers an advance to cover the print- round on him and says, * But before I thank you ing,% j f &c,I beforehand on the supposed— m— — — — ground| -j — — of— I should like to know your total income,' will ^ the work succeeding ? This outlay the publisher Canon Farrar think that curate has acted in ac- and printer incurs, never asking the author for cordance with equity and the teachings of the an advance, and then, Shylock-like, he wants all • Life of Christ ' 1 the profit, and will not incur any of the risk where failure is the result. StK,—I had intended to say nothing further, In our experience we never knew an author misrepresented ; but I whose works were not going however much I might be to sell by thousands, will answer Mr. Galpin's appeal. Messrs. Casseil, and it is known that in one case, where an author quotations in which I never took the last census as his guide, struck all the taking to themselves women and children out dreamed of the most distant reference to myself , made heavy deductions or them, have gone out of their way to blazon from the men left, a d rdered a millio o n o n c pies abroad what they paid to me without one hint of ' at first ' to be printed, his publisher and printer _—— ^_ - — - — — - - • * — —— — ^j — — — — — made no charge^j againsfci t printed only 250 copies what they gained. But I , about 50 only being sold, them direct or indirect, and have never said any- and thus saved his customer from a heavy loss. thing of them which I have not said plainly to The moral from this last discussion is for pub- lishers in future never to them. pay authors more than Your obedient servant, is arranged for at first, and stand like modern Shylocks to their bargains. F. W. Farrar. Your obedient servants, West-end Publishers. Mr. Harry Quilter, in the course of a long j letter, says :— Sir,—Until it is finally settled that * property * Although fortunes are now and then made in ¦— ¦ -^r •" rv a ¦ . AA.A A». 1^ «^« I JL VMLVAA iw» «>W V-* Jk. is* ¦"-' * robbery^^ ' I^ l think*>*.J« thatu «/ Mr.A. ^ L • Besant'J^ V s andA A Arch-JL A. V^ * * the publishing trade, they are almost as frequently deacon Farrar's contention that the division of lost, and I have never yet personal ly come across profits between the latter gentleman and Messrs. the publisher who was not entirely willing to act Casseil & Co. is not an equitable one is nothing as a distributor and producer of any given or less than impudent. The creation of the property respectable book, and assist the author by the was in a very large measure due to the publishers, best of his advice as to its production on the — — - — — -^— — — — -^— —— - — w ¦ -— — - -^ h^^- ^k— — i ¦ ~** ^ ^ ¦ ¦ ^^ ^ & ^ — | — -^t^ ^m i i ^b ¦ * m^^u ^b | i ¦ m fc » and the author was paid «11^ he asked^^^ — , and^r^V ^" ^^* , pre-j ^^ ^^^ payment of a royalty of 10 per cent. It is within sumably, all he wanted. A bargain is a bargain, my own personal experience that publishers and in no other department of business than that whom I have no reason to suppose less interested ¦ ¦ — -~~ ~ v » r*- of— publishin™ - - ' — g,M^^^i w I be^^ lieve^^^ ^^^ ,w is any^^ ^^ ^^ M claim^^^" ^^ ^~* ^^ ^^ ever— i ^*^ ^~ acknow^fc^^w ^ ^ 1^ ^^^^ ^ j* v ¦ - than their fellows would take half the above- ledged similar to that now put forward by Mr. mentioned sum ; and the curious part of the Besant. matter is this—that even amongst authors, who Yours obediently, are by no means pressed for a few hundred pounds, October 8. • W . H. 1*. there are found extremely few who are willing to have the courage of their convictions and pay for ' An Author ' writew : the productions of their immortal works at the When Mr. Besant and others talk about the above-mentioned rate. The question may well bo equity of the transaction, do they not see that asked why, if the publisher exacts so many un- Canon Farrar simply acted as the paid clerk of fair pounds of flesh , our literary Antonios should Messrs. Casseil ? If Mr. Besa nt employed a not be content to give him the moderate condition type-writer in the production of the 'G olden on which he is ready to deal. There is no other Butterfly/ did he feel bound in equity to pay shopkeeper, broadly speaking, who employs capi- that type-writer according to his profits ? If she tal as well as intelligence, who is willing to work now claims moremore,, and Mr. BesantBesnnt repliesrenlies., *4 NoNn , IT at a less rate. Why, then, will not authors put promised to give you £20, and I gave you £50, the 90 per cent, in their pocket and pay the therefore I have been more than just/ has she a 10 per cent, ? right to reply, « Before I can admit that, you must The answer is a very simple one, although it let me know what you made out of the book ' ? is continually burked in all transactions between Messrs. Casseil wished to produce a certain author and publisher. The truth is that publishing book of their own design as Messrs. Maple may books is a gamble, neither more nor less ; the Oct. ij, 1890 The Publi shers ' Circular I357 proportion of failures to successes is more than favour of something called equity, that equity ten— _ _ to- one—more,j I believe,j than- — — 50 to 1 so- far must hotnot be one-sidedone-sided,, because then it is nonn as any considerable profit to the publisher is con- longer equity. I have heard that Mr. Besant is - .. .___ — ^—^^ —»^— " ^.T «p* mW*m^ ^M W^T fl —' ^m * W ^m* ^m m^^mm^m ¦. ¦ ^b^k ^^ ^m ~ r ^ ^^^ * mW W m^ ^ cerned. Now, is it not abundantly evident that of opinion that publishers^ never make losses. I —— - — if ,7 out of every^ 40 books publishedA at the publisherj_ 's wish I could conscientiously confirm that opinion. risk, 20 are failures in the sense that they do not I have been a publisher for forty years, and my sellout more than half their first edition, and ten experience is dead against it. Had it been other- -_- ~_- ~- -_r g , _ - - ~__- , - _ ^k^^ ^mt _ - — - — — — ~ are medium successes in that they^ run, we will wise, I might perhaps by now have been a rich gay, into a second edition, which is not exhausted man, living in a fine house, with carriages and ¦— —— —w ^_ ¦ *- v*>^ that from the ten that are left the publisher horses,j and— - - faring —r — •——--*¦ ^r » ¦—- — w -m ^m*¦ ***- ¦ r a v ^/mr^-r — sumptuously every day,^ just as —— — z — — - must make, not onl^y his 10 perj_ cent.,0 but a sufficient Mr. Besant's * dishonest sweating publishers ' are additional sum to pay for a large proportion of said by him to do. It has often been said that — — -~ — ^r ~— ¦ ~^^ — ™ r ™»^" v v ^m^ Bfe^^B his failures ? not more than one book*^» ^a^ out^mw ^m^mm mr of^^r ^w fivemm~^^ ™ -^mr covers^^^ «^ ^^^ m^^p the^^ ^^mr expense of its production. I am afraid that it is After stating that he has no faith in the the too solid truth of this saying that compels —¦ -• -—- mm. wm+* at- ^ Society of Authors, Mr. Quilter proceeds :— me,j perhapsm~ — ¦ — — for*— — — my¦*¦ — — w soul'~m~ -*-*- **^ - s—•¦" goodvk ^^ ^* - ^* » ,« to livem^ w in+*. am **r far4t. ^rfVb more humble style than that represented by Mr. As far as the controversy»/ has gone<7T at presentX. there seems to be nothing proved ; but that, Besant's glowing picture. because they paid all that they agreed to pay I am, Sir, yours obediently, (which they did apparently because they had made E. Marston, more than they expected to make), they should St, Dunstan s House. have paid more—paid, indeed, some sum which ^ : = " — > —¦* stands_ in what Mr. Besant,w if not the author7, considers to be a fair proportion to the publishers' In a second letter Mr. Besant writes that profits—such reasoning is perfectly childish. he has raised a tempest by advancing two Literary matters can be conducted on no other simple propositions :— fashion than that which pertains to all other « j * m — — -^—^~ — -~mr -^ --^p* ^b^b ^^- ¦% w ^r W ^fm commercial transactions. If a man sells a book (I)^ That an agreement must be^^ kept. If^^ an^^V ^" -^ he must sell it as he would sell a horse or a house author sells his work for a sum of money, there is —that is, in accordance with the terms of his nothing more to be said. bargain, and not go whining about the world for (2) That when anyone calls upon the world to a literary society to help him to reclaim some acknowledge the equitable character of a trans- portion of the interest, which he has parted with action, he must show both sides of the case. with his eyes open for a consideration which he He concludes : deemed sufficient . We are too much govetned In every other transaction in which pro- nowadays, and far too much in all literary and perty is concerned, the clauses of the agreement, artistic matters. We swaddle up our writers and mm de- - d j conveyance— w — ,-y m - — — — — — — "— — — — w~r m -»*- ^ ¦ *m^ ^— — ^r » ^a^ m mm * *w «¦ m ^b ^mr V e , partnershi^ p, or joint venture, our_ painters_ as if they were less, not more, than ^ ^ t r are carefully studied by both parties before the men, and we are growing so stupid that we cannot document is signed . They understand what they read a poetry book without a society to interpret sell,-m a— nd for— what— — consideration— —¦- ° — - ™ -m^ mmw -m^tm ^—' — "^^ ^m*^mw theymm wm m^ - *^ W sellW*** ^^r A ^b it—Jb m^ for— — us,y__._ or sell_ a novel without our society steps in ^ ^ what they keep and what they get. Not to and fixes the price. Go to 1 as Mr. Besant would understand these things would, in any other things were not managed thus in the old mww say T ; _ _ — — — -_ - — — ^- — . _^ — _^ ^m r* ^m- ». ^m ~m* ~K^m* .^d^ — - n T business transact ion, be considered^^ ^^^ *^ ^^^ * m^ adness.^^^tg ^^TWt ^ ^ 1^^ ^ days, and * The world went very well then.' A Authors alone are expected to sign agreements, great deal better, methinks, than it is likely to the meaning of which they do not understand go now until we think a little less of the profits — — ~~ — — - — — ^v ^ — ¦ ^— r h m* -^r ~^ ^m^^^mm —,,— *mm' fl^ and cannot learn . For the first time,y th^ ^"^^^^ ey^^^ W are^m ^^^ of authorship and a little more of its responsibility now learningv through the action of our Society, and dignity. what the agreements submitted to them really mean ; what they surrender and what they keep ; Sir,—Far be it from me to enter the lists what, if the venture is a success, they will get and what their agents will get. againso t such formidable defenders of truth and justice as Canon Farrar and Mr. Besant ; but, in fairness to the craft to which I have the honour r-~ to^¦v belong,m^m~ ~^h* mm ^^- ¦ - m 1 ¦ H I— ~ should— "^ like to be permitted¦ — "~~ — to— ^^ ask^~ ~ Sm, I accept Archdeacon Farrar's disclaimer them one question. Suppose I had given to of reference to us in the remarks he addressed to either of these gentjemen . £5,000 for the entire the Church Congress in relation to publishers, copyright of a work, and that I had lost (such and regret that circumstances should ever have things do happen) £2,500 by the bargain, is their arisen to make me think otherwise. sense of equity of such a practical nature as to Ho states, however, that ho has answered my induce either of them to come to me and say, appeal ; but this, I submit, he has only done in 4 My dear sir, 1 cannot bear to think that I have part. __ „__ ._. _ y my book,y whilst you have made- made so much b^ ^ ^ I challenged him to state before the whole such a heavy loss ; pray take back one-hal f of world the accusations lie has made behind our what you have paid me ' 1 On the other hand, if backs. This he does not do. He shelters him- 1 had by some lucky and unusual concatenation self under the statement that he has never said of circumstances made a profi t of x 10,000 by my anything of us which he has not plainly said to -- — -- _ .— —m , — g - m- — - ^m, _-~. -_. q q -^^ -m- m -^^ — — — ^—¦ ^#- v^» ^— ^^ mm —m^ ^^^V bargain, the equity which these gentlemen seem us. Precisely^ so. But I hold letters of his ad-* ^^^ —m- ~— ~mt~ ^^ m *^ -^/r —— — — - - - - ' i jf* — ¦— V g to advocate demands that,y notwithstanding my dressed to mo individually which, I think, arc bargain, 1 should go on sharing my profits with utterly unjustified by the facts of the case, and him. 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Toilers of tjie Sea (abrid ged edition), sea poems, Birthday Texts from Wordsworth , passages illustrat ed in colour and monotint by Unas. for every day in tfre year from the poems Bobertso n, R.W.S., and Percy Robertson. of William Wordsworth , large 16mo. ^ ~ ' ¦ -l w4 T i36o The Publishers' Circular Oct. 15, 1890 Mr. D. Ni*tt. and the lesson of his life, we cordially com- ] Painter's, Palace of Pleasure, Elizabethan trans- mend Mr. Cook's book. Not for a long time I lations of novels by Boccaccio, Straparola, have we read anything so true, so concise, Cinthio, Bandello, Queen Margaret, &c, and so lucid regarding Mr. Ruskin and his *^_- -_- — — ~ __.. - - _ -. _ v v —^^ ^^» ^^ ^^ —^~^^^^^k ~^^ w ^^" ¦ —^» ^ ¦ ¦ ~™~ ~— — — v — ~— ~^r - ^ -~ —~ —~ — — m — — m^^ ~ ~~ ^ ~— ¦ ¦ ^m «B^ V^V ^» ^^ ~^^ -«- ^ —W — ^^rf^V ^b^^k ^^^^^ edited for the fourth time,^ with literary^ * writings. Mr. Cook shows a keen sy^^ mpathy, and introduction , analytical contents, &c, by a rare insight—the insight of the pupil who has Jos, Jacobs, 3 vols. 4to. long and lovingly studied the words of the master. JEpistolae Ho-Eliana3,.the Familiar Letters of Yet he is no indiscriminate eulogist. There James Howell, complete edition, with appen- are no wild rhetorical fligh ts in his book, no dix of hitherto uncolleeted letters, edited by paeans of ill-balanced praise. It is the work ^^^_ _ ^_ T _ -^^r ^^r ¦ H V ^^~ -^F' - — ' « ~ - — — — "— W ~ t . — — _ ^ mm. of a riti and ex osi or wel ui ed f r -^ his Jos* JacobIf "^^ s, with literary and biographical c c p t l eq pp o introduction, bibliography, full analytical task, and with eyes wide open, though choos- index and illustrative notes. ing to adopt Goethe's way of dwelling on English Fairy Tales,- selected and edited by merits rather than on defects. Chapter and Jos. Jacobs, illustrated by J. D. Batten, verse are given for every statement, so that forty»four tales, eight full plates and there is no vague wandering. Every sentence, ndpftH fivprv thp upwards of 50 head and tail pieces, cuts in i ndeed every epithetftnithftf. , is clearnlear cutnut and to the text, &c.; in addition to the ordinary edition point. Mr. Cook aims at the central truths special issue on Japanese paper. of Ruskin's teaching, and reaches them. There is no floundering, no beating of the air. The The Strife of Love in a Dream, being the critic, in short, is master of his subject. Elizabethan version of the first book of the Ruskin has latterly become one of our popular Hypnerotomachia of Francesco Colonna, with authors, but to many he still remains a stum- illustrations from the Italian original, edited bling-block and a rock of offence. We advise by Andrew Lang (vol. iii. of the Tudor all who are eit her prej udiced or puzzled to procure Library). Mr. Cook's book and read it attentively. Ancient Law and Modern Custom in Russia, by , Professor M. Kowalvvsky, of the University of From the same.— * North-Eastern France ' ' South- Moscow, bQing the Ilchester Lectures for Eastern France,' * South Western France,' by 1889-1890. Augustus J. C. Hare. 3 vols. Mr. Hare is already widely known as an observant traveller | Besidie the Fire, a collection of Irish Gaelic and criptive writer, and these three ! , graphic des Folk-Stories, collected, edited and translated sumptuous volumes will be taken up with high y Douglas Hyde, with additional notes by b -»- ¦ — — ¦ ¦ T f ¦ ^fc w *w^- ^fc mr v ii "^ '^ -— ~- ¦— — — — J~ - — -^ ~ expectations.^^ r—* ^"* ^^ —" ^^^0 ^* ^» ^^ Nor are^ ^i*' these^ likely^ J tp be dis- Alfred*Nutt. appointed, for Mr. Hare has fairly surpassed Gaelic Folk and Hero Tales from Argyllshire, himself in his picturesque and entertaining collected, edited , and translated by the descriptions of France. We think it would be ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦» ~ — — — j — ¦— — — — — ~~" ~ — — -^^" " » ^^ » "— ¦ ' — ~— r — ~" —j Rev. B J. McDougallj (being^^ voL iii. of ' Waifs safe to say they are the best that have come and Strays of Celtic Tradition '). for a considerable time from an English pen. ¦ ¦ — ^Vi *^ ^M* ^^* ^^ ^^ ™ ¦ ^.^ F^" ^^ ^^^^ ^~^ ^^ ' " ' ^^ ^^ ^^ ¦ ¦¦ --^— ^^h ^ ' -^ - — — Stories of Fionn and the Fians, the Fenian The^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ styf^J ^^J W le0^ ^^^^ ish^L |^^P sp^^ t^rf rai^^ ^^^^B ^^ gV^^h htforward and business-like,j trad itions of Scotland, collected, edited in though never bald or uninteresting, and the Gaelic, and translated by the Rev. J. G. mass of information given on all subjects that Campbell , of Tiree (vol. iv. of * Waifs and can possibly be of interest to the tourist is Strays of Celtic Tradition '). dimply prodigious. He has taken great pains The Vision of McConglinney, an Irish in the preparation of his volumes," for he is -±^ w ^b. m«^^^ — — — t— — -— ' l Jt J ^_^ ^^ ^^ ^L» ^S a^ ^ W^f -*. * W • ~w ^ X^ — ^^ J ^ ha he enery and I Rabelaisian epic of the Middle Ages, not of those who fancy^ t —— t t sc edited by Prof. Kuno, translated by W. M. history of a large country can be exhaustively Henessey, with introduction by Dr. W. studied during a flying visit of two or three ¦«-— \A VI <• »W */ Kjt »^ . Wollnfr. d\ ^ |a|,|| ysW fcj ' duration. A V^ | ' AnyJk ^k. A A f knowled*.» ^-^ ¦ » — -v^ gevk -w of-^» — F——. rance— —— — — ,i ' Eve and De Baudiss' Wellington College French says Mr. Hare, ' can only be obtained after Grammar, tenth edition, thoroughly revised, many visits, and it will then be of the slightest without the help of French associations and increased , and printed from fresh type. r French and G erman Selections for translation friendships. lhe best chance of learning any- at Sight, for the use of Wellington College, thing about it is to take a special district as second edition. the object of a single tour, and to devote at- y to its history, associations, H. W. Eve, a school German Grammar to tention exclusivel aanrlnd architecturep rr^lntftntnre ;: for in climateclimate,, sscenerv.cenery, andana accompa ny the Wellington College French very kind the different parts Grammar f ourth edition. characteristics of e , of France are entirely unlike each other. ' The Handbook of Folk-Lore, by G. L. Gonuuo , Mr. Hare has taken his own advice with very published for the Folk-Lore Society. happy results. He has studied his districts ____^_ .— , . _ .— _ _ __ -^ _ _ — — us The Example of Jacques de Vitry,%j * a 12th patiently and carefully, and he now gives century collection of fables and apologues, three ideal guide-books. The volumes are illus- L, m^.m ««— translated and edited by Prof. Crane, of trat\JA. fJL bvedvA fromA. X \J kU. sketcheskJ AV*^ ^> livtsl takenLl**V v/*A in* ** mostv^^ J v instance* *«»^ - — Cornell University, published for the Folk- on the spot , and each id furnished with an Lore Society. eAvwlipnt,xcellent map.man It is needless to saysav that they are handsomely got up. From Mr. J. W. Arrowemith, Bristol.—' Senilia : Poems in Prose and Verse, being Meditations, Fr ;m Mr. George Allen, Orpington.— * Studies SketchesCIU^AAn , &c.,Hm '» byWit IvanToon Turgenieff.'I' n iTr ^rkiftflF EngKne"Hshlish in Ruskin : Some Aspects of the Work and version, with introduction and biographical Teaching of Joh n Ruskin ,1 b}r Edward T. Cook, sketch of the author, by 8. J. Macmullan. M.A. To the many Ruskin guilds and socie- Although these poems in prose cannot be ties ancl tl>e many ,prlvate readers that are calledr.allfirl favourable examplesexauiDles ofoi the writings u*of sfruggHng, not always too successfully, to gain Turg^nieff , yet they one and all bear the a better understanding of Mr. Buskin's works stamp of genius, and we are glad to have w m Oct. 15, 1890 The Publishers Circular I36i them. Mr. Macmullan's introduction and memoir ceedingly pleasant story in her characteristic 1^ »« J ^" ^ ^*^ ™^^^ ^^ ^^^ ¦ ¦ ™ ^^ -^p~ ^^^^ «p r ^^ — |— ^^r «*i^V ^¦VM^b ^^V ^Mi^V ^V ¦ VIT^V^B ^^ are good, and his translation is excellent. sty^ le. With the exception of John Hume, the From the same.— * Behind the Kafes,' by Mary hero, the characters are all Irish and are drawn Albert. A story which is unnatural in plot skilfully and forcibly. They are real and they yet readable enough by reason of the manner are agreeable. The Delaneys,who own a beggarly in which it is told. There are two heroines, estate and hold up their heads on the score of who pass through many trials, being at one high blood , are capi tally delineated ; and very amusing is their old servant Murphy, who is a v — — — — ¦ -»- - ^^^V^^K I ^— — ¦ hh —m*—— -^^p time— on the verg— g e of committing suicidei^^ and^.p^^ ^mm^^ ^^v^^ at another slaves in Constantinople. The sort of Hibernian counterpart of Andrew Fair- sketches of Eastern life are distinctly good . service. Nan Delaney is the coquette, and well she deserves -. the title. The manner in j . ¦¦¦¦ ¦ r A letter— f- — —— fro— m— Mr.------Gladstone*_L — . _~- - , . - '»¦ —ww —w prev^f ^ ^^ p faces^.w ^ ^» -^^r * r^^ the-rr »*" ^^ ^wr volume. which she is fi nally conquered by Hume is too From The Authors Co-operative Publishing good to be told here ; we must ask the reader ' to go to the book itself , which is, we repeat, Comp ny, Limited. -- ia a ' Life in Utop ,' by extremely agreeable John Petzler. This book is described on the reading. title-page as being a faithful and accurate From Messrs. Blackie & Son, Limited.— « The description of the institutions that regulate Works of William Shakespeare, edited by Henry labour, art, science, agriculture, education, Irving and Frank A. Marshall. With illustra- - — — - y — tions by Gordon habitation,r matrimony,v j law,j governmentcp , and Browne. Vol . VIII. The religion in this delightful region of human present volume, which completes the ' Henry imagination. It contains, moreover, a discur- Irving Edition of Shakespeare/ cont ains Hamlet, Henry VIII , Pericles, and the Poems. sive exposition1. of modern communism,r based There on Plato's Republic and the Utopia of Sir is a general introduction, with a life of the poet Thomas More ; and the author has made bold by Dr. Dowden, and a short prefatory note by Mr. Irving^_, himself— — — — — ^/ ^j iving— credit to include in his communistic organisation of ^^generously g f ^ — — — society a more elaborate system of the religion where credit is due. There is also a critical of humanity than Comte has assigned to it. introduction to each of the plays as well as to The book is a curious mixture, but is not the poems. The volume, it should be noted, is without ability. magnificently got up, paper, print, and bind- ing: being of the very best. We have nothing From Messrs. G. W. Bacon & Co., Limited.— - - - j — but praise^ for it in everyif way, and indeed ' Bacon's Excelsior Graduated Drawing Charts.' nothing but praise for the entire^ edition now Designed by Frank ISteeley and Bernard H. that it stands complete. Editors and publishers Trotman. First to Seventh Standards. These have striven to make the Irving Edition worthy drawings are admirably adapted to their of the scholarship and mechanical resources of purpose, and teachers and pupils alike will the age, and we may say at once that they fi nd them eminently helpful. The designs have succeeded. It is— a c?great work— , bravel•/y are arranged from such forms and figures as planned and faithfully executed. It ' is to be fulfil all the requirements of the department of sincerely regretted that Mr. Marshall did not Science and Art, so that they may be said— to ' tr •/ live to see the completion of the great task to bear the stamp of authority. which he devoted the best part of his life, but From Messrs. Samuel Bagster & Son, Limited. his works will surely follow him. Happily his 4 Father Mat hew : a Biography,' by John death did not interfere with the progress of the Fran cis Maguire, abridged and re-edited by work. When he fell, Mr. Arthur Symons _ — ., — -j - Rosa M ulholland. In re-editingt Mr. Maguire^.j 's stepped into the breach , and it is mainly to biography of Father. Mathew, Miss M ulholland Mr. Symons's care and ability, Mr. Irving has in no sense re-written it; only there has informs us, that the completion of this last been some excision of topics and incidents, with volume is due. The introduction to Hamlet some omission of details which belonged to a jl j in the part before us, is from the M.pen of Mr. period of history now vanished. The result Marshall and will be read with a sad and is a handy and compact volume winch makes peculiar interest ; it is also likely to be read up a capital portrait of the apostle of tem- with no small profit. The introduction to perance. H enry VII I. is by Mr. Symons, that to Pericles 4 -_- _ _ _ P. Z ound and that to the Poems by A. From Messrs. Georgeq^ Bell & Sons.— Pasteur by . H , — — „ _ . _ _ _ — _ _„__— -^ _ Wilson Verity 7 y. , and all are lucid and scholarl^ and Rabies,' by Thomas M. Dolan, M.D. Dr. ^ Dolan does not believe in M. Pasteur and his We congratulat e all concerned on the completion methods of inoculation for the prevention of of this splendid edition of the works of our hydrophobia, and certainly his cri ticisms and national poet. the statistics he adduces against the French- From Messrs. David Bryce & Son , Glasgow.— telling.kj Tiie little book man's system•t are ' A Scamper through some Cities of America/ deserves to be read. by Archibald Porteous. Mr. Porteous spent From the same.— * The Book of Sun-Dials,' col- three months in the United States and Canada lected by Mrs. Alfred Gatty. Edited by H. K. and now like a true Briton gives his experiences fq ^q IP r^r ¦ ¦ ¦— -•— F. Eden and Eleanor Lloyd, with an Appendix in^ a^ book"V >^ "~ " .» His*^~ ~^ ™ ^ adventures-"-- ¦' — -™" ' — — -^ - — were~ not— extra-— — -— — . — on the Construction of Dials, by W. Richardson . ordinary in any way. He was n ot scalped , he Third and enlarged edition. We are glad to did not at tempt to swim the rapids at N iagara, see a third edition of Mrs. Gatty's fascinating he was not h ugged by a grizzly in the book. Carefully and ably edited and containing Rockies. Indeed, he does not seem to have a good deal of matter that was not in the first seen the Rockies at all ; he kept to beaten edition, it ought to have another run of popu- eastern iracks and spent his time among he — ¦ ¦— hot ls railway tr i s and clubs. But — - — - - — — —- — — a n - e , , larity.»/ No more charming^j ) companionj^ could be chosen. enjoyed himself, which is much. T '"' ¦ ¦ ^ ^ ¦ - - - , - i ¦ ™^^p^ ^ p^^ « —^ t^ V^W ^^^^ p ^^^^ ^w ^^m^^aw^ PBB ^*r^^ ^^p P P^^^^™ ^^^ ^V VI p^ ^^^ p-^^p -^^ —~> p^ ^™ ^ ^p P ~^ pf ^^-"" v^^ *^^ ^p ^.p' p.* ^^ » M p ^ HBVV^HM ^i*^ *^ m ^ p ^F .* ^ •^- ^^T *^*^ m ^-p '^p ' ^H ^ ^^ " "¦ V ¦ ' ' "" " —~ From Mr. Spencer"^.^* W^^^^^ ^^p Blaokett."^B p — * A Born Coquette^^^ B ,^B ' From^^ MessrsW^^* "^ Casaell ^¦^ & Co., Limited.— * Rivers by Mrs. Hungerford. 3 vols. In *A Born of Great Britain,' Part I, Messrs. Caesell Sc Co. Coquette ' Mrs. Hungerford has written an ex- are conferring a boon upon all lovers ot tne ¦ ¦ P ¦ ¦ . , . ,, . _ ' n The i3(^2 Publishers' Circular Oct. 15, 1S90 beautiful in books in issuing this sumptuous fertile and audacious French novelist at his best, - - j l- work in monthly parts. It is a work of rare for he has a subject— that enlists his sympathj bah an .pi «k pK dh A _ y ^ik . m* ^^^a^^m ^ excellence. The text is by well-known writers, and calls forth all his powers. There is a and the illustrations, which are often superb, capital introduction by the author himself, and ~— ~— -^— -b~ bb—b -bb — - — — — - — ~-b- — — — - - i bb ^— v^b- !¦ b bj «B^ > — b» b^ b bjb Bb» bb- BBp bb -_ ^_ -_ _ . ,- - BBB. -p, ^- are by^j artists of established repu_ H*|b tation.^w * ¦¦ ^^f 4W^b > V Itb isb* a useful memoir by Mr. Edmund Gosse,j theb^- a delight to turn the pages, and see Nature in editor of the series. The translation is excep- her loveliest and most romantic moods. 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BBB Convert^V ~B— aalterfter the marriage and marriage ceremonyceremonv leaves him and sation,' ' Rustic Courtship,' ' The Merits of goes to Colonel L'Estrange, a profligate and Gravity/ ' Croakings,' 4 Sermons and Sermon r—j - — - -^-~ — — — «¦• w » -— ^mr n. - wu m^. M. gambler. It is-"- ^ ^p' -^-^ ^ ^b^ ^.^ AA X-*" ¦ W m^ ^^ ^ ^/¦^ty.a. ^^ ^_y ^b ^J V-^ I needless to follow her career to Making,TV/To l^ n .T- ' *< PlagPlorriiarismo ri cttn ,' ando nA ' OldCllA HulksTTnilr a .' TheTV»O the end, for it is hardly edifying. The style is topics, without exceptions, are suggestive, but at times fine to the point of absurdity. we cannot say that Mr. Watson handles them mr jk lack %» x/ with on picuous ability. There is rather a w c s From Mr. L.— w TJpcott^^ ^r^ ^^ ^-^ Gill.^k^^v ^*^Bp -^*i— ' Fresh-Water-*L, "b/^imP -ft.^ ¥ * w ^-b** ^ Aquaria,' by Rev. Gregory C. Bateman. Illus- of both humour and fancy, so that the essays, trated. Mr. Bateman is an enthusiast in the though intended to be sprightly, are on the study of natural history, and in this work on whole rather sober reading. • Fresh Water— - A'— ' q~~M uaria^r-^-m, «----» BM W ' tells^ f ^pbi^ bI ^ b— —P^ us"k- ^|h_r allBplVA -* aboutTfc-Bf W^T ^j* VV. *-* their^^ -*bB ^^^ b& -^ From the same.— * The Confessions of a Poacher,' construction,' arrangement, and management, edited by John Watson, illustrated by James and gives full information as to the best water- West. In a preface the editor states that the Bi BBB v* —g | ~ Bjy ( ^ #^Bl^B B^BT BBB B^ V * BbP Bi 4# ^PaV B,p— —B^BBBi bPB_ ~| | ~ BB B^ *B> ^*^ ~^^T BBi B^ r ^df * B a ^^^ V^ |^K ^B, B » dm «*. Bi ^ Bi Bi plants and live-stock to be kept, how and where poacherM^^ , whose confes^ sions are*B^Yb * given^^ | in this to obtain them, and how to keep them in volume, is no imaginary being. All that has health. 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There are so many guide-books now-a- poetic and eloquen t in describing how he — 1 ^ ^ ^ " ^.B^ -*-~ f* ¦• ^ ^ mF~ PBP^ "V ^ *B\ J|k B»^ «X/ ^B^ -B ^^ days to every^J nook and corner of^^ interestB ^^^ 9^ ^ % ^ inJK ^ -"* our^B^ ^ 1^ #^ possessed himself of the property of others. land that the holiday maker may well be His chronicle is one of the most agreeable, and , puzzled in JL Jk making a I ^b/ v T A vb*v^V AJI Tih^Spj b& 4LbW 4B^k ** W*J w^J %'^L I ^.b* k,/ a ^ ,bf b« jIb! vp* ~w^ choice- To the portion of notwithstanding^Lb ^b** •* A^^^ its subject^.^ ^^ , oneJLJ* ^ ^ ofa ^ the^^^ most the Thames of which it treats, however, the wholesome we have recently read. For the present is one of the best guides known to sake of sport it almost seems a pity that the us, and may be taken without hesitation. It noble art of poaching is dying out. is well illustrated and corrected to August last. of From the same._ —'A Life__ 's Reminiscences_ & From Mr. William Heinemann.—• Pierre and Scotland Yard ,' by Andrew Lansdowne. A _ DVHAVO VfJk fcJ *X\^ tiV-'-_AV*fcJ WfVTAAVV> VJAJLAVV/iL ^-*- V* w -.-.— ngf_j Jean,' by Guy de Maupassant, translated by series of sketches b*"* y,/ a** police officer describi** Clara Bell (Heinemann's International Library) police courts and the ways of criminals. Like Hardly a better selection could have been made the confessions of the poacher they are all U*. VlvV »»JkV * M V-fcX-H-A ««k-V UVAAKUV AU, *•¦*•-' — the of a second volume for Mr. Heinemann's Inter- truey, and* such as delight in Jfprying *' -7 ***'C> into national Library than the clever and vigorous dark places of human nature will find them hovel of Guy de Maupassant. It reveals the entertaining. '"" Si —i—.————. ———>¦¦ ¦ ! 9=' =3! it ^ct. 15, 189i8o^° The±ne Publiru onsnersshers ' uircuiarCircular *1363**? From the same.—' A Story of Stops ,' by Mrs. cases generally means a safe landing in some Davidson. With fourteen full-page illustra- harbour of honour. Napier, however, preferred tions by the authoress. A tale of goblins and the approval of his own conscience to the their doings that will fascinate children. The approval of men, even when they were official BMP BB» B-» ^^»» ^. °"B^B» B> »^B^ ^B ^B^ BV B^B ^^ Bi BBP ^B> bBB> B^^ BB *»» -^ ^ "^ ¦^F BH BBB ~^^ ^^— -^^^^^ ^^ ^^ — ^^ ^^ — ^" ^^^" ^^ B^^ "^— ^ b^^^ I ^r storyw is cleverly%/ conceived*, and written with an and influential. In India, as in England, he excellent appreciation of what young readers followed an independent course, and often will most relish. The illustrations, . grotesque failed in winning the favour of his superiors and grimly humorous as they are, add much and employers, though he won battles and to the attractiveness of the book. benefited a people. His history from tirst to last is one of surpassing interest, and it is From M. Calmann LeVy, Paris.—PaulDeroulede, fortunate for his fame that Sir William Butler * Histoire d'Amour.' story, This is a very pretty has become his biographer. in prose, told by a poet. M. Deroulede has From the same An Elementary Geography of written martial songs(j which have reached their .—' 130th edition, besides other military music, India, Burma, and Ceylon,' by Henry F. and a draiua in five acts, which is now in its Blanford. A capital specimen of what an 23rd edition. The * Histoire d'Amour ' is in elementary«/ cjgeograp — o r h«/y should be. The author, part a tale of protecting affection on the part who until lately was meteorological reporter to of an elder brother. Jacques, the younger, the Government of India, has personally visited and much of gets into an amorous entanglement during a most partsX of the Indian EmpJL ire,' few months' stay in Italy. At the end of this | the information contained in this book is set period the lady mysteriously disappears, and down from his own observation. The descrip- the brothers go over Europe in search of her. tions have therefore a freshness uncommon in Their adventures and amusements—for the geographical works, particularly of the ele- elder brother will amuse the younger in spite mentary sort. Mr. Blanford has, however, taken care to consult all the best authorities of himself—furnish the ligCJ hter O.part of the story, which is, in effect , a tragic one. M. on matters connected with India. « Deroulede's Histoire dAmour ' has already From the same.—' Miss Tommy, a Mediaeval reached its 11th edition. Romance,' by the author of ' John Halifax, From Messrs. Crosby Lockwood & Co.—'Wood Gentleman,' with illustrations by Frederick Engraving,' by William N orman Brown. This Noel Paton ; * John Vale's Guardian,' by D. practical and easy introduction to the study of Christie Murray ; and ' The Heritage of Dedlow the art of wood engraving has, we are pleased Marsh,' by Bret Harte. Three volumes in Messrs. Macmillan's handsome three and six- to see,9 reached a second edition. No simp-V. ler penny__ _ edition_ _ of_ favourite— ____ novelists._ We find or better manual could be found for'those who ^ — — — are beginning the study of wood engraving. in going through him again that Bret Harte has still the old freshness and charm. The From Messrs. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle 4 four short stories of his contained in the & Rivington, Limited.— The Standard Opera volume before us are all masterpieces. Glass,' by Charles Annesley. We have here the detailed plots of ninety-five celebrated From Mr. Elkin Mathews.— * Dante : Six Ser- operas, with critical remarks and dates. The mons,' by Philip H. Wicksteed. Second fact that the book has reached a fourth edition edition. These six sermons, or rather lectures, shows that the public appreciate Mr. Annesley's form a very good introduction to the study of labours in giving outlines and critical estimates Dante, and we have pleasure in commending of the favourite operas of the world. them. Mr. Wicksteed is a sane and intelligent , and has evidentl devoted much time to From Messrs. Macmillan & Co.— ' Sir Charles critic y the study of his subject. Napier,' by Colonel Sir William F. Butler (' English Men of Action ' Series). No truer From Messrs. Moffatt & Paige. — * King John, hero ever moved among men than Sir Charles with Introduction and Notes, Arranged and Napier. Throughout a varied and trying Classified ' by Thomas Page (Moffatt's Plays of career, in the course of which he was assailed Shakespeare, edited by John Paige). Students ^Bi W b ^^ bb 4 bb^b » yW manV4h* ^M'^V *Bfc_ y and^^^b ~*^^m peculiar.\ ^ *^^^ *bj ^ b^b* ^-™ ^™ ^^ -^ ^b> temptations~w ™ — — m ^ ~ ,j he kept^l his will find this edition of King John ' useful. integrity, his simplicity, his stern faith to him- Mr. Paige's introduction is a valuable piece of as a soldier self, secure and unsullied. Alike work,9 and there arc literary•/ notes bymr H azlitt 'M' ~*^m BB-^BpBBI ~~ «-*¦ -¦- *V w B,l B> M^Bt B^BB V 1 ' r B> ¦ ww ^^^ ^ 4 — ¦ ¦ ^—' -^ ¦—¦ — * ¦ " ~ and as an administrator he resolutely^ followed and other critics of standing. consider what the right without staying to From Mr. Arthur B. Morton (Author), 309 effect uprightness and independence would ._ , ... Regent^j btreet,j W. Type-writing¦ / JL KJ and TVype- M. biographer tells us —' have on his prospects. His writers; or, Aids to Rapid Writing; and how to plomatic he would that if he had been more di select a machine.' Mr. Morton, who is an have been made a peer. ' They would have .- — . — — _.. _ instructor of type-writing,mf X. *—* * tells in this pampJL JL hlet r ^# ^^-BJ BPBj BB Bt >« BB. M wm B^ B^ Bk ^B * m « W* ^^ ^ ^^ ^B^ B^. ^V ^B. ¦ ' ^* V j ^K^ ^^ W^^ ^ B * " ' ~- J m Abbey,^ buried him in St. Paul's or Westminster how to choose a type-writer and how to over his grave.' and put a grand monument manipulate it when chosen . As the type- truckle. He Jkit Napier was not made to writer has come to stay,' his directions cannot obtaining any ' would not bend for the sake of fail to be of use to those who are candidates is strikingly illus- baubles of honour. This for appointments in legal and business offices. trated in his words and actions during his visit to England in 1848 : 4 1 see that violence From Messrs. 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Mr. Calvert had almost in memorial and bordered cards in large, double , as many strange adventures as Robinson smallsmall,, and ssmall.mall. TheJLhe cards seem to us chastechasto Crusoe himself, and Mrs. Vernon's narrative is and appropriat e, and in every way worthy of quite as entertaining as most novels. The Messrs. Taylor's reputation for goods of this book is nicely illustrated. class. From Messrs. Perceval & Co.— ' Three Addresses From Mr. T. Fisher TJcwin.—' The Immortals^ ,7 to Girls at School,' by Rev. J. M. Wilson. Two and other Poems,' by R. Warwick Bond. Mr. | of these addresses by the head of Clifton Bond has the feelings and the jancy of a poet, | College{J ,t are on education,* the third being£j on nay at times we should be disposed to say he has religion. They were originally printed for even the imagination of a poet, as for iostance private circulation, but at the request of friends in parts of the introductory piece in which tbe they have at length been brought out f or the high gods of song are made to deliver their . benefit of the public. They are sensible and several messages.fj Some of the shorter pA ieces ought to do good. are rather conventional in theme and treatment, but throughout the book there is evidence of From Mr. William Beeves.— * Home Rule for r Scotland,' by J. Morrison Davidson. Mr. poetic sensibilit} and an ear for the inner j Davidson, being a loyal and patriotic Scot, thinks harmon ies of things. The little book is a that Scotland receives considerablv less than dainty example of the art of the printer and her share of the public money, and his present bookbinder. j work is an earnest plea for a larger measure of From Me ssrs. "Ward, Lock & Co.— * Half-hours ) -_ _— -_ -- -- _ _ _ justice.^i - He- is- as strong— — ^_y in statistics- — — as he— is— of Scientific Amusement.' Translated from.the I fervent in patriotism, and makes out a good French of Gaston Tissaudier, by Henry Frith. case. Jn briefly but clearly and forcibly Illustrated. Young people with a taste for the ! describing the more important phases of ingenious, and not averse to instruction mingled \ Scottish history he traces the lives of Sir with amusement, should buy this book. It will i William Wallace, George Buchanan, Fletcher teach them how to do many wonderful things, i of Raltoun, and Thomas Spence, 4 the father of and be, if properly used, the source of endless , ddelight.elight. ) Land Resumption.' ' Home Rule for Scotland ' ¦ . . i should appeal powerfully to the folks ayont the From the same.—Messrs. Ward , Lock & Co. send j Tweed. us the first parts of three new serial publications ' From Messrs. 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'Dictionary good and the illustrations are suggestive. , — re ar to avies ilation a little of National Biography,'edited by Leslie Stephen g d Dr. D 's comp , ore care mi leasant and Sidney Lee, vol. XXIV. present m g<. J ht be exercised. It is not pA. S The well volume of t he to find a misquotation from a poem so j ' Dictionary of National Bio- ' • John graphy ' extends from Hailes to Harriott and is known as Wolfe s The Burial of Sir ij well up to the high standard of excellence that Moore.' has hitherto marked this now indispensable From Messrs. F. V. White & Co.— l A Very | publicat ion . Mr. Leslie Stephen contributes Young Couple,' b} B. L. Farjeon. Harry Pal- I an art icle on Hal lam in which full justice is mcrston, a young literary man, marries Kate I llVlJkULlU til l JUjU V-^D aiHA I.IIV^J ' JllYC Lltl^JfJAXJ untili»»«w»» done to the Ugood nature,r conscientiousness,7 and Holland j, an heiress, and they live happily j prodigious learni ng of the historian of the one day Kate discovers that her husband has , middle ages. • Without the sympathetic been receiving letters from another woman. [< imagi nation,' says Mr. Stephen justly, ' which She is fired with sudden jealousy, and, managing I if ofien misleading is essential to the highest to sesecurecure some of the letters, takes them to her I| historical excellence ' (as proved in Carlyle for mother. Just as she arrives at the Holland ' !» »- k »-» if~^ r—w wm, -^mf mm , mm. ^_^ m m T*^ 9-f » ¦ . — ---- - *m •*. *m -mm* ^- ^^ ^^^ ^ **-* ^w ' F^^ ^ m *W «4 A* ^4/ ^>J« «^ JK * ** J» ^^ • » ^rf^-** much— example)X. / * he commands respectJL by%/ his honesty,+/ * Mansion there comes up an aunt who was j accuracy, and masculine common sense in regard opposed to Kate's marriage with Falmerston to all topics within bis range.' A great deal of ;in d has always been the young man's enemy. iv»v/ ». mmm jaw mm ^m ^%i ¦ » ¦¦ & M. M, rsmf «J» J» m, mm ta-« »-— —— — . shrewd criticism is compressed in this com- T•* his lady,% ^ y delig* hted** T*m> S>^ to*J-±s tindK * JUA ^^^i something^* M~tV~t\-\m * againstp ^ i pendious estimate. Mr. Stephen also wiites on him, gives rein to her venom, and makes all sorts Sir William Hamilton, the metaphysician, and of base insinuations and suggestions. She is , I in dealing< ' with his biOg and complexAT — subjectj the cause of much trouble, and on her conduct mm m**-mrmm, «« -m «ff«M m ^ » "fc* ^ - ' ^m * /m ^ V mm mur B^ ^"^ *» ¦» ,*¦ mm* -\ ^ Ife tm, _f ^jf *¦* ^^ ** m^LmM- »*^ ^-^^^-^ " " — ' he showed his usual grasp and lucidity. Mr. C. H. at a critical point of^ the^ storyJ hangs^ much oi Firth gives a capital portrait of John Hampden, the interest. Harry, however, triumphantly ^^wLiimm, r *4* m-m ¦ jk«k.j« «. m ? » » ^» "~"~¦ the Puritan statesman thougkj h we are still clearsXV * himselfr *-r ^-* *-i 4k, inm\a * a•-* manneri^ n m •> * A »* \ r/ •>¦ whichw w m.m m v/a a we* ^~" will not ,r ^ — mm mx »m- m^ __ a Mmt ¦ ¦ without definite information as to the cause of disclose here, and the end is^ ha^ ppiness. The Hampden's death. 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