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      CHARLES THE GREAT 108 , 109 NOTES AND NEWS ... 109 , 110

      CONTINENTAL NOTES HI , 112 AMERICAN NEWS AJ & D NOTES 112 , 118

      OBITUAR ? ..... L 113 , H 4 TRADE CHANGES \ 114

      SOME SHILLING FICTION •( .... 114 , 115 REVIEWS , < fco 1 ... 115—117

      INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT _

      BRITAIN BETWEEN JANUARY 16 & 31 .... 118 , 119

      • ¦ ¦ - ' Ii ._ " "5"' '' Literary Intel...

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      ' - ' - ¦ - ¦ ¦ St . IDunstan ' s House , E . Cr-t .-/ February 1 , 1889 .

      C Yndicates Seem To Be The Best Lure For...

      C YNDICATES seem to be the best lure for ^ the authors of t ^ -day . We must confess

      that at the first cursory glance appearancesare rather in favour of an author ' s pecuniary

      success under the rule of these bodies ; therefore we were surprised when we saw , only the

      other day , that a * Discontented Novelist' had penned a remonstrance against them in the

      pages of the St . James ' s Gazette . He refers to the ' spoils of the middleman / and says : — ' It

      is an undoubted fact that the syndicate is a highly expensive distributing instrument . In

      the first place , the author is beat down to the lowest price he will take . Then the

      middleman , whose eye from year ' s end to year ' s end is on the weekly paper which takes stories ,

      V HA- atM plies the unfortunate editors with puffs , announcements , advertisements , specimen pages ,

      •* ' ^» . pW ^ hT ' press notices , and other weapons connected with his craft . If you talk over the matter

      with an author , he will probably dilate on the special knowledge -bm- possessed by the syndicate bjt

      ^ " * — ^ p —how so and so can tell exactly when each newspaper in the kingdom will need a story .

      But that is mere nonsense . Few editors confine themselves to one syndicate , and their

      arrangements are often made months beforehand ; so that no agent knows any more about

      the matter than the response made to his circular . What is a hundred times more

      important in his eyes , he gets to Jsnow exactly how his author sells , and thus , in bargaining ,

      has all the advantage . How the laat penny is ground out of a novel which has been

      purchased for a series of years is one of the most amusing things in the world . '

      Authors may be , as the lawyers say , * surprised to learn' that these much spoken of

      syndicates practically represent a worn-out custom in the publishing trade . There are few

      books nowadays which divide profits between rnore than one publisher , but vested interest

      in 'trade books / as they were called , was ¦ ... . , , ' , . » '

      C Yndicates Seem To Be The Best Lure For...

      — - ¦¦ (¦¦¦ - ¦ . - . - ¦ ^ - _ _ , ti i i ii _ very common in days when speculation was viewed with more caution than now . * Living

      authors are deeply indebted to the spirit of individual speculation . Their reputations

      - *¦¦ • ¦ * 7 ' have been heralded * in the -world by individual appreciation and individual confidence . What

      the old syndic of the book-world did , the new syndic of the newspaper-world may be

      expected to do * until the author finds that it is better and more ^ reputable to follow the

      fashion of his predecessors , and to place his books before the world in tne same manner that

      has been recognised since book-publishing began .

      Booksellers' Provident Institution . —

      The _ usual Monthly Meeting of the Board of Directors was held oh Thursday eveningthe

      , 17 th ult ., at the Offices , 56 Old Bailey ; Mr . O . J . Longman presiding , The sum of

      £ 121 . 9 s . 2 d . was voted in temporary and permanent assistance to 6 S £ ^ members and widows

      of members . ** Printers' G ] orporai 3 : on . —William

      Collingthe the ridge Jrort Port , M . ot of A :, Liondon Lond M . D on ., , LL has has . M . kindlv kindly , Medical consented nou Officer s Anted of to to

      accept the appointment v , of Honorary Consulting Physician to the Printers' Almshouses at Wood

      Green . A New Work on 'Americanisms . '—We

      have received from the author , Mr . , John S . Farmer , his promised work * Americanisms

      Old and New / which is a dictionary of words , phrasesand colloquialisms commonlor

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      works of Bartliitt and De Vere on the same subject are possibly most familiar . Mr .

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      than its rivals . Much amusing reading is to be to k i found possess in in its no pages slig ¦ , ht ¦ ¦ for measure the comp the h iler sense hw seems of

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      Gone to Texas . Moonshinin ^ gentry in the States used to leave on the 4 doors of their

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  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Feb. 1, 1889, page 106, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01021889/page/4/