42 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



book appealed to a highly-intelligent class, that associated with their 

 intelligence the means of purchasing the book, and they did purchase 

 it. Had the book been published in the first instance at 3s. 6f7., no 

 doubt that same class of buyers would have purchased the book, but it 

 would certainly have been at my personal loss. 



Q. Perhaps that may be the case ; but if you had published it ori- 

 ginally, instead of at Gs., at a higher price, do not you think that prob- 

 ably 3'our sale would not have been as large as it was at 6s. ? 



A. That I cannot say. I always have a conversation with my pub- 

 lisher on these matters, and I defer very much to his knowledge. 



Q. But at once by publishing at 6s. you addressed yourself to a 

 public who could afford 6s., instead of to a public only who could afford 

 a higher price. Many people could pay ^s. who could not pay 12s. 6(7. ? 



A. I assume authors to possess a certain amount of conscience ; and 

 if Mr. Longman had proposed to me to publish that book at 12s. Qd., I 

 should have objected to the jDrice. Considering the amount of labor I 

 had invested in the book, I should not have allowed him to publish it 

 at 12s. Qd. 



Q. That is because you are an exceptionally conscientious man 

 perhaps ? 



A. Speaking for myself, I certainly should have prohibited that. • 



Q. You mentioned that you considered that the plan that we have 

 been discussing with the last witness would be an interference with 

 your rights. May I ask you exactly to define what you think your 

 rights are? I will tell you why I ask you that ; it is this, I want to 

 know whether your rights are rights of remuneration, or rights of con- 

 trol over the publication, that is to sa}^, the type in which it is to be, 

 or the particular form in which it is to be published ? 



A. I am speaking altogether of rights of remuneration. An illus- 

 tration occurs at the present moment. I am now engaged on the sixth 

 edition of my book on "Heat," and I really intend to go in a few days 

 to the Messrs. Longman and to say, " I think that, considering your 

 labor and mine, we ought to have another arrangement, and that 1 ought 

 to receive a higher proportion of the profits than I have hitherto re- 

 ceived. You know it is open to me to go to another publisher, and 

 you also know that I shall have no difficulty in obtaining the terms 

 which I now offer to you." I regard it as my undoubted right, con- 

 sidering the labor I have expended on those works, to take them to the 

 best market. If Longman does not give me my terms I should like 

 to have the liberty of going to Macmillan, Chapman & Hall, Mr. Henry 

 King, or Mr. Murray. That is the right I claim. 



Q. You stand in a far better position toward Mr. Longman than an 

 unknown man would ? 



A. I dare say ; but I have had to raise myself into that position by 

 very hard work. 



Q. You said just now that these were only " beliefs " that we had. 



