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PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e-&ordm;-o-&lt;br /&gt;
N the 5th of February, 1909, the Trustees of&lt;br /&gt;
the Pension Fund of the Society, after&lt;br /&gt;
the secretary had placed before them the&lt;br /&gt;
financial position of the Fund, decided to invest&lt;br /&gt;
3350 in the purchase of Corporation of London&lt;br /&gt;
2} per cent. Stock (1927&ndash;57).&lt;br /&gt;
The amount purchased is &pound;438&lt;br /&gt;
added to the list printed below.&lt;br /&gt;
The Trustees are glad to report that owing to&lt;br /&gt;
the generous answer to the circular sent round at&lt;br /&gt;
the end of 1908, they have been able to invest&lt;br /&gt;
2s. 4d., and is&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#476) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
98 THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
more than &pound;100 over the amount invested in&lt;br /&gt;
1907.&lt;br /&gt;
Consols 24%.................... . . . . . . . . . . 31,000 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Local Loans .............................. 500 () ()&lt;br /&gt;
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-&lt;br /&gt;
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291. 19 11&lt;br /&gt;
War Loan ................................. 201 9 3&lt;br /&gt;
London and North-Western 3% Deben-&lt;br /&gt;
ture Stock .............................. 250 0 ()&lt;br /&gt;
Egyptian Government Irrigation&lt;br /&gt;
Trust 4% Certificates ............... 200 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Cape of Good Hope 33% Inscribed&lt;br /&gt;
Stock .................................... 200 () ()&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow and South-Western Railway&lt;br /&gt;
4% Preference Stock.................. 228 () ()&lt;br /&gt;
New Zealand 34% Stock. . . . . . . . ... 247 9 6&lt;br /&gt;
Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Corporation of London 25% Stock,&lt;br /&gt;
1927&ndash;57 .............................. 4.38 2 4.&lt;br /&gt;
Total ............... #3,815 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Subscriptions.&lt;br /&gt;
1909.&lt;br /&gt;
April 13, Gask, Miss Lilian &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
May 17, Rorison, Miss Edith&lt;br /&gt;
June 10, Voynich, Mrs. E. L.&lt;br /&gt;
June 11, Grier, Mrs. Julia M.&lt;br /&gt;
June 11, Field, C. . &amp;amp; &ordm;&lt;br /&gt;
June 11, Barrington, Mrs. Russell&lt;br /&gt;
July 8, Burmester, Miss Frances&lt;br /&gt;
July 9, Grindrod, Dr. G. F.&lt;br /&gt;
July 10, Hargrave, Mrs. Basil&lt;br /&gt;
Aug. 5, Stott, M. D. . t&ordm;&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 15, Greig, James&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 15, Jacomb, A. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 16, Hepburn, Thomas&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 16, Trevelyan, G. M. .&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 16, &ldquo;Haddon Hall&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 22, Jessup, A. E. &copy; &ordm;&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 25, Whishaw, Mrs. Bernhard&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 5, Dixon, A. Francis .&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 6, Helledoren, J.&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 4, Tearle, Christian&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 9, Tyrell, Miss Eleanor .&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 17, Somerville, Miss Edith CE.&lt;br /&gt;
Donations.&lt;br /&gt;
1909.&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 1, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. .&lt;br /&gt;
April 5, Burchell, Sidney H.&lt;br /&gt;
April 15, Linton, C. Stuart&lt;br /&gt;
April 19, Loraine, Lady . e e&lt;br /&gt;
April 19, Durand, Sir Henry Mortimer&lt;br /&gt;
April 20, Stephens, Riccardo &copy;&lt;br /&gt;
May 24, Lefroy, Mrs. C. P.&lt;br /&gt;
June 2, &ldquo;Olivia Ramsey&rsquo;&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
;I&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
II&lt;br /&gt;
June 7, Horne, A. B.&lt;br /&gt;
June 10, Muir, Ward&lt;br /&gt;
June 10, Swan, Miss Myra&lt;br /&gt;
June 17, Bradley, A. C.&lt;br /&gt;
June 22, Trot&eacute;re, H. .&lt;br /&gt;
July 8, Harland, Mrs. o&lt;br /&gt;
July 8, Sinclair, Miss May .&lt;br /&gt;
Aug. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Sept. 10, Hinkson, Katharine Tynan .&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 16, Hodson, Miss A. L. e&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 16, Wasteneys, Lady .&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 18, Bell, Mrs. G. H. &sect;&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 3, Turnbull, Mrs. Peveril .&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 4, George, W. L. e&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 25, Tench, Miss Mary&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 1, Shedlock, Miss&lt;br /&gt;
T}ec. 3, Esmohd, H. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 9, Hewlett, Maurice . e&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 17, Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie .&lt;br /&gt;
Dec. 17, Martin, Miss Violet&lt;br /&gt;
All fresh subscribers and donors previous to&lt;br /&gt;
April, 1909, have been deleted from the present&lt;br /&gt;
announcement.&lt;br /&gt;
The names of those subscribers and donors which&lt;br /&gt;
are not included in the lists printed above are&lt;br /&gt;
unavoidably held over to the next issue.&lt;br /&gt;
5&lt;br /&gt;
I&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
2&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
HE committee of management met for the&lt;br /&gt;
last time, in 1909, on December 6, at 39,&lt;br /&gt;
Old Queen Street. The minutes of the&lt;br /&gt;
last meeting were read and signed. The com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee then proceeded to elect 31 members and&lt;br /&gt;
associates, bringing the total elections for the year&lt;br /&gt;
up to 298. This is an increase of 50 over the&lt;br /&gt;
largest annual election to the Society since its&lt;br /&gt;
foundation. The committee desire to congratulate&lt;br /&gt;
the members on the increasing vitality of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society. Four resignations brought the total&lt;br /&gt;
number of resignations for the year up to 79.&lt;br /&gt;
The next matter that came before the committee&lt;br /&gt;
was the circular issued by some of the lending&lt;br /&gt;
libraries, and a letter received from the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Association setting out the resolutions passed by&lt;br /&gt;
that body. A letter from Mr. Edmund Gosse which&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in the Times was also considered, with&lt;br /&gt;
several other letters from members. The chairman,&lt;br /&gt;
after some discussion, placed before the committee&lt;br /&gt;
a resolution he had drafted for the committee&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
The resolution in its final shape was passed&lt;br /&gt;
unanimously, and is as follows:&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. (#477) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
TISIES A CITISIOR,&lt;br /&gt;
99&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The committee of management of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors have considered the letter addressed by the&lt;br /&gt;
circulating libraries to the Publishers&amp;#039; Association and the&lt;br /&gt;
Press. They observe upon it that it is in the discretion of&lt;br /&gt;
the libraries to select what books they will offer to their&lt;br /&gt;
customers, and that in point of fact this has always been&lt;br /&gt;
done. The committee regard the demand for delay of&lt;br /&gt;
publication to enable the libraries to make their selection&lt;br /&gt;
as unwarrantable, and they cannot advise the publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
assent to any such condition.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;They are ready at all times to delegate to a sub-&lt;br /&gt;
committee the duty of conferring with a similar body&lt;br /&gt;
deputed by the Publishers&rsquo; Association, and will be pre-&lt;br /&gt;
pared to receive through that body and consider any&lt;br /&gt;
further representation which the Libraries&rsquo; Association&lt;br /&gt;
may desire to make.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary was instructed to forward it to the&lt;br /&gt;
daily Press with a covering letter. The committee&lt;br /&gt;
feel that the matter may become one of vital&lt;br /&gt;
importance, and that they may be bound, if further&lt;br /&gt;
action is taken, to consult all the members and&lt;br /&gt;
to ascertain their opinion by referendum. In the&lt;br /&gt;
meantime they have taken measures to appoint&lt;br /&gt;
certain members of the society, under the presidency&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, chairman of the committee,&lt;br /&gt;
to meet, if necessary, a sub-committee of the&lt;br /&gt;
Publishers&rsquo; Association. After the meeting between&lt;br /&gt;
these two bodies it will be easier for the committee&lt;br /&gt;
to decide upon their future action.&lt;br /&gt;
The next question before the committee was also&lt;br /&gt;
one of importance. The chairman laid before the&lt;br /&gt;
committee a letter which he had written to the&lt;br /&gt;
Times in regard to the British Academy. The&lt;br /&gt;
matter, after some discussion, was adjourned until&lt;br /&gt;
the January meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Sidney Lee sent in the resignation of his&lt;br /&gt;
Seat on the committee, stating that while he was&lt;br /&gt;
greatly interested in the work, he felt that he&lt;br /&gt;
Ought not to continue on the committee in view of&lt;br /&gt;
the fact that he could not give to it the time&lt;br /&gt;
and labour which it deserved. The committee,&lt;br /&gt;
empowered under the constitution to fill up occa-&lt;br /&gt;
Sional vacancies, asked Mr. W. W. Jacobs to&lt;br /&gt;
undertake the duties of committee man, and he&lt;br /&gt;
has kindly consented to do so.&lt;br /&gt;
It was decided, in accordance with the statement&lt;br /&gt;
printed in another column, that the names of&lt;br /&gt;
candidates for election to the committee should be&lt;br /&gt;
returnable on or before Tuesday, February 15.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, the committee&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
nominee to the Pension Fund Committee, resigned&lt;br /&gt;
in due course and was unanimously re-elected.&lt;br /&gt;
The notice in respect of the election of the society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
nominee to the same committee is set out in another&lt;br /&gt;
column.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arthur Rackham and Mr. Francis Storr&lt;br /&gt;
were appointed a sub-committee to settle the&lt;br /&gt;
Report, which will be in the hands of the members&lt;br /&gt;
in the early months of 1910. The committee&lt;br /&gt;
decided to increase the salary of the head clerk by&lt;br /&gt;
5s. per week.&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary laid before the committee a copy&lt;br /&gt;
of the letter, which had already appeared in the&lt;br /&gt;
|papers, from the Dramatic Sub-Committee of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society on the censorship report. The committee&lt;br /&gt;
agreed also to issue a circular, if the Dramatic Sub-&lt;br /&gt;
Committee should so desire, with a view to calling&lt;br /&gt;
a conference of the dramatists of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
The Sub-Committee on the Price of Novels,&lt;br /&gt;
having collected certain evidence on the question&lt;br /&gt;
under their investigation, presented to the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee of management an interim report based&lt;br /&gt;
upon that evidence. The committee expressed&lt;br /&gt;
their thanks to the sub-committee for the care&lt;br /&gt;
which they had shown in dealing with the matter&lt;br /&gt;
and Ordered the report to be printed in the columns&lt;br /&gt;
of The Author. The committee sanctioned the&lt;br /&gt;
purchase of a new typewriter for the office and an&lt;br /&gt;
extension of the telephone service to the secretary&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
office.&lt;br /&gt;
The first case which came before the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee related to a literary libel. The work of&lt;br /&gt;
a member of the society had been translated into&lt;br /&gt;
German without his authority, and with consider-&lt;br /&gt;
able alterations. Unfortunately, the writer had&lt;br /&gt;
sold his copyright to the British publisher, but the&lt;br /&gt;
committee were advised by the society&amp;#039;s lawyer in&lt;br /&gt;
Germany that this did not preclude him from&lt;br /&gt;
taking action against the delinquent. The com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee decided to take up the case.&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary then reported the settlement of a&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic infringement which had been taken up&lt;br /&gt;
on the authority of the chairman. As it might&lt;br /&gt;
have been necessary to apply for an injunction,&lt;br /&gt;
the chairman had authorised proceedings without&lt;br /&gt;
reference to the committee. The secretary read&lt;br /&gt;
to the committee a letter of thanks from the mem-&lt;br /&gt;
ber on the satisfactory settlement of the dispute.&lt;br /&gt;
The next case was also a dramatic case, and the&lt;br /&gt;
member claimed accounts and money under an&lt;br /&gt;
agreement for the performance of his work. This&lt;br /&gt;
matter also the committee agreed to take up.&lt;br /&gt;
Following these cases was one of an infringement&lt;br /&gt;
of an author&amp;#039;s copyright by a paper in San&lt;br /&gt;
Francisco which had printed the work without&lt;br /&gt;
authority. The committee decided to commence&lt;br /&gt;
action for damages, and instructed the secretary to&lt;br /&gt;
place the matter in the hands of a lawyer in that&lt;br /&gt;
city.&lt;br /&gt;
f&ordm; last question was one which the committee&lt;br /&gt;
were asked to take to the Court of Appeal. The&lt;br /&gt;
details of the case had been placed before the&lt;br /&gt;
committee on a former occasion, when the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee, after close investigation of the papers,&lt;br /&gt;
decided not to take the matter up. The case was&lt;br /&gt;
subsequently heard and a verdict given against the&lt;br /&gt;
plaintiff. The committee adjourned the matter to&lt;br /&gt;
the January meeting, when further information&lt;br /&gt;
and further particulars are expected.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#478) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
TRIES A UTFIOIR,&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
The Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Authors met on Tuesday, December 7, at the&lt;br /&gt;
offices of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
The Repertory Agreement was laid before the&lt;br /&gt;
committee once more, and was gone through&lt;br /&gt;
clause by clause. Some slight alterations and&lt;br /&gt;
additions were made and the secretary was&lt;br /&gt;
instructed to incorporate these in the Agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ment and to submit the completed document&lt;br /&gt;
to the sub-committee at their next meeting in&lt;br /&gt;
January. -&lt;br /&gt;
A suggestion relating to the summoning of&lt;br /&gt;
a Conference of Dramatic Authors was, after&lt;br /&gt;
considerable discussion, adjourned till the next&lt;br /&gt;
meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF NOVELS.&lt;br /&gt;
A MEETING of this sub-committee was held on&lt;br /&gt;
Thursday, December 2.&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary reported the receipt of a large&lt;br /&gt;
mass of evidence from the booksellers, and of&lt;br /&gt;
further evidence from novelists in answer to the&lt;br /&gt;
circular letters.&lt;br /&gt;
The sub-committee then considered the interim&lt;br /&gt;
report which had been drafted by the chairman.&lt;br /&gt;
After a few verbal alterations had been made, the&lt;br /&gt;
report was settled, and appears, in its final form, in&lt;br /&gt;
another page of this month&amp;#039;s Author. As stated in&lt;br /&gt;
the report, it has not yet been possible to issue any&lt;br /&gt;
exhaustive survey of the subject. This must, of&lt;br /&gt;
necessity, be deferred till the receipt of the further&lt;br /&gt;
evidence which is expected in February. The sub-&lt;br /&gt;
committee will, at that date, consider all the&lt;br /&gt;
evidence from authors, which will by then have&lt;br /&gt;
been arranged and tabulated, together with the&lt;br /&gt;
evidence from booksellers (which needs most care-&lt;br /&gt;
ful classification), and also the further evidence of&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Cases.&lt;br /&gt;
DURING the past month sixteen cases have been&lt;br /&gt;
placed in the secretary&amp;#039;s hands for settlement.&lt;br /&gt;
The majority of these, as is usual, refer to&lt;br /&gt;
claims for money. There are six under this&lt;br /&gt;
heading. Two have been placed in the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society&amp;#039;s solicitors, as it was impossible to get&lt;br /&gt;
any satisfactory reply. In two the money has been&lt;br /&gt;
paid and forwarded to the members. The remain-&lt;br /&gt;
ing two are, as yet, unsatisfied, but they have only&lt;br /&gt;
recently come into the office. Of three claims for&lt;br /&gt;
accounts, one has been carried through, while the&lt;br /&gt;
other two are still in the course of negotiation.&lt;br /&gt;
The publishers have promised delivery. Of four&lt;br /&gt;
cases for the recovery of MSS., one case has been&lt;br /&gt;
successful ; in the other three no answers have, as&lt;br /&gt;
yet, been received. One case of infringement of&lt;br /&gt;
copyright is still in the course of negotiation. It&lt;br /&gt;
will, most probably, terminate satisfactorily, but&lt;br /&gt;
the infringer adopts an injured attitude. It&lt;br /&gt;
happens not infrequently, when the infringement&lt;br /&gt;
has been committed by a colonial or a provincial&lt;br /&gt;
paper, that the editor feels hurt that the author is&lt;br /&gt;
not delighted at the gratis advertisement which he&lt;br /&gt;
receives. It may be a satisfactory advertisement&lt;br /&gt;
or it may not, but it must lie with the author to&lt;br /&gt;
decide whether or not he is willing to have such&lt;br /&gt;
a gratis advertisement made by the use of&lt;br /&gt;
his property. Editors must not take this for&lt;br /&gt;
granted.&lt;br /&gt;
There have been two disputes as to the proper&lt;br /&gt;
reading of agreements. These cases, like questions&lt;br /&gt;
of infringement of copyright, take some time to&lt;br /&gt;
settle.&lt;br /&gt;
Eight of the cases from former months still&lt;br /&gt;
remain open. Five of these refer to matters abroad&lt;br /&gt;
or in the colonies, and are likely to be open for&lt;br /&gt;
some time to come owing to the delay in obtaining&lt;br /&gt;
answers to letters. Three refer to the return of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. We have mentioned, frequently, in The&lt;br /&gt;
Author, the reason why there is often much&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty in obtaining satisfaction in these&lt;br /&gt;
C8,S&eacute;S.&lt;br /&gt;
December Elections.&lt;br /&gt;
Allinson, Alfred 13, Claremont Ter-&lt;br /&gt;
race, Exmouth.&lt;br /&gt;
4, Melbury Road,&lt;br /&gt;
Kensington, W.&lt;br /&gt;
Broad Meadow, King&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Bagehot, Mrs. Walter&lt;br /&gt;
Bantock, Granville .&lt;br /&gt;
Norton.&lt;br /&gt;
Beal, N. W. Roseneath, Queen&lt;br /&gt;
Street, Hammer-&lt;br /&gt;
Smith, W.&lt;br /&gt;
Burn-Murdoch, W. G. Northfield, Berwick-&lt;br /&gt;
(&ldquo;Levensis&rdquo;) shire ; Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Lodge, Dalkeith&lt;br /&gt;
Road, Edinburgh.&lt;br /&gt;
7, Havelock Road,&lt;br /&gt;
Croydon.&lt;br /&gt;
Alton, Hants.&lt;br /&gt;
170, Kennington Park&lt;br /&gt;
Road, S.E.&lt;br /&gt;
411, Argyle Road,&lt;br /&gt;
Brooklyn, New&lt;br /&gt;
York, U.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
Eagle Heart Incorporated&lt;br /&gt;
O.&lt;br /&gt;
Earland, Miss Ada&lt;br /&gt;
Everett, Miss Ethel F.&lt;br /&gt;
Grisewood, R. Norman&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#479) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
TFIES A CITISIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
101&lt;br /&gt;
Hales, A. G. . e Authors&rsquo; Club, 2,&lt;br /&gt;
Whitehall Court,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Harrison, Frederic, LL.D., Elm Hill, Hawk-&lt;br /&gt;
Litt.D. hurst.&lt;br /&gt;
Brookfield House,&lt;br /&gt;
Shanbrook, Beds.&lt;br /&gt;
Hicks, Miss Frances.&lt;br /&gt;
Ingpen, Roger. e &copy;&lt;br /&gt;
Jessel, Ernest Edward . 8,0ueen&amp;#039;s Gardens, W.&lt;br /&gt;
Law, Ernest . . . The Pavilion, Hamp-&lt;br /&gt;
ton Court Palace.&lt;br /&gt;
90, Broadhurst Gar-&lt;br /&gt;
dens, Hampstead,&lt;br /&gt;
N.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Drishame, Skibbereen,&lt;br /&gt;
Co. Cork.&lt;br /&gt;
Wykeham Cave, High-&lt;br /&gt;
trees, Loughton,&lt;br /&gt;
Essex.&lt;br /&gt;
17, Bryanston Street,&lt;br /&gt;
Portman Square, W.&lt;br /&gt;
9, Lyon Road, Harrow.&lt;br /&gt;
Lazarus, Miss Olga .&lt;br /&gt;
Martin, Miss Violet (Mar-&lt;br /&gt;
tin Ross)&lt;br /&gt;
Newte, Horace&lt;br /&gt;
Palmer, Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Richardson, Harry Handel&lt;br /&gt;
Sherren, Wilkinson . Authors&rsquo; Club, 2,&lt;br /&gt;
Whitehall Court,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Somerville, Miss Edith CE. Drishane House, Skib-&lt;br /&gt;
bereen, Co. Cork,&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland.&lt;br /&gt;
54, Lower Mount&lt;br /&gt;
Street, Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;
27, Cadogan Gardens,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
21, Carlisle Mansions,&lt;br /&gt;
Victoria Street,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
St. Katharine&amp;#039;s, Hook&lt;br /&gt;
Heath, Surrey.&lt;br /&gt;
Stephens, James&lt;br /&gt;
Strachey, Lady&lt;br /&gt;
Sylvan, F.&lt;br /&gt;
Tyrrell, Eleanor .&lt;br /&gt;
Walkey, S. . 30, Kingberry Park,&lt;br /&gt;
- Newton Abbot,&lt;br /&gt;
Devon.&lt;br /&gt;
Wright, W. P. e The Grey House, Lym-&lt;br /&gt;
inge, Folkestone.&lt;br /&gt;
Wyndham, Horace . . Authors&rsquo; Club, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Young, Filson . e . 53, Upper Brook&lt;br /&gt;
Street, Park Lane,&lt;br /&gt;
W.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF&lt;br /&gt;
THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
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WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep&lt;br /&gt;
this list as accurate and as exhaustive as possible, they have&lt;br /&gt;
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office&lt;br /&gt;
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely&lt;br /&gt;
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and&lt;br /&gt;
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will&lt;br /&gt;
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending&lt;br /&gt;
particulars of their works, help to make it sabstantially&lt;br /&gt;
aCCurate. -&lt;br /&gt;
ARCH.EOLOGY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE ARTS AND CRAFTs of ANCIENT Egypt.&lt;br /&gt;
FLINDERS PETRIE, F.R.S. 73 &times; 53.&lt;br /&gt;
58. m.&lt;br /&gt;
STONEHENGE AND OTHER BRITISH STONE MONUMENTs&lt;br /&gt;
By W. M.&lt;br /&gt;
159 pp. Foulis.&lt;br /&gt;
ASTRONOMICALLY CONSIDERED. By SIR NorMAN&lt;br /&gt;
LOCKYER, K.C.B., F.R.S. Second edition. 9} x 6.&lt;br /&gt;
499 pp. Macmillan. 14s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
ART.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SPORT OF CIVIC LIFE, or ART AND THE MUNICI-&lt;br /&gt;
PALITY CARICATUREs of PROMINENT CITIZENs.&lt;br /&gt;
Articles by W. ROTHENSTEIN, F. RUTTER, and others.&lt;br /&gt;
94 &times; 74. 24 pp. Liverpool : Handley, 2d.&lt;br /&gt;
BIOGRAPHY.&lt;br /&gt;
US FOUR. By S. MIACNAUGHTAN. 7; x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
Murray. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DAUPHINES CE FRANCE.&lt;br /&gt;
284 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
By FRANK HAMEL.&lt;br /&gt;
9 &times; 53. 413 pp. Stanley Paul. 16s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
MICHAEL SERVETUs. By W. OSLER, M.D., F.R.S. 9 &times; 6.&lt;br /&gt;
35 pp. Frowde. 1s. r.&lt;br /&gt;
DR. JOHNSON AND MIRs. THRALE. Including Mrs. Thrale&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
unpublished journal of the Welsh Tour made in 1774, and&lt;br /&gt;
much hitherto unpublished Correspondence of the&lt;br /&gt;
Streatham Coterie, by A. M. BROADLEY. With an&lt;br /&gt;
Introductory Essay (74 pp.), by T. SECCOMBE. 9 &times; 53.&lt;br /&gt;
338 pp. Lane. 16s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DOLL&amp;#039;s DIARY. By Rose HAIG THOMAs.&lt;br /&gt;
trated by JOHN HASSALL. 10 &times; 7%. 100 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Richards. 5s. m.&lt;br /&gt;
DAME THIN-PIN AND OTHER STORIES. By HELEN MAR-&lt;br /&gt;
GARET DIXON. Illustrated by RATE MARION RATHBONE.&lt;br /&gt;
8+ x 6%. 214 pp. Birmingham : Cormish Bros., Ltd.&lt;br /&gt;
THE CHILDREN&rsquo;s Hou R. Nine volumes, forming a com-&lt;br /&gt;
plete Children&amp;#039;s Library. With an Introduction. By&lt;br /&gt;
HALL CAINE. 83 &times; 5%. Cloth, &pound;2 2s. 6d. m. ; leather,&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;3. 3s. 6d. m.&lt;br /&gt;
Illus-&lt;br /&gt;
Grant&lt;br /&gt;
HARDING&amp;#039;s LUCK. By E. NESBIT. 8 &times; 5}. 281 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Vol. 22.&lt;br /&gt;
Supplement. Edited by SIDNEY LEE. 9% x 63.&lt;br /&gt;
1 5S. n.&lt;br /&gt;
1,400 pp, Smith, Elder.&lt;br /&gt;
By E. T. Coor.&lt;br /&gt;
ROSE GROWING MADE EASY.&lt;br /&gt;
204 pp. Newnes. 18, m.&lt;br /&gt;
CLASSICAL.&lt;br /&gt;
EURIPIDIS FABUL.E RECOGNOVIT BREVIQUE ADNOTA-&lt;br /&gt;
TIONE CRITICA INSTRUXIT GILBERTUS MURRAY.&lt;br /&gt;
TOMUs III. 7} x 43. (Oxford Classical Texts.)&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford : Clarendom Press. London : Frowde. 3s. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
EDUCATION.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MASTERY OF DESTINY. By JAMES ALLEN. 43 &times; 6.&lt;br /&gt;
120 pp. &ldquo;The Light of Reason,&rdquo; Ilfracombe.&lt;br /&gt;
BRITISH PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR GIRLS. By A.&lt;br /&gt;
ALEXANDER, F.R.G.S., and MRS. ALEXANDER. 83 &times;&lt;br /&gt;
5%. 230 pp. McDougall&amp;#039;s Educational Company.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE A DITISIOR,&lt;br /&gt;
AN AFTERNOON TEA PHILOSOPHY. By W. R.TITTERTON.&lt;br /&gt;
6% x 4%. 95 pp. F. Palmer. 1s. 6d. m.&lt;br /&gt;
THE G.B.S. CALENDAR : A QUOTATION FROM THE Works&lt;br /&gt;
OF GEORGE BERNARD SHAW For EVERY DAY IN THE&lt;br /&gt;
YEAR. Selected by MARION NIxoN. Second edition.&lt;br /&gt;
6# X 4%. 91 pp. Palmer. 18. n.&lt;br /&gt;
MISC ELLANEOUS.&lt;br /&gt;
FARTHEST FROM THE TRUTH; A Series of Dashes. By&lt;br /&gt;
the authors of &ldquo;Wisdom While you Wait,&rdquo; and GEORGE&lt;br /&gt;
MORROW. 73 &times; 4%. 91 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman. Is... n.&lt;br /&gt;
BRITANNIA&amp;#039;s CALENDAR OF HEROES. Compiled by&lt;br /&gt;
KATE, STANWAY. With an Introduction by the Rev.&lt;br /&gt;
the Hon. E. LYTTELTON, B.D. 73 &times; 5. 412 p}}.&lt;br /&gt;
Allen. 5s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE ONE LIFE. A FREE AND OCCASIONAL PAPER. By&lt;br /&gt;
JOHN TREVOR. Horsted Keynes, Sussex.&lt;br /&gt;
THE KILLARTAN HISTORY BOOK. By LADY GREGORY.&lt;br /&gt;
Illustrated by R. GREGORY, 7} x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
ls. 6d. p.&lt;br /&gt;
THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. Vol. for 1909. 12 &times; 9.&lt;br /&gt;
864 pp. Rice, 7s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
FICTION.&lt;br /&gt;
WHAT LAY BENEATH. By &ldquo;COO-EE.&rdquo; (WILLIAM SYLVES-&lt;br /&gt;
TER WALKER). 301 pp. Ouseley. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
THE EDUCATION OF UNCLE PAUL. By ALGERNON BLACK-&lt;br /&gt;
WOOD. 8 &times; 5}. 348 pp. Macmillan. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
ORDINARY PEOPLE. By UNA L. SILBERRAD.&lt;br /&gt;
420 pp. Constable. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
THE KING&amp;#039;s MIGNON. By J. BLOUNDELLE BURTON.&lt;br /&gt;
8 &times; 5. 316 pp. Everett. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
PRINCE MADOG, DISCOVERER OF AMERICA : A Legendary&lt;br /&gt;
7; x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
Story. By JOAN DANE. Illustrated by A. S. BOYD.&lt;br /&gt;
8% &times; 5. 222 pp. Stock. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DISC. By J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND. 73 &times; 5.&lt;br /&gt;
Greening, 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
DON Q&amp;#039;s LOVE STORY. By K. and HESKETH PRICHARD.&lt;br /&gt;
73 x 5. 312 pp. Greening. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN SWORD.&lt;br /&gt;
BARRINGTON. Chatto &amp;amp; Windus. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
318 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
By MICHAEL&lt;br /&gt;
THE ANNE QUEEN&amp;#039;S CHRONICLE. By REGINALD FARRER.&lt;br /&gt;
7} x 43. 363 pp. Alston Rivers. 63.&lt;br /&gt;
THEODORA&amp;#039;s HUSBAND. By Lou ISE MACK.&lt;br /&gt;
329 pp. Alston Rivers. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
HARUM SCARUM&amp;#039;S FORTUNE.&lt;br /&gt;
5. 312 pp. Jarrold. 3s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
MIGNON&amp;#039;S PERIL. By JEAN MIDDLEMASS.&lt;br /&gt;
304 pp. Digby, Long, 68.&lt;br /&gt;
&ordm;&lt;br /&gt;
7% &times; 5.&lt;br /&gt;
By ESME STUART. 73 &times;&lt;br /&gt;
7% &times; 5.&lt;br /&gt;
GARDENING.&lt;br /&gt;
MoSTHLY GLEANINGS IN A SCOTTISH GARDEN. By&lt;br /&gt;
L. H. Soutar. 5. 192 pp. Unwin. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
7% &times; 5.&lt;br /&gt;
EHISTORY.&lt;br /&gt;
A HISTORY OF SARAWAK UNDER ITS Two WHITE&lt;br /&gt;
RAJAHS, 1839&ndash;1908. By S. BARING-GOULD and C. A.&lt;br /&gt;
BAMPFYLDE, F.R.G.S., late President of Sarawak.&lt;br /&gt;
9 &times; 5%, 464 pp. Sotheran. 153. m.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MAKING OF IRELAND AND ITS UNDOING, 1200&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
1600. By ALICE STOPFORD GREEN. 9 &times; 53. 573 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan. 10s, m.&lt;br /&gt;
JUVENILE.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LIMBERSNIGS : THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE&lt;br /&gt;
KEBOLE THE TALL. By FLORA and LANCELOT SPEED.&lt;br /&gt;
London : Lawrence &amp;amp; Jellicoe, Ltd. 3s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
CINDERELLA. By E. NESBIT. 64 &times; 4}. 38 pp. Sidg-&lt;br /&gt;
wick &amp;amp; Jackson. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
A GIRL OF THE FOURTH The Story of an Unpopular&lt;br /&gt;
Schoolgirl. By A. M. IRVINE. 73 &times; 53. 332 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Partridge. 2s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
BRAVE SONS OF THE EMPIRE. By H. C. MooRE.&lt;br /&gt;
8 &times; 5%. 251 pp. R. T. S. 28. -&lt;br /&gt;
A LITTLE FLEET. By JACK B. YEATs. 7 &times; 4}. Elkin&lt;br /&gt;
Mathews. I s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
FOR THE SAKE OF KITTY. By CHRISTINA GowANS&lt;br /&gt;
WHYT.E. 7# x 5}. 348 pp, Collins. 3s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
I,ITERARY.&lt;br /&gt;
QUESTIONINGS ON CRITICISM AND BEAUTY. By the&lt;br /&gt;
Right Honourable A. J. BALFOUR. Delivered in the&lt;br /&gt;
Sheldonian Theatre, November 24th, 1909. (The&lt;br /&gt;
Romances Lecture, 1909.) Oxford : Clarendon Press.&lt;br /&gt;
London : Frowde. 2s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
BETWEEN COLLEGE TERMS.&lt;br /&gt;
NARD. 8 &times; 53. 271 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
By CONSTANCE L. MAY-&lt;br /&gt;
Nisbet. 5s. In.&lt;br /&gt;
52 pp. Maunsell.&lt;br /&gt;
MUSIC.&lt;br /&gt;
THE GATHERING SONG OF BLACK DONALD. From the&lt;br /&gt;
Poem by Sir Walter Scott. Composed by JAMES&lt;br /&gt;
M. GALLATLY. Keith Prowse &amp;amp; Co., Ltd. 23. m.&lt;br /&gt;
THE RHYTHM OF MODERN MUSIC. By C. F. ABDy&lt;br /&gt;
WILLIAMS. 8 &times; 5%. 321 pp. Macmillan. 5s.&lt;br /&gt;
NATURAL HISTORY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE BOOK OF FLOWERS. By KATHERINE TYNAN AND&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCES MAITLAND. 8 &times; 5}, 319 pp. Smith, Elder&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Co. 68. n. .&lt;br /&gt;
PAMPHILETS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE UNIVERSITY AND THE STUDY OF WAR. An Inaugural&lt;br /&gt;
Lecture delivered before the University of Oxford,&lt;br /&gt;
November 27, 1909. By SPENCER WILKINSON, Chichele&lt;br /&gt;
Professor of Military History. Oxford : Clarendon Press.&lt;br /&gt;
London : Frowde. 1s. m.&lt;br /&gt;
WoRKING Wom EN AND THE POOR LAw. By B. L.&lt;br /&gt;
HUTCEIINSON. Women&amp;#039;s Industrial Council. Id.&lt;br /&gt;
POETRY.&lt;br /&gt;
A SONG OF THE ENGLISH. By RUDYARD RIPLING.&lt;br /&gt;
Illustrated by W. HEATH ROBINSON, 113 x 9. Hodder&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Stoughton. 158, n.&lt;br /&gt;
HARVESTING. By H. M. WAITHMAN, 7 x 4%. 134 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Kegan Paul. 3s. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
TIME&amp;#039;s LAUGHINGSTOCKS, AND OTHER VERSEs. By&lt;br /&gt;
THOMAS HARDY. 73 &times; 5. 206 pp. Macmillan. 4s. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGLAND, AND OTHER POEMs. By LAURENCE BINYon.&lt;br /&gt;
73 &times; 5. 88 pp. Flkin Mathews. 3s. 6d. m.&lt;br /&gt;
THE BORDER BREED. GEORGICS AND PASTORALS AND&lt;br /&gt;
OTHER POEMS. By SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS, BART.&lt;br /&gt;
8 &times; 53. 448 pp. The St. Catherine Press. 3s. 6d. in.&lt;br /&gt;
POLITICAL.&lt;br /&gt;
THE HINDRANCES To Good CITIZENSHIP. By JAMES&lt;br /&gt;
(Yale Lectures on the&lt;br /&gt;
New Haven : Yale&lt;br /&gt;
68. n.&lt;br /&gt;
BRYCE. 73 &times; 5}. 138 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Responsibilities of Citizenship.)&lt;br /&gt;
University Press. London : Frowde.&lt;br /&gt;
PSYCHICA.L.&lt;br /&gt;
HERE AND HEREAFTER (APRES LA MORT). BY L&Eacute;ON&lt;br /&gt;
DENIS. Translated by GEORGE G. FLEUROT. W. Rider&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Son, 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
REPRINTS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE POCKET CARLYLE. Edited by ROSE GARDNER.&lt;br /&gt;
7 x 44, 264 pp. Routledge. 38. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
BosweLL&amp;#039;s JoHNSON. Edited by ROGER INGPEN. Bicen-&lt;br /&gt;
tenary Extra-Illustrated Edition. Parts 10, 11, &amp;amp; 12.&lt;br /&gt;
10 &times; 7, 657&ndash;832. Sir Isaac Pitman. 6d. In each.&lt;br /&gt;
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TISIES A UITPSIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
103&lt;br /&gt;
SCIENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES DARWIN AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES. By&lt;br /&gt;
E. B. POULTON, D.Sc. 94 &times; 6. 362 pp. Longmans.&lt;br /&gt;
7s. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
ALL THE WORLD&amp;#039;s AIRSHIPs, AEROPLANES, AND&lt;br /&gt;
DIRIGIBLES. Founded and edited by FRED T. JANE,&lt;br /&gt;
with a special chapter on &ldquo;Aerial Engineering.&rdquo; By&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES DE GRAVE SELLs, M. Inst. C.E. 73 &times; 12%.&lt;br /&gt;
374 pp. Sampson Low. 21s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
SOCIOLOGY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE GREAT IDEA : Notes by an Eye-witness on some of&lt;br /&gt;
the Social Work of the Salvation Army. By ARNOLD&lt;br /&gt;
WHITE. 73 &times; 53. 161 pp. Salvation Army, 101,&lt;br /&gt;
Queen Victoria Street, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
SPORT.&lt;br /&gt;
LIGHT COME, LIGHT Go. By RALPEI NEVILL. 9 &times; 53.&lt;br /&gt;
448 pp. Macmillan. 15s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THIEOLOGY.&lt;br /&gt;
PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION. Six Lectures delivered at&lt;br /&gt;
Cambridge. By HASTINGS RASHDALL. 7% x 5. 189 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Duckworth. 2s. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN SPEECH. By the late&lt;br /&gt;
R. F. WEYMOUTH. Edited and Partly Revised by&lt;br /&gt;
E. HAMPDEN-COOK. Third Edition (Re-set and Revised).&lt;br /&gt;
7; x 4%. 734 pp. J. Clarke. 2s. 6d. m.&lt;br /&gt;
TOPOGRAPHY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE HEART OF ENGLAND. By E. THOMAS. 7 &times; 5.&lt;br /&gt;
244 pp. Dent. 3s. 6d. In.&lt;br /&gt;
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ANTHOLOGIES.&lt;br /&gt;
SOME FRIENDS OF MINE : A R ALLY OF MEN, By E. V.&lt;br /&gt;
LUCAs. 362 pp. New York : Macmillan &amp;amp; Co. $1.25 n.&lt;br /&gt;
ART.&lt;br /&gt;
CoNSTABLE. Illustrated with 8 reproductions in colour.&lt;br /&gt;
By C. LEWIS HIND. 80 pp. New York : Frederick A.&lt;br /&gt;
Stokes Co. Boards, 650. m. ; leather, $1.50 m.&lt;br /&gt;
BIOGRAPHY.&lt;br /&gt;
MR. POPE : HIS LIFE AND TIMES.&lt;br /&gt;
illustrations. By GEORGE PASTON.&lt;br /&gt;
New York: Putnam. $6.50 m.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG,&lt;br /&gt;
THE ARABIAN NIGHTS: Their best-known Tales. By&lt;br /&gt;
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN AND NORA. A. SMITH. Illus-&lt;br /&gt;
trated in colour. By MAXFIELD PATRISH. 339 pp. New&lt;br /&gt;
York : Scribner. $2.50.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAM.A.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MASQUERADERs : A Play in Four Acts. By HENRY&lt;br /&gt;
ARTHUR JONES. 135 pp. New York : Samuel French.&lt;br /&gt;
50c.&lt;br /&gt;
FICTION.&lt;br /&gt;
DAPHNE IN FITzRoy STREET. By E. NESBIT.&lt;br /&gt;
New York : Doubleday, Page &amp;amp; Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
With twenty-six&lt;br /&gt;
364 + 382 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
417 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER. B y FRANCES HODG-&lt;br /&gt;
son BURNETT. 67 pp. New York : Moffat, Yard &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
( )6. Il.&lt;br /&gt;
ABAFT THE FUNNEL. By RUDYARD KIPLING.&lt;br /&gt;
New York : B. W. Dodge &amp;amp; Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
ACTIONS AND REACTIONs. By RUDYARD KIPLING.&lt;br /&gt;
324 pp. New York: Doubleday, Page &amp;amp; Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
ANND WERQNICA. By H. G. WELLs. 377 pp. New York :&lt;br /&gt;
360 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Harper Bros. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
EMILY Fox-SETON : Being &ldquo;THE MAKING or A&lt;br /&gt;
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WALDERHURST.&rdquo; By FRANCEs Hodgson BURNETT.&lt;br /&gt;
New York: Frederick A. Stokes. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONs: A Story in Scenes. By&lt;br /&gt;
ANSTEY GUTHRIE and BERNARD PARTRIDGE. 194 199-&lt;br /&gt;
New York : Dutton. $I. n.&lt;br /&gt;
TRIAL BY MARRIAGE. By WILFRED SCARBOROUGH&lt;br /&gt;
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$1.50. -&lt;br /&gt;
TESTIMONY. By ALICE AND CLAUDE AsKEw. 320 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
New York : John Lane Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
THE NECROMANCERs. By R. H. BENSON.&lt;br /&gt;
37.4 pp. St.&lt;br /&gt;
Louis : B. Herder. $1.50. p}&lt;br /&gt;
CANDLES IN THE WIND. By MAUD DIVER, 392 DD.&lt;br /&gt;
New York : John Lane Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
SAILOR&amp;#039;S KNOTs. By W. W. JACOBs. 283 pp. New&lt;br /&gt;
York : Scribner. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
SPARROWS : The Story of an Unprotected Girl. By&lt;br /&gt;
HORACE W. C. NEWTE. 533 pp. New York : Mitcheil&lt;br /&gt;
Kennerley. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
THE BLINDNESS OF DR. GREY.&lt;br /&gt;
CANON SHEEHAN, D.D., 488 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
mans, Green, &amp;amp; Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
THE FLORENTINE FRAME. By ELIZABETH Robins.&lt;br /&gt;
334 pp. New York: Moffat Yard &amp;amp; Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
GARDENING.&lt;br /&gt;
IN A YORKSHIRE GARDEN. By REGINALD FARRER.&lt;br /&gt;
: 316 pp. New York : Longmans, Green &amp;amp; Co. $3.50.&lt;br /&gt;
JUVENILE.&lt;br /&gt;
TALES OF WONDER. A fourth fairy book. Edited by&lt;br /&gt;
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN and NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH.&lt;br /&gt;
By THE REV. P. A.&lt;br /&gt;
New York : Long-&lt;br /&gt;
440 pp. New York : Doubleday, Page &amp;amp; Co. $1.50.&lt;br /&gt;
POLITICAL.&lt;br /&gt;
TURKEY IN TRANSITION. By G. F. ABBOTT. 370 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
New York : Longmans, Green &amp;amp; Co. $4.25 n.&lt;br /&gt;
TRAVEL.&lt;br /&gt;
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA. By MAUDE HOLBACH.&lt;br /&gt;
Forty-one illustrations from photographs by O. HoDBACH.&lt;br /&gt;
249 pp. New York : John Lane Co. $1.50 m.&lt;br /&gt;
THE HEART OF THE ANTARCTIC : Being the Story of the&lt;br /&gt;
British Antarctic Exhibition, 1907&ndash;1909. With an intro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction by H. R. M.ILL. An account of the first journey&lt;br /&gt;
to the South Magnetic Pole. In two vols. 366 +&lt;br /&gt;
451 pp. Philadelphia : Lippincott. $10 m.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ldquo;Q-6&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
OBERT AITKEN&amp;#039;S new novel, &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Ilantern of Luck,&rdquo; which has recently been&lt;br /&gt;
published in the United States and also in&lt;br /&gt;
Canada, will be issued on this side early in 1910 by&lt;br /&gt;
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TISIES A UſTSIOR,&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. John Murray. Messrs. Greening &amp;amp; Co. have&lt;br /&gt;
on their list a cheap edition of &ldquo;The Golden&lt;br /&gt;
Horseshoe &amp;#039;&amp;#039; by the same author. .&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Cassell &amp;amp; Co. have just issued a fresh&lt;br /&gt;
and revised edition of &ldquo;Popular Fallacies Explained&lt;br /&gt;
and Corrected,&rdquo; by A. S. E. Ackermann. The work&lt;br /&gt;
covers a very wide field of fallaciousness&mdash;domestic,&lt;br /&gt;
legal, historical, technical&mdash;and treats also of various&lt;br /&gt;
fallacies connected with ourselves in addition to the&lt;br /&gt;
members of the animal kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Mastery of Destiny&rdquo; is the title of a new&lt;br /&gt;
volume by Mr. James Allen which has just&lt;br /&gt;
appeared. The volume deals with the subject of&lt;br /&gt;
re-birth, and touches upon Social questions and on&lt;br /&gt;
the training of the will and mind. Among the&lt;br /&gt;
subjects dealt with are The Science of Self-Control ;&lt;br /&gt;
Cause and Effect in Human Conduct ; Cultivation&lt;br /&gt;
of Concentration ; Practice of Meditation ; and&lt;br /&gt;
The Joy of Accomplishment. G. P. Putnam&amp;#039;s Sons&lt;br /&gt;
are the publishers in America.&lt;br /&gt;
The pen sketch in Mary C. Rowsell&amp;#039;s novel of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Friend of the People&rdquo; has come under the&lt;br /&gt;
notice of M. Buffenoir, Member of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des&lt;br /&gt;
Gens de Lettres. Miss Rowsell is by his wish&lt;br /&gt;
translating the articles for the purpose of publica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion in England. They are illustrated by numerous&lt;br /&gt;
portraits of Robespierre, of which some bear special&lt;br /&gt;
interest. Among these is the picture portrait of&lt;br /&gt;
him in his room in the house of Duplay, in the&lt;br /&gt;
Rue St. Honor&eacute;, and another is the cast of his head&lt;br /&gt;
taken after the death by Madame Tussaud. Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
John Tussaud has presented to the author of &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Friend of the People&rdquo; two copyright photographs&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;profile and full face&mdash;of this memorial, and it&lt;br /&gt;
will be added to the portraits which Mr. Buffenoir&lt;br /&gt;
has with infinite pains and research collected.&lt;br /&gt;
The matter in the December issue of Travel&lt;br /&gt;
and Erploration is provided almost exclusively by&lt;br /&gt;
members of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Bullock Workman tells of her ascent of the&lt;br /&gt;
Nun Kun range of mountains in the Himalayas.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. J. Scott Keltie deals with notable fictitious&lt;br /&gt;
narratives in travel and exploration, of which,&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps, Baron Munchausen&amp;#039;s adventures are a&lt;br /&gt;
typical example.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Traveller in Travel &rdquo; is the title of an&lt;br /&gt;
article in the same journal by Mr. A. R. Hope&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, who describes some of his experiences&lt;br /&gt;
gleaned from his professional travels as a guide-&lt;br /&gt;
book editor.&lt;br /&gt;
A review by Mr. E. A. Reynolds Ball of Sir&lt;br /&gt;
|Ernest Shackleton&rsquo;s &ldquo;Record of his Antarctic&lt;br /&gt;
Expedition &rdquo; is another item in this monthly.&lt;br /&gt;
We regret that in our last issue we announced a&lt;br /&gt;
book on &ldquo;Fossil Botany &rdquo; as by Miss M. C. Stokes,&lt;br /&gt;
whereas the correct spelling of the author&amp;#039;s name&lt;br /&gt;
is Stopes. We tender our apologies to Miss Stopes&lt;br /&gt;
for the error.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Cornish Bros., of Birmingham, have&lt;br /&gt;
favoured us with a sumptuous volume of stories&lt;br /&gt;
for children by Miss H. Margaret Dixon. &ldquo;Dame&lt;br /&gt;
Thin-Pin and Other Stories&rdquo; is the title given to&lt;br /&gt;
the collection. There are ten stories in all, and&lt;br /&gt;
twelve accompanying illustrations by Kate Marion&lt;br /&gt;
Rathborne and other artists.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Andrew Melrose&amp;#039;s new Two-hundred-and-fifty&lt;br /&gt;
Guinea Prize Novel Competition, which closed on the&lt;br /&gt;
30th ult., has brought in 162 MSS., seven more than&lt;br /&gt;
last year&amp;#039;s competition produced. The adjudicators&lt;br /&gt;
in the present competition are Mrs. Flora Annie&lt;br /&gt;
Steel, Miss Mary Cholmondeley and Mrs. Henry&lt;br /&gt;
De La Pasture, and Mr. Melrose&amp;#039;s staff is at&lt;br /&gt;
present busy making the selection of novels which&lt;br /&gt;
will be submitted to them. As this competition is&lt;br /&gt;
not for a first novel it has brought a number of&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. from manifestly practised writers, and the&lt;br /&gt;
task of classification is proportionately difficult, but&lt;br /&gt;
it is hoped to put the selected list in the adjudi-&lt;br /&gt;
cators&amp;#039; hands before the end of the month, and&lt;br /&gt;
that a declaration of the result may be made some&lt;br /&gt;
time in January.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Light Come, Light Go&rdquo; is a new work&lt;br /&gt;
announced for early publication by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan &amp;amp; Co. Mr. Ralph Nevill, the author,&lt;br /&gt;
has gathered together in the volume a collection of&lt;br /&gt;
anecdotes concerning gaming, gamesters, wagers&lt;br /&gt;
and the turf. In addition to this, much informa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion is given about the public gaming tables, which&lt;br /&gt;
were once such a conspicuous feature of the Palais&lt;br /&gt;
Royal in Paris, and afterwards of Baden-Baden,&lt;br /&gt;
Homburg, Ems, and other German spas. An&lt;br /&gt;
entire chapter of the book is devoted to Monte&lt;br /&gt;
Carlo, and a number of the various popular systems&lt;br /&gt;
and methods of play are analysed and described.&lt;br /&gt;
Printers&amp;#039; Ink, a weekly journal for advertisers,&lt;br /&gt;
has published, from the pen of Mr. Edward&lt;br /&gt;
Urwick, a series of Sonnets to the poster artists.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Patrick Kelly&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Senator Licinius,&rdquo; a romance of ancient Rome in&lt;br /&gt;
the days of Caligula, has just been published by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Routledge. It forms the third of the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s series of historical romances, of which the&lt;br /&gt;
first two &mdash; &ldquo;The Stonecutter of Memphis.&rdquo; and&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Assyrian Bride&amp;quot;&mdash;are already published.&lt;br /&gt;
The fourth book of the series, &ldquo;A Romance of&lt;br /&gt;
Athens in the Age of Pericles,&rdquo; will probably appear&lt;br /&gt;
early next year.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry Frowde and Messrs. Hodder and&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton have forwarded us the following&lt;br /&gt;
Christmas books for children :-&lsquo;&lsquo;Books of British&lt;br /&gt;
Ships,&rdquo; 5s. ; &ldquo;Young Franctireurs,&rdquo; 3s 6d. ;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Farm Babies,&rdquo; 5s. ; &ldquo;Stories from Grimm,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
2s. 6d. ; &ldquo;Robinson Crusoe,&rdquo; 7s. 6d. net ; &ldquo;Loco-&lt;br /&gt;
motives of the World,&rdquo; 5s. net ; &ldquo;Ballads of Famous&lt;br /&gt;
Fights,&rdquo; 3s. 6d. net ; &ldquo;Lamb&amp;#039;s Tales from Shake-&lt;br /&gt;
speare,&rdquo; 6d. net ; &ldquo; Robinson Crusoe,&rdquo; 6d. net ;&lt;br /&gt;
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TISIE AUTISIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
105&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Mungo Park,&rdquo; 6d. net ; &ldquo;Hans Andersen,&rdquo; 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
net; &ldquo;White Kitten Book,&rdquo; 2s. 6d. net; &ldquo;Children&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespeare,&rdquo; 2s. 6d. net ; &ldquo;Children&amp;#039;s Dickens,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
2s. 6d. net; &ldquo;Madam Mouse,&rdquo; 1s. net ; &ldquo;Squirrel&lt;br /&gt;
Hall,&rdquo; 1s. met. ; &ldquo;Bunnikin Brown,&rdquo; 1s. net. Per-&lt;br /&gt;
haps itishardly correct to say that they are exclusively&lt;br /&gt;
for children, as the illustrations are so beautiful and&lt;br /&gt;
the get-up is so good that they would be likely to&lt;br /&gt;
amuse and interest the older folk at this season of&lt;br /&gt;
the year. The 6d. editions with their beautiful&lt;br /&gt;
end-plates and their coloured frontispieces are&lt;br /&gt;
wonderful at the price. The illustrated 18. books&lt;br /&gt;
are exceedingly well got up, and the illustrations&lt;br /&gt;
to two of them, by Mr. Cecil Aldin, are particularly&lt;br /&gt;
clever. There is no need to recommend this artist&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
work. As presents these books ought to be exceed-&lt;br /&gt;
ingly welcome, and their price is within the range&lt;br /&gt;
of almost every Christmas giver.&lt;br /&gt;
The large number of illustrated books issued at&lt;br /&gt;
this period of the year emphasises the importance&lt;br /&gt;
of the article on colour illustration which was&lt;br /&gt;
published in last month&amp;#039;s Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Chapman &amp;amp; Hall have published &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
History of St. Paul&amp;#039;s School,&rdquo; by Michael F. J.&lt;br /&gt;
McDonnell. In this work, which contains forty-&lt;br /&gt;
eight portraits and other illustrations, the author&lt;br /&gt;
has received every assistance from the school&lt;br /&gt;
authorities, and has secured access to various&lt;br /&gt;
private MS. collections which throw light on the&lt;br /&gt;
story of Dean Colet&amp;#039;s foundation. The history,&lt;br /&gt;
beginning with a consideration of the question of&lt;br /&gt;
the continuity of the school with the ancient&lt;br /&gt;
Cathedral Grammar School of St. Paul&amp;#039;s, is carried&lt;br /&gt;
down to modern times, so as to include an account&lt;br /&gt;
of the revival of the fortunes of St. Paul&rsquo;s under&lt;br /&gt;
the late head master, Mr. Walker.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Here and Hereafter &rsquo;&rsquo; is the title which Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
George G. Fleurot has given to his translation of&lt;br /&gt;
L&eacute;on Denis&rsquo; &ldquo; Apr&egrave;s la Mort,&rdquo; of which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
William Rider &amp;amp; Son, 164, Aldersgate Street,&lt;br /&gt;
E.C., are the English, and Messrs. Brentano, of&lt;br /&gt;
New York, the American publishers. The first&lt;br /&gt;
edition having been exhausted, a second edition is&lt;br /&gt;
in the press.&lt;br /&gt;
We have received from Messrs. A. &amp;amp; C. Black&lt;br /&gt;
copies of the year books issued from their house,&lt;br /&gt;
viz., &ldquo;Who&amp;#039;s Who,&rdquo; &ldquo;&lsquo;Who&amp;#039;s Who? Year Book,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Year Book,&rdquo; and &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Writers&amp;#039; and Artists&amp;#039; Year Book.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Who&rsquo;s Who&rsquo;&rsquo; for 1910 Contains&lt;br /&gt;
biographies.&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo; . Who&amp;#039;s Who&amp;#039; Year Book&rdquo; comprises the&lt;br /&gt;
tables which were formerly a part of the larger&lt;br /&gt;
volume. It includes lists of ambassadors,&lt;br /&gt;
academies, clubs, societies, as well as many others&lt;br /&gt;
which professional men and women will be glad to&lt;br /&gt;
consult from time to time during the coming year.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Year Book,&rdquo; which is&lt;br /&gt;
23,000&lt;br /&gt;
now in its thirtieth year, is a compendium of&lt;br /&gt;
information for women, in whatever department of&lt;br /&gt;
life they may be engaged. Education, sport,&lt;br /&gt;
literature, professions, industrial, and philan-&lt;br /&gt;
thropic work are a few of the more prominent&lt;br /&gt;
questions of which it treats.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. James Clarke &amp;amp; Co. have issued a third&lt;br /&gt;
edition of the late R. F. Weymouth&rsquo;s &ldquo;New Testa-&lt;br /&gt;
ment in Modern Speech.&rdquo; This work, under the&lt;br /&gt;
editorship of Mr. E. Hampden-Cook, has been re-set&lt;br /&gt;
in new type, and, in order to add to the interest of&lt;br /&gt;
the translation, all conversations have been spaced&lt;br /&gt;
out in accordance with modern custom. Many&lt;br /&gt;
errata have been corrected, and a very considerable&lt;br /&gt;
number of what seemed to be infelicities or slight&lt;br /&gt;
inaccuracies in the English have been removed.&lt;br /&gt;
We offer our apologies to Mr. C. E. Gouldsbury&lt;br /&gt;
for an error in our notice of his book in the last&lt;br /&gt;
issue of The Author, which we entitled &ldquo;Duall&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
instead of &ldquo;Dulall, the Forest Guard.&rdquo; The book&lt;br /&gt;
contains a brief account of the proceedings of two&lt;br /&gt;
young Englishmen in their pursuit of tiger, rhino-&lt;br /&gt;
ceros, elephant, bear, etc., in the Bengal jungles.&lt;br /&gt;
The chief character is Dulall Sing, a forest guard,&lt;br /&gt;
a subordinate in the Forest Department, truthful,&lt;br /&gt;
brave, faithful to his employers, running into&lt;br /&gt;
danger himself, while careful of his charges.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Gibbings are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Life and Letters of James Wolfe,&rdquo; by&lt;br /&gt;
Beckles Willson, which Mr. William Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;
publishes, is the outcome of much new material,&lt;br /&gt;
including many hitherto unpublished letters&lt;br /&gt;
placed at the author&amp;#039;s disposal. To as great an&lt;br /&gt;
extent as possible Mr. Beckles Willson has allowed&lt;br /&gt;
the letters to tell the story.&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty the Queen has had much pleasure&lt;br /&gt;
in accepting a copy of Emily Shore&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo;Iland-&lt;br /&gt;
Babies and Sea-Babies.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The current number of the Journal of the&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Asiatic Society contains an instalment of&lt;br /&gt;
the revised translation of the B&aacute;bar-Nāma, on&lt;br /&gt;
which Mrs. Beveridge is now working. The&lt;br /&gt;
portion published is the description of Fārghana,&lt;br /&gt;
so much discussed by writers on Central Asia.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMA.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Richard Pryce&amp;#039;s dramatic adaptations of&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Mann&amp;#039;s stories, &ldquo;Freddy&amp;#039;s Ship&rdquo; and &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Eglamore Portraits,&rdquo; were staged at the Playhouse&lt;br /&gt;
on December 1st.&lt;br /&gt;
The first, which was produced under the title of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Visit,&rdquo; deals with the humanising of a&lt;br /&gt;
selfish woman as a result of her fulfilment of a&lt;br /&gt;
disagreeable duty.&lt;br /&gt;
The longer piece, produced under the title of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Little Mrs. Cummim,&rdquo; treats of a battle between&lt;br /&gt;
a newly-made benedict and an interfering mother-&lt;br /&gt;
in-law.&lt;br /&gt;
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TISIES A DITISIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
This latter piece was interpreted by a cast&lt;br /&gt;
which included Miss Lottie Wenne, Mr. Kenneth&lt;br /&gt;
Douglas, and Miss Marie Lohr.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The King&amp;#039;s Cup,&rdquo; by H. Dennis Braaley and&lt;br /&gt;
E. Phillips Oppenheim was produced at a special&lt;br /&gt;
maſſin&eacute;e at the Adelphi Theatre on December 13th,&lt;br /&gt;
1909. The cast includes Mr. Nye Chart, Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Nora Sevening and Mr. Paul Arthur.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir William Gilbert&amp;#039;s new opera, &ldquo;Fallen Fairies;&lt;br /&gt;
or, The Wicked World,&rdquo; was produced at the&lt;br /&gt;
Savoy Theatre early in December last. The music&lt;br /&gt;
is by Edward German, and the cast includes Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
C. H. Workman, Miss Nancy McIntosh and Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Jessie Rose.&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;CN OUVENIRS autour d&amp;#039;un groupe litt&eacute;raire,&rdquo; by&lt;br /&gt;
Madame Alphonse Daudet, is a book of the&lt;br /&gt;
greatest interest to all lovers of French litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture. The widow of the great novelist is herself a&lt;br /&gt;
gifted poetess, and her memoirs gain much by this&lt;br /&gt;
fact. During the lifetime of her husband her&lt;br /&gt;
salon was a rendezvous for the writers of the day.&lt;br /&gt;
Madame Daudet&amp;#039;s parents were poets, so that she&lt;br /&gt;
had from her earliest years the greatest respect for&lt;br /&gt;
literary work. Her mother and father published a&lt;br /&gt;
volume of poetry entitled &ldquo;Les Marges de la Vie,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and Madame Daudet gives us a letter from Madame&lt;br /&gt;
Desbordes Valmore, who had just read it in manu-&lt;br /&gt;
script. She then tells us of her acquaintance with&lt;br /&gt;
Mistral, Paul Ar&egrave;ne and Francisque Sarcey. She&lt;br /&gt;
gives us a portrait of Barbey d&amp;#039;Aurevilly and the&lt;br /&gt;
most charming letter from him to Daudet. It was&lt;br /&gt;
written after a slight misunderstanding caused by a&lt;br /&gt;
terrible criticism of Flaubert by d&amp;#039;Aurevilly.&lt;br /&gt;
Madame Daudet gives us a description of her first&lt;br /&gt;
visit to Victor Hugo. She tells us of her first&lt;br /&gt;
meeting with the Goncourt brothers, who were to&lt;br /&gt;
become life-long friends, of the reunions of &ldquo;the&lt;br /&gt;
Five,&rdquo; Flaubert, Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet,&lt;br /&gt;
Tourg&eacute;neff and Zola, and then of the &ldquo;M&eacute;dan&lt;br /&gt;
Group,&rdquo; Hennique, C&eacute;ard Paul Alexis, Huysmans,&lt;br /&gt;
Maupassant, and, later on, Rod. Madame Daudet&lt;br /&gt;
tells us then of her Own Salon in the Marais, the&lt;br /&gt;
old-world part of Paris, and when we read the&lt;br /&gt;
names of the habitu&eacute;s we can only envy the writer&lt;br /&gt;
the intellectual treats she must so frequently&lt;br /&gt;
have had. Among these names are Th&eacute;uriet,&lt;br /&gt;
Bl&eacute;mont, Anatole France, Gil, L&eacute;on Allard, Sully&lt;br /&gt;
Prudhomme, Fran&ccedil;ois Copp&eacute;e, H&eacute;r&eacute;dia, Pierre de&lt;br /&gt;
Nolhac, Haraucourt, Massenet, Pugno, Rollinat,&lt;br /&gt;
etC.&lt;br /&gt;
We read, too, of the foundation of the Th&eacute;&acirc;tre&lt;br /&gt;
Libre by Antoine. In those days this was a little&lt;br /&gt;
room at the end of a passage, where the arrange-&lt;br /&gt;
ments were all so primitive that the last person to&lt;br /&gt;
leave was requested to turn out the gas.&lt;br /&gt;
Madame Daudet then tells us of some of the&lt;br /&gt;
other Paris Salons, of that of the Princess Mathilde&lt;br /&gt;
and of that of Madame Buloz and of Madame&lt;br /&gt;
Juliette Adam. In this book Madame Daudet takes&lt;br /&gt;
us with her through the literary Paris of her time.&lt;br /&gt;
It was quite another Paris from that of to-day. The&lt;br /&gt;
foreign invasion has, no doubt, had a certain&lt;br /&gt;
influence on Paris, but the old world is still there&lt;br /&gt;
behind all these modern buildings, and we are glad&lt;br /&gt;
to get some echoes from it in such books as this of&lt;br /&gt;
Madame Daudet. The last chapters are better&lt;br /&gt;
read in the original. They are too sacred to touch&lt;br /&gt;
on lightly. They begin from the year 1898, after&lt;br /&gt;
the death of Alphonse Daudet.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Whenever I leave home,&rdquo; says his widow, &ldquo;it&lt;br /&gt;
seems to me always that I shall find him on my&lt;br /&gt;
return, but it is always the same disappointment.&lt;br /&gt;
I cannot resign myself to death, to his continued&lt;br /&gt;
absence.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Les Infernales&rdquo; is the title of a remarkable&lt;br /&gt;
volume of short stories, or rather studies, by Nikto.&lt;br /&gt;
This book comes as a surprise to all who know&lt;br /&gt;
its author. Nikto is one of the most marvellous&lt;br /&gt;
musicians of our times, a pupil of Liszt, of Teleffsen,&lt;br /&gt;
and of Mikuli, Chopin&amp;#039;s gifted pupil. To anyone&lt;br /&gt;
who has heard Chopin and Liszt interpreted by&lt;br /&gt;
Nikto, there seems mothing left to hear by these&lt;br /&gt;
two great composers. With the force of a man&lt;br /&gt;
and the delicacy and intuition of a woman, Nikto&lt;br /&gt;
has discovered all the treasures hidden in the music.&lt;br /&gt;
Execution, expression, fire, tenderness and deep&lt;br /&gt;
feeling, Nikto interprets all that there is to&lt;br /&gt;
interpret. The hours spent by the favoured few&lt;br /&gt;
who are allowed the rare privilege of hearing her&lt;br /&gt;
explain and interpret the works of her two masters&lt;br /&gt;
are hours that will never be forgotten. At present&lt;br /&gt;
we discover that this great musician is also a&lt;br /&gt;
talented writer. In all these stories we have the&lt;br /&gt;
fire and passion of the Slavonic soul described and&lt;br /&gt;
painted by an artist. There are tragic stories of&lt;br /&gt;
terrible cruelty, there is a Breton idyll which is&lt;br /&gt;
exquisitely poetical, a story of diabolic revenge and&lt;br /&gt;
a study, at the end of the volume, of tzigame music.&lt;br /&gt;
Although Nikto is a Polish Russian, she has&lt;br /&gt;
accomplished the task, almost impossible to foreign&lt;br /&gt;
authors, of writing her book in French. Very&lt;br /&gt;
many years ago that pitiless critic, Barbey&lt;br /&gt;
d&rsquo;Aurevilly, who was always more or less hard on&lt;br /&gt;
women writers, wrote a somewhat scathing article&lt;br /&gt;
on one of Nikto&rsquo;s literary works. She dedicates&lt;br /&gt;
her book to-day &ldquo;To the memory of Barbey&lt;br /&gt;
d&rsquo;Aurevilly, the admirable author of &lsquo;Les&lt;br /&gt;
Diaboliques,&rsquo; from The one whom he scathed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
If all writers of merit could have an Egeria like&lt;br /&gt;
Mlle. Louise Read, it would not be necessary for&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. (#485) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
TISIE A DITFIOR,&lt;br /&gt;
107&lt;br /&gt;
them to trouble about their future fame. Thanks&lt;br /&gt;
to her unceasing devotion in publishing posthumous&lt;br /&gt;
works of Barbey d&rsquo;Aurevilly, France has slowly,&lt;br /&gt;
during the last twenty years, realized the fact that&lt;br /&gt;
he was one of her great writers. Rarely has any&lt;br /&gt;
Centenary been so universally f&eacute;ted in any country,&lt;br /&gt;
and for a long time to come lectures, articles and&lt;br /&gt;
books will prove to us that the author so few of us&lt;br /&gt;
know is one of those whose works should not&lt;br /&gt;
be neglected. Rodin&amp;#039;s statue was inaugurated&lt;br /&gt;
this last month, and a pilgrimage of lovers of&lt;br /&gt;
literature set out from Paris to be present at the&lt;br /&gt;
unveiling ceremony at St. Sauveur le Wicomte, in&lt;br /&gt;
Normandy, Barbey d&rsquo;Aurevilly&amp;#039;s birth-place.&lt;br /&gt;
Among the new books we have another volume&lt;br /&gt;
of G. Len&ocirc;tre&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Paris R&eacute;volutionnaire&amp;quot; (Vieilles&lt;br /&gt;
maisons, vieux papiers). The subjects treated are :&lt;br /&gt;
Papa Tam, Les Meubles de M. Berth&eacute;lemy,&lt;br /&gt;
Le M&eacute;nage Tison, Herman, Montcairzain, L&rsquo;As&lt;br /&gt;
de Pique, La fin de Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Lavasseur, L&amp;#039;Ev&ecirc;que&lt;br /&gt;
d&rsquo;Agra, Thomazeau, Madame Gasnier, l&rsquo;Am&eacute;ri-&lt;br /&gt;
caine, and Monsieur de Charette. The chapter on&lt;br /&gt;
Th&eacute;r&egrave;se Levasseur after Jean-Jacques&amp;#039; death is&lt;br /&gt;
very curious and instructive, whilst the story of the&lt;br /&gt;
Comtesse de Montcairzain would make the plot for&lt;br /&gt;
a novel.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;La Rue Saint Honor&eacute;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (de la Revolution &agrave; nos&lt;br /&gt;
jours) is the second volume by Robert H&eacute;nard on&lt;br /&gt;
this subject. It seems indeed as though this street&lt;br /&gt;
must surely be more full of memories than any&lt;br /&gt;
other street in Paris. We have a description of&lt;br /&gt;
the scenes that took place there on the day of the&lt;br /&gt;
taking of the Bastille, and on many other historical&lt;br /&gt;
occasions. Marie Antoinette was taken down this&lt;br /&gt;
street on her way to execution. Robespierre lived&lt;br /&gt;
there. The famous Caf&eacute; de la R&eacute;gence, the&lt;br /&gt;
favourite resort of Musset, is still there. Under&lt;br /&gt;
the Consulate and the Empire the Rue St. Honor&eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
was a very fashionable resort. The volume gives&lt;br /&gt;
many interesting details, and makes one realize how&lt;br /&gt;
full of past history Paris is.&lt;br /&gt;
In a recent number of the Revue hebdomadaire,&lt;br /&gt;
there is an article on &ldquo;Selma Lagerlof,&rdquo; by Jacques&lt;br /&gt;
de Coussange, and in another recent number of&lt;br /&gt;
the same magazine is an article by Ernest Seilli&egrave;re&lt;br /&gt;
on &ldquo;Le M&eacute;nage du grand Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The play &ldquo;Susette,&rdquo; by M. Brieux, given at&lt;br /&gt;
the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise, is not intended as an&lt;br /&gt;
argument against divorce, but against divorce too&lt;br /&gt;
easily obtained. It is the story of a child between&lt;br /&gt;
parents who are at loggerheads with each other.&lt;br /&gt;
We see all the suffering of a child in this situation.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Brieux has already treated this subject in the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Berceau,&rdquo; but &ldquo;Susette&rdquo; is a much stronger and&lt;br /&gt;
more convincing play,&lt;br /&gt;
At the Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Antoine &ldquo;Papillon, dit Lyonnais&lt;br /&gt;
le Juste,&rdquo; by M. Louis B&eacute;ni&egrave;re, is having great&lt;br /&gt;
success. It is the story of a simple workman Who&lt;br /&gt;
comes into a fortune. It is an extremely natural&lt;br /&gt;
and simple play, amusing and pathetic in parts.&lt;br /&gt;
ALYS HALLARD.&lt;br /&gt;
Souvenirs autour d&amp;#039;un groupe litt&eacute;raire&rsquo; (Fasquelle).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Les Infernales &amp;quot; (Lemetre).&lt;br /&gt;
* Paris R&eacute;volutionnaire&amp;quot; (Perrin).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;La Rue Saint Honor&eacute;&amp;quot; (Emile Paul).&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&amp;amp;h&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
w ~&ndash;w&lt;br /&gt;
THE SUB-COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF&lt;br /&gt;
NOVELS.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&mdash;&ordm;-0&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
INTERIMI REPORT.&lt;br /&gt;
W&ordm; the sub-committee appointed to consider&lt;br /&gt;
the question of the price at which new&lt;br /&gt;
novels should be issued, think that we&lt;br /&gt;
ought to make an interim report, having regard to&lt;br /&gt;
the Serious nature of the present situation. We&lt;br /&gt;
feel, also, that a conclusive and comprehensive&lt;br /&gt;
report upon the matter can hardly be expected&lt;br /&gt;
from us, remembering the variety of directions in&lt;br /&gt;
which evidence must be sought, and the distinct&lt;br /&gt;
understanding that we have received that the&lt;br /&gt;
results of certain experiments in the change of&lt;br /&gt;
price of new novels&mdash;which experiments are now&lt;br /&gt;
being conducted&mdash;will be given to us.&lt;br /&gt;
Our first step was to invite the opinion of seventy-&lt;br /&gt;
eight novelists, almost all being members of our&lt;br /&gt;
Society, who were Selected as far as possible because&lt;br /&gt;
they seemed to us to represent varying degrees of&lt;br /&gt;
position as men and women of letters and greatly&lt;br /&gt;
different conditions of popularity. Further, we&lt;br /&gt;
gave preference in our first letter of inquiry to&lt;br /&gt;
those authors whose works we knew had been made&lt;br /&gt;
the subject of some experiments in the lowering of&lt;br /&gt;
the original price of issue. The result of that&lt;br /&gt;
inquiry was that thirty authors declared them-&lt;br /&gt;
Selves uncompromisingly opposed to any systematic&lt;br /&gt;
reduction of the usual publishing price of the new&lt;br /&gt;
novel, viz., 6s., believing that the reduction would&lt;br /&gt;
bring to them, having regard to the reduced&lt;br /&gt;
royalties offered, no return which would compen-&lt;br /&gt;
sate them for the loss which they would sustain by&lt;br /&gt;
not receiving the larger royalty upon the larger&lt;br /&gt;
prices; seven authors believe the reverse of this,&lt;br /&gt;
but their convictions were not expressed with any&lt;br /&gt;
great force in all instances.&lt;br /&gt;
Of the remaining authors to whom we wrote,&lt;br /&gt;
fourteen were non-committal in their statements,&lt;br /&gt;
certain of them giving information in answer to&lt;br /&gt;
our questions, but without expressing opinions and&lt;br /&gt;
leaving us to make deductions from the facts;&lt;br /&gt;
nine stated that they were unable to give useful&lt;br /&gt;
information, and from the remainder we have not&lt;br /&gt;
yet heard. Much of this unclassified evidence was&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#486) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
108&lt;br /&gt;
THE A DITFIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
informatory to ourselves, and the deduction we have&lt;br /&gt;
drawn from it is that it contains no definite argu-&lt;br /&gt;
ments in favour of the lowering of the original&lt;br /&gt;
price of the new novel from 6s, either for the&lt;br /&gt;
benefit of the author, the publisher, the book-&lt;br /&gt;
seller, or the public.&lt;br /&gt;
We propose to collect further evidence from&lt;br /&gt;
novelists during the time that must elapse before&lt;br /&gt;
we can report finally.&lt;br /&gt;
Our interim conclusion, that novelists would be&lt;br /&gt;
unwise to allow themselves, or their agents for&lt;br /&gt;
them, to enter into any contracts whereby it is&lt;br /&gt;
agreed that the initial price of the new novel&lt;br /&gt;
should be lower than 6s., is much strengthened b&lt;br /&gt;
the replies which we have received from the list of&lt;br /&gt;
publishers to whom we addressed a letter asking&lt;br /&gt;
whether the circulation obtained for novels pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished originally at a lower price than 68. Would,&lt;br /&gt;
in their opinion, result in a proportionate increase&lt;br /&gt;
if the price were lowered. The basis on which we&lt;br /&gt;
asked for information was a 6s. novel of the&lt;br /&gt;
ordinary length of about 80,000 to 100,000 words&lt;br /&gt;
with a circulation of at least 3,000 copies; and,&lt;br /&gt;
further, we asked if it would be practicable to pay&lt;br /&gt;
an author royalties on a 28., a 2s. 6d. Or a 38. net&lt;br /&gt;
book at so high a rate as on a 68. book ; and if it&lt;br /&gt;
would be practicable to consider raising the Original&lt;br /&gt;
price in certain cases.&lt;br /&gt;
We desire to record our sense of the valuable&lt;br /&gt;
and courteous manner in which our questions,&lt;br /&gt;
necessarily of a searching nature, were responded&lt;br /&gt;
to by the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Several publishers said that at the present&lt;br /&gt;
moment they were not prepared to answer definitely,&lt;br /&gt;
while one, who may be mentioned by name, because&lt;br /&gt;
his position has been made public by his own letter&lt;br /&gt;
to The Publishers&rsquo; Circular, viz., Mr. Heinemann,&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out to us that he was at the present&lt;br /&gt;
moment engaged in an important experiment in&lt;br /&gt;
the alteration of the prices at which new novels&lt;br /&gt;
should be issued, of the results of which he would&lt;br /&gt;
be in a position to inform us in February. Other&lt;br /&gt;
publishers who have issued new fiction at lower&lt;br /&gt;
prices than 68, have given us details showing that&lt;br /&gt;
the experiments had failed.&lt;br /&gt;
The consensus of opinion from the publishers is&lt;br /&gt;
to the effect :&lt;br /&gt;
(1) (a) that from 9,000 copies at least, to 12,000&lt;br /&gt;
(the highest figure mentioned) must be sold at&lt;br /&gt;
2S. net ;&lt;br /&gt;
(b) that 8,000 must be sold at 2s. 6d. net ; and&lt;br /&gt;
(c) that 6,000 copies must be sold at 3s. net&lt;br /&gt;
before the author would receive the amount equiva-&lt;br /&gt;
lent to that which he usually receives on 3,000&lt;br /&gt;
copies at 68., i.e., 48. 6d. net. -&lt;br /&gt;
(2) That, leaving exceptional cases out of count,&lt;br /&gt;
it does not appear probable that the author&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
circulation would be proportionately enhanced by&lt;br /&gt;
a reduction in the price of the original issue. On&lt;br /&gt;
this point figures relating to particular cases have&lt;br /&gt;
been submitted in proof of the opinion.&lt;br /&gt;
(3) That the same proportionate royalty could&lt;br /&gt;
not be offered upon the lower prices. On this&lt;br /&gt;
point the publishers are all very clear.&lt;br /&gt;
Regarding these publishers, as we do, as&lt;br /&gt;
thoroughly cognisant of the business side of the&lt;br /&gt;
publication of fiction in the present conditions,&lt;br /&gt;
and as competent to guide us as to the probable&lt;br /&gt;
result of modifications or developments of those&lt;br /&gt;
conditions, we think that their opinions constitute&lt;br /&gt;
a grave warning to authors who may be invited to&lt;br /&gt;
issue new novels of the ordinary length at any&lt;br /&gt;
price below 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to the issue of new novels in cloth.&lt;br /&gt;
binding at the initial price of 2s., we hope that&lt;br /&gt;
this innovation is not likely to affect any large&lt;br /&gt;
number of writers. Few publishers will make the&lt;br /&gt;
attempt to produce a new Work of fiction in such&lt;br /&gt;
enormous quantities for a first edition as would be&lt;br /&gt;
required to pay the author and recoup themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
There can be no guarantee that the large prices&lt;br /&gt;
which have been offered to authors as payment&lt;br /&gt;
for serial rights and royalties in advance under&lt;br /&gt;
this system will be maintained.&lt;br /&gt;
We have definite information that, with regard&lt;br /&gt;
to the 7d. reprints, the publishers are already&lt;br /&gt;
offering far smaller sums in advance than in the&lt;br /&gt;
first instance ; and that even in the cases of authors,&lt;br /&gt;
whose books have practically earned these advances&lt;br /&gt;
they are not now willing to make new contracts on&lt;br /&gt;
the old terms.&lt;br /&gt;
We possess a large amount of evidence from the&lt;br /&gt;
booksellers upon the various questions involved,&lt;br /&gt;
but this, which has only just reached us, requiress&lt;br /&gt;
sifting and classification.&lt;br /&gt;
We have received scattered information from&lt;br /&gt;
several authors who have actually experienced the&lt;br /&gt;
results of the issue of new novels, at prices lower&lt;br /&gt;
than 6s. In every case the author has suffered.&lt;br /&gt;
Having, then, regard to the weight of opinion&lt;br /&gt;
from those novelists whom we have consulted, to&lt;br /&gt;
the responsible remarks of leading publishers, and&lt;br /&gt;
to details which we have received of the actual&lt;br /&gt;
experience of authors, we repeat the recommenda-&lt;br /&gt;
tion that the novelist should maintain the price of&lt;br /&gt;
the original production of his works at 68. There&lt;br /&gt;
is no evidence that a low price means a large&lt;br /&gt;
circulation.&lt;br /&gt;
ADDENDUM.&lt;br /&gt;
One of us, having particular knowledge of the&lt;br /&gt;
business side of literature in France, wishes to&lt;br /&gt;
point out that even in the days when the regular&lt;br /&gt;
price of the new novel in France was Fr. 3.50, all&lt;br /&gt;
the leading French novelists, Daudet and Zola.&lt;br /&gt;
among them, greatly regretted the lowering of the&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#487) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE A CITESIOR,&lt;br /&gt;
109&lt;br /&gt;
standard price to that figure. France has since&lt;br /&gt;
been flooded with new novels at 9%d., and the&lt;br /&gt;
result has been most disastrous to French literature&lt;br /&gt;
as well as to French authors. It has meant that&lt;br /&gt;
the great mass of writers have now to produce&lt;br /&gt;
novels that are short and sensational, and dependent&lt;br /&gt;
for their popularity upon their violent appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
(Signed) M. A. BELLOC-LOWNDES.&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES GARVICE.&lt;br /&gt;
E. W. HORNUNG.&lt;br /&gt;
W. W. JACOBS.&lt;br /&gt;
- S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.&lt;br /&gt;
JDecember 2, 1909.&lt;br /&gt;
a &ndash; A &ndash;a&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;v---&lt;br /&gt;
A PUBLISHING TRANSACTION.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;t&mdash;&ordm;-e&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
- HEN an author is asked by a publisher to&lt;br /&gt;
contribute towards the production of his&lt;br /&gt;
book, it is time for him to be on the&lt;br /&gt;
alert. There are, it is true, certain books, the&lt;br /&gt;
publication of which must be attended with a&lt;br /&gt;
certain degree of risk, on account of the fact that&lt;br /&gt;
they appeal only to very limited audiences, or&lt;br /&gt;
because as a result of profuse illustrations or some&lt;br /&gt;
other cause they are expensive to produce. In&lt;br /&gt;
these cases, the bond ſides of a publisher who seeks&lt;br /&gt;
to divide the risks with the author may be quite&lt;br /&gt;
genuine, though even here the writer will be well&lt;br /&gt;
advised to exercise a firm control over the expen-&lt;br /&gt;
diture, and ascertain beforehand whether, given a&lt;br /&gt;
fair sale, the venture will prove profitable to&lt;br /&gt;
himself. -&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of the novel, however, the position is&lt;br /&gt;
different, and the author who is asked to bear any&lt;br /&gt;
portion of the cost of production should refuse to&lt;br /&gt;
do so. It may safely be claimed that the novel&lt;br /&gt;
which is not published at the publisher&amp;#039;s expense&lt;br /&gt;
had better, in nine cases out of ten, remain unpub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished, that is, if its author looks for financial&lt;br /&gt;
reward for his work. If, however, the writer has&lt;br /&gt;
a firm conviction that his book possesses all the&lt;br /&gt;
potentialities of a commercial success, or has some&lt;br /&gt;
other equally weighty reason for desiring his book&lt;br /&gt;
to be placed on the market, and cares to back his&lt;br /&gt;
belief by risking money in its production, two&lt;br /&gt;
precautions are absolutely essential ; the first is to&lt;br /&gt;
publish with a house of established reputation, and&lt;br /&gt;
the second is to see that he retains such a control&lt;br /&gt;
over the work (both as to the items in the cost of&lt;br /&gt;
production, and as to the terms of Sale) as shall&lt;br /&gt;
be commensurate with the amount which he&lt;br /&gt;
is putting into the adventure.&lt;br /&gt;
The failure to take these two precautions is&lt;br /&gt;
bound to be attended with disastrous results to the&lt;br /&gt;
author, as the following case will show.&lt;br /&gt;
A certain author entered into a contract with a&lt;br /&gt;
publisher for the publication of a novel under an&lt;br /&gt;
agreement, the material parts of which are printed&lt;br /&gt;
below:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this&lt;br /&gt;
Of between&lt;br /&gt;
hereinafter termed the author of the one part&lt;br /&gt;
and hereinafter termed the publisher of the other&lt;br /&gt;
part WHEREBY it is mutually agreed between the parties&lt;br /&gt;
hereto for themselves and their respective executors&lt;br /&gt;
administrators and assigns (or successors as the case may&lt;br /&gt;
be) as follows:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
1. The author is the writer and holds the copyright of a&lt;br /&gt;
work at present entitled , which he has submitted&lt;br /&gt;
to the publisher with a view to his producing publishing&lt;br /&gt;
and advertising the same in the United Kingdom of Great&lt;br /&gt;
Britain and Ireland and elsewhere on the following&lt;br /&gt;
terms &mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
2. That in consideration of the author paying to the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher the sum of Ninety Five Pounds (Fifty Pounds&lt;br /&gt;
when he signs this agreement, Thirty Pounds when the&lt;br /&gt;
whole of the work is in type, and Fifteen Pounds from his&lt;br /&gt;
share of the sales of the work) the publisher hereby agrees&lt;br /&gt;
to produce the work in the best style print on good paper&lt;br /&gt;
from new type bind in suitable cloth as trade demands&lt;br /&gt;
warrant and publish the book in the English edition at the&lt;br /&gt;
price of Six Shillings per copy. The said payment of&lt;br /&gt;
Ninety Five Pounds shall constitute the author&amp;#039;s sole&lt;br /&gt;
liability. -&lt;br /&gt;
3. The author guarantees to the publisher that the said&lt;br /&gt;
work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing&lt;br /&gt;
copyright and that it contains nothing of a libellous or&lt;br /&gt;
Scandalous character and that he will indemnify the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher from all suits claims and proceedings damages&lt;br /&gt;
and costs which may be made taken or incurred by or&lt;br /&gt;
against him on the ground that the said work is an infringe-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of copyright or contains anything libellous or&lt;br /&gt;
scandalous.&lt;br /&gt;
4. The publisher agrees to pay to the author and the&lt;br /&gt;
author agrees to accept the following royalties, that is to&lt;br /&gt;
say :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(a) A royalty of one shilling and sixpence per copy on&lt;br /&gt;
all copies sold of the English 6s. edition up to a sale of two&lt;br /&gt;
thousand copies and afterwards a royalty of 20 per cent. Of&lt;br /&gt;
the nominal published price of all copies sold of this&lt;br /&gt;
particular 6s. edition.&lt;br /&gt;
(b) A royalty of fifteen per cent. of the nominal published&lt;br /&gt;
price of all copies sold of any cheaper edition or editions.&lt;br /&gt;
(c) A royalty of fifty per cent. of the net profits derived&lt;br /&gt;
from the sale of the American copyright (if any).&lt;br /&gt;
(d) A royalty of fifty per cent. of the net profits derived&lt;br /&gt;
from the sale of Foreign rights (if any).&lt;br /&gt;
(e) A royalty of fifty per cent. of the net profits derived&lt;br /&gt;
from the sale of the Serial rights (if any).&lt;br /&gt;
(f) In the event of remainder sales, that is when the&lt;br /&gt;
demand for the work has ceased, a royalty of five per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
of the net sum received.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The publisher shall present to the author twenty&lt;br /&gt;
copies of the work on publication and shall sell to him any&lt;br /&gt;
further copies that he may require at the lowest trade price,&lt;br /&gt;
all copies thus bought to be charged to the general sales&lt;br /&gt;
account and royalties to be paid to the author on Same.&lt;br /&gt;
6. No royalties shall be paid on any copies given&lt;br /&gt;
away for review or other purposes in the interests of the&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Account sales shall be made up half-yearly to Decem-&lt;br /&gt;
ber thirty-first and June thirtieth and delivered and settled&lt;br /&gt;
within five months of those dates. In making up accounts,&lt;br /&gt;
thirteen copies shall be reckoned as twelve in accordance&lt;br /&gt;
with trade usage.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#488) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
110&lt;br /&gt;
TRIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher touching the meaning of this agreement or&lt;br /&gt;
the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same&lt;br /&gt;
shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons (one to&lt;br /&gt;
be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance&lt;br /&gt;
with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The term &ldquo;PUBLISHER&amp;#039;&amp;#039; throughout this agreement&lt;br /&gt;
shall be deemed to include the person or persons or Com-&lt;br /&gt;
pany for the time being carrying on the business of the&lt;br /&gt;
said under as well its present as any&lt;br /&gt;
future style and the benefit of this agreement shall be&lt;br /&gt;
transmissible accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
10. That in consideration of the publisher undertaking&lt;br /&gt;
the publication of the work hereinbefore mentioned, the&lt;br /&gt;
author agrees to give to the publisher the first refusal, from&lt;br /&gt;
one month of the date of the delivery of the manuscript, of&lt;br /&gt;
the next three new novels which he may write, suitable for&lt;br /&gt;
publication in 6s. volume form, and if the publisher accept&lt;br /&gt;
all or any of them, they shall be published on terms to be&lt;br /&gt;
mutually agreed upon. The term &ldquo;next three new novels &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
shall not include any novel which the author may have&lt;br /&gt;
completed at the time of signing this agreement. -&lt;br /&gt;
It is not necessary to offer any very exhaustive&lt;br /&gt;
comment on this document, which, indeed, has&lt;br /&gt;
been fully commented on in a previous issue of&lt;br /&gt;
The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Every clause is full of difficulties which would&lt;br /&gt;
work out to the author&amp;#039;s disadvantage. Indeed no&lt;br /&gt;
author could be recommended to sign such a&lt;br /&gt;
document.&lt;br /&gt;
We should like, however, to state very briefly&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the more serious objections.&lt;br /&gt;
It will be noticed that the author is asked to&lt;br /&gt;
provide a sum of money, not towards the cost of&lt;br /&gt;
production of the work, but as consideration for&lt;br /&gt;
certain acts which the publisher undertakes to&lt;br /&gt;
perform. No information is given to the author&lt;br /&gt;
as to how the money is to be spent, how the amount&lt;br /&gt;
fixed is arrived at, nor is any mention made of the&lt;br /&gt;
number of copies which the publisher will actually&lt;br /&gt;
print, bind and publish for the payment asked. It&lt;br /&gt;
is true that in section 4 (a) of the agreement the&lt;br /&gt;
author is promised a different royalty after the&lt;br /&gt;
sale of 2,000 copies, but this reference to 2,000&lt;br /&gt;
copies does not bind the publisher to anything,&lt;br /&gt;
though it may deceive the author. Nowhere does&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher agree to print that number. Indeed,&lt;br /&gt;
under an agreement of this kind some publishers&lt;br /&gt;
might produce a very small edition of, say, 400 or&lt;br /&gt;
500 copies, and by neglecting to advertise it&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
readers will notice that the agreement contains&lt;br /&gt;
nothing which binds him to advertise&mdash;kill the&lt;br /&gt;
book entirely. This might pay him well, as he&lt;br /&gt;
would thereby secure to himself the greater portion&lt;br /&gt;
of the &pound;95. There is no identity of interest&lt;br /&gt;
between the parties. While the author looks to a&lt;br /&gt;
large sale to recoup him for his outlay, the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, under this arrangement, is very often&lt;br /&gt;
independent of the public entirely as far as profit&lt;br /&gt;
is concerned. The publisher has already made&lt;br /&gt;
a profit on the production. He has little interest&lt;br /&gt;
8. If any difference shall arise between the author and&lt;br /&gt;
in the subsequent fate of the book. If the book&lt;br /&gt;
shows signs of selling, it is true that the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
may find it profitable to &ldquo;push &rsquo;&rsquo; it, but the point&lt;br /&gt;
to remember is that a book which succeeds when&lt;br /&gt;
published on these terms does so not because of the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, but in spite of him. All that has&lt;br /&gt;
happened is that the publisher has committed an&lt;br /&gt;
error of judgment ; has accepted a book which has&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;caught on.&rdquo; despite the circumstances surrounding&lt;br /&gt;
its publication.&lt;br /&gt;
Moreover, there is nothing by which the author&lt;br /&gt;
can demand from the publisher a statement of&lt;br /&gt;
how the amount paid has been spent. He&lt;br /&gt;
cannot demand details as to the cost of production,&lt;br /&gt;
he cannot even demand any of the copies printed&lt;br /&gt;
as his own, although his payment may have covered,&lt;br /&gt;
and more than covered, their cost. The whole&lt;br /&gt;
agreement is thoroughly bad. To make matters&lt;br /&gt;
Worse, the author binds himself by the last clause&lt;br /&gt;
in the agreement for his next three books. Even&lt;br /&gt;
were the agreement as fair as it is grossly deplor-&lt;br /&gt;
able, we should still object to an author binding&lt;br /&gt;
himself for future works. With such an agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ment as the present one the clause is nothing&lt;br /&gt;
short of disastrous.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
LIBEL WITHOUT INTENT.&lt;br /&gt;
JONES v. E. HULTON &amp;amp; Co., LTD.&lt;br /&gt;
HE principle involved in this case, which has&lt;br /&gt;
been confirmed by the House of Lords, is&lt;br /&gt;
one which affects authors and journalists,&lt;br /&gt;
and is of particular importance to writers of fiction.&lt;br /&gt;
It has now been laid down by the highest court&lt;br /&gt;
of appeal, that in an action for libel it is no.&lt;br /&gt;
defence to show that the defendant wrote the&lt;br /&gt;
defamatory statement with reference to some&lt;br /&gt;
imaginary person, and with no intention of&lt;br /&gt;
libelling the plaintiff. If the name of the&lt;br /&gt;
imaginary person adopted by the writer is that of&lt;br /&gt;
a living person, it seems to follow from the&lt;br /&gt;
decision that a jury may award damages to any&lt;br /&gt;
individual who happens to bear the name if the&lt;br /&gt;
evidence is sufficient to prove that those who know&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff would necessarily think that the&lt;br /&gt;
defamatory statement referred to him.&lt;br /&gt;
The libel was contained in an article in the&lt;br /&gt;
Sunday Chronicle, published in Manchester,&lt;br /&gt;
Written by the Paris correspondent and purporting&lt;br /&gt;
to describe the life at Dieppe on the occasion of&lt;br /&gt;
certain motor-car races. Incidentally the article&lt;br /&gt;
mentioned &ldquo;Artemus Jones,&rdquo; as being with a&lt;br /&gt;
woman who was not his wife, and described him as&lt;br /&gt;
a churchwarden of Peckham ; and it contrasted&lt;br /&gt;
the austerity of his parochial duties in the English,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTEIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
11 f&lt;br /&gt;
suburb with the gaiety of his proceedings upon&lt;br /&gt;
the Continent.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Artemus Jones, a barrister, brought an action&lt;br /&gt;
against the publishers of the newspaper for libel.&lt;br /&gt;
The evidence showed that the plaintiff was not a&lt;br /&gt;
churchwarden, or a resident of Peckham, and that&lt;br /&gt;
he was not married. But witnesses were called&lt;br /&gt;
who said that they had read the article and thought&lt;br /&gt;
that it referred to the plaintiff. The writer of the&lt;br /&gt;
article stated, however, that he had never heard of&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff, and that the name was suggested by&lt;br /&gt;
the name of &ldquo;Artemus Ward,&rdquo; and was used merely&lt;br /&gt;
for the purpose of representing a type of individual&lt;br /&gt;
in the scene described. The jury found that it&lt;br /&gt;
was a libel on the plaintiff, and awarded &pound;1,750&lt;br /&gt;
damages.&lt;br /&gt;
The defendants appealed upon the ground of mis-&lt;br /&gt;
direction, and upon the question whether the state-&lt;br /&gt;
ment could be libellous when it was not intended&lt;br /&gt;
to refer to the plaintiff. The Court of Appeal&lt;br /&gt;
dismissed the appeal.&lt;br /&gt;
In the House of Lords the Lord Chancellor&lt;br /&gt;
(Lord Loreburn) expressed his opinion on the&lt;br /&gt;
point as follows:&ndash; &ldquo;A libel is a tortious act.&lt;br /&gt;
What does the tort consist of 2 In using language&lt;br /&gt;
which others, knowing the circumstances, would&lt;br /&gt;
reasonably think to be defamatory of the person&lt;br /&gt;
who complained of being injured by it. A person&lt;br /&gt;
cannot defend himself from a charge of libel by&lt;br /&gt;
saying that he intended not to defame the person&lt;br /&gt;
complaining of being injured by the libel. By&lt;br /&gt;
publishing the libel the defendant imputed some-&lt;br /&gt;
thing disgraceful to the plaintiff, who had none the&lt;br /&gt;
less cause to complain because the defendant said&lt;br /&gt;
he did it unintentionally.&rdquo; Lord Shaw stated that&lt;br /&gt;
he adopted the view expressed by the Lord Chief&lt;br /&gt;
Justice (Lord Alverstone), who in his judgment&lt;br /&gt;
in the Court of Appeal had said : &ldquo;The question,&lt;br /&gt;
if it be disputed whether the article is a libel upon&lt;br /&gt;
the plaintiff, is a question of fact for the jury, and&lt;br /&gt;
in my judgment this question of fact involves not&lt;br /&gt;
only whether the language used of a person in its&lt;br /&gt;
fair and ordinary meaning is libellous or defamatory,&lt;br /&gt;
but whether the person referred to in the libel&lt;br /&gt;
would be understood by persons who knew him to&lt;br /&gt;
refer to the plaintiff.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The decision has been the subject of considerable&lt;br /&gt;
comment, and novelists may feel Some alarm lest&lt;br /&gt;
the chance selection of a name for One of the&lt;br /&gt;
characters in a novel may render them liable for&lt;br /&gt;
damages in a libel action brought by a person&lt;br /&gt;
whom they had no intention to defame and whose&lt;br /&gt;
existence may have been unknown to them.&lt;br /&gt;
Clearly some care is necessary in adapting names&lt;br /&gt;
for imaginary characters, but the alarm of novelists&lt;br /&gt;
may be exaggerated. There is a distinction&lt;br /&gt;
between works of fiction and a newspaper article&lt;br /&gt;
purporting to describe an actual scene taking&lt;br /&gt;
place in real life at a seaside resort. A character&lt;br /&gt;
in a novel is generally regarded as an imaginary&lt;br /&gt;
person, whereas the mention of an individual by&lt;br /&gt;
name in a descriptive narrative in a newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
may reasonably be supposed to refer to a real&lt;br /&gt;
person.&lt;br /&gt;
. Mr. Justice Channell made this distinction clear&lt;br /&gt;
in his direction to the jury, which was approved by&lt;br /&gt;
the House of Lords, when he said : *The real&lt;br /&gt;
point on which your verdict must turn is, ought or&lt;br /&gt;
ought not sensible and reasonable people reading&lt;br /&gt;
this article to to think that it was some imaginary&lt;br /&gt;
Person, such as I have said&mdash;Tom Jones, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Pecksniff, Mr. Stiggins, or any of that sort of&lt;br /&gt;
name&mdash;that one reads of in literature used as&lt;br /&gt;
types If you think that a reasonable person.&lt;br /&gt;
Would think that, it is not actionable at all. If,&lt;br /&gt;
on the other hand, you do not think that, but&lt;br /&gt;
think that people would suppose it to mean some&lt;br /&gt;
real person then the action is main-&lt;br /&gt;
tainable.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
It may be mentioned that in other cases of tort,&lt;br /&gt;
for example, in an action for infringement of&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright, it has been held that the absence of&lt;br /&gt;
intention is no defence, and an innocent infringer&lt;br /&gt;
of copyright may be liable for damages although&lt;br /&gt;
he did not know of the existence of the Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
HAROLD HARDY.&lt;br /&gt;
PAYING QUARTERLY AND ON DEMAND,&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
MEMBER has been a contributor to a&lt;br /&gt;
weekly paper for seven or eight years. The&lt;br /&gt;
paper has lately been sold to a company of&lt;br /&gt;
the composition of which he knows nothing. The&lt;br /&gt;
member, being somewhat loth to break a long con-&lt;br /&gt;
nection, agreed to continue his contributions. The&lt;br /&gt;
custom of the paper had been to pay monthly.&lt;br /&gt;
Not receiving, when due, his first cheque under the&lt;br /&gt;
new ownership, the member applied for payment,&lt;br /&gt;
which was made in a short time. For his next&lt;br /&gt;
payments he applied twice, but received no reply.&lt;br /&gt;
Three months&amp;#039; remuneration being then due, the&lt;br /&gt;
member placed the matter in the hands of the&lt;br /&gt;
society.&lt;br /&gt;
On application by the secretary the company&lt;br /&gt;
wrote the following note, signed &ldquo;The Manager&rdquo;:&lt;br /&gt;
I am directed to inform you that this company&rsquo;s pay-&lt;br /&gt;
ments to contributors are made quarterly. The amounts,&lt;br /&gt;
therefore, for June, July, and August, become payable: in&lt;br /&gt;
September, and you may inform Mr. X. that as soon as the&lt;br /&gt;
amount for that period is complete, he will receive his.&lt;br /&gt;
cheque for the amount due to him.&lt;br /&gt;
To the member the editor also wrote that, owing&lt;br /&gt;
to the long credit asked by advertising agents and,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#490) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
112&lt;br /&gt;
TISIES A Pr&ordm;THOR.&lt;br /&gt;
others, the company had decided to pay con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributors quarterly. The editor regretted that the&lt;br /&gt;
member had seen fit to communicate with the&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&rsquo; Society, and added that if the quarterly&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement did not fall in with his views he&lt;br /&gt;
should tell him so.&lt;br /&gt;
The member replied, with the cognisance of the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary, that he regretted that he could not see&lt;br /&gt;
his way to continue his contributions to the paper&lt;br /&gt;
On a quarterly basis, and that when two applica-&lt;br /&gt;
tions for payment had been made without reply,&lt;br /&gt;
the editor could have no complaint to make of the&lt;br /&gt;
matter being placed in the society&amp;#039;s hands.&lt;br /&gt;
The member, as he expected, has heard nothing&lt;br /&gt;
further, and he has done no more work.&lt;br /&gt;
Finally, the Society&rsquo;s solicitors, under threat of&lt;br /&gt;
a writ, obtained a cheque.&lt;br /&gt;
There is a great deal to be said for the member&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
action in resisting, particularly in the case of a&lt;br /&gt;
paper which belongs to a company the members&lt;br /&gt;
of which are not known, an attempt to put off con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributors with quarterly payments. The writer,&lt;br /&gt;
who has been a journalist all his life, knows of mo&lt;br /&gt;
paper other than that referred to which pays&lt;br /&gt;
quarterly. He is informed, however, that some&lt;br /&gt;
exist.&lt;br /&gt;
The arrangement is, nevertheless, an inequitable&lt;br /&gt;
one. The contributor&rsquo;s work is begun and finished&lt;br /&gt;
before the office staff and the printers have done a&lt;br /&gt;
stroke. If there is to be any differentiation between&lt;br /&gt;
those to whom payments are due, it should not be&lt;br /&gt;
at the expense of those who have written the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;copy&rsquo; that the staff and printers have to&lt;br /&gt;
handle. *&lt;br /&gt;
There is only one practice in connection with&lt;br /&gt;
the payment of contributors that is as bad as the&lt;br /&gt;
quarterly arrangement, and that is payment on&lt;br /&gt;
demand. It is impossible for a contributor to see&lt;br /&gt;
every issue of every paper to which he may send&lt;br /&gt;
work, and even if he orders copies he cannot always&lt;br /&gt;
obtain them. Copies have been reported &ldquo;out of&lt;br /&gt;
print&rsquo;&rsquo; even when ordered in advance through the&lt;br /&gt;
usual channels. This happened in a case lately in&lt;br /&gt;
the hands of the secretary of the society. The&lt;br /&gt;
time seems to have come when a protest should be&lt;br /&gt;
made against the system of payment on demand.&lt;br /&gt;
The net result of it is to leave in the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
the newspaper proprietors concerned a consider-&lt;br /&gt;
able balance on account of not paid-for contributions.&lt;br /&gt;
In the case of a daily paper this must amount to a&lt;br /&gt;
large sum in the course of a year. -&lt;br /&gt;
The plan not only of paying on publication, but&lt;br /&gt;
of sending a voucher copy of the issue containing&lt;br /&gt;
the article to the contributor who has written it, is&lt;br /&gt;
that to which proprietors should be pressed to&lt;br /&gt;
conform as a matter of equity, courtesy and good&lt;br /&gt;
business. The Manchester Guardian is conspicuous&lt;br /&gt;
..among daily papers in Sending a voucher copy.&lt;br /&gt;
Even the Quarterly Review, which costs six shillings&lt;br /&gt;
to buy, and carries a good deal of postage, is sent&lt;br /&gt;
to those who have articles in it.&lt;br /&gt;
As journals are increasingly owned by companies,&lt;br /&gt;
the directors of which know little of and care littl&eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
for the traditions of journalism, there will be&lt;br /&gt;
no doubt a larger number of cases in which the&lt;br /&gt;
payment of contributors is put off to the latest&lt;br /&gt;
possible date, and it behoves those in the profession&lt;br /&gt;
who value fair dealing to resist.&lt;br /&gt;
I should be very glad to receive from readers&lt;br /&gt;
of The Author the names of papers which pay&lt;br /&gt;
quarterly or on demand, with a view, if the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee of the Society approve, to publication of the&lt;br /&gt;
names of the journals in these columns as a&lt;br /&gt;
cautionary measure, or as a step to friendly&lt;br /&gt;
remonstrance.&lt;br /&gt;
It should be added that even the practice of the&lt;br /&gt;
best publications, of paying on publication, may be,&lt;br /&gt;
although an undoubted step in advance, by no&lt;br /&gt;
means an ideal arrangement. A very special&lt;br /&gt;
authority on the relations of editors and con-&lt;br /&gt;
tributors writes to me: &ldquo;I should like to say that&lt;br /&gt;
I think payment on publication is in a great many&lt;br /&gt;
cases almost as bad and, in Some cases, even worse&lt;br /&gt;
than payment quarterly. I have known articles in&lt;br /&gt;
the big reviews held up for two, and even three,&lt;br /&gt;
years. I think editors, in order to be businesslike,&lt;br /&gt;
ought really to drop a post-card as soon as they&lt;br /&gt;
decide to accept an article and, if possible, to pay&lt;br /&gt;
for all articles accepted within the week. The&lt;br /&gt;
Way editors keep authors dangling on by non-&lt;br /&gt;
publication and by no direct acceptance is some-&lt;br /&gt;
times very unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
HOME COUNTIES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE BERLIN convenTION.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;s&ordm;-0&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
HE Report of the Departmental Committee on&lt;br /&gt;
the Law of Copyright was issued to the public&lt;br /&gt;
on December 20, just as The Author was&lt;br /&gt;
going to press. In order to get the magazine out&lt;br /&gt;
by January 1, 1910, it was necessary to send to&lt;br /&gt;
Press earlier than usual on account of the Christ-&lt;br /&gt;
mas holidays. The Report is of such importance&lt;br /&gt;
that it would have been a mistake to publish any&lt;br /&gt;
superficial comments upon it in the current issue&lt;br /&gt;
of The Author. A considered criticism will be&lt;br /&gt;
published in due course.&lt;br /&gt;
We are glad to notice that the committee&lt;br /&gt;
recommend an extension of the copyright term to&lt;br /&gt;
life and fifty years, with only two dissentient&lt;br /&gt;
members. Another point of importance is the&lt;br /&gt;
fact that there is no minority report issued.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. (#491) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
TFIE AUTISIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
113&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
1. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any&lt;br /&gt;
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they&lt;br /&gt;
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel&amp;#039;s opinion without&lt;br /&gt;
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee&lt;br /&gt;
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved&lt;br /&gt;
member, and all costs borne by the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers&amp;#039; agreements do not fall within the experi-&lt;br /&gt;
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use&lt;br /&gt;
the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send&lt;br /&gt;
the document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society&lt;br /&gt;
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you&lt;br /&gt;
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are&lt;br /&gt;
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting&lt;br /&gt;
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-&lt;br /&gt;
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:&lt;br /&gt;
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action&lt;br /&gt;
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce&lt;br /&gt;
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-&lt;br /&gt;
lars of the Society&rsquo;s work can be obtained in the&lt;br /&gt;
Prospectus.&lt;br /&gt;
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary&lt;br /&gt;
&ordm;: without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful&lt;br /&gt;
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to&lt;br /&gt;
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit&lt;br /&gt;
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
This&lt;br /&gt;
The&lt;br /&gt;
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
must be done within fourteen days of first execution,&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members,&lt;br /&gt;
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from&lt;br /&gt;
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so&lt;br /&gt;
do some publishers. Members can make their own&lt;br /&gt;
deductions and act accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The subscription to the Society is &pound;1 1s. per&lt;br /&gt;
annum, or &pound;10 10s. for life membership.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS&lt;br /&gt;
OF BOOKS.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
E RE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property &mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
I. Selling it Outright.&lt;br /&gt;
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be&lt;br /&gt;
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a&lt;br /&gt;
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement). -&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo;office expenses,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor |&lt;br /&gt;
III. The Royalty System.&lt;br /&gt;
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form&lt;br /&gt;
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know&lt;br /&gt;
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now&lt;br /&gt;
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the&lt;br /&gt;
truth, From time to time very important figures connected&lt;br /&gt;
with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A Commission Agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
General.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
IO 63.IlS.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld. -&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS,&lt;br /&gt;
&ordm;&lt;br /&gt;
w&lt;br /&gt;
- &mdash;dh-&lt;br /&gt;
--~~&lt;br /&gt;
- EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-&lt;br /&gt;
petent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manageT.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays&lt;br /&gt;
in three or more acts:&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This&lt;br /&gt;
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into&lt;br /&gt;
such a contract should stipulate in the contract&lt;br /&gt;
for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills. -&lt;br /&gt;
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114&lt;br /&gt;
THE A DTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
(b.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to&lt;br /&gt;
perform on the basis of percentages on&lt;br /&gt;
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5&lt;br /&gt;
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
(e.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to&lt;br /&gt;
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed&lt;br /&gt;
nightly fees). This method should be always&lt;br /&gt;
avoided except in cases where the fees are&lt;br /&gt;
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction&lt;br /&gt;
is of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed-&lt;br /&gt;
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, those authors desirous of further information&lt;br /&gt;
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ordm;-e&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND&lt;br /&gt;
ORIGINAL PLAYS.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
NCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper&lt;br /&gt;
forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with&lt;br /&gt;
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will&lt;br /&gt;
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-&lt;br /&gt;
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author&lt;br /&gt;
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies&lt;br /&gt;
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by&lt;br /&gt;
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.&lt;br /&gt;
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same&lt;br /&gt;
aules, with the exception that a play will be charged for&lt;br /&gt;
at the price of 2s. 6d. per act. -&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.&lt;br /&gt;
-o-&ordm;-e&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the&lt;br /&gt;
L assistance of producers of books and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
authors. . It must, however, be pointed out that, as&lt;br /&gt;
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical&lt;br /&gt;
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-&lt;br /&gt;
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
property. The musical composer has very often the two&lt;br /&gt;
rights to deal with&mdash;performing right and copyright. He&lt;br /&gt;
should be especially careful therefore when entering into&lt;br /&gt;
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration&lt;br /&gt;
the warnings stated above.&lt;br /&gt;
STAMPING MUSIC.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on&lt;br /&gt;
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part&lt;br /&gt;
of 100. The members&amp;#039; stamps are kept in the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the&lt;br /&gt;
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.&lt;br /&gt;
e&mdash;&ordm;- e.&lt;br /&gt;
w = \&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH,&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&mdash;3&ndash;0&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
M branch of its work by informing young writers&lt;br /&gt;
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and&lt;br /&gt;
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry&lt;br /&gt;
and dramatic Works, and when it is possible, under&lt;br /&gt;
Special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The&lt;br /&gt;
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The&lt;br /&gt;
fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
* A&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
w-up- w&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;THE AUTHOR.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;t-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of&lt;br /&gt;
T the Society that, although the paper is sent to them&lt;br /&gt;
free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a&lt;br /&gt;
very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
58. 6d. Subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for &ldquo;The Author&rdquo; should be addressed&lt;br /&gt;
to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the&lt;br /&gt;
Editor on all literary matters treated from the stand-&lt;br /&gt;
point of art or business, but on no other subjects whatever.&lt;br /&gt;
Every effort will be made to return articles which cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; &mdash;-&ordm;- a&lt;br /&gt;
-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
v&ordm;y w&lt;br /&gt;
REMITTANCEs.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;4&mdash;&ordm;-t&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice&lt;br /&gt;
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.&lt;br /&gt;
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and&lt;br /&gt;
Smith&amp;#039;s Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
115&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ordm;-e&mdash; -&lt;br /&gt;
COLLES v. MAUGHAM.&lt;br /&gt;
AN important case, of interest to members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, has just been decided before Mr. Justice&lt;br /&gt;
Channell and a special jury. The case was brought&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. W. Morris Colles, literary agent, against&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, dramatic author, and&lt;br /&gt;
related to a claim made by the plaintiff on the&lt;br /&gt;
defendant for commission for agency work.&lt;br /&gt;
The committee, before deciding to defend the&lt;br /&gt;
case, took counsel&amp;#039;s opinion, which was very&lt;br /&gt;
strongly in favour of the Society&amp;#039;s contesting the&lt;br /&gt;
claim on the ground that the plaintiff had no cause&lt;br /&gt;
of action. The committee, in addition, felt that it&lt;br /&gt;
was most important to have some distinct judg-&lt;br /&gt;
ment in order to be able to ascertain the rights&lt;br /&gt;
and wrongs of agency claims.&lt;br /&gt;
The verdict of the jury in the present case has,&lt;br /&gt;
however, been given against the member of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society to the extent of half the commission&lt;br /&gt;
claimed by the agent, who accordingly obtained&lt;br /&gt;
judgment for &pound;21 10s. and costs. The present&lt;br /&gt;
note is being written during the Christmas legal&lt;br /&gt;
vacation, and the advisers of the Society are con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidering the propriety of applying for a new trial,&lt;br /&gt;
so that the case is still to some extent sub judice,&lt;br /&gt;
and further comment on it must be deferred for a&lt;br /&gt;
short time.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ordm;-e&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE ELECTION.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ordm;-e&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
IN pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of&lt;br /&gt;
Association of the Society, the committee&lt;br /&gt;
give notice that the election of members to&lt;br /&gt;
the committee of management will be proceeded&lt;br /&gt;
with in the following manner &mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
(1) One-third of the members of the present&lt;br /&gt;
committee of management retire from office in&lt;br /&gt;
accordance with Article 17.&lt;br /&gt;
(2) The members desiring to offer themselves for&lt;br /&gt;
re-election who have been nominated by the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee are Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Mr. Comyns&lt;br /&gt;
Carr, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, and Mr. Francis Storr.&lt;br /&gt;
(3) The date fixed by the committee up to&lt;br /&gt;
which nominations by the subscribing members&lt;br /&gt;
of candidates for election to the new committee&lt;br /&gt;
may be made is the 15th day of February.&lt;br /&gt;
(4) The committee nominate the following&lt;br /&gt;
candidates, being subscribing members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, to fill the vacancies caused by the retire-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of one-third of the committee, according to&lt;br /&gt;
the new constitution :-&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Comyns Carr.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Francis Storr.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee remind the members that, under&lt;br /&gt;
Article 19 of the amended articles of association,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;any two subscribing members of the society may&lt;br /&gt;
hominate one or more subscribing members, other&lt;br /&gt;
than themselves, not exceeding the number of&lt;br /&gt;
Vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent&lt;br /&gt;
t&ordm; the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed by&lt;br /&gt;
the candidate or candidates expressing willingness&lt;br /&gt;
to accept the duties of the post.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Members desiring to exercise their powers under&lt;br /&gt;
this rule must send in the name of the candidate&lt;br /&gt;
9, candidates they nominate, not exceeding four in&lt;br /&gt;
all, on or before the 15th day of February, together&lt;br /&gt;
With an accompanying letter written by the candi-&lt;br /&gt;
date, or candidates expressing readiness to accept&lt;br /&gt;
nomination. The complete list of candidates will&lt;br /&gt;
be printed in the March issue of The Auſ/or.&lt;br /&gt;
Having regard to the fact that the present Com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee have been in office just over a year, the com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee consider it in the interest of the society not&lt;br /&gt;
to suggest any change at the present time. They&lt;br /&gt;
have therefore re-nominated the four retiring&lt;br /&gt;
members. C&lt;br /&gt;
A &mdash;&ordm;- A.&lt;br /&gt;
~y-&lt;br /&gt;
w w&lt;br /&gt;
THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
Is accordance with annual custom, and in order&lt;br /&gt;
to give members of the society, should they&lt;br /&gt;
desire to appoint a fresh member to the&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has&lt;br /&gt;
been thought advisable to place in The Author a&lt;br /&gt;
complete statement of the method of election under&lt;br /&gt;
the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
Under that scheme the committee is composed of&lt;br /&gt;
three members elected by the committee of the&lt;br /&gt;
society, three members elected by the society at the&lt;br /&gt;
general meeting, and the chairman of the society&lt;br /&gt;
for the time being, ex officio. The three members&lt;br /&gt;
elected at the general meeting when the fund was&lt;br /&gt;
started were Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. M. H. Spiel-&lt;br /&gt;
mann, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie. These have in turn&lt;br /&gt;
during the past years resigned, and, submitting&lt;br /&gt;
their names for re-election, have been unanimously&lt;br /&gt;
re-elected. Mr. Morley Roberts resigned and was&lt;br /&gt;
re-elected in 1909. This year Mr. M. H. Spielmann,&lt;br /&gt;
under the rules of the scheme, tenders his resigna-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and submits his name for re-election. The&lt;br /&gt;
members have power to put forward other names&lt;br /&gt;
under clause 9, which runs as follows:&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com-&lt;br /&gt;
imittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring&lt;br /&gt;
member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing&lt;br /&gt;
to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general&lt;br /&gt;
meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the&lt;br /&gt;
nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by&lt;br /&gt;
at least three members of the society. A list of the names&lt;br /&gt;
of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members&lt;br /&gt;
of the society, with the annual report of the Managing&lt;br /&gt;
Committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes&lt;br /&gt;
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116&lt;br /&gt;
TFIES A UſTISIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
In case any member should desire to refer to the&lt;br /&gt;
list of members, the list, taking the elections up to&lt;br /&gt;
the end of July, 1907, was published in October&lt;br /&gt;
of that year. This list is complete, with the excep-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the thirty-eight members referred to in the&lt;br /&gt;
short preface. All further elections have been duly&lt;br /&gt;
notified in The Author. They can easily be referred&lt;br /&gt;
to, as members receive a copy every month.&lt;br /&gt;
It will be as well, therefore, should any of the&lt;br /&gt;
members desire to put forward a candidate, to take&lt;br /&gt;
the matter within their immediate consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
The general meeting of the society has usually&lt;br /&gt;
been held towards the end of February or the&lt;br /&gt;
beginning of March. It is essential that all&lt;br /&gt;
nominations should be in the hands of the secretary&lt;br /&gt;
before the 31st of January, 1910.&lt;br /&gt;
UNITED STATES NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
EFORE these notes are in type the new&lt;br /&gt;
American Academy, which has been in&lt;br /&gt;
embryo for the last five years, will have&lt;br /&gt;
fairly come to the birth. Of the sixty-two originally&lt;br /&gt;
selected members, seventeen have dropped out of&lt;br /&gt;
the ranks, the latest casualties having been H. C. Lea&lt;br /&gt;
and Richard Watson Gilder. If the desirableness of&lt;br /&gt;
the institution itself be conceded, few will, we think,&lt;br /&gt;
be found to quarrel with the names, a list of which&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in a recent number of the Chicago Dial.&lt;br /&gt;
It will be agreed by most Americans that the&lt;br /&gt;
book of the fall, if not the book of the year, has&lt;br /&gt;
been the veteran John Bigelow&rsquo;s &ldquo;Retrospections&lt;br /&gt;
of an Active Life.&rdquo; The three volumes cover no&lt;br /&gt;
less a period than fifty years&mdash;from 1817 to 1867&ndash;&lt;br /&gt;
and there is said to be more to come. Much of it&lt;br /&gt;
is concerned with the diplomatic life of Mr. Bigelow&lt;br /&gt;
at Paris, where he played a notable part at a&lt;br /&gt;
critical period of his country&amp;#039;s fortunes. There are&lt;br /&gt;
also notable personal estimates of Lincoln and&lt;br /&gt;
Seward ; and historical points of interest, such as&lt;br /&gt;
the death of Toussaint l&rsquo;Ouverture and the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
gress of the Monroe Doctrine, receive much atten-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. On the latter peril Mr. Bigelow is more&lt;br /&gt;
cautious and conservative than the men of to-day.&lt;br /&gt;
The third volume will be valuable to the historian&lt;br /&gt;
for the mass of material in the shape of confiden-&lt;br /&gt;
tial correspondence concerning the unfortunate&lt;br /&gt;
Mexican adventure of Napoleon III.&lt;br /&gt;
Several other notable biographical works are&lt;br /&gt;
also signalising this season. There are George&lt;br /&gt;
F. Parker&rsquo;s &ldquo;Recollections of Grover Cleveland,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and the story of Fulton&amp;#039;s achievements by his&lt;br /&gt;
descendant Alice Craty Sutcliffe, both of which&lt;br /&gt;
come from the Century Company; &ldquo;Home Letters&lt;br /&gt;
of General Sherman&rsquo;&rsquo; (extending from the West&lt;br /&gt;
Point period in 1837 through the war till 1888),&lt;br /&gt;
edited by M.A. De Wolfe. Howe, issued by&lt;br /&gt;
Scribners ; &ldquo;The Diary of President James&lt;br /&gt;
K. Polk,&rdquo; edited by Adlai E. Stevenson ; and&lt;br /&gt;
Clark E. Carr&rsquo;s &ldquo;Study of Stephen Douglas,&rdquo; by&lt;br /&gt;
the McClurg Company ; not to mention Emerson&rsquo;s&lt;br /&gt;
Journals, Stanley&rsquo;s &ldquo;Autobiography,&rdquo; William&lt;br /&gt;
Winter&rsquo;s &ldquo;Life and Art of Richard Mansfield,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and Eugenie Paul Jefferson&rsquo;s &ldquo;Intimate Recollec-&lt;br /&gt;
tions of Joseph Jefferson.&rdquo; It is a veritable&lt;br /&gt;
embarras de richesse.&lt;br /&gt;
Cleveland&amp;#039;s Vice-president and Polk&amp;#039;s editor&lt;br /&gt;
gives us some fine miscellaneous feeding in his&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Something of Men I have Known,&rdquo; which is full&lt;br /&gt;
of good stories. &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Apropos of the &ldquo;Pigskin Library&rdquo; catalogue at&lt;br /&gt;
the end of one of Mr. Roosevelt&amp;#039;s recent Scribner&lt;br /&gt;
articles, a writer in the Dial suggested that &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Pigskin Library,&rdquo; edited by Theodore Roosevelt,&lt;br /&gt;
might not be a bad venture for some enterprising&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, &ldquo;especially if he could announce the&lt;br /&gt;
volumes as bound in skins of the distinguished&lt;br /&gt;
editor&amp;#039;s own procuring &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Judge Shute has followed up his &ldquo;Real Diary of&lt;br /&gt;
a Real Boy&rdquo; with &ldquo;Farming It,&rdquo; which purports to&lt;br /&gt;
be the narrative of his experiences as an amateur&lt;br /&gt;
agriculturist in the region of Exeter, New Hamp-&lt;br /&gt;
shire. The judge makes free with the names of&lt;br /&gt;
his friends and neighbours, nay more, with his own,&lt;br /&gt;
his wife&amp;#039;s and his children&amp;#039;s, and does not stick too&lt;br /&gt;
closely to his text. Yet there are some who charge&lt;br /&gt;
him with &ldquo;fiction.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Wilbur L. Cross&rsquo;s &ldquo;Life and Times of&lt;br /&gt;
Laurence Sterne,&rdquo; like Emerson&amp;#039;s Journal, com-&lt;br /&gt;
bines biographical and literary interest. Five&lt;br /&gt;
years ago the author, in his edition of Sterne,&lt;br /&gt;
was the first to print &ldquo;The Journal to Eliza.&rdquo; In&lt;br /&gt;
the present work he has used other unedited&lt;br /&gt;
material. Although he has made his objective a&lt;br /&gt;
personal rather than a literary life, it seems likely&lt;br /&gt;
that the book, from its fulness, accuracy and fresh-&lt;br /&gt;
ness, will prove, in many aspects of the subject, a&lt;br /&gt;
definitive record. .&lt;br /&gt;
On October 21, the anniversary of the distin-&lt;br /&gt;
guished Harvard professor&amp;#039;s death, the Charles&lt;br /&gt;
Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship in the Arch&aelig;o-&lt;br /&gt;
logical Institute of America was endowed by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
James Loch. Preference in the choice of lecturers&lt;br /&gt;
is to be given to European scholars, but Americans&lt;br /&gt;
are not to be wholly barred.&lt;br /&gt;
Nearly the same day appeared, with the imprint&lt;br /&gt;
of the Houghton, Mifflin Company, &ldquo;American&lt;br /&gt;
Foreign Policy, by a Diplomatist,&rdquo; both the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tents and the authorship of which were calculated&lt;br /&gt;
to excite no small interest.&lt;br /&gt;
From the Chicago University Press comes&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Armenian Awakening,&rdquo; by Leon Arpee, a&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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THE A LITH OF&ordm;.&lt;br /&gt;
117&lt;br /&gt;
publication likely to be often referred to in the&lt;br /&gt;
years to come.&lt;br /&gt;
Henry James&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Italian Hours&amp;quot; hardly needs&lt;br /&gt;
Comment in The Author, and the same may perhaps&lt;br /&gt;
be said of W. D. Howells&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Seven Cities,&rdquo; which&lt;br /&gt;
most of your readers will have seen or read&lt;br /&gt;
about.&lt;br /&gt;
In view of the raging, tearing suffrage agitation,&lt;br /&gt;
they may, however, like their attention drawn to&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Edith Abbott&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Women in Industry,&rdquo; which&lt;br /&gt;
is issued by Messrs. Appleton.&lt;br /&gt;
Anna A. Rogers&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Why American Marriages&lt;br /&gt;
Fail&rdquo; (Houghton, Mifflin)&mdash;we will not disclose&lt;br /&gt;
the secret&mdash;may by some cynics also be held to&lt;br /&gt;
bear upon the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
On November 15 the new buildings of the Boston&lt;br /&gt;
Art Museum were opened. The Museum has&lt;br /&gt;
acquired some valuable Greek sculptures, and is&lt;br /&gt;
increasing its deservedly high reputation.&lt;br /&gt;
It is announced that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph&lt;br /&gt;
Pennell are to begin a lecturing tour in America&lt;br /&gt;
in January next, their subjects being &ldquo;Whistler,&lt;br /&gt;
Artist and Man,&rdquo; &ldquo;The History of Illustration,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo;Engraving.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence&lt;br /&gt;
Stedman&rdquo; is to be undertaken by his granddaughter,&lt;br /&gt;
Moffat Yard &amp;amp; Co. being her publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Scribner are undertaking the Memorial&lt;br /&gt;
Edition of Meredith in the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
James Edward Rogers has essayed to defend &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
American Newspaper&rsquo; in a large spirit. We do&lt;br /&gt;
not envy him his task of examining fifteen thousand&lt;br /&gt;
journals, but are constrained to applaud his thorough-&lt;br /&gt;
neSS. It is Chicago that repels the attack of the&lt;br /&gt;
foe, not the headquarters of the Yellow Press.&lt;br /&gt;
The reprint of John Davis&rsquo;s &ldquo;Travels of Four&lt;br /&gt;
Years and a Half in the United States&rdquo; (H. Holt&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Co.)&ndash;1798 to 1802 they were&mdash;will be welcome&lt;br /&gt;
to the curious.&lt;br /&gt;
Fiction is not unduly prominent just at present,&lt;br /&gt;
though Messrs. Holt are publishing for Professor&lt;br /&gt;
Canby, of Yale, &ldquo;A Guide to the Short Story in&lt;br /&gt;
English.&rdquo; &ldquo;Happy Hawkins&rdquo; has been hailed in&lt;br /&gt;
some quarters as the best story of the West since&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Virginians.&rdquo; The author is Robert Alexander&lt;br /&gt;
Wason ; the publishers, Small, Maynard &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Marion Crawford&amp;#039;s posthumous &ldquo;Stradella&rsquo;&rsquo;&lt;br /&gt;
was a good love story ; Jack London did himself&lt;br /&gt;
justice in his &ldquo;Martin Eden,&rdquo; as did Thomas&lt;br /&gt;
Nelson Page in &ldquo;John Marvel&amp;#039;s Assistant.&rdquo; &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Southerner,&rdquo; a book of some force but slender&lt;br /&gt;
artistic merit, seems to be of the nature of a roman&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; clef.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Lost Borders,&rdquo; a collection of short stories by&lt;br /&gt;
Harry Austin, is distinguished for a certain forceful&lt;br /&gt;
simplicity.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Chambers&amp;#039;s new story is called &ldquo;The Danger&lt;br /&gt;
Mark;&rdquo; that of Miss Elizabeth Robins, &ldquo;The Floren-&lt;br /&gt;
time Frame.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Hamlin Garland displays his old power of con-&lt;br /&gt;
Veying atmosphere in &ldquo;The Moccasin Ranch.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
My obituary list includes Henry Charles Lea&lt;br /&gt;
(who died at Philadelphia on October 24), the dis-&lt;br /&gt;
tinguished historian of the Inquisition and author&lt;br /&gt;
of other works on Spanish and ecclesiastical history,&lt;br /&gt;
Who was a publisher by extraction as well as pursuit ;&lt;br /&gt;
Col. Theodore Dodge (died at Versailles, October 26),&lt;br /&gt;
Who lost liberty and a leg in the Civil War, but&lt;br /&gt;
lived to write its history, as well as those of Alex-&lt;br /&gt;
Ander, Hannibal, and other military heroes:&lt;br /&gt;
Richard Watson Gilder (died in New York,&lt;br /&gt;
November 18), editor of the Century Maſſazine,&lt;br /&gt;
Scribner&amp;#039;s Monthly, and other periodicals, distin-&lt;br /&gt;
guished as poet and municipal reformer ; and&lt;br /&gt;
William M. Laffan, publisher of the New York&lt;br /&gt;
Sun for a quarter of a century, and author of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;American Wood Engravers.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The latter is &ldquo;a novel of the New&lt;br /&gt;
a&mdash;&ordm;- a&lt;br /&gt;
v-u-w&lt;br /&gt;
DIFFICULTY IN WIRITING.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ordm;-e&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
HILE many authors are blessed with a&lt;br /&gt;
fluent pen, and give themselves no&lt;br /&gt;
anxiety how they shall begin, or con-&lt;br /&gt;
tinue, or leave off, others are afflicted with a kind&lt;br /&gt;
of paralysis, and labour under an unaccountable&lt;br /&gt;
friction, which obstructs them at every turn and&lt;br /&gt;
makes composition a herculean task. This difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
isin writing very much what stammering is in speech,&lt;br /&gt;
the effort to bring out the words and to say a thing&lt;br /&gt;
being wholly disproportionate to the result : extra-&lt;br /&gt;
ordinary exertions are made, and after all the&lt;br /&gt;
outcome is no more than ordinary speaking. The&lt;br /&gt;
two disorders, moreover, appear to me to be alike&lt;br /&gt;
in this, that both more or less are due to a certain&lt;br /&gt;
nervousness. If the author, inflamed with ideas,&lt;br /&gt;
could but compose himself, could lay aside exces-&lt;br /&gt;
sive anxiety, and confront his subject squarely, he&lt;br /&gt;
would no doubt be more &ldquo;prosperously delivered &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of his thoughts. Indeed, I suppose most people&lt;br /&gt;
find that what is written for private purposes is&lt;br /&gt;
done much more expeditiously and freely than what&lt;br /&gt;
is written for publication, and often better done&lt;br /&gt;
into the bargain. Still, I do not mean to say that&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty in writing is a complaint so superficial&lt;br /&gt;
that it may be cured by a Sage precept or two ;&lt;br /&gt;
for, on the contrary, quickness or slowness are&lt;br /&gt;
qualities so deeply embedded in our nature that we&lt;br /&gt;
never outlive them, but show our tendency to one&lt;br /&gt;
or the other almost in our every act. Nor do I&lt;br /&gt;
suggest by any means that it is the mark of an&lt;br /&gt;
indifferent or inexperienced writer to be slow and&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
118&lt;br /&gt;
TriB Anthor.&lt;br /&gt;
to express oneself with a struggle. Everyone knows&lt;br /&gt;
that this is not so ; everyone knows that there has&lt;br /&gt;
been no lack even among the greatest authors to&lt;br /&gt;
give proof&ndash;what Vasari says in allusion to some&lt;br /&gt;
drawings of Michael Angelo&mdash;that the hammer of&lt;br /&gt;
Vulcan was necessary to bring Minerva from the&lt;br /&gt;
head of Jupiter. Swift even goes so far as to assert&lt;br /&gt;
that common fluency of speech is owing to scarcity&lt;br /&gt;
of matter and scarcity of words: &ldquo;people come&lt;br /&gt;
faster out of a church when it is almost empty, than&lt;br /&gt;
when a crowd is at the door,&rdquo; he remarks.&lt;br /&gt;
When we consider it in the abstract it certainly&lt;br /&gt;
seems that writing ought to be a very easy thing,&lt;br /&gt;
for it is nothing but putting down what you have&lt;br /&gt;
to say. It really is hardly credible that a man can&lt;br /&gt;
find such difficulty in it. Yet where is the author&lt;br /&gt;
who does not know that it is a labour to write, a&lt;br /&gt;
severe labour very often, and sometimes a desperate&lt;br /&gt;
encounter in which he wrestles and contends as with&lt;br /&gt;
an adversary On such occasions I have often&lt;br /&gt;
asked myself what it is that impedes me, and why&lt;br /&gt;
I cannot get on and despatch my business. For&lt;br /&gt;
doubtless much that retards us in these instances&lt;br /&gt;
has only to be brought to view to be set aside, or&lt;br /&gt;
at least made less formidable. To this end I shall&lt;br /&gt;
here notice some of the hindrances to fluency, or&lt;br /&gt;
expedition, in writing.&lt;br /&gt;
The first lies in bringing conceptions to earth,&lt;br /&gt;
and making them specific. What we think for&lt;br /&gt;
ourselves is done as it were in skeleton : here we&lt;br /&gt;
are in immediate contact with the ideas themselves,&lt;br /&gt;
so the merest tracery suffices; we know what we&lt;br /&gt;
mean at once, and have no need to enter into&lt;br /&gt;
details, arguments and long explanations. But in&lt;br /&gt;
Writing we have to communicate thoughts, that is&lt;br /&gt;
to say, we have to make other people understand,&lt;br /&gt;
other people feel. This necessitates a certain&lt;br /&gt;
radical transformation of the idea, in which what&lt;br /&gt;
before was diffuse is condensed into something&lt;br /&gt;
definite, as vapour is turned into rain. To corner&lt;br /&gt;
our thoughts in this way, if I may so express it,&lt;br /&gt;
and make them stand and deliver, often presents&lt;br /&gt;
the greatest difficulty ; for thoughts are so far&lt;br /&gt;
from immediately becoming words, as has been&lt;br /&gt;
maintained, that a person may conceive in a few&lt;br /&gt;
moments what will take him weeks to bring&lt;br /&gt;
properly out. He has the guiding points, the&lt;br /&gt;
essence of the thing in mind ; but that it may take&lt;br /&gt;
communicable shape, steady development, rumina-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, is required. This, then, is one of the&lt;br /&gt;
hindrances to ready writing. It is obviated, at&lt;br /&gt;
least to a great extent, by thinking before we begin&lt;br /&gt;
to write, and making the subject perfectly clear to&lt;br /&gt;
ourselves; for the more definite an idea is, the&lt;br /&gt;
more easily it slips into Words.&lt;br /&gt;
The question of order and arrangement is&lt;br /&gt;
another fertile cause of delay. If in writing we&lt;br /&gt;
had nothing else to do but put down the thoughts&lt;br /&gt;
just as they came into our heads, and to go&lt;br /&gt;
rambling on like a madman, there would indeed be&lt;br /&gt;
little excuse for stopping. But a self-respecting&lt;br /&gt;
author aims at being consequent and connected :&lt;br /&gt;
and so he is necessarily often exercised as to how&lt;br /&gt;
he shall dispose of his matter. This particular&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty is greatest at the beginning, and&lt;br /&gt;
diminishes with the progress of the work : for at&lt;br /&gt;
first a hundred alternatives present themselves, but&lt;br /&gt;
once a beginning is made one thing leads to&lt;br /&gt;
another. A good beginning gives an impetus, and&lt;br /&gt;
carries one along ; SO it is just as well to allow a&lt;br /&gt;
little delay here, and not from impatience to rush&lt;br /&gt;
blindly in. At the same time it is better to write&lt;br /&gt;
something near to what we would, than by waiting&lt;br /&gt;
indefinitely for the exact expression to write&lt;br /&gt;
nothing at all.&lt;br /&gt;
Next, transition must be mentioned. It brings&lt;br /&gt;
the writer to a temporary halt whenever what he is&lt;br /&gt;
about to say diverges from what he has just said.&lt;br /&gt;
To pass smoothly from point to point in a piece of .&lt;br /&gt;
writing, so that the whole runs on without abrupt&lt;br /&gt;
jerks and changes, is not always easy to manage ;&lt;br /&gt;
and thus, to be paradoxical, the very effort at&lt;br /&gt;
fluency may hinder fluency, the writer pausing&lt;br /&gt;
that the reader may afterwards the better go on.&lt;br /&gt;
Akin to this is the difficulty of returning from a&lt;br /&gt;
digression to take up the main theme again, and&lt;br /&gt;
also that of trying to bring any special observation&lt;br /&gt;
within the scope of the subject we have undertaken&lt;br /&gt;
to write about. They are both best avoided by&lt;br /&gt;
determining not to drag in alien malter. Other&lt;br /&gt;
causes of obstruction to the free course of writing&lt;br /&gt;
are trying to find examples, trying to begin or end&lt;br /&gt;
in a particular way, trying to fit in special words&lt;br /&gt;
or phrases, avoiding dissonance, and seeking&lt;br /&gt;
variety of expression ; for all these and many&lt;br /&gt;
other considerations prevent us from putting down&lt;br /&gt;
the first thing that comes into our heads.&lt;br /&gt;
But perhaps the chief hindrances to despatch in&lt;br /&gt;
Writing are moral in their nature. Among these I&lt;br /&gt;
have already mentioned anxiety. It is a great tie,&lt;br /&gt;
and not only prevents a person from pushing&lt;br /&gt;
adequately forward in his work, but makes what&lt;br /&gt;
he does write calculated and halting, depriving him&lt;br /&gt;
of his proper freedom, and so of the grace that&lt;br /&gt;
naturally accompanies unconscious and unimpeded&lt;br /&gt;
action. Instead of attending to his business, and&lt;br /&gt;
saying what he has got to say, an author Very often&lt;br /&gt;
is mainly intent upon making an impression. This&lt;br /&gt;
pre-occupation to appear to advantage, this exces-&lt;br /&gt;
sive caution not to make a mistake, brings constant&lt;br /&gt;
hesitation, hampers the movements, and, in thus&lt;br /&gt;
interrupting, cools and dries the stream of&lt;br /&gt;
eloquence. To avoid slovenly writing is but due&lt;br /&gt;
to the reader; but guardedness, which retards the&lt;br /&gt;
pen far more, only shows distrust. Hence it is&lt;br /&gt;
often a positive help to an author to make less of&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. (#497) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
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TFE A CITFIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
119&lt;br /&gt;
an undertaking of his work, and not to be too con-&lt;br /&gt;
cerned about the success of it.&lt;br /&gt;
To lie under an obligation to write in a given&lt;br /&gt;
manner or at given length is another thing that&lt;br /&gt;
prevents easy progress; for a man is thus put out&lt;br /&gt;
of his natural stride, and moves under constraint.&lt;br /&gt;
But the worst effect of any is produced by dis-&lt;br /&gt;
inclination&mdash;&mdash;a negative sort of electricity which&lt;br /&gt;
repels ideas and scatters attention. When we are&lt;br /&gt;
in this mood, dawdling is unavoidable. Some&lt;br /&gt;
slight aversion of this kind is generally experienced&lt;br /&gt;
in commencing to write, since it requires a certain&lt;br /&gt;
interval to work up the circulation in the mind.&lt;br /&gt;
Time and place, again, have great influence on the&lt;br /&gt;
happiness of composition ; for, whatever people&lt;br /&gt;
may say, there is no more fancy in an author not&lt;br /&gt;
being able to write with equal ease at any time or&lt;br /&gt;
in any place, than in his not being able to go to&lt;br /&gt;
sleep whenever or wherever he wishes. Still,&lt;br /&gt;
Control does much to master any undue fastidious-&lt;br /&gt;
ness in this particular,&lt;br /&gt;
In speaking above of the reduction of ideas from&lt;br /&gt;
the form in which we dwell upon them for ourselves&lt;br /&gt;
to that in which they must be embodied so as to&lt;br /&gt;
become transmissible to others, I omitted to notice&lt;br /&gt;
that hesitation is often caused by the poverty of&lt;br /&gt;
the thought to be conveyed. At the last moment&lt;br /&gt;
the writer discovers that his idea contains much&lt;br /&gt;
less than at first seemed ; he does not like to come&lt;br /&gt;
right out with it : and he must then either beat&lt;br /&gt;
about the bush, or waste time in belated improvisa-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. To avoid this, we must fatten up our&lt;br /&gt;
chickens before we bring them to market, or, in&lt;br /&gt;
other words, make sure that we have something to&lt;br /&gt;
tell before preparing to tell it.&lt;br /&gt;
I say nothing here of style, the question&lt;br /&gt;
being about difficulty in writing, not about&lt;br /&gt;
difficulty in the arts, or technique of writing,&lt;br /&gt;
just as in a factory there is the question of power&lt;br /&gt;
transmission, quite apart from that of the style&lt;br /&gt;
and quality of the goods manufactured. What&lt;br /&gt;
introduces needless friction ; what makes a writer&lt;br /&gt;
gape about, and dilly-dally, and fritter away his&lt;br /&gt;
time and energy ; what impedes his utterance,&lt;br /&gt;
even when all attentive; these are the points we&lt;br /&gt;
set out to consider. Having made our diagnosis,&lt;br /&gt;
it remains to prescribe the remedies. They are, of&lt;br /&gt;
course, several; but I must not be interminable,&lt;br /&gt;
and therefore shall content myself with giving a&lt;br /&gt;
single specific. But, so that I may no longer&lt;br /&gt;
appeal to a sick man for advice how to be healthy,&lt;br /&gt;
let me in this pass over my own opinions, and&lt;br /&gt;
conclude with the sententious maxim of Cobbett :&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Sit down to write what you have thought, and not&lt;br /&gt;
to think what you shall write.&lt;br /&gt;
NORMAN ALLISTON.&lt;br /&gt;
THE REVIEWER AND HIS LITTLE WAYS.&lt;br /&gt;
BY A WRITER.&lt;br /&gt;
OME authors never read reviews of their own&lt;br /&gt;
Works&mdash;or so they inform a credulous world.&lt;br /&gt;
Others not only read them, but when they&lt;br /&gt;
are favoured with a good review, cut it out and&lt;br /&gt;
keep it. Others again, a noble few, cut out all&lt;br /&gt;
the notices they receive, good and bad, and paste&lt;br /&gt;
them into a book. This book serves as a means&lt;br /&gt;
of Self-chastening when the author is conscious of&lt;br /&gt;
feeling uplifted. Not only are the best notices&lt;br /&gt;
of his works balanced by others which it is dis-&lt;br /&gt;
agreeable to recall, but the reviewer who wishes&lt;br /&gt;
to be kind does not always praise the right thing.&lt;br /&gt;
If you are the sole European authority on the&lt;br /&gt;
manners and customs of the Elecampane Indians,&lt;br /&gt;
it jars upon you to find a jovial person writing of&lt;br /&gt;
your book &mdash;&ldquo;A thrilling narrative, but we think&lt;br /&gt;
less of its main theme than does the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Anyone can Write about Indians, and what appeals&lt;br /&gt;
to us is the racy account of the doings on the&lt;br /&gt;
Voyage out.&rdquo; We knew an author once who was&lt;br /&gt;
compared, year after year, by a certain paper to&lt;br /&gt;
Jane Austen. High praise, one would say, and&lt;br /&gt;
fairly certain to exceed his deserts. Ah, but the&lt;br /&gt;
Works in question were thrilling romances of&lt;br /&gt;
adventure, as desirous as the Fat Boy of making&lt;br /&gt;
the flesh Creep. And they recalled Jane Austen&lt;br /&gt;
because &ldquo;they began quietly, went on quietly,&lt;br /&gt;
ended quietly; they never stirred the blood; they&lt;br /&gt;
Were more painstakingly decorous than &amp;#039;&amp;#039; even her&lt;br /&gt;
books&lt;br /&gt;
But these, after all, are good reviews, and if&lt;br /&gt;
they are to be read for chastening, the bad may&lt;br /&gt;
be recalled for comfort. Not so much the first&lt;br /&gt;
bad review you ever received, which you read with&lt;br /&gt;
a pained incredulity that anyone could be found&lt;br /&gt;
to say such unkind, unfair things about a book&lt;br /&gt;
which other critics had found so good, but those&lt;br /&gt;
that came a little later, looking back on which&lt;br /&gt;
you are tempted to wonder how you ever dared to&lt;br /&gt;
go on writing at all. It was a question of setting&lt;br /&gt;
your teeth and sitting tight, for the unpleasant&lt;br /&gt;
review has a staying power that outlasts even that&lt;br /&gt;
of the delightfully kind one that makes you go&lt;br /&gt;
about smiling to yourself all day. But you lived&lt;br /&gt;
through it somehow, and went on writing, and&lt;br /&gt;
you have a certain feeling of triumph nowadays&lt;br /&gt;
when the reviewers tell you how good your earlier&lt;br /&gt;
books were. It is true they are not flattering to&lt;br /&gt;
those of the present. &ldquo;We expected better work&lt;br /&gt;
than this from the hand that gave us &rsquo; and&lt;br /&gt;
* &mdash;,&amp;#039;&rdquo; they say. &ldquo;In Mr. Smith pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced a masterpiece, even a classic, and the present&lt;br /&gt;
book reveals, a sad falling-off from his earlier&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
120&lt;br /&gt;
TISIES A DITFIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
methods.&rdquo; In some surprise, you look up the&lt;br /&gt;
review of the masterpiece in question, and find&lt;br /&gt;
that the reviewer&amp;#039;s love to it was so carefully&lt;br /&gt;
dissembled that he had no hesitation in kicking it&lt;br /&gt;
downstairs immediately on its appearance. And&lt;br /&gt;
if your first books were better than you were ever&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to suspect at the time, so also your&lt;br /&gt;
personal dignity stood higher in the reviewer&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
estimation. &ldquo;Mr. Smith should really not have&lt;br /&gt;
come down to this line of business,&rdquo; he says now,&lt;br /&gt;
with pained surprise, and you wonder how any&lt;br /&gt;
descent was possible from the extremely low level&lt;br /&gt;
at which your reputation stood. If it be permitted&lt;br /&gt;
to the trodden worm to indulge a grievance against&lt;br /&gt;
its treader, you might find one in the Occasional&lt;br /&gt;
inconsistency of your critic. &ldquo;We cannot but&lt;br /&gt;
trust,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;that in the next instalment of&lt;br /&gt;
the story we shall get plenty of that romantic&lt;br /&gt;
political intrigue in the delineation of which&lt;br /&gt;
|Mr. Smith has so often proved himself a master.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The next instalment does provide the required&lt;br /&gt;
excitement, and with beating heart you await&lt;br /&gt;
commendation, only to receive this dash of cold&lt;br /&gt;
water :&mdash;&ldquo;The story is well written, and some of&lt;br /&gt;
the scenes are very striking ; but we cannot feel&lt;br /&gt;
much interest in these politics &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
But there is something to be thankful for even&lt;br /&gt;
here, for many a reviewer is driven to frenzy by&lt;br /&gt;
the discovery of a sequel&mdash;a thing that readers&lt;br /&gt;
delight in and demand. No matter how complete&lt;br /&gt;
the book is in itself, he washes his hands of it the&lt;br /&gt;
moment he perceives it is not the first appearance&lt;br /&gt;
of every character on any stage. Sometimes excess&lt;br /&gt;
of resentment leads him to o&amp;#039;erleap himself. Of a&lt;br /&gt;
certain novel a reviewer said that &ldquo;the heroine&lt;br /&gt;
was preordained to die because in a former book,&lt;br /&gt;
post-dated, her husband appeared as a widower.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
But the gentleman referred to did not appear at&lt;br /&gt;
all, save as a ghost, in the other book, and the&lt;br /&gt;
author remains intermittently troubled by the&lt;br /&gt;
problem whether a ghost can correctly be spoken&lt;br /&gt;
of as a widower.&lt;br /&gt;
There is another unpardonable sin in the&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer&rsquo;s eyes, and that is length. Here again&lt;br /&gt;
his interest runs directly counter to that of the&lt;br /&gt;
reader. Lordly in his seclusion, with his weekly&lt;br /&gt;
dose of fiction delivered at his door in a neat&lt;br /&gt;
parcel from the office, he has never waited in a&lt;br /&gt;
circulating library, watching the women who&lt;br /&gt;
extricate their books with difficulty from a string&lt;br /&gt;
bag containing various materials for home dress-&lt;br /&gt;
making and a cake for tea. He would see them&lt;br /&gt;
weighing critically the merits of two novels on the&lt;br /&gt;
score of number of pages and closeness of print.&lt;br /&gt;
They discern at once the publishers&amp;#039; catalogue&lt;br /&gt;
which, with the aid of paper as thick as cardboard,&lt;br /&gt;
pads out to six-shilling length the little gem which&lt;br /&gt;
he ran through in twenty minutes and stamped&lt;br /&gt;
with the seal of his high approval, and they reject&lt;br /&gt;
it unhesitatingly. What use would so slight a&lt;br /&gt;
production be in alleviating a toothache or a cold&lt;br /&gt;
in the head It would be gone in no time, and&lt;br /&gt;
there would be nothing more to read. As well set&lt;br /&gt;
a cream meringue before a hungry man.&lt;br /&gt;
If the reviewer could only be brought to see it,&lt;br /&gt;
it is not the length of the book that is in fault,&lt;br /&gt;
but the necessity for pretending to have tried to&lt;br /&gt;
read it through. The pretence results in a notice&lt;br /&gt;
something like this :&mdash;&ldquo;&lsquo;The Pink Lobelia&amp;#039; is a&lt;br /&gt;
novel that suffers from being interminable. We&lt;br /&gt;
have spent many weary hours over it, and failed&lt;br /&gt;
to reach the end. Of course Lord Hugo and the&lt;br /&gt;
heroine marry at last, but frankly, we were not&lt;br /&gt;
sufficiently interested in them to find out how they&lt;br /&gt;
did it.&rdquo; Then the author, if he is young and&lt;br /&gt;
innocent, writes timidly to point out that the&lt;br /&gt;
whole object of the book is to show why the&lt;br /&gt;
beauteous Angela did not espouse the gay Hugo,&lt;br /&gt;
but her father&rsquo;s old comrade-in-arms, and the&lt;br /&gt;
editor appends to his communication the sarcastic&lt;br /&gt;
note :-&lsquo;&lsquo;We print this letter as requested, but&lt;br /&gt;
we are bound to say that we infinitely prefer our&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer&amp;#039;s ending to the author&amp;#039;s, which strikes us&lt;br /&gt;
as jejune in the extreme.&rdquo; The unhappy author&lt;br /&gt;
recovers from the blow by degrees, and learns the&lt;br /&gt;
invaluable lesson that a contest is unequal in&lt;br /&gt;
which your opponent is bound to have the last&lt;br /&gt;
Word.&lt;br /&gt;
Why should not the reviewer give up the&lt;br /&gt;
pretence of reading through a long book by a&lt;br /&gt;
little-known author P Even if he likes the book,&lt;br /&gt;
his tender mercies are cruel, for he writes his&lt;br /&gt;
notice in the form of a synopsis of the plot&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
generally all wrong. Why should there not be a&lt;br /&gt;
formula of this kind&mdash;in which the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
would no doubt assist by enclosing a list of the&lt;br /&gt;
characters ?&mdash;&ldquo;&lsquo;The Pink Lobelia.&rsquo; The scene&lt;br /&gt;
of this book is laid in the Mountains of the Moon,&lt;br /&gt;
whither an exploring party proceeds in quest of&lt;br /&gt;
the treasure of the title.&rdquo; (Observe the prudence&lt;br /&gt;
which fails to specify whether the treasure is&lt;br /&gt;
animal, vegetable, or mineral.) &ldquo;The principal&lt;br /&gt;
characters are Lord Hugo Stoneybroke, a dashing&lt;br /&gt;
sprig of nobility, Colonel Trueheart, a soldier&lt;br /&gt;
without fear and without reproach, and Angela&lt;br /&gt;
Verifayre, a beautiful heiress. There are adven-&lt;br /&gt;
tures and deeds of derring-do galore &rdquo; (no one,&lt;br /&gt;
surely, would be so hard-hearted as to deprive the&lt;br /&gt;
poor reviewer of these two indispensable words 2),&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;and the love-story ends in a way which we will&lt;br /&gt;
not wound our readers by revealing.&rdquo; Too much&lt;br /&gt;
like the publisher&amp;#039;s puff, you will say ; but is the&lt;br /&gt;
publisher&amp;#039;s puff never made use of in reviews&lt;br /&gt;
already ?&lt;br /&gt;
Every reviewer is omniscient by nature, and&lt;br /&gt;
when he makes a hash of your plot in purporting&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
121&lt;br /&gt;
to Summarise it, that merely shows that Homer&lt;br /&gt;
still nods occasionally. When a mistake occurs&lt;br /&gt;
in matters of fact, it is because the reviewer has&lt;br /&gt;
gone for his holiday, and his work is being done&lt;br /&gt;
by the office-boy. If you doubt this, make a&lt;br /&gt;
complaint of any such mistake to the journal in&lt;br /&gt;
Which it appears, and see. One hopes that the&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer (or office-boy) who recently placed the&lt;br /&gt;
Peninsular War in &ldquo;the fifties&rdquo; is the same that&lt;br /&gt;
Some years ago reviewed &ldquo;The Great Proconsul&rsquo;&rsquo;&lt;br /&gt;
under the impression that the trial of Warren&lt;br /&gt;
Hastings ended in a verdict of &ldquo;Guilty,&rdquo; and that&lt;br /&gt;
there are not two people whose historical studies&lt;br /&gt;
ended presumably with the Norman Conquest&lt;br /&gt;
running amuck in the critical world. If this type&lt;br /&gt;
of reviewer knows too little about his subject to&lt;br /&gt;
find any other fault, he can always bring a charge&lt;br /&gt;
of plagiarism. What matters it that he is review-&lt;br /&gt;
ing in two successive weeks two novels which&lt;br /&gt;
appeared almost simultaneously It is smart&lt;br /&gt;
and easy to say:&mdash;&ldquo;Mr. Brown-Jones will never&lt;br /&gt;
want for the sincerest form of flattery while Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Smith lives and writes,&rdquo; and the public, which&lt;br /&gt;
knows nothing about dates of publication, credits&lt;br /&gt;
him with much critical acumen, Half the charges&lt;br /&gt;
of plagiarism which afflict the modern author are&lt;br /&gt;
based upon ignorance of the common authority&lt;br /&gt;
upon which both writers have drawn, and a goodly&lt;br /&gt;
proportion of the remainder on the fallacy that&lt;br /&gt;
the writer has read everything that the reviewer&lt;br /&gt;
has reviewed.&lt;br /&gt;
If you are a writer with a purpose, there is&lt;br /&gt;
another crow which you will often have to pick&lt;br /&gt;
with the reviewer. When you have spent months&lt;br /&gt;
of labour on the preparation of an impeccable&lt;br /&gt;
index, in the modest hope of securing a word of&lt;br /&gt;
jpraise from a paper which is strong on such&lt;br /&gt;
matters, it is disappointing to find the point&lt;br /&gt;
altogether ignored, and your book treated merely&lt;br /&gt;
as a jumping-off place for the gambols of an expert&lt;br /&gt;
whose views are not yours. But it is even more&lt;br /&gt;
galling, when you have written, say, a Socialist&lt;br /&gt;
novel, and it is reviewed in your own pet Socialist&lt;br /&gt;
daily, to discover that its message is belittled and&lt;br /&gt;
its anticipations ridiculed, precisely as if you had&lt;br /&gt;
to thank The Primrose Messenger for the notice.&lt;br /&gt;
The subject is one to be discreetly touched, for in&lt;br /&gt;
it is involved the whole question of a man&rsquo;s&lt;br /&gt;
working for a paper whose political opinions he&lt;br /&gt;
does not share. Oddly enough, there is no&lt;br /&gt;
reciprocity about the thing. You never find&lt;br /&gt;
your Socialism unexpectedly commended by The&lt;br /&gt;
Primrose Messenger.&lt;br /&gt;
Akin to this grievance is that of the existence&lt;br /&gt;
of the multiple reviewer. Every author is con-&lt;br /&gt;
vinced that he has an enemy who writes against&lt;br /&gt;
each of his books in turn in Several papers, and&lt;br /&gt;
there are some who can produce presumptive&lt;br /&gt;
evidence of the fact in mis-spellings and tags of&lt;br /&gt;
Sp&ordm;ch appearing with suspicious reiteration. Tut&lt;br /&gt;
authors themselves are not wholly innocent in this&lt;br /&gt;
Tespect. A certain novelist recently made, or&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to be made for her, the calm confession&lt;br /&gt;
that on the appearance of a book of poems by a&lt;br /&gt;
relative she &ldquo;herself reviewed the volume under&lt;br /&gt;
Various pen-names in several periodicals, and later&lt;br /&gt;
Wrote for the edition included in a certain series&lt;br /&gt;
the introduction that is signed with initials other&lt;br /&gt;
than her own.&rdquo; If an adverse reviewer had made&lt;br /&gt;
this confession, it would have been greeted with a&lt;br /&gt;
Storm of protest. Is there any difference in&lt;br /&gt;
Principle when the reviewing is favourable and&lt;br /&gt;
done by one interested in the success of the book?&lt;br /&gt;
Let us be just, then, even to the reviewer. If&lt;br /&gt;
he can be horrid, he can also be Very, very nice.&lt;br /&gt;
If he can obstinately pervert the most Original&lt;br /&gt;
actions of your characters into Something old&lt;br /&gt;
and commonplace, he can also display an insight&lt;br /&gt;
into their motives that surprises you. And he&lt;br /&gt;
likes you to purr when you are pleased. There is&lt;br /&gt;
9ne, literary journal which has the delightful&lt;br /&gt;
habit of sending the author a copy of the issue&lt;br /&gt;
Containing the review. One says &ldquo;delightful&amp;quot; with&lt;br /&gt;
fear and trembling, for hitherto, like the sun-dial,&lt;br /&gt;
the paper has marked only sunny hours. Would&lt;br /&gt;
it be sent if the notice was a bad one 2 The&lt;br /&gt;
Critic on the Hearth is resdy with the answer,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Rather and in double-quick time !&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;t&mdash;&ordm;-e&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
LAW AND LETTERS.&lt;br /&gt;
HERE seems to be no variation from the&lt;br /&gt;
issue of last year under the heading of &ldquo;Law&lt;br /&gt;
and Letters&rdquo; in the new Literary Year&lt;br /&gt;
Book. Has no case of importance been tried&lt;br /&gt;
during the past year * Has the United States&lt;br /&gt;
passed no important Copyright Act 2&lt;br /&gt;
The standing matter which has been reprinted is,&lt;br /&gt;
on the whole, satisfactory; we mentioned this in&lt;br /&gt;
our last year&amp;#039;s review, but the Omission of such&lt;br /&gt;
important things as the United States Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
Act and the cases that have been tried reduces the&lt;br /&gt;
value of the article immensely.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to what does appear, it is needless&lt;br /&gt;
to put forward the same objections that we have&lt;br /&gt;
put forward on previous occasions; but we might&lt;br /&gt;
repeat that the portion of the article on &ldquo;Ilaw and&lt;br /&gt;
Letters &rdquo; which refers to agreements is the least&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory. The article on the &ldquo;Royalty Agree-&lt;br /&gt;
ment &rsquo;&rsquo; is still unchanged. The writer states, after&lt;br /&gt;
setting out the parties to an agreement : &ldquo;A&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. (#500) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
122&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Royalty Agreement proceeds thus, or to this effect:&lt;br /&gt;
&lsquo;That in consideration that the copyright and&lt;br /&gt;
plant, etc., shall forth with belong to and become&lt;br /&gt;
the property of the publisher, etc.&rsquo;&rdquo; It would be&lt;br /&gt;
most interesting to know from where this form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement was obtained. We are glad to say that&lt;br /&gt;
there are very few authors&mdash;and they get fewer year&lt;br /&gt;
by year&mdash;who are foolish enough to assign their&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, and the great majority of publishers,&lt;br /&gt;
especially those whose names for many years have&lt;br /&gt;
stood high in the publishing trade, only take a&lt;br /&gt;
licence to publish, limited in most cases to volume&lt;br /&gt;
form, and do not think of asking for a transfer of&lt;br /&gt;
copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
We must repeat that, in a review of an important&lt;br /&gt;
subject like forms of agreement, the contracts&lt;br /&gt;
should be drawn in favour of the author. One&lt;br /&gt;
reason for this is clear and irrefutable. The&lt;br /&gt;
publishers make it the business of a lifetime,&lt;br /&gt;
or ought to make it their business, to have a&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge of copyright law and of contracts.&lt;br /&gt;
Their very agreements show that they have studied&lt;br /&gt;
their own interests in this matter. It is the author&lt;br /&gt;
that desires help, for many men write books but&lt;br /&gt;
do not live by their books. These are essen-&lt;br /&gt;
tially in need of guidance. They can, of course,&lt;br /&gt;
become members of the Society of Authors, but&lt;br /&gt;
there are still some who have not heard of the&lt;br /&gt;
society&amp;#039;s existence. In that case they would no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt desire to turn to some book of reference, and&lt;br /&gt;
if that book of reference did not mention the&lt;br /&gt;
society as giving the necessary assistance&mdash;-the&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Year Book is inclined to avoid it&mdash;&mdash;and&lt;br /&gt;
does not give the necessary assistance itself, it is a&lt;br /&gt;
useless book from the author&amp;#039;s point of view&mdash;that&lt;br /&gt;
is from the point of view of those persons alone&lt;br /&gt;
who study its forms of agreement for advice.&lt;br /&gt;
This little review does not deal with the other&lt;br /&gt;
details of the book. These will be dealt with in&lt;br /&gt;
another review by another hand.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
AN EDITOR&amp;#039;S CHAIR.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
\ | R. ERNEST FOSTER narrates in a simple&lt;br /&gt;
and straightforward style some of his&lt;br /&gt;
experiences as editor of (assell&amp;#039;s Safurday&lt;br /&gt;
Journal and of (&amp;#039;h&ordm;ms, disarming criticism of an&lt;br /&gt;
editor&amp;#039;s literary style by saying in a &ldquo;foreword &rdquo; :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In the belief that the matters dealt with will&lt;br /&gt;
speak for themselves, no attempt has been made to&lt;br /&gt;
elaborate them : nor, beyond being arranged in&lt;br /&gt;
groups, are they presented in any particular order ;&lt;br /&gt;
* &ldquo;An Editor&amp;#039;s Chair : A Record of Experiences and&lt;br /&gt;
Happenings,&rdquo; by Ernest Foster. London : Everett &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
and if, as a whole, the book is kaleidoscopic rather&lt;br /&gt;
than formal and long-drawn-out, I hope it will not&lt;br /&gt;
be accounted a fault.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
It is possible to suggest that a book may be&lt;br /&gt;
elaborated without being either formal or long-&lt;br /&gt;
drawn-out, and to conjecture that probably Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Foster&amp;#039;s contributors, even when imparting useful&lt;br /&gt;
information to his readers, exhibited a more&lt;br /&gt;
dexterous craftsmanship than his ; but, nevertheless,&lt;br /&gt;
the matters which he says should speak for them-&lt;br /&gt;
selves do so with tolerable clearness. Many&lt;br /&gt;
who write, but do not always succeed in seeing&lt;br /&gt;
their work in print, may study his pages with&lt;br /&gt;
advantage, and draw inferences for their own&lt;br /&gt;
guidance from the advice which he does not alto-&lt;br /&gt;
gether omit, and from his experiences with those&lt;br /&gt;
who wrote for him, with others whom he wanted&lt;br /&gt;
to write for him, with those who wished to write&lt;br /&gt;
for him but failed to appreciate the characteristics&lt;br /&gt;
of his paper, with those who sought to help him&lt;br /&gt;
with advice in editing it, and with others who&lt;br /&gt;
commended him and showed their interest in the&lt;br /&gt;
success of his efforts. It need hardly be added&lt;br /&gt;
that an important proportion of the lessons conveyed&lt;br /&gt;
is for the consideration and assimilation of those&lt;br /&gt;
who worry editors with manuscripts wholly unsuited&lt;br /&gt;
to the periodicals which they conduct, and then&lt;br /&gt;
complain of lack of editorial discrimination, thus&lt;br /&gt;
making the way harder for others who seek to&lt;br /&gt;
approach from the outside, and to obtain acceptance&lt;br /&gt;
as new or occasional contributors.&lt;br /&gt;
Much advice has been given from time to time&lt;br /&gt;
in the pages of The Author, derived from many&lt;br /&gt;
Sources, to those who find it impossible to project&lt;br /&gt;
themselves in imagination for a moment into an&lt;br /&gt;
editor&amp;#039;s chair, and to reflect on what may be his&lt;br /&gt;
point of view in his official capacity, or his physical&lt;br /&gt;
and mental limitations and weaknesses as a brother&lt;br /&gt;
man. These should read with profit Mr. Foster&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
chapters entitled &ldquo;Some Callers,&rdquo; &ldquo;Some Corre-&lt;br /&gt;
spondents,&rdquo; &ldquo;Would - be Contributors,&rdquo; &ldquo;Free&lt;br /&gt;
Lances as Contributors,&rdquo; &ldquo;Regular Contributors,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo;Some Dangers of Editing.&rdquo; More practised&lt;br /&gt;
writers, and those with the imaginative gift referred&lt;br /&gt;
to, will not need to be told that &ldquo;an editor has&lt;br /&gt;
Settled convictions as to his needs, and it goes&lt;br /&gt;
without saying that the more closely an article or&lt;br /&gt;
story approximates to them the more it commends&lt;br /&gt;
itself&rdquo;; but even these may derive amusement,&lt;br /&gt;
where they need no instruction, from an editor&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
stories of fifty-four manuscripts sent to him in a&lt;br /&gt;
batch, of sheets pasted at their edges and thus joined&lt;br /&gt;
one above the other so as to form a scroll several&lt;br /&gt;
feet long ; of covering letters of all kinds, including&lt;br /&gt;
appeals for charity, and containing in one instance&lt;br /&gt;
the information that a wager depended on accept-&lt;br /&gt;
ance or rejection. Most of us believe ourselves to&lt;br /&gt;
be tactful&mdash;more so, at least, than the editors who&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. (#501) ################################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
TRIES A UſTISIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
123&lt;br /&gt;
reject our stories&mdash;so that few will apply as a&lt;br /&gt;
warning to themselves Mr. Foster&amp;#039;s anecdote of a&lt;br /&gt;
contributor who sent a manuscript with an intima-&lt;br /&gt;
tion that it was much too good for Cassell&amp;#039;s Saſur-&lt;br /&gt;
day, Journal, but that high-class magazines kept&lt;br /&gt;
stories so long that it was offered on condition that&lt;br /&gt;
a cheque was sent on acceptance, as the author&lt;br /&gt;
had some pressing payments to make.&lt;br /&gt;
Among Smbjects of general interest to authors&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Foster discusses &ldquo;Plagiarism add Coincidence&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
in a chapter which describes somewhat euphemisti-&lt;br /&gt;
cally as &ldquo;direct plagiarism &amp;quot; that fraud upon&lt;br /&gt;
editors and authors which consists in copying an&lt;br /&gt;
article from one periodical and forwarding it as an&lt;br /&gt;
Original manuscript to another. Mr. Foster seems&lt;br /&gt;
to think the attitude of &ldquo;plagiarised &amp;#039;&amp;#039; authors to&lt;br /&gt;
have been unduly severe towards himself, or even&lt;br /&gt;
rapacious, when they suggested pecuniary compen-&lt;br /&gt;
sation for the infringement (involuntary on the&lt;br /&gt;
editor&amp;#039;s part), of their rights. It is submitted,&lt;br /&gt;
however, that such cases are to be determined&lt;br /&gt;
according to circumstances. An author may be&lt;br /&gt;
willing to waive a claim for compensation, and to&lt;br /&gt;
assist an editor in bringing a knave to justice, if&lt;br /&gt;
the editor on his part will take active and energetic&lt;br /&gt;
steps to punish the guilty, and to contribute to the&lt;br /&gt;
future protection of authors and editors by so doing.&lt;br /&gt;
It must be remembered that an editor who, though&lt;br /&gt;
he may have published a stolen article in good&lt;br /&gt;
faith, declines to prosecute, and is even unwilling&lt;br /&gt;
to acknowledge the fraud perpetrated upon him,&lt;br /&gt;
acts precisely as he would do who deliberately&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;lifted &amp;#039;&amp;#039; the matter himself as a means of obtain-&lt;br /&gt;
ing cheap copy for his paper. He may, in fact, be&lt;br /&gt;
actuated by clemency, or he may fear to make&lt;br /&gt;
public the ease with which such frauds are perpe-&lt;br /&gt;
trated ; but the author who, perhaps, differs from&lt;br /&gt;
him in disposition or opinion, may decline to&lt;br /&gt;
acknowledge, as no doubt he should do, that editors&lt;br /&gt;
in the position of Mr. Foster are beyond suspicion,&lt;br /&gt;
and may say &ldquo;A thief ought to be punished in the&lt;br /&gt;
interests of justice and of honest men; if you intend&lt;br /&gt;
to say nothing about it pay me for the contribution&lt;br /&gt;
of which you have had the advantage. At the&lt;br /&gt;
worst you will only pay twice over, and even then&lt;br /&gt;
my story is worth more.&rdquo; Authors who take up&lt;br /&gt;
such an attitude ought not, however, to complain&lt;br /&gt;
of the system by which contributions from unknown&lt;br /&gt;
contributors are not paid for till a reasonable time&lt;br /&gt;
after their appearance.&lt;br /&gt;
One of Mr. Foster&amp;#039;s stories is of a man who&lt;br /&gt;
complained that some anecdotes which he had&lt;br /&gt;
narrated had been borrowed by another Writer, and&lt;br /&gt;
settled the question of whether they might have&lt;br /&gt;
been derived from a common source by declaring&lt;br /&gt;
ingenuously that he had invented them himself.&lt;br /&gt;
Somewhat diverting anecdotes, by the Way, are&lt;br /&gt;
narrated by Mr. Foster in two chapters devoted to&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Interviews and Interviewing,&rdquo; and to the &ldquo;Diffi-&lt;br /&gt;
culties of the Interviewer.&rdquo; We can all of us&lt;br /&gt;
understand, even without personal experience, that&lt;br /&gt;
Some of the great people of the earth (and of the&lt;br /&gt;
small ones) are very willing to be interviewed, and&lt;br /&gt;
that others are not. It is less easy to appreciate&lt;br /&gt;
the mental attitude, or, indeed, condition of those&lt;br /&gt;
Who, after expressing willingness to be interviewed,&lt;br /&gt;
9r actually answering questions volubly, suddenly&lt;br /&gt;
impose a condition that nothing is to be published.&lt;br /&gt;
This may, of course, be accounted for by a sudden&lt;br /&gt;
change of mind or realisation of the effect of the&lt;br /&gt;
publication in cold print of a candid conversation&lt;br /&gt;
With a beguiling lady or gentleman. But still,&lt;br /&gt;
everyone knows nowadays what an &ldquo;interview &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
means, and to indulge deliberately in a conver-&lt;br /&gt;
sation with an interviewer and then to stipulate&lt;br /&gt;
that it is to be treated as confidential, savours of&lt;br /&gt;
imbecility. Even less comprehensible, however, is&lt;br /&gt;
the injunction &ldquo;No notes, please,&rdquo; which Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Foster or his interviewer (he acknowledges in-&lt;br /&gt;
debtedness to Mr. C. Duncan Lucas) describes&lt;br /&gt;
as a familiar one.&lt;br /&gt;
We may sympathise with those who feel nervous&lt;br /&gt;
at having their words taken down, but this was not&lt;br /&gt;
the motive in the cases referred to. They con-&lt;br /&gt;
sented to be interviewed and submitted to the&lt;br /&gt;
Operation, but objected to have their words written&lt;br /&gt;
down on the spot, a process which we need hardly&lt;br /&gt;
point out would be resorted to by the interviewer&lt;br /&gt;
for no dark or dangerous purpose, but merely for&lt;br /&gt;
the sake of accuracy, and so employed as much for&lt;br /&gt;
the benefit of his subject as his own. Did they&lt;br /&gt;
Wish to leave a loophole of escape in order that if a&lt;br /&gt;
statement or opinion of which they had cause after-&lt;br /&gt;
Wards to be ashamed were fastened upon them,&lt;br /&gt;
they might deny its paternity and attribute it to&lt;br /&gt;
the inventive faculty of the interviewer 2 We&lt;br /&gt;
must leave them to answer the questions, or&lt;br /&gt;
possibly the reader may find it to be one of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;matters which speak for themselves,&rdquo; and under-&lt;br /&gt;
stand it better than We do.&lt;br /&gt;
- E. A. A.&lt;br /&gt;
FICTION THROUGH THE AGES.*&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;t&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
R. RANSOME gives us the impression of a&lt;br /&gt;
man who writes because that is his Way of&lt;br /&gt;
enjoying himself. His book has both the&lt;br /&gt;
qualities and the defects commonly discoverable in&lt;br /&gt;
work done from such a motive. Being himself&lt;br /&gt;
* &ldquo;A History of Story-telling,&rdquo; by Arthur Ransome.&lt;br /&gt;
Jack, 7s. 6d. llet,&lt;br /&gt;
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TISIES AICTFIOR.&lt;br /&gt;
interested, he is generally interesting ; but he is&lt;br /&gt;
not complete, or systematic, or careful of propor-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. Whatever seems dull to him he leaves out ;&lt;br /&gt;
wherever it pleases him to do so he enlarges; and&lt;br /&gt;
he skips from literature to literature, and from&lt;br /&gt;
country to country, as the fancy takes him&mdash;from&lt;br /&gt;
England to France, from France to Spain, from&lt;br /&gt;
Spain to Italy. Improvements in the technique of&lt;br /&gt;
fiction are the principal objects of his quest ; but the&lt;br /&gt;
paths on which he looks for them are somewhat arbi-&lt;br /&gt;
trarily chosen. He says a good deal about Chateau-&lt;br /&gt;
briand, and Gautier, and M&eacute;rim&eacute;e , but he says&lt;br /&gt;
nothing about either Madame de Sta&euml;l or Benjamin&lt;br /&gt;
Constant, though both of them mark epochs and&lt;br /&gt;
have influenced their successors. Constant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Adolphe &rsquo;&rsquo; was the first of all novels of analysis,&lt;br /&gt;
and has been hailed as such by such masters of&lt;br /&gt;
criticism as MM. Paul Bourget and Anatole France.&lt;br /&gt;
Madame de Sta&euml;l was the first of those who sounded&lt;br /&gt;
what Mr. Courtney has called &ldquo;the feminine note&lt;br /&gt;
in fiction.&rdquo; &ldquo;Corinne&rsquo;&rsquo; is the source of &ldquo;Jane,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
whether Miss Corelli is aware of her debt or not.&lt;br /&gt;
In a short book, however, which does not profess&lt;br /&gt;
to be a text-book, such omissions are bound to&lt;br /&gt;
occur ; and the author must be judged, not by&lt;br /&gt;
what he has omitted, but by what he has&lt;br /&gt;
included. His merit is that he treats novelists&lt;br /&gt;
as human beings, and endeavours to show how&lt;br /&gt;
their books are related to their lives. That is&lt;br /&gt;
Sainte-Beuve&amp;#039;s method. It is the most readable,&lt;br /&gt;
and it produces the best critical results. Mr. Ran-&lt;br /&gt;
some might have followed it with more success if&lt;br /&gt;
he had had either more space or a shorter list of&lt;br /&gt;
subjects; but he writes pleasantly, though he has&lt;br /&gt;
placed himself in conditions in which it was almost&lt;br /&gt;
impossible for him to be more than superficial.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;&ordm;-&ordm;-&ordm;-&lt;br /&gt;
SMASHED MANUSCRIPTS.&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR SIR,-My sympathies are entirely with&lt;br /&gt;
your correspondent Mr. Bertram Smith in this&lt;br /&gt;
matter. His sad experience has also been mine.&lt;br /&gt;
Recently, goaded by fury to protest, I have&lt;br /&gt;
written upon the sheet of cardboard enclosed with&lt;br /&gt;
my MSS. my name and address, and below it,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Please return this card with manuscript.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
So far this has had the desired effect, but it may&lt;br /&gt;
merely be a coincidence. It may be that the office&lt;br /&gt;
boys in those particular editorial offices upon which&lt;br /&gt;
I have of late inflicted my manuscripts do not know&lt;br /&gt;
the game involving sheets of cardboard, and are&lt;br /&gt;
not bitten with the&lt;br /&gt;
necessitating &ldquo;mounts.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
May I advise Mr. Bertram Smith to try my&lt;br /&gt;
plan It may possibly save a few cards in his&lt;br /&gt;
Case, as it has in mine.&lt;br /&gt;
photographic mania&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
Fox FRENCH.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;e&mdash;&ordm;-e&lt;br /&gt;
ART AND TAXATION.&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR SIR,--Mr. W. Shaw Sparrow hits the nail&lt;br /&gt;
on the head with his remarks on copyright-expired&lt;br /&gt;
works. If the Dukes of Marlborough and Welling-&lt;br /&gt;
ton may live on property earned by illustrious&lt;br /&gt;
ancestors, why should not the descendants of&lt;br /&gt;
Dickens and Thackeray do the same thing 2 It is&lt;br /&gt;
monstrous to think that while Charles Dickens&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Works are selling in their hundreds of thousands&lt;br /&gt;
every year, his granddaughters should be forced to&lt;br /&gt;
draw Civil List pensions, and very small ones at&lt;br /&gt;
that. As it is obvious that a similar fate awaits&lt;br /&gt;
the descendants of the distinguished writers who&lt;br /&gt;
form the Society of Authors&amp;#039; Council, let these&lt;br /&gt;
clever men get to work and see if they cannot put&lt;br /&gt;
things right !&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
R. S. WARREN BELL.&lt;br /&gt;
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REVIEWERS AND REVIEWED.&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR SIR,--I read the letter signed H. J. A.&lt;br /&gt;
with considerable interest, and I am of opinion&lt;br /&gt;
that the answer to it may be found in Mr. Eveleigh&lt;br /&gt;
Nash&amp;#039;s article in &ldquo;M. A. P.,&rdquo; in which that pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher states that the first book he produced was&lt;br /&gt;
reviewed adversely, yet the work achieved con-&lt;br /&gt;
siderable success. Viewing both these cases in&lt;br /&gt;
every conceivable light, it seems to me that the&lt;br /&gt;
value of reviews of books cannot be accepted&lt;br /&gt;
as a criterion either of success or failure. The&lt;br /&gt;
great arbiter of a book is not the critic, is not&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher, and certainly is not the author : it&lt;br /&gt;
is the public. As the writer of two or three&lt;br /&gt;
books which were fortunate enough to secure the&lt;br /&gt;
favourable opinion of the critics, I am in a position&lt;br /&gt;
to state that notwithstanding my faith and con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidence in my publishers, and notwithstanding the&lt;br /&gt;
good reviews that welcomed the appearance of the&lt;br /&gt;
books, still, from a financial point of view, neither&lt;br /&gt;
my publishers nor myself scored very highly. I&lt;br /&gt;
am of the opinion that book reviews are not worth&lt;br /&gt;
a rap of one&amp;#039;s fingers. However, from H. J. A.&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
own story it is quite clear that his publishers did&lt;br /&gt;
all they possibly could to make a financial success&lt;br /&gt;
of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
- M. A.&lt;br /&gt;
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