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426	https://historysoa.com/items/show/426	The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 01 (October 1911)	<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+01+%28October+1911%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 01 (October 1911)</a>			<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a>								<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a>	1911-10-02-The-Author-22-1					1–28																		<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a>											<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1911-10-02">1911-10-02</a>							1			19111002	The Author.<br /> (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. 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A. and Mrs. Hinkson 1 0 0<br /> of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br /> April 24, Toplis, Miss Grace<br /> 0 10 0<br /> additional subscriptions and donations there will<br /> May, Walter John<br /> ;<br /> be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br /> .<br /> . : . 2 2 0<br /> May 19, An Old Member.<br /> .<br /> 1<br /> . 0<br /> year to declare another pension in case any im.<br /> 0<br /> I<br /> June 2, Wrench, Mrs. Stanley<br /> portant claim is forthcoming.<br /> July 3, Ingram, J. H.<br /> :<br /> ..<br /> : : 0 5 0<br /> Consols 21%.......... ............ £1,312 13 4 July 13, Fell-Smith, Miss C.<br /> • . 0 5 0<br /> Local Loans ..................<br /> 500 0 0 Sept. 18, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. .<br /> Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br /> dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11<br /> London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br /> ture Stock ............;<br /> 250 0 0<br /> Egyptian Government Irrigation<br /> COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> Trust 4% Certificates ..... 200 0 0<br /> Cape of Good Hope 3 % Inscribed<br /> M HE last meeting before the vacation was held<br /> Stock ............................. 200 0 0<br /> Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br /> I on Monday, July 3, at the offices of the<br /> 4% Preference Stock..................<br /> society, and the committee decided not to<br /> 228 0 0<br /> meet again until October unless business of such<br /> New Zealand 31% Stock......... 247 96<br /> Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock<br /> vital importance to the society came up for con-<br /> 258 0 0<br /> Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br /> sideration that it could not be negotiated by the<br /> chairman with the assistance of the secretary and<br /> 1927-57 .............................. 438 2 4<br /> the society&#039;s solicitors. The usual vacation powers<br /> Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6<br /> Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock...............<br /> were given to the chairman to act on behalf of the<br /> 120 121<br /> committee in the absence of the members.<br /> Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br /> Granı Stock, 1938...<br /> Three elections were chronicled, bringing the<br /> 198 3 8<br /> total number for the year up to 154. There were<br /> Total.<br /> two resignations, bringing the total resignations<br /> ... £4,377 19 4<br /> to 59.<br /> The solicitor of the society attended the meeting<br /> Subscriptions.<br /> and reported on the cases he had in hand. The first<br /> 1911.<br /> £ &amp; d. case, referring to the bankruptcy of a publisher in<br /> March 9, Boughton, Rutland . . 0 5 0 which many members were involved, he reported to<br /> March 10, Somers, John .<br /> 5 0 be practically closed, as the contracts had either<br /> April 6, Rawlings, Burford<br /> 10 6 been determined or re-settled. He reported the<br /> April 11, Wicks, Mark .<br /> 5 0 steps he had taken to carry out the committee&#039;s<br /> June 15, Fitzgerald, Colin<br /> 0 5 0 instructious in the cases chronicled in the last issue<br /> June 15, Fleming, Mrs. A. . . 2 0 0 of The Author. In one case further evidence was<br /> June 15, Sabatini, Rafael . .<br /> 5 0 required before action could be taken. In another<br /> June 16, Hamilton, Henry .<br /> . 1 1 0 he reported that the defendant had been thrown<br /> into bankruptcy, and two other cases bad been<br /> Donations.<br /> settled finally and satisfactorily. One case of<br /> 1911.<br /> infringement of copyright, started in the spring of<br /> March 3, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br /> . ( 10 0 the year, he stated could not be tried before the<br /> March 6, Haultain, Arnold.<br /> . 1 1 0 Long Vacation, and in another case, proceedings<br /> ..<br /> . .<br /> .<br /> ....<br /> . .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 3 (#399) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> which had been commenced by the society some was settled and thefagenda for that meeting were<br /> time ago had been closed by the payment of a small also discussed. The date of the annual dinner was<br /> sum and costs, without it being necessary to go into left open, it being agreed that, as usual, some day<br /> court.<br /> in the late autumn should be chosen.<br /> There was one case of a very difficult nature.<br /> which related to a publisher&#039;s accounts. The solicitor<br /> put forward very fully the issues involved, and<br /> after careful consideration the committee instructed<br /> Cases.<br /> the solicitor to come to a reasonable compromise if SINCE the last publication of The Author there<br /> it were possible to do so, and indicated one or two have been thirty-six disputes placed into the hands<br /> points which they considered should be an essential of the secretary. They may be divided as follows :<br /> part of any compromise reached.<br /> fourteen claims for money ; seven claims for the<br /> There were no fresh cases for the solicitors in return of MSS. ; seven claims for accounts and<br /> England, but the secretary reported that a case money ; three claims for accounts ; four disputes<br /> which the society was conducting in Switzerland on agreements ; one infringement of copyright.<br /> had been delayed in settlement, and instructions The average number of cases that come to the<br /> were received from the committee that proceedings office during any given month is from fifteen to<br /> should be taken at once, and that the Swiss lawyer twenty, so that the number that has come into the<br /> should be urged to bring matters to a prompt issue. society during the last two months shows no<br /> The next business before the committee was the diminution.<br /> consideration of the position of the Copyright Bill. Of the fourteen claims for money due to authors,<br /> The secretary reported the steps that had been taken five have been settled, and the cash has been<br /> by himself, the chairman of the society, and other forwarded ; seven have had to be placed in the<br /> members of the committee. The committee was hands of the solicitors. Of these we are glad to<br /> informed as to the meetings that had been held, report that five have been settled. Thus four are<br /> and the negotiations that had been carried through. left unsettled, two in the secretary&#039;s hands, and<br /> The secretary stated that all the clauses of the Bill two in the solicitors&#039; hands. Of the seven claims<br /> had been passed in Committee with the exception for the return of MSS., one has been brought to a<br /> of the clauses dealing with the mechanical reproduc- satisfactory termination, two have had to be placed<br /> tion of musical work, which would be considered in the hands of the solicitors, and two, owing to<br /> immediately. He added that it had been arranged the claims being abroad—one in India, and one in<br /> to hold a meeting of the joint committee—that is, Australia—are still open, and two have only<br /> the committee comprising representatives of the recently come into the office. Members should<br /> Society of Authors, the Publishers Association, and not forget that the legal position in the case of<br /> the Copyright Association-after the Committee the return of MSS. is generally not very strong.<br /> stage of the Bill was at an end and before the It is not only necessary to show that the MSŠ.<br /> Report stage. The joint committee would then have come into the hands of a responsible party<br /> decide what further action, if any, was possible or in the office, but also that their loss is due to negli-<br /> desirable.<br /> gence. Unless these facts can clearly be established,<br /> The Canadian Copyright Bill was then discussed, it is hardly worth while to take action, when such<br /> and here the secretary reported the action taken by great facilities for making copies can be em-<br /> the Société des Gens de Lettres and the Société des ployed. Authors should always keep copies of<br /> Auteurs Dramatiques, and stated that he had their MSS. Of the seven ciaims for money and<br /> received letters from influential quarters in America accounts, four have been brought to a close, the<br /> asking for the society&#039;s support to carry through accounts having been rendered and the money<br /> certain amendments on the Bill. The committee paid. One has been partly settled, that is to say,<br /> decided to refer the matter to counsel (Mr. E. J. the accounts have been rendered, and part of the<br /> MacGillivray) with instructions to settle a report money has been paid : but the balance is still<br /> to be forwarded to the Canadian Government as disputed. One has been placed with the solicitors,<br /> from the Society of Authors.<br /> and two are still in the hands of the secretary. Of<br /> Then followed discussion of a question referred the three claims for accounts, one has been satis-<br /> to the Committee of Management by the Dramatic factorily settled, one has been placed with the<br /> Sub-Committee relating to the financial side of a solicitors, and one is still in course of negotiation.<br /> proposal for a dramatic agent in America. The Of four disputes on agreements, two have been<br /> committee expressed sympathy with the efforts of concluded. Two are still in course of negotiation.<br /> the dramatists, and promised to assist them by Matters of this kind sometimes take a long time if<br /> bearing some reasonable share of the cost.<br /> it is a question of cancelling the agreement and<br /> The date of the council meeting for the autumn winding up the whole matter.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 4 (#400) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> As the case of infringement of copyright has<br /> occurred in India, it will take some time before an<br /> answer can be obtained.<br /> There are two cases still remaining over from<br /> July. These are both cases of account and should<br /> be settled shortly. The delay has arisen owing to<br /> the transfer of the publishers&#039; business.<br /> In addition to the matters placed with the<br /> London lawyers referred to above, there are other<br /> nogo<br /> cases which have had to be placed direct in their<br /> hich have had to be placed direct in their<br /> hands, besides two cases which have had to be<br /> referred to the United States lawyers, and one<br /> important issue to the lawyers in Germany.<br /> Very little can be done during the long vacation<br /> in the Courts, so that there is but little progress<br /> to report on the matters in the hands of the Society<br /> in which legal action has to be taken.<br /> July Elections.<br /> Haddon, John, M.A., M.D. (Edin.), Denholm,<br /> Hawick, Sot-<br /> land.<br /> Kennion, Major R. L.<br /> Varty Smith, J. C. . . Nandana, Penrith,<br /> Cumberland.<br /> . Nonetan<br /> Cumberla<br /> THE KALEVSKI MEMOIRS, 1869–1899. By ASHMORE<br /> WINGATE. 77 x 43. 149 pp. Glasgow : Vicoll.<br /> 18. 6d. n.<br /> AN IMPERIAL VICTIM, MARIE LOUISE, ARCHDTCHESS<br /> OF AUSTRIA, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, DUCHESS OF<br /> Parma. By EDITH E. CUTHELL. Two volumes.<br /> 9 x 51. 400 + 392 pp. Stanley Paul. 248. n.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> MARIAMNE. By F. STURGE MOORE. 83 x 51. 75 pp.<br /> Duckworth. 28. n.<br /> DESIDERIO. A Play in Three Acts. By MAURICE BARIXG.<br /> D<br /> 7} x 5. 104 pp. Oxford: Blackwell ; London :<br /> Simpkin Marshall.&#039; 18. n.<br /> THE LITTLE DREAM. An Allegory in Six Scenes. By<br /> JOHN GALSWORTHY. 61 x 5. 38 pp. Duckworth.<br /> 18. 1.<br /> THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS. An Improbable<br /> Comedy. By JEROME K. JEROME. 78 x 57. * 167 pp.<br /> Fisher Unwin. 28. 6d. n.<br /> THE SALE OF SAINT THOMAS. By LASCELLES ABER-<br /> CROMBIE. 74 x 5. 29 pp. The Author : Ryton,<br /> Dymock, Gloucester.<br /> THE PASSING OF BALDUR; A WINTER&#039;S MYSTERY. In<br /> two parts. Part I. Odin the Watcher. 31 pp. (68. n.).<br /> Part II, Forlorn Gods. 24 pp. (6d. n.). The Dweller<br /> in the Body. 34 pp. (1s. n.). Dawn; a Folk Miracle<br /> Play. 234 pp. (1x, n.). By HOPE REA (Garden City<br /> Folk Plays).* 73 x 43. Theosophical Publishing Society.<br /> ECONOMICS.<br /> HISTORY OF MONEY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE<br /> UNITED STATES. By AGNES F. DODD. 8 X 54. 356 pp.<br /> Longmans. 5x. n.<br /> THE BRITISH TRADE BOOKS. By J. HOLT SCHOOLING.<br /> (Fourth issue.) 10 x 67. 582 pp. Murray. 108. 6d. n.<br /> FICTION<br /> THE WONDER OF LOVE. By E. MARIA ALBANESI. 8} x 5.<br /> 148 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br /> WHITE ABBEY. By EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS.<br /> 8 X 58. 158 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br /> INTERPLAY. By BEATRICE HARRADEN. 61 x 1<br /> 463 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br /> THE LONE ADVENTURE. By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE.<br /> 7. X 5. 445 pp. Fisher Unwin. 68.<br /> INTELLECTUAL MARIE. By HARRY TIGHE. 8 x 51.<br /> 319 pp. John Long. 6s.<br /> THE BEACON. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 73 x 5383 pp.<br /> Fisher Unwin. 68.<br /> THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN. By G. K.<br /> CA ESTERTON. 73 x 5. 336 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br /> LOVE IN<br /> I<br /> A LITTLE Town. By J. E. BUCKROSE.<br /> 78 x 5. 326 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 6s.<br /> ENTER CHARMIAN. By HAROLD VALLINGS. 71 x 3.<br /> 334 pp. Smith Elder. 6s.<br /> HILARY ONSLOW. By HORACE WYNDHAM. 74 x 3.<br /> 323 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br /> TAE QUEEN&#039;S FILLET. By the Rev. P. A. CAXOX<br /> SHEEHAN, D.D. 73 x 51.376 pp. Longmans. 68.<br /> A<br /> a<br /> CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP. By KATE DOUGLAS<br /> WIGGIN. 7 x 43. 96 pp. Gay &amp; Hancock. 18. n.<br /> THE LITTLE MINISTER. By J. M. BARRIE. 71 X 5.<br /> 340 pp. Cassell. ls. n.<br /> A STORM-RENT SKY. By M. BETHAM EDWARDS.<br /> 8 X 51. 126 pp. Collins. 6d. n.<br /> THE DAWN OF ALL. By R. H. BENSON. 7} x 5. 339 pp.<br /> Hutchinson. 6s.<br /> THE CITY OF ENTICEMENT, By DOROTHEA GERARD.<br /> 8 x 5. 320 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br /> Sylvia&#039;s CHAUFFEUR. By LOUIS TRACY. 73 X 5.<br /> 320 pp. Ward, Lock, 6s.<br /> BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br /> WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br /> this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br /> some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br /> that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br /> by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br /> largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br /> other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br /> co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br /> particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br /> accurate.<br /> ARCHÆOLOGY.<br /> OUT OF THE IVORY PALACES. By P. H. DITCHFIELD.<br /> 73 X 5. 308 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 6s.<br /> ART.<br /> THE PAINTERS OF JAPAN. By A. MORRISON. Two<br /> volumes. 153–127 pp. Jack. £55 n.<br /> IDEALS OF INDIAN ART. By E. B. HAVELL. Royal<br /> octavo. 188 pp. Introduction. xx. pp. 33 Full-page<br /> Plates. John Murray. 158. n.<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> THE DIARY OF DR. JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI, 1816. Re.<br /> lating to Byron, Shelley, &amp;c. Edited by W. M. ROSSETTI.<br /> 73 X 5. 228 pp. Elkin Matthews. 48. 6d. n.<br /> THE LIFE OF OSCAR WILDE. By R. H. SHERARD. 9 x 57.<br /> 403 pp. (New Edition). Werner Laurie.<br /> AN EARLY VICTORIAN HEROINE : The Story of Harriette<br /> McDougall. By M. BRAMSTON, S.T.L. 71 x 5. 95 pp.<br /> S.P.C.K. 1s. 6d.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 5 (#401) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> THE SHADOW OF A DWARF. By HOPE PROTHERO.<br /> 74 x 5. 328 pp. Century Press. 68.<br /> THE REFUGEES. By A. CONAN DOYLE. 61 x 44.<br /> 383 pp. Nelsons. 7d. n.<br /> THE GLORY OF CLEMENTINA WING. By W. J. LOCKE.<br /> 7 x 5. 375 pp. Lane. 6s.<br /> THE SUMMER BOOK. By MAX PEMBERTON. 78 X 5.<br /> 306 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 6s.<br /> THE ARREST OF ARSÈNE LUPIN. By MAURICE<br /> LEBLANC. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE<br /> MATTOS. 71 X 5. 277 pp. Nash. 28. n.<br /> DESTINY. By ALICE and CLAUD ASKEW. 8 x 5.<br /> 328 pp. Hurst &amp; Blackett. 68.<br /> NIGEL FERRARD. By MRS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS. (New<br /> and Revised Edition.) 77 x 5. 380 pp. Mills &amp; Boon.<br /> 68.<br /> VIRGINIA PERFECT. By PEGGY WEBLING. 63 x 47.<br /> 221 pp. (Cheap edition.) Metbuen. 18. n.<br /> THE GARDEN OF MYSTERY. By RICHARD MARSH.<br /> 316 pp. John Long. 6d. n.<br /> MASTER CHRISTOPHER. By MRS. HENRY DE LA PASTURE<br /> (LADY CLIFFORD). 7 X 5. 393 pp, Smith Elder.<br /> 68.<br /> IN SEARCH OF EGERIA. By W. L. COURTNEY. 78 x 5.<br /> 330 pp. Chapman &amp; Hall. 6s.<br /> OUR LADY OF THE LEOPARDS. By ALBERT DORRING-<br /> Tox. 73 x 5. 314 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 6s.<br /> THE SHADOW OF LOVE. By MARCELLE TINAYRE.<br /> Translated by A. ALLINSON. 71 x 5. 310 pp. Lane.<br /> 68.<br /> A GIRL WITH A HEART. By EFFIE ADELAIDE Row<br /> LANDS. 7 x 5. 304 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br /> THE ROMANCE OF A FRENCH PARSONAGE. By M.<br /> BETHAM-EDWARDS. (Cheap Reprint.) 67 x 4. 270 pp.<br /> Collins Clear Type Press. 3 d. n.<br /> MRS. MAXON PROTESTS. By ANTHONY HOPE. 74 x 5.<br /> 351 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> THE NOTORIOUS Miss LISLE. By MRS. BAILLIE<br /> REYNOLDS. 78 X 5. 308 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton,<br /> 6x,<br /> THE YEAR&#039;S ROUND. By MAUD RAWSON. 74 x 5.<br /> 401 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 6s.<br /> LOVE&#039;S PRIVILEGE. By STELLA M. DÜRING. 74 x 5.<br /> 376 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br /> ARDNAREE. The Story of an English Girl in Connaught.<br /> Told by herself and edited by RANDAL MCDONNEL.<br /> 7* 5. Dublin : Gill.<br /> THE IMPERISHABLE WING. By MRS. HAVELOOK ELLIS.<br /> 7 x 5. 283 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br /> Fox FARM. By WARWICK DEEPING. 7{ x 5. 403 pp.<br /> Cassell. 68.<br /> Hodson&#039;s VOYAGE. By W. H. KOEBEL. 73 x 5. 310 pp.<br /> Stanley Paul. 6s.<br /> THE BEES. By M. ELLEN THONGER. 7{ x 5. 312 pp.<br /> Chapman &amp; Hall. 68.<br /> ROSE OF THE WORLD. By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE.<br /> 61 x 47. 380 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br /> LALAGE&#039;S LOVERS, By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM. 73 x 5.<br /> 305 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br /> THERE WAS A WIDOW. By MARY E. MANN. 74 x 5.<br /> 309 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> THE UNOFFICIAL HONEYMOON. By DOLF WYLLARDE.<br /> 73 X 5. 312 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> THE RAJAH, By F. E. PENNY. 74 x 5. 398 pp.<br /> Chatto &amp; Windus. 68.<br /> PETER AND JANE; OR, THE MISSING HEIR. By S.<br /> MACNAUGHTAN. 73 X 5. 310 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> ALL AWRY. By MAUDE ANNESLEY. 78 X 5. 368 pp.<br /> Mills &amp; Boon. 68.<br /> THE MILLER OF OLD CHURCH. By ELLEN GLASGOW.<br /> 73 x . 432 pp. Murray. 68.<br /> THE HOUSE OF CHANCE. By GERTIE DE S. WENTWORTH<br /> JAMES. 73 5. 313 pp. Everett. 6s.<br /> BERTRAND OF BRITTANY. By WARWICK DEEPING,<br /> 74 X 5. 370 pp. Cassell. 18. n.<br /> A LONELY LITTLE LADY. By DOLF WYLLARDE.<br /> 61 x 47. 207 pp. Hutchinson. 7d. n.<br /> MR. INGLESIDE.&quot; By E. V. LUCAS. 63 41. 316 pp.<br /> (New Edition.) Methuen. 58.<br /> THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND, AND OTHER STORIES.<br /> By H. G. WELLS. 78 X 5. 574 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br /> ANTHEA&#039;S GUEST. By MRS. ALFRED SIDGWICK. 71 x 5.<br /> 313 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> THE Cost. By L. G. MOBERLY. 74 x 5. 325 pp.<br /> Mills &amp; Boon.&#039; 68.<br /> A BLOOD-MOON; THE BUHL CABINET, AND STORIES<br /> FROM ALGIERS. By IRENE OSGOOD. 71 X 41. 254 pp.<br /> Everett. 28, n.<br /> THE RIGHT OF WAY. By SIR GILBERT PARKER.<br /> 54 X 41. 378 pp. Nelson. 78. n.<br /> A BAVARIAN VILLAGE PLAYER. By FRANCES G.<br /> BURMESTER. Greening &amp; Co. 68.<br /> RED Eve. By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 78 x 5. 296 pp.<br /> Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 68.<br /> ABOVE YOUR HEADS. By FREDERICK NITEN. 73 x 5.<br /> 299 pp. Martin Secker. 68.<br /> No MAN&#039;S LAND. By L. J. VANCE. 73 x 51. 309 pp.<br /> Grant Richards. 68.<br /> THE LOST IPHIGENIA. By AGNES and EGERTON<br /> CASTLE. 78 X 5. 316 pp. Smith Elder. 68.<br /> THE WOMAN WINs. By R. MACHRAY, 75 X 5. 347 pp.<br /> Chatto &amp; Windus. 68.<br /> IN DIFFERENT Keys. By I. A. R. WYLIE. 74 x 5.<br /> 320 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 68.<br /> A PASSION IN MOROCCO. By MRS. CHARLOTTE CAMERON.<br /> 84 x 51. 126 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br /> THE SILENT HOUSE. By LOUIS TRACY. 7 X 5. 320<br /> pp. Nash. 28.<br /> THE LADY OF THE HUNDRED DRESSES. By S. R.<br /> CROCKETT. 73 X 5. 307 pp. Nash. 28.<br /> UNCONFESSED. Ry MAXWELL GRAY. 74 x 5. 352 pp.<br /> John Long. 68.<br /> LIFE EVERLASTING: A REALITY OF ROMANCE. By<br /> MARIE CORELLI. Methuen &amp; Co. 68.<br /> HETTY : THE STORY OF AN ULSTER FAMILY. By SHAN<br /> F. BULLOCK. 73 X 41. 322 pp. Werner Laurie. 68.<br /> THE YOKE OF SILENCE. 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They are Cornish<br /> F THE FAITH.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 8 (#404) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> stories, and will recall to Mrs. Ellis&#039; readers her Dean Maitland,” in the Isle of Wight. The main<br /> book, “ My Cornish Neighbours.&quot; Messrs. interest is the effect of strong spiritual emotion-<br /> Stanley, Paul &amp; Co. are the publishers.<br /> suddenly awakened by a missioner preaching in his<br /> The Anti-Socialist League have republished and own kitchen-on a prosperous middle-aged farmer,<br /> circulated an article from a Socialist paper, over ambitious, unimaginative, stubborn, hard ; but<br /> the signature of “A. E. Jacomb.&quot; Miss A. esteemed by his world as exceptionally upright,<br /> Jacomb-Hood—a member of the Society of just and sagacious.<br /> Authors—who writes under the name of A. E. Edith C. Kenyon&#039;s historical tale, “ Two Girls in<br /> Jacomb, desires it to be known that she is not the a Siege,&quot; a Welsh story of the siege of Chepstow, is<br /> person responsible for the article, and has no now being issued by the Religious Tract Society in<br /> knowledge of the writer.<br /> their sixpenny edition. Miss Kenyon&#039;s serial,<br /> A new collection of poems, entitled “Before “ Ashes of Honor,&quot; ended in the July number of<br /> Dawn,&quot; by Mr. Harold Monro, author of “Judas,&quot; the All Story Magazine.<br /> was published by Messrs. Constable &amp; Co. in July. The Queen has graciously been pleased to accept<br /> We quote the dedication of the volume, which a copy of Mrs. Charlotte Cameron&#039;s new novel,<br /> seems to explain the title: “I dedicate this book “A Passion in Morocco.&quot; Her Majesty has also<br /> to those who, with me, are gazing in delight promised to accept a work of travel, entitled “A<br /> towards where on the horizon there shall be dawn. Woman&#039;s Winter in South America,&quot; from Mrs.<br /> Henceforth, together, humble thongh fearless, we Cameron, which is about to appear.<br /> must praise, worship, and obey the beautiful Messrs. Cassell &amp; Co. have included in their<br /> Future, which alone we may call God.&quot;<br /> autumn list another story by Helen H. Watson,<br /> Mr. Wynford Dewhurst has received a second author of “Peggy, D.O.” The present story is<br /> mark of distinction from the French Government, called “Peggy, S.G.,&quot; and while the former book<br /> the Brevet and handsome gold insignia of “ Officier dealt with Peggy the “distinguished orthor,&quot; this<br /> de L&#039;Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, one has to do with her school career-hence the<br /> having been awarded him. Mr. Dewhurst has title “Peggy the School Girl.&quot; Messrs. Cassell<br /> been spending the summer in France, where he will also publish, in the early spring of next year, a<br /> has been busily painting. His work will be new novel by Mrs. Watson, entitled “ The Open<br /> shown in the Durand-Rueil Galleries, Paris, in Valley.”<br /> November next.<br /> “As Flows the River&quot; is the title of Mrs. Fred<br /> Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted Reynolds&#039; new book, of which Messrs. Chapman &amp;<br /> a copy of “Pageants and Plays,&quot; by Miss Grace Hall are the publishers. The scene of the story is<br /> Toplis, under which title the old favourites for laid amongst the Welsh mountains in the neighbour-<br /> school and village entertainments have been hood of Llanbedr, a locality already utilised by<br /> reissued, with “ The Five Georges” as new matter, Mrs. Reynolds in .“ The Man with the Wooden<br /> for performance during the local festivities and Face,” “St. David of the Dust,” “The Lady in<br /> celebrations of the new reign.<br /> Grey,&quot; and other novels.<br /> Derek Vane&#039;s new novel, “ The Soul of a Man,” “The Bees” is the title of a new book recently<br /> is now running serially in The Throne and issued by Messrs. Chapman &amp; Hall. It is by<br /> Country. It is a study of a man of curious complex Miss M. Ellen Thonger, and describes the nursery<br /> nature-half-cynic, half-dreamer—who marries a adventures of a bunch of triplets, and belongs<br /> beautiful inexperienced girl, who thinks they are to the same category of books as “ Helen&#039;s<br /> going to live an ideal life.<br /> Babies.&quot;<br /> Messrs. Sampson Low &amp; Co. are the publishers Miss Mary L. Pendered&#039;s new novel, “ Daisy the<br /> of an “ Anthology of Essex,” collected by Isabel Minx,&quot; is due, this month, from the publishing<br /> Lucy and Beatrice Mary Gould, and edited and house of Mr. Ham-Smith. The author describes it<br /> arranged, with additions and a “ Biographical as “ A Diversion,&quot; as it is somewhat different from<br /> Index,” by Miss C. Fell Smith. The method her usual work, being written rather in a spirit of<br /> which the editor has followed, in her work, has frolic. 7. P.&#039;s Magazine for August contains a<br /> been to include any writers on the county, and the story from Miss Pendered&#039;s pen, wbich is entitled<br /> county writers on anything—that is, of course, on “ The Happiest of Men,” while the September Novel<br /> anything edifying or worth preserving. The reader Magazine also has a story from the same writer.<br /> may flit from the stained-glass conceits of Quarles Miss Pendered, in addition to these stories, has<br /> and Benlowes to the rude human nature, fresh recently finished a novel, to which she has given the<br /> from the soil, of to-day&#039;s farm labourer.<br /> title “ The Anklebiter.&quot;<br /> Maxwell Grey&#039;s new novel, which Mr. John Long Mr. Ditchfield, Rector of Barkham, has com-<br /> published in August, is called “Unconfessed,&quot; and pleted a volume of essays entitled “Out of the<br /> the scene is laid, as was that of “The Silence of Ivory Palaces,&quot; which will be pullished shortly by<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 9 (#405) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Messrs. Mills &amp; Boon. He has also written, for another copy was also accepted by H.R.H. the<br /> private circulation, a “ History of the Dawson Prince of Wales.<br /> Family&quot; of Yorkshire, Berkshire, and America, A new humorous novel, entitled “ Hodson&#039;s<br /> compiled from family papers, letters and documents; Voyage,&quot; from the pen of Mr. W. H. Koebel,<br /> Messrs. George Allen &amp; Co. being the publishers. appears from Messrs. Stanley Paul &amp; Co. Of<br /> For the same firm he has long been engaged upon recent years Mr. Koebel has been better known as<br /> a large work on the “Counties of England,&quot; a &amp; writer of books of travel, but in taking up fiction<br /> review of their history and records. This will again he has returned to his first love. Mr. Koebel,<br /> appear this autumn, in two volumes. At the same has not, however, abandoned the writing of works<br /> time his “Memorials of Old Gloucestershire” will of travel, and he is engaged at the present time in<br /> appear as one of the volumes of the “ Memorial passing the proofs of a new book dealing with up-<br /> Series,&quot; of which thirty volumes have been published country life in New Zealand, which he has entitled<br /> under his editorship. Mr. Ditchfield has also “ In the Maoriland Bush.&quot; It is based on his own<br /> undertaken to write two more books for Messrs. personal experiences and observations, and includes<br /> Methuen &amp; Co., who have been his principal pub- intimate descriptions of the humours and tragedies<br /> lishers for many years, and with whom he has had of the fascinating country of the “ back blocks.&quot;<br /> a literary connection since the foundation of that In response to a desire expressed by many readers<br /> firm in 1889. Miss Edna Lyall&#039;s book, “ Derrick of Miss Doll Wyllarde&#039;s novels, for the complete<br /> Vaughan,&quot; and Mr. Ditchfield&#039;s “ English Villages” poems from which she had quoted in her stories<br /> were the two first books published by that house. from time to time, Miss Wyllarde has decided to<br /> He is also editing the Journal of the British publish a collection of them in volume form, and is<br /> Archæological Association.<br /> adding a number of hitherto unpublished poems.<br /> A work on the agricultural and commercial Miss Wyllarde has entitled the book simply<br /> problems of sugar beet growing and beet sugar “ Verses.” The volume, wbich has a photogravure<br /> manufacture, by the writer on rural subjects who frontispiece, is also published by Messrs. Stanley<br /> uses the nom de guerre of “Home Counties,&quot; has Paul &amp; Co.<br /> been published from the Field office. It extends to Mrs. Irene Osgood&#039;s latest volume, “ A Blood<br /> more than 400 pages, and contains a hundred Moon; and Other Stories,&quot; includes“ A Blood Moon,&quot;<br /> illustrations. The aim of the author is to discuss “ The Bubl Cabinet” and “ Stories from Algiers.&quot;<br /> a difficult subject in an impartial spirit.<br /> The titular story tells of a devoted wife who<br /> « Above Your Heads&quot; is the title given by Mr. surprised her husband and his paramour discussing<br /> Frederick Niven to a volume of short stories, which her lightly. “The Buhl Cabinet” consists of a<br /> he has published through Mr. Martin Secker. number of letters collected by a cynical old French<br /> None of the stories has been published previously, marquis, from women whose marriage had proved<br /> all of them having been rejected by editors mainly a failure through incompatibility of tastes or<br /> on the ground that they would not appeal to the temperament. “Stories from Algiers &quot; are a subtle<br /> public. The author has, therefore, put them before study of the Algerine of to-day who retains many<br /> the public in volume form, in the hope that the of the characteristics of the corsairs from whom he<br /> editors&#039; view may be proved erroneous.<br /> is descended.<br /> A new novel by Harold Avery, the author of “A Frank Hamel has chosen Jean de la Fontaine<br /> Week at the Sea,” entitled “Every Dog his Day,&quot; as the subject of her latest volume of biography.<br /> will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley La Fontaine has a unique place in French litera-<br /> Paul &amp; Co,<br /> ture. He stands between the old and the new.<br /> G. P. Putnam&#039;s Sons published on September He possessed the humour of the Renaissance<br /> 20, Miss Winifred Boggs&#039; new story, “Vagabond period, and adapted it to the clear and sparkling<br /> City.&quot; It is the author&#039;s first novel since she won style of the grand siècle. He was closely in touch<br /> the Daily Mail Prize Novel Competition in 1907, with Boileau, Racine, and Molière, and his story<br /> for “The Return of Richard Carr.” “Vaga- must therefore appeal to all students of a remark-<br /> bond City” opens on the honeymoon of the able period of French literary history. The volume<br /> vagabond and his pretty conventional bride, and will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley<br /> tells of their life in the New Forest, to which in Paul &amp; Co.<br /> time is introduced the Genius, the woman artist, A second edition has recently been issued of<br /> his mate. The second edition of this book has “De Libris : Prose and Verse,&quot; by Mr. Austin<br /> just appeared.<br /> Dobson, with illustations by Hugh Thomson and<br /> “Gallant Wales,&quot; the fifth song Miss K. Everest Kate Greenaway. The new issue has an addi-<br /> bas produced, is published by Stanley Webb, tional chapter. Messrs. Macmillan &amp; Co. are the<br /> 10, Museum Street, W.C. A copy of this song publishers.<br /> was graciously accepted by H.M. The Queen, and Mr. Martin Secker announces the publication of<br /> G<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 10 (#406) #############################################<br /> <br /> 10<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Michael Barrington&#039;s new book dealing with “ The Ogre,&quot; Mr. Henry Arthur Jones&#039; new<br /> Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee. In play, was produced at the St. James&#039; Theatre on<br /> this work--the result of long study of the con- the 11th. “The Ogre” is the head of a house-<br /> flicting elements of Restoration and Revolution hold, and is given this nickname by his wife and<br /> politics—the author shows the intrigues of 1688 children, who are in open rebellion against him.<br /> in a new light. The book contains also a vivid The dramatist describes the method by which the<br /> picture of the Highland campaign. New military husband “tamed” his household. The caste<br /> maps, an itinerary of the Highland campaign, and included Sir George Alexander, Mr. A. E.<br /> a copious bibliography are added to the volume. Matthewe, Mr. Sydney Valentine, Miss Kate<br /> The ordinary edition of nine hundred copies is Cutler, and Miss Gladys Cooper.<br /> issued at £1 108. net. There is also an edition de Mr. Alfred Sutro&#039;s new comedy, &quot;The Perplexed<br /> luxe, strictly limited to fifty copies, numbered Husband,” was produced at Wyndham&#039;s Theatre,<br /> and signed by the author. The price of the copies on September 12. The play opens with the return<br /> in this edition is £3 38.<br /> of a tea merchant from a visit to Russia, and the<br /> “Nine English Consorts of Foreign Princes” is first act shows the nature of the reception given<br /> the title of Miss Ida Woodward&#039;s new book which to him by his wife. This lady has, apparently,<br /> Messrs. Methuen &amp; Co. are publishing on the been reading Ibsen&#039;s “Doll&#039;s House ” during her<br /> 12th inst.<br /> husband&#039;s absence, and the husband is perplexed as<br /> to the best way to meet the situation which has<br /> DRAMATIC.<br /> arisen owing to the effect of the Norwegian<br /> Mr. Louis N. Parker&#039;s comedy, in three acts, dramatist on the relations between the pair. In<br /> “ Pomander Walk,” was staged at the Playhouse on the caste were Mr. Gerald du Maurier, Mr. E.<br /> June 29. The period of the play is 1805, and Lyall-Swete, Miss Maude Millett, and Miss<br /> * Pomander Walk » (in the neighbourhood of Henrietta Watson.<br /> Chiswick) is the centre of a comedy in which the Mr. Bernard Shaw&#039;s “ Man and Superman&quot; was<br /> dramatist-introduces many character studies. The revived at the Criterion for a short run on Septem-<br /> caste included Mr. Cyril Maude, Mr. Norman ber 28. In the caste were Miss Pauline Chase, Mr.<br /> Forbes, Miss Winifred Emery and Mr. Frederick Robert Lorraine, Mr. Guy Standing, Miss Florence<br /> Volpe.<br /> Haydon, and Miss Agnes Thomas.<br /> &quot;Sally Bishop,” a play in four acts, by E. Temple<br /> Thurston, was produced at the Prince of Wales<br /> Theatre on July 25. The caste includes Mr.<br /> PARIS NOTES.<br /> Dennis Eadie, Mr. Holman Clark, Miss Agnes<br /> Thomas, and Miss Daisy Markham.<br /> Mr. John Pollock’s play, “ Rosamond,” which was NEW league has been founded in France<br /> produced in London last season at the Royalty and<br /> entitled The League against the lending of<br /> Kingsway Theatres, by Madame Lydia Yavoiska, books.<br /> has been translated into Russian by Prince One of the chief causes of the recent crisis in the<br /> Vladimir Bariatinsky, and accepted for production book trade is undoubtedly the ease with which<br /> at the Imperial Theatre at Moscow, which is known people obtain books to read without paying for<br /> as “ le théâtre de Molière Russe.”<br /> them.<br /> &quot;The Hope,&quot; by Cecil Raleigh and Henry M. Paul Reboux and M. René Blum have<br /> Hamilton, was produced at Drury Lane Theatre therefore issued a manifesto, from which we quote<br /> last month. In their latest sporting drama, the a few extracts : “Our friends do not borrow our<br /> authors find their hero in an impecunious peer, and pictures, our cushions and our knick-knacks, but<br /> the play takes its title from a horse which, they do ask for our books. We have not the<br /> representing the only chance of saving the peer&#039;s courage to refuse to lend them, and our volumes<br /> house from ruin, is called “The Hope.” In the disappear and do not return to our shelves. ...<br /> caste are Mr. Cyril Keightley, Mr. Lyston Lyle, Every borrower may be considered as one buyer<br /> Miss Fanny Brough, and Miss Madge Fabian. less, whilst every would-be borrower to whom we<br /> Mr. Hail Caine&#039;s new play, “The Quality of refuse our books may be a buyer gained.&quot;<br /> Mercy,&quot; was produced at the Theatre Royal, Man- A French writer commenting on this movement<br /> chester, on September 4th. The play has for its says: “Public libraries should, of course, be<br /> central theme an intrigue similar to that recorded encouraged for those who cannot buy, but well-to-<br /> in Scripture, whereby King David disposed of do-people who only read books bought by others<br /> Uriah in order to become possessed of Bathsheba. should be discouraged. ... One of the objects<br /> In the piece were Miss Eille Norwood, Miss Hilda of the League is to help everyone to fight against<br /> Dick, and Mr. Thomas Holding.<br /> the tyranny of sponging friends.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 11 (#407) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 11<br /> A great lover of books adds: “I quite approve Salon Carré was thronged with visitors, and<br /> this wise initiative, and I would add that, in order certainly never have any nails attracted more<br /> not to be impolite, when it is a lady who wants to attention than those upon which the favourite<br /> borrow a book, a man has only to reply that .it picture had hung so many years. The doors of<br /> shall be sent to her the following day.&#039; He can the Museum and many of the rooms were guarded<br /> then buy her a volume without giving up his own by policemen, and very strict measures are being<br /> copy. Tactful people will soon take the hint, and taken in order to prevent the repetition of a similar<br /> this will teach them the way to the book shops.&quot; We theft.<br /> may add that the office of this new League is at In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire<br /> 42, Rue de Clichy, Paris, the annual subscription are articles by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer “ Théophile<br /> three francs, and that each member receives a little Gautier&quot;; by Péladan, on · La Joconde et le Saint<br /> engraving on parchment to place on his bookshelf. Jean,&quot; and by Dr. Gustave Le Bon on “L&#039;Evolution<br /> This little card is intended as a polite method of latine du Socialisme.”<br /> explaining that books cannot be lent.<br /> In the Revue de Paris are“ Lettres de Danemark<br /> Among recent books are “ Sonia et ses amis” (les et d&#039;Allemagne,&quot; by Francois Coppée, and an article<br /> petits cahiers d&#039;une etrangère, avec préface d&#039;Emile on “Sedan” by Lieutenant-Colonel Picard. M.<br /> Berr”). “La Ville inconnue,” by Paul Adam, is one Maurice Muret writes on “Antonio Fogazaro et<br /> of the most remarkable of this author&#039;s books. It is son Oeuvre.” and Barbe Doukhorskoy gives a<br /> a story of the French in Africa, and of the influence chapter of his “ Souvenirs.&quot;<br /> of the climate and surroundings on certain officers The theatres are beginning to open their<br /> of the French army. A very dramatic episode is the doors for the winter season.<br /> arrival of two officers in an aeroplane.<br /> At the Comédie Française, “ Cher Maître,&quot; and<br /> In Marcelle Tinayre&#039;s new novel, “La Douceur “Le Goût du vice” have been given. At the<br /> de vivre,&quot; many of the qualities of her “ Maison de Renaissance, “Le mysterieux Jimmy,” by M.<br /> Péché” are to be found. Some of her descriptions, Armstrong. M. Abel Deval announces for his<br /> too, are very fine.<br /> theatre an adaptation of “Mr. Pickwick.&quot;<br /> “ Humour et Humoristes &quot; is the title of a clever The outdoor theatres have had a brilliant season<br /> book by Paul Stapfer. In this volume we find an on account of the exceptional summer. M. Camille<br /> important study of Henry Fielding, another of de Sainte Croix has obtained permission to open<br /> Jean-Paul-Frederick Richter, a study of Anatole his Shakespeare Theatre in the St. Cloud Woods,<br /> France&#039;s work, and a well-drawn portrait of but it is probable that, on account of the delay in<br /> Mme. de Noailles.<br /> obtaining this, he will now wait for next season.<br /> An extremely instructive book has been written<br /> ALYS HALLARD.<br /> by M. H. Joly, as a result of a mission with<br /> which the author was entrusted for the Académie<br /> “ La Ville inconnue” (Fasquelle).<br /> des Sciences Morales. It is entitled “L&#039;Italie “ La Douceur de vivre” (Calmann Lévy).<br /> contemporaine, enquêtes sociales.&quot; The volume * Humour et Humoristes ” (Fischbacher).<br /> contains a great amount of reliable information “L&#039;Italie contemporaine enquêtes sociales &quot; (Bloud).<br /> about the social conditions of life in Italy.<br /> “Contre l&#039;alcoolisme” is the title of a book by<br /> Joseph Reinach, in which he shows the terrible AUTHORS&#039; AGENTS, LITERARY AND<br /> ravages made by alcoholism in France.<br /> DRAMATIC.<br /> English admirers of the work of Camille<br /> Flammarion may like to take part in his Jubilee<br /> Fête, when a souvenir is to be presented to the M HE subject is a very wide one. It is barely<br /> great astronomer in commemoration of the<br /> possible to go more than round the out-<br /> Foundation of the French Astronomical Society<br /> skirts in a short paper, and to state a few<br /> twenty-five years ago, and the publication of his facts—not always obvious to the author—without in<br /> first book fifty years ago.<br /> many cases giving examples or reasons ; to write<br /> The artist Zeitlin has been commissioned to fully on this subject would necessitate a small<br /> design the souvenir which is to be presented to him. volume.<br /> Over three hundred pounds have already been The first question is whether literary and<br /> subscribed, and further subscriptions are received dramatic agents are essential. It is necessary to<br /> by M. Monprofit, 31, Boulevard des Italiens. separate the two, for their duties are the same, yet<br /> The disappearanee of La Joconde from the so different. The majority of dramatists—to take<br /> Louvre Museum has made it necessary to institute the dramatic agent first-would declare that a<br /> various reforms in this celebrated picture gallery. dramatic agent is useless. There is no doubt that<br /> On the first day of opening after the theft, the a persevering individual who lives in or near<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 12 (#408) #############################################<br /> <br /> 12<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> own does not need one. In any case, the dramatic why an agent should be free to take his full per-<br /> agent is not as necessary to dramatists as the lite- centage so long as the contract lasts. He will be<br /> rary agent is to the author. The dramatic market amply paid if his fees on any one play reach<br /> is exceedingly limited, the competition is exceedingly £500. These are hard statements of facts ; indeed,<br /> strong. The only way to place a dramatic piece is as already stated, the paper is full of these<br /> by persisteni personal pressure ; by obtaining per- statements. It is quite possible that an author or<br /> sonal introductions and by the aid of personal dramatist may refuse to accept them without fuller<br /> influence wherever possible, and, above all things, evidence, without some reason being forthcoming.<br /> by keeping up a good heart. It would be easy to The writer is stating nothing of which he is not<br /> quote five or six cases of dramatists now well known fully cognisant, and could in most cases, from the<br /> who had to wait for six, seven, or ten years before authors&#039; and dramatists&#039; points of view, show that<br /> they could get their work accepted. This process the deductions made are irrefutable. The agent,<br /> of forcing the strongholds of the managers is not perhaps, would traverse them.<br /> always pleasant, but then how many roads to suc- Of course, it should be an agent&#039;s business to see<br /> cess are? To dramatists who happen to be living that the contract between the dramatist and the<br /> abroad or some distance from London, who can get manager is a good contract for the dramatist ; but,<br /> no personal influence to bear on managers, the unfortunately, in many cases the agent&#039;s chief wish<br /> agent may no doubt be useful.<br /> is to get the contract off his hands, and with this<br /> So far for the dramatic agent. The literary end in view is sometimes inclined to give the author<br /> agent comes next. There are many more reasons bad advice. If, therefore, an author employs an<br /> why the author should employ a literary agent than agent he cannot be too careful about watching<br /> the dramatist a dramatic agent. The markets are every step he takes. This is where the Society of<br /> enormously wide; there are many rights to be Authors would be of use. No doubt, however, after<br /> marketed, and there are many markets of which the contract is made the agent can be useful in<br /> the author is ignorant; but, again, if a man is a collecting fees. After he has collected the full sum<br /> sound man of business and does not object to he is entitled to expect for his work in placing the<br /> market his own wares, and has time to market them, play, the agent might, perhaps, be allowed a small<br /> he can do so without the assistance of the agent. percentage for collecting the subsequent fees; but<br /> If, however, he loathes the business side of literary the author ought at all times to be able, if necessary,<br /> work, has such a heavy output that he cannot spare to insist upon the collection of moneys himself,<br /> the time and hates the trouble, then the literary subject to the claim of the agent to his commission,<br /> agent is useful.<br /> if any is still unpaid, and to be free to terminate the<br /> To those who undertake to place their own literary agreement in case, for any reason, he is dissatisfied<br /> and dramatic work the Society of Authors is essen- with the agent&#039;s method of doing business, or in<br /> tial, because the knowledge at the disposal of the case the agent has broken any part of his contract.<br /> society on contracts and prices which prevail is This is a matter of the greatest importance to<br /> useful to any dramatist or author who markets his rising dramatists, but space will not permit to go<br /> own work, and even enables an author or dramatist into further details. If necessary, the subject must<br /> to market his own work who could not do so other be dealt with in another article.<br /> wise. Indeed, even those authors who employ Next, the literary agent. Though to some<br /> agents will find the society&#039;s help essential. To authors his work is essential, again it should be<br /> begin with, there is the contract with the agent, exceedingly carefully watched. He is very often<br /> which is a most serious and important matter, and, under the thumb of a publisher. He not infre-<br /> to continue, it is very often necessary that the quently deals as principal himself, and has the<br /> work of the agent and the contracts he advises power—the very woeful power-of pitting one<br /> the author to make should be carefully gone over by author&#039;s work against another&#039;s, giving thereby<br /> some independent authority.<br /> success to one author to the detriment of another<br /> If it is agreed that in certain cases and in certain author whose work he may be handling.<br /> circumstances an agent is essential, it will be well The first point is the contract between the author<br /> to consider first the position of the agent and the and the agent. Here again the agent must be<br /> dramatist. The dramatist should be careful not to carefully watched. He must only be permitted to<br /> deal with any agent who buys work as a principal, draw his agency charges on contracts actually com-<br /> or is marketing his own work. He should be careful pleted by him. He must not be allowed, in any<br /> that the agent is an agent pure and simple, and one circumstances, to claim agency fees on introduc-<br /> who is quite independent of managers and syndi- tions merely. The author must be in a position to<br /> cates. Next, as to the agent&#039;s remuneration. terminate the contract at any time if he is dis-<br /> Sometimes the fees from a successful play reach a satisfied with the agent, and must be in a position<br /> very high figure. In such a case there is no reason to obtain control of the collection of moneys. In<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 13 (#409) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 13<br /> order to do so he must forbid the agent, in any the British market. If then he has failed he<br /> circumstances, to put in the contract with the should still not give up trying, but should attempt<br /> publisher a clause giving him, the agent, the right at the same time to market the work in England.<br /> to collect the moneys under the contract and to What happens now is, that as a rule, acting on the<br /> give a receipt in full discharge, a constant and agent&#039;s advice, the author lets the American rights<br /> most reprehensible practice.<br /> go to the English publisher who sells sheets to<br /> This naturally leads one to consider some of the America, and this, from the financial point of view<br /> contracts which agents do advise authors to sign proves a better bargain for the English publisher<br /> with publishers-contracts which cannot be con- than to allow the agent to place the American rights<br /> sidered fair to the authors, though they may save with an American house.<br /> the agent a great deal of trouble. And this, There is one further point in regard to markets<br /> apparently, is his only reason for recommending in which the agent is very strongly to blame, and<br /> them.<br /> that is, in allowing the publisher to handle all the<br /> The first point relates to the practice of binding minor rights. These are serial rights, translation<br /> the author to the publisher for future books. It rights, Continental rights, etc. Not only does he<br /> has been a growing custom of agents to pass allow the publisher to handle these rights, which<br /> contracts of this kind, and the agent puts forward it is his business as agent to handle, but he<br /> the usual temptation which the publisher has allows the publisher to charge the author for<br /> whispered into his ear, that the publisher will do handling them, sometimes as high a fee as 50<br /> so much better for the author if he has control of per cent. of whatever sum the rights realise.<br /> all his future work ; that the publisher cannot Thus the author has to pay 50 per cent. to the<br /> advertise one book to the same extent as he could publisher, and then another 10 per cent. of what.<br /> if he has the promise of three others; that it takes remains to the agent. The position is, on the face<br /> away from the author an immense amount of worry of it, absurd. Why does the agent do it? Because<br /> if he knows that his contracts for the next four it saves him trouble; and he tempts the author<br /> books are clear. All these statements are false, with the words of the publisher, who asserts that he<br /> and the danger of yielding to them is enormous; can do so much more for the book if he is allowed<br /> but there is one clear fact, and that is, that if the this wider control. This statement proves utterly<br /> agent can make one contract serve for four books false in practice. The really serious matter is this,<br /> he has not only saved himself a good deal of that it is not the publishers&#039; business to carry his.<br /> trouble, but at one stroke has secured for himself labours beyond the publication of the work in<br /> commission on four books that are not written book form ; that he cannot, therefore, have the<br /> books which might not even have been placed same power to market these minor rights that the<br /> through his agency in the ordinary course of affairs. agent has, and, in consequence, is bound sometimes<br /> In one word, the agent benefits at the expense himself to place these rights in the hands of an<br /> of the author, and thus sares himself trouble rather agent, sometimes in the hands of the same agent<br /> than advantages the best interests of the author. who made the contract which gave them to the<br /> The next point is the question of the United publisher. It is exceedingly dangerous for an<br /> States market. It must be remembered that in author to employ an agent who is also acting as<br /> all these examples the agent&#039;s work with the agent for the sale of works or rights controlled by<br /> publisher is referred to only, and not the position a publisher. Moreover, in allowing the publisher<br /> of the author working for himself. The agent to have translation rights in his control, the agent<br /> constantly tells the author that English books will has prevented the author from exercising any<br /> not sell in America, and that it is no use to try to effective veto over the translation of his work which<br /> obtain American copyright. This statement is made, and has prevented him from satisfying<br /> again, is inaccurate. No market is better for the himself as to the skill of the translator, and his<br /> author than the American market. If a book competence for the work undertaken.<br /> touches the American market (and all good literature An author who employs an agent who is also<br /> should be universal), for one copy sold in England employed by a publisher may find that the agent<br /> four would be sold in America. Again, the agent is endeavouring to sell his work at different prices,<br /> advises the author from his, the agent&#039;s, point of as the publisher has no reason to keep the author&#039;s<br /> view, and not from the point of view of the author. price up. The agent, therefore, may be asking,<br /> It gives the agent a great deal of trouble to place on behalf of the publisher, for a smaller rate of<br /> work in America. It takes longer, and the agent, pay than he is asking on behalf of the author.<br /> like all men of business, is out to make money, The effect upon the author&#039;s rates cannot, in such<br /> and to make it quickly. An agent ought to give circumstances, fail to be disastrous.<br /> a good six months to obtaining the American Other rights which an agent sometimes allows<br /> market for an author before he attempts to obtain an author to sign away are dramatic rights. To<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 14 (#410) #############################################<br /> <br /> 14<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> allow such assignment would seem so absurd that and never employ an agent who also acts for a<br /> it would hardly be worth while to mention it were publisher. Be careful that the agent is permitted<br /> it not the fact that such cases have occurred. only to collect moneys on contracts made by him<br /> Naturally, the publisher will try to get as many during the continuance of the agency. Never allow<br /> rights as he can. That is merely legitimate the agent to have an indefinite contract, so that at<br /> business ; but that the agent should allow an author some future date he may be able to claim moneys<br /> to concede these rights is criminal, for he is there on a contract that you yourself have made or some<br /> to protect the author and not to assist the publisher other agent has made for you, merely because he has<br /> to coin money.<br /> introduced you to the principal. Finally, against<br /> This then is the agent&#039;s position as between all these difficulties which cluster so thickly round<br /> author and publisher. It may be worth while to the employment of the agent, an author may guard<br /> make a few remarks as to the agent&#039;s position with himself by becoming a member of the society.<br /> the editor. It not in frequently happens that an Don&#039;t employ an agent; but if you do, watch him.<br /> editor will write to an agent for a serial story of a<br /> certain length. The agent, sitting on his judgment<br /> seat, will act as the proud arbiter as to which of his<br /> clients shall have the order. This position is very<br /> PUBLISHERS&#039; METHODS.<br /> dangerous, for, however straightforwardly the agent<br /> may act, the author who is rejected does not have a<br /> fair run. In addition (as an agent naïvely remarked COME years ago the society was forced to<br /> to an author who brought him in a large income but D complain because a publisher had, on more<br /> determined to cut down his charges), “if such an than one occasion, submitted to authors a<br /> offer came to me, I should naturally give it to the form of agreement which he stated had received<br /> author who paid the highest agency fees.” This the approval of the society. By this means he<br /> may be business from the agent&#039;s point of view. obtained the author&#039;s signature, which he certainly<br /> It is exceedingly dangerous from the author&#039;s. Or would not have obtained had the agreement been<br /> again, the agent may sometimes go round to an referred to the secretary.<br /> editor and ask if he desires stories from certain When the society remonstrated the publisher<br /> authors-mentioning names, perhaps, not even on denied that he had made this wrongful use of the<br /> his books. If he gets an offer he will try to draw society&#039;s name, and was only brought to conviction<br /> the author into his hands and even, at times, from on being confronted with his own handwriting.<br /> another agent. If he does not succeed in drawing There is another method employed by publishing<br /> the author away from the agent, it may mean that houses which, while it is not damaging to the<br /> the author will have to pay commission to both reputation of the society, is equally with the one<br /> agents.<br /> already mentioned injurious to the business settle-<br /> Serial rights are often strangely neglected by ments of the author.<br /> agents. There are not merely first serial rights, A publisher, on an author objecting to some<br /> but second serial rights ; rights in the colonies, in very stiff clauses in his agreement, not infrequently<br /> America, and in the provincial papers. Indeed, says: “ This is my printed agreement from which<br /> the real literary agent to be of any real value ought this house never varies.” As is bound to happen<br /> to have an enormous field of communication and in a society with 2,000 members, cases of this kind<br /> knowledge, and, as far as possible, to be ubiquitous. are constantly brought to the secretary, who is able<br /> To sum up: preferably, don&#039;t use an agent. at once to show to the author that the publisher is<br /> If you are bound to employ one, be very careful of making, to use the mildest term, a mis-statement.<br /> your contract with him. Never give him too wide He has, perhaps, only a week before, made radical<br /> a control; never give him uncontrovertible authority alterations to the knowledge of the secretary, in<br /> to collect moneys; never, in any circumstances, allow one of his “unalterable” contracts. In fact, the<br /> him to insert a clause in your publishing agreement practice in one house grew quite notorious, the<br /> by which he is able, without restriction, to collect proprietor benefiting by forcing unfortunate authors<br /> royalties. If, when criticising an agreement with a into his contracts. The authors no doubt had<br /> publisher, he pointed out that the clause he proposed seen the names of other writers of renown publish-<br /> inserting dealing with his own position was a bad ing with the same house, and, naturally, drew the<br /> clause for the author, and if he gave the reasons, deduction from the publisher&#039;s statement that these<br /> clear and concise, then the author would have no authors were publishing under a similar agreement.<br /> reason to complain if he signed the agreement. But Another phrase frequently in the mouths of<br /> the agent never draws the author&#039;s attention to the publishers is, “ These agreements have been settled<br /> clause and never gives the reasons. Never employ by King&#039;s Counsel and approved by the Publishers&#039;<br /> an agent who deals as principal as well as agent, Association.&quot; It is curious that such a statement<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 15 (#411) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 15<br /> should not repel rather than compel. The author, inherent in them. Then the publisher&#039;s reply to<br /> however, does not always grasp the fact that a King&#039;s the author&#039;s remonstrance can be discussed.<br /> Counsel will settle an agreement according to the The first clause practically transfers to the<br /> instructions of his client; and if the client is the publisher the copyright, and this position is further<br /> Publishers&#039; Association, the agreements will be confirmed by clause 5. As under clauses 1 and 5<br /> settled wholly in favour of the publishers. This, the publisher holds the copyright it was, perhaps,<br /> indeed, was the case. The members of the society unnecessary for him to insert clause 2. It cannot<br /> are referred to “Forms of Agreement issued by the be too often repeated in these columns that the<br /> Publishers&#039; Association, with Comments,” published publishers should have a licence to produce the<br /> from the society&#039;s offices. In this pamphlet the work in book form only at a fixed price only in<br /> whole question is fully dealt with.<br /> the English language. The clause might receive<br /> It is necessary, as these incidents recur, that even further limitations, limitations to a certain<br /> they should be recorded, and as the secretary number of editions or to certain countries. If<br /> of the society has recently received further evidence, such a licence had been granted, then the publisher<br /> the following facts are laid before the members. might have been, under clause 2, allowed an agency<br /> In one week two agreements from a certain fee for the sale of the rights mentioned under<br /> publisher were offered to authors. The agree- contracts signed and approved by the anthor if<br /> ments were on very similar lines. The books to obtained through the publisher&#039;s introduction.<br /> be published were important books of a technical That the publisher should have the exclusive<br /> character. The agreements, from the author&#039;s licence to place these rights without reference to<br /> point of view, were extremely bad. It is only the author, and on contracts made without consul-<br /> necessary to print some of the clauses to show tation with the author, is absurd. It is equally<br /> how bad they were.<br /> absurd that for mere agency business the publisher<br /> Clause 1.- The publisher shall during the legal term of<br /> should be allowed 50 per cent. Clauses 3 and 4<br /> copyright have the exclusive right of producing and pub- are both dangerous from the standpoint of the<br /> lishing the work in the English language throughout the writer of technical books. The great majority of<br /> world. The publisher shall have the entire control of the technical books dealing with modern science require<br /> publication and sale and terms of the sale of the book, and<br /> neither the author nor the publisher shall during the con-<br /> to be brought up to date from time to time as the<br /> tinuance of this agreement without the consent of the other<br /> knowledge at the disposal of the writers develops.<br /> publish any abridgment, extract, translation, or dramatised There is only one person who should have control<br /> version of the work.<br /> over these alterations. That person is the author.<br /> Clause 2.-In the event of the publisher realising profits<br /> Under the clause as it stands he would be bound<br /> from the sale of rights of translation, rights of production<br /> in other countries, serial rights, or plates, or from claims to revise, or have the book revised by another hand<br /> for infringement of copyright, fifty per cent. of the net if the publisher demanded such revision, even<br /> amount of such profits remaining after deducting all though he, the writer, might deem the process<br /> expenses relating thereto.<br /> wholly unnecessary.<br /> Clause 3.—The author agrees to revise the first, and, if<br /> necessary, to edit and revise every subsequent edition of It is a matter of no difficulty to draft clauses<br /> the work, and from time to time to supply any new matter to meet such a position, and the same house has on<br /> that may be needful to keep the work up to date.<br /> occasion altered its unalterable agreement, giving<br /> Clause 4.-In the event of the author neglecting to revise<br /> the author this essential control.<br /> an edition after due notice shall have been given to him, or<br /> in the event of the author being unable to do so by reason On clause 5 nothing further need be said, save<br /> of death or otherwise, the expense of revising and preparing that in no circumstances on the basis of a royalty<br /> each such future edition for press shall be borne by the remuneration should an author allow a publisher<br /> author, and shall be deducted from the royalties payable to<br /> to be the owner of the copyright.<br /> him.<br /> Clause 5.-During the continuance of this agreement the As to clause 6, it is only necessary to point out<br /> copyright of the work shall be vested in the publisher, who that if the book were published in January—not<br /> may be registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly. an unfavourable month for book publication-the<br /> Clause 6.-The publisher shall make up the account<br /> annually to December 31st, and deliver the same to the<br /> author would be out of his money for over twelve<br /> author within two months thereafter, and pay the balance<br /> months. This, indeed, is not so bad as in some<br /> due to the author on March 31st.<br /> forms of agreement, where it is posssible for the<br /> Clause 7.-If any difference shall arise between the author to be kept out of his money for nearly<br /> author and the publisher touching the meaning of this<br /> agreement, or the rights or liabilities of the parties there-<br /> eighteen months. It is, no doubt, a pleasant<br /> under, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two arrangement which enables the publisher to run<br /> persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, his business on other people&#039;s money.<br /> in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, Clause 7 is an unsatisfactory clause, although it<br /> 1889,<br /> appears in a great number of publishers&#039; agreements.<br /> Perhaps it may be as well to pass a few comments Publishers assert that arbitration is a saving of<br /> on these clauses, and to explain in detail the faults money. This is not usually the case, as the arbitra-<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 16 (#412) #############################################<br /> <br /> 16<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> tor&#039;s fees have to be paid, as well as the other costs. “The Still Alarm—The Greatest Fire Scenes<br /> It has also been claimed that it is an expeditious ever depicted-On view to all at our offices.”<br /> way of settling disputes. Generally it is cumber- Evidence was given by a witness, who bad<br /> some and unsatisfactory. The only real advantage attended the performance with a view to pur-<br /> gained—and this is the publisher&#039;s—is that he chasing the films, and it was contended on behalf<br /> shuns by arbitration that publicity which is so of the plaintiff&#039;s that there had been an infringe-<br /> necessary as a warning to other authors.<br /> ment of their dramatic rights in the fire scenes of<br /> Some of the clauses might have been passed by the play.<br /> an author who wished to yield gracefully some for the defendants it was virged that there could<br /> advantage to the publisher, but the majority of be no copyright protection in a mere scene, and<br /> the clauses quoted are such that no author should that the representation by cinematograph was not<br /> allow them to enter into any contract, in anyan infringement of dramatic rights.<br /> circumstances, between himself and the publisher. Mr. Justice Channell said that it was not neces-<br /> On the advice of the secretary the author wrote sary to decide whether the plaintiff had an exclusive<br /> drawing the attention of the publisher to the right to the representation of a portion of the play<br /> difficulties above mentioned, and, to his astonish- against anyone who might exhibit the films.<br /> ment, received a letter from which we quote the Sone day, he thought, it might be held that a<br /> following extract:-<br /> copying of a portion of a play in a cinematograph<br /> “ The form of agreement is one which we always exhibition, where there was payment, was within<br /> lise, and which experience has proved to give the statute. Upon the facts of this case, however,<br /> satisfaction to all concerned.”<br /> he was of opinion that the defendants did not<br /> A more extraordinary statement it would be represent the piece in a place of dramatic<br /> impossible to imagine. Over and over again have entertainment.<br /> contracts from this very house been brought to the<br /> HAROLD HARDY.<br /> society, been criticised, and altered to suit the<br /> author&#039;s requirements, and to make such a state-<br /> ment in the face of this fact is not only unfair to<br /> the author, but a serious matter for the reputation<br /> MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br /> of the house. Besides, if the agreement had given<br /> satisfaction to all parties, there surely would be no<br /> BOOKMAN.<br /> need for an arbitration clause. The publisher&#039;s<br /> position is untenable, but still authors may be, and<br /> Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Walter Jerrold.<br /> Fournier&#039;s “ Napoleon.&quot; By Dr. William Barry.<br /> probably will be, deceived.<br /> Book MONTHLY.<br /> Wanted: A New Mode of Literary Expression. By<br /> Adam Gowans Whyte.<br /> CINEMATOGRAPH PERFORMANCES.<br /> CONTEMPORARY.<br /> The Pictorial Art of Japan. By Count S. C. de Soissons.<br /> Literary Genius. By J. E. G. De Montmorency.<br /> GLENVILLE v. SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY.<br /> ENGLISH REVIEW.<br /> THE decision in this case, as to the meaning of Letters of Wagner to his Schoolfellow, Apel.<br /> “a place of dramatic entertainment,&quot; seems The Handling of Words (Thomas Hardy). By Vernon Lee.<br /> likely to be the subject of an appeal, as a<br /> FORTNIGHTLY.<br /> stay of execution was granted, and the Judge appears<br /> Some Aspects of the Celtic Renascence. By K. L.<br /> to have given special importance to the question of Moutgomery.<br /> payment.<br /> NATIONAL<br /> The plaintiff claimed damages and an injunction The Creed of an Agnostic Spiritualist. By J. Arthur Hill.<br /> to restrain the representation of certain scenes<br /> connected with a dramatic piece, entitled “The<br /> SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br /> Still Alarm,” which had been originally performed<br /> in the United States and subsequently in England<br /> (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br /> at the Princess&#039; Theatre. In 1904 the plaintiff<br /> Front Page<br /> ... ..£4 0 0<br /> Other Pages<br /> ... ... 3 0 0<br /> produced a new version with two “fire scenes”.<br /> Quarter of a Page<br /> ...<br /> added, and it was in respect of these scenes that an<br /> ... 0 15 0<br /> Eighth of a Page<br /> ... O 7 6<br /> injunction was asked for.<br /> Single Column Advertisements<br /> per inch 0 6 0<br /> The defendants, who are manufacturers of cine Reduction of 20 per cent, made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent, for<br /> Twelve Insertions.<br /> matograph films, issued an advertisement in the<br /> following terms :<br /> All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br /> BELMONT &amp; Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C<br /> Half of a Page ...<br /> 110<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 17 (#413) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 17<br /> HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br /> N VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br /> advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br /> lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br /> business or the administration of his property. The<br /> Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br /> special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br /> Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br /> deem it desirable, will obtain counsel&#039;s opinion without<br /> any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel&#039;s<br /> opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br /> is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br /> member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br /> 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br /> and publishers&#039; agreements do not fall within the experi-<br /> ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br /> the Society.<br /> 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br /> the document to the Society for examination.<br /> 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br /> you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br /> are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br /> advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br /> the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br /> 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br /> members&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire.<br /> proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br /> confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br /> who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br /> (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br /> upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br /> payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu.<br /> lars of the Society&#039;s work can be obtained in the<br /> Prospectus.<br /> 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br /> agent withont the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br /> consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br /> them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br /> them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br /> of the Society.<br /> 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br /> must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br /> Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br /> 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br /> referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80<br /> do some publishers. Members can make their own<br /> deductions and act accordingly.<br /> 9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br /> annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br /> obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br /> competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br /> the Society,<br /> II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br /> agreement).<br /> In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br /> (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br /> duction forms a part without the strictest investigation,<br /> (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,&quot;<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> rights.<br /> (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br /> (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br /> As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br /> doctor!<br /> III. The Royalty System,<br /> This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br /> of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br /> what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br /> possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br /> truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br /> with royalties are published in The Author.<br /> IY. A Commission Agreement.<br /> The main points are :-<br /> (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br /> (2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br /> General.<br /> All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br /> above mentioned.<br /> Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br /> Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br /> the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br /> A void agreements by letter if possible.<br /> The main points which the Society has always demanded<br /> from the outset are:-<br /> (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br /> means.<br /> (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br /> to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br /> nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br /> withheld.<br /> (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br /> WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br /> WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br /> OF BOOKS.<br /> N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br /> Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br /> petent legal authority.<br /> 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br /> the production of a play with any one except an established<br /> manager.<br /> 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br /> in three or more acts :-<br /> (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br /> is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br /> such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br /> for production of the piece by a certain date<br /> and for proper publication of his name on the<br /> play-bills.<br /> UTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br /> H agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br /> with literary property :-<br /> 1. Selling it Outright.<br /> This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 18 (#414) #############################################<br /> <br /> 18<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br /> RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br /> Society before putting plays into the hands of<br /> agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br /> who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br /> perpetual claim to a percentage on the author&#039;s fees<br /> from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br /> it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br /> very few agents who can do anything for an author<br /> that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br /> equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br /> is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br /> required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br /> fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br /> action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br /> individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br /> countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br /> in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br /> But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br /> to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br /> who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br /> the author&#039;s rights. In any case, in the present state of<br /> the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br /> circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br /> (6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of percentages on<br /> gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br /> and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br /> percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br /> in preference to the American system. Should<br /> obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br /> date on or before which the play should be<br /> performed.<br /> (c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br /> nightly fees). This method should be always<br /> avoided except in cases where the fees are<br /> likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br /> other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br /> also in this case.<br /> 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br /> better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br /> paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br /> important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br /> be reserved.<br /> 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br /> be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br /> time. This is most important.<br /> 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br /> should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br /> is of great importance.<br /> 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br /> play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br /> holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br /> print the book of the words.<br /> 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br /> ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br /> agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br /> consideration,<br /> 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br /> drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br /> 10. An author should remember that production of a play<br /> is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br /> delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract,<br /> He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br /> the beginning.<br /> 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br /> is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br /> is to obtain adequate publication.<br /> As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br /> account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br /> tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br /> are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br /> WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br /> T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br /> L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br /> authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br /> &amp; rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br /> composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br /> cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br /> property. The musical composer has very often the two<br /> rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br /> should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br /> an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br /> he warnings stated above.<br /> STAMPING MUSIC.<br /> The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br /> behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br /> of 100. The members&#039; stamps are kept in the Society&#039;s<br /> safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br /> Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br /> members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br /> THE READING BRANCH.<br /> REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br /> ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br /> M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br /> branch of its work by informing young writers<br /> of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br /> treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br /> MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br /> and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br /> special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br /> Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br /> fee is one guinea.<br /> REMITTANCES.<br /> QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br /> forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br /> a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br /> be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br /> tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br /> and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br /> of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br /> the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br /> Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br /> rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br /> at the price of 23. 6d. per act.<br /> The Secretary of the Society hegs to give potice<br /> that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br /> All remittances should be crossed Univn of London and<br /> Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br /> letter only.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 19 (#415) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 19<br /> GENERAL NOTES.<br /> NETT AND DISCOUNT Books.<br /> LOOKING recently down the literary column<br /> THE COPYRIGHT BILL.<br /> of a contemporary, we noticed an interesting<br /> We may congratulate the Government on announcement respecting a popular series inaugu-<br /> having carried the Copyright Bill through the rated by a well-known publishing house. The<br /> House of Commons. It would be inadvisable announcement was to the effect that, owing to an<br /> to say more about the matter until the Bill has increase in the cost of production of the series, the<br /> become law, but there does not appear to be any publishers had found it necessary to change the price<br /> vital reason why the Bill should meet with any of the volumes from 58.“ subject to discount,” to 5s.<br /> violent opposition, and be altered to any large nett. As it is conceivable that some may retort that<br /> extent from the form in which it emerged from the this alteration in price is a matter entirely between<br /> House of Commons. One or two small amend the publisher and the bookselling trade, we think<br /> ments, however, may be necessary.<br /> it desirable, in the interest of authors, to point out<br /> The Bill was ordered to be printed on the 18th of its importance to the writers employed in the manu-<br /> August of the present year, and when it becomes facture of the series. We do so with the less hesi-<br /> law it will be issued as a supplement to The tation, as we notice that over forty volumes so far<br /> Author, so that members of the Society may have have been issued at the lower price, and it seems<br /> an opportunity of studying its terms.<br /> to us that a consideration of the matter, as it<br /> During its passage through the Commons, the affects the payment of the writers, may not be<br /> Bill met with a considerable amount of opposition without interest. While we do not for one moment<br /> from wholly unexpected quarters ; indeed, from question the justification of the alteration in price,<br /> many whom one might have thought would have we do suggest that the author should share in the<br /> actively supported its principles.<br /> increased returns which will accrue to the pub-<br /> Apart from various details, there are two main lisher in consequence of the change.<br /> points which will make the passing of the Bill the As the alteration extends over a series of forty<br /> greatest benefit to authors; the first, that it will books, that increase cannot be dismissed as insignifi-<br /> enable Great Britain to join the Berlin Conven- cant. Whereas on a 5s. “subject&quot; book the returns<br /> tion; the second, that it will bring into uniformity to the publisher would probably average about 2s. 8d.<br /> the law of copyright which, at present, is scattered per copy, on the 58. nett book they would come<br /> through twenty or more different enactments, out at something like 3s. 2d. per copy. It will be<br /> making its interpretation highly complicated and clear from this that a fair royalty on a 5s. book<br /> confusing<br /> issued “subject&quot; might be rather poor on one<br /> issued at 58. nett. It may be, of course, that part<br /> of the “increased cost of production” is due to a<br /> THE COLONIAL MARKETS.<br /> demand for better terms on the part of the writers<br /> We have complained, from time to time, of the of the books yet to be produced in the series. If<br /> poor sales of books of English authors in the this is so, we shall be glad on their account—though<br /> Colonies, and have pointed out that this is appa- a little sorry for the earlier writers. It may even<br /> rently due to the supineness of the English be that the books in the series are being purchased<br /> publisher and to the activity of the American book outright; but apart from anything in this particular<br /> agent. The latter, on one occasion, went so far as case which may possibly render our comment un-<br /> to induce an Australian bookseller to allow him to necessary, we would add, for the general informa-<br /> decorate his window, and it may be taken for a tion of writers, that they should never, when<br /> certainty that he did not decorate the window with making their agreements, permit any alteration<br /> English books.<br /> of a “subject” to a “nett” published price without<br /> We now regret to see from the American Con- getting some quid pro quo. If the publisher wants<br /> sular Report that the American magazines are to make such an alteration, he should make a<br /> also pushing the English magazines out of the corresponding increase in the royalty payable to<br /> market. This, no doubt again, is owing to some the author.<br /> fault in the English distribution. It is really time<br /> that publishers, editors, and magazine proprietors<br /> woke up and bestirred themselves. It is not for<br /> THE NEW RUSSIAN COPYRIGHT LAW.<br /> us to advise them as to how to remedy the evil. It The new Russian Copyright Law came into<br /> is a part of their own business to find the cause force on March 20, 1911. It marks a consider-<br /> and the remedy. But it is a clear fact that unless able advance upon the previous legislation, but<br /> something is done speedily and with judgment the is far from being such as might be wished.<br /> Colonial market will be lost both for English books The following particulars are interesting. Copy-<br /> and magazines.<br /> right is accorded to all books published in<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 20 (#416) #############################################<br /> <br /> 20<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Russia, independently of the nationality of the followed the publication of “ John Chilcot, M.P.,&quot;<br /> author. The duration of copyright is for and she very early showed herself one of those<br /> life and fifty years (without any restrictions). writers—it is pleasant to think there are many<br /> Transformations of novels into dramas, and vice such—who take a generous interest in the work of<br /> versâ, without the author&#039;s consent are forbidden. those less fortunate and less successful than them-<br /> The exclusive right of translation exists for five selves.<br /> years only. If a translation is made within that Mrs. Thurston possessed a singularly agreeable<br /> limit, the translation has a copyright of ten years. and gentle personality. Her dark, glowing beauty<br /> In the case of simultaneous publication in several was of the type one associates with Irishwomen,<br /> languages, all the works enjoy equally the full term and her voice was low and exquisitely clear. She<br /> of copyright. Russian translations of all foreign had none of the exuberance, or the very natural<br /> works may be published without the consent of the desire to discuss herself and her work, which is so<br /> foreign author. These translations enjoy the full often typical of the literary temperament. Even to<br /> term of copyright, but the translator cannot forbid her intimates she seldom spoke of her books, and it<br /> other translations. Except in the case of stipula- would certainly have been possible for a stranger<br /> tions to the contrary, an author who has sold the to have been acquainted with her for a considerable<br /> copyright of his work may publish another edition time without discovering that she wrote. And yet<br /> as soon as the work is out of print, or, in any case, it is clear that her work must have meant a great<br /> as soon as tive years have elapsed since the date of .deal to her. Each of her stories, from “ The Circle&quot;<br /> the first edition ; or, if he is preparing a complete onward, showed marks of conscientious care, and<br /> edition of his works, three years after that date. she once told the present writer that when engaged<br /> Piratical publication is punished with a minimum on a new book she found that it absorbed her to<br /> of three months imprisonment.<br /> the exclusion of everything else. This no doubt<br /> was why she preferred to work in the Irish home she<br /> THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br /> loved so well than when living her ordinary life in<br /> Owing to the fact that The Author does not<br /> London. As so often happens, the one of her<br /> appear in August or September, we are only now<br /> novels which most closely reflected the life she<br /> knew was that which her readers liked the least-<br /> in a position to chronicle the election of Lady<br /> Ritchie and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw to the Academic<br /> I refer to “The Fly on the Wheel,&quot; a close, and in its<br /> Committee.<br /> way, a very powerful study of a phase of Irish country<br /> town society. This story was an interesting “throw<br /> Lady Ritchie is the first lady to join the Com-<br /> mittee, which may be congratulated on an election<br /> back,” for Mrs. Thurstou did not begin to write<br /> till she came to England, and it is on record that<br /> which is sure to meet with general approval, and<br /> throughout a girlhood spent entirely at home she<br /> may also serve to put an end to the discontent felt<br /> never wrote a line with a view to publication.<br /> and expressed in some quarters, where it had been<br /> It may be doubted if even her closest friends<br /> assumed, quite erroneously, that the women were<br /> knew much of Mrs. Thurston&#039;s methods of work.<br /> ineligible.<br /> It is, however, a curious fact that “The Circle,&#039;&#039;<br /> her first long novel, and a book which was much<br /> INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND ARTISTIC praised and commented on by the critics, though<br /> ASSOCIATION.<br /> it gave no promise of the immense success of its<br /> The International Literary and Artistic Asso- immediate successor, was founded on a short story<br /> ciation ask us to announce that in consequence of<br /> sequence of<br /> which<br /> which was an early imaginative effort.<br /> reports of an epidemic at Rome-reports it must<br /> be admitted which appear to be without foundation<br /> -the congress, which was to have taken place this<br /> autumn, will be postponed, and held at Rome in<br /> THE FOREIGN REPRINTS ACT AGAIN.<br /> the Easter week of 1912.<br /> ROYALTIES UNDER COMPULSORY LICENCE.<br /> THE LATE MRS. THURSTON.<br /> TN 1847 an Act was passed under the short title<br /> 1 of the Colonial Copyright Act, 1847, more<br /> frequently known, however, as the Foreign<br /> By M. B. L.<br /> Reprints Act.<br /> TN Katherine Cecil Thurston, the Society of The circumstances that led up to the passing<br /> 1 Authors loses a loyal member and a firm this Act were as follows:<br /> friend. Mrs. Thurston joined the Society in By section 17 of the Act of 5 &amp; 6 Vict., which<br /> the full flush of her greatest success, that which Act covered all the Colonies, the importation into<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 21 (#417) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 21<br /> the Colonies of books unlawfully printed was for- into the colonies, and notably American reprints into the<br /> bidden, without the consent of the copyright<br /> Dominion of Canadla ; but no return, or returns of an<br /> absurdly small amount, have been made to the authors and<br /> owner. Ar<br /> owners. It appears from official reports that during the<br /> Owing to three causes, firstly, the rapacity of the ten years ending in 1876, the amount received from the<br /> pirates, who had no authors&#039; royalties to pay whole of the nineteen colonies which bave taken advantage<br /> there was no United States Copyright Act in those<br /> of the Act was only £1,155 133. 2 d., of which £1,084 13s. 2 d.<br /> days, and International copyright was difficult and<br /> was received from Canada ; and that of these colonies<br /> seven paid nothing whatever to the authors, while six now<br /> involved ; secondly, owing to the lack of enter-<br /> and then paid small sums amounting to a few shillings.<br /> prise in the Colonial book trade ; and thirdly, owing<br /> to the supineness of the English publishers, the It will be seen from this quotation that if the<br /> Colonies complained that they were unable to get contribution from Canada is left out, there is<br /> English books.<br /> practically nothing from the other colonies, and<br /> Canada was the chief complainant, as she saw eren the sum received from Canada is absurdly small,<br /> the United States with their piratical trade flooded taking into consideration the number and popularity<br /> with English works which she was unable to of the authors. The Act is still in force in most<br /> obtain ; but the complaint was strong also in the of the Colonies ; but as Capada refused to collect<br /> other Colonies, because those who did read wanted the duties some twelve or thirteen years ago, as far<br /> to buy books, as they could not borrow them from as that Colony is concerned the Foreign Reprints<br /> circulating libraries, which did not exist.<br /> Act is in abeyance.<br /> The complaint was partly, no doubt, genuine, The absurdity of the whole situation has again<br /> but to a great extent, especially as far as Canada become prominent, and has been brought to the<br /> was concerned, was put forward as a political move. notice of The Author by Mr. Hall Caine, who<br /> The author has always been the slave of the recently received a payment of 8s. 10d. as an<br /> public, and as such is liable to be robbed of his amount due to him for royalties collected under<br /> property, first by one constriction and limitation this Act.<br /> and then by another ; so in this case, with a show of Mr. Hall Caine wrote for an explanation, and<br /> justice, the Foreign Reprints Act, which is still in received from the Treasury the following reply,<br /> force in many Colonies, was passed, enabling the with a statement, printed below, setting out the<br /> Crown, by Order in Council, to suspend the prohibi- Colonies involved and the percentage paid, and<br /> tion against importation into the English Colonies with a copy of the Act.<br /> of English copyright works under certain conditions,<br /> TREASURY CHAMBERS,<br /> one of the conditions being that certain Customs<br /> 281h July, 1911.<br /> duties should be collected by the Government of SIR, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His<br /> the Colony adopting the Act, which duties should Majesty&#039;s Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter<br /> be paid as royalty to the author. This really<br /> of the 18th instant, respecting a payment made to you on<br /> account of copyright in the Colonies.<br /> amounted, in other words, to a grant of the right to In reply I am to express their Lordships&#039; regret that<br /> sell and the right to buy the author&#039;s books under it has not been found possible to trace in every case the<br /> a compulsory licence. A large number of Colonies books in respect of which payment was madle, but, so far<br /> adopted the Actin fact, all the important Colonies,<br /> as they have been able to discover them, the details are as<br /> follows :-<br /> with the exception of Australia, did so. Under<br /> the Act the publishers of English books were bound<br /> to forward catalogues to the Custom House<br /> Date and Place<br /> Title of Work. Duty Collected.<br /> authorities of the different Colonies, so that the of Entry.<br /> collection might be carried out properly, but, in<br /> the words of the author of “The Law of Copy-<br /> right&quot; “ These measures were next to inoperative, Bermuda, 1897<br /> The Christian<br /> and the whole thing little better than a delusion.”<br /> 1898 (Unknown)<br /> From time to time the absurdity of this Act,<br /> (Unknown)<br /> The Christian<br /> from the standpoint of the author, was pointed out<br /> 1904 Eternal City<br /> in the papers, and figures were given to show how<br /> 1905 Prodigal Son<br /> ineffective it was in operation.<br /> Jamaica, 1903<br /> Eternal City<br /> The reference to these figures it is impossible to<br /> 1906 Prodigal Son<br /> 1908 The Christian<br /> find at the moment, but it is sufficient to quote<br /> from the Report of the Royal Copyright Com-<br /> 8 10<br /> mission, which sat in 1878:-<br /> So far as British authors and owners of copyright are<br /> concerned, the Act has proved a complete failure. Foreign In further explanation of these payments I am to transmit<br /> reprints of copyright works have been largely introduced the enclosed copy of a Return to the Order of the House of<br /> 1900<br /> 1901<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 22 (#418) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Commons, dated the 25th of August, 1857, and of a memo- general body of British Authors what the small<br /> randum prepared in this Department, which my Lords<br /> payments represent.” He passed some drastic<br /> trust will be of use to you.<br /> I am, Sir,<br /> comments on the Act and its working, and ended<br /> Your obedient Servant,<br /> his letter with the following words :<br /> T. L. HEATH. “I am afraid the statement you are good enough<br /> to send me, representing duties at 15 per cent.,<br /> COPYRIGHT IN THE COLONIES.<br /> amounting to 88. 10d. collected on nine books in<br /> Under Section 42 of the Customs Laws Consolidation Act, eleven years, casts a very sinister light on the<br /> 1876 (39 and 40 Vict. c. 36), foreign reprints of copyright<br /> licensing clauses of the Government&#039;s new Copyright<br /> works, of which notice has been given to the Commissioners<br /> of Customs that the copyright subsists, are prohibited from<br /> Bill, showing that the receipts to the descendants<br /> being imported into the United Kingdom.<br /> of authors during the years of free licensing will<br /> Section 152 of the same Act also prohibits importation of probably be hardly sufficient to pay their washing<br /> reprints of such works into the British Possessions abroad, bills.&quot;<br /> but adds that this does not prevent Her Majesty from<br /> exercising certain powers vested in her under the Act<br /> One satisfaction to be obtained from the passing<br /> amending the law relating to the protection in the colonies of the new Copyright Law will be that this absurd<br /> of British Copyright Works (10 &amp; 11 Vict. c. 95) to suspend Ordinance of 10 &amp; 11 Victoria will be repealed,<br /> in certain cases such prohibition.<br /> along with numerous other Statutes dealing with<br /> These powers were that should the Legislative Authorities<br /> in any British possession be disposed to make provision for<br /> for<br /> co<br /> copyright property.<br /> n properu<br /> protecting the rights of British authors in that Possession It is necessary, however--and it is with this idea<br /> and pass an Act or Ordinance for that purpose, such before us that we have set out at length Mr. Hall<br /> Ordinance should be submitted for approval by Her<br /> Caine&#039;s case—to consider the application of the com-<br /> Majesty, and, provided that reasonable protection is thus<br /> secured to the British author, an Order in Council should<br /> pulsory licence in the present copyright legislation.<br /> be issued declaring that so long as the Ordinance remained It was obvious that the Governments of the<br /> in force the prohibition against importing, selling, letting separate Colonies were hopelessly incapable of<br /> out to hire, exposing for sale or hire, or possessing such carrying out the Act in a satisfactory manner for<br /> foreign reprints should be suspended as regards that<br /> the benefit of the unfortunate author, who was, in<br /> Colony.<br /> The Legislative Authorities in the following Colonies consequence, freely robbed. It is true that the<br /> duly passed the necessary protective Ordinances, which have compulsory licences, of which there are two in the<br /> been confirmed by Orders in Council :--<br /> present Bill, refer to Great Britain and Ireland<br /> Antigua.<br /> Jamaica.<br /> only, but it is possible that they may cover a good<br /> Bahamas,<br /> Mauritius.<br /> many of the Colonies as well. But this fact gives<br /> Barbados.<br /> Newfoundland.<br /> Bermuda.<br /> St. Lucia,<br /> us little hope that the compulsory licence will be<br /> British Guiana.<br /> St. Christopher and less dangerous from the author&#039;s point of view than<br /> Canada.<br /> Nevis,<br /> it was in the past.<br /> Cape of Good Hope and St. Vincent.<br /> All who have studied the Copyright Bill know that<br /> Natal.<br /> Trinidad.<br /> Grenada.<br /> there is a compulsory licence twenty-five years after<br /> the author&#039;s death, and there is a compulsory and<br /> The Ordinances in Canada, Cape of Good Hope, and<br /> Natal ceased to be effective on these Colonies becoming<br /> an unlimited licence on the unfortunate composers<br /> self-governing.<br /> who care to allow their works to be reproduced by<br /> The Ordinance of the Colony fixes the amount of the mechanical instruments.<br /> protection, and the title to this protection depends upon<br /> It will, of course, be argued that the two in-<br /> registration of the work, the name of the holder, and the<br /> period of the copyright, with the Commissioners of Customs,<br /> stances are not in the least parallel ; that in the<br /> who issue to the Colonial ports a list, supplemented from one case the royalty is to be collected by the<br /> time to time, of such works.<br /> Government and in the other by the author, but it<br /> • The Colony, on receiving the duties imposed, transmits<br /> is not so much the collection of the royalties that<br /> them to the Treasury, and that Department distributes<br /> them to the respective copyright holders as specified in the<br /> makes the compulsory licence impossible, but the<br /> Customs list.<br /> fact that the licence is compulsory. What has<br /> Until 1881 it was the practice of the Treasury to distribute proved such a distinct misfortune in the past in<br /> thesc sums, however small, but in that year it was decided<br /> slightly different circumstances will most prob-<br /> to retain small sums until they accumulated to a minimum<br /> of £1, reduced in 1903 to 108.<br /> ably prove a distinct misfortune in the future, and<br /> In view, however, of the numerous small amounts due to it may be that the author will obtain as little of his<br /> the various copyright holders, and to the time winich had true and just returns under the clauses in the Bill<br /> elapsed since these sums were collected, it was decided this at ni<br /> at present under discussion as he was able to<br /> year to pay over sums amounting in the aggregate to 48. or who<br /> under the Foreign Reprints Act.<br /> over.<br /> Even with all the protection which the Board<br /> To this letter Mír. Caine replied on July 29th of Trade may invent to guard the author&#039;s rights,<br /> He stated that he had forwarded all the papers it will be almost impossible to follow the number<br /> to the society that “ It may be made clear to the of different reproductions placed on the market,<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 23 (#419) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 23<br /> when any pirate who cares to may begin manu writers. Already there are copyright novels at<br /> facturing with little or no fear of detection, and sevenpence the copy, not reprints, but first editions,<br /> with still less fear of conviction.<br /> yet not two writers in a hundred can hope to earn<br /> bread by royalties on that price, being in constant<br /> competition both with lending libraries and with<br /> reprints of Dickens, of Scott, of Thackeray, and of<br /> A FEW WORDS ON EXPIRED many other perennialists. Besides, however low<br /> COPYRIGHTS.<br /> prices may be, the public is soon tired of their<br /> repetition and begins to think that they are<br /> expensive.<br /> BY CRUSADER.<br /> And another point is this, that when new copy-<br /> THEN a type of society becomes ordered and right books appear at a reasonable price they are<br /> V intricate, it retains a great deal of work published more often than not in little editions, so<br /> from the past and produces many new the cost per copy is greater than that in the large<br /> things in a traditional manner; then market reprints of popular classics ; and yet these reprints<br /> rivalries between old products and modern efforts are exempt from royalities, while to-day&#039;s own<br /> bring in their train many evils of their own. To books cannot be, as authors somehow fail to live<br /> speak figuratively, the young harvests have to without food and shelter, though many have had<br /> grow in fields already occupied by corn which time experience in the school of long hunger. I can<br /> has left unreaped and unharmed. Yet they are recall a time when stale dry bread was delicious<br /> expected not only to strike root under the shadow- after a week without anything to eat. Oh! In<br /> ing protection of the old corn, but to push their the battle of the books, in the war of the classic<br /> way upwards without being stifled, till they dead against their humble successors, “knock-<br /> ripen in the sunshine of a free air. Children are outs&quot; are not in the the least enjoyable, at least to<br /> spared a lifelong competition with their parents, those of us who know how they act and how they<br /> but the generations are not, for they inherit so much are financed. To allow copyrights to lapse, with-<br /> living genius that the present is ever the past also, out paying royalities to the State, is not only to<br /> and it may be awed into imitation and unfreedom subsidise “the simple great ones gone,” giving<br /> by accumulated riches in great things.<br /> them unfair advantages in market competition ;<br /> Goethe counted himself lucky that he inherited besides that, which is bad enough, it endows<br /> a weak German literature, believing that an array publishers with a fruitful capital—a vast property<br /> of classic authors equal to the English would have of excellent books freed from royalities and from<br /> cooled his own ardour and hindered that growth of the need of much advertising ; and all this penalises<br /> character which comes from thinking freely and the daily efforts made by ourselves.<br /> acting independently. And who has not observed If an author is to earn a living with royalties on<br /> in Italy how the deification of the old masters has little editions, the royalties must be good and the<br /> enfeebled modern art among a race of men wonder- price rationally high, or else be will starve even<br /> fully equipped by nature with quick perception and when his publisher banks a profitable interest on a<br /> with skill of hand ? I think of this in connexion trifle of capital. It is not at all bad trade when a<br /> with the frenzied competition in the book market, publisher prints and sells a six-shilling novel in an<br /> where classic authors beg pleadingly for pence and edition of a thousand copies, gaining thereby a<br /> ha&#039;pence. If the classics are not now a danger to profit of about £30, on an outlay of not more than<br /> our own work, what else are they ?<br /> £115. The author gets about as much under<br /> One trader in dead copyrights saved a fortune of a good agreement, and upon that he cannot<br /> £500,000. He had no royalties to pay, he knew live during five or six months of work, so his needs<br /> which classics had the greatest vogue, and it was as a citizen are opposed by the finance of publishing.<br /> easy to boom them into the market in large The opposition, too, is fundamental. Royalties on<br /> reprints and at little, wheedling prices, till the a book that takes much time and infinite pains are<br /> retail cost of copyright books seemed not only high your all, while a publisher&#039;s object is to use the<br /> by comparison, but wrongful also. Many publishers same working capital thrice in a year and to earn<br /> do the same thing now, and each tries to undercut a buoyant profit on each turnover. You are<br /> the dwindling standard of cheapness, as if in stricken, but your work is a godsend to your<br /> obedience to the belief that British homes are alms publisher. You know the “kuock-out” of small<br /> houses filled with paupers.And newspapers, too, editions, while your publisher is ready to go on<br /> are trading with the property of dead authors in with a thriving system of finance which in the<br /> the hope that they may be able to “ring&quot; the course of a few years has built many palatial<br /> ordinary publishers. Meantime, you will note, it offices.<br /> fares very far from well with the majority of living Why is it, then, that the State favours the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 24 (#420) #############################################<br /> <br /> 24<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> publisher to the injury of authors ? Why hand is not to her advantage nor to that of authors<br /> over to him all expired copyrights in order that he that rich tradesmen should be able to force the<br /> may issue them in reprints so cheap that they dis- weak hand of poverty ? Many publishers bunger<br /> credit the rational value of new productions? It for copyrights, and needy authors become the<br /> can no longer be said with any semblance of truth victims of that appetite, being unsupported by their<br /> that the people need such cheap reprints, for the self-made legatee, the State.<br /> poorest of the poor can well afford to read borrowed These anomalies, too, are in keeping with many<br /> books in these days of free libraries. Besides, the others. It is said, for instance, that properties of<br /> first duty of a State is to cherish within each gene- authorship are such inestimable gifts to mankind<br /> ration the hopeful courage that acts well, and the that the State is justified in claiming them for her<br /> higher aspirations that quicken and enlarge the people. This sounds like a principle of Socialism ;<br /> mind. You cannot have aviaries of singing birds it applies to all the many forms of property<br /> if you do not feed them, nor hives full of honey having more than a temporary and personal value.<br /> if you smother the bees. And we may depend upon To“koock-out&quot; the author cannot be right while<br /> it that if we could suininon into the House of landowners and other property-holders can bequeath<br /> Commons a parliament of the simple great ones and entail their estates, without any regard at all<br /> gone, from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning, for that poverty-born ideal which sets before us a<br /> very few votes would be given in support of their national ownership in all things fitted to produce<br /> present tyranny over the new breadwinners in wealth.<br /> literature. Milton would lead an overwhelming It is invaluable, in this connection, to think of<br /> opposition to it, seconded by the rich common the difference between Shakespeare and the great<br /> sense of Latimer and Johnson. If Shakespeare Elizabethan landowners. The dramatist from the<br /> si oke, aſter many invitations, would he not say first had no copyright, inheriting the laisser faire<br /> that the mind of England ought ever to be of a that the printing press took up from those cloistral<br /> piece with the many repetitions of herself with ages when books were manuscripts, and in a few<br /> which she has gemmed the seas? He could not copies circulated among the religious, mainly in<br /> like anything meagre, petty, diminutive, flurried, nunneries and monasteries. So, then, Shakespeare&#039;s.<br /> or cheap. He would expect English thoughts to own works were never his own ; they belonged to<br /> put a new girdle around the world each generation. England from the first; and not a farthing of<br /> The Lord Chief Justice, on November 1, 1909, royalty has yet been claimed by the Exchequer<br /> expressed the hope that Great Britain and her from the publishers and theatre managers who have<br /> Colonies would do all in their power to draw the traded with Shakesperian property. How com-<br /> civilised nations together in a common accession pletely different is this from the legal protection<br /> to the following principle, that the property in granted from age to age to such a family as the<br /> copyright and literary work belongs to the author. Cecils, whose landed estates have passed from heir<br /> It is pleasant to note that Lord Alverstone gladly to heir, gathering an increase of value from the<br /> admits that books and copyrights are property, nation&#039;s progress! Could anyone break through a<br /> and that this property belongs to those who call hedge of theirs without incurring a risk of legal<br /> them up into literary presence and give them a punishment ? And why is it that land, which<br /> fructiſying value in a nation&#039;s life and trade. Lord nature provides as a mother for the nursing of all<br /> Alversione hopes that Great Britain will support living creatures, should be handed on as property<br /> the requests of other nations to the extension of more real and more native to a family than are any<br /> the period of protection to life and fifty years, and fruitful works of imagination ? Had Shakespeare<br /> this certainly is a blessed compromise in the domain died as a child, England would have lost inestim-<br /> of illogic. For the State has no right to grant able riches, whereas the extinction of a great<br /> perpetuity of ownership to many forms of property family neither lessens the land nor makes it barren.<br /> and a very limited ownership to a few others. Mother Earth and true genins are equally stable<br /> Logic and justice demand that all property in a and equally bountiful as property ; the distinction<br /> civilised nation should enjoy under the law the between them is that genius merits the greater<br /> same protection and the same privileges.<br /> protection since the permanent worlds built by it<br /> And there is another point of vital interest. belong for all time to the rare workers who are at<br /> Since Great Britain from the first claims every once new and antique, and the contemporaries of<br /> authoi&#039;s property, allowing him only the use of it all the ages. For example, Chaucer is more<br /> for a small term of years, why is she not logical in marketable by far to-day than he was in his own<br /> her self-interest ? Why does she not enrich her time, for he lives in all countries where poetry is<br /> Exchequer by charging a royalty on her classics ? valued ; and each copy of his work everywhere is<br /> And why does she not forbid publishers to buy the Chaucer himself. Yet this great Englishman, and<br /> short-lived copyrights granted by her laws, since it many others, had no copyright in their generous<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 25 (#421) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 25<br /> property, and even now there is not the sinallest pangs of chronic rejection at their hands, may or may.<br /> chance that full justice will be done to authors and not endorse Lord Byron&#039;s view that : “ Barabbas<br /> artists, because no political party can win votes by was a-publisher,” still we can comprehend their<br /> asking the public to sanction fair copyright laws. disinclination as business men to purchase goods<br /> Indeed, the man in the street is quite indignant manufactured by untried makers.<br /> that anthors should want to bequeath to their The case against cditors is no whit more cheerful.<br /> families the right to demand royalties on all copies In periodicals in which only first-class matter is in-<br /> of their work issued by tradesmen for the purpose serted, a glance at an author&#039;s signature will suffice.<br /> of money-getting.<br /> “Popnlar” journals may and do here and there<br /> If the State had her own printing works, and use &quot;copy&quot; sent in by outside contributors ; but<br /> issued non-copyright books to the public at their they commonly make this concession in such an<br /> pet cost per copy, many “rings” and “knock- irregular and seemingly unaccountable manner, that<br /> outs&quot; that now do harm to living authors would the freelance who relies upon them as a source of<br /> pass away, because the classics would be welcomed income will speedily perceive his conditiou to be<br /> as apart from trade speculations and the enrichment desperate.<br /> of tradesmen. There would be no competition The following incident may serve to illustrate<br /> then between the old and the new : in fact, the old this point. Having completed a short story during<br /> would enter for all time into the people&#039;s endowed the month of March, 1893, the writer submitted it<br /> education. This would be infinitely fairer to each in the following July to a respectable weekly, which,<br /> passing generation of harassed writers of books, for present purposes, we will call “The Flagstone.&quot;<br /> who bid to the public fancy for their livelihood. It was promptly returned. During an interval of<br /> To sum up, we hare seen that copyrights should four years the manuscript thenceforward fulfilled<br /> be protected at the least for life and fifty years, and its destiny as a rolling stone gathering no moss.<br /> that those which survive that period should be Then the writer, impelled by one of those curious<br /> published with all other classics by the State, as a impulses to which errant human nature is liable,<br /> part of the national education, or, if left free to all presented it for the second time to the journal<br /> speculators, should pay a fixed royalty to the which had dealt with it previously in so uncere-<br /> Exchequer, partly that the nation may benefit as a monious a fashion. The sands of the year 1897 rau<br /> whole by setting a time-limit to an author&#039;s owner- out, as did those of 1898—and the story neither<br /> ship in his own work, and partly in order to check, came back nor appeared. The year 1899 repeated<br /> as far as possible, the wrongful advantages now the process of its predecessors. Respectful enquiries<br /> given to publishers and newspapers in their pitting elicited curtnotes of an evasive tendency. Eventually<br /> of old books against the new.<br /> affairs were brought to a climax. After an interview<br /> with the editor early in 1900, the story made a<br /> belated bow to his subscribers. In June of that<br /> SORROWS OF A FREELANCE.<br /> year it was paid for. For four years it had been<br /> tossed about from pillar to post: for three it had<br /> T o the plain unvarnished fact that the sorrows languished in a sort of backwater, without either<br /> 1 of Grub Street are to the full as poignant in rhyme or reason to account for its fate.<br /> the present as ever they were in the past no Nor was this the only instance of a manuscript<br /> writer of eminence has testified with greater force receiving the honour of acceptation at the hands of<br /> than the late George Gissing, whose novel, “ The one to whom it had at first proved to be “unsuitable.&quot;<br /> New Grub Street,&quot; every man or woman who com Editorial antics of this kind are preferable,<br /> templates embarking on a literary career should however, to those sometimes performed by men<br /> study closely and ponder deeply.<br /> not only unbusinesslike but also unscrupulous-not<br /> If the experience of the present writer, whose to use a stronger term—in their dealings with<br /> first attempts in that direction were taken twenty- obscure wielders of the pen. Take the case of a<br /> five years ago, may be accepted as corroboration, the booklet in twelve chapters posted to a certain social<br /> book should stand as a masterpiece of faithful weekly with a view to serial publication on<br /> portraiture.<br /> September 9, 1891. Neglect of the precaution to<br /> Casting an eye rather upon potential profits than register the parcel may have been responsible for its<br /> philanthropic encouragement of budding talent, complete disappearance, or not; but the simple fact<br /> publishers desire, in the main, to deal with authors remains that upon its quitting the author&#039;s hands<br /> already established favourites with the reading the MS. vanished into space, as though by a con-<br /> public. Speculative risk must, beyond dispute, play juring trick. A lawyer, whose services were<br /> a part in the launching of unfamiliar names upon requisitioned on the quest, attached no blame to the<br /> the book market—the quality of their wares apart. postal authorities. Though lost to the author, he<br /> Although, then, such of us as have suffered the believed the labour expended upon his MS. would<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 26 (#422) #############################################<br /> <br /> 26<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> in all probability benefit- somebody. It would be least forty had been shipped off and—refused : the<br /> necessary to cultivate a like altruistic spirit, in last of them turning up with a precision somewhat<br /> order to survey with equanimity the loss of a story reminiscent of clockwork on December 22, 1907 !<br /> similarly dealt with by a monthly magazine on Yet consignments condemned — shall we say<br /> October 18, 1900. It could have been used advan- without the formality of examination-by this par-<br /> tageously later on, but the custodian to whose tender ticular, very particular, house, have been accepted<br /> mercies it had been committed denied cognisance not altogether with reluctance by its rivals!<br /> of the little stranger-and there was no duplicate. Lest these animadversions should be taken as<br /> By these and kindred devices fully one-half of the prejudiced or in any degree overstated, let us refer<br /> manuscripts despatched on their doleful journeys to a commentary made by the late James Payn in<br /> from the beginning onwards have, up to the present the Illustrated London News for November 16,<br /> moment, gone hopelessly and irretrievably astray- 1895. This gentleman, as editor of Chambers&#039;<br /> fifty per cent of a man&#039;s merchandise proving of no Journal, and later on, of the Cornhill Magazine,<br /> greater value to him than so many soap-bubbles occupied an elevated position in the world of letters,<br /> bursting in the air !<br /> and although not infallible, as his rejection of<br /> Were these tribulations exceptional ? Read on “John Inglesant” would show, he undoubtedly<br /> before answering the question.<br /> lent a helping hand to many struggling, but talented,<br /> &quot; Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone beginners.<br /> is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a “With some of the complaints of contributors to<br /> sort of social pariah. Nobody wants him. Every periodicals I entirely sympathise,” he wrote. “The<br /> body despises him. His efforts are derided ; his length of time their manuscripts are retained and,<br /> manuscripts are flung back to him unread.” after all, rejected, the smallness of the remuneration<br /> Wild words--gross exaggeration, you say. and the delay in its payment are genuine grounds<br /> But as there can be no smoke without fire, so of grievance.” And there has been a marked<br /> there can be no exaggeration where there is no deterioration as regards honesty, taste, discrimina-<br /> nucleus of solid truth. We have seen how MSS. tion and conrtesy in the editorial ranks since such<br /> may be simply kept indefinitely, and neither “flung men as he and Thackeray and Dickens ceased to<br /> back&quot; nor handed back.<br /> uplift them.<br /> Now let us peep into this mystery of MSS.<br /> HERBERT W. SMITA.<br /> returning to the sender unreal. Long years after<br /> “ The Sorrows of Satan” (from which novel our<br /> quotation is borrowed) was first published, to be PROPOSED CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW.<br /> precise, so recently as August 31, 1907, a well-<br /> known journal dealing with the affairs of an<br /> extensive publishing business made the subjoined M R. FRANK WISE, president of the<br /> strictures upon its management. “ Will it be I Macmillan Company of Canada, has given<br /> credited,&quot; asked the investigator, “ that manu-<br /> to the Press a statement correcting some<br /> scripts submitted to the firm for consideration misconceptions already made, and putting forward<br /> were solemnly entered in a huge volume, and some points which he is afraid have escaped the<br /> then as solemnly returned to their senders often notice of the Hon. Mr. Fisher and a number of his<br /> without being looked at. Scores of pages of this associates, who, no doubt, while wishing to put<br /> volume may be turned over without finding a single Canadian copyright on a dignified basis, would be<br /> contribution marked as accepted. Shareholders the last ones to bring hardship and pecuniary loss<br /> should call at the offices and verify this for them- either to Canadian authors or their publishers.<br /> selves,&quot; etc.<br /> “The manufacturing clause in the present<br /> The writer&#039;s personal experience of the people American Bill,” says Mr. Wise,&quot; is a good example<br /> implied are in entire accord with the above. In of the maxim that might is right.&#039;&quot; It is well<br /> the year 1884, he forwarded one of his early known to publishers that the American manu-<br /> attempts to them under the belief its nature was facturing clause was inserted at the behest and<br /> of a kind to meet their requirements. His con- insistence of the Typographical Union, which is<br /> fidence was rudely shaken by its swift return, well known to be the strongest labour union in the<br /> accompanied by that familiar slip of paper so United States. Its primary inclusion and sub-<br /> dreaded by toilers with the pen. In due season sequent retention in the American Copyright Act<br /> he sent off another argosy to the same port, and were distinctly against the expressed wishes of<br /> another, and yet another. For a period of twenty- American publishers. It is a good thing, of course,<br /> three years he persevered in this enterprise, de- for American printers and paper makers, and it is<br /> spatching cargoes of this, that, and the other kind, looked upon by those engaged in either trade as a<br /> deeming them likely to suit their market, until, at very beneficent mode of protection, much better to<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 27 (#423) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 27<br /> the printers in fact than would be protection by There is the method of getting a learned lexico-<br /> tariff, since under the later arrangement importa grapher to go carefully through the book and of<br /> tion of foreign printed books could only be avoided obtaining a learned treatise from his pen. This<br /> by keeping the prices of the home-made books method present circumstances will not allow here<br /> down to that of the foreign printed books plus or elsewhere; and there is the modern method of<br /> duty. Under the form of protection by copyright choosing a certain number of words, looking them<br /> the public is prohibited from importing foreign out, checking them and seeing that they are<br /> printed books at any price.<br /> correct, and leaving the rest to luck. It is this<br /> At the time this manufacturing clause was made latter method that we acknowledge without shame.<br /> operative in the United States, they had a popula. There are two principal reasons why this<br /> tion of some seventy millions, which made a market Dictionary should be a good one : first, the adapta-<br /> of sufficient size to make profitable the setting up tion is made from the Great Oxford English<br /> and printing of an addition for consumption in the Dictionary; and, secondly, it is connected with the<br /> United States. Indeed, this would have been names of the two Fowlers. Are these reasons in<br /> possible, though, of course, to a lesser extent, with the proof good and sufficient? We have no<br /> a population of, say, twenty millons. With hesitation in giving an affirmative answer.<br /> Canada&#039;s population, however, of a possible eight The Dictionary is a Dictionary of Current Eng-<br /> millions, to be shown by the new census, printing lish ; and this makes its perusal a great source of<br /> in Canada for Canadian consumption is utterly out pleasure. The adapters themselves say in their<br /> of the question, since there is nothing like enough preface :-<br /> demand to make a Canadian edition financially a<br /> “One of these peculiarities is the large amount of space<br /> possibility. Our contention is, therefore, that there<br /> given to the common words that no one goes through the<br /> being only a limited market in Canada, now best day without using scores or hundreds of times, often dis-<br /> served by books imported preferably from England, posed of in a line or two on the ground that they are plain<br /> or, if must be, from the United States, and the<br /> and simple, and that every one knows all about them by<br /> limited market making a separate Canadian edition<br /> the light of nature; but, in fact, entangled with other<br /> words in so many alliances and antipathies during their<br /> unprofitable, neither paper makers nor printers can perpetual knocking about the world that the idiomatic use<br /> possibly have anything to gain by holding out for of them is far from easy.&quot;<br /> a manufacturing clause in the new Canadian Bill.<br /> As a matter of fact Canada has much more to lose<br /> This line of procedure at once rouses interest,<br /> and the checking the accuracy of this statement<br /> than to gain by following the bad example of our<br /> afforded infinite pleasure.<br /> neighbours to the south. In an admirable article<br /> It is so true that words in common use are so<br /> by Mr. Brander Matthews, published in the June<br /> often overlooked, and their meaning is distorted or<br /> number of the American Review of Reviews, he<br /> shows how American literature was stunted and<br /> misapplied. When suddenly a misuser is severely<br /> repressed almost to extinction by means of whole-<br /> censured it becomes difficult to check what is<br /> sale piracy, which same conditions would be<br /> apparently self-erident. Following out the principle<br /> of looking for common words in current use, we<br /> possible in Canada by the terms of the Copyright<br /> Bill as at present outlined.<br /> find the Dictionary is everything that its adapters<br /> claim.<br /> It is to be hoped that this matter of copyright<br /> Its purchase can be recommended without hesi-<br /> will be given very careful consideration, and that<br /> no person will be blindly persuaded that benefit will<br /> tation. Although 900 pages in length, it is not<br /> accrue to any Canadian industry by the inclusion<br /> a bulky volume. The type is clear, and the price<br /> of a manufacturing clause. It will not mean an<br /> moderate.<br /> increase in printing of 5 per cent. over the present<br /> amount now done, on the principle that “a full<br /> pitcher can hold no more.&quot;<br /> JAPANESE POETRY.*<br /> THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY.*<br /> HERE are two distinct ways of reviewing a<br /> dictionary. We are not leading up to the<br /> self-evident and commonplace retort, “ Yes,<br /> the right way and the wrong way.”<br /> TN his preface Professor Chamberlain confesses<br /> 1 that in the course of years his taste respecting<br /> translations has changed : “He has gone over<br /> to the camp of the literalists, and cares for no<br /> versions whether of prose or of poetry, unless they<br /> be scrupulously exact.” We are entirely of the<br /> * &quot; The Concise Oxford Dictionary,” adapted by H. W.<br /> Fowler and F. G. Fowler, published by the Clarendon<br /> Press.<br /> Chamberlain.<br /> *&quot; Japanese Poetry,&quot; by Basil Hall<br /> London : John Murray. 1911.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 28 (#424) #############################################<br /> <br /> 28<br /> . THE AUTHOR.<br /> same opinion, and yet conscious that, in the case of To this we need only repls that the prize-<br /> poetry at least, the people are not a few who prefer winning stories will not appear elsewhere. Every<br /> a metrical version. Those on either side will be story will be published within the next few months<br /> able to find what they prefer in this new and much in one or other of the Magazines, and authors not<br /> enlarged edition of Japanese Poetry.&quot; Parts I., satisfied with this were not expected to compete.<br /> II., and III. of the volume are a reissue of the metri. Your correspondent proceeds next to deal with<br /> caltranslations published more than thirty years ago. the question of rights. There again no diffi-<br /> Part IV. contains a valuable essay on the Japanese culty will arise. While we shall, in the ordinary<br /> Poetical Epigram, and a number of absolutely literal way, expect to retain all rights in prize-winning<br /> translations of Japanese Epigrams accompanied by stories, we shall meet, in a reasonable spirit, authors<br /> the originals, in Roman character. This is how poetry who may desire to republish their stories<br /> ought to be translated ; and while the former part subsequently.<br /> of the work contains much that is neat in form and “No date is mentioned by which a decision may<br /> pleasing in substance, we have no hesitation in be expected,” complains &quot;A Would-be Competitor.&quot;<br /> saying tbat the new translations represent the most Since some thousands of stories have been<br /> valuable part of the book. The terseness of Japanese entered for the competition, each of which, in case<br /> Epigram is remarkable, and by no means always of rejection, requires an individual letter of careful<br /> avoids obscurity. All the difficulties are here so criticism, it was obviously impossible, whilst the<br /> admirably elucidated that Professor Chamberlain&#039;s competition was still running, to announce the<br /> book must be regarded as one which no one who is date when the result would be published. The<br /> taking up Japanese seriously can neglect. As these feature of the competition was that those actually<br /> are however few, we have pleasure in adding that responsible for the editorial conduct of the three<br /> every one with a true sense of poetical value magazines should read the stories, and as the<br /> will find in this volume a great deal that will give number of these people is limited, and they have<br /> delight.<br /> their ordinary work in addition to the competition,<br /> a certain delay has been inevitable. Stories have<br /> been dealt with as rapidly as possible, however, and<br /> the full result of the competition will be announced<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> in the November numbers of the three magazines.<br /> I might add in conclusion that the terms of the<br /> competition have met with the approval of the<br /> PRIZE COMPETITIONS.<br /> competitors. This being so, the discontent of “A<br /> Would-be Competitor &quot; is, if harder to understand,<br /> SIR,—As your correspondent, “A Would-be<br /> easier to endure.<br /> Contributor,” in your issue of July 1, obviously<br /> Yours faithfully,<br /> refers to our £260 Story Competition, we shall be<br /> The Editors,<br /> glad if you will allow us to deal with the points he<br /> PEARSON&#039;S MAGAZINE.<br /> raises.<br /> “Nothing,&quot; he remarks, “is said as to the fate<br /> THE ROYAL MAGAZINE.<br /> THE NOVEL MAGAZINE.<br /> of the successful stories ; there is nothing to<br /> indicate whether they are to be published, though<br /> this is hinted at.&quot;<br /> As the stated object of the competition was to<br /> INSURANCE.<br /> discover new authors, this criticism is somewhat SIR,—Following up my previous suggestion that<br /> curious. In any case it is difficult to imagine that a scheme for insuring contributors&#039; payments should<br /> anyone would pay £50 for a story he did not intend be contemplated, I add that it seems patent that if<br /> to publish. But may we allay any fears in this once an assurance company could be got to specify<br /> direction by assuring all those who read these lines what publications it would undertake to cover in this<br /> that prize-winning stories, and those purchased at way, the controllers of “unincluded” organs would<br /> our ordinary rates, will all be published.<br /> for the most part find it expedient, for the sake of<br /> “There is nothing,&quot; continues “A Would-be prestige, to follow suit by getting a similar public<br /> Competitor,&quot; “ to enable the authors to know where form of cover. Otherwise they might lay them.<br /> or when the prize-winning stories will be published. selves open to suspicion of instability. 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