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As Adopted by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of&lt;br /&gt;
L A Tale of North Derbyshire.&lt;br /&gt;
St. Andrews.&lt;br /&gt;
Special Rules for Medal Play.&lt;br /&gt;
By CHARLES EDMUND HALL,&lt;br /&gt;
Winners of the Goling Championship.&lt;br /&gt;
Author of &amp;quot; An Ancient Ancestor,&rdquo; &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
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Etiquette of Golf.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 189 (#261) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. XI.&mdash;No. 11.)&lt;br /&gt;
APRIL 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
requests that all members not receiving an answer to&lt;br /&gt;
important communications within two days will write to him&lt;br /&gt;
without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union&lt;br /&gt;
Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
III. THE ROYALTY SYSTEM.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are pablished in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A COMMISSION AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on&lt;br /&gt;
all subjects connected with literature, but on no other sub-&lt;br /&gt;
joots whatever. Articles which cannot be accepted are&lt;br /&gt;
returned if stamps for the purpose accompany the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
IT ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
al agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :&lt;br /&gt;
I. SELLING IT OUTRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A PROFIT-SHARING AGREEMENT (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.&lt;br /&gt;
duotion forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs : or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &ldquo; office expenses,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
unless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
1. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some&lt;br /&gt;
competent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely carefal in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such &amp;amp; contract shoald stipulate in the con-&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 190 (#262) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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190&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts with the loan of the books represented. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new&lt;br /&gt;
or old, for inspection and note. The information thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise apon agreements and publishers. (2) To&lt;br /&gt;
stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon&lt;br /&gt;
them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments&lt;br /&gt;
due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipte&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that American rights may be exceedingly&lt;br /&gt;
valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
0. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
cracts, those authors desirous of further information are&lt;br /&gt;
referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
TEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes not only works of fiction but poetry and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement,&lt;br /&gt;
technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of&lt;br /&gt;
competence and experience. The fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;s-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
21st of each month.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,&lt;br /&gt;
whether members of the Society or not, are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
communicate to the Editor any points connected with their&lt;br /&gt;
work which it would be advisable in the general interest to&lt;br /&gt;
publish.&lt;br /&gt;
The present location of the Authors&amp;#039; Club is at 3, White-&lt;br /&gt;
hall-court, Charing Cross. Address the Secretary for&lt;br /&gt;
information, rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. DVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
L advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice sought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publisher&amp;#039;s agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
## p. 191 (#263) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
191&lt;br /&gt;
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- &Ocirc; oon on ouren ooenou-meno oor ons&lt;br /&gt;
-oo o o o oeroeren- onen--005 Ocean&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
33&lt;br /&gt;
Do years)&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
I00&lt;br /&gt;
IO&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for&lt;br /&gt;
. 1901) ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A..............&lt;br /&gt;
...........&lt;br /&gt;
I.&mdash;PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
Egmond, H. V. .....................&lt;br /&gt;
HE following is the list of donations Gilbert, W. S............&lt;br /&gt;
and subscriptions at present promised or&lt;br /&gt;
Goldemith, W. H. ............&lt;br /&gt;
received :-&lt;br /&gt;
Gribble, F. ......&lt;br /&gt;
Guthrie, Anstey .............&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynn, S. ........&lt;br /&gt;
A. S.&lt;br /&gt;
.................................. ... ... ............ &pound;100&lt;br /&gt;
.........&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss Beatrice ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E. ...............&lt;br /&gt;
............ 50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope ...&lt;br /&gt;
Anonymous ............................................&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis....&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, Mrs. A. ............&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Kelly, C. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida ............&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M...&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter...............&lt;br /&gt;
Macdonald, Mrs.......................................&lt;br /&gt;
Boevey, Miss Crawley .............&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W.&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers, Miss Beatrice ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max.&lt;br /&gt;
Cordeaux, Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Pendered, Miss Mary L.&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs..&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W....&lt;br /&gt;
Doyle, A. Conan&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts, Morley&lt;br /&gt;
O 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Esler, Mrs. Rentoul (for three years)&lt;br /&gt;
Rose, Edward ....................&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
Sinclair, Miss ............................&lt;br /&gt;
O 10&amp;#039; 0&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler, Miss E. T.....&lt;br /&gt;
Stanley, Mrs. .........&lt;br /&gt;
Freshfield, D. W.........&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry ............................... 10 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Gibbs, Miss .............&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P.......&lt;br /&gt;
II 0&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss. Beatrice ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope .......&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson, Rev. H..&lt;br /&gt;
The first meeting of the Pension Fund Com-&lt;br /&gt;
Jacberns, Raymond .................&lt;br /&gt;
Jones, Henry Arthur....&lt;br /&gt;
50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
mittee was held at the offices of the Society on&lt;br /&gt;
Keltie, J. Scott&lt;br /&gt;
Thursday, March 7, at four o&amp;#039;clock, when the&lt;br /&gt;
Kipling, Rudyard&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
following resolutions, proposed by Mr. Morley&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W. J. ........&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts and seconded by Mr. M. H. Spielmann,&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, Capt. R. ........&lt;br /&gt;
10 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
for the conduct of applications for pensions for&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
1901 were passed unanimously :&lt;br /&gt;
Miles, Eastace .............................. ....... I&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;In the month of April the Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope.........&lt;br /&gt;
IO I Committee will proceed to consider applications&lt;br /&gt;
Morrah, Herbert ......................&lt;br /&gt;
for pensions to be granted under the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
Norris, W. E. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
Fund scheme of the Society of Authors. Pur-&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Gilbert ..&lt;br /&gt;
suant to the power to make bye-laws for regu-&lt;br /&gt;
Phillpotts, Eden ...&lt;br /&gt;
10 0 0 lating applications for pensions vested in the&lt;br /&gt;
Pollock, Sir Frederick ...........&lt;br /&gt;
committee by the scheme, the Committee have&lt;br /&gt;
Roe, Mrs. Harcourt&lt;br /&gt;
made and hereby give notice of the following&lt;br /&gt;
Rossetti, W. M. .&lt;br /&gt;
regulations:&lt;br /&gt;
S. B.........&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. .................................&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;1. All applications must be in writing and&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Prof.&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Secretary of the Society of&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann, M. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors at the offices of the Society (4, Portugal-&lt;br /&gt;
Stanton, Miss H. M. E.&lt;br /&gt;
........&lt;br /&gt;
street, W.C.) and must reach the Secretary on or&lt;br /&gt;
Toplis, Miss G.&lt;br /&gt;
........... 0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Tweedie, Mrs. Alec&lt;br /&gt;
before Saturday, April 20, 1901. Envelopes&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P....&lt;br /&gt;
should be marked &bull; Confidential.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Weyman, Stanley ...&lt;br /&gt;
26 5 0 &ldquo;2. Applications may be made (a) by the&lt;br /&gt;
Wheelwright, Miss E. E.&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0 applicant for a pension, (6) by any two members&lt;br /&gt;
Williams, Mrs. E. L. ......&lt;br /&gt;
I 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society on the applicant&amp;#039;s behalf. In the&lt;br /&gt;
Young, Ernest ...............&lt;br /&gt;
0 6 0&lt;br /&gt;
latter case the Committee may require the appli-&lt;br /&gt;
SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
cant to signify in writing his willingness to&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)...... 10 00&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. ..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
I 10&lt;br /&gt;
accept a pension if granted.&lt;br /&gt;
Avery, Harold .....&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; 3. Applications must state, to the best of the&lt;br /&gt;
Beckett, A. W. &agrave; ...&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge and belief of the person or persons&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter..........&lt;br /&gt;
making the same:&lt;br /&gt;
Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;(a) The full name, description, and present&lt;br /&gt;
Brodhurst, Spencer.......&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward&lt;br /&gt;
address of the applicant. If the applicant&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Cresswell, Rev. H. ......&lt;br /&gt;
has written under an assumed name such&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R.&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
name should also be given.&lt;br /&gt;
2&lt;br /&gt;
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192&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; (6) The age of the applicant, and the date&lt;br /&gt;
at which the applicant became a member&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society. If the applicant has&lt;br /&gt;
ceased to be a member, the date of his or&lt;br /&gt;
her retirement must be given.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;(c) The financial position of the applicant,&lt;br /&gt;
including an account of the applicant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
entire annual income from all sources&lt;br /&gt;
(including voluntary allowances if any).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; (d) The names of the publications relied on&lt;br /&gt;
to establish the merit of the applicant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
literary work.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;4. Applications may, if desired, be accom.&lt;br /&gt;
panied by not more than two testimonials to the&lt;br /&gt;
applicant&amp;#039;s character, and to merits of the appli.&lt;br /&gt;
cant&amp;#039;s works or eitber of them, and by a further&lt;br /&gt;
statement of the applicant&amp;#039;s financial position&lt;br /&gt;
from some person acquainted therewith.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;5. Avplications and the contents of all state-&lt;br /&gt;
ments relating thereto will be treated as confi.&lt;br /&gt;
dential, the names of the recipients of the&lt;br /&gt;
pensions and the amounts granted alone being&lt;br /&gt;
stated in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;6. All communications whatever must be&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to the Secretary, and to him only.&lt;br /&gt;
Canvassing of members of the Committee, either&lt;br /&gt;
by or on behalf of the applicant, is prohibited.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;7. The first pensions created will be granted&lt;br /&gt;
as from March 25, 1901, and will be payable, as&lt;br /&gt;
to the first instalment immediately, and there-&lt;br /&gt;
after in quarterly instalments in advance on the&lt;br /&gt;
usual English quarter days.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
By order of the Pension Fund Committee,&lt;br /&gt;
G. HERBERT THRING, Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Arrondissement; and Coupri, Sculptor,&lt;br /&gt;
Livry, Seine et Oise.)&lt;br /&gt;
3. The author&amp;#039;s rights in connection with&lt;br /&gt;
reproductions by means of mechanical appliances;&lt;br /&gt;
perforated cards, projecting processes, phono-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs, cinematographs, &amp;amp;c. (M. Jean Lobel,&lt;br /&gt;
10, Rue Captal, Paris, IX. Arrondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
4. Dramatic art. The author&amp;#039;s right appertain.&lt;br /&gt;
ing to the actor ; creation of character, costumes,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c. Rights attributable to inventors of mise en&lt;br /&gt;
sc&egrave;ne, theatrical decorations, sets, machinery, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
(MM. G. Lefeuve, 3, Rue de la Bienfaisance,&lt;br /&gt;
VIII. Arrondissement; and G. Pfeiffer, 40, Rue&lt;br /&gt;
Condoret, IX, Arrondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
5. Examination of the new German law re-&lt;br /&gt;
specting publishers&amp;#039; agreements. (M. Eisenmann,&lt;br /&gt;
2, Cit&eacute; Rougemont, IX. Arondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
Will you oblige us by communicating with the&lt;br /&gt;
above-named gentlemen with a view to the&lt;br /&gt;
formation of the committees and the furthering&lt;br /&gt;
of their objects.&lt;br /&gt;
For information please address M. G. Maillard,&lt;br /&gt;
general referee, or the permanent secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
M. Jules Lermina, 19, Boulevard Port Royal,&lt;br /&gt;
XIII. Arrondissement.&lt;br /&gt;
The association is at the same time preparing&lt;br /&gt;
an important work which demands the assistance&lt;br /&gt;
of all its members. This is a history of the&lt;br /&gt;
progress of the National and International Law&lt;br /&gt;
of Copyright during the XIX. Century. (MM, A.&lt;br /&gt;
Darras, 97, Boulevard St. Michel; and Jules&lt;br /&gt;
Lermina.)&lt;br /&gt;
We earnestly beg you to give in your name to&lt;br /&gt;
one or more of the above committees, so that&lt;br /&gt;
these questions may be treated with the same&lt;br /&gt;
precision and fulness which they merit. After&lt;br /&gt;
names have been received the invitations will be&lt;br /&gt;
sent out at an early date.&lt;br /&gt;
EUGENE POUILLET, President.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
II.-INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND ARTISTIC&lt;br /&gt;
AssociATION.&mdash;FORTHCOMING CONGRESS.&lt;br /&gt;
We have the honour of informing you that&lt;br /&gt;
the Twenty-third Congress of the International&lt;br /&gt;
Literary and Artistic Association (founded by&lt;br /&gt;
Victor Hugo in 1878) will be held in the town&lt;br /&gt;
of Vevey, Switzerland, in the first fortnight in&lt;br /&gt;
August.&lt;br /&gt;
The following are among the questions which&lt;br /&gt;
will be discussed, and we add the names of those&lt;br /&gt;
of our confr&egrave;res who bave undertaken to collect&lt;br /&gt;
information and to arrange the committees who&lt;br /&gt;
will consider the various subjects :-&lt;br /&gt;
1. An investigation of modifications to be&lt;br /&gt;
made in the text of the Berne Convention. The&lt;br /&gt;
appointment of a permanent international com-&lt;br /&gt;
mission for the interpretation of the said con-&lt;br /&gt;
vention. (M. G. Maillard, 241, Boulevard Saint&lt;br /&gt;
Germain, Paris, VI. Arrondissement.)&lt;br /&gt;
2. The protection of works of art, whatsoever&lt;br /&gt;
may be their aim, even if but purely commercial.&lt;br /&gt;
(MM. Soleau, 127, Rue de Turenne, Paris,&lt;br /&gt;
III.&mdash;COPYRIGHT REFORM IN GREECE.&lt;br /&gt;
The Greek Chamber has voted, for April 1,&lt;br /&gt;
a first reading of a new law of copyright, which&lt;br /&gt;
was proposed last year. The copyright law&lt;br /&gt;
of Greece is at present very unsatisfactory, even&lt;br /&gt;
native authors enjoying an extremely limited&lt;br /&gt;
protection. The proposed law will to some&lt;br /&gt;
extent remedy this unsatisfactory state of things.&lt;br /&gt;
But from an interesting article on the new law&lt;br /&gt;
in our valuable contemporary Le Droit d&amp;#039;Auteur&lt;br /&gt;
we gather that far too little is likely to be&lt;br /&gt;
done for the foreign author-an omission much&lt;br /&gt;
to be regretted in the case of Greece, a country&lt;br /&gt;
which, though the native modern literature com-&lt;br /&gt;
pares favourably with that of the other&lt;br /&gt;
southern European peninsulas (particularly if&lt;br /&gt;
the recent date of the regeneration of Greece&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 193 (#265) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
193&lt;br /&gt;
is taken into consideration), borrows an immense&lt;br /&gt;
amount of learned and scientific literature&lt;br /&gt;
from the countries of northern and western&lt;br /&gt;
Europe. What is really to be desired is that&lt;br /&gt;
Greece should enter the Berne Convention and&lt;br /&gt;
level her domestic legislation up to the modern&lt;br /&gt;
international lines. The last is perhaps too much&lt;br /&gt;
to expect from a country recently liberated from&lt;br /&gt;
Turkish barbarism, when it is remembered how&lt;br /&gt;
very loth English legislation is to see things&lt;br /&gt;
from the point of view of broad cosmopolitan&lt;br /&gt;
principles.&lt;br /&gt;
must be printed in Canada in order to obtain local copy.&lt;br /&gt;
right. The following is the section referred to:&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; If a book as to which there is subsisting copyright&lt;br /&gt;
under the Copyright Act has been first lawfully published&lt;br /&gt;
in any part of Her Majesty&amp;#039;s dominions other than Canada,&lt;br /&gt;
and if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Minister of&lt;br /&gt;
Agriculture that the owner of the copyright 80 subsisting&lt;br /&gt;
and of the copyright acquired by such publication bas&lt;br /&gt;
lawfully granted a licence to reproduce in Canada, from&lt;br /&gt;
movable or other types, or from stereotype plates, or from&lt;br /&gt;
electro plates, or from lithograph stones, or by any process&lt;br /&gt;
for facsimile reproduction, an edition or editions of such&lt;br /&gt;
book designed for sale only in Canada, the minister may,&lt;br /&gt;
notwithstanding anything in the Copyright Act, by order&lt;br /&gt;
ander his hand, prohibit the importation, except with the&lt;br /&gt;
written consent of the licensee, into Canada of any copies&lt;br /&gt;
of such book printed elsewhere, provided that two such&lt;br /&gt;
copies may be specially imported for the bona fide use of&lt;br /&gt;
any public free library or any university or college library,&lt;br /&gt;
or for the library of any duly incorporated institution or&lt;br /&gt;
society for the use of the members of such institution or&lt;br /&gt;
society.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Does this support the idea that Canadian copyright is&lt;br /&gt;
ondangered, and that local copyright may be obtained&lt;br /&gt;
without printing ?&lt;br /&gt;
It is farther stated in your report that Mr. W. P. Gundy&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;made it clear that the English Bill omitted the clause of&lt;br /&gt;
compelling printing in this country.&rdquo; The English Bill does&lt;br /&gt;
not compel this country to do anything if it does not see fit&lt;br /&gt;
to. The question raieed at tbe meeting is an old one. It&lt;br /&gt;
has failed time and time again, and it is this : Certain&lt;br /&gt;
parties in Canada want to reprint English books whetber&lt;br /&gt;
the English authors consent to it or not. In my opinion&lt;br /&gt;
tbis course would be destructive of Canadian pablishing and&lt;br /&gt;
the interests connected with it, because it would destroy the&lt;br /&gt;
existing friendly relations between Canadian publishers and&lt;br /&gt;
English publishers and authors, and would prevent the&lt;br /&gt;
growth of native literature as a similar polioy did in the&lt;br /&gt;
United States prior to the American legislation of 1891.&lt;br /&gt;
Piracy is fatal.&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE N. MORANG.&lt;br /&gt;
Toronto, Feb. 19.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
The Canadian copyright question has been&lt;br /&gt;
again raised by an article in the Toronto Globe&lt;br /&gt;
of Feb. 19, under a flaring big type heading :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Endangers our Copyright.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The article was a report of a meeting of certain&lt;br /&gt;
trade bodies of Toronto, and bears out the fact&lt;br /&gt;
that the best interests of Canada on this ques-&lt;br /&gt;
tion are altogether inadequately understood by&lt;br /&gt;
the trades concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
The wider question of whose property is being&lt;br /&gt;
dealt with-that of the author - was of course&lt;br /&gt;
not considered at all. However, we are glad to&lt;br /&gt;
report that the stir made by this meeting has&lt;br /&gt;
somewhat subsided, and there appears to be no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt, owing chiefly to the efforts of Mr. G. N.&lt;br /&gt;
Morang, the Toronto publisher, that the matter&lt;br /&gt;
has been clearly put before the trades, and&lt;br /&gt;
laboriously explained to their representatives.&lt;br /&gt;
The trade bodies have now given their approval&lt;br /&gt;
to the Copyright Amendment Act (Canada) of&lt;br /&gt;
last year and the proposals contained in Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill. We have pleasure in printing&lt;br /&gt;
herewith a letter from Mr. Morang to the&lt;br /&gt;
Toronto Globe of Feb. 20, and an article on&lt;br /&gt;
Canaoian Copyright that appeared in the Toronto&lt;br /&gt;
Mail and Empire of the same date.&lt;br /&gt;
Both these communications are full of interest,&lt;br /&gt;
and show a thorough knowledge of the subject.&lt;br /&gt;
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT NOT ENDANGERED.&lt;br /&gt;
To tbe Editor of the Globe,&mdash;The report of the meeting&lt;br /&gt;
of tbe booksellers&amp;#039; section of the Board of Trade appearing&lt;br /&gt;
in your paper this morning is, I think, likely to give a&lt;br /&gt;
wrung ia pression of what took place, while the heading you&lt;br /&gt;
bave put to it, &ldquo; Endangere our Copyright,&rdquo; may unneces.&lt;br /&gt;
sarily alarm tbe public. In the first paragraph it is stated&lt;br /&gt;
that the Copyright Bill now before the House of Lords will&lt;br /&gt;
give Canadian copyright to a book without its being printed&lt;br /&gt;
here. Tbis is not tbe fact. Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill, which&lt;br /&gt;
is framed to deal with Imperial copyright, contains a clause&lt;br /&gt;
wbich gives any colody a right to pass a local Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
Aot which prohibits the importation of English editions if&lt;br /&gt;
such colony reprints or imports for sale under a licence&lt;br /&gt;
from the owner of the Imperial copyright. Anyone reading&lt;br /&gt;
the Bill will see that an option is implied, and in the&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Act of 1900 not a single word is said about the&lt;br /&gt;
importing of &amp;quot;sheets,&rdquo; but it distinctly states that a book&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
It would be a misfortune if anything occurred in Canada&lt;br /&gt;
at the present time that might be construed as antagonistic&lt;br /&gt;
to the Copyright Bill wbich will shortly come before the&lt;br /&gt;
British Parliament ander the sponsorship of Lord Monks.&lt;br /&gt;
well. Tbat Bill is conceived in a large and Imporial spirit,&lt;br /&gt;
and it takes into consideration the needs of the empire as a&lt;br /&gt;
whole. No one who bas duly considered its provisions can&lt;br /&gt;
fail to come to this conclusion. It is no hurriedly.drawn&lt;br /&gt;
makeshift ; its fairness to all parties is undeniable, and the&lt;br /&gt;
idea that it will militate against Canadian interests is&lt;br /&gt;
absurd. As a matter of fact, the Canadian Bill of last year&lt;br /&gt;
that dealt with copyright, and Lord Monks well&amp;#039;s Bill that&lt;br /&gt;
will undoubtedly become law in the near future, place&lt;br /&gt;
copyright matters on a sounder basis than they have ever&lt;br /&gt;
before occupied.&lt;br /&gt;
The desiderata with reference to copyright are that the&lt;br /&gt;
author shall have reasonable protection for the fruit of his&lt;br /&gt;
brain throughout the empire of wbich he is a citizen, and&lt;br /&gt;
that colonies that have arrived at the adalt stage, and&lt;br /&gt;
have printing and publishing facilities of their own, shall&lt;br /&gt;
be able to reserve their own markets for their own prodao-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of such authors&amp;#039; works, if they wish to do so, and are&lt;br /&gt;
disposed to take the risk of printing them. Let us take an&lt;br /&gt;
example. Mr. A. is a world-known writer, whose books&lt;br /&gt;
bave sold by the thousand throughout the English-speaking&lt;br /&gt;
markets of the globe. He publishes a new book which is&lt;br /&gt;
BB&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 194 (#266) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
194&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
copyrighted in England. That copyright is valid all over defendants ? Did the delay damage the book ?&lt;br /&gt;
the British Empire. He arranges with a British publisher If so to what extent?&lt;br /&gt;
to issue it. What does the copyright mean in that case ?&lt;br /&gt;
The defence introduced points which bad&lt;br /&gt;
Undoubtedly it means that the edition of that particular&lt;br /&gt;
publisher is the only one that can be legally sold wherever nothing to do with the case : as that we plant&lt;br /&gt;
the flag flies. In Canada, for instance, that edition can had paid &pound;110 for the cost of production : that&lt;br /&gt;
keep out the importation of United States editions of the the firm had lost money by the book : that they&lt;br /&gt;
samo work, and this has recently been determined by the had spent so much in advertising : that no one&lt;br /&gt;
courts. Now that is satisfactory as far as Imperial&lt;br /&gt;
copyright is concerned. But a colony baving the status&lt;br /&gt;
would buy the book : that they had sold less than&lt;br /&gt;
that Canada has, naturally says: &ldquo; We can print and 100 copies : that the book had been &ldquo;pushed &rdquo;-&lt;br /&gt;
publish our own books. We bave a great paper all this was &ldquo; garnish&rdquo; and had nothing whatever&lt;br /&gt;
industry, we have a very large printing interest; our to do with the case, which simply consisted of&lt;br /&gt;
bookbinding concerns compare favourably with those of&lt;br /&gt;
those questions mentioned above.&lt;br /&gt;
New York and London. Why should we not make&lt;br /&gt;
The true defence was an allegation that the&lt;br /&gt;
an arrangement with the copyright owner whereby we can&lt;br /&gt;
print the work in Canada, on paper made in Canada, and plaintiff was the cause of the delay himself by&lt;br /&gt;
have it bound by Canadian bookbinders ?&rdquo; It was this mis-spelling a title page : that the book&lt;br /&gt;
query that commended itself to the common sense of Parlia. required a certain kind of type: and that no&lt;br /&gt;
ment last session, when they passed the Canadian Copyright&lt;br /&gt;
damage was done to the book by the delay.&lt;br /&gt;
Act, which received Government and Opposition support,&lt;br /&gt;
and the same thing also appealed to the sense of justice of&lt;br /&gt;
1. As regards the mis-spelling of the title page :&lt;br /&gt;
the framers of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Bill. The provisions of the defendant should bave been asked how many&lt;br /&gt;
both these measures are in harmony with Canadian interests. copies were bound up with the mis-spelt page :&lt;br /&gt;
They distinctly provide that when a copyright owner makes how long it took to take out that page and to&lt;br /&gt;
an arrangement with a colonial publisher to print or publish&lt;br /&gt;
substitute another. It does not appear that he&lt;br /&gt;
a work in that colony, he shall be protected even against&lt;br /&gt;
was asked this simple but very important ques.&lt;br /&gt;
the incoming of the English edition. Canada bas taken&lt;br /&gt;
advantage of this disposition on the part of the British autho tion.&lt;br /&gt;
rities, and bas enacted legislation providing that when a copy. 2. As regards the type wanted, the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
right work is printed in Canada it shall stand against all should have been asked why they made the con-&lt;br /&gt;
comers, English included. There is nothing in the Act of tract-which was not denied before sending the&lt;br /&gt;
1900 wbich gives imported &ldquo;sheets&rdquo; local copyright. Not&lt;br /&gt;
only oan the publisher keep out the United States reprint,&lt;br /&gt;
book to be printed. If they found out, after&lt;br /&gt;
but he can invoke the Customs authorities to restrain signing the contract, that this delay would be&lt;br /&gt;
English importations. This, let it be distinctly remarked, caused, the plaintiff was certainly not to blame.&lt;br /&gt;
is contingent upon the Canadian production of the work, It does not appear from the report that this ques-&lt;br /&gt;
and the Canadian production of the work implies of course tion was asked.&lt;br /&gt;
the employment of Canadian printers, papermakers, book.&lt;br /&gt;
binders, et al. If no special arrangements are made Old&lt;br /&gt;
On the subject of delay, Mr. Murray is reported&lt;br /&gt;
Country publications are of course free to come in to to have said that the loss of the Easter demand&lt;br /&gt;
Canada on payment of the duty that all countries pay. We would be prejudicial. Mr. F. Macmillan is&lt;br /&gt;
do not suppose that anybody in these days would wish to reported to have said that it would not be pre-&lt;br /&gt;
restrict this freedom. But no one can read the Act that is&lt;br /&gt;
judicial. Certain booksellers declared that it was&lt;br /&gt;
the Canadian Parliament passed last year, or the text of&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Monks well&amp;#039;s Bill, without feeling that together they&lt;br /&gt;
e not prejudicial. A traveller said that booksellers&lt;br /&gt;
embody a large and statesmanlike settlement of the subject. would not subscribe the book.&lt;br /&gt;
- Toronto Mail and Empire, Feb. 20.&lt;br /&gt;
All this evidence, apparently contradictory, is&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
true, but it should be explained. There can&lt;br /&gt;
be no doubt whatever that there is a greater&lt;br /&gt;
V.--WHITE 1. ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND Co. demand at Easter than a month after Easter-for&lt;br /&gt;
The hearing of this case took place on Friday, books in demand. For books not popular there&lt;br /&gt;
March 22. According to the reports it was pre is no time more favourable than any other times,&lt;br /&gt;
sented and argued on grounds which appear to because at no season are they wanted. If book-&lt;br /&gt;
have been chiefly irrelevant and superfluous. sellers will not subscribe a book there is no&lt;br /&gt;
The plaintiff&amp;#039;s case was quite simple. He market for it, either at Easter or at any other&lt;br /&gt;
alleged that the defendants had contracted to time. To what class-popular or unpopular-&lt;br /&gt;
produce his book by March 20: that they delayed did this book belong? If to the latter, the book-&lt;br /&gt;
it till April 20: that they lost thereby the Easter sellers who denied that it was injured by the&lt;br /&gt;
market : that the course of events caused the loss of the Easter demand were undoubtedly&lt;br /&gt;
postponement of reviews of his book until August right. If to the former, Mr. Murray&amp;#039;s general&lt;br /&gt;
and thereby further prejudiced the sale of the proposition applied to this book, and it was&lt;br /&gt;
book.&lt;br /&gt;
injured. But the difference required to be pointed&lt;br /&gt;
It will be seen that these allegations required out. We are not arguing that the defendants&lt;br /&gt;
simply question and answer. Was the contract were to blame or that the plaintiff was wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
correctly stated ? Was the delay due to the Weare only showing that, according to the report,&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 195 (#267) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
195&lt;br /&gt;
the issues were confused by the introduction of Pension Fund of the Society. He said he had&lt;br /&gt;
superfluous considerations, and that the real much pleasure in stating that this scheme had&lt;br /&gt;
causes of the delay, as stated by the plaintiff, do been started so far satisfactorily, and that the&lt;br /&gt;
not appear to have been kept in the front at trustees had declared a sum of &pound;66 available&lt;br /&gt;
all. Two points are instructive: the willingness for pensions for the current year through the&lt;br /&gt;
of the plaintiff to pay the cost of production, scheme. He desired, however, to draw the atten-&lt;br /&gt;
and the remarkable unanimity of the booksellers tion of the members to the fact that, though the&lt;br /&gt;
in refusing to subscribe the book. The author scheme had been well supported, he hoped a&lt;br /&gt;
clearly believed that his book would have a run large body of the members would become sub-&lt;br /&gt;
-to recoup his &pound;110 would have required a sale scribers of sums, however small, annually, and&lt;br /&gt;
of 700 copies at least, and the publisher sold that the scheme would be supported in the&lt;br /&gt;
less than 100. As booksellers refused to take it, future by annual subscriptions as well as by&lt;br /&gt;
the book was not published. That is to say, it substantial donations. He then drew attention&lt;br /&gt;
was printed but not offered to the public to the financial statement, and declared that the&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps literary aspirants will understand the position of the Society was on the whole satis-&lt;br /&gt;
difference. A publisher cannot offer a book to factory.&lt;br /&gt;
the public : he can produce it-print it, bind it, The next item was the election of members to&lt;br /&gt;
advertise it, and offer it to the booksellers. When the Pension Fund Committee by the members&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; MS. has been refused by the publishers it is of the Society. Mr. Hawkins read out the&lt;br /&gt;
tolerably certain that even if an author pays for it names of the candidates and their proposers as&lt;br /&gt;
the book will not be published. It will fall flat: it follows:-MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE, nominated by&lt;br /&gt;
will never be put on exhibition : its production is a J. M. Barrie, Anstey Guthrie, Herbert Trench;&lt;br /&gt;
waste of money and time, and a bitter disappoint- MR. MORLEY ROBERTS, nominated by E. W.&lt;br /&gt;
ment to the author. And, if he takes his reputa. Hornung, W. Morris Colles, H. A. Bryden ; Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
tion and his shattered hopes into court, he will M. H. SPIELMANN, nominated by W. M. Rossetti,&lt;br /&gt;
probably find, as in the case of White v. Henry Cresswell, A. S. Rose. He stated that, as&lt;br /&gt;
Constable, that his case is treated as a fitting peg there were only three candidates for the three&lt;br /&gt;
for a succession of lively jokes.&lt;br /&gt;
vacancies, they might be declared elected.&lt;br /&gt;
Accordingly their election was formally ratified.&lt;br /&gt;
On the Chairman resuming his seat, MR.&lt;br /&gt;
BERNARD Shaw asked a few questions about the&lt;br /&gt;
MEETINGS OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
action which the Society was taking with regard&lt;br /&gt;
to the Copyright Bill. He trusted that they were&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; looking closely into the matter, and were taking&lt;br /&gt;
M HE general meeting of the shareholders care that the interests of authors and dramatists&lt;br /&gt;
(the Council) of the Society of Authors were sufficiently protected. The Chairman made&lt;br /&gt;
was beld at 20, Hanover-square, W., at a short statement in reply, putting forward the&lt;br /&gt;
3.30, on Thursday, Feb 28. The chairman of the steps that the Committee had taken, and stating&lt;br /&gt;
managing committee, MR. A. HOPE HAWKINS, that the course of the measure would be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
presided, and the report, balance-sheet, and watched.&lt;br /&gt;
accounts were laid before the meeting and Subsequently several members made sugges-&lt;br /&gt;
unanimously adopted.&lt;br /&gt;
tions as to increasing the efficiency of the Pension&lt;br /&gt;
At 4.15 on the same day the general meeting Fund. Mr. Prelooker, Miss Friswell, and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Authors was held at the same J. Louis considered that conversaziones and other&lt;br /&gt;
place. Mr. A. HOPE HAWKINS again took the social functions would be desirable. Mr. Bernard&lt;br /&gt;
chair.&lt;br /&gt;
Shaw and Mr. H. N. Hutchinson also spoke on&lt;br /&gt;
The proceedings were opened by the Chairman the subject of the Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
making a short statement with regard to the The Chairman replied that the matter would&lt;br /&gt;
accounts and The report. He pointed out the be laid before the Pension Fund Committee, who&lt;br /&gt;
successful steps the Society had taken with regard would carefully consider the suggestions put&lt;br /&gt;
to copyright legislation both in Canada and in forward.&lt;br /&gt;
England, and referred to tbe fact that the MR. BERNARD Shaw paid an eloquent tribute to&lt;br /&gt;
Government were about to bring forward the the work that the Society was doing for authors,&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Bill. He then drew attention to the and stated that he thought all authors should join&lt;br /&gt;
strong support the Society had received from the Society, as if they were not obtaining help&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic authors, and to the sub-committee that individually, collectively, no doubt, they obtained&lt;br /&gt;
had been formed to deal with dramatic ques. considerable advantage from the efforts of the&lt;br /&gt;
tions. The next point he dealt with was the Society on their behalf,&lt;br /&gt;
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196&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Miss CLEMENTINA BLACK suggested that, if&lt;br /&gt;
possible, the work of the Society should be&lt;br /&gt;
advertised more widely, in order that it might be&lt;br /&gt;
made known to the younger authors.&lt;br /&gt;
After a vote of thanks to the Chairman (pro-&lt;br /&gt;
posed by Mr. A. W. &agrave; Beckett) the proceedings&lt;br /&gt;
terminated.&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
the business in the various towns in the faster&lt;br /&gt;
selling books, such as novels and other light&lt;br /&gt;
literature.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
NET PRICES IN FUTURE.&lt;br /&gt;
The publishers&amp;#039; agreement provides in sub-&lt;br /&gt;
stance that all copyrighted books first issued by&lt;br /&gt;
members of the association after May 1, 1901,&lt;br /&gt;
shall be published at net prices; that such net&lt;br /&gt;
copyrighted books shall be sold by the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
to those booksellers only who will maintain the&lt;br /&gt;
retail price of such net copyrighted books for one&lt;br /&gt;
year, and to those booksellers and jobbers only&lt;br /&gt;
who will sell their books further to no one known&lt;br /&gt;
to them to cut such net prices or whose name has&lt;br /&gt;
been given to them by the association as one who&lt;br /&gt;
cuts such prices; that after the expiration of a&lt;br /&gt;
year from the publication of any such net copy-&lt;br /&gt;
righted book dealers shall not be held to these&lt;br /&gt;
restrictions and may sell such book at a cut price,&lt;br /&gt;
but if, on learning of such action, the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
shall desire to buy back at the purchase price the&lt;br /&gt;
copies then remaining in the dealer&amp;#039;s hands, they&lt;br /&gt;
must be resold to him on demand.&lt;br /&gt;
It is noted that the Harpers have published&lt;br /&gt;
recently a novel listed at the net retail price of&lt;br /&gt;
one dollar and twenty cents. The book is one&lt;br /&gt;
which would be priced at one and one-half dollars&lt;br /&gt;
under the old order of things. Thus the experi-&lt;br /&gt;
ment may be said to be fairly started; the out-&lt;br /&gt;
come will be interesting, for if our publishers can&lt;br /&gt;
effectively organise for this particular object,&lt;br /&gt;
other purposes will suggest themselves which wil.&lt;br /&gt;
make the American Publishers&amp;#039; Association a&lt;br /&gt;
powerful factor in the commerce of letters.&lt;br /&gt;
New York City, March 8, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
UR American Publishers&amp;#039; Association at last&lt;br /&gt;
has manifested itself; the visible sign of&lt;br /&gt;
its activity takes the form of an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
by which the retail prices of books are to be main-&lt;br /&gt;
tained at the catalogue prices, and a reduction is&lt;br /&gt;
to be made in the net price for the ben-fit of the&lt;br /&gt;
retail dealers, whom the low prices of the depart-&lt;br /&gt;
ment stores have almost driven out of business.&lt;br /&gt;
In England, I believe, vet prices prevail ; but the&lt;br /&gt;
custom of the trade has been different with us,&lt;br /&gt;
and because of the evils of the &ldquo;cutting&rdquo; system&lt;br /&gt;
the Publishers&amp;#039; Association was organised. This&lt;br /&gt;
custom of &ldquo;cutting&rdquo; prices in books, which now&lt;br /&gt;
affects all concerned in their production, can&lt;br /&gt;
be no better described than by quoting Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
John H. Dingman&amp;#039;s article in the American&lt;br /&gt;
Printer :-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;At first the supposed interests of a rival book-&lt;br /&gt;
seller led the latter to offer certain volumes at a&lt;br /&gt;
price lower than the retail, this procedure being&lt;br /&gt;
immediately met by his neighbour, and that&lt;br /&gt;
action in various localities has been followed by&lt;br /&gt;
the cutting of prices from a living margin of&lt;br /&gt;
profit to a price in many cases approaching the&lt;br /&gt;
cost, and sometimes reaching it and going below&lt;br /&gt;
it. The extreme cuts in prices, however, have&lt;br /&gt;
been made by department stores, whose proprie&lt;br /&gt;
tors, finding the intense interest of the public in&lt;br /&gt;
books of superior quality, by noted authors, bave&lt;br /&gt;
come to use such books as inducements to secure&lt;br /&gt;
the attendance of customers at their stores, where,&lt;br /&gt;
having secured their presence, they have been able to&lt;br /&gt;
sell them other articles of merchandise. upon&lt;br /&gt;
which they could make their usual profit, though&lt;br /&gt;
they lost almost all or the whole of the profit on&lt;br /&gt;
the books offered. It can be readily seen that&lt;br /&gt;
this proceeding could tend only to damaging the&lt;br /&gt;
interests of those who kept books alone for sale,&lt;br /&gt;
and who depended entirely upon them for a&lt;br /&gt;
living. This has so resulted, and has done mate.&lt;br /&gt;
rial injury to many careful and conservative book&lt;br /&gt;
sellers, some of whom have been driven out of&lt;br /&gt;
the business. It has also come about-slowly,&lt;br /&gt;
but nevertheless surely&mdash;that the larger de part.&lt;br /&gt;
ment stores have secured a material proportion of&lt;br /&gt;
An Artful Evasion.&lt;br /&gt;
An ingenious American publisher (presumably&lt;br /&gt;
not a member of the association) is said to have&lt;br /&gt;
conceived the idea of securing a manuscript by an&lt;br /&gt;
English author, setting the type in New York&lt;br /&gt;
and printing half-a-dozen advance copies here,&lt;br /&gt;
making application for copyright at Washington,&lt;br /&gt;
shipping the plates to England, manufacturing an&lt;br /&gt;
edition there, reshipping bound copies back again&lt;br /&gt;
for sale, and then claiming a perfect copyright&lt;br /&gt;
under the laws of the United States. This&lt;br /&gt;
reported scheme was laid before the Librarian of&lt;br /&gt;
Congress, with a request for an interpretation of&lt;br /&gt;
the law bearing upon it, the principal question&lt;br /&gt;
being whether all of the books that are sold in&lt;br /&gt;
the United States under the Act must be printed&lt;br /&gt;
or manufactured here. The Register&amp;#039;s reply is&lt;br /&gt;
printed at length in Literary Life.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Solberg, after premising that his office is&lt;br /&gt;
purely an office of record and can give no autho-&lt;br /&gt;
ritative construction of the law, observes that there&lt;br /&gt;
seems to be no explicit stipulation in the Act that&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
197&lt;br /&gt;
press work on books for which its protection is These zealous critics have attracted undue&lt;br /&gt;
claimed shall be done within the limits of the attention, perhaps, because our public libraries&lt;br /&gt;
United States. &ldquo; It is, of course,&rdquo; he says, &ldquo;a now are very steadily in the public eye. The&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable assumption that in making this pro. total number of books reported in 1876 by 3600&lt;br /&gt;
vision of law Congress supposed that if the type libraries having 300 or more each was 12,277,000;&lt;br /&gt;
was set in the United States the press work would the total number reported in 1896 by 7200&lt;br /&gt;
also be done in the United States.&rdquo; But where libraries was 34,600,000. The growth and&lt;br /&gt;
the impression is from plates rather than type the increase of such establishments have been&lt;br /&gt;
supposition does not follow so logically. At best remarkable. In the past decade there have been&lt;br /&gt;
the point is indefinite, and presents one of the erected or begun five library buildings &mdash; the&lt;br /&gt;
considerations which will probably lead sooner or Library of Congress, the public libraries of&lt;br /&gt;
later to a revision of the statute in toto.&lt;br /&gt;
Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pittsburg-&lt;br /&gt;
whose aggregate cost will exceed fifteen million&lt;br /&gt;
THE PIRATE&amp;#039;S OPPORTUNITY,&lt;br /&gt;
dollars, or about three million pounds. The free&lt;br /&gt;
While upon this subject I must record two&lt;br /&gt;
circulation of books for home use from public&lt;br /&gt;
curious instances of thriftlessness. Neither&lt;br /&gt;
libraries throughout the country is estimated by&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Elizabeth and Her German Garden&rdquo; nor &ldquo;An&lt;br /&gt;
an expert at 40,000,000 a year.&lt;br /&gt;
Englishwoman&amp;#039;s Love Letters&rdquo; was copyrighted&lt;br /&gt;
THE LITERATURE OF POWER.&lt;br /&gt;
in the United States, and the rush of the pirates&lt;br /&gt;
reminded one of the good old times before the&lt;br /&gt;
The public librarian at the city of Providence&lt;br /&gt;
passage of the international Act. The excellence&lt;br /&gt;
has caused his institution to be talked of by&lt;br /&gt;
and the variety of the American authorised&lt;br /&gt;
equipping therein a room which is to be devoted&lt;br /&gt;
editions of these books seem to have spoiled the&lt;br /&gt;
to what he calls &ldquo; the literature of power.&rdquo; &ldquo;In&lt;br /&gt;
market for the cheap and irregular issues by the&lt;br /&gt;
the literature of knowledge,&amp;quot; he explains,&ldquo; the&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen under the black flag; but the short-&lt;br /&gt;
fundamental consideration is a technical one,&lt;br /&gt;
sightedness of the English publishers and their while in the literature of power it is the under-&lt;br /&gt;
failure to copyright here is inexplicable. In a&lt;br /&gt;
lying spirit that. dominates, and as soon as any.&lt;br /&gt;
second edition of &ldquo; Elizabeth and Her German thing practical becomes the end in view, the work&lt;br /&gt;
Garden&rdquo; some new matter was added, and this passes into the realm of knowledge rather than&lt;br /&gt;
was legally protected. The pirates who reprinted&lt;br /&gt;
that of power.&amp;quot; Upon a wall of this special room&lt;br /&gt;
the second edition, therefore, are struggling&lt;br /&gt;
in the Providence library is the inscription :&lt;br /&gt;
against prosecutions for infringement.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The books invite you not to study, but to taste&lt;br /&gt;
and reap.&rdquo; A thousand books have been deemed&lt;br /&gt;
BOSTONIAN TASTE.&lt;br /&gt;
worthy of admission there; it is supposed that&lt;br /&gt;
they were not chosen by the Examining and&lt;br /&gt;
The Examining and Reading Committee of the Reading Committee of Boston. The plan is not to&lt;br /&gt;
Boston Public Library have recently contributed form a small model collection on the lines of Sir&lt;br /&gt;
much to the gaiety of the nation by making a John Lubbock&amp;#039;s, but to select authors who&lt;br /&gt;
report in which they censor modern fiction in attract readers rather than impart knowledge,&lt;br /&gt;
surprising fashion. The list of successful novels and the scheme impresses one as novel and com.&lt;br /&gt;
which have been rejected as unfit for general mendable.&lt;br /&gt;
John RUSSELL DAVIDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
circulation has amazed the public, in view of the&lt;br /&gt;
fact that the committee is a large one, and that&lt;br /&gt;
the members are selected because of their catholic&lt;br /&gt;
and cultivated taste. From the shelves of the&lt;br /&gt;
institution, which is one of the greatest and most&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
influential in the country, they have excluded&lt;br /&gt;
stories by Harold Frederic, S. R. Crockett,&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, Rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
Egerton Castle, Robert Barr, Maarten Maartens, &ldquo;MSAY the good God grant me an end like&lt;br /&gt;
Maurice Hewlett, Sir Walter Besant, Henry V his!&rdquo; wrote the poet Mistral to his&lt;br /&gt;
James, and William Dean Howells. Of Mrs. A friend Mariani, on hearing of Armand&lt;br /&gt;
Ward&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Eleanor&rdquo; the report remarks: &ldquo;It is Silvestre&amp;#039;s death. The latter event took place in the&lt;br /&gt;
full of uncertain notes because it comes out of an poet&amp;#039;s native town of Toulouse, whither he was&lt;br /&gt;
unsettled mind. It would not be good for girls. conveyed in accordance with his own desire) as&lt;br /&gt;
They would be casting about for Manistys, as soon as all hope of his eventual recovery was&lt;br /&gt;
girls of a bygone time looked for Rochesters.&amp;quot; abandoned. An enormous crowd was present at&lt;br /&gt;
The Bostonian young person must be guarded, the interment, on which occasion eloquent orations&lt;br /&gt;
and so out goes &amp;quot; Eleanor.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
were delivered by the respective representatives&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XI.&lt;br /&gt;
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198&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
M&lt;br /&gt;
of the Government, the Press, the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens mising the success of a new play by a fore-&lt;br /&gt;
de Lettres, and the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise. Military knowledge of its intrigue will be avoided.&lt;br /&gt;
honours were paid the dead; and among the Whether this measure will restore the primitive&lt;br /&gt;
pyramid of floral tributes offered by sorrowing enthusiasm of the Parisian theatre-goer remains&lt;br /&gt;
friends and admirers bloomed conspicuous the to be seen.&lt;br /&gt;
sweet Toulousan violet, whose praises the dead A purer era seems dawning in stage literature.&lt;br /&gt;
man had so often sung. M. Armand Silvestre Several clever plays dealing with a comparatively&lt;br /&gt;
was born in 1838. He entered Government new phase of life--the duties and responsibilities&lt;br /&gt;
employ in 1859, and shortly after made his of existence-have recently been performed amid&lt;br /&gt;
literary d&eacute;but by the publication of a collection of the applause of an audience wearied of the&lt;br /&gt;
poems of no ordinary merit. His &ldquo; Renaissances,&rdquo; unsavoury complications of the &ldquo; m&eacute;nage &agrave; trois.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Paysages metaphysique,&rdquo; &ldquo;Vers pour &ecirc;tre M. Franck, of the Gymnase, is to be congratu-&lt;br /&gt;
chant&eacute;s,&rdquo; and &ldquo; Sonnets pa&iuml;ens&amp;quot; rank among the lated on having followed M. Antoine&amp;#039;s lead. No&lt;br /&gt;
finest lyric productions of the modern Parnassian fewer than five new plays by unknown authors&lt;br /&gt;
school. &ldquo;They are the hymns of the ancient in the have been received at his theatre. Among them&lt;br /&gt;
mouth of a modern,&rdquo; was George Sand&amp;#039;s verdict, may be reckoned the *&ldquo; Domaine&rdquo; of M. Lucien&lt;br /&gt;
on reading the latter work. Later M. Silvestre Besnard (whose maiden effort was, I believe,&lt;br /&gt;
attempted the Rabelaisian style in prose. He accepted by M. Antoine). The dialogue of this.&lt;br /&gt;
published numerous tales verging ou the obscene clever, incisive portrayal of the combat between&lt;br /&gt;
-which added to his revenue, but scarcely to his the old and new r&eacute;gime, of the struggle between&lt;br /&gt;
credit. His official career was, meantime, pursued classes and masses, is remarkably well-written.&lt;br /&gt;
with unabated vigour. He was nominated It was applauded by the general public and even&lt;br /&gt;
chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and in 1892 by the representatives of the class whose foibles&lt;br /&gt;
was promoted to the post of inspector of Fine it unveiled. M. Besnard belongs to the risiny&lt;br /&gt;
Arts. He also found time to write a large number generation, having been born in 1872.&lt;br /&gt;
of reputable critiques on art and the drama, in&lt;br /&gt;
addition to collaborating in the production of&lt;br /&gt;
M. EUGENE BRIEUX.&lt;br /&gt;
innumerable plays, sacred and historical dramas,&lt;br /&gt;
farces, operettas, &amp;amp;c., and becoming a valued con-&lt;br /&gt;
The &ldquo;Rempla&ccedil;antes&rdquo; of M. Brieux likewise&lt;br /&gt;
tributor to several papers.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Brieux is no&lt;br /&gt;
deserves special mention.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Setting aside the&lt;br /&gt;
talent manifested in his lyric poems, Armand&lt;br /&gt;
neophyte in such matters, having already given&lt;br /&gt;
Silvestre still retains the originality of having&lt;br /&gt;
the French stage about a dozen thoughtfully&lt;br /&gt;
sounded the two chords situated at the farthest&lt;br /&gt;
written plays, each denouncing some social abuse,&lt;br /&gt;
extremes of the poetic lyre,&rdquo; writes M. Lemaitre.&lt;br /&gt;
some hidden gangrene in that vast psychological&lt;br /&gt;
machine called modern society. This &ldquo; Don&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;His double work furnishes a striking commen-&lt;br /&gt;
tary to Pascal&amp;#039;s reflection on man the angel and&lt;br /&gt;
Quichotte of the Faubourg Saint Antoine&rdquo; is a&lt;br /&gt;
true son of the people, having laid down the&lt;br /&gt;
man the beast.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The last verses written by the deceased poet&lt;br /&gt;
plane to take up the pen. His latest work brings&lt;br /&gt;
before the Parisian public the fatal consequences&lt;br /&gt;
were those comprising the final soliloquy of&lt;br /&gt;
Charlotte Corday in her prison (which drama,&lt;br /&gt;
of the fashionable custom of paying an illiterate&lt;br /&gt;
bearing its heroine&amp;#039;s name, is now being performed&lt;br /&gt;
peasant mother to perform the first duties of&lt;br /&gt;
maternity. The mortality of new-born infants in&lt;br /&gt;
at the Op&eacute;ra Populaire). They finish thus :-&lt;br /&gt;
the districts from which these luckless substitutes&lt;br /&gt;
Et l&amp;#039;aube du jour qui s&amp;#039;appr&ecirc;te&lt;br /&gt;
M&amp;#039;apporte l&amp;#039;immortalit&eacute; !&lt;br /&gt;
are principally drawn is reported to amount to&lt;br /&gt;
no less than forty, fifty, and even seventy per&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC SURVEY.&lt;br /&gt;
cent. A ghastly figure truly!&lt;br /&gt;
The lassitude of the Parisian public &agrave; propos&lt;br /&gt;
M. George Ohnet&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Les Rouges et les Blancs&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of dramatic representations has been uneasily&lt;br /&gt;
(written at the truant M. Coquelin&amp;#039;s request, and&lt;br /&gt;
remarked by more than one critic. Managers are&lt;br /&gt;
performed at the Porte-Saint-Martin Theatre)&lt;br /&gt;
did not fulfil popular expectation. Nor has&lt;br /&gt;
endeavouring to combat this indifference by&lt;br /&gt;
retrenching the indiscriminate issue of compli.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Henri Lavedan&amp;#039;s &ldquo; M&eacute;dicis,&amp;quot; a witty satire on&lt;br /&gt;
mentary tickets and the time-honoured press&lt;br /&gt;
bourgeois snobs, false connoisseurs, and spurious&lt;br /&gt;
pass. In some theatres standard dramatic critics&lt;br /&gt;
vertu-hunters, fared much better at the Vari&eacute;t&eacute;s.&lt;br /&gt;
alone will henceforth be admitted to the full-&lt;br /&gt;
dress rehearsal. Editors, reporters, correspon-&lt;br /&gt;
AMONG THE NOVELISTS.&lt;br /&gt;
dents, and like small fry will be invited to the Here, also, a curious inertia prevails. Not&lt;br /&gt;
first-night performance in company with the that the output of fiction has lessened, but that it&lt;br /&gt;
general public. Hence the danger of compro- appears monthly becoming rarer to find a novel&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
199&lt;br /&gt;
distinctly rising above the level of talented A little later he carried his &ldquo; Taverne des&lt;br /&gt;
mediocrity. &ldquo;Of making many books there is &Eacute;tudiants&amp;quot; to the Odeon. On seeing him enter&lt;br /&gt;
no end,&amp;quot; quoth Solomon the Wise. &ldquo;What with a manuscript, the concierge exclaimed :&lt;br /&gt;
doth it profit one, then, to have added to the &ldquo;Ah! ah! yet another! This is the fiftieth&lt;br /&gt;
overmath ? might be the r&eacute;plique of hundreds which has been brought here to-day!&rdquo; Never-&lt;br /&gt;
of weary hack-writers, aghast at the minimum theless, it was accepted; though, owing to a&lt;br /&gt;
result of a lifetime&amp;#039;s labour. Experience teaches political intrigue, it proved a signal failure.&lt;br /&gt;
that the remedy lies in co-operation, and a strict Nothing daunted, the young Sardou set to&lt;br /&gt;
adherence to business principles.&lt;br /&gt;
work and wrote an article on J&eacute;rome Cardan. It&lt;br /&gt;
The sad examples of Mme. Camille Bias, cost him seven months&amp;#039; research; he received&lt;br /&gt;
author of over forty successful&mdash;and, in some thirty-two francs in remuneration. His collabora-&lt;br /&gt;
instances, notable&mdash;novels, who at eighty years tion in the &ldquo;Biographie g&eacute;n&eacute;rale&rdquo; of Firmin&lt;br /&gt;
of age was forced to appeal to public charity Didot, and tbe lessons given to a wine merchant&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
for the necessary daily pittance; and Mme. son at Charenton, alone kept the wolf at bay&lt;br /&gt;
Moreton-Chabrillan, whose early follies were during those dark days. His &ldquo;Candide&rdquo; was&lt;br /&gt;
expiated by forty years&amp;#039; hard literary labour, accepted by the manager of the D&eacute;jazet theatre,&lt;br /&gt;
including the production of a large number of but failed in passing the censorship. Finally,&lt;br /&gt;
popular novels and plays (evanescent successes &ldquo;M. Garat&rdquo; and &ldquo; Premi&egrave;res armes de Richelieu,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of the moment !), and who finally found herself, performed at the same theatre, proved the inau-&lt;br /&gt;
at seventy-five years of age, reduced to penury, guration of that triumphant literary career which&lt;br /&gt;
furnish a striking apologue to a certain well has won M. Sardou a European reputation as the&lt;br /&gt;
known fable&mdash;and a dreary subject of reflection first dramatist in France. He is likewise reputed&lt;br /&gt;
to the victims of unbusiness-like transactions to be one of the best business men on record.&lt;br /&gt;
Suggestive and pathetic, too, the following&lt;br /&gt;
advertisement of some hapless literary abortive&lt;br /&gt;
New PUBLICATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
in the columns of the Biblioth&egrave;que register:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Cinq Ans de ma Vie&rdquo; (1894-1899), by M.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I do everything in literature-prose, poetry, Alfred Dreyfus, advertised as appearing shortly,&lt;br /&gt;
copies, catalogues, translations, historical re- is eagerly awaited by the partisans of the Affair ;&lt;br /&gt;
searches. I undertake novels, dramas, plays, though the recently published &ldquo; La V&eacute;rit&eacute; en&lt;br /&gt;
vaudevilles, simple frame-work or distribution Marche &rdquo; of M. Emile Zola, dealing with the same&lt;br /&gt;
into acts, scenes, and dialogues&mdash;with or without subject, does not appear to be enjoying an abnor-&lt;br /&gt;
copy, au net for reading, at a price which defies mally large sale. Nor has the small illus-&lt;br /&gt;
all competition. References permitted to Messieurs trated volume issued by the Henri Daragon firm,&lt;br /&gt;
X- , member of the French Academy; Y&mdash; , including samples (photographic and otherwise)&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society of Dramatic Authors; 2- of of the seventeen songs and hundred bibelots-&lt;br /&gt;
the Society of Authors (Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Kruger-pipe, Kruger-plate, Kruger-knife, Kruger-&lt;br /&gt;
Lettres).&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
studs, &amp;amp;c.-manufactured in France in honour of&lt;br /&gt;
M. VICTORIEN SARDOU.&lt;br /&gt;
the ex-president of the Transvaal, had any excep-&lt;br /&gt;
The brilliant revival of &ldquo;Patrie&amp;quot; (Com&eacute;die tional vogue. &ldquo;La Presse fran&ccedil;aise au XXe.&lt;br /&gt;
Fran&ccedil;aise) has brought M. Victorien Sardou Si&egrave;cle,&amp;quot; by M. Henri Avenel, is an interesting&lt;br /&gt;
vividly before the public mind. The d&eacute;but of the work whose title sufficiently indicates its import;&lt;br /&gt;
future president of the Dramatic Authors&amp;#039; &ldquo; Jos&eacute;phine R&eacute;pudi&eacute;e,&amp;quot; by M. Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Masson,&lt;br /&gt;
Society was hardly encouraging.&lt;br /&gt;
faithfully continues the portrayal of the forsaken&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;I wish to be a writer,&amp;quot; said he, on arriving at wife of the great Napoleon ; while &ldquo; Le Mariage&lt;br /&gt;
seventeen years of age. His father offered him de Louis XV.,&amp;quot; by M. Gautier-Villars, is a well-&lt;br /&gt;
the choice between a legal and medical career. written book, a true &ldquo;find&rdquo; for the popular&lt;br /&gt;
He chose the latter, esteeming it particularly historian; as is also &ldquo;Mes Souvenirs,&rdquo; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
useful to an author to know the scientific secrets Moreau, edited with copious notes by M. Camille&lt;br /&gt;
of a doctor&amp;#039;s profession. Eighteen months&amp;#039; Hermelin (chez Plon).&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
apprenticeship in the Neckar Hospital was the I n fiction, the most talked-of books of the&lt;br /&gt;
result of this decision. Here (I believe) he moment are : &ldquo; Le Fant&ocirc;me,&amp;quot; by M. Paul Bourget&lt;br /&gt;
commenced his &ldquo;Reine Ulfra,&amp;quot; which he found (chez Plon), a psychological study of an unsavoury&lt;br /&gt;
means to bring under the notice of the celebrated incident; &ldquo;La Trag&eacute;die du Nouveau Christ,&rdquo; by&lt;br /&gt;
Rachel.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Saint-Georges de Bouh&eacute;lier, which represents&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A tragedy whose scene is laid in Sweden ? the Saviour reincarnated under the form of a&lt;br /&gt;
Never!&rdquo; cried she, emphatically. &ldquo;Let the poor vagabond in the midst of a needy manu-&lt;br /&gt;
young man write a Greek piece, and I may facturing population;&rdquo; &ldquo;Jours d&amp;#039;Et&eacute;,&rdquo; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
play it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Andr&eacute; Theuriet; &ldquo;Heureux M&eacute;nage,&amp;quot; by M.&lt;br /&gt;
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200&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Marcel Pr&eacute;vost, who is at present engaged in another sum of &pound;1046 10s. 8d. The management&lt;br /&gt;
dramatising this novel for the Ath&eacute;n&eacute;e theatre; expenses were covered by the sum of &pound;539, which&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo;Les Tron&ccedil;ons du Glaive,&amp;quot; by MM. Paul is very small. Is Sir Theodore reported correctly?&lt;br /&gt;
and Victor Margueritt&eacute;.&lt;br /&gt;
Have the receipts of the society decreased ? One&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE SCOTT. would like the point explained. At the same time&lt;br /&gt;
the customary begging dinner is to be held, with&lt;br /&gt;
the usual talk, no doubt, about necessitous authors&lt;br /&gt;
and the usual entreaty to the public to assist a&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES AND NEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
society which has nearly &pound;60,000 invested, and&lt;br /&gt;
could only last year find thirty-one cases deserving&lt;br /&gt;
of assistance. I said last year, and I repeat it,&lt;br /&gt;
M HE death of Charlotte Yonge at the age of that the Royal Literary Fund has quite as much&lt;br /&gt;
seventy-eight cannot be said to have been money as it wants : that to go every year to the&lt;br /&gt;
- unexpected. At the same time it is a grave public and beg for more can only be justified on&lt;br /&gt;
loss. Her activity of mind was maintained almost the ground of the necessities of literature: that&lt;br /&gt;
to the very end, though the message which she these necessities are amply provided for: and&lt;br /&gt;
had to deliver belonged to a past generation. It that to continue the dinner and the appeal is a&lt;br /&gt;
was her lot to educate the young English gentle- needless humiliation to the cause of Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
woman. Charlotte Yonge took her out of the&lt;br /&gt;
conventionalities with which, fifty years ago, she&lt;br /&gt;
was surrounded and brought up: the conven- A bookseller assured me the other day that the&lt;br /&gt;
tional religion of an unreal Calvinism which the Net System was gaining ground every day: that&lt;br /&gt;
Englishwoman applied to her friends but not to the trade liked it: that the public liked it. These&lt;br /&gt;
herself; the conventional views of life, based vague statements could easily be tested. I had,&lt;br /&gt;
upon ignorance ; a conventional Art, conventional lying on my table, another bookseller&amp;#039;s catalogue&lt;br /&gt;
manners, conventional talk, conventional affecta- of new books and reprints, with their prices for&lt;br /&gt;
tions. Charlotte Yonge made her life real for her one month. I therefore took the trouble to run&lt;br /&gt;
before the realities of maternity opened her eyes: through the list, and this is what I found: There&lt;br /&gt;
she gave her views of conduct, of Art, of occupa- were 388 books in the list, of which a few were&lt;br /&gt;
tion, of responsibilities. The younger generation, mere catalogues, calendars, and the like, which are&lt;br /&gt;
which has been brought up in the ideas first not books. Of the 388, there were 124 marked as&lt;br /&gt;
taught by this writer, does not know what her &ldquo;net&rdquo;-that is to say, one-third of the books in&lt;br /&gt;
influence meant to the elders. Perhaps&mdash;but I do this list are &ldquo;net&rdquo; books. This fact, taken alone,&lt;br /&gt;
not know &mdash; someone in the next century, in supports the evidence of the bookseller. I next&lt;br /&gt;
considering the history of Englishwomen in proceeded to classify this third. I found that&lt;br /&gt;
the Victorian era, will restore and prove what medical books, highly priced, and published&lt;br /&gt;
Charlotte Yonge did for them. If one had the solely for the use of medical men, took twenty-&lt;br /&gt;
time a study of the Englishwoman as Miss Yonge four of them; that religious books took another&lt;br /&gt;
found her compared with the same woman as nineteen; that there were fifteen books on&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Yonge left her would be as instructive as it science, mostly highly priced; that history&lt;br /&gt;
would certainly be surprising.&lt;br /&gt;
and biography took fourteen; art, trade, and&lt;br /&gt;
crafts, six ; poems, six ; essays and philosophy,&lt;br /&gt;
five; sport, two; travel, six; and novels, two, of&lt;br /&gt;
At the annual meeting of the Royal Literary which one was a translation. Finally, there were&lt;br /&gt;
Fund on March 13 it was stated that the number twenty-five reprints and new editions of standard&lt;br /&gt;
of grants made in the year 1900 was thirty-one, authors. Therefore one deduces the conclusion&lt;br /&gt;
the aggregate sum given amounting to &pound;2085. that, so far, net books are such as the public does&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Theodore Martin is reported to have attributed not greatly covet or need, such as medical and&lt;br /&gt;
a decrease in the grants to a decrease in the scientific books: or such as the public will buy&lt;br /&gt;
receipts of the fund. I have before me the report without looking too closely into the price, such&lt;br /&gt;
for the year 1898&mdash;those for 1899 and 1900 I have as religious books: or such as very few people&lt;br /&gt;
mislaid. I there find that the grants for that want, as new poems : or such old books as a&lt;br /&gt;
year amounted to &pound;1905, and that the average good many people want to possess. It is, there-&lt;br /&gt;
for ten years had then been &pound;2164 ; that the fore, fair to conclude, with this list before us,&lt;br /&gt;
total sum invested is &pound;56,269 168. 8d., pro- that the net system, so far, has hardly touched&lt;br /&gt;
ducing an income of &pound;1700 128. gd.; that the the great book market, nor is it easy to under-&lt;br /&gt;
annual dinner produced $938 158. od.; and stand that it ever will. One cannot make books&lt;br /&gt;
that other subscriptions and donations yielded more popular by making them dearer.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
201&lt;br /&gt;
I have always been of opinion that the true way threat should not be uttered. With all respect&lt;br /&gt;
of publishing is to send to booksellers their own for a paper which does so much for the true&lt;br /&gt;
choice of books on sale or return. I think, interests of Literature as that named after the&lt;br /&gt;
further, that the price at which they buy of the cause, it is quite certain that there are papers&lt;br /&gt;
publishers has nothing to do with the public, so which depend entirely on publishers&amp;#039; advertise-&lt;br /&gt;
that any bookseller would place his own price ments and would perish if these were withdrawn.&lt;br /&gt;
upon his books. I have now, however, come to&lt;br /&gt;
the conclusion that the bookseller does not like&lt;br /&gt;
Literature, on the other hand, puts in a word&lt;br /&gt;
the sale or return system : he would rather keep&lt;br /&gt;
to the old ways : * stock&rdquo; his shelves himself :&lt;br /&gt;
of plain sense for the mass of &ldquo;respectable&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
and sell his own wares, even though he consents&lt;br /&gt;
work which certainly does not bear upon it the&lt;br /&gt;
to the fetters of a &ldquo; net&rdquo; system.&lt;br /&gt;
stamp of genius. It may receive its due commen-&lt;br /&gt;
It remains to&lt;br /&gt;
be seen what developments may take place in&lt;br /&gt;
dations, regard being paid to the circumstances&lt;br /&gt;
other directions. A pushing, energetic trade in&lt;br /&gt;
and the reason of its production: the intention of&lt;br /&gt;
the author and the way in which that intention&lt;br /&gt;
cheap literature or in books taken on sale or&lt;br /&gt;
return would perhaps sweep away altogether the&lt;br /&gt;
has been carried out. The uses of &ldquo;respectable&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
present system by which the whole risk is generally&lt;br /&gt;
literature are shown in a thousand books of&lt;br /&gt;
laid upon the back of the bookseller, who accepts&lt;br /&gt;
travel, of biography, of compilation ; even of&lt;br /&gt;
it without a murmur simply because he has always&lt;br /&gt;
poetry, fiction, and essays written for the great&lt;br /&gt;
class who are not scholars and capable of raising&lt;br /&gt;
accepted it.&lt;br /&gt;
their thoughts to a somewhat higher elevation :&lt;br /&gt;
but not written over their heads. But we must&lt;br /&gt;
The Literary Year Book for 1901 has made a&lt;br /&gt;
not confuse this kind of work with the rare and&lt;br /&gt;
belated appearance. A notice of the book will&lt;br /&gt;
appear in the May number of The Author. Mean.&lt;br /&gt;
precious gifts of genius.&lt;br /&gt;
time it may be observed that I have looked in&lt;br /&gt;
vain for any information on the most essential I have had a few letters on the subject&mdash;not so&lt;br /&gt;
points of all-viz., the cost of production and the many as might have been expected on a point of&lt;br /&gt;
connection between that amount, the trade price, such vital importance. One need not quote these&lt;br /&gt;
and the question of royalty; further, that as a good letters in full. The points chiefly touched seem&lt;br /&gt;
deal may have to be said about the chapter on to be as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
agreements, members of the Society will kindly 1. The treatment of the average man by the&lt;br /&gt;
remember that any advice or information on this critics is such as to place him on a level with the&lt;br /&gt;
subject which is furnished by a private person writer of genius.&lt;br /&gt;
cannot possibly in the nature of things be so com 2. He is backed by the critics who over-esti.&lt;br /&gt;
plete and trustworthy as that furnished by the mate his productions, not as a tendency, but as&lt;br /&gt;
Society itself with its access to agreements an established custom.&lt;br /&gt;
innumerable and its knowledge of what they 3. So far there seems a general agreement with&lt;br /&gt;
mean.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Collins. On the other hand, to say that an&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;editor is obliged to assume honesty in his con-&lt;br /&gt;
Except in Literature, I have not seen any tributor&amp;quot; is to say that an editor is obliged to&lt;br /&gt;
comments on the exposure by Mr. Churton lay down his authority. Suppose a critic on the&lt;br /&gt;
Collins of the present condition of criticism. In subject of gloves were to recommend the bad&lt;br /&gt;
Literature there is an answer which I fear Mr. gloves sold br a friend; how long would he be&lt;br /&gt;
Collins will not accept as decisive. &ldquo;It is allowed to continue? Then why is inferior litera-&lt;br /&gt;
human,&amp;quot; the writer says, &ldquo; to speak up for a ture allowed to be recommended and stamped&lt;br /&gt;
friend: to be angry if your wares are condemned: with approval ? Anyone who knows the name of&lt;br /&gt;
to wish to stand well with persons with whom one the writer of a review can at once tell whether he&lt;br /&gt;
does business.&rdquo; Undoubtedly it is human. But is an honest man or not. Then why should not&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Collins&amp;#039;s contention is that a book sent out the editor be able to tell ? Of course he knows,&lt;br /&gt;
for review demands impartiality, although parti. but he does not care. That is the burden of&lt;br /&gt;
ality is &ldquo;human.&rdquo; If the editor were to say half-a-dozen letters.&lt;br /&gt;
boldly that log-rolling was allowed in his columns 4. The deference of editors to publishers,&lt;br /&gt;
because it is human he would get no books to another writer points out, is shown by the review-&lt;br /&gt;
review. Literature says that &amp;quot;publishers who ing of books in a batch. When to one woman&lt;br /&gt;
approach the editor in the no song no supper (who does the job cheaply) is assigned a dozen&lt;br /&gt;
style are a figment of Mr. Churton Collins&amp;#039;s novels every week, the publisher of each can&lt;br /&gt;
imagination.&rdquo; It needs not, however, the ex. generally find a line or a disconnected adjective&lt;br /&gt;
pressed threat: it is much more polite that the to quote; but the weight of criticism is destroyed :&lt;br /&gt;
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202&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the public are no longer influenced : they do not be quite as productive of good as the great&lt;br /&gt;
read the short paragraphs: the paper has prizes.&lt;br /&gt;
surrendered its authority- and for what? For It will be noticed that the benefits of the&lt;br /&gt;
an advertisement which it would probably have foundation are to be open to all nationalities&lt;br /&gt;
obtained under other circumstances.&lt;br /&gt;
without distinction. No restriction of sex is&lt;br /&gt;
5. Another point alleged is that Mr. Churton mentioned in the statutes.&lt;br /&gt;
Collins thinks too highly of the power of criticism. The Nobel Foundation is based on the will of&lt;br /&gt;
It is not the critic who brings a book into demand Dr. Alfred Bernhard Nobel, dated Nov. 27, 1895,&lt;br /&gt;
or kills a book. Log-rolling, personal malice, of which the following passage contains the&lt;br /&gt;
incompetence, recklessness, the review of books stipulations with regard to the foundation : &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
in batches, have between them killed the power of residue of my realisable property left after my&lt;br /&gt;
the very best and most competent critic. Books death shall be disposed of as follows: The&lt;br /&gt;
are advanced by word of mouth : &ldquo; Have you capital, invested in safe investments by the&lt;br /&gt;
read&rdquo; this or that book ? and so the book grows executors of my will, shall constitute a fund of&lt;br /&gt;
in demand, whether the critic speaks well of it which the interest shall be distributed annually&lt;br /&gt;
or ill.&lt;br /&gt;
as a reward to such persons as have rendered to&lt;br /&gt;
6. There are critics left, and good critics. Let humanity the greatest services during the pre-&lt;br /&gt;
us implore them to go on giving us their best. ceding year. The total amount shall be divided&lt;br /&gt;
The time will come when their services will into five equal parts, and allotted, one (part to&lt;br /&gt;
once more be valued as they should be, and the person who has made the most important&lt;br /&gt;
when an editor will no longer be restrained discovery or invention in the physical sciences;&lt;br /&gt;
by feelings of courtesy from showing to the another (part] to the person who has made the&lt;br /&gt;
door the reviewer who has betrayed the con- most important discovery or the greatest improve-&lt;br /&gt;
fidence reposed in him, and has damaged the ment in chemistry ; the third to the author of&lt;br /&gt;
influence of the paper by false opinion, sup the most important discovery in the domain of&lt;br /&gt;
pression of the truth, incompetence, and log- physiology or medicine; the fourth to the person&lt;br /&gt;
rolling&lt;br /&gt;
WALTER BESANT. who has produced the most remarkable literary&lt;br /&gt;
work of an idealist tendency; and, finally, the&lt;br /&gt;
fifth to the person who has done most, or laboured&lt;br /&gt;
best, for the cause of fraternity among different&lt;br /&gt;
THE NOBEL FOUNDATION AND THE&lt;br /&gt;
peoples, for the suppression or reduction of&lt;br /&gt;
NOBEL PRIZES.&lt;br /&gt;
standing armies, or for the formation and pro-&lt;br /&gt;
motion of peace congresses.&lt;br /&gt;
The prizes shall be awarded as follows:-For&lt;br /&gt;
LFRED BERNHARD NOBEL, the in- physics and chemistry by the Swedish Academy&lt;br /&gt;
ventor of dynamite, died in 1896, leaving of Sciences; for work in physiology and medicine&lt;br /&gt;
the residue of bis great fortune, estimated by the Caroline Institute of Stockholm ; for&lt;br /&gt;
at about &pound;2,000,000 sterling, for the foundation of literature by the Stockholm Academy; and,&lt;br /&gt;
five annual prizes, to be awarded for the most finally, for the cause of peace, by a commission of&lt;br /&gt;
important discoveries in physics, chemistry, and five members elected by the Norwegian Storthing.&lt;br /&gt;
physiology or medicine, for the most remarkable It is my express desire that in the award of the&lt;br /&gt;
literary work of an idealist tendency, and for the prizes no account shall be taken of nationality, so&lt;br /&gt;
greatest service rendered to the cause of peace that each prize may go to the most worthy,&lt;br /&gt;
during the year. The value of each prize will be whether he be Scandinavian or not.&lt;br /&gt;
about &pound;8000.&lt;br /&gt;
An agreement was made with certain heirs to&lt;br /&gt;
An official French translation of the statutes a smaller portion of Dr. Nobel&amp;#039;s property, by&lt;br /&gt;
and regulations relating to the Nobel Foundation which they renounced the inheritance for them-&lt;br /&gt;
has just been issued. The original documents selves and their heirs, on the express condition&lt;br /&gt;
received the sanction of the King of Sweden on that-&lt;br /&gt;
June 29, 1900.&lt;br /&gt;
(a) The general statutes regulating the award&lt;br /&gt;
It will be seen that the text of the will has&lt;br /&gt;
of the prizes by the competent authorities&lt;br /&gt;
received a liberal interpretation. In addition to&lt;br /&gt;
should be drawn up in concert with a&lt;br /&gt;
the prizes, provision is made for the establish-&lt;br /&gt;
delegate representing the Robert Nobel&lt;br /&gt;
ment of Nobel institutes where researches may&lt;br /&gt;
family, and submitted for approval to the&lt;br /&gt;
be carried on, and of special funds from which&lt;br /&gt;
King of Sweden.&lt;br /&gt;
grants may be given to promote the objects which (6) That certain permanent regulations, stated&lt;br /&gt;
the founder had at heart; and both institutes&lt;br /&gt;
below, should be passed with regard to&lt;br /&gt;
and special funds are likely, to say the least, to&lt;br /&gt;
the award of the prizes.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 203 (#275) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
203&lt;br /&gt;
TUTES.&lt;br /&gt;
1.&mdash;THE STATUTES.&lt;br /&gt;
person or body of persons qualified to do so.&lt;br /&gt;
(1) The General Fund.&lt;br /&gt;
Regulations defining the categories of persons&lt;br /&gt;
1. The General Fund is to be controlled by a qualified to propose works for the competitions are&lt;br /&gt;
council of administration. composed of five given below under the special regulations for the&lt;br /&gt;
members, of Swedish nationality, sitting at Stock&lt;br /&gt;
various sections. No person may propose his own&lt;br /&gt;
holm. The president is to be nominated by the&lt;br /&gt;
work.&lt;br /&gt;
King of Sweden. The four other members are to 4:&lt;br /&gt;
4. Each proposal must be accompanied by the&lt;br /&gt;
be elected by a body of fifteen representatives,&lt;br /&gt;
written works and documents on which the&lt;br /&gt;
chosen by the corporate bodies named in the will&lt;br /&gt;
(See 2, below.)&lt;br /&gt;
support of the proposal. The corporate body&lt;br /&gt;
A deputy is also to be elected to act in the&lt;br /&gt;
with whom the award of a prize lies shall be dis-&lt;br /&gt;
absence of the president, and two deputies are to&lt;br /&gt;
pensed from proceeding toa detailed examination&lt;br /&gt;
be elected for each of the other members of the of any proposal in the following cases : (1) if the&lt;br /&gt;
council.&lt;br /&gt;
proposal or works presented are not written either&lt;br /&gt;
The members and deputies will be elected in&lt;br /&gt;
in one of the Scandinavian languages or in&lt;br /&gt;
future for a period of two years, the term of office&lt;br /&gt;
English, French, German, or Latin ; (2) if the&lt;br /&gt;
beginning on May ist. But two of the members&lt;br /&gt;
majority of the corporate body in question would&lt;br /&gt;
of the first council, selected by lot, will retire,&lt;br /&gt;
be required, in order to appreciate the proposed&lt;br /&gt;
after a single year of office, so that in future two&lt;br /&gt;
work, to acquaint themselves with a memoir&lt;br /&gt;
may retire annually.&lt;br /&gt;
written in a language of which the interpretation&lt;br /&gt;
The council will elect one of its members as&lt;br /&gt;
would entail special difficulties or considerable&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; director and admioistrator&rdquo; (directeur-g&eacute;rant).&lt;br /&gt;
expense.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Of the fifteen representatives, six are to be&lt;br /&gt;
5. The proposals received from the previous&lt;br /&gt;
chosen by the Academy of Sciences (for the two&lt;br /&gt;
ist of February to the ist of February in each year&lt;br /&gt;
sections of physics and chemistry), and three are&lt;br /&gt;
shall be considered together. The will prescribes&lt;br /&gt;
to be chosen by each of the other corporate bodies that prizes shall be awarded for work done &ldquo;in&lt;br /&gt;
In addition the Academy of Sciences will nomi.&lt;br /&gt;
will nomi. the preceding year,&amp;quot; but this expression is to be&lt;br /&gt;
nate four deputy-representatives, and each of the&lt;br /&gt;
taken to mean &ldquo; that the object of the awards&lt;br /&gt;
other corporate bodies two, to act for representa-&lt;br /&gt;
shall be (as a rule] the most recent fruit of efforts&lt;br /&gt;
tives prevented from so doing.&lt;br /&gt;
in the fields designated in the will, but that it&lt;br /&gt;
The representatives will hold office for two&lt;br /&gt;
may be] older work in [exceptional] cases where&lt;br /&gt;
years. They will elect a president from among&lt;br /&gt;
its importance has only recently been demon-&lt;br /&gt;
their number. Nine representatives will form a&lt;br /&gt;
strated.&lt;br /&gt;
quorum.&lt;br /&gt;
6. If no work be regarded as deserving of a&lt;br /&gt;
In certain cases the representatives may be prize in any section the amount of the prize is to&lt;br /&gt;
called on to control the management of the&lt;br /&gt;
be held over until the next year; if the prize be&lt;br /&gt;
foundation by the council.&lt;br /&gt;
not awarded then, the money may be either&lt;br /&gt;
3. The functions of the council include the pay-&lt;br /&gt;
returned to the General Fund by the corporate&lt;br /&gt;
ment of the money value of prizes to the prize&lt;br /&gt;
body concerned or invested to form a special fund&lt;br /&gt;
winners and the payment on requisition of all&lt;br /&gt;
for the section, the income from which is to be&lt;br /&gt;
expenses incurred in the award of prizes, the pay-&lt;br /&gt;
used to promote the chief objects of the founder,&lt;br /&gt;
ment of sums due to the Nobel Institutes, and of&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise than by the award of a prize. (See&lt;br /&gt;
sums required for all other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
also under special funds, below.) In accordance&lt;br /&gt;
4. One-tenth of the net annual revenue from the&lt;br /&gt;
with an agreement made with certain heirs of&lt;br /&gt;
General Fund is to be added to the capital; and&lt;br /&gt;
Nobel, referred to above, it is stipulated, for all&lt;br /&gt;
the interest on sums for prizes not awarded is also&lt;br /&gt;
future time, that in each section a prize shall be&lt;br /&gt;
to be added to the capital till such sums have&lt;br /&gt;
awarded at least once in each consecutive period&lt;br /&gt;
been returned to the General Fund or transferred&lt;br /&gt;
of five years; and that the value of the prize&lt;br /&gt;
to a special fund.&lt;br /&gt;
given shall not be less than sixty per cent. (60&deg;)&lt;br /&gt;
of the total amount available for the prize, and&lt;br /&gt;
(2) The Nobel Prizes.&lt;br /&gt;
that it shall not be divided into more than three&lt;br /&gt;
1. The prizes are to be awarded as a rule prizes. The present statutes provide that the&lt;br /&gt;
annually. The first award of prizes in all the amount of a prize may be equally divided between&lt;br /&gt;
sections will take place, if possible, in 1901. two works, both being judged worthy of the prize.&lt;br /&gt;
2. For a work to be admitted to compete for a A prize may be awarded to the joint work of&lt;br /&gt;
prize it musi have been printed and published. two or more collaborators.&lt;br /&gt;
3. In order to be admitted to the competition The corporate bodies are allowed to decide if&lt;br /&gt;
each work must be proposed in writing by some prizes within their respective jurisdictions may,&lt;br /&gt;
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204&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
the Spanish Academy, which resemble&lt;br /&gt;
this Academy in their organisation and&lt;br /&gt;
aims.&lt;br /&gt;
(ii.) Members of the literary sections of other&lt;br /&gt;
Academies and members of literary&lt;br /&gt;
societies similar to Academies.&lt;br /&gt;
(iii.) University professors of &aelig;sthetics, litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture, and history.&lt;br /&gt;
This regulation is to be published at least once&lt;br /&gt;
every five years in an official journal or in one of&lt;br /&gt;
the newspapers most widely read in the three&lt;br /&gt;
Scandinavian countries and the principal countries&lt;br /&gt;
of the civilised world.&lt;br /&gt;
or may not, be awarded to an institution or a&lt;br /&gt;
society.&lt;br /&gt;
7. The four prizes for physics, chemistry,&lt;br /&gt;
literature, and medicine will be awarded by the&lt;br /&gt;
corporate bodies named in the will, after receiving&lt;br /&gt;
a report in each case from a special committee,&lt;br /&gt;
to be called a Nobel committee, and consisting of&lt;br /&gt;
three or five members elected by the corporate&lt;br /&gt;
body concerned. The &ldquo; Peace&rdquo; prize will be&lt;br /&gt;
awarded by a commission of the Norwegian&lt;br /&gt;
Storthing in accordance with the terms of the&lt;br /&gt;
will. Members of the Nobel committees and of the&lt;br /&gt;
commission of the Storthing may be of foreign&lt;br /&gt;
nationality. In special cases the corporate bodies&lt;br /&gt;
concerned may add to the Nobel committees&lt;br /&gt;
additional members possessing special com-&lt;br /&gt;
petence.&lt;br /&gt;
Members of the Nobel committees may receive&lt;br /&gt;
a suitable remuneration for their work, to be&lt;br /&gt;
fixed by the corporate body concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Against the decisions with regard to the&lt;br /&gt;
award of prizes no appeal can be made.&lt;br /&gt;
If in the deliberations with regard to the&lt;br /&gt;
award any difference of opinion should arise, it&lt;br /&gt;
shall neither be mentioned in the minutes of the&lt;br /&gt;
proceedings nor otherwise revealed in any way.&lt;br /&gt;
9. A solemn assembly will be held on the ioth&lt;br /&gt;
of December in each year, the anniversary of the&lt;br /&gt;
death of the founder, at which the corporate&lt;br /&gt;
bodies charged with the award of the prizes will&lt;br /&gt;
publicly announce their decisions, and will present&lt;br /&gt;
to each successful candidate an order for the&lt;br /&gt;
amount of his prize, a diploma, and a gold medal&lt;br /&gt;
bearing the effigy of the donor, and an appro-&lt;br /&gt;
priate inscription.&lt;br /&gt;
10. Each prizeman is bound, unless he is pre-&lt;br /&gt;
vented from doing so (&agrave; moins d&amp;#039;emp&eacute;chement),&lt;br /&gt;
to deliver a public lecture on the subject of the&lt;br /&gt;
work to which the prize was awarded. The&lt;br /&gt;
lecture in the case of the first four prizes is to be&lt;br /&gt;
delivered at Stockholm, in the case of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Peace&rdquo; prize, at Christiania.&lt;br /&gt;
Il. SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR THE SECTION&lt;br /&gt;
OF LITERATURE.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The corporate body for the section is the&lt;br /&gt;
Swedish Academy&lt;br /&gt;
According to the statutes the term &ldquo; literature&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
in the will is intended to apply not only to purely&lt;br /&gt;
literary works, but to all other works possessing&lt;br /&gt;
from their form and style literary value.&lt;br /&gt;
The Nobel Prize in Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The following institutions and persons are&lt;br /&gt;
to be entitled to nominate competitors for the&lt;br /&gt;
prizes, in accordance with the statutes.&lt;br /&gt;
(i.) Members of the Swedish Academy (re.&lt;br /&gt;
ferred to hereafter as &ldquo;the Academy&rdquo;)&lt;br /&gt;
and members of the French Academy and&lt;br /&gt;
The Nobel Literary Institute.&lt;br /&gt;
3. The institute will include an important&lt;br /&gt;
library devoted chiefly to modern literature. The&lt;br /&gt;
Academy will nominate a librarian with one or&lt;br /&gt;
more assistant librarians, and also a number of&lt;br /&gt;
qualified literary assistants, titular and supernu-&lt;br /&gt;
merary, whose duty it will be to draw up reports&lt;br /&gt;
on questions relating to the prize and on recent&lt;br /&gt;
foreign literature, and to execute such translations&lt;br /&gt;
of foreign works as may be required.&lt;br /&gt;
of foreign works as m&lt;br /&gt;
The institute will be placed under the super.&lt;br /&gt;
vision of an inspector nominated by the King of&lt;br /&gt;
Sweden and under the immediate direction of one&lt;br /&gt;
of the members of the Academy nominated&lt;br /&gt;
specially by this body.&lt;br /&gt;
The Special Fund for Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
4. The Academy has power to use the special&lt;br /&gt;
fund to encourage, in accordance with the chief&lt;br /&gt;
objects of the founder, all literary activity, in&lt;br /&gt;
Sweden and abroad, of such kind as may be&lt;br /&gt;
regarded as of importance to civilisation, especi-&lt;br /&gt;
ally in the intellectual domain to which it is the&lt;br /&gt;
duty of the Academy to devote its attention and&lt;br /&gt;
care. (See below.)&lt;br /&gt;
III.-THE CORPORATE Bodies MENTIONED IN&lt;br /&gt;
THE WILL OF THE FOUNDER.&lt;br /&gt;
The Royal Academy of Sciences (Kongl. Veten-&lt;br /&gt;
skaps Akademien) of Stockholm was founded in&lt;br /&gt;
1739. Its present statutes bear the date July 13,&lt;br /&gt;
1850. Its object is to encourage the sciences, to&lt;br /&gt;
aid in their development, and to spread scientific&lt;br /&gt;
knowledge by means of printed publications.&lt;br /&gt;
The King of Sweden is the patron of the&lt;br /&gt;
Academy, which includes 100 Swedish and Nor-&lt;br /&gt;
wegian, and seventv-five foreign members. The&lt;br /&gt;
national members are divided into nine sections,&lt;br /&gt;
as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. Pure Mathematics.&lt;br /&gt;
II. Applied Mathematics.&lt;br /&gt;
III. Applied Mechanics.&lt;br /&gt;
IV. Physical Sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
205&lt;br /&gt;
V. Chemistry, Geology, and Mineralogy.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
VI. Botany and Zoology.&lt;br /&gt;
VII. The Medical Sciences.&lt;br /&gt;
I.-BOOKS AND REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
VIII. Technology, Economics, and Statistics. I N reading some passages of the letters recently&lt;br /&gt;
IX. The Sciences and Scientific Professions published in your columns one can hardly&lt;br /&gt;
generally.&lt;br /&gt;
repress a smile at the counsel of perfection so&lt;br /&gt;
The president of the Academy is elected freely tendered to the scribes who &ldquo;review&amp;quot; books&lt;br /&gt;
annually, and there are several other officers, for the daily Press. Do the gentlemen who give&lt;br /&gt;
including a perpetual secretary, whose especial such good advice know under what conditions most&lt;br /&gt;
business it is to manage the affairs of the of the &ldquo;reviewing&rdquo; in the dailies is done ? I&lt;br /&gt;
Academy.&lt;br /&gt;
am referring more particularly to the provincial&lt;br /&gt;
The Swedish Academy (Svenska Akademien) dailies, of course, when I say that as a rule the&lt;br /&gt;
of Stockholm was founded on March 20, 1786, by only pay which a &ldquo;reviewer&rdquo; gets from them is&lt;br /&gt;
Gustavus III., and at the same time received its the permission to retain the book &ldquo;reviewed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
statutes, which are still in force. It is devoted The said volume may be nominally worth 4s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
to literature, including both prose and poetry; net; but usually these &ldquo;reviewers&amp;quot; will be per-&lt;br /&gt;
and the chief object of the Academy is to labour fectly willing to supply you with their &ldquo;acquisi.&lt;br /&gt;
for the purity, the vigour, and the elevation of tions&rdquo; by the dozen at a shilling each. This is&lt;br /&gt;
the Swedish language, in scientific works, and certainly the condition of things upon the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
especially in the various branches of poetry and vincial daily with which I am connected. We&lt;br /&gt;
prose, including those which serve for the inter- regular members of the staff are expected to&lt;br /&gt;
pretation of religious truths. It is the duty of &ldquo;review&rdquo; books on these terms&mdash;though fortu.&lt;br /&gt;
the Academy to compile a dictionary and a nately I myself don&amp;#039;t get much of this lucrative&lt;br /&gt;
grammar of the Swedish language, and to publish work to do&mdash;and upon my casually expressing a&lt;br /&gt;
treatises tending to strengthen and develop lite. certain admiration for a good deal of present-day&lt;br /&gt;
rary taste (le bon go&ucirc;t). The Academy awards fiction one of the &ldquo;reviewers &rdquo; laughingly said :&lt;br /&gt;
annual prizes for competitions in prose and &ldquo;My dear fellow, I&amp;#039;ve got 500 volumes at home,&lt;br /&gt;
poetry. The King is the patron of the Academy. any of which you are welcome to at a shilling&lt;br /&gt;
The Academy includes eighteen members, who each.&rdquo; Looking at the conditions under which&lt;br /&gt;
must be of Swedish nationality. The officers such &ldquo; reviewing &rdquo; is done, can any reasonable&lt;br /&gt;
include a director, a chancellor, and a perpetual man expect it to be of higher quality than it is?&lt;br /&gt;
secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps not more than four or five men on the&lt;br /&gt;
The Royal Caroline Institute of Medicine staff do the whole of the &ldquo; reviewing&rdquo; between&lt;br /&gt;
and Surgery (Kongl, Karolinska Medico-Kirur- them; and most probably not one of the five is&lt;br /&gt;
giska Instituet) of Stocknolm dates from the really capable of criticising more than one-fourth&lt;br /&gt;
year 1815. The statutes at present in force of the books he &ldquo;reviews&amp;quot; with such easy facility.&lt;br /&gt;
received the sanction of the King of Sweden on The natural and inevitable consequence is that&lt;br /&gt;
April 29, 1886. The Academy corresponds to a three-fourths of that paper&amp;#039;s &ldquo; reviewing &rdquo; is the&lt;br /&gt;
Faculty of Medicine, and has the same powers as merest twaddle. And the journal I am engaged&lt;br /&gt;
the Faculties of Medicine in the Universities of on is by no means an unimportant one. It is a&lt;br /&gt;
Upsala and Lund. The institute carries on the penny morning sheet, and is published in a town&lt;br /&gt;
theoretical and practical teaching of the medical of more than 500,000 inhabitants. If, then, the&lt;br /&gt;
sciences, and awards diplomas to medical students pay for &ldquo;reviewing&rdquo; in such a journal is so&lt;br /&gt;
by examination.&lt;br /&gt;
munificent, we must not expect it to be better in&lt;br /&gt;
The direction and administration of the insti. the many hundreds of dailies of lesser con-&lt;br /&gt;
tute are in the hands of a rector, elected by the sequence. Hence it follows, &ldquo;as the night the&lt;br /&gt;
College of Professors from among the members. day,&amp;quot; that the bulk of provincial &ldquo;reviewing &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The present number of Professors is thirty must be trashy and worthless; and no reason.&lt;br /&gt;
three.&lt;br /&gt;
able man will expect any other result from such a&lt;br /&gt;
The Norwegian Stortbing is the Legislative system. Of course there are papers like the Scots-&lt;br /&gt;
Assembly of Norway. It is elected indirectly by man, Manchester Guardian, Glasgow Herald, and&lt;br /&gt;
universal suffrage triennially. It consists of 114 a few others, to which the above remarks would&lt;br /&gt;
members.&lt;br /&gt;
P. J. HARTOG. by no means apply ; but these are merely the&lt;br /&gt;
exceptions proving the rule. The criticism which&lt;br /&gt;
I should be inclined to pass upon seven-eighths&lt;br /&gt;
of provincial &ldquo;reviewing &rdquo; work would be short&lt;br /&gt;
but expressive. It would be concentrated into&lt;br /&gt;
one word&mdash;&ldquo; Bosh.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
SUB-EDITOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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206&lt;br /&gt;
TIIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
untv&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
tion&rdquo; in the current number of the Pall Mall&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine :-&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hardy: I think the rule ought to be that favourable&lt;br /&gt;
DROFESSOR R. Y. TYRRELL has compiled&lt;br /&gt;
criticisms may be unsigned, but that the critic should be&lt;br /&gt;
an anthology of Latin Poetry, in which he bound to take the responsibility of an unfavourable judg.&lt;br /&gt;
has endeavoured to bring together charac. ment. There aboald be no stabbing in the dark. Not that&lt;br /&gt;
teristic rather than merely beautiful extracts.&lt;br /&gt;
I, personally, have any wish to complain of criticism signed&lt;br /&gt;
The work will be published by Messrs. Macmillan.&lt;br /&gt;
or unsigned.&lt;br /&gt;
W. A. : It seems to me that reviewing, as a whole, is&lt;br /&gt;
This firm will publish shortly a volume of papers&lt;br /&gt;
becoming more conscientious, if not more competent.&lt;br /&gt;
on Oxford in the Eighteenth Century, by the late Mr. Hardy: I remember a case in which a critic seemed&lt;br /&gt;
John Richard Green. The majority of the papers to me to carry conscientiousness to an inconvenient pitch.&lt;br /&gt;
appeared originally in the Oxford Chronicle.&lt;br /&gt;
Writing of my &ldquo;Wessex Poems,&amp;quot; this gentleman said that&lt;br /&gt;
when he first read the book he thought it rather good, but&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. H. Rose is engaged upon a &ldquo;Life of being determined not to be taken in, and to be conscientious&lt;br /&gt;
Napoleon Bonaparte,&rdquo; which Messrs. Bell will&lt;br /&gt;
at all hazards, he made a point of getting ap to re-read it&lt;br /&gt;
publish in two volumes. Mr. Rose is the author&lt;br /&gt;
on a wet morning before breakfast, and then found that it&lt;br /&gt;
was worth very little. That seemed to me an excessive&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;quot; The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Era&amp;quot; in&lt;br /&gt;
devotion to critical daty.&lt;br /&gt;
the Cambridge Historical Series.&lt;br /&gt;
Articles by Mr. R. E. Leader, which have been&lt;br /&gt;
. A volume of imaginative essays by Mr. H. W. appearing in the Sheffield Independent, will be&lt;br /&gt;
Nevinson, entitled &ldquo;The Plea of Pan,&rdquo; will be published from the office of the journal in a&lt;br /&gt;
published this month by Mr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
volume entitled &ldquo; Reminiscences of Sheffield in the&lt;br /&gt;
Eighteenth Century.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Henry Norman (M&eacute;nie Muriel Dowie)&lt;br /&gt;
has completed a new novel, which Mr. Heinemann&lt;br /&gt;
An uncut copy of Shelley&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Alastor: or, The&lt;br /&gt;
will publish in the summer. The title will&lt;br /&gt;
Spirit of Solitude,&rdquo; first edition, in original boards,&lt;br /&gt;
probably be &ldquo; Which was Love?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1816, was sold in London last month for &pound;66.&lt;br /&gt;
The whole edition of the work by Jaakoff&lt;br /&gt;
The Marian controversy is the subject not only Prelooker entitled &ldquo;Under the Czar and Queen&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Andrew Lang&amp;#039;s forthcoming book, but of Victoria : the Experience of a Russian Reformer,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
another, the result of life-long study, by Mr. published by James Nisbet and Co., at 78. 6d.,&lt;br /&gt;
Samuel Cowan. This will be called &ldquo; Mary, has been bought by a few friends interested in&lt;br /&gt;
Queen of Scots, and Who Wrote the Casket&lt;br /&gt;
Russian subjects, and is now offered to the public&lt;br /&gt;
Letters ? &rdquo; The work will be published by at the low price of 2s. 6d. The book is profusely&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sampson Low. A particular feature is illustrated, and as the Academy gays, &ldquo;should&lt;br /&gt;
the portraits which it will contain. An American be purchased as a work of reference on things&lt;br /&gt;
author, Mr. M. M. Shoemaker, has nearly finished Russian, as well as for its intrinsic charm as an&lt;br /&gt;
an illustrated work on the palaces, prisons, and autobiography.&rdquo; At the price of 2s. 6d. the book&lt;br /&gt;
resting-places of Mary Queen of Scots. This cau be had from the author only (21, Paternoster-&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Messrs. H. Virtue and Co.,&lt;br /&gt;
square, E.C.), adding four penny stamps for&lt;br /&gt;
Art Journal Office.&lt;br /&gt;
postage.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. S. Fletcher is publishing a new novel The Archbishop of Canterbury is to preside at&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; The Three Days&amp;#039; Terror.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund on&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. G. Wells&amp;#039;s new work, &ldquo; Anticipations,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
May 17. At the annual meeting on March 13,&lt;br /&gt;
begins its serial course in the Fortnightly Review&lt;br /&gt;
Sir E. Mountstuart Grant-Duff in the chair, the&lt;br /&gt;
for April.&lt;br /&gt;
report for 1900 showed that thirty-one grants bad&lt;br /&gt;
been given, amounting in all to &pound;2085. Eight&lt;br /&gt;
Benjamin Swift&amp;#039;s forthcoming work is a survey&lt;br /&gt;
writers in arch&aelig;ology, history, and biography had&lt;br /&gt;
of modern knowledge with reference to conduct.&lt;br /&gt;
received &pound;445 from the Fund, two authors in the&lt;br /&gt;
It gives the inner experiences of a modern mind&lt;br /&gt;
drama and poetry &pound;260, and four novelists &pound;265.&lt;br /&gt;
which has lost hold of the orthodox beliefs and&lt;br /&gt;
The recipients of relief included eight women-&lt;br /&gt;
has attempted to restate the problems of life in an&lt;br /&gt;
five writers and three widows. Sir Theodore&lt;br /&gt;
unconventional way. This work will be published&lt;br /&gt;
Martin, the registrar, attributed the fact that the&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Heinemann under the author&amp;#039;s real name recipients were fewer than in the year 1899 not so&lt;br /&gt;
-W. R. Paterson.&lt;br /&gt;
much to the diminution of necessitous cases as to&lt;br /&gt;
So much has been written of late on reviewing the decrease in the receipts of the Fund. Sir&lt;br /&gt;
that readers will be interested in the following Lewis Morris and Dr. A. W. Ward, Master of&lt;br /&gt;
insight into Mr. Hardy&amp;#039;s mind on the subject of Peterborough, were appointed to the vacancies on&lt;br /&gt;
signed and unsigned criticism. The passage the council caused by the deaths of Professor&lt;br /&gt;
occurs in Mr. William Archer&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Real Conversa- Max M&uuml;ller and Bishop Creighton.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
207&lt;br /&gt;
Lieut.-Colonel A. F. Montanaro, R.A., and&lt;br /&gt;
Captain Armitage, D.S.O., are writing aebook on&lt;br /&gt;
the recent Ashanti campaign. Both were with&lt;br /&gt;
the relief force. The volume, entitled &ldquo; The Siege&lt;br /&gt;
and Relief of Kumassi,&rdquo; will be published by&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Sands.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Cyril Scudamore is the author of a book&lt;br /&gt;
on Belgium, which Messrs. Blackwood are pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing. It will be illustrated, and is intended to&lt;br /&gt;
give people who propose to visit Belgium a preli.&lt;br /&gt;
minary idea of the country and the people.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. H. Wilkins has edited the letters&lt;br /&gt;
written from the Cape of Good Hope by Lady&lt;br /&gt;
Anne Barnard to the first Viscount Melville (then&lt;br /&gt;
Henry Dundas) during the years 1797-1801.&lt;br /&gt;
These will be published shortly by Messrs. Smith,&lt;br /&gt;
Elder, and Co., under the title &ldquo; South Africa a&lt;br /&gt;
Century Ago.&rdquo; Mr. Wilkins has written a&lt;br /&gt;
memoir of Lady Anne Barnard for the volume.&lt;br /&gt;
The Academy hears of two new editions of the&lt;br /&gt;
complete works of Count Tolstoy. &ldquo;One is&lt;br /&gt;
announced definitely by Mr. Grant Richards. The&lt;br /&gt;
other is being planned elsewhere. Possibly, in&lt;br /&gt;
the end, only one of these editions will see the&lt;br /&gt;
light.&rdquo; It is stated that the title of Count&lt;br /&gt;
Tolstoy&amp;#039;s new novel will be &ldquo;P&egrave;re Serge.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
The first congress of the International Associa.&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the Principal Scientific and Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Academies of the World will take place in Paris&lt;br /&gt;
on April 13, 14, and 15.&lt;br /&gt;
Alterations have been carried out upon Burns&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
cottage at Alloway, near Ayr, with a view to&lt;br /&gt;
making it as nearly as possible what it was when&lt;br /&gt;
the poet lived there. Relics and photographs&lt;br /&gt;
will still be sold, but the sale of refreshments&lt;br /&gt;
within the precincts has been stopped. The&lt;br /&gt;
birthplace of the poet was visited by 50,000&lt;br /&gt;
persons last year. The dinner of the Edinburgh&lt;br /&gt;
Burns Club took place on March 23, when&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Conan Doyle, in proposing the principal&lt;br /&gt;
incipal&lt;br /&gt;
toast, said there was no reason to think that&lt;br /&gt;
Burns&amp;#039;s fame would have been increased by a&lt;br /&gt;
longer life.&lt;br /&gt;
The King and Queen have accepted copies of&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Aylmer Gowing&amp;#039;s sonnet, &ldquo;The Passing of&lt;br /&gt;
the Queen&amp;quot;; also of a short poem, &ldquo;Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts &mdash; a Welcome,&rdquo; which is dedicated to&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Roberts, and sold for the benefit of the&lt;br /&gt;
Soldiers&amp;#039; and Sailors&amp;#039; Families Association.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Choate, the American Ambassador, who&lt;br /&gt;
spoke at Chelsea after Mr. Birrell&amp;#039;s lecture on the&lt;br /&gt;
literature of the nineteenth century, referred to&lt;br /&gt;
the subject of international copyright. &ldquo;As all&lt;br /&gt;
readers everywhere,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo; got the benefit of&lt;br /&gt;
the brains of all authors, was it a mere fanciful&lt;br /&gt;
dream, or would it be realised in the distant&lt;br /&gt;
future, that all authors would get the reciprocal&lt;br /&gt;
benefit of all their readers without regard to inter-&lt;br /&gt;
national or colonial limits, so that a copyright&lt;br /&gt;
property secured anywhere would be good any.&lt;br /&gt;
where, like any other right of property ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
A historical essay by Professor Earle on the&lt;br /&gt;
Alfred jewel will be published shortly by the&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford University Press.&lt;br /&gt;
Colonel Ian Hamilton, who has returned from&lt;br /&gt;
the Boer war, was the guest of the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Club at a recent Monday dinner. He remarked&lt;br /&gt;
that the English language would never be&lt;br /&gt;
ousted by the Dutch language in South Africa,&lt;br /&gt;
because the Boer girls preferred the English&lt;br /&gt;
novels.&lt;br /&gt;
Lady Augusta Noel has written a novel&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;The Wise Man of Sterncross,&amp;quot; which&lt;br /&gt;
will be published by Mr. Murray.&lt;br /&gt;
The Postmaster-General has issued an order&lt;br /&gt;
stating that in the regulations respecting the&lt;br /&gt;
staff the word &ldquo;intoxicated&rdquo; is to be substituted&lt;br /&gt;
for &ldquo; getting drunk.&rdquo; Intoxicated is defined as&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Noticeably under the influence of drink or&lt;br /&gt;
suffering from its effects.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. B. Irving has written a volume of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Studies of French Criminals,&rdquo; which Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Heinemann will publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Morley&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Life of Gladstone&rdquo; is expected&lt;br /&gt;
to be finished by next October.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Alfred Milner and His Work&rdquo; is a volume&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Iwan M&uuml;ller, which will narrate the career&lt;br /&gt;
of the present High Commissioner for South&lt;br /&gt;
Africa. Sir Alfred Milner and his biographer&lt;br /&gt;
were friends before and during their residence at&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford. The book will be published by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Heinemann.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Walter Wood has written for Mr. Grant&lt;br /&gt;
Richards two opening volumes of a series entitled&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;British Regiments in War and Peace.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
first, &ldquo; The Rifle Brigade,&rdquo; has been pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished, and the second, &ldquo; The Northumberland&lt;br /&gt;
Fusiliers,&amp;quot; is in the press. A military serial by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Wood has been written for the Daily&lt;br /&gt;
Express, another is being published in a syndi-&lt;br /&gt;
cate of newspapers, and he is at work on a&lt;br /&gt;
volume which is to be issued in the autumn. A&lt;br /&gt;
military series by him is running through&lt;br /&gt;
the Northern Counties Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Walter F. Adeney is editing &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
Century Bible,&rdquo; whose object is to extend interest&lt;br /&gt;
in the Bible not merely as a source of religious&lt;br /&gt;
edification but as literature and history. Each&lt;br /&gt;
book of the Bible will be a separate volume.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
OBITUARY.&lt;br /&gt;
The idea is to issue the books on the same plan&lt;br /&gt;
as is adopted for standard editions of the great&lt;br /&gt;
classics. The first volume-St. Matthew-with&lt;br /&gt;
its introduction, notes, and two texts will contain&lt;br /&gt;
350 pages. The question of authorship will be&lt;br /&gt;
discussed in the introduction to each volume.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The standpoint of the writers throughout,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
says the prospectus, &ldquo;is that of a frank recogni-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the ascertained results of criticism, united&lt;br /&gt;
to a sympathetic perception of the value of the&lt;br /&gt;
books under study, and in the spirit of Christian&lt;br /&gt;
faith.&rdquo; Messrs. Jack, of Edinburgh, are the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bourchier has let the Garrick Theatre for&lt;br /&gt;
four months and will reopen it for the autumn&lt;br /&gt;
season with a new play.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stephen Phillips is engaged upon a drama&lt;br /&gt;
in which Ulysses is to be the central figure. It&lt;br /&gt;
will be produced by Mr. Beerbohm Tree at Her&lt;br /&gt;
Majesty&amp;#039;s Theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
At the St. James&amp;#039;s Theatre the next production&lt;br /&gt;
will be a comedy of modern manners by Mr. H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, entitled &ldquo;The Wilderness.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Alexander has accepted a four-act&lt;br /&gt;
play by Mr. W. R. Walkes.&lt;br /&gt;
A new play by Mr. Anthony Hope was pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duced for purposes of copyright on March 18 at&lt;br /&gt;
the Garrick Theatre.&lt;br /&gt;
A four-act play by Miss Jean Macpherson has&lt;br /&gt;
been accepted by Mr. Forbes Robertson.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Alexander, speaking at the annual&lt;br /&gt;
dinner of the Playgoers&amp;#039; Club, said he was&lt;br /&gt;
delighted to do anything in furtherance of the&lt;br /&gt;
drama, and to prove this he would ask the Play-&lt;br /&gt;
goers to elect a reading committee. They were&lt;br /&gt;
to choose the best modern English play sub-&lt;br /&gt;
mitted to them and he would produce it at a&lt;br /&gt;
matin&eacute;e at the St. James&amp;#039;s Theatre. The club&lt;br /&gt;
has accordingly taken the matter in hand.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Tree intends this season to give matin&eacute;e&lt;br /&gt;
performances of Messrs. Henley and Stevenson&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
play&ldquo; Beau Austin,&amp;quot; and to produce their&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Robert Macaire,&rdquo; with Mr. Cyril Maude as&lt;br /&gt;
Jacques Strop.&lt;br /&gt;
Captain Basil Hood&amp;#039;s new comedy, &ldquo; Sweet and&lt;br /&gt;
Twenty,&rdquo; will be produced at the Vaudeville&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre on or about April 24. Miss Terriss, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Seymour Hicks, and Mr. Holbrook Blinn will&lt;br /&gt;
appear in the principal parts.&lt;br /&gt;
R. FREDERICK STARTRIDGE ELLIS&lt;br /&gt;
died at Sidmouth, on Feb. 26, from&lt;br /&gt;
* pneumonia. Mr. Ellis, who was born in&lt;br /&gt;
1830, was a thorough bibliophile. For many&lt;br /&gt;
years he was in business as a bookseller and pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, and he was long a friendly rival of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Quaritch. Friend of Ruskin and Burne-Jones,&lt;br /&gt;
publisher and friend of Rossetti, and colleague of&lt;br /&gt;
William Morris in the work of the Kelmscott&lt;br /&gt;
Press, Mr. Ellis was not only interested in pro-&lt;br /&gt;
ducing artistic books. He edited Shelley, Herrick,&lt;br /&gt;
Cavendish&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Wolsey,&rdquo; Caxton&amp;#039;s&ldquo;Golden Legend,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c. Mr. Ellis retired from business in 1885. His&lt;br /&gt;
version of the &ldquo; Romaunt of the Rose&rdquo; was pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lished only a few months ago in the Temple&lt;br /&gt;
Classics; and he was in course of writing his&lt;br /&gt;
reminiscences when he died. Our readers will&lt;br /&gt;
hardly need to be reminded of Mr. Ellis&amp;#039;s letter&lt;br /&gt;
on book piracy in last month&amp;#039;s Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. GEORGE CHARLES WINTER WARR, Pro-&lt;br /&gt;
fessor of Classical Literature in King&amp;#039;s College,&lt;br /&gt;
London, and of Latin in Queen&amp;#039;s College, London,&lt;br /&gt;
died suddenly of heart disease. Mr. Warr was&lt;br /&gt;
born in 1845, and in 1870 he was elected to&lt;br /&gt;
a Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, but&lt;br /&gt;
refused to accept it on account of the religious&lt;br /&gt;
tests. He was general editor of a series of works&lt;br /&gt;
on the Athenian Drama (published by Mr. George&lt;br /&gt;
Allen), and had himself undertaken the volumes&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with &AElig;schylus and Aristophanes, the&lt;br /&gt;
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III. Johannesburg the Golden.&lt;br /&gt;
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CHAPTER I.- Eendragt Maakt Magt.&lt;br /&gt;
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IV.-Goldmining, Ancient and Modern.&lt;br /&gt;
V.-Sic Transit Gloria Mundi.&lt;br /&gt;
VI.-To Northern Mashonaland.&lt;br /&gt;
VIL-Primitive Art. The Misadventures of a Wagon.&lt;br /&gt;
Index.&lt;br /&gt;
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