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386	https://historysoa.com/items/show/386	The Author, Vol. 19 Issue 02 (November 1908)	<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+19+Issue+02+%28November+1908%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 19 Issue 02 (November 1908)</a>			<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027638405" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027638405</a>								<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a>	1908-11-02-The-Author-19-2					29–56																		<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=19">19</a>											<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1908-11-02">1908-11-02</a>							2			19081102	C be El u t b or.<br /> (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br /> Vol. XIX.-No. 2. NOVEMBER. 2, 1908. 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By ERNST<br /> LUNGE, J.U.D. 2s. 6d.<br /> 10. Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers&#039; Association; with Comments. By<br /> G. HERBERT THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd Edition. 18.<br /> 11. Periodicals and their Contributors. Giving the Terms on which the different Magazines<br /> and Periodicals deal with MSS. and Contributions. 6d.<br /> 12. Society of Authors. List of Members. Published October, 1907, price 6d.<br /> [All prices met. Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&#039;s Gate, S.W.]<br /> :<br /> 9.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 28 (#44) ##############################################<br /> <br /> ii<br /> AD VERTISEMENTS.<br /> (ſhe Šuriety uf Autburg (ſmrurpurated).<br /> Telegraphic Address : “A UTORIDAD, LONDON. ”<br /> Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br /> PRESIDENT.<br /> G-EOIERG-E IMIEERIETSITE, O. M.<br /> SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B.<br /> SIRWM.REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L.<br /> THE RIGHT HON. THE I/ORD AVE-<br /> J. 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COMYINS CARR.<br /> Chairman—DOUGLAS FRESHEIELD.<br /> THE HON. MRS. ALFRED FELKIN<br /> (ELLEN THORNEYCROFT Fowl.ER).<br /> MAURICE HEWLETT.<br /> SIDNEY LEE.<br /> ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br /> G. BERNARD SHAW.<br /> S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br /> FRANCIS STORR.<br /> SIDNEY WEB.B.<br /> IDRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> WILLIAM ARCHER.<br /> MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br /> H. GRAN VILLE BARKER.<br /> Chairman—HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br /> J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br /> JEROME. K. JEROME.<br /> W. J. LOCKE.<br /> W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM.<br /> CAPT. ROBERT MARSHALL.<br /> PAUL RUEENS.<br /> G. BERNARD SHAW.<br /> PENSION FUND COMIMITTEE.<br /> ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br /> ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,<br /> Chairman—DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD.<br /> MORLEY ROBERTS.<br /> M. H. SPIELMANN.<br /> FIELD, ROSCOE &amp; Co., 36, Lincoln&#039;s Inn Fields, W.C. - }s licito<br /> G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&#039;s Gate, S.W. J. &quot;%<br /> OFFICES.<br /> MRS, ALEC TWEEDIE.<br /> MRS, HUMPHRY WARD.<br /> Secretary—G. HERBERT THRING,<br /> Solicitor in England to<br /> La Société des Gems de Lettres,<br /> LAWRENCE GODKIN, 30, Pine Street, New York, U.S.A., Counsel in the United States.<br /> 39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY’s GATE, S.W.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 29 (#45) ##############################################<br /> <br /> C be El ut bor.<br /> ( The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br /> FOUNDED BY SIR<br /> WALTER BESANT.<br /> WOL. XIX.-No. 2.<br /> NOVEMBER 2ND, 1908.<br /> [PRICE SIXPENCE.<br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER:<br /> 374 WICTORIA.<br /> TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br /> AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br /> —e—º-e—<br /> NOTICES.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> OR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br /> signed or initialled the authors alone are<br /> responsible. None of the papers or para-<br /> graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br /> of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br /> to be the case. -<br /> THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br /> Authors’ Society and other readers of The Author<br /> that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br /> cases that have come before the notice or to the<br /> knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br /> those members of the Society who desire to have<br /> the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br /> them on application.<br /> a —4*— a<br /> v-u- ~<br /> THE SOCIETY&#039;S FUNDS.<br /> —e—º-e—<br /> WROM time to time members of the Society<br /> desire to make donations to its funds in<br /> recognition of work that has been done for<br /> them. The committee, acting on the suggestion<br /> of one of these members, have decided to place<br /> this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br /> that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br /> which these contributions may be paid.<br /> The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The<br /> Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br /> case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br /> VOL. XIX.<br /> expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br /> ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform-<br /> or in dealing with any other matter closely<br /> connected with the work of the Society.<br /> (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br /> increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br /> needs of all the members of the Society. A state-<br /> ment of the capital of this fund is inserted in The<br /> Author every month and can be seen below.<br /> —e—º-e—<br /> LIST OF MEMBERS.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br /> published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br /> at the offices of the Society at the price of<br /> 6d., post free 7#d. It includes elections to July,<br /> 1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br /> of the Society only.<br /> A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br /> end of the list for the convenience of those who<br /> desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br /> from month to month in these pages.<br /> PENSION FUND,<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> HE Trustees of the Pension Fund of the<br /> Society, after the secretary had placed before<br /> them the present financial position of the<br /> Fund, decided to invest £230 in the purchase of<br /> Irish Land Act 2; per cent. Guaranteed Stock.<br /> The amount purchased is £258, and is added to<br /> the list printed below.<br /> The investments are steadily increasing from<br /> year to year, the amount varying between £200<br /> and £250. -<br /> The Trustees also recommended to the com-<br /> mittee the possibility of granting another pension.<br /> The committee of the Pension Fund have not<br /> as yet held their meeting for 1908, but their work<br /> will be chronicled in due course.<br /> The following is a statement of the actual Stock.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 30 (#46) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 30<br /> TRIES A UTISIOR,<br /> The money value can be easily worked out at the<br /> current price of the market :-<br /> Consols 23%.............................. 391,000 0 0<br /> Local Loans .............................. 500 0 ()<br /> Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br /> dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291. 19 11<br /> War Loan ................................. 201 9 3<br /> London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br /> ture Stock .............................. 250 0 0<br /> Egyptian Government Irrigation<br /> Trust 4% Certificates ............... 200 0 ()<br /> Cape of Good Hope 34% Inscribed<br /> Stock .................................... 200 () ()<br /> Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br /> 4% Preference Stock.................. 228 () ()<br /> New Zealand 34% Stock. . . . . . . . ... 247 9 6<br /> Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br /> Total ............... 23,376 18 8<br /> Subscriptions.<br /> 1908. # S. d.<br /> Jan. 7, Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey . 0 5 ()<br /> Jan. 13, McPherson, Miss M. M. . . 0 1 0<br /> Jan. 16, Douglas, Lieut.-Col. Hugh A. . 0 5 0<br /> Feb. 1, Shera, Miss B. M. O 5 ()<br /> Feb. 29, Brown, R. Grant O 5 0<br /> April 10, Fieldhouse, Arthur 0 1 0 6<br /> May 22, Darbishire, Otto W. () 10 6<br /> Oct. 10, Macnaughton-Jones, H. . O 5 ()<br /> Oct. 20, Garvice, Charles 1 1 0<br /> Donations, 1908.<br /> Jan. 1, Egbert, Henry tº © . 1 1 0<br /> Jan. 6, Skeat, The Rev. Prof. W. W. . 1 1 0<br /> Jan. 7, Wood, Lawson ſº . () 5 ()<br /> Jan. 8, Bolton, Miss Anna . O 5 0<br /> Jan. 8, Hyamson, Albert M. . 1 1 0<br /> Jan. 13, Le Riche, P. J. . e 1 1 0<br /> Jan. 13, Williamson, Mrs. C. N. 1 1 0<br /> Jan. 13, Williamson, C. N. tº . 1 1 0<br /> Jan. 20, Colquhoun, A. (amount re-<br /> covered by the Society) . 2 17 10<br /> Jan. 21, Saies, Mrs. . e e () 5 0<br /> Jan. 24, Westrup, Miss Margaret () 5 ()<br /> Feb. 10, Benett. W. . {- º 1 1 0<br /> Feb. 10, Wilson, G. F. g 0 1 0 6<br /> Feb. 26, Travers, Miss R. C. 0 10 0<br /> March 5, Dutton, Miss Annie () 5 ()<br /> March 5, Drummond, Hamilton. 5 () ()<br /> March 11, Ackermann, A. S. 2 () ()<br /> March 20, Loraine, Lady ſº 0 10 0<br /> April 6, Plunkett, G. N., Count. () 5 ()<br /> April 9, Crellin, H. N. . tº () 5 ()<br /> May 20, Scoon, W. G. tº e . () 10 0<br /> May 26, Cromartie, The Countess of . 1 1 0<br /> June 3, Hardy, Harold 0 10 ()<br /> £ S. d.<br /> June 16, Roberts, Morley . e () 10 6<br /> July 16, Carolin, Mrs. e o ... O 5 ()<br /> July 28, Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude . 21 () ()<br /> Aug. 21, Beckett, Arthur W. . 1 1 0<br /> Sept. 28, “Whitworth Wynne &quot; . 1 1 0<br /> Oct. 23, Woolf, Miss Bella Sidney () 5 0<br /> The committee would be glad to receive infor-<br /> mation unofficially from any member of the society<br /> of any author whose need is within the member&#039;s<br /> personal knowledge. Information, which should<br /> be as full as possible, should be sent to the<br /> secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&#039;s Gate, S.W.,<br /> and will receive the prompt and careful attention of<br /> the committee.<br /> à —º- fº.<br /> v---sº-w<br /> COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> —o-º-e—<br /> HE first meeting of the committee after the<br /> Vacation was held at the society&#039;s offices on<br /> Monday, October 5. -<br /> Forty-nine members and associates were elected.<br /> The list will be found on another page. This<br /> brings the total number of elections for the current<br /> year up to 203, which is about twenty-four above<br /> the number elected up to the corresponding period<br /> in 1906, and seven behind the elections for the<br /> corresponding period of 1907, which was the largest<br /> since the society&#039;s foundation. The committee<br /> trust that members will continue to make every<br /> effort to enlarge the society, and make it thoroughly<br /> representative of all sides of literature and the<br /> drama. Its membership, approximately 2,000,<br /> might well be doubled.<br /> Three resignations were received, bringing the<br /> resignations for the current year up to fifty-nine.<br /> The question of elections to the council and to<br /> the art sub-committee was adjourned till the<br /> November meeting. Several gentlemen were<br /> nominated for the copyright sub-committee, and<br /> up to the date of issue the following have con-<br /> sented to serve : — Sir Henry Bergne, E. J.<br /> MacGillivray, Harold Hardy, A. Hope Hawkins,<br /> Sir Gilbert Parker, Sir Williers Stanford, and<br /> J. H. Yoxall.<br /> The committee decided not to hold any dinner of<br /> the society this year. The annual dinner will be<br /> held as usual in the spring of 1909.<br /> Two cases of infringement of copyright by papers<br /> in New Zealand were then considered, and in both<br /> cases the committee decided to support the members&#039;<br /> claims. The committee regret to state that it is<br /> no uncommon practice for papers in America and<br /> the Colonies to pirate English productions, and<br /> they have determined to do their best to stop this<br /> robbery. The secretary reported the receipt during<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 31 (#47) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TRIES A UITISIOIR,<br /> 31<br /> the vacation of further papers from the Board of<br /> Trade referring to the International Copyright Con-<br /> ference at Berlin. The papers had been forwarded<br /> to the chairman, who had been in communication<br /> with Sir Henry Bergne, and a letter had been<br /> despatched to the Board of Trade giving the views<br /> of the chairman and Sir Henry Bergne, but<br /> explaining that it was impossible to obtain a<br /> meeting of the copyright committee during the<br /> Vacation. Sir Henry Bergne then proceeded to<br /> explain to the committee what the proposals were,<br /> and the answer that had been given. The com-<br /> mittee approved the course that was taken. A<br /> bronze medallion of the President was laid before<br /> the committee by its producer, Mr. Spicer Simson,<br /> and they agreed to present a copy to Mr. Meredith<br /> in the name of the society. -<br /> A complaint of a member relating to delay in<br /> the publication of his work was brought before<br /> the committee, and the committee, after considering<br /> the solicitors&#039; opinion thereon, instructed the<br /> Secretary to communicate it to the member. -<br /> Two cases of non-payment of royalties by a<br /> Canadian publisher were then considered. The<br /> Secretary stated that the publisher had now made<br /> an offer for settlement. This offer had been placed<br /> before the members concerned and they had<br /> expressed their willingness to accept the terms<br /> proposed. The secretary was instructed to write<br /> to the Canadian lawyers stating what had been<br /> done. A curious case of alleged literary stealing<br /> was laid before the committee, and the solicitors&#039;<br /> Opinion on the evidence was read. The committee<br /> regretted they were unable to take any action in<br /> the matter as there was no legal evidence in support<br /> of the charges made. Another case relating to a<br /> false entry of copyright in the register at Washing-<br /> ton by an American publisher was considered by<br /> the committee, who decided to take counsel’s<br /> Opinion as to what action could be taken. The<br /> Committee drew attention to the fact that if false<br /> entries were made by pirates in America, they<br /> would be able to thrust out of the market the non-<br /> copyright editions of books approved by the authors,<br /> by the false “copyright&quot; edition.<br /> The secretary laid before the committee a letter<br /> from the Publishers’ Association, giving formal<br /> notice of the termination of the dispute between<br /> the Times and the publishers.<br /> —e—º-0–<br /> PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br /> The Pension Fund Committee met at the offices<br /> of the society on Monday, October 5, at<br /> 3 o&#039;clock. Three applications for pensions were<br /> before the committee. Two of the applicants were<br /> ineligible under the present constitution of the<br /> Scheme and had to be refused, the secretary being<br /> instructed to write to them accordingly. Con-<br /> sideration of the claim of the third applicant was<br /> adjourned pending the receipt of fuller details.<br /> The committee decided to meet again in<br /> November, for the consideration of other matters<br /> dealing with the Pension Fund.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> I.<br /> THE Dramatic Sub-Committee, which had been<br /> meeting during the vacation, met again at the<br /> offices of the society on Tuesday, October 6, at<br /> 4 o&#039;clock.<br /> After the minutes of the previous meeting had<br /> been signed, the secretary reported that he had<br /> received forty-one answers to the circular that had<br /> been issued. Of these, thirty-four were in favour<br /> of the dramatists remaining with the society; six<br /> were not opposed to this course though one or two<br /> other suggestions were put forward, and one<br /> member expressed no opinion either way. The<br /> Committee instructed the secretary to write again<br /> to those who had not answered in order that the<br /> fullest expression of opinion might be obtained.<br /> It was suggested by one of the members that it<br /> would be as well to have a music composer on the<br /> Dramatic Sub-Committee, and accordingly, on the<br /> motion of Capt. Robert Marshall, seconded by<br /> Mr. Bernard Shaw, the name of Mr. Paul Rubens<br /> was put forward, and the secretary was instructed<br /> to write to him to invite him to serve on the<br /> sub-committee. Mr. Rubens has now consented<br /> to undertake the duties.<br /> The committee then undertook the considera-<br /> tion of the dramatic pamphlet, and went, clause<br /> by clause, through the model agreement with<br /> which it commences. A few alterations were<br /> made and some notes added. The secretary was<br /> instructed to re-draft the agreement in accordance<br /> with these suggestions, and, if possible, to have<br /> the contract ready and printed in time for the next<br /> meeting to be held on October 15, at 3 o&#039;clock.<br /> —e-º-º-<br /> II.<br /> A second meeting of the Dramatic Sub-committee<br /> of the Society of Authors was held on Thursday,<br /> October 15, at 3 o&#039;clock.<br /> The secretary reported the receipt of further<br /> answers to the circular which had been issued,<br /> and that out of a total of 60 replies to hand, 48<br /> were in favour of remaining with the society, 2<br /> expressed unwillingness to give an opinion, and 10,<br /> though not opposed to the society or to remaining<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 32 (#48) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 32 TISIES A UTHOR.<br /> with it, set forth various suggestions. The Com-<br /> mittee were pleased to receive this warm support of<br /> the society’s work.<br /> The next agendum before the committee was the<br /> dramatic agreement and the dramatic pamphlet.<br /> Subject to some slight alterations and to obtaining<br /> a settlement of one important point by counsel,<br /> this was finally approved. It is proposed to place<br /> the whole matter before the committee of manage-<br /> ment at their next meeting, that they may sanction<br /> its circulation as a supplement to The Author.<br /> The next matter before the committee was the<br /> settlement of the general treaty with the managers,<br /> and several clauses of this were passed.<br /> The long discussion on, and careful consideration<br /> of the various points in the dramatic pamphlet<br /> and the general treaty kept the committee sitting<br /> till a late hour.<br /> They decided to meet again in the beginning of<br /> November to finally discuss the general treaty<br /> and other matters of importance to the dramatic<br /> profession.<br /> —º-Q-4–<br /> Cases.<br /> SINCE the last issue of The Author thirteen cases<br /> have been placed in the secretary&#039;s hands for settle-<br /> ment. Four of these referred to the detention of<br /> |MSS. ; four were claims for money ; three for<br /> accounts ; and two disputes on agreements. Six<br /> of these cases have been satisfactorily settled—two<br /> referring to MSS.; two for the payment of overdue<br /> moneys; one for undelivered accounts; and one<br /> touching the settlement of an agreement. Negotia-<br /> tions are still going forward in the other cases. If<br /> the claims are not satisfactorily settled in due<br /> course they will be referred to the society’s<br /> solicitors.<br /> There was a large number of cases left open<br /> from the former month, ten in all. Two of these<br /> have been settled ; four relate to cases abroad (two<br /> dealing with infringements in New Zealand and<br /> two respecting claims in America). In consequence,<br /> some delay is inevitable in their settlement. Of<br /> the remaining cases still open the secretary is<br /> engaged in negotiations for their settlement, and<br /> there is every prospect that an agreement will not<br /> be long delayed. -<br /> There are still a good many cases in the hands<br /> of the solicitors of the society—three in the High<br /> Court and two in the county court which, no<br /> doubt, will be settled this autumn.<br /> One county court case has been settled during<br /> the past month and judgment has been delivered in<br /> favour of the member whose claim the society<br /> supported. The chairman has sanctioned two<br /> other county court cases.<br /> October Elections.<br /> Adlam, Mrs. A. L. (“Alys<br /> Lowth”)<br /> Aitchison, Rev. James .<br /> Belloc, Hilaire, M.P.<br /> Boore, E.<br /> Boycott, G. W. M.<br /> Bright, Charles, F.R.S.E.<br /> Caillard, Emma Marie<br /> Campbell, Mrs. Dalgety<br /> Clark, Rev. 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In.<br /> Illustrated in<br /> Illustrated in colour.<br /> THE WORLD. (With 37 illustrations in colour.) By ASCOTT<br /> ROB. HoPE. Macmillan. $1.50 n.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 37 (#53) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TISIES A UITISIOR. 37<br /> OLD ENGLAND. (With 80 Illustrations in colour and half-<br /> tone.) By WALTER SHAw SPARROW. James Pott.<br /> Cloth, $6 m. ; ; levant, $10 m.<br /> HYDE PARK : Its HISTORY AND ROMANCE. By MRS.<br /> ALEC TwPEDIE. James Pott. # levant. $7.50 m.<br /> - - fº<br /> v-u- w<br /> LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br /> NOTES.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> E desire to draw the attention of our readers<br /> to the notice respecting the Society&#039;s<br /> annual dinner, which appears among the<br /> Committee Notes.<br /> Messrs. J. M. Dent &amp; Co. have brought out a new<br /> Naturebook, by W. Percival Westell, called “Animals<br /> at Home.” Well-known animals, birds and insects<br /> tell their own life histories for the instruction and<br /> amusement of children. The book has over fifty<br /> photographs from life and a coloured frontispiece.<br /> The same author has recently had his “Story of<br /> the Sea and Seashore ” issued by the R.T.S., who<br /> are about to bring out a second edition of his<br /> “Boy&#039;s Own Nature Book.”<br /> Mr. Elliot Stock will shortly publish “‘Saint&#039;<br /> Gilbert ; the story of Gilbert White and Selborne,”<br /> by J. C. Wright. The author has endeavoured to<br /> present the pioneer naturalist and his environment<br /> in a form that will appeal to all lovers of White,<br /> who has done so much to bring about the Nature<br /> cult in our English-speaking race. The book will<br /> be illustrated.<br /> “Father Paul,” by James Cassidy (Messrs. Kegan<br /> Paul), is the story of a strong man battling against<br /> difficulties, and watching over the fortunes of a<br /> boy on whom he has lavished the great love of<br /> disinterested fatherhood. The scenes are laid in<br /> England and on the Isle of Sandune.<br /> “Father Tyrrell&#039;s Modernism,” by Hakluyt<br /> Egerton, which has just been issued by Messrs.<br /> ICegan Paul, is an expository criticism of “Through<br /> Scylla and Charybdis” in an open letter to Mr.<br /> Athelstan Riley.<br /> |Messrs. Leonard &amp; Co. have just published a<br /> new Irish song, entitled “Shamrock (The Emblem<br /> of Erin)”; words by Alfred Smythe ; music by<br /> Wilton King.<br /> Concerning “The Tragedy of St. Elizabeth of<br /> Hungary,” a play in five acts, by Arthur Dillon,<br /> recently published by Mr. Elkin Mathews, the<br /> author writes: “On choosing the story of St.<br /> Elizabeth of Hungary, it became necessary either<br /> elaborately to avoid the scene-sequence of Kingsley<br /> —which would mean mis-shaping the plot—or to<br /> adopt the general scheme of the ‘Saint&#039;s Tragedy,’<br /> I resolved to do the latter, and to utilise as much<br /> as, rather than as little as, I could. Much of<br /> interest I found in the notes, which I have<br /> endeavoured to work into the text.”<br /> Miss Alice Dryden has edited a new edition of<br /> Sir Henry Dryden’s “Art of Hunting ” (North-<br /> ampton, printed by William Mark). The book<br /> also includes “The Craft of Venery,” and a<br /> translation of “La Chasse du Cerf.” Eleven<br /> illustrations from Dryden&#039;s drawings are repro-<br /> duced together with three plates.<br /> “Diana&#039;s Decision,” by Mrs. Wilson Fox, is a<br /> story for girls between twelve and sixteen. A<br /> passionate desire for universal justice leads the<br /> little heroine into many scrapes, but eventually<br /> results in happiness. It is published by the<br /> S.P.C.K.<br /> Messrs. Joseph Williams have issued a new play<br /> in one act by Edith Wheeler, entitled “The<br /> Sentence.”<br /> On October 8 Mr. Bernard Shaw lectured in<br /> the City Temple on “Literature and Art.”<br /> There will be published shortly “A History of<br /> Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs, 1839—1908,”<br /> which has been written by the Rev. S. Baring-Gould,<br /> author of “The Tragedy of the Caesars” and a<br /> “Life of Napoleon,” and by Mr. C. Bampfylde,<br /> F.R.G.S., formerly resident of Sarawak. The book,<br /> which will contain numerous and original illustra-<br /> tions, will present for the first time in a complete<br /> form a story of this district of Borneo.<br /> “Wood Folk Stories,” a series of stories about<br /> birds and animals for children, by Mr. Alfred<br /> Spencer, which have been appearing in the People&#039;s<br /> º have been published by this paper in book<br /> Ol&#039;Iſl.<br /> “The Silver Queen,” by William Sylvester<br /> Walker (“Coo-ee&quot;), is a book of Australian life<br /> and adventure. As the probability of several of its<br /> incidents have been questioned, we state, on the<br /> authority of the author, that they are all strictly<br /> true. There is a very light-coloured race in the<br /> northern interior of Australia ; there are buffaloes<br /> and alligators and limestone caves there. “Aus-<br /> tralia,” writes Mr. Walker, “is so vast and unknown<br /> that not long ago the Government through an<br /> explorer discovered tens of thousands of Chinese<br /> growing opium in an unknown part and had to<br /> remove them.” The publisher is Mr. John<br /> Ouseley.<br /> Sir Isaac Pitman &amp; Sons have brought out a<br /> new work by Mr. Lewis Melville, entitled “The<br /> First George,” wherein George I. is portrayed in a<br /> new light, the author being at pains to show that<br /> his subject was not the cold selfish libertime as his<br /> earlier biographers stated. * A great part of the<br /> work is devoted to an account of the fifty-four<br /> years of his life that were spent in Hanover. There<br /> are eighteen full-page illustrations.<br /> A new (7th) edition of “The Truth of<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 38 (#54) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 38<br /> TISIES AUTISIOR,<br /> Christianity,” by Lieut-Colonel W. H. Turton,<br /> D.S.O., is announced by Messrs. Wells, Gardner.<br /> This edition has been carefully revised throughout,<br /> and many fresh arguments noticed.<br /> Robert Aitken&#039;s new novel, “A Maid of Honour,”<br /> which has been appearing serially in an American<br /> magazine, has now been issued in book form on<br /> both sides of the Atlantic. The London publishers<br /> are Messrs. Greening &amp; Co. Mr. John Murray will<br /> publish early next year a volume of short stories by<br /> the same author.<br /> “Margery Redford and her Friends”—a book<br /> “for children from ten to twenty &quot;-by Mrs. M. H.<br /> Spielmann, has been published by Messrs. Chatto<br /> and Windus. It is the story of a young lady, always<br /> charming and graceful, whose career is developed<br /> up to the time when she becomes a wife and<br /> mother, and who is endowed with the talent of<br /> Sherlock Holmes, employed by her to elucidate the<br /> little mysteries that beset her and her friends.<br /> Mr. T. N. Foulis is bringing out a small volume<br /> of selections from the “Unspoken Sermons’’ of<br /> Dr. George Macdonald. The selections have been<br /> made by Miss Frances M. Nicholson, and there is<br /> evidence that time and care have been devoted to<br /> the work.<br /> |Messrs. Black are adding two volumes to their<br /> smaller series of “Colour Books.”<br /> painted by J. Hardwicke Lewis and May Hardwicke<br /> Lewis, and described by Francis H. Gribble ; also<br /> a new edition of the Poet Laureate’s “Haunts of<br /> Ancient Peace,” in which the illustrations are by<br /> Miss Agnes Locke.<br /> “Religious Liberty in England * is the title of<br /> a shilling volume which Sir Isaac Pitman &amp; Sons,<br /> Itd., have published. In it the Rev. J. Fovargue<br /> Bradley, a dissenting minister, advocates the entire<br /> emancipation of English religion from State<br /> control, while he secures to each religious body its<br /> own property, which shall be administered, on<br /> sound business lines, by a central board. A draft<br /> Religious Liberty Bill of a very thorough character<br /> is found in the book. The novel feature of the<br /> scheme is the plan of disestablishment without<br /> disendowment.<br /> We have received from Messrs. Maunsel &amp; Co.,<br /> of Dublin, two volumes of the Irish poems of Alfred<br /> Perceval Graves, “Songs of the Gael and a Gael<br /> Story-telling ” and “Countryside Songs, and Songs<br /> and Ballads.” The English publisher is Mr. T.<br /> Fisher Unwin.<br /> Mondariz, the famous health resort in the north-<br /> west of Spain, has been made the subject of a<br /> monograph by Miss Rachel Challice, which Messrs.<br /> Bradbury, Agnew publish. The book is profusely<br /> illustrated.<br /> A second edition of “The Life of Tolstoy: First<br /> Fifty Years,” by Aylmer Maude, was issued last<br /> “Geneva,”<br /> publish it under the title “Dark Corners.”<br /> month by Messrs. Constable. This book aims at<br /> giving a readable and intelligible account of<br /> Tolstoy&#039;s life up to his marriage in 1862; in deal-<br /> ing With which period previous historians have not<br /> had marked success. It also gives a consecutive<br /> account of his life from 1862 to 1878; including<br /> his participation in a court-martial and other<br /> matters quite new to English readers.<br /> We have received from Messrs. Routledge<br /> “Roman Life and Manners under the Early<br /> Empire,” by Ludwig Friedländer, translated by<br /> L. A. Magnus. A second volume of this valuable<br /> work, translated by J. H. Freese, will be published<br /> early next year. The same publishers send us a<br /> new volume in their Universal Library, “The<br /> Journal of Eugènie de Guérin,” and “Poems” by<br /> Evelyn Moore.<br /> Lance Thackeray&#039;s new book, which Messrs.<br /> A. and C. Black publish, is perhaps the first to<br /> depict the humorous side of the land of the Nile.<br /> The title is “The Light Side of Egypt,” and there<br /> are many drawings in colour. -<br /> Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton issued last<br /> month a new edition of Desmond Coke&#039;s public<br /> school story, “The Bending of a Twig.” This<br /> book, which has already passed through six<br /> editions, has now been re-written and enlarged.<br /> In his book, just published by Messrs. Constable,<br /> “First and Last Things,” Mr. H. G. Wells gives a<br /> clear statement of his own religious faith. He<br /> calls it a confession of faith and rule of life.<br /> The Volume is made up of four sections —<br /> Metaphysics ; Of Beliefs; Of General Conduct ;<br /> and Some Personal Things. -<br /> “Ossit ’’ (Madame la Baronne Deslandes), the<br /> author of “Ilse,” published in July last, through<br /> M. A. Lemerre, Paris, a new novel, “Cyrène,”<br /> which has already gone into several editions. It<br /> is a story of love and of death—a tragedy of<br /> infatuation.<br /> Mr. William Patrick Kelly&#039;s romance of ancient<br /> Egypt, “The Stonecutter of Memphis” (Routledge),<br /> is being translated into Arabic by Mr. Ahmad Said,<br /> of Cairo, and will be published, in book form, with<br /> the original illustrations, in October, 1909.<br /> Mr. Theodore Holland has recently published<br /> with Messrs. Rouart &amp; Co., Paris, two songs,<br /> words by Shelley (translated into French and<br /> German by M. D. Calvocaressi) entitled “A<br /> Lament,” and “A Dirge ’’; and with Messrs.<br /> Schott &amp; Co., “Gavotte Pastorale’’ for pianoforte<br /> Solo. An arrangement of this latter piece for<br /> Orchestras is in the press.<br /> Mrs. . F. E. Penny has brought out two new<br /> books. One is a novel connected with the dark<br /> corners of spiritualism and hypnotism, with scenes<br /> in England and India. Messrs. Chatto and Windus<br /> The<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 39 (#55) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TFIES AUTISIOR.<br /> 39<br /> other is a book of reminiscences, historical and<br /> social gossip, and South Indian folklore, called<br /> “On the Coromandel Coast ’’ (Messrs. Smith,<br /> Elder). e<br /> By the wish of M. Buffenoir, who is contributing<br /> a series of articles on the portraits of Robespierre<br /> to the “Annales de la Révolution,” Miss Mary C.<br /> Rowsell, author of “The Friend of the People,” is<br /> translating these articles for publication in this<br /> country. They are illustrated by numerous por-<br /> traits of Robespierre, among them being the picture-<br /> portrait of him in his room in the rue St. Honoré,<br /> and his death mask made by Madame Tussaud.<br /> The copyright of the latter photograph was pre-<br /> sented to Miss Rowsell by Mr. John Tussaud.<br /> On October 16 a new serial by F. Marion<br /> Crawford, entitled “Stradella,” commenced in the<br /> Graphic.<br /> On October 6 “Bellamy the Magnificent,” a<br /> play in five acts by Roy Horniman, was produced<br /> at the New Theatre. Lord Bellamy unwittingly<br /> makes love to his valet&#039;s wife. The Valet&#039;s revenge<br /> is to make his master appear to cheat at cards, with<br /> the result that Bellamy dies by his own hand. Sir<br /> Charles Wyndham, in the name-part, was supported<br /> by Miss Kate Cutler, Miss Fortescue, Miss Sarah<br /> Brooke, Mr. Robert Loraine, and Mr.<br /> Arthur.<br /> “Fanny and the Servant Problem,” by Jerome<br /> R. Jerome, was staged at the Aldwych Theatre on<br /> October 14. Lord Bantock brings home his<br /> wife, Fannie (late of “the halls”), who finds to<br /> her horror that the butler, housekeeper, maid,<br /> second footman and so on down to the turnspit, are<br /> all uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews, or otherwise<br /> relations or connections. Among those appearing<br /> in this comedy were Mr. Leslie Faber, Mr. Charles<br /> Cartwright, Mr. Sugden, Miss Esmé Beringer, Miss<br /> Kate Phillips and Miss Fannie Ward.<br /> —e—Q-e—<br /> PARIS NOTES.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> &amp; 4 &#039;ILE des Pingouins,” by Anatole France, is<br /> another study of modern life treated<br /> allegorically. It is the history of Pin-<br /> gouinie from the time when the Pingouins were<br /> baptised by mistake. They were originally huge<br /> birds belonging “either to the Arctic or Antarctic<br /> regions.” The author explains this slight vague-<br /> ness of definition by the fact that when a state-<br /> ment is made by one witness it can be admitted<br /> without hesitation, but when there are several<br /> witnesses and an abundance of documents it is<br /> always difficult to arrive at the truth. The con-<br /> clusion of this is that when the historian has a new<br /> Paul<br /> light to throw on any subject he surprises the<br /> reader, and the reader does not like to be surprised.<br /> If the historian endeavours to instruct his reader,<br /> he only humiliates and angers him. An original<br /> historian is the object of universal distrust and<br /> contempt. For a book to be well received the<br /> author should always extol the virtues upon which<br /> Society is now based : devotion to wealth, pious<br /> sentiments, and more particularly the resignation<br /> of the poor, which is, in reality, the very foundation<br /> of all order.<br /> St. Mael discovered the race of Pingouins, and,<br /> believing them to be human, baptised them.<br /> When the news of this event reached Paradise the<br /> Seigneur himself was perplexed, and a council was<br /> held to discuss what was to be done.<br /> St. Augustine advised that an immortal soul<br /> should now be given to the race of Pingouins, and<br /> he went on to explain to the Seigneur : “In virtue<br /> of your adorable decrees, they will then burn<br /> eternally in hell, and order will once more be<br /> established.”<br /> The Seigneur admits that this would perhaps be<br /> the best solution, but as he is now more clement<br /> than he formerly was, it is decided that the Pin-<br /> gouins shall, on account of their baptism, simply<br /> be transformed into men. This is done, and their<br /> isle, whether in the Arctic or Antarctic regions, was<br /> at once removed to Brittany.<br /> From this time forth their history commences,<br /> and it is interesting to watch their evolution.<br /> St. Mael is grieved to see them constantly<br /> fighting with each other, but a certain monk<br /> explains to him that this is really only their way of<br /> providing for their future : they are trying to<br /> annex each other&#039;s lands. They are creating the<br /> right of ownership, establishing the principles<br /> of civilisation and the basis of society. Just at<br /> that moment a strong-looking Pingouin approaches<br /> a weaker One, exclaims, “Your field is mine,” and<br /> strikes the weaker one dead on the piece of land he<br /> has just been cultivating.<br /> St. Mael is horrified, but the monk explains to<br /> him that what he considers robbery and murder is<br /> simply warfare and conquest, the very foundation<br /> of empires, and the source of all virtues and of all<br /> human greatness. The author, continuing his his-<br /> tory, gives an account of Pingouinie through<br /> many years. He tells of the putting to death<br /> of her kings and of the establishing of a republic.<br /> He gives the story of Trinco, the greatest<br /> warrior that Pingouinie ever produced, a man who,<br /> after thirty years of war, had conquered half the<br /> world, but who afterwards gave back all he had<br /> conquered, leaving to his country nothing but<br /> glory.<br /> The Pingouins are neighbours of the Marsouins.<br /> Consequently they are never friendly with the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 40 (#56) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 40<br /> TRIES A UTISIOR,<br /> Marsouins, as neighbours are naturally enemies.<br /> The Pingouins have the finest army in the world ;<br /> the Marsouins also have the finest army in the<br /> world, as, indeed, every nation has.<br /> In the army of the Pingouins was a certain Jew<br /> named Pyrot. The Minister of War, Greatauk,<br /> disliked him, and whenever anything went wrong<br /> was always convinced that Pyrot was to blame.<br /> Eighty thousand bundles of hay had disappeared,<br /> and Greatauk feels sure that Pyrot has stolen<br /> them to give as a present to the Marsouins.<br /> “That is very evident,” said General Panther.<br /> “The only thing is, we must prove it.”<br /> After some time he returns to Greatauk, telling<br /> him that no proofs can be found against Pyrot.<br /> “We must discover proofs,” replies Greatauk.<br /> “Justice demands it. Arrest him at once.”<br /> The affaire Pyrot is described in detail. Colom-<br /> ban, a writer, uses his pen in defence of the victim.<br /> In spite of everything Pyrot is condemned to<br /> imprisonment in a cage. After great efforts on<br /> the part of his defenders there is a revision<br /> of the trial, and he is pronounced innocent and<br /> set free.<br /> The historian continues his account of Pingouinie<br /> and its inhabitants up to the times when a new<br /> type of human being is evolved : the millionaire,<br /> a man who becomes bald at the age of eighteen. At<br /> this time houses are built of thirty or forty storeys.<br /> Every day there are terrible accidents and explo-<br /> sions, when houses are blown up, and the débris<br /> descends on the heads of the passers-by. In the<br /> quarters formerly frequented by students, young<br /> couples now assemble to discuss scientific subjects.<br /> The whole country is undermined with cellars<br /> and tunnels, and fifteen million men live in the<br /> capital.<br /> The book is one long satire, told in the inimit-<br /> able style and with the delicate irony peculiar to<br /> Anatole France.<br /> “Les Détours du Coeur &#039;&#039; is the title of Paul<br /> Bourget&#039;s new book. It is a collection of short<br /> stories, written in this author&#039;s best style. After<br /> his recent romans à thèse most readers of Paul<br /> Bourget are glad to go back to his writings which<br /> do not attempt to point out any moral, stories which<br /> show him at his best as one of the cleverest psycho-<br /> logists of modern times. There are twelve stories<br /> in the volume, and the reader who is apt to weary<br /> of the “eternal theme&#039;&#039; will find at any rate two or<br /> three founded on other subjects: “Le Piège” is one<br /> of these. Each one of the characters studied lives.<br /> The first story in the book, “Le Brutus,” is one of<br /> the finest. It is told with extreme delicacy and<br /> dramatic effect. Each one is in itself a master-<br /> piece, so that on closing the volume the reader<br /> feels that regret which one always has on coming<br /> to the end of a perfectly written book.<br /> “Au Coeur de la Vie” is the title of Pierre de<br /> Coulevain&#039;s new book. This time the author,<br /> after seeking in vain in Italy the path leading to<br /> the casur de la vie, finds it in Switzerland. The<br /> book is a novel in the style of “Sur la Branche.”<br /> There is a romance running through it, but inter-<br /> woven with the novel are the writer&#039;s thoughts<br /> and ideas about many of the great problems of life.<br /> The fine optimism peculiar to this author is to be<br /> read in every page of the book. She deals in her<br /> own way with many of the questions of the<br /> hour. Religion, literature, divorce, vivisection,<br /> modern theology, are among the subjects discussed.<br /> Absolute faith in Providence is the key-note of the<br /> whole volume. This new book has been eagerly<br /> awaited, and, although it is only just in print,<br /> sixty editions are already in circulation. Some<br /> Wrongly-informed English reviewers of this author&#039;s<br /> works have stated that Pierre de Coulevain is little<br /> read by the French. The fact that the French<br /> edition of “Sur la Branche ’’ is in its 115th<br /> edition and “L&#039;Ile Inconnue&quot; in its 101st edition<br /> Speaks more eloquently than any other statement<br /> could do. Pierre de Coulevain&#039;s remarkable success<br /> is no doubt largely due first to her gift of keen<br /> observation, and after this to her absolute sincerity,<br /> her ready sympathy, and her strict sense of justice.<br /> In any case she is one of those authors who need no<br /> advertisement, who seek no popularity, and who<br /> have won the heart of their public. “Sur la<br /> Branche ’’ is to appear very shortly in English.<br /> “Le Jardin Fermé’” (“Scènes de la Vie féminine<br /> en Turquie”), by Marc Hélys, comes at just the<br /> right time. The book is composed of a series of<br /> episodes, taken from the lives of Turkish women,<br /> by a Parisian who was an intimate friend of the<br /> two Désenchantées of Pierre Loti’s book. Nearly<br /> all the stories are taken from life. Marc Hélys<br /> has travelled in many countries, and she is a keen<br /> observer. Her book is now being translated, but<br /> no translation can do justice to the original. It<br /> is one of those that should be read in French, as<br /> the language is too delicate for translation.<br /> “Jean des Brumes” is another of the delightful<br /> Wendean stories by Charles Foley, who has made<br /> that epoch of French history his special study.<br /> He always succeeds in putting the atmosphere of<br /> the times into his historical novels. This book<br /> makes the thirtieth volume of his works. In<br /> England Charles Foley&#039;s name is chiefly known<br /> as the author of the play “Heard at the Tele-<br /> phone,” and of short stories which have appeared<br /> in the Strand, Pearson&#039;s, the Idler, and other<br /> English and American magazines.<br /> “L’Espoir,” by Georges Lecomte, may be con-<br /> sidered rather as an historical novel. The author<br /> has taken the period immediately following the<br /> terrible winter of 1870 and 1871, and shows the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 41 (#57) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TRIE AUTISIOR,<br /> 41<br /> almost superhuman efforts and energy of the<br /> French nation in those troubled times. It is a<br /> book that is well worth reading.<br /> The “Lettres du Prince de Metternich a la<br /> Comtesse de Lieven” (1818–1819) are published<br /> with an introduction, a conclusion and notes by Jean<br /> Hanoteau, and a preface, by M. Arthur Chuquet,<br /> Member of the Institute.<br /> The sixth volume of Madame Juliette Adam’s<br /> “Memoirs” has just appeared. It is entitled “Nos<br /> Amitiés Politiques jusqu’à l’Abandon de la<br /> Revanche.” This volume contains many un-<br /> published letters by Gambetta, Rochefort, and<br /> Spuller.<br /> “Loie Fuller (Quinze Ans de ma Wie)&#039;&#039; is an<br /> interesting account of the last fifteen years of the<br /> celebrated dancer&#039;s life, with an account of her<br /> various tours and of the people she has met. The<br /> preface has been written for her by Anatole<br /> France.<br /> “L’Evolution du Protestantisme français au<br /> Dix-neuvième Siècle,” by C. Coigmet, is another<br /> book published at the right moment. The<br /> subject is treated by a philosopher who has<br /> endeavoured to show how small a matter dogma<br /> really is. This history of Protestantism from the<br /> thirteenth and fourteenth centuries down to our own<br /> times shows up the virtues, the faults and failings<br /> of its leaders, and concludes with the following<br /> question : “Why do we not come nearer to each<br /> other in this life, respecting, in the diversity<br /> of our symbols, the diversity of our religious<br /> needs P’’<br /> For all readers interested in the Turkish question<br /> the various French publishers are issuing lists of<br /> the books they have in reference to the subject.<br /> Among some of these are the following:—“Ile<br /> Sultan, l’Islam, et les Puissances,” by Victor<br /> Bérard ; “Les Affaires de Crète ’’; “La Bosnie<br /> et l&#039;Herzégovine,” by L. Olivier; “Le Balkan<br /> Slave et la Crise Autrichienne,” by Charles<br /> Loiseau ; “Histoire de la Turquie,” by Youssouf<br /> Fehmi, with a preface by M. Antoine Baumann.<br /> Among other new books are : “Le Coeur Humain<br /> et les Lois de la Psychologie Positive,” by Antoine<br /> Baumann; “L’Aéroplane des Frères Wright:<br /> Historique, Expériences, Description,” a little<br /> pamphlet published at 1 franc, containing also<br /> some original sketches. “L’Evolution de la<br /> Marine anglaise : Réformes du Personnel,” by De<br /> Roquefeuil.<br /> A translation of the works of Shakespeare is<br /> being made by Georges Duval. “Othello,”<br /> “Measure for Measure,” “Cymbeline,” and<br /> “Love&#039;s Labour&#039;s Lost&quot; are published together<br /> in one volume.<br /> Among translations from the English are<br /> “L&#039;Oncle Bernac,” by Conan Doyle ; “Le Chat<br /> Maltais,” by Rudyard Kipling, translated by Louis<br /> Fabulet and Arthur Austin Jackson ; “Les Contes<br /> de Canterbury,” by Chaucer, revised by M. Legonis,<br /> one of the professors of the Sorbonne ; “Le Para-<br /> site,” by Conan Doyle, translated by Albert Savine<br /> and Georges Michel; “Mystères et Aventures,” by<br /> Conan Doyle, translated by Albert Savine.<br /> A translation of one of Thomas Hardy&#039;s works<br /> by Iouis Labay is now being published in serial<br /> form under the title of “ Deux Ambitions.”<br /> Edith Wharton&#039;s novel is translated, under<br /> the title of “ Chez les Heureux du Monde,” by<br /> M. Charles du Bos. The title given for “The<br /> House of Mirth &#039;&#039; does not appear to be an<br /> equivalent.<br /> In recent numbers of the Revue de Paris are the<br /> following articles: “La Foire aux Images,” by<br /> Paul Stapfer: “La Réforme de l&#039;Indo-Chine,” by<br /> Lieutenant-Colonel F. Bernard ; “Lettres de<br /> 1871,” by Georges Bizet ; “La Famille Royale en<br /> 1700,” by Ernest Lavisse ; “Le Congrès de la<br /> Route,” by L. Girardault. Questions extérieures :<br /> “Indépendance Bulgare.”<br /> In the latest numbers of the Revue Hebdoma-<br /> daire are the following articles: “Le Président<br /> Grévy,” by Gabriel Hanotaux; “Le Congrès<br /> Eucharistique à Londres,” by P. Clément Berthel;<br /> “L&#039;Idée du Bonheur et du Progrès dans la Littéra-<br /> ture du Dix-neuvième Siècle,” by Marius Ary<br /> Leblond ; “Ma Vocation sociale,” by Comte<br /> Albert de Mun.<br /> A volume by Maurice Donnay, entitled<br /> “Théâtre,” is just published, containing “Georgette<br /> Lemeunier,” “Le Torrent,” and “La Bascule.”<br /> “Parmi les Pierres,” by Sudermann, translated<br /> into French by M. Rémon and M. Valentin, is<br /> being played at the Odéon, and is now published in<br /> Volume form.<br /> At the Odéon “Parmi les Pierres,” by Suder-<br /> mann, is now on the bill.<br /> At the Renaissance Paul Bourget&#039;s<br /> “L’Emigré&#039;&#039; is being played.<br /> Madame Réjane is giving M. Bernstein&#039;s<br /> “Israël.” At the Théâtre Antoine “L&#039;Oreille<br /> Fendue &quot; is a great success, and at the Vaudeville<br /> “La Maison en Ordre,” by Mr. Pinero.<br /> ALYS HALLARD.<br /> piece<br /> “L&#039;Ile des Pingouins&quot; (Calmann Lévy).<br /> “Les Détours du Coeur&#039;&#039; (Plon).<br /> “Le Jardin Fermé (Scènes de la Vie feminine en<br /> Turquie)&quot; (Plon).<br /> “L’Espoir&quot; (Fasquelle).<br /> “Lettres du Prince de Metternich a la Comtesse de<br /> Lieven&quot; (1818–1819) (Plon).<br /> The sixth volume of Madame Juliette Adam&#039;s Memoirs<br /> (Lemerre).<br /> “L’Evolution du Protestantisme Français au Dix-<br /> neuvième Siècle” (Alcan).<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 42 (#58) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 42<br /> TFIES A UTFIOR.<br /> “Le Sultan, l&#039;Islam et les Puissances” (Colin).<br /> “Les Affaires de Crète ’’ (Colim).<br /> “La Bosnie et l&#039;Herzégovime ’’ (Colin).<br /> “Le Balkan Slave et la Crise autrichienne &#039;&#039; (Perrin).<br /> “Histoire de la Turquie” (Perrin). -<br /> “Le Coeur Humain et les Lois de la Psychologie Positive”<br /> (Perrin).<br /> “L&#039;Aéroplane des Frères Wright: Historique, Expéri-<br /> ences, Description ” (Berger-Levrault).<br /> “Le Parasite ” (Stock).<br /> “Mystères et Aventures &#039;&#039; (Stock).<br /> “Chez les Heureux du Monde ’’ (Plon).<br /> “Théâtre&quot; (Fasquelle).<br /> “Parmi les Pierres” (Calmann Lévy).<br /> —e—º-s— —<br /> THE PAN-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT<br /> CONVENTION.<br /> RT. IST. The signatory States constitute<br /> A. themselves into a Union for the purpose of<br /> recognising and protecting the rights of<br /> literary and artistic property, in conformity with<br /> the stipulations of the present Convention.<br /> ART. 2ND. Under the term “Literary and<br /> Artistic Works,” are comprised books, manuscripts,<br /> pamphlets of all kinds, no matter what subject<br /> they may treat of and what may be the number of<br /> their pages; dramatic or melodramatic works;<br /> choral music and musical compositions, with or<br /> without words, designs, drawings,<br /> sculpture, engravings, photographic works; astro-<br /> nomical and geographical globes; plans, sketches<br /> and plastic works relating to geography or geology,<br /> topography or architecture, or any other science;<br /> and finally, every production in the literary and<br /> artistic field which may be published by any method<br /> of impression or reproduction.<br /> ART. 3RD. The copyright to literary or artistic<br /> work consists in the exclusive right to dispose of<br /> the same, to publish, Sell and translate the same,<br /> or to authorise its translation, and to reproduce<br /> the same in<br /> partially.<br /> The authors belonging to one of the signatory<br /> countries, or their assigns, shall enjoy in the other<br /> signatory countries, and for the time stipulated in<br /> art. 5th, the exclusive right to translate their works,<br /> or to authorise their translation.<br /> ART. 4TH. In order to obtain the recognition of<br /> the copyright of a work, it is indispensable that<br /> the author or his assigns, or legitimate representa-<br /> tive, shall address a petition to the official Depart-<br /> ment which each government may designate,<br /> claiming the recognition of such right, which<br /> petition must be accompanied by two copies of<br /> his work, said copies to remain in the proper<br /> Department.<br /> paintings,<br /> any manner, either entirely or<br /> If the author, or his assigns, should desire that his<br /> copyright be recognised in any other of the signatory<br /> countries, he shall attach to his petition a number<br /> of copies of his work, equal to that of the countries<br /> he may therein designate. The said Department<br /> shall distribute the copies mentioned among those<br /> countries, accompanied by a copy of the respective<br /> certificate, in order that the copyright of the author<br /> may be recognised by them. -<br /> Any omissions which the said Department may<br /> incur in this respect shall not give the author, or<br /> his assigns, any rights to present claims against the<br /> State.<br /> ART. 5TH. The authors who belong to one of the<br /> signatory countries, or their assigns, shall enjoy in<br /> the other countries the rights which their respec-<br /> tive laws at present grant, or in the future may<br /> grant, to their own citizens; but such right shall<br /> not exceed the term of protection granted in the<br /> country of its origin. -<br /> For the works composed of several volumes,<br /> which are not published at the same time, as well<br /> as for bulletins or instalments of publications of<br /> literary or Scientific Societies, or of private parties,<br /> the term of property shall commence to be counted<br /> from the date of the publication of each volume,<br /> bulletin or instalment.<br /> ART. 6TH. The country in which a work is first<br /> published shall be considered as the country of its<br /> origin, or, if such publication takes places simul-<br /> taneously in several of the signatory countries, the<br /> one whose laws establish the shortest period of pro-<br /> tection shall be considered as the country of its<br /> Origin.<br /> ART. 7TH. Lawful translations shall be protected<br /> in the same manner as original works. The trans-<br /> lators of works, in regard to which there exists no<br /> guaranteed right of property, or the right of which<br /> may have become extinguished, may secure the<br /> right of property for their translations, as estab-<br /> lished in art. 3rd, but they shall not prevent the<br /> publication of their translations of the same<br /> work.<br /> ART. 8TH. Newspaper articles may bereproduced,<br /> but the publication from which they are taken must<br /> be mentioned, and the name of the author given, if<br /> it should appear in the same.<br /> ART. 9TH. Copyright shall be recognised in<br /> favour of the persons whose names or acknow-<br /> ledged pseudonyms are stated in the respective<br /> literary or artistic work, or in the petition to which<br /> art. 4th of this Convention refers, excepting case of<br /> proof to the contrary.<br /> ART. 10TH. Addresses delivered or read in<br /> deliberative assemblies, before the courts of<br /> justice and in public meetings, may be published<br /> in the newspaper Press without any special<br /> authorisation.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 43 (#59) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 43<br /> ART, 11TH. The reproduction in publications<br /> devoted to public instruction or chrestomathy, of<br /> fragments of literary or artistic works, confers no<br /> right of property, and may therefore be freely made<br /> in all the signatory countries.<br /> ART. 12TH. All unauthorised indirect use of a<br /> literary or artistic work, which does not present<br /> the character of an original work, shall be con-<br /> sidered as an unlawful reproduction.<br /> It shall be considered in the same manner<br /> unlawful to reproduce, in any form, an entire<br /> work, or the greater part of the same, accompanied<br /> by notes or commentaries, under the pretext of<br /> literary criticism, or of enlargement or complement<br /> of an original work.<br /> ART. 13TH. All fraudulent works shall be liable<br /> to sequestration in the signatory countries in which<br /> the original work may have the right of legal pro-<br /> tection, without prejudice to the indemnities or<br /> punishments to which the falsifiers may be liable<br /> according to the laws of the country in which the<br /> fraud has been committed.<br /> ART. 14TH. Each one of the Governments of the<br /> signatory countries shall remain at liberty to<br /> perinit, exercise vigilance over, or prohibit, the<br /> circulation, representation and exposition of any<br /> work or production, in respect to which the<br /> competent authorities shall have power to exercise<br /> such right. - º<br /> ART. 15TH. The present Convention shall take<br /> effect between the signatory States that ratify it<br /> three months from the day they communicate their<br /> ratification to the Mexican Government, and shall<br /> remain in force among all of them until one year<br /> from the date it is denounced by any of said<br /> States. The notification of such denouncement<br /> shall be addressed to the Mexican Government, and<br /> shall only have effect in so far as regards the<br /> country which has given it. -<br /> ART. 16TH. The Governments of the signatory<br /> States, when approving the present Convention,<br /> shall declare whether they accept the adherence to<br /> the same by the nations who have had no repre-<br /> sentation in the Second International American<br /> Conference. t<br /> In testimony whereof the plenipotentiaries and<br /> delegates sign the present Convention and set<br /> thereto the Seal of the Second International<br /> American Conference. - -<br /> Made in the City of Mexico, on the twenty-<br /> seventh day of January, nineteen hundred and two,<br /> in three copies written in Spanish, English and<br /> French respectively, which shall be deposited at<br /> the Department of Foreign Relations of the<br /> Government of the Mexican United States, so<br /> that certified copies thereof may be made, in order<br /> to send them through the diplomatic channel to<br /> the signatory States.<br /> SERIAL AND MINOR RIGHTS.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> (1) “The publishers shall control absolutely all arrange-<br /> ments for serial publication of the work or any portion of<br /> it, either before or after its publication in book form, and<br /> shall divide equally with the author all gross profits accruing<br /> from such serial publication in England, Australia, Canada,<br /> or any other colony. In case arrangements may be entered<br /> into for the translation of this work to any foreign tongue,<br /> the author and the publishers shall be partners to the<br /> extent of one half-share each in any sum thus received.”<br /> (2) (a) “The publishers shall during the legal term of<br /> copyright have the exclusive right of producing and pub-<br /> lishing the work in the United Kingdom, the Colonies,<br /> India, and the United States of America. The publisher<br /> shall have the entire control of the publication and sale and<br /> terms of sale of the book, and the author shall not during<br /> the continuance of this agreement (without the consent of<br /> the publisher) publish or allow to be published any abridg-<br /> ment, portion, translation, or dramatised version of the<br /> work.”<br /> (b) “In the event of the publisher realising profits from<br /> the sale of serial, Continental, or other rights, or from<br /> claims for infringement of copyright, a royalty of fifty per<br /> cent. Of the net amount of such profits remaining after<br /> deducting all expenses relating thereto.”<br /> (3) (a) “A royalty of 50 per cent. of the net profits<br /> derived from the sale of American copyright (if any).<br /> (b) “A royalty of 50 per cent. of the net profits derived<br /> from the sale of foreign rights (if any).<br /> (c) “A royalty of 50 per cent. of the net profits derived<br /> from the sale of the serial rights (if any).<br /> “In the event of your accepting these terms, it must be<br /> understood that I have the first refusal of your next three<br /> Inew novels, suitable for publication in 6s. form, on terms<br /> to be mutually agreed upon, otherwise there would be little<br /> inducement for pushing the present work.”<br /> We print above (1) a clause taken from one<br /> publisher&#039;s agreement, (2) two clauses from another<br /> publisher&#039;s agreement, and (3) a portion of a pro-<br /> posal from a third publisher. All the publishers<br /> in question are well known, and no doubt their<br /> proposals will be recognised by those members of<br /> the Society who have signed similar agreements or<br /> had similar proposals. .<br /> There is no need to repeat, what we have often<br /> stated, that under no conditions should these minor<br /> rights (see (1), (2), and (3)), translation, serial rights,<br /> etc., be transferred to a publisher. A publisher is<br /> an agent for the production of the work in book<br /> form. There is no need to repeat that an author<br /> should not allow his literary agent to recommend<br /> him an agreement where these rights are transferred<br /> to the publisher. It is the duty of a literary agent<br /> to place these rights, and for doing so he charges<br /> 10 per cent. We do not want even to call the<br /> attention of members to the extraordinary per-<br /> centage asked by the publishers in question for these<br /> rights, for placing which an agent charges only<br /> 10 per cent. If the publisher, in our opinion,<br /> should not have them under his control, he certainl y<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 44 (#60) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 44<br /> TISIES A CITYSIOR,<br /> should not have them at 50 per cent., or any other<br /> percentage. We want, however, to call the par-<br /> ticular attention of members to the following<br /> words (see (2) (a)): “The publisher shall have the<br /> entire control of the publication and sale and<br /> terms of sale of the book, and the author shall<br /> not during the continuance of this agreement<br /> (without the consent of the publisher) publish or<br /> allow to be published any abridgment, portion,<br /> translation, or dramatised version of the work.”<br /> It will be seen in the other clauses (see (1), (2)(b),<br /> and (3)) that it is distinctly stated that certain<br /> rights are sold and definite percentages are claimed,<br /> but in clause (2)(a) members will see that there is a<br /> difference in the draftsmanship. Any author<br /> would suppose, on reading this clause, that this<br /> consent, like the consent of a landlord in a lease,<br /> would not be unreasonably withheld, especially as,<br /> and, in contrast, the particulars of the percentages<br /> and the sale of other rights are so carefully set out<br /> in the second clause ; but if he does consider that<br /> this is the case he will be grievously disappointed<br /> when it actually comes to the Sale of translation<br /> rights and the publication of a dramatised version.<br /> Take for instance the case where the author has<br /> written a drama, or has obtained a satisfactory<br /> contract for the translation of his work. He<br /> applies to the publisher for his consent. The pub-<br /> lisher says, “I will give my consent if you will<br /> undertake to pay me 50 per cent. of the returns.”<br /> There is no reason why he should not even ask for<br /> 75 per cent. We do not for a moment suggest that<br /> these clauses have been drafted differently in the<br /> two cases in order intentionally to mislead the<br /> author, but that they have done so on two or three<br /> Occasions the secretary of the society has very<br /> strong evidence at the office. It would be very<br /> interesting to find a satisfactory reason for this<br /> particular draftsmanship so favourable to the<br /> publishers, so misleading to the author.<br /> If, therefore, at any time an author is asked to<br /> sign an agreement in which these clauses stand, he<br /> should refuse to do so on the grounds, first, that<br /> the translation rights are not for the publisher to<br /> negotiate, and Secondly, that the publication of a<br /> dramatised version is entirely another property.<br /> If, however, owing to the inherent weakness of<br /> human nature, he decides to give the publisher<br /> Some control over these rights, then the profits<br /> which are to be given to the publisher should be<br /> definitely fixed and the publisher should only be<br /> able to claim a percentage if he has been instru-<br /> mental in bringing together the parties to the<br /> contract. “The publisher&#039;s consent” should not<br /> depend upon his claiming 50 or 60 per cent. of the<br /> author&#039;s hard-won returns.<br /> The last paragraph of No. 3, the publisher&#039;s<br /> proposal, is quite impossible.<br /> Again, it must be stated in the strongest terms<br /> that the author should never bind himself for future<br /> books with any publishers on any conditions; but<br /> the last few words have their amusing side. The<br /> publisher is getting 50 per cent. on the sale of<br /> rights which he ought never to be allowed to<br /> handle, and on which the agent takes only 10 per<br /> cent., and then says that unless he obtains the<br /> next three books there is no inducement for him.<br /> to push the first.<br /> -<br /> —e—“O-e—<br /> MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> BIBLIOPHILE.<br /> W. E. Henley. By Theodore Watts-Dunton.<br /> The Cat in Literature. By F. C. Owlett.<br /> An Eighteenth Century Occult Magazine: And a Query<br /> as to William Blake. By Mark Perugini.<br /> BLACKWOOD&#039;S.<br /> The Apocalyptic Style.<br /> BOOKMAN.<br /> Ruskin&#039;s Position in the World of Art.<br /> Spielmann.<br /> The Library Edition of Ruskin.<br /> Nicoll, LL.D.<br /> The “Bookman” Gallery.<br /> By M. H.<br /> By W. Robertson<br /> Mr. Harold Bindloss.<br /> BOOK MONTHLY.<br /> Tolstoy at Eighty.<br /> The Novelist as Conqueror of the Stage. By the Editor.<br /> CORNHILL.<br /> Irish Epics and Homer. By Andrew Lang.<br /> The Book on the Table: “Louise de la Vallière.” By<br /> Virginia Stephen.<br /> DUBLIN QUARTERLY.<br /> Francis Thompson : In Memoriam. By W. G. Hole.<br /> FORTNIGHTLY.<br /> The Decay of the Short Story. By Edwin Pugh.<br /> Plays of the New Season. By William Archer,<br /> MONTH.<br /> Heredia. By Harold Binns.<br /> NATIONAL.<br /> The Unparalleled Pieresc. By Austin Dobson.<br /> Patrice. By Miss Alys Hallard.<br /> NEW QUARTERLY.<br /> Flambert and Some Critics (Part I.).<br /> Moore.<br /> Chinese Poetry. By G. L. Strachey.<br /> The Note-books of Samuel Butler (IV.).<br /> *<br /> By T. Sturge.<br /> NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br /> Dante and Shakespeare. By Mary Winslow Smyth.<br /> The Method of Plato. By Herbert Paul, M.P.<br /> The Poet in “High Alps.” By Frederick Wedmore.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 45 (#61) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TRIES A UTFIOR.<br /> 45<br /> WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br /> OF BOOKS.<br /> —e-º-e—<br /> ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br /> agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br /> with literary property — -<br /> I. Selling it Outright. -<br /> This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br /> obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br /> competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br /> the Society.<br /> II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br /> agreement).<br /> In this case the following rules should be attended to :<br /> (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br /> duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br /> (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,”<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> Tights.<br /> (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br /> (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br /> As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br /> doctor |<br /> III. The Royalty System.<br /> This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br /> of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br /> what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br /> possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br /> truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br /> with royalties are published in The Author.<br /> IV. A Commission Agreement.<br /> The main points are :—<br /> (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br /> (2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br /> General.<br /> All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br /> above mentioned.<br /> Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br /> Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br /> the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br /> Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br /> The main points which the Society has always demanded<br /> from the outset are :—<br /> (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br /> {1623.IlS.<br /> (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br /> to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br /> (nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br /> withheld.<br /> (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br /> ——e—º-e—<br /> WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS,<br /> EWER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br /> Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br /> petent legal authority.<br /> 2. It is ºwell to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br /> the production of a play with anyone except an established<br /> xmanager.<br /> 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br /> in three or more acts:—<br /> (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br /> is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br /> such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br /> for production of the piece by a certain date<br /> and for proper publication of his name on the<br /> play-bills.<br /> (b.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of percentages on<br /> gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br /> and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br /> percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br /> in preference to the American system. Should<br /> obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br /> date on or before which the play should be<br /> performed.<br /> (6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br /> nightly fees). This method should be always<br /> avoided except in cases where the fees are<br /> likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br /> other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply<br /> also in this case.<br /> 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br /> better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br /> paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br /> important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br /> be reserved.<br /> 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br /> be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br /> time. This is most important.<br /> 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br /> should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is<br /> of great importance.<br /> 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br /> play, are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br /> holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br /> print the book of the words.<br /> 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed-<br /> ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br /> agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br /> consideration.<br /> 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br /> drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br /> 10. An author should remember that production of a play<br /> is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br /> delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br /> He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br /> the beginning.<br /> 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br /> is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br /> is to obtain adequate publication.<br /> As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br /> account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br /> tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br /> are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br /> —e—º-e—<br /> WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br /> •-3-e<br /> ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br /> assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br /> authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br /> a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br /> composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br /> cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br /> property. The musical composer has very often the two<br /> rights to deal with—performing right and copyright. He<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 46 (#62) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 46<br /> TFIES A UTFIOR.<br /> should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br /> an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br /> the warnings stated above,<br /> HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br /> —º-sº-0–<br /> 1. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br /> E advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br /> lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br /> business or the administration of his property. The<br /> Secretary of the Society is a solicitor, but if there is any<br /> special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br /> Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br /> deem it desirable, will obtain counsel&#039;s opinion. All this<br /> without any cost to the member.<br /> 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br /> and publishers&#039; agreements do not fall within the experi-<br /> ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br /> the Society.<br /> 3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past<br /> accounts, with a copy of the book represented. The<br /> Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new<br /> or old, for inspection and note. The information thus<br /> obtained may prove invaluable.<br /> 4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br /> the document to the Society for examination.<br /> 5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br /> you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br /> are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are<br /> advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br /> the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br /> 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception<br /> of members&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br /> proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br /> confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br /> who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:<br /> —(1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give<br /> advice concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements<br /> in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep<br /> agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to<br /> agreements. Fuller particulars of the Society’s work<br /> can be obtained in the Prospectus.<br /> 7. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br /> agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br /> consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br /> them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br /> them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br /> of the Society.<br /> This<br /> 8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.<br /> The<br /> must be done within fourteen days of first execution.<br /> Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br /> 9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br /> referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br /> do some publishers. Members can make their own<br /> deductions and act accordingly.<br /> 10. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per<br /> annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br /> TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br /> –0–0–0–<br /> HE Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br /> behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or<br /> part of 100. The members’ stamps are kept in the<br /> Society’s safe. The musical publishers communicate direct<br /> with the Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to<br /> the members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br /> THE READING BRANCH,<br /> —6—Q-0–<br /> EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in the<br /> M branch of its work by informing young writers<br /> of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br /> treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br /> MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br /> and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br /> Special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br /> Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br /> fee is one guinea.<br /> a *- à<br /> w—w-<br /> &amp;<br /> w<br /> &amp; —dº-<br /> v-u-<br /> NOTICES.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of<br /> | the Society that, although the paper is sent to them<br /> free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a<br /> very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great<br /> many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest<br /> 5s. 6d. Subscription for the year.<br /> Communications for “The Author” should be addressed<br /> to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&#039;s<br /> Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the<br /> 21st of each month.<br /> All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,<br /> whether members of the Society or not, are invited to<br /> communicate to the Editor any points connected with their<br /> work which it would be advisable in the general interest to<br /> publish.<br /> Communications and letters are invited by the<br /> Editor on all subjects connected with literature, but on<br /> no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br /> return articles which cannot be accepted.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br /> that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post,<br /> and he requests members who do not receive an<br /> answer to important communications within two days to<br /> write to him without delay. All remittances should be<br /> crossed Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane, or be sent<br /> by registered letter only.<br /> —e—º-e—<br /> LEGAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE<br /> SOCIETY.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> ENSIONS to commence at any selected age,<br /> either with or without Life Assurance, can<br /> be obtained from this Society.<br /> Full particulars can be obtained from the City<br /> Branch Manager, Legal and General Life Assurance<br /> Society, 158, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 47 (#63) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTISIOR,<br /> GENERAL NOTES.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> THE COPYRIGHT CONFERENCE.<br /> THE first meeting of the Copyright Conference<br /> was held in Berlin on October 14. The British<br /> delegates were Sir Henry Bergne, K.C.B. (member<br /> of the council and an ex-chairman of the Society<br /> of Authors), who was plenipotentiary to the first<br /> meeting of the Conference at Berne, Mr. G. R.<br /> Askwith, K.C. (assistant secretary to the Board of<br /> Trade), Count de Salis (councillor of His Majesty&#039;s<br /> Embassy at Berlin), Mr. R. L. Craigie (of the<br /> Foreign Office), and Mr. T. W. Phillips (of the<br /> Board of Trade). One of the principal questions<br /> that was discussed was the term during which<br /> copyright should continue, most of the signatories<br /> being in favour of life and fifty years. Germany,<br /> however, who has recently passed a law to this<br /> effect, was in favour of life and thirty years. It<br /> should be understood that matters are discussed at<br /> the Conference by the Governments of the various<br /> countries, and that the Society of Authors and<br /> similar organisations have little or no voice in the<br /> business, although the French Government, always<br /> in advance in literary matters, appointed a com-<br /> mittee of authors to attend. The exact position of<br /> affairs was made plain by Mr. Winston Churchill,<br /> replying recently to questions asked in the House.<br /> He said : “The proposed amendments to the Berne<br /> Convention regarding copyright were communi-<br /> cated to a number of Societies and persons<br /> interested in the questions to be discussed, and<br /> their criticisms were invited and obtained. . . .<br /> Any alteration of the existing law in this country<br /> to give effect to amendments of the convention<br /> must of necessity be submitted to Parliament in<br /> the form of a Bill’’ (The Times, October 20).<br /> The Society of Authors was among those men-<br /> tioned, and the criticisms of its copyright experts<br /> were duly forwarded to the Board of Trade ; but<br /> since the papers were received and opinions<br /> solicited in confidence, no statement appeared in<br /> The Author.<br /> Mr. Churchill said further : “The British dele-<br /> gates at the International Copyright Conference at<br /> Berlin have no power to bind his Majesty&#039;s<br /> Government to any amendment of the law of<br /> copyright, and it has been explained to the other<br /> delegates that any provisional assent which they<br /> may give to any proposed amendment or revision<br /> of the International Copyright Convention must<br /> not be held to imply that Great Britain will be<br /> able eventually to adhere and give effect to such<br /> alteration ” (The Times, October 20). If possible,<br /> a full account of the proceedings will appear in the<br /> December issue of The Author.<br /> THE “TIMES ’’ AND THE PUBLISHERS&#039;<br /> ASSOCIATION.<br /> WHAT had come to be known as the “Book<br /> War” is now happily over. On September 29–<br /> too late for mention in our last issue—we received<br /> an official communication from the Publishers&#039;<br /> Association to the effect that a satisfactory settle-<br /> ment of the dispute with The Times had been<br /> effected, and that members of the association were<br /> again entering into ordinary business relations with<br /> The Times as from October 1. The terms upon<br /> which peace was concluded have not transpired ;<br /> but it may be gathered from the fact that pub-<br /> lishers&#039; advertisements are again appearing in the<br /> Literary Supplement that the rapprochement is<br /> lasting and complete.<br /> -<br /> THE PAN-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT CONVENTION.<br /> WE have received from the Library of Congress,<br /> Copyright Office, the text of the Pan-American<br /> Copyright Treaty of 1902, reprinted from the<br /> official English text. -<br /> The treaty was signed at the City of Mexico by<br /> the plenipotentiaries of seventeen countries, includ-<br /> ing those of the United States, on January 27th,<br /> 1902. Ratifications of the Convention have since<br /> been deposited with the Mexican Government by<br /> Guatemala, on April 25th, 1902; by Salvador, on<br /> May 19th, 1902; by Costa Rica, on June 28th, 1902;<br /> by Honduras, on July 4th, 1904; by Nicaragua,<br /> On August 13th, 1904; and by the United States,<br /> on March 31st, 1908. According to the provisions<br /> of Article 15, this treaty went into effect as between<br /> the United States and the countries enumerated on<br /> July 1st, 1908.<br /> We do not notice among the articles (which are<br /> reprinted on another page) any provision for the<br /> printing in the United States of the books of the<br /> other subscribing parties. It certainly seems<br /> strange that the United States can enter into such<br /> a treaty with small Central American Republics,<br /> such as Honduras and Costa Rica, and yet refuse<br /> to subscribe to the Berne Convention. Probably,<br /> the omission in the present treaty of this stipula-<br /> tion, which keeps her apart from the European<br /> Powers, is in anticipation of the future union of<br /> these republics with herself; or perhaps, as in most<br /> matters, she looks at the question from the point<br /> of view of the almighty dollar, knowing that she<br /> will gain more by the free export of her authors’<br /> works into the countries named, than she will lose<br /> by the import from these countries, as their<br /> literature is small compared with hers.<br /> THE CHARLES LAMB MEMORIAL.<br /> STRANGE as it may seem, among the many<br /> monuments to literary genius in Westminster<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 48 (#64) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 48<br /> THE A UTHOR.<br /> Abbey there is nothing to commemorate that of<br /> Charles Lamb, one of the most original of England&#039;s<br /> humorists and essayists. The only memorial to his<br /> genius exists in the form of a mural tablet erected<br /> by the Middlesex Archaeological Society in the<br /> parish church of Edmonton, in which village the<br /> latter and more eventful years of his life were<br /> passed, and where he and his sister Mary lie<br /> buried.<br /> However, on a site near his grave and Bay<br /> Cottage where he lived, a hall and institute have<br /> now been erected bearing his name. The site has<br /> generously been given by the Ecclesiastical Com-<br /> missioners, and the building planned to include<br /> fifteen rooms besides the large hall, in which<br /> literary, social, and recreative work will be carried<br /> on. The cost is £5,400, of which £2,900 is already<br /> raised or promised. A committee has been formed<br /> to raise the remaining £2,500, and carry through<br /> the scheme ; the Rev. E. A. B. Sanders, of the<br /> Vicarage, Edmonton, is treasurer, to whom all<br /> cheques and contributions may be sent.<br /> A Charles Lamb Festival Dinner has been<br /> arranged with the object of raising the deficiency<br /> on the cost. It will be held at the Criterion<br /> Restaurant, on Thursday, November 12, with Mr.<br /> Anthony Hope Hawkins in the chair, a fact which<br /> should further recommend the scheme to members<br /> of the society. Those desiring to participate<br /> therein should communicate with the steward, Mr.<br /> G. Eedes Eachus, Hughenden, Bush Hill, Winch-<br /> more Hill, N.<br /> •=-smº-nº-<br /> THE U.S.A. BOOK MARKET.<br /> THE announcement list of books to be published<br /> during this autumn and winter season in America<br /> by fifty representative publishers totals some 1,450<br /> titles. The classified list published in the Chicago<br /> Dial shows some curious features. Thus, books for<br /> the young head the list in numbers, followed by<br /> fiction and biography. Biography for the most part<br /> deals with English worthies, American and Italian<br /> taking the second place. In the small section of<br /> poetry and the drama we notice that Mr. Thos. B.<br /> Mosher is issuing a cluster of English poetry from<br /> the pens of W. E. Henley, Lionel Johnson, Francis<br /> Thompson, Oscar Wilde, and Wordsworth. Travel<br /> and exploration are well represented with books<br /> relating to every country from Alaska to Ceylon.<br /> The smallest lists are those dealing with educa-<br /> tion, games, philosophy, health, medicine, and<br /> music. Religion and theology, on the other hand,<br /> are well up to the average. Any endeavour, there-<br /> fore, to judge America by what it reads would<br /> appear to be a task of much difficulty,<br /> *m-.<br /> J. C. PARKINSON.<br /> WE regret to announce the death of Mr. Joseph<br /> Charles Parkinson, on Saturday, October 24. He<br /> Was One of the original members of the council of<br /> the Society, of whom but three or four now survive.<br /> Mr. Parkinson was born in 1833, and his long<br /> and active life was chiefly devoted to journalism<br /> and social reform in connection with the Daily News<br /> and the World. His most noteworthy efforts in<br /> this direction were for the abolition of public<br /> executions, for Poor Law reform, and for the pre-<br /> servation of commons. He was special correspon-<br /> dent to the Daily News at the opening of the<br /> Suez Canal in 1869, and proceeded to India shortly<br /> afterwards in connection with the ocean telegraph.<br /> Among other duties and positions undertaken and<br /> fulfilled, he held high offices in Masonic circles,<br /> was a governor of Christ&#039;s Hospital, chairman of<br /> the Reform Club, and treasurer of the Royal<br /> Literary Fund. His publications include “Under<br /> Government,” a guide to the departments of the<br /> Civil Service ; a handbook of “Government<br /> Examinations,” and “The Ocean Telegraph to<br /> India.”<br /> While Mr. Parkinson never took a very promi-<br /> nent part in the work of the society, he was one<br /> of its warmest supporters, and was always ready,<br /> when occasion offered, to encourage it in its duties,<br /> to further its aims, and to seek for its prosperity.<br /> THE PUBLISHERS’ CIRCLE AND BOOK<br /> TRADE DINNER.<br /> —e-º-e—<br /> ITY HE Publishers&#039; Circle organised during the<br /> summer months a book trade dinner. It<br /> was held at the Trocadero, on Friday, Octo-<br /> ber 9, when about 250 people were present, and<br /> many lambs could be seen among the recumbent<br /> lions. -<br /> Mr. Edward Bell, the chairman of the Publishers&#039;<br /> Association, took the chair; and Mr. Arthur Waugh,<br /> the managing director of Messrs. Chapman and<br /> Hall, and Mr. H. W. Keay, president of the<br /> Associated Booksellers, were at the head of the<br /> cross-tables as vice-chairmen.<br /> As Sir George Otto Trevelyan facetiously re-<br /> marked in his speech, he was glad to see that the<br /> publishers had brought their authors with them.<br /> It would be invidious to make distinction or<br /> mention what particular author was in the right-<br /> and left-hand pocket of what particular publisher,<br /> but this is certain, that there was much good-<br /> fellowship and camaraderie, and everyone present<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 49 (#65) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 49<br /> was glad to sink all debatable subjects and enjoy<br /> the pleasures provided for him.<br /> For this happy issue hearty thanks are due to<br /> Mr. Arthur Waugh, the chairman of the Publishers&#039;<br /> Circle, and Mr. A. D. Power, the secretary.<br /> After the toast of “The King,” Mr. W. L.<br /> Courtney, in his best academic manner, with a<br /> touch of jest and sarcasm, sometimes for, sometimes<br /> against the publisher, proposed the toast of<br /> “Literature.”<br /> He emphasised the fact that literature had<br /> nothing to do with the subject, but the manner in<br /> which the subject was treated. He explained his<br /> proposition with forcible and sincere arguments.<br /> The toast was coupled with the name of Sir<br /> George Trevelyan.<br /> Sir George entertained the company with a<br /> number of interesting literary reminiscences. He<br /> talked of his walks with Carlyle; his travels—or<br /> should it not rather be his voyages —through<br /> Venice with Ruskin for a guide ; his introduction<br /> to Browning, and his meeting with Thackeray.<br /> Everyone appreciated these glimpses of the past.<br /> Towards the end of his speech, in the strongest<br /> terms he windicated the claim of the writers of<br /> history to treat their subject as an art rather than<br /> as a mere dry science or a crude statement of facts.<br /> No doubt all those who read history for the love<br /> of the past will cordially agree with him.<br /> Mr. W. W. Jacobs, in an amusing speech,<br /> proposed “The Book Trades.”<br /> He proclaimed the modesty of publishers because<br /> they never advertised. He knew this was a fact,<br /> because all the authors he had met had assured<br /> him that it was so.<br /> Mr. Edward Bell, the chairman, and Mr. H. W.<br /> Keay responded.<br /> There were pleasant music and songs during the<br /> dinner, and in the intervals between the speeches,<br /> and after the speeches, a soirée was held in the<br /> Alexandra Room.<br /> Thus the first dinner of the Publishers&#039; Circle was<br /> brought to a satisfactory conclusion.<br /> The promoters should be pleased with the results,<br /> which it is to be hoped will bring about the<br /> blessings of peace and goodwill and good under-<br /> standing. • .<br /> —e—º-e—<br /> THE TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL CON-<br /> GRESS OF THE PRESS.<br /> —º-º-e—<br /> HE choice of Berlin as the city wherein the<br /> Twelfth International Press Congress was to<br /> be held, gave rise to many speculations.<br /> Obstacles had frequently been thrown in the way<br /> of holding the Congress in the German capital, but<br /> the success of the meeting has fully justified the<br /> Bureau Central in accepting the invitation.<br /> The Press not only of Berlin but of Germany<br /> have worked cordially, and have been most heartily<br /> supported by the imperial and civic authoritics in<br /> their endeavours to make the Congress a success,<br /> from both the business and social stand point.<br /> When the English delegation had arrived in<br /> Berlin, and received their portfolios, it was at once<br /> seen that every possible detail had been considered<br /> with minute care. The ticket arrangements had<br /> been placed in the hands of the Hamburg-American<br /> Steamship Co., by whose lines most of the English<br /> delegates travelled to Berlin via Hamburg ; the<br /> officials of the line arranged for all the inter.<br /> tickets within the German Empire, and the French<br /> railways, through M. Taunay, accorded passes<br /> through their territory to the Latin members.<br /> The portfolios contained all documents, reports,<br /> time-tables, programmes, invitations, etc., and<br /> from the office in the Reichstaggebaude (Par-<br /> liament House) where these were issued, the<br /> members could at once pass to the writing-rooms<br /> of the House of Parliament, and answer all<br /> necessary notes and invitations. The whole<br /> Suite of the Parliamentary buildings were at<br /> our disposal. Libraries, post-office, lobbies, etc.,<br /> and a lunch was arranged here each day. Before<br /> the first meeting of the Congress the English<br /> delegation came together at the Hotel Adlon, under<br /> the presidency of Major Gratwicke. At this gather-<br /> ing he was elected English Vice-President of the<br /> Congress. On the subjects of the debate being<br /> considered it was decided that Mr. Thomas Catling<br /> should speak upon “The Dignity of the Press and<br /> the Constitution of Professional Tribunals.” Mr.<br /> J. R. Fisher and Mr. Arthur Walter were nomi-<br /> nated as speakers upon the question of “Profes-<br /> sional Secrecy in Matters concerning the Press”;<br /> and upon the Provident Fund questions Major<br /> Gratwicke, the President of the British Inter-<br /> national Association of Journalists (which society<br /> had sent the delegation to Berlin). Upon “The<br /> Reduction of Postal and Telegraphic Tariffs for<br /> the Press&#039;&#039; Mr. J. H. Warden, the Hon. Treas.<br /> and Mr. James Baker, the Hon. Sec., were<br /> appointed speakers; and upon the general work of<br /> the Congresses the representative on the Bureau<br /> Central, Mr. D. A. Louis, was chosen. The other<br /> subjects under consideration were “Concerning the<br /> Unification of the Laws for the Protection of Artistic<br /> and Literary Property” and the suppression of the<br /> “Ambulant Jurisdiction for International Law &quot;<br /> questions. Mr. J. R. Fisher and the Hon. Sec. were<br /> asked, if necessary, to deal with these matters.<br /> The scene in the Chamber of the German Reichs-<br /> tag when the first sitting of the Congress was<br /> opened was a significant one. Here in this hall.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 50 (#66) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 50<br /> TFIES A UTFIOR.<br /> where so many fiery debates involving serious<br /> matters for the welfare of the German people have<br /> been fought out, were gathered the representatives,<br /> from twenty-one nations, of the Press parliament.<br /> Herr W. Singer, of Vienna, occupied the president&#039;s<br /> chair, and near him were Herr George Schweitzer,<br /> the German president, and M. Taunay, the French<br /> general secretary, and on either side, the bureau<br /> representatives of the various nations.<br /> There were present also, in recognition of the<br /> importance of the gathering, the Prussian ministers<br /> Von Rheinhaben, Von Moltke, Dr. Beseler and<br /> the Secretary of State for Foreign affairs, Won<br /> Schoen, as well as under-secretaries of State and<br /> members of the Reichstag.<br /> The Congress was opened by Herr Singer. In an<br /> eloquent and impressive speech he referred to the<br /> first Congress of the Press at Antwerp fourteen years<br /> ago, when no one believed there could be a continu-<br /> ance of international Press deliberations; but, he<br /> continued, reason had worked, and the heart had<br /> helped to bring this about, to work internationally,<br /> each for the good of his fatherland. Herr Singer<br /> spoke at first in German, and then in French, with<br /> witty references to Voltaire&#039;s sayings, and to his<br /> own experiences as a journalist ; he declared he had<br /> never doubted the great future of the Press, and he<br /> called upon those gathered from all corners of the<br /> world to work for honour, rectitude, and justice<br /> as the cardinal virtues of the Press.<br /> In an impressive speech the Foreign Secretary<br /> then greeted the Congress, by command of the<br /> Chancellor, Prince von Buelow, and referred,<br /> speaking of its growing power, to the links between<br /> diplomacy and the Press. He assured the Congress<br /> that their labours to lessen misunderstanding and<br /> to bring about better and more just consideration<br /> of political matters would insure the diplomatist&#039;s<br /> warmest sympathy.<br /> In the afternoon after the first sitting, the Chan-<br /> cellor, Prince von Buelow, gave a reception in his<br /> historic residence, and the scene in the forest<br /> garden, beneath the rooms in which the Berlin<br /> Congress was held, was full of animation. The<br /> Chancellor chatted with the varied nationalities,<br /> and then standing at his garden door, in response<br /> to Herr Singer, gave an important speech that was<br /> telegraphed to all the journals.<br /> At the second sitting of the Congress a telegram<br /> was read from M. Jules Claretie, the director of the<br /> Comédie Française, who as a dramatic journalist<br /> has spoken at former Congresses, regretting that<br /> unavoidable work prevented him coming to Berlin<br /> and journeying to the home of Goethe.<br /> Then came the question of the Dignity of the<br /> Press and Professional Tribunals, the discussion<br /> being opened by M. Taunay, and illustrated by the<br /> Italian delegates, M. Raimondi and Cantalupi. It<br /> was requested that the bureau should draw up as<br /> far as possible a codex of modern journalistic law.<br /> The important and highly debatable subject of<br /> professional secrecy and coercion of witnesses,<br /> introduced by Dr. George Schweitzer, was then<br /> discussed. Upon this subject Mr. J. R. Fisher,<br /> whose legal knowledge of journalistic usage is very<br /> thorough, stated that in England there was no<br /> Untersuchungsrichter, or examining magistrate, and<br /> the judge would not compel the name of a writer<br /> to be divulged if good ground was given for with-<br /> holding it. Mr. Arthur Walter, the official reporter<br /> of the House of Lords, spoke to the effect that no<br /> departure from common law could be claimed for<br /> the journalist. The journalist was as answerable<br /> for what he published as any other citizen, but as<br /> Mr. Fisher had said, the judge would not compel<br /> the divulging of professional secrets. Mr. Burlumi,<br /> of the Foreign Press Association, also spoke of the<br /> English usage, but he hoped, for the interests of<br /> other countries, the resolution of the central com-<br /> mittee as to professional secrecy would be carried,<br /> which was done unanimously.<br /> The third sitting of the Congress was opened<br /> by Herr Singer announcing he had received a<br /> telegram from his Imperial Majesty Kaiser<br /> Wilhelm, which, after thanking the presidents of<br /> the Press Congress for their telegram of homage,<br /> went on to hope “the delegates would feel them-<br /> selves at home in his capital, and he cherished the<br /> hope that the new relations they might be develop-<br /> ing at this Congress would be utilised in the<br /> service of the highest problems of civilisation.”<br /> The subject of the Provident Fund question<br /> was then introduced by M. Humbert, of Paris, and<br /> although some were in favour of an international<br /> fund, yet the difficulties surrounding such a departure<br /> were recognised.<br /> During the discussion Major Gratwicke, as he<br /> was compelled to return to England before the end<br /> of the debates, took the opportunity to speak of<br /> the various English provident funds, and to renew<br /> the invitation given at Bordeaux for the Congress<br /> to visit London next year. He spoke of the impor-<br /> tant steps already taken, and stated that the chief<br /> journals, as well as the men of diplomacy in both<br /> Houses of Parliament, had signified in the most<br /> emphatic manner their readiness to welcome the<br /> Congress. The journalists of all nations would<br /> then have an opportunity to learn what was done<br /> in England, and in a real way, he hoped, to help<br /> forward the brotherhood of journalism.<br /> It was decided to further the creation of provi-<br /> dent funds, and to appoint a special committee,<br /> with the bureau, to consider the possibilities of an<br /> international fund.<br /> The day following the third sitting was devoted<br /> to an excursion to Potsdam. Already the Berliners<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 51 (#67) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TISIES A UITEIOR.<br /> 51<br /> had shown in an afternoon drive through the<br /> poorest parts of Berlin how their poor lived : as<br /> an English journalist remarked, the cleanliness of<br /> the streets, and the absence of rags and Sordid<br /> poverty staggered him, and we went through the<br /> very poorest quarters; but en route to Potsdam<br /> the West End of Berlin was seen, and all its<br /> artistic development. At Sans Souci and at<br /> Wannsee a most enjoyable and instructive day was<br /> assed.<br /> The fourth sitting of the Congress was devoted<br /> to the consideration of “Telegraphic and Postal<br /> Tariffs,” to the “General Work of the Congress,”<br /> and the “Unification of the Laws for the Pro-<br /> tection of Artistic and Literary Property,” and<br /> also to a discussion upon the “Suppression of the<br /> Ambulant Jurisdiction for International Law<br /> Questions,” upon which subject Mr. Fisher&#039;s legal<br /> knowledge was again useful. º<br /> question, the writer pointed out the anomalies in<br /> England, and the fact that foreign printed matter<br /> could come into Britain at cheaper rates than<br /> English printed matter could be sent abroad.<br /> At the close of these debates the question of<br /> where the next Congress should be held was dis-<br /> cussed, and as there were three invitations, London,<br /> Athens, and Constantinople, after Mr. D. A. Louis,<br /> and Señor Lucas, of Lisbon, had spoken for London,<br /> it was decided to leave the decision to the Bureau<br /> Central.<br /> No space remains to describe the elaborate and<br /> cordial social functions, which included a reception<br /> by the municipality of Berlin in the Rathaus,<br /> a gala performance of the Kaiser&#039;s version of<br /> “Sardanapalus,” a banquet by the Press in the<br /> luxurious hall at the Zoological Gardens, a banquet<br /> at Wannsee given by the Chambers of Commerce of<br /> Berlin and Potsdam, at which Mr. J. H. Warden<br /> spoke, and a banquet in the Berlin Stock Exchange,<br /> after a visit to the High School of Commerce, at<br /> which the writer had to speak upon German<br /> education, stating it had done more for Germany<br /> than even her army and navy had done.<br /> At the close of the Congress a special train con-<br /> veyed the members to Frankfurt, via Weimar,<br /> where seventeen men were chosen to do homage to<br /> Goethe and Schiller, each man in his own tongue,<br /> a most impressive scene in the ducal crypt. At<br /> Frankfurt and Wiesbaden the reception was most<br /> warm-hearted, and formed a memorable ending to<br /> this Twelfth International Press Congress. The<br /> visit of such a body of writers to England should<br /> prove, from very varied points of view, of great<br /> value. -<br /> JAMES BAKER.<br /> Upon the postal<br /> THE REPORT FROM THE JOINT SELECT<br /> COMMITTEE ON LOTTERIES AND<br /> INDECENT ADWERTISEMENTS.<br /> —t—sº-º-<br /> HE Committee of Members of the two Houses<br /> of Parliament, which has recently issued its<br /> report under the above title, has made some<br /> useful suggestions for the alteration of the law and<br /> procedure which came under their consideration,<br /> and the result of their proposals, if they are carried<br /> into effect, should be beneficial to the community,<br /> and also to authors and artists whose work is<br /> adapted for publication in popular periodicals of<br /> the better class. If the publishers of these are<br /> prevented in future from increasing their circula-<br /> tion by conducting thinly disguised lotteries, they<br /> will have to rely in a greater degree upon the<br /> merits of their reading matter and pictures; and<br /> if at the same time they are freed from the compe-<br /> tition of cheap nastiness, the writer and the illus-<br /> trator can hardly fail to profit by an increased<br /> demand for good and wholesome work.<br /> The full scope of the committee&#039;s investigation,<br /> as set out in the order of reference, was not limited<br /> to those subjects which the abbreviated title at<br /> the heading of this article suggests. The com-<br /> mittee had to inquire into the law, (1) as to lotteries,<br /> including the sale of lottery bonds, competitions<br /> for prizes which involve an element of chance, and<br /> advertisements relating thereto ; (2) as to indecent<br /> literature, and pictures, and advertisements relat-<br /> ing to things indecent and immoral ; and to report<br /> what amendments, if any, in the law are necessary<br /> or desirable. This, on the face of it, comprised<br /> rather more than the competitions by which certain<br /> newspapers and periodicals have endeavoured with<br /> Some success to stimulate sales, and enabled the<br /> committee to touch upon questions of higher<br /> importance and less easy to deal with satisfactorily<br /> than the efforts of journals of the lowest class to<br /> appeal to the appetites of the prurient by means<br /> of Vulgar and suggestive stories, paragraphs and<br /> illustrations.<br /> Literature and pictures are wide terms, and, as<br /> a matter of fact, some of the witnesses gave their<br /> opinions on recent novels, even mentioning some<br /> by name, as well as upon at least one exhibition of<br /> paintings held a few years ago. These matters,<br /> however, cannot be said to have been dealt with<br /> seriously or exhaustively, as no writers or authorities<br /> on literature were called as witnesses, nor were any<br /> artists or authorities on art.<br /> As an example of opinions left uncontradicted<br /> and unmodified the following may be quoted :<br /> One of the witnesses referred to, who claimed to<br /> have been interested in the question of indecent<br /> literature and publications for a number of years,<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 52 (#68) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 52<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> was asked if it was not his opinion that English<br /> novels have become so indecent of late years as to<br /> be even worse than the French ones. The ques-<br /> tion was no doubt derived from a précis of his<br /> evidence furnished to the committee, for he<br /> answered, “I think that is agreed on all hands.”<br /> The same gentleman was also of the opinion that it<br /> was allowed “on all hands” that English novels<br /> were “far more outspoken, more gross in expres-<br /> sion &quot; than French ones. He may, perhaps, be<br /> congratulated upon the limits which he has set to<br /> his explorations in modern French fiction ; but<br /> limited knowledge is not a qualification for giving<br /> expert evidence. Perhaps it is not surprising that<br /> the gentleman, who drew comparisons so readily<br /> and condemned British authors in such terms, Sug-<br /> gested as a remedy for the evils which he had<br /> discovered what he described as “a small prohibi-<br /> tory board, either attached or unattached to the<br /> Home Office, before whom,” he added, “any publi-<br /> cation (and by publication I include pictures of all<br /> kinds, those mutoscope slides, and so on) may be<br /> cited, whose decision will be final in the case of<br /> improper publications of any description.” A<br /> “small board” of Home Office officials, or appointed<br /> by them, would thus be enabled to give a final<br /> decision on the “decency” or “indecency” of<br /> paragraphs in sporting weeklies, of matter appear-<br /> ing in French and English periodicals of the lowest<br /> class, and of novels and other books dealing with<br /> those problems of life and humanity which have<br /> never for the last century been approached seriously<br /> by any writer without raising an outcry from one<br /> quarter or another. The same “small board,”<br /> apparently, would have jurisdiction over foreign<br /> indecent photographs, over the ill-drawn and vulgar<br /> illustrations of “Silly Bits,” over “mutoscope’”<br /> exhibitions, and over the works of artists and<br /> academicians both British and foreign<br /> It may be observed in this connection that a<br /> police witness before the committee supplied a<br /> definition, or standard of indecency, established by<br /> the police in dealing with such questions of “art ’’<br /> as usually come before them. It is not necessary<br /> to question the usefulness of their test as applied<br /> by them for the purpose of suppressing photographs<br /> imported for sale to persons in search of the<br /> undesirable. It is one, however, which, if given<br /> wide application, might involve awkward conse-<br /> quences for any life school, including the classes<br /> of the Royal Academy, and although the “Small<br /> board ” of the Home Office might have a wider art<br /> training than that usually accorded to police<br /> inspectors, its decisions nevertheless might fail to<br /> meet with the approval and support of artists or of<br /> the educated public. Any such body would in fact<br /> be in a position analogous to that of the licenser of<br /> plays, and would be likely to learn that their findings<br /> were final in name only, and in respect of the<br /> possession of certain powers of suppression, of a<br /> limited character. They would not set at rest the<br /> questions involved, and they would be criticised,<br /> and possibly held up to contempt, by persons whose<br /> right to form and power to express their opinions<br /> would be undemiable.<br /> The committee, however, as might be expected,<br /> did not adopt this or any other such suggestion,<br /> and in recommending the simplification and con-<br /> Solidation of the law by means of a new Act, con-<br /> cluded their report with the following clause :<br /> “(46) A provision should also be inserted to<br /> exempt from the operation of the Act any book of<br /> literary merit or reputation, or any genuine work<br /> of art. The committee consider that it would be<br /> almost impossible to devise any definition which<br /> would cover this exception. In their opinion the<br /> decision in such cases should be left to the dis-<br /> Cretion of the magistrate ; but they believe that,<br /> if a provision such as they recommend were<br /> inserted in the Act, a magistrate would be enabled<br /> to take into consideration all the circumstances of<br /> the case, and would be free from a supposed obliga-<br /> tion merely to decide upon the decency or the<br /> indecency of the particular literary or artistic work<br /> brought to his notice.” There is, of course, a good<br /> deal of difference between a magistrate deciding on<br /> the criminality of a defendant charged before him<br /> (of which he is bound by law to satisfy himself<br /> beyond all reasonable doubt before he can convict<br /> and punish) and the exercise of editorial or cen-<br /> Sorial functions by any individual or body against<br /> whose decision there is no appeal.<br /> Literature and art are, however, not likely to<br /> figure often in the police courts even at the instance<br /> of puritans of the most aggressive type, and the<br /> legislation recommended by the joint committee is<br /> likely to affect authors and artists indirectly rather<br /> than directly, and in the manner suggested above.<br /> With regard to competitions held by or advertised<br /> in newspapers and other periodicals, the committee<br /> realised that limericks formed, as remarked by one<br /> of their witnesses, a phase only. They had been<br /> declared to be lotteries, moreover, by the Court of<br /> Appeal, although the decision seems to be one of<br /> doubtful efficiency so far as police prosecutions are<br /> concerned. They will, however, be robbed of their<br /> attractions, together with a great many other forms<br /> of competition, some of which have been conducted<br /> honestly and some with flagrant dishonesty, by an<br /> Act of Parliament carrying into effect the com-<br /> mittee&#039;s recommendation “that it should be<br /> made illegal for any proprietor, publisher, or editor<br /> of any newspaper or periodical to charge any form<br /> of entrance fee, including the purchase and return<br /> of coupons, for prize competitions in his paper.”<br /> They had had before them, by the way, considerable<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 53 (#69) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TISIES A UTHOR,<br /> 53.<br /> evidence as to the good faith with which the prizes<br /> were adjudged in the better-conducted of the papers<br /> which made use of them, and as to the degree of<br /> idiotcy manifested by the bulk of the competitors.<br /> One of those associated with the judging of such<br /> competitions gave it as the result of his experience<br /> that from 30 to 70 per cent. of the last lines sent<br /> in for limericks did not even rhyme. It is also<br /> interesting to note that a witness intimately con-<br /> nected with one of the large groups of newspapers,<br /> in some of which many limerick competitions<br /> have been held, declared himself as strongly dis-<br /> approving of them. The papers under his control<br /> had been compelled, he said, by the action of rival<br /> publications to go in for limericks also, as well as<br /> for other competitions for large prizes. He was<br /> of opinion, however, that competitions penalised<br /> papers of the better class. We may hope, there-<br /> fore, that we are within measurable distance of<br /> Seeing these tiresome adjuncts to journalism dis-<br /> appear, and to find that the newspapers and weekly<br /> publications which fight to maintain their circula-<br /> tion at a high level, do so with legitimate weapons,<br /> competing with one another in the provision of good<br /> reading matter and clever illustrations. It will<br /> assist them if other recommendations made by the<br /> committee are also carried into effect, and if in<br /> their endeavour to win popular appreciation and to<br /> catch the pennies of the multitude they are freed<br /> from rivalry of a kind even more demoralising<br /> and contrary to public policy than limericks,<br /> treasure hunts, and other “competitions.” The<br /> publication of indecent matter, or of that which<br /> borders on it, takes place chiefly in sporting<br /> weeklies, and in cheap illustrated weekly periodi-<br /> cals of the lowest class. We can all of us see them<br /> exposed for sale if we look in at the windows of<br /> small newspaper dealers in by-streets. And if we<br /> linger long enough we may see children of the<br /> errand-boy and work-girl class gloating over them, or<br /> entering to purchase them. We may wonder that<br /> they exist unpunished ; but their safety has lain in<br /> the cumbrousness of the law, which practically can<br /> deal with such a trade only by indictment. This<br /> involves an inquiry before a magistrate, committal<br /> for trial, and then trial before a jury, and a magis-<br /> trate may hesitate to commit for trial in cases<br /> where the matter published, although indecent and<br /> demoralising, can hardly be described as obscene.<br /> With regard to the procedure to be adopted in<br /> future, the committee suggest certain amended and<br /> improved definitions of punishable offences, and go<br /> on to recommend that those guilty of them shall<br /> be liable, in the case of a first offence, on summary<br /> conviction to a fine not exceeding £30 or imprison-<br /> ment not exceeding one month, and that for second<br /> or subsequent offences, or for the commission of<br /> any of the offences specified in transactions with<br /> Persons under sixteen years of age, to much more<br /> Severe penalties, which are only to be inflicted after<br /> conviction upon indictment. It may be added<br /> that the committee would have included in the<br /> subjects dealt with by a new statute all advertise-<br /> ments of books and pictures of an undesirable<br /> character, and that they recommend with regard to<br /> a particularly objectionable class of advertisement<br /> Which has hitherto gone scathless, that it should<br /> be comprehensively defined and made illegal. This,<br /> if carried into effect, would deprive a number of<br /> cheap periodicals of a very low class of the greater<br /> part of their advertisements, and thus hasten their<br /> extinction. It may be possible to be over-sanguine<br /> in such matters. Legislation may be delayed, or<br /> it may not be as effective as is anticipated. The<br /> tendency, however, of any Act of Parliament<br /> framed with a view to carrying into effect the<br /> recommendations made in the report commented<br /> upon above should be to purify and to improve<br /> the literature and illustrations provided for the<br /> enormous class of readers which modern educa-<br /> tional legislation has brought into being, and such<br /> improvement cannot be carried out without some<br /> measure of benefit to authors and artists.<br /> E. A. A.<br /> B00KS AT THE FRANCO-BRITISH<br /> EXHIBITHON.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> COMMISSION of catholic latitude to report<br /> on the books of the Exhibition took the writer<br /> into that wearisome succession of galleries<br /> that stretch their length from Shepherd&#039;s Bush to<br /> Wood Lane, through which no sane person passes<br /> twice except in a wheeled chair. The proportions<br /> of the British display were attenuated to a vanishing<br /> point. We discovered Cedric Chivers, the book-<br /> binder of Bath, the University Tutorial Press,<br /> the Religious Tract Society, and the Oxford<br /> University Press. The last-named alone arrived at,<br /> dignity and effect ; yet even it failed in arousing<br /> the delicate association of author and publisher<br /> which pervaded the French section. The English<br /> publisher is too predominant ; he seems to convey<br /> in some subtle manner that he is not only the pub-<br /> lisher of the book, but the illustrator and author as<br /> well. In vain the author exhibits his name in the<br /> fattest of type ; sense tells us that this is but an<br /> artifice ; it is only the publisher in disguise.<br /> The commercial side stands out in bold relief.<br /> Here is materialism : the dealing with figures and<br /> format. Thus, in the Oxford University Press<br /> exhibit, we must record how the books range from<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 54 (#70) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 54<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> a bijou edition, barely two inches high, to tomes of<br /> two feet ; how the rag paper and the India paper<br /> compare in book form, six volumes of the latter<br /> compressing into a space less by half than that<br /> occupied by six volumes of the former. Here is<br /> that prodigious and yet-to-be-completed work of<br /> Dr. Murray, “The New English Dictionary,”<br /> brought down to K, and already in five massive<br /> volumes. Here are cheap Bibles, illustrated in<br /> colour throughout ; Bibles great and small and<br /> bound in every imaginable way. Here is the 1623<br /> Shakespeare reproduced in collotype—marvellously,<br /> it need not be said. We remember the drawings of<br /> old masters at Oxford that Mr. Sydney Colvin<br /> collected last year into three volumes, and forthwith<br /> find them lying on a side-table. Among the<br /> bindings, a Browning catches the eye, inlaid and<br /> hand-tooled, with an almost severe design in gold,<br /> terra-cotta and blue on a green ground. It satisfies<br /> completely.<br /> We are confronted by the Religious Tract Society<br /> and a show of books in various African dialects.<br /> Imagine a “Pilgrim’s Progress” in Chinyana,<br /> Mrs. Mortimer’s “Peep of Day” in Nkondi, and a<br /> hymn-book in Fanti. This is certainly prodigious.<br /> “Our special features,” murmurs the attendant,<br /> “are these Nature books by W. Percival Westell,<br /> George Henslow, and others, also these two-shilling<br /> story-books for boys and girls, attractively bound<br /> and illustrated.” We hardly hear him, being<br /> hypnotised by the hymn-book in Fanti. Amazing !<br /> Cedric Chivers revives us. Commercialism and<br /> strange dialects fade before beautiful bindings,<br /> hand-tooled and hand-sewn. Excellent is his<br /> “vellucent system ’’ of rebinding old books repro-<br /> ducing in the covers the character and age of the title-<br /> page protected by transparent vellum. Excellent,<br /> also, is this transparent vellum in protecting inlaid<br /> and colour work on bindings. Artists, with their<br /> field of colour thus extended, incline to blaze some-<br /> what. Here and there is a shout and a subdued<br /> shriek. Miss Alice Shepherd, much of whose work<br /> is shown, is at her best in embossed leather designs,<br /> wherein she displays a quiet firm touch and a<br /> masterly omission of colour. We notice an edition<br /> of George Meredith in 52 volumes, bound in<br /> morocco with an illuminated panel differing on<br /> on each volume.<br /> How different is the section of France Repre-<br /> sentative, complete, compact ; science, the arts,<br /> romance. Hachette, Floury, Laven, de Rudeval,<br /> Plon-Nourrit, Carteret, and the rest. We have an<br /> assembly of worth. Mons. Jean H. Krüger,<br /> Représentant de la Libraire Française, courteous<br /> and illuminating, finds us before some exquisite<br /> Meissomier engravings and is our Virgil through<br /> these Blessed Aisles. He lays bare the treasures of<br /> his charge ; the whole spirit of the massed exhibit<br /> he conveys with a gesture of the finger. Also he<br /> deplores the apathy of the English publisher. How<br /> can there be a comparison 2 A thousand pities are<br /> expressed on both sides.<br /> But the colour-printing of France Take for<br /> instance these examples of the house of Floury,<br /> soft and exquisite. We handle some proof-sheets<br /> of “L’Ami Fritz,” the latest product of Louis<br /> Conard&#039;s press, with illustrations etched and hand-<br /> coloured to a marvel. Under the name of Edouard<br /> Pelletan one must remark an edition of Keats&#039;<br /> “On a Grecian Urn,” in English, with a prose<br /> translation by Anatole France. Mons. Béllery<br /> des Fontaines’ designs and decorations, it seems,<br /> illustrate—nor can one wonder—Anatole France<br /> more than Keats. The border decoration in black<br /> and terra-cotta suggests Etruscan rather than<br /> Greek art.<br /> In the show-case of L. Carteret is a little slim<br /> copy of the “Sylvie’’ of Gerard de Nerval, and<br /> already one is -<br /> “Au fond du ciel bleu<br /> Oü elles chantant les louanges<br /> De la Mère de Dieu.”<br /> Behind it are three stately volumes, tooled and<br /> resplendent. They are “Le Rouge et le Noir&quot; of<br /> Stendhal. How is it this art of our ally is so<br /> stimulating, so suggestive, while the extent of<br /> British literature in visible form leaves one<br /> Cold 2 -<br /> The next case, bearing the name of Conard,<br /> holds “Les Nuits’ of Alfred de Musset in the<br /> plain paper binding that proclaims the French<br /> reader a man of sense. Imagine an Englishman<br /> buying expensive volumes in such a dress Snort-<br /> ing, he demands a cover ; whereas the man of<br /> France will spend five animated hours in consulta-<br /> tion with his bookbinder. Under a great arched<br /> stand the house of Hachette reveals itself, and<br /> across the way the photographs of Sélinonte mark<br /> the stall of Chas. Schmid—“Sélinonte : Colonie<br /> Dorienne en Sicile,” by L. J. Hulot and G.<br /> Fougères—the author and the artist—the greatest<br /> work the house of Schmid has issued for years.<br /> We recall the picture of Sélinonte being exhibited<br /> at the Piccadilly Galleries.<br /> For the credit of Plon-Nourrit et Cie “Les<br /> Antiquités Judaique et le peintre Jean Foucquet ’’<br /> must be mentioned, with reproductions in hélio-<br /> gravure and phototype that are among the best<br /> things done by this well-known house. Marcel<br /> Rivière, Belin Frères, Colin, Laven — can we<br /> mention them all P<br /> It is impossible. Besides, the Franco-British<br /> Exhibition is now no more.<br /> Z.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 55 (#71) ##############################################<br /> <br /> TFIES ACTTFIOR. 55<br /> CONTEMPORARY CRITICISMS.—IX.<br /> —º-º-º-<br /> POEMIS BY ALFRED TENNYSON, PP. 163, LONDON,<br /> 12MO., 1833.<br /> THIS is, as some of his marginal notes intimate,<br /> Mr. Tennyson&#039;s second appearance. By some<br /> strange chance we have never seen his first publica-<br /> tion, which, if it at all resembles its younger<br /> brother, must be by this time so popular that any<br /> notice of it on our part would seem idle and pre-<br /> sumptuous; but we gladly sieze this opportunity<br /> of repairing an unintentional neglect, and of intro-<br /> ducing to the admiration of our more sequestered<br /> readers a new prodigy of genius—another and a<br /> brighter star of that galaxy or milky way of poetry<br /> of which the lamented Keats was the harbinger<br /> . . . . We have to offer Mr. Tennyson our tribute<br /> of unmingled approbation, and it is very agreeable<br /> to us, as well as to our readers, that our present<br /> task will be little more than the selection, for their<br /> delight, of a few specimens of Mr. Tennyson&#039;s<br /> singular genius, and the venturing to point out,<br /> now and then, the peculiar brilliancy of some of<br /> the gems that irradiate his poetical crown.<br /> A prefatory sonnet opens to the reader the<br /> aspirations of the young author, in which, after<br /> the manner of Sundry poets, ancient and modern,<br /> he expresses his own peculiar character by wishing<br /> to be something that he is not . . . . Mr. Tenny-<br /> son (though he, too, would, as far as his true-love<br /> is concerned, not unwillingly be “an earring,” “a<br /> girdle,” and “a necklace,” p. 45) in the more serious<br /> and solemn exordium of his works ambitions a<br /> bolder metamorphosis—he wishes to be—a river !<br /> “Mine be the strength of spirit fierce and free,<br /> Like Some broad river rushing down alone *-<br /> Rivers that travel in company are too common for<br /> his taste . . . .<br /> The next piece is a kind of testamentary paper,<br /> addressed “To ——,” a friend, we presume, con-<br /> taining his wishes as to what his friend should<br /> do for him when he (the poet) shall be dead<br /> . . . . Horace said “non omnis moriar,” meaning<br /> that his fame should survive — Mr. Tennyson<br /> is still more vivacious, “non omnine moriar ”—<br /> “I will not die at all ; my body shall be as immortal<br /> as my verse, and however low I may go, I warrant<br /> you I shall keep all my wits about me, therefore<br /> “When, in the darkness over me,<br /> The four-handed mole shall scrape,<br /> l’lant thou no dusky cypress tree,<br /> Nor wreath thy cap with doleful crape,<br /> But pledge me in the flowing grape.”<br /> Observe how all ages become present to the mind<br /> of a great poet ; and admire how naturally he com-<br /> bipes the funereal cypress of classical antiquity<br /> With the crape hatband of the modern undertaker.<br /> He proceeds:– . . . . * *.<br /> “Then let wise Nature work her will,<br /> And on my clay her darnels grow,<br /> Come only when the days are still,<br /> And at my head-stone whisper low,<br /> And tell me?”—<br /> Now, what would an ordinary bard wish to be<br /> told under such circumstances 2—why, perhaps,<br /> how his sweetheart was, or his child, or his family,<br /> or how the Reform Bill worked, or whether the last<br /> edition of the poems had been sold—papa, our<br /> genuine poet&#039;s first wish is,<br /> “And tell me—if the wood-bines blow / &quot;<br /> When, indeed, we shall have been satisfied as to<br /> the wood-bines (of the blowing of which in their<br /> due season he may, we think, feel pretty secure),<br /> he turns a passing thought to his friend, and<br /> another to his mother—<br /> “If thou art blest, my mother&#039;s smile undimmed.”<br /> But such inquiries, short as they are, seem too<br /> Commonplace, and he immediately glides back into<br /> his curiosity as to the state of the weather and the<br /> forwardness of the spring—<br /> “If thou art blessed—my mother&#039;s smile<br /> Undimmed—if the bees are on the wing.”<br /> No ; we believe the whole circle of poetry does<br /> not furnish such another instance of enthusiasm for<br /> the sights and sounds of the vernal season . The<br /> Sorrows of a bereaved mother rank after the blossoms<br /> of the 2000d-line, and just before the hummings of<br /> the bees and this is all that he has any curiosity<br /> about ; for he proceeds<br /> “Then cease, my friend, a little while<br /> That I may ”—<br /> “send my love to my mother,” or, “give you some<br /> hints about bees which I have picked up from<br /> Aristaeus, in the Elysian Fields,” or, “tell you<br /> how I am situated as to my own personal comforts<br /> in the world below * 2–Oh no—<br /> “That I may—hear the throstle sing<br /> His bridal song—the boast of spring.”<br /> “Sweet as the noise, in parchèd plains,<br /> Of bubbling wells that fret the stones,<br /> (If any sense in me remains),<br /> Thy words will be-thy cheerful tones,<br /> As welcome to—my crumbling bones | *—p. 4.<br /> “If any sense in me remains &quot; &quot; This doubt is<br /> inconsistent with the opening stanza of the piece,<br /> and, in fact, too modest ; we take upon ourselves<br /> to reassure Mr. Tennyson that, even after he shall<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 56 (#72) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 56<br /> TFIES A DITFIOR.<br /> be dead and buried, as much “sense ’’ will still<br /> remain as he has now the good fortune to<br /> pOSSess. . . .<br /> We cannot afford space—we wish we could—for<br /> an equally minute examination of the rest of the<br /> volume, but we shall make a few extracts to show,<br /> what we solemnly affirm, that every page teems<br /> with beauties hardly less surprising. . . .<br /> We pass by several songs, sonnets, and small<br /> pieces, all of singular merit, to arrive at a class, we<br /> may call them, of three poems derived from<br /> mythological sources — CEnone, the Hesperides,<br /> and the Lotos-eaters. But, though the subjects are<br /> derived from classical antiquity, Mr. Tennyson<br /> treats them with so much originality that he makes<br /> them exclusively his own. CEnone, deserted by<br /> “Beautiful Paris, evil-hearted Paris.”<br /> sings a kind of dying soliloquy addressed to Mount<br /> Ida, in a formula which is sixteen times repeated in<br /> this short poem,<br /> “Dear Mother Ida, hearken ere I die.”<br /> . . . [The “Hesperides”] opens with a geographi-<br /> cal description of the neighbourhood which must<br /> be very clear and satisfactory to the English reader;<br /> indeed, it leaves far behind in accuracy of topo-<br /> graphy and melody of rhythm the heroics of<br /> Dionysius Perieſ/etés.<br /> “The north wind fall’n, in the new-starred night.”<br /> Here we must pause to observe a new species of<br /> metabolé with which Mr. Tennyson has enriched<br /> our language. He suppresses the E in fallen, where<br /> it is usually written and where it must be pro-<br /> nounced, and transfers it to the word new-starréd,<br /> where it would not be pronounced if he did not<br /> take due care to superfix a grave accent. The use<br /> of this grave accent is, as our readers may have<br /> already perceived, so habitual with Mr. Tennyson,<br /> and is so obvious an improvement, that we really<br /> wonder how the language has hitherto done without<br /> it. We are tempted to suggest, that if analogy to<br /> the accented languages is to be thought of, it is<br /> rather the acute (&#039;) than the grave () which should<br /> be employed on such occasions; but we speak with<br /> profound diffidence ; and as Mr. Tennyson is the<br /> inventor of the system, we shall bow with respect to<br /> whatever his final determination may be. . . .<br /> (UNSIGNED).<br /> The Quarterly Review, April, 1833.<br /> Vote.—Owing to the length and form of this famous<br /> review, it is impossible to reprint more than a ragged<br /> extract, sufficient to show the flavour.—[ED.]<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> –0-0-0--<br /> PENSION FUND.<br /> SIR,-With reference to previous letters on this<br /> subject, I should like to point out what seems to<br /> me a forcible objection to a compulsory pension<br /> fund. 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