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417	https://historysoa.com/items/show/417	The Author, Vol. 21 Issue 05 (February 1911)	<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+21+Issue+05+%28February+1911%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 21 Issue 05 (February 1911)</a>			<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a>								<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a>	1911-02-01-The-Author-21-5					103–128																		<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=21">21</a>											<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1911-02-01">1911-02-01</a>							5			19110201	The Author.<br /> (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br /> Vol. XXI.- No. 5.<br /> FE<br /> FEBRUARY 1, 1911.<br /> (PRICE SIXPENCE<br /> CONTENTS.<br /> Notices<br /> The Society&#039;s Funds . .<br /> List of Members ...<br /> The Pension Fund<br /> Committee Notes<br /> Books published by Members<br /> Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br /> Paris Notes ...<br /> Copyrigbt Legislation in U.S.A.<br /> Licence to Copy Photographs<br /> Libel in a Novel ... ... ...<br /> Magazine Contents<br /> How to Use the Society<br /> Warnings to Producers of Books ...<br /> Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br /> PAGE<br /> 103<br /> 103<br /> 103<br /> 104<br /> 105<br /> 108<br /> 109<br /> 112<br /> 114<br /> 115<br /> 116<br /> 116<br /> 117<br /> 117<br /> 117<br /> Registration of Scenarios and Musical Plays<br /> Dramatic Authors and Agents<br /> Warnings to Musical Composers<br /> Stamping Music ....<br /> The Reading Branch<br /> Remittances<br /> General Notes ...<br /> Music-hall and Theatrical Sketches...<br /> Copyright Convention of Pan-American Congress at Buenos<br /> Aires ...<br /> Thackeray and The Newgate School of Fiction ...<br /> The United States Copyright Register ...<br /> Some American Writers<br /> Correspondence ...<br /> PAGE<br /> 118<br /> 118<br /> 118<br /> 118<br /> 118<br /> 118<br /> 119<br /> 120<br /> 122<br /> 123<br /> 126<br /> 126<br /> 127<br /> PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br /> 1. 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XXI.<br /> LIST OF MEMBERS.<br /> M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br /> 1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br /> at the offices of the Society at the price of<br /> 6d., post free 7d. 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 /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 104 (#150) ############################################<br /> <br /> 104<br /> THE AUTHOR.<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 /> • •<br /> THE PENSION FUND.<br /> £ s d.<br /> Nov. 11, Parry, Sir Hubert<br /> 1 1 0<br /> Nov. 17, Coben, Mrs. Herbert . . 0 10 6<br /> Dec. 8, De Morgan, William . . 1 1 0<br /> Dec. 9, Sproston, Samuel.<br /> 1 1 0<br /> Dec. 9, George, W. L. ... . 010 0<br /> Dec. 12, Clifton, Mrs. .<br /> 0 100<br /> Dec. 21, Scoon, W. 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G. . .025<br /> Dec. 28, “ Olivia Ramsay ” . .<br /> 1911.<br /> Jan. 2, Northcote, The Rev. H.. . 0 5&quot;|<br /> Jan. 2, Mackenzie, Miss J.<br /> Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur H.. . 11<br /> Jan. 3, Wasteneys, Lady. . 03<br /> 3<br /> 3<br /> Total ............... £4,065<br /> 6<br /> 0<br /> 0 10 6<br /> Subscriptions.<br /> 1910.<br /> July 15, Steveni, William Barnes<br /> Oct. 6, Graham, Capt. Harry<br /> Nov. 6, Capes, Mrs. Marion .<br /> Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden.<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> £ $. d.<br /> 0. 5 0.<br /> 1 1 0<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 0 5 0<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 105 (#151) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 105<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> · ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> P<br /> .<br /> .<br /> · ·<br /> Jan. 6, Blake J<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> orco Eero<br /> · ·<br /> £ 8. d. question of set-off in the publisher&#039;s account.<br /> Jan. 4, P. H. and M. K. .<br /> 2 2 0 Counsel advised that he did not think any special<br /> Jan. 4, Randall, F. J. .<br /> 1 1 0 principle was involved, as the case would have to<br /> Jan. 5, W. . .<br /> 0 10 6 be decided on ipsissima verba of this particular<br /> Jan. 5, Crellin, H. N.<br /> 0 5 0 contract. Accordingly, the committee instructed<br /> Jan. 5, S. F. G.. .<br /> • 0 10 0 the secretary to report counsel&#039;s opinion to the<br /> author concerned, and regretted that they were<br /> Jan, 7, Douglas, James A. .<br /> 0 unable to take the matter further.<br /> Jan. 9, Grisewood, Norman<br /> 0 5 0 In the next case, which was a question of the<br /> Jan. 10, Wharton, Leonard C. . . ( 10 0 right of a publisher to insert advertisements in<br /> Jan. 12, Tanner, James T.. .. . 3 3 0 an author&#039;s book without his consent, the committee<br /> Jan. 16, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila . 0 5 0 decided to take counsel&#039;s opinion, as this habit of<br /> Jan. 17, Kemp, Miss Emily G. . . 1 1 0 advertising without reference to the author was<br /> on the increase, and the committee considered the<br /> present example before them a good test case on<br /> which to obtain advice.<br /> COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> The difficulties which started the next case were<br /> as follows:<br /> A father, during his son&#039;s infancy and on his<br /> MHE first meeting of the Committee of Manage- behalf, entered into an agreement for the publication<br /> I ment for the year 1911 was held at the of his son&#039;s first book. This book had been<br /> offices of the society on Monday, January 9, practically out of print and dead for a long time.<br /> ut four o&#039;clock.<br /> Another publisher had obtained an assignment<br /> Twenty-five members were elected, and the com- of this contract, and proposed to bring out a new<br /> pittee accepted with regret the resignation of edition of the work in direct opposition to the<br /> wenty-seven ; the number of both the elections author&#039;s wishes.<br /> ind resignations are about on an average with Similar difficulties have not infrequently arisen<br /> hat of previous years. The names of the new in years past, the publisher&#039;s aim being clearly to<br /> members are chronicled on another page.<br /> gain money on the advanced reputation of an<br /> Cases. The committee then considered a series of author. In some cases the author had been unable<br /> egal cases which had collected since the last meeting to take any step, and had to endure the republica-<br /> The first dispute under discussion arose out of a tion of his juvenile efforts without any public and<br /> question of account. It was so uncertain, owing to definite statement from the publisher setting out<br /> be vagueness of the contract between the author the facts. In consequence the public were led to<br /> ind the publisher, what view a judge and jury think that the book was a new issue. But this<br /> night take, that the committee decided further was not the only damage an author might suffer.<br /> iction was inadvisable at present, especially taking Such re-publication olten upset an author&#039;s existing<br /> nto account the fact that after the sale of a further contrats, and might also check considerably the<br /> 100 copies of the book, which was still selling, the circulation of his later books. The committee<br /> atbor&#039;s demand would be quite clear. The considered that it was of the greatest importance<br /> ecretary was accordingly instructed to write to the to stop a case of this kind if it were possible to<br /> rathor, advising him to wait.<br /> do so, and, as it appeared that there might be a<br /> In the next case a publisher had failed on one chance owing to the peculiarity of the terms of the<br /> r two occasions to provide the author&#039;s volume contract, they decided to take counsel&#039;s opinion,<br /> when an order was sent in, returning the answer and further, if counsel&#039;s opinion was in favour of<br /> &quot;Out of print.” The committee decided that, if the action, to take up an action to stop the re-publi-<br /> lathor was content to claim damages in accordance cation.<br /> with the advice of the society&#039;s solicitors, the The secretary then reported that the chairman<br /> lociety would take the matter up. If, however, the during the month had given leave to take action in<br /> uthor desired to claim damages in accordance with the Dublin Courts in a case of infringement of<br /> the statement now laid before the committee, they copyright by an Irish paper. The committee con-<br /> lelt it their duty to refuse to take the matter firmed the sanction given by the chairman, The<br /> fortber, as the case would fail, the claim for damages secretary stated that the matter was being carried<br /> being too remote.<br /> on satisfactorily, and would most probably be settled<br /> At the last meeting of the committee it very shortly, as the defendant had confessed to the<br /> had been decided to take counsel&#039;s opinion infringement.<br /> in the next dispute. This opinion was read . The secretary also reported that in another case<br /> by the secretary. The cause of action was a of infringement of copyright the infringement had<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 106 (#152) ############################################<br /> <br /> 106<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> been acknowledged. This also would be settled as to be laid before Parliament were in harmony on<br /> soon as a satisfactory arrangement between the the main issues, and suggested that it might there-<br /> parties could be come to on the question of fore be worth while to have a joint committee<br /> damages.<br /> ready to take action when the Bill was passing<br /> The next question dealt with an infringement of through Parliament. It was quite clear, under<br /> dramatic copyright. It was found, however, when the present organisation, if each body had to report<br /> the society commenced investigation, that the back to its own committee the opportunity of<br /> alleged infringement had taken place under an taking action through members of Parliament, by<br /> authority given by the author&#039;s agent. The author opposing or proposing certain measures, might be<br /> allowed the authority to stand, deciding to settle lost. The secretary mentioned that he had sog.<br /> the matter himself with his agent.<br /> gested the idea to Mr. Heinemann, who had<br /> The next was also a dramatic case, and the approved it on behalf of the Publishers&#039; Association.<br /> secretary was able to report that the case had been The committee adopted the suggestion, and<br /> settled satisfactorily, and read a letter from the nominated, subject to their consent, Sir Charles<br /> author giving her thanks to the society for the Villiers Stanford to represent the composers, Sir<br /> action it had taken.<br /> Arthur Pinero to represent the dramatists, and Mr.<br /> The last was another dramatic case, and another MacGillivray and the secretary to represent the<br /> infringement of performing rights. Again, as it Copyright Sub-Committee. The secretary was also<br /> might have been necessary to bring an action instructed to write to the Copyright Association<br /> for an injunction, the chairman had given his and to the Publishers&#039; Association, and carry out<br /> leave to place the matter in the hands of the the points he had proposed.<br /> solicitors. This action the committee now con Certain issues regarding the legal work of the<br /> firmed. Tbe secretary was able to report that society and the society&#039;s solicitors were again<br /> the matter was virtually settled, the defendant discussed, and the matter was adjourned to the<br /> giving an undertaking not to play the piece February meeting.<br /> again.<br /> A suggestion that membership to the society<br /> One or two important points with regard to the should be made compulsory, on election, for 070<br /> production of sketches in music-halls, brought years, as was the case in the Italian Society of<br /> forward by one of the dramatic authors of the Authors, was rejected by the committee.<br /> society, were laid before the committee by the A hearty vote of thanks was unanimously passed<br /> secretary, and the committee decided to take to Mr. Douglas Freshfield for his work, both as<br /> counsel&#039;s opinion.<br /> committeeman and chairman of the committee,<br /> The other matters were taken in the following since 1897. Mr. Hewlett, as present chairman of<br /> order :-<br /> the cominittee, undertook to convey the resolution<br /> The committee instructed the secretary to pre- to Mr. Freshfield.<br /> pare a specimen draft agreement, as between agent The secretary reported that three members had<br /> and author, for the marketing of an author&#039;s taken up life membership, and finally, that &amp;<br /> literary wares, which agreement would be settled donation of 10s. had been made by Miss Dorothy<br /> at a subsequent meeting of the committee. They Fox to the Capital Fund of the society.<br /> instructed the secretary to take this course, follow-<br /> ing in the footsteps of the Dramatic Sub-Committee,<br /> who had already drafted a similar agreement for<br /> dealing with dramatic property.<br /> DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> A special sub-committee was appointed to settle<br /> I.<br /> the report for last year, which report will be placed<br /> before the members at the general meeting.<br /> A MEETING of the Dramatic Sub-Committee of<br /> The date for the return of the votes for the the Society of Authors was held at the offices of<br /> election of members to the committee was settled. the society on January 10th. The first business<br /> The date of the general meeting, and the place after the signing of the minutes was the report ou<br /> where it will be held, were provisionally settled. the theatrical cases that were in the hands of the<br /> These items will all be placed before the members solicitors of the society since the last meeting.<br /> of the society either through The Author or by The secretary mentioned that two cases had to<br /> circular.<br /> be dealt with without previous reference to the<br /> The secretary reported that at the meeting of Dramatic Sub-Committee, as it might have been<br /> the Copyright Sub-Committee with the Publishers&#039; necessary to take immediate action and apply<br /> Association and the Copyright Association, it for an injunction. He stated that the defendants<br /> appeared that all the reports sent in to the Board in one case, after having received a communica-<br /> of Trade dealing with the Copyright Bill sbortly tion from the society&#039;s solicitors, had shown a<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 107 (#153) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 107<br /> licence obtained from the agents of the dramatist sisting of some dramatists and the chief officials of<br /> of which the dramatist was ignorant. The the Authors&#039; Society.<br /> matter accordingly had to be dropped, and the Another meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br /> dramatist decided to settle the issues with his mittee was then called for Thursday, the 26th inst..<br /> agent. In the other case the defendant had to decide upon the constitution of such deputation,<br /> acknowledged infringement, and had given an and the form in which the Home Secretary should<br /> undertaking not to deal illegally with the member&#039;s be approached.<br /> property again. The third case, which was a threat The secretary then laid before the sub-committee<br /> by the defendant to infringe the member&#039;s rights, the petition as settled by counsel, together with<br /> the secretary reported had been settled satisfac- counsel&#039;s opinion on the papers submitted to him,<br /> torily, the member thanking the society for the and after some slight discussion the petition was<br /> work it had done.<br /> agreed to. It was decided that it should be en-<br /> The next matter for discussion was the question grossed and sent to all the members of the Dramatic<br /> of the production of sketches in music halls. Sub-Committee for signature, and forwarded to<br /> After careful consideration it was decided to put the Lord Chamberlain at the earliest possible<br /> the whole matter before counsel, with an instruc- opportunity.<br /> tion to settle a petition to be presented to the<br /> Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Dramatic Sub-<br /> Cases.<br /> Committee of the society. The secretary was<br /> instructed to take the matter in hand at once, SINCE the last issue of The Author there have<br /> and the Sub-Committee decided to meet on been only eleven fresh cases in the hands of the<br /> Tuesday, the 17th, to discuss the petition thus secretary. Four of these deal with the return of<br /> settled.<br /> MSS. ; two of them have ended satisfactorily, one<br /> The secretary reported that the Committee of refers to a matter in Germany, and, in consequence,<br /> Management had decided to take counsel&#039;s opinion will occupy some time in settlement, and the othe<br /> on two important points affecting the representa has only just come into the office.<br /> tion of dramatic property in music-halls, and the Of the three claims for money one has been<br /> Dramatic Sub-Committee gave their approval to satisfactorily settled ; the remaining two reached<br /> the action taken by the Committee of Management. the office a few days before the magazine went to<br /> press.<br /> II.<br /> Of the three claims for accounts and money two<br /> have been settled, and the other is still in course<br /> of negotiation.<br /> The last case referred to the settlement of an<br /> agreement. The terms put forward have now<br /> been accepted.<br /> THE Dramatic Sub-Committee of the society<br /> met again at the offices of the society on Tuesday,<br /> January 17th, in order to discuss and settle finally<br /> the petition to the Lord Chamberlain which had<br /> been drafted by counsel. The secretary opened<br /> the proceedings by reading the correspondence<br /> that had passed between the chairman, Sir Arthur<br /> Pinero, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in regard<br /> to the matter of the agreement between the<br /> theatrical and music-ball managers dealing with<br /> the question of the production of sketches in<br /> music-halls. Mr. Cecil Raleigh mentioned that<br /> he had heard indirectly, but upon good authority,<br /> that the chairman of the West End Managers&#039;<br /> e West End Managers:<br /> Association was urging upon the Theatrical<br /> Managers&#039; Association the advisability of striking<br /> ont of the agreement alluded to the clause affecting<br /> the rights of authors. In order thoroughly to<br /> defend the position of authors, however, Mr.<br /> Raleigh pointed out it was very necessary for<br /> authors to support the Bill relating to public<br /> amusements which Mr. Robert Harcourt shortly<br /> intended to lay before Parliament. To this end,<br /> it was deemed desirable that the Home Secretary<br /> should be invited to receive a deputation, con-<br /> Elections.<br /> Anstey, Mre. Helen . . 45, New Bond Street,<br /> W.<br /> Balfour, John Alexander. &quot; Victoria Hall,&quot;<br /> Byculla, Bombay,<br /> India.<br /> Bates, Albert Bonsteel . Credit Lyonnais,<br /> Paris.<br /> Blundell, Miss Alice . 42, Powis Square, W.<br /> Dart, Miss Edith .. The Orchard, Credi-<br /> ton, Devon.<br /> Edginton, Miss May . Merris Court, near<br /> Chipping Norton.<br /> Fletcher Banister . . 29, New Bridge<br /> Street, E.C.<br /> Gilfillan, Allen Daintree. Hampden Club,<br /> Phenix Street,<br /> N.W.<br /> Glancey, M. E. . . 7, Queen&#039;s Road,<br /> Tunbridge Wells.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 108 (#154) ############################################<br /> <br /> 108<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Hill, W. Neave . . 49, Dover Street,<br /> Piccadilly, W.<br /> Iliowizi, Henry . . 63, Collingwood<br /> Avenue, Muswell<br /> Hill, N.<br /> Kemp, Emily G.<br /> Knight, E. F. . . Yorick Club, 30,<br /> Bedford Street, W.<br /> Lawrence, T.J. . . Upton Lovel Rectory,<br /> * Wilts.<br /> Lindemann, Miss Linda. Sidholme, Sidmouth.<br /> Maud, Mrs. Dorothy . 10, Pelham Street, S.W.<br /> ary, Robert E. i . c/o Messrs. Curtis,<br /> Brown and Massie,<br /> 5, Henrietta Street,<br /> W.C.<br /> Scott-James, R. A. . 15, Porchester Gar-<br /> dens, W.<br /> Simpson, Horace J. - Beech Hill Cottage,<br /> Bury St. Edmunds.<br /> Wanless, M. V. , . c/o English, Scottish<br /> and Australian<br /> Bank, 38, Lombard<br /> Street, E.C.<br /> Wentworth, C. L. G.<br /> Wilson, Lady A. C. Ochilview, Crieff,<br /> N.B.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> SOUVENIR OF “ THE BLUE BIRD.&quot; By HERBERT TRENCH.<br /> 84 x 11. John Long. 6d. n.<br /> THE MADRAS HOUSE: A Comedy in Four Acts. By<br /> GRANVILLE BARKER. 74 x 44. 144 pp. Sidgwick &amp;<br /> Jackson. 1s. 6d. n.<br /> A MESSAGE FROM THE GODs. By MELCHIOR MACBRIDE.<br /> 74 x 5. Hunter &amp; Longhurst. 18. 6d. n.<br /> EARLY PLAYS FROM THE ITALIAN. Edited, with Essay.<br /> Introduction, and Notes, by R. WARWICK BOND. 72<br /> x 51. 332 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. London :<br /> Frowde. 78. 60, n.<br /> MID-CHANNEL. A Play in Four Acts. By ABTHUR<br /> PINERO. 68 x 5. 351 pp. Heinemann. ls. 6d.<br /> LUCILLA. A Drama in Three Scenes. By SIR EDWARD<br /> DURAND. 72 pp. Doherty &amp; Co., 6, Great Newport<br /> Street, W.C.<br /> EDUCATION<br /> A PROGRAMME OF EDUCATION. By NASAWANJI JIVANJI<br /> READYMONEY. Bombay : “ Times &quot; Press.<br /> FICTION.<br /> BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br /> WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br /> this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br /> some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br /> that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the effice<br /> by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br /> largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br /> other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br /> co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br /> particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br /> accurate.<br /> ART.<br /> SELECTED EXAMPLES OF INDIAN ART. By A. K.<br /> COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc. Containing 40 Coloured and<br /> Collotype Plates of Indian Painting and Sculpture, either<br /> bound or in portfolio form, and with Introduction and<br /> Notes by the Author. Quaritch. €3 38.<br /> INDIAN DRAWINGS. By A. K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc.<br /> A Study of the Studies of Indian Artists of the Mughal<br /> and Rajput Schools. With 29 Collotype Plates and many<br /> Line Drawings in the Text. Probst bain &amp; Co. Great<br /> Russell Street. 258.<br /> ESSAYS ON THE PURPOSE OF ART. Past and Present<br /> Creeds of English Painters. By MRS. RUSSELL<br /> BARRINGTON. 9 x 6. 421 pp. Longmans. 128. 6d. n.<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> MRS. E. M. WARD&#039;S REMINISCENCES. Edited by ELLIOT<br /> O&#039;DONNELL. 93 x 6. 296 pp. Pitman. 128. 6d. 1.<br /> BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br /> LITERARY YEAR BOOK AND BOOKMAN&#039;S DIRECTORY.<br /> Edited by BASIL STEWART. 74 x 43.927 pp. Rout-<br /> ledge. 68. n.<br /> A DRAMA OF THE TELEPHONE. By RICHARD MARSH.<br /> 7} x 5. 318 pp. Digby Long. 68.<br /> PAM THE FIDDLER. By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE. 74 x<br /> 5. 379 pp. Werner Laurie. 6s.<br /> DOWN OUR STREET. A Provincial Comedy. By J. E.<br /> BUCKROSE. 74 X 5. 352 pp. Mills &amp; Boon, 68.<br /> CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN Hoof. By ALBERT DORRING-<br /> TON. 78 X 5. 316 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 68.<br /> GILEAD BALM. By BERNARD CAPES. 74 x 5. 320 pp.<br /> Fisher Unwin. 6s.<br /> PHYLLIDA. By THOMAS COBB. 74 x 5. 312 pp. Mills<br /> &amp; Boon. 68.<br /> THE NEW MACHIAVELLI. By H. G. WELLS. 74 x 5.<br /> 528 pp. Lane. 68.<br /> THE MARRIAGE OF COUNT MALORTO. By D. HUGH<br /> PRYCE. 8 x 5. 311 pp. Everett. 68.<br /> THE MATING OF ANTHEA. By ARABELLA KENEALY.<br /> 73 x 5. 352 pp. John Long. 68.<br /> THE RIDING MASTER. BY DOLF WYLLARDE. 8 x 5.<br /> 354 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br /> THE OTHER WIFE. By OLIVIA RAMSEY. 73 X 5.<br /> 320 pp. John Long. 68.<br /> SELF AND THE OTHER. By VICTORIA CROSS. 71 x 5.<br /> 303 pp. Werner Laurie. 68.<br /> A PRIESTESS OF HUMANITY. By MRS. STANLEY<br /> WRENCH. 73 x 5. 319 pp. John Long. 6s.<br /> NATURE&#039;S LADY. By EDMUND LEE. 73 x 5. 288 pp.<br /> Digby Long. 68.<br /> IN WASTE PLACES. By MRS. C. L. WOOLLASTON WHITE.<br /> 7 x 5. 246 pp. Barnet : St. Andrews Press.<br /> THE QUAKER GIRL. By HAROLD SIMPSON. 71 x 5.<br /> 255 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 18. n.<br /> THE DEUCE AND ALL. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH.<br /> 298 pp. The Equinox, 124, Victoria Street, S.W.<br /> 38. 6d. n.<br /> THE HISTORY OF A SOUL. An Attempt at Psychology.<br /> By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH, 296 pp. The Equinos,<br /> 124, Victoria Street, S.W.<br /> ON THE LOOSE. By GEORGE RAFFalovich, The Equinox.<br /> 124, Victoria Street, S.W. 18. n.<br /> IN WASTE PLACES. By Mrs. C. L. WOOLLASTON WHITE.<br /> 74 x 51. With Illustrations. 250 pp. Barnet : St.<br /> Andrews Press. 38. n.<br /> Doctor GREY. By STEPHEN ANDREW. 71 X 5. 320 pp.<br /> Greening. 68.<br /> A CORN OF WHEAT. By E. H. Young. Heinemann. Gs.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 109 (#155) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 109<br /> JUVENILE.<br /> THE GOLDEN BOOK OF YOUTH : Noble Deeds of Boys<br /> and Girls. By A. B. BARNARD, L.L.A. Pilgrim Press.<br /> 35. 6d. n.<br /> MEDICAL<br /> ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY. BY SIR VICTOR<br /> HORSLEY, M.D., and MARY D. STURGE, M.D. 7 X 48.<br /> 290 pp. Macmillan. 18. n.<br /> PHYSIOLOGY THE SERVANT OF MEDICINE : Chloroform in<br /> the Laboratory and in the Hospital : being the Hitch-<br /> cock Lectures for 1909, delivered at the University of<br /> California, Berkeley, Cal. By AUGUSTUS D. WALLER,<br /> M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Physiological<br /> Laboratory of the University of London. London: The<br /> University of London Press. Hodder &amp; Stoughton, War.<br /> wick Square, E.C. 58. n.<br /> SCIENCE.<br /> SCIENCE OF HISTORY OR SCIENCE OF NATURE HISTORY,<br /> A Line of Study for Assigning Places to all Events in<br /> Creation in order of time, showing their Genesis, which<br /> define themselves. By NASAWANJI JIVANJI READY-<br /> MONEY. Bombay : “ Times of India&quot; Office. London<br /> Office, 121, Fleet Street, E.C.<br /> SOCIOLOGY.<br /> REGENERATION. Being an Account of the Social<br /> Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain.<br /> By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 78 X 51. 264 pp. Long-<br /> mans. 25. 6d. n.<br /> BROTHER EAST AND BROTHER WEST : A Searchlight<br /> on the Unemployed. By CONSTANCE MARRIOTT.<br /> Heinemann. 38. 6d.<br /> THEOLOGY.<br /> CHRIST IN THE CHURCH. A Volume of Religious Essays,<br /> By ROBERT Hugh BENSON. 78 X 54. 221 pp. Long-<br /> mans. 38, 60, n.<br /> REUNION AND ROME. By the REV. PERCY DEARMER.<br /> Mowbray. 18. 6d.<br /> EGYPT AND ISRAEL. By W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE.<br /> 74 x 5. 150 pp. S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.<br /> THEOLOGY FOR PARENTS. By EIRENE WIGRAM. 8 x 51.<br /> 181 pp. Mowbray.<br /> THE BOOK OF PEACE. Made by PAMELA TENNANT. 8 X 6..<br /> 124 pp. Chiswick Press. 6s. n.<br /> MILITARY.<br /> THE MATABELE CAMPAIGN. By LIEUT.-GEN. SIR<br /> ROBERT BADEN-POWELL, K.C.B. 7 x 41 192 pp.<br /> Bennett, 4d. n.<br /> MISCELLANEOUS.<br /> DOMESTIC HANDICRAFT AND CULTURE. A Lecture read<br /> before the Association of Teachers of Domestic Science.<br /> By ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc.<br /> NATURAL HISTORY.<br /> A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARRETT.<br /> HAMILTON. With Illustrations by E. A. WILSON.<br /> Part III. 10 x 7. Gurney &amp; Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br /> TRAVEL.<br /> WRERE BLACK RULES WHITE. A Journey Across and<br /> About Hayti. By H. H. PRICHARD, F.R.G.S.<br /> TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION. Edited by EUSTACE<br /> REYNOLDS BALL, F.R.G.S. With 140 Illustrations from<br /> original Photographs. Vol. 4. July-December, 1910.<br /> 8.3 X 61. 480 pp. Witherby. 7s.6d. n.<br /> LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br /> NOTES.<br /> ORIENTAL.<br /> SACRED BOOKS OF THE BUDDHISTS. Translated by<br /> Various Oriental Scholars. Edited by T. W. RHYS<br /> DAVIDS, LL.D. Vol. III. Dialogues of the Buddha.<br /> Translated from the Pāli of the Digha Nikäya. By T. W.<br /> and C. A. F. Rhys DAVIDS. Part II. 9 X 54. 382 pp.<br /> Frowde. 108. 6d.<br /> POETRY.<br /> Songs Of SUSSEX. By the Rev. F. W. ORDE WARD,<br /> 74 x 54. 80 pp. E. Macdonald. 28. 6d. n.<br /> THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH POETRY. Being an Anthology of<br /> the Best Scottish Verse from the Earliest Times to the<br /> Present. Chosen and Edited by SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS,<br /> BART. 71 x 5. 928 pp. Unwin. 78. 6d. n.<br /> POEMS OF HEROISM AND DEVOTION. Selected from the<br /> Works of RICHARD TISSINGTON. 6 X 4. (The New<br /> Treasury.) Banks &amp; Ashwell, 180, High Holborn, W.C.<br /> THE TRIUMPH OF PAN. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH. The<br /> Equinox, 124, Victoria Street, S.W. 58. n.<br /> POLITICAL.<br /> THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH. By JAMES BRYCE.<br /> 2 vols. New edition. Completely revised throughout,<br /> with Additional Chapters. 8 X 54. 742 + 962 pp.<br /> The Macmillan Co. 218. n.<br /> THE CANADIAN NAVAL QUESTION. Address delivered by<br /> CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, F.R.C.S., Vice-President<br /> Navy League. 7} x . 70 pp. Toronto : Briggs.<br /> HE“ Concise Etymological Dictionary of the<br /> T English Language,&quot; by Professor Skeat,<br /> - after passing through three editions, was<br /> almost entirely re-written, and appeared in a much<br /> improved form in 1901. It has now been once<br /> more revised and corrected, to bring it more up to<br /> the level of the new edition of his larger Etymo.<br /> logical Dictionary that appeared in 1910. The<br /> new edition of ihe “Concise ” Dictionary will<br /> appear early in 1911.<br /> The Rev. Professor Skeat has completed a small<br /> treatise on “ Berkshire Place-names,” which will<br /> shortly be published by the Clarendon Press. It<br /> is written on the same lines as the Place-names of<br /> Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire<br /> and Hertfordshire, already published for him by<br /> the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and the East<br /> Hertfordshire Archæological Society,<br /> “L&#039;Homme Vert, et Autres Contes de Fée,” is<br /> the title of Miss Jetta S. Wolff&#039;s last book of French<br /> REPRINTS.<br /> ALL THE WORLD&#039;S AIRSHIPS, AEROPLANES AND DIRI.<br /> GIBLES. (Flying Annual.) Founded and edited by<br /> F. T. JANE. Second year of issue. 1910-1911. 73 x 128.<br /> 464 pp. Sampson Low. 218. n.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 110 (#156) ############################################<br /> <br /> 110<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> stories for young people. Messrs. J. M. Dent &amp; Sons English Translations,” in commemoration of the<br /> are the publishers.<br /> Tercentenary of the Authorised Version, 1611-<br /> “Down Our Street,&quot; by J. E. Buckrose, is the 1911. The author, Mr. S. F. Pells, of St. Mary&#039;s,<br /> comedy of a provincial town, and gives a picture Hove, is the editor of “The First English Transla-<br /> of middle-class life as it really is, not as people tion of the Septuagint,&quot; and the publishers are<br /> imagine it to be. There is some humour in the Messrs. Simpkin Marshall &amp; Co., London.<br /> book, and the irrepressible Mrs. Bean is the chief Major P. T. Godsal has published through<br /> character, though the love story of Sophia supplies Messrs. Harrison &amp; Sons “The Storming of<br /> the thread upon which the novel hangs. The London, and the Thames Valley Campaign.&quot; In<br /> whole narrative concerns the inhabitants of one this book the conquest of Britain by the Anglo-<br /> street, and the reader makes the acquaintance of a Saxons is for the first time treated as a military<br /> small social community, each character being question, and it is shown that all the evidence<br /> definitely pourtrayed. Messrs. Mills &amp; Boon are indicates that they took London first, and settled<br /> the publishers<br /> round it, and that they then fought up the Valley<br /> “The Fortunes of Flot,&quot; by K. F. Purdon, is of the Thames.<br /> the story of an Irish mongrel, his hardships and We regret that, through an error of classification,<br /> joys. The object of the book is to induce owners we included in the last issue of The Author among<br /> of dogs to remember that these animals have rights the Juvenile Works, Mrs. C. L. Woollaston White&#039;s<br /> to be respected, and whatever trouble they give to novel “ In Waste Places.&quot; We have rectified the<br /> man is due to their being misunderstood and badly error in another column of this issue.<br /> trained.&#039; The tricks taught to “Flot,” and referred “The Sea Lion,” by Patrick Rushden, is the<br /> to in the book, were taught to a dog known to the story of two half-brothers, one of whom has been<br /> writer without the introduction of a harsh word. to sea, and is the real “Sea Lion.” Through<br /> Mrs. Barclay&#039;s novel, “The Rosary,&quot; is shortly injuries he has become a paralytic, and is entirely<br /> to appear in a German translation. Messrs. G. P. dependent on his half-brother, who markets his<br /> Putnams&#039; Sons have arranged also for the Nor- writings for him. They are extremely alike in<br /> wegian serial translation rights of this story. appearance, and the spurious “Lion” wins the love<br /> Mrs. Desmond Humphreys (“Rita &quot;) has just of the heroine, Sybil Lethbridge, on the strength<br /> published her impressions of America, which she of this; she cared for the real &quot;Sea Lion,&quot; Brian<br /> recently visited. The book is entitled “America Thornfield, who went out of her life; and transfers<br /> -Through English Eyes.” “Rita&#039;s” new novel her affections to the man who so forcibly reminds<br /> will be published by Messrs. Hutchinson early in her of the other. Stanley Thornfield lives luxuri.<br /> the spring. It is entitled “Half a Truth.&quot;<br /> ously and passes as the author of the writings of<br /> Mr. Laurence North, author of “Syrinx,&quot; has his half-brother—whom he keeps in a poor lodging,<br /> written for Mr. Martin Secker a new novel entitled and who is ignorant of the fact of the relationship.<br /> “Impatient Griselda.” The book, a comedy of In the end Stanley Thornfield is made to expose<br /> modern life, will be published early in the present his imposture through the hypnotic power of an<br /> year.<br /> old man who has exploited him for his own ends ;<br /> Mr. Werner Laurie published early in January and the dénouement is achieved in a dramatic and<br /> a new novel by Victoria Cross, called “Self and the tragic manner. The story ends in the spring sun-<br /> Other.&quot; It is a story of love and self-sacrifice, and shine of Florence, where the true “Sea Lion,&quot;<br /> the scenes are laid at Cambridge University and almost a sound man after a dangerous operation,<br /> Constantinople.<br /> comes at last into his own.<br /> Messrs. Hugh Rees, Ltd., are the publishers “A Priestess of Humanity,&quot; by Mrs. Stanley<br /> of “Canada and Canadian Defence,” by Major- Wrench, published by John Long, is a psycho-<br /> General C. W. Robinson, C.B., which discusses logical study of a woman who has gone under, but<br /> closely the general character of naval and military who is reclaimed by the love of a good man. He,<br /> defence required under the circumstances of Canada a writer, unconsciously falls in love with a woman<br /> for the security of her frontier to-day—a subject of of the same calibre as himself, but rather than<br /> Imperial importance, to which the creation of a break faith with the woman of the under world,<br /> Canadian navy and the recommendations of the sacrifices himself as well as his art. The book<br /> Imperial Defence Conference of 1909, add special ends on a note of hopefulness, and is intended to<br /> interest. The grounds for the dictum of Wellington show “there is so much good in the worst of us.&quot;<br /> that naval, superiority on the lakes is a sine qua Miss A. E. Keeton will give, during the month<br /> non of success (even in defensive war) on the of February, three of her “Studies of Modern<br /> frontier of Canada are fully explained.<br /> British Song” at Hampstead, at Wimbledon and<br /> Among books shortly to be published may be at Camberley. Vocal illustrations will be sung by<br /> mentioned “The Great Texts of the Bible and our Miss Grainger-Kerr, accompanied by Miss Marjorie<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 111 (#157) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 111<br /> dies will immest A Bright,<br /> Adam. The studies will include examples by the date of production of the two plays not as yet<br /> following composers :-Ernest Austin, Granville performed. The same writer is now working on<br /> Bantock, Hubert Bath, Dora Bright, Arthur another play.<br /> Barclay, Walford Davies, Katherine Eggar, Joseph An American edition of Edith Searle Gross-<br /> Holbrooke, Frederick C. Nicholls, Norman O&#039;Neill, mann&#039;s novel, “ The Heart of the Bush,&quot; is being<br /> Roger Quilter, Katherine Ramsay (Marchioness of published by the John Lane Company, New York.<br /> Tullibardine), Percy Rideout, Jervis Read, Ethel “The Other Wife&quot; is the title of Miss Olivia<br /> Smyth, Cyril Scott, Ernest Walker, William Ramsey&#039;s new novel, published by Messrs. John<br /> Wallace, R. H. Walthew, Dalhousie Young. Long. It relates the experiences of a young wife,<br /> In “ Love or Lucre,&quot; by Edith C. Gerrard, the introduced into London society after a dull and<br /> author deals with an important problem, which is isolated girlhood. This is Miss Ramsey&#039;s fifth<br /> faced in rastly different ways by &#039;the different novel.<br /> people whom it concerns. Messrs. F. V. White &amp; “ The Reproof of Chance&quot; is a novel by Mrs.<br /> Co. are the publishers.<br /> E. W. Savi, in which is presented a picture of the<br /> Messrs. S. W. Partridge &amp; Co. announce the social life in Calcutta. Messrs. Digby Long &amp; Co.<br /> publication of the fourth edition of &quot;The Com- are the publishers. The same firm issue also Mr.<br /> plete Bible in Modern English,” by Ferrar Fenton. Reginald E. Salwey&#039;s new novel, “The Kestrel,”<br /> The same publishers have also Mr. Fenton&#039;s &quot;New the scene of which is placed on the south-east<br /> Testament in Modern English ” (ninih edition); coast of England.<br /> “The Five Books of Moses” (fourth edition); Miss Regina Miriam Bloch, whose paper on<br /> “ The Six Historical Books”; “The Books of “Three Great American Poets&quot; (Longfellow,<br /> the Prophets”; “ The Psalıns and Poetical Books Emerson and Poe) was recently delivered before the<br /> of the Bible”; “St. Paul&#039;s Epistles” (sixth Bedford Park Literary and Philosophical Society,<br /> edition). All of these, with the exception of the is giving several smaller readings during February,<br /> last-mentioned, are published at 28. 6d. The “St. whilst on March 5th she has been invited to<br /> Paul&#039;s Epistles” are issued at 1s., at which price Swansea, to deliver a critical essay on “ Heinrich<br /> also is published a special People&#039;s Edition of “The Heine.” She also contemplates giving a lecture at<br /> New Testament in Modern English.”<br /> Hampstead soon after her return.<br /> The proprietors of Travel and Exploration may Prison life as it affects the more highly-<br /> be cungratulated on their first issue for 1911, educated portion of the community is the theme<br /> which fully maintains the standard of this magazine of a novel which Mr. Roy Horniman has just<br /> since its inception. Among the contributors are completed. Mr. Horniman has also completed<br /> Mr. Edmund Forbes, who writes on “Malay Klongs another novel of a more sensational character.<br /> and Rivers ” ; Mr. Ernest Young, who describes A revised and cheap edition of “Lombard Street<br /> “ Bear Shooting in Finland”; and Mr. E. A. in Lent” is announced by Mr. Robert Scott. This<br /> Reynolds Ball, who has an article on “ Six Flemish re-issue is under the general editorship of the Rev.<br /> Percy Dearmer, and contains a new chapter from<br /> We have received a little volume by the Rev. Dr. his pen, as well as an introduction by the Rev.<br /> Lapsilell, called “Princess Alfrida&#039;s Charity.” Canon Scott Holland.<br /> Princess Alfrida was the third and youngest Mr. Morris Colles and Mr. Henry Cresswell have<br /> daughter of Alfred the Great, and the Grant made arrangements with Messrs. Methuen &amp; Co.<br /> mentioned in the Charter, a copy of which Dr. in England, and Mr. Pitis Duffield in America,<br /> Lansdell obtained from the State Archives in for the simultaneous publication of a small work<br /> Ghent, details the princess&#039;s gift of her inheritance on &quot; Success in Literature,” which is likely to<br /> of Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich. Dr. prove interesting to authors. The scope of the<br /> Lansdell traces the history of the Charity, in which book is to harvest and elucidate such counsels of<br /> is involved the history of the first five hundred the literary great as are accessible and likely to<br /> years of the reputed manor of Old Court, Green prove practically useful to authors in their work.<br /> wich, now the principal possession of the properties The book makes no didactic pretensions, the<br /> bequeathed to Morden College by the founder, Sir object of the compilers having been simply to<br /> John Morden, Baronet. Messrs. Burnside, Ltd., adduce, from many sources, such precepts, obser-<br /> of Blackheath, are the publishers.<br /> vacions, and thoughts as may serve to reveal the<br /> Mr. John Galsworthy&#039;s new novel, called “The secrets of success in literature. It is nearly ready.<br /> Patrician,&quot; will be published by Mr. Heinemann Mr. Lurence Irving contributes an introduction<br /> early in March. Later in the year Messrs. Duck- and appreciation of Fedor Dostoieffsky and his<br /> worth &amp; Co. will publishi a volume of three plays, work to the Everyman Edition of his novel,<br /> already written (including “ Justice,&quot; by Mr. “ Crime and Punishment,&quot; wbich Messrs. J. M.<br /> Galsworthy), the date of issue depending on the Dent &amp; Sons are publishing.<br /> Cities.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 112 (#158) ############################################<br /> <br /> 112<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Miss Agnes Deans Cameron was sent through Daly&#039;s Theatre on January 7. The present<br /> Canada by the Canadian Government to prepare version has been strengthened by certain altera-<br /> for lectures, which she has since delivered in tions introduced in the last act. The cast<br /> England, showing the desirability of emigration includes Mr. Robert Michaelis, Mr. W. H. Berry,<br /> The example of the Canadian Government has and Miss Lily Elsie.<br /> been followed by the Australian Government, who Mrs. Percy Dearmer&#039;s mystery play, “ The Play.<br /> have sent Miss Beatrice Grimshaw to explore mate,&quot; which was performed last year, has been<br /> Papua, while the British South African Company published by Messrs. Mowbray &amp; Co., with illus-<br /> have also engaged a woman, Miss E. A. Maidmend, trations by Helen Stratton.<br /> to do agricultural promotion work for South Mr. J. B. Fagan has just completed a modern<br /> Africa.<br /> three-act play, “The Wheel,&quot; the scene of which<br /> Stephen Andrew, who wrote - The Serpent and is laid in India. The first act passes in a bungalow<br /> the Cross,” has published a new novel, “ Doctor in the Plains, the latter two in a Buddhist monas-<br /> Grey,” in which he describes the life of an average tery in the Himalaya of Bhutan. The play is a<br /> doctor of to-day. Incidentally the author has love tragedy. Mr. Fagan has also dramatised Mr.<br /> drawn sharp impressionist pictures of many little Robert Hichens&#039; novel, “Bella Donna.&quot; This<br /> known sides of English life. Messrs. Greening &amp; play will be produced later by Mr. George<br /> Co. are the publishers.<br /> Alexander.<br /> “ The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake,&quot; &quot;Lucilla&quot; is a drama in three scenes by Sir<br /> by Lady Eliott-Drake, should prove interesting Edward Durand, published by Messrs. Doherty<br /> from many points of view. Hitherto unpublished &amp; Co., 6, Great Newport Street, St. Martin&#039;s<br /> documents relating to Sir Francis&#039; ancestry and Lane, W.C.<br /> circumnavigation, sidelights on national and Mr. H. Granville Barker&#039;s comedy in four acts,<br /> county history, local politics, and the fortunes of “The Madras House,&quot; was published last month<br /> several west country families—all based on recent by Messrs. Sidgwick &amp; Jackson.<br /> original research-come within the scope of two In consequence of Miss Neilson&#039;s and Mr. Terry&#039;s<br /> volumes. But wbilst presenting a continuous return to the New Theatre, Mr. Oscar Asche and<br /> record, century by century, of a typical county Miss Lily Brayton have transferred “Count<br /> family&#039;s patriotic participation in public and Hannibal ” to the Garrick Theatre.<br /> political affairs, space has been accorded to many Mr. Henry Arthur Jones&#039;s new play, “We Can&#039;t<br /> contemporary letters, which are as entertaining as be so Bad as all That !” had its first performance<br /> they are interesting.<br /> at the Naziomora Theatre, New York. It was also<br /> played at the London Scala on the same evening,<br /> DRAMATIC.<br /> for copyright purposes.<br /> Mr. George Alexander will produce this month a<br /> Sir Arthur Pinero&#039;s new play in four acts, new play by Mr. A. E. W. Mason. It is a play of<br /> “ Preserving Mr. Panmure,&quot; was produced on political interest and is called “ For the Defence.&quot;<br /> January 19 at the Comedy Theatre. The play “Coats,&quot; a comedy, by Lady Gregory, was pro-<br /> relates how Mrs. Panmure, a lady with ideals, duced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January.<br /> married a worn-out rake whom she hoped to reform ; The theme of the play is the rivalry between two<br /> how she was so far unsuccessful that her husband editors, each of whom has written an obituary<br /> was guilty of paying an osculatory attention to the notice of the other.<br /> family governess; how the governess endeavoured Mr. Roy Horniman bas arranged to dramatise,<br /> to persuade other males to take the guilt, in order for early production, a novel by Mr. Charles<br /> that she might spare Mrs. Panmure (whom she Garvice.<br /> loved) pain ; how an M.P.&#039;s secretary, who is in<br /> love with the governess, takes the blame for the<br /> offence; and finally, how the governess obtains the<br /> member of Parliament for her husband. The<br /> PARIS NOTES.<br /> cast includes Mr. Arthur Playfair, Miss Lilian<br /> Braithwaite, Miss Marie Löhr, and Mr. Dion<br /> Boucicault.<br /> JULES HURET has just brought out<br /> “ Vice Versâ,” having been transferred from .. his fourth book on Germany. It is<br /> the Comedy Theatre to the Court, is now houscd<br /> entitled “ La Bavière et la Saxe.&quot;<br /> at the Strand Theatre.<br /> The former ones are “Rhin et Westphalie,&quot;<br /> “A Waltz Dream,” the operetta in three acts, “ De Hambourg aux marches de la Pologne,&quot;<br /> adapted for the English stage by Captain Basil and “ Berlin.&quot; Jules Huret does not write his<br /> Hood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, was revived at books after a month&#039;s residence in the countries<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 113 (#159) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 113<br /> Orients ab instructive cardie les avocats are des<br /> he describes. He has been living in the various<br /> parts of Germany, and, as he is a keen observer,<br /> this work is a chef-d&#039;ouvre of knowledge and shrewd<br /> observation. To all readers of the Figaro Jules<br /> Huret&#039;s investigations have been thoroughly<br /> appreciated for very many years. His book on<br /> literary questions, and another one on questions of<br /> social economy, were both eagerly read. At present,<br /> he is giving us a series of articles on the Argentine,<br /> which will be published later on in volume form.<br /> When he turns his attention to England it is pro-<br /> bable that he will tell us much of which we ourselves<br /> are ignorant.<br /> The book written by M. Joran entitled, “ Les<br /> Féministes avant le Féminisme” is curious and<br /> interesting, and might be read with profit by the<br /> saffragettes and the suffragists of to-day. The<br /> volume is dedicated to a woman and the preface is<br /> written by a woman. M. Joran endeavours to<br /> show the difference between the ideals of the<br /> women of former times and the demands of a large<br /> group of the women of to-day.<br /> The first chapter of this book is devoted to<br /> Christine de Pisan and her book, “ Le Trésor de la<br /> Cité des Dames,&quot; one of the works written by her<br /> between 1399 and 1405. It is interesting to find<br /> that so many centuries ago a woman should expect<br /> competence in so many different lines from women<br /> in various classes of society, for, according to the<br /> passages quoted, Christine de Pisan expected com-<br /> petence in matters of economics, in administration,<br /> agriculture and finance from the women for whom<br /> she wrote. The other chapters of the volume are<br /> on Erasmus, Corneille Agrippa, Agrippa d’Aubigné,<br /> Joseph de Maistre, De l&#039;Escale, Mlle. de Gournay,<br /> Du Bosc, St. Gabriel, Decrues Goussault, Duchess<br /> de Liancourt and James Lawrence. Other books<br /> by this author are entitled : “Le Mensonge du<br /> Féminisme,&quot; &quot; Autour du Féminisme,&quot; &quot; Au Caur<br /> du Féminisine,” “La Trouée Féministe,&quot; and he is<br /> is at pre-ent writing “ Le Suffrago des Femmes.&quot;<br /> Among other new books are: “Les Femmes<br /> Auteurs,&quot; by Vicomte de Broc; “La Fosse aux<br /> Lions,&quot; by Emile Baumann; “La Bataille,” by<br /> Claude Farrère ; “Pour tuer Bonaparte,&quot; by<br /> Georges Ohnet.<br /> In the recent numbers of the Revue de Deux<br /> Mondes M. Faguet writes on “Liberalisme et<br /> Etatisme” : M. René Doumic studies the works of<br /> M. Alfred Capus, and M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu<br /> writes on “L&#039;Eventualité d&#039;une Révolution<br /> Syndicaliste.&quot;<br /> In Le Correspondant M. Tavernier gives an<br /> article on Tolstoi, and M. Thureau Dangin on<br /> &quot; La Vie du Cardinal Vaughan et celle de Colonel<br /> Vaughan.&quot;<br /> La Rerue hebdomadaire has published some<br /> extremely interesting articles in recent numbers ;<br /> among others “ La Balance politique ; l&#039;Europe en<br /> Orient” by M. Gabriel Hanotaux, and a very<br /> curious and instructive article by M. Ch. Cheñu,<br /> former Batonnier de l&#039;Ordre des avocats, on “ Le<br /> Centennaire de la restauration de l&#039;Ordre des<br /> avocats.”<br /> M. Guy de Montbel pnblishes the souvenirs<br /> of his grandfather, Comte de Montbel, under the<br /> title of “ Sur les routes de l&#039;exil,” and Jules<br /> Lemaître&#039;s lecture on “Les Péchés de Sainte-<br /> Beuve ” is published in full.<br /> At the Odéon Roméo et Juliette is now being<br /> given.<br /> “L&#039;Aventurier,” by Alfred Capus, is still on<br /> the bill at the Porte-Saint-Martin. Like all of<br /> this author&#039;s plays, the “ Aventurier&quot; has a happy<br /> ending. Etienne Ranson, the scapegrace of the<br /> family, leaves the country in debt and comes back a<br /> wealthy man. He is then invited to come to the<br /> rescue of an uncle who is on the brink of ruin.<br /> He is willing to do this provided that his cousin<br /> Geneviève will marry him. She is engaged.<br /> Etienne is then inflexible, but when Geneviève&#039;s<br /> brother is about to commit suicide and his sister<br /> appeals to him, he finally yields and comes to the<br /> rescue of the family. Geneviève then discorers<br /> his real worth, breaks off her engagement and<br /> marries him.<br /> “Le Carnaval des enfants,” by M. Saint-<br /> Georges de Bouhélier, has had great success at the<br /> Théâtre des Arts.<br /> The centenary of Alfred de Musset was com-<br /> memorated at the Comédie Française with all the<br /> honours possible. A matinée and soirée entirely<br /> composed of the poet&#039;s works were both greatly<br /> appreciated by the admirers of Musset.<br /> One of the events of the season in the theatrical<br /> world has been the re-opening of the Shakespeare<br /> Theatre by M. Camille de Sainte-Croix with “ The<br /> Taming of the Shrew” (“L&#039;Ecole de la Pie<br /> Grièche&quot;). The play was given two nights, and<br /> every fortnight another of Shakespeare&#039;s plays is<br /> to be represented. Rarely is such an excellent<br /> ensemble seen. M. de Sainte-Croix has chosen each<br /> actor and trained the whole company specially for<br /> these plays. The result is admirable, and the<br /> Parisians are enthusiastic in their appreciation and<br /> praise. It is very probable that at the end of the<br /> French season M. de Sainte-Croix will take his<br /> company for a tour through England with his<br /> Shakespeare repertory.<br /> ALYS HALLARD.<br /> “ La Bavière&quot; (Fasquelle).<br /> &quot; Les Feministes avant Féminisme (Arthur Savaète).<br /> &quot; Les Femmes Auteurs” (Plon).<br /> &quot;La Fosse aux Lions&quot; (Bernard Grasset).<br /> “La Bataille” (Ollendorff).<br /> “ Pour tuer Bonaparte &quot; (Ollendorff).<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 114 (#160) ############################################<br /> <br /> 114<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION IN U.S.A.<br /> DEPOSIT OF FRAGMENT OF BOOK.<br /> A PPLICATION for registration of copyright<br /> should be denied, (1) Where the ad interim<br /> deposit under sect. 21 of the Copyright<br /> Act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., 1080), is a com-<br /> plete book, and the permanent deposit under<br /> sect. 22 is only a part of such book ; (2) Where<br /> both the ad interim and permanent deposits are<br /> fragments of the work ; (3) Where the copy<br /> printed and bound in accordance with the manu-<br /> facturing provisions of sect. 15 of the Act and<br /> deposited in the first instance, is only a fragment<br /> of the work; and (4) Where a complete book is<br /> deposited, but the affidavit correctly indicates that<br /> only a part of the work is printed in the United<br /> States.<br /> The word “book,&quot; as used in sects. 21 and 22<br /> and in class (a) of sect. 5 and elsewhere in that<br /> Act, means the entire book and not a fragment<br /> thereof.<br /> DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,<br /> Washington, February 9, 1910.<br /> SIR, --Your communication of January 18,<br /> 1910, wherewith you transmit certain documents<br /> from the Librarian of Congress, was duly received.<br /> From the statement of the Librarian it appears<br /> that in a number of instances in attempting to<br /> comply with the provisions of the copyright law of<br /> March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., ,1080), only parts of<br /> books hare been deposited by applicants with the<br /> Register of Copyrights and copyrights applied for<br /> thereon ; and I am asked what action should be<br /> taken by the Register of Copyrights when an<br /> application is made which presents either of the<br /> following conditions :-<br /> 1. Where the ad interim deposit under sect. 21<br /> is a complete book, and the permanent deposit<br /> under sect. 22 is only a part of such book.<br /> 2. Where both the ad interim and permanent<br /> deposits are fragments of the work.<br /> 3. Where the copy, printed and bound in<br /> accordance with the manufacturing provisions of<br /> sect. 15 of the Act and deposited in the first<br /> instance, is only a fragment of the work.<br /> 4. Where a complete book is deposited, but the<br /> affidavit correctly indicates that only part of the<br /> work is printed in the United States.<br /> In reply to these questions I have the honour to<br /> say:<br /> The first two questions in rolve a construction<br /> of sects. 21 and 22 of the Copyright Act, which<br /> relate to procuring a copyright in a book published<br /> abroad in the Euglish language, while the last two<br /> involve the general provisions of the Act.<br /> Sects. 21 and 22 read as follows:<br /> Sect. 21. That in the case of a book published<br /> abroad in the English language before publication<br /> in this country, the deposit in the Copyright Office,<br /> not later than thirty days after its publication<br /> abroad, of one complete copy of the foreign edition,<br /> with a request for the reservation of the copyright<br /> and a statement of the name and nationality of the<br /> author and of the copyright proprietor and of the<br /> date of publication of the said book, shall secure to<br /> the author or proprietor an ad interim copyright,<br /> which shall have all the force and effect given to<br /> copyright by this Act, and shall endure until the<br /> expiration of thirty days after such deposit in the<br /> copyright Office<br /> Sect. 22. That whenever within the period of<br /> such ad interim protection an authorised edition<br /> of such book shall be published within the United<br /> States, in accordance with the manufacturing pro-<br /> visions specified in section fifteen of this Act, and<br /> whenever the provisions of this Act as to deposit of<br /> copies, registration, filing of affidavit, and the<br /> printing of the copyright notice shall have been<br /> duly complied with, the copyright shall be extended<br /> to endure in such book for the full term elsewhere<br /> provided in this Act.<br /> Does the word &quot;book&quot; as here used, mean the<br /> entire book, or a fragment of a book ? It appears<br /> to me that there can be but one answer to this<br /> question. The requirement in sect. 21 that a<br /> deposit in the Copyright Office within the time<br /> specified “of one complete copy of the foreign<br /> edition,” clearly indicates that in the enactment of<br /> these sections the entire book was in the minds of<br /> Congress, and not a fragment thereof.<br /> I am also of the opinion that the same meaning<br /> should be given the word “ book &quot; as it appears in<br /> class (a), sect. 5, and elsewhere in the Act. When<br /> it was enacted in sect. 8 “ that the author or pro-<br /> prietor of any work made the subject of copyright<br /> by this Act ... shall have copyright for such<br /> work under the conditions and for the term speci-<br /> fied in this Act&quot; it certainly was not intended<br /> that a chapter or two—a mere fragment of a book<br /> should fall within the meaning of the word<br /> “work.&quot; Such fragment is not a “ work,&quot; and<br /> cannot be so considered. It is only a part of a<br /> work. There is a special reason why this meaning<br /> should be given the words “ book” and “ work&quot;<br /> in this Act which did not exist before the passage<br /> of the Act of March 3, 1891. The Copyright<br /> Acts before the one of that date contained no pro-<br /> visions with reference to where and on what type<br /> or plates the book should be printed. But by<br /> sect. 15 of the present Act it is provided in sub-<br /> stance that all the work in connection with the<br /> printing and binding of every book accorded pro-<br /> tection by the Act shall be done within the limits<br /> of the United States, and by sect. 31 the importa-<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 115 (#161) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 115<br /> tion of copyrighted books not manufactured in LICENCE TO COPY PHOTOGRAPHS.<br /> accordance with the provisions of sect. 15 is pro-<br /> hibited. Each part of the Act should be so con-<br /> strued as to give effect to the legislative intent in<br /> BOWDEN BROS. v. AMALGAMATED PICTORIALS, LTD.<br /> the enactment of every other part. And to hold<br /> that a mere fragment of a book could be copy M H E plaintiffs in this case are a firm of photo-<br /> righted, would open the door to the most extensive I graphers supplying photographs for publi-<br /> evasions of the manufacturing provisions of the Act. - cation in the Press at the usual trade price<br /> For illustration, the Librarian of Congress of 10s. 6d., and the defendant company is pro-<br /> transmits through you what appears to be a prietor of the papers called Throne and Country<br /> booklet in pamphlet form of fifty-one pages, on and Lotinga&#039;s Weekly.<br /> the last of which appear the words “ The end.” The plaintiffs supplied photographs to Mr.<br /> This has been filed with the Register of Copyrights Lotinga when he was proprietor of the Throne,<br /> under sect. 21 for ad interim protection. But as and agreed to a reduction in the price owing to<br /> a matter of fact, this pamphlet contains only the the financial condition of that paper. The price<br /> first four chapters of the book, and how many more for the first use of a photo was reduced to 5s., and<br /> there are and of how many volumes the entire for any subsequent reproduction the price was<br /> work consists there is nothing to indicate ; nor 2s.6d. In 1910, when Mr. Lotinga caused the<br /> could the extent of the work make any difference defendant company to be incorporated for the<br /> so far as the principle involved is concerned ; nor purpose of taking over the Throne and Lotinga&#039;s<br /> can the principle be affected by the fact that the Weekly, the plaintiffs pointed out that a statement<br /> pamphlet purports to be a complete work. If in the prospectus that their blocks were of great<br /> protection be afforded these four chapters, no other value was erroneous, as the permission of the<br /> publisher could afford to publish the remainder of plaintiffs was required for any reproduction of<br /> the book, and though not legally protected by their photographs.<br /> copyright get the protection of the remaining In April the plaintiffs terminated their arrange-<br /> portion would in fact be perfect. But at the same ments as to the supply of photographs for these<br /> time, peither the manufacturing provisions in papers. The defendants, however, continued to<br /> sect. 15 nor the prohibitions against importations use the photographs and blocks, and the plaintiffs,<br /> in sect. 31 would apply to the parts not copy who had registered their copyright in the photo-<br /> righted ; and the publisher could have the entire graphs which had been published, sued the<br /> remainder of the book printed abroad and im- defendants for infringement of copyright. As to<br /> ported, and here bound with the four chapters those photographs which had not been published,<br /> printed within the United States. If the law the plaintiffs claimed their common law right to<br /> should be construed to permit this, it is quite restrain publication, which was threatened and<br /> probable that the copyrighting of but a part of intended by the defendants.<br /> books which are not supposed to be of very sub- On behalf of the defendants it was urged that the<br /> stantial merit would become the custom. But contract entitled them to produce and reproduce<br /> independent of this consideration, there appears to the photographs which had been supplied to them ;<br /> be nothing in the statute which implies that but a and that they had an irrevocable licence to publish<br /> part of a work may be copyrighted, nor have I those which they had used, or selected for produc-<br /> been able to find any authorities showing that tion, on the terms arranged between the plaintiffs<br /> other similar statutes have been so construed. and Mr. Lotinga.<br /> For these reasons, I am of the opinion that an Mr. Justice Parker in his judgment said that<br /> application should be refused when the deposit is Mr. Lotinga no doubt convinced himself that the<br /> made as shown in either of the first three inquiries. arrangement entitled him to do what he claimed,<br /> And the same rule should be applied to the fourth; but the legal effect of it was that Mr. Lotinga<br /> because it is a necessary prerequisite to the regis- was not bound to use the photographs supplied,<br /> tration of the copyright that the book should be and until acceptance of any photographs the offer<br /> printed as required by sect. 15; and if nothing could be withdrawn. After acceptance and com-<br /> but the entire work can be copyrighted, then all munication thereof to the plaintiffs, there would be<br /> parts of it must be printed in accordance with the a concluded contract as to each photograph accepted,<br /> provisions of that section.<br /> but in the case of first user and in the case<br /> Respectfully,<br /> of subsequent user the offer could be withdrawn<br /> Geo. W. WICKERSHAM,<br /> before acceptance. The contention that the defen-<br /> The President.<br /> Attorney-General. dants had an unlimited right to use and re-use the<br /> P&quot; Official Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the photographs was erroneous. The plaintiffs were,<br /> United States,&quot; Vol. 28, pp. 176-179.]<br /> therefore, entitled to an injunction. The damages<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 116 (#162) ############################################<br /> <br /> 116<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> were assessed at 108. Gd. for each iŋfringement,<br /> and a penalty for the same amount was held to be<br /> sufficient, because the defendants bona fide believed<br /> they had a right to do what they had done.<br /> HAROLD HARDY.<br /> LIBEL IN A NOVEL.<br /> of being attacked by her. Some years ago she<br /> obtained an engagement in a chorus, in order to<br /> get knowledge and local colour for her story. The<br /> Bedford Hotel was certainly in her mind when she<br /> mentioned the “Cambridge Head.&quot; She had not<br /> depicted Belcher as a scamp, but he was so<br /> described by one of the characters in the story,<br /> being upset through jealousy. She chose the<br /> name “ Belcher&quot; because it was euphonious, and<br /> “Harold” because it seemed to balance Belcher.<br /> The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for<br /> £200 damages.<br /> This case recalls the recent decision in the<br /> House of Lords, when Mr. Artemus Jones recovered<br /> damages for libel : * and Mr. Justice Bucknill, in<br /> his summing up to the jury, pointed out that it<br /> was not necessary that there should have been an<br /> intention to libel the plaintiff, but that he was<br /> entitled to damages if they believed that people<br /> understood the story to refer to him. Novelists<br /> should bear in mind, however, that local surround-<br /> ings and coincidences are evidence from which the<br /> jury may infer that an author, in naming a charac-<br /> ter in a work of fiction, had a particular individual<br /> in mind ; and under such circumstances the jury<br /> might more readily conclude that that individual<br /> was understood to be referred to in the story.<br /> HAROLD HARDY.<br /> • Reported in The Author, January, 1910.<br /> BELCHER v. EDWARD LLOYD, LTD.<br /> M HIS was an action for libel, in which the<br /> 1 plaintiff, Mr. Harold Belcher, a theatrical<br /> agent, claimed damages against the proprie-<br /> tors of Lloyd&#039;s Weekly News in respect of a serial<br /> story entitled “Motley and Tinsel,” which appeared<br /> in that paper.<br /> The story was written by Miss Ada Jones under<br /> the name of “ Margaret Hamilton,&quot; and the open-<br /> ing scene was laid in the offices of a theatrical<br /> agent called Harold Belcher, who was described as<br /> the most powerful agent in the world. The<br /> narrative dealt with Belcher&#039;s behaviour towards a<br /> girl, for whom he obtained an important part in a<br /> play, and the jealousy of her lover, an actor, who<br /> denounced Belcher as a scamp and a thief.<br /> The advertisement in the newspaper announcing<br /> the serial described it as “a story of the stage,<br /> revealing one of the most vivid pictures of stage<br /> life,&quot; and stated that the authoress “ had drawn<br /> on her own real experiences,” that the story was<br /> “true to life,&quot; and that &quot;the characters were real<br /> men and women.”<br /> The plaintiff carried on his agency business in<br /> Maiden Lane. In the story reference was made to<br /> “Rule&#039;s,&quot; and the “ Bodega,” also to the “ Bedford<br /> Hotel,” under the name of the “Cambridge Head,&quot;<br /> and several persons well known in the neighbour-<br /> hood were mentioned by their own or similar<br /> names. Mr. Marshall, the proprietor of the Bed-<br /> ford Hotel, for instance, stated that he considered<br /> that one of the characters named “ Marshall ”<br /> meant himself.<br /> A number of witnesses were called who said that<br /> they had read the story and thought it referred to<br /> the plaintiff, and that it had been a general topic<br /> of conversation in theatrical circies.<br /> On behalf of the defendants it was urged that<br /> “Motley and Tinsel,” was mere fiction in the form<br /> of a sensational novel, and that the most powerful<br /> agent in the world could not have been taken to<br /> be the plaintiff.<br /> Among witnesses called for the defence, Miss<br /> Jones, the authoress, stated that she had written<br /> about forty serials, and no one had ever complained<br /> MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br /> CONTEMPORARY REVIEW.<br /> The Unity of Tolstoy&#039;s Life and Work. By Dr. Charles<br /> Sarollea.<br /> Anatole France II. By Count de Soissons.<br /> Debussy&#039;s Pélleas et Mélisande. By George Lilley,<br /> Shakespearean Theatres. By the late Prof. Thornton<br /> Collins,<br /> Literary Supplement : Christ and Popular Imagination.<br /> CORNHILL<br /> Arabiniana. By Sir Frederick Pollock.<br /> J. K. Stephen. By A. C. Benson.<br /> FORTNIGHTLY.<br /> Byron. By His Excellency the Hon. Whitelaw Reid.<br /> Tolstoy. By Francis Gribble.<br /> Two German Theatres. By H. Granville Barker.<br /> NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br /> The “ Modernism” of Thomas Aquinas. By the Rev.<br /> Francis Aveling, Ph.D.<br /> A Plea for the Nationalisation of our Sculpture. By<br /> W. Reynolds-Stephens.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 117 (#163) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 117<br /> HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br /> 1. 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Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br /> the document to the Society for examination.<br /> 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br /> you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br /> are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br /> advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br /> the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br /> 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br /> members&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire<br /> proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br /> confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br /> who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:<br /> (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br /> upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br /> payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br /> lars of the Society&#039;s work can be obtained in the<br /> Prospectus.<br /> 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br /> agent 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 /> 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br /> must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br /> Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br /> 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br /> referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br /> do some publishers. Members can make their own<br /> deductions and act accordingly.<br /> 9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br /> annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br /> obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br /> competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br /> the Society.<br /> II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br /> agreement).<br /> In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br /> (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br /> duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br /> (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,&quot;<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author,<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> rights.<br /> (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br /> (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br /> As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br /> doctor |<br /> III. The Royalty System.<br /> This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br /> of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br /> what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br /> possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br /> truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br /> with royalties are published in The Author.<br /> 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 /> means.<br /> (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br /> to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br /> nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br /> withheld.<br /> (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br /> WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br /> WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br /> OF BOOKS.<br /> N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br /> Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br /> petent legal authority.<br /> 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br /> the production of a play with any one except an established<br /> manager.<br /> 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br /> in three or more acts :-<br /> (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br /> is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br /> such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br /> for production of the piece by a certain date<br /> and for proper publication of his name on the<br /> play-bills.<br /> ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br /> n agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br /> with literary property :-<br /> 1. Selling it Outright.<br /> This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 118 (#164) ############################################<br /> <br /> 118<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br /> (6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of percentages on<br /> gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br /> and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br /> percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br /> in preference to the American system. Should<br /> obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br /> date on or before which the play should be<br /> performed.<br /> (c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br /> nightly fees). This method should be always<br /> avoided except in cases where the fees are<br /> likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br /> other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br /> also in this case.<br /> 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br /> better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br /> paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br /> important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br /> be reserved.<br /> 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br /> be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br /> time. This is most important.<br /> 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br /> should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br /> is of great importance,<br /> 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br /> play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br /> holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br /> print the book of the words.<br /> 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br /> ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br /> agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br /> consideration.<br /> 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br /> drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br /> 10. An author should remember that production of a play<br /> is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br /> delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br /> He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br /> the beginning.<br /> 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br /> is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br /> is to obtain adequate publication.<br /> As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br /> account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br /> tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br /> are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br /> RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br /> Society before putting plays into the hands of<br /> agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br /> who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br /> perpetual claim to a percentage on the author&#039;s fees<br /> from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br /> it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br /> very few agents who can do anything for an author<br /> that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br /> equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br /> is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br /> required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br /> fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br /> action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br /> individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br /> countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br /> in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br /> But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br /> to bave influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br /> who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br /> the author&#039;s rights. In any case, in the present state of<br /> the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br /> circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br /> Society.<br /> WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOS ERS.<br /> TITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br /> L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br /> authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br /> 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 /> should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br /> an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br /> the warnings stated above.<br /> STAMPING MUSIC.<br /> The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br /> behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br /> of 100. The members&#039; stamps are kept in the Society&#039;s<br /> safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br /> Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br /> members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br /> THE READING BRANCH.<br /> REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br /> ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br /> M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br /> branch of its work by informing young writers<br /> of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br /> treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br /> MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br /> and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br /> special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br /> Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br /> fee is one guinea.<br /> REMITTANCES.<br /> OCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br /> D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br /> a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br /> be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br /> tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br /> and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br /> of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br /> the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br /> Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br /> rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br /> at the price of 28. 6d. per act.<br /> The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br /> that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br /> All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br /> Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br /> letter only.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 119 (#165) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 119<br /> them.<br /> GENERAL NOTES.<br /> and other articles entering into the manufacture<br /> of books, for there is a decided public demand for<br /> the freeing of books, as well as works of art, from<br /> PAN-AMERICAN UNION.<br /> duty, and unless book materials are freed from<br /> excessive duties, the American publishers will be<br /> (Reprinted from the Publishers&#039; Weekly (New York) by<br /> kind permission of the Editor.)<br /> placed in the inverted position, as manufacturers,<br /> of paying high duties on all their materials and<br /> THE President announces that he will lay before<br /> ore having their products subject to competition from<br /> the Senate, with a recommendation for ratification, countries where the materials of books are less<br /> the copyright convention adopted at the Pan<br /> burdened with tariff duties or altogether free from<br /> burdened<br /> American Congress at Buenos Aires. The United<br /> States is already a party by tardy ratification to<br /> the convention agreed upon at Mexico City in<br /> 1902, which constituted a Pan-American Union<br /> on lines somewhat similar to the International The two paragraphs headed “Pan-American<br /> Copyright Union under the Berne convention of Union” and “ American Tariffs and Book Produc-<br /> 1886 and the Paris agreement of 1896. The tion,” give an insight into the views taken by some<br /> Buenos Aires convention bears to the Mexico con-<br /> of the parties in the United States who are<br /> the same relation as the Berlin interested in these important questions.<br /> convention of 1908 bears to the Berne-Paris The Pan-American Congress may be an extra<br /> agreement. It provides that copyright should power to force the United States to do away with<br /> extend throughout the republics of the American the printing clause, and the greater the pressure<br /> continents without other formalities than those<br /> that is brought to bear the better will it be for<br /> required in the country of origin of a work : and all parties. It is not impossible that with the<br /> its broader lines make it difficult of ratification new freedom obtained by Canada with regard to<br /> under our copyright legislation of 1909. Under copyright legislation, a printing clause will be set<br /> that legislation the United States could accept it up by the Canadians against the Americans. Any<br /> only with reservation of the necessity of deposit<br /> retrograde step of this kind by any country is a<br /> and manufacture here. If any way could be found<br /> very serious blemish on the copyright ideals of the<br /> for its acceptance by early ratification, that is most<br /> world. It has been the policy of all countries<br /> to be desired, for there should be an increasing<br /> rather to bear patiently the burden imposed by this<br /> market in South America for American books in<br /> ignorant legislation than to step back from the<br /> the Spanish language, such as have already been<br /> ideals that they have laid before themselves.<br /> produced here in the educatioual field. If the Gradually this policy has borne good fruit. The<br /> Pan-American Union can be completed, with the countries standing outside the Berne Convention<br /> participation of the United States, the next and have given in their allegiance, and the countries<br /> indeed final step should be the consolidation of whose legislation has been backward have gradually<br /> the International Copyright Union and the Pan- gone forward towards the ideal.<br /> American Union in one body of world-wide rela Would it not be possible for England also to join<br /> tionship, like the Universal Postal Union.<br /> this Pan-American Union, the text of which is<br /> printed in another column ? If this were the case,<br /> no doubt, by the next meeting of the Delegates of<br /> International Copyright, the Berlin Convention<br /> AMERICAN TARIFFS AND BooK PRODUCTION.<br /> and the Buenos Aires Conference would be consoli-<br /> The President seeks to postpone tariff reduction<br /> dated into one, and copyright would practically<br /> until the tariff commission shall report on specific<br /> become worldwide. There will no doubt be a great<br /> schedules some time during the sessions of the sixty-<br /> market in the future for the sale of English books<br /> second Congress, 1911-1912. The President does<br /> in South America ; indeed, even at the present time<br /> pot seem to have heard from the country. The<br /> Tauchnitz editions sell well there.<br /> duties on wood pulp, for instance, have had more<br /> examination than any tariff board is likely to give<br /> them, and newspaper publishers, though to be sure<br /> GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES.<br /> interested parties, are unanimous in urging that<br /> wood pulp be made free of duty, which would We have received from the Library of Congress,<br /> afford some check to the paper trust. There is a Washington, a note stating that on the 8th day of<br /> serious danger before American book publishers December, 1910, a proclamation was issued by the<br /> unless the tariff should be reduced in the matter President of the United States under which<br /> of the materials for paper making, and all paper Germany and America are entitled to reciprocal<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 120 (#166) ############################################<br /> <br /> 120<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> benefits under the American and German Copyright BOOK REGISTRATION IN THE U.S.A. AND<br /> Laws.<br /> ENGLISH SERIAL RIGHTS.<br /> It is to be hoped that with the extension of these<br /> reciprocal rights the United States will see their<br /> We have taken the liberty of publishing in<br /> way finally to join the Berne Convention, and<br /> full in another column the opinion of the Attorney-<br /> deliver themselves from the shackles which make<br /> General of the U.S.A. on the registration of a<br /> fragment of a book. All authors should read it<br /> them at present the laughing-stock of civilised<br /> with diligence and discernment, as many believe<br /> nations as far as copyright is concerned.<br /> that copyright can be obtained in the United States<br /> by such an incomplete registration. This opinion,<br /> ENGLISH AUTHORS AND U.S.A. COPYRIGHT. while it does not so much affect the ability to<br /> We have taken the liberty of printing in this<br /> register a work in book form, very seriously<br /> number of The Author statements referring to the<br /> affects the ability to register a serial which is<br /> American Copyright Law, and the position under<br /> running through an English magazine. There<br /> that law, from the report of the Register of Copy-<br /> appear to be only two ways of meeting the difficulty<br /> rights and from the Publishers&#039; Weekly (New<br /> satisfactorily. The first is by running the serial<br /> York). As all these things are of the greatest<br /> production simultaneously through an American<br /> interest to English authors, we wish that they<br /> magazine (this again emphasises the importance of<br /> would realise more fully the importance of obtaining<br /> trying to secure the American contract to the<br /> full American copyright. We regret to say that<br /> English author well in advance); the other, by<br /> English publishers, in cases recently before the<br /> having the book set up in America and making a<br /> society, having insisted that the power to deal with<br /> formal publication of a certain number of copies in<br /> the American copyright should be included in their<br /> England while the story runs serially in an English<br /> agreement, have never made any effort to obtain it,<br /> magazine. Both these methods are unsatisfactory.<br /> but have merely sold an edition in sheets to the<br /> It is a great pity, when the American authorities<br /> United States market. We regret to say that many<br /> were drafting the new Bill, that they did not take<br /> agents have not only approved these agreements,<br /> into some consideration the question of serials<br /> but have thrown cold water on the wishes of their<br /> running through English magazines.<br /> authors that they should take up with keenness the<br /> Would it not be possible for the United States<br /> placing of their works with an American publisher.<br /> to bring forward a sinall Bill to cover this point,<br /> It is no doubt a matter which causes the agent con-<br /> which brings a serious hardship on English authors?<br /> siderable inconvenience and trouble, and, perhaps,<br /> It will be seen that if a serial is running monthly,<br /> in the first instance, will not bring in much money<br /> or even weekly, it is impossible to obtain the<br /> interim protection granted under the present Act,<br /> to the agent&#039;s pocket. It brings but little pecuniary<br /> return to the publisher, who gains more by the sale<br /> and even if it was issued daily it would be doubtful<br /> of the sheets. But in spite of this, we insist that<br /> whether a story of, say, 100,000 words could be<br /> all authors should begin early in their endeavour to<br /> run through a daily paper so as to make it possible<br /> secure the American market. If they began, say,<br /> for the author to file the complete story in<br /> three or six months before they allowed the agent,<br /> Washington within thirty days of the first issue.<br /> or the publisher, an offer of the English publication,<br /> it is most probable that the American market would<br /> be secured, and the author would receive in conse-<br /> quence a double payment for his work. If, however,<br /> MUSIC-HALL AND THEATRICAL<br /> the alternative course is pursued, that the English<br /> SKETCHES.<br /> publisher gets the first offer, and that then only the<br /> agent commences with the Ainerican negotiations,<br /> it is almost impossible to succeed in the time,&quot; A<br /> A ND whereas the multitude of places of entertain-<br /> ment for the lower sort of people is another great<br /> (necessarily limited) between the signing of the E<br /> cause of thefts and robberies, as they are thereby<br /> English contract and the date of English publica-<br /> tempted to spend their small substance in rioious<br /> tion. The fault lies primarily with the author pleasures, and in consequence are put on unlawful methods<br /> himself for not being more insistent ; secondly,<br /> of supplying their wants and renewing their pleasures ; in<br /> order, therefore, to prevent the said temptation to thefts<br /> with the agent; and thirdly, with the English pub-<br /> and robberies, and to correct as far as may be the habit of<br /> lisher. It does not lie, as some assert, in the fact idleness, which is become too general over the whole king.<br /> that Americans prefer to read American authors to dom, and is productive of much mischief and inconvenience,<br /> English anthors ; that it does not lie in this fact be it enacted,&quot;<br /> is evident from the book reviews in America, and This is the preamble to the Act of 25 George II.,<br /> from the great number of books that are sent over chapter 36, which deals with music and dancing<br /> in sheets.<br /> licences and, accordingly, with music-halls. The<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 121 (#167) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 121<br /> Act, therefore, which was passed for the protection singing or speaking characters, and should not<br /> of the public and for the raising of music-hall take longer than thirty minutes to perform ; and<br /> entertainments, it would appear has been arbitrarily (this is the point which materially affects dramatists)<br /> used by theatrical managers in an endeavour to no sketch should be taken or adapted from any<br /> debase these entertainments by preventing the stage play or dramatic entertainment which had<br /> performance of legitimate theatrical pieces. In a been licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, until<br /> few words the managers are, for their own selfish after the expiration of fifteen years from the first<br /> ends, utilising an Act for a purpose for which it performance.<br /> was never intended. Perhaps, although to most of This was an open attempt to deprive both the<br /> our readers they may be well known, it may be dramatist and the touring manager of the right to<br /> worth while to repeat the facts of the case.<br /> utilise a stage play as a sketch after its value as a<br /> When the performances at the music-ball reached stage play had been exhausted. Many a play con-<br /> the high standard which they at present hold, it tains a scene that would make an excellent sketch,<br /> struck the managers of the music-halls that it though the play as a whole may be a failure.<br /> might be worth while to produce sketches as one It seems an extraordinary thing that the<br /> of the “turns,&quot; instead of comic songs, dancing, managers of theatres and music-halls should have<br /> acrobats, etc., etc. The manager&#039;s idea naturally called this conference and entered into this agree-<br /> was to raise the tone of his performance, and, ment putting limitations on the use of another<br /> incidentally, to secure broader custom. The person&#039;s property without taking the trouble to<br /> theatrical managers, fearing that the custom might consult those who were the originators of this<br /> be taken away from the theatres, and wishing to property. It is the same spirit which animated<br /> crush out the competition which they were already those who called for the type-setting clauses in<br /> feeling, immediately saw a method of doing so by America, and which animates the public generally<br /> the fact that a theatrical performance at a music when they endeavour to legislate for the holders of<br /> hall was illegal and rendered the manager subject copyright.<br /> to prosecution. They, accordingly, carried through This agreement was faithfully followed for some<br /> a test case and were successful, using for their own time, but then again it began to be broken. It is<br /> ends an Act which was passed for an entirely different needless to mention the many cases in which it was<br /> purpose. This action on the part of the theatrical broken. Although Sarah Bernhardt and others<br /> managers naturally raised a stir amongst the music were allowed to produce dramatic pieces contrary<br /> hall managers, who found the kind of theatrical to the agreement, the wrath of the managers was<br /> entertainment that they were putting before their aroused when Seymour Hicks produced part of<br /> customers popular and successful. They realised, Richard III. No one could possibly say that Sarah<br /> however, that, strictly speaking, a stage play could Bernhardt&#039;s performance, or that Seymour Hicks&#039;<br /> only be performed in a building that was licensed Richard III. was likely to lower the tone of music-<br /> for the purpose of presenting stage plays. The hall entertainment, so it was clear that the only<br /> music-halls had only music and dancing licences. end in view was the desire of the managers to<br /> The music-ball managers, therefore, excited the protect their own pockets. Another conference was<br /> interest of Captain Jessel, M.P., who brought then held, and again the dramatists were ignored.<br /> before Parliament a short Bill making the perform- The second conference appeared to be merely for<br /> ance of sketches in music-halls legal. This Bill the sake of confirming the first conference-it<br /> was blocked by the friends of the theatrical suggested, however, a reduction in the time limit<br /> managers, and being a Bill brought forward by to seven years—and for impressing upon the<br /> a private member, had little chance of being dis- members of the two associations that they were<br /> cussed; but as a great deal of ill-feeling and Press bound to act as gentlemen of honour in an agree-<br /> comment was excited at the time, a conference ment which was, on the face of it, illegal. Indeed,<br /> was called between the theatrical and music-hall the fact that the theatrical managers and the music-<br /> managers, at which a certain agreement was hall managers were somewhat afraid of the position<br /> arrived at, having for its object the end of sketch is shown by a letter signed by the three solicitors :<br /> prosecutions.<br /> (1) of the Society of West End Theatres, (2) of the<br /> The main points of this agreement were that not Theatrical Managers&#039; Association, and (3) of the<br /> more than two sketches should be presented in any Entertainment Protection Association. We need<br /> one programme. Of these two sketches, one should not discuss the points of that letter except as far as<br /> not last more than twenty minutes, should be per- it deals with the legality of the position taken by<br /> formed in one scene, and should be represented by these associations, but the commencement of one<br /> only four characters. The second sketch might paragraph affords an amusing aspect of the views<br /> be presented with any number of scenes and supers, taken, as it misrepresents the position entirely.<br /> but should be represented by no more than six The paragraph runs as follows: “Having regard<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 122 (#168) ############################################<br /> <br /> 122<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> to the fact that the present Act of Parliament has appear in the work any statement showing the<br /> by apparently the common consent of the authori- reservation of the property.<br /> ties been left to the parties interested to enforce, ART. 4. The right of property of a literary<br /> etc., etc.” This is an absurd view of the situation. or artistic work includes for its author or successors<br /> The authorities have not enforced action against the exclusive right to dispose of the same, to<br /> those who have run sketches at music-balls, because publish it, to sell it, translate it, or authorise the<br /> they saw that these sketches tended to raise the translation of it, and to reproduce it in any form<br /> entertainment and not to debase it, and it was only either in its entirety or partially.<br /> to protect the public against improper performances ART. 5. The following shall be regarded as the<br /> that the Act was passed, and if the authorities have author of a protected work, except when proofs to<br /> left the issue in the hands of the parties, interested, the contrary are produced. He whose name or<br /> why have not the dramatists been consulted ? pseudonym shall be expressed therein, and, conse-<br /> What, therefore, must be done from the drama- quently, the action brought by the author or his<br /> tist&#039;s point of view ? There are two main lines to representative against plagiarists or infringers,<br /> take : (1) to find out how far this action is illegal, shall be admitted before the courts of the several<br /> and if it is illegal to prevent it on the sound prin- signatory countries.<br /> ciple that no artist has a right to be hampered in ART. 6. Authors or their successors, whether<br /> the production of his art by the tradesmen who resident or foreign, shall enjoy, in the signatory<br /> exploit him ; (2) that every effort must be made to States, the rights granted by the respective laws,<br /> have the law altered in accordance with the view but said rights shall not exceed the period of<br /> already adopted by the Dramatic Sub-Committee protection granted in the country of origin..<br /> of the society, that places of entertainment should In the case of works consisting of several volumes<br /> be subject to one licence.<br /> which are not published together, as well as in the<br /> case of bulletins, serials or periodical publications,<br /> the term of the right of property shall commence<br /> to count with regard to each volume, bulletin,<br /> THE COPYRIGHT CONVENTION OF THE serial, or periodical publication, from the respective<br /> PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS AT date of its publication.<br /> BUENOS AIRES.<br /> ART. 7. The following shall be regarded as the<br /> country of origin of a work; that in which it was<br /> first published in America, and, in case said pub-<br /> (Reprinted from the Publishers&#039; Weekly (New York) by lication has been simultaneously made in several of<br /> kind permission of the Editor.)<br /> the signatory countries, then it shall be the one<br /> M HE Fourth International American Con- which shall fix the shortest term of protection.<br /> 1 ference, assembled in Buenos Aires, ART. 8. Any work that did not obtain its<br /> resolves :-<br /> literary property from the beginning shall not<br /> ART. 1. The signatory States recognise and acquire the same in its subsequent editions.<br /> protect the rights of literary and artistic property ART. 9. Authorised translations shall be pro-<br /> in conformity with the stipulations of the present tected in the same manner as original works.<br /> conventions.<br /> The translators of works in which there is no<br /> ART. 2. By “literary and artistic works&quot; is guaranteed property or in which the same has<br /> meant the books, articles, pamphlets of all kinds expired, shall have the right to obtain-in so far<br /> --whatever may be the subject they deal with, and as the translations thereof are concerned—the<br /> whatever be the number of the pages thereof, right of property specified in article 3, but they<br /> dramatic or musical works ; those of a choregraphic shall not be able to prevent the publication of<br /> character, musical compositions with or without other translations of the work.<br /> words ; drawings, paintings, sculptures, and en- ART. 10. The speeches delivered or read in<br /> gravings ; photographic works, astronomical or deliberating assemblies, before the courts of justice,<br /> geographical spheres; plans, sketches or plastic or in public meetings, may be published in the<br /> works relating to geography, geology, topography, newspapers without any authorisation whatever,<br /> architecture or any science; and, finally, they also this right being subject to the provisions of the<br /> comprise every production that can be published internal laws of each State concerning the matter.<br /> by any printing or reproducing process.<br /> ART. 11. Literary, scientific, or artistic works,<br /> ART. 3. The recognition of the right of pro- whaterer may be the subject thereof, published in<br /> perty obtained in a State, in conformity with its newspapers or reviews of any of the countries of<br /> laws, shall fully and legally have its effects in the the Union, shall not be reproduced in the other<br /> other States, without the necessity of complying countries without the previous consent of the<br /> with any other formality, provided there shall authors. With the exception of the aforesaid<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 123 (#169) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 123<br /> works, any newspaper article may be reproduced who led the way and scored a great success with<br /> by others, if this has not been expressly prohibited, “Eugene Aram.” Never before in an English<br /> and, in any event, the source from which said novel had a murderer been portrayed as an earnest<br /> article has been obtained should be duly cited. student of philosophy, of grave mien, gentle<br /> Such miscellaneous newspaper news which repre- manners, and noble heart; never before had<br /> sent merely Press reports shall not enjoy the there been depicted a murderer-a murderer who<br /> protection of this convention.<br /> murdered for money, to boot—whose character was<br /> ART. 12. The reproduction of fragments of so endearing and so sympathetic as to enslave most<br /> literary or artistic works in publications for of those who read about him. The book was<br /> educational purposes or chrestomathy does not favourably received in most quarters, but here and<br /> confer any right of property, and, consequently, there a dissentient voice was heard, and in Fraser&#039;s<br /> can be made freely in all the signatory countries. Magazine for August and September, 1832, a tre-<br /> ART. 13. For the purposes of civil responsi- mendous onslaught, in the form of a story called<br /> bility indirect appropriations, not authorised, of a “Elizabeth Brownrigge” (which dealt with the<br /> literary or artistic work not representing the murderess of that name), was made upon the<br /> character of the original work, shall be considered author of “ Eugene Aram,&quot; to whom it was<br /> unlawful reproductions.<br /> dedicated. “I am inclined to regard you as an<br /> The reproduction, in whatever form, of an entire original discoverer in the world of literary enter-<br /> work or of the greater part thereof, accompanied prise, and to reverence you as the father of a new<br /> by notes or comments, on the pretext of literary lusus nature school,&quot; so ran a passage in the<br /> criticism, or as extension or complement of said dedication of the satire. “There is no other title<br /> work, shall also be considered as unlawful.<br /> by which your manner could be so aptly designated.<br /> ART. 14. Every plagiarised work may be seized I am told, for instance, that in a former work,<br /> in the signatory countries wherein the original having to paint an adulterer, you described him as<br /> work has a right to be legally protected, this right belonging to the class of country curates, among<br /> being without prejudice to such indemnities or whom, perhaps, such a criminal is not met with<br /> punishment as the plagiarists may incur, in once in a hundred years ; while, on the contrary,<br /> accordance with the laws of the country where the being in search of a tender-hearted, generous,<br /> fraud has been committed.<br /> sentimental, high-minded hero of romance, you<br /> ART. 15. Each of the Governments of the turned to the pages of the “Newgate Calendar,&quot;<br /> signatory countries shall preserve the right to and looked for him in the list of men who have<br /> permit, guard, or prohibit the circulation, repre- cut throats for money, among whom a person in<br /> sentation, or exhibition of such works or repro possession of such qualities could not have been<br /> dactions concerning which its constituted met with at all. Wanting a shrewd, selfish,<br /> authorities would have to exercise the aforesaid worldly, calculating valet, you describe him as an<br /> right.<br /> old soldier, though he bears not a single trait of<br /> ART. 16. The present convention shall com the character which might have been moulded by<br /> mence to be in force among such signatory States a long course of military service, but, on the con-<br /> as ratify the same three months after its ratifica trary, is marked by all the distinguishing features<br /> tion shall be communicated to the Argentine of a bankrupt attorney or a lame duck from the<br /> Government, and shall remain in force among all Stock Exchange. Having to paint a cat, you<br /> until a year after the date of denouncement. endow her with the idiosyncrasies of a dog.&quot;<br /> This denouncement shall be communicated to There is one other passage which must also be<br /> the Argentine Government and shall have no quoted : “ It is extraordinary that, as you had<br /> effect with regard to the country making the commenced a tragedy under the title of Eugene<br /> same.<br /> Aram,&#039; I had already sketched a burletta with the<br /> title of Elizabeth Brownrigge.&#039; I had, indeed, in<br /> my dramatic piece, been guilty of an egregious ani<br /> unpardonable error ; I had attempted to excite<br /> THACKERAY AND THE NEWGATE<br /> the sympathies of the audience in favour of the<br /> SCHOOL OF FICTION.<br /> murdered apprentices, but your novel has dis-<br /> abused me of so vulgar a prejudice, and in my<br /> present version of her case, all the interest of the<br /> TN the &#039;thirties of the last century arose the reader and all the pathetic powers of the author<br /> Newgate School of Fiction, which made will be engaged on the side of the murderess.”<br /> heroes of highwaymen and other offenders, At the end of the satire, there is an “ Advertise-<br /> and so created a false sympathy for the vicious and ment,” which runs :-“ The author of the foregoing<br /> criminal. The ingenious Bulwer-Lytton it was tale begs leave to state that he is prepared to treat<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 124 (#170) ############################################<br /> <br /> 124<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> with any liberal and enterprising publisher, who<br /> may be inclined to embark in the speculation, for a<br /> series of novels, each in 3 vols. 8vo, under the<br /> title of Tales of the Old Bailey ; or, Romances of<br /> Tyburn Tree,&#039; in which the whole Newgate<br /> Calendar&#039; shall be travestied, after the manner of<br /> · Eugene Aram.&#039; Letters (post-paid) addressed to<br /> X. Y. Z., 215, Regent Street (the offices of Fraser&#039;s<br /> Magazine], will receive immediate attention.&quot;<br /> &quot; Elizabeth Brownrigge” was published anony-<br /> mously, and if it attracted any attention at the<br /> time, it certainly did not attract sufficient to make<br /> people desirous to discover the author. It may at<br /> the time of its publication have been attributed to<br /> this writer or to that, but it was not (as far as is<br /> known) until a month or two after Thackeray&#039;s<br /> death that Dr. John Brown in an article on the<br /> novelist in the North British Review (February,<br /> 1864) attributed it to him—on what evidence he<br /> does not state, though he may well have had the<br /> information from the author. “Elizabeth Brown-<br /> rigge” is particularly interesting, because, whether<br /> Thackeray did or did not write the story, there can<br /> be no question but that it was directly responsible<br /> for “Catherine,&quot; which had the same object as the<br /> earlier story. “• Elizabeth Brownrigge&#039; ought to<br /> be Thackeray&#039;s,&quot; Swinburne wrote to Mr. Richard<br /> Herne Shepherd in 1880, “ for if it is not, he stole<br /> the idea, and to some extent the style, of his<br /> parodies on novels of criminal life, from this first<br /> sketch of the kind.”<br /> A couple of years after “Eugene Aram ” was<br /> published, William Harrison Ainsworth came to<br /> the fore as an exponent or the Newgate School of<br /> Fiction. Lytton had taken a murderer for his<br /> hero ; Ainsworth selected highwaymen. Dick<br /> Turpin was his jeune premier in “ Rookwood,&quot; and<br /> that sorry young scoundrel Jack Sheppard gave his<br /> name to, and the raison d&#039;être for, another book.<br /> These novels, too, caught the public taste, and were<br /> widely read and praised highly even by those who<br /> should have known better. Ainsworth’s recent<br /> biographer, Mr. S. M. Ellis, for one, can see<br /> no objection to the “ Jack Sheppard ” class of<br /> novel.“ The outcry against Ainsworth for having<br /> chosen a robber for a hero cannot seriously be<br /> justified,” he has written. “If it is inherently<br /> immoral to take a criminal for literary purposes<br /> and make him picturesque and interesting, then<br /> the greatest writers will have to stand in the same<br /> pillory as the author of Jack Sheppard.&#039; The<br /> principal characters of Shakespeare&#039;s tragedies of<br /> * Hamlet,&#039; of Macbeth,&#039; of Othello,&#039; are but<br /> murderers; Falstaff is a robber and worse. Scott<br /> must answer for &#039;Rob Roy’; Fielding for Jonathan<br /> Wild’; Gay for “The Beggars&#039; Opera&#039;; Schiller<br /> for The Robbers’; Hood for his magnificent<br /> · Eugene Aram’; Dumas for his “Celebrated<br /> Crimes,&#039; and so on through literature of all times<br /> and countries. This brilliant band of criminals,<br /> illuminated and idealised by literary limelight,<br /> cannot deny the consanguineous claims of poor,<br /> abused · Jack Sheppard.&#039;” It would, indeed, be a<br /> waste of time to dwell upon the fallacies of this<br /> argument; but it may be remarked that Ains-<br /> worth&#039;s enthusiastic defender has strangely misread<br /> &quot; Jonathan Wild.” since he can mention that<br /> brilliant satire in connection with the Newgate<br /> School of Fiction ; he might as well have added to<br /> the list “ Catherine.” Mr. Ellis insists that the<br /> Newgate novels of Ainsworth are moral because<br /> the villains end on the gallows. He ignores the<br /> fact that, while they do go to the gallows, they go<br /> as heroes, not as malefactors ; but he inadvertently<br /> admits that Ainsworth “threw a romantic glamour<br /> over his merry sinners,” and so, in a line, he gives<br /> away the case he has fought so strenuously in<br /> many pages.<br /> Forster and Thackeray now led the attack<br /> against the Newgate School of Fiction. “ Bad as<br /> we think the morals, we think the puffs even more<br /> dangerous,&quot; Forster wrote in the Examiner.<br /> “Public morality and public decency have rarely<br /> been more endangered than by the trumpeted<br /> exploits of Jack Sheppard.&#039;&quot;<br /> In “Catherine,” Thackeray had something to<br /> say of one of Dickens&#039;s books. “No one,” he<br /> wrote, “has read that remarkable tale of Oliver<br /> Twist&#039; without being interested in poor Nancy<br /> and her murderer ; and especially amused and<br /> tickled by the gambols of the Artful Dodger and<br /> his companions. The power of the writer is so<br /> amazing, that the reader at once becomes his cap-<br /> tive, and must follow him wherever he leads ; and<br /> to what are we led ? Breathless to watch all the<br /> crimes of Fagin, tenderly to deplore the errors of<br /> Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and<br /> admiration, and an absolute love for the society of<br /> the Dodger. . . . A most agreeable set of rascals<br /> indeed, who have their virtues, too, but not good<br /> company for any man. We had better pass them<br /> by in decent silence ; for, as no writer can or dare<br /> tell the whole truth concerning them, and faithfully<br /> explain their vices, there is no need to give er parte<br /> statements of their virtue.&quot; It was, however,<br /> mainly against Rookwood&quot; and &quot;Jack Sheppard”<br /> the earlier part of which had appeared in Bentley&#039;s<br /> Miscellany), that Thackeray tilted in “Catherine,&quot;<br /> which purported to be written by“ Ikey Solomons,<br /> Esq., jr.&quot;- Ikey Solomons having been a notori-<br /> ous “fence,&quot;—and was dated from Horsemonger<br /> Lane, a particularly unsavoury district. Thackeray<br /> stated again that the writers of the Newgate School<br /> of Fiction did not dare to paint their heroes as the<br /> scoundrels he knew them to be. “In Freeny (the<br /> highwayman&#039;s) life,&quot; Thackeray wrote subsequently<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 125 (#171) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 125<br /> in “The Irish Sketch Book” (ch. xv.), “one this source by letting lodgings. With two of the<br /> man may see the evil of drinking, another the lodgers, Woods and Billings, she became criminally<br /> harm of horse-racing, another the danger attendant intimate, and the three of them one night in March,<br /> on early marriage, a fourth the exceeding incon- 1726, made John Hayes drunk and killed him,<br /> venience of the heroic highwayman&#039;s life—which a cutting up the body and disposing of the different<br /> certain Ainsworth in company with a certain parts in different places. One portion of the<br /> Cruikshank, have represented as so poetic and remains was discovered and then another, and<br /> brilliant, so prodigal of delightful adventure, so eventually Mrs. Hayes and Billings were arrested<br /> adorned with champagne, gold lace, and brocade.&quot; for murder, and presently Wood was captured and<br /> Thackeray had no objection to a novelist taking a confessed. Hayes pleaded not guilty, but was con-<br /> villain for his principal character ; he himself victed of petty treason and sentenced to be burnt<br /> selected Barry Lyndon for one such post of alive. The men were sentenced to be hanged.<br /> honour, but he insisted that it was bad art, as Wood died in Newgate the day before the execu-<br /> well as dishonesty and immorality, to confuse tion, and Hayes made an abortive attempt to poison<br /> virtue and vice.“ Vice,&quot; he wrote in his paper herself. No story could be more sordid or un-<br /> on the author of Tom Jones,&#039; “is vice, and is pleasant, and Thackeray deliberately mitigated the<br /> never to be mistaken for virtue in Fielding&#039;s horrors as little as possible. “Catherine&quot; appeared<br /> honest downright books ; it goes by its name, and in Fraser&#039;s Magazine from May, 1839, to February,<br /> invariably gets its punishment. See the conse- 1840, and the author was heartily pleased when the<br /> quences of honesty! Many a squeamish lady of conclusion was reached. “ Having finished our<br /> our time would fing down one of these romances delectable meal,” he wrote, “it behoves us to say<br /> with horror, but would go through every page of a word or two by way of grace at its conclusion,<br /> Mr. Ainsworth&#039;s Jack Sheppard&#039; with perfect and to be heartily thankful that it is over. It has<br /> comfort to herself. Ainsworth dared not paint his beeu the writer&#039;s object carefully to exclude from<br /> hero as the scoundrel he knew him to be ; he must his drama (except in two very insignificant<br /> keep his brutalities in the background, else the instances---mere walking gentlemen parts) any<br /> public morals will be outraged, and so he produces characters but those of scoundrels of the very<br /> a book quite absurd and unreal, and infinitely more highest degree. That he has not altogether failed<br /> immoral than anything Fielding ever wrote. Jack in the object he had in view is evident from some<br /> Sheppard&#039; is immoral actually because it is decor- newspaper critiques which he has had the good<br /> ous. The Spartans, who used to show drunken fortune to see; and which abase the tale of Catherine&#039;<br /> slaves to their children, took care, no doubt, that as one of the dullest, most vulgar and immoral<br /> the slaves should be really and truly drunk. Sham works extant. It is bighly gratifying to the author<br /> drunkenness, which never passed the limits of pro- to find that such opinions are al road, as they con-<br /> priety, but only went so far as to be amusing, would vince him that the taste for Newgate literature is<br /> be rather an object to excite youth to intoxication on the wane ; and that when the public critic has<br /> than to deter him from it, and some late novels right down undisguised immorality set before him,<br /> have always struck us in the same light.”<br /> the lowest creature is shocked at it, as he should<br /> Thackeray decided that his castigation of these be, and can declare his indignation in good round<br /> immoral novels should take the form of a story in terms of abuse. The characters of the tale are<br /> which all the principal characters were villains, immoral, and no doubt of it; but the writer<br /> portrayed, not indeed as so vile as the prototypes humbly hopes the end is not so. The public was,<br /> were, for that it was impossible to do in the page of a in our notion, dosed and poisoned by the prevailing<br /> magazine, but so nearly to life as the public could style of literary practice, and it was necessary to<br /> be expected to tolerate. With this object in view administer some medicine that would produce a<br /> he searched the “Newgate Calendar,&quot; and found wholesome nausea, and afterwards bring about a<br /> therein the very heroine for such a story as he more healthy habit. And, thank Heaven, this<br /> contemplated - Mrs. Catherine Hayes, whose effect has been produced in very many instances,<br /> history has been admirably summarised in the and that the Catherine&#039; cathartic has acted most<br /> Dictionary of National Biography by Mr. efficaciously. The author has been pleased at the<br /> Alsager Vian. Catherine Hall was her maiden disgust which his work has excited, and has watched<br /> name, and she was born near Birmingham in 1690. with benevolent carefulness the wry faces that have<br /> At a very early age she was led into evil courses. been made by many of the patients who have<br /> At the age of sixteen she married a carpenter, John swallowed the dose.”<br /> Hayes, by whom (it is to be hoped) she had twelve “Be it granted,” so the book concludes, “ that<br /> children. Some years after the marriage, they Solomons is dull, but don&#039;t attack his morality ; he<br /> went to London, where near Tyburn they set up a humbly submits that, in his poem, no man shall<br /> small shop and supplemented their income from mistake virtue for vice, no man shall allow a single<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 126 (#172) ############################################<br /> <br /> 126<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> sentiment of pity to enter his bosom for any ment of copyright. The third, by the Hon.<br /> character of the piece ; it being, from beginning to Andrew J. Peters, of Massachusetts, introduced on<br /> end, a scene of unmixed rascality performed by June 11, 1910, provided that the sale of a work<br /> people who never deviate into good feeling ; and, of art by a foreigner to a citizen of the United States<br /> although he doth not pretend to equal the great shall operate to permit the purchaser to repro-<br /> modern authors whom he has mentioned, in wit or duce the work when not for commercial use or sale.<br /> descriptive power ; yet, in the point of moral, he No action was taken on these bills, other than to<br /> meekly believes that he has been their superior ; refer them to the House Committee on Patents.<br /> feeling the greatest disgust for the characters he The full texts are printed as Addendum No. 1 to<br /> describes, and using his humble endeavour to cause the Report.<br /> the public also to hate them.”<br /> Act of July 1, 1909.-It was to be expected<br /> “It is a disgusting subject and no mistake,” that the new law would give rise to some questions<br /> Thackeray wrote to his mother. “It was a mis- of copyright interpretation, and certain provisions<br /> take all through. It was not made disgusting of the new legislation have been submitted, so the<br /> enough—that was the fact, and the triumph of it Report states, from time to time to the Attorney-<br /> would have been to make readers so horribly General for his opinion. The full text of these<br /> horrified as to cause them to give up or rather opinions rendered during the year, together with<br /> throw up the book and all its kind ; whereas you certain decisions of the Treasury department in<br /> see the author had a sneaking kindness for his regard to importation under the new copyright law,<br /> heroine, and did not like to make her quite worth- are printed in full as an appendix to the Report.<br /> less.&quot; Yet, in spite of the author&#039;s lament, The Attorney-General&#039;s opinions deal with the<br /> “ Catherine ” achieved its object, for Ainsworth<br /> gave way before the attack and made no further Importation of copyrighted books ; labels and<br /> contribution to the Newgate School of Fiction. prints for articles of manufacture ; post-card<br /> LEWIS MELVILLE. lithographs; renewal and extension of subsisting<br /> ----. -- .<br /> copyrights ; deposit of complete book required ;<br /> re-importation<br /> THE UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT<br /> of copyrighted book re-bound<br /> abroad; copyright<br /> REGISTER<br /> proclamation ; typewritten<br /> copies of a book.<br /> The Treasury Department&#039;s opinions deal with the<br /> TF every State Department in the United States following:<br /> I was conducted as well and as ably as the Importation of a book upon abandonment of<br /> Register of Copyrights under the hands of copyright: importation of translation of American<br /> Mr. Thorvald Solberg, America, would, no doubt, copyright.<br /> be the best governed country in the world.<br /> We have received the report of the Register of<br /> SOME AMERICAN WRITERS.*<br /> Copyrights for 1909–10. It runs from July in<br /> the first year to the end of June in the second,<br /> There continues to be a steady increase in the work<br /> THE American novelists taken by Professor<br /> done by this department, and the increased business<br /> Erskine as representative leaders are Charles<br /> is carried off satisfactorily and methodically : But<br /> Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper,<br /> there are some points which are of considerably William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne,<br /> greater interest than mere statistics—the course Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Bret Harte. This<br /> of copyright legislation, and the opinions of the selection, both by its inclusions and exclusions,<br /> Attorney-General on certain copyright questions will be a little puzzling to many. The name, for<br /> that have been laid before him.<br /> example, of Simms is practically unknown in<br /> Copyright Legislation. It is interesting to note England, while the readers of Charles Brockden<br /> that notwithstanding the new general consolidated<br /> Brown must be very few, although a new and fine<br /> Copyright Act which went into effect on July 1, edition of his works has been published com-<br /> 1909, three new copyright bills have been intro- paratively recently. Why Edgar Allen Poe, who<br /> duced during the sixty-first Congress. The first certainly challenges Hawthorne&#039;s right to be con-<br /> was presented by the Hon. Philip P. Campbell, of sidered the principal novelist of America, has been<br /> Kansas, on July 23, 1909, providing for the omitted, and why, also, Oliver Wendeil Holmes&#039;s<br /> suspension of protection when any patent or copy- name does not appear, Professor Erskive does not<br /> right was owned, used, or leased by any trust or explain in the preface, where we looked for some<br /> monopoly. The second, by the Hon. George W.<br /> • &quot;Leading American Novelists,&quot; by John Erskine, Ph.D.<br /> Gordon, of Tennessee, presented on May 13, 1910,<br /> London : George Bell &amp; Sons. New York : Henry Holt &amp;<br /> Lone<br /> provided specific damages in the case of infringe- Co.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 127 (#173) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 127<br /> 80<br /> 30<br /> 30<br /> hint as to the limits which he had laid down for opinions expressed by my fellow workers with<br /> himself in writing this book. It seems to us a agreement mainly, with bare tolerance sometimes,<br /> pity that the author&#039;s design is not made clear, with protest rarely. Mr. John Nayler, in the<br /> as it is inevitable that the reader should desire current issue, is the first who has aroused and<br /> to challenge his title, which is not the title pre- sustained my indignation.<br /> fixed to this note; but that is the only word of Minor rights worth two guineas !<br /> grumbling we shall utter. All the six essays May I be permitted to assert, as the writer of<br /> which the author has given us are thoroughly what Mr. Nayler terms “average” books, that<br /> well written. The information for the one on THE (excuse capitals : no mere italics will give<br /> Hawthorne, which is far the longest, has been the emphasis I require) Minor Right—the Very<br /> drawn from many obvious sources. It does Minutest—in an ordinary 80,000 word story is<br /> justice to the powers of imagination, the irony that of British Book Publication. My experience<br /> and the truly poetical genius of its subject, leads me to place the values in any such work as<br /> coming throughout to commonly accepted con below :-<br /> clusions. The essay on Bret Harte and that on American Serial Publication - Upwards of 150<br /> Mrs. Stowe also run on obvious lines ; but Professor British<br /> Erskine&#039;s appreciation of Fenimore Cooper will Australian ,<br /> 20<br /> somewhat surprise those of us who have fallen into Foreign<br /> 20<br /> the bad habit of thinking that the day of the most American Bo cation<br /> 100<br /> vigorous of American story-tellers is over. Professor Canadian ,<br /> ,<br /> Erskine shows what an admirable raconteur Cooper British ,<br /> was, how easily he could display to the reader In fact, Mr. Nayler&#039;s “trifling sums &quot; for the<br /> complicated scenes of action, and how skilfully he average book of the average writer of any experi-<br /> brought up personal experiences to bear upon the ence, in the hands of capable agents should amount<br /> situations in his romances. Simms was à south to not less than £300 and are easily worth as much<br /> country follower of Cooper, and suffered by com- more. In Mr. Nayler&#039;s idea the whole sum of<br /> parison with him, as Cooper did by comparison commercial acumen and commercial integrity is<br /> with Scott. Simms&#039;s life was a greater one than his concentrated in the hands of publishers. He gives<br /> novels would suggest, but undoubtedly the trials his reason. It is that the publisher is anxious<br /> and hardsbips of his career prevented him from “to develop all possible avenues of sale.” Of<br /> doing justice to a fine impulse towards roinance. course be is, but so is the agent, for his own<br /> The American novel is usually supposed to begin benefit and for the benefit of the author. Wherein<br /> with Charles Brockden Brown, the author of lies a great difference. The values of a story are<br /> “ Edgar Huntley,&quot; “ Wieland,&quot; “ Ormond,&quot; and much more likely to be ascertained and marketed by<br /> several other books, five of which were written con- an agent—he is selling them year in and year out.<br /> currently, when he was about twenty-eight years of A publisher gushes into such activities at inter-<br /> age. In many ways the chapter on Brown, with mittent intervals. I have asked myself Mr.<br /> which the book opens, is the most interesting, for Nayler&#039;s concluding question. Is it better to<br /> its subject was a highly romantic character, and leave such minor rights in the hand of an agent on<br /> the brief résumés of the novels make amusing a 10 per cent. commission basis, or to share equally<br /> reading. Those who tackle the books themselves, with a publisher ? It seems to answer itself. Why<br /> however, will, we think, be sadly disappointed, for, pay 50 per cent, for an accommodation when 10<br /> truth to say, Brown&#039;s invention is mechanical, his will suffice ?<br /> Faithfully yours,<br /> psychological insight little, and his eloquent<br /> FRANK SAVILE.<br /> phrases rather boring.<br /> -<br /> In congratulating Professor Erskine on the book,<br /> EDITORIAL DELAY.<br /> we cannot help wishing that he would give us in<br /> a companion volume similar appreciations of the SIR,—May I venture to move that your corre-<br /> authors of &quot; Arthur Gordon Pym,” “ The Epic of spondent Mr. Francis George Heath has opened a<br /> Wheat,&quot; “ Huckleberry Finn,” “Mr. Isaacs,&quot; and topic of considerable importance and keen general<br /> “Elsie Venner,&quot; to say nothing of living writers. interest to the profession of authorship in his<br /> allusion to the prevailing English custom of<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> “ payment on publication.&quot;<br /> From a business point of view the practice is<br /> bad ; ethically it is unjust and undesirable ; practi-<br /> PUBLISHERS AND MINOR (?) Rights. cally it is inconvenient and disliked. What is still<br /> SIR,—I have been a diligent reader of The more obvious, to a struggling author, possessed or<br /> Author for many years and have perused the no private means, it must always be a definite<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 128 (#174) ############################################<br /> <br /> 128<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> T<br /> The cheque I asked for came to hand five or six<br /> months later.<br /> As a contrast to this, from nearly all the<br /> American periodicals to which I contribute a<br /> cheque arrives either with acceptance or is<br /> despatched at the end of month of acceptance.<br /> This is an “ Americanism” which I feel sure<br /> most, if not all, of the members of the Incorporated<br /> Society of Authors would like to see in use in this<br /> country. I am, dear Sir, Yours truly,<br /> FRANK E. VERNEY.<br /> “AMERICAN SLANG.”<br /> SIR,—I observe that in The Author for January<br /> 2, 1911, it is stated that some have supposed<br /> the word “mayhem ” to be “ American slang,&quot;<br /> whereas in fact it is an “English legal term.”<br /> Please allow me to add that it is merely one of the<br /> numerous old spellings of the word “maim.&quot;<br /> Your correspondent implies this, no doubt, but it<br /> may as well be definitely stated.<br /> WALTER W. SKEAT.<br /> i<br /> hardship ; and no doubt it is considered more than<br /> a nuisance at times to the author who is neither<br /> struggling nor lacking private means.<br /> Shorn of its dignified air of philanthropic<br /> promise, what does “ payment on publication”<br /> amount to?<br /> It amounts to this. The author is providing<br /> the capital for the “ advance&quot; programme of the<br /> periodical.<br /> Apparently, modern conditions of periodical<br /> publication demand that a magazine shall be<br /> made up several months ahead. For instance, a<br /> Christmas number is often in hand in August.<br /> Who capitalises this post-preparation ? Not<br /> the proprietor. The author does, so far as the<br /> literary contents are concerned.<br /> As an illustration, your correspondent, referring<br /> to an American journal which pays on acceptance,<br /> says : “I understand at the time Scribners had<br /> invested £3,500 in MS. which it had not room<br /> for.” It needs no great financial acumen to<br /> deduce from this that in the case of the magazine<br /> which pays on publication the author is providing<br /> the capital. In other words more literally exact,<br /> the money to which the author is rightfully<br /> entitled upon the delivery of his completed work<br /> is held back until the purchaser himself (the editor)<br /> has sold the work (i.e., published it), which latter<br /> process takes place when it suits the editorial plans.<br /> Now this system would be excellent if authors<br /> were a class of men expressly engaged in looking<br /> for opportunities of financing journalistic enter-<br /> prises—purely from pleasurable motives--as a<br /> person would present a coin to a tumbler to turn<br /> a double somersault.<br /> So far as my acquaintance goes, this is not a<br /> correct definition of authorship. Therefore I<br /> think it is time concerted action was taken by<br /> literary men, and representations made to the<br /> English periodicals, in an effort to persuade a<br /> more equitable system into general adoption.<br /> It may be that an author can often get his<br /> is<br /> money by specially asking for it, but I think there<br /> is a natural objection to this course, apart from the<br /> not ill-founded feeling that such a request does<br /> not add to the felicity of future relations with the<br /> editor to whom it is put.<br /> In one case within my own experience I wrote<br /> to the editor of a prominent magazine requesting<br /> payment for a contribution which had been<br /> accepted several weeks before, explaining that I<br /> wished to clear up all my affairs before departing<br /> on an expedition through a certain tropical country<br /> where lethal dangers from climate and native were<br /> ordinary features and might possibly prevent return.<br /> In a footnote to a communication asking for<br /> further contributions my request was answered<br /> 3<br /> thus : “ Payment is always made on publication.”<br /> DEAR SIR,_Can any of your readers tell me if<br /> there is an English reference library on the island<br /> of Madeira, or is it necessary for a writer to take<br /> out all ordinary works of reference, as well as the<br /> special books needed for the subject engaged on?<br /> Perhaps some author who has had personal<br /> experience of life out there will be kind enough<br /> to give me a little practical information, not only<br /> on the above very essential question, but also with<br /> regard to the cost of living, sanitary conditions,<br /> recommended addresses, etc., in a district where<br /> the climate from October to April is equable and<br /> dry, but not so warm as to unfit me for residence<br /> in England during the other half of the year.<br /> I am, etc., ADA EARLAND.<br /> c/<br /> c/o Messrs. 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