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They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
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1 1 0<br />
April 22, H. A. and Mrs. Hinkson 1 0 0<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
April 24, Toplis, Miss Grace<br />
0 10 0<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
May, Walter John<br />
;<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
.<br />
. : . 2 2 0<br />
May 19, An Old Member.<br />
.<br />
1<br />
. 0<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im.<br />
0<br />
I<br />
June 2, Wrench, Mrs. Stanley<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
July 3, Ingram, J. H.<br />
:<br />
..<br />
: : 0 5 0<br />
Consols 21%.......... ............ £1,312 13 4 July 13, Fell-Smith, Miss C.<br />
• . 0 5 0<br />
Local Loans ..................<br />
500 0 0 Sept. 18, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
ture Stock ............;<br />
250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ..... 200 0 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 3 % Inscribed<br />
M HE last meeting before the vacation was held<br />
Stock ............................. 200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
I on Monday, July 3, at the offices of the<br />
4% Preference Stock..................<br />
society, and the committee decided not to<br />
228 0 0<br />
meet again until October unless business of such<br />
New Zealand 31% Stock......... 247 96<br />
Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock<br />
vital importance to the society came up for con-<br />
258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
sideration that it could not be negotiated by the<br />
chairman with the assistance of the secretary and<br />
1927-57 .............................. 438 2 4<br />
the society's solicitors. The usual vacation powers<br />
Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock...............<br />
were given to the chairman to act on behalf of the<br />
120 121<br />
committee in the absence of the members.<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Granı Stock, 1938...<br />
Three elections were chronicled, bringing the<br />
198 3 8<br />
total number for the year up to 154. There were<br />
Total.<br />
two resignations, bringing the total resignations<br />
... £4,377 19 4<br />
to 59.<br />
The solicitor of the society attended the meeting<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
and reported on the cases he had in hand. The first<br />
1911.<br />
£ & d. case, referring to the bankruptcy of a publisher in<br />
March 9, Boughton, Rutland . . 0 5 0 which many members were involved, he reported to<br />
March 10, Somers, John .<br />
5 0 be practically closed, as the contracts had either<br />
April 6, Rawlings, Burford<br />
10 6 been determined or re-settled. He reported the<br />
April 11, Wicks, Mark .<br />
5 0 steps he had taken to carry out the committee's<br />
June 15, Fitzgerald, Colin<br />
0 5 0 instructious in the cases chronicled in the last issue<br />
June 15, Fleming, Mrs. A. . . 2 0 0 of The Author. In one case further evidence was<br />
June 15, Sabatini, Rafael . .<br />
5 0 required before action could be taken. In another<br />
June 16, Hamilton, Henry .<br />
. 1 1 0 he reported that the defendant had been thrown<br />
into bankruptcy, and two other cases bad been<br />
Donations.<br />
settled finally and satisfactorily. One case of<br />
1911.<br />
infringement of copyright, started in the spring of<br />
March 3, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
. ( 10 0 the year, he stated could not be tried before the<br />
March 6, Haultain, Arnold.<br />
. 1 1 0 Long Vacation, and in another case, proceedings<br />
..<br />
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which had been commenced by the society some was settled and thefagenda for that meeting were<br />
time ago had been closed by the payment of a small also discussed. The date of the annual dinner was<br />
sum and costs, without it being necessary to go into left open, it being agreed that, as usual, some day<br />
court.<br />
in the late autumn should be chosen.<br />
There was one case of a very difficult nature.<br />
which related to a publisher's accounts. The solicitor<br />
put forward very fully the issues involved, and<br />
after careful consideration the committee instructed<br />
Cases.<br />
the solicitor to come to a reasonable compromise if SINCE the last publication of The Author there<br />
it were possible to do so, and indicated one or two have been thirty-six disputes placed into the hands<br />
points which they considered should be an essential of the secretary. They may be divided as follows :<br />
part of any compromise reached.<br />
fourteen claims for money ; seven claims for the<br />
There were no fresh cases for the solicitors in return of MSS. ; seven claims for accounts and<br />
England, but the secretary reported that a case money ; three claims for accounts ; four disputes<br />
which the society was conducting in Switzerland on agreements ; one infringement of copyright.<br />
had been delayed in settlement, and instructions The average number of cases that come to the<br />
were received from the committee that proceedings office during any given month is from fifteen to<br />
should be taken at once, and that the Swiss lawyer twenty, so that the number that has come into the<br />
should be urged to bring matters to a prompt issue. society during the last two months shows no<br />
The next business before the committee was the diminution.<br />
consideration of the position of the Copyright Bill. Of the fourteen claims for money due to authors,<br />
The secretary reported the steps that had been taken five have been settled, and the cash has been<br />
by himself, the chairman of the society, and other forwarded ; seven have had to be placed in the<br />
members of the committee. The committee was hands of the solicitors. Of these we are glad to<br />
informed as to the meetings that had been held, report that five have been settled. Thus four are<br />
and the negotiations that had been carried through. left unsettled, two in the secretary's hands, and<br />
The secretary stated that all the clauses of the Bill two in the solicitors' hands. Of the seven claims<br />
had been passed in Committee with the exception for the return of MSS., one has been brought to a<br />
of the clauses dealing with the mechanical reproduc- satisfactory termination, two have had to be placed<br />
tion of musical work, which would be considered in the hands of the solicitors, and two, owing to<br />
immediately. He added that it had been arranged the claims being abroad—one in India, and one in<br />
to hold a meeting of the joint committee—that is, Australia—are still open, and two have only<br />
the committee comprising representatives of the recently come into the office. Members should<br />
Society of Authors, the Publishers Association, and not forget that the legal position in the case of<br />
the Copyright Association-after the Committee the return of MSS. is generally not very strong.<br />
stage of the Bill was at an end and before the It is not only necessary to show that the MSŠ.<br />
Report stage. The joint committee would then have come into the hands of a responsible party<br />
decide what further action, if any, was possible or in the office, but also that their loss is due to negli-<br />
desirable.<br />
gence. Unless these facts can clearly be established,<br />
The Canadian Copyright Bill was then discussed, it is hardly worth while to take action, when such<br />
and here the secretary reported the action taken by great facilities for making copies can be em-<br />
the Société des Gens de Lettres and the Société des ployed. Authors should always keep copies of<br />
Auteurs Dramatiques, and stated that he had their MSS. Of the seven ciaims for money and<br />
received letters from influential quarters in America accounts, four have been brought to a close, the<br />
asking for the society's support to carry through accounts having been rendered and the money<br />
certain amendments on the Bill. The committee paid. One has been partly settled, that is to say,<br />
decided to refer the matter to counsel (Mr. E. J. the accounts have been rendered, and part of the<br />
MacGillivray) with instructions to settle a report money has been paid : but the balance is still<br />
to be forwarded to the Canadian Government as disputed. One has been placed with the solicitors,<br />
from the Society of Authors.<br />
and two are still in the hands of the secretary. Of<br />
Then followed discussion of a question referred the three claims for accounts, one has been satis-<br />
to the Committee of Management by the Dramatic factorily settled, one has been placed with the<br />
Sub-Committee relating to the financial side of a solicitors, and one is still in course of negotiation.<br />
proposal for a dramatic agent in America. The Of four disputes on agreements, two have been<br />
committee expressed sympathy with the efforts of concluded. Two are still in course of negotiation.<br />
the dramatists, and promised to assist them by Matters of this kind sometimes take a long time if<br />
bearing some reasonable share of the cost.<br />
it is a question of cancelling the agreement and<br />
The date of the council meeting for the autumn winding up the whole matter.<br />
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As the case of infringement of copyright has<br />
occurred in India, it will take some time before an<br />
answer can be obtained.<br />
There are two cases still remaining over from<br />
July. These are both cases of account and should<br />
be settled shortly. The delay has arisen owing to<br />
the transfer of the publishers' business.<br />
In addition to the matters placed with the<br />
London lawyers referred to above, there are other<br />
nogo<br />
cases which have had to be placed direct in their<br />
hich have had to be placed direct in their<br />
hands, besides two cases which have had to be<br />
referred to the United States lawyers, and one<br />
important issue to the lawyers in Germany.<br />
Very little can be done during the long vacation<br />
in the Courts, so that there is but little progress<br />
to report on the matters in the hands of the Society<br />
in which legal action has to be taken.<br />
July Elections.<br />
Haddon, John, M.A., M.D. (Edin.), Denholm,<br />
Hawick, Sot-<br />
land.<br />
Kennion, Major R. L.<br />
Varty Smith, J. C. . . Nandana, Penrith,<br />
Cumberland.<br />
. Nonetan<br />
Cumberla<br />
THE KALEVSKI MEMOIRS, 1869–1899. By ASHMORE<br />
WINGATE. 77 x 43. 149 pp. Glasgow : Vicoll.<br />
18. 6d. n.<br />
AN IMPERIAL VICTIM, MARIE LOUISE, ARCHDTCHESS<br />
OF AUSTRIA, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, DUCHESS OF<br />
Parma. By EDITH E. CUTHELL. Two volumes.<br />
9 x 51. 400 + 392 pp. Stanley Paul. 248. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
MARIAMNE. By F. STURGE MOORE. 83 x 51. 75 pp.<br />
Duckworth. 28. n.<br />
DESIDERIO. A Play in Three Acts. By MAURICE BARIXG.<br />
D<br />
7} x 5. 104 pp. Oxford: Blackwell ; London :<br />
Simpkin Marshall.' 18. n.<br />
THE LITTLE DREAM. An Allegory in Six Scenes. By<br />
JOHN GALSWORTHY. 61 x 5. 38 pp. Duckworth.<br />
18. 1.<br />
THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS. An Improbable<br />
Comedy. By JEROME K. JEROME. 78 x 57. * 167 pp.<br />
Fisher Unwin. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE SALE OF SAINT THOMAS. By LASCELLES ABER-<br />
CROMBIE. 74 x 5. 29 pp. The Author : Ryton,<br />
Dymock, Gloucester.<br />
THE PASSING OF BALDUR; A WINTER'S MYSTERY. In<br />
two parts. Part I. Odin the Watcher. 31 pp. (68. n.).<br />
Part II, Forlorn Gods. 24 pp. (6d. n.). The Dweller<br />
in the Body. 34 pp. (1s. n.). Dawn; a Folk Miracle<br />
Play. 234 pp. (1x, n.). By HOPE REA (Garden City<br />
Folk Plays).* 73 x 43. Theosophical Publishing Society.<br />
ECONOMICS.<br />
HISTORY OF MONEY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE<br />
UNITED STATES. By AGNES F. DODD. 8 X 54. 356 pp.<br />
Longmans. 5x. n.<br />
THE BRITISH TRADE BOOKS. By J. HOLT SCHOOLING.<br />
(Fourth issue.) 10 x 67. 582 pp. Murray. 108. 6d. n.<br />
FICTION<br />
THE WONDER OF LOVE. By E. MARIA ALBANESI. 8} x 5.<br />
148 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
WHITE ABBEY. By EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS.<br />
8 X 58. 158 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
INTERPLAY. By BEATRICE HARRADEN. 61 x 1<br />
463 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
THE LONE ADVENTURE. By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE.<br />
7. X 5. 445 pp. Fisher Unwin. 68.<br />
INTELLECTUAL MARIE. By HARRY TIGHE. 8 x 51.<br />
319 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
THE BEACON. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 73 x 5383 pp.<br />
Fisher Unwin. 68.<br />
THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN. By G. K.<br />
CA ESTERTON. 73 x 5. 336 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
LOVE IN<br />
I<br />
A LITTLE Town. By J. E. BUCKROSE.<br />
78 x 5. 326 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
ENTER CHARMIAN. By HAROLD VALLINGS. 71 x 3.<br />
334 pp. Smith Elder. 6s.<br />
HILARY ONSLOW. By HORACE WYNDHAM. 74 x 3.<br />
323 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br />
TAE QUEEN'S FILLET. By the Rev. P. A. CAXOX<br />
SHEEHAN, D.D. 73 x 51.376 pp. Longmans. 68.<br />
A<br />
a<br />
CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP. By KATE DOUGLAS<br />
WIGGIN. 7 x 43. 96 pp. Gay & Hancock. 18. n.<br />
THE LITTLE MINISTER. By J. M. BARRIE. 71 X 5.<br />
340 pp. Cassell. ls. n.<br />
A STORM-RENT SKY. By M. BETHAM EDWARDS.<br />
8 X 51. 126 pp. Collins. 6d. n.<br />
THE DAWN OF ALL. By R. H. BENSON. 7} x 5. 339 pp.<br />
Hutchinson. 6s.<br />
THE CITY OF ENTICEMENT, By DOROTHEA GERARD.<br />
8 x 5. 320 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
Sylvia's CHAUFFEUR. By LOUIS TRACY. 73 X 5.<br />
320 pp. Ward, Lock, 6s.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
ARCHÆOLOGY.<br />
OUT OF THE IVORY PALACES. By P. H. DITCHFIELD.<br />
73 X 5. 308 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
ART.<br />
THE PAINTERS OF JAPAN. By A. MORRISON. Two<br />
volumes. 153–127 pp. Jack. £55 n.<br />
IDEALS OF INDIAN ART. By E. B. HAVELL. Royal<br />
octavo. 188 pp. Introduction. xx. pp. 33 Full-page<br />
Plates. John Murray. 158. n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
THE DIARY OF DR. JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI, 1816. Re.<br />
lating to Byron, Shelley, &c. Edited by W. M. ROSSETTI.<br />
73 X 5. 228 pp. Elkin Matthews. 48. 6d. n.<br />
THE LIFE OF OSCAR WILDE. By R. H. SHERARD. 9 x 57.<br />
403 pp. (New Edition). Werner Laurie.<br />
AN EARLY VICTORIAN HEROINE : The Story of Harriette<br />
McDougall. By M. BRAMSTON, S.T.L. 71 x 5. 95 pp.<br />
S.P.C.K. 1s. 6d.<br />
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THE SHADOW OF A DWARF. By HOPE PROTHERO.<br />
74 x 5. 328 pp. Century Press. 68.<br />
THE REFUGEES. By A. CONAN DOYLE. 61 x 44.<br />
383 pp. Nelsons. 7d. n.<br />
THE GLORY OF CLEMENTINA WING. By W. J. LOCKE.<br />
7 x 5. 375 pp. Lane. 6s.<br />
THE SUMMER BOOK. By MAX PEMBERTON. 78 X 5.<br />
306 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
THE ARREST OF ARSÈNE LUPIN. By MAURICE<br />
LEBLANC. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE<br />
MATTOS. 71 X 5. 277 pp. Nash. 28. n.<br />
DESTINY. By ALICE and CLAUD ASKEW. 8 x 5.<br />
328 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 68.<br />
NIGEL FERRARD. By MRS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS. (New<br />
and Revised Edition.) 77 x 5. 380 pp. Mills & Boon.<br />
68.<br />
VIRGINIA PERFECT. By PEGGY WEBLING. 63 x 47.<br />
221 pp. (Cheap edition.) Metbuen. 18. n.<br />
THE GARDEN OF MYSTERY. By RICHARD MARSH.<br />
316 pp. John Long. 6d. n.<br />
MASTER CHRISTOPHER. By MRS. HENRY DE LA PASTURE<br />
(LADY CLIFFORD). 7 X 5. 393 pp, Smith Elder.<br />
68.<br />
IN SEARCH OF EGERIA. By W. L. COURTNEY. 78 x 5.<br />
330 pp. Chapman & Hall. 6s.<br />
OUR LADY OF THE LEOPARDS. By ALBERT DORRING-<br />
Tox. 73 x 5. 314 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
THE SHADOW OF LOVE. By MARCELLE TINAYRE.<br />
Translated by A. ALLINSON. 71 x 5. 310 pp. Lane.<br />
68.<br />
A GIRL WITH A HEART. By EFFIE ADELAIDE Row<br />
LANDS. 7 x 5. 304 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
THE ROMANCE OF A FRENCH PARSONAGE. By M.<br />
BETHAM-EDWARDS. (Cheap Reprint.) 67 x 4. 270 pp.<br />
Collins Clear Type Press. 3 d. n.<br />
MRS. MAXON PROTESTS. By ANTHONY HOPE. 74 x 5.<br />
351 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE NOTORIOUS Miss LISLE. By MRS. BAILLIE<br />
REYNOLDS. 78 X 5. 308 pp. Hodder & Stoughton,<br />
6x,<br />
THE YEAR'S ROUND. By MAUD RAWSON. 74 x 5.<br />
401 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
LOVE'S PRIVILEGE. By STELLA M. DÜRING. 74 x 5.<br />
376 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
ARDNAREE. The Story of an English Girl in Connaught.<br />
Told by herself and edited by RANDAL MCDONNEL.<br />
7* 5. Dublin : Gill.<br />
THE IMPERISHABLE WING. By MRS. HAVELOOK ELLIS.<br />
7 x 5. 283 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
Fox FARM. By WARWICK DEEPING. 7{ x 5. 403 pp.<br />
Cassell. 68.<br />
Hodson's VOYAGE. By W. H. KOEBEL. 73 x 5. 310 pp.<br />
Stanley Paul. 6s.<br />
THE BEES. By M. ELLEN THONGER. 7{ x 5. 312 pp.<br />
Chapman & Hall. 68.<br />
ROSE OF THE WORLD. By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE.<br />
61 x 47. 380 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
LALAGE'S LOVERS, By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM. 73 x 5.<br />
305 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
THERE WAS A WIDOW. By MARY E. MANN. 74 x 5.<br />
309 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE UNOFFICIAL HONEYMOON. By DOLF WYLLARDE.<br />
73 X 5. 312 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE RAJAH, By F. E. PENNY. 74 x 5. 398 pp.<br />
Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
PETER AND JANE; OR, THE MISSING HEIR. By S.<br />
MACNAUGHTAN. 73 X 5. 310 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
ALL AWRY. By MAUDE ANNESLEY. 78 X 5. 368 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
THE MILLER OF OLD CHURCH. By ELLEN GLASGOW.<br />
73 x . 432 pp. Murray. 68.<br />
THE HOUSE OF CHANCE. By GERTIE DE S. WENTWORTH<br />
JAMES. 73 5. 313 pp. Everett. 6s.<br />
BERTRAND OF BRITTANY. By WARWICK DEEPING,<br />
74 X 5. 370 pp. Cassell. 18. n.<br />
A LONELY LITTLE LADY. By DOLF WYLLARDE.<br />
61 x 47. 207 pp. Hutchinson. 7d. n.<br />
MR. INGLESIDE." By E. V. LUCAS. 63 41. 316 pp.<br />
(New Edition.) Methuen. 58.<br />
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND, AND OTHER STORIES.<br />
By H. G. WELLS. 78 X 5. 574 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
ANTHEA'S GUEST. By MRS. ALFRED SIDGWICK. 71 x 5.<br />
313 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE Cost. By L. G. MOBERLY. 74 x 5. 325 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon.' 68.<br />
A BLOOD-MOON; THE BUHL CABINET, AND STORIES<br />
FROM ALGIERS. By IRENE OSGOOD. 71 X 41. 254 pp.<br />
Everett. 28, n.<br />
THE RIGHT OF WAY. By SIR GILBERT PARKER.<br />
54 X 41. 378 pp. Nelson. 78. n.<br />
A BAVARIAN VILLAGE PLAYER. By FRANCES G.<br />
BURMESTER. Greening & Co. 68.<br />
RED Eve. By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 78 x 5. 296 pp.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
ABOVE YOUR HEADS. By FREDERICK NITEN. 73 x 5.<br />
299 pp. Martin Secker. 68.<br />
No MAN'S LAND. By L. J. VANCE. 73 x 51. 309 pp.<br />
Grant Richards. 68.<br />
THE LOST IPHIGENIA. By AGNES and EGERTON<br />
CASTLE. 78 X 5. 316 pp. Smith Elder. 68.<br />
THE WOMAN WINs. By R. MACHRAY, 75 X 5. 347 pp.<br />
Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
IN DIFFERENT Keys. By I. A. R. WYLIE. 74 x 5.<br />
320 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
A PASSION IN MOROCCO. By MRS. CHARLOTTE CAMERON.<br />
84 x 51. 126 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
THE SILENT HOUSE. By LOUIS TRACY. 7 X 5. 320<br />
pp. Nash. 28.<br />
THE LADY OF THE HUNDRED DRESSES. By S. R.<br />
CROCKETT. 73 X 5. 307 pp. Nash. 28.<br />
UNCONFESSED. Ry MAXWELL GRAY. 74 x 5. 352 pp.<br />
John Long. 68.<br />
LIFE EVERLASTING: A REALITY OF ROMANCE. By<br />
MARIE CORELLI. Methuen & Co. 68.<br />
HETTY : THE STORY OF AN ULSTER FAMILY. By SHAN<br />
F. BULLOCK. 73 X 41. 322 pp. Werner Laurie. 68.<br />
THE YOKE OF SILENCE. By Amy McLAREN. 73 x 5.<br />
306 pp. Mills & Boon. 58.<br />
HILDA LESSWAYS. By ARNOLD BENNETT. 74 x 5.<br />
408 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
DORMANT. By E. NESBIT. 73 x 5. 312 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
MY BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBOUR. By ARABELLA KENEALY.<br />
7 * 5. 352 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
THE EMOTIONS OF MARTHA. By CONSTANCE SMEDLEY<br />
(Mrs. Maxwell Armfield). 8 x 57, 317 pp. Religious<br />
Tract Society. 68.<br />
THE APPLE OF HAPPINESS. By ETHEL TURNER (Mrs.<br />
H. R. Curlewis). 73 5. 275 pp. Hodder & Stoughton.<br />
38. 6d.<br />
VAGABOND CITY. By WINIFRED BOGGS. 74 x 5.<br />
392 pp. Putnam. 68.<br />
THE BRIDE OF DUTTON MARKET. By MARIE C.<br />
LEIGHTON. 74 x 5. 320 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
BRITAIN'S RECORD. WHAT SHE HAS DONE FOR THE<br />
WORLD. By E. KEBLE CHATTERTON. 9 X 54. 301 pp.<br />
Sidgwick & Jackson. 78. 6d. n.<br />
A HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By C. R. L. FLETCHER and<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING. Pictures by R. H. FORD. 10 x 74.<br />
256 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; London : Frowde.<br />
78. 6d. n.<br />
CÆSAR'S CONQUEST OF GAUL. By T. RICE HOLMES.<br />
(Second edition. Revised and Largely Rewritten.)<br />
9 x 51. 872 pp. Oxford : Clarendon Press; London :<br />
Frowde. 248. n.<br />
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THE ROMANTIC PAST. By RALPH NEVILL. 9 x 57.<br />
352 pp. Chapman & Hall. 128. 6d. n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE BOOK OF THE Zoo. By W. S. BERRIDGE, F.Z.S.,<br />
and W. P. WESTELL. With 8 coloured plates and 64<br />
photographs. 78 X 54. 304 pp. (The Recreation<br />
Library.) Dent. 58.<br />
Tom STAPLETON, THE Boy Scout. By CAPTAIN F. S.<br />
BRERETON. 74 X 5, 287 pp. Blackie. 38. 6d.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
VARSITY TYPES. Scenes and Characters from Under-<br />
graduate Life. By F. RUTTER. Second Edition (with<br />
new Preface). 73 x 5. Cambridge: Heffer; London,<br />
Simpkin, Marshall. 38. n.<br />
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THE QUEEN'S FILLET. By the Rev. Canon P. A. Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. have accepted a new<br />
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DEFENDER O<br />
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Magazine had a story, entitled “Thirteen o' the<br />
THE LARGER GROWTH. By CONSTANCE ARMFIELD. Clock," by Miss Emma Brooke, in the June issue.<br />
382 pp. New York : Dutton. $1.35 n.<br />
The same magazine has accepted a second story by<br />
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“ The Offer."<br />
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Love and Passion and Death. They are Cornish<br />
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stories, and will recall to Mrs. Ellis' readers her Dean Maitland,” in the Isle of Wight. The main<br />
book, “ My Cornish Neighbours." Messrs. interest is the effect of strong spiritual emotion-<br />
Stanley, Paul & Co. are the publishers.<br />
suddenly awakened by a missioner preaching in his<br />
The Anti-Socialist League have republished and own kitchen-on a prosperous middle-aged farmer,<br />
circulated an article from a Socialist paper, over ambitious, unimaginative, stubborn, hard ; but<br />
the signature of “A. E. Jacomb." Miss A. esteemed by his world as exceptionally upright,<br />
Jacomb-Hood—a member of the Society of just and sagacious.<br />
Authors—who writes under the name of A. E. Edith C. Kenyon's historical tale, “ Two Girls in<br />
Jacomb, desires it to be known that she is not the a Siege," a Welsh story of the siege of Chepstow, is<br />
person responsible for the article, and has no now being issued by the Religious Tract Society in<br />
knowledge of the writer.<br />
their sixpenny edition. Miss Kenyon's serial,<br />
A new collection of poems, entitled “Before “ Ashes of Honor," ended in the July number of<br />
Dawn," by Mr. Harold Monro, author of “Judas," the All Story Magazine.<br />
was published by Messrs. Constable & Co. in July. The Queen has graciously been pleased to accept<br />
We quote the dedication of the volume, which a copy of Mrs. Charlotte Cameron's new novel,<br />
seems to explain the title: “I dedicate this book “A Passion in Morocco." Her Majesty has also<br />
to those who, with me, are gazing in delight promised to accept a work of travel, entitled “A<br />
towards where on the horizon there shall be dawn. Woman's Winter in South America," from Mrs.<br />
Henceforth, together, humble thongh fearless, we Cameron, which is about to appear.<br />
must praise, worship, and obey the beautiful Messrs. Cassell & Co. have included in their<br />
Future, which alone we may call God."<br />
autumn list another story by Helen H. Watson,<br />
Mr. Wynford Dewhurst has received a second author of “Peggy, D.O.” The present story is<br />
mark of distinction from the French Government, called “Peggy, S.G.," and while the former book<br />
the Brevet and handsome gold insignia of “ Officier dealt with Peggy the “distinguished orthor," this<br />
de L'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, one has to do with her school career-hence the<br />
having been awarded him. Mr. Dewhurst has title “Peggy the School Girl." Messrs. Cassell<br />
been spending the summer in France, where he will also publish, in the early spring of next year, a<br />
has been busily painting. His work will be new novel by Mrs. Watson, entitled “ The Open<br />
shown in the Durand-Rueil Galleries, Paris, in Valley.”<br />
November next.<br />
“As Flows the River" is the title of Mrs. Fred<br />
Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted Reynolds' new book, of which Messrs. Chapman &<br />
a copy of “Pageants and Plays," by Miss Grace Hall are the publishers. The scene of the story is<br />
Toplis, under which title the old favourites for laid amongst the Welsh mountains in the neighbour-<br />
school and village entertainments have been hood of Llanbedr, a locality already utilised by<br />
reissued, with “ The Five Georges” as new matter, Mrs. Reynolds in .“ The Man with the Wooden<br />
for performance during the local festivities and Face,” “St. David of the Dust,” “The Lady in<br />
celebrations of the new reign.<br />
Grey," and other novels.<br />
Derek Vane's new novel, “ The Soul of a Man,” “The Bees” is the title of a new book recently<br />
is now running serially in The Throne and issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. It is by<br />
Country. It is a study of a man of curious complex Miss M. Ellen Thonger, and describes the nursery<br />
nature-half-cynic, half-dreamer—who marries a adventures of a bunch of triplets, and belongs<br />
beautiful inexperienced girl, who thinks they are to the same category of books as “ Helen's<br />
going to live an ideal life.<br />
Babies."<br />
Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. are the publishers Miss Mary L. Pendered's new novel, “ Daisy the<br />
of an “ Anthology of Essex,” collected by Isabel Minx," is due, this month, from the publishing<br />
Lucy and Beatrice Mary Gould, and edited and house of Mr. Ham-Smith. The author describes it<br />
arranged, with additions and a “ Biographical as “ A Diversion," as it is somewhat different from<br />
Index,” by Miss C. Fell Smith. The method her usual work, being written rather in a spirit of<br />
which the editor has followed, in her work, has frolic. 7. P.'s Magazine for August contains a<br />
been to include any writers on the county, and the story from Miss Pendered's pen, wbich is entitled<br />
county writers on anything—that is, of course, on “ The Happiest of Men,” while the September Novel<br />
anything edifying or worth preserving. The reader Magazine also has a story from the same writer.<br />
may flit from the stained-glass conceits of Quarles Miss Pendered, in addition to these stories, has<br />
and Benlowes to the rude human nature, fresh recently finished a novel, to which she has given the<br />
from the soil, of to-day's farm labourer.<br />
title “ The Anklebiter."<br />
Maxwell Grey's new novel, which Mr. John Long Mr. Ditchfield, Rector of Barkham, has com-<br />
published in August, is called “Unconfessed," and pleted a volume of essays entitled “Out of the<br />
the scene is laid, as was that of “The Silence of Ivory Palaces," which will be pullished shortly by<br />
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Messrs. Mills & Boon. He has also written, for another copy was also accepted by H.R.H. the<br />
private circulation, a “ History of the Dawson Prince of Wales.<br />
Family" of Yorkshire, Berkshire, and America, A new humorous novel, entitled “ Hodson's<br />
compiled from family papers, letters and documents; Voyage," from the pen of Mr. W. H. Koebel,<br />
Messrs. George Allen & Co. being the publishers. appears from Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. Of<br />
For the same firm he has long been engaged upon recent years Mr. Koebel has been better known as<br />
a large work on the “Counties of England," a & writer of books of travel, but in taking up fiction<br />
review of their history and records. This will again he has returned to his first love. Mr. Koebel,<br />
appear this autumn, in two volumes. At the same has not, however, abandoned the writing of works<br />
time his “Memorials of Old Gloucestershire” will of travel, and he is engaged at the present time in<br />
appear as one of the volumes of the “ Memorial passing the proofs of a new book dealing with up-<br />
Series," of which thirty volumes have been published country life in New Zealand, which he has entitled<br />
under his editorship. Mr. Ditchfield has also “ In the Maoriland Bush." It is based on his own<br />
undertaken to write two more books for Messrs. personal experiences and observations, and includes<br />
Methuen & Co., who have been his principal pub- intimate descriptions of the humours and tragedies<br />
lishers for many years, and with whom he has had of the fascinating country of the “ back blocks."<br />
a literary connection since the foundation of that In response to a desire expressed by many readers<br />
firm in 1889. Miss Edna Lyall's book, “ Derrick of Miss Doll Wyllarde's novels, for the complete<br />
Vaughan," and Mr. Ditchfield's “ English Villages” poems from which she had quoted in her stories<br />
were the two first books published by that house. from time to time, Miss Wyllarde has decided to<br />
He is also editing the Journal of the British publish a collection of them in volume form, and is<br />
Archæological Association.<br />
adding a number of hitherto unpublished poems.<br />
A work on the agricultural and commercial Miss Wyllarde has entitled the book simply<br />
problems of sugar beet growing and beet sugar “ Verses.” The volume, wbich has a photogravure<br />
manufacture, by the writer on rural subjects who frontispiece, is also published by Messrs. Stanley<br />
uses the nom de guerre of “Home Counties," has Paul & Co.<br />
been published from the Field office. It extends to Mrs. Irene Osgood's latest volume, “ A Blood<br />
more than 400 pages, and contains a hundred Moon; and Other Stories," includes“ A Blood Moon,"<br />
illustrations. The aim of the author is to discuss “ The Bubl Cabinet” and “ Stories from Algiers."<br />
a difficult subject in an impartial spirit.<br />
The titular story tells of a devoted wife who<br />
« Above Your Heads" is the title given by Mr. surprised her husband and his paramour discussing<br />
Frederick Niven to a volume of short stories, which her lightly. “The Buhl Cabinet” consists of a<br />
he has published through Mr. Martin Secker. number of letters collected by a cynical old French<br />
None of the stories has been published previously, marquis, from women whose marriage had proved<br />
all of them having been rejected by editors mainly a failure through incompatibility of tastes or<br />
on the ground that they would not appeal to the temperament. “Stories from Algiers " are a subtle<br />
public. The author has, therefore, put them before study of the Algerine of to-day who retains many<br />
the public in volume form, in the hope that the of the characteristics of the corsairs from whom he<br />
editors' view may be proved erroneous.<br />
is descended.<br />
A new novel by Harold Avery, the author of “A Frank Hamel has chosen Jean de la Fontaine<br />
Week at the Sea,” entitled “Every Dog his Day," as the subject of her latest volume of biography.<br />
will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley La Fontaine has a unique place in French litera-<br />
Paul & Co,<br />
ture. He stands between the old and the new.<br />
G. P. Putnam's Sons published on September He possessed the humour of the Renaissance<br />
20, Miss Winifred Boggs' new story, “Vagabond period, and adapted it to the clear and sparkling<br />
City." It is the author's first novel since she won style of the grand siècle. He was closely in touch<br />
the Daily Mail Prize Novel Competition in 1907, with Boileau, Racine, and Molière, and his story<br />
for “The Return of Richard Carr.” “Vaga- must therefore appeal to all students of a remark-<br />
bond City” opens on the honeymoon of the able period of French literary history. The volume<br />
vagabond and his pretty conventional bride, and will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley<br />
tells of their life in the New Forest, to which in Paul & Co.<br />
time is introduced the Genius, the woman artist, A second edition has recently been issued of<br />
his mate. The second edition of this book has “De Libris : Prose and Verse," by Mr. Austin<br />
just appeared.<br />
Dobson, with illustations by Hugh Thomson and<br />
“Gallant Wales," the fifth song Miss K. Everest Kate Greenaway. The new issue has an addi-<br />
bas produced, is published by Stanley Webb, tional chapter. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are the<br />
10, Museum Street, W.C. A copy of this song publishers.<br />
was graciously accepted by H.M. The Queen, and Mr. Martin Secker announces the publication of<br />
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Michael Barrington's new book dealing with “ The Ogre," Mr. Henry Arthur Jones' new<br />
Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee. In play, was produced at the St. James' Theatre on<br />
this work--the result of long study of the con- the 11th. “The Ogre” is the head of a house-<br />
flicting elements of Restoration and Revolution hold, and is given this nickname by his wife and<br />
politics—the author shows the intrigues of 1688 children, who are in open rebellion against him.<br />
in a new light. The book contains also a vivid The dramatist describes the method by which the<br />
picture of the Highland campaign. New military husband “tamed” his household. The caste<br />
maps, an itinerary of the Highland campaign, and included Sir George Alexander, Mr. A. E.<br />
a copious bibliography are added to the volume. Matthewe, Mr. Sydney Valentine, Miss Kate<br />
The ordinary edition of nine hundred copies is Cutler, and Miss Gladys Cooper.<br />
issued at £1 108. net. There is also an edition de Mr. Alfred Sutro's new comedy, "The Perplexed<br />
luxe, strictly limited to fifty copies, numbered Husband,” was produced at Wyndham's Theatre,<br />
and signed by the author. The price of the copies on September 12. The play opens with the return<br />
in this edition is £3 38.<br />
of a tea merchant from a visit to Russia, and the<br />
“Nine English Consorts of Foreign Princes” is first act shows the nature of the reception given<br />
the title of Miss Ida Woodward's new book which to him by his wife. This lady has, apparently,<br />
Messrs. Methuen & Co. are publishing on the been reading Ibsen's “Doll's House ” during her<br />
12th inst.<br />
husband's absence, and the husband is perplexed as<br />
to the best way to meet the situation which has<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
arisen owing to the effect of the Norwegian<br />
Mr. Louis N. Parker's comedy, in three acts, dramatist on the relations between the pair. In<br />
“ Pomander Walk,” was staged at the Playhouse on the caste were Mr. Gerald du Maurier, Mr. E.<br />
June 29. The period of the play is 1805, and Lyall-Swete, Miss Maude Millett, and Miss<br />
* Pomander Walk » (in the neighbourhood of Henrietta Watson.<br />
Chiswick) is the centre of a comedy in which the Mr. Bernard Shaw's “ Man and Superman" was<br />
dramatist-introduces many character studies. The revived at the Criterion for a short run on Septem-<br />
caste included Mr. Cyril Maude, Mr. Norman ber 28. In the caste were Miss Pauline Chase, Mr.<br />
Forbes, Miss Winifred Emery and Mr. Frederick Robert Lorraine, Mr. Guy Standing, Miss Florence<br />
Volpe.<br />
Haydon, and Miss Agnes Thomas.<br />
"Sally Bishop,” a play in four acts, by E. Temple<br />
Thurston, was produced at the Prince of Wales<br />
Theatre on July 25. The caste includes Mr.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
Dennis Eadie, Mr. Holman Clark, Miss Agnes<br />
Thomas, and Miss Daisy Markham.<br />
Mr. John Pollock’s play, “ Rosamond,” which was NEW league has been founded in France<br />
produced in London last season at the Royalty and<br />
entitled The League against the lending of<br />
Kingsway Theatres, by Madame Lydia Yavoiska, books.<br />
has been translated into Russian by Prince One of the chief causes of the recent crisis in the<br />
Vladimir Bariatinsky, and accepted for production book trade is undoubtedly the ease with which<br />
at the Imperial Theatre at Moscow, which is known people obtain books to read without paying for<br />
as “ le théâtre de Molière Russe.”<br />
them.<br />
"The Hope," by Cecil Raleigh and Henry M. Paul Reboux and M. René Blum have<br />
Hamilton, was produced at Drury Lane Theatre therefore issued a manifesto, from which we quote<br />
last month. In their latest sporting drama, the a few extracts : “Our friends do not borrow our<br />
authors find their hero in an impecunious peer, and pictures, our cushions and our knick-knacks, but<br />
the play takes its title from a horse which, they do ask for our books. We have not the<br />
representing the only chance of saving the peer's courage to refuse to lend them, and our volumes<br />
house from ruin, is called “The Hope.” In the disappear and do not return to our shelves. ...<br />
caste are Mr. Cyril Keightley, Mr. Lyston Lyle, Every borrower may be considered as one buyer<br />
Miss Fanny Brough, and Miss Madge Fabian. less, whilst every would-be borrower to whom we<br />
Mr. Hail Caine's new play, “The Quality of refuse our books may be a buyer gained."<br />
Mercy," was produced at the Theatre Royal, Man- A French writer commenting on this movement<br />
chester, on September 4th. The play has for its says: “Public libraries should, of course, be<br />
central theme an intrigue similar to that recorded encouraged for those who cannot buy, but well-to-<br />
in Scripture, whereby King David disposed of do-people who only read books bought by others<br />
Uriah in order to become possessed of Bathsheba. should be discouraged. ... One of the objects<br />
In the piece were Miss Eille Norwood, Miss Hilda of the League is to help everyone to fight against<br />
Dick, and Mr. Thomas Holding.<br />
the tyranny of sponging friends."<br />
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A great lover of books adds: “I quite approve Salon Carré was thronged with visitors, and<br />
this wise initiative, and I would add that, in order certainly never have any nails attracted more<br />
not to be impolite, when it is a lady who wants to attention than those upon which the favourite<br />
borrow a book, a man has only to reply that .it picture had hung so many years. The doors of<br />
shall be sent to her the following day.' He can the Museum and many of the rooms were guarded<br />
then buy her a volume without giving up his own by policemen, and very strict measures are being<br />
copy. Tactful people will soon take the hint, and taken in order to prevent the repetition of a similar<br />
this will teach them the way to the book shops." We theft.<br />
may add that the office of this new League is at In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire<br />
42, Rue de Clichy, Paris, the annual subscription are articles by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer “ Théophile<br />
three francs, and that each member receives a little Gautier"; by Péladan, on · La Joconde et le Saint<br />
engraving on parchment to place on his bookshelf. Jean," and by Dr. Gustave Le Bon on “L'Evolution<br />
This little card is intended as a polite method of latine du Socialisme.”<br />
explaining that books cannot be lent.<br />
In the Revue de Paris are“ Lettres de Danemark<br />
Among recent books are “ Sonia et ses amis” (les et d'Allemagne," by Francois Coppée, and an article<br />
petits cahiers d'une etrangère, avec préface d'Emile on “Sedan” by Lieutenant-Colonel Picard. M.<br />
Berr”). “La Ville inconnue,” by Paul Adam, is one Maurice Muret writes on “Antonio Fogazaro et<br />
of the most remarkable of this author's books. It is son Oeuvre.” and Barbe Doukhorskoy gives a<br />
a story of the French in Africa, and of the influence chapter of his “ Souvenirs."<br />
of the climate and surroundings on certain officers The theatres are beginning to open their<br />
of the French army. A very dramatic episode is the doors for the winter season.<br />
arrival of two officers in an aeroplane.<br />
At the Comédie Française, “ Cher Maître," and<br />
In Marcelle Tinayre's new novel, “La Douceur “Le Goût du vice” have been given. At the<br />
de vivre," many of the qualities of her “ Maison de Renaissance, “Le mysterieux Jimmy,” by M.<br />
Péché” are to be found. Some of her descriptions, Armstrong. M. Abel Deval announces for his<br />
too, are very fine.<br />
theatre an adaptation of “Mr. Pickwick."<br />
“ Humour et Humoristes " is the title of a clever The outdoor theatres have had a brilliant season<br />
book by Paul Stapfer. In this volume we find an on account of the exceptional summer. M. Camille<br />
important study of Henry Fielding, another of de Sainte Croix has obtained permission to open<br />
Jean-Paul-Frederick Richter, a study of Anatole his Shakespeare Theatre in the St. Cloud Woods,<br />
France's work, and a well-drawn portrait of but it is probable that, on account of the delay in<br />
Mme. de Noailles.<br />
obtaining this, he will now wait for next season.<br />
An extremely instructive book has been written<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
by M. H. Joly, as a result of a mission with<br />
which the author was entrusted for the Académie<br />
“ La Ville inconnue” (Fasquelle).<br />
des Sciences Morales. It is entitled “L'Italie “ La Douceur de vivre” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
contemporaine, enquêtes sociales." The volume * Humour et Humoristes ” (Fischbacher).<br />
contains a great amount of reliable information “L'Italie contemporaine enquêtes sociales " (Bloud).<br />
about the social conditions of life in Italy.<br />
“Contre l'alcoolisme” is the title of a book by<br />
Joseph Reinach, in which he shows the terrible AUTHORS' AGENTS, LITERARY AND<br />
ravages made by alcoholism in France.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
English admirers of the work of Camille<br />
Flammarion may like to take part in his Jubilee<br />
Fête, when a souvenir is to be presented to the M HE subject is a very wide one. It is barely<br />
great astronomer in commemoration of the<br />
possible to go more than round the out-<br />
Foundation of the French Astronomical Society<br />
skirts in a short paper, and to state a few<br />
twenty-five years ago, and the publication of his facts—not always obvious to the author—without in<br />
first book fifty years ago.<br />
many cases giving examples or reasons ; to write<br />
The artist Zeitlin has been commissioned to fully on this subject would necessitate a small<br />
design the souvenir which is to be presented to him. volume.<br />
Over three hundred pounds have already been The first question is whether literary and<br />
subscribed, and further subscriptions are received dramatic agents are essential. It is necessary to<br />
by M. Monprofit, 31, Boulevard des Italiens. separate the two, for their duties are the same, yet<br />
The disappearanee of La Joconde from the so different. The majority of dramatists—to take<br />
Louvre Museum has made it necessary to institute the dramatic agent first-would declare that a<br />
various reforms in this celebrated picture gallery. dramatic agent is useless. There is no doubt that<br />
On the first day of opening after the theft, the a persevering individual who lives in or near<br />
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own does not need one. In any case, the dramatic why an agent should be free to take his full per-<br />
agent is not as necessary to dramatists as the lite- centage so long as the contract lasts. He will be<br />
rary agent is to the author. The dramatic market amply paid if his fees on any one play reach<br />
is exceedingly limited, the competition is exceedingly £500. These are hard statements of facts ; indeed,<br />
strong. The only way to place a dramatic piece is as already stated, the paper is full of these<br />
by persisteni personal pressure ; by obtaining per- statements. It is quite possible that an author or<br />
sonal introductions and by the aid of personal dramatist may refuse to accept them without fuller<br />
influence wherever possible, and, above all things, evidence, without some reason being forthcoming.<br />
by keeping up a good heart. It would be easy to The writer is stating nothing of which he is not<br />
quote five or six cases of dramatists now well known fully cognisant, and could in most cases, from the<br />
who had to wait for six, seven, or ten years before authors' and dramatists' points of view, show that<br />
they could get their work accepted. This process the deductions made are irrefutable. The agent,<br />
of forcing the strongholds of the managers is not perhaps, would traverse them.<br />
always pleasant, but then how many roads to suc- Of course, it should be an agent's business to see<br />
cess are? To dramatists who happen to be living that the contract between the dramatist and the<br />
abroad or some distance from London, who can get manager is a good contract for the dramatist ; but,<br />
no personal influence to bear on managers, the unfortunately, in many cases the agent's chief wish<br />
agent may no doubt be useful.<br />
is to get the contract off his hands, and with this<br />
So far for the dramatic agent. The literary end in view is sometimes inclined to give the author<br />
agent comes next. There are many more reasons bad advice. If, therefore, an author employs an<br />
why the author should employ a literary agent than agent he cannot be too careful about watching<br />
the dramatist a dramatic agent. The markets are every step he takes. This is where the Society of<br />
enormously wide; there are many rights to be Authors would be of use. No doubt, however, after<br />
marketed, and there are many markets of which the contract is made the agent can be useful in<br />
the author is ignorant; but, again, if a man is a collecting fees. After he has collected the full sum<br />
sound man of business and does not object to he is entitled to expect for his work in placing the<br />
market his own wares, and has time to market them, play, the agent might, perhaps, be allowed a small<br />
he can do so without the assistance of the agent. percentage for collecting the subsequent fees; but<br />
If, however, he loathes the business side of literary the author ought at all times to be able, if necessary,<br />
work, has such a heavy output that he cannot spare to insist upon the collection of moneys himself,<br />
the time and hates the trouble, then the literary subject to the claim of the agent to his commission,<br />
agent is useful.<br />
if any is still unpaid, and to be free to terminate the<br />
To those who undertake to place their own literary agreement in case, for any reason, he is dissatisfied<br />
and dramatic work the Society of Authors is essen- with the agent's method of doing business, or in<br />
tial, because the knowledge at the disposal of the case the agent has broken any part of his contract.<br />
society on contracts and prices which prevail is This is a matter of the greatest importance to<br />
useful to any dramatist or author who markets his rising dramatists, but space will not permit to go<br />
own work, and even enables an author or dramatist into further details. If necessary, the subject must<br />
to market his own work who could not do so other be dealt with in another article.<br />
wise. Indeed, even those authors who employ Next, the literary agent. Though to some<br />
agents will find the society's help essential. To authors his work is essential, again it should be<br />
begin with, there is the contract with the agent, exceedingly carefully watched. He is very often<br />
which is a most serious and important matter, and, under the thumb of a publisher. He not infre-<br />
to continue, it is very often necessary that the quently deals as principal himself, and has the<br />
work of the agent and the contracts he advises power—the very woeful power-of pitting one<br />
the author to make should be carefully gone over by author's work against another's, giving thereby<br />
some independent authority.<br />
success to one author to the detriment of another<br />
If it is agreed that in certain cases and in certain author whose work he may be handling.<br />
circumstances an agent is essential, it will be well The first point is the contract between the author<br />
to consider first the position of the agent and the and the agent. Here again the agent must be<br />
dramatist. The dramatist should be careful not to carefully watched. He must only be permitted to<br />
deal with any agent who buys work as a principal, draw his agency charges on contracts actually com-<br />
or is marketing his own work. He should be careful pleted by him. He must not be allowed, in any<br />
that the agent is an agent pure and simple, and one circumstances, to claim agency fees on introduc-<br />
who is quite independent of managers and syndi- tions merely. The author must be in a position to<br />
cates. Next, as to the agent's remuneration. terminate the contract at any time if he is dis-<br />
Sometimes the fees from a successful play reach a satisfied with the agent, and must be in a position<br />
very high figure. In such a case there is no reason to obtain control of the collection of moneys. In<br />
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order to do so he must forbid the agent, in any the British market. If then he has failed he<br />
circumstances, to put in the contract with the should still not give up trying, but should attempt<br />
publisher a clause giving him, the agent, the right at the same time to market the work in England.<br />
to collect the moneys under the contract and to What happens now is, that as a rule, acting on the<br />
give a receipt in full discharge, a constant and agent's advice, the author lets the American rights<br />
most reprehensible practice.<br />
go to the English publisher who sells sheets to<br />
This naturally leads one to consider some of the America, and this, from the financial point of view<br />
contracts which agents do advise authors to sign proves a better bargain for the English publisher<br />
with publishers-contracts which cannot be con- than to allow the agent to place the American rights<br />
sidered fair to the authors, though they may save with an American house.<br />
the agent a great deal of trouble. And this, There is one further point in regard to markets<br />
apparently, is his only reason for recommending in which the agent is very strongly to blame, and<br />
them.<br />
that is, in allowing the publisher to handle all the<br />
The first point relates to the practice of binding minor rights. These are serial rights, translation<br />
the author to the publisher for future books. It rights, Continental rights, etc. Not only does he<br />
has been a growing custom of agents to pass allow the publisher to handle these rights, which<br />
contracts of this kind, and the agent puts forward it is his business as agent to handle, but he<br />
the usual temptation which the publisher has allows the publisher to charge the author for<br />
whispered into his ear, that the publisher will do handling them, sometimes as high a fee as 50<br />
so much better for the author if he has control of per cent. of whatever sum the rights realise.<br />
all his future work ; that the publisher cannot Thus the author has to pay 50 per cent. to the<br />
advertise one book to the same extent as he could publisher, and then another 10 per cent. of what.<br />
if he has the promise of three others; that it takes remains to the agent. The position is, on the face<br />
away from the author an immense amount of worry of it, absurd. Why does the agent do it? Because<br />
if he knows that his contracts for the next four it saves him trouble; and he tempts the author<br />
books are clear. All these statements are false, with the words of the publisher, who asserts that he<br />
and the danger of yielding to them is enormous; can do so much more for the book if he is allowed<br />
but there is one clear fact, and that is, that if the this wider control. This statement proves utterly<br />
agent can make one contract serve for four books false in practice. The really serious matter is this,<br />
he has not only saved himself a good deal of that it is not the publishers' business to carry his.<br />
trouble, but at one stroke has secured for himself labours beyond the publication of the work in<br />
commission on four books that are not written book form ; that he cannot, therefore, have the<br />
books which might not even have been placed same power to market these minor rights that the<br />
through his agency in the ordinary course of affairs. agent has, and, in consequence, is bound sometimes<br />
In one word, the agent benefits at the expense himself to place these rights in the hands of an<br />
of the author, and thus sares himself trouble rather agent, sometimes in the hands of the same agent<br />
than advantages the best interests of the author. who made the contract which gave them to the<br />
The next point is the question of the United publisher. It is exceedingly dangerous for an<br />
States market. It must be remembered that in author to employ an agent who is also acting as<br />
all these examples the agent's work with the agent for the sale of works or rights controlled by<br />
publisher is referred to only, and not the position a publisher. Moreover, in allowing the publisher<br />
of the author working for himself. The agent to have translation rights in his control, the agent<br />
constantly tells the author that English books will has prevented the author from exercising any<br />
not sell in America, and that it is no use to try to effective veto over the translation of his work which<br />
obtain American copyright. This statement is made, and has prevented him from satisfying<br />
again, is inaccurate. No market is better for the himself as to the skill of the translator, and his<br />
author than the American market. If a book competence for the work undertaken.<br />
touches the American market (and all good literature An author who employs an agent who is also<br />
should be universal), for one copy sold in England employed by a publisher may find that the agent<br />
four would be sold in America. Again, the agent is endeavouring to sell his work at different prices,<br />
advises the author from his, the agent's, point of as the publisher has no reason to keep the author's<br />
view, and not from the point of view of the author. price up. The agent, therefore, may be asking,<br />
It gives the agent a great deal of trouble to place on behalf of the publisher, for a smaller rate of<br />
work in America. It takes longer, and the agent, pay than he is asking on behalf of the author.<br />
like all men of business, is out to make money, The effect upon the author's rates cannot, in such<br />
and to make it quickly. An agent ought to give circumstances, fail to be disastrous.<br />
a good six months to obtaining the American Other rights which an agent sometimes allows<br />
market for an author before he attempts to obtain an author to sign away are dramatic rights. To<br />
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allow such assignment would seem so absurd that and never employ an agent who also acts for a<br />
it would hardly be worth while to mention it were publisher. Be careful that the agent is permitted<br />
it not the fact that such cases have occurred. only to collect moneys on contracts made by him<br />
Naturally, the publisher will try to get as many during the continuance of the agency. Never allow<br />
rights as he can. That is merely legitimate the agent to have an indefinite contract, so that at<br />
business ; but that the agent should allow an author some future date he may be able to claim moneys<br />
to concede these rights is criminal, for he is there on a contract that you yourself have made or some<br />
to protect the author and not to assist the publisher other agent has made for you, merely because he has<br />
to coin money.<br />
introduced you to the principal. Finally, against<br />
This then is the agent's position as between all these difficulties which cluster so thickly round<br />
author and publisher. It may be worth while to the employment of the agent, an author may guard<br />
make a few remarks as to the agent's position with himself by becoming a member of the society.<br />
the editor. It not in frequently happens that an Don't employ an agent; but if you do, watch him.<br />
editor will write to an agent for a serial story of a<br />
certain length. The agent, sitting on his judgment<br />
seat, will act as the proud arbiter as to which of his<br />
clients shall have the order. This position is very<br />
PUBLISHERS' METHODS.<br />
dangerous, for, however straightforwardly the agent<br />
may act, the author who is rejected does not have a<br />
fair run. In addition (as an agent naïvely remarked COME years ago the society was forced to<br />
to an author who brought him in a large income but D complain because a publisher had, on more<br />
determined to cut down his charges), “if such an than one occasion, submitted to authors a<br />
offer came to me, I should naturally give it to the form of agreement which he stated had received<br />
author who paid the highest agency fees.” This the approval of the society. By this means he<br />
may be business from the agent's point of view. obtained the author's signature, which he certainly<br />
It is exceedingly dangerous from the author's. Or would not have obtained had the agreement been<br />
again, the agent may sometimes go round to an referred to the secretary.<br />
editor and ask if he desires stories from certain When the society remonstrated the publisher<br />
authors-mentioning names, perhaps, not even on denied that he had made this wrongful use of the<br />
his books. If he gets an offer he will try to draw society's name, and was only brought to conviction<br />
the author into his hands and even, at times, from on being confronted with his own handwriting.<br />
another agent. If he does not succeed in drawing There is another method employed by publishing<br />
the author away from the agent, it may mean that houses which, while it is not damaging to the<br />
the author will have to pay commission to both reputation of the society, is equally with the one<br />
agents.<br />
already mentioned injurious to the business settle-<br />
Serial rights are often strangely neglected by ments of the author.<br />
agents. There are not merely first serial rights, A publisher, on an author objecting to some<br />
but second serial rights ; rights in the colonies, in very stiff clauses in his agreement, not infrequently<br />
America, and in the provincial papers. Indeed, says: “ This is my printed agreement from which<br />
the real literary agent to be of any real value ought this house never varies.” As is bound to happen<br />
to have an enormous field of communication and in a society with 2,000 members, cases of this kind<br />
knowledge, and, as far as possible, to be ubiquitous. are constantly brought to the secretary, who is able<br />
To sum up: preferably, don't use an agent. at once to show to the author that the publisher is<br />
If you are bound to employ one, be very careful of making, to use the mildest term, a mis-statement.<br />
your contract with him. Never give him too wide He has, perhaps, only a week before, made radical<br />
a control; never give him uncontrovertible authority alterations to the knowledge of the secretary, in<br />
to collect moneys; never, in any circumstances, allow one of his “unalterable” contracts. In fact, the<br />
him to insert a clause in your publishing agreement practice in one house grew quite notorious, the<br />
by which he is able, without restriction, to collect proprietor benefiting by forcing unfortunate authors<br />
royalties. If, when criticising an agreement with a into his contracts. The authors no doubt had<br />
publisher, he pointed out that the clause he proposed seen the names of other writers of renown publish-<br />
inserting dealing with his own position was a bad ing with the same house, and, naturally, drew the<br />
clause for the author, and if he gave the reasons, deduction from the publisher's statement that these<br />
clear and concise, then the author would have no authors were publishing under a similar agreement.<br />
reason to complain if he signed the agreement. But Another phrase frequently in the mouths of<br />
the agent never draws the author's attention to the publishers is, “ These agreements have been settled<br />
clause and never gives the reasons. Never employ by King's Counsel and approved by the Publishers'<br />
an agent who deals as principal as well as agent, Association." It is curious that such a statement<br />
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should not repel rather than compel. The author, inherent in them. Then the publisher's reply to<br />
however, does not always grasp the fact that a King's the author's remonstrance can be discussed.<br />
Counsel will settle an agreement according to the The first clause practically transfers to the<br />
instructions of his client; and if the client is the publisher the copyright, and this position is further<br />
Publishers' Association, the agreements will be confirmed by clause 5. As under clauses 1 and 5<br />
settled wholly in favour of the publishers. This, the publisher holds the copyright it was, perhaps,<br />
indeed, was the case. The members of the society unnecessary for him to insert clause 2. It cannot<br />
are referred to “Forms of Agreement issued by the be too often repeated in these columns that the<br />
Publishers' Association, with Comments,” published publishers should have a licence to produce the<br />
from the society's offices. In this pamphlet the work in book form only at a fixed price only in<br />
whole question is fully dealt with.<br />
the English language. The clause might receive<br />
It is necessary, as these incidents recur, that even further limitations, limitations to a certain<br />
they should be recorded, and as the secretary number of editions or to certain countries. If<br />
of the society has recently received further evidence, such a licence had been granted, then the publisher<br />
the following facts are laid before the members. might have been, under clause 2, allowed an agency<br />
In one week two agreements from a certain fee for the sale of the rights mentioned under<br />
publisher were offered to authors. The agree- contracts signed and approved by the anthor if<br />
ments were on very similar lines. The books to obtained through the publisher's introduction.<br />
be published were important books of a technical That the publisher should have the exclusive<br />
character. The agreements, from the author's licence to place these rights without reference to<br />
point of view, were extremely bad. It is only the author, and on contracts made without consul-<br />
necessary to print some of the clauses to show tation with the author, is absurd. It is equally<br />
how bad they were.<br />
absurd that for mere agency business the publisher<br />
Clause 1.- The publisher shall during the legal term of<br />
should be allowed 50 per cent. Clauses 3 and 4<br />
copyright have the exclusive right of producing and pub- are both dangerous from the standpoint of the<br />
lishing the work in the English language throughout the writer of technical books. The great majority of<br />
world. The publisher shall have the entire control of the technical books dealing with modern science require<br />
publication and sale and terms of the sale of the book, and<br />
neither the author nor the publisher shall during the con-<br />
to be brought up to date from time to time as the<br />
tinuance of this agreement without the consent of the other<br />
knowledge at the disposal of the writers develops.<br />
publish any abridgment, extract, translation, or dramatised There is only one person who should have control<br />
version of the work.<br />
over these alterations. That person is the author.<br />
Clause 2.-In the event of the publisher realising profits<br />
Under the clause as it stands he would be bound<br />
from the sale of rights of translation, rights of production<br />
in other countries, serial rights, or plates, or from claims to revise, or have the book revised by another hand<br />
for infringement of copyright, fifty per cent. of the net if the publisher demanded such revision, even<br />
amount of such profits remaining after deducting all though he, the writer, might deem the process<br />
expenses relating thereto.<br />
wholly unnecessary.<br />
Clause 3.—The author agrees to revise the first, and, if<br />
necessary, to edit and revise every subsequent edition of It is a matter of no difficulty to draft clauses<br />
the work, and from time to time to supply any new matter to meet such a position, and the same house has on<br />
that may be needful to keep the work up to date.<br />
occasion altered its unalterable agreement, giving<br />
Clause 4.-In the event of the author neglecting to revise<br />
the author this essential control.<br />
an edition after due notice shall have been given to him, or<br />
in the event of the author being unable to do so by reason On clause 5 nothing further need be said, save<br />
of death or otherwise, the expense of revising and preparing that in no circumstances on the basis of a royalty<br />
each such future edition for press shall be borne by the remuneration should an author allow a publisher<br />
author, and shall be deducted from the royalties payable to<br />
to be the owner of the copyright.<br />
him.<br />
Clause 5.-During the continuance of this agreement the As to clause 6, it is only necessary to point out<br />
copyright of the work shall be vested in the publisher, who that if the book were published in January—not<br />
may be registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly. an unfavourable month for book publication-the<br />
Clause 6.-The publisher shall make up the account<br />
annually to December 31st, and deliver the same to the<br />
author would be out of his money for over twelve<br />
author within two months thereafter, and pay the balance<br />
months. This, indeed, is not so bad as in some<br />
due to the author on March 31st.<br />
forms of agreement, where it is posssible for the<br />
Clause 7.-If any difference shall arise between the author to be kept out of his money for nearly<br />
author and the publisher touching the meaning of this<br />
agreement, or the rights or liabilities of the parties there-<br />
eighteen months. It is, no doubt, a pleasant<br />
under, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two arrangement which enables the publisher to run<br />
persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, his business on other people's money.<br />
in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, Clause 7 is an unsatisfactory clause, although it<br />
1889,<br />
appears in a great number of publishers' agreements.<br />
Perhaps it may be as well to pass a few comments Publishers assert that arbitration is a saving of<br />
on these clauses, and to explain in detail the faults money. This is not usually the case, as the arbitra-<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
tor's fees have to be paid, as well as the other costs. “The Still Alarm—The Greatest Fire Scenes<br />
It has also been claimed that it is an expeditious ever depicted-On view to all at our offices.”<br />
way of settling disputes. Generally it is cumber- Evidence was given by a witness, who bad<br />
some and unsatisfactory. The only real advantage attended the performance with a view to pur-<br />
gained—and this is the publisher's—is that he chasing the films, and it was contended on behalf<br />
shuns by arbitration that publicity which is so of the plaintiff's that there had been an infringe-<br />
necessary as a warning to other authors.<br />
ment of their dramatic rights in the fire scenes of<br />
Some of the clauses might have been passed by the play.<br />
an author who wished to yield gracefully some for the defendants it was virged that there could<br />
advantage to the publisher, but the majority of be no copyright protection in a mere scene, and<br />
the clauses quoted are such that no author should that the representation by cinematograph was not<br />
allow them to enter into any contract, in anyan infringement of dramatic rights.<br />
circumstances, between himself and the publisher. Mr. Justice Channell said that it was not neces-<br />
On the advice of the secretary the author wrote sary to decide whether the plaintiff had an exclusive<br />
drawing the attention of the publisher to the right to the representation of a portion of the play<br />
difficulties above mentioned, and, to his astonish- against anyone who might exhibit the films.<br />
ment, received a letter from which we quote the Sone day, he thought, it might be held that a<br />
following extract:-<br />
copying of a portion of a play in a cinematograph<br />
“ The form of agreement is one which we always exhibition, where there was payment, was within<br />
lise, and which experience has proved to give the statute. Upon the facts of this case, however,<br />
satisfaction to all concerned.”<br />
he was of opinion that the defendants did not<br />
A more extraordinary statement it would be represent the piece in a place of dramatic<br />
impossible to imagine. Over and over again have entertainment.<br />
contracts from this very house been brought to the<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
society, been criticised, and altered to suit the<br />
author's requirements, and to make such a state-<br />
ment in the face of this fact is not only unfair to<br />
the author, but a serious matter for the reputation<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
of the house. Besides, if the agreement had given<br />
satisfaction to all parties, there surely would be no<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
need for an arbitration clause. The publisher's<br />
position is untenable, but still authors may be, and<br />
Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Walter Jerrold.<br />
Fournier's “ Napoleon." By Dr. William Barry.<br />
probably will be, deceived.<br />
Book MONTHLY.<br />
Wanted: A New Mode of Literary Expression. By<br />
Adam Gowans Whyte.<br />
CINEMATOGRAPH PERFORMANCES.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
The Pictorial Art of Japan. By Count S. C. de Soissons.<br />
Literary Genius. By J. E. G. De Montmorency.<br />
GLENVILLE v. SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
THE decision in this case, as to the meaning of Letters of Wagner to his Schoolfellow, Apel.<br />
“a place of dramatic entertainment," seems The Handling of Words (Thomas Hardy). By Vernon Lee.<br />
likely to be the subject of an appeal, as a<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
stay of execution was granted, and the Judge appears<br />
Some Aspects of the Celtic Renascence. By K. L.<br />
to have given special importance to the question of Moutgomery.<br />
payment.<br />
NATIONAL<br />
The plaintiff claimed damages and an injunction The Creed of an Agnostic Spiritualist. By J. Arthur Hill.<br />
to restrain the representation of certain scenes<br />
connected with a dramatic piece, entitled “The<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Still Alarm,” which had been originally performed<br />
in the United States and subsequently in England<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
at the Princess' Theatre. In 1904 the plaintiff<br />
Front Page<br />
... ..£4 0 0<br />
Other Pages<br />
... ... 3 0 0<br />
produced a new version with two “fire scenes”.<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
...<br />
added, and it was in respect of these scenes that an<br />
... 0 15 0<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
... O 7 6<br />
injunction was asked for.<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
per inch 0 6 0<br />
The defendants, who are manufacturers of cine Reduction of 20 per cent, made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent, for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
matograph films, issued an advertisement in the<br />
following terms :<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C<br />
Half of a Page ...<br />
110<br />
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17<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
N VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' 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's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent withont the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society,<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation,<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System,<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
A void agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
UTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
H agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract,<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
& rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
he warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 23. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society hegs to give potice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Univn of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
19<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
NETT AND DISCOUNT Books.<br />
LOOKING recently down the literary column<br />
THE COPYRIGHT BILL.<br />
of a contemporary, we noticed an interesting<br />
We may congratulate the Government on announcement respecting a popular series inaugu-<br />
having carried the Copyright Bill through the rated by a well-known publishing house. The<br />
House of Commons. It would be inadvisable announcement was to the effect that, owing to an<br />
to say more about the matter until the Bill has increase in the cost of production of the series, the<br />
become law, but there does not appear to be any publishers had found it necessary to change the price<br />
vital reason why the Bill should meet with any of the volumes from 58.“ subject to discount,” to 5s.<br />
violent opposition, and be altered to any large nett. As it is conceivable that some may retort that<br />
extent from the form in which it emerged from the this alteration in price is a matter entirely between<br />
House of Commons. One or two small amend the publisher and the bookselling trade, we think<br />
ments, however, may be necessary.<br />
it desirable, in the interest of authors, to point out<br />
The Bill was ordered to be printed on the 18th of its importance to the writers employed in the manu-<br />
August of the present year, and when it becomes facture of the series. We do so with the less hesi-<br />
law it will be issued as a supplement to The tation, as we notice that over forty volumes so far<br />
Author, so that members of the Society may have have been issued at the lower price, and it seems<br />
an opportunity of studying its terms.<br />
to us that a consideration of the matter, as it<br />
During its passage through the Commons, the affects the payment of the writers, may not be<br />
Bill met with a considerable amount of opposition without interest. While we do not for one moment<br />
from wholly unexpected quarters ; indeed, from question the justification of the alteration in price,<br />
many whom one might have thought would have we do suggest that the author should share in the<br />
actively supported its principles.<br />
increased returns which will accrue to the pub-<br />
Apart from various details, there are two main lisher in consequence of the change.<br />
points which will make the passing of the Bill the As the alteration extends over a series of forty<br />
greatest benefit to authors; the first, that it will books, that increase cannot be dismissed as insignifi-<br />
enable Great Britain to join the Berlin Conven- cant. Whereas on a 5s. “subject" book the returns<br />
tion; the second, that it will bring into uniformity to the publisher would probably average about 2s. 8d.<br />
the law of copyright which, at present, is scattered per copy, on the 58. nett book they would come<br />
through twenty or more different enactments, out at something like 3s. 2d. per copy. It will be<br />
making its interpretation highly complicated and clear from this that a fair royalty on a 5s. book<br />
confusing<br />
issued “subject" might be rather poor on one<br />
issued at 58. nett. It may be, of course, that part<br />
of the “increased cost of production” is due to a<br />
THE COLONIAL MARKETS.<br />
demand for better terms on the part of the writers<br />
We have complained, from time to time, of the of the books yet to be produced in the series. If<br />
poor sales of books of English authors in the this is so, we shall be glad on their account—though<br />
Colonies, and have pointed out that this is appa- a little sorry for the earlier writers. It may even<br />
rently due to the supineness of the English be that the books in the series are being purchased<br />
publisher and to the activity of the American book outright; but apart from anything in this particular<br />
agent. The latter, on one occasion, went so far as case which may possibly render our comment un-<br />
to induce an Australian bookseller to allow him to necessary, we would add, for the general informa-<br />
decorate his window, and it may be taken for a tion of writers, that they should never, when<br />
certainty that he did not decorate the window with making their agreements, permit any alteration<br />
English books.<br />
of a “subject” to a “nett” published price without<br />
We now regret to see from the American Con- getting some quid pro quo. If the publisher wants<br />
sular Report that the American magazines are to make such an alteration, he should make a<br />
also pushing the English magazines out of the corresponding increase in the royalty payable to<br />
market. This, no doubt again, is owing to some the author.<br />
fault in the English distribution. It is really time<br />
that publishers, editors, and magazine proprietors<br />
woke up and bestirred themselves. It is not for<br />
THE NEW RUSSIAN COPYRIGHT LAW.<br />
us to advise them as to how to remedy the evil. It The new Russian Copyright Law came into<br />
is a part of their own business to find the cause force on March 20, 1911. It marks a consider-<br />
and the remedy. But it is a clear fact that unless able advance upon the previous legislation, but<br />
something is done speedily and with judgment the is far from being such as might be wished.<br />
Colonial market will be lost both for English books The following particulars are interesting. Copy-<br />
and magazines.<br />
right is accorded to all books published in<br />
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20<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Russia, independently of the nationality of the followed the publication of “ John Chilcot, M.P.,"<br />
author. The duration of copyright is for and she very early showed herself one of those<br />
life and fifty years (without any restrictions). writers—it is pleasant to think there are many<br />
Transformations of novels into dramas, and vice such—who take a generous interest in the work of<br />
versâ, without the author's consent are forbidden. those less fortunate and less successful than them-<br />
The exclusive right of translation exists for five selves.<br />
years only. If a translation is made within that Mrs. Thurston possessed a singularly agreeable<br />
limit, the translation has a copyright of ten years. and gentle personality. Her dark, glowing beauty<br />
In the case of simultaneous publication in several was of the type one associates with Irishwomen,<br />
languages, all the works enjoy equally the full term and her voice was low and exquisitely clear. She<br />
of copyright. Russian translations of all foreign had none of the exuberance, or the very natural<br />
works may be published without the consent of the desire to discuss herself and her work, which is so<br />
foreign author. These translations enjoy the full often typical of the literary temperament. Even to<br />
term of copyright, but the translator cannot forbid her intimates she seldom spoke of her books, and it<br />
other translations. Except in the case of stipula- would certainly have been possible for a stranger<br />
tions to the contrary, an author who has sold the to have been acquainted with her for a considerable<br />
copyright of his work may publish another edition time without discovering that she wrote. And yet<br />
as soon as the work is out of print, or, in any case, it is clear that her work must have meant a great<br />
as soon as tive years have elapsed since the date of .deal to her. Each of her stories, from “ The Circle"<br />
the first edition ; or, if he is preparing a complete onward, showed marks of conscientious care, and<br />
edition of his works, three years after that date. she once told the present writer that when engaged<br />
Piratical publication is punished with a minimum on a new book she found that it absorbed her to<br />
of three months imprisonment.<br />
the exclusion of everything else. This no doubt<br />
was why she preferred to work in the Irish home she<br />
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br />
loved so well than when living her ordinary life in<br />
Owing to the fact that The Author does not<br />
London. As so often happens, the one of her<br />
appear in August or September, we are only now<br />
novels which most closely reflected the life she<br />
knew was that which her readers liked the least-<br />
in a position to chronicle the election of Lady<br />
Ritchie and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw to the Academic<br />
I refer to “The Fly on the Wheel," a close, and in its<br />
Committee.<br />
way, a very powerful study of a phase of Irish country<br />
town society. This story was an interesting “throw<br />
Lady Ritchie is the first lady to join the Com-<br />
mittee, which may be congratulated on an election<br />
back,” for Mrs. Thurstou did not begin to write<br />
till she came to England, and it is on record that<br />
which is sure to meet with general approval, and<br />
throughout a girlhood spent entirely at home she<br />
may also serve to put an end to the discontent felt<br />
never wrote a line with a view to publication.<br />
and expressed in some quarters, where it had been<br />
It may be doubted if even her closest friends<br />
assumed, quite erroneously, that the women were<br />
knew much of Mrs. Thurston's methods of work.<br />
ineligible.<br />
It is, however, a curious fact that “The Circle,''<br />
her first long novel, and a book which was much<br />
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND ARTISTIC praised and commented on by the critics, though<br />
ASSOCIATION.<br />
it gave no promise of the immense success of its<br />
The International Literary and Artistic Asso- immediate successor, was founded on a short story<br />
ciation ask us to announce that in consequence of<br />
sequence of<br />
which<br />
which was an early imaginative effort.<br />
reports of an epidemic at Rome-reports it must<br />
be admitted which appear to be without foundation<br />
-the congress, which was to have taken place this<br />
autumn, will be postponed, and held at Rome in<br />
THE FOREIGN REPRINTS ACT AGAIN.<br />
the Easter week of 1912.<br />
ROYALTIES UNDER COMPULSORY LICENCE.<br />
THE LATE MRS. THURSTON.<br />
TN 1847 an Act was passed under the short title<br />
1 of the Colonial Copyright Act, 1847, more<br />
frequently known, however, as the Foreign<br />
By M. B. L.<br />
Reprints Act.<br />
TN Katherine Cecil Thurston, the Society of The circumstances that led up to the passing<br />
1 Authors loses a loyal member and a firm this Act were as follows:<br />
friend. Mrs. Thurston joined the Society in By section 17 of the Act of 5 & 6 Vict., which<br />
the full flush of her greatest success, that which Act covered all the Colonies, the importation into<br />
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the Colonies of books unlawfully printed was for- into the colonies, and notably American reprints into the<br />
bidden, without the consent of the copyright<br />
Dominion of Canadla ; but no return, or returns of an<br />
absurdly small amount, have been made to the authors and<br />
owner. Ar<br />
owners. It appears from official reports that during the<br />
Owing to three causes, firstly, the rapacity of the ten years ending in 1876, the amount received from the<br />
pirates, who had no authors' royalties to pay whole of the nineteen colonies which bave taken advantage<br />
there was no United States Copyright Act in those<br />
of the Act was only £1,155 133. 2 d., of which £1,084 13s. 2 d.<br />
days, and International copyright was difficult and<br />
was received from Canada ; and that of these colonies<br />
seven paid nothing whatever to the authors, while six now<br />
involved ; secondly, owing to the lack of enter-<br />
and then paid small sums amounting to a few shillings.<br />
prise in the Colonial book trade ; and thirdly, owing<br />
to the supineness of the English publishers, the It will be seen from this quotation that if the<br />
Colonies complained that they were unable to get contribution from Canada is left out, there is<br />
English books.<br />
practically nothing from the other colonies, and<br />
Canada was the chief complainant, as she saw eren the sum received from Canada is absurdly small,<br />
the United States with their piratical trade flooded taking into consideration the number and popularity<br />
with English works which she was unable to of the authors. The Act is still in force in most<br />
obtain ; but the complaint was strong also in the of the Colonies ; but as Capada refused to collect<br />
other Colonies, because those who did read wanted the duties some twelve or thirteen years ago, as far<br />
to buy books, as they could not borrow them from as that Colony is concerned the Foreign Reprints<br />
circulating libraries, which did not exist.<br />
Act is in abeyance.<br />
The complaint was partly, no doubt, genuine, The absurdity of the whole situation has again<br />
but to a great extent, especially as far as Canada become prominent, and has been brought to the<br />
was concerned, was put forward as a political move. notice of The Author by Mr. Hall Caine, who<br />
The author has always been the slave of the recently received a payment of 8s. 10d. as an<br />
public, and as such is liable to be robbed of his amount due to him for royalties collected under<br />
property, first by one constriction and limitation this Act.<br />
and then by another ; so in this case, with a show of Mr. Hall Caine wrote for an explanation, and<br />
justice, the Foreign Reprints Act, which is still in received from the Treasury the following reply,<br />
force in many Colonies, was passed, enabling the with a statement, printed below, setting out the<br />
Crown, by Order in Council, to suspend the prohibi- Colonies involved and the percentage paid, and<br />
tion against importation into the English Colonies with a copy of the Act.<br />
of English copyright works under certain conditions,<br />
TREASURY CHAMBERS,<br />
one of the conditions being that certain Customs<br />
281h July, 1911.<br />
duties should be collected by the Government of SIR, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His<br />
the Colony adopting the Act, which duties should Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter<br />
be paid as royalty to the author. This really<br />
of the 18th instant, respecting a payment made to you on<br />
account of copyright in the Colonies.<br />
amounted, in other words, to a grant of the right to In reply I am to express their Lordships' regret that<br />
sell and the right to buy the author's books under it has not been found possible to trace in every case the<br />
a compulsory licence. A large number of Colonies books in respect of which payment was madle, but, so far<br />
adopted the Actin fact, all the important Colonies,<br />
as they have been able to discover them, the details are as<br />
follows :-<br />
with the exception of Australia, did so. Under<br />
the Act the publishers of English books were bound<br />
to forward catalogues to the Custom House<br />
Date and Place<br />
Title of Work. Duty Collected.<br />
authorities of the different Colonies, so that the of Entry.<br />
collection might be carried out properly, but, in<br />
the words of the author of “The Law of Copy-<br />
right" “ These measures were next to inoperative, Bermuda, 1897<br />
The Christian<br />
and the whole thing little better than a delusion.”<br />
1898 (Unknown)<br />
From time to time the absurdity of this Act,<br />
(Unknown)<br />
The Christian<br />
from the standpoint of the author, was pointed out<br />
1904 Eternal City<br />
in the papers, and figures were given to show how<br />
1905 Prodigal Son<br />
ineffective it was in operation.<br />
Jamaica, 1903<br />
Eternal City<br />
The reference to these figures it is impossible to<br />
1906 Prodigal Son<br />
1908 The Christian<br />
find at the moment, but it is sufficient to quote<br />
from the Report of the Royal Copyright Com-<br />
8 10<br />
mission, which sat in 1878:-<br />
So far as British authors and owners of copyright are<br />
concerned, the Act has proved a complete failure. Foreign In further explanation of these payments I am to transmit<br />
reprints of copyright works have been largely introduced the enclosed copy of a Return to the Order of the House of<br />
1900<br />
1901<br />
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Commons, dated the 25th of August, 1857, and of a memo- general body of British Authors what the small<br />
randum prepared in this Department, which my Lords<br />
payments represent.” He passed some drastic<br />
trust will be of use to you.<br />
I am, Sir,<br />
comments on the Act and its working, and ended<br />
Your obedient Servant,<br />
his letter with the following words :<br />
T. L. HEATH. “I am afraid the statement you are good enough<br />
to send me, representing duties at 15 per cent.,<br />
COPYRIGHT IN THE COLONIES.<br />
amounting to 88. 10d. collected on nine books in<br />
Under Section 42 of the Customs Laws Consolidation Act, eleven years, casts a very sinister light on the<br />
1876 (39 and 40 Vict. c. 36), foreign reprints of copyright<br />
licensing clauses of the Government's new Copyright<br />
works, of which notice has been given to the Commissioners<br />
of Customs that the copyright subsists, are prohibited from<br />
Bill, showing that the receipts to the descendants<br />
being imported into the United Kingdom.<br />
of authors during the years of free licensing will<br />
Section 152 of the same Act also prohibits importation of probably be hardly sufficient to pay their washing<br />
reprints of such works into the British Possessions abroad, bills."<br />
but adds that this does not prevent Her Majesty from<br />
exercising certain powers vested in her under the Act<br />
One satisfaction to be obtained from the passing<br />
amending the law relating to the protection in the colonies of the new Copyright Law will be that this absurd<br />
of British Copyright Works (10 & 11 Vict. c. 95) to suspend Ordinance of 10 & 11 Victoria will be repealed,<br />
in certain cases such prohibition.<br />
along with numerous other Statutes dealing with<br />
These powers were that should the Legislative Authorities<br />
in any British possession be disposed to make provision for<br />
for<br />
co<br />
copyright property.<br />
n properu<br />
protecting the rights of British authors in that Possession It is necessary, however--and it is with this idea<br />
and pass an Act or Ordinance for that purpose, such before us that we have set out at length Mr. Hall<br />
Ordinance should be submitted for approval by Her<br />
Caine's case—to consider the application of the com-<br />
Majesty, and, provided that reasonable protection is thus<br />
secured to the British author, an Order in Council should<br />
pulsory licence in the present copyright legislation.<br />
be issued declaring that so long as the Ordinance remained It was obvious that the Governments of the<br />
in force the prohibition against importing, selling, letting separate Colonies were hopelessly incapable of<br />
out to hire, exposing for sale or hire, or possessing such carrying out the Act in a satisfactory manner for<br />
foreign reprints should be suspended as regards that<br />
the benefit of the unfortunate author, who was, in<br />
Colony.<br />
The Legislative Authorities in the following Colonies consequence, freely robbed. It is true that the<br />
duly passed the necessary protective Ordinances, which have compulsory licences, of which there are two in the<br />
been confirmed by Orders in Council :--<br />
present Bill, refer to Great Britain and Ireland<br />
Antigua.<br />
Jamaica.<br />
only, but it is possible that they may cover a good<br />
Bahamas,<br />
Mauritius.<br />
many of the Colonies as well. But this fact gives<br />
Barbados.<br />
Newfoundland.<br />
Bermuda.<br />
St. Lucia,<br />
us little hope that the compulsory licence will be<br />
British Guiana.<br />
St. Christopher and less dangerous from the author's point of view than<br />
Canada.<br />
Nevis,<br />
it was in the past.<br />
Cape of Good Hope and St. Vincent.<br />
All who have studied the Copyright Bill know that<br />
Natal.<br />
Trinidad.<br />
Grenada.<br />
there is a compulsory licence twenty-five years after<br />
the author's death, and there is a compulsory and<br />
The Ordinances in Canada, Cape of Good Hope, and<br />
Natal ceased to be effective on these Colonies becoming<br />
an unlimited licence on the unfortunate composers<br />
self-governing.<br />
who care to allow their works to be reproduced by<br />
The Ordinance of the Colony fixes the amount of the mechanical instruments.<br />
protection, and the title to this protection depends upon<br />
It will, of course, be argued that the two in-<br />
registration of the work, the name of the holder, and the<br />
period of the copyright, with the Commissioners of Customs,<br />
stances are not in the least parallel ; that in the<br />
who issue to the Colonial ports a list, supplemented from one case the royalty is to be collected by the<br />
time to time, of such works.<br />
Government and in the other by the author, but it<br />
• The Colony, on receiving the duties imposed, transmits<br />
is not so much the collection of the royalties that<br />
them to the Treasury, and that Department distributes<br />
them to the respective copyright holders as specified in the<br />
makes the compulsory licence impossible, but the<br />
Customs list.<br />
fact that the licence is compulsory. What has<br />
Until 1881 it was the practice of the Treasury to distribute proved such a distinct misfortune in the past in<br />
thesc sums, however small, but in that year it was decided<br />
slightly different circumstances will most prob-<br />
to retain small sums until they accumulated to a minimum<br />
of £1, reduced in 1903 to 108.<br />
ably prove a distinct misfortune in the future, and<br />
In view, however, of the numerous small amounts due to it may be that the author will obtain as little of his<br />
the various copyright holders, and to the time winich had true and just returns under the clauses in the Bill<br />
elapsed since these sums were collected, it was decided this at ni<br />
at present under discussion as he was able to<br />
year to pay over sums amounting in the aggregate to 48. or who<br />
under the Foreign Reprints Act.<br />
over.<br />
Even with all the protection which the Board<br />
To this letter Mír. Caine replied on July 29th of Trade may invent to guard the author's rights,<br />
He stated that he had forwarded all the papers it will be almost impossible to follow the number<br />
to the society that “ It may be made clear to the of different reproductions placed on the market,<br />
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when any pirate who cares to may begin manu writers. Already there are copyright novels at<br />
facturing with little or no fear of detection, and sevenpence the copy, not reprints, but first editions,<br />
with still less fear of conviction.<br />
yet not two writers in a hundred can hope to earn<br />
bread by royalties on that price, being in constant<br />
competition both with lending libraries and with<br />
reprints of Dickens, of Scott, of Thackeray, and of<br />
A FEW WORDS ON EXPIRED many other perennialists. Besides, however low<br />
COPYRIGHTS.<br />
prices may be, the public is soon tired of their<br />
repetition and begins to think that they are<br />
expensive.<br />
BY CRUSADER.<br />
And another point is this, that when new copy-<br />
THEN a type of society becomes ordered and right books appear at a reasonable price they are<br />
V intricate, it retains a great deal of work published more often than not in little editions, so<br />
from the past and produces many new the cost per copy is greater than that in the large<br />
things in a traditional manner; then market reprints of popular classics ; and yet these reprints<br />
rivalries between old products and modern efforts are exempt from royalities, while to-day's own<br />
bring in their train many evils of their own. To books cannot be, as authors somehow fail to live<br />
speak figuratively, the young harvests have to without food and shelter, though many have had<br />
grow in fields already occupied by corn which time experience in the school of long hunger. I can<br />
has left unreaped and unharmed. Yet they are recall a time when stale dry bread was delicious<br />
expected not only to strike root under the shadow- after a week without anything to eat. Oh! In<br />
ing protection of the old corn, but to push their the battle of the books, in the war of the classic<br />
way upwards without being stifled, till they dead against their humble successors, “knock-<br />
ripen in the sunshine of a free air. Children are outs" are not in the the least enjoyable, at least to<br />
spared a lifelong competition with their parents, those of us who know how they act and how they<br />
but the generations are not, for they inherit so much are financed. To allow copyrights to lapse, with-<br />
living genius that the present is ever the past also, out paying royalities to the State, is not only to<br />
and it may be awed into imitation and unfreedom subsidise “the simple great ones gone,” giving<br />
by accumulated riches in great things.<br />
them unfair advantages in market competition ;<br />
Goethe counted himself lucky that he inherited besides that, which is bad enough, it endows<br />
a weak German literature, believing that an array publishers with a fruitful capital—a vast property<br />
of classic authors equal to the English would have of excellent books freed from royalities and from<br />
cooled his own ardour and hindered that growth of the need of much advertising ; and all this penalises<br />
character which comes from thinking freely and the daily efforts made by ourselves.<br />
acting independently. And who has not observed If an author is to earn a living with royalties on<br />
in Italy how the deification of the old masters has little editions, the royalties must be good and the<br />
enfeebled modern art among a race of men wonder- price rationally high, or else be will starve even<br />
fully equipped by nature with quick perception and when his publisher banks a profitable interest on a<br />
with skill of hand ? I think of this in connexion trifle of capital. It is not at all bad trade when a<br />
with the frenzied competition in the book market, publisher prints and sells a six-shilling novel in an<br />
where classic authors beg pleadingly for pence and edition of a thousand copies, gaining thereby a<br />
ha'pence. If the classics are not now a danger to profit of about £30, on an outlay of not more than<br />
our own work, what else are they ?<br />
£115. The author gets about as much under<br />
One trader in dead copyrights saved a fortune of a good agreement, and upon that he cannot<br />
£500,000. He had no royalties to pay, he knew live during five or six months of work, so his needs<br />
which classics had the greatest vogue, and it was as a citizen are opposed by the finance of publishing.<br />
easy to boom them into the market in large The opposition, too, is fundamental. Royalties on<br />
reprints and at little, wheedling prices, till the a book that takes much time and infinite pains are<br />
retail cost of copyright books seemed not only high your all, while a publisher's object is to use the<br />
by comparison, but wrongful also. Many publishers same working capital thrice in a year and to earn<br />
do the same thing now, and each tries to undercut a buoyant profit on each turnover. You are<br />
the dwindling standard of cheapness, as if in stricken, but your work is a godsend to your<br />
obedience to the belief that British homes are alms publisher. You know the “kuock-out” of small<br />
houses filled with paupers.And newspapers, too, editions, while your publisher is ready to go on<br />
are trading with the property of dead authors in with a thriving system of finance which in the<br />
the hope that they may be able to “ring" the course of a few years has built many palatial<br />
ordinary publishers. Meantime, you will note, it offices.<br />
fares very far from well with the majority of living Why is it, then, that the State favours the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
publisher to the injury of authors ? Why hand is not to her advantage nor to that of authors<br />
over to him all expired copyrights in order that he that rich tradesmen should be able to force the<br />
may issue them in reprints so cheap that they dis- weak hand of poverty ? Many publishers bunger<br />
credit the rational value of new productions? It for copyrights, and needy authors become the<br />
can no longer be said with any semblance of truth victims of that appetite, being unsupported by their<br />
that the people need such cheap reprints, for the self-made legatee, the State.<br />
poorest of the poor can well afford to read borrowed These anomalies, too, are in keeping with many<br />
books in these days of free libraries. Besides, the others. It is said, for instance, that properties of<br />
first duty of a State is to cherish within each gene- authorship are such inestimable gifts to mankind<br />
ration the hopeful courage that acts well, and the that the State is justified in claiming them for her<br />
higher aspirations that quicken and enlarge the people. This sounds like a principle of Socialism ;<br />
mind. You cannot have aviaries of singing birds it applies to all the many forms of property<br />
if you do not feed them, nor hives full of honey having more than a temporary and personal value.<br />
if you smother the bees. And we may depend upon To“koock-out" the author cannot be right while<br />
it that if we could suininon into the House of landowners and other property-holders can bequeath<br />
Commons a parliament of the simple great ones and entail their estates, without any regard at all<br />
gone, from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning, for that poverty-born ideal which sets before us a<br />
very few votes would be given in support of their national ownership in all things fitted to produce<br />
present tyranny over the new breadwinners in wealth.<br />
literature. Milton would lead an overwhelming It is invaluable, in this connection, to think of<br />
opposition to it, seconded by the rich common the difference between Shakespeare and the great<br />
sense of Latimer and Johnson. If Shakespeare Elizabethan landowners. The dramatist from the<br />
si oke, aſter many invitations, would he not say first had no copyright, inheriting the laisser faire<br />
that the mind of England ought ever to be of a that the printing press took up from those cloistral<br />
piece with the many repetitions of herself with ages when books were manuscripts, and in a few<br />
which she has gemmed the seas? He could not copies circulated among the religious, mainly in<br />
like anything meagre, petty, diminutive, flurried, nunneries and monasteries. So, then, Shakespeare's.<br />
or cheap. He would expect English thoughts to own works were never his own ; they belonged to<br />
put a new girdle around the world each generation. England from the first; and not a farthing of<br />
The Lord Chief Justice, on November 1, 1909, royalty has yet been claimed by the Exchequer<br />
expressed the hope that Great Britain and her from the publishers and theatre managers who have<br />
Colonies would do all in their power to draw the traded with Shakesperian property. How com-<br />
civilised nations together in a common accession pletely different is this from the legal protection<br />
to the following principle, that the property in granted from age to age to such a family as the<br />
copyright and literary work belongs to the author. Cecils, whose landed estates have passed from heir<br />
It is pleasant to note that Lord Alverstone gladly to heir, gathering an increase of value from the<br />
admits that books and copyrights are property, nation's progress! Could anyone break through a<br />
and that this property belongs to those who call hedge of theirs without incurring a risk of legal<br />
them up into literary presence and give them a punishment ? And why is it that land, which<br />
fructiſying value in a nation's life and trade. Lord nature provides as a mother for the nursing of all<br />
Alversione hopes that Great Britain will support living creatures, should be handed on as property<br />
the requests of other nations to the extension of more real and more native to a family than are any<br />
the period of protection to life and fifty years, and fruitful works of imagination ? Had Shakespeare<br />
this certainly is a blessed compromise in the domain died as a child, England would have lost inestim-<br />
of illogic. For the State has no right to grant able riches, whereas the extinction of a great<br />
perpetuity of ownership to many forms of property family neither lessens the land nor makes it barren.<br />
and a very limited ownership to a few others. Mother Earth and true genins are equally stable<br />
Logic and justice demand that all property in a and equally bountiful as property ; the distinction<br />
civilised nation should enjoy under the law the between them is that genius merits the greater<br />
same protection and the same privileges.<br />
protection since the permanent worlds built by it<br />
And there is another point of vital interest. belong for all time to the rare workers who are at<br />
Since Great Britain from the first claims every once new and antique, and the contemporaries of<br />
authoi's property, allowing him only the use of it all the ages. For example, Chaucer is more<br />
for a small term of years, why is she not logical in marketable by far to-day than he was in his own<br />
her self-interest ? Why does she not enrich her time, for he lives in all countries where poetry is<br />
Exchequer by charging a royalty on her classics ? valued ; and each copy of his work everywhere is<br />
And why does she not forbid publishers to buy the Chaucer himself. Yet this great Englishman, and<br />
short-lived copyrights granted by her laws, since it many others, had no copyright in their generous<br />
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property, and even now there is not the sinallest pangs of chronic rejection at their hands, may or may.<br />
chance that full justice will be done to authors and not endorse Lord Byron's view that : “ Barabbas<br />
artists, because no political party can win votes by was a-publisher,” still we can comprehend their<br />
asking the public to sanction fair copyright laws. disinclination as business men to purchase goods<br />
Indeed, the man in the street is quite indignant manufactured by untried makers.<br />
that anthors should want to bequeath to their The case against cditors is no whit more cheerful.<br />
families the right to demand royalties on all copies In periodicals in which only first-class matter is in-<br />
of their work issued by tradesmen for the purpose serted, a glance at an author's signature will suffice.<br />
of money-getting.<br />
“Popnlar” journals may and do here and there<br />
If the State had her own printing works, and use "copy" sent in by outside contributors ; but<br />
issued non-copyright books to the public at their they commonly make this concession in such an<br />
pet cost per copy, many “rings” and “knock- irregular and seemingly unaccountable manner, that<br />
outs" that now do harm to living authors would the freelance who relies upon them as a source of<br />
pass away, because the classics would be welcomed income will speedily perceive his conditiou to be<br />
as apart from trade speculations and the enrichment desperate.<br />
of tradesmen. There would be no competition The following incident may serve to illustrate<br />
then between the old and the new : in fact, the old this point. Having completed a short story during<br />
would enter for all time into the people's endowed the month of March, 1893, the writer submitted it<br />
education. This would be infinitely fairer to each in the following July to a respectable weekly, which,<br />
passing generation of harassed writers of books, for present purposes, we will call “The Flagstone."<br />
who bid to the public fancy for their livelihood. It was promptly returned. During an interval of<br />
To sum up, we hare seen that copyrights should four years the manuscript thenceforward fulfilled<br />
be protected at the least for life and fifty years, and its destiny as a rolling stone gathering no moss.<br />
that those which survive that period should be Then the writer, impelled by one of those curious<br />
published with all other classics by the State, as a impulses to which errant human nature is liable,<br />
part of the national education, or, if left free to all presented it for the second time to the journal<br />
speculators, should pay a fixed royalty to the which had dealt with it previously in so uncere-<br />
Exchequer, partly that the nation may benefit as a monious a fashion. The sands of the year 1897 rau<br />
whole by setting a time-limit to an author's owner- out, as did those of 1898—and the story neither<br />
ship in his own work, and partly in order to check, came back nor appeared. The year 1899 repeated<br />
as far as possible, the wrongful advantages now the process of its predecessors. Respectful enquiries<br />
given to publishers and newspapers in their pitting elicited curtnotes of an evasive tendency. Eventually<br />
of old books against the new.<br />
affairs were brought to a climax. After an interview<br />
with the editor early in 1900, the story made a<br />
belated bow to his subscribers. In June of that<br />
SORROWS OF A FREELANCE.<br />
year it was paid for. For four years it had been<br />
tossed about from pillar to post: for three it had<br />
T o the plain unvarnished fact that the sorrows languished in a sort of backwater, without either<br />
1 of Grub Street are to the full as poignant in rhyme or reason to account for its fate.<br />
the present as ever they were in the past no Nor was this the only instance of a manuscript<br />
writer of eminence has testified with greater force receiving the honour of acceptation at the hands of<br />
than the late George Gissing, whose novel, “ The one to whom it had at first proved to be “unsuitable."<br />
New Grub Street," every man or woman who com Editorial antics of this kind are preferable,<br />
templates embarking on a literary career should however, to those sometimes performed by men<br />
study closely and ponder deeply.<br />
not only unbusinesslike but also unscrupulous-not<br />
If the experience of the present writer, whose to use a stronger term—in their dealings with<br />
first attempts in that direction were taken twenty- obscure wielders of the pen. Take the case of a<br />
five years ago, may be accepted as corroboration, the booklet in twelve chapters posted to a certain social<br />
book should stand as a masterpiece of faithful weekly with a view to serial publication on<br />
portraiture.<br />
September 9, 1891. Neglect of the precaution to<br />
Casting an eye rather upon potential profits than register the parcel may have been responsible for its<br />
philanthropic encouragement of budding talent, complete disappearance, or not; but the simple fact<br />
publishers desire, in the main, to deal with authors remains that upon its quitting the author's hands<br />
already established favourites with the reading the MS. vanished into space, as though by a con-<br />
public. Speculative risk must, beyond dispute, play juring trick. A lawyer, whose services were<br />
a part in the launching of unfamiliar names upon requisitioned on the quest, attached no blame to the<br />
the book market—the quality of their wares apart. postal authorities. Though lost to the author, he<br />
Although, then, such of us as have suffered the believed the labour expended upon his MS. would<br />
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in all probability benefit- somebody. It would be least forty had been shipped off and—refused : the<br />
necessary to cultivate a like altruistic spirit, in last of them turning up with a precision somewhat<br />
order to survey with equanimity the loss of a story reminiscent of clockwork on December 22, 1907 !<br />
similarly dealt with by a monthly magazine on Yet consignments condemned — shall we say<br />
October 18, 1900. It could have been used advan- without the formality of examination-by this par-<br />
tageously later on, but the custodian to whose tender ticular, very particular, house, have been accepted<br />
mercies it had been committed denied cognisance not altogether with reluctance by its rivals!<br />
of the little stranger-and there was no duplicate. Lest these animadversions should be taken as<br />
By these and kindred devices fully one-half of the prejudiced or in any degree overstated, let us refer<br />
manuscripts despatched on their doleful journeys to a commentary made by the late James Payn in<br />
from the beginning onwards have, up to the present the Illustrated London News for November 16,<br />
moment, gone hopelessly and irretrievably astray- 1895. This gentleman, as editor of Chambers'<br />
fifty per cent of a man's merchandise proving of no Journal, and later on, of the Cornhill Magazine,<br />
greater value to him than so many soap-bubbles occupied an elevated position in the world of letters,<br />
bursting in the air !<br />
and although not infallible, as his rejection of<br />
Were these tribulations exceptional ? Read on “John Inglesant” would show, he undoubtedly<br />
before answering the question.<br />
lent a helping hand to many struggling, but talented,<br />
" Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone beginners.<br />
is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a “With some of the complaints of contributors to<br />
sort of social pariah. Nobody wants him. Every periodicals I entirely sympathise,” he wrote. “The<br />
body despises him. His efforts are derided ; his length of time their manuscripts are retained and,<br />
manuscripts are flung back to him unread.” after all, rejected, the smallness of the remuneration<br />
Wild words--gross exaggeration, you say. and the delay in its payment are genuine grounds<br />
But as there can be no smoke without fire, so of grievance.” And there has been a marked<br />
there can be no exaggeration where there is no deterioration as regards honesty, taste, discrimina-<br />
nucleus of solid truth. We have seen how MSS. tion and conrtesy in the editorial ranks since such<br />
may be simply kept indefinitely, and neither “flung men as he and Thackeray and Dickens ceased to<br />
back" nor handed back.<br />
uplift them.<br />
Now let us peep into this mystery of MSS.<br />
HERBERT W. SMITA.<br />
returning to the sender unreal. Long years after<br />
“ The Sorrows of Satan” (from which novel our<br />
quotation is borrowed) was first published, to be PROPOSED CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW.<br />
precise, so recently as August 31, 1907, a well-<br />
known journal dealing with the affairs of an<br />
extensive publishing business made the subjoined M R. FRANK WISE, president of the<br />
strictures upon its management. “ Will it be I Macmillan Company of Canada, has given<br />
credited," asked the investigator, “ that manu-<br />
to the Press a statement correcting some<br />
scripts submitted to the firm for consideration misconceptions already made, and putting forward<br />
were solemnly entered in a huge volume, and some points which he is afraid have escaped the<br />
then as solemnly returned to their senders often notice of the Hon. Mr. Fisher and a number of his<br />
without being looked at. Scores of pages of this associates, who, no doubt, while wishing to put<br />
volume may be turned over without finding a single Canadian copyright on a dignified basis, would be<br />
contribution marked as accepted. Shareholders the last ones to bring hardship and pecuniary loss<br />
should call at the offices and verify this for them- either to Canadian authors or their publishers.<br />
selves," etc.<br />
“The manufacturing clause in the present<br />
The writer's personal experience of the people American Bill,” says Mr. Wise," is a good example<br />
implied are in entire accord with the above. In of the maxim that might is right.'" It is well<br />
the year 1884, he forwarded one of his early known to publishers that the American manu-<br />
attempts to them under the belief its nature was facturing clause was inserted at the behest and<br />
of a kind to meet their requirements. His con- insistence of the Typographical Union, which is<br />
fidence was rudely shaken by its swift return, well known to be the strongest labour union in the<br />
accompanied by that familiar slip of paper so United States. Its primary inclusion and sub-<br />
dreaded by toilers with the pen. In due season sequent retention in the American Copyright Act<br />
he sent off another argosy to the same port, and were distinctly against the expressed wishes of<br />
another, and yet another. For a period of twenty- American publishers. It is a good thing, of course,<br />
three years he persevered in this enterprise, de- for American printers and paper makers, and it is<br />
spatching cargoes of this, that, and the other kind, looked upon by those engaged in either trade as a<br />
deeming them likely to suit their market, until, at very beneficent mode of protection, much better to<br />
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27<br />
the printers in fact than would be protection by There is the method of getting a learned lexico-<br />
tariff, since under the later arrangement importa grapher to go carefully through the book and of<br />
tion of foreign printed books could only be avoided obtaining a learned treatise from his pen. This<br />
by keeping the prices of the home-made books method present circumstances will not allow here<br />
down to that of the foreign printed books plus or elsewhere; and there is the modern method of<br />
duty. Under the form of protection by copyright choosing a certain number of words, looking them<br />
the public is prohibited from importing foreign out, checking them and seeing that they are<br />
printed books at any price.<br />
correct, and leaving the rest to luck. It is this<br />
At the time this manufacturing clause was made latter method that we acknowledge without shame.<br />
operative in the United States, they had a popula. There are two principal reasons why this<br />
tion of some seventy millions, which made a market Dictionary should be a good one : first, the adapta-<br />
of sufficient size to make profitable the setting up tion is made from the Great Oxford English<br />
and printing of an addition for consumption in the Dictionary; and, secondly, it is connected with the<br />
United States. Indeed, this would have been names of the two Fowlers. Are these reasons in<br />
possible, though, of course, to a lesser extent, with the proof good and sufficient? We have no<br />
a population of, say, twenty millons. With hesitation in giving an affirmative answer.<br />
Canada's population, however, of a possible eight The Dictionary is a Dictionary of Current Eng-<br />
millions, to be shown by the new census, printing lish ; and this makes its perusal a great source of<br />
in Canada for Canadian consumption is utterly out pleasure. The adapters themselves say in their<br />
of the question, since there is nothing like enough preface :-<br />
demand to make a Canadian edition financially a<br />
“One of these peculiarities is the large amount of space<br />
possibility. Our contention is, therefore, that there<br />
given to the common words that no one goes through the<br />
being only a limited market in Canada, now best day without using scores or hundreds of times, often dis-<br />
served by books imported preferably from England, posed of in a line or two on the ground that they are plain<br />
or, if must be, from the United States, and the<br />
and simple, and that every one knows all about them by<br />
limited market making a separate Canadian edition<br />
the light of nature; but, in fact, entangled with other<br />
words in so many alliances and antipathies during their<br />
unprofitable, neither paper makers nor printers can perpetual knocking about the world that the idiomatic use<br />
possibly have anything to gain by holding out for of them is far from easy."<br />
a manufacturing clause in the new Canadian Bill.<br />
As a matter of fact Canada has much more to lose<br />
This line of procedure at once rouses interest,<br />
and the checking the accuracy of this statement<br />
than to gain by following the bad example of our<br />
afforded infinite pleasure.<br />
neighbours to the south. In an admirable article<br />
It is so true that words in common use are so<br />
by Mr. Brander Matthews, published in the June<br />
often overlooked, and their meaning is distorted or<br />
number of the American Review of Reviews, he<br />
shows how American literature was stunted and<br />
misapplied. When suddenly a misuser is severely<br />
repressed almost to extinction by means of whole-<br />
censured it becomes difficult to check what is<br />
sale piracy, which same conditions would be<br />
apparently self-erident. Following out the principle<br />
of looking for common words in current use, we<br />
possible in Canada by the terms of the Copyright<br />
Bill as at present outlined.<br />
find the Dictionary is everything that its adapters<br />
claim.<br />
It is to be hoped that this matter of copyright<br />
Its purchase can be recommended without hesi-<br />
will be given very careful consideration, and that<br />
no person will be blindly persuaded that benefit will<br />
tation. Although 900 pages in length, it is not<br />
accrue to any Canadian industry by the inclusion<br />
a bulky volume. The type is clear, and the price<br />
of a manufacturing clause. It will not mean an<br />
moderate.<br />
increase in printing of 5 per cent. over the present<br />
amount now done, on the principle that “a full<br />
pitcher can hold no more."<br />
JAPANESE POETRY.*<br />
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY.*<br />
HERE are two distinct ways of reviewing a<br />
dictionary. We are not leading up to the<br />
self-evident and commonplace retort, “ Yes,<br />
the right way and the wrong way.”<br />
TN his preface Professor Chamberlain confesses<br />
1 that in the course of years his taste respecting<br />
translations has changed : “He has gone over<br />
to the camp of the literalists, and cares for no<br />
versions whether of prose or of poetry, unless they<br />
be scrupulously exact.” We are entirely of the<br />
* " The Concise Oxford Dictionary,” adapted by H. W.<br />
Fowler and F. G. Fowler, published by the Clarendon<br />
Press.<br />
Chamberlain.<br />
*" Japanese Poetry," by Basil Hall<br />
London : John Murray. 1911.<br />
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. THE AUTHOR.<br />
same opinion, and yet conscious that, in the case of To this we need only repls that the prize-<br />
poetry at least, the people are not a few who prefer winning stories will not appear elsewhere. Every<br />
a metrical version. Those on either side will be story will be published within the next few months<br />
able to find what they prefer in this new and much in one or other of the Magazines, and authors not<br />
enlarged edition of Japanese Poetry." Parts I., satisfied with this were not expected to compete.<br />
II., and III. of the volume are a reissue of the metri. Your correspondent proceeds next to deal with<br />
caltranslations published more than thirty years ago. the question of rights. There again no diffi-<br />
Part IV. contains a valuable essay on the Japanese culty will arise. While we shall, in the ordinary<br />
Poetical Epigram, and a number of absolutely literal way, expect to retain all rights in prize-winning<br />
translations of Japanese Epigrams accompanied by stories, we shall meet, in a reasonable spirit, authors<br />
the originals, in Roman character. This is how poetry who may desire to republish their stories<br />
ought to be translated ; and while the former part subsequently.<br />
of the work contains much that is neat in form and “No date is mentioned by which a decision may<br />
pleasing in substance, we have no hesitation in be expected,” complains "A Would-be Competitor."<br />
saying tbat the new translations represent the most Since some thousands of stories have been<br />
valuable part of the book. The terseness of Japanese entered for the competition, each of which, in case<br />
Epigram is remarkable, and by no means always of rejection, requires an individual letter of careful<br />
avoids obscurity. All the difficulties are here so criticism, it was obviously impossible, whilst the<br />
admirably elucidated that Professor Chamberlain's competition was still running, to announce the<br />
book must be regarded as one which no one who is date when the result would be published. The<br />
taking up Japanese seriously can neglect. As these feature of the competition was that those actually<br />
are however few, we have pleasure in adding that responsible for the editorial conduct of the three<br />
every one with a true sense of poetical value magazines should read the stories, and as the<br />
will find in this volume a great deal that will give number of these people is limited, and they have<br />
delight.<br />
their ordinary work in addition to the competition,<br />
a certain delay has been inevitable. Stories have<br />
been dealt with as rapidly as possible, however, and<br />
the full result of the competition will be announced<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
in the November numbers of the three magazines.<br />
I might add in conclusion that the terms of the<br />
competition have met with the approval of the<br />
PRIZE COMPETITIONS.<br />
competitors. This being so, the discontent of “A<br />
Would-be Competitor " is, if harder to understand,<br />
SIR,—As your correspondent, “A Would-be<br />
easier to endure.<br />
Contributor,” in your issue of July 1, obviously<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
refers to our £260 Story Competition, we shall be<br />
The Editors,<br />
glad if you will allow us to deal with the points he<br />
PEARSON'S MAGAZINE.<br />
raises.<br />
“Nothing," he remarks, “is said as to the fate<br />
THE ROYAL MAGAZINE.<br />
THE NOVEL MAGAZINE.<br />
of the successful stories ; there is nothing to<br />
indicate whether they are to be published, though<br />
this is hinted at."<br />
As the stated object of the competition was to<br />
INSURANCE.<br />
discover new authors, this criticism is somewhat SIR,—Following up my previous suggestion that<br />
curious. In any case it is difficult to imagine that a scheme for insuring contributors' payments should<br />
anyone would pay £50 for a story he did not intend be contemplated, I add that it seems patent that if<br />
to publish. But may we allay any fears in this once an assurance company could be got to specify<br />
direction by assuring all those who read these lines what publications it would undertake to cover in this<br />
that prize-winning stories, and those purchased at way, the controllers of “unincluded” organs would<br />
our ordinary rates, will all be published.<br />
for the most part find it expedient, for the sake of<br />
“There is nothing," continues “A Would-be prestige, to follow suit by getting a similar public<br />
Competitor," “ to enable the authors to know where form of cover. Otherwise they might lay them.<br />
or when the prize-winning stories will be published. selves open to suspicion of instability. When new<br />
An author may be quite willing to sanction the developments are organised, people often have to<br />
appearance of his work in one of the three magazines, come into line by adopting them, wbether they<br />
and yet object strongly to its appearance in either like it or not.<br />
of the remaining two. Still stronger may be his<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
objection to its appearance elsewhere.”<br />
ALGERNON WARREN.<br />
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