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Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLEs, Barrister-at-Law. The History the Société des Gens Lettres. By SQUIRE SPRIGGE. 1s. or (Out . 3s. 18. S. print.) of by In S. by of of The Society An 7. Copyright Law Reform. 8. of G. to of Publication. an the Society's are examined, in papers of By SQUIRE SPRIGGE. this work, compiled from offices, the various forms agreements proposed Publishers carefully explained, with Authors and their meaning account various kinds fraud which have been made possible the different clauses therein. By Being additional facts collected Addenda the Above. HERBERT THRING. the office the Society since the publication the Methods. With comments advice. 2s. The Various Methods the to Production. the 3s. at The Cost of of of de . at to all of in Published ten months the year (August and September omitted), devoted especially Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property. the protection and maintenance Issued non-members, 6d., Members gratis. Price 5s. 6d. per annum, post free. Back numbers from 1892, 10s. 6d. per vol. to to - The Annual Report for the current year. 6. 5. 4. 3. t PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. and of of By WALTER BESANT - Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. - By 4. its its Foundation. Periodicals and net. Apply Published the different Magazines October, 1907, price the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.] - Members. which 6d. 6d. List of Authors. [All prices Giving the Terms on their Contributors. deal with MSS. and Contributions. to 12. Society of and Periodicals By 11. by Forms 18. Agreement issued the Publishers' Association; with Comments. HERBERT THRING, and Illustrative Examples Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd Edition. 10. ERNST by in Germany, Action from 1s. 1888 1892), The Contract Publication LUNGE, J.U.D. 2s. 6d. G. Record of A Committee, of of Authors. of 9. (Chairman of J. of of Exposition Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill 1890. With 1878, the Berne Convention, Extracts from the Report the Commission and the By American Copyright Bill. M. LELY. 1s. 6d. �ADVERTISEMENTS. (I be šuciety of Autburg Telegraphic AUTORIDAD, Address : (ſmrurpurated). Telephone No. : 374 Victoria. LONDON. PRESIDENT. G-TECTER,G-TE IMITETERIEEIDIETIEC C - IMT COUNCIL. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CURZON SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. SIR. W.M. REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AVE J. M. BARRIE. [BURY, P.C. A. W. A BECKETT. ROBERT BATEMAN. F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S. SIR HENRY BERGNE, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIR RELI, P.C. MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND. THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S. THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYok, P.C. THE BIGHT HON. THE LORD BURGH CLERE, P.C. HALL CAIN E. J. W. COMYINS CARR. EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A. EDWARD CIODD. OF KEDLESTON. AUSTIN DOBSON. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. A. W. DUBOURG. DOUGLAS FRESH FIELD. THE RIGHT HON. M.R.S. ALFRED FELKIN FowlER). (ELLEN THORNEYCROFT SIR. W. S. GILBERT. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D. 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OFFICES : 39, OLD QUEEN STREET, SI obey s GATE, S.W. �C be El (The Organ of FOUNDED WOL. XIX. TELEPHONE No. WICTORIA. : [PRICE Fund. This fund is slowly and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. A state ment of the capital of this fund is inserted in The Author every month and can be seen below. LONDON. º-e increasing, e NOTICES. º-º-º OR the opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion of the Committee to be the case. unless such is especially stated THE Editor begs to inform members of the Authors Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the º-e THE SOCIETY'S e Eliº º-º-º HE List of Members of the Society of Authors, published October, 1907, can now be obtained at the offices of the Society at the price of 6d., post free 7#d. It includes elections to July, 1907, and will be sold to members and associates of the Society only. A dozen blank pages have been added at the end of the list for the convenience of those who desire to add future elections as they are chronicled from month to month in these pages. e XIX. º-e PENSION e FUND, C-e HE FUNDS. º-e time to time members of the Society desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these contributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy WOL. G-e LIST OF MEMBERS. knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain them on application. e SIxPENCE. (2) The Pension AUTORIDAD, e 1st, 1908. expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, or in dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work of the Society. : TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS Monthly.) of Authors. BY SIR WALTER BESANT. OCTOBER 374 . the Incorporated Society 1. NUMBER or. u tb Trustees of the Pension Fund of the Society, after the secretary had placed before them the present financial position of the Fund, decided to invest £230 in the purchase of Irish Land Act 2; per cent. Guaranteed Stock. The amount purchased is £258, and is added to the list printed below. The investments are steadily increasing from year to year, the amount varying between £200 and £250. The Trustees also recommended to the com mittee the possibility of granting another pension. The committee of the Pension Fund have not as yet held their meeting for 1908, but their work will be chronicled in due course. The following is a statement of the actual Stock. �2 : AUTHOR. TISIE The money value can be easily worked out at the current price of the market ..4.1,000 0 0 Consols 23%............................ () () Local Loans .............................. Victorian Government 3% Consoli 19 11 dated Inscribed Stock tºeººseº'ºeºeºeºº& 9 3 War Loan ................................. London and North-Western 3% Deben ture Stock eestºeºeº'ºgºtºeººseºeeººseºeº isateºatº Egyptian Government Trust 4% Certificates Cape of Good Hope 33% Inscribed Stock .................................... Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.................. New Zealand 33% Stock........... Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock iseeººseeºstºeº'ººº Subscriptions. 1908. 7, Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey . 13, McPherson, Miss M. M. . 16, Douglas, Lieut.-Col. Hugh e Feb. 1, Shera, Miss B. M. . Feb. 29, Brown, R. Grant April 10, Fieldhouse, Arthur May 22, Darbishire, Otto W. Jan. Jan. Jan. Donations, Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 0 O 0 0 0 () () 9 0 6 0 18 8 S. A. d. 5 0 1 () 5 0 5 () 5 0 10 6 6 Bond, R. Warwick () 5 0 Bosanquet, Eustace F. Brend, C. Cunninghame Brinton, Selwyn Brodhurst, Spencer Brown, F. M. Brown, R. Grant Campbell, Miss Mont © wº Crellin, H. N. g e May 20, Scoon, W. G. May 26, Cromartie, The Countess of June 3, Hardy, Harold June 16, Roberts, Morley . tº July 16, Carolin, Mrs. July 28, Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude Aug. 21, Beckett, Arthur W. () () 0 17 10 5 0 () I () 10 6 10 0 à () () () () () 10 () 5 () 5 10 1 I () 10 5 2 () 1 5 9, Abbott, The Rev. E. D., D.D Allingham, W. Armstrong, Miss F. Ash, Miss Selby Avery, H. Barnett, P. A. Barrie, J. M. Bashford, Harry H. Beeching, The Rev. H. 5 I I 0. 0 0 () 6 (). () - 0 I () PENSION FUND. The following is the list of annual subscribers amount of subscriptions 0 I TO to the Fund. The total is about £160. (). 1 covered by the Society) . e e 21, Saies, Mrs. . 24, Westrup, Miss Margaret e e Feb. 10, Benett. W. . * Feb. 10, Wilson, G. F. Feb. 26, Travers, Miss R. C. March 5, Dutton, Miss Annie March 5, Drummond, Hamilton. March 11, Ackermann, A. S. tº March 20, Loraine, Lady April 6, Plunkett, G. N., Count. ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS I 1908. Egbert, Henry 6, Skeat, The Rev. Prof. W. W. *> * 7, Wood, Lawson 8, Bolton, Miss Anna . 8, Hyamson, Albert M. 13, Le Riche, P. J. . . 13, Williamson, Mrs. C. N. 13, Williamson, C. N. 20, Colquhoun, A. (amount I'é 1, º-º-º C. Bedford, Miss Jessie Benecke, Miss Bertouch, The Baroness de 10 Jan. Jan. April 0 The committee would be glad to receive infor mation unofficially from any member of the society of any author whose need is within the member's Information, which should personal knowledge. be as full as possible, should be sent to the secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and will receive the prompt and careful attention of the committee. gomery Carey, Miss R. N. Caulfeild, Miss Sophia Clough, Miss B. A. Coleborn, Miss M. Colquhoun, A. Cox, Miss Roalfe Cresswell, The Rev. H. Crockett, S. R. Crommelin, Miss May Cuming, E. W. D. Dale, Miss Nellie Darbishire, Otto Davy, Mrs. E. M. Dixon, W. Scarth Dobson, Austin Douglas, Lieut.-Col. Hugh Dunsany, The Lord Durand, The Right Hon. Sir Henry, G.C.M.G., etc. Düring, Mrs. Stella Dutton, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss M. A. Esmond, H. W. Fabeck, W. A. de Fenwick, Miss H. Fieldhouse, Arthur Forbes, Lady Helen Forrest, G. W. Forster, R. H. Galsworthy, John Gibbs, Miss E. Gidley, Miss E. C. Gilbert, Sir W. S. Gilson, Captain Charles Gonne, Captain C. Gribble, F. Gurney, Mrs. Guthrie, A. Haggard, Mrs. J. Halford, F. W. Hamilton, Mrs. G. W. Harraden, Miss B. Harris, Miss J. Harrison, A. Hawkes-Cornock, Mrs. Hawkins, A. Hope Heath, Miss H. Heming, Lieut.-Col. D. Hills, Mrs. C. H. Hitchings, F. W. W. Hollingsworth, Charles James, Henry Jenkins, Mrs. Hadow Jerome, Jerome K. Jones, W. Braunston Keene, H. G. Kersey, W. H. IXilmarnock, The Lord �THE AUTHOR. next considered, and the secretary reported that he had written to the paper and hoped to obtain a reply in the course of a month or these circumstances, was adjourned the matter hoped that October, when answer will case, however, immediate steps forthcoming. necessary during the vacation, the com should the chairman. mittee delegated full powers Another important matter was laid before the question arising out the was committee. publisher production under book half profit arrange formal agreement, but last year the society Since the autumn ument. satisfactory negotiate has been attempting settlement between the author and the publisher, unbusinesslike the publishers' but owing to no of on by of a a a a to a of to at. a by in be of an it to dilatory methods was found and conduct bring the matter impossible The issue. the society's the hands case was then placed reasonable and formal the hope that solicitors agreement might both settled and approved Again the settlement has been unreason parties. satisfactory issue arrived ably delayed and no TY to º-º-º HE last meeting of the committee before the vacation was held on Monday, July 20th, at 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and signed there followed the election of members. Nine members and associates were elected, bringing the total for the current year up to 154, and there was one resignation, bringing the resignations up to 56. These numbers are, on The elections are still in the whole, satisfactory. advance of the number for the corresponding period of last year. in comMITTEE NOTEs. It to be Seton-Karr, H. W. An infringement of copyright of the work of one of the members of the society in New Zealand was In Scott, G. Forrester Seaman, Owen Sedgwick, W. that body did not anticipate that the appeal would be successful they were unable to offer the desired assistance. so. J. Pryor, Francis Punshon, E. R. Reynolds, Mrs. F. Rhys, Ernest Mrs. Richardson, Aubrey Roberts, Morley Roe, Mrs. Harcourt Rumble, Mrs. Rumbold, The Right Horace, Sir Hon. P.C., etc. Salmond, Mrs. W. Salwey, Reginald Rev. Canon Thorburn, W. M. Thurston, Mrs. Todd, Margaret, M.D. Toynbee, W. Trevor, Captain P. Tuckett, F. F. Turner, G. F. Wachell, H. A. Wacher, Francis Wernéde, R. E. Voysey, The Rev. C. Ward, Mrs. Humphry Warden, Miss G. Watt, A. P. Weaver, Mrs. Baillie Weston, Miss J. L. White, Mrs. C. Witherby, The Rev. C. Wright, Fondi Young, W. Wellington form and substance ; and the secretary, from whom the original suggestion came, was instructed to It was Work upon the book during the vacation. decided, however, that the names of the publishers should not be inserted with their agreements, and that the proofs, when ready, should be submitted The final draft to the solicitors of the society. for their be laid before the committee should consideration. The next question that arose was an appeal in the German courts, and it was decided, after con sideration of a letter from the society's lawyers in Germany, that the society should guarantee part of the expenses on behalf of the member concerned. It may be remembered that in the last issue of The Author, it was announced that the secretary had been instructed to write to the Publishers to enquire whether they would assist Association the Society financially in fighting the issue in the above case, as it was of importance to publishers The reply of the association was and authors. read to the effect that inasmuch as the council of an Prelooker, Sinclair, Miss May Skrine, Mrs. J. H. Slaughter, Mrs. Smith, Bertram Smythe, A. Spiers, Victor Stanton, Miss H. Stein, M. A. Stevenson, Mrs. M. Sutherland, Her Grace The Duchess of Teignmouth-Shore, The it Pickthall, M. Pinero, A. W. Pollock, Miss E. Portman, Lionel Shipley, Miss M. Simpson, W. J. The appointment of a treasurer, consequent on Mr. Storr's resignation, was the first matter brought The committee decided to forward for discussion. ask Mr. Storr if he would not continue to act in that capacity, and the Secretary was instructed to The committee then discussed Write to that effect. the question of the production of a book dealing With the clauses of publishers' agreements, their In is Owen, Charles Pearson, Mrs. C. Pendered, Miss Sharp, Miss E. Shaw, Mrs. Bernard Shepherd, G. H. Shera, Miss B. M. Shiers-Mason, Mrs. be Kitcat, Mrs. Lambe, J. Laurence Lincoln, C. Longe, Miss J. Malet, Lucas Marchant, The Rev. James Marriott, Charles Mathieson, Miss McPherson, Miss M. M. Miniken, Miss Bertha M. M. Morrah, H. A. Nicholls, F. C. 3 �TFIES A UTHOR, sº- e . --------- of the Society G. Bernard Shaw. - The first business was to consider a report deal ing with the present position of the dramatic authors in the society, what the Society had done from the foundation of the society and what the dramatic committee hoped to carry through for members in the future. This report it was pro posed to send round to those members of the society who had written plays which had been publicly performed. The report was very care fully considered, and various suggestions by different members of the committee were submitted. It was decided to adjourn the consideration of the matter meeting, which was to be held on adjournment would enable the individual members to set out their proposals in to the next July 2nd. This writing. Mr. Shaw then read to the committee a draft agreement, part of which had been taken from a pamphlet prepared by the former dramatic com mittee, but which contained additions and altera tions of his own. The next meeting of the committee was held on July 2nd, at 11 o'clock, at the society's offices. After the minutes had been read the report considered. Various suggestions made by Was the different members were accepted, and a Sub-Com mittee, consisting of Mr. G. Bernard Shaw and the secretary, was appointed to incorporate the altera tions that had been accepted, and to re-model the draft on that basis. was decided to hold a further meeting of the committee on August 3rd. The secretary of the society during the month It of July took the emendations and alterations which had been accepted the previous meeting, at in as It and re-drafted the report instructed. was then forwarded Mr. Shaw and returned approved Unfortunately, owing final form. the fact August quorum that was impossible obtain 3rd, the meeting was adjourned till September 3rd. On that day there was full gathering the opened committee. The proceedings the secretary explaining what Mr. Shaw and had done during the vacation, and the final report Was to on a a he byof e committee to had had an official interview at the Board of Trade, which he (Sir Henry) believed was thoroughly satisfactory. Owing to Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland's illness, she was unable to attend the meeting to support a resolution which stood in her name. The question, accordingly, was adjourned till the committee meeting in October. . The draft of a circular letter to be issued to non members was considered and formally passed. Some letters written by the secretary of the Publishers Circle with reference to a dinner in the autumn were formally laid before the committee and the secretary was instructed to reply. It was dedided to purchase some furniture for the office. new dramatic of Authors elected by the new committee of management met for the first time on Mon day, June 29th, at the offices of the society. The names of the present committee will be found printed with the other committees, but it may be as well to mention that they are: Mr. William Archer, Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Mr. H. Granville Barker, Mr. J. W. Comyns Carr, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, Mr. Henry Arthur Jones (Chairman), Mr. W. J. Locke, Capt. Robert. Marshall, Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, and Mr. all the president Sir Henry added that HE COMMITTEE. to of the Berne Convention. DRAMATIC it In consequence, acting on the advice of the Society's solicitors, it was decided to take counsel's opinion. Counsel's opinion was read to the com mittee, and they authorised the commencement of proceedings against the publisher. The secretary reported what had taken place in two other cases that had been carried through by the society, and stated that in one case the member concerned expressed his satisfaction at the result ; in the other case that the debt and costs had been recovered. In the latter case the secretary read to the committee a letter thanking the Society for the work it had undertaken. The secretary then reported the work which the dramatic sub-committee had already done since its election, and added that a further meeting was to be held in August. He gave the list of the names of those who had accepted nomination. It was hoped that the report of the dramatic sub-committee would be settled in time to be laid before the committee of management at their meeting in October. Mr. Freshfield, the chairman of the society, then made a statement in regard to the visit of the president of the Société des Gens de Lettres to IIondon. He had come over to obtain the support of English authors to the proposals which French writers were going to press very strongly at the meeting in Berlin in October. Mr. Freshfield stated that he had had the pleasure of introducing the president to those who were very closely inte copyright, rested in the question of international among others, Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade. Sir Henry Bergne stated that he had had a long conversation with the president of the French society, and had explained to him fully the position of the Society of Authors and of the Government in regard to the re-modelling its 4 �THE AUTHOR, be of in to be to of of in of to its be in of in to in by by up of 3, & 6, Road, Staverton ford. Ox . Brasenose College, Ox ford. 23, Clarendon Street, War wick Square, S.W. Furzehill, Salcombe R.S.O., T)evon. 32, Moring Road, Toot ing Common, S.W. Lyceum Club, 128, Pic cadilly, W. S. Moore, Miss Leslie Northrop, W. B. Russell, º, Pleydell, Mrs. Maunsel Swallow field Park, Lady College Wilkinson, Norman, R.I. 2, Reading. Tucker, Miss Beryl e BOOKS House, C.I º Wychcombe Jersey, Studios, Englands Lane, N.W. PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY. t-sº-0 in ART. of of of in as A of Monograph MEDIAEVAL SINHALESE ART. Sinhalese surviving Arts and Crafts, mainly the Eighteenth Century, together with an Account the Structure By Society and the Position the Craftsmen. of to of of of to at is Landa, Gertrude in in to in in of of as as to as Jeffery, Reginald W. . in to on of to in by to In (Holt Co.) White hall Place, S.W. F. D. . of of in in in to of no so or is Elections, Donegan, Lieut.-Colonel by of of in of of copyright the three referred dramatic Germany. The remaining two related fringements which occurred New Zealand. curious that they came the office within week each other. The Society has previous case had this colony, though fringements which have occurred other colonies have been dealt with the secretary. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed allow answers from the editors. the event failure obtain It all Of of to 9f July J. a of be as be settled. There were six cases for the collec tion of accounts. In four of these the accounts have been rendered the publishers and have been forwarded to, and accepted by, the authors. Two which have only recently come into the office negotiation. are still the course There have infringement copyright. Three been five cases these have been satisfactorily concluded. One a be be to on be to to e-º-e of to in to of be on to by in of of be to in in big action has been taken the Society since the last meeting the committee. Holbach, Mrs. Cases. DURING the long vacation thirty-six cases have been the hands the secretary. Over third precise, thirteen these to number have related claims for money unpaid. Seven the placed thirteen had the hands the society's solicitors for collection. Five terminated obtaining successfully, the Secretary succeeded the sums due, which were sent the authors; but the last case, lying the United States, has yet of had abandoned owing the fact *that the liquidation. defendants are One two county court cases, besides those men tioned, have been sanctioned the chairman, but to to of of up It ..º. w--w to thirty-six cases twenty-one have Vacation: Out been ended satisfactorily. Of the cases the solicitor's hands, four have been settled, two are awaiting trial, and one has or at to be of in report Mr. Pinero's committee and the opinions the members the society, the result will management, laid before the committee order that they may sanction the course proposed the dramatic committee. Mr. Shaw's draft agreement and the pamphlet dramatic rights and property were ordered type set circulated the members the committee before the next meeting, order prepare their that the members might have time criticisms. was decided hold the next meeting the Tuesday, October 6th, 1908. committee on all to be of finally settled should be sent out to those mem bers the society who were also dramatic authors, send, and that' they should asked their earliest opportunity, their opinions the secretary order that they might laid before the next meeting the dramatic committee. No doubt when this committee has been able consider the satisfactory explanations the matters will referred the committee. Nine cases were for the return MSS. these eight have been successful, though two out the eight the MSS. have not, yet, been returned, though the agents have |promised return them soon they come hand. 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Kish, by Dawn, has been Creation's published by Mr. John Long. In it the author sets forth a new theory of the early chapters of Professor Sayce has written the preface. Genesis. Pastor in Mr. Elliot Stock has published Ecclesia, by the Rev. Gilbert Monks. This book, which is intended to form a supplement to The Young Preacher's Guide, deals with the question of what will be required of a clergyman who wishes to conduct the business affairs of a church Repealed tory successfully. contributes The Very Rev. the Dean of Durham the preface. A Treasury of English Literature, selected and arranged by Kate M. Warren, has been issued by Messrs. Constable in six volumes, at one shilling It is also issued in one volume at seven net each. and-six net. New The New Age Press have published Truths for Old, by Robb Lawson. In fourteen essays, the author examines the real character of certain common passions, sentiments and opinions, self-sacrifice, and the futility such as woman, of speech. Mr. Walter M. Gallichan has published, through Mr. T. N. Foulis, The Trout Waters of England. It is a practical handbook written by a fisherman who knows what fishermen wish to learn about the Hints on streams and lakes in any given locality. the most suitable methods of fishing, the selection of tackle and flies, are included, together with a directory of hotels and apartments. A fourth revised edition of Printing, by C. T. Jacobi, has been issued by Messrs. George Bell. The work is a practical treatise on the art of typo graphy as applied more particularly to the printing of books, and the present edition has been brought up to date, more particularly in those sections relating to composing machines, motive power, and printing machinery. My Giant is a little sixpenny book by Edward Urwick, which has been published by Messrs. Henry Drane. It concerns the doings and sayings of a giant whom the author met in a Sussex village, told in a series of humorous stories. Mr. Basil Tozer has recently brought out through The Horse in History, with Messrs. Methuen many illustrations, in which all the historic steeds are lined up. for August 28 contained Golf Illustrated an article on a golf resort in Donegal, entitled Rosapenna, by Mrs. Maude C. Knight. novel is called Betty Brent, and has been published by Mr. Werner The story concerns a young girl who is Sent to a country house by her office to do work for some fast society people. The book gives a descrip tion of her adventures among the smart set. L. Budgen is publishing with the Ritz Co. Two Lullabies, and with Crewsher & Co. Six Pianoforte Pieces, in collaboration with the late Rita's "autumn Typist, Laurie. Mr. Robert Goldbeck (whose death was announced in St. Louis last May), the American musician, and other works were gaining whose orchestral Such high reputation in the cities of the West. The Pinafore Picture Messrs. Bell publish Book, by W. S. Gilbert. In this volume Sir W. S. Gilbert has re-told the story of his play in the In doing so he has form of a story for children. considerably amplified the details of the story, and has kept in mind the youthful readers for whom The illustrations in colour and in he writes. black-and-white are by Alice B. Woodward. Raymond Jacbern's new books this season are : a story for elder girls The Attic Boarders, (Chambers); A Boy and a Secret, a story for A Hard Bit of Road, children (Chambers); (Wells, Gardner and Barton). publications Among the forthcoming of the Fonts in Oxford University Press we notice by Francis Bond ; English Churches, Com by Joseph Wright Grammar, parative Greek series of Historical and Comparative (Students' Grammars); in the Oxford Library of Prose and Poetry Selected Poems of William Barnes, edited, with a glossary and introduction, by Selected Poems of John Thomas Hardy, and Clare, edited, with an introduction, by Arthur Symons; and An Alabama Student and other biographical essays, by William Osler. On July 8 last, at the Grammar School Hall, Dedham, Essex, was presented for copyright pur poses a new and original play in four acts, entitled The Undercurrent, by Herbert Chorley, the a novel which was author of Cleeves' End, published this spring. by Hall Caine and Louis N. Parker, Pete, The Manx dramatised from the former's novel man, was staged at the Lyceum on August 29 with Miss Hutin Mr. Matheson Lang in the title-róle. Britton, Miss Rita Tomkins, Mr. Eric Mayne and Mr. Frederick Ross were among those included in the cast. Mr. Jerome K. Jerome's new play The Passing of the Third-Floor Back was produced at the St. Mr. Forbes James's Theatre on September 1. a passer-by Robertson is the third-floor back, who seeks the good of all with whom he comes in Miss Haidee Wright, Miss Gertrude contact. Elliott, Miss Kate Bishop, and Mr. Edward Sass were in support. �THE AUTHOR. its C. by in of in to be of a of of at he in in he to in in of It in a or of of a up of up be will is by to of of Many readers mere habits and customs. the Matin subscribed that paper for the sake M. Harduin's daily paragraph. Aloyse Valérien, Edouard Rod, classed the author among his études passionnelles. He novel à write a to does not profess thèse, and does with regard the com plex problems which arise when touching the subject his novel. The story well told and on to not give his own opinion so is so in of to the psychology carefully observed, that the book holds the reader's interest from beginning end. One can scarcely help feeling surprised and dis appointed many the lack moral energy the personages who are thrown together. Intense Selfishness weak will predominates each one the characters. M. Mazelaine alone stands out somewhat relief. any rate He does not console himself with the dangerous and fatality for condoning extremely easy excuse Weakness of character. in a or at in * an Hénard, Robert the Revolution, is of La Rue Saint Honoré, from its origin the time by of It in of is a French newspaper world. His recent death universally regretted, for his witty and genial satire was greatly appreciated. He took any subject the moment that pleased his fancy, clever, and few concise lines showed bantering way the absurdities many political questions, party strifes, current events, even the at at at is It occurred writer was born 1837 the Vosges. He entered the army and went Africa for some time. After the war 1870 left France and took refuge England, where for Belgium, and afterwards some time was French professor the Woolwich Military College. He wrote several studies English life, whole series French novels, and articles for many the best French papers. easy for any one else will not take the place which M. Harduin had made for himself of E. A. of by by be Hector France This well-known of at an It 8. a on a to at death August. in 5. by by on by a its of on de F. as is A new ballet Lieut.-Colonel Newnham-Davis produced about the Empire Theatre. contains four scenes, and entitled Paris. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new play for October comedy the Haymarket Theatre his lighter vain. deals with the value new year's rTHE by by as as a of Duke's Motto, melodrama adapted from the French Paul Féval Justin Huntly 1McCarthy, made first appearance the Lyric September chiefly concerns Theatre the romantic sword-and-cloak adventures of one Lagardère, gentleman with Henri infinite capacity for taking life. With Mr. Lewis Waller, George, the redoubtable Henri, were Mr. Thompson, Mr. Herbert Jarman, Miss Mr. Alec Walli Walli, and Miss Sybil Carlisle. Mr. Martin Harvey opened his season the Adelphi September 10, with the production, before The Corsican Brothers, The Con spiracy, one-act play Robert Barr and Sidney Lewis-Ransom. The º-º-º of is by of byin 3 a by of J. (Margaret). at at PARIS NOTES. is, in in by of Amy Martin, and Miss Grace Leigh. Stephen His Majesty's Theatre gave Faust, Phillips and September W. Comyns Carr, The chief characters were sustained Mr. Tree (Mephistopheles), Mr. Henry Ainley (Faust), Miss Filippi (Martha), and Miss Maude Löhr Rosina of of . a-A~a poses. to and an amateur house-breaker for intellectual pur His wife Maggie (Miss Hilda Trevelyan), whom, plus an education, he had accepted as an however, the real politician, alternative to prison, her husband's guide, phrase-maker and speech writer one. The complications are Lady Sybil Lazenby (Miss Lillah McCarthy) and Shand's deficiency However, humour. the play rounded the hero's laugh. King September was also the first night Cadonia, musical play two acts, Frederick Lonsdale, with lyrics Adrian Ross, Sydney Jones. and music The play concerns king, who falls among the wanderings King Alexis, anarchists. Mr. Bertram Wallis and Mr. Huntley Wright his heir presumptive, Alasia, were supported the Duke Mr. George Barrett, Mr. Pope Stamper, Miss Izabel Jay, Mme. Alejandro Maristany has translated Henry Arthur Jones' plays, The Hypo crites and The Liars, into Spanish, and will produce them the Teatro Principal, during the present season. Barcelona, The répertoire that theatre includes also The Hound the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mr. Hornung s Raffles. Senor Mr. at Wontner, Mr. Herbert Waring, Miss Evelyn Millard, Miss Edith Latimer, and Miss Augusta Haviland. At the Duke of York's Theatre on September 3 appeared a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, entitled What Every Woman Knows. John Shand (Mr. Gerald du Maurier) is a prominent politician risen from a railway porter Arthur resolutions from the point view the resultant benefit. The play provides good parts for leading lady Miss Ethel Irving, Miss Margaret Halstan, Mr. Robert Loraine and Mr. M. Lowne. " J. of Idols, adapted from the novel of that name Locke, by Roy Horniman, was first per by W. formed on September 2 at the Garrick Theatre. The cast included Mr. Allan Aynesworth, Mr. 11 �et by by ; ; de a y on by on et on ; ; ; la by by is de la à E. by of by by M. is of at to is by de et de la et de la SPANISH NOTES. º-º-º on by I to of by a it in a an in of of to of in of I S send these notes from the Hydropathic Mondariz, Galicia, Establishment the Spain, they have some north-west coast news relating directly that centre. must begin saying that Don Enrique Peinador has had the glory discovering archaeological treasure Mondariz great value huge flat stone the form covered with hemispherical signs, something similar to what child makes before has learnt use the pencil. of of at to of to he at on of The Hydro has been honoured this week note, for Major Martin Hume two authors stopped two days Mondariz his way Oviedo, where represent the Univer went sity London the tercentenary fetes the university the capital Asturias which were celebrated from the 21st the 30th of to of de in du a In C. ALYS HALLARD. Aloyse Valérien (Perrim). La Rue Saint Honoré (Emile Paul). Mémoires d une vieille fille (Calmann Lévy). Jeunes Filles (Fasquelle). Adolphe Monticelli (Plon). Grandeur Décadence Rome'' (Plon). Turquie (Bouville). Paradoxes sur Midhat Pacha (Stock). Abdul Hamid intime" (Stock). Amours charmantes cruelles (Mercure France). Le Maitre Terre (Perrin). L'Oncle Bernac" (Juven). * º- a w-w-w of de la de by in by T. de by ; H. R. by ; is prize from the French Academy for his received Mensonge, book La Puissance which has English. now been published July 15, were articles the Revue Paris the adapted from Balzac's story. le et et by MM. Davray Terre, Benson, translated Wyzewa L'Oncle Bernac, Conan Doyle. Carrière d'Artiste, Mrs. Humphry Ward, now appearing serially the Revue Paris. M. Johan Bojer, the Norwegian novelist, has by by , rouge, of by G. charmantes L Or, Bernhardt the first play Israel, produce Madame Rejane Henry Bernstein. The Théâtre Antoine opens with La Repudiée, three-act play Mme. Dartigue, and L Auberge la et by is on la of : by Amours Maurice Hewlett, translated and Kosakiewicz Le Maitre by of as of of is ; " of G. : recently the Renaissance. SéaSOI). of a by by by de A appeared cruelles, rehearsed At the Théâtre Sarah MM. Peter and Danceny, to be being Read, whom Barbey d Aurévilly styled com missionnaire du genre humain. Among recent books are Mémoires d'une vieille fille, by René Bazin, volume short stories; Jeunes Filles, Victor Margueritte; Adolphe Monticelli, Camille Mauclair Grandeur Décadence Rome (Vol. VI., Auguste Grand Empire), Ferrero. Turkey whole series books now Turquie, appearing Paradoxes sur Afioun Effendi; Midhat Pacha, by Ali Haydar Midhat Bey; Abdul Hamid intime, Dorys. English books have Several translations Favre, of is a of on in of of a it is is an by he of to of of of on It de by L Esprit Barbey d Aurevilly has just been published Mlle. Read. collection extracts various subjects taken from the writings the great French critic and novelist. This volume enables the reader who knows nothing something this author see the mind of the man whose conversations gave Paul Bourget one the keenest intel pleasures experienced. lectual had ever There excellent preface Octave Uzanne, doubly welcome coming, and the little book does, few months before the celebration throughout France Barbey d Aurévilly's cen tenary. This literary fête, which should have taken place November this year, now post poned until May, 1909, account the death François Coppée, who was President the Committee. Every one who visited Coppée and was acquainted glad with his two cats will hear that Mlle. Jouise Read has adopted them, and that they will have for their companion the descendant Démonette, the famous cat which was Barbey d Aurévilly's faithful companion. The trio will from henceforth make their home with Mlle. de at in of as so in a it of description have taken from Caesar's Com Scarcely any street mentaries. Paris has been which, celebrated the Rue St. Honoré, the present time, the residences the President and of the British Ambassador are situated. L Angleterre l'Armeč Daniel Halévy, Nietzsche l'Empire allemand and Victor Bérard, on I CEuvre d Edouard VII. In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire are the following articles: Le Mouvement des Idées, Edouard Rod Comment nous élevaitil cinquante ans, the Marquis Castellane L Aviation, Commandant Paul Renard force, Le droit prime Henri Welschinger, the Institute Le Réforme turque, Gabriel Hanotaux, the French Academy; Leon Tolstoi, jubilaire malgré lui, Halperine Kaminsky; l'Exposition La Marine française Londres, Charles Roncière. Paul Bourget's four-act play L Emigré Colonel ; anglaise a to in of of go all interesting study for who enjoy the historical Paris. We back this book the Paris the times before the Romans, and we also side by THE AUTISIOR. 12 �THE AUTHOR. September ; and the famous Pardo Bazan, who is President of the Literature Section of the Athenaeum of Madrid, and whose works place her on the pinnacle of fame, motored to Mondariz to see Bright and well her friends the Peinadors. looked the authoress, who must now be called King Bazan, the Countess Emilia Pardo as Alfonso XIII. has just bestowed this title on her in recognition of her literary work. It is notable that the great tenor Don Francisco Viñas has just had the honour of receiving the Great Cross of Agricultural Merit from the King, and, indeed, in no triumph has the great tenor so appealed to his country as in this of agriculture. The fête which celebrated the event in the rural town of Moya was supported by the town and corporation in full force. The fact of Field-Marshal Don José Lopez Dominguez being decorated with the Order of the Golden Fleece has been acclaimed with pleasure by the friends of the former Liberal Prime Minister. This great political leader always advocated a true suffrage for Spain, and it is noteworthy that the Official Journal of the Sessions 3, 1902, records the of the Senate of November plaint made by Señor Loygorri in the name of the Liberal leader against the presentation of the inter diction of Colonel Figuerola Ferretti's petition to high quarters that the system of the appointment of the Deputies by the Ministers should be exchanged for that of their election by the people. Had a true suffrage been thus introduced, the struggle for it would not have been seen in Catalonia, and, with a true solidarity in Spain, loyalty to the King would have prevented any talk of separation. Señor Cambo, the leader of the Catalonians (says the excellent daily paper A.B.C.), has just made an eloquent appeal in the Congress against the stagnating influence of the overweening power, which is supported officially, of the cacique " or person of highest consideration in a place. Ring Alfonso XIII. shows his appreciation of Señor Don Domingo Sanllehey's services as Mayor of Barcelona by not consenting to his retirement from the office which the conduct and opinions of his colleagues have made so untenable for him, and by conferring on his wife, the lady who is decorating, at her own expense, the whole of the front façade of the Cathedral of the city with sculptures, the Order of Maria Luisa. It is said in Spain that Pius IX. (Juan Mastai Ferretti), related in cousinship to Colonel Figuerola Ferretti, is to be canonized. The research necessary for the act reveals many literary treasures; and the letter in which Ferretti, when one of the Body of Noble Guards of the Pope, broke off his engagement with a beautiful lady of distinction by reason of his call to the Church is 13 a true work of art. It will be from the thirty volumed chronicle of Cardinal Bilio that most of the details of the life of Pius IX. will be found. The month of October will see a most interesting Congress of Science in Saragossa. There will be seven sections : Mathematical Sciences, physio-chemical sciences, natural sciences, sciences, medical Social Sciences, philosophical Sciences, and applied sciences. The King will be present at either the opening or concluding session, as he has accepted the honorary presidency; and Señor Sigismundo Moret will be the actual presi dent. The Congress will have great popular interest, inasmuch as there will be a series of conferences in which not only new points and discoveries will be discussed, but also those which it concerns humanity in general to know. Speaking of science reminds me that English Scientists may soon expect to see a translation of the notable work by Dr. Enrique Lluria called La Vida Super-organica ( Super-organic Ilife). Those to whom the Monograph of Mondariz may be known may be interested to hear that the bicarbonated water from the springs of this centre have just gained the gold medal and cup at the Exhibition at Carlsbad. The Temporado, the bright little paper of the Hydropathic Establish ment, always contains excellent articles of scientific and literary merit. The Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Madrid, under the presidency of Don Edoardo Dato, is a great success. Much interest is taken in the Society by the Señoras Dato, one of whom is member of the Lyceum Club, the Marchioness of Ivanrey, the Countess of Torres-Arias, the Marchioness of Squilache y Ivanrey, etc. The well-known writer Mariano de Cavia has just received a great tribute to his talent by an important street being named after him in Saragossa, whilst the house which saw his birth has been marked by a stone signifying the fact. As Galicia is awakening some interest in England by the tours arranged by the Booth Steamship Company, the book called Across Galicia, by the Hidalgo of Tor, forms a capital introduction to the region. RACHEL CHALLICE. * ~4Aw à w-v COPYRIGHT MANSELL HIS v. CASE. THE WALLEY PRINTING CO. an appeal from the judgment of Eady, Swinfen who had awarded the plaintiff £4.3 damages for infringement of his rights in certain pictures, Mr. was Justice �THE A DITFIOR. in to by to an it on ; in it no to of of ; is is no to to by in As It an to is a of a be in of be is as is to an as MAGAZINE CONTENTS. º-º-º ALBANY. By Desmond McCarthy. By Desmond McCarthy. Mirabeau. By Lord St. Cyres. Pascal's Provincial Letters. Nietzsche. : Robert S. BOOKMAN. The Bookman Gallery Hichens. The By Sevenpenny. J. BOOK MONTHLY. M. CONTEMPORARY. Count Lyof Tolstoi. Chamber Drama. By Edmund Gosse. By G. W. Williams. CORNHILL. By Lady A Commentary. The Book on the Table: Robert Cecil. FORTNIGHTLY. - By Francis Gribble. Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans. By Frances An Appreciation. Mark Rutherford : Low. NATIONAL. Mr. Andrew Lang and Burns. By Thomas NINETEENTEI CENTURY. An Actor's Views Barnes. The Censorship Robert Plays and Play-writing. Fiction. By Bram Stoker. By H. Bayne. J. v. be of to it in an owner of unpublished literary work. giving judgment the Lord Justice Farwell, had been argued for the same effect, said that the HARDY. e-º-e on is an in in of of is of or is a it It on is it established the author's consent, and when plain that proprietary right, that the right the part intention motive the element wholly irrelevant. cannot the defendant contended, since the case Prince Albert unpub 1849, that the owner Strange, any different position from lished picture stands HAROLD of an lie to pay damages. The pictures having been made to order on behalf of the plaintiff without reserve and paid for by him, the copyright belonged to the plaintiff under the provisions of the Fine Arts Copyright was not Act ; but inasmuch as the registration made until after the publication by the defendants, the plaintiff was precluded by the statute from suing for damages for infringement of his copyright. The plaintiff based his claim, therefore, upon his common law rights; and it was contended that, as an author has the exclusive right of publication in respect of a literary composition, the plaintiff was entitled to recover damages for infringement of his proprietary right in an unpublished artistic work. The principle, in respect of authors, was estab lished as far back as 1774 in the case of Donaldson v. Becket, which was decided by the House of Lords. This weighty authority, said the Master of is, in my the Rolls in delivering judgment, It shows opinion, decisive of the present appeal. against any person who that an action will unpublished book without prints and publishes statutory and which that the copyright has come into existence arises upon publication registered the purchaser, who and belongs regarded, with the copyright proprietor, can the Fine Arts the provisions reference unpublished Copyright Act, work. to . have pro this case appear The arguments ceeded upon the assumption that the pictures were unpublished, until the unauthorised publication publica what amounts the defendants. precise work, there artistic tion "...of clear, however, that publication authority. public exhibition the work not restricted any decision upon the point, and, the absence picture, which has may doubted whether the artist's hands, been sold and has passed out - . plaintiff's rights. The plaintiff registered his copyright in the pictures under the Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862, after the publication of them by the defendants; and the latter, on receiving a complaint from the plaintiff, offered to stop publication and to deliver up the copies in hand, but they denied any liability all it law and apart from any at common protection, the owner of an unpublished picture can recover damages against a person who has, innocently and in good faith, published copies of the picture. The plaintiff, an artist's colour printer and pub lisher, was the owner of two pictures, suitable for advertising purposes, which had been designed for him by an artist in his employment, for which the latter had been paid the sum of £43. Another artist in the same employment had surreptitiously made copies of the pictures, and, after leaving the plaintiff s employ, had sold them under a false name as original drawings to the defendants, who published them without any knowledge of the whether, statutory was very hard upon them, because defendants that but they had acted quite bond ſide the matter greater hardship was them than Was bear the innocent party had cases where another, whose wrongful act loss brought about another innocent party. had caused injury Lord Justice Kennedy concurred, and the appeal was dismissed with costs. - it which belonged to him, and which had been published without authority by the defendants. The question raised in the Court of Appeal was so 14 �TISIES WARNINGS A UſTEIOR, TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. º-º-º TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society. II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement). In this case the following rules should be attended to : (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro duction forms a part without the strictest investigation. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for office expenses, unless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental rights. (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights. (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher. As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or doctor | III. The Royalty System. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. IV. A Commission Agreement. The main points are : (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production. (2.) Keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book. General. All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four above mentioned. Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author. sign any agreement without competent advice from Never the Secretary of the Society. Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are : (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement IIl 2,IDS. (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or withheld. (3.) Always avoid a transfer e WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC e EVER of copyright. º-e AUTHORS, º-e sign an agreement without submitting it to the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com petent legal authority. 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for the production of a play with anyone except an established manager. 15 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays in three or more acts: (4.) Sale outright of the performing right. This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into such a contract should stipulate in the contract for production of the piece by a certain date and for proper publication of his name on the play-bills. (b.). Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on grOSS receipts. vary between 5 Percentages and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts in preference to the American system. Should obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed date on or before which the play should be performed. (c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed nightly fees). This method should be always avoided except in cases where the fees are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply also in this case. 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely important that the amateur rights of one-act plays be reserved. should 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and time. This is most important. 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is of great importance. 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed ingly valuable. They should never be included in English agreements without the author obtaining a substantial consideration. 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced. 10. An author should remember that production of a play is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract. He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in the beginning. 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. 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Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary Communications and letters are invited by the on all subjects connected with literature, but on Every effort will no other subjects whatever. made Editor to confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers: (1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give advice concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to agreements. Fuller particulars of the Society's work can be obtained in the Prospectus. be 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of members' agreements and their preservation in a fire proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as to 5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. must be done within fourteen days of first execution. Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members. on send to 4. Before signing any agreement whatever, the document to the Society for examination. of | 3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past accounts, with a copy of the book represented. The Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The information thus obtained may prove in valuable. BRANCH, THE READING TV 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi Therefore, do not scruple to use ence of ordinary solicitors. the Society. º-e is member has a right to ask for and to receive + advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor, but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Further, the Committee, if they Solicitors of the Society. deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion. All this any without cost to the member. 1. to º-0 of e is HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. to of in of its HE Society undertakes or 16 �THE AUTFIOR. to by a in or of all It of to for a is a on in an on of his If or of at to to all in a of be of a v. in of to in a I a of or of to v. of of doof an I in is do a of to is of by is a a . . . of it in it a I of by to an of a ; to or I . . to be . of to do is to a of, on up to in the | a * of of it. to of " says see is an is a an a no by use the Authors Society's publishers and others name order obtain their ends; and secondly, the extreme danger, THOMSON. Lounger" that the the Red Letter had the slightest excuse story to suit the character for cutting his paper.' any not believe there editor standing the United States who would such thing without consulting the writer the story. any radical cutting do, the author When there give the editor permission asked change the character story but suit the periodical unpardonable im character pertinence. have known many stories and changed editors, but never with essays out the permission the writers. know one notable instance where an editor Worked over manuscript with the author, who re-wrote four print. There are very appeared times before few stories which are not improved editorial thing that suggestion, but the sort Rita" complains and that Mr. Shorter upholds, seems me little less than crime. Who steals my thief; who garbles my manuscript purse murderer cannot editor is to is of on an It in of as to A 3. in : First, the wrongful different footing work outright Lounger THE Putnam's for September Humphreys devoted some space the recent case Thomson, which Mr. Clement Shorter's views Except change were strongly deprecated. slip grammar word, for even the spelling the best writers are often the worst spellers, to of an to a of copyright from author transfer publisher. The secretary placed before the member his strong objections the proposed transfer. commenting The agent who was acting, the member's objections, stated that the transfer copyright was satisfactory and necessary. agent taking almost impossible conceive this standpoint, but the fact stated true. publisher placed before agree member assignment copyright, and ment asking for covering letter that the Society stated Again the secre objection Authors had tary laid before the member the very strong position which the committee has always taken this subject. These three cases have prompted the following remarks HUMPHREYS it, an to he to as of - to to 2. viding for put The matter rather where the publisher purchases glven Sum. to of is It of of of a 1. ONCE certain publishing house placed impossible agreement before one the society's sign members. On the refusal the member the document, the publishing house informed him that the agreement had the approval the Society hardly necessary Authors. state that this was not the case, and the secretary remonstrated. The publisher thereupon denied that had put forward this claim, but the secretary held his apologise, letter the only thing left for him was promise not repeat the statement. and This he did. Not long ago one the members the Society laid before the secretary agreement pro a NAME. SOCIETY's a WRONG FUL USE OF THE to by In by a no by by in to it is to in or in to an be to be do as in be their means (these have been chronicled month The Author). These may still subscribers, and their wholehearted looked upon generosity cannot ignored because they not happen annual subscribers. is to of by the fund (their names were printed with the first contributors), that many year year have made donations, some large, some small, according by month of a to in of of to all UNDER the Correspondence we are publishing a letter dealing with the question of the Pension Fund, in which the writer states that 1,720 members of the Society give nothing. It may be true that 1,720 members are not annual subscribers, but it should be stated, in fairness the generous supporters the fund, that many members the society its early days made large donations the committee cannot emphasise too strongly the transfer dangers dangers that may follow such judgments delivered Which have been increased one two cases recently decided the Courts. Again, therefore, necessary insist that publishers licences authors should merely grant publish, limiting such licences whatever way country to Great Britain they think well, either edition, or time to five years or one two editions or combination two three the above. case whatever should copyright where the author there transfer continuing interest holds his work. None the reliable publishing houses claim this now. publish convey better not than future interest and control others unless the question one absolute necessity the author agent sets but little value work. copyright the sooner recommends this transfer author places his affairs other hands the better. or FUND. author transferring copyright The legal advisers the society and is THE PENSION list of any event, publisher. º-Q-0 an GENERAL NOTES. 17 �THE AUTHOR. to of of to MARKET. UNITED STATES MAGAZINE in on in of if to be of a as so THE American magazine market has never been Agents and during the last year. dull authors on this side have found their efforts stamps; while the native writers, complete waste believed, have either gone into reports are business Writing not busi for magazines their capital. ness or have been living the Wew York Times places the writer the fact that the magazines the frost Source have been recuperating after the panic and living He declares that some accumulated copy. them have even been selling off superfluous hoards quite absurd reductions, refrigerated stuff. and quotes the following letter, which has been speculate circulated among editors likely in of of to in at - bargains to to on be I of of to up of I a a to a of My dear As you probably know from your own material, great deal experience, we editors accumulate be unsuitable for our use. while we find Which after good looking over our accumulated material find verse. Some years ago we used much, but latterly deal rhyme. give impossible much space have found the some am sending you proofs For this reason hand, thinking that you may things we now have buy some interested, and that perhaps you might care Of it. it is on to to of by in or do to to to a is of of in of in to a to it. THE following case may be of interest to those members of the society who have been requested by of their to accept settlement their publishers accounts by bills. One of the members refused to accept a settle ment by this method, partly because he desired, in accordance with the terms of his agreement, to have a prompt cash settlement, partly because he did not care to accept the responsibility to his bankers for the amount, and finally, because he considered that when a publisher entered into an agreement he ought to be ready to meet his obliga The publisher refused, after three tions under cash settlement, and make four requests, the society, and the matter was referred placed Since the its solicitors. the hands hand, society s solicitors have taken the matter although the publishers had previously ignored the the secretary, the amount has been letters promptly paid. But and this the point which very uncalled we complain the publisher wrote have the author, practically refusing for letter anything more Con his work. with him sidering that the author had courteously the first place, and then firmly the society's means lawyers, requested the publisher merely act up anger seems his agreement, the publisher's hardly justified. Perhaps, the whole, the author well out of his hands. or In both events the contributor would be entitled this his full price, and the only apparent object nothing. happy idea would come the review We cannot compliment the editor On his latest editorial method. A 2 on BILLS PUBLISHERS OR of CASH PAYMENT In 18 FROM THE be in of so is ; so so is in DICKENSIAN. of a 1, on by S. in in an a in be it do to by * magazine for Dickens lovers The Dickensian, monthly record the Dickens Fellowship, and interesting account its August number had the United the first and last Dickens banquet Kilwin. The first banquet was Mr. States 1842, and among February Boston held of on so he it if do is its in to of to in ; a to or a ; in ; is it of *-* is it In of to of is of be to of of to untrust not high true, Prices, not average but, prompt payment the States, nor steady, and the other hand, the demand the casual and touch of lost Bohemia there unexpected arrival the cheque that cheers. is a to to or to up in be or be It Happily the English market worthy. in to ; of is be if of to the notice raises several nice points. premised that many, may excessive alterations, would only the author's due either the necessity his art, unskilfulness date, owing bringing the article the lapse the time between its despatch and the receipt highly improbable proof. the first case, original the article would have been accepted the second, the blame would and form Supposing, entirely due the editor. the fault bring his article up then, contributor refused the had been duly accepted, date after ground that his honorarium would did docked, the editor would have either him repealing his notice, stultify himself self, The only authors making money have been the producers first-class humour and those working However, the end under iron-clad contracts. copy predicted for October hand the stock running low and writers are sharpen said good anticipation ing their pens again, time coming. is to a to a of a review has well-known WE understand that proofs attaching notice habit many its contributors, stating that sent alterations are made, the expense they entail will The be deducted from the author's honorarium. appears many interpretation the word and nothing the editor the discretion left the distinction between printer's said touching Apart from this, errors and author's corrections. acquired on as CORRECTIONS. �THE AUTHOR. by its it it, an a to is of in to of so be of of a is to it to to of is so if be ; to so a to a as of in of is of to is is is to In of he it to a of no of by as a So in to to of in to in a it in it an In of a do of all to in it is to of to of an of in in he an to to L. of in as be of a to of of is nately prevent lady authors from being invited. to to be is to As there seems some confusion regarding the exact nature of the Book Trade Dinner which organising, we are asked the Publishers' Circle entirely state that this trade affair, though many authors, including members this society, present have accepted invitations the Application forms for guests their publishers. publishers and the tickets have been sent only Courtney will propose the booksellers. Mr. W. Literature, toast which Sir George Trevelyan replying. Mr. W. W. Jacobs will propose the toast The Trade. The arrangements made, and the limited number tickets issued, unfortu is a a of of if be it in of on a books. The power sell the last few hundred copies, exceptional cases, few thousand copies, Or, always the test good publisher. The ordinary publisher knows well that takes more trouble sell the last few hundred copies than the first thousand, and thinks less his publishing reputation than the financial return. some cases this proves the best asset. What the author wants, therefore, some stimulus induce the publisher push the book, and this generally only obtained consideration the financial aspect. monetary soon the publisher has risk the book so soon does his stimulus cease. The same remarks will refer the increased royalty after the sale agreed number copies, for the more the publisher has paid the pro royalties author addition the cost duction and advertising, the more necessary that should push the book order obtain his own profit, for authors know after the first expenses book have been covered, future editions not cost very much. issue the Academy, published during the vacation, has been clearly pointed out that the great advantage. having royalties author sum advance gives lies the stimulus the publisher, and regard the same remark holds good the example quoted above. to on in of ; he THE BOOK TRADE DINNER. of on to an is T of of is at a to a be on he on in no on leaned his right was (Horace) arm, wrote one the guests. This was his last public dinner the United States. which Greeley s rapidly,are content events move sell sufficient bring them copies book fair percentage the capital expended, and then sell the book remainder, without any thought the author and his interests. This the result of the modern business, and occurs methods the case all in in he to in an of an no a in at he a What different picture the famous author presented when twenty-six years later was the honoured guest dinner given New York. He longer the bright, smooth-faced young man was elderly with the long wavy locks, but had become grey man with streaks both hair and beard. arriving, and those gathered He was hour late greet him grew nervous and apprehensive his Finally non-appearance. arrived, worn and racked with pain. What wore his right foot one noticed, but his left seemed stuffed carpet bag; his left hand was stick, no it is he he it of a to of a to in he ; not uncommon practice among pub lishers insure against loss book demanding from the author certain number copies free royalty. From the author's point paying view this method, though preferable production for the cost hard cash, bad method, but non-publication from fear tempted accept author may then should dangers. stated that not without There are two main points which should be noticed the case deferred royalty. The first that the number books free should not large production and cover the whole cost advertising the second, that the royalty the considerably higher after the author should number mentioned has been sold than the royalty had been paid from the beginning. large that practically the number production and advertising, then covers the cost there stimulus whatever the publisher push the book. Most publishers nowadays, when as of a an to º-º-º be reply applause that was loud was greeted burst and long. Mr. Dickens's reply the toast was grateful and eloquent recognition the hearty welcome which had received, and concluded with his first public reference the United States international copyright, which said believed was not far distant, firstly, because justice secondly, because without you never can your Own. have and keep literature 19. THE PERILS OF DEFERRED ROYALTY. is, rose he and when Dickens by ! T)ickens to to a : in to its J. If present were Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, R. Lowell, W. W. Storey, the famous sculptor; G. Bancroft, the historian ; and R. H. Dana, the author of Ten Years before the Mast. The speaking was begun by Josiah Quincy, jun., in an address of welcome to the guest, which was not Dickens, but only eloquent in tribute witty and appropriate quotations abounded from Pickwick and Oliver Twist. The Health, Hap speaker closed with the toast Hearty Welcome piness, and Charles those - - �A UTISIOR. to the interesting and remarkable southern towns. summer I received an invitation for a party This its of to of en of of of at at by in he in of or of in in of at of a at to at on in no so be I is is on as I or is en at 6 it, is a in it ; we in ! on to of us a at of is of of of in I is a a the year 1905 I gave an account in The Author of an expedition made by EEglish The tour then made was writers to Bohemia. It N 6-e it e of I NORTH BOHEMIA. on BRITISH WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS IN it º-e of e of If in to advertising, as well as put a certain profit into the publisher's pocket, then the increased royalty will merely act as a deterrent on the publisher's pushing The result, therefore, may be summed the book. up as follows: 1. The number free of royalty must not exceed the cost of production and advertisement. 2. The author should obtain a proportionately higher royalty after the sale of the free copies. he does not obtain the first the second is 3. useless. possesses Scenery around but also because which the most remarkable technical school, taught. jewellery and precious stones industry was anxious our specialists should see this work; arriving but, alas the town, we found the were but School had just been burnt down see the apprentices, who attended the enabled gain school, and thus various workshops, insight into the real outcome the work. very Prague, Later, the Exhibition, we saw remarkable artistic exhibit of the school's work. more time for the fire gave This disaster exploring the romantic country around Turnov. called the Bohemian Para The whole district dise, and the most delightful paradise I..have have found ever visited, though more than once paradise, myself the world. various parts the strange weird beauty Our first glimpse was when we had climbed the the neighbourhood Kopanina, and had the whole district great Hill with its natural rock fortresses, and its robber knight castles, and all the forest, and meadow, and We soon had corn-land stretched beneath us. scooped out, fortresses, these one closer view castle, with chapel and rooms and watch and into towers; was 1447, just the famous date period wonderful was Bohemia's history. in cent. at least would have been a legitimate royalty for the author to receive, at any rate until matters had been equalised by continued sales. One further point of no little importance must if the publisher on be taken into consideration: large free of royalty, number a claims hand one the and in his generosity grants under the agreement to the author a very high royalty, and if the number so claimed will quite clear the cost of production, the following received us, Bohemia) sloth a.m. (there give Turnau. route for Turnov we were to-day the the Bohemian and German spelling, largely used, but our maps Bohemian word given. generally had word the German especially asked that this town should included the itinerary, not only for the strange wild really Prague morning in Such contracts are bad a a was his desire. M. Franz frontier the Bohemian met Borovsky, the learned director the Art and Prague, and some other friends, Trades Museum Prague itself warm welcome was received, and the city, but from the not only from the officials the station. crowd be visited before But the northern towns were of apparently If the in principle, and should always be avoided. publisher could find a sufficient number of authors who stood outside the society, or ignored its advice, he could run his business without any payment to If in either the author whose books he produced. of these cases it had happened that the number free of royalty had been exceeded, then 33% per June, twenty-one members So, the end Journalists the British International Association route for Holland the Hook landed Dresden and Prague. either the members were specialists, Most education, upon engineering, technical writers developments, chemistry, industrial and municipal matters, historical and topographical writers. Each traveller had his especial aim, but the general the scenery very frequently interest and beauty the made the specialist forget his pet subject was engulfed. which romance Prague the travellers were Before arriving in sold about 850 copies, and then broke up the type. The other case was somewhat similar. Five hundred copies of the book were to be free of royalty. The book was a small one, and the publisher printed only 500 copies. In both cases the number of books to be sold free of royalty was sufficient to cover the expenditure, as far as can possibly be judged by ordinary standards, although the detailed publisher's accounts were not to hand. There was no reason, therefore, why the publisher should sell in the one case more than 1,000 copies and in the other more than 500, if he desired merely to satisfy his business instincts, and from the result that Jubilee Exhi to visit Prague during the year of explore some bition, and the northern towns and rock fastnesses. I These remarks have been prompted by two cases In One case which have come before our notice. the author agreed to forego his royalties on 1,250 copies, taking after that number a ridiculously small royalty. The publisher produced 1,000 copies, an TRIES 20 �all a a or in a a us a so in to of of a ; of a to as of a a it to an its a of us at or of a I in to us a of at is in in a or to 8 us at of ; as in by us of at a as in inhabitants, and their intense cultivation of the soil. The former was most forcibly illustrated on the following day at Jicin, the little town that suffered terribly in the war of '66, where, in the Wallenstein Palace, the Triple Alliance was signed in 1813. Our reception in this little town of 10,000 night we had retired concert. When late rest, soft music from the choir beneath our windows, told the artistic courtesy serenade. But a.m. again the automobiles awaited really Bela, Weisswasser, and after for run extraordinary reception the tiny walled town, we climbed old Bösig, 900 feet up, and spent some hours the grand old ruins and the chapel. perfect, The view from the great tower forest, lakes, village and mountains but we had descend, and after halt the Countess of Wallenstein's castle, that was full art treasures, we took the train into Prague. Now the official reception was given the glorious old town hall Dr. Gros, the learned mayor, and we had our old friends, Dr. Maly, who paradise, and Dr. Sum helped had guides, with M. Borovsky chief commander. Well was that was autocratic, for our time was he I leader, which ran other districts Indeed, month's stay would not Running swiftly, touching exhaust wonders. fifty miles hour sometimes, we soon reached through near Kost, but we walked vale tears, but lovely one, and had superb first view Kost and its castle, the four corners which can be seen once. Here Field-Marshal Won Waldkampf and his son met us, and showed the wonders the place and the beauty around it, and the evening we ran into Mlada-Boleslav Jungbunzlau. stayed with Emil Treval, Here delightful, the dramatic author, and again we had in I Of course knew all this district, as had described it in my books on Bohemia, but it was pleasant to go over the ground with fellow-country men who could understand, not only the natural wonders, but the intellectual development of the maker, this paradise. us Wallenstein family. she, too, was citizeness this little city. The whole performance was equal that musical festival production, save that the choir . was less in numbers. making everything The Bohemians believe themselves, and the next morning we found luxurious motor cars, with Mr. Clement, their voice so along a romantic road our way was blocked by a group of tiny children singing their songs and bringing us roses. The schoolmaster in this remote village was a most cultured man. We drove on to the deep ravine, above which, some 600 feet, gleams the castle of Gros Skal. Up to this we climbed through a cleft in the vast rock piers called the Mouse Hole, with space for but one person at a time, and at the summit lunch No. 2 awaited us. After this we went for a delightful walk through the forest amidst the Rock Town" to Waldstein, the seat of the great choicely served dinner, we had a concert that was indeed a delight. An orchestra, a men's choir, and a women's choir gave examples of Slav music by Dvorak, Bendl, Smetana. The rendering by Orchestra and singers was full of fire and tender ness, tone and expression. We learnt that the performers were engaged professions business lady the town. Then came greater surprise, soloist, Miss Jarmila Wolfova, with brilliant it We were under the shadow of the strange mighty of Trosky, and up to its great ruin we climbed a double castle on two peaks linked by a massive wall. As we descended from this height castle inhabitants was marked by intellectual and artistic phases, towards which some great cities might strive. In the town hall the speeches of the mayor and Corporation were in three languages English, French, and Czech. Many of the towns folk described to us in English the historic build ings of their home, and acted as guides in the wild romantic labyrinth of the Prachov Rock Town. that lies above the '66 battlefield of Jicin. We returned to the town in the evening, and after a in the old castle of welcome us; it was town or village had no maire it was the schoolmaster who greeted us. Often also his children were drawn up with flags to welcome us, and to sing their national air, Where is my home. The priest rarely took a foremost position, although nearly all the inhabi Dinners, lunches, tants are of the Roman Church. speeches, and impromptu welcomes met us every where. Very often these greetings were in English, even from mayors of towns of a thousand or so inhabitants. The next two days were spent in this romantic paradise, and at Rovensko the young maidens, dressed in white, presented us with bouquets and examples of the jewel stones found here, and then to prove further that they were the angels of this paradise a choir sang their folk songs, and an excellent orchestra played Dvorak and Smetana. On the stage of the hall in which the lunch was served by those same young girls, were busts of their national heroes, for the hall is the local theatre. This gives a hint of their village and small town life ; here the problem of the dullness of village life has been solved by self-help and culture. 21 of I amidst the exclamations, for stranger wonders were to come. At the little village below Vranov the schoolmaster came to noticeable everywhere that if the a I kept silence knew greater and walk amidst these great rocks, but Crºſ"FIOR. to of TFIE A �on in a to us us up us to of to ; or all of to to I a of If be a to of in M. a to of in we of to in e-º-º of to of it in in of a he in or on a is be he of a be he ; to be a a to or on of is in a is a of of is F over-crowding the natural result the high state civilisation we have reached complaint and cause common all professions, there probably none which occurs more acute form than that letters. The beginner the chief, but perhaps not the things. only, sufferer from this state His success failure depends circumstances which great extent beyond his control. are He may have lively imagination and considerable dramatic ability and yet unable work within the managers narrow limits which many theatrical high poetical prescribe may man instinct and yet told again and again when drug offers his works that poetry the may even obtain market certain measure success the shape favourable reviews and ; us of a *w OF BOOKS. of to of of in -º wº LIBRARIES AND THE SALE its of a of a a of or on a an byto so INSPECTION 3 all us in of at w- as of of on of I to us of to In on On to of a In of at in of at by JAMES BAKER. a of or to on on in at us a a it an of he an on to us he to I ; of or or to A. D. of of on of of a lunched and dined them, and again the most friendly fashion upon our calling leaving Prague. bid farewell Another instance our visit uniting all classes and all races, occurred our reception Podie King George. brad, the historic birthplace Here knew my old friends, Dr. Boucek and Dr. Jelen, would secure warm welcome, and again we were surprised the intensity the reception mayor and officials and the whole town. But the castle further surprise awaited us, for we found Prince Hohenlohe, the son the famous Chancellor, with the Princess, awaiting the courtyard. night The Prince had travelled a.m., from the Kiel Regatta, only arriving and, with their Serene Highnesses guides, we passed through the halls the castle and saw treasures, notably the portrait the Chancellor, whose memoirs aroused such excitement; we looked parterre out the old execution terrace, now lovely flowers overlooking the Elbe, and then passed out into the gardens, where, under the delightful dejeuner was awaiting us. shady trees, thanking our hosts, and had the pleasure calling my British friends' attention the fact King George, that we were the birthplace Europe had from whom nearly all the dynasties descended, including our own King and Queen. After cordial reply, Prince Hohenlohe drove the new baths, which are most tastefully equipped. Then the great glass works and other genial industries claimed us. Afterwards came dinner, with hearty health-drinking, and, course, Finally the whole population an excellent concert. fashion received so inge characteristic episodes were the Sophie Island and the Petrin, Strahov Hill, looking down the glorious city. The Praguers are impetuous their adoration Prague, and the Sunday they led out the remarkable Ethnographical Museum, that was English, and still more delight and lesson the Irish amongst and from thence through the park and gardens the Nebozitek. restaurant, where, under the thick shade the trees, lunch was laid. From this position we looked out over the mighty city and the great Cathedral, and the palaces, and the Moldau, Ultava, flowing beneath the historic Carls Bridge. inspiring scene, that brought ready was my lips, when reply words had the toast given the Lord Mayor, Golden Prague hundred towers. this scene was poetical and dramatic, also was that upon the Sophie Island, when Prague outdid itself artistic effect. But space says halt. The expedition British journalists left Prague again visit Carlstein, the mighty jewelled castle, and Pilsen, where repre King Lear sentation Czech proved Bordil, who took the part Lear, great journeyed home via Eger, actor and thence save those who availed themselves the Danube Steamship Company s offer sail down the Danube Buda Pest, that historic stream that far excels grandeur and beauty. Rhine Moselle It of in development, invention, but here each man and woman wrote his her own special interests. As international journalists we know naught dividing politics religions, and therefore was great satisfaction receive intimation that Bohemia, Count Coudenove, would the Viceroy receive some our members, and we found him my explaining the special most cordial, and them, interests some invited our engineer ing experts, Mr. Louis, the Times and the Engineer, Mr. Paul Hasluck, and others accom pany him expedition the Moldau and Elbe, see the great irrigation and flood organis ing works being carried out there. genial of nuity, and found the technical Schools us a to I Personally, record. wonderful lesson escorted the station, loading with bouquets and flowers and mementoes Podiebrad. Prague, after this sortie, the two most to to to all packed with engagements. The Exhibition, which to our specialists had great charms, was excellently arranged, and work was lightened by music. One concert by the Philharmonic Orchestra, led by the famous Nikisch, was a most perfect concord of sweet sounds. The Chamber of Commerce and other committees took endless pains to help their especial work, and there was much see and us THE AUTHOR, 22 �TISIE AUTISIOR. to to of be to be 1. in by of a 2. to of of of to in a as to at of of on be by or in on to its or 3. to to to 4. or if or it in of of a of is of of to a of at so in of as It to in of be to to a us is in or to it,a of it in to If of all be of or a of as if on of a to be a it of in a to a of of a if of he in of to fessional he of in he making his choice would then know that had before him the best collection books available for his purpose for although would find the same works the British Museum, could not procure them without previous knowledge probable that many, their titles, etc. seems of he a in search suitable literature for his pro personal requirements would, London, hasten the inspection library, where would probably find most the more recent works his special branch carefully arranged. He public It as be of a in of lie their merits. But the taste of the majority of the reading public does not perhaps reach the highest standard of literary judgment, and the conditions under which books are offered for sale favour in some measure the temporary survival of the less fit. In literature we find many exceptions to the Darwinian law, and the ghosts of mammoths and ichthyausauri, if they have a local habitation, may rejoice together, for their fate is being avenged. The natural remedy for the over-crowded state of the book market would appear to the inspection libraries establishment combina tion with bookselling department. The purposes briefly stated such libraries may follows: ; titles of which alone it is acquainted 2 Publishers, on the other hand, cannot produce Works that booksellers would refuse to purchase, and that the public would neglect from lack of knowledge of in it knows little or nothing of their contents. Is it surprising that it refuses to buy books with the capital building rent fair-sized house the neighbourhood the British Museum, with frontage, possible, Oxford Street, and whilst retaining the front part shop, were large part provided with have the rest, shelves for the reception the works which free copies might obtained. this plan were meet, either carried out and were its present any modified form, with ready response from authors and publishers, who would alike interested the opening new channel for the disposal their stocks, seems reasonable suppose that this collection works would short time become most important one. That being so, one may believe that any member the of in this selection that the public make its own choice. The volumes which are offered to it may be stamped with the approbation of the publishers, the critics, and the booksellers, but in a great many instances in It is from It does not or imperfect. chooses. so mand for the moment the attention of the public. bookseller is not a free agent in this respect ; he cannot afford to keep books which are not, so to speak, in the eye of the public, and he naturally selects for the many rather than for the few. It is very much the same with the buyers for subscription libraries, and in both cases the over-crowded state of the market tends to make such a selection The the works contained the library collec the option and expense the authors, advertising reduce the cost minimum. probable that ninety-nine out every hundred readers books would get much better any work idea the value and suitability they could have their hands for ten even five minutes than they would from any number any case, the knowledge critical reviews, and obtained would differ considerably from that gleaned from the present sources which suppose then that certain information. Let number of authors were subscribe sufficient lists tively of If six ten lines written the authors for use any the inspection library branches. (a) To enable the authors insert somewhat similar notes the books the shelves, together with one two pages extracts from press cut tings selected them. (b) To post similar postcards, notes printed the expense the authors, anyone inquiring the nature any given work upon receipt $d. stamp. To advertise the library the daily papers time, and otherwise from time advertise in the publishers, the critics, and the booksellers. Criticism in general is fair, it is even generous, perhaps too generous, and on that account it is frequently misleading. As for the booksellers, they may have eyes as big as towers and yet be blind to the qualities of many excellent works. It is not the intrinsic or literary, but the commercial, value they will consider. The taste of the majority is their criterion, a changing factor it may be, yet always the dominant one. The booksellers cater very little for minorities. There may be many works which would respond to the needs of a limited, but not unimportant though scattered, portion of the public, and the sale of which would, in course of time, fully justify their publica tion, provided that they could be made accessible to these readers during a sufficiently long period. But there is no room for them on booksellers' they happen to have found a place shelves. there they are soon ousted by more recent ones, which though perhaps far inferior to them, com inspect (a) To enable the reading public briefly all works which might sent the library carefully for that purpose, and which would classified and arranged. (b) To collect from authors enjoying the privilege exposing their works sums varying from 1s. 6d. 3s. per book per annum. comprehensive classified cata To prepare logue containing short descriptive notes about a to secure an adequate pecuniary reward for or fail his efforts. Like the soldier in Hans Andersen's fairy tale, the author has to deal with three kinds of guardians before he can unlock the magic coffers : of yet 23 �M. by a is is It of in to in of an a he if da of to is be of to of on as In of he or in as a as as it it . " in as so of as a in of is it distrustful a is on They have become of of on it is attack. too often official prudery which condemns the just and the unjust alike. Fifty years ago Flaubert underwent arraignment the score Madame Bovary. His advocate, M. Senard, maintained that the as means agreed, of practicable generally of in no ; of be a in any Official purity, is In of et in to has devised as (From the Nation, U.S.A., July, 1908.) recent publication M. Seghele's book, Criminalité, has reopened Littérature France the discussion of the relation of crime literature. The French have often singed Every one feels that the their wings this flame. printed word may corruption source certain that the public should assume Some responsibility checking the evil; but one HE by It in in In in by in a A a he CRIME. to AND e-º-º to of he of of to in of D. L. LITERATURE at he he of de her through the neck and then stabbed the lover, who fell dead beside her. As more completely mimic scene the theatre, innocent children were playing the adjoining room. Yet one cannot think that this fruit-peddler's mind had been debauched D'Annunzio's Francesca Rimini. more plausible case that the young man who drank poison and died waltz public theatre, after the fashion music the heroes Ford and Massinger. This instinct for the dramatic among criminals appears rather fed than stimulated literature. M. Claretie cites the Temps the celebrated case Charles Iſemaire, who killed his prospective step-mother Showing his hands red the eve her marriage. Shakespearean phrase, with blood, exclaimed Fine gloves for my father's wedding crime, far literature presents crime comparatively innocuous; becomes dangerous presents crime duty, self-realisation, when experience, asthetic gratification. letter published the Public June 26, the writer reviles the Chicago authorities for their treatment of Emma Goldman. In her lectures at Portland, Ore., says. that excellent woman spoke the revolutionary spirit modern drama, dealing very sympathetic and in tellectual manner with Ibsen, Hauptmann, Shaw, and Sudermann. You might well send police the meetings the trustees the Chicago University. The Chicago authorities, however, recognised Emma Goldman perilous link between these dramatists and the bomb-throwers. by to be is on if or is it the cold-blooded facetiousness the Borgias. specious mimicry Life puzzles the observer with literature. New Rochelle Italian trapped Drawing his stiletto, his unfaithful wife. ran of in in of be to of or in it it to of it of at of of an it of be to of to a to in a be of on a if of In could offer the public the most varied collection and the best arrangement its stock. the long run these facilities would insure its prosperity, and the profits obtained exceeded reasonable return the capital invested, certain proportion them might set aside the first place establish branches, and subsequently allow diminution the fees charged authors for exposing their works. The establishment inspection libraries may therefore said authors, because the interest would afford all equal opportunity exposing their works and advertising them collectively the cheapest rates, publishers because would enable them get rid their remainders, and the public because would furnish with unequalled facilities for choosing and buying. But authors are more interested this matter than publishers bring the public, and whether they endeavour themselves more closely into touch with the latter, by this any other means, found, such can required. common action their part that in an to of that members the public should feel themselves perfectly free leave the library without buying, enlarged supply, for this freedom, coupled with constitute one of the chief causes of the success of large shops. Like them, the inspection library of be a It as or of be the building should reserved for refreshments, reading room, would require would, however, consideration. essential of portion defendant was man severe and august character, actuated the highest artistic pur Only the other day, when poses. Georges Lecomte was protesting before the Société des Gens contemporary Lettres against the indecency literature, declared that, had been present that celebrated trial, would have done homage not only the conscience the artist, but also the nobility the book. The type literature which most cried out upon perhaps the least dangerous this country that dealing frankly with arson, highway robbery, adultery, and murder. may suggest the means, but excepting boy brigands, inspired the penny wrongdoing. dreadful seldom the motive takes root only minds already fertile evil impulses. The letter accompanying the fatal gift poisoned ale Philadelphia ironically requested that the brew be recommended the victim's family. There was this something suggestive of of be a of of on to be it, the majority, of those inspecting the works in the library would place their orders in the bookselling department connected with and that, without reckoning the income derived from the subscriptions authors the books they would expose large part the rent the premises would thus earned. Whether any to perhaps of A UIT)SIOR, TRIES 24 the so-called �THE AUTISIOR. to to of to ; to ; to ; to to an of a of of by is e. of or of of of he or to be all by of all as to M. is In by in by us us of of . . . is of . . . to in no to do of to to of no of in to an of to B. of P. of to in If their enchanted ring was beyond was delivered over All within to world. perfection to in to it or it of Sometimes invade wainloads from Pisa. subject and treatment there but slight difference both schools are smitten with Nature, and Nature's love, run riot the infrigues animonies, daisies, and buttercups, and rave the rivulet proud, and the deep blushing stars. We must the defunct Della Crusca the justice say that they kept their private irregularities themselves, and sought for reprobate popu larity. They talked nonsense without measure, silliness, were simple down the lowest degree green fields" enough and babbled make summer, but they were not daring men sicken impurity; there was enough pestilent boast everything generous, true, and honour hatred able; desperate licentiousness their romance; feeling, moralities, no daring and friendlike insult They were foolish and and Christian principle. profligate, but did not deliver themselves with the steady devotedness insensate and black society. ambition the ruin speak Shelley and We have now Mr. poem. Here we must again revert the Della Crusca. One of the characteristics of those childish persons was the restless interest which they sum everything belonging moned the public take their own triviality. Mrs. Robinson's dog had bad night's repose was duly announced the point to at in of to on of an as The Della Crusca school has visited us again, but with some slight change localities. Its verses now transpire from the retreats Cockney dalliance the London suburbs, some fragments from Venice, and times they visit all in as A in by a in he The literature which makes asthetic gratification the end existence defeats its own end. Pursued ultimate goal, leads sooner later into quagmires. The aesthete wanders from home the quest new and strange beauties. His truant feet stray from the classic the romantic, and SHELLEY's ADONAIS. of he ; in a of in of is a as he ; to no he by a of is all somewhat different Criminal motive is that furnished by the type of literature which presents experience as an end in itself. The man whose attempts to crush all else aim is self-realisation into his own personality ; the man whose aim is experience attempts to crush his personality into desired, but variety, inten else. Not quality sity, and strangeness. experience The hero fundamentally leads histrionic life his success measures the number rôles has played. garment. He lays his past aside like He gives pledges the future. He lives the present noment, like the epicurean but, unlike Epicurus, delights much the sty the wreathed roses. Sin and terror allure his imagination. He vivisectionist, physical and spiritual, for the quaint excitement anguish. good illustration of this instinct its most morbid form was fur Cambridge, Mass., who nished the instructor two years ago gave his wife arsenic, hoping, since loved her, see her soul depart from the body the moment death. He had been preparing insanity thesis German literature. ON of A REMARKS ; men of CRITICISMS. VIII. º-º-º to business Q- CONTEMPORARY . . . great the harmonious and living Samothrace. . . . the 4 of to of Gioconda the Victory no many of America. La . . . creed smile majesty to injunction, human or divine. It is the creed of the lions of the Renaissance, the creed of Napoleon, the creed of red anarchy, and the indecent. Yet the price illicit aesthetic pleasure the loss asthetic pleasure. The unhappy man, Lecomte says, who little little allows himself soiled with that filth, becomes finally insensible vigorous thought, expressive portrait, poetry. the proud wing Dulled and stupefied the contemplation incapable feeling true obscene images, beauty, understanding, for example, the look and to stress period, and as young as the latest novel of the Jack London school. It appeals powerfully to the masculine spirit endowed with a rich animal nature. It furnishes a religion to the religiously emancipated, and a sanction to the strong man with vividly surviving instincts of the barbarian. Under the guidance of the German madman whom so many innocents have taken for a god, it would bring back Nature red in tooth and claw. It teaches to use Tolstoy's words in summarising a philosophical work published a few years ago in Chicago that all laws, commandments, or doctrines as to not doing to another what you do not wish done to you, have no inherent authority whatever, but receive authority from the club, the gallows, and the sword. A man truly free is under no obligation to obey any thence the grotesque from the moral the unconventional, and thence the illicit from the sound the unsound, and thence the insane from the chaste the unchaste, and thence the a They have learned that a peaccable anarchy. certain kind of literature begets dynamite, and they are not ashamed of panic when a fanatic, educated to a sense of his duty, rushes out bomb in hand, burning for martyrdom. The literature which exalts self-realisation as an ultimate end is older than the German storm and 25 �THE AUTHOR. / is as to to a to it it I A In Is I so to be to of of on of of on to be of to it is in a of of as is to of . is . . of as in is it of So of to In of of a or a of as of a of of a of of is is of is of it in ; in in of . . . is to a great figure in becomes him, a Death makes, to to of to as so . . . Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds. dear, To Phoebus was not Hyacinth both, Nor himself Narcissus, Thou, Adonais; wan they stand, and sere, Amid the drooping comrades their youth, tears, odour sighing ruth. With dew all turned Kingly a in this Lament, but rather curious operations. thing, nothing, etc. alternately person, He Death, then He The coming bulk Death feeds on the mute voice. of - so, .; i x 2 . $ the following manner: to . . . a a In in be 7 × in to as a of of / ! it >k act is is to a or be a to of - of it is to . a .. it it as as of a in is up I what blinds me of of of is a its to by we of at How comes this hair undone Its wandering strings must And yet tied fast x no he all to to as in ; in remorse, natural affection, woman's murder, and alternate melancholy and Percy Bysshe fear the prospect the grave, only this frigid rant : worked Offences like these naturally come before more effective tribunal than that criticism. We have heard mentioned the only apology for the predominant irreligion and nonsense this person's works, that his understanding unsettled. But his preface there none the exuberance insanity; there folly and great deal great deal bitterness, but nothing the wilder ness his poetic fustian. The Bombastes Furioso these stanzas cools into sneering the preface and his language against the death-dealing Quarterly Review, which has made such havoc the empire. Cockaigne, merely malignant, mean,- and peewishly personal. personages, ideal The seasons and whole hosts They and otherwise, come lament over Adonais. as in of to is of glutton the measure. He manner colours, and flowers, and smells, and tastes, and crowds his verse with scarlet, and blue, and yellow, and green extracts tears from everything, and makes moss and mud hold regular conversations with him. A goosepye talks, does more, thinks, and has peculiar sensibilities smiles and weeps, raves the stars, and listener the western wind, fond the author himself. On these principles hundred hundred thousand verses might made equal the best Adonais without taking the pen off the paper. Percy Bysshe has figured sentimentalist before, and can quote largely without putting him praise. the blush What follows illustrates his power over the language passion. the Cenci Beatrice condemned die for parricide situation that, true poet, might awaken thought. noble succession distressful The mingling horror Branded and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's, CHRIST s. a in a eject every epithet that thus can con glomerate his piracy through the lexicon, and they will. throw them out settle He follows his own rhymes, and shapes his subject the close he of he if in sack; and even from the most fortuitous flinging they will sometimes fall pleasing though useless forms. This art the modern Della Crusca as to a he of in . . . to he of all of byof in of of as us A of of pure nonsense out every three. tences ninety more faithful calculation would bring every hundred, or, nine out the present Con only fifty-five stanzas, leaving about five sists readable lines the entire. Mr. Shelley and his tribe have been panegyrised their turn for power language, and the man Tabletalk great swears the gods owns that has words, command which the most eloquent effusions the Five Courts are occasionally inferior. every word But any man may have the command the vocabulary will fling them like pebbles Glue, and much for the history much easier rake together the vulgar vocabulary paint the work rottenness and reptilism than ings perhaps the mind. This raving such excess madness ever raved, except the imagination Cockney, determined mad possible and opulent his recollections the shambles. And this dreary non poetry sense that attached the name Yet this passage the whole lauding his fellow Cockneys has been lavished. But Percy Bysshe poetic reputation, and feels his hopelessness blasphemy. therefore lifts himself the stilts He the Only verseman the day who has dared Christian country work out for himself the character direct Atheism his present poem (Adonais) talks with impious folly the envious wrath of man or God l . Of is to is it in is lie original arbiters of human fame. Mr. P. B. Shelley having been the person appointed by the Pisan Triumvirate to canonise the name of poor Keats, nipt in the bud, as he loudly tells us, has produced an Elegy, in which he weeps after the manner of Moschus for Bion. Locke says that the most dissolute liar cannot Folly every three sentences. more than once more engrossing; for we could prove, from the present Elegy, that possible write two sen The sunshine on the floor black The air changed vapours, such the dead breathe charnel pits Poh am choaked There creeps clinging black, contaminating mist, About me 'tis substantial heavy, thick. glues cannot pluck from me, for My fingers and my limbs one another, And eats into my Sinews, and dissolves My flesh pollution, etc., etc. a the empire of Dulness and Demogorgon. The New School are here the humble imitators of those in 26 Death keeps his pale court. �TRIES . . A UTFIOR. The shadow of white Death. Death blushed to annihilation / " . . this wild waste of words is entirely beyond our comprehension. Adonais has been published by the author in Italy, the fitting soil for the poem, sent over to his honoured correspondents throughout the realm of Cockaigne, with a delightful mysteriousness worthy of the dignity of the subject and the writer. (Weekly Entertainer, 1822.) A v-u a 27 books is not convincing. The touch which makes one realise their great charm is lacking. Again, the description of Barrès's books leaves us with an impression first, that his early work is full of childish egoism, and his later writings spoilt by the intrusion of politics; and secondly, that this from an artistic point of view is detrimental and tends to narrow the interest. Surely this is not the impression the author intended to convey. If it is true, then, it seems a mistake to select him as a typical French when others with better claims have been OWer. writer passed - It French Novelists of To-day, by Winifred Stephens. by John Lane. 6s. met. it. of of to a do it is to to º-e CORRESPONDENCE. º-º PENSION FUND. G. SIR,--I quite agree with Mr. W. Scoon that year five shillings reasonable sum for every Fund, and pay towards the Pension member should made compulsory, except cases where very few actual poverty exists, and these would shilling my first number. mentioned letter because the payment was compulsory, but hoped great many members would also added give far more. According you the list published The Author only 180 members give subscriptions and donations. Mr. Scoon's estimate that we have in be in I in by is * Published e a such as is a authors are not treated in the same manner, and that so much space has been lavished on Pierre de Coulevain of secondary rank. The writer seems to be more in sympathy with this quasi Frenchwoman, whilst acknowledging that her books have hardly the vogue in France that they enjoy elsewhere. After forty pages devoted to setting forth the merits of her some disjointed writings, it is disappointing what to find Loti disposed of in twenty, which deal chiefly with his egoism and weakness. Some asser tions at the very end might lead the reader to send for a copy of Pécheurs d Islande, but raise a doubt whether his other masterpiece Mon Frère Yves, were worth the trouble of perusing. A few extracts from these books would give a far clearer idea of their power and mysterious charm than the attempt to explain his conception of the Ocean. Both Loti and Bourget are placed before us in light, and the commendation of their a repellent a that Loti is is unfortunate a It Bourget and I more. to in touch with English minds. M. Anatole France has fared best. He stands before us as a living man, not a lay figure. His work is summed up concisely, the extracts are well chosen, and in the minds of those who have not read his novels will excite interest and a desire for d'élection does not strike us so forcibly as the fact that he was born a Swiss and began life as a Calvinist. Parisian he certainly is not, though he may have tried loyally to assimilate the atmosphere. To sum up, this book shows insight and a certain adroitness in cataloguing and describing the con tents of the works in question. For purposes of reference it will be found most useful, but in other respects it falls short of the demands made on vague generalities Towards the end full justice and stock phrases which neither the Works under discussion nor arouse desire to read them and judge independently. As the writer had wearied the task, the criticism becomes tame and lacks suggestiveness. unsatisfactory both The result those who are conversant with French literature and those who seek for guidance. to on French novelists of the present day should appeal alike to those who know their works and to those who do not. The former Jook for appreciative criticism, the latter desire a stimulus to study. To a limited extent these demands have been fulfilled. Yet, on laying down the book it is doubtful if either class will be much enlightened as to the wonderful charm and delicacy of French authors, or enriched by fresh insight into the characters of men whose thoughts are not naturally I BOOK should have so much space allotted to him. It is true he writes in French, but we are not convinced by this book at any rate that he represents a phase of French thought. Even his own avowal Paris demeure ma ville if e-º-º be -- NoveLISTS OF T0-DAY." in FRENCH is also open to question why Rod, a Swiss, many of whose books deal with his native land, �THE A traºrror. of a I is it bean - of ~ I in in on at bybe of to In at at of to be to an I or a in by at of to in I at of to in no in of of as in of addition, course, These would include, members, facilities the entire use the club for Occasional meetings the Authors Club members one of the rooms of the club. would, case, exceed The subscription £2 2s. per annum, without entrance fee. any members the Authors Club care Communicate with me direct address below will once place them communication with the proper authorities, who would doubt consent general meeting being held the premises thought formulate any decisions that might advisable. no be to on to interest of the existing £5,000 another £150 at least. Mr. Scoon advocates a pension of £25 a year. Could he not extend it to £26, ten shillings a week, so as to place an unfortunate author on a level with Giles and Hodge, should the Old Age Bill pass 2 Could anyone desire more ? AUGUSTA HARCOURT ROE. John Bickerdyke. at I disperse. allowed the establishment the present moment another club the lines modest though they sketched out the current month's Author John Bickerdyke, see great difficulties the preliminary organisation. way regret prevented my that circumstances general meeting attendance the extraordinary might have made the club recently held, certain proposal. am, however, position state that willing place established West End club would the advantages named below the disposal the present members the Authors Club terms more advantageous than those mentioned I the needs of those members whose incomes are Might it not be possible eventually very small. to extend help in cases of great distress through Sudden accident, or disease that must soon end fatally, if it were the husband who was stricken down; even though he should not have attained the age of sixty 2 Should the number of members fall off, the number of those needing pensions suppose would be reduced in direct proportion. no actuary would give the average of life after the age of sixty as more than fifteen years, there fore, as time goes on there will always be pensions falling in to increase the sum of £500 a year, the CLUB. member for some years the Authors Club, quite agree with John Bickerdyke that highly desirable that such institution in many ways unique should not existing If available for distribution (when once the reserve of £5,000 had been reached) out of members subscriptions surely a more than ample sum for SIR,-As AN AUTHORs' a of I WANTED, I 2,000 members, therefore 1,720 give nothing. This cannot be as it should be. We are nothing if not a brotherhood, and why should we, to use Sir Walter Besant's words, pass round the hat to outsiders when we are capable of helping ourselves. cannot see, however, why a reserve fund of more than £5,000 should be required. Supposing the roll of members to be kept up, £500 a year would be a 28 Yours truly, WARRINER, Mus.D. J. de Crespigny TRANSLATION all to a I to in of to of - or Yours faithfully, THOROLD DICKSON, Barrister-at-law. by at on of of is of to in in in in as WORK. your space request few lines order warn authors against the dangers undertaking translation work attendant publishers, unless payment the request cash Payment forms part the consideration. royalties dangers and pitfalls. You are full already aware my own bitter experience, which any author who may will gladly make known guidance need advice. I in it be it K. so SIR,-May be as of a so at of of ; Lodge, Denmark Hill, S.E. so. K. 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Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.]  ## p. (#12) ################################################# ADVERTISEMENTS. (I be šuciety of Autburg (ſmrurpurated). Telegraphic Address : “AUTORIDAD, LONDON.” Telephone No. : 374 Victoria. PRESIDENT. G-TECTER,G-TE IMITETERIEEIDIETIEC SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. SIR. W.M. REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AVE- J. M. BARRIE. [BURY, P.C. A. W. A BECKETT. ROBERT BATEMAN. F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S. SIR HENRY BERGNE, K.C.B., K.C.M.G. THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIR- RELI, P.C. MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND. THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S. THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYok, P.C. THE BIGHT HON. THE LORD BURGH- CLERE, P.C. HALL CAIN E. J. W. COMYINS CARR. EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A. EDWARD CIODD. W. MORRIS COLLES. THE HON, JOHN COLLIER, SIR. W. MARTIN CONWAY. F. MARION CRAW FORD. COUNCIL. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON. AUSTIN DOBSON. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. A. W. DUBOURG. DOUGLAS FRESH FIELD. THE RIGHT HON. M.R.S. 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OFFICES : 39, OLD QUEEN STREET, SI obey’s GATE, S.W.  ## p. 1 (#13) ############################################### C be El u t b or. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT. WOL. XIX. —No. 1. OCTOBER 1st, 1908. [PRICE SIxPENCE. TELEPHONE NUMBER : 374 WICTORIA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS : . AUTORIDAD, LONDON. —e—º-e— NOTICES. —º-º-º- OR the opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or para- graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless such is especially stated to be the case. THE Editor begs to inform members of the Authors’ Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain them on application. —e—º-e— THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS. —e—º-e— Eliº time to time members of the Society desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these contributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy WOL. XIX. expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin- ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, or in dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work of the Society. (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. A state- ment of the capital of this fund is inserted in The Author every month and can be seen below. —e—G-e— LIST OF MEMBERS. —º-º-º- HE List of Members of the Society of Authors, published October, 1907, can now be obtained at the offices of the Society at the price of 6d., post free 7#d. It includes elections to July, 1907, and will be sold to members and associates of the Society only. A dozen blank pages have been added at the end of the list for the convenience of those who desire to add future elections as they are chronicled from month to month in these pages. —e—º-e— PENSION FUND, —e—“C-e- HE Trustees of the Pension Fund of the Society, after the secretary had placed before them the present financial position of the Fund, decided to invest £230 in the purchase of Irish Land Act 2; per cent. Guaranteed Stock. The amount purchased is £258, and is added to the list printed below. The investments are steadily increasing from year to year, the amount varying between £200 and £250. The Trustees also recommended to the com- mittee the possibility of granting another pension. The committee of the Pension Fund have not as yet held their meeting for 1908, but their work will be chronicled in due course. The following is a statement of the actual Stock.  ## p. 2 (#14) ############################################### 2 TISIE AUTHOR. The money value can be easily worked out at the current price of the market :- Consols 23%............................ ..4.1,000 Local Loans .............................. Victorian Government 3% Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock War Loan ................................. London and North-Western 3% Deben- ture Stock Egyptian Government Trust 4% Certificates tº e º ºs e º 'º e º e º e º º & e e s tº e º e º 'º gº tº e º ºs e º e e º ºs e º e º is at e º a tº Cape of Good Hope 33% Inscribed Stock .................................... Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.................. New Zealand 33% Stock........... Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock is e e º ºs e e º s tº e º 'º º º Subscriptions. 1908. Jan. 7, Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey . Jan. 13, McPherson, Miss M. M. . Jan. 16, Douglas, Lieut.-Col. Hugh A. Feb. 1, Shera, Miss B. M. . e Feb. 29, Brown, R. Grant April 10, Fieldhouse, Arthur May 22, Darbishire, Otto W. Donations, 1908. Jan. 1, Egbert, Henry Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. 7, Wood, Lawson * > * 8, Bolton, Miss Anna . 8, Hyamson, Albert M. 13, Le Riche, P. J. . . 13, Williamson, Mrs. C. N. 13, Williamson, C. N. Jan. 20, Colquhoun, A. (amount I'é- covered by the Society) . Jan. 21, Saies, Mrs. . e e Jan. 24, Westrup, Miss Margaret Feb. 10, Benett. W. . e e Feb. 10, Wilson, G. F. * Feb. 26, Travers, Miss R. C. March 5, Dutton, Miss Annie March 5, Drummond, Hamilton. March 11, Ackermann, A. S. March 20, Loraine, Lady tº April 6, Plunkett, G. N., Count. April 9, Crellin, H. N. © wº May 20, Scoon, W. G. g e May 26, Cromartie, The Countess of June 3, Hardy, Harold June 16, Roberts, Morley . July 16, Carolin, Mrs. tº July 28, Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude Aug. 21, Beckett, Arthur W. 6, Skeat, The Rev. Prof. W. W. 2- 0 0 () () 19 11 9 3 0 0 O 0 0 0 () () 9 6 0 0 18 8 S. d. 5 0 1 () 5 0 5 () 5 0 10 6 10 6 1 0 I (). 5 () 5 0 I () I () I () 1 0 17 10 5 0 5 () I () 10 6 10 0 à () () () () () 10 () 5 () 5 0. 10 0 1 0 I () () 10 6 5 (). () - 0 I () The committee would be glad to receive infor- mation unofficially from any member of the society of any author whose need is within the member's personal knowledge. Information, which should be as full as possible, should be sent to the secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and will receive the prompt and careful attention of the committee. —º-º-º- ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS TO PENSION FUND. The following is the list of annual subscribers to the Fund. The total amount of subscriptions is about £160. Abbott, The Rev. E. D., D.D Allingham, W. Armstrong, Miss F. Ash, Miss Selby Avery, H. Barnett, P. A. Barrie, J. M. Bashford, Harry H. Beeching, The Rev. H. C. Bedford, Miss Jessie Benecke, Miss Bertouch, The Baroness de Bond, R. Warwick Bosanquet, Eustace F. Brend, C. Cunninghame Brinton, Selwyn Brodhurst, Spencer Brown, F. M. Brown, R. Grant Campbell, Miss Mont- gomery Carey, Miss R. N. Caulfeild, Miss Sophia Clough, Miss B. A. Coleborn, Miss M. Colquhoun, A. Cox, Miss Roalfe Cresswell, The Rev. H. Crockett, S. R. Crommelin, Miss May Cuming, E. W. D. Dale, Miss Nellie Darbishire, Otto Davy, Mrs. E. M. Dixon, W. Scarth Dobson, Austin Douglas, Lieut.-Col. Hugh Dunsany, The Lord Durand, The Right Hon. Sir Henry, G.C.M.G., etc. Düring, Mrs. Stella Dutton, Miss Annie Ellis, Miss M. A. Esmond, H. W. Fabeck, W. A. de Fenwick, Miss H. Fieldhouse, Arthur Forbes, Lady Helen Forrest, G. W. Forster, R. H. Galsworthy, John Gibbs, Miss E. Gidley, Miss E. C. Gilbert, Sir W. S. Gilson, Captain Charles Gonne, Captain C. Gribble, F. Gurney, Mrs. Guthrie, A. Haggard, Mrs. J. Halford, F. W. Hamilton, Mrs. G. W. Harraden, Miss B. Harris, Miss J. Harrison, A. Hawkes-Cornock, Mrs. Hawkins, A. Hope Heath, Miss H. Heming, Lieut.-Col. D. Hills, Mrs. C. H. Hitchings, F. W. W. Hollingsworth, Charles James, Henry Jenkins, Mrs. Hadow Jerome, Jerome K. Jones, W. Braunston Keene, H. G. - Kersey, W. H. IXilmarnock, The Lord  ## p. 3 (#15) ############################################### THE AUTHOR. 3 Kitcat, Mrs. Lambe, J. Laurence Lincoln, C. Longe, Miss J. Malet, Lucas Marchant, The James Marriott, Charles Mathieson, Miss McPherson, Miss M. M. Miniken, Miss Bertha M. M. Morrah, H. A. Nicholls, F. C. Owen, Charles Pearson, Mrs. C. Pendered, Miss Pickthall, M. Pinero, A. W. Pollock, Miss E. Portman, Lionel Prelooker, J. Pryor, Francis Punshon, E. R. Reynolds, Mrs. F. Rhys, Ernest Richardson, Aubrey Roberts, Morley Roe, Mrs. Harcourt Rumble, Mrs. Rumbold, The Right Hon. Sir Horace, P.C., etc. Salmond, Mrs. W. Salwey, Reginald Scott, G. Forrester Seaman, Owen Sedgwick, W. Seton-Karr, H. W. Rev. Mrs. Sharp, Miss E. Shaw, Mrs. Bernard Shepherd, G. H. Shera, Miss B. M. Shiers-Mason, Mrs. Shipley, Miss M. Simpson, W. J. Sinclair, Miss May Skrine, Mrs. J. H. Slaughter, Mrs. Smith, Bertram Smythe, A. Spiers, Victor Stanton, Miss H. Stein, M. A. Stevenson, Mrs. M. Sutherland, Her Grace The Duchess of Teignmouth-Shore, The Rev. Canon Thorburn, W. M. Thurston, Mrs. Todd, Margaret, M.D. Toynbee, W. Trevor, Captain P. Tuckett, F. F. Turner, G. F. Wachell, H. A. Wacher, Francis Wernéde, R. E. Voysey, The Rev. C. Ward, Mrs. Humphry Warden, Miss G. Watt, A. P. Weaver, Mrs. Baillie Weston, Miss J. L. White, Mrs. C. Witherby, The Rev. C. Wright, Fondi Young, W. Wellington comMITTEE NOTEs. —º-º-º- TY HE last meeting of the committee before the vacation was held on Monday, July 20th, at 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been read and signed there followed the election of members. Nine members and associates were elected, bringing the total for the current year up to 154, and there was one resignation, bringing the resignations up to 56. These numbers are, on the whole, satisfactory. The elections are still in advance of the number for the corresponding period of last year. The appointment of a treasurer, consequent on Mr. Storr's resignation, was the first matter brought forward for discussion. The committee decided to ask Mr. Storr if he would not continue to act in that capacity, and the Secretary was instructed to Write to that effect. The committee then discussed the question of the production of a book dealing With the clauses of publishers' agreements, their form and substance ; and the secretary, from whom the original suggestion came, was instructed to Work upon the book during the vacation. It was decided, however, that the names of the publishers should not be inserted with their agreements, and that the proofs, when ready, should be submitted to the solicitors of the society. The final draft should be laid before the committee for their consideration. The next question that arose was an appeal in the German courts, and it was decided, after con- sideration of a letter from the society's lawyers in Germany, that the society should guarantee part of the expenses on behalf of the member concerned. It may be remembered that in the last issue of The Author, it was announced that the secretary had been instructed to write to the Publishers’ Association to enquire whether they would assist the Society financially in fighting the issue in the above case, as it was of importance to publishers and authors. The reply of the association was read to the effect that inasmuch as the council of that body did not anticipate that the appeal would be successful they were unable to offer the desired assistance. An infringement of copyright of the work of one of the members of the society in New Zealand was next considered, and the secretary reported that he had written to the paper and hoped to obtain a reply in the course of a month or so. In these circumstances, the matter was adjourned to October, when it is hoped that an answer will be forthcoming. In case, however, immediate steps should be necessary during the vacation, the com- mittee delegated full powers to the chairman. Another important matter was laid before the committee. It was a question arising out of the production of a book by a publisher under no formal agreement, but on a half profit arrange- ument. Since the autumn of last year the society has been attempting to negotiate a satisfactory settlement between the author and the publisher, but owing to the publishers' unbusinesslike conduct and dilatory methods it was found impossible to bring the matter to an issue. The case was then placed in the hands of the society's solicitors in the hope that a reasonable and formal agreement might be settled and approved by both parties. Again the settlement has been unreason- ably delayed and no satisfactory issue arrived at.  ## p. 4 (#16) ############################################### 4 TFIES A UTHOR, In consequence, acting on the advice of the Society's solicitors, it was decided to take counsel's opinion. Counsel's opinion was read to the com- mittee, and they authorised the commencement of proceedings against the publisher. The secretary reported what had taken place in two other cases that had been carried through by the society, and stated that in one case the member concerned expressed his satisfaction at the result ; in the other case that the debt and costs had been recovered. In the latter case the secretary read to the committee a letter thanking the Society for the work it had undertaken. The secretary then reported the work which the dramatic sub-committee had already done since its election, and added that a further meeting was to be held in August. He gave the list of the names of those who had accepted nomination. It was hoped that the report of the dramatic sub-committee would be settled in time to be laid before the committee of management at their meeting in October. Mr. Freshfield, the chairman of the society, then made a statement in regard to the visit of the president of the Société des Gens de Lettres to IIondon. He had come over to obtain the support of English authors to the proposals which French writers were going to press very strongly at the meeting in Berlin in October. Mr. Freshfield stated that he had had the pleasure of introducing the president to those who were very closely inte- rested in the question of international copyright, among others, Mr. Winston Churchill, President of the Board of Trade. Sir Henry Bergne stated that he had had a long conversation with the president of the French society, and had explained to him fully the position of the Society of Authors and of the Government in regard to the re-modelling of the Berne Convention. Sir Henry added that the president had had an official interview at the Board of Trade, which he (Sir Henry) believed was thoroughly satisfactory. Owing to Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland's illness, she was unable to attend the meeting to support a resolution which stood in her name. The question, accordingly, was adjourned till the committee meeting in October. . The draft of a circular letter to be issued to non- members was considered and formally passed. Some letters written by the secretary of the Publishers’ Circle with reference to a dinner in the autumn were formally laid before the committee and the secretary was instructed to reply. It was dedided to purchase some furniture for the office. ——— e —sº- e ––. ---------— DRAMATIC COMMITTEE. HE new dramatic committee of the Society of Authors elected by the new committee of management met for the first time on Mon- day, June 29th, at the offices of the society. The names of the present committee will be found printed with the other committees, but it may be as well to mention that they are: Mr. William Archer, Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Mr. H. Granville Barker, Mr. J. W. Comyns Carr, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, Mr. Henry Arthur Jones (Chairman), Mr. W. J. Locke, Capt. Robert. Marshall, Mr. W. Somerset Maugham, and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw. - The first business was to consider a report deal- ing with the present position of the dramatic authors in the society, what the Society had done from the foundation of the society and what the dramatic committee hoped to carry through for members in the future. This report it was pro- posed to send round to those members of the society who had written plays which had been publicly performed. The report was very care- fully considered, and various suggestions by different members of the committee were submitted. It was decided to adjourn the consideration of the matter to the next meeting, which was to be held on July 2nd. This adjournment would enable the individual members to set out their proposals in writing. Mr. Shaw then read to the committee a draft agreement, part of which had been taken from a pamphlet prepared by the former dramatic com- mittee, but which contained additions and altera- tions of his own. The next meeting of the committee was held on July 2nd, at 11 o'clock, at the society's offices. After the minutes had been read the report Was considered. Various suggestions made by the different members were accepted, and a Sub-Com- mittee, consisting of Mr. G. Bernard Shaw and the secretary, was appointed to incorporate the altera- tions that had been accepted, and to re-model the draft on that basis. It was decided to hold a further meeting of the committee on August 3rd. The secretary of the society during the month of July took all the emendations and alterations which had been accepted at the previous meeting, and re-drafted the report as instructed. It was then forwarded to Mr. Shaw and returned approved in its final form. Unfortunately, owing to the fact that it was impossible to obtain a quorum on August 3rd, the meeting was adjourned till September 3rd. On that day there was a full gathering of the committee. The proceedings opened by the secretary explaining what Mr. Shaw and he had done during the vacation, and the final report Was  ## p. 5 (#17) ############################################### THE AUTHOR, 5 laid before the meeting. This was accepted with a few verbal alterations. The committee decided that it should be forwarded to Mr. Pinero, who was acting as chairman of the proposed new Dramatic Authors' Society, in order that his committee might consider and report on it to the dramatic committee of the Society of Authors. The committee further decided that the report as finally settled should be sent out to all those mem- bers of the society who were also dramatic authors, and that' they should be asked to send, at their earliest opportunity, their opinions to the secretary in order that they might be laid before the next meeting of the dramatic committee. No doubt when this committee has been able to consider the report of Mr. Pinero's committee and the opinions of the members of the society, the result will be laid before the committee of management, in order that they may sanction the course proposed by the dramatic committee. - Mr. Shaw's draft agreement and the pamphlet on dramatic rights and property were ordered to be set up in type to be circulated to the members of the committee before the next meeting, in order that the members might have time to prepare their criticisms. It was decided to hold the next meeting of the committee on Tuesday, October 6th, 1908. • ..º. —w--w Cases. DURING the long vacation thirty-six cases have been in the hands of the secretary. Over a third of these—to be precise, thirteen in number—have related to claims for money unpaid. Seven of the thirteen had to be placed in the hands of the society's solicitors for collection. Five terminated successfully, as the Secretary succeeded in obtaining the sums due, which were sent on to the authors; but the last case, lying in the United States, has yet to be settled. There were six cases for the collec- tion of accounts. In four of these the accounts have been rendered by the publishers and have been forwarded to, and accepted by, the authors. Two which have only recently come into the office are still in the course of negotiation. There have been five cases of infringement of copyright. Three of these have been satisfactorily concluded. One of the three referred to dramatic copyright in Germany. The remaining two related to in- fringements which occurred in New Zealand. It is curious that they came to the office within a week or so of each other. The Society has had no previous case in this colony, though in- fringements which have occurred in other colonies have been dealt with by the secretary. Sufficient time has not yet elapsed to allow of answers from the editors. In the event of failure to obtain satisfactory explanations the matters will be referred to the committee. Nine cases were for the return of MSS. Of these eight have been successful, though in two out of the eight all the MSS. have not, as yet, been returned, though the agents have |promised to return them as soon as they come to hand. The remaining case has had to be aban. dºned Qying to the absence of proof of the arrival 9f the MS. at the office of the paper. There has been one complicated case of accounts and money due, which is still in the course of negotiation, and tWO cases dealing with the settlement of disputes on agreements are in the same position. The society, therefore, may be considered to have done useful work for its members during the Vacation: Out of thirty-six cases twenty-one have been ended satisfactorily. Of the cases in the solicitor's hands, four have been settled, two are awaiting trial, and one has had to be abandoned owing to the fact that the defendants are in liquidation. * One or two county court cases, besides those men- tioned, have been sanctioned by the chairman, but no big action has been taken up by the Society since the last meeting of the committee. —e-º-e— July Elections, Donegan, Lieut.-Colonel (Holt & Co.) 3, White- J. D. F. hall Place, S.W. Holbach, Mrs. 6, Staverton Road, Ox- ford. Jeffery, Reginald W. Brasenose College, Ox- ford. Landa, Gertrude . . 23, Clarendon Street, War wick Square, S.W. Moore, Miss Leslie Furzehill, Salcombe R.S.O., S. T)evon. 32, Moring Road, Toot- ing Common, S.W. Lyceum Club, 128, Pic- cadilly, W. º, Swallow field Park, Reading. College House, Jersey, C.I Northrop, W. B. Pleydell, Mrs. Maunsel . Russell, Lady Tucker, Miss Beryl 2, Wychcombe Studios, Englands Lane, N.W. 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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL NOTES. —º-º-º- HE Literary Agency of London inform us. that the two hundred and fifty guinea. prize First Novel Competition which they organised on behalf of a London publisher whose name is not yet disclosed, had brought in over 150 MSS. by August 31, the last day on which MSS. were eligible for the competition. MSS. began to arrive immediately after the first. announcements a year ago, but more than two- thirds of the total number were received during the last ten days : the inference being that the unusually large prize and the names of the adjudi- cators induced many authors to try their hand at a first novel who would not have been attracted by an ordinary prize competition. The readers, who have been examining the MSS. as they came in, report that the general level is, very high, and in their opinion there are at least two or three of distinguished merit, and a large number with sufficient merit to ensure publication. The adjudicators are Mr. Andrew Lang, Mr. W. L.  ## p. 9 (#21) ############################################### THE AUTHOR, 9 Courtney, and Mr. Clement Shorter; and their decision will be made known at the earliest possible date, together with the names of the prize-winner and of the publisher on whose instructions the competition was organised. We have received a “Dictionary of Literary Terms” by Percival Vivian, published by Messrs. Routledge in their Miniature Reference Library at the price of one shilling. The compiler defines “literary terms” in the preface as “such words of specialised or technical meaning as constitute the vocabulary of literature, both in its primary sense of creation and in its subsidiary one of criticism.” We have tested the little book thoroughly, and it seems to be very comprehensive. The only one of our tests that it failed to give was “Ursula-talk”— a term sufficiently rare to render the omission venial. We have also received Part W., which concludes Wol. XXII. of “Book-Prices Current * from Mr. Elliot Stock. This excellent publication chronicles 19,504 books sold at auction during the season [1907-8, and is provided with a very full index, which is a model of its kind. The volume before us does credit to everyone concerned in its production. “Marama, '' is the name of a new story by Mrs. Woollaston-White, which will be published from the St. Andrew's Press, Barnet, early in December. The latest contribution to Napoleonic literature is Mr. P. W. Sergeant's “The Empress Josephine: Napoleon's Enchantress” (Messrs. Hutchinson & Co.). These two volumes gather together the newest material relating to the Empress, and with its aid present a more complete picture of her than it has hitherto been possible to draw. There are thirty-four illustrations. Mrs. Humphry Ward issues through Messrs. Smith, Elder, a new novel, “Diana Mallory.” The book has a -strong political interest, and its theroine is a young Imperialist of two-and-twenty. “Towards the Light” is a mystic poem by Prin- cess Karadja, which will be published by Messrs. Regan Paul on the first of November. It has already passed through many editions in the original Swedish, and has appeared in German, Dutch, and Danish translations. We have received “A General View of Positivism” translated from the French of Auguste Comte, by J. H. Bridges. This new edition has an introduc- tion by Frederic Harrison, and is published by Messrs. Routledge in their New Jniversal Library. “In My Lady's Garden" is the title of a new book by Mrs. Richmond, late garden editor of the Queen. It has many illustrations, some in colour, and is published by Mr. Fisher Unwin. Messrs. Hurst and Blackett are about to publish a novel by Mrs. Fred Reynolds. The title is “Love's Magic,” and the book is a study of , temperament shadowed by pre-natal influences. Mr. Anthony Hope's bok “The Great Miss Driver " (Methuen & Co.) is a story of modern English life. It describes the rise of the heroine to heights of power, and her fall from the summit; and also how she regained her footing. The book is a record by her secretary and friend, Austin Austin. A new book by the author of “John Westacott" is announced by Messrs. Chapman and Hall for October 10, being a volume of “Literary and Biographical Studies.” The forenote of the volume says that all the articles are founded upon personal touch with the subjects dealt with either by conversation or letter. The names in the index include many famous ones of the Victorian era, such as Tennyson, R. D. Blackmore, Lord Macaulav, Friedrich von Bodenstedt, the friend of George Eliot, George Müller, Verestschagin, and others. There is also an extended article upon Osborne and Queen Victoria. As a special corre- spondent, the author, Mr. James Baker, has had to describe many Royal events at which her Majesty was present. Messrs. Macmillan announce the early publication of the following: “Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War,” translated into English by T. Rice Holmes; “Oxford Lectures on Poetry,” by A. C. Bradley; “Faust,” freely adapted from Goethe by Stephen Phillips and J. W. Comyns Carr ; “De Libris,” Prose and Verse, by Austin Dobson ; “The Diva's Ruby,” by F. Marion Crawford ; “The Sunny Side of the Hill,” by Rosa N. Carey; The Novels of Henry James in 23 volumes; and a “Commentary on the Holy Bible,” edited by the Rev. John R. Dummelow. We have received from Mr. John Ouseley the following books: “The Silver Queen,” by William Sylvester Walker (“Coo-ee"); “Topical Epigrams,” by W. Burton Baldry; “Glenith,” by M. H. Abraham-Jewel ; “Shadowed,” by Barbara Glyn ; and “New Poems,” by A. G. Leward. Messrs. Crewsher & Co. have published an Anthem, “The Lord is My Shepherd,” by L. Budgen. Mr. Henry Bristow has issued a revised edition of his “Chess Miniatures” (Chess Amateur Office, Stroud, Glos.). Thirty problems and solutions are included. Mr. Harry Tighe has sold the Australian rights of an Anglo-Australian novel to Mr. Rowlandson, of Sydney, N.S.W., who will publish it at an early date under the title of “A Man of Sympathy.” A second edition of Miss Sophia Caulfeild's book, “House Mottoes and Inscriptions,” was published in July. A second edition of “The Law of Copyright in Designs,” which includes the practice relating to proceedings in the Courts and in the Comptroller's office ; the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, and the  ## p. 10 (#22) ############################################## 10 TISIES A UITISIOR. Repealed Acts, 1883–1888, compared ; the statu- tory rules and forms, and the International Convention ; with notes, and a full appendix of Statutes, Forms, and Precedents, with illustrations, has been published by Messrs. Sweet and Maxwell. The authors are Lewis Edmunds, D.Sc., K.C., and Herbert Bentwich, LL.B. “Creation's Dawn,” by “Kish,” has been published by Mr. John Long. In it the author sets forth a new theory of the early chapters of Genesis. Professor Sayce has written the preface. Mr. Elliot Stock has published “Pastor in Ecclesia,” by the Rev. Gilbert Monks. This book, which is intended to form a supplement to “The Young Preacher's Guide,” deals with the question of what will be required of a clergyman who wishes to conduct the business affairs of a church successfully. The Very Rev. the Dean of Durham contributes the preface. “A Treasury of English Literature,” selected and arranged by Kate M. Warren, has been issued by Messrs. Constable in six volumes, at one shilling net each. It is also issued in one volume at seven- and-six net. The New Age Press have published “New Truths for Old,” by Robb Lawson. In fourteen essays, the author examines the real character of certain common passions, sentiments and opinions, such as “woman,” “self-sacrifice,” and “the futility of speech.” Mr. Walter M. Gallichan has published, through Mr. T. N. Foulis, “The Trout Waters of England.” It is a practical handbook written by a fisherman who knows what fishermen wish to learn about the streams and lakes in any given locality. Hints on the most suitable methods of fishing, the selection of tackle and flies, are included, together with a directory of hotels and apartments. A fourth revised edition of “Printing,” by C. T. Jacobi, has been issued by Messrs. George Bell. The work is a practical treatise on the art of typo- graphy as applied more particularly to the printing of books, and the present edition has been brought up to date, more particularly in those sections relating to composing machines, motive power, and printing machinery. “My Giant” is a little sixpenny book by Edward Urwick, which has been published by Messrs. Henry Drane. It concerns the doings and sayings of a giant whom the author met in a Sussex village, told in a series of humorous stories. Mr. Basil Tozer has recently brought out through Messrs. Methuen “The Horse in History,” with many illustrations, in which all the historic steeds are lined up. “Golf Illustrated ” for August 28 contained an article on a golf resort in Donegal, entitled “Rosapenna,” by Mrs. Maude C. Knight. “Rita's "autumn novel is called “Betty Brent, Typist,” and has been published by Mr. Werner Laurie. The story concerns a young girl who is Sent to a country house by her office to do work for some fast society people. The book gives a descrip- tion of her adventures among the “smart set.” L. Budgen is publishing with the Ritz Co. “Two Lullabies,” and with Crewsher & Co. “Six Pianoforte Pieces,” in collaboration with the late Mr. Robert Goldbeck (whose death was announced in St. Louis last May), the American musician, whose orchestral and other works were gaining Such high reputation in the cities of the West. Messrs. Bell publish “The ‘Pinafore’ Picture Book,” by W. S. Gilbert. In this volume Sir W. S. Gilbert has re-told the story of his play in the form of a story for children. In doing so he has considerably amplified the details of the story, and has kept in mind the youthful readers for whom he writes. The illustrations in colour and in black-and-white are by Alice B. Woodward. Raymond Jacbern's new books this season are : “The Attic Boarders,” a story for elder girls (Chambers); “A Boy and a Secret,” a story for children (Chambers); “A Hard Bit of Road,” (Wells, Gardner and Barton). - Among the forthcoming publications of the Oxford University Press we notice “Fonts in English Churches,” by Francis Bond ; “Com- parative Greek Grammar,” by Joseph Wright (Students' series of Historical and Comparative Grammars); in the Oxford Library of Prose and Poetry “Selected Poems of William Barnes,” edited, with a glossary and introduction, by Thomas Hardy, and “Selected Poems of John Clare,” edited, with an introduction, by Arthur Symons; and “An Alabama Student and other biographical essays,” by William Osler. On July 8 last, at the Grammar School Hall, Dedham, Essex, was presented for copyright pur- poses a new and original play in four acts, entitled “The Undercurrent,” by Herbert Chorley, the author of “Cleeves' End,” a novel which was published this spring. - “Pete,” by Hall Caine and Louis N. Parker, dramatised from the former's novel “The Manx- man,” was staged at the Lyceum on August 29 with Mr. Matheson Lang in the title-róle. Miss Hutin Britton, Miss Rita Tomkins, Mr. Eric Mayne and Mr. Frederick Ross were among those included in the cast. Mr. Jerome K. Jerome's new play “The Passing of the Third-Floor Back” was produced at the St. James's Theatre on September 1. Mr. Forbes Robertson is the “third-floor back,” a passer-by who seeks the good of all with whom he comes in contact. Miss Haidee Wright, Miss Gertrude Elliott, Miss Kate Bishop, and Mr. Edward Sass were in support.  ## p. 11 (#23) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 11 “Idols,” adapted from the novel of that name by W. J. Locke, by Roy Horniman, was first per- formed on September 2 at the Garrick Theatre. The cast included Mr. Allan Aynesworth, Mr. Arthur Wontner, Mr. Herbert Waring, Miss Evelyn Millard, Miss Edith Latimer, and Miss Augusta Haviland. At the Duke of York's Theatre on September 3 appeared a comedy in four acts by J. M. Barrie, entitled “What Every Woman Knows.” John Shand (Mr. Gerald du Maurier) is a prominent politician—risen from a railway porter and an amateur house-breaker for intellectual pur- poses. His wife Maggie (Miss Hilda Trevelyan), whom, plus an education, he had accepted as an alternative to prison, is, however, the real politician, her husband's guide, phrase-maker and speech- writer in one. The complications are Lady Sybil Lazenby (Miss Lillah McCarthy) and Shand's deficiency in humour. However, the play is rounded by the hero's laugh. - September 3 was also the first night of “ King of Cadonia,” a musical play in two acts, by Frederick Lonsdale, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, and music by Sydney Jones. The play concerns the wanderings of a king, who falls among anarchists. Mr. Bertram Wallis as King Alexis, and Mr. Huntley Wright as his heir presumptive, the Duke of Alasia, were supported by Mr. George Barrett, Mr. Pope Stamper, Miss Izabel Jay, Mme. Amy Martin, and Miss Grace Leigh. - His Majesty's Theatre gave “Faust,” by Stephen Phillips and J. W. Comyns Carr, on September 5. The chief characters were sustained by Mr. Tree (Mephistopheles), Mr. Henry Ainley (Faust), Miss ‘Rosina Filippi (Martha), and Miss Maude Löhr (Margaret). “The Duke's Motto,” a melodrama adapted from the French of Paul Féval by Justin Huntly 1McCarthy, made its first appearance at the Lyric Theatre on September 8. It chiefly concerns the romantic sword-and-cloak adventures of one Henri de Lagardère, a gentleman with an infinite capacity for taking life. With Mr. Lewis Waller, as the redoubtable Henri, were Mr. A. E. George, Mr. Alec F. Thompson, Mr. Herbert Jarman, Miss Walli Walli, and Miss Sybil Carlisle. Mr. Martin Harvey opened his season at the Adelphi on September 10, with the production, before “The Corsican Brothers,” of “The Con- spiracy,” a one-act play by Robert Barr and Sidney Lewis-Ransom. A new ballet by Lieut.-Colonel Newnham-Davis is about to be produced at the Empire Theatre. It contains four scenes, and is entitled “Paris.” Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new play for October at the Haymarket Theatre is a comedy in his lighter vain. stands out somewhat in relief. It deals with the value of new year's resolutions from the point of view of the resultant benefit. . The play provides good parts for its leading lady Miss Ethel Irving, Miss Margaret Halstan, Mr. Robert Loraine and Mr. C. M. Lowne. Senor Alejandro Maristany has translated Mr. Henry Arthur Jones' plays, “The Hypo- crites " and “The Liars,” into Spanish, and will produce them at the Teatro Principal, at Barcelona, during the present season. The répertoire at that theatre includes also “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Mr. Hornung’s “Raffles.” a-A- a ~- PARIS NOTES. —º-º-º- rTHE death of Hector France occurred in August. This well-known writer was born in 1837 in the Vosges. He entered the army and went to Africa for some time. After the war of 1870 he left France and took refuge in Belgium, and afterwards in England, where for some time he was French professor at the Woolwich Military College. He wrote several studies of English life, a whole series of French novels, and articles for many of the best French papers. It will not be easy for any one else to take the place which M. Harduin had made for himself in the French newspaper world. His recent death will be universally regretted, for his witty and genial satire was greatly appreciated. He took up any subject of the moment that pleased his fancy, and in a few concise lines showed up in a clever, bantering way the absurdities of many political questions, party strifes, current events, or even of mere habits and customs. Many readers of the Matin subscribed to that paper for the sake of M. Harduin's daily paragraph. “Aloyse Valérien,” by Edouard Rod, is classed by the author among his études passionnelles. He does not profess to write a novel à thèse, and does not give his own opinion with regard to the com- plex problems which arise when touching on the subject of his novel. The story is well told and the psychology carefully observed, so that the book holds the reader's interest from beginning to end. One can scarcely help feeling surprised and dis- appointed at the lack of moral energy in so many of the personages who are thrown together. Intense Selfishness or a weak will predominates in each one of the characters. M. Mazelaine alone * He at any rate does not console himself with the dangerous and extremely easy excuse of fatality for condoning Weakness of character. “La Rue Saint Honoré,” by Robert Hénard, from its origin to the time of the Revolution, is an  ## p. 12 (#24) ############################################## 12 THE AUTISIOR. interesting study for all who enjoy the historical side of Paris. We go back in this book to the Paris of the times before the Romans, and we also have a description of it taken from Caesar's Com- mentaries. Scarcely any street in Paris has been so celebrated as the Rue St. Honoré, in which, at the present time, the residences of the President and of the British Ambassador are situated. “L’Esprit de Barbey d’Aurevilly” has just been published by Mlle. Read. It is a collection of extracts on various subjects taken from the writings of the great French critic and novelist. This volume enables the reader who knows nothing of this author to see something of the mind of the man whose conversations gave Paul Bourget “one of the keenest intel- lectual pleasures he had ever experienced.” There is an excellent preface by Octave Uzanne, and the little book is doubly welcome coming, as it does, a few months before the celebration throughout France of Barbey d’Aurévilly's cen- tenary. This literary fête, which should have taken place in November of this year, is now post- poned until May, 1909, on account of the death of François Coppée, who was President of the Committee. - Every one who visited Coppée and was acquainted with his two cats will be glad to hear that Mlle. Jouise Read has adopted them, and that they will have for their companion the descendant of Démonette, the famous cat which was Barbey d’Aurévilly's faithful companion. The trio will from henceforth make their home with Mlle. Read, whom Barbey d’Aurévilly styled la com- missionnaire du genre humain. Among recent books are “Mémoires d'une vieille fille,” by René Bazin, a volume of short stories; “Jeunes Filles,” by Victor Margueritte; “Adolphe Monticelli,” by Camille Mauclair ; “Grandeur et Décadence de Rome " (Vol. VI., Auguste et le Grand Empire), by G. Ferrero. A whole series of books on Turkey is now appearing : “Paradoxes sur la Turquie,” by Afioun- Effendi; “Midhat Pacha,” by Ali Haydar Midhat Bey; “Abdul Hamid intime,” by G. Dorys. Several translations of English books have appeared recently : “Amours charmantes et cruelles,” by Maurice Hewlett, translated by MM. Davray and Kosakiewicz ; “Le Maitre de la Terre,” by R. H. Benson, translated by T. de Wyzewa ; “L'Oncle Bernac,” by Conan Doyle. “Carrière d'Artiste,” by Mrs. Humphry Ward, is now appearing serially in the Revue de Paris. M. Johan Bojer, the Norwegian novelist, has received a prize from the French Academy for his book “La Puissance du Mensonge,” which has now been published in English. In the Revue de Paris of July 15, were articles by Colonel C. Favre, on “L’Angleterre et l'Armeč anglaise ’’; by Daniel Halévy, on “Nietzsche et l'Empire allemand ”; and by Victor Bérard, on “I’CEuvre d’Edouard VII.” In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire are the following articles: “Le Mouvement des Idées,” by Edouard Rod ; “Comment on nous élevaitil y a cinquante ans,” by the Marquis de Castellane ; “L’Aviation,” by Commandant Paul Renard ; “Le droit prime la force,” by Henri Welschinger, of , the Institute ; “Le Réforme turque,” by Gabriel Hanotaux, of the French Academy; “Leon Tolstoi, jubilaire malgré lui,” by E. Halperine- Kaminsky; “La Marine française à l'Exposition de Londres,” by Charles de la Roncière. Paul Bourget's four-act play “L’Emigré’’ is being rehearsed at the Renaissance. At the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt “L’Or,” by MM. Peter and Danceny, is the first play of the SéaSOI). Madame Rejane is to produce “Israel,” by M. Henry Bernstein. The Théâtre Antoine opens with “La Repudiée,” a three-act play by Mme. Dartigue, and “L’Auberge rouge,” adapted from Balzac's story. ALYS HALLARD. “Aloyse Valérien” (Perrim). “La Rue Saint Honoré’’ (Emile Paul). “Mémoires d’une vieille fille ” (Calmann Lévy). “Jeunes Filles” (Fasquelle). “Adolphe Monticelli” (Plon). “Grandeur et Décadence de Rome'' (Plon). “Paradoxes sur la Turquie” (Bouville). “Midhat Pacha” (Stock). “Abdul Hamid intime" (Stock). - “Amours charmantes et cruelles” (Mercure de France). “Le Maitre de la Terre” (Perrin). “L'Oncle Bernac" (Juven). *—º- a w-w-w SPANISH NOTES. —º-º-º- S I send these notes from the Hydropathic Establishment of Mondariz, in Galicia, on the north-west coast of Spain, they have some news relating directly to that centre. I must begin by saying that Don Enrique Peinador has had the glory of discovering in Mondariz an archaeological treasure of great value in the form of a huge flat stone covered with hemispherical signs, something similar to what a child makes before it has learnt to use the pencil. The Hydro has been honoured this week by two authors of note, for Major Martin Hume stopped two days at Mondariz on his way to Oviedo, where he went to represent the Univer- sity of London at the tercentenary fetes of the university of the capital of Asturias which were celebrated from the 21st to the 30th of  ## p. 13 (#25) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. 13 September ; and the famous Pardo Bazan, who is President of the Literature Section of the Athenaeum of Madrid, and whose works place her on the pinnacle of fame, motored to Mondariz to see her friends the Peinadors. Bright and well looked the authoress, who must now be called the Countess Emilia Pardo Bazan, as King Alfonso XIII. has just bestowed this title on her in recognition of her literary work. It is notable that the great tenor Don Francisco Viñas has just had the honour of receiving the Great Cross of Agricultural Merit from the King, and, indeed, in no triumph has the great tenor so appealed to his country as in this of agriculture. The fête which celebrated the event in the rural town of Moya was supported by the town and corporation in full force. The fact of Field-Marshal Don José Lopez Dominguez being decorated with the Order of the Golden Fleece has been acclaimed with pleasure by the friends of the former Liberal Prime Minister. This great political leader always advocated a true suffrage for Spain, and it is noteworthy that the Official Journal of the Sessions of the Senate of November 3, 1902, records the plaint made by Señor Loygorri in the name of the Liberal leader against the presentation of the inter- diction of Colonel Figuerola Ferretti's petition to high quarters that the system of the appointment of the Deputies by the Ministers should be exchanged for that of their election by the people. Had a true suffrage been thus introduced, the struggle for it would not have been seen in Catalonia, and, with a true solidarity in Spain, loyalty to the King would have prevented any talk of separation. Señor Cambo, the leader of the Catalonians (says the excellent daily paper A.B.C.), has just made an eloquent appeal in the Congress against the stagnating influence of the overweening power, which is supported officially, of the “cacique " or person of highest consideration in a place. Ring Alfonso XIII. shows his appreciation of Señor Don Domingo Sanllehey's services as Mayor of Barcelona by not consenting to his retirement from the office which the conduct and opinions of his colleagues have made so untenable for him, and by conferring on his wife, the lady who is decorating, at her own expense, the whole of the front façade of the Cathedral of the city with sculptures, the Order of Maria Luisa. It is said in Spain that Pius IX. (Juan Mastai- Ferretti), related in cousinship to Colonel Figuerola Ferretti, is to be canonized. The research necessary for the act reveals many literary treasures; and the letter in which Ferretti, when one of the Body of Noble Guards of the Pope, broke off his engagement with a beautiful lady of distinction by reason of his call to the Church is a true work of art. It will be from the thirty- volumed chronicle of Cardinal Bilio that most of the details of the life of Pius IX. will be found. The month of October will see a most interesting Congress of Science in Saragossa. There will be seven sections : Mathematical Sciences, physio-chemical sciences, natural sciences, Social Sciences, philosophical sciences, medical Sciences, and applied sciences. The King will be present at either the opening or concluding session, as he has accepted the honorary presidency; and Señor Sigismundo Moret will be the actual presi- dent. The Congress will have great popular interest, inasmuch as there will be a series of conferences in which not only new points and discoveries will be discussed, but also those which it concerns humanity in general to know. Speaking of science reminds me that English Scientists may soon expect to see a translation of the notable work by Dr. Enrique Lluria called “La Vida Super-organica ’’ (“Super-organic Ilife).” Those to whom the “Monograph of Mondariz’” may be known may be interested to hear that the bicarbonated water from the springs of this centre have just gained the gold medal and cup at the Exhibition at Carlsbad. The Temporado, the bright little paper of the Hydropathic Establish- ment, always contains excellent articles of scientific and literary merit. The Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Madrid, under the presidency of Don Edoardo Dato, is a great success. Much interest is taken in the Society by the Señoras Dato, one of whom is member of the Lyceum Club, the Marchioness of Ivanrey, the Countess of Torres-Arias, the Marchioness of Squilache y Ivanrey, etc. The well-known writer Mariano de Cavia has just received a great tribute to his talent by an important street being named after him in Saragossa, whilst the house which saw his birth has been marked by a stone signifying the fact. As Galicia is awakening some interest in England by the tours arranged by the Booth Steamship Company, the book called “Across Galicia,” by the Hidalgo of Tor, forms a capital introduction to the region. RACHEL CHALLICE. à w * ~4A- w-v- COPYRIGHT CASE. MANSELL v. THE WALLEY PRINTING CO. HIS was an appeal from the judgment of Mr. Justice Swinfen Eady, who had awarded the plaintiff £4.3 damages for infringement of his rights in certain pictures,  ## p. 14 (#26) ############################################## 14 THE A DITFIOR. which belonged to him, and which had been published without authority by the defendants. The question raised in the Court of Appeal was whether, at common law and apart from any statutory protection, the owner of an unpublished picture can recover damages against a person who has, innocently and in good faith, published copies of the picture. - The plaintiff, an artist's colour printer and pub- lisher, was the owner of two pictures, suitable for advertising purposes, which had been designed for him by an artist in his employment, for which the latter had been paid the sum of £43. Another artist in the same employment had surreptitiously made copies of the pictures, and, after leaving the plaintiff’s employ, had sold them under a false name as original drawings to the defendants, who published them without any knowledge of the plaintiff's rights. . . The plaintiff registered his copyright in the pictures under the Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862, after the publication of them by the defendants; and the latter, on receiving a complaint from the plaintiff, offered to stop publication and to deliver up the copies in hand, but they denied any liability to pay damages. The pictures having been made to order on behalf of the plaintiff without reserve and paid for by him, the copyright belonged to the plaintiff under the provisions of the Fine Arts Copyright Act ; but inasmuch as the registration was not made until after the publication by the defendants, the plaintiff was precluded by the statute from suing for damages for infringement of his copyright. The plaintiff based his claim, therefore, upon his common law rights; and it was contended that, as an author has the exclusive right of publication in respect of a literary composition, the plaintiff was entitled to recover damages for infringement of his proprietary right in an unpublished artistic work. The principle, in respect of authors, was estab- lished as far back as 1774 in the case of Donaldson v. Becket, which was decided by the House of Lords. “This weighty authority,” said the Master of the Rolls in delivering judgment, “is, in my opinion, decisive of the present appeal. It shows that an action will lie against any person who prints and publishes an unpublished book without the author's consent, and when it is established that the right is a proprietary right, it is plain that the element of motive or intention on the part of the defendant is wholly irrelevant. It cannot be contended, since the case of Prince Albert v. Strange, in 1849, that the owner of an unpub- lished picture stands in any different position from the owner of an unpublished literary work.” Lord Justice Farwell, in giving judgment to the same effect, said that it had been argued for the defendants that it was very hard upon them, because they had acted quite bond ſide in the matter ; but it Was no greater hardship on them than it was in all cases where an innocent party had to bear the loss brought about by another, whose wrongful act had caused injury to another innocent party. Lord Justice Kennedy concurred, and the appeal was dismissed with costs. - The arguments in this case appear to have pro- ceeded upon the assumption that the pictures were unpublished, until the unauthorised publication by the defendants. As to what amounts to “publica- tion "...of an artistic work, there is no precise authority. It is clear, however, that publication is not restricted to a public exhibition of the work ; and, in the absence of any decision upon the point, it may be doubted whether a picture, which has been sold and has passed out of the artist's hands, so that the copyright—“which is statutory and arises upon publication ”—has come into existence and belongs to the purchaser, who is registered as the “copyright proprietor,” can be regarded, with reference to the provisions of the Fine Arts Copyright Act, as an unpublished work. HAROLD HARDY. —e-º-e— MAGAZINE CONTENTS. —º-º-º- ALBANY. Nietzsche. By Desmond McCarthy. Mirabeau. By Desmond McCarthy. Pascal's Provincial Letters. By Lord St. Cyres. - BOOKMAN. The Bookman Gallery : Robert S. Hichens. BOOK MONTHLY. The “Sevenpenny.” By J. M. CONTEMPORARY. By Edmund Gosse. Count Lyof Tolstoi. By G. W. Williams. Chamber Drama. CORNHILL. The Book on the Table: “A Commentary.” Robert Cecil. By Lady - FORTNIGHTLY. Tolstoy and the Tolstoyans. By Francis Gribble. Mark Rutherford : An Appreciation. By Frances Low. NATIONAL. Mr. Andrew Lang and Robert Burns. Bayne. By Thomas NINETEENTEI CENTURY. An Actor's Views on Plays and Play-writing. By J. H. Barnes. The Censorship of Fiction. By Bram Stoker.  ## p. 15 (#27) ############################################## TISIES A UſTEIOR, 15 WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. —º-º-º- TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property — I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society. II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement). In this case the following rules should be attended to : (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- duction forms a part without the strictest investigation. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise- ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,” unless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental rights. (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights. (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher. As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or doctor | III. The Royalty System. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. IV. A Commission Agreement. The main points are :— (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production. (2.) Keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book. General. All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four above mentioned. - Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author. Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary of the Society. Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are :- (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement IIl€2,IDS. (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or withheld. (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright. e—º-e WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS, e—º-e— EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com- petent legal authority. 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for the production of a play with anyone except an established manager. 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays in three or more acts:— (4.) Sale outright of the performing right. This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into such a contract should stipulate in the contract for production of the piece by a certain date and for proper publication of his name on the play-bills. (b.). Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on grOSS receipts. Percentages vary between 5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts in preference to the American system. Should obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed date on or before which the play should be performed. (c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed nightly fees). This method should be always avoided except in cases where the fees are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply also in this case. 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should be reserved. 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and time. This is most important. 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is of great importance. 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words. 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed- ingly valuable. They should never be included in English agreements without the author obtaining a substantial consideration. 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced. 10. An author should remember that production of a play is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract. He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in the beginning. 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con- tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. —e—º-e— WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS, —º-º-º- ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the L assistance of producers of books and dramatic authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan- cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property. The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with—performing right and copyright. He  ## p. 16 (#28) ############################################## 16 TRIES A UTFIOR. should be especially careful therefore when entering into an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. —e—º-0— 1. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive + advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub- lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his business or the administration of his property. The Secretary of the Society is a solicitor, but if there is any special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion. All this without any cost to the member. 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi- ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society. 3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past accounts, with a copy of the book represented. The Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new or old, for inspection and note. The information thus obtained may prove in valuable. 4. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the document to the Society for examination. 5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of members' agreements and their preservation in a fire- proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers: —(1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give advice concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to agreements. Fuller particulars of the Society's work can be obtained in the Prospectus. 7. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. This The 8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. must be done within fourteen days of first execution. Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members. 9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so do some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. 10. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. treated as a composition is treated by a coach. TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. –0-0-0– HE Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part of 100. The members’ stamps are kept in the Society's safe. The musical publishers communicate direct With the Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble. —e—º-e— THE READING BRANCH, + EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in the - branch of its work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and The term MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry and dramatic Works, and when it is possible, under Special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea. —e—º-e— NOTICES. —º-º-º- TV HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of | the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for the year. Communications for “The Author” should be addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. - All persons engaged in literary work of any kind, whether members of the Society or not, are invited to communicate to the Editor any points connected with their work which it would be advisable in the general interest to publish. - Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on all subjects connected with literature, but on no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to return articles which cannot be accepted. -º-º-º- The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and he requests members who do not receive an answer to important communications within two days to write to him without delay. All remittances should be crossed Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered letter only. —e—º-e— LEGAL AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. {3}. —0-49–6– ENSIONS to commence at any selected age, either with or without Life Assurance, can be obtained from this Society. Full particulars can be obtained from the City Branch Manager, Legal and General Life Assurance Society, 158, Leadenhall Street, London, E.C.  ## p. 17 (#29) ############################################## THE AUTFIOR. 17 GENERAL NOTES. —º-Q-0– THE PENSION FUND. UNDER the Correspondence we are publishing a letter dealing with the question of the Pension Fund, in which the writer states that 1,720 members of the Society give nothing. It may be true that 1,720 members are not annual subscribers, but it should be stated, in all fairness to the generous supporters of the fund, that many members of the society in its early days made large donations to the fund (their names were printed with the first list of contributors), that many year by year have made donations, some large, some small, according to their means (these have been chronicled month by month in The Author). These may still be looked upon as subscribers, and their wholehearted generosity cannot be ignored because they do not happen to be annual subscribers. WRONG FUL USE OF THE SOCIETY's NAME. 1. ONCE a certain publishing house placed an impossible agreement before one of the society's members. On the refusal of the member to sign the document, the publishing house informed him that the agreement had the approval of the Society of Authors. It is hardly necessary to state that this was not the case, and the secretary remonstrated. The publisher thereupon denied that he had put forward this claim, but as the secretary held his letter the only thing left for him was to apologise, and to promise not to repeat the statement. This he did. - 2. Not long ago one of the members of the Society laid before the secretary an agreement pro- viding for a transfer of copyright from author to publisher. The secretary placed before the member his strong objections to the proposed transfer. The agent who was acting, in commenting on the member's objections, stated that the transfer of copyright was satisfactory and necessary. It is almost impossible to conceive of an agent taking this standpoint, but the fact as stated is true. 3. A publisher placed before a member an agree- ment asking for an assignment of copyright, and stated in a covering letter that the Society of Authors had no objection to it. Again the secre- tary laid before the member the very strong position which the committee has always taken up on this subject. These three cases have prompted the following remarks :- First, the wrongful use of the Authors’ Society's name by publishers and others in order to obtain their ends; and secondly, the extreme danger, in any event, of an author transferring copyright to a publisher. The legal advisers of the society and the committee cannot emphasise too strongly the dangers that may follow such a transfer–dangers Which have been increased by judgments delivered in one or two cases recently decided in the Courts. Again, therefore, it is necessary to insist that authors should merely grant to publishers licences to publish, limiting such licences in whatever way they think well, either by country—to Great Britain —or by time—to five years——or by edition, to one or two editions—or by a combination of two or three of the above. In no case whatever should there be a transfer of copyright where the author holds a continuing interest in his work. None of the reliable publishing houses claim this now. It is better not to publish at all than to convey all future interest and control to others unless the question is one of absolute necessity or the author sets but little value on his work. If an agent recommends this transfer of copyright the sooner an author places his affairs in other hands the better. The matter is put on rather a different footing where the publisher purchases a work outright for a glven Sum. HUMPHREYS v. THOMSON. THE “Lounger” in Putnam's for September devoted some space to the recent case of Humphreys v. Thomson, in which Mr. Clement Shorter's views were strongly deprecated. “Except to change a slip of grammar or the spelling of a word, for even the best writers are often the worst spellers, I cannot see "—says the “Lounger"—“that the editor of the Red Letter had the slightest excuse for cutting a story ‘to suit the character of his paper.' I do not believe there is an editor of any standing in the United States who would do such a thing without consulting the writer of the story. When there is any radical cutting to do, the author is asked to do it, or to give the editor permission ; but to change the character of a story to suit the character of a periodical is an unpardonable im- pertinence. . . . I have known many stories and essays to be changed by editors, but never with- out the permission of the writers. I know of one notable instance where an editor Worked over a manuscript with the author, who re-wrote it four times before it appeared in print. There are very few stories which are not improved by editorial suggestion, but the sort of thing that “Rita" complains of, and that Mr. Shorter upholds, seems to me little less than a crime. . . . Who steals my purse is a thief; who garbles my manuscript is a murderer | *  ## p. 18 (#30) ############################################## 18 THE AUTHOR. CASH PAYMENT OR PUBLISHERS’ BILLS 2 THE following case may be of interest to those members of the society who have been requested by their publishers to accept settlement of their accounts by bills. One of the members refused to accept a settle- ment by this method, partly because he desired, in accordance with the terms of his agreement, to have a prompt cash settlement, partly because he did not care to accept the responsibility to his bankers for the amount, and finally, because he considered that when a publisher entered into an agreement he ought to be ready to meet his obliga- tions under it. The publisher refused, after three or four requests, to make a cash settlement, and the matter was referred to the society, and placed in the hands of its solicitors. Since the society’s solicitors have taken the matter in hand, although the publishers had previously ignored the letters of the secretary, the amount has been promptly paid. But—and this is the point of which we complain—the publisher wrote a very uncalled- for letter to the author, practically refusing to have anything more to do with him or his work. Con- sidering that the author had courteously in the first place, and then firmly by means of the society's lawyers, requested the publisher merely to act up to his agreement, the publisher's anger seems hardly justified. Perhaps, on the whole, the author is well out of his hands. CORRECTIONS. WE understand that a well-known review has acquired a habit of attaching a notice to proofs sent to its contributors, stating that if “many alterations” are made, the expense they entail will be deducted from the author's honorarium. The interpretation of the word “many ” appears to be left to the discretion of the editor ; and nothing is said touching the distinction between printer's errors and author's corrections. Apart from this, the notice raises several nice points. It may be premised that many, or excessive alterations, would only be due either to the author's unskilfulness in his art, or to the necessity of bringing the article up to date, owing to the lapse of time between its despatch and the receipt of the proof. In the first case, it is highly improbable the article would have been accepted in its original form ; and in the second, the blame would be entirely due to the fault of the editor. Supposing, then, a contributor refused to bring his article up to date after it had been duly accepted, on the ground that if he did so his honorarium would be docked, the editor would have either to do it him- self, or to stultify himself by repealing his notice, In both events the contributor would be entitled to his full price, and the only apparent object of this happy idea would come to nothing. We cannot compliment the editor of the review On his latest editorial method. UNITED STATES MAGAZINE MARKET. THE American magazine market has never been so dull as during the last year. Agents and authors on this side have found their efforts a complete waste of stamps; while the native writers, if reports are to be believed, have either gone into of business—Writing for magazines in not busi- ness—or have been living on their capital. A writer in the Wew York Times places the Source of the frost in the fact that the magazines have been recuperating after the panic and living on accumulated copy. He declares that some of them have even been selling off superfluous hoards of “refrigerated stuff.” at quite absurd reductions, and quotes the following letter, which has been circulated among editors likely to speculate in bargains — - “My dear As you probably know from your own experience, we editors accumulate a great deal of material, Which after a while we find to be unsuitable for our use. In looking over our accumulated material I find a good deal of verse. Some years ago we used much, but latterly have found it impossible to give up much space to rhyme. For this reason I am sending you proofs of some of the things we now have on hand, thinking that you may be interested, and that perhaps you might care to buy some Of it.” The only authors making money have been the producers of first-class humour and those working under iron-clad contracts. However, the end is predicted for October ; the stock of copy in hand is said to be running low ; and writers are sharpen- ing their pens again, in anticipation of a good time coming. Happily the English market is not so untrust- worthy. Prices, it is true, do not average so high as in the States, nor is payment so prompt ; but, on the other hand, the demand is steady, and there is a touch of lost Bohemia in the casual and unexpected arrival of the cheque that cheers. *-* *- FROM THE DICKENSIAN. The Dickensian, a magazine for Dickens lovers and a monthly record of the Dickens Fellowship, had in its August number an interesting account of the first and last Dickens banquet in the United States by Mr. S. Kilwin. The first banquet was held in Boston on February 1, 1842, and among  ## p. 19 (#31) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. - - 19. those present were Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, J. R. Lowell, W. W. Storey, the famous sculptor; G. Bancroft, the historian ; and R. H. Dana, the author of “Ten Years before the Mast.” “The speaking was begun by Josiah Quincy, jun., in an address of welcome to the guest, which was not only eloquent in its tribute to Dickens, but abounded in witty and appropriate quotations from “Pickwick’ and “Oliver Twist.’ The speaker closed with the toast : “Health, Hap- piness, and a Hearty Welcome to Charles T)ickens !’ and when Dickens rose to reply he was greeted by a burst of applause that was loud and long. Mr. Dickens's reply to the toast was a grateful and eloquent recognition of the hearty welcome which he had received, and concluded with his first public reference in the United States to an international copyright, which he said he believed was not far distant, ‘firstly, because it is justice ; secondly, because without it you never can have and keep a literature of your Own.’” “What a different picture the famous author presented when twenty-six years later he was the honoured guest at a dinner given in New York. He was no longer the bright, smooth-faced young man with the long wavy locks, but had become an elderly man with streaks of grey in both hair and beard.” He was an hour late in arriving, and those gathered to greet him grew nervous and apprehensive at his non-appearance. Finally he arrived, worn and racked with pain. “What he wore on his right foot no one noticed, but on his left seemed to be a stuffed carpet bag; in his left hand was a stick, on which he leaned ; his right was on (Horace) Greeley’s arm,” wrote one of the guests. This was his last public dinner in the United States. THE BOOK TRADE DINNER. As there seems to be some confusion regarding the exact nature of the Book Trade Dinner which the Publishers' Circle is organising, we are asked to state that this is entirely a trade affair, though many authors, including members of this society, have accepted invitations to be present as the guests of their publishers. Application forms for the tickets have been sent only to publishers and booksellers. Mr. W. L. Courtney will propose the toast of “Literature,” to which Sir George Trevelyan is replying. Mr. W. W. Jacobs will propose the toast of “The Trade.” The arrangements made, and the limited number of tickets issued, unfortu- nately prevent lady authors from being invited. THE PERILS OF DEFERRED ROYALTY. —º-º-º- T is not an uncommon practice among pub- lishers to insure against loss on a book by demanding from the author a certain number of copies free of royalty. From the author's point of view this method, though preferable to paying for the cost of production in hard cash, is a bad method, but if from fear of non-publication an author may be tempted to accept it, then it should be stated that it is not without its dangers. There are two main points which should be noticed in the case of a deferred royalty. The first is, that the number of books free should not be so large as to cover the whole cost of production and advertising ; the second, that the royalty to the author should be considerably higher after the number mentioned has been sold than if the royalty had been paid from the beginning. If the number is so large that it practically covers the cost of production and advertising, then there is no stimulus whatever to the publisher to push the book. Most publishers nowadays, when events move so rapidly,are content to sell sufficient copies of a book to bring them a fair percentage on the capital expended, and then sell the book as a remainder, without any thought of the author and his interests. This is the result of the modern methods of business, and occurs in the case of all books. The power to sell the last few hundred copies, Or, in exceptional cases, few thousand copies, is always the test of a good publisher. The ordinary publisher knows well that it takes more trouble to sell the last few hundred copies than the first thousand, and he thinks less of his publishing reputation than the financial return. In some cases this proves the best asset. What the author wants, therefore, is some stimulus to induce the publisher to push the book, and this is generally only obtained by a consideration of the financial aspect. So soon as the publisher has no monetary risk in the book so soon does his stimulus cease. The same remarks will refer to the increased royalty after the sale of an agreed number of copies, for the more the publisher has paid to the author in royalties in addition to the cost of pro- duction and advertising, the more necessary is it that he should push the book in order to obtain his own profit, for all authors know after the first expenses of a book have been covered, future editions do not cost very much. In an issue of the Academy, published during the vacation, it has been clearly pointed out that the great advantage. to an author in having a sum in advance of royalties lies in the stimulus it gives to the publisher, and the same remark holds good in regard to the example quoted above.  ## p. 20 (#32) ############################################## 20 TRIES A UTISIOR. These remarks have been prompted by two cases which have come before our notice. In One case the author agreed to forego his royalties on 1,250 copies, taking after that number a ridiculously small royalty. The publisher produced 1,000 copies, sold about 850 copies, and then broke up the type. The other case was somewhat similar. Five hundred copies of the book were to be free of royalty. The book was a small one, and the publisher printed only 500 copies. In both cases the number of books to be sold free of royalty was sufficient to cover the expenditure, as far as can possibly be judged by ordinary standards, although the detailed publisher's accounts were not to hand. There was no reason, therefore, why the publisher should sell in the one case more than 1,000 copies and in the other more than 500, if he desired merely to satisfy his business instincts, and from the result that apparently was his desire. Such contracts are bad in principle, and should always be avoided. If the publisher could find a sufficient number of authors who stood outside the society, or ignored its advice, he could run his business without any payment to the author whose books he produced. If in either of these cases it had happened that the number free of royalty had been exceeded, then 33% per cent. at least would have been a legitimate royalty for the author to receive, at any rate until matters had been equalised by continued sales. One further point of no little importance must be taken into consideration: if the publisher on the one hand claims a large number free of royalty, and in his generosity grants under the agreement to the author a very high royalty, and if the number so claimed will quite clear the cost of production, advertising, as well as put a certain profit into the publisher's pocket, then the increased royalty will merely act as a deterrent on the publisher's pushing the book. The result, therefore, may be summed up as follows:— 1. The number free of royalty must not exceed the cost of production and advertisement. 2. The author should obtain a proportionately higher royalty after the sale of the free copies. 3. If he does not obtain the first the second is useless. —e—º-e— BRITISH WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS IN NORTH BOHEMIA. —e—6-e- N the year 1905 I gave an account in The I Author of an expedition made by EEglish writers to Bohemia. The tour then made was to the interesting and remarkable southern towns. This summer I received an invitation for a party to visit Prague during the year of its Jubilee Exhi- bition, and to explore some of the northern towns and rock fastnesses. So, at the end of June, twenty-one members of the British International Association of Journalists landed at the Hook of Holland en route for Dresden and Prague. Most of the members were specialists, either writers upon engineering, education, technical developments, chemistry, industrial and municipal matters, or historical and topographical writers. Each traveller had his especial aim, but the general interest and beauty of the scenery very frequently made the specialist forget his pet subject in the romance in which he was engulfed. Before arriving in Prague the travellers were met at the Bohemian frontier by M. Franz Borovsky, the learned director of the Art and Trades Museum in Prague, and some other friends, and at Prague itself a warm welcome was received, not only from the officials of the city, but from the crowd at the station. But the northern towns were to be visited before Prague really received us, so on the following morning at 6 a.m. (there is no sloth in Bohemia) we were en route for Turnov or Turnau. I give the Bohemian and German spelling, as to-day the Bohemian word is largely used, but on our maps generally the German word is given. I had especially asked that this town should be included in the itinerary, not only for the strange wild Scenery around it, but also because it possesses a most remarkable technical school, in which the jewellery and precious stones industry is taught. I was anxious our specialists should see this work; but, alas ! on arriving in the town, we found the School had just been burnt down ; but we were enabled to see the apprentices, who attended the school, in various workshops, and thus to gain an insight into the real outcome of the work. Later, in Prague, at the Exhibition, we saw a very remarkable artistic exhibit of the school's work. This disaster of the fire gave us more time for exploring the romantic country around Turnov. The whole district is called the “Bohemian Para- dise,” and it is the most delightful paradise I..have ever visited, though more than once I have found myself in paradise, in various parts of the world. Our first glimpse of the strange weird beauty of the neighbourhood was when we had climbed the great Hill of Kopanina, and had the whole district with its natural rock fortresses, and its robber knight castles, and all the forest, and meadow, and corn-land stretched beneath us. We soon had a closer view of one of these fortresses, scooped out, and into a castle, with chapel and rooms and watch towers; a date on it was 1447, just the famous period of Bohemia's history. It was a wonderful  ## p. 21 (#33) ############################################## TFIE A Crºſ"FIOR. 21 walk amidst these great rocks, but I kept silence amidst the exclamations, for I knew greater and stranger wonders were to come. At the little village below the old castle of Vranov the schoolmaster came to welcome us; it was noticeable everywhere that if the town or village had no maire it was the schoolmaster who greeted us. Often also his children were drawn up with flags to welcome us, and to sing their national air, “Where is my home.” The priest rarely took a foremost position, although nearly all the inhabi- tants are of the Roman Church. Dinners, lunches, speeches, and impromptu welcomes met us every- where. Very often these greetings were in English, even from mayors of towns of a thousand or so inhabitants. The next two days were spent in this romantic paradise, and at Rovensko the young maidens, dressed in white, presented us with bouquets and examples of the jewel stones found here, and then to prove further that they were the “angels” of this “paradise” a choir sang their folk songs, and an excellent orchestra played Dvorak and Smetana. On the stage of the hall in which the lunch was served by those same young girls, were busts of their national heroes, for the hall is the local theatre. This gives a hint of their village and small town life ; here the problem of the dullness of village life has been solved by self-help and culture. We were under the shadow of the strange mighty castle of Trosky, and up to its great ruin we climbed—a double castle on two peaks linked by a massive wall. As we descended from this height along a romantic road our way was blocked by a group of tiny children singing their songs and bringing us roses. The schoolmaster in this remote village was a most cultured man. We drove on to the deep ravine, above which, some 600 feet, gleams the castle of Gros Skal. Up to this we climbed through a cleft in the vast rock piers called the Mouse Hole, with space for but one person at a time, and at the summit lunch No. 2 awaited us. After this we went for a delightful walk through the forest amidst the “Rock Town" to Waldstein, the seat of the great Wallenstein family. Of course I knew all this district, as I had described it in my books on Bohemia, but it was pleasant to go over the ground with fellow-country- men who could understand, not only the natural wonders, but the intellectual development of the inhabitants, and their intense cultivation of the soil. The former was most forcibly illustrated on the following day at Jicin, the little town that suffered terribly in the war of '66, where, in the Wallenstein Palace, the Triple Alliance was signed in 1813. Our reception in this little town of 10,000 inhabitants was marked by intellectual and artistic phases, towards which some great cities might strive. In the town hall the speeches of the mayor and Corporation were in three languages— English, French, and Czech. Many of the towns- folk described to us in English the historic build- ings of their home, and acted as guides in the wild romantic labyrinth of the Prachov “Rock Town.” that lies above the '66 battlefield of Jicin. We returned to the town in the evening, and after a choicely served dinner, we had a concert that was indeed a delight. An orchestra, a men's choir, and a women's choir gave examples of Slav music by Dvorak, Bendl, Smetana. The rendering by Orchestra and singers was full of fire and tender- ness, tone and expression. We learnt that all the performers were engaged in business or professions in the town. Then came a greater surprise, a lady soloist, a Miss Jarmila Wolfova, with a brilliant voice ; she, too, was a citizeness of this little city. The whole performance was equal to that of a musical festival production, save that the choir was less in numbers. . The Bohemians believe in making everything themselves, and so the next morning we found luxurious motor cars, with Mr. Clement, their maker, as leader, which ran us to other districts of this paradise. Indeed, a month's stay would not exhaust its wonders. Running swiftly, touching fifty miles an hour sometimes, we soon reached near Kost, but we walked to it through a “vale of tears,” but a lovely one, and had a superb first view of Kost and its castle, the four corners of which can be seen at once. Here Field-Marshal Won Waldkampf and his son met us, and showed us the wonders of the place and the beauty around it, and in the evening we ran into Mlada-Boleslav or Jungbunzlau. Here I stayed with “Emil Treval,” the dramatic author, and again we had a delightful, concert. When late at night we had retired to rest, soft music from the choir beneath our windows, told us of the artistic courtesy of a serenade. But at 8 a.m. again the automobiles awaited us for a run to Bela, or Weisswasser, and after a really extraordinary reception in the tiny walled town, we climbed old Bösig, 900 feet up, and spent some hours in the grand old ruins and in the chapel. The view from the great tower is perfect, of forest, lakes, village and mountains ; but we had to descend, and after a halt at the Countess of Wallenstein's castle, that was full of art treasures, we took the train into Prague. Now the official reception was given us in the glorious old town hall by Dr. Gros, the learned mayor, and we had our old friends, Dr. Maly, who had so helped us in “paradise,” and Dr. Sum as guides, with M. Borovsky as chief commander. Well it was that he was autocratic, for our time was  ## p. 22 (#34) ############################################## 22 THE AUTHOR, packed with engagements. The Exhibition, which to our specialists had great charms, was excellently arranged, and work was lightened by music. One concert by the Philharmonic Orchestra, led by the famous Nikisch, was a most perfect concord of sweet sounds. The Chamber of Commerce and other committees took endless pains to help all to their especial work, and there was much to see and record. Personally, I found the technical Schools a wonderful lesson to us in development, of inge- nuity, and invention, but here each man and woman wrote of his or her own special interests. As international journalists we know naught of dividing politics or religions, and therefore it was a great satisfaction to receive an intimation that the Viceroy of Bohemia, Count Coudenove, would receive some of our members, and we found him most cordial, and on my explaining the special interests of some of them, he invited our engineer- ing experts, Mr. D. A. Louis, of the Times and the Engineer, Mr. Paul Hasluck, and others to accom- pany him on an expedition on the Moldau and Elbe, to see the great irrigation and flood organis- ing works being carried out there. In a genial fashion he lunched and dined them, and again received us in the most friendly fashion upon our calling to bid farewell on leaving Prague. Another instance of our visit uniting all classes and all races, occurred in our reception at Podie- brad, the historic birthplace of King George. Here I knew my old friends, Dr. Boucek and Dr. Jelen, would secure us a warm welcome, and again we were surprised at the intensity of the reception by mayor and officials and the whole town. But at the castle a further surprise awaited us, for we found Prince Hohenlohe, the son of the famous Chancellor, with the Princess, awaiting us in the courtyard. The Prince had travelled all night from the Kiel Regatta, only arriving at 3 a.m., and, with their Serene Highnesses as guides, we passed through the halls of the castle and saw its treasures, notably the portrait of the Chancellor, whose memoirs aroused such excitement; we looked out on the old execution terrace, now a parterre of lovely flowers overlooking the Elbe, and then passed out into the gardens, where, under the shady trees, a delightful dejeuner was awaiting us. I had the pleasure of thanking our hosts, and of calling my British friends' attention to the fact that we were in the birthplace of King George, from whom nearly all the dynasties of Europe had descended, including our own King and Queen. After a cordial reply, Prince Hohenlohe drove us to the new baths, which are most tastefully equipped. Then the great glass works and other industries claimed us. Afterwards came a genial dinner, with hearty health-drinking, and, of course, an excellent concert. Finally the whole population hundred towers.” escorted us to the station, loading us with bouquets and flowers and mementoes of Podiebrad. In Prague, after this sortie, the two most characteristic episodes were on the Sophie Island and on the Petrin, or Strahov Hill, looking down On the glorious city. The Praguers are impetuous in their adoration of Prague, and on the Sunday they led us out to the remarkable Ethnographical Museum, that was a delight and a lesson to us English, and still more so to the Irish amongst us ; and from thence up through the park and gardens to the Nebozitek. restaurant, where, under the thick shade of the trees, a lunch was laid. From this position we looked out over the mighty city and the great Cathedral, and all the palaces, and the Moldau, or Ultava, flowing beneath the historic Carls Bridge. It was an inspiring scene, that brought ready words to my lips, when I had to reply to the toast given by the Lord Mayor, of “Golden Prague of a If this scene was poetical and dramatic, so also was that upon the Sophie Island, when Prague outdid itself in artistic effect. But space says halt. The expedition of British journalists left Prague again to visit Carlstein, the mighty jewelled castle, and Pilsen, where a repre- sentation of “ King Lear” in Czech proved M. Bordil, who took the part of Lear, to be a great actor ; and thence we journeyed home via Eger, save those who availed themselves of the Danube Steamship Company’s offer to sail down the Danube to Buda Pest, that historic stream that far excels Rhine or Moselle in grandeur and beauty. JAMES BAKER. -º- w -–wº- * w INSPECTION LIBRARIES AND THE SALE OF BOOKS. —e-º-º- F over-crowding is the natural result of the high state of civilisation we have reached and a cause of complaint common to all professions, there is probably none in which it occurs in a more acute form than in that of letters. The beginner is the chief, but perhaps not the only, sufferer from this state of things. His success or failure depends on circumstances which are to a great extent beyond his control. He may have a lively imagination and considerable dramatic ability and yet be unable to work within the narrow limits which many theatrical managers prescribe ; he may be a man of high poetical instinct and yet be told again and again when he offers his works that poetry is a drug on the market ; or he may even obtain a certain measure of success in the shape of favourable reviews and  ## p. 23 (#35) ############################################## TISIE AUTISIOR. 23 yet fail to secure an adequate pecuniary reward for his efforts. Like the soldier in Hans Andersen's fairy tale, the author has to deal with three kinds of guardians before he can unlock the magic coffers : the publishers, the critics, and the booksellers. Criticism in general is fair, it is even generous, perhaps too generous, and on that account it is frequently misleading. As for the booksellers, they may have eyes as big as towers and yet be blind to the qualities of many excellent works. It is not the intrinsic or literary, but the commercial, value they will consider. The taste of the majority is their criterion, a changing factor it may be, yet always the dominant one. The booksellers cater very little for minorities. There may be many works which would respond to the needs of a limited, but not unimportant though scattered, portion of the public, and the sale of which would, in course of time, fully justify their publica- tion, provided that they could be made accessible to these readers during a sufficiently long period. But there is no room for them on booksellers' shelves. If they happen to have found a place there they are soon ousted by more recent ones, which though perhaps far inferior to them, com- mand for the moment the attention of the public. The bookseller is not a free agent in this respect ; he cannot afford to keep books which are not, so to speak, in the eye of the public, and he naturally selects for the many rather than for the few. It is very much the same with the buyers for subscription libraries, and in both cases the over-crowded state of the market tends to make such a selection imperfect. It is from this selection that the public chooses. It does not make its own choice. The volumes which are offered to it may be stamped with the approbation of the publishers, the critics, and the booksellers, but in a great many instances it knows little or nothing of their contents. Is it surprising that it refuses to buy books with the titles of which alone it is acquainted 2 Publishers, on the other hand, cannot produce Works that booksellers would refuse to purchase, and that the public would neglect from lack of knowledge of their merits. But the taste of the majority of the reading public does not perhaps reach the highest standard of literary judgment, and the conditions under which books are offered for sale favour in some measure the temporary survival of the less fit. In literature we find many exceptions to the Darwinian law, and the ghosts of mammoths and ichthyausauri, if they have a local habitation, may rejoice together, for their fate is being avenged. The natural remedy for the over-crowded state of the book market would appear to lie in the establishment of inspection libraries in combina- tion with a bookselling department. The purposes of such libraries may be briefly stated as follows:– 1. (a) To enable the reading public to inspect briefly all works which might be sent to the library for that purpose, and which would be carefully classified and arranged. (b) To collect from authors enjoying the privilege of exposing their works sums varying from 1s. 6d. to 3s. per book per annum. 2. To prepare a comprehensive classified cata- logue containing short descriptive notes of about six to ten lines written by the authors for use in the inspection library or any of its branches. 3. (a) To enable the authors to insert somewhat similar notes in the books on the shelves, together with one or two pages of extracts from press cut- tings to be selected by them. (b) To post similar notes printed on postcards, at the expense of the authors, to anyone inquiring as to the nature of any given work upon receipt of a $d. stamp. 4. To advertise the library in the daily papers or otherwise from time to time, and to advertise lists of the works contained in the library collec- tively at the option and expense of the authors, so as to reduce the cost of advertising to a minimum. It is probable that ninety-nine out of every hundred readers of books would get a much better idea of the value and suitability of any work if they could have it in their hands for ten or even five minutes than they would from any number of critical reviews, and in any case, the knowledge so obtained would differ considerably from that which is to be gleaned from the present sources of information. Let us suppose then that a certain number of authors were to subscribe sufficient capital to rent a fair-sized house or building in the neighbourhood of the British Museum, with a frontage, if possible, on Oxford Street, and whilst retaining the front part of it as a shop, were to have the rest, or a large part of it, provided with shelves for the reception of all the works of which free copies might be obtained. If this plan were carried out and were to meet, either in its present or in any modified form, with a ready response from authors and publishers, who would be alike interested in the opening of a new channel for the disposal of their stocks, it seems reasonable to suppose that this collection of works would in a short time become a most important one. That being so, one may believe that any member of the public in search of suitable literature for his pro- fessional or personal requirements would, if in London, hasten to the inspection library, where he would probably find most of the more recent works of his special branch carefully arranged. He would then know that in making his choice he had before him the best collection of books available for his purpose ; for although he would find the same works in the British Museum, he could not procure them without a previous knowledge of their titles, etc. It seems probable that many,  ## p. 24 (#36) ############################################## 24 TRIES A UIT)SIOR, perhaps the majority, of those inspecting the works in the library would place their orders in the bookselling department connected with it, and that, without reckoning the income to be derived from the subscriptions of authors on the books they would expose a large part of the rent of the premises would thus be earned. Whether any portion of the building should be reserved for refreshments, or as a reading room, would require consideration. It would, however, be essential that members of the public should feel themselves perfectly free to leave the library without buying, for this freedom, coupled with an enlarged supply, constitute one of the chief causes of the success of large shops. Like them, the inspection library could offer the public the most varied collection and the best arrangement of its stock. In the long run these facilities would insure its prosperity, and if the profits obtained exceeded a reasonable return on the capital invested, a certain proportion of them might be set aside in the first place to establish branches, and subsequently to allow a diminution of the fees charged to authors for exposing their works. The establishment of inspection libraries may therefore be said to be in the interest of authors, because it would afford all an equal opportunity of exposing their works and of advertising them collectively at the cheapest rates, of publishers because it would enable them to get rid of their remainders, and of the public because it would furnish it with unequalled facilities for choosing and buying. But authors are more interested in this matter than publishers or the public, and whether they endeavour to bring themselves more closely into touch with the latter, by this or any other means, if such can be found, it is common action on their part that is required. D. L. LITERATURE AND CRIME. —e-º-º- (From the Nation, U.S.A., July, 1908.) HE recent publication of M. Seghele's book, “Littérature et Criminalité,” has reopened in France the discussion of the relation of crime to literature. The French have often singed their wings in this flame. Every one feels that the printed word may be a source of corruption ; is certain that the public should assume Some responsibility in checking the evil; but no one has devised any practicable means of attack. Official purity, it is generally agreed, is too often official prudery which condemns the just and the unjust alike. Fifty years ago Flaubert underwent arraignment on the score of “Madame Bovary.” His advocate, M. Senard, maintained that the who fell dead beside her. defendant was a man of severe and august character, actuated by the highest artistic pur- poses. Only the other day, when M. Georges Lecomte was protesting before the Société des Gens de Lettres against the indecency of contemporary literature, he declared that, had he been present at that celebrated trial, he would have done homage not only to the conscience of the artist, but also to the nobility of the book. The type of literature which is most cried out upon in this country is perhaps the least dangerous —that dealing frankly with arson, highway robbery, adultery, and murder. It may suggest the means, but—excepting boy brigands, inspired by the penny dreadful—seldom the motive of wrongdoing. It takes root only in minds already fertile in evil impulses. The letter accompanying the fatal gift of poisoned ale in Philadelphia ironically requested that the brew be recommended to the victim's family. There was in this something suggestive of the cold-blooded facetiousness of the Borgias. Life puzzles the observer with a specious mimicry of literature. In New Rochelle an Italian trapped his unfaithful wife. Drawing his stiletto, he ran her through the neck and then stabbed the lover, As if more completely to mimic a scene in the theatre, innocent children were playing in the adjoining room. Yet one cannot think that this fruit-peddler's mind had been debauched by D'Annunzio's “Francesca da Rimini.” A more plausible case is that of the young man who drank poison and died to waltz music in a public theatre, after the fashion of the heroes of Ford and Massinger. This instinct for the dramatic among criminals appears rather to be fed than stimulated by literature. M. Claretie cites in the Temps the celebrated case of Charles Iſemaire, who killed his prospective step-mother on the eve of her marriage. Showing his hands red with blood, he exclaimed in Shakespearean phrase, “Fine gloves for my father's wedding . " In so far as literature presents crime as crime, it is comparatively innocuous; it becomes dangerous when it presents crime as duty, as self-realisation, as experience, or as asthetic gratification. In a letter published in the Public of June 26, the writer reviles the Chicago authorities for their treatment of Emma Goldman. In her lectures at Portland, Ore., he says. that excellent woman spoke on the revolutionary spirit of modern drama, “ dealing in a very sympathetic and in- tellectual manner with Ibsen, Hauptmann, Shaw, and Sudermann. You might as well send police to the meetings of the trustees of the Chicago University.” The Chicago authorities, however, recognised Emma Goldman as a perilous link between these dramatists and the bomb-throwers. They have become distrustful of the so-called  ## p. 25 (#37) ############################################## THE AUTISIOR. 25 “peaccable anarchy.” They have learned that a certain kind of literature begets dynamite, and they are not ashamed of panic when a fanatic, educated to a sense of his duty, rushes out bomb in hand, burning for martyrdom. The literature which exalts self-realisation as an ultimate end is older than the German storm and stress period, and as young as the latest novel of the Jack London school. It appeals powerfully to the masculine spirit endowed with a rich animal nature. It furnishes a religion to the religiously emancipated, and a sanction to the strong man with vividly surviving instincts of the barbarian. Under the guidance of the German madman whom so many innocents have taken for a god, it would bring back Nature red in tooth and claw. It teaches—to use Tolstoy's words in summarising a philosophical work published a few years ago in Chicago — that “all laws, commandments, or doctrines as to not doing to another what you do not wish done to you, have no inherent authority whatever, but receive authority from the club, the gallows, and the sword. A man truly free is under no obligation to obey any injunction, human or divine.” It is the creed of the lions of the Renaissance, the creed of Napoleon, the creed of red anarchy, and the creed of many of the great business men of America. A somewhat different Criminal motive is that furnished by the type of literature which presents experience as an end in itself. The man whose aim is self-realisation attempts to crush all else into his own personality ; the man whose aim is experience attempts to crush his personality into all else. Not quality is desired, but variety, inten- sity, and strangeness. The hero of experience leads a fundamentally histrionic life ; his success he measures by the number of rôles he has played. He lays his past aside like a garment. He gives no pledges to the future. He lives in the present noment, like the epicurean ; but, unlike Epicurus, he delights as much in the sty as in the wreathed roses. Sin and terror allure his imagination. He is a vivisectionist, physical and spiritual, for the quaint excitement of anguish. A good illustration of this instinct in its most morbid form was fur- nished by the instructor at Cambridge, Mass., who two years ago gave his wife arsenic, hoping, since he loved her, to see her soul depart from the body in the moment of death. He had been preparing a thesis on insanity in German literature. The literature which makes asthetic gratification the end of existence defeats its own end. Pursued as an ultimate goal, it leads sooner or later into quagmires. The aesthete wanders from home in the quest of new and strange beauties. His truant feet stray from the classic to the romantic, and thence to the grotesque ; from the moral to the unconventional, and thence to the illicit ; from the sound to the unsound, and thence to the insane ; from the chaste to the unchaste, and thence to the indecent. Yet the price of illicit aesthetic pleasure is the loss of all asthetic pleasure. The unhappy man, as M. Lecomte says, who little by little allows himself to be soiled with all that filth, becomes finally insensible to a vigorous thought, an expressive portrait, or the proud wing of poetry. Dulled and stupefied by the contemplation of obscene images, he is incapable of feeling true beauty, of understanding, for example, the look and smile of La Gioconda or the harmonious and living majesty of the Victory of Samothrace. 4—Q- e. CONTEMPORARY CRITICISMS.—VIII. —º-º-º- REMARKS ON SHELLEY's ADONAIS. . . . The Della Crusca school has visited us again, but with some slight change of localities. Its verses now transpire from the retreats of Cockney dalliance in the London suburbs, some- times they visit us by fragments from Venice, and Sometimes invade us by wainloads from Pisa. In point of subject and treatment there is but slight difference ; both schools are smitten with “Nature, and Nature's love,” run riot in the infrigues of animonies, daisies, and buttercups, and rave to the “rivulet proud, and the deep blushing stars.” . . . We must do the defunct Della Crusca the justice to say that they kept their private irregularities to themselves, and sought for no reprobate popu- larity. . . . They talked nonsense without measure, were simple down to the lowest degree of silliness, and “babbled of green fields" enough to make men sicken of summer, but they were not daring enough to boast of impurity; there was no pestilent hatred of everything generous, true, and honour- able; no desperate licentiousness in their romance; no daring and friendlike insult to feeling, moralities, and Christian principle. They were foolish and profligate, but did not deliver themselves with the steady devotedness of an insensate and black ambition to the ruin of society. We have now to speak of Mr. P. B. Shelley and poem. Here we must again revert to the Della Crusca. One of the characteristics of those childish persons was the restless interest which they sum- moned the public to take in everything belonging to their own triviality. If Mrs. Robinson's dog had a bad night's repose it was duly announced to the world. . . . All within their enchanted ring was perfection . . . all beyond was delivered over to  ## p. 26 (#38) ############################################## 26 THE AUTHOR. the empire of Dulness and Demogorgon. The New School are here the humble imitators of those original arbiters of human fame. Mr. P. B. Shelley having been the person appointed by the Pisan Triumvirate to canonise the name of poor Keats, “nipt in the bud,” as he loudly tells us, has produced an Elegy, in which he weeps “after the manner of Moschus for Bion.” Locke says that the most dissolute liar cannot lie more than once in every three sentences. Folly is more engrossing; for we could prove, from the present Elegy, that it is possible to write two sen- tences of pure nonsense out of every three. A more faithful calculation would bring us to ninety- nine out of every hundred, or, as the present Con- sists of only fifty-five stanzas, leaving about five readable lines in the entire. . . . Mr. Shelley and his tribe have been panegyrised in their turn for power of language, and the man of “Tabletalk” swears by all the gods he owns that he has a great command of words, to which the most eloquent effusions of the Five Courts are occasionally inferior. But any man may have the command of every word in the vocabulary if he will fling them like pebbles from a sack; and even in the most fortuitous flinging they will sometimes fall in pleasing though useless forms. This art of the modern Della Crusca is thus to eject every epithet that he can con- glomerate in his piracy through the lexicon, and throw them out to settle as they will. He follows his own rhymes, and shapes his subject to the close of the measure. He is a glutton of all manner of colours, and flowers, and smells, and tastes, and crowds his verse with scarlet, and blue, and yellow, and green ; extracts tears from everything, and makes moss and mud hold regular conversations with him. “A goosepye talks,” it does more, it thinks, and has its peculiar sensibilities . . . it smiles and weeps, raves to the stars, and is a listener to the western wind, as fond as the author himself. On these principles a hundred or a hundred thousand verses might be made equal to the best in Adonais without taking the pen off the paper. Percy Bysshe has figured as a sentimentalist before, and we can quote largely without putting him to the blush by praise. What follows illustrates his power over the language of passion. In the Cenci Beatrice is condemned to die for parricide . . . a situation that, in a true poet, might awaken a noble succession of distressful thought. The mingling of remorse, natural affection, woman's horror of murder, and alternate melancholy and fear at the prospect of the grave, in Percy Bysshe worked up only this frigid rant :— “How comes this hair undone 7 Its wandering strings must be what blinds me so, And yet I tied it fast ! / i - x - >k × $ x - 2 . ; . The sunshine on the floor is black / The air Is changed to vapours, such as the dead breathe In charnel pits Poh I am choaked There creeps A clinging black, contaminating mist, About me—'tis substantial heavy, thick. I cannot pluck it from me, for it glues My fingers and my limbs to one another, And eats into my Sinews, and dissolves My flesh to a pollution,” etc., etc. So much for the history of “Glue,” and so much easier it is to rake together the vulgar vocabulary of rottenness and reptilism than to paint the work- ings of the mind. This raving is such as perhaps no excess of madness ever raved, except in the imagination of a Cockney, determined to be as mad as possible and opulent in his recollections of the shambles. . . . And it is to this dreary non- sense that is to be attached the name of poetry Yet on this passage the whole lauding of his fellow- Cockneys has been lavished. But Percy Bysshe feels his hopelessness of poetic reputation, and therefore lifts himself on the stilts of blasphemy. He is the Only verseman of the day who has dared in a Christian country to work out for himself the character of direct Atheism In his present poem (Adonais) he talks with impious folly of “the envious wrath of man or God l’”. Of a “Branded and ensanguined brow, Which was like Cain's, or CHRIST’s.” Offences like these naturally come before a more effective tribunal than that of criticism. We have heard it mentioned as the only apology for the predominant irreligion and nonsense of this person's works, that his understanding is unsettled. But in his preface there is none of the exuberance of insanity; there is a great deal of folly and a great deal of bitterness, but nothing of the wilder- ness of his poetic fustian. The Bombastes Furioso of these stanzas cools into sneering in the preface ; and his language against the death-dealing Quarterly Review, which has made such havoc in the empire. of Cockaigne, is merely malignant, mean, and peewishly personal. . . . - - The seasons and a whole hosts of personages, ideal and otherwise, come to lament over Adonais. They act in the following manner:— “Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down Her kindling buds. . . . To Phoebus was not Hyacinth so dear, Nor to himself Narcissus, as to both, Thou, Adonais; wan they stand, and sere, Amid the drooping comrades of their youth, With dew all turned to tears, odour to sighing ruth.” Death makes, as becomes him, a great figure in this “Lament,” but in rather curious operations. He is alternately a person, a thing, nothing, etc. He is “The coming bulk of Death,” then “Death feeds on the mute voice.” “Kingly Death keeps his pale court.”  ## p. 27 (#39) ############################################## TRIES A UTFIOR. 27 “The shadow of white Death.” “Death blushed to annihilation / " . . . . this wild waste of words is entirely beyond our comprehension. Adonais has been published by the author in Italy, the fitting soil for the poem, sent over to his honoured correspondents throughout the realm of Cockaigne, with a delightful mysteriousness worthy of the dignity of the subject and the writer. (Weekly Entertainer, 1822.) a – A- v-u- FRENCH NoveLISTS OF T0-DAY." —e-º-º- -- BOOK on French novelists of the present day should appeal alike to those who know their works and to those who do not. The former Jook for appreciative criticism, the latter desire a stimulus to study. To a limited extent these demands have been fulfilled. Yet, on laying down the book it is doubtful if either class will be much enlightened as to the wonderful charm and delicacy of French authors, or enriched by fresh insight into the characters of men whose thoughts are not naturally in touch with English minds. M. Anatole France has fared best. He stands before us as a living man, not a lay figure. His work is summed up concisely, the extracts are well chosen, and in the minds of those who have not read his novels will excite interest and a desire for more. It is unfortunate that authors such as Bourget and Loti are not treated in the same manner, and that so much space has been lavished on Pierre de Coulevain of secondary rank. The writer seems to be more in sympathy with this quasi Frenchwoman, whilst acknowledging that her books have hardly the vogue in France that they enjoy elsewhere. After forty pages devoted to setting forth the merits of her some- what disjointed writings, it is disappointing to find Loti disposed of in twenty, which deal chiefly with his egoism and weakness. Some asser- tions at the very end might lead the reader to send for a copy of “Pécheurs d’Islande,” but raise a doubt whether his other masterpiece “Mon Frère Yves,” were worth the trouble of perusing. A few extracts from these books would give a far clearer idea of their power and mysterious charm than the attempt to explain his conception of the Ocean. Both Loti and Bourget are placed before us in a repellent light, and the commendation of their * “French Novelists of To-day,” by Winifred Stephens. Published by John Lane. 6s. met. books is not convincing. The touch which makes one realise their great charm is lacking. Again, the description of Barrès's books leaves us with an impression first, that his early work is full of childish egoism, and his later writings spoilt by the intrusion of politics; and secondly, that this from an artistic point of view is detrimental and tends to narrow the interest. Surely this is not the impression the author intended to convey. If it is true, then, it seems a mistake to select him as a typical French writer when others with better claims have been passed OWer. - It is also open to question why Rod, a Swiss, many of whose books deal with his native land, should have so much space allotted to him. It is true he writes in French, but we are not convinced by this book at any rate—that he represents a phase of French thought. Even his own avowal “Paris demeure ma ville d'élection ” does not strike us so forcibly as the fact that he was born a Swiss and began life as a Calvinist. Parisian he certainly is not, though he may have tried loyally to assimilate the atmosphere. To sum up, this book shows insight and a certain adroitness in cataloguing and describing the con- tents of the works in question. For purposes of reference it will be found most useful, but in other respects it falls short of the demands made on it. Towards the end it is full of vague generalities and stock phrases which neither do justice to the Works under discussion nor arouse a desire to read them and judge independently. As if the writer had wearied of the task, the criticism becomes tame and lacks suggestiveness. 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We are nothing if not a brotherhood, and why should we, to use Sir Walter Besant's words, pass round the hat to outsiders when we are capable of helping ourselves. I cannot see, however, why a reserve fund of more than £5,000 should be required. Supposing the roll of members to be kept up, £500 a year would be available for distribution (when once the reserve of £5,000 had been reached) out of members’ subscriptions—surely a more than ample sum for the needs of those members whose incomes are very small. Might it not be possible eventually to extend help in cases of great distress through Sudden accident, or disease that must soon end fatally, if it were the husband who was stricken down; even though he should not have attained the age of sixty 2 Should the number of members fall off, the number of those needing pensions would be reduced in direct proportion. I suppose no actuary would give the average of life after the age of sixty as more than fifteen years, there- fore, as time goes on there will always be pensions falling in to increase the sum of £500 a year, the interest of the existing £5,000—another £150 at least. Mr. Scoon advocates a pension of £25 a year. Could he not extend it to £26, ten shillings a week, so as to place an unfortunate author on a level with Giles and Hodge, should the Old Age Bill pass 2 Could anyone desire more ? AUGUSTA HARCOURT ROE. “ C. K. S.” SIR,-“C. K. S.’ ” views on literary ethics as announced to the world in the case of Humphreys v. Thomson will not be endorsed by many of the society, who will probably be more inclined to adopt the views of the judge and jury, that literary work should not be at the mercy of re-hash at the hands of irresponsible editors. And now that the case is not to proceed further it is permitted for one to say so. But the many lowers of Fitzgerald must have squirmed at so hideous a misquotation as fell from the lips of the great littérateur during the progress of the case, unless the reporters have maligned him ; and now that it has again appeared in your columns it should be gibbetted without mercy. “Ah, take the cash in hand, and let the credit go,” “C. K. S.” was reported to have said, which does not so correctly interpret his attitude towards literary work as what Fitzgerald really wrote: “Ah, take the cash in hand, and waive the rest,” and does not give the same awful shock to all lovers of OMAR. WANTED, AN AUTHORs' CLUB. 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