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Nov. 30,
Nov. 30,
Penny, The Rev. Frank
Westell, W.
&
Coolidge, The Rev. W.
Tennant, Lady Pamela
&
Wingfield,
Northcote, The Rev. H.
Dexter, Walter
Oliver, Miss Selwyn
Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila
Bent, Mrs. Theodore
Atkins, Miss Margaret
e
Nov.
Nov. 30,
Granville, Charles
&
Henoch, Miss Emily
Simes, Miss
Kathleen
C.
1908.
&
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Allen, Mrs. Grant
Hole, W.
A.
Nov.
Now.
ſº
16, Carolin, Mrs.
28, Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude
Aug. 21, Beckett, Arthur W.
.
Sept. 28, Whitworth Wynne" .
Oct. 23, Woolf, Miss Bella Sidney
e
Oct. 31, Robinson, J. R.
.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
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Nov.
Nov.
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Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Wacher, Francis
F.
Nov.
9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7,
July
July
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25,
25,
25,
25,
25,
25,
26,
27,
27,
27,
27,
27,
28,
28,
28,
30,
30,
4, 4, 4, 4, 1, 1,
Donations,
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
Nov.
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Jan. 12, Durand, Ralph
.
wº
Jan. 12, Laing, Mrs. .
Jan. 14, Banks, Mrs. M. M.
Jan. 14, Steel, Richard
Jan. 16, Garnett, Edward .
Jan. 16, Fenn, Frederick
Jan. 18, Hering, Henry A.
Jan. 18, Fox, Archibald, D.
gº
&
Jan. 31, Anon. .
Jan. 31, Kelly, W. P.
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Jan. 31, Cotesworth, Miss .
Feb. 1, Phillipps-Wolley, Clive
Feb. 1, Dawson, Warrington
Feb. 4, Willard, Mrs. E. S.
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total election for the current year to forty-five.
The committee decided that in case there were
The joint sub-committee
mentioned
the
February issue
The Author has now been formed.
Macgillivray will
Sir Alfred Bateman and Mr.
represent the Society
Authors; Mr. Henry
Clayton and Mr. Reginald Smith will act for the
J.
February meeting of the committee of
management was held at the offices of the
Society on the 1st of last month.
Twelve
members and associates were elected.
Their names
to
HE
The sub-committee appointed
discuss the
question
cheap books stated that they were
unable,
yet,
draft
final report,
the matter
was one
serious interest, and they desired
have the views
the booksellers
the subject.
The matter was adjourned
the next meeting.
of
º-º-º
complaint,
legal
had good ground
held
status, the committee decided
publish
letter
The Author setting forth the facts, subject
the
approval
the society's solicitors,
should the
adopt the suggestion.
member aggrieved desire
infringement
curious case
the rights
Sweden,
an author
was decided
obtain
the opinion
Swedish lawyer
the author's
rights under the laws
that country.
The com
mittee then considered whether
not they should
support
appeal from
county
artist
court judgment which had been given against
picture postcard.
him
the matter
After
full consideration of all the circumstances the
committee came
the conclusion that they could
not do so, but would furnish him with the advice
the society s solicitors.
The secretary laid
before the committee the costs of the Indian
lawyer
the case which the society had been forced
abandon
the beginning
last year, and the
committee ordered that the balance due should be
paid forthwith.
of
NOTES.
London Press. Another case respecting
author's
rights was considered
but as, although the author
to
COMMITTEE
was laid before the society
the meeting
January, and which the committee had decided
take up, was reconsidered owing
the fact that
the author declined
take legal action, while
suggesting another course for the committee's con
sideration.
The committee resolved
forward
letter dealing with the matter
the editors
the
of
<&-*
w-v-w *
relating
premature
forthcoming plays, which
case
of
The
member concerned.
publication
the plots
of
held over to the April issue.
total
amount
of annual subscriptions
received and promised since the issue of the
circular amounts to £71. The total amount of
donations to £105.
unavoidably
was an important case of dramatic copyright.
The committee decided to place
the papers
leading copyright lawyer and,
before
counsel
considered
there was
reasonable
chance
of
success,
take the matter up
behalf
the
to
12,
12,
12,
14,
16,
16,
cases
an
Tanner, James T. .
Tighe, Henry
Aitken, Robert
Bolton, Miss Anna
Williamson, W. H.
Furze, Miss Bessie
º
Shirley, Arthur
18,
&
Austin Clare " .
22, Williamson, Mrs. C. N.
22, Williamson, C. N.
Jan. 23, Brown, R. Grant .
Jan. 28, Raphael, Mrs. M. .
&
º
1
Feb. 4, Wilson, Miss Theodore Wilson
Feb. 4, Cousland, W. M.
º
Feb. 4, Hardy, Thomas
Feb. 5, Bremner, Robert L.
Feb. 6, Todhunter, John
Feb. 6, Pettigrew, W. F.
Feb. 8, Russell, G. H.
s
Feb. 8, Walker, Capt. J. H.
Feb. 8, Dutton, Miss Annie
Feb. 8, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred
Feb. 11, Ainslie, Miss
e
Feb. 11, Steward, Miss E. M.
Feb. 11, Rumble, Mrs.
tº
Feb. 15, Beveridge, A. S. .
º
Feb. 16, Toplis, Miss Grace
The names of those subscribers and donors which
are not included in the lists printed above are
9,
.
which it might be necessary to
place in the hands of the solicitors of the Society,
or which already in the hands of the solicitors
needed reconsideration, were dealt with.
The first
Various
a
º
Votes.
in
i
Sir
as
©
8, Omond, T. S.
8, Paternoster, G. Sidney
9, Stockley, Mrs.
l
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In
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Cullen, H. N.
&
º
6, Lyall, The Right
Hon.
Alfred, P.C., etc.
.
Jan. 7, Underdown, Miss Emily
6,
more than
the eligible number
of candidates
for the committee, the date for the return of the
voting papers should be March 15, and they also
took steps to appoint scrutineers
to count the
in
4, Abercrombie, Lascelles
5, Bradgate, Mrs.
6, Leach, Henry
of
S
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
of
TISIES
to
140
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at
a
of
at
be
at
a
of
18.
thousand
Words.
II.
Mr. Pinero
Authors Society.
on
a
of
of
of
2.
on
of
The second meeting
the Dramatic Sub-Com
Tuesday, February
mittee was held
After the minutes
the last meeting had been
read and signed the question
the new Dramatic
Sub-Committee, adjourned from the former meeting,
was discussed, and
committee
twelve mem
bers were chosen from the nominees put forward
of
behalf
the new Dramatic
was decided
ask Mr.
Bernard Shaw
write
Mr. Pinero about the
report
matter and
the next meeting the
arrangements which had been made.
to
to
to
facts of the case to the Right Hon. James
and to ask him whether he could in
typewriting rates
It
of the new Dramatic Sub-Com
mittee was adjourned to the next meeting, when the
names of the nominees will be finally settled. The
discussion of the Censorship Bill was also adjourned.
The secretary reported the action taken by the
Committee of Management in the dramatic cases
which had been taken up by the Society.
He read
the opinion of the American lawyers, and reported
that owing to the importance which the Com
mittee of Management attached to the case they
had concluded to take a further opinion.
To
obtain this it had been decided to communicate
the
at
of
the final
to
the committee
to
draft.
The question
was
adjourned
to the next
regretted
the
absence
Shaw, it was
Bernard
to
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the chairman.
The substance of the Dramatic Pamphlet
is
THE first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com
mittee held in 1909 took place on January 25, at
the offices of the society.
It was impossible to
hold the meeting earlier owing to the absence of
again
considered, and
Owing
meeting.
to
through
illness of Mr.
impossible to lay before
member
the society, who desires
have his scenario registered must send
the
secretary
the society two typewritten copies on
foolscap with
registration
fee
2s. 6d.
The
scenarios will be checked
the offices of the
society.
One will
retained and locked
the registration
box
the society, the other
stamped with the society's stamp, dated, and
returned
the author.
The original copy that
registered will not pass out
the society's
keeping, but copies will
made
the request
the author who files the scenario,
the usual
in
I.
The committee decided the details for the regis
scenarios
the office. Any dramatic
tration
author,
of
NOTES.
SCENARIOS.
OF
of
SUB-COMMITTEE
REGISTRATION
by
DRAMATIC
Another important dramatic case was con
sidered, and after discussion the committee recom
Management
mended the Committee
take up
the matter
behalf
the member concerned,
great importance.
was one
The matter will
put forward.
accordingly
it
The consideration of the music publishers' agree
ments, owing to the pressure of business, was
adjourned till the next meeting ; it will then be
proposed to form a small sub-committee.
The
committee sanctioned the expenditure of a further
sum of money towards the furnishing of the office,
in order that the secretary might be able to deal
more expeditiously
with the increased business
under his charge.
Lastly, the committee passed a vote of sympathy
and condolence with Mrs. A. W. A. Beckett on the
death of her husband, who had been for so long a
member of the committee and vice-chairman of the
Society.
The secretary was instructed to com
municate the vote to Mrs. ā, Beckett.
Bryce,
in
to
COUITSé.
of
lation.
The date of the Annual Dinner has been fixed
for Thursday, April 29, at the Criterion Restaurant.
Full particulars will be sent to the members in due
its
diately to consider the action which should be
adopted in order to bring forward copyright legis
any way advise the Society as to
best course.
This step was fully reported
the Committee
Notes
the February issue
The Author.
The
Dramatic Committee expressed approval
what
had been done, and hoped that the Committee
Management would not allow the case
pass
unchallenged.
The secretary reported that
had
communicated with the member concerned as
the step the Committee had taken, and had asked
keep the society informed
him
the course
the case.
urgent nature the
Another case which owing
Management had been bound
Committee
take
up
once without consulting the Dramatic Sub
Committee, was reported
the secretary, who
read the draft
letter which
was proposed
circulate
the papers.
The letter was passed
with few corrections and will be laid before the
Management
Committee
due course.
to
Copyright Association; and Mr. W. A. Elkin and
Mr. William Boosey will represent the Music Pub
lishers' Association; while the Publishers' Associa
tion will be represented by Mr. John Murray and
IMr. Edward Bell. A meeting will be held imme
141
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TISIES
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February Elections.
Mackie
Pitt
at of
in
be
be
of
º
1,
.
S.W.
H
or
Kathleen
Miss
Green,
Harry
Devon.
11, Cathcart Studios,
33, Redcliffe Road,
S.W.
Mack, Miss Margaret
Quin, Henfield,
M. E. R.
Möller, Fräulein Clara
Llandreiter
Sussex.
.
Willson, W. Llewis
in
recording the elections
the
Fagan's
Author,
James
Mr.
Z'he
issue
last
We apologize for the mistake,
name was misspelt.
make this correction.
and desire
We regret that,
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WHILE
possible, they have
exhaustive
this list
the fact
attaining this object owing
Some difficulty
the office
the books mentioned are not sent
that many
rely
necessary
consequence,
the members.
literary and
largely upon lists
books which appear
hoped, however, that members will
other papers.
this list and, by sending
CO-Operate
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substantially
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particulars
their works, help
aCCUllrate.
ART.
E.
of
to
to
of
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to
is
if
mittee Notes.
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF
THE SOCIETY.
A
in
There have
hand.
the other has only just come
The accounts have
been two claims for accounts.
been rendered by the publisher and forwarded
Lastly there have been five claims for
the author.
money.
these has been
recovery
One
the
settled, one
the United States must necessarily
hand, and the
take time, two are only just
remaining case will most probably have
answer
the Society's solicitors,
transferred
the secretary s letters.
has been received
Of the cases left over from the former month
The matter
only one
still outstanding.
actual legal
difficult one and the author has
long
claim, and
the publisher refuses
done.
answer the letters nothing can
possible
close
will
hoped, however, that
the matter shortly.
the
the hands
Three cases have been placed
take action
society s solicitors with instructions
the
necessary.
The remaining work
court
the Com
solicitors hands has been mentioned
in
Littlehampton.
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.
H.
to
of
Trotēre,
50, Willoughby Road,
Hampstead, N.W.
88, The Drive Man
sions, Fulham, S.W.
B.
to
is
already, the MSS. having been returned and sent
In one case the editor seems to have
the authors.
the case
mislaid the MSS., but the legal position
practically impossible
take action
has made
Of the two remaining cases, one
for recovery.
settle, and
America and will take some time
i.M.
in
of
It
of
of
to
of
to
thirteen
Pollock, John
Titterton, W.
of
in
February brought
the society.
offices
new
these
Six
the
cases
satisfactory
MSS.
the recovery
referred
to announce that three of them have been settled
THE month
str,
Schwerin,
to
Cases.
swell House,
King bridge, -
Conyngham.
Irvine,
House,
Hampton Court,
(Winifred Graham).
s
to to
of
It
a
Cory, Mrs. Theodore
.
to
a
of
so
be
º-º-º
Gardens,
E.C.
The White
of
next meeting.
Temple
26,
Edin
Street,
burgh.
Cannan, Gilbert
J.
of
of
in
to
of
of
Owing
society.
some fresh information which
strong discussion arose over
had been obtained
Management
had
The Committee
one case.
go before
decided that all the papers were
held
King's Counsel and conference was
satisfactory
order that the society might have
was arranged that one
independent advice.
present
the committee should
the members
might
society
s
advisers
the
that
the conference
the new
fully informed and have the benefit
The consideration
facts connected with the case.
the Dramatic Pamphlet was adjourned till the
Bain,
Miss
c/o
.
Brown, Miss
its
The discussion of the Censorship Bill, adjourned
from the former meeting, was again raised, and the
After
Bill was placed before the committee.
terms, the committee expressed
consideration of
its objects.
their approval
The secretary reported the action the Committee
respect
two cases
Management had taken
the
members
involving the dramatic rights
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Messrs.
.
an
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be
to
Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton s new romance
published immediately
Within Four Walls,
Mr. John Milne, derives its source from
little
injustice perpetrated
known act
innocent
woman shortly after the assassination
Henri IV.
plot
She had discovered
kill the King, which
was fixed for the identical day when
was slain by
Ravaillac, and was anticipated
him.
Her
valiant denunciation
the authors
this plot, who
were
the highest rank, led
her incarceration
distant fortress, and round this Mr. Bloundelle
Burton's story
built. Writers
somewhat later
period than her own have hinted that her ad
ventures only began after the sentence was passed
her, and those adventures furnish the motif
the novel.
of
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to
a
to
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of
a
of
is
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on
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of
it.
to on
a
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Count Lutzow has now completed his extensive
work entitled The Life and Times of Master John
of
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&
R.
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E.
A.
by
by
America, where
returned from another visit
was engaged, largely
the Middle West,
collecting material for stories
included
Events,
Survivors' Tales
Great
series
which has now entered upon the fifth year
publication
the Royal Magazine.
More than
fifty
these articles
have been published,
number which
said
be without
record for
such
series.
by
a
in it
by
is
an
businesslike information,
avoid theory, and to:
deal
sound facts, and
invites the co-operation
and support
his readers
this end.
Messrs. Cassell and Company, Limited, are issuing
new novel
Walter Wood, entitled The Secret
Paper.
This
the third
four novels which
Mr. Wood has written for Messrs. Cassell for serial
and volume publication.
Mr. Wood recently
a
a
is
of
on
of
of
of
M.A., M.D.,
short
résumé
the more
important conditions necessary for
healthy life.
The question
considered
from the two-fold
individuals, and (b) that
aspect, (a) that
put forth
communities.
The book
sketch
important
subject, and the writers have
endeavoured
throw some additional light
the
very difficult questions intimately related
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall,
Co. are the London
publishers, while Messrs. John Wright
Sons,. Ltd.,
are the publishers
Bristol.
Mr. Joseph Holbrooke gave
vocal and piano
January 29.
Steinway Hall
forte recital
The programme included Four Rhapsodie Etudes
Miss Lydia Stage, variations
Three Blind
Mice,
Henry
Bird and Joseph Holbrooke,
and songs
Miss Grainger Kerr, Mr. Reginald
Davidson, and Miss Perceval Allen.
Miss
Keeton gave
lecture
the
Russian fabulist Kryloff,
the Lyceum Club,
Walter Raleigh.
The Public Schools Year Book for 1909 con
Preparatory
Schools, new
tains tabulated lists
articles
the Universities, giving full details
Universities other than Oxford and Cambridge.
give accurate
The aim
the editor has been
in
an
of
of
at
A
to
Miss Keeton will give few more translations
the
next Havonic Circle
March 11, when Madame
Kipman will also sing The Quartet, and several
Kryloff for soprano
others
Rubinstein's settings
voice and pianoforte.
We have received from the Oxford University
reprint
Press
The Heroine
Eaton
Stannard Barrett, with
introduction
Prof.
on
a
to
of
&
Introductory
town; and records the
three hundred miles from
experiences
the Little Missus, who joins her
husband, and, unwelcomed
first
the stockmen,
finally wins their respect. Messrs. Hutchinson
Co. are the publishers.
new club for women has recently been estab
40, Sackville Street, Piccadilly.
lished
called the Salon, and has for its main object the
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times.
This
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means
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Monthly
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conversaziones are also to be held and will be
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some
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the
application
day. Particulars
fees may
had
the Secretary.
Health, Morals and Longevity,
George
Gresswell, M.A., L.R.C.P., and Albert Gresswell,
of
of
a
in in
be
by
a
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large
Russian.
the Never Never, by Mrs. Aeneas
Gunn, author
The Little Black Princess,
presentation
life
one
the great cattle runs
We
and the Cork, and
The Trigamist.
percentage
the audience present was
The Cat
Messrs. James Clarke
Co. and the Kingsgate
Press have published the poems
Mr. Mackenzie
Bell. The volume contains
Dedication
Mr.
Watts Dunton, and
a
is
of
ii.
:
L.
by
F.
To Russians young and old Kryloff
proverb.
household word and
Miss Keeton
read
number
her own translations
the most
popular
his fables, amongst them
The Pig,
of
is
February
Romance.
Theodore
Essay.
11.
by Major-General Sir Norman Stewart,
Bart., C.B., and volume
the Irish Library,
The Fenian Movement
The Story
the
Crilly.
Manchester Martyrs,
Miss Theodora Wilson-Wilson's story By Black
Tarn Edge, which has been running serially
the
published
Mid-Cumberland Herald, will
the
spring
Messrs. Hutchinson
Co.
The same
represented
story
writer
the March issue
Chambers's Journal, under the title A Yarlside
of
and China,
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of
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a
in
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It
to
of
at
to
to
in
a a
at
to
in
to
of
of
inimitable.
Another sudden
in to
to
a
a
in
at
in
it
of
is
it
death was that
Catulle
Mendès, who
believed fell from the railway
getting out
carriage
the train before
had
stopped.
Catulle Mendès was born
1843
1860, and pub
Bordeaux
He came
Paris
lished his first poetry
1862.
About the same
time
was condemned
month's imprison
twenty pounds for the publica
ment and
fine
tion
an article
review.
In 1866 he married
of
Hooper
Coquelin
cadet was suffering
from
nervous
disease, and was being attended
private
hospital.
His devotion
his brother was such
only lived three days after being
that
formed
the latter's death.
He had followed
Paris, and they had been devoted
his brother
Coquelin cadet had also had enormous
each other.
success, and his rendering
monologues was
to
-
has written, and Mr.
Effingham Wilson has published, a pamphlet
explaining the German State Insurance System for
providing invalid and old age pensions and assist
ance in case of temporary illness and of accidents
Occurring in the course of employment.
Motor Tours in Yorkshire, by Mrs. Rodolph
Stawell, is a companion volume to the same writer's
Motor Tours in Wales.
Messrs. Hodder and
Stoughton are the publishers of the volume, which
is intended for the passenger rather than the driver.
It is written for those who wish to know before
hand where they will find the most beautiful places,
and contains photographs, a map of the route, and
an index.
Mr. E. Grant
Maison des Comédiens for
their old age and, while studying his
ºróle
Rostand s new play, Chantecler,
had
gone
this house
rest.
was here that
died suddenly,
the grief and dismay, not only
large.
his compatriots but
the world
artistes
in
Getting
Married,
and
Prefaces from Mr. Shaw's
his fame from
been world-wide.
He had founded
a
two
the Comédie-Française.
For
remained
the Français, and
comedian, has
the very first,
he
Dilemma"
with
was playing
twenty-six years
of
Doctor's
together
pen.
won his laurels.
the biography
his
famous ancestor, the Marquis Joseph-Henri Costa
Beauregard.
Within three weeks, too, France has lost Ernest
Reyer, the two Coquelins, and Catulle Mendès.
Boulogne
Coquelin ainé was born
1841
sur-Mer. After hearing Rachel
Adrienne
Lecouvreur,
study
came
Paris
the
age
Conservatoire.
He was eighteen years
1860,
nineteen,
that time, and
the age
he
present work will be followed by other
poems dealing with the House of Stewart and the
Vicissitudes through which it has passed.
Messrs. Constable & Co. have also on sale, in one
Volume, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's two plays,
The
The
comparatively
a
French Academy
tière, Sully-Prudhomme,
François Coppée, and
Victorien Sardou. The death
the Marquis Costa
Beauregard
leaves another fauteuil vacant.
Savoy
The late Academician was born
1835.
War, and whilst
was during the Franco-German
captivity, that M. Costa
Beauregard was
Savoy
elected
its representative
the
National Assembly.
Later on, tempted by his own family archives,
he commenced that series of historical
works for
which
was elected
the French Academy.
Un homme d'autrefois
the book with which
of
are described.
ITHIN,
7
short time the
has lost nine of
most prominent members.
Hérédia was
Berthelot,
the first
this list, and was followed
Ludovic Halévy, André Theuriet, Ferdinand Brune
W
in
We have received from Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co.
list of their recent publications, which includes
New Things and Old in Saint Thomas Aquinas,
edited by Mr. H. C. O Neill; and
The History
of Modern Painting, by Richard Muther.
Mr. G. P. R. James's historical novel Richelieu
will be published by Messrs. Dent in Everyman's
Library '' early this month, with an introduction
by Mr. Rudolf Dircks.
Railway Rates : The Method of Calculating
Equitable Rates and Charges for Merchandise
Railways,
Joseph
by
carried
on
the
late
Horrocks, has been published by Messrs. Swan
Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd.
The work is divided
into three parts :
Liabilities,
I. Definitions
of Services,
and
Obligations.
II. The Method Described.
III. The Method Illustrated by Examples.
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's play, The Dancing
Girl, was revived at His Majesty's Theatre on
February 16, with a new last act.
The caste
included Miss Alice Crawford, Mr. Louis Calvert,
and Mr. Vane Tempest.
Among Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co.'s
announcements
we notice Mr. Douglas Ainslie s
Prelude to his Cycle of Poems entitled The Song
of the Stewarts.
The Prelude consists of a series
of brief poems in various metres, dealing with the
days before the Lord High Stewart of Scotland
mounted the throne, in the person of Robert II.,
grandson
of Robert Bruce.
The Battles
of
Falkirk and Bannockburn, the strange wooing of
the father of Robert Buis, and many other events
a
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Masson
Pape
article
Gabriel
l'avenir,
and
Le Dépeuplement
de
by
on
M. Savarit
Le
by
an
also
Diplomatie
is
La
Frederic
on
de
exceptionally
and
Paris, Judith Gautier continues
her Le Collier des jours,
Mathilde Serao and Claude
There
by
Hanotaux
another one
de
France.
C.
l'Empereur.
d'Artiste,
Th. Bentzon
Revue hebdomadaire
interesting
article
on
the
an
In
Writes
at
at
is
P.
de
Lettres
is
the new play
Alfred
the Renaissance.
Le
Lis,
MM.
Wolff and Gaston Leroux,
being played
the Vaudeville, and La Tragédie
royale,
Bouhelier,
M. Saint Georges
the
Odéon.
ALYS HALLARD.
L Oiseau blessé
Capus now being given
at
de
(Plon).
Jeunesse
Italica" (Perrin).
"
''
Jeanne d'Arc" (Calmann Lévy).
Le Fruit Défendu (Calmann Lévy).
L Affaire Nell (Calmann Lévy).
Un Mariage américain" (Ollendorff).
Sur les Deux Rives (Calmann Lévy).
Notre Compagne
(Lemerre).
Giboulées (G. Arrault).
Carriére d Artiste (Hachette),
XIII.
w
*
is
-ºn
a
it
de a
of
of
to
the Revue
Carrière
This
signed
the Troisièmerang
and there are serials
Farrère.
A
X.
of
in It
de
good translation,
Fliche.
to
of
is
It
of
Among translations:
Mrs. Humphry Ward.
a
its
Among books of memoir and historical works
by
are the following :- Lettres
de Jeunesse,
Eugene Fromentin, with bibliography and notes
by Pierre Blanchon ;
Le Maréchal Canrobert
( Souvenirs d un Siècle ), by Germain Bapst.
Italica, by Joseph l'Hôpital, is a work of
impressions and souvenirs in which the author
gives us some excellent pictures of Milan, Venice,
Bologna, and Florence.
A revised and corrected edition of Anatole
France's
Jeanne d Arc
is announced.
Le Fruit Défendu, by Henry Wignemal, takes
us away from France, as the scene is placed in
Italy.
The author appears to know this country
family
people well.
and
He introduces
belonging
the old nobility and describes the
difference between the people
former days and
to-day.
He describes the death
Leo
passionate love
and the election
Pius
Altogether
story runs through the volume.
strong novel, with powerful interest from the first
page
the last.
Madame
Juliette Adam's sixth volume
of
Mémoires
has appeared.
takes
the
May, 1873, and May, 1877,
period
between
and
entitled
Nos Amitiés politiques avant
l'abandon
revanche.
There are many
letters from Gambetta
this volume.
Montesquiou
Comte Robert
has published
another
volume
his prose essays, entitled
Assemblée de Notables.
poems
the volume, and one
the
certainly
One
entitled
beautiful
the
Deuil, composed after the death
her beloved
grandmother.
There are several others, too, full
promise.
Their great charm
their absolute
simplicity and sincerity.
by
by Léon de Tinseau, a
Deux Rives,
story of a young French nobleman who finds a
second home in Canada ;
Notre Compagne, by
Marcel Prévost, a new illustrated edition of this
author's novel.
les
exquisite
most
by
Sur
with great pleasure that we see the volume
Giboulées, signed
entitled
Alice
pity
Lardin
Musset.
would indeed
the name
die out
France.
Alfred
Musset's
sister died rather more than three years ago.
Her
granddaughter, the great-niece
the poet, has just
published her first book
verse.
There are some
poetry
of
from
whom he was later on
From this time forth until his death
he wrote a quantity of short stories, novels, poems
and plays.
For the last twelve years Catulle
Mendès was also theatrical critic to Le Journal.
Many were the duels which he fought, among
others with Lugné-Poé and George Wanor.
by Louis Estang,
L Affaire Nell,
is an
interesting psychological study of characters which
are very true to life.
Each person is well studied
and the story itself well told.
A wealthy young
widow arrives in Paris almost unknown and, through
no fault of her own, finds herself involved in a law
suit.
She is very soon surrounded by a little crowd
of parasites who are attracted by her wealth.
The
chief interest of the book is the study of this young
provincial woman, her development and evolution.
The other characters are also developed in a
masterly way, and the habits and customs of a
certain set of society are admirably depicted.
Among other new novels are the following:
by Georges Ohmet ;
Une Mariage américain,
In
Gautier,
la
Judith
divorced.
147
to
in
by
a
just received from Madrid
striking
little book called La Solidaridad Social,
Victoriano Garcia Marti, whose addresses
The Athenæum have been listened
with atten
tion
the members.
The author shows his
says: To
zeal for suffering humanity when
and
all he
the disabled,
to
the poor,
to
by
of de
in
la
de
is
NOTES.
HAVE
I
in
It
to
SPANISH
those who
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or
by
of
of
is
on
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he
in
of
on
an
in
to
so
on
of
to
a
a
a
on
this
A
Co.
be
v.
WIVIANA
SKETCH.
to
plaintiff
in
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BISHOP
or
case
dancing
&
as
as
by
of
of
on
on
a
of
claimed
the
scena
sketch entitled
My Gollywog, and sued Miss Florence
Coles, who carries
Co.,
business
Viviana
alleged infringements
for damages
account
his performing right.
The plaintiff also claimed
passing off, alleging that the
damages for
her,
defendant represented the sketch performed
being the plaintiff s
entitled
The Toy Shop,
sketch.
author
ºr
a
of
he
...
it
a
of
he
The plaintiff stated that
had originated
the
having
the gollywog dance, and
rod
with hook upon
from which
was suspended
the middle.
The sketch opened with children
idea
by
it
of
2,
on
a
on
the
ire
of
of
on
of of
la
de
PERFORMING
of
an
on
on
a
of
After some scientific remarks
on
of
a
at
RACHEL CHALLICE.
º
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la
byit
a
:
of
of
of
all of
Heredity.
in
be
in
of of
to
heof
its
by
of
on
of of
to
hardly commenced
eloquent speech,
which
showed himself opposed
debated administra
tive reform, when
Solidarist
Barcelona inter
high
rupted the orator, and passion rose
both
opinion that the ex-Prime Minister had
sides
forego the rest
his speech from emotion.
Margall has just published
Señor
powerful
article paper called
Las Manifesta
ciones Regionalistas, and another one
El
Separatismo.
&
an
by
by
of
la
on
a
as
the authors which threw fresh light
the sub
Thus, the rising
May
jects.
the people
the defence
the Artillery Park, the organisation
the Spanish troops against Napoleon, etc., were
vividly and logically brought forward, and the
aid
the English was given
fair tribute.
The Academy
Medicine has recently in
augurated its work for 1909, and Don Baldomero
Gonzalez
Alvarez gave
clever discourse
his
16,
The confusion reigning
the subject
Soli
darity and Separatism produces great disorder
the Congress.
The liberal leader Moret had
of a
of
of
XIII.
January
Riva, the Catalonian historian,
the Grand Cross
Isabella the
Catholic for his work
the period
Ferdinand
many
and Isabella the Catholic.
The view given
the incidents
the period has aroused the
many Castilians.
Señor Prat
has just received
of
to
of
to
of
Elvira
of
in
to
so
by
is
in
of
the battle
y
in
by
a
of
of
he
of
through
conception
the extravagances
animals,
which the characters are represented
love,
shows the redeeming influence
that
Master Wolf (the title
the play)
able
peaceful proximity with the lamb
live
his
conquest
old prejudices.
The play forms
admirable opportunity for the author
attack
many
the conventionalities
life which lead
callous neglect
the weak and helpless.
History has just celebrated the
The Academy
centenary
Independence
the War
brilliant function honoured
the presence
King Alfonso
The third anniversary
the
death of General Gómez de Arteche was also cele
brated
on the Occasion, and his monumental
work entitled Historia de
Guerra de
Inde
pendencia.
General Suarez Inclán read
elo
quent address
the subject.
He explained
simple relation
was not only
was much more,
judgment
every fact was accompanied
Wounds
1809.
Pi
of
of
to
by
El
of
in
is,
of
of to
be
by
in
of
of
all
says:
authoress
Nineteen centuries ago the
Divine Master taught that
men were brothers,
but we have either not learnt the doctrine or
forgotten it.
Señor García
Marti aptly remarks that the
Table
the Rights
Man which figured
the
accompanied
French Revolution should now
liberty and fraternity.
that
the duties relating
fact, one
The book
those daily proofs
Spain
the awakening
the duties
altruism.
Teatro Español has staged with great success
which,
the new play
Señor Linares Rivas
Corunna
stone has just been unveiled
the house where Sir John Moore died from
of
of
a
to
or
of
of
to
of
of
a
to
of
its
is
in
the perpetual struggle between the Real
and the Ideal
touched upon philosophically
Humanity.
connection with the Solidarity
generous tribute
The author pays
Doña
Galicia,
Concepción Arenal, the clever poetess
who devoted her poetic talent
the laudation
Humanity, and whom
the real Brotherhood
Azcarate, the great littérateur, termed
not only
Spain, but
the glory
Galicia
the entire
World.
Gentleman,
In her Letters
the late
life, the doctor explained that biological
heredity
character, original
the transmission
adaptation, selection,
infirmity.
and acquired
Heredity
disease was fully entered into, includ
ing that
alcoholism.
Doctor Legrain's inte
resting statistics
the various infirmities accruing
children
alcoholic parents were quoted, and
repeat
the lecturer terminated his discourse
ing the words
Society has
Lacassaque,
criminals, and
recommended
his audience
Ohio, that
vogue
the adoption
the method
legally necessary
certificate
health should
before marriage.
In
its
Moreover,
origin
a
I
thirst for justice,
dedicate this work and my
whole life.
The chapter on the connection of
Solidarity with Positivism is practical, showing
that when contemplation was shared by science
philanthropy.
humanity became more practical in
of of
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it.
a
a
of
an
a
of
to
as
so
if
it of
to
in
of
an
is
so
in
in
to
of
;
in
to
as
of of
he
.
.
.
is
to
if
of
by
in
;
of
a
of
an
tiff's material
the defendant.
For reasons which
may
may not commend themselves
the Court
Appeal, the judge found,
circumstantial
evidence, that
fact fraud
theft had been
committed,
and therefore awarded the plaintiff
copyright, but for the
damages, not for breach
stealing
common law offence
his material.
ground unless
There can
award
such
the court believes that
fact the defendant copied
from the plaintiff.
to
or on
a
on
of
of
in
.
in
of in
by
of
pleted piece first came within the baneful influence
fact,
the Copyright Statutes.
As
matter
copyright was involved
question
the case
the plaintiff's play having been neither published
nor acted, and being, therefore, unprotected
copyright law.
The action was based upon common law fraud,
q.e.,
accusation
deliberate theft
the plain
or
it
a
v.
or
of
of
of
a
lead
the suspicion that
amateur has been dabbling
law
and even the
writer's excuse
want
time will not prevent
your journal from falling into
the lay reader
grave error
relies upon the note.
Your contributor says that the first point
be considered
the date
when each com
no of
in
be
a
to
by
to
in
of
of
a
tively incorrect,
of
a
in
of
to
or
of
be
or
General Note which appears on
your
this subject
the February number
journal
misleading and,
fact, posi
no
v.
of
of
in
at
in
of
to
be
NIR,--The
PATHá FREREs.
it
AMASIS, LTD.
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in
|
v.
SCHOLZ
WHE plaintiff
this action, Mr. Fred Karno,
was the owner
the performing right
pantomimic sketch entitled The Mumming
Birds,
company
and sued the defendant
for
damages
respect
the infringement
his
right. The defendant company manufactured and
proprietors and per
sold cinematograph films
formers
music halls, and amongst other films
their catalogue was one entitled
At the Music
Hall, which the plaintiff alleged
representa
tion
his sketch,
the instrument
from which
the representation was made.
On behalf
the defendant company
was
contended that the sketch was not
dramatic
piece
which there was any performing right,
and that the defendant company had not caused
represented
the sketch
reason
the
film, even though they
sale
the cinematograph
knew that
was intended
be
- used for the
purpose
the representation.
Mr. Justice Jelf held that, upon the grounds
Fullbrook,
Appeal
stated
the Court
Tate
pantomimic sketch, performed for the most part
gag,
dumb show but with
certain amount
stage direc
which there was no book
words
tions, which was not capable
being printed and
of
of
a
BY
HARDY.
sº-e
of
e
by
of In
to
e
CINEMATOGRAPH.
f
a
by
of
an
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REPRESENTATION OF SKETCH
RARNo
as
he
of by
at
HAROLD
be
e
it
if
of
Mr. Justice Channell, following the decision of
the Court of Appeal in Tate v. Fullbrook, held that
the plaintiff had no performing right in the dance.
anyone
As to the passing off, he said that
was to blame, it was the manager and not the
defendant.
If the latter had been a party to her
performance being represented as the plaintiff s
performance, she would have made herself liable ;
but upon her evidence he was of opinion that she
was no party to
He accordingly gave judgment
for the defendant.
HAROLD HARDY.
to
been advertised.
to
the apparatus and the gags.
As to the passing off, it appeared that on one
occasion when the plaintiff was advertised on the
programme at the Olympia Music Hall, Shoreditch,
the defendant was engaged to deputise there, and
gave a performance of The Toy Shop, but with
out any knowledge that the plaintiff s sketch had
.
literary composition, was not
dramatic piece.
the case
dramatic piece,
however,
opinion that
representation
was
infringement
cinematograph might constitute
right; moreover, the defendant
the performing
company were not liable upon another ground,
merely manufacturing
because
and selling the
cinematograph film, even though they knew the
representation
film was bought for the purpose
public entertainment, they had not
places
represented
caused the sketch
con
infringement
stitute
the performing right,
any existed.
Appeal upheld the decision
The Court
Mr. Justice Jelf upon this latter ground, and
go into the question
was therefore unnecessary
whether the sketch was
dramatic piece.
there was any performing right
the sketch,
the action should have been brought against the
persons who represented
caused the representa
tion
be made.
The appeal was accordingly dismissed.
published
If as
singing a song, and then one of the children hung
him upon the hook. There were seven performers
who assisted in the dance, and a page boy who had
gags
The plaintiff said that he was the author of
149
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of
of
of
to
:
a
Wright Henderson.
BOOKMAN.
By Edward Clodd.
Charles Darwin.
By Edward Thomas.
Richard Jefferies and London.
The Penalties
Failure. By Edwin Pugh.
CONTEMPORARY.
in
Mendelssohn
1909. By Ernest Newman.
By Havelock Ellis.
The Love
Wild Nature.
English Literature and the Indian Student.
By Tau.
Edgar Allan Poe. By Edmund Gosse.
The Centenary
of
of
as
of
of
at
By
Boswell.
of
in
of
is
to
in
CORNHILL.
Robert Browning
or
D.
E.
E. I.
A. M.
B.
as
of
J.
be
I
of
NATIONAL.
Modern Antiques.
The Shakespearean
By Helen Zimmern.
By Geo. Hookham
Problem.
NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER.
By Mrs. Arthur Kennard.
The Real Lafcadio Hearn.
By
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Keeton.
A.
E.
in
by
of
is
to
a
a
By Rosaline Masson.
By W. Garrott Brown.
The Beaten Track.
By Bram Stoker.
Americans
Actors.
By
The Writings
Mr. W.
Yeats.
M.
By Stephen Gwynn.
Poetry and the Stage.
By
Kettle, M.P.
The Fatigue
Anatole France.
By
Baughan,
Sir Edward Elgar s Symphony.
of
4
3
&
is
on
of
of
it
Edinburgh.
FORTNIGHTLY.
by
in
of
no in
of
is
a
v.
be
B.
F.
BIACKWOOD S.
Oxford, Past and Present.
of
is
be
a
in
to
of
:
A
is
to
in
by
in
of
it
of
is
a
in
play
published
not requisite for
bring
under the Copyright Statute.
opinion, but
still
matter
am
content with my authorities.
It
º-e
On Certain Bronte MSS. By Harold
Wheeler.
English Book Illustration
Century.
the Eighteenth
By Katharine Esdaile.
I
in
an
a
v.
I
Mr. Jenks' first point
contained
the follow
ing sentence
fact,
question
As matter
copyright was involved
the case, the plaintiff's
play having been neither published nor acted, and
being, therefore, unprotected
copyright law.
Mr. Jenks must study his copyright law more
carefully.
general practitioner
not always
good specialist.
He should study
William IV., the judgment
Mr. Justice Hawkins
Sapie, the comments
Reichardt
the Act
Copyright, 4th edition,
Copinger's Law
M.
Easton, and Macgillivray's Law
Copyright. He
will then see that his statement
not justified.
It
the
of
he
in
e
CONTENTS.
BIBLIOPHILE.
termed an amateur.
.*.
24.
º-e
MAGAZINE
JENKS.
appears that Mr. Jenks
From Who s Who
Principal and Director
Legal Studies
the
Law Society.
&
must thank Mr. Jenks for his condescension
writing from his tutorial chair and for his
endeavour
set me right
matter con
nected with copyright.
The question whether
infringer
always liable may
innocent
opinion, and may, perhaps, receive
question
some further elucidation
when the case
Scholz
Amasis, Ltd.,
discussed
the Court
Appeal: but the grounds both
law and
fact
on which Mr. Jenks bases his letter are wrong,
being
will endeavour
show even
the risk
acted
may
is
of
a
it
e
Yours faithfully,
EDWARD
in
of
for
of
a
a
of
to all
in
I
P.
A.
up
in
it
as
byto
or
of
be
of
a
is in
his pleadings was for
and not for common law
giving judgment, the judge stated that
fraud.
the action was brought
the plaintiff
recover
damages
for the alleged infringement
plaintiff s
Further,
copyright.
said
All
the proper steps had been taken under the Statutes
protect his (the plaintiff s) copyright,
and,
finally,
have come
the conclusion and find,
fact, that the defendants have infringed
part
material
and substantial
the plaintiff s
copyright.
THE WRITER OF THE PARAGRAPH.
copyright
to
in
it
be
It
a
on
In
I
The plaintiff s claim
infringement
In
to
at
in
do
I
be
for the benefit either
authors
the public
able,
were,
that
writer should
annex
putting
certain number
ideas and phrases
paper and locking them
them
his drawer.
that way
fertile but unskilled playwright
might practically stop the production
plays
get
but his own, without himself being able
single play acted.
The common law
this case
seems to me to be also common Sense.
may add,
conclusion, that my information
first-hand, but
agrees with the
about the case
reports
the papers.
Mr. Jenks' letter
not one
opinion,
but one
fact.
He says:
The
action was based upon
common law fraud and
damages were awarded not for breach
copyright
but
the common law offence
- stealing the
material.
of
by
is
be
to
to a
of
is
to
communicated
them
the public, the second
author
not
blame.
As everyone knows, such
instances have occurred
the scientific world, and
not know why they should not occur
may
literature.
doubted whether
would
The second point
to
so to
of
it on
it
a
if
it
as
course, quite entitled
Your contributor
say that the law
ridiculous, but,
this point
long
exists,
must
observed
authors.
Moreover,
does not seem
me
all unjust
say that,
second writer accidentally hits upon the
ideas and phrases
first author, who has not
a
is,
TISIES
as
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Editor
be
REGISTRATION
by
of
as of
a
M
remind members
The Author begs
them
sent
the Society that, although the paper
producing
charge, the cost
would be
free
great
very heavy charge on the resources
the Society
many members did not forward
the Secretary the modest
5s. 6d. subscription for the year.
Communications for The Author should be addressed
the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's
the Offices
Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the
21st of each month.
HE Editor
by
a
ºw-w
THE AUTHOR,
e-º-º
of
A
w
º-e
be
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.
e
or
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
greatly assist the Society
this
informing young writers
its work
branch
Their MSS. can be read and
its existence.
composition
The term
coach.
treated
treated
fiction, but poetry
MSS. includes not only works
possible, under
and dramatic works, and when
The
Special arrangement, technical and scientific works.
competence and experience.
The
Readers are writers
one guinea.
fee
EMBERS will
of
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.
º-º-º
on
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.
BRANCH,
THE READING
is
be carefully
should
for collaboration
9. Agreements
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.
to
a
º
w---
T
consideration.
or
in
is
the
Secretary, and the voucher
then forwarded
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.
to
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed
They should never be included in English
ingly valuable.
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial
of
behalf
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.
MUSIC.
STAMPING
is
rights, but
6. Authors should not assign performing
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction
can be added to the warnings given for the
of books and dramatic
assistance of producers
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
should be especially careful therefore when entering into
particular
consideration
an agreement, and should take into
the warnings stated above.
on
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and
This is most important.
time.
L*.
to
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum
It is extremely
paid in advance of such fees in any event.
important that the amateur Tights of one-act plays should
be reserved.
-º-º-e
of
(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.
TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.
WARNINGS
be
on
on the basis of percentages
vary between
Percentages
5
gross receipts.
per
An author should obtain a
cent.
and 15
receipts
gross
sliding
percentage on the
scale of
Should
in preference to the American system.
A fixed
obtain a sum in advance of percentages.
date on or before which the play should be
performed.
its
right or of a licence to
of performing
perform
or
(b.) Sale
of
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to
to
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of
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study part
house
the rent
the rent
justified
the satisfaction
the deduction can
the income tax authorities.
be
ment signed without advice is in most cases an
unsatisfactory
document.
In the standing matter of The Author from
month to month under the heading of Warnings
to producers of books is printed this statement:
in
OWING to the bankruptcy of a certain publisher,
many agreements have been handed to the Secretary
in order that the society might take up the claims
In going through
of those members involved.
brought strongly
again
agreements,
been
it has
these
to our notice that the ordinary publisher's agree
Though
a
OF AGREEMENTS.
would assume enormous proportions.
clear that magazine writers have
complain
good cause for complaint,
easier
find remedy.
than
example:
We quote the following case
the unsatisfactory
Some years ago, owing
certain magazines, and the recur
life history
obtaining justice for the con
ring difficulty
tributors,
the Society took up their cause and
change
the Bankruptcy
secure
endeavoured
magazines and
contributors
which
Law
periodicals who had claims against these publications
should receive preferential treatment with those
already obtained this
clerks and officials who
advantage under the Act
but the Government's
regret
expression
their inability
answer was
the matter.
move
draw the attention
We should like, however,
reckoning income
the fact that
members
charge all out
tax returns, they are entitled
books and any special
pocket expenses, such
work, and even
premises used exclusively for literary
the matter
of
SETTLEMENT
article under the
bring the matter
advisable
possible that ventilation
the
forward,
the
subject may lead
some practical solution
likely that any
difficulty, yet we hardly think
small section
Government will legislate for
society.
once the Government
small section
tax-payers
began
differentiate among classes
by
It would be interesting to know how often the
secretary of the society has stopped authors from
accepting this offer.
But unfortunately, there are
many authors, with first books, who do not come to
the society till they have been caught in the trap.
another column we print
title placed above.
While we think
to
and still more third-rate books, alone have suffered
from over-production.
Surely this is in a great part the fault of the
publishers, not of the best firms, but of those who
write Our reader has reported favourably on
your work, and if you will pay £150 towards
the cost of production, and give us the refusal of
your next six novels, etc., etc.
AND INCOME TAX.
WRITERS
MAGAZINE
to
have had something to do with the slack business
The general reason of depression
at Christmas.
if it exists we cannot doubt this if we read
in these letters is
contained
the statements
by
over-production,
not merely over-production
cheap reprints, but by new copyright matter. Mr.
Reginald Smith, of Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.,
limits his statement, and thinks second-rate books,
of
THE February number of the Book Monthly con
tains an article from the editor on The Ill State
and various letters from
of the Book Trade,
publishers dealing with the same subject.
Judging from these, there seems to be good
reason to suppose that Queen Victoria's Letters,
published in cheap form,
Morley's Gladstone,
of photographs, may
volume
and Queen Alexandra's
takes the responsibility
But
her own shoulders, and cannot complain.
all authors
the utmost importance
their con
know exactly what dangers surround
use
tragt;. To belong
the society and not
does
some cases, complain that
and then,
nothing,
not playing the game.
Then the author
of if
THE BOOK TRADE.
is
by
it
all
to
On the ballot paper which accompanies
this month s Author subscribing members
have full details as to the manner in which
their yotes should be recorded. Any members
who have not received ballot papers with
their Authors are requested to write to
the Secretary at once.
any agreement without competent
but
from the secretary of the society,
standing matter
not unfrequently
like
Again, therefore,
must
readers.
overlooked
the society before they
use
our members
ask
Sign their agreements.
happens
Sometimes
that when the secretary has placed before member
the case, the terms which
the pros and cons
asked, the clauses which should
should
avoided, the member weighing these matters
spite
sign
the advice tendered.
decides
Never, sign
advice
be
t-º-º
all
GENERAL NOTES.
153
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Mr. Oswald
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protection, the second the type-setting clause.
hard on the United States author who lives
vigorous old age
see his brain children
support him during his advancing years.
ceasing
To remedy this difficulty the editor states, We
perpetual copyright,
the principle
consider
by
or
by
we
of
although logically sound,
academic interest
only
believe that substantial justice would
for
protecting literary property during the
done
two generations
author's lifetime and for one
beyond.
Life and fifty years was the length approved
of
the Berlin
the band
Let the Americans join
Conference.
civilised nations and accept the same
by
be
to
of
an
no
as
he
limitation.
remarks,
follows:
On the second point
rights
Englishman shall have
To say that
his brain until
the product
mnder our law
put into marketable form
that product shall
precisely like Saying that the
American labour
New York, shall have
same Englishman, landing
in
January
Jumping Frog will
removed from Copyright
Protection during 1909 and will become the
The editor
prey
the irresponsible publisher.
considers need
drives home two points that
copyright
special revision, the first the term
is
the death
a
is
of
of
of
C.M.G.
30 of
on
to
record
Chicago Dial
its recent issues
one
Copyright
the
healthy editorial article
United States.
the Celebrated
started from the fact that
THE
has
It
on
of
to
us
in
in
*-*-a-ma-se
regret
UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT.
;
of
to
be
of
be of
to
a
is
long list before
the patrons
There
well-known
the dinner, including many names
England;
the
we wish
Americans resident
carrying out their
Authors Club every success
programme.
WE
he
it
to
º-º-º
be
of
at
a
of
of
be
event.
Crawfurd, C.M.G.,
º-e
UNITED STATES JOTTINGS.
a
to
on
be
of
in
be
present and speak.
Poe's poems,
some
recitations
his lyrics which
and we understand that some
sung
that
music will
have been set
occasion.
Deirdre
Mr. Herbert Trench, the author
commemorate the
will write an ode
Wedded
OSWALD CRAWFURD,
in
of
in
of
it,
e
in
of
the American writer and poet,
THE centenary
the 1st
Edgar Allan Poe, will
celebrated
March, the date
this issue, by the Authors
the
dinner
Club. The members are giving
his memory.
honour
Whitehall Rooms
the chairman
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will
the dinner, and His Excellency the Hon. Whitelaw
Reid, the American Ambassador, has promised
There will
of
director.
member
Mr. Crawfurd was for many years
resigned
Authors, and though
the Society
while connected with Messrs. Chapman and Hall,
these circum
suitable
he did not consider
member,
was
remain
stances for him
member until
1898 and continued
re-elected
his death.
Among his numerous publications are eight
Green
and
novels, including Sylvia Arden
poetry entitled
Two
Fields, and two volumes
Masques
Prince Eladane.
and The Sire
to
be
it
to
ALLAN POE.
EDGAR
several
to
in
as
a
it
it,
sense
unfortunately
the perverted
used
distinct
The word was
to above.
referred
journalism, and has been very
acquisition
As, however, its true value
popular ever since.
appreciated, we venture
recommend
should
the consideration of our readers.
wrote
of of
Ogilvie declared it obsolete, and at the beginning
century it was included in Halliwell's
Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words.
On the other hand Webster does not so regard
modern journalism.
berein having the support
Somebody rediscovered
few years back and
of this
he
word is of quite respectable age and with the
of timid or fearful (Lat.
established meaning
Cf. French méticuleuw).
ºneticulosus from metus.
It was used by Sir Thomas Browne, and occurs
Historie of Serpents, * 1608,
also in Topsell s
p. 116.
Johnson does not include it in his
dictionary. In 1827 it was not in use, though
meticulously" was according to Dr. Todd, who
Move
quotes from Brown, Chr. Mor. i. 33,
In 1883,
circumspectly,
not meticulously.
H.M.'s Consul
Travels
works dealing with Portugal, including
John
Portugal,
under the pseudonym
London he interested
On his return
Latouche.
literary work, founding Black and
himself
Later on
While and becoming its first editor.
joined the firm
Messrs. Chapman and Hall
a
Chicago Dial has lately contained some
comment and correspondence on the use and abuse
of the word meticulous, which it declares should
never be used, as it is commonly used to-day, in
The result of our
the sense of over-careful.
The
own researches is in accord with this view.
THE
he
to
1891 Mr. Crawfurd was
1867
Oporto, during which time
as
METICULOUS.
In
TISIES
154
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155
Hodgson
8
article
read
of
of
In
of
to
an
has made his deductions
quote the full statement) from
knowledge
insufficient
the Berne Convention
and the subsequent Act
Paris.
the latter
as
He has no immediate hope of the clause being
removed, but he says that the acceptance of the
clause in 1891 was a compromise essentially revolt
ing to the sense of international justice.
This we believe to be the view of all educated
Mr.
(We are unable
to
against violence
no right to personal protection
until he has purchased American-made garments
and clothed himself therein.
T.
THE AUTFIOR.
the original convention has been altered
follows:
in
a
an
in
is
it
if
in
IN
a
to
at
a
as
is
a
a
is
printed
the New York Nation
letter from
correspondent who wants for educational purposes
the tariff removed from imported books.
There
subtle irony throughout this letter,
the writer
any point appear
does not
realise that
book
the author's property and originated from his
brain.
By the copyright law both printers and
publishers
this country are well protected.
copyrighted
No book may
here which has
not been manufactured
the United States.
But what about the authors, the United States
in
be
to
or
us
of is as
to a
THE UNITED STATES.
in
to
to
us
;
to
it.
to
a
of
to
us
to
to
3
a
WORKS
is
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us
a
of to
It
in
is
at
us
in
to we
If,
of
if
to
to
an
or
EDUCATIONAL
as
a
of
to
because we have not adopted the Berne Convention rela
literary property, the Librarian
Congress
tive
Suggested that this Government regard itself
non
union participant.
The phrase falls pat with current
terminology.
among the
seems
make
scab
Unfortunately, that
copyright.
nations
the matter
very much what we are. The leading civilised nations
protect literary and artistic pro
have formed
union
join
perty, but we have refused
Under labour
practice
they
union
are entitled
attack and outlaw
that,
they
enough
but instead
are courteous
receive
their Congresses
non-union participant.
hope
undoubtedly
kindness,
Their
kill
with
lead
see the error
our ways and adhere
the
Berne Convention with the rest.
IN
to
be
of
to
of
it
of
to
In
to
up
of
a
of
in
of
to
in
affidavit, according
As truth will come out even
the Saying
an English judge,
sometimes comes
public
Out
document.
House Document No. 1,208,
present
Congress,
the
session
contains the correspon
dence leading
the appointment
American
delegate
Congress
the recent International Copyright
pointing
Secretary
Berlin.
out
the
State the
represented,
fact that the United States had no right
as
of
by
so an
to
be
claim whatever
the property
authors
should
able
control the methods
which
these authors should market their productions.
be
no
on a
is,
WE print below a paragraph taken from the
New York Nation, which shows also the opinion
of that paper on the question of the position of the
United States with regard to International Copy
right. It
pity that those who have
indeed,
at
would merely copyright his work
France
England without
Germany and then produce
grant him
type-setting.
then,
refused
Copyright the signatories
the Berne Convention
object.
would have every right
That the type-setting clause might cause the
Withdrawal
the Presidential proclamation
self
England could establish her posi
evident, even
against article
quoted above.
tion
We fear the type-setting law,
were passed,
Would
most dangerous; but apart from this we
retrogressive step
should regret
see
the
copyright ideals.
evolution
We should rather
ask the United States
advance their intellectual
development than that England should recede.
case
he
ºs--msmº,
*-m-m-m-e
in
or
by
to
is
If,
of
It
a
of
be
to
or
of
to
Authors not belonging
one
the countries
the
Union, who shall have published
published
caused
Americans, who appear therefore to be governed, in
literary
for the first time their
artistic works
party
respect
this respect at any rate, by the uneducated masses. . Cºunty which
the Union shall enjoy
protection
such Works the
accorded
the Berne Conven
will be a happy day when the intellectual
tion and by the present additional Act.
minority can persuade Congress to join the Berne
Convention.
therefore,
American author wanted
test
be
is
a
at
if
is
to
if
to
it
to
is
on
of
If it
is
if
an
to
a
of
of
of
a
of
is
of
of
to
as
of to
a
2,
clause would involve the retirement
this country
from the International Copyright Union.
right, and that such
We think Mr. Churchill
clause would not only prejudice the position
this
Country under the Berne Convention,
but might
also cause the withdrawal
the President's pro
Congress
clamation under the Act
1891.
Surely
authors.
this copyrighting and type
setting business
worth anything
should
for the protection
the author.
this high
imported books
tariff
work any good
teach the United States authors
write educa
they cannot pro
tional books for themselves;
duce the necessary scholars
write the critical
educational works, then surely there
still
chance left for the pirate.
High tariff and type-setting clauses
they
cannot help the United States author ought
piratical printers and
least
foster the brood
publishers. But evidently, according
the Nation's
oppor
correspondent, the latter have missed
to
a
T.
T.
in
to
IN
reference
this same United States Copy
letter appeared
the Times, signed
Hodgson, suggesting that England should
pass into law
type-setting clause
against the
United States, quoting the Berne Convention
article
and objecting
Mr. Winston Churchill's
assertion in the House
Commons that such
right law
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of
as
so
of
incomes derivable
by
of
portions
I
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to
in
of
a
at is
is
for incomes
or
in
to
of
a
of
is
It
a
no
fill up again the
the time approaches
income tax returns, the question arises
done for small
not something
could
magazine literature
authors and contributors
demand made upon
the importunate
alleviate
precarious
derived from such
earned incomes
Nowadays the competition
and unreliable source
the pen thereby
keen and the opportunities
former years
far short
for earning have fallen
attention, especially
worthy
the
the matter
war figure
almost
still
tax
magazine contributions parti
To the writer
cularly, the money received
return for his work
generally inadequate
the labour bestowed upon
would, there
high pressure.
earned
and
fore, advocate the entire exemption from taxation
is
to
to
or
do
of
to
MAGAZINE WRITERS AND THE INCOME
TAX.
º-º-º
so
of
he
;
to
in
in
of
on :
of
is
a
in
it
as
* º- *
v-v-w
is
;
a
in
a
a us
;
to
as
in
in
in
is
in
.
of
the Channel, those
also know, this side
But
the author, against whom
who are indispensable
prejudice and with whom publishers
editors have
disagreement.
true that we have had
have
sample
discovering
difficulty
these last
may
Perhaps
that the commercial
America.
integrity
the United States does not admit
that which must
confidential
the position
may
exist between the author and his agent,
himself too
be that the United States author
say
good
seems absurd
But
business man.
knowing the
way
the author has
that
amount received, etc.
fact, the Editor seems,
himself suggests,
have been unfortunate.
it,is
7
to
to
in
to
A
those indifferent
the publishers.
not give the
to
of
its
Do you advocate the literary sales agent
see his advantages, we know
We do not. We fail
general are prejudiced against the average, and
editors
become acquainted with one we could trust.
we have yet
Perhaps our experience has been unfortunate
but those
business methods,
we know have not only been careless
letter was
For example,
dishonest.
but absolutely
Chicago editor, calling attention
recently shown
from
New York agent had sold an article
the fact that
further,
his, been paid, and had never remitted
had
paid the agent for an article sold
his magazine, and
article
An
author.
the
to
remitted
never
had
the latter
1907 benefited only the agent and
Recreation
sold
the former.
the money was paid
not the author
the Delineator was paid for on
articles
series
acceptance and the author secuted the money
small
Šums, months afterward, through the agency
the law.
our
We cite these facts because they have come
knowledge.
manu
examine
The agent charges
Literary
Script
the (Editor)
more than
much
of
is
to
at
of
by
some dishonest, and we know
honest, who are
the pocket
With the best intentions they
fair market.
author
If
THE UNITED STATES LITERARY AGENT.
no
,
a
on
&
We have taken the cutting printed above from
the United States called
little paper produced
written with the pur
The paper
the Ediſor.
assisting authors
pose
their
the disposal
but we
and contains many useful hints
Wares
agents.
little hard
think that the writer
actual fraud,
some agents guilty
We know
no
started some years ago. This latter society, begun
under good auspices, failed miserably through its
satisfactorily
incapacity
with the
to grapple
practical wants of authors.
We hope that the
Society of Dramatic Authors will not experience a
similar fate, but we are afraid. By the statement
before us it proposes to affiliate with the National
Association of Theatrical Producing Managers.
Surely this is a disastrous step if the dramatists
desire to establish themselves on an independent
How
How can they discuss agreements
basis.
How can they
can they take action in the courts
criticise freely when possibly their committee may
we remember
be controlled by the managers ?
rightly the old American Authors Society had
management.
This
board
a publisher on
may, quite possibly, have caused its disruption.
º
of
CLUB.
WE have received a cutting from an American
newspaper referring to an American Dramatists
It would appear from this cutting that the
Club.
club is going to alter its constitution, and that the
feats of more
members have decided to accomplish
enduring consequence than assembling at a table
and telling each other how downtrodden they are.
They are going to attempt to form a Society of
Dramatic Authors and Composers of the United
States, and hope to work
on similar lines to
those of the Société des Auteurs Dramatique.
This is certainly a sensible step. It is the first
combination of authors which has taken place in
America, if we except the Society of Authors which
a
THE UNITED STATES DRAMATIC AUTHORS
We
-** *-ms
no
join
in
to
of
possible
a
it
He charges
full criticism.
for
way
The author has
each sale.
received, the time the money was
paid, nor where nor how his work
hawked about.
examine any manuscript an
Editors are always ready
dis.
the face
author may submit, and the fool who
every writer
hoping for
claimers,
note persists
through some friend
court remains always the
OOl.
charges
Commission
knowing the amount
a
the States have not yet found
the Berne Convention.
Bureau
In
tunity. It is not too late ; the new American
Copyright Law has not as yet been passed, and
to
156
�THE AUTHOR,
in
ill
a
by
of
by
is
to
he to
is
he
is
to
in
by
to
be
to
In
to
by
is
to
a
to
to
if
of
is so
so
on
it
is
so
is
at
I
a
of
to
of
is
by
of
a to
a
by by
to
be
a
a to
be of is
to
I
it
to
a
is
a
of
be
a
is
It
no
is
be
to
to
be
it
to
a
so
of
a
in
to
be
to
is of
is
at
by
by
do
of
3,
is at
;
be
to in
is
be
it
be
2,
to
1
In
to
it. I
to
to
in
as
in
in
by
no
I
to
an
at
on
to
an
to
on
for
or
to
to
of
of
to an a at
all
is
a
I
is in
at
of
let
able under the somewhat unsatisfactory
recent
arrangement.
Then
me quote two typical,
though (as here stated) unique, cases which may
not
once seem deserving
the same sympathy
give these
seriousness, however amusing
first glance
the reading.
Take for instance
magazine
possessed
writer whose wife
independent income with which she contributes
depend
the household expenses.
He has
his
literary efforts
personal funds, and
successes
pay income tax
has
scale
his own uncertain
Again,
earnings.
official incapacitated
health from official duty, but the recipient
small pension, who augments same
contributions
magazines, the monetary return
for which
year, and
fluctuates from year
some years
of
on
'
thing realised over the £150, less the rebate return
of
Take the so-called success
author whose income comes between £150 and
4500 per annum.
His earnings are chargeable
any
with the full earned income
demand
I
to be
an
is
an
to
In
following instance.
ful
of
or
so
it
*
a
in
to
of
so
in of
on
in
a
an
(6)
If
charged, nevertheless,
almost nil;
the full,
diligence and hard work
lucky
whenever
enough
turn
sufficient
render himself liable
duty.
may
case No.
said the author
very fortunate
able
earn anything
between £150 and £500
his pen.
case
equally fortunate
No.
that the author
married
woman who has an income of her
though, according
own
the Married Women's
Property Act not necessarily
his disposal; and
case No.
that the writer
no less fortunate
possessed
pension.
These facts
not
dispute.
issue, however,
The point
that the
precarious, and
nature
such literary earnings
unproductive and there
often embodies labour
injustice
fore untaxable, that
little short
levy tax
tardily derived
they
incomes
happen
top the exemption limit.
sympathy exists
That
considerable amount
for the indigent author
evidenced
the support
which has been given
the Pension Fund
this
Society
our fellow authors.
The old adage that
Charity begins
fittingly exemplified
home
the response
the members
this deserving
object, but there
also this
said if possible
don't let your author become indigent, and even
Small matter like income tax don t suffer the earn
ings
precarious
profession
curtailed by
allowing
subject
diminution
taxa
put
tion.
Give your author
chance
for
day when the brain ceases
active and the pen
longer powerful.
regrettable thing that
men who earn their incomes at such
disadvan
tage should
placed alongside
the fortunate
possessor
permanent Civil Service appointment,
the remuneration
for which never varies and
assured. This, surely,
matter deserving
attention, and
am certain
has only
properly represented
receive the support and
consideration
those who have the power and,
trust, would also have the inclination
rectify
would also suggest that the remedy should
include
recovery say
for three years of tax
already overpaid
writers,
addition
the
abatement
all tax
the future,
the case
benevolent funds and charitable institutions
whose incomes are entirely exempt, and
have
doubt the return
accumulated three years of
income tax would prove
most magazine Writers
very welcome and acceptable little douceur
the
hands of H.M.'s Customs.
ALFRED SMYTHE.
a
authors of magazine contributions,
whenever the
incomes acquired from such sources are fluctuating
and not permanent.
we keep in view the following points connected
with the magazine contributor it seems more than
hard that should he prove sufficiently successful to
come within the scope of taxation he should be
taxed as other earners in the more certain and pro
professions.
ductive
To a magazine writer the
following have to be contended with before he can
earn sufficient to entitle himself to be called success
ful and come within the power of the income tax
collector.
(1) The inadequacy
of the emolument
he
receives, compared with the time and thought
bestowed upon his writings.
(2) The uncertainty
of the acceptance of his
MSS. and consequent loss of time and labour.
(3) The tardiness of payment in a large number
of the cases.
(4) The time which elapses before his con
tributions, if accepted, appear in print.
(5) The time and postage which he must expend,
should an article have to be sent to a number of
magazines before it is accepted.
The long period which generally elapses before
permanent
author s writings win
secured
position
the literary market, with the necessary
sacrifices dependent thereon.
Therefore,
hardly
earnings,
this class
worked for and
uncertain
its nature,
seems
me that complete exemption
tax should
full, according
made possible.
To tax man
the earned
income
scale on the emoluments
received for accepted contributions,
not only
unjust charge but
extortionate one.
addition
the foregoing let me quote the
157
�A UTISIOR.
TRIES
158
to
a
;
I
in
is
its
in
or
of
I
as to
of
in
as
to
is
a
to
It by
is
is a
in
of
of
is
of
is
P
be
to
or
is
to
"
is
by
it
at is
of as a
in at to
a
A
to
of
so
it
if
lit if
up
If
so
?
be
to
it
is
is
a
of
be
is
all to
be
is
in
is
it.
of
is to
in
no
all
of
if
he
is
to
an
A
of
is
it
to
in
be
be
It
at
;
2
of
it
Is
a
is
is or
If
to
be
It
to
places
by
a
is
be
a
of
to
no
the back
the brain, and
resume their
memory.
very little
the foreground
Only every
time suffices, about half
hour.
day the half-hour's reading covers more and more
ground.
But re-read
still the recipe, patient
reperusal
the same matter until
has become
accomplished
familiar. That will
less time
than was anticipated, and with results other than
those
the school lessons.
Those lessons had
learned if they could not
avoided.
Desire
knowledge was little
none.
Now the will
co-operating.
need, and before long
there
need,
grammar, let that
there will
consult
the old grammar.
out
date
can
replaced
better one by-and-by
but
first
recess
of
In
?
to
by
a
is
to
else, and will store themselves
the brain
process
perfectly unconscious cerebration.
true that the proficiency
the linguist, particularly
familiar with several modern languages,
often much admired.
But his accomplishments
are
the most elementary kind. To speak and
any language,
think
matter how complex,
every child that habitually
within the capacity
Writing correctly
quite another thing.
hears
The child finds speaking and thinking easier than
reading.
language
everything,
For use alone
and the only difficulty unfamiliarity.
To
able
read
often all that the author needs; and
foreign language
the uses that can
made
reading
the easiest.
compassed
But how
How
the
rusty
language that has become
revived
reading alone
the object the recipe
re-read.
again the easiest old school reading book;
Take
possible,
has not gone
the book-stall
volume, the
the kitchen fire, the identical
appearance
whose thumbed pages was once
very curious psychological
familiar
the eyes.
phenomenon will almost certainly ensue.
At first
hardly anything
one,
remembered.
Then one
time, the words and phrases
and then
few
begin
emerge,
were, from some distant
be
no
on
in
to
on
returning
Italy
sooner found herself
the Italian Customs House than she began
speaking Italian
society such
the spot
attention,
stories are listened
with polite
accompanied
conviction that the speaker
lying.
Only the latter need not
the case.
Linguistic attainments are
strangely indelible
nature.
exaggerate, nor any
Here there
wish
may
freely ad
Occasion for exaggeration.
mitted that individuals exist
whom any language
saving the one
which they have been accustomed
exceptional people who cannot adapt themselves
any tongue but their own, attention
really the
only thing necessary
language.
learn
No
great demand
made even upon the memory.
Words are more easily remembered than anything
of
to
a
of
an
in
as
of
Is
is
it
of
a
a
of
he
is
is
of
is
at
all
may be occasionally
heard declaiming
on the
stereotyped lines are disposed, particularly if their
work is of any serious kind, to regret that they
were not taught rather more than less.
To be
unable to consult some French or German author
is at times an embarrassment.
Even if a transla
tion exists it is not always safe to place absolute
confidence in translators.
There is no certainty
that an amanuensis will have the discrimination to
hit exactly upon what is wanted. And if any long
trail of references has to be pursued, who does not
know by experience how easily that may lead out
of one language into another ? Then the author
begins to envy the individual whose range is not
restricted within the limits of a single language.
Once upon a time the author did learn some French,
German, Latin though hardly enough to render
Now,
the language
serviceable.
that was
any rate, hope
learned
either forgotten or,
lessly inadequate for any practical purpose.
That
the question.
For the contention
the
present article
this that the difference between
language and what
what
man once knew
to-day
usually very small.
knows
there any one, who has not heard some story
such
that
the lady whose girlhood was spent
Florence,
who, after quitting Italy, for more
than five-and-twenty years, never opened
Italian
Italian, and believed
book, never spoke
word
herself
have entirely forgotten that language,
Etruscan.
But after due allowance has been made for the
a
How some men can rant the weaker sex are
not prone to the same infirmity concerning the
time that they were made to waste at School over
languages
that could not possibly ever be of any
every one knows.
use to them
Men and women
of letters, on the other hand though the former
at
less German
of be
and French, and probably rather
or Greek, have usually formed a
part of the school work of any man who has
received anything more than a primary education.
The curriculum provided for young women embraces
rather more French, about the same amount of
German, and occasionally a Smattering of Latin.
OME Latin
but
bewildering mystification.
from infancy
There
are individuals also
whom their own language,
excepting
equally
crudest colloquial forms
unmanageable.
The people who habitually make
such assertions as, He took me
and when
ran down
look him up,
found him out, are
generally
incapable
expressing what they
mean
more cultivated English,
less ambiguous,
translating their statements into
they are
is
LANGUAGE.
A
t-sº-0
be be
REVIVING
�THE AUTHOR.
his
of
all
its
of
it
a
by
an
be
be
of
in
it
a
as
as
of
it
a is
to
or
at
or
so
is
of
of be
of
a
it
of
to
.
.
.
to
by
;
in
of
is
all
to
a
to
of
;
in
in
a
so
in
as
it it
is
to
a
it
it
its
its
:
it
as
heart
create
a
which Journalism took
was felt that
its
tróAAoi,
and crooned over.
to to
at
of
But
far the most important side
cha
racter was the exclusive joke the joke, gaped
It
to
as
of
a
of
of
A
2008.)
came about that Journalism
peculiar humour.
invented
Perhaps journalists imagined that this humour
high order, but
suppose that
was
safer
they merely looked upon
the only alternative
poor relation
the gutter.
Gone was light
and delicate persiflage, gone subtle exaggeration,
fancy, the keen satire that healed
the deft turn
with laughter even
struck
but
did what
could with the non-sequitur, the double entenſe,
poor relation
and the parody, and fought with
over the obvious.
by
a
of
of to be
to
is
it
Vulgarity, and
of
a
to
is
of
a
a
of
It
in
to
Literature
the majority, deserted Thersites
follow Caliban.
Popular humour, hitherto confined
few
obscure papers with
slum circulation, broke
bounds, leering brazenly
England's stateliest
homes.
Knock-about foolery, the naked pun, the
more or less unveiled innuendo flaunted
tinsel
through Literature and Journalism alike
the
Comic Muse grew pale and died before the stare
to
to
a
as
of
a
is
to
of
is
History
humour,
said,
The degeneration
began with the law-compelled increase
partial
education amongst the masses a little knowledge
fatal
the most flourishing native wit and the
subsequent rise
democracy foreshadowed
the
clarity among the
end.
Humour preserved
feebly against the rising tide
cultured struggled
finally
capitulated
professional
and
while
humorists, constrained
necessity
cater for
its
be
a
If
he
be
of
it
is
to
a
(Being an extract from
by
it
is
a
;
by
to
to
is
a
to
a
a
a
in
is
CENTURY HUMOUR.
of
Inan
of
it is
a
if
of
is
in
to
a
a
A is
OF TWENTIETH
it
of in
an
is
of
is
in
it
the case
the adult the remedy for that
trans
translation,
lation.
The best sort
can
had,
one that presents the original and the
parallel columns.
easy
version
With this
study phrase
phrase
page has
and when
card,
been mastered
cover the translation with
schoolboy can secure
and
test the results.
scamps his work
crib
matter
escape
course.
His aim
not knowledge, but
from fag, and from the cane, and other personal
knowledge,
inconveniences.
But when the aim
very
text may
studied with
translation
good purpose, and with the result
picking up
Only
the meaning
words with great rapidity.
now and then will the lexicon be needful.
And
felt need of
will indicate
marked advance.
Meanwhile the reader will probably become
acquainted
with some
the gentle ways
translators; and should he feel moved
use bad
language when the translator omits every passage
that presents any real difficulty, that will
natural, but not right.
easier, and leads
good deal
more rapid advance,
read first
some one author.
That secures his vocabulary; and
the vocabulary
another may come afterwards.
The new words found
the works of various
writers, that
say the new crop
difficulties,
necessarily
perpetually diminishing quantity.
chrestomathy, presenting selections from many
writers,
more difficult
read than any author's
work, and never contains enough
each writer
And,
make his vocabulary familiar.
has been
already said, use
everything.
man accustomed
language will read
read
with facility howso
to
THE DEGENERATION
be
P
a a
of
be
ignorant.
Another objection will most certainly be, Who
searching for words
can resume the toil
That, however,
only
aspect
lexicon
much wider misgiving, probably best stated thus
Were the whole that was ever known recovered,
would still
insufficient for any practical use.
very likely,
consequence
That
insufficient familiarity with the vocabulary.
can
be
is
a
to
is
of
of
be
all
less effective, if at
less effective, than the younger
keener memory alone.
More serious than any
dulling
the memory may
found the distractions
resulting from those cares
life, from which
exempt.
childhood
But that distractions have
be reckoned with
fact of which few writers
It of
will be raised, and probably this one
in childhood and youth the memory is quick
to absorb impressions, but afterwards less receptive.
That is true. But the smaller receptivity plus
attention (in childhood volatile), plus will (in child
hood often completely absent) are together little
:
to
Objections
first
study
may have
ever irregular and erratic
reading
language
been. And
man not used
may possess
philologist's knowledge
phenomena, and yet
puzzled
ordinary
paragraph
newspaper.
Reading and re-reading
given.
course cost time, and attention must
not asserted that any magical
course
six
lessons
will enable the person who believes
sight,
acquire any other
read German
similarly useful accomplishment.
But this
asserted, that people have seldom forgotten
language,
they once
such elements
learned,
completely
they suppose; and that
mere reading and re-reading, with occasional aid
from the grammar and lexicon,
useful familiarity
may
acquired more easily than
generally
imagined.
a
w -ºw-wa
by
it will assist the revival more than any other. And
it will be found a much simpler book than it
formerly seemed.
All the rest is simply to persevere.
159
�TISIE AUTISIOR,
a
as
it
of
to
by
is
is
it
is
;
to
he
to
a
up
to
de us
to
up
to
to
an
do
go
of
to
up
is
in
in,
as
of
in
or
to
to
off
or
is
to
of a
of
a
;
is
if
to
;
in
46
be an
a
THE LITERARY YEAR
GENERAL
HIS
1909.4
REVIEW.
is
is
a
Ltd
Thirteenth Annual Volume.
(George Routledge
&
*
of
is
a
by
keenly appreciated
book which
great many authors whose income
derived from their labours with the pen.
Undoubtedly the Literary Year Book
becoming
year.
more indispensable year
The credit must
by
of
us
a on
if
in
he
to
of byas
of
of
BOOK,
º-º-º
is
is
a
a
is
OP-e
of
a
is
;
of do
a
By Clayton
Materials and Methods
Fiction.
Hamilton. With an introduction by Brander Matthews.
.
(Grant Richards.)
*
is
in
of
of
a
of
is
at
Faculty
there
Fiction
one
Perhaps Mr.
the American Universities.
Clayton Hamilton has lectured there
and
reprint
perhaps this book
his lectures.
We
something
not know
but there
the tone
origin.
the book which somehow suggests such
An actual craftsman, we imagine, would
little
less didactic,
little more prone
button-hole his
reader, and lead him behind the scenes; whereas
Mr. Clayton addresses his public
were
rostrum, with
glass
water
his side, and
intelligent pupils
class
front
him diligently
taking notes. Many
his precepts let
even
ERHAPS
worthy
Professor Brander Matthews
incorporated,
the Volume
which
and
derives no inconsiderable
distinction from its
measured and ponderous sagacity.
tributed
it
FICTION.-k
º-º-º
by
THE ART OF
an of
a
be
a all
of
If
we
of
to
be
is
a
.
.
he
to
it
violence and brutality, but nothing
the kind
very glad, and
follows.
The farmer says that
that,
his wife will keep the secret,
will adopt
the child. There
realism there which seems
have escaped Mr. Hamilton s observation.
On
perspicuous
the whole, however, his analysis
essay con
not entertaining
and the introductory
is
It
in
In
a
T. O B. H.
sº-,--
Similarly with the story
rises
the sublime.
the childless Norman farmer and his wife.
The
wife, reproached for her barrenness, boasts that,
before her marriage, she has borne
child
one
the farm labourers.
One expects
scene
he
of
in
on
of
of
a
a
-- e
to
of
It
of
defeated party, seriously considered
the
its position.
found its ranks riddled
with pretentious charlatans and transfigured rodo
monts,
adherents
turn
Demos
and the
Olympians, strutting now with grocer's incense and
second-hand halos
the Sacred Mount, and again
grinning through horse-collars
the kennel.
pierced
by the
found
Art for Art's sake
rampant
Comstockians,
snicker-snees
and
God and Mammon
inscribed as the new canon
word,
and motto upon the wall.
awoke
find itself
dead body, impotent and immobile,
amid
choir
worms long past their prime.
the
gravity
a
It
of
was not until after the final capitulation
Journalism that Literature, hitherto the mainstay
;
Humorous
to
known
if
now
as
to
of
as
is
what
of
in
by
;
or
on
by
Socialism.
. of
.
.
ginning
so
classes entered journalism
some
other
sans-Culottism rushed the bar
riers; the sphinx's riddles were answered
cam
paigning phonographs, and the finer spirits, falling
back
the dead languages, found their retreat
parents disguised
help-meets
cut off
their
offspring's studies.
Journalistic humour, doomed
beyond recall, took the only course open
it
unconditional
surrender.
And this was the be
all
Gradually
capacity
sound; but
pupil who
most
them are
observed them
and yet wrote
his teacher
Writes would
dull dog and therefore
bad
novelist.
we had
summarise the contents
the work,
should say that
consisted
analysis
the tricks
which the great authors
injunction
get their effects coupled with
the
students
and
likewise.
There
little
long
said against the analysis except that
winded and wearisome
but there
one writer
among those held
imitation whose secret Mr.
quite
Hamilton does not seem
have
grasped.
Maupassant for
He commends Guy
working
climax; but surely
his skill
Maupassant
most characteristic when
delibé
rately avoids climax and works
anti-climax
instead,
for instance, his version
the story
Enoch Arden.
His returning husband, lost for
many years, finding his place taken, does nothing
desperate
heroic whether
the way
self
sacrifice
otherwise.
On the contrary, the strange
emotional situation dazes him.
He goes
with
the husband-in-possession
the public house,
have
drink and talk the matter over with the
landlord
and the reader feels that, after all, life
like that, and drops
the banal more often than
say
ofit
species of humour incomprehensible and caviare to
the general was at least to establish an islet, where
brethren of the pen might foregather and chortle
convivially without the raucous cachinnation of
respectable householders offending their tympani.
Besides, a competitory factor in the field was held
to be politic.
But this good influence was not for
long.
of
160
Sons,
�A CITISIOR.
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WINDUS
beautiful
Pippa Passes and Men and Women.
illustrations
colour after Helena
Brickdale.
Windus, 6s. Inet.)
in
byof
a
or
to
we
is
to
by
a
or
in
of
of
be
a
to
the market
take out that which
beautiful from Browning's
uninteresting.
works and reject that which
Each
longer
reader will follow his own taste.
question
whether Browning
included
poets.
omitted from, the list
*
In
is
do
so
in
is
It
is
If
have put on
volume containing
Pippa Passes and
Robert Browning s
Men and Women, with ten illustrations,
the
rice of 6s.
very little
these days there
said which
has not already been said about Robert Browning's
poetry; whether the criticism
false,
true
budget
mere statement
self-evident facts
paradoxes.
much better
leave the student
read the book without comment.
No person
English poetry can fail
really interested
who
ESSRS. CHATTO
&
as
as
to
up
a
be
men who lived by
books have been and
continue
written
members
all the
learned professions.
To live entirely
the pen
great struggle.
means usually
small income and
we take the most successful writers
the day
we find that not
few of them have made some
they have been
other profession their mainstay
fession was not confined
authorship.
Noteworthy
a
is
a
is
PIPPA PASSES.
º-º-º
a
all
as
of of
be
to
of
A. R.
sº- a
v-u-w
as
a
fly
If
a
of
of
of
to
be
to
of
at
Who s Who and Churchill s Medical Directory
were gone through systematically we feel sure that
from those two sources alone considerable additions
the present list
authors would result. Another
year the names
such worthies
Lafcadio
Hearn, Alfred Stead, Thomas
Perkins, Henry
Paten Gurney, Henry Barton Baker, Henry Grey
Graham, James Hay, Herbert Compton,
Rudolf
Lehman
(of Bushey), Joseph John Nesbitt,
etc., might
deleted
from living authors,
since we believe they passed away some time ago.
every work
large scale
reference done
casual slips are inevitable, and
the whole the
Literary Year Book for 1909
great improve
previous editions.
ment
on
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of
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as
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to
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of
a
a
is
in
as
is
is
to
In
in
in
names
the Army List, the Navy List, the
Clergy List, the Medical Directory,
the Musical
Directory.
authoritatively
To compile
full
list
authors residing
the British Isles
big task, but
doubt would
feel convinced
that Messrs. Routledge
Sons have the necessary
machinery
for the purpose.
the pages
In
satisfactory
note that care has been
periodical publications.
revise the list
Printing
separate form
index
the
periodicals
welcome innovation.
useful
the index
authors
the earlier part
of the book.
Part II.
the Year Book we are glad
find that the contents are now arranged alpha
betically.
step
This
the right direction,
and we are sure that we are voicing the feelings
the majority
the purchasers
this new edition
suggest that the alphabetical
when we venture
arrangement might
extended throughout the
entire volume, abolishing the red and green divi
appreciate, and
sions which the uninitiated fail
printing
the top right-hand corner
each page
heavy type
guide for rapid refer
title
ence.
for editorial reasons this
not possible
sections,
supplement might contain the
matter which has to be held over until the last
moment.
We note with pleasure that the section dealing
possible been
with Public Libraries has
far
brought
date, and the information given
regarding the Nobel Prizes
always useful.
future year perhaps the interesting calendar may
amplified.
not, for instance, see
We
January the birthday noted
Edgar Allan Poe,
concerning whom
being made this
much ado
year.
suggest
the list
Authors that
there
most room for amplification.
Sir Walter
Besant long ago remarked that the literary pro
taken
there are soldiers, sailors, clergymen,
many engaged
commerce.
the face
that fact, surely what
here called
Full Directory
Authors should
least
ample
are the separate directories
members
Yet, the list
the aforenamed callings.
authors bears
numerical comparison with the
Cases that
physicians,
of a
was
income.
If
edition
to
It
twelfth
private
turn
the names
authors
circulating libraries and take the trouble
many
look them
Who s Who,
find
&
the
issued.
possessors
be
a
is
in
of
a
In
during the time since
the fortunate
Consequently
of
to
to
is
It
it
as
to
all
be given to Messrs. Routledge & Sons for being
the only publishers
who have made a serious
endeavour to furnish the large body of writers
with a handbook of reference which may bring
them in touch with publishers, editors, librarians,
agents, literary societies, retailers of books, and
others who may be of practical service to them.
Year by year it has devolved upon us to criticise
the growth of successive editions.
Sometimes We
good faith, regard
have done so adversely, but in
ing
our duty
draw attention
short
comings.
satisfactory
note that such
friendly comments have been taken
good part.
noteworthy departure
this volume
separate Obituary List
authors and others con
nected with literature, whose deaths have occurred
161
of
TRIES
With ten
(Chatto
�A UTRIOR*.e.
The selection before us is certainly a very good
selection for those who love the poet and his works.
It begins with Pippa Passes. It contains such
Evelyn Hope,
poems as
Fra Lippo Lippi,
Light Woman,
The Patriot, and many
others of his best known works.
The real appeal, however, in a book of this
character must lie in the illustrations and the
artistic get up. These could not have been better.
Miss Brickdale s illustrations are excellent and have
been most carefully reproduced, the print is large
and clear, the paper good, and the binding artistic.
Perhaps if we were asked to choose any one picture,
we should select the picture illustrating
A Light
J
Woman, page 122, as the best, as i
have caught artistically the fancy of the poem.
We must express a regret that Pippa Passes ''
A
in a few words, with the skilful touch of
hand he conveys much of the character
of the writers.
It would be impossible to find a
more satisfactory present to give to a friend, and
the photogravures (we believe this is the process
of reproduction) would form a proper decoration
for any library.
We give a list of the pictures, as those who
desire to purchase would no doubt like a record of
admirable:
a practised
the names of the authors the portfolio contains.
would be difficult to say that one or the other
should be omitted from the list, though no doubt
Some would-be purchaser with particular favourites
may say that others should have been added.
It
1564 1616
1608 1674.
1728 1774
1759 1796
1771 1832
1770 1856
tºes
tºtºtº 1795 1821
John Keats
1811 1863
W. Makepeace Thackeray
tºtºe
Charles Dickens
1812 1870
1795 1881
Thomas Carlyle
1812 1889
Robert Browning
809 1892
Alfred Tennyson
William Shakespeare
John Milton
***
Oliver Goldsmith ...
Robert Burns
Sir Walter Scott ...
William Wordsworth
fully and more sympa
been more
illustrated.
The
two
illustrations
devoted to this poem are good as works of illustra
tive art, but hardly characteristic of the feeling
expressed in the words. The little drama is so full
of artistic possibilities that it is a pity the artist has
not devoted more of her undoubted skill to its
explanation in colours.
Perhaps some day she may
turn her attention to this poem alone and absorb
.. ...
has not
thetically
its Italian colouring and sentiment.
It is wholly
out of place to endeavour to explain its Italian
Sentiment by an illustration of a girl sitting in an
English cottage garden.
The illustrated editions
of Browning's works are not numerous ; we gladly
welcome this edition.
The book is exceedingly
cheap at the price of 6s.
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CORRESPONDENCE.
º-º-º
they are
* Britain's Great Authors.
With introduction and
by the
descriptive
text by Arthur Waugh.
Published
Fine Arts Publishing Co., Ltd., 10s. 6d.
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writes: The successors and
assignees
the publishers are included without
any remark.
Some comment
this form was
absolutely necessary.
You will allow me
direct attention
the
page 512, being the third
remark and comment
notice,
the points worthy
the second
which your reviewer discusses.
runs
follows:
3. Their successors and assignees.'
We leave
ordinary agreements.
they stand
these words
Their expediency must
determined
the status
negotiating.
the firm with which the author
See above, about bankruptcy.
This
difficult
and,
some extent,
delicate question,
which
guidance should
sought
cases
doubt and
ignorance.
Yours obediently,
in
and scholarly.
the
as
from
very kind review
section of this Annual
be
are sympathetic
received
In
February Author,
Fine Arts
Publishing Company an interesting port
folio which they have produced at the very
reasonable price of half-a-guinea.
It contains
reproductions
twelve
of English authors, the
first William Shakespeare, 1564, and the last
Alfred Tennyson, 1892.
The reproductions,
carefully done, are in most cases from well
known pictures, and the portfolio is accompanied
with an introduction by Arthur Waugh.
Mr.
Waugh's paragraphs dealing with each picture
are necessarily short, but his position as a critic
and true lover of literature ensures that they
have
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and Letters
to
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sº-0
SIR,
Law
of
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AUTHORS.*
of
BRITAIN'S GREAT
in of
THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK.
BASIL STEWART,
Editor.
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afterwards sometimes
for ever afterwards.
then,
paying some definite sum say Is.
week
year we could
occasionally relieved
£1
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INSURANCE
SIR,--The Pension Fund
great
our society
idea and deserves fuller support than
obtains.
step further and make
But can We not
insurance,
provident
combine with
kind
fund from which members could draw small sums
possible that
times
need
writers
could sometimes tide over pressing difficulties
might not have
pension
the moment,
ask
last, after
life
hard work.
To every brain-worker there come periods
exhaustion and mental lassitude when the mind
strike, the nerves
wrong, insomnia
seems
maddens, and the only thing
prevent
complete
physical breakdown
change.
rest
But how
many writers can afford
change
take
rest
To stop work, even for
few weeks, often means
the cessation of income and the accumulation of
small debts which sit on one's head for months
at
:
it
a
a
of
it
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is
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The italics are mine.
AN AUTHORS'
or
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of
no
I
to
of
of
all
to
of
on
it
to
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of
it
duty
declining
work that manifests such
description
and analytic power and such wit and
grace
dialogue
not congenial.
While fully appreciating the excellence
in
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in
of
or
of
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it,
to
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high standing,
remarks which publishers
their readers, have made
me upon
It has plenty excitement, and the characters,
them, are very good indeed.
some
(This
firm refused
the ground that they did not
anticipate only
like
succès d'estime for it. )
literary point
beautifully written from
view, but
not sufficiently exciting for the
class
readers which publishers, unfortunately, have
present.
cater for
Two thoroughly competent readers
find
literary qualities
high order, but both
hesitate
recommend
for publication when the
pay
commercial question arises, Will
The
in
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.
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a
or
to
in
it,
or
do
a to
submitted
still receive
few shillings
annually from the Colonial sales.
dispose
have never been able
the second,
my friends, the
which was,
the opinion
better book of the two.
Here are some of the
It
it
as
I
may lead
suggestions from others.
doing good work,
we succeed
only try
only want
read
we must
things
deplorable.
feel such
state
The first novel
ever wrote was accepted,
twelve years ago, by the first publisher
whom
whether
of
is
I
of
to
it if
;
as
possible,
For
at
of
of
to
be
a
following remarks.
opinion that
There seems
consensus
good work stands very little chance with the pub
lisher and the public
the present day.
should
calling my own work
not like
incur the odium
good
may give my experience,
briefly
but
If
of
be
of
in
to
in
if
appeared
Athenæum
occasion,
gloomy reflections which have lately
your columns and
those
the
on the future of the novel are the
you will allow them
so,
the
?
SIR,--The
of
OURSELVES
FOR
2
WE PUBLISH
SHALL
STROUD.
to
F.
º-º-º
the
Two
the four firms
had
hesitated long before coming
decision.
All this maddening, but this
not my point.
believe and hope there are still many who care
for the novel which involves the heart and soul
the author, and demands some thought,
least
attention, from the reader.
But
not worth
the publisher's while
aim
them.
am not
blaming the publisher he must
what
worth
his (pecuniary) while
cease
exist.
But
has
aim
crowd a fagged, half-educated
hurry.
crowd who are
seems
me that what
not worth the pub
lisher's while might very well
worth the author's.
him,
Publication
often everything
the book
Will only pay expenses.
He need not demand the
profit which the publisher, from his different point
view, must have.
way
there
which the author who cares
for his work can reach the reader who does exist
-who might also care for
Must the fagged
half-educated crowd
the publisher's
ambition
always stand between them
Advertising one's book and getting
reviewed
|present the greatest difficulties
the amateur
mind.
one printed one's own book, would the
they would the protégé
reviewers treat
publisher
happy use
Would one make
the
limited sum
one's disposal for advertisement
Yours, etc.,
C. A. M.
It
Yours truly,
feel
in a
to
to
of
all
Copyright Act, to which Mr. MacIlwaine so rightly
objects, with this result,
the book cost a little
over £2,000 to produce,
which went
America, and was lost
the British workmen.
sanguine
whole.
added that they
not
the book
is
I
to
response to the appeal by your con
tributor, Mr. Herbert MacIlwaine, permit me to
say that in 1903
was bringing out the second
edition of my
Judicial Dictionary, for which it
was thought expedient to secure the American
copyright.
To get this we had to observe, and
bow to, the manufacturing
clause in the American
character,
Success
I
SIR,--In
163
of
as
COPYRIGHT.
Is
AMERICAN
a
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to
as
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to
all
M. has
for me, but
desire
draw
attention
the fact that the list was compiled for
British, and that
U.S.A. contributors
well
give those monthlies, etc., that are
the aim
known for their straightforward dealing and fair
treatment
contributors. As
Z.'s "knowledge
complains were not inserted,
the magazines
may
safely judged
his inclusion
the
Living Age,
monthly
whose propensities Mr.
it of
liable for back subscriptions.
remonstrated with
him, and pointed out that perhaps the damages
might obtain would cover those, but
was no
good.
He would not take action himself, thus weaken
ing his own position and that
his fellows
allowing
unpunished,
the pirate
and
having
pay
would not rejoin for fear
few
guineas, which would probably come back
him
tenfold.
left him with feelings
sadness.
We are still
friends, but
not discuss the Society when we meet.
What
the good
CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER.
he
Artists Year Book, 1909 issue.
I think to
intents and purposes
Lucy did well
draw attention
letter
the Daily Telegraph.
When questioned my friend further about the
infringement
his copyright and suggested his
rejoining,
might
said that
understood
of
attention has been called to Z.'s "
on the U.S.A. list in the Writers
and
replied
If
His answer came pat
benefits non-mem
members, then
bers
well
shall get what
This,
doubt,
can for nothing.
the attitude
of those I trust there are but few who remain
outside.
he
SIR,-My
sufficiently
friend
mine who had
the society and had ceased
sub
scribe was infringed.
He mentioned the facts
rejoin and asked him
me
recommended him
why
had left.
He made the usual excuses,
that
did not benefit him personally,
which
made reply that the society's action must benefit
authors, and had done
indirectly
not
directly, whether they were members
not.
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THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK.
strictures
The copyright
belonged
-
º-º-º
SIR,--I read
the Committee Notes last month
the views the committee have taken
the matter
resignation
quite see their
and re-election.
point
view, and
constant subscriber entirely
agree with
There are
certain class
men
and women who will always get what they want
possible.
only
the lowest price, for nothing
just that the committee should protect those who
have paid the annual insurance fee, for
look
upon the guinea, with regularity and cheerfulness.
however,
There
doubt considerable danger
being too
that the Society may lose guineas
stringent.
;
I
RESIGNATIONS.
all
3. It might become a means of enlarging the
membership of the Authors Society and creating a
wider esprit de corps.
submit this idea to my fellow-members trust
ing that someone more capable than myself will
take it up and lick it into shape. On the principle
of the stitch in time
even a ten-pound note, at
the psychological moment, might often save a de;
vitalized writer from the gradual slide into serious
illness and consequent poverty.
The time always
comes, sooner or later, when that slide goes too far,
and a pension of twenty or thirty pounds does not
adequately meet the trouble.
But it might be
prevented if arrested at the start.
Faithfully yours,
is
to
I
2. It would have no stigma of charity.
We
should feel we had a right to draw a few pounds on
emergency. In fact, it would smack less of charity
than a pension does.
so
I
º-º-º
of
I
its
I
May point out the Strand
entirely similar
U.S.A. make-up
the London publication
that name that
never included
the lists
American magazines.
Pearson's
the
other hand, wholly and peculiarly American.
Had Z. carefully gone over the Year Book"
would have gathered evidence that its circulation
not confined
the British Isles
Yours faithfully,
THE COMPILER OF THE U.S.A. LIST.
of ofin
I
companies,
believe, charge rather high
require
and
a compulsory
medical
suggest would be
examination ; but the plan
more in the form of a mutual benefit society or
club, and it ought not to be beyond our power to
organise.
There would, of course, have to be a fixed limit
to the sum available on demand ; it would not be a
large sum, and it might be necessary to require a
doctor's certificate of ill-health, although
cannot
conceive any writer would ever try to take an
unfair advantage.
The chief points
see in favour of such an
insurance scheme are :
1. That it would afford immense relief to the
terribly harassing strain of feeling impotent when
necessity drives against time and power, a strain
that oppresses as cruelly as the brain grows sluggish,
vitality fails, and sleep refuses even the wooing
sedative.
insurance
premiums
is he
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C be Elut bor.
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.
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Wol. XIX. —No. 6. MARCH 1, 1909. [PRICE SIXPENCE.
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T - 4-3 PAGE PAGE
. Notices, ... . ... a s - e º s e o a c e s s e a ... ... 137 Warnings to Musical Composers ... ... ... ... ... 152
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26, Malcolm, Mrs. Ian. tº
26, Felkin, The Hon. Mrs. .
26, Ward, Wilfrid tº e
26, Marks, Mrs. Mary A. M.
26, “E.” . º * ſe
27, Prideaux, Miss S. T.
27, Saies, Mrs. F. H. .
27, Heath, Miss Ella
27, Thomas, Edward
27, Shaw, Mrs. Bernard
27, Smith, Bertram
27, Niven, Frederick . *
27, Nembhard, Miss Isabel .
27, Smith, Miss M. E. tº
28, Brandon, Miss Dorothy.
28, de la Pasture, Mrs. Henry
28, Scott, Mrs. C. e te
28, Harrison, Mrs. Darent .
28, Logan, The Rev. Robert
28, Chesterton, G. K.
30, Sherwood, Miss A. *
30, Hutchinson, The Rev. H. N.
1, Sachs, E. T. . & tº
1, Truman, Miss Olivia
3, Yolland, Miss E.
4, Bagnall, Miss L. T. .
4, Humphreys, Mrs. Desmond (Rita)
4, Anon. . * *
7, Westrup, Miss Margaret
7, Lynch, H. T. B., M.P.
8, Caillard, Miss E. M.
8, Askew, Claude
8, Felkin, A. L. .
9, Rosetti, W. M. &
9, Miller, Miss Esther .
11, Woodward, Miss Ida
12, Mann, Mrs. Mary E.
12, Lack, H. Lambert . *
14, Winchilsea and Nottingham
The Countess of
14, Sinclair, Miss May
14, Weyman, Stanley .
17, Macpherson, John F.
17, Hills, Mrs. Martha
18, Hands, Mrs. Morris
18, Geddes, Mrs. .
22, Miles, Bertram tº
23, Mackenzie, Miss Helen .
1909.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
1, Twycross, Miss M.
2, Macquarie, Arthur
4, Sproston, Mrs. Stanley
4, Phipson, Miss Emma
4, Middlemas, Miss Jean
4, Pott, J. A. ©
7, Marchmont, A. W. .
7, Sharwood, T. S.
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12, Durand, Ralph .
12, Laing, Mrs. . wº
14, Banks, Mrs. M. M.
14, Steel, Richard
16, Garnett, Edward .
16, Fenn, Frederick
18, Hering, Henry A.
18, Fox, Archibald, D.
31, Anon. . gº &
31, Kelly, W. P. c
31, Cotesworth, Miss .
1, Phillipps-Wolley, Clive .
1, Dawson, Warrington
4, Willard, Mrs. E. S.
Donations, 1908.
July 16, Carolin, Mrs. & ſº
July 28, Atherton, Mrs. Gertrude
Aug. 21, Beckett, Arthur W. .
Sept. 28, “Whitworth Wynne" .
Oct. 23, Woolf, Miss Bella Sidney
Oct. 31, Robinson, J. R. . e
Nov. 6, Wroughton, Miss Cicely.
Nov. 7, Sherard, R. H. . tº
Nov. 7, Cameron, Miss Charlotte
Nov. 12, Tweedie, Mrs. Alec. .
Nov. 17, Tench, Miss Mary F. A.
Nov. 17, Anon. . tº
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Nov.
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Nov.
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NOV.
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Now.
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NOV.
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21, Cordeaux, Miss K. M. .
21, Delaire, Madame Jean .
21, Hecht, Mrs. Arthur .
21, Collier, The Hon. John
21, Keltie, G. Scott . te
21, Church, Prof. A. H.
21, James, Miss S. Boucher
dolen ſº * tº
21, Spielmann, M. H.
21, Saville, Frank
24, Kennedy, E. B. .
24, Bennett, Prof. W. H. .
24, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite
24, Crouch, A. P. . . . . .
24, Hawtrey, Miss Valentine
24, Anon. . e e e
25, Page, Herbert W.
Nov. 25, Brereton, Capt. F. S. .
Nov. 25, Knight, Mrs. Maude C.
Nov. 25, Bowen, Miss Marjorie .
Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald
Nov. 25, Nash, T. A.
Nov. 25, Trevor, John
2i, Anson, Sir William, Bart.
21, Drewitt, F. Dawtrey, M.D.
21, Shepeard-Walwyn, H. W.
21, Ramsden, The Lady Gwen.
24, Sedgwick, Miss Anna Douglas
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DeC.
25, Wacher, Francis .
25, Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. tº
25, Farmer, Miss A. A. * à
25, Hunt, Holman tº
25, Tuckett, F. F.
25, Allen, Mrs. Grant
26, Hole, W. G. ſº
27, Granville, Charles &
27, Henoch, Miss Emily T.
27, Simes, Miss O. Kathleen
27, Penny, The Rev. Frank
27, Westell, W. P. . & e
28, Coolidge, The Rev. W. A. B. .
28, Tennant, Lady Pamela
28, Wingfield, H. . &
30, Northcote, The Rev. H.
30, Dexter, Walter
30, Oliver, Miss Selwyn .
30, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila
30, Bent, Mrs. Theodore
30, Atkins, Miss Margaret A.
7, Hood, Francis º e
7, Maunsell, A. E. Lloyd
7, Carolin, Mrs. .
7, Drake, Lady Eliott
7, Parker, Mrs. Nella.
7, Montrésor, Miss F. F.
7, Shepherd, George H.
9, Maartens, Maarten.
9, Y. F. S.
9, Lefroy, Mrs. .
9, Bourdillon, Miss Rose
9, White, Mrs. Woollaston
10, Gilliatt, The Rev. E.
13, Evans, Miss C. M. e &
14, Pennell, Mrs. Elizabeth Robins
14, Oppenheim, E. C.
16, Blake, J. P. .
17, Medlicott, Cecil
18, Tansley, A. G. . e g
19, Thurston, Mrs. Katherine Cecil
19, Todd, John L. g
21, White, Percy
23, Vance, Louis J.
28, Guthrie, Anstey
29, Roberts, Miss Edith
30, Coke, Desmond
30, Mackenzie, Miss J.
30, Lathbury, Miss Eva
31, Egbert, Henry
1909.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jan.
Jam.
Jan.
1, Zangwill, Israel
1, Hamilton, John A. .
4, Stopford, Francis
4, Falmouth, The Wiscountess
4, Carrel, Frederick
4, Laws, T. C. . e
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5, Bradgate, Mrs.
6, Leach, Henry
6, Cullen, H. N. & º e
6, Lyall, The Right Hon. Sir
Alfred, P.C., etc. .
7, Underdown, Miss Emily
8, Omond, T. S. © º
8, Paternoster, G. Sidney
9, Stockley, Mrs.
9, Tanner, James T. .
12, Tighe, Henry
12, Aitken, Robert
12, Bolton, Miss Anna
14, Williamson, W. H.
16, Furze, Miss Bessie
16, Shirley, Arthur º
18, “Austin Clare " . &
22, Williamson, Mrs. C. N.
22, Williamson, C. N.
23, Brown, R. Grant .
28, Raphael, Mrs. M. . & º
4, Wilson, Miss Theodore Wilson
4, Cousland, W. M. º
4, Hardy, Thomas
5, Bremner, Robert L.
6, Todhunter, John
6, Pettigrew, W. F.
8, Russell, G. H. s
8, Walker, Capt. J. H.
8, Dutton, Miss Annie
8, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred
11, Ainslie, Miss e
11, Steward, Miss E. M.
11, Rumble, Mrs. tº
Feb. 15, Beveridge, A. S. .
Feb. 16, Toplis, Miss Grace º
The names of those subscribers and donors which
are not included in the lists printed above are
unavoidably held over to the April issue.
The total amount of annual subscriptions
received and promised since the issue of the
circular amounts to £71. The total amount of
donations to £105.
Jan.
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COMMITTEE NOTES.
—º-º-º-
HE February meeting of the committee of
management was held at the offices of the
Society on the 1st of last month. Twelve
members and associates were elected. Their names
Will be found on another page. This brings the
total election for the current year to forty-five.
The committee decided that in case there were
more than the eligible number of candidates
for the committee, the date for the return of the
voting papers should be March 15, and they also
took steps to appoint scrutineers to count the
Votes. ‘.
Various cases which it might be necessary to
place in the hands of the solicitors of the Society,
or which already in the hands of the solicitors
needed reconsideration, were dealt with. The first
was an important case of dramatic copyright.
The committee decided to place all the papers
before a leading copyright lawyer and, if counsel
considered there was a reasonable chance of
success, to take the matter up on behalf of the
member concerned. A case relating to premature
publication of the plots of forthcoming plays, which
was laid before the society at the meeting in
January, and which the committee had decided to
take up, was reconsidered owing to the fact that
the author declined to take legal action, while
suggesting another course for the committee's con-
sideration. The committee resolved to forward a
letter dealing with the matter to the editors of the
London Press. Another case respecting an author's
rights was considered ; but as, although the author
had good ground of complaint, he held no legal
status, the committee decided to publish a letter in
The Author setting forth the facts, subject to the
approval of the society's solicitors, should the
member aggrieved desire to adopt the suggestion.
In a curious case of infringement of the rights
of an author in Sweden, it was decided to obtain
the opinion of a Swedish lawyer as to the author's
rights under the laws of that country. The com-
mittee then considered whether or not they should
support an artist in an appeal from a county
court judgment which had been given against
him in the matter of a picture postcard. After
full consideration of all the circumstances the
committee came to the conclusion that they could
not do so, but would furnish him with the advice
of the society’s solicitors. The secretary laid
before the committee the costs of the Indian
lawyer in the case which the society had been forced
to abandon at the beginning of last year, and the
committee ordered that the balance due should be
paid forthwith. - -
The sub-committee appointed to discuss the
question of cheap books stated that they were
unable, as yet, to draft a final report, as the matter
was one of serious interest, and they desired to
have the views of the booksellers on the subject.
The matter was adjourned to the next meeting.
The joint sub-committee mentioned in the
February issue of The Author has now been formed.
Sir Alfred Bateman and Mr. E. J. Macgillivray will
represent the Society of Authors; Mr. Henry R.
Clayton and Mr. Reginald Smith will act for the
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Copyright Association; and Mr. W. A. Elkin and
Mr. William Boosey will represent the Music Pub-
lishers' Association; while the Publishers' Associa-
tion will be represented by Mr. John Murray and
IMr. Edward Bell. A meeting will be held imme-
diately to consider the action which should be
adopted in order to bring forward copyright legis-
lation.
The date of the Annual Dinner has been fixed
for Thursday, April 29, at the Criterion Restaurant.
Full particulars will be sent to the members in due
COUITSé.
The consideration of the music publishers' agree-
ments, owing to the pressure of business, was
adjourned till the next meeting ; it will then be
proposed to form a small sub-committee. The
committee sanctioned the expenditure of a further
sum of money towards the furnishing of the office,
in order that the secretary might be able to deal
more expeditiously with the increased business
under his charge.
Lastly, the committee passed a vote of sympathy
and condolence with Mrs. A. W. A. Beckett on the
death of her husband, who had been for so long a
member of the committee and vice-chairman of the
Society. The secretary was instructed to com-
municate the vote to Mrs. ā, Beckett.
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE NOTES.
I.
THE first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com-
mittee held in 1909 took place on January 25, at
the offices of the society. It was impossible to
hold the meeting earlier owing to the absence of
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the chairman.
The substance of the Dramatic Pamphlet was
again considered, and adjourned to the next
meeting. Owing to the regretted absence
through illness of Mr. Bernard Shaw, it was
impossible to lay before the committee the final
draft.
The question of the new Dramatic Sub-Com-
mittee was adjourned to the next meeting, when the
names of the nominees will be finally settled. The
discussion of the Censorship Bill was also adjourned.
The secretary reported the action taken by the
Committee of Management in the dramatic cases
which had been taken up by the Society. He read
the opinion of the American lawyers, and reported
that owing to the importance which the Com-
mittee of Management attached to the case they
had concluded to take a further opinion. To
obtain this it had been decided to communicate
the facts of the case to the Right Hon. James
Bryce, and to ask him whether he could in
any way advise the Society as to its best course.
This step was fully reported in the Committee
Notes in the February issue of The Author. The
Dramatic Committee expressed approval of what
had been done, and hoped that the Committee
of Management would not allow the case to pass
unchallenged. The secretary reported that he had
communicated with the member concerned as to
the step the Committee had taken, and had asked
him to keep the society informed of the course of
the case.
Another case which owing to its urgent nature the
Committee of Management had been bound to take
up at once without consulting the Dramatic Sub-
Committee, was reported by the secretary, who
read the draft of a letter which it was proposed to
circulate to the papers. The letter was passed
with a few corrections and will be laid before the
Committee of Management in due course.
Another important dramatic case was con-
sidered, and after discussion the committee recom-
mended the Committee of Management to take up
the matter on behalf of the member concerned, as
it was one of great importance. The matter will
accordingly be put forward.
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS.
The committee decided the details for the regis-
tration of scenarios at the office. Any dramatic
author, member of the society, who desires to
have his scenario registered must send in to the
secretary of the society two typewritten copies on
foolscap with a registration fee of 2s. 6d. The
scenarios will be checked at the offices of the
society. One will be retained and locked up in
the registration box of the society, the other
stamped with the society's stamp, dated, and
returned to the author. The original copy that
is registered will not pass out of the society's
keeping, but copies will be made at the request
of the author who files the scenario, at the usual
typewriting rates of 18. a thousand Words.
II.
The second meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com-
mittee was held on Tuesday, February 2.
After the minutes of the last meeting had been
read and signed the question of the new Dramatic
Sub-Committee, adjourned from the former meeting,
was discussed, and a committee of twelve mem-
bers were chosen from the nominees put forward
by Mr. Pinero on behalf of the new Dramatic
Authors’ Society. It was decided to ask Mr.
Bernard Shaw to write to Mr. Pinero about the
matter and to report to the next meeting the
arrangements which had been made.
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The discussion of the Censorship Bill, adjourned
from the former meeting, was again raised, and the
Bill was placed before the committee. After
consideration of its terms, the committee expressed
their approval of its objects.
The secretary reported the action the Committee
of Management had taken in respect to two cases
involving the dramatic rights of members of the
society. Owing to some fresh information which
had been obtained a strong discussion arose over
one case. The Committee of Management had
decided that all the papers were to go before
King's Counsel and a conference was to be held in
order that the society might have satisfactory
independent advice. It was arranged that one of
the members of the committee should be present at
the conference so that the society’s advisers might
be fully informed and have the benefit of the new
facts connected with the case. The consideration
of the Dramatic Pamphlet was adjourned till the
next meeting.
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Cases.
THE month of February brought in thirteen new
cases to the offices of the society. Six of these
referred to the recovery of MSS. It is satisfactory
to announce that three of them have been settled
already, the MSS. having been returned and sent to
the authors. In one case the editor seems to have
mislaid the MSS., but the legal position of the case
has made it practically impossible to take action
for recovery. Of the two remaining cases, one is
in America and will take some time to settle, and
the other has only just come to hand. There have
been two claims for accounts. The accounts have
been rendered by the publisher and forwarded to
the author. Lastly there have been five claims for
the recovery of money. One of these has been
settled, one in the United States must necessarily
take time, two are only just to hand, and the
remaining case will most probably have to be
transferred to the Society's solicitors, as no answer
has been received to the secretary’s letters.
Of the cases left over from the former month
only one is still outstanding. The matter is a
difficult one and the author has no actual legal
claim, and so long as the publisher refuses to
answer the letters nothing can be done. It is
hoped, however, that it will be possible to close
the matter shortly.
Three cases have been placed in the hands of the
society’s solicitors with instructions to take action
in court if necessary. The remaining work in the
solicitors’ hands has been mentioned in the Com-
mittee Notes.
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February Elections.
Brown, Miss E. Mackie c/o Miss Bain, 26, .
Pitt Street, Edin-
º burgh.
Cannan, Gilbert 1, Temple Gardens,
E.C. .
The White House,
Hampton Court,
S.W.
H or swell House,
King s bridge,
Devon. -
11, Cathcart Studios,
33, Redcliffe Road,
S.W.
Cory, Mrs. Theodore
(Winifred Graham).
Green, Miss
Conyngham.
Kathleen
Irvine, J. Harry .
Quin, Henfield,
Sussex.
Mack, Miss Margaret
M. E. R.
Möller, Fräulein Clara Llandreiter str,
Schwerin, i.M.
Pollock, John
Titterton, W. R. . 50, Willoughby Road,
Hampstead, N.W.
88, The Drive Man-
sions, Fulham, S.W.
... Littlehampton.
Trotēre, H. . * >
Willson, W. Llewis .
We regret that, in recording the elections in the
last issue of Z'he Author, Mr. James B. Fagan's
name was misspelt. We apologize for the mistake,
and desire to make this correction.
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BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF
THE SOCIETY.
—º-º-º-
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep
this list as accurate and as exhaustive as possible, they have
Some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will
CO-Operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially
aCCUllrate.
- ART.
MR. PUNCH's PAGEANT, 1841—1909. Introduction by
E. W. LUCAS. 84 × 7. The Leicester Galleries. 10s. n.
BIOGRAPHY.
A SISTER OF PRINCE RUPERT : ELIZABETH, PRINCESS
PALATINE AND ABBESS OF HEREFORD. By ELIZABETH
GODFREY. 83 × 5%. 362 pp. Lane. 12s. 6d. n.
RICHARD JEFFERIES. His Life and Work. By EDWARD
THOMAS. 83 × 5%. 340 pp. Hutchinson. 10s. 6d. n.
THE PROMINENT FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA. Edited by A. M. BURKE. Vol. I. 11; x
8}, 509 pp. The Sackville Press. ©2 2s. n.
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BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
DICTIONARY or NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Edited by
SIDNEY LEE. (New Edition.) Vol. XII. LLWYD-
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CLASSICAL.
THE RHETORIC of ARISTOTLE, A Translation by SIR
RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE JEBB, Litt.D. Edited, with
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SANDYS, Litt.D. 83 × 53. 207 pp. Cambridge Uni-
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Litt.D. 9 × 5%. 229 pp. Macmillan. 7s. 6d. n.
DRAMA.
An Episode in the History of a
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Heinemann. 1s. 6d.
ECONOMICS.
RAILWAY RATES, The Method of Calculating Equitable
Rates and Charges for Merchandise carried on Railways.
THE THUNDERBOLT.
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Sonnenschein. 21S. n.
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WE OF THE NEVER NEVER. By MRS. AENEAS GUNN.
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- NOTES.
E are glad to see that the Publishers’
V W Circular has been exposing the methods
of Thomas B. Mosher, bookseller, of
Portland, Maine. Mr. Mosher has for many years
been engaged in systematic piracy. His business is
to appropriate any work of literary merit, reprint
it and sell it, not only without scruple, but, as his
catalogues bear witness, with impudent effrontery.
Many members of the Society of Authors have
suffered from his depredations, Mr. George Mere-
dith and Mr. Maurice Hewlett among the numbers
Mr. Swinburne has also suffered greatly at the
hands of Mr. Mosher, who also publishes works
by Walter Pater, Stevenson, William Morris, J. A.
Symonds, Oscar Wilde, Francis Thompson, and
many others. As the Publishers’ Circular remarks,
“Booksellers and private book-buyers should note
that this Portland pirate is offering and selling
scores of editions which it is illegal to buy, sell, or
advertise for sale in any part of the British
Empire.”
We hope the Publishers’ Association will do all
in their power to prevent the circulation of the
wares of Mr. Mosher in this country.
We have received “The Annals of Psychical
Science,” January–March, 1909, vol. viii., No. 49.
This quarterly is edited by Mrs. Laura E. Finch,
assisted by Mr. Dudley Wright. The present issue
contains, among other articles, one on “The
Tendencies of Metapsychism' by the editor.
“Thieves and Swindlers,” by S. B. Banerjea, is
being published this month by The Indian Pub-
lishing House, 73/1, Sukea's Street, Calcutta. As
the name implies, it is an attempt to put the
public on their guard against the thieving and the
Swindling fraternities. Their methods are exposed,
and the public are advised how to protect
themselves.
Messrs. Dent are publishing almost immediately
a new volume in their Mediaeval Towns Series, viz.,
“Pisa,” by Janet Ross and Nelly Erichsen. It is
believed that this is the first historical guide to
this city ever written. The volume will be uniform
with its predecessors in the series.
“Voluspa,” done into English from the Icelandic
by A. K. Coomara Swamy, has been issued in a
limited edition by the Essex House Press.
“The Silent Ones,” a tale of adventure in
Central Africa, has been brought out by Mr.
Werner Laurie. The authors are Mary Gaunt and
J. Ridgwell Essex, who will be remembered as the
collaborators in “Fools Rush In.”
We have received from Mr. John Ouseley “My
Service Days: India, Afghanistan, Suakim '85,
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and China,” by Major-General Sir Norman Stewart,
Bart., C.B., and volume ii. of the Irish Library,
“The Fenian Movement : The Story of the
Manchester Martyrs,” by F. L. Crilly.
Miss Theodora Wilson-Wilson's story “By Black
Tarn Edge,” which has been running serially in the
Mid-Cumberland Herald, will be published in the
spring by Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. The same
writer is represented by a story in the March issue
of Chambers's Journal, under the title “A Yarlside
Romance.”
Messrs. James Clarke & Co. and the Kingsgate
Press have published the poems of Mr. Mackenzie
Bell. The volume contains a Dedication to Mr.
Theodore Watts Dunton, and an Introductory
Essay.
“We of the Never Never,” by Mrs. Aeneas
Gunn, author of “The Little Black Princess,” is a
presentation of life on one of the great cattle runs
three hundred miles from a town; and records the
experiences of the “Little Missus,” who joins her
husband, and, unwelcomed at first by the stockmen,
finally wins their respect. Messrs. Hutchinson &
Co. are the publishers.
A new club for women has recently been estab-
lished at 40, Sackville Street, Piccadilly. It is
called the Salon, and has for its main object the
education of women who wish to keep themselves
abreast of the current events and movements of the
times. This it proposes to achieve by means of
instruction in English literature, conversation,
elocution, and oratory, lecturing, etc. Monthly
conversaziones are also to be held and will be
presided over by some of the leading women of the
day. Particulars of fees may be had on application
to the Secretary.
“Health, Morals and Longevity,” by George
Gresswell, M.A., L.R.C.P., and Albert Gresswell,
M.A., M.D., is a short résumé of the more
important conditions necessary for a healthy life.
The question is considered from the two-fold
aspect, (a) that of individuals, and (b) that of
communities. The book is put forth as a sketch
of an important subject, and the writers have
endeavoured to throw some additional light on the
very difficult questions intimately related to it.
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, & Co. are the London
publishers, while Messrs. John Wright & Sons, Ltd.,
are the publishers in Bristol. .
Mr. Joseph Holbrooke gave a vocal and piano-
forte recital at Steinway Hall on January 29.
The programme included Four Rhapsodie Etudes by
Miss Lydia Stage, variations on “Three Blind
Mice,” by Henry R. Bird and Joseph Holbrooke,
and songs by Miss Grainger Kerr, Mr. Reginald
Davidson, and Miss Perceval Allen.
Miss A. E. Keeton gave a lecture on the
Russian fabulist Kryloff, at the Lyceum Club, on
February 11. To Russians young and old Kryloff
is a household word and a proverb. Miss Keeton
read a number of her own translations of the most
popular of his fables, amongst them : “The Pig,”
“The Cat and the Cork,” and “The Trigamist.”
A large percentage of the audience present was
Russian.
Miss Keeton will give a few more translations at the
next Havonic Circle on March 11, when Madame
Kipman will also sing “The Quartet,” and several
others of Rubinstein's settings of Kryloff for soprano
voice and pianoforte.
We have received from the Oxford University
Press a reprint of “The Heroine” by Eaton
Stannard Barrett, with an introduction by Prof.
Walter Raleigh.
“The Public Schools Year Book” for 1909 con-
tains tabulated lists of Preparatory Schools, new
articles on the Universities, giving full details of
Universities other than Oxford and Cambridge.
The aim of the editor has been to give accurate
businesslike information, to avoid theory, and to:
deal in sound facts, and he invites the co-operation
and support of his readers to this end.
Messrs. Cassell and Company, Limited, are issuing
a new novel by Walter Wood, entitled “The Secret
Paper.” This is the third of four novels which
Mr. Wood has written for Messrs. Cassell for serial
and volume publication. Mr. Wood recently
returned from another visit to America, where he
was engaged, largely in the Middle West, in
collecting material for stories to be included in
“Survivors' Tales of Great Events,” a series
which has now entered upon the fifth year of
publication in the Royal Magazine. . More than
fifty of these articles have been published, a
number which is said to be without a record for
such a series.
Count Lutzow has now completed his extensive
work entitled “The Life and Times of Master John
Hus.” It will be published in April by Messrs.
Dent & Co. .
Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton’s new romance
“Within Four Walls,” to be published immediately
by Mr. John Milne, derives its source from a little
known act of injustice perpetrated on an innocent
woman shortly after the assassination of Henri IV.
She had discovered a plot to kill the King, which
was fixed for the identical day when he was slain by
Ravaillac, and was anticipated by him. Her
valiant denunciation of the authors of this plot, who
were of the highest rank, led to her incarceration
in a distant fortress, and round this Mr. Bloundelle-
Burton's story is built. Writers of a somewhat later
period than her own have hinted that her ad-
ventures only began after the sentence was passed
on her, and those adventures furnish the motif of
the novel.
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We have received from Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co.
a list of their recent publications, which includes
“New Things and Old in Saint Thomas Aquinas,”
edited by Mr. H. C. O’Neill; and “The History
of Modern Painting,” by Richard Muther.
Mr. G. P. R. James's historical novel “Richelieu’’
will be published by Messrs. Dent in “Everyman's
Library '' early this month, with an introduction
by Mr. Rudolf Dircks.
“Railway Rates : The Method of Calculating
Equitable Rates and Charges for Merchandise
carried on Railways,” by the late Joseph
Horrocks, has been published by Messrs. Swan
Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd. The work is divided
into three parts :
I. Definitions
Obligations.
II. The Method Described.
III. The Method Illustrated by Examples.
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's play, “The Dancing
Girl,” was revived at His Majesty's Theatre on
February 16, with a new last act. The caste
included Miss Alice Crawford, Mr. Louis Calvert,
and Mr. Vane Tempest.
Among Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co.'s
announcements we notice Mr. Douglas Ainslie’s
Prelude to his Cycle of Poems entitled “The Song
of the Stewarts.” The Prelude consists of a series
of brief poems in various metres, dealing with the
days before the Lord High Stewart of Scotland
mounted the throne, in the person of Robert II.,
grandson of Robert Bruce. The Battles of
Falkirk and Bannockburn, the strange wooing of
the father of Robert Buis, and many other events
are described.
The present work will be followed by other
poems dealing with the House of Stewart and the
Vicissitudes through which it has passed.
Messrs. Constable & Co. have also on sale, in one
Volume, Mr. G. Bernard Shaw's two plays, “The
Doctor's Dilemma" and “Getting Married,”
together with two Prefaces from Mr. Shaw's
pen. -
Mr. E. Grant Hooper has written, and Mr.
Effingham Wilson has published, a pamphlet
explaining the German State Insurance System for
providing invalid and old age pensions and assist-
ance in case of temporary illness and of accidents
Occurring in the course of employment.
“Motor Tours in Yorkshire,” by Mrs. Rodolph
Stawell, is a companion volume to the same writer's
“Motor Tours in Wales.” Messrs. Hodder and
Stoughton are the publishers of the volume, which
is intended for the passenger rather than the driver.
It is written for those who wish to know before-
hand where they will find the most beautiful places,
and contains photographs, a map of the route, and
an index.
of Services, Liabilities, and
PARIS NOTES.
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7 ITHIN, a comparatively short time the
W French Academy has lost nine of its
most prominent members. Hérédia was
the first of this list, and was followed by Berthelot,
Ludovic Halévy, André Theuriet, Ferdinand Brune-
tière, Sully-Prudhomme, François Coppée, and
Victorien Sardou. The death of the Marquis Costa
de Beauregard leaves another fauteuil vacant.
The late Academician was born in Savoy in 1835.
It was during the Franco-German War, and whilst
in captivity, that M. Costa de Beauregard was
elected by Savoy as its representative in the
National Assembly.
Later on, tempted by his own family archives,
he commenced that series of historical works for
which he was elected to the French Academy.
“Un homme d'autrefois” is the book with which
he won his laurels. It is the biography of his
famous ancestor, the Marquis Joseph-Henri Costa
de Beauregard.
Within three weeks, too, France has lost Ernest
Reyer, the two Coquelins, and Catulle Mendès.
Coquelin ainé was born in 1841 at Boulogne-
sur-Mer. After hearing Rachel in “Adrienne
Lecouvreur,” he came to Paris to study at the
Conservatoire. He was eighteen years of age at
that time, and in 1860, at the age of nineteen,
he was playing at the Comédie-Française. For
twenty-six years he remained at the Français, and
his fame from the very first, as a comedian, has
been world-wide.
He had founded a Maison des Comédiens for
artistes in their old age and, while studying his
ºróle in Rostand’s new play, “Chantecler,” he had
gone to this house to rest. It was here that he
died suddenly, to the grief and dismay, not only of
his compatriots but of the world at large. -
Coquelin cadet was suffering from a nervous
disease, and was being attended at a private
hospital. His devotion to his brother was such
that he only lived three days after being in-
formed of the latter's death. He had followed
his brother to Paris, and they had been devoted to
each other. Coquelin cadet had also had enormous
success, and his rendering of monologues was
inimitable.
Another sudden death was that of Catulle
Mendès, who it is believed fell from the railway
carriage in getting out of the train before it had
stopped. Catulle Mendès was born in 1843 at
Bordeaux He came to Paris in 1860, and pub-
lished his first poetry in 1862. About the same
time he was condemned to a month's imprison-
ment and a fine of twenty pounds for the publica-
tion of an article in a review. In 1866 he married
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Judith Gautier, from whom he was later on
divorced. From this time forth until his death
he wrote a quantity of short stories, novels, poems
and plays. For the last twelve years Catulle
Mendès was also theatrical critic to Le Journal.
Many were the duels which he fought, among
others with Lugné-Poé and George Wanor.
“L’Affaire Nell,” by Louis Estang, is an
interesting psychological study of characters which
are very true to life. Each person is well studied
and the story itself well told. A wealthy young
widow arrives in Paris almost unknown and, through
no fault of her own, finds herself involved in a law-
suit. She is very soon surrounded by a little crowd
of parasites who are attracted by her wealth. The
chief interest of the book is the study of this young
provincial woman, her development and evolution.
The other characters are also developed in a
masterly way, and the habits and customs of a
certain set of society are admirably depicted.
Among other new novels are the following:—
“Une Mariage américain,” by Georges Ohmet ;
“Sur les Deux Rives,” by Léon de Tinseau, a
story of a young French nobleman who finds a
second home in Canada ; “ Notre Compagne,” by
Marcel Prévost, a new illustrated edition of this
author's novel.
Among books of memoir and historical works
are the following :-‘‘Lettres de Jeunesse,” by
Eugene Fromentin, with bibliography and notes
by Pierre Blanchon ; “Le Maréchal Canrobert ’’
(“Souvenirs d’un Siècle”), by Germain Bapst.
“Italica,” by Joseph l'Hôpital, is a work of
impressions and souvenirs in which the author
gives us some excellent pictures of Milan, Venice,
Bologna, and Florence.
A revised and corrected edition of Anatole
France's “Jeanne d’Arc ’’ is announced.
“Le Fruit Défendu,” by Henry Wignemal, takes
us away from France, as the scene is placed in
Italy. The author appears to know this country
and its people well. He introduces a family
belonging to the old nobility and describes the
difference between the people of former days and
of to-day. He describes the death of Leo XIII.
and the election of Pius X. A passionate love-
story runs through the volume. Altogether it is
a strong novel, with powerful interest from the first
page to the last.
Madame Juliette Adam's sixth volume of
“Mémoires” has appeared. It takes in the
period between May, 1873, and May, 1877,
and is entitled “Nos Amitiés politiques avant
l'abandon de la revanche.” There are many
letters from Gambetta in this volume.
Comte Robert de Montesquiou has published
another volume of his prose essays, entitled
“Assemblée de Notables.”
most beautiful is certainly the
It is with great pleasure that we see the volume
of poetry entitled “Giboulées,” signed by Alice
Lardin de Musset. It would indeed be a pity for
the name to die out in France. Alfred de Musset's
sister died rather more than three years ago. Her
granddaughter, the great-niece of the poet, has just
published her first book of verse. There are some
exquisite poems in the volume, and one of the
One entitled
“Deuil,” composed after the death of her beloved
grandmother. There are several others, too, full
of promise. Their great charm is their absolute
simplicity and sincerity.
Among translations: “ Carrière d'Artiste,” by
Mrs. Humphry Ward. This is an exceptionally
good translation, signed by Th. Bentzon and A.
Fliche.
In the Revue de Paris, Judith Gautier continues
the “Troisièmerang” of her “Le Collier des jours,”
and there are serials by Mathilde Serao and Claude
Farrère.
In the Revue hebdomadaire Frederic Masson
Writes an interesting article on “Le Pape et
l'Empereur.” There is also an article by Gabriel
Hanotaux on “La Diplomatie de l'avenir,” and
another one by C. M. Savarit on “Le Dépeuplement
de la France.”
“L’Oiseau blessé” is the new play by Alfred
Capus now being given at the Renaissance. “Le
Lis,” by MM. P. Wolff and Gaston Leroux, is
being played at the Vaudeville, and “La Tragédie
royale,” by M. Saint Georges de Bouhelier, at the
Odéon.
ALYS HALLARD.
“Lettres de Jeunesse’’ (Plon).
“Italica" (Perrin).
“Jeanne d'Arc" (Calmann Lévy).
“Le Fruit Défendu ’’ (Calmann Lévy).
“L’Affaire Nell” (Calmann Lévy).
“Un Mariage américain" (Ollendorff).
“Sur les Deux Rives '' (Calmann Lévy).
“Notre Compagne " (Lemerre).
“Giboulées” (G. Arrault).
“Carriére d’Artiste” (Hachette),
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SPANISH NOTES.
HAVE just received from Madrid a striking
I little book called “La Solidaridad Social,”
by Victoriano Garcia Marti, whose addresses
in The Athenæum have been listened to with atten-
tion by the members. The author shows his
zeal for suffering humanity when he says: “To
the poor, to the disabled, and to all those who
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thirst for justice, I dedicate this work and my
whole life.” The chapter on the connection of
Solidarity with Positivism is practical, showing
that when contemplation was shared by science
humanity became more practical in its philanthropy.
Moreover, the perpetual struggle between the Real
and the Ideal is touched upon philosophically in
its connection with the Solidarity of Humanity.
The author pays a generous tribute to Doña
Concepción Arenal, the clever poetess of Galicia,
who devoted her poetic talent to the laudation of
the real Brotherhood of Humanity, and whom
Azcarate, the great littérateur, termed “not only
the glory of Galicia or Spain, but of the entire
World.”
In her “Letters to a Gentleman,” the late
authoress says: “Nineteen centuries ago the
Divine Master taught that all men were brothers,
but we have either not learnt the doctrine or
forgotten it.”
Señor García Marti aptly remarks that the
Table of the Rights of Man which figured in the
French Revolution should now be accompanied by
that of the duties relating to liberty and fraternity.
The book is, in fact, one of those daily proofs of
the awakening of Spain to the duties of altruism.
El Teatro Español has staged with great success
the new play by Señor Linares Rivas in which,
through the extravagances of a conception in
which the characters are represented by animals,
he shows the redeeming influence of love, so that
“Master Wolf” (the title of the play) is able to
live in peaceful proximity with the lamb by his
conquest of old prejudices. The play forms an
admirable opportunity for the author to attack
many of the conventionalities of life which lead to
callous neglect of the weak and helpless.
The Academy of History has just celebrated the
centenary of the War of Independence by a
brilliant function honoured by the presence of
King Alfonso XIII. The third anniversary of the
death of General Gómez de Arteche was also cele-
brated on the Occasion, and his monumental
work entitled “Historia de la Guerra de la Inde-
pendencia.” General Suarez Inclán read an elo-
quent address on the subject. He explained it
was not only a simple relation : it was much more,
as every fact was accompanied by a judgment of
the authors which threw fresh light on the sub-
jects. Thus, the rising of the people on May 2,
the defence of the Artillery Park, the organisation
of the Spanish troops against Napoleon, etc., were
all vividly and logically brought forward, and the
aid of the English was given a fair tribute.
The Academy of Medicine has recently in-
augurated its work for 1909, and Don Baldomero
Gonzalez Alvarez gave a clever discourse on
“Heredity.” After some scientific remarks on the
origin of life, the doctor explained that biological
heredity is the transmission of character, original
and acquired by adaptation, selection, or infirmity.
Heredity of disease was fully entered into, includ-
ing that of alcoholism. Doctor Legrain's inte-
resting statistics on the various infirmities accruing
to children of alcoholic parents were quoted, and
the lecturer terminated his discourse by repeat-
ing the words of Lacassaque, “Society has its
criminals,” and he recommended to his audience
the adoption of the method in vogue in Ohio, that
a certificate of health should be legally necessary
before marriage.
In Corunna a stone has just been unveiled on
the house where Sir John Moore died from his
Wounds at the battle of Elvira on January 16,
1809.
Señor Prat de la Riva, the Catalonian historian,
has just received the Grand Cross of Isabella the
Catholic for his work on the period of Ferdinand W.
and Isabella the Catholic. The view given of many
of the incidents of the period has aroused the ire
of many Castilians.
The confusion reigning on the subject of Soli-
darity and Separatism produces great disorder in
the Congress. The liberal leader Moret had
hardly commenced an eloquent speech, in which he
showed himself opposed to a debated administra-
tive reform, when a Solidarist of Barcelona inter-
rupted the orator, and passion rose so high on both
sides of opinion that the ex-Prime Minister had to
forego the rest of his speech from emotion.
Señor Pi y Margall has just published a
powerful article paper called “Las Manifesta-
ciones Regionalistas,” and another one on “El
Separatismo.”
RACHEL CHALLICE.
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BISHOP v. WIVIANA & Co.
HE plaintiff in this case claimed to be the
author of a dancing scena or sketch entitled
“My Gollywog,” and sued Miss Florence
Coles, who carries on business as Viviana & Co.,
for damages on account of alleged infringements
of his performing right. The plaintiff also claimed
damages for “passing off,” alleging that the
defendant represented the sketch performed by her,
entitled “The Toy Shop,” as being the plaintiff’s
sketch.
The plaintiff stated that he had originated the
idea of the gollywog dance, and of having a rod
with a hook upon it from which he was suspended
by the middle. The sketch opened with children
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singing a song, and then one of the children hung
him upon the hook. There were seven performers
who assisted in the dance, and a page boy who had
gags The plaintiff said that he was the author of
the apparatus and the gags.
As to the “passing off,” it appeared that on one
occasion when the plaintiff was advertised on the
programme at the Olympia Music Hall, Shoreditch,
the defendant was engaged to deputise there, and
gave a performance of “The Toy Shop,” but with-
out any knowledge that the plaintiff’s sketch had
been advertised. .
Mr. Justice Channell, following the decision of
the Court of Appeal in Tate v. Fullbrook, held that
the plaintiff had no performing right in the dance.
As to the “passing off,” he said that if anyone
was to blame, it was the manager and not the
defendant. If the latter had been a party to her
performance being represented as the plaintiff’s
performance, she would have made herself liable ;
but upon her evidence he was of opinion that she
was no party to it. He accordingly gave judgment
for the defendant.
HAROLD HARDY.
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REPRESENTATION OF SKETCH BY
CINEMATOGRAPH.
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RARNo v. PATHá FREREs.
f | WHE plaintiff in this action, Mr. Fred Karno,
was the owner of the performing right in a
pantomimic sketch entitled “The Mumming
Birds,” and sued the defendant company for
damages in respect of the infringement of his
right. The defendant company manufactured and
sold cinematograph films to proprietors and per-
formers at music halls, and amongst other films in
their catalogue was one entitled “At the Music
Hall,” which the plaintiff alleged to be a representa-
tion of his sketch, or the instrument from which
the representation was made.
On behalf of the defendant company it was
contended that the sketch was not a dramatic
piece in which there was any performing right,
and that the defendant company had not caused
the sketch to be represented by reason of the
sale of the cinematograph film, even though they
knew that it was intended to be used for the
purpose of the representation. -
Mr. Justice Jelf held that, upon the grounds
stated by the Court of Appeal in Tate v. Fullbrook,
a pantomimic sketch, performed for the most part in
dumb show but with a certain amount of “gag,” of
which there was no book of words or stage direc-
tions, which was not capable of being printed and
published as a literary composition, was not a
dramatic piece. In the case of a dramatic piece,
however, he was of opinion that a representation
by cinematograph might constitute an infringement
of the performing right; moreover, the defendant
company were not liable upon another ground,
because by merely manufacturing and selling the
cinematograph film, even though they knew the
film was bought for the purpose of representation
at places of public entertainment, they had not
caused the sketch to be represented so as to con-
stitute an infringement of the performing right, if
any existed.
The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of
Mr. Justice Jelf upon this latter ground, and it
was therefore unnecessary to go into the question
as to whether the sketch was a “dramatic piece.”
If there was any performing right in the sketch,
the action should have been brought against the
persons who represented it or caused the representa-
tion to be made. -
The appeal was accordingly dismissed.
HAROLD HARDY.
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SCHOLZ v. AMASIS, LTD.
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NIR,--The “General Note ’’ which appears on
this subject in the February number of your
journal is so misleading and, in fact, posi-
tively incorrect, as to lead to the suspicion that an
amateur has been dabbling in law ; and even the
writer's excuse of want of time will not prevent
the lay reader of your journal from falling into
grave error if he relies upon the note.
Your contributor says that “the first point to
be considered is the date . . . when each com-
pleted piece first came within the baneful influence
of the Copyright Statutes.” As a matter of fact,
no question of copyright was involved in the case ;
the plaintiff's play having been neither published
nor acted, and being, therefore, unprotected by
copyright law.
The action was based upon common law fraud,
q.e., an accusation of deliberate theft of the plain-
tiff's material by the defendant. For reasons which
may or may not commend themselves to the Court
of Appeal, the judge found, on circumstantial
evidence, that in fact fraud or theft had been
committed, and therefore awarded the plaintiff
damages, not for breach of copyright, but for the
common law offence of stealing his material.
There can be no award on such a ground unless
the court believes that in fact the defendant copied
from the plaintiff. .
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TISIES ALITISIOR,
Your contributor is, of course, quite entitled to
say that the law on this point is ridiculous, but, so
long as it exists, it must be observed by authors.
Moreover, it does not seem to me at all unjust to
say that, if a second writer accidentally hits upon the
ideas and phrases of a first author, who has not
communicated them to the public, the second
author is not to blame. As everyone knows, such
instances have occurred in the scientific world, and
I do not know why they should not occur in
literature. It may be doubted whether it would
be for the benefit either of authors or the public
that a writer should be able, as it were, to annex a
certain number of ideas and phrases by putting
them on paper and locking them up in his drawer.
In that way a fertile but unskilled playwright
might practically stop the production of all plays
but his own, without himself being able to get a
single play acted. The common law in this case
seems to me to be also common Sense.
I may add, in conclusion, that my information
about the case is first-hand, but it agrees with the
reports in the papers.
Yours faithfully,
EDWARD JENKS.
From “Who’s Who’’ it appears that Mr. Jenks
is Principal and Director of Legal Studies of the
Law Society. &
I must thank Mr. Jenks for his condescension
in writing from his tutorial chair and for his
endeavour to set me right in a matter con-
nected with copyright. The question whether
an innocent infringer is always liable may be
a question of opinion, and may, perhaps, receive
some further elucidation when the case of Scholz
v. Amasis, Ltd., is discussed in the Court of
Appeal: but the grounds both of law and of fact
on which Mr. Jenks bases his letter are wrong, as
I will endeavour to show even at the risk of being
termed an amateur.
Mr. Jenks' first point is contained in the follow-
ing sentence : “As a matter of fact, no question of
copyright was involved in the case, the plaintiff's
play having been neither published nor acted, and
being, therefore, unprotected by copyright law.”
Mr. Jenks must study his copyright law more
carefully. A general practitioner is not always
a good specialist. He should study 3 & 4
William IV., the judgment of Mr. Justice Hawkins
in Reichardt v. Sapie, the comments on the Act in
Copinger's Law of Copyright, 4th edition, by J. M.
Easton, and Macgillivray's Law of Copyright. He
will then see that his statement is not justified.
It is not requisite for a play to be published or
acted to bring it under the Copyright Statute.
It may still be a matter of opinion, but I am
content with my authorities.
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24.
The second point in Mr. Jenks' letter is not one
of opinion, but one of fact. He says: “The
action was based upon a common law fraud and
damages were awarded not for breach of copyright
but for the common law offence of stealing the
material.” -
The plaintiff’s claim in his pleadings was for
infringement of copyright and not for common law
fraud. In giving judgment, the judge stated that
“the action was brought by the plaintiff to recover
damages for the alleged infringement of the
plaintiff’s copyright.” Further, he said : “All
the proper steps had been taken under the Statutes
to protect his (the plaintiff’s) copyright,” and,
finally, “I have come to the conclusion and find,
as a fact, that the defendants have infringed a
material and substantial part of the plaintiff’s
copyright.”—THE WRITER OF THE PARAGRAPH.
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MAGAZINE CONTENTS.
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BIBLIOPHILE.
On Certain Bronte MSS. By Harold F. B. Wheeler.
English Book Illustration in the Eighteenth Century.
By Katharine Esdaile.
BIACKWOOD’S.
Oxford, Past and Present. By P. A. Wright Henderson.
Boswell.
BOOKMAN.
Charles Darwin. By Edward Clodd.
Richard Jefferies and London. By Edward Thomas.
The Penalties of Failure. By Edwin Pugh.
CONTEMPORARY.
Mendelssohn in 1909. By Ernest Newman.
The Love of Wild Nature. By Havelock Ellis.
English Literature and the Indian Student. By Tau.
The Centenary of Edgar Allan Poe. By Edmund Gosse.
CORNHILL.
Robert Browning in Edinburgh. By Rosaline Masson.
FORTNIGHTLY.
The Beaten Track. By W. Garrott Brown.
Americans as Actors. By Bram Stoker.
The Writings of Mr. W. B. Yeats. By E. M. D.
Poetry and the Stage. By Stephen Gwynn.
The Fatigue of Anatole France. By I. M. Kettle, M.P.
Sir Edward Elgar’s Symphony. By E. A. Baughan,
NATIONAL.
Modern Antiques. By Helen Zimmern.
The Shakespearean Problem. By Geo. Hookham
NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER.
The Real Lafcadio Hearn. By Mrs. Arthur Kennard.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. By A. E. Keeton.
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.
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1, VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive
E 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 without
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved
member, and all costs borne by the Society.
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. Before signing any agreement whatever, send
the document to the Society for examination.
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you
are reaping no direct 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.
5. The Committee have 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 stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-
lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the
Prospectus.
6. 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.
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.
§ecretary will undertake it on behalf of members.
This
The
8. 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.
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.
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WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS
OF BOOKS,
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ERE 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
Iſle2, D.S.
(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.
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WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS,
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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
manageT.
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays
in three or more acts:— -
(a.) 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 dat
and for proper publication of his name on i.
play-bills.
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THE AUTHOR.
(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 Tights 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.
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REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS.
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CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper
- forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.
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L*. can be added to the warnings given for the
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
should be especially careful therefore when entering into
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration
the warnings stated above.
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STAMPING MUSIC.
The 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 Sociéty'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.
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THE READING BRANCH,
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EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this
M branch of its work by informing young writers
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. 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.
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“THE AUTHOR,”
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HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of
T 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
5s. 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.
Communications and letters are invited by the
Editor on all literary matters treated from the stand-
point of art or business, but on no other subjects whatever.
Every effort will be made to return articles which cannot
be accepted.
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REMITTANCES.
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and
Smith's Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered
letter only.
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GENERAL NOTES.
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On the ballot paper which accompanies
this month’s “Author’ subscribing members
have full details as to the manner in which
their yotes should be recorded. Any members
who have not received ballot papers with
their “Authors” are requested to write to
the Secretary at once.
THE BOOK TRADE.
THE February number of the Book Monthly con-
tains an article from the editor on “The Ill State
of the Book Trade,” and various letters from
publishers dealing with the same subject.
Judging from these, there seems to be good
reason to suppose that “Queen Victoria's Letters,”
“Morley's Gladstone,” published in cheap form,
and Queen Alexandra's volume of photographs, may
have had something to do with the slack business
at Christmas. The general reason of depression
if it exists—we cannot doubt this if we read
the statements contained in these letters—is
over-production, not merely over-production by
cheap reprints, but by new copyright matter. Mr.
Reginald Smith, of Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co.,
limits his statement, and thinks second-rate books,
and still more third-rate books, alone have suffered
from over-production.
Surely this is in a great part the fault of the
publishers, not of the best firms, but of those who
write “Our reader has reported favourably on
your work, and if you will pay £150 towards
the cost of production, and give us the refusal of
your next six novels,” etc., etc.
It would be interesting to know how often the
secretary of the society has stopped authors from
accepting this offer. But unfortunately, there are
many authors, with first books, who do not come to
the society till they have been caught in the trap.
SETTLEMENT OF AGREEMENTS.
OWING to the bankruptcy of a certain publisher,
many agreements have been handed to the Secretary
in order that the society might take up the claims
of those members involved. In going through
these agreements, it has again been brought strongly
to our notice that the ordinary publisher's agree-
ment signed without advice is in most cases an
unsatisfactory document.
In the standing matter of The Author from
month to month under the heading of “Warnings
to producers of books” is printed this statement:
“Never, sign any agreement without competent
advice from the secretary of the society,” but
like all standing matter it is not unfrequently
overlooked by readers. Again, therefore, we must
ask all our members to use the society before they
Sign their agreements. Sometimes it happens
that when the secretary has placed before a member
the pros and cons of the case, the terms which
should be asked, the clauses which should be
avoided, the member weighing these matters
decides to sign in spite of the advice tendered.
Then the author takes the responsibility on his
er her own shoulders, and cannot complain. But
it is of the utmost importance to all authors to
know exactly what dangers surround their con-
tragt;. To belong to the society and not to use it,
and then, as in some cases, complain that it does
nothing, is not “playing the game.” -
MAGAZINE WRITERS AND INCOME TAX.
IN another column we print an article under the
title placed above.
While we think it advisable to bring the matter
forward, as it is possible that ventilation of the
subject may lead to some practical solution of the
difficulty, yet we hardly think it likely that any
Government will legislate for a small section of a
small section of society. If once the Government
began to differentiate among classes of tax-payers
the matter would assume enormous proportions.
Though it is clear that magazine writers have
good cause for complaint, it is easier to complain
than to find a remedy.
We quote the following case as an example:–
Some years ago, owing to the unsatisfactory
life history of certain magazines, and the recur-
ring difficulty of obtaining justice for the con-
tributors, the Society took up their cause and
endeavoured to secure a change in the Bankruptcy
Law by which contributors to magazines and
periodicals who had claims against these publications
should receive preferential treatment with those—
clerks and officials—who already obtained this
advantage under the Act ; but the Government's
answer was an expression of regret at their inability
to move in the matter.
We should like, however, to draw the attention
of members to the fact that in reckoning income
tax returns, they are entitled to charge all out of
pocket expenses, such as books and any special
premises used exclusively for literary work, and even
the rent of a study—part of the rent of a house—
if the deduction can be justified to the satisfaction
of the income tax authorities.
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TISIES A UITISIOR.
METICULOUS.
THE Chicago Dial has lately contained some
comment and correspondence on the use and abuse
of the word “meticulous,” which it declares should
never be used, as it is commonly used to-day, in
the sense of “over-careful.” The result of our
own researches is in accord with this view. The
word is of quite respectable age and with the
established meaning of timid or fearful (Lat.
ºneticulosus from metus. Cf. French méticuleuw).
It was used by Sir Thomas Browne, and occurs
also in Topsell’s “Historie of Serpents, * 1608,
p. 116. Johnson does not include it in his
dictionary. In 1827 it was not in use, though
“meticulously" was—according to Dr. Todd, who
quotes from Brown, Chr. Mor. i. 33, “Move
circumspectly, not meticulously.” In 1883,
Ogilvie declared it obsolete, and at the beginning
of this century it was included in Halliwell's
Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words.
On the other hand Webster does not so regard it,
berein having the support of modern journalism.
Somebody rediscovered it a few years back and
used it, unfortunately in the perverted sense
referred to above. The word was a distinct
acquisition to journalism, and has been very
popular ever since. As, however, its true value
should be appreciated, we venture to recommend
it to the consideration of our readers.
EDGAR ALLAN POE.
THE centenary of the American writer and poet,
Edgar Allan Poe, will be celebrated on the 1st of
March, the date of this issue, by the Authors’
Club. The members are giving a dinner at the
Whitehall Rooms in honour of his memory.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be the chairman of
the dinner, and His Excellency the Hon. Whitelaw
Reid, the American Ambassador, has promised to
be present and speak.
There will be recitations of some of Poe's poems,
and we understand that some of his lyrics which
have been set to music will be sung on that
occasion.
Mr. Herbert Trench, the author of “Deirdre
Wedded ” will write an ode to commemorate the
event.
There is a long list before us of the patrons of
the dinner, including many names of well-known
Americans resident in England; we wish the
Authors’ Club every success in carrying out their
programme.
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OSWALD CRAWFURD, C.M.G.
WE regret to record the death of Mr. Oswald
Crawfurd, C.M.G., on January 30 last. From
1867 to 1891 Mr. Crawfurd was H.M.'s Consul
at Oporto, during which time he wrote several
works dealing with Portugal, including “Travels
in Portugal,” under the pseudonym of John
Latouche. On his return to London he interested
himself in literary work, founding Black and
While and becoming its first editor. Later on
he joined the firm of Messrs. Chapman and Hall
as a director.
Mr. Crawfurd was for many years a member of
the Society of Authors, and though he resigned
while connected with Messrs. Chapman and Hall,
as he did not consider it suitable in these circum-
stances for him to remain a member, he was
re-elected in 1898 and continued a member until
his death.
Among his numerous publications are eight
novels, including “Sylvia Arden " and “ In Green
Fields,” and two volumes of poetry entitled “Two
Masques” and “The Sire of Prince Eladane.”
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UNITED STATES JOTTINGS.
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UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT.
THE Chicago Dial in one of its recent issues
has a healthy editorial article on Copyright in the
United States.
It is started from the fact that “the Celebrated
Jumping Frog” will be removed from Copyright
Protection during 1909 and will “become the
prey of the irresponsible publisher.” The editor
drives home two points that he considers need
special revision, the first the term of copyright
protection, the second the type-setting clause.
It is hard on the United States author who lives
to a vigorous old age to see his brain children
ceasing to support him during his advancing years.
To remedy this difficulty the editor states, “We
consider the principle of perpetual copyright,
although logically sound, to be of academic interest
only ; for we believe that substantial justice would
be done by protecting literary property during the
author's lifetime and for one or two generations
beyond.”
Life and fifty years was the length approved by
the Berlin Conference. Let the Americans join
the band of civilised nations and accept the same
limitation.
On the second point he remarks, as follows:—
“To say that an Englishman shall have no rights
mnder our law to the product of his brain until
that product shall be put into marketable form by
American labour is precisely like Saying that the
same Englishman, landing in New York, shall have
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THE AUTFIOR.
155
no right to personal protection against violence
until he has purchased American-made garments
and clothed himself therein.”
He has no immediate hope of the clause being
removed, but he says that the acceptance of the
clause in 1891 was a compromise essentially revolt-
ing to the sense of international justice.
This we believe to be the view of all educated
Americans, who appear therefore to be governed, in
this respect at any rate, by the uneducated masses. .
It will be a happy day when the intellectual
minority can persuade Congress to join the Berne
Convention.
*-m-m-m-e ºs--msmº,
WE print below a paragraph taken from the
New York Nation, which shows also the opinion
of that paper on the question of the position of the
United States with regard to International Copy-
right. It is, indeed, a pity that those who have
no claim whatever on the property of authors
should be able to control the methods by which
these authors should market their productions.
As truth will come out even in an affidavit, according
to the Saying of an English judge, so it sometimes comes
Out in a public document. House Document No. 1,208,
of the present session of Congress, contains the correspon-
dence leading up to the appointment of an American
delegate to the recent International Copyright Congress
at Berlin. In pointing out to the Secretary of State the
fact that the United States had no right to be represented,
because we have not adopted the Berne Convention rela-
tive to literary property, the Librarian of Congress
Suggested that this Government regard itself as a “non-
union participant.” The phrase falls pat with current
terminology. It seems to make us a “scab '' among the
nations in the matter of copyright. Unfortunately, that
is very much what we are. The leading civilised nations
have formed a union to protect literary and artistic pro-
perty, but we have refused to join it. Under labour-
union practice they are entitled to attack and outlaw us ;
but instead of that, they are courteous enough to receive
us at their Congresses as a “non-union participant.”
Their hope undoubtedly is to kill us with kindness, or
lead us to see the error of our ways and adhere to the
Berne Convention with the rest.
IN reference to this same United States Copy-
right law a letter appeared in the Times, signed
T. T. Hodgson, suggesting that England should
pass into law a type-setting clause as against the
United States, quoting the Berne Convention
article 2, and objecting to Mr. Winston Churchill's
assertion in the House of Commons that such a
clause would involve the retirement of this country
from the International Copyright Union.
We think Mr. Churchill is right, and that such a
clause would not only prejudice the position of this
Country under the Berne Convention, but might
also cause the withdrawal of the President's pro-
clamation under the Act of Congress of 1891.
Mr. T. T. Hodgson has made his deductions
(We are unable to quote the full statement) from an
insufficient knowledge of the Berne Convention
and the subsequent Act of Paris. In the latter
article 8 of the original convention has been altered
to read as follows:–
“Authors not belonging to one of the countries of the
Union, who shall have published or caused to be published
for the first time their literary or artistic works in a
Cºunty which is party to the Union shall enjoy in respect
of such Works the protection accorded by the Berne Conven-
tion and by the present additional Act.”
If, therefore, an American author wanted a test
case he would merely copyright his work in France
or Germany and then produce in England without
type-setting. If, then, we refused to grant him
Copyright the signatories to the Berne Convention
would have every right to object.
That the type-setting clause might cause the
Withdrawal of the Presidential proclamation is self-
evident, even if England could establish her posi-
tion as against article 3 quoted above.
We fear the type-setting law, if it were passed,
Would be most dangerous; but apart from this we
should regret to see a retrogressive step in the
evolution of copyright ideals. We should rather
ask the United States to advance their intellectual
development than that England should recede.
EDUCATIONAL WORKS IN THE UNITED STATES.
IN the New York Nation is printed a letter from
a correspondent who wants for educational purposes
the tariff removed from imported books. There is
a subtle irony throughout this letter, as the writer
does not at any point appear to realise that a book
is the author's property and originated from his
brain.
“By the copyright law both printers and
publishers in this country are well protected.
No book may be copyrighted here which has
not been manufactured in the United States.”
But what about the authors, the United States
authors. Surely if this copyrighting and type-
setting business is worth anything it should be
for the protection of the author. If this high
tariff on imported books is to work any good it is
to teach the United States authors to write educa-
tional books for themselves; if they cannot pro-
duce the necessary scholars to write the critical
educational works, then surely there is still a
chance left for the pirate.
High tariff and type-setting clauses if they
cannot help the United States author ought at
least to foster the brood of piratical printers and
publishers. But evidently, according to the Nation's
correspondent, the latter have missed an oppor-
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THE AUTHOR.
tunity. It is not too late ; the new American
Copyright Law has not as yet been passed, and
the States have not yet found it possible to join
the Berne Convention.
-** *-ms
THE UNITED STATES DRAMATIC AUTHORS’ CLUB.
WE have received a cutting from an American
newspaper referring to an American Dramatists’
Club. It would appear from this cutting that the
club is going to alter its constitution, and that the
members have decided to accomplish “feats of more
enduring consequence than assembling at a table
and telling each other how downtrodden they are.”
They are going to attempt to form a Society of
Dramatic Authors and Composers of the United
States, and hope to work on similar lines to
those of the Société des Auteurs Dramatique.
This is certainly a sensible step. It is the first
combination of authors which has taken place in
America, if we except the Society of Authors which
started some years ago. This latter society, begun
under good auspices, failed miserably through its
incapacity to grapple satisfactorily with the
practical wants of authors. We hope that the
Society of Dramatic Authors will not experience a
similar fate, but we are afraid. By the statement
before us it proposes to affiliate with the National
Association of Theatrical Producing Managers.
Surely this is a disastrous step if the dramatists
desire to establish themselves on an independent
basis. How can they discuss agreements How
can they take action in the courts How can they
criticise freely when possibly their committee may
be controlled by the managers ? If we remember
rightly the old American Authors’ Society had
a publisher on its board of management. This
may, quite possibly, have caused its disruption.
THE UNITED STATES LITERARY AGENT.
Do you advocate the literary sales agent 7
“We do not. We fail to see his advantages, we know
editors in general are prejudiced against the average, and
we have yet to become acquainted with one we could trust.
Perhaps our experience has been unfortunate ; but those
we know have not only been careless in business methods,
but absolutely dishonest. For example, a letter was
recently shown us from a Chicago editor, calling attention
to the fact that a New York agent had sold an article of
his, been paid, and had never remitted ; further, he had
paid the agent for an article sold to his magazine, and
the latter had never remitted to the author. An article
sold to Recreation in 1907 benefited only the agent and
not the author ; the money was paid to the former.
A series of articles in the Delineator was paid for on
acceptance and the author secuted the money in small
Šums, months afterward, through the agency of the law.
We cite these facts because they have come to our
knowledge. The agent charges to examine a manu-
Script as much or more than the (Editor) Literary
Bureau , charges for a full criticism. He charges
& Commission on each sale. The author has no way of
knowing the amount received, the time the money was
paid, nor where nor how his work is hawked about.
Editors are always ready to examine any manuscript an
author may submit, and the fool who in the face of dis.
claimers, by every writer of note persists in hoping for
º through some friend at court remains always the
OOl.
We have taken the cutting printed above from
a little paper produced in the United States called
the Ediſor. . The paper is written with the pur-
pose of assisting authors in the disposal of their
Wares and contains many useful hints : but we
think that the writer is a little hard on agents.
We know of some agents guilty of actual fraud,
some dishonest, and we know of those indifferent
honest, who are in the pocket of the publishers.
With the best intentions they do not give the
author a fair market.
But We also know, this side of the Channel, those
who are indispensable to the author, against whom
editors have no prejudice and with whom publishers
have no disagreement. It is true that we have had
difficulty in discovering a sample of these last in
America. Perhaps it may be that the commercial
integrity of the United States does not admit of
the position as confidential as that which must
exist between the author and his agent, or it may
be that the United States author is himself too
good a business man. But it seems absurd to say
that “the author has no way of knowing the
amount received, etc.”
In fact, the Editor seems, as he himself suggests,
to have been unfortunate.
*—º- *
v-v-w
MAGAZINE WRITERS AND THE INCOME
TAX. -
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S the time approaches to fill up again the
A income tax returns, the question arises—
could not something be done for small
authors and contributors to magazine literature to
alleviate the importunate demand made upon
“earned incomes " derived from such a precarious
and unreliable source 2 Nowadays the competition
is so keen and the opportunities of the pen thereby
for earning have fallen so far short of former years
the matter is worthy of attention, especially as the
tax is still at almost a war figure
To the writer of magazine contributions parti-
cularly, the money received in return for his work
is generally inadequate to the labour bestowed upon
it, and is earned at high pressure. I would, there-
fore, advocate the entire exemption from taxation
for incomes or portions of incomes derivable by
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157
authors of magazine contributions, whenever the
incomes acquired from such sources are fluctuating
and not permanent.
If we keep in view the following points connected
with the magazine contributor it seems more than
hard that should he prove sufficiently successful to
come within the scope of taxation he should be
taxed as other earners in the more certain and pro-
ductive professions. To a magazine writer the
following have to be contended with before he can
earn sufficient to entitle himself to be called success-
ful and come within the power of the income tax
collector.
(1) The inadequacy of the emolument he
receives, compared with the time and thought
bestowed upon his writings.
(2) The uncertainty of the acceptance of his
MSS. and consequent loss of time and labour.
(3) The tardiness of payment in a large number
of the cases.
(4) The time which elapses before his con-
tributions, if accepted, appear in print.
(5) The time and postage which he must expend,
should an article have to be sent to a number of
magazines before it is accepted.
(6) The long period which generally elapses before
an author’s writings win a permanent or secured
position in the literary market, with the necessary
sacrifices dependent thereon.
Therefore, on this class of earnings, so hardly
worked for and so uncertain in its nature, it seems
to me that complete exemption of tax should be
made possible. To tax a man in full, according to
the “earned income * scale on the emoluments
received for accepted contributions, is not only an
unjust charge but an extortionate one.
In addition to the foregoing let me quote the
following instance. Take the so-called “success-
ful” author whose income comes between £150 and
4500 per annum. His earnings are chargeable
with the full “earned income '’ demand on any-
thing realised over the £150, less the rebate return-
able under the somewhat unsatisfactory recent
arrangement. Then let me quote two typical,
though (as here stated) unique, cases which may
not at once seem deserving of the same sympathy—
I give these in all seriousness, however amusing at
a first glance is the reading. Take for instance a
magazine writer whose wife is possessed of an
independent income with which she contributes to
the household expenses. He has to depend on his
literary efforts or successes for personal funds, and
has to pay income tax to scale on his own uncertain
earnings. Again, an official incapacitated by ill
health from official duty, but the recipient of a
small pension, who augments same by contributions
to magazines, the monetary return for which
fluctuates from year to year, and is in some years
almost nil; he is charged, nevertheless, to the full,
whenever by diligence and hard work he is lucky
enough to turn in sufficient to render himself liable
to duty.
In case No. 1 it may be said the author is
very fortunate to be able to earn anything
between £150 and £500 by his pen. In case
No. 2, that the author is equally fortunate to be
married to a woman who has an income of her
own ; though, according to the Married Women's
Property Act not necessarily at his disposal; and
in case No. 3, that the writer is no less fortunate
to be possessed of a pension. These facts I do not
dispute. The point at issue, however, is that the
nature of such literary earnings is so precarious, and
often embodies labour so unproductive and there-
fore untaxable, that it is little short of injustice to
levy tax on incomes so tardily derived if they
happen to top the exemption limit.
That a considerable amount of sympathy exists
for the indigent author is evidenced by the support
which has been given to the Pension Fund of this
Society by our fellow authors. The old adage that
“Charity begins at home” is fittingly exemplified
by the response of the members to this deserving
object, but there is also this to be said—if possible
don't let your author become indigent, and even in a
Small matter like income tax don’t suffer the earn-
ings of so precarious a profession to be curtailed by
allowing it to be subject to diminution by taxa-
tion. Give your author a chance to put by for a
day when the brain ceases to be active and the pen
is no longer powerful. It is a regrettable thing that
men who earn their incomes at such a disadvan-
tage should be placed alongside the fortunate
possessor of a permanent Civil Service appointment,
the remuneration for which never varies and is
assured. This, surely, is a matter deserving of
attention, and I am certain it has only to be
properly represented to receive the support and
consideration of those who have the power and, I
trust, would also have the inclination to rectify it.
I would also suggest that the remedy should
recovery—say for three years—of tax
already overpaid by writers, in addition to the
abatement of all tax in the future, as in the case
of benevolent funds and charitable institutions
whose incomes are entirely exempt, and I have no
doubt the return of an accumulated three years of
income tax would prove to most magazine Writers
a very welcome and acceptable little douceur at the
hands of H.M.'s Customs.
include
ALFRED SMYTHE.
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TRIES A UTISIOR.
REVIVING A LANGUAGE.
—t-sº-0–
OME Latin and French, and probably rather
less German or Greek, have usually formed a
part of the school work of any man who has
received anything more than a primary education.
The curriculum provided for young women embraces
rather more French, about the same amount of
German, and occasionally a Smattering of Latin.
How some men can rant—the “weaker’ sex are
not prone to the same infirmity—concerning the
time that they were made to waste at School over
languages “that could not possibly ever be of any
use to them ’’ every one knows. Men and women
of letters, on the other hand—though the former
may be occasionally heard declaiming on the
stereotyped lines—are disposed, particularly if their
work is of any serious kind, to regret that they
were not taught rather more than less. To be
unable to consult some French or German author
is at times an embarrassment. Even if a transla-
tion exists it is not always safe to place absolute
confidence in translators. There is no certainty
that an amanuensis will have the discrimination to
hit exactly upon what is wanted. And if any long
trail of references has to be pursued, who does not
know by experience how easily that may lead out
of one language into another ? Then the author
begins to envy the individual whose range is not
restricted within the limits of a single language.
Once upon a time the author did learn some French,
German, Latin—though hardly enough to render
the language serviceable. Now, all that was
learned is either forgotten or, at any rate, hope-
lessly inadequate for any practical purpose.
That is the question. For the contention of the
present article is this—that the difference between
what a man once knew of a language and what he
knows of it to-day is usually very small.
Is there any one, who has not heard some story
such as that of the lady whose girlhood was spent
in Florence, who, after quitting Italy, for more
than five-and-twenty years, never opened an Italian
book, never spoke a word of Italian, and believed
herself to have entirely forgotten that language,
but on returning to Italy no sooner found herself
in the Italian Customs House than she began
speaking Italian on the spot ? In society such
stories are listened to with polite attention,
accompanied by a conviction that the speaker is
lying. Only the latter need not be the case.
Linguistic attainments are of a strangely indelible
nature.
Here there is no wish to exaggerate, nor any
Occasion for exaggeration. It may be freely ad-
mitted that individuals exist to whom any language
saving the one to which they have been accustomed
from infancy is a bewildering mystification. There
are individuals also to whom their own language,
excepting in its crudest colloquial forms is equally
unmanageable. The people who habitually make
such assertions as, “He took me in ; and when I
ran down to look him up, I found him out,” are
generally as incapable of expressing what they
mean in more cultivated English, or less ambiguous,
as they are of translating their statements into
Etruscan.
But after due allowance has been made for the
exceptional people who cannot adapt themselves to
any tongue but their own, attention is really the
only thing necessary to learn a language. No
great demand is made even upon the memory.
Words are more easily remembered than anything
else, and will store themselves in the brain by a
process of perfectly unconscious cerebration. It is
true that the proficiency of the linguist, particularly
if he is familiar with several modern languages, is
often much admired. But his accomplishments
are all of the most elementary kind. To speak and
to think in any language, no matter how complex,
is within the capacity of every child that habitually
hears it. Writing correctly is quite another thing.
The child finds speaking and thinking easier than
reading. For use alone in language is everything,
and the only difficulty unfamiliarity. To be able
to read is often all that the author needs; and of
all the uses that can be made of a foreign language
reading is the easiest.
But how is it to be compassed ? How is the
language that has become so “rusty " to be revived P
If reading alone is the object the recipe is “re-read.”
Take up again the easiest old school reading book;
if possible, if it has not gone to the book-stall or
lit the kitchen fire, the identical volume, the
appearance of whose thumbed pages was once so
familiar to the eyes. A very curious psychological
phenomenon will almost certainly ensue. At first
hardly anything is remembered. Then one by one,
and then a few at a time, the words and phrases
begin to emerge, as it were, from some distant
recess at the back of the brain, and to resume their
places in the foreground of memory. A very little
at a time suffices, about half an hour. Only every
day the half-hour's reading covers more and more
ground. But “re-read” is still the recipe, patient
reperusal of the same matter until it has become
familiar. That will be accomplished in less time
than was anticipated, and with results other than
those of the school lessons. Those lessons had to
be learned—if they could not be avoided. Desire
of knowledge was little or none. Now the will is
co-operating. If there is need, and before long
there will be need, to consult a grammar, let that
be the old grammar. Is it out of date 2 It can
be replaced by a better one by-and-by ; but at first
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159
it will assist the revival more than any other. And
it will be found a much simpler book than it
formerly seemed. All the rest is simply to persevere.
Objections will be raised, and probably this one
first : in childhood and youth the memory is quick
to absorb impressions, but afterwards less receptive.
That is true. But the smaller receptivity plus
attention (in childhood volatile), plus will (in child-
hood often completely absent) are together little
less effective, if at all less effective, than the younger
keener memory alone. More serious than any
dulling of the memory may be found the distractions
resulting from those cares of life, from which
childhood is exempt. But that distractions have
to be reckoned with is a fact of which few writers
can be ignorant.
Another objection will most certainly be, “Who
can resume the toil of searching for words in a
lexicon P’’ That, however, is only an aspect of a
much wider misgiving, probably best stated thus—
“Were the whole that was ever known recovered,
it would still be insufficient for any practical use.”
That is very likely, in consequence of an
insufficient familiarity with the vocabulary. In
the case of the adult the remedy for that is a trans-
lation. The best sort of translation, if it can be
had, is one that presents the original and the
version in parallel columns. With this it is easy
to study phrase by phrase ; and when a page has
been mastered to cover the translation with a card,
and to test the results. If a schoolboy can secure
a “crib” he scamps his work as a matter of
course. His aim is not knowledge, but to escape
from “fag,” and from the cane, and other personal
inconveniences. But when the aim is knowledge,
a text may be studied with a translation to very
good purpose, and with the result of picking up
the meaning of words with great rapidity. Only
now and then will the lexicon be needful. And a
felt need of it will indicate a marked advance.
Meanwhile the reader will probably become
acquainted with some of the gentle ways of
translators; and should he feel moved to use bad
language when the translator omits every passage
that presents any real difficulty, that will be
natural, but not right. It is easier, and leads to
more rapid advance, to read first a good deal of
some one author. That secures his vocabulary; and
the vocabulary of another may come afterwards.
The new words found in the works of various
writers, that is to say the new crop of difficulties,
is necessarily a perpetually diminishing quantity.
A chrestomathy, presenting selections from many
writers, is more difficult to read than any author's
work, and never contains enough of each writer to
make his vocabulary familiar. And, as has been
already said, use is everything. A man accustomed
to read a language will read it with facility howso-
ever irregular and erratic his study of it may have
been. And a man not used to reading a language
may possess a philologist's knowledge of all its
phenomena, and yet be puzzled by an ordinary
paragraph in a newspaper. Reading and re-reading
of course cost time, and attention must be given.
It is not asserted that any magical “course of six
lessons” will enable the person who believes in it
to read German at sight, or to acquire any other
similarly useful accomplishment. But this is
asserted, that people have seldom forgotten a
language, or such elements of it as they once
learned, so completely as they suppose; and that
by mere reading and re-reading, with occasional aid
from the grammar and lexicon, a useful familiarity
may be acquired more easily than is generally
imagined.
a -º- a
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THE DEGENERATION OF TWENTIETH
CENTURY HUMOUR.
(Being an extract from a History of Literature of 2008.)
. . . The degeneration of humour, be it said,
began with the law-compelled increase of partial
education amongst the masses—a little knowledge
is fatal to the most flourishing native wit—and the
subsequent rise of democracy foreshadowed the
end. Humour preserved in clarity among the
cultured struggled feebly against the rising tide
and finally capitulated ; while professional
humorists, constrained by necessity to cater for
the majority, deserted Thersites to follow Caliban.
Popular humour, hitherto confined to a few
obscure papers with a slum circulation, broke all
bounds, leering brazenly in England's stateliest
homes. Knock-about foolery, the naked pun, the
more or less unveiled innuendo flaunted in tinsel
through Literature and Journalism alike ; the
Comic Muse grew pale and died before the stare of
Vulgarity, and so it came about that Journalism
invented a peculiar humour.
Perhaps journalists imagined that this humour
was of a high order, but it is safer to suppose that
they merely looked upon it as the only alternative
to its poor relation in the gutter. Gone was light
and delicate persiflage, gone subtle exaggeration,
the deft turn of fancy, the keen satire that healed
with laughter even as it struck : but it did what it
could with the non-sequitur, the double entenſe,
and the parody, and fought with its poor relation
over the obvious.
But by far the most important side of its cha-
racter was the exclusive joke—the joke, gaped at
by of tróAAoi, which Journalism took to its heart
and crooned over. It was felt that to create a
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160
TISIE AUTISIOR,
species of humour incomprehensible and caviare to
the general was at least to establish an islet, where
brethren of the pen might foregather and chortle
convivially without the raucous cachinnation of
respectable householders offending their tympani.
Besides, a competitory factor in the field was held
to be politic. But this good influence was not for
long.
Gradually all classes entered journalism in some
capacity or other ; sans-Culottism rushed the bar-
riers; the sphinx's riddles were answered by cam-
paigning phonographs, and the finer spirits, falling
back on the dead languages, found their retreat
cut off by parents disguised as help-meets of their
offspring's studies. Journalistic humour, doomed
beyond recall, took the only course open to it—
unconditional surrender. And this was the be-
ginning of what is now known as Humorous
Socialism. . . .
It was not until after the final capitulation of
Journalism that Literature, hitherto the mainstay
of the defeated party, seriously considered the
gravity of its position. It found its ranks riddled
with pretentious charlatans and transfigured rodo-
monts, adherents in turn of Demos and the
Olympians, strutting now with grocer's incense and
second-hand halos on the Sacred Mount, and again
grinning through horse-collars in the kennel. It
found “Art for Art's sake ’’ pierced by the
snicker-snees of rampant Comstockians, and
“God and Mammon ’’ inscribed as the new canon
and motto upon the wall. In a word, it awoke to
find itself a dead body, impotent and immobile,
amid a choir of worms long past their prime. . .
T. O’B. H.
--—e—sº-,--—
THE ART OF FICTION.-k
—º-º-º-
ERHAPS there is a Faculty of Fiction at one
of the American Universities. Perhaps Mr.
Clayton Hamilton has lectured there ; and
perhaps this book is a reprint of his lectures. We
do not know ; but there is something in the tone
of the book which somehow suggests such an origin.
An actual craftsman, we imagine, would be a little
less didactic, a little more prone to button-hole his
reader, and lead him behind the scenes; whereas
Mr. Clayton addresses his public as if he were on
a rostrum, with a glass of water by his side, and a
class of intelligent pupils in front of him diligently
taking notes. Many of his precepts—let us even
say most of them—are sound; but a pupil who
observed them all and yet wrote as his teacher
Writes would be a dull dog and therefore a bad
novelist. If we had to summarise the contents of
the work, we should say that it consisted of an
analysis of the tricks by which the great authors
get their effects coupled with an injunction to the
students to go and do likewise. There is little to
be said against the analysis except that it is long-
winded and wearisome ; but there is one writer
among those held up to imitation whose secret Mr.
Hamilton does not seem to us quite to have
grasped. He commends Guy de Maupassant for
his skill in working up to a climax; but surely
Maupassant is most characteristic when he delibé-
rately avoids climax and works up to anti-climax
instead, as in, for instance, his version of the story
of Enoch Arden. His returning husband, lost for
so many years, finding his place taken, does nothing
desperate or heroic whether in the way of self-
sacrifice or otherwise. On the contrary, the strange
emotional situation dazes him. He goes off with
the husband-in-possession to the public house, to
have a drink and talk the matter over with the
landlord ; and the reader feels that, after all, life is
like that, and drops to the banal more often than
it rises to the sublime. Similarly with the story
of the childless Norman farmer and his wife. The
wife, reproached for her barrenness, boasts that,
before her marriage, she has borne a child to one
of the farm labourers. One expects a scene of
violence and brutality, but nothing of the kind
follows. The farmer says that he is very glad, and
that, if his wife will keep the secret, he will adopt
the child. There is a realism there which seems
to have escaped Mr. Hamilton’s observation. On
the whole, however, his analysis is perspicuous if
not entertaining ; and the introductory essay con-
tributed by Professor Brander Matthews is worthy
of the Volume in which it is incorporated, and
derives no inconsiderable distinction from its
measured and ponderous sagacity.
OP-e—46—
THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK, 1909.4
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GENERAL REVIEW.
HIS is a book which is keenly appreciated
by a great many authors whose income is
derived from their labours with the pen.
Undoubtedly the Literary Year Book is becoming
more indispensable year by year. The credit must
* “Materials and Methods of Fiction.” By Clayton
Hamilton. With an introduction by Brander Matthews.
(Grant Richards.) .
* Thirteenth Annual Volume. (George Routledge & Sons,
Ltd
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be given to Messrs. Routledge & Sons for being
the only publishers who have made a serious
endeavour to furnish the large body of writers
with a handbook of reference which may bring
them in touch with publishers, editors, librarians,
agents, literary societies, retailers of books, and
others who may be of practical service to them.
Year by year it has devolved upon us to criticise
the growth of successive editions. Sometimes We
have done so adversely, but in all good faith, regard-
ing it as our duty to draw attention to short-
comings. It is satisfactory to note that such
friendly comments have been taken in good part.
In this volume a noteworthy departure is a
separate Obituary List of authors and others con-
nected with literature, whose deaths have occurred
during the time since the twelfth edition was
issued.
It is satisfactory to note that care has been
taken to revise the list of periodical publications.
Printing in a separate form an index to the
periodicals is a welcome innovation. It is as
useful as the index of authors in the earlier part
of the book.
In Part II. of the Year Book we are glad to
find that the contents are now arranged alpha-
betically. This is a step in the right direction,
and we are sure that we are voicing the feelings of
the majority of the purchasers of this new edition
when we venture to suggest that the alphabetical
arrangement might be extended throughout the
entire volume, abolishing the red and green divi-
sions which the uninitiated fail to appreciate, and
printing at the top right-hand corner of each page
in heavy type a fly title as a guide for rapid refer-
ence. If for editorial reasons this is not possible
in all sections, a supplement might contain the
matter which has to be held over until the last
moment.
We note with pleasure that the section dealing
with Public Libraries has as far as possible been
brought up to date, and the information given
regarding the Nobel Prizes is always useful. In
a future year perhaps the interesting calendar may
be amplified. We do not, for instance, see in
January the birthday noted of Edgar Allan Poe,
concerning whom so much ado is being made this
year. It is in the list of Authors that we suggest
there is most room for amplification. Sir Walter
Besant long ago remarked that the literary pro-
fession was not confined to men who lived by
authorship. Noteworthy books have been and
continue to be written by members of all the
learned professions. To live entirely by the pen
means usually a small income and a great struggle.
If we take the most successful writers of the day
we find that not a few of them have made some
other profession their mainstay or they have been
the fortunate possessors of a private income.
Consequently if we turn to the names of authors
in circulating libraries and take the trouble to
look them up in “Who’s Who,” we find in many
Cases that there are soldiers, sailors, clergymen,
physicians, or many engaged in commerce. In
the face of that fact, surely what is here called a
“Full Directory of Authors” should be at least as
ample as are the separate directories of members
of the aforenamed callings. Yet, the list of
authors bears no numerical comparison with the
names in the Army List, the Navy List, the
Clergy List, the Medical Directory, or the Musical
Directory. To compile an authoritatively “full”
list of authors residing in the British Isles no
doubt would be a big task, but we feel convinced
that Messrs. Routledge & Sons have the necessary
machinery for the purpose. If the pages of
“Who’s Who” and Churchill’s “Medical Directory”
were gone through systematically we feel sure that
from those two sources alone considerable additions
to the present list of authors would result. Another
year the names of such worthies as Lafcadio
Hearn, Alfred Stead, Thomas Perkins, Henry
Paten Gurney, Henry Barton Baker, Henry Grey
Graham, James Hay, Herbert Compton, Rudolf
Lehman (of Bushey), Joseph John Nesbitt,
etc., might be deleted from living authors,
since we believe they passed away some time ago.
In every work of reference done on a large scale
casual slips are inevitable, and on the whole the
Literary Year Book for 1909 is a great improve-
ment on previous editions. -
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“PIPPA PASSES.”
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ESSRS. CHATTO & WINDUS have put on
1. the market a beautiful volume containing
Robert Browning’s “Pippa Passes and
Men and Women,” with ten illustrations, at the
rice of 6s.
In these days there is very little to be said which
has not already been said about Robert Browning's
poetry; whether the criticism is true or false, a
mere statement of self-evident facts or a budget of
paradoxes. It is much better to leave the student
to read the book without comment. No person
who is really interested in English poetry can fail
to take out that which is beautiful from Browning's
works and reject that which is uninteresting. Each
reader will follow his own taste. It is no longer a
question of whether Browning is to be included in,
or omitted from, the list of poets.
With ten
* “Pippa Passes and Men , and Women.”
(Chatto
illustrations in colour after Helena F. Brickdale.
& Windus, 6s. Inet.)
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TISIES A UTRIOR*.e.
The selection before us is certainly a very good
selection for those who love the poet and his works.
It begins with “Pippa Passes.” It contains such
poems as “Evelyn Hope,” “Fra Lippo Lippi,”
“A Light Woman,” “The Patriot,” and many
others of his best known works.
The real appeal, however, in a book of this
character must lie in the illustrations and the
artistic get up. These could not have been better.
Miss Brickdale’s illustrations are excellent and have
been most carefully reproduced, the print is large
and clear, the paper good, and the binding artistic.
Perhaps if we were asked to choose any one picture,
we should select the picture illustrating “A Light
Woman,” page 122, as the best, as i J
have caught artistically the fancy of the poem.
We must express a regret that “Pippa Passes ''
has not been more fully and more sympa-
thetically illustrated. The two illustrations
devoted to this poem are good as works of illustra-
tive art, but hardly characteristic of the feeling
expressed in the words. The little drama is so full
of artistic possibilities that it is a pity the artist has
not devoted more of her undoubted skill to its
explanation in colours. Perhaps some day she may
turn her attention to this poem alone and absorb
its Italian colouring and sentiment. It is wholly
out of place to endeavour to explain its Italian
Sentiment by an illustration of a girl sitting in an
English cottage garden. The illustrated editions
of Browning's works are not numerous ; we gladly
welcome this edition. The book is exceedingly
cheap at the price of 6s.
BRITAIN'S GREAT AUTHORS.*
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E have received from the Fine Arts
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reasonable price of half-a-guinea. It contains
twelve reproductions of English authors, the
first William Shakespeare, 1564, and the last
Alfred Tennyson, 1892. The reproductions,
carefully done, are in most cases from well-
known pictures, and the portfolio is accompanied
with an introduction by Arthur Waugh. Mr.
Waugh's paragraphs dealing with each picture
are necessarily short, but his position as a critic
and true lover of literature ensures that they
are sympathetic and scholarly. Indeed they are
* “Britain's Great Authors.” With introduction and
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admirable: in a few words, with the skilful touch of
a practised hand he conveys much of the character
of the writers. It would be impossible to find a
more satisfactory present to give to a friend, and
the photogravures (we believe this is the process
of reproduction) would form a proper decoration
for any library.
We give a list of the pictures, as those who
desire to purchase would no doubt like a record of
the names of the authors the portfolio contains.
It would be difficult to say that one or the other
should be omitted from the list, though no doubt
Some would-be purchaser with particular favourites
may say that others should have been added.
William Shakespeare 1564–1616
John Milton * * * 1608–1674.
Oliver Goldsmith ... 1728–1774
Robert Burns 1759–1796
Sir Walter Scott ...
William Wordsworth
John Keats tº e s tº tº tº
W. Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens tº tº e
Thomas Carlyle
Robert Browning ...
1771–1832
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1795–1821
1811–1863
1812–1870
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Alfred Tennyson .. I 809–1892
CORRESPONDENCE.
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THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK.
SIR, In “ G. H. T.’s” very kind review of the
“Law and Letters” section of this Annual in the
February Author, he writes: “The successors and
assignees of the publishers are included without
any remark. Some comment on this form was
absolutely necessary.”
You will allow me to direct attention to the
remark and comment on page 512, being the third
of “the points worthy of notice,” the second of
which your reviewer discusses. It runs as follows:
“3. ‘Their successors and assignees.' We leave
these words as they stand in ordinary agreements.
Their expediency must be determined by the status
of the firm with which the author is negotiating.
See above, about bankruptcy. This is a difficult
and, to some extent, a delicate question, on which
guidance should be sought in cases of doubt and
ignorance.”
Yours obediently,
BASIL STEWART,
Editor.
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AMERICAN COPYRIGHT.
SIR,--In response to the appeal by your con-
tributor, Mr. Herbert MacIlwaine, permit me to
say that in 1903 I was bringing out the second
edition of my “Judicial Dictionary,” for which it
was thought expedient to secure the American
copyright. To get this we had to observe, and
bow to, the manufacturing clause in the American
Copyright Act, to which Mr. MacIlwaine so rightly
objects, with this result, the book cost a little
over £2,000 to produce, all of which went to
America, and was lost to the British workmen.
Yours truly,
F. STROUD.
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SHALL WE PUBLISH FOR OURSELVES 2
SIR,--The gloomy reflections which have lately
appeared in your columns and in those of the
Athenæum on the future of the novel are the
occasion, if you will allow them to be so, of the
following remarks.
There seems to be a consensus of opinion that
good work stands very little chance with the pub-
lisher and the public of the present day. I should
not like to incur the odium of calling my own work
good ; but if I may give my experience, as briefly
as possible, it may lead to suggestions from others.
For whether we succeed in doing good work, or
only try to do it, or only want to read it, we must
feel such a state of things to be deplorable.
The first novel I ever wrote was accepted,
twelve years ago, by the first publisher to whom I
submitted it. I still receive a few shillings
annually from the Colonial sales.
I have never been able to dispose of the second,
which was, in the opinion of all my friends, the
better book of the two. Here are some of the
remarks which publishers of high standing, or
their readers, have made to me upon it :
“It has plenty of excitement, and the characters,
or some of them, are very good indeed.” (This
firm refused it on the ground that they “did not
like to anticipate only a succès d'estime for it.”)
“It is beautifully written from a literary point
of view, but it is not sufficiently exciting for the
class of readers which publishers, unfortunately, have
to cater for at present.””
“Two thoroughly competent readers . . . find
in it literary qualities of a high order, but both
hesitate to recommend it for publication when the
commercial question arises, Will it pay ? . . . The
duty of declining a work that manifests such
description and analytic power and such wit and
grace in dialogue is not congenial.”
“While fully appreciating the excellence of −
* The italics are mine.
as a character, do not feel sanguine of the
Success . . . of the book as a whole.”
Two of the four firms added that they had
hesitated long before coming to a decision.
All this is maddening, but this is not my point.
I believe and hope there are still many who care
for the novel which involves the heart and soul of
the author, and demands some thought, or at least
attention, from the reader. But it is not worth
the publisher's while to aim at them. I am not
blaming the publisher—he must do what is worth
his (pecuniary) while or cease to exist. But he
has to aim at a crowd—a fagged, half-educated
crowd who are in a hurry.
It seems to me that what is not worth the pub-
lisher's while might very well be worth the author's.
Publication is often everything to him, if the book
Will only pay expenses. He need not demand the
profit which the publisher, from his different point
of view, must have.
Is there no way in which the author who cares
for his work can reach the reader—who does exist
-who might also care for it Must the fagged
half-educated crowd of the publisher's ambition
always stand between them 2
Advertising one's book and getting it reviewed
|present the greatest difficulties to the amateur
mind. If one printed one's own book, would the
reviewers treat it as they would the protégé of a
publisher ? Would one make a happy use of the
limited sum at one's disposal for advertisement 2
Yours, etc.,
C. A. M.
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AN AUTHORS' INSURANCE FUND.
SIR,--The Pension Fund of our society is a great
idea and deserves fuller support than it obtains.
But can We not go a step further and make of it,
or combine with it, a kind of insurance, or provident
fund from which members could draw small sums
in times of need It is possible that if we writers
could sometimes tide over pressing difficulties of
the moment, we might not have to ask a pension
at last, after a life of hard work.
To every brain-worker there come periods of
exhaustion and mental lassitude when the mind
seems to strike, the nerves go wrong, insomnia
maddens, and the only thing to prevent a complete
physical breakdown is rest or change. But how
many writers can afford to take a rest or change 2
To stop work, even for a few weeks, often means
the cessation of income and the accumulation of
small debts which sit on one's head for months
afterwards—sometimes for ever afterwards. If,
then, by paying some definite sum—say Is. a week
or £1 a year—we could be occasionally relieved
from strain, what a boon it would be The big
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TISIES A UITISIOR,
insurance companies, I believe, charge rather high
premiums and require a compulsory medical
examination ; but the plan I suggest would be
more in the form of a mutual benefit society or
club, and it ought not to be beyond our power to
organise.
There would, of course, have to be a fixed limit
to the sum available on demand ; it would not be a
large sum, and it might be necessary to require a
doctor's certificate of ill-health, although I cannot
conceive any writer would ever try to take an
unfair advantage.
The chief points I see in favour of such an
insurance scheme are :—
1. That it would afford immense relief to the
terribly harassing strain of feeling impotent when
necessity drives against time and power, a strain
that oppresses as cruelly as the brain grows sluggish,
vitality fails, and sleep refuses even the wooing
sedative.
2. It would have no stigma of charity. We
should feel we had a right to draw a few pounds on
emergency. In fact, it would smack less of charity
than a pension does.
3. It might become a means of enlarging the
membership of the Authors’ Society and creating a
wider esprit de corps. -
I submit this idea to my fellow-members trust-
ing that someone more capable than myself will
take it up and lick it into shape. On the principle
of the “stitch in time ’’ even a ten-pound note, at
the psychological moment, might often save a de;
vitalized writer from the gradual slide into serious
illness and consequent poverty. The time always
comes, sooner or later, when that slide goes too far,
and a pension of twenty or thirty pounds does not
adequately meet the trouble. But it might be
prevented if arrested at the start.
Faithfully yours,
M. L. P.
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THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK.
SIR,-My attention has been called to “Z.'s "
strictures on the U.S.A. list in the “Writers’ and
Artists’ Year Book,” 1909 issue.
I think to all intents and purposes “M.” has
sufficiently replied for me, but I desire to draw
attention to the fact that the list was compiled for
U.S.A. contributors as well as British, and that
the aim is to give those monthlies, etc., that are
known for their straightforward dealing and fair
treatment of contributors. As to “Z.'s "knowledge
of the magazines he complains were not inserted,
it may be safely judged by his inclusion of the
Living Age, a monthly to whose propensities Mr.
Lucy did well to draw attention in his recent
letter to the Daily Telegraph.
May I point out the Strand is so entirely similar
in its U.S.A. make-up to the London publication
of that name that it is never included in the lists
of American magazines. Pearson's is, on the
other hand, wholly and peculiarly American.
Had “Z.” carefully gone over the “Year Book"
he would have gathered evidence that its circulation
is not confined to the British Isles -
Yours faithfully,
THE COMPILER OF THE U.S.A. LIST.
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RESIGNATIONS.
SIR,--I read in the Committee Notes last month
the views the committee have taken in the matter
of resignation and re-election. I quite see their
point of view, and as a constant subscriber entirely
agree with it. There are a certain class of men
and women who will always get what they want at
the lowest price, for nothing if possible. It is only
just that the committee should protect those who
have paid the annual insurance fee, for so I look
upon the guinea, with regularity and cheerfulness.
There is, however, no doubt considerable danger
that the Society may lose guineas by being too
stringent. -
The copyright of a friend of mine who had
belonged to the society and had ceased to sub-
scribe was infringed. He mentioned the facts to
me ; I recommended him to rejoin and asked him
why he had left. He made the usual excuses,
that it did not benefit him personally, to which I
made reply that the society's action must benefit
all authors, and had done so indirectly if not
directly, whether they were members or not.
His answer came pat—“If it benefits non-mem-
bers as well as members, then I shall get what I
can for nothing.” This, no doubt, is the attitude
of those—I trust there are but few—who remain
outside. - -
When I questioned my friend further about the
infringement of his copyright and suggested his
rejoining, he said that he understood he might be
liable for back subscriptions. I remonstrated with
him, and pointed out that perhaps the damages he
might obtain would cover those, but it was no
good.
He would not take action himself, thus weaken-
ing his own position and that of his fellows by
allowing the pirate to go unpunished, and he
would not rejoin for fear of having to pay a few
guineas, which would probably come back to him
tenfold. }
I left him with feelings of sadness. We are still
friends, but do not discuss the Society when we meet.
What is the good
A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER.
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