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Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss Kathleen .
Feb. 16, W. D. .
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Feb. 16, Gibbs, F. L. A.
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Feb. 17, Wintle, H. R.
Feb. 21, Thurston, E. Temple
Feb. 23, Dawson, Mrs. Frederick
&
Feb. 24, Williamson, C. N.
Feb. 24, Williamson, Mrs. C. N.
º
Feb. 25, Westell, W. P.
March 2, Toplis, Miss Grace
March 3, Hawtrey, Miss Valentina
March 5, Smith, Bertram
.
March 12, Yould, A. .
March 16, Loraine, Lady
Feb. 1,
Feb. 4,
Feb. 5,
Feb. 7,
Feb. 7,
Feb. 8,
Feb. 8,
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�A UſTMSIOR,
THE
PRICE
OF
THE sub-committee to consider the price of
novels met at the offices of the society on Friday,
March 11th.
passed
will
laid before the Committee
its final shape.
express their
sub-committee
desired
Management
The
of
Members of the society may recall that an
interim report was issued by this sub-committee
and published in the January number of The Author,
in which the sub-committee regretted that they
were unable to make a final statement, owing to the
fact that certain evidence promised to them would
not be forthcoming till March of the present year.
After the minutes of the last meeting had been
read, the evidence from Mr. Heinemann, for which
the sub-committee had been waiting, was laid before
them and considered, together with evidence from
240 booksellers, which had been collected by the
kindness of Mr. H. W. Keay, the President of the
Associated Booksellers of Great Britian and Ireland.
Evidence,
obtained from twenty more novelists,
was also tabulated and discussed.
The chairman
had already
considered
this
evidence and drawn up a draft report, which he
proceeded to read to the sub-committee.
The
sub-committee gave this report careful considera
tion, and, with certain additions and emendations,
indebtedness
the authors, publishers and book
sellers who have given them such valuable assist
ance
their deliberations.
finally
The proceedings
were
closed
unanimous vote of thanks
the chairman.
by
they had obtained a statement from Messrs. French,
when they will reconsider the position and proceed
with the appointment of colonial representatives.
The questiºn of Theatrical Performances in Clubs
next came up for discussion,
and the secretary
reported that he had had an interview
with the
secretary of the Theatres Alliance, but stated that
it was necessary again to adjourn the matter, as a
letter expected from that body had not arrived.
Sir Arthur Pinero then laid before the committee
a letter he had received about the formation of a
Dramatic Society, and read to the committee his
answer to the communication,
in which he stated
CONSIDER
NOVELS.
a
the question of the names to be submitted to the
Committee
of Management for election to the
year.
T]ramatic Sub-Committee
for the current
The list as settled will go before the Committee
of Management in due course after the elections to
the Committee of Management have been reported.
The question of Colonial Agents then arose, and
the secretary reported an interview he had had with
the secretary of Messrs. Samuel French, and laid
before the committee letters he had received from
Australia. The committee decided to wait until
TO
to
tions suggested and lay the agreement before the
next meeting.
In connection with this subject, they authorised
the insertion in the standing matter of The Author
of some additional warnings to dramatists, which
accordingly appear in the current issue, and will be
repeated in future issues of the magazine.
The committee then turned their attention to
SUB-COMMITTEE
to
THE Dramatic Sub-Committee met at the offices
of the society on Tuesday, March 1. After the
signing of the minutes the consideration of the
Dramatic Agency Agreement
came before the
meeting.
The secretary read a letter he had
received from the solicitors of the society on the
agreement, and a further suggestion was made as to
the alteration of one of the clauses.
The com
mittee considered, in view of recent decisions in the
Courts, that it was of the utmost importance
to
press forward this model agreement, and instructed
the secretary to incorporate forthwith the altera
be
SUB-COMMITTEE.
It
DRAMATIC
in
e-s
to
and their interests were to some extent conflicting,
fuller and more accurate
information before any decision was come to.
it was decided to obtain
that the objects of the proposed society were in a
great part those of the Dramatic Sub-Committee
of the Authors' Society, while the rest differed in
no essential from the objects of an ordinary dramatic
agency.
A letter was then read from the society's solicitors
in India in regard to a dramatic case undertaken
on behalf of two members of the society.
The
sub-committee decided to report to the Committee
of Management that no proceedings should be taken
at present on account of the great difficulty there
appeared to be in putting the matter on a proper
basis, but if the solicitors were unable to come to
any satisfactory settlement the matter was to be
reconsidered.
Instructions were also given to the
secretary to write to an agent in London who has
been acting
in the interests of a certain Indian
theatrical manager informing that agent of the
default
made by the manager in the beforementioned case.
it.
of his rights in Germany, and in view of the fact
that the success of the author depended upon
this, it was decided to take this step, guaranteeing
the publisher against loss and costs, if necessary.
The last matter related to the financial difficulties
of a publisher.
As many members were involved,
in
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DURING the past month eleven cases have been
placed in the hands of the secretary.
Six referred
to applications
for money due from editors and
publishers
for articles unpaid
for or accounts
unsettled.
In one case the money has been
recovered and forwarded to the author.
In the
remaining five no settlement has, at present, been
question neglect
arrived
the editors
attend
the secretary's demands the matters will
placed
the hands
the society s solicitors.
One case, referring
the transfer
contracts
publisher and
author, has arisen,
between
and will require considerable negotiation.
The
necessarily slow, but
being carried
action
forward satisfactorily.
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the return
MSS. One has been settled
the
other has only just come into the office.
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last two cases one
claim for accounts and
money, and one for accounts only.
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against
for accounts and money
American
firm, some time must elapse before
answer
just
only
received.
The question
accounts
.
hand.
The cases open from former months are slowly
closing.
Some have had
handed
the
solicitors
the society,
and some have been
settled. There are still three
four cases dealing
accounts, and one case
with the settlement
hoped that these will
America.
closed
before the next issue of The Author.
C.
Cases.
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her pamphlet some
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the laboratories of the institute for the detection
of the microbes of disease.
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phraseology
by
SPORT.
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Thor.ey, has just been published
Messrs. Macmillan
Co.
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serve
once as an outline for teachers and
synopsis for learners
English given
lessons
the direct method, and
based
the author's
experience abroad
teaching pupils
nearly
every European nationality. The book
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guide her readers along the Way
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threefold aspect
ethical, philosophical,
and romantic.
The story
trends towards
sensational crisis
order
emphasise life portraits known
the author while
.
resident
the country.
through
published,
Miss Constance Foot has
Co.,
Messrs. Methuen
volume entitled
Insect
Wonderland, with thirty-eight illustrations by
writing
Allan. The purpose
the author
in
of
convey some simple facts concerning
this book
the insect world
form both interesting and
instructive
the youthful readers for whom
intended.
One
more specimens have been
chosen from each
the seven great natural
orders, according
the Linnean system
divi
sion.
The insects tell their own tales,
ten
Butterfly Green,
Grasshopper
chapters, entitled
Lane,
Beehive Palace, and
on.
The pub
lished price
the book
38. 6d. net.
Sturge Moore, the
Art and Life,
it
is
a
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in
in
vital import
aesthetics
illustrated from the
precepts
Gustave Flaubert and William Blake.
The harmony
art with personal and social morals
foreseen, not where Taine and Brunetière looked
for
the selection
beneficent themes, nor
yet where the mystic pursues
through obedience
development
esoteric tuition, but
con
regard
science
taste parallel
that
the
religious
life.
Messrs. Methuen
Co. are the
.
publishers.
One
the chief events
the month,
dramatic circles, has been the opening
the
Repertory
Theatre
St. Martin's Lane.
Mr.
Barrie, Mr.
John Galsworthy, Mr.
Bernard
Shaw, and Mr. H. Granville Barker have each
been represented,
also has the late President
the Society, Mr. George Meredith.
Justice,
play,
Mr. Galsworthy's
con
cerned with the prison system, and has for its
it,
on
by
J.
a in
prises
specially selected and,
vast collection
many cases, specially written original sermons
suitable not only for every Sunday
the Christian
year and for
the Holy Days
the Anglican
Kalendar, but also for every mood and every
occasion.
Mr. Francis Griffiths
the publisher.
Weekly parts are published
6d. net
double
parts
3s. 6d. net
and special parts
58. net.
The current number
the Empire Review
at
announce the
the Way
is
It
It
in
in
a
a
in
of is
in
in
of
a
first hand
the author.
Pulpit, being sermons and
The Churchman s
addresses for the Sundays, Festival and Holy Days
the Christian Year,
new work (edited
the
Henry Burn, B.D., F.R.S.E.) which will
Rev.
clergy
published
weekly parts, for the use
men
their equipment for the pulpit.
com
of
Rebman
to
-
Mr. John Long will issue Mr. Harry Tighe's
April.
Green,
new novel, The Model
story
love and passion, touching the rim
mainly
the artistic life
Pars and Holland.
centres round the model and the painter she loves.
tragedy
The story ends
the Engadine
after
series of scenes at Wollendam and Edam
the artist s paradise
the Zuyder Zee painted
be
Messrs
Kami-No-Michi:
of
appears
at
or
cross-references,
Commission, and
led
Government
the universal disuse
the toll system throughout
McClurg,
Chicago,
Great Britain.
Messrs.
publish
have recently arranged
American
Montgomery's
edition
Venetian book,
The Cardinal s Pawn.
Lady Helen Forbes' new novel, The Bounty
study
points
view, has just
the Gods,
been published
Messrs. Duckworth
Co.
.
in
is later than the
ultimately
or
that
the
to
been admitted
An index of the proverbs, each under
word,
(in some cases) two leading
-
its
example has
year 1400.
leading
words, with
the book.
under
to
Passion.
We have received from the Clarendon
Press
Early English Proverbs, collected by the Rev.
Walter Skeat.
In a preface to the collection Prof.
Skeat states that he has endeavoured to gather
together such Middle-English
proverbs as have
attracted his attention.
While it is not claimed
that the collection is exhaustive, it is submitted
that it gives a fair idea of the use of proverbs
in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
No
Chronicle,
Rioter
the Roads.
The plot deals with
1843, which
the Rebekah riots
South Wales
in
Mrs. Wrench's
novel.
Sunday
the
A
is
of Olga Aveling ; and
the title of Mr. Mitford's
story is called
A Perfect
The Romance
Love in Lilacland
is
called
serialised
title
is
Mr. John Long's new publications include novels
by Mrs. Campbell Praed, Olivia Ramsay, Mr. C.
Guise Mitford, and Mrs. Stanley Wrench.
The
Romance of Mademoiselle Aissé, is the title of
Mrs. Campbell Praed's book; Olivia Ramsay's is
Burge
article
Mr.
-The
Transcontinental Railway
Australia.
Montgomery's new novel
present being
contains
Q.
other
items included
were a prelude
entitled
The Bells, composed by Mr. Holbrooke
and conducted by him, and a symphony,
Les
Hommages,
by the same composer, conducted by
Mr. Landon Ronald. Mr. Holbrooke's
three
new songs, entitled respectively,
A Requital,
Killary, and
had,
An Outsong,
unfortu
nately, to be omitted, owing to the indisposition
of Miss Edith Evans, who was to have delivered
them.
W.
Among
by
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TISIES
188
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of
by
H.
by
Général
Le
Larglois.
a
by
a
is
published quarterly
review
French.
The
first number contains, among other articles, one by
M. Dugas
Character and Habit ; another, by
Dr. Badley,
the famous Bedales school
Peters
Education ; others
field,
The New Movement
in
of
of
in
on
in
AEsthetical Education
the
Schools,
and
Madame Bertinot, on
French Kindergartens.
There are criticisms
education, and
summary
new books
review
Altogether the new venture seems
articles.
aim
being
complete
possible,
attempting
good from
draw what
sources and all
countries.
The Société des Gens
Lettres gave dinner
Belgian literature, as
last month
honour
represented
MM. Camille Lemonnier,
Emile
Werhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck,
Maurice
Will
Gilbert,
Dumont-Wilden,
motte,
Edmond
Mans,
novelists,
poets,
Picard
and
Octave
dramatic authors, and critics.
The dinner was
by
M. Riotor
to
a
of de
is
all
as
by
to
a
of
of
Belgian
the Belgian Minister
in
presided over
by
and from this time forth (1809) his name is
constantly
in her letters to Rosalie.
All these
letters give an excellent idea of her life at that
.
time.
The second part of the volume is chiefly com
posed of letters from Chateaubriand and the letters
of Madame de Duras to her various friends.
When Chateaubriand
becomes interested
in
européen,
pre
l Uganda,
Henri Rolin, with
face
M. Joseph Chailley.
L Inde britan
Joseph Chailley.
nique,
I Education
the title of new international
Droit
by in
England that she met the Duc de Duras.
After
her marriage, and the birth of two little daughters,
she went to Lausanne,
where she made the
acquaintance of Rosalie de Constant.
A twenty
years' friendship was the result of this.
Her
letters to Mlle. de Constant and Rosalie's replies
to them are extremely interesting.
We have an
account of her first meeting with Chateaubriand,
conflit
be
Duchesse de Duras et Chateaubriand,
by G. Pailhès, is a very detailed account
of the intercourse between René and his
chère scºur, as he always called this friend.
We
have the story of the Duchesse de Duras from her
birth to her death. She was the daughter of the
Comte de Kersaint, and was born in 1777.
Her
father was one of the victims of the Revolution, and
she and her mother went to America and after
wards to Switzerland
and London.
It was in
on
A
on
Tº
byde
|
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:-
Impressions d Afrique,
Raymond Roussel.
Laide,
Madame Adam.
Charlotte Corday,
Henri d'Alméras.
L Armée Anglaise dans un
by
PARIS NOTES.
to
º-e
on
e
-
as
-
E.
-
They were the words
themselves.
Madame
Duras, and they certainly applied
Chateau
briand.
The following
list
recent French books,
Some
which we will treat more fully
later
.
article
by
Walentine.
take
literature and art once more.
You shall
says,
wield your sceptre again,
and
will
your company.
spend the last years
my life
month later Madame de Duras died.
On
closing the book the first words
the volume
come back
one's mind
We know people
almost better
the sentiments they inspire than
by
Valentine, and Miss Edyth Olive are in the cast.
Mr. J. M. Barrie is represented by two one-act
plays one,
The Twelve Pound Look, referring
to the return of a divorced wife to her husband as
a typist ; the second,
Old Friends, narrating
how a reformed
drunkard's daughter became
afflicted with the vice of which
her father had
become cured.
The cast included Miss Lena
Ashwell, Mr. Sydney Walentine, and Miss Dorothy
Minto.
In Mr. George Meredith's comedy, The Senti
mentalists,
were Miss Fay Davis, Miss Mary
Jerrold, and Mr. Charles Maude.
Misalliance, by Mr. Bernard Shaw, is described
as a debate in one sitting.
Mr. Frederick Lloyd,
Miss Miriam Lewes, Miss Florence Haydon, Miss
Lena Ashwell, and Mr. C. M. Lowne were among
those who took part in the discussion.
Mr. H. Granville Barker s
The Madras House
is a comedy in four acts.
It is interpreted by a
cast which includes Miss Florence Haydon, Mr.
Dennis Eadie, Miss Fay Davis, and Mr. Sydney
Madame Récamier, Madame del)uras is unhappy and
jealous, and finally Madame Récamier also becomes
jealous and unhappy.
Chateaubriand s sentiments
for the two women are analysed.
He is appointed
Ambassador to London.
The letters from Madame
de Duras to Rosalie de Constant
at this epoch
touch on
the topics
the day.
The fourth part
the book
devoted
the
time when Chateaubriand was Minister.
Later on we have an account
the novels and
also of the Salon and friends of Madame de Duras.
The final chapters are devoted
details relating
the last years
her life. There are letters, too,
from Chateaubriand, and, finally, charming one for
the new year, which was
her last one.
He
politics, and promises her that they will
tired
at
theme the servitude of a clerk (imprisoned
for
forgery) and his subsequent degradation following
upon his release.
Mr. Denis Eadie, Mr. Sydney.
189
Paris.
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a
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it
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or
to
in
of
as
is
of
a
to
a
courteous, honest, and
earth should editors not
business-like
The possession and exercise
these qualities
not necessarily
bar
the
magazine.
any rate,
successful conduct
cannot see that
With regard
the lack
courtesy prevailing among editors
class, every
It
in
to
T
is
read
article like the
Magazine Editors
the
magazine
March Author. For the editor
admit that
contributor has any rights
all
pleasing.
state
affairs that
novel
Of course there are exceptions; but they are very
few, and
the great majority
instances the
contributor who looks
an editor for either
courtesy,
honesty,
common
even ordinary
might
business-like treatment
well spend his
Why
time looking for the philosopher's stone.
entitled
with
photographs
it
CONTRIBUTOR.
quite refreshing
blue pencil, while the
and sketches are also
the same disfiguring process.
lottery
There
uncertain
that
editor's choice and decision,
observes the writer
the article
which reference has just been made.
Every contributor will corroborate this.
quite
common experience
submit
item and have
forwarding
again
returned
and then,
accepted.
few months afterwards,
have
What
the explanation
The natural one
that on
the first occasion the proffered contribution was
perhaps
not read,
arrived simultaneously with
demand for income tax, whereas the next time
made its appearance the editor happened
more amiable
mood.
have heard of one
unattached journalist who always posts his work
arrive immediately after luncheon, and
justified
declares that the practice
results.
still,
may
worth trying
not believe
myself overmuch.
The principal reason,
me, why the work
seems
the ordinary free
backs
submitted
an
A
º-º-º
one
is
it
in
a
a
a
as
to
indelibly marked
THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.
BY
anis
of It
be
to
in
is
it
he
all
of
º-e
is
e
been used returning
the writer.
the un
fortunate contributor complains,
told that the
exigencies
the paper have rendered this course
necessary.
manuscript
several big offices, too,
never examined
all until
has first been
it
"
"
"
et
" et
La Duchesse de Duras
Chateaubriand
(Perrin).
Impressions d Afrique (A. Lemerre).
Charlotte Corday (Les Annales politiques
littéraires).
(Berger
L Armée Anglaise dans un conflit européen
Levrault),
Le Droit de l Uganda (Challemel).
L Inde britannique (Armand Colin).
of an
of
ALYS HALLARD.
so
is
it
it
to
or
to
a
appears from the bills.
at
by
a
to
of
as
of
to
on
de
M.
la by
on
onon
by
de
;
by
Fénelon";
Jules Lemaitre
the
Marquis
Ségur
Louise Colet ;
Frantz
Funck-Brentano
La Bastille sous Régence,
and
André Beaunier
Madame
Beaumont.
Chantecler
continues
be one of the curiosi
Opinions are very
ties
the theatrical
season.
much divided
its being more than
success
curiosity.
Time alone will prove whether
play
live
vanish for ever when
dis
cade
No doubt contributors are often trying, but
editors
class are infinitely more so. One
would think that, considering how dependent they
are upon those who write for their periodicals, they
would
least make an effort
treat them with
Nothing, however,
ordinary civility.
too many
cases,
seems
further from their views. Manu
scripts frequently
highly topical nature are
kept for months, and then returned with the
scarcely up
date,
caustic comment
else not
Sometimes, too, they are returned
returned
all.
with the pages
soiled and dog-eared, and bearing
having been examined during
such evident signs
spirituous refreshment
interval
the part
necessary
re-type them.
the reader, that
Still more indefensible, however,
the practice
actually having
that obtains
editorial offices
proof and then when,
topical article set up
Owing
the carelessness
the staff,
has not
at
In the Revue de Paris, Johan Bojer has just
published his new novel, Sous le Ciel Vide"; M.
Photiadès a series of articles on George Meredith.
In recent numbers of La Revue Hebdomadaire
are articles by Paul Bourget
Autour de la Barri
of
There is a question at present of Holland joining
the Berne Convention, like all civilised nations.
A movement, too, is announced in Turkey which
has for object the adhesion of that country to
the Berne Convention.
to
a
Mondes.
author could give examples
the dozen from his
own experience.
The usual form
takes
decline
enter into any correspondence whatever
respecting
contribution.
the rarest thing
imaginable for the author
article that does
specially commissioned
get
not happen
written assurance from the editor that
has ever
arrived.
He does not hear
word about it.
For
may have been lost
knows
the post.
My own opinion
that editors adopt this attitude
permit them
silence
order
disclaim any
responsibility for losing
manuscript.
to
An interesting study has been found among
Brunetière's papers on the Youth of Voltaire.
It will be brought out shortly in the - Revue des Deua.
by
A CITISIOR,
TISIES
190
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it
be
a
of
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difficult for journalists
Once
editor has made
his mind
avoid payment (except
last resource) there
very little
which
will stick
order
carry out his nefarious intentions.
remember
obtaining
county
one
occasion
oourt
judgment against
editor
this kind. But
soon discovered that there was
vast difference
between obtaining judgment and obtaining money.
However,
persevered,
only
prevent this
harpy from victimising other authors.
When
was
due time ordered
show cause why
prison for disobeying
should not
committed
long letter
the order
the court,
wrote
the
of
of
Of
of
their business.
He might not have liked
than
I.
all
on
it
is
of
a
;
A
do
to
conduct
in
if
as
to at
is
so
to
a
is
to
in
a
or
an
to
a
a
a
be is
or
;
is
of
return
this important trio
the scene
their
inquired into.
arduous labours the matter will
you are young and innocent you will believe
this and hope for the best.
the other hand,
you are hardened you will issue
writ.
To get cash out
some editors
like getting
gold out
doughnuts.
Until they are absolutely
convinced that you mean
have your money they
your getting
will put every obstacle
the way
Occasionally this class
usually the
editor (he
proprietor
persistent
well) makes curious offers
contributors.
Quite recently one suggested
me
that
bound volume
his magazine was adequate
remuneration for half dozen articles
had written.
When
declined
offered me
share
the
imaginary) profits
advertising
(entirely
agency that
ran.
Not doing
deal here,
next proposed, and with similar results, that pay
cigars, or,
ment should take the form
box
failing that,
whisky.
bottle
What
earth
that you do want, then P
demanded.
Money,
replied.
heavy
The editor heaved
sigh, and then, with
martyrdom, wrote
air
cheque.
out
It s people like you,
said
bitterly,
blotted his signature,
that make
difficult for editors
run their papers nowa
might have retorted that
days.
was editors
on to is
A
is
of
is
a in
I
be
I if
an
it.
of
In
It
to
a
A very genuine grievance under which the
magazine writer labours is that of getting his
money when it is due. There is no real reason
why an author should not be paid as soon as his
work has been accepted. A contribution should be
paid for when it is bought.
An editor has no more
right to withhold payment for an article until he
prints it than he has to order a new hat and tell
the shopman he will pay for it the first time he
wears
Under the generally prevailing practice,
however,
author may wait months,
not years,
may
wrong, but
fancy that
for his money.
editors adopt this course
the hope that their
cheque
contributors may die before
sent them,
and that the executors of the estate will have no
knowledge
the fact that one
even due.
return
unclaimed payments thus withheld from
authors would probably reach
substantial figure.
some offices
rule obtains that payment will not
be made until an account has first been submitted.
certainly
hardship, for unless
This
voucher
copy
supplied him, the author
required
read
through every issue
order
see
his work has
appeared
generally happens
not.
When and
a free-lance has
dozen or more contributions
quite
seeking acceptance
the same time,
impossible for him
keep
watchful eye
the papers concerned.
few
the better class
magazines send voucher copies
but none
the
daily
weekly journals
course, this
so.
scarcely matters where the periodicals are conducted
honestly
but when they are not conducted
honestly this matters very much indeed.
an undeniable truth as any free-lance
journalist
painfully aware that
flagrant dis
quite
honesty marks the editorial conduct
periodicals, and some
number
the principal
offenders among these are ones with very large
circulations.
The commonest trick they adopt
print
article without telling the author they
are doing so, and trust
luck that
will not
of of
to
no
Under these circumstances, as
may be imagined, editing goes to the wall.
This
type of editor frankly admits that he cannot
be bothered
with the manuscripts of unknown
men.
It would not matter so much if only he
would have the honesty to insert a notice to this
effect in his magazine, and thus prevent unsophis
ticated aspirants from wasting their time.
But
such an idea never enters his head.
editorial functions.
he
If,
no
of is
it
a
is
it
to
it,
it
however,
has ever been used.
does
great matter.
see
This kind
person
editor
vast resource and fertility
making excuses for
invention
when
comes
withholding cheques. The procedure adopted
polite letter,
always much the same. You write
asking for payment.
No response. You write
time, tempering politeness with firmness.
Second
Still,
response.
Then you write
third time,
intimating that non-receipt
cheque will result
solicitor's
letter.
This probably draws
answer.
The customary form
takes
that the
Ireland,
Scotland, the assistant editor
editor
and the manager somewhere else, but that
the
know
happen
If
lance is accorded so little consideration at the hands
of magazine editors as a class is because these
latter
do not regard their responsibilities
with
proper seriousness.
Instead of being editors and
nothing else, they attempt to be Jacks-of-all
trades, and mix up literary and dramatic criticism,
authorship, speech-making at public dinners, and
other side lines with the discharge of their purely
191
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192
judge, protesting, firstly, that he knew nothing
about the matter and had never even received a
summons;
and, secondly, that he was a regular
Willage Blacksmith among editors ( He looked the
whole world in the face and owed not any man ),
whose one desire was to meet all just claims, etc.,
Fortunately, I was able to prove that not only.
etc.
8.
9.
had the original summons been served on him
personally, but that he had also entered a defence.
After this even the slimmest of editors would have
found it a little difficult to plead ignorance.
At
any rate, the judge took this view, and gave him
his choice between paying up within a fortnight or
going to prison for ten days.
He paid.
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10.
11.
12.
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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF
PUBLISHERS.
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print from the Publishers' Circular of
February 19 a list of some of the sub
jects which are to be dealt with at the
International Congress of Publishers, which will
be held this year at Amsterdam from the 18th to
Many of these papers are of
the 22nd of July.
considerable interest to authors.
Nos. 2 and 3.
ought to be of special importance, and No. 9, as
coming from the president of the English Pub
Association,
lishers
will give members of the .
Authors Society much food for thought.
.
W
1.
2.
The Classification of Former Resolutions of the
x
Congress, by Mr. J. Hetzel, Paris.
The Berlin Conference of 1908 in relation to the
Convention,
by Mr. E. Wandeveld,
Berne
Brussels.
*
-
and the Ratification of
by Mr. H.
Revised Berne Convention,
Morel, Berne.
,
4. The Influence of Literary Critics on the Sale of
Books, by Mr. Rodriguez Novas, Madrid. . . .
5. Report presenting
a Summary
of the More
Important of the New Provisions of the Copy
right Law of the United States, which came
into effect on the 1st of July last, in the Statute
that was enacted on the 2nd of March, 1909,
3.
The Berlin Conference
the
by Mr. Geo. Haven Putnam, New York.
6. What Means could be adopted in Europe and
America to Keep Up the Full Price of New
Books sold to Private People (Draft of an
International Convention to Keep Up the
Full Sale Prics), by Mr. W.
P. van Stockum,
The Hague.
Catalogue
7. Maintenance of the
Price and Lower
1 5.
ing of the Too High Price, by Mr. Max
Leclerc, Paris.
The Commission House for the Dutch Book
Trade in Amsterdam, by Mr. K. Groesbeek,
Amsterdam.
Conclusion by Mr. J. Hetzel,
Paris.
The Literary Agencies as a Medium between
Publishers and Writers in the Publication of
Books, by Mr. W. Heinemann, London.
The Inscription of the Titles on the Backs of
, Paris.
the Bindings, by Mr.
The Effect of Cheap Clothbound Reprints on
more expensive Editions, by Mr. Arthur
Spurgeon, London.
The Development
of
the Copyrights in
Germany
for the Making and Selling of
Instruments, with a view to Rendering
Music Mechanically after the Revision at
Berlin of the Berne Convention in 1908,
by Mr. Gustav Bock, LL.D., Berlin.
Furtherance and International Organisation of
Establishing Book Trade Assistants Abroad,
by Mr. Victor Ranschburg, Budapest.
Reform of the Rates of Postage, with a view
to the Distribution of Periodical Publica
tions, by Mr. Victor Ranschburg, Budapest.
A Proposal to Prepare the Publication of an
Encyclopedia
of the International Book
Trade, by Mr. Carl Junker, Vienna.
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MAGAZINE
CONTENTS.
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BOOKMAN.
By Lewis Melville.
Sheridan.
The Centenary
of Sir Samuel Ferguson.
Graves.
By M. Sturge Henderson.
, Meredith's Poems.
By A. P.
CONTEMPORARY.
By Regina Miriam Bloch.
in the Underworld.
Stained Glass Windows. By L. March Phillipps.
Istar
By C. T.
The Future of the Classics.
ENGLISH REVIEW.
By Edmund Gosse.
The Censorship of Books.
By Maurice Hewlett.
Time's Laughing Stocks.
By Count de Soissons.
Chantecler.
By V. M. Crawford.
D'Annunzio's New Novel.
G. M. Godden's Life of Fielding. By Norreys Connell.
FORTNIGHTLY.
By H. B. Samuel,
Arthur Schmitzler.
Lamartine and Elvire. By Francis Gribble.
By Herbert Ives.
William Blake as a Teacher.
By
M. Edmond Rostand and Chantecler.
John F.
Macdonald.
Anthony Trollope.
-
NATIONAL.
By Alice Sedgwick.
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price can
be
a
if
proper
of a
of
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EVER
TO
of
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or
be
is
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in
of
WARNINGS
transfer
e
copyright.
AUTHORS.
DRAMATIC
in
or
to
it
sign an agreement without submitting
the
Secretary
some com
Authors
the Society
petent legal authority.
negotiating for
be extremely careful
well
play with anyone except an established
the production
manager.
dramatic contract for plays
There are three forms
in three or more acts:
of
.
of
the performing right. This
unsatisfactory. An author who enters into
(a.) Sale outright
a in
the contract
contract should stipulate
certain date
the piece by
his name on the
and for proper publication
play-bills.
of
of
such
for production
it
is
to
to to
º
(3.) Always avoid
a
of
a
to
an
be observed
few standing rules
are
dealing
agreement.
There are four methods
I.
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3.
BOOKS,
º-º-º
with literary property:
outright.
Selling
sometimes satisfactory,
This
(a
A
In
in
the author.
Such combinations are generally disastrous
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from
the Society.
the Secretary
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.
possible.
Avoid agreements by letter
The main points which the Society has always demanded
from the outset are
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement
Idéa,DS.
those account books which belong
(2.) The inspection
right,
the
the author. We are advised that this
denied
common law right, which cannot
nature
withheld.
is
TERE
the four
a
TO THE PRODUCERS
OF
in
WARNINGS
agreement are combinations
of
Q-e
All other forms
above mentioned.
2.
e
be
or
or
1s.
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so
Members can make their own
do some publishers.
deductions and act accordingly.
per
9. The subscription to the Society is £1
annum,
£10 10s. for life membership.
General.
a
The
main points are :
production.
fair cost
obtain
Be careful
Keep control
the advertisements.
Keep control
the book.
the sale price
of
This
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.
The
(1.)
(2.)
(3.)
of to
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit
and explanation to the Secretary
them for interpretation
of the Society.
Commission Agreement.
IV.
of
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
now
both sides.
what the proposed royalty means
approximately
possible for an author
the
ascertain
time very important figures connected
From time
truth.
The Author.
with royalties are published
of
a
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of
in a fire
members' agreements and their preservation
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as
by
only
the Secretary,
documents to be read
confidential
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action
upon them.
(3) To enforce
(2) To keep agreements.
payments due according to agreements.
Fuller particu
lars of the Society s work can be obtained in the
Prospectus.
The Royalty System.
perhaps, with certain limitations,
the best form
agreement.
know
above all things necessary
This
is
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.
III.
A
send
It
3. Before signing any agreement whatever,
the document to the Society for examination.
i.
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi
Therefore, do not scruple to use
ence of ordinary solicitors.
the Society.
managed by
the Secretary
-
Agreement
Profit-Sharing
bad form
II.
agreement).
this case the following rules should be attended
pro
sign any agreement
which the cost
(1.) Not
part without the strictest investigation.
duction forms
putting
give the publisher the power
the
(2.) Not
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements
exchange
charging
by
advertise
his own organs,
the advertisements.
Therefore keep control
ments.
expenses,
charge
special
for office
allow
(3.) Not
made to the author.
unless the same allowance
Colonial,
American,
up
give
Continental
Not
rights.
give up serial
translation rights.
(5.) Not
any publisher.
bind yourself for future work
(6.) Not
any one solicitor
well bind yourself for the future
Octor
of
-
to
E
WISRY member has a right to ask for and to receive
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his
The
of his property.
business or the administration
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the
Further, the Committee, if they
Solicitors of the Society.
without
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion
Moreover, where counsel's
any cost to the member.
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.
!.
of
But the transaction should
obtained.
competent agent,
with the advice
the Society.
How To use THE SOCIETY.
.
193
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194
A DITFIOR,
right or of a licence to
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.
(b.) Sale
of performing
perform
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed
nightly fees). This method should be always
avoided except in cases where the fees are
likely to be small or difficult to collect.
The
other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply
also in this case.
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum
paid in advance of such fees in any event.
It is extremely
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should
be reserved.
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and
time.
This is most important.
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction
is of great importance.
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a
play are distinct from literary copyright.
A manager
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot
print the book of the words.
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed
ingly valuable.
They should never be included in English
agreements without the author obtaining
a substantial
consideration.
9. Agreements
for collaboration
should be carefully
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.
10. An author should remember that production of a play
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully
in
the beginning.
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object
is to obtain adequate publication.
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con
tracts, those authors desirous of further information
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.
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AUTHORS
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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
Copies
and the other filed in the register of the Society.
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for
at the price of 2s. 6d. per act.
AGENTS.
authors should seek the advice of the
Society before putting plays into the hands of
agents.
As the law stands at present, an agent
may acquire
a perpetual
claim
to a percentage
on
the author's fees from a play without rendering
him
placing
any service.
plays
As far as the
of
is con
cerned, it may be taken as a general rule that there are
only very few agents who can do anything for an author
that he cannot, under the guidance
of the Society, do
equally well or better for himself.
The collection of fees
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is
required.
For certain purposes, such as the collection of
fees on amateur performances,
and in general the trans
action of frequent petty authorisations
with different
individuals, and also for the collection
of fees in foreign
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase
the author's rights.
In any case, in the present state of
the law, an agent should not be employed under any
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the
Society.
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WARNINGS
TO
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MUSICAL
COMPOSERS.
ITTLE
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
particular
an agreement, and should take into
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 Society's
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded
to the
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.
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AND
AND
RAMATIC
THE READING
Q 0
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS
ORIGINAL PLAYS.
DRAMATIC
BRANCH,
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this
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
works,
possible,
and dramatic
and when it is
under
special arrangement,
technical and scientific works.
The
Readers are writers of competence and experience.
The
fee is one guinea.
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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,
letter only.
Chancery
Lane, or be sent by registered
�TFIES A UTFIOR.
of
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to
The moral obligation
tion Mr. Holt affirms.
have been
between American publishers seems
pity that their moral
very strong.
was
English authors
obligations towards the position
was not equally strong, for Mr. Holt goes
was only when the pirates struck
show that
in, and cheap edition after cheap edition was pub
lished, and
make things
became impossible
to
to
on
of
a
WE regret exceedingly that the letter we print
It
below came too late for the March number.
under
is an answer to a statement contained
the heading of Publishers Methods '' in the
February issue, and to this we refer our members.
It is satisfactory to have an authoritative answer
Weekly,
As look toward the setting sun,
statement:
any way
am not impressed that the horizon
worthy successors
the publishers
crowded
generation ago.
well known that before
the United States first Copyright Law was passed
understanding existed amongst the better class
American houses that they should not interfere,
piracy, with the contracts between themselves
This posi
and their respective English authors.
It
OF AN EDITION.
Publishers
PUBLISHERS.
AMERICAN
THE
it
THE UNIT
the
AND
his seventieth birthday, has
Mr. Henry Holt,
reminis
been putting forward some interesting
not what you would call optimistic
He
cences.
the publishing trade, judging from the following
it
quence, have compelled the author to re-purchase
his copyright at their own price. This is an
exceedingly serious position, as it often prevents
reward
the author from claiming any financial
from many years' careful study, and it likewise
prevents the public from obtaining the benefit of
his research.
HENRY HOLT
by
He
tion of a particular section of the public.
finds, however, that he cannot do so without
infringing his own copyright which
he has
assigned, and unless the publisher
will make
him a reasonable offer, he is estopped from
writing the book and from conveying to the public
knowledge he has gained on his
the additional
Examples are forthcoming of publishers
subject.
who, realising the strength of their position, have
refused to make a reasonable offer, and, in conse
the February number
the note
reference
am directed
The Author, headed Publishers' Methods,
say that
does not
this Association
the Council
any
practicable
appear
fix
definite number
them
regarded universally
copies which shall
the unit
copies
which the first
The number
edition.
for
any subsequent edition
book should consist depends
many cases,
even,
variety
circumstances.
fix the number for any given book long before
unwise
impossible.
hand, and
for
books would
fix
as few as 500 or even
Some cases the first edition consists
1,000 while 1,500, 2,000,
many cases
250 copies.
40,000
50,000, are fre
indeed any number up
print
any given book
quently printed.
The number
publisher
the most difficult points which
indeed one
decide.
called upon
contemplation
agreement
Where, however,
publisher
which the arrange
author and
between
that the publisher should buy the first edition
ment
agreed sum,
further pay
followed
book for
exhausted,
obvious that the
ment When that edition
the agreement.
fixed
the first edition must
number
self-evident,
my Council
This proposition appears
them
be almost incredible that either an
seems
and
agreement on
publisher should enter into
author
which the first edition
which the number
these lines
consist
not fixed.
am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
WM. Pou DTEN,
Secretary.
is
to
that later in his career the young writer, having
acquired a reputation, desires to bring his work
up to date by issuing a new edition, or per
haps to produce an exhaustive treatise, or if he
happens already to have produced such a treatise,
to produce it in an abridged form for the considera
SIR,-With
IN
A VERY serious matter to all writers of technical
books is constantly coming- before the secretary of
the society.
Many publishers of educational and technical
works, seeing a young and prominent
scholar
coming to the front in a special branch of learn
ing, arrange with him to write a book on the
particular subject of which he is a student.
Such
a writer, absolutely ignorant of the prices and of
the conditions which obtain in the literary market,
sells the copyright of his work outright for a sum
We have, on various
down or subject to a royalty.
occasions, pointed out in these columns the danger
of selling the copyright outright to a publisher ; but
in the case of a technical writer this danger is
increased, for in any science, where
greatly
forthcoming,
constantly
developments
in
are
history,
come to light, in
where new MSS.
where new methods are employed, it
education
is sure to happen, and, judging from the many
cases before the secretary, has frequently happened
of
OF COPYRIGHT.
a
THE SALE
from the Publishers Association itself, though the
reason given in their answer does not, to our mind,
appear convincing.
for instance, the unit
1,000, then
250 copies
edition was fixed
quarter
only were printed,
stated that
could
500 copies,
edition had been produced
on.
one half, and
an
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by
GENERAL NOTES.
195
�TISIE AUTISIORs
at
to
at
is
to
do
to
be
of
three score years and ten.
-msm-THE ENGLISH
CATALOGUE
BOOKS.
OF
THE English Catalogue
Books for 1909
before the public.
Little further can
said
what has been usually said with regard
production.
printed
clear type,
paper, and bound up
serviceable cloth
on to
be
in
a
as
its
&
of
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is
following order :
W. Comyns Carr
Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland
Francis Storr
G. Bernard Shaw
286
Mackenzie
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Bell
283
266
233
178
repeat that one-third
worth while
Therefore,
the committee retires annually.
a
of
of
may
º
.
If
all
in
be
different arrangement
give notice
was impossible
the result
the election
the committee
the general
meeting which was held
the 16th
last
month.
The following
the signed statement
the
scrutineers, recording
the votes for 1910
the
to
by
THIS year, owing
dates,
to
as
ELECTION.
º-º-º
a
a
to
be
a
to
is or
-
books
º-e
COMMITTEE
of
in
to
give, and
tradesmen could afford
conse
quence, with the keen competition engendered
literary agent, the prices were
the employment
any went
forced up
fair trading value.
beyond the fair trading value, then there was bound
Then,
trades, the
reaction.
weaker brethren who happen
have over-bought
undersold, are weeded out, and the natural level
again established.
e
be
of
no
to
it
all
agent not only scattered and weakened the publishers'
interest in the anthors books, but sold their books
before they were written, sometimes three deep,
and so worked many of the authors out.
He
further goes on to say that the agent has forced
up the royalties of established authors to points
that they cannot hold, and quotes as an example
one house who pays an author a royalty that makes
the publisher lose money on every copy sold.
He
adds: It is needless to say that this house is in a
chronic state of failure.
These are bitter remarks,
and if they are true the sooner the agent reaches
that position which Mr. Holt hopes he will reach,
the better.
It seems to us on considering the posi
tion, however, that what has taken place is what
appears that
takes place in
trades directly
the prices are being wrongly quoted owing
competition.
lack
Authors
doubt
were
receiving royalties much below those which the
usual,
price
pub
there comes
list
societies and
list
England and America.
lishers
These items all
add
the utility
the volume.
the analysis
books published
the beginning we see that
1909 the output has been larger than ever
has
been before, reaching
the enormous number
10,725 volumes, 900 volumes more than were pro
Perhaps
duced
1908.
needless
state
that the largest class
the class
fiction and
juvenile works; the output
these books reached
2,881.
Religious works come third with 1,022.
interesting
will
see whether
1910 this
huge increase
maintained.
it
I
cover.
issues from the same firm
Low, Marston
Co., Ltd., and
Messrs.
6s. net.
At the end
the volume, after the list
to
One of the most interesting things in my career
has been his rise and fall I mean fall from his
high state of dictation to nearly all the publishing
houses, toward the modest one of useful auxiliary,
hope he
which I think he will reach, and where
will long deserve and find success.
He accuses the
agent in the first days of setting by the ears all
publishers
and authors through whom he was
getting no commissions, and setting the publishers
bidding against each other.
He states that the
J.
AGENT.
interesting
He says :
is
the
makes some
agent.
authors'
of
about
HOLT
It
remarks
HENRY
of
HENRY HolT AND THE AUTHORs'
MR.
now
than
this
good
is
of
1891.
We wonder if it would be possible to stir
up the moral obligation of the American publisher
to the same extent now, so that he should put the
same energy and the same amount of capital into
passing a law for the benefit of the unfortunate
writer in the English language who resides outside
the United States which he did when the contents
of his pocket were being emptied by the too greedy
pirate.
We have our fears, for the pirate has ceased
from troubling, and the cheap reprint is at rest.
In another column of this issué we see that
going
give his views
Mr. Heinemann
the
International Publishers' Congress
Amsterdam
the same subject.
We shall
anxious
see
how far his views agree with Mr. Holt's.
We must say we have read Mr. Holt's remarks
about his publishing house and American methods
with the greatest interest, though we
not always
agree with his statements.
We are glad
con
gratulate him
having reached the ripe age
on
pay, that the moral obligation of the American
publisher made him turn towards bettering the
position of the English author and made it neces
sary for him to join in getting through the Law of
on
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by to
G.
H. to
a
in
a
or
to
if
all the authors
the
3,000
4,000, such
number combined
very
the society constituted
They had elected
formidable body.
the council
the year Mark Twain and Mr.
Wells,
thereby doing honour
themselves.
serious
loss had been sustained
the society
the death
president, Mr. George Meredith. There was
need
add
what had already been said upon
subject, but the Society had been fortunate
such
securing
his successor Mr. Thomas Hardy.
Mr. George Meredith had succeeded Lord Tennyson,
to
be
THE SOCIETY.
of
of
to
of
of to
in
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of
a
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of
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to of
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to
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of
so
to
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of
of In
w
a
by
to
;
of
in
deal with the report, Mr. Hewlett
congratulated
membership
the society upon
over 2,000, increased during 1909
more elections
any preceding year.
than
tions arising out
the report, Mr. Harold Hardy,
speaking
member
the Copyright Sub-com
mittee, made the suggestion
the Committee
Management, that just
they referred dramatic
they should
cases
the Dramatic Sub-committee,
refer copyright cases
the Copyright Sub-com
reply, the chairman expressed personal
mittee.
approval
the idea, and said that
would bring
the proposal before the Committee
Management.
to
act
as
A
to
of
as
forto
for
i.
be
Management, presiding.
The agenda on the paper were: 1. To receive
and, if desired, to discuss the accounts and report
of the Committee of Management
2. To elect a
member of the Pension Fund Committee under the
scheme for the management of the Pension Fund.
3. To appoint scrutineers to count the votes under
the new constitution.
dispose
In order to
of No. 2 and No. 3 before
proceeding to the main business of the meeting, the
chairman invited the nomination of a new member
of the Pension Fund Committee, and as no such
nomination was made, declared Mr. M. H.
Spielmann (who, retiring by rotation, offered him
duly elected.
self
re-election)
similar
request was made
names
members
scrutineers, and
none was put forward the chair
man intimated that the committee would make the
necessary appointments.
a
THE general meeting of the society was held
Wednesday,
March 16th, at 4 p.m., Mr.
Maurice Hewlett, chairman of the Committee
of
on
to
a
of
II.
of of
the report and accounts had been circulated
they were taken as read, and the three items on
the agenda, put from the chair, were duly carried,
Messrs. Oscar Berry & Co. again being elected
accountants.
in in
g
As
of
the accountants for 1910, and to adopt the accounts
for the past year.
of
report of the committee of management, to elect
by
T
of
to the annual general meeting, held at
Society of Medicine on Wednesday,
March 16th, the general meeting of the
shareholders, the Council of the Society, was held.
The meeting was merely formal to pass the annual
the
to
TYRIOR
of
to
THE COUNCIL.
as
I.
as
in
and would
followed
the most distinguished
England, who,
poet, philosopher and
Writer
moral force, stood easily first.
With regard
Management,
the Committee
the chairman mentioned the retirement
Mrs.
Felkin and the re-election
Dr. Squire Sprigge,
Mr. Arthur Rackham and Mr. Sidney Webb.
He
also congradulated the society upon having added
the name
Sir Alfred Bateman
the committee
supply the great loss sustained
the death
Sir Henry Bergne.
After referring briefly
the
Management and
work
the Committee
the
sub-committees,
Mr. Hewlett expressed himself
having been surprised since
had become its
chairman
the number
cases dealt with and by
the variety and extent
the work done.
He
mentioned an instance
an unusual case, one
literary libel, occurring
foreign country and
now under consideration,
which the question
arose out
book translated into German, with all
the names and topical allusions converted into
German names and allusions, producing
result
amusing
but the author.
After referring
the satisfactory financial position
the scoiety,
drew attention
the fact that during the past
year the aid
the society had been deliberately
invoked
for the first time
the Publishers'
Association
this showed that
the publishers
thought the society worth consulting, and indicated
new and very gratifying state
affairs.
He
paying
concluded
tribute
the service
rendered
the secretary
the society, Mr.
H.
Thring, than whom
one could have discharged
his duties with greater industry
more intelligent
sympathy.
At the close
the chairman's address, and
reply
put ques
invitation
those present
of
GENERAL MEETINGS.
by
in
as
a
the right of nomination, or any two members of
the society may nominate a third member.
Three hundred and fifty-five votes were recorded
in the election for the current year.
The first
four on the above list are those who will join the
committee.
Even
the total
kingdom amounted
to
four
have
in
members,
The committee
its
twelve
no of
consisting
committee
of
members have to retire.
of
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G.
J.
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of
it
of is
in
be
is
It
a
of
of
so
in
of
more one hears the complaint
that
many
the really good books
the year
books
this connection are of course
novels did not figure among the recorded best
sellers
1909.
Even
rather significant
that
work
the calibre
Mrs. McCartney
Lane s Katrine
should actually head the list.
also rather curious
that women authors
among the most popular should
the propor
to
of
only one
tion
three male writers.
Mrs. Ward
and Robert Hichens represent not unworthily the
non-American element.
of
a
a in
by
of
a
it
is of
of
of
be
event
the spring publishing season will
appearance
new book
Max Adeler.
The subject
the experiences
one who
his own despite has gained the reputation
mighty natural
George W. Jacobs
healer.
Philadelphia, are the publishers.
By
Co.,
the bye,
said that Mr. Clark, unlike
cele
brated English humourist, dislikes being addressed
his pen-name, which ignores his labours
An
the
in
which
he
to
other fields
energies.
has long devoted his best
in
to
be
J.
by
in
Commander Peary's recent Arctic experiences,
Hampton's Magazine, are,
which are appearing
said,
wait for publication
book form till
the fall, when they will
issued
the Stokes
Company
two volumes.
The seventh volume
Prof.
B. McMaster's
History
the United States, bringing the narra
of
be
O .
in
it
to
to
it,
to
NOTES.
e-C*-e
it of
is
a
to
do
by
a
to
to
of
A
it
to
it,
he
be
might
asked privately for advice
friend
might
upon some literary matter, although
perfectly able
give
refuse
and
send
those asking for
the society.
vote
thanks
the chairman was proposed
UNITED STATES
of
by
he a
he
to
of
It
to
dramatic authors
have nothing
with him.
was
the greatest importance that members
join
should get every author they possibly could
their organisation.
He urged every member who
-*
wr-º
&
of
so
it
he
by
so
of
by
he a to
it
of
of
on
it
to
a
do
to
of
of
of
Many
confirmation.
them had
never even heard
the existence
the secretary.
He urged that even those who were good business
men, and who were able
understand their agree
consulting
ments, would
the society
service
with regard
them.
He had recently had
Management
before him
the Committee
publisher's agreement
preposterous
character
that
was almost inconceivable, and
had had
another
submitted
him with regard
the
Writing
plays,
leading London manager,
monstrous that
believed
could get
writing and informing the manager
quashed
that unless
withdrew
the society would advise
like the rite
Kenealy,
by
of
be
to
to
a
as so.
to
if
entered, and when asked
they had consulted the
doing
society were found not
have even thought
These seemed
look upon joining the society
gone through,
mere form which had
Jacobi, Miss Arabella
M. Hine,
Larken,
Lincoln, Sir Alfred
Lyall, Miss Annie Matheson,
Hope Moncrieff,
Harwood Panting, H. M. Paull, W. Booth Pearsall,
Pettigrew, Count
Mrs. Alice Perrin, W.
N.
Plunkett,
Prelooker, John Richmond,
Lieut.
Shaw, Mrs.
Col. W. Sedgwick,
Bernard
Stanton, Francis
Bernard Shaw, Miss H. M.
Storr, Miss Grace Toplis, Mrs. Alec Tweedie,
Frederick Vicars, Mrs. Voynich, William Wallace,
Wharton, Edward Willmore, Miss
Zingler.
Miss
is
of
to
on a
it.
Copyright Sub-committee should have entrusted to
it cases now dealt with by the Committee of Man
agement in which questions relating to copyright
were raised, observed that committees made their
own work ; that
the Dramatic Sub-committee,
which now dealt with cases relating to dramatic
matters, at one time practically did not exist, but
that if the sub-committee was found to be doing its
work well, meeting regularly
and with a good
attendance of its members, them all work suitable
for it would soon be handed over to it. The Com
mittee of Management
had plenty to do, and the
Copyright Sub-committee would not find that it
was not sufficiently human to be willing to turn
over a portion of its labonrs.
Mr. Shaw, con
tinuing, referred to the growing membership, and
to the necessity notwithstanding for active recruit
ing, and for making use of the society after joining
great many members who
The society had
appeared
proceed
the assumption that the
society did not exist, members who, after joining,
complained
agreements into which they had
Mr. Charles Garvice and seconded
Count Plunkett.
The members present included:
Armstrong,
Chairman, Mr. Maurice Hewlett;
Miss Emily Baker, Sir Alfred Bateman,
Bell, Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes,
Beddoes, Mackenzie
Bedford, Mrs.
Edward
Nesbit Bland, John
Buchan, C.O. Burge, W. M. Coleman, Thomas Cobb,
Cripps Day,
Miss Ellen Collett, James Curtis,
W. Scott Durrant, Miss Gabrielle Festing, Douglas
Freshfield, John Fyvie, Charles Garvice, Miss Mary
Gaunt, Harold Hardy, Anthony Hope Hawkins,
it
J.
Mr.
Harwood Panting referred to the election of
the president, and urged that it would be prefer
able that he should be elected by the society and
not be merely a nominee of the committee.
In
reply, the chairman pointed out that the election of
the president was by the council, in accordance
with the constitution of the society, which had to
Shaw, commenting
be observed.
Mr. Bernard
upon Mr. Harold Hardy's suggestion
that the
by
TISIE AUTISIOR.
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in
to
is
is
of
to
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of
by
by
to
as
a
as
is
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a
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be
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of
of
of
an
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is
of
an
a
if
a
in
of
it
of
a
of
of
of
no
is
of
of
a of
is
to
in
of
The Confessions
Best-seller
the
popularity
Atlantic Monthly that the key
plot-interest.
People who buy new books are
as
so
is
a
good story, she
after something more than
declares, and that something
the genteel
This,
atmosphere.
doubt,
far
women
highly plausible plea.
readers are concerned,
But the other writer was presumably thinking
the tired male.
of
a
on
by
of
J.
of
record
the achievements
geologist
mark.
Professor Whitney, who died
1896, was brother
the eminent philologist,
helped with the Century Dictionary.
whom
Another book recently issued by Houghton,
Co., Mrs. Anna Robeson Burr's critical
Mifflin
and comparative study
The Autobiography"
should attract not
few readers. The author has
capital
examined and grouped
less than 265
specimens
various languages.
The task
being conclusive.
ambitious and Scarcely admits
recent correspondent
the Dial thinks she has
discovered the secret of the
best-seller.
She
repudiates the suggestion
the anonymous writer
is no
of
of
of
to
at
of
be
in
to
is
a
A
Hall, New York,
February 20.
Mendelssohn
Hughes
presided,
among
Governor
and
the
speakers were President
Nicholas M. Butler,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Dr. Hamilton Wright
Mabie, and Mr.
Forbes Robertson.
One
the most notable
the February books
was William Winter s Life and Art of Richard
Mansfield.
An Englishman
birth and
and Letters
admirably executed
of the first American
a
of
of
it
of
authorities
the Bodleian for the publication
collotype facsimile
the Caedmon Manuscript.
The issue
limited
one hundred copies
five guineas.
meeting
commemoration
the career
the late Richard Watson Gilder was held in
Life
in
all
of
revelations
the inside workings
war and
diplomacy.
Prof. Garrison,
Texas University,
has pointed out how
refutes the charges against
its author's character.
Prof. John M. Manly has arranged with the
Edwin Tenney Brewster s
Josiah Dwight Whitney
he
Bookman a piquant article upon the American
in England. My recollection is that it
rather bore out the truth of the old Scriptural
saying about the honour of a prophet in his own
country.
Diary of President
The hitherto unpublished
Polk is being printed this spring from the
original manuscript belonging to the Chicago
Historical Society.
Prof. Milo Quaife, of the
Lewis Institute of Technology, is the editor.
Of
this document Prof. Albert Hart has declared
that
in
American history we have few such
novel
&
York
Someone has discovered the existence
earlier
American Academy dating from the year 1820. Its
habitat was New York, its president John Quincy
Adams, and its corresponding secretary and organ
ising genius certain William
prize
Cardell.
and gold medal were offered for the best written
history
the United States, and other subjects
subsequent years.
were proposed for competition
Apparently this laudable body only survived
few
years; but
gallant,
premature, attempt.
was
A
from McClurg & Co.
Mrs. Atherton's new novel, Tower of Ivory,
is the story of a young English diplomat's unfortu
nate marriage with a frivolous American and his
tragic passion for a German singer with a past.
The book, which will fully sustain her reputation,
is to be issued in London by John Murray.
This
writer contributed te a recent number of the New
Taxing the Unearned Increment from Land.
Such subjects
these and The Effects
Modern
Immigration
the United States should produce
Some interesting contributions.
Students
American psychology are well catered
for nowadays. No sooner have they finished with
Maurice Low s Study
the American People
than they are confronted with Dr. Henry Van
Spirit
Dyke's
may
safely
America.
asserted that readers of both these will not be
confined
one hemisphere.
in
Prof. Guy Stevens Collender s
Selections from
the Economic History of the United States'
should be a boon to students of political economy.
This large source book, issued by Ginn & Co.,
begins with the year 1765 and extends to 1860.
Abraham Lincoln is by no means done with as
yet.
Chicago makes two further contributions to
his literature this spring in the Century Tribute,
edited by Nathan William McChesney, and the
Monograph, by Isaac N. Phillips.
Both come
in
latest volumes.
reality
adoption, Mansfield was
the world.
He owed much
his
life, and the debt has not been
diminished
this record
his personality and
activities.
The book
valuable contribution to
contemporary
dramatic criticism
well
biography.
Amongst the subjects chosen
the judges for
the annual economic prizes offered
Messrs. Hart,
Schaffner, and Marx,
Chicago,
note that one
The Value
Protectionism
American Work
ing Men, whilst another
German Experience
American
citizen
biographer
of
Meanwhile,
tive down to 1852, is just appearing.
two more instalments of Elroy McKendree Avery's
large history have come to hand.
The first
volume deals with the early days of the Revolu
tion, and the second with the Revolution itself and
its consolidation in the Confederation.
The illus
trations, which have been the great feature of the
work, seem to have been a little overdone in these
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a harassed reviewer could do no more than dip
hastily between the pages.
suppose it was by
way of amende honorable that that same paper, in
general literary review
the close
the year,
many kind and friendly things
said
me.
apt
There
still
third reviewer.
He
periodical the
attached
the better class
quarterly,
monthly,
weekly that
looked up
final literary authority, and prides itself
up-to-date Smartness.
This reviewer owes his
post
his powers
Smart writing, his turn
sentence, his quip, his jeer, his satire.
To make
brilliant stroke
the pen
his aim, his aspiration.
At any cost
must sparkle, must call attention
poor work, trite,
his own wit. To praise
commonplace.
The feeblest intellect can praise.
reputation
dips his pen
There
vinegar, and struts
epigram, and proves him
shining writer.
pretty wit and
self
Now,
take
that the main object
reviews
help the reading public
twofold:
the selec
book, and
tion
teach the author.
None
these three classes of modern reviewer achieve the
latter object.
When
reviewer has palpably not
quite
read one's book, praise
distasteful
be
of
on
is
or
or to
of
a a
he
is
of
to
of
a
as
itsto
he
So
it.
in
in
no
is
is
to
of
a
in
it
to
of
to
I
of
is is
as
as
a
a
of
unjust blame.
is
is
of
be is
If
by
a
in
to
of
no
or
to
of to
a
no
be
as
a
as
of
it
When
evident his cast
mind
the educated for whom one writes,
his criticism becomes valueless.
When the effort
witty critic
sparkle
too deplorably
evident, satire leaves one cold. The author has no
real enlightenment
his faults
his successes.
guide
selection,
The other object, that
doubt achieved, but with profound injustice.
any book
There can
doubt that the sale
enormously regulated
reviews.
we con
cede that the sale
successful book
not
entirely due
good reviews, there can
no
But,
doubt that a book may be damned by blame.
truth, there has been more than one author
my personal knowledge floated into public favour
laudatory critics, and
editor once informed
me that
ordered his serials from authors with
out having read
line
their writings, merely on
the strength
reviews
their first books.
heavily
But
book abused
the critics
handicapped throughout
career, and
almost
every instance injurious reviews affect disastrously
not that
an
in is
of of
its by
of
a
he
a
fit
of
of
a
of
on
of
the publishing chances
its successor. An
author's future, his daily bread, may depend
indiges
newspaper clerk, his
the whim
tion, his fatigue, his vanity.
The profession
surely one
letters
such assured dignity that
possible, and that
these things should not
right
demand,
merely
should have
it
a
as
if
to
a
be
is
received a somewhat slighting mention in one of
the leading London daily papers.
Not long after
wards a relative of mine met the reviewer.
He
admitted, with some embarrassment, that he had
not yet read my book when he wrote the review,
in
I
a
read with considerable interest the letters
on the subject of the utility of
reviews, and, as the author of some hundred
novels, all of which have had the favour of the
public's eye, and many of which have had the favour
might, to
of the reviewer's pen, I should like, if
say a word or two of my own impressions.
In past days reviews were entrusted to men of
letters, of university
education,
of culture and
ability. Though a reviewer might be merciless,
he had such critical faculty and such information
that though his victim might writhe, he still could
gather help and improvement from his tortures.
The reviewer's trade, like much else, has changed
in these haste-to-be-rich days. Newspapers,
agonising
to pay shareholders'
dividends or to
become millionaires on their own account, cut all
expenses.
Book reviews can be written by any
member of the executive staff who has a swift pen
and a nimble fancy.
The clerk, proud of his
extreme youth and as ignorant of the world as
he is of anything beyond his board-school educa
tion ; the office boy on promotion, they are con
sidered quite capable reviewers.
The innocence
of their comments, the wild inappositeness of their
criticisms, tickle the humour of the reviewed, even
while the victims protest against the distortion of
their own meanings, the misrepresentation of their
plots, their characters, their situations. The reading
public gravely accepts the dictum of young per
sonages whose opinion in real life they would be
reluctant to take on the weather, and the book
and its author are catalogued according - to the
reviewer's praise or condemnation.
There is another class of reviewer.
He is still
educated, enlightened, justified in criticising.
But
time fails him.
I dislike the personal illustration,
but must resort to it to make my point. Not long
since a historical biography I had just published
in these columns
is
HAVE
is
THE UTILITY OF REVIEws.
a
is
º- Ah
~-w
to
so
at
is to of
I
its
fortnight earlier.
and excused himself by saying that the business of
reviewing was so wretchedly paid nowadays and
the number of books to review was so over
whelming that, except in very exceptional cases,
to
a
classical
is
York
William
in
New
orator,
of
Everett, preacher, mis
scholar,
and English
writer, died on February 16, at Quincy, where
he had been principal of the Adams Academy
nearly thirty years.
He is said to have left in
manuscript a life of his father, Edward Everett.
Mrs. Jessie Van Zile Belden, the novelist, died in
The versatile
sionary
by
200
�TRIE A DITISIOR.
we
to
in
triumphant and vice
that ending truer
is is
is
virtue
for example,
is
by
in
it
be
by
to
be
a
so
of
in
what takes place
the world
know than the
Fairy Tale, and
typical ending
the wicked
Stepmother was condemned
burnt, and the
prince and princess married, and lived happily ever
may
said, the means
afterwards ? But,
happy ending Fiction
which the end
reached
quite different from the means
which the end
is
Is
reached
the Fairy Tale.
this the case
really
Coincidence
the Fairy Tale plays
important part.
brings together the prince and
the princess that
the hero and heroine who
opposite
have been wandering half over the world
directions,
the critical moment.
But the
given
coincidence
true place
the Fairy
an
It
in
I
which
punished,
in
I
Fiction,
is
protection, sane, intelligent, serious
commercial
reviews, written by men fitted to deal with their
subject, and honest in their method of dealing.
Lest my next book should be a prey to the
teeth of the reviewer after this protest,
will take
the reviewer's privilege
of remaining nameless.
But
will very gladly answer any communication
addressed to me by any member of this society
on the subject.
AUTHORESS.
201
is
in
its
of
of It
is
of
is
by
of
of
by
a
is
in
In
all
in
in
in
to
as
in
so
in
so
of
is
by
of
he
be
at
or
be
in
he
If
in
of
in
us
in
its
he
of
of
in
of
of
is
it
of
?
be
she used
to
days gone
In
at
In of
In
a
a
in
is in
by
in to at
is
as
in
does
is
of
success out
the dying embers
occur
real life, and we are pointed
Byron
example.
But
not convincing.
Success does not come
this way, Byron notwith
standing.
special favourite
Cinderella
greater
Fiction in days gone
she was even
present.
favourite than she
Fiction and
Fairy Tales she goes
the ball and marries her
prince, and rejoices
the discomfiture
her
sisters, which
the greatest thing
all.
real
life, alas Cinderella stays
home and marries
the curate.
And Cinderella's godmother
sudden blaze
failure
an
in
as
in
or
as
of
In
of
looked out
his window one morning and
found that the pretty coloured bean which
had
sown the night before had sprung up, and was now
towering tree, with
topmost branches hidden
in the clouds.
Of course we are told that this
by
of
to
go
in
in
in
or
a
use
the Fairy Tale element
his stories.
Most
conspicuously
this the case
the conversions
him, conversions brought about by
chronicled
utterly inadequate means,
bad characters into
good. Then his good characters are, generally
very,
speaking, like the little girl
the rhyme,
unvaryingly
very good" and his bad characters
horrid
are the good and bad characters
Fairy Tales. Jack goes out
meet his giants alike
Fiction and Fairy Tales, and polishes them off
the most satisfactory manner.
does not escape
unscathed
wins his princess, and marries her,
and lives happily ever after.
Whereas
real life
Jack would almost certainly
the killed and not
the killer,
best would
taken prisoner, and
kept shut up under the kitchen floor
some
giant's stronghold.
As for the other Jack him
telling
the Beanstalk Fiction delights
how
as
in
of
of
as
a
as
character development
cannot have full play.
Mrs. Gaskell must have felt all this when she
wrote her group
short stories,
Old Friends
with New Faces.
the happy ending story
not the result
chance it
the
higher powers.
the deliberate actions
Fiction, coincidence, while brought
for the
clumsy contrivance discredited
same end,
writers, and made use
Dickens, more,
all.
Fiction, made
perhaps, than any great writer
!
it.
course Fairy Tale writers have
advantage over writers
being able
Fiction
choose worlds unrealised
for their scenes
instead
the workaday world which we all know.
But there the advantage ceases.
The elements
which Fairy Tales are composed are precisely the
same
the elements which
the composition
of
novel.
The characteristics of the actors are
strongly marked
the one
the other.
guide the actions
The influences which modify
each, although
are the same
Fiction these
vague forces
fate,
influences are treated
Fairy Tales they are personified
whereas
magicians. The Fairy Tale, being shorter
fairies
novel, the effect
than
these influences on
to an
underlying
Of
a
is
all
distorting magic" mirror, convex or concave
wherein nature is caricatured beyond recognition.
A writer of Fiction holds a mirror a poor, cracked,
blurred affair it may be, but still a mirror while
the Fairy Tale writer splashes away at a canvas,
and exhibits something which, whatever else it may
be, has no claim to reflect what passes in the world
very unfair and the
around us.
Now
this
more unfair because of
certain element of truth
Tale.
result
be
of fiction not infrequently speak
with some contempt of the work of their
humbler brothers and sisters the writers
Fairy Tales, they say, are so easy
of Fairy Tales.
to do all that is needed is for the writer to live
in a world of his own making, under conditions of
of his own laying down. When a difficulty, when
a tangle occurs, the aid of the supernatural or the
grotesque can be called in to solve or to disentangle.
The men and women in Fairy Tales are puppets in
They do not act, or
the hands of non-humans.
speak, or think like the men and women in every
day life. Whereas in ordinary fiction the work of
the artist is to hold the mirror up to nature in
Fairy Tales no mirror is necessary not even a
he
RITERS
is at
in
e-º-º
a
V7
THE FAIRW TALE IN FICTION.
-
to
gº
the long lost uncle
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be
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1s.
18.
it to
of
to
at
a
if
be
is
it
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in its
or
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in
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be
by
to
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of
in
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be
to
it
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or
an
to
so
to
as
is
stances having
only fair
in by
to
say
of
a
it
its is
in
is
to
be
taken into consideration.
that some very beautiful
collotype
colour have been attained
results
general
reproduction, but
uncommercial
uncertainty.
reason
Sense
by
Combination
Colour Work.
of
of
of
all
in
ducing
by
number
of
repro
effective ways
combining the
means
colour work
Picture postcards especially are
various processes.
this way, and the results are
often treated
frequently quite artistic.
appear under
sorts
These combinations
reproducers
names and disguises, many firms
There are
a
in
of
an
lay down
absolute rule
many surrounding circum
price,
of
of
to
as
for printing purposes and then forced into the
ordinary
cavities after the same manner
copper-plate.
superfluous
enter into the details
would
art reproduction more
this special branch
be
It
is
an
of
is a
or
a
difficult
guidance
a
in
is
as
is,
is
on
a
it
be
as
insel,
used
and any general work that can
printed off with the ordinary type
cannot
but
printing machine, and therefore
matter
many cases inapplicable.
photo
half-tone,
Photogravure
any
graphic process, but
screen
made without
polished copper plate, and
moreover
hind
intaglio nature, the paper being damped
sunken
combined.
It
is
of
be
an
is
an
of
the
these
The first and most important
example
Photogravure" process,
which
presented with this issue.
excellent one for portraiture
This process
on
as
of
Photogravure.
It
It
of
be
used
ordinary
recommended
therefore not
disappointment.
way
often ends
any number
printed
collotype can
super-imposition.
colours
giving out work
this process the best form
procedure
obtain estimates and samples
from various firms and compare their prices and
quality
work for the reproduction and prints
In
I
of
in
their finish and effect, can only
beautiful
under certain conditions.
a
is
is
Remarks.
have described those
the foregoing chapters
processes that are most useful and more
generally adopted for illustrative purposes
by reason
their commercial adaptability.
There are several others however, which, while
it so
CHAPTER WII.
Processes, and Concluding
IN
In
It
a
Author.)
is
the
is
journalists,
artists,
A
reserved
Collotype.
im
this process also the camera plays
portant part, the pictures being reproduced
mechanical means.
great deal for insets
book illustra
used
tion, etc., and has been utilised extensively
for
picture postcard and similar work.
thick plate-glass after being sensitised
sheet
negative.
exposed under
The film, when kept
printed
moist, will take ink readily and can
cylinder machine.
This process
hand press
atmospheric changes, and
however, very sensitive
although much quicker than photogravure
not
generally effective
nearly
the latter.
certain
so artistic.
Nor
results, and
moreover, very variable
A
PLUMMER.
authors,
by
of
BY WM. BRETT
of
As
all
he
is
a
-
º-º-º
(Compiled
for the use
advertisers, and others.)
Various
to
of on
of
of
THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING.
rights
on
of
a
if
in
is
E. P. II.
(All
It
of
of
of a a
In
is
do
of
as
Fairy Tales are older than Fiction, the
Therefore
gratitude
they have scrap
the latter,
writers
them, will regard with less patronising contempt
the
The dwarf
the former.
the composition
the
the giant does not think much
shoulders
that, and the giant
giant, but
dwarf for
still the giant.
say that, these plates being printed from
than
naturally
hand, the cost
entirely
same
many cases prohibitive.
expensive, and
the photogravure plate itself, the price
the
the reputation
varies somewhat according
may
assumed
firm supplying same, but
range
6d. per square inch, with
from
two
from thirty shillings
cost
minimum
guineas for each plate.
generally
costly,
Being slow
well
unsuitable for large editions.
produced
colour form when required,
can
practically coloured
each printed impression
but
readily under
will
the plate itself
hand
long purse
first
stood that this method requires
be obtained.
class results are desired
as
of
a
is
of of
is
in
It
er
us
is,
do
of Australia more recently
from the goldfields
she is the eccentric millionaire, American or other
wise, and no relation
to Cinderella whatever.
Still, there she
and her vulgarity and twang
moment that the Deus
for
not disguise from
really the Dea
our childhood.
machina
the
fact beyond dispute that the whole
machinery
identical with the
Fiction
Fairy Tales.
machinery
few details only,
purely surface
and those for the most part
character,
literature vary.
those two classes
by
TISIES
202
�A DITFIOR,
particular method under some
compound title, which is not only confusing but
deceptive, and claiming it as their own special and
secret process.
This, as may be imagined, however, is only trade
bluff.
One of the favourite
forms of combination,
in
a
the original photographer, unless you can show
receipt for payment for the photograph
the first
instance.
of a
£1
an
to
is
it
is
a
of
a
to
to
to
I
on
an
JOURNALISM.
º-º-º
of
to
is
all
If
of
of of
of
0
of
to
or
a
a
of
as
be
a
is
true, then they may, with
them
few honourable
exceptions, such
the New York Evening Post,
divided into two classes: newspapers which one
pair
tongs,
would not willingly touch with
and newspapers which one would not willingly
pair
They
tongs.
touch with anything but
suppress, doctor,
even invent news
serve the
of
an
of
of
to
or
of
politicians
gratify the wishes
interests
advertisers.
Their sensationalism panders
the
They
lowest instincts
their subscribers.
unscrupulously
private life,
invade the privacy
and they habitually
blackmail
and
intimidate
English
public men.
imagine
we could
newspaper endeavouring
secure the acquittal
to
byof
If
such
character
the late Whittaker Wright
threatening
discover skeletons
the cupboards
The
Rogers.
American
University
of
*
to
in
as
;
of
to
reproduce
not customary
this country
photographs without the Sanction
in
º-e
likely
reader
rise from the perusal
this work with feelings
enthusiasm for
the newspapers
the United States
North America.
that Mr. Rogers says
a
be
to
to
go
of
a
as
so
by
a
In
by
as
of
to byof
is
be
to
in
a
in
a
Copyright and Piracy.
or
be
is
AMERICAN
in
Blocks.
Disused blocks quickly accumulate and are often
the way, but they, unfortunately,
fetch very
purchaser who can
little unless you can find
Sometimes,
utilise them
their original form.
course, one does not wish them
reprinted
second party, and then the only thing
dispose
them
old metal.
they should
Under these circumstances
sharp tool
prevent
scratched over
pur
unscrupulous
them being printed from
chasers.
very small price
this condition they fetch
generally averaging only between 7s. 6d. and
12s. 6d. per cwt., wood included.
This selling price applies
old electros and
zincos, all
which
into the melting pot.
is
to
of
e
in
as
as
Disused Metal
It
he
an
or
a
It
is
in
as is an
a
is
a
as is
an
it
mentioned
cliché,
called
galvano, half-tone work
electro
termed
photo-gravure, and three-colour process
known
helio-gravure.
Germany
These terms are recognised
and
France, and are generally
Austria
well
accepted throughout the European Continent.
matter that might, with advantage,
English producers who should
inquired into
important
naturally
interested
such
Question.
by
may
.
for the purpose
be
abroad,
blocks
of
Terms.
be
sending
facilitating correspondence,
ordinary line block
that
portraits
of
to
a
in
up
I
any new processes for
in
of
of
a
in
!
to
Continental
In
in
in
of
.
a
is
no
hear
a
a
so
I
to
I
so
I
desire
a
or
to
I
a
of
Out, out brief candle
poor player
Life's but walking shadow,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then
heard no more.
If
of of
on
to
of
by
is
to
by
of
fancy head
which has appeared under
sorts
ings,
produce the colour portion
means
print the key
lithography
top
and then
collotype.
same
means
half-tone
Both
ways are striking and good when well carried out.
would like
warn authors against what are
called new processes.
Whenever
man mentions
perfectly new process
immediately
me
many and heard
become sceptical.
have seen
They are like ghosts: they appear
many.
and they vanish, and remind me
Macbeth's
truism :
have
some time.
generally
Professional photographers
make
charge varying from 5s.
1s. for the right
reproduction, and
the case
well-known firms
also an insistence
that their names shall
be
acknowledged
the publication.
original drawing
purchaser commissions
artist,
sketch from
will then own the
reproduce
entire copyright, and
his sole right
any form, unless there
same
some specially
agreement
drawn
the contrary.
portrait
photographer has taken
Where
person, celebrity
otherwise, without making any
charſe, the right
reproduction
belongs
the
photographer.
Throughout America and Canada
regret
say
general disinclination either
there
acknow
ledge
pay copyright fees for English photographs,
and piracies occur
the most shamefaced way
every hand.
English photographs
have seen numbers
reproduced
well-known American and Canadian
totally
publications.
Their English origin
ignored.
or is
all
christening their
203
or
TISIES
by
Newspaper,
Chicago Press.
James
Edward
�of
to
be
of
or in
a
is
;
value
by
of
;
of
the
his book
upon
excellent rules are based.
which
his
*-*.
~-- w-
CORRESPONDENCE,
regard
No
to
SIR,-With
DEAR
Titles,
learn that
Author has the title
Copyright
in
0-0-0
in
of
an
of a
is
of
of
or
of
I
in
its
I
novel lately announced
The
old one
mine fairly well
day, viz., Joy.
known
On three previous occasions
have known titles
mine copied, with the alteration
omission
wholly
my first experience
word.
But this
sincere flattery I am ready
believe unpremedi
Joy appears my published
tated. However,
reference, pray allow
lists
novels
works
priority
ownership
me
state my claim
in the name.
remain, dear Sir,
in
to
to
of
of
in as
is
Yours truly,
MAY CROMMELIN.
TRIBUTE NO.
of
SIR,-Although not
member
the Society,
may,
should like,
endorse Mr. Jacbern's
publishers.
tribute
Since 1884 my MSS. have been running about,
many
America, and never have
lost one
had
returned
bad condition.
Only once have
had any difficulty about pay
or
I
I
a
in
in
I
2, 1
so
by
an
do a
I
on
I
as
as
I
on
an a
;
I
to
Yours faithfully,
S.
I
I
T.
:
a
to
or
Stops,
Punctuate;
how
Practical Handbook
for Writers and Students.
Paul Allardyce, London
Fisher Unwin. 8vo.
*
I
to
to
as
have had three books published.
No.
was
taken
the first publisher,
was No.
and
No. only took two journies. They are not stories,
any way remarkable.
nor
never knew
publisher, and only once did friend
editor nor
approach
my behalf.
type
editor
Nor
my MSS.
clearly
can, and
write them
post them
take their chance
their own merits.
consider
have always been treated fairly and
courteously.
3
:
of
to
to
on he
a
a
ment.
An American journal which went into
liquidation paid me eventually
full without
being asked.
But
have always observed such
your correspondent calls hints.
rules
in
is
of
to
is
it
is
on
to
of
it
on
its
*
as
leave such details
the stops
the care
the printer.
We hope that the allegation
not
true; as,
the one hand,
inconceivable that
any man who respects his own work should leave
meaning
the mercy
the compositors
and,
only too evident that
the other hand,
writer who does not know how
use the points
correctly can himself have only
vague notion
convey.
what
has wished
At the same time,
that,
certain occasions, very delicate distinctions
literary ability
are involved, and considerable
it
in
of a
in
is
It
be
on
M
|
R.
ALLARDYCE has compiled
his
treatise
the grammatical points
work
every
which should
the hands
sometimes asserted that authors
I
t-sº-0
author.
if
I
STOPS, OR HOW TO PUNCTUATE.
to
a
o-º-e
2.
is
it
a
we
it
in
be
is
it
exploit the multitude. The same tendency may,
true,
detected
some sections
Our Own
Press; but
less pronounced with us, because
have more deeply rooted traditions than the
Americans, and
greater reverence for law and
order.
This sentiment may sound pharisaical,
but
true.
enhanced
lucidly explaining the grounds
I
of
to
a
Chicago combine
broad outlook with low aims,
and their Press reflects the desire
rich men
has much
of
to
New York and the new cities
the
West.
New England always aimed high, though
its outlook was somewhat narrow.
New York and
deft use
the points, cannot
denied and any one
doubt may consult with much
Stops,
advantage
How
Punctuate.
The
little work
both full and accurate.
No detail
any kind has been omitted
and the author
to
England
of
of
in
of
a
it
so,
irremovable, if the law of libel were effective, and
if contempt of court were properly punished, many
of the worst features of American journalism would
disappear.
however,
Even
would remain
journalism a standing proof
disappointing
the
decline
American ideals which followed upon
the passing
the intellectual sceptre from New
displayed
a
of the jury and to get the judge kicked off the
bench if he were convicted, we should have a fair
parallel to the state of things which Mr. Rogers
describes as prevailing in San Francisco in con
graft.
nection with boodle" and
The indict
ment, of course, is his, not ours.
We merely
register
his impressions
without presuming to
go behind
them. . As he assures us that he
examined fifteen thousand newspapers in order
to form them, he is at all events well docu
menfö.
The fault, however, cannot be attributed
solely to the innate
wickedness of editors, or
even of proprietors.
The deficiencies of the law
of the land are largely responsible.
If judges were
by
TFIE A DITFIOR.
204
B.
�DD
HAVE YOU A MS.
TO DISPOSE OF 2
|
i
is
a
It
is
a
to
is
on
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Feb. 10, Greenbank, Percy 0 5 ()
Feb. 11, Stopford, Francis. 2 2 ()
Feb. 11, Dawson, A. J. . ſº 0 5 ()
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss Kathleen . () 5 ()
Feb. 16, W. D. . . . . 1 1 0
Feb. 16, Gibbs, F. L. A. 0 10 0
Feb. 17, Wintle, H. R. * 1 0 ()
Feb. 21, Thurston, E. Temple 1 1 ()
Feb. 23, Dawson, Mrs. Frederick () j ()
Feb. 24, Williamson, C. N. & 2 2 ()
Feb. 24, Williamson, Mrs. C. N. 2 2 ()
Feb. 25, Westell, W. P. º 0 1 () ()
March 2, Toplis, Miss Grace () 5 ()
March 3, Hawtrey, Miss Valentina I. I. ()
March 5, Smith, Bertram . 5 () ()
March 12, Yould, A. . 0 5 ()
March 16, Loraine, Lady 0 10 ()
Aſl fresh subscribers and donors previous to
October, 1909, have been deleted from the present
announcement.
The names of those subscribers and donors which
are not included in the lists printed above are
unavoidably held over to the next issue.
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comMITTEE NOTEs.
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HE March meeting of the Committee of Man-
agement was held at the offices of the
society on the seventh day of that month.
The first item on the agenda, after the reading of
the minutes, was, as usual, the election of members
and associates. Nineteen were elected, bringing
the total for the year up to seventy-one. The
names are set out in another column. The resigna-
tions numbered twenty-one, bringing the total
resignations for the year to fifty-seven. The Com-
mittee regret that the resignations at this meeting
were in excess of the elections, but this can be
accounted for by the fact that the first application
for unpaid subscriptions was issued during the
month of February.
The question of the library censorship was again
raised, and the chairman reported what had taken
place during the month. The Committee decided
to make the terms of reference more exact, and
appointed a sub-committee to meet the publishers
on the terms of the reference thus made. The
reference was “to confer with the publishers on
the relations of authors, publishers, and libraries.”
The Secretary was instructed to communicate with
the publishers to settle the date of meeting.
The report of the work of the copyright sub-
committee dealing with the music publishing
agreement was placed before the Committee of
Management by the secretary. After considerable
discussion it was decided that the chairman of the
Committee of Management should confer with the
chairman of the copyright sub-committee in
respect of certain proposed alterations, and that he
should then report to the next meeting of the
Committee.
The secretary laid before the meeting three
publishers' agreements: a music publishing agree-
ment, and two agreements from publishers of
books. It was decided by the Committee that the
agreements should be published in The Author,
with comments from the secretary, with the names
of the publishers attached. It is hoped that it will
be possible to carry this through in one of the
near issues of The Author.
A report of the work of the dramatic sub-
committee was next laid before the meeting by the
Secretary. He stated that that sub-committee had
taken in hand the drafting of a contract between
an author and a dramatic agent, and had issued a
warning to be printed in The Author among the
warnings to dramatic authors. He also reported
the Committee's decision in a case which had come
before them.
The next question considered by the Committee
related to the redemption of the war loan of which
the Society possessed a holding. It was decided
to invest the money received in Canadian Pacific
Railway Bonds (Government Guaranteed) 34 per
cent.
The cases before the Committee numbered five.
In one it was decided to appeal from a master's
decision to the judge in chambers. In a second
case, between one of the society's members and a
publisher, after all the papers had been carefully
considered and the legal aspects discussed, the
Committee decided they were unable to take the
matter in hand. In the third case, relating to
the infringement of an author's copyright work by
a firm in Chicago, it was decided, as under the
agreement between the author and his American
publisher, the publisher was entitled to receive a
power of attorney to conduct the case, to advise
the member to allow his American publisher to
take what steps he thought fit, and the secretary
was instructed to write to the member in this
SëIASé.
In the next case a question was raised as to
joining the publisher of a book in England with
the author, who is taking action for infringement
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of his rights in Germany, and in view of the fact
that the success of the author depended upon
this, it was decided to take this step, guaranteeing
the publisher against loss and costs, if necessary.
The last matter related to the financial difficulties
of a publisher. As many members were involved,
and their interests were to some extent conflicting,
it was decided to obtain fuller and more accurate
information before any decision was come to.
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DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.
THE Dramatic Sub-Committee met at the offices
of the society on Tuesday, March 1. After the
signing of the minutes the consideration of the
Dramatic Agency Agreement came before the
meeting. The secretary read a letter he had
received from the solicitors of the society on the
agreement, and a further suggestion was made as to
the alteration of one of the clauses. The com-
mittee considered, in view of recent decisions in the
Courts, that it was of the utmost importance to
press forward this model agreement, and instructed
the secretary to incorporate forthwith the altera-
tions suggested and lay the agreement before the
next meeting.
In connection with this subject, they authorised
the insertion in the standing matter of The Author
of some additional warnings to dramatists, which
accordingly appear in the current issue, and will be
repeated in future issues of the magazine.
The committee then turned their attention to
the question of the names to be submitted to the
Committee of Management for election to the
T]ramatic Sub-Committee for the current year.
The list as settled will go before the Committee
of Management in due course after the elections to
the Committee of Management have been reported.
The question of Colonial Agents then arose, and
the secretary reported an interview he had had with
the secretary of Messrs. Samuel French, and laid
before the committee letters he had received from
Australia. The committee decided to wait until
they had obtained a statement from Messrs. French,
when they will reconsider the position and proceed
with the appointment of colonial representatives.
The questiºn of Theatrical Performances in Clubs
next came up for discussion, and the secretary
reported that he had had an interview with the
secretary of the Theatres Alliance, but stated that
it was necessary again to adjourn the matter, as a
letter expected from that body had not arrived.
Sir Arthur Pinero then laid before the committee
a letter he had received about the formation of a
Dramatic Society, and read to the committee his
answer to the communication, in which he stated
that the objects of the proposed society were in a
great part those of the Dramatic Sub-Committee
of the Authors' Society, while the rest differed in
no essential from the objects of an ordinary dramatic
agency.
A letter was then read from the society's solicitors
in India in regard to a dramatic case undertaken
on behalf of two members of the society. The
sub-committee decided to report to the Committee
of Management that no proceedings should be taken
at present on account of the great difficulty there
appeared to be in putting the matter on a proper
basis, but if the solicitors were unable to come to
any satisfactory settlement the matter was to be
reconsidered. Instructions were also given to the
secretary to write to an agent in London who has
been acting in the interests of a certain Indian
theatrical manager informing that agent of the
default made by the manager in the before-
mentioned case. -
SUB-COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER THE PRICE OF
NOVELS.
THE sub-committee to consider the price of
novels met at the offices of the society on Friday,
March 11th.
Members of the society may recall that an
interim report was issued by this sub-committee
and published in the January number of The Author,
in which the sub-committee regretted that they
were unable to make a final statement, owing to the
fact that certain evidence promised to them would
not be forthcoming till March of the present year.
After the minutes of the last meeting had been
read, the evidence from Mr. Heinemann, for which
the sub-committee had been waiting, was laid before
them and considered, together with evidence from
240 booksellers, which had been collected by the
kindness of Mr. H. W. Keay, the President of the
Associated Booksellers of Great Britian and Ireland.
Evidence, obtained from twenty more novelists,
was also tabulated and discussed.
The chairman had already considered this
evidence and drawn up a draft report, which he
proceeded to read to the sub-committee. The
sub-committee gave this report careful considera-
tion, and, with certain additions and emendations,
passed it. It will be laid before the Committee of
Management in its final shape.
The sub-committee desired to express their
indebtedness to the authors, publishers and book-
sellers who have given them such valuable assist-
ance in their deliberations.
The proceedings were finally closed by a
unanimous vote of thanks to the chairman.
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Cases.
DURING the past month eleven cases have been
placed in the hands of the secretary. Six referred
to applications for money due from editors and
publishers for articles unpaid for or accounts
unsettled. In one case the money has been
recovered and forwarded to the author. In the
remaining five no settlement has, at present, been
arrived at. If the editors in question neglect to
attend to the secretary's demands the matters will
be placed in the hands of the society’s solicitors.
One case, referring to the transfer of contracts
between a publisher and an author, has arisen,
and will require considerable negotiation. The
action is necessarily slow, but is being carried
forward satisfactorily. Two claims were made for
the return of MSS. One has been settled ; the
other has only just come into the office. Of the
last two cases one is a claim for accounts and
money, and one for accounts only. As the claim
for accounts and money is against an American
firm, some time must elapse before an answer is
received. The question of accounts is only just to
hand. .
The cases open from former months are slowly
closing. Some have had to be handed to the
solicitors of the society, and some have been
settled. There are still three or four cases dealing
with the settlement of accounts, and one case in
America. It is hoped that these will be closed
before the next issue of The Author.
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March Elections. -
Bampfylde - Fuller, Sir c/o London County
Joseph t and Westminster
Bank, St. James's
- Street, S.W.
Barzini, Luigi ſº . 31, Corso Magenta,
- Milano, Italy.
Bastin, S. Leonard . . Morningside, Lynd-
. hurst, Hampshire.
167, Gleneldon Road,
Streatham, S.W.
Weston Favel Grange,
near Northampton.
Langle y Vicarage,
Middle G ree n,
Slough.
26, Per h a m Road,
West Kensington, W.
Bullock, Shan F. . ©
Cove, Herbert John ſº
Eckersley, Rev. James .
Farquhar, John Maurice.
Rinross, Charles . . Hornsea, East Yorks.
Lloyd, John . i. . 15, Chepstow Place, W.
“Magenta” . Ǻ . 123, New Bond Street,
W.
Savage Club, Adelphi
Moore, Frederick . º
Terrace, W.C.
Painter, C. Beresford
Oliver, Cecil Wentworth
Langford (“Wentworth
Oliver”)
82, Leghorn Road,
Harlesden, London,
N.W. . . . .
26, Wenner Road,
Sydenham, S.E.
52, Stanford Road,
Kensington, W.
20, Gordon Road,
Chiswick, W.
Tivington Knowle,
Minehead.
Main Street, Frods-
ham, Cheshire.
(“Leslie Beresford ”).
Short, Ernest H. . •
Spurrier, Steven . e
Taylor, Mrs. Frank •
Yould, Arthur . tº
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Books PUBLISHED BY MEMBERs of
THE SOCIETY. -
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‘by the members.
other papers.
INSECT Wond ERLAND. By ConstancE M. Foot
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep
this list as accurate and 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 Cffice
In consequence, it is necessary to rely
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and
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
accurate. -
ARCHITECTURE.
THE MANOR Houses of ENGLAND. By P. H. DITCH-
FIELD, F.S.A.. Illustrated by S. R. Jon ES. 104 × 63.
211 pp. Batsford. 78. 6d. n.
ART.
PEWTER PLATE. An Historical and Descriptive Hands
- book. By H. J. L. MASSÉ. Second Edition, revised.
11 x 7#. 331 pp. Bell. 30s. n. •
BIOGRAPHY.
THE LIFE OF W. J. Fox, PUBLIC TEACHER AND SOCIAL
REFORMER, 1786–1864. By the late RICHARD GAR-
NETT, C.B. Concluded by E. GARNETT. 9 × 53.
339 pp. Lane. 168. n.
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HILDEBRAND,
GREGORY VII. By THE RIGHT REv.
HARRIS MATHEW, D.D. 8; × 7.
Griffiths. 12s. 6d. n.
THE DIARY OF JOHN BURCHARD OF STRASBURG, BISHOP
OF ORTA AND CIVITA CASTELLANA, A.D., 1483–1506.
Translated from the Latin text. Published in Paris,
with Notes and Appendices. By THE RIGHT REv.
ARNOLD HARRIS MATFIEW, D. D. Wol. I. A.D., 1483–
1492. 104 × 6%. 431 pp. F. Griffiths. 21s. n.
GEORGE SAND. SOME ASPECTS OF FIER LIFE AND
WRITINGs. BY RENE, Doum IC. Translated by ALYS
HALLARD. 9 × 53. 309 pp. Chapman & Hall. 10s. 6d. n.
PIANO AND I. FURTHER REMINISCENCES. By GEORGE
GROSSMITH. 7} x 43. 200 pp. Arrowsmith. 18. n.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
POPE
ARNOLD
308 pp. F.
7' x 5,
196 pp. Methuen. 3s. 6d, n. *.
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CLASSICAL. t
THE IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS OF EURIPIDES. Translated
into English Rhyming Verse, with Explanatory Notes,
by GILBERT MURRAY, LL.D., D.Litt., Regius Professor
of Greek in the University of Oxford. 7} x 5. 105 pp.
Allen. 2s. n.
DRAMA.
JUSTICE. A Tragedy in Four Acts.
7 × 53.
By J. GALsworth Y.
111 pp. Duckworth. 2s. n.
ECONOMICS.
THE COMMON SENSE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. INCLUD-
ING A. STUDY OF THE HUMAN BASIS OF ECONOMIC
LAw. By P. H. WICKSTEED. 93 x 6. 762 pp. Mac-
millan. 14s. n.
EDUCATIONAL.
GRAMMAR OF THE GOTHIC LANGUAGE AND THE
GOSPEL OF ST. MARK. Selections from the other
Gospels and the Second Epistle to Timothy, with Notes
and Glossary. By J. WRIGHT, Ph.D., D.C.L., Professor
of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford.
73 × 53. 366 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. London :
Frowde. 5s. n.
FICTION.
SERVICE. By CoNSTANCE SMEDLEY (MRS, MAXWELL
ARMFIELD). 7% x 5. 346 pp. Chatto & Windus. 6s.
EVE IN EARNEST. By JOHN BARNETT. 7# x 5. 307 pp.
Smith. Elder. 6s.
THE LANTERN of LUCK. By ROBERT AITKEN. 7# × 5.
341 pp. Murray. 6s.
LoVE IN LILACLAND. By C. GUISE MITFORD. 7# x 5.
318 pp. John Long. 63.
A PERFECT PASSION. By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH.
73 x 5. 330 pp. John Long, 68.
THE ISLAND PROVIDENCE. By FREDERICK NIVEN.
73 x 5. 310 pp. Lane. 6s,
LORD LOVELAND DISCOVERS AMERICA. By C. N. and
A. M. WILLIAMSON. 7# × 5. 376 pp. Methuen. 6s.
THE MYSTERY OF THE GREEN HEART. By MAX PEM-
BERTON. 73 x 5. 446 pp. Methuen. 68.
THE EXILES OF FALOo. By BARRY PAIN. 7# × 5.
316 pp. Methuen. 6s.
THE GREATEST WISH IN THE WORLD. By E. TEMPLE
THURSTON. 7# × 5. 392 pp. Chapman & Hall. 68.
FoES OF JUSTICE. By HEADON HILL. 73 × 53. 319 pp.
Ward, Lock. 68.
THE SILENT BARRIER. By LOUIS TRACY. 73 × 5.
320 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s.
THE ROMANCE of MDLLE. ATSSÉ. By Mrs. CAMPBELL
PRAED. 74 × 5. 414 pp. John Long. 68.
DEVIOUS WAYs. By GILBERT CANNAN. 73 x 5. 312 pp.
Heinemann. 68.
A STEPSON OF THE SOIL. By MARY J. H. SKRINE.
73 × 5+. 315 pp. Arnold. 68.
THE ROMANCE OF OLGA AVELING. By OLIVIA
RAMSEY. 73 × 5. 357 pp. John Long. 6s.
KAMI-NO-MICHI : THE WAY OF THE GODS IN JAPAN.
By HoPE HUNTLY. 73 × 5. 338 pp. Rebman. 68.
THE FATED FIVE. By GERALD BISS. 73 × 5. 320 pp.
Greening. 63.
JoHN CHILCOTE, M.P. By KATHARINE CECIL THURSTON.
73 × 5. 370 pp. Blackwood. 18, n.
THE STOOPING LADY. By MAURICE HEWLETT. 253 pp.
Macmillan. 7d.
EAST LONDON VISIONS.
305 pp. Longmans, 68.
THE BALL AND THE CROSS. By G. K.
74 × 53. 403 pp. Wells, Gardner. 68,
FRANKLIN KANE. By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK
° (MRS. BASIL, DE SéLINCOURT). 7% x 5. 346 pp.
Arnold. 68.
By O'DERMID W. LAWLER.
CHESTERTON.
A HISTORY OF BIRDS.
I WILL MAINTAIN.
Methuen. 6s.
AN INTERRUPTED FRIENDSHIP. By E. L. VoxNICH.
7} x 5. 336 pp. Hutchinson. 6s.
CALIGo JACK. By H. W. C. NEwTE. 7; x 5.
Mills & Boon. 68.
A LADY OF FRANCE. By B. SYMONs.
Stanley Paul. 6s.
AN AVERTED MARRIAGE, AND OTHER StorTEs. By
PERCY WHITE. 7# x 5, 318 pp. Mills & Boon. 63.
TUMULT. A Wessex Love Story. By WILKINSON
SHERREN. 73 x 5. 320 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.
MAURIN THE ILLUSTRIOUS.' A Translation from the
French of Jean Aicard. By A. ALLINsoN. 7# x 5.
436 pp. Lane. 6s. *
THE TREE OF BITTER FRUIT. By CULLEN GOULDS-
BURY. 7# x 5. 336 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 6s.
THE BOUNTY OF THE GODs. By LADY HELEN FORBEs.
73 × 5. 340 pp. Duckworth. 6s.
IN A TURKISH GARDEN. By ANN BAxTER Gwyn.
Greening & Co. 6s.
GARDENING.
GARDENING MADE EASY. By E.T. Cook. “The Country
Life” Library. 8 × 53. 202 pp. Newnes. 1s. n.
BY MARJORIE BowFN. 532 pp.
373 pp.
7# × 5. 324 pp.
LITERARY.
LANDMARKS IN RUSSIAN LITERATURE. By MAURICE
BARING. 73 x 5. 299 pp. Methuen. 6s.
DREAMs MADE VERITY. By MRS. DE CourCY LAFFAN.
73 × 53. 183 pp. Elkin Mathews. 3s.6d.
ART AND LIFE. By T. STURGE MOORE. 73 x 5. 314 pp.
Methuen. 5s.
MUSIC.
MOTOR HUMS. Four Music Pianoforte Pieces. Illustrated
by the author. By DR. ELLIOT-BLAKE (Composer
of “He’s An Absent Minded Beggar"—Original Version).
Weekes & Co. 2s. 6d.
“WILLON.” Symphonic Poem No. 6, full score. By
WILLIAM WALLACE. Schott. 10s. 6d. n.
WILLON'S PRAYER TO NOSTRE-DAME. From the above,
with words by the composer, WILLIAM WALLACE.
Schott. 2s. n.
NATURAL HISTORY.
OUR BRITISH TREES AND How TO KNOW THEM. By
F. G. HEATH. Third Edition, revised. 6; × 4}.
491 pp. Hutchinson. 5s. n.
By W. P. PYCRAFT. With an
Introduction by SIR. RAY LANKESTER, K.C.B. 83 × 53.
458 pp. Methuen. 10s. 6d. n.
KEARTON's NATURE PICTURES. Part I. With descrip-
tive Text. By R. KEART.on, F.7.S. To be completed
in 24 fortnightly parts. 124 x 9}. Cassell. 13, n.
PAMPHILETS.
THE TRUTH ABOUT WIVISECTION. No. W.-FIGHTING THE
INVISIBLE, By Eva RICHMOND. 8 pp. Research
Defence Society, 70, Harley Street, W.
REPRINTS.
EARLY ENGLISH PRover Bs. Chiefly of the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Centuries. Collected by the REV.
WALTER W. SKEAT. Elrington and Bosworth
Professor of Anglo-Saxon, and Fellow of Christ's College,
Cambridge. 7 x 43. 147, pp., Oxford : Clarendom
Press. London : Frowde. 8s. 6d. n.
THE LORD FROM HEAVEN. Chapters on the Deity of
Christ. By SIR. RoRERT ANDERSON K.G.B., LL.D.
With a Prefatory Note by HANDLEY C. G. MOULE, D.D.
8; x 5%. 134 pp. Nisbet. 38. 6d.
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THE WAY OF WICTORY. Meditations for Lent, Passiontide
and Easter. By JEAN RoRERTs. With an Introduction
by ABBOT of CALDEY. 63 × 4%. 39 pp. Allenson.
18. In.
SCIENCE. '
THE MUTATION THEORY. Experiments and Observations
on the Origin of Species in the Vegetable Kingdom.
By Hugo DE WRIES, Professor of Botany at Amsterdam.
Translated by PROFESSOR: J. B. FARMER and A. D.
DARBISHIRE, Vol. I. — The Origin of Species by
Mutation. 93 x 6. 582 pp. Kegan Paul. 188. m.
SOCIOLOGY.
SoCIALISM AND SUPERIOR BRAINS. A Reply to Mr.
Mallock. By BERNARD SHAW. , 7} X 5. , 59 pp.
(The Fabian Socialist Series, No. 8.) Fifield. 6d. n.
SPORT.
INTERNATIONAL SPORT. A Short History of the Olympic
Movement from 1896 to the Present Day, containing the
account of a visit to Athens in 1906 and of the Olympic
Games of 1908 in London, together with the Code of
Rules for twenty different forms of sport and numerous
illustrations. By T. A. COOK. 7% × 5. 251 + 181 pp.
Constable. 3s. 6d.
THE POCKET LAWS OF POKER. With Hints to Beginners.
By R. F. FosTER. 33 × 23. 28 pp. De la Rue. 6d.
ScouTING GAMEs. By LIEUT. - GENERAL R. S. S.
BADEN-Powel L. 7# × 5. 144 pp. Pearson. IS. Im.
THEOLOGY.
PROBLEMS OF HOPE AND LOVE. Four Addresses to
Women. By John HUNTLEY SKRINE (Vicar of St.
Peter's in the East, Oxford). 6; x 4%. 82 pp. Mow-
bray. 18. 6d. n.
TOPOGRAPHY.
MOTOR TOURS IN THE WEST COUNTRY.
RODOLPH STOWELL. 73 × 5}.
STOUGHTON, 6s. n.
TRAVEL.
THROUGH AFRO-AMERICA. An English Reading of the
Race Problem. By WILLIAMARCHER. 9 × 53. 295 pp.
Chapman & Hall. 10s. 6d. n.
By MRs.
228 pp. Hodder &
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Books PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY
MEMBERS.
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BIOGRAPHY.
STORIES FROM THE OPERAs : With Short Biographies of
the Composers, By GLADYS DAVIDSON. Philadelphia,
Lippincott. $1.25 m.
FICTION.
CAB No. 44. By R. F. FOSTER. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes Co. $1.25.
THE STRONGER CLAIM. By ALICE R. PERRIN (MRs. C.
PERRIN). New York: Duffield & Co. $1.50.
THE ForTUNE HUNTER. By L. J. WANCE.
Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.
MUSIC.
MOTOR HUMs. Four Pianaforte Pieces: Illustrated by the
author. By DR. ELLIOT-BLAKE (Composer of “He’s an
Absent Minded Beggar’’—Original Version). Clayton F.
Summy Co.
New York :
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL
NOTES.
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PRIMER of English for foreign students, by
Wilfred C. Thor.ey, has just been published
by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. It is intended
to serve at once as an outline for teachers and a
synopsis for learners cſ lessons in English given
by the direct method, and is based on the author's
experience abroad in teaching pupils of nearly
every European nationality. The book is practical
rather than literary, but the author has endeavoured
to avoid an exclusively business or technical
phraseology in favour of colloquial English.
“The Truth about Vivisection,” published by
the Research Defence Society, is an account of a visit
made by Miss Eva Richmond to the Lister Institute
of Preventive Medicine. Miss Richmond describes
in her pamphlet some of the experiments made in
the laboratories of the institute for the detection
of the microbes of disease.
“Tumult” is the title of a Wessex love story by
Mr. Wilkinson Sherren, which Messrs. Stanley
Paul & Co. have recently published.
The annual general meeting of the Royal
Iliterary Fund was held on March 9, Sir
Alfred Bateman in the chair. In moving the
adoption of the report, Sir Alfred stated that
during the past year the sum of £3,165 was spent
in the relief of forty-five applicants, being £335
more than was granted in 1908, while the number
of applicants assisted was twelve in excess of the
preceding year. The claims on the Fund were
very heavy owing, no doubt, to the fact that more
people were engaged in literature than at any
previous period, while the remuneration for the
rank and file was lower than ever. The chairman
was pleased to announce that Mr. Anthony Hope
Hawkins had promised to preside at the annual
dinner of the Fund to be held at the Hotel Metropole
on May 5.
Mr. Edward Arnold has in the press, for early
publication, “Les Français d’Aujourd’hui,” by
Jetta S. Wolff, author of “Les Français em.
Ménage,” and “Les Français en Voyage.” -
For the same writer Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co.
will publish shortly “Pour la Patrie et d’Autres
Contes.”
Messrs. Greening & Co. are the publishers of a
novel by Anne Baxter Gwyn (Mrs. Maud Edmonds)
entitled, “In a Turkish Garden.” It is an English
romance with an Eastern setting, dealing with the
struggle in Macedonia and the ever-present Easterm
problem.
We have received the analytical programme
of Mr. Joseph Holbrooke's orchestral concert,
given at the Queen's Hall on February 11.
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Among other items included were a prelude
entitled “The Bells,” composed by Mr. Holbrooke
and conducted by him, and a symphony, “Les
Hommages,” by the same composer, conducted by
Mr. Landon Ronald. Mr. Holbrooke's three
new songs, entitled respectively, “A Requital,”
“Killary,” and “An Outsong,” had, unfortu-
nately, to be omitted, owing to the indisposition
of Miss Edith Evans, who was to have delivered
them. -
Mr. John Long's new publications include novels
by Mrs. Campbell Praed, Olivia Ramsay, Mr. C.
Guise Mitford, and Mrs. Stanley Wrench. “The
Romance of Mademoiselle Aissé,” is the title of
Mrs. Campbell Praed's book; Olivia Ramsay's is
called “The Romance of Olga Aveling ”; and
“Love in Lilacland ” is the title of Mr. Mitford's
novel. Mrs. Wrench's story is called “A Perfect
Passion.” -
We have received from the Clarendon Press
“Early English Proverbs,” collected by the Rev.
Walter Skeat. In a preface to the collection Prof.
Skeat states that he has endeavoured to gather
together such Middle-English proverbs as have
attracted his attention. While it is not claimed
that the collection is exhaustive, it is submitted
that it gives a fair idea of the use of proverbs
in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. No
example has been admitted that is later than the
year 1400. An index of the proverbs, each under
its leading word, or (in some cases) two leading
words, with cross-references, appears at the end of
the book. - -
Mr. John Long will issue Mr. Harry Tighe's
new novel, “The Model in Green,” in April. It is
a story of love and passion, touching the rim of
the artistic life in Pars and Holland. It mainly
centres round the model and the painter she loves.
The story ends in a tragedy in the Engadine—
after a series of scenes at Wollendam and Edam—
the artist’s paradise on the Zuyder Zee—painted
first hand by the author. • * -
The Churchman’s Pulpit, being sermons and
addresses for the Sundays, Festival and Holy Days
of the Christian Year, is a new work (edited by the
Rev. J. Henry Burn, B.D., F.R.S.E.) which will
be published in weekly parts, for the use of clergy-
men in their equipment for the pulpit. It com-
prises a vast collection of specially selected and,
in many cases, specially written original sermons
suitable not only for every Sunday in the Christian
year and for all the Holy Days in the Anglican
Kalendar, but also for every mood and every
occasion. Mr. Francis Griffiths is the publisher.
Weekly parts are published at 1s. 6d. net ; double
parts at 3s. 6d. net ; and special parts at
58. net.
The current number of the Empire Review
contains an article by Mr. C. O. Burge on “The
Transcontinental Railway of Australia.” -
K. I. Montgomery's new novel is at present being
serialised in the Sunday Chronicle, under the
title “A Rioter of the Roads.” The plot deals with
the Rebekah riots in South Wales of 1843, which
ultimately led to a Government Commission, and
the universal disuse of the toll system throughout
Great Britain. Messrs. A. C. McClurg, of Chicago,
have recently arranged to publish an American
edition of K. L. Montgomery's Venetian book,
“The Cardinal’s Pawn.” : . .
Lady Helen Forbes' new novel, “The Bounty of
the Gods,” a study in points of view, has just
been published by Messrs. Duckworth & Co. .
Messrs Rebman announce the publication of
“Kami-No-Michi: the Way of the Gods in
Japan,” by Hope Huntley. The desire of the
author is to guide her readers along the “Way of
the Gods,” tracing the path in threefold aspect—
ethical, philosophical, and romantic. The story
trends towards a sensational crisis in order to
emphasise life portraits known to the author while
resident in the country. . . . - • ;
Miss Constance Foot has published, through
Messrs. Methuen & Co., a volume entitled “Insect
Wonderland,” with thirty-eight illustrations by
W. Q. Allan. The purpose of the author in writing
this book is to convey some simple facts concerning
the insect world in a form both interesting and
instructive to the youthful readers for whom it is
intended. One or more specimens have been
chosen from each of the seven great natural
orders, according to the Linnean system of divi-
sion. The insects tell their own tales, in ten
chapters, entitled “Butterfly Green,” “Grasshopper
Lane,” “Beehive Palace,” and so on. The pub-
lished price of the book is 38. 6d. net.
In “Art and Life,” by T. Sturge Moore, the
vital import of aesthetics is illustrated from the
precepts of Gustave Flaubert and William Blake.
The harmony of art with personal and social morals
is foreseen, not where Taine and Brunetière looked
for it, in the selection of beneficent themes, nor
yet where the mystic pursues it, through obedience
to esoteric tuition, but in a development of con-
science in regard to taste parallel to that of the
religious life. Messrs. Methuen & Co. are the
publishers. . - * ,
One of the chief events of the month, in
dramatic circles, has been the opening of the
Repertory Theatre in St. Martin's Lane. ... Mr.
John Galsworthy, Mr. J. M. Barrie, Mr. G. Bernard
Shaw, and Mr. H. Granville Barker have each
been represented, as also has the late President of
the Society, Mr. George Meredith. * .
“Justice,” Mr. Galsworthy's play, is con-
cerned with the prison system, and has for its
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theme the servitude of a clerk (imprisoned for
forgery) and his subsequent degradation following
upon his release. Mr. Denis Eadie, Mr. Sydney.
Valentine, and Miss Edyth Olive are in the cast.
Mr. J. M. Barrie is represented by two one-act
plays—one, “The Twelve Pound Look,” referring
to the return of a divorced wife to her husband as
a typist ; the second, “Old Friends,” narrating
how a reformed drunkard's daughter became
afflicted with the vice of which her father had
become cured. The cast included Miss Lena
Ashwell, Mr. Sydney Walentine, and Miss Dorothy
Minto. - -
In Mr. George Meredith's comedy, “The Senti-
mentalists,” were Miss Fay Davis, Miss Mary
Jerrold, and Mr. Charles Maude.
“Misalliance,” by Mr. Bernard Shaw, is described
as a debate in one sitting. Mr. Frederick Lloyd,
Miss Miriam Lewes, Miss Florence Haydon, Miss
Lena Ashwell, and Mr. C. M. Lowne were among
those who took part in the discussion. -
Mr. H. Granville Barker’s “The Madras House’’
is a comedy in four acts. It is interpreted by a
cast which includes Miss Florence Haydon, Mr.
Dennis Eadie, Miss Fay Davis, and Mr. Sydney
Walentine. -
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PARIS NOTES.
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“Tº A Duchesse de Duras et Chateaubriand,”
by G. Pailhès, is a very detailed account
of the intercourse between René and his
chère scºur, as he always called this friend. We
have the story of the Duchesse de Duras from her
birth to her death. She was the daughter of the
Comte de Kersaint, and was born in 1777. Her
father was one of the victims of the Revolution, and
she and her mother went to America and after-
wards to Switzerland and London. It was in
England that she met the Duc de Duras. After
her marriage, and the birth of two little daughters,
she went to Lausanne, where she made the
acquaintance of Rosalie de Constant. A twenty-
years' friendship was the result of this. Her
letters to Mlle. de Constant and Rosalie's replies
to them are extremely interesting. We have an
account of her first meeting with Chateaubriand,
and from this time forth (1809) his name is
constantly in her letters to Rosalie. All these
letters give an excellent idea of her life at that
time. .
The second part of the volume is chiefly com-
posed of letters from Chateaubriand and the letters
of Madame de Duras to her various friends.
When Chateaubriand becomes interested in
Madame Récamier, Madame del)uras is unhappy and
jealous, and finally Madame Récamier also becomes
jealous and unhappy. Chateaubriand’s sentiments
for the two women are analysed. He is appointed
Ambassador to London. The letters from Madame
de Duras to Rosalie de Constant at this epoch
touch on all the topics of the day. -
The fourth part of the book is devoted to the
time when Chateaubriand was Minister.
Later on we have an account of the novels and
also of the Salon and friends of Madame de Duras.
The final chapters are devoted to details relating
to the last years of her life. There are letters, too,
from Chateaubriand, and, finally, a charming one for
the new year, which was to be her last one. He
is tired of politics, and promises her that they will
take up literature and art once more. “You shall
wield your sceptre again,” he says, “and I will
spend the last years of my life in your company.”
A month later Madame de Duras died. On
closing the book the first words of the volume
come back to one's mind : “We know people
almost better by the sentiments they inspire than
by themselves.” They were the words of Madame
de Duras, and they certainly applied to Chateau-
briand.
The following is a list of recent French books,
Some of which we will treat more fully in a later
article :- - .
“Impressions d’Afrique,” by Raymond Roussel.
“Laide,” by Madame Adam. “Charlotte Corday,”
by Henri d'Alméras. “L’Armée Anglaise dans un
conflit européen,” by Général H. Larglois. “Le
Droit de l’Uganda,” by Henri Rolin, with a pre-
face by M. Joseph Chailley. “L’Inde britan-
nique,” by Joseph Chailley.
“I’Education ” is the title of a new international
review to be published quarterly in French. The
first number contains, among other articles, one by
M. Dugas on “Character and Habit”; another, by
Dr. Badley, of the famous Bedales school of Peters-
field, on “The New Movement in Education”; others
by M. Riotor on “AEsthetical Education in the
Belgian Schools,” and by Madame Bertinot, on
French Kindergartens. There are criticisms of
new books on education, and a summary of review
articles. Altogether the new venture seems to aim
at being as complete as possible, by attempting to
draw what is good from all sources and all
countries. -
The Société des Gens de Lettres gave a dinner
last month in honour of Belgian literature, as
represented by MM. Camille Lemonnier, Emile
Werhaeren, Maurice Maeterlinck, Maurice Will-
motte, E. Gilbert, Dumont-Wilden, Edmond
Picard and Octave Mans, novelists, poets,
dramatic authors, and critics. The dinner was
presided over by the Belgian Minister in Paris.
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An interesting study has been found among
Brunetière's papers on the “Youth of Voltaire.”
It will be brought out shortly in the Revue des Deua.
Mondes. -
There is a question at present of Holland joining
the Berne Convention, like all civilised nations.
A movement, too, is announced in Turkey which
has for object the adhesion of that country to
the Berne Convention.
In the Revue de Paris, Johan Bojer has just
published his new novel, “Sous le Ciel Vide"; M.
Photiadès a series of articles on George Meredith.
In recent numbers of La Revue Hebdomadaire
are articles by Paul Bourget “Autour de la Barri-
cade ’’; by Jules Lemaitre on “Fénelon"; by the
Marquis de Ségur on “Louise Colet”; by M. Frantz
Funck-Brentano on “La Bastille sous la Régence,”
and by André Beaunier on “Madame de Beaumont.”
“Chantecler” continues to be one of the curiosi-
ties of the theatrical season. Opinions are very
much divided as to its being more than a “success
of curiosity.” Time alone will prove whether it is
a play to live or to vanish for ever when it dis-
appears from the bills.
ALYS HALLARD.
“La Duchesse de Duras et Chateaubriand’’ (Perrin).
“Impressions d’Afrique " (A. Lemerre).
“Charlotte Corday” (Les Annales politiques et littéraires).
“L’Armée Anglaise dans un conflit européen " (Berger
Levrault),
“Le Droit de l’Uganda " (Challemel).
“L’Inde britannique " (Armand Colin).
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THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.
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BY A CONTRIBUTOR.
T is quite refreshing to read an article like the
one entitled “Magazine Editors” in the
March Author. For the editor of a magazine
to admit that a contributor has any rights at all is
a state of affairs that is as novel as it is pleasing.
Of course there are exceptions; but they are very
few, and in the great majority of instances the
contributor who looks to an editor for either
courtesy, common honesty, or even ordinary
business-like treatment might as well spend his
time looking for the philosopher's stone. Why on
earth should editors not be courteous, honest, and
business-like 2 The possession and exercise of
these qualities is not necessarily a bar to the
successful conduct of a magazine. At any rate, I
cannot see that it is. With regard to the lack of
courtesy prevailing among editors as a class, every
author could give examples by the dozen from his
own experience. The usual form it takes is to
decline to enter into any correspondence whatever
respecting a contribution. It is the rarest thing
imaginable for the author of an article that does
not happen to be specially commissioned to get a
written assurance from the editor that it has ever
arrived. He does not hear a word about it. For
all he knows it may have been lost in the post.
My own opinion is that editors adopt this attitude
of silence in order to permit them to disclaim any
responsibility for losing a manuscript. /
No doubt contributors are often trying, but
editors as a class are infinitely more so. One
would think that, considering how dependent they
are upon those who write for their periodicals, they
would at least make an effort to treat them with
ordinary civility. Nothing, however, in too many
cases, seems further from their views. Manu-
scripts—frequently of a highly topical nature—are
kept for months, and then returned with the
caustic comment “scarcely up to date,” or else not
returned at all. Sometimes, too, they are returned
with the pages so soiled and dog-eared, and bearing
such evident signs of having been examined during
an interval of spirituous refreshment on the part
of the reader, that it is necessary to re-type them.
Still more indefensible, however, is the practice
that obtains in editorial offices of actually having a
topical article set up in proof and then—when,
Owing to the carelessness of the staff, it has not
been used—returning it to the writer. If the un-
fortunate contributor complains, he is told that the
exigencies of the paper have rendered this course
necessary. In several big offices, too, a manuscript
is never examined at all until it has first been
indelibly marked with a blue pencil, while the
backs of photographs and sketches are also
submitted to the same disfiguring process.
“There is no lottery so uncertain as that of an
editor's choice and decision,” observes the writer
of the article to which reference has just been made.
Every contributor will corroborate this. It is quite
a common experience to submit an item and have
it returned ; and then, on forwarding it again a
few months afterwards, to have it accepted. What
is the explanation ? The natural one is that on
the first occasion the proffered contribution was
not read, or perhaps it arrived simultaneously with
a demand for income tax, whereas the next time it
made its appearance the editor happened to be in a
more amiable mood. I have heard of one
unattached journalist who always posts his work
so as to arrive immediately after luncheon, and
declares that the practice is justified by results.
It may be worth trying ; still, I do not believe in
it myself overmuch. The principal reason, it
seems to me, why the work of the ordinary free-
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lance is accorded so little consideration at the hands
of magazine editors as a class is because these
latter do not regard their responsibilities with
proper seriousness. Instead of being editors and
nothing else, they attempt to be Jacks-of-all-
trades, and mix up literary and dramatic criticism,
authorship, speech-making at public dinners, and
other side lines with the discharge of their purely
editorial functions. Under these circumstances, as
may be imagined, editing goes to the wall. This
type of “ editor” frankly admits that he “cannot
be bothered ” with the manuscripts of unknown
men. It would not matter so much if only he
would have the honesty to insert a notice to this
effect in his magazine, and thus prevent unsophis-
ticated aspirants from wasting their time. But
such an idea never enters his head.
A very genuine grievance under which the
magazine writer labours is that of getting his
money when it is due. There is no real reason
why an author should not be paid as soon as his
work has been accepted. A contribution should be
paid for when it is bought. An editor has no more
right to withhold payment for an article until he
prints it than he has to order a new hat and tell
the shopman he will pay for it the first time he
wears it. Under the generally prevailing practice,
however, an author may wait months, if not years,
for his money. I may be wrong, but I fancy that
editors adopt this course in the hope that their
contributors may die before a cheque is sent them,
and that the executors of the estate will have no
knowledge of the fact that one is even due. A
return of unclaimed payments thus withheld from
authors would probably reach a substantial figure.
In some offices a rule obtains that payment will not
be made until an account has first been submitted.
This is certainly a hardship, for unless a voucher
copy be supplied him, the author is required to read
through every issue in order to see if his work has
appeared or not. When—and as generally happens
—a free-lance has a dozen or more contributions
seeking acceptance at the same time, it is quite
impossible for him to keep a watchful eye on all
the papers concerned. A few of the better class
magazines send voucher copies ; but none of the
daily or weekly journals do so. Of course, this
scarcely matters where the periodicals are conducted
honestly ; but when they are not conducted
honestly this matters very much indeed.
It is an undeniable truth—as any free-lance
journalist is painfully aware—that flagrant dis-
honesty marks the editorial conduct of quite a
number of periodicals, and some of the principal
offenders among these are ones with very large
circulations. The commonest trick they adopt is
to print an article without telling the author they
are doing so, and trust to luck that he will not
know it has ever been used. If, however, he does
happen to see it, it is no great matter. This kind of
editor is a person of vast resource and fertility of
invention when it comes to making excuses for
withholding cheques. The procedure adopted is
always much the same. You write a polite letter,
asking for payment. No response. You write a
Second time, tempering politeness with firmness.
Still, no response. Then you write a third time,
intimating that non-receipt of a cheque will result
in a solicitor's letter. This probably draws an
answer. The customary form it takes is that the
editor is in Scotland, the assistant editor in Ireland,
and the manager somewhere else, but that on the
return of this important trio to the scene of their
arduous labours the matter will be “inquired into.”
If you are young and innocent you will believe
this and hope for the best. If, on the other hand,
you are hardened you will issue a writ.
To get cash out of some editors is like getting
gold out of doughnuts. Until they are absolutely
convinced that you mean to have your money they
will put every obstacle in the way of your getting it.
Occasionally this class of editor (he is usually the
proprietor as well) makes curious offers to persistent
contributors. Quite recently one suggested to me
that a bound volume of his magazine was adequate
remuneration for half a dozen articles I had written.
When I declined it, he offered me a share in the
(entirely imaginary) profits of an advertising
agency that he ran. Not doing a deal here, he
next proposed, and with similar results, that pay-
ment should take the form of a box of cigars, or,
failing that, a bottle of whisky. “What on earth
is it that you do want, then P’’ he demanded.
“Money,” I replied. The editor heaved a heavy
sigh, and then, with an air of martyrdom, wrote
out a cheque. “It’s people like you,” he said
bitterly, as he blotted his signature, “that make it
so difficult for editors to run their papers nowa-
days.” I might have retorted that it was editors
like this one who made it so difficult for journalists
to conduct their business. However, I refrained.
He might not have liked it. Besides, he was bigger
than I.
Once an editor has made up his mind to
avoid payment (except as a last resource) there
is very little at which he will stick in order
to carry out his nefarious intentions. I remember
on one occasion obtaining a county oourt
judgment against an editor of this kind. But I
soon discovered that there was a vast difference
between obtaining judgment and obtaining money.
However, I persevered, if only to prevent this
harpy from victimising other authors. When he
was in due time ordered to show cause why he
should not be committed to prison for disobeying
the order of the court, he wrote a long letter to the
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judge, protesting, firstly, that he knew nothing
about the matter and had never even received a
summons; and, secondly, that he was a regular
Willage Blacksmith among editors (“He looked the
whole world in the face and owed not any man ’’),
whose one desire was to meet all just claims, etc.,
etc. Fortunately, I was able to prove that not only.
had the original summons been served on him
personally, but that he had also entered a defence.
After this even the slimmest of editors would have
found it a little difficult to plead ignorance. At
any rate, the judge took this view, and gave him
his choice between paying up within a fortnight or
going to prison for ten days. He paid.
- X. Y. Z.
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INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF
PUBLISHERS.
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VTE print from the Publishers' Circular of
W February 19 a list of some of the sub-
jects which are to be dealt with at the
International Congress of Publishers, which will
be held this year at Amsterdam from the 18th to
the 22nd of July. Many of these papers are of
considerable interest to authors. Nos. 2 and 3.
ought to be of special importance, and No. 9, as .
coming from the president of the English Pub-
lishers’ Association, will give members of the
Authors’ Society much food for thought. .
1. The Classification of Former Resolutions of the
Congress, by Mr. J. Hetzel, Paris. x *
2. The Berlin Conference of 1908 in relation to the
Berne Convention, by Mr. E. Wandeveld,
Brussels. -
. The Berlin Conference and the Ratification of
the Revised Berne Convention, by Mr. H.
Morel, Berne. - ,
4. The Influence of Literary Critics on the Sale of
Books, by Mr. Rodriguez Novas, Madrid. . . .
5. Report presenting a Summary of the More
Important of the New Provisions of the Copy-
right Law of the United States, which came
into effect on the 1st of July last, in the Statute
that was enacted on the 2nd of March, 1909,
by Mr. Geo. Haven Putnam, New York.
6. What Means could be adopted in Europe and
America to Keep Up the Full Price of New
Books sold to Private People (Draft of an
International Convention to Keep Up the
Full Sale Prics), by Mr. W. P. van Stockum,
The Hague. - -
7. Maintenance of the Catalogue Price and Lower-
3
ing of the Too High Price, by Mr. Max
Leclerc, Paris. -
8. The Commission House for the Dutch Book
Trade in Amsterdam, by Mr. K. Groesbeek,
Amsterdam. Conclusion by Mr. J. Hetzel,
Paris.
9. The Literary Agencies as a Medium between
Publishers and Writers in the Publication of
Books, by Mr. W. Heinemann, London.
The Inscription of the Titles on the Backs of
the Bindings, by Mr. , Paris.
11. The Effect of Cheap Clothbound Reprints on
more expensive Editions, by Mr. Arthur
Spurgeon, London. - -
The Development of the Copyrights in
Germany for the Making and Selling of
Instruments, with a view to Rendering
Music Mechanically after the Revision at
Berlin of the Berne Convention in 1908,
by Mr. Gustav Bock, LL.D., Berlin.
Furtherance and International Organisation of
Establishing Book Trade Assistants Abroad,
by Mr. Victor Ranschburg, Budapest.
. Reform of the Rates of Postage, with a view
to the Distribution of Periodical Publica-
tions, by Mr. Victor Ranschburg, Budapest.
5. A Proposal to Prepare the Publication of an
Encyclopedia of the International Book
Trade, by Mr. Carl Junker, Vienna.
10.
12.
13.
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MAGAZINE CONTENTS.
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BOOKMAN.
Sheridan. By Lewis Melville.
The Centenary of Sir Samuel Ferguson.
Graves.
, Meredith's Poems. By M. Sturge Henderson.
By A. P.
CONTEMPORARY.
“Istar in the Underworld.” By Regina Miriam Bloch.
Stained Glass Windows. By L. March Phillipps.
The Future of the Classics. By C. T.
ENGLISH REVIEW.
The Censorship of Books. By Edmund Gosse.
Time's Laughing Stocks. By Maurice Hewlett.
Chantecler. By Count de Soissons.
D'Annunzio's New Novel. By V. M. Crawford.
G. M. Godden's Life of Fielding. By Norreys Connell.
FORTNIGHTLY.
Arthur Schmitzler. By H. B. Samuel,
Lamartine and Elvire. By Francis Gribble.
William Blake as a Teacher. By Herbert Ives. -
M. Edmond Rostand and “Chantecler.” By John F.
Macdonald. -
NATIONAL.
Anthony Trollope. By Alice Sedgwick.
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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
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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
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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
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5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of
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Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful
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them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary
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This
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.
The
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.
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,
—º-º-º-
TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an
agreement. There are four methods of dealing
with literary property:-
I. Selling it outright.
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of
the Society. -
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of
agreement).
In this case the following rules should be attended to :
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,”
unless the same allowance is made to the author.
º 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.
i. well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or
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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
Idéa,DS. -
(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.
EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-
petent legal authority.
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for
the production of a play with anyone except an established
manager.
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays
in three or more acts:— -
(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 date
and for proper publication of his name on the
play-bills.
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(b.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to
perform on the basis of percentages on
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts
in preference to the American system. Should
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed
date on or before which the play should be
performed.
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed
nightly fees). This method should be always
avoided except in cases where the fees are
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The
other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply
also in this case.
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should
be reserved.
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and
time. This is most important.
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction
is of great importance.
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot
print the book of the words.
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed-
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial
consideration. -
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.
10. An author should remember that production of a play
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in
the beginning. -
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object
is to obtain adequate publication.
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-
tracts, those authors desirous of further information
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.
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REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND
ORIGINAL PLAYS.
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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.
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for
at the price of 2s. 6d. per act.
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.
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RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the
Society before putting plays into the hands of
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent
may acquire a perpetual claim to a percentage on
the author's fees from a play without rendering him
any service. As far as the placing of plays is con-
cerned, it may be taken as a general rule that there are
only very few agents who can do anything for an author
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-
action of frequent petty authorisations with different
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of
the law, an agent should not be employed under any
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the
Society.
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WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.
ITTLE 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 Society's
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.
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THE READING BRANCH,
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EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this
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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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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THE SALE OF COPYRIGHT.
A VERY serious matter to all writers of technical
books is constantly coming before the secretary of
the society. -
Many publishers of educational and technical
works, seeing a young and prominent scholar
coming to the front in a special branch of learn-
ing, arrange with him to write a book on the
particular subject of which he is a student. Such
a writer, absolutely ignorant of the prices and of
the conditions which obtain in the literary market,
sells the copyright of his work outright for a sum
down or subject to a royalty. We have, on various
occasions, pointed out in these columns the danger
of selling the copyright outright to a publisher ; but
in the case of a technical writer this danger is
greatly increased, for in any science, where
developments are constantly forthcoming, in
history, where new MSS. come to light, in
education where new methods are employed, it
is sure to happen, and, judging from the many
cases before the secretary, has frequently happened
that later in his career the young writer, having
acquired a reputation, desires to bring his work
up to date by issuing a new edition, or per-
haps to produce an exhaustive treatise, or if he
happens already to have produced such a treatise,
to produce it in an abridged form for the considera-
tion of a particular section of the public. He
finds, however, that he cannot do so without
infringing his own copyright which he has
assigned, and unless the publisher will make
him a reasonable offer, he is estopped from
writing the book and from conveying to the public
the additional knowledge he has gained on his
subject. Examples are forthcoming of publishers
who, realising the strength of their position, have
refused to make a reasonable offer, and, in conse-
quence, have compelled the author to re-purchase
his copyright at their own price. This is an
exceedingly serious position, as it often prevents
the author from claiming any financial reward
from many years' careful study, and it likewise
prevents the public from obtaining the benefit of
his research. -
THE UNIT OF AN EDITION.
WE regret exceedingly that the letter we print
below came too late for the March number. It
is an answer to a statement contained under
the heading of “Publishers’ Methods '' in the
February issue, and to this we refer our members.
It is satisfactory to have an authoritative answer
from the Publishers’ Association itself, though the
reason given in their answer does not, to our mind,
appear convincing. If, for instance, the unit of
an edition was fixed at 1,000, then if 250 copies
only were printed, it could be stated that a quarter
of an edition had been produced ; if 500 copies,
one half, and so on. -
SIR,-With reference to the note in the February number
of The Author, headed “Publishers' Methods,” I am directed
by the Council of this Association to say that it does not
appear to them to be practicable to fix any definite number
of copies which shall be regarded universally as the unit
for an edition. The number of copies of which the first or
any subsequent edition of a book should consist depends
On a variety of circumstances. It is even, in many cases,
unwise to fix the number for any given book long before-
hand, and to fix it for all books would be impossible. In
Some cases the first edition consists of as few as 500 or even
250 copies. In many cases it is 1,000 ; while 1,500, 2,000,
or indeed any number up to 40,000 or 50,000, are fre-
quently printed. The number to print of any given book
is indeed one of the most difficult points which a publisher
is called upon to decide.
Where, however, an agreement is in contemplation
between an author and a publisher in which the arrange-
ment is that the publisher should buy the first edition of a
book for an agreed sum, to be followed by a further pay-
ment When that edition is exhausted, it is obvious that the
number of the first edition must be fixed in the agreement.
This proposition appears to my Council to be self-evident,
and it seems to them to be almost incredible that either an
author or a publisher should enter into an agreement on
these lines in which the number of which the first edition
is to consist is not fixed.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
WM. Pou DTEN,
Secretary.
HENRY HOLT AND THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS.
IN the Publishers’ Weekly, of New York,
Mr. Henry Holt, on his seventieth birthday, has
been putting forward some interesting reminis-
cences. He is not what you would call optimistic
of the publishing trade, judging from the following
statement: “As I look toward the setting sun, I
am not impressed that the horizon is in any way
crowded by worthy successors to the publishers of
a generation ago.” It is well known that before
the United States first Copyright Law was passed
an understanding existed amongst the better class
American houses that they should not interfere,
by piracy, with the contracts between themselves
and their respective English authors. This posi-
tion Mr. Holt affirms. The moral obligation
between American publishers seems to have been
very strong. It was a pity that their moral
obligations towards the position of English authors
was not equally strong, for Mr. Holt goes on to
show that it was only when the pirates struck
in, and cheap edition after cheap edition was pub-
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pay, that the moral obligation of the American
publisher made him turn towards bettering the
position of the English author and made it neces-
sary for him to join in getting through the Law of
1891. We wonder if it would be possible to stir
up the moral obligation of the American publisher
to the same extent now, so that he should put the
same energy and the same amount of capital into
passing a law for the benefit of the unfortunate
writer in the English language who resides outside
the United States which he did when the contents
of his pocket were being emptied by the too greedy
pirate. We have our fears, for the pirate has ceased
from troubling, and the cheap reprint is at rest.
HENRY HolT AND THE AUTHORs' AGENT.
MR. HENRY HOLT makes some interesting
remarks about the authors' agent. He says :
“One of the most interesting things in my career
has been his rise and fall—I mean fall from his
high state of dictation to nearly all the publishing
houses, toward the modest one of useful auxiliary,
which I think he will reach, and where I hope he
will long deserve and find success.” He accuses the
agent in the first days of “setting by the ears all
publishers and authors through whom he was
getting no commissions, and setting the publishers
bidding against each other.” He states that the
agent not only scattered and weakened the publishers'
interest in the anthors’ books, but sold their books
before they were written, sometimes three deep,
and so worked many of the authors out. He
further goes on to say that the agent has forced
up the royalties of established authors to points
that they cannot hold, and quotes as an example
one house who pays an author a royalty that makes
the publisher lose money on every copy sold. He
adds: “It is needless to say that this house is in a
chronic state of failure.” These are bitter remarks,
and if they are true the sooner the agent reaches
that position which Mr. Holt hopes he will reach,
the better. It seems to us on considering the posi-
tion, however, that what has taken place is what
takes place in all trades directly it appears that
the prices are being wrongly quoted owing to
lack of competition. Authors no doubt were
receiving royalties much below those which the
tradesmen could afford to give, and in conse-
quence, with the keen competition engendered by
the employment of a literary agent, the prices were
forced up to a fair trading value. If any went
beyond the fair trading value, then there was bound
to be a reaction. Then, as in all trades, the
weaker brethren who happen to have over-bought
or undersold, are weeded out, and the natural level
is again established.
In another column of this issué we see that
Mr. Heinemann is going to give his views at the
International Publishers' Congress at Amsterdam
on the same subject. We shall be anxious to see
how far his views agree with Mr. Holt's.
We must say we have read Mr. Holt's remarks
about his publishing house and American methods
with the greatest interest, though we do not always
agree with his statements. We are glad to con-
gratulate him on having reached the ripe age of
three score years and ten.
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THE ENGLISH CATALOGUE OF BOOKS.
THE English Catalogue of Books for 1909 is
now before the public. Little further can be said
than what has been usually said with regard to
this production. It is printed in clear type, on
good paper, and bound up in a serviceable cloth
cover. It issues from the same firm as usual,
Messrs. S. Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., and its price
is 6s. net. -
At the end of the volume, after the list of books
there comes a list of societies and a list of pub-
lishers in England and America. These items all
add to the utility of the volume. In the analysis
of books published at the beginning we see that in
1909 the output has been larger than ever it has
been before, reaching the enormous number of
10,725 volumes, 900 volumes more than were pro-
duced in 1908. Perhaps it is needless to state
that the largest class is the class of fiction and
juvenile works; the output of these books reached
2,881. Religious works come third with 1,022.
It will be interesting to see whether in 1910 this
huge increase is maintained.
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COMMITTEE ELECTION.
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THIS year, owing to a different arrangement of
dates, it was impossible to give notice of the result
of the election of the committee at the general
meeting which was held on the 16th of last
month.
The following is the signed statement of the
scrutineers, recording the votes for 1910 in the
following order :—
286
J. W. Comyns Carr
Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland 283
Francis Storr º . . 266
G. Bernard Shaw . G . . 233
Mackenzie Bell 178
It may be worth while to repeat that one-third
of the committee retires annually. Therefore, of a
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committee consisting of twelve members, four
members have to retire. The committee have
the right of nomination, or any two members of
the society may nominate a third member.
Three hundred and fifty-five votes were recorded
in the election for the current year. The first
four on the above list are those who will join the
committee. - -
GENERAL MEETINGS.
I. THE COUNCIL.
TYRIOR to the annual general meeting, held at
the Society of Medicine on Wednesday,
T March 16th, the general meeting of the
shareholders, the Council of the Society, was held.
The meeting was merely formal to pass the annual
report of the committee of management, to elect
the accountants for 1910, and to adopt the accounts
for the past year. g
As the report and accounts had been circulated
they were taken as read, and the three items on
the agenda, put from the chair, were duly carried,
Messrs. Oscar Berry & Co. again being elected
accountants.
II. THE SOCIETY.
THE general meeting of the society was held
on Wednesday, March 16th, at 4 p.m., Mr.
Maurice Hewlett, chairman of the Committee of
Management, presiding. - -
The agenda on the paper were:–1. To receive
and, if desired, to discuss the accounts and report
of the Committee of Management 2. To elect a
member of the Pension Fund Committee under the
scheme for the management of the Pension Fund.
3. To appoint scrutineers to count the votes under
the new constitution. -
In order to dispose of No. 2 and No. 3 before
proceeding to the main business of the meeting, the
chairman invited the nomination of a new member
of the Pension Fund Committee, and as no such
nomination was made, declared Mr. M. H.
Spielmann (who, retiring by rotation, offered him-
self for re-election) to be duly elected. A similar
request was made for names of members to act as
scrutineers, and as none was put forward the chair-
man intimated that the committee would make the
necessary appointments. w
i. to deal with the report, Mr. Hewlett
congratulated the society upon a membership of
over 2,000, increased during 1909 by more elections
than in any preceding year. - -
of its president, Mr. George Meredith.
Even if the total of all the authors in the
kingdom amounted to 3,000 or 4,000, such a
number combined in the society constituted a very
formidable body. They had elected to the council
in the year Mark Twain and Mr. H. G. Wells,
thereby doing honour to themselves. A serious
loss had been sustained by the society in the death
There was
no need to add to what had already been said upon
such a subject, but the Society had been fortunate
in securing as his successor Mr. Thomas Hardy.
Mr. George Meredith had succeeded Lord Tennyson,
and would be followed by the most distinguished
Writer in England, who, as poet, philosopher and
moral force, stood easily first. -
With regard to the Committee of Management,
the chairman mentioned the retirement of Mrs.
Felkin and the re-election of Dr. Squire Sprigge,
Mr. Arthur Rackham and Mr. Sidney Webb. He
also congradulated the society upon having added
the name of Sir Alfred Bateman to the committee
to supply the great loss sustained in the death of
Sir Henry Bergne. After referring briefly to the
work of the Committee of Management and of the
sub-committees, Mr. Hewlett expressed himself
as having been surprised since he had become its
chairman by the number of cases dealt with and by
the variety and extent of the work done. He
mentioned an instance of an unusual case, one of
“literary libel,” occurring in a foreign country and
now under consideration, in which the question
arose out of a book translated into German, with all
the names and topical allusions converted into
German names and allusions, producing a result
amusing to all but the author. After referring to
the satisfactory financial position of the scoiety, he
drew attention to the fact that during the past
year the aid of the society had been deliberately
invoked for the first time by the Publishers'
Association ; this showed that the publishers
thought the society worth consulting, and indicated
a new and very gratifying state of affairs. He
concluded by paying a tribute to the service
rendered by the secretary of the society, Mr. G. H.
Thring, than whom no one could have discharged
his duties with greater industry or a more intelligent
sympathy.
At the close of the chairman's address, and in
reply to an invitation to those present to put ques-
tions arising out of the report, Mr. Harold Hardy,
speaking as a member of the Copyright Sub-com-
mittee, made the suggestion to the Committee of
Management, that just as they referred dramatic
cases to the Dramatic Sub-committee, so they should
refer copyright cases to the Copyright Sub-com-
mittee. In reply, the chairman expressed personal
approval of the idea, and said that he would bring
the proposal before the Committee of Management.
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Mr. J. Harwood Panting referred to the election of
the president, and urged that it would be prefer-
able that he should be elected by the society and
not be merely a nominee of the committee. In
reply, the chairman pointed out that the election of
the president was by the council, in accordance
with the constitution of the society, which had to
be observed. Mr. Bernard Shaw, commenting
upon Mr. Harold Hardy's suggestion that the
Copyright Sub-committee should have entrusted to
it cases now dealt with by the Committee of Man-
agement in which questions relating to copyright
were raised, observed that committees made their
own work ; that the Dramatic Sub-committee,
which now dealt with cases relating to dramatic
matters, at one time practically did not exist, but
that if the sub-committee was found to be doing its
work well, meeting regularly and with a good
attendance of its members, them all work suitable
for it would soon be handed over to it. The Com-
mittee of Management had plenty to do, and the
Copyright Sub-committee would not find that it
was not sufficiently human to be willing to turn
over a portion of its labonrs. Mr. Shaw, con-
tinuing, referred to the growing membership, and
to the necessity notwithstanding for active recruit-
ing, and for making use of the society after joining
it. The society had a great many members who
appeared to proceed on the assumption that the
society did not exist, members who, after joining,
complained of agreements into which they had
entered, and when asked if they had consulted the
society were found not to have even thought of doing
so. These seemed to look upon joining the society
as a mere form which had to be gone through,
like the rite of confirmation. Many of them had
never even heard of the existence of the secretary.
He urged that even those who were good business
men, and who were able to understand their agree-
ments, would do the society a service by consulting
it with regard to them. He had recently had
before him on the Committee of Management a
publisher's agreement of so preposterous a character
that it was almost inconceivable, and he had had
another submitted to him with regard to the
Writing of plays, by a leading London manager,
so monstrous that he believed he could get it
quashed by writing and informing the manager
that unless he withdrew it the society would advise
dramatic authors to have nothing to do with him.
It was of the greatest importance that members
should get every author they possibly could to join
their organisation. He urged every member who
might be asked privately for advice by a friend
upon some literary matter, although he might be
perfectly able to give it, to refuse it, and to send
those asking for it to the society.
A vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed
by Mr. Charles Garvice and seconded by G. N.
Count Plunkett. The members present included:
Chairman, Mr. Maurice Hewlett; E. A. Armstrong,
Miss Emily Baker, Sir Alfred Bateman, T. P.
Beddoes, Mackenzie Bell, Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes,
Edward J. Bedford, Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, John
Buchan, C.O. Burge, W. M. Coleman, Thomas Cobb,
Miss Ellen Collett, James Curtis, F. H. Cripps Day,
W. Scott Durrant, Miss Gabrielle Festing, Douglas
Freshfield, John Fyvie, Charles Garvice, Miss Mary
Gaunt, Harold Hardy, Anthony Hope Hawkins,
Miss E. M. Hine, C. T. Jacobi, Miss Arabella
Kenealy, E. P. Larken, C. Lincoln, Sir Alfred
Lyall, Miss Annie Matheson, A. R. Hope Moncrieff,
Harwood Panting, H. M. Paull, W. Booth Pearsall,
Mrs. Alice Perrin, W. F. Pettigrew, Count G. N.
Plunkett, J. Prelooker, John Richmond, Lieut.-
Col. W. Sedgwick, G. Bernard Shaw, Mrs. G.
Bernard Shaw, Miss H. M. E. Stanton, Francis
Storr, Miss Grace Toplis, Mrs. Alec Tweedie,
Frederick Vicars, Mrs. Voynich, William Wallace,
L. C. Wharton, Edward Willmore, Miss D.
Zingler.
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UNITED STATES NOTES.
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O”. more one hears the complaint that
many of the really good books of the year
—“books” in this connection are of course
novels—did not figure among the recorded “best
sellers” of 1909. Even so it is rather significant
that a work of the calibre of Mrs. McCartney
Lane’s “Katrine” should actually head the list.
It is also rather curious that women authors
among the most popular should be in the propor-
tion of only one to three male writers. Mrs. Ward
and Robert Hichens represent not unworthily the
non-American element.
An event of the spring publishing season will be
the appearance of a new book by Max Adeler.
The subject of it is the experiences of one who in
his own despite has gained the reputation of a
mighty “natural” healer. George W. Jacobs
& Co., of Philadelphia, are the publishers. By
the bye, it is said that Mr. Clark, unlike a cele-
brated English humourist, dislikes being addressed
by his pen-name, which ignores his labours in
other fields to which he has long devoted his best
energies.
Commander Peary's recent Arctic experiences,
which are appearing in Hampton's Magazine, are,
it is said, to wait for publication in book form till
the fall, when they will be issued by the Stokes
Company in two volumes. -
The seventh volume of Prof. J. B. McMaster's
History of the United States, bringing the narra-
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tive down to 1852, is just appearing. Meanwhile,
two more instalments of Elroy McKendree Avery's
large history have come to hand. The first
volume deals with the early days of the Revolu-
tion, and the second with the Revolution itself and
its consolidation in the Confederation. The illus-
trations, which have been the great feature of the
work, seem to have been a little overdone in these
latest volumes.
Prof. Guy Stevens Collender’s “Selections from
the Economic History of the United States'
should be a boon to students of political economy.
This large source book, issued by Ginn & Co.,
begins with the year 1765 and extends to 1860.
Abraham Lincoln is by no means done with as
yet. Chicago makes two further contributions to
his literature this spring in the “Century Tribute,”
edited by Nathan William McChesney, and the
“Monograph,” by Isaac N. Phillips. Both come
from McClurg & Co.
Mrs. Atherton's new novel, “Tower of Ivory,”
is the story of a young English diplomat's unfortu-
nate marriage with a frivolous American and his
tragic passion for a German singer with a past.
The book, which will fully sustain her reputation,
is to be issued in London by John Murray. This
writer contributed te a recent number of the New
York Bookman a piquant article upon the American
novel in England. My recollection is that it
rather bore out the truth of the old Scriptural
saying about the honour of a prophet in his own
country.
The hitherto unpublished “Diary of President
Polk” is being printed this spring from the
original manuscript belonging to the Chicago
Historical Society. Prof. Milo Quaife, of the
Lewis Institute of Technology, is the editor. Of
this document Prof. Albert Hart has declared
that “in all American history we have few such
revelations of the inside workings of war and
diplomacy.” Prof. Garrison, of Texas University,
has pointed out how it refutes the charges against
its author's character.
Prof. John M. Manly has arranged with the
authorities of the Bodleian for the publication of
a collotype facsimile of the Caedmon Manuscript.
The issue is to be limited to one hundred copies at
five guineas.
A meeting in commemoration of the career of
the late Richard Watson Gilder was held in
Mendelssohn Hall, New York, on February 20.
Governor Hughes presided, and among the
speakers were President Nicholas M. Butler,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Dr. Hamilton Wright
Mabie, and Mr. J. Forbes Robertson.
One of the most notable of the February books
was William Winter’s “Life and Art of Richard
Mansfield.” An Englishman by birth and an
American by adoption, Mansfield was in reality
a citizen of the world. He owed much to his
biographer in life, and the debt has not been
diminished by this record of his personality and
activities. The book is a valuable contribution to
dramatic criticism as well as to contemporary
biography.
Amongst the subjects chosen by the judges for
the annual economic prizes offered by Messrs. Hart,
Schaffner, and Marx, of Chicago, I note that one is
“The Value of Protectionism to American Work-
ing Men,” whilst another is “German Experience
in Taxing the Unearned Increment from Land.”
Such subjects as these and “The Effects of Modern
Immigration in the United States” should produce
Some interesting contributions.
Students of American psychology are well catered
for nowadays. No sooner have they finished with
Maurice Low’s “Study of the American People”
than they are confronted with Dr. Henry Van
Dyke's “Spirit of America.” It may be safely
asserted that readers of both these will not be
confined to one hemisphere.
Someone has discovered the existence of an earlier
American Academy dating from the year 1820. Its
habitat was New York, its president John Quincy
Adams, and its corresponding secretary and organ-
ising genius a certain William S. Cardell. A prize
and gold medal were offered for the best written
history of the United States, and other subjects
were proposed for competition in subsequent years.
Apparently this laudable body only survived a few
years; but it was a gallant, if premature, attempt.
Edwin Tenney Brewster’s “Life and Letters of
Josiah Dwight Whitney ’’ is an admirably executed
record of the achievements of the first American
geologist of mark. Professor Whitney, who died
in 1896, was a brother of the eminent philologist,
whom he helped with the “Century Dictionary.”
Another book recently issued by Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., Mrs. Anna Robeson Burr's critical
and comparative study of “The Autobiography"
should attract not a few readers. The author has
examined and grouped no less than 265 “capital”
specimens in various languages. The task is
ambitious and Scarcely admits of being conclusive.
A recent correspondent of the Dial thinks she has
discovered the secret of the “best-seller.” She
repudiates the suggestion of the anonymous writer
of “The Confessions of a Best-seller” in the
Atlantic Monthly that the key to popularity is
“plot-interest.” People who buy new books are
after something more than a good story, she
declares, and that something is “the genteel
atmosphere.” This, no doubt, so far as women
readers are concerned, is a highly plausible plea.
But the other writer was presumably thinking of
the tired male.
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THE A Drt FIOR.
The versatile William Everett, preacher, mis-
sionary orator, classical scholar, and English
writer, died on February 16, at Quincy, where
he had been principal of the Adams Academy
nearly thirty years. He is said to have left in
manuscript a life of his father, Edward Everett.
Mrs. Jessie Van Zile Belden, the novelist, died in
New York a fortnight earlier.
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THE UTILITY OF REVIEws.
HAVE read with considerable interest the letters
in these columns on the subject of the utility of
reviews, and, as the author of some hundred
novels, all of which have had the favour of the
public's eye, and many of which have had the favour
of the reviewer's pen, I should like, if I might, to
say a word or two of my own impressions.
In past days reviews were entrusted to men of
letters, of university education, of culture and
ability. Though a reviewer might be merciless,
he had such critical faculty and such information
that though his victim might writhe, he still could
gather help and improvement from his tortures.
The reviewer's trade, like much else, has changed
in these haste-to-be-rich days. Newspapers,
agonising to pay shareholders' dividends or to
become millionaires on their own account, cut all
expenses. Book reviews can be written by any
member of the executive staff who has a swift pen
and a nimble fancy. The clerk, proud of his
extreme youth and as ignorant of the world as
he is of anything beyond his board-school educa-
tion ; the office boy on promotion, they are con-
sidered quite capable reviewers. The innocence
of their comments, the wild inappositeness of their
criticisms, tickle the humour of the reviewed, even
while the victims protest against the distortion of
their own meanings, the misrepresentation of their
plots, their characters, their situations. The reading
public gravely accepts the dictum of young per-
sonages whose opinion in real life they would be
reluctant to take on the weather, and the book
and its author are catalogued according to the
reviewer's praise or condemnation. -
There is another class of reviewer. He is still
educated, enlightened, justified in criticising. But
time fails him. I dislike the personal illustration,
but must resort to it to make my point. Not long
since a historical biography I had just published
received a somewhat slighting mention in one of
the leading London daily papers. Not long after-
wards a relative of mine met the reviewer. He
admitted, with some embarrassment, that he had
not yet read my book when he wrote the review,
doubt that a book may be damned by blame.
and excused himself by saying that the business of
reviewing was so wretchedly paid nowadays and
the number of books to review was so over-
whelming that, except in very exceptional cases,
a harassed reviewer could do no more than dip
hastily between the pages. I suppose it was by
way of amende honorable that that same paper, in
its general literary review at the close of the year,
said so many kind and friendly things to me.
There is still a third reviewer. He is apt to be
attached to the better class of periodical—the
quarterly, or monthly, or weekly that is looked up
to as a final literary authority, and prides itself on
its up-to-date Smartness.
This reviewer owes his
post to his powers of Smart writing, his turn of a
sentence, his quip, his jeer, his satire. To make a
brilliant stroke of the pen is his aim, his aspiration.
At any cost he must sparkle, must call attention
to his own wit. To praise is poor work, trite,
commonplace. The feeblest intellect can praise.
There is no reputation in it. So he dips his pen
in vinegar, and struts in epigram, and proves him-
self a pretty wit and a shining writer.
Now, I take it that the main object of reviews
is twofold: to help the reading public in the selec-
tion of a book, and to teach the author. None of
these three classes of modern reviewer achieve the
latter object. When a reviewer has palpably not
read one's book, praise is quite as distasteful as
unjust blame. When it is evident his cast of mind
is not that of the educated for whom one writes,
his criticism becomes valueless. When the effort
to sparkle as a witty critic is too deplorably
evident, satire leaves one cold. The author has no
real enlightenment as to his faults or his successes.
The other object, that of a guide to selection, is no
doubt achieved, but with profound injustice.
There can be no doubt that the sale of any book
is enormously regulated by reviews. If we con-
cede that the sale of a successful book is not
entirely due to good reviews, there can be no
But,
in truth, there has been more than one author in
my personal knowledge floated into public favour
by laudatory critics, and an editor once informed
me that he ordered his serials from authors with-
out having read a line of their writings, merely on
the strength of reviews of their first books.
But a book abused by the critics is heavily
handicapped throughout its career, and in almost
every instance injurious reviews affect disastrously
the publishing chances of its successor. An
author's future, his daily bread, may depend on
the whim of a newspaper clerk, his fit of indiges-
tion, his fatigue, his vanity. The profession of
letters is surely one of such assured dignity that
these things should not be possible, and that it
should have a right to demand, if merely as a
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commercial protection, sane, intelligent, serious
reviews, written by men fitted to deal with their
subject, and honest in their method of dealing.
Lest my next book should be a prey to the
teeth of the reviewer after this protest, I will take
the reviewer's privilege of remaining nameless.
But I will very gladly answer any communication
addressed to me by any member of this society
on the subject.
AUTHORESS.
THE FAIRW TALE IN FICTION.
gº - —e-º-º-
V7 RITERS of fiction not infrequently speak
with some contempt of the work of their
humbler brothers and sisters—the writers
of Fairy Tales. Fairy Tales, they say, are so easy
to do—all that is needed is for the writer to live
in a world of his own making, under conditions of
of his own laying down. When a difficulty, when
a tangle occurs, the aid of the supernatural or the
grotesque can be called in to solve or to disentangle.
The men and women in Fairy Tales are puppets in
the hands of non-humans. They do not act, or
speak, or think like the men and women in every-
day life. Whereas in ordinary fiction the work of
the artist is to hold the mirror up to nature—in
Fairy Tales no mirror is necessary—not even a
distorting “magic" mirror, convex or concave—
wherein nature is caricatured beyond recognition.
A writer of Fiction holds a mirror—a poor, cracked,
blurred affair it may be, but still a mirror—while
the Fairy Tale writer splashes away at a canvas,
and exhibits something which, whatever else it may
be, has no claim to reflect what passes in the world
around us. Now all this is very unfair—and the
more unfair because of a certain element of truth
underlying it. Of course Fairy Tale writers have
an advantage over writers of Fiction in being able
to choose “worlds unrealised ” for their scenes
instead of the workaday world which we all know.
But there the advantage ceases. The elements of
which Fairy Tales are composed are precisely the
same as the elements which go to the composition
of a novel. The characteristics of the actors are
as strongly marked in the one as in the other.
The influences which modify or guide the actions
are the same in each, although in Fiction these
influences are treated as vague forces of fate,
whereas in Fairy Tales they are personified as
fairies or magicians. The Fairy Tale, being shorter
than a novel, the effect of these influences on
character development cannot have full play.
Mrs. Gaskell must have felt all this when she
wrote her group of short stories, “Old Friends
with New Faces.” In the happy ending story in
Fiction, in which virtue is triumphant and vice
is punished, for example, is that ending truer to
what takes place in the world we know than the
typical ending of a Fairy Tale, “and so the wicked
Stepmother was condemned to be burnt, and the
prince and princess married, and lived happily ever
afterwards”? But, it may be said, the means by
which the end is reached in happy ending Fiction
is quite different from the means by which the end is
reached in the Fairy Tale. Is this the case
really Coincidence in the Fairy Tale plays an
important part. It brings together the prince and
the princess—that is the hero and heroine—who
have been wandering half over the world in opposite
directions, at the critical moment. But the
coincidence is given its true place in the Fairy
Tale. It is not the result of chance—it is the
result of the deliberate actions of higher powers.
In Fiction, coincidence, while brought in for the
same end, is a clumsy contrivance discredited by
all writers, and made use of by all. Dickens, more,
perhaps, than any great writer of Fiction, made
use of the Fairy Tale element in his stories. Most
conspicuously is this the case in the conversions
chronicled by him, conversions brought about by
utterly inadequate means, of bad characters into
good. Then his good characters are, generally
speaking, like the little girl in the rhyme, so “very,
very good"—and his bad characters so unvaryingly
“ horrid” as are the good and bad characters in
Fairy Tales. Jack goes out to meet his giants alike
in Fiction and Fairy Tales, and polishes them off in
the most satisfactory manner. If he does not escape
unscathed he wins his princess, and marries her,
and lives happily ever after. Whereas in real life
Jack would almost certainly be the killed and not
the killer, or at best would be taken prisoner, and
be kept shut up under the kitchen floor in some
giant's stronghold. As for the other Jack—him of
the Beanstalk—Fiction delights in telling us how
he looked out of his window one morning and
found that the pretty coloured bean which he had
sown the night before had sprung up, and was now
a towering tree, with its topmost branches hidden
in the clouds. Of course we are told that this
sudden blaze of success out of the dying embers of
failure does occur in real life, and we are pointed
to Byron as an example. But it is not convincing.
Success does not come in this way, Byron notwith-
standing. Cinderella is a special favourite in
Fiction—in days gone by she was even a greater
favourite than she is at present. In Fiction and
Fairy Tales she goes to the ball and marries her
prince, and rejoices in the discomfiture of her
sisters, which is the greatest thing of all. In real
life, alas ! Cinderella stays at home and marries
the curate. And Cinderella's godmother ? In
days gone by she used to be the long lost uncle
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TISIES A crºRIOR.
from the goldfields of Australia—more recently
she is the eccentric millionaire, American or other-
wise, and no relation to Cinderella whatever.
Still, there she is, and her vulgarity and twang do
not disguise from us for a moment that the Deus
er machina is really the Dea of our childhood.
It is in fact beyond dispute that the whole of the
machinery of Fiction is identical with the
machinery of Fairy Tales. In a few details only,
and those for the most part of a purely surface
character, do those two classes of literature vary.
Therefore as Fairy Tales are older than Fiction, the
writers of the latter, if they have a scrap of gratitude
in them, will regard with less patronising contempt
the composition of the former. The dwarf on the
shoulders of the giant does not think much of the
giant, but he is a dwarf for all that, and the giant
is still the giant.
E. P. II.
THE ART OF ILLUSTRATING.
- —º-º-º-
BY WM. BRETT PLUMMER.
(Compiled for the use of authors, artists, journalists,
advertisers, and others.)
(All rights reserved by the Author.)
CHAPTER WII.
Various Processes, and Concluding Remarks.
IN the foregoing chapters I have described those
processes that are most useful and more
generally adopted for illustrative purposes
by reason of their commercial adaptability.
There are several others however, which, while
beautiful in their finish and effect, can only be used
under certain conditions.
Photogravure.
The first and most important of these is the
“Photogravure" process, an example of which is
presented with this issue.
This process is an excellent one for portraiture
and any general work that can be used as an insel,
but it cannot be printed off with the ordinary type-
matter on a printing machine, and therefore is in
many cases inapplicable.
Photogravure is, as in half-tone, a photo-
graphic process, but is made without a screen of any
hind on a polished copper plate, and is moreover of
a sunken or intaglio nature, the paper being damped
for printing purposes and then forced into the
cavities after the same manner as an ordinary
copper-plate.
It would be superfluous to enter into the details
of this special branch of art reproduction more
than to say that, these plates being printed from
entirely by hand, the cost of same is naturally
expensive, and in many cases prohibitive.
As to the photogravure plate itself, the price
varies somewhat according to the reputation of the
firm supplying same, but it may be assumed to
range at from 18. to 1s. 6d. per square inch, with a
minimum cost of from thirty shillings to two
guineas for each plate.
Being slow as well as costly, it is generally
unsuitable for large editions.
It can be produced in colour form when required,
but as each printed impression is practically coloured
by hand on the plate itself it will be readily under-
stood that this method requires a long purse if first
class results are desired to be obtained.
Collotype.
In this process also the camera plays an im-
portant part, the pictures being reproduced by
mechanical means.
It is used a great deal for insets in book illustra-
tion, etc., and has been utilised extensively for
picture postcard and similar work.
A sheet of thick plate-glass after being sensitised
is exposed under a negative. The film, when kept
moist, will take ink readily and can be printed on
a hand press or cylinder machine. This process is,
however, very sensitive to atmospheric changes, and
although much quicker than photogravure is not
nearly so certain or generally effective as the latter.
Nor is it so artistic.
It is, moreover, very variable in its results, and
is therefore not to be recommended in an ordinary
way as it often ends in disappointment.
A collotype can be printed in any number of
colours by super-imposition. .
In giving out work by this process the best form
of procedure is to obtain estimates and samples
from various firms and compare their prices and
quality of work for the reproduction and prints
combined.
It is difficult to lay down an absolute rule or
guidance as to price, so many surrounding circum-
stances having to be taken into consideration.
It is only fair to say that some very beautiful
results in colour have been attained by collotype
reproduction, but it is uncommercial in a general
Sense by reason of its uncertainty.
Combination Colour Work.
There are a number of effective ways of repro-
ducing colour work by means of combining the
various processes. Picture postcards especially are
often treated in this way, and the results are
frequently quite artistic.
These combinations appear under all sorts of
names and disguises, many firms of reproducers
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christening their particular method under some
compound title, which is not only confusing but
deceptive, and claiming it as their own special and
secret process.
This, as may be imagined, however, is only trade
bluff.
One of the favourite forms of combination,
which has appeared under all sorts of fancy head-
ings, is to produce the colour portion by means of
lithography and then to print the key on top of
same by means of half-tone or collotype. Both
ways are striking and good when well carried out.
I would like to warn authors against what are
called new processes. Whenever a man mentions
a perfectly new process to me I immediately
become sceptical. I have seen so many and heard
of so many. They are like ghosts: they appear
and they vanish, and remind me of Macbeth's
truism :— .
“Out, out brief candle !
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more.”
I have no desire to hear of any new processes for
some time.
Continental Terms.
In sending blocks abroad, for the purpose of
facilitating correspondence, it may be mentioned
that an ordinary line block is called a cliché, an
electro is termed a galvano, half-tone work is
known as photo-gravure, and three-colour process as
helio-gravure.
These terms are recognised in Germany and
Austria as well as in France, and are generally
accepted throughout the European Continent.
Disused Metal Blocks.
Disused blocks quickly accumulate and are often
in the way, but they, unfortunately, fetch very
little unless you can find a purchaser who can
utilise them in their original form. Sometimes, of
course, one does not wish them to be reprinted by
a second party, and then the only thing is to
dispose of them as old metal.
Under these circumstances they should be
scratched over by a sharp tool so as to prevent
them being printed from by unscrupulous pur-
chasers.
In this condition they fetch a very small price ;
generally averaging only between 7s. 6d. and
12s. 6d. per cwt., wood included.
This selling price applies to old electros and
zincos, all of which go into the melting pot.
Copyright and Piracy.
It is not customary in this country to reproduce
portraits or photographs without the Sanction of
the original photographer, unless you can show a
receipt for payment for the photograph in the first
instance.
Professional photographers generally make a
charge varying from 5s. to £1 1s. for the right of
reproduction, and in the case of well-known firms
also an insistence that their names shall be
acknowledged in the publication.
If a purchaser commissions an original drawing
or sketch from an artist, he will then own the
entire copyright, and it is his sole right to reproduce
same in any form, unless there is some specially
drawn up agreement to the contrary.
Where a photographer has taken a portrait of a
person, celebrity or otherwise, without making any
charſe, the right of reproduction belongs to the
photographer.
Throughout America and Canada I regret to say
there is a general disinclination either to acknow-
ledge or pay copyright fees for English photographs,
and piracies occur in the most shamefaced way on
every hand.
I have seen numbers of English photographs
reproduced in well-known American and Canadian
publications. Their English origin is totally
ignored.
. It is a matter that might, with advantage, be
inquired into by English producers who should
be naturally interested in such an important
Question.
—e—º-e—
AMERICAN JOURNALISM.”
—º-º-º-
0 reader is likely to rise from the perusal of
this work with feelings of enthusiasm for
the newspapers of the United States of
North America. If all that Mr. Rogers says of
them is true, then they may, with a few honourable
exceptions, such as the New York Evening Post, be
divided into two classes: newspapers which one
would not willingly touch with a pair of tongs,
and newspapers which one would not willingly
touch with anything but a pair of tongs. They
suppress, doctor, or even invent news to serve the
interests of politicians or gratify the wishes of
advertisers. Their sensationalism panders to the
lowest instincts of their subscribers. They
unscrupulously invade the privacy of private life,
and they habitually blackmail and intimidate
public men. If we could imagine an English
newspaper endeavouring to secure the acquittal of
such a character as the late Whittaker Wright by
threatening to discover skeletons in the cupboards
* “The American Newspaper,”
Edward
Rogers. University of Chicago Press.
by James
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TFIE A DITFIOR.
of the jury and to get the judge kicked off the
bench if he were convicted, we should have a fair
parallel to the state of things which Mr. Rogers
describes as prevailing in San Francisco in con-
nection with “boodle" and “graft.” The indict-
ment, of course, is his, not ours. We merely
register his impressions without presuming to
go behind them. . As he assures us that he
examined fifteen thousand newspapers in order
to form them, he is at all events well docu-
menfö. The fault, however, cannot be attributed
solely to the innate wickedness of editors, or
even of proprietors. The deficiencies of the law
of the land are largely responsible. If judges were
irremovable, if the law of libel were effective, and
if contempt of court were properly punished, many
of the worst features of American journalism would
disappear. Even so, however, it would remain a
disappointing journalism—a standing proof of the
decline in American ideals which followed upon
the passing of the intellectual sceptre from New
England to New York and the new cities of the
West. New England always aimed high, though
its outlook was somewhat narrow. New York and
Chicago combine a broad outlook with low aims,
and their Press reflects the desire of rich men to
exploit the multitude. The same tendency may,
it is true, be detected in some sections of Our Own
Press; but it is less pronounced with us, because
we have more deeply rooted traditions than the
Americans, and a greater reverence for law and
order. This sentiment may sound pharisaical,
but it is true.
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STOPS, OR HOW TO PUNCTUATE.”
—t-sº-0–
R. ALLARDYCE has compiled in his
M | treatise on the grammatical points a work
which should be in the hands of every
author. It is sometimes asserted that authors
leave such details as the “stops * to the care of
the printer. We hope that the allegation is not
true; as, on the one hand, it is inconceivable that
any man who respects his own work should leave
its meaning to the mercy of the compositors :
and, on the other hand, it is only too evident that
a writer who does not know how to use the points
correctly can himself have only a vague notion of
what he has wished to convey. At the same time,
that, on certain occasions, very delicate distinctions
are involved, and considerable literary ability
* “Stops, or how to Punctuate; a Practical Handbook
for Writers and Students.” Paul Allardyce, London : T.
Fisher Unwin. 8vo.
displayed by a deft use of the points, cannot be
denied ; and any one in doubt may consult with much
advantage “Stops, or How to Punctuate.” The
little work is both full and accurate. No detail
of any kind has been omitted ; and the author
has much enhanced the value of his book by
lucidly explaining the grounds upon which his
excellent rules are based.
~--—w- • *-*.
CORRESPONDENCE,
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DEAR SIR,-With regard to “No Copyright in
Titles,” I learn that a novel lately announced in The
Author has the title of an old one of mine fairly well
known in its day, viz., “Joy.”
On three previous occasions I have known titles
of mine copied, with the alteration or omission of
a word. But this is my first experience of wholly
sincere flattery—I am ready to believe unpremedi-
tated. However, as “Joy” appears in my published
lists of novels in works of reference, pray allow
me to state my claim to priority of ownership
in the name.
I remain, dear Sir,
Yours truly,
MAY CROMMELIN.
TRIBUTE NO. 2.
SIR,-Although not a member of the Society,
I should like, if I may, to endorse Mr. Jacbern's
tribute to publishers.
Since 1884 my MSS. have been running about,
many to America, and never have I lost one or had
it returned in a bad condition.
Only once have I had any difficulty about pay-
ment. An American journal which went into
liquidation paid me eventually in full without
being asked. But I have always observed such
rules as your correspondent calls “hints.”
I have had three books published. No. 1 was
taken by the first publisher, so was No. 2, and
No. 3 only took two journies. They are not stories,
nor in any way remarkable. I never knew an
editor nor a publisher, and only once did a friend
approach an editor on my behalf. Nor do I type
my MSS. ; I write them as clearly as I can, and
post them to take their chance on their own merits.
I consider I have always been treated fairly and
courteously.
Yours faithfully,
S. B.
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