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Church, Sir A. H.
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13,
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February 1, 1910, the trustees of the
Pension Fund of the Society after the secre
tary had placed before them the financial
position of the fund decided to invest £260 in
the following securities: £130 in the purchase of
Jamaica. 3% per cent. Stock 1919 49, and £130 in
the purchase of Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock 1937.
The amount purchased is £132 18s. 6d.
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Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock.
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mend the payment of any further pensions, as the
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.
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of the society to this fact, in the hope that by
additional subscriptions and donations there will
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the
year to declare another pension in case any im
portant claim is forthcoming.
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Feb.
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M.
Smith, Bertram
March
Jan.
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desire to add future elections as they are chronicled
from month to month in these pages.
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March 12, Yould, A. .
March 16, Loraine, Lady .
March 29, Macdonnell, Randall.
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May 6, Greenstreet, W. J. .
May 7, Cousin, John W.
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May 10, Zangwill, Israel .
May 19, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (Portion of
money recovered by the Society
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All fresh subscribers and donors previous to
January, 1910, 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
º-º-º
HE
NOTES.
May meeting of the Committee of Manage
ment of the Society was held on the 2nd ult.,
at 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.
In the absence of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, Mr.
Douglas Freshfield was elected to the chair. Thirty
one members and associates were elected, bringing
the total elections for the current year to 118.
There was one resignation, bringing the total
resignations up to 60.
Cases
before
the
Committee. The
first case
was against a company in the United States in
liquidation. The committee decided to place the
matter in the hands of the society's American
lawyer, with instructions to make full inquiries
whether the company was in a position to pay any
dividend; if so, to claim on behalf of the members
involved.
The next case relating to infringement
of an author's rights by literary libel in Germany
had been before the committee more than once
previously.
As full information was still wanting,
the committee decided that unless the necessary
answers to questions put by the German lawyer
employed were forthcoming before the next meeting,
the case must be dropped.
The Secretary next
reported details of various cases relating to the
infringement of dramatic rights and the retention
of moneys by a theatrical manager in India, and
instructions were given by the committee that the
case should be proceeded with at the earliest
opportunity.
In the next case arose a question of
an infringement
of copyright by sales by street
hawkers, somewhat on the lines of the musical
piracies which had been strenuously fought by the
235
music publishers.
The secretary was instructed
to endeavour to obtain the evidence necessary to a
parties.
successful prosecution of the offending
He was also instructed to write to the Publishers'
Association and to the lawful publishers of the
literary work in question to inquire to what extent
they would be willing to contribute towards the
question
cost of fighting
this important
of
principle.
Letters from a literary agent and his solicitors,
taking objection to a paragraph in The Author,
were considered, and the committee settled upon
the course they would take in the matter.
At the
Suggestion of the Dramatic Sub-committee,
the
Committee of Management elected Mr. Arthur
Shirley to the Dramatic Sub-committee, subject to
his willingness to undertake the duties of the
position.
A proposal for increasing the advertise
ment revenue of The Author was laid before the
committee, who gave it their favourable considera
tion.
The secretary was instructed
to obtain
further information, and consider and submit the
terms of a contract.
The secretary reported that
the Dramatic Sub-committee had been negotiating
with Messrs. Samuel French, in order to obtaininfor
mation as to the infringement of performing rights
of members of the society in the colonies.
He
suggested that, as the publishers also had agents in
the colonies, it might be possible to obtain similar
information respecting the piracy of literary works.
The committee authorised a communication to the
Publishers' Association
on the subject.
At the
suggestion af the Dramatic Sub-committee,
the
secretary submitted that it might be possible,
through the Foreign Office and Consular Service,
to obtain information of the piracy of performing
rights of British authors and their works.
Sir
Alfred Bateman was kind enough to promise to
make inquiries in order to ascertain whether any
steps could be taken on the lines suggested, and to
report to the next meeting.
A letter from a
member in regard to the Pension Fund was laid
before the committee, as also was a letter from the
Earl of Wemyss in regard to a scheme for the
representation of the Society of Authors, together
with other learned and scientific societies, in the
House of Lords.
º-º-º
DRAMATIC
SUB-COMMITTEE.
The Dramatic Sub-committee of the Society of
Authors met at 39, Old Queen Street, on Monday,
May 9. After the minutes had been read the
secretary reported that, in answer to the Dramatic
Circular, it appeared that there were between 220
and 230 dramatists on the books of the society.
The next question before the sub-committee
was a question which the Theatres Alliance had
�TISIE
236
AUTHOR.
referred to the dramatists, bearing on the perform
ance of plays in working men's clubs.
The
secretary and chairman reported that they had met
the representatives of the Theatres Alliance and
the Touring Managers' Association.
In that inter
view the representatives of these two bodies had
set out at length the large number of these clubs
and the extent to which performances were now
carried on, and complained of the unfair nature of
the competition which these performances involved.
After considerable discussion, on the proposal of
Mr Alfred Sutro it was decided to advise dramatic
authors, who were members of the society, not to
license any play to any clubs except the legitimate
amateur dramatic clubs, until five years from its
original production in the provinces.
The question of the responsibility of theatrical
managers for the infringement
of dramatic copy
right was then considered, and the secretary read a
long and detailed opinion he had received from
the society s solicitors on the subject.
The appoint
ment of colonial agents was discussed and a letter
from Messrs. French was read.
One of the items in
the letter related to a series of performances in India,
which had come to the knowledge of Messrs. French,
and the sub-committee decided that the secretary
should ascertain
Messrs.
French
had kindly
offered to supply the information whether any of
these performances were performances of members
plays, and, if so, whether they had been authorised.
Two other letters relating to the work of the
dramatic section of the Society were laid before
One, referring to the possi
the sub-committee.
of giving further assistance to unacted
dramatists, was adjourned for maturer consideration.
Owing to the length of the sitting, the settlement
of the Repertory Agreement and the Agreement
for a run was adjourned.
In three cases out of seven where money has been
claimed the amount has been paid on the secretary's
demand and forwarded to the members.
One has
been placed in the hands of the society s solicitors,
one is in the course of Satisfactory settlement, and
two have only recently come into the office.
Four
uestions have arisen concerning the detention of
MSS. and in three the MSS., have been returned
and forwarded to the members.
Of two cases
where the Secretary has demanded accounts, one
has been settled and in the other the accounts
have been promised.
One curious case of libel on
title has arisen. As the dispute is with the pro
prietor of a foreign magazine it may be some little
time before a satisfactory issue is arrived at.
The cases left over from past months are few.
Indeed, they only amount to three.
The others
have either been settled or placed in the hands of
the society's solicitors.
Of the three cases left
open, one, concerning the settlement of contract, is
delayed owing to the member living in Australia ;
in case number two the publisher is in America,
and in the third case negotiations are being carried
forward satisfactorily.
The cases in the hands of the society's solicitors
are being settled slowly.
In the smaller claims for
moneys due, the cash has either been paid or
promised, or judgment has been obtained.
It is
only in the more difficult questions, such as disputes
infringement of copyright and
on agreements,
bankruptcy cases, that delay is bound to occur.
º-º-º
bility
º-º-º
Cases.
THE record of the society's work from month to
month varies but little.
Sometimes more cases
come into the hands of the secretary and more are
placed in the hands of the solicitors sometimes
a lesser amount.
During the past month seventeen cases have
been in the secretary's hands.
Three dealt with
disputes on agreements.
Onehas been satisfactorily
settled, but the other two are in the course of
negotiation.
It may be as well to state that in a case where a
dispute arises between two members of the society,
the society does not necessarily refuse to act, but
will always maintain the right against the wrong.
the dispute becomes very acute the committee
endeavour to arrange an arbitration between the
parties.
If
May Elections.
Adkins, Frank James
21, Harcourt
Sheffield.
Aspinall, Algernon
Club, Pall
Mall, S.W.
Dawnside, Berkhamp
sted, Herts.
Carlton
Baker,
Mrs.
Elizabeth
c
(Beth Ellis).
Baker, Miss Elizabeth
Barnett,
Mrs. S. A. (Heng
ſº
rietta O.)
Campbell-Gilbert,
E. (Lorde Philip).
Mrs. Ellis H.
Dalzell
John
Cousin,
F.F.A.
Fawcett,
*
Harrison
te
Major
Road,
Esmond
Bedford Park, W.
Cottage,
St. Jude's
Hampstead Heath,
N.W.
Brae,
Middlesex.
West
Henry
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William,
John
106,
Philip
Chadwick,
Chalmers,
Road,
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Percy
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Enfield,
Mansions,
The
Earl's Court Road,
S.W.
11, Greenhill Terrace,
Edinburgh.
Uplyme,
Waterside,
1,
Devon.
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Greenstreet,
.
28,
Forest Hill, S.E.
Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight.
Solentia,
W. J., M.A.
Henry Albert,
Hinkson,
.A. .
º
º
Hogarth, David George
Inkster, Leonard
.
Greenhurst,
Langley.
Kings
º
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.
11,
Lane,
Oaktree
Oak,
mingham.
Selly
Jeffery, Mrs. C. E. .
Frederick.
o
Marshall, H. G.
o
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e
Cuthbert Terrace,
Westgate-on-Sea.
17, Banbury Road,
Oxford.
6, The Drive, Hove.
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Sawyer, Capt. Hoaughan .
Stanfield, G.
J.
.
.
º
.
Stephenson, Robert.
Strachey, Miss Philippa
Bir
6,
.
Nevill, Miss Florence
Serjeant, Miss C.
Road,
Garlies
131,
W
Harley
Street,
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Warboys
Rectory,
Huntingdon.
Admiralty
(D. W.
Department), S.W.
20, Baker Street, W.
67,
Belsize
Park
Gardens, N.W.
41, Bath Road, Bed
ford Park, W.
4, Milnthorpe Road,
.
Thompson,
Alex
M.
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º
(Dangle
Ward, The Rev. F.W. Orde
Eastbourne.
(F. Harald Williams)
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West, Mrs.
tº c/o Mrs. Mitchell, 106,
.
Barcombe
Avenue,
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Hill,
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the autumn.
engaged upon
drama
romance, but
verse
the vein
uncertain
ready for publication
production.
when
will
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volumes
verse and his last play
the Greek
model, six plays, being three comedies and three
in
a
in
to
of
in
the English
Mr. Arthur Dillon
primi
befell Central African native who returned
Europe had
tive surroundings after his education
been half completed.
The scene laid, for the most
part, upon the Tanganyika Plateau, where the author
has for some time been collecting material.
Vera
the Strong Heart,
Marion Mole,
announced for publication early this month
Mr. Andrew Melrose.
Messrs. Putnams Sons are
in
is
of
long
Mr. Arnold Bennett has nearly finished
Clayhanger, which Messrs. Methuen
Clayhanger
publish
Co. are
the autumn.
trilogy
the first
novels dealing with the Five
Towns. Mr. Bennett
also engaged upon series
impressions
London and Paris, which will appear
novel,
publish.
comedy
character rather than
adventure, but will
found full
movement
pictures
contemporary life.
and
Mr. Eveleigh Nash has now published Mr. Cullen
Gouldsbury's new novel, The Tree
Bitter Fruit.
The book deals the main with the vicissitudes which
It
J. It
by
of
&
be
is
the publisher.
English travellers bound for the Riviera
Egypt
scamp the interesting cities
the Rhône.
The Lost Halo
the title
Mr. Percy
White's new novel, which Messrs. Methuen will
of
is
''
Heine,
Some Old Shake
speareans
and
The English Masque.
will
issued almost immediately
Messrs.
M.
Sons, Ltd.
Dent
The title
Mr. Hubert Wales new book
The Wife
Colonel Hughes.
Mr. John Long
Heinrich
of
Hayley,
and Modern
the title
Dowden's latest book, among the
Cowper and William
which are
a
as
of
Professor
contents
of
an
In
a
in
of
of
of
Essays Elizabethan
to
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on
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of
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it.
entitled to
The toast
Literature was pro
posed
Sir George Reid and responded
Mr.
Henry Newbolt.
Preparations are now being made
celebrate the
centenary
Thackeray, which will fall
the birth
July 18, 1911. The Titmarsh Club has appointed
committee
consider the form of the celebrations.
public dinner will
held
the anniversary
hoped that many eminent
the birthday, and
literary men will
present.
addition
arranged,
exhibition will
central gallery,
pictures, portraits,
manuscripts
and personal
belongings
the novelist.
Mr. Lewis Melville
and Mr. Walter Jerrold are acting
hon. secre
tary and hon. treasurer respectively.
publishing this month
Dr. Bernard Hollander
through
Sons, Ltd., an
Sir Isaac Pitman
entirely new work written
popular lines, entitled
Hypnotism and Suggestion
Daily Life, Educa
tion, and Medical
Practice.
The subject has
been frequently written about
America and
England the science
the Continent,
but
hypnotism has been largely neglected, and
great many years since any qualified practitioner
has given
the results
his original researches.
Spirit
Mr. Arthur Beckett, whose
the
Downs,
published last year,
now
second
writing
open-air
edition,
engaged
book
for Messrs. Mills
Boon.
The new volume will
illustrated with twenty coloured drawings
Mr. Ernest Marillier, the Sussex painter.
The May issue
the Grand Magazine contains
poem entitled
A Queen's Fan,
Miss Kitty
Everest, who has also had her first song, Little
Blue Brother,
set
music and published
Messrs. Stanley Webb, 235, High Holborn, W.C.
short complete tale
Miss Everest, entitled
A Royal Crown, has been accepted for early
publication
the Woman
Home.
Among other articles
the May number
Travel and Eayloration, mention may
made
Mr. Wirt Gerrare s article which contains hints for
Siberian and Chinese travel.
the same magazine
Mr. Douglas Sladen describes the romantic cities
very severe
Provence.
He
the tendency
of
annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund
was held at the Hotel Metropole early last
month.
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, who presided,
reminded the company that, although the Fund had
permanent income, it was necessary
a substantial
to double that income if they were to carry on the
work before them. The chances of a large income
in the literary profession were very small, compared
with other professions of corresponding rank, and
whoever deliberately decided to devote his life to
authorship
was bound to give the prospect of
pecuniary gain a very secondary place in his
scheme of life. The committee of the Fund had to
decide whether applicants indisputably in need of
assistance were, from their positions as authors,
is
HE
serially
tragedies, written
the Elizabethan model, suit
played
able
the advanced platform stage,
before curtain, after the sixteenth century manner.
publishing next month
Mr. John Ouseley
Runaway Bride,
new novel, The Adventures
by Isabel Smith, author
The Minister's Guest
and The Jewel House.
to
NOTES.
be
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL
239
(which
Mr.
America.
was awarded the
Melrose's
recent
Novel
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be
by
of
George
Chopin, and her salon was frequented
Sand, Tourgénieff, Flaubert, Renan, Liszt, and alb
remarkable
her day. She was
the celebrities
unequalled vocalist,
musical composer
great merit, and
most accomplished linguist,
eight languages with absolute
speaking seven
very large circle
She leaves
ease and fluency.
her
friends and admirers, and with the closing
artistic and literary
salon another landmark
Paris has passed away.
the Chronique
The fourth volume
1862.
takes us on from 1331
Duchesse de Dino
a
a
a
of
of
a
la
de
of
of
to
pianist,
"
C.
an
in
by
in
of
in
1821; her first great triumph was
the rôle
the King's Theatre, London. After
Desdemona
all lips, and she sang
that her name was soon
Her
France, Spain, Russia, Italy and Germany.
associated with Orpheus and
name will for ever
Among
Beethoven's Fidelio.
with the Leonora
her friends she reckoned Alfred de Musset and
of
an
of
by
''
is
forthcoming new book.
The Oxford University Press have re-issued the
poems
Lord Tennyson, which were first included
April, 1901, and
World's Classics
the
1902, 1903, 1905, and 1906.
reprinted
Mr.
Introduction
The present re-issue has
T. Herbert Warren.
Benson's
At the same hour
Ring Edward set out
or
of
by
as
of
the Camden Publishing
has just been published
Co., 323, Upper Street, Islington.
the title of Mr. A.
The Silent Isle
the late King.
the funeral procession
London, another funeral
Madame Pauline
Paris that
was taking place
Wiardot, daughter
the celebrated Garcia, and
Madame Wiardot was born in
sister of Malibran.
Alexandra and
at
of
in
as
of
of
C.
A.
Artist-Philosopher,
Bernard Shaw
exposition
Renée M. Deacon.
Shawianism
Miss Deacon considers Mr. Shaw's work in
seven different aspects, among which are included
his dramatic theory, his revolt against romance, his
life.
dramatic consciousness and his philosophy
Miss Wentworth Oliver's new book, Defiance,
Respectfully,
an
In
3.
of
on
to
a
as
by
or
a
at
specially characteristic
the
have been chosen
clergy and laity, spiritual
period, and treat
experiences, loves, battles, pageants, and occasionally
everyday life.
the small things
Fifield has published, under the title
Mr.
our Victor Hugo and Carnot.
BOULET.
May 20, Pierre
the Figaro
article
Buckingham
his visit
account
Loti gives
1909, and his impressions
Queen
Palace
funerals
in
be
by
in
a
a
at
& G.
G.
which comprises human documents from
preceding
the Reformation,
the four centuries
which he has selected and translated with intro
ductions, notes, and glossary.
Mr. Coulton has
compiling
such documents,
catena
aimed
itself,
complete
but mostly too
less
each more
long for full quotation
The records
historians.
Gainer,
an
is
of to
of
a
in
of
of de
a
its
Anthony Hope and Cosmo Gordon-Lennox, having
way, was
right
dispute
theme
for
May
produced
the Repertory Theatre
the cast were Miss Irene Vanbrugh, Mr. Charles
Bryant, and Miss Mary Barton.
Coulton has published through Messrs.
Mr.
A Medieval
work entitled
Co.
Constable
In
pub
I
Co., have
of
at
the
The following
sincere grief and sympathy.
French
received from
letter
translation
group
working man, who
the head
workers for the public welfare :
tell you how deeply the
Just few lines
French workman sympathises with the English
grief.
know that the newspapers
nation
the public, that
here have expressed the sympathy
our statesmen and politicians have done the same.
the real
What has not been mentioned, though,
learning
the
the French workman
sorrow
considers grievous and heart
sad event which
humanity, and particularly
for
rending for
much.
himself, whom your worthy King liked
know
Rinowing the Parisian working class
Parisian manifestation
can assure you that,
grandeux
would certainly equal
were organised,
and sincere sorrow those which accompanied the
of
Madgwick, Houlston
Courcy Laffan's story
The
lished Mrs.
which she gives
Hero Dogs,
Brotherhood
very sympathetic account
twelve living and three
deeds deserve
dead dogs, whose heroic
the
sold for the benefit
The book
recorded.
Animals' Hospital, High Street, Eccleston Square,
1s. net.
the price
comedy
three acts,
Helena's Path,
of
Friday,
Paris from London
20, the flags
nations draped
the public.
seen
with crêpe were
very many windows
here.
buildings and
The French Press has been most sympathetic.
true friend
Everyone looked upon King Edward
All classes have expressed their
this country.
returning
April
a
which Miss Hyland
&
Messrs.
for
Games
articles on
has written.
Girls,
º-º-º
of
Miss Hyland is also article
column.
Writer to The Table, the organ of Marshall's School
Home Notes have in hand two sets of
of Cookery.
by
this writer, which may appear shortly :
articles
while The Schoolmistress, the educational organ for
Women teachers, will publish shortly a series of
wifery"
PARIS NOTES.
()N
A long serial fairy story, entitled The Adven
tures of Shoon and Robe, from the pen of Miss
M. E. F. Hyland, is running in the Derbyshire
Courter, a paper for which the same writer conducts
Weekly a children's column, as well as a House
to
240
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to
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in
of
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a
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to
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E
have received the proclamation printed
below from the Copyright Office
Washington, U.S.A.
provided
Congress
Whereas
the Act
1909, entitled An Act
March
amend and
consolidate the Acts respecting copyright,
that
the benefits
said Act, excepting the benefits
under section
(e) thereof,
which special
conditions are imposed, shall extend
the work
proprietor who
subject
author
citizen
foreign State
nation, only upon certain
conditions set forth
section
said Act,
a
(a)
When
alien author
or
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UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT.
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;
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(Bernard Grasset).
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of of
by
to
us
by
by
M. Maurice Maeterlinck,
Señora Piedad de Bobadilla, wife
the cele
brated Spanish writer, Fray Candil, has just
lectures, illus
commenced
Paris
series
dissolving views,
trated
the great Spanish
by
de
Portugal
?
Trois Mois
all
of
by
to of
in
so
of
Among translations are the following: L'ombre
mystérieuse,
Fergus_Hume, translated
Macbeth,
M. René Lecuyer
La Tragédie
is in
is
by
on
marion).
of
of
en us
study more closely the
from the route
order
manners and customs
the people. The book
illustrated,
very fair idea
that the reader has
the places visited.
to
of
to
of
de
M.
L.
by
In
an
Chronique
Duchesse
Dino' (Plon-Nourrit).
Tous Héros (Librairie des Annales).
Les Dames du Palais
(Calmann Lévy).
Les Anciennes
Démocraties
des Pays-Bas
(Flam
on
a
''
is
of
in
on go
a to
Jacques Bardoux has
the Débats
excellent article
the rôle
Edward VII. with regard
home policy, and
Recouley has written
the Figaro M. Raymond
England and the late King.
several articles
Temps M. André Tardieu has also written
King Edward s policy.
ALYS HALLARD.
Pontalis.
published
of
by
El
de
At
numbers
La Revue hebdomadaire
are the following articles:
Force
faiblesse
Jeune Turquie,
René Moulin
La Comète
Halley,
Pervinguière
Le Berceau
Parlement d Angleterre,
Germain Lefèvre
in
as
a
Paris,
Velasquez
her lecture
Roch,
the Comédie française,
exquisite poem
Bobadilla's
la
is
so
an
Velasquez.
In recent
in
is
is
as
In
Portugal,
Le Roy Liberge,
volume taking
various Portuguese places
interest.
The writer has strayed away
times
Trois Mois
of is
the close
Mlle. Madeleine
recited Emilio
de
In
is
to
in
in
in
is
in
task which the intrepid lecturer has set herself.
Brussels, London, probably
Italy,
She will
and then
tour through the United States and
South America.
en
de
In
of
a
of
Spain received Madame
Bobadilla
her recent visit
Madrid and have
requested the Marquis del Muni, Spanish Ambas
Paris,
sador
do his utmost
facilitate the
Queen
during
Le
de
is
by
is
by
a
to
we saw
woman doctor whose husband was jealous
his wife's celebrity
his own profession.
the present volume we see the woman barrister who
renounces her professional glory
order
retain
her husband's love.
La Faiblesse humaine
the title of M. Paul
Margueritte's latest novel.
bringing out his book, entitled
M. Jules Huret
L Amérique moderne,
illustrated edition
fortnightly parts. M. Huret
always
and
conscientious
his work that every book from his
pen
read with eager interest.
His volumes
Germany are the most complete works
this kind
which have appeared here.
Les Anciennes Démocraties des Pays-Bas
curious book
M. Henri Pirenne.
The Pays-Bas
taken
its former meaning, and includes the
départements
the Nord and
the Pas-de-Calais,
Belgium and Holland.
well
the kingdoms
these days
travel
land and Sea,
books
introducing
fresh places are very welcome.
the seventeenth century, commencing
Greco, Velasquez and Murillo.
Madame
give these lectures
Bobadilla's idea
the
Various capitals
the world, and,
she
linguist, she speaks equally well
excellent
French, Spanish, and English. The King and
with
du de la
of
by
in
of
by
as
same ease and delicacy
the psychological studies
children
which André Lichtenberger has made
his name
France.
Three
this author's books
have been specially noticed
the French Academy,
and for Mon petit Trott,
La Petite Soeur
Trott, and
La Mort de Corinthe the Prix
Montyon has been awarded.
Les Dames du Palais,
Colette Yver,
another novel
this authoress showing the danger
exposed when she becomes the
which
wife
Science,
rival
her husband.
Princesses
painters
In
all
to
be
to
of
on
all
The rôle of the Duchesse d Orléans and the attitude
of the Comte de Chambord are clearly indicated.
Talleyrand's niece also gives us an excellent idea of
the character of the Emperor.
Tous Héros is the title of André Lichten
berger's latest book, a volume of short stories,
military episodes. As the
which are founded
title infers, the chief characters are all heroes. The
first story gives its name
the volume, but the
equally suitable
title would
the other stories.
They are
extremely patriotic, written with the
241
proprietor
shall
�A UTFIOR.
State.
of
a
to
be
a
is
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to
as
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2
a
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to
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in
is
it
2
a
of
is
a
is
a
of
of
quarter.
be
of
to
in
of
to
of
The Union issues to its members tickets which
give the holder power
pass into any
the other
any part
clubs
the Union
the country, and
each member has power
introduce two women,
two children, and one man strangers into the
club.
a
at
to
of
of
an
seen
In
is
a
that this
vast organisation
people.
enormous number
attending
any performances, the
buy programmes
member has
the rate
2d. each. This entitles the holder to
reserved
will
and includes
addition, when
Seat.
all
all
be
clubs are immensely popular.
so,
is
not
for they are
It
These
surprising that they should
be
in
at
be
in
at
open
through Sunday,
hours and
the
performances
some cases beginning
the morn
ing and continuing throughout the day. Drink
any time, and children can
can
served
taken
when the law forbids that they should
public-house.
enter
First, then, let
poverty.
consider the plea
Could such clubs afford
sum
the authors which
a
to
of
us
it
of
to
in
be
a
would bring them into
fair and reasonable
competition
with the suburban and provincial
dealing with this point
theatres
must
remembered that the proprietors
these halls
expensive outlay
have
order
meet County
Council regulations.
The halls are very often
built without Solidity, with plain deal stages, the
no
KNOX,
Secretary
of
P.
H. TAFT.
of of
O
of
to
to
This Working Men's Club and Institute Union
union
over 1,100 associations spread all over
membership
the country, with
over 400,000.
The subscription, we are informed,
2s. 6d.
In
of
WM.
the President
C. :
By
such
licence likely
interfere with
the legitimate returns from their property
In order to enable the dramatists to come to some
reasonable conclusion, and satisfy themselves on
necessary that they should have
these issues,
fuller information.
With this object
view
few facts are set out in this article.
The Dramatic Sub-committee
the Society has
also given these facts its serious consideration.
2
thirty-fourth.
granting
in
is
to
of
of
of
of
in at
of
of
I
as
(e)
1
of
all
of
received that in Austria, Belgium, Chile, Costa
Rica, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Great
Britain and her possessions, Italy, Mexico, the
Portugal,
Netherlands
and possessions, Norway,
Spain, and Switzerland the law permits and since
July 1, 1909, has permitted to citizens of the
United States the benefit of copyright on sub
stantially the same basis as to citizens of those
countries :
Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM HowARD TAFT,
President
of the United States of America, do
declare and proclaim that one of the alternative
specified in section 8, of the Act of
conditions
March 4, 1909, is now fulfilled, and since July 1,
1909, has continuously been fulfilled, in respect to
the citizens or subjects of Austria, Belgium, Chile,
France, Germany,
Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark,
Great Britain and her possessions, Italy, Mexico,
the Netherlands and possessions, Norway, Portugal,
Spain, and Switzerland,
and that the citizens or
subjects of the aforementioned countries are and
since July 1, 1909, have been entitled to
the
benefits
the said Act other than the benefits under
thereof,
section
which the inquiry
still pending.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, have hereunto Set
my hand and caused the seal
the United States
to be affixed.
Washington this ninth day
Done
the city
April,
the year
our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and ten, and
the Independence
the United States
America the one hundred and
all those dramatists who are members
the society, the question
the performance
their plays
matter
vital importance.
grant
At any moment they may
asked
perform
licence
the Working Men's Club and
general rule, when the
Institute Union. As
put before them, they are asked
suggestion
take
nominal
fee only
the clubs are
pay high fees.
unable
First,
Two points then arise for consideration.
poverty
Secondly,
the plea
fair one
the
a
aforesaid shall be determined by the President of
the United States, by proclamation made from time
to time as the purposes of this Act may require ':
And whereas satisfactory evidence has been
º-º-º
is
grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or
law, to citizens of the United States the benefit of
copyright on substantially the same basis as to its
own citizens, or copyright protection substantially
equal to the protection secured to such foreign
author under this Act or by treaty ; or when such
foreign State or nation is a party to an international
agreement which provides for reciprocity in the
granting of copyright, by the terms of which
agreement the United States may, at its pleasure,
become a party thereto :
And whereas it is also provided by said section
that The existence of the reciprocal conditions
DRAMATISTS AND THE WORKING MEN'S
CLUB AND INSTITUTE UNION.
a
domiciled within the United States at the time
of the first publication of his work; or
(b) When the foreign State or nation of which
such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject
be
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242
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or
is
to
be
is
to
be
be
so
do
of
in
;
H.
M.
P.
:
L.
;
Russian
:
By Edmund
Literature.
Gosse.
ENGLISH REVIEW.
By
of
of
The Earlier Plays
Beaumont
and Fletcher.
Algernon Charles Swinburne.
e
Shakespeare.
The Women
By Frank Harris.
Jean Moréas. By Lalla Vandervelde.
FORTNIGHTLY.
The King Without Peer. By William Watson.
By Frederick Lawton.
Jules Clarétie.
By William Archer,
The American Cheap Magazine.
NATIONAL.
Performer.
Sir Wm. Richmond,
NINETEENTH CENTURY.
to in
Warwickshire. By Rose Kingsley.
Art
Social Reform
Ruskin s
Nature
By Wm. Scott Durrant.
Shakespeare
From
Gothic.
and
of
Expert
K.C.B.
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of
it
is
is
on
;
Modern
to
it
is
at
go
to
a
a
be
;
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CONTEMPORARY,
Melchior de Vogüé.
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of
be
in
of
J.
H.
G.
C.
E.
K.
he
is,
BOOKMAN.
The Bookman
Portrait Gallery Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick,
By Prof. Saintsbury.
Sterne.
By Henry Murray.
Chesterton.
G.
on
in
be
to
all to
or
to
to
of
per
Hunt; W.
Chesson
Courtney
W.
James
Churchill (of America);
Miss
Willcocks.
By Violet
Novel.
Wells; Marriott Watson
Douglas; W.
Locke
Winston
Lawrence; Hubert Bland
The Modern
is
a
of
the
Squieres Tale.
Chaucer's
BOOK MONTHLY.
theatres
thought, however, that
must not
play merely
the unknown author that
CONTENTS.
º-º-º
BLACKWOOD'S,
The Names and Source
of
to
to
to
It
if
is
is
It
cease and the local
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By
it
in
MAGAZINE
in
of
by
be
to
by
a
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plot their interest will
will suffer.
to
be
to
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the Era and others for
kindly supplying some
the data set out
this article.]
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us
in
In
the other side
the question.
one statement before
the weekly drink bill
varies from £90
the slack season
£150 in
£120
week
taken as an
the good season.
average this makes the yearly drink bill #6,000.
the recent raid
the police
the Willesden
Radical Club some important facts were forth
coming.
day,
£10
evidence, was
was stated
beer, and the drink bill for the past
taken
quarter was £936.
To add
the irony
the situation, when the
club was raided Sir Arthur Pinero's well-known
play, His House
Order, was being performed
to an audience of 300 members.
The profits
the proprietor
this enormous
very high, and considering
sale
drinks must
how inconsiderable are his other expenses
ought
pay above rather than below the fees
able
paid
suburban and provincial managers.
The next point
arise
whether these perform
ances are likely
interfere
with legitimate
Nearly
business.
suburban
and provincial
theatres have 6d. galleries but are not allowed
sell drink.
more than probable that the 2d.
programme and the £10 per week drinks would
considerably more than cover the 6d. gallery.
Again,
piece has been played
these clubs
good, bad,
indifferent company
not
likely that the members will
the local theatres
immediately after
see the same piece.
not the artistic side, nor the literary side, nor
the comparison
the actors' methods and styles
likely
appeal
which
this audience.
Like the readers
6d. shockers, they like the
story, and when once they have
knowledge
the
ºnd
C18.SI],
of
look
of
Let
to
us
of
it
be
a
of
a
greater rather than
smaller fee
the author.
poverty
But still the argument
strong one,
may
and
said that the halls are poor and
badly secured simply because
the poverty
the
contributors.
July, last year, when the suburban
slack Season
and provincial theatres were gasping for breath
live, twenty-one companies were acting round the
halls
the Working Men's Club and Institute
seems, therefore,
clear, taking these
Union.
facts into consideration,
that the dramatist
underpaid and that these performances come into
serious competition with his legitimate returns.
There
one step, then, that should
taken.
The dramatic author should raise his fee
that the
competition may
fair basis, and should
careful,
corollary, that the contracts for the
the legitimate provincial business
not
of
to
a
to
If
is to he is
is
of
all
The amount of capital sunk by the proprietor is
infinitely small compared with that of the provincial
or suburban theatre manager. Attention should
be called to another point the companies that
perform are not highly paid.
Their salaries are
miserable; in some cases, even, the players are paid
nothing at
and the scenery
the poorest
kind.
Here again the manager's outlay
reduced
anything, therefore,
minimum.
ought
pay
is
curtain.
formed,
the aged melodrama.
The very latest
plays
the best known dramatists are represented.
To show also the extent
which the matter
carried,
will
sufficient
state that,
the
as
a
scenery is generally of a most inflammable char
acter, the exits are few and in many cases mere
death-traps,
and lastly
there is no fireproof
243
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244
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.
But the transaction should be managed by a
obtained.
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of
the Society.
º-º-º
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.
VERY
1.
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.
3. Before signing any agreement whatever,
the document to the Society for examination.
send
that in belonging to the Society
4. Remember
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.
always
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
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action
upon them.
(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.
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
the contracts with publishers submitted to
consideration
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary
of the Society.
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.
This
The
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so
Members can make their own
do some publishers.
deductions and act accordingly.
subscription to the Society is £1 1s.
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.
9. The
e
. .
WARNINGS
.
per
º-e
TO THE PRODUCERS
OF BOOKS.
e
º-e
ERE
are a few standing rules to be observed in an
agreement.
There are four methods of dealing
*..."
with literary property
I. Selling it Outright.
This is sometimes satisfactory,
if
a proper
price can be
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.
Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental
rights.
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or
doctor |
º
III.
The Royalty System.
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form
It is above all things necessary to know
of agreement.
It is now
what the proposed royalty means to both sides.
approximately
possible for an author to ascertain
the
truth.
From time to time very important figures connected
with royalties are published in The Author.
IV. A Commission Agreement.
The
(1.)
(2.)
(3.)
main points are :
Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.
Keep control of the advertisements.
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
DO 2,D.S.
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong
We are advised that this is a right, in the
to the author.
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or
withheld.
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.
o º-e
WARNINGS
TO
DRAMATIC
º-º-º
AUTHORS.
EWER 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 any one except an established
manager.
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays
in three or more acts:
This
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right.
An author who enters into
is unsatisfactory.
stipulate
contract
in
the
should
such a contract
for production of the piece by a certain date
of his name on the
and for proper publication
play-bills.
�TFIE AUTISIOR.
of
a
as
of is
in
of
or
in
a
in
on
in
of
to of
in
of
be
in
of
as
In
to
or
of
in
It of be
as
be
of
to
or
of
to
in
in
by
of
a
is
of
not only works
Works, and when
is
possible, under
The
technical and scientific works.
competence and experience.
The
of
Readers are ewriters
fee
one guinea.
fiction, but poetry
it
M
as of
a
includes
REMITTANCES.
The Secretary
t º-t
the Society begs
of
by
of
by
to
give notice
post.
remittances are acknowledged
return
All remittances should
crossed Union
London and
Bank, Chancery
Lane,
registered
Smiths
sent
letter only.
that
be
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.
MSS.
and dramatic
Special arrangement,
of
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.
BRANCH,
º-e
greatly assist the Society
this
informing young writers
branch
its work
its existence.
Their MSS. can be read and
composition
treated
treated by
coach.
The term
all
CENARIOS,
EMBERS will
&
AND
is
of
as as
it.
be
it
is
of
º-e
e
º-º-º
S
e
THE READING
º-e
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS
ORIGINAL PLAYS.
stamp copies
The Society undertakes
music on
part
behalf
its members for the fee
6d. per 100
stamps
kept
100.
The members'
are
the Society's
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the
Secretary, and the voucher
then forwarded
the
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.
is
e
MUSIC.
be
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.
º-e
of
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object
is to obtain adequate publication.
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
e
STAMPING
is
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.
can
added
the warnings given for the
producers
assistance
books and
dramatic
must, however,
pointed out that,
authors.
rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical
composer
transfer
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
deal with performing right and copyright.
He
especially careful therefore when entering into
should
agreement, and should take into particular consideration
the warnings stated above.
or
9. Agreements
for collaboration
should
be carefully
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.
ITTLE
COMPOSERS.
to
consideration.
º-e
MUSICAL
of
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
TO
a
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.
e
WARNINGS
to
is of great importance.
be
rights, but
6. Authors should not assign performing
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction
authors should seek the advice of the
before putting plays into the hands of
As the law stands at present, an agent
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a
perpetual
claim to a percentage
on the author's fees
plays
concerned,
from
As far
the placing
may
general rule that there are only
taken
very few agents who can do anything for an author
that he cannot, under the guidance
the Society, do
equally well
better for himself.
The collection
fees
many cases no intermediary
also
matter
which
required.
For certain purposes, such
the collection
general the trans
fees
amateur performances, and
frequent petty authorisations
action
with different
individuals, and also for the collection
foreign
fees
Countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and
ways
agents
these
the services
are real and valuable.
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess
managers
plays,
have influence with
the placing
principals by offering
purchase
who propose
act
any case,
the author's rights.
the present state
employed under any
the law, an agent should not
by the
circumstances without an agreement approved
Society.
Society
agents.
of
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and
time.
This is most important.
RAMATIC
AND AGENTs.
º-e
to
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum
paid in advance of such fees in any event.
It is extremely
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should
be reserved.
e
a
other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply
also in this case.
AUTHORS
an
(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
DRAMATIC
of
(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
play
date on or before which the
should be
performed.
245
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246
GENERAL NOTES.
Sleep then, our England's King, as one
Who knows the lofty aim and pure,
Beyond
din
battles won,
Must still endure.
HIS MAJESTY
KING
EDWARD
VII.
of
all
º-º-º
AUSTIN
DOBSON.
WE record, with great sorrow, the death of His
Majesty King Edward the Seventh.
Though some
time after the event, this is the first opportunity
we have had of expressing our sympathy with the
of
duty done
to
do
at
to
in
be
of
it
WE have once again
CASES.
express our appreciation
the courtesy
the Publishers
Associatoin
forwarding
the Copyright Cases for 1909,
byin
May yet, in slumber, memory keep
COPYRIGHT
to
;
Sleep then, O Dead beloved
and sleep
As one who, when his course is run,
Of
a
to
of of
as
a
in
Peace
of
An Age of
us
A
star of brotherhood, not Scorn,
morn of loosing and release,
fruitful time of oil and corn,--
A
of
A
of
in
-
-
no
;
of
is
captured guns or banners torn,
to
that circular have been
we hope this shows the
are taking
the work
interest that members
the Committee.
doubt, many members, not dramatic
There are,
authors, who have neglected
answer the circular,
and others, dramatic authors, who have thought
answer unnecessary.
760 answers have been
received
these 220 are from dramatic authors
whose plays have been publicly performed, and 40
from those who have written plays but have not
public performance.
had
The remainder
not
claim to rank as dramatic authors.
will add to the usefulness
the list in future
those who enter the ranks
dramatic authors
they produce
will acquaint the secretary
soon
play
enter into
contract for production.
Their names can then be enrolled on the Dramatic
Register, which
being kept
the office for the
purpose mentioned
the circular, viz., that
case
any important question
should
arise affecting
only,
may
possible
dramatic
authors
summon together that section
the society.
or
Of
Men hailed him as they hail a star
That comes with morn;
dramatic
authors
the society s
answers
the
in
office.
So
questions contained
very satisfactory,
and
a
Thus, though no trophies deck his car
in
be be
to
is
it
proposed
keep
far, the number
if
Rather he strove to heal again
The half-healed wound, to hide the scar,
To purge away the lingering stain
Of racial War.
which
will have received
list
an
Rather he strove to make an end
Of strife and pain.
the society
circular respecting
a
His was no blood-and-iron " blend
To write in tears a ruthless reign :
MEMBERS
DRAMATISTS.
It
He that was King an hour ago
Is King no more ; and we that bend
Beside the bier too surely know
We lose a Friend.
of
To
º-º-º
at
(Friday, May 20, 1910.)
(Printed with the permission of the Author, and the
Editor of the Times.)
to
to
it
*--msmas
as
MEMORIAM.
of
IN
of
a---
of
that
9.
to
of
appointed
on
also
DINNER.
OWING
the death
His Majesty King Edward
postpone the
the Seventh,
has been decided
Authors, which was
dinner
the Society
have taken place
June
The dinner will, most probably,
held
the
autumn, but formal notice will
sent round,
under the authority
the Committee, when the
date has been settled.
a
society s council,
was
distinguished
Order.
THE SOCIETY's
of
Royal Family.
We are glad to remember that one of the first
Members of the Order of Merit founded by His
Majesty was our late President,
Mr. George
Meredith, and that, among others, The Right
P.C., a member of the
Hon. James Bryce,
�THE AUTHOR.
of
to
of
or
in
of
:
of
a
of
on
of
of
a
on
as
copyright law.
of
in
v.
to
to
now writing
its
or
in
of
of
on
Amasis,
comments
the case
Scholz
and
draws attention
the obiter dicta of the Court
regard
dramatic infringement,
and makes
few
critical remarks
the other important
cases.
The cases themselves are carefully and clearly
summarised,
we should expect from one
the
on
of
In is
of
of
From the point
view
the man interested
Copyright this
one
the most useful productions
the year.
his introduction Mr. MacGillivray
best authorities
publishing houses were invited
principals
Every firm
repute was represented by
come.
members, except
one
more
one
two
instances, where letters
regret were received from
publishers who were unavoidably absent.
Most
the Well-known
names among booksellers also
appeared
the table plan, some
those present
halling from the Far North.
Altogether nearly
two hundred sat down a very comfortable number,
Which gave more elbow-room than was available
When less rigid limitations prevailed.
Although the presence
authors was confined
those who had received invitations from the
Circle, there was
members
the Publishers'
literature,
goodly and representative
array
Anthony Hope,
amongst which
one
noticed
W. W. Jacobs,
W. Mason, Dion Clayton
Calthrop, Douglas Sladen, Max Pemberton, Alfred
Noyes, and Prince Antomi Biberco.
number,
The guests
the committee were few
among them being our own chairman, Mr. Maurice
Hewlett, representing
the society; Dr.
Kenyon,
the British Museum
and Mr.
Bohlin, who came
the way from Stockholm
represent the publishers
the Continent.
Mr. George Wyndham, the guest
the evening,
eloquent
gave
the toast
Literature
speech,
and Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, our
ex-chairman, responded.
Then came Mr. Arthur
of
a book which is published
for private circulation to
of
MacGillivray,
to
J.
its
E.
by the Association
members.
247
J. G.
an
in of
*
of
of
to
all
;
K.
F.
in
of
of
a
of
in
of
of
Waugh publisher and man
letters the chair
vigorous speech, pro
man
the Circle, who,
posed the health
the Book Trade, coupling
J.
D.
a
a
of
publisher and
with the toast the names
book
seller. To this Mr. John Murray and Mr.
Knox,
Glasgow, responded,
All the speeches
by
of
more than usual interest.
That
Mr.
Knox met with special favour, especially from the
bookselling
section
of
were
his audience.
of
of
up
to
After dinner the company adjourned
another
room for further refreshment and conversation.
The latter was kept
till nearly midnight a
fact more eloquent
the success
the evening
than anything
can say.
was quite evident
It
we
at
in
to
we
of
in
of
the spectators
it
is
hoped
at
in
so
an
second Book Trade Dinner organised
the Publishers Circle, which took place
April 13, Was
even greater success
than the first one held eighteen months before.
many present, but the numbers
There were not
had been purposely kept down, and only the
if
HE
a
on by
º-º-º
In
CIRCLE Book TRADE
DINNER.
is
THE PUBLISHERS,
in
of
to
an
everyone thoroughly enjoyed himself and appre
ciated the efforts of the Publishers' Circle to
distinguished
provide
evening's pleasure
gathering
congenial
spirits.
For our own
part, We feel certain that these occasions, when
creator, producer, and distributor meet together
friendly and convivial concert, are all for the
good, and
trust the Circle will continue
Organise,
not every year,
least once
two.
years,
social function
this kind.
activity
fact, already there are signs
this direction, and before this number
issued
authors and publishers will have once more met,
friendly rivalry
Lord's, where
but this time
a
E.
P.
T.
of
B.
A.
E.
R.
;
;
of
of
of
H.
F.
F.
of
Trade); W. Temple-Franks,
C.B., K.C. (Board
Liddell, Esq. (Office
Esq. (Patent Office);
Counsel);
Parliamentary
W. Just, Esq.,
C.B., C.M.G. (Colonial Office); Algernon Law,
Esq., C.B. (Foreign Office); Sir Thomas Raleigh,
India),
K.C.S.I. (Member
the Council
Artillery Mansions, Victoria Street
The Honour
Fisher, Hotel Metropole
able Sydney
Ritchie, Esq., Hotel Metropole (Canada); The
Right Honourable
Aldworth,
Lord Tennyson,
(Australia);
Haslemere
The Honourable
Sir
Solomon, K.C.B., etc., 72, Victoria Street, S.W.
(South Africa); The Honourable W. Hall Jones,
13, Victoria Street, S.W. (New Zealand); The
Morris, K.C., Strand Palace
Honourable
Sir
Hotel, W.C. (Newfoundland).
Joint secretaries:
Keith, Esq. (Colonial Office),
W. Phillips.
Esq. (Board
Trade).
of
R.
G.
of
a
in of
of
in
THE Imperial Copyright Conference has just
giving
been sitting, and we have much pleasure
members, with the countries and offices
the list
they represent.
We sincerely hope that the deliberations
this
practical issue
conference may bring about
the
Right.
copyright
legislation :-The
matter
Sydney Buxton, M.P., Sir Hubert
Honourable
Llewellyn Smith, K.C.B.,
Askwith, Esq.,
E.
A.
IMPERIAL COPYRIGHT.
(notwithstanding Derby
�is
of
of
an
of
º-e
of
a
e
is
publishers.
essential fact that subject
artistic general
effect achieved
uncommon
treatment
subject-matter.
One important part
that
individuality
style arising from
achievement
self-confidence and from
varied intercourse with
society and affairs.
Experience
life has never
precisely the same effect
any two minds and
characters, and the business
every writer
employ his own impressions
life, not only with
out hesitation but with
the art
which
master.
this way alone
can arrive
new
subjects his
own subjects by
selection and
treatment
material belonging
the world.
totality
art,
Subject, then, being
effect
chauffeur and his parvenu employer's daughter"
may
used
one story with disastrous failure,
and
hundred others with complete success.
That depends
the handling
his chosen
theme.
But questions
this kind are too difficult
by
Day) will outnumber the players, and include lady
authors and the wives and daughters of their
an
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248
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at
in
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in
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to
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if
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of
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to
to
of
is
to
to
If
it
is
to
of
you cannot make use
baker
stories and
you accept them and keep them
articles why
yours;
you
The author has done his work,
way
and you have taken his work
business.
Yet you are paid regularly for your labours, while
has
wait for his money until you publish his
copy.
Suppose
say
cabinet-maker were
his
staff, Your work
not completed until
sell the
things you make for me, and
can t pay you
of
a
in
as
do
2
do
I
at
I
to
to
is
So
of
be bothered.
From first
last your article
full
absurdi
ties.
You claim that the magazine writer does
get his money when
due, i.e., when his work
published.
you forget
eat your meat and
bread,
you decline
pay your butcher and
a
is a
on
in
to
is is
of
by
a
of
us
Maga
war-chariots that astonished Julius Caesar.
zine editors will now lift
into the air with flying
men, and will claim for each
their stories
new
Subject, just because the chauffeur
land
dis
placed
motor-driver
the air. Mere varia
subject-matter
tions
the magazine editor
quite unaware
new subject.
He
the
wish
If
in
is
a
is
in
a
a
as
a
of
be
;
a
or
in
A
as
in
that was most dramatic
human character and
chauffeur, considered
man,
action.
no
way more interesting
story than
more useful
postboy
ancient Rome would
and
motor
car, considered
subject-matter,
detail
not
whit more attractive than one of those British
It
rifle-shooting
would take much interest
their
hits were never recorded
Contributors send you
sighting shots
find out the way
the wind,
and you decline
show your disks.
You don't
to
he
an
to
in
he
to
inability
distinguish between novel subject
matter and novel subjects.
Goethe said that the first new subject-matter
passed from plate
did not exist; and when
plate
illustrated Shakespeare,
added
that this one poet had discovered and made real all
do
all
an is,
If
story, returned the MS. with the usual printed
Why
gave
rejection.
form.
reasons
Because, my good sir,
should
asks.
has
been your privilege
read
excellent story, and
editors should be courteous
contributors.
bad, accepted
yourself, that
with stories, good
your magazine grows rich
poor; the writers
Whom you send printed slips cannot know what
you think
their work; and this throws
chill
their courage.
Do you suppose that soldiers
2
he, in the
preceding week, accept an inferior story on a theme
not particularly novel ?
Did he suppose that his
reading public would not like two versions of the
so, can he explain why
same subject-matter
2
the British people are loyal
to old ideas in
popular amusements 2
The public, unlike that
hurried editor, can appreciate many yarns on the
just as it can like and trust
same subject-matter,
many politicians in the same party.
But there
unfortunately,
among
magazine editors,
to
Here is an
on a theme
on
an excellent story
not particularly novel ; but why did
is
a tale told by a schoolboy.
editor who refuses
a
But when an indiscreet man enters the con
fessional
his own accord and for the sake
his
peace
mind,
pass from one transsure
gression
say
another
has many things
against himself, and they
come out.
That
editor, for instance, having refused
excellent
of
I?
popular magazines. They refuse
excellent story because they have already accepted
one On the same lines, not
well written,
and
therefore inferior.
for editors
of
I
I
a
I
in
the May number of this magazine an editor
gave away his profession by writing without
thought and judgment on the present subject.
His editorial experience of eighteen years has
not taught him to think clearly.
Last week, he
rejected an excellent story
ventures to confess,
dealing with a high-born chauffeur who won the
heart of his parvenu employer's daughter.
The
theme is not particularly novel if only themes for
novels were novel themes, how happy the lot of the
poor editor
but the story was a good one.
refused it because only the preceding week
had
accepted a story, not quite so well written, on the
same lines.
The MS. went back with the usual
printed form ; I gave no reasons for rejection.
N
Why should
It is like
of
all
EDITOR.
he
I
BY ANOTHER
is
of
on
THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.
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a
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its
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up ;
on
so
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at a
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of
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at
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on
in
all
of
in
to
is
it
of
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be
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in
if
of
It
be
an
of
of
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of in
by
by
so
of
be
by
he
of
Why
the name
that
businesslike should
editor acknowledge the
receipt
contributions
would
sheer waste
time and
the proprietor's stamps.
Even
the precious MS. has been lost
the post, what
has that to do with the editor
There appear
two reasons why editors
should acknowledge
the receipt
MSS. The
courteous, and the second
first because
because
businesslike.
No one desires
hold
editor responsible for MSS. lost
the postal
authorities, but for MSS. lost
his neglect
his
spite
office
must
held responsible,
the
many editors are fond
disclaimers which
publishing
their papers.
The writer asks:
in
a
to
it
a
a
A
:
a
to
make some remarks on the article
the last issue of The Author entitled
The
Editorial Attitude.
Several members of the
society have written
the subject, and with
pleasure we print
article
editor.
There
multiply examples, but we thank those
need
for writing
the subject.
Our correspondents
pick out the same
points, and deal with the
very much the same lines,
editorial attitude
sometimes with more sometimes with less vigour.
it
is
is
in
is
of
II.
WE desire
he
of
if
;
in
by
is
a
to
as
by
to
of on
in
of
to
in do
of
to be
a
of
in
a
just spirit, have
writers, with
related their own personal experiences
The
Author. By this means
defensive temper
encouraged among them, not
unionism
will
many conductors
magazines;
without benefit
improve
but there are editors who
not wish
anger against truth
their routine, and cry out
telling. One
them, for example,
that article
The Editorial Attitude, complains bitterly
the continual unjust and ignorant diatribes
of those who wish
have their contributions
accepted
editors, and who use The Author
vent
their disappointment.
Talk
this
kind
childish
for
the copy published month
month
our magazines really
the best that
editors can choose and the public will accept, then
Great Britain and her authors are
decadent
plight. But the truth
that magazine conductors
despise the public and fear those very qualities
that give distinction and personality
the work
Many excellent things are rejected
writers.
only because the British people are scorned
editors.
little time ago
friend
mine pub
hit, and
charming story that made
lished
Well,
said
me
went the round
all the
popular magazines.
None would take it.
Just
I
scoffed
the History
the French Revolution
Styx
Are they lingering
the wrong side
Oh, brother editors,
careful and
wise
your
modesty
very fallible
Your judgment
very deadening
you cannot afford
routine
contempt for the youth
advertise
new effort
pleading
your doors.
is
of
all ;
in
is
to
and
think
editors.
Some young
the fine arts.
The
must
treated with fairness
properly
the duty
be
generation
of
it
young
That
common experience
and
accounts
for the fact that writers
known name, unless
they are
urgent need
money, decline
write
approval for the magazines.
There are too many authors, we are told, and
many
them would
better
French gardening
or paper-making.
Editors and publishers had
Carlyle when
very similar opinion
tried
find market for The French Revolution.
1832;
fear Carlyle will not do, Jeffrey wrote
you
that
not take the liberties and the
did,
striking out freely,
pains with him that
occasionally.
and writing
Think
that
the previous year Carlyle wrote
Mr. Napier,
Jeffrey's successor
perplexities
All manner
my poor book,
have occurred
the publishing
which perplexities
could only cut asunder, not
unhappy ghost still
unloose
the MS. like
lingers
Styx.
the wrong side
have
hawking my little manu
given
the motion
Script book about any further for
long time
drawer, waiting for
has lain quiet
better
day.
And where now are the business men who
of
hunting after new-comers
249
an
by
it
as
in
it no
a
of
an ;
a
to
of
I
a
it,
present ; your wages are not yet due.
This wild
argument would breed a revolution
if it were
enforced in any business except that of the literary
life. All the trade unions would go on strike, and
every newspaper in the kingdom would be on their
side.
It is astonishing that an editor with an experi
ence of eighteen years should be unable to speak
of his contributors
without showing a routine
of injustice.
After all, the indiscretions run on, the
editor is more useful to the author than the latter
is to the former.
Indeed .
Unless editors fill
their magazines with their own copy, they must
needs be dependent on paid contributors;
and
to equal the contributors an editor must write as
well as they do.
An editor could always fill his journal by
commissioning
writers of proved merit,
we are
told ; and he could fill a cup by pouring tea into
daresay.
The unknown writer gets chance
with magazine editors only because the writers
proved merit
are able
ask terms that upset
balance sheet, annoying the proprietors.
More
over, the public has
dislike for new recruits
magazine literature
welcomes them,
does
good acting from
understudy.
One magazine
to-day has earned
world-wide reputation
SO.
TFIE AUTHOR.
�THE AUTHOR.
do to
of
in
to
in
to
to
a
to
It
is
to
:
a
by
in
or
a
of
That, believe me, would not prevent certain theatrical
money
managers from buying outright for nominal sum
play
an unknown author who was either too eager for
production
too hard pressed for cash. Of my own certain
a a
of to
a
to
is
of
a
is
as
of
as
is
to
as
to
It
of
in
of
at
of
a
I
of
knowledge,
which
more cases than one
can speak
song, and not
play has been acquired for the price
that, for the manager has sometimes
very popular song
royalties for American rights lump
received on account
ten times the full amount paid
advance
sum down
prevent this sort
the author for all his rights.
thing and
obtain fair and honest treatment for the
protect himself,
struggling dramatist who
not able
for the successful authors, whose interests, and the
well
the calling, want constantly looking
common interests
Society
Dramatic
this that
for such work
after it
Authors should be established.
;
of
a
;
of
of
its
In
this short paragraph we get the whole tragedy
authorship with
three stereotyped characters.
First, the young writer with ideas, who, after doing
next, the
money
good work, has urgent need
rare appetite for young
business shark, who has
that type and third, the unpractical critic
men
of
in
its
to
In
a
of
killing the shark.
visionary means
armed with
revenge,
this case the justice, swooping
Society
Dramatic Authors at present
variance with the Society
dreamland yet already
says:
Authors, concerning which Carados
at
of
of
I
of
believe, has
Authors,
recent years
The Society
usefulness with particular reference
extended its sphere
am
has accomplished
But what
dramatic authors.
do not know.
sure
I
it
was his business
to
it
I
Yet,
learn before he ventured
to
of
a
in
of
praise
But unprac
rival society.
write
forget that unity
tical critics are always apt
of
of
of
by
is
it
essential, and that
cannot
action among authors
dividing workmen into small divisions.
got
several little agencies
The separated efforts
the
self-defence can never equal the total power
pur
Great Britain acting together for
writers
pose
them all.
once common and necessary
work and wages
We have had one great writer
the late Professor Thorold Rogers, and
refer
a
to
;
on
I
to
I
Wage
him that
against
as
to
as
the long war which labour has
capital and privilege the principle
in
was
to
It
in
his books were known
wish that many facts
us
clear
would then be
all authors.
to
© sº
it to
attitude.
G. H. T.
with
have nothing
dramatic authors
given manager.
worth while
What then
say
the Referee has
Carados
see what
that question
answer
at
the editorial
the Referee published some
recent number
remarks on the treatment that writers and
their ideas often receive from playhouse
Suppose our society were
managers.
advise
of
to
some extent been dealt
one, but we desire
add
of
in
all
acceptance.
These points have
article number
with
this further experience
to
We have known some of the most important
British reviews hold over articles for two, three,
We cannot
or even four years before publication.
emphasise too strongly that it is important,
as
to pay for all articles on
well as businesslike,
II.
a
The final point to which attention should be
In discussing this
drawn is the money question.
The
matter the editor seems to be utterly wrong.
editor remarks that the money is only due when
It would be much better
the work is published.
if contracts for literary work provided for payment
It would be better for the maga
on acceptance.
zine, it would simplify the business of the office,
and would prevent many disagreeable disputes.
We should like to point out that legally the money
is due when the work is accepted. If a writer
cares to wait till publication for payment then a
new term is added to the contract, and not a
customary term.
An Editor '' Scouts the idea
that authors have to wait for years. From long
experience at the office of the society we assert
that the matter is one of constant occurrence.
BY CRUSADER.
is
between
0-Q-e
of
arise
AND HOW TO PROTECT THEM.
to
methods that so many disputes
editors and contributors.
IDEAS,
to
Indeed, the editorial position of trust is very
closely connected with another question which is
put forward in the same article.
We quote the
After all, the editor is more
writer's words:
useful to the author than the latter is to the
An editor can always fill his journal by
former.
commissioning writers of proved merit.
This statement is entirely contrary to fact and
The editor, from his position, invites
to custom.
The reason that
contributions from all authors.
he does not commission articles from writers of
proved merit is self-evident.
Writers of proved
merit demand large fees which the editor, desiring
to run his magazine as cheaply as possible, is
indisposed to pay.
In consequence, although the
editor may order an article from a writer of proved
merit with the object of drawing a certain public,
It
no editor fills his magazine with such articles.
necessary to repeat that, as a
seems, therefore,
matter of courtesy no less than as a matter of
business, editors should acknowledge the receipt
of MSS. It is because of this lack of business
be
250
�TFIE AUTISIOR.
was when Shakespeare
But since the
Venus and Adonis.
be
to
is
A
2
a
itsin
it
in
as
of
so
is
of
a a
to
in
is
it
is
of
to of a
of
an
a
a
on
is a it
in a
to
it
of
it
or
a
in
be
be
a be
It
of
a
of
it
is
of
or
so
of
be
to
as
of
is
or
a
It
so
a
or
by
is
by
be
a
a
in
at
of
a
an
as
an
a
an
it
of
its
it
true now
as
it
his
as
is
That
wrote
it
to is
a a
of of
of be
of
by
by
to
all
to
tales which bear the names
the most popular
authors
the day, simply and solely because
the
big revenue
draws from advertisers.
Whereas
the ordinary novel represents or should represent
merits, the Ordinary
literature marketed upon
of
:
do
if
of
in
be
as
is a
a
to
by
*
is
trodden on by many,
Yet there are writers on literature who fail to
understand these quite simple and evident matters
Birmingham
common sense. Not long ago,
paper,
came upon
article from which
short
quotation
may
given here
example
wrongheaded leadership
advantage with
The magazine competes
the ordinary novel for the simple but very powerful
reason that
offers the purchaser
vast deal more
that, and
for his money.
can
can provide
It
º:
in in
is a
a
to
us
we
misery
And being low never relieved by any.
sweated.
it
a
in
is
of
;
of
For
by
a
by
be
;
of
a
of
so
as
by
done
authors and maintained
authors.
Yet
we are offered lower prices for Our Work, and
need compels
ask for payment
advance
publication,
may invite other aggressions
of
of
of
a
to
difficult
form
fair working estimate
the
standing
financial
each periodical, because
good many data invite public attention.
Consider
these, for instance;
judged to-day
(a) The circulation may
the
number
advertisements
big revenue;
(b) Many advertisements mean
(c) The capital used during the first three
year
months
re-used
the other quarters
also,
that, when once
magazine has won
comparison
success, the financial outlay
small
gathering profits
with its means
four turn
overs per annum
magazine win such circula
(d) And how does
accept
tion
advertisers are willing
guarantee
business
This essential work
I
it
is
in
go
is
be
of
In
in
us
of let
unity of action.
Injustice to one author must be
followed by a revolt of all his fellows.
But in what way is this revolt to take place 2
Given the esprit de corps of trade unionists, there
would be no difficulty in finding effective ways.
For example,
take the present fall
magazine rates
payment.
the case
Some
magazines this cannot
helped, because their
small, and, consequently, they don t
circulation
attract advertisers;
but
other cases the prices
paid for copy should
up, not down.
Nor
of
I
I
I
of
Unfortunately, there's no end to the caution that
comes to most authors after undue submission has
invited further aggression. Legal action is shirked
at the last moment, lowered prices are accepted
without a struggle, and the excuse always is the
same,
can t fight alone.
Publishers and editors
would make a dead set against me, and
should
be ruined.
While this fear exists there will be no
1.
I
2.
cause of much disunity of action whenever the
massed discipline
of practical warfare becomes
necessary.
have seen colliers and their families
strike for weeks because their wages had been
lowered by five per cent. ; they fought and suffered
like good soldiers.
Would that the same spirit
were in vogue among writers
position
magazine
financial
not obscure,
magazine
and since the duty
its contribu
tors should
insisted upon, how
that the
rank and file
authors allow their prices
wealthy companies
cut down
frank and
fearless trade unionism would soon find out even
year by
the actual cost
the copy published
each periodical, for
would call upon
members
state confidentially what they received for their
stories, and articles, and serials.
These data,
arranged year
year
tables and made known
authors, would put each magazine under
grasping com
discipline and cool the ardour
nothing
panies.
powerful
There
detailed
facts carefully tabulated.
private
Recently
my knowledge,
came
profit
way, that
certain magazine had earned
£20,000
year.
This profit
worth noting
equals
because
income
40 per cent.
year
capital
£50,000, and this amount
capital
great deal more than
needed
popular magazine through the quarterly
run
may
doubted,
turnover
the same money.
think, whether any magazine uses
working
capital
£12,000, and when
happens
launching
successful from the first, the cost
may
paid off
year
two, and the profits
working capital.
the next year taken
But
keep constantly
the points which authors have
before their minds are these :
That very large fortunes can
made out
their work when business speculators collect their
working capital out
profits and
free their
own capital for the starting
another paper
periodical.
However great the success may be,
won
published
and maintained
those whose copy
month,
they
month
week
week.
weekly
who attract the public and turn
monthly into
good field for advertisers,
that
just
payment for contributors should
the rate
and businesslike, not starved, and pinched, and
of
of trade unionism must be extended so as to
embrace every kind of work, asking us to achieve
the solution of our problems by being loyal to the
simple motto
Each for all, all for each.
That is the ideal. But authors, like artists, as
Coleridge said, are androgynous by nature, and
this mixture of female qualities with male is the
251
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to
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is
us
as
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in to
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to
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to
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It
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to
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to
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a
a
he
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a
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is
to
a
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to
to
is
it
do
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is
is
if
all
as
to
be
a
on
a
of
in
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of
to
is,
to
it
of
to
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be or
or
or
by
to
be
a
.
its
of
a
as
a
as
is
it
is
it
it
is is
see the care with which the
prepare itself for the gradual
disappearance
those authors who have already
attained some little literary fame,
who are
popular favourites to-day
Why should such
men disappear more rapidly than
able lawyers,
barristers,
doctors,
magazine publishers
given
Whatever answer may
that question
magazine writers,
the experience
evident
that contributors have reason
rebel en masse
against
many grievances -that
they wish
their ideas
be treated with businesslike fairness
and without harmful delays.
Let them act together
with full knowledge
the fact that they are the
principal agents
success
trade enterprises
connected with their work; and let them ask with
regulating
one voice for such
their position
will put their efforts
firm business footing.
Consider several points:
Every magazine should
asked
advertise
minumum rate per thousand words.
pay for
All magazines should
asked
copy within
acceptance.
month
This
would prevent editors from buying too much, and
would stop authors from trusting
market which
holds purchased work indefinitely and yet declines
pay for
when contributors
need money for
demoralising
their daily bread.
Casual work
paid for
regularly
even when
labourer's
wage; but, under the present system
payment
of
he
is
so
it.
A quite wonderful amount of courteous diplomacy
is spent day by day on efforts to soothe the whims
of advertisers, while contributors are told bluntly
that they must mind their p s and q s.
Sometimes
they are warned that rejected copy is not returned;
in haughty tones they are ordered to have their
work typewritten, and to send stamped and
addressed envelopes ; and every now and again
some magazine publisher, falling from his lofty
self-assurance, pleads for support from budding
amateurs.
Then his tone becomes as follows:
The first month of a new year is a favourable
opportunity
for reviewing the changes that con
tinually are taking place around us. The old
year's course is soon run, and a new one comes to
supplant
As with the years,
with writers
the man who
famous to-day
almost for
gotten to-morrow, while
whose work first comes
humiliating
public
asked
1.
If
a
If
before the public gaze to-day
the man who will
most appreciated
few years hence.
say
The new writer has often been heard
displaying his
that
never given
chance
powers.
wish
once
refute that statement.
Why should we decry the young and unknown
long
writer?
has any ability
will not
before
has ousted from position
rival whose
name and fame are world-wide.
We all have to
make
start somewhere, and
can assure you that
editors are much better pleased
discover
man
genius than continually
fill their periodicals
with the work
those who have already attained
hard, perhaps, for
some little literary fame.
to-day
the popular favourite
realise that to
supplanted
another, and that
morrow
will
will
classed among the old ; but, after all,
that
the way
the world, and for most
the
day comes night far too soon.
I, myself, have firm belief
the proverb
good fish
There are
the sea
ever came
it, and
out
has always been my aim
angle for and catch those fish that are still
the sea.
Fish, indeed
At what minimum rate per lb.
We are never told.
Such outcries for new writers
promise
pay
are never accompanied
definite sum per thou. for accepted copy. And how
2.
magazine which specialises in fiction represents litera
łure subsidised out of the profits of commerce.
The
magazine publisher is a shrewd practitioner of the
bounty system.
Was there ever in this world such nonsense 2
And why is it that critics of books like to write of
practical matters a long way outside their experience
and knowledge P. In that quotation we are told
that magazine writers are subsidised " out of the
profits of advertisements, and that magazine pub
lishers practise the bounty system | What next,
please ?
If that forlorn critic, an outsider in
practical publishing, were to try to set on foot a
new magazine, he would soon write in a very
different way.
After appealing
for support to
advertisers, he would learn that tradesmen before
they advertise want to know what circulation their
self praise will have.
Is your magazine popular?
they ask.
How many copies are sold month by
month, and are the sales rising or falling 2 º
And
these questions mean :
Is your literary matter
accepted by the public P
so, to what extent 2
People don t buy magazines
because of their
advertisements, but read an uncertain percentage
of advertisements because they are bound up with
an appealing kind of literature that they wish to
have every month, or week, or fortnight.
there is any subsidising at all in this affair of busi
ness it is the contributor who, by his continued
success
in pleasing
the public, subsidises
the
advertiser who cannot win for himself, however
skilfully his self-praise may be written, a large
public ever willing to buy announcements of trade
speculations.
Magazine
publishers
and
their
advertisers are clearly and inevitably dependent
on the literary contributors.
Yet it is always the
contributors
who are treated as if they were Dr.
Johnsons waiting for a charitable and long-delayed
patronage from a very protean
type of Lord
Chesterfield.
to
TISIES
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can
These are questions for
Consider with the greatest care.
BY W. HAROLD THOMSON.
0-DAY,
so
all to
to
a
is
of
;
of
up
all
is
as
to a
to
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of
a as
or
be
by
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be
to
he
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to
a
of
do
!
to
a
he
is
of
in
2
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a
of
in
;
as
he
to
if
he
is
as
as
he
is
a
of
as
he
is
to
a
it
he
as
as
as
he is
in
an :
go
it
to
at
all
at
to
to
is
go
be
by
at
;
a
high collar
neat clothes and
office
every day
ten and come back every night
six, and you will
everyone who
belauded
taking
knows you,
hard worker a man who
proper part
life. On the other hand,
your desk
your own house, work
day
ten
and perhaps half the night
the evolving and
writing
stories;
this day after day and
do
of
as a
as
but scribble those silly stories and things.
To the young author experienced authors are
impervious
all one might well say Wear
as
a
is
It
on
to
it a
fit
it
in
Is
by
to
in
all
4. Not less important is that type of publishing
firm which is not known as a limited company,
though it has many partners and is sometimes
driven to borrow money from
backers.
There
is a real danger in firms of this class. Many
partners add enormously to the working expenses,
and in times of financial stress unpleasant things
may happen, not
without harm to authors.
Expensive books may be remaindered
before
they have had a chance to become known ;
Suggested ideas and schemes may be stolen in
order to give work to a permanent staff; and
slow selling books may be neglected, the money
which ought to be spent on their advertisements
being used for those books which the public is
eager to purchase.
In brief, a publishing house
with many partners, looked at from a standpoint
of business, deserves to be considered as a company
with limited liabilities, and also with many share
holders as represented by authors, each of whom
has invested a book, the result of much work and
expense spread over a good many months.
And
this being so,
what way are the authors
important that they
defend their interests
year how that publishing
should know year
financially.
house with many partners
stands
position
launch books with energy,
or does
treat books as tobacconists treat ounces
oftobacco, reaping aprofit
year
the gross sales
they
and turning over the same capital
often
it
gether erroneous idea that
writers are slothful,
not only existing but flourishing prodigiously.
suppose that
members
the artistic pro
hope
being
fessions have long since given
understood, save
fellow-craftsmen
but that this
should
seems not only strange but unreason
able.
By the average person the author
the artist
shirker ;
species
still regarded
man
hobby which
pleased
style
who has found
work, and who, even
his hobby, will give
just
Now,
conveniently can.
little time
admitted that
man does best that work which
likes best, and the young writer
inclined
feel aggrieved when
finds that acquaintances
nothing more
pooh-pooh his literary labours
play.
strenuous than
mild form
The young writer, however, does not take very
long if
ought
sensible
be to
crush out of life the sensitiveness which these
criticisms can stir into being.
He recognises that,
otherwise than
gloom-stricken and self-dissatisfied,
must treat
these criticisms lightly must pass them over
babblings having their birth
ignorance allied
very often with
lack
culture.
artist,
The farm labourer who said cheerily
day's work
Work Lor' bless ye,
never did
yer life, finds his counterpart
the knowing
But, my
lady who, speaking
some writer, says,
dear,
making such
mess
his life you
anything
know
He absolutely refuses
a
matter authors are not considered at all, though
their work is invested annually in many companies.
We never know the profits on any particular weekly
or monthly when those companies have each a good
many periodicals ; and yet the rates of payment
which authors are justified in claiming depend on
the profits which their published
work yields.
Moreover, when a company owning many periodicals
declares only the total net profit on its business as
a whole, how are authors to know which maga
Zine or paper is unlucky, and therefore a bad
market 2
many intimate details
when
the
Writer's work and life are laid bare thanks
mainly
interviews and the cunning puff
little disconcerting
find the old and alto
of
-
periodicals.
3. Further, certain companies are compelled by
law to publish their financial position year by year
as a guide to shareholders.
But in this important
AUTHORSHIP.
in
three months and meet his own just debts week by
week.
There is something hopelessly wrong in the
unionism of literary workers when they fail to gain
same business control over the financial methods of
be
THE REPROACH OF
have to wait at least another
in
would
continued.)
a --&w &
y
w
so
the author
(To
society
our
to
there is something
at
after publication,
*.
till
horrible in the warfare of literary life. A friend of
mine had recently to ask for money on an article
accepted a year ago; the editor himself was quite
Willing, but he had to consult the directors of a
company, and they refused.
Let the article be
published first, was their decision, forgetting that
of
deferred
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or an
of
of
of of
of
in
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in
on an
of of
an
5
6,
to
of
in
of
on
an
of
of
to of
of
of
pretium 13/4, fetched £30.
Sotheby's sale, December 13 17,
the library
Mr. W. Wheeler Smith,
New York, included
thirty-seven different editions
collection
The
Death, ranging
Dance
date from 1649
1889.
Thirteen
these were Holbeins. The Sale was
very choice collections
also particularly rich
sixteenth and seventeenth century French books,
:
Vol. XXIV.,
Nos.
and
3.
*
Book Prices Current,
Elliot Stock.
London
2
in
of
of
in
of
a
to
in
XXIV.
(£56), and
illuminated
Pontificale Gallo
Romanum,
French, 15th cent.,
vellum (£45).
3acon's copy
Concordantiae Bibliorum, Paris,
1600, with his autograph,
Francis Bacon's Book,
at
or
no
is
or
Vol.
have reached us.
Sotheby's
sale
The former concludes
November 29, 30, 1909, and contains records
subsequent sales
that
the 7th and following
days
February, 1910, partly recorded
this
number, and concluded
the third number, which
records subsequent sales down
that
Puttick
Simpson, March
Sotheby's sale,
and
1910.
9 10, 1909, offered
interesting
December
MSS., among which were particularly
collection
deserving
illuminated,
remark
Biblia Sacra
Hebraica, written
Damascus, 1496
wellum
&
is
it.
is
second and third parts
Prices Current
Book
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a of
of
in
a
to
of
of
of
is
;
to
in
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of
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BOOK PRICES CURRENT.
a
is
an
a
of
in
is
be
is
is
in
to
e
of
in
he
is
or
to
state
affairs that writing
to-day has become
business, and that the man
who can conduct this business properly
more
uncertain
his next meal than
the lawyer
the doctor but though they will listen they will
not recant their opinions.
They know so they say that authors are lazy,
because they have frequently seen So-and-So out
walking
present
the middle
the day,
some afternoon party; they know also that the
story-teller's profession
the most precarious
as
to
to to
in
often
It
be
is
to
explain the true
a
in to
a
I
is
grossly misunderstood
and that
the many reasons why
should have
complete confidence
his own powers, and
enthusiasm for the work which he has chosen,
perhaps one should say, the work which has chosen
him.
and
just one
do
;
an
is
or
going
never certain where his next meal
depends whether these good
come from.
critics have been reading puffs about popular
writers
lurid articles about
Grub Street that
thing
has become
the past.
Moreover, such folk, having once taken up
They will
certain attitude, refuse
abandon
listen
those members
the literary craft who
are patient enough and well meaning enough
who
do
I
In
to
must
to
or or
admitted a little sorrowfully
that the author
but seldom understood,
be
at a
is
a
to
or
to
think
of
of
in
of
a
to
to
to
to
It
literary
women outside the artistic
writing
refuse
admit that painting
work.
Of course staff men are not subject
may
this criticism they are in
office.
well
that they
less work than their free-lance
may well be, too, that they are making
brethren.
steady employment ;
less money, but they are
they are
receipt
stated salary.
Those who give their views regarding the lives
which writers lead and the incomes which they
earn are, for the most part, entirely ignorant
the
They are either decided
subject.
their own
lazy but prosperous
minds that the author
paid fabulous sums for his books,
individual who
that
ill-fed and poorly-clothed creature
men
circles,
many are thus engaged, who would
well advised
pen
word, save for their own entertain
never
ment.
refer
the capable writer who goes
about the work
business-like spirit
knows
what the public want, and sets about meeting that
good
want.
The writer who wishes
make
income
no less business-like
his method than
any other professional man, and
content
hunt
for fame in his leisure hours.
It
it
is
all
a of
as
in
he
an
indulgent smile and
playful rebuke
the best
something Serious to get
turn his attention
some work
do.
seems
have become almost
creed with
the world have they not been repeatedly told
Probably they have
And the fact that their
informants
were persons totally ignorant
the
important.
matter does not seem
strike them
referring
thus
the author's financial
returns
not mean
infer that every man
writing stories to-day
woman engaged
meet
ing with prosperity that
not possible when
is
is
on
It
;
or
all
I
on
month after month, and you will still be dubbed
lazy by those who have not intimate knowledge of
your craft.
do not contend, of course, that all authors do
day
every day.
work
inevitable
that there must be occasions on which the fount of
dry
thought runs temporarily
days
which
creative work seems impossible.
But the writing
man who loves his work will stay from
no
longer than
must.
The successful novelists, the authors whose
names are for ever
bold type and are spoken
every day, are accorded,
but natural, the
plaudits
respectful
who know
them.
They publish perhaps
couple
novels per year,
and the ladies who keep the libraries
life make
comment upon their energy and diligence.
But for the writer who has not yet achieved
great" ones there
place among the
given
so
THE AUTHOR.
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to
in
so
by
a
a
of
of
of
of
as
in
he
be
a
as
byof of
or
of
of
of
to
if
a
of
of
to
of to
of
to
of
bygo
of by
to
in
of
as
of
as
by
is
as
to
In
to
so
of
it
in
of
to
of
it
all
be
of
an
of
at
of
T.
H. :
Knebworth
First Baron Lytton
by
Personal, and Political Monograph,
Routledge.
7s. 6d. met.
Edward Bulwer,
Social,
Escott,
and Matri
and only Sons.
Authorship
Mothers
S. a
materials for essays
Marriage,
and
mony
of
A
of
at
on
a
of
A of
of
at
on
by
of
an
points
resemblance between
difference and
author then and
the authorship and the life
His boyhood, his opportunities for educa
now.
college would hardly
school and
tion
his position pre
the modern youths
envied
literary career.
paring for
His love affairs and
his marriage with Rosina. Wheeler did not quite
follow the limes along which modern families pursue
their more easy-going ways, but they afford ample
a
of
to
of
of
;
of
to
in
fully informed.
the following lots
The prices
furnish authors with matter for pain
are likely
Blake,
Sketches'
Poetical
ful reflections.
fly-leaves
(original edition, 1783, containing
Blake, and with various
three songs
MSS.
the
MSS. alterations, previously disposed
working cabinet
Blake's
Heber sale), £11.
mahogany, £30 10s.
Burns' bureau, £600.
Dickens,
formerly
desk,
the property
and
stool
The highest
fetched £10 and £13 respectively.
copy, not quite
price paid for any book was for
Homerus, Omnia
perfect,
the Editio Princeps,
Opera, grace, Florence, 1488, £254 a good deal
presen
less than was given for Burns bureau.
Morris, The Story
the Glittering
ſtation copy
Plain,
the Kelmscott
the first book issued
inscription
Press, with
To Kate Faulkner
fetched
from William Morris, 30th May, 1891,
£17. Authors should remark how enormously the
of of or
a
of
of is
of
It at
to
as
be
us
We much regret that
collection.
miscellaneous
length with this
space does not permit
deal
particularly interesting sale.
those
one
typical
the extremely
taken
which might
interesting
the records
and valuable nature
which we
Book Prices Current,
contained
must refer those of our readers who would be more
of
an
E.
by
to
a
of
in
kind were offered
23, 1910)
his
turn
those who will have
bered
biography
the incidents
remind themselves
Colonial affairs,
his administration
birth and natural gifts
the circumstances
in
welcome
which would have insured him
necessity
drawing-rooms,
ambition
and
London
lead him further. Mr. Escott
had not combined
his
was personally acquainted with the subject
being able
biography, and has had the advantage
Lord Carnarvon,
draw upon the recollections
Under-Secretary for the Colonies, had an
who,
public
his chief
intimate personal knowledge
private
able
been
thus
has
He
affairs.
and
beyond the materials already made public
Lady Betty Balfour and others, including those
the novelist
his own life interwoven
records
introducing
The literary habit
his romances.
the author and his friends
the personal history
may not have been peculiar
the Victorian age,
Lytton,
prevailed
the days
but surely
Thackeray, Dickens and Disraeli
never will
events, writers
again
their eminence,
literary, will hesitate
make use quite
social
freely
the
their hands.
the material nearest
Bulwer-Lytton and his work
story
told
much food for reflection on the
Mr. Escott there
at
by
of
of
a
of
by
a
of
to
of
Bocket Diary fetched £38.
very attractive
Many lots
Sotheby's sale (March 21
distinguished
life-story
author and
letters, written
well
writer
man
qualified
Mr. Escott, should attract all who
the early part
the literary life
are interested
The parts which the first
the nineteenth century.
Lord Lytton played upon the social and political
stages
his day were not small ones, but
remem
will
romances and plays
writer
HE
to
I.,
The
3rd edit.)
A first edition (Vol.
presen
the Roman Empire,
Decline and Fall
Sheffield with
the Earl
tation copy
Gibbon, As memorial
autograph inscription
friendship and esteem the six volumes
this
history are presented
the Right Honourable
Gibbon,
the Author,
John Lord Sheffield
Four volumes of Gibbon s
was sold for £60.
Current.
LIFE OF BULWER-LYTTON.3,
in
which forty-four dealt with London, was a lead
ing feature of Puttick & Simpson's sale of the
library of Mr. R. Hovenden.
On March 1 and 2 Sotheby disposed of the
stemaining portion of the library of the late Earl of
Sheffield, the sales of the former portions of which
Book Prices
are recorded in Vol. XXII. of
of
Q-0
t-º-º
*
published at sixpence.
4
This was sold for £50. The proof sheets of the
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author of John Inglesant.
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LITTÉRAIRE ET ARTISTIQUE.
Le
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mai, 1910.
to
as
a
in
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a
of
to
we
la
et
in
inserting the letter
(We have much pleäsure
received from the Bureau Internationale de l'Union
pour
protection des CEuvres littéraires
artis
tiques.
We regret that any mistake should have
arisen, but
omitted
read the earlier numbers
the Le Droit d'Auteur
which the secretary refers.
pity, however, that when the action
seems
other countries was summarised, that
Great
Britain should not have been included
Sum
mary form
the same article.
We have nothing
rule, for the excellent work carried
but praise,
out
the Bureau Internationale.)
by
MONSIEUR, Nous avons constaté avec satis
faction que le no 8 du 2 mai de votre importante
revue The Author reproduit en traduction (pp. 229
et
230) l'article du Droit d'Auteur consacré à
la Conférence de Berlin (Préparation de la ratifica
tion de la Convention de Berne revisée).
Manifes
tations diverses des intéressés et paru dans le
numéro du 15 avril, 1910 (pp. 55 et 60).
Toutefois, nous avons été fort surpris de lire
dans l'introduction qui précède notre article, la
phrase suivante : * En ce qui concerne le Royaume
Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande, Le Droit
MORE,
BERNE, LE
It
COPYRIGHT.
Directeur
G.
CORRESPONDENCE.
INTERNATIONAL
la
à
et
à
ce
de à
il
de
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:
e
Vous nous obligeriez donc beaucoup
voulant
bien rectifier dans votre prochain numéro
note
ci-dessus mentionnée, qui contient évidemment une
erreur, car
nous serait sensible d'encourir auprès
reproche d'avoir
des gens
lettres anglais
négligé
degré leurs intérêts
un
leurs
désiderata.
Veuillez agréer, Monsieur, l'assurance
notre
considération distinguée.
BUREAU DE L'UNION INTERNATIONALE
de
Is it a greater feat to have Written
* The Last Days of Pompeii," or whichever of the
author's works is now most largely sold in a cheap
edition without profit to his personal representa
tives, than to have held the stage with ** The Lady
of Lyons " and ** Money " ?
as an author.
V0S Iſl8llIlS,
à
vinced that eminent authors Would be the best
qualified persons to review their eminent (or humble)
contemporaries.
In an essay such as that suggested
it might be however proved that the attitude of the
modern writer or artist towards his modern rivalis
altogether one of generous appreciation and admira
tion.
Before leaving the subjects of discussion
which arise out of Lytton's career we may ask
whether the prolonged popularity
of a play or
of a novel should furnish the better claim for fame
une information
numéro récent du Times.
Cela ne
fournit en aucune manière un compte rendu
complet de l'œuvre entreprise par le Gouverne
ment en Vue de préparer la voie pour la ratification
de la Convention de Berlin autant que cela concerne
la Grande-Bretagne,''
etc.
Or, une note indiquait que notre article du
Droit d'Auteur formait la suite d'une série
d'autres articles que notre organe a déjà publiés
sur la même matière et sous le même titre.
Ainsi
que le démontre la récapitulation contenue dans
l'épreuve ci-incluse-cette nouvelle suite paraîtra
dans le numéro du 15 de ce mois-la Grande
Bretagne a fait parmi tous les pays traités dans
cet ordre d'idées par notre organe, l'objet du plus
grand nombre de notices et des informations les
plus copieuses. Nous avons suivi tous les travaux
entrepris en Grande-Bretagne,
dont nous avons pu
avoir connaissance, soit par des voies officielles,
soit par notre service de presse.
Le rôle joué par
votre société dans la préparation du terrain en vue
d'une prompte ratification a été exposé avec la
sollicitude qu'il mérite et dans cette remarque fort
juste qu'elle a examiné avec le plus grand soin et
d'ampleur les résultats de la Conférence de Berlin
Droit d'Auteur, 1909, pp. 60, 87, 121
137).
Nous sommes prêts
vous envoyer tous les
sujet
Grande-Bretagne,
articles relatifs
numéros
notre journal n'étaient plus entre
d'un
(v.
particular reviewer or an art critic has never
even attempted to Write a book or to paint a
picture.
When Mr. Escott reminds
us that
Lamb threw aside the Waverley novels in dis
gust and that Hazlitt could not read them ; that
Hunt was contemptuous of Byron ; when We think
of the reviews of Lytton for which Thackeray was
Lytton Wrote of
responsible,
or
recall
what
Tennyson : when we read that among the poets of
his time * Lytton cared little for Tennyson and
less $or Browning,'' but that
* Hunt praises
Hazlitt, Hazlitt praises Hunt,'' we do not feel con
d'Auteur ne fait que reproduire
prise
les
A list of other topics which might be illustrated
from the volume Would include such old ones as
the relations
of authors and publishers and of
authors and critics, and in particular
that old
question as to the class from which critics should
be drawn.
The reviewer, we are told by some
whose Work has been reviewed, is himself an
author who has failed ; the art critic, an artist
will complain, is a painter Whose pictures no
may declare
one Will buy.
Others
that a
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graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion
of the Committee unless such is especially stated
to be the case.
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THE Editor begs to inform members of the
Authors’ Society and other readers of The Author
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are
cases that have come before the notice or to the
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that
those members of the Society who desire to have
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain
them on application.
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ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.
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is sent to them free of cost, its production would
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the
Society if a great many members did not forward
to the Secretary the modest 5s. 6d. subscription for
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Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should
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month.
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Editor on all literary matters treated from the
standpoint of art or business, but on no other
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THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.
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ROM time to time members of the Society
desire to make donations to its funds in
recognition of work that has been done for
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion
of one of these members, have decided to place
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order
that members may be cognisant of those funds to
which these contributions may be paid.
The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,
or in dealing with any other matter closely
connected with the work of the Society.
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the
needs of all the members of the Society.
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LIST of MEMBERs.
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HE List of Members of the Society of Authors
published October, 1907, can now be obtained
at the offices of the Society at the price of
6d., post free 7%d. It includes elections to July,
1907, and will be sold to members and associates
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end of the list for the convenience of those who
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled
from month to month in these pages.
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THE PENSION FUND.
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N February 1, 1910, the trustees of the
Pension Fund of the Society—after the secre-
tary had placed before them the financial
position of the fund—decided to invest £260 in
the following securities: £130 in the purchase of
Jamaica. 3% per cent. Stock 1919–49, and £130 in
the purchase of Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock 1937.
The amount purchased is £132 18s. 6d.
Jamaica. 3% per cent. Stock and £120 12s. 1d.
Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock.
This brings the invested funds to over £4,000.
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom-
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.
They desire to draw the attention of the members
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by
additional subscriptions and donations there will
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the
year to declare another pension in case any im-
portant claim is forthcoming.
Consols 24%.................. i e s tº e º e s e º 'º & £1,000 0 0
Local Loans .............................. 500 0 ()
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291. 19 11
London and North-Western 3% Deben-
ture Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 0 ()
Egyptian Government Irrigation
Trust 4% Certificates . . . . . . . . ... 200 0 0
Cape of Good Hope 3% Inscribed
Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ............... 200 0 0
Glasgow and South-Western Railway
4% Preference Stock.................. 228 () ()
New Zealand 3% Stock............... 247 9 6
Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0
Corporation of London 24% Stock,
1927–57 .............................. 438 2 4.
Jamaica. 3%% Stock, 1919–49 ......... 132 18 6
Mauritius 4%. 1937 Stock............... 120 12 1
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 33% Land
Grant Stock, 1938..................... 198 3 8
Total ............... #34,065 6 0
Subscriptions.
1910. £ s. d.
Jan. 12, Riley, Miss Josephine O 7 6
Jan. 13, Child, Harold H. . () 10 0
Jan. 14, Desborough, The Right Hon.
the Lord, K.C.V.O.
Jan. 27, Lion, Leon M.
Feb. 7, Fagan, J. B. . ©
Feb. 10, Newton, Miss A. M.
March 7, Smith, Bertram .
April 13, Dillon, Mrs. e º
May 6, Inkster, Leonard . º
May 17, Truman, Miss Olive Marie
Donations.
1910.
Jan. 1, Robinson, J. R.
Jan. 1, Mackenzie, Miss J. (2nd dona:
tion) s o . -
1, Northcote, H. {- º
3, Watson, Mrs. Herbert A.
3, Fursdon, Mrs. F. M.
3, Smith, Miss Edith A.
4, Pryce, Richard º e
4, Wroughton, Miss Cicely.
6, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila
6, Underdown, Miss E. M. .
6, Carolin, Mrs. . e
8, P. H. and M. K.
8, Crellin, H. R. º
10, Tanner, James T..
10, Miller, Arthur
10, Bolton, Miss Anna
10, Parr, Miss Olive K.
17, Harland, Mrs.
21, Benecke, Miss Ida
25, Fradd, Meredith
29, Stayton, F. .
1, Wharton, L. C.
Feb. 4, Bowen, Miss Marjorie
Feb. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte
Feb.7, Pettigrew, W. F. .
Feb. 7, Church, Sir A. H. .
Feb. 8, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit
Feb. 8, The XX. Pen Club
Feb. 10, Greenbank, Percy.
Feb. 11, Stopford, Francis.
Feb. 11, Dawson, A. J. . . .
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss Kathleen .
Feb. 16, W. D. . e e
Feb. 16, Gibbs, F. L. A.
Feb. 17, Wintle, H. R. º
Feb. 21, Thurston, E. Temple
Feb. 23, Dawson, Mrs. Frederick
Feb. 24, Williamson, C. N. o
Feb. 24, Williamson, Mrs. C. N.
Feb. 25, Westell, W. P.
March 2, Toplis, Miss Grace
March 3, Hawtrey, Miss Valentina
March 5, Smith, Bertram . . .
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March 12, Yould, A. .
March 16, Loraine, Lady . -
March 29, Macdonnell, Randall.
April 6, Blake, J. P. . & &
April 8, “Patricia Wentworth "
April 14, Hinkson, Mrs. K. Tynan
May 6, Greenstreet, W. J. . -
May 7, Cousin, John W.
May 10, Zangwill, Israel . ->
May 19, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (Portion of
money recovered by the Society as
damages) e 10 () ()
All fresh subscribers and donors previous to
January, 1910, 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 May meeting of the Committee of Manage-
ment of the Society was held on the 2nd ult.,
at 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.
In the absence of Mr. Maurice Hewlett, Mr.
Douglas Freshfield was elected to the chair. Thirty-
one members and associates were elected, bringing
the total elections for the current year to 118.
There was one resignation, bringing the total
resignations up to 60.
Cases before the Committee.—The first case
was against a company in the United States in
liquidation. The committee decided to place the
matter in the hands of the society's American
lawyer, with instructions to make full inquiries
whether the company was in a position to pay any
dividend; if so, to claim on behalf of the members
involved. The next case—relating to infringement
of an author's rights by literary libel in Germany
—had been before the committee more than once
previously. As full information was still wanting,
the committee decided that unless the necessary
answers to questions put by the German lawyer
employed were forthcoming before the next meeting,
the case must be dropped. The Secretary next
reported details of various cases relating to the
infringement of dramatic rights and the retention
of moneys by a theatrical manager in India, and
instructions were given by the committee that the
case should be proceeded with at the earliest
opportunity. In the next case arose a question of
an infringement of copyright by sales by street
hawkers, somewhat on the lines of the musical
piracies which had been strenuously fought by the
music publishers. The secretary was instructed
to endeavour to obtain the evidence necessary to a
successful prosecution of the offending parties.
He was also instructed to write to the Publishers'
Association and to the lawful publishers of the
literary work in question to inquire to what extent
they would be willing to contribute towards the
cost of fighting this important question of
principle.
Letters from a literary agent and his solicitors,
taking objection to a paragraph in The Author,
were considered, and the committee settled upon
the course they would take in the matter. At the
Suggestion of the Dramatic Sub-committee, the
Committee of Management elected Mr. Arthur
Shirley to the Dramatic Sub-committee, subject to
his willingness to undertake the duties of the
position. A proposal for increasing the advertise-
ment revenue of The Author was laid before the
committee, who gave it their favourable considera-
tion. The secretary was instructed to obtain
further information, and consider and submit the
terms of a contract. The secretary reported that
the Dramatic Sub-committee had been negotiating
with Messrs. Samuel French, in order to obtaininfor-
mation as to the infringement of performing rights
of members of the society in the colonies. He
suggested that, as the publishers also had agents in
the colonies, it might be possible to obtain similar
information respecting the piracy of literary works.
The committee authorised a communication to the
Publishers' Association on the subject. At the
suggestion af the Dramatic Sub-committee, the
secretary submitted that it might be possible,
through the Foreign Office and Consular Service,
to obtain information of the piracy of performing
rights of British authors and their works. Sir
Alfred Bateman was kind enough to promise to
make inquiries in order to ascertain whether any
steps could be taken on the lines suggested, and to
report to the next meeting. A letter from a
member in regard to the Pension Fund was laid
before the committee, as also was a letter from the
Earl of Wemyss in regard to a scheme for the
representation of the Society of Authors, together
with other learned and scientific societies, in the
House of Lords.
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DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.
The Dramatic Sub-committee of the Society of
Authors met at 39, Old Queen Street, on Monday,
May 9. After the minutes had been read the
secretary reported that, in answer to the Dramatic
Circular, it appeared that there were between 220
and 230 dramatists on the books of the society.
The next question before the sub-committee
was a question which the Theatres Alliance had
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referred to the dramatists, bearing on the perform-
ance of plays in working men's clubs. The
secretary and chairman reported that they had met
the representatives of the Theatres Alliance and
the Touring Managers' Association. In that inter-
view the representatives of these two bodies had
set out at length the large number of these clubs
and the extent to which performances were now
carried on, and complained of the unfair nature of
the competition which these performances involved.
After considerable discussion, on the proposal of
Mr Alfred Sutro it was decided to advise dramatic
authors, who were members of the society, not to
license any play to any clubs except the legitimate
amateur dramatic clubs, until five years from its
original production in the provinces.
The question of the responsibility of theatrical
managers for the infringement of dramatic copy-
right was then considered, and the secretary read a
long and detailed opinion he had received from
the society’s solicitors on the subject. The appoint-
ment of colonial agents was discussed and a letter
from Messrs. French was read. One of the items in
the letter related to a series of performances in India,
which had come to the knowledge of Messrs. French,
and the sub-committee decided that the secretary
should ascertain — Messrs. French had kindly
offered to supply the information—whether any of
these performances were performances of members’
plays, and, if so, whether they had been authorised.
Two other letters relating to the work of the
dramatic section of the Society were laid before
the sub-committee. One, referring to the possi-
bility of giving further assistance to unacted
dramatists, was adjourned for maturer consideration.
Owing to the length of the sitting, the settlement
of the Repertory Agreement and the Agreement
for a run was adjourned.
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Cases.
THE record of the society's work from month to
month varies but little. Sometimes more cases
come into the hands of the secretary and more are
placed in the hands of the solicitors—sometimes
a lesser amount.
During the past month seventeen cases have
been in the secretary's hands. Three dealt with
disputes on agreements. Onehas been satisfactorily
settled, but the other two are in the course of
negotiation.
It may be as well to state that in a case where a
dispute arises between two members of the society,
the society does not necessarily refuse to act, but
will always maintain the right against the wrong.
If the dispute becomes very acute the committee
endeavour to arrange an arbitration between the
parties.
In three cases out of seven where money has been
claimed the amount has been paid on the secretary's
demand and forwarded to the members. One has
been placed in the hands of the society’s solicitors,
one is in the course of Satisfactory settlement, and
two have only recently come into the office. Four
uestions have arisen concerning the detention of
MSS. and in three the MSS., have been returned
and forwarded to the members. Of two cases
where the Secretary has demanded accounts, one
has been settled and in the other the accounts
have been promised. One curious case of libel on
title has arisen. As the dispute is with the pro-
prietor of a foreign magazine it may be some little
time before a satisfactory issue is arrived at.
The cases left over from past months are few.
Indeed, they only amount to three. The others
have either been settled or placed in the hands of
the society's solicitors. Of the three cases left
open, one, concerning the settlement of contract, is
delayed owing to the member living in Australia ;
in case number two the publisher is in America,
and in the third case negotiations are being carried
forward satisfactorily.
The cases in the hands of the society's solicitors
are being settled slowly. In the smaller claims for
moneys due, the cash has either been paid or
promised, or judgment has been obtained. It is
only in the more difficult questions, such as disputes
on agreements, infringement of copyright and
bankruptcy cases, that delay is bound to occur.
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May Elections.
Adkins, Frank James 21, Harcourt Road,
Sheffield.
Aspinall, Algernon Carlton Club, Pall
Mall, S.W.
Baker, Mrs. Elizabeth Dawnside, Berkhamp-
sted, Herts.
106, Esmond Road,
Bedford Park, W.
(Beth Ellis). c
Baker, Miss Elizabeth
Barnett, Mrs. S. A. (Hen- St. Jude's Cottage,
rietta O.) ſº g Hampstead Heath,
N.W.
Campbell-Gilbert, Philip
E. (Lorde Philip).
Chadwick, Mrs. Ellis H. West Brae, Enfield,
Middlesex.
Chalmers, Dalzell Henry 1, The Mansions,
John * { } e Earl's Court Road,
S.W.
Cousin, John William, 11, Greenhill Terrace,
F.F.A. te * ge Edinburgh.
Fawcett, Major Percy Waterside, Uplyme,
Harrison g gº Devon.
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Ferguson, Miss A. B.
Dunrowan, Lenzie,
Ochiltree . e e Lanarkshire.
Fox, Miss Dorothy . . 28, Garlies Road,
Forest Hill, S.E.
Solentia, Yarmouth,
Isle of Wight.
Guy, Harry . e
Greenstreet, W. J., M.A.
Hinkson, Henry Albert, Greenhurst, Kings
.A. . º º º Langley.
Hogarth, David George .
Inkster, Leonard . . 11, Oaktree Lane,
Selly Oak, Bir-
mingham.
Jeffery, Mrs. C. E. . o
Jonsdale, Frederick. . 6, Cuthbert Terrace,
- Westgate-on-Sea.
17, Banbury Road,
Oxford.
6, The Drive, Hove.
Marshall, H. G. e o
Nevill, Miss Florence *
Ole Luk-0ie.
Sawyer, Capt. Hoaughan . 131, Harley Street,
W - - -
Serjeant, Miss C. . . Warboys Rectory,
Huntingdon.
Stanfield, G. J. º . Admiralty (D. W.
Department), S.W.
Stephenson, Robert. . 20, Baker Street, W.
Strachey, Miss Philippa 67, Belsize Park
Gardens, N.W.
41, Bath Road, Bed-
ford Park, W.
4, Milnthorpe Road,
Eastbourne.
c/o Mrs. Mitchell, 106,
Barcombe Avenue,
Streatham Hill,
S.W.
Thompson, Alex M.
(Dangle © º e
Ward, The Rev. F.W. Orde
(F. Harald Williams)
West, Mrs. . © tº
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BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS OF
THE SOCIETY.
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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
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially
accurate.
ART. w
CHRISTIAN SYMBOLISM. By MRS. HENRY JENNER,
6 x 4}. 192 pp. Methuen. 2s. 6d. n.
BIOGRAPHY,
ROBERT DODSLEY: Poet, Publisher, and Playwright. By
RALPH STRAU.S. 83 × 53. 407 pp. Lane, 21s, n.
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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL
NOTES.
HE annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund
was held at the Hotel Metropole early last
month.
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, who presided,
reminded the company that, although the Fund had
a substantial permanent income, it was necessary
to double that income if they were to carry on the
work before them. The chances of a large income
in the literary profession were very small, compared
with other professions of corresponding rank, and
whoever deliberately decided to devote his life to
authorship was bound to give the prospect of
pecuniary gain a very secondary place in his
scheme of life. The committee of the Fund had to
decide whether applicants indisputably in need of
assistance were, from their positions as authors,
entitled to it. The toast of “Literature” was pro-
posed by Sir George Reid and responded to by Mr.
Henry Newbolt. &
Preparations are now being made to celebrate the
centenary of the birth of Thackeray, which will fall
on July 18, 1911. The Titmarsh Club has appointed
a committee to consider the form of the celebrations.
A public dinner will be held on the anniversary
of the birthday, and it is hoped that many eminent
literary men will be present. In addition an
exhibition will be arranged, in a central gallery,
of pictures, portraits, manuscripts and personal
belongings of the novelist. Mr. Lewis Melville
and Mr. Walter Jerrold are acting as hon. secre-
tary and hon. treasurer respectively.
“Essays Elizabethan and Modern '' is the title
of Professor Dowden's latest book, among the
contents of which are “Cowper and William
Hayley,” “Heinrich Heine,” “Some Old Shake-
speareans” and “The English Masque.” It will
be issued almost immediately by Messrs. J. M.
Dent & Sons, Ltd.
The title of Mr. Hubert Wales’ new book is
“The Wife of Colonel Hughes.” Mr. John Long
is the publisher.
Mr. Arnold Bennett has nearly finished a long
novel, “Clayhanger,” which Messrs. Methuen &
Co. are to publish in the autumn. “Clayhanger” is
the first of a trilogy of novels dealing with the Five
Towns. Mr. Bennett is also engaged upon a series of
impressions of London and Paris, which will appear
serially in the English Review in the autumn.
Mr. Arthur Dillon is engaged upon a drama in
verse in the vein of romance, but it is uncertain
when it will be ready for publication or production.
Mr. Dillon has now published, besides two
volumes of verse and his last play in the Greek
model, six plays, being three comedies and three
tragedies, written on the Elizabethan model, suit-
able to be played on the advanced platform stage,
before curtain, after the sixteenth century manner.
Mr. John Ouseley is publishing next month a
new novel, “The Adventures of a Runaway Bride,”
by Isabel Smith, author of “The Minister's Guest ''
and “The Jewel House.”
Dr. Bernard Hollander is publishing this month
through Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., an
entirely new work written on popular lines, entitled
“Hypnotism and Suggestion in Daily Life, Educa-
tion, and Medical Practice.” The subject has
been frequently written about in America and on
the Continent, but in England the science of
hypnotism has been largely neglected, and it is a
great many years since any qualified practitioner
has given us the results of his original researches.
Mr. Arthur Beckett, whose “Spirit of the
Downs,” published last year, is now in a second
edition, is engaged in writing an “open-air " book
for Messrs. Mills & Boon. The new volume will
be illustrated with twenty coloured drawings by
Mr. Ernest Marillier, the Sussex painter.
The May issue of the Grand Magazine contains
a poem entitled “A Queen's Fan,” by Miss Kitty
Everest, who has also had her first song, “Little
Blue Brother,” set to music and published by
Messrs. Stanley Webb, 235, High Holborn, W.C.
A short complete tale by Miss Everest, entitled
“A Royal Crown,” has been accepted for early
publication in the Woman at Home.
Among other articles in the May number of
Travel and Eayloration, mention may be made of
Mr. Wirt Gerrare’s article which contains hints for
Siberian and Chinese travel. In the same magazine
Mr. Douglas Sladen describes the romantic cities
of Provence. He is very severe on the tendency of
English travellers bound for the Riviera or Egypt
to “scamp” the interesting cities of the Rhône.
“The Lost Halo’’ is the title of Mr. Percy
White's new novel, which Messrs. Methuen will
publish. It is a comedy of character rather than
of adventure, but will be found full of movement
and of pictures of contemporary life.
Mr. Eveleigh Nash has now published Mr. Cullen
Gouldsbury's new novel, “The Tree of Bitter Fruit.”
The book deals in the main with the vicissitudes which
befell a Central African native who returned to primi-
tive surroundings after his education in Europe had
been half completed. The scene is laid, for the most
part, upon the Tanganyika Plateau, where the author
has for some time been collecting material.
“Vera of the Strong Heart,” by Marion Mole,
is announced for publication early this month by
Mr. Andrew Melrose. Messrs. Putnams’ Sons are
publishing the book (which was awarded the
second place in Mr. Melrose's recent Novel
Competition) in America.
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THE AUTHOR.
A long serial fairy story, entitled “The Adven-
tures of Shoon and Robe,” from the pen of Miss
M. E. F. Hyland, is running in the Derbyshire
Courter, a paper for which the same writer conducts
Weekly a children's column, as well as a “House-
wifery" column. Miss Hyland is also article
Writer to The Table, the organ of Marshall's School
of Cookery. Home Notes have in hand two sets of
articles by this writer, which may appear shortly :
while The Schoolmistress, the educational organ for
Women teachers, will publish shortly a series of
articles on “Games for Girls,” which Miss Hyland
has written.
Messrs. Madgwick, Houlston & Co., have pub-
lished Mrs. de Courcy Laffan's story of “The
Brotherhood of Hero Dogs,” in which she gives a
very sympathetic account of twelve living and three
dead dogs, whose heroic deeds deserve to be
recorded. The book is sold for the benefit of the
Animals' Hospital, High Street, Eccleston Square,
at the price of 1s. net.
“Helena's Path,” a comedy in three acts, by
Anthony Hope and Cosmo Gordon-Lennox, having
for its theme a dispute as to a right of way, was
produced at the Repertory Theatre on May 3. In
the cast were Miss Irene Vanbrugh, Mr. Charles
Bryant, and Miss Mary Barton.
Mr. G. G. Coulton has published through Messrs.
Constable & Co. a work entitled “A Medieval
Gainer,” which comprises human documents from
the four centuries preceding the Reformation,
which he has selected and translated with intro-
ductions, notes, and glossary. Mr. Coulton has
aimed at compiling a catena of such documents,
each more or less complete in itself, but mostly too
long for full quotation by historians. The records
have been chosen as specially characteristic of the
period, and treat of clergy and laity, spiritual
experiences, loves, battles, pageants, and occasionally
the small things of everyday life.
Mr. A. C. Fifield has published, under the title
of “Bernard Shaw as Artist-Philosopher,” an
exposition of Shawianism by Renée M. Deacon.
Miss Deacon considers Mr. Shaw's work in
seven different aspects, among which are included
his dramatic theory, his revolt against romance, his
dramatic consciousness and his philosophy of life.
Miss Wentworth Oliver's new book, “Defiance,”
has just been published by the Camden Publishing
Co., 323, Upper Street, Islington.
“The Silent Isle '' is the title of Mr. A. C.
Benson's forthcoming new book.
The Oxford University Press have re-issued the
poems of Lord Tennyson, which were first included
in the “World's Classics” in April, 1901, and
reprinted in 1902, 1903, 1905, and 1906.
The present re-issue has an Introduction by Mr.
T. Herbert Warren.
PARIS NOTES.
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N returning to Paris from London on Friday,
() April 20, the flags of all nations draped
with crêpe were to be seen on the public.
buildings and at very many windows here.
The French Press has been most sympathetic.
Everyone looked upon King Edward as a true friend
to this country. All classes have expressed their
sincere grief and sympathy. The following is the
translation of a letter I received from a French
working man, who is at the head of a group of
workers for the public welfare :—
“Just a few lines to tell you how deeply the
French workman sympathises with the English
nation in its grief. I know that the newspapers
here have expressed the sympathy of the public, that
our statesmen and politicians have done the same.
What has not been mentioned, though, is the real
sorrow of the French workman on learning of the
sad event which he considers grievous and heart-
rending for all humanity, and particularly so for
himself, whom your worthy King liked so much.
Rinowing the Parisian working class as I know it,
I can assure you that, if a Parisian manifestation
were organised, it would certainly equal in grandeux
and sincere sorrow those which accompanied the
funerals of our Victor Hugo and Carnot. . .
—Respectfully, F. BOULET.”
In an article in the Figaro of May 20, Pierre
Loti gives an account of his visit to Buckingham
Palace in 1909, and his impressions of Queen
Alexandra and of the late King.
At the same hour as the funeral procession of
Ring Edward set out in London, another funeral
was taking place in Paris—that of Madame Pauline
Wiardot, daughter of the celebrated Garcia, and
sister of Malibran. Madame Wiardot was born in
1821; her first great triumph was in the rôle of
Desdemona at the King's Theatre, London. After
that her name was soon on all lips, and she sang in
France, Spain, Russia, Italy and Germany. Her
name will for ever be associated with Orpheus and
with the Leonora of Beethoven's Fidelio. Among
her friends she reckoned Alfred de Musset and
Chopin, and her salon was frequented by George
Sand, Tourgénieff, Flaubert, Renan, Liszt, and alb
the celebrities of her day. She was a remarkable
pianist, an unequalled vocalist, a musical composer
of great merit, and a most accomplished linguist,
speaking seven or eight languages with absolute
ease and fluency. She leaves a very large circle of
friends and admirers, and with the closing of her
salon another landmark of artistic and literary
Paris has passed away.
The fourth volume of the “Chronique de la
Duchesse de Dino " takes us on from 1331 to 1862.
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The rôle of the Duchesse d’Orléans and the attitude
of the Comte de Chambord are clearly indicated.
Talleyrand's niece also gives us an excellent idea of
the character of the Emperor.
“Tous Héros” is the title of André Lichten-
berger's latest book, a volume of short stories, all
of which are founded on military episodes. As the
title infers, the chief characters are all heroes. The
first story gives its name to the volume, but the
title would be equally suitable to the other stories.
They are all extremely patriotic, written with the
same ease and delicacy as the psychological studies
of children by which André Lichtenberger has made
his name in France. Three of this author's books
have been specially noticed by the French Academy,
and for “Mon petit Trott,” “La Petite Soeur de
Trott,” and “La Mort de Corinthe ” the Prix
Montyon has been awarded.
“Les Dames du Palais,” by Colette Yver, is
another novel by this authoress showing the danger
to which a wife is exposed when she becomes the
rival of her husband. In “Princesses de Science,”
we saw a woman doctor whose husband was jealous
of his wife's celebrity in his own profession. In
the present volume we see the woman barrister who
renounces her professional glory in order to retain
her husband's love.
“La Faiblesse humaine” is the title of M. Paul
Margueritte's latest novel.
M. Jules Huret is bringing out his book, entitled
“L’Amérique moderne,” in an illustrated edition
and in fortnightly parts. M. Huret is always so
conscientious in his work that every book from his
pen is read with eager interest. His volumes on
Germany are the most complete works of this kind
which have appeared here.
“Les Anciennes Démocraties des Pays-Bas '' is a
curious book by M. Henri Pirenne. The Pays-Bas
is taken in its former meaning, and includes the
départements of the Nord and of the Pas-de-Calais,
as well as the kingdoms of Belgium and Holland.
In these days of travel by land and Sea, all books
introducing us to fresh places are very welcome.
“Trois Mois en Portugal,” by G. Le Roy Liberge,
is a volume taking us to various Portuguese places
of interest. The writer has strayed away at times
from the route in order to study more closely the
manners and customs of the people. The book is
illustrated, so that the reader has a very fair idea
of the places visited. -
Among translations are the following: “L'ombre
mystérieuse,” by Fergus_Hume, translated by
M. René Lecuyer ; “La Tragédie de Macbeth,”
by M. Maurice Maeterlinck,
Señora Piedad de Bobadilla, wife of the cele-
brated Spanish writer, Fray Candil, has just
commenced in Paris a series of lectures, illus-
trated by dissolving views, on the great Spanish
painters of the seventeenth century, commencing
with El Greco, Velasquez and Murillo. Madame
de Bobadilla's idea is to give these lectures in the
Various capitals of the world, and, as she is an
excellent linguist, she speaks equally well in
French, Spanish, and English. The King and
Queen of Spain received Madame de Bobadilla
during her recent visit to Madrid and have
requested the Marquis del Muni, Spanish Ambas-
sador in Paris, to do his utmost to facilitate the
task which the intrepid lecturer has set herself.
She will go to Brussels, London, probably to Italy,
and then on a tour through the United States and
South America.
At the close of her lecture on Velasquez in Paris,
Mlle. Madeleine Roch, of the Comédie française,
recited Emilio de Bobadilla's exquisite poem on
Velasquez.
In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire
are the following articles: “Force et faiblesse de
la Jeune Turquie,” by René Moulin ; “La Comète
de Halley,” by M. L. Pervinguière ; “Le Berceau
du Parlement d’Angleterre,” by Germain Lefèvre-
Pontalis. In the Débats M. Jacques Bardoux has
published an excellent article on the rôle of
Edward VII. with regard to home policy, and in
the Figaro M. Raymond Recouley has written
several articles on England and the late King.
In Le Temps M. André Tardieu has also written on
King Edward’s policy.
ALYS HALLARD.
“Chronique de la Duchesse de Dino' (Plon-Nourrit).
“Tous Héros” (Librairie des Annales).
“Les Dames du Palais ? (Calmann Lévy).
“Les Anciennes Démocraties des Pays-Bas” (Flam-
marion).
“Trois Mois en Portugal” (Bernard Grasset).
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Wit:
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benefits of the said Act other than the benefits under
section 1 (e) thereof, as to which the inquiry is
still pending.
“IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto Set
my hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
“Done at the city of Washington this ninth day
of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and ten, and of the Independence of
the United States of America the one hundred and
thirty-fourth.
“WM. H. TAFT.
“By the President :
“P. C. KNOX,
“Secretary of State.”
DRAMATISTS AND THE WORKING MEN'S
CLUB AND INSTITUTE UNION.
—º-º-º-
O all those dramatists who are members of
the society, the question of the performance
of their plays is a matter of vital importance.
At any moment they may be asked to grant a
licence to perform to the Working Men's Club and
Institute Union. As a general rule, when the
suggestion is put before them, they are asked
to take a nominal fee only as the clubs are
unable to pay high fees.
Two points then arise for consideration. First,
is the plea of poverty a fair one 2 Secondly, is the
granting of such a licence likely to interfere with
the legitimate returns from their property 2
In order to enable the dramatists to come to some
reasonable conclusion, and satisfy themselves on
these issues, it is necessary that they should have
fuller information. With this object in view a
few facts are set out in this article.
The Dramatic Sub-committee of the Society has
also given these facts its serious consideration.
This Working Men's Club and Institute Union is
a union of over 1,100 associations spread all over
the country, with a membership of over 400,000.
The subscription, we are informed, is 2s. 6d. a
quarter.
The Union issues to its members tickets which
give the holder power to pass into any of the other
clubs of the Union in any part of the country, and
each member has power to introduce two women,
two children, and one man—strangers—into the
club.
It will be seen that this is a vast organisation
and includes an enormous number of people. In
addition, when attending any performances, the
member has to buy programmes at the rate of
2d. each. This entitles the holder to a reserved
Seat.
These clubs are immensely popular. It is not
surprising that they should be so, for they are
open at all hours and all through Sunday, the
performances in some cases beginning in the morn-
ing and continuing throughout the day. Drink
can be served at any time, and children can be
taken in when the law forbids that they should
enter a public-house.
First, then, let us consider the plea of poverty.
Could such clubs afford a sum to the authors which
would bring them into a fair and reasonable
competition with the suburban and provincial
theatres 2 In dealing with this point it must be
remembered that the proprietors of these halls
have no expensive outlay in order to meet County
Council regulations. The halls are very often
built without Solidity, with plain deal stages, the
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scenery is generally of a most inflammable char-
acter, the exits are few and in many cases mere
death-traps, and lastly there is no fireproof
curtain.
The amount of capital sunk by the proprietor is
infinitely small compared with that of the provincial
or suburban theatre manager. Attention should
be called to another point—the companies that
perform are not highly paid. Their salaries are
miserable; in some cases, even, the players are paid
nothing at all and the scenery is of the poorest
kind.
Here again the manager's outlay is reduced to a
minimum. If anything, therefore, he ought to pay
greater rather than a smaller fee to the author.
But still the argument of poverty is a strong one,
and it may be said that the halls are poor and
badly secured simply because of the poverty of the
contributors.
Let us look to the other side of the question.
In one statement before us the weekly drink bill
varies from £90 in the slack season to £150 in
the good season.
average this makes the yearly drink bill #6,000.
In the recent raid by the police on the Willesden
Radical Club some important facts were forth-
coming. £10 a day, it was stated in evidence, was
taken in beer, and the drink bill for the past
quarter was £936.
To add to the irony of the situation, when the
club was raided Sir Arthur Pinero's well-known
play, “His House in Order,” was being performed
to an audience of 300 members.
The profits to the proprietor on this enormous
sale of drinks must be very high, and considering
how inconsiderable are his other expenses he ought
to be able to pay above rather than below the fees
paid by suburban and provincial managers.
The next point to arise is, whether these perform-
ances are likely to interfere with legitimate
business. Nearly all suburban and provincial
theatres have 6d. galleries but are not allowed to
sell drink. It is more than probable that the 2d.
programme and the £10 per week drinks would
considerably more than cover the 6d. gallery.
Again, if a piece has been played at these clubs
by a good, bad, or indifferent company it is not
likely that the members will go to the local theatres
immediately after to see the same piece.
It is not the artistic side, nor the literary side, nor
the comparison of the actors' methods and styles
which is likely to appeal to this audience.
Like the readers of 6d. shockers, they like the
story, and when once they have a knowledge of the
plot their interest will cease and the local theatres
will suffer.
It must not be thought, however, that it is the
play merely of the unknown author that is per-
If £120 a week is taken as an
formed, or the aged melodrama. The very latest
plays by the best known dramatists are represented.
To show also the extent to which the matter is
carried, it will be sufficient to state that, in the
slack Season of July, last year, when the suburban
and provincial theatres were gasping for breath to
live, twenty-one companies were acting round the
halls of the Working Men's Club and Institute
Union. It seems, therefore, to be clear, taking these
facts into consideration, that the dramatist is
underpaid and that these performances come into
serious competition with his legitimate returns.
There is one step, then, that should be taken.
The dramatic author should raise his fee so that the
competition may be on a fair basis, and should be
careful, as a corollary, that the contracts for the
ºnd the legitimate provincial business do not
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[The editor thanks the editor of the Era and others for
kindly supplying some of the data set out in this article.]
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TISIE AUTISIOR.
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.
—º-º-º-
1. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his
business or the administration of his property. The
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved
member, and all costs borne by the Society.
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi-
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use
the Society.
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send
the document to the Society for examination.
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-
lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the
Prospectus.
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary
of the Society.
This
The
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.
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.
—e—º-e—
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS
. . . OF BOOKS.
—e—º-e—
ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an
agreement. There are four methods of dealing
with literary property — - *..."
I. Selling it Outright.
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of
the Society.
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of
agreement).
In this case the following rules should be attended to :
(1) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,”
unless the same allowance is made to the author. -
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.
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or
doctor | -
III. The Royalty System.
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the
truth. From time to time very important figures connected
with royalties are published in The Author. -
IV. A Commission Agreement.
The main points are :— -
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.
General. -
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four
above mentioned.
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from
the Secretary of the Society.
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.
The main points which the Society has always demanded
from the outset are :—
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement
DO €2, D.S.
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or
withheld.
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.
—o—º-e—
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.
—º-º-º-
EWER 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 any one 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.
—e—º-e—
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND
ORIGINAL PLAYS.
—º-º-º-
CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper
S 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.
—e—º-e—
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
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,
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.
—e—º-e—
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.
—e—º-e—
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.
—e—º-e—
THE READING BRANCH,
—e—º-e—
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this
M branch of its work by informing young writers
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry
and dramatic Works, and when it is possible, under
Special arrangement, technical and scientific works.
Readers are writers of competence and experience.
& e The
fee is one guinea.
REMITTANCES.
—t—º-t—
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
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered
letter only.
The
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TISIE AUTHOR.
GENERAL NOTES.
—º-º-º-
HIS MAJESTY KING EDWARD VII.
WE record, with great sorrow, the death of His
Majesty King Edward the Seventh. Though some
time after the event, this is the first opportunity
we have had of expressing our sympathy with the
Royal Family.
We are glad to remember that one of the first
Members of the Order of Merit founded by His
Majesty was our late President, Mr. George
Meredith, and that, among others, The Right
Hon. James Bryce, P.C., a member of the
society’s council, was also appointed to that
distinguished Order.
a---
IN MEMORIAM.
(Friday, May 20, 1910.)
—º-º-º-
(Printed with the permission of the Author, and the
Editor of the Times.)
He that was King an hour ago
Is King no more ; and we that bend
Beside the bier too surely know
We lose a Friend.
His was no “blood-and-iron " blend
To write in tears a ruthless reign :
Rather he strove to make an end
Of strife and pain.
Rather he strove to heal again
The half-healed wound, to hide the scar,
To purge away the lingering stain
Of racial War.
Thus, though no trophies deck his car
Of captured guns or banners torn,
Men hailed him as they hail a star
That comes with morn;
A star of brotherhood, not Scorn,
A morn of loosing and release,
A fruitful time of oil and corn,--
An Age of Peace
Sleep then, O Dead beloved and sleep
As one who, when his course is run,
May yet, in slumber, memory keep
Of duty done ;-
Sleep then, our England's King, as one
Who knows the lofty aim and pure,
Beyond all din of battles won,
Must still endure.
AUSTIN DOBSON.
THE SOCIETY's DINNER.
OWING to the death of His Majesty King Edward
the Seventh, it has been decided to postpone the
dinner of the Society of Authors, which was to
have taken place on June 9.
The dinner will, most probably, be held in the
autumn, but formal notice will be sent round,
under the authority of the Committee, when the
date has been settled.
*--msmas
To DRAMATISTS.
MEMBERS of the society will have received a
circular respecting a list of dramatic authors
which it is proposed to keep at the society’s
office. So far, the number of answers to the
questions contained in that circular have been
very satisfactory, and we hope this shows the
interest that members are taking in the work of
the Committee. - -
There are, no doubt, many members, not dramatic
authors, who have neglected to answer the circular,
and others, dramatic authors, who have thought
an answer unnecessary. 760 answers have been
received ; of these 220 are from dramatic authors
whose plays have been publicly performed, and 40
from those who have written plays but have not
had a public performance. The remainder do not
claim to rank as dramatic authors.
It will add to the usefulness of the list in future
if those who enter the ranks of dramatic authors
will acquaint the secretary as soon as they produce
a play or enter into a contract for production.
Their names can then be enrolled on the Dramatic
Register, which is being kept at the office for the
purpose mentioned in the circular, viz., that in case
any important question should arise affecting
dramatic authors only, it may be possible to
summon together that section of the society.
COPYRIGHT CASES.
WE have once again to express our appreciation
of the courtesy of the Publishers’ Associatoin in
forwarding us the Copyright Cases for 1909, by
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E. J. MacGillivray, a book which is published
by the Association for private circulation to its
members.
From the point of view of the man interested in
Copyright this is one of the most useful productions
of the year. In his introduction Mr. MacGillivray
comments on the case of Scholz v. “Amasis,” and
draws attention to the obiter dicta of the Court in
regard to dramatic infringement, and makes a few
critical remarks on the other important cases.
The cases themselves are carefully and clearly
summarised, as we should expect from one of the
best authorities now writing on copyright law.
IMPERIAL COPYRIGHT.
THE Imperial Copyright Conference has just
been sitting, and we have much pleasure in giving
the list of members, with the countries and offices
they represent.
We sincerely hope that the deliberations of this
conference may bring about a practical issue in the
matter of copyright legislation :-The Right.
Honourable Sydney Buxton, M.P., Sir Hubert
Llewellyn Smith, K.C.B., G. R. Askwith, Esq.,
C.B., K.C. (Board of Trade); W. Temple-Franks,
Esq. (Patent Office); F. F. Liddell, Esq. (Office
of Parliamentary Counsel); H. W. Just, Esq.,
C.B., C.M.G. (Colonial Office); Algernon Law,
Esq., C.B. (Foreign Office); Sir Thomas Raleigh,
K.C.S.I. (Member of the Council of India),
Artillery Mansions, Victoria Street ; The Honour-
able Sydney Fisher, Hotel Metropole ; P. E.
Ritchie, Esq., Hotel Metropole (Canada); The
Right Honourable Lord Tennyson, Aldworth,
Haslemere (Australia); The Honourable Sir
R. Solomon, K.C.B., etc., 72, Victoria Street, S.W.
(South Africa); The Honourable W. Hall Jones,
13, Victoria Street, S.W. (New Zealand); The
Honourable Sir E. Morris, K.C., Strand Palace
Hotel, W.C. (Newfoundland). Joint secretaries:–
A. B. Keith, Esq. (Colonial Office), T. W. Phillips.
Esq. (Board of Trade).
THE PUBLISHERS, CIRCLE Book TRADE
DINNER.
—º-º-º-
HE second Book Trade Dinner organised by
the Publishers’ Circle, which took place on
April 13, Was an even greater success
than the first one held eighteen months before.
There were not so many present, but the numbers
had been purposely kept down, and only the
principals of publishing houses were invited to
come. Every firm of repute was represented by
one or more of its members, except in one or two
instances, where letters of regret were received from
publishers who were unavoidably absent. Most of
the Well-known names among booksellers also
appeared on the table plan, some of those present
halling from the Far North. Altogether nearly
two hundred sat down—a very comfortable number,
Which gave more elbow-room than was available
When less rigid limitations prevailed.
Although the presence of authors was confined
to those who had received invitations from the
members of the Publishers' Circle, there was a
goodly and representative array of literature,
amongst which one noticed : Anthony Hope,
W. W. Jacobs, A. E. W. Mason, Dion Clayton
Calthrop, Douglas Sladen, Max Pemberton, Alfred
Noyes, and Prince Antomi Biberco.
The guests of the committee were few in number,
among them being our own chairman, Mr. Maurice
Hewlett, representing the society; Dr. F. G.
Kenyon, of the British Museum ; and Mr. K. J.
Bohlin, who came all the way from Stockholm to
represent the publishers of the Continent.
Mr. George Wyndham, the guest of the evening,
gave the toast of “Literature * in an eloquent
speech, and Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, our
ex-chairman, responded. Then came Mr. Arthur
Waugh—publisher and man of letters—the chair-
man of the Circle, who, in a vigorous speech, pro-
posed the health of the “Book Trade,” coupling
with the toast the names of a publisher and a book-
seller. To this Mr. John Murray and Mr. D. J.
Knox, of Glasgow, responded, All the speeches
were of more than usual interest. That by Mr.
Knox met with special favour, especially from the
bookselling section of his audience.
After dinner the company adjourned to another
room for further refreshment and conversation.
The latter was kept up till nearly midnight—a
fact more eloquent of the success of the evening
than anything we can say. It was quite evident
everyone thoroughly enjoyed himself and appre-
ciated the efforts of the Publishers' Circle to
provide an evening's pleasure to a distinguished
gathering of congenial spirits. For our own
part, We feel certain that these occasions, when
creator, producer, and distributor meet together
in friendly and convivial concert, are all for the
good, and we trust the Circle will continue to
Organise, if not every year, at least once in two.
years, a social function of this kind.
In fact, already there are signs of activity in
this direction, and before this number is issued
authors and publishers will have once more met,
but this time in friendly rivalry at Lord's, where it
is hoped the spectators (notwithstanding Derby
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THE AUTISIOR.
Day) will outnumber the players, and include lady
authors and the wives and daughters of their
publishers.
—e—º-e—
THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.
BY ANOTHER EDITOR.
N the May number of this magazine an editor
I gave away his profession by writing without
thought and judgment on the present subject.
His “editorial experience of eighteen years” has
not taught him to think clearly. “Last week,” he
ventures to confess, “I rejected an excellent story
dealing with a high-born chauffeur who won the
heart of his parvenu employer's daughter. The
theme is not particularly novel—if only themes for
novels were novel themes, how happy the lot of the
poor editor —but the story was a good one. I
refused it because only the preceding week I had
accepted a story, not quite so well written, on the
same lines. The MS. went back with the usual
printed form ; I gave no reasons for rejection.
Why should I ?”
It is like a tale told by a schoolboy. Here is an
editor who refuses “an excellent story” on a theme
“not particularly novel”; but why did he, in the
preceding week, accept an inferior story on a theme
not particularly novel ? Did he suppose that his
reading public would not like two versions of the
same subject-matter 2 If so, can he explain why
the British people are loyal to old ideas in
popular amusements 2 The public, unlike that
hurried editor, can appreciate many yarns on the
same subject-matter, just as it can like and trust
many politicians in the same party. But there is,
unfortunately, among all magazine editors, an
inability to distinguish between “novel subject-
matter” and “novel subjects.”
Goethe said that the first—new subject-matter
—did not exist; and when he passed from plate
to plate in an illustrated Shakespeare, he added
that this one poet had discovered and made real all
that was most dramatic in human character and
action. A chauffeur, considered as man, is in no
way more interesting or more useful in a story than
a postboy of ancient Rome would be ; and a motor
car, considered as a detail in subject-matter, is not
a whit more attractive than one of those British
war-chariots that astonished Julius Caesar. Maga-
zine editors will now lift us into the air with flying
men, and will claim for each of their stories a new
Subject, just because the chauffeur on land is dis-
placed by a motor-driver in the air. Mere varia-
tions of subject-matter is to the magazine editor
a new subject. He is quite unaware of the
essential fact that subject is an artistic general
effect achieved by an uncommon treatment of
subject-matter. One important part of that
achievement is individuality of style arising from
self-confidence and from a varied intercourse with
society and affairs. Experience of life has never
precisely the same effect on any two minds and
characters, and the business of every writer is to
employ his own impressions of life, not only with-
out hesitation but with all the art of which he is
master. In this way alone he can arrive at new
subjects—his own subjects—by a selection and
treatment of material belonging to all the world.
Subject, then, being a totality of effect in art, a
chauffeur and “his parvenu employer's daughter"
may be used in one story with disastrous failure,
and in a hundred others with complete success.
That depends on the handling of his chosen
theme. But questions of this kind are too difficult
for editors of popular magazines. They refuse an
“excellent story” because they have already accepted
one “On the same lines, not so well written,” and
therefore inferior.
But when an indiscreet man enters the con-
fessional of his own accord and for the sake of his
peace of mind, he is sure to pass from one trans- .
gression to another ; he has many things to say
against himself, and they all come out. That
editor, for instance, having refused an excellent
story, returned the MS. “with the usual printed
form.” ; he “gave no reasons for rejection.” “Why
should I ?” he asks. Because, my good sir, it has
been your privilege to read an excellent story, and
editors should be courteous to contributors. It is
with stories, good or bad, accepted by yourself, that
your magazine grows rich or poor; the writers to
Whom you send printed slips cannot know what
you think of their work; and this throws a chill
on their courage. Do you suppose that soldiers
would take much interest in rifle-shooting if their
hits were never recorded ? Contributors send you
sighting shots to find out the way of the wind,
and you decline to show your disks. You don't
wish to be bothered.
From first to last your article is full of absurdi-
ties. You “claim that the magazine writer does
get his money when it is due, i.e., when his work
is published.” If you forget to eat your meat and
bread, do you decline to pay your butcher and
baker 2 If you cannot make use of stories and
articles why do you accept them and keep them 2
The author has done his work, as you do yours;
and you have taken his work in a way of business.
Yet you are paid regularly for your labours, while
he has to wait for his money until you publish his
copy. Suppose a cabinet-maker were to say to his
staff, “Your work is not completed until I sell the
things you make for me, and So I can’t pay you at
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present ; your wages are not yet due.” This wild
argument would breed a revolution if it were
enforced in any business except that of the literary
life. All the trade unions would go on strike, and
every newspaper in the kingdom would be on their
side.
It is astonishing that an editor with an experi-
ence of eighteen years should be unable to speak
of his contributors without showing a routine
of injustice.
“After all,” the indiscretions run on, “the
editor is more useful to the author than the latter
is to the former.” Indeed . Unless editors fill
their magazines with their own copy, they must
needs be dependent on paid contributors; and
to equal the contributors an editor must write as
well as they do.
“An editor could always fill his journal by
commissioning writers of proved merit,” we are
told ; and he could fill a cup by pouring tea into
it, I daresay. The unknown writer gets a chance
with magazine editors only because “the writers
of proved merit ’’ are able to ask terms that upset
a balance sheet, annoying the proprietors. More-
over, the public has no dislike for new recruits in
magazine literature ; it welcomes them, as it does
good acting from an understudy. One magazine
of to-day has earned a world-wide reputation by
hunting after new-comers in the fine arts. The
young generation must be treated with fairness ;
and to think of it properly is the duty of all
editors.
Some young writers, with a just spirit, have
related their own personal experiences in The
Author. By this means a defensive temper of
unionism will be encouraged among them, not
without benefit to many conductors of magazines;
but there are editors who do not wish to improve
their routine, and cry out in anger against truth-
telling. One of them, for example, in that article
on “The Editorial Attitude,” complains bitterly
of “the continual unjust and ignorant diatribes
of those who wish to have their contributions
accepted by editors, and who use The Author as
a vent to their disappointment.” Talk of this
kind is childish ; for if the copy published month
by month in our magazines really is the best that
editors can choose and the public will accept, then
Great Britain and her authors are in a decadent
plight. But the truth is that magazine conductors
despise the public and fear those very qualities
that give distinction and personality to the work
of writers. Many excellent things are rejected
only because the British people are scorned by
editors. A little time ago a friend of mine pub-
lished a charming story that made a hit, and he
said to me : “Well, it went the round of all the
popular magazines. None would take it.” Just
SO. That is a common experience ; and it accounts
for the fact that writers of known name, unless
they are in urgent need of money, decline to write
On approval for the magazines.
“There are too many authors,” we are told, “ and
many of them would do better at French gardening
—or paper-making.” Editors and publishers had
a very similar opinion of Carlyle when he tried to
find a market for “The French Revolution.” “I
fear Carlyle will not do,” Jeffrey wrote in 1832;
“ that is, if you do not take the liberties and the
pains with him that I did, by striking out freely,
and writing in occasionally.” Think of that In
the previous year Carlyle wrote to Mr. Napier,
Jeffrey's successor : “All manner of perplexities
have occurred in the publishing of my poor book,
which perplexities I could only cut asunder, not
unloose ; so the MS. like an unhappy ghost still
lingers on the wrong side of Styx. . . . I have
given up the motion of hawking my little manu-
Script book about any further ; for a long time it
has lain quiet in its drawer, waiting for a better
day.” And where now are the business men who
scoffed at the History of the French Revolution ?
Are they lingering on the wrong side of Styx P
Oh, brother editors, be careful and be wise in
modesty Your judgment is very fallible ; your
routine is very deadening ; you cannot afford to
advertise a contempt for the youth of new effort
pleading at your doors.
II.
WE desire to make some remarks on the article
in the last issue of The Author entitled “The
Editorial Attitude.” Several members of the
society have written on the subject, and with
pleasure we print an article by an editor. There is
no need to multiply examples, but we thank those
for writing on the subject. Our correspondents
pick out the same points, and deal with the
editorial attitude on very much the same lines,
sometimes with more sometimes with less vigour.
The writer asks: “Why in the name of all that
is businesslike should an editor acknowledge the
receipt of contributions It would be sheer waste
of time and of the proprietor's stamps. Even if
the precious MS. has been lost in the post, what
has that to do with the editor 2 ”
There appear to be two reasons why editors
should acknowledge the receipt of MSS. The
first because it is courteous, and the second
because it is businesslike. No one desires to hold
an editor responsible for MSS. lost by the postal
authorities, but for MSS. lost by his neglect in his
office he must be held responsible, in spite of the
disclaimers which so many editors are fond of
publishing in their papers.
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Indeed, the editorial position of trust is very
closely connected with another question which is
put forward in the same article. We quote the
writer's words: “After all, the editor is more
useful to the author than the latter is to the
former. An editor can always fill his journal by
commissioning writers of proved merit.”
This statement is entirely contrary to fact and
to custom. The editor, from his position, invites
contributions from all authors. The reason that
he does not commission articles from writers of
proved merit is self-evident. Writers of proved
merit demand large fees which the editor, desiring
to run his magazine as cheaply as possible, is
indisposed to pay. In consequence, although the
editor may order an article from a writer of proved
merit with the object of drawing a certain public,
no editor fills his magazine with such articles. It
seems, therefore, necessary to repeat that, as a
matter of courtesy no less than as a matter of
business, editors should acknowledge the receipt
of MSS. It is because of this lack of business
methods that so many disputes arise between
editors and contributors.
The final point to which attention should be
drawn is the money question. In discussing this
matter the editor seems to be utterly wrong. The
editor remarks that the money is only due when
the work is published. It would be much better
if contracts for literary work provided for payment
on acceptance. It would be better for the maga-
zine, it would simplify the business of the office,
and would prevent many disagreeable disputes.
We should like to point out that legally the money
is due when the work is accepted. If a writer
cares to wait till publication for payment then a
new term is added to the contract, and not a
customary term. “An Editor '' Scouts the idea
that authors have to wait for years. From long
experience at the office of the society we assert
that the matter is one of constant occurrence.
We have known some of the most important
British reviews hold over articles for two, three,
or even four years before publication. We cannot
emphasise too strongly that it is important, as
well as businesslike, to pay for all articles on
acceptance.
These points have all to some extent been dealt
with in article number one, but we desire to add
this further experience of the editorial attitude.
G. H. T.
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IDEAS, AND HOW TO PROTECT THEM.
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BY CRUSADER.
II.
recent number of the Referee published some
remarks on the treatment that writers and
their ideas often receive from playhouse
managers. Suppose our society were to advise
dramatic authors to have nothing to do with a
given manager. What then It is worth while
to see what “Carados” in the Referee has to say in
answer to that question :-
“That, believe me, would not prevent certain theatrical
managers from buying outright for a nominal sum of money
a play by an unknown author who was either too eager for
production or too hard pressed for cash. Of my own certain
knowledge, I can speak of more cases than one in which a
play has been acquired for the price of a song, and not a
very popular song at that, for the manager has sometimes
received on account of royalties for American rights a lump
sum down in advance of ten times the full amount paid to
the author for all his rights. It is to prevent this sort of
thing and to obtain fair and honest treatment for the
struggling dramatist who is not able to protect himself, as
well as for the successful authors, whose interests, and the
common interests of the calling, want constantly looking
after—it is for such work as this that a Society of Dramatic
Authors should be established.”
In this short paragraph we get the whole tragedy
of authorship with its three stereotyped characters.
First, the young writer with ideas, who, after doing
good work, has urgent need of money ; next, the
business shark, who has a rare appetite for young
men of that type ; and third, the unpractical critic
armed with a visionary means of killing the shark.
In this case the justice, swooping to its revenge,
is a Society of Dramatic Authors—at present in
dreamland yet already at variance with the Society
of Authors, concerning which “Carados” says:—
“The Society of Authors, I believe, has of recent years
extended its sphere of usefulness with particular reference
to dramatic authors. But what it has accomplished I am
sure I do not know.”
Yet, it was his business to learn before he ventured
to write in praise of a rival society. But unprac-
tical critics are always apt to forget that unity of
action among authors is essential, and that it cannot
be got by dividing workmen into small divisions.
The separated efforts of several little agencies of
self-defence can never equal the total power of the
writers of Great Britain acting together for a pur-
pose at once common and necessary to them all.
We have had one great writer on work and wages ;
I refer to the late Professor Thorold Rogers, and I
wish that many facts in his books were known to
all authors. It would then be as clear to us as it
was to him that in the long war which labour has
to Wage against capital and privilege the principle
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of trade unionism must be extended so as to
embrace every kind of work, asking us to achieve
the solution of our problems by being loyal to the
simple motto—“Each for all, all for each.”
That is the ideal. But authors, like artists, as
Coleridge said, are androgynous by nature, and
this mixture of female qualities with male is the
cause of much disunity of action whenever the
massed discipline of practical warfare becomes
necessary. I have seen colliers and their families
strike for weeks because their wages had been
lowered by five per cent. ; they fought and suffered
like good soldiers. Would that the same spirit
were in vogue among writers
Unfortunately, there's no end to the caution that
comes to most authors after undue submission has
invited further aggression. Legal action is shirked
at the last moment, lowered prices are accepted
without a struggle, and the excuse always is the
same, “I can’t fight alone. Publishers and editors
would make a dead set against me, and I should
be ruined.” While this fear exists there will be no
unity of action. Injustice to one author must be
followed by a revolt of all his fellows.
But in what way is this revolt to take place 2
Given the esprit de corps of trade unionists, there
would be no difficulty in finding effective ways.
For example, let us take the present fall in
magazine rates of payment. In the case of Some
magazines this cannot be helped, because their
circulation is small, and, consequently, they don’t
attract advertisers; but in other cases the prices
paid for copy should go up, not down. Nor is it
difficult to form a fair working estimate of the
financial standing of each periodical, because a
good many data invite public attention. Consider
these, for instance; -
(a) The circulation may be judged to-day by the
number of advertisements ;
(b) Many advertisements mean a big revenue;
(c) The capital used during the first three
months of a year is re-used in the other quarters
also, so that, when once a magazine has won
success, the financial outlay is small in comparison
with its means of gathering profits in four turn-
overs per annum ; º:
(d) And how does a magazine win such a circula-
tion as advertisers are willing to accept as a
guarantee of business * This essential work is
done by authors and maintained by authors. Yet
we are offered lower prices for Our Work, and if
need compels us to ask for payment in advance of
publication, we may invite other aggressions :
“For misery is trodden on by many,
And being low never relieved by any.”
That is as true now as it was when Shakespeare
wrote his “Venus and Adonis.” But since the
financial position of a magazine is not obscure,
and since the duty of a magazine to its contribu-
tors should be insisted upon, how is it that the
rank and file of authors allow their prices to be
cut down by wealthy companies 2 A frank and
fearless trade unionism would soon find out even
the actual cost of the copy published in a year by
each periodical, for it would call upon its members
to state confidentially what they received for their
stories, and articles, and serials. These data,
arranged year by year in tables and made known
to all authors, would put each magazine under
discipline and cool the ardour of grasping com-
panies. There is nothing so powerful as detailed
facts carefully tabulated.
Recently it came to my knowledge, in a private
way, that a certain magazine had earned a profit of
£20,000 in a year. This profit is worth noting
because it equals an income of 40 per cent. a
year on a capital of £50,000, and this amount of
capital is a great deal more than is needed to
“run” a popular magazine through the quarterly
turnover of the same money. It may be doubted,
I think, whether any magazine uses a working
capital of £12,000, and when it happens to be
successful from the first, the cost of launching it
may be paid off in a year or two, and the profits
of the next year taken as working capital. But
the points which authors have to keep constantly
before their minds are these :—
1. That very large fortunes can be made out of
their work when business speculators collect their
working capital out of profits and so free their
own capital for the starting of another paper or
periodical.
2. However great the success may be, it is won
and maintained by those whose copy is published
month by month, or week by week. It is they
who attract the public and turn a weekly or a
monthly into a good field for advertisers, so that
the rate of payment for contributors should be just
and businesslike, not starved, and pinched, and
sweated.
Yet there are writers on literature who fail to
understand these quite simple and evident matters
of common sense. Not long ago, in a Birmingham
paper, I came upon an article from which a short
quotation may be given here as an example of
wrongheaded leadership —
“The magazine competes at an advantage with
the ordinary novel for the simple but very powerful
reason that it offers the purchaser a vast deal more
for his money. It can do that, and it can provide
tales which bear the names of the most popular
authors of the day, simply and solely because of the
big revenue it draws from advertisers. Whereas
the ordinary novel represents—or should represent
—literature marketed upon its merits, the Ordinary
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TISIES A UTISTOR.
magazine which specialises in fiction represents litera-
łure subsidised out of the profits of commerce. The
magazine publisher is a shrewd practitioner of the
bounty system.”
Was there ever in this world such nonsense 2
And why is it that critics of books like to write of
practical matters a long way outside their experience
and knowledge P. In that quotation we are told
that magazine writers are “subsidised " out of the
profits of advertisements, and that magazine pub-
lishers practise the bounty system | What next,
please ? If that forlorn critic, an outsider in
practical publishing, were to try to set on foot a
new magazine, he would soon write in a very
different way. After appealing for support to
advertisers, he would learn that tradesmen before
they advertise want to know what circulation their
self praise will have. “Is your magazine popular?”
they ask. “How many copies are sold month by
month, and are the sales rising or falling 2 º’ And
these questions mean : “Is your literary matter
accepted by the public P If so, to what extent 2
People don’t buy magazines because of their
advertisements, but read an uncertain percentage
of advertisements because they are bound up with
an appealing kind of literature that they wish to
have every month, or week, or fortnight.” If
there is any subsidising at all in this affair of busi-
ness it is the contributor who, by his continued
success in pleasing the public, subsidises the
advertiser who cannot win for himself, however
skilfully his self-praise may be written, a large
public ever willing to buy announcements of trade
speculations. Magazine publishers and their
advertisers are clearly and inevitably dependent
on the literary contributors. Yet it is always the
contributors who are treated as if they were Dr.
Johnsons waiting for a charitable and long-delayed
patronage from a very protean type of Lord
Chesterfield.
A quite wonderful amount of courteous diplomacy
is spent day by day on efforts to soothe the whims
of advertisers, while contributors are told bluntly
that they must mind their p’s and q’s. Sometimes
they are warned that rejected copy is not returned;
in haughty tones they are ordered to have their
work typewritten, and to send stamped and
addressed envelopes ; and every now and again
some magazine publisher, falling from his lofty
self-assurance, pleads for support from budding
amateurs. Then his tone becomes as follows:–
“The first month of a new year is a favourable
opportunity for reviewing the changes that con-
tinually are taking place around us. The old
year's course is soon run, and a new one comes to
supplant it. As with the years, so it is with writers
—the man who is famous to-day is almost for-
gotten to-morrow, while he whose work first comes
before the public gaze to-day is the man who will
be most appreciated a few years hence.
“The new writer has often been heard to say
that he is never given a chance of displaying his
powers. I wish at once to refute that statement.
Why should we decry the young and unknown
writer? If he has any ability it will not be long
before he has ousted from position a rival whose
name and fame are world-wide. We all have to
make a start somewhere, and I can assure you that
editors are much better pleased to discover a man
of genius than continually to fill their periodicals
with the work of those who have already attained
some little literary fame. It is hard, perhaps, for
the popular favourite of to-day to realise that to-
morrow he will be supplanted by another, and that
he will be classed among the ‘old’; but, after all,
that is the way of the world, and for most of us the
day comes night far too soon.
“I, myself, have a firm belief in the proverb :
‘There are as good fish in the sea as ever came
out of it,” and it has always been my aim to
angle for and catch those “fish” that are still in
the sea.” -
Fish, indeed . At what minimum rate per lb. ?
We are never told. Such outcries for new writers
are never accompanied by a promise to pay a
definite sum per thou. for accepted copy. And how
humiliating it is to see the care with which the
public is asked to prepare itself for the gradual
disappearance of those authors “who have already
attained some little literary fame,” or who are
“ popular favourites to-day” Why should such
men disappear more rapidly than do able lawyers,
or barristers, or doctors, or magazine publishers ?
Whatever answer may be given to that question
by the experience of magazine writers, it is evident
that contributors have reason to rebel en masse
against many grievances—-that is, if they wish
their ideas to be treated with businesslike fairness
and without harmful delays. Let them act together
with full knowledge of the fact that they are the
principal agents of success in all trade enterprises
connected with their work; and let them ask with
one voice for such a regulating of their position as
will put their efforts on a firm business footing.
Consider several points:—
1. Every magazine should be asked to advertise
a minumum rate per thousand words.
2. All magazines should be asked to pay for
copy within a month of its acceptance. . This
would prevent editors from buying too much, and
would stop authors from trusting a market which
holds purchased work indefinitely and yet declines
to pay for it when contributors need money for
their daily bread. Casual work is demoralising
even when it is paid for as regularly as a labourer's
wage; but, under the present system of payment
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deferred till after publication, there is something
horrible in the warfare of literary life. A friend of
mine had recently to ask for money on an article
accepted a year ago; the editor himself was quite
Willing, but he had to consult the directors of a
company, and they refused. “Let the article be
published first,” was their decision, forgetting that
the author would have to wait at least another
three months and meet his own just debts week by
week. There is something hopelessly wrong in the
unionism of literary workers when they fail to gain
same business control over the financial methods of
periodicals.
3. Further, certain companies are compelled by
law to publish their financial position year by year
as a guide to shareholders. But in this important
matter authors are not considered at all, though
their work is invested annually in many companies.
We never know the profits on any particular weekly
or monthly when those companies have each a good
many periodicals ; and yet the rates of payment
which authors are justified in claiming depend on
the profits which their published work yields.
Moreover, when a company owning many periodicals
declares only the total net profit on its business as
a whole, how are authors to know which maga-
Zine or paper is unlucky, and therefore a bad
market 2 -
4. Not less important is that type of publishing
firm which is not known as a limited company,
though it has many partners and is sometimes
driven to borrow money from “backers.” There
is a real danger in firms of this class. Many
partners add enormously to the working expenses,
and in times of financial stress unpleasant things
may happen, not without harm to authors.
Expensive books may be “remaindered ” before
they have had a chance to become known ;
Suggested ideas and schemes may be stolen in
order to give work to a permanent staff; and
slow selling books may be neglected, the money
which ought to be spent on their advertisements
being used for those books which the public is
eager to purchase. In brief, a publishing house
with many partners, looked at from a standpoint
of business, deserves to be considered as a company
with limited liabilities, and also with many share-
holders as represented by authors, each of whom
has invested a book, the result of much work and
expense spread over a good many months. And
all this being so, in what way are the authors to
defend their interests It is important that they
should know year by year how that publishing
house with many partners “stands” financially.
Is it in a fit position to launch books with energy,
or does it treat books as tobacconists treat ounces
oftobacco, reaping aprofit on the gross sales of a year
and turning over the same capital as often as they
can *. These are questions for our society to
Consider with the greatest care.
(To be continued.)
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THE REPROACH OF AUTHORSHIP.
BY W. HAROLD THOMSON.
- 0-DAY, when so many intimate details of the
Writer's work and life are laid bare—thanks
mainly to interviews and the cunning “puff”
—it is a little disconcerting to find the old and alto-
gether erroneous idea that all writers are slothful,
not only existing but flourishing prodigiously.
I suppose that all members of the artistic pro-
fessions have long since given up hope of being
understood, save by fellow-craftsmen ; but that this
should be so seems not only strange but unreason-
able.
By the average person the author or the artist is
still regarded as a species of “shirker”; as a man
who has found a hobby which he is pleased to style
as “work,” and who, even to his hobby, will give
just as little time as he conveniently can. Now, it
is admitted that a man does best that work which
he likes best, and the young writer is inclined to
feel aggrieved when he finds that acquaintances
pooh-pooh his literary labours as nothing more
strenuous than a mild form of play.
The young writer, however, does not take very
long—if he is as sensible as he ought to be—to
crush out of life the sensitiveness which these
criticisms can stir into being.
He recognises that, if he is to be otherwise than
gloom-stricken and self-dissatisfied, he must treat
these criticisms lightly ; must pass them over as
babblings having their birth in ignorance allied
very often with a lack of culture.
The farm labourer who said cheerily to an artist,
“Work 2 Lor' bless ye, ye never did a day's work
in yer life,” finds his counterpart in the knowing
lady who, speaking of some writer, says, “But, my
dear, he is making such a mess of his life you
know ! He absolutely refuses to do anything
but scribble those silly stories and things.”
To the young author–experienced authors are
impervious to it all—one might well say : Wear
neat clothes and a high collar ; go to an office
every day at ten and come back every night at
six, and you will be belauded by everyone who
knows you, as a hard worker—a man who is taking
a proper part in life. On the other hand, go to
your desk at ten in your own house, work all day
and perhaps half the night at the evolving and
writing of stories; do this day after day and
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month after month, and you will still be dubbed
lazy by those who have not intimate knowledge of
your craft.”
I do not contend, of course, that all authors do
work all day or on every day. It is inevitable
that there must be occasions on which the fount of
thought runs temporarily dry ; days on which
creative work seems impossible. But the writing
man who loves his work will stay from it no
longer than he must.
The successful novelists, the authors whose
names are for ever in bold type and are spoken
every day, are accorded, as is but natural, the
respectful plaudits of all who know of them.
They publish perhaps a couple of novels per year,
and the ladies who keep the libraries in life make
comment upon their energy and diligence.
But for the writer who has not yet achieved a
place among the “great" ones there is given at
the best an indulgent smile and a playful rebuke
to turn his attention to something Serious—to get
some “work’’ to do.
It seems to have become almost a creed with
men or women outside the artistic or literary
circles, to refuse to admit that painting or writing
is work. Of course “staff” men are not subject to
this criticism ; they are “in an office.” It may
well be that they do less work than their free-lance
brethren. It may well be, too, that they are making
less money, but they are in “steady employment’’;
they are in receipt of a stated salary.
Those who give their views regarding the lives
which writers lead and the incomes which they
earn are, for the most part, entirely ignorant of the
subject. They are either decided in their own
minds that the author is a lazy but prosperous
individual who is paid fabulous sums for his books,
or that he is an ill-fed and poorly-clothed creature
who is never certain where his next meal is going
to come from. It depends whether these good
critics have been reading puffs about popular
writers or lurid articles about a Grub Street that
has become a thing of the past.
Moreover, such folk, having once taken up a
certain attitude, refuse to abandon it. They will
listen to those members of the literary craft who
are patient enough and well meaning enough to
explain the true state of affairs—that writing
to-day has become a business, and that the man
who can conduct this business properly is no more
uncertain of his next meal than is the lawyer or
the doctor—but though they will listen they will
not recant their opinions.
They know—so they say—that authors are lazy,
because they have frequently seen So-and-So out
walking in the middle of the day, or present at
some afternoon party; they know also that the
story-teller's profession is the most precarious in
the world—have they not been repeatedly told so 2
Probably they have And the fact that their
informants were persons totally ignorant of the
matter does not seem to strike them as important.
In referring thus to the author's financial
returns I do not mean to infer that every man or
woman engaged in writing stories to-day is meet-
ing with prosperity—that is not possible when so
many are thus engaged, who would be well advised
never to pen a word, save for their own entertain-
ment. I refer to the capable writer who goes
about the work in a business-like spirit ; knows
what the public want, and sets about meeting that
want. The writer who wishes to make a good
income is no less business-like in his method than
any other professional man, and is content to hunt
for fame in his leisure hours.
It must be admitted—a little sorrowfully I
think—that the author is but seldom understood,
and is often grossly misunderstood ; and that is
just one of the many reasons why he should have
complete confidence in his own powers, and an
enthusiasm for the work which he has chosen, or
perhaps one should say, the work which has chosen
him.
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BOOK PRICES CURRENT.”
HE second and third parts of Vol. XXIV. of
“Book Prices Current " have reached us.
The former concludes Sotheby's sale of
November 29, 30, 1909, and contains records of
subsequent sales up to that of the 7th and following
days of February, 1910, partly recorded in this
number, and concluded in the third number, which
records subsequent sales down to that of Puttick
& Simpson, March 5 and 6, 1910. Sotheby's sale,
December 9–10, 1909, offered an interesting
collection of MSS., among which were particularly
deserving of remark an illuminated, “Biblia Sacra
Hebraica,” written on wellum in Damascus, 1496
(£56), and an illuminated “Pontificale Gallo
Romanum,” French, 15th cent., on vellum (£45).
3acon's copy of “Concordantiae Bibliorum,” Paris,
1600, with his autograph, “Francis Bacon's Book,
pretium 13/4,” fetched £30. -
Sotheby's sale, December 13–17, of the library
of Mr. W. Wheeler Smith, of New York, included
a collection of thirty-seven different editions of “The
Dance of Death,” ranging in date from 1649 to 1889.
Thirteen of these were Holbeins. The Sale was
also particularly rich in very choice collections of
sixteenth and seventeenth century French books,
* “Book Prices Current,” Vol. XXIV., Nos. 2 and 3.
London : Elliot Stock.
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many of them from the library of Firmin-Didot
and the Beckford collections.
The attention of authors is likely to be more
particularly attracted by the sale (Sotheby Decem-
ber 20, 1909) of the library of Mr. Shorthouse,
author of “John Inglesant.” The library did not,
however, present any very distinctive features.
The highest price was for a copy of the first edition
of Gray’s “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton
College,” 4 leaves, 1747, published at sixpence.
This was sold for £50. The proof sheets of the
first edition of “John Inglesant,” with the author's
manuscript additions and corrections, fetched £32.
An extensive collection of topographical works,
of which forty-four dealt with London, was a lead-
ing feature of Puttick & Simpson's sale of the
library of Mr. R. Hovenden. -
On March 1 and 2 Sotheby disposed of the
stemaining portion of the library of the late Earl of
Sheffield, the sales of the former portions of which
are recorded in Vol. XXII. of “Book Prices
Current.” A first edition (Vol. I., 3rd edit.) of “The
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” a presen-
tation copy to the Earl of Sheffield with an
autograph inscription by Gibbon, “As a memorial
of friendship and esteem the six volumes of this
history are presented to the Right Honourable
John Lord Sheffield by the Author, E. Gibbon,”
was sold for £60. Four volumes of Gibbon’s
Bocket Diary fetched £38.
Many lots of a very attractive kind were offered
in Sotheby's sale (March 21—23, 1910) of a
miscellaneous collection. We much regret that
space does not permit us to deal at length with this
particularly interesting sale. It is one of those
which might be taken as typical of the extremely
interesting and valuable nature of the records
contained in “Book Prices Current,” to which we
must refer those of our readers who would be more
fully informed. The prices of the following lots
are likely to furnish authors with matter for pain-
ful reflections. Blake, “Poetical Sketches'’
(original edition, 1783, containing on fly-leaves
MSS. of three songs by Blake, and with various
MSS. alterations, previously disposed of at the
Heber sale), £11. Blake's working cabinet of
mahogany, £30 10s. Burns' bureau, £600. A
stool and desk, formerly the property of Dickens,
fetched £10 and £13 respectively. The highest
price paid for any book was for a copy, not quite
perfect, of the Editio Princeps, “Homerus, Omnia
‘Opera, grace, Florence, 1488,” £254—a good deal
less than was given for Burns’ bureau. A presen-
ſtation copy of Morris, “The Story of the Glittering
Plain,” the first book issued at the Kelmscott
Press, with an inscription “To Kate Faulkner
from William Morris, 30th May, 1891,” fetched
£17. Authors should remark how enormously the
value of copies which they give to their friends
is enhanced by an autograph. “Book Prices
Current” give evidence of this fact in sale after
Sale.
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A LIFE OF BULWER-LYTTON.3,
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HE life-story of a distinguished author and
man of letters, written by a writer so well
qualified as Mr. Escott, should attract all who
are interested in the literary life of the early part of
the nineteenth century. The parts which the first
Lord Lytton played upon the social and political
stages of his day were not small ones, but as a
writer of romances and plays he will be remem-
bered by those who will have to turn to his
biography to remind themselves of the incidents
of his administration of Colonial affairs, or of
the circumstances of birth and natural gifts
which would have insured him a welcome in
London drawing-rooms, if necessity and ambition
had not combined to lead him further. Mr. Escott
was personally acquainted with the subject of his
biography, and has had the advantage of being able
to draw upon the recollections of Lord Carnarvon,
who, as Under-Secretary for the Colonies, had an
intimate personal knowledge of his chief in public
and private affairs. He has thus been able to go
beyond the materials already made public by
Lady Betty Balfour and others, including those
records of his own life interwoven by the novelist
in his romances. The literary habit of introducing
the personal history of the author and his friends
may not have been peculiar to the Victorian age,
but surely it prevailed in the days of Lytton,
Thackeray, Dickens and Disraeli as it never will
again ; or at all events, writers of their eminence,
social or literary, will hesitate to make use quite so
freely of the material nearest to their hands. In the
story of Bulwer-Lytton and his work as told by
Mr. Escott there is much food for reflection on the
points of difference and of resemblance between
the authorship and the life of an author then and
now. His boyhood, his opportunities for educa-
tion at school and at college would hardly be
envied by the modern youths of his position pre-
paring for a literary career. His love affairs and
his marriage with Rosina. Wheeler did not quite
follow the limes along which modern families pursue
their more easy-going ways, but they afford ample
materials for essays on “Authorship and Matri-
mony” and “Marriage, Mothers and only Sons.”
* Edward Bulwer, First Baron Lytton of Knebworth : a
Social, Personal, and Political Monograph, by T. H. S.
Escott, Routledge. 7s. 6d. met.
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TISIES A UTISTOR.
A list of other topics which might be illustrated
from the volume Would include such old ones as
the relations of authors and publishers and of
authors and critics, and in particular that old
question as to the class from which critics should
be drawn. The reviewer, we are told by some
whose Work has been reviewed, is himself an
author who has failed ; the art critic, an artist
will complain, is a painter Whose pictures no
one Will buy. Others may declare that a
particular reviewer or an art critic has never
even attempted to Write a book or to paint a
picture. When Mr. Escott reminds us that
Lamb threw aside the Waverley novels in dis-
gust and that Hazlitt could not read them ; that
Hunt was contemptuous of Byron ; when We think
of the reviews of Lytton for which Thackeray was
responsible, or recall what Lytton Wrote of
Tennyson : when we read that among the poets of
his time * Lytton cared little for Tennyson and
less $or Browning,'' but that * Hunt praises
Hazlitt, Hazlitt praises Hunt,'' we do not feel con-
vinced that eminent authors Would be the best
qualified persons to review their eminent (or humble)
contemporaries. In an essay such as that suggested
it might be however proved that the attitude of the
modern writer or artist towards his modern rivalis
altogether one of generous appreciation and admira-
tion. Before leaving the subjects of discussion
which arise out of Lytton's career we may ask
whether the prolonged popularity of a play or
of a novel should furnish the better claim for fame
as an author. Is it a greater feat to have Written
* The Last Days of Pompeii," or whichever of the
author's works is now most largely sold in a cheap
edition without profit to his personal representa-
tives, than to have held the stage with ** The Lady
of Lyons " and ** Money " ?
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de la Convention de Berlin autant que cela concerne
la Grande-Bretagne,'' etc.
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Droit d'Auteur formait la suite d'une série
d'autres articles que notre organe a déjà publiés
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the Le Droit d'Auteur to which the secretary refers.
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other countries was summarised, that of Great
Britain should not have been included in a Sum-
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out by the Bureau Internationale.)
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