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's Notices The Society Funds List of Members The Pension Fund CommitteeNotes Books published by Members Books published America by Members Literary Dramatic and Musical Notes Paris Notes Authors Agents Literary and Dramatic Publishers Methods Cinematograph Performances Magazine Con ents How Use the Society Warnings the Producersof Books Warnings Dramatic Authors of = . VOL - ( The Organ the The Author. . PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY ), . 38 . . . . of ." “ at 38 . to by , an , by . , , By Foundation . from its . . 6d 18 of 's of of Action WALTER BESANT 18 Hungary and Switzerland . Austria , , Germany By . 1892 , . ). of . M J. Copyright Bill 1890 With the Berne Convention and the ERNST . 6d . 1s , .S W .] . 's Street Storey Gate . 18 . . the . , , at Queen 1909 , ou Secretary Berlin . , . 6d . Revised , 39 , the Apply to . prices not All [ International Copyright Convention as . of . of . . on , by ' ; Agreement issued by the Publishers Association By with Comments HERBERT THRING and Illustrative Examples Sir WALTER BESANT 2nd Edition Giving the Terms Periodicals and their contributors which different Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS and Contributions Society Authors List Members Published October 1907 price Forms . . 13 . 12 1878 6d in LELY its Byof . , 1888 Publication 2s . Contract A . Committee Record Monkswell Lord Commission the – . of , J. U .D of of of . ( Authors G . 10 of 2s . Copyright Bill LUNGE 11 . An Exposition Report the from The Society Chairman The Reform Law American . 18 . In . of . . G By . of Copyright Extracts 8 . . at - , By . S . . S , , of to . 7 . advice . , 6d 5s . or ., , 6d , , ( - of . .) By . Publication Society the in papers 9 Law SQUIRE SPRIGGE print of ( 's of . Out W By de of of Production Various Methods MORRIS COLLES Barrister Lettres SQUIRE SPRIGGE this work compiled from the agreements proposed offices the various forms Publishers carefully explained Authors are examined and their meaning with account the various kinds fraud which have been made possible the different clauses therein Being additional Addenda the Above HERBERT THRING facts collected the office the Society since the publication the Methods With comments and . . ls . . in vol . to . 6d The . . . . 8 The Cost 3 4 Literature and the Pension List The History the Société des Gens 6 , at . all to to . . 2 . 1 The Annual Report for the current year The Author Published ten months the year Angust and September omitted devoted especially Literary Dramatic the protection and maintenance and Musical Property Issued per annum post free Members gratis Price non members Back per numbers from 1892 10s �ADVERTISEMENTS . The Society of Authors Tolegraphic Address : " AUTORIDAD , LONDON . ” (Incorporated ). Telephone No . : 374 Victoria PRESIDENT . THOMAS HARDY , O . .M . COUNCIL SIB ROBERT ANDERSON , K . C. B. | The Right Hon . THE LORD CORZON OF KEDLESTON , P. C. SIBWM . REYNELL ANSON , Bart., D . C. L . | AUSTIN DOBSON . THE RIGHT Hon . THE LORD AVEBURY , P. C. SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE . J . M. BARRIE . DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD . EDMUND GOSSE , LL . D. SYDNEY GRUNDY . H , RIDER HAGGARD , MRS. HARRISON (" LUCAS MALET ' ). ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS . E. W. HORNUNG . MAURICE HEWLETT . W . W . JACOBS . HENRY JAMES . JEROME K . JEROME . HENRY ARTHUR JONES . J . SCOTT KELTIE , LL . D. RUDYARD KIPLING . SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER , F. B. 8. LADY LUGARD (Miss FLOBA " L . Shaw ) . MRS. MAXWELL ( M . E . BRADDON ) . AYLMER MAUDE . SIR ALFRED BATEMAN , K . C. M . G . ROBERT BATEMAN . F. E . BEDDARD , F . R. S. MRS . BELLOC - LOWNDES . THE RIGHT HON . AUGUSTINE BIE RELL , P. C. MRS . E . NESBIT BLAND , THE REV . PROF . 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HERBERT THRING , Solicitor in England to La Société dos Gensde Lettres. America — JAMES BYRNE , 24, Broad Street OFFICES . 39 OLD QUEEN STREET , STOREY . . , New 'S GATE , S. W . York , U.S .A. �ADVERTISEMENTS . PLAYS ), the money . Construction . . , ) I of to . for .” , . , ) . , . . The Return Richard Carr ." of “ , MISS WINIFRED BOGGS of be Author " 's . By . to 6 popularity Circular concerning The Throne Mrs Barclay stories - of 300th Thousand ” ( . of " . Send , at BARCLAY The Rosary of ). 8 / 2 ' ( net This useful invention enables subscribers bind up number by number the numbers of The Author as they are published and completion the the volume can taken off and sent the bookbinder leavingtheMechanical Binder free for the next volume. 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VERSES BY DOLF WYLLARDE With �BY .) . of . be . an to impression among there seems readers The Author that the Committee are personally responsible for the bona fides the adrertisers the Committee desire stated that this not and could not possibly the case Although care exercised that uudesirable advertisements inserted they not accept and any liability never have accepted Members should apply the Secretary for advice special information desired . be , no , do . in SOCIETY FUNDS . 'S or TROM for in to , of in of a , ; to in ( 1 ) : . be is in to . . , in of , is . . of is , of , be of to at at . to . , of , of It of at 1 ., 6d , of of . in as to to on 7d to be . XXII . be , or . on VOL List Members the Society Anthors published October 1907 can now obtained the offices the Society the price July post free includes elections 1907 and will be sold members and associates the Society only dozen blank pages have been added the those who end tbe list for the conrenience they are chronicled desire add future elections from month month these pages of by the THE A be 39 , , ., of of all invited it , of . . and letters are literary matters treated from Editor the standpoint no other art business but subjects whatever Every effort will made accepted retorn articles which cannot to in he for . , in or , of its , S . W 's , to of Communications for The Author should addressed the Offices the Society Old Storey Queen Street Gate and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st each month Communications LIST OF MEMBERS 6d . to 58 . a if a on of , , to of of to is be in or CONTRIBUTIONS ( 2 ) AND . ARTICLES THE Editor the Author begs remind members the Society that although the paper production would sent them free cost very heavy charge the resources the Society great many members did not forward subscription for the Secretary the modest the year in to , of . of it . on the publishers the names application them is to , have the Society who desire concerned can obtain to of of those members of of or in ' of to of The Editor begs inforın members the Authors Society and other readers the Author that the cases which are quoted The Author are cases that have come before the notice the knowledge the Society and that the Secretary on of . its of time time members the Society desire make donations funds recognition work that has been done them The Committee acting the suggestion place one these members have decided this permanent paragraph The Author order cognisant that members may those funds paid which these contributions may The funds suitable for this purpose are The Capital Fund kept This fund reserve necessary case the Society incor heavy expenditure either fighting question prin ciple assisting obtain copyright reform dealing any other matter closely with connected with the work the Society slowly The Pension Fund This fund increasing and hoped will time cover the needs all the members the Society to case to is of to be the THE as be . of or D papers that are the opinions expressed signed initialled the anthors alone are para responsible None the papers graphs must expressing the opinion taken especially stated the Committee unless such if OR is to . , , be is . NOTICES to it , is . ), AUTORIDAI LONDON be of of . As : VICTORIA ADDRESS PRICE SIXPENCE , TELEGRAPHIC 1911 ADVERTISEMENTS : 374 2ND . OCTOBER [ No NUMBER I' ELEPHONE Monthly Authors SIR WALTER BESANT . 1 . — . . XXII Society . FOUNDED VOL Incorporated , the Organ of ( The The Author . �. 0 0 6 0 £ 0 0 10 5 0 0 9 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 se 0 1 1 1 2 0 2 5 5 0 0 NOOCNO . . . : . : : • . . . 10 0 1 . . , . . ;. . F . C M . :. . . 10 1 2 . E . M . , , - , 1 2 . . . . . , , , E . . , , , , , , , , J. , H . . , 19 , . of , at to 3 , it of be by to up , , . of to on of . ' . to for 8 4 . in on he of . to to in a he . , 's to re - or he as be , , to of referring publisher case the bankruptcy reported which many members were involved practically closed the contracts had either been determined settled He reported the carry out the committee steps had taken in In . be . In in instructious the cases chronicled the last issue The Author one case further evidence was required before action could taken another reported that the defendant had been thrown into bankruptcy and two other cases bad been finally settled and satisfactorily One case infringement copyright started the spring tried before the not could stated the year Long Vacation and another case proceedings of . d 0 0 6 10 5 5 , of , in , be he , in . . of of , 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 & £ 0 10 1 5 5 0 1 1 5 ( 1 2 0 . . .. .. .. . . Arnold meeting before the vacation was held Monday July the offices the society and the committee decided not meet again until October unless business of such vital importance the society came for con negotiated sideration that could not the chairman with the assistance the secretary and the society solicitors The usual vacation powers the behalf act the chairman were given committee the absence the members bringing the Three elections were chronicled total number the year up 154 There were two resignations bringing the total resignations 59 The solicitor the society attended the meeting and reported the cases had hand The first , 3 19 £4 , 377 . . . .. .. .. . A . . . . . . , , , , , . L . A . . . F , 6 3 , Haultain es NOTES last on M 0 0 0 0 121 1911 March HE I 120 6 4 438 132 18 2 247 258 Land .. . . , Colin Fleming Mrs Sabatini Rafael Henry Hamilton Gibbs , 0 96 0 0 228 Donations March . 11 0 0 200 . , , Fitzgerald COMMITTEE in to s .. . . .. .. .. . 31 . % . . . . 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N A . , . , in to — at . the course to Local Loans Stock Glasgow April . of - of to hand declare another pension portant claim forthcoming Consols April 4d . , at be sufficient funds year March March March 7 6 1 24 22 21 20 20 11 10 , , , 9 9 , , , , , 30 16 10 , , , , , C H of , 1 of N the trustees the Pension the society after the secretary placed before them the financial position the fund decided invest £250 the purchase Consols The amount purchased the present price £312 13s This brings the invested funds 377 198 The trustees however have been unable recom any further pensions the mend the payment present exhausted income their disposal They desire draw the attention the members of the society this fact the hope that additional subscriptions and donations there will 5 he February Fund had Hardy Harold Hutton Wilson Albert Ward Dudley March March 5 10 $ . . .. . .. .. .. . THE PENSION FUND d THE AUTHOR . �THE AUTHOR . . of ; for is to to of ; . to in ; to be , , to . no , so of 's a in to to , , to is . of in . . of . , in — , of — be to . ' . , , of , . in , in a of to is , , , to of be for . , , to is a to , of is , , : . of , in of . a of if . , in , in the whole matter . a by of on winding on is of . . for the accounts have been rendered and part the money has been paid but the balance still disputed One has been placed with the solicitors and two are still the hands the secretary Of the three claims for accounts one has been satis factorily settled one has been placed with the negotiation solicitors and one still course agreements Of four disputes two have been negotiation concluded Two are still course Matters this kind sometimes take long time question cancelling the agreement and of as by in of to paid of . . J. E a . ( to to four have been brought close the having been rendered and the money say One has been partly settled that accounts accounts up or , by he in to . to . a of of . , of , is — , if , de , ' on s of to . - be it an at - , . ) of , a - office , . , of all , of . to to to Sub Committee relating the financial side proposal for dramatic agent America The committee expressed sympathy with the efforts promised the dramatists and assist them bearing some reasonable share the cost The date the council meeting the autumn negli but also that their loss due Unless these facts can clearly be established hardly worth while take action when such making copies can great facilities em ployed Authors should always keep copies their MSS Of the seven ciaims for money and the gence . , . to in of a of of . certain amendments the Bill The committee decided refer the matter counsel Mr MacGillivray with instructions report settle be forwarded the Canadian Government from the Society Authors question referred Then followed discussion Management the Committee the Dramatic five have been settled Thus four are left unsettled two the secretary hands and two the solicitors hands Of the seven claims for the return MSS one has been brought satisfactory termination placed two have had the hands the solicitors and two owing the claims being abroad one India and one Australia are still open and two have only recently come into the office Members should not forget that the legal position the case generally not very strong the return MSS not only necessary show that the MSŠ responsible party have come into the hands , . of . a to , of of as of , by of to desirable The Canadian Copyright Bill was then discussed and here the secretary reported the action taken the Société des Gens Lettres and the Société des Auteurs Dramatiques and stated that had received letters from influential quarters America asking for the society support carry through report that in in , in to at be be were received from the committee that proceedings should taken once and that the Swiss lawyer urged bring matters prompt issue should The next business before the committee was the consideration the position the Copyright Bill The secretary reported the steps that had been taken himself the chairman the society and other members the committee The committee was informed the meetings that had been held and the negotiations that had been carried through The secretary stated that the clauses the Bill had been passed Committee with the exception the clauses dealing with the mechanical reproduc tion musical work which would considered immediately He added that had been arranged meeting hold the joint committee that the committee comprising representatives the Society Authors the Publishers Association and the Copyright Association after the Committee stage the Bill was end and before the Report stage The joint committee would then any was possible decide what further action of The Author there placed into the hands be divided as follows : seven claims for the claims for accounts and accounts four disputes return of MSS. ; seven money ; three claims agreements copyright one infringement The average number cases that come the office during any given month from fifteen twenty that the number that has come into the during the last two months shows society diminution Of the fourteen claims for money due authors five have been settled and the cash has been placed forwarded seven have had the hands the solicitors Of these we are glad is in It for the solicitors cases in fresh is There were no England , but the secretary reported that a case which the society was conducting Switzerland had been delayed settlement and instructions Cases . SINCE the last publication have been thirty - six disputes of the secretary . They may fourteen claims for money ; it and costs , court . There was one case of a very difficult nature . which related to a publisher ' s accounts . The solicitor put forward very fully the issues involved , and after careful consideration the committee instructed the solicitor to come to a reasonable compromise if it were possible to do so , and indicated one or two points which they considered should be an essential part of any compromise reached . sum was settled and thefagenda for that meeting were also discussed . 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Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted a copy of “ Pageants and Plays ," by Miss Grace Toplis , under which title the old favourites for shown in November Messrs . Cassell & Co . have included in their autumn list another story by Helen H . Watson , author of “ Peggy , D . O . ” The present story is called “ Peggy, S. G .," and while the former book dealt with Peggy the “ distinguished orthor," this one has to do with her school career - hence the title “ Peggy the School Girl." Messrs. Cassell will also publish , in the early spring of next year , a new novel by Mrs . Watson , entitled “ The Open , the Brevet and handsome gold insignia of “ Officier de L 'Instruction Publique et des Beaux -Arts , having been awarded him . Mr. Dewhurst has spending the summer in France , where he been painting. His work will be has been busily The Queen has graciously been pleased to accept copy of Mrs. Charlotte Cameron ' s new novel , “ A Passion in Morocco . " Her Majesty has also promised to accept a work of travel , entitled “ A Woman ' s Winter in South America , " from Mrs . Cameron , which is about to appear . to Mr. Wynford Dewhurst has received a second mark of distinction from the French Government, of a of quote the July number in a the dedication of the volume , which seems to explain the title : “ I dedicate this book to those who , with me, are gazing in delight towards where on the horizon there shall be dawn . Henceforth , together , humble thongh fearless , we must praise , worship , and obey the beautiful Future , which alone we may call God . " We “ Ashes of Honor ," ended the All Story Magazine . , person responsible for the article , and has no knowledge of the writer . A new collection of poems , entitled “ Before Dawn , " by Mr. Harold Monro , author of “ Judas , " was published by Messrs. Constable & Co . in July . in E. not the is a A. of the name known that she ", under be , unimaginative , esteemed . writes stubborn , hard ; but upright , by his world as exceptionally just and sagacious . Edith C . Kenyon 's historical tale , “ Two Girls in a Siege , " a Welsh story of the siege of Chepstow , is now being issued by the Religious Tract Society in sixpenny edition . their Miss Kenyon ' s serial , ambitious a Authors — who Jacomb , desires it to Dean Maitland , ” in the Isle of Wight . The main interest is the effect of strong spiritual emotion suddenly awakened by a missioner preaching in his own kitchen - on a prosperous middle -aged farmer , “ stories , and will recall to Mrs . Ellis ' readers her Neighbours ." book , “ My Cornish Messrs . Stanley , Paul & Co . are the publishers . The Anti -Socialist League have republished and circulated an article from a Socialist paper , over the signature of “ A . E . Jacomb. " Miss A . Jacomb -Hood — a member of the Society of �.R .H . H , 's as . Co . & H “ . . W , of . , of . to . , in . of on ." “ of , to , , in of of a a . . . , is by a , .” Co , “ A a of “ “ A ." ", 's ” , " ; . or a of " from whom de . of of , recently Verse been issued Mr . and by has , Prose " edition : second De Libris of . Co . by . a all of to , , . in to it of , & be Paul Austin Co . & . . . an , Dobson with illustations by Hugh Thomson and Kate Greenaway The new issue has addi tional chapter Messrs Macmillan are the publishers Mr Martin Secker announces the publication of . , and of song Queen , The Webb this the humour the Renaissance and adapted the clear and sparkling the grand siècle He was closely touch with Boileau Racine and Molière and his story remark students must therefore appeal able period French literary history The volume published immediately will Messrs Stanley possessed period style . , in . K Stanley copy . .C by. , W by published H A .M , is ", . . of , , to in is of produced Museum Street was graciously accepted He . a in of la chosen Jean Fontaine biography the subject her latest volume La Fontaine has unique place French litera ture He stands between the old and the new of Frank Hamel has . - and he - of of to . “ the corsairs . the characteristics descended A , in “ , of bride a of ” by a of . “ her lightly The Buhl Cabinet consists cynical old French number letters collected marquis from women whose marriage had proved incompatibility through failure tastes temperament Stories from Algiers are subtle study day who retains many the Algerine “ on , “ .” of ” on conventional is to in 's of to a In of of , is ." It , he a of in at , is he , , in ", “ A . . ", to of . by and , . , . , by , ' 's is It ." “ and his pretty “ 10 , volume form Irene Osgood latest volume Blood and Other Stories includes Blood Moon The Bubl Cabinet and Stories from Algiers The titular story tells devoted wife who surprised her husband and his paramour discussing Mrs Moon of to a to is . of . , in , “ 's September Vagabond tells their life the New Forest which time introduced the Genius the woman artist his mate The second edition this book has just appeared Gallant Wales the fifth song Miss Everest bas & ", It . is , be , Sons published Boggs new story City the author first novel since she won the Daily Mail Prize Novel Competition 1907 Vaga Richard Carr for The Return City opens bond the honeymoon the vagabond In “ ” . of by on “ of " a , Stanley “ of , “ 's “ 's . of , an in to by ”, Co & . P . G Putnam Miss Winifred 20 Messrs Paul “ , . de by in . ' A be at immediately them a - ., on of , . of of on G published time Miss Wyllarde has decided collection number hitherto unpublished poems Wyllarde has entitled the book simply Miss Verses The volume wbich has photogravure frontispiece also published Messrs Stanley is of . Co . , " « a Frederick Niven volume short stories which he has published through Mr Martin Secker None the stories has been published previously all them having been rejected editors mainly the ground that they would not appeal the public The author has therefore put them before the public volume form the hope that the proved erroneous editors view may new novel Harold Avery the author Every Dog his Day Week the Sea entitled will Paul of he & of ” “ of . . to & for in is A Association the agricultural and commercial problems sugar beet growing and beet sugar manufacture the writer rural subjects who guerre uses the nom Home Counties has been published from the Field office extends more than 400 pages and contains hundred illustrations The aim the author discuss impartial spirit difficult subject Above Your Heads the title given by Mr time from publish adding as a , " At . of . in , of of as “ ", a Archæological work of A . ; , , of of “ on of a literary connection since the foundation that 1889 Miss Edna Lyall book Derrick Vaughan and Mr Ditchfield English Villages were the two first books published that house He also editing the Journal the British firm was also accepted the Wales new humorous novel entitled Hodson Voyage from the pen Mr Koebel appears from Stanley Paul Messrs Of recent years Mr Koebel has been better known taking up fiction writer books travel but again has returned his first love Mr Koebel has not however abandoned the writing works engaged travel and the present time passing the proofs new book dealing with up country life New Zealand which has entitled the Maoriland Bush based his own personal experiences and observations and includes intimate descriptions the humours and tragedies the fascinating country the back blocks response desire expressed by many readers Miss Doll Wyllarde novels for the complete poems from which she had quoted her stories copy another Prince he . & Co . , , “ , " of a for Messrs . Mills & Boon . He has also written , History private circulation the Dawson Family Yorkshire Berkshire and America compiled from family papers letters and documents being the publishers Messrs George Allen For the same firm has long been engaged upon large work England the Counties review their history and records This will appear this autumn two volumes the same time his Memorials Old Gloucestershire will appear one the volumes the Memorial Series which thirty volumes have been published under his editorship Mr Ditchfield has also undertaken write two more books for Messrs Methuen who have been his principal pub many years and with whom he has had lishers by THE AUTHOR . �THE AUTHOR . by . on . In of to as is ” , , of 's 's . “ act E , . , du . , . , . , , In a on “ 's " . at . . of in in of . to is of . , M . , , be to as - be . . . . to do to to . for do - , : “ do a . M , by , ." of to . . . . to is - , of on ." a be for of of . “ its - of . , to , of . : 's , , In .” . “ , . , , , a of , “ at . a at an in 's , an to in Paul Reboux and René Blum have therefore issued manifesto from which we quote few extracts Our friends not borrow our pictures our cushions and our knick knacks but they ask our books We have not the courage refuse lend them and our volumes disappear and not return our shelves Every borrower may considered one buyer less whilst every would borrower whom we buyer gained refuse our books may French writer commenting this movement says Public libraries should course be encouraged those who cannot buy but well to people who only read books bought others should be discouraged One the objects fight against help everyone the League sponging friends the tyranny A is .” , at by its is , . on , , In Bathsheba Miss Hilda them do - , . In , . , ", order become possessed the piece were Miss Eille Norwood Dick and Mr Thomas Holding league has been founded France entitled The League against the lending books One the chief causes the recent crisis the undoubtedly book trade the ease with which people obtain books read without paying for NEW of , by , ", de le " as at “ the Imperial Theatre Moscow which known théâtre Molière Russe Hope The Cecil Raleigh and Henry Drury Lane Theatre Hamilton was produced last month their latest sporting drama the impecunious peer and authors find their hero the play takes title from horse which representing the only chance saving the peer house from ruin called The Hope the caste are Mr Cyril Keightley Mr Lyston Lyle Miss Fanny Brough and Miss Madge Fabian Mr Hail Caine new play The Quality Mercy was produced the Theatre Royal Man September 4th chester The play has for intrigue similar central theme that recorded Scripture whereby King David disposed in - . ”, . at , “ by ’s in Theatres Madame Lydia Yavoiska translated into Russian Prince Vladimir Bariatinsky and accepted for production been Uriah PARIS NOTES , . . , , . Kingsway has . of . 25 , , on , ” a " E Temple four acts Wales the Prince July The caste includes Mr Dennis Eadie Mr Holman Clark Miss Agnes Thomas and Miss Daisy Markham Mr John Pollock play Rosamond which was produced London last season the Royalty and at in play was produced caste Lyall . of . . . , . , . Sally Bishop Thurston Theatre were Mr Gerald Maurier Mr Miss and Maude Millett Miss Swete Henrietta Watson was Man and Superman Mr Bernard Shaw Septem short run the Criterion for revived ber the caste were Miss Pauline Chase Mr Robert Lorraine Mr Guy Standing Miss Florence Haydon and Miss Agnes Thomas the 28 , is in a is - ) * » . ( of in of 29 1805 and the play The period the neighbourhood Pomander Walk comedy which the the centre Chiswick The dramatist introduces many character studies caste included Mr Cyril Maude Mr Norman Forbes Miss Winifred Emery and Mr Frederick Volpe June , on , in , ” , Pomander at . 's N comedy Louis Parker three acts Walk was staged the Playhouse . “ to . DRAMATIC Mr by to . 's inst 12th Mr. Henry Arthur Jones ' new “ The Ogre ," play , was produced at the St. James' Theatre on the 11th . “ The Ogre ” is the head of a house hold , and is given this nickname by his wife and children , who are in open rebellion against him . The dramatist describes the method by which the The caste his household . “ tamed ” husband E. A. Sir George Alexander , Mr. included Valentine, Miss Kate Matthewe, Mr. Sydney Cutler , and Miss Gladys Cooper . Mr. Alfred Sutro ' s new comedy , " The Perplexed Husband , ” was produced at Wyndham 's Theatre , The play opens with the return on September 12 . of a tea merchant from a visit to Russia , and the first shows the nature the reception given him his wife This lady has apparently during her Doll House Ibsen been reading perplexed husband absence and the husband the best way meet the situation which has owing arisen the effect the Norwegian dramatist the relations between the pair , on . . & 's of Michael Barrington 's new book dealing with Grahame of Claverhouse , Viscount Dundee . In this work -- the result of long study of the con flicting elements of Restoration and Revolution politics — the author shows the intrigues of 1688 The book contains also a vivid in a new light . picture of the Highland campaign . New military maps , an itinerary of the Highland campaign , and a copious bibliography are added to the volume. copies is The ordinary edition of nine hundred There is also an edition de issued at £1 108 . net . copies , numbered fifty to luxe, strictly limited The price of the copies and signed by the author. in this edition is £3 38 . “ Nine English Consorts of Foreign Princes ” is the title Miss Ida Woodward new book which the Methuen Co are publishing Messrs to 10 �THE AUTHOR . Salon Carré was thronged with visitors , and certainly never have any nails attracted more attention than those upon which the favourite picture had hung so many years . The doors of the Museum and many of the rooms were guarded by policemen , and very strict measures are being taken in order to prevent the repetition of a similar theft . A great lover of books adds : “ I quite approve this wise initiative , and I would add that, in order not to be impolite , when it is a lady who wants to borrow a book , a man has only to reply that . it shall be sent to her the following day .' He can then buy her a volume without giving up his own copy . Tactful people will soon take the hint , and this will teach them the way to the book shops ." We may add that the office of this new League is at 42 , Rue de Clichy , Paris , the annual subscription In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire by Jean -Louis Vaudoyer “ Théophile Gautier " ; by Péladan , on · La Joconde et le Saint Jean , " and by Dr. Gustave Le Bon on “ L 'Evolution are articles three francs , and that each member receives a little engraving on parchment to place on his bookshelf . This little card is intended as a polite method of explaining that books cannot be lent . . M an . , - a et on “ . his” ." “ of to . M , , . ” Le byAt " “ , . ” du M “ , . , in of . . , he , on in St . to . of M a . “ of ." . . an ). ) . ). ” ” (F ” ( ( ). 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M Monprofit Boulevard des Italiens Joconde from the The disappearanee necessary institute Louvre Museum has made this celebrated picture gallery various reforms the asquelle Ville inconnue Douceur vivre Calmann Lévy Humour Humoristes Fischbacher Italie contemporaine enquêtes sociales AUTHORS in by , a , the commemoration astronomer Astronomical Society the French Foundation his twenty five years ago and the publication first book fifty years ago The artist Zeitlin has been commissioned presented him design the souvenir which three hundred pounds have already been Over are received subscribed and further subscriptions On “ “ de , “ , a of of a l' “ Contre alcoolisme the title book Joseph Reinach which he shows the terrible France ravages made alcoholism Camille English work the admirers his Jubilee take part Flammarion may like presented the souvenir Fête when by and the ALYS HALLARD ." , . It is a of as . , . H . by M An . Noailles extremely instructive book has been written Joly result mission with which the author was entrusted for the Académie Italie entitled Morales des Sciences enquêtes sociales The volume contemporaine great amount reliable information contains Italy life about the social conditions great , onet is . of of is , - a a , - ' de s - of . In " et by “ Mme their Abel Deval announces for his adaptation Mr Pickwick theatre The outdoor theatres have had brilliant season account the exceptional summer Camille open Sainte Croix has obtained permission his Shakespeare Theatre the Cloud Woods probable that but account the delay obtaining this will now wait for next season . . ” to be , " of “ 's , . in A of In de , Armstrong is It is open The theatres are beginning doors for the winter season At the Comédie Française Cher Maître Le Goût vice have been given Jimmy mysterieux Renaissance on , in of 's of ”, is . , d' ' d La “ of of a of of ” ). , “ Sonia et ses amis ” ( Emile une etrangère avec préface by Paul Adam Berr Ville inconnue one the most remarkable this author books story the French Africa and the influence the climate and surroundings certain officers very dramatic episode the French army the arrival two officers an aeroplane Tinayre Marcelle new novel La Douceur many vivre the qualities her Maison Péché are found Some her descriptions too are very fine Humour Humoristes the title clever book Paul Stapfer this volume we find Henry Fielding another important study study Jean Paul Frederick Richter Anatole portrait France work and well drawn cahiers by latine du Socialisme . ” In the Revue de Paris are “ Lettres de Danemark Allemagne Francois Coppée and article by Lieutenant Colonel Picard Sedan Maurice Muret writes Antonio Fogazaro son Oeuvre and Barbe Doukhorskoy gives chapter Souvenirs les Among recent books are petits 11 �as . so an or of ; of is , is It is , to 's , it be an . , . , , of ' ' , in is of he . , to . , on if . as , 's , in ; is a an an , he be . If, to is , to in in a , , , . to , If goto of , . be to . . , it . in , or is of 's of , he to to to of , , in , if of be to at ; , be , in to . is be , , is . of . be he to is is , 's - of , . a of of . be to he is to in in a be to on , be on . be . , . to . is if In . in a of be , at any terminate the contract time he dis position satisfied with the agent and must moneys obtain control the collection of - no is a . 's a a is to , of to In some should very often success one author the detriment another handling may author whose work The first point the contract between the author and the agent Here again the agent must be carefully watched permitted He must only draw his agency charges contracts actually com any pleted him He must not allowed agency fees circumstances claim introduc position tions merely The author must by be , as a to be of . an is as . , Though again carefully watched He publisher under the thumb He not infre principal himself and has the quently deals pitting one power the very woeful power against another giving thereby author work exceedingly to in certain be , it is . is . is To he . in an to is another article Next the literary agent authors his work essential as , , , . 's is is it , to cases and agent circumstances essential will well consider first the position the agent and the dramatist The dramatist should careful not principal deal with any agent who buys work marketing his own work He should careful agent pure and simple and one that the agent quite independent managers and syndi who cates Next the agent remuneration Sometimes the fees from successful play reach very high figure such case there reason or dealt with in so do or , , a is it If agreed a is an , is to of authority that certain some independent is - of at is of to or to . to market his takes , . , of he , a on , and even enables author dramatist own work who could not other even those authors who employ wise Indeed agents will find the society help essential begin with there the contract with the agent which most serious and important matter and very often necessary that the continue work the agent and the contracts advises the author make should be carefully gone over by own work step — is to a to of he To . is useful place their own literary those who undertake and dramatic work the Society Authors essen tial because the knowledge the disposal the society contracts and prices which prevail any dramatist useful author who markets his This where the Society of use No doubt however after useful made the agent can collecting fees After he has collected the full sum expect for his work placing the entitled play the agent might perhaps allowed small percentage for collecting the subsequent fees but necessary the author ought all times able moneys himself insist upon the collection subject the claim the agent his commission any still unpaid and be free terminate the agreement case for any reason dissatisfied doing business with the agent method case the agent has broken any part his contract This matter the greatest importance rising dramatists but space will not permit necessary the subject must into further details every Authors would the contract 's to of a , if , ; , so , agent full per He will be take to that the contract between the dramatist and the good contract for the dramatist but many cases the agent unfortunately chief wish get the contract off his hands and with this give the author end view sometimes inclined bad advice therefore author employs agent cannot too careful about watching manager , . a . ; of own wares , can be free the contract lasts any one play reach paid his fees £500 These are hard statements facts indeed already stated the paper full these quite possible that statements author accept them without fuller dramatist may refuse evidence without some reason being forthcoming stating nothing The writer which not fully cognisant and could most cases from the authors and dramatists points view show that the deductions made are irrefutable The agent perhaps would traverse them agent Of course should business see is , on . to . a is , do his and has time market them without the assistance the agent literary however loathes the business side heavy output that work has such cannot spare the time and hates the trouble then the literary If, he market amply he , to be - to is of , To or ? managers influence bear the agent may no doubt be useful So far for the dramatic agent The literary agent comes next There are many more reasons why the author should employ literary agent than the dramatist dramatic agent The markets are enormously wide there are many rights be which marketed and there are many markets ignorant but again man the author sound man business and does not object long to is to . , six of , , be all of aid It , . a or to or , up by of no personal an agent should centage if is a by by ; by . to , is exceedingly limited the competition exceedingly strong place The only way dramatic piece persisteni personal pressure obtaining per personal sonal introductions and the things influence wherever possible and above keeping good heart easy would quote five six cases dramatists now well known who had wait for seven ten years before they could get their work accepted This process forcing the strongholds the managers not always pleasant but then how many roads suc living cess are dramatists who happen abroad some distance from London who can get why be . - to to as is is own does not need one. In any case , the dramatic necessary agent not dramatists as the lite rary agent the author The dramatic market his THE AUTHOR . 12 �THE AUTHOR his . is an . of , 's , at be to , a , in of . . , , to to to asking The agent therefore may behalf the publisher for smaller rate asking pay than behalf the author The effect upon the author rates cannot such circumstances fail disastrous agent sometimes allows Other rights which rights sign away are dramatic author To , . of , of , to , An is he an to . it six price on in 's , of , of a It of . in to a himself as to the skill of the translator , and competence for the work undertaken agent who An author who employs also employed publisher may find that the agent endeavouring sell his work different prices keep the author the publisher has no reason 's a If . ( . in ), be , It gives the agent great deal place trouble work America takes longer and the agent like all men business out make money quickly agent ought give and make obtaining the American good months attempts market for author before obtain effective veto over the translation of his work which from satisfying is made , and has prevented him , the be with an work to agent ' s to the is these examples publisher is referred to only , and not the position of the author working for himself . The agent constantly tells the author that English books will not sell in America , and that it is no use to try to copyright . This statement obtain American again , is inaccurate . No market is better for the author than the American market book touches the American market and all good literature England should universal for one copy sold Again the agent four would be sold America point advises the author from his the agent view and not from the point view the author by all a trouble , but at one stroke has secured for himself commission on four books that are not written books which might not even have been placed through his agency in the ordinary course of affairs . In one word , the agent benefits at the expense of the author , and thus sares himself trouble rather than advantages the best interests of the author. The next point is the question of the United States market . It must be remembered that in more for the book if he is allowed this wider control. This statement proves utterly false in practice . The really serious matter is this , that it is not the publishers ' business to carry his . labours beyond the publication of the work in book form ; that he cannot , therefore , have the same power to market these minor rights that the agent has , and , in consequence , is bound sometimes himself to place these rights in the hands of an agent , sometimes in the hands of the same agent who made the contract which gave them to the publisher . It is exceedingly dangerous for an author to employ an agent who is also acting as agent for the sale of works or rights controlled by a publisher . Moreover, in allowing the publisher to have translation rights in his control , the agent exercising any has prevented the author from can do so much he of to them is enormous ; there is one clear fact , and that is , that if the agent can make one contract serve for four books he has not only saved himself a good deal of and the danger of yielding but , if them , sometimes as high a fee as 50 per cent . of whatever sum the rights realise . Thus the author has to pay 50 per cent . to the publisher , and then another 10 per cent . of what . remains to the agent . The position is , on the face of it, absurd . Why does the agent do it ? Because it saves him trouble ; and he tempts the author with the words of the publisher , who asserts that he handling to better for the author if he has control of all his future work ; that the publisher cannot advertise one book to the same extent as he could he has the promise of three others ; that it takes away from the author an immense amount of worry if he knows that his contracts for the next four All these statements are false , books are clear . so much .up . The first point relates to the practice of binding the author to the publisher for future books . It has been a growing custom of agents to pass contracts of this kind , and the agent puts forward the usual temptation which the publisher has whispered into his ear , that the publisher will do as is them with an American house . There is one further point in regard to markets in which the agent is very strongly to blame , and that is , in allowing the publisher to handle all the minor rights . These are serial rights , translation rights , Continental rights , etc . Not only does he allow the publisher to handle these rights , which it is his business as agent to handle , but he allows the publisher to charge the author for on This naturally leads one to consider some of the contracts which agents do advise authors to sign with publishers - contracts which cannot be con sidered fair to the authors , though they may save the agent a great deal of trouble . And this , apparently , is his only reason for recommending 13 the British market . If then he has failed he should still not give up trying , but should attempt at the same time to market the work in England . What happens now is, that as a rule , acting on the agent 's advice , the author lets the American rights go to the English publisher who sells sheets to America , and this , from the financial point of view proves a better bargain for the English publisher than to allow the agent to place the American rights an order to do so he must forbid the agent , in any circumstances , to put in the contract with the publisher a clause giving him , the agent , the right to collect the moneys under the contract and to give a receipt in full discharge , a constant and most reprehensible practice . . �THE AUTHOR . or to at so , . of be , . do . , ; if a of , an so . to of . ' to , a he he , 's . to on By . of of he , to a D of to to , is is of , it is by . to of he , 's on to an . in on , , is “ to , is of is , .” to 2, term mis statement week before made radical , . - a , mildest only a , is to use the has perhaps , He to to , making , in , , In . ” no into his by in “ of to alterations the knowledge the secretary one his unalterable contracts fact the practice one house grew quite notorious the proprietor benefiting forcing unfortunate authors The authors doubt had other writers renown publish ing with the same house and naturally drew the deduction from the publisher statement that these authors were publishing under similar agreement Another phrase frequently the mouths publishers These agreements have been settled King Counsel and approved the Publishers , of , curious that such a is It Association ' by “ is , in of . a 's , of . contracts seen the names ." , , to . as as . 's as some happen this house never varies As bound society with this kind 000 members cases are constantly brought the secretary who able once show the author that the publisher of of a a he if , he , if objecting author very stiff clauses his agreement not infrequently my printed agreement from which says This 's . . , to , an , If, is , . for to the author publisher A , by in , , an be to be 't , in he a to ; in ; . , to : , , as as , up , of of to be . in ; in . , an to If To to able without restriction collect royalties agreement with when criticising publisher he pointed out that the clause he proposed inserting dealing with his own position was bad gave the reasons clause the author and clear and concise then the author would have no complain signed the agreement reason But the agent never draws the author attention the clause and never gives the reasons Never employ principal agent who deals agent well ments : , are often strangely neglected There are not merely first serial rights rights but second serial rights the colonies America and the provincial papers Indeed any real value ought the real literary agent and communication have enormous field knowledge and possible ubiquitous far preferably don agent sum use employ one very careful you are bound your contract with him Never give him too wide control never give him uncontrovertible authority any circumstances allow collect moneys never your publishing agreement him insert clause denied that had made this wrongful use the society name and was only brought conviction being confronted with his own handwriting publishing There another method employed houses which while not damaging the reputation equally with the one the society injurious already mentioned the business settle in a to at to both . to commission years ago the society was forced complain because publisher had more than one occasion submitted authors agreement which form stated had received the approval the society this means signature which certainly obtained the author would not have obtained had the agreement been referred the secretary When the society remonstrated the publisher at on , he , it in If he , an he , if pay COME by a . an to go . 's 's of .” to it “ ), if an in a , I ask If . have Serial rights a an is . is as an him ( In to to be , . - will agents an PUBLISHERS METHODS , , an is . , to It editor and he desires stories from certain mentioning names perhaps not even authors gets his books offer will try draw the author into his hands and even times from drawing another agent does not succeed may mean that the author away from the agent by which by to an a of of to on a as as . , to an It . , may act the author who rejected does not have agent naïvely remarked fair run addition large income but author who brought determined cut down his charges such offer came me should naturally give the author who paid the highest agency fees This may point business from the agent view exceedingly dangerous from the author Or again the agent may sometimes round agents 't as 's to be It ' s . in as few a frequently happens that not agent for editor will write serial story certain length The agent sitting his judgment seat will act the proud arbiter which his very clients shall have the order This position dangerous for however straightforwardly the agent the author , an to is , is is . position This then the agent between may author and publisher worth while position with make remarks the agent the editor he an as try to is . he as ; to to to coin money and never employ an agent who also acts for a publisher . Be careful that the agent is permitted only to collect moneys on contracts made by him during the continuance the agency Never allow the agent have indefinite contract that may moneys some future date able claim contract that you yourself have made some other agent has made for you merely because he has Finally against introduced you the principal thickly round all these difficulties which cluster the employment the agent author may guard becoming himself member the society employ agent but you Don watch him to such assignment would seem so absurd that it would hardly be worth while to mention it were it not the fact that such cases have occurred . Naturally , the publisher will get many rights merely legitimate can That business but that the agent should allow author concede these rights criminal for he there protect the author and not assist the publisher allow on a 14 statement �THE AUTHOR . to on to . if 's by of fee up . of of 4 3 is It . . 50 , is , be of be . of as to to at to . it as . is is , or , of . , he , on to no , . , a , a is a of a to in — is it , 6 . of an in on 5 - be in as is so . 's pleasant run to , a no is , . an on It of , it , is , of . it of ' , as a of is , a in doubt enables the publisher other people money unsatisfactory clause although great number publishers agreements saving Publishers assert that arbitration money This not usually the case the arbitra Clause appears is , , ) or of to of to to as be few comments detail the faults his business is of of or be to be , pass explain eighteen months arrangement which in 7 a . to up , . on If or , .7 - it well to to by , in of be , to 6 . - and if , or to be be 5 . of - be to ( , may these clauses difficulty matter draft clauses position and the same house has meet such occasion altered its unalterable agreement giving the author this essential control nothing further need be said save On clause royalty that no circumstances the basis publisher remuneration should author allow the owner the copyright only necessary point out clause January that the book were published not an unfavourable month for book publication the author would out his money for over twelve months This indeed not bad some agreement where posssible for the forms author be kept out his money for nearly . to of , of if , . to so to , of of or , . in , on Perhaps date from time time the the disposal the writers develops only one person who should have control There over these alterations That person the author Under the clause stands he would be bound have the book revised by another hand revise the publisher demanded such revision even though the writer might deem the process wholly unnecessary . of . of or of In 4 . - ofin an to up to to , to , 3 . to — to . of , per , or , , of of , in for of In of Clause the event the publisher realising profits rights rights production from the sale translation plates from claims serial rights other countries copyright fifty infringement cent the net amount such profits remaining after deducting all expenses relating thereto Clause The author agrees revise the first and necessary edit and revise every subsequent edition supply any new matter the work and from time time keep the work that may be needful date Clause the event the author neglecting revise edition after due notice shall have been given him by reason do the author being unable the event revising and preparing death otherwise the expense each such future edition for press shall borne the author and shall deducted from the royalties payable him During the continuance Clause this agreement the copyright the work shall vested the publisher who may registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly Clause The publisher shall make the account annually December 31st and deliver the same the pay author within two months thereafter and the balance due the author March 31st any difference shall arise between the Clause publisher touching author and the the meaning this agreement the rights liabilities the parties there under the same shall referred the arbitration two persons one named by each party their umpire accordance with the provisions the Arbitration Act 1889 brought knowledge to or of of , , . 2 of . - , of of . , of in of - 1 . - of Clause The publisher shall during the legal term producing and pub copyright have the exclusive right lishing the work the English language throughout the world The publisher shall have the entire control the publication and sale and terms the sale the book and neither the author nor the publisher shall during the con tinuance this agreement without the consent the other publish any abridgment extract translation dramatised version the work the author and contracts made without consul equally tation with the author absurd absurd that for mere agency business the publisher per cent should allowed Clauses and the are both dangerous from the standpoint writer technical books The great majority technical books dealing with modern science require Asbe is It to . to of . , view 's , The . of point if agreements from the author only were extremely bad print some necessary the clauses show how bad they were character It . on . to a certain The agree The books technical from - agreements two to one week of a In publisher were offered authors very similar lines ments were be published were important books further limitations , limitations to a certain number of editions or to certain countries . If such a licence had been granted , then the publisher might have been , under clause 2 , allowed an agency for the sale the rights mentioned under contracts signed and approved the anthor through introduction the publisher obtained That the publisher should have the exclusive place these rights without reference licence even to instructions of his client ; and if the client is the Publishers ' Association , the agreements will be settled wholly in favour of the publishers . This , indeed , was the case . The members of the society are referred to “ Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers ' Association , with Comments , ” published from the society ' s offices. In this pamphlet the whole question is fully dealt with . It is necessary , as these incidents recur , that they should be recorded , and as the secretary of the society has recently received further evidence , the following facts are laid before the members . inherent in them . Then the publisher ' s reply to the author's remonstrance can be discussed . The first clause practically transfers to the publisher the copyright , and this position is further confirmed by clause 5 . As under clauses 1 and 5 the publisher holds the copyright it was , perhaps , unnecessary for him to insert clause 2. It cannot be too often repeated in these columns that the publishers should have a licence to produce the work in book form only at a fixed price only in the English language . The clause might receive to should not repel rather than compel . The author , however , does not always grasp the fact that a King 's Counsel will settle an agreement according to the 15 �THE AUTHOR . 16 tor 's fees have to be paid has also been claimed way settling disputes some and unsatisfactory , as well as the other costs . that it is an expeditious Generally cumber The only real advantage the publisher that which that publicity The Still depicted - The Greatest Fire .” to an of , an of . , , of a in of , a in a a be , of it he a of . , of , he . to CONTENTS . . BOOKMAN By Walter Jerrold Barry By William . “ 's ." . and , be still authors may . , be , is position untenable but probably will deceived Harriet Beecher Stowe Napoleon Fournier Dr . 's . an , to . , if . is of a , to , to to thought portion MAGAZINE a , it . . to , might held that play cinematograph exhibition where there was payment was within Upon the facts this case however the statute opinion that the defendants did not was place represent the piece dramatic entertainment HAROLD HARDY Sone day copying . it .” to all , A in 's a - to is of “ of to to to , to , of : a the contracts from this very house been brought the society been criticised and altered suit the author requirements and make such state ment the face this fact not only unfair the author but serious matter for the reputation the house Besides the agreement had given satisfaction all parties there surely would be no The publisher for arbitration clause need of a in by . . , in no of which we quote letter from agreement The form one which we always give and which experience has proved satisfaction concerned would be statement more extraordinary imagine impossible Over and over again have lise on a in it no be of , to , , ment received following extract , a it , . of to to to view at — by all Alarm On 's of is by . a to as of an “ ever - is so he it is is 's . . of — — Scenes our offices Evidence was given witness who bad pur attended the performance with view chasing the films and gained and this was contended behalf infringe the plaintiff that there had been shuns by arbitration warning necessary ment their dramatic rights the fire scenes other authors Some the clauses might have been passed the play yield gracefully some was virged that there could for the defendants author who wished copyright protection advantage the publisher but the majority mere scene and cinematograph was not that the representation author should the clauses quoted are such that anyan infringement of dramatic rights enter into any contract allow them publisher circumstances between himself and the Mr Justice Channell said that was not neces sary exclusive decide whether the plaintiff had the secretary the author wrote On the advice portion drawing the attention the play the right the representation the publisher against anyone who might exhibit the films his astonish difficulties above mentioned and It By . of Expression . A : . Book MONTHLY Literary New Mode Wanted Adam Gowans Whyte . . . . G . . E . ) . . , . . L . By . Renascence K . Celtic . Arthur Hill J. Agnostic Spiritualist By NATIONAL an of an The Creed the . ) 06 0 , F . addressed J. All letters respectingAdvertisements should BELMONT Paternoster Square, London per cent for to , E be .C of a , 110 per inch per centmade for Series Sixand TwelveInsertions. Co ., 29 , £4 0 0 0 0 .. .. . . .. . .. . of of of a a a PER CENT .. . . . 3 OF THE SOCIETY .. . . . 0O0 6 7 15 MEMBERS 20 TO ( of 20 in of . an , , : Reduction & . “ an ” In of in it , a ' . in ” at in ALLOWANCE Front Page Other Pages Page Half Page Quarter Eighth Page Single Column Advertisements of 25 “ SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS , a , connected with dramatic piece entitled The Still Alarm which had been originally performed England the United States and subsequently the Princess Theatre 1904 the plaintiff produced new version with two fire scenes respect added and was these scenes that injunction was asked for The defendants who are manufacturers cine matograph films issued advertisement the following terms . of to ( of FORTNIGHTLY Some Aspects Moutgomery . of to to of of , as a an of ", to as , ENGLISH REVIEW Wagner Apel Letters his Schoolfellow Words Thomas Hardy By Vernon Lee The Handling . to , of to “ a be of in this case the meaning seems dramatic entertainment likely appeal the subject stay execution was granted and the Judge appears have given special importance the question payment injunction The plaintiff claimed damages and restrain the representation certain scenes decision place S . C . COMPANY of POLYSCOPE . . SELIG . THE v . Literary Genius GLENVILLE CONTEMPORARY By Count Japan de Soissons By De Montmorency J. The Pictorial Art of PERFORMANCES . CINEMATOGRAPH �THE AUTHOR . HOW TO USE obtained . But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society , THE SOCIETY . 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 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 . N VERY 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 , the document to the Society for examination . send 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 . (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 withont the advice of the Secretary of the Society . Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents , and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society . 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements . This must be done within fourteen days of first execution . The Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members . 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80 do some publishers . Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly . 9. The subscription to the Society annum , or £10 108. for life membership . is £1 18. are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement . There are four methods of dealing with literary property This is sometimes satisfactory : , if a proper IY . The (1.) ( 2.) ( 3.) price can Agreement . A Commission : 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 . be , General. All other formsof 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 . A void 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 means . ( 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 WARNINGS TO of copyright . DRAMATIC AUTHORS . 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 . EVER : UTERE it Outright . 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 approximately the for an author to ascertain truth . From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author . N TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. 1. Selling II . A Profit - Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement ). In this case the following rules should be attended to : ( 1. ) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro duction forms a part without the strictest investigation , ( 2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs , or by charging exchange advertise ments . Therefore keep control of the advertisements . (3 .) Not to allow a special charge for “ office expenses , " unless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American , Colonial, or Continental rights . rights . (5.) Not to give up serial or translation (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher . As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or doctor ! per WARNINGS H 17 �THE AUTHOR . STAMPING or Society this . be a . is , of it , of . . , , . is as of a one guinea . fee is , the . to REMITTANCES . of to of by by be , be or , give potice the Society hegs post are acknowledged return All remittances should crossed Univn London and Chancery registered Smiths Bank Lane sent letter only . . the same charged for The Secretary that all remittances of . be filed subject play will to of to . . 6d 23 . of a be at a Plays may also with the exception that per act the price , at at be in of . of Original rules 's to . . assist in greatly BRANCH its work by informing young writers existence Their MSS can read and composition treated treated by coach The term only MSS includes not works fiction but poetry possible and dramatic works and when under special arrangement technical and scientific works The competence and experience Readers are writers The or a a byof to , of in typewritten duplicate foolscap paper the offices forwarded the Society together with registration fee two shillings and sixpence will qualified assis be carefully compared the Secretary tant One copy will be stamped and returned the author register Society Copies and the other filed the the may any time by the scenario thus filed obtained typing the author only small charge cover cost . in is EMBERS will , . , on QCENARIOS 6d of ' THE READING branch REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND ORIGINAL PLAYS MUSIC . The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on per 100 part behalf of members for the fee 100 The members stamps are kept the Society safe The musical publishers communicate direct with the Secretary and the voucher then forwarded the members who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble M 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 . 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 , publisher & rule the musical 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 he warnings stated above . ITTLE T L of . MUSICAL COMPOSERS . TO its the beginning WARNINGS its 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 authors should seek the advice of the Society before putting plays into the hands of agents . As the law stands at present , an agent play may acquire who has once had a in his hands a perpetual claim to a percentage on the author ' s fees placing plays from it. As far as the of 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 . 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 , should be carefully for collaboration 9. Agreements AGENTS . AND RAMATIC , 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited , and are usually limited , by town , country , and time . This is most important . rights , but 6. Authors should not assign performing should grant a licence to perform . The legal distinction is of great importance . AUTHORS , 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 . DRAMATIC of ( 6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on vary between Percentages gross receipts . 5 An author should obtain a and 15 per cent. 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 . right or of a licence to (c. ) Sale of performing perform on the basis of royalties (i .e., fixed nightly fees) . This method should be always except in cases where the fees are avoided likely to be small or difficult to collect . The other safeguards set out under heading (6. ) apply also in this case. . 18 �THE AUTHOR . GENERAL NOTES . NETT . so in to its so as be it , it do , of a of , at , as be a of . of to in , in of . . 2s . 8d " “ . to If . in a is of ” , of be be , of on be to be It on 5s . . on a . 3s . 2d 58 . a . . 58 " “ at “ of of — It , so is on . , , , of , , un ; in in be a to a he in , If an . ” a “ to ” a “ . - of to the author COPYRIGHT LAW . in to is . be as , a It . , 20 on Copyright Law came into The new Russian force March 1911 marks consider able advance upon the previous legislation but might far from being such wished Copy The following particulars are interesting right accorded all books published is It RUSSIAN . THE NEW is . to is a it be It . to to as of is . subject nett published price without getting some quid pro quo the publisher wants make such alteration should make corresponding increase the royalty payable is is to of up and bestirred themselves not for remedy the evil advise them how part their own business find the cause and the remedy But clear fact that unless something done speedily and with judgment the Colonial market will lost both for English books and magazines . that the books outright but apart from anything , , . It , no , . in It , - is so to . , it an to , , on to of to of a to as in of , . to , of of , . to glad we shall their account though little sorry for the earlier writers may even this the series are being purchased this particular case which may possibly render our comment necessary we would add for the general informa tion writers that they should never when making their agreements permit any alteration sular Report that the American magazines are also pushing the English magazines out the market owing This doubt again some fault the English distribution really time that publishers editors and magazine proprietors is us a to be - is , at , on a it , ; it to THE COLONIAL MARKETS complained from time time the poor sales English books authors the Colonies and have pointed out that this appa rently due the supineness the English publisher and the activity the American book agent The latter one occasion went far induce Australian bookseller allow him may be taken for decorate his window and certainty that he did not decorate the window with English books We now regret see from the American Con We have woke on , ; of , . its to or in , of a , its without interest While we not for one moment question the justification price the alteration suggest that the author should share we the increased returns which will accrue the pub consequence lisher the change forty As the alteration extends over series books that increase cannot dismissed as insignifi subject cant Whereas 5s book the returns the publisher would probably average about per copy the nett book they would come something like per copy out will clear from this that fair royalty book might subject issued rather poor one may issued nett course that part production the increased cost due demand for better terms the part the writers produced the books yet the series , . its of its of ; confusing tation we notice that over forty volumes far have been issued the lower price and seems us that consideration the matter affects the payment the writers may not do to as of a so it an , be supplement issued The that members the Society may have opportunity studying terms During passage through the Commons the opposition Bill met with considerable amount wholly unexpected quarters from indeed from many whom one might have thought would have actively supported principles Apart from various details there are two main points which will make the passing the Bill the greatest benefit authors the first that will join enable Great Britain the Berlin Conven tion the second that will bring into uniformity copyright which present the law scattered through twenty more different enactments making highly complicated and interpretation , will at it , of House of Commons . One or two small amend ments , however , may be necessary . The Bill was ordered to be printed on the 18th of August becomes the present year and when increase in the cost of production of the series, the publishers had found it necessary to change the price of the volumes from 58 . “ subject to discount,” to 5s. nett . As it is conceivable that some may retort that this alteration in price is a matter entirely between the publisher and the bookselling trade , we think it desirable , in the interest of authors , to point out importance the writers employed the manu We do with the less hesi facture of the series to to say more about the matter until the Bill has become law , but there does not appear to be any vital reason why the Bill should meet with any violent opposition , and be altered to any large extent from the form in which it emerged from the . congratulate We the Government on having carried the Copyright Bill through the It would be inadvisable House of Commons . Books . DISCOUNT AND recently LOOKING down the literary column of a contemporary , we noticed an interesting announcement respecting a popular series inaugu publishing rated by a well-known house . The announcement was to the effect that, owing to an to THE COPYRIGHT BILL . may law Author 19 �THE AUTHOR . . it to so a " “ to , no . it in of , its in , of to “ on at is it . to “ ', . of 's , on a . . in at , COMPULSORY an 1847 Act was under the short title the Colonial Copyright Act 1847 more frequently known however the Foreign passed , , as , , Reprints Act to passing : ., 5 & 6 of , in the By section the Act Vict which Act covered all the Colonies the importation into of a , . The circumstances that led this Act were follows 17 as of , a Thurston joined the Society her greatest success that which up . . L . B . M LICENCE . UNDER of 1 . . THURSTON Mrs of REPRINTS ACT AGAIN . of By TN Katherine Cecil Thurston the Society loyal member and Authors loses firm . , an a on a , an ofof it in - at to to , be , " a of , a if . a it . us to an of - THE LATE MRS 1 in on . to of FOREIGN ROYALTIES friend the full flush , a . a of to of so As “ . a a be THE , ARTISTIC The International Literary and Artistic Asso sequence consequence announce that epidemic must Rome reports be without foundation be admitted which appear have taken place this the congress which was postponed and held Rome autumn will the Easter week 1912 TN is , . of , of . to , so . to a , ” , AND ASSOCIATION ciation ask reports , a , is it I It LITERARY INTERNATIONAL or of to , , it , to an back for Mrs Thurstou did not begin write England till she came and record that throughout girlhood spent entirely home she publication never wrote line with view may doubted even her closest friends knew much Mrs Thurston methods work however curious fact that The Circle book which was much her first long novel and by the critics though praised and commented gave no promise of the immense success of its short story immediate successor was founded early imaginative effort which was which , on an to is be to to in , . , of to to . G . . , is ineligible knew was that which her readers liked the least refer The Fly theWheel close and way very powerful study phase Irish country interesting town society This story was throw It . are , or in a a , . . a is . a is he of , in , or of is or , , if ; to fact is , an - in of , . COMMITTEE that The Author does not appear August September we only now Lady position the election chronicle Ritchie and Mr Bernard Shaw the Academic Committee join the Com Lady Ritchie the first lady congratulated mittee which may election sure which meet with general approval and put may also serve the discontent felt end had been and expressed some quarters where assumed quite erroneously that the women were in to of . of as as of ACADEMIC the . of of . of to as as of THE Owing discuss herself and her work which Even often typical the literary temperament her books and her intimates she seldom spoke stranger would certainly have been possible for have been acquainted with her for considerable And yet time without discovering that she wrote great clear that her work must have meant The Circle her stories from deal her Each showed marks conscientious care and onward she once told the present writer that when engaged absorbed her new book she found that everything the exclusion else This doubt the Irish home she work was why she preferred loved well than when living her ordinary life London often happens the one her novels which most closely reflected the life she desire foreign author three months imprisonment , in of . of a of , In of These translations enjoy the full copyright but the translator cannot forbid term Except stipula other translations the case the contrary author who has sold the tions copyright his work may publish another edition print any case the work out soon tive years have elapsed since the date soon preparing complete the first edition his works three years after that date edition punished with minimum Piratical publication followed the publication of “ John Chilcot , M . P .," and she very early showed herself one of those writers — it is pleasant to think there are many such — who take a generous interest in the work of those less fortunate and less successful than them selves singularly agreeable Mrs Thurston possessed and gentle personality Her dark glowing beauty was the type one associates with Irishwomen She and her voice was low and exquisitely clear the very natural the exuberance had none . . is a , . If for Russia , independently of the nationality of the copyright is for author . The duration of any restrictions ). life and fifty years ( without Transformations of novels into dramas , and vice versâ , without the author 's consent are forbidden . five The exclusive right of translation exists years only translation made within that copyright limit the translation has ten years the case simultaneous publication several languages all the works enjoy equally the full term copyright all foreign Russian translations the works may be published without the consent on 20 �THE AUTHOR . , , , an for , . of , a a and . , on to a . ' , so , to , of in to I in of am to 's , to of of by am , I , CHAMBERS 281h July 1911 SIR directed the Lords Commissioners His your letter acknowledge the receipt Majesty Treasury payment made you the 18th instant respecting copyright account the Colonies reply express their Lordships regret that every case the has not been found possible trace respect far which payment was madle but books they have been able discover them the details are as follows , . . of ) ) Unknown Unknown The Christian Eternal City Prodigal Son Eternal City Prodigal Son 1903 1906 1908 8 The Christian 10 , to The Christian 1897 1898 1900 1901 1904 1905 ( ( , Jamaica to to transmit the House of I to a of am of these payments further explanation the Order Return the enclosed copy of are In copyright . a , , , .” a of to is of and owners Foreign the Act has proved complete failure copyright works have been largely introduced of Duty Collected : is it authors it of , in sat as , far British Bermuda , . in at to it , in So concerned reprints Work in , to of the standpoint Title Copy inoperative the author the papers and figures were given show how operation ineffective was impossible The reference these figures quote find the moment but sufficient from the Report the Royal Copyright Com mission which 1878 from Date and Place of Entry delusion this Act was pointed out to “ These of The Law measures were next and the whole thing little better than From time time the absurdity " so , “ the author of right of the words be collection the different Colonies that the might carried out properly but of authorities . to to of . , so , all , of paid TREASURY in . A of 's to to a of . to to , , a adopted the Actin fact the important Colonies with the exception Australia did Under English books were bound the Act the publishers catalogues forward the Custom House percentage Colonies involved and the copy the Act with : - , in as of be , by of be paid royalty the author This really grant amounted other words the right buy the author sell and the right books under large number compulsory licence Colonies is in abeyance . The absurdity of the whole situation has again become prominent, and has been brought to the notice of The Author by Mr. Hall Caine , who recently received a payment of 8s . 10d . as an amount due to him for royalties collected under this Act . explanation and Mr. Hall Caine wrote received from the Treasury the following reply setting out the statement printed below with Act of is , , in to , , , in , by in The complaint was partly , no doubt , genuine , but to a great extent , especially as far as Canada was concerned , was put forward as a political move . The author has always been the slave of the public , and as such is liable to be robbed of his property , first by one constriction and limitation and then by another ; so in this case , with a show of justice the Foreign Reprints Act which still many Colonies was passed enabling the force suspend the prohibi Crown Order Council tion against importation into the English Colonies of English copyright works under certain conditions one the conditions being that certain Customs duties should collected the Government the Colony adopting the Act which duties should In circulating libraries , which did not exist . It will be seen from this quotation that if the Canada is left out, there is from contribution nothing from the other colonies , and practically eren the sum received from Canada is absurdly small , taking into consideration the number and popularity The Act is still in force in most of the authors . of the Colonies ; but as Capada refused to collect the duties some twelve or thirteen years ago , as far as that Colony is concerned the Foreign Reprints it Colonies complained that they were unable to get English books . Canada was the chief complainant , as she saw the United States with their piratical trade flooded English to works which she was unable with obtain ; but the complaint was strong also in the other Colonies , because those who did read wanted to buy books , as they could not borrow them from into the colonies , and notably American reprints into the of Canadla ; but no return , or returns of an Dominion absurdly small amount , have been made to the authors and owners . It appears from official reports that during the ten years ending in 1876, the amount received from the whole of the nineteen colonies which bave taken advantage of the Act was only £1, 155 133. 2 d., of which £1,084 13s. 2 d . was received from Canada ; and that of these colonies seven paid nothing whatever to the authors , while six now and then paid small sums amounting to a few shillings . as the Colonies of books unlawfully printed was for bidden , without the consent of the copyright owner. Ar Owing to three causes , firstly , the rapacity of the pirates , who had no authors' royalties to pay there was no United States Copyright Act in those days , and International copyright was difficult and involved ; secondly , owing to the lack of enter prise in the Colonial book trade ; and thirdly , owing publishers , the to the supineness of the English 21 �THE AUTHOR . : ., in 's to to of be to , be 11 & 10 of of . at is - it . , to — . in of of in a , of in , , is It . in of to , , a . as of 's . in is a , in in to is ; in , be . to to of , be on 's an It of , be as a in a in in . is , of it , in so in to as . all , , to 's to on the - a to made clear Even with the protection which the Board rights guard Trade may invent the author will almost impossible follow the number placed different reproductions the market be . or 48 to on be on . . a of be us of to to , it in It . “ 15 on 88 , to , , of is in to it a to in of , Mír may ni , as , , to , of in , to To . " , us , . on , . it , , In . the society that is of , a of , to , of , , of to of , of of to to to • to July 29th this letter Caine replied He stated that he had forwarded all the papers the other by the author but Government and the royalties that much the collection not makes the compulsory licence impossible but the compulsory fact that the licence What has proved such distinct misfortune the past slightly different circumstances will most prob ably prove distinct misfortune the future and may that the author will obtain little his true and just returns under the clauses the Bill present under discussion he was able who under the Foreign Reprints Act it -g time such works receiving the duties imposed transmits The Colony them the Treasury and that Department distributes specified them the respective copyright holders the Customs list Until 1881 was the practice the Treasury distribute thesc sums however small but that year was decided they retain small sums until accumulated minimum of £1 reduced 1903 108. view however the numerous small amounts due the various copyright holders and the time winich had elapsed since these sums were collected was decided this year pay over sums amounting the aggregate over at at , of Good Hope and these Colonies becoming of it of on , in be Cape . to Canada effective The Ordinance the Colony fixes the amount the protection and the title this protection depends upon registration the work the name the holder and the period the copyright with the Commissioners Customs list supplemented from the Colonial ports who issue to the unfortunate author who was freely true that the consequence robbed the compulsory licences which there are two present Bill refer Great Britain and Ireland only but possible that they may cover good many But this fact gives well the Colonies little hope that the compulsory licence will be point less dangerous from the author view than the past was All who have studied the Copyright Bill know that compulsory licence twenty five years after there compulsory and the author death and there the unfortunate composers unlimited licence reproduced by who care allow their works mechanical instruments argued that the two course will the that the least parallel stances are not be collected by the one case the royalty it . Grenada The Ordinances Natal ceased self overning time the benefit is , . , Vincent Trinidad obvious that the Governments the Colonies were hopelessly incapable carrying out the Act satisfactory manner for was separate it is by , , , as - :. . and . . St Good Hope and . . Natal , St . . St . of . Canada Cape copyright properu property necessary however with this idea and length Mr Hall that we have set out before the com consider the application Caine case pulsory licence the present copyright legislation is in in , or or in in by . . British Guiana the passing obtained from the new Copyright Law will be that this absurd repealed Ordinance Victoria will along with numerous other Statutes dealing with 's to an as , so Newfoundland Lucia Christopher Nevis collected very sinister of , of . . c . 95 in ) to in . 11 ( to 10 & be of beor , , . Mauritius 10d casts One satisfaction co , , to of 36 ), of of an , , to to . Jamaica nine books light the licensing clauses the Government new Copyright Bill showing that the receipts the descendants authors during the years free licensing will hardly sufficient probably pay their washing bills years eleven Itn 42 . of .c 40 , ( of 39 of in of in in Antigua Bahamas Barbados Bermuda at I to amounting COLONIES . THE It IN COPYRIGHT Under Section the Customs Laws Consolidation Act copyright foreign reprints 1876 and Vict works which notice has been given the Commissioners Customs that the copyright subsists are prohibited from being imported into the United Kingdom Section 152 the same Act also prohibits importation reprints such works into the British Possessions abroad but adds that this does not prevent Her Majesty from exercising certain powers vested her under the Act the colonies amending the law relating the protection suspend British Copyright Works Vict certain cases such prohibition These powers were that should the Legislative Authorities any British possession disposed make provision for for protecting the rights that Possession British authors such for that purpose Act Ordinance and pass Ordinance should submitted for approval Her Majesty and provided that reasonable protection thus secured the British author Order Council should long the Ordinance remained be issued declaring that force the prohibition against importing selling letting possessing such out hire exposing for sale hire regards foreign reprints that should be suspended Colony the following Colonies Authorities The Legislative duly passed the necessary protective Ordinances which have been confirmed Orders Council , its working and ended comments on the Act and his letter with the following words afraid the statement you are good enough per cent send me representing duties “ . T . L . HEATH general body of British Authors what the small payments represent . ” He passed some drastic am , Commons , dated the 25th of August , 1857, and of a memo randum prepared in this Department , which my Lords trust will be of use to you . I am , Sir , Your obedient Servant �THE AUTHOR . to at “ of , , , in of in to , ” it , a a — , is ; in “ , , is to to . To us " of all on in on a an a a be at , six -s a of a is . It a or , , be a is to . ; of an of as of an on , of so on . is , , . of , by or of , . to is a few system of thriving years has finance which on to of to in ” - is . “ a is . on in a to 's a all , course the built many palatial offices then , Why it, , in it , living with is in if , " of with the majority , in as , “ , to be of . well , it , , to . of , . from book that takes much time and infinite pains are your publisher object while use the year and same working capital thrice earn buoyant profit each turnover You are godsend your stricken but your work publisher You know the kuock out small ready go editions while your publisher a , to of a , to no , at of , to far fares very outlay about £30 not more than The author gets about much under good agreement and upon that he cannot live during five six months work his needs publishing citizen are opposed the finance Royalties The opposition too fundamental £115 of in a ? , in . , to obedience the belief that British homes are alms houses filled with paupers And newspapers too are trading with the property dead authors ring the hope that they may able the ordinary publishers Meantime you will note profit . , of - of of a of in I If . ' ? connexion the book market where classic authors beg pleadingly for pence and danger ha pence the classics are not now our own work what else are they One trader dead copyrights saved fortune royalties pay he knew £500 000 He had which classics had the greatest vogue and was large easy boom them into the market reprints and wheedling prices till the little copyright books seemed not only high retail cost by comparison but wrongful also Many publishers do the same thing now and each tries undercut cheapness the dwindling standard of so an he . in , to . by of this after a week without anything to eat . Oh ! In the battle the books the war the classic against their humble successors dead knock outs are not the the least enjoyable least those who know how they act and how they lapse with are financed allow copyrights out paying royalities the State not only giving subsidise the simple great ones gone them unfair advantages market competition besides that which bad enough endows publishers with fruitful capital vast property excellent books freed from royalities and from the need much advertising and this penalises the daily efforts made by ourselves living with royalties author earn good and the little editions the royalties must price rationally high else will starve even profitable interest when his publisher banks capital trifle not all bad trade when hilling novel publisher prints and sells edition thousand copies gaining thereby If , . is , be it a of in with skill hand think with the frenzied competition copy is greater than that in the large classics ; and yet these reprints royalities , while to -day ' s own are exempt from books cannot be , as authors somehow fail to live without food and shelter , though many have had experience in the school of long hunger . I can recall a time when stale dry bread was delicious the cost per reprints of popular a to , , old a of in a may awed into imitation and unfreedom great things accumulated riches Goethe counted himself lucky that inherited array weak German literature believing that classic authors equal the English would have cooled his own ardour and hindered that growth character which comes from thinking freely and acting independently And who has not observed Italy how the deification the old masters has enfeebled modern art among race men wonder fully equipped nature with quick perception and and by And another point is this , that when new copy right books appear at a reasonable price they are published more often than not in little editions , so a CRUSADER . as BY THEN a type of society becomes ordered and V intricate , it retains a great deal of work from the past and produces many new things in a traditional manner ; then market rivalries between old products and modern efforts bring in their train many evils of their own . To speak figuratively , the young harvests have to grow in fields already occupied by corn which time has left unreaped and unharmed . Yet they are expected not only to strike root under the shadow ing protection of the push corn but their way upwards without being stifled till they ripen the sunshine free air Children are lifelong competition with their parents spared but the generations are not for they inherit much living genius that the present ever the past also a WORDS ON EXPIRED COPYRIGHTS . FEW A Already there are copyright novels at sevenpence the copy , not reprints , but first editions , yet not two writers in a hundred can hope to earn bread by royalties on that price , being in constant competition both with lending libraries and with reprints of Dickens, of Scott , of Thackeray , and of many other perennialists . Besides , however low prices may be , the public is soon tired of their repetition and begins to think that they are expensive . writers . a when any pirate who cares to may begin manu facturing with little or no fear of detection , and with still less fear of conviction . 23 that the State favours the �THE AUTHOR . for . a of ; of a to all . it be - , at us a all - " - “ to in . of , to in up , no . , is ' of to .s in a in , , , ; , So . . a ; a to as is to an of , a as on a of ? , of to a , be a of , it is a of ! as ? . it ; as to is is in he , is , - in , of copy his work everywhere Yet this great Englishman and copyright their generous no many others had of at it by is in to . of in it ? , it to valued and each Chaucer himself . . a in . on a by since , to fewof a to of is , , of ? her laws all , in no is by - - short lived copyrights granted by. of to to to a 's a Why does she not enrich her her self interest Exchequer charging royalty her classics buy the And why does she not forbid publishers he a . 's in a of of is a of . of point And there another vital interest Since Great Britain from the first claims every authoi property allowing him only the use years why for small term she not logical family neither lessens the land nor makes barren Mother Earth and true genins are equally stable property and equally bountiful the distinction between them that genius merits the greater protection since the permanent worlds built belong for time the rare workers who are once new and antique and the contemporaries example all the ages For Chaucer more day than marketable far was his own time lives all countries where poetry , , to up the requests other nations the extension protection the period life and fifty years and the domain blessed compromise this certainly right grant illogic For the State has many forms perpetuity ownership property very and limited ownership others Logic and justice demand that all property civilised nation should enjoy under the law the same protection and the same privileges , . in to , to is It fructiſying value nation life and trade Lord Alversione hopes that Great Britain will support ' . in a in to , 1, on , a to principle the following that the property copyright and literary work belongs the author pleasant note that Lord Alverstone gladly admits that books and copyrights are property and that this property belongs those who call them into literary presence and give them of s , to thoughts produce took from those cloistral books were manuscripts and few copies circulated among the religious mainly nunneries and monasteries then Shakespeare they belonged own works were never his own England from the first farthing and not royalty has yet been claimed by the Exchequer from the publishers and theatre managers who have property traded with Shakesperian How com pletely different this from the legal protection granted from age family age such the Cecils whose landed estates have passed from heir heir gathering increase value from the progress nation Could anyone break through hedge legal theirs without incurring risk punishment And why that land which nature provides mother for the nursing all living creatures should property handed family than are any more real and more native imagination fruitful works Had Shakespeare England would have lost inestim died child great able riches whereas the extinction a a of be to , ? English expect fitted ages when as in If of , , . He would girdle around the world each generation The Lord Chief Justice November 1909 expressed the hope that Great Britain and her Colonies would do all their power draw the civilised nations together common accession new that the printing press , of in an . , of or cheap put He could not diminutive flurried seas all things invaluable this connection think the difference between Shakespeare and the great Elizabethan landowners The dramatist from the inheriting the laisser faire copyright first had for , to be it , to . the petty national ownership wealth ; of of if a , , si which she has gemmed like anything meagre right while koock out the author cannot landowners and other property holders can bequeath and entail their estates without any regard for that poverty born ideal which sets before To of . , do . it if if support very few votes would given their present tyranny over the new breadwinners overwhelming literature Milton would lead opposition seconded by the rich common Shakespeare sense of Latimer and Johnson would he not say oke aſter many invitations England ought ever that the mind repetitions piece with the many herself with is not to her advantage nor to that of authors that rich tradesmen should be able to force the weak hand of poverty ? Many publishers bunger for copyrights , and needy authors become the victims of that appetite , being unsupported by their self-made legatee , the State . These anomalies , too , are in keeping with many others . It is said , for instance , that properties of authorship are such inestimable gifts to mankind that the State is justified in claiming them her people This sounds like principle Socialism applies property the many forms having more than temporary and personal value It Why hand to the injury of authors ? over to him all expired copyrights in order that he may issue them in reprints so cheap that they dis credit the rational value of new productions ? It can no longer be said with any semblance of truth that the people need such cheap reprints , for the poorest of the poor can well afford to read borrowed books in these days of free libraries. Besides , the first duty of a State is to cherish within each gene ration the hopeful courage that acts well , and the higher aspirations that quicken and enlarge the singing birds mind You cannot have aviaries you honey not feed them nor hives full you smother the bees And we may depend upon into the House that we could suininon parliament Commons the simple great ones Tennyson and Browning gone from Chaucer of publisher to 24 �THE AUTHOR it , an of ." “ . no of by , is so to in of . — of . . an it In of a . , . in it : to at aof . its , of be “ by of to of at , ." of of . to it a of to . of in — - to a its to to ; a by he to . , to . , no , A on as , 's its , or . of , . . , . be of to , a . it . a in or , 9 us of — , as of of , to , , in , . in , a - , of of encouragement an ; , in as a to a , to , , , to , as a as potential profits than budding talent the main deal with authors favourites with the reading eye rather upon publishers desire already established public Speculative risk must beyond dispute play part the launching unfamiliar names upon the book market the quality their wares apart Although then such have suffered the a a , “ or of . a on ", in , . an philanthropic in in in as to , of as 1 If portraiture Casting to fact that the sorrows poignant the full the present ever they were the past no writer eminence has testified with greater force than the late George Gissing whose novel The every man New Grub Street woman who com templates embarking literary career should study closely and ponder deeply the experience the present writer whose first attempts that direction were taken twenty five years ago may be accepted corroboration the masterpiece book should stand faithful Grub Street are to of o T the plain unvarnished is do by in " . of as a to it it . A FREELANCE . 's an ” a , at - in In “ " . to an a in . of , . , a be as , ' , - to s , in an to - a a to to as , , or , if a , , of by in as to a to at we up , To be as old of SORROWS OF in The following incident may serve illustrate Having completed this point short story during the month March 1893 the writer submitted respectable weekly which the following July present purposes we will call The Flagstone During interval was promptly returned four years the manuscript thenceforward fulfilled destiny rolling stone gathering moss Then the writer impelled one those curious impulses which errant human nature liable presented for the second time the journal previously which had dealt with uncere monious fashion The sands the year 1897 rau out did those 1898 and the story neither came back nor appeared The year 1899 repeated the process its predecessors Respectful enquiries elicited curtnotes evasive tendency Eventually affairs were brought climax After interview with the editor early 1900 the story made his subscribers belated bow June that year was paid for For four years had been post tossed about from pillar for three had languished sort backwater without either rhyme reason account for fate manuscript Nor was this the only instance receiving the honour acceptation the hands one whom had first proved unsuitable Editorial antics this kind are preferable however those sometimes performed men not only unbusinesslike but also unscrupulous not stronger term use their dealings with obscure wielders the pen Take the case booklet twelve chapters posted certain social weekly with view serial publication on Neglect September 1891 the precaution register the parcel may have been responsible for complete disappearance not but the simple fact quitting the author remains that upon hands though the MS vanished into space con juring trick lawyer whose services were requisitioned the quest attached blame the postal authorities Though lost the author believed the labour expended upon his MS would as , of to of . be 's : between the and the new fact the would enter for all time into the people endowed infinitely fairer education This would each passing generation harassed writers books who bid the public fancy for their livelihood sum hare seen that copyrights should protected the least for life and fifty years and that those which survive that period should published with all other classics by the State part the national education left free all speculators royalty should pay fixed the Exchequer partly that the nation may benefit setting whole time limit author owner ship his own work and partly order check possible the wrongful advantages now far given publishers and newspapers their pitting books against the new then It for in old in no be old . of as , be " living authors would outs that now harm pass away because the classics would welcomed apart from trade speculations and the enrichment competition tradesmen There would rejection at their hands ,may or may . view that : “ Barabbas comprehend their can disinclination as business men to purchase goods manufactured by untried makers . The case against cditors is no whit more cheerful . periodicals which only first class matter glance serted author signature will suffice Popnlar journals may and here and there copy use sent outside contributors but they commonly make this concession such irregular and seemingly unaccountable manner that the freelance who relies upon them source income will speedily perceive his conditiou desperate not endorse Lord Byron 's was a - publisher ,” still we its - “ ” to “ do , - to at , If the State had her own printing works and non copyright books the public their rings pet cost per copy many knock and issued 25 of chronic pangs , . - of of by all property , and even now there is not the sinallest chance that full justice will be done to authors and artists, because no political party can win votes by asking the public to sanction fair copyright laws . Indeed , the man in the street is quite indignant that anthors should want to bequeath to their copies families the right to demand royalties on their work issued tradesmen for the purpose money getting . �It would be spirit cultivate like altruistic survey with equanimity the loss story order monthly magazine similarly dealt with : — 22 a ! , by — - be ! , as us , 16 in for ' , of as of he of , as in , , , of ” , , to of to of . I ”, contributors he wrote The “ of . “ . are many struggling but talented With some the complaints periodicals entirely sympathise as a , a a by to , an , “ on helping hand beginners lent . ? Read brain and pen alone career treated such Nobody wants him Every of , . - no of - so ! . him in November Chambers Journal and later the Cornhill Magazine occupied elevated position the world letters although and not infallible his rejection undoubtedly John Inglesant would show editor of a , , in to he . . be an . to of W . , COPYRIGHT LAW of . of a , be to , on a to . is in a , " . ”, is It " .' is to , is at in be , in , as it to a is , , of is a It . of in . of , at , , de - - , of , , by , so of In . a in . , of to known facturing to of - . its by to off , , is no , . . he , a to “ . In of of , he by due season with the pen the same port and another argosy twenty For period another and yet another this enterprise three years he persevered spatching cargoes this that and the other kind deeming them likely suit their market until right well the maxim that might publishers that the American manu the behest and clause was inserted the Typographical Union which insistence the the strongest labour union well known Its primary inclusion and sub United States Copyright Act sequent retention the American were distinctly against the expressed wishes good thing course American publishers for American printers and paper makers and either trade those engaged looked upon protection much better very beneficent mode of . 's in to to by toilers the of , . R president or - , of of , a . WISE Macmillan Company to “ of . at as be at FRANK Canada has given the Press statement correcting some misconceptions already made and putting forward afraid have escaped the some points which his number the Hon Mr Fisher and notice put doubt while wishing associates who dignified basis would Canadian copyright bring hardship and pecuniary loss the last ones their publishers Canadian authors either The manufacturing clause the present good example says Mr Wise American Bill I it be M a “ . , to a in to " ", a CANADIAN , 31 , ) as , PROPOSED etc of SMITA . of HERBERT personal experience the people entire accord with the above his early one forwarded the year 1884 attempts them under the belief its nature was His con meet their requirements kind return swift fidence was rudely shaken paper accompanied that familiar slip dreaded them ( ” of is so , as Shareholders this for them accepted marked the offices and verify The writer implied are he sent as . , “ uplift . to let us " “ selves .” of is , no . of back nor handed back peep into this mystery MSS Now returning Long years after the sender unreal The Sorrows Satan from which novel our quotation borrowed was first published August recently well 1907 precise known journal dealing with the affairs extensive publishing business made the subjoined Will strictures upon its management credited asked the investigator that manu scripts submitted for consideration the firm huge volume and were solemnly entered solemnly returned their senders often then pages this Scores without being looked single turned over without finding volume may contribution should call its in you say , all , his so , exaggeration be ; derided unread him .” back . to His efforts , tion and conrtesy the editorial ranks since such men and Thackeray and Dickens ceased . solid truth We have seen how MSS simply kept indefinitely and neither flung be may News London This gentleman there can smoke without fire can be no exaggeration where there no - there nucleus Illustrated 1895 on the length time their manuscripts are retained and rejected the smallness after the remuneration payment are genuine grounds and the delay grievance And there has been marked deterioration as regards honesty taste discrimina as But live by to - of or . Lest these animadversions should taken prejudiced any degree overstated let refer commentary made the late James Payn to , up on 's to a of of , is at " Whoever seeks the beginning sort social pariah body despises manuscripts are flung Wild words gross on of , to no - , in the air Were these tribulations exceptional before answering the question , - It on , . , it of bursting up of on a of a by 18 October 1900 could have been used advan tageously later but the custodian whose tender mercies had been committed denied cognisance duplicate the little stranger and there was By these and kindred devices fully one half the manuscripts despatched their doleful journeys from the beginning onwards have the present astray moment gone hopelessly and irretrievably fifty per cent man merchandise proving many soap bubbles greater value him than a , in a to to least forty had been shipped and refused the precision somewhat last them turning with reminiscent clockwork December 1907 Yet consignments condemned shall we say without the formality examination this par ticular very particular house have been accepted not altogether with reluctance by its rivals of in all probability benefit - somebody . necessary off THE AUTHOR . 26 �THE AUTHOR . of in of , of no is , at ." , ; in or on or to in soof , a of in is , to is a . it is , is in or so . of of so is . - its , in is is , it in clear and the price , is . a be hesi not moderate JAPANESE of in “ no , Basil Hall Chamberlain . of 1911 . . : ", Poetry John Murray Japanese by .” . W London of , : of or of to be a , .* his 1 .* Clarendon POETRY preface Professor Chamberlain confesses years his taste respecting that the course translations has changed He has gone over the camp the literalists and cares for prose poetry unless they versions whether scrupulously exact We are entirely the * " the . ”, adapted by , F . G . Dictionary published by H .” . recommended without length Although 900 pages volume The type . an purchase can tation bulky “ a up “ , to of . - * " Press Fowler what check claim TN reviewing are two distinct ways dictionary We are not leading the self evident and commonplace retort Yes the right way and the wrong way The Concise Oxford difficult . It . OXFORD DICTIONARY HERE Fowler and becomes Following out the principle self erident for common words current use we everything that adapters find the Dictionary ." no , 5 on of in CONCISE a its :. of “ censured apparently looking , by be to a of THE procedure This line once rouses interest and the checking the accuracy this statement afforded infinite pleasure true that words common use are often overlooked and their meaning distorted misapplied severely When suddenly misuser . of . of by be to at in be is as It , be of to repressed almost extinction means whole sale piracy which same conditions would possible Canada the terms the Copyright present outlined Bill copyright hoped that this matter given very careful consideration will and that blindly persuaded that benefit will no person will any Canadian industry accrue the inclusion manufacturing clause will not mean printing per cent over the present increase amount now done the principle that full pitcher can hold more space One these peculiarities the large amount given the common words that one goes through the day without using scores hundreds times often dis posed line two the ground that they are plain and simple and that every one knows all about them by the light nature but fact entangled with other many alliances words during their and antipathies perpetual knocking about the world that the idiomatic use them far from easy . he , of by of number the American Review Reviews shows how American literature was stunted and perusal great source lish ; and this makes pleasure The adapters themselves say their preface Its . to of In an in . , . to to by a of a in to by , a , be , or , if , , in a only served by books imported must from the United States and the limited market making separate Canadian edition unprofitable neither paper makers nor printers can possibly have anything holding out for gain manufacturing the new Canadian Bill clause As matter fact Canada has much more lose following the bad example gain than our neighbours admirable article the south by Mr Brander Matthews published the June is of , is , therefore that there Canada now best preferably from England a good one : first , the adapta English made from the Great Oxford Dictionary ; and , secondly , it is connected with the names of the two Fowlers. Are these reasons in We have no sufficient ? the proof good and in giving an affirmative answer . hesitation The Dictionary is a Dictionary of Current Eng Dictionary should be tion It is financially edition There is the method of getting a learned lexico grapher to go carefully through the book and of obtaining a learned treatise from his pen . This present circumstances will not allow here method or elsewhere ; and there is the modern method of choosing a certain number of words , looking them out , checking them and seeing that they are correct , and leaving the rest to luck . It is this latter method that we acknowledge without shame. There are two principal reasons why this of being Canadian Our contention limited market . possibility a make to demand a , of in is the printers in fact than would be protection by tariff , since under the later arrangement importa tion of foreign printed books could only be avoided by keeping the prices of the home-made books down to that of the foreign printed books plus duty . Under the form of protection by copyright foreign the public is prohibited from importing printed books at any price . At the time this manufacturing clause was made operative in the United States , they had a popula . tion of some seventy millions , which made a market of sufficient size to make profitable the setting up and printing of an addition for consumption in the United States . Indeed , this would have been possible , though , of course , to a lesser extent , with population With of , say , twenty millons . a Canada ' s population , however , of a possible eight millions , to be shown by the new census , printing utterly out Canada for Canadian consumption nothing like enough the question since there 27 �THE AUTHOR . . , , , . be as of of of . of “ A , to . . . 'S to to as , be . up ' , , if be an I it a be to in of for a , ” it “ by to it of to not , Yours faithfully , ALGERNON WARREN . like . by , to . of to . . of , , be or . be in .” , at - be “ to of its in to . its to assurance company could got specify would undertake cover this way the controllers organs would unincluded expedient the most part find the sake prestige getting follow suit similar public form cover Otherwise they might lay them suspicion selves open instability When new developments are organised people often have come into line adopting them wbether they once what publications for in to A . be , " - to be “ of of — is to he is a , all , is or ", enable the authors know where when the prize winning stories will published An author may quite willing sanction the appearance his work one the three magazines and yet object strongly appearance either the remaining two Still stronger may his objection appearance elsewhere my previous suggestion that Following SIR scheme for insuring contributors payments should contemplated add that seems patent that it , it In by. - “ Competitor INSURANCE to of " is . , if so , , , , be PEARSON MAGAZINE THE ROYAL MAGAZINE THE NOVEL MAGAZINE at . to is is “ ; , ", “ of authors this criticism any case difficult new somewhat curious imagine that anyone would pay £50 for story did not intend publish But may we allay any fears this assuring all those who read these lines direction that prize winning stories and those purchased published our ordinary rates will nothing There continues Would to is " . Yours faithfully The Editors remarks said the fate the successful stories nothing there indicate whether they are published though this hinted As the stated object the competition was discover as of , to , is in as of in . be be , - , “ A endure to us Nothing he raises easier 1 , ” in of , to . if glad - your Contributor refers our to As correspondent Would your issue July obviously £260 Story Competition we shall you will allow deal with the points he — SIR COMPETITIONS . PRIZE , of , be to , , a in I . CORRESPONDENCE in of an , for Your correspondent for ' . a in a of , in . as be up is s . so no by , is the originals , in Roman character . This is how poetry ought to be translated ; and while the former part of the work contains much that is neat in form and pleasing in substance , we have no hesitation in saying tbat the new translations represent the most valuable part of the book . The terseness of Japanese Epigram remarkable and means always avoids obscurity All the difficulties are here admirably elucidated that Professor Chamberlain regarded book must one which no one who taking Japanese seriously can neglect As these adding that are however few we have pleasure every one with poetical value true sense will find this volume great deal that will give delight this were not expected to compete . proceeds next to deal with the question of rights . There again no diffi culty will arise . While we shall , in the ordinary way , expect to retain all rights in prize -winning stories , we shall meet , in a reasonable spirit , authors may desire to republish who their stories subsequently . “ No date is mentioned by which a decision may be expected ,” complains " A Would -be Competitor ." Since some thousands of stories have been entered the competition each which case rejection requires individual letter careful criticism was obviously impossible whilst the competition was still running announce the published date when the result would The feature the competition was that those actually responsible the editorial conduct the three magazines should read the stories and the number these people limited and they have their ordinary work addition the competition certain delay has been inevitable Stories have rapidly possible however and been dealt with the full result the competition will announced the November numbers the three magazines might add conclusion that the terms the competition have met with the approval the competitors This being the discontent Competitor Would harder understand with satisfied it , are a reissue of the metri . caltranslations published more than thirty years ago . 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890–1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The-Author-Issues Publication Date The date of an event (in YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD format) 1911-10-02 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages Page range in volume 1–28 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 19111002 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin The Author. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) VOL. XXII.- No. 1. = OCTOBER 2, 1911. (PRICE SIXPENCE. = CONTENTS. PAGE : : Notices The Society's Funds List of Members ... The Pension Fund ... Committee Notes .... Books published by Members, Books published in America by Members Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes Paris Notes ... ... ... Authors' Agents, Literary and Dramatic Publishers' Methods Cinematograph Performances Magazine Con ents How to Use the Society ... Warnings to the Producers of Books Warnings to Dramatic Authors... ... Registration of Scenarios and Original Plays Dramatic Authors and Agents ... Warnings to Musical Composers Stamping Music .. The Reading Branch Remittances General Notes The late Jirs, Thurston The Foreign Reprints Act Again A Few Words on Expired Copyrights Sorrows of a Freelance ... Proposed Canadian Copyright Law ... The Concise Oxford Dictionary... Japanese Poetry Correspondence PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 1. The Annual Report for the current year. ls. 2. The Author. Published ten months in the year (Angust and September omitted), devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property. Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-members, 6d., or 5s. 6d. per annum, post free. Back numbers from 1892, at 10s. 6d. per vol. 3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. 38. 4. The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By S. 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Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on all literary matters treated from the standpoint of art or business, but on no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to retorn articles which cannot be accepted. VOL XXII. THE List of Members of the Society of Anthors, 1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained at the offices of the Society at the price of 6d., post free 7d. It includes elections to July, 1907, and will be sold to members and associates of the Society only. A dozen blank pages have been added at the end of tbe list for the conrenience of those who desire to add future elections as they are chronicled from month to month in these pages.  ## p. 2 (#398) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. . . . . . . . . . . 5 .esܚܢ ܗܘ ܙ ܝ ܝܕܕܙܘ ܝܙ seܟ ܗܘ ܕ NOOCNO THE PENSION FUND. £ $. d. March 9, Hardy, Harold . 0 10 0 March 9, Hutton, E. . 0 . 5 0 N February 1, the trustees of the Pension March 10, Wilson, Albert . 0 5 0 Fund of the society—after the secretary March 16, Ward, Dudley. 6 had 0 10 placed before them the financial March 30, Coke, Desmond . position of the fund-decided to invest £250 in April 1, The XX Pen Club 0 1 9 the purchase of Consols. April 6, Channon, Mrs. E. M. The amount purchased at the present price is April 7, Henry, Miss Alice £312 13s. 4d. April 10, Ralli, Scaramanga 2 This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d. 2 0 April 11, Robins, Miss Alice 1 1 The trustees, however, have been unable to recom- April 20, MacEwan, Miss. 0 10 0 mend the payment of any further pensions, as the April 20, C. N. and Mrs. Williamson . income at their disposal is at present exhausted. They desire to draw the attention of the members April 21, Shirley, Arthur, 1 1 0 April 22, H. A. and Mrs. Hinkson 1 0 0 of the society to this fact, in the hope that by April 24, Toplis, Miss Grace 0 10 0 additional subscriptions and donations there will May, Walter John ; be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the . . : . 2 2 0 May 19, An Old Member. . 1 . 0 year to declare another pension in case any im. 0 I June 2, Wrench, Mrs. Stanley portant claim is forthcoming. July 3, Ingram, J. H. : .. : : 0 5 0 Consols 21%.......... ............ £1,312 13 4 July 13, Fell-Smith, Miss C. • . 0 5 0 Local Loans .................. 500 0 0 Sept. 18, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. . Victorian Government 3% Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11 London and North-Western 3% Deben- ture Stock ............; 250 0 0 Egyptian Government Irrigation COMMITTEE NOTES. Trust 4% Certificates ..... 200 0 0 Cape of Good Hope 3 % Inscribed M HE last meeting before the vacation was held Stock ............................. 200 0 0 Glasgow and South-Western Railway I on Monday, July 3, at the offices of the 4% Preference Stock.................. society, and the committee decided not to 228 0 0 meet again until October unless business of such New Zealand 31% Stock......... 247 96 Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock vital importance to the society came up for con- 258 0 0 Corporation of London 21% Stock, sideration that it could not be negotiated by the chairman with the assistance of the secretary and 1927-57 .............................. 438 2 4 the society's solicitors. The usual vacation powers Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6 Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock............... were given to the chairman to act on behalf of the 120 121 committee in the absence of the members. Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land Granı Stock, 1938... Three elections were chronicled, bringing the 198 3 8 total number for the year up to 154. There were Total. two resignations, bringing the total resignations ... £4,377 19 4 to 59. The solicitor of the society attended the meeting Subscriptions. and reported on the cases he had in hand. The first 1911. £ & d. case, referring to the bankruptcy of a publisher in March 9, Boughton, Rutland . . 0 5 0 which many members were involved, he reported to March 10, Somers, John . 5 0 be practically closed, as the contracts had either April 6, Rawlings, Burford 10 6 been determined or re-settled. He reported the April 11, Wicks, Mark . 5 0 steps he had taken to carry out the committee's June 15, Fitzgerald, Colin 0 5 0 instructious in the cases chronicled in the last issue June 15, Fleming, Mrs. A. . . 2 0 0 of The Author. In one case further evidence was June 15, Sabatini, Rafael . . 5 0 required before action could be taken. In another June 16, Hamilton, Henry . . 1 1 0 he reported that the defendant had been thrown into bankruptcy, and two other cases bad been Donations. settled finally and satisfactorily. One case of 1911. infringement of copyright, started in the spring of March 3, Gibbs, F. L. A. . . ( 10 0 the year, he stated could not be tried before the March 6, Haultain, Arnold. . 1 1 0 Long Vacation, and in another case, proceedings .. . . . .... . . . .  ## p. 3 (#399) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. which had been commenced by the society some was settled and thefagenda for that meeting were time ago had been closed by the payment of a small also discussed. The date of the annual dinner was sum and costs, without it being necessary to go into left open, it being agreed that, as usual, some day court. in the late autumn should be chosen. There was one case of a very difficult nature. which related to a publisher's accounts. The solicitor put forward very fully the issues involved, and after careful consideration the committee instructed Cases. the solicitor to come to a reasonable compromise if SINCE the last publication of The Author there it were possible to do so, and indicated one or two have been thirty-six disputes placed into the hands points which they considered should be an essential of the secretary. They may be divided as follows : part of any compromise reached. fourteen claims for money ; seven claims for the There were no fresh cases for the solicitors in return of MSS. ; seven claims for accounts and England, but the secretary reported that a case money ; three claims for accounts ; four disputes which the society was conducting in Switzerland on agreements ; one infringement of copyright. had been delayed in settlement, and instructions The average number of cases that come to the were received from the committee that proceedings office during any given month is from fifteen to should be taken at once, and that the Swiss lawyer twenty, so that the number that has come into the should be urged to bring matters to a prompt issue. society during the last two months shows no The next business before the committee was the diminution. consideration of the position of the Copyright Bill. Of the fourteen claims for money due to authors, The secretary reported the steps that had been taken five have been settled, and the cash has been by himself, the chairman of the society, and other forwarded ; seven have had to be placed in the members of the committee. The committee was hands of the solicitors. Of these we are glad to informed as to the meetings that had been held, report that five have been settled. Thus four are and the negotiations that had been carried through. left unsettled, two in the secretary's hands, and The secretary stated that all the clauses of the Bill two in the solicitors' hands. Of the seven claims had been passed in Committee with the exception for the return of MSS., one has been brought to a of the clauses dealing with the mechanical reproduc- satisfactory termination, two have had to be placed tion of musical work, which would be considered in the hands of the solicitors, and two, owing to immediately. He added that it had been arranged the claims being abroad—one in India, and one in to hold a meeting of the joint committee—that is, Australia—are still open, and two have only the committee comprising representatives of the recently come into the office. Members should Society of Authors, the Publishers Association, and not forget that the legal position in the case of the Copyright Association-after the Committee the return of MSS. is generally not very strong. stage of the Bill was at an end and before the It is not only necessary to show that the MSŠ. Report stage. The joint committee would then have come into the hands of a responsible party decide what further action, if any, was possible or in the office, but also that their loss is due to negli- desirable. gence. Unless these facts can clearly be established, The Canadian Copyright Bill was then discussed, it is hardly worth while to take action, when such and here the secretary reported the action taken by great facilities for making copies can be em- the Société des Gens de Lettres and the Société des ployed. Authors should always keep copies of Auteurs Dramatiques, and stated that he had their MSS. Of the seven ciaims for money and received letters from influential quarters in America accounts, four have been brought to a close, the asking for the society's support to carry through accounts having been rendered and the money certain amendments on the Bill. The committee paid. One has been partly settled, that is to say, decided to refer the matter to counsel (Mr. E. J. the accounts have been rendered, and part of the MacGillivray) with instructions to settle a report money has been paid : but the balance is still to be forwarded to the Canadian Government as disputed. One has been placed with the solicitors, from the Society of Authors. and two are still in the hands of the secretary. Of Then followed discussion of a question referred the three claims for accounts, one has been satis- to the Committee of Management by the Dramatic factorily settled, one has been placed with the Sub-Committee relating to the financial side of a solicitors, and one is still in course of negotiation. proposal for a dramatic agent in America. The Of four disputes on agreements, two have been committee expressed sympathy with the efforts of concluded. Two are still in course of negotiation. the dramatists, and promised to assist them by Matters of this kind sometimes take a long time if bearing some reasonable share of the cost. it is a question of cancelling the agreement and The date of the council meeting for the autumn winding up the whole matter.  ## p. 4 (#400) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. As the case of infringement of copyright has occurred in India, it will take some time before an answer can be obtained. There are two cases still remaining over from July. These are both cases of account and should be settled shortly. The delay has arisen owing to the transfer of the publishers' business. In addition to the matters placed with the London lawyers referred to above, there are other nogo cases which have had to be placed direct in their hich have had to be placed direct in their hands, besides two cases which have had to be referred to the United States lawyers, and one important issue to the lawyers in Germany. Very little can be done during the long vacation in the Courts, so that there is but little progress to report on the matters in the hands of the Society in which legal action has to be taken. July Elections. Haddon, John, M.A., M.D. (Edin.), Denholm, Hawick, Sot- land. Kennion, Major R. L. Varty Smith, J. C. . . Nandana, Penrith, Cumberland. . 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Macmillan. $7.50 n. a “ Biological Study of Patriotism.” Mr. CLASSICAL, Spurrell's aim, in this work, has been to explain the THE RISE OF THE GREEK EPIC : A Course of Lectures natural history of patriotism, and to furnish the delivered at Harvard University. Second edition, revised reader with a scientific analysis of a subject which and enlarged by G. G. A. MURRAY. 368 pp. New York: usually receives purely emotional treatment. Oxford University Press. $1.50 n. “To the Outside " is the title of a new novel by ECONOMICS. Miss A. Curtis Sherwood. It is described as a THE SCIENCE OF WEALTH. By J. A. HOBSON. 256 pp. “modern story and satire." An attempt to New York: Holt. 75 cents n. suppress it having been made, it is published in an FICTION. unusual way, post free for one shilling, from the address : A PLUCKY GIRL; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF "MISS A. Sherwood, Clifford R.S.O., Hereford- NELL.” By MAY BALDWIN. 314 pp. Philadelphia : shire; or can be ordered through a bookseller from McKay. 75 cents. the same address. THE QUEEN'S FILLET. By the Rev. Canon P. A. Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. have accepted a new SHEEHAN, D.D. 376 pp. New York: Longmans. novel by Miss Emma Brooke, which will probably $1.35 n. OPTE BOWEN be published in the early spring. The Windsor DEFENDER O 366 pp. New York : Dutton. $1.35 n. Magazine had a story, entitled “Thirteen o' the THE LARGER GROWTH. By CONSTANCE ARMFIELD. Clock," by Miss Emma Brooke, in the June issue. 382 pp. New York : Dutton. $1.35 n. The same magazine has accepted a second story by THE SHADOW: A Story of the Evolution of a Soul. By HAROLD BEGBIE. 490 pp. Chicago : Revell. $1.25 n. the same author. Miss Emma Brooke has also a THE GLOBY OF CLEMENTINA. By W.J. LOCKE. 367 pp. story in the July issue of Nash's Magazine, entitled New York : John Lane. $1.30 n. “ The Offer." THE SHIP OF CORAL. By H. de VERE STACKPOOLE. Mrs. Havelock Ellis' new book, “ The Imperish- 311 pp. New York : Duffield. $1.20 n. Farable Wing," is a series of psychological studies in THE SECRET GARDEN. By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT. 375 pp. New Yörk : F. A. Stokes. $1.35 n. Love and Passion and Death. They are Cornish F THE FAITH.  ## p. 8 (#404) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. stories, and will recall to Mrs. Ellis' readers her Dean Maitland,” in the Isle of Wight. The main book, “ My Cornish Neighbours." Messrs. interest is the effect of strong spiritual emotion- Stanley, Paul & Co. are the publishers. suddenly awakened by a missioner preaching in his The Anti-Socialist League have republished and own kitchen-on a prosperous middle-aged farmer, circulated an article from a Socialist paper, over ambitious, unimaginative, stubborn, hard ; but the signature of “A. E. Jacomb." Miss A. esteemed by his world as exceptionally upright, Jacomb-Hood—a member of the Society of just and sagacious. Authors—who writes under the name of A. E. Edith C. Kenyon's historical tale, “ Two Girls in Jacomb, desires it to be known that she is not the a Siege," a Welsh story of the siege of Chepstow, is person responsible for the article, and has no now being issued by the Religious Tract Society in knowledge of the writer. their sixpenny edition. Miss Kenyon's serial, A new collection of poems, entitled “Before “ Ashes of Honor," ended in the July number of Dawn," by Mr. Harold Monro, author of “Judas," the All Story Magazine. was published by Messrs. Constable & Co. in July. The Queen has graciously been pleased to accept We quote the dedication of the volume, which a copy of Mrs. Charlotte Cameron's new novel, seems to explain the title: “I dedicate this book “A Passion in Morocco." Her Majesty has also to those who, with me, are gazing in delight promised to accept a work of travel, entitled “A towards where on the horizon there shall be dawn. Woman's Winter in South America," from Mrs. Henceforth, together, humble thongh fearless, we Cameron, which is about to appear. must praise, worship, and obey the beautiful Messrs. Cassell & Co. have included in their Future, which alone we may call God." autumn list another story by Helen H. Watson, Mr. Wynford Dewhurst has received a second author of “Peggy, D.O.” The present story is mark of distinction from the French Government, called “Peggy, S.G.," and while the former book the Brevet and handsome gold insignia of “ Officier dealt with Peggy the “distinguished orthor," this de L'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, one has to do with her school career-hence the having been awarded him. Mr. Dewhurst has title “Peggy the School Girl." Messrs. Cassell been spending the summer in France, where he will also publish, in the early spring of next year, a has been busily painting. His work will be new novel by Mrs. Watson, entitled “ The Open shown in the Durand-Rueil Galleries, Paris, in Valley.” November next. “As Flows the River" is the title of Mrs. Fred Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted Reynolds' new book, of which Messrs. Chapman & a copy of “Pageants and Plays," by Miss Grace Hall are the publishers. The scene of the story is Toplis, under which title the old favourites for laid amongst the Welsh mountains in the neighbour- school and village entertainments have been hood of Llanbedr, a locality already utilised by reissued, with “ The Five Georges” as new matter, Mrs. Reynolds in .“ The Man with the Wooden for performance during the local festivities and Face,” “St. David of the Dust,” “The Lady in celebrations of the new reign. Grey," and other novels. Derek Vane's new novel, “ The Soul of a Man,” “The Bees” is the title of a new book recently is now running serially in The Throne and issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. It is by Country. It is a study of a man of curious complex Miss M. Ellen Thonger, and describes the nursery nature-half-cynic, half-dreamer—who marries a adventures of a bunch of triplets, and belongs beautiful inexperienced girl, who thinks they are to the same category of books as “ Helen's going to live an ideal life. Babies." Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. are the publishers Miss Mary L. Pendered's new novel, “ Daisy the of an “ Anthology of Essex,” collected by Isabel Minx," is due, this month, from the publishing Lucy and Beatrice Mary Gould, and edited and house of Mr. Ham-Smith. The author describes it arranged, with additions and a “ Biographical as “ A Diversion," as it is somewhat different from Index,” by Miss C. Fell Smith. The method her usual work, being written rather in a spirit of which the editor has followed, in her work, has frolic. 7. P.'s Magazine for August contains a been to include any writers on the county, and the story from Miss Pendered's pen, wbich is entitled county writers on anything—that is, of course, on “ The Happiest of Men,” while the September Novel anything edifying or worth preserving. The reader Magazine also has a story from the same writer. may flit from the stained-glass conceits of Quarles Miss Pendered, in addition to these stories, has and Benlowes to the rude human nature, fresh recently finished a novel, to which she has given the from the soil, of to-day's farm labourer. title “ The Anklebiter." Maxwell Grey's new novel, which Mr. John Long Mr. Ditchfield, Rector of Barkham, has com- published in August, is called “Unconfessed," and pleted a volume of essays entitled “Out of the the scene is laid, as was that of “The Silence of Ivory Palaces," which will be pullished shortly by  ## p. 9 (#405) ############################################## THE AUTHOR. Messrs. Mills & Boon. He has also written, for another copy was also accepted by H.R.H. the private circulation, a “ History of the Dawson Prince of Wales. Family" of Yorkshire, Berkshire, and America, A new humorous novel, entitled “ Hodson's compiled from family papers, letters and documents; Voyage," from the pen of Mr. W. H. Koebel, Messrs. George Allen & Co. being the publishers. appears from Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. Of For the same firm he has long been engaged upon recent years Mr. Koebel has been better known as a large work on the “Counties of England," a & writer of books of travel, but in taking up fiction review of their history and records. This will again he has returned to his first love. Mr. Koebel, appear this autumn, in two volumes. At the same has not, however, abandoned the writing of works time his “Memorials of Old Gloucestershire” will of travel, and he is engaged at the present time in appear as one of the volumes of the “ Memorial passing the proofs of a new book dealing with up- Series," of which thirty volumes have been published country life in New Zealand, which he has entitled under his editorship. Mr. Ditchfield has also “ In the Maoriland Bush." It is based on his own undertaken to write two more books for Messrs. personal experiences and observations, and includes Methuen & Co., who have been his principal pub- intimate descriptions of the humours and tragedies lishers for many years, and with whom he has had of the fascinating country of the “ back blocks." a literary connection since the foundation of that In response to a desire expressed by many readers firm in 1889. Miss Edna Lyall's book, “ Derrick of Miss Doll Wyllarde's novels, for the complete Vaughan," and Mr. Ditchfield's “ English Villages” poems from which she had quoted in her stories were the two first books published by that house. from time to time, Miss Wyllarde has decided to He is also editing the Journal of the British publish a collection of them in volume form, and is Archæological Association. adding a number of hitherto unpublished poems. A work on the agricultural and commercial Miss Wyllarde has entitled the book simply problems of sugar beet growing and beet sugar “ Verses.” The volume, wbich has a photogravure manufacture, by the writer on rural subjects who frontispiece, is also published by Messrs. Stanley uses the nom de guerre of “Home Counties," has Paul & Co. been published from the Field office. It extends to Mrs. Irene Osgood's latest volume, “ A Blood more than 400 pages, and contains a hundred Moon; and Other Stories," includes“ A Blood Moon," illustrations. The aim of the author is to discuss “ The Bubl Cabinet” and “ Stories from Algiers." a difficult subject in an impartial spirit. The titular story tells of a devoted wife who « Above Your Heads" is the title given by Mr. surprised her husband and his paramour discussing Frederick Niven to a volume of short stories, which her lightly. “The Buhl Cabinet” consists of a he has published through Mr. Martin Secker. number of letters collected by a cynical old French None of the stories has been published previously, marquis, from women whose marriage had proved all of them having been rejected by editors mainly a failure through incompatibility of tastes or on the ground that they would not appeal to the temperament. “Stories from Algiers " are a subtle public. The author has, therefore, put them before study of the Algerine of to-day who retains many the public in volume form, in the hope that the of the characteristics of the corsairs from whom he editors' view may be proved erroneous. is descended. A new novel by Harold Avery, the author of “A Frank Hamel has chosen Jean de la Fontaine Week at the Sea,” entitled “Every Dog his Day," as the subject of her latest volume of biography. will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley La Fontaine has a unique place in French litera- Paul & Co, ture. He stands between the old and the new. G. P. Putnam's Sons published on September He possessed the humour of the Renaissance 20, Miss Winifred Boggs' new story, “Vagabond period, and adapted it to the clear and sparkling City." It is the author's first novel since she won style of the grand siècle. He was closely in touch the Daily Mail Prize Novel Competition in 1907, with Boileau, Racine, and Molière, and his story for “The Return of Richard Carr.” “Vaga- must therefore appeal to all students of a remark- bond City” opens on the honeymoon of the able period of French literary history. The volume vagabond and his pretty conventional bride, and will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley tells of their life in the New Forest, to which in Paul & Co. time is introduced the Genius, the woman artist, A second edition has recently been issued of his mate. The second edition of this book has “De Libris : Prose and Verse," by Mr. Austin just appeared. Dobson, with illustations by Hugh Thomson and “Gallant Wales," the fifth song Miss K. Everest Kate Greenaway. The new issue has an addi- bas produced, is published by Stanley Webb, tional chapter. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are the 10, Museum Street, W.C. A copy of this song publishers. was graciously accepted by H.M. The Queen, and Mr. Martin Secker announces the publication of G  ## p. 10 (#406) ############################################# 10 THE AUTHOR. Michael Barrington's new book dealing with “ The Ogre," Mr. Henry Arthur Jones' new Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee. In play, was produced at the St. James' Theatre on this work--the result of long study of the con- the 11th. “The Ogre” is the head of a house- flicting elements of Restoration and Revolution hold, and is given this nickname by his wife and politics—the author shows the intrigues of 1688 children, who are in open rebellion against him. in a new light. The book contains also a vivid The dramatist describes the method by which the picture of the Highland campaign. New military husband “tamed” his household. The caste maps, an itinerary of the Highland campaign, and included Sir George Alexander, Mr. A. E. a copious bibliography are added to the volume. Matthewe, Mr. Sydney Valentine, Miss Kate The ordinary edition of nine hundred copies is Cutler, and Miss Gladys Cooper. issued at £1 108. net. There is also an edition de Mr. Alfred Sutro's new comedy, "The Perplexed luxe, strictly limited to fifty copies, numbered Husband,” was produced at Wyndham's Theatre, and signed by the author. The price of the copies on September 12. The play opens with the return in this edition is £3 38. of a tea merchant from a visit to Russia, and the “Nine English Consorts of Foreign Princes” is first act shows the nature of the reception given the title of Miss Ida Woodward's new book which to him by his wife. This lady has, apparently, Messrs. Methuen & Co. are publishing on the been reading Ibsen's “Doll's House ” during her 12th inst. husband's absence, and the husband is perplexed as to the best way to meet the situation which has DRAMATIC. arisen owing to the effect of the Norwegian Mr. Louis N. Parker's comedy, in three acts, dramatist on the relations between the pair. In “ Pomander Walk,” was staged at the Playhouse on the caste were Mr. Gerald du Maurier, Mr. E. June 29. The period of the play is 1805, and Lyall-Swete, Miss Maude Millett, and Miss * Pomander Walk » (in the neighbourhood of Henrietta Watson. Chiswick) is the centre of a comedy in which the Mr. Bernard Shaw's “ Man and Superman" was dramatist-introduces many character studies. The revived at the Criterion for a short run on Septem- caste included Mr. Cyril Maude, Mr. Norman ber 28. In the caste were Miss Pauline Chase, Mr. Forbes, Miss Winifred Emery and Mr. Frederick Robert Lorraine, Mr. Guy Standing, Miss Florence Volpe. Haydon, and Miss Agnes Thomas. "Sally Bishop,” a play in four acts, by E. Temple Thurston, was produced at the Prince of Wales Theatre on July 25. The caste includes Mr. PARIS NOTES. Dennis Eadie, Mr. Holman Clark, Miss Agnes Thomas, and Miss Daisy Markham. Mr. John Pollock’s play, “ Rosamond,” which was NEW league has been founded in France produced in London last season at the Royalty and entitled The League against the lending of Kingsway Theatres, by Madame Lydia Yavoiska, books. has been translated into Russian by Prince One of the chief causes of the recent crisis in the Vladimir Bariatinsky, and accepted for production book trade is undoubtedly the ease with which at the Imperial Theatre at Moscow, which is known people obtain books to read without paying for as “ le théâtre de Molière Russe.” them. "The Hope," by Cecil Raleigh and Henry M. Paul Reboux and M. René Blum have Hamilton, was produced at Drury Lane Theatre therefore issued a manifesto, from which we quote last month. In their latest sporting drama, the a few extracts : “Our friends do not borrow our authors find their hero in an impecunious peer, and pictures, our cushions and our knick-knacks, but the play takes its title from a horse which, they do ask for our books. We have not the representing the only chance of saving the peer's courage to refuse to lend them, and our volumes house from ruin, is called “The Hope.” In the disappear and do not return to our shelves. ... caste are Mr. Cyril Keightley, Mr. Lyston Lyle, Every borrower may be considered as one buyer Miss Fanny Brough, and Miss Madge Fabian. less, whilst every would-be borrower to whom we Mr. Hail Caine's new play, “The Quality of refuse our books may be a buyer gained." Mercy," was produced at the Theatre Royal, Man- A French writer commenting on this movement chester, on September 4th. The play has for its says: “Public libraries should, of course, be central theme an intrigue similar to that recorded encouraged for those who cannot buy, but well-to- in Scripture, whereby King David disposed of do-people who only read books bought by others Uriah in order to become possessed of Bathsheba. should be discouraged. ... One of the objects In the piece were Miss Eille Norwood, Miss Hilda of the League is to help everyone to fight against Dick, and Mr. Thomas Holding. the tyranny of sponging friends."  ## p. 11 (#407) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 11 A great lover of books adds: “I quite approve Salon Carré was thronged with visitors, and this wise initiative, and I would add that, in order certainly never have any nails attracted more not to be impolite, when it is a lady who wants to attention than those upon which the favourite borrow a book, a man has only to reply that .it picture had hung so many years. The doors of shall be sent to her the following day.' He can the Museum and many of the rooms were guarded then buy her a volume without giving up his own by policemen, and very strict measures are being copy. Tactful people will soon take the hint, and taken in order to prevent the repetition of a similar this will teach them the way to the book shops." We theft. may add that the office of this new League is at In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire 42, Rue de Clichy, Paris, the annual subscription are articles by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer “ Théophile three francs, and that each member receives a little Gautier"; by Péladan, on · La Joconde et le Saint engraving on parchment to place on his bookshelf. Jean," and by Dr. Gustave Le Bon on “L'Evolution This little card is intended as a polite method of latine du Socialisme.” explaining that books cannot be lent. In the Revue de Paris are“ Lettres de Danemark Among recent books are “ Sonia et ses amis” (les et d'Allemagne," by Francois Coppée, and an article petits cahiers d'une etrangère, avec préface d'Emile on “Sedan” by Lieutenant-Colonel Picard. M. Berr”). “La Ville inconnue,” by Paul Adam, is one Maurice Muret writes on “Antonio Fogazaro et of the most remarkable of this author's books. It is son Oeuvre.” and Barbe Doukhorskoy gives a a story of the French in Africa, and of the influence chapter of his “ Souvenirs." of the climate and surroundings on certain officers The theatres are beginning to open their of the French army. A very dramatic episode is the doors for the winter season. arrival of two officers in an aeroplane. At the Comédie Française, “ Cher Maître," and In Marcelle Tinayre's new novel, “La Douceur “Le Goût du vice” have been given. At the de vivre," many of the qualities of her “ Maison de Renaissance, “Le mysterieux Jimmy,” by M. Péché” are to be found. Some of her descriptions, Armstrong. M. Abel Deval announces for his too, are very fine. theatre an adaptation of “Mr. Pickwick." “ Humour et Humoristes " is the title of a clever The outdoor theatres have had a brilliant season book by Paul Stapfer. In this volume we find an on account of the exceptional summer. M. Camille important study of Henry Fielding, another of de Sainte Croix has obtained permission to open Jean-Paul-Frederick Richter, a study of Anatole his Shakespeare Theatre in the St. Cloud Woods, France's work, and a well-drawn portrait of but it is probable that, on account of the delay in Mme. de Noailles. obtaining this, he will now wait for next season. An extremely instructive book has been written ALYS HALLARD. by M. H. Joly, as a result of a mission with which the author was entrusted for the Académie “ La Ville inconnue” (Fasquelle). des Sciences Morales. It is entitled “L'Italie “ La Douceur de vivre” (Calmann Lévy). contemporaine, enquêtes sociales." The volume * Humour et Humoristes ” (Fischbacher). contains a great amount of reliable information “L'Italie contemporaine enquêtes sociales " (Bloud). about the social conditions of life in Italy. “Contre l'alcoolisme” is the title of a book by Joseph Reinach, in which he shows the terrible AUTHORS' AGENTS, LITERARY AND ravages made by alcoholism in France. DRAMATIC. English admirers of the work of Camille Flammarion may like to take part in his Jubilee Fête, when a souvenir is to be presented to the M HE subject is a very wide one. It is barely great astronomer in commemoration of the possible to go more than round the out- Foundation of the French Astronomical Society skirts in a short paper, and to state a few twenty-five years ago, and the publication of his facts—not always obvious to the author—without in first book fifty years ago. many cases giving examples or reasons ; to write The artist Zeitlin has been commissioned to fully on this subject would necessitate a small design the souvenir which is to be presented to him. volume. Over three hundred pounds have already been The first question is whether literary and subscribed, and further subscriptions are received dramatic agents are essential. It is necessary to by M. Monprofit, 31, Boulevard des Italiens. separate the two, for their duties are the same, yet The disappearanee of La Joconde from the so different. The majority of dramatists—to take Louvre Museum has made it necessary to institute the dramatic agent first-would declare that a various reforms in this celebrated picture gallery. dramatic agent is useless. There is no doubt that On the first day of opening after the theft, the a persevering individual who lives in or near  ## p. 12 (#408) ############################################# 12 THE AUTHOR. own does not need one. In any case, the dramatic why an agent should be free to take his full per- agent is not as necessary to dramatists as the lite- centage so long as the contract lasts. He will be rary agent is to the author. The dramatic market amply paid if his fees on any one play reach is exceedingly limited, the competition is exceedingly £500. These are hard statements of facts ; indeed, strong. The only way to place a dramatic piece is as already stated, the paper is full of these by persisteni personal pressure ; by obtaining per- statements. It is quite possible that an author or sonal introductions and by the aid of personal dramatist may refuse to accept them without fuller influence wherever possible, and, above all things, evidence, without some reason being forthcoming. by keeping up a good heart. It would be easy to The writer is stating nothing of which he is not quote five or six cases of dramatists now well known fully cognisant, and could in most cases, from the who had to wait for six, seven, or ten years before authors' and dramatists' points of view, show that they could get their work accepted. This process the deductions made are irrefutable. The agent, of forcing the strongholds of the managers is not perhaps, would traverse them. always pleasant, but then how many roads to suc- Of course, it should be an agent's business to see cess are? To dramatists who happen to be living that the contract between the dramatist and the abroad or some distance from London, who can get manager is a good contract for the dramatist ; but, no personal influence to bear on managers, the unfortunately, in many cases the agent's chief wish agent may no doubt be useful. is to get the contract off his hands, and with this So far for the dramatic agent. The literary end in view is sometimes inclined to give the author agent comes next. There are many more reasons bad advice. If, therefore, an author employs an why the author should employ a literary agent than agent he cannot be too careful about watching the dramatist a dramatic agent. The markets are every step he takes. This is where the Society of enormously wide; there are many rights to be Authors would be of use. No doubt, however, after marketed, and there are many markets of which the contract is made the agent can be useful in the author is ignorant; but, again, if a man is a collecting fees. After he has collected the full sum sound man of business and does not object to he is entitled to expect for his work in placing the market his own wares, and has time to market them, play, the agent might, perhaps, be allowed a small he can do so without the assistance of the agent. percentage for collecting the subsequent fees; but If, however, he loathes the business side of literary the author ought at all times to be able, if necessary, work, has such a heavy output that he cannot spare to insist upon the collection of moneys himself, the time and hates the trouble, then the literary subject to the claim of the agent to his commission, agent is useful. if any is still unpaid, and to be free to terminate the To those who undertake to place their own literary agreement in case, for any reason, he is dissatisfied and dramatic work the Society of Authors is essen- with the agent's method of doing business, or in tial, because the knowledge at the disposal of the case the agent has broken any part of his contract. society on contracts and prices which prevail is This is a matter of the greatest importance to useful to any dramatist or author who markets his rising dramatists, but space will not permit to go own work, and even enables an author or dramatist into further details. If necessary, the subject must to market his own work who could not do so other be dealt with in another article. wise. Indeed, even those authors who employ Next, the literary agent. Though to some agents will find the society's help essential. To authors his work is essential, again it should be begin with, there is the contract with the agent, exceedingly carefully watched. He is very often which is a most serious and important matter, and, under the thumb of a publisher. He not infre- to continue, it is very often necessary that the quently deals as principal himself, and has the work of the agent and the contracts he advises power—the very woeful power-of pitting one the author to make should be carefully gone over by author's work against another's, giving thereby some independent authority. success to one author to the detriment of another If it is agreed that in certain cases and in certain author whose work he may be handling. circumstances an agent is essential, it will be well The first point is the contract between the author to consider first the position of the agent and the and the agent. Here again the agent must be dramatist. The dramatist should be careful not to carefully watched. He must only be permitted to deal with any agent who buys work as a principal, draw his agency charges on contracts actually com- or is marketing his own work. He should be careful pleted by him. He must not be allowed, in any that the agent is an agent pure and simple, and one circumstances, to claim agency fees on introduc- who is quite independent of managers and syndi- tions merely. The author must be in a position to cates. Next, as to the agent's remuneration. terminate the contract at any time if he is dis- Sometimes the fees from a successful play reach a satisfied with the agent, and must be in a position very high figure. In such a case there is no reason to obtain control of the collection of moneys. In  ## p. 13 (#409) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 13 order to do so he must forbid the agent, in any the British market. If then he has failed he circumstances, to put in the contract with the should still not give up trying, but should attempt publisher a clause giving him, the agent, the right at the same time to market the work in England. to collect the moneys under the contract and to What happens now is, that as a rule, acting on the give a receipt in full discharge, a constant and agent's advice, the author lets the American rights most reprehensible practice. go to the English publisher who sells sheets to This naturally leads one to consider some of the America, and this, from the financial point of view contracts which agents do advise authors to sign proves a better bargain for the English publisher with publishers-contracts which cannot be con- than to allow the agent to place the American rights sidered fair to the authors, though they may save with an American house. the agent a great deal of trouble. And this, There is one further point in regard to markets apparently, is his only reason for recommending in which the agent is very strongly to blame, and them. that is, in allowing the publisher to handle all the The first point relates to the practice of binding minor rights. These are serial rights, translation the author to the publisher for future books. It rights, Continental rights, etc. Not only does he has been a growing custom of agents to pass allow the publisher to handle these rights, which contracts of this kind, and the agent puts forward it is his business as agent to handle, but he the usual temptation which the publisher has allows the publisher to charge the author for whispered into his ear, that the publisher will do handling them, sometimes as high a fee as 50 so much better for the author if he has control of per cent. of whatever sum the rights realise. all his future work ; that the publisher cannot Thus the author has to pay 50 per cent. to the advertise one book to the same extent as he could publisher, and then another 10 per cent. of what. if he has the promise of three others; that it takes remains to the agent. The position is, on the face away from the author an immense amount of worry of it, absurd. Why does the agent do it? Because if he knows that his contracts for the next four it saves him trouble; and he tempts the author books are clear. All these statements are false, with the words of the publisher, who asserts that he and the danger of yielding to them is enormous; can do so much more for the book if he is allowed but there is one clear fact, and that is, that if the this wider control. This statement proves utterly agent can make one contract serve for four books false in practice. The really serious matter is this, he has not only saved himself a good deal of that it is not the publishers' business to carry his. trouble, but at one stroke has secured for himself labours beyond the publication of the work in commission on four books that are not written book form ; that he cannot, therefore, have the books which might not even have been placed same power to market these minor rights that the through his agency in the ordinary course of affairs. agent has, and, in consequence, is bound sometimes In one word, the agent benefits at the expense himself to place these rights in the hands of an of the author, and thus sares himself trouble rather agent, sometimes in the hands of the same agent than advantages the best interests of the author. who made the contract which gave them to the The next point is the question of the United publisher. It is exceedingly dangerous for an States market. It must be remembered that in author to employ an agent who is also acting as all these examples the agent's work with the agent for the sale of works or rights controlled by publisher is referred to only, and not the position a publisher. Moreover, in allowing the publisher of the author working for himself. The agent to have translation rights in his control, the agent constantly tells the author that English books will has prevented the author from exercising any not sell in America, and that it is no use to try to effective veto over the translation of his work which obtain American copyright. This statement is made, and has prevented him from satisfying again, is inaccurate. No market is better for the himself as to the skill of the translator, and his author than the American market. If a book competence for the work undertaken. touches the American market (and all good literature An author who employs an agent who is also should be universal), for one copy sold in England employed by a publisher may find that the agent four would be sold in America. Again, the agent is endeavouring to sell his work at different prices, advises the author from his, the agent's, point of as the publisher has no reason to keep the author's view, and not from the point of view of the author. price up. The agent, therefore, may be asking, It gives the agent a great deal of trouble to place on behalf of the publisher, for a smaller rate of work in America. It takes longer, and the agent, pay than he is asking on behalf of the author. like all men of business, is out to make money, The effect upon the author's rates cannot, in such and to make it quickly. An agent ought to give circumstances, fail to be disastrous. a good six months to obtaining the American Other rights which an agent sometimes allows market for an author before he attempts to obtain an author to sign away are dramatic rights. To  ## p. 14 (#410) ############################################# 14 THE AUTHOR. allow such assignment would seem so absurd that and never employ an agent who also acts for a it would hardly be worth while to mention it were publisher. Be careful that the agent is permitted it not the fact that such cases have occurred. only to collect moneys on contracts made by him Naturally, the publisher will try to get as many during the continuance of the agency. Never allow rights as he can. That is merely legitimate the agent to have an indefinite contract, so that at business ; but that the agent should allow an author some future date he may be able to claim moneys to concede these rights is criminal, for he is there on a contract that you yourself have made or some to protect the author and not to assist the publisher other agent has made for you, merely because he has to coin money. introduced you to the principal. Finally, against This then is the agent's position as between all these difficulties which cluster so thickly round author and publisher. It may be worth while to the employment of the agent, an author may guard make a few remarks as to the agent's position with himself by becoming a member of the society. the editor. It not in frequently happens that an Don't employ an agent; but if you do, watch him. editor will write to an agent for a serial story of a certain length. The agent, sitting on his judgment seat, will act as the proud arbiter as to which of his clients shall have the order. This position is very PUBLISHERS' METHODS. dangerous, for, however straightforwardly the agent may act, the author who is rejected does not have a fair run. In addition (as an agent naïvely remarked COME years ago the society was forced to to an author who brought him in a large income but D complain because a publisher had, on more determined to cut down his charges), “if such an than one occasion, submitted to authors a offer came to me, I should naturally give it to the form of agreement which he stated had received author who paid the highest agency fees.” This the approval of the society. By this means he may be business from the agent's point of view. obtained the author's signature, which he certainly It is exceedingly dangerous from the author's. Or would not have obtained had the agreement been again, the agent may sometimes go round to an referred to the secretary. editor and ask if he desires stories from certain When the society remonstrated the publisher authors-mentioning names, perhaps, not even on denied that he had made this wrongful use of the his books. If he gets an offer he will try to draw society's name, and was only brought to conviction the author into his hands and even, at times, from on being confronted with his own handwriting. another agent. If he does not succeed in drawing There is another method employed by publishing the author away from the agent, it may mean that houses which, while it is not damaging to the the author will have to pay commission to both reputation of the society, is equally with the one agents. already mentioned injurious to the business settle- Serial rights are often strangely neglected by ments of the author. agents. There are not merely first serial rights, A publisher, on an author objecting to some but second serial rights ; rights in the colonies, in very stiff clauses in his agreement, not infrequently America, and in the provincial papers. Indeed, says: “ This is my printed agreement from which the real literary agent to be of any real value ought this house never varies.” As is bound to happen to have an enormous field of communication and in a society with 2,000 members, cases of this kind knowledge, and, as far as possible, to be ubiquitous. are constantly brought to the secretary, who is able To sum up: preferably, don't use an agent. at once to show to the author that the publisher is If you are bound to employ one, be very careful of making, to use the mildest term, a mis-statement. your contract with him. Never give him too wide He has, perhaps, only a week before, made radical a control; never give him uncontrovertible authority alterations to the knowledge of the secretary, in to collect moneys; never, in any circumstances, allow one of his “unalterable” contracts. In fact, the him to insert a clause in your publishing agreement practice in one house grew quite notorious, the by which he is able, without restriction, to collect proprietor benefiting by forcing unfortunate authors royalties. If, when criticising an agreement with a into his contracts. The authors no doubt had publisher, he pointed out that the clause he proposed seen the names of other writers of renown publish- inserting dealing with his own position was a bad ing with the same house, and, naturally, drew the clause for the author, and if he gave the reasons, deduction from the publisher's statement that these clear and concise, then the author would have no authors were publishing under a similar agreement. reason to complain if he signed the agreement. But Another phrase frequently in the mouths of the agent never draws the author's attention to the publishers is, “ These agreements have been settled clause and never gives the reasons. Never employ by King's Counsel and approved by the Publishers' an agent who deals as principal as well as agent, Association." It is curious that such a statement  ## p. 15 (#411) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 15 should not repel rather than compel. The author, inherent in them. Then the publisher's reply to however, does not always grasp the fact that a King's the author's remonstrance can be discussed. Counsel will settle an agreement according to the The first clause practically transfers to the instructions of his client; and if the client is the publisher the copyright, and this position is further Publishers' Association, the agreements will be confirmed by clause 5. As under clauses 1 and 5 settled wholly in favour of the publishers. This, the publisher holds the copyright it was, perhaps, indeed, was the case. The members of the society unnecessary for him to insert clause 2. It cannot are referred to “Forms of Agreement issued by the be too often repeated in these columns that the Publishers' Association, with Comments,” published publishers should have a licence to produce the from the society's offices. In this pamphlet the work in book form only at a fixed price only in whole question is fully dealt with. the English language. The clause might receive It is necessary, as these incidents recur, that even further limitations, limitations to a certain they should be recorded, and as the secretary number of editions or to certain countries. If of the society has recently received further evidence, such a licence had been granted, then the publisher the following facts are laid before the members. might have been, under clause 2, allowed an agency In one week two agreements from a certain fee for the sale of the rights mentioned under publisher were offered to authors. The agree- contracts signed and approved by the anthor if ments were on very similar lines. The books to obtained through the publisher's introduction. be published were important books of a technical That the publisher should have the exclusive character. The agreements, from the author's licence to place these rights without reference to point of view, were extremely bad. It is only the author, and on contracts made without consul- necessary to print some of the clauses to show tation with the author, is absurd. It is equally how bad they were. absurd that for mere agency business the publisher Clause 1.- The publisher shall during the legal term of should be allowed 50 per cent. Clauses 3 and 4 copyright have the exclusive right of producing and pub- are both dangerous from the standpoint of the lishing the work in the English language throughout the writer of technical books. The great majority of world. The publisher shall have the entire control of the technical books dealing with modern science require publication and sale and terms of the sale of the book, and neither the author nor the publisher shall during the con- to be brought up to date from time to time as the tinuance of this agreement without the consent of the other knowledge at the disposal of the writers develops. publish any abridgment, extract, translation, or dramatised There is only one person who should have control version of the work. over these alterations. That person is the author. Clause 2.-In the event of the publisher realising profits Under the clause as it stands he would be bound from the sale of rights of translation, rights of production in other countries, serial rights, or plates, or from claims to revise, or have the book revised by another hand for infringement of copyright, fifty per cent. of the net if the publisher demanded such revision, even amount of such profits remaining after deducting all though he, the writer, might deem the process expenses relating thereto. wholly unnecessary. Clause 3.—The author agrees to revise the first, and, if necessary, to edit and revise every subsequent edition of It is a matter of no difficulty to draft clauses the work, and from time to time to supply any new matter to meet such a position, and the same house has on that may be needful to keep the work up to date. occasion altered its unalterable agreement, giving Clause 4.-In the event of the author neglecting to revise the author this essential control. an edition after due notice shall have been given to him, or in the event of the author being unable to do so by reason On clause 5 nothing further need be said, save of death or otherwise, the expense of revising and preparing that in no circumstances on the basis of a royalty each such future edition for press shall be borne by the remuneration should an author allow a publisher author, and shall be deducted from the royalties payable to to be the owner of the copyright. him. Clause 5.-During the continuance of this agreement the As to clause 6, it is only necessary to point out copyright of the work shall be vested in the publisher, who that if the book were published in January—not may be registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly. an unfavourable month for book publication-the Clause 6.-The publisher shall make up the account annually to December 31st, and deliver the same to the author would be out of his money for over twelve author within two months thereafter, and pay the balance months. This, indeed, is not so bad as in some due to the author on March 31st. forms of agreement, where it is posssible for the Clause 7.-If any difference shall arise between the author to be kept out of his money for nearly author and the publisher touching the meaning of this agreement, or the rights or liabilities of the parties there- eighteen months. It is, no doubt, a pleasant under, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two arrangement which enables the publisher to run persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, his business on other people's money. in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, Clause 7 is an unsatisfactory clause, although it 1889, appears in a great number of publishers' agreements. Perhaps it may be as well to pass a few comments Publishers assert that arbitration is a saving of on these clauses, and to explain in detail the faults money. This is not usually the case, as the arbitra-  ## p. 16 (#412) ############################################# 16 THE AUTHOR. tor's fees have to be paid, as well as the other costs. “The Still Alarm—The Greatest Fire Scenes It has also been claimed that it is an expeditious ever depicted-On view to all at our offices.” way of settling disputes. Generally it is cumber- Evidence was given by a witness, who bad some and unsatisfactory. The only real advantage attended the performance with a view to pur- gained—and this is the publisher's—is that he chasing the films, and it was contended on behalf shuns by arbitration that publicity which is so of the plaintiff's that there had been an infringe- necessary as a warning to other authors. ment of their dramatic rights in the fire scenes of Some of the clauses might have been passed by the play. an author who wished to yield gracefully some for the defendants it was virged that there could advantage to the publisher, but the majority of be no copyright protection in a mere scene, and the clauses quoted are such that no author should that the representation by cinematograph was not allow them to enter into any contract, in anyan infringement of dramatic rights. circumstances, between himself and the publisher. Mr. Justice Channell said that it was not neces- On the advice of the secretary the author wrote sary to decide whether the plaintiff had an exclusive drawing the attention of the publisher to the right to the representation of a portion of the play difficulties above mentioned, and, to his astonish- against anyone who might exhibit the films. ment, received a letter from which we quote the Sone day, he thought, it might be held that a following extract:- copying of a portion of a play in a cinematograph “ The form of agreement is one which we always exhibition, where there was payment, was within lise, and which experience has proved to give the statute. Upon the facts of this case, however, satisfaction to all concerned.” he was of opinion that the defendants did not A more extraordinary statement it would be represent the piece in a place of dramatic impossible to imagine. Over and over again have entertainment. contracts from this very house been brought to the HAROLD HARDY. society, been criticised, and altered to suit the author's requirements, and to make such a state- ment in the face of this fact is not only unfair to the author, but a serious matter for the reputation MAGAZINE CONTENTS. of the house. Besides, if the agreement had given satisfaction to all parties, there surely would be no BOOKMAN. need for an arbitration clause. The publisher's position is untenable, but still authors may be, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Walter Jerrold. Fournier's “ Napoleon." By Dr. William Barry. probably will be, deceived. Book MONTHLY. Wanted: A New Mode of Literary Expression. By Adam Gowans Whyte. CINEMATOGRAPH PERFORMANCES. CONTEMPORARY. The Pictorial Art of Japan. By Count S. C. de Soissons. Literary Genius. By J. E. G. De Montmorency. GLENVILLE v. SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY. ENGLISH REVIEW. THE decision in this case, as to the meaning of Letters of Wagner to his Schoolfellow, Apel. “a place of dramatic entertainment," seems The Handling of Words (Thomas Hardy). By Vernon Lee. likely to be the subject of an appeal, as a FORTNIGHTLY. stay of execution was granted, and the Judge appears Some Aspects of the Celtic Renascence. By K. L. to have given special importance to the question of Moutgomery. payment. NATIONAL The plaintiff claimed damages and an injunction The Creed of an Agnostic Spiritualist. By J. Arthur Hill. to restrain the representation of certain scenes connected with a dramatic piece, entitled “The SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS. Still Alarm,” which had been originally performed in the United States and subsequently in England (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.) at the Princess' Theatre. In 1904 the plaintiff Front Page ... ..£4 0 0 Other Pages ... ... 3 0 0 produced a new version with two “fire scenes”. Quarter of a Page ... added, and it was in respect of these scenes that an ... 0 15 0 Eighth of a Page ... O 7 6 injunction was asked for. Single Column Advertisements per inch 0 6 0 The defendants, who are manufacturers of cine Reduction of 20 per cent, made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent, for Twelve Insertions. matograph films, issued an advertisement in the following terms : All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F. BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C Half of a Page ... 110  ## p. 17 (#413) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 17 HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY. N 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 withont the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members. 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80 do some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. 9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per annum, or £10 108. for life membership. obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society, II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement). In this case the following rules should be attended to: (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- duction forms a part without the strictest investigation, (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise- ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses," unless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental rights. (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights. (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher. As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or doctor! III. The Royalty System, This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in The Author. IY. 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. A void 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 means. (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. WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS. WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com- petent legal authority. 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for the production of a play with 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. UTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an H agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property :- 1. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be  ## p. 18 (#414) ############################################# 18 THE AUTHOR. DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS. 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 (6.) 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 (6.) 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. WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the L assistance of producers of books and dramatic authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as & 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 he warnings stated above. 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. THE READING BRANCH. REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND ORIGINAL PLAYS. M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this branch of its work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea. REMITTANCES. QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis- tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing. Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for at the price of 23. 6d. per act. The Secretary of the Society hegs to give potice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post. All remittances should be crossed Univn of London and Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered letter only.  ## p. 19 (#415) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 19 GENERAL NOTES. NETT AND DISCOUNT Books. LOOKING recently down the literary column THE COPYRIGHT BILL. of a contemporary, we noticed an interesting We may congratulate the Government on announcement respecting a popular series inaugu- having carried the Copyright Bill through the rated by a well-known publishing house. The House of Commons. It would be inadvisable announcement was to the effect that, owing to an to say more about the matter until the Bill has increase in the cost of production of the series, the become law, but there does not appear to be any publishers had found it necessary to change the price vital reason why the Bill should meet with any of the volumes from 58.“ subject to discount,” to 5s. violent opposition, and be altered to any large nett. As it is conceivable that some may retort that extent from the form in which it emerged from the this alteration in price is a matter entirely between House of Commons. One or two small amend the publisher and the bookselling trade, we think ments, however, may be necessary. it desirable, in the interest of authors, to point out The Bill was ordered to be printed on the 18th of its importance to the writers employed in the manu- August of the present year, and when it becomes facture of the series. We do so with the less hesi- law it will be issued as a supplement to The tation, as we notice that over forty volumes so far Author, so that members of the Society may have have been issued at the lower price, and it seems an opportunity of studying its terms. to us that a consideration of the matter, as it During its passage through the Commons, the affects the payment of the writers, may not be Bill met with a considerable amount of opposition without interest. While we do not for one moment from wholly unexpected quarters ; indeed, from question the justification of the alteration in price, many whom one might have thought would have we do suggest that the author should share in the actively supported its principles. increased returns which will accrue to the pub- Apart from various details, there are two main lisher in consequence of the change. points which will make the passing of the Bill the As the alteration extends over a series of forty greatest benefit to authors; the first, that it will books, that increase cannot be dismissed as insignifi- enable Great Britain to join the Berlin Conven- cant. Whereas on a 5s. “subject" book the returns tion; the second, that it will bring into uniformity to the publisher would probably average about 2s. 8d. the law of copyright which, at present, is scattered per copy, on the 58. nett book they would come through twenty or more different enactments, out at something like 3s. 2d. per copy. It will be making its interpretation highly complicated and clear from this that a fair royalty on a 5s. book confusing issued “subject" might be rather poor on one issued at 58. nett. It may be, of course, that part of the “increased cost of production” is due to a THE COLONIAL MARKETS. demand for better terms on the part of the writers We have complained, from time to time, of the of the books yet to be produced in the series. If poor sales of books of English authors in the this is so, we shall be glad on their account—though Colonies, and have pointed out that this is appa- a little sorry for the earlier writers. It may even rently due to the supineness of the English be that the books in the series are being purchased publisher and to the activity of the American book outright; but apart from anything in this particular agent. The latter, on one occasion, went so far as case which may possibly render our comment un- to induce an Australian bookseller to allow him to necessary, we would add, for the general informa- decorate his window, and it may be taken for a tion of writers, that they should never, when certainty that he did not decorate the window with making their agreements, permit any alteration English books. of a “subject” to a “nett” published price without We now regret to see from the American Con- getting some quid pro quo. If the publisher wants sular Report that the American magazines are to make such an alteration, he should make a also pushing the English magazines out of the corresponding increase in the royalty payable to market. This, no doubt again, is owing to some the author. fault in the English distribution. It is really time that publishers, editors, and magazine proprietors woke up and bestirred themselves. It is not for THE NEW RUSSIAN COPYRIGHT LAW. us to advise them as to how to remedy the evil. It The new Russian Copyright Law came into is a part of their own business to find the cause force on March 20, 1911. It marks a consider- and the remedy. But it is a clear fact that unless able advance upon the previous legislation, but something is done speedily and with judgment the is far from being such as might be wished. Colonial market will be lost both for English books The following particulars are interesting. Copy- and magazines. right is accorded to all books published in  ## p. 20 (#416) ############################################# 20 THE AUTHOR. Russia, independently of the nationality of the followed the publication of “ John Chilcot, M.P.," author. The duration of copyright is for and she very early showed herself one of those life and fifty years (without any restrictions). writers—it is pleasant to think there are many Transformations of novels into dramas, and vice such—who take a generous interest in the work of versâ, without the author's consent are forbidden. those less fortunate and less successful than them- The exclusive right of translation exists for five selves. years only. If a translation is made within that Mrs. Thurston possessed a singularly agreeable limit, the translation has a copyright of ten years. and gentle personality. Her dark, glowing beauty In the case of simultaneous publication in several was of the type one associates with Irishwomen, languages, all the works enjoy equally the full term and her voice was low and exquisitely clear. She of copyright. Russian translations of all foreign had none of the exuberance, or the very natural works may be published without the consent of the desire to discuss herself and her work, which is so foreign author. These translations enjoy the full often typical of the literary temperament. Even to term of copyright, but the translator cannot forbid her intimates she seldom spoke of her books, and it other translations. Except in the case of stipula- would certainly have been possible for a stranger tions to the contrary, an author who has sold the to have been acquainted with her for a considerable copyright of his work may publish another edition time without discovering that she wrote. And yet as soon as the work is out of print, or, in any case, it is clear that her work must have meant a great as soon as tive years have elapsed since the date of .deal to her. Each of her stories, from “ The Circle" the first edition ; or, if he is preparing a complete onward, showed marks of conscientious care, and edition of his works, three years after that date. she once told the present writer that when engaged Piratical publication is punished with a minimum on a new book she found that it absorbed her to of three months imprisonment. the exclusion of everything else. This no doubt was why she preferred to work in the Irish home she THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE. loved so well than when living her ordinary life in Owing to the fact that The Author does not London. As so often happens, the one of her appear in August or September, we are only now novels which most closely reflected the life she knew was that which her readers liked the least- in a position to chronicle the election of Lady Ritchie and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw to the Academic I refer to “The Fly on the Wheel," a close, and in its Committee. way, a very powerful study of a phase of Irish country town society. This story was an interesting “throw Lady Ritchie is the first lady to join the Com- mittee, which may be congratulated on an election back,” for Mrs. Thurstou did not begin to write till she came to England, and it is on record that which is sure to meet with general approval, and throughout a girlhood spent entirely at home she may also serve to put an end to the discontent felt never wrote a line with a view to publication. and expressed in some quarters, where it had been It may be doubted if even her closest friends assumed, quite erroneously, that the women were knew much of Mrs. Thurston's methods of work. ineligible. It is, however, a curious fact that “The Circle,'' her first long novel, and a book which was much INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND ARTISTIC praised and commented on by the critics, though ASSOCIATION. it gave no promise of the immense success of its The International Literary and Artistic Asso- immediate successor, was founded on a short story ciation ask us to announce that in consequence of sequence of which which was an early imaginative effort. reports of an epidemic at Rome-reports it must be admitted which appear to be without foundation -the congress, which was to have taken place this autumn, will be postponed, and held at Rome in THE FOREIGN REPRINTS ACT AGAIN. the Easter week of 1912. ROYALTIES UNDER COMPULSORY LICENCE. THE LATE MRS. THURSTON. TN 1847 an Act was passed under the short title 1 of the Colonial Copyright Act, 1847, more frequently known, however, as the Foreign By M. B. L. Reprints Act. TN Katherine Cecil Thurston, the Society of The circumstances that led up to the passing 1 Authors loses a loyal member and a firm this Act were as follows: friend. Mrs. Thurston joined the Society in By section 17 of the Act of 5 & 6 Vict., which the full flush of her greatest success, that which Act covered all the Colonies, the importation into  ## p. 21 (#417) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 21 the Colonies of books unlawfully printed was for- into the colonies, and notably American reprints into the bidden, without the consent of the copyright Dominion of Canadla ; but no return, or returns of an absurdly small amount, have been made to the authors and owner. Ar owners. It appears from official reports that during the Owing to three causes, firstly, the rapacity of the ten years ending in 1876, the amount received from the pirates, who had no authors' royalties to pay whole of the nineteen colonies which bave taken advantage there was no United States Copyright Act in those of the Act was only £1,155 133. 2 d., of which £1,084 13s. 2 d. days, and International copyright was difficult and was received from Canada ; and that of these colonies seven paid nothing whatever to the authors, while six now involved ; secondly, owing to the lack of enter- and then paid small sums amounting to a few shillings. prise in the Colonial book trade ; and thirdly, owing to the supineness of the English publishers, the It will be seen from this quotation that if the Colonies complained that they were unable to get contribution from Canada is left out, there is English books. practically nothing from the other colonies, and Canada was the chief complainant, as she saw eren the sum received from Canada is absurdly small, the United States with their piratical trade flooded taking into consideration the number and popularity with English works which she was unable to of the authors. The Act is still in force in most obtain ; but the complaint was strong also in the of the Colonies ; but as Capada refused to collect other Colonies, because those who did read wanted the duties some twelve or thirteen years ago, as far to buy books, as they could not borrow them from as that Colony is concerned the Foreign Reprints circulating libraries, which did not exist. Act is in abeyance. The complaint was partly, no doubt, genuine, The absurdity of the whole situation has again but to a great extent, especially as far as Canada become prominent, and has been brought to the was concerned, was put forward as a political move. notice of The Author by Mr. Hall Caine, who The author has always been the slave of the recently received a payment of 8s. 10d. as an public, and as such is liable to be robbed of his amount due to him for royalties collected under property, first by one constriction and limitation this Act. and then by another ; so in this case, with a show of Mr. Hall Caine wrote for an explanation, and justice, the Foreign Reprints Act, which is still in received from the Treasury the following reply, force in many Colonies, was passed, enabling the with a statement, printed below, setting out the Crown, by Order in Council, to suspend the prohibi- Colonies involved and the percentage paid, and tion against importation into the English Colonies with a copy of the Act. of English copyright works under certain conditions, TREASURY CHAMBERS, one of the conditions being that certain Customs 281h July, 1911. duties should be collected by the Government of SIR, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His the Colony adopting the Act, which duties should Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter be paid as royalty to the author. This really of the 18th instant, respecting a payment made to you on account of copyright in the Colonies. amounted, in other words, to a grant of the right to In reply I am to express their Lordships' regret that sell and the right to buy the author's books under it has not been found possible to trace in every case the a compulsory licence. A large number of Colonies books in respect of which payment was madle, but, so far adopted the Actin fact, all the important Colonies, as they have been able to discover them, the details are as follows :- with the exception of Australia, did so. Under the Act the publishers of English books were bound to forward catalogues to the Custom House Date and Place Title of Work. Duty Collected. authorities of the different Colonies, so that the of Entry. collection might be carried out properly, but, in the words of the author of “The Law of Copy- right" “ These measures were next to inoperative, Bermuda, 1897 The Christian and the whole thing little better than a delusion.” 1898 (Unknown) From time to time the absurdity of this Act, (Unknown) The Christian from the standpoint of the author, was pointed out 1904 Eternal City in the papers, and figures were given to show how 1905 Prodigal Son ineffective it was in operation. Jamaica, 1903 Eternal City The reference to these figures it is impossible to 1906 Prodigal Son 1908 The Christian find at the moment, but it is sufficient to quote from the Report of the Royal Copyright Com- 8 10 mission, which sat in 1878:- So far as British authors and owners of copyright are concerned, the Act has proved a complete failure. Foreign In further explanation of these payments I am to transmit reprints of copyright works have been largely introduced the enclosed copy of a Return to the Order of the House of 1900 1901  ## p. 22 (#418) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. Commons, dated the 25th of August, 1857, and of a memo- general body of British Authors what the small randum prepared in this Department, which my Lords payments represent.” He passed some drastic trust will be of use to you. I am, Sir, comments on the Act and its working, and ended Your obedient Servant, his letter with the following words : T. L. HEATH. “I am afraid the statement you are good enough to send me, representing duties at 15 per cent., COPYRIGHT IN THE COLONIES. amounting to 88. 10d. collected on nine books in Under Section 42 of the Customs Laws Consolidation Act, eleven years, casts a very sinister light on the 1876 (39 and 40 Vict. c. 36), foreign reprints of copyright licensing clauses of the Government's new Copyright works, of which notice has been given to the Commissioners of Customs that the copyright subsists, are prohibited from Bill, showing that the receipts to the descendants being imported into the United Kingdom. of authors during the years of free licensing will Section 152 of the same Act also prohibits importation of probably be hardly sufficient to pay their washing reprints of such works into the British Possessions abroad, bills." but adds that this does not prevent Her Majesty from exercising certain powers vested in her under the Act One satisfaction to be obtained from the passing amending the law relating to the protection in the colonies of the new Copyright Law will be that this absurd of British Copyright Works (10 & 11 Vict. c. 95) to suspend Ordinance of 10 & 11 Victoria will be repealed, in certain cases such prohibition. along with numerous other Statutes dealing with These powers were that should the Legislative Authorities in any British possession be disposed to make provision for for co copyright property. n properu protecting the rights of British authors in that Possession It is necessary, however--and it is with this idea and pass an Act or Ordinance for that purpose, such before us that we have set out at length Mr. Hall Ordinance should be submitted for approval by Her Caine's case—to consider the application of the com- Majesty, and, provided that reasonable protection is thus secured to the British author, an Order in Council should pulsory licence in the present copyright legislation. be issued declaring that so long as the Ordinance remained It was obvious that the Governments of the in force the prohibition against importing, selling, letting separate Colonies were hopelessly incapable of out to hire, exposing for sale or hire, or possessing such carrying out the Act in a satisfactory manner for foreign reprints should be suspended as regards that the benefit of the unfortunate author, who was, in Colony. The Legislative Authorities in the following Colonies consequence, freely robbed. It is true that the duly passed the necessary protective Ordinances, which have compulsory licences, of which there are two in the been confirmed by Orders in Council :-- present Bill, refer to Great Britain and Ireland Antigua. Jamaica. only, but it is possible that they may cover a good Bahamas, Mauritius. many of the Colonies as well. But this fact gives Barbados. Newfoundland. Bermuda. St. Lucia, us little hope that the compulsory licence will be British Guiana. St. Christopher and less dangerous from the author's point of view than Canada. Nevis, it was in the past. Cape of Good Hope and St. Vincent. All who have studied the Copyright Bill know that Natal. Trinidad. Grenada. there is a compulsory licence twenty-five years after the author's death, and there is a compulsory and The Ordinances in Canada, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal ceased to be effective on these Colonies becoming an unlimited licence on the unfortunate composers self-governing. who care to allow their works to be reproduced by The Ordinance of the Colony fixes the amount of the mechanical instruments. protection, and the title to this protection depends upon It will, of course, be argued that the two in- registration of the work, the name of the holder, and the period of the copyright, with the Commissioners of Customs, stances are not in the least parallel ; that in the who issue to the Colonial ports a list, supplemented from one case the royalty is to be collected by the time to time, of such works. Government and in the other by the author, but it • The Colony, on receiving the duties imposed, transmits is not so much the collection of the royalties that them to the Treasury, and that Department distributes them to the respective copyright holders as specified in the makes the compulsory licence impossible, but the Customs list. fact that the licence is compulsory. What has Until 1881 it was the practice of the Treasury to distribute proved such a distinct misfortune in the past in thesc sums, however small, but in that year it was decided slightly different circumstances will most prob- to retain small sums until they accumulated to a minimum of £1, reduced in 1903 to 108. ably prove a distinct misfortune in the future, and In view, however, of the numerous small amounts due to it may be that the author will obtain as little of his the various copyright holders, and to the time winich had true and just returns under the clauses in the Bill elapsed since these sums were collected, it was decided this at ni at present under discussion as he was able to year to pay over sums amounting in the aggregate to 48. or who under the Foreign Reprints Act. over. Even with all the protection which the Board To this letter Mír. Caine replied on July 29th of Trade may invent to guard the author's rights, He stated that he had forwarded all the papers it will be almost impossible to follow the number to the society that “ It may be made clear to the of different reproductions placed on the market,  ## p. 23 (#419) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 23 when any pirate who cares to may begin manu writers. Already there are copyright novels at facturing with little or no fear of detection, and sevenpence the copy, not reprints, but first editions, with still less fear of conviction. yet not two writers in a hundred can hope to earn bread by royalties on that price, being in constant competition both with lending libraries and with reprints of Dickens, of Scott, of Thackeray, and of A FEW WORDS ON EXPIRED many other perennialists. Besides, however low COPYRIGHTS. prices may be, the public is soon tired of their repetition and begins to think that they are expensive. BY CRUSADER. And another point is this, that when new copy- THEN a type of society becomes ordered and right books appear at a reasonable price they are V intricate, it retains a great deal of work published more often than not in little editions, so from the past and produces many new the cost per copy is greater than that in the large things in a traditional manner; then market reprints of popular classics ; and yet these reprints rivalries between old products and modern efforts are exempt from royalities, while to-day's own bring in their train many evils of their own. To books cannot be, as authors somehow fail to live speak figuratively, the young harvests have to without food and shelter, though many have had grow in fields already occupied by corn which time experience in the school of long hunger. I can has left unreaped and unharmed. Yet they are recall a time when stale dry bread was delicious expected not only to strike root under the shadow- after a week without anything to eat. Oh! In ing protection of the old corn, but to push their the battle of the books, in the war of the classic way upwards without being stifled, till they dead against their humble successors, “knock- ripen in the sunshine of a free air. Children are outs" are not in the the least enjoyable, at least to spared a lifelong competition with their parents, those of us who know how they act and how they but the generations are not, for they inherit so much are financed. To allow copyrights to lapse, with- living genius that the present is ever the past also, out paying royalities to the State, is not only to and it may be awed into imitation and unfreedom subsidise “the simple great ones gone,” giving by accumulated riches in great things. them unfair advantages in market competition ; Goethe counted himself lucky that he inherited besides that, which is bad enough, it endows a weak German literature, believing that an array publishers with a fruitful capital—a vast property of classic authors equal to the English would have of excellent books freed from royalities and from cooled his own ardour and hindered that growth of the need of much advertising ; and all this penalises character which comes from thinking freely and the daily efforts made by ourselves. acting independently. And who has not observed If an author is to earn a living with royalties on in Italy how the deification of the old masters has little editions, the royalties must be good and the enfeebled modern art among a race of men wonder- price rationally high, or else be will starve even fully equipped by nature with quick perception and when his publisher banks a profitable interest on a with skill of hand ? I think of this in connexion trifle of capital. It is not at all bad trade when a with the frenzied competition in the book market, publisher prints and sells a six-shilling novel in an where classic authors beg pleadingly for pence and edition of a thousand copies, gaining thereby a ha'pence. If the classics are not now a danger to profit of about £30, on an outlay of not more than our own work, what else are they ? £115. The author gets about as much under One trader in dead copyrights saved a fortune of a good agreement, and upon that he cannot £500,000. He had no royalties to pay, he knew live during five or six months of work, so his needs which classics had the greatest vogue, and it was as a citizen are opposed by the finance of publishing. easy to boom them into the market in large The opposition, too, is fundamental. Royalties on reprints and at little, wheedling prices, till the a book that takes much time and infinite pains are retail cost of copyright books seemed not only high your all, while a publisher's object is to use the by comparison, but wrongful also. Many publishers same working capital thrice in a year and to earn do the same thing now, and each tries to undercut a buoyant profit on each turnover. You are the dwindling standard of cheapness, as if in stricken, but your work is a godsend to your obedience to the belief that British homes are alms publisher. You know the “kuock-out” of small houses filled with paupers.And newspapers, too, editions, while your publisher is ready to go on are trading with the property of dead authors in with a thriving system of finance which in the the hope that they may be able to “ring" the course of a few years has built many palatial ordinary publishers. Meantime, you will note, it offices. fares very far from well with the majority of living Why is it, then, that the State favours the  ## p. 24 (#420) ############################################# 24 THE AUTHOR. publisher to the injury of authors ? Why hand is not to her advantage nor to that of authors over to him all expired copyrights in order that he that rich tradesmen should be able to force the may issue them in reprints so cheap that they dis- weak hand of poverty ? Many publishers bunger credit the rational value of new productions? It for copyrights, and needy authors become the can no longer be said with any semblance of truth victims of that appetite, being unsupported by their that the people need such cheap reprints, for the self-made legatee, the State. poorest of the poor can well afford to read borrowed These anomalies, too, are in keeping with many books in these days of free libraries. Besides, the others. It is said, for instance, that properties of first duty of a State is to cherish within each gene- authorship are such inestimable gifts to mankind ration the hopeful courage that acts well, and the that the State is justified in claiming them for her higher aspirations that quicken and enlarge the people. This sounds like a principle of Socialism ; mind. You cannot have aviaries of singing birds it applies to all the many forms of property if you do not feed them, nor hives full of honey having more than a temporary and personal value. if you smother the bees. And we may depend upon To“koock-out" the author cannot be right while it that if we could suininon into the House of landowners and other property-holders can bequeath Commons a parliament of the simple great ones and entail their estates, without any regard at all gone, from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning, for that poverty-born ideal which sets before us a very few votes would be given in support of their national ownership in all things fitted to produce present tyranny over the new breadwinners in wealth. literature. Milton would lead an overwhelming It is invaluable, in this connection, to think of opposition to it, seconded by the rich common the difference between Shakespeare and the great sense of Latimer and Johnson. If Shakespeare Elizabethan landowners. The dramatist from the si oke, aſter many invitations, would he not say first had no copyright, inheriting the laisser faire that the mind of England ought ever to be of a that the printing press took up from those cloistral piece with the many repetitions of herself with ages when books were manuscripts, and in a few which she has gemmed the seas? He could not copies circulated among the religious, mainly in like anything meagre, petty, diminutive, flurried, nunneries and monasteries. So, then, Shakespeare's. or cheap. He would expect English thoughts to own works were never his own ; they belonged to put a new girdle around the world each generation. England from the first; and not a farthing of The Lord Chief Justice, on November 1, 1909, royalty has yet been claimed by the Exchequer expressed the hope that Great Britain and her from the publishers and theatre managers who have Colonies would do all in their power to draw the traded with Shakesperian property. How com- civilised nations together in a common accession pletely different is this from the legal protection to the following principle, that the property in granted from age to age to such a family as the copyright and literary work belongs to the author. Cecils, whose landed estates have passed from heir It is pleasant to note that Lord Alverstone gladly to heir, gathering an increase of value from the admits that books and copyrights are property, nation's progress! Could anyone break through a and that this property belongs to those who call hedge of theirs without incurring a risk of legal them up into literary presence and give them a punishment ? And why is it that land, which fructiſying value in a nation's life and trade. Lord nature provides as a mother for the nursing of all Alversione hopes that Great Britain will support living creatures, should be handed on as property the requests of other nations to the extension of more real and more native to a family than are any the period of protection to life and fifty years, and fruitful works of imagination ? Had Shakespeare this certainly is a blessed compromise in the domain died as a child, England would have lost inestim- of illogic. For the State has no right to grant able riches, whereas the extinction of a great perpetuity of ownership to many forms of property family neither lessens the land nor makes it barren. and a very limited ownership to a few others. Mother Earth and true genins are equally stable Logic and justice demand that all property in a and equally bountiful as property ; the distinction civilised nation should enjoy under the law the between them is that genius merits the greater same protection and the same privileges. protection since the permanent worlds built by it And there is another point of vital interest. belong for all time to the rare workers who are at Since Great Britain from the first claims every once new and antique, and the contemporaries of authoi's property, allowing him only the use of it all the ages. For example, Chaucer is more for a small term of years, why is she not logical in marketable by far to-day than he was in his own her self-interest ? Why does she not enrich her time, for he lives in all countries where poetry is Exchequer by charging a royalty on her classics ? valued ; and each copy of his work everywhere is And why does she not forbid publishers to buy the Chaucer himself. Yet this great Englishman, and short-lived copyrights granted by her laws, since it many others, had no copyright in their generous  ## p. 25 (#421) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 25 property, and even now there is not the sinallest pangs of chronic rejection at their hands, may or may. chance that full justice will be done to authors and not endorse Lord Byron's view that : “ Barabbas artists, because no political party can win votes by was a-publisher,” still we can comprehend their asking the public to sanction fair copyright laws. disinclination as business men to purchase goods Indeed, the man in the street is quite indignant manufactured by untried makers. that anthors should want to bequeath to their The case against cditors is no whit more cheerful. families the right to demand royalties on all copies In periodicals in which only first-class matter is in- of their work issued by tradesmen for the purpose serted, a glance at an author's signature will suffice. of money-getting. “Popnlar” journals may and do here and there If the State had her own printing works, and use "copy" sent in by outside contributors ; but issued non-copyright books to the public at their they commonly make this concession in such an pet cost per copy, many “rings” and “knock- irregular and seemingly unaccountable manner, that outs" that now do harm to living authors would the freelance who relies upon them as a source of pass away, because the classics would be welcomed income will speedily perceive his conditiou to be as apart from trade speculations and the enrichment desperate. of tradesmen. There would be no competition The following incident may serve to illustrate then between the old and the new : in fact, the old this point. Having completed a short story during would enter for all time into the people's endowed the month of March, 1893, the writer submitted it education. This would be infinitely fairer to each in the following July to a respectable weekly, which, passing generation of harassed writers of books, for present purposes, we will call “The Flagstone." who bid to the public fancy for their livelihood. It was promptly returned. During an interval of To sum up, we hare seen that copyrights should four years the manuscript thenceforward fulfilled be protected at the least for life and fifty years, and its destiny as a rolling stone gathering no moss. that those which survive that period should be Then the writer, impelled by one of those curious published with all other classics by the State, as a impulses to which errant human nature is liable, part of the national education, or, if left free to all presented it for the second time to the journal speculators, should pay a fixed royalty to the which had dealt with it previously in so uncere- Exchequer, partly that the nation may benefit as a monious a fashion. The sands of the year 1897 rau whole by setting a time-limit to an author's owner- out, as did those of 1898—and the story neither ship in his own work, and partly in order to check, came back nor appeared. The year 1899 repeated as far as possible, the wrongful advantages now the process of its predecessors. Respectful enquiries given to publishers and newspapers in their pitting elicited curtnotes of an evasive tendency. Eventually of old books against the new. affairs were brought to a climax. After an interview with the editor early in 1900, the story made a belated bow to his subscribers. In June of that SORROWS OF A FREELANCE. year it was paid for. For four years it had been tossed about from pillar to post: for three it had T o the plain unvarnished fact that the sorrows languished in a sort of backwater, without either 1 of Grub Street are to the full as poignant in rhyme or reason to account for its fate. the present as ever they were in the past no Nor was this the only instance of a manuscript writer of eminence has testified with greater force receiving the honour of acceptation at the hands of than the late George Gissing, whose novel, “ The one to whom it had at first proved to be “unsuitable." New Grub Street," every man or woman who com Editorial antics of this kind are preferable, templates embarking on a literary career should however, to those sometimes performed by men study closely and ponder deeply. not only unbusinesslike but also unscrupulous-not If the experience of the present writer, whose to use a stronger term—in their dealings with first attempts in that direction were taken twenty- obscure wielders of the pen. Take the case of a five years ago, may be accepted as corroboration, the booklet in twelve chapters posted to a certain social book should stand as a masterpiece of faithful weekly with a view to serial publication on portraiture. September 9, 1891. Neglect of the precaution to Casting an eye rather upon potential profits than register the parcel may have been responsible for its philanthropic encouragement of budding talent, complete disappearance, or not; but the simple fact publishers desire, in the main, to deal with authors remains that upon its quitting the author's hands already established favourites with the reading the MS. vanished into space, as though by a con- public. Speculative risk must, beyond dispute, play juring trick. A lawyer, whose services were a part in the launching of unfamiliar names upon requisitioned on the quest, attached no blame to the the book market—the quality of their wares apart. postal authorities. Though lost to the author, he Although, then, such of us as have suffered the believed the labour expended upon his MS. would  ## p. 26 (#422) ############################################# 26 THE AUTHOR. in all probability benefit- somebody. It would be least forty had been shipped off and—refused : the necessary to cultivate a like altruistic spirit, in last of them turning up with a precision somewhat order to survey with equanimity the loss of a story reminiscent of clockwork on December 22, 1907 ! similarly dealt with by a monthly magazine on Yet consignments condemned — shall we say October 18, 1900. It could have been used advan- without the formality of examination-by this par- tageously later on, but the custodian to whose tender ticular, very particular, house, have been accepted mercies it had been committed denied cognisance not altogether with reluctance by its rivals! of the little stranger-and there was no duplicate. Lest these animadversions should be taken as By these and kindred devices fully one-half of the prejudiced or in any degree overstated, let us refer manuscripts despatched on their doleful journeys to a commentary made by the late James Payn in from the beginning onwards have, up to the present the Illustrated London News for November 16, moment, gone hopelessly and irretrievably astray- 1895. This gentleman, as editor of Chambers' fifty per cent of a man's merchandise proving of no Journal, and later on, of the Cornhill Magazine, greater value to him than so many soap-bubbles occupied an elevated position in the world of letters, bursting in the air ! and although not infallible, as his rejection of Were these tribulations exceptional ? Read on “John Inglesant” would show, he undoubtedly before answering the question. lent a helping hand to many struggling, but talented, " Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone beginners. is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a “With some of the complaints of contributors to sort of social pariah. Nobody wants him. Every periodicals I entirely sympathise,” he wrote. “The body despises him. His efforts are derided ; his length of time their manuscripts are retained and, manuscripts are flung back to him unread.” after all, rejected, the smallness of the remuneration Wild words--gross exaggeration, you say. and the delay in its payment are genuine grounds But as there can be no smoke without fire, so of grievance.” And there has been a marked there can be no exaggeration where there is no deterioration as regards honesty, taste, discrimina- nucleus of solid truth. We have seen how MSS. tion and conrtesy in the editorial ranks since such may be simply kept indefinitely, and neither “flung men as he and Thackeray and Dickens ceased to back" nor handed back. uplift them. Now let us peep into this mystery of MSS. HERBERT W. SMITA. returning to the sender unreal. Long years after “ The Sorrows of Satan” (from which novel our quotation is borrowed) was first published, to be PROPOSED CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW. precise, so recently as August 31, 1907, a well- known journal dealing with the affairs of an extensive publishing business made the subjoined M R. FRANK WISE, president of the strictures upon its management. “ Will it be I Macmillan Company of Canada, has given credited," asked the investigator, “ that manu- to the Press a statement correcting some scripts submitted to the firm for consideration misconceptions already made, and putting forward were solemnly entered in a huge volume, and some points which he is afraid have escaped the then as solemnly returned to their senders often notice of the Hon. Mr. Fisher and a number of his without being looked at. Scores of pages of this associates, who, no doubt, while wishing to put volume may be turned over without finding a single Canadian copyright on a dignified basis, would be contribution marked as accepted. Shareholders the last ones to bring hardship and pecuniary loss should call at the offices and verify this for them- either to Canadian authors or their publishers. selves," etc. “The manufacturing clause in the present The writer's personal experience of the people American Bill,” says Mr. Wise," is a good example implied are in entire accord with the above. In of the maxim that might is right.'" It is well the year 1884, he forwarded one of his early known to publishers that the American manu- attempts to them under the belief its nature was facturing clause was inserted at the behest and of a kind to meet their requirements. His con- insistence of the Typographical Union, which is fidence was rudely shaken by its swift return, well known to be the strongest labour union in the accompanied by that familiar slip of paper so United States. Its primary inclusion and sub- dreaded by toilers with the pen. In due season sequent retention in the American Copyright Act he sent off another argosy to the same port, and were distinctly against the expressed wishes of another, and yet another. For a period of twenty- American publishers. It is a good thing, of course, three years he persevered in this enterprise, de- for American printers and paper makers, and it is spatching cargoes of this, that, and the other kind, looked upon by those engaged in either trade as a deeming them likely to suit their market, until, at very beneficent mode of protection, much better to  ## p. 27 (#423) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 27 the printers in fact than would be protection by There is the method of getting a learned lexico- tariff, since under the later arrangement importa grapher to go carefully through the book and of tion of foreign printed books could only be avoided obtaining a learned treatise from his pen. This by keeping the prices of the home-made books method present circumstances will not allow here down to that of the foreign printed books plus or elsewhere; and there is the modern method of duty. Under the form of protection by copyright choosing a certain number of words, looking them the public is prohibited from importing foreign out, checking them and seeing that they are printed books at any price. correct, and leaving the rest to luck. It is this At the time this manufacturing clause was made latter method that we acknowledge without shame. operative in the United States, they had a popula. There are two principal reasons why this tion of some seventy millions, which made a market Dictionary should be a good one : first, the adapta- of sufficient size to make profitable the setting up tion is made from the Great Oxford English and printing of an addition for consumption in the Dictionary; and, secondly, it is connected with the United States. Indeed, this would have been names of the two Fowlers. Are these reasons in possible, though, of course, to a lesser extent, with the proof good and sufficient? We have no a population of, say, twenty millons. With hesitation in giving an affirmative answer. Canada's population, however, of a possible eight The Dictionary is a Dictionary of Current Eng- millions, to be shown by the new census, printing lish ; and this makes its perusal a great source of in Canada for Canadian consumption is utterly out pleasure. The adapters themselves say in their of the question, since there is nothing like enough preface :- demand to make a Canadian edition financially a “One of these peculiarities is the large amount of space possibility. Our contention is, therefore, that there given to the common words that no one goes through the being only a limited market in Canada, now best day without using scores or hundreds of times, often dis- served by books imported preferably from England, posed of in a line or two on the ground that they are plain or, if must be, from the United States, and the and simple, and that every one knows all about them by limited market making a separate Canadian edition the light of nature; but, in fact, entangled with other words in so many alliances and antipathies during their unprofitable, neither paper makers nor printers can perpetual knocking about the world that the idiomatic use possibly have anything to gain by holding out for of them is far from easy." a manufacturing clause in the new Canadian Bill. As a matter of fact Canada has much more to lose This line of procedure at once rouses interest, and the checking the accuracy of this statement than to gain by following the bad example of our afforded infinite pleasure. neighbours to the south. In an admirable article It is so true that words in common use are so by Mr. Brander Matthews, published in the June often overlooked, and their meaning is distorted or number of the American Review of Reviews, he shows how American literature was stunted and misapplied. When suddenly a misuser is severely repressed almost to extinction by means of whole- censured it becomes difficult to check what is sale piracy, which same conditions would be apparently self-erident. Following out the principle of looking for common words in current use, we possible in Canada by the terms of the Copyright Bill as at present outlined. find the Dictionary is everything that its adapters claim. It is to be hoped that this matter of copyright Its purchase can be recommended without hesi- will be given very careful consideration, and that no person will be blindly persuaded that benefit will tation. Although 900 pages in length, it is not accrue to any Canadian industry by the inclusion a bulky volume. The type is clear, and the price of a manufacturing clause. It will not mean an moderate. increase in printing of 5 per cent. over the present amount now done, on the principle that “a full pitcher can hold no more." JAPANESE POETRY.* THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY.* HERE are two distinct ways of reviewing a dictionary. We are not leading up to the self-evident and commonplace retort, “ Yes, the right way and the wrong way.” TN his preface Professor Chamberlain confesses 1 that in the course of years his taste respecting translations has changed : “He has gone over to the camp of the literalists, and cares for no versions whether of prose or of poetry, unless they be scrupulously exact.” We are entirely of the * " The Concise Oxford Dictionary,” adapted by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler, published by the Clarendon Press. Chamberlain. *" Japanese Poetry," by Basil Hall London : John Murray. 1911.  ## p. 28 (#424) ############################################# 28 . THE AUTHOR. same opinion, and yet conscious that, in the case of To this we need only repls that the prize- poetry at least, the people are not a few who prefer winning stories will not appear elsewhere. Every a metrical version. Those on either side will be story will be published within the next few months able to find what they prefer in this new and much in one or other of the Magazines, and authors not enlarged edition of Japanese Poetry." Parts I., satisfied with this were not expected to compete. II., and III. of the volume are a reissue of the metri. Your correspondent proceeds next to deal with caltranslations published more than thirty years ago. the question of rights. There again no diffi- Part IV. contains a valuable essay on the Japanese culty will arise. While we shall, in the ordinary Poetical Epigram, and a number of absolutely literal way, expect to retain all rights in prize-winning translations of Japanese Epigrams accompanied by stories, we shall meet, in a reasonable spirit, authors the originals, in Roman character. This is how poetry who may desire to republish their stories ought to be translated ; and while the former part subsequently. of the work contains much that is neat in form and “No date is mentioned by which a decision may pleasing in substance, we have no hesitation in be expected,” complains "A Would-be Competitor." saying tbat the new translations represent the most Since some thousands of stories have been valuable part of the book. The terseness of Japanese entered for the competition, each of which, in case Epigram is remarkable, and by no means always of rejection, requires an individual letter of careful avoids obscurity. All the difficulties are here so criticism, it was obviously impossible, whilst the admirably elucidated that Professor Chamberlain's competition was still running, to announce the book must be regarded as one which no one who is date when the result would be published. The taking up Japanese seriously can neglect. As these feature of the competition was that those actually are however few, we have pleasure in adding that responsible for the editorial conduct of the three every one with a true sense of poetical value magazines should read the stories, and as the will find in this volume a great deal that will give number of these people is limited, and they have delight. their ordinary work in addition to the competition, a certain delay has been inevitable. Stories have been dealt with as rapidly as possible, however, and the full result of the competition will be announced CORRESPONDENCE. in the November numbers of the three magazines. I might add in conclusion that the terms of the competition have met with the approval of the PRIZE COMPETITIONS. competitors. This being so, the discontent of “A Would-be Competitor " is, if harder to understand, SIR,—As your correspondent, “A Would-be easier to endure. Contributor,” in your issue of July 1, obviously Yours faithfully, refers to our £260 Story Competition, we shall be The Editors, glad if you will allow us to deal with the points he PEARSON'S MAGAZINE. raises. “Nothing," he remarks, “is said as to the fate THE ROYAL MAGAZINE. THE NOVEL MAGAZINE. of the successful stories ; there is nothing to indicate whether they are to be published, though this is hinted at." As the stated object of the competition was to INSURANCE. discover new authors, this criticism is somewhat SIR,—Following up my previous suggestion that curious. In any case it is difficult to imagine that a scheme for insuring contributors' payments should anyone would pay £50 for a story he did not intend be contemplated, I add that it seems patent that if to publish. But may we allay any fears in this once an assurance company could be got to specify direction by assuring all those who read these lines what publications it would undertake to cover in this that prize-winning stories, and those purchased at way, the controllers of “unincluded” organs would our ordinary rates, will all be published. for the most part find it expedient, for the sake of “There is nothing," continues “A Would-be prestige, to follow suit by getting a similar public Competitor," “ to enable the authors to know where form of cover. Otherwise they might lay them. or when the prize-winning stories will be published. selves open to suspicion of instability. When new An author may be quite willing to sanction the developments are organised, people often have to appearance of his work in one of the three magazines, come into line by adopting them, wbether they and yet object strongly to its appearance in either like it or not. of the remaining two. 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