https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/429/1912-01-01-The-Author-22-4.pdf b8176ff2cc96b2cda5ce35fef5e0cdac PDF Text Text The Author . --No . 4. Authors . Monthly .) 1, 1912 . JANUARY [ PRICE SIXPENCE . CONTENTS . PAGE to .. . . .. . .. . to 150TH . whilst the plot 6 is . / STAR grip / . ROSARY 6 - . . . . of a . / the story -- . ." - to 6 . , 's . , , SHENSTONE fresh and romantic flows through Mrs Barclay new book and gives Daily Graphic lavender and jessamine and old fashioned flowers of of THOUSAND OF THE MISTRESS " A novel . .” as of as , is ' " 350TH some again unusual THOUSAND Jane Champion one the most lovable heroines that have ever stepped into the pages grace The Rosary has wit well Pall Mall Gazette youthful sentiment the delicate odour 03 104 105 105 106 110 12 Barclay , L OF It . THE has the same charm and PAGE 102 103 103 103 103 , - ." Evening Standard THE * The Rosary . " A and clever to “ THE FOLLOWING successor . By Florence worthy :: ::: :: :: ::: : Warnings Dramatic Authors Registration of Scenariosand Original Plays Dramatic Authors and Agents Warnings Musical Composers Stamping Music The Reading Branch Remittances General Notes Committee Election The Pension Fund Committee The Dinner The SoundestView of History Correspondence .. . of the Notices The Society's Funds List of Members ... The Pension Fund ... Committee Notes ... Council Meeting Books publishedby Members .. Literary, Dramaticand Musical Notes Paris Notes ... ... United StatesNotes Stage Plays and Private Societie MagazineContents How to Usethe Society ... Warnings to Producers Books = Vol . XXII . of Society = ( The Organ of the Incorporated . 150TH THOUSAND Northern we have met with for some time . = / net - stories 1 TIME . OF touching and truly pathetic .” the most Whig charmingly Belfast . One of “ THE WHEELS .C . , Strand London W . Books , , Bedford Barclay 's . Mrs St . SONS describing , List 24 for , PUTNAM Send 'S . 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P .R Stock 11 0 Nov Nov Newton Phipson Mrs Hannay Mrs Humphry Ward addi tional subscription for 1912 Nov 258 .. - ... .. .. .. . 31 . % .. .. .. . . .. ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. , .. 1937 Canada 49 . . . . 6 5 12 12 , , , , 0 4 0 0 Nov .. .. .. .. .. 23 32 % % of Grant 1919 , - Dcminion 31 57 of 4% % Mauritius Stock ' is 0 13 19 0 0 200 200 0 of 4 % Jamaica Oct Oct Nov Inscribed and South Western Railway Preference Stock New Zealand Stock Irish Land Act Guaranteed Stock Corporation London Stock Beale Nov 250 Certificates Good Hope Bungey Nov Nov , .. ... . ... .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 . . 3 .. % . . . % ... . . . . ... . . . ... . . Irrigation Government Oct Oct 291 Deben . 4 . % . . . . . . . - . . . . . 32 .. % . . .. .. .. .. .. . .. .. .. .. .. . Egyptian Trust 1927 . in . .. .. . ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. London ture Stock Subscriptions 500 Consoli Stock and North Western Stock 4d . of in by of in in , to is 21 % £1 312 dated Inscribed Glasgow as to , at is to to Local Loans Victorian Government Cape . £4 , to of , , at of Consols the England Baker Street Provincial Bank Bankers Order for drawn the Union London and Smiths Bank Clifton Bristol Bankers Order drawn the London County and Westminster Bank Kensington ' in to - at . of — of 4d . . £312 13s This brings the invested funds 377 198 The trustees however have been unable recom any further pensions mend the payment the present exhausted income their disposal They desire the members draw the attention the society this fact the hope that additional subscriptions and donations there will the the course hand be sufficient funds year declare another pension case any im forthcoming portant claim answer without any covering letter glad therefore He would those members who may have sent these orders recognising them from their description would write the secretary the matter Bankers Order for 108 drawn the London County and Westminster Bank Maidstone the National Bankers Order for 10s drawn . . . . . . . . . . . . . , 1 of N the trustees the Pension Fund the society after the secretary placed had before them the financial position the fund decided invest £250 Consols the purchase The amount purchased the present price on of February orders , ' received four bankers recent appeal unsigned G . . .W E. . 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Maurice Nov. 27 , Stewart , J. C . MacDougall : Nov Baldwin Mrs Alfred Nov Nov s. 0 £ , Murdoch , 25 28 27 28 27 27 27 29 , 28 , 29 , 28 , 28 , 28 , 27 , , , , 27 , 28 , 28 , , 28 , 28 , 28 , 27 , , 27 , 28 , , 27 , Nov. �d 0 0 . 0 0 , , , as , in , in . , In , of in , , on in of . open owing settled the , it had - to a . in revealed been which mis statement This his affidavit re - to a , the defendant of to , . 10 of , , . , in It paying defendants . as in of , as damages and costs for infringement 500 guineas preriously arranged place £400 and costs who by undertaken property dramatic obtained against the selling scripts plays . of cases of defendant without the sanction , 0 the successful termination the society against pirates An injunction had been of . of a . to in a , to of The next question referred the bankruptcy literary agent and the solicitor was instructed the course which the committee wished have reported the satisfactory taken The solicitor settlement small county court case where the amount and costs had been paid He also reported had been the , of an by to . them of . to a , as . of . an . to an In it an for . , . , a The accounts writ had been issued have since been delivered Another case accounts and royalties had been settled without going into court the accounts having been delivered The same with cheques for the sums shown due author had report applies third case where running publisher very account with agreement difficult case referring breach publisher was next discussed but the committee final regretted they could not then come undertaking decision owing the absence ments 6 19 £164 of infringement dramatic another case injunction has been property interlocutory obtained The society will now proceed obtain the final injunction and order for costs The case was one barefaced infringement settled Two other small cases were reported action for account against music publisher had been impossible obtain proper state as In 0 0 O 0 0 6 0 5 5 2 0 1 5 0 everomoru 0 0 to , if of to . in of to to , had been damaged their circulation and undertaking not defendant had given continue circulate any further scripts the works question The solicitor also obtained the names some the people whom the scripts were they are found producing these plays sold and the society will proceed take action against of 6 0 0 6 O 6 Bororoor 2 on to . - Forty three the owners scripts had been delivered the solicitors and sent the society whose work the members of 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 case was mentioned 0 0 0 0 3 2 Nero 5 to 5 0 s . 5 0 0 0 0 6 1 7 6 0 10 £ 0 1 5 The Author case has now 0 • : . . K , . W , . , 22 22 , , , Francis Beard Horridge Frank . . . Miss Mary Mrs Tench 21 Clifford . Dec . Bremner Robert Dawson Frank Dec . . . Arcy Ella Miss Lady Glenconner Royds The Rev Moore Mrs Stuart Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Nesbit Wm 288 The committee have however resignations chronicle with regret The solicitor the society then reported the cases his hands may be remembered that the last issue been necessary . Bland Mrs De Morgan Dec .. .. .. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 10 , 18 18 18 16 16 20 . 18 , 11 , 10 , , , 11 , , , , , , 12 J. D ' , P . H , . , P , , , , , , . , W . A , . , . . . . E . . E . . . R T . . . L. . . F . F A . . . Hope Hawkins Pennell Mrs Dec 0 5 0 novoro 0 10 2 A , . 8 , the Viscountess Dec Dec Dec 1 0 0 3 Ord total 0 6 . . Dec , , Dec Percival Helen Graham Kenneth Falmouth The Right Honble Dec 5 5 5 0 0oerer Grace . . . . . . , Toplis Dec . . , , Watson Mrs Herbert Dec Dec 100 , , , Begbie Harold Spiers Victor Wentworth Gerald Pryce Richard Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov stated 0 . . :: :: : . M . H . , , Nov Nov Nov Nov tions for the current year 288 the largest any one year save 1909 since the founda tion the society 1909 298 elections were recorded 1910 276 and 1911 has been 0 Steven ven Kinloch Alexander Webling Peggy Barclay Mrs Hubert Gibbs Miss Batty Mrs Braithwaite Spielmann Mr and Mrs 3 2 Spurrier . . , , , , , F . , . L . C . A . . . E . . . . Gibbs : M . , , H . E . M , Bolton Clement Stutfield .. .. .. .. .: 100 200 . . 0 , , Beatrice . Harraden Gould Gerald Hardy Thomas Maarten Maartens , Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov . F , . M . , . D , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 6 , , , 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 29 2929 29 29 29 29 28 28 28 28 28 28 , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , McKellar Campbell Wroughton Miss Cicely Rankin Miss Nov Nov Nov up THE AUTHOR . of by A . a a an of consider the matter an court but they decided undertaking they would , to go to of , to , a , , to a a into such . - the author receipt that on to of 25 to , . by . ' , of The minutes the previous meeting having been read and signed the committee proceeded the They were pleased elections elect members elec and associates bringing the total number - 18 , , on .C ., , W , clock 3 o , at ber 4th of the Committee was held the rooms the Society Arts John Monday Street Adelphi Decem re of of MEETING at a to an . NOTES . .. COMMITTEE �it . in for at to to to In . in of to . to in be of to , be be . an - It . . of . , - . - to . a , , as it of at . M . of E to . . 30 . , of . 18 at of 4 , at , on .C ., , W of to in of . It in is to . in of , to of of of it . to , , it , to in it in of no , , . of of that there were other and the society funds which 's on to go to . to the council considered more pressing claims should met first . of . . re - at . . re - , . - ' . on of of 1911 the Dramatic Sub the offices the society clock at at for , last meeting 15 , . . in The Committee was held Friday December SUB COMMITTEE 3 o in DRAMATIC to , is , It . to . of to of , ex , in to of , re - to of for the benefit members the Annual Report the society The next matter was the question the re publication the list members After carefully considering the few letters received from members and discussing the pros and cons the council came great desire for the the conclusion that list existed and that view that fact and of keeping up the expense entailed date republish would inadvisable Moreover . at of , to of of . , , , at state that Mr Owen The committee are pleased Seaman will accept nomination however any member the power the society nominate some other member fill the position Full par procedure ticulars this matter also appear another part The Author to John Street Monday December 4th be is by by , of at . the council The first matter before the meeting was receive and adopt the report the Committee Management the council setting out detail copy the action they had taken the matter right legislation The report was unanimously approved and adopted print this intended be of . of of . , of . the committee decided ask Mr Owen Seaman allow his name forward for fill the vacancy the general meeting election Accordingly Adelphi to fill to A . to in of of One member those elected by the Management Committee and one those elected the general meeting hare retire annually Mrs Humphry Ward retired rotation and submitting her name the Committee Management for election was elected Mr Morley Roberts one the members elected the general meeting retired but did not seek election officio MEETING THE second statutory meeting the society during 1911 was held , in COUNCIL . of by Fund Committee com three members nominated the Committee Management and three elected the society the general meeting with the chairman the Management Committee for the time being as 28 to , , to of recall that the Pension in Symonds thank Miss the Capital Fund to by , a 's House Lords The committee settled their nominees for the Committee Election for 1912 the vacancies caused the retirements necessary under the constitution the society notice the pro cedure appears another part this issue The election the Pension Fund Committee was also discussed Members the society may posed settled The committee have donation £2 the society of , . of laid on , of the members the committee was the table The secretary reported the receipt letters from Sir Frederick Macmillan and correspondent dealing from Canadian with Colonial and Canadian copyright and also the steps put forward the taken Lord Tennyson society amendments the Copyright Bill the on to sent all A Sir . , of Following the discussion the cases matters dealing with the Copyright Bill were considered letter from Gilbert Parker which had been . . contention could sidered that would inadvisable take action they did not see any chance the present time getting hearing and the question was accord ingly adjourned sub committee was appointed deal with the Agency Agreement That sub committee consists Mrs Belloc Lowndes Mr Charles Garvice and may the secretary the society recalled that not long ago the Dramatic Sub Committee agreement between dramatist and agent settled The Literary Agency Agreement will probably based the dramatic agency agreement already . on to did not feel that the supported they be , 's as of the member force The secretary mentioned the committee the difficult position which some writers novels had been placed owing recent legal decisions respecting the law libel The committee con A a , on . a an ; of a . to 's of to of , . a of by of to . . no , as in a to behalf member The question of the clerks ' salaries and Christ mas boxes was also considered , and the committee sanctioned certain expenditure these items regard advertisements The Author keep present was decided the arrangement of . a of of to , a In delayed delivery case MS the post office the committee regretted their inability help the author cases dealing with this subject had clearly established that redress was pro curable the circumstances The secretary brought the notice the agreements issued committee number certain publishing house He pointed out how objectionable these contracts binding down authors give series works the publisher were point from the anthor view and how frequently similar agreements from the same house had been brought him by members dispute agree The last case arose out ment between member and his publisher The proceed committee regretted their inability 89 for a by THE AUTHOR . �THE AUTHOR . to had come . It . time therefore that the functions , in considered lay down their be ' to - its had been discussed at the meeting of the Dramatists ' Club , and that a sub - committee of that club had appointed to consider been various clauses was understood that this sub committee would turn report the Dramatists Club and that that report would subsequently laid before the elected with the full approval of the Swedish Academy to collect the votes in this country of persons entitled to vote for the Prize for Litera . ture , the Swedish Acadeiny , without consulting system , and they them , had instituted a new been , After the signing of the minutes the first ques tion before the sub - committee was the Managerial Treaty . The Chairman reported that the treaty , 90 . is notso , to . it of to to . , . , . , a as 's , in . in a . , Therefore seven cases concluded and , remaining of report that three the foriner cases not one remains open but two have had transferred the solicitors the society , . of to In shortly satisfactory closed to there will recovered been ten have been satisfactorily every probability that the of Elections . December . Armitage Mrs Palmeira Hove Avenue , , Barton Alphington . , , . , N , Park Langham Terrace Road Cathcart Studios , , , Hugh 74 . Exeter . . , Higginbottom W Redcliffe Road . Hill , , N . . Sidney . , Low 24 , .SW Kensington Marlborough . W . by to of be of . W 27 “ R ", Milton Highgate , , Newton ." of “ . 60 , , Rochester 3, Heale . passed 's . Longley House Street . and Square . . V J , ph ) - Thomas Francis Beard , E . seconded , , proposed Management That the Committee the requested Society Incorporated Authors disband the Nobel Prize Committee elected 1902 them The Nobel Prize Committee gare the following reasons for this request That although they had in 68 , . . . , Cunningham Miss . . , Conway Gordon onway Vere : was resolution unanimously Queen Bristol , . in , of the work the Committee since ment with the approval the Swedish Academy 1902 After some discussion the following Sanford (C , , its at , . . of appoint Cole D ), . 14 , of on of at of the Nobel Prize Committee 1911 was held the offices the society Thursday December After the minutes the former meeting had been read and signed Mr Edmund Gosse put forward some length The meeting for Montedore Caltanis setta Sicily , Louise ( Signora , Caico NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE . . 5 , M Brown . , F . . . E . . the cases that had dramatists since the last . to for reported . The secretary then been carried through meeting 's in of , . In has , , of out . of . to for , MS to - . . of , in referred the Committee their serious consideration sub committee - . . be , of to be in to as A the Management has , to . it at . of to - to . Some letters from Mr Laurence Cowen were the sub committee and the secretary also read reply was authorised The conduct the election the Dramatic Sub Committee for 1912 was next considered Notice this will sent the dramatic section the society due course letter received from Mr Ligon Johnson Managers counsel the Theatrical Producing regard America the Canadian Copyright Bill been two claims for accounts The anthor the one case and received the accounts other the defaulter has answered the secretary yet been letter although the accounts have not claim for the return of MS the rendered have is . , to a , of , to inexpedient The committee decided would publish the the resolution until the reply from Lord Chamberlain had been received and the sums paid The other two bare recently come into the office that there has press complete the been time before going negotiations for accounts and money the the one claim There accounts and money have been delivered . , on The next matter before the committee was the correspondence with the Lord Chamberlain and arising out the correspondence resolution was passed send which the secretary was authorised the earliest opportunity the Lord Chamberlain TEN cases have been the secretary hands since the last issue The Author Six have been pleasing claims for money and these report that four have been satisfactorily settled of . ' , , to as a . a , he . to the Dramatists Club had come hand The Chairman however read certain letters had received which he laid the table and letter drafted by Mr Bernard Shaw was also suggested preface the Managerial Treaty Cases is until be it these circumstances further discussion It adjourn to was decided the report from be - . In Dramatic Sub Committee �THE AUTHOR . Morgan , Rev . The Vyrnwy , D . D . Price , Frederick W . Prior , Mrs . St. , 133, . C . Melton , 12A , Carlyle Street , Mansions, Cheyne Walk sea . , Chel . David Watson . Dover Street , Piccadilly , W . West Hayes , Win - . 53 , Stainforth , Col . Harley W. . Quinton Rannie G J. , Miss Edith Steer , Miss Janette Stephenson , H . H . . , Symons Tippett , M . Travers . , Mrs . Isabel C . Watson , Malcolm Williams , Harold . 34 , chester . Sloane Gardens, S. W . Park , Worcester Surrey . . 10 , Cliffords Inn , E .C . Cottage , . Rosemary Wetherden , Suffolk . 44 , Ridgmount Gar dens , W . C. . 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A M . . on of , at , , his by 's of . . of a at , in of . and Times of Life Co . & . The in by , year , is the new “ so , . “ (1 ) , Co . Sir of , " an . . in & . by ", Mr Harold Salt Messrs Hutchinson will publish early referred to of . , , is “ 's in of . in many novels Mr Clive Holland the author and topographical works has just been fêted Bournemouth fellow townsmen who through Literary Society the medium the Westbourne gave goodly dinner his honour which number the professional and business men Bournemouth were present Mr Holland health was proposed and the wide range his work . , . to or or at . of which . . , H , . G , . . . , , , , 's of various quaint customs and usages few have lasted into the present age There are eight illustrations colour Messrs Macmillan are the publishers publish also Style Messrs Macmillan Musical Art Hubert Parry which record “ . , . L . , of appropriate points groups inserted well describing friends known poems addressed Tennyson early later life Mr Ralph Nevill new book Floreat Etona while abounding anecdote also historical has . is It . to by , Sir , , , . 's of , , Warren Edward Fitzgerald Lady Ritchie Mrs Margaret Woods Professor Jowett Mr Dakyns Dr Montagu Butler Sir Charles Stanford Sir Oliver Lodge Sir Norman Lockyer the Bishop Ripon and other notable people The editor their habits and customs The illustrations are quite first class and well reproduced Milestones Marcia Knight collection poems some which have appeared The Gentlewoman The Pall Mall Gazette and Vanity Many Fair them deal with nature and country life which the author writes with sympathy Messrs Constable and Co are the publishers Miss Woods has just published her monthly poetical Calendar book form under the Day with the Poets title Day Calendar and Treasury English Verse for any Year copy the book has been accepted Queen Alexandra a Co . & a " of by of “ , . in December Messrs Macmillan published Tennyson and his friends record Tennyson and his son the friendships edited Hallam Lord Tennyson and the chapters have been planned and arranged him follow the sequence the poet life The contributors include Emily Lady Tennyson Mr Willingham Henry Craik Dr Rawnsley Charles Tennyson a , late . . the “ . is . of is it , 's , of to Mr George Meredith the Society of , , a of of a is, . by , of In a is President Early The Lighter Side Irish Life with sixteen Henry colour illustrations Kerr the price net from the house Foulis The book written Mr Birmingham best vein and has many good stories but there also great deal sound information about the people , by , to up . , , . to reference Studies and Sketches and here the author sympathetic fashion deals with many questions which must interest all lovers music We have been asked note that the English commencing with the January number Review 1912 will issued the reduced price parts 12s annual subscription post free the world We are assured that this change has been made owing continuous success and high the repeated demands the public for popular price class literary review Birmingham Mr George has just published of bya , . 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A , by , by to " “ N A interesting little book entitled Das Dichtung Oxforder Buch Deutscher covering selections from the twelfth the twentieth century edited Fiedler with preface Gerhart Hauptmann has been issued the Oxford Press somewhat similar work Treasury was published years ago the Golden Professor Series by Messrs Macmillan edited Buchheim and the present time that was undoubtedly the best selection that could possibly have been made from German lyrical poems The present selection published the Oxford Press containing however rather more ambitious poems and larger number wider range impossible authors book this kind include everything but the judgment the thoroughly trustworthy and reliable Mr editor preface Gerhart Hauptmann short also interesting and we note with great pleasure his , . . by of of , , et , MUSICAL AND of , (2 ) Post Victorian Music Mr Graves arranged three divisions The first part under the heading Post Victorian Music dis cusses the Symphonia Domestica Elektra Salome Pelléas Mélisande Elgar First Symphony part the author gives his second series eighteen Portraits and Appreciations which embraces some the most notable figures the world music The concluding section consists in , L . to . . . Co . DRAMATIC NOTES . , LITERARY North GRANT “ pp 61 . & . , London AND SEA Sketches and Studies By CYRIL FLETCHER GRANT and Sampson Low in n . " • Africa X . 10 S 258. Twixt LAND based upon a series of lectures planned while the author held the chair of music in the University of Oxford . The lectures were not delivered because the pressure other duties obliged Sir resign the chair but the present volume Hubert represent the entire scheme devised intended the beginning his tenure the professorship at is By SPAIN RE - VISITED : A Summer in Galicia . C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY (MRS . WALTER M . GALLICHAN ). 9 x 54 . 330 pp . Stanley Paul. 128. 6 . n. ITALIAN CASTLES AND COUNTRY SEATS . By TRYPHOSA Longmans BATES BATCHELLER 512 93 Countess �THE AUTHOR . of , are as . , . , , , & & J. . . . J. . is of in as of as , . on in of in , in is ” , . to , an is on by , an on , , 's . of of . 15 “ : , by " , “ 's to & . at , in . . ", : to is . “ 's 's Co . in to , ' s of ." “ of . , . to of an at - a of .” of of “ & . . 's , a in of . 's of of VII , . " a at “ Brinton of Selwyn in The Renaissance Italian Art treats Leonardo Milan This volume ends the series which gives com Part , literary of , of , of , " appointed Review , Fair The biography has been private the family from has been . Vanity friend and other 's . George and of is . , ” “ , of editor . Mr L . . of W . papers Book Cruikshank A to : by . on “ “ Table to , a , . In in is It . , of The Lamb George notabilities his time authoritatively compiled The author has collected much new material and many pictures are reproduced the book for the Opie pictures forms copious first time list appendix the book New Year poem from the pen Alfred Smythe appears the January number the Westminster . to is , , to : . of , , " and Messrs Hutchinson announce the publica story Miss Ada Earland John Opie Opie was the son and his Circle Cornish labourer and received recognition his extra ordinary gifts early age He came London the company Dr John Wolcot better known Opie his pen name Peter Pindar work won the admiration Sir Joshua Reynolds and the present work the author has attempted tell the story the artist life fully and adequately tion . of - , is . of to : of . Book Charles ago in ." W . F , of . Old English fare seasonal festivals national feasting and fasting and the influence dishes diet upon health and character The volume profusely illustrated published Mr Fisher Unwin who will issue 1912 another work from the pen Mr Hackwood this later volume Mr Hackwood will deal with the life and times popular antiquities William Hone the writer compiler The Every Day Book The Year and white ones This book issued uniform with the Gateway same author Tales retold Romance published two years from The Earthly Paradise of of . a all by “ The romance food and Hackwood deals with the food stuffs nations and the culinary practices approached from all ages The subject the historic and picturesque side reference made the dietary the Scriptures Roman banquet and Cheer mainland Miss Crommelin has also used her own experiences California which she visited soon after the great earthquake San Francisco Messrs Nelson Sons have published Miss Emily Spenser Underdown new book The Gateway Tales retold from the Fairy Queen with sixteen coloured plates Frank Papé and numerous black , in in . in ”, , , , , ", ” of By “ “ of Good Mr Wil . , , by a , “ , it in , a of print for year the poems having now been out publishers The Oxford University Press have reprinted new volume Miss Matheson entitled Roses Loaves and Old Rhymes which have been included also ten later poems Of the latter several are simultaneously included Leaves Prose and one has already appeared Divers Paths both volumes being interleaved with occasional verse thus attaining among lovers prose rather different audience feasting Miss May Crommelin new novel written collaboration with Mr Alfred Williams and entitled The Isle the Dead was produced mainly laid November The scene island the Alentian group known liams who American mining engineer and peopled Indians differing from those the . by. . 's of ' in of . , “ 's in ", 's . . . L Allen by in Harker new novel Mr Wycherley Wards was published last month England and Messrs Charles Mr John Murray Scribners Sons the United States America The Christmas edition Miss Annie Matheson Mrs of of Blond , . H Le them embraces such different ways life places widely apart are represented the isles the North Pacific and the southern limits Australia Mr Henry Drane the pub lisher Mr Arthur Hill has written and Messrs William Rider Son Limited have published book dealing with religion and modern psychology study present tendencies particularly the religious implications the scientific belief Mysticism survival with discussion sphere a ), of . Aldenburg . . , , ( ), of ( ), Bentinck Mr Bentinck India and Mrs Aubrey nearly all till now unpublished Count of , ( those of Seven Islands ," by Evelyn Adams, is of stories with the life and incidents in the Pacific . The scenes laid variously and the “ Tales a collection , be a in ” including Portland collectiors the Duke Holland and Papé . of work , in a later full disclosure of " be by indiscreet illustrated various private Welbeck Abbey . , the time would The Life Countess Bentinck will photographs from pictures to she hopes deal with being long past when ” is a . , of an on of , II Harry Tighe' s last novel, * Intellectual ( John Long ), has gone into a second edition . In the Christmas Pall Mall Magazine he has an Eastern fairy story , " The Moon - Child Mother of the Fireflies," illustrated by Frank C . Mr. Marie It Aubrey Le Blond , Bentinck ' s letters . The two volumes will contain extracts from letters to Countess Bentinck from Frederick the Great , Voltaire , the Princess of Zerbst (Mother of Catherine . of Russia ) , who was a cousin of Countess Bentinck ' s, her intimate friend Count Mercy d' Argenteau , and many other well - known people . family While searching archives in England Holland and Germany Mrs Aubrey Le Blond came the track historical mystery connected with the Royal Family France which . A , 1715 — 1799 ," by Mrs possesses many of Countess Bentinck who by 94 �THE AUTHOR . be - of by , 's , of . in be . Co . & it in in , in . . 2s . at , , a , of of co a - . of in an " , , or “ , of , . in be to , in of , . . of be , , in . be will price , . . of be . of , in to be six of . on divided into four sections The first will consist subjects connected articles with poetry and poetic criticism and biography The second will contain reviews modern European poetry Next pages will about devoted the publication modern poetry representing each issue the only one work individual poet The fourth section will the Gazette the society The . be . K . by , , , by . in It of a , the Messrs . in State return are the publishers . . . Co to due Figgis & which Hodges R .C . , is ” , W of to 93 be 6d the Review will All communications addressed the office The Poetry Chancery Lane Review School and Country little book inculcating Crawford written with the object spirit patriotism the young describes simple language the services rendered the State members and emphasises the obligations should its 's operating with the standing monthly poetic literature which the Gazette incorporated The first issue the new periodical will appear January 1912 under the title The Poetry Review The contents will review of ” . of NOTES . by DRAMATIC be . yet . . . as a at , of , be . of be . , in be . . . . of of . dramatisation Bella Donna “ ", ' , of ' Mr Mr “ s .” of be James Bernard Fagan Robert Hichens novel to . a by Hooper eight illustrated photographs from . ; or in . R by “ , . is edited . 's . . to C . E volume will colour reproduced Each , . in It ." colour series for Day Gardening Pearson plates Jack announce new flower lovers entitled Present & . T . E . Messrs of .S .A . U a the placed many more are due appear various magazines within the next month two magazines these writers have recently variety short stories and articles . as in . . by , by “ be . In and English Mr Cecil Raleigh and Mr Paul Rubens are writing the next piece for the Gaiety Theatre responsible for the music Mr Rubens will also the piece while the lyrics will the hands Mr Arthur Wimperis The next Drury Lane drama will the joint work Mr Raleigh and Mr Henry Hamilton What the drama will about has not been finally settled but the authors have two dramas sketched one rather more domestic drama yet they have done the Lane than Mr Raleigh has also arranged with Mr Arthur adapt his new French purchase Collins Le Petit Café . ", " ) “ ; , . Co of a ( . & . , " of “ The been . & . ”, of of of “ a of of . Co as a of Co . — of bya , — an be . to “ the production are of is " & 's . its purpose for the of be is A . of , 12 ” , . in Co & . by . Woman formed society , . is “ in . , – by of . “ Hunter the title Miss new novel published this month by Messrs Stanley Paul The book has for theme the degradation love result the monastic idea and shows the higher awakening and evolution libertine the Woman Hunter great passion the title the power The John Lane New York have recently issued American edition Miss Kenealy novel The Mating Anthea the first eugenics novel written Messrs Stanley Paul Co are publishing this month The Activities Lavie Jutt Mar guerite and Armiger Barclay During the same month John Long will publish Oliver Sandys Mrs Armiger Barclay new novel Chicane and second edition Letters from Fleet Street originally published anonymously Frank Palmer joint will issued under Mr and Mrs Barclay names Twelve stories Mr and Mrs Barclay have appeared Christmas numbers during 1911 The Arabella Kenealy them will official journal under the provisional title Lately Poetical Gazette committee has to - 10 to , , . . , March tickets are required Mrs Perrin has been elected President the Society Women Journalists for 1911 serial Mrs Perrin called Colour Blind ronning The Times Weekly Edition and will published Messrs Methuen the course of next year published They , be ) on , of , 27 23 24 in ". of . January are the lectures still February 1912 Admission free No in - be to , “ on by of of , . 3 P .M be , The dates the spring book also include their Continental Library Messrs Frederick Stokes are the publishers America The Poetry Society which was founded first under the title The Poetry Recital Society quarterly 1909 has published monthly form of 's . of . in is , " : 's . J. of “ of A a . R ( at of by . noons given February will “ . . H It .D is . ( . “ to is by , of ). " a a A the Library Association has lectures delivered Mr Peddie Reference Books for Librarians and Readers The lectures will permission held the Trustees the Lecture Saturday after Room the British Museum The Council arranged course natural specimens taken by Mr. T. Ernest Waltham , by a new process of colour photography . The most improved methods colour printing will employed their reproduction Miss Beatrice Harraden new novel which Messrs Nelson have also acquired the serial rights in a , & . by . 6d . 28 , . . is — at all plete account of the art of the Italian revival, richly illustrated . Each volume — there are nine in published Messrs George Bell Son net publish Mr Martin Secker about White Douglas Mrs Webs new novel Theo Everett The book will appear this month romance Sussex and deals with the Jacobite plottings which followed the rising 1745 third edition Mr Johnston Abraham recent volume The Surgeon Log being Impres sions the Far East the press 95 was �THE AUTHOR by la et by . “ - on , of “ , ", is of is of is the a It . , of the in by of to a at its to . . by M a , . a , . ", M be Mlle prerace Polonais Dr Victor Nicaise with study Henri Welschinger the struggle the Poles The volume was presented Welschinger the Académie des Sciences Morales Politiques November meeting comprehensive study and dramatic story struggle preserve their language the Poles and should read all who are interested struggle civilisations and the psychology children book which will read with curiosity and be is It ; ( 2 ) , la de l' à ; de la vie la ; (3 ) ( 4 ) ; ; l' ). ; la la de vie la la ; of . et ; ' l' , la , ' , L L de . de la vie It et ” de is de ( , la de ' vie la du le 'ilqu ” : et ." of Ce “ a “ . C . , M is is at byla de ( book a of ) is le ” . is of it . , its no us , by la . et a of , fin - l' ' .— d et du is " “ . is “ , the second of of is " ardent .” Buisson Voyage , " la of ", “ Le . Fin du “ ' ” ”, “ L of ' a “ L “ by de Frédéric volumes poetry the volumes one entitled containing Océan some exquisite the Duchesse Rohan volume Temple entitled Rêve the Baronne Baye has also appeared recently Another posthumous volume announced con taining the Lettres Jeunesse Charles Louis Philippe Henri Vandeputte volume Maurice Bouchor has just published entitled Contes lire faire lire aux Enfants Maurice Muret publishes volume called , is of Among , ” by . de du Le of ." à ou a . à “ a . " “ de is . A ” by ' Souffles poems M a is ” esprit Silhouettes the title to be - ” . l' âme Waldembourg Hohenlohe Homme aux Papillons Théodore Cahu charming book worthy Doute the author mortel Oubli and Vers Paix Romain Rolland continues his long series Prince “ . “ of ' . et Vénitien siècle de , ., de - d a de Ch . ." Empereur Manteau XVIII° “ ., - a his , he , , et de , in this volume allemand Sous d ; , ” - . - “ is a to ., II ., , II . 1er , ., W . be ’ “ L found Empire entitled qui demeurent choses De initiative Valeurs marchandes valeurs âme La Crise Français Réforme universi taire the title little book Abel Faure which the author assures that there simply continuing crisis that the language evolution The book has come the right moment optimistic and the tone du .” ; les “ et . de A , ' ”, d de of in en . “ III vie etc in of of du to “ ) de . ." de by M on “ XIII published Wagner the author The Simple Life published new book entitled Among the most striking faudra toujours the chapters are the following Choses abolies has just “ - be 's is It ; an As to commissaire délégué France publishes book impres gives Leurs Majestés which sions Elisabeth Autriche Alphonse Le Shah Perse Nicolas Victor Emmanuel Léopold Edouard VII Wilhelmine Hollande orre Georges Angleterre Sisowath Victoria study Mme Nicati publishes Elisabeth Browning Poète Femme Freycinet The Souvenirs will read with great curiosity and interest The truth con cerning many political questions dating from 1848 ancien travail essence sens propre de ces mots La in . of . of to of to . ( , dit III Xavier Paoli auprès des souverains will L ( )1 's . is he all by , of to is , de of Pierre Vaissière new volume will study the psychology interest all who care Temps des criminals entitled Récits Troubles XVI° siècle De quelques Assassins The subjects treated are those concerning Jean Poitrot Seigneur Maurevert Jean Yanowitz Besme Henri Quarante Cinq and Jacques Clément exact contrast this book published by Georges Eliac entitled Un après midi chez preface has been written Lespinasse Julie Ségur this the Marquis . by its .” de " be is to . M de . . “ of living Versailles the the pictures and documents relating the past history Versailles The volume illustrated with many hitherto unpublished sketches some which belong the private collec England tion the King the Château palace surrounded Martin Kuckuck Univers être vivant La Solution des Pro blèmes Matière Vie aide Biologie universelle divided into four parts Cosmobiologie univers Plasmo biologie Cytobiologie substance Géobiologie cellule Among the subjects treated are La Méthode Terre “ . . “ Lourdines des volume Pierre Nolhac just Histoire Château Versailles has published been This volume Versailles sous Louis XIV No author could better qualified than Nolhac treat this subject As Curator du second de of M . his novel entitled The annual Chateaubriant for de Alphonse M to I M Goncourt Academy has awarded prize volume recently Petersburg scientists of is St . a interest PARIS NOTES HE by A . of and Façade study Derrière Pierre Baudin and Germany which after another study allemande the long Franco German conflict the Morocco question also instructive Allemands of by du , Norva . . , . Nulsson . M in , Mlle . , Maurice Wick Yvette Bariel M by , . , at de . B “ by”, “ l' 3, de " , “ ” , , On . in are produced at the St . James ' Theatre on December 9. Mr. George Alexander , Mrs . Patrick Campbell , Mr. Athol Stewart , and Miss Mary Grey the cast Sunday December La Chute Dieu La Femme Acteur and Le Morley Lieutenant Felberg three plays Steynor were produced the Theatre Français Londres The French actor from the Grand Guignol Théâtre Louis Tunc appeared the plays and was supported Pierre Maugue . et 96 �THE AUTHOR . . Its . of on , , to it ." “ in .. , & , its at of .” an , in of by of of ”, at . in , . , as , ", he of “ of in its , it “ , . to be £6 , , its of a a if in : it of of be fewof , of , lot in ” It all . , is it . or of at 's . of in , ) De. ( a ) " . ( ). . ) . " ( ” ( de du Nor can elsewhere America authors great concern theirs how such works affect pocket But certainly they are the publisher thought uneasy the best the feel entitled to ) . Paul XVI de “ - ( du " " “ M . Bernard Grasset des Lourdines Emile Paul Versailles Château Histoire quel Temps siècle des Troubles Récits ques Assassins Emile Paul Lespinasse Emile Un après midi chez Julie in — at ; of a . S . . to — . . or — of “ of be of ”, “ , is - A “ .” . is . , M by La Flambée Saint Martin being given Henry Kistemeckers opening the season Mme Sarah Bernhardt Lucrèce Borgia with hogs the whole attention the house the exclusion the other and really important books the books that bulked together really make profit and the books that carry the dignity and the prestige and the power and the influence eclipses them the house the question direct personal interest very unfortunately the best sellers actually to at the of on is . Emile 't l' .” of being given now to “ de L an ’ on du is , , in title the . 's five acts still , , le . Sauterelles " “ Les piece Fabre Vaudeville At the Porte best sellers fortified the denunciation one the most distinguished the opinion publishers America who declared that they were too expensive and want them didn couldn afford them This publisher marshalled figures prove that best seller reached sale run while the course 100 000 copies profit the 000 about the author would publisher He would only bring about £500 yielding profit concluded Besides no was 't in . - on on et de de M .” . Copperfield M bill the article added that the point issue was not the very popular book artistic value but value business proposition Yard Moffatt Yard Co Mr Robert set the ball rolling article the Saturday Evening Post He called this The Worst dealing large with the Business the World dangers and drawbacks the publishing pro the article But the most notable part fession as a “ by , to is , it As . to , ", ' ' At " L Observatoire the Odéon David Europe England the dis hare reached agitating the has been cussion which literary world least the commercial America during the literary world side the past autumn the discussion wit the Perhaps hardly value best sellers need DCHOES he be . as a of of , to . Le “ d on ' hui Afrique Gouvernement Gauvain Houllevigue writes Mont Wilson and Auguste . he , , as - , , . In on Maroc ) , of an on In is . . A . M Deux Mondes from his review and also from all his bill heads writing paper and telegraphic address the Revue des Deux Mondes dates was considered that this new paper from 1829 older which the older the fame which trade was about the the fame one had won the Revue Paris Albert Duchêne writes française aujourd UNITED STATES NOTES in succeeded the various the outlines gives extremely witty way The he depicts the scenes and will most entertaining whole book enjoyed by the grown ups quite the much children curious legal case has just been tried The proprietor Paris financial journal took for his title La Revue Financière des Deux Mondes Francis Charmes editor the Revue des Deux Vondes who considered that this would be detri his review has won his case and the mental compelled financial journal omit the words idea children animals his comments . for in de an has of artist “ is the Hellé André the sketches and giving admirably , illustrated Bêtes Drôles and title ", written by Shaw and his plays are at present the subject of a series of lectures to be given at the Hôtel des by M. Sociétés savantes and at the Sorbonne Augustin Hamon . Shaw ' s plays, translated A volume of Bernard into French by Augustin and Henriette Hamon , is to be published in March . amusing book children has been A most ” ( A Mazzetti and K . Schönherre . Never have foreign authors been so much read Bernard in France as at the present moment. " Leurs Majestés ” (Ollendorff ). " Elisabeth Browning, Femmé et Poète " (Perrin ) . " Souvenirs de Ch . de Freycinet ” ( Delagrave ) . “ L' Empire allemand et l' Empereur " (Flammarion ) . “ Derrière la Façade allemande " (Chapelot ). “ Allemands et Polonais ” (Marches de l' Est ) . “ L 'Univers , être vivant ” (Fischbacher ). “ Ce qu ' il faudra toujours à (Armand Colin ). “ La Crise du Français et la Réforme universitaire " (Stock ). " Sous le Manteau Vénitien ” ( Bernard Grasset ) . “ L ' Homme aux Papillons " (Bernard Grasset ) . “ Le Buisson ardent ” (Ollendorff ) . “ Souffles d'Océan " (Calmann Levy ) . “ Le Temple du Rêve " (Perrin ) . “ Lettres de Jeunesse " įRiviere ) . “ Contes à lire ou à faire lire aux Enfants " (Armand Colin ). “ Les Contemporains Etrangers ” (Fontemoing ). Drôles de Bètes Tolmer “ Etrangers ” in which he " Les Contemporains Carducci , studies the following authors : Giosue Antonio Fogazzaro , Mme. Annie Vivanti , A . Strind berg , Selma Lagerlöf , George Bernard Shaw , G . Hauptmann , C. Spitteler , Mlle . E . de Handel , 97 �THE AUTHOR . has as E . D . . by ( by " ", of ) as , ", 's to A “ or by by , In . “ ; “ ; . , " a as of ( '') ; ; by ", by M . L ", of ; “ ” “ 's by “ . ; ' , O “ ; by by ; of , as an for ; in to , , " by ” by " 's .” “ of . ” F , ; “ “ ; ; by , ”, of “ . .” In in ”, “ of ” to ; is . - a of “ ; “ A of in ", of J . , " M is , . a , , J. O . " ( , , , " “ ”, . 's K . by A . , of “ of us . a ) " “ by “ of “ in 's is ." “ in , to ”, " Dreams ", Weaver of . her published after her be . death by « in 's ; " , " Jackson . 1911 These include Andrew Spencer Professor John Bassett Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward and second by of half in a of . ”, in , : “ " a , of Two translations from the German may men tioned The Indian Lily collection tales The and Hauptmann remarkable Sudermann which will doubtless be seen Fool Christ England before long good crop biographies There has been the , ” - to of . ", Hopkins Adams collaborated The Mystery Mary Barr McCutcheon new story My Lady Midthorne and Randall Parrish Independence Doubt goes the War for left behind The late Myrtle Reed his setting George ” is . . be of succeed Philip Steele Curwood romance the Canadian mounted police Rebellion Patterson author Little Brother the Rich divorce problem novel William Dubois who gives The Quest the Silver Fleece gentleman colour who writes exceedingly well about his own people Detective novels are represented Green Initials Only Average Jones and whose creator Samuel “ A - 's 's 's , “ a to , so it to “ “ “ on be , 's “ is , “ “ W . of a , . in , , an “ to “ , by , ” . ; “ of is It , of at to “ senti very both that Whether one should class Mr Farnol American author doubtful but anyhow his Money Moon bids fair rival the States Highway the popularity The Broad Cyrus Townsend As the Sparks Fly Upward Brady presents Pacific island wreck story “ “ , to “ ” — ", ” ” " . M . . ", , ” , ' , in its “ , ” of be a in on in .” to the the Labrador Hamlin Garland Joseph Sharts Tales the Belmont Davis The Carpet . - , ", a s “ . , in by by" ” a in to “ " be omitting some the risk be better fitted survive fiction The Winning The Common Law and Man The Vintage by Charles Town Bagdad from Harold MacGrath and by Kennedy Square Hopkinson Smith author that masterpiece Colonel Carter Cartersville Carey More recent novels are Mother Wiggin Chickens Kate Douglas and a ( to of as ." ” S , . . H ) “ in . - 's “ - ”, “ 's “ 's of - er in , 's To The Measure previously known writer Doctor Luke Discipline Victor Olnee Duncan Norman , ” ' s in In : six of in , in - of ' in “ “ “ It in to to Frivolous Affairs by Mother Kathleen Norris mental but none the less likely the world rather difficult decide many which works deserve special mention here being impossible choose from and are there attempt must made all But read them give the names the principal additions American literature which time may show begin with Barbara Worth ", the of 's to a thought of so ! of to painful the Dawn ”, to on $ 2 , of from Kilmeny Orcbard Hara the Girl Who Edna Ferber and The Iron Margaret Delanů Woman Male authorship Jacques Futrelle Secretary was represented of ; $ an on , if , of . To turn actual question the most successful books the United States during recent months the spring the top places the list best sellers fiction were occupied by the since deceased Prodigal Judge and Jeffery Vaughan Kester Farnol Broad Highway These two novels remained The Big Six some the papers sportingly call the list right down the August end Harrison Queed for great future which the critics all prophesied fulfilled expectations and after running the two just mentioned novels close survived them into September August Meanwhile The Winning Barbara Worth Harold Bell and The Ne Do Well Rex Beach came the front September they were first and third respec and tively second place being taken Robert Chambers with The Common Law which ran into three editions first month life Outside fiction the books which have most often appeared among the best sellers are The Twenty Doctor Dilemma and How Live Day Four Hours Messrs Shaw and Arnold Bennett thus continuing their wonderful success the early part the year and Olive Schreiner Woman and Labor while Price Collier The West the East and the other Bennett high place Mental Efficiency take and My Life Wagner has commenced what Paper long run expected Nor must by Bag Cookery forgotten Soyer the chef will seen that the native authors hold their own better fiction than other literature The general output books has been tremen dous since the last United States Notes appeared curious The Author and supplies plaintive comment Mr Robert Yard con tention that publishing the worst business Fuller Montgomery Laughed of a in of of it an month which only the odd were devoted books Now the publisher thrusts her only his best attention sellers calculate what support per annum amount the millionaire wife contributes the ordinary run authors Ne'er-Do-Well ” have already appeared in the best sellers list — though the third of these not pleased the reviewers half well the reading public early the late spring summer women writers were very active notable books being Story The Colonel Mrs Roger Pryor Big Horse Ride Miss Dewing The Bramble Bush Caroline “ The “ allowed to “ hog the whole attention house . ” At a Washington trial not long ago the wife millionaire submitted court account her monthly expenses from which appeared that she spent average 2012 per “ being sellers of the “ 98 �THE AUTHOR . its of ." ' s by . in , “ " , or of an . , is “ a to be on in “ of . H a . , " ” , or “ “ is as a “ its , ” of - . of ." . of is " S , . up ", to to “ . . . J. “ of B . . G by , B is — — , . “ in ” by “ . , , as , . ., is unhappily the past few months July 4th Vaughan Kester author , in On of ", ." of . as . , , of The obituary rather large . " ; . H 's . of is is " it - “ . ” ' ; . is of a a by W , ” , ”, in a a be W . , in s to ; " A A by ( ", in 's “ “ A of to “ R is understood when said that the author Kauffman who wrote the terrible and Bondage truthful novel The House mentioned the last United States Notes book and which handles the love stories such divers persons the Brownings Mary Stuart and Georges Chopin Chastelard Sand and Michel Angelo and Vittoria Colonna The Letters Sarah Orne Jewett have been edited Mrs James Fields The Greatest Street the Broadway World New York written Stephen Jenkins and also by about Broadway Kerfoot who calls his book simply Three Thousand Years Mental Healing the subject chosen Dr Cutten President Acadia University New York And finally Paul Reinsch has produced Intellectual and Political bring Currents the Far East which attempts the history the modern Orient right date " by— T . . . a , ; “ ), To - Women morrow William Hard and Woman Part Government Allen girl struggle Woman Alone true story maintain herself New York consideration the question from different point view And The Girl that Goes Wrong different again in by H , , . B of is . . by , " — by ; ” by 's of by” ” , by ”, “ of “ . the Woman Question have been Among them are Mrs Pankhurst numerous The Suffragette The Woman Movement prominent very America Belle Squire American suffragist What Eight Million Women Want Rheta Childe Dorr Short History Rights Women from the Augustan age Eugene the present day Hecker The will Hiram Chittenden War Peace which American soldier argues very strongly behalf peace There American Addresses new essays Joseph volume Choate Richard Le Gallienne responsible for The Loves the holiday publishers describe Poets which 's : of of 's States “ The Practical Flower Garden ," which attained to the dignity of a best -seller on first appearance the spring Among philosophical publications the first place naturally taken the late Professor James posthumous work Philosophy Some Problems we may allowed imitate the advertisement editor and reserve space for unclassified late there are several noteworthy books which may here grouped together General For instance there Mrs . Alfred Ely 's , “ of In ! by “ of of the United on , Books trated by Stewart Edward White , describes the Sierras . “ Through the Heart of Canada , " by Frank Yeigh , has come in for high praise . “ Florida Trails," by Winthrop Packard , perbaps belongs to a class by itself . The author, Winthrop Packard , has a big reputation in the United States as a writer about pature . An aspect of nature study , under artificial conditions , is considered in is on of of , of ", " , , course being that with the Far East . “ A Woman ' s World Tour in a Motor , " by Mrs . Clark - Fisher , records the experiences of 23 ,000 miles in a car. Another motoring book is Lee Meriwether ' s “ Seeing Europe by Automobile . ” “ The Cabin , " written and illus deals of ”, - “ - 's Professor Max Farrand , of Yale ; and “ Sectionalism in Virginia from 1776 to 1861, " by Dr. C . H . Amber. In this class may be put also Charles A . Hanna The Wilderness Trail which has the rather portentous sub title The Ventures and Adventures the Pennsylvania Traders the Allegheny Path with some new Annals the Old West and the Records Some Strong Men and Military and Some Bad Ones Studies Diplomatic Charles Francis Adams writes about Independence and the the War the strategy military and diplomatic aspects the Civil War The scope The President Cabinet Learned published the Yale University Press sufficiently explained its title the President America ,” by Hiram Bingham , is a diary of a trip from Lima to Buenos Aires . “ Jungle Trails and Jungle People , " from the pen of Caspar Whitney , . in “ the Stuarts is New England . “ The Diary of Gideon Welles , ” to wbich John T . Morse , junior , supplies an introduction , is said to be the only account of the administrations of Lincoln and Johnson from inside the cabinets of both statesmen . Historical works are “ France in the American Rerolution ,” by James Breck Perkins (who , as the New York Nation points out , is one of the rare scholars who have figured in Congress , having formerly been Congressman for New York ) ; “ The Indian Wars of New England , ” by Herbert Milton Sylvester ; “ A Short History of the United States Navy ," by Captain G . R . Clark and others ; “ The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 ," by of Half If Statesmen of the Old South " ( Jefferson , Calhoun , and Davis ), by W . E . Dodd ; “ William H . Seward , ” by E . E . Hale , junior , and “ Stephen A . Douglas , " by H . P . Willis , both in the American Crisis series . The Yale University Press has issued Dr. W . S. Culbertson 's “ Alexander Hamilton : An Essay . " • The Public Life of Joseph Dudley ," by Professor Everett Kimball , is a study of the colonial policy « Other social difficulties receive attention in a Man ," by Mary White Ovington , who deals with the New York negro ; " The History and Problemsof Organized Labor , " by Dr . F . T . Carlton , Professor of Economics and History at Albion College ; and “ The Passing of the Idle Rich ," by Frederick Townsend Martin . The travel- books of the second half of the past year hare not been very many. “ Across South “ be Lyman Beecher Stowe , her son and grandson ; “ The True Daniel Webster ," by Dr. S. G . Fisher ; 99 �THE AUTHOR . . society , however , held that the Little Theatre Society was merely a colourable excuse , and that the performance of French plays , which were advertised in the public press , were in fact public performances . There was no sugges tion that the plays were in any way improper , but in the interests of the public it was essential that a theatre , where public performances of plays took The magistrate to , do for he a a to ”, of it , it is , a a a no , be , of , . a on of , to , to . in of to of a of of of . If to as a , of " “ . to as as is , ” of 15 “ it for is a in it to an it to . I , , , , in at as unlicensed stage play ; . need to of to in , a of of of , of , “ , an or is a be - as of of , ., 6d . of An . of a a , of , , of of is French plays alarmed the decision this case long their performances are given usually the practice believe theatre which duly licensed has been Still advisable that they should give attention section the Act present which makes offence for hire an . in for , . a certain it of , a licence because the other offence with which presenting stage play was charged namely hire unlicensed place has nothing with the question whether the performance public private public performance What constitutes the question may play some difficulty but performance described which the general qualiti public can obtain admission certain society members cations are required subscription besides the mere payment performance before the members probable that society would not amount public such performance But the case the Little French Theatre Society there appear have been restrictions the advertisements invited the general public subscribe and the county couucil inspector became payment member merely the subscription The private societies which give performances stage plays some which are unlicensed hare so no in of ., , , , at for . attend the performances in of of . £10 the observations the magistrate seems that the offence for which the defendant was fined keeping public resort for the was house public performance stage plays without From a . , , un - be to of 1 H appears some uneasiness among private societies which give members owing authorised dramatic entertainments connection with the summary proceedings the performances the Little French Theatre Kensington Society the Boudoir Theatre Mr Grey who leased the theatre from Boudoir Companies keeping Ltd was prosecuted stage plays house the public performance stage play without and for presenting licence from the London County Council The proceedings were instituted under the pro the visions the Theatres Act 1843 and borough Kensington outside the authority the Lord Chamberlain the licensing the Boudoir Theatre comes within the jurisdiction the County inspector Council the Council paid the subscription 31s and became member the Little French Theatre Society order to M ERE he , to be . of of fine is AND PRIVATE SOCIETIES STAGE PLAYS to , of place should licensed come under the inspection the County Council because that body was responsible for the protection the public case fire The charge against the defendant was pay proved considered and was ordered in . WALSH as so be French ; to , . on a , PHILIP and lectures , and it was contended on behalf of the defendant , that the society was carried on in the same way as other similar societies , such as the Stage Society , which was composed of mem bers whose subscriptions entitled them to admission to the performances of certain plays , and that they private performances were for members of the “ - , , , at , of by - . on a - , , of . , , to an on . An accidental , to succumbed wound self inflicted while out after quail October 6th put Philip Verrill Mighels journalist novel end writer poet and playwright On October 29th died Joseph Pulitzer proprietor the New York leaving World his will two million dollars support journalism school Columbia Univer sity And November 21st Kellogg Durland writings dealt with whose best known labour questions committed suicide train journey cancer It appeared from the evidence that subscribers to the Little French Theatre Society received tickets and were entitled to attend performances of plays at the theatre , as well as concerts , recital , " fiftieth birthday when gunshot he ( in hospital) his of “ The Prodigal Judge ,” died after a long illness ; Fyles, playwright and on the same day Franklin and former dramatic editor of the New York Sun . A month later died Lieutenant - Colonel L . L . Bruff , one of the foremost writers on ordnance and explo sives in America . On August 17th Mrs . Myrtle Reed (McCullough ) committed suicide after a period of insomnia and depression , leaving a finished novel , whose publication is noticed above . Her “ Love Letters of a Musician " appeared first in 1899 , when Myrtle Reed was twenty - five . Before August closed , the death occurred of Edwin Asa Dix, author of several novels and a travel book . Another traveller , John Milton Dillon , author of “ Motor Days in England , ” soon followed him . The September losses to American literature included Joel Benton , poet , critic , and lecturer ; Mrs . Elizabeth Edson Evans, novelist , biographer , etc . ; and Charles Battell Loomis , whose humour is well known in England . Mr. Loomis had only recently celebrated a 100 has become the �- - -- - - its are concerned with the indifference have veneration for antiquity , ”, . . MAGAZINE CONTENTS of of , . . S . . , . . . . ." . . . . . Song By South London . -I . . . A . Paul England By Post mpres Stephen Gwynn . . 's . Novels By . 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Fiction and Romance Literary Supplement , to is it The result has been that the Theatres hardly defiance and there set London where stage plays are not night and the proprietors are performed erery penalties anyone chooses heavy liable proceedings Theatres Act was The institute long before the modern music hall came passed provisions obvious that into existence and require alteration circum suit the change the times stances and the requirements prosecute when duty appears be nobody music balls stage plays are notoriously performed the contravention all over the metropolis yet whenever proceedings are instituted statute generally heavy fines are inflicted because there Squire Sprigge CONTEMPORARY at it , Fiction in of a on it ; Medicine . a CORNHILL of ", “ , . , been made HARDY HAROLD of in of “ be , be , Varieties which was summoned for keeping house for the public performance the stage play entitled The Money Spider without licence behalf was urged for such purpose and the company that the piece had been played eighteen music halls and only lasted twelve minutes The company was fined £30 and was guineas out that sum ordered that fifteen paid should the prosecutor for costs The prosecution had been undertaken by the Actors explan way Association and was stated actors were engaged by music hall ation that proprietors and that when the latter broke their challenging contracts they adopted the position the actors enforce their rights because they knew the agreement being illegal was unenforceable stage plays The state the with regard unsatisfac has for many years been denounced strange that tory and amendment has yet openly Act music hall who those . to is it . in in as all “ of , is , to not over zealous of it in , of be in to be , him . of , a is , or , of If ." to attributed instituting proceedings But well bear mind that anybody who pleases may prosecute and the Act provides that the expenses the prosecutor who may the man the street paid out shall the penalties imposed Another recent case under the Theatres Act was the prosecution the New Bedford Palace , " or . is in or be “ .” indiscretions so . of , " in , admission the performances these plays would seem that every actor who takes part the acting entertainment must deemed for Fortunately spite hire the Censor the when is of , in penalties provided by the Act The important words the section are for very wide They hire and their meaning include every case which any money reward charged directly indirectly shall taken any article or which the purchase made subscriptions there condition for admission obtaining fore are paid merely for the sake defence, and a conviction is inevitable even it is admitted that the prosecution is ago influenced by ulterior motives . A few years there was quite an epidemic of such prosecutions ; when the law was set in motion , sometimes by the managers theatrical who realised that their interests were being affected by the developments of music - halls , sometimes by individuals who had grievance , and in the recent case , a personal referred to above , the Actors ' Association prosecuted because their members had been prejudiced by the repudiation of contracts ; so that the law , instead of being consistently enforced , as it should be if it were reasonable , is left to the caprice of indivi duals ; and , unless they choose to prosecute , daily violation regarded far the authorities no , a , of if at of , give as to performances stage unauthorised subscription the payment instead payment the doors secured the actors and organizers from liability respect the heavy habit plays 101 no of THE AUTHOR . �THE AUTHOR . 102 HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY . obtained . But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of 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 . or the administration business 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 . 1. D 1 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 even if if you writers ,, even of other the battles battles of you other writers 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 in a fire members ' agreements and their preservation proof safe . The agreements will , of course, be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary , who will keep the key of the safe . The Society now offers : ( 1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them . ( 3) To enforce ( 2) To keep agreements . payments due according to agreements . Fuller particu , lars of the Society 's work can be obtained in the Prospectus . 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society . Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents , and are recommended to submit and explanation to the Secretary them for interpretation 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 ; so do some publishers . Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly . 9. The subscription to the Society is annum , or £10 10s. for life membership . £1 1s. 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 kno # 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 . The ( 1.) (2.) (3.) 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 , General . All other forms of agreement are combinations above mentioned . of . the four Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author . Never sign any agreement without competent advice from the Secretary of the Society . Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp . Avoid agreements by letter if possible . The main points which the Society has always demanded the outset ont from from the 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 per DRAMATIC TO 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 . EVER N : dramatic contract the performing plays right on by a in of . . This unsatisfactory An author who enters into stipulate such contract should the contract for production the piece certain date proper publication and for his name the play bills - a , if - proper for forms of or three more acts Sale outright . of of : . it Outright sometimes satisfactory -- is I. Selling This three of an to a . H are few standing rules observed agreement dealing There are four methods literary property with 3. There a in price can be ITERE be in BOOKS . is THE PRODUCERS TO OF (a .) WARNINGS are N �THE AUTHOR . one act are often sold outright , but it is a small nightly fee if possible , and a sum of such fees in any event . It is extremely the amateur rights of one- act plays should 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited , and are usually limited , by town , country , and time. This is most important . 6. Authors should not assign performing rights , but should grant a licence to perform . The legal distinction is of great importance . 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright . A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words . 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed . ingly valuable . They should never be included in English agreements without the author obtaining a substantial , should be carefully for collaboration 9, Agreements 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 ited , and that for a novice the first obiect 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 . authors should seek the advice of the plays into before putting the hands of As the law stands at present , an agent who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a perpetual claim to a percentage on the author 's fees 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 . purposes For certain such as the collection of performances , general fees on amateur and in the trans action of frequent petty authorisations with different individuals , and also for the collection of fees in foreign countries , almost all dramatic authors employ agents ; and in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable . But the Society warns authors against agents who profess to have influence with managers in the placing of plays , or who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase the author ' s rights . In any case, in the present state of the law , an agent should not be employed under any circumstances without an agreement approved of by the Society . Society agents . WARNINGS can be added to the warnings given for the assistance of producers of books and dramatic authors . It must, however , be pointed out that , as a rule , the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property . The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with - performing right and copyright . He should be especially careful therefore when entering into an agreement , and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above . STAMPING Secretary , and the voucher is then forwarded to the members , who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble . THE READING greatly assist the Society in this of its work by informing young writerg existence Their MSS can read and composition treated coach The term . , . . , . of by be , or be by to of , to give notice The Secretary the Society begs post that all remittances are acknowledged return All remittances should crossed Union London and Chancery registered Smiths Bank Lane sent letter only . by . of be a be . is REMITTANCES to at to a . . of be in at 6d 23 . of the same charged for of , . or a , of a , at filed subject play will fiction but poetry possible and when under technical and scientific works The competence and experience The works special arrangement Readers are writers fee one guinea is , on of in , to D . of may also with the exception that per act the price rules by a . . is not only works includes it . MSS , of treated of AND be branch typewritten duplicate foolscap paper forwarded the offices the Society together with registration fee two shillings and sixpence will qualified assis be carefully compared by the Secretary tant One copy will be stamped and returned the author Copies and the other filed the register the Society any time the scenario thus filed may obtained typing the author only small charge cover cost Original Plays BRANCH . EMBERS will and dramatic CENARIOS 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 its SCENARIOS PLAYS . MUSICAL COMPOSERS . TO TITTLE M REGISTRATION OF ORIGINAL AND AGENTS . RAMATIC as a consideration AUTHORS . also in this case. 4. Plays in better to obtain paid in advance important that be reserved . DRAMATIC of of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on vary between Percentages gross receipts . 5 per a obtain should An author cent . and 15 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 (0. ) Sale of performing perform on the basis of royalties (i , e., fixed nightly fees) . This method should be always except in cases where avoided the fees are likely to be small or difficult to collect . The other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply ( 6. ) Sale 103 �THE AUTHOR . 104 guinea to Romeike & Curtice, Ltd GENERAL NOTES . on THE COPYRIGHT The Copyright Bill has of Parliament. December 16. ACT passed both now the It received . Houses Royal Assent on Pension FUND . THE secretary would like to draw the attention of the members to the fact that four bankers ' orders in answer to the recent Pension have been received Fund Appeal without any signature and without any mark by which the senders could be recognised . The secretary made mention of this fact under the list of additional subscriptions and donations to the society , but desires to do so again , as the matter is one of considerable importance . , Bankers ' Order for 10s . drawn on the London County and Westminster Bank , Maidstone . Bankers ' Order for 10s. drawn on the National Provincial Bank of England , Baker Street , W . Bankers ' Order for 58. drawn on the Union of , Bristol . London and Smiths ' Bank, Clifton Bankers ' Order for 58 . drawn on the London County and Westminster Bank , Kensington , W . ., for 125 cuttings By the 21st September been sent , although the other sources , of a con . subject . specified a only two cuttings had member was aware , from siderable number of important notices upon the subject . The member then interviewed Romeike & Curtice , Ltd ., complained of the bad service , and ultimately it was agreed that half a guinea should be repaid and the number of cuttings reduced to sixty . Romeike & Curtice , Ltd . , failed to repay the half guinea , the secretary got no satis finally the faction on applying to them , and to be placed in the hands of the solicitors . Upon their sending down a clerk , a distinct promise was made to forward the money , but nothing came . As all subsequent applications were iignored , applications were a plaint was issued in the City of London Court , and judgment was obtained against the agency on the 23rd November . matter had 's society This judgment has now been satisfied have much which has PUBLISHER . SATISFACTORY A We . pleasure printing in a clause agreement coming from one of the best and oldest established firms in England . Indeed we should have liked to have published the name of the firm . The clause referred to runs as follows been in an inserted : for , , , or in or in the author of .” of to , of the credit The attention members has often been drawn the fact that when agents hand over the serial rights and other minor rights the publishers whether the United States elsewhere the publishers think themselves liberal they pay the per cent author Even the author was placing the rights himself successful would per cent pay the publisher have The agent charges would have addition reckoned energetic enough place this the agent these rights independently the publisher would charge per cent however large the figure whereas quoted after the publisher whose agreement deducting all expenses these we suppose would amount one two letters backwards and forwards cablegram and perhaps credits the author with doing business the full amount This method sufficiently highly recommended cannot pays one publisher business this basis publishers and we trust therefore would pay frequently inserted see the usual clause which , to he . if if , or in 50 to s ' , , , of ) . , , , the author struck out of so is of , , on do to . be all the detriment contracts . a of a : - to interest authors On the 7th who subscribe for Press cuttings September last the Society paid member case to of . COURT CASE will be County The following If to it it to or ( , is ., , of he to in be is to . 50 in to a well for the independence of the Society 's action . placed If . 10 CIRCULAR column the list ofannual and donations received since the beginning of October. The greater mass of these to the Circular sent out the in response are beginning of November . The Society must be congratulated on the result of that Circalar appeal have been On going to press £85 per annum added to the subscriptions and £164 19s. Od . to the donations . The long list of additional annual satisfactory , tending to most is subscribers show , as it does , the unity of the Society . The Society should be proud of the fact that the Com mittee of the Pension Fund and the Committee of Management upon the Fund , as have looked indeed have all the members of the Society , as one raised by the Fellowship of Letters on behalf of those who are members . The fine result achieved in the 12 years the Fund has been running speaks be FUND in another to PENSION . THE We publish subscriptions “ In the event of the publishers securing copyright realising profits from the the work the United States sale serial other rights the United States such profits shall after deducting all expenses relating thereto future �THE AUTHOR no of . a ' is re be a of , of , , have “ in his list of New included Novels , " clearly leading the public to suppose that the novels produced were new novels . It would be interesting such case could decided from the point literary libel but we view afraid there legal remedy immediate prospect there being ELECTION . COMMITTEE the of in . up : to , by be fill , : , to of , to , re - . of . (4 ) is of to , Dr . . . . S , , a in of , or of of of , . . , , of be . printed . it . 's THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE to , the method a , it to , society should the member has been act complete state to a of in , ment to to of give members order the appoint desire fresh Pension Fund Committee full time place the custom The Author they to of if , " was TN of , — so “ of , Mr . that the work of is to In of , - is a in , a is a of . as state of . 's is a it it these letters only reach limited public and popular author not half his the author made aware what has taken circle readers place one case the publisher went near the line will candidates The Author In is , to an in to . of early the cases which investigate the society has been able was found that the only remedy the author hands explanation was make letters the unsatisfactory papers but this as after all The complete list the March issue I an statement that immature work new publica the other hand republication or , 's to then , , statement that 10 the on author but by no , , in They make tion Belloc Lowndes Hesketh Pritchard Mr Arthur Rackham Squire Sprigge The committee remind the members that under article the amended Articles Association any two subscribing members the society may nominate one more subscribing members other than themselves not exceeding the number writing sent vacancies be filled up by notice the secretary accompanied by letter signed the candidate candidates expressing willingness accept the duties the post to it , or of a early publications famous author either purchasing holding the copyright themselves and produce the work without the author sanction many cases opposed and the author wishes Mrs Mr 19 - , in , . , in it is a it is a . wishes the author This case most interesting one for authors pity the has not been decided and French Courts order that authors all over the world might see how the French law dealt with the subject We must state with regret that not infrequently happens that publishers take up the . . . S . ( 3 ) , to of of the com against the of to . an , it of , the date published now to by to . to . statement that is and by clear position , , Rackham are The date fixed the committee which nominations by the subscribing members of candi dates for election the new committee may February made the 10th day Mr Sidney Webb not seeking election the committee nominate the following candidates being subscribing members the society the vacancies caused by the retirement one third the committee according the constitution in . CASES in of 17 Squire Sprigge Sidney Webb “ brought Anatole France against Lemere has been settled The owing the publisher desiring for the first time MS written ago The dispute we understand settled the publisher undertaking has been make a LAW by FRENCH of be of : of Arthur Dr . . Mr Mr THE action the publisher dispute arose publish now thirty years of 19 , of of 1 of ; , , . . F of to am , I in . of accordance with Article The names the retiring members Mrs Belloc Lowndes . of a , of . on . as pursuance Article the Articles Association the society the committee give potice that the election members the committee management will proceeded with the following manner One third the members the present management committee retire from office of , . to as on of . of TN ( 1 ) if to a be doing to It - might . November 1911 English writers service allow me state through your columns that the Dial does not invite MSS from England the character journal being the such make the sending such needless the sender and the part MSS quite useless annoyance large waste and all sides From the number unavailable MSS received from England led think that the Dial has been announced some English journal inviting miscellaneous MSS from abroad hence this correction the apparent desirability Yours very truly Editor BROWNE FRANCIS SIR you would ( 2 ) 17 , : the editor has asked to before us us forcibly placed this following letter which insert by . its , We , it to its The Chicago Dial is one of the soundest literary reviews published the other side of the Atlantic , and a weekly perusal of contents will enable anyone keep abreast the American output but has apparently like many literary reviews its own staff which deals with own books and its own literary subjects 105 of DIAL . " if THE “ Chicago . election under the scheme for �THE AUTHOR . Sir of , at . . . G W . . H W , . . , . E . , . ), ( at , , . ), . J. ( of R . , to , ), . , , . , , . of , . , , “ . . J. by , , propose the toast W of of . the and Copyright to to so it in . : of by to , to -n . to be I - , , Mr Comyns Carr said Mr Chairman Ladies any cir and Gentlemen should account permitted cumstances honour address ight the honour distinguished company But great indeed give welcome and for we are met justice that acceptance the largest instalment to as I , am . of its of on conferred Literature the Parlia England this the accomplishment result the Society Authors has taken full share labour and responsibility and there fore justly proud stand forward their spokes respect man the toast which shall offer for your acceptance have spoken this Bill instalment has ever been ment , an as of , , as , , on , , , I be in of to is It , I be if , at as I , for . in of be a . S . . at ), of , of , of . . as it ( of in , it - of of , the Board Trade Honble Sydney Buxton who had charge the House Commons occupied seat Squire the right hand the Chairman Dr Sprigge the guest the evening Sir George Rt be , on in , . 8 of ment and the President . of . of at annual dinner the Society was held Friday the Criterion Restaurant December Held earlier the season than has usually been the case the dinner marked the passing the Copyright Bill through Parlia I M HE The because not here admit that even the great concessions we have obtained exhaust the legitimate demands and aspirations the authors very possible this country think that the future Literature like Oliver Twist may found asking for more possible also that the public conscience this subject develops more will granted my Speaking myself may frankly avow perpetual copyright belief the goal which we should aim and this were the time and place argued and could proved that think could perpetual copyright under proper the institution I THE DINNER am I . I of of Mr after the usual the Chairman Comyns dinner of in is all of W . . E J . . . , Carr rose in . to , a of is . of , an :- ). , , , ( . . E S the conclusion is in At loyal toasts had been proposed and received with enthusiasm to of of to up to in - . , , be It , in Miss May Sinclair Hewitt Mrs Nesbit Bland Mr Ezra Pound and a an on to of in to as . to usually held the society essential that nominations should the hands the secretary before the 31st January 1912 of to , of , . . to of to at , , , of . , It general meeting in of , to , , Sedgwick Theodore Cook Professor Adam Alfred Bateman Mrs Frank Elliott Sir Frederick Macmillan Sir James and Lady Yoxall Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle the Reverend Roberts Master Caius College Mr Anthony Hope Hawkins Mrs Squire Sprigge Comyns Carr Sir Frederic Mr and Mrs Sir . , of be A . be so , ." The well therefore should any member will put forward desire candidate take the The matter within their immediate consideration . Mr . to to is of of , of In have been duly chronicled elections Author be Jacobs Mrs Humphreys Rita and Mr Thring ecretary Those not already mentioned who had seats allotted them the High Table included Lady Falmouth Mr Godlee Presi Surgeons dent the Royal College Mrs Humphry Ward Sir Charles Villiers Stanford of In as to ( in a to of at ) of at to of of case any member should desire refer the list members the list taking the elections July 1907 was published the end October the date This list was complete that year issue with the exception the thirty eight mem bers referred the short preface All subse March Phillips Oppenheim various tables Mr Robert Ross Mrs Belloc Lowndes Mr , - - re - as a . : by " Any candidate for election the Pension Fund Com retiring mittee the members the society not being writing member such committee shall be nominated the secretary least three weeks prior the general meeting which such candidate be proposed and the nomination each such candidate shall subscribed by at least three members the society list the names the candidates nominated shall sent the members the society with the annual report the managing committee and those candidates obtaining the most votes at the general meeting shall be elected serve the Pension Fund Committee quent the Mr (S , , . - , . , 9, which runs Henry who accompanied the late the Berlin Conference and who after his sad death there took charge his duties connection with the contemplated reform the Copyright and Sir Hubert Llewellyn British Law Smith Permanent Secretary the Board Trade were also present the gathering members and exceptionally large one their friends being The following ladies and gentlemen presided , , for re - , re , . in . , . . . . . he as , other names under clause forward follows , Askwith Bergne of ex H . , at M , of by at of by is of administration of the Pension Fund . Under that composed scheme the committee three members elected the committee the society three members elected the society the general meeting and the chairman the society the time being officio The three members elected the general meeting when the fund was first started were Mrs Alec Tweedie Mr Morley Roberts Spielmann and Mr These have turn during the past years resigned and submitting their names for election have been elected This year Mr Morley Roberts retires under the scheme but does not submit his name for elec tion the committee have nominated candi date for the vacancy Mr Owen Seaman put power The members have however . 106 �THE AUTHOR . as so an to . In of . , . 's of . , to of by “ it I it . of a , all : in , , , I is I . If , a to as , he to did in . in off . to , he in by of , of of or no . . of , to of ! to off .” of I if a he a to 's in in a I : . , . to , in " “ , , off , be , in of on . of of , of , an To . of of by a , of a if . , can be I to it . , of is . of , to is . Bill “ of “ , to which would not still which there would already in 1870 and out be Drood copyright of Papers in to which we are asked celebrate existence when Dickens lived Pickwick his works from the Edwin 1837 down the fragment of this ight had been there not one , on For is 's , of .” 's stamps with shame the laws concerning literary property under which until now we have lived -n , as , up of from the other side the Atlantic England but the come visit not the capital speak with London Charles Dickens knowledge that that appeal urgent and that that appeal just That should have made to . • . “ is a be to I Sir in , , . a It , £5 a of to of it, of ." he it to ." “ , it It a a , of in in , at so of of he , . in , Commons the often noticed that the that pilgrims in of to of be as , is , to is the House Copyright Bill but have himself For Scott threw mantle romance spell over the hills and ralleys his native land enchantment has been thrown Charles Dickens over the dark alleys and narrow streets our great city London such extent indeed if of a an . to be s it :' , he ' as necessary ordain that after certain number crops all cornfields ought public property words The spirit which animated Lord Camden during the has cropped not obsolete one more reference Within the last four days powerful appeal has been put forward behalf magician surely not less rank than Walter Scott ” if of to to , to far so a an “ In caustic remark Thomas Hood that the author apparently required provide for everybody posterity but his own And further and with equal point cheap bread added desirable cheap books but has not yet been thought recent debates time force Scott had been have been able face death with full confidence that the debt which had incurred paid would because not only his latter works but those which had first brought him immortality his poems and Waverley would still have been copyright fund and would have brought sufficient have met his stupendous debt Continuing Mr Comyns Carr said will make celebrate He would only the bookseller offered Milton for Paradise Lost did not reject nor accept that miserable pittance the reward his labour He knew that the real price his work was immortality and that posterity would pay this connection would only recall the When achieve my task shall have the thanks my own conscience and the approbation weight would have been lifted What that mighty brow the Bill which they were met concerned ” its of a publication , of and further fourteen years the author had the courage survive the first period was throw back the whole conception comparative literary property into condition barbarism The root idea that author has any title the rewards derived from the creations his own regarded with more than suspicion brain came and did this feeling develop that 1774 judgment which swept away the last remnant author rights Common Law Lord Camden declared That was not for gain that Bacon Newton Milton and their like instructed the world would be unworthy such men traffic with dirty bookseller for letterpress much sheet date two names but two the mightiest that had adorned English letters during the last 150 years eulogy from Walter Scott needed him Beyond all men previous generations his own Scott won the favour the world but everyone knew how the later years his life were broken and embittered the calamity brought about his confiding belief the stability and integrity pro thereby incurred his friends and how digious debt which not even his great income was adequate meet Scott set himself the task paying this debt He not live achieve Writing says his diary the year 1827 long tedious and dark path but before me leads stainless reputation die the very likely harrows shall die with honour , For almost from the invention of printing to advent of the detestable statute of Queen Anne — the first and the worst of the enactments concerning our calling , - an author enjoyed in principle and in practice that perpetual copyright in his writing , which at some future day he may recapture . But the effect of the statute of Anne , with grudging concession fourteen years from the the eager are never when they other people property But now continued Mr Carr the Copyright Bill was passed The provisions that Bill were enormous advance upon anything which Parliament order conferred upon literature had hitherto realise what had been gained he would like try and illustrate what that advance was by reference see no mere forecast of the future , but a remembered vision of what the past once owned and the present has allowed to lapse , and this I make bold to say is emphatically the case in regard to an author 's property in the fruits of his labours . philanthropists are disposing if I state control would not only prove of advantage to authors , but also and no less to the vast community which demands reasonable access to the master pieces of literature . To many , I am well aware , this idea of mine will seem a vain dream , but let it be remembered that the dreams of to - day often take shape and substance among the realities of to -morrow , for as Shelley truly said , poets who are the great dreamers are the acknowledged legislators of the world . But a dream , even as far -reaching as this , is often 107 �THE AUTHOR . as . all all do to - a if as as be . as , as as to . in - I , as at , if as , in , . . , an a In . it , of of , , no an be . of of to of of to , in he . in to - be to it as of a to he or of to to a , of far , In of on studying the more opportunity had had question the more he had come the conclusion that copyright from preventing the production and cheapening books gave stimulus their production his opinion the cheapening and . , of to by if no as . a for ! or , the measure in a . - on it In of ! seventy of ” , - , a . of . to he in as , “ , of ! Among the considered Grand Committee seemed him were some who were over zealous behalf authors and publishers and some over strenuous behalf , he of . - . as in Sir . , he ; , 's to - who , of , of to , . of , Sir , , Sir of of of on requiring delicate handling eighty members In in , to , . in of . I in as . Mr , .” “ . , - , us I . in to Sir of , Sir by sea , of to him to a of to its . I , I , , a , - - so of do I as of , as , , of , to I, . its of to , in . ." of of to “ 's as to am I go . — come not always Act ” — 's Macaulay to to of labelled credit the Act which will soon receive the Royal Assent will posterity down Buxton Act couple with this toast the name asked the President the Board Trade gladly and with some knowledge what he under conducting this Bill took successful con ever they had passed measure which he believed clusion with others including my friend Sir would give general satisfaction and protect both Frederick Macmillan whom well the authors and publishers the course of few Society days the Bill would become Authors the interests literature owe Act and they would Anyone who bad agree not before was wanted much watched its progress through the House Commons and know they will not contradict my studied the copyright laws knew how full the testimony when twenty two Acts passed since 1735 were say that the zeal the patience com Buxtonplexities anomalies and anachronisms and the courage with which Mr Sidney such triumph imposes upon conducted this Act matters they had seize the psychological moment lasting debt gratitude Nor must when time opportunity and driving force were forget the splendid help given Grand Committee theirs These requisites existed the Berlin John Simon and the happy efforts Convention the Imperial Conference and the George Askwith necessity for domestic reforms other directions and Sir He was rather give you the toast proud amending Hubert Llewellyn Smith the fact that this would The Copyright Bill and consolidating Act which repealed less than eighteen other Acts The toast was accorded full honours Parliament and the greater Sidney Buxton responding part referred four more and which itself consisted having but steered the boat while others only twenty seven clauses They were all agreed himself pulled the labouring oar and associated enjoy the legitimate fruits with the that authors ought copyright the names remodelling the law task their brains Mr Comyns Carr had said that Henry Bergne George Askwith perpetual copyright was favour view shared Nicaragua Hubert Llewellyn Smith Sir John Simon and others with him nations the republics They had painted the picture had not done very and Guatemala this country the desire had get reasonable control much more than make the frame referred his been and the period fifty years after death was taken bring hearers Charles Keene drawing Punch the order England into line possible with other great frame maker visiting the Royal Academy with his far they stood before the wife and exclaiming countries But one would support the claim picture injurious period the year On the line again Maria such believed introducing and likely put stumbling block the line again The task the public the passing the Bill had been way cheap and easily accessible literature difficult one The “ 1842 has not seem tender towards authors Many regarded publishers hard stern persons who had the authors their grip On more than one occasion himself had pointed out that publishers were not quite they were black painted The committee had been not between any rate between the devil and the deep Scylla and Charybdis and more than once their barque had rubbed against the rocks and been Finally how danger foundering imminent did he in to in a in , hisus if Act ously , believed that the only equipment necessary for authorship consisted of a stylographic pen and a few sheets of foolscap . the best intentions , The committee , having desired to arrive at a satisfactory solution on the basis of give and take , some being willing to do the taking the others would the giving There was generally well disposed feeling towards authors although some thought that they ought protected against themselves against well publishers and the feeling towards publishers , an . to ; ; . to right the public . Some appeared to believe that all authors were geniuses, and others , equally errone , a , . it of us of in its have been derived a sum amply sufficient to have provided for those grandchildren of his , on whose behalf this appeal is made . Charles Dickens rarely allowed himself to make his romances the medium of any personal protest , but there is one exception in the earlier chapters of “ Nicholas Nickleby , " where he vehemently inveighs against those pirates who before the author 's novel monthly parts set garbled was completed upon the stage version Let then count our gains We gain added copyright we count our gains term the protection accorded regard the novelist his dramatic rights we count our gains hundred different ways Our gains are enormous and venture make this prophecy that the Copy be 108 �THE AUTHOR . it all , of be . its of . a or , by . 's it to , a , to , of , to a If of by If to , . its to , be 's in , of ; of . . its ", “ " ? in or as “ " in it to of , , of . in if be of a , . as let - 's of at , it , of of . its , . be , to It as a of — of a . its of by no by a a of , of , of of of , , it as of , it . as , to It up to of of ' of , , of . to to he in if , . - It of . . , so of he to did of , of to on , , to by of a he to a to , of to be , of , of . . he , , . it to to of to - of of his of as 's , Macmillan chairman the Publishers Association study and the reports the past twenty years The society did not exist bolster incompetence had been urged against espouse the cause the weak but had often might sound not because did harsh an author was weak but because the rights the weak and the rights the strong had the though same basis not the same chances establishing themselves proposing the health Mr Robert Ross the try Chairman said that were vivisect by in be . of , a his. a . of be , of , at to , , to in a of of of , to a to . of of of He gave the toast the Society Authors with pro the sincere hope and veritable belief that gress would maintained Its main object the literary property steadily defence had been quarter century and the value followed for work had been enhanced full recognition principles longer the justice was ring fight described the quidnuncs description the publishers the injustice such Sir Frederick was proved by the presence its to ) . , , , of , to of be in to ) to as , to be It remembered that some extent the busi the society must insurance lines and year any given author that although from year should ness removed . he — . by . to ( Secretary his regular work the society Tarning however matter upon which express himself personally desired called attention serious drawback which ought remedied The leakage from the ranks the Every year society was too great certain resignations fell number cold douches upon They the ardour the society progress not stop progress but they impeded and called upon those present help deal with the matter give reason was the rarest thing for anyone for leaving the society and he was driven think apprecia that resignations must be caused by lack corporate spirit and tion the nature comprehension the principles insurance trouble Let members who any who had strayed from the society impress upon fold shepherd them back them join again such Small the losses might compared with the gains they were always source regret and any sort common reason for resignations could only be arrived could be the first instance knew . a to an it it he as as it ( of its of 's . of by the President the Board Trade He great share the Chairman attributed this success the work Mr Thring who had never allowed the increase duties involved the Copyright Bill performance interfere with in . , an to - as he as to of . , to to for increased income accretion the Pension Fund legal transactions and success The inter legislative matter of the vention of the society first importance all writers had been testified if . - , to . , , . subject and far was concerned was content leave where was he did not propose revive the corpse The Chairman Dr Squire Sprigge referred the custom the society that the chairman the committee for the year should the dinner the society only social gathering speak the collective aims members their doings and their hopes doing this the future His responsibility was lightened the fact that the annual report was already drafted and would soon laid before the society with the authoritative weight the Com progress mittee The story told was one all along the line increased membership began help contributions the needs other any such resigned before the five members years expired the society would actually lose stay by them He earnestly begged members every one the society for the good for their own good for they never could tell when they might want the society advice for the good their colleagues who could more effectively helped spend the society were not compelled creasing income upon increasing needs Was there any character novels more popular than the strong silent man the strong silent woman The society wanted the strong silent member and lots them those who paid their guineas partly insurance and partly recognising that the society many who came must espouse the cause of . a of , a of of . Copyright would now date from given and not from publication which would produce their complete works enable authors protecting them from piracy their earlier ones Mr Comyns Carr had referred the Bill sug instalment No doubt they were all gested Oliver Twists looking the future for easy subject more but copyright was not deal very worrying with On the contrary was death of of by all of , , in right were might not require its services , still any author 's day of trial might come. Then he would turn to the society , and then , regardless of business princi ples the society would help him because was the society business maintain the rights literary property But must noted that this action was hopelessly unbusinesslike though forced upon the society ideals The subscription guinea was life subscription was ten guineas large proportion writers joined only when spend upon them trouble the society had perhaps the subscriptions five years before their it of books in recent years had not about in spite of , but in consequence of , copyright. Some people thought the extension of copyright was the term that was gained the Bill but there were other advantages For example play the farce copy the case right performance was done away with and summary remedies for the infringement copy come “ wide circulation 109 �THE AUTHOR . is be do , I . ", is an of a “ of a as be to is it .” If to . , ." to “ . . ' or , , " I his . . . in an “ , in s of in it unreasoning or , , a ; prejudiced ." will , it Is . of as or or , ." , ) it it be no ” , , ” to ; or , be “ a not assume that the reviewer meant that should blind prejudiced un reasoning fanatical adherent but will injustice probably doing him suppose that supporter one who admires thick and thin my country my cause my hero right wrong not ridiculously This may taken the ideal attitude the partisan the ideal the historian ; to , in be it , we of , ] A . of [ to is a , to ? to - , . - of as In of , is : he , a be , of “ in , “ . of a by , " of The Author the History the new England Messrs Fletcher and Kipling there occur the following sentences There are many views taken about the writing history but surely the soundest view that the partisan that historian should should give 1 the November issue course notice “ TN of , to by ? is a very attitude the historian Doubtless common attitude adopted historical writers whose names are household words take two great modern instances Mommsen and Macaulay may passing made both them noted serve text books for the English schoolboy considering the above mentioned attitude good are bound ask What are the requisites Certainly we must admit that one history give some life adopts the views the historian and revivify the dead bodies the past dull , HISTORY . SOUNDEST VIEW OF THE , , , am I ; of be a “ blind adherent of . thin fanatical a " , to and be . . , was the mind The Author reviewer The New English Dictionary see its defini tion Partisan suggests One who takes part sides with another often unfavourable party through sense One who supports thick ' - of to he , - , . 's ) of Dr Sprigge After the toast had been honoured with cheers those present rose and proceeded the adjoining room where the usual conversazione took place that of - ” of to to , in ' of picion the health study the fiction insist upon the rights members The Chairman was his nephew but immune from the sus nepotism asked the society drink society Ross 's of the . ( of “ - “ ” . ." in literature order publishers accounts and Mr “ of of a “ in ” , in 's in . hint the Chair man real tastes the last number the Cornhill Magazine the delightful volumes stories Odd Issues and the Industrious Chevalier rather than those blood curdling volumes Medicine and the Public and The Methods Publish ing Dr Sprigge suppressed his love fiction : ' a on of He thought there was book which Messrs . Fletcher and Kipling have collaborated to produce . It is with a statement of the reviewer that concerned not with the subject his review the statement namely that surely the soundest view that the historian partisan should This dictum must not pass without protest suffered Of course very much depends upon the meaning attached the partisan interpreted word nothing worse than the opposite merely opinions and methods and balancer chronicler dry facts then cadit quæstio But such interpretation not natural and not imagine for “ to of on a on , , path and , by . physician Society you which shift your publisher your health your grievances the Authors that literature manuscript children to receive into their minds notions the very opposite of those which are to be held by them when they grow up " ( Republic , 377 ) . This postu late of Socrates might well be allowed to apply to the teaching of history to children nowadays . But I am not intending any criticism of the of so - . 's of an he . as of in behalf of the society not cease the interval secretary between his retirement from the post chairman The called leisure and his election moments unselfish career had given the society service All did not perhaps realise that Dr Sprigge might have trod the path mere I “ did touched nothing that he did not adorn , and he would boldly admit that the wielder of a lancet touched nothing without taking something away . The Chairman would take away that evening the good -will and gratitude of the Authors ' Society , an operation painlessly performed without the aid of any anæsthetic even in the form of an after - dinner speech . Only the committee , perhaps , knew the value of Dr. Sprigge 's services to the society over a period of twenty -one years . He was Mr . Thring 's predecessor , but his enthusiasm and energy on than useless . " shall not attempt to discuss with The Author ' s reviewer in what manner children , in particular , should be taught history . The Platonic Socrates , it is true , although he admitted that it is the practice to “ begin by telling children stories which , if not wholly destitute of truth , are in the main fictitious, " contended that we ought not to “ permit worse I fore dwell upon the distinction with which Dr . Sprigge directed the fortunes of the leading scientific paper of the world , because those present knew how well he fulfilled the duty of presiding over a society of literary men and women . Metaphor prohibited saying that the wielder of a lancet him from some life to the views that he adopts , and should revivify the dead bodies of the past . The historian who is merely a balancer of opinions and methods and a chronicler of dry facts is , from our point of view , useless ; from a child ' s point of view , he is he Dr . Sprigge , the editor of the Lancet , the society another society - - would interfere , and moreover it would require the art of Mrs . Humphry Ward or Mr. Henry James to do so. He would not there - ( is 110 �THE AUTHOR . : , for ( 's of " of to , of an he ; , he a to , ; , is 's , or ; of to , or to be in up . to -b . a It . of of . of on , , as , of . a , of is so , of ; he if to . up to , be , of a . of a ' ask s be ? he . he , in , it , of he “ .” by a he ”, of a , “ on no as is a it , by of be of is in ; is .” , of of , of II ., ) [ , duty , be for a , to , , . of , ; of to at is . . is at , suggest interpretations his documents not But he make his period picturesque liberty tally with his views twist his facts his into the body insert his interpretation documents substitute his idea the proper of . them of . that to " as ardent the most get down the facts whererer dis great coverable Sometimes the process involves patience and much labour amount small results but the patience the labour must forth coming When the facts have been ascertained express his views upon liberty the historian to a “ . to to not denied even picturesque historians to . at ” — in a .. will admirer history , : ] [ I or , a , the partisan the man whom the exiled Queen Mary wife James told Baron Lansdowne that the King Charles and the Duke and the whole Court looked upon him the greatest liar the face believing one word the earth and there was that he said The statement rather strong but sipgularly unscrupulous Burnet his treatment the men and affairs his day It is a be - in of ' s I at , , do I of better portrait remarked recognised other historians Of maintains that was far indeed from being the most inexact says that writer his time viewed every act and every character through medium dis party spirit torted and coloured This was of . , . , A on in of . , is of of to is for historian Macaulay himself may partisanship the evil Bishop Burnet although to , he by a to 's , of of , of am I wrath to it by of he , a a by , , I “ not know whether such state cry Heresy and the doctors demand pityingly rend their academic garments flogging what the good dead horse Of the most recent historians the Stuart period some still follow Macaulay almost implicitly others treat him the sign post that points the wrong road * afraid that ment will cause more ] , - . in it (a he an ) M in his . - be 's of to in - of , boasting the end his dedication any rate say that have pursued my can inquiry honestly and that have furnished every testing my accuracy good hit means Macaulay who notoriously loose his references , at in justified we to ). , is of to - to Penn and the Scottish nation the seven teenth century may perhaps himself called partisan castigator sorts But Macaulay historian Could of ': to ", 's ( at - , , in I is a pity , at ' “ in This 1861 law Blackwood barrister for the book both able and entertaining my and wish that someone could have put my Macaulay ridden schooldays hands Mr Paget preface after having stated dedi catory letter Sir John Neill that was originally one implicit those who had placed representations reliance Lord Macaulay and had permitted himself carried away the eloquent torrent his declamation and that struggle that was not without many found dry examination himself compelled facts surrender the illusion which had been proceeds very satisfactory demoli enthralled Macaulay partisan views tion certain characters and incidents our history Marlborough defender like Paget Claverhouse Paget , . it is ” of , - to an or Examen certain by John and then and not till then comes the reflection that he has been listening the impassioned barangue the advocate not the calm summing the judge would well this were the worst We are reluctantly convinced that Lord Macaulay sometimes exceeds even the culprit arraigns privileges that when the advocate public opinion before the tribunal and showers down upon him that terrible invective accom which he plished master evidence occasionally meets with treat prac scrupulous ment at his hands from which the least titioner at the bar would shrink Documents are sup pressed dates transposed witnesses the most infamous pure and unimpeachable and character are paraded forgotten anonymous even and the foulest slanders description are revived and cast the unhappy object , ,, if a - , is is . " a at The New enables him live for the time amongst those whose portraits he paints The persons his drama are not cold abstractions summoned from the past receive judgment for deeds done they the flesh are living men eings despised and women loved hated feared Lord Macaulay with all the fervency which belongs character The attention the reader excited his sympathies are awakened his passions are aroused page page with and volume after volume after devours appetite similar perusal that which attends upon closes the book with regret the most stirring fiction to , if , . , is , , to he I it I ? ? , is is a a I do work entitled Inquiry into the Evidence relating Passages History Lord Macaulay cannot resist quoting the opening paragraph first chapter of “ The New · Examen , ” which originally appeared in serial form in Black wood ' s Magazine June 1859 The peculiar charm writings says Lord Macaulay Paget arises from the fact that his vivid imagination the or , ., ", of . ” , , , a a day look I of the of be “ a , “ a ” " a of “ a in , to ? be it ”, of of , - to I - a a Is history cannot be more than a text -book ; and a simple text-book is not literature , which history should be. But to accomplish this life - giving work , is it necessary for the author to be a partisan ? fair mind bar will not say successful good historical writing but granted must The historian will opinions and methods balancer and chronicler though not facts mere balancer etc dry facts only chronicler Well having his period before the opinions methods facts proceed him must the historian then use them partisan spirit Must distort mutilate select and suppress take that he does poor partisan he But hold that not he poor historian Lam well arrare that does he Macaulay distorts mutilates selects and suppresses and suppresses generally accounted great historian and that he The truth that he the most dangerous of all England History historical writers and his most improper text book seeing that the scholastic custom administer the bane without the antidote not suppose that many people the present 111 �THE AUTHOR . II. to a certain to , " . . . . a ; is of so . , so of is , to Mr it , . . is of a ". . . . of . . . ." . 24 on to . is to . . . a of by “ for ' s of . in of .” of , in of is he “ . 25 “ be or to is a . - if ' of . is , in of . , so as a to up or is ", 's , to , , to to “ .” he , " , , to an he , is , to ; - a an a , to in us in of of us an . . . , . . . If , to is , he , . to dreams could we hare soared such ambition The fact course that throughout his enter taining speculation calculating whether weighing prices influences Mr Shaw omits he is take account the chief factor which the inherent value the commodity knows the market and understands the most various goods the agent can usually make qualities terms sufficiently above those the author would pay his own commission make and leave a , , COMMITTEE . OF MEMBER remove foundation brick imaginative structure but support when Mr Shaw cites this decorative detail last spasm truthfulness forces confess that neither we nor any other agent magic key nor possesses our wildest such gorgeous of of . a . to to . as I if not worth his , Ex - . . it it on rap But ingenuity had outrun his commonsense think Mr Gamage would give your customer what pays tell him that give him your customer pays you Yours etc seem We are reluctant from of . hisa . Shaw thinking depth till The wicked agent falls from depth finally agent whose real settles down into business procure books for publishers articles business for editors and plays for managers and who being able any author push horribile dictu may have reason whom favour naturally sells his power is , . . Mr . from other ways spend the day per cent long he can get along with routine being transactions The Superman fact neglected for the sake the mere Man But does the Authors Society exist for the benefit Men Super men such distinction drown or ”, 5 10 , consider far that the agent will not two books one of opinion here does us and are any subject , author of that most sure great or 's on to a am I is 's A to 5 of . cent the hope “ , it if because that costs time and trouble per cent that same extra that brings authors the agent door great author opinion agents and publishers shers rap says Mr Shaw not worth lesser lights per charge fighting royalty so " of or is 10 . he dozen books will find them that extra it or An assumption cases We each are selling a . , or , to It ; 's . , an to off get another medical is — - , hurries or “ , or suits law cent The interest the theory lies not Mr Shaw proof that utterly incapable agenting anyone but himself but his view the needs lights the lesser The gravamen his to . , be at , in at is , it doctor at of to is at a ; to to Mr Shaw disposal and any rate quite entertaining idea works subject fact perfectly the trifling assumption that when the agent lawyer making profit , it for ; to to to a It ? by all the arithmetic per point out that there not of — . us is he of an it it pays lawyer better twenty lose cases wenty pays that win cases for five clients than doctor better kill twenty patients without Why not trouble than laboriously save five agree may all quite true and demonstrable profit of to a mainly engaged function for which the obtaining good prices Let rather agree pays agent better that make bad bargains for twenty clients than good ones for five that a a need ' . in aa s of a be to it 's to I , afraid prosaic mind « am SIR sign would criticise Mr Shaw characteristic and delightful demonstration that literary agent path success and wealth lies complete and deliberate failure perform the dull and by" of . . . “ “ THE AGENT QUESTION ” OF “ The CRUX of : ) an very good and great author Now perpend and observe The root the whole matter that making profit selling there are two ways single article every hour One sell profit 100 per cent The other sell 100 the same articles every hour 100 eager customers ( . CORRESPONDENCE to . . . . , . ", of . of in he as an . “ . . W Mr. G . B . Shaw to no , toto a both Society who provide allow the remarkable , is . of I would be to the members of the your last issue discoveries which announced pass without comment The opinion great the worth Mr Shaw author lesser lights who are presumably the mass raps the members the Society many more than he administers the parasitic agent proves that very True Shaw would make bad agent but that what we should expect . to if unjust with his latest platform your partisan does not tell the truth PHILIP SERGEANT And SIR and 8, 1911. December , - It him for the reality of the period . He may , even extent , combine the functions of judge and advocate . But he must not be a Judge Jeffreys . He must have throughout a perfect regard for truth For the historian there are varying standards truth Truth universal Birmingham from Lhassa London from trope from Macaulay may borrow Benin picture must , , 112 �THE AUTHOR . as . so , be It it . it be it, to , to . , at . an a is or on , . . It to a to to by is . A , If of a . a an , C . . . if . , . an at is of , A B to an , on be no byhe , to in if of to of . a in . . , A . .IV . H Hinkson an I is . It to be I , of ' an , - to an I . to of , . to in , . I at , I , , in , , . by he I .” , 's to as his as was claim speak author that would like employed three different agents different periods during those twenty years and heard talk about Honestly other agents who acted for my friends especially found these three agents helpful rarely came because London those days They saved me time and the cost stationery and stamps and relieved me from the irksome as of a have seen many unconscionable contracts but none quite bad that suggested Mr Shaw course the author has agreed with the agent pay him commission whether succeed , if such years SIR As author who had twenty literary agents before experience became agent myself perhaps may permitted con chiefly tribute this interesting discussion I a ( do a to - ( he at : “ , ., in is . in , place I at if by an of . B to . be , on ) in to ) the case work which he has failed and which you yourself have succeeded placing long after you have abandoned him even the most enthusiastic agent fancier will admit that the law leans little too much the agent side Of , at is in to to . to ., C , A is , . in . G . B . , — SIR Mr Shaw his otherwise admirable article Commission Agency MSS makes one scarcely accurate statement which least with out qualification He writes But when the agent can force you the same pay com to an , , a a an In let to to . C to which Faithfully yours III mission to of in . , as is . if If an by by . a is an of is could mention case successfully maintained a .] and Much more could written this subject but agree the point that author should sign pay the agent any commission ment unless business results through his agency nor should pay the agent any commission the case cited Mr Shaw when the MS has been returned the place author through the inability the agent interesting any your readers would It . of on , to , of [ who has house sell and the contract end But purchase the house consents course entitled his commission although conclude the business independently him . to . , . G F . , , . H . C (S ) ; , of , in , ” “ no CAZENOVE dotted lines represent the fact that account limited space and with the consent the writers the Editor has had delete portions this letter The introduced refuses subsequently it . - to , ; of . ” “ of ” ; , . " of ) ; of ( be a to by vindicate Besant and the other founders who exploiting spirit but encouraged agents literary business because they knew the facts Enough said however and we are Faithfully yours igned PERRIS of no an a you of a roll Mr Shaw we may have claiming commission publisher work sold the author directly editor who would not deal with the agent more than probable that such claim would not be agency the value sustained the introduction important consideration wanting agent and rent house goes him agent according agent successfully to , of invite to — to . . . . . go to further agents from which proved mis could struck off but this would imply your original advice withdrawal thank Mr Shaw for his large categories cases where agents are useful and even indispensable emphasise again the merits that routine business which Mr Shaw naturally scorns but your readers must live which most and constitute demeanants in of is is to are tempted limited , a so , ' We rises out take unlimited publishing capital affected that admission There are publishers and editors who will not deal with the agent all ordinary business dealings many persons and even object conduct their negotiations through So of of - . - in Is . If ; ; of is trying . to do , to , ” ? “ but fund is .” at . , it .” to . is , at . “ a . jobs every author the enemy every other every book every other the rival book the Authors Society has no economic basis placing the work or not, the author must stand by his bargain , and if he is such a fool he deserves to pay the penalty But the absence such special agreement when the agent returns the MS the author unsaleable the contract least far that MS concerned end and the agent has claim for commission the author after might placing wards succeeds himself publisher otherwise whom the agent had submitted the MS and whom had been rejected afterwards came terms directly with the agent returns author MS the author place the act admission his inability and any subsequent claim for commission would to a , is of of “ a , , - in old is . or less substantial margin of benefit . That all he claims . “ But now , mark .” There is an rule for play the Wage Fund theory distress economists And sure enough here the Shavian version job without No agent can push man into pushing another man out He advances Mr Blank the expense Mr Dash while poor Mr Ignotus never mentioned all The sad picture seems contradict the original theory which was that the agent will justice hundred routine cases but not the exceptional Mr Blank whom we have called the Super man Let that pass there anything this proposi tion that there are only limited number more 113 �THE AUTHOR . AGENTS , LITERARY -rooms, ", on onto I , for to be ? on , an . is , . in , of business absolutely Your contributor issue for October justified alike his strictures his warnings and They are What are agents for his counsel their own statements supposed mostly serials obtaining openings especially write one to , to Dartmoor my in admitting SIR , — You have done good service in telling article your columns the trenchant and your Authors Agents which appeared Authors to to I If . I , all , or of Wales the mountains shall entrust books these useful persons . DRAMATIC AND 1. in am I , for ante '' publishers ' in of waiting business who were while the publishers interviewed authors is more to the more popular than myself. What , and , point , these agents placed books short stories that quite convinced me and articles higher prices than several cases they obtained ever return unaided could have obtained “ 114 . , at . . In in . of - A , . , a is . ? an it Is . 10 ' . of to be a , . II . do , I , of , in an - a I “ " . ) to . .” ” “ an by . be to a , 80 to he ( I , & . an . on :- as an at an , in , . M to I a I in of is on . . " on . , - to , , is for of a on . as for a I a . be to a of - , to few , is it - , . no of of of as . , of in to to . a of I , to to to to to of up , I . to of a to in . , 2 of , so 10 . , , - or is to as a to in of in is if is . as . up , by An . , an of I an If . in the I of ” a , by it , , a he is be in if all I . to up .” ” * “ in all . in of of , of — he , . - - to of I “ ? " a in be of , " , .” an to an as of is in “ a is , it a of : to of . in declares that useful Shaw George Bernard authors with editors and pushing the interests cannot conduct his own commercial run Let me speak from really Now useful nincompoop But are they affairs my later norels very com Though experience my artist own successfully oneself good prices periodicals our country good like inartistic have appeared mercial age and agent And placed equipped with some them has been not one necessary own agents and experience for exasperating instinct bagman the was after the the qualities my own hands fluent tongue their ways that took matters into publicity the press agent kind arrangements have satisfactory serial market the knowledge Since then very close and dealing my novels every one modest about been made for author lacks these essentials agent and never was not conservation publishers the diffident and with his work self critical authors that The truth free from the may still the least necessary business with men like people One class were not the least business which Mr Bernard Shaw refers stupidity he simply would not exist living novelists remarked the world the agent our most eminent solicitor per cent pay him the hands day we Yet matters place business me property buy and sell time nor the house agent will manage my agent have neither half for commission publisher forth about houses collect rents and contend with the clination more arduous their hawk work his who per And authors cent several know pennies the more onerous and requires qualifications that are copy and down Fleet Street take discussing unfruitful the literary agent conspicuously lacking busy editors time put energy combined authors high spend much that time not for articles and ideas per commission cent agent would save them the extortion end the wrong direction energy suggest that the Authors Society take the matter from this misdirected consider the held conference your correspondents have thrown and that As some justify commission their their and agents authors literary question challenge whole down help the Yours truly prove that they are able calling and say NOVELIST me you allow will perhaps literary novice materially have represent that the firm which young authors during the number assisted quite willing These authors are past three years any inquirers my that the agent Feeling statement confirm DEAR SIR revolu succeed reformers deep interest and importance When our economic one question literary commerce the me that perhaps tionising the methods occurred has authors Until then the longer be needed agent will may worth consideration facts and figures the creator and the little between was making intermediary and book one published shrewd had perfectly reasonable agent has went literature first year when seller over £200 middleman His efforts years his existence justification was with that agent over two the dishonesty placed He Regarding the alleged cases follows my behalf resulted authors plain way £20 royalties part the agents the advance long novel one agent shall obtain his arrange the that demand success this Let them America but offset the publisher and that the pub English publisher under which commission from the with ment author the royalties direct pay postponed until the shall royalties was lisher payment He placed the certain sale less the commission obtained the book always the not America £30 for rights words The unscrupulous conduct 000 serial them market part England the agent failed Yours faithfully this agent had good even went When GALLICHAN During WALTER magazines excellent connection with two GASQUOINE GALLICHAN Mr author who �THE AUTHOR ten , to . I of , an of to , I or am to a by I of a , I of I . in of . a . in as a as , did , on a a to of a , . I , , I to . . I a , of of he a - , ; in me state that many of : to Now let to - — a . of , It I a , on he from me well number gave me glowing pictures return Carnegie like future and after the lapse year all the MSS had sent him try Some time afterwards was persuaded resolutely declined pay another agent but fee However took number stories per cent commission basis read them through went into raptures over them but not sell one . to . " a an . is . a - I . of - I to . a to He took MSS , if be . be soon may wish pleased lay make shall before my client Yours faithfully On one occasion know MS mine was sent certain editor with half dozen others and letter covering the lot That one agent On the other hand had dealings with another large com who refused mission sentimental grounds commission which was legally entitled my experience comes The result this you man who had been chief reader one the largest publishing houses the world He had literary agency left this appointment and opened . to an by “ , , a short story that you glad shall Any proposal possible I as it read as promising writer will touching — a am I sending you do to a ' in s it , to I , unusual one but I I that my case may have been put the agent failure down brought year the simple fact that but £13 him and was not worth his while more than send out my work with note Dear Sir quite agree 15 increased Furthermore the majority editors have spoken the subject tell me that they prefer MSS straight from the author rather than agent referring must understood that magazine matter not any work novels length Soon after found that was selling fair gentle number stories was approached . materially . I of an I . successful authors books About four months after left the fostering agent care found that my income had saying that in nine cases out of the editor interviewing authors unless prefers this method particular point needing discussion there he of am I a bis on a ofis it . a at In sold on the sheet of typing . the second year of my regained freedom I that serial to the editor of one of the periodicals which had refused it through the agent over two and half times the sum the agent writing had asked for And the agent large good one who has record and number well down be of a serial concerning which the agent notified “ This has been submitted to and rejected by the editors of the following magazines and periodicals . " There followed a list which continued copy me. DEAR SIR , I cannot quite understand why the literary agent is made such a point of . To my way of thinking he is by no means a necessity . In letters you have published , writers refer to the practice of hawking stuff round editorial offices as the alternative to using an agent . What is the matter with the penny post ? I cannot conceive anything more simple than to enclose MSS . in an en relope and post them to the editor of a periodical . I think I am correct in fee At the end of the second year , emerging from my temporary insanity , I left the agent and all my MSS . were returned . Among them was the typed III . is a magazine second formal note serious consideration of your position , sign any agreement which places all your work in his hands without a clause allowing for the termina tion of the contract by three months ' notice on either side . I cannot think that any agent has as much “ pull ” as Mr. Shaw seems to believe , nor do I imagine that any agent ' s influence can get by the best magazines stories accepted to an extent which would make it worth the while of a precocious author , however brilliant , to pay a fine of 50 or 100 percent , commission , further , I do not believe many agents would accept it . I am , Sir , Yours etc. , IRPLAY . a the a is useful use him , but — in order not abuse him - never, without very agent an you may to of these I soon couched as follows : “ Dear Sir , The — comes out only once a month . Mr . (the agent ) has favoured us with four of your papers since the first instant . I am , Sir , yours faithfully - - " The result of this was that being rather stung up the agent sent no more of my work for some paid me £64 in the two weeks — the magazine years . To these figures must be added a sum of £20 received for the serial rights of my first novel . This came from America , where that work had not seen the light . With royalties and various odds and ends I received from the agent about £85 more , a total of £269 , less £26 188 . commission , leaving a balance in my favour of £242 28 . , or £121 1s. a year . From received When that 115 . . the two years previous to enrolling myself under the agent's flag I had received from one of these magazines £215 . The two years that followed saw but one story sold at £20 , and two more to a rival magazine (a new market ) at £25 each . . the stories �THE AUTHOR . “ .” of I to , — In my letter which you published DEAR SIR your last number deal intended but omitted remainders with the question think that authors should stipulate that their be . of a , a in of , an , of is to . off a is is . 's as as is is if , . is a ! ! in as . of I am , be a is I to in to . a I in of , I , . , let to I , , a it . to . , - ? be of I ? , to be be to an to , , , is of It of is to a of of . to . it , of In . 6d 's in of . , is by , .] in ! ” is , it of to . , of of , of am , a in . , of is “ , , I , , of As circulation the matter advertise one case before the Society the publisher the cheap edition inserted advertisements opposite the letterpress the last twenty pages the book Such action from the author stand point impossible and authors should guard against ED author ments — be . to ; of or . an . Yours faithfully HERBERT BATSFORD which Mr Batsford draws attention publisher books more per probable he does not remainder manent value the extent that publishers novels remainder their publications quite true that not only the remaindering books but the premature issue cheap editions tends very often decrease Both points are important it . is , If . . of of is is it . in is of , far more than the craftsman who works rule thumb But these days any author who worth his salt can get fair hearing not the author in . to , , . or he ? of ” it it it of to with of of of or it or to is at . is Is “ matters little what becomes him for his work can never stimulate warm another soul for the shining brass instead the glitter gold Brass there abundance both life and literature And the worst that brass has irresistible because inherent tendency gold shine loudly and cry Behold The upshot all the craft author the greatest and rarest craft and therefore any individual author has great difficulties contend tion , ' s . in of , of . , , many the The author are few listeners pioneer who enters strange lands and writes down the author From this standpoint his experiences he puts mankind the teacher and leader himself the question which Mr Smith recommends proclaims himself worth utterly unworthy authorship the craft and say that should like further consider authors should protect themselves against advertise their books without per ments being inserted would include advertisements and mission book As Insurance Companies bookmarks buyer strongly object being pestered with cannot understand why various high these and class publishers stoop such bookmarks appear are like other people admit that publishers working supposed make money but surely bought too dear gold can write could There are other matters which and that book about concerning the dignity with interfere nothing done should Certainly this should receive the serious considera is in of , it at , it is or . its extracting the essence spirit soul the another the mind mixture and presenting say The real author the one who has something all costs come out whether the which must , is am . of , I , an I 's , if If , . a of of a a new . . a degradation I , , author the craft the society member and therefore speak old author experience very wide from not only pessimistic Mr Smith article bluntly entirely without may put tone but means all point literature means anything life itself compendium distilled essence good and evil tragedy with varied mixtures author consists The craft and comedy etc me seems Though but comparatively I , of a as , an to in in ber has prompted me to utter a remarks not exactly reply but rather protest kind inot what entirely friendly spirit against what meant [ on Decem - of Smith of in your issue Pen ” the few of of SIR . — The article of “ The Hazard good one and con not being sold cheap Very often such not the case and the remaindering due the impatience publisher remainders The selling bookselling point of most unsatisfactory from discouraged view and should much possible stopping convinced that what the sale books more than anything that the public waits for them remainders and generally my views are getting them And succeeds right this serious question for authors sequently 'S CRAFT. Mr. Herbert W . in to books are not remaindered until certain after publication and then only the event the sales falling below certain namber per year rightly wrongly feel that the remaindering impression book creates the mind the date public that the book THE AUTHOR . ' PUBLISHERS METHODS a Perhaps when I am making £10 ,000 a year , and do not want to be bothered by details , I shall employ an agent again . I am sorry for the prospects of the agent waiting for this post . Of course , for selling stuff out of England the agent is desirable . for the average author who knows the Fleet Street ropes would be at sea regarding , say , U . S. A . methods . But as regards disposing of stuff in England , I think the agent can very easily be dispensed with . Yours faithfully , E . NEWTON BUNGEY . perhaps , but steadily and surely , and an increasing number of followers . 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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) 1912-01-01 Volume 22 Issue 4 Pages Page range in volume 85–116 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 19120101 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. 4. JANUARY 1, 1912. [PRICE SIXPENCE. CONTENTS. PAGE PAGE 102 103 103 103 103 Notices The Society's Funds List of Members ... The Pension Fund ... Committee Notes ... Council Meeting Books published by Members .. Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes Paris Notes ... ... United States Notes Stage Plays and Private Societie Magazine Contents 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 Committee Election The Pension Fund Committee The Dinner ... The Soundest View of History. Correspondence ... 03 ::::::::::::: 104 105 105 106 110 12 By Florence L. Barclay. THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR. 6/= "A worthy successor to “The Rosary. and clever."--Evening Standard. It has the same charm and grip, whilst the plot is again unusual 150TH THOUSAND, THE ROSARY. 6/= " Jane Champion is one of the most lovable heroines that have ever stepped into the pages of a novel. ... * The Rosary' has wit, as well as grace.”-Pall Mall Gazette. 350TH THOUSAND. THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE. 6/- " A youthful sentiment, fresh and romantic, flows through Mrs. Barclay's new book, and gives to the story some of the delicate odour of lavender and jessamine and old-fashioned flowers."-- Daily Graphic. 150TH THOUSAND. 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The full list of annual subscribers to the fund appeared in the November issue of The Author. The secretary would like to state that he has received four bankers' orders in answer to the recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter. He would be glad, therefore, if those members who may have sent in these orders, recognising them from their description, would write to the secretary on the matter. Bankers' Order for 108. drawn on the London, County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone. Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W. Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the Union of London and Smiths' Bank, Clifton, Bristol. Bankers' Order for 5s. drawn on the London, County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W. Subscriptions. £ $. d. 0 100 0 5 0 0 5 0 N February 1, the trustees of the Pension Fund of the society-after the secretary had placed before them the financial position of the fund—decided to invest £250 in the purchase of Consols. The amount purchased at the present price is £312 13s. 4d. This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d. The trustees, however, have been unable to recom- mend the payment of any further pensions, as the income at their disposal is at present exhausted. They desire to draw the attention of the members of the society to this fact, in the hope that by additional subscriptions and donations there will be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the year to declare another pension in case any im- portant claim is forthcoming. Consols 21%.......... ............ £1,312 13 4 Local Loans ............. 500 0 0 Victorian Government 3% Consoli. dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11 London and North-Western 3% Deben- ture Stock .................... 250 0 0 Egyptian Government Irrigation Trust 4% Certificates ........... 200 0 0 Cape of Good Hope 32% Inscribed Stock ............................. 200 0 0 Glasgow and South-Western Railway 4% Preference Stock.......... New Zealand 32% Stock............... 247 9 6 Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0 Corporation of London 21% Stock, 1927-57 ........ ................ 438 2 4 Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6 Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock......... 120 121 Dcminion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land Grant Stock, 1938........... ...... 198 3 8 5 00 0 5 0 ( 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 · . · · · . errerererer · 0 1 0 0 Oct. 5, Bungey, E. Newton Oct. 6, Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson . . Oct. 12, Hannay, J. 0. Oct. 12, Mrs. Humphry Ward, an addi- tional subscription for 1912 -13 . Nov. 9, Dailey, R. H. . Nov. 10, McCormick, E. B. Nov. 10, Salter, Miss E. K. Nov. 14, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpool Nov. 20, Snell, Miss Olive . . Nov. 24, Locke, W.J. . Nov. 24, Gosse, Edmund . . Nov. 25, Larken, E. P. . Nov. 25, Underdown, Miss E. . Nov. 25, Walkley, S. . . . . Nov. 25, Masefield, John . Nov. 25, Thurston, E. Temple Nov. 25, Rittenberg, Max, Nov. 25, Paull, H. M. . Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald. Nov. 25, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton. Nov. 25, Barne, Miss M. C. Nov. 25, Sedgwick, Anne Douglas . (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt) Nov. 25, Larden, Walter . . . Nor. 25, Channon, Mrs. Frances .. Nov. 25, Toynbee, Paget, .. Nov. 25, Hood, Miss Agnes Jacomb. Nov. 25, Gilliat, The Rev. E. . . Nov. 25, Macdonald, Greville , . Nov. 25, Allen, Rev. The G. W.(2y ars) Nov. 25, Russell, G. H. . . Nov. 25, Osgood, Mrs. Irene uspood, Nrs. Trene . . Nov. 25, Trench, Herbert , , . . · • 0 5 0 10 1 1 1 1 0 5 0 5 0 6 0 0 0 0 Total .......... .... £4,377 19 4 0 10 0 0 10 0 PENSION FUND. The list printed below includes all fresh dona- tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received by, or promised to, the fund from October 1st to December 22nd. 0 10 0 0 10 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 10 10 0 0 10 0  ## p. 87 (#507) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. £ 1 5 0 . d. 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 5 0 5 1 1 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 10 5 0 0 0 85 7 0 2 3 0 0 6 ong- 10 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 6 £ s. d. Nov. 25, Murdoch, W. G. Burn . 0 15 0 Dec. 11, Orczy, The Baroness . . Nov. 25, Knowles, Miss Margaret 1 1 0 Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold . Nov. 25, Bond, R. Warwick . . 1 1 0 Dec. 12, von Holst, Gustav . : Nov. 25, Stockley, Mrs. . : 0 10 6 Dec. 16, Cromartie, The Right Hon. Nov. 27, Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor. 0 10 0 the Countess of (additional Nov. 27, Prideaux, Miss S. T. . 1 0 0 subscription) . . Nov. 27, Sedgwick, Prof. A. (5 years 1 1 0 Dec. 16, Laurance, Lionel . . . Nov. 27, Arnold, Mrs. J. 0. . . 0 10 0 Dec. 16, Allen, Mrs. Grant. . Nov. 27, Weaver, Mrs. Baillie 0 10 0 Dec. 18, Haultain, Arnold . . Nov. 27, Drake, F. Maurice 0 5 0 Dec. 18, Pollock, The Right Honble. Nov. 27, Stewart, J. C. MacDougall: 0 5 0 Sir Frederick, P.C. , Nov. 27, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . . 1 1 0 Dec. 20, Carr, Miss Mildred E. , . Nov. 27, Lucas, E. V. .. 1 0 0 Dec. 20, Lewis, The Rev. Arthur Nov. 27, Hollins, Miss Dorothea , 010 0 Nov. 27, Bagnall, Miss L. T. . 5 0 Nov. 27, Young, Ernest . . . 0 5 0 Donations. Nov. 27, de Mattos, Alexander Teixeira 0 6 Nov. 27, Collier, The Hon. John 10 Oct. 10, Guthrie, Anstey. . Noy. 27, Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. . 0 5 0 Oct, 11, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . . Nov. 27, Orde Ward, The Rev. F. W. 0 5 0 Oct. 19, Romanne-James, Mrs. C. Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice . . 2 2 0 Oct. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey" . : Nov. 28, Carlyle, The Rev. A. J. 0 5 0 Nov. 3, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (3rd Nov. 28, Montrésor, Miss F. F. . 1 1 0 tion) . . : : Nov. 28, Jones, Henry Arthur . . 1 1 0 Nov. 3, Tanner, James T. (5th I Nov. 28, Pryor, Francis 4 4 0 tion) ; : . Nov. 28, Whiteing, Richard . . 0 10 0 Nov. 3, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton . . Nov. 28, Caine, William . 1 1 0 Nov. 4, Cayzer, Charles (3rd Donation) Nov. 28, Tuttiett, Miss M. G. . . 1 1 0 Nov. 6, LeRiche, P. J. Nov. 28, Caulfeild, Mrs. Kathleen 0 5 0 Nov. 6, Daniell, Mrs. E. H. Nov. 28, Breaknell, Miss Mary. 0 5 0 Nov. 13, Anon. . . . Nov. 28, James, Miss S. Boucher 1 10 Nov. 18, Hichens, Robert (in addition Nov. 28, Martin, Miss Violet 1 0 0 to subscription of £1) 0 £1) . Nov. 29, Pakington, The Hon. Mary. 0 5 0 Nov. 20, Grant, John G. . Nov. 29, Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Nov. 24, Jacobs, W. W. . . . Nathaniel . . . 0 5 0 Nov. 24, Roberts, Morley , . . Nov. 29, Skrine, The Rer. John H.. i 0 0 Nov. 24, Eckersley, The Rev. J. : Nov. 29, Travers, Miss Rosalind. 5 0 Nov. 25, Besant, W. H. . Nov. 29, Graves, Alfred P.. . 5 0 Nov. 25, Hill, J. Arthur Nov. 29, Shaw, Fred. G. . . 0 5 0 Nov. 25, Tansley, A. G. . Nov. 29, Narramore, William 0 5 0 Nov. 25, Gysi, Max, Nov, 29, Waldstein, Charles 1 1 0 Nov. 25, Lyttelton, Hon. Mrs Nov. 29, Rutter, Frank .. 0 5 0 Nov, 25, Savile, Frank . . . Dec. 1, Lee, The Rev. Albert 0 5 0 Nov. 25, Skeat, Prof. W. W. Dec. 1, Romanes, Mrs. Ethel 0 10 0 Nov. 27, Hood, Francis . Dec. 1, Wilton, Margaret W. . 50 Nov. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey" Dec. 2, Holme, Miss. . 0 10 0 Nov. 27, Moffatt, Graham , . Dec. 4, Thomson, Lieut.-Col. S. J. 0 5 0 Nov. 27, Mainwaring, Mrs. . . Dec. 4, Begbie, Harold . 10 Nov. 27, Maunder, J. H.. Dec. 4, Giles, Miss Edith J. F. 50 Nov. 27, Kennedy, E. B.. Dec. 4, Coulton, G. G. . 5 0 Nov. 27, Galsworthy, John (in addition Dec. 4, Heath, Sidney to subscription) . . Dec. 5, Macnamara, Miss Mar Nov. 27, Oppenheim, E. P. Dec. 5, Clodd, Edward O Nov. 27, Harding, Commander Claud, Dec. 5, Little, Mrs. Archibald . 2 R.N. . Dec. 5, Morton, Michael . . . 1 i 0 Nov. 27, Moore, Miss E. Hamilton : Dec. 6, Meredith, Mark · · . · 0 0 5 0 Nov. 27, Pilley, John. . · Dec. 8, Broster, Miss D. K. . 0 5 0 Nov. 28, Martin, Mrs. Clara T. . 0 6 0 0 0 -0-0--NOTONOco ooo o NorerrorOONO er er on Ecococo no Erco · · · · · · .............. 0 · · · · 0 · · · 0 · · , · · 1 1 5 · · 0 0 · · · · · ooer er er er 2 · 0 · · 1 0 0 0 10 6 0 10 0 0 10 6 er  ## p. 88 (#508) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. ::::::.......... novoro ven Nov. 28, McKellar, Campbell D. . Nov. 28, Wroughton, Miss Cicely . Nov. 28, Rankin, Miss F. M. . . Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice Nov. 28, Gould, Gerald , . Nov. 28, Hardy, Thomas 0. M. Nov. 29, Maarten Maartens Nov. 29, Bolton, Clement . Nov. 29, Stutfield, H. E. M. Nov. 29, Gibbs, F. L. A. . Nov. 29, Spurrier, Steven Nov. 29, Kinloch, Alexander Nov. 29, Webling, Peggy. Nov. 29, Barclay, Mrs. Hubert. : Nov. 29, Gibbs, Miss C. E. . Nov. 29, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite Nov. 29, Spielmann, Mr. and Mrs. M.H. Nov. 29, Begbie, Harold . Nov. 29, Spiers, Victor Nov. 29, Wentworth, Gerald Nov. 29, Pryce, Richard . Nov. 29, Watson, Mrs. Herbert . Dec. 6, Toplis, Grace . . Dec. 6, Percival, Helen A. . Dec. 7, Graham, Kenneth. Dec. 8, Falmouth, The Right Honble. the Viscountess . . Dec. 8, Ord, H. W. . . Dec. 10, Hawkins, A. Hope Dec. 10, Pennell, Mrs. E. R. Dec. 11, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit . Dec. 11, De Morgan, Wm. Dec. 12, D'Arcy, Ella Miss Dec. 16, Glenconner, Lady. Dec. 16, Royds, The Rev. T. F. . Dec. 18, Moore, Mrs. Stuart Dec. 18, J. P. P. . • Dec. 18, Bremner, Robert L. . Dec. 18, Dawson, Frank . Dec. 20. Tench, Miss Mary F. A. : Dec. 21, Clifford, Mrs. W. K. . . Dec. 22, Francis Beard , Dec. 22, Horridge, Frank. Nero £ s. d. 10 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 0 0 200 0 5 0 0 0 2 6 100. 0 10 6 0 7 6 1 1 0 0 5 0 0 100 0 0 2 2 0 3 3 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 0 5 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 នននននននននននននននន នន 2 0 6 . tions for the current year up to 288, the largest total in any one year, save 1909, since the founda- tion of the society. In 1909, 298 elections were recorded, in 1910, 276, and in 1911, as has been stated, 288. The committee have, however, to chronicle, with regret, 10 resignations. The solicitor of the society then reported on the cases in his hands. It may be remembered that in the last issue of The Author, a case was mentioned which it had been necessary to re-open owing to a mis-statement of the defendant revealed in his affidavit. This case has now been settled, the defendants paying 500 guineas as damages and costs for infringement, in place of £400 and costs as preriously arranged. The next question referred to the bankruptcy of a literary agent, and the solicitor was instructed in the course which the committee wished to have taken. The solicitor reported the satisfactory settlement of a small county court case where the amount and costs had been paid. He also reported the successful termination of cases undertaken by the society against pirates of dramatic property. An injunction had been obtained against the defendant, who had been selling scripts of plays without the sanction of the owners. Forty-three scripts had been delivered to the solicitors and sent on to the members of the society, whose work had been damaged by their circulation, and the defendant had given an undertaking not to continue to circulate any further scripts of the works in question. The solicitor also obtained the names of some of the people to whom the scripts were sold, and if they are found producing these plays the society will proceed to take action against them. In another case of infringement of dramatic property an interlocutory injunction has been obtained. The society will now proceed to obtain the final injunction and an order for costs. The case was one of barefaced infringement. Two other small cases were reported as settled. In an action for account against a music publisher, as it had been impossible to obtain proper state- ments, a writ had been issued. The accounts have since been delivered. Another case for accounts and royalties had been settled without going into court, the accounts having been delivered with cheques for the sums shown due. The same report applies to a third case where an author had a running account with a publisher. A very difficult case, referring to a breach of agreement by a publisher, was next discussed, but the committee regretted they could not then come to a final decision, owing to the absence of an undertaking by the author to go into court, but they decided that on receipt of such an undertaking they would re-consider the matter. . O . everomoru Bororoor oerer 6 . 0 . 6 . . 0 . 1 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 6 . 0 5 0 5 5 2 . . £164 19 6 COMMITTEE NOTES... MEETING of the Committee was held at the rooms of the Society of Arts, 18 John Street, Adelphi, W.C., on Monday, Decem- ber 4th, at 3 o'clock. The minutes of the previous meeting having been read and signed, the committee proceeded to the elections. They were pleased to elect 25 members and associates, bringing the total number of elec-  ## p. 89 (#509) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 89 The question of the clerks' salaries and Christ- mas boxes was also considered, and the committee sanctioned certain expenditure for these items. In regard to advertisements in The Author it was decided to keep to the arrangement at present in force. The secretary mentioned to the committee the difficult position in which some writers of novels had been placed owing to recent legal decisions respecting the law of libel. The committee con- sidered that it would be inadvisable to take action at the present time, as they did not see any chance of getting a hearing, and the question was accord- ingly adjourned. A sub-committee was appointed to deal with the Agency Agreement. That sub-committee consists of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mr. Charles Garvice, and the secretary of the society. It may be recalled that not long ago the Dramatic Sub-Committee settled an agreement between dramatist and agent. The Literary Agency Agreement will probably be based on the dramatic agency agreement already settled. The committee have to thank Miss E. M. Symonds for a donation of £2 28. to the Capital Fund of the society. In a case of delayed delivery of a MS. by the post office, the committee regretted their inability to help the author, as cases dealing with this subject had clearly established that no redress was pro. curable in the circumstances. The secretary brought to the notice of the committee a number of agreements issued by a certain publishing house. He pointed out how objectionable these contracts, binding down authors to give a series of works to the publisher, were from the anthor's point of view; and how frequently similar agreements from the same house had been brought to him by members. The last case arose out of a dispute on an agree ment between a member and his publisher. The committee regretted their inability to proceed on behalf of the member, as they did not feel that the member's contention could be supported. Following the discussion of the cases, matters dealing with the Copyright Bill were considered. A letter from Sir Gilbert Parker, which had been sent to all the members of the committee, was laid on the table. The secretary reported the receipt of letters from Sir Frederick Macmillan, and from a Canadian correspondent, dealing with Colonial and Canadian copyright, and also the steps taken by Lord Tennyson to put forward the society's amendments to the Copyright Bill in the House of Lords. The committee settled their nominees for the Committee Election for 1912 to fill the vacancies caused by the retirements necessary under the constitution of the society. A notice of the pro- cedure appears in another part of this issue. The election to the Pension Fund Committee was also discussed. Members of the society may recall that the Pension Fund Committee is com- posed of three members nominated by the Committee of Management, and three elected by the society at the general meeting, with the chairman of the Committee of Management for the time being ex officio. One member of those elected by the Committee of Management, and one of those elected at the general meeting hare to retire annually. Mrs. Humphry Ward retired in rotation, and submitting her name to the Committee of Management for re-election, was re-elected. Mr. Morley Roberts, one of the members elected at the general meeting, retired, but did not seek re-election. Accordingly, the committee decided to ask Mr. Owen Seaman to allow his name to go forward for election at the general meeting to fill the vacancy. The committee are pleased to state that Mr. Owen Seaman will accept nomination. It is, however, in the power of any member of the society to nominate some other member to fill the position. Full par- ticulars as to procedure in this matter also appear in another part of The Author. COUNCIL MEETING. THE second statutory meeting of the council of the society during 1911 was held at 18, John Street, Adelphi, W.C., on Monday, December 4th, at 4.30. The first matter before the meeting was to receive and adopt the report of the Committee of Management to the council, setting out in detail the action they had taken in the matter of copy- right legislation. The report was unanimously approved and adopted. It is intended to print this for the benefit of members in the Annual Report of the society. The next matter was the question of the re- publication of the list of members. After carefully considering the few letters received from members, and discussing the pros and cons, the council came to the conclusion that no great desire for the list existed, and that in view of that fact, and of the expense entailed in keeping it up to date, it would be inadvisable to republish it. Moreover, the council considered that there were other and more pressing claims on the society's funds which should be met first. DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE. The last meeting for 1911 of the Dramatic Sub- Committee was held at the offices of the society on Friday, December 15, at 3 o'clock.  ## p. 90 (#510) ############################################# 90 THE AUTHOR. After the signing of the minutes the first ques- been elected with the full approval of the Swedish tion before the sub-committee was the Managerial Academy to collect the votes in this country of Treaty. The Chairman reported that the treaty persons entitled to vote for the Prize for Litera. had been discussed at the meeting of the Dramatists' ture, the Swedish Acadeiny, without consulting Club, and that a sub-committee of that club had them, had instituted a new system, and they been appointed to consider its various clauses. It considered, therefore, that the time had come to was understood that this sub-committee would in lay down their functions. turn report to the Dramatists' Club, and that that report would subsequently be laid before the Dramatic Sub-Committee. In these circumstances it was decided to adjourn further discussion until Cases. the report from the Dramatists' Club. had come TEN cases have been in the secretary's hands to hand. The Chairman, however, read certain since the last issue of The Author. Six have been letters he had received, which he laid on the table, claims for money, and of these it is pleasing to and a letter drafted by Mr. Bernard Shaw was also report that four have been satisfactorily settled, suggested as a preface to the Managerial Treaty. and the sums paid. The other two bare so The next matter before the committee was the recently come into the office that there has not correspondence with the Lord Chamberlain, and been time before going to press to complete the arising out of the correspondence, a resolution was negotiations. passed, which the secretary was authorised to send In the one claim for accounts and money, the to the Lord Chamberlain at the earliest opportunity. accounts and money have been delivered. There The committee decided it would be inexpedient to have been two claims for accounts. The anthor publish the resolution until the reply from the has received the accounts in one case, and in the Lord Chamberlain had been received. other the defaulter has answered the secretary's Some letters from Mr. Laurence Cowen were letter, although the accounts have not, as yet, been also read to the sub-committee, and the secretary rendered. In a claim for the return of a MS. the was authorised to reply. MS. has been recovered. Therefore, seven cases The conduct of the election of the Dramatic Sub- out of ten have been satisfactorily concluded, and Committee for 1912 was next considered. Notice there is every probability that the remaining three as to this will be sent to the dramatic section of the will be closed shortly. society in due course. It is satisfactory to report that of the foriner A letter received from Mr. Ligon Johnson, cases not one remains open, but two have had to counsel of the Theatrical Producing Managers of be transferred to the solicitors of the society. America, in regard to the Canadian Copyright Bill, the sub-committee referred to the Committee of Management, for their serious consideration. December Elections. The secretary then reported the cases that had been carried through for dramatists since the last Armitage, Mrs. E. meeting. Brown, M. F. . . . 5, Palmeira Avenue Hove. Caico, Signora Louise . Montedore (Caltanis- NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE. setta), Sicily. The meeting of the Nobel Prize Committee Cole, Sanford D. . . 68, Queen's Square, for 1911 was held at the offices of the society Bristol. on Thursday, December 14. After the minutes Conway-Gordon, Miss V. Longley House, of the former meeting had been read and signed, (Conway Vere) Rochester. Mr. Edmund Gosse put forward, at some length, Cunningham, J ph 60, Milton Park, the work of the Committee since its appoint- Thomas . Highgate, N. ment, with the approval of the Swedish Academy, Francis Beard . “R," 27, Langham in 1902. After some discussion, the following Street, W. resolution was proposed, seconded, and passed Heale, E. Newton . . 3, Barton Terrace, unanimously :- Alphington Road, “That the Committee of Management of the Exeter. Incorporated Society of Authors be requested to Higginbottom, W. Hugh. 74, Cathcart Studios, disband the Nobel Prize Committee elected by Redcliffe Road, them in 1902." Kensington, S.W. The Nobel Prize Committee gare the following Low, Sidney . . . 24, Marlborough Hill, reasons for this request. That although they had N.W.  ## p. 91 (#511) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 91 Morgan, The Rev. J. Vyrnwy, D.D. Price, Frederick W. 133, Harley Street, W. Prior, Mrs. G. C. Melton , 12A, Carlyle Mansions, Cheyne Walk, Chel- sea. St. Quinton, Col. . . 34, Dover Street, Piccadilly, W. Rannie, David Watson . West Hayes, Win- chester. Stainforth, Miss Edith Steer, Miss Janette . . 53, Sloane Gardens, S.W. Stephenson, H. H., Worcester Park, Surrey. Symons, M. Travers . . 10, Cliffords Inn, E.C. Tippett, Mrs. Isabel C. . Rosemary Cottage, Wetherden, Suffolk. Watson, Malcolm 44, Ridgmount Gar- dens, W.C. Williams, Harold . . Cobbaton House, Umbersleigh R.S.O. North Devon. JOHN OPIE AND HIS CIRCLE. By ADA EARLAND. 93 x 61. 376 pp. Hutchinson. 218. n. ARCHBISHOP MACLAGAN. By F. D How. 94 x 6. 430 pp. Wells Gardner. 168. TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS. Edited by HALLAM, LORD TENNYSON. 9 x 54. 503 pp. Macmillan 108. n. DRAMA. THE SOUL OF THE WORLD: A Mystery Play of the Nativity and the Passion. By Mrs. PERCY DEARMER. 8 X 54. 65 pp. Mowbray. PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE. By W. B. YEATS. With Designs by GORDON CRAIG. 91 X 6. 224 pp. A. H. Bullen. 88. 6d. n. EMBLEMS OF LOVE. Designed in several Discourses. By LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE. 74 X 5. 213 pp. Lane. 58. n. ON THE ART OF THE THEATRE. By E. GORDON CRAIG. 8.4 X 64. 295 pp. Heinemann. 68. n. THE WAR GOD. By ISRAEL ZAYGWILL. A Tragedy in Five Acts. 83 x 54. 164 pp. 28. 6d. n. HINTS TO SPEAKERS AND PLAYERS. By ROSINI FILIPPI. 7} * 5. 280 pp. Arnold. 38. 6d. n. A PLUME OF FEATHERS : A Comedy in One Act. By GULIELMA Penn and R. FITZJOHN. Samuel French. 60. PAGEANT AND PLAYS. By GRACE TOPLIS. 71 X 5. 20. pp. George Gill and Sons. A SICILIAN IDYLL and JUDITH. By T. Sturge Moore. 84 X 54. Duckworth. 28. n. EDUCATIONAL. SCHOOL AND COUNTRY. By R. K. CRAWFORD. 86 pp. Dublin : Hodges, Figgis. 38. 6d. n. BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS. WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep this list as accurate and exbaustive as possible, they have some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending particulars of their works, help to make it substantially accurate. ART. CHURCH EMBROIDERY. By ALICE DRYDEN. 6 x 41 180 pp. (The Arts of the Church Series.) Mowbray. 18. 6d. n. John LAVERY AND HIS WORK. By WALTER SHAW. SPARROW. With a Preface by R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM. 11 X 87. 209 pp. Kegan Paul. 103. 6d. n. LEONARDO AT MILAN. Being Part VII. of " The Renais- sance in Italian Art.” By SELWYN BRINTON. George Bell & Sons. 23. 60. n. SANDRO BOTTICELLI. By ADOLF P. OPPÉ. With 25 Plates in Colour, Selected and Executed under the Super- vision of the Medici Society. 105 X 8. 72 pp. (The Arundel Library of Great Masters.) Hodder & Stoughton, 158. n. BIOGRAPHY. IRISH RECOLLECTIONS. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY. 9 x 6. 279 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 108. 6d.n. THE STORY OF EMMA LADY HAMILTON. By JULIA FRANKAU. Two vols. 161 x 114. 107 and 114 pp. Macmillan. £31 108. n. J. S. BACH. By A. SCHWEITZER, D.Ph. English Trans- lation by E. NEWMAN. Two vols. 91 x 6. 428 + 500 pp. Breitkopf & Hartel. 218. n. FICTION. THE COUNTRY HEART AND OTHER STORIES. By MAUD EGERTON KING. 7} X 5. 328 pp. Fifield. 68. OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER. By WILLIAM CAINE. 74 x 5. 320 pp. Greening. 68. MRS. HORROCKS PURSER. By C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE. 67 x 4. 292 pp. (Cheap reprint.) Nelson. 78. n. THE ARCHDEACON'S FAMILY. *74 5. 467 pp. 38. 6d. n. ROUND ABOUT A BRIGHTON COACH OFFICE. 74 x 5. 209 pp. 38. 6d. n. CHRISTIAN'S WIFE: A Story of Granabünder. 64 X 4. 160 pp. 28. n. All by MAUD EGERTON KING. Fifield. EBB AND FLOW. By Mrs. IRWIN SMART. 7* X 54. 379 pp. Routledge. 68. THE LONG NIGHT. 379 pp. THE ABBESS OF VLAYE. 391 pp. STARVECROW FARM. 345 pp. CHIPPINGE. 375 pp. LAID UP IN LAVENDER. 344 pp. THE WILD GEESE. 384 pp. By STANLEY J. WEYMAN. 63 X 4. Smith Elder ; Longmans. 28. n. each. THE STORY OF CLARICE. By KATHARINE TYNAN. 75 X 5. 320 pp. James Clarke. 6s. THE GOAL OF FORTUNE. By EDITH ETHEL TOWGOOD. 74 x 5. 320 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. 68. LETTERS TO LOUISE : On Life, Love and Immortality. By JEAN DELAIRE. 74 x 5. 183 pp. Rider, 28. 6d. n. A BORDER SCOURGE. By BERTRAM MITFORD. 318 pp. (Popular Edition). John Long. 6d. n. INDIAN DETECTIVE STORIES. By S. B. BANERJEA. 74 X 4f. 275 pp. Guy & Hancock. 18. n. GARDENING. ROSES AND ROSE GARDENS. By W. P. WRIGHT. 94 x 61. 294 pp. Headley. 12s.6d, n. HISTORY. BRITISH BATTLES : BLENHEIM. By HILAIRE BELLOC. 61 X 41. 144 pp. S. Swift. 18. n English Trang BRITIS  ## p. 92 (#512) ############################################# 92 THE AUTHOR. TOURING IN 1600. A Study in the Development of Travel as a Means of Education. By E. S. BATES. 9 x 5%. 418 pp. Constable. 128. 60. n. PILGRIM LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. BY SIDNEY HEATH. 9 x 58. Fisher Unwin. 108. 6d, n. JUVENILE. THE MOON LADY. By A. Eva RICHARDSON. 127 pp. S.P.C.K. 18. n. FLOOR GAMES. By H. G. WELLS. 8} x 64. 71 pp. H G WELLS 81 63 71 nn F. Palmer. 28. 68. n. OSCAR. The Story of a Skye Terrier's Adventures. By LACHLAN MACLEAN WATT. 74 X 51. 267 pp. Chambers. 38. 60. IN SEARCH OF Smith. By J. MACKIE. Illustrated by R. CATON WOODVILLE. 78 X 54. 294 pp. Grant Richards. 3s. 6d, n. 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ENGLISH FOLK CAROLS: With Pianoforte Accompani. ment and an Introduction and Notes. Collected by CECIL J. SHARP. 11 X 81. 68 pp. Novello ; and Simpkin Marshall. 58. n. NATURAL HISTORY. A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. Part 9. By G. E. H. BARRETT-HAMILTON. Illustrated by E. A. WILSON. 10 X 67. Pp. 121–168. Gurney & Jackson. 28. 6d. n.  ## p. 93 (#513) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 93 S SPAIN RE-VISITED: A Summer in Galicia. By C. based upon a series of lectures planned while the GASQUOINE HARTLEY (MRS. WALTER M. GALLICHAN). 9 x 54. 330 pp. Stanley Paul. 128. 6. n. author held the chair of music in the University of ITALIAN CASTLES AND COUNTRY SEATS. By TRYPHOSA Oxford. The lectures were not all delivered BATES BATCHELLER. 10 X 61. 512 pp. Longmans. because the pressure of other duties obliged Sir • 258. n. Hubert to resign the chair, but the present volume "Twixt LAND AND SEA. Sketches and Studies in North is intended to represent the entire scheme devised Africa. By CYRIL FLETCHER GRANT and L. GRANT, London, Sampson Low & Co. at the beginning of his tenure of the professorship. (2) “ Post Victorian Music," by Mr. C. L. Graves, arranged in three divisions. The first part, LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL under the heading of Post Victorian Music, dis- NOTES. cusses the Symphonia Domestica, Elektra, Salome, Pelléas et Mélisande, Elgar's First Symphony. In his second part the author gives a series of A N interesting little book entitled “Das eighteen “ Portraits and Appreciations," which Oxforder Buch Deutscher Dichtung" embraces some of the most notable figures in the covering selections from the twelfth to the world of music. The concluding section consists twentieth century, edited by H. Fiedler, with a of “ Studies and Sketches," and here the author preface by Gerhart Hauptmann, has been issued by deals in sympathetic fashion with many questions the Oxford Press. A somewhat similar work which must interest all lovers of music. was published years ago in the Golden Treasury We have been asked to note that the English Series by Messrs. Macmillan, edited by Professor Review, commencing with the January number, Buchheim, and up to the present time that was 1912, will be issued at the reduced price of 1s. undoubtedly the best selection that could possibly (12s. 6d. annual subscription, post free to all parts have been made from German lyrical poems. The of the world). We are assured that this change present selection, published by the Oxford Press, is, has been made owing to its continuous success and however, rather more ambitious, containing a to the repeated demands of the public for a high wider range of poems and a larger number of class literary review at a popular price. authors. In a book of this kind it is impossible Mr. George A. Birmingham has just published to include everything, but the judgment of the “ The Lighter Side of Irish Life," with sixteen editor is thoroughly trustworthy and reliable. Mr. colour illustrations by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A., at Gerhart Hauptmann's short preface is also the price of 58. net, from the house of T. N. Foulis. interesting, and we note with great pleasure his The book is written in Mr. Birmingham's best reference to Mr. George Meredith, the late vein, and has many good stories, but there is also President of the Society. a great deal of sound information about the people, Early in December Messrs. Macmillan & Co. their habits and customs. The illustrations are published “ Tennyson and his friends," a record quite first class and well reproduced. of the friendships of Tennyson and his son. It is “Milestones,” by Marcia Knight, is a collection edited by Hallam Lord Tennyson, and the chapters of poems, some of which have appeared in The have been planned and arranged by him to follow Gentlewoman, The Pall Mall Gazette, and Vanity the sequence of the poet's life. The contributors Fair. Many of them deal with nature and country include Emily Lady Tennyson, Mr. Willingham life, on which the author writes with sympathy. Rawnsley, Charles Tennyson, Sir Henry Craik, Dr. Messrs. Constable and Co. are the publishers. Warren, Edward Fitzgerald, Lady Ritchie, Mrs. Miss M. A. Woods has just published her Margaret L. Woods, Professor Jowett, Mr. H. G. monthly poetical Calendar in book form, under the Dakyns, Dr. Montagu Butler, Sir Charles Stanford, title “Day by Day with the Poets : a Calendar and Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Norman Lockyer, the Bishop Treasury of English Verse for any Year.” A copy of Ripon, and other notable people. The editor of the book has been accepted by Queen Alexandra. has inserted at appropriate points groups of well Mr. Clive Holland, the author of many novels known poems addressed to or describing friends and topographical works, has just been fêted at of Tennyson's early or later life. Bournemouth by his fellow townsmen, who through Mr. Ralph Nevill's new book, “ Floreat Etona," the medium of the Westbourne Literary Society while abounding in anecdote, is also an historical gave a dinner in his honour, at which a goodly record of various quaint customs and usages, so few number of the professional and business men of of which have lasted into the present age. There Bournemouth were present. Mr. Holland's health are eight illustrations in colour. Messrs. Macmillan was proposed, and the wide range of his work are the publishers. referred to by Mr. Harold Salt. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. publish also (1) “Style Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. will publish early in in Musical Art," by Sir Hubert Parry, which is the new year, “ The Life and Times of Countess  ## p. 94 (#514) ############################################# 94 THE AUTHOR. Bentinck, 1715—1799," by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, Mr. Harry Tighe's last novel, * Intellectual who possesses many of Countess Bentinck's letters. Marie” (John Long), has gone into a second The two volumes will contain extracts from letters edition. In the Christmas Pall Mall Magazine he to Countess Bentinck from Frederick the Great, has an Eastern fairy story, "The Moon-Child- Voltaire, the Princess of Zerbst (Mother of Mother of the Fireflies," illustrated by Frank C. Catherine II. of Russia), who was a cousin of Papé. Countess Bentinck's, her intimate friend Count “Tales of Seven Islands," by Evelyn Adams, is Mercy d'Argenteau, and many other well-known a collection of stories with the life and incidents in people. While searching family archives in the Pacific. The scenes are laid variously, and the England, Holland and Germany, Mrs. Aubrey Le sphere of them embraces such different ways of life Blond came on the track of an historical mystery as are represented in places as widely apart as the connected with the Royal Family of France, which isles of the North Pacific and the southern limits she hopes to deal with in a later work, the time of Australia. Mr. Henry J. Drane is the pub- being long past when a full disclosure would be lisher. indiscreet. " The Life of Countess Bentinck” will Mr. J. Arthur Hill has written, and Messrs. be illustrated by photographs from pictures in William Rider & Son, Limited, have published, & various private collectiors, including those of book dealing with religion and modern psychology. Welbeck Abbey (the Duke of Portland), of Count It is a study of present tendencies, particularly the Bentinck (Holland), and Mr. H. Aldenburg religious implications of the scientific belief in Bentinck (India), and of Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, survival, with a discussion on Mysticism. nearly all, till now, unpublished. Miss May Crommelin's new novel, written in Mrs. L. Allen Harker's new novel “Mr. collaboration with Mr. Alfred Williams, and entitled Wycherley's Wards," was published last month by “ The Isle of the Dead,” was produced on Mr. John Murray in England, and Messrs. Charles November 15. The scene is mainly laid in an Scribners' Sons in the United States of America. island of the Alentian group, known to Mr. Wil- The Christmas edition of Miss Annie Matheson's liams, who is an American mining engineer, and poems having now been out of print for a year, the peopled by Indians differing from those on the publishers, The Oxford University Press, have mainland. Miss Crommelin has also used her own reprinted it in a new volume by Miss Matheson experiences in California, which she visited soon entitled “Roses, Loaves, and Old Rhymes,” in after the great earthquake at San Francisco. which have been included, also, ten later poems. Messrs. Nelson & Sons have published Miss Emily Of the latter several are simultaneously included in Underdown's new book “ The Gateway to Spenser: “ Leaves of Prose," and one has already appeared in Tales retold from the Fairy Queen," with sixteen “ By Divers Paths,” both volumes being interleaved coloured plates by Frank Papé, and numerous black with occasional verse, thus attaining among lovers and white ones. This book is issued uniform with the of prose a rather different audience. same author's “Gateway to Romance : Tales retold “Good Cheer." The romance of food and from The Earthly Paradise," published two years feasting, by F. W. Hackwood, deals with the food- ago. stuffs of all nations and the culinary practices of Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. announce the publica- all ages. The subject is approached from the tion of Miss Ada Earland's story of “ John Opie historic and picturesque side, reference is made to and his Circle.” Opie was the son of a Cornish the dietary of the Scriptures, a Roman banquet, and labourer, and received recognition of his extra- Old English fare: to seasonal festivals : to national ordinary gifts at an early age. He came to London dishes: to feasting and fasting, and the influence in the company of Dr. John Wolcot, better known of diet upon health and character. The volume is by his pen-name of “ Peter Pindar." Opie's work profusely illustrated. It is published by Mr. Fisher won the admiration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in Unwin, who will issue in 1912 another work from the present work the author has attempted to tell the pen of Mr. Hackwood. In this later volume, the story of the artist's life fully and adequately. Mr. Hackwood will deal with the life and times of The author has collected much new material, and William Hone, the writer on popular antiquities, many pictures are reproduced in the book for the compiler of “The Every Day Book,” “ The Year first time. A list of Opie's pictures forms a copious Book," and “The Table Book," and friend of appendix to the book. Charles Lamb, George Cruikshank and other A New Year poem from the pen of Alfred Smythe notabilities of his time. The biography has been appears in the January number of the Westminster authoritatively compiled from the family's private Review. papers. Part VII. of “The Renaissance in Italian Art," Mr. W. L. George has been appointed literary by Selwyn Brinton, treats of Leonardo at Milan. editor of Vanity Fair. This volume ends the series, which gives a com-  ## p. 95 (#515) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 95 plete account of the art of the Italian revival, natural specimens taken by Mr. T. Ernest Waltham, richly illustrated. Each volume—there are nine in by a new process of colour photography. The all—is published by Messrs. George Bell & Son, most improved methods of colour-printing will be at 28. 6d. net. employed in their reproduction. Mr. Martin Secker is about to publish “White Miss Beatrice Harraden's new novel, of which Webs," a new novel by Theo. Douglas (Mrs. H. D. Messrs. Nelson have also acquired the serial rights, Everett). The book will appear this month. It is will be published by them in the spring, in book a romance of Sussex, and deals with the Jacobite form, at 2s. They will also include it in their plottings which followed the rising of 1745. Continental Library. Messrs. Frederick Stokes & Co. A third edition of Mr. J. Johnston Abraham's are to be the publishers in America. recent volume “ The Surgeon's Log : being Impres- The Poetry Society, which was founded first sions of the Far East," is in the press. under the title of “The Poetry Recital Society," The Council of the Library Association has in 1909, has published, monthly or quarterly, an arranged a course of lectures, to be delivered by official journal, under the provisional title, The Mr. R. A. Peddie, on “Reference Books for Poetical Gazette. Lately a committee has been Librarians and Readers." The lectures will be formed for the purpose of co-operating with the held (by permission of the Trustees) in the Lecture society in the production of a standing monthly Room of the British Museum, on Saturday after- review of poetic literature, in which the Gazette noons, at 3 P.M. The dates of the lectures still to will be incorporated. The first issue of the new be given are January 27, 1912, February 10, periodical will appear in January, 1912, under the February 24, March 23. Admission is free. No title The Poetry Review. The contents will be tickets are required. divided into four sections. The first will consist of Mrs. Perrin has been elected President of the articles on subjects connected with poetry and Society of Women Journalists for 1911–12. A poetic criticism and biography. The second will serial by Mrs. Perrin, called “Colour Blind,” is contain reviews of modern European poetry. Next, ronning in The Times Weekly Edition, and will be about six pages will be devoted to the publication published by Messrs. Methuen & Co. in the course of modern poetry, representing in each issue the of next year. work of only one individual poet. The fourth “The Woman Hunter " is the title of Miss section will be the Gazette of the society. The Arabella Kenealy's new novel published this month price of the Review will be 6d. All communications by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. The book has for should be addressed to the office of The Poetry its theme the degradation of love as a result of the Review, 93, Chancery Lane, W.C. monastic idea, and shows the higher awakening and “School and Country” is a little book by R. K. evolution of a libertine—the “Woman Hunter” of Crawford, written with the object of inculcating the title—by the power of a great passion. The a spirit of patriotism in the young. It describes, John Lane Co. of New York have recently in simple language, the services rendered by the issued an American edition of Miss Kenealy's State to its members, and emphasises the obligations novel “ The Mating of Anthea,” the first eugenics which are due to the State in return. Messrs. novel to be written. Hodges, Figgis & Co. are the publishers. Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. are publishing this month “ The Activities of Lavie Jutt," by Mar- DRAMATIC NOTES. guerite and Armiger Barclay. During the same month John Long & Co. will publish Oliver Sandys Mr. Cecil Raleigh and Mr. Paul Rubens are (Mrs. Armiger Barclay) new novel, “ Chicane;" writing the next piece for the Gaiety Theatre. and a second edition of “Letters from Fleet Street," Mr. Rubens will also be responsible for the music originally published anonymously by Frank Palmer, of the piece, while the lyrics will be in the hands will be issued under Mr. and Mrs. Barclay's joint of Mr. Arthur Wimperis. names. Twelve stories by Mr. and Mrs. Barclay The next Drury Lane drama will be the joint have appeared in Christmas numbers during 1911; work of Mr. Raleigh and Mr. Henry Hamilton. and as many more are due to appear in various What the drama will be about has not yet been English magazines within the next month or two. finally settled, but the authors have two dramas In the U.S.A. magazines these writers have recently sketched, one rather more of a domestic drama placed a variety of short stories and articles. than they have done at the Lane as yet. Messrs. E. T. & E. C. Jack announce a new Mr. Raleigh has also arranged with Mr. Arthur colour series for flower lovers, entitled “ Present- Collins to adapt his new French purchase “ Le Day Gardening." It is edited by R. Hooper Petit Café.” Pearson. Each volume will be illustrated by eight Mr. James Bernard Fagan's dramatisation of plates in colour, reproduced from photographs of Mr. Robert Hichens' novel, “ Bella Donna," was  ## p. 96 (#516) ############################################# 96 THE AUTHOR. produced at the St. James' Theatre on December 9. Mr. George Alexander, Mrs. Patrick Campbell, Mr. Athol Stewart, and Miss Mary Grey are in the cast. On Sunday, December 3, “ La Chute du Dieu,” “ La Femme de l'Acteur,” and “Le Lieutenant Felberg," three plays by B. Morley Steynor, were produced at the Theatre Français de Londres. The French actor from the Grand Guignol Théâtre, Louis Tunc, appeared in the plays and was supported by M. Pierre Maugue, M. Maurice Wick, Mlle. Nulsson Norva, and Mlle. Yvette Bariel. PARIS NOTES. M HE Goncourt Academy has awarded its annual I prize to M. Alphonse de Chateaubriant for his novel entitled “M. des Lourdines.” The second volume of Pierre de Nolhac's “ Histoire du Château de Versailles" has just been published. This volume is Versailles sous Louis XIV. No author could be better qualified than M. de Nolhac to treat this subject. As Curator of the Château of Versailles, he is living in the palace surrounded by all the pictures and documents relating to the past history of Versailles. The volume is illustrated with many hitherto unpublished sketches, some of which belong to the private collec- tion of the King of England. Pierre de Vaissière's new volume will be of interest to all who care to study the psychology of criminals. It is entitled “Récits du Temps des Troubles (XVI° siècle) De quelques Assassins.” The subjects treated are those concerning Jean Poitrot, Seigneur de Maurevert ; Jean Yanowitz, dit Besme ; Henri III. et les “ Quarante-Cinq”; and Jacques Clément. As an exact contrast to this is a book published by Georges Eliac entitled “Un après-midi chez Julie de Lespinasse." A preface has been written to this by the Marquis de Ségur. M. Xavier Paoli, ancien commissaire délégué auprès des souverains en France, publishes a book on “Leurs Majestés,” in which he gives his impres- sions of Elisabeth d'Autriche, Alphonse XIII., Le Shah de Perse, Nicolas II., Victor-Emmanuel III., Léopold II., Edouard VII., Wilhelmine de Hollande, Georges 1er, Sisowath, Victoria d'Angleterre. Mme. W. Nicati publishes a study of “Elisabeth Browning, Femme et Poète." The “ Souvenirs de Ch. de Freycinet” will be read with great curiosity and interest. The truth con- cerning many political questions dating from 1848 will be found in this volume. “L’Empire allemand et l'Empereur” is a study by Pierre Baudin, and “Derrière la Façade allemande," another study of Germany, which after the long Franco-German conflict on the Morocco question is also instructive. “ Allemands et Polonais," by Dr. Victor Nicaise, with a prerace by M. Henri Welschinger, is a study of the struggle of the Poles. The volume was presented by M. Welschinger to the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques at its November meeting. It is a comprehensive study and a dramatic story of the struggle of the Poles to preserve their language, and should be read by all who are interested in the struggle of civilisations and the psychology of children. A book which will be read with curiosity and interest by scientists is a volume recently published by Martin Kuckuck of St. Petersburg. It is entitled “L'Univers, être vivant” (La Solution des Pro- blèmes de la Matière et de la Vie à l'aide de la Biologie universelle). It is divided into four parts, (1) Cosmobiologie; la vie de l'univers ; (2) Plasmo- biologie; la vie de la substance; (3) Cytobiologie; la vie de la cellule ; (4) Géobiologie ; la vie de la Terre. Among the subjects treated are La Méthode du travail, L'essence de la vie, L'âme et l'esprit ; le sens propre de ces mots, etc. M. C. Wagner, the author of “The Simple Life” has just published a new book entitled “ Ce qu'il faudra toujours." Among the most striking of the chapters are the following : Choses abolies et choses qui demeurent.—De l'initiative-Valeurs marchandes et valeurs d'âme. “ La Crise du Français et la Réforme universi- taire " is the title of a little book by Abel Faure, in which the author assures us that there is no crisis, that the language is simply continuing its evolution. The book has come at the right moment, and the tone of it is optimistic. “Sous le Manteau Vénitien” (Silhouettes de la fin du XVIII° siècle) is the title of a book by Prince Frédéric de Hohenlohe Waldembourg. “L'Homme aux Papillons," by Théodore Cahu, is a charming book worthy of the author of “Doute mortel,” “L'Oubli ” and “ Vers la Paix," Romain Rolland continues his long series of volumes. “Le Buisson ardent " is the second of “ La Fin du Voyage.” Among the volumes of poetry is one entitled “Souffles d'Océan,” containing some exquisite poems by the Duchesse de Rohan. A volume entitled “Le Temple du Rêve,” by the Baronne de Baye has also appeared recently. Another posthumous volume is announced con- taining the “ Lettres de Jeunesse " of Charles- Louis Philippe to Henri Vandeputte. Maurice Bouchor has just published a volume entitled “ Contes à lire ou à faire lire aux Enfants." M. Maurice Muret publishes a volume called orre  ## p. 97 (#517) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 97 " Les Contemporains Etrangers ” in which he " Leurs Majestés” (Ollendorff). studies the following authors : Giosue Carducci, " Elisabeth Browning, Femmé et Poète" (Perrin). " Souvenirs de Ch. de Freycinet” (Delagrave). Antonio Fogazzaro, Mme. Annie Vivanti, A. Strind- “L'Empire allemand et l'Empereur" (Flammarion). berg, Selma Lagerlöf, George Bernard Shaw, G. “ Derrière la Façade allemande" (Chapelot). Hauptmann, C. Spitteler, Mlle. E. de Handel, “ Allemands et Polonais” (Marches de l'Est). Mazzetti and K. Schönherre. “L'Univers, être vivant” (Fischbacher). “ Ce qu'il faudra toujours à (Armand Colin). Never have foreign authors been so much read “La Crise du Français et la Réforme universitaire" in France as at the present moment. Bernard (Stock). Shaw and his plays are at present the subject of a " Sous le Manteau Vénitien ” (Bernard Grasset). series of lectures to be given at the Hôtel des “L'Homme aux Papillons " (Bernard Grasset). “Le Buisson ardent” (Ollendorff). Sociétés savantes and at the Sorbonne by M. “ Souffles d'Océan " (Calmann Levy). Augustin Hamon. “Le Temple du Rêve" (Perrin). A volume of Bernard Shaw's plays, translated “Lettres de Jeunesse" įRiviere). into French by Augustin and Henriette Hamon, is “ Contes à lire ou à faire lire aux Enfants" (Armand Colin). to be published in March. “Les Contemporains Etrangers ” (Fontemoing). A most amusing book for children has been “ Drôles de Bètes ” (A. Tolmer). written and illustrated by André Hellé. Its title is “Drôles de Bêtes," and, in the sketches, the artist has succeeded admirably in giving UNITED STATES NOTES. children an idea of the outlines of the various animals. In an extremely witty way, he gives his comments on the scenes he depicts. The DCHOES hare reached England of the dis- whole book is most entertaining, and will be cussion which has been agitating the enjoyed by the grown-ups quite as much as by the literary world—or at least the commercial children. side of the literary world—in America during A curious legal case has just been tried in the past autumn ; the discussion, to wit, on the Paris. The proprietor of a financial journal took value of “best sellers." Perhaps it need hardly for his title La Revue Financière des Deux Mondes. be added that the point at issue was not the M. Francis Charmes, editor of the Revue des Deux artistic value of a very popular book, but its value Vondes, who considered that this would be detri- as a “ business proposition.” mental to his review, has won his case, and the Mr. Robert S. Yard, of Moffatt, Yard & Co.. financial journal is compelled to omit the words set the ball rolling in an article in the Saturday Deux Mondes from his review and also from all Evening Post. He called this “ The Worst his bill heads, writing paper and telegraphic Business in the World,” dealing at large with the address. As the Revue des Deux Mondes dates dangers and drawbacks of the publishing pro- from 1829, it was considered that this new paper fession. But the most notable part of the article was about to trade on the fame which the older de on the fame which the older was the denunciation of best sellers, fortified by one had won. the opinion of “one of the most distinguished In the Revue de Paris, Albert Duchêne writes publishers in America," who declared that he on “Le Maroc et le Gouvernement de l'Afrique didn't want them, as they were too expensive, and française," and Auguste Gauvain on “L’Europe he couldn't afford them. This publisher marshalled d'aujourd'hui.” M. Houllevigue writes an article figures to prove that if a best seller reached a sale on "L'Observatoire du Mont Wilson.” of 100,000 copies in the course of its run, while its At the Odéon David Copperfield is still on profit to the author would be about £6,000, to the the bill. publisher it would only bring about £500. He “Les Sauterelles" is the title of M. Emile concluded : “Besides yielding no profit, it Fabre's piece, in five acts, now being given at the actually hogs the whole attention of the house Vaudeville. to the exclusion of the other and really important At the Porte Saint-Martin, “ La Flambée,” by books—the books that bulked together really M. Henry Kistemeckers, is being given. make profit, and the books that carry the dignity Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is opening the season and the prestige and the power and the influence with “Lucrèce Borgia.” of the house. It eclipses them all.” A direct personal interest in the question of “M. des Lourdines” (Bernard Grasset). best sellers is, unfortunately, the lot of very few " Histoire du Château de Versailles" (Emile Paul). authors, in America or elsewhere. Nor can it be " Récits du Temps des Troubles (XVI. siècle) De quel. a great concern of theirs how such works affect ques Assassins (Emile Paul). “ Un après-midi chez Julie de Lespinasse" (Emile the publisher's pocket. But certainly they are Paul). entitled to feel uneasy at the thought of the best  ## p. 98 (#518) ############################################# 98 THE AUTHOR. sellers being allowed to “ hog the whole attention “The Ne'er-Do-Well” have already appeared in of the house.” At a Washington trial not long the best sellers list—though the third of these has ago the wife of a millionaire submitted in court not pleased the reviewers half as well as the reading an account of her monthly expenses ; from which public. In the late spring or early summer it appeared that she spent on an average $2012 per women writers were very active, notable books month, of which only the odd $2 were devoted to being “ The Colonel's Story," by Mrs. Roger books. Now, if the publisher thrusts on her Pryor; “A Big Horse to Ride," by (Miss) E. D. attention only his best sellers, calculate what Dewing; “ The Bramble Bush," by Caroline amount of support per annum the millionaire's Fuller; “ Kilmeny of the Orcbard," by L. M. wife contributes to the ordinary run of authors ! Montgomery ; “Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who To turn from so painful a thought to the Laughed,” by Edna Ferber ; and “The Iron actual question of the most successful books in Woman," by Margaret Delanů. Male authorship the United States during recent months : In the was represented by Jacques Futrelle's “ Secretary spring, the top places in the list of six best sellers of Frivolous Affairs ” ; “The Measure of a Man," in fiction were occupied by the since-deceased by Norman Duncan (known previously as the Vaughan Kester's “ Prodigal Judge,” and Jeffery writer of “ Doctor Luke of the Labrador '') ; Farnol's “ Broad Highway." These two novels “Victor Olnee's Discipline," by Hamlin Garland ; remained in “ The Big Six” (as some of the “The Vintage,” by Joseph Sharts ; “ Tales of the papers sportingly call the list) right down to the Town,” by Charles Belmont Davis ; “ The Carpet end of August. H. S. Harrison's “ Queed," for from Bagdad,” by Harold MacGrath ; and which the critics all prophesied a great future, “Kennedy Square,” by F. Hopkinson Smith, fulfilled expectations, and, after running the two author of that masterpiece “ Colonel Carter of just-mentioned novels close, survived them into Cartersville.” September. Meanwhile in August “ The Winning More recent novels are "Mother Carey's of Barbara Worth" by Harold Bell, and “ The Chickens” by Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Ne'er-Do-Well ” by Rex Beach, came to the front, “Mother " by Kathleen Norris, both very senti- and in September they were first and third respec- mental, but none the less likely to succeed for tively, second place being taken by Robert W. that. Whether one should class Mr. Farnol as an Chambers with “ The Common Law,” which ran American author is doubtful; but anyhow his into three editions in its first month of life. “ Money Moon” bids fair to rival in the States Outside fiction, the books which have most the popularity of “ The Broad Highway.” In often appeared among the best sellers are “ The “As the Sparks Fly Upward,” Cyrus Townsend Doctor's Dilemma” and “How to Live on Twenty- Brady presents a Pacific island-wreck story ; in Four Hours a Day”—Messrs. Shaw and Arnold “ Philip Steele," J.O. Curwood, a romance of the Bennett thus continuing their wonderful success Canadian mounted police ; in “Rebellion," J. M. in the early part of the year and Olive Schreiner's Patterson (author of “A Little Brother of the “Woman and Labor”; while Price Collier's Rich"), a divorce problem novel. William Dubois, “ The West in the East," and the other Bennett's who gives us “The Quest of the Silver Fleece," is “ Mental Efficiency” take a high place, and a gentleman of colour, who writes exceedingly Wagner's “My Life" has commenced what is well about his own people. Detective novels are expected to be a long run. Nor must “ Paper represented by A. K. Green's “ Initials Only," Bag Cookery" by M. Soyer, the chef, be forgotten. and by “ Average Jones,” whose creator, Samuel It will be seen that the native authors hold their Hopkins Adams, collaborated in “ The Mystery." own better in fiction than in other literature. George Barr McCutcheon's new story is “ Mary The general output of books has been tremen- Midthorne,” and Randall Parrish in “My Lady dous since the last “United States Notes” of Doubt " goes to the War of Independence for appeared in The Author, and supplies a curious his setting. The late Myrtle Reed left behind comment on Mr. Robert Yard's plaintive con- her“ A Weaver of Dreams," published after her tention that publishing is “ the worst business death. in the world.” It is rather difficult to decide Two translations from the German may be men- which works deserve special mention here, so many tioned : “ The Indian Lily," a collection of tales by are there to choose from, and it being impossible Sudermann, and Hauptmann's remarkable « The to read them all. But an attempt must be made Fool in Christ,” which will doubtless be seen in to give the names of the principal additions to England before long. American literature, at the risk of omitting some There has been a good crop of biographies in the which time may show to be better fitted to survive. second half of 1911. These include " Andrew To begin with fiction, “The Winning of Jackson,” by Professor John Spencer Bassett; Barbara Worth," “ The Common Law," and “Harriet Beecher Stowe," by Charles Edward and  ## p. 99 (#519) ############################################# THE AUTHOR. 99 Lyman Beecher Stowe, her son and grandson; Other social difficulties receive attention in “ The True Daniel Webster," by Dr. S. G. Fisher; “Half a Man," by Mary White Ovington, who « Statesmen of the Old South" (Jefferson, Calhoun, deals with the New York negro ; " The History and and Davis), by W. E. Dodd ;“ William H. Seward,” Problems of Organized Labor," by Dr. F. T. Carlton, by E. E. Hale, junior, and “Stephen A. Douglas," Professor of Economics and History at Albion by H. P. Willis, both in the American Crisis series. College ; and “The Passing of the Idle Rich," by The Yale University Press has issued Dr. W. S. Frederick Townsend Martin. Culbertson's “ Alexander Hamilton : An Essay." The travel-books of the second half of the past • The Public Life of Joseph Dudley," by Professor year hare not been very many. “Across South Everett Kimball, is a study of the colonial policy America,” by Hiram Bingham, is a diary of a trip of the Stuarts in New England. “The Diary of from Lima to Buenos Aires. “ Jungle Trails and Gideon Welles,” to wbich John T. Morse, junior, Jungle People," from the pen of Caspar Whitney, supplies an introduction, is said to be the only deals with the Far East. “A Woman's World account of the administrations of Lincoln and Tour in a Motor," by Mrs. Clark-Fisher, records Johnson from inside the cabinets of both statesmen. the experiences of 23,000 miles in a car. Another Historical works are “ France in the American motoring book is Lee Meriwether's “Seeing Europe Rerolution,” by James Breck Perkins (who, as the by Automobile.” “ The Cabin," written and illus- New York Nation points out, is one of the rare trated by Stewart Edward White, describes the scholars who have figured in Congress, having Sierras. “Through the Heart of Canada," by formerly been Congressman for New York); “ The Frank Yeigh, has come in for high praise. Indian Wars of New England,” by Herbert Milton “Florida Trails," by Winthrop Packard, perbaps Sylvester ; “ A Short History of the United States belongs to a class by itself. The author, Winthrop Navy," by Captain G. R. Clark and others; “ The Packard, has a big reputation in the United States Records of the Federal Convention of 1787," by as a writer about pature. An aspect of nature- Professor Max Farrand, of Yale; and “ Sectionalism study, under artificial conditions, is considered in in Virginia from 1776 to 1861," by Dr. C. H. Mrs. Alfred Ely's “ The Practical Flower Garden," Amber. In this class may be put also Charles A. which attained to the dignity of a best-seller on its Hanna's - The Wilderness Trail,” which has the first appearance in the spring. rather portentous sub-title “ The Ventures and Among philosophical publications the first place Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the is naturally taken by the late Professor James's Allegheny Path, with some new Annals of the Old posthumous work, “Some Problems of Philosophy." West, and the Records of Some Strong Men and If we may be allowed to imitate the advertisement Some Bad Ones"! In “Studies : Military and editor and reserve a space for “unclassified or late," Diplomatic," Charles Francis Adams writes about there are several noteworthy books which may here the strategy of the War of Independence and the be grouped together. For instance, there is General military and diplomatic aspects of the Civil War. Hiram Chittenden's “ War or Peace,” in which an The scope of “ The President's Cabinet," by H. B. American soldier argues very strongly on behalf of Learned, published by the Yale University Press, is peace. There is “American Addresses," a new sufficiently explained by its title—the President, of volume of essays by Joseph H. Choate. Richard course, being that of the United States. Le Gallienne is responsible for “ The Loves of the Books on the Woman Question have been Poets,” which its publishers describe as a “holiday numerous. Among them are Mrs. Pankhurst's book” and which handles the love-stories of such “ The Suffragette” ; “The Woman Movement in divers persons as the Brownings, Mary Stuart and America,” by Belle Squire, a very prominent Chastelard, Georges Sand and Chopin, Michel American suffragist ;“ What Eight Million Women Angelo and Vittoria Colonna. “ The Letters of Want,” by Rheta Childe Dorr ; "A Short History Sarah Orne Jewett” have been edited by Mrs. of Women's Rights” (from the Augustan age to James T. Fields. “The Greatest Street in the the present day), by Eugene A. Hecker; " The World,"—.., Broadway, New York—is written Women of To-morrow," by William Hard ; and about by Stephen Jenkins—and also by J. B. “ Woman's Part in Government,” by W. H. Allen. Kerfoot, who calls his book simply “Broadway." “A Woman Alone,” a true story of a girl's struggle “ Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing" is the to maintain herself in New York, is a consideration subject chosen by Dr. G. B. Cutten, President of of the question from a different point of view. And Acadia University, New York. And finally Paul S. “ The Girl that Goes Wrong" is different again, as Reinsch has produced “ Intellectual and Political will be understood when it is said that the author Currents in the Far East," which attempts to bring is R. W. Kauffman, who wrote the terrible and the history of the modern Orient right up to date. truthful novel “ The House of Bondage," mentioned The obituary of the past few months is unhappily in the last - United States Notes." rather large. On July 4th Vaughan Kester, author  ## p. 100 (#520) ############################################ 100 THE AUTHOR. of “ The Prodigal Judge,” died after a long illness; It appeared from the evidence that subscribers and on the same day Franklin Fyles, playwright to the Little French Theatre Society received and former dramatic editor of the New York Sun. tickets and were entitled to attend performances A month later died Lieutenant-Colonel L. L. Bruff, of plays at the theatre, as well as concerts, recital, one of the foremost writers on ordnance and explo- and lectures, and it was contended on behalf of the sives in America. On August 17th Mrs. Myrtle defendant, that the society was carried on in the Reed (McCullough) committed suicide after a period same way as other similar societies, such as of insomnia and depression, leaving a finished novel, the Stage Society, which was composed of mem- whose publication is noticed above. Her “Love bers whose subscriptions entitled them to admission Letters of a Musician " appeared first in 1899, when to the performances of certain plays, and that they Myrtle Reed was twenty-five. Before August closed, were private performances for members of the the death occurred of Edwin Asa Dix, author of society. several novels and a travel book. Another traveller, The magistrate, however, held that the Little John Milton Dillon, author of “Motor Days in French Theatre Society was merely a colourable England,” soon followed him. The September excuse, and that the performance of French plays, losses to American literature included Joel Benton, which were advertised in the public press, were in poet, critic, and lecturer ; Mrs. Elizabeth Edson fact public performances. There was no sugges- Evans, novelist, biographer, etc. ; and Charles tion that the plays were in any way improper, but in Battell Loomis, whose humour is well known in the interests of the public it was essential that a England. Mr. Loomis had only recently celebrated theatre, where public performances of plays took (in hospital) his fiftieth birthday when he succumbed place should be licensed so as to come under the to cancer. An accidental gunshot wound, self- inspection of the County Council, because that body inflicted while out after quail on October 6th, put was responsible for the protection of the public in an end to Philip Verrill Mighels, journalist, novel- case of fire. The charge against the defendant was writer, poet, and playwright. On October 29th considered to be proved, and he was ordered to pay died Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York a fine of £10. World-leaving, by his will, two million dollars to From the observations of the magistrate, it seems support a school of journalism at Columbia Univer that the offence, for which the defendant was fined, sity. And on November 21st Kellogg Durland, was “ keeping a house of public resort for the whose best-known writings dealt with labour public performance of stage plays without a questions, committed suicide on a train journey. licence"; because the other offence with which he PHILIP WALSH. was charged, namely, “ presenting a stage play for hire in an unlicensed place,” has nothing to do with the question as to whether the performance is public or private. STAGE PLAYS AND PRIVATE SOCIETIES. What constitutes the “ public performance" of a play is a question of some difficulty, but it may be described as a performance to which the general M H ERE appears to be some uneasiness among public can obtain admission. If certain qualiti- 1 members of private societies, which give un- cations are required of members of a society, authorised dramatic entertainments, owing besides the mere payment of a subscription, it is to the summary proceedings in connection with probable that a performance before the members the performances of the Little French Theatre of such society would not amount to a public Society, at the Boudoir Theatre, in Kensington. performance. But in the case of the Little French Mr. Grey, who leased the theatre from Boudoir Theatre Society there appear to have been no Companies, Ltd., was prosecuted for keeping a restrictions, the advertisements invited the general house for the public performance of stage plays, public to subscribe, and the county couucil and for presenting a stage play without a licence inspector became a member merely on payment of from the London County Council. the subscription. The proceedings were instituted under the pro- The private societies, which give performances visions of the Theatres Act, 1843, and as the of stage plays, some of which are unlicensed, hare borough of Kensington is outside the authority of no need to be alarmed at the decision in this case, the Lord Chamberlain, the licensing of the Boudoir so long as their performances are given, as is Theatre comes within the jurisdiction of the County usually the practice I believe, in a theatre which Council. An inspector of the Council paid the has been duly licensed. Still, it is advisable that subscription of 31s. 6d., and became a member of they should give attention to section 15 of the Act, the Little French Theatre Society, in order to which makes it an offence to present “for hire” attend the performances of certain French plays. an unlicensed stage play ; for it has become the  ## p. 101 (#521) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 101 - - - - - - no defence, and a conviction is inevitable even when it is admitted that the prosecution is influenced by ulterior motives. A few years ago there was quite an epidemic of such prosecutions ; when the law was set in motion, sometimes by the theatrical managers who realised that their interests were being affected by the developments of music-halls, sometimes by individuals who had a personal grievance, and in the recent case, referred to above, the Actors' Association prosecuted because their members had been prejudiced by the repudiation of contracts ; so that the law, instead of being consistently enforced, as it should be if it were reasonable, is left to the caprice of indivi- duals ; and, unless they choose to prosecute, its daily violation is regarded, so far as the authorities are concerned, with the indifference of those who have no veneration for antiquity. HAROLD HARDY. MAGAZINE CONTENTS. habit to give unauthorised performances of stage plays, as if the payment of a subscription, instead of payment at the doors, secured the actors and organizers from liability in respect of the heavy penalties provided by the Act. The important words of the section are " for hire," and their meaning is very wide. They include “every case in which any money or reward shall be taken or charged, directly or indirectly, or in which the purchase of any article is made a condition for admission." If subscriptions, there fore, are paid merely for the sake of obtaining admission to the performances of these plays, it would seem that every actor who takes part in the entertainment must be deemed to be acting “for hire.” Fortunately, the Censor, in spite of all the indiscretions attributed to him, is not over zealous in instituting proceedings. But it is well to bear in mind that anybody who pleases may prosecute, and the Act provides that the expenses of the prosecutor, who may be the “man in the street,” shall be paid out of the penalties imposed. Another recent case under the Theatres Act was the prosecution of the New Bedford Palace of Varieties, which was summoned, for keeping a house for the public performance of the stage play entitled, “The Money Spider," without a licence for such purpose ; and it was urged on behalf of the company that the piece had been played at eighteen music halls and only lasted twelve minutes. The company was fined £30, and it was ordered that fifteen guineas out of that sum should be paid to the prosecutor for costs. The prosecution had been undertaken by the Actors Association, and it was stated by way of explan- ation that actors were engaged by music-hall proprietors, and that when the latter broke their contracts they adopted the position of challenging the actors to enforce their rights, because they knew the agreement being illegal was unenforceable. The state of the law with regard to stage plays has for many years been denounced as unsatisfac- tory, and it is strange that no amendment has yet been made. The result has been, that the Theatres Act is openly set at defiance, and there is hardly a music-hall in London where stage plays are not performed erery night, and the proprietors are liable to heavy penalties, if anyone chooses to institute proceedings. The Theatres Act was passed long before the modern music-hall came into existence, and it is obvious that its provisions require alteration to suit the change of circum- stances and the requirements of the times. 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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 the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer. 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of members' agreements and their preservation in a fire- proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers : (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu- lars of the Society's work, can be obtained in the Prospectus. 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. 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; so do some publishers. Members can make their own deductions and act accordingly. 9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. 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 kno# 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. Avoid agreements by letter if possible. The main points which the Society has always demanded from the outset are :- from the ont (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 N 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. ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an H agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property :- I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be ------- -  ## p. 103 (#523) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 103 DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS. (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. (0.) 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 ited, and that for a novice the first obiect 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. RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the Society before putting plays into the hands of agents. As the law stands at present, an agent who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned, it may be taken as a general rule that there are only very few agents who can do anything for an author that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans- action of frequent petty authorisations with different individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable. But the Society warns authors against agents who profess to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of the law, an agent should not be employed under any circumstances without an agreement approved of by the Society. WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. TITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the assistance of producers of books and dramatic authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan- cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property. The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He should be especially careful therefore when entering into an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. 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 writerg 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. CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper D 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 begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post. All remittances should be crossed Union of London and Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered letter only.  ## p. 104 (#524) ############################################ 104 THE AUTHOR. GENERAL NOTES. THE COPYRIGHT ACT. The Copyright Bill has now passed both Houses of Parliament. It received the Royal Assent on December 16. Pension FUND. THE secretary would like to draw the attention of the members to the fact that four bankers' orders have been received in answer to the recent Pension Fund Appeal without any signature and without any mark by which the senders could be recognised. The secretary made mention of this fact under the list of additional subscriptions and donations to the society, but desires to do so again, as the matter is one of considerable importance. Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London, County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone. Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W. Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the Union of London and Smiths' Bank, Clifton, Bristol. Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the London County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W. guinea to Romeike & Curtice, Ltd., for 125 cuttings on a specified subject. By the 21st September only two cuttings had been sent, although the member was aware, from other sources, of a con. siderable number of important notices upon the subject. The member then interviewed Romeike & Curtice, Ltd., complained of the bad service, and ultimately it was agreed that half a guinea should be repaid and the number of cuttings reduced to sixty. Romeike & Curtice, Ltd., failed to repay the half guinea, the secretary got no satis- faction on applying to them, and finally the matter had to be placed in the hands of the society's solicitors. Upon their sending down a clerk, a distinct promise was made to forward the money, but nothing came. As all subsequent applications were ignored, a plaint was issued in applications were i the City of London Court, and judgment was obtained against the agency on the 23rd November. This judgment has now been satisfied. THE PENSION FUND CIRCULAR. We publish in another column the list of annual subscriptions and donations received since the beginning of October. The greater mass of these are in response to the Circular sent out the beginning of November. The Society must be congratulated on the result of that Circalar appeal On going to press £85 per annum have been added to the subscriptions and £164 19s. Od. to the donations. The long list of additional annual subscribers is most satisfactory, tending to show, as it does, the unity of the Society. The Society should be proud of the fact that the Com- mittee of the Pension Fund and the Committee of Management have looked upon the Fund, as indeed have all the members of the Society, as one raised by the Fellowship of Letters on behalf of those who are members. The fine result achieved in the 12 years the Fund has been running speaks well for the independence of the Society's action. A SATISFACTORY PUBLISHER. We have much pleasure in printing a clause which has been inserted in an agreement coming from one of the best and oldest established firms in England. Indeed we should have liked to have published the name of the firm. The clause referred to runs as follows:- “In the event of the publishers securing copyright for the work in the United States, or realising profits from the sale of serial or other rights in the United States, such profits shall, after deducting all expenses relating thereto, be placed to the credit of the author.” The attention of members has often been drawn to the fact that when agents hand over the serial rights and other minor rights to the publishers, whether in the United States or elsewhere, the publishers think themselves liberal if they pay the author 50 per cent. Even if the author was successful in placing the rights himself he would have to pay the publisher 50 per cent. The agent's charges would have to be reckoned in addition to this. If the agent is energetic enough to place these rights independently of the publisher he would charge 10 per cent., however large the figure, whereas the publisher, whose agreement is quoted, after deducting all expenses (these, we suppose, would amount to one or two letters backwards and forwards and perhaps a cablegram) credits the author with the full amount. This method of doing business cannot be sufficiently highly recommended. If it pays one publisher to do business on this basis it would pay all publishers, and we trust, therefore, to see the usual clause, which is so frequently inserted to the detriment of the author, struck out of future contracts. County COURT CASE. The following case will be of interest to authors who subscribe for Press cuttings :-On the 7th September last a member of the Society paid a  ## p. 105 (#525) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 105 THE “ Chicago DIAL." included “in his list of New Novels," clearly The Chicago Dial is one of the soundest literary leading the public to suppose that the novels reviews published the other side of the Atlantic, produced were new novels. It would be interesting and a weekly perusal of its contents will enable if such a case could be decided from the point of anyone to keep abreast of the American output, view of literary libel, but we're afraid there is no but it has, apparently, like many literary reviews, immediate prospect of there being a legal remedy. its own staff which deals with its own books and its own literary subjects. We have this placed forcibly before us by the COMMITTEE ELECTION. following letter which the editor has asked us to insert :- November 17, 1911. TN pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of SIR-It might be doing a service to English writers if 1 Association of the society, the committee give you would allow me to state through your columns that potice that the election of members of the committee the Dial does not invite MSS. from England, the character of the journal being such as to make the sending of such of management will be proceeded with in the MSS. quite useless on the part of the sender, and a needless following manner :- waste and annoyance on all sides. From the large number (1) One third of the members of the present of unavailable MSS. received from England, I am led to committee of management retire from office in think that the Dial has been announced in some English journal as inviting miscellaneous MSS. from abroad ; hence accordance with Article 17. the apparent desirability of this correction. (2) The names of the retiring members are :- Yours very truly, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, FRANCIS F. BROWNE, Editor. Mr. Arthur Rackham, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, Mr. Sidney Webb. FRENCH LAW CASES. (3) The date fixed by the committee up to which nominations by the subscribing members of candi- THE action brought by Anatole France against dates for election to the new committee may be the publisher Lemere has been settled. The made is the 10th day of February. dispute arose owing to the publisher desiring to (4) Mr. Sidney Webb not seeking re-election, publish now for the first time an MS. written the committee nominate the following candidates, thirty years ago. The dispute, we understand, being subscribing members of the society, to fill has been settled by the publisher undertaking to the vacancies caused by the retirement of one third make a clear statement of the date of the com- of the committee, according to the constitution :- position, and that it is published now against the Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, wishes of the author. Mr. Hesketh Pritchard, This case is a most interesting one for authors, Mr. Arthur Rackham, and it is a pity it has not been decided in the Dr. S. Squire Sprigge. French Courts in order that authors all over the The committee remind the members that, under world might see how the French law dealt with article 19 of the amended Articles of Association the subject. We must state, with regret, that it “any two subscribing members of the society may not infrequently happens that publishers take up nominate one or more subscribing members other the early publications of a famous author, either than themselves, not exceeding the number of purchasing or holding the copyright themselves, vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent and produce the work without the author's sanction to the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed and, in many cases, opposed to the author's wishes. by the candidate or candidates expressing willingness They make no statement that it is a new publica- to accept the duties of the post. tion by the author, but then, on the other hand, The complete list of candidates will be printed 10 statement that it is a republication in the March issue of The Author. of an early immature work. In the cases which the society has been able to investigate it was found that the only remedy in the author's hands THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE. was to make an explanation in letters to the papers, but this is unsatisfactory, as, after all, these letters only reach a limited public, and if TN order to give members of the society, should the author is a popular author, not half of his I they desire to appoint a fresh member to the circle of readers is made aware of what has taken Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has been place. In one case the publisher went so near the the custom to place in The Author a complete state- line as to state that the work of Mr. “ — " was ment of the method of election under the scheme for  ## p. 106 (#526) ############################################ 106 THE AUTHOR. administration of the Pension Fund. Under that Askwith, who accompanied the late Sir Henry scheme the committee is composed of three Bergne to the Berlin Conference, and who after members elected by the committee of the society, his sad death there took charge of his duties in three members elected by the society at the general connection with the contemplated reform of the meeting, and the chairman of the society for the British Law of Copyright, and Sir Hubert Llewellyn time being, ex officio. The three members elected Smith, Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade, at the general meeting when the fund was first were also present, the gathering of members and started were Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mr. Morley Roberts, their friends being an exceptionally large one. and Mr. M. H. Spielmann. These have in turn The following ladies and gentlemen presided at during the past years resigned, and submitting their the various tables :-Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, names for re-election, have been re-elected. This Mr. Robert Ross, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mr. W. W. year Mr. Morley Roberts retires under the scheme, Jacobs, Mrs. Humphreys (Rita), and Mr. G. H. but as he does not submit his name for re-elec- Thring (Secretary). Those not already mentioned, tion, the committee have nominated as a candi- who had seats allotted to them at the High Table date for the vacancy Mr. Owen Seaman. included, Lady Falmouth, Mr. R. J. Godlee (Presi- The members have, however, power to put dent of the Royal College of Surgeons), Mrs. forward other names under clause 9, which runs as Humphry Ward, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, follows:- Mr. Theodore Cook, Professor Adam Sedgwick, "Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com- Sir Alfred Bateman, Mrs. Frank Elliott, Sir mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring Frederick Macmillan, Sir James and Lady Yoxall, member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle, the Reverend to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general E. S. Roberts (Master of Caius College), Mr. meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by Anthony Hope Hawkins, Mrs. Squire Sprigge, at least three members of the society. A list of the names Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Comyns Carr, Sir Frederic of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members Hewitt, Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Miss May Sinclair, of the society, with the annual report of the managing and Mr. Ezra Pound. committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the At the conclusion of dinner, and after the usual Pension Fund Committee." loyal toasts had been proposed by the Chairman In case any member should desire to refer to the and received with enthusiasm, Mr. J. W. Comyns list of members, the list taking the elections up to Carr rose to propose the toast of “the Copyright the end of July, 1907, was published in October of that year. This list was complete at the date of Mr. Comyns Carr said :Mr. Chairman, Ladies issue, with the exception of the thirty-eight mem- and Gentlemen,-I should account it in any cir- bers referred to in the short preface. All subse- cumstances an honour to be permitted to address so quent elections have been duly chronicled in The distinguished a company. But to-night the honour Author. is great indeed, for we are met to give welcome and It will be as well, therefore, should any member acceptance to the largest instalment of justice that desire to put forward a candidate, to take the has ever been conferred on Literature by the Parlia- matter within their immediate consideration. The ment of England. In the accomplishment of this general meeting of the society is usually held in result the Society of Authors has taken its full March. It is essential that all nominations should share of labour and responsibility, and I am there- be in the hands of the secretary before the 31st of fore justly proud to stand forward as their spokes- January, 1912. man in respect of the toast which I shall offer for your acceptance. I have spoken of this Bill as an instalment, THE DINNER. because I am not here to admit that even the great concessions we have obtained exhaust the legitimate demands and aspirations of the authors of M HE annual dinner of the Society was held this country. It is very possible, I think, that in I at the Criterion Restaurant on Friday, the future Literature, like Oliver Twist, may be December 8. Held earlier in the season found asking for more, possible also that, as the than has usually been the case, the dinner marked public conscience on this subject develops, more will the passing of the Copyright Bill through Parlia- be granted. ment, and the President of the Board of Trade Speaking for myself, I may frankly avow my (The Rt. Honble. Sydney Buxton), who had charge belief in perpetual copyright as the goal at which of it in the House of Commons, occupied a seat at we should aim, and if this were the time and place, I the right hand of the Chairman, Dr. S. Squire think it could be argued and could be proved that Sprigge, as the guest of the evening. Sir George the institution of perpetual copyright under proper  ## p. 107 (#527) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 107 state control would not only prove of advantage to authors, but also and no less to the vast community which demands reasonable access to the master- pieces of literature. To many, I am well aware, this idea of mine will seem a vain dream, but let it be remembered that the dreams of to-day often take shape and substance among the realities of to-morrow, for as Shelley truly said, poets who are the great dreamers are the acknowledged legislators of the world. But a dream, even as far-reaching as this, is often no mere forecast of the future, but a remembered vision of what the past once owned and the present has allowed to lapse, and this I make bold to say is emphatically the case in regard to an author's property in the fruits of his labours. For almost from the invention of printing to the advent of the detestable statute of Queen Anne—the first and the worst of the enactments concerning our calling,-an author enjoyed in principle and in practice that perpetual copyright in his writing, which at some future day he may recapture. But the effect of the statute of Anne, with its grudging concession of fourteen years from the date of publication, and a further fourteen years if the author had the courage to survive the first period, was to throw back the whole conception of literary property into a condition of comparative barbarism. The root idea that an author has any title to the rewards to be derived from the creations of his own brain came to be regarded with more than suspicion, and so far did this feeling develop that in 1774, in a judgment which swept away the last remnant of an author's rights at Common Law, Lord Camden declared :- “That it was not for gain that Bacon, Newton, Milton, and their like instructed the world. It would be unworthy of such men to traffic with a dirty bookseller for so much a sheet of letterpress. When the bookseller offered Milton £5 for • Paradise Lost'he did not reject it, nor accept that miserable pittance as the reward of his labour. He knew that the real price of his work was immortality, and that posterity would pay it." In this connection he would only recall the caustic remark of Thomas Hood that “the author, apparently, is required to provide for everybody's posterity but his own." And further, and with equal point, he added, “cheap bread is as desirable as cheap books, but it has not yet been thought necessary to ordain that after a certain number of crops all cornfields ought to be public property.” The spirit which animated Lord Camden's words is not obsolete. It has cropped up during the recent debates in the House of Commons on the Copyright Bill, but I have often noticed that the philanthropists are never so eager as when they are disposing of other people's property. But now, continued Mr. Carr, the Copyright Bill was passed. The provisions of that Bill were an enormous advance upon anything which Parliament had hitherto conferred upon literature. In order to realise what had been gained he would like to try and illustrate what that advance was by reference to two names, but two of the mightiest that had adorned English letters during the last 150 years. Sir Walter Scott needed no eulogy from him. Beyond all men of his own or previous generations Scott won the favour of the world, but everyone knew how the later years of his life were broken and embittered by the calamity brought about by his confiding belief in the stability and integrity of his friends, and how he thereby incurred a pro- digious debt which not even his great income was adequate to meet. Scott set himself the task of paying off this debt. He did not live to achieve it. Writing in his diary in the year 1827, he says, “I see before me a long, tedious and dark path, but it leads to stainless reputation. If I die in the harrows, as is very likely, I shall die with honour : if I achieve my task I shall have the thanks of all concerned and the approbation of my own conscience.” What a weight would have been lifted off that mighty brow if the Bill which they were met to celebrate had been in force in Scott's time ! He would have been able to face death with a full confidence that the debt which he had incurred would be paid off, because not only his latter works, but those which had first brought him immortality- his poems, and “ Waverley," would still have been in copyright, and would have brought in a fund sufficient to have met his stupendous debt. Continuing, Mr. Comyns Carr said : I will make only one more reference. Within the last four days a powerful appeal has been put forward on behalf of a magician surely not less in rank than Walter Scott himself. For if Scott threw a mantle of romance over the hills and ralleys of his native land, a spell of enchantment has been thrown by Charles Dickens over the dark alleys and narrow streets of our great city of London. To such an extent, indeed, that pilgrims from the other side of the Atlantic come to visit, not the capital of England, but the London of Charles Dickens. I can speak with knowledge that that appeal is urgent, and that that appeal is just. That it should have to be made stamps with shame the laws concerning literary property under which until now we have lived. For if this Bill which we are asked to celebrate to-night had been in existence when Dickens lived there is not one of his works, from the “Pickwick Papers” of 1837 down to the fragment of “ Edwin Drood” in 1870, which would not still be in copyright, and out of which there would already  ## p. 108 (#528) ############################################ 108 THE AUTHOR. have been derived a sum amply sufficient to have the public. Some appeared to believe that all provided for those grandchildren of his, on whose authors were geniuses, and others, equally errone- behalf this appeal is made. ously, believed that the only equipment necessary Charles Dickens rarely allowed himself to make for authorship consisted of a stylographic pen and his romances the medium of any personal protest, a few sheets of foolscap. but there is one exception in the earlier chapters of The committee, having the best intentions, “ Nicholas Nickleby," where he vehemently inveighs desired to arrive at a satisfactory solution on the against those pirates who before the author's novel basis of give and take, some being willing to do all was completed in its monthly parts, set a garbled the taking if the others would do all the giving. version of it upon the stage. There was generally a well-disposed feeling towards Let us then count our gains. We gain an added authors, although some thought that they ought to term of copyright; we count our gains in the be protected against themselves as well as against protection accorded to the novelist in regard to his publishers, and the feeling towards publishers dramatic rights; we count our gains in a hundred did not seem to be as tender as towards authors. different ways. Our gains are enormous, and I Many regarded publishers as hard, stern persons venture to make this prophecy, that if the Copy- who had the authors in their grip. On more than right Act of 1842 has come to us labelled as one occasion he himself had pointed out that “ Macaulay's Act”—not always to his credit—the publishers were not quite as black as they were Act which will soon receive the Royal Assent will painted. The committee had been, if not between go down to posterity as “ Buxton's Act." the devil and the deep sea, at any rate between I am asked to couple with this toast the name of Scylla and Charybdis, and more than once their the President of the Board of Trade. I do so barque had rubbed against the rocks and been in gladly, and with some knowledge of what he under- imminent danger of foundering. Finally, how- took in conducting this Bill to its successful con- ever, they had passed a measure which he believed clusion. I, with others, including my friend Sir would give general satisfaction and protect both Frederick Macmillan, to whom, as well as to the authors and publishers. In the course of a few Society of Authors, the interests of literature owe days the Bill would become an Act and, they would much, watched its progress through the House of agree, not before it was wanted. Anyone who bad Commons, and I know they will not contradict my studied the copyright laws knew how full the testimony when I say that the zeal, the patience, twenty-two Acts passed since 1735 were of com- and the courage with which Mr. Sidney Buxtonplexities, anomalies and anachronisms. In such conducted this Act to its triumph imposes upon us matters they had to seize the psychological moment a lasting debt of gratitude to him. Nor must I when time, opportunity, and driving force were forget the splendid help given in Grand Committee theirs. These requisites existed in the Berlin by Sir John Simon, and to the happy efforts in Convention, the Imperial Conference, and the other directions of Sir George Askwith and Sir necessity for domestic reforms. He was rather Hubert Llewellyn Smith. I give you the toast of proud of the fact that this would be an amending “ The Copyright Bill.” and consolidating Act which repealed no less than The toast was accorded full honours. eighteen other Acts of Parliament, and the greater Mr. Sidney Buxton, in responding, referred to part of four more, and which itself consisted of himself as having but steered the boat while others only twenty-seven clauses. They were all agreed pulled the labouring oar, and associated with the that authors ought to enjoy the legitimate fruits of task of remodelling the law of copyright the names their brains. Mr. Comyns Carr had said that he of Sir Henry Bergne, Sir George Askwith, Sir was in favour of perpetual copyright, a view shared Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Sir John Simon and others. with him as nations by the republics of Nicaragua They had painted the picture, he had not done very and Guatemala. In this country the desire had much more than make the frame; he referred his been to get reasonable control, and the period of hearers to Charles Keene's drawing in Punch of the fifty years after death was taken in order to bring frame-maker visiting the Royal Academy with his England into line as far as possible with other great wife and exclaiming, as they stood before the countries. But no one would support the claim picture of the year, “On the line again! Maria ! for such a period if he believed it to be injurious to on the line again!” The task of introducing and the public or likely to put a stumbling-block in the of passing the Bill had been a difficult one, way of cheap and easily accessible literature. The requiring delicate handling. Among the seventy or more opportunity he had had of studying the eighty members who considered the measure in question the more he had come to the conclusion Grand Committee, it seemed to him, were some that copyright, far from preventing the production who were over-zealous on behalf of authors and and cheapening of books, gave a stimulus to their publishers, and some over-strenuous on behalf of production. In his opinion the cheapening and  ## p. 109 (#529) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 109 wide circulation of books in recent years had not might not require its services, still any author's day come about in spite of, but in consequence of, of trial might come. Then he would turn to the copyright. Some people thought the extension of society, and then, regardless of all business princi- the term of copyright was all that was gained by ples, the society would help him, because it was the Bill, but there were other advantages. For the society's business to maintain the rights of example, in the case of a play the farce of a copy. literary property. But it must be noted that this right performance was done away with, and action was hopelessly unbusinesslike though forced summary remedies for the infringement of copy- upon the society by its ideals. The subscription right were given. Copyright would now date from was a guinea, or a life subscription was ten guineas. death and not from publication, which would If a large proportion of writers joined only when enable authors to produce their complete works, in trouble, the society had to spend upon them, protecting them from piracy of their earlier ones. perhaps, the subscriptions of five years before their Mr. Comyns Carr had referred to the Bill as an contributions began to help the needs of other instalment. No doubt they were all as he sug- members. If any such resigned before the five gested, Oliver Twists looking to the future for years expired, the society would actually lose by more, but copyright was not an easy subject to deal them. He earnestly begged members to stay by with. On the contrary it was a very worrying the society for the good of every one for their subject, and as far as he was concerned he was own good ; for they never could tell when they content to leave it where it was—he did not propose might want the society's advice for the good of to revive the corpse. their colleagues, who could be more effectively helped, The Chairman (Dr. Squire Sprigge) referred to if the society were not compelled to spend its in- the custom of the society, that the chairman of the creasing income upon its increasing needs. Was committee for the year should, at the dinner, the there any character in novels more popular than the society's only social gathering, speak to the collective “strong silent man" or the “strong silent woman"? aims of its members, their doings and their hopes The society wanted the “strong silent member," and for the future. His responsibility in doing this lots of them, those who paid their guineas partly as was lightened by the fact that the annual report was insurance, and partly recognising that the society already drafted and would soon be laid before the must, espouse the cause of many who came to it in society with the authoritative weight of the Com- the first instance in trouble. Let members who mittee. The story to be told was one of progress knew of any who had strayed from the society's all along the line, of increased membership, of fold shepherd them back-let them impress upon increased income, of accretion to the Pension Fund, such to join again. Small as the losses might be and of success in legal transactions. The inter- compared with the gains, they were always a source vention of the society in a legislative matter of the of regret, and if any sort of common reason for first importance to all writers had been testified to resignations could only be arrived at, it could be by the President of the Board of Trade. He removed. (the Chairman) attributed a great share of this He gave the toast of the Society of Authors with success to the work of Mr. Thring, who had never the sincere hope and veritable belief that its pro- allowed the increase of his duties involved by the gress would be maintained. Its main object, the Copyright Bill to interfere with his performance of defence of literary property, had been steadily his regular work as Secretary of the society. followed for a quarter of a century, and the value Tarning, however, to a matter upon which he of its work had been enhanced by full recognition desired to express himself personally, he called of the justice of its principles. It was no longer attention to a serious drawback which ought to described by the quidnuncs as a ring to fight be remedied. The leakage from the ranks of the the publishers—the injustice of such a description society was too great. Every year a certain was proved by the presence of Sir Frederick number of resignations fell as cold douches upon Macmillan, chairman of the Publishers' Association, the ardour of the society's progress. They did not and by study of the reports of the past twenty stop progress, but they impeded it, and he called years. The society did not exist to bolster up upon those present to help to deal with the matter. incompetence, as had been urged against it. It It was the rarest thing for anyone to give a reason had often to espouse the cause of the weak, but for leaving the society, and he was driven to think it did so, harsh as it might sound, not because that resignations must be caused by lack of apprecia. an author was weak, but because the rights of tion of the nature of corporate spirit, and of the weak and the rights of the strong had the comprehension of the principles of insurance. It same basis, though not the same chances of should be remembered that to some extent the busi- establishing themselves. ness of the society must be on insurance lines, and Mr. Robert Ross, in proposing the health of the that although from year to year any given author Chairman, said that if he were to try to vivisect  ## p. 110 (#530) ############################################ 110 THE AUTHOR. Dr. Sprigge, the editor of the Lancet, the society - some life to the views that he adopts, and should another society--would interfere, and moreover it revivify the dead bodies of the past. The historian would require the art of Mrs. Humphry Ward or who is merely a balancer of opinions and methods Mr. Henry James to do so. He would not there- and a chronicler of dry facts is, from our point of fore dwell upon the distinction with which Dr. view, useless ; from a child's point of view, he is Sprigge directed the fortunes of the leading scientific worse than useless." paper of the world, because those present knew how I shall not attempt to discuss with The Author's well he fulfilled the duty of presiding over a society reviewer in what manner children, in particular, of literary men and women. Metaphor prohibited should be taught history. The Platonic Socrates, him from saying that the wielder of a lancet it is true, although he admitted that it is the touched nothing that he did not adorn, and he practice to“ begin by telling children stories which, would boldly admit that the wielder of a lancet if not wholly destitute of truth, are in the main touched nothing without taking something away. fictitious," contended that we ought not to“ permit The Chairman would take away that evening the children to receive into their minds notions the good-will and gratitude of the Authors' Society, an very opposite of those which are to be held by them operation painlessly performed without the aid of when they grow up" (Republic, 377). This postu- any anæsthetic even in the form of an after-dinner late of Socrates might well be allowed to apply to speech. Only the committee, perhaps, knew the the teaching of history to children nowadays. value of Dr. Sprigge's services to the society over a But I am not intending any criticism of the period of twenty-one years. He was Mr. Thring's book which Messrs. Fletcher and Kipling have predecessor, but his enthusiasm and energy on collaborated to produce. It is with a statement of behalf of the society did not cease in the interval the reviewer that I am concerned, not with the between his retirement from the post of secretary subject of his review ; the statement, namely, that and his election as chairman. The so-called leisure “surely the soundest view is that the historian moments of an unselfish career he had given to the should be a partisan." This dictum must not be society's service. All did not perhaps realise that suffered to pass without protest. Of course, very Dr. Sprigge might have trod the path of mere much depends upon the meaning attached to the literature, that path by which you shift your word “partisan.” If it is to be interpreted as manuscript on a publisher, your health on a nothing worse than the opposite of “ merely a physician, and your grievances on the Authors' balancer of opinions and methods and a chronicler Society. He thought there was a hint of the Chair- of dry facts," then cadit quæstio. But such an man's real tastes in the last number of the Cornhill interpretation is not natural, and I do not imagine Magazine, in the delightful volumes of stories “Odd that it was in the mind of The Author's reviewer. Issues” and the “ Industrious Chevalier” rather “The New English Dictionary," I see, in its defini. than in those blood-curdling volumes “Medicine tion of Partisan, suggests “ One who takes part or and the Public” and “ The Methods of Publish- sides with another ... often in an unfavourable ing." Dr. Sprigge suppressed his love of fiction sense : One who supports his party through thick in literature in order to study the fiction of and thin'; a blind, prejudiced, unreasoning or publishers' accounts, and to insist upon the rights fanatical adherent." of the society's members. The Chairman was his I will not assume that the reviewer meant that (Mr. Ross's) nephew, but immune from the sus- the historian should be “a blind, prejudiced, un- picion of nepotism, he asked the society to drink reasoning or fanatical adherent ” ; but it will the health of Dr. Sprigge. probably be doing him no injustice to suppose that After the toast had been honoured with cheers, he admires a " thick and thin ” supporter, one who those present rose and proceeded to the adjoining is for “my country, my cause, or my hero, right or room, where the usual conversazione took place. (not ridiculously) wrong." This may be taken as the ideal attitude of the partisan. Is it the ideal attitude of the historian ? Doubtless it is a very THE SOUNDEST VIEW OF HISTORY. common attitude, adopted by historical writers whose names are household words; to take two great modern instances, Mommsen and Macaulay- TN the November issue of The Author, in the both of them, it may be noted in passing, made to 1 course of a notice of the new “History of serve as text-books for the English schoolboy. England," by Messrs. Fletcher and Kipling, In considering the above-mentioned attitude, we there occur the following sentences :- are bound to ask, What are the requisites of a good “There are many views taken about the writing history ? Certainly we must admit that one is to of history, but surely the soundest view is that the “ give some life to the views [the historian] adopts, historian should be a partisan, that he should give and revivify the dead bodies of the past. A dull  ## p. 111 (#531) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 111 history cannot be more than a text-book ; and a I cannot resist quoting the opening paragraph simple text-book is not literature, which history of the first chapter of “The New · Examen,” should be. But to accomplish this life-giving which originally appeared in serial form in Black- work, is it necessary for the author to be a partisan ? wood's Magazine for June, 1859 :- Is a fair mind a bar-I will not say to successful, " The peculiar charm of Lord Macaulay's writings (says but-to good historical writing ? Paget] arises from the fact that his vivid imagination The historian, it will be granted, must be “a enables him to live for the time amongst those whose balancer of opinions and methods” and “a chronicler portraits he paints. The persons of his drama are not cold abstractions summoned up from the past to receive of facts,” though not "a mere balancer," etc., or judgment for deeds done in the flesh; they are living men “a chronicler of dry facts” only. Well, having and women--beings to be loved or hated, feared or despised, the opinions, methods, facts of his period before with all the fervency which belongs to Lord Macaulay's him, must the historian then proceed to use them character. The attention of the reader is excited, his sympathies are awakened, his passions are aroused ; he in a partisan spirit ? Must he distort, mutilate, devours page after page and volume after volume with an select, and suppress ? I take it that if he does appetite similar to that which attends upon a perusal of not he is a poor partisan. But I hold that if he the most stirring fiction ; he closes the book with regret, does he is a poor historian Lam well arrare that and then, and not till then, comes the reflection that he has been listening to the impassioned barangue of the Macaulay distorts, mutilates, selects, and suppresses, and suppresses, advocate, not to the calm summing-up of the judge. It and that he is generally accounted a great historian. would be well if this were the worst. We are reluctantly The truth is that he is the most dangerous of all convinced that Lord Macaulay sometimes exceeds even the historical writers, and his - History of England” privileges of the advocate ; that when he arraigns a culprit before the tribunal of public opinion, and showers down a most improper text-book, seeing that it is the upon him that terrible invective of which he is so accom. scholastic custom to administer the bane without plished a master, evidence occasionally meets with a treat- the antidote." ment at his hands from which the least scrupulous prac- I do not suppose that many people at the present titioner at the bar would shrink. Documents are sup- day look at a work entitled “The New ' Examen': pressed, dates transposed, witnesses of the most infamous character are paraded as pure and unimpeachable, and or an Inquiry into the Evidence relating to certain even forgotten and anonymous slanders, of the foulest Passages in Lord Macaulay's History," by John description, are revived and cast on the unhappy object Paget, barrister-at-law (Blackwood, 1861). This of the historian's wrath. is a pity, for the book is both able and entertaining, Could we ask for a better portrait of the partisan and I wish that someone could have put it in my historian ? hands in my Macaulay-ridden schooldays. Mr. Macaulay himself, it may be remarked, recognised Paget-after having stated in his preface (a dedi- the evil of partisanship in other historians. Of catory letter to Sir John MNeill) that he was Bishop Burnet, although he maintains that he originally one of those who had placed an implicit was a far indeed from being the most inexact reliance in Lord Macaulay's representations and writer of his time,” he says that he “ viewed every had permitted himself to be carried away by the act and every character through a medium dis- eloquent torrent of his declamation, and that it torted and coloured by party spirit.” This was was not without many a struggle that he found the man of whom the exiled Queen Mary, wife of himself compelled, by a dry examination of facts, James II., told Baron Lansdowne that “the King to surrender the illusion by which he had been [Charles) and the Duke, and the whole Court, enthralled-proceeds to a very satisfactory demoli. looked upon him as the greatest liar on the face tion of Macaulay's partisan views on certain of the earth, and there was no believing one word characters and incidents in our history. A that he said.” The statement is rather strong; but defender, like Paget, of Marlborough, Claverhouse, Burnet is sipgularly unscrupulous in his treatment Penn, and of the Scottish nation in the seven- of the men and affairs of his day teenth century may perhaps himself be called a It will not be denied, even by the most ardent partisan of sorts. But Macaulay's castigator is admirer of picturesque historians, that it is a duty justified in boasting, at the end of his dedication : of history to get down to the facts, whererer dis- “I can, at any rate, say that I have pursued [my] coverable. Sometimes the process involves a great inquiry honestly, and that I have furnished every amount of patience, and much labour for small means of testing my accuracy”—a good hit at results; but the patience, the labour must be forth- Macaulay, who is notoriously loose in his references. coming. When the facts have been ascertained, * I am afraid that I do not know whether such a state- the historian is at liberty to express his views upon ment will cause more of the doctors to cry “Heresy" and them, to suggest interpretations of his documents, rend their academic garments, or to demand pityingly to make his period picturesque. But he is not at what is the good of flogging a dead horse. Of the most liberty to twist his facts to tally with his views. recent historians of the Stuart period some still follow Macaulay almost implicitly, others treat him as the sign. to insert his interpretation into the body of his post that points to the wrong road.. documents, to substitute his idea of the proper  ## p. 112 (#532) ############################################ 112 THE AUTHOR. II. picture for the reality of the period. He may, even must, to a certain extent, combine the functions of December 8, 1911. judge and advocate. But he must not be a Judge SIR, -It would be unjust both to Mr. G. B. Shaw Jeffreys. He must have throughout a perfect and to the members of the Society who provide him regard for truth. For the historian there are no with his latest platform to allow the remarkable varying standards of truth. Truth is universal, discoveries which he announced in your last issue from Lhassa to London, from Birmingham toto pass without comment. ... The opinion of so Benin-if I may borrow a trope from Macaulay. great an author as Mr. Shaw is worth, to the And your partisan does not tell the truth. “ lesser lights," who are, presumably, the mass of PHILIP W. SERGEANT. the members of the Society, many more "raps than he administers to the parasitic agent. ... True, it proves that Mr. Shaw would make a very bad agent ; but that is what we should expect of so CORRESPONDENCE. very good (and great) an author. Now, perpend and observe : “... The root of the whole matter" is that “ The CRUX OF THE AGENT QUESTION” “ there are two ways of making profit by selling. One is to sell a single article every hour . . . at a profit of 100 per cent. The other is to sell 100 of the same articles every hour to 100 eager customers SIR, I am afraid it would be a sign of a at a profit of 24 per cent. on each. . . ." We dull and prosaic mind to criticise Mr. Shaw's need not point out that there are other ways of characteristic and delightful demonstration that a a “making profit by selling." ... literary agent's path to success and wealth lies in The interest of the theory lies not in Mr. Shaw's a complete and deliberate failure to perform the proof that he is utterly incapable of agenting for function for which he is mainly engaged—the anyone but himself, but in his view of the needs obtaining of good prices. Let us rather agree of the “ lesser lights.” The gravamen of his that it pays an agent better to make bad bargains charge is that the agent will not “ spend the day for twenty clients than good ones for five; that fighting one or two books up to a 25 per cent. it pays a lawyer better to lose cases for twenty wenty royalty," so long as he can get along with routine clients than to win cases for five; that it pays a transactions. The Superman, in fact, is being doctor better to kill twenty patients without neglected for the sake of the mere Man. But does trouble than laboriously to save five. Why not the Authors' Society exist for the benefit of Men or agree? It may all be quite true, and demonstrable of Super-men. if such a distinction is to be by all the arithmetic at Mr. Shaw's disposal ; and drown's it is at any rate quite an entertaining idea. It The wicked agent falls from depth to depth till, works, in fact, perfectly, subject to the trifling « finally, he settles down into an agent whose real assumption that when the agent, or lawyer, or of business is to procure books for publishers, articles business doctor, “ hurries off to get another dozen books " for editors, and plays for managers," and who, or law-suits, or medical cases—he will find them. horribile dictu, “ being able to push any author An assumption, because if it is that extra 5 or 10 whom he may have reason to favour, naturally per cent. that “costs time and trouble,” it is sells his power.” the hope of that same extra 5 or 10 per cent. We are reluctant to remove a foundation-brick that brings authors to the agent's door. from so gorgeous an imaginative structure ; but A great author's opinion on agents and publishers shers when Mr. Shaw cites us in support of this decorative is not worth a rap to lesser lights, says Mr. Shaw. detail, a last spasm of truthfulness forces us to I am sure that most of us consider Mr. Shaw a confess that neither we nor any other agent great author, and are far from thinking his possesses such a magic key, nor in our wildest opinion on any subject not worth a rap. But dreams could we hare soared to such an ambition. here it does seem as if his ingenuity had outrun The fact is, of course, that throughout his enter- his commonsense. I think Mr. Gamage would taining speculation, whether he is calculating tell him that it pays to give your customer what prices or weighing influences, Mr. Shaw omits to your customer pays you to give him. take account of the chief factor, which is the Yours etc., inherent value of the commodity. . . . If he knows Ex-MEMBER OF COMMITTEE. the market and understands the most various qualities of goods, the agent can usually make terms sufficiently above those the author would make to pay his own commission, and leave a  ## p. 113 (#533) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 113 more or less substantial margin of benefit. That placing the work or not, the author must stand by is all he claims. his bargain, and if he is such a fool he deserves to “But now, mark.” There is an old rule for pay the penalty. But in the absence of such special economists in distress-play the Wage Fund theory agreement, when the agent returns the MS. to the And, sure enough, here is the Shavian version, author as unsaleable, the contract, at least so far as “ No agent can push a man into a job without that MS. is concerned, is at an end, and the agent pushing another man out of it.” He advances has no claim for a commission if the author after- Mr. Blank, at the expense of Mr. Dash, while wards succeeds himself in placing it. It might be “poor Mr. Ignotus is never mentioned at all.” otherwise if a publisher to whom the agent had The sad picture seems to contradict the original submitted the MS. and by whom it had been theory, which was that the agent will do justice to rejected afterwards came to terms directly with the a hundred routine cases, but not to the exceptional author. If an agent returns an MS. to the author, Mr. Blank whom we have called the Super-man. the act is an admission of his inability to place it, Let that pass. Is there anything in this proposi- and any subsequent claim for commission would be tion that there are only a limited number of affected by that admission. There are publishers “jobs”? If so, every author is the enemy of and editors who will not deal with the agent at all, every other ; every book is the rival of every other and even in ordinary business dealings many persons book; the Authors' Society has no economic basis, object to conduct their negotiations through an but is trying to take unlimited rises out of a limited agent. So, according to Mr. Shaw, we may have fund of publishing capital. .... an agent successfully claiming a commission on We are tempted to go further—to invite you to work sold by the author directly to a publisher or constitute a roll of agents from which proved mis- editor who would not deal with the agent. It is demeanants could be struck off (but this would more than probable that such a claim would not be imply a withdrawal of your original advice); to sustained. In agency the value of the introduction thank Mr. Shaw for his large categories of " cases is an important consideration. If A. wanting to where agents are useful, and even indispensable”; rent a house goes to B. an agent, and is by him to emphasise again the merits of that “routine introduced to C., who has a house to sell, and C. business ” which Mr. Shaw naturally scorns, but refuses to let, the contract is at an end. But if by which most of your readers must live ; and to subsequently A. consents to purchase the house, B. vindicate Besant and the other founders who is of course entitled to his commission, although A. “encouraged agents,” in no exploiting spirit, but and C. conclude the business independently of him. because they knew the facts of literary business. Much more could be written on this subject, but Enough said, however ; and we are, the point is that no author should sign an agree- Faithfully yours, ment to pay the agent any commission unless (Signed) G. H. PERRIS, business results through his agency, nor should he C. F. CAZENOVE. pay the agent any commission in the case cited by [The dotted lines represent the fact that on Mr. Shaw, when the MS. has been returned to the account of limited space, and with the consent of author through the inability of the agent to place the writers, the Editor has had to delete portions it. It would be interesting if any of your readers of this letter.] could mention a case in which such a claim was successfully maintained. Faithfully yours, H. A. Hinkson. SIR,—Mr. G. B. Shaw, in his otherwise admirable article on Commission Agency in MSS., makes one statement which is scarcely accurate, at least with SIR, -As an author who had twenty years' out qualification. He writes : “But when he (the experience of literary agents before I became an agent) can force you to do the same ( pay a com- agent myself, perhaps I may be permitted to con- mission) in the case of a work which he has failed tribute to this interesting discussion. It is chiefly to place, and which you yourself have succeeded as an author that I would like to speak. I in placing long after you have abandoned him, even employed three different agents at different periods the most enthusiastic agent fancier will admit that during those twenty years, and I heard talk about the law leans a little too much to the agent's side.” other agents who acted for my friends. Honestly, I have seen many unconscionable contracts, but I found these three agents helpful, especially none quite as bad as that suggested by Mr. Shaw, because I rarely came to London in those days. Of course, if the author has agreed with the agent They saved me time, and the cost of stationery to pay him his commission whether he succeed in and stamps, and relieved me from the irksome III. IV.  ## p. 114 (#534) ############################################ 114 THE AUTHOR. business of waiting in publishers' ante-rooms, AGENTS, LITERARY AND DRAMATIC. while the publishers interviewed authors who were more popular than myself. What is more to the 1. point, these agents placed books, short stories, and SIR,—You have done good service in admitting articles for me, and I am quite convinced that in to your columns the trenchant and telling article several cases they obtained higher prices than I on “ Authors' Agents," which appeared in your on Authors' could have obtained unaided. If I ever return to issue for October. Your contributor is absolutely the mountains of Wales, or to Dartmoor, to write justified alike in his strictures, his warnings and books, I shall entrust all my business to one of his counsel, What are agents for ? these useful persons. They are supposed, mostly on their own statements, to be Mr. George Bernard Shaw declares that an especially useful in obtaining openings for serials author who cannot conduct his own commercial and pushing the interests of authors with editors. affairs is a “nincompoop.” Now, to "run" But are they really useful ? Let me speak from oneself successfully as an artist in a very com- my own experience. Though all my later norels mercial age and in an inartistic country like our have appeared in good periodicals at good prices, own, it is necessary to be equipped with some of not one of them has been placed by an agent. And the qualities of the bagman, the instinct for it was after exasperating experience of agents and publicity of the press agent kind, a fluent tongue, their ways that I took matters into my own hands. and a very close knowledge of the market. If an Since then satisfactory serial arrangements have author lacks these essentials—if he is modest about been made for every one of my novels. In dealing his work, self-critical, and diffident in conservation with publishers the agent is not and never was in with men of business-he may still be free from the the least necessary. The truth is that if authors stupidity to which Mr. Bernard Shaw refers. One as a class were not the least business-like people in of our most eminent living novelists remarked to the world, the agent simply would not exist as he me : “I place all business matters in the hands of is to-day. Yet we pay him 10 per cent. A solicitor my agent. I have neither the time nor the in- or house agent will manage property, buy and sell clination to contend with the publisher about half- pennies.” I know several authors who hawk their houses, collect rents and so forth, for a commission of 2 per cent. And his work is more arduous, * copy” up and down Fleet Street, take up the more onerous, and requires qualifications that are time of busy editors by discussing unfruitful conspicuously lacking in the literary agent. “ ideas” for articles, and spend much energy Is it not high time that authors combined to put an in the wrong direction. An agent would save them end to the extortion of a 10 per cent. commission ? from this misdirected energy. I suggest that the Authors' Society take the matter As some of your correspondents have thrown up, and that a conference be held to consider the down a challenge to literary agents to justify their whole question of authors and their commission. calling, and to prove that they are able to help the Yours truly, literary novice, perhaps you will allow me to say NOVELIST. that the firm which I represent have materially assisted a number of young authors during the past three years. These authors are quite willing II. to confirm my statement to any inquirers. When our economic reformers succeed in revolu- DEAR SIR, - Feeling, as I do, that the agent tionising the methods of commerce, the literary question is one of deep interest and importance agent will no longer be needed. Until then, the to authors, it has occurred to me that perhaps a shrewd intermediary between the creator and the few facts and figures may be worth consideration. seller of literature has a perfectly reasonable I had published one book and was making a little justification for his existence as a middleman. over £200 a year when I first went to an agent. Regarding the alleged cases of dishonesty on the I was with that agent over two years. His efforts part of the agents, the way is plain for authors. on my behalf resulted as follows :-He“ placed ” Let them demand that the agent shall obtain his one long novel at an advance on royalties of £20 commission from the publisher, and that the pub- in America, but offset this success by an arrange- lisher shall pay the royalties direct to the author, ment with an English publisher under which the less the commission. payment of royalties was to be postponed until The unscrupulous conduct is not always on the the book obtained a certain sale. He placed the part of the agent. serial rights (80,000 words) for £30 in America, Yours faithfully, in England he failed to “market " them. WALTER M. GALLICHAN, When I went to this agent I had a good-even an "GALLICHAN & GASQUOINE.” excellent connection with two magazines. During  ## p. 115 (#535) ############################################ THE AUTHOR. 115 IRPLAY. the two years previous to enrolling myself under When an agent is useful use him, but—in order the agent's flag I had received from one of these that you may not abuse him-never, without very magazines £215. The two years that followed serious consideration of your position, sign any saw but one story sold at £20, and two more to a agreement which places all your work in his rival magazine (a new market) at £25 each. hands without a clause allowing for the termina- From the second magazine of these I soon tion of the contract by three months' notice on received a formal note couched as follows :- either side. I cannot think that any agent has as “ Dear Sir, The — comes out only once a much “ pull ” as Mr. Shaw seems to believe, nor month. Mr. - (the agent) has favoured us do I imagine that any agent's influence can get with four of your papers since the first instant. stories accepted by the best magazines to an I am, Sir, yours faithfully --" extent which would make it worth the while of a The result of this was that being rather stung precocious author, however brilliant, to pay a fine up the agent sent no more of my work for some of 50 or 100 percent, commission, further, I do weeks—the magazine paid me £64 in the two not believe many agents would accept it. years. To these figures must be added a sum of I am, Sir, Yours etc., £20 received for the serial rights of my first novel. This came from America, where that work had not seen the light. With royalties and various odds and ends I received from the agent about £85 more, a total of £269, less £26 188. commission, leaving a balance in my favour of £242 28., or III. £121 1s. a year. At the end of the second year, emerging from DEAR SIR, I cannot quite understand why the my temporary insanity, I left the agent and all my literary agent is made such a point of. To my MSS. were returned. Among them was the typed way of thinking he is by no means a necessity. copy of a serial concerning which the agent notified In letters you have published, writers refer to me.“ This has been submitted to and rejected the practice of hawking stuff round editorial offices by the editors of the following magazines and as the alternative to using an agent. What is the periodicals." There followed a list which continued matter with the penny post ? well down the sheet of typing. I cannot conceive anything more simple than to In the second year of my regained freedom I enclose MSS. in an en relope and post them to the sold that serial to the editor of one of the editor of a periodical. I think I am correct in periodicals which had refused it through the agent saying that in nine cases out of ten the editor at over two and a half times the sum the agent prefers this method to interviewing authors, unless had asked for it. And the agent I am writing of there is a particular point needing discussion. is one who has a good record and a large number Furthermore, the majority of editors I have of successful authors on bis books. spoken to on the subject tell me that they prefer About four months after I left the fostering MSS. straight from the author rather than an care of an agent I found that my income had agent. materially increased. It must be understood that I am referring to I quite agree that my case may have been an magazine matter, not to novels, or any work of unusual one, but I put the agent's failure down to length. the simple fact that I brought in but £13 a year Soon after I found that I was selling a fair to him, and it was not worth his while to do more number of stories, I was approached by a gentle- than send out my work with a note, “ Dear Sir, man who had been chief reader in one of the I am sending you a touching short story by that largest publishing houses in the world. He had promising writer — I shall be glad if you left this appointment and opened a literary agency. will read it as soon as possible. Any proposal He took a fee from me as well as a number of you may wish to make I shall be pleased to lay MSS. ; in return he gave me glowing pictures of before my client. Yours faithfully - ". a Carnegie-like future, and, after the lapse of a On one occasion I know an MS. of mine was sent year, all the MSS. I had sent him. to a certain editor with half-a-dozen others and a Some time afterwards I was persuaded to try letter covering the lot. another agent, but I resolutely declined to pay a That is one agent. On the other hand I had fee. However, he took a number of stories on a dealings with another, who refused a large com- 15 per cent. commission basis, read them through, mission on sentimental grounds—a commission to went into raptures over them, but did not sell which he was legally entitled. one. The result of my experience comes to this : Now let me state that many of the stories  ## p. 116 (#536) ############################################ 116 THE AUTHOR. immediately perhaps, but steadily and surely, and can reckon upon an increasing number of followers. ARTHUR LOVELL. returned by these agents I have disposed of myself. Perhaps when I am making £10,000 a year, and do not want to be bothered by details, I shall employ an agent again. I am sorry for the prospects of the agent waiting for this post. Of course, for selling stuff out of England the agent is desirable. for the average author who knows the Fleet Street ropes would be at sea regarding, say, U.S.A. methods. But as regards disposing of stuff in England, I think the agent can very easily be dispensed with. Yours faithfully, E. NEWTON BUNGEY. THE AUTHOR'S CRAFT. SIR.—The article of Mr. Herbert W. Smith on “ The Hazard of the Pen” in your issue of Decem- ber has prompted me to utter a few remarks, not exactly in reply, but rather as a kind of protest, meant in an entirely friendly spirit, against what inot what seems to me a degradation of the craft of author. Though but a new member of the society, I am comparatively an old author, and therefore speak from a very wide experience. Mr. Smith's article is not only pessimistic in tone, but, if I may put it bluntly, entirely without point. If literature means anything at all, it means a compendium. or distilled essence of life itself. with its varied mixtures of good and evil, tragedy and comedy, etc. The craft of author consists in extracting the essence or spirit or soul of the mixture, and presenting it to the mind of another. The real author is the one who has something to say which must at all costs come out, whether the listeners are few or many. The author is the pioneer who enters strange lands, and writes down his experiences. From this standpoint, the author is the teacher and leader of mankind. If he puts himself the question which Mr. Smith recommends. “ Is it worth it ? ” he proclaims himself to be utterly unworthy of the craft of authorship; and it matters little what becomes of him, for his work can never stimulate or warm another soul, for it is the shining of brass instead of the glitter of gold. Brass there is abundance of, both in life and in literature. And the worst of it is that brass has an irresistible, because inherent, tendency to shine loudly and cry, “ Behold, I am gold !” The upshot of all is, the craft of author is the greatest and rarest craft, and therefore any individual author has great difficulties to contend with, far more than the craftsman who works by rule of thumb. But in these days any author who is worth his salt can get a fair hearing, not PUBLISHERS' METHODS. DEAR SIR,—In my letter which you published in your last number I intended but omitted to deal with the question of “remainders.” I think that authors should stipulate that their books are not to be remaindered until a certain date after publication, and then only in the event of the sales falling below a certain namber per year. I feel, rightly or wrongly, that the remaindering of a book creates an impression in the mind of the public that the book is not a good one, and con- sequently is being sold off cheap. Very often such is not the case, and the remaindering is due to the publisher's impatience. The selling of remainders is most unsatisfactory from a bookselling point of view, and should be discouraged as much as possible. I am convinced that what is stopping the sale of books more than anything is that the public waits for them as remainders, and generally succeeds in getting them !! And if my views are right this is a serious question for authors. I should like further to say that I consider authors should protect themselves against advertise- ments being inserted in their books without per- mission, and in advertisements I would include bookmarks of Insurance Companies. As a book- buyer I strongly object to being pestered with these, and I cannot understand why various high class publishers stoop to let such bookmarks appear. I admit that publishers, like other people, are supposed to be working to make money, but surely gold can be bought too dear ? There are other matters which I could write about concerning the dignity of a book, and that nothing should be done to interfere with it. Certainly this should receive the serious considera- tion of the author ?-Yours faithfully, HERBERT BATSFORD. [Both points to which Mr. Batsford draws attention are important. As a publisher of books of more per- manent value it is probable he does not remainder to the extent that publishers of novels remainder their publications. It is quite true that not only the remaindering of books, but the premature issue of cheap editions tends, very often, to decrease an author's circulation. 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