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Full text search for all issues, and other additional search functionality, will be added in 2022. 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) 1913-01-01 Volume 23 Issue 4 Pages Page range in volume 97–128 Ngram Date Version of the date in YYYYMMDD format for use by the Ngram plugin 19130101 Ngram Text Version of the text with no HTML formatting for use by the Ngram plugin Che Huthor. (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.) FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT. Vor. XXTII.—No. 4. JANUARY 1, 1913. [Prick SIxPENcE, TELEPHONE NumBeEr : 3874 VICTORIA. TELEGRAPHIC ADDREss : AUTORIDAD, LONDON. ————_+—~@—. NOTICES. —-~» 4 OR the opinions expressed in papers that are signed or initialled the authors alone are responsible. None of the papers or paragraphs must be taken as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless such is especially stated to be the case. Tue Editor begs to inform members of the Authors’ Society and other readers of The Author that the cases which are quoted in The Author are cases that have come before the notice or to the knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that those members of the Society who desire to have the names of the publishers concerned can obtain them on application. ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS. Tue Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the Society that, although the paper is sent to them free of cost, its production would be a very heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest 5s. 6d. subscription for the year. Communications for The Author should be addressed to the offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey’s Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each month. Communications and letters are invited by the Editor on all literary matters treated from Vou. XXIII. the standpoint of art or business, but on no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to return articles which cannot be accepted. ADVERTISEMENTS. As there seems to be an impression among readers of The Author that the Committee are personally responsible for the bona fides of the advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case. Although care is exercised that no undesirable advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and never have accepted, any liability. Members should apply to the Secretary for advice if special information is desired. Oo THE SOCIETY’S FUNDS. 1 “L\ROM time to time members of the Society K desire to make donations to its funds in recognition of work that has been done for them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion of one of these members, have decided to place this permanent paragraph in The Author in order that members may be cognisant of those funds to which these con- tributions may be paid. The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy expenditure, cither in fighting a question of principle, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform, or in dealing with any other matter closely connected with the work of the Society. (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the needs of all the members of the Society. #9 98 THE AUTHOR. THE PENSION FUND. — > N January, the secretary of the Society laid before the trustees of the Pension Fund the accounts for the year 1911, as settled by the accountants, with a full statement of the result of the appeal made on behalf of the fund. After giving the matter full con- sideration, the trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway 5% Pre- ferred Ordinary Stock and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock. The amounts pur- chased at the current prices were £237 in the former and £282 in the latter stock. The trustees desire to thank the members of the Society for the generous support which they have given to the Pension Fund. The money now invested amounts to £4,454 6s. Later in the year, at a meeting of the Com- mittee of Management, a question concerning the funds of the Society was brought up for dis- cussion, and it was suggested that it would be a good thing for the Pension Fund trustees, if they had power, to sell out the Fund’s holding of Consols and to invest in some more satisfactory security. The suggestion was placed before the trustees of the Pension Fund, and a meeting was called, when the chairman of the Committee of Management, the trustees, and Mr. Aylmer Maude, the member of the Committee of Management who had made the suggestion, were present. The figures were very closely considered, and it appeared clear that altera- tions in the investment of the funds could be carried out with advantage to the Fund’s income. It was decided by the trustees, with the approval of the Committee of Management, to sell out the holding of Consols. With the amount realised, were purchased— $2,000 (£400) Consolidated Gas and Elec- tric Company of Baltimore 44% Gold Bonds ; 30 Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway 4°, Extension Shares, 1914 (£8 paid) ; £250 Edward Lloyd, Ltd., £1 5% Prefer- ence Shares. These amounts are fully set out and added in the nominal value to the Pension Fund investments, below. The trustees have also, in view of the option extended to them as holders of £232 Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock, subscribed for 8 Central Argentine Railway £10 Preference Shares, New Issue. The nominal value of the investments held on behalf of the Pension Fund now amounts to £4,454 6s., details of which are fully set out in the following schedule :— Nominal Value. £ 8, d. Local Loans .............,.24, 500 0 0 Victoria Government 3% Consoli- dated Inscribed Stock ........ 291 19 11 London and North-Western 3% Debenture Stock ...........;, 250 0 0 Egyptian Government Irrigation Trust 4% Certificates ........ 200 0 0 Cape of Good Hope 34% Inscribed Stock (2.00502. 24005. 22 200 0 0 Glasgow and South-Western Rail- way 4% Preference Stock .... 228 0 0 New Zealand 34% Stock........ 247 9 6 Trish Land 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0 Corporation of London 24% Stock, 1927-57... .......-... 488 2 4 Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919-49 1382 18 6 Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock ...... 120 12 1 Dominion of Canada, C.P.R. 34% Land Grant Stock, 1988 ...... 198 3 8 Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway 5% Preferred Stock .......... 237 0 0 Central Argentine Railway Or- dinary Stock................- 232 0 0 $2,000 . Consolidated Gas and Electric Company: of Baltimore 44% Gold Bonds ............ 400 0 0 250 Edward Lloyd, Ltd., £1 5% Preference Shares .......... 250 0 0 30 Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway 4% Extension Shares, 1914 (£8 paid) <5 .44.0.-4. 06 240 0 0 8 Central Argentine Railway £10 Preference Shares, New Issue... 30 0 0 Total. 2.222.064 £4,454 6 0 Ce i 0 PENSION FUND. ee Tue 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 April 1, 1912. It does not include either donations given prior to April 1, nor does it include sub- scriptions paid in compliance with promises made before it. Subscriptions. 1912. April 6, Bland, J. O. 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In another case where judgment had been signed, a summons had been issued requiring the defendant to come up for examination as to his means. It is probable, as the summons has been served, that the money will be forth- coming—especially as the defendant is engaged in active work. ‘Two MSS. have been obtained from a theatrical manager, following the issue of a summons. The manager excused himself on the ground that no previous application had been made, despite the fact that both the secretary and the solicitor of the Society had written several times. In another case judgment was obtained for a sum of £7 10s., the remaining issue of the case, as the facts were in dispute, being sent to the County Court for trial. The solicitor then reported the action taken at the Old Bailey against C. M. Burghes, of which a note appeared in the December issue of The Author. The solicitors were glad to report payment in another case of the full sum in dispute without the matter going into Court, and that another important claim was in the course of negotiation. The action taken by the Society in two bankruptcies was next dealt with. The firms involved were Messrs. Greening & Co., and Messrs Stephen Swift. The solicitor stated that in one case the secretary of the Society was representing authors on the Committee of Inspection, and in the other, Mr. Lewis Benjamin had kindly undertaken to act as the authors’ representative. A claim against a publisher for non-payment of amount .due on royalties would have to be taken into Court, as the solicitor had not received a satisfactory reply to his letters. A case of infringement of dramatic copyright, the solicitor was glad to report, was very satisfactorily closed, and an agreement for settlement had been come to against a Daily Paper for an amount due for contributions. There was another case against a technical paper, in which a settlement had been arranged last August, but the failure of the defendant to stand by the arrangement had necessitated its being re-opened and fresh proceedings being taken. An arrangement of settlement suggested by another paper that the author should take back MSS. which had been accepted, was repudiated by the author. The debt has now been paid. Finally, a matter of difficulty touching the THE AUTHOR. exact terms of a contract for publishing, between an author and a publisher, after long negotiations had been settled between the solicitors of the two parties, the agreements having been signed and exchanged. The solicitor reported that it might be necessary to issue a summons against the same publisher, as it had proved impossible to obtain accurate statements of account due to another author, a member of the Society. The secretary then read a letter which he had received from Mr. John Long, who stated that from his experience as managing director of John Long, Limited, he had found that ‘* Authors had originally been on friendly terms with us, socially as well as in the course of business, and yet have subsequently adopted. a different and frequently hostile attitude towards us, the change synchronising with, their becoming members of your Society. This we ascribe, in the main, to their having become imbued with the views expressed in, the Society’s monthly publication and other literature issued by it.” The committee made no comment upon the communication. : Another matter put forward by the secretary was a case of an author who had been a member of the Society, and though not a member at. the present time, desired the committee to take up the case as a matter of principle. The committee, after consideration, came to the conclusion that they had to undertake cases of principle on behalf of those who were members, and that they could not consider this special case unless the author in question rejoined the Society. This might be arranged on terms, when they would be willing to discuss the whole matter. The committee are pleased to report that Mr. Anstey Guthrie, the committee’s repre- sentative on the Pension Fund Committee, has expressed his. willingness to continue to serve on that committee. He was, accord- ingly, unanimously re-elected. In another column appears a statement regarding the Society’s representative on the Pension Fund Committee. The question of the election of a Pension Fund Trustee was also considered, and the secretary was instructed to write to Sir Arthur Pinero on the subject. The committee have pleasure in reporting that Sir Arthur Pinero has consented to.undertake ‘the duties. The secretary stated what steps had been taken in regard to.the Collection Bureau. He said that a circular had been sent out, that he chad received many answers, and that the THE AUTIOI. 101 writers expressed their opinion that such a bureau would be very valuable. The committee then decided on the sum to be spent in Christmas boxes, and the adjust- ment of salaries. The secretary then read a notice from the office of the Australian Commonwealth in London, intimating that the Australian Copy- right Bill had passed into law. The committee regretted, therefore, that it was too late to send out the report which they had passed on the Bill, but if the Act is on the lines of the draft which was laid before them, they think they may congratulate authors on having obtained, on the whole, very satisfactory Inter-Colonial protection in Australia. The Act will be printed as soon as it is possible to obtain a copy. The secretary reported also that the India Office had informed him that it was the inten- tion to proclaim the Copyright Act, 1911, in India at the earliest possible opportunity. The question, however, of introducing modifi- cations or additions in the Act as proclaimed in India, was still under consideration. The committee ordered that counsel’s opinion, which had been obtained under their authority dealing with some points raised by an American correspondent in connection with the copyright relations between Great Britain and the United States, should be printed in The Author, and it appears in another column. The question of the adjustment of some of the advertising accounts was considered and settled. On the recommendation of the Dramatic Sub-Committee, the committee decided to appoint M. A. Reyding, of Willemsparkweg, 134, Amsterdam, accredited dramatic agent to the Society in Holland, and Mr. Walter C. Jordan, of Empire Theatre Building, 1428—1432, Broadway, New York, accredited dramatic agent of the Society in New York. It is intended to appoint accredited agents of the Society in the Colonies and other countries. An important question .affecting authors who write for magazines was discussed, namely, the question of whether payment on acceptance should not be demanded. Editors have claimed that no article is to be paid for till after publication, and, in some cases, have delayed publication for two or three years. The Society has always maintained that publication must ensue within a reason- able time, or that payment must be made, and editors have, as a rule, acknowledged the justice of the contention, but other editors have, after long delays, paid only grudgingly, and have even hinted that, as they have been made to pay, they will take no more of the particular author’s work. The committee instructed the secretary to make out a list of editors who might be approached on the subject, and it was decided to invite collaboration and guidance from them. The secretary laid on the table letters from Sir Gilbert Parker and Mr. Chatterton Hill, thanking the Society for work done on their behalf, and a vote of thanks was passed to Miss E. Robins for a donation of £2 2s. to the Capital Fund. ———— Dramatic SuBp-CoMMITTEE. Tue Dramatic Sub-Committee met at 13, Queen Anne’s Gate, on Friday, December 13. After reading the minutes of the previous meeting, they proceeded to select their nominees for election to the Dramatic Sub-Committee for 1913. The names of these nominees will be sent round to the members of the Dramatic section of the Society, who will be invited to nominate other members of the section for service on the Sub-Committee should they care to do so. If other names are submitted the usual voting papers will be sent to the Dramatic section, and the result of the election will be placed before the Committee of Manage- ment as the recommendation of the Dramatic section of the Society for the Dramatic Sub- Committee for 1918. A draft circular to be sent to the dramatists in the Society was settled. One or two matters of importance arising under the Collection Bureau of the Society were considered. The first was the date for settlement of fees collected, and it was decided to pay these over as soon as they were cleared and entries made in the books of the Society. In effect this will probably mean a weekly settlement of accounts so far as dramatists are concerned. The next matter was the percentage to be charged on the collection of fees abroad, and the Secretary was instructed to write to the agents appointed to obtain from them some expression of their views on the question. When their reports are to hand they will be considered by the Dramatic Sub-Committee, who will then make the proper recommendation to the Committee of Management. A case of infringement of copyright in a dramatic piece in Canada was next considered, and the Sub-Committee recommended that the case should be referred to the Committee of Management with a view to action being taken, 102 Another question relating to, infringement of the title of one of the members’ plays by a cinematograph performance was discussed, and here, also, it was decided to refer the matter to the Committee of Management if the solicitors’ opinion was favourable. A proposal from the Society of Dramatic Authors in the United States suggesting reciprocal help between the two societies was laid before the Sub-Committee, and they expressed their readiness to do what was possible in the matter, leaving the final settle- ment to the Committee of Management. The question of the appointment of two more foreign agents was also considered, and the Dramatic Sub-Committee approved the appointment subject to the approval of the Committee of Management. The Sub-Committee then adjourned till January, 1913. a CoMPosERS’ SUR-COMMITTEE. Tur Composers’ Sub-Committee of the Society of Authors met at 13, Queen Anne’s Gate on Saturday, December 14. After the minutes of the previous meeting had been signed the secretary laid before the Sub- Committee an agreement from Messrs. Curwen which had been referred to them for their consideration, As there was only just a quorum and it seemed necessary that the matter should be discussed in full committee the consideration of the agreement was adjourned to the next meeting. The correspondence which had taken place in The Times between the Society of Authors, Messrs. Novello and Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was laid on the table and discussed. The next question before the Sub-Committee was the collection of fees in foreign countries. The secretary read letters he had already received, and was instructed to write to the legal representative of the society in Germany in answer to his letter, and ask for fuller _ particulars of two companies referred to so that the Sub-Committee might be able to make arrangements for the collection of mechanical fees in the German Empire. He was also instructed to write further to the representa- tive of a company in France. The secretary then mentioned to the com- mittee various points which had arisen under the Act of 1911 and was instructed to write to the Board of Trade in order to obtain from them information on one or two points which, at present, appeared to be indefinite. The THE AUTHOR. question of performing rights was also under consideration, and the secretary read a letter he had received from the Music Publishers’ Association. The Sub-Committee were deter- mined not to abandon the attempt to obtain a satisfactory solution of the question of the fees to be charged for performances, and although the music publishers did not at present see their way to give any assistance, the matter was adjourned for further consideration at the next meeting. nee coe el Cases. Durine the past month the Society has had occasion to take up twelve cases. Three of these were for the* return of manuscripts; in two of the cases the manu- scripts have been returned ; the third case has only recently come into the office. There have been three disputes between authors and publishers and agents on the interpretation of agreements. These matters, as a rule, and those nowin hand are no exception to that rule, require considerable negotiation, but the negotiations are progressing favour- ably. Out of four cases for money three have been settled, the money having been obtained and sent on to the authors concerned; the fourth case has only recently come into the office. There are two cases for accounts. One case will probably have to go into the hands of the Society’s solicitors, as the publishers concerned have on former occasions refused to respond to the letters of the secretary. The second case has only just come into the office. All the cases left over from former months have now been closed, with the exception of two, which have had to be put into the solicitors’ hands. ag Elections. -Beach, Rex . . . c/o Hughes, Massie & Co, 21, Tavis- tock Street, W.C. 35a, Temple Road, South Ealing. Waldechlaan 2, Hil- versum, Holland. 80, Hyde Park Gate, London, $.W. Beckfoot, Birch Hall Lane, Manchester. Charters | Towers, East Grinstead. Begarnie, George Berrington, John S. . Coit, Dr. Stanton ‘ Cooper, Miss Marjorie . De Brath, Stanley : THE AUTHOR. 103 Drillien, Miss Béréngere Greenlands, Comey- BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS. trowe, Taunton, Somersetshire. Ellison, Miss Grace May Lyceum Club, Picca- While every effort is made by the compilers to keep dilly, W. this Be - oe pee ie as possible, oy a . : A a : ie some culty in attainin is object owing to the fact Fitzgerald, Miss Eva . Sunnyholme, Shank- that many of the books ed not sent to the office lin, Isle of Wight. by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely Gaze, W. Culling. LO: John Street, largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and Adelphi, W.C. other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will eS Gee io a _ €o-operate in the compiling of this list, and, by sending Genn, Miss Caroline T.. 47a, Stanley Gar particulars of theis works, help to make it substantially dens, Hampstead. accurate. Gilbey, Sir Walter, Bart. Elsenham Hall, ART. Stansted, S.O., Lire iy rue West or Irenanp. Drawn and Painted Essex. By Jack B. Yurats. 93x 7. 111 pp. Maunsell. i _- Harrap, Charles . . The Laurels, Neth- “> 4 a erby Road, Forest BIOGRAPHY. Hill, S.E. eee By Aaron Watson. 6} x 4h. 94 pp. ~ : jl Jack, od. Nn. Stoughton, Stanley . 15, eee Writs Suarr. A Memoir compiled by his Wife, sions, aring Evizaseta A. Swarr. 2 Vols. 73 x 54. 352 pp. Cross Road, W.C. + 450 pp. Heinemann. 10s. n. : y Hubbard, Philip E. : ue CHaRLoTTE SopuieE Countess Bentinck. Her Life Ss : ox 4 Q : and Times, 1715—1800. By her descendant, Mrs. Irwin, Beatrice . ae ane oe AusprEy Le Bronp. 2 Vols. 70 illustrations from : : st. James’, W. origina! paintings. Hutchinson. 24s. n. Jerovise, Miss M. Clarke Leahurst, Esher, Surrey. BOOKS OF REFERENCE. Moxon, Chas, Fred . 22, Worcester Villas, Caratocuz or THe Heprew AND Samariran Manv- Hove, Sussex. SCRIPTS IN THE British Museum. By G. Mareori- MacRitchie, David . 4, Archibald Place, outH. Part II. Sections I1—VII. 12} x 10. : i 377 pp. British Museum. 35s. n. Edinburgh. Tue Lirerary YEAR Boor, 1913. Edited by Bastu 7 Mayne, Ethel Colburn. 11, Holland Road, Srewarr. 7 x 4%. 896 pp. ‘Ouseley. 6s. n. Kensington, W. oe Murray, Douglas. . Houston, House, CLASSICAL. Worthing. Four Sraces or GREEK Rericion. Studies based on a * B § Course of Lectures delivered in April, 1912, at Columbia ee ee Major Ps , t Pelham, University. By Girpert Murray. "9x 5}. 223 pp. tee : aignton. New York: Columbia University Press. London: Redwood, Miss Ethel 18, Avenue Road, Frowde. 6s. n. Boverton Regent’s Park, DRAMA. N.W : n : TurREE Puays, Vol. II.: Tue Expsst Son; Tue Litre Schultheis, Lili Mar- Heyscroft, West Dream; Justice. By Jown GatswortHy. 7 x 5. garet Didsbury, Man- 79 + 34+ 111 pp. Duckworth. Is. 6d. n. chester. PreneLtorpg. A Comedy in Three Acts. 213 pp. Mars. C é : Dor. A Farce in Three Acts. 172 pp. Tue Ex- Southwark, Lady oo 12, Devonshire Place, ptorer. A Melodrama in Four Acts. PP 52 pp. By W. : W. Somerset Mavucnam. 7 x 43. Heinemann. 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It is wholly superfluous in these columns to state what useful work this Fund has done and how ably it has been administered. No doubt this year’s Chairman will gather round him a distinguished and generous list of supporters. The Society should take special interest because Lord Curzon has for many years been a member and on its ‘Council. He was the guest of the evening at the dinner in May, 1906, when Sir Henry Bergne—that good and able friend of authors —was Chairman of the Committee of Manage- ment. We trust members will give the Fund their best support. : Messrs. George Allen & Co. have published a Book of Verse at the price of 5s. net, from the pen of William Avon. The poems deal with many subjects and are indicative of no little imagination and contemplation, and show con- ‘siderable powers of rhythmical expression. At the same time we note another book of verse, “The Idyll and other Poems,” by E. Hamilton Moore, from the House of Andrew Melrose. Perhaps the most important work in this book are the Sonnet Sequences and ‘Octosyllabics ; the latter are cleverly handled, ithough here and there they halt a little. Haroip 105 Count Plunkett, F.S.A., has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. An old traveller, he has traversed about 10,000 miles of the New World, and has lived a good deal in France and Italy. Last month Mrs. Aubrey le Blond published a book entitled “* Old Gardens of Italy. How to Visit Them,” with Mr. John Lane. Mrs. le Blond, during a series of visits to Italy, has compiled a volume that garden lovers can carry with them, enabling them to decide which gardens are worth visiting and how they may be reached, and, where special permission is required to see them, how this may be obtained. The work is beautifully illustrated. The same publisher has produced a_ work by the author of ‘“ Coke of Norfolk.’ Mrs. A. M. W. Stirling. Her present volume is entitled “‘ The Letter Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope,”’ and is compiled from the muniments between the years 1805 and 1873. Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope was the daughter of the celebrated Coke of Norfolk, The letters give a good idea of the social and political life during nearly seventy years of the national history, and most of the celebrated men of the period are referred to and criticised. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones is about to col- lect his essays and lectures on the drama, written and delivered during the past fifteen years. He proposes to revise them and publish them this month in volume form with Messrs. Chapman & Hall under the title of “The Foundation of the National Drama.” Many books have been written about the Thames, from its source to its mouth, during many periods of its history. Mr. W. Culling Gaze has now produced a book, published by Messrs. Jarrold & Sons, entitled ‘‘ On and Along the Thames,” James I., 1603—1625. It is illustrated with old and curious plates. This period of the history of the Thames, we believe, has not as yet been dealt with. Messrs. G. Bell & Sons, Ltd., will issue early in the new year the 5th edition of ‘‘ Printing : A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography, etc.,” by Mr. Chas. T. Jacobi of the Chiswick Press. It will be revised to date, and include the Examination Papers up to 1912 for H.M. Stationery Office and also the City and Guilds of London Institute. This volume is a recog- nised text book for students and others. Miss EK. Underdown is producing with Messrs Chas. Nelson & Sons, at the price of 5s., a book entitled ‘‘ The Gateway to Chaucer.’’ Readers interested in works dealing with the literary history of England will remember the series that Messrs. Nelson & Sons have published, two 106 volumes of which,‘ The Gateway to Romance” and ‘‘ The Gateway to Spencer,” have already been brought out, written by the same author. The work has some coloured and many black and white illustrations by Miss Anne Anderson. Uniform with the “Oxford Book of English Verse’ and the ** Oxford Book of Ballads,” the University Press have produced the * Oxford Book of Victorian Verse,” selections for which have been made by Sir A. Quiller Couch. Sir A. Quiller Couch’s position as Professor of Poetry entitles him to speak with authority on the subject, and we have nothing but praise for the matter contained in the selection. No anthology from the individual point of view will ever be perfect unless it is issued by the individual himself. The editor, in his preface, appears to realise this difficulty with regard to the production of the book. The print and paper are both excellent, and the price of 6s. is exceedingly moderate, Books on travel are becoming quite fashion- able. Some depend for their interest on the point of view of the individual, some on the districts which have been travelled, and some on the incidents that have occurred. “* Doreen Coasting,” by Alice Lowth, is written by one whose heart is in her wanderings. She opens with an apt quotation from Lavengro. The book is interesting and well illustrated, and is published by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., at the price of 10s. 6d. The special Christmas number of the “ Book- man” isto hand. We desire to compliment the editor on his massive production, which is put on the market at the exceedingly cheap price of 2s. Every number of the periodical affords a useful catalogue and a use- ful comment for those who are interested in books and what they contain. The Christmas number is not only well got up, but affords sufficient information for a whole year. Those who are thinking of giving New Year’s presents and are in doubt as to what to buy in the way of literature, cannot do better than invest a modest 2s. and study the pages of this number. At Milton Hall, Manchester, a successful recital has been given by Mr. William Miles from the poetical works of Mr. Mackenzie Bell. The recital was largely attended and proved very popular. A poem against vivisection, entitled ‘‘ The Doctor’s Dog,’ by Richard Dailley, has been published. by Messrs. George Allen & Co. The author states in his preface as follows :-— ‘ We have endeavoured, by a few light touches of humour and pathos, to soften somewhat the realism of the grim book of canine tragedy and THE AUTHOR. devotion.’ The work should appeal to all lovers of animals. A new travel work entitled “‘ Half Hours in the Levant,” by Archibald B. Spens, will be published shortly by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. In this volume the author gives his im- pressions of the people and cities of the near East, and supplements his pen pictures with many interesting photographs of the various places visited by him. Mr. W. L. George will produce his new novel on January 15 with Messrs. Constable & Co. in London and Messrs. Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York. The title will be ‘‘ Israel Kalisch.” It can be described as a study of the anarchical temperament and of its various facets. It deals with the Jewish character and that of the foreign Jew in particular. Mr. J. E. Patterson will produce a new political novel towards the end of the month entitled ‘‘ The Romance of Stephen Compton.” The story begins among the mills of Lancashire, where the hero, who is a cripple, lives and works. He invents an improved spinner which finally proves a great success. Joining a democratic association he shows himself to be a famous orator, and completes his political career by becoming Prime Minister. The story deals with political questions bearing upon the industrial and commercial life. It will be published by Mr. W. Heinemann. Dr. Harold Ford has issued through Elliot Stock the 11th edition of his “ Art of Extempore Speaking.” Mr. Algernon E. Aspinall, who is well known by his books—‘‘ A Pocket Guide to the West Indies ” and ‘“‘ The British West Indies ; their History, Resources and Progress “—as an. authority on the West Indies, has published another book dealing with the same country entitled, ‘‘ West Indian Tales of Old.” The following are some of its contents: “ The Fate of Governor Park,” “ The Siege of Brimstone Hill,” ‘‘ The Battle of the Saints.” The work is published by Messrs. Duckworth & Co., at the price of 5s. net. Messrs. Chapman & Hall will publish early in the year a new novel entitled “* Let Them Say!” by Frances Hammond. The heroine, a high-spirited and independent young woman, early in life acquires, quite innocently, a ‘‘ reputation.” How this is made use of by an enemy, how Allegra vindicates herself, incidentally ledrns that convention has its value, and finally settles down normally and happily, forms the subject of the book. M. Sylvestre’s new novel, “ The Light- bearers,” published by John Long, Ltd; i THE AUTHOR. portrays the tragedy arising out of modern social conditions, the terrible supply created by the demand of the civilisation of the twentieth century, by the scapegoats who, in all ages, inevitably suffer for the sins of the community. Mr. Andrew Melrose announces that Miss Mary Cholmondeley, Mr. Joseph Conrad, and Mr. W. J. Locke have agreed to act as adjudi- cators in his Fourth 250 Guineas Prize Novel Competition. All inquiries by intending com- petitors should be sent to The Literary Agency of London, 5, Henrietta Street, W.C., which is, as usual, acting for Mr. Melrose in this matter. DraMATIC. Last month a four-act comedy dealing with Warwickshire life, entitled ‘‘ The Devil and the Hindmost,” from the pen of Mr. Harold Cantrill, was produced at the Moseley and Balsall Heath Institute. Mr. MacDonald Hastings produced a play entitled ‘“ The Tide ’’ at the Queen’s Theatre on December 14. The play, though full of strong situations, seems to have missed its mark in a struggle for an excess of cleverness. It was, however, favourably received. Miss Ethel Warwick took the part of leading lady, Mr. Shiel Barry, Mr. Norman Trevor and Miss Cicely Hamilton were also in the caste. Miss M. E. H. Tyrwhitt Drake (M. Sylvestre), who wrote the play “ Sir Francis Drake ”’ some two years ago, and which was copyrighted before the production of ‘‘ Drake” at His Majesty’s, has heard from South Africa, from Mr. Charles Howitt, securing it for production in that country. Mr. Howitt read her play when he was over here recently in search of plays for his tour, which extends from the Cape to the Zambesi. Miss T. Drake had the assist- ance of Mr. Forbes Dawson in the recon- struction of her work. At the Little Theatre, the Pioneer Players produced a triple bill on December 15, including ** Beastie ’’ by Hugh de Selincourt, and ‘* The Thumb Screw” by Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton. The first mentioned deals with a young married couple who are engaging a nurse for their first-born. The nurse turns out to be a person with whom the husband had _ been acquainted before his marriage ; in fact, the daughter of his landlady at Oxford. The complications are satisfactorily unravelled in a pleasant manner. Mrs. Alfred Lyttelton’s play deals with an economic problem. Though 107 too long for the subject-matter it was acted with considerable strength. eee ee eg PARIS NOTES. +4 rY\HE prize awarded annually by the Goncourt Academy was attributed to M. André Savignon for his book ** Filles de la Pluie, Scénes de la Vie Ouessan- tine.”” Another book obtained the same number of votes, but, as the vote of the president counted double, M. Savignon carried off the prize. The title of the other book is ‘“ L’Or- dination,”’ and its author is M. Julien Benda. Fortunately for the latter, the close competi- tion has caused everyone to read the two volumes, in order to judge which really seems more deserving of the prize. The annual prize of the “ Vie Heureuse ”’ has been awarded to Jacques Morel for the novel ‘‘Feuilles Mortes,’” an admirable psychological study. ** Les Fabrecé,”’ by Paul Margueritte, is an excellent story, based on the idea of the necessity of solidarity in family life. The head of the family is a man of fine character. The author shows us all the difficulties of a large family, insists on the distinct indivi- duality of each member and, at the same time, gives us an example of the union of the little family of which he writes, and of the loyalty of the children to their parents. ** Madeleine au Miroir,’ by Marcelle Tinayre. This book is not a novel, it is a volume of souvenirs, of shrewd reflections and of keen observation by a woman with a fund of common. sense, who is no longer young. The titles of some of the chapters give a good idea of the book: Madeleine au Miroir, La Mére et le fils, Le Bonheur des autres, La Féte du Souvenir, Entre Femmes, Pour etre Belles, L’Amitié, Le Passé, Ne disons pas de mal des Hommes, Les Femmes et la Littérature, La peur de souffrir, Les Enfants. There are in all some thirty-eight chapters, all connected, in a Way, one with the other. “Le Nouvel Homme,” by Michel Epuy, is a curious novel. It is the story of a man with ideas in advance of his surroundings and of his epoch. He is born in the home of a Protestant pastor, of the most rigid and narrow-minded type. The boy leaves home and follows what he feels to be his vocation. The book is a serious one and thoroughly sincere. 108 ** Mini Lalouet,’”’ by Jean-Pierre Porret, is an extremely realistic and well-told story. It is the history of a girl in humble life, a good- natured, irresponsible girl, who, through lack of sympathy and affection at home, decides to go her own way, along the paths that seem the most pleasant. All the characters in the novel are well drawn, and all of them are very living. Mini Lalouet does not appear to be troubled with a conscience. She is just a_ pretty, amusing, badly-educated girl, determined to get the most she can out of life, and not in the least scrupulous about the means she takes to that end. Among the novels translated from the English are ** Les Gardiens de la Flamme,” by W. B. Maxwell, and ‘“‘ Roses d’Automne,” by E. F. Benson. “In the Year of Jubilee,” by George Gissing, has also been translated, and will probably appear soon as a serial. “Gens de Guerre au Maroc,” by Emile Nolly, is a book well worth reading. The author has succeeded in giving the atmosphere of the places he describes in a most remarkable way. Every page is full of life, and we are introduced to the natives of the country and to the French soldiers out there in such a way that we seem to have accompanied the author on his voyage. “Le Prince Impérial (Souvenirs et Docu- ments), by Augustin Filon. No one could have had a better opportunity for writing a book on this subject than M. Filon, who was the tutor of the young prince. He tells us of the early life and education of his charge, of his sojourn in England and his departure for Africa, ending with his tragic death in Zulu- land. The volume is illustrated. ** Rosette ou lamoureuse Conspiration,” by Funck-Brentano and A. de Lorde, is a lively and interesting story of the time of the Regency. “La Chronique de nos jours,” by Ernest Daudet. This is a volume of articles on the most varied subjects imaginable. Most, if not all, of these articles have been published separately, but will be read again with pleasure. There are interesting studies of Gambetta, Bismarck, Casimier-Perier, the Queen of Spain, Marie Christine, Goncourt, Saint-Beuve, etc. “Les Embarras d’Allemagne,’’ by George Blondel, is a volume that will be read with profit. The titles of some of the chapters will give an idea of the subjects treated: La Con- stitution impériale et ses imperfections, Les Embarras financiers, Les Divisions des Partis, Difficultés économiques, Le Malaise des Popu- lations rurales, La Poussée socialiste, Les THE AUTHOR. Préoccupations des Moralistes, Pologne et Alsace, Préoccupations exterieures, ** Bleus, Blanes et Rouges, Recits d’Histoire Révolutionnaire,”’ is another of the welcome volumes by G. Lenotre. Among the subjects he treats are Le Mariage de M. de Bréchard, L’Abbé Jumel; Mademoiselle de Chauviniére and Angélique des Melliers. “Les Moeurs du Temps,” by Alfred Capus. No writer is better qualified to give us his impressions of the habits and customs of the times in which we live than the genial drama- tist whose keynote is optimism. He is a shrewd observer, and he has the courage of his opinions. He does not spare his irony or his blame, but he has the saving good humour peculiar to the true Frenchman, so that there is nothing depressing in the volume, in spite of the many abuses he exposes and the criticisms he gives freely. M. Frédéric Masson has written a book which will render great service, as it seems to be the first work of the kind. It is a com- prehensive history of the Académie Frangaise from the year 1629 to 1794. In his lectures on Human Geography at the College of France, M. Jean Brunhes is now taking Bosnia Herzegovina as an object lesson, with a series of lantern slides to illustrate his theories. M. Brunhes has recently returned from a visit to the Balkan Peninsula, so that his lectures are extremely interesting. ‘La Femme seule ” is the title of the three- act comedy by M. Eugéne Brieux, now being played at the Gymnase. It is by no neams a piece to gladden the hearts of the suffragetists At the Odéon, M. Antoine is giving M. Vedel’s translation of Goethe’s “‘ Faust,’ with musical adaptations by M. Florent Schmitt. M. Henry Bataille’s three-act play, ‘‘ Les Flambeaux,” is being given at the Porte St. Martin. Madame Sarah Bernhardt is giving ‘“ Kis- met ”’ at her theatre. Atys HaALbarp. “ Filles de la Pluie” (Emile Paul). ‘ Feuilles Mortes ” (Hachette). “ Les Fabrecé ” (Plon). “Madeleine au Miroir ” (Calmann-Lévy). “Le Nouvel Homme ” (Payot). “Mini Lalouet ” (Payot). “Les Gardiens de la Flamme” (Calmann-Lévy). “Gens de Guerre au Maroc ” (Calmann-Lévy). “Le Prince Impérial (Souvenirs et Documents)” (Hachette). ‘“ Rosette ou l’amoureuse Conspiration ” (Plon). “ Bleus. Blanes et Rouges, Recits d'Histoire Révolu- tionnaire ” (Perrin). “Les Moeurs du Temps” (Grasset). THE AUTHOR. THE COLONIAL BOOK TRADE. ss Tue Book Marker IN CANADA. NE is frequently asked why the Dominion is not a more lucrative field for British publishers, and a suggestion has often been made, and is being continually reiterated, that were the British publisher to make a greater effort the result would be sure to show. If Canada were, say, as near to London as is France, its English speaking people would make a very acceptable extra five or six million feeders to the London market and London book-travellers. Cana- dians would then be English, pure and simple. They would read reviews of British books on their journey to town of a morning, and the latest sevenpenny shocker or shilling educator on their return in the evening. Their tastes would be British, their wives probably daughters or grand-daughters of Britons, they would be in close touch with the habits, tastes and customs of Britons, and would recognise the allusions to British politics and understand British slang and everyday expressions. They would be familiar with the heft of a book printed on English feather-weight, esparto paper, and would not know that the backs broke or the covers warped when subjected to a different climate. In the illustrations they would recognise a people with whom they were acquainted in an environment such as they had often visited on trips either of business or pleasure. Let us now bodily transport this across-the-Channel-Canada to a continent, the nearest point of which shall be 3,000 miles from Land’s End, and remember that in the ages necessary for making this change of locality the people will not be able torun over to London for Easter and Whitsun- tide, they will indeed largely forget the holiday instinct, they will have to be self-sustaining from their own land, and it will be a land that is not blessed with a climate resulting from an ever-running Gulf Stream. They will have no time or money to ride to hounds for instance. Even if they had, the necessity of demarking their boundaries with wire instead of haw- thorn would effectually prevent a continuance of the sport, not to mention an array of ‘‘ em- battled farmers’ with shot guns determined to protect their growing crops. This illustra- tion alone, perhaps, will show how in the course of time a fox-hunting novel, while interesting to a few Canadian readers, will not be convincing to the many. 109 Let us imagine this Canada now firmly planted on the northern half of this new continent and separated only by an imaginary line from a very prosperous country containing a population twelve times as numerous. Let us remember that this line is so imaginary that on its 8,000 miles of length at one time and another there have been most bitter contro- versies as to just where it shall and does run. It is so imaginary that the young people from the north, in times of stress, poured over without hindrance to the south, and moneyed men from the south poured over to the north later on with money to exploit the natural riches of the country, or others to take up free land for farming after their own was used up or became too expensive to buy. The younger men of both nations very pro- bably married each other’s sisters and, speaking of the case of Canadians in the States, it is only natural that they should adopt the manners and customs of the country of their adoption. These expatriated Canadians wrote home of their life in the States, they sent papers, they came home to visit with their pockets and bags full of American magazines that they read on the train. In a thousand ways the continual intercourse of two peoples who are ever joining hands, even if only in business, will be bound to tend toward making them similarly minded. The climate demands that Canadians shall dress much the same as Americans. The American fashion-plates set the style for ninety million people and, since the clothing of Englishmen is not suited as a rule to Canadian needs, it is perfectly natural that the Canadian shall take the American style as the basis of his own and cut his cloth accordingly. Therefore, we see young Canada often making himself absurd in the ultra padded shoulders and the ridiculous trousers of the American, not because that particular fashion is better suited to Canadian climatie conditions than clothes of an English cut, but because as a general rule all the necessities of life, clothes and food, and everything else are alike both sides of the line, and for both countries better suited than what best fits the Englishman. What is true in bodily necessities is also true as to the mental pabulum of the two North American peoples. The United States is rich in ephemeral literature—the illustrated daily, the weekly farm paper, which tells how best to grow crops in the western continent, the monthly magazines, which expose trusts opera- ting in both countries, which tell in the most attractive manner stories of a daily life known 110 equally well to the readers of both nations, their pages embellished with portraits of actors, and more especially actresses, who are to be seen successively in New York, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Buffalo, Chicago, and Winnipeg. What shall we say of the many “Home” journals? ‘The foot that rocks the cradle rules the world.” To mix meta- phors—while one foot is rocking the cradle the other is reading how to clothe the mite in the eradle or the older boys and girls who, the full-page advertisements assert, should be habited like the grown up little American people in the fashion section, or should be fed on Somebody’s Oats or puffed rice, or shredded corn, or some other everyday commodity packed in a jar or bottle or a carton by some large American advertiser with a be-sure-you- ask-for-and-insist-on-getting tag on every ad- vertisement, which in the long run means the adoption of that article in thousands of Canadian households, and therefore food shops. It may be said that this has nothing to do with the book market in Canada. Perhaps not directly, but it is used here to illustrate the argument that it is only natural that for every- thing mental and physical the smaller people will go for supplies to their larger and, more- over, next-door neighbour. Let us grant, then, that food and clothing are not germane to the subject of this article, and let us examine particularly the American novel in its attrac- tion to Canadian readers. We have seen that in fashions of habiliment there is in Canadians a distinct leaning towards those of the United States. This is also true in house furnishing, and none the less true in the raiment of books. The American publisher knows his public, and gives it a novel in a cover embellished with as much colour and gold as the cost of manufac- ture and the royalty will stand. The book is wrapped in a jacket generally with a design wholly different from that stamped on the cover. It is more often than not a three- colour reproduction of a painting specially drawn by a high-priced, well-known artist. Very often the engaging young female on the jacket is so little like the heroine inside the book, as one conceives her to be, that the effect is ludicrous; nevertheless the jacket was intended to sell the book and, having accom- plished its end, if the story is entertaining the incongruity of the “ bait ”’ is forgotten or over- looked. This bright-coloured jacket performs another very inportant function. In Canada, as in the States, novels are sold, not lent, and the picture jacket is an invaluable aid to the bookseller in dressing his window and to him THE AUTHOR. and the department stores in making counter displays. The publisher often lends a quantity of books for this purpose. To be sure the number of public libraries is increasing, but what goes to the libraries is an inconsiderable factor compared with the quantity purchased by individuals. As long as the book is a “‘ new novel,” it lies about the house in its jacket until a newer one takes its place, at which time the jacket is removed and the book takes its place in the bookcase, its bright cloth and decorative design lending a brightness to the room. All this is written not at all with the idea of urging the universal adoption of American book fashions, but merely to show what has obtained, and does obtain, notwithstanding the expressed determination of many American publishers from time to time to break away from the fashion. The difficulty of “* belling the cat” may be overcome eventually through the ever- increasing cost of manufacture and the ‘reduc- tion in the retail price of the book. In Great Britain, where the sale of a novel to individuals is insignificant, the jacket is an unnecessary expense, and the cover cloth must be of sombre hue to hide the result of much library handling, which would be fatal to its gaudy American cousin. As a rule an English novel is bought by a Canadian publisher in sheets, and either in London or Toronto put into a cover and jacket which shall make it as “ attractive,” from the travellers’ and booksellers’ point of view as the American ones in the salesman’s sample trunk. Probably enough has been said about the competition from American authors and pub- lishers, and it might not be out of place to analyse the British novel as a whole and see why it often fails to appeal to the Canadian reader. Aside from the ignorance of conditions of life in the old land, and one might say often his lack of interest in it, the Canadian finds himself frequently unable to pick his way through long political or theological discussions or allusions to either subject in English novels, which arg bound to take the edge off his interest. Some of the reasons for the failure of English books to “‘ take ’’ in Canada are very subtle. For instance, a publisher of medical books in London recently inquired why it was impossible to sell in Canada a very important work just published in England. He should surely have learned before publication, and not afterwards, that while in England the Pharma- copeeia used is Greek, in Canada doctors and chemists use the American Pharmacopceia, which is Latin. THE AUTHOR. In Canadian schools the grading is quite similar to that in the United States, and quite unlike that in English schools, consequently, except for mathematics, it is the American book or model that is chosen and used. Even in mathematics the examples in sterling have to be changed for use in Canadian schools. Of late, many English writers of fiction have brought their characters over to Canada and have made a sorry mess of their local colour. The newspaper reviewers never fail to pick out such flaws, and generally the book suffers in ~ consequence. Not long ago a boy’s book from an English pen was brought to the present writer’s attention in which a lad living on the shores of Lake Erie went in his birch-bark canoe to visit his cousin at Three Rivers, Quebec. He traversed some wild and unfrequented “ river,’ and on the second morning found his cousin waiting him on “the dock.” To traverse Lakes Erie and Ontario and the St. Lawrence River for many hundreds of miles in a canoe of any sort would be utterly impos- sible and would take several times as many weeks to accomplish as he took days, even were the trip possible. This is, of course, an extreme case, but many an English writer who should know better has been guilty of quite avoidable errors in Canadian geography and_ collo- quialisms. On the other hand, while an American writer makes his young Harvard Apollos enter unbidden into the private apart- ments of European sovereigns and perform impossible feats in rescuing distressed daughters of New York millionaires, in writing of Canada he would probably be correct in his geography and habits of the people. All the foregoing is not written with any unkindly feeling nor in a captious mood. What he has written is the result of the English- born writer’s seven years’ experience as a pub- lisher in Canada, preceded by some years in the States. It is much to be regretted that a closer personal bond does not exist between Great Britain and her eldest daughter. As for affection and loyalty and the patriotism of Empire, the result of the election a year ago showed that politically Canada wishes always to remain British, but as when in Rome you do as do the Romans, so in North America, despite the difference in the oath of allegiance, you eat and clothe yourself and very largely do your reading after the manners of the North Americans. Can the Canadian market for English novels be fostered by printing in Canada? No. The sale for any one book is se small that it would not, it could not, pay — .t is doubtful if more pe than one or two novels, either English or American, are printed in Canada in any one year. In this lies the absurdity of the present attempt on the part of Canadian printers to enact copyright legislation containing a manu- facturing clause. It would not mean any more work for the printer unless, forsooth, a pirate could appropriate a popular writer’s work, and by evading the payment of royalty make pub- lication profitable. This smallness of population in Canada is a hardship to many a native writer as well as to those in Britain. Not infrequently a manu- script is offered to a Canadian publisher which is in every way excellent, but of so local an interest that it would not pay a publisher in London or New York to produce it or even take a fair quantity if produced in Canada, and so many a Canadian writer’s name will never be known, and much of the home life and history of the earlier settlers will be lost for ever, which might otherwise be preserved in the form of fiction. Whenever an exceptional Canadian story is published in Canada it is fairly sure of an encouraging sale, but it has to be a good one to persuade the publisher to produce it for the present very small population and native read- ing public. a ee COPYRIGHT BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES. 6 COUNSEL’S OPINION. NERTAIN questions were referred to the Cc Society of Authors from a correspondent in America relating to the position of the United States and Great Britain in copyright matters. Accordingly, on the instructions of the Committee of Management, a case for counsel was drafted, setting out the circum- stances and putting before him the following questions :— 1. Is the proclamation of the President nulli- fied by the Act of 1911 ? 2. If it is not nullified, is it essential, before an American author can obtain copy- right in the United Kingdom, that an Order in Council should be issued by His Majesty’s Government under section 29? 3. Supposing the property of the United States citizen is insecure under the present circumstances, or, conversely, the property of the English author is insecure in the United States, what course does counsel advise the commit- tee to adopt in order to have the matter settled on a proper international basis ? 4. Does counsel consider that an American author immediately on writing a book or a play loses his copyright in Great Britain ? 5. If the American dramatic author does not lose his copyright, would it be essential for him, in order to retain his performing rights in Great Britain, immediately on the performance of the work in America to publish the work in book form in England and America ? 6. If there is danger that the American author will, through lack of reciprocity, lose his copyright in Great Britain in either of the above cases, what steps would counsel advise the committee of the Society to take in order to set matters on an even basis ? to which counsel replied as follows :-— 1. and 2. Only in the case of unpublished works. In the case of published works the Order is not necessary where there is first or ‘* simultaneous publication ” in the United Kingdom. 8. See opinion. 4, No, he has got an inchoate right which is only lost by a first ‘‘ publication ”’ out- side the British dominions. 5. No; public performance is not an abandon- ment of his inchoate right. 6. See opinion. UniTED STATES AND GREAT Britain Copy- RIGHT RELATIONS. Under the Copyright Act, 1911, a United States citizen cannot (in the absence of an Order in Council under section 29 relating to the United States) claim copyright, within the British dominions to which the Act applies, in respect of any unpublished work unless he was resident within the British dominions at the date when the work was made. Publication means issuing copies of the work to the public and does not include public performance. A dramatic work in manuscript or typewritten performed in public, but not printed or pub- lished, is accordingly an unpublished work. If any work is first published within the British dominions it acquires copyright irrespective of the nationality of the author. It is with regard therefore to unpublished works only that the American authors do not obtain precisely the same privileges as British authors. It is suggested, however, that this is a serious matter; that a large percentage of valuable THE AUTHOR. works produced in America are never published, such as dramatic pieces, speeches, sermons, ete., and that with regard to these the American author is unprotected in the British dominions, although the British author is fully protected in the United States both by common law and statute. The most important of these unpublished works are dramatic works, and the exact position of a dramatic work of an American citizen in this country seems to be as follows :— British copyright in the work is not lost. irretrievably by reason of public performance either in America or England or both countries. On the other hand, copyright is not acquired until the work is published as a book within the British dominions to which the Act applies. During the intervening period it is true there is no statutory copyright or common law right of property, but, on the other hand, any reproduc- tion of the work which constitutes or involves a breach of contract, trust or confidence, may be restrained. The cases of Abernethy v. Hutchinson (1825), 3 L. J. (O.S.) Ch. 209, and Caird v. Sime (1887), 12 A. C. 326, and others, show that even although there is no common law right of pro- perty in an unpublished work, yet if there is a contract between author and audience that the latter come for instruction or amusement only, and must not reproduce the work elsewhere, such reproduction can be restrained either on the ground of breach of contract or of procuring or being privy to a breach of contract. Aber- nethy v. Hutchinson is some authority for the view that such a contract may be implied from the mere admittance of the audience upon pay- ment of the entrance money. But however that may be, there would be no difficulty, by means of a printed notice on play-bills and tickets of admission, in establishing a contract between the owner of the play and each mem- ber of the audience, which would be quite effective to preserve intact the owners’ rights in the British dominions until such time as he might elect to publish the work in print. It would be practically impossible for any person reproducing the play without authority to plead ignorance of the terms upon which the owner of the play permits it to be represented on the stage. Similar precautions can be taken in the case of cinematograph rights, which should be controlled by the owner of the play. That is to say, cinematograph rights should not be sold outright, but should be the subject of licences, and the films should not be sold to the cinematheatres, but lent on ahiring agreement. It may be observed that copyright perform- THE AUTHOR. ~ «= ance in the British dominions is no longer neces- +s sary. Thus the American dramatist can , produce his play in America without troubling .J© about simultaneous production in this country. If instead of relying upon contract the + American dramatist desires to obtain full ‘Je statutory protection in the British dominions = and to obtain the benefit of summary remedies he can do so at any time, notwithstanding 4 that the play has already been publicly oq performed both in America and England, by _¢ publishing the printed play in the British 5 dominions. It is not necessary to print the -»» work both in America and England. The 4 English law does not require printing here, and } the American law does not require printing in . America. Hervieu and J. S. Ogilvie Publish- -1t ing Co., Am. Pub. Weekly, April 3, 1909, / 169 Fed. Rep. 978. See also “‘ Instructions for 2 securing Copyright, etc.,”’ issued by the Copy- right Office, ‘‘ Dramas No. 5a.” “The law does not require that the drama be printed in the United States.””’ The American dramatist has, therefore, his choice to print in America or England, whichever may be cheaper. Another effective way of securing full rights in England which would avoid any risk of imperilling cinematograph rights in America is for the author in the first instance to write his ; plot in the form of a novelette or amplified scenario. An edition of this could be printed *4 and published at very small cost. I believe that “1 this is now done systematically in the case »> of original cinematograph dramas. A periodical j is published weekly, and a large number of plays - are included in each issue. The cost in respect > ofeach one is infinitesimal. After this publica- “1f tion the complete drama based on the scenario i is produced. It is unnecessary to copyright »! the drama separately in England, because no ‘> one can represent the drama without infringing the copyright in the scenario. The author’s »*< rights are also fully preserved in America, where 4) there will be a double copyright in published “2 scenario and unpublished play. It seems to me, therefore, notwithstanding -| the exclusion of an unpublished work of an /. American citizen from statutory protection «4 under the Copyright Act, 1911, that American 1s authors are in fact effectively protected in 1 respect of such unpublished works. The American Act, 1909, section 8, provides “‘ that the copyright secured by this Act shall » extend to the work of an author or proprietor “| who is a citizen or subject of a foreign state or re nation only. **(a) When an alien author or proprietor shall be domiciled within the United States Pr din Sete eh tN fee joes om 113 at the time of the first publication of his work. *“(b) When the foreign state or nation of which such author or proprietor is a citizen or subject grants, either by treaty, convention, agreement, or law, to citizens of the United States, the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to its own citizens, or copyright pro- tection substantially equal to the protection secured to such foreign author under this Act or bytreaty. .. . ** The existence of the reciprocal conditions aforesaid shall be determined by the President of the United States by proclamation made from time to time as the purposes of this Act may require.” A proclamation was made on April 9, 1910, whereby it was stated that satisfactory evi- dence had been received that in the countries therein mentioned including Great Britain and her possessions ‘‘the law permits and, since July 1, 1909, has permitted to citizens of the United States the benefit of copyright on substantially the same basis as to citizens of those countries,’ and by which the President declared and proclaimed that subjects of Great Britain “are and, since July 1, 1909, have been entitled to all the benefits of the said Act other than the benefits under section 1 (c) thereof as to which the inquiry is still pending.” The reservation relates to rights in musical works. In my opinion the proclamation is necessarily conclusive for the time being of the existence or non-existence of the conditions of reciprocity. The President is made the sole judge of the facts, and I do not think it is open to any one to challenge the findings in the proclamation. Clearly the President has power to recall the proclamation in respect of any particular country ; but until this is done I do not think it is competent to go behind the proclamation merely on the ground that a foreign country has made some alteration in her laws. In my opinion, therefore, the copyright of British subjects in the United States at present is unaffected by what has taken place in this country. Then are the conditions such as to involve the danger of the proclamation being recalled unless the British Government agrees to make ‘an Order in Council admitting the United States to full rights under Part II. of the Copy- right Act, 1911 ? In my opinion there is certainly no ground for recalling the proclamation in toto so as to include the works of all British subjects. I think it is clear that the conditions precedent 114 to reciprocity may exist with regard to one elass of work and not with regard to another, and that the proclamation may be limited accordingly. ‘This in fact has been done in the case of musical works “* pending enquiry.” Now with regard to books in general it is obvious that we do not only admit the American citizen to equal rights with our own citizens, but grant protection on a much more advantageous basis than is conceded to the works of British subjects in America. With regard to dramas, speeches, sermons, lectures and other works which are commonly repre- sented or delivered in public without, or at least before, publication in print, I think, con- sidering the practical protection under the law of contract or the law relating to breach of con- fidence or trust and the facility with which statutory protection can be obtained by the formality of publishing a preliminary précis or skeleton of the work, that American subjects do obtain in Great Britain “ copyright pro- tection substantially equal to the protec- tion secured ” to British subjects in America. In both countries some formality has to be observed as a condition precedent to pro- tection (I here refer solely to the unpub- lished work of an American citizen), and the remedies provided in the one country no doubt differ from those provided in the other. I do not suppose, however, that it was ever intended that the relative rights and privileges should be nicely weighed one with the other. It is sufficient if there is a substantial quid pro quo. If, contrary to my opinion, the American Government came to the conclusion that American dramatists, lecturers, ete., do not receive substantially equal rights with those enjoyed by British dramatists in America, then it would be competent to exclude unpublished dramas and lectures from the terms of the proclamation. This would leave the British author to his rights at common law. To recall the proclamation to any greater extent than this would, I think, be unjustified by the change in the British law. I think, as has all along been intended, Great Britain ought to hold something in reserve which can some day be offered to the States as an inducement to them to relieve British sub- jects of the manufacturing clause in the case of books. I do not think it is likely that the American Government will try to force our hands by threatening to deprive us of all pro- tection 1f we do not at once surrender every- thing to American authors. By doing so they would incur the displeasure ofthe labour party, whose constituents would thus be threatened THE AUTAOR. with the loss of profit on the printing of British books. And not only so, but we could imme-’ diately retaliate by putting section 28 into operation and thus exclude American authors from all copyright whatsoever in this country. In my opinion the present position, that is to say so long as the presidential proclamation stands, does not call for any action on the part of the Society. In the event of any proposal to recall the proclamation, or in the event of any decision in the American Courts, contrary to the opinion which I have given above, it would no doubt be necessary to communicate with the Foreign Office on the subject. With regard to Canada that seems to me to be a question wholly apart. At present an American author or dramatist can obtain pro- tection in Canada under the Imperial Acts, 1833 and 1842, which stand unrepealed. It is therefore not necessary to print in Canada. If Canada ultimately repeals the Imperial Acts, 1833 and 1842, and sets up a manufacturing clause operative against the United States, the States may exclude Canada without affecting her position with regard to Great Britain or the rest of the British dominions. (Signed) E. J. Maceriivray. —___$_$__-—— MAGAZINE CONTENTS. ae CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. How the Older Novelists Manage Their Love Scenes. By Dorothy Lane Poole. Shakespeare's Battle Scenes. Enciish REVIEW. Art for Life’s Sake. Strindberg’s Plays. By Arthur Ransome. By Austin Harrison. FORTNIGHTLY. The Real Adrienne Lecouvreur. By Francis Gribble. The Shakespeare of the Dance. By Francis Toye. Aloysius Bertrand: A Romantic ot 1830. By Arthur Ransome. 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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 ordinarysolicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use the Society. 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send the document to the Society for examination, 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer, 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of members’ agreements and their preservation in a fire- proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers: (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu- lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the Prospectus. 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society. Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society. 7, Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. 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. ——__——_ ++ WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS OF BOOKS. —_—— + ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an agreement. There are four methods of dealing with literary property :— I. Selling it Outright. This is sometimes satisfactory, ¢f a proper price can be 115 obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of the Society. II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of agreement), In this case the following rules should be attended to: (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro- duction forms a part without the strictest investigation. (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise- ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements. (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “ office expenses,”’ unless the same allowance is made to the author. (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental] rights. : (5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights. (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher. As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or doctor ! III. The Royalty System. This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form. of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible for an author to ascertain approximately the truth. From time to time very important figures connected with royalties are published in 7e Author, 1¥Y. 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 :— C1.) 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. a WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS. —— + EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com- petent legal authority. 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for the production of a play with 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, 116 (2.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of percentages on gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5 and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts in preference to the American system. Should obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed date on or before which the play should be performed, (c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to perform on the basis of royalties (i.c., fixed nightly fees). ‘his 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 (d.) apply also in this case. 4, Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should be reserved. 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and time, This is most important. 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is of great importance, 7, Authors should remember that performing rights in a play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot print the book of the words, 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed- ingly valuable, ‘They should never be included in English agreements without the author obtaining a substantial consideration. 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced. 10. An author should remember that production of a play is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract. He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in the beginning. 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object is to obtain adequate publication. As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con- tracts, those authors desirous of further information are referred to the Secretary of the Society. ————_+—~@—e— REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND ORIGINAL PLAYS. ——>— 1 QJ CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis- tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to theauthor and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing. Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for at the price of 2s. 6d. per act. THE AUTHOR. DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS. to 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. 2 WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS. eg ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the assistance of producers of books and dramatic authors, It must, however, be pointed out that, as a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan- cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic property. The musical composer has very often the two rights to deal with—performing right and copyright. He should be especially careful therefore when entering into an agreement, and should take into particular consideration the warnings stated above. ————_+—~@—- STAMPING MUSIC. a 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, 2 THE READING BRANCH. gs EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this VI branch of its work by informing young writers of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated as a composition is treated by a coach, The term MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under special arrangement, technical and scientific works, The Readers are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one guinea, —>—_ —______ REMITTANCES. The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post. 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We hope that the public will’ warmly sup- port the memorial to which it is asked to con- tribute on behalf of the late Coleridge-Taylor. IMPERIAL CopyRriIGHT. We gather from the Bombay Government Gazette that the Copyright Act of 1911 has been proclaimed in British India, and the Act therefore will run from date of proclamation dated Simla, October 13, 1912. The Procla- mation runs as follows :—‘‘ In pursuance of Clause (D) of sub-section (2) of section 37 of the Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, Chap. 46), the Governor-General is pleased to proclaim the said Act and to direct that it shall come into operation in British India from date of this Proclamation.” This Proclamation will cover Burma as well as India, but will not cover the native States of India. We understand that the Indian Government will use its best endeavours to get the native Princes to accept the Copyright Act as it at present stands. CopyriGHT AND RECEIPTS. We have commented in previous issues of The Author on the use made by magazine editors of receipt forms for the purpose of obtaining from their contributors rights beyond those which the contributor is wise to give, or the magazine entitled to ask. Under the Copyright Act, 1911, the publica- tion of an article or story in a magazine or other periodical publication does not, ipso facto, give to the proprietor of such periodical issue the copyright in the story or article. If he desires copyright, he must make a special bargain with the author to thisend. In this connection we quoted in our May issue, a letter from a well-known magazine proprietor, in which he expressed his desire to get from all his con- tributors a general assent to the transfer of copyright of all work which they were then contributing, or might in the future contribute, to the magazines and newspapers which he controlled. We pointed out at the time the misleading nature of some of the statements which were made. Since that date we have had brought to our notice once again a practice of magazine editors not less objectionable from the author’s standpoint. | An author sends in a MS. to a magazine. This article or story in some cases is accepted without a formal statement as to THE AUTHOR. terms; in some cases is published without even a notice of acceptance. The cheque in payment is sent in due course, and with it a receipt form which the contributor is asked to sign and return. In many eases the author signs the receipt automatically, paying little attention to the wording. Occasionally he reads the receipt carefully. He then discovers to his surprise that what he imagined was an ordinary receipt for payment of a sum due to him, is, in reality, a document practically conveying the copyright to the magazine. It is true that, given a clear contract beforehand, no such receipt purporting to convey copyright. would stand as against the contract already made. But the danger of signing these receipts where, as in many cases, no definite contract exists, is apparent. If, as very often happens, the article is published with illustrations furnished by the author, signature to such a receipt means that the author is precluded from using the illus- trations in any other quarter, save with the magazine’s sanction. This is a very serious matter for a writer who contemplates publica- tion of a book on the same subject dealt with in the magazine article. He clearly cannot use the illustrations—having given over the copyright to the magazine—and may find it very difficult to write his book without infringing the copyright of the magazine in respect of the article he has contributed to its pages. When the receipt form appears at the back of the cheque, as it sometimes does, the author’s position is even more difficult. If he alters the form the bank will refuse tocash the cheque, if he adds his signature the copyright is trans- ferred to the magazine. All he can do in such a case is to endorse the cheque and write a letter to the editor explaining that he denies the magazine’s claim to his copyright but has made the endorsement merely in order to get the cash due to him. If he retains a copy of this letter, it will always be available as evi- dence in case of dispute. Other than this he can do nothing, except refuse the cheque and sue the magazine for the amount in the County Court. Tue Unit oF AN EpITion. SomE time ago the Publishers’ Association agreed to define the word “impression” as the reproduction of a book without alteration, and the word “ edition” as the reproduction of a book with alterations and changes, but these definitions, though adhered to by some % CF. = ‘ig <f r st ah THE AUTHOR. 119 of the best houses, seem to have but little weight. Advertisements in the papers con- stantly announce 3rd, 4th and Sth edition, one publisher advertises regularly his list of novels with figures after the more popular ones of the number of the edition, but even if the announcement had .been 3rd, 4th and Sth impression, the result to the public would be absolutely valueless, for the Publishers’ Associa- tion have never troubled to define the unit of an impression. Some books go to press with a first impression of 10,000 copies, and a case has been known where a book has been adver- tised as in its third “‘ edition ”’ when only thirty copies have been sold. Is it not possible for the booksellers to get together to settle this important question, and prevent the frequent cheating of the public in this matter by certain unscrupulous producers ? Memorr oF Grorce Panmer PUTNAM. G. P. Purnam’s Sons have published a, ‘Memoir of George Palmer Putnam,” by George Haven Putnam, Litt.D., together with an account of the earlier years of the publishing house founded by him. The volume describes the career of a representative American publisher, and con- stitutes also a contribution to the history of international literary relations. A separate chapter gives an account of Mr. Putnam’s work in behalf of International Copyright, work that was begun as far back as 1837. The narrative includes reminiscences of life in London in the early °40’s, and references to men of letters and other persons of distinc- tion on both sides of the Atlantic. Among the persons with whom Mr. Putnam had personal relations may be mentioned Louis Napoleon, Washington Irving, Bayard Taylor, Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Sumner, Sergeant Talfourd, Elisée Réclus, Fredrika Bremer, Susan Warner, Longfellow, Dana, Emerson, Curtis, the alleged Dauphin (Louis XVII.), Commodore Perry, Lincoln, Bryant, and many other noteworthy characters of generations that have passed. —_— SIR GEORGE HOWARD DARWIN, K.C.B., F.R.S., LL.D. Sa E deeply regret to record the death of Sir George Howard Darwin, F.R.S., which occurred late in November, after some months of hopeless illness. Sir George Darwin, who was Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in the University of Cambridge, was the second son of the celebrated author of the “* Origin of Species.” He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge ; took high mathematical honours, and duly became a Fellow of his college. While holding his Fellowship at Trinity he was called to the Bar, but soon returned to Cambridge and the pursuit of mathematics, and was elected in the year 1883 to the Plumian Pro- fessorship, which he held at the time of his death. From 1883 forward he devoted him- self to the study of higher mathematics, especially in relation to astronomy and physical geography, and four volumes of his scientific papers have been published upon astronomical and geographical subjects, the tides, and allied phenomena in the solar system. He twice received presentation medals from the Royal Society, holding also the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, of which body he was President in 1899. In 1905 Professor Darwin, as he then was, was elected President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. This was the year in which the Association met at Cape Town. On this occasion Professor Darwin took as the subject of his address ‘* Evolution,” and showed how enormously the term had widened its scope since the days when his illustrious father first applied the principle as a working hypothesis to the history of organic life. He showed that nowadays the theory of evolution is applied not only to organic life but to the very constitution of the universe itself. The address was at the same time so easy to understand, and yet so obviously founded upon the deepest learning, that it was immediately read by all, and there is no doubt that it exer- cised a real influence upon contemporary thought. Our Society has to regret in Sir George Darwin, who received his knighthood in 1905, one of its oldest members. He joined the Society in 1884, and has been a regular sup- porter of its objects and efforts throughout. COMMITTEE ELECTION. +4 bay pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of Association of the Society, the committee give notice that the election of members of the Committee of Management will be pro- ceeded with in the following manner :— 120 (1) One-third of the members of the present Committee of Management retire from office in accordance with Article 17. (2) The names of the retiring members are :— Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, G. Bernard Shaw, J. W. Comyns Carr, Francis Storr. (3) The date fixed by the committee up to which nominations by the subscribing members of candidates for election to the new committee may be made is February 8. (4) The committee nominate the following candidates, being subscribing members of the Society, to fill the vacancies caused by the retirement of one-third of the’ committee, according to the constitution :— J. W. Comyns Carr, Mrs. Perrin, G. Bernard Shaw, Francis Storr. The committee remind the members that, under Article 19 of the amended Articles of Association “ any two subscribing members of the Society may nominate one or more sub- scribing members other than themselves, not exceeding the number of vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent to the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed by the candi- date or candidates expressing willingness to accept the duties of the post. The complete list of candidates will be printed in the March issue of The Author. een CEE THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE. —— FN order to give members of the Society, should they desire to appoint a fresh member to the Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has been the custom to place in The Author a complete statement of the method of election under the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund. Under that scheme the committee is composed of three members elected by the committee of the Society, three members elected by the Society at the general meeting, and the chairman of the Society for the time being ew officio. The three members elected by the Society are Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mr. Owen Seaman, and Mr. M. H. Spielmann. This year Mr. M. H. Spielmann retires under the scheme and submits his name for re-election. The members have, however, power to put forward other names under clause 9, which runs as follows :— THE AUTHOR. “ Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com- mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by at leagt three members of the society. A list of the names of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members of the society, with the annual report of the managing committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the Pension Fund Committee.” In case any member should desire to refer to ; the list of members, the list taking the elections up to the end of July, 1907, was published in October of that year. This list was complete at the date of issue, with the exception of the ve thirty-eight members referred to in the short ; preface. All subsequent elections have been duly chronicled in The Author. It will be as well, therefore, should any mem- ber desire to put forward a candidate, to take the matter within his immediate considera- tion. The general meeting of the Society is usually held in March. It is essential that all nominations should be in the hands of the secre- tary before January 31, 1913. —_————— 06-9 THE LATE MR. COLERIDGE-TAYLOR. — 1 Tue following correspondence has recently appeared in The Times and is printed with the kind permission of the Editor. (1) TO THE EDITOR OF The Times. Str,—An appeal is being made for the widow and children of the late Mr. Coleridge-Taylor. It seems perti- nent to inquire why a composer who wrote so widely successful a composition as Hiawatha, a work which is frequently performed all over England and America, should have left so little provision for his family. The Society of Authors, having noticed the case, and being anxious to help the dependents of Mr. Coleridge- Taylor as far as possible, have inquired from Messrs, - Novello and Co. whether Hiawatha produced a royalty for the composer and his heirs. This question the firm has answered by saying that the copyright of all the late Mr. Coleridge-Taylor’s compositions has been assigned to themselves. Here we have an admirable example of the trouble that may and often does follow upon the outright sale of literary or artistic property. It cannot be too clearly said that, because of the uncertainty of the value of this property, its outright sale must be attended with risk either to the creator of the work or to its purchaser. One or other party to such bargains is bound to suffer, and it is our experience at the Society of Authors that it is the author of the work who is generally disappointed by the result of the disposal of copyright. But whatever be the outcome of any particular transaction, a system is bad in business which by its capricious event leaves behind it either a recollection of pecuniary loss with the publisher or a deep sense of injustice with the author. There is not THE AUTHOR. one way, and one way only, of publishing that ought to be followed, and in special circumstances the outright sale of a work is the natural sequel to the terms of the commission for writing it. But in all the usual circumstances, and especially in the case of young writers and composers, the disposal of copyright is to be absolutely avoided, and the royalty system should be adopted. Under the royalty system the author shares in any fortune that may attend his work, and the publisher will neither lose money by the purchase of property that brings him in no adequate return nor be faced with the delicate task of giving as a present to an author some portion of the money that would have accrued to the author under an intelligent sharing of interests. The Society of Authors understand that Mr, Coleridge- Taylor was refused a royalty and was given only small sums for conveying to Messrs. Novello and Co, the copy- right of Hiawatha, . That is the state of the case as com- municated to the committee of management of the Society, whose opinion is that if a reasonable royalty on the sales of Hiawatha had been forthcoming it would have provided sufficient money for the dependents without any appeal to the public. It is fair to the composer’s memory as a hardworking and careful man that the public should know that he did provide with his brains a work which, under the royalty method of dealing with literary and artistic property, would have supported his family after his death, while making him more comfortable during his life. I am, yours faithfully, S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Society of Authors. 39, Old Queen-street, Storey’s-gate, S.W., Nov. 22. (2) To THE EpIToR OF Zhe Times. S1r.—Our attention has been called to a letter in yout issue of yesterday’s date in which Dr. 8. Squire Sprigge makes certain recommendations with reference to the pub- lishing of authors’ works on the royalty system, and inci- dentally commits himself to certain statements reflecting upon the terms on which we publish works by the late S$. Coleridge-Taylor. We do not quarrel with Dr. Sprigge’s recommendations. The royalty system is one which we adopted over forty years ago, and of which we have ever since made constant use in suitable cases. There are, however, numerous cases where the composer prefers to sell his copyright absolutely, without any royalty or reservation : and it is characteristic of young and unknown composers that they usually desire to sell their works outright. We are in the habit generally of publishing on whichever footing the composer prefers ; but we do not admit that, where a publisher purchases a work outright and is fortunate enough to avoid a loss, there is any ground for suggesting that an “injustice” is thereby inflicted upon the composer, unless Dr. Sprigge considers that where loss results to the publisher he also is the victim of an ‘‘ injustice.” As regards his statements, Dr. Sprigge’s letter is both misleading and inaccurate. The author of a work on ‘“‘ Methods of Publishing ” ought not to have invited your readers to draw the inference that, because a composer assigns the copyright of his work, he necessarily deprives himself of all further pecuniary interest init. It is true that Coleridge-Taylor assigned to us the copyright of all his works published by us (not the copyright of all his compositions, as inaccurately stated by Dr. Sprigge), but he retained a royalty interest in many of them. The statement ‘‘as communicated to the committee” of Dr. Sprigge’s society, that Coleridge-Taylor was refused a royalty on Hiawatha is untrue. He accepted gladly the 121 terms that were offered to him. Moreover, he from time to- time offered us the copyright of every similar work that he ever wrote. There are six of them. The first three he sold outright ; the later (and more successful) ones all bear royalties. He therefore was a typical instance of the young composer who prefers to sell outright until he has made a reputation, and who thereafter prefers the royalty system. Weare, Sir, yours faithfully, NOvVELLO AND Co. (LTD.). 160, Wardour-street, W., Nov. 27. (3) To THE EpIToR OF The Times. S1R,—Messrs. Novello and Co. describe my letter published in your issue of November 26th as misleading and inaccurate. It was true and to the point. Incidentally it was directed mainly to the broad issues of just publishing and not to the pecuniary arrangements between Messrs. Novello and Co. and the late Mr. Coleridge-Taylor ; but the outcome of these arrangements having become a public question, owing: to an appeal being made to the public in behalf of the dependants of the late Mr. Coleridge-Taylor, perhaps his publishers are right in discussing their relations with the dead composer. They say that Mr. Coleridge-Taylor was not refused a royalty and “accepted gladly the terms that were offered to him.’ We are informed that he was refused a royalty. Messrs. Novello and Co. say that Mr. Coleridge-Taylor “ was a typical instance of the young composer who prefers to sell outright until he has made a reputation.” The second and third parts of Hiawatha were written after he had made an enormous reputation by the publication of the first part. Both Messrs. Novello and Co. and I were talking of works published by their firm—no others could be in ques- tion. I refer them to their letter to me of November 16th. In the “Methods of Publishing,” written more than 20 years ago, I am glad to find that the position of the author who, having assigned his copyright, still enjoys a pecuniary interest in his work, is described at full length. Messrs- Novello and Co. suggest otherwise, or their allusion to my ancient little book is meaningless. What the public would like to know—as Messrs. Novello and Co. have brought this aspect of the matter prominently forward—is, How much the composer received for Hiawatha (whether he sold his property gladly or not) ; and how much the publishers received and are receiving by publishing the same work. I am, yours faithfully, S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, Chairman of the Commit- tee of Management of the Society of Authors. 39, Old Queen-street, Storey's-gate, S.W., November 28th. (4) To THE EpIToR OF Zhe Times. Str.—Messrs. Novello and Co. ought to be more accurate in the statements they have made in reply to the admirable letter of the chairman of the Society of Authors. When they state that Coleridge-Taylor ‘‘ was a typical instance of the young composer who prefers to sell outright until he has made a reputation” they have had a lapse of memory which can be corrected by a reference to their correspond- ence records. When Coleridge-Taylor was a scholar of the Royal College of Music he composed a Ballade for Violin and Orchestra (Op. 5), which Sir George Grove and I considered worthy of publication, and he sent it to Messrs. Novello. They offered to publish it on_his assigning to them the copyright in return for a few (I think it was 20) copies of 122 the work when published. He wrote a letter, of which Sir George Grove and I thoroughly approved, admitting that as a beginner he did not expect to be paid for the copy- right, but asking Messrs. Novello if they would agree to name the number of copies the sale of which would fully cover all expenses of publication, and. after these were sold, to give him a royalty. This the firm refused to do in a letter which I held in my hand, of which I well remem- ber the contents, and of which Messrs. Novello, having, of course, a copy in their books, will, no doubt, present the public with a faithful transcript. It amply explained the reason why young composers, with the glamour of print before their eyes, too often have to accept (gladly ?) such terms as are offered to them. Hiawatha was published in two scctions. The first, “ Hiawatha’s Wedding,” the composer (gladly, of course) sold outright. For how much? Will Messrs. Novello deny that he asked for a royalty on Parts II. and LIT. in conse- quence of the great success of Part I. and was refused it ? What were the terms which he gladly accepted, and what were the profits which Messrs. Novello no less gladly have made? Do they number //iawatha amongst his less successful works?) When the public are in possession of these easily ascertainable facts they will be in a position to judge of the situation. If the terms were just, as Messrs. Novello imply, their publication can only redound to the reputation of the firm. If the terms are withheld, they cannot complain if the British public draws its own conclusions from the specimen of outright sale which I have given above, and from the sum of £800 odd at which probate of the composer's estate was sworn. Yours faithfully, CHARLES V. STANFORD, Athenzeum Club, November 28th. (5) To THE Epiror oF Zhe Zimes. SirR,—Sir Charles Stanford having appeared in this correspondence, we may conclude that he is the informant referred to twice by Dr. Sprigge. We will pass over Dr. Sprigge’s letter appearing in your issue of Saturday, as it calls for no reply, and we will deal with that of Sir Charles Stanford dated November 28th. Sir Charles Stanford is perfectly correct in stating that we agreed to publish Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in D for Violin and Orchestra, and that we acquired the copyright in exchange for a number of copies of the work. The composer consulted his guardian and Dr. Hubert Parry, and on January 11th, 1895, wrote the head of our publishing office that they advised him to agree to these terms. On January 2st, 1895, we received a letter in which the composer definitely stated that he wished us to publish on the terms suggested. Here therefore we have a contract completed to the satis- faction of all parties—the composer on the one side, backed by his guardian and one of the professors of his college, and ourselves on the other. On February Ist of the same year the head of our publishing office received a letter from the composer (presumably the letter referred to by Sir Charles Stanford as having received the thorough approval of Sir George Grove and himself) from which we quote the following :— ‘‘T am writing you an account of a most awkward com- plication that has arisen regarding my Violin ‘ Ballade.’ As you are aware, Dr. Parry advised me to accept your terms of publication as they stood, and I herefore did so. Unhappily, however, Dr. Stanford (whom I am studying with) sees fit to interfere and make it most uncomfortable for me. - « He says that there can be no possible objection to my asking you (or rather Novellos) to grant me a small royalty on each copy (if there are enough copies THE AUTHOR. sold) after you have paid expenses. Of course. this ig nothing whatever to do with you, as I have already agreed to your conditions.” On receipt of this communication we wrote on February 5th the letter of which Sir Charles Stanford sarcastically asks us to present the public with a faithful transcript. It was as follows :— ‘In reply to your letter of the Ist inst. addressed to our Mr. Jaeger, we regret being unable to alter our terms for publishing your Ballade. We would in fact much prefer your publishing the piece elsewhere, and we shall therefore destroy the plates which we have already engraved.” Thus declining to reopen at the bidding of Sir Charles Stanford a contract deliberately entered into, but at the same time offering to annul it. To this the composer replied on February 7th :— “* Please do not destroy the plates of my Violin ‘ Ballade,’ I am afraid my last letter was misunderstood. I only wanted to tell Dr. Stanford that I had asked you what he desired and also the result, therefore do kindly go on with the printing.” Our answer to this on the same day was as follows :— ‘‘At your special wish and request we will continue the printing of your Violin ‘ Ballade’ and will publish it on the terms originally agreed between us, Of course, if you chose to pay the cost of printing we would publish the work for you and you would receive all profits which might result.” : Again you will note our offer to annul the contract. On the same day the composer writes again :— ‘‘ Dear Sirs,—I have much pleasure in accepting your offer of twenty-five copies of the piano arrangement of my Violin ‘ Ballade’ in exchange for the copyright.” Here the correspondence ends, and the work was duly published. Was it the glamour of print which induced Coleridge- Taylor to accept our terms? Was it not rather the desire to place his work before the public under favourable cir- cumstances and to get his name known? Sir Charles Stanford assigned to us the copyright of his No. 4 Sym- phony, Op. 31, and his Suite for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 32, for the sum of one shilling, having induced us to publish by presenting us with the copyright of four part- songs. Later on—indeed, within a few months of the Coleridge-Taylor contract—Sir Charles Stanford persuaded us to publish his Trio in E flat, Op. 35, without exacting any fee or royalty whatsoever, by presenting us with the copyright of his Morning and Communion Service in A. Are we to be taken to task because we formed the same opinion of Coleridge-Taylor’s Op. 4 as Sir Charles Stanford himself formed of his own Op. 31, 32, and 35 ? In reply to Sir Charles Stanford’s question, “ Wil Messrs. Novello deny that he asked for a royalty on Parts II. and II]. in consequence of the great success of Part I. of Hiawatha and was refused it?” the answer is in the atlirmative. The question of a royalty in connexion with this work, either as a whole or in part, was never raised. Yours faithfully, NOVELLO AND Co. (LTD.). 160, Wardour-street, W., Dec. 3. (6) To THE Eprror oF Zhe Times. S1r,—Messrs. Novello have not answered the two main questions about /fiawatha: whether they number. it amongst his less successful works, and what and where are the profits in which the composer should have had a share, a the royalty, of February Ist, 1895, THE AUTHOR. _ It isobvious from the extracts of correspondence which they have printed (1) that the letter of Mr. Coleridge-Taylor is not the document to which I referred ; (2) that Messrs. Novello did refuse a royalty, advised him to go elsewhere, and announced their intention + of destroying the plates if the royalty were insisted upon : a sufficient deterrent to any young composer who (naturally) wished to keep on good terms with the firm and hoped for better things in future. I need scarcely say that the letter I saw, which asked for was, as far as my cognizance went, previous to _. any agreement on the part of the composer to assign the 25 copies, and must therefore be copyright in return for of earlier date than the letters printed by Messrs. Novello. | I would never be a party to the repudiation of a signed flat was published, not “ within a few contract. The cloud of personalities with which Messrs. Novello have sought to conceal the main issue, Hiawatha, it is not _ necessary for me to deal with further than to say that their yersion is precisely the reverse of the facts. My works to which they allude were offered to Messrs. Novello (at that time my publishers) in the usual way ; they only accepted them on the condition that I helped to pay for them with more gratuitous brain-work. The Trio in E months of the Coleridge-Taylor contract,” but six years previously. I have Von Biilow’s letter acknowledging the printed copy (it was dedicated to him), dated December 5th, 1889. This is - asufficient comment on Messrs. Novello’s accuracy of statement, But these matters are not to the point. The question is Hiawatha, its profits and where they went, and the grounds upon which the appeal to the public for the composer’s family has been rendered necessary at all. This Messrs. Novello do not answer, and the public can now draw its own conclusions. Yours faithfully, CHARLES V, STANFORD. 50, Holland-street, Kensington, W., December 4th. (7) To THE EpiTor or Zhe Times. .Srr,—We note with satisfaction that in Sir Charles Stanford’s reply, appearing in your issue of to-day, he apparently abandons the statements, originally made by Dr. Sprigge, and subsequently adopted by himself in the form of a question, that Coleridge-Taylor was refused a royalty on Hiawatha—we may therefore conelude that he admits the inaccuracy of the suggestion. Sir Charles Stanford states that he would “never be a party to the repudiation of a signed contract.” Every one who knows Sir Charles will be quite convinced of the truth of that statement. Having regard, however, to the facts disclosed in Coleridge-Taylor’s letter of February 1, 1895, addressed to the head of our publishing office, it would appear that Sir Charles’s advice to Coleridge-Taylor, with reference to the “ Ballade” contract, was not altogether well considered, for it might have led that young composer to repudiate his contract. We once more assert emphatically that no royalty on Coleridge-Taylor’s “Ballade” was either asked for or refused, until after the contract had been made. If it is obvious, from the extracts of the correspondence printed in our previous letter, that the letter of February 5th is not the document to which Sir Charles referred, we can only say that we wrote no other answering his description, and that the correspondence as filed in our office is in itself absolutely complete. We owe Sir Charles Stanford an apology in regard to our statement that, within a few moaths of the Coleridge- Taylor contract, Sir Charles himself had persuaded us to 123 publish his Trio (Opus 35) by presenting us with the copy- right of his Morning and Communion Service in A. This is incorrect. As Sir Charles says, his Trio was published in 1889, on November 13th of that year, to be exact. The publication of the Trio, however, did not complete the transaction. Sir Charles had still to deliver the manuscript of his Morning and Communion Service in A, and that he did not do till nearly five years afterwards—viz., on September 27th, 1894. We executed the assignment of the copyright on the following day ; and that was the transac- tion which we ought to have referred to as having taken place within a few months of the Coleridge-Taylor contract. We do not understand Sir Charles’s reference to “ the cloud of personalities” which he says we introduced to conceal ‘the main issue.’ He invited us to present the public with a faithful transcript of a certain letter. To make that letter intelligible we had necessarily to quote from the previous correspondence. The personalities, at all events, were not ours, and the whole subject of Coleridge- Taylor's ‘* Ballade” was introduced by Sir Charles. Neither do we understand Sir Charles’s view of “the main issue.” According to our view, “the main issue” is that originally put forward by Dr. Sprigge, that Coleridge- Taylor was refused a royalty on Hiawatha, and we regard everything else that has been introduced into this corre- spondence as irrelevant to that issue. We were interested only in controverting statements of alleged facts—first as regards the supposed refusal to grant a royalty on Hiawatha and secondly as regards a similar statement by Sir Charles as regards the ‘ Ballade.” We think that we have now disposed of both statements. If Sir Charles Stanford supposes that we are likely to gratify his curiosity as to what and where are the profits made by us with reference to Hiawatha or any other of our publications, we are afraid that we must disappoint him. As business men we do not feel called upon to dis- close the secrets of our business to him, or to any one else. We regard all questions addressed to us on such matters, whether they are directed to profits or losses, as entirely improper, and we resent them, as we are sure Sir Charles Stanford would if a question were addressed to him inviting him to disclose the amounts of the emoluments derived by him from his professorship at the Royal College of Music, and to account for his application of them. Yours faithfully, NoVELLO AND Co, (LTD.). 160, Wardour-street, W., December 6th. (8) To THE Epiror oF The Times. Str,—Messrs. Novello and Co. assume that our sole informant concerning the conditions under which Mr. Coleridge-Taylor published his works was Sir Charles Stanford. They are wrong. They say that Mr. Coleridge- Taylor was not refused a royalty. The real question is— Did he obtain a royalty? ‘The main issue” put forward originally by me was not the one that has been set out by Messrs. Novello and Co. in their letter in Zhe Times of December 7th. My desire was, and is, to state that under a fair royalty system such -an unfortunate position as we have in Mr. Coleridge-Taylor’s case—viz., the need for a pecuniary appeal to the public in behalf of the dead author of a famous and popular work—could not occur often. For the author would have received during his lifetime, and his dependants would be receiving after his death, a due share of the profits earned by his work and genius. Yours faithfully, S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, Chairman of the Committee of Manage- ment of the Society of Authors. 124 (9) TO THE EpITor OF Zhe Times. Sir,—A week has passed since Dr. Sprigge asked Messrs. Novello & Co. whether Coleridge-Taylor ultimately received any royalty upon Hiawatha. The chairman of the Society of Authors is naturally concernedt with the depreca- tion of a bad and the exposition of a good principle rather than with special instances, But to the admirers of Coleridge-Taylor and the well-wishers of the distinguished firm whose reputation is now at stake there remains a more pressing question. Whatever the past arrangement, will Mrs. Coleridge-Taylor now have any substantial share of the annual profits on her husband's successful masterpiece ? It is already apparent that the composer’s untimely death will have given an impetus to the sale of his works. Profits will come in year by year not into the wrong pocket but into only one of two right pockets, leaving the other empty and (in this case) needy. When this cannot be rectified it concerns no one. But when a stroke of the gainer’s pen can rectify it, no verbal explanations about the sanctity of contracts or the privacy of accounts can do any good, A state of things which continues to pain the disinterested must become unbearable to those directly interested, and those who have known Messrs. Novello & Co. courteously willing to make royalty agreements cannot but believe that they will make such a practical reply as alone can silence their critics and tend to reassure their friends. I am, Sir, faithfully yours, H. WALFORD DAVIES. December 15th. > t— THE DINNER. ees FFE annual dinner of the Society of Authors was held at the Hotel Cecil on Thursday, December 5, Mr. Maurice Hewlett, the Chairman, presiding over a gathering of close upon 200 members and their friends. At the High Table were seated the Hon. Mr. Justice Darling (on the left of the Chairman), Sir Thomas Barclay, Sir Alfred Bateman, Mr. Robert Bateman, and Miss Georgiana Bateman, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Mrs. Frankau, Mrs. J. G. Fraser, Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, Mr. C. Lewis Hind, Professor W. P. Ker, Sir Frederick Macmillan, Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mrs. Perrin, Miss May Sinclair, and Mr. Hugh Walpole. Sir William Richmond, who should have occupied the seat on the Chairman’s right, was unfortunately unable to be present. At the seven lower tables Mr. Aylmer Maude, Mr. W. W. Jacobs, Miss Beatrice Harraden, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge (Chairman of the Com- mittee of Management), Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mr. L. J. Vance, and Mr. G. I. Thring, presided. At the conclusion of the dinner, after he had given the usual loyal toasts, Mr. Maurice Hewlett rose again to propose that of The Society of Authors. There came into his A THE AUTHOR. mind, he said, Sancho Panza’s variant of the proverb, “‘ Out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Of course he had no intention of uttering the words of that variant now. But they might at least ask themselves whether authorship throve better in comfort or discomfort. This was the kind of question which Sancho Panza’s proverb might well suggest to their prosperous and growing organisation. For they were flourishing. The membership of the Society was now within a few hundreds of 8,000. New members had joined at the rate of one for every day in the year. It came to this, that between them the committee, chairman, and secretary, had made the status of an author a respectable thing, in the trade sense of the word, and were now proceeding to make it a comfortable thing as well. He himself, however, shared the anarchical essence at the bottom of all authorship. He was against the extension of trade union ideas to their profession. Such ideas could not make him personally write a good book or sell a bad one. There was a pride of literature, which could be seen notably in the cases of Byron and Dr. Johnson. Authors had a right, when they chose, to “ poverty, total idleness, and the pride of literature.” The Society of Authors could not conflict with or abolish this pride. But of the worth of the Society’s work there could be no doubt. If they wished for an object-lesson concerning its value to artists, they need only turn to a recent correspondence in The Times, wherein Dr. Squire Sprigge, Sir Charles Stanford and others had been breaking spears. There they might see an unorganized art striving to bring itself into line with literature. There they would be shown, too, the condition of affairs from which, by the help of the Society and its officers, literature had long ago set itself free. Alluding to the question of copyright, Mr. Hewlett said that there could not be the slightest doubt of the importance to them of this and of the common law right of everyone, whether artist or artisan, to the full market value of his work. The Society of Authors was their guardian in such matters, and he would mention particularly the labours of Dr. Squire Sprigge and Mr. Thring, their chairman of committee and secretary. He gave them the toast of “* The Society of Authors.” Sir Mortimer Durand, in proposing ‘‘ The Guests,” said that they always had on these occasions many distinguished ones, and this night was no exception. There was Mr. Jus- tice Darling, representing the Bench—the Palladium of our liberty, with no equal any- where else in the world. He could himself speak from experience of the reputation of British justice in India. Sir William Rich- mond, unfortunately, was not present, but he could not refrain from mentioning him in spite of his absence, for he was an unwavering upholder of the best traditions of art in this country. They saw before them Professor Ker, Sir Frederick Macmillan, Chairman of the Publishers’ Association, and many others whom they were most glad to welcome in their midst to-night. Mr. Justice Darling, responding, lamented the fact that there was ‘“‘no Richmond in the field,”’ as there should have been to assist him in returning thanks. He could only say that after this desertion he should look upon Sir William as a Futurist in disguise. With regard to authors he might remind them that there was once a time when they did nothing else but write books from morn to night—a practice which certainly did not make for the best kind of author. They wrote then about affairs which they did not understand, about a world which they had never visited, and sometimes, in despair, about the next world. Many of those, however, who had written the best books had been busy in other directions. One of the best or the worst—if he remembered rightly, it was dedicated to the Pope and later on was put upon the Index—was the work of a person who was reverently known as I Segretario Florentino. If they called him by that name, nobody expressed disapprobation. But if one spoke of Machiavelli, all who had derived any profit from his counsels held up their hands in horror. He need hardly tell them that this remark applied to all the diplomatists of Europe. It was possible, he continued, that some of those who were now writing books might one day have to come before him in his official capacity, particularly if they wrote little books. For a little book was properly a libellus— anglicé, a libel. To such he would give a piece of useful advice, whereby they could secure absolute immunity for themselves and put forth as many libels as they liked, without having to pay damages. Let them form the Society of Authors into a trade union. Better still, let them incorporate all the newspapers with them and publish everything, not under their own names, but under that of the union. Then they would run no danger from the law. The toast of “The Chairman” was next given by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, who briefly expressed her pleasure in so doing. THE AUTHOR. 125 Mr. Hewlett declared that wild Furies should not drag another speech from him, but he desired to thank his old friend for proposing and all those present for their kind reception of the toast. He then asked members and their guests to remove to the adjoining rooms. Here the usual conversazione was held, in which some members took part who had been unable to arrive in time for the dinner. — Pro- ceedings terminated about eleven o clock. a UNITED STATES NOTES, + HERE were no signs of a declining out- put on the part of American authors during the past half-year. Rather the reverse, in fact, and it will probably be found by the end of 1912 that the average of recent years has been beaten handsomely. The “fall list’? is so heavy that it is positively embarrassing to attempt to discriminate between the books which deserve mention and those that do not. In the realm of fiction especially, the multi- tude of new works is bewildering. I should not envy the task of anyone who tried to read all the new novels which have passed through the printing press of late. I certainly have not made the try myself. However, I submit, for what it is worth, a selection of names which have attracted attention. Basil King’s ‘‘ The Street called Straight ” properly belongs to the earlier half of the year just closing. But it has leapt into prominence since I last wrote, and has occupied for some time now an enviable place among the “ best sellers.”’ Others that have figured in the same list are David Graham Phillips’s ‘‘ The Price She Paid’; Harold Bell Wright’s *‘ Their Yesterdays”’; D. H. Munger’s “ The Wind before the Dawn”; W. D. Orcutt’s ‘“ The Moth”; Richard Washburn Child’s ‘‘ The Blue Wall”; and Holman Day’s ‘‘ The Red Lane.” The following stories are all from women’s pens, and have all met with a most favourable reception :—Mary Johnston’s *‘ Cease Firing ”’ (in which General Lee is the chief hero); M. E. Wilkins Freeman’s “‘ The Yates Pride”; Mary Waller’s *“‘ A Cry in the Wilderness ” ; Caroline Lockhart’s ‘‘ The Lady Doc.’”’ ; Mary Austin’s “4 Woman of Genius’’?; Sarah Comstock’s “The Soddy”’; Florence Olmstead’s “ Mrs. Eli and Policy Ann’; Alice Hegan Rice’s ‘““A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill”; E. W. 126 Peattie’s “* Azalea’ ; Caroline Abbot Stanley’s “The Master of ‘The Oaks’’’; Florence Morse Kingsley’s ** Miss Philura’s Wedding ”’ ; Elizabeth Kent’s “Who?” ; Edith Delano’s ‘“ Zebedee V.?; Maud Howard Peterson’s “The Sanctuary’; Adele Knight’s ‘‘ The Right to Reign”; Clara Louise Burnham’s “The Inner Flame’; L. M. Montgomery’s “Chronicles of Avonlea’; Mary Roberts Rinehart’s ‘‘ Where there’s a Will ’’; and the late Myrtle Reed’s ** The White Shield.” To come to the men: James Lane Allen has produced ** The Heroine in Bronze’; Richard Harding Davis, ‘“‘The Red Cross Girl”; F. Hopkinson Smith, “The Armchair at the Inn”; G. B. McCutcheon, ‘‘ The Hollow of Her Hand”; Harold MacGrath, ‘‘ The Place of Honeymoons”? ; L. J. Vance, “* The Destroy- ing Angel”; Robert W. Chambers, ‘“ The Streets of Ascalon”; George Randolph Chester, “The Jingo”’: Norman Duncan, “The Best of a Bad Job”: and Stewart Edward White, “ The Sign of Six ”—a new departure for him, being a detective novel. Two posthumous works are Jacques Fut- relle’s “My Lady’s Garter” and Vaughan Kester’s ‘*‘ The Fortunes of the Landrays.” Note must also be made of “* The Unknown Quantity,” by Henry Van Dyke; ‘‘ The Red Button,” by Will Irwin; “ The Closing Net,”’ by H. C. Rowland; ‘ The Seer,” by P. M. Sheehan; ‘‘ The Secret of Lonesome Creek,”’ by S. H. Adams; * Friar Tuck,” by R. A, Wason ; * The Net,’ by Rex Beach; “ Charge It,” by Irving Bacheller; ‘‘ The Soul of a Tenor,” by W. J. Henderson; ‘‘ The Woman of It,” by Mark Luther; and of three novels based upon successful plays—‘* Shenandoah,” by Henry Tyrrell; “The Return of Peter Grimm,” by David Belasco; and ‘“ The Woman,” by A. P. Terhune. Several interesting and important bio- graphies have seen the light within a com- paratively short space of time. There is “Mark Twain,” by Albert Bigelow Paine; there is ‘The Life of Andrew Jackson,” by Professor J. Spencer Bassett; and there is “A Memoir of George Palmer Putnam,” by his son, George Haven Putnam, the present head of the great publishing firm. Mr. Putnam is also responsible for a small autobiographical work, “* A Prisoner of War in Virginia, 1864—5.”’ Civil War heroes’ lives and memoirs are numerous, perhaps the most notable being the *“* Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States,’ which General Jubal Early left behind him at his death; and J. W. du Bose’s “‘ General Joseph Wells and THE AUTHOR. the Army of the Tennessee.” The latest additions to the American Crisis Biographies are “ Ulysses S. Grant,” by F. S. Edmonds, and “ Robert Toombs,” by U. B. Phillips. H. S. Morris’s ‘“* William T. Richards” is the life of an American painter; and in ‘ Anson Burlingame and the First Chinese Mission to Foreign Powers’? Frederick Wells Williams pays a tribute to one of China’s earliest American friends. One of the latest of these, on the other hand, was Homer Lea, who has died since he brought out ‘‘ The Day of the Saxon,” but in the interval succeeded in making himself famous by his association with the Chinese revolutionists, in whose army he held the rank of general. Lea was a curious and versatile person, but his ‘‘ Day of the Saxon ”’ is scarcely a serious contribution to historical study, nor has the American reading public been much disturbed by the author’s pro- phecies. ‘‘ The Chinese Revolution,” by A. Judson Brown, and ‘* Where Half the World is Waking Up,” by C. H. Roe, are both concerned with the new aspect of things in the Far East. And Judge J. H. Blount’s “The American Occupation of the Philippines,” as its title shows, deals with the changes wrought by the advent of a comparatively recent intruder into the same part of the world. W. R. Scott’s “The Americans in Panama” treats of the practical, and Joseph Pennell’s ‘“* Pictures of the Panama Canal” of the artistic, aspect of the latest move of the United States towards the ardently desired’ mastery of the Pacific Ocean. Other works which may be put under the heading of travel and description are: ‘‘ The Flowing Road,” by Caspar Whitney; “ In the Amazon Jungle,” by Algot Lange; and “Through South America,” by H. W. Van Dyke—all concerned with the southern part of the New World; J. W. Williams’s ‘*‘ The Guardians of the Columbia”? and ‘“ The' Mountain that is God”; J. W. Underwood’s ‘* The New Alaska ”’; Charles Sheldon’s ** Wil- derness of the North Pacific Coast Islands ”’ ; and 8. A. Bonsal’s ‘‘ American Mediterranean ” —all dealing with the northern part. Further afield are Stewart Edward White’s ‘‘ The Land of Footprints’’ (Africa), and Dwight L. Elmendorf’s ‘‘ A Camera Crusade through the Holy Land.” ‘“ Wild Life and the Camera,” by A. R. Dugmore, is a nature book which has received much praise. Of historical works, Professor Edward Chan- ning’s long expected third volume, bringing down to 1789 his “‘ History of the United States,’ may be allowed to take first place.’ THE AUTHOR. The third volume has also appeared of W. R. Livermore’s “ Story of the Civil War,” and the eighth of J. B. McMaster’s “ History of the People of the United States, from the Revo- lution to the Civil War.” KE. W. Morse’s *“ Causes and Effects in American History ” is small and compact in comparison with these big works. A special period is dealt with in ‘The Relations of Pennsylvania with the British Government, 1696-1765,” by Professor W. T. Root. Constitutional problems are the theme of ‘** Concentration and Control,” by C. R. Van Hise ; ‘‘ Majority Rule and the Judiciary,” by W.L. Ransom; ‘“ The Supreme Court and the Constitution,” by Professor C. A. Beard; “* Our Judicial Oligarchy,” by G. E. Roe ; and ‘The Betts-Roosevelt Letters,’ of which the writers are the ex-President and Mr. Betts, editor of the Lyons Republican. Three feminist books are ‘“ Woman and Social Progress,” by Scott and Nellie Nearing ; ‘“The Advance of Woman,” by Mrs. J. J. Christie ;_ and “‘ Making a Business Woman,” by Anne Shannon Monroe, who tells her story like a novel, but all the same is handling facts. Donald Lowrie’s *“‘ My Life in Prison ’’ adds another to the list of moving and earnest con- tributions to literature by those who have unfortunately learnt by bitter experience what prison means. Perhaps the most interesting volume of essays is Meredith Nicholson’s “ The Provincial American and Other Papers.”” The ‘‘ Collected Works ” of Ambrose Bierce have now reached their twelfth and last tome. “The Religious Life of Ancient Rome,” by J. B. Carter, Director of the American School of Classical Studies in Rome, and “ The Mean- ing of God in Human Experience,” by Professor W. E. Hocking, of Yale, may be picked out as specially noteworthy books on religious matters. I find left over at the end a pair of very incongruous works, which nevertheless both have their interest for many people. One is “ The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady,” by Carolyn Wells, with illustrations by A. D. Blashfield, the Life artist; and the other ““ America’s National Game: The Story of Baseball,” by A. G. Spalding. The obituary, since the last appearance of these ‘‘ Notes,” includes the following names : On June 4, Mrs. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, whose literary activities were divided between poetry, juvenile books, and journalism—the last notably in connection with Harper's Bazaar and the Ladies’ Home Journal. On June 16, Professor William Watson Goodwin, 127 one of America’s most distinguished scholars and the possessor of very numerous foreign honours, including an Oxford D.C.L. On July 8, Henry Arden, author of five volumes on patent law, on which subject he was an expert unrivalled in his own country. On August 2, Dr. Samuel Morley Jackson, Professor of Church History in New York University, and writer of many religious works. _On August 7, Isaac Newton Ford, doyen of the staff of the New York Tribune, which he represented in London alone for seventeen years. On Novem- ber 1, Homer Lea, who has already been men- tioned above. On November 8, Dr. Henry Sylvester Nash, Professor of Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament at Cam- bridge, Mass. On November 10, J. A. Way- land, the Socialist author and founder of two periodicals, The Appeal to Reason and The Coming Nation; he died by his own hand. On November 12, Sophie Miriam Swett, who was a popular writer among children. On November 28, Dr. Edward Curtis, Professor Emeritus of Columbia, and author of various books on medical subjects. Pritip WALSH. -_—_— OOS “THE LITERARY YEAR-BOOK, ILLUSTRATORS’ DIRECTORY AND BOOKMAN’S GUIDE.” * a oo ed HE new volume of the “Literary Year- Book ”’ appears under new auspices, and with some considerable difference in the contents and in their arrangement; and we have much pleasure in saying that we are impressed by a very considerable improvement in the annual. Two omissions will be noticed, that of the index of authors (which does not appear to have been ever altogether satis- factory) and is very little to be regretted, as all the information that can be desired will be found in the very comprehensive ‘“‘ Authors’ Directory.”’ The other omission is that of the index of Foreign publishers and Societies. Respecting this it is explained that the diffi- culties of obtaining information from abroad have led to the omission. No one who has had any dealings with continental correspondents can be ignorant of the proverbial nature of their dilatoriness ; and we find it easy to believe * “The Literary Year-Book, Illustrators’ Directory and Bookman’s Guide,” Vol. XVII., edited by Basil Stewart, London, John Ouseley, 1913. . 128 THE AUTHOR. what is said. We have, in the past, had occa- sion to comment upon the imperfect nature of the information respecting continental pub- lishers contained in the “Literary Year- Book,’’ and we opine that the omission made is a prudent one. A valuable addition is made in the shape of a Directory of Book and Magazine Illustrators an entirely new feature—and this, together with the directory of Authors, and a list of pen names and pseudonyms forms the first part of the new volume. The second part of the annual begins with articles on ‘“‘ Law and Letters.” of which we shall have more to say presently. These are followed by indexes of libraries and of perio- dicals (with notes likely to be valuable to contributors, who will also find very serviceable the additional classified index of periodicals). In the third part are collected information respecting the Nobel and the Prince de Polinac prizes, an Obituary, and information regarding societies and clubs. At the conclusion of this part we notice particularly pages devoted to the different kinds of ‘‘ type faces,”’ as well as the ordinary examples of the different founts. Part IV. contains trade and_ professional information, lists of literary agents, typing and press-cutting offices, booksellers, both town and country, printers, binders, photographers, British, Colonial and American publishers (of whom a classified index is also offered), and some other matters of minor importance, among which we would not overlook a table for calculating royalties. The calendar is relegated to the end of the volume. We must confess that this appears to us to be a singular arrangement, and by no means convenient. Nor do we see why the different parts of the work should have a separate pagination. For reference that is distinctly inconvenient. The new enactments respecting copyright which have come into force in the course of the last year will naturally draw particular atten- tion to the pages on legal matters with which the second part of the annual begins. The terms of the new legislation appear to us to be here well epitomised, and, so far as they go, we are far from wishing to dispute the value of this part of the work. All epitomisation of law must, at the same time, be inadequate, and how- soever well done be liable to mislead ; so that, whilst we have pleasure in praising the editors’ labours here, we cannot sufficiently insist upon warning authors against proceeding, on the strength of what is here put before them, to be their own lawyers without taking professional advice. Exactly the same remarks will apply to the pages (Part IL., pp. 25 ff.) dealing with agreements between authors and agents, or authors and publishers. Amongst other parti- culars in this part of the annual we note, as deserving of attention, “the clause which entitles the agent to collect and receive all monies due under the terms of the agreement, and acknowledges the agent’s receipt as a good and valid discharge, should be signed only with the utmost caution ” (p. 28). “ It is better that [publishers’| accounts should be rendered semi-annually than on the thirtieth of June” (p. 32). “It is difficult to state precisely what degree of similarity constitutes an infringement by one book of the copyright of another. If author and publisher have reason to mistrust each other, the points of likeness covered by the prohibition should be expressly specified’ (p. 33). These are all excellent pieces of advice. We find ‘“‘ The Authors’ Year-Book for 1913’ considerably superior to its prede- cessors, and feel no hesitation about asserting that authors will find the annual more service- able to them than it has been in times past. ee es WHO’S WHO, 1913.* — a 2 7 * have received the annual volume of ) ** Who’s Who ” for 1918, and find that it contains 2,226 pages. The character of the publication is so well known that there is no occasion to dwell upon it here. At the same time so much is contained under the volume’s unpretending title that its real character is very easily overlooked. ‘* Who’s Who ” is in reality a biographical encyclopxdia of living celebrities, and one with whose information very few biographical dictionaries ean compare. It is hardly too much to say that no name of note is omitted. The real test of the value of a biographical dictionary is to observe whether in the case of any name that may be looked up such information as was desired is to be found. We have applied this test to the volume for 1913 with excellent results. Authors should notice that the literary part of the work leaves nothing to be desired; and that they will find not only biographical but also bibliographical informa- tion presenting most convenient lists of all the important works of English living authors. * “Who's Who, 1913.” Sixty-fifth year of issue. A. and,C. Black, London. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Author, Vol. 23 Issue 04 (January 1913) Subject The topic of the resource The Author, Vol. 23 Issue 04 (January 1913) Type The nature or genre of the resource Publication Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 1913-01-01-The-Author-23-4 publications The Author