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Che Butbor.
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors.
FOUNDED BY SIR
Monthly.)
WALTER BESANT.
Vor. XXIV.—No. 3.
DECEMBER 1, 1913.
[PRIcE SIXPENCE.
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
874 VICTORIA.
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:
AUTORIDAD, LONDON.
ge
NOTICES.
4
| ae 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, 1, Cen-
tral Buildings, Tothill Street, Westminster,
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. XXIV.
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.
Messrs. Matthews’ Advertising Service,
Staple Inn Buildings, High Holborn, W.C.,
will act as agents for advertisements for
“The Author.” All communications respect-
ing advertisements should be addressed to
them.
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.
——_—_——_——_+—_—___—_
THE SOCIETY’S FUNDS.
—— ++
ROM time to time members of the Society
desire to make donations to its funds in
recognition of work that has been done
for them. The Committee, acting on the
suggestion of one of these members, have
decided to place this permanent paragraph in
The Author in order that members may be
cognisant of those funds to which these 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, either in fighting a
question of principle, or in assisting to obtain
copyright reform, or in dealing with any other
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matter closely connected with the work of the
Society. . : 8
(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.
————__+—>—_+—___—_
THE PENSION FUND.
—
N January, the secretary of the Society
I laid before the trustees of the Pension
Fund the accounts for the year 1912, as
settled by the accountants. After giving the
matter full consideration, the trustees in-
structed the secretary to invest a sum of £300
in the purchase of Buenos Ayres Great
Southern Railway 4% Extension Shares, 1914,
£16 fully paid. The number of shares pur-
chased at the current price was twenty-five
and the amount invested £296 1s. 1ld. The
trustees are also purchasing three more Central
Argentine Railway New Shares at par, on
which as holders of the Ordinary Stock they
have an option.
The trustees desire to thank the members
of the Society for the continued support which
they have given to the Pension Fund.
The nominal value of the investments held
on behalf of the Pension Fund now amounts
to £4,764 6s., details of which are fully set out
in the following schedule :—
Nominal Value.
£8. dk:
Bocsl Loans. 2.6.0.6 boss chien 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 = 0.6, 200 0 0
Glasgow and South-Western Rail-
way 4% Preference Stock .... 228 0 0
New Zealand 34% Stock ....... 247 9 6
Irish Land 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0
Corporation of London 24%
Stock, 1927—57 ..1......5.... 438 2 4
Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919—49 .. 18218 6
Mauritius 4% 1987 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 ,........ 0... -. 282 0 0
THE AUTHOR.
Nominal Value
£ sd.
$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
55 Buenos Ayres Great Southern
Railway 4% Extension Shares,
1914 (fully paid) ............ 550 0 0
8 Central Argentine Railway £10
Preference Shares, New Issue... 80 0 0
PENSION FUND.
+
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
January 8, 1913.
It does not include either donations given
prior to January, nor does it include sub-
scriptions paid in compliance with promises
made before it.
Subscriptions.
1913.
April 8, Caulfield-Stoker, T. . ;
June 12, Wimperis, Arthur . :
June 16, Ballantyne, J. W.
June 16, Thorold, Rupert
Oct. 8, Rees, Miss Rosemary
Oct. 8, Pearce, J. : ; :
Oct. 9, Drummond, Miss Florence
Oct. 9, Rumbold, Hugo
Oct. 18, Knowles, Miss
Oct. 20, Collison, Harry :
Oct. 21, Buchanan, Miss Meriel
Oct. 25, Baker, E. A. .
Nov. 6, Bentley, E. C. :
Nov. 6, Petersen, Miss Margaret
Novy. 7, Lang, Mrs. John
Nov. 19, Langferte, Raymond
Nov. 24, Webb, W. Trego
Nov. 24, Mackenzie, Compton
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April 2, Daniel, E. H. .
April 2, Hain, H.M. . : :
April 7, Taylor, Miss Susette M. .
April 7, Harding, Newman . .
April 9, Strachey, Miss Amabel_ .
April 10, Aspinall, Algernon .
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April, Robbins, Miss Alice . .
June 12, Peel, Mrs. . :
June 13, Barlow, Miss Hilaré .
June 13, Kynnersley, E. M. Sneyd.
July 5, Williams, Robert . :
July 11, Broadbent, D. R. . :
July 22, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte .
Sept. 29, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. :
Sept. 30, Healy, Wallis : :
Oct. 7, Darwin, Sir Francis . :
Oct. 9, Carroll, Sydney Wentworth
Oct. 21, Troubetskoy, The Princess
Oct. 27, Frankish, Harold :
Oct. 30, Rossman, Miss . :
Nov. 3, Holland, Theodore
Nov. 3, Steane, Bruce ‘
Nov. 3, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite
Nov. 10, Elvington, Miss Helen
Noy. 10, Waterbury, Mrs.
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year, the full list of subscribers to the Pension
Fund. Owing to an oversight, the list was
not published in the October issue. As from
time to time members of the Society complain
that the list doesn’t contain the names of
many well-known authors, the Committee
desire to point out that when the Fund was
started and since its foundation, there have
been many liberal donations by well-known
authors, which donations have been chronicled
from time to time in these columns. It does
not follow, therefore, that because an author’s
name is not down as an annual subscriber,
that he has not on previous occasions been a
liberal donor.
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Abbott, The Rev. E.
Acland, Mrs. C. D.
Allen, Mrs. Grant .
Anderson, Arthur
Andrews, Miss C. C.
Annesley, Miss M.
Anonymous .
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Armstrong, Frances
Arnold, Mrs. J. O.
Askew, Claude
Avery, Harold. ; . :
Baden-Powell, Miss ; : >
Bagnall, Miss L. T. :
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Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred _.
Ballantyne, J. W.
Banks, Mrs. M. M.
Barne, Miss M. C.
Barnett, P. A.
Barrie, Sir J. M.
Barrington, Mrs. R.
Bashford, H. H.
Beale, Lady . :
Bedford, Miss Jessie
Begbie, Harold _.
Bell, Lady . .
Benecke, Miss Ida
Benjamin, Lewis .
Bennett, Arnold .
Berkeley, Mrs. F.R.
Blaikley, Miss Editha L.
Bland, J.O.P. . :
Bland, Mrs. Nesbit
Blow, Frederick
Bolton, Miss Anna
Bond, R. Warwick
Bosanquet, E. F. .
Bowen, Miss Marjorie
Bradshaw, Percy...
Brandon, Miss D. .
Breakell, Miss Mary 5
Brend, C. Cunningham .
Brinton, Selwyn
Brodhurst, Spencer
Broster, Miss D. K.
Brown, R. Grant .
Buchanan, Miss Meriel .
Buckley, Reginald
Budgen, Miss ;
Bungey, E. Newton
Burmester, Miss F.
Burton, J. B. :
Caillard, Miss E. M.
Caine, William
Calderon, George .
Cannan, Gilbert
Capes, Bernard
Capes, Mrs. . :
Carlyle, ‘Rev. A. J.
Carr, Miss M. E. . :
Caulfield, Kathleen M. .
Caulfield-Stoker, T.
‘Channon, Mrs. Frances .
Chase, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. -
Chesterton, G. K.
Child, Harold H. .
Clifford, Lady
Clifton, Mrs.
Clodd, Edward .
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Gibb, A. :
Gibson, Frank ;
Gidley, Miss.E. C..
Giles, Miss Edith J. F.
Gilliat, The Rev. E.
Gilson, Capt. Charles
Glenconner, Lady
Gonne, Capt, C.
Gosse, Edmund
Graham, Capt. Harry
Graves, A. P. :
Greig, James
Gribble, Francis
Grier, Miss Julia M.
Griffin, Miss V. C.
Grogan, W. E.
Guthrie, Anstey
Haggard, Mrs.
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Cotesworth, Miss L. E.
Coulton, G. G. :
Cox, Miss M. Roalfe
Cromartie, Countess of .
Crommelin, Miss May
Crozier, Dr. J. Beattie
Cuming, E. D.
Curwen, Miss Maud
Dailley, R. H. ;
Dale, Miss Nellie .
Darbishire, Otto .
Davy, Mrs. E. M..
Dawson, Forbes
Dawson, Warrington
De Brath, Stanley
De Morgan, William
Desborough, The Lerd .
Dillon, Mrs. .
Dixon, A. F.
Dixon, Miss H. M.
Dixon, W. Scarth
Dobson, Austin
Drake, Maurice F.
Drummond, Miss F. :
Dummelow, Rev. J. R..
Dunsany, The Lord Harland, Mrs.
Durand, Ralph —. Harraden, Miss B.
Durand, The Right Hon. Sir Henzy Harris, Miss Jessie
Mortimer . Harrison, Austin .
Diiring, Mrs. Harrison, Mrs. Darent .
Edgington, Miss May Haultain, Arnold .
Ellis, Miss M. A. Hawkes-Cornock, Mrs. . é
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Fagan, J. B. Heath, Sidney
Felkin, A.L. Hecht, Mrs. Arthur
Felkin, The Hon. Mrs. Hedgecock, FOAL :
Fenwick, Miss Sik. Heming, Lieut.-Col. D. :
Festing, Miss Henderson, R. W. Wright .
Fiamingo, Carlo. . Henley, Mrs. Z
Field, The Rev. Claude . Hepburn Thomas
Fieldhouse, Arthur Hills, Mrs. M. :
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Jones, Henry Arthur
Jones, W. Braunston
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Kennaway, Miss E.
Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole .
Kersey; W.H. . . :
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Kitcat, Mrs.
Lambe, J. Laurence
Larden, Walter
Larken, E. P.
Laurance, Lionel .
Laws, T. C. . :
Lee, Rev. Albert .
Letts, Miss W. M. :
Lewis, The Rev. Arthur.
Lewis, T. C. :
Liddle, S
Lincoln, C. .
Lion, Leon M. :
Little, Mrs. Archibald
Locke, W. J.
Longe, Miss Julia .
Lueas, E. V.
Macdonald, Greville
Mackenzie, Miss H.
Macnamara, Margaret
Macnaughton-Jones, Dr. H.
Macpherson, J. F.. ;
MacRitchie, David
Madison, Miss G. R.
Malcolm, Mrs. Ian
Malet, Lucas :
Mann, Mrs. Mary E.
Maquarie, Arthur .
Marchmont, A. W.
Markino, Yoshio
Marks, Mrs. M.. .
Marriott, Charles .
Martin, Miss Violet
Masefield, John E.
Matheson, Miss Annie
McCormick, E. B.
Meredith, Mark
Middlemas, Miss Jean
Miller, Mrs. .
Miniken, Miss B. M. M.
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Mulliken, Mrs. :
Murdock, W. G. Barn.
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Narramore, William
Nembhard, Miss M.
Newton, Miss A. M.
Nicholls, F. C.
Niven, Frederick .
Northeote, The Rev. H
O’Brien, Rev. G. E. :
O’Donnell, Miss Petronella
Orezy, Baroness :
Osgood, Irene
Owen, Charles :
Pakington, Hon. Mary .
Parr, Miss O. K. . ‘
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Paull, H. M.
Pearce, John
Pearson, Mrs. Conny
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Phipson, Miss Emma
Pickthall, M. W.
Pinero, Sir Arthur
Plunkett, G. N., Count .
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Frederick, P.C. . :
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Portman, Lionel
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Probert, W. S.
Pryor, Francis
Punshon, E. R.
Rawlings, Burford
Rees, Miss R. :
Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie
Reynolds, Mrs. Fred
Rhys, Ernest :
Richardson, Mrs. A.
Riley, Miss Josephine
Rittenberg, Max
Roberts, D. G.
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Salter, Miss E. K.
Salway, Reginald .
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Schwartz, Prof. E. H.
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Sedgwick, Prof. A.
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HE Committee of Management held their
November meeting on Monday, Novem-
ber 8, at 1, Central Buildings, Tothill
Street. After the reading of the minutes of the
previous meeting, the committee proceeded
with the election of members and associates.
They are glad to record the election of thirty-
eight members and associates. The full list
appears elsewhere. The total elections for the
year number 315. The committee accepted,
with regret, three resignations.
The solicitors reported on the cases passing
through their hands during the month.
In a ease of breach of agreement by a pub-
lisher, the matter had been settled when the
solicitors of the Society had given notice of an
injunction. In the second case, against the
proprietor of a magazine, the amount and costs
paid into court had been accepted, and the
matter was ended satisfactorily for the author.
In two claims against a music publisher, the
accounts had been delivered and the moneys
paid. In a case against a magazine, an agreed
sum had been paid and handed over to the
author. There were two very small cases in
which arrangements had been made for pay-
ment by instalments. This statement will
show that many of the cases open from the
former month have now been closed. The
solicitor reported on a serious question which
had been mentioned at the former meeting,
where a publisher had refused facilities for
vouching his accounts. The publisher had
2 since withdrawn his objection, and the solicitor
VE was instructed to see that the accounts were
'y duly vouched. Two cases were reported in
‘+ which no final decision had been arrived at.
One related to the infringement of authors’
rights in America, and the other dealt with
the rights of publication in England. The
solicitor explained that it was necessary to wait
for fuller information before any practical
decision could be come to, and the matters
were accordingly adjourned to the next
meeting.
A dispute between a member of the Society
and her publisher respecting the publication
of a book was fully discussed by the committee.
The solicitor explained the details. The
committee regretted that it was impossible to
take any further steps than those which had
already been taken, and instructed the solicitor
that the member concerned should be informed
of this decision. The last case mentioned by
the solicitors was a dispute between author and
69
publisher as to the fulfilment of a contract
commissioned by the publisher. After full
consideration of the evidence, the committee
decided it was not possible to proceed further,
as it appeared that the author had no ground
of action.
The secretary then reported one or two cases
in his hands.
He stated that an action for infringement of
dramatic copyright in Winnipeg had_ been
settled, and the author had offered to pay the
Society’s expenses. The committee thanked
the author for his generous acknowledgement
of the Society’s work by the offer that he
had made. A serious question of alleged
infringement of dramatic copyright came
before the committee, and after due considera-
tion it was decided to give the member all
possible assistance and to guarantee a sum
towards counsel’s fees on certain conditions
laid down by the committee. The next four
eases related to complaints in America and
Canada. In the first, against a dramatic
agent, the secretary was empowered, if he did
not receive satisfaction, to place the matter into
the hands of the Society’s American lawyers.
The second, against an American magazine
for breach of an author’s rights, it was decided
to place into the hands of the Society’s Ameri-
can lawyers immediately. In the third case
the secretary reported that a_ satisfactory
arrangement had been made by the American
publishers for the payment of the debt by
instalments each month, which arrangement
had been accepted by the author. In the
fourth case—against a Canadian publisher—
the secretary was instructed to place the matter
in the hands of the Society’s lawyers in Toronto,
A case against an English publisher con-
cerning an agreement was discussed at full
length, and the committee decided to instruct
the Society’s lawyers to proceed, as it appeared
to them that the agreement was wholly unfair
and unreasonable. The secretary reported
that, during the past month, on the authority
of the chairman, an important case had been
placed before counsel with reference to
dramatic contracts, cinematograph rights, and
international law. The committee confirmed
the action taken. Another case, referring to
the infringement of rights in Australia was
deferred for further consideration.
Counsel’s opinion bearing on a difficult
question of mechanical rights in Germany was
placed before the committee. As that opinion
was in favour of the member, it was decided to
accept counsel’s advice and to commence
action.
70
Lastly, the secretary was instructed to write
to a publisher with reference to the alleged
publication of an author’s books contrary to
an existing agreement, and to ask for an exX-
planation from the publisher.
The committee then proceeded to consider
the question of the appointment of their
nominees for the committee election at the end
of the year. The names will appear in The
Author in accordance with the Articles of
Association. :
The secretary reported on the question of
the appointment of nominees to mect the
Societies of Composers with a view to obtaining
their adhesion to the Society of Authors. At
the suggestion of the Composers’ Sub-Com-
mittee, Mr. Cecil Forsyth was elected a
delegate, and Mr. Stanley Leathes was
suggested as a second delegate to accompany
Mr. Forsyth. Failing him, the secretary was
instructed, in conjunction with the chairman,
to choose some other member, and when the
delegates had been finally settled to make
arrangements to meet the Society of British
Composers or any other Society acting for
composers.
The proposals put forward by the com-
mittee in the matter of the banning of books
by the libraries and referred back to that body
next came forward for consideration. Mr.
Maurice Hewlett kindly attended, and put
before the committee one or two important
points. The matter was then discussed at
great length, and all the points raised by the
Council were fully considered. The committee
decided, after careful deliberation, to abandon
the proposal which had been made to call a
conference, as such proposals appeared con-
trary to the desires and wishes of the Council
of the Society.
A draft circular respecting the Collection
Bureau, which the committee propose to issue,
was left for settlement between the chairman
and the secretary. It will be sent to all
members of the Society in due course.
A royalty agreement was finally settled,
subject to one small question which it was
decided to refer to the solicitors of the Society.
The agreement is now ready for those members
who desire a copy. The question of the dinner
guests was left to the chairman and ‘secretary.
A proposition to bring the Society’s work to
the notice of the younger members of the pro-
fession was considered, and the secretary was
instructed to make arrangements with a view
to obtaining their names and addresses if
ossible.
The Publishers’ Association drew the atten-
THER AUTHOR.
tion of the committee to the Copyright Bill now
before the Indian Legislative Council, with
special reference to the Clause dealing with
translation rights. It was decided to act with
the Publishers’ Association, with a view to
strengthening the rights of translators, and, if
possible, to obtain for authors the same rights
over their translation as are enjoyed under the
Berne Convention.
Certain letters from members were placed
before the committee and the secretary was
instructed to answer those that required
answering.
Two matters—loans to authors on contracts,
and the International Gathering of Authors at
San Francisco, 1915—were adjourned to the
next meeting.
The committee thanked Miss Annesley
Kenealy for a donation of £1 1s. towards the
Capital Fund of the Society.
DRAMATIC SuB-COMMITTEE.
A MEETING of the Dramatic Sub-Committee
was held at the offices of the Society on Friday,
November 21, at three o’clock.
After reading the minutes certain dramatic
cages were considered. In the first case the
secretary reported the action the Committee
of Management had taken on the sub-
committee’s recommendation, and he was
instructed to try to obtain further witnesses
for the plaintiff. Consideration of the second
case—an infringement of copyright—was
adjourned as the report necessary to lay before
the sub-committee had not been received by
the secretary. The third case, which raised
the question of cinematograph reproduction,
was fully discussed, but the sub-committee
considered that, at present, any action would
be premature, as the member concerned had
no clear evidence to lay before the sub-
committee that action had been taken against;
him. The sub-committee decided to re-
consider the case should the member’s fears
be realised that his rights were being challenged.
The question of providing powers of attor-
ney in favour of lawyers in foreign countries
to assist the Society in stopping infringements,
which had been raised at the former meeting,
was discussed, and it was decided, with the
approval of the Committee of Management, to
obtain powers of attorney which could be sent
out with a carefully worded covering letter
conveying the information that the . powers
were not to be acted upon until cabled
instructions were given from the Society’s
office.
THE AUTHOR. 71
The secretary placed before the sub-com-
mittee an agreement which had been submitted
to certain members of the Society, and it was
decided, with the approval of the Committee
of Management, that an article should be
published in The Author on the terms of this
agreement.
The sub-committee regretted that the
delegates from the Dramatic Clubs Association
were unable to attend the meeting, but they
discussed the resolutions that had been
submitted to them, and the secretary was
instructed to draft and to forward a reply.
As the sub-committee understood from the
Society of West End Managers that it was
impossible to call a meeting at the present
time, owing to the absence of Sir George
Alexander, one of the delegates, the matter
was adjourned pending the receipt of a further
communication from the Society.
The secretary was instructed to write to the
members of the sub-committee in regard to
the election of the sub-committee for 1914.
The sub-committee decided to appoint their
nominees at the December meeting to be held
on the 19th of that month.
ES OPES
Composers’ Sup-CoMMITTEE.
Tue November meeting of the Composers’
Sub-Committee was held at the offices of the
Society, 1, Central Buildings, Tothill Street,
Westminster, S.W.
After reading the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting, the secretary reported that
the Committee of Management had confirmed
the appointment of Mr. Cecil Forsyth as a
delegate to meet the Society of British Com-
posers with a view to conferring with that
Society as to the best means of drawing into
the Society of Authors, Composers not members
of any existing Societies. He reported also
that the Committee of Management had
appointed Mr. Stanley Leathes to act with Mr.
Forsyth, and that Mr. Leathes had expressed
his willingness to serve. It was decided that
the two delegates should meet at the Society’s
office in order to discuss the preliminary steps
to be taken.
The sub-committee then considered a para-
graph to be inserted in the papers calling the
attention of composers to the work the Society
was willing to undertake on their behalf, and
inviting them to join its ranks. Mr. Forsyth
agreed to draft the paragraph according to the
sub-committee’s wishes. It was decided that
the paragraph, when drafted, should be sent to
all the members of the sub-committee, and,
when finally approved, inserted in the papers.
Letters from the Ammre and _ the
Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs, referring
to the collection of mechanical instrument fees,
were read. The consideration of the letter
from the Ammre was adjourned. It was
decided to accept the invitation contained in
the letter from the Société des Auteurs et
Compositeurs to send a representative to
discuss the matter with the secretary of that
Society, in the event of enquiries which the
Society of Authors had already instituted
producing no satisfactory result.
The attention of the sub-committee having
been called to the fact that stamps affixed to
records under the Mechanical Instrument
Clauses of the Copyright Act very often fell
off the records when in the hands of the retailers,
it was decided to collect all possible evidence
on the matter, and to bring it to the notice of
the Board of Trade.
The prospectus of the Copyright Protection
Society was considered by the sub-committee,
The secretary was instructed to draft an article
dealing with the Prospectus and to submit it to
the members at their next meeting, when the
article, as well as the position of composers in
relation to that Society, would be re-discussed.
A letter from Mr. J. B. McEwen was received
by the sub-committee, in which Mr. McEwen
regretted he was forced to resign owing to his
inability to attend the meetings. The resigna-
tion was accepted with regret.
pep
Cases.
THE even roll of cases goes on from month
to month. In spite of the monotony of the
proceeding, they are chronicled in order that
members may see the steady work the Society
continues to perform on their behalf. To some,
this chronicle may appear of little importance,
but this is not so; all members should have
an opportunity of seeing that the work is
carefully and accurately attended to.
The cases during the past month in the
secretary’s hands number twenty-one, and
there has been a considerable increase. in the
number of those in foreign countries. We
chronicle five claims for the return of MSS. ;
one of these lies in the United States, another
in South Africa. It has not, of course, been
possible to complete these two within the
month. In two other cases, the MSS. have
been returned and forwarded to the authors.
In the final case, as the Society could not
responsible f
all of which have
Following this
for money ;
into the han
on agreements.
considerable amoun
negotiations are being
referring to t
by degrees, as t
on fixed dates.
Bagley, Miss L. .
Bentley, Edmund Cleri-
‘
Bridges, Robert .
Burdett, Osbert .
Calthrop, Dion Clayton
Carter, Huntly .
THE AUTHOR.
in the courtesy of a reply, formal notice
es to the lier that he would be held
or any wrongful use of the MSS.
There have been three claims for accounts,
been successfully dealt with.
there have been six claims
f these have been transferred
ds of the Society’s solicitors ; one
has been settled and the money has been
forwarded to the author ;
so far that a definite date has been fixed for
payment, and the last ha
to the office. :
There have been two claims for accounts and
money, one of these lies in the United States,
the other has been satisfactorily ended.
estions arising
copyright are bei
one has been settled
s only recently come
from infringements of
ng dealt with. One in
Austria is in course of negotiation. It is hoped
that the remaining one in England will be
settled shortly.
There were three cases arising from disputes
These involve necessarily a
t of correspondence, and
carried on in two cases,
while the third has only recently come to hand.
The cases from former months are being
closed up. One with a literary agent
he return of MSS. is being settled
he agent has to call in the MSS.
that have been sent out to editors. There will
be no difficulty.
There is a claim for money from the United
States, and this is being settled by payments
Two instalments have already
A third case dealing with a dispute over an
agreement is still in the course of negotiation.
The remaining cases have been settled, save
those which had to be transferred to the
Society’s lawyers.
—— 4 —
November Elections.
Bagenol, Miss Violet E. Benekerry, Carlow,
Ireland.
Rock Bank, Whaley
Bridge.
28, Lymington Road
N.W
Chilswell, Oxford.
Shotwick, Vernon
Road, Bushey,
Herts.
7, Oakwood Court,
Kensington, W..:
Waverton Street,
Mayfair.
Clarke, Madame Emilie
Down, W. Oliphant
Elrington, Helen
Foy, Slieve.
Garland, A. P.
Grogan, Gerald
Hadath, Gunby, M.A.
-Hemmerde,
Hendley, Mrs.
(I. E. Dawson)
Hill, Walter (Adelphos)
Howell, T. Francis
Lancaster, G. B.
Lang, Mrs. John
Lauzerte Raymond
Lawson, Lucy S. .
Lounsbery, G. Constant
Lulham, P. Habberton
Mackenzie, Compton
Nellen, Amy E. .
Norton, Robert Doug-
Peterson, Miss Margaret
Roberts, Helen C.
Robertson, H. R.
Russell, E. 8.
Sarmento, Vicomte de
Steane, Bruce
24, Biddulph Man-
sions, Maida Vale,
W.
Elmcroft, Gilling-
ham, Dorset.
6, Eaton Square
Monkstown, Co,
Dublin.
70, Danecroft Road
Herne Hill,
S.E.
Toorvagh, St. An-
drews, N.B.
12, Hallam Street,
W.
4, Loudoun Road,
N.W.
Trafalgar House,
Leeds.
22, Stafford Terrace,
Kensington, W.
C/o. Bank of New
Zealand, London.
2, Salisbury Road,
Edinburgh.
14, St. James’s Place,
S.W.
254, Albion Road,
Stoke Newington,
N.
18, Rue Boissonade,
Paris.
11, Prince Albert
Street, Brigh-
ton.
La Caterola, Capri,
Italy.
9, Clifton Road,
Brighton.
Argyll House, Chel-
sea.
3, Markham Square,
Chelsea, S.W.
Tudor Lodge, Wor-
thing, Sussex.
1, Steele’s Studios,
N.W.
Bryan’s Ground,
Presteign, Rads.
Lisbon.
‘Prospect House,”
Sundridge, Seven- _
oaks Kent.
THE AUTHOR.
Taylor, G. R. Stirling . 1, Pump Court,
Temple, E.C.
Spondon, Derby.
Volta House, Wind-
mill Hill, Hamp-
stead, N.W.
Minsmere, Dunwich,
Suffolk.
Topham, Miss Anne .,
Wanklyn, William Mce-
Connel.
Webb, W. Trego.
ee
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that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will
co-operate in the compiling of this list, and, by sending
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially
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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL
NOTES.
— + —
N November 14 a new edition was pub-
lished of Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s “‘ Just
So Stories,” with twelve plates in
colours by Mr. Joseph M. Gleeson, in addition
to the author’s original black-and-white illus-
trations. The publishers were Messrs.
Macmillan & Co.
Mr. Edward Arnold is publishing a new and
revised edition of Mr. Laurence Binyon’s
“ Painting in the Far East,” in the preparation
of which the author has been able to utilise a
THE AUTHOR.
variety of new sources of information, while
a fuller and more representative selection of
illustrations is now possible. Mr. Binyon has
also brought out, through Messrs. Macmillan,
a work entitled “‘ The Art of Botticelli: an
Essay in Interpretation ’’—a quarto volume
with twenty-three collotype reproductions in
colour and, as frontispiece, an original etching
by Mr. Muirhead Bone. Of “ The Art of
Botticelli” only 275 copies are being issued,
and the price is £12 12s. net.
Mr. Douglas Ainslie’s “‘ Philosophy of the
Practical: Economic and Ethic,” the forth-
coming publication of which was announced
in the October Author, appeared on November 4
(Macmillan). It is the second part of his
translation from the Italian philosopher,
Benedetto Croce.
M. Maurice Bourgeois’s ‘‘ John Millington
Synge and the Irish Theatre ” was issued on
October 29 by Messrs. Constable in Great
Britain, and by the Macmillan Co. in_the
United States. It has sixteen full-page illus-
trations by John B. Yeats, R.H.A., Jack B.
Yeats, James Paterson, R.S.A., John Currie,
and others, and the price is 7s. 6d. net.
“The Western Rebellion of 1549” is the
title of an account of the insurrections in
Devonshire and Cornwall in the reign of
Edward VI., by Frances Rose-Troup,
E.R. Hist. S. (Smith Elder, 14s. net).
Mrs. A. M. W. Stirling’s ‘‘ Macdonald of the
Isles ” was published on November 25 (John
Murray, 12s. net).
Mr. W. H. Koebel is the author of the history
of South America in Messrs. Black’s “ Making
of the Nations ”’ series.
Lady Dunbar is bringing out a book called
“The Chow-Chow,” dealing with that breed
of dog from the point of view of one who has
had long and intimate acquaintance with its
habits (Pitman).
Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer Maude edit a new
edition of Tolstoy’s ‘“ Plays,’’ which contains
for the first time all the six plays written
by Tolstoy, including the posthumous ones
(Constable, 5s. net).
Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson’s ‘‘ Old English
China,” with sixteen coloured plates and
sixty-four half-tone illustrations from photo-
graphs, is published by Messrs. G. Bell & Sons
at 25s. net.
Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously
pleased to accept a copy of Mrs. Charlotte
Cameron’s travel-book ‘* A Woman’s Winter
in Africa’ (Stanley Paul). .
In connection with the new cinematograph
film ‘“‘ Sixty Years a Queen,’’ which portrays
THE AUTHOR. 77
the reign of Queen Victoria, Messrs. Stanley
Paul & Co. published on November 10 a
volume consisting of an account of the Queen’s
reign specially written by Miss May Wynne,
illustrated with fifty-five photographs taken
from the film. The price is 1s. net.
The first number of Mackirdy’s Weekly is to
be published on the third Saturday of the New
Year, January 24. The moving spirit of this
new weekly is Mrs. Mackirdy, née Olive
Christian Malvery, author of ‘The Soul
Market.”
Mrs. Irene Osgood publishes, through the
firm of John Richmond, ‘‘ Where Pharaoh
Dreams,” with illustrations by W. Gordon
Mein. The same firm has issued ‘“‘ The Irene
Osgood Thought Book ” and ‘“ An Anthology
of Verse of Butterflies, Birds, and other W inged
Things,” compiled by Irene Osgood and
Horace Wyndham.
Mrs. Edghill’s “‘ Is it Well with the Child ? ”
—a book for mothers and for speakers to
mothers—is published, with an introduction
by the Bishop of Edinburgh, by Messrs. Wells,
Gardner, Darton & Co.
His Majesty the King has been graciously
pleased to accept a copy of Mr. C. E.
Gouldsbury’s new book, “ Tiger Land,” now
in its second edition (Chapman & Hall).
Mr. Rafael Sabatini’s “Life of Cesare
Borgia ”’ is one of the first volumes of Messrs.
Stanley Paul’s new Essex Library, a series
which is to include ‘‘ recently published works
that have attracted special attention as dealing
authoritatively with subjects of serious in-
terest,” and is to be issued, with illustrations,
at a price convenient to all purses.
Major P. T. Godsal brings out his ‘‘ Woden’s,
Grim’s, and Offa’s Dykes,” through Messrs.
Harrison & Sons. A map illustrating the
conquest of the Dee valley accompanies the
pamphlet.
Mr. John B. C. Kershaw, F.I.C., is the author
of a book on “ Electro-Thermal Methods of
fron and Steel Production,” to which Professor
Fleming, F.R.S., contributes an introduction
(Constable, 8s. 6d. net).
Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson published last
month a new novel called ‘* The Unconscious
Quest,” by E. Reid Matheson. The scene of
the story is laid in Egypt.
The Burlington Magazine for October and
November contains an article by Ethel Ross
Barker, entitled ‘‘ The Symbolism of Certain
Catacomb Frescoes.”’
Miss Gladys Davidson has out a volume of
original stories about birds, fully illustrated
(David Nutt, 2s. 6d.).
Mrs. C. Irwin Smart has a serial running in
The Lady, entitled ‘The Long Lane.” She
was the author of the “ Novel in a Nutshell ”
in the Sketch of August 13.
Mrs. Edith Wharton’s new novel is “The
Custom of the Country,” of which Messrs.
Macmillan are the publishers.
The same firm has issued Mr. James
Stephens’s new volume of fiction, “ Here are
Ladies.”
Wet Magic,” by E. Nesbit, author of “ The
Treasure Seekers,” is published by Mr. Werner
Laurie.
H.M. the Queen has been graciously pleased
to accept a copy of “ Weeds,”’ by Miss Olave
Potter and Mr. Douglas Sladen.—A new 7s. 6d.
edition is appearing of Mr. Sladen’s “‘ Oriental
Cairo” (Hurst & Blackett).
Messrs. Alston Rivers publish Miss Leslie
Moore’s “The Peacock Feather”; and
Mrs. Steuart Erskine’s “The Ring of
Necessity.”
Messrs. Duckworth & Co. have published
“The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans,” a story in
the essay manner, by Mr. Edward Thomas ;
and Mr. George Bourne’s volume of village
studies, ‘‘ Lucy Bettesworth.”’
Mabel King’s ‘‘ The People of Ebenezer,”
thirteen stories reprinted from The United
Methodist, is published by Messrs. Drummond
of Stirling, price 1s. The same author will
have two serials appearing shortly, “‘ A Modern
Midas,” in The British Messenger, and “‘ The
Work God Gave Her,” in Wings, the organ of
the Woman’s Total Abstinence Society.
Mr. Albert Dorrington’s novel, ‘‘ The Radium
Terrors,” has just finished its serial publication
in the well-known Spanish journal La Ilustra-
cion Artistica. The illustrations were by A. C.
Michael. Two books by the same author,
“The Half-God” and ‘‘A South Sea Buc-
caneer,” will appear in a German edition
early in 1914,
“The Tale of a Shipwreck, a Brownie, and
a Baby; and other Stories ” is Miss Amy Hale
Rankin’s book for children (Cornish Bros.,
Birmingham, 1s. net, illustrated).
Miss Caecilia Moore’s novel, ‘‘ The Shadow
of the Dragon,” is published by Messrs.
Chapman & Hall.
Miss Theodora Wilson-Wilson is publishing
with Messrs. Blackie two books for children,
one entitled ‘‘ Cousins in Camp ”’ (2s. 6d.), and
the other a series of ‘‘ Stories from the Bible,”
illustrated in colour by Arthur A. Dixon (8s. 6d.).
She has also sold a children’s story to Messrs.
Nelson & Son for publication next year. In
the spring The Christian Age will serialise
78
one of her novels entitled “A Navvy from
King’s.”
Mrs. T. P. O’Connor’s story, “ Little Thank
You,” has a novel feature in the end-papers,
which take the form of music and reproduce
Little Thank You’s lullaby, “ Captain Kidd,”
written and composed by Mr. Frederick
Norton, composer of “ Pinkie and the Fairies.”
Charlotte Mansfield’s story, ‘The Girl
and the Gods,” is to be reissued by Messrs.
Greening & Co. in their new Shilling Net
series.
The Westminster Review for November
contained a poem by Mr. Alfred Smythe
entitled “The Sentinel.’”” There was also a
poem by Mr. Smythe, called ‘* A Yarn of the
River,” in the Poetry Review.
Mr. Erskine MacDonald is publishing at
once in a shilling Christmas booklet, an
“ Anthology of Little Poems,” compiled by
E. Crosby-Heath, and including a_ critical
essay.
The same publisher has brought out “* Dreams
of Arcady,” by Octavia Gregory, author of
“The Garden Enclosed.”
Mr. Erskine MacDonald further announces
that he is publishing a poetic drama, “ The
Master,” by Mr. W. G. Hole, with an intro-
duction by Stephen Phillips, at 2s. 6d. net ;
and Miss Maude Goldring’s new novel, ‘* The
Wonder Year,”’ which deals with the effect of
modern thought on country life.
“ June ” is the title of the first poem, which
gives its name to the book of verse by
Miss Cicely Marshall, published by Arthur
Stockwell.
Jean Roberts, author of ‘‘ Musings on the
Magnificat,’ etc, has out a new volume,
entitled ‘‘ Hope: and Other Verses” (A. R.
Mowbray, ls. 6d. net).
““Songs Satanic and Celestial,” by Mr.
Lewis Spence, is published by Mr. Elkin
Mathews at 1s. net (cloth, 1s. 6d. net).
Mr. K. C. Spiers brings out in one volume
his play, ‘‘ The Soul of a Doll,” and a number
of poems, of which “ The Madness of Lancelot ”’
and two of the lyrics appeared originally in the
Fortnightly Review. Messrs. Chapman & Hall
publish the book at 2s. 6d. net.
Miss Nora C. Usher issues, under the title
of ‘‘ Swallow-Flights,”’ a collection of thirty-
seven of her poems, some of which have
appeared in The Queen, Chambers’s Journal,
ete. The price is 1s., or 1s. 1}d., post
free.
_ “ Lone Age Epics,” by Mr. James Saunders,
is published by Whitehead Bros., Wolver-
hampton, at 2s. net.
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DRAMATIC.
Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘ Great Catherine ’’ was
produced at the Vaudeville Theatre for the
first time on November 18.
On November 21 Mr. Thomas Hardy’s ‘‘ The
Three Wayfarers,” originally seen at Terry’s
Theatre in 1898, was revived as a curtain-raiser
before Mr. G. K. Chesterton’s ‘‘ Magic” at the
Little Theatre.
Sir J. M. Barrie’s “Quality Street” was
revived at the Duke of York’s Theatre on
November 25.
It is announced that a new three-act play
by Mr. Israel Zangwill, entitled «Plaster
Saints,” will be produced at a West end
theatre early in the New Year.
Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘ Doctors’ Dilemma,”
and Mr. John Galsworthy’s ‘Silver Box,” are
among the plays which Mr. and Mrs. Granville
Barker are to revive before the end of their
repertory season just commencing at the
St. James’s Theatre.
M. Maurice Bourgeois’s French version of
Synge’s ‘‘ Playboy of the Western World ”’ is
being performed at the Théatre Antoine by
M. Lugné-Poe’s Théatre Subventionné. The
title of the play in French is “‘ Le Baladin du
Monde Occidental.”
Among the five one-act pieces produced by
the Leverton Players at the Court Theatre, on
the afternoon of November 21, was “‘ England
Expects,” by Mr. F. Leonard A Gibbs, to
which the Navy League has extended its
patronage.
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PARIS NOTES.
+
o HRETIENNE ” is the title of the new
novel by Madame Adam (Juliette
Lamber), whose salon has been the
favourite rendezvous of the Parisian literary
and political élite for very many years.
Madame Adam’s own evolution has been
shown by her recently published memoirs.
Years ago she wrote her novel * Paienne,”’
and this present volume is a fitting epilogue to
the former novel.
The key to ‘“‘ Le Roman Merveilleux ” by
the late Pierre de Coulevain is given by the
author in her preface. ‘“ The Wonderful
Romance,” she says, “‘ is not one of those that
the human brain produces. It is the romance
which the Divine Powers are elaboratirig in the
depths of the Infinite. It is the romance
which we are all living, from morning to night
THE AUTHOR.
and from night to morning; the one in which
we are the heroes and the martyrs. It is the
romance of this earth of ours. . Thanks
to my age, I now find myself on the boundary
line of two worlds. My impressions on leav-
ing the one world, and my intuitions with
regard to the world beyond, may, thanks to
their absolute sincerity, have some value. . . .”
This author’s works have had phenomenal
success in France, and have been translated
into nine languages. “Sur la Branche”’
i is now in its 179th edition. The present
-y volume has been awaited with impatience
|. for the last three years and was completed
| just two months before the author’s death.
: The book now published in volume form by
) Camille Piton, entitled ‘‘ Le Costume Civil en
| France,” will be invaluable to artists. It
» contains over 700 illustrations from authentic
sources.
‘“‘ Napoléonette ” is quite a new departure
ot for Gyp. It is a kind of historical novel, in
*. which the author allows herself plenty of
~{- latitude as regards local colour, probability, etc.
-| Napoléonette is a girl who has been brought
up by her military father as a boy. She has
accompanied her father everywhere and is
quite at home on the battle-fields. Napoleon
is her god-father and she is a devoted admirer
of ‘‘ The Emperor.” Her father is killed and
she is compelled to accept the hospitality of
her aunt and uncle, who hold high office at the
Tuileries Palace under Louis XVIII. The
description of Napoléonette’s various escapades
and of her friendship with the king is highly
entertaining, but the dialogue is distinctly in
twentieth century style.
‘Pour l’Empereur”’ (Pages d’histoire na-
tionale) is the title of Frédéric Masson’s latest
volume. The volume treats of events from
1796 to 1821.
The second volume of “Souvenirs” by
Ch. de Freycinet has just been published. It
takes in the years 1878 to 1893, and treats,
among other subjects, of the Resignation of
Marshal MacMahon, of the death of Gambetta,
Boulangism, the Egyptian question, etc.
The first volume of these Souvenirs takes in
the years from 1848 to 1898.
“Henri Rochefort (1831-19138) ” by Camille
Ducray gives some idea of the agitated life
of the celebrated journalist and _ politician
about whom so much has been written.
Ernest La Jeunesse has written the preface.
At the Variétés, Alfred Capus is having his
customary success with his new play
“L’ Institut de Beauté.” It is distinctly
amusing, and, as usual with this author, the
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piece is the result of shrewd observation and
great knowledge of life.
Mr. Philip Carr’s idea to start a_ Little
English Theatre in Paris, bringing over English
plays and English artistes once a month, is
welcomed by the French as well as by the
English and American colonies. Two meetings
have been held and a large number of sub-
scribers has been the result.
“ Chrétienne.” (Plon.)
“ Le Costume Civil en France.’’ (Flammarion.)
“ Napoléonette.” (Calmann-Lévy.)}
“ Pour ’Empereur.”’ (Ollendorff.)
“Souvenirs.” (Delagrave. )
“ Henri Rochefort (1831-1913).” (L’Edition Moderne.)
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CORELLI v. GRAY.
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EFORE the Master of the Rolls, Lord
Justice Swinfen Eady and _ Lord
Justice Phillimore; this was an appeal
by the defendant from an order by Mr.
Justice Sargant, granting an injunction: re-
straining him from performing a play called
“The People’s King,” which the plaintiff
claimed was an infringement of the copyright
in her novel “‘ Temporal Power.”
In his judgment given in the lower court
Mr. Justice Sargant took the view that the
similarities in the play and the book were not
due to coincidence, but must be taken to have
resulted from appropriation or copying by the
defendant from the plaintiff.
The Master of the Rolls in the course of his
judgment expressed his concurrence with the
judgment of Mr. Justice Sargant, stating that
he thought they must approach the case on
the footing that the defendant Gray had the
plaintiff's book either under his eyes or in his
memory when he wrote the sketch.
Dealing with a possible suggestion that the
matter alleged to have been taken from the
plaintiff's book was not matter which could be
held to be the subject of copyright, his Lordship
stated that when, as in the present case, it
appeared that not merely one or two stock
incidents, but that a number of such incidents
had been taken, it would be an unreasonable
view of the law to say that the plaintiff was
not entitled to succeed.
The new copyright law gave protection not
merely to the form of words in a novel but to
the situations contained in it. In this case,
however, his Lordship did not accept the view
that the situations were stock situations :
some of them were distinctly original.
80
The Lord Justices delivered judgments to
the same effect, and the appeal was dismissed
with costs.
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UNITED STATES LAW.
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N interesting matter touching the
A validity of copyright in the United
States is being at present heard in
the courts of that country. We are informed
that there is little probability of the case being
decided before the expiration of seven or eight
months, but as the facts must of necessity be
of great interest to English as well as to
American authors, it may be as well to put
forward some details.
Mr. Jack London entered into a contract
with the Balboa Amusement Co., of Los
Angeles, California, by which that company
acquired the right to produce in moving
pictures all of Mr. London’s past work and all
his work up to and including 1915. In that
contract there was a clause providing that the
contract should be forfeited if the company
took no steps to fulfil their part before a fixed
date. This they failed to do, and Mr. London
declared the contract forfeited. In spite of
forfeiture, the company proceeded to produce
in moving-picture form his novel entitled
““The Sea Wolf,” and Mr. London thereupon
brought suit in Los Angeles against the
company in the Federal Court of that district,
for breach of contract and infringement of his
copyright. His next step was to apply for a
preliminary injunction. Upon the hearing of
this application, the defence has been set up
on the suggestion of the lawyers—copyright
specialists—that Mr. London’s copyright is
invalid, that his work, having appeared in
magazine form, is thereby dedicated to the
public so far as subsequent rights are concerned.
This defence appears to be based upon the
case of Dam v. Kirk La Shelle Company, which
indirectly, apparently laid down the doctrine
that, if an author sells his serial rights in his
story to a magazine, reserving to himself all
other rights, and the magazine copyrights the
issues, that is, the magazine rights, then all
other rights must be unprotected and aban-
doned to the public. It is also claimed that the
copyright notices in some of Mr. London’s
books are insufficient, and misleading, and that,
therefore, the books are not properly copy-
righted. Mr. London’s preliminary application
for an injunction was denied, after the court
had heard the objections advanced against
THE AUTHOR.
his copyright on the ground that Mr. London
has insufficiently established his ownership.
The court, however, granted permission to
Mr. London to renew his application after he
had obtained more definite information about
his copyrights. Ifthe theory is upheld that
the publication in a magazine in America
only covers the editor’s rights, the position — :
is very serious, both to American and
English authors, as it would leave those
authors that publish in serial form absolutely
unprotected, and book publishers would have
no rights in their books whatsoever. It does
not appear probable, after a careful reading of
the Act, that this theory can be maintained.
The second point of the defence, namely, the
inadequacy of the copyright notices calls for
special comment. It has always been the
case when any technicalities are required under
i”
U
a copyright law, that the first point at which — | ser
the defendants strike is the technical defi- —
We are glad to think that in the ©
present English Act, technicalities have been ~
abandoned, but the position is still very serious —
in the United States, and we trust that Mr. —
Jack London will not lose his copyrights owing _
ciencies.
to these deficiencies.
The former question is by far the most : i ah
important. Technical difficulties can be over-
come with care, but legal difficulties can only
be overcome by an amendment to the Act. -
We wait with anxiety to hear the final result
If it should go against Mr. —
of the action.
London, the American Copyright Act migh
almost, as far as the writers in magazines ar
concerned, be torn up.
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MAGAZINE CONTENTS.
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British REVIEW.
Dramatists of To-day. I. H. Granville
II. John Galsworthy. By Edward Storer.
Leeds Musical Festival. By Sir Home Gordon, Bart.
CoNTEMPORARY.
Christina Rossetti. By George Lowther.
Poetry in Drama. By William Poél. '
6 a Child and Education in Shakespeare. By Hubert
rd.
Barker.
EneuisH REVIEW.
Art in America. By Aleister Crowley.
Editorial Amenities. By The Editor.
FoRTNIGHTLY.
A Literary Cham and His Court. By T. H.-S. Escott.
Trish Dramatists and Their Countrymen. By H. M.
Walbrook.
An Apostle of Melodrama. By George Paston.
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THE AUTHOR. 81
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.
—
1, VERY member has a right toask for and to receive
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his
business or the administration of his property. The
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel’s
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved
member, and all costs borne by the Society.
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright
and publishers’ agreements do not fall within the experi-
ence of ordinary solicitors, Therefore, do not scruple to use
the Society.
8. Before signing any agreement whatever, send
the document to the Society for examination.
4, Remember always that in belonging to the Society
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of
members’ agreements and their preservation in a fire-
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-
lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the
Prospectus.
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary
of the Society.
This
The
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; so
do some publishers. Members can make their own
deductions and act accordingly.
9. The subscription to the Society is £4 1s. per
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.
2
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS
OF BOOKS.
et
ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an
agreement, There are four methods of dealing
with literary property :—
I. Selling it Outright.
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be
obtained, But the transaction should be managed by a
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of
the Society.
Il. 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.
(to 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.
ae well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or
octor |
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 Zhe Author,
IY. A Commission Agreement.
The main points are :—
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,
General.
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four
above mentioned.
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from
the Secretary of the Society.
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.
The main points which the Society has always demanded
from the outset are :—
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement
means.
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or
withheld,
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.
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WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.
8
EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the
N Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-
petent legal authority.
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for
the production of a play with any one except an established
manager.
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays
in three or more acts :—
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into
such a contract should stipulate in the contract
for production of the piece by a certain date
and for proper publication of his name on the
play-bills,
82
(>.) 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 (‘.c., fixed
nightly fees). This method should be always
avoided except in cases where the fees are
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply
also in this case.
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should
be reserved.
5, Authors should remember that performing rights can
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and
time. This is most important.
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction
is of great importance.
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot
print the book of the words.
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed-
ingly valuable. ‘'hey should never be included in English
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial
consideration.
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.
10. An author should-remember that production of a play
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in
the beginning.
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object
is to obtain adequate publication.
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-
tracts, those authors desirous of further information
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.
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REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND
ORIGINAL PLAYS.
eo
ne 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 subj
( ject to the same
rules, with the exception that a pl ill
at the price of 22. 6d. per act. Ve cee eee ie
THE AUTHOR.
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.
ee
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, de
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-
action of frequent petty authorisations with different
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of
the law, an agent should not be employed under any
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the
Society.
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WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.
er Ss
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 twe
tights 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.
ae
STAMPING MUSIC.
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part
of 100. The members’ stamps are kept in the Society’s
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble,
—
THE READING BRANCH.
a
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this
branch of its work by informing young writers
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and
treated as a composition is treated by a coach, The term
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The
fee is one guinea,
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REMITTANCES.
—
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.
All remittances should be crossed Taio of London and
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered
letter only. .
Bt
THE AUTHOR. 83
COLLECTION BUREAU.
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HE Society undertakes to collect accounts and money
due to authors, composers and dramatists.
1. Under contracts for the publication of their
works.
2. Under contracts for the performance of their works
and amateur fees.
3. Under the Compulsory Licence Clauses of the Copy-
right Act, i.e., Clause 3, governing compulsory licences for
books, and Clause 19, referring to mechanical instrument
records.
The Bureau is divided into three departments :—
1. Literary.
2. Dramatic.
3. Musical.
The Society does not desire to make a profit from the
collection of fees, but will charge a commission to cover
expenses. If, owing to the amount passing through the
office, the expenses are more than covered, the Committee
of Management will discuss the possibility of reducing the
commission.
For full particulars of the terms of collection, application
must be made to the Collection Bureau of the Society.
AGENTS.
Holland ; . A. REYDING.
United Statesand Canada. WALTER C. JORDAN.
Germany . Mrs PoeGson.
The Bureau is in no sense a literary or dramatic
agency for the placing of books or plays.
GENERAL NOTES.
PUBLISHERS’ AGENTS.
Ir is the practice of certain agents to act
both for publishers and authors. In many
of these cases, there is no attempt at conceal-
ment from the author. Indeed, the agents,
not infrequently, boast that the author’s
chances of a market are increased by the fact
that the publisher is also a client of them.
As agent of the publisher, the literary agent
claims to have unique opportunities of placing
the works of his authors. This is the excuse
invariably made by the agent who is found in
the service of two masters.
Here is a possible example.
The publisher comes to his agent and asks
him, say, to find a writer to undertake
work for a series which he, the publisher, is
issuing. The agent has on his books an author
who is quite capable of undertaking the work,
but, in many cases, the author is given no
opportunity, the agent preferring to use the
offer in order to attract another writer—not on
his books—to place his literary work in the
agent’s hands. Having succeeded in drawing
in the new writer, that writer, when the next
opportunity “of placing the works of his
authors ” occurs, is forgotten, while the agent
goes in search of the fresh client.
But the real objection to the agent acting
for the publisher and the author is not merely
that the author seldom gains anything by the
process, but that it is impossible, however
honest and straightforward the agent may be,
for him to act fairly to both parties.
If the agent does his duty to the author, his
second principal, the publisher, must suffer.
If the publisher’s interests are looked after,
then the author suffers.
In a recent case brought to the notice of the
Society, a literary agent refused to take any
payment from the author, stating that he, the
agent, was paid by the publisher.
If every literary agent acted in this way, we
should not so much object to the position, so
long as the agent made his position clear before
attempting to advise the author; but we
should still have to warn authors against the
danger of treating with publishers’ agents—
especially if the author were paying for the
production of his book. In such a case it is
almost inevitable that the publisher’s estimate
would be increased by the amount which the
agent would receive.
UNITED STATES Dramatic RIGHTS.
SomME time ago we printed in The Author
instructions from the Library of Congress,
Washington, as to the filing of copies for
registration (1) when a dramatic work is for
sale in the U.S.A.; (2) when it is not for sale.
The registrar was kind enough when the
notice was printed to forward a number of
copies for the benefit of members of the
Society, and whenever a requisition is made, a
copy is handed out.
Mr. Maquarie, a member of the Society, has
drawn attention to the fact that it might be
useful not only to have the forms of instructions
from the registrar at this office, but also the
actual forms under which various works are
registered ; as he has received a number from
Washington, he has kindly deposited them at
the offices of the Society. The secretary has
written to the registrar on the matter, and it
is hoped that in future a good: supply will be
ready to hand.
_Piays AND THE Ricut TO TITLE.
Wirth reference to this article which appeared!
in last month’s Author, one of the members has,
84
been kind enough to draw attention to the
fact that in 1910, “The Stage Cyclopedia of
Plays,” containing an alphabetical list of
50,000 play-titles, was published, and that in
addition, every year “‘ The Stage Year Book ’
publishes an alphabetical list of pieces pro-
duced in all the principal foreign countries as
well as in England and America. It would
appear, therefore, that with a little research it
would not be difficult for dramatists to avoid
trespassing on the property of other dramatists
as regards the question of title. We hope this
information may be of use to members of the
Society.
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THE DINNER.
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YHE annual dinner of the Society of
Authors was held at the Criterion
Restaurant on Thursday, November
27, Mr. H. Hesketh Prichard, the chairman,
presiding over a gathering of about 250
members and friends. The guest of the
evening, Field-Marshal the Karl Roberts,
V.C., K.G., ete., sat on the chairman’s right,
and the others seated at the high table were
Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mr. Anthony Hope
Hawkins, Lady Elizabeth Hesketh Prichard,
Miss Marie Corelli, Major Lewin, R.A., Mr.
and Mrs. Reginald Smith, Mr. and Mrs. P. W.
Everett, Sir George Forrest, K.C.1E., Sir
Donald Mackenzie Wallace, K.C.V.O., Mr.
W. W. Jacobs, Lady Florence Bourke, Mr.
Ernest Davies, Mr. Thomas Marlowe, Sir James
and Lady A. C. Wilson, General Wilson, C.B.,
D.S.O., and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. A. Cherry
Garrard, Mrs. Jopling Rowe, Mr. and Mrs.
Temple Thurston, Major-General and Mrs.
Saward, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garvice, Mr.
R. D. Blumenfeld, and the Rev. P. H.
Ditchfield. At the seven lower tables Mr.
E. W. Hornung, Mr. Francis Gribble, Dr. S.
Squire Sprigge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Frederick Hewett, Mr. Phillips Oppenheim, and
Mr. G. H. Thring presided.
At the conclusion of the dinner the usual
loyal toasts were given by the chairman, who
then rose again to propose the health of ‘‘ The
Society of Authors.” He drew attention to
the fact that their numbers were increasing,
and there were now 2,500 members and
associates. Last year 345 had joined the
Society, and this year, so far, 338, so that
there were hopes of breaking the record. He
would like to mention one or two points about
their progress apart from numbers. Their
THE AUTHOR.
relations with publishers and editors were
excellent. It was noteworthy that this year
one publisher, having a dispute with an author,
had offered to submit the case to the committee
of the Society, which showed in what estima-
tion he held the Society’s sense of fairness.
Things had changed since the days of George
Borrow. ‘‘ What, do you eat meat, sir?”
asked the publisher then. ‘‘ Yes,” said the
author. ‘‘ You should eat bread !’’ was the
reply.
There had been a round-table conference
this year between the committee and_ the
editors in connection with the question of the
prompter payment for magazine articles, and
most of the editors had agreed to a resolution
that payment should be made on acceptance
or within six months’ time.
Then there was the matter of the library
censorship. The committee had heard several
schemes proposed, but none of them promised
great success. He regretted that the sugges-
tion of a round-table conference between
delegates of the Publishers’ Association, the
booksellers, the Library Association, and the
Society, though brought up before the council,
had been referred back for further considera-
tion, and that therefore nothing had yet been
done. A certain number of members wanted
the question of the ban upon books to be taken
up, but it was impossible for the Society to
deal with individual cases. Its duty was to
look at the question broadly, from the point
of view of all its members. He, as chairman,
had even been obliged to deny himself the
pleasure of reading the censored books !
He mentioned that letters of regret at
inability to be present had been received from
Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Sir Rider Haggard,
Mr. Owen Seaman, Mr. Egerton Castle, Mr.
Gathorne Hardy, and Mr. Sydney Holland ;
and that Lord Roberts had, during the
dinner, received a telegram from Yorkshiremen
gathered at Skipton Town Hall that evening,
wishing him all success in his great patriotic
work. :
In conclusion, the chairman congratulated
the Society on the possession of one of the best
—if not the best—of secretaries in the world.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle then proposed the
health of “The Guests.” It was a pleasant
duty, he said, when they had with them so
numerous and distinguished a company, among
them Mr. Cherry Garrard, who was with the
lamented Captain Scott in the Antarctic, and
Mr. Reginald Smith, the publisher, who came
to show that the lion could lie down with the
lamb. There was, however, one guest who,
THE AUTHOR.
short of Royalty, must always take the first
place in any gathering of their countrymen, the
first, not only in rank and in distinction, but in
the grateful love and veneration of Englishmen.
The qualities of Earl Roberts were well known.
He had given in youth the strength of his right
arm to his country, in middle life the genius of
his generalship, and in later years the matured
wisdom of his whole life. Now that he had
earned his rest, he had thrown it aside and
embarked on a most difficult and arduous task
for purely unselfish and patriotic motives—a
campaign in which, whether they agreed with
him or not, they must admit there had been a
dignity and restraint and moderation of
utterance which was an example for all time.
Since, at the age of 19, he joined the Indian
Army, his life might be looked on, if one could
visualise it, as a sort of cinematograph proces-
sion of British history. There was first the
Indian Mutiny; then the Afghan War; and
they all had seen his work in South Africa—
work not only as a soldier, but as a statesman
and diplomatist. Lord Roberts had had a
great deal to do with the reconciliation of South
Africa. The speaker himself well recalled how,
when he was in Bloemfontein, they were not
's . allowed to loot the villas of the Boers around
them. Those houses would have made nice
little cribs, and at the time they chafed at the
prohibition, but as he looked back he saw how
at every point of that great crisis Lord Roberts
prevented just those things that would have
left a rankling feeling which might have
retarded the reconciliation of the two races.
As an author, it might be said of Lord
Roberts that his ‘‘ Forty-one Years in India ”’
was an unique record. His style was that of
aman of action. The book was an index of
its writer’s thoughts, so infused throughout
with gallantry, fine spirit, and patriotism
that all who had sons must be glad that they
could read such a book as that.
Earl Roberts, rising to respond, said that he
was highly honoured by being invited to
become the guest of the Society, and it was a
great pleasure to him to find himself weleomed
by such a distinguished gathering of men and
women. His own claim to be an author was
very small, and he could not imagine himself
being in the slightest degree representative of
literature. He was nearly sixty years of age
-when the idea entered his head that he might
some day at his leisure write an account of his
Indian experiences. The idea was suggested
to him, while walking on the Maidan at Cal-
eutta, by a friend to whom he had been talking
of the Mutiny and the second Afghan War.
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He had never kept a regular diary, and he had
no record of events except what he put down in
letters to his father and mother in the Indian
Mutiny, and later to his wife. He had not,
therefore, at the time, responded to the invita-
tion to write a book. But not long after that
his service in India came to an end, and he had
to bid farewell to a country in which he had
spent forty-one most interesting and happy
years. It was a sad parting, not only because
of the innumerable friends he left behind, but
because it looked as if his career as a soldier was
coming to an end—a thought which was most
distressing to any soldier. It was with a heavy
heart that he left the land that he had learned
to love so well. When he arrived in England
he found himself unemployed for a considerable
time, and as the days hung rather heavily on
his hands he bethought himself of theidea which
his friend in Calcutta had put before him.
Looking over his letters he found that they
were more numerous and more comprehensive
than he had expected, and it seemed that the
task of writing his life would, perhaps not be
so formidable. His wife, who had been with
him for thirty-three of his forty-one years in
India, was blessed, like himself, with a good
memory, and was able to help him. He there-
fore set to work to produce the book to which
he supposed he must attribute the honour they
had paid him that evening. In spite of his
small claim to that honour, he returned his
sincere thanks, and was much touched by the
way in which they had received him.
He had not intended to say more; but the
chairman had called upon him that evening as
he was dressing for the dinner and had told
him that he hoped he would not confine him-
self in his speech to the returning of thanks.
So, though he had previously not the slightest
idea of talking—especially on a festive occa-
sion like this—about a subject in which they
knew him to be deeply interested, he would
endeavour briefly to explain to them and
place before them what he thought was the
remedy for the danger in which this country
stood. He hoped that those who were
opposed to his views would not object to his
expressing these now.
It was difficult to begin and difficult to
end. But they had as a starting-point the
report of the deputation which waited on Mr.
Asquith the day before. That clearly showed
the opinion of those men who had spent four
or five years working very hard to make the
Territorial Force a success. It was greatly
to their honour and credit though the majority
of those men were not of the same political
86
opinions as Lord Haldane and the Government.
They had worked for it as if it had been their
own child. He himself had even at_ times
expostulated with them. He had said: “I
can hardly conceive why you should take the
trouble to support a Force with which you
have nothing to do at the start. You have
certainly carried out this duty in a manly
manner, but are you quite right in supporting
a Force which you yourselves know can never
be of any use?” They had read what the
deputation said before Mr. Asquith the day
before—how they had pointed out that the
Territorial Force which now existed was of no
use. They asked that some more money
might be given them. It was a very difficult
thing indeed for men to forego their pleasure,
to give up their time, and wear out their boots
and clothes for the public good, although the
numbers who came forward were comparatively
few, and, as Mr. Asquith said, the burden was
not equally borne. But the remedy which
they proposed was not sufficient. More money
would not do what was required. More money
might possibly fill up the number of officers
and men that Lord Haldane laid down, but
it would not make them efficient. If they
doubled or trebled the money that was given,
and doubled or trebled the number of men who
came forward, those men would not be of the
slightest use in war unless they were trained
as soldiers. He would tell all those among
them who did not agree with what he was
saying that, if they were patriots, if they loved
their country and desired it to remain the
great country that it was, and if they desired
to maintain the integrity of that great country,
they should not trust to men who were not
trained to fight. Untrained men were no
better than a body of schoolboys. Panic
would spread among them on the shortest
notice. They could not be trusted, no matter
what their individual courage might be, to
fight a trained enemy unless they too were
trained. He could give them many instances
of what could be done by a very few trained
soldiers, men who believed in their own skill
with their arms and who trusted their comrades
alongside them, or even at great distances
apart. Fighting in modern days was quite a
different thing from what it was even in the
days of the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny,
or the Peninsular War. The first battle he
was in was under the walls of Delhi. At that
time they were in close order, touching each
other in fact. The non-commissioned officers
and men were shoulder to shoulder, and the
firing commenced, as at Waterloo, at forty or
THE AUTHOR.
fifty yards’ distance.~On the Heights of
Abraham, Wolfe did not give the word until
the French were within forty yards. Now
they came within the fire-zone at 2,000 yards,
and from that time until he came to close
quarters every man was going along, not in
close order, nor constantly advancing, but
lying down to take cover, getting up again,
and so on. The strain on each individual
soldier, knowing every moment that he was
being fired at, was enormous, and could only
be borne by trained men. He would defy the
whole of the Ministry and the Army council
to assert that untrained could fight against
trained men in modern times, and unless the
country insisted on some system being devised
by which the men, however few in numbers,
could be properly trained, and by which, they
could be made to have confidence in their
comrades, and more particularly reliance on
their officers, the Territorial Force might just
as well be disbanded.
One could always trust trained men, if only
a few thousand in number, to hold their own
against hundreds of thousands. He had him-
self felt no anxiety lest defeat should occur in
Afghanistan, because he knew that his men
could be trusted. They never showed the
least sign of alarm at the hordes around them.
He remembered four or five days’ hard fighting
among the hills once, when he could not see
into the valley beyond the highest hill in front
of them. He signalled to the officer in charge
of the outpost on the height, asking for the
number of the enemy in the valley, and the
answer came back by signal—it was in the days
long before the field telephone—* They are like
Epsom on Derby Day!” He had with him
only 6,000 or 7,000 men, but those few were
perfectly willing to stand up against any num-
ber, because they had been properly trained.
This was the necessary point, which he wanted
the country to realise. For defence we want
trained men, who can be trusted to hold their
own against any number.
Mr. E. W. Hornung gave the toast of “‘ The
Chairman.” He had accepted the task pro-
posed to him by Mr. Thring, he said, with a
certain indecent alacrity, because his old friend,
Mr. Hesketh-Prichard, was a man who re-
commended himself to them all in various and
romantic ways. He recalled the first story he
had read in Cornhill, years ago, over the signa-
ture of E. and H. Heron, and how he had been
told that it was from the pen of “‘ a young giant
who writes in collaboration with his mother ”—
a fact in itself sufficient to impress the heart.
Then he had played on cricket fields terrorised
os
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by the prowess of a certain fast bowler—their
chairman. Then again, there was a mighty
hunter ; and it was in this capacity that Mr.
Hesketh Prichard was most famous to-day. He
wondered whether he would be able as chair-
man of the Society, to add to his trophies of the
hunt the scalp of one wicked publisher; but
perhaps that would not be considered hand-
some enough to figure among the antlers and
heads.
The chairman replied briefly, thanking
Mr. Hornung for the kind way in which he had
proposed his health. However long he lived,
he said, no honour would ever befall him equal
to that of sitting next to Lord Roberts that
night.
After the speeches had come to an end, the
members and their guests moved to the adjoin-
ing room for the conversazione, at which a num-
ber of members of the Society were present who
had not taken part in the dinner.
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THE NOBEL PRIZE.
ABINDRANATH TAGORE, who has
R lately been awarded the Nobel prize
for literature, came to England in the
summer of 1912, and, at Mr. William Rothen-
stein’s suggestion, translated during the voyage
some of his lyrics into English. During the
summer he worked hard at these, and the
result was the book which he called “‘Gitanjali”’
(Song Offerings), of which a small edition was
published by the India Society in November.
This was received with a chorus of approval,
and Messrs. Macmillan published a second
edition last spring which has gone through
several impressions. The ‘‘ Gardener,”’ a col-
lection of love poems dating from an earlier
period, appeared this autumn, as well as some
lectures entitled ‘“‘ Sadhana,” which Mr. Tagore
had delivered at the Caxton Hall. <A book of
child’s poems, ‘‘ The Crescent Moon,” with
illustrations, has just appeared.
Mr. Tagore comes of a literary and artistic
family who have lived for generations in
Calcutta. He has for many years been
recognised as the foremost poet of Bengal,
perhaps of India. His advice is eagerly
sought and followed by many of his fellow-
countrymen. He superintends, and himself
largely supports, at Bolpur, in Bengal, a
school which has made a name for itself
as turning out boys of strong character.
He has returned there now to his home at
Shantiniketan (the abode of peace), a little
tired after a most interesting year of foreign
travel, and not altogether sorry to be at rest
again.
COPYRIGHT AND ‘‘THE LADY.”
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ie the May issue of The Author in the
current year an article was printed
under the above title setting out a form
of receipt issued from the office of The Lady.
A special covering letter from the editor was
sent with the receipt. The following is a
reprint of the letter and the form of the
receipt :—
39 and 40, BepForpD STREET,
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March 13, 1913.
Dear Mapam,—The manager has requested me to send
you the enclosed for your signature. The idea, so I
understand, is to save contributors the trouble of sending
him a special form of acknowledgment on receipt of each
cheque. Once the enclosed has been signed, the endorse-
ment on the cheque will be the only receipt required by
the manager.
Yours truly,
Tue Epiror.
[ENCLOSURE]
To the Proprietor of ‘‘ The Lady’’ Newspaper.
In consideration of your publishing in your newspaper
or purchasing any article or drawing written or made by
me, I hereby assign and transfer to you the original and
the copy therein and also agree to assign and transfer to
you the original of and the copyright in all future articles
and drawings written or made by me which may hereafter
be purchased by you or published in your newspaper.
Signature
Date
There is really no need to pass fresh
comment. Those who know will only need to
be reminded. Those who do not know can
easily refer to the article.
The proprietor of The Lady has now taken
a fresh line, perhaps as a result of that
article. It may be that many contributors
reading the article altered the receipt and’
cashed whatever cheque they may have
received. But it is of the utmost importance
to set before members and others the newer
methods which the proprietary of The Lady
has adopted. On the back of the cheques
runs the following story :—
Received from the Proprietors of The Lady newspaper
the sum written on the face of this cheque in payment for
my contributions or drawings and copyright thereof
published in The Lady newspaper up to and including the
issue dated ;
Signature
The signature is intended to be an indorsement of the
cheque as well as a receipt for the amount.
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Under the Copyright Act, 1911, any assign-
ment of copyright must be in writing. Whether
the endorsement of the cheque amounts to
such an assignment in writing the proprietors
of The Lady must find out for themselves.
But it is a fair deduction to make that they
intend it to be so.
On other occasions articles have appeared in
The Author explaining this insidious method
adopted by proprietors of magazines to obtain
rights from authors.* Sometimes, where the
contract has been completed before publication,
these rights have never been conveyed.
Sometimes they were never intended to be
conveyed.
What is the reason that editors and pro-
prietors cannot deal in a more reasonable and
businesslike spirit with their contributors ?
Why cannot they say before they print the
article (a stereotyped letter is all that is
required): The editor accepts the article
at the price of £ per thousand
words, subject to the transfer of all the
copyright ?
Or why cannot they, if they desire to print
the article, and have no time to communicate
with the author, claim only that which it is in
the mind of the author to give, and which is
the only real value to themselves—the first
serial use ?
The answer is plain. No author when
sending an article to a monthly or weekly paper
intends to sell the copyright. Nor does the
editor or proprietor desire to use the article
except in one issue of the magazine. If in
exceptional cases he should desire more, then
he should state so before and not after pub-
lication.
It would seem, therefore, that he endeavours
to obtain control of the copyright only in order
that, sitting as a dog in the manger, he may
obtain a return of part of the moneys from the
author should the author desire to republish
in other form.
This position, from the author’s standpoint,
is very serious, especially if he is a technical
writer, or happens to have specialised in any
subject.
The position is unfair to the author and a
great hardship, because, as a rule, the bankers
have directions not to cash the cheque if the
endorsement is altered.
The author, in many cases, either being in
need of the money or being unwilling to offend
the editor signs the document.
If all authors refused to sign these endorse-
* June, 1913.
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ments, however trivial the amount in dispute,
the matter would be remedied almost immedi-
ately, but in many cases, when the article is of
ephemeral value, it is not worth the author’s
while, and in other cases an author may not
care to appear in a county court.
The solution of the difficulty lies, however,
to a great extent in the author’s hand. He
must send a formal letter—keeping a copy—
with his article stating exactly what he is
willing to licence—generally first serial use in
a ‘“‘mentioned” magazine. If, then, the article
is published without further reference to the
author it will be held to be published on the
terms of his letter of which the editor has had
notice. If, then, the cheque is sent with the
endorsement referred to it would be as well
to return the cheque at once and, if the editor
disputes the position, to take immediate action
by placing the case before the Committee of
Management of the Society.
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PENS, PAST AND PRESENT.
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(Reprinted by kind permission of the Family Herald.)
HE earliest kind of pen known is that used by
the ancients—a style of bone or metal, with
which letters were sketched on a_ tablet
covered with wax. When the use of coloured
liquids was adopted, a reed took the place of the
bodkin, giving place afterwards to the quill. Egypt
was famous for the most beautiful reeds ; there were
fine reeds to be obtained near Cnidus, in Caria, Asia
Minor ; the marshes of Persia also furnished a good
supply. They grew to the height of a man, and
were filled with a pith which could be removed
when dry, so as to allow of a point being cut. Had
the old Greeks known of goose quills they might
perhaps have dedicated the goose instead of the owl
to Minerva. ‘There is indeed a portrait of Aristotle
in a manuscript in the Vienna Library, showing
him with a book and quill before him, but the
manuscript was not written until 1457, and the
writer drew largely on his imagination.
But the use of the quill seems to date from not
earlier than the sixth century. It is related that
Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, could not learn
to write four letters at the bottom of his edicts, so
four letters were cut out for him in a plate of gold,
which was laid on the paper, and he traced out the
letters with a quill. The Emperor Justin used a
plate of wood, but his case was so much worse that
one of his secretaries had to guide his hand. The
oldest certain account is, however, that of St. Isidore,
who died A.D. 636, wherein he mentions reeds and
feathers.
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In the same century St. Aldhelm, the
English pioneer of Latin verse, wrote a small poem
on a quill pen. The gospel manuscripts of the
ninth century depict the evangelists with quills in
their hands.
When the Romans were in what is known to-day
as the Netherlands they are said to have paid special
attention to the catching of geese ; an old poet said
that this was because they could not get Egyptian
reeds and wanted to procure goose quills, but Pliny
says that it was because they wanted to eat roast
goose and lie on feather beds.
REEDS AND QUILLS.
Reeds and quills were both used in the eighth
century in the French diplomatic documents, while
the papal Acts and those of the synods were written
with reeds until much later. The monks used
reeds for text and initials, while they preferred
quills for smaller writing. Johann Reuchlin, a
great light in the Reformation and Renaissance,
was so severely attacked and persecuted that he had
to flee for safety, leaving all his writing materials
behind him; a letter is extant in which he asks a
friend, Porkheimer, to send him some good paper,
pen-knives, and peacock feathers. His letter of
acknowledgment says :—
. “J asked you for peacock feathers for writing ;
you have presented me with the choicest swan
quills, and, that nothing might be wanting to your
friendly offices, you sent also reeds from the Nile,
or, a8 | rather think, from Cnidus—more easy for
writing—and the most excellent paper-knives.”
Reuchlin sent three of these reeds to Erasmus,
who writes full of gratitude for such a desirable
present, saying that such is the most acceptable
gift possible, adding the request that if Reuchlin
has any more he will send some to a mutual friend
in England, with a hint that more would be welcome
sent to himself.
_ For some reason writing quills were very scarce
in Vienna in 1433; Ambrosius Traversarius, a
monk of Carmaldule, sent a bunch of quills to his
brother from Vienna, saying :—
_ “They are not the best, but such as I received
im a present. Show the whole bunch to friend
Nicholas that he may choose a quill ; for they are
éven scarcer in this city than in Florence.”
The feathers of various birds have been used for
pens, but in this respect the goose has always been
the main contributor to literature. The swan,
crow, eagle, owl, hawk, turkey, and peacock have
all supplied the pen market to some extent. Swan
quills are better and more costly than goose quills,
while those of the crow are more suitable for fine
lines. The only useful feathers of the goose are the
five on the outer part of the wing, and of these the
Second and third are the best. Quills from the left
wing are more suitable than those of the right wing,
because they curve outwards and away from the
writer.
How QUILLS ARE PREPARED.
Preference is always given to quills secured in
the spring from living birds, but those taken from
dead geese, especially if fattened, are comparatively
worthless. The quills are greasy and covered with
little pellicles of skin ; this is removed by heating
them in a fine sand-bath to one hundred and thirty
to one hundred and eighty degrees Fahrenheit.
They are then scraped, and while they are still soft
and hot can be stamped with designs and names.
Care must be taken that they are finished hard and
elastic.
Joseph Bramab, the lock inventor, in 1809, made
and patented a machine for manufacturing quill
nibs ; the barrel of the quill was slit into three or
four parts and then cut across into two, three, four,
and even five lengths. The nibs were used in a
holder something similar to the present holder.
Dickens, it will be remembered, speaks of the time
when quill feathers were cut and cut again by the
writer ; Miss Squeers, in her anxiety to see the
new usher of Dotheboys Hall, enters the schoolroom
on the pretext of wanting her pen mended.
Nine years after Bramah’s patent Charles Watt
obtained a patent for gilding nibs, thereby antici-
patiug the gold pen. But in 1822 a step further
was made; Hawkins and Mordan patented the
application of horn and tortoiseshell to the forma-
tion of nibs, making the points durable by impress-
ing them into small pieces of diamond and ruby ;
another part of the process was lapping a small
piece of thin sheet gold over the tip of the tortoise-
shell, and there were other ways of hardening the
point.
Merauic PEns.
Metallic pens appear to have been slightly known
to the Romans, but it is certain that they were not
in use, nor were they at all common until after the
meeting of the British Association at Birmingham
in 1839. A steel pen was made and sold in London
in 1803, but it cost five shillings, and was not a
success. Bryan Donkin brought out another
metallic pen in 1808. Doctor Priestley had had a
steel pen made at the end of the previous century
by a manufacturer of split-rings, named Harrison,
who was eventually associated with Sir Josiah
Mason in the industry ; but it was not until after
Perry’s invention in 1830 and Gillott’s in 1831
that pen-making became a paying industry. —
Pens were made of silver, zinc, German silver,
aluminium, and aluminium bronze. Doctor
Wollaston, the celebrated physicist, whose advice
was so useful to Herschel, used the first gold
iridium-tipped pe on record.
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Joseph Bramah again was in the forefront with
his fountain-pen. He had several designs ; one
was a tube of soft silver that could be pressed to
allow a flow to the nib, and another was a tube
with a piston sliding down the ink-barrel. John
Scheffer, in 1819, made a pen with a button, which
the writer pressed when he wanted more ink at the
nib.’ The Americans were the pioneers of stylo-
graphs, with iridium points, but Birmingham took
and retains the lead for good ordinary pens.
A few words on the actual making will not be
out of place. The finest quality of cast steel in
rolled sheets is used, this being the product of
Swedish charcoal iron. The sheets are cut into
strips and then tempered in a furnace before being
pickled in weak sulphuric acid to remove the
oxidised scale. The strips are again rolled, and
then cut, stamped, and embossed by band fly-
presses with the trade-mark and perforated. Until
pow the embryo pen is flat; next follows the
rounding into a semi-circular shape.
After once more being heated the pens are
plunged into oil and then polished by mixing with
sand in rotating cylinders. Small emery-wheels
then grind the point, and the slit from the perfora-
tion to the tip is made ; on this depends the whole
perfection of the pen, the desired flexibility being a
sine quad non. ‘The surface of the pen is then
coloured in a revolving cylinder over a charcoal
fire, and finally varnished with a solution of shellac.
And the result is—a pen at less than a farthing
infinitely superior to one formerly sold at five
shillings.
A. Kirxuam HaMILton.
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THE REAL “MOTHER DAMNABLE.”
N a case in the law-courts some months ago
the allegation was made—though it was
contradicted at the time and has since
been strongly denied—that Roman Catholics,
or at least members of the Jesuit order,
sometimes speak of the Church of England as
‘¢ Qld Mother Damnable.”’ (A correspondent
in the Observer claims that ‘‘ the epithet was
first brought into prominence, if not actually
invented, by one of the early Tractarian
seceders to Rome, and a friend of Newman’s,
namely, the Rev. John Pye, who married a
daughter of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce ”’.)
It would be curious if the name were ever
used in this connection, for it once had very
different, and by no means religious, associa-
tions. Whether one is justified in speaking
of a real Mother Damnable is perhaps open to
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dispute ; but, at any rate, there is a traditional
personage who bears the stigma of the title and
lingers on as a faint memory in a far from
romantic quarter of London as we now know it.
Near the end of the eighteenth century that
industrious combination of author, print-
collector, and print-seller, James Caulfield,
published his “ Portraits, Memoirs, and
Characters of Remarkable Persons from the
Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution.”
To this work we owe some details, of doubtful
authenticity, concerning the career of ‘‘ Beau ”
Feilding, for a brief while the second husband
of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.
Another of the memoirs deals with Mother
Damunable.
‘“Of the shrew thus denominated,” says
Caulfield, ‘‘ whose real name has not reached
posterity, nothing farther is known than the
following lines annexed to her portrait—
‘London, printed in the year 1676 ’—inform
us. ... It is perhaps not unreasonable to
conjecture that she might be the original
Mother Red Cap and kept the public-house
near Kentish Town, known for a century past
by the sign of her head ; in rivalship of which
a Mother Black Cap appeared nearly opposite :
which ale-houses were, within these few years,
almost the only dwellings on that spot, now
covered with extensive piles of building.”
We may for the present leave the lines
quoted by Caulfield, while we follow the
identification suggested by him. This is
supported by a statement in a valuable and
entertaining collection of reminiscences called
‘““A Book for a Rainy Day.’ The author,
John Thomas Smith, up to his death in 1833,
keeper of the prints and drawings in the British
Museum, preserved in this much antiquarian
information which might otherwise have been
lost. Writing of the year 1778, he mentions
the Mother Red Cap, “‘a house of no small
terror to travellers in former times,’’ and adds :
“Tt has been stated that Mother Red Cap was
the ‘ Mother Damnable’ of Kentish Town in
early days; and that it was at her house the
notorious ‘Moll Cutpurse,’ the highway-
woman of the time of Oliver Cromwell,
dismounted and frequently lodged.”
Those who go to Camden Town nowadays
by the Underground Railway may see “ The
Mother Red Cap” over against the station,
at the corner of the Camden Road. There is
nothing ancient, however, about the house
to-day, except its name. It was rebuilt in the
late eighteenth century, according to J. a:
Smith. An old gentleman with whom the
present writer is acquainted remembers it fifty
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years ago, when it was one of the most
picturesque inns in the London neighbourhood,
celebrated for its old ale and Welsh rarebits,
with a parlour where every seat was conse-
erated to a regular customer, and with a paved
space in front which could accommodate thirty
or forty coaches. Since then it has_ been
rebuilt at least once, and it is now almost
aggressively modern. In this respect it is at
least in harmony with its surroundings ; for,
where once highwaymen resorted, the chief
danger to life at the present day arises from the
unceasing streams of motor-omnibuses and
trams which run in all directions. Of the
““Mother Black Cap” there is no _ trace,
although two public-houses—the authorities
have been prodigal with licences hereabouts—
may be described as standing nearly opposite.
It is a rather strange coincidence that a
newspaper of 1776, mentioned in Besant’s
Survey of London, states that the space facing
the ‘“‘Mother Red Cap” was at one time
designed for a second Tyburn. This is sugges-
tive of the black cap, it must be admitted.
Another of the community of witches is
obviously the heroine of a pantomime produced
at the Sans Pareil Theatre in the Strand in
March, 1809—‘‘ Mother White Cap, or Hey
up the Chimney !”’ But she was perhaps only
a parody of her red and black sisters.
There appears to be little local tradition of
Mother Red Cap surviving in Camden Town,
beyond that she was “‘ a witch-sort-of-thing.”’
Mother Damnable’s portrait, reproduced by
Caulfield, is an unpleasing representation of an
old hag kneeling down by her grate, in a much
soiled or patched skirt and shawl, stick in hand,
with a spilt pot of ale and a clay pipe on the
floor behind her, while on the wall hangs a
scutcheon with a black and a white cat sus-
pended by their tails. In the modern ‘‘ Mother
Red Cap ”’ a picture presents the dame quite
otherwise, as only of middle age, in a red dress
and a red hat with peaked crown. Across it
is pasted the legend, “Champagne, 6d. a
glass’?! But it is red wine which stands in a
decanter at her side, and a glass of it is in her
hand.
The story, though its origin is difficult to
trace, is that Mother Red Cap, or Damnable,
was a brickmaker’s daughter in Kentish Town,
very wild in her girlhood—like Mary Frith,
alias Moll Cutpurse, according to her earliest
biographer, “‘a very tomrig or rumpscuttle,”’
“delighting only in boys’ play and pastime,
not minding or companying with the girls ””—
who, when she grew up followed Marlborough’s
army to the wars, and ended by becoming a
witch, as well as an inn-keeper, and being
carried off by the Devil.
The verses saved from oblivion by Caulfield
are plainly directed against an unpopular
landlady and do not allude to any traffic with
the Black Art. They run as follows :—
*Y° have often seen (from Oxford tippling house)
Th’ effigies of Shipton-faced Mother Louse,
Whose petty pranks (though some they might excel)
With this old trot’s ne’er galloped parallel.
*Tis Mother Damnable! that monstrous thing,
Unmatched by Mackbeth’s wayward women’s ring,
For cursing, scolding, fuming, flinging fire
I’th face of madam, lord, knight, cit, gent, squire :
Who (when but ruffled into the least pet)
Will cellar door-key into pocket get.
Then no more ale: and now the fray begins !
*Ware heads, wigs, hoods, scarfs, shoulders, sides, and
shins !
While these dried bones, in a Westphalian bag,
(Through th’ wrinkled weasan of her shapeless crag)
Sends forth such dismal shrieks and uncouth noise
As fills the town with din, the streets with boys ;
Which makes some think this fierce she-dragon fell
Yan scarce be matched by any this side hell.
So famed, both far and near, is the renown
Of Mother Damnable, of Kentish Town.
Wherefore this symbol of the cats we’ll give her,
Because, so curst, a dog would not dwell with her.”
“Mother Louse,” it may be noted, is
described in another of Caulfield’s memoirs
as the keeper of an ale-house near Oxford,
called Louse Hall. She was ‘ well known to
the gentlemen of that university, who called
her Mother Louse, and a portrait of her was
engraved from the life by David Loggan,
engraver to the University and friend of
Antony Wood. It represents her with a ruff,
which she was said to be the last woman in
England to wear. Oddly, the picture of
Mother Red Cap in the modern house gives
her a ruff about her neck.
Probably there is no reason to doubt the
existence, once upon a time, of these two
shrewish landladies. George Savile, Marquess
of Halifax, speaks, in his essay upon the choice
of Parliament-men, of ‘“‘a wet popularity ”
as a frail title to fame. An alehouse-keeper,
on the other hand,
*“ Who (when but ruffled into the least pet)
Will cellar door-key into pocket get—
Then no more ale,”
was sure of a dry unpopularity, which,
embalmed in verse, might last centuries when
there was a collector about with Caulficld’s
love for the quaint.
Puitre W. SERGEANT.
—_——_1—
THE AUTHOR.
MR. GOSSE’S ESSAYS.*
eae
HE second volume of Mr. Gosse’s
collected essays will be welcomed
alike by those who made the ac-
quaintance of these particular essays when
they first appeared, and by those to whom they
are new. Few writers, past or present, can
invest with so much charm the critical and
anecdotal saunter round the shelves of a
book-room as our author. Few, too, have such
sane views of what a library should be—“ a
small one, where the books are carefully
selected and thoughtfully arranged in accord-
ance with one central code of taste, and intended
to be respectfully consulted at any moment by
the master of their destinies.”’ If fortune made
him possessor of one book of excessive value,
Mr. Gosse tells us, he would hasten to part
with it. This is true wisdom. The first
quarto of ‘‘ Hamlet” may be left to the
Transatlantic millionaire.
The essays before us range over a vast
period of literary history. From Camden’s
‘‘ Britannia,”’ early in the sixteenth century,
they travel by degrees to Meredith’s “ Shaving
of Shagpat.’? The first and the last, it will be
seen, deal with well-known works. Perhaps
the most pleasing, however, are those which
take as their subject obscure or forgotten
books — such as Wither’s ‘‘ Shepheards
Hunting,” Lady Winchilsea’s “ Miscellany
Poems,” Farquhar’s ‘“‘ Love and Business,”
and that extraordinary panegyric on prize-
fighting, “‘ The Fancy,” of which the author
was Keats’s friend, John Hamilton Reynolds,
disguised under the alias of Peter Corcoran.
The last-named essay—for it takes its title
from the title of .Reynold’s book—is an
admirable example of the man of letters at the
ring-side. With what gusto does Mr. Gosse
quote Corcoran’s apology to his lady-love :—
“‘ Forgive me, and never, oh never again,
T’'ll cultivate light blue or brown inebriety ;
Tl give up all chance of a fracture or sprain,
And part, worst of all, with Pierce Egan’s society.”
and explain that ‘“‘ heavy brown with a dash
of blue in it”? was the fancy phrase for stout
mixed with gin !
There may be those to whom it seems
grotesque to turn the pen to discourse of such
things as these. To them may be commended
the lines from Samuel Daniel’s “* Musophilus,”
which Mr. Gosse quotes as the motto of his
book, beginning
*O blessed Letters, that combine in one
All ages past, and.make one live with all. . . .”
* “Gossip in a Library,” by Edmund Gosse, C.B.
London; William Heinemann.
CORRESPONDENCE.
—_-—< 2 —
“* ONLY.”
Srr,—The irritating misuse of the word
“only ’’ to which your correspondent “ Richard
Free ” called attention in your last issue, is by
no means confined to careless writers. Many
who denounce the split infinitive have not yet
had their grammatical consciousness awakened
to this solecism. For example, I have culled
the following three passages from the latest
edition of “‘The King’s English,” the best
book we have on the ill-treatment of English.
‘“ We shall now only make three general
remarks before proceeding to details.”
“The mistakes are nearly always on one
side, the infinitive being the form that should
only be used with caution.”
“ For a person’s name can only require a
defining cause to distinguish him from others
of the same name.”
The intended meanings are certainly not
‘only make,” “ only require,’ or ‘“ only be
used,” as a moment’s analysis shows.
This is perhaps the commonest error in both
spoken and written English at the present day ;
once perceived, it is undoubtedly one of the
most irritating, and your correspondent
deserves thanks for calling attention to it.
I am,
Your obedient servant,
Ernest A. Baker.
—1+——+—_
New AND AMUSING TRICK OF THE
LITERARY AGENT.
Dear Sir,—The literary agent has found a
new way of amusing his authors. He has a
special cheque printed with a receipt upon the
back which requires a penny stamp. He pays
his author with one of these cheques and of
course does not stamp his receipt. The author
is abroad, or he has only embossed envelopes
upon his desk, and the fun begins. Publishers
are taking up this delightful little novelty.
‘The author finds on the back of the publisher’s
cheque a printed receipt, in which he is invited
to make over to the publisher all sorts of rights
he never sold’ when the. bargain was made.
Any alteration of the receipt invalidates the
cheque. Letters, explanations, recriminations.
What an infernal nuisance all this
smartness is ! |
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