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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
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THE first meeting of the committee after the<br />
long vacation took place at the offices of the<br />
society on Monday, October 2nd.<br />
The first business before the meeting was the<br />
election of members and associates. The committee<br />
are pleased to report that the number of elections<br />
is well maintained ; 67 were elected at this meeting,<br />
bringing the total elections for the year up to 221.<br />
The names of those elected will be found on<br />
another page. The committee report, with regret,<br />
7 resignations, bringing the total resignations<br />
to 66.<br />
The solicitor of the society attended and reported<br />
the work done during the past three months. An<br />
important case of infringement of copyright,<br />
mentioned in last month's Author, has been settled,<br />
the defendant undertaking to pay the damages<br />
demanded by the plaintiff and costs. A case<br />
relating to the bankruptcy of an agent, also<br />
reported in the last issue of The Author, is pro-<br />
gressing, as the examination of one of the parties<br />
concerned will take place during the month. The<br />
solicitor also reported a few County Court cases<br />
which had been settled, and three matters in which<br />
it had been necessary to issue summonses, the<br />
summonses being returnable in October. In one<br />
case in which the society had undertaken to act for<br />
a member, matters had been somewhat delayed<br />
owing to the course the plaintiff had thought fit to<br />
adopt independently of the society's solicitor. The<br />
committee decided it would be impossible to<br />
continue to act if the member failed to put<br />
thorough confidence in the society, and instructed<br />
the solicitor to explain the position in order that he<br />
might be able to conclude the negotiations. A<br />
case of account would, the solicitor explained, be<br />
pressed when the defendant returned to London.<br />
He was at present travelling and nothing could be<br />
done.<br />
A case was mentioned in the July issue of The<br />
Author, in which the plaintiff's claim was based,<br />
not on infringement of copyright, but on breach of<br />
confidence. The solicitor had, during the vacation,<br />
gone into the matter very carefully, had obtained<br />
full evidence and counsel's opinion. He reported<br />
to the committee the result of the steps he had<br />
taken, but the committee decided, after careful<br />
consideration, that it was not a case that the<br />
society could pursue.<br />
The solicitor also reported that the society had<br />
advised on sundry cases during the vacation, and<br />
had recovered moneys in three or four cases without<br />
the necessity of taking out summonses or issuing<br />
writs.<br />
There were certain cases of dramatic piracy<br />
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brought forward at the meeting, which the com- council meeting was settled, together with a report<br />
mittee had decided to take steps to prevent. It is of the Committee of Management's action on the<br />
impossible, at present, to say anything more about Copyright Bill to be laid before that body at their<br />
these cases, as to do so would be likely to prejudice meeting. Formal notice will be sent to the council,<br />
the society's chances of success.<br />
together with a copy of the report, in due course.<br />
The secretary then reported the cases which were The date of the dinner was provisionally settled,<br />
under dispute in different countries.<br />
and the secretary was instructed to make the usual<br />
The first was an action taken on behalf of a arrangements. Notice of the dinner will be sent<br />
member against a publisher in Berlin for breach of round to all members at a later date.<br />
contract. He reported that the opinion of the The secretary then reported he had been enquiring<br />
society's German lawyer had been obtained, and as whether it would be possible to insure members of<br />
the opinion was favourable the matter had been the society—(1) against loss owing to non-payment<br />
pursued with the sanction of the chairman. Another from magazine editors and publishers, and (2)<br />
case, in Chicago, a claim for money due for an against the risks of action for libel. The issues<br />
article, had been settled and the money paid. A were fully discussed, and the matter was adjourned<br />
case of infringement of copyright, which had been till the next meeting, to enable the secretary to<br />
going on for some time in the Swiss Courts, had obtain further details of the schemes proposed.<br />
been carried considerably further. In the first The consideration of the settlement of the<br />
instance judgment had been delivered against the agreement between author and agent, owing to the<br />
member of the society, but application had been time occupied by other matters before the com-<br />
made by the society's lawyer to have the judgment mittee, had also to be adjourned.<br />
set aside, and at the time the result of the appli- The committee have to thank Mr. Horace J.<br />
cation was not known. A question dealing with Simpson and Mr. W. Victor Cook for donations to<br />
the infringement of a story by cinematograph per- the capital fund of the society.<br />
formance in America was fully discussed, and the<br />
secretary was instructed to ascertain the exact steps<br />
to secure the member's title to his property in the<br />
United States, as any flaw in his title would<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
immediately upset his claim ; and it was essential<br />
the society's lawyers should have clear evidence<br />
A MEETING of the Pension Fund Committee was<br />
before any action was commenced. The secretary<br />
held at the offices of the society on Friday,<br />
also reported that during the vacation the chairman<br />
October 13th. It was decided, after careful con-<br />
sideration, to send out a circular to members of the<br />
had authorised investigation by an accountant of a<br />
publisher's books, but although this investigation<br />
society, appealing for fresh support for the fund.<br />
was in progress, the accountant's report had not yet<br />
The form of the circular was carefully considered<br />
been received.<br />
and settled, and will be posted to members during<br />
The following matters were also discussed :-<br />
the month of November.<br />
In the July issue of The Author an article<br />
appeared on the subject of the publication of the<br />
Roll of the Society of Authors. In answer to the<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
request, contained in that article, for expressions of<br />
opinion as to the advisability of publishing a roll A MEETING of the Copyright Sub-Committee<br />
of membership, only some half a dozen letters was held on Friday, October 13th, to consider an<br />
had been received. The committee decided to agreement which had been laid before them by a<br />
place the matter before the council at their next firm of musical composers.<br />
meeting, when it would be discussed.<br />
It will be remembered that in the spring of 1910<br />
The present position of the Copyright Bill was Messrs. Stainer & Bell, desiring to meet those com-<br />
also discussed by the committee, and a letter posers who were members of the society, and to<br />
received from Mr. E. J. MacGillivray was read, arrange a more equitable form of contract than that<br />
relating to various important points which it might in common use in the music publishing trade, sub-<br />
be desirable to put forward when the Bill came before mitted an agreement which, after certain alterations,<br />
the House of Lords. The committee approved was approved by the Copyright Sub-Committee and<br />
Mr. MacGillivray's suggestions, and instructed the by the Committee of Management. This agreement<br />
secretary to proceed along the lines indicated. was printed in full in the May issue of The Author<br />
The question of Canadian copyright was next of that year.<br />
referred to, as the position had been altered owing The present agreement, submitted to the sub-<br />
to the recent Canadian elections and the defeat of committee with a similar object in view, has been<br />
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Government. The date of the considered clause by clause, and it is hoped, with<br />
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the consent of the publishers, to publish it in an In a case of piracy of dramatic pieces by illegal<br />
early issue of The Author. At the present time duplication of MS. copies, involving the property<br />
nothing further can be said save that it is a con- of three or four members of the society, the Dramatic<br />
siderable advance on the form of contract issued by Committee confirmed the action which had been<br />
many of the largest music publishing houses in taken by the society's solicitors during the<br />
London.<br />
vacation.<br />
Finally, the sub-committee considered the<br />
DRANATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
managerial treaty. The secretary read to the<br />
committee the clauses which had been passed<br />
The first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com- already, and put before them a redraft of those<br />
mittee after the vacation was held at the offices of clauses which remained for discussion. Several<br />
the society on Friday, October 20, at 3 o'clock. fresh clauses were put forward, and it was decided<br />
When the minutes of the previous meeting had to have these printed, ready for the consideration<br />
been read and signed, the secretary reported the of a special meeting of the sub-committee when the<br />
position of the Copyright Bill in England and the treaty was to be settled. The line of conduct to be<br />
Copyright Bill in Canada.<br />
adopted by the sub-committee when the treaty was<br />
The next question before the sub-committee ready for negotiation was also discussed, and it is<br />
was the appointment of agents in the Colonies and hoped to be able to obtain the support of the<br />
in America. They again took into consideration a great majority of the dramatic authors of the<br />
proposition put forward by an American lawyer, society to the steps contemplated by the sub-<br />
but came to the conclusion, after careful considera- committee.<br />
tion, that the sum he asked for looking after the<br />
rights of dramatists who were members of the<br />
society was prohibitive. The sub-committee had<br />
Cases.<br />
to consider, first, the number of English dramatists ALTHOUGH the chronicle of the monthly list of<br />
whose plays are acted in America, and from these cases in the magazine may prove a weariness of<br />
the number whose works would have to be pro- the flesh to some of our readers, yet it is essential<br />
tected by their own effort, and not through the that such a chronicle should be made in order that<br />
agency of the theatrical manager who held the new members may see the work of the society and<br />
licence. From the letter of the American corre- old members be convinced of its continued activity.<br />
spondent it appeared that he would officially During the past month nineteen cases have gone<br />
represent the American managers, so that the through the secretary's hands. Of these three<br />
number of English dramatists unprotected would were for accounts. One has been satisfactorily<br />
be very small.<br />
settled, one is in course of negotiation (and by<br />
An offer submitted to the sub-committee from this is meant that the delinquent bas acknowledged<br />
an agent in India they were also unable to accept. the secretary's letter and is coming to terms), and<br />
In regard to the appointment of an agent in South one has only recently come to the office. There<br />
Africa they instructed the secretary to inquire have been six claims for the return of MSS., in<br />
whether the agent would be ready to accept a power four of which the MSS. have been recovered and<br />
of attorney, and to conduct the various cases on returned to their owners, while the two last cases<br />
the understanding that his legal expenses should be have only just reached the office. Of six claims for<br />
a first charge on any soms he recovered by way of money two have had to go into the solicitors' bands<br />
damages; the author and the society being, except for collection, three are in the course of satisfactory<br />
under special contract, in no way responsible.<br />
settlement, and one has only recently come to hand.<br />
The Sketch question was further considered, If the three mentioned are not settled through the<br />
Mr. Cecil Raleigh making a full report of the intervention of the society during the course of the<br />
negotiations that had been carried on and were month they will be transferred to the society's<br />
pending. Finally, a letter to the Lord Chamberlain solicitors. Two complicated questions as to the<br />
was settled, and the secretary was instructed to construction of agreements have had to be handed<br />
forward it at the earliest possible moment.<br />
over to the society's solicitors, and it is hoped that<br />
The secretary reported the dramatic cases which they will be satisfactorily settled. Two questions<br />
the society had taken in hand during the vacation have arisen respecting the property in titles. One<br />
There were three cases for recovery of fees due to has been settled and the other is in course of<br />
dramatists. One had been settled, and the other negotiation. Author's appear to have but a very<br />
two were being carried on. One case of alleged vague idea as to the nature of the property in<br />
breach of confidence the Committee of Management, book titles. A great many of them appear to<br />
after careful consideration, decided they could not think that a title is copyright. Speaking generally,<br />
support. The sub-committee confirmed this action, this is not so. Recently more complaints thau<br />
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W<br />
usual have come to the office in respect to similarity Evans, Frank Gwynne The Tower House,<br />
of title ; but in these matters the secretary has<br />
Woodchester,<br />
had to advise the members concerned that no<br />
Stroud.<br />
property existed.<br />
Enriquez, C. M. . . Barmu, N.-W. Fron-<br />
Three cases remain over from former months.<br />
tier Province, India.<br />
The others have either been placed in the bands Farnol, Jeffery. . . 71, Eltham Road,<br />
of the society's solicitors or have been brought to<br />
Lee, S.E.<br />
a conclusion. One case is an infringement of Fontenay, Charles . . Grand Hotel d'Italia,<br />
copyright in a foreign country ; one is a question<br />
Ruta, nr. Genoa.<br />
arising on an agent's agreement, and a settlement Footner, Hulbert . . 272, West Jackson<br />
will, no doubt, be arranged ; while the last is a<br />
Street, Hamilton,<br />
question of accounts and money. Here there bas<br />
Canada.<br />
been considerable correspondence, and if a satis- Foreman, Stephen . . 3, Redclyffe, Western<br />
factory answer does not come to band shortly the<br />
Road, Cork.<br />
matter will have to be placed in the hands of the Gould, Gerald . . . 54, St. Mary's Man-<br />
society's solicitors.<br />
sions, Paddington,<br />
Hannay, James 0. (George Westport, co. Mayo.<br />
October Elections.<br />
A. Birmingham)<br />
Abraham, J. Johnston . 144, Queen's Road, W. Harnett, St. Clair . . 15, Pelham Place,<br />
Antcliffe, Herbert . . 136, Crookesmoor<br />
S.W.<br />
Road, Sheffield. Heath, Sidney . . . 5, Victoria Avenue,<br />
Batt, Miss Ethel Dumaresq Woodleigh, Fleet,<br />
Upwey, Dorchester.<br />
R.S.O., Hampshire. Heath, J. St. George . Woodbrooke Settle-<br />
Beale, Mrs. Mary . . 2, Whitehall Court,<br />
ment, Selby Oak,<br />
S.W.<br />
Birmingham.<br />
Bell, Margaret C. . . Old Headington, Hopkins, Capt. L. E., R.E. Junior United Ser-<br />
Oxford.<br />
vice Club, S.W.<br />
Beresford, J. D.<br />
Hughes, Miss M. L. V. Woolston Vicarage,<br />
Breakell, Mary L. . . c/o Studio, 15, Rectory<br />
Southampton.<br />
Chambers, Church James, G. Kingston<br />
Street, Chelsea, S.W. Keith, Gerald . . . 18, Southampton<br />
Broster, Miss D. K. . . 22, Farndon Road,<br />
Street, Holborn,<br />
Oxford.<br />
W.C.<br />
Bungey, E. Newton . . Dunster Lodge, New Kenny,Mrs. Louise M. Stac- Sunnymount, Lime-<br />
Barnet, Herts.<br />
poole<br />
rick,<br />
Chamberlayne, Effie . Cranbury Park, Hants. King, Clifford<br />
. Mozart Villa, Port<br />
Clarke, Laurence . . 91, Church Row,<br />
Hall Road, Brigh-<br />
Hampstead.<br />
ton.<br />
Colum, Padriac . . 2, Frankfort Place, MacBride, MacKenzie . 36, Romford Road,<br />
Upper Rathmines,<br />
Stratford, Essex.<br />
Dublin.<br />
MacKinder, H. J., M.P.<br />
Craven, Arthur Scott . Hereward House, West- MacKirdy, Mrs. Archibald. Ha ha t - Munzil,<br />
ward Ho!N. Devon.<br />
Reigate, Surrey.<br />
Creed, The Hon. J. Mildred, (Member Legislative Martin, Edgar Walford . 72, Church Road,<br />
M.L.C.<br />
Council, N.S.W.),<br />
Moseley, Birming-<br />
Sydney, N.S.W.,<br />
ham.<br />
Australia.<br />
Mayo, Miss Margaret . 1672, Broadway, New<br />
d'Anethan, Baroness. . Park Gates Club,<br />
York City, U.S.A.<br />
Grosvenor Crescent Moffat, Graham . . 130, Elgin Avenue,<br />
S.W.<br />
Maida Vale, W.<br />
d'Arcy, Ella.<br />
Mignon-Gloria, Nevada, Greville Lodge, 33,<br />
Downer, The Rev. Arthur Somerden, Groom-<br />
Greville Road, Maida<br />
J. S.<br />
bridge, Kent.<br />
Vale, W.<br />
Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt 20, Vesey Street, New Moore Mrs. Stuart (Evelyn 50, Campden Hill,<br />
York, N.Y.<br />
Underhill) .<br />
· Square, W.<br />
Duffy, George Gavan 22, Basinghall Street, Moss-Blundell, A. S. · Crabwood, Sparsholt,<br />
E.C.<br />
Winchester.<br />
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bam.<br />
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Nicholls, Henry J. . . 269, Longmoor Lane,<br />
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ART.<br />
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Parkes, Kineton . . Barnfields, Leek,<br />
ONE HUNDRED POPULAR PICTURES (COLOURED REPRO-<br />
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Staffs.<br />
MANN, and Notes by ARTHUR FISH. 15 X 10..<br />
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Park, Belfast. THE IDEALS OF INDIAN ART. By E. B. HAVELL.<br />
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104 x 74. 188 pp. Murray. 158. n.<br />
PERUGINO. By EDWARD HUTTON. (The Popular Library<br />
100A, Southampton of Art.) 6 X 4. 200 pp. Duckworth. 18. n.<br />
Row, W.C.<br />
Pickering, James Edwin . 7, Montague Street,<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
Russell Square, THE SISTERS OF LADY JANE GREY, AND THEIR WICKED<br />
W.C.<br />
GRANDFATHER, By RICHARD DAVEY. 9 X 54. 313 pp.<br />
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Rice-Keller, Mrs. Inez . Lyceum Club, 128,<br />
THE FAIR LADIES OF HAMPTON COURT. By CLARE<br />
Piccadilly, W.<br />
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Abbey Theatre.Dublin FIVE ENGLISH CONSORTS OF FOREIGN PRINCES. By IDA<br />
Shute, Mrs. Cameron. . 28, Cheyne Walk, S.W.<br />
WOODWARD. 271 pp. Methuen. 12s. 6d. n.<br />
AUTOBIOGRAPHIC MEMOIRS. By FREDERIC HARRISON,<br />
Slayton, P. E. . .<br />
D.C.L., Litt. D., LL.D. Two volumes. 97 53.<br />
Smart, Mrs. Christabel Irwin Drynoch Lodge, Tain, 405 + 358 pp. Macmillan. 308. n.<br />
N.B.<br />
SIR WALTER RALEIGH. By JOHN BUCHAN. 87 x 67.<br />
Stead, William Force . 22, Low Pavement,<br />
236 pp. Nelson. 38. 6d.<br />
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE. By FRANK HAMEL. 9 x 51.<br />
Nottingham.<br />
389 pp. Stanley Paul. 168. n.<br />
Stewart, Colin MacDougall Clarendon Grove, GEORGE MEREDITH: His LIFE AND ART IN ANECDOTE<br />
(Colin Mac Dougall) Jersey, C.I.<br />
AND CRITICISM. By J. A. HAMMERTON. A new and<br />
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Tambyah, T. Isaac. . Gunatilleke Walawa,<br />
391 pp.<br />
Edinburgh : Grant. 12s. 6d. n.<br />
Skinner's Road<br />
South, Colombo.<br />
CLASSICAL.<br />
Townley, Miss Gladys M., Fulbourne Manor, THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE. Translated from the Greek<br />
Cambs.<br />
into English and from Arabic into Latin. With revised<br />
Vynne, Miss Nora. . 288, King's Road, text, introduction, &c., by D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, Laudian<br />
Chelsea. S.W.<br />
Professor of Arabic in the University of Oxford. 9 x 6.<br />
336 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 108. 6d. n.<br />
Walmsley, Luke S. . Deanley, Marine<br />
Drive, Fairhaven,<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Lytham.<br />
THE HONEYMOON: A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS. By<br />
Williams, Mrs. Antonia R. Queen Anne's Man ARNOLD BENNETT. 53 x 41. 121 pp. Methuen.<br />
sions, S.W.<br />
28. n.<br />
THE BLUE BIRD. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. By MAURICE<br />
Winter, C. Gordon . .<br />
MAETERLINCK. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA<br />
DE MATTOS. Illustrated in Colour by F. CAYLEY<br />
ROBINSON. 103 x 71. 211 pp. Methuen. 218. n.<br />
EXPERIMENTS IN PLAY WRITING. In Verse and Prose.<br />
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some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
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ENGINEERING.<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
SMOKE PREVENTION AND FUEL ECONOMY. Based on the<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
German work of E. Schmatolla. By W. H. BOOTH, F.G.S.,<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
and J. B. C. KERSHAW. Second edition, revised and<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
enlarged. 89 x 51. 231 pp. Constable. 68. n.<br />
accurate.<br />
AGRICULTURE.<br />
FICTION.<br />
THE SUGAR BEET: SOME FACTS AND SOME ILLUSIONS. THE SONG OF RENNY. By MAURICE HEWLETT. 7} 5.<br />
A Study in Rural Thereapeutics. By “ HOME COUNTIES," 423 pp. Macmillan. 6s.<br />
(J. W. ROBERTSON SCOTT). 78 X 5. 424 pp, Cox. THE FRUITFUL VINE. By ROBERT HICHENS. 71 x 5.<br />
68. n.<br />
570 pp. Fisher Unwin. 68.<br />
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GOD AND THE King. By MARJORIE BOWEN. 78 X 5. THE SMUGGLERS. The Odyssey of Zipporah Katti. Being<br />
376 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
some Chronicles of the last Raiders of Solway. By<br />
THANKS TO SANDERSON. By W. PETT RIDGE. 78 X 5. S. R. CROCKETT. 74 x 5. 320 pp. Hodder & Stoughton,<br />
308 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
68.<br />
THE TAMING OF JOHN BLUNT. By ALFRED OLLIVANT. FELLOW PRISONERS. By R. K. WEEKES. 7 X 44.<br />
73 x 5.<br />
314 pp. Alston Rivers. 6s.<br />
POLLYOOLY. By EDGAR JEPSON. 71 x 5. 297 pp. THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR. By FLORENCE L.<br />
Mills and Boon. 68.<br />
BARCLAY. 73 x 5. 426 pp. Putnams. 68.<br />
CAPTIVITY. By Roy HORNIMAN. 78 X 5. 316 pp. ONE OF THE FAMILY. By KEBLE HOWARD. 78 x 5.<br />
Methuen. 68.<br />
313 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
EVERY DOG HIS DAY. By HaroLD AVERY. 73 * 5. THE ALTAR OF MOLOCH. By KINETON PARKES. 71x41.<br />
319 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
326 pp. Ouseley. 68.<br />
DOUBLE FOUR. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. 77 x 5. THE WOOING OF MARTHA. By C. GUISE MITFORD.<br />
318 pp. Cassell. 68.<br />
73 x 5. 316 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 68.<br />
CARLTON'S WIFE. By EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS. VILLA RUBEIN AND OTHER STORIES. By JOHN GALS-<br />
78 X 5, 320 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s.<br />
worthy. 71 X 5. 398 pp. Duckworth. 28. 6d. n,<br />
THE POISON OF TONGUES. By M. E. CARR. (Nelson MOTLEY AND T'INSEL. By John K. PROTHERO. 271 pp.<br />
Library.) 61 x 41. 288 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
Stephen Swift.<br />
THE INFIDEL. A Story of the Great Revival. By M. E. THE TUPPENNY Box. By COLIN FITZGERALD. 73 x 5.<br />
BRADDON. 73 X 5. 341 pp. Simpkin, Marshall. 256 pp. Henry J. Drane. 6s.<br />
28. 6d.<br />
THE NOTORIOUS Miss LISLE. By MRS. BAILLIE<br />
HISTORY.<br />
REYNOLDS. 74 x 5. 308 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68. GARIBALDI AND THE MAKING OF ITALY. By G. M.<br />
ADRIAN SAVAQE. By LUCAS MALET. 74 X 5. 432 pp. TREVELYAN. 9 x 6. 390 pp. Longmans. 78. 6d. n.<br />
Hutchinson. 68.<br />
SHIP'S COMPANY. By W. W. JACOBS. 78 X 5. 272 pp.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 38. 6d.<br />
SYLVIA'S TRAVELS. BY CONSTANCE ARMFIELD:<br />
THE CHALLENGE. By HAROLD BEGBIE. 78 X 5. Illustrated by MAXWELL ARMFIELD. 84 X 61. - 255 pp.<br />
304 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
Dent. 68.<br />
THE EALING MIRACLE. By HORACE W. C. NEWTE. ROLF IN THE Woods. Adventures of a Boy Scout with<br />
78 x 51. 414 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
Indian Quonab and Little Dog Skookum. By E. THOM-<br />
The FAIR IRISH." By J. H. MCCARTHY. 8 x 5. 344 pp. SON SETON. 87 X 54. 437 pp. Constable. 68. n.<br />
Hurst & Blackett. 6s.<br />
ADVENTURES AMONG HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS. By<br />
THE BRACKNELLS : A FAMILY CHRONICLE. By FORREST ERNEST YOUNG. 8 x 52. 318 pp. Seeley, Service &<br />
REID. 74 x 5. 304 pp. Arnold. 6s.<br />
Co. 58. n.<br />
TROUBLED WATERS. By L. COPE CORNFORD. 73 x 5. MOTHER CAREY. By KATE DOUGLAS WIGgIx. 77 x 5.<br />
328 pp. Blackwood. 68.<br />
319 pp. Hodder & Stoughton, 68.<br />
DAISY THE Minx. A Diversion. By MARY L. PENDERED. HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. Translated by H.<br />
77 X 5. 269 pp. Ham, Smith. 6s.<br />
OSKAR SOMMER. With 24 pictures in colour by CECILE<br />
BARBARA'S LOVE STORY. By EFFIE ADELAIDE Row.<br />
WALTON. 9 X 61. 430 pp. Jack. 78. 6d. n.<br />
LANDS. 74 X 5. 302 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. BLACK MAN'S ROCK: A STORY OF THE BASUTO WAR<br />
38. 60.<br />
(1879—81). By J. MACKIE. 78 X 5. 242 pp. Nisbet.<br />
THE OUTCRY. By HENRY JAMES. 78 x 5. 311 pp. 23. 6d.<br />
Methuen. 68.<br />
MORE ABOUT THE TWINS IN CEYLON. By BELLA SIDNEY<br />
JIM Davis. By JOHN MASEFIELD. 73 X 5. 242 pp. WOOLF. 7 X 54. 131 pp. Duckworth. 18. 6d. n.<br />
Wells Gardner. 68.<br />
THE MOODS or DELPHINE. By L. E. TIDDEMAN, 8 X 51.<br />
DAN RUSSELL THE Fox. By E. (E. SOMERVILLE AND<br />
281 pp. R. T. S. 28.<br />
MARTIN Ross. 78 x 5. 340 pp. Methuen. 68. THE FORTUNES OF JOYCE. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Jarrold.<br />
IN THE DAYS OF SERFDOM, AND OTHER STORIES. By 28. 6.<br />
LEO TOLSTOY. Translated by L. & A. MAUDE. 8 x 51. MOLLY'S DECISION. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. S.P.C.K.<br />
292 pp. Constable. 6s.<br />
As FLOWS THE RIVER. By MRS. FRED REYNOLDS. NANCY AND HER COUSINS. By L. E. TIDDEMAN.<br />
73 X 5. 311 pp. Chapman & Hall. 6s.<br />
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JOHN CHRISTOPHER IN PARIS. By ROMAIN ROLLAND. ADVENTURES AMONGST HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS. By<br />
Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. 73 x 5. 468 pp. ERNEST YOUNG, B.Sc., F.R.G.S. Seeley & Co. 58.<br />
Heinemann. 68.<br />
AN EARLY VICTORIAN HEROINE : THE STORY OF<br />
THE KEEPERS OF THE GATE. By SYDNEY C. GRIER. HARRIETTE MCDOUGALL. By M. BRAMSTON, S.P.C.K.<br />
74 x 5. 325 pp. Blackwood, 68.<br />
18. 60.<br />
IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE. By A. W. MARCHMONT. EMPIRES OF THE OLD WORLD, TO THE FALL OF ROME.<br />
7 x 5. 352 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
By M. BRAMSTON. Illustrated. Blackie. 38. 6d.<br />
COMPANY FOR GEORGE By R. S. WARREN BELL.<br />
7+ X 44. 254 pp. Greening. 18.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
LIKENESS. By EDITH DART. 7* X 5. 298 pp. Mills & MAURICE MAETERLINCK. By EDWARD THOMAS, 73 x 5.<br />
Boon. 68.<br />
333 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
THE OTHER GIRL. By CHARLES GARVICE. 74 x 5. FIRST AND LAST. By HILAIRE BELLOC. 63 X 4. 311 pp.<br />
338 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
Methuen. 58.<br />
LOVE, THE INTRUDER. By HELEN H. WATSON. 84 X 6. THE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMAN AND OTHER ESSAYS.<br />
191 pp. (Cheap Reprint.) “ Leisure Hour" Library. By FRANCIS GRIERSON. 7 X 41. 204 pp. Swift.<br />
6d.<br />
38. 6d. n.<br />
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366 pp. Smith, Elder. 68.<br />
71 pp. Elliot Stock.<br />
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BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND. By E. O'DONNELL. 9 x 51. THE STORY OF COVENTRY. By MARY DORMER-HARRIS.<br />
246 pp. Rider. 38, 6d. n.<br />
Illustrated by A. CHANLER. 63 X 41. 356 pp.<br />
THE SIKH RELIGION : Its GURUS, SACRED WRITINGS, (Mediæval Towns.) Dent. 48. 60, n.<br />
AND AUTHORS. By MAX ARTHUR MACAULIFFE. In<br />
Six Volumes. Oxford : Clarendon Press, London :<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
Henry Frowde. 31. 38. n.<br />
A WANDERER IN PARIS. By E. V. LUCAS. (Seventh<br />
edition.) 63 X 41. 271 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY<br />
THE CHARM OF INDIA. An Anthology. Edited by CLAUD<br />
THE LIFE AND LOVE OF THE INSECT. By J. HENRI F IELD. 7 X 41. 370 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 38. 6d. n.<br />
FABRE. Translated by A. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS.<br />
THE ROMANCE OF THE RHINE. By C. MARRIOTT.<br />
8 x 57. 262 pp. Black. 58. n.<br />
9 x 53. 313 pp. Methuen. 108. 6d. n.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. MODERN Paris. Some Sidelights on its Inner Life. By<br />
BARRETT-HAMILTON. Part VIII. 10 x 63. 73–120.<br />
R. H. SHERARD. 9 x 51. 360 pp. Werner Laurie.<br />
Gurney & Jackson. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
128. 6d. n.<br />
PILGRIMS TO THE ISLES OF PENANCE : ORCHID GATHER-<br />
NAVAL.<br />
ING IN THE EAST. By MRS. TALBOT CLIFTON.<br />
FORE AND AFT. The Story of the Fore and aft Rig from<br />
9 X 54. 320 pp. JOHN LONG. 128. 6d. n.<br />
Two VISITS TO DENMARK, 1872, 1879. By EDMUND<br />
the Earlicst Times to the Present Day. By E. KEBLE<br />
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CHATTERTON. 98 x 7. 347 pp. Seeley, Service.<br />
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. By MAURICE BARING. 9 x 51.<br />
168. n.<br />
366 pp. Methuen. 158. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
IN THE HEART OF THE VOSGES AND OTHER SKETCHES :<br />
NEW POEMs. By KATHARINE TYNAN. 71 X 43. 67 pp. BY A “DEVIOUS TRAVELLER." By M. BETHAM<br />
Sidgwick & Jackson. 38. 6d. n.<br />
EDWARDS. 9 X 54. 327 pp. Chapman & Hall.<br />
THE CITY OF THE SOUL. By LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS. 108. 6d. n.<br />
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THEOLOGY.<br />
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CANNED CLASSICS, AND OTHER VERSES. By Captain<br />
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38. 6d. n.<br />
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REPRINTS.<br />
Scott. 28. n.<br />
TROLLOPE'S PHINEAS FINN, THE IRISH MEMBER. Two THE PHILOCALIA OF ORIGEN. A Compilation of Selected<br />
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Washington: The Carnegie Institute of Washington.<br />
Humphreys. 218. n.<br />
THE BOOK OF THE SEVEN AGES. An Anthology (Prose THE LIFE HEREAFTER : THOUGHTS ON THE INTERME-<br />
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312 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 38. 6d. n.<br />
D.C.L. 112 pp. Robert Scott. 28.<br />
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With Laboratory Exercises. By CHARLES S. MYERS,<br />
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University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology,<br />
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89 x 51. 204 pp. Constable. 6s. n.<br />
BREEDING AND THE MENDELIAN DISCOVERY. By A. D.<br />
M TR. Douglas Ainslie's “Mirage” (Elkin<br />
DARBISHIRE. 84 x 54. 282 pp. Cassell. 7s. 6d. n.<br />
V Mathews) has been a good deal discussed<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
in the Press and elsewhere. “A Friend<br />
THE PROBLEM OF RACE-REGENERATION. By HAVELOCK in Need," the longest poem it contains, is a<br />
ELLIS. 64 X 41. 70 pp. Cassell. 60. n.<br />
treatment in ballad form of a Portuguese legend.<br />
THE METHODS OF RACE-REGENERATION. By C. W.<br />
The remaining poems have been collected from<br />
SALEEBY. 69 x 4. 63 pp. Cassell. 6d. n.<br />
CHANGES OF A CENTURY. By J. C. WRIGHT, 9 x 59. reviews and anthologies, in which they have<br />
268 pp. Elliot Stock, 68. n.<br />
previously appeared. Mr. Douglas Ainslie supplies<br />
SPORT.<br />
a somewhat polemical introduction to his volume,<br />
BY MOUNTAIN, LAKE, AND PLAIN. Being Sketches of in which he preaches the gospel of Æsthetic<br />
Sport in Eastern Persia. By MAJOR R. L. KENNION. according to Croce. Mr. Ainslie's translation<br />
81 x 54. 283 pp. Blackwood. 108. 64. n.<br />
of the Italian philosopher's Estetica was first<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
brought into notice by Mr. Arthur Balfour's<br />
ROYAL PALACES OF SCOTLAND. By HELEN DOUGLASremarks in his Romanes lecture, and Mr. A. B.<br />
IRVINE. 9 x 6. 333 pp. Constable. 6s. n.<br />
Walkley in the Times has recently declared his<br />
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adherence to Croce's views. In America, Professor Anne, Duchess of Orleans, and adds a brief de-<br />
Springarn is an enthusiastic admirer of the Crocian scription of the political conditions of the countries<br />
Ästhetic, which he declares to be the only theory into which they married, and shows the effect<br />
that deals satisfactorily with the art fact as a upon their characters of the stirring events of their<br />
whole.<br />
times. Messrs. Methuen & Co. publish the book,<br />
Mr. R. H. Peddie will deliver his lecture on which has six illustrations.<br />
“ How to use the Reading Room of the British “Dan Russell, the Fox,” by E. E. Somerville<br />
Muscum” in the lecture room of the museum (by and Martin Ross, published by Messrs. Methuen<br />
kind permission of the trustees) on the following & Co. early last month, is now in its third<br />
Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m. :—December 2, 1911; edition.<br />
January 6, 1912 ; February 3, 1912, and March 2, Mr. Potter Briscoe, of Nottingham, is the joint<br />
1912. Specimens of the Catalogues and Indexes editor of a new official publication, “ The Public<br />
and Plans of the Reading Room will be exhibited. Official," a monthly issued under the auspices of<br />
Questions addressed to the lecturer at 36, St. the Local Government Officers' Association. The<br />
Martin's Court, St. Martin's Lane, W.C., up to first number was issued in October.<br />
the day before each lecture, will be dealt with so Mr. J. Bloundelle-Burton's new novel, “The<br />
far as time permits.<br />
Right Hand” (Everett & Co., Ltd.), deals with a<br />
“Pilgrims to the Isles of Penance," by Mrs. case of impersonation of one man by another,<br />
Talbot Clifton, is the record of a journey, under- both of whom were strangely alike, and each of<br />
taken by the authoress and her husband, in search of whom was minus his right hand. The idea was<br />
orchids, and of experience. The authoress de- adopted by the author from a trial which took<br />
scribes parts of Burma that touch the Chinese place in far back times in France, but has been placed<br />
frontier, and other portions in the extreme south, by him in the comparatively modern ones of the<br />
by Siam, where Burma breaks into a hundred isles. middle portion of the reign of Louis XV. This<br />
Several chapters deal with the negrito aborigines period embraces the wars of the “ Austrian sac-<br />
of the Andamans, members of the oldest race on cession," and the battle of Dettingen furnishes the<br />
earth, and others contain a description of the crux of the affair. Love, of course, plays its part<br />
Nicobar Islands. Mr. John Long is the publisher in the story, as do the trials of a loring woman who,<br />
of the book, which has fifty-four illustrations. until the dénouement, is unable to decide whether<br />
Mrs. Isabel Smith's new novel “Mated” has she loves the true man or the false. Meanwhile,<br />
just been published by Messrs. Digby, Long & Co. some character portraits are given of many persons<br />
It is a novel with a sex problem.<br />
whose fame in France has become lasting, but who,<br />
W. Harold Thomson's novel, “ Tan o' the Ben," to the majority of English readers of romance, are<br />
is being brought out on November 23 by Sir almost unknown, among them being that of the<br />
W. C. Leng & Co., Sheffield, in their popular Marshal de Belle-Isle.<br />
series of W. T. novels. The same writer has just The October issue of “T. P.'s Monthly" contains<br />
completed a new long novel, and is at present busy a short story from the pen of Mr. F. Niven, a note<br />
with short story work for the magazines.<br />
of whose volume of short stories, “ Above Your<br />
Prof. Max Macauliffe has just published, in six Heads," appeared in the last issue of The Author.<br />
volumes, a work on “The Sikh Religion : its “ Afterglow," by Mr. Alfred Baldwin, is a volume<br />
Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors." The Sikhs of verse written in many moods, and touching in a<br />
are distinguished throughout the world as a great simple and direct way on various subjects. Each<br />
military people, but little is known regarding their short poem is the expression of a single definite<br />
religion. There were no dictionaries of the sacred idea, and the reader is left to interpret the title of<br />
books of the Sikhs when the author commenced the book according to his own inclination. Messrs.<br />
his labours, and it was necessary, therefore, for himM ethuen & Co. are the publishers.<br />
to reside in India for many years, and work with The following lectures in connection with the<br />
the assistance of the few gyanis, or professional new chairs instituted by the Royal Society of<br />
interpreters of the Sikh canonical writings, who Literature will be given during the session 1911-<br />
now survive. In addition, Prof. Macauliffe has 1912 :-Professor A.C. Benson on English Fiction,<br />
submitted every line of his work to the most search- November 8 and March 13; Prof. Henry Newbolt<br />
ing criticism of learned Sikhs. The Clarendon on Poetry, December 13 and May 8; Prof. W. L.<br />
Press publish the work at £3 3s, nett.<br />
Courtney on Dramatic Literature, January 17 and<br />
“Five English Consorts of Foreign Princes,” by April 17 ; Prof. M. A. Gerothwohl on Comparative<br />
Ida Woodward, tells the life stories of Margaret Literature, February 14 and June 12. The lectures<br />
Tudor, Queen of Scotland ; Mary Tudor, Queen of will be delivered at 20, Hanover Square, at<br />
France ; Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ; 5.15 p.m. A certain number of cards will be<br />
Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange, and Henrietta allotted to members of the Society of Authors in<br />
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the order of their application to the Secretary, volume, containing a revised and enlarged reprint<br />
R.S.L.<br />
of the biographical sketch by Helena Frank,<br />
“ The Feast of Christmas” is the title of a little accompanying “Russian Flashlights," by Jaakoff<br />
book of readings in prose and verse, selected and Prelooker, published last spring by Chapman &<br />
arranged by Edith A. Charter. A copy has been Hall. There will be a number of illustrations, and<br />
accepted by H.M. the Queen. Mr. Elliot Stock is an original coloured cover design representing at a<br />
the pablisher.<br />
glance the different positions of the “ Bear and the<br />
A handbook on “ Badminton” has just been Lion” under the respective flags. An illustrated<br />
published by Messrs. George Bell & Sons. Its Russian Christmas story by M. Prelooker is added at<br />
author is Mr. S. M. Massey, who was joint holder the end of the book. J. F. Spriggs, of 21, Pater-<br />
of the All England's Men's Double Championships noster Square, E.C., will very shortly publish the<br />
in 1899, 1903, and 1905. Mr. Massey's book volume at the popular price of is., with the<br />
contains advice to beginners, and also much of permission of Messrs. Chapman & Hall.<br />
interest on the subject of clubs, tournaments, “Motley and Tinsel,” by John K. Prothero, has just<br />
Badminton Hall, &c. There are many illustra been issued as a book by Stephen Swift. This story,<br />
tions to the book, and several well-known players it will be remembered, was, at the time of its serial<br />
have contributed<br />
publication, the subject of a libel action, based<br />
Mr. Percy White has been appointed to the Chair solely upon the coincidence of names between the<br />
of English Literature at the Egyptian University, plaintiff in the action and one of the characters in<br />
Cairo, during the sessions November to June, the story. In the present volume, many well-<br />
1911-12, 1912–13, and 1913–14.<br />
known writers have allowed Mr. Prothero to use their<br />
Miss Mary E. Shipley's third and last volume of names for the characters in the book as a protest<br />
her work, “English Church History for Children," against the absurd state of the law of libel as it affects<br />
is now in the press, and will shortly be published members of the literary and dramatic professions.<br />
by Messrs. Methuen & Co. The period the Miss Amy B. Barnard is publishing, through<br />
volume covers is from A.D. 1500 to 191], a most Messrs. Cassell & Co., a volume of “ Talks with<br />
important time in the history of the English Children about Themselves.” The author's aim<br />
Church.<br />
has been to enable the parent to answer the<br />
“The Life Hereafter” is a volume of addresses increasing fusillade of dimly expressed doubtings,<br />
by the Rev. Edward Hicks dealing with the ques- fears, and questions that come from the lips of his<br />
tion of the intermediate state. The addresses are young son or daughter. There is a frontispiece in<br />
given in plain, popular language as they were colour by Elizabeth Earnshaw.<br />
delivered. Mr. Robert Scott is the publisher.<br />
“The Story of Sally Sixteen,” by Miss Peggy<br />
Dr. Marie C. Stopes, author of “A Journal for Webling, has been awarded the Royal Magazine<br />
Japan," has been asked by Messrs. Stanley Paul to prize of £50, in the competition arranged by<br />
contribute a preface to the “Love Letters of a Pearson's, the Royal, and the Novel magazines.<br />
Japanese,” recently published by them and edited Miss Webling is the author of “ A Spirit of Mirth”<br />
by G. N. Mortlake, and a second edition of which and “ Virginia Perfect.” Her new book, entitled<br />
was called for about a couple of months after the first “ Felix Christie,” will be published by Messrs.<br />
was published. Dr. Stopes writes on the psycho- Methuen & Co. early next year.<br />
logical problems raised by “mixed marriages."<br />
“The Tuppenny Box,” by Colin FitzGerald, the<br />
Mr. Aylmer Maude and his wife (L. and A. author of “ Ikona Camp,” published by Mr. Henry<br />
Maude) have recently completed a translation of J. Drane, is a humorous book full of odd characters<br />
Tolstoy's posthumous novel, “Hadji-Murat,” which whose drab lives are made to yield up their scintilla<br />
will shortly be issued by Nelson, in one of three of mirth. The story is told in quaint style by old<br />
volumes of his posthumous works which they are Daddy Dodderlong, the keeper of a second-hand<br />
bringing out. It is the chief story left by Tolstoy, book shop; and the ancient gentleman's philo-<br />
and deals with life in the Caucasus, as he knew it sophy and cheerful outlook on life, despite the<br />
in 1852. Mr. Maude is now engaged on a shorter dreariness of his outlook, make interesting reading.<br />
life of Tolstoy, to be called “A Life of Leo<br />
Tolstoy," and issued next spring by Messrs.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
Methuen. It will be about one-fifth the length of On Sunday, December 3, the Play Actors will<br />
his large two-volume “Life of Tolstoy," which ran produce, at the Royal Court Theatre, Mr. Raymond<br />
to nearly 1,200 pages.<br />
Needham's three-act comedy “ The Celibate.”<br />
The Oxford University Press has been awarded Mr. J. M. Barrie's comedy in four acts was<br />
eight Grands Prix at the Turin Exhibition, 1911. revived at the Duke of York's Theatre on October 21,<br />
“ Under the Russian and British Flags : A Story Mr. C. M. Hallard, Mr. Blake Adams, and Miss<br />
of True Experience,” will be the title of a crown 8vo. Hilda Trevelyan are in the cast.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
“ The Little Stone House," a play in one act, arrived at the same conclusion, but, on the other<br />
by George Calderon, was produced at the Gaiety hand, there are scientists who have gone further<br />
Theatre, Manchester, on October 9. The scene still, and seen more clearly than Michel Bedée, the<br />
of the piece is laid in a poor lodging-house in a sarant to whom M. Beaunier introduces us.<br />
Russian provincial town, in which resides Praskovya, “Le Sortilège ” is Hélène Vacaresco's latest<br />
a mother who is about to arrange for the erection of novel.<br />
a little memorial over the grave of her son, who has “Isabelle," by André Gide, is a novel written in<br />
apparently been murdered some 20 years before, the careful style to which the author has accustomed<br />
The son, in striking contrast to his mother's ideal us. Some of his descriptions are poems in prose.<br />
of him, is, in fact, a “ bad lot," and, withal, a “ Louise de Prusse, Princesse Antoine<br />
murderer, and his appearance at the moment when Radziwill ” (Quarante-cinq années de ma vie,<br />
his mother is making arrangements for the erection 1770-1815), is the diary of Queen Louisa of<br />
of the memorial produces the main dramatic Prussia. Two-thirds of the volume are taken up<br />
situation in the drama. Miss Hilda Davies, Mr. with events of the years 1806, 1807, and 1810.<br />
Milton Rosmer, and Miss Muriel Pratt were in the Very many episodes are touched on, and many<br />
cast. The play was performed also at the Royalty interesting persons are mentioned. The great<br />
Theatre, Glasgow.<br />
power and influence of Napoleon is felt throughout<br />
The triple bill was revived at the Little Theatre much of the volume. We have the famous Tilsitt<br />
on Tuesday, October 3, when “The Senti- interview described, and very many other events,<br />
mentalists,” by George Meredith, Mr. H. Granville until the moment arrived when, as Ē. B. Browning<br />
Barker's farce, " Rococo," and Mr. J. M. Barrie's so grapbically describes it, “kings crept out again<br />
comedy, “The Twelve Pound Look," were to feel the sun."<br />
performed. The cast included Miss Agnes “Etudes d'Histoire" is the fourth volume of this<br />
Thomas, Mr. Nigel Playfair, Mr. Edmund Swenn, series published by M, Arthur Chuquet. The<br />
Miss Lillah McCarthy, and Miss Cicely Hamilton. subjects treated are the following : “Roture et<br />
“The Honeymoon," by Arnold Bennett, was noblesse dans l'armée royale," “ Buzol et Madame<br />
produced at the Royalty Theatre on October 6. Roland," “L'armée de Sambre-et-Meuse en 1796."<br />
The play deals with an aviator whose desire to cut "Comment Bonaparte quitta l'Egypte,” “ Comment<br />
short his honeymoon in the interests of his business Kléber remplaça Bonaparte,” “Un Allemand à<br />
is resented by the lady mainly concerned. The Paris en 1801, “ Constant de Brancas, le fils de<br />
discovery of a hitch in the marriage of the couple, Sophie Arnould,” “La nourrice de l'Emperenr,"<br />
and the news of the failure of the rival aviator, “La Folie de Junot,” “ Mots et locutions de la<br />
help to the solution of the quarrel satisfactory to Grande Armée en 1812," “L’Emigré Anstett pen-<br />
both parties. Miss Marie Tempest, Mr. Dion dant la Campagne de Russie,” “Charles-Auguste de<br />
Boucicault, Mr. Denis Eadie, and Mr. Graham Weimar en 1814," “ Le Général Rostolland en<br />
Brown are in the piece.<br />
1815," “ Mérimée et la Correspondance de<br />
"Our Little Fancies,” a three-act comedy of Napoléon,” and “Le Prince rouge." -<br />
village life, by Miss Margaret Macnamara, will be Among the books of topical interest contained in<br />
produced at the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, on the Bibliothèque d'Histoire Contemporaine are<br />
November 13.<br />
“Le Congo français ” (La question internationale<br />
du Congo), by F. Challaye, “ L'Eveil d'un Monde"<br />
(L'Oeuvre de la France en Afrique Occidentale), by<br />
L. Hubert, “ La Conférence d'Algésiras” (Histoire<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
diplomatique de la crise marocaine), by M. A.<br />
Tardieut, premier secrétaire d'ambassade honoraire,<br />
and “Les Grands Traités politiques” (Recueil des<br />
* T 'HOMME qui a perdu son moi” is the principaux textes diplomatiques depuis 1815<br />
O curious title of an extremely curious novel jusqu'à nos jours), by M. P. Albin, with a preface<br />
by M. André Beaunier. It is a psychological by M. Herbette.<br />
study of the deepest interest—the story of a man "La Guerre avec le Japon," by Comte Witte,<br />
who gives up all for the sake of scientific research; ex-Minister of Finances in Russia, is a volume<br />
and, carried away by the fascination of his investi- published in reply to General Kouropatkine's work.<br />
gations and experiments, neglects the human side The circulation of this book was at first forbidden<br />
of life until the day comes when he realises the fact in Russia, but the Czar has now authorised it.<br />
that he is a man whose real inner self has been “Quarante-trois ans de vie militaire " is the title<br />
sacrificed to the cause of science. The book will, of a volume by Général Cuny, with a preface by<br />
no doubt, give rise to much discussion. There are, M. Gabriel Hanotaux.<br />
perhaps, hundreds of men of science who have “Judo (Manuel de Jiu-Jitsu)," by the Professors<br />
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43<br />
Yokoyama and Oshima of the Kano school of her services. She was received with great en-<br />
Tokio, translated from the Japanese into French thusiasm, and her magnificent rendering of Chopin<br />
by Le Prieur, officier de Marine.<br />
in the Sorbonne was another proof that is<br />
- En Argentine” (de Buenos-Aires au Gran the world of art there are no frontiers. Th<br />
Chaco) is another volume by Jules Huret, whose little society hopes in time to be able to buy<br />
remarkable books on Germany have been so Balzac's house, which has already been converted<br />
thoroughly appreciated. The Figaro has had the into a Balzac museum. The “ Amis de Balzac"<br />
good fortune to secure this author's work, and to welcome as members all admirers of the great<br />
publish first in serial form these excellent studies. novelist, and their little society already numbers<br />
The present volume treats of Buenos Aires—“La members from all parts of the world.<br />
Richesse présente," “ L'Elevage,” “ Grandes In the Revue de Paris of October 15 are<br />
Estancias," “ Provinces Subtropicales," “ La “ Souvenirs,” by Ernest Lavisse, an article entitled<br />
Canne à sucre et les Forêts vierges," "Les “La Jeunesse de Liszt,” by A. de Hevesy, the<br />
Cataractes de I'Iguazu," “ Richesse agricole," closing chapters of “Les Médecins de Napoléon à<br />
and “ Les Fortunes et la Terre.” For any one Sainte-Hélène," by Frederic Masson, and of “La<br />
visiting this country, such a book is invalu- Philosophie de M. Henri Bergson,” by René<br />
able.<br />
Gillouin.<br />
“L'art de lire” is an excellent little book by At the Comédie Française, “ Primerose" and<br />
Emile Faguet, telling us something about the art “ Le Goût du Vice" are still being given.<br />
of reading.<br />
The Odéon has an enormously long list of new<br />
Among the recent translations is an excellent one plays to produce this season. At present“ Musotte”<br />
of Mrs. Humphry Ward's “ Sir George Tressady,” is on the bill.<br />
by J. de Mestral-Combremont. This writer has At the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt “Le Typhon”<br />
received Academy prizes for original work, and has is being played, and at the Théâtre Réjane<br />
done several remarkable translations.<br />
“ L'Oiseau bleu.”<br />
“ La Ville Enchantée" is the title given to “Mr. Pickwick," an adaptation by M. M. Duval<br />
Mrs. Oliphant's book. M. Henri Brémond has and Charvay of Dickens's celebrated book, is having<br />
chosen this volume for translation into French, great success at L'Athénée.<br />
and M. Barrès writes the preface.<br />
At the Théâtre Grevin “ L'Honneur," by Suder-<br />
“ La Jeanne d'Arc de M. Hanotaux " is the title mann, translated by N. Valentin et M. Rémon, is<br />
of an admirable article by M. Georges Goyau filling the house, and at the Théâtre des Arts<br />
published in La Revue hebdomadaire. It is extremely “Les Frères Karamazov " seems likely to have a<br />
interesting to read M. Goyau's criticisms when long run.<br />
treating the “ Jeanne d'Arc" of Anatole France<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
and that of M. Gabriel Hanotaux. M. Goyau calls<br />
attention to the fact that the author does not<br />
• L'Homme qui a perdu son moi “ (Plon).<br />
attempt to draw certain conclusions. He stops<br />
" Le Sortilège" (Plon).<br />
and merely shows what seems inexplicable in the Isabelle” (Nouvelle Revue).<br />
wonderful story. M. Goyau considers that this is “ Louise de Prusse, Princesse Antoine Radziwill **<br />
merely a halt or a pause, and that after this halt it<br />
(Plon).<br />
“ Etudes d'Histoire" (Fontemoing).<br />
should be more easy to go on further.<br />
“ Bibliothèque d'Histoire contemporaine" (Alcan).<br />
In the Revue hebdomadaire M. Jacques Bardoux * La guerre avec le Japon” (Berger Levrault).<br />
writes on “ La Poussée révolutionnaire dans "Quarante-trois ans de vie militaire" (Plon).<br />
l'Angleterre contemporaine"; M. Hanotaux on<br />
" Judo (Manuel de Ji-Jitsu)” (Berger Levrault).<br />
“ En Argentine" (Fasquelle).<br />
“ La Négociation franco-allemande ”.; Mme. B.<br />
"L'art de lire” (Hachette).<br />
Van Vorst on “La Poursuite du bonheur aux “ La Ville enchantée” (Emile Paul).<br />
Etats-Unis" ; Mme. Emile Guillaumin on “ Charles "La Jeanne d'Arc de M. Hanotaux'" (Hachette).<br />
Louis Philippe”; M. Lucien Hubert on the<br />
" Situation financière de l'Allemagne”; and a few<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on bebalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourse!f, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
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who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
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lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Meinbers are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
giust be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
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(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
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(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
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IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
W Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
LI ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
H agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
u assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
OCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 23. 6d. per act.<br />
The Seoretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
the office from a foreign correspondent, thanking<br />
the secretary for the advice and assistance he hail<br />
ANNUAL DINNER.<br />
given to his agent in the settlement of his agree-<br />
The annual dinner of the society will be held<br />
ment. Although he states in his letter the agent<br />
on Friday, December 8, at 7, for 7.30, at the<br />
complained of the “ troublesome pedantries"<br />
involved, the author continues :<br />
Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus. The<br />
chair will be taken by Dr. S. Squire Sprigge,<br />
“But I cannot help feeling that in a matter of this kind<br />
it is worth taking some trouble to get the best possible<br />
Chairman of the Committee of Management.<br />
advice upon a contract ; not only for one's own sake, but<br />
Formal notice, with the usual particulars as to also for that of authors in general. I am sure that if more<br />
the price of tickets, etc., will be sent to all people were willing to run the risk of losing a publisher<br />
members and associates of the society during<br />
for a matter of principle we should all eventually receive<br />
better terms. In this case, the wise action in submitting<br />
the month.<br />
the contract to you resulted in rather important altera-<br />
tions."<br />
We suppose these important alterations are the<br />
PENSION FUND).<br />
“ troublesome pedantries” referred to by the<br />
In accordance with the rule laid down by the agent.<br />
('ommittee, we publish on another page in The<br />
Author a full list of annual subscribers to the<br />
Pension Fund. This list, with the necessary<br />
PUBLISHERS AND THEIR ACCOUNTS.<br />
additions and deletions arising from the advent of THE account clause in publishers' agreements<br />
fresh subscribers, and the loss, for various reasons, must be familiar to every member of the Society of<br />
of old subscribers, is the same as was issued last Authors.<br />
vear. The names have been printed according to Some publishers, and the number is gradually<br />
the instructions then received by the Editor. but surely increasing, undertake to make up their<br />
The wishes of fresh subscribers have been acceded accounts every six months and to deliver and pay<br />
to and their names inserted in the list in accordance within three months after that time ; others under-<br />
with their instructions. The total sum in annual take to make up their accounts annually and to<br />
subscriptions is about £231. One-third of these deliver and pay within three months ; others, again<br />
the trustees are enabled to set aside for the (a most extraordinary arrangement), undertake to<br />
payment of pensions; the other two-thirds must be make up their accounts annually and to deliver and<br />
invested according to the rules laid down in the pay within six months afterwards. It has been fre-<br />
scheme.<br />
quently pointed out in these columns that this last<br />
In former years, on the publication of this list, arrangement might leave the author nearly eighteen<br />
some members have expressed surprise at the months before he receives any remuneration.<br />
absence of the names of many prominent members Moreover, it comes constantly to the notice of tbe<br />
of the society. Members should bear in mind, secretary that in spite of this clause and in spite of<br />
however, that when the fund was first started, and the publisher's undertaking the accounts are<br />
on various occasions since, prominent members of delayed ; if the accounts are not delayed, payment<br />
the society have in many cases made liberal of the cheque is, and this necessitates a great deal<br />
donations to the fund. These donations have of trouble to the author and to the society. It<br />
been chronicled in The Author as received, though seems a “regrettable incident" that a business<br />
they are not, of course, included in this list, which house, working its office on business principles,<br />
is of annual subscribers only.<br />
cannot keep to the terms of its contract, since all<br />
authors' accounts must be turned out at the same<br />
time. It would be interesting, with the consent<br />
of the Committee of Management, to print a list<br />
AGENTS : LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
somewhat on the following lines :<br />
In the correspondence column of The Author we<br />
publish a letter from an ex-member of the Com Messrs. ~ by agreement undertake to deliver<br />
mittee, criticising the article that appeared in the<br />
accounts made up to the 30th June on or before the end of<br />
September. No accounts received till the day of<br />
last number entitled “Agents : Literary and<br />
October, in spite of three letters from the author and a<br />
Dramatic." It has been suggested that the communication from the secretary of the society on the<br />
question would form an interesting subject for following dates :........<br />
Cheque for the same received on<br />
further correspondence, and we hope that those<br />
the day of<br />
members of the society who have anything to say<br />
November.<br />
will not hesitate to write their views of the matter. A few statements of facts tabulated in this form<br />
Curiously enough, a letter has recently come to would have a beneficial effect.<br />
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THE FIRST SOCIETY FOR THE PROTEC 6186. Register of the Society.<br />
TION OF THE RIGHTS OF AUTHORS.<br />
6187-6188. Minute Books. (Two rolames).<br />
6189. The Ledger of the Society.<br />
6190. A folio volume of letters.<br />
HERE would seem to be little possibility of 6191. A collection of all the Statutes, etc.<br />
doubt that “ The Society for the Encourage 6192. The Treasurer's accounts.<br />
ment of Learniny ” was the earliest associa Naturally there is a good deal of repetition in<br />
tion which had for its aim to secure for authors the the contents of these volumes, and the disentangle-<br />
profits of their works. It was certainly the earliest ment from them of the history of the society, and<br />
English society that had this object in view ; and still more of the signification of that history, is a<br />
if the condition of France, and Italy, at the same somewhat complicated task. Nor is the record,<br />
date, is taken into consideration it will seem highly though sufficient, altogether complete. In par-<br />
improbable that they had previously offered ticular the society does not appear to have kept a<br />
examples of organisations of the same kind. Out- ledger from the outset ; and the accounts contained<br />
side England, France, and Italy any such society in additional MS. 6189 and additional MS. 6192<br />
may with confidence be asserted not to have are such as might present a good many problems<br />
existed ; and thus English men of letters may even to a skilled accountant. Additional MS. 6190<br />
claim the honour of having been the first to is by no means a complete collection of the letters<br />
attempt to discover some remedy for the miserable addressed to the society, but contains selected<br />
remuneration of the author which had become letters only, and by whom or when selected is<br />
apparent almost as soon as the invention of not apparent. On the other hand, the evidence of<br />
printing led to a rapid multiplication of books. all the other volumes (of itself inevitably more or<br />
Whilst it is interesting to know that a hundred less confused) is admirably epitomised in Additional<br />
and fifty years before Sir Walter Besant (then Mr. MS. 6185.<br />
Besant) laid the foundations of “ The Society of This volume deserves particular description.<br />
Authors," and long even before the institution of In form it is a small quarto of 266 pages, of which<br />
the French “ Société des Gens de Lettres," an 246–266 are blank. It is written throughout,<br />
association had been formed with almost precisely exceedingly neatly, in the same hand, and has for<br />
similar objects, the history of “ The Society for title :<br />
the Encouragement of Learning" is also deserving Memoirs of the Society for the INCOURAGE-<br />
for its own sake of attention, and not devoid of MENT [sic] of LEARNING taken from the<br />
features which may still be regarded as instructive. register of their meetings and Minute Books of the<br />
The society was originated at a meeting of Committee.<br />
gentlemen interested in letters, which took place The MS. is written on both sides of the page,<br />
in London on August 1, 1735. Its life was and concludes with an appendix of selected letters<br />
short, and that alone is evidence that it did not twenty-one in number, of which the last is by<br />
succeed in accomplishing the purpose which its mistake numbered twelve.<br />
founders had in view. Its records (which have After a preliminary note, on the back of the title<br />
survived in a condition of remarkable completeness) page, this MS. (evidently compiled with extreme<br />
show also that failure was from the outset a care by some one who was intimately acquainted<br />
foregone conclusion, though why that was so with the history of the society and drew freely<br />
evidently escaped entirely the observation of its from the other volumes) tells the story of “The<br />
officials. It is impossible not to regret their Society for the Encouragement of Learning” from<br />
blindness ; for, had they perceived the difference its initiation to its winding up. It must have been<br />
between what circumstances rendered possible and written not long after the dissolution of the<br />
what they made impossible, they might have so society ; but by whom there is no evidence to<br />
modified their methods of procedure as to have show. The labours, however, of this unknown<br />
continued, to the great advantage of authors, their hand render most substantial assistance to any<br />
most unselfish labours. As it was, the society, one desirous of gathering and putting into shape<br />
conducted always with the highest motives, came the evidence contained in the whole collection of<br />
in a few years to an honourable end. It was the society's records.<br />
wrecked by publication.<br />
The Memorandum written on the back of the<br />
The records of the society, ultimately bequeathed title of this volume presents the local history of the<br />
to the British Museum, exist in nine volumes, society, and deserves to be quoted at length.<br />
Additional MSS. Nos. 6184-6192, whose contents “ The Society was first constituted and acted as<br />
are as follows:-<br />
a body on May 14, 1736, at Mr. Cock's great room<br />
6184. The original declaration.<br />
in Covent Garden, where they continued their<br />
6185. Memoirs of the Society.<br />
general meetings till April, 1737 ; and afterwards<br />
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at Mr. Bolney's great room : there to Michaelmas single sheets, but here gathered together in chrono-<br />
following, when they took their house in Saint logical order. The collection is asserted to be<br />
Martin's Lane. But the Committee soon after perfect, and to contain all the printed documents<br />
their election met first at the Meuse Coffee House put forth by the society. The volume has a MS.<br />
in Lancaster Court, till about Michaelmas 1736, title:<br />
and after that an apartment was hired in Bow “A Collection of all the Statutes or Rules and<br />
Street, Covent Garden, where they continued to meet other Printed Papers relating to the Management<br />
till the house was taken in Saint Martin's Lape of the Society for the Encourgement of Learning<br />
From which time all the meetings both of the from the first plan of it January 1, 1735, to its<br />
Society and Committee were held there till dissolution January 31, 1749."<br />
Christmas, 1747."<br />
It may be here mentioned that this is the only<br />
After this brief record of the various domiciles place in all the records of the society where the<br />
of the society it is best to turn next to additional actual dates of its initiation and dissolution are<br />
MS. 6184, “ The original declaration."<br />
mentioned.<br />
This is contained in a largish volume, the greater The first document in the volume bears date<br />
part of whose pages are blank. The MS. begins :- January 1, 1735, and is a single leaf, whose con-<br />
“To supply the Want of a Regular and Public tents are the founder's resolutions mentioned above,<br />
Acknowledgment of Learning;<br />
with a footnote referring to subscriptions, and<br />
“ To assist Authors in the Publication, and to mentioning an intention of adding each year's<br />
secure to them the entire Profits of their own balance to the capital.<br />
Works ;<br />
The next document is a “Sketch of the Plan"<br />
“To institute a Republic of Letters, for the for the management of the society to be read before<br />
Promoting of Arts and Sciences, by the necessary the first general meeting.<br />
means of profit, as well as by the Nobler Motives of The other contents of the volume are of less<br />
Praise and Emulation.<br />
interest; annual lists of members, reprints of the<br />
"1. We, whose names are undersigned, do agree statutes in the somewhat modified forms which<br />
to Form a Society, and to contribute the Sum of were subsequently given them, and similar docu-<br />
Ten Guineas Each, for the Purposes above men- ments.<br />
tioned.<br />
What has been thus far recorded represents the<br />
“2. We do also agree to pay the further sum of preliminary labours of the founders of the society ;<br />
Two Guineas Annually, for the support of the in- its history will now claim attention.<br />
tended Society, but that any Member may cease to The first general meeting was held on May 27,<br />
be Such, and be discharged from the Annual Pay- 1736, with Sir Thomas Robison in the chair.<br />
ment, upon giving Six Months' Notice.<br />
“ The Plan for the Management of the Society"<br />
“ 3. That this Agreement shall be void unless above-mentioned, containing twenty-seven statutes,<br />
a Thousand Guineas at least be subscribed before was carried unanimously. These statates incor-<br />
Midsummer Day next ensuing the date hereof." porate the original resolutions of the founders, and<br />
If the thousand guineas were forthcoming a also regulate a number of particulars. Four general<br />
general meeting was to be held and trustees meetings were to be held every year. (This number<br />
appointed. Finally, after some other provisions, was afterwards reduced to one.) Twenty-four<br />
it is agreed<br />
“managers" were to be elected, of which eight<br />
“That no Subscriber or Manager shall receive retired annually. Five form a quoruin. Deserving<br />
any Profit or Advantage from this Design.”<br />
of particular attention are the following statutes :-<br />
The date is August 1, 1753.<br />
“ Article 9. The Committee of Managers do ex-<br />
Ten columns of signatures follow, headed by amine and judge whether the copies proposed be<br />
Stanhope.<br />
proper to be printed by the Assistance of the Society;<br />
Harcourt.<br />
and whether they will answer the charges of printing.<br />
Hartford.<br />
... Such works as they shall direct shall be<br />
The number of the signatures is eighty-eight; Printed and Published at the Expense or by the<br />
but from a mention of this preliminary meeting in Assistance of the Society, and that they do settle<br />
the records of the society it appears that only the Prices for which such books shall be sold.”<br />
twenty-two of those who signed were actually T he consent of the general meeting was required<br />
present at the preliminary meeting.<br />
if the cost of production exceeded £200.<br />
The remainder of the volume after the ten “ Article 11. That every Author whose work<br />
columns of signatures is blank.<br />
shall be printed by the Assistance of the Society,<br />
Attention will be next claimed by the folio addi- do make over his Property in the same, and his<br />
tional MS. 6184. Thiscontains a collection of printed interests in the whole impression, to the Treasurer,<br />
statutes and other printed matter, originally all on in trust for the Society, or give such farther or<br />
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49<br />
other Security for reimbursing the Charges of the (May 14, 1736) the committee met weekly for the<br />
Printing and Publishing thereof, as shall be judged arrangement of details. The general meeting had<br />
proper by the Committee.”<br />
invited the Duke of Richmond to accept the<br />
A number of minor details, which it was neces- presidentship of the society; he did so on<br />
sary that the statutes of any society should settle, May 31, and afterwards generally presided in<br />
need not be here mentioned, but it is very important person. He was subsequently succeeded by the<br />
to observe that the statutes incorporated the original Duke of Leeds, who was president at the date of<br />
resolution, “ That no subscriber or manager shall the dissolution of the society. General meetings<br />
receive any profit or advantage from this design.” were held on August 5, 1736, and on November 4<br />
The full significance of this provision must on of the same year. The next was on February 3,<br />
no account be overlooked. The society, though 1737.<br />
one of its principal aims was to secure for authors At this meeting the committee presented a<br />
“the entire profits of their works,” was, by its report, in which are recorded several particulars<br />
fundamental constitution, not a society of authore, deserving of attention.<br />
but a society of noblemen and gentlemen, interested Messrs. Andrew Millar, John Gray, and John<br />
in letters, who were providing funds that should Nourse (all well-known London booksellers of that<br />
be applied to securing authors the profits of their date) had been appointed booksellers to the society.<br />
works. Put briefly the intention of these patrons An agreement had been made with them for one<br />
of letters was to print works of merit, to sell them, year ; and special articles had been drawn up regu-<br />
and to hand the authors whatsoever might remain lating the terms of agreement between the society,<br />
after the cost of production had been defrayed. authors, printers, and booksellers.<br />
No author was, in any case, invited to contribute The terms of agreement with authors include<br />
anything to the support of the society ; nor did the the following provisions : No book would be printed<br />
society, during its existence, publish any work by by the society for which the author had taken<br />
one of its own members. Its aims were wholly subscriptions. The committee were to determine<br />
disinterested ; and the subsidy which its members the form of the book and its price. The author<br />
proposed to offer the cause of literature was on a was to present one copy to the library of the<br />
very liberal scale. The pound sterling was in society. (That the society held the copyright was<br />
1735 relatively of much greater value than it at already provided by the statutes.)<br />
present has, and an entrance fee of ten guineas, to The articles of agreement with the printers<br />
be followed by an annual subscription of two (life stipulate for the use of “ the best Antwerp ink,"<br />
membership for ten guineas was sanctioned at a and paper and work of bigh quality.<br />
later date), represented a very generous contribu- The articles of agreement with the bookseller<br />
tion from men who were to have no return for their allow him 2s. 6d, in the pound commission. The<br />
money. At the same time these liberal-minded bookseller must not sell the books at a price<br />
gentlemen appear to have been absolutely blind to higher than that fixed by the committee. He<br />
two facts which certainly would not escape the is also to advertise books “ as often and in such<br />
observation of any one in these more commercial public papers as the committee shall direct."<br />
days. In the first place, they completely failed to Several books had been offered to the society.<br />
perceive that what they were doing really amounted Some of these had been refused; others were under<br />
to starting in London one more publishing house consideration. Up to this date none had been<br />
(which must necessarily come into competition with accepted.<br />
its predecessors), and a publishing house that was This report also contains the first mention of<br />
to conduct business on purely philanthropic lines; difficulties which subsequently increased and<br />
nor did they see that whilst they were proposing harassed the society during the whole period of its<br />
to themselves to print books and to sell them in existence. There was a difficulty in obtaining a<br />
such a way as to secure the whole of the profits for quorum at the meetings. (At å later date this<br />
the authors, they had no idea how they were going led to modifications of the statutes, and to the<br />
to sell these books. Some ingenuous notion (such reduction of the general meetings to one annual<br />
as could be in these days enjoyed only by the one.) The other difficulty, for which no cure was<br />
utterly inexperienced) that books, when once ever discovered, was that of unpaid subscriptions.<br />
printed, sell themselves, seems to hare been the On April 7, 1737, the society voted the publi-<br />
persuasion of them all.<br />
cation of their first book, Sir Thomas Roe's “ State<br />
The history of the society is the history of the Papers.” For the production of this book they<br />
inevitable consequences of embarking on a design voted £300.<br />
without any right apprehension of its real nature, Other books were subsequently accepted and<br />
or of its difficulties.<br />
money for their publication voted, and at the<br />
For a few weeks after the first general meeting annual meeting of February 2, 1739, the report of<br />
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the committee mentions as published by the (possibly one for which he could get no offers from<br />
society :-<br />
the trade) without his being put to any cost, and,<br />
“ Dissertatio de structura et motu musculari, after having repaid themselves, to return him<br />
auctore Alexandro Stuart, M.D." Published the copyright and the remainder to dispose of as he<br />
May 26, 1738. 500 copies, quarto.<br />
pleased.<br />
Sir William Smith." History of the British Yet the society was at this very date discovering<br />
Plantations in America.” Part I. Pablished that books are not always easily sold. Their agree-<br />
November 20, 1738. 1,000 copies, quarto.<br />
ment with their booksellers had lapsed; and the<br />
Thomas Carte. “A Collection of Original committec reports its labours in search of new<br />
Letters and Papers concerning the Affairs of agents. They had given notice to the trade that<br />
England from 1641 to 1660.” Published Novem- any booksellers might offer sealed proposals of the<br />
ber 17, 1738. 1,000 copies, octavo.<br />
terms on which they were willing to contract with<br />
The agreement with the booksellers was renewed. the society. Several proposals had been offered,<br />
The whole number of members who had paid their and of these, those of Messrs. Strahan, Valiant,<br />
subscriptions was 106.<br />
Baker and Brindley, were those most adran-<br />
The report of the annual meeting of the tageous to the society. An agreement was also<br />
following year (February 2, 1740) is one of the ultimately made with them, but not with them<br />
most interesting. The sale of Dr. Stuart's book alone.<br />
(published on May 26, 1738) had been completely For, though the society had been successful with<br />
successful, and an instance is presented, the only Dr. Stuart's book, it was finding the general<br />
instance fully recorded, of how the society dealt conditions of sales and the results accruing from<br />
in such cases with the author's profits.<br />
them in the highest degree unsatisfactory; and so<br />
The committee report :-<br />
much so that there is a special report, containing<br />
“ On October 19, 1739, the Society having been many considerations respecting the difficulties<br />
reimbursed the expenses they had been at in which the society found to be hampering the sale<br />
printing and publishing Dr. Stuart's book 'De of their publications, and various suggestions for<br />
Motu Musculari,' the committee directed the combating these difficulties. This report is dis-<br />
treasurer to deliver him the remaining copies, and tinctly complicated ; but the following passage<br />
release the right of impression, which was done will show that it does not mince matters :-<br />
accordingly.”<br />
“The Society being since last Michaelmas happily<br />
Whatsoever may have been thought in 1740, at disengaged from the former contract with their<br />
the present date this action of the society will three booksellers, Messrs. Millar, Nourse and Gray,<br />
certainly be considered unsatisfactory. Here was who by the enormous allowance of 33 per cent.,<br />
the case of a strictly scientific book which had if not more, for vending their books have<br />
sold well and quickly (it will be presently seen brought the affairs of the Society low, and<br />
that all the society's publications did not do this); defeated hitherto the generous intention of its<br />
but, after having recovered their expenses, the institution : for the removal of this evil it is now<br />
society makes no further effort to dispose of the proposed etc."<br />
rest of the edition, but simply returos it to the The proposals were these : First of all, not to<br />
author, as a kind of “remainder," at the same time allow the booksellers more than 15 per cent. com-<br />
releasing the right of impression, that is to say mission ; and afterwards that “the sale of the<br />
giviog the author back his copyright. This plainly Society's books be open to the trade in general, and<br />
amounted to leaving the author himself to secure an equal allowance of 15 per cent. given ” ; and<br />
“the entire profits of his work." The society finally, that the society should have a warehouse of<br />
might, no doubt, plead, “ The book has cost him their own, where they would sell to the booksellers<br />
nothing. Every copy that he now sells represents only, and only for cash.<br />
so much clear gain ; and what he succeeds in Each of these proposals is carefully discussed in<br />
selling represents actually 'the whole profit, the report, and an attempt (distinctly gentlemanly<br />
seeing that the previous sales merely covered the and not at all businesslike) made to forecast the<br />
cost of production.” This view of the situation, probable results. Meanwhile, any one who now<br />
however, is simply one more instance of the reads the report cannot fail to be impressed by the<br />
society's incapacity to perceive that in bookselling fact that no explanation is forthcoming to show<br />
the difficulty is to find the purchaser.<br />
how the booksellers' 2s. 6d. in the pound had<br />
At the same time the society's design here become “ 33 per cent. and more” (probably no<br />
comes clearly to light. They did not propose to explanation was to be found, except that tradesmen's<br />
pay the author a royalty on his sales, nor to hand commissions were as liable in 1740 as in 1911 to<br />
over to him the profits resulting from a successful assume unanticipated proportions); and also by<br />
transaction, but simply to produce his book the fact that whereas the original commission had<br />
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been 121 per cent. (28. 6d. in 20s.),"the society in their service, were [sic] therefore of opinion that it<br />
now found itself compelled to offer 15 per cent. was entirely necessary for the interest of the Society<br />
How the various proposals were ultimately put [that] some reputable booksellers should be con-<br />
into practice, and with what results, may be seen tracted with ... provided it could be effected<br />
from the report of the committee at the annual upon easier terms than those on which it has been<br />
meeting on February 2, 1741.<br />
done formerly. For though the gentlemen, to<br />
Matters had not been improving, and the com- whom that affair was first committed, were them-<br />
mittee state “ The regulations of the last annual selves wholly strangers to the nature of it, yet they<br />
meeting in 1740 for reducing the profits of the were sensible that the terms insisted on by the<br />
booksellers from 354 to 15 per cent. for vend. booksellers were extravagant. . . . But when that<br />
ing has produced the desired effect, in saving contract was expired, it occurred to the Society to<br />
considerable sums to authors ... The opening come to a resolution of trying to vend their books<br />
also of a room in the Society's house for vending to at their own house without the assistance of any<br />
the trade has put our affairs on a better footing. booksellers. However, that method has been since<br />
... But though the appointing of six booksellers, found absolutely impracticable.”<br />
instead of three, for vending was expected to have Accordingly the society reverted to their previous<br />
been of great advantage towards increasing the policy of employing agents. They gave a com-<br />
sale . . . yet, after signing the contract with the mission of 20 per cent. on sales at home, and<br />
Society, and getting almost the whole executive 23 per cent. on sales abroad.<br />
part of our affairs into their own hands, most of The absolute impossibility of carrying out the<br />
them have shown very little willingness to promote society's design was, however, now evident; and<br />
the sale of our books ... from which it is natural the hopelessness of a publishing house that was to<br />
to conclude that most of the trade are in a plain do business on philanthropic lines. If the society<br />
opposition to the prosperity of this ... institution, did not make use of the intervention of the book-<br />
and will ... continue in combination against us, sellers they could not sell their books. If the<br />
unless the Society moving one or two steps further society did make use of the booksellers, the latter,<br />
[sic] than was done last year, effectually defeat the by discouraging the sale of the works, and by<br />
design by some such expedient as is here proposed demanding exorbitant commissions on what they<br />
for consideration.”<br />
sold, fatally crippled the society. Meanwhile, the<br />
This proposal was that, as soon as the contracts arrears of subscriptions, which had been always<br />
expired, the sale of the “ Society's books should be difficult to collect, were constantly increasing, and<br />
laid open to as many substantial dealers, at home the whole enterprise was drifting towards inevitable<br />
and abroad, as should be willing to serve."<br />
failure.<br />
The committee add :<br />
On February 2, 1744, it was announced that the<br />
“ It is further proposed that the sale of our society's funds were nearly exhausted, and that this<br />
books be open to gentlemen as well as to book- was not so much in consequence of expenses incurred<br />
sellers ... at the price fixed on the title-page, by the publication of books, as in consequence of<br />
which would unquestionably defeat all combina- an arrear in subscriptions amounting to £454 138.<br />
tions of the booksellers against the Society. For In this year the general meeting in May did not<br />
it has hitherto been a capital error to put the take place.<br />
whole executive part of our scheme into the hands At the annual meeting of February 2, 1745, there<br />
of our natural adversaries, by giving them the sole were not present sufficient members to form a<br />
power of vending our books as they think fit, quorum. The meeting was postponed until<br />
instead of reserving the sale for themselves." February 16. On that occasion the publication<br />
Accordingly, on the expiration of the contracts of books offered to the society was discussed.<br />
the society made no agreements with any particular Sir Isaac Newton's “Quadrature of Curves Ex-<br />
booksellers, but left the trade, or private individuals, plained ” came to the society“ very well recom-<br />
to apply at the society's warehouse for what they mended,” and an order was given to the printers<br />
wanted. The warehouse was, of course, proving à for 350 copies in quarto. A general statement of<br />
source of expense, and an occasion of a good deal the accounts of the society from its first establish-<br />
of additional care and labour, as well as responsi- ment was announced to have been drawn up by the<br />
bility, as the society's records plainly show; but committee, and another of arrears of subscriptions.<br />
what was the result of the new tactics may be read Neither, however, was ever presented.<br />
in the report of the committce presented to the At the annual meeting of February 3, 1746,<br />
annual meeting on February 2, 1743 :<br />
sufficient members to form a quorum were not<br />
“Having taken into consideration the sale of the present. The meeting was adjourned, but again<br />
Society's books, the committee find it greatly dimi- the number was insufficient to form a quorum.<br />
nished since there have been no booksellers employed On April 17 “A memorial of the present state of<br />
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the Society" was sent to all the members. It set “Book Prices Current" can be appreciated at its<br />
forth the difficulties beneath which the society was full value only by those who peruse its pages, to<br />
succumbing : (1) those, already fully described, that which it is impossible that any short notice should<br />
the society had encountered in its dealings with do justice. Limitations of space compel us to pick<br />
the booksellers ; (2) the small sale of the society's out a few only of the plums which it contains, and<br />
publications ; and (3) “what has principally con- that with a painful consciousness that what is<br />
tributed to reduce the affairs of the Society to passed over must be often exactly what readers of<br />
their present state," the great deficiency of the this or that taste would particularly wish to have<br />
annual payments.<br />
mentioned. The sale (1910. December 12, etc.<br />
This appeal, however, met with no response from Sotheby. £3,480) of the library of Mr. Hilton, of<br />
the members.<br />
Sale, offered a rich collection of beles-lettres, amongst<br />
Several attempts were afterwards made to get which were the first, second (two copies), third<br />
together a meeting of the society, but without and fourth folios of Shakespeare. On January 12,<br />
effect; and the officers and committee continued 1911, were sold (Sotheby) a number of books<br />
in office until the dissolution of the society on relating to, or printed in, Canada and the United<br />
January 31, 1749, when the balance of £20 12s. States. Specialists will recognise among them many<br />
that finally remained was presented to the Found- volumes of particular interest. In the sale of the<br />
ling Hospital.<br />
library of the Rev. J. H. Dent (January 24, etc.<br />
The works published by the society were : “Sir Hodgson. £2,422)) was included Gray's copy,<br />
Thomas Roe's State Papers ” ; “ Maximus Tyrius," with his autograph and manuscript notes, of Stow's<br />
with notes by Dr. Davies ; Dr. A. Stuart, “De “Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster."<br />
Motu Musculari” ; Carte's “ Original Letters of In a miscellaneous collection (February 1 and 2.<br />
English History, from 1641 to 1660”; Signor Hodgson) was offered the first edition of the three<br />
P. Rolli's “ Translation of Cicero's Letters ” ; Sir parts of “ The Ingoldsby Legends," all on thick<br />
William Keith, “ History of Virginia ” ; English paper (only a dozen copies of the first part were so<br />
Translation of Pluche's “ Histoire du Ciel ”; Prof. printed), with autograph inscriptions from the<br />
Campbell,“ Necessity of Revelation by Gronovius”; author. One of these is<br />
“ Aelian de Animalibus"; Sir Isaac Newton's<br />
“Quadrature of Curves” ; Bishop Tanner, “Notitia<br />
To Mrs. Hughes, who made me do 'em,<br />
Quod placeo (si placeo) Tuum.<br />
Monastica ” and “ Notitia Britannica.”<br />
The society thus certainly produced several To the third part are appended seven pages of<br />
books of substantial value. Whether these works manuscript, in the autograph of John Hughes,<br />
might not have seen the light without its assistance including a transcript of a poem by Barham. On<br />
is another question. If, in that case, the authors the 9th and following days of February was sold by<br />
would have received no adequate remuneration, or Sotheby for £4,086 the very remarkable collection<br />
no remuneration at all, it is not clear that the of printed books and other works illustrated by<br />
authors received very much substantial benefit George Cruikshank, formed by Captain Douglas.<br />
from the society. Several of the books failed to Many of these, as might be expected, fetched high<br />
reimburse the society for the expenses incurred in prices. A miscellaneous collection, more interesting<br />
producing them. In these cases the authors than miscellaneous collections generally are, was sold<br />
received nothing, and the booksellers alone March 15, etc., by Sotheby. Among other curiosities<br />
benefited. There is, however, no occasion to it contained four Horn Books, one of them a matrix<br />
waste space in commenting on what happened. cut in reverse for making gingerbread Horn Books.<br />
The history of the society and the lessons which it At this sale Tasso (The Falconieri Manuscript) letters<br />
conveys speak for themselves.<br />
and poems, dated 1556-1593, fetched only £49. Mr.<br />
HENRY CRESSWELL.<br />
Dawson gave 200 louis for it in Rome. The record<br />
of the sale of the first portion of the library of<br />
Mr. Charles Butler (April 5, etc. Sotheby. £7,569)<br />
is not yet completed, reaching only as far as “ The<br />
BOOK PRICES CURRENT.*<br />
Mirrour for Magistrates," but presents, of course, a<br />
wonderful array of rare English and Continental<br />
THE second and third numbers of “Book<br />
books. The mere description of them forms a<br />
1 Prices Current" for 1911 contain records<br />
feast. A very seasonable note of warning may be<br />
of the sales from December 8, 1910, to<br />
seen in the record at different dates of the sale of<br />
April 5, 1911. It is impossible to say too often that<br />
two copies of “ Encyclopædia Britannica," 1875–<br />
1903, 24 volumes, with the supplementary volumes,<br />
* "Book Prices Current,” Vol. XXV. Nos. 2 and 3.<br />
in all 35 volumes, sold for £6 on one occasion, and<br />
London, Elliot Stock.<br />
for £5 on another.<br />
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THE BOY SCOUTS' HISTORY OF This work should be very popular, not perhaps<br />
ENGLAND.*<br />
so much as a class book, but as a prize book or a<br />
gift book ; and in saying this we are paying the<br />
book the greater compliment, for it is something<br />
1. to the fact that The Author is not considerably more than a dry text-book.<br />
published in August and September, it has<br />
been impossible to give an earlier review of<br />
" The History of England," by. C. R. L. Fletcher<br />
and Rudyard Kipling, which reached the office at<br />
the beginning of July. We have read the book with<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
considerable interest, and have enjoyed its perusal.<br />
There are many different views taken about the<br />
writing of history, but surely the soundest view is AUTHORS' AGENTS-LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
that the historian should be a partisan, that he<br />
should give some life to the views that he adopts<br />
I.<br />
and should revivify the dead bodies of the past. The SIR,—I do not wish to examine in detail the<br />
historian who is merely a balancer of opinions and article on “ Authors' Agents” in your last number.<br />
methods and a chronicler of dry facts is, from our Many of the points are well taken, and many of the<br />
point of view, useless ; from a child's point of view warnings will be most useful in dealing with some<br />
he is worse than useless. This history is written agents, even if they be hardly necessary in relation<br />
for children. It puts forward high and patriotic to others. But when you sum up, “Don't employ<br />
ideals and will surely tend to interest, stimulate, an agent ; but if you do, watch him," I venture to<br />
and arouse the better feelings. This is why we think that the first part of the advice is too<br />
have taken the liberty of heading the article “ The broadly stated, and the second too—well, shall we<br />
Boy Scouts' History of England,” for what is most say unceremoniously ?<br />
striking in that movement is the high moral ideals As to the first, the society is a good watchdog.<br />
which are put before the boys in the code up to It can warn, advise, and guard. It cannot do the<br />
which they are bound, as true scouts, to live. This positive work for an author which a capable and<br />
is not a criticism of dry historical details. They zealous agent can. If it tried to, it would, in my<br />
may be all wrong; though Mr. Fletcher's name is opinion, soon find itself exposed to the same charges<br />
a guarantee that they are all right. It is indeed a of favouring one author as against another to which<br />
difficult matter to write something for children in agents are now exposed. An agent in good practice<br />
the shape of history which will interest while it acts as a literary exchange : he possesses a know-<br />
instructs, that “ gives to think” while it ceases to ledge of what wares are wanted, in what places, and<br />
bore ; but this appears to have been carried through at what prices, which few authors possess. This is<br />
successfully by the author, aided, of course, by the valuable knowledge-well worth paying for. He<br />
poems of Rudyard Kipling, and the illustrations knows whom to trust and whom not to trust-<br />
of H. Ford. Some of the poems are just right for knowledge very valuable in business. Neither shy-<br />
the boy who desires to have sound, stirring examples ness nor sentiment prevents him from asking and<br />
before him. Some, perhaps, are a little above his obtaining the proper market-price; one or both often<br />
head, but still, he will live to grow up to them. Of the prevent an author, when acting for himself. These<br />
many scattered throughout the book we should like are some of the considerations on the other side of<br />
to recommend two. The last, " The Glory of the the account.<br />
Garden," comes nearest to the hearts of all English As to the second, of course every man ought to<br />
men, although, perhaps, it may be considered to exercise a reasonable vigilance over his own<br />
have little to do with the history of England. interests and affairs—even though he were dealing<br />
The other one is “My Father's Chair,” which with an angel. But the attitude of mind indicated<br />
begins :<br />
by your “ Watch him” is hardly a promising basis<br />
“ There are four legs to my Father's Chair,<br />
for a business relation of a particularly confidential<br />
Priest and People, and Lords and Crown." nature. No doubt a man should * watch” his<br />
This is sound, historically, at any rate, at the<br />
solicitor-in a sense. But I do not think he<br />
present time, and for the past centuries, though<br />
would employ a solicitor whom he considered to<br />
it is impossible to say how soon it may be contro-<br />
need a great deal of “ watching." The position of<br />
an agent is very similar, and demands confidence as<br />
verted in the near future.<br />
well as “watching." There are, no doubt, solicitors,<br />
and there may very well be literary agents, who do<br />
* " The History of England," by C. R. L. Fletcher and<br />
Rudyard Kipling. Published by the Clarendon Press<br />
not deserve this confidence. In both professions<br />
Oxford. 78.6d, net.<br />
there are men who do, and as an author who has<br />
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II.<br />
employed an agent for nearly twenty years with most under cover of a public and, apparently, impartial<br />
satisfactory results, I think that the article in your association, honoured by such names as those of<br />
columns is one-sided, and, while containing (as I Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Bryce, Mr. Birrell, and<br />
have said) much that is of value, might unduly Lord Curzon, to launch against a small group of<br />
p rej dice a young author against a profession reputable private traders charges which, when no<br />
which has, in my judgment, on the whole, and in names are given, are grossly unfair, and, if names<br />
the persons of its honourable members, done much were given, would bring you within the scope of<br />
for the commercial interests, and something for the libel law.<br />
the dignity, of authors.<br />
If sweeping generalities are to be indulged in at<br />
I do not think that any committee of the Society all, they should be based upon a width of experience,<br />
has ever taken up a hostile position towards agents which the writer of the article evidently does not<br />
as such. I should regret it if any committee ever possess. No one with any considerable knowledge<br />
did. On the other hand, there have been many of Anglo-American literary traffic could have<br />
cases where the Society and agents have acted written these two sentences : “ No market is better<br />
together in the interests of members, and it is for the author than the American market.” “If<br />
within my knowledge that in several instances a book touches the American market (and all good<br />
agents have advised authors to join the Society. literature should be universal), for one copy sold in<br />
There is, in fact, plenty of room for co-operation England, four would be sold in America." So<br />
between the society and an honest and capable untrue is this that we could name out of hand a<br />
agent, and, in my opinion, no reason why such dozen books, placed, not for editions in sheets, but<br />
co-operation should not exist. To show your for copyright production in the United States, of<br />
readers that I do not write altogether without which ten copies are sold in this country for every<br />
knowledge and experience, I will sign myself— one sold there. The writer may have been thinking<br />
Ex-MEMBER OF COMMITTEE.<br />
of a certain narrow kind of popular fiction ; but if<br />
so, why didn't he say so ?<br />
We do not, however, wish now to go into these<br />
details. Let us say a word about the contract<br />
between author and agent. Why not be perfectly<br />
honest, and admit that authors, like agents, are<br />
SIR,— We have just had the privilege of reading not angels ? But agents have to deal with many<br />
the extraordinary five-column attack on literary authors who are in or on the verge of financial<br />
agents in your last issue. It is unlikely that you straits. Without money-lending, the agent may,<br />
will give us five columns in which to reply to your and often does, help these struggling men and<br />
detailed points ; but you can hardly refuse to women in a crisis. It would be mean to deny this;<br />
publish this brief protest. For we imagine that it the statement can easily be proved. The reputable<br />
is very far from the intention of the eminent agent is, however, necessarily in a somewhat more<br />
authors composing the Council and Committees of substantial position than such an author, and to<br />
the Authors' Society that their names should be forbid him to collect moneys would, to that extent,<br />
used to cover campaigns, designed in the spirit of involve withdrawing from the most helpless class of<br />
the narrowest type of trade union official, against authors any benefits which literary agency can give<br />
legal and honest occupations. One of us is a them. Again, you say that “the agent must not<br />
member of the society, and for ten years past it be allowed in any circumstances to claim agency<br />
has been our own policy to encourage authors to fees on introductions merely.” ( wise young<br />
join it: Mrs. Thurston, of whom you print a judge ! “In any circumstances !” A young man,<br />
touching memorial notice, is an instance. Nor do perhaps a provincial or a recluse, desirous of obtain-<br />
we in the slightest degree object to reasonable ing a paid post as leader writer, or a regular<br />
criticism of the customs of literary agency, written connection as specialist contributor, is recommended<br />
with the facts clearly in view. It is perfectly well to apply to a certain agent, who, by reason of wide<br />
known to many, perhaps most, of the members of connections, may be able to make such an arrange-<br />
your society, that there are agents and agents. ment for him. The usual practice in such a case is for<br />
The fact is worth stating: but a random attack, the agent to charge a commission upon one or two<br />
based upon such texts as “Preferably don't use an years' salary. What wrong is there here? Where-<br />
agent” and “ Don't employ an agent---but, if you in does this differ in essence from commission upon<br />
do, watch him," is quite another thing. Again, we prepaid royalties? What becomes of your “in any<br />
cannot object to the office of the Authors' Society circumstances” when you look at the broad facts ?<br />
being used as a literary agency for its members in Let us, against your five columns, place two brief<br />
return for fees. But we have every reason to generalities. (1) Most of the eminent authors<br />
object to the officials so occupied being allowed, who are members of the society employ literary<br />
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agents. (2) Few of them attempt to treat their man whom he has entrusted with its marketing.<br />
agents as you propose.<br />
But, if, say, after a year's intercourse, he has found<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
his agent quite straightforward and honest in his<br />
THE LITERARY AGENCY OF LONDON, dealings, and sensible and fair-minded in his advice,<br />
G. H. PERRIS,<br />
is the author still never to cease from troubling<br />
C. F. CoSGROVE.<br />
suspicions as to his integrity ?<br />
The business manager that requires continual<br />
[The Authors' Society is not used as a literary<br />
watching is hardly worth the consideration of<br />
agency in return for fees, and does not undertake<br />
averagely sensible people. We make inquiries and<br />
the placing of MSS. and plays—the Agents' main<br />
take considerable thought before confiding our<br />
duty.-Ed.]<br />
affairs to a solicitor, why should it be taken for<br />
granted that we are less careful in the choice of<br />
an agent? We all know, most of us from sad<br />
III.<br />
experience, that there exist dishonest publishers<br />
and unsatisfactory and somewhat shady agents ;<br />
SIR,—I have read with surprise the article on but is the literary profession itself entirely com-<br />
“ Literary Agents” in the October number of posed of persons of the highest probity? It is a<br />
The Author.<br />
pity to condemn a whole class because one indivi-<br />
It seems to me not right that a number of dual's experience may have been unfortunate.<br />
gentlemen, whose work is of vital importance to In every profession the novice makes mistakes<br />
writing men, should be held up to odium in this from which no amount of excellent advice can<br />
manner.<br />
guard him. There are generally far more willing<br />
I say “ of vital importance," and I speak from and experienced persons to advise the young writer<br />
experience. Literary agents, and especially the than there are young writers willing to profit by<br />
agents who now do my business, have proved their advice. The young writer is above all things<br />
themselves to me so absolutely indispensable that, anxious to see himself in print, and any advice or<br />
reading your article, I send this protest.<br />
Cassandra-like utterance which suggests the delay<br />
To advise an author not to employ an agent is, of that happy consummation is regarded as timid or<br />
from my experience, bad advice; to advise him to pessimistic. Would it not be well if occasionally<br />
watch an agent is, from my experience, superfluous in the pages of The Author it was suggested that<br />
advice.<br />
even publishers and literary agents have their<br />
The modern author is a very wideawake person. living to get ? And that in launching an unknown<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
writer the one risks his capital; the other, his time<br />
H. DE VERE STACPOOLE. and his postage stamps.<br />
And it might be well to remind the discontented<br />
that even as a solicitor may be quite honest but<br />
rather stupid, so are there agents who, meaning quite<br />
IV.<br />
well by their clients, yet fail to grasp the essential<br />
quality of an author's work and to find the right<br />
SIR,-In the October number of The Author channel for it. The wise author gets rid of such<br />
there appeared an article on “ Authors' Agents, an agent as soon as possible.<br />
Literary and Dramatic,” which, to put it mildly, In an article that appeared in the Fortnightly<br />
seems rather one-sided. From it the young and Review some five years ago, Mr. Curtis Brown<br />
inexperienced author would gather that the literary sums up this vexed question of the use or futility<br />
agent is an unnecessary evil superimposed upon of the literary agent in a few terse sentences :-<br />
unfortunate authors against their will and better “Much that has been written about the literary<br />
judgment. Now, no author is compelled to employ agent has been futile, because the writers have not<br />
an agent, and if he does so it is certainly with the understood that authors can be divided into two<br />
hope of obtaining by this means better terms from classes : First, those whose work the publisher<br />
the publishers than he could get for himself. Should doesn't particularly want; and second, those whose<br />
he find this is not the case, surely the remedy is in work the publisher does want, or would want if<br />
his own hands, either to seek a more capable agent, he knew of it; and that it is only with the second<br />
or to transact his literary business in person. The class that a sound literary agent has, or should<br />
article concludes with the somewhat cryptic remark, have, much to do.”.<br />
“Don't employ an agent, but if you do, watch<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
him."<br />
L. ALLEN HARKER.<br />
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sufficient interest in his own work to watch the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
PUBLISHERS' METHODS.<br />
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.<br />
MSS.<br />
SIR,—The Sorrows of a Freelance as set forth in<br />
SIR, I opened my letters this morning. One last month's Author, along with some notes on<br />
was a packet of patterns from a London shop, and The Colonial Markets and an article on the<br />
on each little set of patterns was printed a legend Proposed Canadian Copyright Law, have reminded<br />
to the effect that if they were not returned me of an English magazine I picked out at a rail-<br />
uninjured there would be a charge made for them. way bookstall not long ago, from among four or<br />
Another letter was from a publisher who had<br />
five American monthlies, all of which have already<br />
asked to see my new novel, and to whom I had made good their footing among us and in our<br />
sent my clean and dainty newly-typed MS. It<br />
Colonies. The cover-design of the English<br />
was merely a printed form, saying that the MS. magazine was the work of an American artist, and I<br />
was to hand, but that the publisher declined to do not doubt that the electros from which it was<br />
be responsible for it in any way if it should printed were made in America. The bulk of its<br />
happen to get damaged or lost while under his contents also were by American authors and<br />
care !<br />
artists.<br />
Comment is superfluous. I need only say that<br />
The last time I was in New York an American<br />
my MS. cost over £5 in hard cash to me for editor told me that one of our most lordly magazine<br />
typing alone.<br />
proprietors had been bemoaning there the falling<br />
I am thinking of sending to a West End shop<br />
off in the sales of what was—and, no doubt, still is,<br />
for a new coat on approval, and enclosing a printed<br />
though I do not buy it-one of our most popular<br />
form to the effect that I decline to be responsible<br />
fiction monthlies : whose circulation had fallen, I<br />
for its damage or loss. I don't know the law in understand, from over a million to under half a<br />
such a case, but I've a shrewd suspicion that if I million copies a month.<br />
damaged or lost that coat I should have to pay for<br />
May it not be that our public have had enough<br />
it. Food for reflection here, my co-mates and<br />
of the “pap" ladled out to them by the purveyors<br />
brothers in the craft !<br />
of “popular” magazines ? And that our sorrowing<br />
Yours truly,<br />
freelances have had enough of the unfair methods<br />
A MERE WRITER.<br />
of trading with them still in vogue in most English<br />
magazine offices ?<br />
Of course, we must remember that the products<br />
The American publisher is undoubtedly ousting<br />
of our brain are not our property in the accepted<br />
us in our Colonial markets. My own American<br />
sense. We can only command them for a short<br />
publishers sell as many of my books in Canada<br />
time and cannot bequeath them to our children.<br />
alone as my English publishers can dispose of in<br />
So different from a chair or table! My type-<br />
the rest of the British Empire, England included.<br />
writer can leave her machine to any one she likes,<br />
But it is scarcely our English publishers' fault that<br />
but the book it types cannot be left so. It is to<br />
our Colonial cousins prefer the more gaudy dress in<br />
belong to any publisher who likes to issue it at<br />
which light literature is shipped to them from<br />
4d. and so help to spoil the market for future<br />
America.<br />
authors !<br />
I can quite sympathise with the Canadians in<br />
their aggrieved attempt to combat the American<br />
Typographical Union : which our society might<br />
perhaps commend to the notice of President Taft<br />
as one of those “combinations in restraint of<br />
AMERICAN RIGHTS.<br />
trade" he is so busy “bursting." A Canadian<br />
acquaintance of mine published a book this year, in<br />
DEAR SIR,—Once upon a time I signed an<br />
Canada, the United States, and England ; but both<br />
agreement for three books with a publisher,<br />
the Canadian and English editions came from New<br />
who paid me a sum on account of, among other<br />
York, in sheets. American business policy has<br />
things, the American rights, of which I was to<br />
now become one of aggression : and why should we<br />
receive 10 per cent. after all expenses had been<br />
neglect “the noble art of self-defence ?<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
Two of these books did well in America, con-<br />
ROBERT AITKEN.<br />
sequently I received less than the publisher's<br />
American agent. And yet this publisher was [The remark in this letter about the American<br />
annoyed because I left him at the earliest oppor publisher is interesting when compared with the<br />
tunity.<br />
opinion put forward in the letter from the Literary<br />
H. W.C.N.<br />
Agency of London.--Ed.]<br />
paid.<br />
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