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The secretary would like to state that he has<br /> After giving the matter full consideration the received three bankers&#039; orders in answer to the<br /> trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br /> of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br /> Bolivian Railway 5%. Preferred Ordinary Stock may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br /> and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock. from their description, would write to the secretary<br /> The amounts purchased at the present prices are on the matter.&quot;<br /> £237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock. 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Preference Stock<br /> 228 0 0 Nov. 24, Gusse, Edmund.<br /> 1 1 0<br /> New Zealand 31° Stock ............<br /> 247 9 6 Nov. 25, Larken, E. P.<br /> 0 5 0<br /> Irish Land Act 20%. Guaranteed<br /> Nov. 25, Underdown, Miss E.<br /> 0 5 0<br /> Stock ....................<br /> .... 258 (0) 0 Nov. 25, Walkley, S. . .<br /> 05 0<br /> Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br /> Nov. 25, Masefield, John..<br /> 1 1 0<br /> 1927-57 ........<br /> +38 2 + Nov. 25, Thurston, E. Temple.<br /> Jamaica 31%. Stock, 1919-49 ...... 132 18 6 Nov. 25, Rittenberg, Max . . 0 5 0<br /> Mauritius 1° 1937 Stock ........ 120 121 Nov. 25, Paull, H. M. .<br /> ( 10 6<br /> Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31%<br /> Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald. .<br /> . 1 1 0<br /> Land Grant Stock, 1938.<br /> 198 3 8 Nov, 25, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton. . 1 1 0<br /> Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br /> Nov. 25, Barne, Miss M. C. .<br /> 5%. Preferred Stock ......... 237 00 Nov. 25, Sedgwick, Anne Douglas . 0 5 0<br /> Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br /> (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)<br /> Stock ..<br /> 232 0 0 Nov. 25, Lerden, Walter . .<br /> 010 0<br /> Nov. 25, Channon, Mrs. Frances : 0 10 0<br /> Total .<br /> .... £4,816 19 Nov. 25, Toynbee, Paget. . . 0 10 0<br /> ༤༌ ༤་<br /> .<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> · ·<br /> ·<br /> · ·<br /> · ·<br /> ,.<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> ..........<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 143 (#579) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 143<br /> .<br /> 2:2:,<br /> .<br /> 0<br /> OroO-100olto<br /> eror eroro Ourer<br /> ·&#039;.<br /> .<br /> £ 8. d.<br /> £ s. d.<br /> Nov. 25, Hood, Miss Agnes Jacomb. 0 10 0 Dec. 4, Heath, Sidney . . : 0 5 0<br /> Nov. 25, Gilliat, The Rev. E. . . 1 1 0 Dec. 5, Macnamara, Miss Marg<br /> Nov. 25, Macdonald, Greville , . 1 1 0 Dec. 5, Clodd, Edward .<br /> Nov. 25, Allen, Rev. The G. 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( 5 )<br /> Dec. 6, Percival, Helen A. . . . 0 5 0 Jan. 23, Machen, Arthur . . . 1 1 0<br /> Dec. 7, Graham, Kenneth . . . 10 0 0 Jan. 24, Williamson, C. N. and Mrs. C.N. 5 5 0<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> · ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·.<br /> ·<br /> ..<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> .<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> 1<br /> 1<br /> .<br /> 0<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ooooo<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 145 (#581) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 145<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·····<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ···<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ·<br /> ······<br /> 0<br /> £ 8. d. bad one from his point of view. The solicitor also<br /> Jan. 26, Way, Viss Beatrice . ( 5 0 reported that one case dealing with accounts had<br /> Jan. 30, Saies, Mrs. Florence H.. : 0 8 6 been settled during the month.<br /> Jan. 30, Weyman, Stanley (in addition<br /> The secretary then mentioned a case of infringe-<br /> to subscription).<br /> 1 0 ment of copyright in Australia by a bookseller who<br /> Jan. 30, S. F. G.<br /> 1 1 0 had imported an American edition, and it was<br /> Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br /> . 1 0 0 decided to instruct the society&#039;s Australian lawyers<br /> Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br /> 0 10 0 to take action. Another case of infringement had<br /> Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James 1.<br /> 1 1 0 been put down on the agenda, but the committee<br /> Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br /> 0 10 6 were informed it had been settled. The secretary<br /> Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady<br /> 5 0 0 also read a letter from one of the members<br /> Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. .<br /> 0 5 0 respecting a claim against a paper for work done,<br /> Feb. 12, King, A. R.. .<br /> ( 10 ) and the committee decided to instruct the solicitors<br /> Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. .<br /> . () 5 0 to proceed, subject to the author being willing to<br /> Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br /> 0 5 0 co-operate.<br /> Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. W. E.<br /> 1 1 0 The committee then discussed, at some length, an<br /> Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival<br /> 5 0 article which appears in another column of &quot;The<br /> Feb. 17, Raphael, Mrs. .<br /> . 0 5 0 Author,&quot; dealing with a publisher&#039;s forms of<br /> Feb. 19, Cabourn, John .<br /> . 0 5 0 agreement.<br /> Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br /> . 010<br /> An agency agreement wbich had been settled<br /> Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and Mrs. .&#039;110 by a sub-committee, and circulated to the members<br /> of the Committee of Management, was next read,<br /> £228 6 6 and adopted. A vote of thanks was passed to the<br /> The Editor regrets that Mr. Robert Hichens&#039;<br /> sub-committee for the work they had done. The<br /> agreement, which is based on an agency agree-<br /> contribution of £3 3s, was put down as a donation,<br /> ment, settled some time ago by the Dramatic<br /> whereas it should have been entered as an annual<br /> Sub-Committee, is printed on another page.<br /> subscription. He hastens to correct the mistake.<br /> The committee then proceeded to elect a com-<br /> posers&#039; sub-committee, as it had been decided to<br /> form a separate section of the society for composers,<br /> to work on the same lines as the dramatic section<br /> COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> is working under the Dramatic Sub-Committee.<br /> The following gentlemen were elected and have<br /> consented to undertake the duties :-<br /> MEETING of the committee was held at the<br /> offices of the society on Monday, February<br /> Granville Bantock,<br /> 5th. After the minutes of the last meeting<br /> Percy Buck,<br /> Thomas F. Dunhill,<br /> had been read and signed, the committee proceeded<br /> to elect 18 new members and associates whose<br /> Cecil Forsyth,<br /> John B. McEwen,<br /> names appear on another page. This is one of<br /> the largest elections which has ever taken place in<br /> Sir Charles Villiers Stanford,<br /> any one month, since the foundation of the society,<br /> Herbert, Sullivan,<br /> Howard Talbot,<br /> and having regard to the satisfactory election in<br /> January, it is felt that the year 1912 has opened in<br /> William Wallace.<br /> an auspicious manner.<br /> The question of the Nobel Prize Committee was<br /> The solicitor reported the cases dealt with again before the Committee of Management. A<br /> during the month. In one case, relating to a letter from Lord Avebury, the Chairman of that<br /> dispute between a member and a publisher, which committee, was read, together with a communication<br /> had been adjourned from the previous month, the which his lordship had received from the Swedish<br /> committee decided to appoint an arbitrator under Academy. The committee decided to refer the<br /> a clause in the agreement making arbitration whole matter to the Council of the Society at its<br /> necessary. In the next case against the same next meeting.<br /> publisher it was decided to take immediate action to The annual report, which had been settled by a<br /> maintain the author&#039;s rights. The next question sub-committee, was adopted, and will be issued to<br /> was one between an author and his agent, and here, members and associates with the usual notice of<br /> after careful consideration, it was decided that no general meeting.<br /> help could be given to the author as he was bound Letters from the advertisement agents of The<br /> by his agreement, although it was an exceedingly Author were read raising certain points in the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 146 (#582) ############################################<br /> <br /> 146<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> delivery of their accounts. It was decided to refer<br /> them, with certain instructions, to the solicitors.<br /> It was decided to invest £150 of the Life<br /> Membership Subscriptions in the purchase of<br /> Antofogasta and Bolivia Railway Five per cent. Pre-<br /> ferred Ordinary Stock, and the secretary was<br /> authorised to carry out the committee&#039;s instructions.<br /> Two suggestions on minor points connected with<br /> the management of the society were considered, but<br /> it was felt that it would not be to the advantage of<br /> the members to adopt either of them.<br /> The secretary reported that two members had<br /> paid life membership subscriptions—Mrs. Stanley<br /> Wrench and Mr. Dudley Buxton.<br /> Cases.<br /> DURING the past month twelve cases have been<br /> placed in the hands of the secretary. Four of<br /> these refer to claims for the return of MSS., and<br /> in three cases the MSS. have been returned and<br /> forwarded to the members concerned. Two claims<br /> for accounts and money have been dealt with ; one<br /> has had to be transferred to the solicitors of the<br /> society, as the publisher refused to answer the letters<br /> which were written to him by the secretary ; the<br /> other case is still in course of negotiation, as the<br /> publisher, although he has answered the secretary&#039;s<br /> letters, has not as yet delivered the accounts. There<br /> was one case referring to breach of contract which<br /> has been satisfactorily settled, and one case in<br /> which accounts only were claimed. Two claims<br /> for money due to members are still open, as they<br /> have only recently come into the office. There<br /> was one case referring to the infringement of<br /> performing rights, which had to be taken in hand<br /> immediately. The secretary is glad to report that<br /> it has been terminated satisfactorily. There was<br /> also one case with regard to the settlement of the<br /> exact terms of a contract, which also has been<br /> negotiated. Seven cases out of the twelve are<br /> already at an end. This is a very healthy<br /> record.<br /> There are still three small claims open from the<br /> former months : the others have either been settled<br /> or handed over to the solicitors of the society.<br /> DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> The February meeting of the Dramatic Sub-<br /> Committee of the Society of Authors was held at<br /> the offices of the society on Friday, the 16th.<br /> The minutes of the previous meeting having<br /> been read and signed, the secretary laid before the<br /> meeting an agreement which had been forwarded<br /> to the society by one of the members, purporting<br /> to be entered into between the Travelling Theatre<br /> Managers&#039; Association and dramatic authors. The<br /> agreement was considered, and Mr. Raleigh explained<br /> at some length the position of the association. It<br /> was decided to appoint a sub-committee, consisting<br /> of Mr. Cecil Raleigh, Mr. R. C. Carton, and Mr. G.<br /> Bernard Shaw, to confer with the representative of<br /> the association, in order, if possible, to arrange<br /> satisfactory terms on behalf of the dramatists<br /> inside the society. The secretary received instruc-<br /> tions to enquire of the association&#039;s representative<br /> whether he would make an appointment to meet<br /> the sub-committee with a view to coming to some<br /> agreement.<br /> The contract for cinematograph productions,<br /> adjourned from the last meeting, was rediscussed.<br /> The secretary reported that he had as yet obtained<br /> no further information from the French society, as<br /> the report to be issued by that society was not yet<br /> completed, but would be forwarded when ready.<br /> The sub-committee decided to obtain information on<br /> the subject from other countries.<br /> The method of procedure to be followed in the<br /> settlement of the general treaty between the<br /> Dramatic Sub-Committee and the Dramatists&#039; Club<br /> was discussed. It was decided to forward a letter<br /> to the secretary of the sub-committee appointed by<br /> that club to consider the treaty, and to enquire on<br /> what date the Dramatic Sub-Committee of the<br /> society and the Dramatists&#039; Club Sub-Committee<br /> could meet in order to settle the final form of the<br /> treaty. The secretary was instructed to carry<br /> through the matter and report.<br /> February Elections.<br /> Atlay, J. B. .<br /> Athenæum Club, S.W.<br /> Ayre, Miss G. B. . Eastlemes, Colne,<br /> Lancashire.<br /> Baden-Powell, W., K.C.. 32, Princes Gate, S.W.<br /> Bayly-Jones, Miss Jane . 24, Torphichen Street,<br /> Edinburgh.<br /> Bernard, H. D&#039;Oyly . . 101, Albert Bridge<br /> Road, S.W.<br /> Boys, Gerald E. Le Mesurier<br /> (Le Mesurier Boys) Barcelona, Spain.<br /> Brebner, Percy James . The Upways, Spencer<br /> Gardens, East Sheen,<br /> S.W.<br /> Brewin, The Rev. Robert. 106, Park Road,<br /> Loughborough.<br /> Bryan, Miss M. Theresa . Norden Court, Hen-<br /> don, N.W.<br /> Buchanan, Miss Emily H. Invera von, Christ-<br /> church, Hants.<br /> Buck, Percy C., M.A., Mus. 100, High Street,<br /> Doc., Oxon. .. Harrow-on-the-Hill.<br /> Buxton, Dr. Dudley W., 82, Mortimer Street,<br /> M.D. . . . . Cavendish Square,<br /> W.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 147 (#583) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 147<br /> Worthington, A. M., C.B.,<br /> F.R.S.<br /> Wright, William B. . . 14, Hume Street,<br /> Dublin.<br /> Yorke, Arnold . . . 30, First Avenue,<br /> Acton Park, W.<br /> Zangwill, Louis . . Authors&#039; Club, S.W.<br /> BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br /> mo<br /> Cantrill, Harold . . Dorridge, Warwick-<br /> shire.<br /> Chesser, Mrs. E. Sloan . Beauchamp House,<br /> Gloucester.<br /> Colvile, Rex . . . 15, Colinette Road,<br /> Putney.<br /> Dunhill, Thomas Frederick 17, Frances Road,<br /> Windsor.<br /> Forsyth, Cecil . . . Blandford Mansions,<br /> G., East Street,<br /> Baker Street, W.<br /> Fox, Esther T. . . . 69, Tressillian Road,<br /> St. John&#039;s, S.E.<br /> Freer, H. B. . . . Ardmore, Gravesend,<br /> Kent.<br /> Freestone, Saie. . . Hinton Chambers,<br /> Bournemouth.<br /> Gray, Miss Annabel . . 1, Mechlin Mansions,<br /> Brook Green, S.W.<br /> Griffiths, Miss N. . . Ridgeway, Dormans<br /> Land, Surrey.<br /> Hamilton, Cosmo . . L4 Uc. Albany, Picca-<br /> dilly, W.<br /> Hope, Graham . . . Women&#039;s Amalgama-<br /> ted Unionist and<br /> Tariff Reform<br /> Association, 39a,<br /> Maddox Street,<br /> Hanover Square,<br /> W.<br /> Jones, Hinton . . . 99, Hallam Street,<br /> Portland Place, W.<br /> Leigh, Miss Gertrude . Nesbit Cottage, Win-<br /> chelsea, Sussex.<br /> Livens, W. Howard<br /> (William Howard)<br /> coln.<br /> Morel, Jean . . . St. John&#039;s College,<br /> (Claude Odilé)<br /> H 2, Cambridge.<br /> O&#039;Donnell, Miss Petronella Nelson Villa. The<br /> Beach, Clevedon,<br /> Somerset.<br /> Openshaw, Miss Mary . 37, Queen&#039;s Gate<br /> Gardens, S.W.<br /> Poole, M. C. Conway . E. I. United Service<br /> (Oslay)<br /> Club.<br /> Poore, Niss L. C. . . Rainhill, Liverpool.<br /> Simpson, Violet A.<br /> Sowerby, Getha.<br /> Spry-Palmer.<br /> Sugden, Charles . . 2c, Hyde Park Man-<br /> sions, N.W.<br /> Wallis, Arthur F. . . 15, Stanley Crescent,<br /> Webster, William H. . 31, Stratford Street,<br /> Dewsbury Road,<br /> Leeds.<br /> Whibley, Charles . . Wavenden Manor,<br /> Woburn Sands.<br /> WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br /> this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br /> some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br /> that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br /> by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br /> largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br /> other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br /> co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br /> particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br /> accurate.<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> MRS. GASKELL: WITH SELECTIONS FROM HER WORKS.<br /> By MRS. ELLIS H. CHADWICK. Regent Library Series.<br /> 7 X 44. 387 pp. Herbert &amp; Daniel. 28. 6d. n.<br /> CHARLES DICKENS AS EDITOR. Being Letters written by<br /> Him to William Henry Wills, his Sub-Editor. Selected<br /> and Edited by R. C. LEHMANN. 9 x 51. 104 pp.<br /> Smith Elder. 128. 6d. n.<br /> A COSMOPOLITAN ACTOR : DAVID GARRICK AND HIS<br /> FRENCH FRIENDS. By F. A. HEDGECOCK. 9 x 57.<br /> 412 pp. Stanley Paul, 10s. 6. n.<br /> CLASSICAL.<br /> CLASSIC MYTH AND LEGEND. By A. R. HOPE MON-<br /> CRIEFF. 83 x 51. 440 pp. Gresham Publishing Co.<br /> 78. 64. n.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> Two PLAYS,!By TCHEKHOF: THE SEAGULL, THE CHERRY<br /> ORCHARD. Translated by GEORGE CALDERON. 8 x 53.<br /> 155 pp. Grant Richards. 38. 6d. n.<br /> THE PIGEON. A Fantasy in Three Acts. By JOHN<br /> GALSWORTHY. 63 x 5. 83 pp. Duckworth. ls. 6d. n.<br /> CHAUCER REDIVIVUS. A Playlet for the open air or hall.<br /> By WILLIAM SCOTT DURRANT. George Allen &amp; Co.,<br /> Ltd. 6d. n.<br /> EDUCATIONAL,<br /> WONDERS OF PLANT LIFE. By S. LEONARD BASTIN.<br /> Cassell &amp; Co. 38. 6d.<br /> W.<br /> FICTION<br /> SUCCESS. By Una L. SILBERRAD. 7 x 5. 316 pp.<br /> Constable. 68.<br /> THE PRISON WITHOUT A WALL. By R. STRAUS. 73 x 5.<br /> 307 pp. Heinemann. 68.<br /> THE DEVIL&#039;S WIND. By PATRICIA WENTWORTH (MRS.<br /> G.F. DILLON). 73 * 5. 352 pp. Melrose.<br /> HONESTY. By M. E. FRANCIS. 74 . 320 pp. Hodder &amp;<br /> Stoughton. 68.<br /> THE PRINCIPAL GIRL. By J.C. SNAITH. 73 x 5. 312 pp.<br /> Methuen. 68<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 148 (#584) ############################################<br /> <br /> 148<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> THE CURE. A Psychological Farce. By DESMOND COKE.<br /> MISCELLANEOUS.<br /> 78 x 5. 310 pp. Chapman &amp; Hall.<br /> HAVOC.<br /> MOTHERCRAFT. By MRS. ELLIS H. CHADWICK. 77 x 5.<br /> By E. P. OPPENHEIM. 7 x 5. 349 Pp. 126 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman &amp; Sons. lx.<br /> Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 68.<br /> LETTERS TO LOO ISE ON LIFE, LOVE AND IMMORTALITY.<br /> A QUEEN OF CASTAWAYS. By John BARNETT. 77 x 5.<br /> By JEAN DELAIRE. 192 pp. William Rider &amp; Son, Ltd.<br /> 308 pp. Methuen. 38. 6d.<br /> 28. 6d. n.<br /> RUTH OF THE ROWLDRICH. By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH.<br /> MUSIC.<br /> 78 * 5. 368 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 68.<br /> Exit ELIZA. By BARRY PAIN. 7 x 5. 120 pp. A FAIRY TALE. By THEODORE HOLLAND. Words by<br /> Cassell. 18.<br /> ROLAND CARSE. Boosey &amp; Co., 295, Regent Street, W.<br /> THE SPINDLE. By ELIZABETH HARDEN. 356 pp. John MIRAGE. A Valse. By THEODORE HOLLAND. John<br /> Long. 68.<br /> Church Co., 45, Wigmore Street.<br /> THE RIGHT HAND. By J. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. Everett<br /> NATURAL HISTORY.<br /> &amp; Co. 6s.<br /> DEAD MEN&#039;S BELLS. Ry FREDERICK NIVEN. 310 pp. THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. By T. A. COWARD. The<br /> Martin Secker, 68.<br /> Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. 61 x 5.<br /> THE CHINK IN THE ARMOUR. By MRS. BELLOC 137 pp. Cambridge University Press. 18. n.<br /> LOWNDES. 73 x 5. 316 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> BRITISH BIRDS&#039; NESTS, How, WHERE AND WHEN TO<br /> THE COWARD. By R. H. BENSON. 73 x 5. 392 pp. FIND AND IDENTIFY THEM. By R. KEARTON. Part I.<br /> Hutchinson. 68.<br /> 93 x 61. 32 pp. Cassell. 7d. n.<br /> THE ROOM IN THE TOWER. By E. F. BENSON. 78 X 5.<br /> 338 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 68.<br /> POLITICAL.<br /> FIRE IN STUBBLE. By THE BARONESS ORCZY. 73 X 5, HOME RULE. By HAROLD SPENDER. With a preface by<br /> 410 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br /> THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR EDWARD GREY, BART.<br /> ETERNAL GLORY. By CARLTON DAWE. 73 x 5. 352 pp. M.P. 7 X 5. 180 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 18. D.<br /> Eveleigh Nash. 68.<br /> SAM BRIGGS: His Book. By RICHARD MARSH. 7 x 5.<br /> REFERENCE BOOKS.<br /> 304 pp. John Long. 68.<br /> Who&#039;s WHO IN SCIENCE (International). Edited by H.<br /> THE SINGING BONE. By R. AI&#039;STIN FREEMAN. 78 X 5.<br /> H. STEPHENSON. 94 x 57. 323 pp. J. &amp; A. Churchill.<br /> 312 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 28. n.<br /> THE THREE ENVELOPES. By HAMILTON DRUMMOND.<br /> SCIENCE.<br /> 73 X 43. 319 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br /> FOURTH REPORT OF THE WELLCOME TROPICAL RESEARCH<br /> CYNTHIA OF THE MINUTE. By L. J. VANCE. 78 x 5.<br /> LABORATORIES AT THE GORDON MEMORIAL COLLEGE.<br /> 318 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br /> KHARTOUM. Vol. B. General Science. By A. BALFOCR,<br /> RUPERT OF HENTZAU. By ANTHONY HOPE. 61 X 4.<br /> M.D. 11 x 73. 333 pp. Published for the Department<br /> Nelson. 7d. n.<br /> of Education, Sudan Government, Khartoum. Ballière,<br /> MIRANDA OF THE BALCONY. By A. E. W. MASON.<br /> Tindall &amp; Cox.<br /> 256 pp. Macmillan. 7d. n.<br /> 188. n.<br /> THE WOMAN HUNTER. By ARABELLA KENEALY, 7} x 5.<br /> TRAVEL.<br /> 334 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br /> THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. By ERNEST THOMPSOS SETOS.<br /> ESTHER. By AGNES E. JACOMB. 74 x 5. 303 pp. 9 x 51. 415 pp. Constable. 12s. 60. 11.<br /> Heinemann. 6s.<br /> RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY. Personal Narrative of<br /> HERITAGE. By VALENTINA HAWTREY. 7{ x 5. 389 pp.<br /> Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China.<br /> Constable. 6s.<br /> By M. AUREL STEIN. Two volumes. 94 X 64. 517 pp.<br /> FELIX (&#039;HRISTIE. By PEGGY WEBLING. 73 5. 345 pp. Macmillan. 428. n,<br /> Methuen. 68.<br /> SCENTED ISLES AND CORAL GARDENS. Torres Straits,<br /> THE ENDLESS JOURNEY AND OTHER STORIES. By NETTA<br /> German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies. Br<br /> SYRETT. 73 X 43. 317 pp. Chatto &amp; Windus. 68.<br /> C. D. MACKELLAR. 9 X 54. 351 pp. Murray. 158. Il.<br /> THE GIFTED NAME. By MRS. FRED REYNOLDS. 73 x 5.<br /> 307 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 68.<br /> THE CLOAK OF CONVENTION. By LESLIE MOORE. 75 X 5.<br /> 326 pp. Alston Rivers. 68.<br /> THE OPEN VALLEY. By HELEN H. WATSON (MRS. BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br /> HERBERT A. WATSON). 78 X 5. 344 pp. Cassell. 68.<br /> MEMBERS.<br /> THIRTEEN. By TEMPLE THURSTON. 78 X 5. 279 pp.<br /> Chapman &amp; Hall. 68.<br /> VEENI THE MASTER. - The Story of a Dream.” By<br /> ART.<br /> R. J. LAMPORT. 78 x 5. 305 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.<br /> TONY U&#039;NREGENERATE. By JANET DODGE. 73 X 5. WHISTLER. By FRANK RUTTER. New York: Kennerler.<br /> 312 pp. Duckworth. 68.<br /> $1 n.<br /> A BLIND ALLEY. By S. W. SAVI. 74 x 5. Digby Long.<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> 68.<br /> THE STORY OF EMMA, LADY HAMILTON. With 30<br /> BARTER. By GERTIE DE S, WENTWORTH JAMES. 8 x 5.<br /> Reproductiuns in Colour of famous Paintings and<br /> 318 pp. Everett. tis.<br /> Engravings, and other Illustrations. 2 Volumes. By<br /> IN LOVE&#039;S LAND. By EFFIE A. ROWLANDS. 73 x 5. FRANK DANBY. 107 + 113 pp. New York:<br /> 319 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br /> Macmillan Co. $1.75.<br /> LORD OF TRONGRAY. By J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND. 7} x 5. THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. In 2 Volumes. Vol. I.<br /> 365 pp. Greening. 68.<br /> 1819-1860; Vol. II. 1860-1900. By E. T. COOK.<br /> JUVENILE.<br /> 540 + 615 pp. New York : Macmillan Co. $7 n.<br /> THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF SHELLEY AND THE SEQUEL. By<br /> WHERE THE HEDGEROWS END, AND OTHER FAIRY TALES. FRANCIS GRIBBLE. 387 pp. New York: Putnams<br /> By - ISH BEL.&quot; 64 pp. John Ouseley. 18, n.<br /> $4 n.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 149 (#585) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 149<br /> TOPOGRAPHY.<br /> VENICE AND VENETIA. By EDWARD HUTTON. With<br /> 14 Illustrations in Colour by MAXWELL ARMFIELD, and<br /> 12 other Illustrations. 324 pp. New York: Macmillan<br /> Co. $2 n.<br /> TRAVEL.<br /> THROUGH TRACKLESS LABRADOR. By HESKETH<br /> PRICHARD. With a Chapter on Fishing by G. M.<br /> GATHORNE HARDY. Illustrated with a Frontispiece. By<br /> LADY HELEN GRAHAM. A Map of the Route, and from<br /> photographs. 244 pp. New York : Sturgis. $4 n.<br /> THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. A Canoe Journey of 2,000 miles in<br /> search of Caribou. Being the Account of Voyage to the<br /> Region North of Aylmer Lake. 415 pp. New York :<br /> Scribner. $2.50.<br /> THE SURGEON&#039;S Log. Being Impressions of the Far<br /> East. By J. JOHNSTON ABRAHAM. 388 pp. New<br /> York : Dutton. $2.50 n.<br /> THE LEAVES OF THE TREE; STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY.<br /> By ARTHUR C. BENSON. 154 pp. New York: Putnam.<br /> $1.50 n.<br /> THE LIFE OF JAMES MACNEILL WHISTLER. By MRS. E.<br /> ROBINS. PENNELL &amp; JOSEPH PENNELL. Phil. :<br /> Lippincott. $3.50 n.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> THE BLUE BIRD. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. By MAURICE<br /> MAETERLINCK. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA<br /> DE MATTOS. With 25 Illustrations in Colour by F.<br /> CAYLEY ROBINSON. 211 pp. New York : Dodd Mead.<br /> $1.50 n.<br /> FICTION.<br /> THE BARON&#039;S HEIR. A Sixteenth Century Romance for<br /> Young People. By ALICE WILson Fox. With Illustra-<br /> tions Designed by JOYCE BURGES. 352 pp. New York:<br /> Macmillan. $1.35 n.<br /> WHEN NO MAN PURSUETA. By M. A. BELLOC LOWNDES.<br /> 396 pp. New York : Kennerley. $1.35 n.<br /> Havoc. By E. P. OPPENHEIM. With Illustrations in<br /> Colour by HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY. 323 pp.<br /> Boston : Little Brown. $1.25 n.<br /> DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER STORIES. By H. G.<br /> WELLS. New York: Kennerley. $1.50 n.<br /> CHRISTOPHER. By RICHARD PRYCE. 364 pp. Boston :<br /> Houghton Mifflin. $1.35 n.<br /> THE MONEY MOON: A ROMANCE. By JEFFERY FARNOL.<br /> 330 pp. New York : Dodd Mead. $3.75 n.<br /> A BED OF ROSES. By W. L. GEORGE. New York.<br /> Brentanos. $1.35.<br /> LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. By FRANCES HODGSON<br /> BURNETT. Newly illustrated by REGINALD BIRCH.<br /> 246 pp. New York : Scribner. $2 n.<br /> THE COMPOSER. By AGNES &amp; EGERTON CASTLE.<br /> 289 pp. New York : Doubleday Page. $1.20.<br /> THE CASE OF RICHARD MEYNELL. By Mrs. HUMPHRY<br /> WARD. Illustrated by C. E. BROCK. 630 pp. New<br /> York : Doubleday Page. $1.35 1.<br /> LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br /> NOTES.<br /> JUVENILE.<br /> CHILDREN&#039;S STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE. By E.<br /> NESBIT. 124 pp. New York: R. Tuck &amp; Sons. $2.<br /> JOHN TEMPLE, Merchant Adventurer, Convict and Con-<br /> quistadore. By RALPH DURAND. 371 pp. New York:<br /> Macmillan. $1.25 n.<br /> MISCELLANEOUS.<br /> MORE LETTERS TO My Son. By WINIFRED JAMES.<br /> 134 pp. New York : Moffat, Yard. $1 n.<br /> FLOREAT ETONA: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton<br /> College. By RALPH NEVILL. 336 pp. New York :<br /> Macmillan. $5 n.<br /> MUSIC.<br /> STYLE IN MUSICAL ART. By Sir HUBERT PARRY.<br /> 439 pp. New York : Macmillan. $3.25 n.<br /> POST-VICTORIAN MUSIC. With other Studies and Sketches.<br /> By C. L. GRAVES. 369 pp. New York : Macmillan<br /> Co. $2 n.<br /> PoᎬᎢᎡY.<br /> PsychE. By FRANCIS COUTTS. 69 pp. New York :<br /> John Lane. $1.25 n.<br /> SCIENCE.<br /> THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. Being an Account of Experiments<br /> with certain Superheated Saline Solutions in Hermetically<br /> Sealed Vessels. With 10 Plates, containing numerous<br /> illustrations from Photo-micographs. By H. CHARLTON<br /> BASTIAN. 119 pp. New York : Putnams. $1.50 n.<br /> N January 18, after a brief illness, Miss Ida<br /> Woodward died at Bournemouth, much<br /> regretted. She had been a member of the<br /> Authors&#039; Society but for a short time, but not too<br /> short for her to have formed a high opinion of its<br /> utility. She was the writer of “ A History of<br /> Purbeck,” and of “ Five English Consorts of<br /> Foreign Princes,” published by Messrs. Methuen in<br /> 1911. The book was very favourably received, and<br /> had the honour of being included in the list of<br /> those accepted by their Majesties for reading during<br /> the voyage to India.<br /> “Where the Hedgerows End, and other Fairy<br /> Tales,&quot; by “Ishbel,&quot; has been published by Messrs.<br /> John Ouseley. There are seven stories in the<br /> volume, besides the one from which it takes its<br /> title.<br /> A second edition of “ An Englishman,&quot; by<br /> Mary L. Pendered, is to appear shortly from the<br /> house of Messrs. Mills &amp; Boon, through the courtesy<br /> of Messrs. Methuen &amp; Co., who have kindly cancelled<br /> the agreement made by them in 1899, when the<br /> novel first appeared. “In My Garden,&quot; a little<br /> anthology and memorandum book for Nature lovers,<br /> compiled by the same author and Alice Stronach in<br /> collaboration, is also to be republished by Messrs.<br /> Perkins &amp; Co., of Wellingborough ; London agents,<br /> Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall &amp; Co. This will be its<br /> third edition, making 6,000 copies. It is timed to<br /> appear at Easter.<br /> Count Plunkett, F.S.A., has been elected President<br /> of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He<br /> bas lately published. for the Dublin Museum of<br /> Science and Art, a thoroughly revised edition to<br /> Miss Stokes&#039; “ Early Christian Irt in Ireland.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 150 (#586) ############################################<br /> <br /> 150<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Mr. Vladimir Cernicoff, the Russian pianist, has subject; and some 250 authors in all are repre-<br /> included Mr. Theodore Holland&#039;s new pianoforte sented. The Anthology will appear in the Oxford<br /> pieces, “ Prelude” and “ Cradle Song,&quot; in his Editions of Standard Authors.<br /> recent tour in Germany.<br /> “ The Open Valley,&quot; a new novel by Mrs. Herbert<br /> Messrs. F. V. White &amp; Co. published, last month, A. Watson (Helen H. Watson), has been published<br /> a theatrical novel by Gertrude Warden, entitled by Messrs. Cassell &amp; Co. in February. Messrs.<br /> “ The Path of Virtue.&quot; Miss Warden has had Mills &amp; Boon are issuing early in the new year<br /> seventeen years&#039; experience of stage work in a cheap reprint of Mrs. Watson&#039;s novel “ The<br /> London, the provinces and America.<br /> Captain&#039;s Daughter.&quot;<br /> Two of Dr. Reinhardt&#039;s books are being issued We have been asked to note that the English<br /> by Stead&#039;s Publishing House, Kingsway. The Review, commencing with the January number,<br /> first is entitled “Science and the Soul,&quot; and deals 1912, will be issued at the reduced price of 1s.<br /> with a subject of universal interest. It is issued (12s. 6d. annual subscription, post free to all parts of<br /> at 2s. The other book is a new edition of Dr. the world).<br /> Reinhardt&#039;s ls, treatise, “ Diet and the Maximum Mr. George A. Birmingham has just published<br /> Duration of Life,&quot; of which upwards of ten “The Lighter Side of Irish Life,” with sixteen colour<br /> thousand copies have already been issued.<br /> illustrations by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A., at the<br /> “ Dead Men&#039;s Bells” is the title of Mr. Frederick price of 5s. net, from the house of T. X. Foulis.<br /> Niven&#039;s new book. Mr. Martin Secker is the The book is written in Mr. Birmingham&#039;s best<br /> publisher.<br /> vein, and has many good stories, but there is also a<br /> The World&#039;s Work for February contains great deal of sound information about the people,<br /> an article by Mr. H. F. Prevost Battersby on their habits and customs. The illustrations are<br /> “Tolstoy as a Schoolmaster.” The same issue con- quite first class and well reproduced.<br /> tains an article entitled “ Agricultural Education “Vagabond City,&quot; Miss Winifred Boggs&#039; new<br /> vid the Dairy,” by “ Home Counties.” It treats of book, is published by Messrs. Putnams. The action<br /> aspects of dairying and agricultural progress in the of the story takes place in the New Forest.<br /> Netherlands.<br /> The Rev. F. T. Royd&#039;s new book, “ Job and the<br /> The Poetry Review for February has an article Problem of Suffering,” published by Messrs. Wells,<br /> on The Lyric, by Darrell Figgis.<br /> Gardner &amp; Co., is designed to appeal alike to the<br /> Irene Osgood has published, through Messrs. general reader and the theological student. Special<br /> Weekes &amp; Co., four songs, entitled respectively, attention is given to interesting and difficult<br /> “I Wonder,&quot; &quot; Wood Violets,” “ The Coronation passages with the aid of the best modern Hebrew<br /> of the Pixies” and “ Petitions.”<br /> scholarships. Many parallels are quoted from<br /> “ Chaucer Redivivus” (Allen, 6d.) is a playlet by classical and modern literature, and an original<br /> Mr. Scott Durrant for the open air or hall. Its essay is included on the Problem of Suffering in<br /> appeal is to literary societies, senior schools, etc., the Light of Christianity and modern thought.<br /> and it presents, in not too archaic “Chaucerese,&quot; a Sir James Yoxall, M.P., was unanimously elected<br /> frolicsome story of the sixth wooing and marriage President of the British International Association<br /> of the Wyf of Bathe.<br /> of Journalists, at the recent annual meeting of that<br /> Mr. Scott Durrant has also an article in the body, particulars of which may be obtained from<br /> February issue of The Treasury on - The Children&#039;s the secretary, Mr. James Baker. The address of<br /> Crusade of 1212.”<br /> the Association is La Belle Sauvage, E.C.<br /> The “Literary Year Book” will, we understand, “ Henrietta Taking Notes,&quot; by Miss E. Crosby<br /> in future, be published by Mr. John Ouseley. Heath, gives the impressions of a little girl of<br /> Messrs. Chapman &amp; Hall are publishing “ The eleven, daughter of a dramatic critic, concerning<br /> Fly in the Ointment,” a first novel by Frances her family and her friends. John Lane, the<br /> Hammond. The heroine is a young girl, Theo Bodley Head, is the London publisher. There is<br /> Hope, whose fortunate circumstances are discounted a mingling of humour and pathos in the book,<br /> by the fact that from birth she is doomed to be which is also published in America, where the<br /> &quot;different.” The plot deals with the development publishers are the John Lane Co.<br /> of her character from the moment when she M r. J. Bloundelle Burton has recently published.<br /> realises her fate until, after many vicissitudes, she through Messrs. Everett &amp; Co., a novel entitled<br /> attains happiness and peace of mind.<br /> “The Right Hand.”<br /> “The Book-Lovers&#039; Anthology,&quot; edited, with Messrs. Chapman &amp; Hall have just issued the<br /> notes, by R. M. Leonard, will be issued immediately fourth volume of the two-shilling edition of the<br /> by Mr. Frowde. It consists of passages in poetry &quot; John Westacott&quot; novels. This volume is Mark<br /> and prose relating to books in all their aspects, Tillotson,” the novel that deals with the Cornish<br /> libraries, and reading, grouped according to the coast and the river scenery of the Elbe, the charac-<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 151 (#587) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 151<br /> ters being English, with the exception of the month. Messrs. John Church &amp; Co. publish the<br /> Raphaellis. The author, James Baker, is now valse.<br /> engaged upon a volume upon Austria, to be illus- Mrs. Ellis H. Chadwick has published, through<br /> trated in colour by Donald Maxwell.<br /> Messrs. Herbert and Daniel, a volume on “Mrs.<br /> Miss Regina Miriam Bloch will give a reading of Gaskell : with Selections from her Works,&quot; which<br /> her own work at the Studio Theatre, 92, Victoria has been included in the Regent Library Series<br /> Street, Westminster, S.W., on March 10, at issued by that firm.<br /> 8 p.m. She will be assisted by Mr. Julian Gade, Messrs. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons have<br /> Mrs. Norman Ma Owan (of “Monsieur Beau- published, at ls. “Mothercraft,&quot; another volume<br /> caire”), and others. The reading, which comprises from Mrs. Chadwick&#039;s pen.<br /> fantasies, stories, and poems, is under the patronage Mr. Andrew Melrose announces for immediate<br /> of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, the Hon. Lady B. publication, a volume by Mr. G. H. Perris dealing<br /> Fremantle, Mr. Israel Zangwill, and Mr. Theodore with Great Britain&#039;s foreign policy. Mr. Perris&#039;<br /> Watts-Dunton. Tickets at 23. 6d. each can be aim has been primarily to provide in this volume a<br /> obtained from Miss R. M. Bloch, at 8, John Street, record of facts, and only secondarily a discussion<br /> Adelphi, W.C.<br /> of tendencies and principles. A detailed narrative<br /> Messrs. Stanley Paul &amp; Co. have recently pub- of the Moroccan crisis of last autumn is given in<br /> lished an intimate study of the social and artistic the volume, which will be published under the title<br /> life of David Garrick, entitled “ David Garrick and of“ Our Foreign Policy and Sir Edward Grey&#039;s<br /> his French Friends,” by Dr. F. A. Hedgcock. The Failure.&quot;<br /> author deals largely with the great actor&#039;s friend- Mr. Heinemann published in February Agnes E.<br /> ships with the distinguished French men and Jacomb&#039;s new novel “ Esther.”<br /> women of his day. The dazzling society of the Mr. S. Leonard Bastin has published, through<br /> philosophic salons, and the tinsel glories of the Messrs. Cassell &amp; Co., “Wonders of Plant Life.”<br /> Comédie Française of the period are made to live It is published at 3s. 6d.<br /> again by brief portraits of Diderot, d&#039;Holbach, In “Letters to Louise on Life, Love and<br /> Borellet, Suard, Mme. Riccoboni, Mlle. Clairon, Immortality,” Madame Jean Delaire depicts much<br /> and others. Dr. Hedgcock has many stories to tell of the intellectual and emotional unrest of the<br /> of the great master of tragedy, comedy, and farce, present day, reflected in the mind of a brilliant<br /> and gives many examples of his drolleries, his witty woman of the world, who, in the form of letters<br /> sallies, and his amusing escapades. He also gives written to an old friend across the seas, reveals her<br /> a critical estimate of Garrick&#039;s histrionic achieve struggles towards truth, and a clear understanding<br /> ments.<br /> of the great world problems. Messrs. William<br /> &quot; The Three Envelopes” is the title of a new Rider &amp; Son, Ltd., are the publishers.<br /> novel from the pen of Mr. Hamilton Drummond Messrs. John Long, Ltd., have recently published<br /> which Messrs. Stanley Paul &amp; Co. have just a novel called “The Spinale,&quot; which is from the<br /> published. In this story the author breaks fresh pen of Miss Elizabeth Harden.<br /> ground-touching the weird and supernatural. It A small book by a member of the society entitled<br /> tells of one Corley, who, weary of humdrum exist- “ The Land of Shadows : or Mad as à March<br /> ence, makes the acquaintance of a strange society, Hare,&quot; and commended to Mr. Lloyd George, has<br /> “ The Society for Promoting Queer Results,” and lately appeared. Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons<br /> of the many remarkable experiences which befall are the publishers, the price is 6d. The book is a<br /> him in consequence.<br /> skit on the present Government.<br /> Messrs. Stanley Paul &amp; Co. have also published Two books by Professor Skeat have reached a<br /> &quot; Veeni the Master,&quot; a new novel by R. Fifield second edition and are now ready ; viz. “ English<br /> Lamport. The dissolution of the world Earth Dialects ” (Pitt Press); and “ The Place-names of<br /> and the reincarnation in the world Zan, and the Cambridgeshire&quot; (Cambridge Antiquarian Society).<br /> many subsequent strange events are its subject. Derek Vane is now writing a serial story for<br /> A new novel by “Rita” (Mrs. Desmond the National Press Agency, Ltd., and half a dozen<br /> Humphreys) will shortly be published by Mr. short stories for The Throne. Stories by the same<br /> Eveleigh Nash. It deals with that rather ticklish author are also shortly appearing in the ** London &quot;<br /> subject, the “Nonconformist conscience.” The title and “Novel” magazines.<br /> is “ Grim Justice.”<br /> A new edition of Mr. Sidney Heath&#039;s “Our<br /> A new song by Mr. Theodore Holland, “A Fairy Homeland Churches and How to Study Them”<br /> Tale” (words by Rowland (&#039;arse), was published will shortly be published by the Homeland Associa-<br /> last month by Messrs. Boosey &amp; Co.<br /> tion. The text has been remodelled and lengthened ;<br /> A new valse by Mr. Holland, entitled “Mirage,” the illustrations have been revised, and now include<br /> is to come out at the Albert Hall on the 6th of this a series of architectural drawings by Mr. J. R.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 152 (#588) ############################################<br /> <br /> 152<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Leathart. The new edition, which completes the Yeats&#039; Morality “ The Hour Glass,&quot; Father Adder-<br /> ninth thousand of the book, will be issued in the ley&#039;s “ Twelfth Night” Interlude “ Epiphany,&quot; and<br /> form of the “Homeland” Pocket Books at half- Lady Gregory&#039;s Miracle Play “The Travelling<br /> a-crown nett.<br /> Man” were the plays produced. The cast included<br /> 1: Mr. John Long will publish shortly a new novel Miss Edyth Latimer, Miss Margaret Halstan, Mr.<br /> from the pen of Mr. Charles Igglesden, author of William Haviland, Mr. James Hearn and Mr. W.<br /> “A Flutter with Fate,&quot; and several topographical G. Fay.<br /> works on Kent. “Clouds&quot; is the title of Mr. A one-act play “The Lady Cashier,&quot; by H. M.<br /> Igglesden&#039;s new novel, which describes the efforts Paull, was produced at the Coronet Theatre on<br /> of the son of a tradesman to raise a farmhouse girl February 5, preceding “ Baby Mine” at that<br /> to the status that he himself holds. Mr. Igglesden, theatre. A lady cashier, coming into an unexpected<br /> in the course of the story, gives the reader glimpses inheritance from an uncle abroad, leaves her employ-<br /> of historic spots in Kent.<br /> ment and proceeds to spend her inheritance on the<br /> The third volume in Messis. G. P. Putnam&#039;s Continent. It appears, subsequently, that the<br /> Mauve Library is “ The End of a Song,” by money should have gone to a nearer relative, whose<br /> Jeannette Marks. It is a simple tale of life in a death had been too hastily assumed. Meanwhile,<br /> little Welsh village, and the theme is the love the lady has become engaged to a baronet, who<br /> between the heroine (a dear old woman) and the promptly throws her over on learning the truth as<br /> hero, a baby boy.<br /> to her fortune, and the lady returns to the restaurant,<br /> Mrs. Mary Gaunt&#039;s book “ Alone in West where she confides in one of the customers, a<br /> Africa ” was published by Mr. Werner Laurie on solicitor, who promises to act for her in a breach of<br /> January 15. Mrs. Gaunt made an overland promise action, without knowing that the defendant<br /> journey along the Gold Coast, and then turned is one of his clients. The baronet consults him,<br /> inland in a canoe up the little known Voltaa river, and the two endeavour to pacify the lady, even-<br /> and thence by paths across the hilly country into tually, with success. Miss Amy Willard, Mr. E.<br /> the German territory of Togo. She visited the Spencer Geach, and Mr. Edward Leith are in the<br /> sleeping sickness camp at Mount Klutow, made piece.<br /> her way to Lome, the capital, and thence overland Sir Arthur Pinero&#039;s comedy, in four acts, “ The<br /> again to Keta, in British territory, once more. Mind the Paint&#039; Girl,&quot; was produced at the Duke<br /> She next visited Ashanti and journeyed to Sunyani, of York&#039;s Theatre on February 17. The play<br /> which now is one of the richest possessions of deals with the life, off the stage, of musical<br /> the British crown. Mrs. Gaunt&#039;s book is illus- comedy girls, as well as of their admirers. The<br /> trated with 100 plates from photographs taken by cast includes Mr. Allen Aynesworth, Mr. Nigel<br /> herself.<br /> Playfair, Miss Marie Löhr, and Miss Clare Greet.<br /> On February 23, Mr. Martin Secker published “In face of the Enemy,” by E. White, is a<br /> Mr. Laurence North&#039;s new novel “ The Golightlys, dramatic sketch in one act, and deals with an<br /> Father and Son.&quot; In this story Mr. North (Mr. episode during the war between France and<br /> J. D. Symon) has written in an entirely different Germany, just after the battle of Saarbruck. It<br /> vein from that of his former books—“Syrinx” and is published from The Booklet Press, Broadway,<br /> “ Impatient Griselda.”<br /> Amersham, Bucks.<br /> DRAMATIC<br /> Mr. John Galsworthy&#039;s new play, “ The Pigeon,&quot;<br /> was produced at the Royalty Theatre last month.<br /> “ The Pigeon” is a great-hearted artist who hates<br /> PARIS NOTES.<br /> to see a fellow-being suffer. In consequence, he<br /> befriends a flower-girl, a broken-down cabman, and<br /> an alien interpreter. His efforts towards the re- “ CYATHERINE SFORZA (1463–1509): une<br /> demption of these three “ wasters” are not, how U Héroïne de la Renaissance italienne,” is<br /> ever, successful, and the vagrancy problem of<br /> a résumé of the famous book by Pier-<br /> which they are a part remains unsolved. The Desiderio Pasolini. It is very cleverly compiled<br /> cast includes Mr. Dennis Eadie, Miss Margaret by Marc Helys, who also writes an excellent intro-<br /> Morris, Mr. Whitford Kane, and Mr. Wilfrid duction to her work. Several historians hare<br /> Shine.<br /> written accounts of this wonderful woman. One<br /> The Morality Play Society presented a triple bill of Catherine&#039;s grandsons wrote the life of Jean de<br /> ast month at the Court Theatre, when four perform Médicis, and devoted several pages of this book to<br /> ances were given of plays by W. B. Yeats, the Ilon. the exploits of his ancestress. A Spanish monk,<br /> and Rev. J. G. Adderley, and Lady Gregory: Mr. the historian Burriel, on being exiled from his<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 153 (#589) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 153<br /> country, took refuge at Forli, where he lived for departure by this talented writer. Up to the<br /> many years. He was the first to examine the present Pierre Mille is chiefly known for his clever<br /> archives relating to Catherine Sforza, so that it is psychological studies of Frenchmen in the colonies.<br /> to him we owe the first important biography of We have already drawn attention to Barnavaux<br /> this heroine. His admiration for her caused him in exile. In this new book we have a very<br /> to idealise her character and deeds to such a degree delicate and subtle pyschological study of a child.<br /> that his work does not give us a correct idea of We have the author&#039;s first conversation with Caillou,<br /> her. Towards the end of the nineteenth century a boy of five years old. From this first conversa-<br /> Count Pier-Desiderio Pasolini published a bio- tion he is able to understand something of the child&#039;s<br /> graphy of Catherine Sforza, which may be con- soul, of his character, his tastes, and his ideas.<br /> sidered as an authentic account of this celebrated As time goes on, he and Caillou find they have much<br /> Italian woman. The Pasolini family is as old as in common, and they confide in each other accord-<br /> the Sforza family, and they both came from the ingly. Pierre Mille makes the acquaintance of the<br /> same village. Count Pasolini has written many various friends of Caillou ; among others of Boulot<br /> historical works, and has exceptional opportunities and of a certain street Arab, whom they surname<br /> for examining the private archives of various Italian “La puce,&quot; and for whom they form a syndicate<br /> families. The Italian edition of Caterina Sforza is later on, in order that he may go to a convalescent<br /> in two huge volumes, and contains 1,435 documents, home. The pathos of this chapter is very touching.<br /> most of which had never before been published. Various books on the psychology of the child<br /> The work is splendidly illustrated, and is one of have been written, but none with a more true<br /> the most complete accounts in existence of the Italy intuition and such a delicate touch of humour.<br /> of that period, of the policy of its various States, “ La Renomée,” by Gaston Rageot, is a curious<br /> and of the life, intrigues and conspiracies of its and extremely complex psychological study. Lucien<br /> various Courts. The book at present is very rare, Mirar is a literary celebrity, a celebrity who makes<br /> as it is out of print, and the blocks of the illustra- copy of his various love affairs. His wife is a<br /> tions were destroyed in a fire. Marc Helys is to charming woman who had married at the age of<br /> be congratulated on the clever way in which she twenty, and whose romance had been a very brief<br /> has reduced this enormous work to a comparatively one. At the time when the story opens, she is<br /> small edition, giving us a story of real life as quite reconciled to her lot and has accepted the<br /> interesting as any novel.<br /> position of the wife of a literary celebrity. She has<br /> The titles of the chapters give an idea of some a child whom she adores, and she and her husband<br /> of the subjects touched upon : “ The Court of each live their own life.<br /> Milan,” “Catherine engaged to the Nephew of Presently a new interest comes into her &#039;existence.<br /> Sixtus IV.,&quot; &quot; Assassination of the Duke of Milan,&quot; She makes the acquaintance of a certain Antoine<br /> “Sixtus IV. and his Court,” “His Death,” Bellême. They are soon on very friendly terms<br /> “Splendour and Misery of the Court of Forli,&quot; and they discover that they have many ideas in<br /> “ Intrigues of Lorenzo de Medicis,” “ Assassination common. As time goes on the two become all in<br /> of Catherine&#039;s Husband,” “ She and her Children in all to each other, and, just as the situation is becom-<br /> the Hands of the Assassins,” “Triumph and ing difficult, Lucien Mirar dies. The lovers marry,<br /> Vengeance of Catherine,” “ Her second Marriage,&quot; and it is after their marriage that the tragedy com-<br /> “ Her third Marriage,&quot; - Catherine and the Borgia mences. After the birth of their child, the mother<br /> Family,” “ Catherine a Prisoner of War,” “ She is realises how much more her first-born son is to her.<br /> accused of an attempt to Poison the Pope,” “Her An estrangement gradually begins between the two<br /> trial,&quot; &quot; Her Liberation after fourteen months in parents, and when the younger child, feeling that<br /> Prison,” “Her Struggles and Intrigues to recover he is an unwelcome member of the family, leaves<br /> her States,&quot; “ The Education of her Youngest Son,&quot; home, the father follows him and the mother is left<br /> “ The Last Years and Death of Catherine.”<br /> with her first-born son and her memories of the<br /> The story of her youngest son is a novel in itself. past.<br /> He was the greatest warrior of his times, and is The book is well written, and the characters are<br /> known in history as “ Jean des Bandes Noires.” all very true to life and excellently portrayed.<br /> He was also called “ Foudre de Guerre,” “ le Grand Among pamphlets which should be extremely<br /> Diable,&quot; and, for the fame he brought to his country, interesting to the English at this juncture is one<br /> “ Italia.” In 1526 he was wounded while fighting, by M. Biard d&#039;Aunet (Ministre plénipotentiaire) on<br /> and died as the result of an amputation at the age “La Ligue du Libre-Echange et la Liberté com-<br /> of twenty-eight.<br /> merciale.&quot;<br /> The whole book will be found as fascinating as M. Biard d&#039;Aunet is Vice-President of this<br /> any work of fiction.<br /> League, and is a great authority on the subject on<br /> “ Caillou et Tili,” by Pierre Mille, is quite a new which he writes.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 154 (#590) ############################################<br /> <br /> 154<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> -<br /> -<br /> -<br /> - -<br /> - ----<br /> -<br /> -<br /> -<br /> The pamphlet is very clear. The author first Trarieux, taken from Balzac ; “ L&#039;Eternel Mari,&quot;<br /> explains the title of his pamphlet. He then shows a four-act play by M. M. Alfred Savoir, and F.<br /> clearly the effects of protection, and who benefits by Nozière, from Dostoïevsky ; “ La Flambée,&quot; by<br /> protection. He gives some striking examples of Mr. Henry Kistemaeckers; “Les Sauterelles,&quot; a five-<br /> protection and the maritime industries. He gives act play, by M. Emile Fabre ; “ Les Favorites,&quot;<br /> the objections raised by protectionists, and, after a a four-act play, by M. Alfred Capus ; &quot; L&#039;Amour<br /> very brief summing up, he explains fully the object en Cage,&quot; a three-act piece, by M. M. André<br /> and aim of the League over which he presides. de Lorde, Funck-Brentano and Jean Marsèle;<br /> In “ La Revue Hebdomadaire,&quot; the Marquis de “L&#039;Accord parfait,&quot; a three-act comedy by M.M.<br /> Ségur writes an interesting study of Edmond and Tristan Bernard and Michel Provins; and“ Un Bean<br /> Jules de Goncourt, and Jules Lemaître a series of Mariage,&quot; a three-act comedy by M. Sacha Guitry.<br /> articles on Chateaubriand. M. Fernand Laudet<br /> Ahys HALLARD.<br /> gives us a biographical study of Augustin Cochin,<br /> and the Abbé Augustin Sicard an extremely interest “Catherine Sforza (1463-1509)” (Perrin).<br /> ing one on the “Grandes Abbayes et Grandes<br /> “ Caillou et Tili,” (Calmann Lévy).<br /> “ La Renomée,&quot; (Calmann Lévy).<br /> Abbesses à la veille de la Révolution.”<br /> Paul Bourget writes on &quot;l&#039;Art de Sully<br /> Prud&#039;homme,&quot; and the Comtesse de Courson an<br /> article entitled “La Tragédie de Cawnpore.&quot;<br /> GRAMOPHONE RECORDS.<br /> M. Camille de Sainte Croix is giving a Shakes-<br /> peare season at the Athénée Theatre, which has<br /> MONCKTON V. TAE GRAMOPHONE Co. LTD.<br /> been placed at his service by M. Abel Deval. A<br /> performance is being given every Thursday as a M HIS was an appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice<br /> matinée until May. The season opened with a 1 Joyce in an action brought by Mr. Lionel<br /> “ Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream,” with the scenery Monckton, the well-known composer, who<br /> specially designed by M. Simas, and with an claimed the exclusive right to make or authorise the<br /> entirely fresh troupe of young actors. The plays making of gramophone sheets for the performance<br /> to be given are “ The Taming of the Shrew,&quot; of the song entitled “Moonstruck,&quot; the plaintiff<br /> &quot;The Merchant of Venice,&quot; “ The Tempest,&quot; and being the author of the words and the music.<br /> “ The Merry Wives of Windsor.”<br /> The song was first published in Feburary, 1909,<br /> M. Camille de Sainte Croix also intends to put and the performing rights were assigned to Mr.<br /> on the famous Russian piece, “Boris Godounov.&quot; George Edwardes. The defendant company, which<br /> An action has been brought against Messrs. carries on the business of manufacturers and sellers<br /> Calmann-Lévy by Messrs. Fayard. The latter of gramophones, had copied, printed, or transcribed<br /> claim that the cheap books brought out as the the song for the purpose of reproduction by means<br /> “ Nouvelle Collection Illustrée&quot; are constantly being of the company&#039;s gramophones.<br /> bought in mistake for the “Modern Bibliothèque,&quot; The plaintiff did not rely upon any statutory copy-<br /> published by Messrs. Fayard.<br /> right, but he claimed that he was entitled to a com-<br /> Messrs. Calmann-Lévy have won the case, as the mon law right of ownership in the composition, and<br /> Court holds that there is sufficient difference in the that he could prevent anyone from using the work<br /> titles of the publication and also in the names of to his detriment. Mr. Justice Joyce had held that<br /> the authors published by these two firms to make after publication no common law right existed,<br /> such mistakes unlikely.<br /> and dismissed the action.<br /> The French syndicate for the protection of intel The Master of the Rolls in his judgment said<br /> lectual property is extremely active, and has several that the appeal raised a point which had<br /> brilliant victories to announce. The Franco-Russian been so firmly settled that he was surprised<br /> Convention has been approved by the Chamber of that it had been brought before the Court. The<br /> Deputies and by the Senate. As a result of this, plaintiff was the composer of a song which had<br /> an important group of the Moscow University has been introduced into a dramatic performance, and<br /> signed a contract with the publishers, Armand he was undoubtedly entitled to the protection<br /> Colin, for the translation rights in the Russian afforded by the statutes relating to literary and<br /> language of a geological work by Professor Haug. dramatic rights. The defendants had not infringed<br /> Arrangements are now being made with a view to those statutory rights, but the plaintiff claimed that<br /> facilitating a convention with Greece, Chili and side by side with the statutory protection there<br /> other countries.<br /> existed at common law a perpetual right to restrain<br /> Among the plays that have been given this reason the defendant company from making use of the<br /> in the various theatres are the following : “Les musical ideas which the plaintiff had made public. On<br /> Brebis Perdus,&quot; a three-act piece by M. Gabriel principle he could see no justification for that view.<br /> -<br /> -<br /> -<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 155 (#591) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 155<br /> His Lordship referred to the cases dealing with stated in his evidence that he had never heard of<br /> an author&#039;s proprietary rights at common law, and the plaintiff ; but it was contended on behalf of the<br /> he quoted from the judgment of Lord Justice Far- latter that the story referred to the plaintiff as a<br /> well in Mansell v. Valley Printing Company. In vulgar person who imposed upon women, an<br /> that judgment Lord Justice Farwell said, “ Every adventurer who was in the habit of practising mean<br /> invasion of a right of property gives a cause of and petty tricks.<br /> action to the owner against the invader, whether The Lord Chief Justice, in his summing up,<br /> the invasion be intentional or not, and whether it quoted from the judgment in the “ Artemus Jones&quot;<br /> be innocent or malicious . . . . It is an incorporeal case reported in the Author (January, 1910), and<br /> right of property giving to the author the fullest pointed out that the jury must be satisfied, if they<br /> rights not only of exclusion, but also of actual found for the plaintiff, that a reader of the paper<br /> enjoyment so far as they are compatible with non- would reasonably think that what was published<br /> publication. All his rights at common law are was a libel upon a real person. The fact that the<br /> limited until publication when they cease. Before name in the story was the same as the plaintiff&#039;s<br /> publication he may keep his work unseen or did not give a right of action. It was only one<br /> unheard; he may show or recite it to his friends ; of the circumstances in the case.<br /> he may deliver his lectures to students or allow his I t may be remembered that the article in the<br /> MS. play to be acted on special terms, provided Author dealing with the &quot;Artemus Jones ”<br /> always that the use to which he puts it does not case called attention to some alarm which was<br /> amount to publication.&quot;<br /> caused by that decision among novelists and other<br /> The Court of Appeal held that both on principle writers of fiction ; and the result of the recent libel<br /> and authority the judgment of Mr. Justice Joyce action illustrates and confirms the statement, which<br /> was right, and the appeal was accordingly dismissed. was as follows:<br /> Under the new Copyright Act, of course, the law<br /> Novelists may feel some alarm lest the chance selection<br /> is altered in this respect, and provision is made for of a name for one of the characters in a novel may render<br /> musical composers with regard to the production of them liable for damages in a libel action brought by a<br /> their works by gramophones and other contrivances person whom they had no intention to defame, and whose<br /> by means of which sounds may be mechanically<br /> existence may have been unknown to them. Clearly some<br /> care is necessary in adapting names for imaginary characters,<br /> reproduced. Manufacturers are required, under<br /> but the alarm of novelists may be exaggerated. There is<br /> the Act, to pay to the owner of the copyright by a distinction between works of fiction and a newspaper<br /> way of royalties a certain percentage on the ordinary article purporting to describe an actual scene taking place<br /> retail selling price of all such contrivances sold by<br /> in real life at a seaside resort. A character in a novel is<br /> generally regarded as an imaginary person, whereas the<br /> them.<br /> mention of an individual by name in a descriptive<br /> HAROLD HARDY. narrative in a newspaper may reasonably be supposed to<br /> refer to a real person.<br /> The story in the Pall Mall Gazette was obviously<br /> fiction, and the jury very naturally took the view<br /> ACTION FOR LIBEL.<br /> that a reasonable reader would not regard it as a<br /> libel upon the plaintiff.<br /> HERO IN NEWSPAPER STORY.<br /> HAROLD HARDY.<br /> SHORT story entitled “ A Sad Affair &quot; which<br /> was published in the Pall Mall Gazette, has<br /> been the subject of a ridiculous libel action<br /> which resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The<br /> FRENCH LAW CASE.<br /> plaintiff, Mr. George Charles Flanders, a motor car<br /> engineer carrying on business at Hitchin, claimed<br /> (PUBLISHER&#039;S OBLIGATION TO PUBLISH.)<br /> damages for injury to his reputation by the pub-<br /> lication of the story, in which the name of the hero CASE of great importance to authors, or at<br /> bore the name of George Flanders.<br /> least to French authors, has been recently<br /> The incident in the story of which the plaintiff<br /> decided in Paris.<br /> complained had reference to a tea party in Hyde Park, It will be best first to mention the results of the<br /> where the hero, having invited two ladies to tea, at the decisions of the Court, the Tribunal Civil de la<br /> conclusion of the entertainment declared that he had Seine.<br /> come out without any money, and asked his guests When an author has delivered to a publisher the<br /> to pay on his behalf. They provided the money for manuscript of an historical work with a view to<br /> the tea and left their host in disgust.<br /> publication, the publisher is bound to publish the<br /> The story was purely fictitious, and the author work without delay. If, however, on the contrary,<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 156 (#592) ############################################<br /> <br /> 156<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> he permits too long a period to elapse between the publication, and won his case ; respecting which<br /> delivery of the manuscript and the publication of the Gazette des Tribunaux makes the following<br /> the work, the publisher is liable to find himself pertinent remarks :-<br /> forbidden by the author the right to publish, and When a publisher receives a work for publication<br /> to be condemned to return the manuscript.<br /> he should publish it without delay, even although<br /> Any statements which the publisher may propose no date for publication has been fixed by the<br /> to place upon the wrapper, or upon the first page author. In the case reported the author explained<br /> of the work, respecting its date of composition, and that no date had been fixed in advance ; but it did<br /> the refusal of the author to sanction the tardynot thence follow that the publisher was at liberty<br /> publication, is inoperative, and can neither take to choose the date, and could postpone the publica-<br /> the place of the performance of the contract, tion until a time when it might be prejudicial<br /> formerly made between the author and the instead of advantageous to the author. The<br /> publisher, nor prevent the injury done to the general intention of the persons concerned (which<br /> author by tardy and inopportune publication. alone has here to be considered) was evidently that<br /> The facts of the case are as follows:-<br /> the work, seeing that it was an historical work,<br /> In 1869 M. Anatole France, being then five-and should be published without delay. The publisher<br /> twenty, entered into the employ of the publishing had, therefore, violated the contract by allowing<br /> house of Lemerre, where he remained until 1878, twenty-seven years to elapse before publication.<br /> as a reader of manuscripts. He received a small When, at the end of these twenty-seven years he<br /> salary, and, in addition to his other labours, desired to publish in spite of the author&#039;s dis-<br /> prepared to order (for trifling remuneration) approval, the statements which he proposed to<br /> notices and prefaces of books. Subsequently he place upon the wrapper or on the first page, could<br /> published, with Lemerre, in 1873, Les Poèmes not prevent the injury which would be done the<br /> Dorés, and in 1876 Les Noces Corinthiennes ; author. It was therefore not in virtue of his<br /> works which attracted wide public interest. moral right alone, but in virtue of common justice,<br /> Preriously to the termination of his engagement that the author could oppose this tardy and<br /> with Lemerre he was commissioned to prepare inopportune publication. These are conclusions<br /> several works, of which one was to be a History of in accordance with justice and equity.<br /> France (in two or three volumes) up to 1789, with<br /> an additional chronological table bringing the<br /> record up to the date of publication. The manu-<br /> script of the last of the volumes of this history was<br /> MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br /> delivered to Lemerre on February 25, 1882. On<br /> more than one occasion subsequently M. Anatole<br /> POETRY REVIEW.<br /> France had disagreements with Lemerre about<br /> The Lyric. By Darrell Figgis.<br /> books, and in 1906, in the course of a corre-<br /> Notes on Poetry. By Arthur Lynch, M.P.<br /> spondence respecting difficulties that had arisen, Prologomena. By Ezra Pound.<br /> Lemerre incidentally mentioned, “I say nothing<br /> BOOK MONTHLY.<br /> about the History of France in two volumes, for<br /> In Memory of Charles Dickens. By H. T. Jenkins.<br /> which you have received 3,000 francs, and ought<br /> Dickens in Paris.<br /> to revise ; have you not yourself told me that it is<br /> FORTNIGHTLY.<br /> not publishable in the form in which you delivered<br /> Vague Thoughts on Art. By John Galsworthy.<br /> it to me?&quot; It is unnecessary here to enter into<br /> details of the arrangements ultimately made in<br /> CONTEMPORARY.<br /> 1906, and will suffice to say that they had nothing The Novels of Clara Viebig. By Florence B. Low.<br /> to do with the History of France; and that the<br /> The Supernatural in Literature.<br /> Court held that there had not been in 1896 any<br /> annulment of the original agreement regarding that<br /> SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br /> work. In 1909 Lemerre prepared to publish the<br /> History of France. M. Anatole France pointed (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br /> out that the book was now out of date, and<br /> Front Page<br /> opposed the publication. Lemerre then offered Other Pages<br /> ... ... ... ... ... 3 0 0<br /> Half of a Page ...<br /> that the work should be published with an<br /> ... I 10<br /> Quarter of &amp; Page<br /> ... O 15 0<br /> announcement to its rvaders of the date of its<br /> ...O 7 6<br /> Single Column Advertisements<br /> per inch 0 6<br /> original composition, and a statement of the author&#039;s<br /> Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent for<br /> disapproral of its publication. To this also<br /> M. Anatole France objected. He returned the<br /> All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br /> 3,000 francs, took legal proceedings to inhibit the BELMONT &amp; Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br /> Eighth of a Page<br /> Twelve Insertions.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 157 (#593) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 157<br /> HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br /> T 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&#039;s opinion without<br /> any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel&#039;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&#039; 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&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire.<br /> proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br /> confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br /> 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 /> payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br /> lars of the Society&#039;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 /> Members 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 /> must 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 1s. 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 /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,&quot;<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> rights.<br /> (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 /> with royalties are published in The Author.<br /> 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 /> TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br /> 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 tbe 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 /> ITERE 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 /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 158 (#594) ############################################<br /> <br /> 158<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 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 /> (c.) 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 /> D 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&#039;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; anu<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&#039;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&#039; stamps are kept in the Society&#039;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 /> M 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 /> CCENARIOS, 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 Secretary 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 /> Smith Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br /> letter only.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 159 (#595) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 159<br /> GENERAL NOTES.<br /> THE DRAMATIC SECTION.<br /> SOME two years ago members of the Society were<br /> invited to indicate, on a form which was despatched<br /> to them, what dramatic work (if any) they had<br /> produced. The enquiry was made in order to<br /> facilitate the preparation of a list of dramatists in<br /> the Society, with a view to their receiving com-<br /> munications relating to the work of the Dramatic<br /> Sub-Committee of the Society, and to other matters<br /> of interest to dramatists.<br /> As a result of that invitation, over 200 names<br /> were placed on the list.<br /> In order, however, that it may be kept up to<br /> date, those members who have since qualified to be<br /> entered on the Dramatic Roll of the Society are<br /> invited to advise the Secretary, accompanying their<br /> application with particulars of the dramatic work<br /> they have produced.<br /> It may be mentioned that the qualification for<br /> inclusion in the list is the public representation of a<br /> play otherwise than for copyright purposes in a<br /> place licensed for public entertainment.<br /> THE PUBLICATION OF BOOKS AND THE LIMITA-<br /> TION OF THE LICENCE<br /> THERE has been a growing tendency in past<br /> years for authors to grant to publishers the licence<br /> to publish in book form for the legal term of copy-<br /> right. . Such a licence may leave the author in a<br /> very difficult position. There should, at any rate,<br /> be a clause in the agreement by which, if the<br /> book goes out of print, the agreement should be<br /> terminated and all rights returned to the author,<br /> otherwise the author may find himself in the<br /> position of having to buy back from the publisher<br /> at the publisher&#039;s price. It is curious how a licence<br /> to publish a book, which as far as the publisher<br /> is concerned may have ceased to sell, rises in value<br /> if the author appears as purchaser : but even with a<br /> limitation of this kind the licence still remains far<br /> too wide. Especial thought must be given to the<br /> position, as the new Copyright Act will come into<br /> force shortly.<br /> Authors should be very careful to limit the<br /> licence either to a given number of editions, with<br /> power to purchase the remainder stock at remainder<br /> prices, in case the edition is not sold out within a<br /> reasonable time, or to a limited number of years.<br /> In the latter case the publisher should be restricted<br /> in the agreement from over-printing towards the<br /> end of the term of the agreement, for if some such<br /> restriction is not inserted, the publisher can make<br /> the time limit practically ineffective by over-<br /> printing the book in the last year. It has been<br /> decided in the Courts that a publisher has the<br /> right to sell any stock which remains on hand after<br /> the expiration of the term.<br /> In the case of technical works, if the licence is<br /> not limited, an author&#039;s position is hopeless.<br /> MUSICAL COMPOSERS&#039; SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> A MUSICAL Composers&#039; Sub-Committee having<br /> now been formed with a view to the consideration<br /> of matters affecting the interests of the musical<br /> composers of the society, it has been decided, in<br /> order to facilitate the working of this side of the<br /> society, to keep at the office a list of composers<br /> similar to the list of dramatists of which mention is<br /> made above.<br /> Members will assist the secretary materially in<br /> the compilation of this list if they will inform him<br /> of the publication of any musical works of which<br /> they are the composers.<br /> COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br /> THE LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br /> In another column of this issue we publish an<br /> agency agreement which has been settled by a<br /> special sub-committee and approved by the Com<br /> mittee of Management.<br /> This agency agreement has been based on an<br /> agreement settled some time ago by the Dramatic<br /> Sub-Committee, but as the marketing of dramatic<br /> and literary wares differs in some respects, so the<br /> agreement has been modified to meet the special<br /> requirements of literary agency. There has been<br /> however. but little alteration in the clauses, the<br /> main difference existing in the notes which the<br /> committee have thought fit to place before the<br /> members in order to warn them against possible<br /> dangers.<br /> In the January number of The Author a full<br /> statement was given with reference to the election<br /> of members to the Committee of Management for<br /> the current vear.<br /> The names of the committee&#039;s nominees for that<br /> election were : Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes, Mr. Hesketh<br /> Prichard, Mr. Arthur Rackham, and Dr S Savire<br /> Sprigge.<br /> OJ882<br /> February 10 was the last day on which the<br /> names of nominees could be received, and as no<br /> nominees were put forward by the members, the<br /> nominees of the committee are elected without<br /> opposition.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 160 (#596) ############################################<br /> <br /> 160<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> A REMARKABLE AGREEMENT. the author&#039;s next three new novels, suitable for publication<br /> in 68. volume form, and if the publisher accepts all or any<br /> of them, he agrees to pay to the author and the author agrees<br /> to accept the following royalties.<br /> M HE Committee of the Society of Authors desire (a) A royalty of 15 per cent. of the nominal published<br /> 1 to draw attention to the document printed<br /> price on all copies sold of the English 68. edition, after the<br /> sale of the first 750 copies of this particular 68. edition.<br /> below :-<br /> (b) A royalty of 71 per cent. of the nominal published<br /> MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this twelfth day price on all copies sold of any cheaper edition or editions.<br /> of May one thousand nine hundred and nine between<br /> (c) A royalty of 50 per cent, of the net profits derived<br /> hereinafter termed the author of the one part and John from the sale of the American copyright (if any).<br /> Long of 12, 13 and 14 Norris Street, Haymarket, in the (d) A royalty of 50 per cent. of the net profits derivel<br /> County of London hereinafter termed the publisher, of the from the sale of the Foreign rights (if any).<br /> other part, whereby it is mutually agreed between the 11. The said three novels to be submitted to the publisher<br /> parties hereto for themselves and their respective executors shall be submitted one at a time, and only after the<br /> administrators and assigns (or successors as the case may publication of the one previously accepted.<br /> be) as follows:-<br /> 12. The whole of the previous clauses in this agreement<br /> 1. The publisher shall at his own expense produce and (except in respect of royalties) shall be deemed to apply to<br /> publish the work written by the author and at present<br /> the three new novels, as well as to the novel mentioned in<br /> entitled &quot;<br /> the first part of the agreement.<br /> 2. The publisher shall bave the exclusive right of pro 13. In the event of any copies of any of the novels pro-<br /> ducing and publishing the work throughout the world. vided for in this agreement, being sold as a remainder, that<br /> The publisher shall have the entire control of the produc is, when the demand for any such work has ceased, a<br /> tion and publication and sale and terms of sale of the work<br /> royalty shall be paid to the author, on any copies thus sold,<br /> and the author shall not during the continuance of this of two and a half per cent. (24%) of the net sum receivel.<br /> agreement (without the written consent of the publisher) As witness the hands of the said parties<br /> publish any abridgment translation or dramatised version of<br /> John LONG,<br /> the work.<br /> Witness : W.H.<br /> 3. All copies sold of the said work within twelve months<br /> 12, 13, 14, Norris Street, Haymarket, S.W.<br /> of the date of publication shall carry no royalty to the<br /> There are in the bands of the society a good<br /> author, but on all copies sold, after the expiration of the first<br /> twelve months after publication, the publisher agrees to<br /> many agreements between authors and Mr. John<br /> pay to the author and the author agrees to accept a royalty Long, and it would be instructive, perhaps, to print<br /> of i5 per cent. of the nominal published price on sales of the them all. To do this, however, would take up a<br /> 6s. edition, and a royalty of 71 per cent. of the nominal<br /> great deal of space, though it may yet be con-<br /> published price on the sales of any cheaper edition or<br /> editions.<br /> sidered necessary. To print abstracts of these<br /> 4. No royalties shall be paid on any copies given away agreements would not answer the same purpose, as<br /> for review or other purposes in the interests of the work. it might be thought by the suspicious that there<br /> 5. Account sales shall be made up half-yearly at June<br /> were other clauses in the documents which had been<br /> thirtieth and December thirty-first and delivered and<br /> settled within five months of those dates. In making up<br /> suppressed and which would have put another com-<br /> accounts, thirteen copies shall be reckoned as twelve, in plexion on the arguments. It has been decided,<br /> accordance with trade usage.<br /> therefore, that one agreement should be clearly set<br /> 6. The publisher shall undertake the expenses of the<br /> before the readers of The Author, with some hints<br /> author&#039;s proof corrections to the extent of £3 (three<br /> pounds), but should such expenses exceed this amount, the<br /> as to the probable difficulties that may arise out of<br /> author shall refund such excess to the publisher.<br /> it.<br /> 7. If any difference shall arise between the author and<br /> COMMENTS ON THE AGREEMENT.<br /> the publisher touching the meaning of this agreement or<br /> the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same<br /> With regard to Clause 1 there is nothing to be<br /> shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons, (one to said.<br /> be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance In Clause 2 it is inadvisable that the publisher<br /> with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889.<br /> should have the exclusive right of producing the<br /> 8. The term “ Publisher&quot; through out this agreement shall<br /> be deemed to include the person or company for the time<br /> work throughout the world, or for the whole term<br /> being carrying on the business of the said John Long under of copyright. His right should be limited to the<br /> as well its present as any future style and the benefit of this exclusive licence to publish the work in book form<br /> agreement shall be transmissible accordingly.<br /> 9. The author guarantees to the publisher that the said<br /> at the price of 68. (the book being a novel) in the<br /> work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing<br /> United Kingdom, in the English language, for a<br /> copyright and that it contains nothing of a libellous or period of, at most, five years certain. If any<br /> scandalous character and that he will indemnify the pub- other rights are given, such as the right of pub-<br /> lisher from all suits, claims, and proceedings, damages and<br /> costs which may be made, taken or incurred by or against<br /> lishing in cheap book form, then they should be<br /> him on the ground that the said work is an infringement guarded and made the subject of future con-<br /> of copyright or contains anything libellous or scandalous. ditions. The publisher should, of course, undertake<br /> 10. That in consideration of the publisher undertaking to produce the work on or before a certain date.<br /> the entire risk of publishing the work herein before men-<br /> This is of the first importance to an author.<br /> tioned, the author agrees to give the publisher the first refusal<br /> from (sic) one month from date of delivery of the manu-<br /> The latter part of this clause should be care-<br /> script of the exclusive right of producing and publishing fully observed. An author reading this might<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 161 (#597) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 161<br /> .:•.<br /> think, “Well, I have only to write to the publisher<br /> To country reviews.<br /> explaining the situation, should I get an offer for<br /> „, colonial . . . 48<br /> the translation rights, or otherwise, and he will<br /> ,, special ,<br /> give his consent.&quot; This supposition would be<br /> ,, travellers&#039; samples<br /> entirely wrong. As a general rule, the author<br /> .. Stock on hand . . 91<br /> would find that if an offer was made him for the<br /> Leaving sold as under-<br /> translation rights and he applied to the publisher,<br /> 13 copies counting as 12 . 1,234<br /> the publisher would answer, “I could not possibly Sales 1,149 home edition<br /> allow you to publish a translation unless you give<br /> 85 colonial edition<br /> me 50 per cent. of the profits,&quot; which, judging by Sales from Jan. 3, 1910 to Jan. 2, 1911–<br /> Clause 10, is the course Mr. Long would take.<br /> 1,146 home edition)<br /> Clause 3 contains, however, the most serious<br /> 85 colonial editionſ bearing no royalty..<br /> part of the agreement. All publishers assert that Royalty 15 per cent. on 3 copies home edition, 28. 8d..<br /> the largest sales of a novel occur either on subscrip- The sales in the first year were sufficient to com-<br /> tion before publication, or within the first four pensate the publisher amply for the cost of pro-<br /> months after publication. Most publishers will duction ; he should have put a good profit into his<br /> inform an author that a book is dead at the end of own pocket. In the first six months, after becom-<br /> six months, and all publishers will inform an ing entitled to royalties, the author obtained a total<br /> author that the ordinary novel is dead at the end of remuneration of 2s. 8d, upon a 6s. book of which.<br /> twelve months, unless for some special reason- over 1,200 copies were sold.<br /> and it would be safe to say this does not occur once Clause 4 can pass without comment.<br /> out of 500 times—a book owes some larger With regard to Clause 5, articles have been<br /> vitality to the position of the author or to the written in The Author on the question of thirteen<br /> occurrence of some unforeseen circumstance, copies counting as twelve, to which readers are<br /> Therefore, the effect of a clause in an agreement referred. It means that the author is to allow the<br /> depriving the author of all royalties for the first publisher 8 per cent. discount on the royalties on<br /> year after publication would be to give the publisher all copies sold, though the publisher allows this<br /> the book for nothing, except in a minority of cases. discount to purchasers only when they purchase in<br /> If the author desires to give the publisher his work quantities of a dozen and upwards.<br /> for nothing, there is nothing to prevent him from In Clause 6 the amount allowed for correction is<br /> doing so ; but in that case he should execute a deed not very generous, but in these days of typewritten<br /> of gift. A publisher is not bound to explain the effect copies a margin of £3 may be sufficient.<br /> of an agreement to the author, however ignorant the Clause 7. Strong objection must be taken to.<br /> author may be of the present, possibly a handsome this clause. Arbitration is a very unsatisfactory<br /> one, that he is being asked to make. Moreover, method of dealing with a legal contract. It<br /> under such a clause, the publisher&#039;s and the author&#039;s is cumbersome and expensive. The greatest<br /> interests are not the same. In these days of rush objection of all is that a publisher aroids the pub-<br /> and hurry it occurs in the publishing business, just licity which is the main safeguard of the author<br /> as in any other business, that publishers want to and the publisher alike where either party has<br /> put novelties on the market-the output during the broken his contract or attempted to take unfair<br /> last two or three years sufficiently proves this fact. advantage of the other.<br /> In consequence, it would be quite likely to pay the Clause 8 is also unsatisfactory. An author<br /> publisher better to push a new work into circula- should agree to this clause only when he is con-<br /> tion than to use his efforts in keeping alive one vinced that no change could possibly be for the<br /> against wbich time was fighting. Save in the case worse, in which case it would be still better not<br /> of a very great success, it would pay him to drop to sign at all.<br /> the older book in order to make the way clear for Clause 9 is too wide in its scope. It is no doubt<br /> other publications. The appended statement of fair that if an author causes a publisher to publish<br /> account from Mr. John Long under the above in all innocence as a fiction what is really a libel on<br /> agreement tells its own story :-.<br /> an actual person, the author and not the publisher<br /> should suffer ; but both as to libel and obscenity,<br /> July 1st, 1911. Statement of sales to June 30th,<br /> sedition, or blasphemy, the publisher cannot con-<br /> 1911-<br /> tract out of such responsibilities even if the author<br /> Jan. 1910. By number of copies printed . 1,500 consents to the attempt. In any case where<br /> To author .<br /> damages and costs may be incurred by the pub-<br /> ,, presentation .<br /> lisher at the author&#039;s expense, the author should<br /> „, public libraries . 5<br /> have some control over the amount spent in the<br /> „ town reviews . . 63<br /> necessary defence.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 162 (#598) ############################################<br /> <br /> 162<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Clause 10 is a clause against which authors Publishing enterprise, especially in the case of<br /> cannot be warned too strongly. It is fatal for an novels by beginners, doubtless contains a specu-<br /> author to bind himself to a publisher at fixed rateslative element, but up to an edition of 1,500<br /> for subsequent works, for it is impossible to tell copies, no novel which a publisher of any judg-<br /> until the accounts of one book come in whether ment would handle at his own expense runs<br /> the terms for later works are fair or not. Under any serious risk of being left on his hands a<br /> this agreement supposing the author&#039;s second complete failure. He should be able to push it<br /> book did not reach a sale of 750, no royalties through mechanically to that extent, if no further.<br /> would be paid ; if the second book was as It is therefore only beyond this point that the<br /> successful as the first, the author would receive transaction becomes speculative; and yet it is<br /> about £20, having made 2s. 8d. on the first book. practically to this point that Mr. Long asks his<br /> With regard to other headings of this clause, the clients to postpone any interest in their books.<br /> publisher should only have the right of publication We do not question Mr. John Long&#039;s right to<br /> in book form at certain prices, and the date of propose the above terms, or any others that may<br /> publication should be rigidly fixed ; he should not occur to him, to authors, who must learn to take<br /> take 50 per cent. profits on any of the rights out- care of themselves in business as other people do,<br /> side, whether they are American rights or foreign but we may say that those who accept such terms<br /> rights. If any of the outside rights are negotiated are unquestionably guilty of unprofessional con-<br /> for by the publisher under a contract approved and duct, because they are accepting terms which would<br /> signed by the author, then the publisher should take make it impossible for most novelists to live by<br /> the agency charge of 10 per cent. and no more. their profession. Further, the practice of other<br /> But with even the utmost correction in the author&#039;s publishers shows that no capable man of letters<br /> favour that the nature of the clause admits of, the need submit to such contracts; they are entered<br /> Society of Authors would still advise its members into by authors through ignorance, weakness, or<br /> not to agree to it. If a publisher cannot retain lack of professional conscience.<br /> his clients by satisfying them that they cannot do<br /> better elsewhere, he must be prepared to see them<br /> AN AGREEMENT FOR TEN NOVELS.<br /> go elsewhere.<br /> The criticism on Clauses 11 and 12 follows from A second agreement, this time between John<br /> that on Clause 10. It may be pointed out that no Long, Ltd., and an author, needs some comment.<br /> dates for publication being named in Clause 10, the It contains as many faults as the first, but in<br /> production of the subsequent novels might be a slightly different form. It is not all printed<br /> indefinitely delayed; when, as they are to be the here, but any member who desires to have further<br /> author&#039;s “ next three novels,&quot; the position might be information upon it can, on applying to the<br /> reached that the author could earn nothing at all! Secretary, be given the fullest details, by the<br /> With regard to Clause 13, no publisher should be permission of the author.<br /> allowed to “remainder&quot; a book within three years Here the author binds himself to the publisher<br /> from the date of first publication. It should be for nine subsequent novels (making ten in all),<br /> distinctly set forth in the agremeent that, when a and agrees not to write any novels for, nor to<br /> book has been “remaindered,&quot; or is out of print and offer any novels for publication to any other<br /> off the market, the agreement should be cancelled publisher than Long during the term of his agree-<br /> and the licences for publication in book form, or ment. As the novels have to be handed in to<br /> otherwise, should be returned to the author.<br /> the publisher each succeeding nine months from<br /> To sum up, this is an agreement under which the date of the agreement, this means that for<br /> the author would be working for an indefinite time nearly seven years the author is bound to Mr. Long.<br /> for a pittance. He receives nothing, in the Again, whilst Mr. Long can determine the agree-<br /> instance given above, on the first 1,000 copies of ment after the publication of the first two books if<br /> the first book. He might expect to get some they do not prove a financial success for him, the<br /> thing later, but his second book is put on the author has no such right. The author is absolutely<br /> market, and the energies of the publisher may be bound at Mr. Long&#039;s option for nearly seven years,<br /> switched off to the sale of this, inasmuch as the although he has no guarantee that John Long,<br /> first 750 copies of this book bear no royalties. Ltd., will maintain their position in the pub-<br /> The third book and the fourth book might receive lishing world during that time.<br /> the same treatment. There is no reason why the Mr. Long does not merely take the right of<br /> author who has signed this agreement should ever publication in book form, but the exclusive right of<br /> receive more than 2s. 8d. each for four books! There publishing throughout the world. The terms for all<br /> is no reason why the publisher, who can publish the novels are the same. If the books are published<br /> when he likes, should ever owe or pay any royalties. at 6s. the author is not to receive any royalty on any<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 163 (#599) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 163<br /> of them till after the sale of 900 copies, and then he The publisher would be getting, having been<br /> receives 2ů, in the shilling on the published price. paid or overpaid for the whole cost of production<br /> If the books are published at a lower price than 6s. and advertisements, half what the author receives,<br /> the author receives no royalty on the first 1,500 who has paid or overpaid the whole of the bill as<br /> copies, and afterwards 10 per cent. on the published well as created the wares to be sold. To state,<br /> price. The sale of 900 copies of a 6s. book however, that a 6s. book sells right through at half<br /> gives to the publisher a reasonable balance after price is by no means a correct statement, 3s, 2d.<br /> paying for the cost of production and advertise- to 38. 4d. is the average price.<br /> ments, so that when this number has been arrived<br /> at there is no further necessity for the publisher to<br /> push the book, if he thinks he can do better by<br /> exerting himself elsewhere. But if there is a<br /> success, some 60 per cent. of the later profits go to A LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br /> the publisher. And nine consecutive books are to<br /> be published on these terms.<br /> Further, Mr. Long offers 2d. per copy on all the A Sub-Committee of the Committee of Manage-<br /> Colonial sales and 15s. per 1,000 on all sales of the ment of the Society of Authors has had under<br /> sixpenny edition. With regard to the other proceeds consideration the principles which should be<br /> he claims, as before, 50 per cent. He inserts, as observed in drawing up a fair agreement between<br /> we have said, a clause allowing him to repudiate an author and a literary agent; it will be seen<br /> the agreement in case the first two novels are not a at once that the proposed agreement is closely<br /> financial success, but the author might see all his upon the lines of the dramatic agency agreement,<br /> ten books have a sale of 1,000 copies each and not which has been found by dramatic authors to<br /> be more than £50 in pocket as the total result of meet many difficulties hitherto encountered by<br /> seven years&#039; work with a total sale of 10,000 copies. them.<br /> The Committee desire to impress upon authors<br /> THE AUTHOR PAYS.<br /> that it is advisable that they should consult the<br /> Authors&#039; Society before entrusting their business<br /> In another proposal from John Long, Ltd. to an agent. There are good agents who are in<br /> we have a variant of no greater promise to the every way desirous of furthering the interests of<br /> author. The author pays £175-£100 on the their clients; but it must not be forgotten that per-<br /> signing of the agreement, which is to be spent in<br /> sons with no qualification whatever or no financial<br /> advertisement, £50 when the work is set up in stability may style themselves agents. In all<br /> type, and £25 from the author&#039;s share of sales. cases enquiries should be made of the Society<br /> He then transfers all the American, foreign, and<br /> which is in possession of information that will<br /> serial rights to tbe publisher on a 50 per cent. enable authors to form an accurate estimate of<br /> basis. He receives 15. 9d. per copy on the English an agent&#039;s status and capacity.<br /> 68. edition up to 3,000 copies, and thereafter MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this day<br /> 1s. 3d. a copy. The publisher wants all his next of One Thousand Nine Hundred and<br /> six novels on fixed terms, and in other matters Between (hereinafter called “The Author &quot;) of<br /> the provisions are the same as shown in the the one part and (hereinafter called “The<br /> clauses of the agreement printed in full.<br /> Agent”) of the other part WHEREBY IT IS AGREED<br /> In another agreement Mr. Long, or rather AS FOLLOWS :-<br /> John Long, Ltd., produces the book on the pay-<br /> 1. The author hereby appoints his sole agent<br /> ment to himself of £250, but he undertakes<br /> to advertise to the extent of £100.<br /> for the term of twelve months from the date of the<br /> This<br /> signing of this agreement for the sale of any of the<br /> leaves him £150 for the cost of production<br /> only, as no further advertising is likely to be<br /> rights whatsoever and wheresoever, in all the literary<br /> work that he desires to bring to market during the<br /> needed. Therefore he starts with all his cost of<br /> continuance of this agreement, subject to the condi-<br /> production covered and most probably with a sum<br /> tions hereinafter mentioned.<br /> of £50 or so in his pocket, as there is no stipulation<br /> as to the number of copies to be printed. The<br /> NOTE.—This clause is perhaps the most important clause<br /> in the agreement.<br /> author gets 28. a copy royalty on a 6s. book up to<br /> In regard to the time limit of twelve months, the<br /> 4,000 copies, after which the royalty is ls. 6d. Committee would draw the attention of authors to the<br /> Taking the higher figure, the author receives 331 following points :--That whereas it is unfair that an agent<br /> per cent. of the published price. By the publisher&#039;s<br /> should have all the trouble of working up a connection for<br /> an author, who could then terminate the agreement and<br /> own calculations in a letter which lies before us,<br /> nes before us, take advantage of the agent&#039;s work, it is equally unfair to<br /> the nett selling price of a 6s. book is usually 3s. the author to be bound to an agent for a long period if the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 164 (#600) ############################################<br /> <br /> 164<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> agent, for one reason or another, is unsuccessful in placing tract amounts to £ , and such commission shall<br /> the author&#039;s work, or appears to the author antagonistic to<br /> be the sole remuneration of the agent, and he sball<br /> his best interests. In some cases, therefore, the term of<br /> not have any claim<br /> twelve months might be an undesirable limit for the author,<br /> against the author for any<br /> whereas a term of less than twelve months might be an expenses incurred by him in the course of his agency<br /> undesirable limit for the agent. Authors, when entering under this agreement.<br /> into these contracts, will have to consider, therefore, what<br /> NOTE.--In regard to this clause the Committee wonld<br /> time limit should be inserted.<br /> If the author desires to reserve certain markets, these<br /> make the following remarks :- Where under any contract<br /> markets should be reserved in this clause. It often<br /> running through the years of copyright the agent&#039;s com-<br /> happens that an author has been dealing with an editor<br /> mission is likely to run into high figures, the agent&#039;s<br /> remuneration should be limited, as suggested in this clause.<br /> or publisher direct under amicable arrangements, and it is,<br /> therefore, much more convenient and much more profit-<br /> to a sum to be arranged between author and agent. It<br /> able to the author to continue these negotiations with<br /> may, however, be of importance to an author that the<br /> future work; but, in doing so, the author should be care-<br /> agent should continue to collect the moneys, and in that<br /> ful, supposing he is negotiating with a publisher for a book<br /> case when the limit has been reached, the Committee con-<br /> in a reserved market, that he is not giving the publisher<br /> sider that 5 per cent. shonld be charged for such collection.<br /> control over any rights in the same work which are in the<br /> 5. Should the agent fail in any instance to carry<br /> agent&#039;s hands; the same advice applies to the author<br /> negotiating with an editor. The Committee consider that,<br /> out the provisions of the foregoing clause, this<br /> as a rule, it is advisable, subject to the limitations the agreement, so far as it deals with the agent&#039;s right<br /> author might specially desire to make, that the agent should to collect the moneys due, shall be at an end, and<br /> have control of all the author&#039;s literary output during the<br /> the agent as and from the date of such failure and<br /> continuance of the agency; otherwise the author and the<br /> agent may come into con tict in the same markets, and the default shall not be entitled to claim or deduct any<br /> author may not only lose his price but also his chance of a further sum by way of commission.<br /> bargain.<br /> 6. Should the agent or any member of the<br /> 2. The agent undertakes to use his best endea- agent&#039;s firm during the continuance of this agree-<br /> vours to obtain the fullest market in all conntries ment die or become bankrupt or enter into any<br /> and in all forms, and undertakes to furnish the arrangement with his creditors, then in that case<br /> author, as and when requested, with full informa- the author shall be at liberty forth with by notice<br /> tion as to his efforts to give effect to this clause, in writing to terminate this agreement.<br /> and the author shall not himself, during the continu NOTE.--Every contract with an agent must involve close<br /> ance of this agreement, enter into any contract personal relations ; therefore, in the event of an agent<br /> without the knowledge of the agent.<br /> having no partner, or a partner with whom the author had<br /> not transacted business, the contract should determine by<br /> 3. The agent shall not enter into agreements on<br /> the death of that party with whom the author has had<br /> behalf of the author or in any way bind the author,<br /> dealings.<br /> but undertakes to submit to him any offer or agree-<br /> 7. At the end of such period as may be decided<br /> ment which he may succeed in obtaining as agent in Clause I. hereof, either party to this agreement<br /> for the author, and no agreement shall be binding may terminate the same by three months&#039; notice in<br /> on the author without his signature. Should the writing.<br /> agent violate this clause, then any agreement so 8. Upon the termination of this agreement by<br /> entered into by the agent shall be pull and void, time or from any of the causes set forth therein,<br /> and this agreement may forth with be terminated by save as set forth under Clause 5, when the special<br /> notice in writing, without prejudice to the author&#039;s arrangements as in that clause set forth shall pre-<br /> right to bring an action for damages or otherwise, vail, the agent shall have no claim whatever upon<br /> and on receipt of such notice, the agent&#039;s right for the author for any commission except in respect<br /> negotiating as agent for the author shall be at an<br /> of contracts signed by the author prior to such<br /> end.<br /> termination.<br /> 4. The agent is hereby authorised to collect the NOTE.-- In the question of an agency agreement the<br /> moneys due to the author on any contract signed by<br /> author should be especially advised against the insertion of<br /> a clause in any agreement entered into between author and<br /> the author and negotiated by the agent during the<br /> publisher, whereby the agent is authorised by the parties to<br /> continuance of this agreement, and shall deliver all the agreement to collect moneys and settle accounts on<br /> moneys as and when received by him in respect of behalf of the author. The clause generally runs in the<br /> such contract, together with all documents, accounts,<br /> following form :- -<br /> &quot;The author hereby empowers his agent to collect<br /> etc., relating thereto, within two weeks of the receipt<br /> and receive all sums of money payable to the author<br /> of the same, and shall bave the right of deductiny a under the term of this agreement and declares that<br /> commission of 10 per cent. from such sums as the agent&#039;s receipt shall be good and valid discharge<br /> accrue under any contracts arranged by him, and<br /> to all persons paying such sums to them. The author<br /> hereby authorises and empowers the publishers to treat<br /> signed by the author during the continuance of this<br /> with his agents on his behalf in all matters concerning<br /> agreement till the total commission on any such con this agreement in any way whatsoever.&#039;<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 165 (#601) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 165<br /> Sometimes the terms are more stringent, sometimes a<br /> little less stringent, but in no case should the clause be<br /> allowed except under some modification as suggested<br /> below. Members are referred to an article that appeared<br /> in the November (1906) number of The Author bearing on<br /> the subject.<br /> In no case should the words from “ The Author&quot; down<br /> to &quot;in any way whatsoever&quot; be allowed to stand, for this<br /> reason if for no other. If any dispute arose between the<br /> author and the publisher, and it became necessary to put<br /> the matter into the hands of a lawyer or the Society of<br /> Authors, endless confusion and circumlocution would<br /> result, owing to the fact that all the matters would have to<br /> pass first through the hands of the agent.<br /> In regard to the first part of the clause, the Committee<br /> consider that the extreme danger mentioned might be<br /> avoided by adding, after the words &quot; such sums to them,”.<br /> the words &quot; provided, however, that the termination of this<br /> authority is to be governed by clauses contained in the<br /> contract dated day of and at present existing<br /> between the author and the agent.&quot;<br /> If the clause unaltered is admitted into the agreement<br /> between author and publisher, it is possible that all the<br /> precautions taken in the Agency Agreement may be nulli-<br /> fied. It cannot, therefore, be too strongly impressed upon<br /> the author how important it is that this clause should not<br /> be allowed to stand in the agreement between the author<br /> and publisher, and thus become irrevocable. The danger<br /> is increased ten-fold when, as in many modern agreements<br /> settled by agents, the author is bound to the publisher for<br /> future books. He then becomes similarly bound to the<br /> agent under this clause.<br /> THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AUTHORS,<br /> COMPOSERS AND MUSIC PUBLISHERS.<br /> of his own property, with the exception of the right<br /> of stating. whether or not he forbids the adapta-<br /> tion of his work to mechanical instruments, and (2)<br /> whether or not he forbids cuts and alterations, and<br /> that after all the expenses of collecting the fees have<br /> been covered, he is to give one-third to the publisher.<br /> It may be difficult to gauge what will be needed to<br /> cover expenses, but if the Board of Trade&#039;s rules<br /> for the payment of royalty under the gramophone<br /> clauses are sound and reliable, there ought to be<br /> little need of a society of this kind, and the<br /> composer ought to be able to collect his own fees<br /> and guard his own interests without much<br /> difficulty.<br /> That the music publishers are entirely in favour<br /> of obtaining one-third of what is the property of<br /> the composers, without any special labour and<br /> without any raluable consideration, is quite clear in<br /> the fact that seventeen music publishing firms<br /> have already subscribed the rules, and have shown<br /> their readiness to support this society, which<br /> conveys to them one-third of the fees. On the<br /> circular sent round there is not the name of one<br /> composer or one author. For many years the<br /> Society of Authors has been inveighing against<br /> the demands that music publishers have made upon<br /> composers to obtain the control of both their<br /> performing rights and their publishing rights, and<br /> it is not surprising, therefore, to see the suggestions<br /> set out in the rules and objects of the British Society<br /> of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. It<br /> would be as well also if this newly formed society<br /> took steps to change its name, not only to prevent<br /> confusion with other societies already established,<br /> but in order to give the public a better idea of its<br /> purposes and of the persons who are going to benefit<br /> by its formation. It is submitted, that it would<br /> be much better to have called it the Society<br /> of Music Publishers. The authors and composers<br /> could be added in small letters afterwards.<br /> Certain composers have, in their timidity,<br /> suggested that it is necessary to belong to this<br /> society, kept by and controlled by music pul)-<br /> lishers, as otherwise they will refuse to publish<br /> their works, but it should be pointed out (1) that<br /> there are still some well-known publishers whose<br /> names are not printed on the document, and (2) that<br /> no point was ever gained by timidity and cowardice.<br /> Now is the real moment for the composers to gather<br /> together and to take strong steps to establish a sound<br /> control over their own property. Already in the past<br /> year one or two publishers have come forward with the<br /> view of treating composers on more equitable lines,<br /> and when composers realise the strength of united<br /> force, they will not only be able to resist the absurd<br /> demands which have in the past been made upon<br /> them, but they will be able to resist the demands<br /> that they should join a society whose organisation<br /> NYERTAIX music publishing houses have been<br /> u circularising the composers for whom they<br /> publish with papers referring to the British<br /> Society of Authors, Composers and Music Pub-<br /> lishers, setting forward the objects with which the<br /> society is founded, and the rules by which it is<br /> proposed the society should be controlled.<br /> The objects for which the society is founded are,<br /> to gain control over all the rights of the composers<br /> in the mechanical reproductions of their works<br /> under the Copyright Act of 1911; to maintain<br /> those rights against all pirates and infringers, and<br /> to collect the fees due to the composers from those<br /> rights. It seems a curious thing that the pub-<br /> lishers who have no interests in those rights, should<br /> be so anxious to see the composers so well and<br /> strongly protected, for it is quite clear from the<br /> Act of 1911 that not only has the composer<br /> absolute control after the Act comes into force, but<br /> also that he has control, in spite of any assign-<br /> ment of his copyright prior to the passing of the<br /> Act ; the reason, however, is not far to seek after<br /> a further perusal of the new society&#039;s objects and<br /> rules, for it would appear that when the composer<br /> has joined it he is bound for a period of five<br /> years ; that he loses all control orer the governance<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 166 (#602) ############################################<br /> <br /> 166<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> compels them to hand over to the music publishers<br /> one-third of those fees which are their own.<br /> In order that it may be quite clear that the<br /> society shall be managed on these inequitable<br /> principles, the committee is to consist of six com-<br /> posers and authors and six publishers. As the<br /> property which is to be controlled belongs, as far as<br /> as<br /> the music is concerned, entirely to the composers,<br /> and as far as the words are concerned-after all a<br /> small point, except in the case of songs—entirely<br /> to the authors, there seems to be no reason why the<br /> publishers should be on the committee at all.<br /> Indeed, such a society might have been very valu-<br /> able for both authors and composers, if the music<br /> publishers had been dropped out entirely, and there<br /> is no reason why such a society should not be<br /> formed by which the composers should control their<br /> own rights with regard to mechanical reproduc-<br /> uon and manage their own collection 01 Tees, paymg<br /> their own expenses, without being bound to give<br /> one-third to the music publishers. There is no<br /> reason why the music publishers should not have<br /> formed the society on this basis.<br /> It is a well-known axiom that the Government<br /> has the privilege to tax one class for the benefit of<br /> another, but we have never known this right to<br /> exist independently of Government authority until<br /> the rules and objects of the British Society of<br /> Authors, Composers and Music Publishers were laid<br /> before us.<br /> Sect. 5 of the Copyright Act of 1911, sub-sect. I,<br /> says:<br /> * The author of the work shall be the first owner of the<br /> copyright therein;&quot;<br /> and sect. 1, sub-sect. 2 (d) defines copyright in a musical<br /> work as the sole right<br /> &quot; to make any record perforated roll or other contrivance<br /> by means of which the work may be mechanically per-<br /> formed or delivered and to authorise any such acts as<br /> aforesaid.&quot;<br /> Sect. 19, sub-sect. 7 (c) specially confirms these rights to<br /> composers in their works mechanically reproduced before<br /> the Act in spite of any assignment made before the passing<br /> of the Act.<br /> Sufficient cause has been shown for warning composers<br /> against joining a Society founded on such a &quot;basic moral<br /> principle,&quot; and we trust that no composer will sign the<br /> documents submitted to him without consulting with the<br /> Society of Authors and its Committee of Composers.<br /> The new Society by assuming the title of the British<br /> Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers, may<br /> possibly lead to confusion between it and the Society of<br /> Authors; the title should be altered to the Society of<br /> Music Publishers, Composers and Authors.<br /> I am, Sir, yours faithfully,<br /> G. HERBERT THRING,<br /> Secretary, The Incorporated Society of Authors.<br /> COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS.<br /> TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.<br /> SIR, -Mr. Herbert Thring&#039;s letter appearing in your<br /> issue of this morning, in which he claims that composers<br /> should fly to the Society of Authors for protection and not<br /> be misled by publishers on the question of their rights in<br /> mechanical instrument records, omits to note one or two<br /> vital facts.<br /> Although the new Act very properly gives to authors and<br /> composers an exclusive right in the new form of artistic<br /> property created, it has never been in «lispute that the sale<br /> of mechanical instrument records gravely prejudices the<br /> sale of printed copies of music, and by so doing directly<br /> affects the profit the publisher is entitled to make by<br /> reascn of his enterprise and the outlay of his capital. In<br /> no circumstances are gramophone records made of works<br /> until the publisher has first discovered them and spent<br /> money on making them popular. And are these efforts to<br /> count for nothing?<br /> Meanwhile what has the Society of Authors really done<br /> for the composers of popular music in this country? It<br /> has never moved hand or foot to protect them from the<br /> depredations of the music pirate. It was left to the efforts<br /> of one or two music publishing houses to fight day and<br /> night and to spend thousands of pounds to preserve any<br /> vestige of property in musical composition in this country<br /> at all. The Society of Authors has not been any more<br /> successful in obtaining for the composer under the new<br /> Copyright Act what is his undoubted right, the privilege to<br /> dispose of his musical work at his own terms, no matter<br /> in what form it is published. With the exception of Mr.<br /> Howard Talbot, the Society&#039;s list of composers serving on<br /> their Musical Committee does not contain a single name of<br /> a writer of popular music, and it would be interesting to<br /> know how many such composers are included in the<br /> membership of the Society.<br /> First let the Society of Authors do something practically<br /> useful for the cause of music, and then it will be quite time<br /> for Mr. Thring to dictate to those who have stood at the<br /> head of the battle and borne all the expense what are his<br /> views of “ proper moral basic principles.&quot;<br /> Yours, &amp;c.,<br /> CHAPPELL &amp; Co.<br /> 50, New Bond Street, Feb. 20.<br /> II.<br /> M<br /> HE following correspondence, with the ex-<br /> 1 ception of the last letter from the Society<br /> for which the Editor was unable to find<br /> room, appeared in the Morning Post last month.<br /> THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AUTHORS, COMPOSERS AND<br /> MUSIC PUBLISHERS.<br /> February 19, 1912.<br /> SIR, --The attention of the Society of Authors has been<br /> called to a circular issued by certain music publishers to<br /> members of the Society, and no doubt to others, inviting<br /> them (as composers) to join the British Society of Authors,<br /> Composers and Music Publishers. One of the objects of<br /> this proposed Society is to deal with the rights of its mem-<br /> bers in the reproduction of works by mechanical instruments,<br /> and another is to propagate and obtain recognition of the<br /> basic moral principle upon which all author&#039;s rights are<br /> founded. ..<br /> This moral principle is to be recognised by the composers<br /> and the authors giving one-third of their fees to the pub.<br /> lishers, for article 6 of the proposed rules runs as follows :-<br /> - All royalties and fees collected on behalf of the members<br /> shall be divided amongst the respective authors, composers<br /> and publishers of the works by thirds after deduction of<br /> all working expenses and expenses of collection. In the<br /> case of purely musical works where there is no author of<br /> words two-thirds will go to the composer and one-third to<br /> the publisher.”<br /> The rules have already been subscribed by seventeen<br /> music publishing houses. No authors&#039; or composers&#039; names<br /> appear on the circular.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 167 (#603) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 167<br /> COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS.<br /> emotions, the critical faculty has been but rarely<br /> SIR,-Messrs. Chappell &amp; Co.&#039;s letter diverts attention displayed ; at best, there is a bad record behind it.<br /> from the points at issue by raising wholly irrelevant matters.<br /> Time, we know, has a knack of adjusting every-<br /> The contention of the Society of Authors is that the pub-<br /> lishers of musical works have no right to claim a share of<br /> thing and of evening up the balance ; yet, how<br /> the gramophone fees of composers, and that a Society to<br /> often for a period has the wrong man been set up<br /> assist them to make such a claim should not be wanted by upon a pedestal, and how seldom has real genius<br /> anyone except the music publishers. It is clearly the<br /> been recognised at a glance. Just think of the<br /> purport of the Act that these fees should be taken out of<br /> the hands of the publishers, for under sect. 19, referred<br /> life story of Galileo and of Newton, of Turner and<br /> to in my former letter, in spite of assignment of copyright of Whistler, of Wagner and of Tschaikowsky : and<br /> before the Act comes into force, the gramophone fees are to &#039;this is to name but a tithe of those whom the<br /> be the absolute property of the composer. Had the Govern- critics failed to discover.<br /> ment intended the publishers to share in these gramophone<br /> Tschaikowsky-for it is of interest to take some<br /> rights they would not have inserted this special reservation<br /> in the Bill. Indeed, Mr. William Boosey, who is connected<br /> example more or less in detail-met at the begin-<br /> with the firm of Messrs. Chappell &amp; Co., in a letter to Thening with but one man who understood him-<br /> Times of May 4th, 1911, wrote as follows:---<br /> Nicholas Rubinstein. Anton Rubinstein, the<br /> * To dispose of the final gramophone red-herring, that it<br /> celebrated pianist, and that clique of minor<br /> is the publishers, and not the composers, who will reap the<br /> benefit of this new statutory right, let the new Act of<br /> composers who formed musical opinion in the<br /> Parliament enact explicitly that the said right shall in all Russia of that day would have him at po price.<br /> cases be the property of the composer.&quot;<br /> Some of them—not Anton Rubinstein, I believe-<br /> Messrs. Chappell &amp; Co. appear to have receded from that<br /> wrote for the Press. These were the critics whose<br /> position when advocating the formation of “The Society<br /> of British Authors, Composers and Music Publishers.&quot;<br /> duty it was to distinguish between good and bad ;<br /> Apart from the intention of the Legislature, however, and so intelligently did they do this, so whole-<br /> there is clearly no reason why the composer should share heartedly did they condemn Tschaikowsky that,<br /> the gramophone fees with the music publisher. The book<br /> both in St. Petersburg and in Paris, he suffered<br /> publisher might just as well demand to share the author&#039;s<br /> fees from the dramatic rights, or the editor of a magazine<br /> the bitter mortification of hearing his works first<br /> in which a work has been published serially ask to have a played and then-hissed! And, mark you, works<br /> share in the author&#039;s royalty on book publication.<br /> which are now delighting and enrapturing the<br /> Messrs. Chappell &amp; Co. refer to the advantage which the<br /> entire musical world, works which in modern judg.<br /> composer gains by having his work placed on the market,<br /> but do not seem to recognise that it is the composer who<br /> ment are ear-marked for immortality.<br /> h given the publisher a marketable commodity.<br /> But, maybe, you will have it that this was no<br /> Music publishers are publishers of music, not patrons of fault of the critics, that the public is the real<br /> music ; they are not entitled to control the property of the judge and settles the matter for itself. Well, so it<br /> composer in every way because they may be his agents for<br /> does, of course-in the long run ; and, be it<br /> putting it in a certain form on the market.<br /> I am, yours faithfully,<br /> remarked in passing, in the long run it bas made<br /> (Signed) G. HERBERT THRING, few mistakes. But at the beginning it does not<br /> Secretary, Incorporated Society of Authors.<br /> judge on questions of this sort because it cannot<br /> judge ; genius is always a few stages ahead, and the<br /> public reqnires time-time and education—to<br /> enable it to arrive at comprehension. So, in the<br /> CRITICS AND CRITICISM.<br /> meanwhile, it turns to the critics—what less can it<br /> do ?-to those who presumably are more fitted to<br /> (HEN Schopenbauer roundly asserted, as he measure and appreciate and, in the early stages, it<br /> did, that “ for the most part there is no takes their teaching for the truth and gravely<br /> such thing” as “the critical faculty,” he swallows it. That is the simple and undeniable<br /> committed himself surely to a statement which, if fact, and criticism may not burke its responsi-<br /> not wholly inaccurate, is at any rate to be reckoned bility ; for better or for worse it carries an<br /> little better than a half-truth. Clear thinker unmistakable influence.<br /> though he was, and close observer of men and But we may, perhaps, gain a clearer view of the<br /> manners, it would seem nevertheless that he had apparent lack of the critical faculty by bringing<br /> been led astray by appearances and that he had the investigation nearer to our own doorstep, by<br /> jumped to a wrong conclusion when, in finding noting the happenings around us of last week and<br /> small outward evidence of the critical faculty, he this week, of yesterday and to-day. It is always<br /> decided forthwith that to all intents and purposes easier to get a grip upon an idea which fits in with<br /> the critical faculty did not exist.<br /> our own associations and habits.<br /> Of course, in so far as his observation went, he T urn, then, to the modern newspaper; and,<br /> was right. For, whether we speak of the critic in seeing that the production of a new novel or of a<br /> Science or of the critic in Art, of the things which new play occurs oftener than once in a blue moon,<br /> appeal primarily to the intellect or primarily to the the critic&#039;s work can be tested as an amusing and<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 168 (#604) ############################################<br /> <br /> 168<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> instructive breakfast occupation on three mornings earned their place, and deservedly so. The others<br /> out of four. We may pass over the fact that the huge majority — are the evidence for<br /> disagreement is common amongst the authorities Schopenhauer.<br /> --for, needless to say, there are two sides to every But it is necessary to enquire whether this<br /> question and men can show discernment and evidence has really any bearing on the case. It is<br /> intelligence and, yet, disagree. What concerns purposeless to talk unless one talks to the point ;<br /> us more is when the critics are in solid agreement, and here, I think, we shall find that this army of<br /> and when the public just as solidly agree to differ. incompetents—a too mild description-are in no<br /> A play or a novel is hailed with a flourish of way pertinent to the argument.<br /> trumpets and a chorus of journalistic praise, yet To begin with, the very nature of things is such<br /> meets with the cold shoulder ; another play or that these men cannot in any way represent the<br /> another novel is crabbed from the commencement, critical faculty which does exist; they are merely<br /> but achieves an immediate success and within fish out of water, pitchforked into criticism through<br /> the limited period which, with rare exceptions, force of circumstances. For instance, I know a<br /> must be reckoned the life of any romance-lives on very estimable gentleman who served this is a few<br /> successfully. Here is food for thought ; for, the years back-on the staff of a well-known provincial<br /> public, we know, has proved the soundness of its newspaper, and who delivered judgment impartially<br /> judgment when once it understands; and, in this and weightily on music, literature, lawn-tennis and<br /> event, it does understand. It is another matter, prize-fighting. Now, of course, there is no con-<br /> obviously, when some genius in music, sculpture or ceivable reason why an individual should not be<br /> painting evolves unexpectedly some wholly fresh competent to speak with authority on all these<br /> conception in treatment, some unlooked-for develop- matters—there are many who could do so. This<br /> ment in the technique of his Art, or when some man, however, could not ; his limitations made that<br /> scientist proclaims a new discovery—then, the impossible ; he was, in fact, just an ordinary<br /> public must lie low and wait ; they cannot under- reporter, a scribbler of shorthand notes, lacking not<br /> stand. But in fiction, in romance, in story-telling only in artistic education and experience but, most<br /> -why, they have been brought up to it from the woefully, in any knowledge of the technique of his<br /> nursery! Every man, woman and child in this subjects. And this is typical of much criticism ;<br /> country and in every other country--there is no and, in the nature of things, I say that it must be<br /> getting away from it-is a born critic of romance. 80. For, quite apart from the fact that cheap<br /> How, then, when the professional critics think one criticism implies economy in newspaper production<br /> way and the public decides another-may we not an influence, of course, with editors and<br /> well beliere the critics to be wrong? Yet, the managers—there is the further fact that those men<br /> difference of opinion is by no means unusual. of greater parts, those whose qualifications would<br /> It would be easy to write down a lengthy more especially fit them for the task, are as a rale<br /> catalogue of critical errors in science and in art, to indisposed to follow the calling of a critic. These,<br /> give them in detail-a task as offensive as it would for the most part, we may well believe to be occupied<br /> certainly be ungrateful-and, filling a volume or rather in creative work.<br /> perhaps many volumes with the result, so establish But, even if we admit that the critic has some<br /> the proposition up to the hilt. But, quite apart aptitude for his job, there are still reasons why his<br /> from what has just been said and what might be talent should not disclose itself. It is, for example,<br /> said, it is common knowledge that criticism is not not a wholly unheard-of thing for a critic to write<br /> what it should be, that scmewhere there is a weak “to order.” Editors are human and, therefore,<br /> link in the chain. For, whether we study the peccable ; hence, in a business world where one<br /> present or the past, the same short-coming obtrudes must either get on or get out, it is not surprising.<br /> upon the notice, the same apparent absence of the however diegraceful it may be, to find the best<br /> critical faculty. What wonder, then, that Schopen- reviews going the way of the publishing firms<br /> hauer took things as he found them and jumped who advertise most largely. It is not always so,<br /> hastily to the conclusion that, “ for the most part.&quot; of course, but it happens.<br /> the critical faculty did not exist ?<br /> Then, critics have their friends and enemies like<br /> Now, there is no shade of a shadow of a doubt the rest of us ; and, from a personal point of view,<br /> that first-class critics do exist. In England alone the one can get along very nicely with an<br /> there is a band of men, all too small unluckily in undeserved leg up and the other with an equally<br /> its number, who have proved themselves over and undeserved kick down the hill. Then, why not<br /> over again, and who, by virtue of good work done, let them have it? Dishonest, no doubt! but the<br /> have reached that pinnacle whence they may issue temptation is strong and, anyway—these things<br /> a dictum wbich, without hesitation, the public may also happen.<br /> and does accept. These few—such a few-have And speaking of temptation brings a reminder.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 169 (#605) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 169<br /> reaching the goal, seeing that this must surely<br /> be inevitable, then can any man doubt, with the<br /> facts before him, that the critical faculty, hide it<br /> and crush it how you will, must nevertheless be<br /> common enough? And not only common but in<br /> a state of very special cultivation.<br /> ARCHIBALD DUNN.<br /> THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1911.*<br /> It recalls a class of critics who, in some respects,<br /> may be said to stand in a category by themselves-<br /> I mean the critics of technical work. These<br /> reviewers, by the conditions under which they<br /> write, are apt to meet with a temptation quite<br /> beyond the ordinary. They are, of course, experts<br /> --that is essential ; and, if expert, then it will<br /> happen often that they, too, will have written books<br /> on the very subject of discussion-for, that is the<br /> way with specialists. How, then, when a fresh<br /> competitor enters the field ? In a land of milk and<br /> honey and plenty of it, the suggestion might pass<br /> unbeeded; but in the kingdom of literature there<br /> is no milk and honey-except for the chosen few-<br /> and precious little bread and butter. A man is a<br /> scoundrel, no doubt, who lets the thought enter his<br /> head at the crisis—yet, some have done it; for it<br /> is hard to hand over one&#039;s own bread and butter<br /> and stand by starving whilst another eats it.<br /> Pity, indeed, that the picture should thus paint<br /> itself so sordidly. But it cannot be helped. To<br /> reach the truth means, as a rule, cutting deep into<br /> the heart of things, and the inevitable wound can<br /> at best only be regretted—there is nothing else<br /> for it.<br /> The argument, then, so far as it has gone seems<br /> clear : of critics in general it may be said that the<br /> right men do not enter the lists, and of some<br /> critics in particular that they do not play the<br /> game. But this does not prove that “for the<br /> most part” the critical faculty does not exist,<br /> merely that it does not disclose itself.<br /> And, indeed, anyone who gives the matter a<br /> moment&#039;s serious thought must see that the<br /> critical faculty not only exists but must, more-<br /> ever, exist in great profusion. The whole tendency<br /> of the time leads that way. It is an age of higher<br /> education and of marked refinement, an age in<br /> wbich we are taught to consider and analyse and<br /> always to look sympathetically on our fellow men.<br /> And these are the qualifications of a critic. The<br /> true critic, in fact, is simply a philosopher-one<br /> who searches for the truth in the firm faith that<br /> there are two sides to every question. There is to<br /> be nothing narrow-minded about him, no fads or<br /> preconceived ideas ; he will concede, in art, that<br /> beauty may exist which has few charms for him<br /> and, in science, he will reckon to have found the<br /> truth when once the truth has been demonstrated-<br /> then, and not before. And, finally, in his formed<br /> opinion, he will be honest and courageous ; for, he<br /> plays the part of counsellor, guide and friend and,<br /> however interesting his criticisms may be to himself,<br /> they are not for himself.<br /> Such is an outline of the needs of criticism and<br /> of the conditions under which the critic&#039;s abilities<br /> are developed. And seeing that it is not possible<br /> to train humanity in one direction without many<br /> M HIS concise commentary upon the provisions<br /> 1 of the new Copyright Act may safely be<br /> commended to the notice not only of lawyers<br /> but of “authors,&quot; in the wide sense in which the<br /> term is used in the first section, and of all whose<br /> business it is to deal in their productions. In<br /> form it follows that which is usually found most<br /> convenient in works of its class, and consists of a<br /> short introduction, which includes a brief but<br /> informing summary of the principal changes to be<br /> effected by the Act, a table of contents, the Act<br /> itself printed section by section with notes, the<br /> Revised Convention of Berne, signed at Berlin in<br /> November, 1908, and a carefully compiled index.<br /> The notes referred to follow immediately the sections<br /> to which they refer, and consist of comment upon<br /> the preceding section, followed by a summary of the<br /> existing law ; the section, the comment upon it and<br /> the note as to the existing law being distinguished<br /> by different types.<br /> The expression “ existing &quot; law reminds us that<br /> the Act will not come into force in the United<br /> Kingdom until July 1 (unless some earlier date be<br /> fixed by Order in Council), and that consequently<br /> there is ample time for some to consider how they<br /> will deal with valuable rights prolonged by the Act,<br /> or in some instances to settle the question of more<br /> pressing importance, whether such rights will be<br /> still in existence at the date mentioned and so<br /> capable of prolongation. The representatives of<br /> deceased artists in particular, and those who hold<br /> their copyrights, should realise that they are among<br /> the most conspicuous gainers by the prolonged term,<br /> but the owners of existing rights affected will be<br /> many and varied, as is shown by Mr. MacGillivray<br /> * &quot; &#039;The Copyright Act, 1911.&quot; Annotated, with Appendix<br /> containing the Revised Convention of Berne, by E. J.<br /> MacGillivray, LL.B., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law,<br /> and member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland.<br /> Author of &quot; The Law of Copyright,&quot; &quot; A Digest of the Law<br /> of Copyright,” and “ Insurance Law.” London : Stevens<br /> and Sons, Limited. 1912. Pp. 209. Price õs, net.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 170 (#606) ############################################<br /> <br /> 170<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> on page 143, and authors of works that have long subject to which anyone may reproduce the work in<br /> been before the public are reminded that their question. The points arising as to this section are<br /> rights may be not only prolonged but enlarged, as rather too intricate for discussion here, but<br /> for example by the addition of exclusive rights of another matter of obscurity, more easily sum-<br /> recitation and dramatisation.<br /> marised, may be referred to. The new Act has a<br /> The enlarged protection accorded to authors very important effect upon the doubtful, and if<br /> by the Act will be much more fully grasped the expression may be allowed “tiresome,&quot;condition<br /> by them after perusal of Mr. MacGillivray&#039;s volume of the existing law as to unpublished writings of a<br /> than by unaided study of the Act itself, and, deceased author, more especially in respect of letters.<br /> indeed, after such perusal they may be inclined At the end of the 17th section, relating to post-<br /> to congratulate themselves that his notes were not humous works, is a sub-section to the effect that the<br /> in the hands of those members of the Labour Party ownership of an author&#039;s manuscript after his death,<br /> to whose “ socialistic demands&quot; the writer refers in jf acquired by his will, “ Shall be prima facie proof<br /> his introduction. Had it been so, the concessions of the copyright being with the owner of the<br /> which the Government granted might have been manuscript.” As Mr. MacGillivray observes, it<br /> more ample than in fact they were.<br /> would have been much more satisfactory if the<br /> When Mr. Sydney Buxton, at the dinner of the Act had provided explicitly that any bequest of the<br /> Authors&#039; Society, referred with just pride to the manuscript should be deemed to pass the owner-<br /> conciseness of a statute which effected so much ship of the copyright. He submits that this would<br /> within the compass of thirty-seven sections, it might probably be the interpretation which the Court<br /> have been suggested in criticism that an Act of such would put upon the passage referred to, but he<br /> brevity, in spite of all the lucidity with which it may points out that doubt may well arise if a residuary<br /> be drafted, is likely to afford considerable scope for legatee were to claim to be as such the owner of<br /> legal argument and judicial decision in the future. a copyright, and to argue that his right as such<br /> A treatise upon it written before any such decisions residuary legatee was superior to the prima farie<br /> have been given naturally contains many suggestions right of the legatee taking the manuscript by<br /> as to doubtful questions and as to their probable specific bequest. The point is certainly by no<br /> solutions. It is to the consideration of problems means free from doubt, and may be commended to<br /> of this kind in the light of Mr. MacGillivray&#039;s the careful consideration of authors and of those<br /> observations that many will turn with interest, who may be entrusted with the drafting of their<br /> after satisfying themselves as to the matters of wills.<br /> interpretation with regard to which he expresses no In conclusion, reference may be made to the<br /> doubt. Instances can easily be given of doubtful important summary remedies given by the Act to<br /> points connected with transactions of not uncommon those authors, other than musical composers, who<br /> occurrence. Sub-section 6 of section 2, for example, find themselves aggrieved by infringement. We<br /> prevents the “reading or recitation in public of any are reminded that musical composers will remain a<br /> reasonable extract of any published work&quot; from class exceptionally favoured, although less so than<br /> being an infringement of the sole right of public now, even when the Act comes into operation. It<br /> performance, for which a civil action may be main was sought, as Mr. MacGillivray reminds nis, to<br /> tained, but Mr. MacGillivray points out that in adopt the provisions of the Acts of 1902 and 1906<br /> section 11 (2), which makes an unauthorised public protecting composers, to the needs of other authors<br /> performance punishable on summary conviction, of all classes, but this was so strenuously opposed in<br /> this saving clause is not inserted, with the result that Grand Committee that a compromise became neces-<br /> the question arises whether the Court might not be sary, and now the authors of musical works retain<br /> bound to convict upon the prosecution of a per- the protection of their own Acts, which are<br /> former, although he could not be proceeded against unrepealed, and literary writers have to be content<br /> in a civil action. Again, attention is called to the with the principle of summary procedure applied<br /> possibility that a recitation in costume may be upon to other works in the much less drastic form in<br /> a different footing from one not so approximating which it appears&quot; in section 11 of 1 &amp; 2 Geo. 5 c. 16.<br /> to dramatic presentation. We do not here refer Mr. MacGillivray&#039;s exposition of that Act will be<br /> further to the exclusive right of &quot; performance&quot; found timely and helpful, as we have suggested,<br /> or oral delivery conferred by the Act upon non- not only by the profession which will draw direct<br /> dramatic works, or to the conditions and limitations profit from the difficulties to which it calls atten-<br /> imposed upon the exercise of those rights. Section 3 tion, but by those large and, if we may say so, more<br /> of the Act naturally affords material for comment important, classes of brain-workers, who before the<br /> in respect of the paragraph which modifies the passing of the great measure we have recently<br /> right of the owner of the copyright twenty-five welcomed, had received frequent but always<br /> years after the author&#039;s death, and states conditions inadequate attention from the Legislature.<br /> W<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 171 (#607) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 171<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> returned” without having been before the judges-<br /> this was self-evident.<br /> NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br /> There can be little doubt as to the early accept-<br /> ance of the novel in question by any house of<br /> DEAR SIR,–I cannot help thinking the time has standing, and that its publication will bring its<br /> come when authors might venture to make some young author success. I cannot, of course, men-<br /> sort of protest against the manner in which certain tion either the name of the author or that of the<br /> “ novel competitions” are conducted.<br /> novel ; its author is, I fancy, rather an independent<br /> These competitions are, of course, the affairs of the sort of person, and prefers his work to make its way<br /> houses which institute them, and the conditions are by its own pure merits ; but this furnishes me with<br /> generally, I believe, clearly laid down, and so perhaps the example I required to point a few words on a<br /> their methods are hardly fully open to general subject that has often exercised my thoughts.<br /> criticism ; yet I think, considering the altogether My point is the evident unfairness of such a<br /> false standards their results are apt to produce in the system where any work sent in is at the mercy of<br /> eyes of the public in the ranks of the novelists, the sorter, who may have a corn that is trodden<br /> protest is not out of place.<br /> upon in the perusal of the first chapter, and con-<br /> And in one way in particular injustice is apt to sequently, if not a most fair-minded man, reject<br /> to be done to many of the contributors to the that work.<br /> schemes. It is, no doubt, necessary that the copy C an we wonder that the prize-winning stories are<br /> sent in should be subjected to a preliminary weeding, generally of so flat a nature that, after inspiring a<br /> and one could hardly expect the judges to wade few lukewarm notices, they expire early and their<br /> through the entire mass of MSS. submitted ; but it authors are so rarely heard of again?<br /> is in this preliminary process of selection that the There is another aspect: these competitions do<br /> evil, as it seems to me and many others, is apt to be undoubted harın by bringing temporarily to the<br /> done. The objection, to my mind, lies in the fact front writers who have usually no particular message,<br /> that the sorter bas the power of submitting to the and who are, by their sudden success, led to believe<br /> judges only such works as may happen to please themselves literary giants, to the discouragement of<br /> his own taste. The experience of most of us is that real talent and, occasionally, of genius. Surely the<br /> the publisher&#039;s reader is a being who is very far literary market is already overcrowded by the works<br /> from being infallible in his judgment of the wares of third-rate writers without its being necessary for<br /> he has to handle ; the history of nearly erery great publishers to hunt for fresh and doubtful talent.<br /> book has been the same-repeated rejections till It is by no means easy at the present day for the<br /> some lucky chance has brought it to light. And unknown writer of a really good book to get a<br /> the standard of acceptability according to the average hearing on respectable terms, and the awards of<br /> “ reader” of the present day seems to be a certain competitions not only do much to lower the standard<br /> conformity to a machine-made story carefully sifted of literature-bringing it down to a mere trade<br /> of any originality. Yet we are led to understand level, but crowd and lower the market standard<br /> that the publisher is ever on the lookout for dis- very seriously, in addition to creating a false ratio<br /> coveries in originality! Judges, also, I believe, have in the public eye.<br /> complained of the low level of the average of the But I for one, and I am not alone in my views,<br /> work submitted to competitions. Can we wonder certainly think that in such competitions all likely<br /> at it when they are only permitted to decide, work should be at least laid at the disposal of the<br /> apparently, upon a few works carefully chosen for judges. It would always be necessary to weed out the<br /> the purpose by the sorters ?<br /> copy which is hopelessly poor, but to weed out works<br /> A young friend of mine has lately sent to a cer- that are good and uncommon, clever and original<br /> tain competition a work which, in the opinion of because, possibly, of some prejudice on the sorter&#039;s<br /> several literary men of established reputation who part, seems to me to be prejudicial to fairness at<br /> know him, is a novel of unusual power. This work the start, and one would like to know upon what<br /> is undoubtedly very far above the average, most lines and roles the sorters are instructed to go.<br /> original, beautifully written and dealing with an In conclusion, I must say that after some experi-<br /> absorbing and altogether novel idea; in the opinion ence of competitions in the literary world and a<br /> of those competent to judge and who have read it, good deal of talk with candidates who bare entered<br /> in MS. it is certainly one of the freshest and for them, my advice to any writer with self-respect<br /> cleverest books that have been written during the and above all with any talent is—leave them strictly<br /> last five years. It might not stand any chance of alone.<br /> taking a prize, since it is, perhaps, too bold and too<br /> I am, Sir,<br /> outspoken, too original in theme to be greatly<br /> Yours faithfully,<br /> popular ; but the point is that the MS. “ was quickly<br /> TAMEL,<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 172 (#608) ############################################<br /> <br /> 172<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH COMPOSERS AND THE On every point that concerned the composer the<br /> COPYRIGHT ACT.<br /> society drafted memoranda, which were sent either<br /> SIR,- In last month&#039;s issue of The Author, page<br /> to the Board of Trade, to some member of the<br /> 132, there is a paragraph referring to the Copyright<br /> Government, or to the private members who were<br /> Act, which is misleading. It runs thus :-<br /> giving special attention to the composer&#039;s welfare.<br /> Before the committee stage was over the society<br /> “The gramophone clauses are not altogether to the<br /> was invited by the President of the Board of Trade<br /> liking of composers, and the comuittee of the society<br /> regret that the Government have admitted the principle of<br /> to confer with him upon various points which had<br /> compulsory licence into these clauses, despite the objections<br /> arisen in discussions in committee, and this<br /> urged by the society on behalf of, though with one or two invitation was accepted in the light of official<br /> honourable exceptions, without much help from, musical recognition of the status of the society as<br /> composers.&quot;<br /> representing the composer alone.<br /> This conveys the impression that composers as a At the end of July, 1911, before the report<br /> body neglected to take steps to safeguard their stage was passed, the society, anticipating the<br /> inte rests under the new Copyright Act, and that form that the “gramophone clauses ” might, and<br /> the Society of Authors alone acted on their behalf. ultimately did, take, sent a circular to all its<br /> This is very far from being the case, for from members cautioning them against disposing of any<br /> the first the Society of British Composers took an of their mechanical-instrument rights before the<br /> active part in stating the case for the composer. Bill became law. At this date, further, the society<br /> In The Times of March 10th, 1909, it was first went fully into practical issues created by the<br /> announced that the Board of Trade had formed a “gramophone clauses &quot;—issues, it may be added,<br /> Departmental Committee on Copyright, and as which are only now for the first time being<br /> composers had been overlooked and were not repre- considered.<br /> sented on the committee, the Society of British I think I have said enough to show that the<br /> Composers, without a moment&#039;s delay, entered a S. B. C., in spite of its restricting its membership<br /> protest against the injustice of ignoring them. to composers of serious aim, had sympathies<br /> Persistent efforts on behalf of the composer sufficiently wide to justify its efforts towards<br /> resulted in the society receiving an undertaking reform on behalf of all, although the majority of<br /> that its representative would be allowed to appear its members may never be affected by the<br /> before the committee and give evidence on certain<br /> “ gramophone clauses.” It is only fair to point<br /> points in the Revised Convention of Berlin, 1908. out that the S. B. C. has giren the Society of<br /> Thus it was largely owing to the action taken by Authors every facility for getting in touch with its<br /> the S. B. C. that the Departmental Committee, members, and the composers, realising that their<br /> whose duties were originally limited to an own special society had the copyright question<br /> examination and report upon that Convention, well in hand, were satisfied that their interests<br /> became in effect a Royal Commission, with power would not be neglected.<br /> to call witnesses. In July, 1909, one of the<br /> Yours faithfully,<br /> members of the S. B. C. appeared before the<br /> WILLIAM WALLACE,<br /> committee and gave evidence. Nothing further Hon. Secretary, Society of British Composers,<br /> could be done till the Report of the committee<br /> 19, Berners Street, W.<br /> was issued, and this was followed by the Copyright (Mr. Wallace&#039;s letter does not in any way refute<br /> Bill of 1910. The society then called a special the paragraph referred to. All honour must be<br /> meeting of its members to discuss, inter alia, this given to the Society of British Composers for the<br /> Bill, and invited members of the Society of work they have done, but the Society of British<br /> Authors to attend and speak. It subsequently Composers is not representative of all composers,<br /> printed and circulated a report of the proceedings. and we regret to state that some of the great<br /> At a later stage it reported to the Board of Trade composers have shown themselves utterly callous<br /> upon the Bill, and sent its own deputation to that and indifferent to the welfare of their fellow<br /> department, on which occasion it was represented craftsmen.<br /> by its prominent members, and its honorary We congratulate the Society of British Com.<br /> counsel discussed the points specially affecting the posers, whose excellent work in the passing of the<br /> composer.<br /> Copyright Act no one can deny, but it is still true<br /> Owing to the political situation the Bill of 1910 that the Society of Authors, considering the work<br /> could not be proceeded with, and that of 1911 was it has done, and is still doing, has received very<br /> introduced, the second reading taking place on little support from the great bulk of composers,<br /> April 7th, 1911. 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