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before the trustees of the Pension Fund<br />
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the accounts for the year 1911, as settled<br />
bv the accountants, with a full statement of<br />
the result of the appeal made on behalf of<br />
the fund. After giving the matter full con-<br />
sideration, the trustees instructed the secretary<br />
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$2,000 (£400) Consolidated Gas and Elec-<br />
tric Company of Baltimore 44% Gold<br />
Bonds ;<br />
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30 Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway<br />
4°, Extension Shares, (1914) £8 paid ;<br />
£250 Edward Lloyd, Ltd., £1 5% Prefer-<br />
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ence Shares.<br />
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investments, below.<br />
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Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock, subscribed<br />
for 3 Central Argentine Railway £10 Preference<br />
Shares, New Issue.<br />
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Nominal Value.<br />
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8. ot.<br />
Local oans 2.2.5.3 .-.555,.- 500 0 0<br />
Victoria Government 3% Consoli-<br />
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dated Inscribed Stock ........ 291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3%<br />
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Debenture Stock -............ 250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
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Trust 4% Certificates ........ 200 0 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 34% Inscribed<br />
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Stock 2. 5755 200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Rail-<br />
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way 4% Preference Stock .... 228 0 0<br />
New Zealand 34% Stock........ 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land 22% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 24%<br />
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Stock, 1927—57.............. 4388 2 4<br />
Jamaica 83% Stock, 1919-49 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock ...... 120 12 1<br />
Dominion of Canada, C.P.R. 34%<br />
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Land Grant Stock, 1988 ...... 198 3 8<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
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5%, Preferred Stock .......... 237 0 0<br />
Central Argentine Railway Or-<br />
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dinary Stock .....:2....:.... 232 0 0<br />
$2,000 Consolidated Gas and<br />
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Electric Company of Baltimore<br />
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44%, Gold Bonds ............ 400 0 0<br />
250 Edward Lloyd, Ltd., £1 5%<br />
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Preference Shares = .......... 250 0 0<br />
80 Buenos Ayres Great Southern<br />
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Railway 4% Extension Shares<br />
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1914 (£8 paid) .............. 240 0 0<br />
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8 Central Argentine Railway £10<br />
Preference Shares New Issue... 380 0 0O<br />
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Total’ 7. £4,454 6 O<br />
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subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged)<br />
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April Ist, 1912.<br />
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prior to April 1st, nor does it include sub-<br />
scriptions paid in compliance with promises<br />
made before it.<br />
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April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil<br />
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April 6, Forrester, J. Cliffe<br />
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June 6, Probert, W. S.<br />
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April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil :<br />
April 6, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte .<br />
April 10, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stac-<br />
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April 10, Harris, Emma H.<br />
April 11, Ralli, €. Scaramanga<br />
April 11, Aitken, Robert.<br />
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May 2, Baden- Powell, Miss Agnes<br />
May 25, Koebel, W. H. :<br />
May 28, Harland, Mrs. Henry<br />
May 28, Wood, Mrs. A. E. :<br />
June 4, Hornung, E. W.<br />
June 4, Ward, Dudley<br />
June 6, Worrall, Lechmere .<br />
June 13, Robbins, Miss Alice E.<br />
July 5, Hain, iM. ;<br />
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Barrington, Mrs. Russell<br />
Bashford, H H. H.<br />
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Begbie, Harold<br />
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Bell, Lady .<br />
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Benecke, Miss Ida<br />
Benjamin, Lewis .<br />
Bennett, Arnold .<br />
Berkeley, Mrs. F. R.<br />
Bland, J.O. P..<br />
Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit<br />
Bloundelle-Burton, John<br />
Bolton, Miss Anna<br />
Bond, R. Warwick<br />
Bosanquet, E. F. .<br />
Boughton, Rutland<br />
Bowen, Miss Marjorie<br />
Brandon, Miss D. .<br />
Breakell, Miss Mary<br />
Brend, Charles C. .<br />
Brinton, Selwyn<br />
Brodhurst, Spencer<br />
Broster, Miss D. K.<br />
Brown, R. Grant .<br />
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Bungey, E. Newton<br />
Burmester, Miss Frances G.<br />
Burne- Murdoch, W. G.<br />
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Calderon, George .<br />
Cannan, Gilbert<br />
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Carlyle, Rev. A. J. ‘<br />
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Channon, Mrs. Francis .<br />
Chase, Mr. and Mrs. L. N.<br />
Chesterton, G. K. :<br />
Child, Harold H.<br />
Clifford, Lady :<br />
Clifton, Mrs. Talbot<br />
Clodd, Edward<br />
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Cohen, Mrs. Herbert<br />
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Giles, Miss Edith J. F.<br />
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Liddle, S. .<br />
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Lion, Leon M. :<br />
Little, Mrs. Archibald<br />
Locke, W. J.<br />
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Logan, The Rev. Robert<br />
Longe, Miss Julia .<br />
Lueas, E. V.<br />
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Mackenzie, Miss H. :<br />
Macnamara, Miss Margaret<br />
Maenaughton-Jones, Dr. H.<br />
Macpherson, J. F..<br />
Malcolm, Mrs. lan.<br />
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Mann, Mrs. Mary E.<br />
Maquarie, Arthur .<br />
Marchmont, A. W.<br />
Marks, Mrs. Mary<br />
Marriott, Charles .<br />
Martin, Miss Violet<br />
Masefield, John<br />
Matheson, Miss Annie<br />
McCormick, E. B.<br />
Meredith, Mark ;<br />
Middlemass, Miss Jean .<br />
Miniken, Miss Bertha M. M.<br />
Moffatt, Miss B. .<br />
Montgomery, Miss K. L.<br />
Montrésor, Miss F. F,<br />
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COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
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HE last meeting of the committee before the<br />
vacation took “place on Monday, July Ist, at<br />
the society’s offices. After the minutes<br />
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of the previous meeting had been read and signed,<br />
twenty-four members ‘and associates were elected,<br />
bringing the elections for the current year up to<br />
204. ‘The committee accepted, with regret, four<br />
resignations.<br />
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had in hand, first dealing with matters that had<br />
been before the committee at their last meeting.<br />
These, the solicitors were able to state, were<br />
going forward in most cases satisfactorily. In the<br />
matter of fresh business, action was sanctioned<br />
for recovery of damages for wrongful dismissal of<br />
a member from the staff of a daily paper, and the<br />
solicitors were instructed to proceed. There were<br />
several small county court cases which had been<br />
placed in the solicitors’ hands during the month.<br />
In three of these, money had been recovered and<br />
forwarded to the authors. The others were pro-<br />
ceeding, and if no payment was made, summonses<br />
would be issued.<br />
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The secretary then mentioned certain cases<br />
which had come before him during the month.<br />
One in America it was decided to place in the<br />
hands of the society’s American lawyers, failing<br />
payment by the American publisher. One was a<br />
complaint against a paper in Burma, and this the<br />
secretary was instructed to submit, when he had the<br />
necessary particulars, to the society’s solicitors in<br />
that country. In a third case, relating to the<br />
payment of the costs for settlement, by the society’s<br />
solicitors, of an agreemevt between an author and<br />
a publisher, the committee decided, after full con-<br />
sideration, that the bill must be settled by the<br />
member. Lastly, the secretary placed before the<br />
committee an offer received by a member from a<br />
publisher, and the committee instructed him to ask<br />
the member for permission to publish the suggested<br />
contract in the pages of Zhe Author, without<br />
mention of the member’s name.<br />
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Owing to the passing of the new Copyright Act,<br />
the committee had under discussion the question<br />
of the collection of fees by the society for its<br />
members, on contracts, literary, dramatic and<br />
musical, the collection of fees under the compulsory<br />
licence clauses of the Act, as they affect mechanical<br />
reproduction of a composer’s works, being specially<br />
mentioned. It was decided to refer the matter to<br />
the Council, and notice was sent to the Council in<br />
due course, which body met early in July.<br />
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The question of the election of members to the<br />
Council was considered, and four members were duly<br />
elected, subject to their consent.<br />
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It was decided to increase the salary of one of<br />
‘the clerks and also to pay the insurance premiums<br />
of all the clerks in the office.<br />
<br />
The chairman received from the committee<br />
‘power to act in any matters of immediate import-<br />
ance that might come before the society during the<br />
vacation.<br />
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It was decided also to purchase any files that<br />
might be required for the filing of the society’s<br />
correspondence which had grown so enormously<br />
recently.<br />
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The committee expressed their thanks to Mrs.<br />
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Wentworth-James for further<br />
society’s funds,<br />
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donations to the<br />
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Composers’ SuB-COMMITTEE.<br />
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TuE last meeting before the vacation of the<br />
Composers’ Sub-Committee was held on Thursday,<br />
July 11th, at eleven o’clock, at the offices of the<br />
society.<br />
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The minutes of the former meeting were con-<br />
firmed and signed.<br />
<br />
The secretary read a letter which he had<br />
received from a patent agent whom he had con-<br />
sulted on the matter of gramophone stamps and<br />
trade marks. In it the agent pointed out that he<br />
considered it useless to try and register the<br />
gramophone stamps under the Trade Marks Act.<br />
He suggested that the Composers’ Sub-Committee<br />
should rely on artistic copyright and that it would<br />
be as well for the society to keep a register of as<br />
many stamps as they could obtain from their<br />
members, and others, for the purpose of reference<br />
in order to prevent infringement. The committee<br />
instructed the secretary accordingly.<br />
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Mr. Elkin, one of the directors of The Mechani-<br />
cai Copyright. Licences Co., Ltd., then attended the<br />
meeting in order to discuss with the Composers’ Sub-<br />
Committee some of the objections that had been<br />
raised to the form of contract for the collection<br />
of gramophone fees in the-hope that the sub-<br />
committee might, finally, be able to approve the<br />
agreement as put forward by Mr. Elkin’s company.<br />
The agreement was dealt with clause by clause, and<br />
after all the points had been fully discussed between<br />
the sub-committee and Mr. Elkin, he undertook to<br />
refer the matter to his directors, and then to refer<br />
the matter back to the sub-committee for further<br />
consideration. The sub-committee consider that<br />
the issues involved are of the greatest importance<br />
and, therefore, were pleased to welcome Mr, Elkin,<br />
as representing the Mechanical Copyright Licences<br />
Co., Ltd.<br />
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CounciL MEETING.<br />
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Tue second meeting of the Council for the<br />
present year was held at the rooms of the<br />
Society of Arts, 18, John Street, Adelphi, W.C.,<br />
on Friday, July 19th, at 5 o’clock.<br />
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The Chairman put before the meeting the<br />
agenda which were contained in the circular<br />
convening the meeting, and ran as follows :—<br />
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“Under the new Copyright Act certain com- |<br />
pulsory licence sections come into force under<br />
which fixed royalties are payable to authors<br />
and composers. The Committee of Manage-<br />
ment propose to meet the new conditions by<br />
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include not only the collection of fees under<br />
these sections for the members involved, but<br />
the collection for all members of moneys under<br />
any contracts, literary, dramatic or musical,<br />
which they may have entered into. This<br />
collection will be made subject to the payment<br />
of a certain commission to the society on the<br />
sums collected. The meeting is called to<br />
discuss this extension of the society’s<br />
activities.”<br />
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The Chairman explained briefly to the meet-<br />
ing what the society proposed to do. It was<br />
not proposed to act as agents for the placing of<br />
work in the ordinary sense, but merely to<br />
collect fees on a commission. He said that he<br />
had received a letter from one of the members<br />
of the Council stating that he considered the<br />
action which the society proposed was ultra<br />
vires. The matter was discussed by the mem-<br />
bers present, and it was decided to take<br />
counsel’s opinion. If counsel’s opinion on the<br />
technical point was in favour of the society,<br />
then it was unanimously agreed to organise a<br />
branch of the society to carry out the fresh<br />
activities proposed.<br />
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Subsequently, counsel’s opinion was obtained,<br />
and from this it was clear that the society had<br />
full power to take up the matter.<br />
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Cases,<br />
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Forty-oNE cases have passed through the<br />
:ecretary’s hands, making roughly an average<br />
of fourteen cases a month, since the last issue<br />
of The Author, in July. The number is rather<br />
higher than usual, as during the Vacation the<br />
tendency is for the number of cases to decrease.<br />
Not a few of the claims have been for money<br />
due from magazines and periodicals. There<br />
are, unfortunately, far too many of these<br />
concerns which, lacking sound financial sup-<br />
port, soon get into arrears in the payment of<br />
their contributors. Knowing that they can<br />
always rely upon getting copy from fresh<br />
contributors, the managers of these publica-<br />
tions leave the author’s account till the very<br />
last moment, paying the printers’ bill first<br />
because of the control that an unpaid printer<br />
has over them. The unfortunate author, not<br />
being in the same strong position, and without<br />
knowledge, is kept waiting and sometimes is<br />
not paid until he has actually issued, through<br />
the society, a summons for what is due to him.<br />
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There have been fourteen claims altogether,<br />
either against publisher, editor, or theatrical<br />
manager, for money due. In four of these the<br />
secretary’s application has been sufficient to<br />
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bring the amounts owing. Four have been<br />
placed in the hands of the society’s solicitors<br />
(who have recovered in one case and are<br />
proceeding by legal process in the remaining<br />
three), and in the other six the secretary is<br />
still pursuing the delinquents, most of whom<br />
have promised payment.<br />
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The secretary has handled nine claims for<br />
the return of MSS. wrongfully detained. In<br />
four of these the MSS. have been restored to<br />
their owners in response to the secretary’s<br />
applications. In one case the editor reported<br />
he could not trace the MSS. and as the author<br />
had no evidence of its arrival, the matter<br />
had to be dropped. Another case is against an<br />
actor touring in South Africa from whom, at<br />
the time of going to press, no answer has been<br />
received. In a third case the editor has<br />
promised to make a search, but has yet to<br />
report with what result, while in the fourth<br />
unsettled case, one of the MSS. has been<br />
returned, the agent—resident in America—<br />
having disclaimed all knowledge of the rest of<br />
the MSS. sent. The last case is being handled<br />
by the society’s solicitors and relates to the<br />
detention of a play by a member of the<br />
theatrical profession. Some difficulty is being<br />
experienced in getting into touch with the<br />
party at fault, but it is hoped that a satis-<br />
factory conclusion may yet be reached.<br />
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In seven claims for accounts, the secretary<br />
has been successful in five. The remaining<br />
two have only come into the office recently,<br />
but there is no reason to anticipate that there<br />
will be any difficulty in obtaining the state-<br />
ments.<br />
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Two requests have been made, on behalf of<br />
members, for fuller particulars of certain items<br />
in accounts rendered by publishers. In both<br />
eases the desired information has been fur-<br />
nished and the members have expressed them-<br />
selves satisfied.<br />
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Two claims have arisen respecting appro-<br />
priation of title. These cases are not always<br />
easy to deal with, as priority in the use of a<br />
title does not always give the first user ex-<br />
clusive possession. Everything depends upon<br />
whether the duplication of title is likely to<br />
mislead the public into purchasing the second<br />
author’s book, or witnessing the second author’s<br />
play in mistake for the book or play of the<br />
first author. No hard-and-fast rule can be laid<br />
down in these matters. Each case must be<br />
governed by its particular circumstances.<br />
However, in the two cases under this head, the<br />
society has been successful on behalf of its<br />
members. The first, which was against a<br />
cinematograph company, was placed in the<br />
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hands of the society’s solicitors, who persuaded<br />
the company to withdraw the film from circu-<br />
lation. The secretary was similarly successful<br />
in the second case. This case was against a<br />
theatrical manager who agreed to alter the<br />
title of his piece, when his attention was drawn<br />
to the fact that it was likely to conflict with<br />
the title given by the member concerned to a<br />
play which was still well before the public.<br />
<br />
Of two claims for infringement of copyright,<br />
one was settled by the offending newspaper<br />
compensating the author. The other, which<br />
is against an American pirate, has only just<br />
come into the office.<br />
<br />
Two cases arose in which the authors sought<br />
cancellations of their agreements with their<br />
publishers. In one the agreement has been<br />
eancelled. In the other, the secretary is<br />
waiting to hear from the publisher as to the<br />
terms on which he will deliver the balance of<br />
the stock to the author and cancel the contract.<br />
<br />
There were two claims for breach of agree-<br />
ment. One, against an actor, referred to the<br />
suppression of an author’s name from the play-<br />
bills and programmes of his play. Here,<br />
suitable compensation has been offered to, and<br />
accepted by, the author, and a draft apology<br />
for insertion in the papers has been drawn up.<br />
When this is signed by the actor the matter<br />
will be at an end. In the other case, a well-<br />
known firm of publishers broke their agree-<br />
ment by selling copies of a cheap edition of an<br />
author’s work in territory not covered by the<br />
licence granted them by the author. The firm<br />
have proved rather difficult to deal with in the<br />
matter, and the secretary has been forced, in<br />
consequence, to bring it to the notice of one<br />
of their directors who has promised, on his<br />
return from abroad, to communicate with the<br />
secretary.<br />
<br />
The last case referred to the division of<br />
gramophone fees between a composer and an<br />
author—both members of the society—under<br />
the Copyright Act, 1911. A division accept-<br />
able to both parties has been arranged.<br />
<br />
One case remains open from former months.<br />
The author has given the delinquent an exten-<br />
sion of credit, but proceedings will be taken if<br />
the amount is not, as has been promised, paid<br />
shortly.<br />
<br />
Souicrrors’ CasgEs.<br />
<br />
Nineteen cases have been placed in the hands<br />
of the society’s solicitors. The majority of<br />
them refer to the collection of money. Of<br />
these, numbering twelve, six have already been<br />
successful, the money having been obtained<br />
and forwarded to the authors. In two of the<br />
<br />
cases remaining, summonses have been issued<br />
but have not yet been returnable, in another<br />
an offer has been made for settlement, and in<br />
another the time for payment has been post-<br />
poned with the consent of the author. There<br />
have been two cases of infringement of copy-<br />
right—one in Sweden and the other in England.<br />
The former is in the course of a favourable<br />
settlement, as the penalties have practically<br />
been assessed, and it is only a question of how<br />
far the author is willing to accept the proffered<br />
terms. The other has only recently come into<br />
the office. In a case of piracy in Burma,<br />
considerable difficulty has arisen owing to legal<br />
technicalities, but it is hoped that the difficul-<br />
ties will be cleared away and the author enabled<br />
to establish his title. A question relating to<br />
the cancellation of an agreement and the<br />
rendering of accounts is being negotiated and<br />
is nearing a settlement. One case for the<br />
return of a MS. in the United States is still<br />
open, as it has only just been placed in the<br />
hands of the society’s lawyers in the United<br />
States. A question of account is being investi-<br />
gated, but as the defendant is away for his<br />
holiday it is difficult to get sufficient informa-<br />
tion. There is a serious allegation of over-<br />
charge of the cost of production on the account.<br />
It is possible, however, some explanation may<br />
be forthcoming. The last case refers to the<br />
purchase by a magazine of a story purporting<br />
to be the work of a well-known author who, in<br />
fact, had not written the story in question.<br />
It is hoped to bring the culprit to book. It is<br />
a most serious question of misrepresentation<br />
and must run very close to forgery.<br />
<br />
Of the cases in the solicitors’ hands before<br />
the last meeting a full report appears under the<br />
Committee Notes, but many of these which<br />
were then unsettled, have been satisfactorily<br />
terminated within the past three months.<br />
<br />
fag<br />
<br />
July Elections.<br />
Alford, Miss Daisy Oke Wayside, : Minehead,<br />
<br />
: Somerset.<br />
<br />
Baker, Arthur E., Tauntonand YewTree<br />
F.R.Hist.8., Secretary House, Winsford.<br />
and Librarian.<br />
<br />
Berkley, J., Major, R.F.A. Rooksbury Mill,<br />
Andover.<br />
<br />
54, Parliament Street,<br />
S.W.<br />
<br />
Flint Cottage, Mt.<br />
Ephraim Lane,<br />
Streatham, S.W.<br />
<br />
Bolster, Reginald, c/o<br />
Messrs. Grindlay & Co.<br />
<br />
Burgess, George (‘ Hmil<br />
Meene”’)<br />
10<br />
<br />
38th (K.G.0.) Cen-<br />
tral India Horse.<br />
<br />
53, Telford Avenue,<br />
Streatham Hill,<br />
S.W.<br />
<br />
Daylesford. Newport,<br />
Isle of Wight.<br />
<br />
Sidgard.<br />
<br />
Cooke, Major 8. A. . :<br />
<br />
Dodwell, Samuel (Bernard<br />
Phelps)<br />
<br />
Eldridge, Robey Frank<br />
<br />
Fisher, Miss M. L. (Jlollina<br />
Joy).<br />
<br />
Fulton, Grenville. Authors’ Club, 2<br />
<br />
Whitehall Court,<br />
<br />
S.W.<br />
<br />
Clarence ‘Terrace,<br />
<br />
Leamington Spa.<br />
<br />
Portslade, Sussex.<br />
Adamson Road,<br />
<br />
S. Hampstead.<br />
<br />
St. Bride Foundation,<br />
Bride Lane, E.C.<br />
The Cottage, Bushey<br />
<br />
Heath, Herts.<br />
<br />
Hain, a, M., PhD. 2<br />
F.R.S.L.<br />
<br />
Hall, Leonard . ; :<br />
<br />
Jessop, George H. . a4<br />
<br />
Peddie, R. A. . ‘ :<br />
<br />
Perrin, Mrs. Ida : ;<br />
<br />
Philip, Alex. J. : . 8, Darnley ‘Terrace,<br />
Overcliffe, Graves-<br />
end.<br />
<br />
Shelley, Bertha ‘ Lyceum Club, 128,<br />
Piceadilly.<br />
<br />
Shipley, R. H. . : Charleville, | Cranes-<br />
water Park, South-<br />
sea.<br />
<br />
Slater, Catherine P. . Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
Stewart, Miss Edith Anne. Clarewood, Limps-<br />
<br />
field, Surrey.<br />
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BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
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SS on eee<br />
<br />
While every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
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some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<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 />
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particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
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<br />
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Messrs. Methuen & Co. announce the<br />
publication of a volume of poems by<br />
L. F. Wynne Ffoulkes, under the title of<br />
“Poems of Life and Form.” Variety of<br />
theme and mode of expression is the keynote<br />
of the poems which are dedicated to H.R.H.<br />
The Princess Frederica of Hanover.<br />
<br />
Miss Florence Bone’s autumn books are:<br />
“The Furrow on the Hill,” published by the<br />
Religious Tract Society, and “ Curiosity<br />
Kate,’ which is to be published in England<br />
by Messrs. Partridge, and in America by<br />
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., of Boston.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Smith Elder & Co. will shortly<br />
bring out a book entitled ‘ Two Troubadours ”<br />
by Esme Stuart. Though the lively twins,<br />
‘““Two Troubadours”’ chiefly fill up the<br />
canvas, many characters well-known to the<br />
public in ‘‘ Harum Scarum ” reappear.<br />
<br />
Mr. Norman Porritt, M.R.C.S. will publish<br />
during October with Mr. Evan Macleod,<br />
“The Ear; its hygiene and care,’ founded<br />
on thirty years of practice and the experience<br />
gained in the special eye and ear department,<br />
the author established at the Huddersfield<br />
Royal Infirmary, to which Institution he is<br />
now consulting surgeon. Without trespassing<br />
on the domains of the medical man, the book<br />
aims to be a practical guide for that large<br />
section of the lay public which suffers from<br />
deafness and other ear ailments.<br />
<br />
Messrs. John Long have just published a<br />
novel entitled ‘‘The Gate Openers” by<br />
K. L. Montgomery, author of “ The Cardinal’s<br />
Pawn.” The novel is based upon a dramatic<br />
chapter of English history, the Rebekah Riots<br />
in South Wales in 1843, and is the story of<br />
the crusade against the turnpike system.<br />
<br />
We have received from Mr. B. T. Batsford,<br />
prospectus of a work by Mr. Aymer Vallance,<br />
to be published shortly, for which subscribers’<br />
names are invited. The work constitutes an<br />
account of Oxford collegiate architecture<br />
lavishly illustrated. Mr. Vallance’s- book<br />
differs from those of previous writers who have<br />
devoted a large share of their attention to<br />
the history of the various colleges as institu-<br />
tions, whereas, the present work deals with<br />
them as monuments of beautiful architecture<br />
and storehouses of admirable craftmanship.<br />
Separate descriptions are given of the<br />
University Church, of the schools and the<br />
Bodleian, and then of each college in turn,<br />
but one of the special features of the book is<br />
the introduction, an analytical essay, in which<br />
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the development of the college plan is traced<br />
and the most characteristic details of college<br />
architecture compared and summarised. The<br />
volume includes reproduction from water-<br />
colour and other drawings by the following<br />
artists and draughtsmen: J. Hoefnagel,<br />
M. Burghers, J. Malchair, E. Dayes, J. C.<br />
Nattes, J. Nash, H. O'Neill and G. Hollis.<br />
The book will appear in the autumn at £4 4s,<br />
net., but up to October 8th orders will be<br />
accepted at the rate of £3 13s. 6d. net., and a<br />
list of subscribers’ names will be published<br />
in the work.<br />
<br />
“The River Rhymer,” a volume of verses,<br />
treating of the Thames, its places, people and<br />
life, from the source to the sea, by Mr. J.<br />
Ashby Sterry, will be published this month by<br />
Mr. W. J. Ham-Smith.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Fred Reynolds will shortly issue a<br />
new novel under the title of ‘“ Letters to a<br />
Prison.” The letters are written by a young<br />
wife, separated from her husband, and give<br />
the pageant of the year from a mountain<br />
village in Wales. A local love story is inter-<br />
woven in the plot which itself touches the<br />
deep things of life.<br />
<br />
The September number of ‘‘ The Librarian ”<br />
contains the first part of an article on a subject<br />
of great interest to librarians, namely, ‘‘ Biblio-<br />
graphy.” This is a subject not very much<br />
studied in this country, compared with America<br />
and Germany and one or two other countries<br />
where bibliography is regarded as of great<br />
national importance. Miss Margaret Reed’s<br />
article appears, as well as Mr. T. Edwin Cooper’s<br />
article on “‘ Library Architecture.”<br />
<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. announce<br />
for immediate issue a new novel by Miss<br />
Arabella Kenealy entitled ‘The Irresistible<br />
Mrs. Ferrers.” The irresistible Mrs. Ferrers<br />
is a fashionable beauty, whose ambition is to<br />
be known to history as the most beautiful and<br />
brilliant woman of her day who charmed all<br />
men and succumbed to none, and the story<br />
tells how she directs her life to this end. There<br />
are some original views in the book on the<br />
woman question.<br />
<br />
“The Three Anarchists” is the title of a<br />
new novel by Maud Stepney Rawson. The<br />
story is- written round the unsatisfied soul-<br />
starved young wife of an elderly, weak, cruel<br />
and penurious man, and the other principal<br />
character is a human stepson at inevitable<br />
enmity with so opposite a father. Both<br />
crave for the fulness of life, the woman<br />
intensely desirous of founding a real home<br />
and making real happiness; and the young<br />
man responding to her love and care with more<br />
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than mere affection. Messrs. Stanley Paul<br />
& Co, are the publishers.<br />
<br />
T e same publishers announce for immediate<br />
publication “The Thread of Proof,” a new<br />
story by Mr. Headon Hill. The principal<br />
theme of this volume is the abnormal astuteness<br />
of the conductor of a railway restaurant-car,<br />
whose power of observation and deduction<br />
enables him to solve the many absorbing<br />
““ mysteries’ that come under his ken.<br />
<br />
Mr. Herbert Jenkins is publishing, either<br />
this month or in November, Mr. W. L. George’s<br />
new book “Woman and To-morrow.” It<br />
deals with the principles and aims of Feminism<br />
in the arts, the home, the labour market, ete.,<br />
with its reactions on woman’s political position<br />
and sex-relations. A French translation of<br />
Mr. George’s novel ‘A Bed of Roses” has<br />
been arranged for.<br />
<br />
Mr. C. E. Gouldsbury, author of “ Dulale,<br />
the Forest Guard,” a story of Indian life, has<br />
written his reminiscences of ‘‘ Life in the<br />
Indian Police’ which Messrs. Chapman and<br />
Hall are publishing. It will be illustrated by<br />
the author’s own photographs. Mr. Goulds-<br />
bury was eighteen years old when he joined<br />
the constabulary service, and for thirty years<br />
he hunted native criminals and suppressed<br />
murderous dacoits. In the intervals of duty<br />
he enjoyed big game shooting in the jungle,<br />
and there are tales in the volume, of both work<br />
and sport.<br />
<br />
Miss Annesley Kenealy’s forthcoming novel<br />
is to be published by Messrs. Stanley Paul<br />
& Co. Miss Kenealy has recently placed a<br />
serial with Munsey and the National Press<br />
Agency and short stories with the Strand<br />
Magazine, ete.<br />
<br />
We have received a_ little book by<br />
W. E. Imeson relating to “ Illustrated Music-<br />
Titles and Their Delineators.” The book<br />
contains some interesting information which<br />
should be useful to collectors. There is also<br />
a dictionary of delineators at the end of the<br />
work, and nine illustrations.<br />
<br />
‘The Giant and The Caterpillar ’ and other<br />
addresses to young people, by the Rev. John<br />
A. Hamilton, has just been published by<br />
Messrs. H. R. Allenson, Ltd. There are 62<br />
addresses in all in this volume which should<br />
prove very helpful to Sunday school workers<br />
and others engaged in the training of the young.<br />
<br />
Early in September Miss M. P. Willcocks<br />
published, with Messrs. Mills and Boon, a<br />
study of Devon village life, called ‘‘ The<br />
Wind among the Barley,” after the title of<br />
an old country dance. Cranfordian in style,<br />
it is yet uncranfordian in matter, since the<br />
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Amazons.<br />
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Mrs. Alec Tweedie, whose travel books are<br />
so well-known, has just written a personal<br />
one, entitled “‘ Thirteen Years of a Busy<br />
Woman’s Life,”’ which has just been published<br />
by Mr. Lane in England and the United States.<br />
It is hardly an autobiography, but rather<br />
chapters from the author’s life, with sketches<br />
of other well-known men and women.<br />
<br />
Mr. Bertram Mitford’s new book will be<br />
published shortly by Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co.<br />
This is Mr. Mitford’s fortieth novel, and of<br />
this total, all but nine are entirely or mainly<br />
concerned with South Africa. It is entitled<br />
** Seaford’s Snake,’’ and is not one of the nine<br />
exceptions.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. announce for<br />
immediate issue ‘‘In Jesuit Land: The<br />
Jesuit Missions in Paraguay ” by W. H. Koebel.<br />
The story of the Jesuit missions in Paraguay<br />
forms one of the most fascinating chapters in<br />
the complex history of the River Plate Pro-<br />
vinces. Mr. Koebel has traced the work of<br />
the missions from their inception in the early<br />
days of Spanish South American colonisation<br />
and discovery down to the final expulsion of<br />
the Jesuits by Bucareli in the middle of the<br />
eighteenth century.<br />
<br />
The same publishers have added to their<br />
“Clear Type” Sixpenny Novel Series “ Justice<br />
of the King,” by Hamilton Drummond, and<br />
‘Priscilla of the Good Intent,” by Halliwell<br />
Sutcliffe.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. published on<br />
September 25th a new book by The Right<br />
Hon. James Bryce, entitled ‘“‘ South America<br />
Observations and Reflections.”” The volume<br />
is the product of a journey made by the author<br />
through this region, and records his impres-<br />
sions regarding scenery, social and economic<br />
phenomena, the people, and the prospects for<br />
the development of industry and commerce<br />
in Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chili, Argentina,<br />
Uruguay, and Brazil. Mr. Bryce has also<br />
something to say about the relics of pre-<br />
historic civilisation, the native Indian popula-<br />
tion, and the conditions of political life in the<br />
republics.<br />
<br />
Mr. Maurice Hewlett’s new novel, “ Mrs.<br />
Lancelot: a Comedy of Assumptions,”<br />
published by Messrs. Macmillan & Co. on<br />
September 17th, is concerned with love and<br />
politics, and high life in the days when the<br />
great Reform Bill was the burning question<br />
of the moment. Three men and one woman<br />
occupy the stage almost exclusively. They<br />
are Mrs. Lancelot and her husband, her<br />
<br />
story are not exclusively<br />
<br />
would-be lover, who was no less a personage<br />
than the Prime Minister himself, the famous<br />
Duke of Devizes, and Gervase Poore, a young<br />
and enthusiastic poet, who finally cuts the<br />
knot of a complex love entanglement.<br />
<br />
A re-issue, in a new and attractive binding,<br />
at 1s. net. of Mr. Clive Holland’s novels, ‘‘ My<br />
Japanese Wife,’’ ‘‘ Marcelle of the Latin<br />
Quarter” and “ An Egyptian Coquette,”’ will<br />
be published by Messrs. Lynwood & Co., Ltd.<br />
immediately. Of ““ My Japanese Wife” over<br />
417,000 copies have already been sold, and the<br />
demand continues. It has also been translated<br />
into several foreign languages.<br />
<br />
Messrs. Methuen & Co. are to publish, on<br />
the 17th of this month, the late Mrs. Paget<br />
Toynbee’s edition of the ‘‘ Letters of Madame<br />
au Deffand to Horace Walpole.” This edition<br />
has been completed and seen through the<br />
press by Dr. Paget Toynbee. Since the<br />
publication of the Marquis de Sainte Auldires’<br />
editions of these letters in 1859 and 1877,<br />
Mrs. Toynbee had discovered a large number<br />
of letters, many of which have never hitherto<br />
been published. The whole of the newly<br />
discovered letters were transcribed by Mrs.<br />
Toynbee from the original manuscripts, and<br />
all the previously printed letters, or portions<br />
of letters were carefully collated by her<br />
with the originals. The text of the<br />
original has been reproduced as faithfully<br />
as possible. The work is produced in French,<br />
as it was judged not only that French<br />
letters with English notes, ete. would be an<br />
incongruity, but also that the work of a writer<br />
regarded in her own country as a second<br />
Sévigné should appeal to a large circle of<br />
readers in France.<br />
<br />
Mr. Edward Arnold will issue shortly<br />
‘The Campaigns of a War Artist,’ being the<br />
work of the late Mr. Melton Prior, the well-<br />
known artist of the Illustrated London News.<br />
<br />
Madame Albanesi is engaged on a serial for<br />
the weekly edition of The Times. The story,<br />
which will commence running as a serial early<br />
in 1913 will appear later in book form with<br />
Messrs. Methuen & Co. somewhere about June<br />
or July. Madame Albanesi has only just<br />
recently brought out a new novel, through<br />
Messrs. Methuen, entitled ‘‘ Olivia Mary,”<br />
which is the first new novel she has published<br />
since 1910, when ‘“‘ The Glad Heart ” appeared.<br />
A number of the same author’s books are<br />
being brought out at sevenpence, notably,<br />
““ I know a Maiden ” and “‘ Love and Louisa ”’<br />
with Messrs. Everett, ‘‘ A Question of Quality ”<br />
with Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, and next<br />
year, ‘“‘Susannah and One Other” and<br />
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“Capricious Caroline ’’ with Messrs. Hodder<br />
and Stoughton, while a sixpenny edition of<br />
“The Glad Heart ” is also on sale.<br />
<br />
The book and serial rights for Great Britain<br />
and the Colonies of Mr. Carlton Dawe’s new<br />
novel ‘The Crackswoman’” have been<br />
acquired by Messrs. Ward, Lock & Co. ~<br />
<br />
The poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon the<br />
poet of Greater Britain and the best of all<br />
sporting poets have only to be known to meet<br />
with instant appreciation. Mr. Douglas Sladen<br />
has undertaken the editing, and in an edition<br />
published by Messrs. Constable & Co. has<br />
arranged them according to subject prefixing<br />
a memoir giving all the latest facts that have<br />
come to light about this Scottish aristocrat,<br />
who became policeman, horse-breaker, squatter,<br />
member of Parliament, livery stable keeper,<br />
trainer, and the most famous steeplechase<br />
rider and poet Australia has known. Mr.<br />
Sladen’s edition costs but half-a-crown, though<br />
it is delightfully printed and delightfully illus-<br />
trated. Three of the illustrations are sketches<br />
drawn by Gordon of himself on horseback, and<br />
34 pages of the poems are new.<br />
<br />
His Majesty the King has graciously accepted<br />
a copy of “* When the War is O’er,”’ by the late<br />
Major I’. M. Peacock. The book is published<br />
by Messrs. Longmans & Co.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Archibald Little has been commissioned<br />
by Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. to write the text<br />
on the customs of China for their standard<br />
work on the “‘ Customs of the World,” Part I.<br />
of which will be published this autumn. Mrs.<br />
Little is leaving in the Dunnottar Castle for a<br />
five months’ cruise to the Far East, and, there-<br />
fore, will not be available to speak at any<br />
meetings before next spring.<br />
<br />
Madame Sarah Grand’s new book, ‘* Adnani’s<br />
Orchard,” is to be published on the 15th of this<br />
month. It is a romance dealing with the<br />
social aspect of the land question.<br />
<br />
“The Silence Broken” is the title of a<br />
collection of short stories by Mrs. Baillie<br />
Reynolds, published by Messrs. Mills and Boon.<br />
A new novel by the same writer has just<br />
appeared through Messrs. Hodder and Stough-<br />
ton, entitled “A Makeshift Marriage.” The<br />
story appeared serially in the Daily News last<br />
month. Mrs. Baillie Reynolds has also written<br />
a new serial for the Lady’s World, which will<br />
commence next month, under the title of<br />
“A Doubtful Character,” and a serial for<br />
Messrs. Mowbray, entitled ‘‘ The Secret Stair.”<br />
She is now engaged upon anewnovel for Messrs.<br />
Hodder and Stoughton. Nearly all Mrs. Baillie<br />
Reynolds’ novels have been purchased for<br />
publication in Sweden, In addition to various<br />
<br />
short magazine stories, she wrote a complete<br />
novelette, entitled ‘“‘ The Swashbuckler,” for<br />
Messrs. Cassell’s new magazine of fiction.<br />
This story was also published in America,<br />
where most of Mrs. Baillie Reynolds’ writings<br />
appear.<br />
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DRAMATIC.<br />
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** Rebecca of Sunnyhook Farm” by Kate<br />
Douglas Wiggin and Charlotte Thompson was<br />
produced at the Globe Theatre on Sep-<br />
tember 2nd. It is a simple picture of humble<br />
life in America, telling the story of a little<br />
girl from the day she comes to live with her<br />
aunts till her departure with the “ fairy prince”’<br />
of her fancy.<br />
<br />
Included in the caste are Edith Taliaferro,<br />
Marie L. Day and Mr. Archie Boyd.<br />
<br />
Mr. Louis N. Parker’s play ‘“‘ Drake ’’ was<br />
produced at His Majesty’s Theatre on Sep-<br />
tember 8rd. The play shows Drake at the<br />
outset of his career; on his return from his<br />
journey round the world; and at the time of<br />
the Armada. Various scenes from these three<br />
periods of the life of Drake are represented.<br />
Mr. Lynn Harding as Drake, and Miss Neilson-<br />
Terry as Queen Elizabeth are in the cast,<br />
which also includes Mr. Herbert Waring.<br />
<br />
On September 4th Mr. Graham Moffat’s<br />
new play, ‘“‘ The Scrape of the Pen” was pro-<br />
duced at the Comedy Theatre. Briefly, the<br />
story is this. A scapegrace son, prior to<br />
leaving home for Africa, has persuaded a<br />
girl to sign a marriage contract before witnesses,<br />
and has also left behind him another girl who<br />
subsequently bears him a child and dies.<br />
The first girl, hearing nothing of him for some<br />
years, and believing him to be dead, marries<br />
a farmer and adopts the motherless child.<br />
<br />
The scapegrace returns suddenly and claims<br />
his ‘‘ wife,” but finding he is responsible for<br />
a daughter, tears up the marriage contract<br />
and devotes himself to the child. Mr. and<br />
Mrs. Graham Moffat, Mr. Alfred Brydone and<br />
Mr. Norman McKeown are in the cast.<br />
<br />
Mr. H. V. Esmond’s new comedy “‘ A Young<br />
Man’s Fancy,” produced at the Criterion on<br />
September 7th, deals with a somewhat erratic<br />
youth, for whose heart are two competitors,<br />
one a rich and romantic American girl, and<br />
the other the scheming daughter of the<br />
proprietress of a Regent Street flower shop.<br />
The plot turns upon the endeavours of the<br />
young man’s aunt to separate her nephew<br />
from the flower-shop girl—endeavours soon<br />
rendered rather unnecessary by the marriage<br />
of the girl to another party. Miss Lottie<br />
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Venne, Mr. Charles Maude and Mr. C. M.<br />
Lowne are in the cast.<br />
<br />
Mr. Granville Barker’s play, ‘‘ The Voysey<br />
Inheritance” was revived at the Kingsway<br />
Theatre last month. Mr. Barker’s production<br />
of “* The Winter’s Tale ” at the Savoy Theatre<br />
took place on September 21st. The decoration<br />
of the play was by Mr. Norman Wilkinson,<br />
the old music under the direction of Nellie<br />
Chapman and the morris and country dances<br />
taught by Mary Neal and Clive Carey. In<br />
the play were Mr. Henry Ainley, Mr. Leon<br />
Quartermaine, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Miss<br />
Esmé Beringer and Miss Enid Rose.<br />
<br />
Mr. Forbes Dawson’s drama, “‘ The Triumph<br />
of the Blind ” was produced on September 16th<br />
at the West London Theatre, and has now<br />
gone on a long provincial tour. Mr. Dawson’s<br />
sketch, ‘“ The Woman Makes the Home ’”’ will<br />
be produced at a London Music Hall this<br />
month, after which it will go on a tour of the<br />
combined Syndicate Halls. Negotiations are<br />
pending also over a three-act comedy by<br />
Mr. Forbes Dawson.<br />
<br />
“ The Girl in the Taxi’? by Frederick Fenn<br />
and Arthur Wimperis was produced at the<br />
Lyric Theatre on September 5th with music<br />
by Jean Gilbert.<br />
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HE sudden death of Massenet was a great<br />
aa shock and cast a gloom over Paris, so<br />
universal a favourite was he. Rarely<br />
<br />
has any man been endowed with such charm.<br />
He was not only a melodist as a composer, but<br />
also in his daily life. Strangely enough his<br />
Memoirs were almost ready for publication.<br />
Only two or three months ago he read us a few<br />
chapters of them, and little did we think then<br />
that he would not see the publication of the<br />
volume. He had dated them 1848—1912.<br />
It was in 1848 that he made his début in the<br />
musical world, for it was then that his hands<br />
were first put on the piano. He delighted in<br />
telling the story of the acceptance of his first<br />
compositions, His volume, ‘‘ Mes Souvenirs,”<br />
is charming, full as it is of interesting reminis-<br />
cences, and told in the bright, witty way<br />
peculiar tohim. Massenet was a great worker,<br />
rising at four or five in the morning. Of late<br />
years he had gone out very little into society.<br />
He died at his home in the Rue de Vaugirard,<br />
<br />
and his funeral, at his request, was as simple as<br />
possible.<br />
<br />
Many novelists travel to distant countries in<br />
search of new material and what they term<br />
“local colour” for their forthcoming book.<br />
René Boylesve finds his material very near<br />
home, and his novels gain from the fact that<br />
the “ local colour” is genuine. As a result his<br />
pictures stand the test of time. ‘Le Bel<br />
Avenir”? was a wonderfully delicate, psycho-<br />
logical study. In that novel we were able to<br />
watch the effect of education and surroundings<br />
on three young Frenchmen. In a more recent<br />
book M. Boylesve gave us an account of ‘‘ La<br />
Jeune Fille bien élevée,’”’ and in his latest novel<br />
the girl about whom he had told us is ‘‘ Made-<br />
leine, jeune femme.’ In his preface, the<br />
author explains to us that, in the first of these<br />
two books, he merely wished to show the way<br />
in which a girl brought up in a French pro-<br />
vincial town was educated. He declines, as a<br />
novelist, to go into the question of the best<br />
way of educating girls. In his latest novel he<br />
merely shows us the result of Madeleine’s<br />
education. He maintains that the novelist<br />
simply holds out to us a magic mirror, in which<br />
life, too vast to be seen by most eyes, is reflected<br />
and as it were condensed. In conclusion,<br />
M. Boylesve very truly observes that most of<br />
the misunderstandings which lead to disorder<br />
every day are due to a lack of psychology.<br />
The story of Madeleine’s married life is told by<br />
herself, and starts from the moment she gets<br />
into the train on her honeymoon journey. We<br />
will not spoil the story by giving a résumé of it,<br />
as all those who know this author’s work will<br />
prefer to read the book itself.<br />
<br />
Another story which treats of a woman’s<br />
married life has recently appeared, under the<br />
title of ‘‘ Lettres d’une Divorcée.”” The author<br />
of this novel is Leona Faber. It is cleverly<br />
written in a clear, natural style, so natural<br />
indeed that it seems more like a diary contain-<br />
ing a story from real life than a work of imagina-<br />
tion, There is not a word too much in it, a<br />
rare quality in a woman’s novel, and yet in<br />
these few words the writer has made her<br />
characters very living.<br />
<br />
There is a dearth just now of really strong<br />
novels. Perhaps it is because everyone<br />
appears to be either reading or writing memoirs.<br />
<br />
M. Elie Halévy has now published the first<br />
volume of a work entitled “ Histoire du peuple<br />
anglais au dix-neuvieme siécle.’’ England, in<br />
1815, is the subject of the first volume. The<br />
author treats in turn the political institutions,<br />
the social economy and the religion and culture<br />
of the English nation.<br />
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““La Colline Inspirée”’ is the title of the<br />
forthcoming novel by Maurice Barres. It will<br />
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be published first as a serial in the Revue<br />
hebdomadaire.<br />
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“Les Ravageurs”’ is the latest work by<br />
M. J. Fabre, the celebrated entomologist. In<br />
this volume we have an account of the various<br />
insects to be dreaded by the agriculturist, and<br />
not only does M. Fabre tell the ravages which<br />
may be made by the insects, but he shows how<br />
it is possible to fight against them. The<br />
volume will be welcomed by all who have read<br />
the preceding ones. :<br />
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“* Etude raisonnée de ]’Aéroplane et descrip-<br />
tion critique des modéles actuels” is a work<br />
which will render great service to the science of<br />
aviation. It is written by M. Jules Bordeaux,<br />
a brother of M. Henry Bordeaux, the well-<br />
known novelist.<br />
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The theatres are all opening their doors once<br />
more and announcing their programme for the<br />
Autumn season.<br />
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“* Bagatelles,’ by Paul Hervieu, is the new<br />
play at the Comédie Frangaise. At the Odeon,<br />
M. Antoine announces a whole list of new<br />
writers, and the Athénée is rehearsing a play<br />
which it is hoped will have the same success as<br />
“Le Coeur dispose ”’ of last season.<br />
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Atys HALLARD.<br />
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“‘Mes Souvenirs” (Pierre Lafitte).<br />
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‘Madeleine, jeune femme” (Calmann Levy).<br />
“Lettres d’une Divorcce”’ (Ollendorff).<br />
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“Les Ravageurs” (Delagrave).<br />
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“Etude raisonnée de l Aeroplane” (Gauthier Villars).<br />
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NEW LITERARY CONVENTION BETWEEN<br />
FRANCE AND RUSSIA.<br />
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ae the courtesy of the Foreign Office—<br />
which we desire to acknowledge in the<br />
fullest way—we were indebted for very<br />
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early information that a copyright convention<br />
had been signed between France and Russia.<br />
The politeness shown us was accompanied by<br />
an intimation that, as the treaty was still un-<br />
published in either country at the date when<br />
the communication was made, the intelligence<br />
must be regarded as confidential. Having<br />
however, recently received an intimation that<br />
the convention has now been made officially<br />
public we are at liberty, first of all, to express<br />
our pleasure in being able to say that a first<br />
step has been taken towards drawing Russia<br />
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into the general concert of the Western Literary<br />
Conventions. We are still, it is true, very far<br />
from the much-to-be-desired consummation of<br />
finding Russia among the signatories of the<br />
Berne Convention ; but where the difficulties<br />
are so many, to have seen a beginning made is<br />
no small matter. It would be to ourselves a<br />
source of the highest satisfaction if steps could<br />
be taken that would lead to some agreement<br />
between Great Britain and Russia such as that<br />
which now exists between Russia and France.<br />
<br />
According to the terms of the new convention<br />
the authors belonging to either country will<br />
enjoy for their literary or artistic works,<br />
published in either country, or in any other<br />
country, or not yet published, the rights<br />
accorded, or to be accorded, in either country.<br />
The same rights are accorded to authors who<br />
are neither Frenchmen nor Russians, if they<br />
publish in either of the contracting countries.<br />
<br />
The expression “ literary or artistic works ”<br />
is in the new convention interpreted in the<br />
wide sense now generally used in copyright<br />
enactments.<br />
<br />
The literary author of either country enjoys<br />
in the other country an exclusive right of<br />
translation for ten years, dating from<br />
January 1 of the year of the publication of<br />
the original, on the condition that this right of<br />
translation is mentioned as reserved. The<br />
right lapses if the author does not make use of<br />
it within five years from the date of the publi-<br />
cation of the original.<br />
<br />
Authors of drama and of musical drama,<br />
published or not, have protection for the<br />
original during the whole duration of the copy-<br />
right of the original, and for translation during<br />
the period of their right of translation.<br />
<br />
In the case of musical works a statement, on<br />
every copy, of the reservation of rights is<br />
necessary. Photographs must bear the name<br />
of the publisher, and the date of publication,<br />
Literary and artistic works cannot be repro-<br />
duced for the cinematograph without the<br />
consent of the author.<br />
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The new convention is to remain in force for<br />
five years.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
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1. VERY member has a right toask 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 />
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business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel’s opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
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2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers’ agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinarysolicitors, Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
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3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
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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 yourself, 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 />
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5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members’ 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’s work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
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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 />
<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s.<br />
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annum, or £10 10s. for life membership. .<br />
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WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
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ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
agreement, There -are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :—<br />
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I. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
<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 />
<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement),<br />
<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
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C1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
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(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 />
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(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,’’<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
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(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
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(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights,<br />
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(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 />
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III. The Royalty System.<br />
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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 Zhe Author.<br />
<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
<br />
The main points are :—<br />
<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
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(2.) Keep control of the advertisements,<br />
<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book. :<br />
<br />
General.<br />
<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous te the author,<br />
<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
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The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :—<br />
<br />
C1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
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(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
tothe author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheid.<br />
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(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
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WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
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EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
N Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
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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 />
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3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-—<br />
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(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills,<br />
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(b.) 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 inadvance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed. :<br />
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(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (7.c., 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 (8.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
<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 />
<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 />
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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 />
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9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
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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 />
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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 />
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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 />
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REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
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By in aed typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to theauthor<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 />
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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 2s. 6d. per act.<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
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RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
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WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
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ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
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 />
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STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
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The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members’ stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
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THE READING BRANCH.<br />
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EMBERS will greatly assist the Svuciety in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works, The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and expericnce. The<br />
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fee is one guinea,<br />
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REMITTANCES.<br />
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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 />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only,<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
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The Editor of “The Author” would be<br />
indebted to those Members who haye no<br />
further use for the July number, containing<br />
a supplement of the Board of Trade Regula-<br />
tions, if they would forward the same to the<br />
Office, as the issue is sold out.<br />
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ELECTIONS TO THE COUNCIL.<br />
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Miss Marie Coreu, The Rt. Hon. A. J.<br />
Balfour and Prof. Gilbert Murray have joined<br />
the Council of the Society of Authors.<br />
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An AMENDED AGREEMENT.<br />
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In the July number of The Author, under<br />
the heading of “A Dangerous Clause,”<br />
attention was directed to an agreement<br />
between publisher and author, in which<br />
Messrs. George Allen & Co., Ltd., figured as<br />
publishers. The author concerned informs us<br />
that Messrs. Allen & Co. have deleted the<br />
objectionable clause, to his gratification.<br />
<br />
EpirortaL MretTuops.<br />
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A WELL-KNOWN writer, who is a member of<br />
the society, has forwarded to us the following<br />
letter which has been addressed to him.<br />
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Tur GooLe ure To DarE—? Monthly Magazine.<br />
Head Office :<br />
37, Kinesway, GOOLE,<br />
August 19th, 1912.<br />
Dear Mr. G.,—Having heard of your great talents in<br />
writing and having read many of your loving stories, we<br />
should be very thankful to you if you could let us have a<br />
nice story, no matter how short it is, for our magazine.<br />
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Our publication is quite a new one, it is why we want<br />
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as much as possible the help of great and_well-known<br />
writers to launch it, and afterwards support it.<br />
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We must admit beforehand that we will not’ be able to<br />
ive you any remuneration for your kind service, as we<br />
ardly possess enough capital to get the magazine to<br />
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print, but we and all our friends feel certain that our<br />
publication will be a success, but it would be a greater<br />
success still if we are able to print stories written by great<br />
authors. We ask you to send us an article as a sort of<br />
help to us.<br />
<br />
Hoping you will favour us with a few stories which will<br />
<br />
appear as one of the “clous”’ of the issue,<br />
We are, dear Mr. G.,<br />
Yours very respectfully,<br />
The Manager Secretary,<br />
G. C. De BAERDEMAECKER.<br />
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p-p. E. W. TOowNEND<br />
G. C. de B.<br />
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All correspondence should be sent :—<br />
Tue GooLe up To DaTE—?<br />
c/o G, C. DE BAERDEMAECKER,<br />
37, Kingsway, Goole,<br />
Yorkshire.<br />
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The letter hardly calls for any comment, but<br />
it affords one more illustration of the view,<br />
which still prevails in some quarters, that<br />
authors differ from most other people in that<br />
it is not necessary for them to be paid for their<br />
work. That the editor has hardly enough<br />
capital to get the magazine printed does not<br />
seem a sound reason for asking the author to<br />
provide it in the form of gratuitous contribu-<br />
tions. It is fairly certain that the printer has<br />
not been asked to print the magazine without<br />
payment; why, then, should the author be<br />
expected to fill its pages on these terms ?<br />
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CoLONIAL PUBLICATION.<br />
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On another page of this issue we publish,<br />
with the kind permission of The Publishers’<br />
Circular, an article on the Australian book<br />
trade.<br />
<br />
The question of Colonial publication is a<br />
matter of increasing importance, and notes<br />
have from time to time appeared in The Author<br />
dealing with the subject. One point seems<br />
quite clear—that English works do not get a fair<br />
circulation on the Colonial markets. One main<br />
reason for this is the fact that the American<br />
publisher is much more energetic and pushing<br />
than the English publisher. He has already<br />
practically secured the Canadian market for<br />
himself, is gradually securing the New Zealand<br />
and Australian markets, and, no doubt, will<br />
extend his activities further into the South<br />
African market if he is allowed to do so. The<br />
English author may benefit by this, if he cares<br />
to give his Colonial rights to be marketed under<br />
his American contract. Indeed, we know of<br />
one author who has done this and has found<br />
the result eminently satisfactory, securing to<br />
himself a larger Colonial circulation than he<br />
had obtained previously through his English<br />
publisher. But our patriotism revolts from<br />
such action. By another way, however, it is<br />
possible that the Colonial market may, at no<br />
distant date, open up a wider field for the<br />
English author, namely, by Colonial publishers<br />
endowed with energy and foresight, making<br />
contracts direct with the English authors.<br />
This is hinted at in the article which we<br />
publish, Robertsons, apparently, issuing one<br />
new American novel every week. Why should<br />
they not issue one new English novel every<br />
week? The English author, if he deals direct<br />
with a Colonial publisher, can obtain a larger<br />
royalty than if he deals through an English<br />
publisher, or even through an American pub-<br />
lisher, for the extra middleman is bound to take<br />
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a share of the profits. This method of obtaining<br />
increased circulation and increased returns has<br />
been proved by certain authors who have dealt<br />
direct with Colonial publishers. There is this<br />
further argument, that if a Colonial publisher<br />
knows that he has the sole right for the Colony<br />
he can put much more push into the sale of the<br />
book than he would when his stock may meet<br />
with competition in the same market from<br />
other booksellers and publishers.<br />
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In the first instance, we should like to see<br />
the English publisher obtaining the larger<br />
markets to which the English author is entitled.<br />
Failing this, we should like to see the Colonial<br />
publishers making direct contracts. Lastly,<br />
failing the two former methods, it may he<br />
necessary to advise English authors to place<br />
their Colonial rights with the American pub-<br />
lisher, but patriotism forbids the reeommenda-<br />
tion of the last till the two former methods<br />
have been tried and found wanting.<br />
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CopyYRIGHT.<br />
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As all members of the society ought to know,<br />
the new Copyright Bill came into force on<br />
July Ist. We have warned members from time<br />
to time of the great danger of transferring the<br />
copyright to a publisher or to an exploiter of copy-<br />
right property. We desire once again to affirm this<br />
statement, that in no circumstances should a<br />
dramatist, composer, or a writer of books get rid<br />
of his copyright, however tempting the offer may<br />
be that is made to him. Under the present Act<br />
copyright has a much wider significance than it<br />
had under the Act of 1842, and, therefore, what was<br />
wrong under the Act of 1842 becomes now an<br />
heinous crime.<br />
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AUTHORS’ INSURANCE.<br />
<br />
WE have received from Vienna the Fortieth<br />
Annual Pension List (for 1911) of the Viennese<br />
Journalists’ and Authors’ Society (Concordia), and<br />
also the Fourteenth Annual Report for the same<br />
year of the Viennese Old Age and Sick Fund of the<br />
Viennese Journalists, erected in honour of the<br />
Jubilee of thie Emperor of Austria. The former<br />
document opens with the sentiment, “ Physical<br />
existence without financial solidity and security is<br />
not happiness but torment”; a sentiment with<br />
which too many authors will be ready to agree.<br />
The forty years’ history of the former society has<br />
been a record of long struggles with difficulties,<br />
happily, however, a successful struggle which en::bles<br />
the directors to declare the present state of the<br />
society satisfactory. The number of members at<br />
the end of last year was 339. As all make a<br />
<br />
voluntary insurance all are in some sort beneficiaries;<br />
but we must confess that the extremely complicated<br />
nature of the provisions for voluntary insurance<br />
and for pensions of different sorts render it difficult<br />
to understand what pensions are distributed, The<br />
report of the younger society is in this respect by<br />
far more lucid. Its members are 221, of whom 29<br />
receive old-age pensions amounting altogether to<br />
about £70. We congratulate both societies on<br />
their flourishing condition.<br />
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AUSTRALIAN BOOK TRADE NOTES.<br />
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(Reprinted by the kind permission of the<br />
“ Publishers’ Circular.’’)<br />
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MELBOURNE, July Ist, 1912.<br />
T all times large buyers of books, the<br />
A Australian people are likely to excel<br />
themselves in this respect in the<br />
future, splendid general rains having fallen<br />
over this grateful continent during the weeks<br />
of June that must represent a cash value of<br />
goodness knows how many million pounds<br />
sterling.<br />
<br />
We have also the blessing of a low rate of<br />
postage for books throughout the Common-<br />
wealth, which should help greatly to spread<br />
the printed page; book postage within<br />
Australia is now 2d. per Ib. for imported books,<br />
and 1d. per Ib. for those printed and bound<br />
here.<br />
<br />
Many of the representatives of English and<br />
American publishers were in Melbourne during<br />
the past month, gathering in their “ journey ”<br />
orders, among them being Messrs. E. R.<br />
Bartholomew, Roger Macdonald, John Wyatt,<br />
J. Kettlewell, J. Ogle, A. Macgregor, William<br />
Steele, A. Gould, and John Morgan. Record<br />
orders are reported from Sydney, and doubtless<br />
the Melbourne ones will prove equally generous.<br />
<br />
The trade is now largely engaged in thinking<br />
and planning for Christmas, in taking stock,<br />
and in holding sales of surplus stock. As to<br />
bargains in books, the whole of the Australian<br />
book trade is really like a huge bargain counter,<br />
in that we sell many books at much less than<br />
their published price in England and America.<br />
Novels and travel books especially are thus<br />
cheapened here, the newest novel, at a dollar<br />
and a half in America or six shillings in Eng-<br />
land, being sold by us at three shillings and<br />
sixpence in cloth. Luckily the 25 per cent.<br />
discount does not obtain in this country.<br />
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All net books are sold at an advance on<br />
published price, the 7d. net cloth selling for<br />
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9d., the 1s. net for 1s. 3d., and sometimes for<br />
1s. 6d., and the 2s. net for 2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Fifteenpence has become a very popular<br />
price, with the growth of the great Is. net<br />
series, such as Everyman’s, Collins’ Pocket<br />
Classics, World Library, Home University, and<br />
so on.<br />
<br />
The Australian country-town bookseller is<br />
generally not a big factor in the distribution of<br />
literature, most of which is done from the big<br />
cities ; he is often not so much a bookseller as<br />
a seller of books and other things.<br />
<br />
Our people are so thinly spread over a vast<br />
territory that it is difficult to market one’s<br />
wares even in one’s own district ; but time will<br />
remedy this with the continual extension of<br />
railways and settlements, and the country<br />
bookseller will, as his town and district develop,<br />
become a substantial unit, and a tradesman of<br />
knowledge and pride, as in the old country.<br />
<br />
Owing to the lack of means of free communi-<br />
cation between the settlements and the outside<br />
world, an institution known as the Mechanics’<br />
Institute and Free Library has evolved. This<br />
is a combining of the residents of a settlement<br />
or township to form a centre and provide a<br />
building for general recreation and _ self-<br />
improvement purposes.<br />
<br />
These institutes, of which there are some<br />
hundreds in Victoria alone, receive substantial<br />
Government grants of money, which are mostly<br />
spent with the big city bookseller. About<br />
90 per cent. of the purchases are of modern<br />
fiction, and very discriminating these “‘ back<br />
blocks ”’ people are—only the best sellers being<br />
found on their lists—and they get 15 per cent.<br />
discount off the ordinary selling prices. It<br />
may be a debatable question whether public<br />
money should be spent in the purchase of light<br />
reading, but it remains that the Mechanics’<br />
Institute is a factor to bear in mind when<br />
buying novels from the publisher.<br />
<br />
The American novel, about which the<br />
English publisher shows, or ought to show,<br />
some concern, is still a strong feature in the<br />
Australian bookseller’s stock.<br />
<br />
The public are not so much attracted by an<br />
author’s name as by the quality of the novel,<br />
although the fine cover designs and attractive<br />
jackets must help to draw attention to them.<br />
The American publishers do not bind up in<br />
a special cover for this market, like the Eng-<br />
lish Colonial library, and most of them prefer<br />
to let one distributing firm, like Robertson’s,<br />
deal with an important book for Australia and<br />
New Zealand.<br />
<br />
In this way Robertson’s issue at least one<br />
new American novel every week now.<br />
<br />
Melville and Mullen also handle occasional<br />
“sole agency ” novels for two or three English<br />
publishers.<br />
<br />
Cole’s Book Arcade, who have so far steered<br />
clear of sole rights to any extent, have pub-<br />
lished one or two books themselves lately,<br />
being possessed of a fine plant and premises<br />
for this purpose. One particularly, of much<br />
interest to early colonists, being ‘“‘ The Gold<br />
Rushes of the Fifties,’ by W. E. Adcock,<br />
narratives of the gold finds of the “ roaring<br />
fifties ’ that gave Victoria her great impetus in<br />
the race for wealth and population.<br />
<br />
Publishing in Australia will presently become<br />
a trade of importance when matters of tariff,<br />
copyright, and labour conditions are more<br />
definite than at present. Meanwhile we ‘have<br />
the N.S.W. Bookstall Co., Ltd., issuing a<br />
successful shilling series of humorous books<br />
and “ shockers ’’—some sixty odd titles—and<br />
Gordon and Gotch announcing the printing of<br />
sixpenny novels here.<br />
<br />
This subject of publishing in Australia will<br />
be dealt with further in a future letter.<br />
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S. J. E.<br />
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A MINOR NOVELIST.<br />
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WE have read with great interest the article<br />
in the September National Review, signed by<br />
‘“* A Minor Novelist.”<br />
<br />
It is difficult to criticise the results of ‘“‘ A<br />
Minor Novelist’s”’ experience, as he has not<br />
given the names of the works he has published<br />
or the names of the publishers with whom he<br />
hasmade his agreements. In other words, he has<br />
given no idea as to the quality of his work or<br />
the quality of the publishers. No doubt it was<br />
impossible for him to do so. It seems clear, how-<br />
ever, that in many cases he has undersold the<br />
book market and has undersold, accordingly,<br />
the market of his fellow-workers. This may<br />
have arisen either from ignorance or from<br />
necessity. In any case the matter is very<br />
serious, as it is owing to these lapses that the<br />
minor novelist finds himself in the present<br />
position.<br />
<br />
If all authors of fiction undertook not to<br />
accept less than a certain amount, either the<br />
minor novelist would not exist, at any rate in<br />
the position stated in the article, or he would<br />
be able to get a living wage.<br />
<br />
We entirely disagree with the statement that<br />
it is a counsel of perfection for popular novelists<br />
to tell young authors that they should never<br />
part with the copyright. This amounts to<br />
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saying that no publisher will ever alter his agree-<br />
ments. The daily experience at the office of<br />
the Society of Authors is absolutely the con-<br />
trary. Nowadays, very few authors writing on<br />
any subject sell their copyright, and even if a<br />
book is commissioned by the publisher and<br />
the writer is a specialist he takes care not to<br />
betray himself and his comrades. If they do<br />
so they do so through ignorance of their rights<br />
and powers ; and publishers, who naturally<br />
demand from an author not merely all they<br />
are entitled to but all they think they can get,<br />
will readily alter an agreement and concede an<br />
author the copyright when they find out that<br />
the author also knows something about his<br />
business. :<br />
<br />
We give to “ A Minor Novelist ” our sincerest<br />
sympathy, if his reason for selling both his<br />
serial rights and book rights below the market<br />
value was to him a matter of necessity, and we<br />
think, as he himself suggests, that it would be<br />
much better for him to drive a taxi-cab than to<br />
keep on underselling the literary market.<br />
<br />
Another fact he puts forward that shows a<br />
lack of power to drive a satisfactory bargain<br />
for one or both of the above reasons, is his<br />
acknowledgment that when he sells a serial he<br />
is generally required to confer upon the pur-<br />
chaser the right to make any alteration he<br />
pleases in the plot, incidents, or characters.<br />
This is a serious confession for any author to<br />
make who has any respect for his own work or<br />
his art. Many authors are willing to make<br />
alterations themselves to meet the objections<br />
of an editor or his staff, but to give an arbitrary<br />
power to another person to make such cor-<br />
rections seems to point to the fact that the<br />
author of the article is not really a minor<br />
novelist, but a scribbler of stories, to suit the<br />
taste of any chance comer.<br />
<br />
Since this note was penned we have read in<br />
the Globe a very sensible letter dealing with<br />
the points raised, and signed “ Another Minor<br />
Novelist.” It appears that he has written<br />
eight books and that they have brought him<br />
in an average of £200 per book, and best of<br />
all that he has never parted with his copyright.<br />
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PUBLISHERS’ ROYALTY AGREEMENTS.<br />
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<br />
i the June number of The Author we<br />
published the first part of an article<br />
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entitled “ The Author Grants.” In that<br />
.article those clauses were dealt with in which<br />
the publisher asked the author to transfer his<br />
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copyright. What was stated in that article<br />
must be repeated here, No AUTHOR SHOULD<br />
TRANSFER THE COPYRIGHT TO A PUBLISHER<br />
WHILE HE PRESERVES A CONTINUING INTEREST<br />
IN HIS WoRK. But in this article it might be<br />
added, NO AUTHOR SHOULD GRANT TO A PUB-<br />
LISHER THE EXCLUSIVE LICENCE TO PUBLISH<br />
HIS WORK DURING THE TERM OF COPYRIGHT<br />
WITHOUT LIMITATION, for this may lead to evils<br />
almost as serious as those which result when<br />
the author transfers his copyright.<br />
<br />
In the article referred to it was suggested<br />
that the first clause in all agreements should<br />
be “ What the Author grants ” and should run<br />
as follows :-—<br />
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“‘ The author grants the publisher a licence to publish his<br />
format (or in format agreed<br />
<br />
The other limitations which this clause<br />
should contain are :—(1) limitation as to<br />
country (generally Great Britain, Ireland,<br />
the Colonies and the Dependencies thereof) ;<br />
(2) limitation as to edition (an edition 1,000,<br />
2,000 or 8,000 copies); (8) limitation as to<br />
time for a period of 3, 5 or 7 years.<br />
<br />
Here, as in the former article, we set<br />
out from the publishers’ own agreements the<br />
clauses which they have asked the author to<br />
sign, in order that the author may easily recog-<br />
nise them, and may as easily gather from the<br />
following comments some of the disadvan-<br />
tages under which he will labour if he affixes<br />
his signature to them. They are as follows :—<br />
<br />
A. The publisher shall during the legal term of copyright<br />
have the exclusive right of producing and publishing the<br />
work in England and the colonies and the United States<br />
of America. The publisher shall have the entire control<br />
of the publication and sale and terms of sale of the book,<br />
and the author shall not during the continuance of this<br />
agreement (without the consent of the publisher) publish<br />
any abridgment translation or dramatised version of the<br />
work.<br />
<br />
During the continuance of this agreement the copy-<br />
right of the work shall be vested in the author who may be<br />
—S as the proprietor thereof accordingly.<br />
<br />
. The author hereby agrees to assign to the said<br />
& Co. their successors and assigns, and the said & Co.<br />
hereby agree to purchase the sole right of publication of<br />
the above work in the British Empire and elsewhere.<br />
<br />
The said & Co. shall be at liberty to dispose of<br />
copies at special terms to America, and the author shall<br />
be entitled to receive per cent. of the price at which<br />
copies are sold in sheets to America.<br />
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C. That the copyright of the said new novel shall remain<br />
the property of the author and that at the expiration of<br />
five years from the date on which the publisher first<br />
publish the said new novel or at the expiration of any<br />
subsequent period of five years thereafter this agreement<br />
may be terminated by either party on giving three months<br />
notice of intention to do so.<br />
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That the publishers shall issue or cause to be issued a<br />
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special edition of the said new novel for sale in the Colonies<br />
and Dependencies of Great Britain (with the exception<br />
of Canada) and they shall pay to the author on all copies<br />
of the said new novel sold in such special edition a royalty<br />
of 4d. a copy.<br />
<br />
That the United States rights, the Canadian rights, the<br />
rights of translation, dramatisation and the right to<br />
publish the said new novel in English on the Continent of<br />
Europe are reserved by the author.<br />
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D. The author hereby agrees to assign to the publishers<br />
their successors and assigns and the publishers hereby<br />
agree to purchase the sole right of publication in volume<br />
form during the legal term of copyright of an original work<br />
entitled “ ” of which he is the author.<br />
<br />
Tf the above book ahall be included in the publisher’s<br />
Colonial Library, or any colonial edition arranged for by<br />
the publisher, the royalty shall be 3¢. per copy on all<br />
copies sold. The publisher shall have the right to arrange<br />
for publication of the said work in the United States of<br />
America and shall credit the author with per cent.<br />
of all profits accruing from such an arrangement. All<br />
profits arising from minor rights such as translations,<br />
continental editions, &c., to be divided equally between the<br />
author and the publisher.<br />
<br />
Let us now take, for particular comment,<br />
the clauses printed above, in their order, stating,<br />
as we have already stated, that to grant to a<br />
publisher an exclusive licence to publish a work<br />
during the term of copyright without limita-<br />
tion, may lead to evils almost as serious as<br />
those which result from the transfer of copy-<br />
right. The evils resulting from the transfer of<br />
copyright have been set out in many numbers<br />
of The Author and in the reports. As far as<br />
literary and dramatic works are concerned the<br />
result attending this constant repetition has<br />
been, on the whole, successful. No dramatists<br />
transfer their copyright, and very few authors,<br />
except in the cases where the work has been<br />
commissioned. The musical composer, however,<br />
is not free of the shackles of the music pub-<br />
lisher who endeavours to bind him in every<br />
possible way, with the scantiest return.<br />
<br />
A. The publisher shall during the legal term of copyright<br />
have the exclusive right of producing and publishing the<br />
work in England the Colonies and the United States of<br />
America. The publisher shall have the entire control of<br />
the publication and sale and terms of sale of the book, and<br />
the author shall not during the continuance of this agree-<br />
ment (without the consent of the publisher) publish any<br />
abridgment translation or dramatised version of the work.<br />
<br />
During the continuance of this agreement the copyright<br />
of the work shall be vested in the author, who may be<br />
registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly.<br />
<br />
_ This article deals with the conveyance of the<br />
licence to publish, that is, the appointment of<br />
the publisher as agent to do certain things, as<br />
distinct from the conveyance of copyright, 7.e.,<br />
the transfer of property, which allows the<br />
publisher to act as principal.<br />
<br />
This is a step in the right direction, but an<br />
author must beware, for the grant of a licence<br />
to publish unconditioned by limitations of<br />
<br />
time, place, price, edition, etc., may prove as<br />
dangerous almost as the transfer of the copy-<br />
right.<br />
<br />
If a publisher is granted a licence to publish,<br />
he can only publish the work that an author<br />
submits to him; he cannot make even those<br />
alterations which, often so galling to an author<br />
who conveys the copyright, do not, however,<br />
damage his literary reputation.<br />
<br />
The clause then, as it stands, isolated from<br />
the rest of the agreement, is a dangerous clause,<br />
as it does not limit the publisher either in shape,<br />
price, time or edition,—it does not even limit<br />
the publisher to book form, though apparently<br />
it does not include all the countries of the<br />
Berne Convention. There is, however, one<br />
serious defect in the clause.<br />
<br />
“The author shall not during the continuance of this<br />
agreement (without the consent of the publisher) publish<br />
any abridgment, translation, or dramatised version.”<br />
<br />
What do these words mean? What would<br />
they mean if read to an_ unsophisticated<br />
author? They would read rather as a vagary<br />
of the publisher, and the author would think<br />
that the words, like the words in a lease, would<br />
mean that such consent would not be unreason-<br />
ably withheld.<br />
<br />
The author would indeed have some right to<br />
think so, when he reads another clause, not<br />
printed here, from the same agreement, which<br />
carefully apportions the division of profits on<br />
serial and other minor rights.<br />
<br />
There is something, no doubt, to be said in<br />
case of some books, scientific books, diction-<br />
aries, and others of a like kind, in favour of<br />
restricting the author from publishing an<br />
abridgment while the book of his original grant<br />
is selling, and the publisher might well desire<br />
to have a word in the matter. But this agree-<br />
ment cannot apply to translation rights, still<br />
less to the sale of a dramatic version.<br />
<br />
What then actually happens? The author,<br />
with some difficulty, arranges with a foreign<br />
author and publisher to translate and publish<br />
his book. He writes to the publisher and asks<br />
for his consent. The publisher replies that he<br />
eannot give his consent unless he receives<br />
50 per cent. of the profits, there is nothing to<br />
prevent his asking 75 per cent. even. The<br />
author is bound to acquiesce or lose his market.<br />
<br />
An agent, it is true, takes 10 per cent. for<br />
finding a market, but here a publisher will ask<br />
50 per cent. for doing nothing.<br />
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The case is worse, however, when it comes<br />
to the sale of a dramatic version. It is<br />
important for an author who has dramatised<br />
his work to have control of the publication of<br />
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the words of his drama, and this could not<br />
interfere with the publication of his book,<br />
although the publisher might say that it would.<br />
This right to publish a dramatic version must<br />
not be confused with the right to perform,<br />
i.e., dramatic rights which are included in some<br />
publishers’ agreements. :<br />
<br />
An author may take infinite time, trouble<br />
and labour in converting his book into a drama,<br />
and in getting it accepted by a manager, and<br />
then be met by the same demand. This, too,<br />
when he expected merely a polite letter of<br />
sanction. An author cannot be urged too<br />
strongly not to sign any agreement in which<br />
these words are included.<br />
<br />
To Clause 2 an objection must be raised on<br />
the ground of bad draughstmanship.<br />
<br />
If the author has clearly never conveyed the<br />
copyright to the publisher the copyright is<br />
vested in him, and he is clearly entitled to be<br />
registered as proprietor. There is no need,<br />
therefore, to insert the clause, and anything<br />
that may raise an extra chance of a legal<br />
argument should be avoided.<br />
<br />
B. The author hereby agrees to assign to the said<br />
& Co. their successors and assigns, and the said & Co.<br />
hereby agree to purchase the sole right of publication of<br />
the above work in the British Empire and elsewhere.<br />
<br />
The said & Co. shall be at liberty to dispose of<br />
copies at special terms to America, and the author shall<br />
be entitled to receive per cent. of the price at which<br />
copies are sold in sheets to America.<br />
<br />
It should be stated once for all that the<br />
agreement with a publisher should be personal<br />
to that publisher, even where the author is<br />
only conveying a licence to publish. It is a<br />
mistake, therefore, to allow the words “ their<br />
successors and assigns,’’ to come into a<br />
publication agreement. Many authors would<br />
be quite willing to allow certain publishers<br />
to have a licence to publish, but if anything<br />
happened to the firm they might strongly<br />
object to the agreement being sold in the<br />
open market to any chance purchaser. If,<br />
however, the author does grant a licence to the<br />
“ publishers, their successors and assigns,” he<br />
should see that his grant is strictly limited and<br />
that he is guarded against his work falling into<br />
the hands of another person antagonistic to<br />
his interests.<br />
<br />
There is one further point in the clause<br />
which should be mentioned, and that is, the<br />
wording. The author should not “ assign the<br />
right of publication,” but should merely<br />
““ grant a licence to publish the work in book<br />
form.”<br />
<br />
These slight alterations mean a good deal<br />
from the legal point of view.<br />
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AUTHOR.<br />
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This clause is unlimited as to country and is<br />
not limited as to book form. It is wider than<br />
the one quoted just before and is dangerous.<br />
<br />
Clause 2 is not an unreasonable clause, as it<br />
gives the publisher liberty to deal with the<br />
American market, when the author has not<br />
acquired the American copyright.<br />
<br />
In fact, save in exceptional cases, this liberty<br />
is best left to the publisher. All the author<br />
has to see is that he gets a fair royalty.<br />
<br />
C. That the copyright of the said new novel shall<br />
remain the property of the author and that at the expira-<br />
tion of five years from the day on which the publisher first<br />
publish the said new novel or at the expiration of any<br />
subsequent period of five years thereafter this agreement<br />
may be terminated by either party on giving three months<br />
notice of intention to do so.<br />
<br />
That the publisher shall issue or cause to be issued a<br />
special edition of the said new novel for sale in the Colonies<br />
and Dependencies of Great Britain (with the exception of<br />
Canada) and they shall pay to the author on all copies<br />
of the said new novel sold in such special edition a royalty<br />
of 44. a copy.<br />
<br />
That the United States rights, the Canadian rights, the<br />
rights of translation, dramatisation and the right to publish<br />
the said new novel in English on the Continent of Europe<br />
are reserved to the author.<br />
<br />
A licence to publish limited as to time.<br />
<br />
This form of grant has a great many advan-<br />
tages and is certainly to be recommended to<br />
the writers of technical works, who must have<br />
power, from time to time, to reconsider their<br />
position and bring their works up to date.<br />
Three years is, in most cases, a good limit, and<br />
the publisher is not likely to suffer. If the<br />
author desires he can—should no alterations<br />
be necessary—allow the publisher to continue,<br />
or if alterations are necessary, give him the<br />
option of publishing the new edition.<br />
<br />
There is one point, however, against which<br />
the author must guard himself in dealing with<br />
time limitations, and that is, the possibility of<br />
the publisher over-printing towards the end of |<br />
the contract, so that when the time limit has<br />
expired there is a large stock on hand. It has<br />
been decided in the Courts that the publisher<br />
would have a right to continue dealing with<br />
this stock after the time limit has expired.<br />
<br />
Clause 2 is satisfactory, for the publisher<br />
actually undertakes to do certain things.<br />
<br />
In many agreements where the publisher<br />
obtains these rights he does not undertake, and<br />
cannot, therefore, be compelled to do anything<br />
with them at all. :<br />
<br />
This difficulty has already been emphasised<br />
frequently in those articles dealing with the<br />
conveyance of copyright.<br />
<br />
Clause 3 is essential where an unlimited<br />
licence to publish has been transferred to the<br />
publisher, but the words “ and all other rights<br />
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not included by this agreement,” should be<br />
added.<br />
<br />
It is always much better, however, and much<br />
clearer for the author to limit the publisher<br />
by granting him a licence to produce the work<br />
in book form at the price of only in<br />
Great Britain and Ireland, the Colonies and<br />
Dependencies thereof. Then such a clause as<br />
Clause 3 is surplusage and should not be<br />
inserted. When the publisher has been limited<br />
in a proper way it is always dangerous to<br />
insert a further clause reserving certain rights<br />
to the author unless the clause is very general,<br />
as some rights may be omitted inadvertently,<br />
and questions may arise as to whether they<br />
belong to author or publisher. The best plan,<br />
therefore, is carefully to limit the publisher as<br />
to the exact rights the author intends to convey<br />
and to insert no further clause as to what<br />
rights the author retains.<br />
<br />
D. The author hereby agrees to assign to the publishers<br />
their successors and assigns and the publishers hereby agree<br />
to purchase the sole right of publication in volume form<br />
during the legal term of copyright of an original work<br />
entitled “ ” of which he is the author.<br />
<br />
If the above shall be included in the publisher’s Colonial<br />
Library, or any colonial edition arranged for by the<br />
publisher the royalty shall be 3d. per copy on all copies sold.<br />
The publishes shall have the right to arrange for publica-<br />
tion of the said work in the United States of America and<br />
shall credit the author with per cent. of all profits<br />
accruing from such an arrangement. All profits arising<br />
from minor rights such as translations continental editions,<br />
ete., to be divided equally between the author and the<br />
publisher.<br />
<br />
On the subject of “their successors and<br />
assigns,” and “ sole right of publication,” we<br />
have already spoken.<br />
<br />
The sole right of publication in this clause<br />
is limited to volume form. So far this is<br />
satisfactory, but the limitation is not sufficient.<br />
There is no limit as to country. There is no<br />
limit as to price, there is no limit as to time,<br />
and there is no limit as to edition.<br />
<br />
In the next clause there is no undertaking<br />
on the part of the publisher to perform this<br />
part of his licence, but if he thinks it will suit<br />
him to market the book in the Colonies he<br />
undertakes to pay the author a fixed number<br />
of pence per copy. This might be satisfactory<br />
if he had bound himself to Colonial production.<br />
The question of the amount to be paid would<br />
of course be a matter of bargaining, and we<br />
hope to deal with Colonial sales and prices at<br />
greater length in another article.<br />
<br />
Sale on half profits to America when royalty<br />
is paid on British and Colonial sales should<br />
only be permitted when the publisher under-<br />
takes to charge only the cost of printing and<br />
paper against the profits on the American<br />
<br />
edition. This the best firms undertake to do,<br />
but examples have come to hand when a<br />
proportionate amount of the cost of composition<br />
has been charged against the profits. Why<br />
such a course is unfair and unjustifiable wiil<br />
be explained in a subsequent article. It is<br />
sufficient here to emphasise the fact that<br />
where profits are being shared on the American<br />
sales and there is a royalty agreement on the<br />
English sales, only the cost of printing and<br />
paper should be charged against the American<br />
edition.<br />
<br />
Under no circumstances should the latter<br />
part of the clause stand, but if through the<br />
publisher’s agency under an agreement signed<br />
by the author any of the minor rights are sold,<br />
then the author should pay the publisher the<br />
usual agency charge of 10 per cent.<br />
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THE PALACKY AND SOKOL COMMEMORA-<br />
TION AT PRAGUE.<br />
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By James Baker, F.R.G.S.<br />
<br />
HE unveiling of the national memorial to<br />
the memory of the famous historian,<br />
Francis Palacky, was linked by the<br />
<br />
Bohemians with their national festival of the<br />
Jubilee of the foundation of the Sokol move-<br />
ment, a movement for the physical and moral<br />
development of the Slav people, that has<br />
grown under splendid organisation to gigantic<br />
proportions.<br />
<br />
British writers and journalists were honoured<br />
on this occasion, by the City of Prague sending<br />
invitations to five members of the British<br />
International Association of Journalists, as<br />
guests of the City during the festivities, that<br />
lasted four days. The writers so honoured were<br />
all men who had written upon Bohemia, when<br />
on a former occasion as members of this<br />
Association they had visited the country ; and<br />
a right cordial welcome they received at the<br />
impressive ceremonies held in the Pantheon,<br />
and at the unveiling of the remarkable monu-<br />
ment by Sucharda.<br />
<br />
Francis Palacky is a writer who has done so<br />
much for his country as a historian, that it is<br />
strange his dramatic, forceful work is not more<br />
utilised in England by writers upon Central<br />
European life and polities, up to the year 1526 ;<br />
when, alas, his history closes.<br />
<br />
The scenes enacted in Prague, both in the<br />
Pantheon and before the monument to the<br />
memory of the patriot and historian, were full<br />
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of intense significance. The whole of the Slav<br />
peoples were represented, and the addresses<br />
given by his Excellency, the President of the<br />
Bohemian Academy, and Professor Dr. Joseph<br />
Pekats were worthy and interesting culegies<br />
of Palacky’s work, and its outcome. What<br />
a tremendous influence the work has had, was<br />
evidenced by the demonstration at the unveil-<br />
ine of the monument, a gigantic and notable<br />
work of art. The Viceroy and Church<br />
dignitaries, Princes, nobles, and people listened<br />
to an oration from Dr. Kramai, the well-known<br />
Slav Parliamentarian. The writer of this<br />
article also spoke a word on the debt English<br />
writers owed to his work. Not only at this<br />
historical and literary festival were the British<br />
visitors honoured, but also at the imposing<br />
Sokol demonstrations, and at the banquets<br />
and concerts coincident with the festivals.<br />
On the great Letna Plain they witnessed from<br />
the Tribunes the astounding gymnastic and<br />
drill display simultaneously of 11,000 men and<br />
6,000 women, organised by the Sokols or<br />
Faleons, who number now far over 100,000<br />
members, and they were present at the march<br />
past of over 20,000 of these splendidly drilled<br />
men before the old Town Hall of Prague and<br />
the Lord Mayor and Council. The links<br />
between England and Bohemia in bygone<br />
days have been many, and of world-wide<br />
influence, far more than the general reader can<br />
glean; for even Green and Bright and other<br />
historians omit to mention that Richard II.<br />
marriel Anne of Bohemia, an event of great<br />
<br />
importance to the world’s history. The<br />
British International Journalists who were<br />
invited learnt much during their stay. They<br />
<br />
included Mr. D. A. Louis, the scientifie writer<br />
of the Times, Mr. Walter Jerrold of the<br />
Telegraph, Mr. R. J. Kelly of the Freeman, and<br />
Mr. Rainbow of the Eastern Chronicle ; and the<br />
writer who has watched for over thirty years<br />
the wondrous developments in Bohemia that<br />
are now of such weight in Central European<br />
politics. Palacky’s famous saying: “If the<br />
Empire of Austria did not exist, we should be<br />
compelled to create it,” has to-day a wondrous<br />
significance.<br />
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“TO PLEASE ONESELF.”<br />
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By W. Haroip THomson.<br />
<br />
HE other day I beard a novelist—you would<br />
know his name quite well if I were to set<br />
it down here—bemoaning the fact that in<br />
<br />
the ten years during which he had been making<br />
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a really good income from writing he had not done<br />
anything for the sheer joy of pleasing himself.<br />
<br />
“T was making just enough to live on,” he said,<br />
“and getting pretty sick of things. I was writing<br />
essays of the style that are cal’ed graceful, and<br />
stories which editors usually dub ‘ pretty, but too<br />
slight,’ and I was getting them accepted here and<br />
there, and now and then. But J wanted to get on,<br />
I wanted to become known, and I wanted to make<br />
money. So I followed the advice of an old hand<br />
who had found that there was better fun than<br />
starving on art. He told me to stop dreaming;<br />
he told me to forget any hopes I had of being<br />
recognised asa stylist; he told me to stop framing<br />
phrases that had a tendency to make people think,<br />
and finally he told me to stop doing what I wanted,<br />
and to do instead what editors said their readers<br />
wanted. So I went in for that sort of thing.”<br />
<br />
He shrugged his shoulders at that point and<br />
ended : “ Well, I’ve done what I set out to do—<br />
I’ve made a name and I’ve made money. But I’ve<br />
made the name by stuff I’m ashamed of, and I know<br />
that I won the money hard because I starved the<br />
artistic side of me until it died.”<br />
<br />
I believe—and am sorry to believe—that the case<br />
of that writer is quite a common one. Or at least<br />
it is common as regards the starving of the artistic<br />
nature. Few writers, perhaps, gain a popularity or<br />
financial reward such as his, but a pitiful army in<br />
their efforts to do so learn the bitterness of crushing<br />
that desire which, in the first place, made them<br />
stretch out their hands for the pens—the desire to<br />
write of the sweetest things they know in the<br />
sweetest words at their command.<br />
<br />
To write something just to please oneself ! That<br />
is the craving I am sure that comes often and with<br />
an increasing pleading to every author dependent<br />
upon his work for a livelihood.<br />
<br />
There are those who du please themselyes—who<br />
give of their very best and reach just to that point<br />
where they please what might be called the literary<br />
gallery ; there are others—a small and to be envied<br />
band——who write to please themselves and at last<br />
gain a public of which they may be proud and a<br />
return with which they may be pleased. But the<br />
average writers, the middle-class in the penman’s<br />
world, the men and women who, if they can write<br />
what is in popular demand, must do so in sackcloth<br />
and with tears, as a rule, cannot afford to permit<br />
themselves the joy of doing what they term to be<br />
their best.<br />
<br />
Their best would perhaps some day meet with its<br />
reward, but they recognise that before that glad<br />
day has had time to dawn, their eyes would have<br />
been closed.<br />
<br />
It is the canker in the breast of the average pro-<br />
fessional author—the stifling of his inclination to<br />
sit down and express the best that is in him<br />
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without regard to popular taste. Perhaps “ the best<br />
that is in him” is not quite the right phrase. I<br />
do not mean that he may have some noble philo-<br />
sophy which he feels called to expound, nor indeed<br />
that he may have anything particularly serious to<br />
say at all. It would be more correct to say that he<br />
longs to set down with all the artistry in him his<br />
own thoughts upon the sweet or sad things which he<br />
sees or hears—anything which appeals to and moves<br />
the higher emotions.<br />
<br />
The insistent editorial demand for action in every<br />
paragraph, quite irrespective of the language in<br />
which that action is described, is what makes<br />
cynics of the more ambitious penmen. During<br />
their period of apprenticeship and when writing<br />
was so far a hobby merely, they had written<br />
what they wanted and had no doubt seen their<br />
essays, their graceful stretches, their short stories<br />
that were free from blood and detectives and<br />
‘ther popular ingredients, in print from time to<br />
time.<br />
<br />
But at last, perhaps not for a lone time—because<br />
authors are creatures in whom hope dies hard—<br />
they were forced to recognise that where money-<br />
making by the pen is concerned it is the matter<br />
and not the manner that counts.<br />
<br />
It was forced upon them that writers much<br />
inferior to themselves in education having not the<br />
slightest pretension to culture; men and women<br />
whose outlook and whose language were both<br />
mawkish—were those who were making the big<br />
incomes, True, they were not admired by the<br />
book-reading public save in a few well-known<br />
instances, and could never hope to gain the praise<br />
of critics or fully educated people, but still they<br />
were doing something enviable, they were making<br />
good incomes wherewith to maintain themselves<br />
and those dependent on them. And the young<br />
writer seeing them, and perhaps being helped to<br />
his bitter decision by sheer need, reluctantly sets<br />
out to crush what is artistic in him; with much<br />
travail of soul he represses the inclination to set<br />
down anything which might be dubbed over-subtle<br />
and clever for the understanding of the mass ; he,<br />
in fact, far more than the actor, has to recognise<br />
the necessity of playing to the gallery.<br />
<br />
If he be a story-writer he will be told quite<br />
plainly and quite truthfully that what is wanted is<br />
a story—not fine writing ; psychological insight,<br />
deft portrayal of character counts but little if at<br />
all.<br />
<br />
There ‘are, of course, openings for imaginative<br />
articles written with cleverness and with style ; for<br />
Sketches where the writing is what tells, but the<br />
author who has a living to make gets to know very<br />
soon that the writing of such articles or sketches is<br />
‘a huge gamble. The market is so very small—the<br />
pay’ so very poor. Practically nobody wants his<br />
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literary cleverness—thousands want what editors<br />
and writers themselves pleasantly term ‘ muck.”<br />
<br />
I am not forgetting the exceptions who win<br />
through from the first with material of which they<br />
may well be proud—but the exceptions are, after all,<br />
of little moment to the rank and file.<br />
<br />
And so when the average author—travelled, per-<br />
haps, well read, cultured, possessing what is<br />
pathetically called a “soul ’’—sitg at night in his<br />
quiet study longing to express on paper and in<br />
language such as would please some kindred Spirit<br />
the thoughts that come to him, he knows the dread<br />
voice which whispers—* Forget.”<br />
<br />
“ Forget in your working hours at least your<br />
appreciation of the beautiful - forget the fascination<br />
of building a gracious picture with words; forget<br />
that there is in you the power to move minds and<br />
hearts like your own with finely-wrought sentences<br />
embodying high thoughts.<br />
<br />
“* Remember instead that if you are out for pay in<br />
this game of writing, you must either wait for long<br />
years before your work ‘ gets there,’ or you must<br />
learn to tickle the palates of your masters in the<br />
gallery. In one way it is, of course, just as clever to<br />
do that as to please the elect, but it is a cleverness<br />
which will bring you no joy—unless indeed the<br />
money is the only reward asked. And in that<br />
case the gallery is your proper audience, and you<br />
have no reason to talk either of your achievements<br />
or of what might have been,”<br />
<br />
PSUS REEy See cams<br />
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BOOK-PRICES CURRENT.*<br />
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<br />
dee parts of the periodical lying before us<br />
<br />
are the first three numbers of the<br />
twenty-sixth volume containing records<br />
of the sales from October 5, 1911, to April 15,<br />
1912. That the publication always maintains<br />
its high interest need not be said, but naturally<br />
other sales are thrown into the shade by the<br />
first section of the sale of the Huth Library<br />
(begun on November 15, 1911). Itis only from<br />
the pages of “ Book-Prices Current ” itself that<br />
it will be possible for any one to form any<br />
correct impression of the multitude of books cf<br />
extraordinary rarity and interest that were on<br />
this occasion offered for sale. The Shakes-<br />
periana were sold en bloc, but there remained<br />
a wealth of manuscripts, block-books, incuna-<br />
bula and rarities the mere titles of which (apart<br />
from the interesting bibliographics! particulars)<br />
form marvellous reading. To do the sale any<br />
<br />
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<br />
* “Book-Prices ‘ Current.”<br />
Vol. XXVI.<br />
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London: Elliot Stock.<br />
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justice in a short notice is impossible ; its<br />
record is matter for slow and pondered perusal.<br />
A copy of “ The Mazarin Bible ” (No. 1300—<br />
the bibliographical notes deserve particular<br />
attention) sold for £5,800. To the student of<br />
English literature will be hardly less inte-<br />
resting No. 1124, a collection of 384 broadside<br />
ballads in black letter, chiefly belonging to the<br />
period of the Restoration, in excellent preserva-<br />
tion, which sold for £400, and seems to us to<br />
have been cheap at that price. A further<br />
instalment of the Amherst Library was sold on<br />
December 12, presenting among other rarities<br />
the second edition of Caxton’s “‘ Book of Good<br />
Manners,”’ prohably the only copy in existence.<br />
Authors should look at the prices fetched by<br />
modern autograph MSS. at the sale of the<br />
library of J. S. Burra, of Ashford, Kent,<br />
together with other properties (December<br />
18—15, 1911). Sir Walter Besant’s “ Herr<br />
Paulus was sold for £2; Gissing’s ‘‘ Eve’s<br />
Ransom,” £11; Edna Lyall’s ‘‘ Donovan,” £50.<br />
Other autographs by modern writers are men-<br />
tioned. At the sale of the remaining portion<br />
of the library of Dr. Joseph Frank Payne several<br />
first and early editions of Milton’s works<br />
were sold; among them a first edition of<br />
“Paradise Lost’ for £40. How many fold<br />
does the price given for this single copy exceed<br />
the sum paid John Milton for the whole copy-<br />
right of a work out of which the publishers and<br />
booksellers of England have been ever since<br />
making profits? Particulars very interesting<br />
to authors will be found recorded in the sale<br />
(April 15, etc., 1912) of the library of Louisa<br />
Lady Ashburton. <A considerable number of<br />
works by Carlyle, or relating to Carlyle, were<br />
sold, with autographs of his in them. The<br />
vastly enhanced value of the volumes in con-<br />
sequence of the autographs contained in them<br />
is deserving of remark. The numbers are 5007<br />
to 5024, and should be studied by any one who<br />
desires to form a just estimate of what auto-<br />
graphs in a book mean.<br />
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LITERATURE AND LIFE.*<br />
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Tat Mr. Watt has a public is sufficiently<br />
demonstrated by the number of works which<br />
he has published, and we entertain no doubt<br />
that his new book, ‘“‘ Literature and Life,” will<br />
be highly esteemed by those for whom it is<br />
<br />
<br />
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* “Titerature and Life.” The Rev. Lauchlan Maclean<br />
Watt. London: A, & C. Black, 1912, A volume of “The<br />
Guild Library.”<br />
<br />
intended. Every prolific author knows to<br />
whom he is addressing himself, and how he<br />
may best hold their attention. For that<br />
reason we are unwilling to lay stress upon<br />
certain features of the book which do not<br />
exactly commend themselves to our judgment,<br />
the somewhat lyric tone of a good deal of the<br />
prose, and the values assigned to some of the<br />
authors whose works are recommended. We<br />
hasten to add that the latter feature is one<br />
respecting which it is, after all, almost im-<br />
possible that two minds should think abso-<br />
lutely in agreement. Practically ‘“* Literature<br />
and Life *’ is one of the many books recom-<br />
mending other people what they should read.<br />
Of such works there seems to be no end; and<br />
seeing how many people, comparatively speak-<br />
ing, never read anything that they ought to<br />
read, all these books are books that will do good<br />
if thev produce any effect at all. In the present<br />
case the author goes a point farther and dwells<br />
not only upon what should be read but how it<br />
should be read, and this also is commendable.<br />
Authors are likely to find the chapters on<br />
“Style and Thought,” ‘*‘ Vocabulary,” and<br />
‘“‘ The Writer and his Age,”’ the most suggestive,<br />
and we could imagine this part of the book<br />
proving valuable to writers who have not yet<br />
succeeded in saying things as they wish to say<br />
— The book is furnished with an excellent<br />
index.<br />
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CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
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ne<br />
CopyRIGHT BILL.<br />
<br />
Str, — Your readers will have been much<br />
interested by the supplement to the July issue of<br />
The Author. It is evident that the Board of Trade<br />
is anxious enough to accord fair play to authors,<br />
such as they have never had before ; and it will be<br />
their own fault if they do not take advantage of it.<br />
The paragraph that insists on stamps of royalty<br />
being affixed to the different copies of the book is<br />
of particular interest. It is a pity that the words<br />
“if not otherwise arranged” are not left out, as<br />
they leave a loophole to dishonest publishers, who<br />
are sure to take advantage of it if allowed to do so.<br />
<br />
The iniquitous rule of counting thirteen for<br />
twelve will now, I fancy, be abolished for ever.<br />
This is the author’s opportunity to get quit of<br />
their unjust trammels, and if they don’t join hands<br />
one and all, they will be greatly to blame for being<br />
robbed of their property with their eyes open.<br />
<br />
Iam, &c.,<br />
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