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the needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
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N January, the secretary of the Society<br />
laid before the trustees of the Pension<br />
Fund the accounts for the year 1912, as<br />
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settled by the accountants. After giving the<br />
matter full consideration, the trustees in-<br />
structed the secretary to invest a sum of £300<br />
in the purchase of Buenos Ayres Great<br />
Southern Railway 4% Extension Shares, 1914,<br />
£1C fully paid. The number of shares pur-<br />
chased at the current price was twenty-five<br />
anc the amount invested £296 1s. 1ld. The<br />
trustees are also purchasing three more Central<br />
Argentine Railway New Shares at par, on<br />
which as holders of the Ordinary Stock they<br />
have an option.<br />
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The trustees desire to thank the members<br />
of the Society for the continued support which<br />
they have given to the Pension Fund.<br />
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The nominal value of the investments held<br />
on behalf of the Pension Fund now amounts<br />
to £4,764 6s., details of which are fully set out<br />
in the following schedule :—<br />
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Nominal Value.<br />
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£ $d:<br />
Wocal Loans 9. ....5.....60... 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 />
Egvptian Government Irrigation<br />
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Trust 4% Certificates ........ 200 0 0<br />
Caze of Good Hope 34% Inscribed<br />
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SOCK i ieee oie sa 200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Rail-<br />
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way 4% PreferenceStock .... 228 0 0<br />
New Zealand 83% Stock ....... 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 24%<br />
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Stock, 1927-57... a. oc: 438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919—49 .. 182 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 8 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 ..5..6.....050.5, 232.0 0<br />
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$2,000 Consolidated Gas and<br />
Electric Company of Baltimore<br />
44% Gold Bonds ........... 400 0 0<br />
250 Edward Lloyd, Ltd., £1 5%<br />
Preference Shares ........... 250 0 0<br />
55 Buenos Ayres Great Southern<br />
Railway 4% Extension Shares,<br />
1914 (fully paid) ............ 550 0 0<br />
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8 Central Argentine Railway £10<br />
Preference Shares, New Issue.. 380 0 O<br />
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THE list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br />
tions and subscriptions (7.¢., donations and<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged)<br />
received by, or promised to, the fund from<br />
January 3, 1913.<br />
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It does not include either donations given<br />
prior to January, nor does it include sub-<br />
scriptions paid in compliance with promises<br />
made before it.<br />
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Subscriptions.<br />
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Jan. 8, Toynbee, William (in addi-<br />
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scription).<br />
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Jan. 9, Gibson, Frank .<br />
Jan. 29, Blaikley, Miss E. L.<br />
Jan. 31, Annesley, Miss Maude<br />
Feb. 6, Rothenstein, Albert .<br />
Feb. 10, Bradshaw, Percy V.<br />
April 8, Caulfield-Stoker, T. .<br />
June 12,,Wimperis, Arthur .<br />
June 16, Ballantyne, J. W.<br />
June 16, Thorold, Rupert<br />
Oct. 8, Rees, Miss Rosemary<br />
Oct. 8, Pearce, J. : : :<br />
Oct. 9, Drummond, Miss Florence<br />
Oct. 9, Rumbold, Hugo<br />
Oct. 18, Knowles, Miss<br />
Oct. 20, Collison, Harry ;<br />
Oct. 21, Buchanan, Miss Meriel<br />
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April 10, Aspinall, Algernon .<br />
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June 18, Kynnersley, E. M. Sneyd.<br />
July 5, Williams, Robert . 3<br />
July 11, Broadbent, D. R. . :<br />
July 22, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte .<br />
Sept. 29, Peacock, Mrs. F. M.<br />
Sept. 30, Healy, Wallis 3 et<br />
Oct. 7, Darwin, Sir Francis . 5 0<br />
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We regret that a donation from Miss Alice<br />
Robbins of £1 1s., made in April last, was<br />
not chronicled in this list. We take this<br />
opportunity of correcting the mistake.<br />
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COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
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HE October meeting of the committee—<br />
the first meeting after the vacation<br />
—was held on the 6th, at 1, Central<br />
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Buildings, Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W.<br />
There was a very long list of agenda before<br />
the meeting. After the signing of the minutes<br />
of the previous meeting, the committee<br />
proceeded with the election of members and<br />
associates. The committee have pleasure in<br />
reporting that the rate of election is still<br />
steadily maintained, and that seventy-one<br />
elections were recorded. These are chronicled<br />
elsewhere in The Author. This brings the total<br />
number for the current year up to “278. The<br />
committee accepted, with regret, six resigna-<br />
tions.<br />
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The seeretary and the solicitor of the Society<br />
then reported on the cases taken. in hand<br />
during the vacation, and also the progress that<br />
had been made in those matters with which the<br />
Society was already dealing. There were five<br />
cases of infringement of copyright. The first,<br />
Corelli v. Gray had been mentioned in former<br />
issues of The Author. The solicitor reported<br />
that the costs of the first action had been paid<br />
into, court and that the matter was now<br />
awaiting appeal. Two cases had been settled<br />
after considerable negotiation.. In one case,<br />
it appeared from the solicitor’s report that the<br />
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editor of a magazine had been deceived by his<br />
contributor. ‘lhe fourth case, which had been<br />
before the committee at previous meetings, but<br />
which had been adjourned owing to lack of<br />
evidence on certain material facts, the com-<br />
mittee regretted, after consideration of the<br />
solicitor’s opinion, that they were unable to<br />
take up as the evidence was insufficient.<br />
Should, however, the ‘member be able to<br />
produce the evidence required, the committee<br />
expressed their willingness to reconsider the<br />
issues. The secretary reported that he had<br />
heard from the lawyers in Switzerland respect-<br />
ing a ease which had been proceeding for some<br />
time in that country. The matter had now<br />
been referred to the Highest Court of Appeal.<br />
So far, the committee regret to report, the<br />
decisions have gone against the Society.<br />
There were five claims for moneys due to<br />
members. Two of these had been settled<br />
during the vacation. In a third case a<br />
summons was pending, and with the two<br />
remaining claims which had not been dealt<br />
with previously, the committee instructed the<br />
solicitors to proceed.<br />
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There were three cases in which accounts<br />
had either not been delivered or were disputed.<br />
In two cases against the same firm in England<br />
the solicitors were instructed, as they had been<br />
unable to get any satisfactory answer to their<br />
questions, to issue the necessary summonses.<br />
The third case dealt with a publisher in the<br />
United States. The secretary reported that<br />
it was being handled by the United States<br />
lawyer. The next matter for consideration<br />
referred to the liquidation of a firm of<br />
publishers. As usual, the Society was taking<br />
up the matter on behalf of the members<br />
involved. The committee are pleased to<br />
receive the report that it had been possible,<br />
as in two previous liquidation cases this<br />
year, to obtain the election of a member of<br />
the Society on the Board of Inspection, to<br />
look after the interests of authors. The next<br />
matter had reference to a question of libel :<br />
it is hoped it will be settled without any<br />
further difficulty.<br />
<br />
There were disputes arising out of the<br />
interpretation of agreements. In the first,<br />
which had been taken up some time ago, the<br />
solicitor reported that, as no settlement had<br />
been come to, he was now taking the necessary<br />
steps to obtain an injunction to prevent the<br />
further publication of the book contrary to<br />
the terms of the contract. This case, if it<br />
comes into court will be fully reported in The<br />
Author. The second, relating to a contract<br />
for publication, the committee regretted they<br />
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were unable to take up. Although the matter<br />
was one involving undoubted hardship to the<br />
composer it appeared in the circumstances<br />
there was no legal remedy to justify the<br />
committee in taking action on behalf of the<br />
member. The details of the last case were<br />
laid before the committee and fully discussed.<br />
They found it impossible to take action. It<br />
appeared clear that the contract was binding<br />
and there was no reason why any court should<br />
set it aside. The committee decided to take<br />
counsel’s opinion on a difficult case of Inter-<br />
national law referring to the reproduction of<br />
music on mechanical instruments, and the<br />
secretary reported that, with the sanction of<br />
the chairman, counsel’s opinion had been<br />
taken on a question relating to film rights<br />
under a dramatic contract.<br />
<br />
In a dispute between a member and an<br />
agent, the chairman of the committee was<br />
requested to write to the member concerned,<br />
setting out the views of the committee.<br />
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The committee decided to take up a difficult<br />
question of accounts in order to establish the<br />
Society’s right to a formal investigation. In<br />
former disputes on accounts the Society had,<br />
without taking the matter into court, always<br />
obtained the necessary statement from pub-<br />
lishers, but for some reason, in this special<br />
case, the publishers, through their solicitors,<br />
repudiated liability. In consequence, the com-<br />
mittee decided that the point must be clearly<br />
established that an author, composer or<br />
dramatist has full rights to investigate the<br />
accounts, and to have them properly vouched<br />
if necessary.<br />
<br />
Another case of the construction of an<br />
agreement was considered. The secretary was<br />
instructed to obtain further particulars, as the<br />
matter was one of serious importance, but one,<br />
also, in which it was difficult for the committee<br />
to act without fuller information. The case<br />
was adjourned to the next meeting.<br />
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After the consideration of the cases, the<br />
committee proceeded to confirm the appoint-<br />
ment of Mr. Arthur Train, as the lawyer of the<br />
Society in the United States in place of Messrs.<br />
Byrne and Cutcheon, resigned. Mr. Train is<br />
counsel to the newly-formed Authors’ League<br />
of America, and the committee hope that his<br />
appointment to represent the Society as lawyer<br />
in the United States may be the means of<br />
bringing the two Societies into closer union.<br />
<br />
Two important questions connected with<br />
International copyright were then put forward<br />
—one relating to the United States and one<br />
relating to Russia. The secretary received<br />
instructions to write to the Board of Trade,<br />
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drawing the President’s attention to the<br />
matters. At the suggestion of the Dramatic<br />
Sub-Committee, Mrs. Pogson was appointed<br />
the Society’s dramatic agent in Germany.<br />
Her name is chronicled elsewhere in The Author<br />
with the names of the other dramatic agents<br />
of the Society.<br />
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The committee decided unanimously to<br />
increase the secretary’s salary, and to grant<br />
him a gratuity for past services. They further<br />
expressed their very high appreciation of<br />
Mr. Thring’s self-sacrificing services in the<br />
interests of the Society. It was decided to ask<br />
the Poet Laureate to join the ranks of the<br />
Society of Authors by accepting his election<br />
as a member of the Council.<br />
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The secretary drew attention to an article<br />
in Phe Author dealing with the clauses which,<br />
owing to the energy of Mr. H. J. Mackinder,<br />
M.P., had been inserted in the Bankruptcy<br />
Acts of England and Scotland. The committee<br />
unanimously passed a vote of thanks to Mr.<br />
Mackinder for his interest in the matter. The<br />
secretary drew the attention of the committee<br />
to an article in The Author dealing with the<br />
question of editors and contributors. He<br />
reported, as stated in that article, that various<br />
names of editors willing to subscribe to the<br />
resolution there set forth had been added to<br />
the list during the vacation. The committee<br />
decided that it was unnecessary to call<br />
another meeting of editors at the present time,<br />
and adjourned the matter for later con-<br />
sideration.<br />
<br />
Certain quotations are allowed from copy-<br />
right books under section 2, sub-section 4,<br />
of the Copyright Law. The Publishers’<br />
Association thought that much vexatious<br />
litigation might be avoided if some general<br />
understanding was arrived at as to how ‘a<br />
short passage ”’ should be defined under that<br />
section. They put forward for the approval<br />
of the committee of the Society of Authors the<br />
following resolution, which resolution, after<br />
careful consideration, was approved by the<br />
Committee of Management.<br />
<br />
“The council of the Publishers’ Associa-<br />
tion is of opinion that it will be to the<br />
interest of everyone concerned if any<br />
publisher proposing to make use of copyright<br />
matter in a school book in accordance with<br />
the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1911,<br />
section 2 (iv.),* gives notice of his intention<br />
to the owner of the copyright.<br />
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* The section referred to provides that the following<br />
shall not be an infringement of copyright :—<br />
<br />
“The publication in a collection, mainly composed of<br />
non-copyright matter, bona fide intended for the use of<br />
<br />
**2. The council considers that vexatious<br />
litigation may be avoided if some general<br />
understanding is arrived at as to what<br />
constitutes ‘a short passage’ from a<br />
published literary work, and they beg to<br />
suggest the following :—<br />
<br />
““(a) ‘A short passage’ from a_ prose<br />
work should not exceed one thousand<br />
words.<br />
<br />
‘““(b) ‘A short passage’ from a poetical<br />
work should not exceed one hundred<br />
lines.<br />
<br />
** Provided that ‘a short passage ’ should<br />
not in either case contain more than one<br />
third of the complete poem, essay, address,<br />
story or other literary work from which it<br />
is extracted.”<br />
<br />
The secretary then reported that a conference<br />
of composers had been called for Saturday,<br />
October 11.<br />
<br />
- The draft circular which it was proposed to<br />
<br />
send round to members, dealing with the<br />
Collection Bureau, had to be adjourned to the<br />
November meeting owing to the mass of<br />
business on hand. The committee approved<br />
an article to appear in The Author on the<br />
question of agents and stock rights in<br />
America.<br />
<br />
The date of the Society’s Dinner was fixed<br />
for November 27. Due notice, with full<br />
particulars, will be sent out. It is hoped there<br />
will be a large gathering.<br />
<br />
A question of loans to authors and dramatists<br />
on contracts was adjourned, as well as the<br />
question of the International meeting of<br />
authors to take place in San Francisco in 1915.<br />
<br />
A draft royalty agreement which had been<br />
sent round to members of the committee was<br />
approved, subject to one or two slight<br />
alterations. It was decided to set it up in<br />
time for a final reading at the next meeting of<br />
the committee.<br />
<br />
The most important question before the<br />
committee is chronicled here, at the end of<br />
the notes, although it was discussed earlier at<br />
the meeting, the question of the difficulties<br />
connected with the policy of the libraries in the<br />
matter of book circulation. The committee<br />
decided to invite a conference composed of<br />
two authors, two publishers, two members of<br />
<br />
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schools, and so described in the title and in any adver-<br />
tisements issued by the publisher, of short passages from<br />
published literary works, not themselves published for the<br />
use of schools in which copyright subsists: Provided that<br />
not more than two of such passages from works by the<br />
same author are published by the same publisher within<br />
five years, and that the source from which such passages<br />
are taken is acknowledged.”<br />
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the Libraries’ Association and two booksellers.<br />
The conference so invited to discuss the whole<br />
question with a view to bringing about some<br />
solution of the present difficulty. Before,<br />
however, the committee proceed they proposed<br />
to call a meeting of the Council of the Society<br />
to approve the course suggested. This meeting<br />
is reported below. In order to elucidate the<br />
position and to put clearly before the committee<br />
before any decision was arrived at the<br />
difficulties with which various authors have<br />
had to contend, and the suggestions put<br />
forward by members of the Society, the<br />
secretary read letters he had received from<br />
Messrs. Hall Caine, W. B. Maxwell, Eden<br />
Phillpotts, John Galsworthy, and others,<br />
and reported in detail the result of various<br />
interviews with members of the Publishers’<br />
Association, Mr. Acland of Messrs. Smith &<br />
Son, and other parties interested in the<br />
solution of the difficulties. The action of<br />
the members of the conference if summoned<br />
will be chronicled in due course and referred<br />
back to the committees of the various associa-<br />
tions represented. The committee feel that<br />
the question is one of great importance,<br />
surrounded by great difficulty, and one to be<br />
dealt with as a matter of principle apart from<br />
any individual book or any individual author.<br />
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Counci, MEETING.<br />
<br />
A meetING of the Council was held at<br />
No. 1, Central Buildings, Tothill Street, West-<br />
minster, S.W., on Thursday, October 16,<br />
at four o’clock, for the members to consider,<br />
and, if thought fit, to approve a suggestion<br />
of the committee in regard to the position of<br />
the library question.<br />
<br />
The committee’s proposals ran as follows :—<br />
<br />
1. To invite a conference composed of two<br />
authors, two publishers, two members of the<br />
Libraries’ Association, and two booksellers ;<br />
the representatives of such conference to be<br />
appointed by the standing committees of their<br />
respective associations.<br />
<br />
2. The conference so invited to take counsel<br />
with a view to solving the existing difficulties.<br />
<br />
The chairman explained in a few words the<br />
reason why the committee had made these<br />
suggestions and the reason why they referred<br />
them to the Council.<br />
<br />
Mr. Maurice Hewlett moved the following<br />
<br />
ynendment :—<br />
<br />
“That this question (that is, the question<br />
on the agenda) be referred back to the<br />
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committee, with a full report of what takes,<br />
place at this meeting of the Council.”<br />
<br />
He stated, at full length, his reasons for<br />
putting forward his amendment, and expressed,<br />
very strongly, his feelings in regard to the<br />
question generally. He also made a suggestion<br />
which he desired should be placed before the<br />
committee.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes seconded the amend-<br />
ment. ‘<br />
<br />
The question was fully discussed in all its<br />
phases. Mr. Hewlett’s amendment was then<br />
put and carried. With, the fresh information<br />
thus obtained which will be reported to the<br />
committee, the whole matter will be re-<br />
discussed at their next meeting.<br />
<br />
It is impossible to make a more detailed<br />
statement of the proceedings until the final<br />
discussion by the committee of the fresh issues<br />
raised.<br />
<br />
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DraMAtic SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
<br />
Tue first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Committee after the Vacation was held at the<br />
offices of the Society, No. 1, Central Buildings,<br />
Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W.<br />
<br />
The first matter dealt with was the dramatic<br />
cases.<br />
<br />
The attention of the sub-committee was<br />
called to the first case by members of the<br />
Dramatists’ Club, and the secretary was<br />
instructed to deal with the matter by a note<br />
in The Author. The second related to the:<br />
infringement of copyright of a member's play<br />
by a London manager. The sub-committee:<br />
asked the secretary to convey to the<br />
Committee of Management a recommenda-<br />
tion that the member be given the best’<br />
assistance possible, as the infrimgement ap-<br />
peared to them to be a very serious one. The<br />
secretary then reported the successful termina-<br />
tion of a case undertaken by the Society in<br />
Winnipeg, Canada, on behalf of a member.<br />
He explained that damages had been obtained.<br />
and the matter settled. A dispute with a<br />
dramatic agent for non-delivery of accounts<br />
was next referred to the sub-committee and<br />
the secretary was instructed to recommend to<br />
the Committee of Management to take up<br />
the action.<br />
<br />
The Managerial Treaty next came before<br />
the committee, and a letter received from<br />
Mr. J. E. Vedrenne, secretary to the Society<br />
of West-End Managers was read. After<br />
careful consideration of the letter, the secretary<br />
was instructed to write to Mr. Vedrenne<br />
suggesting another meeting of the delegates:<br />
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of the West-End Managers’ Association, with<br />
a view to careful consideration of the points<br />
raised.<br />
<br />
A letter from the Dramatic Clubs’ Associa-<br />
tion was laid before the committee, and the<br />
committee decided, in accordance with a<br />
promise made before the vacation, to ask<br />
delegates from the Association to meet the<br />
sub-committee at their next meeting.<br />
<br />
Counsel’s opinion which had been taken on<br />
behalf of one of the members, dealing with<br />
film rights under a dramatic contract made<br />
before the passing of the new Copyright Act,<br />
was read to the sub-committee, and a dis-<br />
cussion arose as to the present value of film<br />
rights. It was decided to ask Mr. Cecil<br />
Raleigh whether he would not write another<br />
article on the question for the benefit of<br />
members of the Society, from the new evidence<br />
and particulars of terms of contracts which<br />
had been gathered.<br />
<br />
A series of letters that had been received by<br />
Mr. Shaw from an American dramatic agent,<br />
and by Mr. Louis J. Vance, from a representa-<br />
tive of the same firm, were laid before the<br />
sub-committee. The letter received by the<br />
secretary from the German Society of Authors<br />
and also terms of a proposed contract were<br />
considered. The secretary was instructed to<br />
write to the German Society, pointing out<br />
that the Constitution of the Society of Authors<br />
would not permit of its making a contract on<br />
the lines proposed, but that they hoped the<br />
German Society would, outside a formal con-<br />
tract, work with the English Society with a<br />
view to mutual assistance in dramatic matters.<br />
<br />
A letter received by one of the members of<br />
the sub-committee, from Mr. F. H, Dickinson,<br />
of New York, in regard to the publication of<br />
a work entitled ‘Chief Contemporary Dra-<br />
matists,’’ with the terms offered to Authors,<br />
was read, as also was a series of letters<br />
received by the secretary of the Society from<br />
members whose works it had been proposed<br />
to issue.<br />
<br />
The next matter was one of considerable<br />
importance, and dealt with the question of<br />
stopping piracies in the colonies and foreign<br />
countries. The secretary stated that during<br />
the vacation he had thought that the existing<br />
‘difficulty of giving prompt instructions to<br />
lawyers abroad might be overcome by using<br />
powers of attorney, drafted in such a way<br />
that they could not be operated without a<br />
cablegram from the Society’s office. He<br />
suggested that Dramatist members of the<br />
Society who thought fit, should have three or<br />
four powers of attorney, one for each foreign<br />
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country, and that these should be placed in the<br />
hands of the Society’s lawyers in the countries<br />
concerned. If, then, the lawyers heard of a<br />
piracy they would communicate with the<br />
Society, and if the member thought fit, the<br />
lawyer would receive cabled authority to take<br />
immediate action. Thus it would be possible<br />
to overcome the great drawback in these<br />
cases of delay. The sub-committee considered<br />
the suggestion and instructed the secretary<br />
to obtain a draft settled by counsel for the<br />
members.<br />
<br />
Mr. Justin McCarthy, Mr. Jerome K.<br />
Jerome, and Mr. G. Herbert Thring, the<br />
secretary, were voted a sub-committee to deal<br />
with the question of a draft agreement, and<br />
it was decided that the agreement, when so<br />
settled, should not be referred back to the<br />
sub-committee. The sub-committee, however,<br />
indicated certain lines along which the contract<br />
should be drafted, and added that the con-<br />
tract should be accompanied by a statement<br />
explanatory of the clauses and of the rights<br />
with which it was proposed to deal.<br />
<br />
The question of the dramatic contract in<br />
Holland was also discussed.<br />
<br />
The secretary was instructed to thank<br />
Mr. Reyding, the agent of the Society in<br />
Holland for his letter, and to express the desira<br />
of the sub-committee that in future contracts<br />
for Holland the name of the author should be<br />
substituted for that of the agent, as principal.<br />
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Composers’ SuB-COMMITTEE.<br />
<br />
A MEETING of the Composers’ Sub-Committee<br />
was held on Wednesday, October 8, at the<br />
offices of the Society at eleven o’clock in the<br />
morning. The meeting discussed fully the line<br />
of procedure to be followed at the Conference<br />
of Composers which was held on Saturday,<br />
the 11th of the same month.<br />
<br />
The next question before the meeting was<br />
the Evening News competition, and the<br />
secretary was instructed to write an article<br />
on the subject which, with the chairman’s<br />
consent, should appear in the next issue of<br />
The Author.<br />
<br />
II.<br />
<br />
The second meeting of the sub-committee<br />
was held at the Society’s offices, No. 1, Central<br />
Buildings, Tothill Street, Westminster, S.W.,<br />
on Saturday, October 18, at eleven o’clock.<br />
<br />
The first matter under discussion was what<br />
should be made to the<br />
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recommendation<br />
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Committee of Management in order to assist<br />
them to deal with the Resolutions passed by<br />
the Conference of Composers on October 11,<br />
and the sub-committee passed the following<br />
resolution :—<br />
<br />
“That the Committee of Management be<br />
asked to appoint delegates in accordance with<br />
the resolution unanimously passed at the<br />
meeting on October 11, and to confer as to<br />
the best means of reaching those composers<br />
who were not members of any Society.”<br />
<br />
Mr. Cecil Forsyth’s name was suggested as<br />
one of the delegates, and Mr. Forsyth consented<br />
to act if appointed. It was decided that<br />
paragraphs should be inserted in the daily<br />
papers setting out the fact that the Society<br />
of Authors dealt with the works of composers<br />
as well as with those of dramatists and writers,<br />
and that composers were entitled to the same<br />
benefits as were accorded to other members.<br />
The sub-committee felt that this course was<br />
perhaps the best means to bring the work the<br />
Society did for composers to the notice of<br />
those who were members of no organization.<br />
It was decided, also, with Mr. MacGillivray’s<br />
sanction, to publish, in pamphlet form, his<br />
speech delivered at the Conference of Com-<br />
posers setting out in detail the rights held by<br />
coon and how best they could be dealt<br />
with.<br />
<br />
The next question brought forward was the<br />
question of settling a draft agreement, and the<br />
secretary was instructed to draft an ideal form<br />
to be submitted to the next meeting of the<br />
sub-committee.<br />
<br />
A question having arisen respecting the sale<br />
of stamps to reproducers of music by mechani-<br />
eal instruments, on “sale or return,’ the<br />
sub-committee considered the matter, but came<br />
to the conclusion that the suggestion made by<br />
the companies was not one they could support,<br />
as it would be likely to lead to much confusion<br />
in the minds of composers. At the same time<br />
they were willing to give their serious<br />
or to any arguments brought before<br />
them.<br />
<br />
The secretary read correspondence with the<br />
Ammre, and was instructed to ask whether<br />
the German Society could not give some<br />
guidance as to the kind of music they would<br />
like submitted to them with a view to<br />
reproduction on mechanical instruments.<br />
<br />
Finally, the question of the collection of<br />
fees in France was discussed, and the secretary<br />
was instructed to write to his correspondents<br />
with a view to ascertaining what steps could<br />
be taken to collect members’ fees on mechanical<br />
reproductions in that country.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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Cases.<br />
<br />
Durine the past month twenty-two cases<br />
have passed through the secretary’s hands.<br />
Of these, eight were for overdue accounts.<br />
Four of this number have been settled and<br />
the accounts delivered to the authors. Of<br />
the remaining four, one is a Canadian ease,<br />
one against a publisher notoriously unbusiness-<br />
like in delivery of these statements, in the<br />
third delivery has been promised, and the last<br />
will also, it is hoped, be settled without<br />
difficulty. There have been three claims for<br />
money. In one of these—against a magazine<br />
—the editor has promised to forward a cheque<br />
in advance of publication; the second is in<br />
the United States and sufficient time has not<br />
yet elapsed for an answer to the secretary’s<br />
letter, while the last has only just come into<br />
the office.<br />
<br />
Four claims have been put forward for MSS.<br />
retained by editors and others. In one ease<br />
the MS. has been returned. In the second<br />
some of the MSS. have been returned. In the<br />
third it has not been possible, so far, to get.<br />
a response to the secretary’s letters, but the<br />
matter is still proceeding. In the fourth it has<br />
been impossible to locate the defendant,<br />
although there is some hope of finding him<br />
eventually.<br />
<br />
There have been two cases in which the<br />
authors demanded fuller particulars of accounts<br />
rendered. In one case the information has<br />
been given and the author is satisfied with<br />
the explanation. In the other the publisher<br />
has, so far, failed to respond and the matter is<br />
being pressed.<br />
<br />
Disputes on agreements account for three<br />
cases. In the first the dispute was settled by<br />
the author making part payment of the sum<br />
claimed. This payment was made, not because<br />
of any legal liability attaching to the author,<br />
but because the author wished to meet the<br />
other side. In the second an offer has been<br />
made to the publisher, but at the time of<br />
going to press the time fixed for acceptance<br />
had not expired. The matter will be dealt<br />
with further next month. In the third the<br />
defendants gave way and adopted the view<br />
of the contract put forward by the secretary<br />
on behalf of the member.<br />
<br />
There were two cases relating to copyright.<br />
In one an American magazine had made use<br />
of a member’s work, altered it, and re-published<br />
it contrary to the arrangement with the author,<br />
The secretary has written to the magazine, but<br />
sufficient time has not yet elapsed’ for the<br />
answer to come through. The second : case<br />
relates to a threat by a foreign author to make<br />
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So far,<br />
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no actual infringement has occurred, and the<br />
secretary has written to the solicitor of the<br />
foreign author warning him that the action<br />
contemplated by his client will amount to an<br />
infringement of the member’s rights.<br />
<br />
There is one claim open from the former<br />
month. This relates to a claim for money<br />
<br />
against a magazine.<br />
<br />
The editor has admitted<br />
<br />
liability, but has delayed fulfilling his promise<br />
<br />
to make the necessary payment.<br />
<br />
It is hoped<br />
<br />
to report, next month, that the money has<br />
<br />
been paid.<br />
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<br />
October Elections.<br />
<br />
Baker, Ernest A., M.A.,<br />
D.Litt.<br />
<br />
Bennett, T. Armitage<br />
(“ T. Armitage ’’).<br />
<br />
“* Blakeney Cley’’.<br />
Buchanan, Miss Meriel<br />
<br />
Byars, Gilbert . .<br />
<br />
Carr, Sydney Herbert .<br />
<br />
~~ Carroll, Sydney Went-<br />
<br />
worth.<br />
‘Chute, Miss Margaret .<br />
<br />
Coulter, The<br />
Frederic W.<br />
de Castro, J. Paul<br />
<br />
Rev.<br />
<br />
Douglas, Mrs.<br />
Drummond, Miss Flo-<br />
rence.<br />
<br />
- Elgar, Sir Edward, O.M.<br />
Frankish, Harold<br />
<br />
, Gardiner, H. Balfour .<br />
Gregory, Mrs. Octavia .<br />
‘Greves,<br />
<br />
Hyla.<br />
Guise, Major Henry<br />
<br />
Miss Barbara<br />
<br />
3, H. R., MA.<br />
F.S.A,.<br />
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<br />
<br />
St. James’s Lodge,<br />
Kidbrook Park<br />
Road, S.E.<br />
<br />
Church House, Wal-<br />
singham, Norfolk.<br />
<br />
British Embassy,<br />
St. Petersburg,<br />
Russia.<br />
<br />
C/o. Messrs. Rey-<br />
nolds & Co., 13,<br />
Berners Street, W.<br />
<br />
Linden Lodge, Teign-<br />
mouth, S. Devon.<br />
<br />
22, Dorset Square,<br />
N.W.<br />
<br />
173, Lisburn Lane,<br />
Liverpool, E.<br />
<br />
1, Essex Court,<br />
Temple, E.C.<br />
<br />
6, Spencer<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
<br />
4, Learmouth Ter-<br />
race, Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
Severn House,<br />
Hampstead, N.W.<br />
<br />
The Laurels, Aikley,<br />
Barnet, Hertford-<br />
shire.<br />
7, Pembroke Villas,<br />
Kensington, W.<br />
Melville, Parkstone,<br />
Dorset.<br />
<br />
Rodney House,<br />
Bournemouth.<br />
<br />
Royal Societies’<br />
Club, St. James’<br />
Street, S.W.<br />
<br />
22, King Henry’s<br />
Road, N.W.<br />
<br />
Hill,<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
use of the work of an English writer.<br />
<br />
Hardinge, Henry<br />
Charles Maurice.<br />
Harris, Miss Vera A.<br />
<br />
Hodgkinson, Ivan T. .<br />
Hodson, Henry Edward<br />
<br />
“Jan Paulus” .<br />
Jones, Daniel, M.A.<br />
<br />
Leonard, Miss Emma<br />
<br />
Hill.<br />
Little, Philip Francis .<br />
Liversedge, Alfred John<br />
<br />
Lofting, Miss Kitty<br />
MacGill, Patrick .<br />
<br />
_. Malloch, George Reston<br />
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Mason, Stuart<br />
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Maude, G. H. ; 5<br />
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Milburn, Mrs. G. Hart-<br />
ley.<br />
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Muspratt, Horace<br />
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Nepean, Mrs. A. Evan .<br />
Pearce, John<br />
<br />
Phillips, Mrs. Alfred<br />
(“ Blanch Eryl’’).<br />
Pinder, Miss Eva<br />
<br />
Price, Julius M. . :<br />
<br />
Pugh, Capt. George<br />
Farrer.<br />
<br />
Rees, Rosemary .<br />
<br />
Robertson-Scott, Mrs.<br />
(“* Elspet Keith ’’).<br />
<br />
Rombach, John George<br />
Rumbold, Hugo .<br />
Sellon, The Rev. M. St.<br />
<br />
Juste.<br />
<br />
Seton, Walter Warren .<br />
<br />
_Shaw, Martin<br />
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184, Ebury Street,<br />
S.W.<br />
<br />
6, Oaklands Road,<br />
Bedford.<br />
<br />
Kingston,<br />
Somerset.<br />
<br />
The Moors, Church-<br />
down, Cheltenham.<br />
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Wells,<br />
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University<br />
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W.C.<br />
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College,<br />
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85, Eccles<br />
Dublin.<br />
63, Northampton<br />
Road, Croydon.<br />
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Street,<br />
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The Cloisters, Wind-<br />
sor Castle.<br />
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The White Cottage,<br />
Chingford, Essex.<br />
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6, Molyneux House,<br />
Molyneux Street,<br />
W.<br />
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Broom Hall, Horsell,<br />
Surrey.<br />
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15, Alexandra Drive,<br />
Sefton Park, Liver-<br />
pool.<br />
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Berners, St. Albans.<br />
57, Carlton Mansions<br />
Maida Vale, W.<br />
Lyceum Club, 128,<br />
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Piccadilly, W.<br />
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144, Cromwell<br />
Road, S.W.<br />
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East Ham.<br />
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Hillfield Road,<br />
West Hampstead,<br />
London.<br />
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68, Fonthill Road,<br />
Aberdeen.<br />
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Walsh, Miss<br />
Donegan.<br />
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Wile, Frederic William<br />
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Wilkinson, The Hon.<br />
Mrs.<br />
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Morris.<br />
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Bradford.<br />
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Oxford.<br />
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Hants.<br />
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sea Park, S.W.<br />
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ham.<br />
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Portland Place,<br />
W.<br />
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Piazza di Spagna,<br />
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York.<br />
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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
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N October 3 there was published by<br />
() Messrs. Macmillan & Co. a practically<br />
complete collection of the poems and<br />
chapter-headings in verse scattered throughout<br />
Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s prose works. The<br />
volume is entitled ‘“‘ Songs from Books.”’<br />
<br />
Mr. Thomas Hardy’s new volume of prose<br />
fiction, *“* A Changed Man, The Waiting Supper,<br />
and other Tales, concluding with The Romantic<br />
Adventures of a Milkmaid,” appeared on<br />
October 24, the publishers being Messrs.<br />
Macmillan.<br />
<br />
H.M. the King has been pleased to accept a<br />
copy of ‘‘ On the Track of the Abor,” by Major<br />
Mark Synge (Powell Millington).<br />
<br />
A copy of Sir James Yoxall’s “‘ A.B.C. about<br />
Collecting,’ the predecessor of the volume,<br />
‘* More about Collecting,” mentioned in these<br />
Notes last month, has been graciously accepted<br />
by H.M. the Queen. The publishers are<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co.<br />
<br />
‘“* Turkey in Agony,” translated by Bedwin<br />
Sands (Mr. George Raffalovich) from the 37th<br />
edition of M. Pierre Loti’s ‘‘ Turquie Agoni-<br />
sante,’’ has been published for the Ottoman<br />
Committee by the African Times and Orient<br />
Review, Ltd.<br />
<br />
Mr. Alfred Perceval Graves has brought out<br />
a volume called ‘‘ Irish Literary and Musical<br />
Studies ”’ (Elkin Mathews, 6s. net).<br />
<br />
The Gresham Publishing Co. announce<br />
‘* Leaders and Landmarks in European His-<br />
tory,’? by Mr. A. R. Hope Moncrieff and the<br />
Rev. H. J. Chaytor. This work presents a<br />
gallery of biographical sketches illustrating<br />
the course of European history by the lives<br />
of men and women who have made that<br />
history what it is.<br />
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Captain Harry Graham’s “ Splendid Fail-<br />
ures,” a volume of biographical essays which<br />
Mr. Edward Arnold is issuing, takes for its<br />
subjects people well known by name, though<br />
few are acquainted with their personal his-<br />
tories. Among them will be found Wolfe<br />
Tone, “the first of the Fenians”; George<br />
Smythe, whom Disraeli took as his model for<br />
the hero of ‘‘ Coningsby ” ; Hartley Coleridge ;<br />
and the ill-fated Archduke Maximilian.<br />
<br />
Mr. Philip W. Sergeant’s * Mrs. Jordan,<br />
Child of Nature”? (Hutchinson & Co., 16s.<br />
net), was published on October 29.<br />
<br />
Miss Alice E. Robbins’ “‘ Book of Duchesses”<br />
has been published by Andrew Melrose.<br />
<br />
Messrs. J. J. Bennett, Ltd., are the publishers<br />
of Mr. Charles F. Moxon’s ‘‘ On the Track of<br />
Truth,” a book of essays dealing with person-<br />
ality, heredity, free-will, and kindred topics.<br />
The price is 6s. net.<br />
<br />
Miss Myra Swan had in the October number<br />
of the Empire Review an article in eulogy of<br />
Shakespeare, the title being ‘‘ England’s<br />
Birthday.”<br />
<br />
Mr. M. D. Haviland’s ‘‘ Wild Life on the<br />
Wing,” with illustrations by Mr. Patten<br />
Wilson, is announced for early publication by<br />
Messrs. Black. These stories of bird-life by<br />
field, wood, and moor, by a close observer,<br />
are intended for all nature-lovers.<br />
<br />
Under the title of ‘“‘ America as I saw It:<br />
or America Revisited,’’ Messrs. Hutchinson<br />
have brought out in this country Mrs. Alec<br />
Tweedie’s impressions of her third visit to the<br />
United States, with a coloured frontispiece<br />
by Mr. Perey Anderson, and some cartoons<br />
by Mr. W. K. Haselden. The Macmillan Co.<br />
are the New York publishers of the work.<br />
‘“‘ Busy Days ” is the name of a birthday-book<br />
containing quotations from Mrs. Tweedie’s<br />
fourteen volumes, issued by Messrs. Routledge<br />
at 1s., or, bound in grey suéde as a Christmas<br />
gift-book, 3s. Mrs. Alec Tweedie also con-<br />
tributes a preface to Mrs. Beattie Crozier’s<br />
“‘ Children’s Games and Parties,’’ a collection<br />
of forty-eight articles on entertaining children,<br />
illustrated with over 100 photographs by the<br />
author (Routledge, 3s. 6d.).<br />
<br />
“‘ Social Worship—for use in Families,<br />
Schools, and Churches,” is the title of two<br />
quarto volumes (about 1,000 pages), which<br />
will be published this month by George Allen.<br />
They contain Ethical Scriptures compiled and<br />
edited by Dr. Stanton Coit ; while the musical<br />
editor is Mr. C. Kennedy Scott. The selections<br />
have been made from the point of view that<br />
‘true religion is history and law transfigured<br />
by moral idealism or, rather, it is moral<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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idealism made real and potent by an infusion<br />
of the nation-building powers of the universe.”<br />
The price is £2 2s. net.<br />
<br />
We are informed that 300 copies of “‘ Russian<br />
Flashlights,’ by Mr. Jaakoff Prelooker (Chap-<br />
man and Hall, 10s. 6d. net), have been placed<br />
at the disposal of public libraries in the<br />
poorer districts of the United Kingdom by an<br />
anonymous “friend of public instruction.”<br />
Libraries desiring free copies should, when<br />
applying to the Spriggs Publishing Agency,<br />
indicate their annual income and enclose 5d.<br />
in stamps for postage.<br />
<br />
Mr. E. S. Bellasis, M.I.C.E., has published<br />
during the year, through Messrs. E. and F. N.<br />
Spon, ‘‘ River and Canal Engineering ” and<br />
“Irrigation Works,” the prices being 8s. 6d.<br />
and 8s., net, respectively.<br />
<br />
Mr. Rowland Kenney’s ‘‘ Men and Rails,”<br />
dealing specially with the railway problem in<br />
relation to the workers, is issued by Mr. T.<br />
Fisher Unwin at 6s. net.<br />
<br />
Mr. George Ford, author of ‘‘ The Larramys,””<br />
has brought out a new novel, “ The Hoop of<br />
Gold,” published by Messrs Allen & Co.<br />
<br />
Captain Charles Gilson has contributed<br />
throughout the past year to Blackwood’s, the<br />
Dublin Review, and other magazines. Messrs.<br />
William Blackwood & Sons, of Edinburgh, have<br />
published his “Scenes from a Subaltern’s<br />
Life,” a selection of sketches of very varied<br />
interest. Captain Gilson still continues to<br />
produce a number of stories for boys. Messrs.<br />
Nisbet have just published ‘‘ The Sword of<br />
Deliverance,” a tale of the Balkan War,<br />
illustrated with drawings and photographs by<br />
Mr. H. C. Seppings Wright, the war corre-<br />
spondent (6s.) ; and Messrs. Henry Frowde and<br />
Hodder and Stoughton, ‘‘ The Race Round the<br />
World,” an aeroplane story for younger boys,<br />
<br />
illustrated by Mr. Cyrus Cuneo (3s. 6d.).<br />
<br />
Captain Gilson has also a serial running in<br />
The Captain, entitled ‘‘ The Fire-Gods ”’—a<br />
tale of the West Coast of Africa.<br />
<br />
Miss Grace Ellison translates and edits a<br />
story by Melek Hanoum, heroine of Pierre<br />
Loti’s “‘ Désenchantées,”’ lifting the veil from<br />
harem life in Constantinople under the old<br />
régime (Methuen & Co.)<br />
<br />
Messrs. John Long, Ltd., will shortly publish<br />
a new novel entitled, ‘‘ The Eurasian,” by<br />
Mr. Henry Bruce, author of “ The Native<br />
Wife,” ete. This is a study of the unhappy<br />
sub-race which has resulted from our two<br />
centuries’ possession of India.<br />
<br />
Mr. Archibald B. Spens is engaged on a<br />
novel of Indian life, a further outcome. of the<br />
<br />
trip to the Peninsula already described in<br />
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£ “Mr. Spens’ “A Winter in India” (Stanley<br />
f Paul & Co.)<br />
<br />
Among the novels announced by Messrs.<br />
Herbert Jenkins are “‘ Sheila Intervenes,” by<br />
Mr. Stephen McKenna ; and “ The Bewildered<br />
Benedict : the Story of a Superfluous Uncle,”<br />
| by Mr. Edward Burke.<br />
<br />
Mr. John Bloundelle Burton’s new romance,<br />
* * Fortune’s Frown,” is concerned largely with<br />
' the Spanish Fury in Antwerp and the continued<br />
© oppression of the Netherlands for some time<br />
. after that terrible event. But for the book-<br />
¢.. binders’ strike this novel would have appeared<br />
before now.<br />
The title of Miss Editha L. Blaikley’s novel<br />
‘of mentioned in last month’s issue should have<br />
-od been ‘‘ Dorothy Gayle.”<br />
Mr. A. R. Hope’s new book for prizes, school<br />
- tf libraries, etc., is “‘ Half and Half Tragedy ”’<br />
) (A. &. C. Black, 5s.)<br />
[ Messrs. C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., publish<br />
= at 2s. 6d. Mr. Christopher Beck’s ‘‘ The<br />
: ) ‘Crimson Aeroplane.”<br />
} Owing to the sustained demand for ‘“‘ The<br />
Twins in Ceylon ’’ and “* More about the Twins<br />
in Ceylon,” by Bella Sidney-Woolf (Mrs. R.<br />
H. Lock), Messrs Duckworth & Co. have<br />
«i brought out a combined edition of the two<br />
-o! books in one volume at 3s. 6d. The books<br />
of have been placed upon the prize-list of the<br />
sf London County Council.<br />
Mr: Charles T. Jacobi, managing partner of<br />
4% the Chiswick Press, has issued a fourth edition<br />
<br />
‘9. of ‘*Some Notes on Books and Printing”<br />
<br />
)} (6s. net.). A sixteen-page pamphlet, extracted<br />
.if from this, instructs authors how to correct<br />
= aproof. Copies of this are lying at the Society’s<br />
4 office and may be obtained by members on<br />
8 application.<br />
<br />
1 4 We understand that Messrs.. W. and G.<br />
| Foyle have opened a Foreign Book Department<br />
« at 5, Manette Street, next to their headquarters<br />
' in Charing Cross Road. In this new depart-<br />
' ment they propose to furnish their customers<br />
* with books in every language on every<br />
<br />
* conceivable subject. The books will be ar-<br />
“| ranged in strictly classified order. Messrs.<br />
_ Foyle inform us that they have the largest<br />
<br />
@ stock of second-hand foreign books in this<br />
°°9 country, and they invite readers of The Author<br />
to inspect this collection.<br />
<br />
The Daily Express announces that it has<br />
* arranged with Messrs. Stanley Paul that they<br />
% shall acquire the book rights of the story<br />
which wins the prize in the Express serial<br />
competition, provided that it is the work of<br />
_ an author who has never had a story published<br />
) 1£ in book form before. Stories by new authors<br />
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must therefore be submitted on the distinct<br />
understanding that the work considered by<br />
the judges to be the best will be bought as to<br />
the serial rights by the Express for £200, and<br />
as to the book rights by Messrs. Stanley Paul<br />
for £100.<br />
<br />
Mr. Ernest Whatson sends us a copy of his<br />
novel, ‘‘ Pauline,’”’ of which he personally has<br />
undertaken the whole burden of publication,<br />
in the belief that “the six-shilling novel is<br />
out of date,” that ‘the libraries merely buy<br />
just sufficient copies to spoil the sales amongst<br />
the general public,” and that ‘the royalties<br />
offered to the author are, as a rule, absurdly<br />
disproportionate to the time and toil which he<br />
must spend on his work.’’ He is selling<br />
** Pauline ’’ at 1s., in paper covers, and proposes<br />
to issue others of his novels in the same way.<br />
** We hope,”’ he says, ‘‘ to be able to produce a<br />
readable book at a popular price, which will<br />
tempt the public to buy instead of borrowing,<br />
which will at the same time allow a reasonable<br />
margin of profit to the writer and retailer.”<br />
We shall be interested to hear the financial<br />
result of Mr. Whatson’s venture.<br />
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DRAMATIC.<br />
<br />
At the Ambassador’s Theatre on October<br />
17, Madame Lydia Yavorika presented a new<br />
four-act play by the late Pierre Berton, “A<br />
Daughter of France.”? Miss Constance Maud<br />
was the author of the English version of<br />
this.<br />
<br />
At the Court Theatre on October 20,<br />
Miss Horniman put on for a short run<br />
Mr. Eden Phillpotts’ ‘‘ The Shadow,’’ which<br />
was previously seen at the Gaiety Theatre,<br />
Manchester. Another play by Mr. Phillpotts,<br />
“The Mother,” was seen at the Liverpool<br />
Repertory Theatre on October 22.<br />
<br />
Mr. G. K. Chesterton’s fantastic comedy,<br />
“Magic,” will be produced at the Little<br />
Theatre.<br />
<br />
During the Christmas holidays The<br />
Children Theatre will produce three plays<br />
by Miss Netta Syrett, entitled ‘The<br />
Fairy Doll,” ‘The Strange Boy,” and<br />
‘*The Enchanted Garden,” and one by<br />
Mrs. Percy Dearmer, entitled “‘ Kit and the<br />
Cockyolly Bird.”<br />
<br />
“The Sea Power of England” is the<br />
name of a play for a village audience, by<br />
Amabel Strachey. The play has been pub-<br />
lished in book form by A. C. Curtis, Ltd.,<br />
and Humphrey Milford, Oxford University<br />
Press, Mrs. St. Loe Strachey contributing an<br />
introduction.<br />
48 THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
<br />
—oaee —<br />
<br />
a ES CHOSES NOIENT,” by Edouard<br />
Estaunié, is one of the most original<br />
novels. The author tells us a-story<br />
<br />
which, in itself, is an admirable psychological<br />
study. Each individual lives and has a<br />
strongly defined personality. The house in<br />
which the various scenes take place is in Dijon,<br />
and the atmosphere of the provincial town<br />
pervades the whole story. The author has<br />
heard everything he tells us from the house<br />
itself. The furniture and the very walls have<br />
witnessed all that has taken place, so that,<br />
with an artist’s intuition, the writer has only<br />
had to tell us what he has gathered from the<br />
apparently silent habitation. Some years ago<br />
this author gave us ‘“ La Vie Secréte,’’ and he<br />
was awarded an Academy prize for his earlier<br />
novel, “‘ L’Empreinte.”<br />
<br />
“Le Chemin de la Victoire,” by Emile Nolly,<br />
might be called a colonial novel. A former<br />
book by this author won an Academy prize,<br />
and the prize given by La Vie Heureuse this<br />
year has been awarded to Emile Nolly for his<br />
admirable book, ‘“‘ Gens de Guerre au Maroc.”<br />
The present novel is dedicated to the author's<br />
comrades, ‘‘ The officers of the French Colonial<br />
Army.” The story is more or less the diary<br />
(not written as a diary) of a certain officer who<br />
takes part in active service in the French<br />
colonies. It is a story very true to life, told<br />
simply, showing both the prosaic and poetical<br />
side of a soldier’s existence.<br />
<br />
“‘ Billes Nobles et Magiciennes,”” by Humbert<br />
de Gallier, is the third volume of the curious<br />
series entitled ‘‘ Les Moeurs et la Vie privée<br />
d’Autrefois.”” From this study of the women<br />
of the old aristocracy, we understand how it<br />
comes about that modern Frenchwomen, as a<br />
rule, are such excellent housekeepers and<br />
hostesses. Going back to the sixteenth cen-<br />
tury, the author introduces us to the convents<br />
in which so many women of good society lived.<br />
In many of these convents, or cloisters, it was<br />
not necessary to take religious vows. Many<br />
women and girls of good family lived there for<br />
a certain time, paying a certain sum of money<br />
annually, just as in our modern boarding-<br />
houses. The girls were trained for their<br />
future réle in the world, and no details of<br />
household management were considered un-<br />
important. We see the daughters of the oldest<br />
families in France keeping the accounts,<br />
attending to the house linen, the sweeping of<br />
the rooms, the trimming of the lamps, etc.<br />
They were also expected to be efficient in the<br />
<br />
sick-room and in the drawing-room. In another<br />
chapter, speaking of the Frenchwoman of<br />
to-day, M. de Gallier says that the future alone<br />
can decide whether the woman of to-day (with<br />
her appeals to the law for a certain authority<br />
which she evidently fears she ean no longer<br />
obtain by means of her husband’s affection and<br />
the respect of her children)is in a better position<br />
than her grandmother, who knew how to obtain,<br />
thanks to her own hands, and without any<br />
uproar, the place that was her due.<br />
<br />
‘““Marie Antoinette, Fersen and Barnave<br />
(Leur Correspondance), published by O. G. de<br />
Heidenstam, is a delightful addition to the<br />
Marie Antoinette litérature. In the old castle<br />
of Léfstad (belonging at present to the Countess<br />
Emilie Piper, a descendant of Fersen’s sister)<br />
are two packets of letters. The one contains<br />
<br />
be)<br />
<br />
those written by Fersen to his sister, acknow- ’ -<br />
<br />
ledging to her his chivalrous love for the<br />
unfortunate queen. The other packet con-<br />
tains the political correspondence between<br />
Marie Antoinette and Barnave. Thanks to<br />
the permission of the present owner of these<br />
letters, M. de Heidenstam has been able to give<br />
us a volume of immense interest.<br />
<br />
The great event in the theatrical world has<br />
been the resignation of the Director of the<br />
Comédie Francaise, Jules Claretie, after so<br />
many years of arduous work. M. Claretie is<br />
well known to the English public as an author,<br />
and, on looking at the long list of his novels<br />
and other books, one wonders how he could<br />
have found time for the absorbing task of<br />
administrating the affairs of a State theatre.<br />
<br />
Mr. Albert Carré succeeds M. Claretie as<br />
director of the ThéAtre Francais. M. Carré<br />
began his career as theatrical manager at<br />
Nancy. In 1885 he came to Paris as manager<br />
of the Vaudeville. His next theatre was the<br />
Gymnase, and in 1898 he was appointed<br />
director of the Opéra Comique.<br />
<br />
Another event in the theatrical world this<br />
season was the inauguration of the marvellous<br />
ceiling painting at the Comédie Frangaise, on<br />
which Albert Besnard has been at work for<br />
some eight or nine years. It is indeed a<br />
wonderful piece of work, with all the boldness<br />
and delicacy and the exquisite harmony of<br />
colouring of which Albert Besnard alone has<br />
the secret.<br />
<br />
Atys HAiarD.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
‘Les Choses Noient.” (Perrin.)<br />
<br />
“ Wjlles Nobles et Magiciennes.”’ (Calmann-Lévy.)<br />
<br />
“Marie Antoinette, Fersen and Barnave (Leur Corres-<br />
pondance).” (Calmann-Lévy.)<br />
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UNITED STATES STOCK RIGHTS AND<br />
AGENTS.<br />
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a HE Dramatic Sub-Committee again desire<br />
<br />
to eall the attention of members to the<br />
value of stock rights in the United States.<br />
{ The number of towns in the United States<br />
4) that have stock companies is very large as<br />
<br />
‘6 anyone can see from the lists issued by the<br />
<br />
J United States dramatic agents. Favourite<br />
running generally for a week at a<br />
© time, are being revived again and again.<br />
<br />
To obtain the full advantage | from the<br />
+ leasing of these stock rights it is almost<br />
» essential that an author should have an<br />
agent in the United States to guard his<br />
interests.<br />
<br />
This is the course adopted by most of the<br />
‘} dramatists who have a market for their work<br />
ai in the United States. It is of the utmost im-<br />
“ portance, however, that authors should be<br />
<br />
» careful in their choice of agents. There are<br />
ag agents who think their sole duty lies in taking<br />
any fees that come their way, and in passing on<br />
‘the accounts without ever checking them or<br />
> seeing that they are in accord with the<br />
One agent who was held up for his<br />
<br />
=<br />
<br />
1s carelessness stated that all he had to do was<br />
<br />
» to forward all the fees. This kind of agent is<br />
<br />
/ >. very unsatisfactory as he forces the author to<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Bok RY<br />
<br />
a, undertake work for which the agent receives<br />
<br />
® commission; besides, it is often impossible for<br />
4) the author to check the accounts as the agent<br />
“4 usually holds the agreement.<br />
Again, there are.agents who act as principals.<br />
f These are also very unsatisfactory. They<br />
may make an offer of a capital sum for the<br />
stock rights. They may do so stating openly<br />
_ that they are purchasing for themselves. They<br />
may do so without making such a statement,<br />
leaving the author to deduce that the offer<br />
has come from someone else.<br />
<br />
In either case the position is unsatisfactory<br />
as the agent is using his special knowledge for<br />
his own advantage, which should be wholly at<br />
‘J the service of his principal.<br />
<br />
_ However upright or straightforward an<br />
1% agent may desire to be, if he acts as principal<br />
if he always runs the risk of having the charge<br />
@ brought against him that his advice is not<br />
<br />
BR<br />
<br />
ies<br />
<br />
ial disinterested and that his statements are<br />
<br />
sh tainted.<br />
<br />
In no circumstances, therefore, should an<br />
‘® author employ an agent who at any time acts<br />
‘& 2S principal or is interested as principal in<br />
® others’ work.<br />
<br />
The committee of the Society consider it<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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necessary to put forward this warning owing to<br />
certain information which has been laid before<br />
them, not only with regard to agents in the<br />
United States but also with regard to agents<br />
this side of the water.<br />
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<br />
A PRIZE COMPETITION.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
All songs must be forwarded on or before November 15,<br />
addressed to the Editor of the Evening News, Carmelite<br />
Street, E.C., and marked outside, ‘‘ Song Competition.”<br />
<br />
Competitors must write pen-names only on _ their<br />
manuscript and enclose their own names and addresses,<br />
with the pen-names, in separate envelopes.<br />
<br />
A number of the best songs will be chosen by a com-<br />
mittee of well-known singers, who will act in conjunction<br />
with the Editor of the Evening News.<br />
<br />
These songs will be submitted to the vote of the audience<br />
at a great concert to be organised by the Evening News,<br />
and the decision then reached as to which is the best song<br />
in each class will be final.<br />
<br />
£100 will be the prize for the best song for male voices,<br />
and £100 for the best song for female voices.<br />
<br />
If collaborators have sent in a winning song, they must<br />
arrange between themselves as to the proportion of prize<br />
money each one takes. The Hvening News will not accept<br />
any responsibility as to the division of the money.<br />
<br />
The winning compositions will become the property of<br />
the Evening News, which is to make arrangements for their<br />
publication. Royalties at a rate to be agreed upon will be<br />
paid to the successful competitors on the sale of the songs.<br />
Where the song is by collaborators, they must arrange<br />
between themselves the proportion of the royalty proceeds<br />
each is to take.<br />
<br />
The Evening News is to have the right to publish any<br />
song sent in, upon the same royalty terms (and, of course,<br />
without any £100 prize) that are paid in the case of the<br />
prize songs.<br />
<br />
ROM time to time The Author has had<br />
<br />
4 reason to draw the attention of members<br />
<br />
to the unsatisfactory and _ indefinite<br />
drafting of the terms set out by proprietors of<br />
papers “when they offer prizes for literary or<br />
other copyright work. The rules printed<br />
above comprise the rules as issued by the<br />
Evening News for a song competition.<br />
<br />
There are several points to which the atten-<br />
tion of our members should be drawn. It<br />
would be very interesting to know who are<br />
the committee of well-known singers about to<br />
act in conjunction with the editor of the<br />
Evening News. This is not a matter of vital<br />
importance, but such knowledge would no<br />
doubt inspire confidence in those who are<br />
<br />
sending up their works, although—the editor<br />
might consider this point—it is very doubtful<br />
if any self-respecting composer would care to<br />
submit his work to the judgment of a com-<br />
mittee of singers and the general public. It<br />
would also be interesting to know whether this<br />
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competition emanates from some publishing<br />
house, or is merely a money-making suggestion<br />
arising from the proprietors of the Evening<br />
News. This point also is not a matter of vital<br />
importance, but again it would inspire con-<br />
fidence if it was distinctly understood that the<br />
offer came from the Evening News and that no<br />
music publisher was at the back of it. —<br />
<br />
There are, however, other points which are<br />
of very vital importance. Although the date<br />
is fixed when the compositions should be sent<br />
in to the Evening News, no date is fixed when<br />
the great concert is to be given ; no statement<br />
is made as to how the votes of the audience are<br />
to be taken, and no date is given when the<br />
prize money is to be paid. It is clear from the<br />
tules printed above that royalties are to be<br />
paid on the winning compositions in addition<br />
to the £100 which the winners receive, but the<br />
royalties are “at a rate to be agreed upon.”<br />
Does this mean agreed upon between the<br />
editor of the Evening News and the prize<br />
winners, or merely agreed upon by the editor<br />
of the Evening News? If the royalty “ to be<br />
agreed upon” is to be settled between the<br />
composer and the editor of the Evening News,<br />
this may give rise to great difficulty. If the<br />
parties cannot agree, what solution of the<br />
difficulty does the editor suggest ?. This point<br />
should have been clearly dealt with. It<br />
would have been much better if the editor had<br />
clearly stated what royalty he was willing to<br />
pay on the publication of the winning songs.<br />
Then each composer would have had a fair<br />
chance of judging whether it was worth his<br />
while to compete for the prize, receiving £100<br />
for the sale of the full copyright, and in addition<br />
a royalty on the sale of each copy of the songs.<br />
It would appear, however, that if the song was<br />
converted into a valse, or dealt with in any<br />
other fashion, no royalty would be payable.<br />
There is no undertaking that the songs will be<br />
published by a certain date, or that the com-<br />
posers’ names will be attached to the songs<br />
when they are put on the market. All these<br />
points should have been definitely and clearly<br />
set forth. It would then be a matter for the<br />
composer to decide whether it would be worth<br />
his while to compete on the chance of winning<br />
the prize,<br />
<br />
We desire to draw the special attention of<br />
members to the last paragraph. Though it<br />
might be worth while for a composer to com-<br />
pete and win the prize, he would have to<br />
consider very carefully whether it would be<br />
worth his while, in case he did not win<br />
the prize, to be bound by the last para-<br />
graph. Here again no statement is made as to<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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the date when the songs are to be published.<br />
No statement is made as to what royalty is to:<br />
be paid, except that it is to be the same<br />
royalty as is paid in the case of the prize songs.<br />
If the rate of royalty had been fixed by the<br />
rules, every competitor would know how he<br />
stood, but the rate of royalty which a composer<br />
who receives £100 down might be willing to<br />
accept may prove very inadequate and unfair<br />
to the other composers who have not got the<br />
prize.<br />
<br />
Again, though it is clear that “the pro-<br />
perty,” z.e., the whole copyright of the prize<br />
songs, belongs to the Evening News, it would.<br />
seem from the rules that ‘“‘ the property ” in<br />
the other songs would not belong to the<br />
Evening News, but the proprietors would<br />
merely have “ the right to publish the song,”<br />
and would have no further rights in the matter.<br />
If this deduction is not correct, then the pro-<br />
position as put forward seems open to doubt,<br />
and in that case the editor should have set<br />
forth the terms much more accurately for the<br />
benefit of those composers who are competing.<br />
<br />
We do not desire to discuss the amount that<br />
is given, for it must lie entirely with the com-<br />
poser to decide whether it is worth his while to-<br />
accept the financial side as it stands, but we do-<br />
desire to lay stress upon the point that in<br />
many ways the offer is too indefinite, and that<br />
it would be much better if the Evening News,<br />
before setting out the terms, had taken pains<br />
<br />
to see that no mistake or misunderstanding: .<br />
<br />
could possibly be made by those who are<br />
desiring to enter the competition.<br />
<br />
We feel quite sure that the proprietors of the<br />
Evening News desire to do everything that is.<br />
fair and right by the composers, but it is clear<br />
that, from the terms set out, misunderstand-<br />
ings and dissatisfaction may arise. This<br />
might easily have been avoided with a little<br />
care.<br />
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Te<br />
<br />
LITERARY TREATY BETWEEN<br />
GERMANY AND RUSSIA.<br />
<br />
—-—>———<br />
<br />
ERMANY has not long delayed following<br />
<br />
the example of France and arriving at<br />
<br />
a treaty with Russia for the reciprocal<br />
protection of copyright property in the two<br />
empires. The new treaty came into force on<br />
<br />
August 14 last, and has a duration of five<br />
years, after which it remains in force year by<br />
year for one year until it is denounced by one<br />
of the contracting parties.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
i<br />
it @<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
On the whole the terms of agreement<br />
<br />
«»- resemble those between Russia and France.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Citizens of both countries now enjoy in both<br />
countries the rights accorded them by law;<br />
and the stipulations apply equally to authors<br />
of any nationality who publish in either<br />
country. The term ‘“‘literary or artistic<br />
works ”’ is interpreted in the wide sense given<br />
to it in modern copyright enactments, and<br />
embraces architectural, choreographic, panto-<br />
mimic works, etc., and every production of any<br />
<br />
literary, scientific, or artistic character whatso-<br />
<br />
ever, no matter what may be the form of<br />
reproduction, or the merits or demerits of the<br />
work. Photographs, or works produced by<br />
any process similar to photography, are<br />
included. Authors have an exclusive right of<br />
translation for ten years, on condition that<br />
this right is reserved on the title-leaf (on either<br />
side of the leaf), a particular to which the<br />
German publishers attach importance, or in<br />
the preface. This exclusive right of translation<br />
is, however, lost if the author does not make<br />
use of it within five years, and, in the case of<br />
translation of scientific, technical, or educa-<br />
tional works, within three years. In this last<br />
particular the Russians have been far from<br />
generous, and we gather from the columns of<br />
our valuable contemporary Le Droit d’ Auteur<br />
(September, 1913), to which we are indebted<br />
for our information, that it was not without<br />
a struggle that the German delegates secured<br />
even this very scanty protection. The Russian<br />
Government was indisposed to grant German<br />
Scientific, technical, and educational works<br />
any protection at all, desiring that they should<br />
remain entirely at the disposal of Russian<br />
translators. The right of translation of un-<br />
published works will be calculated from<br />
January 1 of the year of publication; and<br />
which day is January 1, will be determined in<br />
accordance with the calendar of the country<br />
in which the work is published.<br />
<br />
The following are explicitly enumerated as<br />
illicit reproductions—unauthorised transfor-<br />
mations, adaptions, and arrangements of<br />
music, transformations of novels or poems<br />
into dramatic pieces, and vice versa.<br />
<br />
Excepting serials and_ stories, articles<br />
appearing in journals are not protected, either<br />
in the original or in translations, unless their<br />
reproduction has been expressly forbidden.<br />
Mere news is not protected.<br />
<br />
Dramatic authors, whether their works are<br />
published or not, enjoy, in the original, pro-<br />
tection during the whole period of copyright ;<br />
in a translation, only during the period accorded<br />
to translation. Composers are protected if<br />
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the inhibition of public performance of their<br />
works is mentioned on every copy. In the<br />
cases of discs, etc., for the mechanical perfor-<br />
mance of music, and in the case of photographs<br />
it is necessary that every copy should indicate<br />
the name of the firm or author and the date<br />
of publication. It suffices that the inhibi-<br />
tion of reproduction should be expressed<br />
in the language of the country of manu-<br />
facture. It will be here perceived that<br />
the protection accorded is thus not absolutely<br />
unconditional,<br />
<br />
The agreement is not retro-active, but<br />
applies to all the territories of the signa-<br />
tories.<br />
<br />
Le Droit d Auteur, at the conclusion of am<br />
exhaustive article on the new treaty remarks<br />
with great reason :—<br />
<br />
““The new agreement is a document<br />
elaborated with methodical care and with a<br />
constant attention to defining and ameliorating<br />
international relations. In this respect it<br />
deserves not only the praises which have been<br />
bestowed upon it by German authorities and<br />
the German press (which anticipates as a<br />
consequence of the new treaty the suppression<br />
of many abuses and a future increase of<br />
intellectual exchange between the two nations),<br />
but has also a right to the approbation of the<br />
more extended group of countries either<br />
already bound up, or about to be bound up<br />
with Russia in the domain of reciprocal<br />
protection of writers and artists. Finally,<br />
it will be noted with satisfaction by the republic<br />
of letters which acclaims all drawing together<br />
of civilised nations on the pacific grounds of<br />
the defence of common interests of a higher<br />
order.”<br />
<br />
re<br />
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MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
<br />
ao<br />
<br />
British REVIEW.<br />
The Poetry of Francis Thomson.<br />
<br />
CoNTEMPORARY.<br />
Shakespeare and Public Affairs. By Sir Sidney Lee.<br />
<br />
EneuisH REVIEW.<br />
The Poetry of Chaucer. By Henry Newbolt.<br />
<br />
FortNIGHTLY.<br />
The Plays of Granville Barker. By P. P. Howe.<br />
Emile Verhaeren. By Horace B. Samuel.<br />
Charlotte Bronté. By Augustus Ralli.<br />
Mussorgsky’s Operas. By E. A. Baughan.<br />
Drama for the Common Man. By W. L. George-<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
<br />
oo<br />
<br />
t, VERY member has a right toask for and to receive<br />
K advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. | The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor ; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel’s opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel 8<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 />
<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers’ agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
<br />
4, Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to 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 />
<br />
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 thesafe. 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 />
<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements,<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members,<br />
<br />
This<br />
The<br />
<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s.<br />
<br />
er<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
<br />
et<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
I, Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<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 />
Il. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement),<br />
<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to :*<br />
<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements,<br />
<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for ‘office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher,<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor !<br />
<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement, It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth, From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in 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 />
(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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld,<br />
<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
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a eee ney ceniennenieany<br />
<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS. |<br />
<br />
EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :—<br />
<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
<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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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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(2.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (#.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 (}.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
<br />
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<br />
. 4, Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
6, 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 />
<br />
i be reserved.<br />
<br />
* 5, Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
uit @ be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time, This is most important.<br />
<br />
aE 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
<br />
«@ should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
got @ is of great importance,<br />
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7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
ale pisy are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
‘6 holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
( print the book of the words.<br />
<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed-<br />
<br />
® ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
~@ agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
«1@; consideration,<br />
<br />
9, Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
seu) drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
<br />
10. An author should remember that production of ed<br />
© is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of<br />
: “a delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
re He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
oo6e the beginning,<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
» is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
& is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
ee As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
4u3S @ecount of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
\@°e@ 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 />
<br />
1<br />
<br />
oe. 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 />
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 />
<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 2a. 6d. per act.<br />
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53<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
<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 />
<br />
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ee<br />
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WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
<br />
eas<br />
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 om<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 />
<br />
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<br />
EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this.<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach, The term<br />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The:<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience, The<br />
fee is one guinea,<br />
<br />
So<br />
<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
<br />
4<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Vain of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only,<br />
COLLECTION BUREAU.<br />
<br />
—<br />
a Society undertakes to collect accounts and money<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
due to authors, composers and dramatists. :<br />
1. Under contracts for the publication of their<br />
<br />
works. :<br />
2. Under contracts for the performance of their works<br />
<br />
and amateur fees.<br />
<br />
3. Under the Compulsory Licence Clauses of the Copy-<br />
right Act, i.e., Clause 3, governing compulsory licences for<br />
‘books, and Clause 19, referring to mechanical instrument<br />
records.<br />
<br />
The Bureau is divided into three departments :—<br />
<br />
1, Literary.<br />
2. Dramatic.<br />
3. Musical.<br />
<br />
The Society does not desire to make a profit from the<br />
collection of fees, but will charge a commission to cover<br />
expenses. If, owing to the amount passing through the<br />
office, the expenses are more than covered, the Committee<br />
‘of Management will discuss the possibility of reducing the<br />
commission. oe<br />
<br />
For full particulars of the terms of collection, application<br />
must be made to the Collection Bureau of the Society.<br />
<br />
AGENTS.<br />
<br />
Holland ; é . A. REYDING.<br />
United Statesand Canada. WALTER C. JORDAN.<br />
Germany Mrs Pogson.<br />
<br />
The Bureau is in no sense a literary or dramatic<br />
agency for the placing of books or plays.<br />
<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
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THE ANNUAL DINNER.<br />
<br />
THE annual dinner of the Society of Authors<br />
is fixed to take place on November 27,<br />
at the Criterion Restaurant. Mr. Hesketh<br />
Prichard, the chairman of the Committee of<br />
Management, will take the chair. Notices to<br />
this effect have already been circulated.<br />
<br />
NOVELISTS AND Fitm Ricurts.<br />
<br />
THE importance of the moving picture<br />
rights in novels must be apparent to all<br />
frequenters of picture palaces. Manufac-<br />
turers are increasingly utilising the work of<br />
the novelist in order to make their entertain-<br />
ments more attractive to the public. All the<br />
signs point to a distinct future for the novel<br />
easily adaptable to the cinematograph.<br />
<br />
We feel it is necessary therefore to impress<br />
upon our members the necessity for guarding<br />
very carefully the picture rights in their<br />
novels, and to sign no contract with a publisher<br />
which contains any provision relating to these<br />
rights without first referring to the Society.<br />
<br />
Already it is apparent that the publishers<br />
of books are anxious to gain control of this<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
new right, just:as the publishers of music have<br />
been anxious to gain control of the mechanical<br />
instrument rights in music. The author must,<br />
therefore, be sure not to part with any right<br />
beyond the licence to publish in book form<br />
properly limited.<br />
<br />
Properly marketed, the moving picture<br />
rights of a novel may be extremely valuable to<br />
the author. In the hands of the publisher<br />
there is a very real danger of their being<br />
treated as a useful source of a little additional<br />
revenue, but hardly worth any very strenuous<br />
effort to place on a profitable basis.<br />
<br />
Morratr v. MAuUDE.<br />
<br />
THE question of how far a dramatist has<br />
power under a clause in his contract to dictate<br />
<br />
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<br />
to the manager on the choice of his cast must =<br />
<br />
in all circumstances depend upon the wording +<br />
<br />
of the clause; and the question how far a<br />
dramatist is entitled to damages for breach of<br />
such a clause by the manager must in all<br />
circumstances depend upon the facts of each<br />
case, and the interpretation the judge and<br />
jury place upon the facts.<br />
<br />
This doctrine has been fully exemplified by<br />
the judgment in the case of Moffat v. Maude.<br />
The point has been laboriously considered in<br />
the Dramatic Sub-committee. It has again<br />
been raised by the Dramatists’ Club. The<br />
sub-committee desire to impress upon the<br />
dramatist members of the Society the necessity<br />
for insisting on a clause in their contracts<br />
giving them, if they can obtain it, the virtual<br />
control of the casting of the chief parts; if<br />
they cannot ‘insist so far, then a contract<br />
subject to a mutual right of veto.<br />
<br />
The sub-committee consider the matter is<br />
of great importance to Dramatists, and while<br />
they regret the decision in the case mentioned,<br />
they do not think that it upsets in any way<br />
the general recognised principles of law by<br />
which these questions are determined, nor is<br />
it likely to modify the value of such a clause<br />
as the one which they recommend.<br />
<br />
“Mary Goes First.”<br />
In the Observer of October 19 appeared an<br />
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and<br />
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amusing letter, nearly two columns long, »<br />
<br />
written by Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, through<br />
his secretary, on the subject of ‘‘ Names in<br />
Plays.” It is stated that the letter is in<br />
<br />
answer to a threat of an action for libel if<br />
Mr. Jones’s play, ‘‘ Mary Goes First,” is<br />
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published without certain revisions. As we<br />
junderstand the matter to be sub judice still,<br />
i we are precluded from comment upon it. But<br />
ve cannot refrain from registering our opinion<br />
hat the present condition of the law of libel<br />
s very serious for authors and urgently<br />
equires attention. Cases which have been<br />
ecided in court more or less recently have<br />
made this painfully clear, and authors cannot,<br />
n justice to themselves, remain apathetic.<br />
<br />
Tue U.S.A. AuTHors’ LEAGUE.<br />
<br />
__ WE read with interest the Bulletin of the<br />
Authors’ League of America, as it comes to<br />
us regularly, and we are exceedingly interested<br />
o see the gradual increase of the League, and<br />
ope to hear of its membership reaching<br />
|,000 very shortly. At present we find the<br />
members at 518, but fresh names are being<br />
dded steadily from month to month. There<br />
_. 31s not the least doubt that the Authors’ League,<br />
_. aithrough its executive, may be able to give the<br />
_ aAuthors’ Society very valuable information<br />
Mifrom time to time, and our committee have<br />
> gexpressed their willingness to give the Authors’<br />
-o League every help and assistance that is in<br />
heir power. We hope that the two societies<br />
will be drawn closer together by the fact that<br />
‘Hour Society has asked Mr. A. Train, the<br />
9% General Counsel, to act as the Society’s legal<br />
“> = representative in the United States.<br />
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ANTHOLOGIES.<br />
<br />
_ Our attention has been drawn to the Preface<br />
of a book entitled ‘‘ Lyric Masterpieces by<br />
i Living Authors,”’ which is published by Gowans<br />
and Gray, Ltd., Glasgow and London.<br />
<br />
From this Preface it appears that the editor<br />
who made the selection thinks it a mistaken<br />
plicy that certain living authors object to<br />
<br />
aving their works reproduced in other books<br />
without payment. This attitude seems to<br />
have annoyed him, and in carefully expressed<br />
phrases he has shown his annoyance. It is<br />
impossible, of course, to know whether the<br />
compiler of the selection has been paid for such<br />
compilation. Most probably he did not do the<br />
work for his own pleasure. But it may fairly<br />
be deduced that the publishers would not have<br />
put the book on the market unless they hoped<br />
to make it a commercial success and to profit<br />
by the sales. The Author has on former<br />
occasions dealt with this question of Antholo-<br />
gies. It does seem unfair that a publisher<br />
should make a profit out of the use of other<br />
<br />
é<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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5<br />
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people’s property without paying for it. Why<br />
should. ‘‘some poets and _ publishers” . be<br />
generous in a matter of this kind, which is a<br />
matter purely of business.<br />
<br />
Many well-known writers have very strong<br />
objections to allowing the product of their<br />
brains to be taken from them for the financial<br />
benefit of others in whom they are not in the<br />
least interested.<br />
<br />
The editor of the book, as we have pointed<br />
out, thinks that the demand for payment by<br />
the poet is a mistaken policy. We wonder<br />
whether, having made the selection, he would<br />
like another publisher to produce the same<br />
selection without any payment whatever to<br />
himself for the work undertaken.<br />
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<br />
PUTTING A NOVEL ON THE<br />
MARKET.<br />
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<br />
By F. G. Browne or F. G. Browne Co.<br />
<br />
[From the ‘‘ Bookseller, Newsdealer and<br />
<br />
Stationer,’ New York.]<br />
<br />
S HE author has made a very attractive<br />
book of this.”<br />
<br />
A reviewer on a western newspaper<br />
wound up his review of one of our latest<br />
publications with these words. The sentence<br />
well illustrates something of the confusion that<br />
obtains in the public mind regarding the art of<br />
book making. 2<br />
<br />
Few persons reading the latest book of<br />
fiction ever give a thought as to how the book<br />
has been put into their possession. To the<br />
average readers a novel is a novel; they read.<br />
it, enjoy it, or condemn it, as an expression of<br />
individual taste, and put it aside. Its mission<br />
has been fulfilled.<br />
<br />
Beyond knowing the names of perhaps a<br />
half dozen of the ‘‘ stars,” probably nine out of<br />
ten persons do not give a thought to the<br />
personality behind the writing of a book, much,<br />
less the making of it... The work and planning<br />
and execution of the myriad details which have<br />
made it possible to put this latest volume in<br />
their hands for $1 or $1.25 rarely are<br />
considered. :<br />
<br />
The production of a book of fiction involves<br />
many personalities. First, the author, who<br />
conceives and writes the story; second, the<br />
publisher, who selects the story from among<br />
many, many manuscripts and decides to stake<br />
a portion of his capital and energy in making it<br />
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into a book; third, the artist, whose talents<br />
and imagination must be devoted for perhaps<br />
several months to the task of visualising<br />
characters and situations so that the man who<br />
runs may be attracted to read ; fourth, the<br />
printer, who, following the specifications of the<br />
publisher, converts the manuscript into type,<br />
and the type into electrotype plates, and on his<br />
presses prints the sheets that are to be the basis<br />
of the book ; fifth, the engraver, who places his<br />
technical skill at the disposal of the artist and<br />
<br />
ublisher in reproducing the illustrations in<br />
heautifal multicolour plates or simple black<br />
and white halftones, as the case may demand ;<br />
sixth, the paper maker, who must have his<br />
product finished and in the printer’s hands<br />
when the book is ready to print ; seventh, the<br />
binder, who takes the printed sheets and sews<br />
and stitches and trims them and incases them<br />
in the permanent cloth cover.<br />
<br />
SALE AND DISTRIBUTION.<br />
<br />
These and others are concerned in the<br />
making of the book. Its sale and distribution<br />
require the labour of another set of craftsmen—<br />
the publisher’s travelling representative, who<br />
lays the book before the bookseller and<br />
unblushingly asks for an order for it of twice<br />
the quantity he dares expect ; the bookseller,<br />
who gives the book a chance of reaching the<br />
eye of the public by tying up sundry dollars<br />
of his capital in an order usually one-fourth the<br />
size suggested (for he likely has looked at<br />
twenty new stories that morning and listened<br />
to glowing statements of the potential qualities<br />
of all as ‘best sellers ”); the newspaper,<br />
through whose advertising columns the enthu-<br />
siastic publisher announces the story as a<br />
discovery peculiar to the century, in order to<br />
anticipate and discount the judicial statements<br />
later of the same newspaper’s literary editor<br />
as to the book’s real value and reason for<br />
being.<br />
<br />
The finished typewritten manuscript _ is,<br />
therefore, but the beginning. The author has<br />
done his part. The labour of those who must<br />
contribute to the book’s success is just opening<br />
up, and in fact the publisher’s work began<br />
before the manuscript was submitted.<br />
<br />
First of all, the publisher must read hundreds<br />
of manuscripts. It is one of the routine<br />
labours of his day’s (and night’s) work. From<br />
a mass of a hundred manuscripts he selects<br />
perhaps one that he believes has “ the punch ”<br />
and may become a good “seller.” For the<br />
<br />
publication of fiction no longer is considered<br />
from the literary standpoint: it is published<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
from the viewpoint of dollars and cents, what<br />
it will make for the author and what it will net<br />
the publisher. It has developed into a § ©:<br />
commercial proposition pure and simple—the 61%<br />
merchandising of literature. :<br />
<br />
The recording, reading, considering, packing, |<br />
and returning of unavailable manuscripts alone Sic!<br />
involve work on the part of the publisher and Bus *<br />
his assistants which represents a large actual [jit<br />
loss of time and money. But it is all a part of To ww<br />
the game, for the publisher who lands one good Bue!<br />
seller out of a hundred manuscripts counts<br />
himself fortunate. :<br />
<br />
I am constantly reading manuscripts at all<br />
manner of odd times outside of my business ©<br />
hours. I wouldn’t, under any circumstances, |<br />
publish a volume of fiction unless I personally<br />
had read it through. I think most successful<br />
publishers follow the same rule. That means<br />
that the manuscripts I read have been “ sifted ”<br />
by regular ‘‘ readers,” and those that have any<br />
promise at all laid aside for me. It is done on<br />
somewhat the same principle that a man ©<br />
follows in buying horses—others may recom- _<br />
mend, but he must examine the animal himself é4<br />
and try him out before he invests his money |.<br />
in him.<br />
<br />
The manuscript accepted for publication, the 4<br />
next point to be determined is, what kind of a -<br />
book shall be made of it ? This means the selec- -— ©<br />
tion of type, the size of the volume, the choice OF<br />
of artist to illustrate it, and so on. Book<br />
manufacturing details are usually worked out<br />
carefully and nothing left to chance. The<br />
number of words is estimated, the size of type<br />
is decided upon—this being regulated by the<br />
number of words the manuscript contains and<br />
the number of pages the book is to have—the<br />
kind of paper, the style of illustration, the<br />
scheme for cover design and paper ‘“ jacket,”<br />
and the size of the edition.<br />
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From a MercuaNDISE STANDPOINT.<br />
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Nowadays, as I have said, fiction is treated ms<br />
from a merchandise standpoint. A story that<br />
can be made into a book of 400 pages can be<br />
retailed for about $1.25; a book of 500 pages<br />
for $1.85. In the manufacturing of the book [ele<br />
there must be a fixed relation between what the | = i)<br />
book is going to cost and what the probable |e<br />
returns from the sale will be. A margin of [%.<br />
profit must be set by the publisher below which s#@* °<br />
he cannot safely operate. :<br />
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The number of copies ordered for the first pe<br />
edition varies, of course, according to the pet<br />
prominence of the author. My experience is | % °<br />
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that a minimum first edition of at least 3,500 7a<br />
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too high to yield any profit. The manufac-<br />
turing cost naturally is affected by the number<br />
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| of copies printed, because the cost of the<br />
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plant ’’—typesetting, the making of electro-<br />
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| type plates, the artist’s fee, the engraving, and<br />
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the other items in getting the book ready to<br />
print—is just the same whether 1,000 or 10,000<br />
copies of the book are printed.<br />
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A 400-page book consumes about a pound<br />
and a quarter of paper. Our fiction is printed<br />
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"on sheets of paper measuring 303 by 41 inches.<br />
“|. A sheet that size will print sixty-four pages of<br />
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the book, thirty-two pages on each side, giving<br />
a volume 54 by 72 inches, which now is the<br />
popular fiction size.<br />
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The revision of a manuscript and_ the<br />
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4 reading of the printers’ proofs often involve a<br />
<br />
heavy labour. I have known cases where as<br />
many as a thousand changes of individual<br />
words and phrases in a single manuscript have<br />
been made after its acceptance. As a rule,<br />
three proofs of the type are pulled. One of<br />
these is read by the printers to see that it con-<br />
forms to the manuscript copy, another set is<br />
read by the author himself in order that he may<br />
improve the work if possible, and the third set<br />
is read in the publisher’s office, and final<br />
changes made as necessary. All these changes<br />
cost money, and usually the publisher has to<br />
defray this expense himself.<br />
<br />
I have mentioned the paper “ jacket,” or<br />
wrapper. This theoretically is for the purpose<br />
of protecting the cloth cover, but really is<br />
treated purely from the advertising standpoint<br />
—that is, it is artistically printed and decorated<br />
attractively in order to catch the eye of the<br />
buyer looking over a table of new novels.<br />
<br />
These are some of the more essential details<br />
and problems involved in producing a volume<br />
of fiction. The author has, to be sure, made<br />
the volume possible, but his share in its produc-<br />
tion is not so burdensome as that of the<br />
publisher nor does he risk so much. The<br />
publisher risks his capital and his experience<br />
and energy, and for a time he must LIVE that<br />
book until he can feel that it is going to repay<br />
his investment by its sale. ,<br />
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The publisher, of course, has to attend to all<br />
the details of selling. Books are sold by means<br />
of advance samples which are carried by<br />
travelling representatives direct to the book<br />
trade. It is not an unusual thing for the<br />
<br />
publisher to secure, in advance, orders for an<br />
<br />
entire edition of a volume that is not yet off the<br />
press. The size of these advance sales, how-<br />
ever, depends a great deal upon the reputation<br />
and popularity of the author, but energy and<br />
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confidence can make a successful sale for the<br />
first book of an unknown author. For the use<br />
of his own travelling representatives and the<br />
travellers of the book jobbing houses the<br />
publisher has to have made up at considerable<br />
expense a number of “dummy” books—<br />
showing the cover, properly die stamped, a<br />
sample picture, and a few sample pages of the<br />
contents—and this often months before the<br />
actual printing of the book has begun.<br />
<br />
Review Copies BEFORE PUBLICATION.<br />
<br />
The review copies for the newspapers and<br />
periodicals must be distributed shortly before<br />
the book is published. This work falls to the<br />
lot of the publisher. Some publishers give<br />
away a good many copies to men identified with<br />
the book trade—clerks, buyers, store managers,<br />
etc. These are sent out in advance in order<br />
that the persons who receive them may<br />
familiarise themselves with the volume before<br />
it is displayed on their counters. Every story<br />
has its own individual problems. They are<br />
problems which the publisher alone can<br />
unravel. Sometimes he sends out a thousand<br />
free copies of a new volume, and a fair average<br />
for books of fiction might be about 500 copies.<br />
<br />
The matter of advertising is and always will<br />
be the big problem with the publisher. He<br />
must decide in advance how much he is<br />
warranted in spending in promotion and<br />
publicity, and he must decide how and where<br />
to spend it. Certain trade journals that<br />
circulate chiefly among book dealers and<br />
librarians are necessary mediums. Adver-<br />
tising announcements are printed in these<br />
periodicals as a matter of routine. Cosmopo-<br />
litan newspapers of wide circulation in the<br />
territory in which they are published are the<br />
mediums relied upon to attract the buyer<br />
personally. Trade advertising also includes<br />
posters, circulars and window cards. Every<br />
book of fiction must be provided with an<br />
attractive poster, and these posters represent<br />
the outlay of considerable money, often<br />
being printed in several colours.<br />
<br />
The publisher must plan his newspaper<br />
advertising campaign so that he can assure the<br />
book trade in the different sections of the<br />
country that the book will be brought to the<br />
attention of consumers in those sections on the<br />
day of publication. Then he must judge from<br />
<br />
the advance orders he receives from different<br />
sections just how much he can afford to con-<br />
tinue to spend in each section, for he must,<br />
above all things, guard against the expenditure<br />
of a lot of money in a field which will yield only<br />
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small comparative returns. The usual method<br />
in exploiting a new book of fiction is to concen-<br />
trate on a few large cities. The representative<br />
papers of these big cities reach a multitude of<br />
small towns in and about them, as most of them<br />
circulate in a wide territory.<br />
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EsTIMATES ON EXPENSE.<br />
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The publisher must have a pretty good idea<br />
of the various proportions of the different items<br />
.of expense in publishing a book of fiction. For<br />
instance, if a volume wholesales at 75 cents—<br />
the publisher’s estimates always are based on<br />
the wholesale price of a book, not on the retail<br />
price—he must know how much of that amount<br />
should go for manufacture, how much for<br />
advertising, how much to general overhead<br />
expense—in other words, the book’s share of<br />
the firm’s expense of doing business—how<br />
much to the author and how much should be<br />
left for himself.<br />
<br />
An author receives anywhere from 10 to<br />
20 per cent. of the retail price, and the usual<br />
royalty is 10 per cent. up to 5,000 copies and<br />
then 124 per cent. This is a fair royalty, and,<br />
as a matter of fact, a firm’s authors will receive<br />
a larger share of money returns in the year’s<br />
business than the publisher can make for<br />
himself. This statement may be challenged,<br />
‘but the fact remains, nevertheless.<br />
<br />
To sum up, the successful publisher must be<br />
something of a Jack of all trades. He must<br />
have literary and artistic instincts sufficient to<br />
enable him to know the real from the false ; he<br />
must know something of the mechanical<br />
‘processes by which a book is made—printing,<br />
engraving, paper making, binding; he must<br />
have the ability to invent advertising, he must<br />
have the selling ability; and, last and not<br />
least, he must have the courage to risk money<br />
on a gamble, for the publishing of popular<br />
<br />
“fiction nowadays is a great deal of a gamble.<br />
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<br />
PLAYS AND THE RIGHT TO A TITLE.<br />
, —— oe<br />
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L. The Author of October, 1906, I was<br />
4 allowed to make some observations upon<br />
the conditions which arise when an author<br />
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-uses a title which has been applied to a work<br />
previously published by some one else, upon<br />
the law applicable to the situation and upon<br />
the remedies which, from time to time, have<br />
been proposed. Everyone knows that there<br />
as no copyright in a title, and I endeavoured to<br />
show that the proposal to give something in<br />
the nature of copyright was not likely to be<br />
granted by the legislature, and that protection<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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by some form of registration akin to that of a<br />
trade mark would be attended by practical<br />
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difficulties disproportionate to the advantages — :<br />
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which it might be expected to secure for those<br />
interested. It will be found also, by anyone<br />
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who can refer to the back-number in which |<br />
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my article appeared, that I made the further<br />
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suggestion that anyone who differed from me ~ er<br />
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and who thought that special protection for |<br />
titles might be granted by the legislature —<br />
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should not merely make his proposals in outline<br />
but should give them a definite form by drafting<br />
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the clauses in which he would like to see them ~ / r<br />
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submitted to the House of Commons. I do<br />
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not remember reading in The Author anything<br />
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upon the lines suggested, so I am inclined to<br />
conclude that either what I wrote met with<br />
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general acceptance or that those who differed | ~<br />
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from me as to the practical possibilities of the — |<br />
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ease did not consider the matter of sufficient<br />
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importance for the discussion to be carried ©<br />
It has, however, been suggested to ~<br />
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further.<br />
me recently, that in the case of dramatic<br />
compositions there should be less difficulty<br />
than in that of books in securing titles from<br />
<br />
infringement, voluntary or involuntary, and _<br />
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that there is more opportunity for the author of<br />
<br />
a play to be damaged by a subsequent author *<br />
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taking his title. That is to say, there should be<br />
less danger of the writer of a play taking a title<br />
already used because there are comparatively<br />
<br />
few plays, so that investigation should more *<br />
<br />
easily discover a previous user, but on the<br />
other hand, plays are liable to be revived and<br />
re-acted long after they are first produced, so<br />
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that there is considerable difference between —<br />
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their “‘ lives ’’ and the “ lives ”’ of novels.<br />
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This matter of comparative longevity is,<br />
As the law stands —<br />
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perhaps, worth considering.<br />
the writer of a book which has been published<br />
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can prevent a second writer from using his—<br />
title if he can show that the second use of the<br />
title is injurious to him or is likely to be so,<br />
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If he can prove that he has suffered damage<br />
by such use he can recover compensation.<br />
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In practice this means that the author of a_<br />
<br />
book which is being sold can prevent the<br />
offering of another book under the same title<br />
<br />
on the ground that it would be likely to be ~<br />
mistaken for his, and that money intended to *<br />
be spent on his book might thus be spent on _<br />
A great many .<br />
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the work of another writer.<br />
<br />
books, however, when a few years have<br />
<br />
elapsed since their publication, are not being —<br />
sold any longer, and are, to all intents and —<br />
purposes, dead. There may be a possibility —<br />
of recovery, but, as a rule, the book that dies _<br />
remains dead, particularly when it is a novel, ><br />
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and its author suffers no damage and is likely<br />
to suffer none if another writer uses his title.<br />
i A play, however, which has been acted and<br />
laid aside, so far as London is concerned, may<br />
continue to be played, perhaps at intervals,<br />
in the provinces, and may be acted here and<br />
£ there by amateurs—let us hope with the<br />
knowledge and to the profit of its author.<br />
) Or, again, when it has seemed almost forgotten<br />
in London, it may be revived there and again<br />
i win success. ‘‘ Diplomacy’? and “ Jim the<br />
,|.. Penman” are recent revivals which may be<br />
“given as instances of a surprising kind of<br />
vitality and longevity in dramatic works.<br />
Robertson’s plays would supply a long list<br />
of revivals, and there is no reason why they<br />
should not continue to be acted at intervals<br />
in the Metropolis and elsewhere. All these,<br />
however, have no doubt enjoyed a steady and<br />
more or less continuous existence on the boards<br />
. elsewhere, apart from their appearances in<br />
“+ London. I do not know whether a really<br />
“ys unsuccessful play, laid aside and, in fact,<br />
|. forgotten by managers and audiences alike,<br />
has ever been revived and made successful<br />
some time afterwards, but it is conceivable<br />
that some might so recover, having owed their<br />
premature inanition to lack of capital on the<br />
part of their produccrs, want of advertising,<br />
and, more important still, to inadequate acting.<br />
It may, therefore, be submitted for considera-<br />
tion that infringement of the title of a play<br />
should be treated with greater stringency than<br />
is necessary in the case of books, and that the<br />
infringer should give way when he possibly<br />
‘’ «an in order to prevent injuring a fellow<br />
writer. To give way in all cases where it is<br />
0G possible must always be the more courteous<br />
“ig .and considerate course to adopt.<br />
i The comparatively smaller number of plays<br />
suggests the possibility of a register of all<br />
licensed plays being made capable of inspection<br />
14 by dramatic authors, in order that they may<br />
see whether their titles have already been used.<br />
They should, however, still endeavour to<br />
ascertain whether they are adopting titles<br />
l@ already used by novelists as whether they can<br />
_ be prevented legally from doing so or not,<br />
no one should lay himself open to the charge<br />
of plagiarism or of lack of originality.<br />
E. A. A.<br />
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A MORAL SENSE.<br />
SBCET ae<br />
N looking through almost any popular<br />
periodical, one must notice that<br />
authors and artists are having their<br />
work exploited for the benefit of the<br />
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advertisers. The general tendency is for the<br />
articles, stories and pictures to improve, and<br />
for the advertisements to become worse.<br />
What the reading public gains in one way it<br />
loses in another, and, of late, it is taking<br />
greater risks of being deluded by the adver-<br />
tisers than of being uplifted by the work of<br />
the artists. Some periodicals are notorious,<br />
in that they admit to their advertising pages<br />
announcements which any person of average<br />
intelligence can identify as unfit for public<br />
perusal. Yet these periodicals contain con-<br />
tributions from some of the most eminent<br />
writers of the day. There is a certain<br />
incongruity between the printed words of the<br />
distinguished novelists and the invitations of<br />
notorious advertisers contained within the<br />
same covers. It is unlikely that the authors,<br />
whose work is bought, would care to be seen<br />
in the company of advertising quacks and<br />
get-rich-quicks, but authors seem to think it<br />
does no one any harm for the pearls of wisdom<br />
they produce to be used as the vehicle for<br />
getting known to the public various noxious<br />
drugs, opium, and alcohol disguised under<br />
trade names. It is as though the authors<br />
were too particular and respectable to be seen<br />
in the company of cheap-jacks, bucket-shop<br />
proprietors, quacks and gamblers, but, for a<br />
consideration, would allow themselves to be<br />
used for the purpose of introducing the public<br />
generally to these harpies. For, of course,<br />
the periodicals are bought and read for what<br />
the authors have contributed; and what the<br />
authors have written is bought by the owners of<br />
the periodicals only in order that the circulation<br />
may be increased and a larger revenue be<br />
derived from the advertisers.<br />
<br />
In former days a writer often knew his<br />
editor and publisher personally, and had<br />
sufficient confidence in character to under-<br />
stand that his ‘‘ effusion’? would not appear<br />
amidst matter which would harm either<br />
himself or the public. Now, with some agent<br />
as middleman, price is everything ; a “* good ”<br />
publisher or editor is one who can be depended<br />
upon to pay at the date named ; where, how,<br />
when, with what or without what, the “‘ stuf -<br />
shall appear is not the concern of the author.<br />
Divided responsibility is no responsibility.<br />
The author will contend that his responsibility<br />
is confined to his own work, and if that satisfies<br />
him, what the buyer does with it is no practical<br />
concern of his.<br />
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In short, one may contend that an author is<br />
indifferent to the use made of his product.<br />
It may serve as a lure for innocents, it may<br />
lead the guileless into a trap from which<br />
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escape is impossible, it may be printed in the<br />
worst company, but the author 1s not respon-<br />
sible. He has parted with all control an<br />
exchange for a cheap-jack’s money. His<br />
such an author any moral sense ? :<br />
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There is no necessity to uphold any particular<br />
morality, or the lack of it, except that it 1s<br />
inconsistent for the authors whose professed<br />
purpose it is to inculeate morality, to become<br />
a vehicle for advancing what is the opposite.<br />
It is no excuse to say that the newspapers are<br />
as bad, and that “‘ everybody’s doing ite<br />
—-most authors are ; but though they may lead<br />
the world in thought they are laggards in<br />
action. Some men still act in accordance<br />
with their principles. In a Tacoma gaol a<br />
prisoner went to the punishment cells rather<br />
than help in repairing the gallows ; in Mantova<br />
many bricklayers refused to work in building<br />
a gaol; in Milan, in Paris, and in Rome,<br />
compositors and press-men refused to produce<br />
papers containing comments which might<br />
prejudice the cause of workpeople on strike.<br />
These humble people had convictions, and<br />
acted upon them. With them any honest<br />
man would be proud to shake hands. They<br />
are the real leaders of to-day and to-morrow.<br />
The author is going to be relegated to a rear<br />
rank, having shown already that he is willing<br />
to go anywhere an “ agent ’’ recommends, or<br />
wherever pay is highest.<br />
<br />
WILuiAM GREENER.<br />
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PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM.<br />
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[T may prove to be somewhat difficult to<br />
eliminate the personal element in the<br />
discussion of the fine line which deline-<br />
ates the professional journalist and literary<br />
** dilettante’; but the little that I have to say<br />
on the subject must perforce ring truer if the<br />
abstract and composite scribe is conscien-<br />
tiously substituted for the concrete and, per-<br />
haps, disappointed dweller in ‘‘ Grub Street.”<br />
<br />
The topic was suggested to me by a pro-<br />
fessional journalist, employed in the office of a<br />
big provincial newspaper, who holds, with me,<br />
that while the routine work of the newspaper<br />
office is well left exclusively to the regular<br />
staff, there should be no editorial or pro-<br />
fessional jealousy of literary competitors out-<br />
side. If my informant is correct, there exists<br />
in many offices some ill-defined but well-<br />
understood _ test of who is, and who is not, a<br />
professional author and journalist. Member-<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
hip of this Society, or of the Institute of<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Journalists, does not necessarily carry weight,<br />
and, indeed, the ‘‘ rose would smell as sweet a<br />
by any other name, if one could make sure of<br />
culling it.<br />
<br />
Over and over again we have been told, in<br />
this and other literary periodicals, that intro-<br />
ductions do not count, and over and over<br />
again the inexorable logic of facts, in concrete,<br />
cases, disproves the assertion, that only merit<br />
wins in the long run. And the “‘ run ” may be<br />
so very long that it culminates in the dead-<br />
stop that comes sooner or later to all workers<br />
in all vineyards, for we all constantly meet<br />
with or hear of mediocrities, as well as truly<br />
talented men and women, whose introduction<br />
to a big literary syndicate has resulted in<br />
regular work and a more or less calculable<br />
salary.<br />
<br />
Is there, therefore, no ‘‘ media via,” no<br />
“golden mean,” between the arbitrary label-<br />
ling of a writer, who joins a literary society or<br />
association as a ‘‘ dilettante’? man of letters,<br />
and the classifying of those who, having<br />
graduated in ‘‘ Grub Street ” and acquired or<br />
improved their gift, are worthy of the title<br />
‘ professional journalists ” ?<br />
<br />
I should hardly advocate diploma work after<br />
<br />
the fashion of the Royal Academy, following |<br />
<br />
election, which neither there nor here would be |<br />
an all-sufficing test of efficiency, but it would |<br />
appear that, without lowering the status of |<br />
this Society or the Institute of Journalists,<br />
some form of declaration, based upon pub- —<br />
lished work, might assist in the legitimate<br />
introduction of competent writers to editors<br />
and publishers. And in this connection I<br />
would comment upon the enormous amount of<br />
unsigned work which, for various reasons,<br />
finds its way into print and into really high-<br />
class papers and periodicals, for we all know —<br />
and appreciate the value of the advertisement —<br />
<br />
which connotes the duly attested signature.<br />
<br />
Proof, then, of the various types of contri-<br />
butions to newspapers and periodicals might<br />
be either published in this organ of the Society,<br />
or furnished to editors, as desired, by members,<br />
who should have qualified by ‘bona fide” —<br />
work for this advertisement of their com-<br />
petency. B<br />
<br />
I do not suggest that such a policy would<br />
break down cliques and “ rings,”’ if such there —<br />
be; but, if a good understanding should thus —<br />
be established between members of the Society —<br />
and the purchasers of intellectual wares, it 15 _<br />
more than likely that the beneficent action of<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
the council would tend to open doors for ~~<br />
<br />
eligible suitors. Nor would such a new depar- :<br />
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<br />
ture transform the Society into a literary — Me<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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agency, as all that the responsible officials<br />
could affirm would be, that such and such a<br />
writer, being a member of the Society, had<br />
i tendered proof of having contributed to such<br />
and such newspapers and periodicals, and, on<br />
that basis alone, was forthwith recommended<br />
to editors in the monthly or quarterly list of<br />
u approved contributors. The Society would<br />
not force its opinions on any syndicate, firm<br />
; or editor, but would merely advance adequate<br />
~ . proof of the competency of the writer named,<br />
or otherwise dealt with, as a candidate for<br />
tr employment.<br />
r This suggestion may serve to recall Marshal<br />
Le Boeuf’s notorious ‘ dernier bouton,” but<br />
'» even a button or a label, aptly applied, may<br />
have their uses.<br />
F. C. Ormspy-JOHNSON.<br />
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THE PUBLISHERS’ DICTIONARY.”<br />
<br />
TPFNHIS is a lexicon, in seven languages, of<br />
terms used in the publishing trade, and<br />
a work whose exhaustiveness, accuracy,<br />
Me and lucid composition assure its being of the<br />
very greatest value.<br />
<br />
The present volume replaces the ‘‘ Vocabu-<br />
laire International Technique de 1|’Editeur ”’<br />
published, in accordance with a resolution of<br />
/ the congress of publishers, in 1910, and will be<br />
v°. found to represent a great advance. The plan<br />
adopted is to give the key words, in French, in<br />
the first column, accompanied by the necessary<br />
definitions of the various meanings which are<br />
indicated by numbers, the same numbers<br />
accompanying the equivalents in the six other<br />
languages, placed in parallel columns. At the<br />
end are added appéndices containing the<br />
duration of copyright in different countries,<br />
an index of copyright enactments, a summary<br />
of the extension and limitations of the Berne<br />
Convention, the various formats of books, the<br />
names of the different founts of type, sizes of<br />
paper, examples of correction of proofs in the<br />
different languages, and alphabetical indexes<br />
of words in languages other than French, with<br />
cross references. We have tested both the<br />
text of the seven-fold lexicon, and the cross<br />
references of the indexes, and have in every<br />
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* “Vocabulaire Technique de I’Editeur en Sept<br />
Langues: Francais, Deutsch, English, Espafiol, Hol-<br />
' landisch, Italiano, Magyar.” Berne. Congres Inter-<br />
“ national des Editeurs. 1913. 4°.<br />
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ease found the results completely satisfactory.<br />
As the labour of compilation, of which very<br />
modest mention is made in the preface, must<br />
have been enormous, it is difficult to express<br />
adequate admiration of the excellence of the<br />
work. We regret only that the editors in the<br />
case of Magyar should have permitted them-<br />
selves the modern vulgarity of printing c for<br />
cz, a practice most justly condemned by the<br />
Hungarian Academy.<br />
<br />
The work is printed in London, by the<br />
Ballantyne Press, and no notice of the book<br />
would be adequate which did not mention that<br />
the volume is a marvel of exquisite typography.<br />
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CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
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np<br />
UNREVIEWED Books.<br />
<br />
S1r,—I have read with interest Mr. Fursdon’s<br />
rejoinder. to my letter, not in praise of literary<br />
editors, as he implies, but in justice to them.<br />
The suggestion that I should be ‘‘ more at<br />
home in the editorial office of a popular daily ”<br />
I will pass as a pleasantry, remembering that<br />
Dr. Johnson once said that ‘the reciprocal<br />
civility of authors is one of the most risible<br />
things in the farce of life.”’<br />
<br />
Mr. Fursdon is obviously vexed, first with<br />
literary editors and later with me. He says,<br />
‘“There are literary editors and _ literary<br />
editors’; just so, as with eggs. Can Mr.<br />
Fursdon imagine himself the unhappy victim<br />
at whom is hurled some 13,000 volumes during<br />
the year’s 365 days? I fear it is not Reviews,<br />
but Mr. Fursdon that I err in taking “ too<br />
seriously.”” For any man seriously to expect<br />
an editor to indulge in what is obviously an<br />
unnecessary correspondence is scarcely reason-<br />
able. It is no argument to say that he must<br />
increase his staff. First of all his paper has<br />
to be made a commercial success, and increased<br />
staffs mean increased expenses.<br />
<br />
I quite agree with Mr. Fursdon, and I confess<br />
that the sensation is refreshing, that ‘ there<br />
are other tests, and if a book is temporarily<br />
disqualified by non-recognition in a certain<br />
number or section of august journals, it may<br />
yet win in the race of time.” I have no doubt<br />
that literary editors will be quite content to<br />
leave the verdict with posterity—the ever and<br />
overburdened.<br />
<br />
I am, Sir,<br />
Your obedient servant,<br />
HERBERT JENKINS.<br />
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* ONLY.”<br />
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Sir,—There is a common use of the word<br />
“only,” scarcely less irritating than the split<br />
infinitive, to which I would politely draw the<br />
attention of writers, in the hope that they may<br />
be practical enough to profit by the hint. On<br />
my holidays I usually read a good many<br />
novels, and I find the fault to which I refer<br />
almost universal. For instance (and I purposely<br />
select my example from the work of a well-<br />
known writer), in “‘ The Last Hope,” which I<br />
am now reading, Mr. Henry Seton Merriman—<br />
may his shadow never grow less !—perpetrates<br />
the following, on page 213 (Smith, Elder,<br />
1904): ‘‘. . . the tide had only turned half an<br />
hour ago.” Of course Mr. Merriman means<br />
nothing of the kind. He does not wish to tell<br />
the reader that ‘‘ the tide had only turned,”<br />
but that the tide had turned only “ half an<br />
hour ago.” And since he means this, why does<br />
he not say so?<br />
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«= 1 am,<br />
Your obedient servant,<br />
RicHarD FREE.<br />
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ee ee<br />
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AutHuors AND FrEE LIBRARIES.<br />
<br />
Your correspondent ‘“‘ C. E. S.” has formed<br />
an extraordinary opinion about what he (or<br />
she) designates “ free librarians.” I say this<br />
after an intimate relationship with many<br />
librarians of so-called “‘ free ”’ libraries extend-<br />
ing to nearly half a century, and I emphatically<br />
rebut the suggestion that these gentlemen and<br />
ladies are actuated by the petty motives<br />
suggested by “ C. E. S.”<br />
<br />
Your correspondent gives his case away<br />
when he states that a certain book was unknown<br />
in a certain town until the fact of its existence<br />
was made known by the public library<br />
authorities. This was a grand advertisement<br />
for the book, and a cheap one, too.<br />
<br />
I venture to assert that rate-supported<br />
libraries give an impetus to general reading,<br />
and make it possible, through their support,<br />
for some books to prove a financial success.<br />
Does ‘“C. E. S.” know how many “ free ”’<br />
libraries there are in the United Kingdom ;<br />
and has he thought about the enormous<br />
number of new books, including novels, that<br />
are purchased for them during any year?<br />
Then novelists are assisted through the con-<br />
stant renewals of soiled copies, ,<br />
<br />
No, “C. E. D.,” libraries assist novelists<br />
very considerably.<br />
<br />
J. P. B.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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CARRARA,<br />
<br />
Dear Avutuor,—In Mr. Wells’ letter in<br />
your last July number he writes: “T had<br />
to live—and so I learnt to write before I<br />
thought of a book.” According to Aristotle also,<br />
“To learn to play the lyre we must play the<br />
lyre.”<br />
ae. the bone of contention between<br />
author and publisher plus agent is—<br />
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1. That it is always superevident to the<br />
author, obscure or otherwise, that those who<br />
profess to be his allies won’t see to it that, as.<br />
Emerson says, ‘‘ He who does the work has the<br />
power, but he who does not the work has not<br />
the power.”<br />
<br />
2. That between buying kitchen utensils.<br />
or a motor, for instance, and exchanging (?)<br />
“crim brains’? for lucre (that, chiefly, the<br />
author doesn’t get) there is a distinction with<br />
the difference. The one is mercantile. The<br />
other—vicarious.<br />
<br />
When Michael Angelo received orders from<br />
Lorenzo de Medicis he set off on foot from<br />
Florence to Carrara to select his own marble.<br />
At Carrara he personally supervised its quarry-<br />
ing so as to secure as far as possible a flawless<br />
block. Sometimes this took a year, some-<br />
times only six months. Having secured it,<br />
Michael Angelo trudged doggedly on foot again<br />
all the way home from Carrara to Florence so<br />
as to steady his precious purchase every inch<br />
of the way with his own hands to keep it from<br />
getting broken.<br />
<br />
There could be an amicable point of contact<br />
between author and publisher plus agent,<br />
that is, the exercise of conscience.<br />
<br />
We authors “‘ have to live.” We “ play the<br />
lyre.” We laboriously trudge every inch of<br />
the way to Carrara and back to supervise the<br />
perfecting of our tools. We don’t (save the<br />
mark !) fatten on the results of others’ labour.<br />
We don’t sweat anyone knowingly, for two<br />
reasons: (1) because to renounce one iota of<br />
our privilege we should damage our secret<br />
ideal; (2) because to walk every inch of<br />
the way ourselves is the only real way not<br />
to fail.<br />
<br />
Won't The Author adopt two devices for its<br />
escutcheon—the first, “‘ To learn to play the<br />
<br />
lyre we must play the lyre;’ the second, “ f<br />
had to live—and so I learnt to write before I<br />
wrote a book ’’ (the italics this time are not<br />
Mr. Wells’)}—and have authors, publishers<br />
and agents repeat them every night of their<br />
lives in unison with the Lord’s Prayer on their<br />
bended knees ?<br />
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