<table><tr><th>Omeka ID</th><th>Omeka URL</th><th>Title</th><th>Subject</th><th>Description</th><th>Creator</th><th>Source</th><th>Publisher</th><th>Date</th><th>Contributor</th><th>Rights</th><th>Relation</th><th>Format</th><th>Language</th><th>Type</th><th>Identifier</th><th>Coverage</th><th>Publisher(s)</th><th>Original Format</th><th>Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry</th><th>Pages</th><th>Participants</th><th>Pen Name</th><th>Physical Dimensions</th><th>Position End Date</th><th>Position Start Date</th><th>Position(s)</th><th>Publication Frequency</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Sex</th><th>Society Membership End Date</th><th>Society Membership Start Date</th><th>Start Date</th><th>Sub-Committee End Date</th><th>Sub-Committee Start Date</th><th>Text</th><th>To</th><th>URL</th><th>Volume</th><th>Death</th><th>Biography</th><th>Birth</th><th>Committee End Date</th><th>Committee of Management End Date</th><th>Committee of Management Start Date</th><th>Committee Start Date</th><th>Committee(s)</th><th>Council End Date</th><th>Council Start Date</th><th>Date</th><th>Bibliography</th><th>End Date</th><th>Event Type</th><th>From</th><th>Image Source</th><th>Interactive Timeline</th><th>Issue</th><th>Location</th><th>Members</th><th>Ngram Date</th><th>Ngram Text</th><th>Files</th><th>Tags</th></tr><tr><td>344</td><td>https://historysoa.com/items/show/344</td><td>The Author, Vol. 12 Issue 01 (June 1901)</td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+12+Issue+01+%28June+1901%29&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Author&lt;/em&gt;, Vol. 12 Issue 01 (June 1901)&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006979390&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006979390&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication&quot;&gt;Publication&lt;/a&gt;</td><td>1901-06-01-The-Author-12-1</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1&ndash;16</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=12&quot;&gt;12&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>&lt;a href=&quot;/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&amp;advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1901-06-01&quot;&gt;1901-06-01&lt;/a&gt;</td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td>1</td><td></td><td></td><td>19010601</td><td>The Autbor.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XII.&mdash;No. 1.]&lt;br /&gt;
JUNE 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
PAGE&lt;br /&gt;
Memoranda ... ... ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Humphry Ward on the Art of Writing Fiction... ... ... 10&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Property.-A Publisher&amp;#039;s Agreement and Mr. &amp;quot; Abso Some American Views ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
11&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
... ...&lt;br /&gt;
gi lute&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Actor-Managers and New Plays ...&lt;br /&gt;
... 12&lt;br /&gt;
... ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Correspondence.-1. The Dating of Books, and other Suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
Paris Letter. By Darracotte Scott ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
for Copyright. 2. Authors&amp;#039; Deductions and Income Tax.&lt;br /&gt;
Annual Dinner of the Society of Authors ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
3. Magazines and Literature. 4. Editors&lt;br /&gt;
The Pension Fund of the Society of Authors ...&lt;br /&gt;
Book and Play Talk... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 14&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
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12&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. The Annual Report for the current year. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
2. The Author. A Monthly Journal devoted especially to the protection and maintenance of Literary&lt;br /&gt;
Property. Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-members, 6d., or 6s. 6d. per annum,&lt;br /&gt;
post free. Back numbers from 1892, at 1os. 6d. per vol.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. 38.&lt;br /&gt;
4. The History of the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The Cost of Production. (Out of print.)&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Various Methods of Publication. Py S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the&lt;br /&gt;
papers in the Society&amp;#039;s offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to&lt;br /&gt;
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the&lt;br /&gt;
various kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses in their&lt;br /&gt;
agreements. 38.&lt;br /&gt;
Addenda to the Above. By G. HERBERT TARING. Being additional facts collected at&lt;br /&gt;
the office of the Society since the publication of the &ldquo;Methods.&amp;quot; With comments and&lt;br /&gt;
advice. 28.&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell&amp;#039;s Copyright Bill of 1890. With&lt;br /&gt;
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the&lt;br /&gt;
American Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. Is. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By WALTER BESANT&lt;br /&gt;
(Chairman of Committee, 1888&ndash;1892). 15.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By Ernst&lt;br /&gt;
LUNGE, J.U.D. 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
10. Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association ; with Comments. By G. HERBERT&lt;br /&gt;
THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd Edition. 18.&lt;br /&gt;
[All prices net. Apply to the SECRETARY, 4, Portugal Street, London, W.C.]&lt;br /&gt;
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ADVERTISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).&lt;br /&gt;
PRESIDENT.&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE MEREDITH.&lt;br /&gt;
COUNCIL&lt;br /&gt;
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD, K.C.I.E., C.S.I. AUSTIN DOBson.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S.&lt;br /&gt;
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CLERE.&lt;br /&gt;
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JEROME K. JEROME.&lt;br /&gt;
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J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
W. BAPTISTE SCOONES.&lt;br /&gt;
P. W. CLAYDEN.&lt;br /&gt;
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W. MORRIS COLLES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE RIGHT Hon. W.E.H. LECKY,M.P. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.&lt;br /&gt;
The Hon. John COLLIER.&lt;br /&gt;
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J. J. STEVENSON.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE REV. W. J. LOFTIE, F.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCIS STORR.&lt;br /&gt;
F. MARION CRAWFORD.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR A. C. MACKENZIE, Mus.Doc. WILLIAM MOY THOMAS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CURZON PROF. J. M. D. MEIKLEJOHN.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD.&lt;br /&gt;
OF KEDLESTON.&lt;br /&gt;
Hon. Counsel &ndash; E. M. UNDERDOWN, K.C.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
Chairman-A. HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
SYDNEY GRUNDY.&lt;br /&gt;
GILBERT PARKER, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
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E, ROSE.&lt;br /&gt;
A. CONAN DOYLE, M.D.&lt;br /&gt;
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SUB-COMMITTEES.&lt;br /&gt;
ART.&lt;br /&gt;
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COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. &Agrave; BECKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
A. HOPE HAWKINS.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. LELY.&lt;br /&gt;
W. M. COLLES.&lt;br /&gt;
GILBERT PARKER, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMA.&lt;br /&gt;
HENRY ARTHUR JONES (Chairman).&lt;br /&gt;
F. C. BURNAND.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. PINERO.&lt;br /&gt;
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Solicitors-&lt;br /&gt;
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The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
CONDUCTED BY WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XII.-No. 1.]&lt;br /&gt;
JUNE 1, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
[PRICE SIXPENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
For the Opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
signed or initialled the Authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the&lt;br /&gt;
collective opinions of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
they are officially signed by G. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Thring, Sec.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Secretary of the Society begs to give notice that all&lt;br /&gt;
1 remittances are acknowledged by return of post, and&lt;br /&gt;
he requests members who do not receive an answer&lt;br /&gt;
to important communications within two days to write to&lt;br /&gt;
him without delay. All remittances should be crossed&lt;br /&gt;
Union Bank of London, Chancery-lane, or be sent by&lt;br /&gt;
registered letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
-&lt;br /&gt;
COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS ARE INVITED BY THE&lt;br /&gt;
E&lt;br /&gt;
EDITOR on all subjects connected with literature, but on&lt;br /&gt;
no other subjoots whatever. Articles which cannot be&lt;br /&gt;
accepted are returned if stamps for the purpose accompany&lt;br /&gt;
the MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or&lt;br /&gt;
doctor!&lt;br /&gt;
III. The Royalty System.&lt;br /&gt;
It is above all things necessary to know what the&lt;br /&gt;
proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now possible&lt;br /&gt;
for an author to ascertain approximately and very nearly&lt;br /&gt;
the truth. From time to time the very important figures&lt;br /&gt;
connected with royalties are published in The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers can also work out the figures themselves from the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cost of Production.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
IV. A Commission Agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
General.&lt;br /&gt;
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four&lt;br /&gt;
above mentioned.&lt;br /&gt;
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.&lt;br /&gt;
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.&lt;br /&gt;
The main points which the Society has always demanded&lt;br /&gt;
from the outset are :-&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
means.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong&lt;br /&gt;
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the&lt;br /&gt;
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or&lt;br /&gt;
withheld.&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an&lt;br /&gt;
n agreement. There are four methods of dealing&lt;br /&gt;
with literary property :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. Selling it Outright.&lt;br /&gt;
This is in some respects the most satisfactory, if a proper&lt;br /&gt;
price can be obtained. But the transaction should be&lt;br /&gt;
managed by a competent agent, or with the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of&lt;br /&gt;
agreement).&lt;br /&gt;
In this case the following rules should be attended to :&lt;br /&gt;
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-&lt;br /&gt;
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.&lt;br /&gt;
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the&lt;br /&gt;
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
in his own organs: or by charging exchange advertise.&lt;br /&gt;
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.&lt;br /&gt;
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for &amp;quot; office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
anless the same allowance is made to the author.&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XII.&lt;br /&gt;
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-&lt;br /&gt;
petent legal authority.&lt;br /&gt;
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for&lt;br /&gt;
the production of a play with anyone except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for PLAYS&lt;br /&gt;
IN THREE OR MORE ACTS :-&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) SALE OUTRIGHT OF THE PERFORMING RIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
This is unsatisfactory. An author who enters&lt;br /&gt;
into such a contract should stipulate in the con.&lt;br /&gt;
tract for production of the piece by a certain date&lt;br /&gt;
and for proper publication of his name on the&lt;br /&gt;
play-bills.&lt;br /&gt;
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TIIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
experience of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple&lt;br /&gt;
to use the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Send to the Office copies of past agreements and past&lt;br /&gt;
accounts, with a copy of the book represented. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will always be glad to have any agreements, new&lt;br /&gt;
yr old, for inspection and note. The information thus&lt;br /&gt;
obtained may prove invaluable.&lt;br /&gt;
4. BEFORE SIGNING ANY AGREEMENT WHATEVER, send&lt;br /&gt;
the document to the Society for examination.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Remember always that in belonging to the Society you&lt;br /&gt;
are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you are&lt;br /&gt;
reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are advancing&lt;br /&gt;
the best interests of literature in promoting the indepen.&lt;br /&gt;
dence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fireproof&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as con-&lt;br /&gt;
fidential documents to be read only by the Secretary, who&lt;br /&gt;
will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :-(1)&lt;br /&gt;
To read and advise upon agreements and to give advice con-&lt;br /&gt;
cerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements in readiness&lt;br /&gt;
for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(4) To enforce payments due according to agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF PERCENTAGES&lt;br /&gt;
on gross receipts. Percentages vary between&lt;br /&gt;
5 and 15 per cent. An anthor should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipte&lt;br /&gt;
in preference to the American system. Should&lt;br /&gt;
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed&lt;br /&gt;
date on or before which the play should be&lt;br /&gt;
performed.&lt;br /&gt;
(c.) SALE OF PERFORMING RIGHT OR OF A LICENCE&lt;br /&gt;
TO PERFORM ON THE BASIS OF ROYALTIES (i.e.,&lt;br /&gt;
fixed nightly fees). This method should be&lt;br /&gt;
always avoided except in cases where the fees&lt;br /&gt;
are likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set ont under heading (6.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. PLAYS IN ONE ACT are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction is&lt;br /&gt;
of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a&lt;br /&gt;
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager&lt;br /&gt;
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot&lt;br /&gt;
print the book of the words.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Never forget that AMERICAN RIGHTS may be exceed.&lt;br /&gt;
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English&lt;br /&gt;
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial&lt;br /&gt;
consideration.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully&lt;br /&gt;
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.&lt;br /&gt;
10. An author should remember that production of a play&lt;br /&gt;
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of&lt;br /&gt;
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.&lt;br /&gt;
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in&lt;br /&gt;
the beginning.&lt;br /&gt;
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market&lt;br /&gt;
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object&lt;br /&gt;
is to obtain adequate publication.&lt;br /&gt;
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete on&lt;br /&gt;
account of the wide range of the sabject of dramatic con.&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, THOSE AUTHORS DESIROUS OF FURTHER INFORMA.&lt;br /&gt;
TION ARE REFERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
TEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of their work by informing young writers of&lt;br /&gt;
its existence. Their MSS. can be read and treated&lt;br /&gt;
as a composition is treated by a coach. The term MSS.&lt;br /&gt;
includes NOT ONLY WORKS OF FICTION, BUT POETRY AND&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC WORKS, and when it is possible, under special&lt;br /&gt;
arrangement, technical and scientific works. The Readers&lt;br /&gt;
are writers of competence and experience. The fee is one&lt;br /&gt;
guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of the&lt;br /&gt;
1 Society that, although the paper is sent to them free&lt;br /&gt;
of charge, the cost of producing it would be a very&lt;br /&gt;
heavy charge on the resources of the Society if a great&lt;br /&gt;
many members did not forward to the Secretary the modest&lt;br /&gt;
68. 6d. subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to ..&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 4, Portugal-street, Lincoln&amp;#039;g-inn&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C., and should reach the Editor NOT LATER THAN&lt;br /&gt;
THE 2186 OF EACH MONTH.&lt;br /&gt;
All persons engaged in literary work of any kind,&lt;br /&gt;
whether members of the Society or not, are invited to&lt;br /&gt;
communicate to the Editor any points connected with their&lt;br /&gt;
work which it would be advisable in the general interest to&lt;br /&gt;
publish.&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHORS&amp;#039; CLUB is situated at 3, Whitehall court,&lt;br /&gt;
London, S.W. Address the Secretary for information&lt;br /&gt;
concerning rules of admission, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. DVERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his&lt;br /&gt;
business or the administration of his property. If the&lt;br /&gt;
advice bought is such as can be given best by a solici.&lt;br /&gt;
tor, the member has a right to an opinion from the&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is desirable, the Committee will obtain for him&lt;br /&gt;
Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions conneuted with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers&amp;#039; agreoments do not generally fall within the&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 3 (#335) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
aned&lt;br /&gt;
I.-A Publisher&amp;#039;s Agreement and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Absolute.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
AGREEMENT made this day of&lt;br /&gt;
BETWEEN&lt;br /&gt;
of&lt;br /&gt;
(hereinafter called the AUTHOR) of the&lt;br /&gt;
one part and&lt;br /&gt;
of&lt;br /&gt;
(bereinafter called the&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHER) of the other part, WHEREBY it is agreed as&lt;br /&gt;
follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
1. The PUBLISHER agrees to purchase and the AUTHOR&lt;br /&gt;
agrees to sell the entire copyright, without any reserve, in&lt;br /&gt;
the United Kingdom and all other parts of the world, of a&lt;br /&gt;
work entitled&lt;br /&gt;
, the completed manuscript execated&lt;br /&gt;
in a proper manner of which the AUTHOR has delivered to&lt;br /&gt;
the PUBLISHER, and all future editions thereof in considera-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of the following payments, viz. :&lt;br /&gt;
A royalty of on the pablished price of all copies&lt;br /&gt;
sold op to 3000, a royalty of after 3000 (this last&lt;br /&gt;
increase oply taking place as long as the book is not&lt;br /&gt;
reduced in price lower than 68. and as long as 500 copies&lt;br /&gt;
are sold in each year).&lt;br /&gt;
2. The PUBLISHER will according to his own judgment&lt;br /&gt;
and in such a manner as in bis anfettered discretion he may&lt;br /&gt;
consider advisable at his own cost print and publish a first&lt;br /&gt;
edition of the said work, and further editions if in his judg.&lt;br /&gt;
ment further editions are required, and in his absolute&lt;br /&gt;
discretion advertise tbe same, and shall determine all&lt;br /&gt;
details and in bis absolute discretion make all arrangements&lt;br /&gt;
of and incidental to the printing, publishing, advertising,&lt;br /&gt;
sale price, and reviewing of the said work.&lt;br /&gt;
3. The PUBLISHER sball in his absolute discretion have&lt;br /&gt;
the right to sell, exchange, assign, or otherwise dispose of&lt;br /&gt;
all and every right of publication or of translation of the&lt;br /&gt;
said work on any terms and for any period and either&lt;br /&gt;
wholly or partially or exclusively or otherwise as he shall&lt;br /&gt;
think expedient for the colonies and foreign conatries, and&lt;br /&gt;
an amount equivalent to 50 per cent. of the net profits&lt;br /&gt;
realised and actually received by tha PUBLISHER shall be&lt;br /&gt;
paid to the AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
4. If the PUBLISHER shall sell an edition (or such number&lt;br /&gt;
of copies as may be fixed on by the PUBLISHER in his own&lt;br /&gt;
absolute discretion as constituting an edition for the purpose&lt;br /&gt;
of this clause) to &amp;amp; publisher or bookseller in the United&lt;br /&gt;
States of America, the provision as to royalties in clause i&lt;br /&gt;
hereof provided shall not apply, but the AUTHOR shall be&lt;br /&gt;
paid a royalty equivalent to one half the royalty that would&lt;br /&gt;
be paid were the copies in question sold to the English&lt;br /&gt;
trade.&lt;br /&gt;
5. If the said work shall be included in any edition of&lt;br /&gt;
works published in England for exclusive sale in any&lt;br /&gt;
colony, the royalty shall be ad. on each copy sold.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The PUBLISHER may, in his absolute discretion, sell,&lt;br /&gt;
excbange, assign, or otherwise dispose of the remainder of&lt;br /&gt;
any edition at remainder prices, and the AUTHOR shall not&lt;br /&gt;
be entitled to any royalty in respect thereof, but shall in&lt;br /&gt;
lieu thereof be entitled to a payment equivalent to 5 per&lt;br /&gt;
cent. of the net profit realised by such sale and actually&lt;br /&gt;
received by the PUBLISHER.&lt;br /&gt;
7. The AUTHOR shall revise and return for press with all&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable speed the proof sheets of the work so that the&lt;br /&gt;
same may be printed without interruption.&lt;br /&gt;
8. If the printer&amp;#039;s charges for author&amp;#039;s corrections of the&lt;br /&gt;
first or any other edition of the said work exceed an average&lt;br /&gt;
of 68. per sheet of thirty-two pages, the excess shall be&lt;br /&gt;
repaid to the PUBLISHER by the AUTHOR and may be&lt;br /&gt;
deducted from royalties due or to become due bereunder or&lt;br /&gt;
from any moneys held by the PUBLISHER on account of the&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The AUTHOR shall revise with all possible despatch&lt;br /&gt;
any new edition of the said work and correct the proofs and&lt;br /&gt;
otherwise assist as may be required by the PUBLISHER.&lt;br /&gt;
10. The AUTHOR shall not write or publish, either&lt;br /&gt;
directly or indirectly, any other work on the same subject&lt;br /&gt;
of such a kind that the sale of the work shall be in any way&lt;br /&gt;
prejudicially affected, and should be write anotber work on&lt;br /&gt;
the same or cognate subjects be sball in the first instance&lt;br /&gt;
give the PUBLISHER the right to acquire the work by&lt;br /&gt;
purchase or otherwise as may be arranged.&lt;br /&gt;
11. This agreement is entered into by the PUBLISHER ON&lt;br /&gt;
the warranty by the AUTHOR that the said work does not&lt;br /&gt;
infringe any copyright, and that the said work does not&lt;br /&gt;
contain anything of a libellous nature. If the said work&lt;br /&gt;
does contain anything constituting or alleged to constitute&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; breach of such warranty, and proceedings&lt;br /&gt;
or brought for any alleged infringement of copyright or for&lt;br /&gt;
any alleged libel, and it is deemed advisable by the PUB.&lt;br /&gt;
LISHER in his absolute discretion not to contest the matter&lt;br /&gt;
but to arrive at a settlement thereof, or if the action is&lt;br /&gt;
successfully contested, then and in every case the AUTHOR&lt;br /&gt;
shall pay in advance to the PUBLISHER &amp;amp; sufficient eum to&lt;br /&gt;
cover the estimated costs of the PUBLISHER in defending&lt;br /&gt;
such action or threatened proceedings, and shall at the same&lt;br /&gt;
time give to the PUBLISHER Security satisfactory to him to&lt;br /&gt;
indemnify him against any damage awarded in such action,&lt;br /&gt;
and shall on demand repay to the PUBLISHER all costs (as&lt;br /&gt;
between solicitor and client), damages, and expenses&lt;br /&gt;
incurred by the PUBLISAER in respect of or resulting from&lt;br /&gt;
or incidental to the publication, advertisement, withdrawal&lt;br /&gt;
of, and other dealings with the said work, to the effect that&lt;br /&gt;
the PUBLISHER shall have full and complete indemnity&lt;br /&gt;
from the AUTHOR in respect of all out of pocket expenses&lt;br /&gt;
in connection with the said work.&lt;br /&gt;
12. The PUBLISHER shall keep proper books of accounts&lt;br /&gt;
showing the number of copies of the said work sold, and&lt;br /&gt;
also accounts showing the sales up to the 30th day of June&lt;br /&gt;
and the 31st day of December in every year, as far as can&lt;br /&gt;
be accurately ascertained, shall be delivered to the AUTHOR&lt;br /&gt;
as soon as practicable after these respective dates, and the&lt;br /&gt;
royalties dae and payable sball be paid not later than the&lt;br /&gt;
ensning 30th day of November and the 3180 day of May&lt;br /&gt;
respectively in every year, and in estimating such royalties&lt;br /&gt;
thirteen copies of the said work sball be counted as twelve.&lt;br /&gt;
13. The PUBLISHER shall give to the AUTHOR free of&lt;br /&gt;
charge six copies of the said work.&lt;br /&gt;
14. Nothing in this agreement contained shall constitute&lt;br /&gt;
or be taken to constitute a partnership between the&lt;br /&gt;
parties.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE agreement printed above has nearly all&lt;br /&gt;
the faults which from an author&amp;#039;s point of&lt;br /&gt;
view it could possibly contain. These&lt;br /&gt;
faults have been criticised over and over again in&lt;br /&gt;
The Author, and also in the work published by&lt;br /&gt;
the Society entitled &ldquo; Forms of Agreement issued&lt;br /&gt;
by the Publishers&amp;#039; Association, with Comments&lt;br /&gt;
by G. Herbert Thring and Illustrative Examples&lt;br /&gt;
by Sir Walter Besant.&rdquo; But it has been thought&lt;br /&gt;
essential to reproduce this special form, as it is a&lt;br /&gt;
new form recently brought forward. Several&lt;br /&gt;
copies have been sent to the Secretary for his&lt;br /&gt;
comments. It is much to be regretted that pub.&lt;br /&gt;
lishers who really desire an equitable agreement&lt;br /&gt;
between the parties should still persist in putting&lt;br /&gt;
forward such a document.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; CLAUSE 1.-The author sells every right he has nothing further need be said, the amount that&lt;br /&gt;
in the world in England, her Colonies and an author can obtain in royalty being merely a&lt;br /&gt;
Dependencies, in America, and under the Berne matter of bargaining, but attention should be&lt;br /&gt;
Convention. The folly of this course is evident. drawn to the latter part of the clause, which is&lt;br /&gt;
The English publishers should only hold a licence inserted in brackets. It might lead the unsus-&lt;br /&gt;
to publish in England, her Colonies and Depen. pecting author into considerable difficulty, as the&lt;br /&gt;
dencies. It is sometimes necessary to except publisher nowhere undertakes to produce the&lt;br /&gt;
Canada. All other rights are generally left book at 68., and it is possible that he might, if&lt;br /&gt;
in the hands of an agent, and much better so than the sales were averaging about 500 a year, stop&lt;br /&gt;
in the hands of publishers, for this reason&mdash;that a them before they reach that number.&lt;br /&gt;
publisher does not as a general rule undertake the In CLAUSE 2 Mr. &amp;quot; Absolute&amp;quot; has everything at&lt;br /&gt;
work of a literary agent; that his office is not to his &ldquo; unfettered discretion &rdquo; and practically takes&lt;br /&gt;
place literary work in other hands, but to produce all the powers into his own hands. He does not&lt;br /&gt;
literary work for the author; that work of this mention the date when he will publish, and he does&lt;br /&gt;
kind left in the hands of publishers is not likely not mention the form in which he will publish, nor&lt;br /&gt;
to receive anything like the same attention as it does he mention the price at which he will pub-&lt;br /&gt;
is if left in the hands of a literary agent; that lish, and at his &ldquo;absolute discretion &rdquo; he adver-&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher is the only person who gains by tises or not, and at &ldquo;his absolute discretion &amp;quot; he&lt;br /&gt;
having control of this work, and that the author makes what arrangement he likes with regard to&lt;br /&gt;
loses by leaving it in his hands. It should be the production of the book. He is particularly&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out further that the publisher does not &amp;quot;absolute&rdquo; in this clause. It is needless to say&lt;br /&gt;
anywhere in the agreement undertake to secure that such a clause as this is &ldquo;absolutely &rdquo; bad&lt;br /&gt;
the American copyright for the author, nor even from the author&amp;#039;s point of view. Some of the&lt;br /&gt;
to do his best to obtain it. It may pay an difficulties of CLAUSE 3 have already been pointed&lt;br /&gt;
English publisher better to sell sheets or stereos out when commenting on clause 1, but Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
to America and pay the author a royalty as per &amp;quot; Absolute&rdquo; makes his position exceedingly clear&lt;br /&gt;
clause 4. It should be added (see clause 3) that to the unfortunate author. The publisher, as&lt;br /&gt;
for tbis agency work, while the literary agent already pointed out, pockets 50 per cent. of the&lt;br /&gt;
charges 10 per cent., the publisher generally asks profits, for which the negotiations, in many cases,&lt;br /&gt;
from 30 to 50 per cent. (in tbis case 50 per cent.). entail the mere writing of one or two short letters;&lt;br /&gt;
Out of a large series of agreements before the and again it should be pointed out that the sale&lt;br /&gt;
Society from all sorts and conditions of pub- of these minor rights may entail great delay in&lt;br /&gt;
lishers the lowest charge for this literary agency publication in addition to the efforts of the&lt;br /&gt;
business has been 25 per cent., and this only in publisher being careless and balf-hearted.&lt;br /&gt;
one case.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, in CLAUSE 4, the publisher safeguards&lt;br /&gt;
Further, a publisher who makes his profit out himself against obtaining the American copy-&lt;br /&gt;
of the English book publication looks upon the right. As a general rule, it does not pay a&lt;br /&gt;
increase in his profits from these other sources as publisher to obtain the American copyright for&lt;br /&gt;
little extra luxuries. He does not push to get a an author. In clause 4 if he does not obtain such&lt;br /&gt;
fair price for the author or to keep up the author&amp;#039;s copyright, the author is to have half the royalty&lt;br /&gt;
position in the literary market, but he readily that he would obtain if the copies had been sold&lt;br /&gt;
accepts any offer that is made.&lt;br /&gt;
to the English trade; this, quite irrespective of&lt;br /&gt;
An example was recently before the Secretary any bargain which Mr. &ldquo;Absolute&rdquo; may make&lt;br /&gt;
where the serial rights of a 68. novel, held by the with the American house with which he is dealing.&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, were sold for &pound;30. The book was The arrangement may be an exceedingly good&lt;br /&gt;
by an author of no mean reputation, who could arrangement for the publisher; no doubt Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
obtain without difficulty &pound;100 if his work had &ldquo; Absolute&rdquo; will see that it is a good arrange-&lt;br /&gt;
been fairly marketed.&lt;br /&gt;
ment, otherwise he will not accept it, as the&lt;br /&gt;
There is another point-that publishers very acceptance or rejection lies entirely with him,&lt;br /&gt;
often delay the publication of a book in order to and it is possible that he might arrange with an&lt;br /&gt;
market these minor rights, and it is quite pos- American publisher to obtain more than 50 per&lt;br /&gt;
sible that, as the agreement stands, if the pub- cent. of the just returns.&lt;br /&gt;
lisher was desirous of serialising both in England Iu CLAUSE 5 it will be noticed that the author&lt;br /&gt;
and America the publication might be delayed is to have 2d. on each copy sold to the Colonies.&lt;br /&gt;
almost indefinitely.&lt;br /&gt;
As the book to which this agreement refers is&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; That there should be a rising royalty is only presumably a 6s. book (no price being actually&lt;br /&gt;
fair if the author cannot claim the highest fixed), it is as well to point out that the ordinary&lt;br /&gt;
royalty at once. With regard to this point, price paid to an autbor is from 4d. to 4 d. a&lt;br /&gt;
GILUMO&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 5 (#337) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
copy. The arrangement by which the author from all loss would necessarily render him care.&lt;br /&gt;
gets 2d. is an exceedingly good one for Mr. less as to the costs he might incur, the settle-&lt;br /&gt;
* Absolute.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ments he might make, and his whole course of&lt;br /&gt;
The next clause (6) is also a dangerous clause action. The author would be powerless under&lt;br /&gt;
for the author. It is wearisome to repeat the the clause as it stands. Mr. &ldquo;Absolute&rdquo; has&lt;br /&gt;
reasons, but attention should be drawn to the &ldquo;out-Heroded Herod,&amp;quot; &ldquo;pray you avoid him.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
fact that the author is paid 5 per cent. on the net It must be repeated that where a publisher makes&lt;br /&gt;
profits, the publisher taking the rest.&lt;br /&gt;
an out-and-out purchase, as he does in this agree-&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to CLAUSE 8, again, it is fair that ment, the motto should be caveat empter, and the&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher should be protected against the author should not give a guarantee to the&lt;br /&gt;
heavy expense of corrections brought about by publisher.&lt;br /&gt;
the author, but the amount, 6s. per sheet of The account clause (12) is not satisfactory;&lt;br /&gt;
thirty-two pages, as quoted in this agreement, it is not, however, as bad as some. The irony&lt;br /&gt;
is perhaps the smallest amount that has been of clause 14 is perhaps its most amusing point.&lt;br /&gt;
allowed to any author in any agreement that has Apology must be made for a merely superficial&lt;br /&gt;
come before the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
commentary on this extraordinary agreement. If&lt;br /&gt;
In CLAUSE 9, again, the author is entirely at the any member of the Society would care to have&lt;br /&gt;
beck and call of the publisher. The work is the further details he must apply to the secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s, but he is not allowed to revise it unless Space does not allow of the further unravelling of&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher desires him to do so, and his Mr. &ldquo;Absolute&amp;#039;s&amp;quot; methods.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
revision, even, is subject to the publisher&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
discretion.&lt;br /&gt;
In CLAUSE 10 the author is forbidden to publish&lt;br /&gt;
a work which is likely to conflict with the&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
interests of Mr. &ldquo; Absolute.&rdquo; but our friend Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Absolute&rdquo; might, on the other hand, desiring&lt;br /&gt;
to control the market with regard to a certain&lt;br /&gt;
4 bis, rue des Beaux-Arts.&lt;br /&gt;
style of publication, kill a book at &ldquo;his absolute M HE first spring of the new century has been&lt;br /&gt;
discretion&rdquo; in order that it might not in any way I signalised by an outburst of literary and&lt;br /&gt;
conflict with any work of his own on the same intellectual activity. Place aux jeunes !&lt;br /&gt;
subject already on the market. If the author is might be its watchword. A marked favour is&lt;br /&gt;
bound not to produce, it is only fair that the being shown to young writers and the ideas pro-&lt;br /&gt;
publisher should be equally bound.&lt;br /&gt;
mulgated by the rising generation. The reading&lt;br /&gt;
CLAUSE 11 is perhaps the most absolute clause committee of the Com&eacute;die Fran&ccedil;aise&mdash;that erst&lt;br /&gt;
of this absolute agreement. If the book was the stronghold of precedent, protection, and prejudice&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s, and the publisher bad a licence to -is placing itself in the advance guard of the&lt;br /&gt;
publish, it is fair under certain circumstances, movement by accepting new men&amp;#039;s work, rightly&lt;br /&gt;
and to a certain limited extent, to guarantee the esteeming that the hall-mark of original talent&lt;br /&gt;
publisher against infringement of copyright and counterbalances the lack of a celebrated signa-&lt;br /&gt;
libel; but as the book is the publisher&amp;#039;s, he ought ture. Of the second revolution going on in the&lt;br /&gt;
to protect himself before the purchase. In any heart of the Com&eacute;die itself it is not our&lt;br /&gt;
case, the author is asked to concede much too province to speak. The proceedings of the first&lt;br /&gt;
much. A case once arose in which the publisher general assembly of the Association internationale&lt;br /&gt;
of a scientific book dealing with the sex question des Acad&eacute;mies have, likewise, been duly detailed&lt;br /&gt;
on scientific lines was prosecuted by the police. elsewhere. In his opening speech the president&lt;br /&gt;
The publisher pleaded guilty to obscene publica made a graceful allusion to the services rendered&lt;br /&gt;
tion, and the author, although his book was by the Royal Society, to whose initiative the idea&lt;br /&gt;
approved by some of the greatest scientists in of an international catalogue of scientific litera-&lt;br /&gt;
Europe, had no power of clearing his character. ture was due. The floral games at Toulouse, and the&lt;br /&gt;
This case is not an exact analogy, but power is pretty ceremonies which accompanied the bestowal&lt;br /&gt;
given to the publisher of making any agreement by the Cl&eacute;mence Faure Academy of the silver&lt;br /&gt;
without the author having any opportunity of violet, primrose, pink, eglantine, lily, and mari.&lt;br /&gt;
clearing himself. It is possible that under gold (marking the respective order of merit&lt;br /&gt;
similar circumstances the publisher might consent attained by the poem thus recompensed) must&lt;br /&gt;
to the payment of a large sum to satisfy a case also rauk among the matter&ldquo;crowded out.&rdquo; That&lt;br /&gt;
rather than permit the author to vindicate his the judge&amp;#039;s office was no sinecure is attested by&lt;br /&gt;
character with regard to what he had written. the fact that out of a total of 759 poetical&lt;br /&gt;
Besides, the fact that the publisher is protected effusions only ten were deemed worthy of reward&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 6 (#338) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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6&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
--to wit, five poets and three poetesses, one M. SAINT-GEORGES DE BOUH&Eacute;LIER. ::&lt;br /&gt;
fortunate lady being thrice declared victress.&lt;br /&gt;
The literary magazines of the new generation-&lt;br /&gt;
&Agrave; propos of associations, M. Marcel Pr&eacute;vost viz., La Clavellina, L&amp;#039;Effort de Paris, Gallia,&lt;br /&gt;
announces the formation of a new society of Le Pays de France, and La Revue naturiste-&lt;br /&gt;
Parisian journalists, entitled Nouvellistes parisiens. have united in giviug a banquet in honour of the&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Let us render homage in this matter,&amp;quot; writes publication of the &ldquo; Trag&eacute;die du Nouveau Christ&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
he, &ldquo;to the journalists of our country; the French of M. Saint-Georges de Bouh&eacute;lier, the young&lt;br /&gt;
Press is one of the most healthy as regards infor- chief of Naturism, who was saluted on this occa-&lt;br /&gt;
mation.&rdquo; If the French journalist require sion by M. Charpentier as the incarnation of the&lt;br /&gt;
strengthening in this &amp;quot;literary prubity and ideas, hopes, and generous soul of the literary&lt;br /&gt;
moderation,&amp;quot; he has only to consider dans quel vouth of to-day. In seven powerfully written&lt;br /&gt;
discr&eacute;dit sont tomb&eacute;es certaines presses &eacute;trang&egrave;res tableaux, M. de Bouh&eacute;lier develops the hypo-&lt;br /&gt;
par l&amp;#039;abus de l&amp;#039;information &agrave; outrance, de l&amp;#039;infor- thesis of the Saviour&amp;#039;s re-integration in human&lt;br /&gt;
mation grossi&egrave;re, non control&eacute;e et cyniquement form. He returns to earth to encounter the&lt;br /&gt;
proclam&eacute;e. &ldquo;Written in a certain tongue,&rdquo; he same outrages, misunderstandings, and rebuffs.&lt;br /&gt;
continues, &amp;quot;all news is to-day suspicious, even together with the same life and death-as when&lt;br /&gt;
to those whose tongue it is.&rdquo; It would be He suffered centuries ago to redeem a world that&lt;br /&gt;
interesting to know if the new society con 2000 years of Christian proselytism has apparently&lt;br /&gt;
sidered the above remarks as shining examples made no better. The mysticism of the idea of this&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo;the professional dignity,&rdquo; &ldquo;the severe curious, pessimistic work is allied with the most&lt;br /&gt;
moral discipline,&rdquo; &ldquo;the solidity, polish, and brutal realism in form. It is conscientiously&lt;br /&gt;
good taste,&amp;quot; advocated by M. Pr&eacute;vost in the thought out, and impressively written ; neverthe-&lt;br /&gt;
leader in question ?&lt;br /&gt;
less, we doubt if it will be widely read. The&lt;br /&gt;
A VIEW OF MODERN JOURNALISM.&lt;br /&gt;
literary critic of the Figaro advises M. de&lt;br /&gt;
Bouh&eacute;lier to be more accessible to the true&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The papers would be excellent if the journa- public; to lower his intellectual range, and bring&lt;br /&gt;
lists did not spoil them,&rdquo; was the frequent down his writing to the comprehension of ordinary&lt;br /&gt;
assertion of M. Emile Girardin, progenitor of the people. &ldquo;We know he has talent.&rdquo; adds this&lt;br /&gt;
advertising system now almost universal. M. friendly writer : &ldquo; we would like him to offer&lt;br /&gt;
Adolphe Brisson is still more severe on modern others than his friends the possibility of being&lt;br /&gt;
French journalism, though he attributes its short convinced of it.&rdquo; It remains to be seen whether&lt;br /&gt;
comings to the abnormal expansion of M.&lt;br /&gt;
M. de Bouh&eacute;lier is sufficiently alive to his&lt;br /&gt;
Girardin&amp;#039;s innovation. The following paragraph own pecuniary interests to profit by the hint.&lt;br /&gt;
taken from &ldquo;Paris intime&rdquo; (one of the set of&lt;br /&gt;
The recently published &ldquo; Travail&rdquo; (Vol. 2 of&lt;br /&gt;
volumes unanimously rewarded by the Academy the &ldquo;Quatre Evangiles.&amp;quot; chez Fasquelle) of his&lt;br /&gt;
as containing the best portrayal of Parisian&lt;br /&gt;
friend and master, M. Emile Zola, likewise deals&lt;br /&gt;
manners and customs of the present day) can with the working classes, being a study of the&lt;br /&gt;
scarcely be considered eulogistic.&lt;br /&gt;
struggle between capital and labour, and the&lt;br /&gt;
. &ldquo;The advertisements should pay a paper&amp;#039;s reorganisation of the latter such as is being&lt;br /&gt;
expenses!&amp;#039;&rdquo; he writes, quoting Emile de Girardin&amp;#039;s slowly brought about in the present day.&lt;br /&gt;
favourite formula. &ldquo; This reasoning has given&lt;br /&gt;
birth to the modern newspaper. Girardin&amp;#039;s idea&lt;br /&gt;
A BENEVOLENT BOOKSELLER.&lt;br /&gt;
has borne fruit; it has made his fortune, and M. Le Goaziou, an enterprising bookseller, has&lt;br /&gt;
enriched those who imitated him. The ancient discovered to his cost that benevolence towards.&lt;br /&gt;
gazette at three sous is at death&amp;#039;s door. It is customers is an expensive and unappreciated&lt;br /&gt;
supplanted by the halfpenny paper, that journa- virtue. Having ascertained that his business&lt;br /&gt;
listic shark which penetrates into the villages, connection permitted him to dispose advan.&lt;br /&gt;
eagerly seeks out readers there, and inundates tageously of books at 40 per cent. reduction, in lieu.&lt;br /&gt;
France with bad paper. &ldquo;The advertisements of the 20 per cent. established by the publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
should pay a paper&amp;#039;s expenses !&amp;#039; The editors and booksellers&amp;#039; syndicates, he forthwith lowered&lt;br /&gt;
have applied this formula too literally. The the price of his wares. Whereupon his name was&lt;br /&gt;
journalists of 1830 sinned through excess of put on the black list of the two syndicates, and&lt;br /&gt;
candour; those of the twentieth century are no all the large publishing houses (Hachette, Belin,&lt;br /&gt;
longer so na&iuml;ve. The daily paper was formerly a Delagrave, Larousse, &amp;amp;c.) refused to continue&lt;br /&gt;
tribunal where ardent, sincere, and almost always business relations with him. Nothing daunted,&lt;br /&gt;
disinterested, voices discoursed. It has become a M. Le Goaziou sued nine Parisian publishers and&lt;br /&gt;
commercial house which sells its publicity to all booksellers for infraction of article 419 of the&lt;br /&gt;
comers.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Penal Code, which article declares that any&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
coalition existing between holders of the same exercise of the liberty of coalition, &amp;amp;c. [L&amp;#039;exer-&lt;br /&gt;
merchandise for the purpose of operating a rise cice de la libert&eacute; des conventions. Wherefore&lt;br /&gt;
above the price fixed by free competition is illegal the decision of the Ninth Chamber was adverse&lt;br /&gt;
and punishable by law.&lt;br /&gt;
to M. Le Goaziou.&lt;br /&gt;
M. Bruyant, substitute, asserted, on the con-&lt;br /&gt;
trary, that the publishers and editors in question&lt;br /&gt;
LOVE-LETTERS AND MATRIMONY.&lt;br /&gt;
were perfectly within their rights. &ldquo; Publishers,&rdquo; Love-letters are apparently in vogue, since the&lt;br /&gt;
said he,&ldquo; are not holders of the same merchan fervid &ldquo;Lettres &agrave; ma Fianc&eacute;e&amp;quot; of Victor Hugo&lt;br /&gt;
dise, each book preserving a distinct individuality. (chez Fasquelle) have been followed by the publi-&lt;br /&gt;
A novel by Anatole France is not the same cation of the letters of the &ldquo; Marquise de Sade,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
merchandise as a novel of the Rose Library series, which epistles have been unearthed from among&lt;br /&gt;
nor a grammar by Lhomond the same merchan- the dusty archives of the eighteenth century&lt;br /&gt;
dise as a grammar written by a Jesuit. Books and duly edited by M. Paul Ginisty. The letters&lt;br /&gt;
escape the economic law of supply and demand of the unfortunate Marquise to her reprobate&lt;br /&gt;
because they contain a double element-one husband during his fifteen years&amp;#039; well-merited&lt;br /&gt;
material (the paper and printed characters), the captivity are true love letters, indicative of a rare&lt;br /&gt;
other immaterial (the thought of the author). abnegation and affection. According to all con-&lt;br /&gt;
Human thought cannot be monopolised, even by temporary testimony, she possessed the pure,&lt;br /&gt;
an American Trust agency. It is not a product angelic disposition usually accredited to celestial&lt;br /&gt;
like sugar and vitriol. Thus, no market price beings. Nevertheless, her husband &mdash; a chef&lt;br /&gt;
existing, there is no market!&rdquo;. [Donc, pas de d&amp;#039;ouvre of Nature as regards innate baseness,&lt;br /&gt;
cours, pas de march&eacute; !]&lt;br /&gt;
vice, and ferocity-chose to suspect her of infi.&lt;br /&gt;
The Ninth. Chamber of the Correctional delity. At this crowning outrage the meek&lt;br /&gt;
Tribune sharing M. Bruyant&amp;#039;s opinion, M. Le devotee revolted. Only for one day, however.&lt;br /&gt;
Goaziou lost the case. His disbursal of costs has On the morrow she wrote: &ldquo;If you are capable&lt;br /&gt;
probably not tended to increase his esteem for of poniarding me, under the present circum-&lt;br /&gt;
cheap book buyers in general.&lt;br /&gt;
stances it would be a happiness to me not to&lt;br /&gt;
exist longer.&amp;quot; Scrawled on the margin of this&lt;br /&gt;
THE CHAMBER&amp;#039;S DECISION.&lt;br /&gt;
piteous letter by its unworthy recipient we find&lt;br /&gt;
The decision was made known in the following the reflection : &amp;quot;Quelle platitude, grand Dieu !&lt;br /&gt;
terms :-&lt;br /&gt;
Quelle platitude !&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Granted that the text of the Code provides Social Paris has been much interested in the&lt;br /&gt;
against a coalition existing between holders of betrothal of Mlle. Sardou (daughter of the cele-&lt;br /&gt;
the same merchandise ; that, in the case in point, brated dramatist) to Comte Robert de Flers,&lt;br /&gt;
this condition is not realised ; that, in reality, the a rising literary critic and dramatist, reputed&lt;br /&gt;
publishers having each their speciality, the books to possess more than average talent. M. Sardou&lt;br /&gt;
published by them preserve their individuality; is also to be congratulated on the satisfactory&lt;br /&gt;
that there are as many different wares (marchan- statistics furnished by the annual report of&lt;br /&gt;
dises) as there are publishers; that these wares the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Auteurs et Compositeurs Drama-&lt;br /&gt;
(marchandises) not being the object of a free tiques, of which association he is president. The&lt;br /&gt;
competition, escape almost completely the law of royalties collected by the society (from March 1,&lt;br /&gt;
supply and demand, and that there exists for 1900, to Feb. 28, 1901) amount to a total of no&lt;br /&gt;
books neither market nor fixed value. [Il n&amp;#039;existe less than 4,569,207 francs. 24,834 francs have&lt;br /&gt;
pour les livres ni march&eacute; ni cours.]&lt;br /&gt;
been distributed among indigent members, and&lt;br /&gt;
Granted, on the other hand, that the coalition 105,250 francs expended in old age pensions.&lt;br /&gt;
foreseen in article 419 of the Penal Code appears M. Decourcelle&amp;#039;s project for augmenting the&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;at least, since the law of 1884 on professional funds of the caisse des retraites was unanimously&lt;br /&gt;
syndicates&mdash;to be only unlawful and punishable voted by the adherents of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
when accompanied by fraudulent maneuvres&lt;br /&gt;
which have, in influencing the market price,&lt;br /&gt;
New BOOKS.&lt;br /&gt;
occasioned its rise or fall.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Rhapsodies Passion&eacute;es,&amp;quot; a volume of verse by&lt;br /&gt;
Granted that, in reality, the object of profes. the Comte du Bois; &ldquo;En Pleine &Eacute;pop&eacute;e,&amp;quot; a&lt;br /&gt;
sional syndicates is the defence of reputable journalistic chronicle of the Transvaal war, by M.&lt;br /&gt;
economic interests; that a syndicate of pub. Jean Carr&egrave;re, French correspondent in South&lt;br /&gt;
lishers cannot be refused the right to fix, in Africa; &ldquo;La Libert&eacute; de la Presse &amp;quot; (1789-1815),&lt;br /&gt;
accord with the retail booksellers, a net price by M. Le Poittevin (chez Arthur Rousseau);&lt;br /&gt;
below which books cannot be sold ; that the &ldquo;Le Progr&egrave;s Social &agrave; la fin du Dix-neuvi&egrave;me&lt;br /&gt;
liberty of commerce itself is limited by the Si&egrave;cle,&amp;quot; a most interesting work, by M. Louis&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XII.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
HA&lt;br /&gt;
Skarzinski; &ldquo;La Th&eacute;orie de l&amp;#039;Ordre,&amp;quot; by M. of the present day seemed to be getting smaller&lt;br /&gt;
Jules Delafosse; and the usual shoal of sensa. by degrees and beautifully less. (Laughter.)&lt;br /&gt;
tional novels.&lt;br /&gt;
DARRACOTTE Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
He could not help hoping that, as the world of&lt;br /&gt;
letters had conferred so much benefit upon the&lt;br /&gt;
two great legislative assemblies, they might see&lt;br /&gt;
their way to returning the compliment during the&lt;br /&gt;
ANNUAL DINNER OF THE SOCIETY&lt;br /&gt;
present session by passing a measure in which&lt;br /&gt;
authors, and especially that Society, took a great&lt;br /&gt;
OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
interest--the Copyright Bill&mdash;and so alleviate, if&lt;br /&gt;
not altogether remove, the injustice which so long&lt;br /&gt;
M HE annual dinner of the Incorporated Society had hung over literature. (Cheers.) The measure&lt;br /&gt;
of Authors was held on May 1 in the had been entrusted, and rightly so, to the care of&lt;br /&gt;
King&amp;#039;s Hall, Holborn Restaurant. The his noble friend, Lord Monkswell, and he had&lt;br /&gt;
Right Hon. the LORD BURGHCLERE presided with great discretion transferred the burden from&lt;br /&gt;
Among the 220 who were present were Lord his own shoulders to the broader-he would not&lt;br /&gt;
Monkswell, Sir Algernon West, Sir Wm. say the abler-shoulders of the present Govern.&lt;br /&gt;
Kennedy, Sir Joshua Fitch, the Archdeacon ment; and he sincerely trusted that in the ensuing&lt;br /&gt;
of London, Mr. J. Henniker-Heaton, M.P., session the legislators and Government might see&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Campbell Praed, Mrs. Steel, Mrs. Reeves their way to pass the Bill. (Cheers.) He&lt;br /&gt;
(Helen Mathers), Mrs. Tweedie, Mr. A. Hope congratulated them on the success of the Society,&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, Mr. Douglas Freshfield, Mr. Harold Since the advent of their present Secretary it had&lt;br /&gt;
Spender, Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. F. G. Aflalo, very nearly doubled its membership. The Society&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frank Harris, Mr. W. W. Jacobs, Mr. was able to help others--not only those who had&lt;br /&gt;
Oscar Browning, Mr. Mackenzie Bell, Mr. risen, but those who were rising. They were able&lt;br /&gt;
Lewis Hind, Mr. M. H. Spielmann, Miss to assist the younger members of the profession&lt;br /&gt;
Montresor, Mr. Julian Corbett, Mr.J.K. Spender, in their entrance to their career. They had, he&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. T. Dalton, Mr. W. L. Courtney, Mr. understood, a pension list; he did not know&lt;br /&gt;
Francis Storr, Miss E. Sharp, Miss Pendered, Mr. whether it referred to old age pensions or not.&lt;br /&gt;
W. H. Besant, Mr. Basil Tozer, Mrs. Belloc (Laughter.) They had no debt, and their taxa-&lt;br /&gt;
Lowndes, Mr. Douglas Sladen, Miss Arabella tion consisted of one guinea a year. The Society&lt;br /&gt;
Kenealy, Mrs. Desmond Humphreys (&ldquo;Rita&amp;quot;), contained some of the most distinguished names&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. F. Gribble, Mrs. Arthur Stannard, and Mr. of the day in all the various branches of literature&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. Thring (Secretary).&lt;br /&gt;
and art. If there were any who were not on the&lt;br /&gt;
The CHAIRMAN proposed &ldquo; The Society.&rdquo; It list, he might say something which would give&lt;br /&gt;
was with considerable diffidence, he said, that them reason for reconsidering their position.&lt;br /&gt;
he occupied the chair, in view of the various The Society was not only made for those who had&lt;br /&gt;
eminent men who had presided in the past and been successful, but perhaps its special task was&lt;br /&gt;
the many distinguished names on the rolls of the to help those who were commencing their literary&lt;br /&gt;
Society. He was not going to indulge in the efforts. It seemed to be the bounden duty of&lt;br /&gt;
growing custom among speakers of obtaining those who, either by luck or skill, had obtained&lt;br /&gt;
applause by some cheap sneers at the two legislative comfortable seats on the top of Parnassus to hold&lt;br /&gt;
assemblies of the country, although the tempta- out their hands to their younger and weaker&lt;br /&gt;
tion was very strong. He would prefer to trace brethren who were trying to struggle up the&lt;br /&gt;
the intimate and very ancient-he might almost steep ascent. (Cheers.) In that spirit he wished&lt;br /&gt;
say hereditary-connection between politics and success to the Society. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
the world of letters. In illustration of this Mr. DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD, in reply, thanked the&lt;br /&gt;
relationship, the noble chairman mentioned the chairman for the way in which he had spoken of&lt;br /&gt;
names of Chaucer, Tennyson (who was made a the work of the Society. His Lordship&amp;#039;s praise&lt;br /&gt;
lord of Parliament in 1883), Byron, Edmund was the more agreeable because he himself was&lt;br /&gt;
Waller, Andrew Marvel, Milton, Matthew Prior, not a stranger to literature. He might allude to&lt;br /&gt;
Addison, George Villiers (second duke of Buck- his work&mdash;which he hoped would soon be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
ingham), R. B. Sheridan, Lord Lytton, Bacon, lished&mdash;a translation of the pastoral poetry of&lt;br /&gt;
Clarendon, Burnett, Marquis of Halifax, Lord Virgil, in which they recognised that Lord&lt;br /&gt;
Chesterfield, Lord Macaulay, and Sir George Burghclere was well worthy to travel along the&lt;br /&gt;
Trevelyan ; while among the spiritual lords were paths in which so many statesmen had found&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Stubbs and Dr. Creighton. If there was one recreation. They poor authors were a very un-&lt;br /&gt;
thing more than another he had noticed in the protected race. Painters had their Academy,&lt;br /&gt;
delightful realm of fiction it was that the novels architects their Institute, and men of science their&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
100&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Society, which looked after them well. THE PENSION FUND OF THE SOCIETY&lt;br /&gt;
But authors had had nowhere to lay their griev.&lt;br /&gt;
OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
ances. Their Society could not, of course, pre-&lt;br /&gt;
tend to any proud position such as was held by T a meeting of the Pension Fund Committee&lt;br /&gt;
the French Academy. They claimed no honours&lt;br /&gt;
held on Tuesday, May 7, at 4 o&amp;#039;clock, the&lt;br /&gt;
and could confer none, but they had a very prac-&lt;br /&gt;
following resolution was unanimously&lt;br /&gt;
tical aim, which was not always correctly appre passed :&lt;br /&gt;
ciated even by members. There seemed to be an &ldquo;That a pension of &pound;60 a year be awarded&lt;br /&gt;
idea abroad that the Society was an engine for&lt;br /&gt;
to Mrs. J. H. Riddell, author of George&lt;br /&gt;
attacking publishers. He did not take that view. Geith of Fen Court,&amp;#039; &bull; The Senior Partner,&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Authors and publishers were naturally allies, and and many other well-known novels.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
the main business of the Society was to strengthen In announcing this decision the Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
the alliance by making its terms more clear and Committee desire to express their satisfaction,&lt;br /&gt;
definite in each individual case. Vagueness in which they think will be shared by the Society at&lt;br /&gt;
literary contracts had been the source of much&lt;br /&gt;
large, that the first pension awarded under the&lt;br /&gt;
misunderstanding.&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s scheme should be the means of expressiug&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Joshua Fitch proposed &ldquo; The Guests.&amp;quot; the respect so widely felt for Mrs. Riddell&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Such a Society as theirs must be of public value literary gifts and achievements.&lt;br /&gt;
if it did as it was said to do--that was, to keep in&lt;br /&gt;
view the highest interests of authorship, to watch&lt;br /&gt;
all public measures, legislative and otherwise,&lt;br /&gt;
The following is the list of donations and&lt;br /&gt;
likely to influence the interests of literature, to&lt;br /&gt;
subscriptions at present promised or received :-&lt;br /&gt;
promote mutual concord and mutual understand.&lt;br /&gt;
DONATIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
ing among authors, and to aim to make equitable MEREDITH, GEORGE, President of tbe Society&lt;br /&gt;
arrangements between makers and distributors&lt;br /&gt;
(first donation)............ &pound;100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
of books. There was no class of work done&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, George (second donation)................ 10 00&lt;br /&gt;
A. S.&lt;br /&gt;
100 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
under circumstances of more isolation, and no&lt;br /&gt;
Alcott, E. .......&lt;br /&gt;
......................................... 50 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
class more thoroughly needed the help and sym Anonymous .........&lt;br /&gt;
pathy which arose from association than authors. Arnim, The Countess von ................&lt;br /&gt;
Anything that would help to give strength to our&lt;br /&gt;
Baldwin, Mrs A. ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
Barrie, J. M. ..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
literature, to alleviate the profession of letters,&lt;br /&gt;
Benecke, Miss Ida ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
and to encourage endeavour after literary excel.&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter.......................&lt;br /&gt;
lence must be not only an advantage to litera. Boevey, Miss Crawley&lt;br /&gt;
ture, but a great-public benefit. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Chambers, Miss Beatric. ............&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Algernon West replied.&lt;br /&gt;
Clifford, Mrs W. K. .&lt;br /&gt;
Cordeaux, Miss ..................&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. HOPE HAWKINS gave&ldquo; The Chairman,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
to whom the Society was not only indebted for Davy, Mrs. E. M. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
presiding and for his very interesting speech, but Doyle, A. Conan ...&lt;br /&gt;
also for his very cordial, ready, and substantial Esler, Mrs. Rentoul (for three years)&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
aid. In connection with the Copyright Bill, he&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V. ........&lt;br /&gt;
3 3 0&lt;br /&gt;
Fowler, Miss E. T... .................................&lt;br /&gt;
had always placed at their disposal his experience&lt;br /&gt;
10 10&lt;br /&gt;
Freshfield, D. W....&lt;br /&gt;
100 0&lt;br /&gt;
and knowledge of Parliamentary affairs.&lt;br /&gt;
Gibbs, Mise ............ .............&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
In response, the CHAIRMAN said he had had the Hallward, N. L. ...&lt;br /&gt;
.........&lt;br /&gt;
honour of being a member of the Council of the Harraden, Miss Beatrice&lt;br /&gt;
.........&lt;br /&gt;
10 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Society since its formation, but the meetings of&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope&lt;br /&gt;
.................. 200&lt;br /&gt;
Hutchinson, Rev. H.&lt;br /&gt;
the Council seemed to be of very rare occurrence.&lt;br /&gt;
Jacberns, Raymond&lt;br /&gt;
How many times he had been called to assist&lt;br /&gt;
Jones, Henry Arthur..&lt;br /&gt;
would ever remain a secret between himself and Keltie, J. Scott&lt;br /&gt;
the Secretary. (Laughter.) On any future occa Kipling, Rudyard ........&lt;br /&gt;
sion, if his bumble efforts could be of any good to&lt;br /&gt;
Loftie, Rev. W.J.&lt;br /&gt;
Macfarlane, H. ......................................&lt;br /&gt;
the Society, they would be placed with the greatest&lt;br /&gt;
Marshall, Capt. R. ..................................&lt;br /&gt;
pleasure at its disposal. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Miles, Eastace ...,&lt;br /&gt;
Moncrieff, R. Hope&lt;br /&gt;
Montresor, Miss F....&lt;br /&gt;
Morrah, Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
Norris, W. E. .....&lt;br /&gt;
Oliphant, Kingston ..&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Gilbert&lt;br /&gt;
Phillpotts, Eden .........&lt;br /&gt;
.............. 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
O&lt;br /&gt;
JOWO&lt;br /&gt;
............&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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SUBSCRIPTIONS.&lt;br /&gt;
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o&lt;br /&gt;
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ܘ ܘ ܘ ܘ&lt;br /&gt;
Pollook, Sir Frederiok&lt;br /&gt;
50 night at the Authors&amp;#039; Club. We are indebted to&lt;br /&gt;
Roe, Mrs. Harcourt .....&lt;br /&gt;
10 O the Queen of May 25 for the following report of&lt;br /&gt;
Roggetti, W. M. .........&lt;br /&gt;
the gathering. The great hall of the Hotel&lt;br /&gt;
S. B. ........&lt;br /&gt;
Sanderson, Sir J. B. ..&lt;br /&gt;
Cecil was crowded with members and their&lt;br /&gt;
Skeat, The Rev. Prof.&lt;br /&gt;
friends. In proposing the toast of the&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann, M. H.&lt;br /&gt;
o evening, DR. CONAN DOYLE, who was in the&lt;br /&gt;
Stanton, Miss H. M. E.&lt;br /&gt;
chair, treated his audience to a masterly con-&lt;br /&gt;
Toplis, Miss G.....&lt;br /&gt;
sideration of Mrs. Humphry Ward as a&lt;br /&gt;
Tweedie, Mrs. Alec.....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P. .....................................&lt;br /&gt;
novelist. Dr. Conan Doyle&amp;#039;s speech is fully&lt;br /&gt;
Weyman, Stanley ......&lt;br /&gt;
reported in our contemporary. In conclusion, he&lt;br /&gt;
Wheelwright, Miss E. E. .&lt;br /&gt;
said : The public knows a writer by his or her&lt;br /&gt;
Williams, Mrs. E. L. .....&lt;br /&gt;
work, but there is another point of view which&lt;br /&gt;
Young, Ernest&lt;br /&gt;
o 60&lt;br /&gt;
authors must take. They are a profession, a&lt;br /&gt;
noble profession, and they honour those members&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; Beckett, A. W. ...........&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0 of it who conform to the highest traditions of&lt;br /&gt;
Aid&euml;, Hamilton (for a period of five years)...... 10 0 0 that profession. We feel that Mrs. Humphry&lt;br /&gt;
Alexander, A. ......&lt;br /&gt;
110&lt;br /&gt;
Ward has always done so, and that the tone of&lt;br /&gt;
Avery, Harold&lt;br /&gt;
o 10 6&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, Sir Walter...&lt;br /&gt;
5 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
the profession has been the higher from her&lt;br /&gt;
Bond, R. Warwick&lt;br /&gt;
I 10 presence within it. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
Bonney, Rev. Prof. T. G.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD, in reply, said :-As to&lt;br /&gt;
Brodhurst, Spencer.................&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 6 &ldquo;novels with a purpose,&amp;quot; I am inclined to think&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward ..&lt;br /&gt;
that if a novelist imagines that he or she is going&lt;br /&gt;
Cresswell, Rev. H. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
Crockett, S. R. .............&lt;br /&gt;
to conquer art by much preaching, that the novel&lt;br /&gt;
Dobson, Austin (annual amount anstated-for&lt;br /&gt;
is merely the pamphlet or the sermon writ long,&lt;br /&gt;
1901) ..........&lt;br /&gt;
that &ldquo; prose is verse and verse is merely prose&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Ellis, Miss M. A.&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;then, in the words of Goldsmith, &amp;quot;nothing&lt;br /&gt;
Esmond, H. V.&lt;br /&gt;
Gilbert, W. S.&lt;br /&gt;
cau exceed the vanity of his existence but the&lt;br /&gt;
Goldsmith, W. H.&lt;br /&gt;
o 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
folly of his pursuits.&rdquo; It is no good opening out&lt;br /&gt;
Gribble, F. ........&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;cauld harangues on practice and on morals.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Guthrie, Anstey .........................&lt;br /&gt;
Nothing has any power in the world of art but&lt;br /&gt;
Gwynn, S.&lt;br /&gt;
the things of feeling and the things of beauty,&lt;br /&gt;
Harraden, Miss Beatrice&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins, A. Hope ...........................&lt;br /&gt;
On that we all agree. What is sincere, what&lt;br /&gt;
Home, Francis..........................................&lt;br /&gt;
touches the artist before it is offered to the&lt;br /&gt;
Jerome, Jerome K. ....................................&lt;br /&gt;
public, that we all agree is the first, almost the&lt;br /&gt;
Kelly, C. A...................... ............&lt;br /&gt;
only, condition of good work. But that condition&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M. ........&lt;br /&gt;
includes much that the critics are often ready to&lt;br /&gt;
Macdonald, Mrs..................&lt;br /&gt;
Marchmont, A. W.&lt;br /&gt;
deny us. If the play of religious opinion, or&lt;br /&gt;
Pemberton, Max.........&lt;br /&gt;
social reform, or political power, as they affect&lt;br /&gt;
Pendered, Miss Mary L.&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0 human life is what interests the writer, and if&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W. ..........&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0 that writer is drawn towards the form of the&lt;br /&gt;
Roberts, Morley ..........&lt;br /&gt;
0 novel, what authority bars the way? Some of&lt;br /&gt;
Rose, Edward ..........&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
the greatest authorities of the world are on his&lt;br /&gt;
Rumble, Mrs. .....&lt;br /&gt;
side.&lt;br /&gt;
Sinclair, Miss .....&lt;br /&gt;
10&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
The only point to be considered is-can&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
Stanley, Mrs. .....&lt;br /&gt;
he touch other minds, can he throw what he has&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Mrs. Humphry ... ... ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
to say into shapes that move and live ? And&lt;br /&gt;
Watt, A. P. ................&lt;br /&gt;
that turns upon another question. Can he see&lt;br /&gt;
Woston, Miss Jessie L. ... ... ... ....&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
these things and reproduce them, not as the&lt;br /&gt;
student sees and reproduces them, but as the artist&lt;br /&gt;
sees them interpreted through the forms of human&lt;br /&gt;
life, and interfused with beauty or with terror ?&lt;br /&gt;
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD ON THE AR&lt;br /&gt;
If he can, let the critic say what he will. The&lt;br /&gt;
WRITING FICTION.&lt;br /&gt;
whole purpose of Tolstoy&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Resurrection&rdquo; is to&lt;br /&gt;
lead up to those last pages in which a man of&lt;br /&gt;
I RS. HUMPHRY WARD was entertained burning sincerity presses upon Europe a new&lt;br /&gt;
as the guest of the evening by the view of the gospel message. For that purpose he&lt;br /&gt;
- Authors&amp;#039; Club on May 20 at the Hotel has carried the whole marvellous load of that&lt;br /&gt;
Cecil. This is the first occasion for several years book, and but for the purpose he would never&lt;br /&gt;
upon which ladies have been admitted to a guest have lifted it. Are you going to glorify the&lt;br /&gt;
oo 000&lt;br /&gt;
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aroo on ooo &otilde;en onerrocera-075 oczern ooo ooceno - oo&lt;br /&gt;
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TIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
11&lt;br /&gt;
book, and denounce the purpose ? Perfectly than we hate to our latest breath ; and admire&lt;br /&gt;
true that the purpose is nothing without the art; chiefly, perhaps, the things that we could never,&lt;br /&gt;
but humanity, the reader, the true and ultimate never du ourselves, the things that seem to&lt;br /&gt;
public, will take care of that.&lt;br /&gt;
us inconceivable and unattainable&mdash;the peaks&lt;br /&gt;
Meanwhile, though I will always maintain furthest from our own treading, under the com-&lt;br /&gt;
that art knows no limitations but those that mon light of poetry and truth.&lt;br /&gt;
spring out of itself, though all genres (save the&lt;br /&gt;
Innumerable mountains rise and rise,&lt;br /&gt;
hideous and inhuman) have their burgher rights&lt;br /&gt;
Ambitious for the ballowing of thine eyes.&lt;br /&gt;
in the great city, an artist is worth little, I think, So might we say to arı, &ldquo;I&amp;#039;ll walk where my&lt;br /&gt;
who cannot at times hate his own genre, and own nature would be leading &amp;quot;&mdash;there is the&lt;br /&gt;
everything that concerns it, in order to fall in typical cry of the artist; but woe betide him if&lt;br /&gt;
love with the genres of other people. How good he do not also ask of the gods as much happy&lt;br /&gt;
for those who are not capable of such things, to curiosity and love as they will grant for the&lt;br /&gt;
be filled with envy of the invention that gives us wanderers on other paths than his, and the shep-&lt;br /&gt;
a &ldquo; Sherlock Holmes &amp;quot; ; of that pure story-telling herds of other sheep. (Cheers.)&lt;br /&gt;
art whereof &ldquo;Tusitala &rdquo; is king and priest ; of&lt;br /&gt;
the plots, the adventures, the &ldquo;moving accidents&lt;br /&gt;
by flood and field,&rdquo; over which some magicians of&lt;br /&gt;
the novel have power. And I will dare to say how&lt;br /&gt;
SOME AMERICAN VIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
good for the writers of adventure, or the realists,&lt;br /&gt;
to have a passing fit of indulgence for the poor WRITER in the Evening Post, of New&lt;br /&gt;
followers of Rousseau and George Sand!&lt;br /&gt;
York, commenting on a report that the&lt;br /&gt;
In the love letters of Balzac there is a delight-&lt;br /&gt;
authors&amp;#039; profits on some novels which&lt;br /&gt;
ful letter describing a visit of the great realist to have sold largely in the United States in the past&lt;br /&gt;
George Sand at Nohant. He did not think year are given as &pound;15,000, &pound;9000, &pound;7800, &pound;6000,&lt;br /&gt;
much of George Sand&amp;#039;s art. That was inevitable. &amp;amp;c. :-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; She knows and says about herself the very Four of these novels have been dramatised, and are now&lt;br /&gt;
things that I think about her, without telling presented on the stage. With one exception, the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
them to her, that she has neither strength of con-&lt;br /&gt;
are not in a position to state definitely what additional&lt;br /&gt;
ception nor the faculty of constructing plots, nor&lt;br /&gt;
royalty the authors receive for the right of dramatisation.&lt;br /&gt;
It is said that two authors sold the right for a stipulated&lt;br /&gt;
the art of the pathetic, but that, without knowing amount. The lowest royalty considered for &amp;amp; success is&lt;br /&gt;
the French language, she has style ; and such is usually 5 per cent. of the gross receipts of every perform.&lt;br /&gt;
the fact.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
ance. Those, therefore, whose good fortane has been&lt;br /&gt;
Well, George Sand has her own views, and&lt;br /&gt;
associated with the three plays which have enjoyed con-&lt;br /&gt;
tinuous success since the early autumn, and often drawn&lt;br /&gt;
expresses them, about Balzac. But they both&lt;br /&gt;
audiences paying eight and nine thousand dollars a week,&lt;br /&gt;
meet on this common ground. Without knowing&lt;br /&gt;
will have received between foar and five hundred dollars&lt;br /&gt;
the French language she has style, Balzac admits every seven days from the theatrical manager. Old Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
-that is to say, she is a writer, whatever foolish Johnson&amp;#039;s notion that Thrale&amp;#039;s brewery afforded &ldquo;the&lt;br /&gt;
things she may choose to write about. She has&lt;br /&gt;
potentiality of growing risb beyond the dream of avarice&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
may be suggested in comparison with the idea of wealth&lt;br /&gt;
the heightenins, the incommunicable gift, she has&lt;br /&gt;
aroused by the contemplation of the new novelist&amp;#039;s revendes:&lt;br /&gt;
sincerity, she has vision ; he holds out to her the And it should be added that two of these novels were pub.&lt;br /&gt;
hand of a comrade; he accepts from her a big lished serially, for which separate payment was received&lt;br /&gt;
hookah and Latakia like her own; and the two&lt;br /&gt;
wn &middot; and the two before they were brought out in book form.&lt;br /&gt;
smoke, and discuss by the hour the problems of Colonel Harvey, president of Messrs. Harper&lt;br /&gt;
the m&eacute;tier.&lt;br /&gt;
and Brothers, on his return from a visit to&lt;br /&gt;
Cannot we all of us be richer in this ultimate London, said to a representative of the New York.&lt;br /&gt;
indulgence the one for the other? All that we Tribune :-&lt;br /&gt;
ought to ask, it seems to me, one of another is There simply does not exist in London to-day what.&lt;br /&gt;
that each of us should be true to his or her own American publishers would consider even &amp;amp; moderate&lt;br /&gt;
vision and instinct-should write what we love to&lt;br /&gt;
demand for either books or periodicals. It is well known&lt;br /&gt;
that one of the most conspicuous and apparently popular&lt;br /&gt;
write-should strive for the perfection of what&lt;br /&gt;
magazines in London has been in the market for some&lt;br /&gt;
we write&mdash;within the bounds of beauty, within months because its proprietor has reached the conclusion&lt;br /&gt;
the bounds of social service. I do not disguise that it cannot be pablished except at a loss&mdash;and no&lt;br /&gt;
my own opinion&mdash;that all things are not lawful purchaser appears. . . . It has but receatly come to&lt;br /&gt;
in literature, that there are social ends that&lt;br /&gt;
be understood in England that, coincident with her&lt;br /&gt;
splendid development along other lines, the United&lt;br /&gt;
transcend the literary ends ; but with this limita-&lt;br /&gt;
States has become the great book market of the world:&lt;br /&gt;
tion, how much is it to be wished, for our health The Latin countries, of course, need cot be considered.&lt;br /&gt;
of mind and soul, that we should admire more But take as an example &ldquo; Eleanor&rdquo;-a purely English book&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
with English characters, Eaglish scenes, and written by People who assert tbat unknown writers don&amp;#039;t have&lt;br /&gt;
an English author. It was a great success in England, their work read are entirely wrong. Speaking for&lt;br /&gt;
of course, as any book done by Mrs. Ward must be neces.&lt;br /&gt;
sarily, and yet nearly three times as many were sold in&lt;br /&gt;
myself, I&amp;#039;m always on the look-out for good&lt;br /&gt;
America--and that without at any time holding the lead plays.&lt;br /&gt;
over all other books in point of sales. Moreover, during Mr. Charles Wyndham observed :-&ldquo;In all the&lt;br /&gt;
the recent stagnation in the trade in London the output five-and-twenty years that people have been&lt;br /&gt;
of American publishers has increased nearly 40 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
showering plays upon me, I have not found a&lt;br /&gt;
From the Literary Era:&lt;br /&gt;
single one worth producing. It was not that the&lt;br /&gt;
It is reported from London that many English publishers work was bad in every case--far from it; it was&lt;br /&gt;
who have hitherto established no branch houses in America merely unsuitable for my purpose.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
will speedily open them. It is even intimated that some of Asked what quality in particular he considered&lt;br /&gt;
the greater houses, long represented here by branches, will&lt;br /&gt;
a play to require to render it successful : &ldquo; That&lt;br /&gt;
transfer their headquarters to the country which has begun&lt;br /&gt;
to be the dep&ocirc;t of their largest sales. They will retain&lt;br /&gt;
of &amp;#039;heart&amp;#039; above everything else,&amp;quot; was the reply.&lt;br /&gt;
their London offices merely as branches.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; It was &amp;#039;heart&amp;#039; that made &middot; David Garrick&amp;#039; so&lt;br /&gt;
For during the past twelvemonth English books pub popular, and enabled me to revive it over and over&lt;br /&gt;
lished in London have often found their most remunerative again.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
market here and not in England. If such be the record for And what quality is wanted in a player ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
a year, what may we expect from the next decade? ...&lt;br /&gt;
It is not impossible that within the lives of men now living&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Naturalness,&amp;quot; returned Mr. Wyndham, &ldquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
the United States may become the centre of distribution for&lt;br /&gt;
the first consideration nowadays. Once the public&lt;br /&gt;
the literature of the world!&lt;br /&gt;
demanded good elocution before it. Of late&lt;br /&gt;
Not only English authors, but German, French, Russian, years, however, tastes have changed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Italian, and other authors will have to send their MSS. for&lt;br /&gt;
approval and acceptance, not to the great cities of their own&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bourchier&amp;#039;s met hod of dealing with these&lt;br /&gt;
land, but to Philadelphia, to Boston, to New York, maybap&lt;br /&gt;
offerings was as follows:-Every manuscript sent&lt;br /&gt;
to Chicago and San Francisco.&lt;br /&gt;
him by a person of whom he knew nothing was&lt;br /&gt;
passed on to a &ldquo; reader&amp;quot; to deliver pronouncement&lt;br /&gt;
upon. As for those written by people with whose&lt;br /&gt;
work he was himself familiar, these he took &amp;#039;home&lt;br /&gt;
with him to apply a certain test to. This consisted&lt;br /&gt;
ACTOR-MANAGERS AND NEW PLAYS.&lt;br /&gt;
in reading them in bed, with the idea of seeing&lt;br /&gt;
whether they would send him to sleep or not before&lt;br /&gt;
A N interesting article on actor-managers and he had finished the first act. Those that had this&lt;br /&gt;
A their ways of reading plays appears in result would, as may be imagined, be promptly&lt;br /&gt;
the June number of the Pall Mall returned ; those that, on the other hand, failed in&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine. Mr. Frederick Harrison, in reply to this respect would be accorded more careful con-&lt;br /&gt;
a question about new plays, replied :-&lt;br /&gt;
sideration at the first convenient opportunity.&lt;br /&gt;
&aacute; Well, Mr. Maude and I have had something &ldquo;So far,&amp;quot; observed the originator, &ldquo; I have found&lt;br /&gt;
like six hundred during the four years we have this scheme most efficacious. None of the &amp;#039;send.&lt;br /&gt;
been in partnership. The reading of these, as me-to-sleep&amp;#039; plays have met with a producer after&lt;br /&gt;
you may imagine, is not the lightest part of our being returned by me, while, though I have been&lt;br /&gt;
work.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
compelled to decline many of the keep-me-awake&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
I asked where they chiefly failed to meet with&lt;br /&gt;
ny failed to meet with ones, a number of these have achieved a certain&lt;br /&gt;
acceptance, and learned that this was largely due degree of success at other theatres, and have had&lt;br /&gt;
to a want of knowledge on the part of their nice things said about them by the critics.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
writers as to the requirements of the stage. &ldquo;It&lt;br /&gt;
takes peculiar qualities to write a successful play,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
observed Mr. Harrison, reflectively.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;What one in particular?&rdquo; I demanded.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; That of sentiment, I am inclined to think,&amp;quot; was&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
the ready response. &ldquo;People ask for it nowadays,&lt;br /&gt;
and insist upon having it, too. Another point that&lt;br /&gt;
a dramatist should aim at is to suit the traditions 1.-The Dating of Books, and other Suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
of the theatre for which he is writing.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
for Copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. George Alexander says:-&ldquo; Plays come to TN consequence of illness I have only quite&lt;br /&gt;
me by the dozens, simply. To give you an idea of I recently been able to read the last few&lt;br /&gt;
how greatly this is the case, I may say that quite - numbers of The Author, and hence my&lt;br /&gt;
lately I had to read no less than two hundred plays reason for referring only now to an article&lt;br /&gt;
in five weeks. They were all carefully considered, which appeared so long ago as March. In&lt;br /&gt;
too-no actor-manager can afford to do otherwise. the issue for that month there is quoted, on&lt;br /&gt;
ch appeareferring onlythor, ande,&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
13&lt;br /&gt;
w&lt;br /&gt;
p. 180, under the heading &ldquo; Notes and News,&amp;quot; 1896, concerning provisional copyright registra-&lt;br /&gt;
an article from the Manchester Guardian, in tion, and if, Mr. Editor, you will, on some future&lt;br /&gt;
which the suggestion is made that the date occasion, grant une a little space, I shall be&lt;br /&gt;
of the original publication of every book should pleased to make two or three other suggestions&lt;br /&gt;
be placed on the back of the title page of on this subject of copyright. HUBERT Hass.&lt;br /&gt;
every new edition thereof. From this it would 28, Bassett-road, London, W.&lt;br /&gt;
naturally be inferred that the date of publication&lt;br /&gt;
May, 1901.&lt;br /&gt;
appears compulsorily in the original edition. It&lt;br /&gt;
is, however, and most regretfully, not one of the&lt;br /&gt;
essentials for the obtaining of copyright in this II.-Authors&amp;#039; Deductions and Income Tax.&lt;br /&gt;
country, and consequently many books are issued&lt;br /&gt;
I am now called upon by the authorities&mdash;as is&lt;br /&gt;
on which no date at all appears.&lt;br /&gt;
their unpleasant habit at this time of the year,&lt;br /&gt;
My object in writing this letter is to propose&lt;br /&gt;
to make a return of my professional income for&lt;br /&gt;
that a clause be embodied in the impending new&lt;br /&gt;
assessment, basing the return upon the average&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Act, enacting that the date (that is to&lt;br /&gt;
of the three preceding vears.&lt;br /&gt;
say, the year) of issue be printed on the title-page&lt;br /&gt;
According to schedule D, in computing the&lt;br /&gt;
of every book issued in the United Kingdom,&lt;br /&gt;
balance of profits to be returned, deductions are&lt;br /&gt;
not only in the first edition, but in every sub-&lt;br /&gt;
allowed:&lt;br /&gt;
sequent one, and that its presence be one of the&lt;br /&gt;
conditions on which copyright is granted. It&lt;br /&gt;
For repairs of premises occupied for the parposes of the&lt;br /&gt;
trado or manufacture, and for the supply or repair of&lt;br /&gt;
would greatly help those who have occasion to&lt;br /&gt;
implements, utensils, or articles employed...&lt;br /&gt;
compare various editions of any work if the For a sua not exceeding two-thirds (as the Commissioners&lt;br /&gt;
suggestion of the Manchester Guardian were shall allow) of the annual value on which daty has been&lt;br /&gt;
included in this clause, and it were made com.&lt;br /&gt;
paid ander schedule A in respe-:t of any dwelling-bonde&lt;br /&gt;
occupied by the owner and partly Ased for the purposes of&lt;br /&gt;
pulsory to state in each edition, besides its own&lt;br /&gt;
business.&lt;br /&gt;
date, the date of publication of the first.&lt;br /&gt;
For any other disbursements or expenses wholly and&lt;br /&gt;
This subject of the dating of books is of far exclusively laid out for the purposes of the trade, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
greater importance than appears on the surface, Now. sir, my dwelling-house is occupied by&lt;br /&gt;
and I would like much to enlarge upon it, but it the owner and partly used for the purposes of&lt;br /&gt;
would occupy far too much space. Perhaps, my business as a writer. My study requires&lt;br /&gt;
however, I may have the opportunity a few repairs from time to time; my pens wear out;&lt;br /&gt;
months hence of making public some remarks a great mass of foolscap is used up, and a sea of ink&lt;br /&gt;
thereon.&lt;br /&gt;
is slung. I disburse a guinea a year to the Society&lt;br /&gt;
While on the subject of copyright, I would like of Authors exclusively for the purposes of my&lt;br /&gt;
to add another suggestion which has already trade; I employ persons to make searches and&lt;br /&gt;
appeared in print (in the St. James&amp;#039;s Gazette of verify matters at the British Museum ; I purchase&lt;br /&gt;
Nov. 16, 1900, and other papers), viz., that books of reference: I spend considerable sums&lt;br /&gt;
another of the conditions of obtaining copyright on typewriting, and I not infrequently call in the&lt;br /&gt;
for books published in the United Kingdom, aud aid of a professional photographer in the matter&lt;br /&gt;
the object of which is to make sure that a copy of of illustrations. This is to name but a few of&lt;br /&gt;
every book published in this country finds its way many like disbursements.&lt;br /&gt;
(automatically) into the national library, should And I have never claimed any deductions. I&lt;br /&gt;
be the depositing in the British Museum a copy should much like to learn whether any of my&lt;br /&gt;
of the work ; tbat, in fact, copyright should not fellow authors have done so, and if so, what&lt;br /&gt;
exist for Great Britain for any work published success they have had in making such claims&lt;br /&gt;
therein-by a citizen of whatsoever country from the Commissioners. G. S. LAYARD.&lt;br /&gt;
written-until a copy of the work has been&lt;br /&gt;
deposited there; that the depositing a copy at the&lt;br /&gt;
British Museum shall be, in fact, what creates&lt;br /&gt;
III.-Magazines and Literature.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright for the United Kingdom. That means&lt;br /&gt;
that the date of depositing a copy there would be The opinion of Mr. Walter Page as to the&lt;br /&gt;
the date of publication for this country, and this connection between magazines and literature&lt;br /&gt;
would at the same time effect what is so much to should not be allowed to pass unchallenged by&lt;br /&gt;
be desired-viz., the compulsory registration members of the Society of Authors.&lt;br /&gt;
(without any fee) of every book published in this Such a sweeping assertion as &ldquo; The making of&lt;br /&gt;
country.&lt;br /&gt;
magazines is not literature ; it is journalism,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
I would like to call attention once more to the carries with it forcible evidence of a narrow and&lt;br /&gt;
suggestion which I made in The Author of Jan., even distorted attack upon periodical publication.&lt;br /&gt;
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14&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Those editors who are trying to get out Whilst writing on these subjects, I will relate an&lt;br /&gt;
monthly literature are making dull magazines.&rdquo; amusing occurrence which happened to myself some&lt;br /&gt;
Let me, as a reader and lover of literature, years ago. In 1893 my &ldquo; Collected Poems&amp;quot; were&lt;br /&gt;
protest. Does Mr. Page really believe there is published with my full name in large plain letters&lt;br /&gt;
no class to whom a scholarly essay or article, a on the title-page. On Dec. 16 of the same year the&lt;br /&gt;
refined poem, a grammatical story, appeals with editor of the Realm gave a review of the work,&lt;br /&gt;
swifter welcome than details concerning &ldquo;Toe- saying it was by Thomas Winton Hood! Under&lt;br /&gt;
nails of Celebrities,&rdquo; particulars as to the what head would the editor of The Author place&lt;br /&gt;
garments, food, habits, and domiciles of third- such a quixotic feat ? Do not perpetrators of&lt;br /&gt;
rate theatrical and other vainglorious notoriety such outrages deserve a niche in a &ldquo;comfortable&lt;br /&gt;
hunters ? Does he flatter himself that editors of corner&rdquo;?&lt;br /&gt;
his calibre have quite superseded those of the Thomas WINTER Wood (&ldquo;Vanguard&rdquo;).&lt;br /&gt;
caste of the late James Payn?&lt;br /&gt;
The inquisitive vulgarian is not omnipotent,&lt;br /&gt;
though certain editors, in collusion with whole-&lt;br /&gt;
sale manufacturers of literary shoddy, may delude&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
themselves into the belief that he is.. Acting&lt;br /&gt;
upon the dictum that &ldquo; appetite grows by what&lt;br /&gt;
M HE Lane Lectures, delivered by Sir Michael&lt;br /&gt;
it feeds on,&amp;quot; these people stimulate this false&lt;br /&gt;
T Foster at the Cooper Medical College in&lt;br /&gt;
appetite by flooding bookstalls and newsagents&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
- San Francisco last autumn, are being pub-&lt;br /&gt;
shops with the rubbish they produce.&lt;br /&gt;
lished by the Cambridge University Press. The&lt;br /&gt;
Semi -illiterate, bird-witted devourers of&lt;br /&gt;
title of the volume is &ldquo; Lectures on the History of&lt;br /&gt;
worthless sensationalism, fulsome personalities,&lt;br /&gt;
Physiology during the Sixteenth, Seventeenth,&lt;br /&gt;
grandiose self-advertisements, garnished by and Eighteenth Centuries.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
gaudy covers and rudimentary &ldquo;illustrations,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
patronise these publishing and editing Cheap&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Arnold Glover and Mr. A. R. Waller are&lt;br /&gt;
Jacks, no doubt, just as a lower human stratum&lt;br /&gt;
editing a complete edition of the works of Hazlitt.&lt;br /&gt;
still gloats over the brutalities of the gutter&lt;br /&gt;
It will include the entire literary, political, and&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic essays, together with his art criticism,&lt;br /&gt;
prints.&lt;br /&gt;
Theatrical managers bave long since perceived&lt;br /&gt;
his miscellaneous lectures and prefaces, and his&lt;br /&gt;
that, while melodrama of the crudest kind draws&lt;br /&gt;
fugitive writings, now collected for the first time.&lt;br /&gt;
best in poor-class neighbourhoods, plays of quieter&lt;br /&gt;
lieter&lt;br /&gt;
1&lt;br /&gt;
The edition, for which Mr. Henley is to write&lt;br /&gt;
action, thoughtful plot, and truer art, prove&lt;br /&gt;
an introduction, will be published by Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
remunerative where audiences of taste and dis-&lt;br /&gt;
Dent.&lt;br /&gt;
crimination gather together.&lt;br /&gt;
The Daily Chronicle states that Mr. Herbert&lt;br /&gt;
HERBERT W. SMITH. Spencer has had his autobiography printed, and&lt;br /&gt;
that there is now every probability that it will be&lt;br /&gt;
published during Mr. Spencer&amp;#039;s lifetime.&lt;br /&gt;
IV.-Editors.&lt;br /&gt;
Sherlock Holmes is to be revived. Mr. Conan&lt;br /&gt;
Doyle will shortly contribute to the Strand a&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Doveton&amp;#039;s spirited letter in the May number&lt;br /&gt;
story in which the great detective is the principal&lt;br /&gt;
of The Author induces me to broach a few further&lt;br /&gt;
character; and it will be published as a serial of&lt;br /&gt;
questions bearing on the subject of editors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
from 30,000 to 50,000 words.&lt;br /&gt;
pranks and privileges.&lt;br /&gt;
As Mr. Doveton does not say how long he&lt;br /&gt;
An appeal is to be made to admirers of the&lt;br /&gt;
waited for the &ldquo; comfortable corner,&rdquo; it is difficult&lt;br /&gt;
late Miss Charlotte Yonge and her works for&lt;br /&gt;
to judge his complaint aright. But as to the&lt;br /&gt;
funds to place a memorial to the novelist in&lt;br /&gt;
other question, of course no editor divulges the&lt;br /&gt;
Otterbourne Church, where she worshipped, and&lt;br /&gt;
name of pseudo-writers without their consent.&lt;br /&gt;
to erect a new reredos in the Lady Chapel of&lt;br /&gt;
But to come to personal matters, I once&lt;br /&gt;
Winchester Cathedral. The memorial committee&lt;br /&gt;
addressed a letter to the editor of The Author&lt;br /&gt;
includes the Bishops of Winchester, Rochester,&lt;br /&gt;
suggesting the adoption of the term &ldquo; typograph&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
for typewritten matter. Now, I look upon this as Lieutenant of Hampshire and Surrey.&lt;br /&gt;
a perfectly legitimate literary question, involving Mr. Rider Haggard&amp;#039;s account of his recent&lt;br /&gt;
an obvious want, as no one appears to know what tour in Palestine, which has been appearing&lt;br /&gt;
to call this, now common, production; thus it serially in the Queen, will be published in the&lt;br /&gt;
remains an unaccountable stumbling-block. Why autumn by Messrs. Longman. The title of the&lt;br /&gt;
keep it so ?&lt;br /&gt;
book will probably be &ldquo;A Winter Pilgrimage.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
15.&lt;br /&gt;
A descriptive work on Naples, intended to rank The great History of the Royal Navy, by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
as supplementary to a guide, has been written by W. Laird Clowes, which has been appearing&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. H. Norway, and will be published by during the past year or two, is to number seven&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen under the title of &ldquo; Naples, Past volumes instead of six. The sixth volume is&lt;br /&gt;
and Present.&rdquo; It is fully illustrated.&lt;br /&gt;
about to be published, and the subject which has&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Charles Duguid has written &ldquo; The Story of&lt;br /&gt;
rendered the concluding one necessary is ihe&lt;br /&gt;
work of the Naval Brigade in the South African&lt;br /&gt;
the Stock Exchange &rdquo; of London, which passed&lt;br /&gt;
its centenary only the other week. The book will&lt;br /&gt;
campaign.&lt;br /&gt;
be illustrated by Mr. Joseph Pennell and Mr. The second volume of Dr. M. R. James&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Dudley Hardy.&lt;br /&gt;
descriptive catalogue of the Western manuscripts&lt;br /&gt;
in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, will&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Vivisector,&rdquo; No. 1 of a series of &ldquo; Testa-&lt;br /&gt;
be published in a few days from the Cambridge&lt;br /&gt;
ments&rdquo; by Mr. John Davidson, will be issued by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Grant Richards on June 4. In a &ldquo;Note&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
University Press.&lt;br /&gt;
prefixed to the volume Mr. Davidson says:&lt;br /&gt;
A new work by Mr. Cuninghame Graham,&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; A Vanished Arcadia,&amp;quot; will be published&lt;br /&gt;
The Testament of a Vivisector, the first of a series of&lt;br /&gt;
poems which I purpose pablishing at intervals, will hardly&lt;br /&gt;
in a few days by Mr. Heinemann. It relates to&lt;br /&gt;
recommend itself to vivisector or anti-vivisector; and the the expulsion of the Jesuits from Paraguay.&lt;br /&gt;
Dew statement of materialism which it contains is likely to&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Francis Gribble&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo; Lake Geneva&lt;br /&gt;
offend both the religious and the irreligious mind. This&lt;br /&gt;
poem, therefore, and its successors, my &ldquo; Testaments,&rdquo; are&lt;br /&gt;
and its Literary Landmarks,&rdquo; will be published&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to those who are willing to place all ideas in the this month by Messrs. Constable.&lt;br /&gt;
crucible, and who are not afraid to fathom what is sub-&lt;br /&gt;
A new novel by Lieut. Colonel A. C. Haggard,&lt;br /&gt;
-conscious in themselves and others.&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; Love Rules the Camp,&amp;quot; will be published&lt;br /&gt;
For the election to the Slade Professorship of immediately by Messrs. Hutchinson.&lt;br /&gt;
Fine Art at Cambridge University, Mr. Charles&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. J. Dadson is the author of a little book,&lt;br /&gt;
Waldstein, Litt.D., King&amp;#039;s College, who succeeded&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo; Evolution and Its Bearing on Religion,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Middleton in 1895, did not seek re-election.&lt;br /&gt;
which will be published by Messrs. Sonnen-&lt;br /&gt;
The vacancy was filled on May 25, when the&lt;br /&gt;
schein.&lt;br /&gt;
choice of the electors fell upon Sir William&lt;br /&gt;
Martin Conway, M.A., formerly chairman, and&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Robert S. Rait is preparing a volume, for&lt;br /&gt;
now a member of Council, of the Society of publication by Messrs. Constable, containing&lt;br /&gt;
Authors.&lt;br /&gt;
hitherto unpublished autograph poems by King&lt;br /&gt;
James the First of England and Sixth of Scot-&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A Child of Art&rdquo; by Annabel Gray, the second&lt;br /&gt;
land, the existence of which, in the Bodleian&lt;br /&gt;
of the series of her novels, is now published by&lt;br /&gt;
Library at Oxford, has only recently been dis-&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., price 38. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
covered.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Mystic Number 7,&rdquo; now in a fourth edition,&lt;br /&gt;
will be issued at is. by same firm in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;An Eton Boy&amp;#039;s Letters &amp;quot; is the title and&lt;br /&gt;
subject of a work by G. Nugent Bankes, which&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Anthems and Anthem Composers,&rdquo; by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Cassell are about to publish. Purport-&lt;br /&gt;
Myles Birket Foster, which Mr. Murray is to pub-&lt;br /&gt;
ing to be written to relatives and friends, the&lt;br /&gt;
lish, is described as an essay on the development letters narrate the vicissitudes of the boy&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
of the anthem from the time of the Reformation&lt;br /&gt;
career at school, and illustrate the manners and&lt;br /&gt;
to the end of the nineteenth century, with a com.&lt;br /&gt;
customs of the college.&lt;br /&gt;
plete list of anthems belonging to each of the four&lt;br /&gt;
The Fellows of the Royal Society met at&lt;br /&gt;
centuries.&lt;br /&gt;
Burlington House, on May 9, to discuss the ques-&lt;br /&gt;
A life of Synesius the Hellene has been written&lt;br /&gt;
tion of enlarging the scope of the Society with a&lt;br /&gt;
by the Rev. W. S. Crawford, vicar of Checkley, view to constituting a more distinctive literary&lt;br /&gt;
Stoke-on-Trent, and will be published by Messrs. and philological section. The proceedings were&lt;br /&gt;
Rivington.&lt;br /&gt;
private, but it was announced at the close that&lt;br /&gt;
A grammar of Cape Dutch has been prepared no decision had been come to, and that another&lt;br /&gt;
by Miss A. Werner, of King&amp;#039;s College, London, meeting would be called shortly.&lt;br /&gt;
and will be published shortly by Messrs. Williams&lt;br /&gt;
The Archbishop of Canterbury presided at the&lt;br /&gt;
and Norgate.&lt;br /&gt;
annual dinner of the Royal Literary Fund on&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her May 17, and spoke of the excellent services&lt;br /&gt;
Friends&amp;quot; is the title of a volume which Messrs. rendered by the fund to distressed writers. It&lt;br /&gt;
Wells Gardner will issue shortly. It is written was hardly conceivable, he added, that we could&lt;br /&gt;
by three friends of the late poet.&lt;br /&gt;
ever sum up the debt we owed to great writers.&lt;br /&gt;
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16&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Of all the things for which he was grateful to&lt;br /&gt;
God, he knew but one that stood above the gift&lt;br /&gt;
of &agrave; noble literature, and that was God&amp;#039;s own&lt;br /&gt;
revelation; and when we put that high above&lt;br /&gt;
everything, still he knew nothing he could rank&lt;br /&gt;
higher than the literature which ennobled our&lt;br /&gt;
country.-Subscriptions amounting to nearly&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;1000 were announced at the dinner.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. H. G. Keene has republished in book form&lt;br /&gt;
the interesting series of articles he contributed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Calcutta Review on the French and English&lt;br /&gt;
free-lances who found their opportunity in the&lt;br /&gt;
chaos which preceded the establishment of British&lt;br /&gt;
power in India. Sir Richard Temple contributes&lt;br /&gt;
a felicitous preface. The brochure is published&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Thacker, Spink, and Co., of Calcutta,&lt;br /&gt;
and of 2, Creed-lane, London.&lt;br /&gt;
Prince Kropotkin, the Russian scientist and&lt;br /&gt;
exile, promises to bring out immediately a popular&lt;br /&gt;
edition of his interesting work, &ldquo; Fields, Factories,&lt;br /&gt;
and Workshops,&rdquo; hitherto available only to those&lt;br /&gt;
who could afford half-a-guinea or so. The book&lt;br /&gt;
is a study of economic tendencies in the realms of&lt;br /&gt;
modern industry and agriculture. Messrs. Swan&lt;br /&gt;
Sonnenschein and Co. will be the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
The format will be especially good, both in the&lt;br /&gt;
shilling (paper) and two-shilling (cloth) edition.&lt;br /&gt;
In addition to the usual budget of short fiction,&lt;br /&gt;
Crampton&amp;#039;s Magazine for June will contain an&lt;br /&gt;
article by Bj&ouml;rnson on French exclusiveness and a&lt;br /&gt;
discussion of &ldquo;Is the &bull; Yellow Peril&rsquo; a reality ?&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
by Lieutenant-General T&uuml;rr, the Garibaldian&lt;br /&gt;
veteran ; M. de Bloch, the famous Moscow&lt;br /&gt;
banker and adviser of the Tsar; and Mr. Alexis&lt;br /&gt;
Krausse, author of several works on China.&lt;br /&gt;
Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted&lt;br /&gt;
a copy of &ldquo;Alien&amp;#039;s&rdquo; new novel, &ldquo; Another&lt;br /&gt;
Woman&amp;#039;s Territory.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. B. T. Batsford regrets to announce that&lt;br /&gt;
the second issue of Mr. Edwin 0. Sachs&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
monumental work, &ldquo;Modern Opera Houses and&lt;br /&gt;
Theatres,&rdquo; promised for the opening of the opera&lt;br /&gt;
season, bas been unavoidably delayed by the&lt;br /&gt;
illness of the author. It is now scarcely probable&lt;br /&gt;
that Mr. Sachs&amp;#039;s work can be reissued before the&lt;br /&gt;
autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Nana&amp;#039;s Talisman&rdquo; is the title of a new&lt;br /&gt;
novel, now on sale, by Mark Ashton, author of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; She Stands Alone,&rdquo; &amp;amp;c. The publishers are&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Hutchinson and Co.&lt;br /&gt;
From a notice on the fly-leaf of Mr. Robert&lt;br /&gt;
Cromie&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Kitty&amp;#039;s Victoria Cross,&rdquo; which Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Frederick Warne and Co. have just published,&lt;br /&gt;
we learn that a new edition of Mr. Cromie&amp;#039;s &ldquo;A&lt;br /&gt;
Plunge into Space&rdquo; is in the press. The latter&lt;br /&gt;
will contain twenty illustrations by Mr. Lancelot&lt;br /&gt;
Speed. Among the many claims to prophecy&lt;br /&gt;
made by authors-some of which are a trifle&lt;br /&gt;
shadowy-we may instance Mr. Cromie&amp;#039;s wireless&lt;br /&gt;
telegraphy forecast in &ldquo;A Plunge into Space,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
the first edition of which was published in 1890.&lt;br /&gt;
Tesla and Marconi had not then commenced to&lt;br /&gt;
work their wonders, but Mr. Cromie&amp;#039;s paragraph&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;which will appear in the new edition without&lt;br /&gt;
the alteration of a single word-has been admitted&lt;br /&gt;
by an electrical science journal to be a fairly good&lt;br /&gt;
definition of wireless telegraphy up to the moment&lt;br /&gt;
of going to press.&lt;br /&gt;
Two matin&eacute;es for the benefit of the Waifs and&lt;br /&gt;
Strays Society will be given at the Criterion&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre on June 3 and 4, when, among other&lt;br /&gt;
attractions, two one-act pieces will be performed&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;one by Lady Bancroft, the other by Mr. F.&lt;br /&gt;
Anstey.&lt;br /&gt;
At the Lyceum, Madame &ldquo;Saps-G&ecirc;ne&rdquo; will be&lt;br /&gt;
revived on June 10, &ldquo;The Lyons Mail&rdquo; on&lt;br /&gt;
June 19, and &ldquo;Charles I.&rdquo; on June 24.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. T. Grein is proposing to start a &ldquo; Th&eacute;&acirc;tre&lt;br /&gt;
Fran&ccedil;ais&rdquo; in London.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Ben Hur,&rdquo; the religious drama which has&lt;br /&gt;
been so successful in the United States, is to be&lt;br /&gt;
produced at Drury Lane next Easter.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. T. E. Pemberton is writing a Life of Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Ellen Terry.&lt;br /&gt;
The Stage announces that the F. R. Benson&lt;br /&gt;
Company (Limited) has been registered, with a&lt;br /&gt;
capital of &pound;1000 in &pound;i shares. The first directors&lt;br /&gt;
are 0. S. Andreae, F. R. Benson, and C. F.&lt;br /&gt;
Leyel.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Stephen Phillips has nearly completed&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Ulysses,&rdquo; the play he is writing for Mr. Tree.&lt;br /&gt;
An interesting &ldquo;real conversation between Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Phillips and Mr. William Archer, in which the&lt;br /&gt;
question of dramatic criticism by the newspapers&lt;br /&gt;
is discussed, appears in the current number of&lt;br /&gt;
the Pall Mall Magazine.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Martin Harvey will produce shortly a new&lt;br /&gt;
romantic play by Mr. Freeman Wills.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; THE AUTHOR.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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