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The different sections of the deputation pre-&lt;br /&gt;
James, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
Lely, J. M.&lt;br /&gt;
Bryden, H. A.&lt;br /&gt;
Lennox, Lady William&lt;br /&gt;
sented petitions urging the Government to press&lt;br /&gt;
Bullen, F. T.&lt;br /&gt;
forward copyright matters.&lt;br /&gt;
Lockyer, Sir Norman,&lt;br /&gt;
Burden-Sanderson, Sir K.Č.B.&lt;br /&gt;
The Society of Authors was represented by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Marsh, Richard&lt;br /&gt;
A. Hope Hawkins, the Chairman of the Society,&lt;br /&gt;
Campbell, Lady Colin Mason, A. E. W.&lt;br /&gt;
and by the Secretary.&lt;br /&gt;
Carey, Miss, R. N. Middlemass, Miss Jean&lt;br /&gt;
There were also present representatives of the&lt;br /&gt;
Castle, Egerton, F.S.A. Morrison, Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Association, the Publishers Association,&lt;br /&gt;
the Musical Publishers Association, and other&lt;br /&gt;
Nicoll, Rev. W. Robert-&lt;br /&gt;
Cholmondeley, Miss&lt;br /&gt;
bodies interested in the question of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&lt;br /&gt;
son, LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
Norman, Henry, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
Church, Prof. A. H.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Balfour gave no hope of the Bill coming&lt;br /&gt;
Collier, The Hon. John Norris, W. E.&lt;br /&gt;
forward this Session, but stated that he was doing&lt;br /&gt;
Clodd, Edward&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Gilbert, M.P.&lt;br /&gt;
his utmost to press forward the matter, and that&lt;br /&gt;
Courtney, W. L.&lt;br /&gt;
Parker, Louis N.&lt;br /&gt;
he hoped at no distant date the Government would&lt;br /&gt;
Craigie, Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, A. W.&lt;br /&gt;
be in a position to put their Bill before the House&lt;br /&gt;
Croker, Mrs. B. M. Praed, Mrs. Campbell&lt;br /&gt;
and the public.&lt;br /&gt;
Davidson, John&lt;br /&gt;
Pryce, Richard&lt;br /&gt;
Dobson, Austin&lt;br /&gt;
Scott, Clement&lt;br /&gt;
The Work of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Douglas, Sir George, Seaman, Owen&lt;br /&gt;
At the meeting of the Committee, held on March&lt;br /&gt;
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Senior, William&lt;br /&gt;
10th, another large batch of members and asso-&lt;br /&gt;
Dowden, Prof. E., Spencer, Herbert ciates was elected.&lt;br /&gt;
LL.D.&lt;br /&gt;
Spielmann, M. H.&lt;br /&gt;
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Fife Cookson, Lt. Col. Spiers, Victor&lt;br /&gt;
present date amounts to sixty, and the progress of&lt;br /&gt;
F. C.&lt;br /&gt;
Sprigge, S. Squire the Society from this point of view appears to be&lt;br /&gt;
Fitch, Sir Joshua Stanford, C. Villiers thoroughly satisfactory.&lt;br /&gt;
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memorial to Sir Walter Besant, the names and&lt;br /&gt;
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amounts state below must be added. We trust&lt;br /&gt;
Grundy, Sydney .&lt;br /&gt;
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Haggard, H. Rider .&lt;br /&gt;
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Hardy, Thomas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sims, George R. . .&lt;br /&gt;
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AN APOLOGY.&lt;br /&gt;
To C. J. Wills, Esq., KEW GARDENS.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR, -I regret that in the issue of Woman&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Life, dated 15th February last, I inadvertently&lt;br /&gt;
published a copyright story of which you were the&lt;br /&gt;
author and proprietor. Had I known that the copy-&lt;br /&gt;
right belonged to you I should, of course, have&lt;br /&gt;
asked for your sanction before printing it.&lt;br /&gt;
The story was originally sent by a correspondent&lt;br /&gt;
to l&amp;#039;it-Bits, and secured the prize for the best story&lt;br /&gt;
of the week ending March 22nd, 1890. It was not&lt;br /&gt;
sent as an original story, but I was not aware that&lt;br /&gt;
any copyright in it existed or that it was your&lt;br /&gt;
work,&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
GALLOWAY FRASER,&lt;br /&gt;
Editor of Woman&amp;#039;s Life.&lt;br /&gt;
Southampton Street, Strand, W.C.,&lt;br /&gt;
March 11th, 1902.&lt;br /&gt;
to the right understanding of their art and its principles,&lt;br /&gt;
and to guide them into true practice of those principles,&lt;br /&gt;
while they are still young, their imaginations strong, and&lt;br /&gt;
their personal experiences as yet not wasted in foolish&lt;br /&gt;
failures.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Rules,&amp;quot; says Sir Walter, &ldquo;will not make a man a novelist,&lt;br /&gt;
any more than a knowledge of grammar makes a man&lt;br /&gt;
know a language, or a knowledge of musical science makes&lt;br /&gt;
a man able to play an instrument, ... The art itself can&lt;br /&gt;
neither be taught nor communicated. If the thing is in a&lt;br /&gt;
man, he will bring it out somehow-well or badly, quickly&lt;br /&gt;
or slowly. If it is not he can never learn it.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
On page 76 there is a noteworthy passage :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Unfortunately there has grown up of late a bad fashion&lt;br /&gt;
of measuring success too much by the money it seems to&lt;br /&gt;
command. It is not always, remember, the voice of the&lt;br /&gt;
people which elects the best man, and though in most&lt;br /&gt;
cases it follows that a successful novelist commands a&lt;br /&gt;
large sale of his works, it may happen that the art of&lt;br /&gt;
a great writer is of such a kind that it may never become&lt;br /&gt;
widely popular.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Again, speaking of the sort of contempt with&lt;br /&gt;
which the world at large is apt to regard the&lt;br /&gt;
story-teller, Sir Walter says :&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; It is, I acknowledge, a kindly contempt-even an&lt;br /&gt;
affectionate contempt; it is the contempt which the&lt;br /&gt;
practical man feels for the dreamer, the strong man for&lt;br /&gt;
the weak, the man who can do, for the man who can only&lt;br /&gt;
look on and talk.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;The general&mdash;the Philistine-view of the profession is,&lt;br /&gt;
first of all, that it is not one which a scholar and a man of&lt;br /&gt;
serious views should take up: the telling of stories is&lt;br /&gt;
inconsistent with a well-balanced mind; to be a teller of&lt;br /&gt;
stories disqualifies one from a hearing on important&lt;br /&gt;
subjects.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;At this very day there are thousands of living people&lt;br /&gt;
who will never understand how the author of Coningsby&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
and Vivian Gray&amp;#039; can possibly be regarded as a serious&lt;br /&gt;
statesman-all the Disraeli literature, even to the comic&lt;br /&gt;
cartoons, expresses the popular sentiment that a novelist&lt;br /&gt;
must not presume to call himself a statesman ; the intellect&lt;br /&gt;
of a novelist, it is felt-if he have any intellect at all, which&lt;br /&gt;
is doubtful-must be one of the most frivolous and lightest&lt;br /&gt;
kind; how can a man whose mind is always full of the&lt;br /&gt;
loves of Corydon and Amaryllis be trusted to form an&lt;br /&gt;
opinion on practical matters ?&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
One more quotation ! This from the Appendix :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Remember that all publishers are eager to get good&lt;br /&gt;
work: they are prepared to consider MSS. carefully-&lt;br /&gt;
most of them pay men on whose judgment they rely, men&lt;br /&gt;
of literary standing, to read and taste&amp;#039; for them ; there-&lt;br /&gt;
fore, it is a simple and obvious piece of advice that the&lt;br /&gt;
writer should send his work to some good publisher, and it&lt;br /&gt;
is perfectly certain that, if the work is good, it will be&lt;br /&gt;
accepted and published. There is little or no risk, even&lt;br /&gt;
with an unknown author over a really good novel ...&lt;br /&gt;
Persevere, if you feel that the root of the matter is in you,&lt;br /&gt;
till your work is accepted ; and never, nerer, NEVER pay&lt;br /&gt;
for publishing a novel.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Our Founder&amp;#039;s &ldquo; The Pen and the Book,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
published in 1899, by Thomas Burleigh, is no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt in the hands of many of our members. It&lt;br /&gt;
might be read with advantage by every aspirant&lt;br /&gt;
and beginner.&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Walter Besant was one of the thirty&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;comrades in letters&rdquo; who signed a letter of&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK AND PLAY TALK.&lt;br /&gt;
TN the new edition of Sir Walter Besant&amp;#039;s &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
I Art of Fiction,&rdquo; just issued by Messi&amp;#039;s. Chatto&lt;br /&gt;
and Windus at 1s. net (being a lecture&lt;br /&gt;
delivered at the Royal Institution, April 25th,&lt;br /&gt;
1884), there is a passage which has a particular&lt;br /&gt;
interest for members of our Society :&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I am certain that if these laws (i.e., science of fiction)&lt;br /&gt;
were better known and more generally studied, a very&lt;br /&gt;
large proportion of the bad works of which our critics com&lt;br /&gt;
plain would not be produced at all. And I am in great&lt;br /&gt;
hopes that one effect of the establishment of the newly&lt;br /&gt;
founded Society of Authors will be to keep young writers&lt;br /&gt;
of fiction from rushing too hastily into print, to help them&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
congratulation and homage addressed to Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
George Meredith, on the occasion of his seventieth&lt;br /&gt;
birthday.&lt;br /&gt;
The Tatler, of February 19th, contains a poem&lt;br /&gt;
addressed to Mr. Meredith on the attainment of his&lt;br /&gt;
seventy-fourth birthday. The lines are from the&lt;br /&gt;
pen of Mr. Arthur Beckett, of Eastbourne.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Thomas Hardy&amp;#039;s readers will probably be&lt;br /&gt;
sorry to hear that Messrs. Harper and Brothers do&lt;br /&gt;
not intend to publish an India paper edition of&lt;br /&gt;
his works at 3s. and 28.; though a paragraph,&lt;br /&gt;
stating that the first volume of such an edition&lt;br /&gt;
would be issued this month, has appeared in a&lt;br /&gt;
paper.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frank Bullen&amp;#039;s new book is a novel of&lt;br /&gt;
whaling life, and is entitled &amp;quot; The Whaleman&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Wife.&amp;quot; It is on the lines of the &ldquo; Cruise of the&lt;br /&gt;
Cachalot,&rdquo; but with a much stronger religious tone.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Bullen has, of course, drawn upon his own&lt;br /&gt;
experiences for scenes and incidents, but he has&lt;br /&gt;
been very careful not to duplicate any of those&lt;br /&gt;
recorded in the &ldquo;Cruise of the Cachalot.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, the popular author of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; On the face of the Waters,&rdquo; &ldquo;In the Permanent&lt;br /&gt;
Way,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c., &amp;amp;c., is not publishing anything this&lt;br /&gt;
season, nor has she a book on hand at present.&lt;br /&gt;
Neither shall we have a new book from Mr. I.&lt;br /&gt;
Zangwill for some time to come. Owing to his&lt;br /&gt;
absorption in Zionist work his literary activity has&lt;br /&gt;
been much crippled. Possibly he may make a&lt;br /&gt;
collection of his verses.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Stepney Rawson&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Journeyman&lt;br /&gt;
Love,&rdquo; is to appear shortly (Hutchinson &amp;amp; Co., 6s.).&lt;br /&gt;
It is a pure love story, and deals with the spiritual&lt;br /&gt;
development of a young man from Western England.&lt;br /&gt;
This Gilbert Helicar breaks loose from his family&lt;br /&gt;
-a commercial one&mdash;and goes over to Paris.&lt;br /&gt;
There he falls into a musical circle and meets&lt;br /&gt;
Chopin, Georges Sand, Berlioz, &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. G. S. Layard, author of &amp;quot; The Life Letters&lt;br /&gt;
and Opinions of Mrs. Lyon Lynton,&amp;quot; has just&lt;br /&gt;
completed a novel called &ldquo; Rupert the Mummer:&lt;br /&gt;
an Extravaganza.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Power of the Past&amp;quot; is the title of a new&lt;br /&gt;
novel by Miss Daisy Hugh Pryce. It is a Nile&lt;br /&gt;
story, the scenes of which are laid among the&lt;br /&gt;
ruins of ancient Egypt &mdash; Sacchara, Karnac,&lt;br /&gt;
Thebes, and Philae. It is dedicated to Lord&lt;br /&gt;
ra&lt;br /&gt;
Kitchener.&lt;br /&gt;
Graham Hope has recently published a selection&lt;br /&gt;
of optimistic thoughts from the writings of Robert&lt;br /&gt;
Browning, entitled &ldquo;All&amp;#039;s Well.&rdquo; This little&lt;br /&gt;
volume of some seventy pages is published by&lt;br /&gt;
H. Wilford Bell, at the price of 3s.&lt;br /&gt;
The same author&amp;#039;s new book, &ldquo;My Lord Wine-&lt;br /&gt;
hender,&amp;quot; is to appear on April 30th. Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Smith Elder are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frankfort Moore, author of &ldquo;A Nest of&lt;br /&gt;
Linnets,&amp;quot; &amp;amp;c., &amp;amp;c., has followed his usual custom&lt;br /&gt;
of publishing a modern story after one of his&lt;br /&gt;
eighteenth century romances. His new novel,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;A Damsel or Two,&amp;quot; deals with some aspects of&lt;br /&gt;
modern society.&lt;br /&gt;
A new novel, called &ldquo; The Way of Escape,&rdquo; has&lt;br /&gt;
just been completed by Graham Travers (Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
Margaret Todd). It is to be published immediately&lt;br /&gt;
by Messrs. Blackwood, who also produced her&lt;br /&gt;
previons novels, &ldquo;Mona Maclean&rdquo; and &ldquo; Windy-&lt;br /&gt;
haugh.&rdquo; The first of these is now in its fifteenth&lt;br /&gt;
edition.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;An Antarctic Queen,&rdquo; by Captain Charles Clark&lt;br /&gt;
(Fred. Warne &amp;amp; Co.), is a capital adventure story&lt;br /&gt;
for boys and girls. Incidents are plentiful, the&lt;br /&gt;
action never flags, and the hero, Percy Percival,&lt;br /&gt;
is one of the right sort. Who the Queen of&lt;br /&gt;
Lastfoundland is and how the story ends readers&lt;br /&gt;
must find out for themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Frederick I. Winbolt&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Frithidf the Bold&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
is an interesting drama in blank verse based on&lt;br /&gt;
the Norse Saga. There is a prologue, three acts&lt;br /&gt;
and eleven scenes. Ingeborg, the ill-fated&lt;br /&gt;
daughter of King Bele, loves and is loved by&lt;br /&gt;
Frithidf, son of old Roderick the peasant. The&lt;br /&gt;
cruel, cowardly Helgi makes his sister Ingeborg&lt;br /&gt;
wed old King Sigurd Ring, during Frithidf&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
absence. Ingeborg dies; but Frithidf is roused&lt;br /&gt;
from his depair by King Sigura. Frithidf&amp;#039;s words&lt;br /&gt;
of hope close the drama.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. W. Jacobs&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; At Sunwich&lt;br /&gt;
Port,&rdquo; is to be published in volume form at the&lt;br /&gt;
end of this month ; and a collection of his short&lt;br /&gt;
stories is to appear in the autumn.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Fisher Unwin is publishing shortly two new&lt;br /&gt;
books by John Oliver Hobbes. One is &ldquo; Tales&lt;br /&gt;
About Temperament,&amp;quot; price 2s.6d. nett; the other is&lt;br /&gt;
a comedy in five acts, entitled &ldquo; The Flute of Pan&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
(cloth, 3s. 6d. ; paper, 28. nett).&lt;br /&gt;
We hear that Mr. Kyrle Bellew may reappear in&lt;br /&gt;
London next season in Mr. Stanley Weyman&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Gentleman of France.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
The fiftieth performance of &ldquo; Pilkerton&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Peerage,&rdquo; took place at the Garrick on Satur-&lt;br /&gt;
day, March 15th.&lt;br /&gt;
The Sh&lt;br /&gt;
The Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-on-&lt;br /&gt;
Avon will commence on the 14th inst., and will&lt;br /&gt;
be continued till May 3rd. &ldquo;Henry VIII.&rdquo; is to&lt;br /&gt;
be revived, and Miss Ellen Terry will appear as&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Queen Katherine.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Twelfth Night,&rdquo; &ldquo;Othello,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Hamlet,&rdquo; &ldquo;Romeo and Juliet,&rdquo; &ldquo;King Lear,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo; Henry V.&rdquo; are also to be presented.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
167&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Tree will almost certainly give a series of have been produced by Messrs. Hurst &amp;amp; Blackett,&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespearean performances at Her Majesty&amp;#039;s is bringing out almost immediately a new novel&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre, before the close of the present season. entitled a &ldquo;Son of Mischief.&rdquo; Messrs. Digby,&lt;br /&gt;
Sir Henry Irving is to reappear at the Lyceum Long &amp;amp; Co. are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
on 25th, in &ldquo;Faust,&rdquo; revised by A. C. Calmour.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. J. C. Wright has just published a work&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL&lt;br /&gt;
of considerable local interest, entitled &ldquo;Bygone&lt;br /&gt;
PROPERTY.&lt;br /&gt;
Eastbourne.&amp;quot; It endeavours to give an account&lt;br /&gt;
of its people, its occupations, its government, in a&lt;br /&gt;
word its life in the olden days, and its develop-&lt;br /&gt;
Titles.&lt;br /&gt;
ment as modern Eastbourne. The book is illus-&lt;br /&gt;
trated by copies of old engravings, and the price&lt;br /&gt;
M HE thorny question of the property existing&lt;br /&gt;
is 8s. net.&lt;br /&gt;
in the titles of books is one that will&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Sordon,&amp;quot; Benjamin Swift&amp;#039;s latest novel, grips&lt;br /&gt;
rouse even the dullest author. Disputes are&lt;br /&gt;
the reader from start to finish. It is essentially a constantly arising. Actions are threatened, and&lt;br /&gt;
short story based on a situation powerfully handled.&lt;br /&gt;
blackmail is levied. Some with legal rights are&lt;br /&gt;
It is also, as might be expected, a keen phsycho- bluffed into quiescence, whilst, others with rights&lt;br /&gt;
logical study. About this very individual young which exist nowhere except in their perverted&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s method there is more than a hint of the&lt;br /&gt;
nt of the&lt;br /&gt;
imagination&lt;br /&gt;
imagination, ride roughshod&lt;br /&gt;
ride ronchsh&lt;br /&gt;
over their timid&lt;br /&gt;
dashing expert surgeon and his steel-bright dis- brethren&lt;br /&gt;
secting knife. To reveal the basic situation here&lt;br /&gt;
The legal side of the question has been dealt with&lt;br /&gt;
would be a work, not of supererogation, but of from time to time in The Author. so it is needless&lt;br /&gt;
superfluity.&lt;br /&gt;
to touch on that subject; but it might tend to&lt;br /&gt;
In &ldquo;Scottish Art and Letters&rdquo; (Feb.&mdash;April, some useful end if other sides were put forward.&lt;br /&gt;
1902), which is an illustrated quarterly review of There is no copyright in a title, so The Author&lt;br /&gt;
literature and the literal arts, edited at Glasgow says.* Does the property, therefore, define it as&lt;br /&gt;
by Mr. Arnold Fraser-Lovat, Benjamin Swift has you may, which is inherent in a title, last beyond&lt;br /&gt;
an article on Philistinism, which &amp;quot;gives one to the period of copyright, or is it coterminous with&lt;br /&gt;
think &amp;quot; more than a little. Says the writer : it ? Has the point ever been decided ? Is there&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Philistinism is the beef-essence of ignorance. But it is any power to stop authors of serious novels&mdash;no&lt;br /&gt;
not the na&iuml;ve, delightful ignorance of the peasant, that names mentioned from producing a series of&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of the world&amp;#039;s affairs which almost amounts to a &ldquo;Tom Jones&amp;#039;&rdquo; or &ldquo; Clarissa Harlowes&amp;quot; ? Will&lt;br /&gt;
kind of negative wisdom. Far from it. The Philistine is&lt;br /&gt;
any one throw light on the subject ?&lt;br /&gt;
a person of full-blown judgment. For instance, he has&lt;br /&gt;
invincible opinions on the necessary morality&amp;#039; of Art.&lt;br /&gt;
Again, coming to commercial considerations,&lt;br /&gt;
Obviously, if Art is only a reduplication of the world, then, titles are sometimes hopelessly deceptive. The&lt;br /&gt;
in so far as it mimics gross things, it must be regarded as a following story&mdash;the writer does not vouch for its&lt;br /&gt;
stimulus to immoral conduct. But the mere material of Art&lt;br /&gt;
truth-may illustrate this. The pupils of a certain&lt;br /&gt;
can never be the subject of moral condemnation, but only&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;the method of handling its material.&lt;br /&gt;
scholastic establishment were allowed to submit&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I do not believe that there is anything pertaining to to the Head the list of books to be purchased for&lt;br /&gt;
human experience which may not be nobly handled by a the library. The Head had a very strong objec-&lt;br /&gt;
great artistic genius. But Philistine criticism professes to&lt;br /&gt;
tion to works of fiction, but allowed &ldquo; Cometh&lt;br /&gt;
be shocked by the mere choice of material. As if the whole&lt;br /&gt;
world were not the theatre of Art. The miserable doctrine&lt;br /&gt;
up as a Flower&rdquo; to pass, thinking it a work on&lt;br /&gt;
that only what is pleasant&amp;#039; must be reproduced by the botany. The moral is evident, and while the&lt;br /&gt;
artist is only Philistinism parading as refined taste. If British public suffer, the author gains no material&lt;br /&gt;
that doctrine were true, half of the best Art of the world&lt;br /&gt;
advantage.&lt;br /&gt;
would require to be surrendered. . . The sphere of &aelig;sthetics&lt;br /&gt;
is co-ordinate with the entire sphere of Tragedy, and any&lt;br /&gt;
Many will tell you that a good title is every-&lt;br /&gt;
other doctrine reduces Art to the level of a cock-tail and a thing, but the quarrel is one of definition. What&lt;br /&gt;
pick-me-up.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
is a good title ? Is it one that deceives the&lt;br /&gt;
William Westall&amp;#039;s &ldquo; With the Red Eagle&rdquo; has public ? Is it one that, without deceiving the&lt;br /&gt;
been translated into German by Fraulein public, affords it no information ? Or is it one&lt;br /&gt;
Ernestine Hebberling, of Munich, and before that explains to a small degree the contents of the&lt;br /&gt;
appearing in book form will be run serially in the book ? The curiosity inherent in human nature&lt;br /&gt;
Deutsche Alpenzeitung, a magazine published in 1* Please give reference, as we find in Author, September,&lt;br /&gt;
Munich and Leipsic.&lt;br /&gt;
1900, p. 63, as follows:-(1) Speaking generally, it cannot&lt;br /&gt;
be said that there is copyright in a title. (2) If there is&lt;br /&gt;
R. E. Salway, author of &amp;quot;The Finger of Scorn,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
copyright, then the title must retain distinct originality.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The One Alternative,&amp;quot; and other novels which ED.]&lt;br /&gt;
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168&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
U&lt;br /&gt;
desires to be satisfied to a certain extent. The&lt;br /&gt;
deceptive title is repugnant. The colourless title ALL Members of the Society of Authors having&lt;br /&gt;
is useless; but the descriptive title gives an qualified by publishing at least one volume may&lt;br /&gt;
appetite for the contents. Take any literary be expected to know something about titles.&lt;br /&gt;
paper at random-read through the list of pub- Happy those who have not experienced difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
Iishers&amp;#039; advertisements. In works of fiction the either in selecting or securing the most suitable&lt;br /&gt;
title of perhaps one in ten mildly suggests the name for their work! It is stated, upon good&lt;br /&gt;
contents, in poetry and drama perhaps the authority, that there is no copyright in titles&lt;br /&gt;
same proportion; but turning to biographical, as such, and in the legislation projected for the&lt;br /&gt;
scientific, theological and historical works, the better protection of literary property it is not pro-&lt;br /&gt;
title is generally a clear statement. The pros posed to confer the right of ownership upon the&lt;br /&gt;
pective reader is satisfied, and chooses accordingly. first user of a title. Possibly many of the difficulties&lt;br /&gt;
Would it not be an advantage, then, to carry out connected with titles arise from the exclusion of&lt;br /&gt;
the same idea in fiction ? The cynic, who deems the designation of the work from such legal status&lt;br /&gt;
it a satisfaction to start a policy of mild deception, as the work possesses. It would be presumption&lt;br /&gt;
is surely the only person to raise an objection. on the part of a new Member of the Society, as I&lt;br /&gt;
There was a book published called &ldquo;The Vision am, who is not a lawyer to say what ought to be&lt;br /&gt;
Splendid.&rdquo; One reviewer on taking it up stated done to make the ownership of titles legally valid.&lt;br /&gt;
that he thought its contents would prove to be a The present state of affairs is unendurable, and&lt;br /&gt;
new &ldquo; Pilgrim&amp;#039;s Progress.&amp;quot; It was in reality a book must be remedied. As I understand the case, a&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with theatrical life. Would the &ldquo;Pil title is copyright only as part of a book; take it&lt;br /&gt;
grim&amp;#039;s Progress&rdquo; title gain more readers and away from a particular work, and it is not copy-&lt;br /&gt;
purchasers than such a title might repel ? Surely, right; join it again to some other work, and it is&lt;br /&gt;
as a general rule, what is gained on the one side is protected in part. It is much the same as though&lt;br /&gt;
lost on the other. But a practically descriptive my ownership of a suit of clothes could be made&lt;br /&gt;
title would be most satisfactory thus :&lt;br /&gt;
good at law, but my ownership of my hat could&lt;br /&gt;
not, unless it was a cap made of the same cloth as&lt;br /&gt;
(General) . Historical Novel.&lt;br /&gt;
(Particular) French Revolution.&lt;br /&gt;
the suit, or habitually worn with a particular suit,&lt;br /&gt;
then, as long as the suit lasted, I could substantiate&lt;br /&gt;
(Critical): Incident and Adventure.&lt;br /&gt;
Author : Thomas Jones.&lt;br /&gt;
my ownership of the cap, but not longer.&lt;br /&gt;
This laxity respecting the copyright of titles has&lt;br /&gt;
Or again :&lt;br /&gt;
made authors, and publishers too, less particular&lt;br /&gt;
(General) Rural Life.&lt;br /&gt;
than they ought to be as to originality in titles.&lt;br /&gt;
(Particular Cumberland District.&lt;br /&gt;
Critical). Character Study of Peasantry.&lt;br /&gt;
The piracy of printers and publishers has been&lt;br /&gt;
stopped with a strong hand; the felony of unblush-&lt;br /&gt;
Author . Charles Brown.&lt;br /&gt;
ing plagiarism is punished ; but this petty larceny&lt;br /&gt;
If the author writes two or three books along of filching titles is tolerated, just as is the pur-&lt;br /&gt;
the same lines, then the others would be marked loining of umbrellas when it is done by the&lt;br /&gt;
thus :&lt;br /&gt;
respectable and reputable. It must be stopped.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Rural Life II. or III.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
How, the Society of Authors must determine.&lt;br /&gt;
The grievances are of two kinds : first there is the&lt;br /&gt;
This method of classification has been adopted taking of a title from a manuscript. This is much&lt;br /&gt;
in the matter of music with no unsatisfactory more common than people think. The young&lt;br /&gt;
result. Why should it not be equally successful author, the beginner, must have a good taking&lt;br /&gt;
with literature? The purchaser would be able at title for his article or story, or it will not receive&lt;br /&gt;
once to decide upon his purchase. The bookseller much consideration. If, by an attractive title, he&lt;br /&gt;
would have some knowledge from which to push wins the attention of the editor, or reader, to his&lt;br /&gt;
his wares. The purchasers would not wander MS., that may be accepted. Sometimes it is the&lt;br /&gt;
aimlessly in search of the desired object, but could title only that is good&mdash;then that lives in the&lt;br /&gt;
at once touch the spot, instead of taking up book editor&amp;#039;s memory, all recollection of the article or&lt;br /&gt;
after book in the vain hope of gaining information story fades, and, at some appropriate moment, that&lt;br /&gt;
as to their contents-information which the book title surges up again into remembrance and serves&lt;br /&gt;
seller is often absolutely unable to supply. Let to designate the work of the editor or of some&lt;br /&gt;
this matter be seriously considered. Let one or other contributor ; or it may be that the editor is&lt;br /&gt;
two of the leading authors adopt the method, and asked to suggest a title by some brother penman,&lt;br /&gt;
the thing is done. The sale of books will be and gives away that which he knows not how he&lt;br /&gt;
enormously facilitated.&lt;br /&gt;
came by. I know, for I have suffered. To have&lt;br /&gt;
A. C. B. a manuscript rejected is a matter of little moment;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
169&lt;br /&gt;
to have an original title annexed by the rejecter is If it be true that there is no Act of Parliament&lt;br /&gt;
maddening. It is torture equal to having a sound which it is not possible to evade, so is the converse.&lt;br /&gt;
tooth removed for the sole purpose of putting it into And although there is no copyright in titles, yet&lt;br /&gt;
some fossil jaw it does not fit. It is the sort of there may be for those who agree to recognise that&lt;br /&gt;
thing that stops the young author&amp;#039;s bile flowing prior claim gives rights of ownership. The matter&lt;br /&gt;
freely, and makes him wish all editors were dead, of titles concerns authors chiefly, but the co-&lt;br /&gt;
or at least did not write&mdash;some can&amp;#039;t, by the way. operation of publishers is to be desired. If&lt;br /&gt;
With respect to grievances of this nature I wish Members of the Society of Authors agree, and can&lt;br /&gt;
to anticipate some objectors. There are those who persuade publishers&mdash;or at least Members of the&lt;br /&gt;
will say that it is more difficult to find a remedy Publishers&amp;#039; Association also to agree, all that is&lt;br /&gt;
than to endure the evil. The lawyers will draw required is a register of titles. On this register an&lt;br /&gt;
the red-herring of common law across the scent, author would claim to have a title inscribed ;&lt;br /&gt;
and assert that a remedy is already provided for the publisher would require a certificate of such&lt;br /&gt;
such wrongs, wherever the wrongful doing can be registration before sending the book to press.&lt;br /&gt;
proved. The big, successful author will beg the I do not think it necessary to give exact details,&lt;br /&gt;
question by stating that he doubts if the practice or to draft rules, but the procedure suggested&lt;br /&gt;
exists, since he has never met it. By the way, it would be somewhat as follows :&lt;br /&gt;
is astonishing how many of the commonest diffi- (a) The Society of Authors will depute some&lt;br /&gt;
culties that beset the paths of authorship are missed officer to keep a register of titles.&lt;br /&gt;
by successful writers ; all obstacles appear to vanish (6) An Associate or Member of the Society,&lt;br /&gt;
at the majesty of their superb reputation. Then wishing to register the title of a book prior to&lt;br /&gt;
there are those who say that all the good titles publication, shall send such title, together with&lt;br /&gt;
have been used already. It is just as true that all a registration fee of 1s., to the keeper of the&lt;br /&gt;
the good things have been said, and thought, and register.&lt;br /&gt;
tbat nothing is new.&lt;br /&gt;
c) The keeper of the register shall search the&lt;br /&gt;
There are others who will contend that the register to see that no like title has been already&lt;br /&gt;
minor scribe has taken a good title to append it to registered, and shall look in the index volumes&lt;br /&gt;
inferior work, and deserves to be robbed. To of the English Catalogue (and the weekly lists&lt;br /&gt;
these the obvious answer is that in the great published since) with the same view.&lt;br /&gt;
republic of letters all authors must possess equal (d) If the title is not upon the register, or in&lt;br /&gt;
rights, otherwise honest men will quickly get out. the English Catalogue, the title shall be entered,&lt;br /&gt;
The evil exists; it is a grievance ; there must be and a certificate to that effect given to the appli-&lt;br /&gt;
a remedy. So far I have found it most effective cant for registration.&lt;br /&gt;
not to put good, original titles to MSS. sent out (e) If the title is already upon the register, the&lt;br /&gt;
on approval. I use instead some designation descrip- applicant will be informed of that fact, and, at his&lt;br /&gt;
tive of the article or story, and state that it is only request, may be put into communication with the&lt;br /&gt;
descriptive, and that, if the MS. be accepted, I person who has already registered the title. If the&lt;br /&gt;
should like to suggest a title for it which I believe title appears in the English Catalogue, the appli-&lt;br /&gt;
to be better.&lt;br /&gt;
cant will be referred to the entry, date of publica-&lt;br /&gt;
The next order of grievance is in respect of tion, publisher, and author also being given, where&lt;br /&gt;
printed volumes. Old titles are used ; new ones, these appear. The 1s. fee will be retained as pay-&lt;br /&gt;
taken almost simultaneously, clash. To the first ment for the search made.&lt;br /&gt;
division belong &ldquo; Through Siberia&rdquo; (Constable), (f) Any number of titles may be registered by&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Fifty Years in South Africa&rdquo; (Smith, Elder), one applicant, but a separate fee of ls. must&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; All the Russias &rdquo; (Heinemann), within the last be paid for each entry and search. Titles if not&lt;br /&gt;
year. They are the result of carelessness, because used within one year from the date of entry lapse,&lt;br /&gt;
if the &ldquo; Reference Catalogue of Current Literature,&amp;quot; unless renewed (g), and when so lapsed or aban-&lt;br /&gt;
or any good bibliography, had been consulted, doned, may be re-entered either by original appli-&lt;br /&gt;
earlier works in circulation would have been found cant or by any other person.&lt;br /&gt;
listed. The remedy is obvious. But it has hap- (9) Titles may be renewed a second year, and&lt;br /&gt;
pened that two authors decide upon the same title from year to year, upon application and payment&lt;br /&gt;
for books in MS. or at press, and until one is of the fee of 1s., and also, at the written request of&lt;br /&gt;
announced for early publication it is next to im- the registered owner, may be transferred on pay-&lt;br /&gt;
possible for the other author to know of its exist- ment of the same fee.&lt;br /&gt;
ence. It is for instances of this kind that I wish (h) The register shall be considered and treated&lt;br /&gt;
to suggest a remedy-a remedy which the Society as private and confidential, and may not be in-&lt;br /&gt;
of Authors can provide, and one which will, if spected by either an applicant for registration,&lt;br /&gt;
adopted, raise the status of titles generally. publisher, or other person than the keeper of the&lt;br /&gt;
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170&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
register. Preferably, it should consist of a card&lt;br /&gt;
index, numbered seriatim, so that where necessary&lt;br /&gt;
the entry particularly required may be produced in&lt;br /&gt;
evidence without endangering the secrecy of the&lt;br /&gt;
file.&lt;br /&gt;
() Persons not Associates or Members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society may apply for a title to be entered in the&lt;br /&gt;
register, this application to be treated just as an&lt;br /&gt;
application from an Associate or Member of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society, but to be accompanied with a fee of five&lt;br /&gt;
shillings, unless received through a publisher,&lt;br /&gt;
when the fee shall be half-a-crown.&lt;br /&gt;
(k) Duplicate certificates of any entry will be&lt;br /&gt;
issued to the original applicant on payment of a&lt;br /&gt;
fee of one shilling for each such certificate.&lt;br /&gt;
There are several details which may be amended;&lt;br /&gt;
for instance, each application might be made on a&lt;br /&gt;
special form of printed card, which, numbered and&lt;br /&gt;
dated on receipt, would itself be filed, and consti-&lt;br /&gt;
tute the entry. Then, instead of searching through&lt;br /&gt;
all the indices of the English Catalogue, it might&lt;br /&gt;
suffice to go back only as far as 1880 ; and, in-&lt;br /&gt;
stead of one shilling, it might be necessary to&lt;br /&gt;
charge more in order to make the register pay its&lt;br /&gt;
way, and not become a charge upon the funds of&lt;br /&gt;
the Society; or it might be possible to give one&lt;br /&gt;
free entry to each Associate and Member with the&lt;br /&gt;
receipt of his subscription for the current year.&lt;br /&gt;
If authors and publishers will agree upon the&lt;br /&gt;
principle, I believe the plan I propose, when per-&lt;br /&gt;
fected by experimental working, will prove of&lt;br /&gt;
incalculable benefit to all who write books and&lt;br /&gt;
publish them.&lt;br /&gt;
WILLIAM GREENER.&lt;br /&gt;
character would have remedied the evil, nothing has been&lt;br /&gt;
done. Did the law permit a man to enter a jeweller&amp;#039;s shop&lt;br /&gt;
and appropriate articles of jewellery, immediate redress&lt;br /&gt;
would be given ; but in the greatest city of the world it&lt;br /&gt;
is apparently the business of nobody to protect the product&lt;br /&gt;
of men&amp;#039;s brains.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Such an abuse as the present would not be possible&lt;br /&gt;
either in America or any other civilised country, and, con-&lt;br /&gt;
sidering the large number of people it indirectly affects, it&lt;br /&gt;
is astonishing that we have to request the assistance of a&lt;br /&gt;
foreign State on behalf of its citizens before justice can be&lt;br /&gt;
done to our own.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
In view of the next paragraph, the words&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;scandalous robbery&amp;quot; seem somewhat strong.&lt;br /&gt;
DEATH OF A SONG-WRITER.&lt;br /&gt;
Signor Henry Pontet Piccolomini, the composer of &ldquo;Ora&lt;br /&gt;
Pro Nobis,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Whisper, and I shall hear,&amp;quot; and other popular&lt;br /&gt;
pieces, has just died in Hanwell Asylum.&lt;br /&gt;
The composer met with great misfortunes, which, preying&lt;br /&gt;
upon a keenly sensitive organisation, caused him to become&lt;br /&gt;
mentally deranged, and about two years ago he became an&lt;br /&gt;
inmate of Hanwell.&lt;br /&gt;
Though his publications must have brought in thousands&lt;br /&gt;
of pounds, he derived comparatively little benefit from&lt;br /&gt;
them. He lived and died a poor man, and his wife and&lt;br /&gt;
children are left with nothing.&lt;br /&gt;
Unless some effort is made to help the distressed widow,&lt;br /&gt;
the amiable and gifted composer will rest in a pauper&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
bio yao&lt;br /&gt;
grave,&lt;br /&gt;
Do not the street hawkers rather add to than&lt;br /&gt;
detract from the popularity of a song, in the same&lt;br /&gt;
way as do the street organs ? It can scarcely be&lt;br /&gt;
contended that poor people who buy a piece of&lt;br /&gt;
music for one penny in the streets belong to the&lt;br /&gt;
same class as those who would go to the music shops&lt;br /&gt;
and give two shillings for the same song. If the&lt;br /&gt;
protest were entirely on behalf of the authors, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Boosey&amp;#039;s action would be heroic, but apparently&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher is to be the chief gainer from the&lt;br /&gt;
present agitation.&lt;br /&gt;
R.&lt;br /&gt;
STANDARD RULES FOR PRINTING.&lt;br /&gt;
1.&lt;br /&gt;
Musical Piracy.&lt;br /&gt;
A DAILY newspaper of the 12th of March inserts&lt;br /&gt;
the following articles in the same column :-&lt;br /&gt;
PIRACY OF MUSIC.&lt;br /&gt;
LORD WINDSOR TO RAISE THE QUESTION IN&lt;br /&gt;
PARLIAMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Windsor has given notice in the House of Lords&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;to call attention to the serious loss inflicted upon copy.&lt;br /&gt;
right holders of music by the illegal sale in the streets and&lt;br /&gt;
elsewhere of copyright music by hawkers, and to the&lt;br /&gt;
impracticability of their obtaining redress under the exist.&lt;br /&gt;
ing law, and to ask His Majesty&amp;#039;s Government whether&lt;br /&gt;
they see their way to passing some temporary measure to&lt;br /&gt;
protect those who suffer by reason of these illegal&lt;br /&gt;
practices.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. William Boosey writes from Paris as follows :-&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Now that there is a possibility of the American Govern-&lt;br /&gt;
ment intervening to stop the pirating of music copyrights,&lt;br /&gt;
perhaps our Government will be forced to take some steps.&lt;br /&gt;
Failing this, there is no doubt that there will be a serious&lt;br /&gt;
breach of the peace as a protest by copyright owners and&lt;br /&gt;
authors against the present scandalous robbery of their&lt;br /&gt;
works.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The present abuse has been existing for years, and&lt;br /&gt;
although at any time a short Bill of a non-controversial&lt;br /&gt;
VEY best thanks to those many correspondents&lt;br /&gt;
V who have written to me in answer to my&lt;br /&gt;
request in the January Author !&lt;br /&gt;
The main conclusion I draw from the letters&lt;br /&gt;
received is that for a standard set of rules to be of&lt;br /&gt;
any practical use it must be exhaustive. The&lt;br /&gt;
writer upon any particular subject wants to have&lt;br /&gt;
that one subject thoroughly dealt with, and ex-&lt;br /&gt;
haustively treated, so that it may be possible to&lt;br /&gt;
settle any question that arises in it.&lt;br /&gt;
Now, as it would be quite useless to think of&lt;br /&gt;
compiling a set of rules for each different subject,&lt;br /&gt;
the alternative 18 to compile &amp;amp; much larger set&lt;br /&gt;
of rules dealing more or less completely with all&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
171&lt;br /&gt;
subjects likely to be wanted. This means, to deal II.-Notes on the Clarendon Press Rules for&lt;br /&gt;
adequately with the requirements of all English&lt;br /&gt;
Compositors and Readers,&lt;br /&gt;
authors, editors, compositors, and readers, a book&lt;br /&gt;
of some five hundred pages.&lt;br /&gt;
General Observation.&lt;br /&gt;
In order to see whether such a large work would AN author should know his business well&lt;br /&gt;
be satisfactory to those who have expressed interest&lt;br /&gt;
enough to be able to settle all these matters by&lt;br /&gt;
in this matter&mdash;and I gladly acknowledge here the simply writing &ldquo; follow copy &amp;quot; on his MS. How-&lt;br /&gt;
very great number of good wishes that I may be&lt;br /&gt;
ever, as literary talent does not always include&lt;br /&gt;
able to arrange a satisfactory set of standard rules spelling, punctuation, or the faintest sense of beauty&lt;br /&gt;
-I have compiled to the best of my ability Part 1. in books considered as objects to be looked at as&lt;br /&gt;
of such a set of rules as appears will alone satisfy well as read, it is as well that rules should be made&lt;br /&gt;
the wants of such diverse writers as Novelists&mdash;who for the incapable.&lt;br /&gt;
want nothing but the correct spelling of a few dis-&lt;br /&gt;
puted English words ; Geographers&mdash;place-names ;&lt;br /&gt;
Pages 7, 8. Spelling.&lt;br /&gt;
Historians&mdash;names of people ; Chemists-names of&lt;br /&gt;
As s and 2 mark distinct sounds, and the&lt;br /&gt;
substances ; Geologists_names of&mdash;but I need not&lt;br /&gt;
suppression of z is a deliberate impoverishment of&lt;br /&gt;
continue, for every one can fill a long list on these&lt;br /&gt;
our insufficient alphabet, the termination ize ought&lt;br /&gt;
lines.&lt;br /&gt;
to be used in every word that is not common&lt;br /&gt;
This Part I. deals with the letter A only, and is&lt;br /&gt;
enough to have made the ise irresistibly familiar.&lt;br /&gt;
now being set up at the University Press, Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
Advertize, analyze, circumcize, emprize, improvize,&lt;br /&gt;
I shall hope during next month to forward copies&lt;br /&gt;
mainprize, minimize and paralyze, could all be&lt;br /&gt;
of it to my correspondents, and to any others who&lt;br /&gt;
established with much less friction than tantalize,&lt;br /&gt;
may express a wish to see it. From the opinions&lt;br /&gt;
criticize, exorcize, equalize, dogmatize, pulverize,&lt;br /&gt;
sent me, I must decide whether, in that form or&lt;br /&gt;
any other, it may seem worth while continuing it a&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp;c., as recommended.&lt;br /&gt;
through the other letters of the alphabet.&lt;br /&gt;
Page 9. Footnote.&lt;br /&gt;
In mentioning this first part, I feel I must&lt;br /&gt;
specially thank the Committee and Secretary of&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Murray&amp;#039;s attempt to restore the e after dg&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo; London Association of Correctors of the does not really save any ambiguity in the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
Press,&amp;quot; not only for their valuable assistance nunciation. The only cases of g being hard after&lt;br /&gt;
already given, but also for their cordial offers of&lt;br /&gt;
offers of d are Ludgate, Fladgate, etc. A foreigner might,&lt;br /&gt;
help in the future.&lt;br /&gt;
on the analogy of Ludgate, pronounce judgement&lt;br /&gt;
So many different opinions have reached me jud-ge-ment; but no human mouth could pro-&lt;br /&gt;
with reference to the spelling of the suffixes &ldquo; ize&amp;quot; nounce judgment with a hard c.&lt;br /&gt;
and &ldquo;ise,&amp;quot; that I am sure every correspondent and&lt;br /&gt;
every reader of these columns will be pleased to&lt;br /&gt;
Spelling generally.&lt;br /&gt;
read the following admirable letter which has just&lt;br /&gt;
I always use the American termination or for&lt;br /&gt;
reached me : it goes to the root of the matter, and our. Theater, somber. center. etc. I reject only&lt;br /&gt;
will carry conviction where such be possible : because they are wantonly anti-phonetic : theatre,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; DEAR COLLINS,-By all means stand up for&lt;br /&gt;
sombre, etc., being nearer the sound. Such&lt;br /&gt;
the Rules (of Mr. Hart] in respect of the use of&lt;br /&gt;
abominable Frenchifications as programme, cigar-&lt;br /&gt;
z in place of s wherever the sound dictates it. You ette, etc., are quite revolting to me. Telegram,&lt;br /&gt;
quartet, etc., deprive them of all excuse.&lt;br /&gt;
may. if you like. quote me as saying that our&lt;br /&gt;
I&lt;br /&gt;
language is irrationally unphonetic, and it is&lt;br /&gt;
should like also to spell epilogue epilog, because&lt;br /&gt;
absurd to make it more unphonetic still, and this people generally mispronounce it, just as they&lt;br /&gt;
is done wherever s is used in place of 2 in such would mispronounce catalogue if the right sound&lt;br /&gt;
words as authorize and anologize. To spell these as were not so familiar. That is the worst of un-&lt;br /&gt;
though they were pronounced authorice and apologice&lt;br /&gt;
phonetic spelling : in the long run people pro-&lt;br /&gt;
when we have actually the letter which conver&amp;#039;s nounce words as they are spelt ; and so the&lt;br /&gt;
the right sound is simply a retrograde movement ; language gets senselessly altered.&lt;br /&gt;
and the Clarendon Press Rules are to be approved&lt;br /&gt;
for adhering to the 2, and should indeed extend its&lt;br /&gt;
Page 15. Contractions.&lt;br /&gt;
use. I always make my own printer substitute the The apostrophies in ain&amp;#039;t, don&amp;#039;t, haven&amp;#039;t, etc.,&lt;br /&gt;
z for the s wherever it is possible.&mdash;Truly yours, look so ugly that the most careful printing cannot&lt;br /&gt;
HERBERT SPENCER.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
make a page of colloquial dialogue as handsome&lt;br /&gt;
F. HOWARD COLLINS. as &amp;amp; page of classical dialogue. Besides, shan&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
Iddesleigh, Torquay.&lt;br /&gt;
should be sha&amp;quot;n&amp;#039;t, if the wretched pedantry of&lt;br /&gt;
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172&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
indicating the elision is to be carried out, I have&lt;br /&gt;
written aint, dont, havnt, shant, shouldnt and&lt;br /&gt;
wont for twenty years with perfect impunity, using&lt;br /&gt;
the apostrophe only where its omission would&lt;br /&gt;
suggest another word : for example, hell for he&amp;#039;ll.&lt;br /&gt;
There is not the faintest reason for persisting in&lt;br /&gt;
the ugly and silly trick of peppering pages with&lt;br /&gt;
these uncouth bacilli. I also write thats, whats,&lt;br /&gt;
lets, for the colloquial forms of that is, what is, let&lt;br /&gt;
us ; and I have not yet been prosecuted.&lt;br /&gt;
Page 18. Hyphens.&lt;br /&gt;
I think some of the hyphens given are question-&lt;br /&gt;
able. Smallpox is right; and small pox is right;&lt;br /&gt;
but small-pox is, I should say, certainly wrong.&lt;br /&gt;
A hyphen between an adverb and a verb, or an&lt;br /&gt;
adjective and a noun, is only defensible when the&lt;br /&gt;
collocation would be ambiguous without it.&lt;br /&gt;
The rule given that compound words of more than&lt;br /&gt;
one accent should be hyphened is, like most rules,&lt;br /&gt;
a mere brazening-out of a mistake.&lt;br /&gt;
Page 23. Italics.&lt;br /&gt;
This is deplorable. To the good printer the&lt;br /&gt;
occurrence of two different founts on the same&lt;br /&gt;
page is at best an unavoidable evil. To the bad&lt;br /&gt;
one, it is an opportunity of showing off the variety&lt;br /&gt;
of his stock : he is never happier than when he is&lt;br /&gt;
setting up a title-page in all the founts he possesses.&lt;br /&gt;
Not only should titles not be printed in italic ; but&lt;br /&gt;
the customary ugly and unnecessary inverted&lt;br /&gt;
commas should be abolished. Let me give a&lt;br /&gt;
specimen. 1. I was reading The Merchant of&lt;br /&gt;
Venice. 2. I was reading &ldquo; The Merchant of&lt;br /&gt;
Venice.&amp;quot; 3. I was reading The Merchant of&lt;br /&gt;
Venice. The man who cannot see that No. 1 is&lt;br /&gt;
the best looking as well as the sufficient and&lt;br /&gt;
sensible form, should print or write nothing but&lt;br /&gt;
advertisements of lost dogs or ironmongers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
catalogues : literature is not for him to meddle&lt;br /&gt;
with.&lt;br /&gt;
On the whole, and excepting expressly the deplor-&lt;br /&gt;
able heresy about italics, these Clarendon Press&lt;br /&gt;
rules will serve the turn of the numerous authors who&lt;br /&gt;
have no ideas of their own on the subject, or who&lt;br /&gt;
are still in their apprenticeship, or who, as English&lt;br /&gt;
gentlemen, desire to do, not the sensible and&lt;br /&gt;
reasonable thing, but the thing that everybody&lt;br /&gt;
else does. At the same time, the poverty of the&lt;br /&gt;
rules shews how far we still are from having an&lt;br /&gt;
accurate speech notation. To the essayist and the&lt;br /&gt;
scientific writer this may not greatly matter ; but&lt;br /&gt;
to the writer of fiction, especially dramatic fiction,&lt;br /&gt;
it is a serious drawback, as the desperate phonetics&lt;br /&gt;
of our dialect novels show. Now the Claren-&lt;br /&gt;
of&lt;br /&gt;
don Press prints for the essayist and the&lt;br /&gt;
professor much more than for the fictionist. I&lt;br /&gt;
therefore suggest that some well-known printer&lt;br /&gt;
of novels should be asked for a copy of his rules,&lt;br /&gt;
if he has any. A Scotch printer for preference,&lt;br /&gt;
as the Scotch intellect likes to know what it 18&lt;br /&gt;
doing.&lt;br /&gt;
G. BERNARD SHAW.&lt;br /&gt;
Page 21. Division of English Words.&lt;br /&gt;
The notion that words at the end of a line&lt;br /&gt;
should not be divided if the division can possibly&lt;br /&gt;
be avoided leads to a great deal of villainous&lt;br /&gt;
printing, because the compositor gets it into his&lt;br /&gt;
head that he may justify recklessly provided he&lt;br /&gt;
ends the line without breaking a word. I had&lt;br /&gt;
much rather see even a syllable divided than a&lt;br /&gt;
line spaced so widely as to make a whitish bar&lt;br /&gt;
across the black of the letterpress. The com-&lt;br /&gt;
positor should be taught that the evenness of the&lt;br /&gt;
f the&lt;br /&gt;
color of his letterpress is far more important&lt;br /&gt;
than the philological vedantries of word division.&lt;br /&gt;
Even from the pedantic point of view there is no&lt;br /&gt;
there is no&lt;br /&gt;
sense in recommending impor-tance and respon-&lt;br /&gt;
dent, and barring exal-tation and imagi-nation.&lt;br /&gt;
If it is wrong to divide the last syllables of exalt&lt;br /&gt;
and imagine, it is equally wrong to divide the last&lt;br /&gt;
syllables of import and respond.&lt;br /&gt;
Page 22. Punctuation.&lt;br /&gt;
Stops are clearly as much the author&amp;#039;s business&lt;br /&gt;
as words. The rules given here are very properly&lt;br /&gt;
confined to matters of custom in printing. I wish,&lt;br /&gt;
however, that the Clarendon Press, or some other&lt;br /&gt;
leading house, would make a correct rule for&lt;br /&gt;
the punctuation of quotations between inverted&lt;br /&gt;
commas. The common practice is to put the&lt;br /&gt;
points belonging to the sentence in which the&lt;br /&gt;
quotation occurs inside the inverted commas&lt;br /&gt;
instead of outside. For example : Was he wise to&lt;br /&gt;
say &ldquo;Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we&lt;br /&gt;
die?&rdquo; The correct, but less usual punctuation is :&lt;br /&gt;
Was he wise to say &ldquo; Let us eat and drink ; for&lt;br /&gt;
to-morrow we die&amp;quot; ?&lt;br /&gt;
NET PRICES AND THE AMERICAN&lt;br /&gt;
PUBLISHERS&amp;#039; ASSOCIATION.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE following plan to correct evils connected&lt;br /&gt;
with the cutting of prices on copyright&lt;br /&gt;
books was adopted at a meeting of the&lt;br /&gt;
American Publishers&amp;#039; Association, held February&lt;br /&gt;
13th, 1901; amendments referring to fiction were&lt;br /&gt;
adopted at a meeting held January 8th, 1902 :-&lt;br /&gt;
I. That the members of the American Publishers&lt;br /&gt;
Association agree that all copyrighted books first&lt;br /&gt;
issued by them after May 1st, 1901, shall be pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished at net prices which it is recommended shall&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
173&lt;br /&gt;
be reduced from the prices at which similar books the copies then remaining in the dealers&amp;#039; hands&lt;br /&gt;
have been issued heretofore, provided, however, they must be re-sold to him on demand.&lt;br /&gt;
that there shall be exempt from this agreement all V III. That when the publisher sells at retail a&lt;br /&gt;
school books, such works of fiction (not juveniles) net book published under the rules it shall be at&lt;br /&gt;
and new editions as the individual publisher may the retail price, and he shall add the cost of post-&lt;br /&gt;
desire, books published by subscription and not age or expressage on all books sent out of the city&lt;br /&gt;
through the trade, and such other books as are not in which the publisher does business.&lt;br /&gt;
sold through the trade.&lt;br /&gt;
IX. That for the purpose of carrying out the&lt;br /&gt;
II. It is recommended that the retail price of a above plan the Directors of the Association be&lt;br /&gt;
net book, marked &ldquo;NET,&rdquo; be printed on a paper authorised to establish an office and engage a&lt;br /&gt;
wrapper covering the book.&lt;br /&gt;
suitable person as manager, and endeavour to&lt;br /&gt;
III. That the members of the Association agree secure from all dealers in books assent to the above&lt;br /&gt;
that such net copyrighted books and all others of conditions of sale. Under the direction of the&lt;br /&gt;
their books shall be sold by them to those book- Board the manager shall investigate all cases of&lt;br /&gt;
sellers only who will maintain the retail price of cutting reported, and when directed shall send out&lt;br /&gt;
such net copyrighted books for one year, and to notices to the Association, jobbers, and the trade,&lt;br /&gt;
those booksellers and jobbers only who will sell of any persons violating the above provisions.&lt;br /&gt;
their books further to no one known to them to X. That it shall be the duty of all members of&lt;br /&gt;
cut such net prices, or whose name has been given the Association to report immediately to the said&lt;br /&gt;
to them by the Association as one who cuts such office all cases of the cutting of prices which may&lt;br /&gt;
prices or who fails to abide by such fair and reason- come to their knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;
able rules and regulations as may be estaolished XI. That the Association through its agents and&lt;br /&gt;
by local associations as hereinafter provided. members aid in the formation of booksellers&amp;#039; asso-&lt;br /&gt;
A dealer or bookseller may be defined as one who ciations in the important centres and cities in the&lt;br /&gt;
makes it a regular part of his business to sell books, United States, the object of which associations&lt;br /&gt;
and carries stock of them for public sale.&lt;br /&gt;
shall be to assist the Publishers&amp;#039; Association in&lt;br /&gt;
IV. That the members of the Association agree maintaining prices on net books as aforesaid, and&lt;br /&gt;
that on all copyrighted works of fiction (not net) to establish such lawful rules and regulations&lt;br /&gt;
published by them after February 1st, 1902, the respecting the conduct of business in their locality&lt;br /&gt;
greatest discount allowed at retail for one year as will tend to secure fair, honourable and uniform&lt;br /&gt;
after publication shall be 28 per cent. ; and all the methods of business in each important centre or&lt;br /&gt;
rules for the protection of net books shall apply to section of the country. That the Association&lt;br /&gt;
the protection of fiction to this extent.&lt;br /&gt;
pledge itself to support such local associations by&lt;br /&gt;
The conditions governing the sale of fiction are every means in its power in maintaining such law-&lt;br /&gt;
such that the Association does not attempt to fix a ful rules and regulations as may in this way be&lt;br /&gt;
uniform price at which works of fiction (not net) agreed to.&lt;br /&gt;
shall be sold, but only to name a maximum dis-&lt;br /&gt;
count, which, however, it is hoped will rarely be In response to the request of the Secretary of&lt;br /&gt;
given.&lt;br /&gt;
the Incorporated Society of Authors for informa-&lt;br /&gt;
V. The only exceptions to the foregoing rules tion about the American Publishers&amp;#039; Association&lt;br /&gt;
shall be in the case of libraries, which may be and its plan for the protection of prices, I send&lt;br /&gt;
allowed a discount of not more than 10 per cent a copy of our plan as amended at the last&lt;br /&gt;
on net books and 33 1-3 per cent. on fiction. meeting of the Association (printed above). It&lt;br /&gt;
Libraries entitled to these discounts may be de- will be seen that the recent changes were made for&lt;br /&gt;
fined as those libraries to which access is either the purpose of including fiction, although it is not&lt;br /&gt;
free or by annual subscription. Book clubs are intended to insist upon the publication of fiction&lt;br /&gt;
not to be entitled to discount on net books, nor to at net prices.&lt;br /&gt;
any special discount on fiction,&lt;br /&gt;
The American Publishers&amp;#039; Association originated&lt;br /&gt;
VI. That the Association suggests a discount on in a demand from booksellers for some protection&lt;br /&gt;
net copyrighted books of 25 per cent, to dealers as against the ruinous cutting of prices, which had&lt;br /&gt;
a general discount, leaving the question of discount, reached a point where upon many books there was&lt;br /&gt;
however, entirely to the individual publisher. no margin of profit whatever for the retailer, the&lt;br /&gt;
VII. That after the expiration of a year from books being advertised and sold to the public at&lt;br /&gt;
the publication of any copyrighted book issued the lowest wholesale price. In the summer of&lt;br /&gt;
under these regulations, dealers shall not be held 1900 a committee of leading booksellers called&lt;br /&gt;
to the above restrictions, and may sell such book at upon the publishers and requested them to get&lt;br /&gt;
a cut price ; but if on learning of such action the together and take some action to put a stop to such&lt;br /&gt;
publisher shall desire to buy back at purchase price underselling. After many informal conferences,&lt;br /&gt;
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174&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
a meeting of publishers was held and an Associa- books are sold in different cities throughout this&lt;br /&gt;
tion formed, and a committee was appointed to large country ; but these provisions do not go into&lt;br /&gt;
recommend some course of action. The report of operation until February ist.&lt;br /&gt;
this committee was made and unanimously adopted Thus far the plan has worked with great satis-&lt;br /&gt;
in February, 1901, and the plan went into effect faction to all interested. There have been no&lt;br /&gt;
on May 1st. I recite these facts to show that withdrawals from the Association, a number of new&lt;br /&gt;
action was taken with the utmost deliberation. members have been admitted and the Association&lt;br /&gt;
Omitting from consideration the subordinate is now practically complete, including thirty-five&lt;br /&gt;
questions of postage, libraries, &amp;amp;c., the plan briefly firms, representing New York, Boston, Philadelphia,&lt;br /&gt;
outlined is as follows :&lt;br /&gt;
Chicago, and other large cities. The entire book-&lt;br /&gt;
Members of the Association agree to publish all trade of the country, with the exception of one&lt;br /&gt;
their new copyright books, except fiction, at net large department store in New York and three or&lt;br /&gt;
prices, and in order fully to protect these prices four smaller dealers, received the plan with great&lt;br /&gt;
for one year, they further agree not to sell any of favour and has given it cordial support. Up to&lt;br /&gt;
their publications to any one who breaks the price January 1st there were 550 books published net&lt;br /&gt;
of a net book ai retail during the first year after on the new basis. In a few cases prices have been&lt;br /&gt;
its publication. The rule is very comprehensive, criticised as being too high, but the general report&lt;br /&gt;
including all copyright books, except works of is that the net system has in no way retarded sales&lt;br /&gt;
fiction (omitting, of course, school-books and sub- and the benefit to the trade has been great. Per-&lt;br /&gt;
scription books upon which no action was required), haps the most encouraging sign was the attitude&lt;br /&gt;
and the penalty for underselling a &ldquo;net&rdquo; book of the department stores, for it has never been the&lt;br /&gt;
includes the withholding of all books, whether purpose of the Association to confine its interests&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;net&rdquo; or &ldquo;regular.&rdquo; On the other hand, these to any particular class of retail dealer. Our object&lt;br /&gt;
regulations being observed, every publisher is free is to make the sale of our publications profitable&lt;br /&gt;
to manage his own business in his own way. There to whoever deals in them, and we have no intention&lt;br /&gt;
has been no interference with his right to fix his of trying to change the current of activity. The&lt;br /&gt;
own retail prices and to decide for himself what department store is quite as important to the&lt;br /&gt;
discount he will allow the trade. It is important American publisher as the bookseller, so called,&lt;br /&gt;
it be clearly understood that no attempt has been and in many cities the book department is fully&lt;br /&gt;
made to fix prices, but only to maintain them for the equal of the book-store. But the time has&lt;br /&gt;
one year. There is, of course, the danger that passed when the selling of books in such stores is&lt;br /&gt;
some publisher may make his prices too high, or any novelty, and it was found that they were as&lt;br /&gt;
give too large a discount, or not give a large willing to make money at their book counters as in&lt;br /&gt;
enough discount to the trade, but the correction other departments of their business ; besides, there&lt;br /&gt;
of such abuses is left to the ordinary operation of is still left an indefinitely wide range of books on&lt;br /&gt;
business laws.&lt;br /&gt;
which bargains can be offered.&lt;br /&gt;
The most difficult question which confronted I have not referred to any effect this movement&lt;br /&gt;
the Association was what should be done with may have upon authors, because the interests of&lt;br /&gt;
fiction, and as the committee could not at that the author, so far as maintaining prices is con-&lt;br /&gt;
time recommend any action that promised success, cerned, seem to be identical with those of his&lt;br /&gt;
it was finally decided not to attempt to regulate it publisher. The only way in which the system&lt;br /&gt;
in any way until the plan had been tried on other might affect the author would be through the&lt;br /&gt;
books. There was at first some disappointment at changing of the retail prices of books, royalties&lt;br /&gt;
this, but the wisdom of not undertaking too much being usually based upon these prices. In the&lt;br /&gt;
in the beginning was very generally recognised. case of works of fiction no change has been made&lt;br /&gt;
The success of the plan, however, has now en in the retail price, and as to other books, a large&lt;br /&gt;
couraged the Association to include fiction, but in and increasing number of them were already being&lt;br /&gt;
a modified form. In the case of novels, the sale of published at net prices, and the only effect of the&lt;br /&gt;
which has been unprecedentedly large during the regulations is to maintain those prices. And in&lt;br /&gt;
past few years, it was not thought advisable to any case, the only books affected are new books,&lt;br /&gt;
maintain a uniform price, but to make some con- and if any change of royalty is required, it can&lt;br /&gt;
cession to those who prefer to sell at a &ldquo;cut&rdquo; easily be made. There are no &ldquo;concealed profits,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
price, only placing a limit to that cutting, so that and the publisher should be willing to show his&lt;br /&gt;
some profit will be assured to any dealer who may author exactly what discounts are given to book.&lt;br /&gt;
be forced to meet such prices. This method is a sellers.&lt;br /&gt;
conservative one, and has the advantage of causing&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES SCRIBNER.&lt;br /&gt;
the least possible disturbance to business. It New York,&lt;br /&gt;
allows for the varying conditions upon which&lt;br /&gt;
January 30th, 1902.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 175 (#579) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
175&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL MEMORANDA.&lt;br /&gt;
ITERE 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 &ldquo;office expenses,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
unless 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;
(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;
IY. 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;
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;
(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 author should obtain a&lt;br /&gt;
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts&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;
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 out 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 onc-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 subject of dramatic con-&lt;br /&gt;
tracts, THOSE AUTIIORS DESIROUS OF FURTHER INFORMA-&lt;br /&gt;
TION ARE REFERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
NTEVER 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;
1. T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
V 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 sought is such as can be given best by a solicitor,&lt;br /&gt;
the member has a right to an opinion from the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
solicitors. If the case is such that Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion is&lt;br /&gt;
desirable, the Committee will obtain for him Counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion. All this without any cost to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 176 (#580) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
176&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Communications for The Author should be addressed to&lt;br /&gt;
the Offices of the Society, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Gate, S.W., and should reach the Editor NOT LATER&lt;br /&gt;
THAN THE 21st 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;
For the Opinions erpressed in papers that are signed&lt;br /&gt;
or inilialled the Authors alone are responsible.&lt;br /&gt;
None of the papers or paragraphs must be taken&lt;br /&gt;
as expressing the opinion of the Committee unless&lt;br /&gt;
such is especially stated to be the case.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers&amp;#039; agreements do not generally fall within the&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;
or 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&lt;br /&gt;
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you&lt;br /&gt;
are reaping no benefit to yourself, and that you are&lt;br /&gt;
advancing the best interests of literature in promoting the&lt;br /&gt;
independence of the writer.&lt;br /&gt;
6. The Committee have now arranged for the reception&lt;br /&gt;
of members&amp;#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-&lt;br /&gt;
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as&lt;br /&gt;
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,&lt;br /&gt;
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:&lt;br /&gt;
-(1) To read and advise upon agreements and to give&lt;br /&gt;
advice concerning publishers. (2) To stamp agreements&lt;br /&gt;
an readiness for a possible action upon them. (3) To keep&lt;br /&gt;
agreements. (4) To enforce payments due according to&lt;br /&gt;
agreements.&lt;br /&gt;
7. No contract should be entered into with a literary&lt;br /&gt;
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful&lt;br /&gt;
consideration the contracts submitted to them by literary&lt;br /&gt;
agents, and are recommended to submit them for inter.&lt;br /&gt;
pretation and explanation to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
8. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This&lt;br /&gt;
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.&lt;br /&gt;
9. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from&lt;br /&gt;
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; so do&lt;br /&gt;
some publishers. Members can make their own deductions&lt;br /&gt;
and act accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTERS ARE INVITED BY THE&lt;br /&gt;
EDITOR on all subjects connected with literature, but on&lt;br /&gt;
no other subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to&lt;br /&gt;
return articles which cannot be accepted.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY begs to give notice&lt;br /&gt;
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post,&lt;br /&gt;
and he requests members who do not receive an&lt;br /&gt;
answer to important communications within two days to&lt;br /&gt;
write to him without delay. All remittances should be&lt;br /&gt;
crossed Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane, or be sent&lt;br /&gt;
by registered letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
AUTHORITIES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
M branch of their work by informing young writers&lt;br /&gt;
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and&lt;br /&gt;
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term&lt;br /&gt;
MSS, includes NOT ONLY WORKS OF FICTION, BUT POETRY&lt;br /&gt;
AND DRAMATIC WORKS, and when it is possible, under&lt;br /&gt;
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The&lt;br /&gt;
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The&lt;br /&gt;
fee is one guinea.&lt;br /&gt;
TT has been frequently stated that modern&lt;br /&gt;
1 criticism is practically useless. To anyone&lt;br /&gt;
perusing the praise and blame of the same&lt;br /&gt;
book which come from the pens of the critics, it&lt;br /&gt;
would appear that a fair standard of criticism was&lt;br /&gt;
impossible. There is, however, one method which&lt;br /&gt;
may mean a great deal and express very little.&lt;br /&gt;
We give the following quotation :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Mr. &amp;#039;s name on a book is a sure sign of&lt;br /&gt;
its quality.&rdquo; The reader must fill up the blank&lt;br /&gt;
with the name of a publishing house.&lt;br /&gt;
To the outside public this criticism may be very&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory, but to those who know the publisher&lt;br /&gt;
it may mean disaster to the book.&lt;br /&gt;
It calls to mind an advertisement of a book&lt;br /&gt;
which included several extracts from the news-&lt;br /&gt;
papers, of which one ran as follows:&ldquo;Mr. So-and-So&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
book is the book of the season.&rdquo; To this extract&lt;br /&gt;
was appended the name of a well-known literary&lt;br /&gt;
paper. On reference to the paper, however, it&lt;br /&gt;
appeared that &ldquo; for ungrammatical rabbish, and a&lt;br /&gt;
NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind members of&lt;br /&gt;
| the Society that, although the paper is sent to them&lt;br /&gt;
free of charge, the cost of producing it would be a&lt;br /&gt;
very 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;
58. 6d, subscription for the year.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 177 (#581) ############################################&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
177&lt;br /&gt;
total disregard of the principles of writing, Mr. reaches a higher level than the American. The&lt;br /&gt;
So-and-So&amp;#039;s book is the book of the season.&rdquo; personal paragraph in America has been carried&lt;br /&gt;
Critics should be careful how they word their rather too far.&lt;br /&gt;
sentences if this advantage can be taken of them.&lt;br /&gt;
There is another story told about Lord Beacons-&lt;br /&gt;
field with regard to books that has a double The question of the length and evolution of the&lt;br /&gt;
meaning, and is an example of the same kind of ordinary six-shilling novel forms a subject of no&lt;br /&gt;
doubtful compliment: it may with advantage be small importance. This fact seems to be clear,&lt;br /&gt;
repeated here.&lt;br /&gt;
that the public will not buy at the price of six&lt;br /&gt;
On receipt of a book from a gentleman whose shillings a volume by an author, however popular,&lt;br /&gt;
qualities as a friend were greater than those as a which does not contain a certain amount of&lt;br /&gt;
writer, Lord Beaconsfield responded, &ldquo;I will lose matter. One notorious case will, no doubt, come&lt;br /&gt;
no time in reading your book,&amp;quot; and he took care to the mind of many authors and readers, of a&lt;br /&gt;
that the time was not lost.&lt;br /&gt;
story of 25,000 words which was spun out, by the&lt;br /&gt;
use of large type, spacing, and other details, to&lt;br /&gt;
the size of the six-shilling volume. The result&lt;br /&gt;
was disastrous both to the author and the pub-&lt;br /&gt;
An article in the American Bookman deals with lisher. No doubt some will say this would have&lt;br /&gt;
the great newspapers of the United States. It is been the case in any event, that the book was&lt;br /&gt;
anecdotal and amusing.&lt;br /&gt;
a bad one&mdash;but we do not entirely agree that this&lt;br /&gt;
Bennett, as everyone knows, was the founder of was the sole cause.&lt;br /&gt;
the New York Herald. It appears that on several Another case came before our notice. A short&lt;br /&gt;
occasions he was personally assaulted, and on one book, from a well-known author, was published&lt;br /&gt;
occasion was chastised in his own office. The next in six-shilling form with an addition of 48 pages&lt;br /&gt;
day there appeared in the Herald a description of of publishers&amp;#039; advertisements. Such additions are&lt;br /&gt;
the affair from Bennett&amp;#039;s pen, headed &ldquo;Horse- not fair either to the author or to the public. It&lt;br /&gt;
whipped Again.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
would be well for authors to consider whether it&lt;br /&gt;
The Tribune was the great rival of the Herald would not be worth their while to insert a clause&lt;br /&gt;
in the forties, and there was a systematic war in their agreements forbidding the insertion of&lt;br /&gt;
waged against the latter newspaper by &ldquo; Wall&lt;br /&gt;
y &amp;quot;Wall publishers&amp;#039; advertisements beyond a certain number&lt;br /&gt;
Street Holy Allies,&amp;quot; as Bennett called them. of pages. Although this fault does not often&lt;br /&gt;
The following selections from the epithets hurled occur, yet it is possible that, with the modern&lt;br /&gt;
against the Herald have been cut from the same craze for advertising, it might grow into a serious&lt;br /&gt;
article, and give a curious insight into the jour difficulty.&lt;br /&gt;
nalism of that day.&lt;br /&gt;
By Park Benjamin, in the Signal&mdash;&ldquo;obscene&lt;br /&gt;
vagabond,&rdquo; &ldquo;infamous blasphemer,&amp;quot; &ldquo; loathsome&lt;br /&gt;
and leprous slanderer and libeller,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; wretch,&amp;quot; In the articles that appeared in The Author&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;profligate adventurer,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;venomous reptile,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;ac- dealing with the question of agents, it was stated&lt;br /&gt;
cursed sting,&rdquo; &ldquo; pestilential scoundrel,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; instinct that the agent&amp;#039;s remuneration was too high for the&lt;br /&gt;
of brutes,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;ghoul-like propensity,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;polluted work he did. In a good many cases he asks &pound;5&lt;br /&gt;
wretch,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;prince of darkness,&amp;quot; &ldquo; caitiff,&amp;quot; &ldquo;mon before he commences to work, and in addition&lt;br /&gt;
ster,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;foul jaws,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; black hearted,&rdquo; &ldquo; dirt,&amp;quot; a charge of ten per cent. on what he places. In&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; gallows.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
the case of a successful book ten per cent, on the&lt;br /&gt;
By H. H. Noah, in the Evening Star&mdash;&ldquo;rogue,&amp;quot; returns is an enormous profit for the work done.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; cheat,&amp;quot; &ldquo; licentious,&rdquo; &ldquo;vile,&rdquo; &ldquo;outrage,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;com- There appears to be no other agency that takes&lt;br /&gt;
mon bandit,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;scaffold,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;pollution,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; depraved anything like such a large percentage on account of&lt;br /&gt;
appetite,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; not live an hour,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;inquisition,&rdquo; its labours. The house agent, for instance, does not&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;torture,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; villain,&rdquo; &ldquo;turkey buzzard.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
take a percentage throughout the whole lease; the&lt;br /&gt;
American journalism has always been a wonder scholastic agent does not take a percentage for&lt;br /&gt;
to the more sober journalistic workers of London, all the years a master&amp;#039;s situation endures ; no&lt;br /&gt;
but we think that the veriest rags of journals on agent that we can call to mind takes a per-&lt;br /&gt;
the English market have never descended quite so centage lasting during the existence of the pro-&lt;br /&gt;
low as this.&lt;br /&gt;
perty. We think it right, therefore, to place&lt;br /&gt;
Another point of comparison between modern this point before all authors, and to suggest that&lt;br /&gt;
American journalism and modern English jour. some limit should be made to these returns&mdash;that&lt;br /&gt;
nalism is the personal paragraph.&lt;br /&gt;
the agent should reap the benefit of ten per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
Here, also, we think that the English journalist for a limited time, or until some limited figure had&lt;br /&gt;
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178&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
been reached. It is exceedingly hard on an author In last month&amp;#039;s Author we drew attention to the&lt;br /&gt;
that his returns for one book should be burdened question of &ldquo; Advertisements and Reviews.&rdquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
by a constant drain during the whole time that statement that we then made with some diffidence&lt;br /&gt;
copyright lasts.&lt;br /&gt;
has been amply corroborated by letters appearing&lt;br /&gt;
in the Publishers&amp;#039; Circular.&lt;br /&gt;
Is the whole system hopelessly corrupt ? Is it&lt;br /&gt;
Many complaints have been made in the musical impossible for a genuine Book Review co exist&lt;br /&gt;
papers by musical publishers against the wholesale when run on absolutely independent lines ?&lt;br /&gt;
piracy of copyright popular songs and melodies. Surely the devious methods of the financial&lt;br /&gt;
This form of theft is begun by piratical printers press and the tricks of the notorious company&lt;br /&gt;
and carried on by their agents, the street vendors promoters do not taint those responsible for the&lt;br /&gt;
of music.&lt;br /&gt;
literary reviews! and surely the heads of the great&lt;br /&gt;
It will be impossible to eradicate this evil until, publishing houses would not demean themselves by&lt;br /&gt;
under a new Copyright Act, some swift and sure condescending to this kind of bribe !&lt;br /&gt;
method is devised of dealing with these people. The question has been started in the Publishers&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
The music publishers are loud in their complaint, Circular. Where is the Publishers&amp;#039; Association ?&lt;br /&gt;
for when under the present r&eacute;gime the machinery Cannot they form a committee, establish a commis-&lt;br /&gt;
of the law is brought into action, it is altogether sion, and throw light upon these dark doings.&lt;br /&gt;
too slow and cumbersome.&lt;br /&gt;
We trust that the Association will prove itself a&lt;br /&gt;
The street vendor is irresponsible and impe- virile body, will boldly grapple with a great evil,&lt;br /&gt;
cunious, and it is almost impossible to discover the if indeed it exists, and will devote its spare time to&lt;br /&gt;
printer or the previous circulator of the stolen goods. something better than drafting impossible agree-&lt;br /&gt;
Even when discovered he is generally a man of ments to lay before the unfortunate author.&lt;br /&gt;
straw, and to bring an action for damages is nothing&lt;br /&gt;
more than a waste of money. Some publishers,&lt;br /&gt;
copyright holders, have spent much money in&lt;br /&gt;
bringing these gentlemen to book, but have&lt;br /&gt;
The following story is interesting as bearing on&lt;br /&gt;
found that the result is neither final por altogether&lt;br /&gt;
the same subject :-&lt;br /&gt;
satisfactory.&lt;br /&gt;
An editor of a well-known newspaper met an&lt;br /&gt;
Summary jurisdiction, and a fine or imprisonment&lt;br /&gt;
author-also well known&mdash;and enquired how it&lt;br /&gt;
is the only method of dealing with these piratical&lt;br /&gt;
street hawkers. When that ideal copyright law&lt;br /&gt;
was that none of his books was sent him for&lt;br /&gt;
is passed, no doubt all will be right.&lt;br /&gt;
review, and that his publishers refused to advertise&lt;br /&gt;
in his paper.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Oh,&rdquo; said the author, &ldquo;the matter is quite&lt;br /&gt;
clear. I take great interest in the advertising of&lt;br /&gt;
We see with much regret that Mr. Gerald my book, and never send copies to papers that&lt;br /&gt;
Balfour does not hold out any hope of a copyright review me badly.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
measure being passed this session.&lt;br /&gt;
Not long after this the advertisement agent&lt;br /&gt;
The Society has with a praiseworthy obstinacy called round on the pablisher and asked for an&lt;br /&gt;
and determination kept legislation continually advertisement. The publisher, who had full know-&lt;br /&gt;
before the authorities whose business it is to deal ledge of the author&amp;#039;s methods with regard to the&lt;br /&gt;
with it, and everyone who is at all cognisant of the books sent for review, replied that he never&lt;br /&gt;
ins and outs of this complicated and difficult advertised with papers that failed in a just&lt;br /&gt;
question&mdash;a question dealing so closely not only appreciation of his publications,&lt;br /&gt;
with intercolonial but also international relations Assurance was immediately given that if the&lt;br /&gt;
must give the Committee of the Society and its book just published was forwarded to the office a&lt;br /&gt;
supporters all praise for their perseverance. Dogged favourable review would be obtained, and the&lt;br /&gt;
persistence will no doubt in the end accomplish advertisement was accordingly pressed for. The&lt;br /&gt;
its objects.&lt;br /&gt;
publisher, however, was not to be taken in by this&lt;br /&gt;
We all know the proverb of the water and the method of doing business. He led the agent&lt;br /&gt;
stone. When the looked-for millennium of copy- clearly to understand that if a farourable review&lt;br /&gt;
right is upon us, we sincerely hope that all authors, appeared, the advertisement would be sure to follow.&lt;br /&gt;
in whatever branch of authorship, whether Members He was not going to pay for an article which he&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society or those who may from motives had not already seen.&lt;br /&gt;
of their own hold aloof, will realise the work, the In due course a favourable review appeared, and&lt;br /&gt;
time, the trouble, the money which have been the advertisement agent received the required&lt;br /&gt;
ungrudgingly spent to obtain this great object. order.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR. :&lt;br /&gt;
179&lt;br /&gt;
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. obtained in the Act itself, and that it was too soon&lt;br /&gt;
to press for more.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Perry Coste raised again the question of&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL meeting of the Society of printing a list of the Society&amp;#039;s members&amp;#039; for circn-&lt;br /&gt;
Authors was held at 4 P.M. on Wednesday, lation in the Society only, and urged that such a&lt;br /&gt;
March 19th, at 20, Hanover Square, W., with&lt;br /&gt;
list, even though not complete, but containing&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins in the chair.&lt;br /&gt;
only the names of members consenting to be placed&lt;br /&gt;
The Chairman opened the meeting by laying in it, would be of use to those desirous of com-&lt;br /&gt;
municating with their fellow-members upon matters&lt;br /&gt;
mittee of Management for the year ending affecting the Society. In reply, the Chairman&lt;br /&gt;
December, 1901. In commenting on the report, referred to previous experience with reference to&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Hope Hawkins referred to the loss sustained this topic, and said that the inatter should again&lt;br /&gt;
by the Society in the regretted death of Sir Walter have the careful consideration of the Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Besant, and to the scheme set out in the report Mr. G. H. Perris called attention to the case of&lt;br /&gt;
for raising a memorial to him. He called atten- Neufeld v. Chapman and Hall, suggesting that an&lt;br /&gt;
tion to the other losses sustained in the past year undesirable result had been obtained in the setting&lt;br /&gt;
by the Society, and also to the general increase in aside of a trade custom by a legal decision. The&lt;br /&gt;
its numbers. Having explained the importance Chairman pointed out that the judge had to apply&lt;br /&gt;
attached by the Committee to the employment by a contract which sold a copyright, but stipulated&lt;br /&gt;
the Society of an official to act for it in the for payment by royalties ont&uacute;&lt;br /&gt;
United States, Mr. Hope Hawkins proceeded to vision for payment if publication was in serial&lt;br /&gt;
urge upon the members of the Society at large form, to what had eventually taken placenamely,&lt;br /&gt;
the duty of supporting by their contributions the the publication of the book in serial form. In&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s Pension Fund. With regard to this it was reply to the same gentleman. Mr. Hope Hawkins&lt;br /&gt;
pointed out that the number of subscribers is at laid stress upon the word &amp;quot; informal,&rdquo; in con-&lt;br /&gt;
present relatively small, and that a more or less junction with the word &amp;quot; inexpensive.&amp;quot; with regard&lt;br /&gt;
universal apnuul contribution of small sums, such to the recommendation of arbitration in cases of&lt;br /&gt;
as ten or five shillings, would establish the fund at dispute made in the Society&amp;#039;s report at page 12.&lt;br /&gt;
once upon a footing more in accordance with the As there was no further discussion on the report,&lt;br /&gt;
intentions and hopes of its promoters. On the the election of a member to the Pension Fund&lt;br /&gt;
questions referred to in the report concerning the&lt;br /&gt;
Committee was dealt with Mrs. Alec Tweedie&lt;br /&gt;
employment of literary agents, the Chairman said was unanimously re-elected, and the business of&lt;br /&gt;
that there were two impressions abroad as to the meeting was concluded with a hearty vote of&lt;br /&gt;
the attitude of the Society and its Committee&lt;br /&gt;
thanks to the Chairman and the Committee for&lt;br /&gt;
- the one that there was some connection&lt;br /&gt;
their willing labours on behalf of their fellow-&lt;br /&gt;
between the Society and one or two individual members of the profession.&lt;br /&gt;
agents; the other that the Society as a body dis. There were among those present. besides the&lt;br /&gt;
approved of and denounced agents. Neither of members whose names are mentioned above: Sir&lt;br /&gt;
these views was correct. The question whether an Joshua Fitch. Sir William Charley. K.C. Mr. R.&lt;br /&gt;
agent should be employed or not must be decided Warwick Bond. Mr. C. A. Kelly, Mr. Edward&lt;br /&gt;
by the author according to circumstances. There Rose, Mr. Arthur Wilson. Mr. Basil Field, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
were good and bad agents, and the Society advised Mackenzie Bell. Miss E. M. Symonds. Mr. Reynolds&lt;br /&gt;
that it was of importance to distinguish between Ball, Miss Olive Katherine Parr. Mr. G. H.&lt;br /&gt;
these, while it was able and willing to assist its Thring. &amp;amp;c. &amp;amp;c.&lt;br /&gt;
members in doing so. In conclusion Mr. Hope&lt;br /&gt;
Hawkins commented upon the steps taken by the&lt;br /&gt;
Society during the year under consideration to THE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
assist its members in legal matters.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; In the course of a brief discussion which followed&lt;br /&gt;
upon questions arising out of the report and the M HE annual meeting of the Canadian Society&lt;br /&gt;
Society&amp;#039;s work in general, Mr. F. Stroud asked for 1 of Authors was held at the Victoria&lt;br /&gt;
information upon the working of the American&lt;br /&gt;
University on Friday, February 14th. The&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Law and any prospect that there might be following officers were appointed for 1902 :&mdash;Hon.&lt;br /&gt;
of diminishing such loss as it might bring to the President, Prof. Goldwin Smith, LL.D.; Presi-&lt;br /&gt;
British printing trade through the setting up of dent, Hon. Geo. W. Ross, LL.D.; Vice-Presidents,&lt;br /&gt;
type in the United States for books to be published Dr. Bryce of Winnipeg, Dr. Drummond of&lt;br /&gt;
in the two countries. The Chairman, in reply, Montreal, Dr. Frechette of Montreal, Hon.&lt;br /&gt;
suggested that a considerable concession had been J. W. Longley of Halifax, Duncan Campbell&lt;br /&gt;
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180&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Scott of Ottawa; Secretary, Prof. Pelham Edgar; Britain and Canada for printed matter should be&lt;br /&gt;
Treasurer, John A. Cooper, B.A.; Executive lowered without delay, and some movement is being&lt;br /&gt;
Committee, Messrs. James Bain, Jun., Castell made from this end with a view to agitating for&lt;br /&gt;
Hopkins, B. E. Walker, Bernard McEvoy, Mac- this reform. The publishers of American magazines&lt;br /&gt;
donald Oxley, Mayor Howland, J. S. Willison, have at present an undue advantage over the British&lt;br /&gt;
Prof. Lefroy, Prof. Mavor, Prof. Davidson. A publisher, and the consequence is, we are flooded&lt;br /&gt;
bibliography of the contributions of the members with Yankee productions which are often not to&lt;br /&gt;
to current literature will be soon ready for dis- our taste. If it were not for the heavy postal rates,&lt;br /&gt;
tribution in the society.&lt;br /&gt;
many British magazines would have double and&lt;br /&gt;
treble the circulation here they now have.&lt;br /&gt;
The Canadian Society of Authors has during the&lt;br /&gt;
CANADIAN LETTER.&lt;br /&gt;
past year chiefly confined its action to occasions of&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; social kind. It has given two or three &ldquo;pipes&lt;br /&gt;
and ale&amp;quot; r&eacute;unions, and last month Professor Mavor&lt;br /&gt;
S&ldquo;The Man from Glengarry&rdquo; was written by&lt;br /&gt;
gave a brilliant &ldquo;At Home,&amp;quot; in honour of Dr. W. H.&lt;br /&gt;
a Canadian, the success that has attended&lt;br /&gt;
Drummond, the author of &amp;quot;The Habitant,&amp;quot; who&lt;br /&gt;
. its publication here would seem to be a&lt;br /&gt;
was at Toronto to lecture at the University. Dr.&lt;br /&gt;
contradiction of the saying that a prophet is usually&lt;br /&gt;
Drummond may be said to be the most popular&lt;br /&gt;
destitute of honour in his own country. The sale&lt;br /&gt;
author in Canada. He is also a physician with a&lt;br /&gt;
has been larger than that of any book since &ldquo;David&lt;br /&gt;
large and demanding practice, and takes up litera-&lt;br /&gt;
Harum.&rdquo; Literature observed that &ldquo; The Man&lt;br /&gt;
ture simply as a hobby and side issue. His success&lt;br /&gt;
from Glengarry &amp;quot; had &ldquo;nothing to do with litera-&lt;br /&gt;
is due, not only to the admirable way in which he&lt;br /&gt;
ture.&rdquo; The Canadian readers, who have bought&lt;br /&gt;
has exploited the French Canadian dialect, but to&lt;br /&gt;
the book by tens of thousands, do not care for that the sympathetic and humorous way in which he&lt;br /&gt;
in the least, even if it be true. What they like 16 has displayed the essential human nature of the&lt;br /&gt;
the swing of the story, the truth and &ldquo;go&rdquo; of the habitant&lt;br /&gt;
lumbering fights and scenes, the true depicting of&lt;br /&gt;
Among the books announced for publication&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian life, and the unmistakable evangelical during the next few weeks is one by Mr. Bernard&lt;br /&gt;
trend of the whole. Its mingling of prayer meet. McEvoy, which will give in book form the delightful&lt;br /&gt;
ing and pugilism is exactly to their taste. The&lt;br /&gt;
series of letters contributed by him to the Toronto&lt;br /&gt;
novel has had an equally good reception in the Mail and Empire during his recent extended trip&lt;br /&gt;
United States, and people who want to write novels through Western Canada&lt;br /&gt;
through Western Canada. The volume is entitled&lt;br /&gt;
The volume&lt;br /&gt;
that will be sold by the 100,000 shonld remember &ldquo;From the Great Lakes to the Wide West.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
that they must tap this productive vein of book- William Briggs has the work in hand, and will&lt;br /&gt;
buyers. But there are few writers who can tap it issue it in his best style, illustrated plentifully&lt;br /&gt;
successfully. E. P. Roe did it, and so did Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
with picturesque scenes-new plates from recent&lt;br /&gt;
H. B. Stowe, and of late the respective authors of&lt;br /&gt;
photos-along the route across the Continent.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; David Harum,&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;The Man from Glengarry,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; A feature of the book trade in the whole of&lt;br /&gt;
have been almost as successful. The latter work&lt;br /&gt;
Western Canada which may be interesting to&lt;br /&gt;
was brought out in very good style by the old yet&lt;br /&gt;
English readers is the circulating library which is&lt;br /&gt;
progressive house of William Briggs.&lt;br /&gt;
to be found in every bookseller&amp;#039;s shop. The books&lt;br /&gt;
An altogether different reception was encoun-&lt;br /&gt;
circulated are for the most part paper-covered&lt;br /&gt;
tered by &ldquo;The New Anteus,&amp;quot; the Canadian edition&lt;br /&gt;
novels, which sell in Canada at 75 cents. You go&lt;br /&gt;
of which was brought out by Morang &amp;amp; Co. Not&lt;br /&gt;
to the booksellers, pay your 75 cents, and take&lt;br /&gt;
even the fact that it was written by the unknown&lt;br /&gt;
away your new novel. That is, it is new to you ;&lt;br /&gt;
and much-exploited author of. &ldquo;An English woman&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
it may have already passed through some one else&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Love Letters,&rdquo; could save it from any other fate hands. When you have read it you take it back,&lt;br /&gt;
than a succ&egrave;s d&rsquo;estime. The reviews that appeared&lt;br /&gt;
pay 10 cents, and get another 75-cent novel, and&lt;br /&gt;
in Canadian papers were evidently, for the most&lt;br /&gt;
so on as long as you like to continue the process.&lt;br /&gt;
part, done in a perfunctory way, though a reviewer&lt;br /&gt;
There are no fines, there is no book-keeping ; you&lt;br /&gt;
in the Mail and Empire wrote as though he had&lt;br /&gt;
can keep the novel as long as you like, or you can&lt;br /&gt;
read the book, and maintained the theory that both&lt;br /&gt;
keep it altogether. Some authors are complaining&lt;br /&gt;
it and the &ldquo;Love Letters&rdquo; were written by Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
that this passing from hand to hand of one copy&lt;br /&gt;
George Meredith. Book-buyers were rather scan-&lt;br /&gt;
decreases sales ; but, on the other hand, it certainly&lt;br /&gt;
dalised by the publication of the &ldquo; Love Letters,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
leads to a book being more widely read than it&lt;br /&gt;
and as for the &ldquo;New Anteus,&rdquo; they could make otherwise would be&lt;br /&gt;
neither top nor tail of it if they tried.&lt;br /&gt;
The prohibitive postal rates between Great Toronto, 1902.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
181&lt;br /&gt;
AMERICAN NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
dollars on their investment. The effect of an irre-&lt;br /&gt;
deemable paper currency on morals seems to have&lt;br /&gt;
been truly appalling.&lt;br /&gt;
T AST year is admitted on all hands to have &ldquo; American Diplomatic Questions,&rdquo; by John B.&lt;br /&gt;
U been a record one for the output of books in Henderson, jun., is another book which is worthy&lt;br /&gt;
America. Yet the publishers complain, of attention. The writer&amp;#039;s viewpoint is less&lt;br /&gt;
especially as to novels. Their complaints appear Imperialistic than Professor Hart&amp;#039;s; he bases the&lt;br /&gt;
to us to be occasionally rather contradictory. For Monroe doctrine on an organic law higher than&lt;br /&gt;
instance, it is argued on the one band that quantity the right of self-protection.&lt;br /&gt;
is swamping quality, whilst it is at the same time The historical romance is still in favour. Two&lt;br /&gt;
asserted that nowadays a novel has no chance of the latest products in this field are Justin&lt;br /&gt;
unless there is something striking in it. The one Huntly McCarthy&amp;#039;s &ldquo;If I were a King&rdquo; and Miss&lt;br /&gt;
contention seems at first sight to answer the Mary Johnston&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Audrey.&amp;quot; The former has&lt;br /&gt;
other ; unless, indeed, &ldquo; striking&amp;quot; merely means Villon for its hero ; the latter is a story of&lt;br /&gt;
sensational.&lt;br /&gt;
eighteenth-century Virginia. To the same period&lt;br /&gt;
Various anachronisms have been discovered by belongs Miss Edith Wharton&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Valley of Deci-&lt;br /&gt;
the diligent in that ever-popular historical novel, sion&rdquo;; but the scene of her book is laid in Italy.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Crisis.&rdquo; Mr. Winston Churchill seems to The author of &amp;quot; Monsieur Martin &rdquo; (Wymond&lt;br /&gt;
have antedated the tune &ldquo; Lead, kindly Light&rdquo; and Carey) brings upon his stage Charles XII. of&lt;br /&gt;
the use of &ldquo;nickel &rdquo; for five cent pieces. On the Sweden and Augustus the Strong, father of many&lt;br /&gt;
other hand, a successful case for the introduction children, and thus breaks fresh ground. &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
of &ldquo; Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean&rdquo; would House of De Mailly&rdquo; is a story of the court of&lt;br /&gt;
appear to have been made out for the author. Louis XV., which king banishes the hero for love&lt;br /&gt;
The story continues to be in great request, Mr. of his American wife. The authoress, Miss Mar-&lt;br /&gt;
Gilbert Parker&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Right of Way&rdquo; being the only garet Horton Potter, of Chicago, who has recently&lt;br /&gt;
work of fiction which comes near it in popularity, become Mrs. Black, is, we are sorry to say, in&lt;br /&gt;
though some of the historical tales we mentioned trouble. At the age of sixteen-she is now, we&lt;br /&gt;
in our last &ldquo; Notes&rdquo; have by no means lost their believe, barely twenty-one&mdash;she produced a story&lt;br /&gt;
vogue.&lt;br /&gt;
called &amp;quot; A Social Lion,&amp;quot; under the name Robert&lt;br /&gt;
Of non-fictional works Seton-Thompson&amp;#039;s&ldquo; Lives Daley Williams. This gave local offence from the&lt;br /&gt;
of the Hunted&rdquo; (which, we believe, is attracting fact that it was supposed to contain recognisable&lt;br /&gt;
some attention across the Atlantic) continues to portraits, and publication was stopped. Now, we&lt;br /&gt;
be much read. Another book which appeared late gather, somebody has got hold of a copy and is&lt;br /&gt;
in the autumn, has created some stir. This is bringing out a surreptitious edition. We are not&lt;br /&gt;
Jacob R&uuml;s&amp;#039;s &ldquo;Making of an American,&rdquo; a fresh, aware to what extent the original charge against&lt;br /&gt;
breezy, na&iuml;ve work by the author of &ldquo;How the the book was true; but the fault was at any rate&lt;br /&gt;
Other Half Lives.&rdquo; It is the autobiography of a venial one in a novice, and everything possible&lt;br /&gt;
the &ldquo;boss reporter,&amp;quot; who by a famous trip up the was done to placate the real or supposed sufferers.&lt;br /&gt;
Croton watershed obtained an unpolluted water So that, we think, Mrs. Black is entitled to some&lt;br /&gt;
supply for New York. The last half of the book sympathy. Meanwhile, we hear that she has&lt;br /&gt;
tells the story of the great work he did for the ready another novel, &ldquo; Istar of Babylon,&rdquo; from&lt;br /&gt;
slums.&lt;br /&gt;
which much is expected.&lt;br /&gt;
Two rather notable books on American history Of fiction of a lighter nature &ldquo;Bagsby&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
are &ldquo; The Foundations of American Foreign Daughter,&amp;quot; by Miss Marie Van Vorst and Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
Policy,&rdquo; by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart, and John Van Vorst, has made a decided hit on both&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Confederate States of America, 1861-5,&amp;quot; by sides of the Atlantic. This amusing story was&lt;br /&gt;
Professor Schwab, of Yale. The author of the written in France, where the authoresses usually&lt;br /&gt;
former denies the &ldquo;abnormality&rdquo; of American live. From Paris also hails the clever study of&lt;br /&gt;
action in the Cuban question ; endeavours to American womanhood, entitled &ldquo;Eve Trium-&lt;br /&gt;
establish the thesis of continuity of interference in phant,&rdquo; by the lady calling herself Pierre de&lt;br /&gt;
foreign policy by a recital of historical precedents; Coulevain. It hits off very happily, from a&lt;br /&gt;
and maintains that &ldquo;territories&amp;quot; are not distinguish- foreign viewpoint, the peculiarities of an American&lt;br /&gt;
able from colonies. Professor Schwab&amp;#039;s book is woman educated in France.&lt;br /&gt;
largely concerned with the finance of the Southern A book which will appeal to some, and probably&lt;br /&gt;
States during the war. The history of Confederate upset the mental equilibrium of more, readers is&lt;br /&gt;
currency is described as &ldquo;instructive, entertaining, &ldquo;Melomaniacs,&rdquo; by James Huneker, who is known&lt;br /&gt;
almost amusing&rdquo;&mdash;except, presumably, to European as the author of a work on Chopin. His present&lt;br /&gt;
bondholders, who, it is calculated, lost 9,750,000 effort is a collection of tales dealing in ironic vein&lt;br /&gt;
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182&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
with modern idols, not only those of the musical is little to be said about it here. The verse of&lt;br /&gt;
world, like Wagner and Chopin, but also heroes of Mr. Edwin Emerson is (if we may be allowed to&lt;br /&gt;
modern culture&mdash;Ibsen, Nietzsche, and Schopen- utter such profanity), like that of his illustrious&lt;br /&gt;
hauer. The last-mentioned is surely rather out of namesake, more philosophic than poetic. Miss&lt;br /&gt;
his element in this company.&lt;br /&gt;
Josephine Preston Peabody&amp;#039;s dramatic poem,&lt;br /&gt;
A volume of short stories published by McClure, &ldquo;Marlowe,&rdquo; however, shows much promise, which&lt;br /&gt;
Phillips &amp;amp; Co. is of more than ordinary we trust will soon become achievement. Books&lt;br /&gt;
merit. The author is Shan F. Bullock, and his on Shakespeare are always, we suppose, coming&lt;br /&gt;
theme the Irish peasantry. The collection is out, so that it is not necessary to attribute any&lt;br /&gt;
aptly named &ldquo; Irish Pastorals.&rdquo; Two tales of the impulsive force to the arch-heretic, Mrs. Elizabeth&lt;br /&gt;
North and South Pole, though not of equal literary Gallup. That lady, by the way, has been most&lt;br /&gt;
merit, are perhaps as much off the beaten track. unmercifully dealt with by an anonymous scribe&lt;br /&gt;
The hero of &ldquo; Thyra : a Romance of the Polar Pit&rdquo; in the Critic, who shows a very pretty talent for&lt;br /&gt;
goes to the Arctic in a balloon. &ldquo;The Great humorous versification. We notice, too, that the&lt;br /&gt;
White Tale,&amp;quot; by Albert Bigelow Paine, is a tale of editor lends support to his orthodoxy in sober and&lt;br /&gt;
the deepest South, whither a jocular millionaire chastened prose. But some of these aforesaid&lt;br /&gt;
conducts an expedition.&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespeare books are superfluous, if not silly. As&lt;br /&gt;
A notable piece of biography by a good work- the first we should characterise a book by Professor&lt;br /&gt;
man is John Coleman Adams&amp;#039;s study of William L. A. Sherman, of the University of Nebraska,&lt;br /&gt;
Hamilton Gibson, artist, naturalist, and author. called, &ldquo;What is Shakespeare?&rdquo; This is described&lt;br /&gt;
Another good piece of work in this department of as &ldquo;an attempt to make it possible for any reader&lt;br /&gt;
literature is Professor Alpheus S. Packard&amp;#039;s treatise to come into direct personal relation with&lt;br /&gt;
on Lamarck, the forerunner of Darwin, who, Shakespeare without the intervention of an inter-&lt;br /&gt;
except in France, has completely overshadowed preter.&rdquo; But what is there to prevent this,&lt;br /&gt;
his fame as a scientific pioneer. Yet another life should the reader desire it ?-that is to say, if&lt;br /&gt;
of Washington&mdash;this time from the pen of Mr. any definite meaning is to be assigned to this&lt;br /&gt;
Norman Hapgood. In connection with American deliverance at all ? Apparently, however, all that&lt;br /&gt;
heroes, an undertaking is on foot which will do the Professor really aims at is merely to bring out&lt;br /&gt;
for them on a small scale what the British the human interest of the plays and avoid its&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Dictionary of National Biography&rdquo; has done for being obscured by textual criticism. He seems,&lt;br /&gt;
those of the mother country. This is &ldquo;The however, to be in some confusion, since, while&lt;br /&gt;
American Immortals,&amp;quot; which Mr. George Cary girding at the latter, he proceeds to supply some&lt;br /&gt;
Eggleston has written for Messrs. Putnam. The of those very technicalities which he set out by&lt;br /&gt;
selection is catholic, but one would have thought declaring so unnecessary. An example of the&lt;br /&gt;
that places might have been found for Oliver simply silly is a preposterous work on &ldquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Wendell Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe, not to Secret of Hamlet,&amp;quot; issued by the Abbey Press.&lt;br /&gt;
mention certain earlier worthies. It is remarkable The author (who shall be naineless) has discovered&lt;br /&gt;
also that no women are admitted into the Valhalla, that Hamlet was a &ldquo;psychometrest&amp;quot;; and he&lt;br /&gt;
not even Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. But then finds a world of meaning in an etymology he has&lt;br /&gt;
Victoria Woodhull did not secure election to the constructed for himself out of the names Hamlet,&lt;br /&gt;
Presidency of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
Horatio, and Ophelia. They all, he solemnly points&lt;br /&gt;
A book of contemporary biography which should out, begin with an &ldquo;H,&rdquo; which letter, he declares,&lt;br /&gt;
be full of interest is the &ldquo;Sixty Years in Public signifies spirit. No other characters of the play&lt;br /&gt;
Affairs&rdquo; of George S. Bontwell, who was Grant&amp;#039;s have this letter in their names, we are further&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of Massachu- bidden to remark. We are not acquainted with&lt;br /&gt;
setts, and many years member of Congress. The two Icelandic, and cannot therefore challenge the&lt;br /&gt;
volumes may be out before these notes appear. assertion that aml means &ldquo;toil,&amp;quot; and lothi&lt;br /&gt;
Meanwhile, we have something in the shape of a &ldquo;devoted to &amp;quot; ; but we still retain enough Greek&lt;br /&gt;
link between fiction and biography in &ldquo; Captain to confute the statement that Ophelia in that&lt;br /&gt;
Jinks, Hero,&amp;quot; the author of which, Ernest Crosby, tongue connotes &ldquo;serpent.&amp;quot; (Elsewhere in his&lt;br /&gt;
has written a satire on up-to-date militarism. The book the writer endeavours to get into the name&lt;br /&gt;
hero begins his military ardour as the owner of the word for sun, which, to put it mildly, is a&lt;br /&gt;
lead soldiers, next enters a boys&amp;#039; brigade, and trifle inconsistent.) And we are really unable to&lt;br /&gt;
culminates in a cadetship at&ldquo; East&rdquo; Point. There attach any coherent meaning to a sentence which&lt;br /&gt;
is undeniable humour here, though whether it will speaks of a secondary significance of the name as&lt;br /&gt;
be to the taste of a large audience remains to be referring to &ldquo;her mental Ophelia or Aphelia.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
seen.&lt;br /&gt;
The man who wrote this book thought, let us&lt;br /&gt;
Poetry does not flourish in America, and there hope, that he meant something by this strange&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
183&lt;br /&gt;
I.&lt;br /&gt;
medley of bad philology, confused logic, and&lt;br /&gt;
THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK.&lt;br /&gt;
watered German sentiment. But there seems&lt;br /&gt;
always to be a public for smatterers who deal in&lt;br /&gt;
imperfectly apprehended terms of science or philo-&lt;br /&gt;
sophy, and in America that public is sometimes M HE sixth issue of the &ldquo; Literary Year Book&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
a very large one.&lt;br /&gt;
has come to hand, and we gladly give it&lt;br /&gt;
We turn from these futilities to note two useful&lt;br /&gt;
the praise it deserves.&lt;br /&gt;
undertakings which are just being launched by We have read through, with great care, the&lt;br /&gt;
the Harper Brothers and Dodd, Mead &amp;amp; Company. parts that are most interesting to Members of&lt;br /&gt;
The first is the &ldquo;Encyclop&aelig;dia of United States the Society, namely, those that deal with the&lt;br /&gt;
History,&rdquo; in ten volumes, which, we learn from the technical side of literary property&mdash;the article&lt;br /&gt;
draft prospectus,&ldquo; presents rare, original documents on agreements and the article on copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
and maps and plans, and gives all the great epoch-&lt;br /&gt;
The method of dealing with agreements is cer-&lt;br /&gt;
making orations and speeches in full.&rdquo; The four tainly more satisfactory than the method adopted&lt;br /&gt;
thousand biographical sketches are accompanied in previous issues. Fairly common forms of&lt;br /&gt;
in many cases by portraits ; and there are over agreements are dealt with in a sound and critical&lt;br /&gt;
three thousand illustrations in addition. The late spirit. But to discuss a subject so wide in the&lt;br /&gt;
John Fiske, Cardinal Gibbons, Professors Goldwin space allotted, when the clauses are constantly&lt;br /&gt;
Smith. Moses Coit Tyler, and Alber B. Hart are varying, and the traps and pitfalls for the unwary&lt;br /&gt;
among the chief contributors. The span of the author are many, would be an impossible task.&lt;br /&gt;
work is from 458 to 1902 ! Special advantages are The book, therefore, cannot be taken as a reliable&lt;br /&gt;
held out to those who accept &agrave;&ldquo; before publication guide from which an author could judge every&lt;br /&gt;
offer.&rdquo; The other enterprise is less ambitious but agreement that might be set before him ; but&lt;br /&gt;
not less serviceable. It is a new magazine, The the points that are put forward, and the deduc-&lt;br /&gt;
Bibliographer, the title of which explains its object. tions that are made, are satisfactory. Authors&lt;br /&gt;
It is to be edited by Paul Leicester Ford, but is will still want special advice if they desire full&lt;br /&gt;
not to be confined to American literatureexclusively. protection, and the question must be asked&lt;br /&gt;
Special features will be facsimile reprints of whether this half advice is not rather a snare&lt;br /&gt;
rarities and advance notes, and reviews of impor- than a safeguard ; &amp;quot;a little knowledge is a&lt;br /&gt;
tant auction sales ; and there will be a department dangerous thing.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
of notes and queries. The subscription price is Similar remarks may be made when referring to&lt;br /&gt;
five dollars a year, which will include pine num- the article on copyright. It is absolutely im-&lt;br /&gt;
bers, as publication is to be suspended in the possible to deal with the question of copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
summer months. There should be a ready welcome&lt;br /&gt;
months. There should be a ready welcome also full of dangers and pitfalls, in the space&lt;br /&gt;
for a periodical such as this.&lt;br /&gt;
allotted. Yet here, also, the result, as far as it&lt;br /&gt;
The new edition of Mr. Nathan Haskell Dole&amp;#039;s goes, is good.&lt;br /&gt;
Multivariorum &ldquo;Rub&aacute;iyat&rdquo; of Omar Khayyam, The question to be considered is, whether it&lt;br /&gt;
which is to be brought out by Messrs. L. C. would not be better to take one form of agreement,&lt;br /&gt;
Page &amp;amp; Co., is another bibliographical venture of or one point in the copyright law, annually, and&lt;br /&gt;
this spring, which promises to be only less busy a deal with it at length and exhaustively.&lt;br /&gt;
season than was the fall.&lt;br /&gt;
By this method the consecutive volumes of the&lt;br /&gt;
We cannot close this article without referring &ldquo;Literary Year Book,&rdquo; to those who bought it&lt;br /&gt;
to the loss which American literature in general. regularly, would in the end form a thoroughly&lt;br /&gt;
and the firm of Houghton, Mifflin &amp;amp; Co. in sound and reliable guide, supposing that the ques-&lt;br /&gt;
particular, has recently met with in the death of tion of agreements and the Copyright Law had been&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Horace E. Scudder, whose &ldquo;Life of Lowell&rdquo; dealt with on a sound and reliable basis. It would&lt;br /&gt;
we noticed appreciatively in our last &ldquo;Notes.&rdquo; not be difficult to pick holes in minor matters as&lt;br /&gt;
The death of the former editor of the Atlantic far as the agreements and the comments upon&lt;br /&gt;
Monthly was immediately followed by that of Mr. them are concerned, or to handle in the same way&lt;br /&gt;
Azariah Smith, who was also connected with the the essay on copyright; but this, perhaps, would&lt;br /&gt;
same house, and was remarkable for the blended be hypercritical. It would be easier still to point&lt;br /&gt;
literary and commercial skill which he displayed to sins of omission, errors in silence which might&lt;br /&gt;
in writing their bulletins. To the obituary list is carry with them disaster and dismay to the ignorant;&lt;br /&gt;
also to be added the name of Elbridge T. Brooks, but this is the fault, not of the editor or the author,&lt;br /&gt;
late literary adviser of the Lothrop Company, a but of the system. A literary year book is bound to&lt;br /&gt;
former editor of St. Nicholas, and the discoverer of contain something authoritative on the matters&lt;br /&gt;
Irving Bacheller.&lt;br /&gt;
under discussion, and on the whole the work is good.&lt;br /&gt;
The rest of the matter in the book, as far as&lt;br /&gt;
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184&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
we have been able to look through it, is a distinct&lt;br /&gt;
improvement on the issue of last year.&lt;br /&gt;
There is a sound and appreciative statement of&lt;br /&gt;
the relations between Sir Walter Besant (our&lt;br /&gt;
founder) and the Society, and there are other&lt;br /&gt;
short and interesting essays.&lt;br /&gt;
The tables seem to be very full and complete,&lt;br /&gt;
though a table of authors must necessarily be&lt;br /&gt;
deficient.&lt;br /&gt;
Two names that happened to strike us on looking&lt;br /&gt;
casually through the list were found wanting:&lt;br /&gt;
Prof. Arthur Hassall, the well-known educational&lt;br /&gt;
and historical writer ; and Mr. E. H. Lacon Watson,&lt;br /&gt;
the author of that pleasant novel, &ldquo; Christopher&lt;br /&gt;
Deane.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
From an author&amp;#039;s point of view, the book ought&lt;br /&gt;
to be an essential. No doubt it will be found on&lt;br /&gt;
the bookshelves of all our Members.&lt;br /&gt;
G. H. T.&lt;br /&gt;
contained therein reveals several errors. Thus, a&lt;br /&gt;
number of magazines, &amp;amp;c., are referred to as though&lt;br /&gt;
they were still in existence, when they have been&lt;br /&gt;
defunct for some little time past. In the same&lt;br /&gt;
way, some of the addresses of editorial offices are&lt;br /&gt;
incorrectly stated. Again, Black and White is&lt;br /&gt;
declared to accept no fiction, when, as a matter of&lt;br /&gt;
common knowledge, quite the reverse is the&lt;br /&gt;
case.&lt;br /&gt;
These, however, are comparatively small matters,&lt;br /&gt;
and it is chiefly as a serious attempt to compile a&lt;br /&gt;
volume of real value to its consultants that &laquo; The&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Year Book for 1902&rdquo; must be judged.&lt;br /&gt;
Considered from this standpoint, the volume is to&lt;br /&gt;
be heartily commended.&lt;br /&gt;
H. W.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&mdash;The Author&amp;#039;s Vade Mecum.&lt;br /&gt;
EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.&lt;br /&gt;
AMONG the fixed impressions of every author&lt;br /&gt;
and journalist is that he could compile an ideal SIR,&mdash;There can be no doubt that contributors&lt;br /&gt;
6 literary year book.&rdquo; It is not until-some in the past have suffered many things at the hands&lt;br /&gt;
confiding publisher taking him at his word&mdash;he of editors and have at times been actually de-&lt;br /&gt;
finds himself called upon to undertake the task frauded, and our Society has done good service in&lt;br /&gt;
that he realises the difficulties besetting it. exposing such discourtesy and injustice.&lt;br /&gt;
Writers are notoriously hard to please, and each May I point out, however, that there is another&lt;br /&gt;
individual one of them is, as a rule, pleased in a side to the case, as the following instance will&lt;br /&gt;
different way. A real debt of gratitude is ac- show ?&lt;br /&gt;
cordingly due to the one who will make the essay. Two years ago I published a short article by&lt;br /&gt;
In the present (which, by the way, is the sixth) an anonymous and, to me, unknown contributor.&lt;br /&gt;
issue of &amp;quot;The Literary Year Book&rdquo; this task has The letter accompanying the article was accidentally&lt;br /&gt;
been assumed by Mr. Herbert Morrah. The con- mislaid, and as there was no name on the MS. I was&lt;br /&gt;
crete result of his labours is, on the whole, a unable to discharge the debt, which has since been&lt;br /&gt;
praiseworthy one, and the volume for 1902 cer- standing on the ledger of my journal. Last week&lt;br /&gt;
tainly justifies its existence. In every way it is I received a letter from which I will quote :-&lt;br /&gt;
a distinct advance upon its predecessors, and it &ldquo;Some two years ago I sent you an article. I&lt;br /&gt;
may at last be properly regarded as being of real did not receive even an acknowledgment, and&lt;br /&gt;
value to those for whom it is primarily intended. supposed that you had rejected it as unsuitable.&lt;br /&gt;
As compared with last year&amp;#039;s issue, the present What was my surprise some months after to have&lt;br /&gt;
one shows an increase in size from 420 pages to my attention directed to an article on pub-&lt;br /&gt;
468. It contains many new features of a useful lished in your paper and to find it word for word&lt;br /&gt;
nature, and omits several whose inclusion in the my own! I always supposed that a respectable&lt;br /&gt;
former volume was scarcely called for. Prominent journal at any rate offered some remuneration for&lt;br /&gt;
among the new features are a biographical direc- the articles it accepted, and that at any rate it&lt;br /&gt;
tory of authors, and a useful list of photographers would not print an article in this sort of under-&lt;br /&gt;
in different portions of the world. The editor hand way.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
being merely human, there are of course some The gentleman received a cheque by return of&lt;br /&gt;
notable omissions in each of these departments; post, accompanied by a mild expostulation, but in&lt;br /&gt;
on the whole, however, they have been compiled acknowledging it he declined to admit that in&lt;br /&gt;
very thoroughly.&lt;br /&gt;
bringing the charge of dishonesty he has done&lt;br /&gt;
To the journalist&mdash;as apart from the author anything unworthy of an Oxford M.A, and a&lt;br /&gt;
proper-the section entitled &ldquo;The Contributors&amp;#039; gentleman.&lt;br /&gt;
Guide&rdquo; will be specially interesting. An expert&lt;br /&gt;
Yours, etc., .&lt;br /&gt;
examination of the list of &ldquo;periodical publications&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
AN EDITOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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