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Arrency Clauses in Publishers&amp;#039; Agreements&lt;br /&gt;
Thirty-second Congress of the International Literary and&lt;br /&gt;
Artistic Association&lt;br /&gt;
The Cat from the Bag ...&lt;br /&gt;
Magazine Contents ...&lt;br /&gt;
How to Use the Society&lt;br /&gt;
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Registration of Scenarios and Origin&lt;br /&gt;
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The Elutbor.&lt;br /&gt;
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society-of Authors. Monthly.)&lt;br /&gt;
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.&lt;br /&gt;
VOL. XXI.&mdash;No. 2.&lt;br /&gt;
NOVEMBER 1ST, 1910.&lt;br /&gt;
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Members should apply to the Secretary for advice&lt;br /&gt;
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NOTICES.&lt;br /&gt;
D oR the opinions expressed in papers that are&lt;br /&gt;
i signed or initialled the authors alone are&lt;br /&gt;
responsible. None of the papers or para-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion&lt;br /&gt;
of the Committee unless such is especially stated&lt;br /&gt;
to be the case.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SOCIETY&amp;#039;S FUNDS.&lt;br /&gt;
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Authors&amp;#039; Society and other readers of The Author&lt;br /&gt;
that the cases wbich are quoted in The Author are&lt;br /&gt;
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knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that&lt;br /&gt;
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ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,&lt;br /&gt;
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LIST OF MEMBERS.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,&lt;br /&gt;
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at the offices of the Society at the price of&lt;br /&gt;
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1907, and will be sold to members and associates&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society only.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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&middot;&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; &middot;&lt;br /&gt;
&middot;&lt;br /&gt;
ܕ ܚ ܗܘ ܙܝܘ ܙ ܗ ܙܫ ܕܘ ܗ ܘ.t ܙ ܟܫ ܝܙ ܕ&lt;br /&gt;
&middot;&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; &middot;&lt;br /&gt;
&middot;&lt;br /&gt;
&middot;&lt;br /&gt;
end of the list for the convenience of those who&lt;br /&gt;
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled Jan. 14, Desborough, The Right Hon.&lt;br /&gt;
from month to month in these pages.&lt;br /&gt;
the Lord, K.C.V.O. .&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 27, Lion, Leon M. .&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 7, Fagan, J. B. . &middot; &middot; &middot; 0 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Feb, 10, Newton, Miss A. M.&lt;br /&gt;
A. M. . . () 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
THE PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
March 7, Smith, Bertram.&lt;br /&gt;
April 13, Dillon, Mrs. .&lt;br /&gt;
May 6, Inkster, Leonard.&lt;br /&gt;
O N February 1, 1910, the trustees of the May 17, Truman, Miss Olivia Marie. 0 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund of the society-after the secre- July 15, Stereni, William Barnes : 0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
tary had placed before them the financial Oct. 6, Graham, Capt. Harry . . 1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
position of the fund-decided to invest &pound;260 in&lt;br /&gt;
the following securities : &pound;130 in the purchase of&lt;br /&gt;
Donations.&lt;br /&gt;
Jamaica 31 per cent. Stock 1919-49, and &pound;130 in&lt;br /&gt;
the purchase of Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock 1937.&lt;br /&gt;
1910.&lt;br /&gt;
The amount purchased is &pound;132 188. 6d. Jan. 1, Robinson, J. R. .&lt;br /&gt;
: :. 0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Jamaica 34 per cent. Stock and &pound;120 128. ld. Jan. 1, Mackenzie, Miss J. (2nd lona-&lt;br /&gt;
Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock.&lt;br /&gt;
tion) . . .&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
This brings the invested funds to over &pound;4,000. Jan. 1, Northcote, H.&lt;br /&gt;
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom- Jan. 3, Watson, Mrs. Herbert A.&lt;br /&gt;
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the Jan. 3, Fursdon, Mrs. F. M. .&lt;br /&gt;
inoome at their disposal is at present exhausted. Jan. 3, Smith, Miss Edith A. .&lt;br /&gt;
They desire to draw the attention of the members Jan. 4, Pryce, Richard . .&lt;br /&gt;
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by Jan. 4, Wroughton, Miss Cicely.&lt;br /&gt;
additional subscriptions and donations there will Jan. 6, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila&lt;br /&gt;
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the Jan. 6, Underdown, Miss E. M..&lt;br /&gt;
year to declare another pension in case any im. Jan. 6, Carolin, Mrs. .&lt;br /&gt;
portant claim is forthcoming.&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 8, P. H. and M. K. .&lt;br /&gt;
Consols 21%.&lt;br /&gt;
0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 8, Crellin, H. R.&lt;br /&gt;
............ ...........&pound;1,000&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
Local Loant&amp;#039;s ...................&lt;br /&gt;
500 0&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 10; Tanner, James T..&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
....................&lt;br /&gt;
2. 2 0&lt;br /&gt;
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 10, Miller, Arthur .&lt;br /&gt;
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 10, Bolton, Miss Anna&lt;br /&gt;
London and North-Western 3% Deben-&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 10, Parr, Miss Olive K.&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
ture Stock ......&lt;br /&gt;
250&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 17, Harland, Mrs. .&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Egyptian Government Irrigation&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 21, Benecke, Miss Ida&lt;br /&gt;
2 5 4&lt;br /&gt;
Trust 4% Certificates&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 25, Fradd, Meredith&lt;br /&gt;
0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Cape of Good Hope 3% Inscribed&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 29, Stayton, F. . . . 0 JO 6&lt;br /&gt;
Stock .............&lt;br /&gt;
200 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 1, Wharton, L. C.&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0&lt;br /&gt;
Glasgow and South-Western Railway&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 4, Bowen, Miss Marjorie .&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
4% Preference Stock...................&lt;br /&gt;
228 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
New Zealand 32% Stock ............... 247 9 6&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 7, Pettigrew, W. F. .&lt;br /&gt;
. 0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Irish Land Act 27% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 7, Church, Sir A. H. . .&lt;br /&gt;
1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Corporation of London 2% Stock,&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 8, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit.&lt;br /&gt;
1927-57 ..............................&lt;br /&gt;
438 24&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 8, The XX. Pen Club&lt;br /&gt;
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 .......... 132 18 6&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 10, Greenbank, Percy.&lt;br /&gt;
. : 0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock......... 120 121&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 11, Stopford, Francis .&lt;br /&gt;
2 2&lt;br /&gt;
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 11, Dairson, A. J. .&lt;br /&gt;
. 0 5 0&lt;br /&gt;
Grant Stock, 1938..................... 198 3 8&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss Kathleen&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 16, W. D.&lt;br /&gt;
. . . . 1 1 0&lt;br /&gt;
Total ............... &pound;4,065&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 16, Gibbs, F. L. A.&lt;br /&gt;
6 0&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 17, Wintle, H. R. ..&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 21, Thurston, E. Temple.&lt;br /&gt;
Subscriptions.&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 23, Dawson, Mrs. Frederick&lt;br /&gt;
1910.&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; 8. d.&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 24, Williamson, C. N. . . 220&lt;br /&gt;
.&lt;br /&gt;
Feb. 24, Williamson, Mrs. C. X.&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 12, Riley, Miss Josephine . . ( 7 6 Feb. 27, Westell, W. P. . .&lt;br /&gt;
Jan. 13, Child, Harold H.. . . 0 10 0 March 2, Toplis, Miss Grace . 0 5&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
27&lt;br /&gt;
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NOC ON LOCO 5&lt;br /&gt;
Nereo ON-OS coo&lt;br /&gt;
0&lt;br /&gt;
&pound; $. d. In one of the remaining cases judgment has been&lt;br /&gt;
March 3, Hawtrey, Miss Valentina . 1 1 0 obtained but not satisfied, and it is now proposed&lt;br /&gt;
March 5, Smith, Bertram .&lt;br /&gt;
5 0 0 to issue a bankruptcy petition in order to bring&lt;br /&gt;
March 12, Yould, A. . .&lt;br /&gt;
5 0&lt;br /&gt;
the matter to an issue. In another the defendant&lt;br /&gt;
March 16, Loraine, Lady.&lt;br /&gt;
company was in liquidation, and the society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
March 29, Macdonnell, Randall .&lt;br /&gt;
0 claim was met with the usual answer that the&lt;br /&gt;
April 6, Blake, J. P..&lt;br /&gt;
0 debenture holders had foreclosed, and there was&lt;br /&gt;
April 8, &ldquo; Patricia Wentworth &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
1 0 not sufficient money to pay the ordinary creditors.&lt;br /&gt;
April 14, Hinkson, Mrs. K. Tynan&lt;br /&gt;
10 0 The last case, against a bankrupt paper, was one&lt;br /&gt;
May 6, Greenstreet, W. J.. . . 0 5 0 in which the society had already acted for some of&lt;br /&gt;
May 7, Cousin, John W. . . . 0 5 0 its members, and here again the assets of the&lt;br /&gt;
May 10, Zangwill, Israel . . 1 1 0 defendant company had been claimed by the&lt;br /&gt;
May 19, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (Portion of&lt;br /&gt;
debenture holders, and the member was informed&lt;br /&gt;
money recovered by the Society as&lt;br /&gt;
after further investigation by the solicitors, that it&lt;br /&gt;
damages)&lt;br /&gt;
. 10 0 0 was useless to push the claim.&lt;br /&gt;
June 3, Wynne, C. Whitworth&lt;br /&gt;
3 0. There were two cases which had to be conducted&lt;br /&gt;
June 15, Maunder, J. H. . . . 1 1 0 in foreign courts. One was in Germany-an&lt;br /&gt;
June 30, Atkinson, Harold&lt;br /&gt;
6 0 ordinary claim for work done. Judgment has&lt;br /&gt;
July 4, O&amp;#039;Higgins, Harvey .&lt;br /&gt;
1 0 0 been obtained but is not yet satisfied. The&lt;br /&gt;
July 5, Muir, Ward . . .&lt;br /&gt;
1 0 other, in Switzerland, related to an infringement of&lt;br /&gt;
July 5, Peacock, Mrs. .&lt;br /&gt;
0 copyright. It is still in course of settlement.&lt;br /&gt;
July 11, March, Miss A. M..&lt;br /&gt;
0 Those cases then came before the committee&lt;br /&gt;
July 18, Ralli, C. Scaramanga&lt;br /&gt;
which required their sanction, before further steps&lt;br /&gt;
July 20, Ellis, Havelock . .&lt;br /&gt;
O could be taken. The first related to an appeal&lt;br /&gt;
Aug. 22, Myers, C. S. .&lt;br /&gt;
0 from a judgment in the High Courts. The com-&lt;br /&gt;
Sept. 9, Bristow-Noble, J. C.&lt;br /&gt;
0 7 6 mittee were advised that the judgment had raised an&lt;br /&gt;
Sept. 30, Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred . 1 1 0 important issue to authors, namely, the legality of&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 4, Pakington, The Honourable&lt;br /&gt;
the assignment of personal contracts. As the com-&lt;br /&gt;
Mary&lt;br /&gt;
. 1 1 0 mittee were so advised they decided to take counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. ii, Caws, Luther W. .&lt;br /&gt;
0 10 0 opinion, which opinion was read. Counsel&amp;#039;s opinion&lt;br /&gt;
Oct. 11, Knowles-Foster, Miss Frances G. 0 10 0 was strongly against making the appeal, as he did&lt;br /&gt;
not think the case was a good one to adopt as a&lt;br /&gt;
test case. The committee decided, therefore, not&lt;br /&gt;
to take the matter further. The member of the&lt;br /&gt;
COMMITTEE NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
society concerned acquiesced in the decision.&lt;br /&gt;
The next subject related to the making of certain&lt;br /&gt;
voluntary payments to agents who had been instru.&lt;br /&gt;
M he first meeting after the vacation was held mental in assisting the society to obtain a judg-&lt;br /&gt;
1 at the offices of the society on Monday, ment against the defendants in the piracies of De&lt;br /&gt;
October 3.&lt;br /&gt;
Profundis &rdquo; which have already been referred to in&lt;br /&gt;
When the minutes had been read and signed, a previous Committee Notes. The committee agreed&lt;br /&gt;
large number of elections which had come in during on a payment, and passed a vote of thanks to the&lt;br /&gt;
the vacation were laid before the committee, and Music Publishers&amp;#039; Association for the assistance&lt;br /&gt;
64 members and associates were elected, bringing that had been given to the society. The last case&lt;br /&gt;
the total number for the current year up to referred to the loss of a MS., but as negotiations&lt;br /&gt;
220. The committee are very pleased to notice were proceeding for the payment of compensation&lt;br /&gt;
the steady inflow of authors to the society, as the to the author, it was decided to adjourn the matter&lt;br /&gt;
elections are well up to the average of former till the next meeting.&lt;br /&gt;
years. Four resignations were accepted, with The consideration of the Copyright Bill was&lt;br /&gt;
regret, bringing the total number of resignations referred by the Committee of Management to the&lt;br /&gt;
to 69.&lt;br /&gt;
sub-committees interested, as it was probable that&lt;br /&gt;
Cascs.&mdash;The secretary then reported to the com- the Bill would be pushed forward during the next&lt;br /&gt;
mittee the cases placed in the hands of the solicitors session.&lt;br /&gt;
during the vacation. There were seven county The half-yearly meeting of the Council was&lt;br /&gt;
court matters. Two of these have been settled and settled for Tuesday, November 22, when Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
the debt due has been paid. One is still in the Hurnphry Ward proposes to bring forward a&lt;br /&gt;
course of negotiation. In another the summons motion referring to the Academic Committee, and&lt;br /&gt;
has been issued, and is returnable in November. the action taken by the Committees of Management&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
A letter from the Publishers&amp;#039; Association, asking&lt;br /&gt;
for the support of the society with a view to&lt;br /&gt;
taking united action when the Bill should come&lt;br /&gt;
before Parliament, together with a copy of the&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Bill containing certain amendments&lt;br /&gt;
suggested by that body, was also considered. A&lt;br /&gt;
report of the proceedings of the meeting on&lt;br /&gt;
October 24 will appear in the December number.&lt;br /&gt;
of the society in its formation. Notices will be&lt;br /&gt;
sent to the Council in due course.&lt;br /&gt;
The notices in regard to the dinner, the date of&lt;br /&gt;
which has been fixed for November 24, will be sent&lt;br /&gt;
round to members during the month.&lt;br /&gt;
The financial position of the society was laid&lt;br /&gt;
before the Committee of Management by the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary, who explained that certain sums due to&lt;br /&gt;
the society had not been paid, and in consequence&lt;br /&gt;
had left the society with rather a small balance at&lt;br /&gt;
the bank. The committee sanctioned an over-&lt;br /&gt;
draft, in case the sums referred to were not received&lt;br /&gt;
in due course. It was proposed, in order to increase&lt;br /&gt;
the usefulness of the society and to make it more&lt;br /&gt;
widely known, to pay an extra clerk to circularise&lt;br /&gt;
with the society&amp;#039;s papers those authors in the&lt;br /&gt;
various branches of literature who were not already&lt;br /&gt;
members.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Henry James was unanimously elected a&lt;br /&gt;
member of the Council.&lt;br /&gt;
The committee decided, on the suggestion of the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary, to purchase additional furniture for the&lt;br /&gt;
office. This course had become necessary owing to&lt;br /&gt;
the increase of papers incidental to the working of&lt;br /&gt;
the many sub-committees.&lt;br /&gt;
Various letters dealing with matters of interest&lt;br /&gt;
to the society were laid before the committee and&lt;br /&gt;
considered, and the committee have to thank&lt;br /&gt;
W. Durran for a donation of &pound;1 18. to the&lt;br /&gt;
Capital Fund of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
The Committee of the Pension Fund met on&lt;br /&gt;
Monday, October 17, at 39, Old Queen Street,&lt;br /&gt;
and awarded to Miss May Crommelin a pension of&lt;br /&gt;
&pound;25 a year in recognition of her services to litera-&lt;br /&gt;
ture, extending over many years.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
The first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-com-&lt;br /&gt;
mittee after the Vacation was held at the offices of&lt;br /&gt;
the society on October 21,&lt;br /&gt;
After the minutes of the previous meeting had&lt;br /&gt;
been read and signed, the chairman, Sir Arthur&lt;br /&gt;
Pinero, proposed that an expression of condolence&lt;br /&gt;
should be sent to Mrs. Marshall on the loss she&lt;br /&gt;
had sustained by the death of her son, the late&lt;br /&gt;
Captain Robert Marshall, until recently a member&lt;br /&gt;
of this sub-committee. The secretary was accord-&lt;br /&gt;
ingly instructed to convey this message to her.&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary then reported the result of the&lt;br /&gt;
circular which was sent round to dramatists in&lt;br /&gt;
regard to the performances of plays in working&lt;br /&gt;
men&amp;#039;s clubs. Out of 102 answers received 89&lt;br /&gt;
agreed to give the undertaking asked by the sub-&lt;br /&gt;
committee ; five agreed to give it subject to certain&lt;br /&gt;
conditions ; and seven refused to give it at all. The&lt;br /&gt;
dramatists inside the society number some 250.&lt;br /&gt;
The next question that arose was the appoint-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of agents for dramatic authors in the various&lt;br /&gt;
colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, and&lt;br /&gt;
the secretary was instructed to write to the society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
lawyers in India to request them to prepare and&lt;br /&gt;
forward a return of the theatrical performances in&lt;br /&gt;
Calcutta and other centres of the Indian Empire,&lt;br /&gt;
over a period of six months, in order that the sub-&lt;br /&gt;
committee may be in a position to judge to what&lt;br /&gt;
extent piracy is prevalent in India.&lt;br /&gt;
He was also instructed to see Messrs. French in&lt;br /&gt;
the matter of the performances of dramatic pieces&lt;br /&gt;
in South Africa.&lt;br /&gt;
A question discussed at the last meeting of the&lt;br /&gt;
sub-committee, in regard to a member of the&lt;br /&gt;
society (since resigned), who had called into&lt;br /&gt;
question the conduct of another member, was re-&lt;br /&gt;
considered in the light of the statement of his&lt;br /&gt;
complaint which had been received, and the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary was instructed to forward a reply.&lt;br /&gt;
The receipt of a letter from the Italian Society&lt;br /&gt;
of Authors, which gave particulars of the work&lt;br /&gt;
undertaken by that society for dramatic authors,&lt;br /&gt;
was next reported.&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary was instructed to get a translation&lt;br /&gt;
made of the rules of the society and to lay it before&lt;br /&gt;
the next meeting, when the question of the advisa-&lt;br /&gt;
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
A MEETING of the Copyright Sub-committee&lt;br /&gt;
was held at the offices of ihe society on October&lt;br /&gt;
13.&lt;br /&gt;
The minutes of the previous meeting having&lt;br /&gt;
been read and signed, the secretary explained that&lt;br /&gt;
the Committee of Management had referred the&lt;br /&gt;
new Copyright Bill to the Copyright Sub-&lt;br /&gt;
committee with instructions to report thereon.&lt;br /&gt;
After careful discussion Mr. MacGillivray kindly&lt;br /&gt;
undertook to draw up a report to lay before the&lt;br /&gt;
Sub-committee and to indicate in that report how&lt;br /&gt;
far the draft bill satisfies the Society&amp;#039;s recommenda-&lt;br /&gt;
tions and to what extent it is in accord with the&lt;br /&gt;
Berlin Convention. This report, it was decided,&lt;br /&gt;
should be laid before the next meeting of the Sub-&lt;br /&gt;
committee.&lt;br /&gt;
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bility of English dramatists joining the society settled to the satisfaction of the authors and the&lt;br /&gt;
would be considered. The recommendation of the other parties concerned.&lt;br /&gt;
sub-committee will appear later in The Author. One case for infringement of copyright has been&lt;br /&gt;
It was decided also to write to the French placed in the hands of the solicitors. In two cases&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Dramatic Authors a letter indicating of non-delivery of accounts, one has been settled&lt;br /&gt;
the readiness of the English Society of Authors and the other is still in the course of negotiation.&lt;br /&gt;
to give what assistance was in its power in Three instances arose of unwarrantable delay in&lt;br /&gt;
regard to the settlement of contracts and the busi- publication. In two of these, owing to the pressure&lt;br /&gt;
ness arrangements for the production of French brought to bear by the society, the books have been&lt;br /&gt;
plays in England.&lt;br /&gt;
placed on the market, while in the third case a date&lt;br /&gt;
The consideration of the Copyright Bill was has been fixed for publication.&lt;br /&gt;
adjourned till the next meeting, owing to the fact There were five cases respecting money due for&lt;br /&gt;
that the report on the Bill was not ready to lay work done. As yet none of these has been settled,&lt;br /&gt;
before the sub-committee.&lt;br /&gt;
but two have only recently come into the office. In&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary then pointed out to the sub- the remaining three correspondence has passed and&lt;br /&gt;
committee the need for a draft contract for music- they will probably be settled shortly, except where,&lt;br /&gt;
hall sketches, assuring the sub-committee that in the case of one demand, the proprietor of the&lt;br /&gt;
many music-hall sketch contracts came to the office, paper has gone into bankruptcy.&lt;br /&gt;
and were, indeed, coming in increasing numbers. There are still sundry cases open from former&lt;br /&gt;
The sub-committee instructed the secretary to months in which negotiations are being carried on&lt;br /&gt;
prepare a contract and to lay the same before them with a view to a satisfactory settlement. They&lt;br /&gt;
at one of their future meetings.&lt;br /&gt;
are none of them of great importance.&lt;br /&gt;
The consideration of the agreement for a run During the month one case in the German&lt;br /&gt;
was adjourned till the settlement of the Music courts has been settled, the amount claimed by the&lt;br /&gt;
Hall Agreement.&lt;br /&gt;
society through its German lawyer having been&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary then laid on the table a report of recovered and paid over to the member.&lt;br /&gt;
the sub-committee of the Theatres Alliance upon&lt;br /&gt;
the Censorship Committee&amp;#039;s Report, and he was&lt;br /&gt;
instructed to ask the Theatres Alliance to forward&lt;br /&gt;
copies to lay before the different members of the&lt;br /&gt;
Elections.&lt;br /&gt;
sub-committee.&lt;br /&gt;
Barnard, Amy B., L.L.A. 14, Manville Road,&lt;br /&gt;
Upper Tooting,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Block, Regina Miriam . 88, Duke&amp;#039;s Avenue,&lt;br /&gt;
The secretary has had in hand since the last&lt;br /&gt;
Chiswick, W.&lt;br /&gt;
issue of The Author twenty cases. Of these eight Broadley, A. M. . . The Knapp, Bradhole,&lt;br /&gt;
were demands for MSS. It is as well to repeat the&lt;br /&gt;
Bridport.&lt;br /&gt;
difficulties, from the legal point of view, that arise Brodie-Innes, J. W.. . Milton Brodie, Torres,&lt;br /&gt;
when a MS. is not returned. It must lie with the&lt;br /&gt;
Scotland.&lt;br /&gt;
author to show that the MS. has actually reached Campbell, Dr. Helen J. . Topsham, Devonshire.&lt;br /&gt;
its destination and come into the hands of a Capes, Mrs. Hawtrey . 81, Royal Parade,&lt;br /&gt;
responsible party, and that that party has not&lt;br /&gt;
Eastbourne.&lt;br /&gt;
handled it with ordinary care. It is very difficult Carter, J. L. J. . . Ifield Wood, Crawley.&lt;br /&gt;
in some cases to prove these points, but the society Carter, Miss Edith . 215, Ebury Street,&lt;br /&gt;
finds as a general rule that editors, publishers, and&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
others will use their best endeavours to meet its Caws, The Rev. Luther W. Roslyn, Woodbury&lt;br /&gt;
wishes by a careful search.&lt;br /&gt;
Park Road, Tun-&lt;br /&gt;
Two of the eight clairns will be handed over to&lt;br /&gt;
bridge Wells.&lt;br /&gt;
the solicitors, for in both these cases, although the Clapp&eacute;, Miss Marion A. . &ldquo; Wa rrendale,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
authors hold receipts, the parties to whom the&lt;br /&gt;
Combe Lane, King-&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. were sent have not only failed to comply with&lt;br /&gt;
ston Hill, Surrey.&lt;br /&gt;
the demands of the writers, but have also omitted Copping, Arthur E. . River View, near&lt;br /&gt;
to accede to the request of the secretary. One case&lt;br /&gt;
Thundersley, Essex.&lt;br /&gt;
of the remaining six has been settled, and the Crawford, R. K. . . 31, Wellington Road,&lt;br /&gt;
other five are still in course of negotiation.&lt;br /&gt;
Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;
Three disputes have arisen as to the interpreta- Dawson Forbes . . 23, Midmoor Road,&lt;br /&gt;
tion of clauses under contracts. These have been&lt;br /&gt;
Wimbledon.&lt;br /&gt;
Cases.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Dodd, Miss Agnes F. . 3, Lincoln&amp;#039;s Inn Ozaki, Madame Yukio . 225, Shinagawa,&lt;br /&gt;
Fields, W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
Tokyo, Japan.&lt;br /&gt;
Douglas, Morgan (Madame Le Manoir, Loches, Peto, D. 0. G..&lt;br /&gt;
Winterhalter)&lt;br /&gt;
Indre et Loire, Poe, John William, . 7, Longfield Terrace,&lt;br /&gt;
France.&lt;br /&gt;
(Pater Padus)&lt;br /&gt;
N.C.R., Dublin.&lt;br /&gt;
Edwards, Albert H. . . 43, St. Paul&amp;#039;s Road, Potter, Mrs. Frances S uire 57 28, Madison&lt;br /&gt;
Bradford, Yorks.&lt;br /&gt;
Avenue, Chicago,&lt;br /&gt;
Edwards, Percy J. . . Authors&amp;#039; Club, White-&lt;br /&gt;
III., U.S.A.&lt;br /&gt;
hall Court, S.W. Ramsey, R. . . . Scaldhurst, Carewdon,&lt;br /&gt;
Fisher, F. W. A. . . 38, Guildford Street,&lt;br /&gt;
Rochford, Essex.&lt;br /&gt;
Russell Square, Reynolds, Stephen , Western Town, Sid-&lt;br /&gt;
W.C.&lt;br /&gt;
mouth.&lt;br /&gt;
Fleet, Vice - Admiral The Camber, Coley Rosen, Monsieur Jean H. 7, Av. du Grammont,&lt;br /&gt;
Henry L.&lt;br /&gt;
Avenue, Reading. de&lt;br /&gt;
Lausanne, Switzer-&lt;br /&gt;
Ford, Harold, LL.D., Taddington Rectory,&lt;br /&gt;
land.&lt;br /&gt;
D.C.L.&lt;br /&gt;
Buxton.&lt;br /&gt;
Skeaping, Emily J. . . Eccleston Park, Pres-&lt;br /&gt;
Glover, Wm. . . . Plasnewydd School,&lt;br /&gt;
cot, Lancs.&lt;br /&gt;
Maesteg, R.S.O., Simpson, Mrs. Alicia Isabel 14, Cadogan Court,&lt;br /&gt;
Glamorgan.&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Goetz, Mrs. Alma . . 26, Norfolk Crescent, Southey, Rosamond. . The Patch, Minehead,&lt;br /&gt;
Hyde Park, W.&lt;br /&gt;
Somerset.&lt;br /&gt;
Graham, Capt. H. (Col. 5, Tedworth Square, Sowerby, Mrs. . . . Pali Hill, Bandra,&lt;br /&gt;
D. Streamer)&lt;br /&gt;
Chelsea, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Bombay.&lt;br /&gt;
Grant, L. (Mrs.) . New County Club, 21, Sturge, Miss M. Carta .&lt;br /&gt;
Hanover Square, W. Sturt, George (George The Lower Bourne,&lt;br /&gt;
Gu&eacute;rin, E. W. de . . 14, Barclay Road, Bourne) . .&lt;br /&gt;
Farnham, Surrey.&lt;br /&gt;
Fulham, S.W. Trites, W. B. . . Bala, Philadelphia.&lt;br /&gt;
Hammerton - Gill, Mrs. Lower Green Road, Verney, Frank E. . . Cleveland, Combe&lt;br /&gt;
Beryl A. . . . Rusthall,Tunbridge&lt;br /&gt;
Martin, N. Devon.&lt;br /&gt;
Wells.&lt;br /&gt;
Waltham, Ernest . . 97, Upper Tulse Hill,&lt;br /&gt;
Hodges, Henry . . 31, High Street,&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Christchurch, Hants. Wentworth-James, Mrs. &ldquo; The Turret,&amp;quot; Wim-&lt;br /&gt;
Hughes, The Rev. Geoffrey Woolston Vicarage,&lt;br /&gt;
. bledon Park Road.&lt;br /&gt;
Southampton. Wilkinson, Clement J. . 3, Osborne Villas,&lt;br /&gt;
Hunter, Mrs.. ... The Lyceum Club,&lt;br /&gt;
Windsor.&lt;br /&gt;
128, Piccadilly, W. Woolf, Miss Flora 9, Clinette Road,&lt;br /&gt;
James, Spencer Theodore 87, Brudenell Road, Sidney&lt;br /&gt;
Putney, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Leeds.&lt;br /&gt;
Wylie, Ida A. R. . . Krieg &amp;quot;Strasse 99,&lt;br /&gt;
J. E. Buckrose . . Hornsea, near Hull.&lt;br /&gt;
Karlsruhe, Baden,&lt;br /&gt;
Jameson, Mrs. Norab . Manasterwan, co. Kil-&lt;br /&gt;
Germany.&lt;br /&gt;
dare.&lt;br /&gt;
Zulueta, Pedro de . .&lt;br /&gt;
Keene, Viss Ursula . . 105, Elm Park Man-&lt;br /&gt;
sions, Chelsea, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
Knowles &middot; Foster, Miss St. James&amp;#039; Park, Har-&lt;br /&gt;
Frances G. ,&lt;br /&gt;
rogate.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.&lt;br /&gt;
Lamport, Richard Fifield 24, St. John&amp;#039;s Grove,&lt;br /&gt;
Croydon.&lt;br /&gt;
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep&lt;br /&gt;
Lethaby, John W. . . Carisbrooke, Rother this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have&lt;br /&gt;
field, Sussex.&lt;br /&gt;
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact&lt;br /&gt;
MacDonnell, Col. A. C.,&lt;br /&gt;
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice&lt;br /&gt;
F.R.G.S., A.M.I.E.E. Sandhurst, Farnham.&lt;br /&gt;
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely&lt;br /&gt;
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and&lt;br /&gt;
Menon, T. K. Krishma . Ernakulam, Cochin other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; State, India.&lt;br /&gt;
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending&lt;br /&gt;
Meredith, Mark . . 240, Anfield Road,&lt;br /&gt;
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially&lt;br /&gt;
Liverpool.&lt;br /&gt;
accurate,&lt;br /&gt;
ᎪᎡᎢ .&lt;br /&gt;
Methven, Paul . . . 117, Warwick Road,&lt;br /&gt;
Philbeach Gardens,&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGE MORLAND. Sixteen examples in colour of the&lt;br /&gt;
artist&amp;#039;s work. With an Introduction by E. D. CUMING.&lt;br /&gt;
S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
9.1 x 7. 12 pp. Black. 28. 6d. 17.&lt;br /&gt;
G.&lt;br /&gt;
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## p. 31 (#57) ##############################################&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
31&lt;br /&gt;
100 POPULAR PICTURES. Facsimile Reproductions in&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; Colour of Popular Pictures. Selected froin the World&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
Great Galleries. With an Introduction by M. H.&lt;br /&gt;
SPIELMANN, and Notes by A. Fish. 15 x 104. 50 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Cassell. 12x.&lt;br /&gt;
THE EXHIBITIOy of SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FLEMISH&lt;br /&gt;
ART: BRUSSELS, 1910. By M. H. SPIELMANN. 11}x&lt;br /&gt;
84. 32 pp. The Connoisseur. ls. 60.&lt;br /&gt;
BIOGRAPHY.&lt;br /&gt;
LIFE AND LETTERS OF ALEXANDER MACMILLAN. By&lt;br /&gt;
C. L. GRAVES. 9 x 6. 418 pp. Macmillan. 108, n.&lt;br /&gt;
ForR FASCINATING FRENCHWOMEN. By MRS. BEARNE.&lt;br /&gt;
8 X 5.1. 480 pp. Unwin, 10s. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LIFE OF TOLSTOY : LATER YEARS. By AYLMER&lt;br /&gt;
&bull; MAUDE, 94 X 6. 680 pp. Constable. 108.6d, n.&lt;br /&gt;
SAMUEL ROGERS AND HIS CIRCLE. By ELLIS ROBERTS.&lt;br /&gt;
8 X 51. 301 pp. Methuen. 108. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF LORD BYRON. By FRANCIS&lt;br /&gt;
GRIBBLE. 97 x 53. 381 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 158. n.&lt;br /&gt;
LIVES OF THE EARLY MEDICI. As told in their Corre-&lt;br /&gt;
spondence. Translated and Edited by JANET Ross.&lt;br /&gt;
9 x 58. 352 pp. Chatto &amp;amp; Windus. 108. 60, n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE GREAT EMPRESS DOWAGER OF CHKA. By P. W.&lt;br /&gt;
SERGEANT. 83 x 51. 314 pp. Hutchinson, 168, n.&lt;br /&gt;
HORACE WALPOLE, By AUSTIN DOBSON. New Edition.&lt;br /&gt;
71 x 51 328 pp. Harpers. 58. n.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMA.&lt;br /&gt;
IOLANTHE, AND OTHER OPERAS. By W. S. GILBERT.&lt;br /&gt;
&middot; With Illustrations in Colour by W. RUSSELL FLINT.&lt;br /&gt;
104 x 71. 224 pp. Bell. 158. n.&lt;br /&gt;
The Cost OF A CROWN. A Story of Doway and Durham.&lt;br /&gt;
A Sacred Drama in Three Acts. By R. H. BENSON.&lt;br /&gt;
74 x 5. 101 pp. Longmans. 3.8. 6. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK. By JEROME&lt;br /&gt;
K. JEROME. 74 X 5. 212 pp. Hurst &amp;amp; Blackett.&lt;br /&gt;
18. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
ECONOMICS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE GLASS MENDER, AND OTHER STORIES. By MAURICE&lt;br /&gt;
BARING. 81 x 5. 260 pp. Nisbet. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE GOLDEN SILENCE. By C. N. and A. M. WILLIAM-&lt;br /&gt;
son. 8 x 5. 507 pp. Methuen. 63.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MAN WHO DROVE THE CAR. By MAX PEMBERTON.&lt;br /&gt;
73 x 5, 218 pp. Nash. 28. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SKIPPER&amp;#039;S WOOING. By W. W. JACOBS. 6 X 44.&lt;br /&gt;
270 pp. Velson. 7d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LADY OF TRIPOLI. By MICHAEL BARRINGTON.&lt;br /&gt;
With Frontispiece, Title-page, and Initials. By CELIA&lt;br /&gt;
MARTIN. Chatto &amp;amp; Windus. . 5s.&lt;br /&gt;
THE FINER GRAIN. By HENRY JAMES. 73 x &ouml;. 307 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Methuen. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
MRS. FITZ. By J. C. SNAITH. 7} * 5. 330 pp. Smith,&lt;br /&gt;
Elder. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE WISDOM OF FOLLY. By ELLEX THORNEYCROFT&lt;br /&gt;
FOWLER (The Hon. MRS. ALFRED FELKIN). 78 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
367 pp. Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
AN EMPRESS IN LOVE. By FRED WHISHAW. 8 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
311 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
A WAIF OF DESTINY. By L. G. MOBERLY. 73 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
319 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DRIFTERs. By W. R. TITTERTON. 7.1 x 54. 169 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
E. Palmer. 18, n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE REST CURE. By W. B. MAXWELL. 78 X 5. 355 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Methuen. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
ALONGSHORE, WHERE MAN AND THE SEA FACE ONE&lt;br /&gt;
ANOTHER. By STEPHEN REYNOLDS. 73 x 5. 325 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Macmillan. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
BEYOND THESE VOICES. By M. E. BRADDON, 74 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
373 pp. Hutchinson. 6s. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PRIZE. By SYDNEY GRIER. 74 x 5. 315 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Blackwood. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE ANDERSONS. By S. MacNAUGHTAN. 74 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
372 pp. Murray. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
LIGHT REFRESHMENT. By W. PETT RIDGE. 246 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 28. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE PURSUIT. By FRANK SAVILE. 74 x 5. 316 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Arnold. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DEW OF THEIR YOUTH. By S. R. CROCKETT.&lt;br /&gt;
78 x . 314 pp. Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE HOUSE OF THE SECRET. By KATHARINE TYNAN.&lt;br /&gt;
8 X 81. 313 pp. James Clarke. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
A KNIGHT OF POLAND. By M. E. CARR. 74 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
323 pp. Smith, Elder. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
Pan&amp;#039;s MOUNTAIN. By AM&Eacute;LIE RIVES (PRINCESS&lt;br /&gt;
TROUBETZKOY). 7 X 5. 288 pp. Harpers. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
JUSTICE. By VARIE C. LEIGHTON, 8 X 5. 303 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Ward, Lock. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
WHISKERS AND SODA. By FRANK RICHARDSON.&lt;br /&gt;
77 x 5. 255 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
JOHN CHRISTOPHER : DAWN AND MORNING. By&lt;br /&gt;
ROMAIN ROLLAND. Translated by GILBERT CANNAN.&lt;br /&gt;
78 x 5. 285 pp. Heinemann. 68. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE FOUR FEATHERS. By A. E. W. Mason. 17th&lt;br /&gt;
Impression. 7} X 5. 338 pp. Smith, Elder &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
3s. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
THE INVISIBLE MAx. By H. G. WELLS. 61 x 41.&lt;br /&gt;
275 pp. Nelson. 7d.&lt;br /&gt;
MARTIN THE MUMMER. BY DOROTHY MARGARET&lt;br /&gt;
STUART. 517 pp. Constable. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
GARDENING.&lt;br /&gt;
ALPINE FLOWERS AND ROCK GARDENS. Illustrated in&lt;br /&gt;
Colour. By W. P. WRIGHT. 91 x 63. 292 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Headley Bros. 125. 60. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF INVESTMENT. A Sequel to&lt;br /&gt;
** The Wheels of Wealth.&rdquo; By J. BEATTIE CROZIER,&lt;br /&gt;
LL.D. 8! X 51. 168 pp. The Financial Reriew of&lt;br /&gt;
Recievcs.&lt;br /&gt;
EDUCATIONAL.&lt;br /&gt;
PLUTARCH&amp;#039;S LIVES OF BRUTUS AND CORIOLANOS&lt;br /&gt;
(ENGLISH TEXTS). Edited by W. H. D. ROUSE, LITT. D.&lt;br /&gt;
61 X 41. 123 pp. Blackie. . 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
FICTION.&lt;br /&gt;
TAE CREATORS. By MAY SINCLAIR. 71 x 7. 525 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Constable. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE OSBORNES. By E. F. Benson. 73 x &otilde;. 335 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Smith, Elder. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE TEMPLETOX TRADITION. By ADAM GOWANS&lt;br /&gt;
WHYTE. 78 X 5. 344 pp. Blackwood. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
TAE SHADOW. By HAROLD BEGBIE. 8 X 51. 491 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
R. T. S. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LAND OF HIS FATHERS. By A. J. Dawson. 8 X 5.&lt;br /&gt;
384 pp. Constable. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
HEARTS AND CORONETS. By ALICE WILSON Fox.&lt;br /&gt;
7 x 5. 349 pp. Macmillan. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
REWARDS AND FAIRIES. By RUDYARD KIPLING. 8 x 51.&lt;br /&gt;
338 pp. Macmillan. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
LET THE ROOF FALL IN. By FRANK DANBY. 71 x .&lt;br /&gt;
476 pp. Hutchinson. 6s.&lt;br /&gt;
HEALTH.&lt;br /&gt;
DIET AND THE MAXIMUM DURATION OF LIFE. By&lt;br /&gt;
CHARLES REINHARDT, M.D. London Publicity Co.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE FLOWER Book. By CONSTANCE SMEDLEY ARMFIELD.&lt;br /&gt;
Pictured by MAXWELL ARMFIELD. 94 X 64. 153 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Chatto &amp;amp; Windus. 78. 60. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE BOOK OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM : MAMMALS. By&lt;br /&gt;
W. PERCIVAL WESTELL, F.L.S. Illustrated by W. S.&lt;br /&gt;
BERRIDGE. 9 x 7. 379 pp. Dent. 108. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
ORIENTAL.&lt;br /&gt;
MYSTICS AND SAINTS OF ISLAM. BY CLAUD FIELD,&lt;br /&gt;
78 x 5. 215 pp. Francis Griffiths. 38. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
PHILOSOPHICAL.&lt;br /&gt;
FROM PASSION TO PEACE. By JAMES ALLEN. 70 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
William Rider &amp;amp; Son, 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
1x. n.&lt;br /&gt;
ABOVE LIFE&amp;#039;s TURMOIL. By JAMES ALLEN. 163 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
G. P. Putnam&amp;#039;s Sons. 38. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
HISTORY.&lt;br /&gt;
HISTORICAL VIGNETTES. By BERNARD CAPES. 9 x 51.&lt;br /&gt;
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LONDON MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT : HISTORY OF A&lt;br /&gt;
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JUVENILE.&lt;br /&gt;
THE SPY: A TALE OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. By&lt;br /&gt;
CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON. Illustrated by CYRUS&lt;br /&gt;
CUNEO. 51 X 72. 379 pp. Frowde and Hodder &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton, 68.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LOST ISLAND. By CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON,&lt;br /&gt;
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Frowde, and Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 38. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
Yo-Ho! FOR THE SPANISH MAIN! By S. WALKEY.&lt;br /&gt;
311 pp. 4 Coloured Illustrations by ARCHIE WEBB.&lt;br /&gt;
Cassell. 38. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
ADVENTURES OF JASMIN. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Jarrold.&lt;br /&gt;
28. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
ALL ABOUT ME. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Chambers. 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
JACK&amp;#039;S INSECTS. By EDMUND SELOUS. 78 x 5. 379 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Methuen. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
WINNING AND WAITING. A Story of Village and City.&lt;br /&gt;
By L. E. TIDDEMAN. 8 * 51. 280 pp. Pilgrim&lt;br /&gt;
Press. 38. 60.&lt;br /&gt;
ODIN&amp;#039;S TREASURY. By W. VICTOR Cook. 74 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
253 pp. S.P.C.K. 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
FIGHTING THE ICEBERGS. By F. BULLEN. 8 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
372 pp. Nisbet, 68.&lt;br /&gt;
FAIRIES I HAVE MET. By Mrs. R. STAWELL.&lt;br /&gt;
78 X 6. 117 pp. 18. 6d. Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 3s.6d, n.&lt;br /&gt;
NEXT DOOR GWENNIE. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. 73 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
156 pp. S.P.C.K. 18. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
PHILIP COMPTON&amp;#039;S WILL. By MRS. HARDING KELLY,&lt;br /&gt;
287 pp. Religious Tract Society.&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DEVIL&amp;#039;S MOTOR. A Fantasy. By MARIE CORELLI.&lt;br /&gt;
114 x 8. Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 68. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND. An Account&lt;br /&gt;
of the Literary Relations of England and France in the&lt;br /&gt;
16th Century. By SIDNEY LEE. 87 x 51. 494 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London : Frowde. &amp;quot; 108, 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
OLD KENSINGTON PALACE, AND OTHER PAPERS. By&lt;br /&gt;
AUSTIN DOBSON, 73 X5. 316 pp. Chatto &amp;amp; Windus. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
FRANCIS BACON. A Sketch of his Life, Works, and&lt;br /&gt;
Literary Friends ; chiefly from a Bibliographical Point of&lt;br /&gt;
View. By G. W. STEEVES, M.D. 78 x 5. 230 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Methuen. 68. n.&lt;br /&gt;
MISCELLANEOUS.&lt;br /&gt;
A CENTURY OF BALLADS (1810-1910); THEIR COM-&lt;br /&gt;
POSERS AND SINGERS. By HAROLD SIMPSON. Mills&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Boon. 108. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
OUR HOUSE. By ELIZABETH ROBINS PENNELL. 81 X&lt;br /&gt;
54. 328 pp. Fisher Unwin. 48. 60. n.&lt;br /&gt;
NATURAL HISTORY.&lt;br /&gt;
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARRETT&lt;br /&gt;
HAMILTON, F.Z.S. With 27 Full-Page Plates in Colour&lt;br /&gt;
and Other Illustrations. By E. A. WILSON. Part I.,&lt;br /&gt;
October, 1910. 10 X 61. 88 pp. Gurney &amp;amp; Jackson.&lt;br /&gt;
28. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
LIVES OF THE Fur FOLK. By M. D. HAVILAND. 78 X&lt;br /&gt;
51. 234 pp. Longmans. 58. n.&lt;br /&gt;
KEARTON&amp;#039;S NATURE PICTURES. Reproduced in Photo&lt;br /&gt;
gravure, Colour, and Black and White from Photographs&lt;br /&gt;
by R. and C. KEARTON. With Descriptive Text by R.&lt;br /&gt;
KEARTON. 12 x 9, 96 pp. Cassell, 158. n.&lt;br /&gt;
POETRY.&lt;br /&gt;
MARY AND THE BRAMBLE, By LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE,&lt;br /&gt;
Published by the Author : Much Marcle, Herefordshire.&lt;br /&gt;
Post free, ls, ld.&lt;br /&gt;
POEMS AND BALLADS. By H. DE VERE STACPOOLE.&lt;br /&gt;
7 x 41. 120 pp. Murray. 38. 60, n.&lt;br /&gt;
IN POETS&amp;#039; CORNER. By LAUCHLAN MACLEAN WATT,&lt;br /&gt;
Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 38. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
THE QUEEN OF THE FIORD. By JOHN CAVE. 8 X 51.&lt;br /&gt;
201 pp. Kegan Paul. 58. n.&lt;br /&gt;
RUMBO RHYMES ; OR, THE GREAT COMBINE: A Satire.&lt;br /&gt;
By A. C. CALMOUR. Illustrated by WALTER CRANE.&lt;br /&gt;
93 x 64. 99 pp. Harpers. 58. n.&lt;br /&gt;
LITTLE SONGs. By ELLA ERSKINE, 61 x 41. 18 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
Truslove &amp;amp; Hanson.&lt;br /&gt;
POLITICAL.&lt;br /&gt;
THE MOTHER OF PARLIAMENTS. By CAPTAIN HARRY&lt;br /&gt;
GRAHAM. 9 x 5. 314 pp. Methuen. 108. 6d, n.&lt;br /&gt;
AFGHANISTAN: THE BUFFER STATE. GREAT BRITAIN&lt;br /&gt;
AND RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA. By CAPTAIN GERVAIS&lt;br /&gt;
LYONS. Madras : Higginbotham &amp;amp; Co. London :&lt;br /&gt;
Luzac &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
REPRINTS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE OXFORD BOOK OF ITALIAN VERSE. XIII. CENTURY&lt;br /&gt;
to XIX. CENTURY. Chosen by St. John Lucas. 6*&lt;br /&gt;
41. 576 pp. Oxford : Clarendon Press; London :&lt;br /&gt;
Frowde. 68. n.&lt;br /&gt;
THE CAXTON SHAKESPEARE. Vol. 12: KixG HENRY IV. ;&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. 13: KING HENRY V. AND KING HENRY VIII. ;&lt;br /&gt;
Vol. 14 : ROMEO AND JULIET AND TITUS ANDRONICUS.&lt;br /&gt;
With Annotations and a General Introduction. By&lt;br /&gt;
SIDNEY LEE. 9 x 61. 151 + 163; 155 + 155 ; 154&lt;br /&gt;
+ 123 pp. Caxton Publishing Co. 68. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
AN ANTHOLOGY OF HUMOROUS VERSE. FROM ROBERT&lt;br /&gt;
HERRICK TO OWEN SEAMAN. By HELEN AND LEWIS&lt;br /&gt;
MELVILLE. 7% ~ 5. 255 pp. Harrap.&lt;br /&gt;
SPORT.&lt;br /&gt;
ANECDOTES OF BIG CATS AND OTHER BEASTS. By DAVID&lt;br /&gt;
WILSON. 74 x 5. 312 pp. Methuen. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
HUNTING CAMPS IN WOOD AND WILDERNESS. By H.&lt;br /&gt;
HESKETH PRICHARD, F.Z.S. Illustrated by LADY&lt;br /&gt;
HELEN GRAHAM, E. G. CALDWELL, and from Photo-&lt;br /&gt;
graphs. 104 x 71. 274 pp. Heinemann. 158. n.&lt;br /&gt;
SPORTING DAYS AND SPORTING WAYS. BY RALPH&lt;br /&gt;
NEVILL. 9 x 6. 318 pp. Duckworth. 12s. 60. n.&lt;br /&gt;
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OLD MOUNTAINEER. By W.&lt;br /&gt;
LARDEN. 91 x 51. 320 pp. Arnold. 148. n.&lt;br /&gt;
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33&lt;br /&gt;
THEOLOGY.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. A. M. Gardner &amp;amp; Co. have published&lt;br /&gt;
THE COMMUNION TABLE, By LAUCHLAN MACLEAN the 8th edition of Francis Bancroft&amp;#039;s novel &ldquo; Of&lt;br /&gt;
Watt. 2nd Edition. Purple Library. Hodder &amp;amp; Like Passions.&rdquo; The present issue is published&lt;br /&gt;
Stoughton. 28. 6d.&lt;br /&gt;
THE LORD FROM HEAVEN : Chapters on the Deity of&lt;br /&gt;
of at ls.&lt;br /&gt;
Christ. By SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. Second&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Thomas Baker has just published a selection&lt;br /&gt;
Edition (with New Preface). 84 * 51. 134 pp. Nisbet. from the works of the old English mystic and&lt;br /&gt;
3s. 60.&lt;br /&gt;
devotional writer, Richard Rolle, Hermit of Ham-&lt;br /&gt;
SUNDAY EVENIXG. FIFTY-TWO SHORT SERMONS POR&lt;br /&gt;
pole, in Yorkshire, in the reigns of Edward II. and&lt;br /&gt;
HOME READING. By W. ROBERTSON NICOLL. 87x53.&lt;br /&gt;
416 pp. Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 58. n.&lt;br /&gt;
Edward III., comprising &ldquo; The Form of Perfect&lt;br /&gt;
MESSAGES FROM THE THRONE. By MRS, HARDING KELLY Living,&rdquo; &ldquo; Our Daily Work: A Mission of Dis-&lt;br /&gt;
99 pp. Robert Scott.&lt;br /&gt;
cipline,&rdquo; &ldquo;A Treatise on Grace,&amp;quot; &ldquo; On Charity,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
TOPOGRAPHY,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;On Contrition, etc., etc. The selection has been&lt;br /&gt;
LONDON. By A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF. 91 x 7. 312 pp.&lt;br /&gt;
rendered into modern English by Dr. Geraldine&lt;br /&gt;
Black, 78. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
Hodgson. The book is not intended for the use of&lt;br /&gt;
VANISHING ENGLAND. The Book by P. H. DITCHFIELD, those acquainted with Anglo-Saxon and Middle&lt;br /&gt;
F.S.A. The Illustrations by FRED ROE, R.I. 9 x 6.&lt;br /&gt;
English ; but for those who care for the thought,&lt;br /&gt;
403 pp. Methuen. 158, n.&lt;br /&gt;
OLD ENGLISH HOUSES. The Record of a Random Itinerary.&lt;br /&gt;
especially the religious and devotional thought of&lt;br /&gt;
By ALLAX FEA. 8} x 51. 273 pp. Martin Secker.&lt;br /&gt;
our forefathers.&lt;br /&gt;
108. 6d. n.&lt;br /&gt;
A two-shilling edition of A. E. Jacomb&amp;#039;s novel&lt;br /&gt;
TRAVEL.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Faith of His Fathers&rdquo; has been issued by&lt;br /&gt;
THE SPELL OF EGYPT. By ROBERT HICHENS. 74 x 5.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Andrew Melrose. The six-shilling edition was&lt;br /&gt;
279 pp. Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton. 68.&lt;br /&gt;
published some two or three years ago when the&lt;br /&gt;
SANGIMIGNANO OF VAL D&amp;#039;ELSA IN TUSCANY. By novel was successful in Mr. Melrose&amp;#039;s first Novel&lt;br /&gt;
JEAN CARLYLE GRAHAM AND ELIZABETH M. DERBI. Competition.&lt;br /&gt;
SHIRE. Rome : Ermano Loescher &amp;amp; Co. 128.&lt;br /&gt;
Readers of &ldquo;Pack of Pook&amp;#039;s Hill&amp;quot; may be&lt;br /&gt;
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION. Edited by E. A. REY.&lt;br /&gt;
NOLDS BALL. October, 1910. Witherby. 18. n.&lt;br /&gt;
interested to hear that Mr. Rudyard Kipling&amp;#039;s new&lt;br /&gt;
book, &ldquo;Rewards and Fairies,&amp;quot; is a further collection&lt;br /&gt;
of stories told to Dan and Una by certain interest-&lt;br /&gt;
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL&lt;br /&gt;
ing personages of olden times, who, as in the&lt;br /&gt;
previous book, are introduced to them by their&lt;br /&gt;
NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
friend, Robin Goodfellow. Messrs. Macmillan &amp;amp;&lt;br /&gt;
Co. are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
TN his new book, &ldquo; Above Life&amp;#039;s Turmoil,&rdquo; Mr. Mr. W. E. Norris has a serial entitled &ldquo; Vittoria&lt;br /&gt;
James Allen aims at showing how, surrounded Victrix,&rdquo; running in the Daily Telegraph. It will&lt;br /&gt;
by noise, we can still preserve a quiet mind, be published in book form next spring.&lt;br /&gt;
and, through self-knowledge and self-discipline, Messrs. Macmillan have published Mr. Stephen&lt;br /&gt;
rise above the turmoil of the world, and without Reynolds&amp;#039; new novel, &ldquo; Alongshore,&rdquo; in which the&lt;br /&gt;
shirking the duties and difficulties of life, fortify author aims, in a series of humorous and&lt;br /&gt;
ourselves against anxiety regarding them. Messrs. descriptive chapters, to show the predominant&lt;br /&gt;
G. P. Putnam&amp;#039;s Sons are the publishers in England influence of the sea on a set of men who, even&lt;br /&gt;
and in America.&lt;br /&gt;
when they are not afloat, are always looking towards&lt;br /&gt;
We have also received a work by Mr. Allen the sea for their daily bread : to bring out the&lt;br /&gt;
entitled &ldquo;From Passion to Peace.&rdquo; Here, starting poetry, pathos, and jollity of the life without&lt;br /&gt;
with a chapter on Passion, the lowest level of sacrificing its realism. The volume is illustrated&lt;br /&gt;
human life, the reader is shown, in the chapter on by eight photographs by Mr. Melville Mackay.&lt;br /&gt;
Aspiration, the way from the under darkness to L. Allen Harker&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Master and&lt;br /&gt;
the upper light. The causes leading to the birth Maid,&rdquo; will be published this antuinn by Mr. John&lt;br /&gt;
of aspiration are dwelt upon, and its character. Murray here, and Messrs. Charles Scribners&amp;#039; Sons&lt;br /&gt;
istics described Temptation, the subject of the in America.&lt;br /&gt;
third chapter, is shown to be the reversion in The central figure of the volume of seventeenth&lt;br /&gt;
thought from purity to passion. Messrs. Wm. and eighteenth century letters, edited by Miss&lt;br /&gt;
Rider &amp;amp; Son, of 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C., are Julia Longe, is Martha, Lady Giffard, the only&lt;br /&gt;
the English, and Messrs. T. Y. Crowell &amp;amp; Co., of sister of Sir William Temple. The letters, which&lt;br /&gt;
New York, the American publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
are from various important people of the day,&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Agnes M. Kelly provides 100 new and notably &ldquo; Sacharissa &amp;quot; Lady Temple (Dorothy&lt;br /&gt;
original illustrations for a book entitled &ldquo; House- Osborn), the Duchess of Somerset, Sir William&lt;br /&gt;
hold Foes,&amp;quot; by Miss Alice Ravenhill, which Messrs. Godolphin, etc., are arranged chronologically and&lt;br /&gt;
Sidgwick &amp;amp; Jackson are publishing,&lt;br /&gt;
form a consecutive narrative. Judge Parry is&lt;br /&gt;
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contributing a foreword, and the volume is properly contains an article entitled &ldquo;In the Heart of an&lt;br /&gt;
illustrated with original portraits of many of the Indian Forest,&amp;quot; from the pen of Mr. C. E.&lt;br /&gt;
writers, and autographs of Lady Giffard, Lady Gouldsbury. The same writer also has an article&lt;br /&gt;
Temple, and Dean Swift. The publishers are in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Neues&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Allen.&lt;br /&gt;
of September 24, called &ldquo;Two Lucky Shots,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
We have received a copy of a book entitled while &ldquo; Camp Life in Bengal,&rdquo; which will appear&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Sangimignano of Val D. Elsa in Tuscany,&amp;quot; by shortly in the current volume of Young&lt;br /&gt;
Jean Carlyle Grahain and Elizabeth M. Derbishire. England, is another article from Mr. Gouldsbury&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
The scope of the book may be best described in pep.&lt;br /&gt;
words of the anthors in the preface : &ldquo; There is Miss Regina Miriam Bloch&amp;#039;s poem &ldquo; Song&amp;quot; has&lt;br /&gt;
nothing finally dogmatic in our little book. We been included in &ldquo;The Biographical Birthday&lt;br /&gt;
merely present to you a sketchy series of observa- Book of Prominent Poets of the Period,&rdquo; published&lt;br /&gt;
tions, realist or impressionist as circumstances by Messrs. Kegan Paul &amp;amp; Co., Ltd.&lt;br /&gt;
insist or as occasion demands. We go about and We have received a copy of the second edition&lt;br /&gt;
talk of what we see, we gossip of the past, we of the Rev. J. C. Digges&amp;#039; &ldquo; Practical Bee Guide.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
digress at times, we wander at willi; but you will Many new paragraphs have been added to the new&lt;br /&gt;
forgive, because with this we give you certain edition, treating of such subjects as the &ldquo; W. B.C.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
elucidating documents which have never hitherto hive, the &ldquo;I. B. A. 1909&rdquo; hive, &ldquo; Claustral&lt;br /&gt;
been put into print ; also a plan of the city ; and Detention Chambers,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Searching for the Queen,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
above all, we offer you, by means of our pen-and- the &ldquo;Isle of Wight Disease,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Recent Investiga-&lt;br /&gt;
ink illustrations, the veritable Sangimignano tions into the Cause of Foul Brood,&amp;quot; etc., and a&lt;br /&gt;
with its own peculiar rugged lines which no new chapter on &ldquo;Exhibiting and Judging Bee&lt;br /&gt;
camera and no brush have ever succeeded in Products&amp;quot; has been introduced. Twenty new&lt;br /&gt;
reproducing.&amp;quot; Messrs. Ermano Loescher &amp;amp; Co., blocks have been inserted in the new edition,&lt;br /&gt;
of Rome, are the publishers. Only 300 copies have and fifty-three in the old edition disappear from&lt;br /&gt;
been printed, and the published price of the work the present issue, their places being taken by&lt;br /&gt;
is 12s.&lt;br /&gt;
others more accurate, as Mr. Digges has deemed&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Fairbourn Papers,&amp;quot; edited by Mr. G. E. it wise to rely upon pen and camera for the&lt;br /&gt;
Webb, and published by Messrs. John Ouseley, illustration of manipulations, appliances, etc. The&lt;br /&gt;
Ltd., relate the history and career of a solicitor London publishers are Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall&lt;br /&gt;
residing in the City of London.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Co., while Messrs. Eason &amp;amp; Son, Ltd., are the&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;A Century of Ballads (1810&ndash;1910), their publishers in Dublin and Belfast.&lt;br /&gt;
Composers and Singers,&rdquo; by Harold Simpson, is Derek Vane&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; Lady Vereker,&rdquo; is&lt;br /&gt;
the story of popular song, told in a popular style. appearing first serially in the Daily Telegraph.&lt;br /&gt;
It abounds in anecdotes about well-known songs, He has also recently been writing short stories for&lt;br /&gt;
composers and singers, from the beginning of the the Bystander, Sicetch, and Black and White.&lt;br /&gt;
19th century to the present day. It is illustrated His last novel, &ldquo; The Secret Door,&rdquo; will shortly&lt;br /&gt;
with photographs of all the best known composers, be brought out in a cheap edition by the Weekly&lt;br /&gt;
singers and lyric writers, together with numerous Telegraph.&lt;br /&gt;
facsimiles and autographs. Messrs. Mills &amp;amp; Boon Messrs. Longmans &amp;amp; Co. have just issued Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
D. Haviland&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo; Lives of the Fur Folk,&rdquo; a&lt;br /&gt;
G. P. Putnam&amp;#039;s Sons announce a new novel by series of animal biographies dealing with the fox,&lt;br /&gt;
Florence L. Barclay, author of &amp;quot;The Rosary,&amp;quot; cat, rabbit, and badger in Ireland.&lt;br /&gt;
now in its 120th thousand. The title is &ldquo; The Miss Maud Goldring&amp;#039;s new novel, &ldquo; The Downs-&lt;br /&gt;
Mistress of Shenstone,&rdquo; and it is promised that man,&rdquo; treats of the rivalry between a Socialist who&lt;br /&gt;
many of the characters in &ldquo;The Rosary&rdquo; will comes down into Sussex and an enlightened&lt;br /&gt;
appear again in the new story.&lt;br /&gt;
representative of the old order, and will be found&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Methuen &amp;amp; Co. have issued a volume on of interest to students of social conditions. At&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Francis Bacon,&amp;quot; by Dr. G. W. Steeves. The the same time the romance is not overburdened&lt;br /&gt;
aim of the author has been to sketch the chief with theories. Mr. Murray hopes to publish the&lt;br /&gt;
events in the life of Bacon, freed as much as volume before Christmas.&lt;br /&gt;
possible from general historical detail, followed by Messrs. J. M. Dent &amp;amp; Sons, Ltd., announce a&lt;br /&gt;
a &ldquo;classification&rdquo; and short description of Bacon&amp;#039;s new work by W. Percival Westell, F.L.S. It is&lt;br /&gt;
chief works, with certain considerations bearing on entitled &ldquo;The Book of the Animal Kingdom,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
his Life and Letters. Selected title pages of the and treats of over five hundred kinds of representa-&lt;br /&gt;
earliest editions of Bacon&amp;#039;s works appear in the tive mammals of the world, with a chapter on the&lt;br /&gt;
volume by Dr. Steeves.&lt;br /&gt;
four-footed beasts of Australia by Charles Barrett,&lt;br /&gt;
The October issue of the Boys On Paper M.A.O.U. There will be fourteen coloured and&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
35&lt;br /&gt;
two hundred and sixty plain plates, chiefly from King&amp;#039;s Fool&rdquo; has returned once more to the&lt;br /&gt;
photographs of the living animals, by W. S. Middle Ages, and has portrayed the soul&amp;#039;s history&lt;br /&gt;
Berridge, F.L.S. The work is divided into sixteen of a famous Troubadour Prince. It is a romance&lt;br /&gt;
sections, and it has been the author&amp;#039;s aim to eschew in which the reader breathes the dream-haunted&lt;br /&gt;
dry and uninviting definitions, and to present his air of Aquitaine in the twelfth century, and is&lt;br /&gt;
story in such a way that both young and old may symbolic of the fourfold quest of love, religion,&lt;br /&gt;
be able to acquire a general knowledge of the wisdom, and ideal beauty.&lt;br /&gt;
mammalian fauna of the world.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;In Waste Places,&amp;quot; a new story by Mrs.&lt;br /&gt;
In Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton&amp;#039;s new book, Woollaston White, will be issued in December.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Fate of Henri de Navarre,&rdquo; which is not a The scene is laid in the early days of British&lt;br /&gt;
novel, the true story of that king&amp;#039;s death is told, Columbia, and chiefly concerns the thrilling ex-&lt;br /&gt;
and the mystery of whether it took place as the periences of a young wife. It will be issued by&lt;br /&gt;
outcome of a Court plot, or was solely the result of the St. Andrew&amp;#039;s Press, Barnet.&lt;br /&gt;
the diseased brain of the religious enthusiast, &ldquo; Messages from the Throne,&rdquo; by Mrs. Harding&lt;br /&gt;
Rasaillac, cleared up. The work will also contain Kelly, is a little book compiled for the use of&lt;br /&gt;
an accurate description of the Paris of the time, district visitors who find a difficulty in speaking to&lt;br /&gt;
an exhaustive description of Sully, and also of the the cottagers whom they visit. The readings are&lt;br /&gt;
extraordinary manner in which, out of vanity, he intended to be suggestive, and to make the Bible&lt;br /&gt;
appears to have endeavoured to identify himself more interesting and intelligible to the people.&lt;br /&gt;
with the supposed poisoning of Gabrielle d&amp;#039;Estr&eacute;es. Mr. Robert Scott is the publisher. Mrs. Harding&lt;br /&gt;
Other leading characters of the time will also be Kelly has also issued, through the Religious Tract&lt;br /&gt;
fully described, some of whoin, except to writers Society, a story entitled &ldquo; Philip Compton&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
on the period, are almost unknown to the reading Will.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
public-characters such as Henriette d&amp;#039;Entragues &ldquo;The Second Elopement,&rdquo; Mr. Herbert Flower-&lt;br /&gt;
and the Duc d&amp;#039;Epernon. The book will be dew&amp;#039;s 1910 novel, is being published in America&lt;br /&gt;
full; illustrated with portraits and some rare by Messrs. Brentano. It is also being translated&lt;br /&gt;
views of Paris, and will be published by Everett into German and Swedish. It successor, &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
Third Wife,&rdquo; is announced by Messrs. Stanley&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. J. M. Dent &amp;amp; Sons, Ltd., announce Paul &amp;amp; Co, for publication early in 1911.&lt;br /&gt;
a new addition of &ldquo; Aacassin and Nicolette&rdquo; from Mr. Flowerdew has written an article on &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
a translation by Mr. Eugene Mason. The edition Psychology of Tariff Reform,&rdquo; for The English&lt;br /&gt;
is illustrated in colour by Mr. Maxwell Armfield. Review&amp;#039;, and an article from his pen on the price&lt;br /&gt;
The book, which will, it is hoped, be the first of a of the novel will appear in an early number of The&lt;br /&gt;
series of similar old romances, will be published Nineteenth Century and After.&lt;br /&gt;
at the price of 2s. 6d. net.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Philip de Crespigny&amp;#039;s book, &ldquo; The Valley&lt;br /&gt;
Miss May Crommelin&amp;#039;s autumn novel will shortly of Achor,&amp;quot; published by Messrs. Mills &amp;amp; Boon, has&lt;br /&gt;
be published by Messrs. Hutchinson &amp;amp; Co. under gone into a second edition. The November issue&lt;br /&gt;
the title &ldquo; Madam Mystery.&rdquo; The scene is laid in of The Story Teller contains a story by Mrs. de&lt;br /&gt;
the Loire Valley, where a party of happy sightseers Crespigny.&lt;br /&gt;
to the famous castles of Touraine are bewildered &amp;quot;Chains,&amp;quot; a new novel by Edward Noble, will&lt;br /&gt;
by a mysterious &ldquo; double&rdquo; claiming the heroine&amp;#039;s be published shortly by Messrs. Constable &amp;amp; Co.&lt;br /&gt;
name. This puzzle, with love affairs and an It is a book dealing with the handicap imposed by&lt;br /&gt;
under-plot involving some French country gentry, our divorce laws on women ; the impossibility of&lt;br /&gt;
is the life-current playing round the rock-histories a woman obtaining freedom on the same grounds&lt;br /&gt;
of the once English-owned ch&acirc;teaux.&lt;br /&gt;
as a man, and incidentally exposing some aspects of&lt;br /&gt;
In his new book, &ldquo;Diet and the Maximum the White Slave traffic as seen in the seaports of&lt;br /&gt;
Duration of Life,&rdquo; Dr. Charles Reinhardt discusses South America.&lt;br /&gt;
the advantages and disadvantages of various foods - Afghanistan, the Buffer State,&rdquo; is a com-&lt;br /&gt;
for those who would preserve robust health for the prehensive treatise on the entire Central Asian&lt;br /&gt;
longest possible time. There are also chapters question by Captain Gervais Lyons. The book&lt;br /&gt;
dealing with such matters as food in infancy, food has two maps fully illustrating the subject, and&lt;br /&gt;
in disease, beverages, and one on dietetic systems, showing all frontiers and existing and projecting&lt;br /&gt;
which should be read by those who have committed railways. There is also an introductory note by&lt;br /&gt;
their digestions to any of these systems. The Lieut.-General Sir Reginald C. Hart. Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
London Publicity Co. are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Luzac &amp;amp; Co. are the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Chatto and Windus have just issued Mr. Miss Dorothy Margaret Stuart has just published,&lt;br /&gt;
Michael Barrington&amp;#039;s new romance, &ldquo; The Lady of through Messrs. Constable &amp;amp; Co., a romance entitled&lt;br /&gt;
Tripoli.&rdquo; In his new book the author of &ldquo;The &ldquo; Martin the Mummer.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
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36&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Mrs. Perrin&amp;#039;s novel, &ldquo;The Charm,&amp;quot; published on au XVII. Si&egrave;cle,&amp;quot; and the present volume is &ldquo; Le&lt;br /&gt;
September 1 by Messrs. Methuen &amp;amp; Co., is now Roi Louis XIII. &agrave; Vingt Ans.&amp;quot; The three&lt;br /&gt;
in its third edition.&lt;br /&gt;
volumes are marvels of conscientious work and&lt;br /&gt;
give evidence of years of patient research.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC&lt;br /&gt;
Perhaps no prince has been so misunderstood as&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The Tramp,&amp;quot; a play in one act by Ursula&lt;br /&gt;
Louis XIII. Thanks to the ambition and love of&lt;br /&gt;
Keene, was produced at the Theatre Royal,&lt;br /&gt;
power of his mother, Marie de Medicis, and the&lt;br /&gt;
Margate, early last month. Ursula Keene&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
influence of Concini and his wife, Louis XIII., as&lt;br /&gt;
suburban comedy, &ldquo; The Eldest Miss Darrell,&rdquo; in&lt;br /&gt;
a young man, was set aside. As be was powerless&lt;br /&gt;
three acts, was produced at a special matin&eacute;e at&lt;br /&gt;
to obtain his proper position and was extremely&lt;br /&gt;
the Court Theatre on October 28. At the same&lt;br /&gt;
reserved, he remained apparently submissive and&lt;br /&gt;
matin&eacute;e was produced &ldquo; The Servants of Pan,&rdquo; a&lt;br /&gt;
resigned to his fate, and, for this reason, he has&lt;br /&gt;
fantasy by Clarice Laurence, which was also&lt;br /&gt;
been generally treated by historians as a nonentity.&lt;br /&gt;
produced at the Theatre Royal, Margate, during&lt;br /&gt;
M. Louis Batiffol has studied the archives of this&lt;br /&gt;
the same week as witnessed the staging of &ldquo;The&lt;br /&gt;
epoch more thoroughly than most of the historians&lt;br /&gt;
Tramp.&rdquo; The cast at these performances included&lt;br /&gt;
hitherto, and has unearthed many curious docu-&lt;br /&gt;
Miss Ursula Keene and Miss Clarice Laurence.&lt;br /&gt;
ments. He shows us how the young prince was&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Company for George&rdquo; is a three-act farce by&lt;br /&gt;
educated, and the lack of sympathy and affection&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. R. S. Warren Bell, which was produced at the&lt;br /&gt;
between him and his mother. &amp;quot;In her anxiety to&lt;br /&gt;
Kingsway on October 15. The story it disclosed&lt;br /&gt;
retain the regency she kept her son in the back-&lt;br /&gt;
had to do with the reluctance of a University&lt;br /&gt;
ground-treated him, at the age of sixteen, as a&lt;br /&gt;
student to admit the existence of a time limit to&lt;br /&gt;
mere child. Concini and his wife, the Queen&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
the hospitality which had been given him at a&lt;br /&gt;
favourites, treated Louis with great insolence.&lt;br /&gt;
country house to which he had been invited. The&lt;br /&gt;
Things came to a climax after a violent fit of&lt;br /&gt;
humour of the play is derived from the various&lt;br /&gt;
anger on the part of the young prince at the age&lt;br /&gt;
enjoyments which the unwelcome guest favours&lt;br /&gt;
of fifteen. Concini saw that he had gone too far in&lt;br /&gt;
during his stay. Mr. Kenneth Douglas, Miss&lt;br /&gt;
his insolence, and left Paris for a time. From that&lt;br /&gt;
Eva Moore and Mr. Fewlass Llewellyn are in the&lt;br /&gt;
date forth, it is very evident that Louis had&lt;br /&gt;
decided on his plan of action. Later on, when&lt;br /&gt;
cast.&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. W. Somerset Maugham&amp;#039;s new four-act play,&lt;br /&gt;
explaining his scheme to his friends, he said : &ldquo;I&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Grace,&rdquo; was produced at the Duke of York&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
acted the child.&rdquo; For the next five months he&lt;br /&gt;
Theatre on October 15. The play deals with&lt;br /&gt;
was silently preparing his plan, without taking&lt;br /&gt;
the fall of the daughter of a gamekeeper, her&lt;br /&gt;
anyone into his confidence. Charles d&amp;#039;Albert de&lt;br /&gt;
banishment by the family owning the estate, and&lt;br /&gt;
Luynes was the first of his friends to whom he&lt;br /&gt;
the effect of the girl&amp;#039;s subsequent suicide on the&lt;br /&gt;
spoke of his intentions. Gradually a little group&lt;br /&gt;
relations existing between husband and wife of the&lt;br /&gt;
of faithful accomplices gathered round Louis. The&lt;br /&gt;
family. The cast includes Mr. Dennis Eadie, Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
whole nation was resenting the power and influence&lt;br /&gt;
Leslie Faber, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Miss Irene&lt;br /&gt;
of the foreign favourites, and Concini himself had&lt;br /&gt;
Vanbrugh and Mr. Edmund Gwenn.&lt;br /&gt;
gradually usurped many of the privileges which&lt;br /&gt;
should have belonged to the young prince.&lt;br /&gt;
In April, 1617, it was finally decided that&lt;br /&gt;
Concini&amp;#039;s arrest should take place. Louis had&lt;br /&gt;
received letters from all sides promising help and&lt;br /&gt;
PARIS NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
loyal service, and M. Batiffol&amp;#039;s description of the&lt;br /&gt;
plot to arrest and, if necessary, kill Concini is most&lt;br /&gt;
graphically and dramatically told. He describes&lt;br /&gt;
M HE death of Albert Vandal is another loss to the whole scene which took place in the courtyard&lt;br /&gt;
I the French Academy and to French litera. of the Louvre, when the favourite, escorted by his&lt;br /&gt;
ture. M. Vandal was formerly President of suite of young nobles, passed through the gate&lt;br /&gt;
the Soci&eacute;t&eacute; des Gens de Lettres and he was known as the Porte de Bourbon. He was arrested&lt;br /&gt;
essentially a historian. &ldquo; Louis XV. et Elisabeth &ldquo;in the name of the king,&amp;quot; and on attempting to&lt;br /&gt;
de Russie&amp;quot; was one of his first books ; &ldquo;Napol&eacute;on draw his sword was at once killed. The trans-&lt;br /&gt;
et Alexandre I.&amp;quot; and&ldquo;L&amp;#039;Av&eacute;nement de Bonaparte&rdquo; formation which now took place in the apparently&lt;br /&gt;
made him famous.&lt;br /&gt;
submissive boy was a most remarkable one. With&lt;br /&gt;
M. Louis Batiffol has now published his third the promptness and decision of a man three or&lt;br /&gt;
volume on the period of Marie de M&eacute;dicis. The four times his age, Louis XIII, now took his place&lt;br /&gt;
first was &ldquo; Au Temps de Louis XIII.&rdquo; The second in his kingdom. He appeared at one of the&lt;br /&gt;
was entitled &ldquo; La Vie intime d&amp;#039;une Reine de France windows of the Louvre, thanked th e cheering crowd,&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
37&lt;br /&gt;
M. Pierre Berton ; &ldquo;Montmartre,&amp;quot; comedy in four&lt;br /&gt;
acts by M. Pierre Frondaie ; &ldquo;Sa Fille,&rdquo; comedy&lt;br /&gt;
in four acts by MM. F&eacute;lix Duquesnel and Andr&eacute;&lt;br /&gt;
Barde ; &ldquo;Cr&eacute;sus,&amp;quot; comedy in three acts by M.&lt;br /&gt;
Henri de Rothschild. At the Porte Saint-Martin&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Chantecler&amp;quot; is still being given, and at the&lt;br /&gt;
Th&eacute;&acirc;tre Antoine &ldquo;Cesar B&iacute;rotteau.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ALYS HALLARD.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Le Roi Louis XIII. &agrave; Vingt Ans&rdquo; (Calmann Levy).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Lady Hamilton&rdquo; (Perrin).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Quarante Ans Apr&egrave;s&amp;quot; (Fasquelle).&lt;br /&gt;
** La Pologne Vivante&amp;quot; (Perrin).&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Les Petits Joyeux&rdquo; (Calmann Levy).&lt;br /&gt;
AGENCY CLAUSES IN PUBLISHERS&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
AGREEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
and told them that he was now their king. He&lt;br /&gt;
refused to see his mother, but sent her word that he&lt;br /&gt;
had now decided to take the government of the&lt;br /&gt;
State into his own hands. From that time forth,&lt;br /&gt;
until Richelieu was admitted into the State Council&lt;br /&gt;
in 1624, the strong government and discipline of the&lt;br /&gt;
boy king are a revelation to all who had been&lt;br /&gt;
accustomed to thinking of Louis XIII. as a&lt;br /&gt;
nonentity. It is to be hoped that M. Batiffol will&lt;br /&gt;
continue the study of this king&amp;#039;s character after&lt;br /&gt;
1624, as the three volumes which take us up to&lt;br /&gt;
this period only serve to make us wish to continue&lt;br /&gt;
the study of history from authentic documents.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Lady Hamilton,&rdquo; by A. Fauchier Magnan, is a&lt;br /&gt;
biography which might very easily be taken for a&lt;br /&gt;
novel. The writer gives us an account of this&lt;br /&gt;
extraordinary woman&amp;#039;s life in an extremely interest-&lt;br /&gt;
ing manner. He begins with her early years in&lt;br /&gt;
Cheshire and her first visit to London in 1777 at&lt;br /&gt;
the age of fourteen. From this time forth we&lt;br /&gt;
have all the romantic episodes of her life, her&lt;br /&gt;
liaisons with Sir Charles Francis Greville, with Sir&lt;br /&gt;
William Hamilton, her friendship with the Queen&lt;br /&gt;
of Naples, and finally her liaison with Nelson. M.&lt;br /&gt;
Fauchier Magnan takes us on to the very end. He&lt;br /&gt;
tells us of her extreme poverty and of her death in&lt;br /&gt;
a poorly furnished little room which she had&lt;br /&gt;
rented in Calais. Many lives of Lady Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;
have been written, but this French book gives us&lt;br /&gt;
perbaps a more impartial study of this beautiful&lt;br /&gt;
woman&amp;#039;s career than some of the accounts written&lt;br /&gt;
by her own compatriots.&lt;br /&gt;
Among new books, Jules Clar&eacute;tie&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Quarante&lt;br /&gt;
ans Apr&egrave;s&rdquo; is having great success. Marius Ary&lt;br /&gt;
Leblond has written a very welcome volume, &ldquo;La&lt;br /&gt;
Pologne Vivante.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
mohlished a new volume &amp;quot;Les&lt;br /&gt;
Petits Joyeux.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
In the Revue des Deux Mondes of September&lt;br /&gt;
there were some exceptionally interesting articles :&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Morale et Religion,&amp;quot; by M. Emile Boutroux;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Deux Conceptions de l&amp;#039;Histoire de la R&eacute;volution:&lt;br /&gt;
Taine et M. Aulard,&rdquo; by M. A. Albert-Petit.&lt;br /&gt;
In the Revue hebdomadaire M. Emile Guillaumin&lt;br /&gt;
writes on &ldquo; La Terre Delaiss&eacute;e.&rdquo; In the same&lt;br /&gt;
periodical of October 15, M. Gailly de Taurines&lt;br /&gt;
gives us an interesting article on &ldquo;Un Projet de&lt;br /&gt;
Mariage dans la famille Bonaparte,&rdquo; M. Ernest&lt;br /&gt;
Seilli&egrave;re tells us &ldquo;Le Roman d&amp;#039;un futur Empereur,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
and Maurice Lanoire writes an interesting article&lt;br /&gt;
on &amp;quot;Thackeray et la France.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Among the new plays announced by M. Porel&lt;br /&gt;
for this scason at the Vandeville are: &ldquo;Le&lt;br /&gt;
Marchand de Bonheur,&rdquo; comedy in three acts by&lt;br /&gt;
M. Henry Kistemaeckers ; &ldquo;Rue de la Paix,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
comedy in three acts by MM. Abel Hermant et&lt;br /&gt;
de Toledo ; &ldquo;Le Tribun,&rdquo; comedy in four acts by&lt;br /&gt;
M. Paul Bourget; &amp;quot;Raissa,&amp;quot; play in four acts by&lt;br /&gt;
new&lt;br /&gt;
CLAUSE I.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; ALL moneys due under this agreement shall be paid to&lt;br /&gt;
A the author&amp;#039;s representative, whose receipt shall be&lt;br /&gt;
a full and sufficient discharge of the obligation, and&lt;br /&gt;
the said agent is hereby empowered by the author to&lt;br /&gt;
conduct all negotiations in respect of the said work with&lt;br /&gt;
the publishers.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
CLAUSE II.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;All accounts due and all moneys payable under this&lt;br /&gt;
agreement shall be rendered and paid to&lt;br /&gt;
and it is hereby agreed tbat their receipt shall be a full and&lt;br /&gt;
sufficient discharge therefor and that shall have&lt;br /&gt;
authority to treat for and on behalf of the said author in&lt;br /&gt;
all matters under this agreement.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
CLAUSE III.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;All sums due under this agreement shall be paid to the&lt;br /&gt;
author&amp;#039;s representative, whose receipt alone shall be a full&lt;br /&gt;
and sufficient discharge of the obligations, and this authority&lt;br /&gt;
shall not be revocable by the author without the previous&lt;br /&gt;
consent of his said representative.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
It is the duty of agents to settle agreements&lt;br /&gt;
between authors and publishers; but it may&lt;br /&gt;
often be proper that in the first place the author&lt;br /&gt;
should settle, and settle with care, an agreement&lt;br /&gt;
with his agent. For if there are bad publishers&lt;br /&gt;
and shifty authors, it is probable that there are&lt;br /&gt;
careless, and possible that there are dishonest,&lt;br /&gt;
agents.&lt;br /&gt;
The Dramatic Sub-committee of the society,&lt;br /&gt;
while expressing their disapproval of the principle&lt;br /&gt;
of employing an agent at all (confer standing&lt;br /&gt;
matter in The Author), have settled a contract&lt;br /&gt;
between a dramatist and an agent.&lt;br /&gt;
It is a fact that there is less need for the employ-&lt;br /&gt;
ment of an agent to place dramatic works than to&lt;br /&gt;
place literary works, if proper use is made of the&lt;br /&gt;
society&amp;#039;s assistance. But whether a writer is an&lt;br /&gt;
author of works to be performed or of works to be&lt;br /&gt;
read, he should be exceedingly careful of the&lt;br /&gt;
contracts he makes with agents.&lt;br /&gt;
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38&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
There is, however, a danger beyond this, and the Now agents, unfortunately, among other clauses&lt;br /&gt;
clauses printed at the head of this paper, taken which they have allowed to pass into currency,&lt;br /&gt;
at random from a large collection of agreements, have not infrequently allowed a publisher to have&lt;br /&gt;
are examples of this danger.&lt;br /&gt;
the refusal of other books by the saine author,&lt;br /&gt;
When an author has gone to an agent with an sometimes on terms to be subsequently settled,&lt;br /&gt;
established reputation, and has settled a satisfactory sometimes on terms roughly agreed in the one&lt;br /&gt;
contract with him, he then most probably is contract.&lt;br /&gt;
quite ready to leave the management of his busi- The principle is a thoroughly wrong principle&lt;br /&gt;
ness in the agent&amp;#039;s hands. If the agent advises and should be fought on every possible occasion.&lt;br /&gt;
him to accept certain terms and sign certain agree. But the issue as between author and publisher is&lt;br /&gt;
ments he will do so, trusting to the agent&amp;#039;s judg- not for discussion in this article. As between&lt;br /&gt;
ment--the agent placing one of the above clauses author and agent it is also thoroughly bad, for&lt;br /&gt;
in the contract as if it was a matter of course. under the above clause the author is obliged to let&lt;br /&gt;
Yet this clause may bring all sorts of difficulties in work No. 2, and perhaps work No. 3, pass through&lt;br /&gt;
its train.&lt;br /&gt;
the agent&amp;#039;s hands.&lt;br /&gt;
Such a clause existing between the publisher Here is a great temptation, here is a premium&lt;br /&gt;
and the author is &ldquo;an authority coupled with an on dishonesty. For the agent, in order to secure&lt;br /&gt;
interest,&rdquo; and cannot be cancelled as between the the control of the author&amp;#039;s next two works and&lt;br /&gt;
parties to the contract. In consequence it gives secure his 10 per cent., may be tempted to induce&lt;br /&gt;
the third party not a party to the contract a power the author to sign a clause giving away the refusal&lt;br /&gt;
which he ought not to possess.&lt;br /&gt;
of future work. In other words, he may possibly&lt;br /&gt;
Let us study the clauses closer. In Clause I. neglect the author&amp;#039;s interest to foster his own,&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s representative is to receive all moneys. The author may have many and crucial objec-&lt;br /&gt;
However doubtful his financial position may be, tions after his first book has been published to the&lt;br /&gt;
however an author may come to distrust his agent, further employment of an agent, but with the two&lt;br /&gt;
even if the author may desire to change his repre- clauses, the one referring to the disposal of future&lt;br /&gt;
sentative, still the publisher is bound to pay him work, the other to the agent&amp;#039;s powers, he is bound&lt;br /&gt;
the moneys. If the position happens to be still irrevocably. Should he, breaking the agreement,&lt;br /&gt;
more serious, the author cannot get out of the do his own work or employ another agent, he&lt;br /&gt;
clutches of this clause.&lt;br /&gt;
would still be bound to pay to agent No. 1 the&lt;br /&gt;
But worse follows, for the agent&amp;#039;s receipt &ldquo; shall 10 per cent.&lt;br /&gt;
be a full and sufficient discharge of the obliga- If it happened that an agent got an author to&lt;br /&gt;
tion.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
bind himself for his next nine books on the basis&lt;br /&gt;
If an agent is careless, if an agent is deceitful, if of a contract similar to the one recently printed in&lt;br /&gt;
an agent is fraudulent, he can still under this clause The Author, he would practically be able to go on&lt;br /&gt;
give a sufficient discharge to the publisher ; and it is drawing his percentage through the ages, and the&lt;br /&gt;
doubtful how far the author could open the accounts author would bear the burden of two old men of&lt;br /&gt;
if the agent under such an authority had given a full the sea instead of one.&lt;br /&gt;
receipt. But there is still worse to come, for the Little need be added in criticism of Clause III.&lt;br /&gt;
agent is empowered to conduct all negotiations in to what has already been said. The revocability&lt;br /&gt;
respect of the said work with the publishers. of the clause &ldquo;only with the agent&amp;#039;s consent &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Practically, therefore, the agent can always be speaks for itself.&lt;br /&gt;
covering up his own tracks and the author is The position is a serious one, and the real difficulty&lt;br /&gt;
powerless. The author may communicate with the arises from the fact that while an agent in many&lt;br /&gt;
publisher direct, and the publisher may say, and in cases may protect an author&amp;#039;s interests most care-&lt;br /&gt;
strict fairness is bound to say, I cannot communicate fully as between author and publisher, there is no&lt;br /&gt;
with you, I can only conduct the business with the means of compelling him to turn to the author or&lt;br /&gt;
agent.&lt;br /&gt;
point out the difficulties and dangers surrounding&lt;br /&gt;
Clause II. is even worse than Clause I.&lt;br /&gt;
these and similar clauses.&lt;br /&gt;
The remarks already made as to the payment of It may happen that no dispute will arise ; but&lt;br /&gt;
and receipt for the money apply to this clause, but no author should put himself in chains, even if&lt;br /&gt;
there is a subtle and important distinction in the they do not gall.&lt;br /&gt;
last sentence.&lt;br /&gt;
If the agent makes a fair statement of the case&lt;br /&gt;
In Clause I. &ldquo;the said work &rdquo; is referred to. It and the author, while unwilling to bind himself&lt;br /&gt;
is clear that this would mean one book, but in under too stringent clauses with the publisher, is&lt;br /&gt;
Clause II. the agent has authority &ldquo;for and on willing to sign a stringent clause affecting the&lt;br /&gt;
behalf of the said author in all matters under this agent, then nothing can be said.&lt;br /&gt;
agreement.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ? &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
39&lt;br /&gt;
THE THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE enactments at present existing, would codify the&lt;br /&gt;
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND legislation respecting copyright, and would repre-&lt;br /&gt;
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATION.&lt;br /&gt;
sent an immense progress ; notably by making&lt;br /&gt;
uniform the duration of copyright for the life of&lt;br /&gt;
LUXEMBURG, September 2-5, 1910.&lt;br /&gt;
the author and fifty years afterwards ; by suppress-&lt;br /&gt;
ing all formalities, as necessary for the exercise&lt;br /&gt;
GEORGES MAILLARD, who presided of the author&amp;#039;s rights ; by completely assimilating&lt;br /&gt;
IVT over the thirty-second Congress of the translation and reproduction ; by forbidding the&lt;br /&gt;
International Literary and Artistic Asso dramatisation of a novel, or the transformation of&lt;br /&gt;
ciation, declares this to have been a &ldquo; little &amp;amp; drama into a novel, without the consent of the&lt;br /&gt;
congress&rdquo; of a friendly kind, similar to those author of the original; by declaring, without&lt;br /&gt;
which have been, at various dates, held in various restrictions, that the right of a musical composer&lt;br /&gt;
cities of Switzerland. The labours of the Congress includes the right of the reproduction of the work&lt;br /&gt;
were grouped principally around a &ldquo; general by means of mechanical instruments ; by main-&lt;br /&gt;
review of affairs relating to literary and artistic taining for photographs a protection identical with&lt;br /&gt;
copyright from the diplomatic, legislative, and that given artistic works ; and by protecting&lt;br /&gt;
judicial points of view,&amp;quot; by Mr. Ernest R&ouml;thlis- architectural designs.&lt;br /&gt;
berger. This report dealt with the Berlin Revision &ldquo; At the same time the International Literary&lt;br /&gt;
of the Berne Convention, legislative movements and Artistic Association takes the liberty of draw-&lt;br /&gt;
outside the direct action of the Berne Convention, ing the attention of the British Government to&lt;br /&gt;
the development of international treaties, and certain particulars, which will form the subject of a&lt;br /&gt;
various cases presented before the tribunals of special report which the executive committee of the&lt;br /&gt;
different countries. In addition to this, Mr. K. association proposes to submit to the Government.&lt;br /&gt;
Gahn, representing Denmark, explainod the &ldquo; In particular it would be especially regrettable&lt;br /&gt;
reasons which had hitherto prevented his country that, after the death of the author, the Controller&lt;br /&gt;
from ratifying the Convention of 1908. Mr. of Patents should have power to give a licence for&lt;br /&gt;
Thorvald Solberg dealt with the present situation the reproduction of the work, not only when there&lt;br /&gt;
in the United States. Signor A. Ferrari discussed shall be no more copies in circulation, but also&lt;br /&gt;
the objection which has been raised in Italy when the price demanded for existing copies, or&lt;br /&gt;
against the prolongation of dramatic copyright to for the rights of public performance, shall be con-&lt;br /&gt;
eighty years after the date of first performance. sidered too high. This would amount to a grave&lt;br /&gt;
M. T. G. Djuvara apologised for a delay in pro- infraction of the author&amp;#039;s rights, and might lead&lt;br /&gt;
gress in Roumania, which has been occasioned by to serious abuses.&lt;br /&gt;
the Government having been compelled to give all &ldquo;It is much to be desired that the English law&lt;br /&gt;
its attention to the results of agrarian disturbances. should affirm the absolute principle that copyright&lt;br /&gt;
The Count de Suzor, representing Russia, dis- originates (saving when there are agreements to&lt;br /&gt;
cassed the opposition of the Russian Duma to the contrary) in the person of the creator of the&lt;br /&gt;
wholesome copyright legislation. Among the work, and that the sale of a work of art shall not&lt;br /&gt;
resolutions subsequently passed by the Congress, be presumed to involve of itself the sale of the&lt;br /&gt;
one, which we give at full length below, will be of copyright.&lt;br /&gt;
particular interest to English authors.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; Also, that works of architecture shall be pro-&lt;br /&gt;
Resolution respecting the new English Copyright tected without certain reservations contained in&lt;br /&gt;
Bill in the following terms :-&lt;br /&gt;
the Bill, and that it shall be clearly stated that in&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The International Literary and Artistic Con- works of architecture wbich are protected are in-&lt;br /&gt;
gress thanks the Copyright Committee constituted cluded designs, plans, sketches, and plastic works&lt;br /&gt;
by the British Government to draw up a Bill intended for architectural purposes.&lt;br /&gt;
relating to copyright for having been so good as to &ldquo; Also, that the duration of the period for action&lt;br /&gt;
consult the president of the association in the against piracy should not be less than three years.&lt;br /&gt;
course of the inquiry, and has much satisfaction &ldquo; Also, that the duration of the protection of&lt;br /&gt;
in finding in the admirable final report of the posthumous works, and of works produced by&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Committee an approval of the greater collaboration, should be fixed in conformity with&lt;br /&gt;
number of the principles proclaimed by the the provisions of the typical law suggested by the&lt;br /&gt;
association.&lt;br /&gt;
association.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; The Congress is equally gratified by the Bill &ldquo; The Congress is of opinion that it is to be&lt;br /&gt;
placed before Parliament by the President of the feared that the abrogation of the common law may&lt;br /&gt;
Board of Trade in view of the adhesion of Great result (particularly when the new law is first put&lt;br /&gt;
Britain to the Revised Convention of Berlin ; a Bill into force) in incompletenesses in the protection of&lt;br /&gt;
which, by abrogating the different and incompatible the author.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
40&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;The International Literary and Artistic Asso- of a charming letter concerning some work done for&lt;br /&gt;
ciation particularly insists upon the necessity of him, he tells me that personally he likes my work&lt;br /&gt;
protecting works of art applied to industry ; and very much, but that such work as mine is &amp;quot;never&lt;br /&gt;
calls upon the executive committee to come to of special interest to advertisers.&amp;quot; Adrertisers !&lt;br /&gt;
an understanding with the Englishmen interested The cat is out of the bag. And what a cat!&lt;br /&gt;
in this question to obtain protection for all works These are our censors, these the arbiters of an&lt;br /&gt;
of the graphic and plastic arts, whatsoever may be author&amp;#039;s destiny. Our struggling novelists are at&lt;br /&gt;
the merit or destination of the works, and to get the mercy of a Non-Fat-Food Company, our&lt;br /&gt;
this principle asserted in the English law.&rdquo; crescent poets are the sport of Dr. Pink and his&lt;br /&gt;
Pale Pills for Purple People.&lt;br /&gt;
So now you know.&lt;br /&gt;
THE CAT FROM THE BAG.&lt;br /&gt;
X. Y, Z.&lt;br /&gt;
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
M HE taste of editors has long seemed so incal-&lt;br /&gt;
1 culable, their standard so mysterious, their&lt;br /&gt;
selection so erratic, that many of us have&lt;br /&gt;
wondered whether they really exercise any discre-&lt;br /&gt;
tion of choice-whether they do not rather madly&lt;br /&gt;
mix in a hat all manuscripts bearing unknown&lt;br /&gt;
names, and order the office boy to pull out as many&lt;br /&gt;
as are needed for the make-up of the journal.&lt;br /&gt;
But I now see that in these speculations we have&lt;br /&gt;
wronged our editors.&lt;br /&gt;
We have wondered sometimes whether it was&lt;br /&gt;
possible that editorial taste could be at fault : that&lt;br /&gt;
editors really did not know good stuff when they&lt;br /&gt;
saw it; whether drivel really did and could appeal to&lt;br /&gt;
them ; or whether it was merely that they knew&lt;br /&gt;
their public, and knew that a good story, decently&lt;br /&gt;
written, is the one thing which that public will&lt;br /&gt;
not on any terms stand? We have speculated,&lt;br /&gt;
we have questioned. And our speculation has&lt;br /&gt;
remained unfruitful. Our questions have never&lt;br /&gt;
been answered. Perhaps our questions never will&lt;br /&gt;
be answered. For my part I care little whether&lt;br /&gt;
they ever be answered, for I now see that they&lt;br /&gt;
have nothing to do with the matter. There has&lt;br /&gt;
been an unsuspected reason for the choices&mdash;the&lt;br /&gt;
strange, amazing choices&mdash;made by editors. That&lt;br /&gt;
reason has been a secret, and that secret is now&lt;br /&gt;
mine. I know all about it. Nothing is hidden&lt;br /&gt;
from me. I am an old hand at this game of&lt;br /&gt;
author v. editor, and yet I never came near to&lt;br /&gt;
guessing the riddle. And I venture to think that&lt;br /&gt;
no one else on my side did either.&lt;br /&gt;
Here is the secret. I make you a present of it.&lt;br /&gt;
Editors do not choose to please themselves. Nor&lt;br /&gt;
to please themselves. Nor&lt;br /&gt;
do they choose to please their public. Their&lt;br /&gt;
choice is made to quite another tune. And that&lt;br /&gt;
tune is called, as most tunes are nowadays, by him&lt;br /&gt;
who pays the piper&mdash;the Advertiser.&lt;br /&gt;
The advertiser, it would seem, is the critic to&lt;br /&gt;
whom editors defer; it is the advertiser&amp;#039;s taste that&lt;br /&gt;
must be considered, his distastes that must be&lt;br /&gt;
avoided.&lt;br /&gt;
I learn the great secret from the editor of a very&lt;br /&gt;
well-known and prosperous journal. In the course&lt;br /&gt;
BLACKWOOD&amp;#039;s.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Hamlet&rdquo; at a Bengal Fair. By R. E. Vern&egrave;de.&lt;br /&gt;
Musings Without Method : Journalists in Conclave-&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatic Criticism-The Elizabethan Drama-A Stage&lt;br /&gt;
for the Poets.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOKMAN.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. Barrie as Dramatist, By H. Granville Barker.&lt;br /&gt;
J. M. Barrie and His Books. By James Moffatt.&lt;br /&gt;
A. E. W. Mason. By A. St. John Adcock.&lt;br /&gt;
Book MONTHLY.&lt;br /&gt;
Beaconsfield&amp;#039;s Life. By James Milne,&lt;br /&gt;
Novels Long or Short. By X.&lt;br /&gt;
CONTEMPORARY.&lt;br /&gt;
Reminiscences of Holman Hunt. By W. M. Rossetti.&lt;br /&gt;
The Modern Press and Its Public. By W. H, Massing.&lt;br /&gt;
ham.&lt;br /&gt;
Browning and Butler. By the late Professor Churton&lt;br /&gt;
collins.&lt;br /&gt;
CORNHILL.&lt;br /&gt;
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. By A, W, Ward.&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh. By Sarah A. Tooley.&lt;br /&gt;
ENGLISH REVIEW.&lt;br /&gt;
The Women of Shakespeare. By Frank Harris.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Une Promenade Sentimentale.&amp;quot; By George Moore.&lt;br /&gt;
Nihilism in Contemporary Russian Literature. By E. J.&lt;br /&gt;
Dillon.&lt;br /&gt;
The Vitality of Drama. By Darrell Figgis.&lt;br /&gt;
FORTNIGHTLY.&lt;br /&gt;
Shakespeare in Fairyland. By Charles Zeffertt.&lt;br /&gt;
William Holman Hunt, O.M. By Ford Madox Hueffer.&lt;br /&gt;
A Forgotten Satirist,&ldquo; Peter Pindar.&amp;quot; By Lewis&lt;br /&gt;
Melville.&lt;br /&gt;
Imperial Copyright. By G. Herbert Thring.&lt;br /&gt;
The Night Thoughts of Robert Schumann. By A. E.&lt;br /&gt;
Keeton.&lt;br /&gt;
The Theatrical Situation. By William Archer,&lt;br /&gt;
NATIONAL.&lt;br /&gt;
The Dark Lady to Mr. William Shakespeare. By&lt;br /&gt;
Bernard Holland.&lt;br /&gt;
NINETEENTH CENTURY.&lt;br /&gt;
The Genius of Gibbon. II. Gibbon the Historian. By&lt;br /&gt;
the Rev. A. H. T. Clarke.&lt;br /&gt;
The Sillon. By Abb&eacute; Ernest Dimnet.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
41&lt;br /&gt;
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
1. T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive&lt;br /&gt;
B 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. The&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any&lt;br /&gt;
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the&lt;br /&gt;
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they&lt;br /&gt;
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel&amp;#039;s opinion without&lt;br /&gt;
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee&lt;br /&gt;
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved&lt;br /&gt;
member, and all costs borne by the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright&lt;br /&gt;
and publishers&amp;#039; agreements do not fall within the experi.&lt;br /&gt;
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use&lt;br /&gt;
the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send&lt;br /&gt;
the document to the Society for examination,&lt;br /&gt;
4. 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 direct benefit to yourself, and that you are&lt;br /&gt;
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting&lt;br /&gt;
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.&lt;br /&gt;
ist, the composer.&lt;br /&gt;
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of&lt;br /&gt;
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 stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action&lt;br /&gt;
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce&lt;br /&gt;
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu.&lt;br /&gt;
lars of the Society&amp;#039;s work can be obtained in the&lt;br /&gt;
Prospectus.&lt;br /&gt;
6. 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 with publishers submitted to&lt;br /&gt;
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit&lt;br /&gt;
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary&lt;br /&gt;
of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
7. 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;
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from&lt;br /&gt;
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so&lt;br /&gt;
do some publishers. Members can make their own&lt;br /&gt;
deductions and act accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;
9. The subscription to the Society is &pound;1 1s. per&lt;br /&gt;
annum, or &pound;10 10s. for life membership.&lt;br /&gt;
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a&lt;br /&gt;
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of&lt;br /&gt;
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;
n otto&lt;br /&gt;
anless the same allowance is made to the author..&lt;br /&gt;
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental&lt;br /&gt;
rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.&lt;br /&gt;
(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;
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form&lt;br /&gt;
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know&lt;br /&gt;
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now&lt;br /&gt;
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the&lt;br /&gt;
truth. From time to time very important figures connected&lt;br /&gt;
with royalties are published in The Author.&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.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright,&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS&lt;br /&gt;
OF BOOKS.&lt;br /&gt;
TEVER 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 any one except an established&lt;br /&gt;
manager.&lt;br /&gt;
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays&lt;br /&gt;
in three or more acts:&lt;br /&gt;
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This&lt;br /&gt;
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into&lt;br /&gt;
such a contract should stipulate in the contract&lt;br /&gt;
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;
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;
1. Selling it Outright.&lt;br /&gt;
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be&lt;br /&gt;
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42&lt;br /&gt;
TIIE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to&lt;br /&gt;
perform on the basis of percentages on&lt;br /&gt;
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5&lt;br /&gt;
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;
(0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to&lt;br /&gt;
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed&lt;br /&gt;
nightly fees). This method should be always&lt;br /&gt;
avoided except in cases where the fees are&lt;br /&gt;
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The&lt;br /&gt;
other safeguards set out under heading (b.) apply&lt;br /&gt;
also in this case.&lt;br /&gt;
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is&lt;br /&gt;
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum&lt;br /&gt;
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely&lt;br /&gt;
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should&lt;br /&gt;
be reserved.&lt;br /&gt;
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can&lt;br /&gt;
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and&lt;br /&gt;
time. This is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but&lt;br /&gt;
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction&lt;br /&gt;
is 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 United States 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 authors desirous of further information&lt;br /&gt;
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.&lt;br /&gt;
T RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the&lt;br /&gt;
Society before putting plays into the hands of&lt;br /&gt;
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent&lt;br /&gt;
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a&lt;br /&gt;
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author&amp;#039;s fees&lt;br /&gt;
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,&lt;br /&gt;
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only&lt;br /&gt;
very few agents who can do anything for an author&lt;br /&gt;
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do&lt;br /&gt;
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees&lt;br /&gt;
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is&lt;br /&gt;
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of&lt;br /&gt;
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-&lt;br /&gt;
action of frequent petty authorisations with different&lt;br /&gt;
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign&lt;br /&gt;
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and&lt;br /&gt;
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.&lt;br /&gt;
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess&lt;br /&gt;
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or&lt;br /&gt;
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase&lt;br /&gt;
the author&amp;#039;s rights. In any case, in the present state of&lt;br /&gt;
the law, an agent should not be employed under any&lt;br /&gt;
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the&lt;br /&gt;
Society.&lt;br /&gt;
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.&lt;br /&gt;
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the&lt;br /&gt;
U assistance of producers of books and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as&lt;br /&gt;
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical&lt;br /&gt;
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.&lt;br /&gt;
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic&lt;br /&gt;
property. The musical composer has very often the two&lt;br /&gt;
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He&lt;br /&gt;
should be especially careful therefore when entering into&lt;br /&gt;
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration&lt;br /&gt;
the warnings stated above.&lt;br /&gt;
STAMPING MUSIC.&lt;br /&gt;
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on&lt;br /&gt;
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part&lt;br /&gt;
of 100. The members&amp;#039; stamps are kept in the Society&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the&lt;br /&gt;
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the&lt;br /&gt;
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.&lt;br /&gt;
THE READING BRANCH.&lt;br /&gt;
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND&lt;br /&gt;
ORIGINAL PLAYS.&lt;br /&gt;
MTEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this&lt;br /&gt;
branch of its 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;
REMITTANCES.&lt;br /&gt;
QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper&lt;br /&gt;
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with&lt;br /&gt;
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will&lt;br /&gt;
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-&lt;br /&gt;
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author&lt;br /&gt;
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies&lt;br /&gt;
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by&lt;br /&gt;
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing&lt;br /&gt;
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same&lt;br /&gt;
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for&lt;br /&gt;
at the price of 2s. 6d. per act.&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;
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and&lt;br /&gt;
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered&lt;br /&gt;
letter only.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
43&lt;br /&gt;
GENERAL NOTES.&lt;br /&gt;
THE DINNER OF THE SOCIETY.&lt;br /&gt;
The Dinner of the Society of Authors will be&lt;br /&gt;
held on November 24 at the Criterion Restaurant&lt;br /&gt;
at 7 for 7.30 p.m. The chair will be taken by&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Maurice Hewlett, and the guest of the evening&lt;br /&gt;
will be Mr. William de Morgan. Members desiring&lt;br /&gt;
to be present are requested to make early applica-&lt;br /&gt;
tion for tickets, which can be procured at the&lt;br /&gt;
offices of the society. A conversazione will be&lt;br /&gt;
held after the dinner as indicated in the notice of&lt;br /&gt;
the dinner sent to all subscribers of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;
We see that Mr. Fisher has not let the grass&lt;br /&gt;
grow under his feet in taking steps with regard to&lt;br /&gt;
Canadian Copyright. It is difficult to say exactly&lt;br /&gt;
what he intends to do till the draft Bill is in our&lt;br /&gt;
hands, but it would appear from his utterances that&lt;br /&gt;
he intends to stop the protection awarded to&lt;br /&gt;
United States Copyright books in Canada unless&lt;br /&gt;
the printing is done in Canada, and that he is not&lt;br /&gt;
going to penalise the English authors if they&lt;br /&gt;
register their copyright at Ottawa.&lt;br /&gt;
It will be interesting to see how Mr. Fisher&lt;br /&gt;
proposes in his Bill to enforce this very difficult&lt;br /&gt;
position. Personally, although we quite under-&lt;br /&gt;
stand that the United States have brought this&lt;br /&gt;
about through their own retrograde legislation, we&lt;br /&gt;
think it a pity that any country which has gone&lt;br /&gt;
forward on the great copyright ideals should now&lt;br /&gt;
go back upon them.&lt;br /&gt;
With regard to the registration of English works,&lt;br /&gt;
we also think this a great pity. The action is&lt;br /&gt;
retrogressive, not progressive. The less registra-&lt;br /&gt;
tion, the safer is the property of an author ; but we&lt;br /&gt;
hardly care to criticise until after we have seen the&lt;br /&gt;
THE INFLUENCE OF REVIEWS.&lt;br /&gt;
Bill.&lt;br /&gt;
A. W. DUBOURG.&lt;br /&gt;
We have to chronicle with regret the death of&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. A. W. Dubourg, dramatic author. Another&lt;br /&gt;
of the original members of the Society of Authors&lt;br /&gt;
mio&lt;br /&gt;
has fallen out of its ranks. He joined the society&lt;br /&gt;
as a dramatic author, and was a very early member&lt;br /&gt;
of the council. In the early days he supported&lt;br /&gt;
the work the society was doing on behalf of&lt;br /&gt;
his fellow dramatists, but this support. given so&lt;br /&gt;
disinterestedly in the beginning, he was not able&lt;br /&gt;
to continue during his later years, although&lt;br /&gt;
on many occasions he showed his continued&lt;br /&gt;
sympathy with the aims and objects of our&lt;br /&gt;
organisation.&lt;br /&gt;
BY A WOMAN NOVELIST.&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
V OU sometimes hear it said that &ldquo;No one&lt;br /&gt;
I reads reviews,&amp;quot; and this is both true and&lt;br /&gt;
false, like its companion-saying, also&lt;br /&gt;
frequently heard among literary people, that &ldquo;No&lt;br /&gt;
one buys books.&rdquo; I believe that many people do&lt;br /&gt;
read reviews, and that a very much larger number&lt;br /&gt;
of people just glance through them.&lt;br /&gt;
The length of a review is most important.&lt;br /&gt;
Better a long review, with the name of your book&lt;br /&gt;
at the top, even if, so to speak, it is all about&lt;br /&gt;
nothing, than a notice of a few sentences, however&lt;br /&gt;
enthusiastic.&lt;br /&gt;
On the whole, I doubt whether bad reviews have&lt;br /&gt;
ever stifled really good work, though of course.&lt;br /&gt;
they have delayed its recognition.&lt;br /&gt;
On the other hand, good reviews can to a certain&lt;br /&gt;
extent sell bad stuff ; but in this case the rapid&lt;br /&gt;
appearance of the poorly written books so reviewed&lt;br /&gt;
in the second-hand market tells its own story.&lt;br /&gt;
The supply has been greater than the demand,&lt;br /&gt;
and the reading public have declined to digest&lt;br /&gt;
the book.&lt;br /&gt;
Most writers of norels soon become aware that&lt;br /&gt;
reviews, as a whole, are peculiarly impartial. Just&lt;br /&gt;
as you may be fondly attached to a human being,&lt;br /&gt;
and think but very indifferently of his or her taste&lt;br /&gt;
in art, or in such a more homely and every-day&lt;br /&gt;
thing as taste in dress or house decoration, so every&lt;br /&gt;
writer must have many friends and acquaintances&lt;br /&gt;
whose literary work strikes them as far less admir-&lt;br /&gt;
able in every way than that of either the character,&lt;br /&gt;
nature or intellect of its creator.&lt;br /&gt;
It coustantly happens&mdash;every editor will bear&lt;br /&gt;
me out in what I say&mdash;that a book is returned by a&lt;br /&gt;
reviewer with the plea that, knowing the author,&lt;br /&gt;
he would prefer not to deal with it. Let us,&lt;br /&gt;
however, boldly face the fact that in some cases.&lt;br /&gt;
LIST OF DRAMATISTS.&lt;br /&gt;
In view of the necessity of consulting the&lt;br /&gt;
dramatists inside the Society of Authors on&lt;br /&gt;
questions affecting their work, a separate list of&lt;br /&gt;
dramatic authors has been compiled, and is kept&lt;br /&gt;
at the office of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
In order to keep the list comprehensive and&lt;br /&gt;
accurate, members are asked to write to the&lt;br /&gt;
secretary immediately they become qualified for&lt;br /&gt;
inclusion in the list. The qualification for such&lt;br /&gt;
inclusion is the public performance of a play&lt;br /&gt;
(other than a performance for copyright purposes)&lt;br /&gt;
in a place licensed for public entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;
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44&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
a book is given to a friend, and a friend who is regarded his work with that special touch of eager&lt;br /&gt;
honestly anxious to extol the book as far as is and selfless enthusiasm. To have the power of&lt;br /&gt;
possible. Yet such a review is very seldom satis- eroking such a sentiment is extremely valuable ;&lt;br /&gt;
factory from the point of view of the author. It but it is a great mistake to suppose that it has&lt;br /&gt;
is invariably better for any work of art to be anything to do with private friendship or personal&lt;br /&gt;
judged apart from its creator. The personal popularity. It is often felt for a writer who is a&lt;br /&gt;
element almost inevitably creeps in when judging recluse, and years may go by before the master&lt;br /&gt;
a friend&amp;#039;s work, and too often a friend&amp;#039;s review and his disciple meet face to face.&lt;br /&gt;
simply consists of that kind of mild praise which, Akin to this type of clique, but on a lower&lt;br /&gt;
from the point of view of the writer-or perhaps plane, will be a group of clever young writers&lt;br /&gt;
we should say of the publisher-is of infinitely who all hold together and praise each other&amp;#039;s work&lt;br /&gt;
less value than one which cuts up the volume in the honest conviction that nothing so good was&lt;br /&gt;
under discussion in a way which was more fashion ever done before. This kind of group greatly&lt;br /&gt;
able some years ago than to-day.&lt;br /&gt;
influenced that period of French literature known&lt;br /&gt;
Human nature being what it is, reviewers are of as Romanticism. Such a group&ldquo; puff&rdquo; each&lt;br /&gt;
course influenced, generally quite unconsciously, other&mdash;no other term is appropriate--in the fervent&lt;br /&gt;
by certain facts concerning the author of the book conviction that their work is quite first-rate. On&lt;br /&gt;
they are about to notice. Even a very poor novel the other hand, rival groups are apt to &ldquo; crab &rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
written by a well-known statesman, or by a woman the work so praised.&lt;br /&gt;
who has made her fame in some other branch of How far can an author influence reviews, and&lt;br /&gt;
art, will receive far more respectful treatment than what every publisher will tell him is most impor-&lt;br /&gt;
can be hoped for by a masterpiece of an unknown tant-obtain early reviews ?&lt;br /&gt;
writer. There are of course exceptions to every rule Unless he be gifted with a most unusual power&lt;br /&gt;
&mdash;the masterpiece may find an appreciative reviewer, of &ldquo;push,&amp;quot; and of business capacity which would&lt;br /&gt;
and the great man&amp;#039;s or the famous woman&amp;#039;s book make his fortune iu any walk of life except that of&lt;br /&gt;
may be treated with complete candour ; but these literature, he would be well advised to make no&lt;br /&gt;
will be exceptions, and will scarcely count among effort, especially with regard to a first book ; when&lt;br /&gt;
the 69 to 100 reviews which every book issued by he has published several books, he can of course&lt;br /&gt;
a leading firm of publishers can now hope to make some kind of effort to secure that the review&lt;br /&gt;
obtain.&lt;br /&gt;
copies are sent out to the various papers in good&lt;br /&gt;
And this brings me to another important time. This, which would seem to be an elementary&lt;br /&gt;
question. There is no doubt at all that reviewers part of a publisher&amp;#039;s business, is done as a matter&lt;br /&gt;
are impressed by the standing of the publisher, of course by certain houses ; but others&mdash;perhaps&lt;br /&gt;
almost always they are quite candid about it ;-. because their managers do not regard early reviews&lt;br /&gt;
that is, when a reviewer receives a batch of books as particularly important &mdash; take little or no&lt;br /&gt;
from a newspaper, he picks out almost instinctively trouble in the matter.&lt;br /&gt;
for early notice the books published by the good On the whole, editors and reviewers resent&lt;br /&gt;
houses, Young writers should remember this special efforts being made to draw their attention&lt;br /&gt;
when considering where to send their manuscripts, to a special book, though this resentment is&lt;br /&gt;
and when thinking over the terms which have mitigated, even altogether removed, when the&lt;br /&gt;
been offered them.&lt;br /&gt;
advice rendered is absolutely disinterested. A&lt;br /&gt;
Probably the most fortunate thing which can book, in a commercial sense, may be &ldquo;made &amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
happen to a good writer, but which, so far as I an honest, enthusiastic admirer who, fortunately&lt;br /&gt;
remember, may be said never to happen to a for the writer, happens to have a large acquaint-&lt;br /&gt;
woman writer in this country with the one ance in the literary world. But though I have in&lt;br /&gt;
exception of George Eliot-is the formation about my mind several such examples, I cannot call to&lt;br /&gt;
him of a small devoted phalanx of admirers who mind a single example which was due to the&lt;br /&gt;
whole-heartedly proclaim his merit both in print personal friendship of the admirer with the author.&lt;br /&gt;
and in conversation. It has become the fashion Certain writers have a power of thus attracting&lt;br /&gt;
nowadays to call this kind of group of unofficial sincere enthusiasm. A case in point, I repeat, was&lt;br /&gt;
praisers a clique. Such a group, once formed, is that of Robert Louis Stevenson, who, it is quite&lt;br /&gt;
of inestimable value, for it creates a demand for clear, never made the slightest personal effort to&lt;br /&gt;
the often very special and unusual work which it secure a good or early review. But there was&lt;br /&gt;
admires, and such a group is often the precursor something in his personality, as well as much&lt;br /&gt;
of real popularity. This good fortune befel R. L. in his work, which aroused the enthusiasm of some&lt;br /&gt;
Stevenson, and in spite of all that has been written of the best minds of the day.&lt;br /&gt;
to the contrary, Mr. George Meredith always had I have left to the last the question of the&lt;br /&gt;
a certain number of highly cultivated readers who honesty of reviewers.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
45&lt;br /&gt;
Once when walking through a railway station E ven in its imperfect shape, the music publishers&lt;br /&gt;
I noticed a newspaper bill bearing as its sole will have none of it.&lt;br /&gt;
contents the ominous question, &ldquo; Are Book History repeats itself. About five-and-twenty&lt;br /&gt;
Reviewers Honest ?&amp;quot; I immediately bought the years ago the leading publishers tried either to&lt;br /&gt;
paper, feeling the interest which every writer of laugh down the Authors&amp;#039; Society as a society of&lt;br /&gt;
books must feel in this question, but to my great amateurs, or to hold up their heads in lofty&lt;br /&gt;
disappointment the author of the article had contempt at its work.&lt;br /&gt;
nothing new to say, or even to suggest on the The music publishers desire to adopt the same&lt;br /&gt;
subject-in fact, it was very clear that he was not position now. It is impossible to comment in&lt;br /&gt;
a critic, and knew very few critics, for he asserted detail on the numerous letters that have been&lt;br /&gt;
that the criticism of fiction is almost always published, but it will suffice to say that no minute&lt;br /&gt;
entrusted to persons who are themselves novelists ; or serious criticism of the agreement has been put&lt;br /&gt;
and he went on to say that most of these story- forward ; nothing but vague generalities and&lt;br /&gt;
tellers know each other, and they naturally praise crude statements of facts relating to methods of&lt;br /&gt;
each other, on the quid pro quo principle.&lt;br /&gt;
publication in vogue a hundred years ago.&lt;br /&gt;
But why should the honesty of book reviewers Here are some examples :-&lt;br /&gt;
be discussed any more than the honesty of&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;We have only to say that our present agreement with&lt;br /&gt;
butchers, or solicitors, or any other class in the composers works to both their and our mutual satisfaction.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
community? There are dishonest people in every&lt;br /&gt;
profession and walk in life ; but as a matter of&lt;br /&gt;
What a statement to come from a leading&lt;br /&gt;
fact the modern critic has really less temptation to publishing house! Audi alteram partem is a legal&lt;br /&gt;
be dishonest, and less excuse for vielding to that motto of which evidently this firm has never&lt;br /&gt;
temptation, than almost any other professional heard. Why, the whole band of musical composers&lt;br /&gt;
man or woman. His rewards, if he allows either&lt;br /&gt;
is wild with discontent at the agreement put for-&lt;br /&gt;
friendsbip or enmity to influence him, are ward by this and other houses,&lt;br /&gt;
extremely meagre, and last but a very short time. &ldquo;We do not propose to criticise the details of Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
For such a lack of impartiality can never be Stainer &amp;amp; Bell&amp;#039;s inspiration, because it really does not&lt;br /&gt;
hidden from those whose business it is to be on concern us at all.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
the watch for it, and even the cleverest critic, once But if the composers are in earnest&mdash;and of this&lt;br /&gt;
tried and found guilty by his editorial judge, finds there is no doubt they will make it necessary for&lt;br /&gt;
his&amp;#039; occupation gone. In reality those in a this firm to concern itself about the agreement..&lt;br /&gt;
position to know the facts must feel it absurd to Now is the time to come into closer combination,&lt;br /&gt;
discuss the question at all, for it is obvious that and by united effort to make firmer the advantage&lt;br /&gt;
no man or woman capable of writing dishonest that has already been obtained.&lt;br /&gt;
criticisms is likely to attain a position of any Another publisher says :-&lt;br /&gt;
importance in the critical world.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;In our nearly one hundred years&amp;#039; existence as a pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lishing house, no composer has yet complained of assigning&lt;br /&gt;
us his sole rights.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
Here is a record to look back upon. Nearly one&lt;br /&gt;
MUSIC PUBLISHERS AND THE SOCIETY&amp;#039;S hundred years, during which time the publisher has&lt;br /&gt;
AGREEMENT.&lt;br /&gt;
obtained the assignment of the composer&amp;#039;s sole&lt;br /&gt;
rights. It is indeed a glaring example of the&lt;br /&gt;
ignorance of some owners as to the value of their&lt;br /&gt;
COME stir has been made and is still being own property.&lt;br /&gt;
made in the musical trade papers in regard - The Society of Authors may understand the production&lt;br /&gt;
to the agreement that was settled by the of books, but music is a very different thing&mdash;the author of&lt;br /&gt;
Copyright Sub-committee of the society with a book may spend months or years over the MS., but many&lt;br /&gt;
Messrs. Stainer &amp;amp; Bell, and approved by the&lt;br /&gt;
ner &amp;amp; Bell. and approved by the&lt;br /&gt;
composers could&lt;br /&gt;
composers could write a dozen pieces a day.&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
committee of management.&lt;br /&gt;
This publisher does not affirm that the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
It is not a perfect agreement, as was explained Society does not understand the question of the&lt;br /&gt;
in the May issue of The Author.&lt;br /&gt;
production of music, for he could not do so, but he&lt;br /&gt;
But to such an extent is it in advance of the carefully suggests that conclusion in his curiously&lt;br /&gt;
present antiquated documents which most music ungrammatical sentence.&lt;br /&gt;
publishers delight to issue, that the committee No publisher of books or music will ever be&lt;br /&gt;
had no hesitation in accepting its terms and found to allow that the Authors&amp;#039; Society knows&lt;br /&gt;
recommending them to those composers who are anything about the publication of books or music&lt;br /&gt;
members of the society.&lt;br /&gt;
or the value of the property of writers or composers,&lt;br /&gt;
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46&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
vet there is clear eridence every day in the work ENGLISH WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS&lt;br /&gt;
of the society that it is not so ignorant as the&lt;br /&gt;
IN GALICIA (SPAIN).&lt;br /&gt;
publishers would delight their public to think.&lt;br /&gt;
The remark of the publisher quoted referring to&lt;br /&gt;
BY JAMES BAKER, F.R.G.S.&lt;br /&gt;
authors and composers might be reversed with&lt;br /&gt;
equal truth. It is no argument for or against the&lt;br /&gt;
M HE aim of the &ldquo;International Associations&lt;br /&gt;
agreement which has been published.&lt;br /&gt;
1 of the Press&rdquo; is to spread a knowledge of the&lt;br /&gt;
Another publisher states that if a composer&lt;br /&gt;
conditions of journalistic life and work in all&lt;br /&gt;
assigns his copyright subject to a royalty he will&lt;br /&gt;
lands, and to strive for a betterment of these con-&lt;br /&gt;
get larger sales than if he enters into a publishing&lt;br /&gt;
ditions. To work effectively for this aim, it is&lt;br /&gt;
agreement on the royalty basis, only giving a necessary to knoir the life and language of the&lt;br /&gt;
licence to publish, because &amp;quot; the publisher will do people of other countries. It is to gain this know-&lt;br /&gt;
all he can to increase the value of his copyright.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
ledge that the members of the British International&lt;br /&gt;
The inference left with the reader is that the Association of Journalists have accepted invitations&lt;br /&gt;
publisher will treat composer No. 2 with but scant to visit other countries. Accordingly the writer&lt;br /&gt;
courtesy and fairness, as he has not thought fit to was glad to receive an invitation from some of the&lt;br /&gt;
make himself the publisher&amp;#039;s servant. It is a principal residents in Galicia, asking him to arrange&lt;br /&gt;
candid and damaging confession.&lt;br /&gt;
&agrave; visit of twenty-one members to the Galician&lt;br /&gt;
But perhaps the most curious letter of all is one Province of Spain.&lt;br /&gt;
issued from an important firm, and published in&lt;br /&gt;
Most of those who joined the Booth S.S. Hilary&lt;br /&gt;
the Music Trades Review of September 15. In that were journalists who were experts in special sub-&lt;br /&gt;
the firm has passed beyond argument. In this case jects, and it was remarkable how almost daily each&lt;br /&gt;
that saying might be quoted, so aptly applied by member had some interesting item of his subject&lt;br /&gt;
Lord Beaconsfield to a political opponent, &ldquo;that&lt;br /&gt;
brought before him.&lt;br /&gt;
petulance is not sarcasm, nor is insolence invective.&amp;quot; At Vigo the first step in Galicia was made, and&lt;br /&gt;
It is impossible to think that letters of this kind&lt;br /&gt;
here, as indeed at all other places, the party was&lt;br /&gt;
can do the writers any good or Messrs. Stainer &amp;amp; received by the dignitaries of the province and&lt;br /&gt;
Bell, against whom they are written, any harm. town, and the ladies were presented with choice&lt;br /&gt;
It would appear from a careful perusal of the bouquets. The president and the vice-president&lt;br /&gt;
whole correspondence, that the publishers either of the Galician Tourist Society, Se&ntilde;ors Oya and&lt;br /&gt;
in ignorance fail, or wilfully do not desire, to grasp&lt;br /&gt;
Barreras, at once took charge of their guests, and&lt;br /&gt;
the importance of the position adopted by the proved indefatigable in their efforts, for these&lt;br /&gt;
composers.&lt;br /&gt;
Spanish gentlemen spoke English perfectly.&lt;br /&gt;
If they do not think that the composers are in What a surprise was Galicia in August! Not a&lt;br /&gt;
real earnest in raising these points, it is for the dried-up land ; but one of rich valleys, grey rocky&lt;br /&gt;
composers to show them that they are mistaken. mountains, and wooded hills. As one motored&lt;br /&gt;
Let the composers combine, and by a united front away from Vigo to Mondariz, what a sharp con-&lt;br /&gt;
force the publishers to recognise the great issues at&lt;br /&gt;
trast the scenery gave ! - palms and vines, heath&lt;br /&gt;
stake. The composers, backed by the society, are not and maize, blackberry bush and mimosa grores.&lt;br /&gt;
asking for anything unreasonable ; that this is the Dartmoor with its tors, and Greece with its silver-&lt;br /&gt;
case, the attitude of Messrs. Stainer &amp;amp; Bell, the grey bills and deep blue bays. At Mondariz the&lt;br /&gt;
publishers, attests. They do not desire to rob the idea that hotels in Spain are all bad was demolished ;&lt;br /&gt;
publishers. All they ask is an equitable control of here was a palace, and in the ball-room the party&lt;br /&gt;
their own property.&lt;br /&gt;
was received by the Se&ntilde;ors Peinador and a brilliant&lt;br /&gt;
It is not infrequently the case that the public group of notables. &ldquo;God Save the King&rdquo; and&lt;br /&gt;
and the individual who have been allowed the use the Spanish Royal March were played, and Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
of other&amp;#039;s property for a long time, impudently Campion, chairman of the delegation, and the hon.&lt;br /&gt;
assert that it is their own. Many examples there&lt;br /&gt;
secretary responded.&lt;br /&gt;
are in history, and in history generally the strongest&lt;br /&gt;
Mondariz and its vicinity proved full of the&lt;br /&gt;
has succeeded.&lt;br /&gt;
charms of pastoral scenery, arch&aelig;ological problems,&lt;br /&gt;
Let the composers, then, show that they are the and medi&aelig;val history. The great feast of the&lt;br /&gt;
stronger party, and then they will succeed, backed Virgin del Carmen was a picturesque scene of&lt;br /&gt;
with the knowledge that justice is also on their peasants&amp;#039; devotion and gaiety, a strange mingling&lt;br /&gt;
side.&lt;br /&gt;
of prayer and dance to the drone of bagpipes and&lt;br /&gt;
tap of drum. Lastly, a Salve Regina was sung&lt;br /&gt;
before the bishop and monsignori clad in rich&lt;br /&gt;
vestments, while the peasants in many colours, and&lt;br /&gt;
the beau monile of Madrid, all bearing lighted&lt;br /&gt;
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candles in the procession, formed a veritable sc&egrave;ne population gave a hearty welcome-army and navy,&lt;br /&gt;
d&amp;#039;op&eacute;ra.&lt;br /&gt;
Alcalde and councillors, and the &ldquo;fashion &amp;quot; of&lt;br /&gt;
From Mondariz, again in motors, the members Corunna, never forgetting the courteous Pressmen,&lt;br /&gt;
were conducted through a richly varied country, who arranged so much, and so assiduously aided a&lt;br /&gt;
first to Pontevedra, the town where the ship of better understanding of the local history and&lt;br /&gt;
Columbus, the Santa Maria, was built, and customs. The grave of Sir John Moore, the house&lt;br /&gt;
where the churches of the eleventh to the six- in which he died, and other places connected with&lt;br /&gt;
teenth centuries were intensely interesting ; and the famous campaign, were full of interest. Then&lt;br /&gt;
then to sylvan Lerez, a town famous for its rich the hosts of Corunna motored their guests to&lt;br /&gt;
mineral springs, where the party was received Ferroll, where the dockyard authorities and the&lt;br /&gt;
with flowers and music, and the vivas of the English firms who are building the new Spanish&lt;br /&gt;
crowd.&lt;br /&gt;
navy received them. Quitting northern Galicia&lt;br /&gt;
From Pontevedra a run was made inland and they made for Vigo, whence had emanated so&lt;br /&gt;
along the sea coast, to the island of La Toja. All much organisation for the tour ; here there were&lt;br /&gt;
the motors halted at the entrance to the new fresh delights&mdash;courtesies from Alcalde, council and&lt;br /&gt;
bridge, some 400 met. long, linking the island to other authorities, and from the Marquise Merced&lt;br /&gt;
the mainland, which the members of the British del Paso at her castle of Montreal at Bayona. It&lt;br /&gt;
International Association of Journalists were to was with regret that the party bade good-bye to&lt;br /&gt;
open. On the island is a vast palace of an hotel, their friends of Galicia ; much had been learnt-&lt;br /&gt;
and an extensive series of baths both for rich and the developments under great difficulties, the gay,&lt;br /&gt;
poor. The waters here are of the greatest value yet hard lot of the peasants. Surely with such men&lt;br /&gt;
for skin and other diseases. All Galicia makes to guide her, there is a great future in store for&lt;br /&gt;
holiday in August. Here the local regattas with Galicia.&lt;br /&gt;
twenty-four-oared fishing boats and the peculiar&lt;br /&gt;
little sailing boats, Gallegan singers, and peasant&lt;br /&gt;
dances and fireworks, afforded entertainment. The&lt;br /&gt;
THE INSPIRATION OF POETRY.*&lt;br /&gt;
Galician loves fireworks.&lt;br /&gt;
Fortunately, cool rains and fresh breezes brought&lt;br /&gt;
alleviation from the heat, otherwise the work M ais book is warrantably, even appropriately&lt;br /&gt;
before the members, with Se&ntilde;or Barreras to goad I named. The first chapter is entitled &amp;quot; Poetic&lt;br /&gt;
them on, might have been too much. It was in rain Madness,&amp;quot; the last &ldquo; Inspiration,&rdquo; and in one&lt;br /&gt;
that they steamed round the island of Cortegada, as in the other the subject is not shirked or eyaded,&lt;br /&gt;
which is soon to become the Osborne of Spain. but discussed. The discussion takes the form of&lt;br /&gt;
From here a salute of homage was sent to their marshalling the testimony of the poets, and the&lt;br /&gt;
Majesties the King and Queen of Spain, and at author&amp;#039;s point of view is determined by his faith in&lt;br /&gt;
Santiago a gracious reply was receired saying that the reliability of the evidence massed, and amounts&lt;br /&gt;
their Majesties were deeply touched by the salute to remonstrance against the attitude, based on&lt;br /&gt;
and homage.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; academic, second-hand practice,&amp;quot; which would&lt;br /&gt;
At Santiago-as everywhere-there was a warm &ldquo; deny reality to the poet&amp;#039;s experience.&rdquo; These&lt;br /&gt;
welcome; the Press of the district, the learned chapters form a reminder of the constituent ele-&lt;br /&gt;
Canon Eijo, Se&ntilde;or Don Oviedo, and the Alcalde ments of the waters at the fountain head of&lt;br /&gt;
and councillors formally gare a greeting to the inspiration. The elements are the emotional and&lt;br /&gt;
party. Three-and-a-half days were spent in this the intellectual, or, as Nietzsche synonymised them,&lt;br /&gt;
vondrous city. So closely is it linked with English the Dionysiac and the Apollonian. Without over-&lt;br /&gt;
history that the writer, speaking at the Ajunta- looking Apollo&amp;#039;s share, the Dionysiac portion is&lt;br /&gt;
miento, was able to give for the year 1395 the brought into greater conspicuousness than it has&lt;br /&gt;
pames of the ships leaving Hartlepool, Dartmouth, appeared for a long time in such studies. From&lt;br /&gt;
Newcastle, and, above all, Bristol, with pilgrims his definition of the poet as &ldquo;under excitement,&lt;br /&gt;
for Santiago ; no less than 660 pilgrims sailed presenting the phenomenon of a highly developed&lt;br /&gt;
from Bristol alone.&lt;br /&gt;
mind working in a primitive way,&rdquo; Mr. Woodberry&lt;br /&gt;
The churches, chapels, and hospitals, are full of is led into speculations on the history of emotion.&lt;br /&gt;
wondrous detail, and the Cathedral and Church of as a result of which he suggests the theory that the&lt;br /&gt;
San Martin demanded lengthened study. The emergence of man from the brute stage of life was&lt;br /&gt;
swinging of the great cepser is an exciting and accompanied by an outburst and increase of&lt;br /&gt;
strange rite, only gone through three times a year, emotional power, and he considers it plausible that&lt;br /&gt;
but the visit was timed to see it. .&lt;br /&gt;
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After leaving mediaval Santiago the party ran &amp;quot;The Inspiration of Poetry,&amp;quot; by George Edward&lt;br /&gt;
northward to Corunna, where the whole of the Woodberry. New York: The Macmillan Co.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
such emotion was a main condition of the gradual&lt;br /&gt;
advent of intellectual life.&lt;br /&gt;
In the other chapters the general remarks illustra-&lt;br /&gt;
tive of that passion and power of life in which&lt;br /&gt;
poetic energy consists are applied specifically to&lt;br /&gt;
Marlowe, Camoens, Byron, Gray, Tasso and&lt;br /&gt;
Lucretius. The writer is aware of the apparent&lt;br /&gt;
inconsistency of Gray&amp;#039;s position in such company;&lt;br /&gt;
contending nevertheless, that though the work of&lt;br /&gt;
minor poets be in low relief, yet, if the theory is&lt;br /&gt;
sound, they should show in their degree the traits&lt;br /&gt;
of the grand style. The essay in itself is excellent,&lt;br /&gt;
but the advisability of inserting it here without&lt;br /&gt;
fuller explanation is open to doubt, as it ushers in a&lt;br /&gt;
question separate from, albeit related to, the main&lt;br /&gt;
thesis.&lt;br /&gt;
The author&amp;#039;s assignment of the poets treated to&lt;br /&gt;
their places in literature is marked by catholicity&lt;br /&gt;
of taste, breadth of scholarship, and an almost non-&lt;br /&gt;
chalant, logical, if not irrefutable reasoning which&lt;br /&gt;
lifts them from their traditionally allotted niches&lt;br /&gt;
and insists upon their association with other regions.&lt;br /&gt;
mental or physical, with which heretofore they have&lt;br /&gt;
not been sufficiently identified. One of the most&lt;br /&gt;
brilliant instances of this important characteristic&lt;br /&gt;
of Mr. Woodberry&amp;#039;s criticism is the skilfully sus-&lt;br /&gt;
tained assertion of the fourth chapter : &ldquo;It is an&lt;br /&gt;
error to think of Byron as an English poet. ...&lt;br /&gt;
He was rather a poet of the Mediterranean world.&lt;br /&gt;
There he found the main material of his works&mdash;&lt;br /&gt;
the motive, the stage, the incidents, and the inspira-&lt;br /&gt;
tion ... the scene of bis imagination ranging&lt;br /&gt;
from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Golden&lt;br /&gt;
Horn.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
At the best the drawbacks and hindrances were&lt;br /&gt;
serious: there was, firstly, the drawback of the&lt;br /&gt;
patron, which as likely as not turned the author&lt;br /&gt;
into a miserable whining tout ; but next, the draw-&lt;br /&gt;
back of the Star Chamber, which might bring the&lt;br /&gt;
unfortunate author to the torture-chamber or the&lt;br /&gt;
prison ; and thirdly, the bitter monopolies of the&lt;br /&gt;
Stationers Company and the publishers.&lt;br /&gt;
The first chapters deal with the evils of the&lt;br /&gt;
system of patronage, and many examples from&lt;br /&gt;
contemporary writers are given of their unhappy&lt;br /&gt;
lot.&lt;br /&gt;
The whole picture would be contemptible if it&lt;br /&gt;
were not at the same time so sad. There were one&lt;br /&gt;
or two notable exceptious, in which the author was&lt;br /&gt;
treated as friend, but generally he was handled worse&lt;br /&gt;
than his master&amp;#039;s dog. If, however, the author tried&lt;br /&gt;
to be of free and independent spirit, that spirit was&lt;br /&gt;
most probably crushed out of him by the official&lt;br /&gt;
censors. These are dealt with in the second&lt;br /&gt;
chapter.&lt;br /&gt;
The most serious of these was the Privy Council&lt;br /&gt;
and the Star Chamber. To breathe a word against&lt;br /&gt;
their ruling was as likely as not to bring down&lt;br /&gt;
their powers to crush the unfortunate. It no&lt;br /&gt;
doubt took some real courage on the part of Milton&lt;br /&gt;
to write his &ldquo; Areopagitica,&amp;quot; courage which the&lt;br /&gt;
presentgeneration is inclined to undervalue as&lt;br /&gt;
they read his perfect and easy periods.&lt;br /&gt;
There were a host of informers ready to prove&lt;br /&gt;
that treason and sedition lurked in the most simple&lt;br /&gt;
of statements and the most innocent allusions.&lt;br /&gt;
Heresy was a frequent cause of complaint.&lt;br /&gt;
Political topics were most risky. It was dangerous&lt;br /&gt;
for the philosopher or the man of science or the&lt;br /&gt;
scholar to put his learning before the public lest&lt;br /&gt;
he should be arraigned and fined or tortured. It&lt;br /&gt;
was indeed difficult for Christian to arrive at the&lt;br /&gt;
Promised Land, for there were other censors still&lt;br /&gt;
lurking, and if the author passed these the&lt;br /&gt;
monopolies of Stationers&amp;#039; Hall or the publishers&lt;br /&gt;
ruined him.&lt;br /&gt;
It was little use to get &pound;2 or &pound;3 for a&lt;br /&gt;
pamphlet if you had to pay &pound;50 or &pound;100 fine.&lt;br /&gt;
- Dramatists appear to have had rather more&lt;br /&gt;
freedom, but their pay was miserable, and even if&lt;br /&gt;
their works were produced under the highest&lt;br /&gt;
patronage, the risk remained.&lt;br /&gt;
All the horrors of this hand-to-mouth existence&lt;br /&gt;
are vividly put forth, in many instances from the&lt;br /&gt;
mouths of the authors themselves.&lt;br /&gt;
But the other sides of the literary profession are&lt;br /&gt;
also dealt with lucidly, and show the result of&lt;br /&gt;
careful research. Methods of advertisement,&lt;br /&gt;
methods of publication, prices, theatrical takings,&lt;br /&gt;
and book earnings. It is all a sordid tale.&lt;br /&gt;
Lastly, the author has to explain the many&lt;br /&gt;
supplementary means of livelihood employed by&lt;br /&gt;
THE LITERARY PROFESSION IN THE&lt;br /&gt;
ELIZABETHAN AGE.*&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK dealing with the literary profession&lt;br /&gt;
A must always be of interest to followers of&lt;br /&gt;
that profession, and therefore to members of&lt;br /&gt;
the society.&lt;br /&gt;
But the literary professor in the Elizabethan&lt;br /&gt;
Age is perhaps more interesting than at any other&lt;br /&gt;
period, because at that time the birth of printing&lt;br /&gt;
was bringing into existence new possibilities,&lt;br /&gt;
wonderful and far-reaching, and&mdash;in the opinion of&lt;br /&gt;
those in authority-full of fearsome and startling&lt;br /&gt;
dangers. Men were beginning to live by their&lt;br /&gt;
writings without the aid of any other profession;&lt;br /&gt;
but at the best it was a poor livelihood. The&lt;br /&gt;
dramatists seem to have had slightly the best of&lt;br /&gt;
it, but that is not to raise the standard too high.&lt;br /&gt;
* &ldquo; The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age,&amp;quot; by&lt;br /&gt;
Phoebe Shearyo, D.Litt. Published by the Manchester&lt;br /&gt;
University Press.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
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with inscriptions, knocked down at the same sale&lt;br /&gt;
for &pound;101, having sold in July, 1908, for &pound;270.&lt;br /&gt;
As the preface points out, the present is a bad&lt;br /&gt;
time for selling rare books, and a good time for&lt;br /&gt;
purchasing them. &ldquo; Rare and expensive books&lt;br /&gt;
have, in common with others of less interest,&lt;br /&gt;
fallen very considerably in value as a whole.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
dramatists and authors in order to make both ends&lt;br /&gt;
meet.&lt;br /&gt;
Dramatists took shares in other theatrical&lt;br /&gt;
ventures, some even shares in the house, i.e., the&lt;br /&gt;
theatre itself. Some werc salaried by patrons.&lt;br /&gt;
While authors of books went into the professions&lt;br /&gt;
of clergymen, tutors private and at the Universities,&lt;br /&gt;
or schoolmasters.&lt;br /&gt;
The book has undoubted claims not only on all&lt;br /&gt;
those who write, but also on all those who read.&lt;br /&gt;
It is as well that those who have received at times&lt;br /&gt;
infinite relaxation from the highest literature,&lt;br /&gt;
should know with what heartburnings, from what&lt;br /&gt;
misery, amid what sordid surroundings their&lt;br /&gt;
pleasure has been manufactured.&lt;br /&gt;
CORRESPONDENCE.&lt;br /&gt;
BOOK-PRICES CURRENT. VOL. XXIV.&lt;br /&gt;
NO. 5.&lt;br /&gt;
T HIS is the concluding number of the 24th&lt;br /&gt;
1 volume of &ldquo;Book-Prices Current,&amp;quot; and, as&lt;br /&gt;
usual, contains in addition to very full general&lt;br /&gt;
Index, a preface in which will be found interesting&lt;br /&gt;
remarks respecting the sales of the season 1909-&lt;br /&gt;
1910. The sales recorded are those from June 15,&lt;br /&gt;
1910, to July 29, 1910, inclusively. Authors will&lt;br /&gt;
probably find particularly interesting Sotheby&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
sale (July 18, etc.), which included a large pro-&lt;br /&gt;
portion of belles lettres, as well as many books&lt;br /&gt;
which seldom turn up. At Sotheby&amp;#039;s sale, June 16&lt;br /&gt;
and 17, Burns&amp;#039; original holograph MS. draft of&lt;br /&gt;
his letter to William Pitt, entitled &ldquo; Address of&lt;br /&gt;
the Scottish Distillers,&rdquo; fetched &pound;190 ; and at a&lt;br /&gt;
sale by the same firm on July 26 another letter of&lt;br /&gt;
his &pound;235. At the same sale of June 16 the first&lt;br /&gt;
Aldine edition of the &ldquo; Terze Rime&rdquo; of Dante, the&lt;br /&gt;
first Aldine, showing the well-known anchor, sold&lt;br /&gt;
for &pound;6 58. Collections, in the one case of eighteen&lt;br /&gt;
and in the other of sixteen publications, of the&lt;br /&gt;
Kelmscott Press were offered on June 18 and&lt;br /&gt;
July 21 respectively by Sotheby. The preface&lt;br /&gt;
remarks that an unusually large proportion of&lt;br /&gt;
collections of books has been a feature of this&lt;br /&gt;
season&amp;#039;s sales. The Ruston sale (Sotheby, July 21-&lt;br /&gt;
22) included a number of ancient MSS. from the&lt;br /&gt;
Abbatial Library of Waltham Holy Cross, and the&lt;br /&gt;
Monastic Library of St. Edmundsbury. The sale&lt;br /&gt;
(Sotheby, July 21) for &pound;38 of a copy of the first&lt;br /&gt;
edition of Edward Fitzgerald&amp;#039;s &ldquo; Omar Khayyam,&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
wanting the brown covers, will attract the notice&lt;br /&gt;
of those who remember that Mr. Quaritch at one&lt;br /&gt;
time found it difficult to persuade the public to&lt;br /&gt;
purchase the work. An opposite phenomenon is&lt;br /&gt;
presented (Sotheby, July 16-17) by &amp;quot; Purchas his&lt;br /&gt;
Pilgramage,&amp;quot; 3rd edit., 1617, presentation copy&lt;br /&gt;
THE PENSION FUND.&lt;br /&gt;
To the Secretary of the Society of Authors.&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR MR. THRING,&mdash; Will you kindly convey&lt;br /&gt;
to the Chairman and committee of the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund my heartfelt thanks for their generous&lt;br /&gt;
award to me, the wording of which touches me&lt;br /&gt;
deeply, viz., that it is &amp;quot;the only recognition in&lt;br /&gt;
their power, of my long services to literature and&lt;br /&gt;
high example of sincerity and sound work.&amp;quot; Pray&lt;br /&gt;
assure them that I look upon this pension as an&lt;br /&gt;
honour that gladdens my autumn of life, besides&lt;br /&gt;
also a handsome staff that will greatly help me on&lt;br /&gt;
the remaining stages of my road. For, however&lt;br /&gt;
hopefully in mind I begin to discern the Gate&lt;br /&gt;
looming nearer ahead, it is undeniable that declining&lt;br /&gt;
strength of body makes my work less a happiness&lt;br /&gt;
and more weight added to that of increasing years.&lt;br /&gt;
For some time past the wish has been in my&lt;br /&gt;
mind to help other writers like myself. To this&lt;br /&gt;
end I destined certain earnings, some &pound;600 in&lt;br /&gt;
capital. It now seems to me that if the Authors&amp;#039;&lt;br /&gt;
Pension Fund would see fit to accept this as a gift,&lt;br /&gt;
allowing me the interest during my lifetime, I&lt;br /&gt;
should joyfully hand it over to them now, instead&lt;br /&gt;
of bequeathing it later.&lt;br /&gt;
The Society has so often been of help to me, and&lt;br /&gt;
I number so many of its members among my&lt;br /&gt;
friends, that I trust this small gift may be accept-&lt;br /&gt;
able, and accepted by them as a token of true&lt;br /&gt;
sympathy, and in gratitude for their most kind act&lt;br /&gt;
of comradeship.&lt;br /&gt;
Once more thanking the committee,&lt;br /&gt;
Believe me,&lt;br /&gt;
Yours sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;
May CROMMELIN.&lt;br /&gt;
THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.&lt;br /&gt;
1.&lt;br /&gt;
DEAR SIR,--I should like to add one or two&lt;br /&gt;
experiences to those related by &ldquo;A Contributor &amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
which called forth &ldquo;The Editorial Attitude.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
The editor who wrote the latter, remarks, &ldquo;The himself in the bankruptcy court or a lunatic asylum.&lt;br /&gt;
waiting for years&amp;#039; notion is far from being any. It was by sheer chance Hardy stuck to a profession&lt;br /&gt;
thing like the rule, sporadic cases notwithstanding, that carried him to the top of the tree ; and we all&lt;br /&gt;
and with it may be bracketed the notion that know the history of Meredith and his works.&lt;br /&gt;
editors publish contributions and try to wriggle We must not kick against the pricks. I hare,&lt;br /&gt;
out of paying for them. I am writing of respon- myself, lately had the MS. of a book returned to&lt;br /&gt;
sible editors of established journals.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
me with a most courteous refusal to publish. And,&lt;br /&gt;
The experiences I refer to are as follows:-&lt;br /&gt;
from a like courteous explanation, it is clear the&lt;br /&gt;
(1) I was asked by an editor to write a short book has not been read-possibly because I told&lt;br /&gt;
story, and did so. He received it two years ago. the publisher in question that, if successful, it&lt;br /&gt;
It is yet unpublished. I wrote in March last to would be read by four people and four people only&lt;br /&gt;
complain, and got a reply to the effect that the in England. But what complaint have I ? Some&lt;br /&gt;
editor had been changed and the story mislaid. publishers don&amp;#039;t produce books for my benefit bat&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Another editor accepted a story in January, for their own : even the skilled labourer who is&lt;br /&gt;
1909, but it is still unpublished.&lt;br /&gt;
honest but starving has no right to demand&lt;br /&gt;
(3) I sent an article to a paper ; the article was employment from any capitalist.&lt;br /&gt;
published, but no proof was sent to me, and no And our revered clients, the public ? I will&lt;br /&gt;
payment was made. Several months afterwards I describe for the benefit of &ldquo;On-looker&rdquo; an interest-&lt;br /&gt;
learned of the publication, wrote for my fees and ing little experiment that he may try with certainty&lt;br /&gt;
received them. A little later the same paper published of success-I have tried it more than once and&lt;br /&gt;
another article in the same way ; I kept a look-out, never failed. Let him take any more or less&lt;br /&gt;
saw the article, waited another month, and then unknown passage from some established romance&lt;br /&gt;
wrote asking for payment.&lt;br /&gt;
writer and read it to a chance audience with an&lt;br /&gt;
The three papers referred to are all well known, expression of contempt. All those who don&amp;#039;t&lt;br /&gt;
and the names are enclosed for the benefit of the recognise the author will agree with him that what&lt;br /&gt;
editor of The Author, who can show them to he has read is &ldquo;rot.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; Editor&amp;quot; in confidence, if he thinks desirable. Publishers have not to deal with reasonable&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
customers ; we all-except myself and you who&lt;br /&gt;
ERNEST Young, read-think under the gouvernance of authority&lt;br /&gt;
and preconceived ideas. The Protestant, the&lt;br /&gt;
Roman, the Unitarian, the Materialist&mdash;all, under&lt;br /&gt;
the influence of preconceived ideas, see contradictory&lt;br /&gt;
aspects of the same one thing they regard. If&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,_&amp;quot; On-looker&amp;quot; in his paper going to prove drivel were possible from a Kipling his worshippers&lt;br /&gt;
that editors &ldquo;do not read the manuscripts of would adore it as the supreme ; if the supreme were&lt;br /&gt;
unknown men&amp;quot; might perhaps have used for argu- presented to us from an unknown writer we should&lt;br /&gt;
ment the early history of the MSS. of &ldquo;Vanity require the guidance of authority to imbue us with&lt;br /&gt;
Fair,&amp;quot; &ldquo; Jane Eyre,&rdquo; &ldquo; Vice Vers&acirc;&rdquo; and, doubtless, preconceived ideas before we could worship it as we&lt;br /&gt;
many others.&lt;br /&gt;
ought.&lt;br /&gt;
The fact is that any well-established firm of Let no one complain that publishers are trades-&lt;br /&gt;
publishers is one which is skilled in making money men ; if they were not tradesmen, and successful&lt;br /&gt;
by the publication of books, and any book by an tradesmen, they could not continue to exist.&lt;br /&gt;
established author gives almost a certainty of profit, Personally, I have the greatest admiration for&lt;br /&gt;
while the best of books by an unknown man may trade. And let every writer remember, too, that&lt;br /&gt;
fall dead from the press. James Payn, to whom if he choose he can, even as a novelist, be a suc-&lt;br /&gt;
* On-looker&rdquo; refers, proved this. He wrote two cessful tradesman, as no few prove.&lt;br /&gt;
novels ; one, with advice, he decided was by far B ut if he respect himself as an artist let him&lt;br /&gt;
better than the other. The former he had published remember, too, that the crown of poverty&lt;br /&gt;
anonymously : it fell dead from the press. The and ignominy honest artists, like the author&lt;br /&gt;
latter had the success to be expected of a book of &ldquo; The City of Dreadful Night&rdquo; and Clarence&lt;br /&gt;
published under his name. When a writer has Maugan attained to, is a thousand times better&lt;br /&gt;
established a reputation, then sheer drivel from his worth having than the crown of present and passing&lt;br /&gt;
pen will, for awhile, be read with pleasure and pay social and monetary success which, as tradesmen,&lt;br /&gt;
the publisher. This fact publishers who object to we hanker after. If any writer gamble for personal&lt;br /&gt;
bankruptcy must take into consideration. On the success he must not complain of the rules of the&lt;br /&gt;
other hand, should anyone of them, neglecting the table ; he chooses his own table. If he be a pure&lt;br /&gt;
travlesman&amp;#039;s view, publish books only because they artist-an investor, not speculator-he can sit down&lt;br /&gt;
constitute sound literature, he would shortly find cheerfully to bread and cheese in his half-a-crown-&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
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THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
51&lt;br /&gt;
a-week room and write for God and his fellowmen.&lt;br /&gt;
There will be no result. Why should there be? It&lt;br /&gt;
is in honest striving, not in fulfilment, that we&lt;br /&gt;
manifest the spiritual in us.&lt;br /&gt;
F. C. CONSTABLE.&lt;br /&gt;
work which has undergone any revision or altera-&lt;br /&gt;
tion,&rdquo; then the only objection seems to be in the&lt;br /&gt;
definition of the term, and the term must be altered&lt;br /&gt;
to the word &ldquo;issue,&rdquo; which he suggests in his&lt;br /&gt;
letter ; but the fixing of a unit seems to be not&lt;br /&gt;
only practicable but essential. Mr. Hubert Haes&lt;br /&gt;
further says in his letter, &ldquo;it really does not&lt;br /&gt;
matter to the public how many copies constitute&lt;br /&gt;
an edition or issue.&rdquo; On this point I beg to take&lt;br /&gt;
exactly the opposite view.&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
ONE INTERESTED.&lt;br /&gt;
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,--I looked in vain hope in last month&amp;#039;s&lt;br /&gt;
issue of The Author for some comment on the&lt;br /&gt;
newly-constituted Academic Committee.&lt;br /&gt;
If the Times is correct in stating that its object&lt;br /&gt;
is &ldquo; to represent pure literature in the same way&lt;br /&gt;
that (sic) the Royal Academy represents the fine&lt;br /&gt;
arts, the Royal Society science, and the British&lt;br /&gt;
Academy learning,&amp;quot; then a most disastrous start&lt;br /&gt;
has been made in the selection of the twenty-seven&lt;br /&gt;
original members.&lt;br /&gt;
How many of these can be accepted unchallenged&lt;br /&gt;
as workers in &ldquo;pure literature&amp;quot; as apart from&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; learning&amp;quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
Pure literature, per se, has nothing to do with&lt;br /&gt;
historical or pre-historical research, or the evolution&lt;br /&gt;
of a language, though it may contribute to both.&lt;br /&gt;
It is noticeable also that many of the learned&lt;br /&gt;
members whose interests are literary are critics and&lt;br /&gt;
commentators of dead authors rather than creators&lt;br /&gt;
or appraisers of living literature, and they are not&lt;br /&gt;
likely to inspire confidence in the proposed awards&lt;br /&gt;
to be made to aspiring authors.&lt;br /&gt;
Is the claim of many foreign critics to be proved&lt;br /&gt;
once and for all time true, that the Anglo-Saxons&lt;br /&gt;
have no art, and that the seeming exceptions which&lt;br /&gt;
might prove the contrary are due merely to&lt;br /&gt;
ebnliitions of Celtic or Latin blood ?&lt;br /&gt;
Our possession of Shakespeare without a single&lt;br /&gt;
permanent r&eacute;pertoire theatre where his works may&lt;br /&gt;
be seen is surely huge joke enough, without a new&lt;br /&gt;
academy composed of worthy professors.&lt;br /&gt;
Yours, etc.&lt;br /&gt;
WAYFARER.&lt;br /&gt;
CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING.&lt;br /&gt;
I.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,&mdash;It is not without amusement that I have&lt;br /&gt;
read in the October number of The Author the&lt;br /&gt;
letter signed &ldquo; D. F.&amp;quot; with regard to &ldquo; Co-operative&lt;br /&gt;
Publication.&rdquo; I should like to say that I think it&lt;br /&gt;
would be an unwise thing for the society to have&lt;br /&gt;
any interest whatever in any business concern.&lt;br /&gt;
It might prevent the officials of the society from&lt;br /&gt;
dealing in an independent fashion. They might&lt;br /&gt;
feel bound to bolster up the society&amp;#039;s own publish-&lt;br /&gt;
ing venture. Even if this was not the case, those&lt;br /&gt;
who were anxious to find fault with the society&lt;br /&gt;
would always claim that the action and dealings&lt;br /&gt;
of the society must be biassed if it was connected&lt;br /&gt;
in any way with a publisher&amp;#039;s or agent&amp;#039;s business.&lt;br /&gt;
I do not in any way agree with what your corre-&lt;br /&gt;
spondent states about Mr. Thring&amp;#039;s advice and the&lt;br /&gt;
dictatorial position of publishers. I have found&lt;br /&gt;
Mr. Thring&amp;#039;s advice very useful and have found&lt;br /&gt;
publishers willing to alter their agreements in&lt;br /&gt;
order to meet the authors. I cannot say about&lt;br /&gt;
other authors, but personally I have never been&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo; black-balled&rdquo; by a publisher although he has&lt;br /&gt;
known of my connection with the society. Indeed,&lt;br /&gt;
if the publishers took it into their heads to &ldquo; black-&lt;br /&gt;
ball &rdquo; all those who were members of the Society&lt;br /&gt;
of Authors, there would be very few authors for&lt;br /&gt;
whom they would be able to publish.&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
MIDDLE-CLASS.&lt;br /&gt;
THE UNIT OF AN Edition.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR, -The letter under the signature of Mr.&lt;br /&gt;
Hubert Haes in your last issue dealing with the&lt;br /&gt;
* Unit of an Edition&rdquo; is interesting, but the&lt;br /&gt;
suggestion that it is impracticable to obtain such&lt;br /&gt;
a upit seems to me absurd. What reason makes&lt;br /&gt;
it impossible, if the unit was fixed at 1,000, if&lt;br /&gt;
500 were published to say &amp;quot; half an edition pub-&lt;br /&gt;
lished,&rdquo; or &ldquo; quarter of an edition published&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
if 2.30 were published, or if 20,000 were published,&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;twenty editions&amp;quot;? If Mr. Hubert Haes inter-&lt;br /&gt;
prets the term &amp;quot;edition&rdquo; as &ldquo;every issue of the&lt;br /&gt;
II.&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,&mdash;The subject of co-operative publishing, on&lt;br /&gt;
which there has been some correspondence in The&lt;br /&gt;
Author, is of surpassing interest to writers who,&lt;br /&gt;
having adopted the usual methods of publication,&lt;br /&gt;
have found themselves out of pocket by the trans-&lt;br /&gt;
action, or, after the lapse of many months, in receipt&lt;br /&gt;
of an exiguous remuneration for their labour.&lt;br /&gt;
I gather from the letter of &ldquo; D. F.&rdquo; in your last&lt;br /&gt;
issue that he proposes that the Incorporated&lt;br /&gt;
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52&lt;br /&gt;
THE AUTHOR.&lt;br /&gt;
Society of Authors should set up a publishing who have found by experience &ldquo;that to get&lt;br /&gt;
business for the benefit of such of its members as Mr. Thring&amp;#039;s kindly and admirable advice is one&lt;br /&gt;
might prefer to issue their works through the thing, but to get the slightest alteration in a&lt;br /&gt;
society rather than through a private firm of publisher&amp;#039;s dictatorial proffer is wholly another,&amp;quot; I&lt;br /&gt;
publishers. It is, I fear, only too clear that, as beg to say that co-operative publication in some&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;D. F.&rdquo; says, the society, although giving the form seems to me to offer almost the only issue&lt;br /&gt;
most admirable advice to authors in regard to the from the impasse in which authors who necessarily&lt;br /&gt;
agreements they should enter into with publishers, appeal to a restricted circle of readers frequently&lt;br /&gt;
can bring no influence to bear on the latter in find themselves. To this class belong the majority&lt;br /&gt;
order to induce them to accept fair instead of writers even on popular science and philosophy,&lt;br /&gt;
of unfair agreements. Authors who have not and practically all those whose works on either&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;arrived&rdquo; are as completely at the mercy of subject are technical. Either they must sign a&lt;br /&gt;
publishers as they were before the society was hopelessly unsatisfactory contract or they must&lt;br /&gt;
founded.&lt;br /&gt;
forego publication. It is a painful dilemma, and&lt;br /&gt;
If, as is probable, the society is incorporated I cannot but think the suggestion of co-operative&lt;br /&gt;
under the provisions of the Companies Acts publication is worthy of consideration. It is&lt;br /&gt;
relating to associations formed for the advance- possible also that by a carefully-thought-out&lt;br /&gt;
ment of art, science, etc., and not for profit, then scheme of the kind, the swamping of works of real&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;D. F.&amp;#039;s&rdquo; proposal could not be carried out but not catch-penny merit might become less&lt;br /&gt;
unless the society were reconstituted as a limited common than, according to the confession of most&lt;br /&gt;
company.&lt;br /&gt;
publishers, it now is. The business of publication&lt;br /&gt;
A preferable course, I think, would be for the is bound to have a pronounced commercial aspect,&lt;br /&gt;
society, after being assured by competent advisers but it is not the only one in which it should be&lt;br /&gt;
that a young author&amp;#039;s work possessed distinct regarded.&lt;br /&gt;
merit and was likely to prove a success, to defray&lt;br /&gt;
I am,&lt;br /&gt;
the cost (or some portion thereof) of printing and&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
preparing it for publication on agreed terms as to&lt;br /&gt;
repayment, and to leave the author to circulate the&lt;br /&gt;
book as best he could.&lt;br /&gt;
An instance has just come to my knowledge of&lt;br /&gt;
COPYRIGHT IN PHOTOGRAPHS.&lt;br /&gt;
a young writer who printed, at small cost to him- SIR,&mdash;The question of copyright must be looked&lt;br /&gt;
self, a very short poem. The poem had undoubted at, not only from the personal point of view, but&lt;br /&gt;
merit, though it was of a kind that appealed to a also from the point of the advance of knowledge.&lt;br /&gt;
limited class of readers. The author also printed The real test of private rights should be that&lt;br /&gt;
a simple but attractive leaflet which, with the the probable profits of the author should not be&lt;br /&gt;
assistance of his wife, he addressed and posted to reduced. To uphold an entire right over every&lt;br /&gt;
friends and likely customers. He also sent copies photograph for about eighty years, outside of every&lt;br /&gt;
of the poem to various papers with some of which expected profit, is a detriment to knowledge,&lt;br /&gt;
he had a slight journalistic connection. The without any reasonable gain.&lt;br /&gt;
result bas so far been satisfactory. The total To give an instance, many continental writers&lt;br /&gt;
amount of cash received has of course been small, desire to use one or two illustrations from books of&lt;br /&gt;
but it has repaid the entire cost of printing and my own; one man took nearly half his illustrations&lt;br /&gt;
publication, with a fair margin of profit. The from me without asking. I raise no objection, as&lt;br /&gt;
poem has been well reviewed, and the author has it is all for the good of science. But when I want&lt;br /&gt;
established communications with quarters which to use only a few portions of photographs made by&lt;br /&gt;
give promise of remunerative literary employment Germans, I am met with copyright claims that bar&lt;br /&gt;
in the future.&lt;br /&gt;
the use, which could not in any way detract from&lt;br /&gt;
I shall be glad to have your views and those of their expected profits. Why should a newspaper&lt;br /&gt;
your readers on the prospects of this mode of be allowed for profit to pick the plums of a new&lt;br /&gt;
publication on a larger scale.&lt;br /&gt;
book in extracts, while for scientific publications&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
not a single detail may be used from a photograph&lt;br /&gt;
CRUX. without payment? The benefit to the photographer&lt;br /&gt;
would be safeguarded by allowing not more than&lt;br /&gt;
ten per cent. of material in any book to be from&lt;br /&gt;
III.&lt;br /&gt;
copyright illustrations. No one could then pirate&lt;br /&gt;
SIR,&mdash;I have read with interest and sympathy a work, or interfere with its sale.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;D. F.&amp;#039;s &rdquo; letter on co-operative publication in the&lt;br /&gt;
Yours faithfully,&lt;br /&gt;
October issue of The Author. As one of those&lt;br /&gt;
GIVE AND TAKE.&lt;br /&gt;
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223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; MSS. 18. 1,000 words; over 40,000, 10d. No unfair&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;cutting&amp;quot; of prices.&lt;br /&gt;
Educated Operators, GOOD PAPER, Standard Machines.&lt;br /&gt;
REFERENCES.&lt;br /&gt;
ESTABLISHED)&lt;br /&gt;
(XVIII. CENT.&lt;br /&gt;
The Wessex Press, Taunton.&lt;br /&gt;
BARNICOTT &amp;amp; PEARCE&lt;br /&gt;
INVITE ENQUIRIES RESPECTING PRINTING.&lt;br /&gt;
ESTIMATES OF COST, AND OTHER DETAILS, PROMPTLY GIVEN.&lt;br /&gt;
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ADVERTISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
Two popular Hotels in Central London.&lt;br /&gt;
Opposite the British Museum.&lt;br /&gt;
WITH&lt;br /&gt;
WITH BRAINS.&lt;br /&gt;
THACKERAY HOTEL.&lt;br /&gt;
Great Russell Street, London.&lt;br /&gt;
Near the British Museum.&lt;br /&gt;
KINGSLEY HOTEL.&lt;br /&gt;
exceedingly pread themen great&lt;br /&gt;
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.&lt;br /&gt;
Every Order I have executed has been followed&lt;br /&gt;
by Repeats. Why?&lt;br /&gt;
My work is always the same-THE BEST.&lt;br /&gt;
Indifferent copy TYPED WELL stands a better&lt;br /&gt;
chance with Editors and Publishers than GOOD&lt;br /&gt;
WORK TYPED BADLY.&lt;br /&gt;
An AUTHOR has sent me the following:&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;Cricklewood, N.W.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;I am exceedingly pleased with the type-&lt;br /&gt;
written copies. I have read them carefully&lt;br /&gt;
through and consider you have taken great&lt;br /&gt;
pains with the work. Also the type is excel-&lt;br /&gt;
lent. I have had 5 MSS. done and YOURS&lt;br /&gt;
IS FAR THE BEST.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot; I shall certainly remember you when I want&lt;br /&gt;
anything typed.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
I USE BRAINS AS WELL AS HANDS.&lt;br /&gt;
HIGH-CLASS WORK AT LOW CHARGES.&lt;br /&gt;
I have many Testimonials from Members of the Authors&amp;#039; Society.&lt;br /&gt;
SEND IN ORDER NOW.&lt;br /&gt;
MISS RALLING,&lt;br /&gt;
176, Loughborough Road, LONDON, s.w.&lt;br /&gt;
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Lounges&lt;br /&gt;
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing. Reading, Billiard&lt;br /&gt;
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-&lt;br /&gt;
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.&lt;br /&gt;
Bedrooms (including attendance), single, from&lt;br /&gt;
3/6 to 6/-.&lt;br /&gt;
Inclusive Charge for Bedroom, Attendance, Table d&amp;#039;Hole,&lt;br /&gt;
Breakfast and Dinner, from 816 to 10/6 per day.&lt;br /&gt;
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.&lt;br /&gt;
Telegraphic Addresses :&lt;br /&gt;
Thackeray Hotel- Thackeray, London.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Kingsley Hotel &mdash;&amp;quot;Bookcraft, London.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
MRS. GILL, Typewriting Office,&amp;#039; | AUTHORS &amp;amp; PLAYWRIGHTS.&lt;br /&gt;
(Established 1883.) 35, LUDGATE HILL, E.C.&lt;br /&gt;
Special facilities for placing work of every description.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; MSS. carefully copied from 1s. per 1,000 Particulars from Manager, Literary Department,&lt;br /&gt;
words. Duplicate copies third price. French and German&lt;br /&gt;
MSS. accurately copied; or typewritten English trans-&lt;br /&gt;
WIENER AGENCY, LD.,&lt;br /&gt;
lations supplied. References kindly permitted to Messrs.&lt;br /&gt;
64, Strand, LONDON,&lt;br /&gt;
A. P. Watt &amp;amp; Son, Literary Agents, Hastings House,&lt;br /&gt;
Norfolk Street, Strand, W.C. Telephone 8464 Central.&lt;br /&gt;
AND TRIBUNE BUILDING, NEW YORK.&lt;br /&gt;
&ldquo;THE AUTHOR.&rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.&lt;br /&gt;
TYPEWRITING.&lt;br /&gt;
Authors&amp;#039; MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000&lt;br /&gt;
words; in duplicate, 1/- Plays and General&lt;br /&gt;
Copying List and specimen of work on appli-&lt;br /&gt;
cation.&lt;br /&gt;
[ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT...&lt;br /&gt;
...&lt;br /&gt;
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Other Pages ... ... ...&lt;br /&gt;
Half of a Page ...&lt;br /&gt;
Quarter of a Page&lt;br /&gt;
Eighth of a Page ...&lt;br /&gt;
Single Column Advertisements&lt;br /&gt;
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...&pound;4 0 0&lt;br /&gt;
... 300&lt;br /&gt;
... ... 1 100&lt;br /&gt;
... ... O 15 0&lt;br /&gt;
... 0766&lt;br /&gt;
per inch 0 60&lt;br /&gt;
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;quot;Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to the&lt;br /&gt;
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing&lt;br /&gt;
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she&lt;br /&gt;
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent for&lt;br /&gt;
Twelve Insertions.&lt;br /&gt;
Advertisements should reach the Office not later than the 20th for&lt;br /&gt;
insertion in the following month&amp;#039;s issue.&lt;br /&gt;
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to the&lt;br /&gt;
ADVERTISEMENT MANAGER, The Author Office, 39, Old Queen Street,&lt;br /&gt;
Storey&amp;#039;s Gatı, S.W.&lt;br /&gt;
MISS M. R. HORNE,&lt;br /&gt;
ESKDALE, WEST DRAYTON, MIDDLESEX.&lt;br /&gt;
Printed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, &amp;amp; Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)&lt;br /&gt;
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