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415	https://historysoa.com/items/show/415	The Author, Vol. 21 Issue 03 (December 1910)	<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+21+Issue+03+%28December+1910%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 21 Issue 03 (December 1910)</a>			<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a>								<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a>	1910-12-01-The-Author-21-3					53–78																		<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=21">21</a>											<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1910-12-01">1910-12-01</a>							3			19101201	The Author.<br /> (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br /> Vol. XXI.- No. 3.<br /> DECEMBER 1, 1910.<br /> (PRICE SIXPENCE.<br /> CONTENTS.<br /> PAGE<br /> Notices<br /> ..<br /> .<br /> The Society&#039;s Funds<br /> List of Members ...<br /> The Pension Fund<br /> Committee Notes<br /> Books published by Members<br /> Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br /> Paris Notes<br /> Unauthorised Alteration of a Picture<br /> Publishers&#039; and Minor Rights<br /> Magazine Contents ...<br /> How to Use the Society<br /> Warnings to Producers of Books<br /> Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br /> Registration of Scenarios and Original Plays<br /> Dramatic Authors and Agents<br /> Warnings to Musical Composers<br /> Stamping Music ...<br /> The Reading Branch<br /> Remittances<br /> General Notes<br /> The Society&#039;s Anniversary Ba<br /> The Rambling Essayist<br /> Some Beauties of Ainerican Slang<br /> Camille Lemonnier<br /> The French Renaissance<br /> Correspondence ...<br /> nane<br /> PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br /> 1. 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Jan. 4, Wroughton, Miss Cicely.<br /> portant claim is forthcoming.<br /> Jan. 6, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila<br /> 050<br /> Consols 21%........... ......... £1,000 0 0<br /> Jan. 6, Underdown, Miss E. M..<br /> Local Loans .............................. 500 0 0<br /> Jan. 6, Carolin, Mrs. . .<br /> Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br /> Jan. 8, P. H. and M. K. .<br /> dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11<br /> Jan. 8, Crellin, H. R. .<br /> London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br /> Jan. 10, Tanper, James T..<br /> ture Stock .....................<br /> 250 0 0<br /> Jan. 10, Miller, Arthur .<br /> Egyptian Government Irrigation<br /> Jan. 10, Bolton, Miss Anna<br /> Trust 4% Certificates .....<br /> Jan. 10, Parr, Miss Olive K.<br /> Cape of Good Hope 32% Inecribed<br /> Jan. 13, Hardy, Harold ..<br /> Stock .............................<br /> 200 0 0<br /> Jan. 17, Harland, Mrs. .<br /> Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br /> Jan. 21, Benecke, Miss Ida<br /> 4% Preference Stock..................<br /> 228 0 0<br /> Jan. 25, Fradd, Meredith .<br /> 05<br /> New Zealand 32% Stock...............<br /> 247 9<br /> Jan. 29, Stayton, F. .<br /> 6<br /> .<br /> 6<br /> . 0 10<br /> Irish Land Act 27% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br /> Feb. 1, Wharton, L. C.<br /> 0 10 0<br /> Corporation of London 2% Stock,<br /> Feb. 4, Bowen, Miss Marjorie . 1 1 0<br /> 1927-57 ...................<br /> 438 2<br /> Feb. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte<br /> 4<br /> .<br /> 0<br /> 1 1<br /> Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 .........<br /> 6<br /> 132 18<br /> Feb. 7, Pettigrew, W. F. . .<br /> . () 5 0<br /> Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock............... 120 121<br /> Feb. 7, Church, Sir A. H. . .<br /> Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br /> Feb. 8, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit.<br /> Grant Stock, 1938......<br /> 198 3 8<br /> Feb. 8, The XX. Pen Club<br /> Feb. 10, Greenbank, Percy.<br /> Total ................ £4,065 6 0<br /> Feb. 11, Stopford, Francis .<br /> Feb. 11, Dawson, A. J. .<br /> 05 0<br /> Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss Kathleen .<br /> Subscriptions.<br /> Feb. 16, W. D. .<br /> . .1<br /> 1910.<br /> c . Feb. 16, Gibbs, F. L. A. . . . 0 10 0<br /> Feb. 17, Wintle, H. R. .. . 1 0 0<br /> Jan. 12, Riley, Miss Josephine .. . 0.7 6 Feb. 21, Thurston, E. Temple. . 110<br /> Jan. 13, Child, Harold H., , . 0 10 0 Feb. 23, Dawson, Mrs. Frederick<br /> ....<br /> er er en o<br /> no er is<br /> .....<br /> 200<br /> ...<br /> .....<br /> ·<br /> · ·<br /> .<br /> oriconco-<br /> Ewer er to creo Ewer<br /> ..<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 55 (#87) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 55<br /> No crore Bong<br /> 0<br /> s. d.<br /> Feb. 24, Williamson, C. N.<br /> 2 0<br /> Feb. 24, Williamson, Mrs. C. X.<br /> 0<br /> Feb. 25, Westell, W. P. . .<br /> O<br /> March 2, Toplis, Miss Grace ..<br /> March 3, Hawtrey, Miss Valentina<br /> March 5, Smith, Bertram .<br /> 0<br /> March 12, Yould, A. . .<br /> O<br /> March 16, Loraine, Lady,<br /> 0<br /> March 29, Macdonnell, Randall<br /> 4 0 0<br /> April 6, Blake, J. P.. .<br /> . 2 2 0<br /> April 8, “ Patricia Wentworth &quot;<br /> April 14. Hinkson, Mrs. K. Tynan<br /> 0<br /> May 6. Greenstreet. W. J.. . . 0 5 0<br /> May 7, Cousin, John W. . . 0 5 0<br /> May 10, Zangwill, Israel.<br /> . 1 1 0<br /> May 19, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (Portion of<br /> money recovered by the Society as<br /> damages) :<br /> 10 0 0<br /> June 3, Wynne, C. Whitworth.<br /> 3 0<br /> June 15, Maunder, J. H. .<br /> 1 0<br /> June 30, Atkinson, Harold<br /> 0 6 0<br /> July 4, O&#039;Higgins, Harvey . . . 1 0 0<br /> July 5, Muir, Ward . . . . 1 1 0<br /> July 5, Peacock, Mrs. .<br /> 2 2 0<br /> July 11, March, Miss A. M.<br /> 0 12 0<br /> July 18, Ralli, C. Scaramanga ..<br /> O<br /> July 20, Ellis, Havelock . .<br /> 5 0<br /> Aug. 22, Myers, C. S.<br /> 2 2 0<br /> Sept. 9, Bristow-Noble, J. C. .<br /> 0 7 6<br /> Sept. 30, Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred . 1 1 0<br /> Oct. 4, Pakington, The Honourable<br /> Mary .<br /> Oct. 11, Caws, Luther W...<br /> 0 10 0<br /> Oct. 11, Knowles-Foster, Miss Frances G. 0 10 0<br /> Oct. 28, Tuite, Hugh. .<br /> 1 1 0<br /> Oct. 28, Margolionth, George<br /> 0 7 6<br /> Oct. 31, Gribble, F.. . . : 0 5 0<br /> Nov. 1, Rankin, Miss. . . . 0 5 0<br /> Nov. 5, Buckrose, J. E. .<br /> 1 1 0<br /> Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden.<br /> 2 2 0<br /> Nov. 12, Buè, Henri . .<br /> 0 11 0<br /> Nov. 19, Ellis, Mrs. Havelock<br /> 0 5 0<br /> We have much pleasure in acknowledging, with<br /> apologies, a donation of 10s. from Mr. Harold<br /> Hardy on January 13, which, through an over-<br /> sight, had been omitted from the printed lists.<br /> election. They proceeded to elect twenty-eight<br /> members and associates, bringing the elections for<br /> the current year up to 248. There were five<br /> resignations, which the committee accepted with<br /> regret. These bring the resignations for the<br /> current year to 74.<br /> The committee then considered the law cases.<br /> On the first case, which dealt with the loss of a score<br /> of music, the secretary reported that a settlement<br /> had been come to during the past month-the<br /> money had been paid to the composer for the loss<br /> and the claim had been satisfied-and that the<br /> composer had made a donation of £5 towards the<br /> Capital Fund of the society. The committee<br /> thanked Mr. McEwen, the member whose property<br /> had been lost, for the donation that he had made.<br /> On the second matter, which referred to disputes<br /> in which action had already been commenced in<br /> the courts, the solicitors reported progress, and the<br /> committee decided to adjourn the points brought<br /> forward to the next meeting in order that the<br /> accounts, which were the cause of action, might<br /> be adjusted before further steps should be con-<br /> sidered. The next matter dealt with a question<br /> of alleged collaboration. The committee decided<br /> to take the case up if, after a full investigation,<br /> the solicitors&#039; opinion was in favour of such<br /> a course, and the secretary was instructed to<br /> write to the member concerned asking her to call<br /> upon the society&#039;s solicitors and give them full<br /> information, in order that they might be in a<br /> position to advise the society. In a question of<br /> infringement of copyright the committee decided<br /> to take the matter up, but as there was every<br /> prospect of a settlement they hoped it would not<br /> be necessary to take the case into court.<br /> After consideration of the disputes, the general<br /> matters before the committee were heard in the<br /> following order :-<br /> Reference bad again been made to the committee<br /> by some members of the society on the point of<br /> the censorship of books by the libraries. The<br /> committee instructed the secretary to report that<br /> the matter was having their earnest consideration,<br /> as they considered the issues of the greatest import-<br /> ance to authors; but the practical solution of the<br /> question they considered was surrounded with many<br /> difficulties.<br /> A general question of the legal work of the<br /> society was discussed, and the committee appointed<br /> Dr. S. Squire Sprigge and the secretary as delegates<br /> to confer with the solicitors.<br /> • The report of the Copyright Sub-committee on<br /> the Draft Bill was laid before the committee for<br /> criticism, and, after many points had been raised, it<br /> was decided, before any steps were taken to<br /> memorialise the Board of Trade, to refer the<br /> matter back to the Copyright Sub-committee, and<br /> erex<br /> :<br /> COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> M HE November meeting of the committee was<br /> 1 held at the society&#039;s offices, on Monday,<br /> the 7th.<br /> After the minutes of the last meeting had been<br /> approved and signed, the committee considered<br /> the names of those who were before them for<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 56 (#88) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 66<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> of Management to empower the Copyright Sub.<br /> committee to deal with the Publishers&#039; Associa-<br /> tion with a view of presenting a memorial<br /> to the President of the Board of Trade at the<br /> earliest opportunity. The Sub-committee asked<br /> also for full powers to consult and act with the<br /> Publishers&#039; Association and any other bodies<br /> interested in copyright property, in order that the<br /> memorial to the Board of Trade should be as<br /> representative as possible. The Copyright Sub-<br /> committee urged the necessity of prompt action so<br /> that if the Board of Trade accepted any of the<br /> suggestions they might be embodied in the Bill<br /> when it was again laid before the House.<br /> the Committee of Management appointed Mr.<br /> G. Bernard Shaw and Mr. Comyns Carr to confer<br /> with the Sub-committee on certain important<br /> issues. When the matter had then been fully<br /> discussed by the parties mentioned, the Committee<br /> of Management gave to the Copyright Sub.com-<br /> mittee full authority to act with the Dramatic<br /> Sub-committee and to confer with the Publishers&#039;<br /> Association with a view to appointing and regu-<br /> lating the deputation to the Board of Trade in<br /> order to put the views of the society and other<br /> bodies before those representatives of the Govern-<br /> ment, who are about to carry the law through.<br /> The arrangements for the dinner and conver,<br /> sazione were finally settled. It was decided to<br /> have no programme of entertainment at the dinner<br /> or at the conversazione.<br /> Three of the committee&#039;s candidates for next<br /> year&#039;s election were nominated. Their names will<br /> be printed in the January Author, in accordance<br /> with the articles of association of the society.<br /> The nomination of the fourth candidate was<br /> adjourned till the December meeting.<br /> The secretary reported, on the financial position<br /> of the society, that since the last meeting he had<br /> been able to gather in some large cheques, and that<br /> he thought there would be no need for an over-<br /> draft before the end of the year.<br /> COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> 1.<br /> The Copyright Sub-committee met on October 24<br /> to consider the Copyright Bill. Since the pre-<br /> vious meeting, reported in the November issue<br /> of The Author, Mr. E. J. MacGillivray had pre-<br /> pared a report on the Bill showing how far the<br /> Bill gave effect to the suggestions made by the<br /> Society of Authors when the Berlin Convention<br /> was under consideration, and how far it embodied<br /> the proposals of that Convention. The Sub-com-<br /> mittee expressed their deep gratitude to Mr.<br /> MacGillivray for the trouble he had taken in<br /> drafting his report, and then proceeded to consider<br /> it paragraph by paragraph. A few alterations were<br /> agreed to and the report passed.<br /> The Sub-committee then turned to the sugges-<br /> tions on the Bill made by the Publishers&#039; Associa-<br /> tion, and considered these suggestions point by<br /> point and reported upon them, Mr. MacGillivray<br /> undertaking to look through the draft report before<br /> it was submitted to the Committee of Management.<br /> The secretary was instructed to lay the report<br /> when finally settled, and the report on the Pub.<br /> Jishers&#039; suggestions, before the Committee of<br /> Management at the next meeting of that body.<br /> He was also instructed to ask the Committee<br /> II.<br /> The second meeting of the Copyright Sub-com-<br /> mittee was held on November 14, at the offices<br /> of the society. The report which had been laid<br /> before the Committee of Management was referred<br /> back to the Sub-committee, and Mr. Shaw and<br /> Mr. Comyns Carr were asked to attend the meeting<br /> of the Sub-committee in order to discuss certaa<br /> pont<br /> points.<br /> Mr. Shaw and Mr. Carr attended the meeting<br /> and put fully before the Sub-committee their<br /> views, but it was impossible, owing to the time<br /> spent in discussing the various points, for the Sub-<br /> committee to come to any final decision as to the<br /> course they should adopt. Accordingly this matter<br /> was adjourned to a subsequent meeting. It is<br /> intended, however, to carry the Report through<br /> with the smallest possible delay, so that the Sub-<br /> committee may be in a position to take such action<br /> as may be considered desirable in the interests of<br /> the society.<br /> II).<br /> A further meeting of the Copyright Sub-<br /> committee was held at the offices of the Society of<br /> Authors on Monday, November 21, when the<br /> report on the Copyright Bill to be submitted to<br /> the Board of Trade was finally settled.<br /> Mr. MacGillivray kindly undertook to add the<br /> alterations to the report already drafted, and it<br /> was decided to meet the Publishers&#039; Association at<br /> the earliest possible moment, while the matter<br /> was fresh in the minds of all concerned.<br /> Delegates of the Copyright Sub-committee were<br /> appointed to meet to meet the Publishers&#039; Associa-<br /> tion, and the secretary was instructed to write<br /> with a view to fixing up an early appointment. ;<br /> The secretary suggested that it would be a good<br /> thing, if possible, that the Authors&#039; Society, the<br /> Publishers&#039; Association, and other bodies interested<br /> in copyright should forward one report rather<br /> than three or four separate documents as the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 57 (#89) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 57<br /> reports covered very much the same ground. On<br /> Cases.<br /> this basis it is proposed to meet the Publishers&#039; DURING the past month the secretary has been<br /> Association.<br /> asked to intervene on behalf of members of the<br /> society between themselves and publishers, editors,<br /> and others in seventeen cases. Three of these<br /> DRAMATIC COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> related to claims for money. The first has been<br /> The November meeting of the Dramatic Sub- placed in the solicitors&#039; hands as no satisfactory<br /> committee was held on the 18th of that month. answer was forthcoming ; in the second the money<br /> After the minutes of the previous meeting had has been paid and forwarded to the member, and<br /> been read and signed, the Sub-committee con- the third has only recently come to the office.<br /> sidered the cases before them. The first case Three cases were demands for accounts. These<br /> related to a dispute between a member of are as yet unsatisfied, and it is possible that two<br /> the society, an agent and a collaborator. The of them will have to bo referred to the solicitors,<br /> secretary explained that the Committee of with two other clic:s against the same firm<br /> Management had decided to take the matter up, left over from last month. One demand for<br /> as it might have been necessary to apply for an accounts and money has been settled, the money<br /> injunction, and there was not time to wait for the having been sent and paid over to the member.<br /> decision of the Dramatic Sub-committee. The Two disputes occurred on agreements. One has<br /> details of the case were fully explained, and the been transferred to the solicitors, and with the<br /> secretary asked for their approval of the action sanction of the committee action will be taken if<br /> taken by the Committee of Management. This necessary. The other is unsettled, as the offending<br /> was readily given.<br /> party lives in the United States, and some time is<br /> The second case referred to performances in expended in the passage of letters to and from that<br /> music-halls, and the secretary was instructed to country.<br /> write to the Government Department, which had There were eight cases in which members of the<br /> been dealing with this question, to urge upon them society applied for assistance in the recovery of<br /> the need for immediate legislation.<br /> MSS. Three of these cases have been settled, the<br /> The next was a matter that referred to the MSS. having been returned to the authors. Three<br /> censorship of plays. The Dramatic Sub-committee of the remaining . cases have only recently come<br /> had been asked to recommend to the Committee of into the office. It is necessary to re-emphasise the<br /> Management that counsel&#039;s opinion should be taken difficulties surrounding the legal position when an<br /> on a point that a member had placed before them. application is made for a MS. In most cases the<br /> The Dramatic Sub-committee, after careful con- secretary has found editors, publishers, and others<br /> sideration of the point in question, came to the perfectly willing to do everything in their power<br /> conclusion that counsel&#039;s opinion in this particular to return MSS., but authors must remember that<br /> case was not necessary.<br /> it is essential that they should show that a MS. has<br /> The Dramatic Sub-committee considered then reached the office of the publisher or editor, and it<br /> its report on the Copyright Bill, and the appoint is not sufficient to show merely that it was posted.<br /> ment of delegates to represent the dramatists of In the great majority of these MS. cases the<br /> the society at the deputation to the Board of authors have no evidence that the MSS. have ever<br /> Trade. The committee approved an amendment reached the hands of responsible parties, and the<br /> suggested in a letter which had been sent them deduction of the author that the post is infallible<br /> by the secretary under the chairman&#039;s, Sir Arthur is not one which the law can recognise. We regret<br /> Pinero&#039;s, authority, and proceeded to nominate three to say that theatrical people are the worst offenders<br /> delegates. The secretary was instructed to write in the matter of the non-return of MSS. Pub-<br /> and ask for the consent of the members nominated. lishers and editors are generally glad to make a<br /> The secretary at the last meeting of the Sub- search when they are furnished with full particu-<br /> committee had been instructed to draft an agree- lars of the names of the MSS. and the dates on<br /> ment between the writer and producer of a sketch, which they were sent. The members of the<br /> for he bad pointed out the frequency with which theatrical profession, on the contrary, unless legal<br /> these contracts were coming before him. This steps can be taken against them, neglect to answer<br /> draft had been forwarded to the members of the letters or to return the MSS.<br /> Sub-committee with the notice calling the meet It is very satisfactory to report that the infringe-<br /> ing. It was carefully considered, and was passed, ment of copyright in New Zealand has been satis-<br /> subject to a few slight alterations, and will be factorily settled. In this case, as often happens,<br /> printed in one of the coming issues of The Author. the New Zealand paper had pirated from an<br /> The Dramatic Sub-committee then adjourned American paper without any intention of infringing<br /> ill December.<br /> the author&#039;s English copyright. As soon as the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 58 (#90) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 58<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> matter was pointed out, the editor acknowledged<br /> his indebtedness.<br /> There are only a few cases remaining open from<br /> former months. These are either in the course of<br /> favourable settlement or have been transferred to<br /> the solicitors of the society.<br /> Walkes, William Robert. 17, Rutland Court,<br /> Knightsbridge<br /> S.W.<br /> Wetton, Miss Mildred C.. 100, Church Street,<br /> Kensington, W.<br /> Wilkins, Philip A. . . 14, Wilton Place,<br /> S.W.<br /> BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br /> Ele tions.<br /> Barne, Miss Kitty . . Berrow, East-<br /> bourne.<br /> Bastian. H. Charlton, M.D., Chesha m Bois,<br /> F.R.S., F.R.C.P.<br /> Bucks..<br /> Bijejko, Tan Felix . . Liebigstr 311 C, Leip-<br /> zig, Germany.<br /> Bland, C. C. Swinton · Bishopton Close,<br /> Ripon.<br /> Bué, Henri . . . 73, Gloucester Ter-<br /> race, Hyde Park, W.<br /> Cohen, Mrs. Herbert. . 2, Orme Court, W.<br /> Dodge, Janet . . . Chipping Campden,<br /> Gloucester.<br /> Edgar, George . . . 54, Paulton&#039;s Square,<br /> Chelsea.<br /> Gorst, Mrs. Harold E. . 12, Foxmore Street,<br /> S.W.<br /> Graham-Burr, A. . . Hazeldene, Sunning-<br /> hill, Berks.<br /> Grantham, F. . . . 13, Cheyne Place,<br /> S.W.<br /> Hart, Dr. David Berry, 5, Randolph Cliff,<br /> F.R.C.P.<br /> Edinburgh.<br /> Jerrold, Clare . . . Jessamine House,<br /> Hampton-on-<br /> Thames.<br /> Lambert, Col. F. A. H. , Fairlawn House,<br /> Woodmansterne.<br /> Mozley, William E. (W.<br /> Clinton Ellis).<br /> Narramore, Wm., F.L.S. . “Devonia,&quot; Gt.<br /> Crosby, Lancs.<br /> Orr, Miss Janie B. W. . 3, New Parks Cres-<br /> cent, Scarborough.<br /> Parry, Sir Hubert H. . 17, Kensington<br /> Square, W.<br /> Phillpotts, Eden<br /> Eltiham, Torquay.<br /> Rittenberg, Max . . 158, Cromwell Road,<br /> South Kensington,<br /> S.W.<br /> Thomson, Gladys Scott 15, Palace Gardens<br /> Mansions, Bays-<br /> water.<br /> Tompkins, Edward S. De G. c/o Messrs. Brown,<br /> Shipley &amp; Co.,<br /> 123, Pall Mall,<br /> S.W<br /> WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br /> this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br /> some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br /> that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br /> by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br /> largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br /> other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br /> co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br /> particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br /> accurate,<br /> ART.<br /> NAPOLEON IN CARICATURE, 1795-1825. By A. M.<br /> BROADLEY. With an Introductory Essay on Pictorial<br /> Satire as a Factor in Napoleonic History. By J. HOLLAND<br /> ROSE. Two vols. 9 X 53. 391 + 441 pp. Lane. 424. n.<br /> HOGARTH. By C. LEWIS HIND. 8 x 6. 80 pp. Jack.<br /> 18. 6d.<br /> ORIENTAL SILVERWORK-MALAY AND CHINESE. With<br /> O<br /> over 250 Original Illustrations. By H. LING ROTH.<br /> 114 x 81. 300 pp. Truslove &amp; Hanson. 218. n.<br /> SYMBOLISM OF THE SAINTS. Ry the Rev. P. H. DITCH-<br /> FIELD. (The Arts of the Church.) 6 x 41. 198 pp.<br /> Mowbray. ls. 6d. n.<br /> THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF MOVING OBJECTS AND HAND<br /> CAMERA WORK FOR ADVANCED WORKERS. By A.<br /> ABRAHAMS. 71 X 43. 153 pp. Routledge. 18. n.<br /> FRANK BRANGWYN AND HIS WORK. By W. SHAW<br /> SPARROW. 104 x 71. 259 pp. Kegan Paul. 108. 6d. n.<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> THE LIGHTER SIDE OF MY OFFICIAL LIFE. By SIR<br /> ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. 91 x 6. 295 pp. Hodder<br /> &amp; Stoughton. 108. 6d. n.<br /> SHAKESPEARE AS A GROOM OF THE CHAMBER. By<br /> E. LAW, F.S.A. 87 x 61. 64 pp. Bell. 38. 6d. n.<br /> NOBLE DAMES AND NOTABLE MEN OF THE GEORGIAN<br /> ERA. By JOHN FYVIE. 9 X 54. 256 pp. Constable.<br /> 108, 6d. n.<br /> WILLIAM SHARP (FIONA MACLEOD). A Memoir compiled<br /> by his Wife, ELIZABETH A. SHARP. 98 x 61. 433 pp.<br /> Heinemann. 168. n.<br /> THE FAIR QUAKER : HANNAH LIGHTFOOT AND HER<br /> RELATIONS WITH GEORGE III. By MARY L. PENDERED.<br /> 9 x 51. 355 pp. Hurst &amp; Blackett. 168. 1.<br /> DOUGLAS JERROLD AND &quot;Punch.&quot; By WALTER<br /> JERROLD. Macmillan.<br /> FIGHTING ADMIRALS. By JOHN BARNETT. 75 X 5.<br /> 339 pp. Smith Elder. 68.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> THE KILTARTAN MOLIERE. THE MISER. THE DOCTOR<br /> IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. THE ROGUERIES OF SCAPIN.<br /> Translated by LADY GREGORY, 74 x 51. 231 pp.<br /> Dublin : Maunsell. 38. 6d. n.<br /> READY ! A Play for Boys, in Two Acts. By Hox.<br /> M. A, PAKINGTON. 36 pp. John Heywood.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 59 (#91) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 59<br /> ECONOMICS<br /> THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM. An Inquiry into Earned<br /> and Unearned Income. By J. Å. HOBSON. (New<br /> and revised edition.) 84 x 54. 338 pp. Longmans.<br /> 78. 60, n.<br /> EDUCATIONAL.<br /> AX INTRODUCTION TO THE MAITHILI LANGUAGE OF THE<br /> BIHĀRĪ LANGUAGE, AS SPOKEN IN NORTH BIHAR.<br /> Part 1. Grammar. (Second Edition. Revised and<br /> Greatly Enlarged.) By GEORGE A. GRIERSON, C.I.E.,<br /> Ph.D., D.Litt. 10 x 67. 305 pp. Asiatic Society of<br /> Bengal, Calcutta.<br /> PARENT AND CHILD. A Treatise on the Moral and<br /> Religious Education of Children. 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Kegan Paul &amp; Co. are the publishers.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 62 (#94) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 62<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> The November number of Travel and Exploration Wisdom,&quot; published by Messrs. Everett &amp; Co., is<br /> is certainly more varied than usual. There are in its third edition. The same writer&#039;s new book,<br /> no less than four exploration articles, dealing which is also published by Messrs. Everett &amp; Co.,<br /> respectively with Macao, Tripoli, New Zealand, is called “ The Lesson,&quot; and is a story of a love<br /> and the Arctic regions, while in the Exploring idyll, and the lesson which the heroine learns is<br /> World there are some notes on Papua, by the the lesson of love.<br /> Governor, Mr. G. H. P. Murray. Miss Barnicoat Mr. Neil Munro&#039;s new novel, “Fancy Farm,” is<br /> deals at some length with the Alpine district of published by Messrs. Blackwoods. The characters<br /> New Zealand. A writer, who veils his identity are, for the most part, humorists—in the old<br /> under the synonym of “Circumnavigator,” gives meaning of the term&#039;; that is to say, they are of<br /> an account of Portugal in China, that is Macao, the old type of Scottish men and women possessed<br /> described as the Monte Carlo of the Far East. of striking personalities and oddities of speech and<br /> “ Searchlight” again tackles his favourite subject, manner.<br /> Arctic exploration, taking as a peg Peary&#039;s Mrs. Russell Barrington has written a sequel to<br /> recently published “North Pole,&quot; as, by the courtesy her “Reminiscences of G. F.Watts,&quot; and her “ Life,<br /> of the publishers, advanced sheets were supplied Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton,&quot; which will<br /> so that a review might appear in the Novem- be issued by Messrs. Longmans, Green &amp; Co., in<br /> ber Travel and Exploration. Mr. Eustace Rey- the early days of January next. The book is in<br /> nolds-Ball, whose sporting paper, “ A Panther&#039;s the form of essays, and entitled “Essays on the<br /> Sanctuary,&quot; appeared in the October number, Purpose of Art ; or, Past and Present Creeds of<br /> describes a Sicilian puppet-show from the point of English Painters.&quot; The first of the seven essays<br /> view of a detached spectator. In “ Armchair deals with the fact that present conditions are<br /> Travel,” always an important feature of this unfavourable to the production of any art which<br /> magazine, the following important books are will maintain a position in the future among<br /> reviewed :-“ The Holy Land,&quot; by Robert national treasures. The last essay is entitled<br /> Hitchens; “ Uganda for a Holiday,&quot; by Sir “The Reality of the Spiritual Life in Art.” Two<br /> Frederick Treres ; “ Jungle Byways in India,” by other essays deal with “National Individuality,&quot;<br /> E. P. Stebbing ; and Sir Claude de Crespigny&#039;s and “Personal Individuality in Art.” The<br /> “ Forty Years of a Sportsman&#039;s Life.”<br /> purpose of the book is to advocate the value of<br /> Miss T. Wilson-Wilson is re-writing for book permanent art versus temporary-a value which<br /> publication a story of 1801, entitled “Mollo&#039; the teaching of Leighton and Watts enforced.<br /> the Toll-Bar,&quot; which is being serialised by The Besides quotations from the books on Watts and<br /> Northern Newspaper Syndicate. Messrs. Headley Leighton which Mrs. Barrington has written, she<br /> Bros. have also published Miss Wilson-Wilson&#039;s includes several from writings by her brother-in-<br /> book, “ The Search of the Child.” This book law, the late Walter Bagehot, Walter Pater, D. G.<br /> relates the vision of a child who has never lived MacColl, Arthur Symonds, Lowes Dickinson, and<br /> on earth save for a few hours, who finds sorrow in Miss Marie Cailliard, all bearing on the advantage of<br /> Paradise, and asks leave to return to earth to seek those things that come to stay in contradistinction<br /> for the reason of the sorrow in the eyes of God. to those which in the inevitable course of events<br /> Messrs. Blackie&#039;s annual has also an illustrated (to use Walter Bagehot&#039;s words) “ a gentle<br /> story from the same writer&#039;s pen.<br /> oblivion soon covers.”<br /> &quot;To a Miniature&quot; is a poem by Irene Osgood, Mr. Werner Laurie is about to publish a work<br /> which appears in “Our Beloved King Edward,” entitled “Ghostly Phenomena,&quot; by Mr. Elliott<br /> a volume which is edited by Miss Elizabeth O&#039;Donnell. In this book the author cites &amp;<br /> Woodruff, and contains various poetic tributes to number of his own as well as other people&#039;s<br /> King Edward. Mr. Elkin Mathews is the experiences with phantasms of the living and the<br /> publisher.<br /> dead, and with elementals, and gives evidence of<br /> The same publisher has also added to his cabinet the separate existence of spirit and body through<br /> series “The Flame, and other Poems,” by E. the testimony of those who have either successfully<br /> Hamilton Moore.<br /> projected themselves or witnessed the projections<br /> “ Behind the Blinds,&quot; by Vesta Terence, is a of others. The work concludes with a criticism on<br /> volume of studies or word-pictures on the under psychical research societies, and the author&#039;s own<br /> currents of life by a sympathetic observer, who views with regard to the hauntings of Glamis<br /> portrays many an interpretation of life&#039;s difficulties Castle, Berkeley Square, and the Oriental Depart-<br /> and problems to which all are subjected at one ment of the British Museum.<br /> time or another. Messrs. H. R. Allenson &amp; Co. Mr. Walter Jerrold is the editor of “ The Big<br /> are the publishers.<br /> Book of Fairy Tales,&quot; published by Messrs. Blackie<br /> Mrs. de Wentworth James&#039; last book, “White &amp; Sons. He is also editing the first six volumes of<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 63 (#95) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR..<br /> 63<br /> Ernest Nister&#039;s new series of children&#039;s classics. Mr. Harold Wintle&#039;s new novel, “ The Better<br /> “ Robinson Crusoe,” “The Swiss Family Robin- Thing,” will shortly be published by Messrs. John<br /> son,&quot; “ Andersen&#039;s Fairy Tales,&quot; “ Grimm&#039;s Fairy Ouseley, Ltd.<br /> Tales,&quot; “Old Mother Goose&#039;s Nursery Rhymes,&quot; · &quot;Fairy Plants” is the title of a fern book for<br /> and “Mother Goose&#039;s Nursery Tales.&quot;<br /> children by Francis George Heath, which Messrs.<br /> “Russian Flashlights&quot; is a new work, practically Ouseley have just issued. The author&#039;s aim in<br /> completed, from the pen of Jaakoff Prelooker, writing the book has been to excite the interest of<br /> author of “ Heroes and Heroines of Russia.” the young in ferns, and to convey to the young mind<br /> It consists of a series of sensational and deeply something more than is usually taught of their<br /> instructive stories and studies from Russian life, growth. The book contains 180 illustrations of<br /> all throwing a “flashlight” on some purely fern subjects.<br /> Russian, or general, social, political or religious “The Bourgeois’ Queen of Paris,&quot; a novel by Janet<br /> problem. Perhaps the most unique of the Macdonald Clark, will be published in January by<br /> stories are “The Wonderful Buddhist Monk and Messrs. Greening &amp; Co. It deals with the adven-<br /> Ways to “Shadai-Adonai,&#039;” and the story illus- tures of an Englishman in France in the days of<br /> trating the psychology of a Russian aristocrat Henri deux and Catherine de Medici, the two<br /> turning revolutionary. Some of the stories have heroines being a daughter of Benvenuto Cellini<br /> already appeared in magazines, the Strand, Wide and the “ Bourgeois&#039; Queen,&quot; a beautiful woman<br /> World, and others, but all have been revised. The of the people risen to power and place.<br /> name of the publishers will be announced shortly. “Douglas Jerrold and Punch,&quot; by Mr. Walter<br /> “ Dulall, the Forest Guard,” by C. E. Gouldsbury, Jerrold, was published last month by Messrs.<br /> formerly of the Indian police (Gibbings &amp; Co.), is a Macmillan &amp; Co. The book is of considerable<br /> story of life in the jungle, which is sure to appeal literary interest, for Douglas Jerrold was one of the<br /> to Englishmen with sporting instincts. Mr. most constant and voluminous of the original band<br /> Gouldsbury knows the forest life of India well, of contributors to Punch, and was the first writer<br /> and his descriptive powers are considerable ; nor whose personality was popularly identified with the<br /> does be ignore practical detail, which is almost a paper ; he was also the main political force-<br /> sine qua non nowadays in books of this sort. The « Prime Minister in Punch&#039;s Cabinet”-in those<br /> principal character is old Dulall, the forest guard, early years when the Fleet Street jester was wont<br /> whose loyalty to his friends is sure to make him a to hit out with the vigorous indignation of youth.<br /> general favourite.<br /> “Mrs. Caudle&#039;s Curtain Lectures”—one of the<br /> The Cambridge University Press have published most successful works of nineteenth-century humour,<br /> the Rev. Dr. Edwin A. Abbott&#039;s new work, “ The and “The Story of a Feather,&quot; Douglas Jerrold&#039;s<br /> Son of Man ; or, Contributions to the Study of the most popular novel, appeared serially in Punch ;<br /> Thoughts of Jesus.&quot; The aim of the author has but he was the author of much else in the journal<br /> been to help Christians to study the thoughts of scarcely less notable. In this new book Mr. Walter<br /> Jesus as a whole, so far as they may be inferred Jerrold tells the story of his grandfather&#039;s con-<br /> from classifications and comparisons of passages in nection with Punch and the Punch men, prefacing<br /> the four Gospels, illustrated from Hebrew and it with some account of Douglas Jerrold&#039;s earlier<br /> Jewish literature.<br /> Punch in London-short-lived prototype of the<br /> &quot; Black Humphrey” is a story of the old Punch-giving some particulars of his hitherto<br /> Cornish coaching and kidnapping days, by James unidentified contributions, and reproducing some<br /> Cassidy, of which the Walter Scott Publishing striking fresh material, including “ Our Honey-<br /> Co. are the publishers.<br /> moon.&quot;<br /> Mrs. Annie 0. Tibbits, author of “ Marquess The Rev. S. Claude Tickell has invented a new<br /> Splendid,” is preparing another novel for publica- system of shorthand differing from the modern<br /> tion in the spring. Messrs. Leng, of Sheffield, systems of phonography. Mr. Tickell&#039;s system is<br /> have lately brought out her “ Hunted Down&quot; in a called the “Reverse of Clock” shorthand, and is<br /> cheap edition.<br /> published at 1s. net. Copies can be obtained direct<br /> Messrs. S. W. Partridge &amp; Co. have published a from the author, c/o D. Wilton &amp; Co., 11, Cursitor<br /> new novel by A. M. Irvine, entitled * The Pro- Street, W.C.<br /> bationer,&quot; in which the author paints in a realistic “The God of Pleasure&quot; is the title of Derek<br /> and humorous style the first month of a pro Vane&#039;s new story, the serial rights of which have<br /> bationer&#039;s life in a hospital. This book would been bought by the proprietors of the Sheffield<br /> especially appeal to anyone who has undertaken Weekly Telegraph. Her last novel, “Lady<br /> the arduous work of a trained nurse, and to those Vereker,” has just finished in the Daily Telegraph<br /> contemplating the life. The volume is illustrated and will be published in volume form next year.<br /> by six pictures by P. B. Hickling.<br /> We have just received from Messrs. Routledge<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 64 (#96) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 64<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> and Sons a compact rhyming dictionary published in Gertie Millar, Mademoiselle Caumont, Mr. Joseph<br /> their Reference Library. The work is by Mr. P. Coyne and Mr. C. Hayden Coffin.<br /> R. Bennett. A book of this nature is, exceed. We have received a little play entitled “Ready,&quot;<br /> ingly useful to a certain class of poetaster. by the Hon. M. A. Pakington. It is in two acts,<br /> Other rhyming dictionaries have preceded it; and is suitable for performance by boys. Messrs.<br /> but they have been, for the most part, large John Heywood are the publishers.<br /> in size and cumbersome. This volume can easily Mr. Cecil Raleigh&#039;s play, “Behind the Veil,&quot;<br /> be placed in the pocket, and is published at was produced at the Coronet early in November.<br /> the very moderate price of 18. Budding poets The theme of the play is the conversion of a fast<br /> could not be recommended to a more useful young Parisian to better things. The cast<br /> production.<br /> includes Mr. Philip Desborough, Miss Viva Birkett,<br /> “ On the Middle Slopes” is a short story by and Miss Mildred Cottell.<br /> Mr. Frederick Niven, which appears in the “The Unwritten Law,&quot; Mr. Laurence Irving&#039;s<br /> Christmas number of T. Pi&#039;s Weekly. The same dramatisation of the Russian novel “ Crime and<br /> issue contains an article by Mr. G. K. Chesterton Punishment,” was produced at the Garrick Theatre<br /> entitled “ What&#039;s Right With the World,” as well on November 14. The play deals with the<br /> as stories and articles by Stephen Reynolds and murder of a man who has been cruel to a girl, by<br /> other writers.<br /> a young student, and the confession of guilt<br /> Messrs. Methuen &amp; Co. hope to publish next extorted from the murderer by the examining<br /> year the edition of Madame du Deffand&#039;s letters to magistrate. In the cast are Miss Mabel Hackney<br /> Horace Walpole, upon which the late Mrs. Paget and Mr. Laurence Irving.<br /> Toynbee had been engaged for some years, and Mrs. Havelock Ellis has sold the whole rights of<br /> which was left nearly completed at her death. ber play, “ The Subjection of Kezia,&quot; to Miss Mar-<br /> The work, which has been prepared for the press bury&#039;s dramatic agency, of 10, Leicester Square, W.C.<br /> by Dr. Paget Toynbee, will contain nearly 500 Mr. R. C. Carton&#039;s play, “ Eccentric Lord<br /> unpublished letters of Madame du Deffand, besides Comberdene,&quot; was produced on November 19, at<br /> eleven recently-discovered letters of Horace Walpole the St. James&#039; Theatre. In the cast of the play,<br /> to the Marquise.<br /> which is described as a novelette in three chapters,<br /> Messrs. Wells, Gardner &amp; Co&#039;s. announcements are Miss Compton and Mr. George Alexander.<br /> include books by Mr. John Masefield and Mr. E. V. Two matiriées were given at the Haymarket<br /> Lucas. Mr. Masefield&#039;s book is called “A Book Theatre last month in aid of the funds of the<br /> of Discoveries,&quot; and in it the author gives an Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The bill included<br /> account of two boys who “discovered” a small plays by George Paston, J. M. Barrie, and Bernard<br /> piece of England, and tells how they learnt to use Shaw, encitled respectively, “ The Kiss,&quot; “ A Slice<br /> their eyes and their minds, and to read, in their of Life,” and “ The Dark Lady of the Sonnets.&quot;<br /> discoveries, the story of the past as well as the “ The Home Coming,&quot; a play in one act by Miss<br /> present.<br /> Cicely Hamilton, was produced for the first time,<br /> “ The Slowcoach,” by Mr. E. V. Lucas, is a story for the benefit of the Women Writers&#039; Suffrage<br /> dealing with a caravan journey through a beautiful League and the Actresses’ Franchise League, last<br /> part of England, including Oxford and Stratford- month. On the same occasion Miss Hamilton&#039;s<br /> on-Avon.<br /> “ Pageant of Great Women ” was revived.<br /> Mr. Henry Arthur Jones&#039; comedy, “The Liars,&quot; “ Just to Get Married,” by Miss Hamilton, was<br /> was revived at the Criterion on October 27. In also produced at the Little Theatre during<br /> the cast was Sir Charles Wyndham, Miss Mary November.<br /> Moore, Mr. Alfred Bishop and Mr. Sam Sothern.<br /> Mr. Jones&#039; one-act play, treating with the subject of<br /> PARIS NOTES.<br /> military service, was also produced last month at<br /> the Alhambra.<br /> Mr. Laurence Housman&#039;s play, “Pains and “T&#039;IMPÉRATRICE JOSÉPHINE” is the<br /> Penalties,&quot; having been rejected by the Censor, D title of a volume by Baron de Méneval,<br /> Mr. Housman read parts of it at Bechstein Hall<br /> containing many interesting details<br /> last month, in aid of the funds of the Men&#039;s about Napoleon&#039;s first wife. The author explains<br /> League for Women&#039;s Suffrage.<br /> in his preface that, thanks to a quantity of<br /> “The Quaker Girl,&quot; a musical play in three acts, letters which have come into his possession,<br /> by James T. Tanner, was produced at the Adelphi he is able to give much hitherto unpublished<br /> Theatre on November 5. The lyrics of the play information. Many of these letters are from<br /> are by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and the Queen Hortense to Abbé Bertrand, and forty-<br /> music by Lionel Monckton. In the cast are Miss seven of them are from her son, destined to.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 65 (#97) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 65<br /> become Napoleon III., to Abbé Bertrand. In this large family of children life is one long struggle<br /> volume the author endeavours to show us how One of his daughters possesses a fine voice, and<br /> much Joséphine has been slandered. He gives us becomes an operatic singer. She is burnt in a fire at<br /> a brief outline of her life, and an account of her first Brooklyn, and her father inherits her money. His<br /> meeting with Napoleon. By the extracts from his one idea is to refuse it, but he is over-persuaded<br /> letters to her during his absence, we see how and accepts the legacy. There is a subtle analysis<br /> devotedly attached he was to her. The first eleven of character and a delicate irony throughout the<br /> chapters take us up to the time when the divorce whole story. The modern spirit is very evident,<br /> was first discussed. In a later chapter we have an The worship of the golden calf fills the church<br /> account of the divorce ceremony, and of the part which had been deserted. The poor pastor<br /> ing between Napoleon and Joséphine. A detailed realises all this, and his death occurs in the pulpit,<br /> account is also given of Joséphine&#039;s retreat to La There is very little story, but the whole sketch is<br /> Malmaison, and of the Czar&#039;s visit to her there. The extremely suggestive, and leaves much to be<br /> author concludes by affirming that Joséphine was thought out by the reader.<br /> Napoleon&#039;s good genius, and that she will always &quot;Les Devoilées du Caucase,&quot; by the Duchesse<br /> be known as “la bonne Impératrice,” thanks to her de Rohan, is not only an account of the author&#039;s<br /> kindly nature, ber affability, and gentleness. travels in the Caucasus, but an attempt to give at<br /> It would be difficult indeed for any writer to the same time an idea of the mentality of its<br /> study more thoroughly the origin of fairy stories inhabitants. In many instances the author gives<br /> than Madame Lucie Félix-Faure Goyau has done us admirable translations of some of the poetry or<br /> in her exquisite book, entitled “ La Vie et la Mort folklore of the places she visits. The photographs<br /> des Fées.” It is very evident that the author has taken during the voyage help to make the volume<br /> spared no pains in her attempt to go to the very root still more interesting. There are no tedious guide-<br /> of her subject, and the writing of such a book must book descriptions, and the reader has a very clear<br /> mean some years of patient work and research. In vision of the seventeen or eighteen places visited,<br /> the admirable prologue the author gives us a from Berlin to Constantinople.<br /> subtle definition of fairy stories. She then intro “La Mort du Roi,” by Pierre de Vaissière, is<br /> duces us to the fairies of the Breton cycle, to an account of the last hours of Louis XVI. We<br /> Merlin, and to the Round Table. We then go on are told almost minute by minute all that took<br /> to the times of heroes and fairies, to Oberon, to place on the tragic day when the king was<br /> the fairy stories in the poems of Marie de France, conducted to the guillotine. The author of this<br /> to the legend of the Swans, to Brunhild, to book has discovered a number of fresh documents<br /> Mélusine, and to the last fairies of the Middle which have enabled him to give details which have<br /> Ages. We are then introduced into the fairy hitherto never been published.<br /> garden of the Italian Renaissance, to Spenser&#039;s “ La Robe de laine,” by M. Henry Bordeaux,<br /> ** Faërie Queen,” to Shakespeare&#039;s fairies, and to has for its subject very much the same theme as<br /> the Neapolitan fairyland. After this we pass on to the “Princess of Thule.” Raymond Cernay, a<br /> the French fairies, and then to the Venetian fairy- wealthy young man, marries his steward&#039;s daughter<br /> land, to German fairy stories, and to the fairies of and transplants her with all her Puritan ideas to<br /> English poetry from Shelley to Tennyson. We Paris. Life there is very hard for her, as everything<br /> then return to France, and to George Sand&#039;s is a fresh surprise. The book is a fine psychological<br /> fairies, and after these are introduced, to the folk study. It is not until after her death that her<br /> lore of more northern countries, to Andersen, and husband realises the martyrdom she has endured,<br /> then to Wagner. In the epilogue the author thanks to her rigid notions and the difference of<br /> quotes Chesterton, speaks of “ Alice in Wonder- education between herself and her husband.<br /> land,&quot; of Barrie&#039;s “ Peter Pan,&quot; of W. B. Yeats, of The death of M. Robert Gangnat, general agent<br /> Maeterlinck, and in conclusion affirms that nothing of the Société des Auteurs, is an immense loss to<br /> is great except that &quot; which comes from the soul the society. M. Gangnat had been president of<br /> and reaches the soul.” The whole book is charm the Cercle des Escholiers, secretary to M. Pichon,<br /> ing, and helps to make us appreciate more than and attaché to the Cabinet of M. Léon Bourgeois.<br /> ever our early friends the fairies<br /> Later on he was dramatic critic to the Matin, and<br /> “Le Pasteur pauvre,” by Edouard Rod, is on the death of M. Roger, in 1902, he was elected<br /> another of the psychological studies in which this agent-general to the Société des Auteurs. He was<br /> author was a past master. This time the prin- most active and energetic in his work there, and it<br /> cipal personage is a Protestant pastor, extremely is to his efforts that French anthors in Canada<br /> conscientious and consequently poor. As he is a can claim a certain amount of money for their<br /> temperance advocate, he considers it his duty to works there.<br /> uproot the vineyard which is his legacy. With a The Revue hebdomadaire publishes a remarkable<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 66 (#98) ##############################################<br /> <br /> 66<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> article by Dr. Grasset, of the Montpellier Univer The claim for penalties was made under the<br /> sity, entitled “La Crise Médico-sociale.” It is Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862, which created<br /> taken from a volume to be published shortly, copyright in paintings, drawings, and photographs.<br /> “Le milieu médical et la crise médico-sociale.&quot; Under the provisions of the Act the defendant<br /> In later numbers of the same Revue we have a most company, as proprietors of the copyright in the<br /> interesting study by the Vicomte de Reiset of drawing, had the exclusive right of copying,<br /> Catherine Worlée, Princesse de Talleyrand ; and engraving, and reproducing the picture and its<br /> an article by Pierre Baudin, “ Impressions design by any means and in any size. It is an<br /> d&#039;Argentine.”<br /> offence, however, under the Act for any one to<br /> At the Comédie Française “ Les Marionnettes,&quot; knowingly publish a copy of the work with any<br /> by Pierre Wolf, is being given, and at the Théâtre alteration, if it is represented to be the unaltered<br /> Réjane “Le Mariage de Mlle. Beulemans” still work of the artist.<br /> fills the house. “L&#039;Aventurier&quot; is a success at Mr. Frank Dixie, the Royal Academician, and<br /> the Porte Saint-Martin. At the Théâtre Antoine Mr. E. T. Reed, the well-known contributor to<br /> “ César Birotteau &quot; is being given.<br /> Punch, gave evidence as to the alterations appear-<br /> ALYS HALLARD. ing in the poster as compared with the original<br /> drawing by Mr. Garth Jones. It was stated that<br /> * L&#039;Impératrice Joséphine” (Calmann Levy).<br /> “ La Vie et la Mort des Fées” (Perrin).<br /> the colours and the drawing would be damaging to<br /> “ Le Pasteur pauvre” (Perrin).<br /> the artist&#039;s reputation, but it was pointed out by<br /> “ La Mort du Roi ” (Perrin).<br /> the Court that there was no claim for damages, but<br /> only for the penalties recoverable under the Act in<br /> respect of the alleged offence.<br /> UNAUTHORISED ALTERATION OF A<br /> On behalf of the defendant company it was<br /> contended that, being proprietors of the copyright,<br /> PICTURE.<br /> they were entitled to reproduce the picture in an<br /> enlarged form ; that offences under the statute<br /> CARLTON ILLUSTRATORS AND JONES v. COLEMAN<br /> were acts which were done fraudulently, and fraud<br /> was not alleged ; and that the alleged offence being<br /> &amp; Co.<br /> of a criminal nature for which a conviction could<br /> TN this action, which was of a novel character, be obtained, and the penalties recovered by proceed-<br /> 1 the plaintiffs sued the defendant company for ings in a police court under the express provisions<br /> penalties in respect of the publication of a of the Act, an action was not the proper method<br /> large coloured poster, which purported to be a for recovery of the penalties.<br /> reproduction of a drawing, made by Mr. Garth Mr. Justice Channell, in giving judgment, said<br /> Jones, depicting the classic figure of a woman, and that there had been no decision in point during the<br /> entitled “Caution.”<br /> forty-eight years in which the Act had been in<br /> Carlton Illustrators is a firm carrying on the force. The firm of Carlton Illustrators had shown<br /> business of making and selling artistic illustrations no cause of action, as the artist was the person<br /> for the use of advertisers and others, and Mr. Garth aggrieved, who was entitled to recover the penalties.<br /> Jones, the artist, is associated with them in this On the question of fraud, some of the offences in<br /> work. The drawing in question was made by Mr. the statute related to fraudulent acts, but the<br /> Garth Jones for advertisement purposes, and was offence in question was “knowingly&quot; doing what<br /> sold to the defendant company, who are the manu- was expressly prohibited. There was a breach of<br /> facturers of “ Wincarnis.&quot; The effect of the trans- the provisions of the statute if anybody represented<br /> action was that the copyright in the drawing passed as the work of a particular artist something which<br /> to the defendant company, who required it for an he knew had been altered so as not to be that<br /> advertisement, but there was no agreement as to artist&#039;s work. He thought it was apparent to any.<br /> the mode in which the picture should be repro- body that there had been an alteration in the<br /> duced. The poster complained of was an enlarged picture, because no one could look at the two things<br /> copy of the drawing, but it was alleged that the without seeing in the defendant&#039;s version the<br /> drawing had been altered both by colouring and in expression on the face of the woman was entirely<br /> line, the expression of the woman&#039;s face being different from that in the original drawing.<br /> entirely changed. The name of Mr. Garth Jones “ Alteration ” might be a word of ambiguous<br /> appeared upon the poster, and the defendant com- character, and it was possible that some alterations<br /> pany issued a circular in which Mr. Garth Jones might not come within the statute. Upon the<br /> was mentioned as the artist. The defendant com facts of the present case, colour being a very<br /> pany had offered to publish the poster without the important element in the matter, he had come to<br /> artist&#039;s name, but the offer was not accepted. the conclusion that there was an alteration which<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 67 (#99) ##############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 87<br /> was prohibited by the Act. He found that the<br /> defendant company had published the poster as<br /> Mr. Garth Jones&#039; picture knowing that it had<br /> been altered. The plaintiff, Mr. Garth Jones, was<br /> entitled to an injunction, and there would be<br /> judgment for one penalty of £10.<br /> HAROLD HARDY.<br /> PUBLISHERS AND MINOR RIGHTS.<br /> together amount to something like 60 per cent.<br /> Even if the publisher&#039;s terms are cut down to 10<br /> per cent., still the agent&#039;s charges will have to<br /> be reckoned and another 10 per cent. added. No<br /> author should sign a contract containing a clause<br /> of this kind unless he is dealing direct with the<br /> publisher, and then only in the modified form<br /> suggested. If he is dealing with a publisher<br /> through an agent, he should in no circumstances<br /> sanction this double delegation. If an agent<br /> should recommend such a clause, then the only<br /> fair course would be for the agent to forego his<br /> fees : first, because he is advising his principal<br /> badly, and secondly, because he could not see his<br /> principal paying double fees when one agency fee<br /> should suffice. An author should watch carefully<br /> any agent who leads him into this entanglement.<br /> The agent exists for the placing of the author&#039;s<br /> literary worlag middleman hnt he does not<br /> exist to place the author&#039;s work into the<br /> hands of another middleman whom he asks<br /> to do the work for which he was himself<br /> appointed. Cases have occurred in which the<br /> publisher, owing to the fact that he is not a<br /> literary agent and has not the facilities for placing<br /> these minor rights when he has obtained control of<br /> them, has appointed an agent to place them for<br /> him. He may even be employing the very agent<br /> who, in the first instance, brought the work to<br /> him. The result would be three agents all doing<br /> the same work and all claiming a fee. When the<br /> position is carried to this point its absurdity should<br /> be clear to the dullest intellect.<br /> &quot;That the publisher shall have the sole right to sell or<br /> assign the American, Colonial, Continental, foreign, trans-<br /> lation, serial and dramatic rights in the above work, he<br /> shall pay all costs of negotiating such sales and distributing<br /> copies of the work for such purposes, and the publisher<br /> shall pay to the author 50 per cent. of the receipts from<br /> the sale of the same, such amounts to be payable at the<br /> same time as the royalties provided for in Clause 5<br /> hereof.&quot;<br /> M HE clause printed above is a clause which<br /> I publishers endeavour to squeeze into their<br /> contracts with authors, and is a clause which-<br /> of but little benefit to the publisher-is very unsatis-<br /> factory from the author&#039;s point of view. The author<br /> should never give away the absolute control of these<br /> rights to a publisher. The publisher is not an<br /> agent, except for the publication of the work in<br /> book form. He has not the facilities for placing<br /> these rights, but if he does place them his<br /> remuneration should be the usual agency remunera-<br /> tion of 10 per cent. The clause, however, might be<br /> altered on the following lines in order to meet the<br /> difficulty : “If through the agency of the<br /> publisher any of the rights mentioned are sold,<br /> with the author&#039;s approval, and subject to a<br /> contract signed by the author, then, and in that case,<br /> the publisher shall be allowed the usual agency<br /> charge of 10 per cent.” An arrangement on this<br /> basis could be made when the author was dealing<br /> direct with the publisher, but if the author employs<br /> an agent then no such clause should stand, for the<br /> agent should see that the publisher has no control<br /> of the work beyond the publication in book form,<br /> and should retain for the author those rights which<br /> ich<br /> it is his, the agent&#039;s, duty, and his alone, to place.<br /> As a matter of fact, however, the agent not infre-<br /> quently advises the author to sign an agreement in<br /> which such a clause exists, pressing the author to<br /> this conclusion on the ground that the publisher<br /> will not take up the book unless he has control of<br /> all the rights. The result to the author is that on<br /> the sale of these rights he has to pay the publisher<br /> 50 per cent. as a general rule, and the agent 10<br /> per cent., or, in other words, he has to pay two<br /> agents for placing his work, whose charges added<br /> MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br /> BOOKMAN.<br /> Charles Dickens and Reform. By B. W. Matz.<br /> CONTEMPORARY.<br /> Maeterlinck&#039;s Methods of Life and Work. By Madame<br /> Maeterling<br /> The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. (Reprinted from the<br /> Contemporary Reriew of April, 1886.) By W. Holman<br /> Hunt.<br /> Hy<br /> Imagination and the Ideal. By E. M. Caillard.<br /> Copyright in Architecture. By Charles Tennyson.<br /> ENGLISH REVIEW,<br /> Paris Nights. By Arnold Bennett.<br /> La Musique française depuis Berlioz. Camille Mauclair<br /> Alfred de Musset. By Prof. M. A. Gerothwohl, Litt.D.<br /> FORTNIGHTLY.<br /> A King&#039;s Proctor for Plays. By Laurence Housman.<br /> &quot;An Inspired Little Creature,&quot; and the Poet Wordsworth.<br /> By Rosaline Masson.<br /> The Passing of Pierrot. By Dion Calthrop.<br /> French Life and the French Stage.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 68 (#100) #############################################<br /> <br /> 68<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br /> 1. A VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br /> advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br /> lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br /> business or the administration of his property. The<br /> Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br /> special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br /> Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br /> deem it desirable, will obtain counsel&#039;s opinion without<br /> any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel&#039;s<br /> opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br /> is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br /> member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br /> 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br /> and publishers&#039; agreements do not fall within the experi.<br /> ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br /> the Society.<br /> 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br /> the document to the Society for examination,<br /> 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br /> you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br /> are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br /> advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br /> the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br /> 5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br /> members&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br /> proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br /> confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br /> who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br /> (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br /> upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br /> payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu.<br /> lars of the Society&#039;s work can be obtained in the<br /> Prospectus. .<br /> 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br /> Lct should be entered into with a literary<br /> agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br /> consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br /> them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br /> them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br /> of the Society.<br /> 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br /> must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br /> Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br /> 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br /> referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80<br /> do some publishers. Members can make their own<br /> deductions and act accordingly.<br /> 9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br /> annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br /> obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br /> competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br /> the Society.<br /> II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br /> agreement).<br /> In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br /> (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br /> duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br /> (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements,<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for &quot; office expenses,&quot;<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> rights.<br /> (6.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br /> (6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br /> As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br /> doctor!<br /> III. The Royalty System.<br /> This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br /> of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br /> what the proposed royalty mears to both sides. It is now<br /> possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br /> truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br /> with royalties are published in The Author.<br /> IY. A Commission Agreement.<br /> The main points are :-<br /> (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br /> (2. Keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br /> General.<br /> All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br /> above mentioned.<br /> Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br /> Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br /> the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br /> Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br /> The main points which the Society has always demanded<br /> from the outset are:-<br /> (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br /> (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br /> to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br /> nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br /> withheld.<br /> (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br /> beans.<br /> WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br /> WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br /> OF BOOKS.<br /> TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br /> Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com.<br /> petent legal authority.<br /> 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br /> the production of a play with any one except an established<br /> manager.<br /> 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br /> in three or more acts :-<br /> (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br /> is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br /> such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br /> for production of the piece by a certain date<br /> and for proper publication of his name on the<br /> play-bills.<br /> STERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br /> H agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br /> with literary property :-<br /> 1. Selling it Outright.<br /> This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 69 (#101) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 69<br /> DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br /> D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br /> U Society before putting plays into the hands of<br /> agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br /> who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br /> perpetual claim to a percentage on the author&#039;s fees<br /> from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br /> it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br /> very few agents who can do anything for an author<br /> that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br /> equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br /> is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br /> required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br /> fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br /> action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br /> individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br /> countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br /> in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br /> But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br /> to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br /> who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br /> the author&#039;s rights. In any case, in the present state of<br /> the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br /> circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br /> (6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of percentages on<br /> gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br /> and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br /> percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br /> in preference to the American system. Should<br /> obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br /> date on or before which the play should be<br /> performed.<br /> (c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br /> nightly fecs). This method should be always<br /> avoided except in cases where the fees are<br /> likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br /> other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br /> also in this case.<br /> 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br /> better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br /> paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br /> important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br /> be reserved.<br /> 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br /> be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br /> time. This is most important.<br /> 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br /> should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br /> is of great importance.<br /> 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br /> play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br /> holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br /> print the book of the words.<br /> 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br /> ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br /> agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br /> consideration,<br /> 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br /> drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br /> 10. An author should remember that production of a play<br /> is highly speculative : that be runs a very great risk of<br /> delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br /> He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br /> the beginning.<br /> 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br /> is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br /> is to obtain adequate publication.<br /> As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br /> account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con<br /> tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br /> are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Society.<br /> WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br /> T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br /> U assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br /> authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br /> a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br /> composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br /> cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br /> property. The musical composer has very often the two<br /> rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br /> should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br /> an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br /> the warnings stated above.<br /> STAMPING MUSIC.<br /> The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br /> behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br /> of 100. The members&#039; stamps are kept in the Society&#039;s<br /> safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br /> Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br /> members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br /> THE READING BRANCH.<br /> REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br /> ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br /> M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br /> branch of its work by informing young writers<br /> of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br /> treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br /> M88, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br /> and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br /> special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br /> Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br /> tee 18 one guinea.<br /> . REMITTANCES.<br /> QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br /> forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br /> a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br /> be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br /> tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br /> and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br /> of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br /> the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br /> Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br /> rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br /> at the price of 2s. 68. per act,<br /> The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br /> that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br /> All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br /> Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br /> letter only.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 70 (#102) #############################################<br /> <br /> 70<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> GENERAL NOTES.<br /> This paragraph hardly needs any comment. The<br /> S.P.C.K. is offering to purchase the whole copy-<br /> right of a work at 68. per 1,000 words.<br /> DRAMATIC CENSORSHIP.<br /> Many members of the Society may have for-<br /> We are requested by the Lord Chamberlain to gotten Sir Walter Besant&#039;s pamphlet written in<br /> publish the following list of gentlemen who have<br /> the early days of the society&#039;s incorporation,<br /> consented to serve on the Advisory Board dealing<br /> entitled “The Literary Handmaiden of the<br /> with the Censorship of Plays.<br /> Church.” Perhaps, in view of the S.P.C.K.&#039;s<br /> President: The Earl Spencer, Lord Chamberlain circular, it would be as well to recall this pamphlet<br /> (ex-officio).<br /> to the notice of the members.<br /> Members : The Right Hon. Sir Edward Carson,<br /> K.C., M.P., Sir Squire Bancroft, Sir John Hare, DICTIONARY OF THE WAVERLEY Novels.*<br /> Prof. Walter Raleigh, S. O. Buckmaster, Esq., K.C.,<br /> Col. Sir Douglas Dawson, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., Lord<br /> A BOOK of exceeding interest to students of<br /> Chamberlain&#039;s Department (ex-officio).<br /> Walter Scott has been issued by Messrs. Routledge<br /> Whether such an Advisory Board will be<br /> &amp; Co. and by Messrs. E. P. Dutton &amp; Co., New<br /> able to allay the clamour for reformation made<br /> York, entitled “ A Dictionary of the Characters in<br /> by the Dramatic Committee of the society and<br /> the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott,” com-<br /> others it is impossible to say at present, but,<br /> piled by M. F. A. Husband, B.A. It is, perhaps,<br /> whatever the result, one thing is certain, that the<br /> impossible that a book of this kind should have a<br /> position of the members of the Board is not a<br /> large circulation : first, no doubt, because Walter<br /> position to be envied, and we must consider it<br /> Scott is not so popular a novelist as he was in<br /> exceedingly self-sacrificing of them to have come<br /> the Victorian period ; and secondly, because those<br /> forward and undertaken such a grave responsibility.<br /> who do read novels read rather for pleasure than<br /> as students ; but books of reference well compiled<br /> can seldom fail to be interesting to those who use<br /> THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br /> them rightly, and in this case there is no doubt<br /> that much careful labour has been spent.<br /> List of original members :- Alfred Austin,<br /> The author in his introductory note states that<br /> Laurence Binyon, Andrew Cecil Bradley, Robert the aim of the book is that of a dictionary and not<br /> Bridges, Samuel Henry Butcher, Joseph Conrad, that of an encyclopædia. He points out that in<br /> William John Courthope, Austin Dobson, James Scott&#039;s novels there are no less than 2,836<br /> George Frazer, Edmund Gosse, Richard Burdon characters. This is, indeed, a very large number,<br /> Haldane. Thomas Hardy. Henry James. William and without such a book as this it would have<br /> Paton Ker, Andrew Lang, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, been impossible to grasp the fertility and wide<br /> John William Mackail. The Viscount Norley of range of the stories of the “ Wizard of the<br /> Blackburn (president), George Gilbert Murray, North.&quot;<br /> Henry Newbolt, Edward Henry Pember (perpetual The price of the book is 8s. 6d. net.<br /> secretary), Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, George Walter<br /> We have also received from the same publishers<br /> Prothero, Walter Raleigh, Arthur Woollgar Verrall,<br /> a similar dictionary of the characters of Thackeray, t.<br /> William Butler Yeats.<br /> equally serviceable to students of the masters of<br /> English literature.<br /> THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN<br /> “ WHAT EDITORS WANT,” AND “HOW TO WRITE<br /> KNOWLEDGE.<br /> FOR THE PRESS.”<br /> The Society for Promoting Christian Know-<br /> We have had two small books sent us which<br /> ledge, Northumberland Avenue, W.C., issues contain useful information for many members of<br /> a printed circular to those authors whose MSS. the society, who work as free-lance journalists or<br /> it receives. The printed circular is signed by free-lance writers of fiction. They are entitled,<br /> Edmund McClure (secretary). The attention of “What Editors Want&quot; and “How to Write for the<br /> members of the society is called to the last Press,&quot; and the price is 1s. net, in paper covers.<br /> paragraph :-<br /> “How to Write for the Press” is almost purely<br /> “If a MS. is accepted, payment is made for the copy.<br /> de for the copy.<br /> 100 The use 01 Jourt<br /> for the use of journalists, and shows them, by<br /> right. The scale of payment varies according to the<br /> importance of the book, or to the price at which it is * “ Dictionary of the Waverley Novels.&quot; By M. F. A.<br /> published. For ordinary tales intended for Parochial Husband, B.A. Routledge. 8s. 6d. net.<br /> Libraries the scale is from £3 38. per 10,000 words. If it + “A Thackeray Dictionary.&quot; By Isadore Gilbert Mudge<br /> is declined, it is returned post free.&quot;<br /> and M. Earl Sears. Routledge. 88. 6d. net.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 71 (#103) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 71<br /> naming the kind of subjects with which the papers which he lived solitary with his wife or wives, and<br /> deal, how to be beforehand in the matter of family or families, and betook himself to the<br /> articles for the papers, and explains how to deal diked enclosures ostensibly for protecting himself<br /> with these subjects in journalistic fashion. The against beasts, but really for the purpose of more<br /> whole success of a free-lance journalist depends easily insulting his neighbours. (Laughter.) To<br /> upon his initiative and originality.<br /> anybody who interjected the criticism of such<br /> The second book is both for the journalist and historical details as the invention of printing and<br /> the writer of fiction, and contains a great deal of the successive invention of publishers, he replied<br /> useful information from the editors of magazines that it was perfectly true that unless printing had<br /> on the kind of article or kind of story they want been invented publishers would not have been<br /> for their papers.<br /> invented. Did they think that an author having<br /> We miss, however, a cross-index, which to us written his immortal work would undertake to<br /> would seem to be indispensable for a book of this disseminate it throughout the length and breadth<br /> kind. For instance, if a person desired to know of Great Britain ; they knew that when an author<br /> what papers took poems he would have to read had finished his second revision of a book nothing<br /> through the whole book, whereas if there was a would induce him to repeat a word of it. (Laughter.)<br /> cross-index at the end mentioning “ poems,&quot; and If there had been no publishers, did they think they<br /> referring to the various magazines, an enormous would have resorted to the rhapsodists? The<br /> amount of trouble would be saved, and it would bistory of the author and the publisher fell into<br /> help an author who was struggling for a market. two parts. In the first part, the first, having no<br /> To save trouble, as a rule, is to make money. money and having written a book, employed the<br /> publisher ; in the second part, the publisher, having<br /> money and nowits employed the author. (Laughter.)<br /> What would have been the position of the<br /> rhapsodists? They might imagine the complication<br /> THE SOCIETY&#039;S ANNIVERSARY<br /> between the author and the rhapsodists in the<br /> earlier stages of their encounter. Imagine what<br /> DINNER<br /> the rhapsodists would have charged for reciting in<br /> England, Scotland, the Colonies and the United<br /> States, one of the works of Mr. William de Morgan<br /> M UE Twenty-sixth Anniversary Dinner of the or Mr. Arnold Bennett. Nearly as bad was to<br /> Society of Authors was held in the Criterion imagine two writers employing the same rhapso-<br /> Restaurant on Thursday evening.<br /> dists, for in that case the rhapsodists might to take<br /> The guests were received by Mr. Maurice<br /> one example-sandwich two or three of his lumber-<br /> Hewlett, and about two hundred sat down to ing pages into Mr. Anthony Hope&#039;s sparkling<br /> dinner under his presidency. The vice-chairmen dialogue. (Laughter.)<br /> were Sir Alfred Bateman, K.C.M.G., Mr. Charles<br /> Dealing with the work of the society, he asked<br /> Garvice, Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Charles<br /> whether they were making themselves unnecessary<br /> L. Freeston, Mr. W. W. Jacobs, Mr. S. S. Sprigge as a corporation. That was their only justification,<br /> and Mr. G. Herbert Thring.<br /> and they were on the way to do it. Relations<br /> In few and well-chosen words the chairman gave between themselves and the other industries which<br /> the toasts of “ The King” and “ The Queen and were affected by their art had certainly changed.<br /> Royal Family.&quot;<br /> Even in his short experience as chairman of the<br /> It now fell to him, the chairman said, to enact society, authors and publishers and booksellers had<br /> an important ceremony, which was to propose and sat at the same board of green cloth and discussed<br /> see that the company drank the health of the matters of common interest. They had with them<br /> Incorporated Society of Authors—a society to a publisher who looked happy-Mr. Heinemann, an<br /> which many of them had reason to congratulate exceptional publisher, who had maintained single-<br /> themselves they belonged, a society to which all handed a struggle against a common enemy he<br /> authors ought to belong and to which two thousand would not name. (Applause.)<br /> of them did belong. It had fulfilled the hopes of He could not forbear calling attention to the<br /> its part founder, Sir Walter Besant. He said part fact that the guest of the evening in a great many<br /> founder, for he was about to suggest an earlier senses was—he did not know whether to say the<br /> origin-an origin so old that it stretched back into veteran or the infant phenomenon of letters, Mr<br /> the misty vestibules of the House of Time. The William de Morgan. (Applause.)<br /> Society of Authors, and all societies he had ever H e called upon the company to drink to the<br /> heard of, had been founded in the nick of time prosperity of the Incorporated Society of Authors.<br /> when neolithic man forsook the cave dwelling in Sir Alfred Bateman proposed the toast of the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 72 (#104) #############################################<br /> <br /> 72<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> guests. After mentioning that Mr. de Morgan had of literature, we shall have to do as the poets did<br /> won fame in other fields of art before turning his in that country where the public refused to buy<br /> attention to fiction, he added that another of their sonnets that were quoted at over one shilling.<br /> guests, Mr. E. H. Pember, K.C., had not only pro- These poets were penny-a-liners, and ordinary<br /> duced some excellent verse but had been a guide, fourteen-line sonnets were one-and-twopence. Of<br /> philosopher, and friend in regard to literature. course the poets gave way and wrote only twelve-<br /> (Applause.)<br /> line sonnets. The consequence was that when nert<br /> Mr. William de Morgan, rising on the right hand the type-setters struck for a rise of wages, it was<br /> of the chairman, said: “The words of Mercury pointed out that the cost of printing was all the<br /> are harsh after the songs of Apollo.” My excuse fault of the authors, who scattered the type about<br /> for such a trite quotation is that I wish to vary it so. A compromise was come to, the type-setters<br /> slightly in the present case. If the words of Mer- consenting to resume work if they might put all<br /> cury are not, this time, harsh after the songs of the A&#039;s in the book in one place, all the B&#039;s in<br /> Apollo, it is not for want of inexperience of public another, and so on. Authors were no longer<br /> speaking on the part of Mercury-videlicet, myself. wanted. However, I am on the best of terms with<br /> In fact, I have up to now devoted myself exclusively Mudie&#039;s, so far as I know. Referring to them<br /> to the cultivation of private silence, not without reminds me that we are very old acquaintances, as<br /> success. Broadly speaking, if one of the patriarchs, I was first introduced sixty-five years ago to a depot<br /> Methuselah, or suppose we say Lamech-he was in Southampton Row, Russell Square, being then<br /> nearer my own age—had found himself, at the age very young indeed, and was told that the gentle-<br /> of 710, or thereabouts, responding to the health of man who handed a tri-volume to my mother over<br /> “ The Guests” at a public dinner, he would probably the counter was “ Mr. Mudie himself&quot;! How sur-<br /> have done as the little boy did in the story of prised he would have been then to forsee my sequel !<br /> “ Helen&#039;s Babies.” You remember he had only to Let me conclude with my most grateful thanks<br /> say “ B-double 0—K Book,&quot; and he succeeded in for the honour that has been done me. I hope I<br /> saying instead, “ D-bubble 0–K.” Probably the have not diminished the gratitude of my fellow<br /> patriarch would have done something of the sort, guests, on whose behalf I have undertaken to<br /> for he had not even the advantage I had of speak, by so much irrelevant rambling. I should<br /> beginning with a quotation from Shakespeare, who ramble still more, though less irrelevantly, if I<br /> was not an incorporated author in those days. were to try to express to the full my sense of the<br /> Reference to books and authors reminds me of the generous hospitality, literal and metaphorical, that<br /> circulating libraries last year, and of the share a has been extended to a belated wanderer in the<br /> book of my own had in their rejection of books in fields of literature.<br /> two volumes. What I have to say is not criticism Mr. Pember said he found himself the temporary<br /> of the attitude of the libraries, but to disclaim any sort representative of another literary society with<br /> of commiseration for myself. I should be an impostor which the Society of Authors had been brought<br /> to pose as an object of pity, for the commercial into contact in the development of a common<br /> results were particularly satisfactory to me. All I project. At no time in history, he considered, had<br /> ever felt concerned about was that the question the literature of England been more thoroughly<br /> should not be mixed up with another question, that alive. They had poets, they had novelists, they<br /> of the proposed library censorship. It never would had historians, they had essayists. Personally, he<br /> have been if one or two ill-instructed subordinates of was of opinion that the topmost branches of the<br /> circulating libraries had not thought fit to say that very extensive literary plantation of the present<br /> the book was not in their list because it wasn&#039;t proper! day were both fine and well grown. (Applause.)<br /> It has been suggested that a good solution of the Mr. Charles Garvice, in proposing the toast of<br /> two-volume difficulty would be to cut very long - The Chairman,” said that Mr. Maurice Hewlett was<br /> stories in half, and give each half a title to itself. one of those novelists who appealed so directly to<br /> I did not feel sure that our chairman had not done<br /> the heart as well as to the mind, that he received<br /> this with his last book, as an experiment. When<br /> not only universal admiration but universal love.<br /> I came to read the book carefully I was glad to (Applause.).<br /> find that this was not the case. I say glad, because<br /> Alter the chairman had replied, a conversazione<br /> brilliant and original work should not be made the was held in the adjoining Victoria Hall.<br /> subject of hazardous experiments. A corpus vile<br /> should be used--the “average novel,&quot; if any one<br /> knows where to find it. However, I soon saw that<br /> no risks had been run with “Rest Harrow” and<br /> its predecessors of which it is a legitimate sequel.<br /> If commerce is to dictate the length and breadth<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 73 (#105) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 73<br /> THE RAMBLING ESSAYIST.<br /> heartily belauded by his followers—is just as<br /> thankful as he ought to be? I wonder if he<br /> By W. HAROLD THOMSON.<br /> appreciates to its full extent the ease, the comfort,<br /> tbe loftiness of his position ? I do not refer to his<br /> T HE work of the rambling essayist frequently financial position that may be good or it may be<br /> makes delightful reading, and I should poor. If it be poor I do not know that anybody<br /> - judge that to the author it makes delightful is to blame other than the essayist himself, but<br /> writing. The above title is applied to the literary assuredly there are those who will regard him with<br /> man who, having somehow or other, probably by still greater reverence should he chance to be in<br /> nothing more extraordinary than hard work, good debt; assuredly he will assume a more heroic, more<br /> work, and perseverance, won editorial approval and artistic pose.<br /> the attention of the more cultured reading classes, You may not have met the modern rambling<br /> is permitted to write upon whatever subject essayist-I mean in print. There are very many<br /> suggests itself to him as worthy of his pen and who have not done so ; and yet he raises his<br /> capable of being “worked up.&quot;<br /> melodious voice not only in dainty volunies, not<br /> He does not, when some choice subject whispers only in sober quarterlies and disdainful weeklies,<br /> to him seductively, say, “Sorry! I can&#039;t ! There&#039;s but in the democratic halfpenny Press. He is<br /> no money in you!&quot; but dips his pen into the ink everywhere : even if one wished to do so, one<br /> pot and gets to work. He never deliberately could scarcely avoid him. In some ways I envy<br /> chooses a subject; the subject always comes to those who have never allowed themselves to read<br /> him. For the most part he writes about what are what the rambler has written ; they are still out-<br /> commonly thought to be trivial things, and it is side the close-meshed net; they are still ingloriously<br /> of course a tribute to his art that he is able to free. Their case is somewhat like the case of a<br /> hold one fascinated through two thousand words man who has never allowed himself to be tempted<br /> on such a subject. John Smith, preparing a paper by the offer of a cigar or a cigarette or a pipe.<br /> for the local literary circle, will thunder forth his The man who has never smoked fails to understand<br /> views on the prospects of a war with some foreign what possible pleasure smoking can give ; the man<br /> Power ; or, backed by a host of scientific facts and who has never accorded a hearing to the soft-<br /> phantasies, cheerfully predict the early end of the tongued essayist has no desire to do so. But the<br /> world or deplore the decline of religion. The essay-reader might say to the non-essay-reader,<br /> professional essayist of the type referred to here just as the smoker says to the non-smoker : “My<br /> will talk blandly of &quot;A Tree in My Garden,&quot; or friend ! you do not know what you have missed.&quot;<br /> * The Good Night Pipe,” or “An Argumentative I scarcely think, however, that he would follow<br /> Man&quot;-anything, in short, that occurs to him. with the smoker&#039;s usual and hypocritical advice :<br /> No doubt John Smith could write about a good. “Don&#039;t start! I wish that I had never started.”<br /> night pipe; no doubt the popular essayist could A rumour has gone forth that the essay is<br /> write feelingly about the probable end of the coming back into popular favour : that in the<br /> world; but the fact does not seem to strike them, course of time it will supersede fiction. If ever<br /> and perhaps it is just as well.<br /> that time should come, the gentlemen who dawdle<br /> How many of us there are who envy very so entertainingly down a column headed by their<br /> sincerely—though I hope not bitterly—this inan of name or brought to a close by modest initials,<br /> letters who may write just as he pleases on what will come into their own. That they have a king-<br /> ever subject he pleases, with the certainty that dom already is very true, but they wield a bland<br /> what he writes will be accepted, published, paid sceptre over a mild-mannered people. There is<br /> for, and read! How delightful to sit down of an perhaps a future for them, when the subjects over<br /> evening before a hearty fire, light one&#039;s pipe, and, whom they hold sway will be as ten times ten,<br /> with pencil in hand and note-book on knee, set and of a nature which at the commencement will<br /> about transcribing to paper the pleasant thoughts be more turbulent than mild, and will call for the<br /> that are stealing half-dreamily across one&#039;s brain. most skilful and tactful of handling.<br /> &quot;To transcribe them just as one conceived them; What I love most about the rambling essayist,<br /> to eschew everything that offended one&#039;s ear, even and what he loves most about himself, is just this<br /> though it promised to please a great section of the very rambling. The serious, business-minded,<br /> public, and all the time to liave the sweet and get-to-the-point-at-once gentleman, who now and<br /> greatly-prized knowledge that just what one wrote then strides ferociously into print to explain that<br /> there by the fire would be just what thousands the country is hurrying to meet a certain celebrity<br /> would read a little later in the printed sheet ! with cloven hoofs, or who confuses us by juggling<br /> I wonder if such an essayist-known to fame, with bewildering masses of figures, is after all<br /> handsomely “retained ” by his publishers, and rather a boring companion. He pants along so<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 74 (#106) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> ceathlessly ; he piles the facts one upon the other material which we designate by the name of slang.<br /> quickly&#039;; he is so eager to convince one that And although the Atlantic Ocean nowadays has<br /> hat he is saying is right, and to reach his whirling become but a mere skip, it is still wide enough to<br /> eroration, that, refusing to be bullied any longer, check the passage from shore to shore of great<br /> ne throws down the paper.<br /> hordes of neologisms which might otherwise force<br /> With the placid essayist how different it all is ! their way into the general speech of « Anglo-<br /> Ie says that he is going to take you into a country Saxondom.” (The inverted commas may serve to<br /> une which will lead you to a charming and register anew the protest of a three-quarter Celt.)<br /> eculiarly-formed lake, where there are water-lilies The constant interchange of music-hall and vaude-<br /> nd stately swans and all manner of delights. You ville artists doubtless does something to introduce<br /> re ready and eager to start.<br /> the latest slang of one land into the other ; and so<br /> Safely you step into the lane, prepared to walk would the interchange of novels by English and<br /> riskly to your goal, the lake. But your eccentric American authors, were it not that the increasingly<br /> ompanion refuses to hurry ; he will have none of protectionist attitude of publishers on both sides of<br /> . He straggles from side to side of the roadway; the Atlantic makes it difficult for an author to<br /> vinces childlike joy at discovering a dainty fern have an audience on more than one side. But,<br /> rowing in a crevice of the dyke ; wants to watch generally speaking, the slangs of Britain and the<br /> wren which is perched upon the hedge-top ; or United States are growing independently of one<br /> erhaps, more for his own pleasure than for yours, another.<br /> escribes with rapture a bud swaying shyly on a Doubtless it is better so. This at least insures<br /> wild rose tree. This over, he remembers the that an inhabitant of either country can, if his<br /> bject with which he started—remembers that tastes lie that way, have an intellectual treat when<br /> e is taking you to see the lake, and with he has any time to devote to the study of the<br /> nthusiasm he tells you of it. But soon he popular speech of the other country which pro-<br /> reaks otf—a cow in a field near hy has claimed fesses to bare the same mother-tongue. Person-<br /> is attention. He forgets the lake ; he calmly ally, I will confess, I derive infinite pleasure from<br /> Lirects your gaze to the cow. And with the cow the collection of the fine flowers of American slang,<br /> rou hare to be contented. “The lake ?-oh, some even when I am puzzled by the why-ness of a lot of<br /> ther time for the lake. The two thousand words it. I delight in its exuberance, its dash, its palpi-<br /> re written. It was difficult to get under weigh, tating absurdity. Perhaps those who read me now<br /> nd the lake was attractive ; but once one&#039;s pen (though I recognise the possibility of my baving no<br /> tarts its dipping into the ink pot, and its antics readers except the Editor of The Author) will not<br /> -pon the paper, words somehow accumulate and share my delight. But I cannot resist exhibiting<br /> he column fills up !<br /> a few of the gems across which I have come<br /> Well, he is a giant, this essayist; and a giant, recently, in the hope that they will appeal to at<br /> when he is mild and good-humoured, is an inspir- least a few others besides myself.<br /> ng companion for those of smaller stature than A notable feature in American slang is the use of<br /> aimself.<br /> that expedient known as the “ornate alias.” Thus<br /> the country may be described as “the hay-fever<br /> SOME BEAUTIES OF AMERICAN SLANG.<br /> district,&quot; a bottle of champagne as “buzz-water&quot;<br /> or “a quart of bubbles,&quot; a diamond tie-pin as &quot;a<br /> Tungstenlight boulder,&quot;. an elaborate dress suit as<br /> TT is a fact which has long been recognised by “the gladdest kind of an evening shell” or more<br /> 1 intelligent observers of the two great nations simply as “glad rags.&quot; Still more hyperbolically<br /> which are commonly miscalled Anglo-Saxon in a very amusing book, “Young Wallingford,&quot;<br /> -I speak as one who is three-quarters Celt-that by George Randolph Chester, a term of imprison-<br /> che English and American tongues, apart from the ment is spoken of as “the short-haired paleness<br /> nigh literary diction still preserved in both which comes from wearing horizontal stripes in a<br /> countries, are slowly but surely drifting apart. cement rooin,&quot; and swindling as “a game that<br /> The fact is embalmed in the now almost venerable has the brown-and-wbite striped clothes at the end<br /> cale about the shop-sign somewhere on the Con- of it.” We are reminded of the sandwichmen<br /> cinent, “English spoken : American understood.&quot; whom we have lately seen parading the streets in<br /> It is true even of the ordinary written languages ; advertisement of “ The Man from Mexico,&quot; as<br /> but it is even more emphatically true of the again when we read of “a guy that&#039;s got the<br /> Colloquial speeches of Great Britain and of the lock-step coming to him.” .<br /> United States.<br /> ...o coman e The jargon of “crooks &quot; is naturally particularly<br /> Now, colloquial speech progresses largely by rich, and also particularly recondite. The objec-<br /> means of the drafting into it of that vigorous raw tive &quot;phoney”-as in “phoney business,&quot; “ the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 75 (#107) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 75<br /> phoney stuff” (flash notes), “the phoney pinch”<br /> (a bogus arrest), is in common use, but I do not<br /> know its origin. Another puzzler is enshrined in<br /> the question which one of Mr. Chester&#039;s characters<br /> pats to another. “How about this eight thousand<br /> or so that you committed mayhem on Filmore to<br /> get?” We may feel sure that the eight thousand<br /> or so was “easy money” or “the fat money,&quot; to<br /> get which is the ambition of all crooks; but<br /> what “ mayhem” is I have no idea. Perhaps some<br /> “ wise prop” can enlighten me, in intervals of<br /> relieving of his superfluous cash some “ Mr.<br /> Mark of Easyville&quot; and &quot;cold-decking &quot; the<br /> unsophisticated “on the rural free delivery<br /> routes.&quot;<br /> “ Don&#039;t give me the marble mitt,&quot; exclaims a<br /> man to a maid in another recent American novel.<br /> The “ marble mitt&quot; is perchance a continuation<br /> of the cold shoulder. But the maid to whom the<br /> remark was addressed was obdurate, because the<br /> man appeared to her a “ quitter,&quot; though she<br /> admitted that he “wasn&#039;t any pincher,&quot; i.e., was<br /> not stingy. I forget whether he was one of the<br /> people who suffered from an “ingrowing grouch.&quot;<br /> That complaint, howerer, was certainly rife among<br /> a set of men of whom a critic asked, “ Why do they<br /> hate themselves so? Why do they sit in the<br /> darkest corners and bark at themselves ?&quot; Possibly,<br /> if one may hazard a conjecture, someone had been<br /> * handing them too much flossy talk.&quot; ;<br /> An informative contributor to the Press has told<br /> us over here lately that the latest fashionable<br /> endearment in the United States for one&#039;s best girl<br /> is simply “kid,” and that “peach” and the<br /> statelier “ peacherino” are dying out. This is sad,<br /> because there is a distinct lack of originality about<br /> “kid,” even when applied to a best girl.<br /> “ Little old New York” is caressing. So is<br /> “ my little old salary,&quot; of which the heroine of<br /> Miss Grace Luce Irwin&#039;s “ Diary of a Show Girl ”<br /> speaks. That heroine, by the way, is a constant<br /> joy, and has some charming friends, like the gentle-<br /> man who owned a horse that “won the tapeovitch<br /> by a face”—a close finish, to be sure. Someone<br /> else in the book “ felt like a ben that&#039;s gone back<br /> on its feed.” Even I once had a friend, a natural-<br /> ised American, who was frequently “madder than<br /> a wet hen.” He was inclined to be zoological, I<br /> remember, for he found many things “more fun<br /> than a barrel full of monkeys.&quot;<br /> &quot;Not on your tin-type !&quot; is an expression now<br /> familiar in this country. But “ Not on your three-<br /> sheet litho !&quot; came fresh to me the other day. I<br /> am not certain that it was not “ the first live<br /> noise &quot; I had heard for some time, though I believe<br /> that expression is properly applied to an invitation<br /> to have a drink, whether a plain &quot; highball,&quot; which<br /> is whisky and soda, or the more expensive“ bottle<br /> of joy,” which is the same as the afore-mentioned<br /> “quart of bubbles.&quot;<br /> A “rubberneck&quot; is an admirably expressive<br /> description of an inquisitive person. The term and<br /> its companion verb “to rubber” are, I fancy,<br /> fairly well known on this side of the Atlantic. A<br /> “butter-in” and “to butt in &quot; have also probably<br /> come to stay. But have our racing prophets yet<br /> got to the refinement of “ a slice of hot dog,&quot;<br /> which sounds like a really good tip? I am<br /> indebted for it to Mr. Chester, as also for recalling<br /> to methe word “lallapalooza,&quot; which I heard some<br /> seven years ago in the quaintly-mixed jargon<br /> prevalent in our Far Eastern colonies—a jargon<br /> compounded of English, American, and dashes of<br /> Chinese, Malay, Hindustani, and Portuguese. A<br /> “lallapalooza,” as applied to racing, seems to be<br /> the same as “a real good &#039;un.” It is even more<br /> indicative of admiration than the expression “a<br /> warm baby&quot; when applied by one sport to fellow<br /> sportsmen.<br /> That one piece of slang should, as it were,<br /> become the parent of another is but natural.<br /> When people got tired of talking of “the limit”<br /> and “the absolute limit,” brains set to work to<br /> bring into the world of speech something better,<br /> and then we got “Well, if that isn&#039;t the pink<br /> penultimate !&quot; whose acquaintance I first made in<br /> Mr. Gellett Burgess&#039;s taking novel of San Fran-<br /> cisco life, “The Heart Line,&quot; Possibly Mr.<br /> Burgess, being already known to fame as the<br /> father of the little poem on “ The Purple Cow,&quot; *<br /> was also directly responsible for the paternity of<br /> “the pink penultimate.&quot; Anyhow, it is a phrase<br /> full of colour, it cannot be denied.<br /> Occasionally the slang word, instead of being a<br /> periphrastic expansion of an older term, is a short<br /> corruption of the original name. Thus, since what<br /> we call motor-cars have from the first been called<br /> automobiles in the United States, we can under-<br /> stand why now they should be popularly styled<br /> bubbles.&quot; But why opium should be called<br /> “hop” I do not know, seeing that Americans<br /> pride themselves on not adding or dropping<br /> aspirates in the wrong places.<br /> To smoke opium, by the way, is to &quot;hit the<br /> pipe.” Presumably it is an analogy that to drink<br /> to excess is to “hit the bottle.”<br /> But I have now, no doubt, given enough examples<br /> of a quaint development in language to satisfy the<br /> majority of my readers—especially if, as I have<br /> suggested, those readers reduce themselves upon<br /> * My memory is treacherous. I think the poem ran<br /> somewhat as follows :-<br /> I never saw a purple cow,<br /> I do not wish to see one,<br /> But this I know full well, that I<br /> Would sooner see than be one!<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 76 (#108) #############################################<br /> <br /> 76<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> stricter investigation to one whose reading is a Hardy, but without his note of irony. To say that<br /> matter of compulsion, not of choice. So I will the two chief gods of Lemonnier were—and are<br /> cease before I am adjured, in American, to “get Rubens and Hugo, is enough to indicate the gulf<br /> under the carpet.”<br /> between his style and that of our English writers :<br /> PHILIP WALSH. they come of a long race of unquiet Puritans to<br /> whom the very stirring of the sensuous gifts is a<br /> presentiment of betrayal ; Lemonnier has no dread<br /> CAMILLE LEMONNIER.<br /> of the wine of life, he sees in Nature nothing but<br /> her beneficient opulence and full-blooded joy that is<br /> there for whomsoever has strength enough to clasp<br /> THOUGH probably unknown to the majority her unshrinking. The opening words of this book<br /> of those who may read these lines, there can strike the key-note of the whole, which may<br /> be no doubt that, of the many novelists, perhaps be heard even in translation.<br /> essayists, and critics now before the Belgian public, “A freshness arose from the earth, and all at<br /> the sovereign pontiff, acknowledged and acclaimed, once the silence of the night was broken. A slow,<br /> is Camille Lemonnier, the veteran Bruxellois who impalpable harmony was born on the horizon,<br /> is now approaching his seventieth year.<br /> hovered over the wood, drew nearer and nearer,<br /> Born in the year 1844 at Ixelles, a small town- then died away in a shiver of yellow leaves :<br /> ship on the outskirts of Brussels, now conterminous the enormous silence began again. It was as<br /> with the rapidly expanding capital, he studied, like though the air sought annihilation in the depths of<br /> Verhaeren, for the law, but with even less success. sleep. The beeches resumed their torpid stillness.<br /> At nineteen he began writing art criticisms, and A calm drowned foliage, herbs, all living things<br /> later made the acquaintance of Alfred Stevens, to that loitered in the pale shadow. For an instant<br /> whose work he has devoted one of his best known only. Once more the rumbling arose, louder this<br /> monographs. Stevens wanted to introduce him to time. The rigidity of the sleeping forms was<br /> the great Hugo, then in exile at Brussels, but he shaken by a shiver that spread, passing over things<br /> fled in terror on approaching the doorway of the like the stroke of scattered hands, and the earth<br /> deity.<br /> trembled.<br /> On the death of his father he retired into the “The morning broke. The tree-tops emerged<br /> country, having bought the old priory house of in the beginning of light; a paleness crept over<br /> Burnot in a valley midway between Namur and the sky; it increased, and was like a truant in full<br /> Dinant, on the banks of the Meuse. Here he daylight awaiting the return of darkness. A dis-<br /> settled down to the still life of a gentleman-farmer, tant and solemn music hummed through the thick-<br /> broken only by short spells of happy vagabondage ness of the underwood.<br /> with bosom friends.<br /> “ The milky clearness spread quickly like water<br /> Moved by the horrors of the Franco-Prussian when the flood-gates open. It flowed between the<br /> war, of which he had been a chance and unwilling branches, filtered through the leaves, slowly swamp-<br /> witness after Sedan, he wrote “Les Charniers” ing the darkness. A transparency lit the brakes ;<br /> (the Shambles), which has been described by the leaves were like a green sieve to the in-pouring<br /> J. K. Huysmans as “le plus terrifiant pampblet day; the gray trunks looked like priests wrapped<br /> qu&#039;on ait jamais écrit contre la guerre.&quot; It was with their stoles in the incense of processions.<br /> praised by Goncourt, Maupassant, and the author And little by little the sky unsheathed in hues of<br /> of “ La Débâcle” long ere that work had been stainless silver.”<br /> written.<br /> Of the recognition which this work brought him<br /> What is at once his best known work and his perhaps the most prized expression was that of<br /> masterpiece, “Le Mâle,&quot; appeared in 1881, and Alphonse Daudet, who wrote -- Venez, vous verrez.<br /> caused a great stir both among the lettered and the chez moi Flaubert, Goncourt, Zola. Vous êtes de la<br /> unlettered : the former recognised the arrival of a famille.”<br /> new stylist, a rich painter in words, to whom the 1882 saw the publication of “La Mort,” which<br /> earth was indeed a mother ; while the latter were paints with the same ruthless insistence the drab<br /> startled by the frank animalism of this story of winter of human things ; and this work was<br /> the simple love of a poacher and a dairymaid, pulsing followed by several tales of horror dealing with the<br /> like the sap in the leaves of the woodland Eden hidden cesspools of life by which most of us-<br /> where the scene is laid.<br /> happily - pass unheeding. For “ L&#039;Enfant du<br /> The sumptuousness of these pages recalls Crapaud” (1886) he was summoned before the<br /> Jefferies&#039; “Pageant of Summer,&quot; but without tribunal of the Seine at Paris and fined. To this<br /> Jefferies&#039; wistfulness; their directness and the class belongs also “ L&#039;Homme qui tue les femmes&quot;<br /> inherence of scene and action recall Thomas (1893), a story based on the Jack-the-Ripper out-<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 77 (#109) #############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> rages, which the authorities (this time Belgian) Ronsard. Daniel, Lodge and Constable also<br /> again considered to overstep the limits of public offended, and it was really with the drama that<br /> decency; but, after a protracted trial, he was English originality declared itself. Marlowe &quot;framed<br /> acquitted.<br /> what, in spite of signs of French affinity, was<br /> Though it is pity and horror that move him and largely a new conception of tragedy ;” and after<br /> that he means to arouse in the reader, it must be Marlowe, “England broke away from leading<br /> admitted that his realism and his lack of reticence strings and passed unaccompanied ahead of her<br /> are as downright and unfliching as that of some of guides,” with the result that “when at a later<br /> the famous-or infamous—Flemish painters of an epoch the consummated type of Elizabethan drama<br /> earlier age. It may be questioned, too, whether he caught foreign attention it was condemned by<br /> has not sometimes weakened his appeal by over- foreign observers as barbarism.”<br /> insistence on the physical incidence of very moving That, in brief, is Mr. Lee&#039;s thesis, though he<br /> episodes.<br /> deals with prose as well as verse, with the Reforma-<br /> “ La Belgique,” a vivid topographical and tion as well as the Revival of Learning, and exhibits<br /> descriptive survey of his native land, appeared in our indebtedness to Calvin, who was no less great<br /> 1888. After 1893 he reverted to the style of “Le as a stylist than as a theologian, as well as to the<br /> Mâle,&quot; producing “Ile Vierge,” “ Adam et Eve,&quot; Pleiad. His book admirably supplements the good<br /> “ Cæur frais de la forêt,&quot; all imbued with a quite work which he has already done in connection with<br /> Whitmanian sense of clean wide space, and the the literary history of the period. Though written<br /> glory of rudest things—even dunghills and swine for students, it is eminently readable.<br /> troughs—in the all-embracing sun.<br /> No one has given a more generous appreciation<br /> of Lemonnier than his great contemporary<br /> Maeterlinck, who says, “Il est, au royaume du<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> verbe, le berger qui mêne le troupeau le plus vaste,<br /> le plus divers, le plus docile, et le plus magnifique.”<br /> W. C. T.<br /> AGENCY CLAUSES IN PUBLISHERS&#039; AGREEMENTS.<br /> SIR,—May I be permitted to point out an<br /> inevitable misconstruction arising out of the<br /> THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE.* wording of the article entited “ Agency Clauses in<br /> Publishers&#039; Agreements,” in the November Author ?<br /> The writer says : “When an author has gone to<br /> “THE French Renaissance,&quot; writes Mr. Lee,<br /> an agent with an established reputation, and has<br /> &quot; was known in Eogland almost exclu-<br /> settled a satisfactory contract with him, he then<br /> sively through its written word, and only<br /> most probably is quite ready to leave the manage-<br /> slightly and subsidiarily through its art.&quot; He<br /> ment of his business in the agent&#039;s hands.&quot;<br /> therefore gives his work the sub-title : “ An account<br /> He then goes on to suggest that the same agent<br /> of the literary relations of England and France in<br /> would slip into an agreement (without, of course,<br /> the sixteenth century.&quot; The period was one in<br /> the author&#039;s observing it) a clause giving him<br /> which France influenced England a good deal more<br /> powers which can be utilised so as to facilitate<br /> than England influenced France, though some of<br /> embezzlement, falsification, and conspiracy.<br /> the English work has proved to be the more vital Now, if the writer had made it clear that what<br /> and enduring. England, that is to say, needed to he intended to say was that such acts were possible<br /> be drawn into the main corrents of European in all cases except those in which a responsible<br /> thought and culture, though her voice when drawn<br /> agent had been appointed, little need have been<br /> there was really a voice and not an echo. At first,<br /> said. Obviously a butler, if also a burglar, may<br /> indeed, there was a good deal of plagiarism. The<br /> steal the spoons and--as apparently suggested in<br /> Elizabethan sonnet illustrates what Mr. Lee calls<br /> the article of all agents—&quot;cover up his tracks.”<br /> the borrowing tendencies of the Elizabethan The fault would seem to lie in the selection of the<br /> muse,&quot; and many leaders of the literary profession butler rather than in “the principle of employing&quot;<br /> in Elizabethan England “put forward as original<br /> a butler.<br /> compositions, and as declarations of personal feel.<br /> It is not quite easy to see how any agent, how-<br /> ing, a number of poems which prove on examina-<br /> ever felonious naturally, can receive moneys without<br /> tion to be literal translations from the French or<br /> accounting, nor accounts without reporting, nor<br /> Italian.&quot; Spepser, in early life, translated du Bellay.<br /> conspire with a publisher (who must be willing) to<br /> Sir Philip Sidney echoes both du Bellay and<br /> rob an author who pays him by results. For<br /> * &quot; The French Renaissance in England,&quot; by Sidney<br /> really, it must be presumed that an author is an<br /> Lee. Clarendon Press. 108. 6d. net.<br /> intelligent being who reads agreements before<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 78 (#110) #############################################<br /> <br /> 78<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> signing them, and requires the customary vouchers<br /> sent with accounts by any “responsible” agent.<br /> AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.<br /> [Does an agent-he need not be a burglar-<br /> when inserting this dangerous agency clause in<br /> the agreement draw the author&#039;s attention to its<br /> dangers, as he would to the dangers of any clause<br /> proposed by the publishers ? We have never<br /> known an agent take this, the only fair course.<br /> A legal document should guard against every<br /> contingency-Ed.]<br /> LIBRARIES&#039; CENSORSHIP.<br /> DEAR SIR,—If not too late for the November<br /> Author, I should be obliged if you would mention<br /> that my new book, “ Bracken,” has been refused by<br /> all the great libraries without any reason given.<br /> It seems to me that the time has come for the<br /> . Society to consider this matter, which is of the<br /> highest importance to its members, since at the<br /> present moment none are safe. I have long held<br /> the opinion that authors should publish their own<br /> works. It is now becoming imperative that they<br /> should distribute them.<br /> Yours faithfully,<br /> JOHN TREVENA.<br /> [This letter was unfortunately too late for the<br /> November Author. We publish it in the December<br /> issue just as it came to our hand.—ED.]<br /> Now, what moves me to this letter is rather the<br /> clumsiness than the price. If &quot;A Project of<br /> Empire” were published in two editions, I would<br /> pay 78. 6d. for the small light one in preference,<br /> and be glad to get it. At the same time it is<br /> clear that books are published in the large and<br /> heavy form chiefly to produce an imposing effect<br /> and get an artificially high price out of the public.<br /> I don&#039;t for a moment grudge so much of the price<br /> as goes to the author (I am an author myself),<br /> and perhaps Messrs. Dent made a mistake in issu.<br /> ing their primers ” so cheap; but, say Prof.<br /> Shield Nicholson gets 2s. 6d. a copy on his book,<br /> probably 18. 6d, on a cheap edition would bring<br /> him in more. Add that on to the shilling at which,<br /> it is clear, the book could be printed in a reason-<br /> able style, and make the price half-a-crown. No<br /> doubt Prof. Nicholson, like everyone else who ash<br /> something to say, would like to reach as many<br /> readers as possible, provided his legitimate profit<br /> is not reduced. It is not clear that he might<br /> have that satisfaction, and a larger public the<br /> advantage of reading him, and that in greater<br /> comfort, if only we could get rid of the system of<br /> making books big and ostentatious ? Probably<br /> some publishers&#039; profits would be reduced, but we<br /> could trust to commercial competition to get the<br /> books on the market anyhow; and, granted that<br /> condition, the things to aim at are popularity<br /> and influence for writers, comfort and economy<br /> for readers.<br /> R. A. L.<br /> EXPENSIVE Books.<br /> THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.<br /> SIR,—I wish to make, once more, a protest<br /> &#039;SIR,—The following instance of editorial delay<br /> against the artificial exvensiveness and cumbrous. may interest members. In June, 1902, I was<br /> ness of English books. I have just been com-<br /> commissioned by Harper&#039;s Magazine to write an<br /> paring a new one with one of about the same<br /> article on “ The Future of the American Novel.&quot;<br /> length already published some years. Here is the<br /> I wrote it in July, 1902, and delivered it imme-<br /> comparison :<br /> diately. It was then at once, with my consent,<br /> Author<br /> transferred to the North American Review, between<br /> ... Nicholson<br /> Jenks.<br /> Name<br /> ... “Project of Empire.&quot; “ History of Politics.&quot;<br /> which review and Harper&#039;s Magazine there was<br /> Publishers ... Macmillan.<br /> Dent.<br /> some managerial connection.<br /> Length ... 70,000 words.<br /> 70,000 words. · A few months ago (eight years after delivery) I<br /> Weight<br /> ... 24 ozs.<br /> 6 ozs.<br /> received a letter from the editor of the North<br /> Price<br /> ... 78. 6d.<br /> 1x.<br /> Type<br /> American Review stating that he had not yet<br /> Smaller, but equally<br /> ... Large.<br /> clear and easy to<br /> printed the article, and requesting me to revise it<br /> read.<br /> and bring it up to date !<br /> Book postage 6d.<br /> 1}d.<br /> I declined.<br /> Remarks ... Labour of cutting Neatly cut by ma-<br /> cut by, ma- It is true that I had taken the precaution of<br /> pages before one chinery. Clean,<br /> can read it. Cut opens flat, com<br /> getting paid on delivery. But supposing that I<br /> pages collect fortable and had desired, in the meantime, to republish the<br /> dust. Clumsy light to hold. article, which was fairly elaborate, in a volume of<br /> and wearying to Decorative effect lite<br /> the hand. 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