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Dec. 1, Laws, T. C. . .<br />
Dec. 10, Dalliba, Mrs. Kate<br />
Dec. 10, Douglas, James A.<br />
Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold .<br />
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Dec. 13, Powell, Lieut.-Genl. Sir Robert<br />
Baden, K.C.B. etc. . . . 3 3 U<br />
We have much pleasure in acknowledging, with<br />
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Hardy on January 13, which, through an over-<br />
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THE last meeting of the Committee of<br />
Management for the year 1910 took place<br />
on Monday, December 5. After the<br />
minutes of the previous meeting had been signed,<br />
the committee proceeded with the elections.<br />
Twenty-eight members and associates were elected,<br />
bringing the total for the current year up to 276.<br />
The committee desire to congratulate the society<br />
on its continued prosperity. With the exception<br />
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of last year this is the largest annual election since fourth nominee to fill the vacancy caused by the<br />
the society was incorporated.<br />
annual retirement. The names of the committee's<br />
The committee accepted with regret three nominees will be found elsewhere in this number.<br />
resignations, bringing the total resignations for Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins' retirement from<br />
the current year up to 77. Though the number is the Copyright Sub-committee was acknowledged<br />
high, the committee are glad to report that it is not with regret, and the committee proceeded to elect<br />
above the average. While the elections for the another member of the society to fill the vacancy<br />
current year are considerably above the average for caused by his resignation.<br />
the last ten years, the resignations remain about further letters were laid before the committee<br />
the same, and this the committee consider is a containing suggestions in respect of the library<br />
matter for congratulation.<br />
censorship, but though the committee are watching<br />
Following the elections and resignations, the the issues very carefully, they did not find any of<br />
legal cases came up for consideration.<br />
the suggestions made to them of a practicable<br />
The first matter before the committee was the nature, and accordingly felt bound to reserve their<br />
outcome of a complaint by one of the members course of action.<br />
that the advice of the secretary on a certain At the request of the secretary the committee<br />
agreement was unreasonable and unfair. In these set aside a certain sum to be devoted to Christmas<br />
circumstances the secretary thought it best to refer boxes for the staff, and finally acknowledged with<br />
the points in dispute to the committee. The thanks a donation from Mr. Cyril Campbell to the<br />
committee confirmed the opinion the secretary funds of the society.<br />
had expressed on the agreement.<br />
The next matter was one in which a dispute had<br />
occurred between a member of the society and a<br />
Cases.<br />
publisher under an agreement limited by time. It THERE is no stay in the stream of cases that<br />
appeared that the publisher did not take the same flows into the offices of the society.<br />
view of the agreement as was taken by the author. Since the publication of the last issue of The<br />
After the matter had been carefully considered the Author eighteen fresh cases have come under the<br />
secretary was instructed to place the papers in the secretary's notice. They may be catalogned as<br />
hands of the society's solicitors in order that they follows :-<br />
might obtain certain accounts and particulars 1. A dispute on contract. This has been<br />
necessary for the proper understanding of the satisfactorily settled between the author and the<br />
position.<br />
publisher by the society's intervention.<br />
A case of a publisher's settlement with his 2. Claims for money. There have been nine<br />
creditors under a deed of assignment was next con- cases for money claims. In two cases, the matter<br />
sidered, for it appeared that the deed of assignment has had to be placed in the hands of the society's<br />
had been entered into without reference to the solicitors as no satisfactory answer could be<br />
authors, who were creditors, and chiefly for the obtained to the secretary's letters. One case is<br />
benefit of the trade. The committee authorised still in course of negotiation, and there is every<br />
the solicitors to file a bankruptcy petition if it was chance that it will be settled without being referred<br />
necessary to do so, in order that authors, creditors to the legal advisers of the society. In two cases<br />
of the estate, should obtain fair treatment.<br />
the money has been paid and the claims satisfied.<br />
The next question related to a payment in As the three remaining cases only came into the<br />
advance of royalties, and the committee decided to office just before going to press, there has been<br />
take counsel's opinion on behalf of the member. no time to come to any settlement of the issues.<br />
Progress was reported by the secretary in a case 3. Claims for accounts. There have been two<br />
which had been before the committee on two cases in the office in both of which the publishers<br />
former occasions. The solicitors were instructed have rendered the accounts due.<br />
to write a further letter in order to elucidate the 4. Infringement of copyright. There have been<br />
issues which were complicated and difficult, and to two cases of infringement. One has been placed in<br />
report to the next meeting of the committee. the hands of the society's solicitors in Ireland, as<br />
The report of the council meeting, which appears the infringement occurred in that country. The<br />
on another page, was finally settled.<br />
other has only recently come to hand, and is still<br />
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins retired from the in course of negotiation.<br />
Pension Fund Committee, on which he had served as 5. Claims for MSS. Of the four claims that<br />
the nominee of the committee of management, and, have come in during this month, one had to be<br />
submitting his name for re-election, was unani. abandoned as the author could not prove that the<br />
mously re-elected.<br />
MS. had actually reached the office of the paper<br />
The committee then proceeded to elect their to which it was sent ; one has been partially<br />
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settled—that is, some of the MSS. claimed have O'Connor, Mrs. T. P. . 33, Warwick Square,<br />
been returned, and the editor has promised to<br />
S.W.<br />
search for the remainder ; and in one case, still Orange, James . . 3, Gray's Inn Square,<br />
unsettled, the editor has promised to make a<br />
W.C.<br />
thorough search, and the last case has only Preston, Chlöe . Middlethorpe Manor,<br />
recently come into the office.<br />
York.<br />
Of the cases published in the last number of The Queux, Wm. Le . . Devonshire Club, St.<br />
Author the majority have been settled, but we<br />
James's Street,<br />
regret to have to report that it was necessary to<br />
S.W.<br />
hand over as many as five different claims to the Savill, Mrs. . . . 3, Basil Street,<br />
solicitors of the society for them to deal with.<br />
Knightsbridge,<br />
S.W.<br />
Shepperson, Claude A., 18, Kensington Court<br />
A.R.W.S. . . . Place, W.<br />
December Elections.<br />
Smale, Fred. C. . . Vailima, Torquay.<br />
Sporston, Samuel, Junr. . Elm House, Nant-<br />
Bahr, Abel William . . 12A, Upper Hamilton<br />
wich.<br />
Terrace, N.W.; Teixeira de Mattos, Alex. 9, Cheltenham Ter-<br />
Hopkins, Dunn & ander<br />
race, S.W.<br />
Co.,Ltd., Shanghai,<br />
China.<br />
Bone, Florence. . . 13, Queen Street,<br />
Waterloo, Liver-<br />
pool.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
Carlton, William J. . . 47, Ravenswood Road,<br />
Balham, S.W.<br />
Clifton, Mrs... . Lytham Hall, Lyt. WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
ham, Lancs.<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
Colenso, Sophie J.. . Elangeni, Amersham.<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br />
Cameron, Agnes Dean . 11-12, Charing by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
Cross, S.W.<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
Dalliba, Kate Lyon (Kate- 6, Finchley Road,<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
Lyon-b-) . . . N.W.<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
Dick, Stewart . . . Studio E, Kensington accurate.<br />
Gardens Studio, -<br />
ARCHÆOLOGY.<br />
29 - 31, High THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. By W. M.<br />
Street, Notting<br />
FLINDERS PETRIE. Second Edition, with additional<br />
Hill Gate, W.<br />
chapter. 8 X 51. 165 pp. Foulis, 58. n.<br />
Douglas, James A. '. . 70, Iverna Mansions,<br />
ARCHITECTURE.<br />
Kensington, S.W. SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES OF TO-DAY. Edited by<br />
Downes, Miss Marion Royal Insurance L. WEAVER. 111 X 84. 224 pp. Country Life Library.<br />
Buildings, 418,<br />
158, n.<br />
ART.<br />
College Street, Mel-<br />
THE COMMONSENSE COLLECTOR. By F. FRANKFORT<br />
bourne, Australia.<br />
MOORE. With fifty-two illustrations. 81 x 51. 220 pp.<br />
Hamilton, Norah . . 4, Elwick Road, Ash- Hodder & Stoughton. 108. 6d. n.<br />
ford, Kent.<br />
HOGARTH. By EDWARD GARNETT. 52 x 33. 208 pp.<br />
Hitchcock. Rev. F. R. The Rectory. Kin. Illustrated. (Popular Library of Art Series.) Duckwortu.<br />
28. n.<br />
Montgomery, M.A. . netty, King's Co.,<br />
SELECTED EXAMPLES OF INDIAN ART. BY ANANDA<br />
Ireland.<br />
K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc. Portfolio, 19 pp. xl. Plates.<br />
Johnston, R. F. . . Weihaiwei, China. Quaritch.<br />
Lowes, Emily L. . . Hillcrest. Brixton WILLIAM BLAKE. By G. K. CHESTERTON. 210 PP:<br />
Hill, S.W.<br />
HOGARTH. By RICHARD GARNETT, 208 pp. 6 X t.<br />
Duckworth. 28. n. each.<br />
Miller, Elizabeth York . 4, Clement's Inn, Woop CARVINGS IN ENGLISH CHURCHES. By FRANCIS<br />
. Strand, W.C.<br />
Bond. 9 X 54. 138 pp. Frowde. 6s. n.<br />
Morgan, Wm. De . . 127, Church Street,<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
Chelsea, S.W.<br />
THE GROWTH OF NAPOLEON. A Study in Environment.<br />
Moore, Frank Frankfort · Castlegate House,<br />
By NorwooD YOUNG. 9 x 51. 418 pp. Murray.<br />
Lewes.<br />
12s. n.<br />
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THE BEAUX AND THE DANDIES. Nash, Brummell, and<br />
D'Orsay, with their Courts. By CLARE JERROLD.<br />
9 x 51. 391 pp. Stanley Paul. 168. n.<br />
THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. By F. FRANKFORT<br />
MOORE. 9 X 6. 492 pp. Constable. 128. 6d. n.<br />
THE FATE OF HENRY OF NAVARRE. By JOHN<br />
BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. 9 x 54. 350 pp. Everett.<br />
10s. 6d. n.<br />
NOTES OF A LIFE. By JOHN STUART BLACKIE. Edited<br />
by his Nephew, A. STODART WALKER. 70 X 51.<br />
342 pp. Blackwood. 6s. n.<br />
GREAT ENGLISHMEN OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.<br />
By SIDNEY LEE. New Edition. 64 X 41. 382 pp.<br />
Nelson. 18. n.<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
THE CLERGYMAN'S READY REFERENCE DIARY AND<br />
KALENDAR. FOR 1911. Edited by the REV. THEODORE<br />
Johnson. 6 X 31. 367 pp. Allen.<br />
CLASSICAL.<br />
A COMPANION TO LATIN STUDIES. Edited for the<br />
Syndics of the University Press by J. E. SANDYS, Litt.D.,<br />
Fellow of St. John's College and Public Orator in the<br />
University of Cambridge. 97 x 6. 891 pp. Cambridge<br />
University Press. 188. n.<br />
DEMOSTHENES. Select Private Orations. Part II.<br />
Edited by J. E. SANDYS, Litt.D. 7} x 5. 288 pp.<br />
Cambridge University Press. 78. 6d.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
FIORALISA. A Romantic Drama in Three Acts and a<br />
Pageant. By A. MAQUARIE. 71 x 51. 102 pp.<br />
Bickers. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE DISCOVERER AND THE QUEEN'S ROOM. By F.<br />
FRANKFORT MOORE. 73 X 5. 189 pp. Elkin Mathews.<br />
48. 6d. n.<br />
THE WAY THE MONEY GOES. A Play in Three Acts.<br />
By LADY BELL, 71 X 45. 104 pp. Sidgwick &<br />
GEOGRAPHY<br />
AYRSHIRE. By J. FOSTER. 74 x ñ 175 pp. (Cambridge<br />
County Geographies.) Cambridge University Press.<br />
18. 6. n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE MAGIC CITY. By E. NESBIT. With Illustrations<br />
by H, R. MILLAR. 78 X 5. 333 pp. Macmillan. 68.<br />
THE BRITISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. By<br />
W. P. PYCRAFT, F.Z.S. 273 pp. Wells, Gardner.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
THE WITCHES' KITCHEN ; OR, THE INDIA RUBBER<br />
DOCTOR. By GERALD YOUNG. With Illustrations by<br />
WILLY POGÁNY. 83 X 7. 224 pp. Harrap. 58. n.<br />
IN WASTE PLACES. By MRS. C. L. WOOLLASTON<br />
White. A Story of Pioneer Life in the Far West.<br />
250 pp. Barnet : St. Andrew's Press. 38.<br />
THE CHILD OF THE AIR. By M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
Pictured by C. WILHELM. 8 X 61. 126 pp.<br />
Duckworth. 58. n.<br />
FIFTY-TWO STORIES OF CLASSIC HEROES. With con-<br />
tributions by HOPE MONCRIEFF and Others. Edited by<br />
FRANCIS STORR. 8 X 51. 400 pp. Hutchinson.<br />
58, n.<br />
A SCHOOLGIRL'S BATTLEFIELD. By RAYMOND JACBERNS.<br />
74 x 54. 387 pp. Chambers. 58. n.<br />
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. By CHRISTINA GOWANS WHYTE.<br />
74 x 57. 336 pp. Partridge. 38. 6d.<br />
THE BOY'S BOOK OF CHIVALRY. By HAMMOND HALL.<br />
74 x 54. 332 pp. Partridge. 38. 6d.<br />
LOVE'S LESSONS. "By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Religious Tract<br />
Society. 28. 6d. n.<br />
ADVENTURES OF JASMIN. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Jarrold.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
NEXT DOOR GWENNIE. By L. E. TIDDEMAN, S.P.C.K.<br />
1s. 6d. n.<br />
ALL ABOUT ME. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Chambers.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
DOUGLAS JERROLD AND PUNCH. By WALTER JERROLD.<br />
9 x 58. 447 pp. Macmillan. 128. 6d, n.<br />
FIVE TYPES. By G. K. CHESTERTON. 70 pp. Humphreys.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
THE GLAMOUR OF OXFORD. Descriptive Passages in<br />
Verse and Prose by Various Writers. Chosen and<br />
Edited by PROF. W. KNIGHT. 74 x 51. 263 pp.<br />
Oxford : Blackwell. London: Frowde. 68. n.<br />
MILITARY.<br />
CANADA AND CANADIAN DEFENCE. The Defensive<br />
Policy of the Dominion in relation to the Character of<br />
her Frontier, the Events of the War of 1812–14, and<br />
her Position to-day. By MAJOR GENERAL C. W.<br />
ROBINSON, C.B. 89 x 54. 186 pp. Hugh Rees.<br />
68. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE SCIENCE OF ORGANISATION. By MARSHALL BRUCE-,<br />
WILLIAMS. 44 pp. With Charts and Tables. Chapman &<br />
Hall.<br />
GHOSTLY PHENOMENA. By ELLIOT O'DONNELL.<br />
7 x 5. 179 pp. Werner Laurie. 38. 6d. n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARRETT-<br />
HAMILTON. Part II. 10 x 64. 128 pp. Gurney &<br />
Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
PARTY PORTRAITS, AND OTHER VERSES. By C. L.<br />
GRAVES. 74 x 5. 68 pp. Smith Elder. 18. n.<br />
SONGS OF SUSSEX. By the REV. F. WORDE WARD.<br />
79 pp. Erskine Macdonald.<br />
Jackson. 18. D.<br />
FICTION.<br />
OUT OF THE DARK. By the COUNTESS OF CROMARTIE.<br />
74 x 51. 149 pp. Elkin Mathews. 38. 6d. n.<br />
Faxcy FARM. By NEIL MUNRO. 71 X 5. 318 pp.<br />
Blackwood, 68.<br />
CHAINS. By EDWARD NOBLE. 74 x 5. 312 pp.<br />
Constable. 68.<br />
EMPIRE OF THE WORLD. By C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE.<br />
8 x 5. 314 pp. Everett. 68.<br />
LOVE OR LUCRE. By EDITH C. GERRARD. 8 x 5.<br />
310 pp. F. V. White. 6s.<br />
THE BLACK ABOLITIONIST. By FOVARQUE BRADLEY.<br />
7} x 5. 317 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
LOST ENDEAVOUR. By JOHN MASEFIELD. 71 x 5.<br />
381 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
AN ADMIRAL'S YARNS. By VICE-ADMIRAL H. L.<br />
FLEET. 77 x 5. 302 pp. Sonnenschein. 58. n.<br />
THE BLUE LAGOON. By H. DE VERE STACPOOLE.<br />
84 x 54 326 pp. Fisher Unwin. 58. n.<br />
WINNING AND WAITING. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Pilgrim<br />
Press. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE GETTING OF WISDOM. By H. H, RICHARDSON.<br />
Heinemann. 68.<br />
BLACK HUMPHREY. By JAMES CASSIDY. 74 X 5<br />
295 pp. Walter Scott, '68.<br />
THE LESSON. A Story of Love, of Bohemia, and of<br />
Human Philosophy. By GERTIE DE S. WENTWORTH.<br />
JAMES. 74 x 57.319 pp. Everett. 68.<br />
THE ONE BEFORE. By BARRY PAIN. 64 x 41. 272 pp.<br />
Nelson. 78. n.<br />
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national history. There are three portraits in<br />
photogravure, three in colour, and thirty other<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
NON-CATHOLIC DENOMINATIONS. By the Rev. ROBERT<br />
HUGH BENSON. The Westminster Library. A Series<br />
of Manuals for Catholic Priests and Students. 73 x 5.<br />
217 pp. Longmans. 38. 6d. n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
NORTH ITALIAN FOLK. By MRS. J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
63 X 41. 282 pp. Macmillan. 18. n.<br />
VIA RHODESIA. By CHARLOTTE MANSFIELD. With<br />
150 Illustrations and Maps. Stanley Paul & Co.<br />
168. n.<br />
THE CALL OF THE SNOWY HISPAR. A Narrative of Ex<br />
ploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier<br />
of India. By W. H. WORKMAN and FANNY BULLOCK<br />
WOBKMAN. 94 x 61. 297 pp. Constable, 218. n.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
THE FATE OF HENRY OF NAVARRE. By John BLOUN.<br />
DELLE-BURTON. John Lane Co.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
SAVOY OPERAS ; Second Series : IOLANTHE, THE MIKADO,<br />
THE GONDOLIERS, RUDDIGORE. By SIR W. S. GIL-<br />
BERT. Coloured and Illustrated by W. RUSSELL FLINT.<br />
254 pp. New York : Macmillan. $5 n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
RED CAP TALES FROM SIR WALTER SCOTT. By S. R.<br />
CROCKETT. New York : Macmillan. 75c. n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
THE SILENT ISLE. By ARTHUR C. BENSON. 444 pp. New<br />
York : Putnam. $1.50 n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
LONDON ; with thirty-two Plates in Colour. By A, R.<br />
HOPE MONCRIEFF. 312 pp. $2.50 n.<br />
Miss K. Everest's third song, “That Evening in<br />
June” (dedicated to Miss Lillah McCarthy), was<br />
published last month by Messrs. Stanley Webb,<br />
10, Museum Street, W.C. Miss Everest's verses,<br />
“ Beyond these Voices," in memory of his late<br />
Majesty King Edward, have been graciously received<br />
by Queen Alexandra.<br />
Mr. Albert Dorrington, whose Australian novel,<br />
- Children of the Cloven Hoof." appeared serially<br />
in the Teaninh has another long story in the<br />
January Pall Mall Magazine, “ The Radium<br />
Terrors." The American serial rights of the latter<br />
work have been purchased by the Frank A. Munsey<br />
Company.<br />
“The Englishman in Greece " is a collection of<br />
the verse of many English poets, with an intro-<br />
duction by Sir Rennell Rodd, just issued by the<br />
Clarendon Press.<br />
We have received the first number of a publica-<br />
tion entitled “ Day by Day with the Poets,"<br />
calendar and treasury of English verse, compiled<br />
by Mary A. Woods, with floral illustrations by<br />
Ellen M. Woods. The calendar will be issued in<br />
twelve monthly parts. The January issue is<br />
published at 6d. ; those for February, April and<br />
December (double numbers) will be issued at 9d.,<br />
and the August (triple number) will be issued at<br />
18. All other months will be issued at 6d.' Copies<br />
can be obtained of E. S. Fowler, Cornfield Road,<br />
Eastbourne.<br />
“Maxims of Government” is a little book by<br />
Marshall Bruce Williams, published by Messrs.<br />
Chapman & Hall, and divided into five sections.<br />
The book contains the author's thoughts on<br />
government, reform and revolution, civilisation,<br />
aristocracy and democracy.<br />
Mr. Bruce-Williams has published through the<br />
same firm, “ Principles of the Science of Organisa-<br />
tion," a book of charts and diagrams, which<br />
contains an exposition of the principles upon which,<br />
in conjunction with an axiom, a science of<br />
organisation is founded.<br />
W. Harold Thomson's novel, “Heather o the<br />
Rivers," which was first published in 1908, is being<br />
brought out in a cheap edition by the Weekly<br />
Telegraph, on January 23. The scene of the novel<br />
is laid in West Perthshire, but such dialect as 15<br />
used is so written as to present no difficulties to<br />
the English reader.<br />
“The Kestrel” is the name of a new novel by<br />
Reginald E. Salwey, to be published soon by Digby<br />
Long & Co. The title has reference to the leading<br />
character in the story.<br />
Messrs. Longmans & Co. are the publishers of a<br />
diary by the Rev. T. A. Lacey, entitled "A<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
NNALS of a Yorkshire House,” by A. W.M.<br />
A Stirling, announced by Mr. John Lane<br />
for publication in November, has just<br />
been issued, the delay in publication being due to<br />
the General Election. It is published in two<br />
volumes, and contains the history for some two<br />
hundred years of two great Yorkshire families<br />
allied by intermarriage, and their cadets and<br />
intimates, drawn entirely from family papers. The<br />
book treats of the antecedents, life and surroundings<br />
of Walter Spencer-Stanhope, M.P., the Macaroni,<br />
the youth about town, the politician for nearly<br />
forty years during an enthralling period of our<br />
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Roman Diary, and other Documents Relating to cannot buy. Messrs. John Ouseley, Ltd., publish<br />
the Papal Inquiry into English Ordinations." The the story.<br />
diary is one which was kept by Mr. Lacey during Since the publication of Mr. G. K. Chesterton's<br />
two months of work in Rome, while rendering introductions, written for the “ Everyman "edition<br />
outside help to members of the Papal Commission of Dickens, Mr. Chesterton bas discovered a<br />
of Inquiry into English Ordinations in the year great deal more to say on the subject. Messrs.<br />
1886. * Round this he has gathered a considerable J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., have, therefore, to<br />
number of papers bearing on that inquiry and its announce that Mr. Chesterton has prepared a<br />
result. Most of them are from his own pen, but revised and enlarged edition of the “Everyman"<br />
they include a memorandum by Mr. Gladstone, an introductions, and collected them into one volume.<br />
elaborate criticism of his own pamphlet, “ De Re In addition, two entirely new chapters have been<br />
Anglicana,” by Dom Gasquet and Canon Moyes, written, one of which is entitled “An Introduction<br />
and letters of several correspondents.<br />
to Introductions." The book will contain some as<br />
Miss L. E. Tiddeman's Christmas books include yet unpublished portraits taken of Dickens by a<br />
“ Winning and Waiting," a story for adults, friend.<br />
written on Temperance lines, and published by the<br />
Pilgrim<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
Press ; ' “ Love's Lessons,” published by<br />
the Religious Tract Society; “ Adventures of<br />
“The Princess Clementina," by George Pleydell<br />
Jasmin,” published by Jarrold.<br />
and A. E. W. Mason, was produced at the Queen's<br />
“Next Door Gwennie,"published by the S.P.C.K.,<br />
Theatre on December 14. The cast includes Mr.<br />
and “All About Me,” published by Messrs.<br />
H. B. Irving, Miss Stella Patrick Campbell, and<br />
Chambers.<br />
Miss Dorothea Baird.<br />
Miss Arabella Kenealy's new novel,“ The Mating<br />
“Company for George,” by R. S. Warren Bell,<br />
of Anthea,” is published this week by Messrs. John<br />
started a short tour last month at Weymouth.<br />
Long, Ltd. This is the first novel to be written<br />
The company is under the direction of Miss May<br />
on engepics. Anthea 18 a young person who has Palfrey (Mrs. Weedon Grossmith) who ran the<br />
been reared by her guardian, a eugenics enthusiast, piece at the Kingsway<br />
in order that she may be the mother of that genius - Mr. John Masefield's play. " Pompey the Great,"<br />
for whom the world waits. Miss Kenealy's view is<br />
was produced by the Incorporated Stage Society<br />
that as all great men and women have been the<br />
at the Aldwych Theatre last month. The cast<br />
children of great mothers, the high variation of<br />
included Mr. Herbert Grimwood, Miss Jean<br />
included Mr.<br />
species which results in greatness, originates with<br />
Stirling Mackinlay, and Mr. Edward Gurney.<br />
the mother. On the other hand, women notable<br />
in the arts and professions, by diverting their<br />
powers, have produced inferior offspring, or have<br />
been childless.<br />
“Via Rhodesia," by Charlotte Mansfield, is a<br />
record of a journey undertaken by the author,<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
through Southern Africa. Messrs. Štanley Paul &<br />
Co. are the publishers.<br />
“The New North,” by Miss A. D. Cameron, “MTARIE-CLAIRE,” by Marguerite Audoux,<br />
published by Messrs. Appleton in London and New 1 is the book which has this year been<br />
York, is a book which deals with a journey made<br />
chosen by the Die Heureuse for the<br />
by the author down the Athabasca, Slave, and prize of 5,000 francs. The authoress is a dress-<br />
Mackenzie rivers to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. maker, and this book is her first publication. The<br />
The Hudson's Bay Company records are also a story is very simple, and is indeed more a diary<br />
feature of the book, to which there are many than story. It certainly is somewhat surprising<br />
illustrations from photographs, and at the end that an amateur, and particularly a woman, should<br />
some tables of distances, passenger and freight write a first book with such concision and brevity.<br />
tariffs, etc., and a small sketch map of the route There is not a word too much in the volume. It<br />
followed.<br />
has the simplicity of style that betokens long<br />
In " Blair's Ken," W. S. Walker (“ Coo-ee") experience, and an omission of unnecessary detail<br />
relates the romantic adventures in Australia (and which is almost miraculous for a woman writer,<br />
in many other parts of the Empire) of a spendthrift The only unreal part of the story appears to be<br />
young Highland laird, who, in fleeing from his the account of life in the convent. The episode<br />
debts and his ancestral weird, becomes a million- related detracts from the strength of the rest of<br />
aire, but finds there are some things which money the narrative.<br />
“ L'Ame des Anglais," by Jacque Vontade, is<br />
the Aloer. Herbend Mr.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
à volume containing a series of articles which three historical studies. Much has already been<br />
were published first in the Figaro, under the written about the Comte de Fersen, but his<br />
signature of “Femina.” Some years ago this biographer has obtained fresh documents, and has<br />
author wrote a novel entitled “ La Lueur sur la compiled another account of one of the most<br />
cime," a very remarkable psychological study. interesting and attractive figures in history. The<br />
In the present volume the writer endeavours to book is thoroughly interesting, and the stories of<br />
explain the English to French readers. After the Charles Gustave de Lilienfeld and of the Princesse<br />
introduction, which the author styles “Excuses Augusta de Wurteinberg are as tragic as the one<br />
liminaires” for her “Hypothèses impertinentes,” she which gives its name to the volume.<br />
proceeds to introduce the inhabitants of England “Le Culte de l'Incompétence,” by Emil<br />
and to explain the influence which race and Faguet, is a book to be read with profit in other<br />
climate must necessarily have had on the present countries than in France. The following are the<br />
generation. According to Jacque Vontade, the headings of the chapters : –“ Principes des<br />
climate of the British Isles accounts in a great Régimes,” “Confusion des fonctions,” “Refuges<br />
measure for many of our characteristics. In de la Compétence," "Le Législateur compétent,"<br />
speaking of that intense love of home supposed to “ Les Lois en Démocratie," “ Incompétence<br />
be peculiar to the English, we are asked to notice gouvernementale,“ “ Incompétence judiciaire,”<br />
that of all Europeans the English travel the most, “Autres Incompétences,” “Mæurs générales,"<br />
and take up their abode more easily in other “Les Habitudes professionnelles," “Remèdes<br />
countries, than the people of any other nation. tentes," “ La Rêve.” M. Faguet not only shows<br />
The author therefore concludes that the real home up the incompetence which reigns at present, but<br />
of the Englishman is within himself; it is his own he endeavours to point out the remedy for the<br />
“ âme impénetrée !” A whole chaper is devoted to existing state of things.<br />
“L'insensibilité,” and another is entitled “Quelques The chapter on “Le Législateur compétent" is<br />
rêveries a propos de l'amour.” In this chapter love particularly instructive. If the legislators elected<br />
and friendship are treated. The other essays are could have the qualities which M. Faguet desires,<br />
on “Notre ascétisme et leur sensualité,” Fair all would be well with the countries governed by<br />
Play,” “ La Religion," "Le Sport," “Le sens them. In the summing up, “ La Rêve," we have<br />
esthétique,” « L'Amour des Jardins," and "L'Après- an ideal government proposed.<br />
midi morose.”<br />
“Le peuple où la plèbe est aristocrate et l'aristo-<br />
“Etudes anglaises,” by Raymond Laurent, is cratie démophile est le peuple sain," says the author.<br />
unfortunately only published after the death of the “La synergie sociale doit être aussi forte que la<br />
author. It is preceded by an introduction written synergie familiale, ... Il faut que les petits aiment<br />
by P. J. E. Tiddy. The volume contains essays la patrie dans les grands et que les grands aiment,<br />
on “Coleridge," " Le Preraphaélisme en Angle- la patrie dans les petits ; et que par suite les<br />
terre,” “ Walter Pater,” and “Oscar Wilde.” uns et les autres veuillent mêmes choses, repoussent<br />
The last of these essays is undoubtedly the finest les mêmes choses."<br />
in the volume. Criticism of this kind is a fine A curious book has just been published by<br />
art. The author knows his subject, and endea- M. Théodore Joran, entitled “Les Féministes avant<br />
vours, with an unbiassed mind, to set forth what le Feminisme." It is dedicated to Mademoiselle<br />
he sees. The psychological analysis is extremely Lya Berger, and the preface is written by Louise<br />
subtle. The strength and the weakness of Wilde Faure Favièr.<br />
are set forth. We follow him through all the “Les Lettres de Marque "appears to be an excellent<br />
various stages of his evolution. We see him translation by Albert Savine, of Rudyard Kipling's<br />
among that famous group of the disciples of book. The French public owes much to M. Savine<br />
preraphaelitism, a disciple and admirer of Pater, for the long list of translations he has already<br />
and we follow him through the various stages of made.<br />
his literary career until we come to the last “Champs, Usines et Ateliers," by Pierre Kropot-<br />
chapters, to the “ De Profundis.” The whole kine, is translated by M. Francis Leray from the<br />
volume is a valuable addition to literary criticism. English. This volume forms one of the series<br />
Some of the suggestions of the writer will probably entitled “ Bibliothèque Sociologique," published by<br />
not be accepted. Many of the disciples of Pater P. W. Stock.<br />
will refute the idea that their master was a In the Revue des Deux Mondes, of December 15,<br />
nominalist. There is perhaps too much generalisa- M. Emile Ollivier writes on “La Guerre de 1870,"<br />
tion in some of the chapters, but there is very and M. Leroy-Beaulieu on “Léon Tolstoï.”<br />
much that is well worth reading in each criticism. In La Revue A. Fouillée and Dr. Grasset write<br />
“Le Comte de Fersen," by Princesse Schanove. on “ La Criminalité et la Presse." There is also<br />
skoy-Strechneff, is the title of a volume containing an article on “ Bernard Shaw," by A. Hamon and<br />
DOCK.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
87<br />
one by G. Saint-Aubin on “La Catholicisme aux<br />
UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
Etats-Unis."<br />
In the recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire<br />
are some excellent articles by Jacques Bardoux on<br />
SWALD GARRISON VILLARD'S “John<br />
“Edward VII,” as king, man and politician. Brown : A Biography Fifty Years After," is<br />
There is also an article by Paul Pompéi on “Les<br />
no doubt an interesting and meritorious piece<br />
Causes de la Révolution en Portugal,” and Mlle. of work. But when it is described as “ One of the<br />
Halperine-Kaminsky gives some hitherto unpub-<br />
great biographies of our literature," and compared<br />
lished letters from Tolstoï.<br />
to Gibbons' “ Decline and Fall,” one calls out for<br />
At the Odéon “Les Affranchis” has been pro critical quarter. Yet these two judgments were<br />
nounced a success. “L'Aventurier” is still being delivered not by anonymous young lions of obscure<br />
given at the Porte Saint-Martin ; “La Fugitive" organs, but by two veterans of literature !<br />
at the Gymnase ; and “Elektra” at the Théâtre Perhaps a still more remarkable recent publica-<br />
de l'Euvre. Mr. Charles Foley's play, “Aution of the Houghton Mifflin Company is “The<br />
Téléphones," has just been put on again, at Digressions of V." The artist-autobiographer<br />
l'Ambigu, and is having greater success than describes his work—a medley of poems in art<br />
ever.<br />
lettering, discursive prose, and pictorial interpola-<br />
The Théâtre Shakespeare is now established in tions-as “written for his own fun and that of<br />
Paris, thanks to the enterprise and perseverance<br />
his friends." He tells of his early adventures in<br />
of M. Camille de Sainte-Croix. Last season seven Cuba ; sketches his student life at Rome, Paris and<br />
comedies and dramas were given here which had Florence, and indulges occasionally in self-criticism.<br />
never before been produced in France, and twelve Elihu Vedder, in fact, appeals equally to the lover<br />
fresh plays are now announced for Wednesday of art in books and on canvas.<br />
evenings at the Théâtre Femina, in the Champs Readers of The Author will probably have long<br />
Elysées.<br />
since made acquaintance with Mr. Howells's “ My<br />
M. de Sainte-Croix is devoting his life to the Mark Twain.” Literary biography has been a<br />
production of Shakespeare's works in French. He good deal in evidence of late. Besides the works<br />
is translating them himself, and his one ambition is already touched upon we have had Miss Lilian<br />
to put the thirty-four comedies and dramas on the Whiting's “ Louise Chandler Moulton," a notable<br />
French stage. M. Simas, the well-known scene memorial, containing numerous unpublished letters<br />
painter of the Opéra Comique, is responsible for<br />
from leading authors; "a posthumous auto-<br />
the stage scenery. He not only paints the back- biography” of Edmund Clarence Stedman, con-<br />
ground, but he combines the colouring of the cerning which the author, the subject's grand-<br />
costumes in order to ensure perfect harmony.<br />
daughter, affirms that her own personality has<br />
M. de Sainte-Croix is not only a prolific writer, been to such an extent mastered that she has<br />
but as a member of the Jury of Examiners of the constantly had the feeling that “he 'Stedman) was<br />
Conservatoire de Musique et Déclamation he has directing what I should say and what I should not<br />
admirable opportunities of selecting his artistes say, even sometimes contrary to my own planning";<br />
for the various rôles in these plays.<br />
“ The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn," with a<br />
The initiative is greatly appreciated here, and biographical and critical introduction by Elizabeth<br />
these Shakespearean evenings once a fortnight are Bisland; and Mr. H. J. Moors's “ With Stevenson<br />
highly in favour. The next play announced for in Samoa,” an appendix to the “ Vailima Letters.”<br />
January 12 is “The Taming of the Shrew," The year has also been pretty prolific in political<br />
under the French title of “L'Ecole de la Pie. biography of note. First place should probably be<br />
Grieche.”<br />
given to Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton's “Intimate<br />
A committee has been formed with the idea of Life of Alexander Hamilton," his grandfather,<br />
helping M. de Sainte-Croix in the task he has published by Scribner. Unpublished letters from<br />
assumed, and the Duchesse de Rohan is a most Martha Washington, General Schuyler, and others<br />
active and capable president.<br />
are included, and a graphic impression is given of<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
New York as it was when the great Federalist was<br />
in his prime.<br />
“Through<br />
“Maire-Claire.”<br />
Five Administrations,”<br />
Fasquelle.<br />
Colonel<br />
"L'Ame des Anglais." Bernard Grasset.<br />
Crook's record of service from Lincoln to Grant,<br />
“La Lueur sur la cime." Calmann Lévy.<br />
ably edited by Margarita Spalding Gerry, is one of<br />
"Etudes Anglaises." Bernard Grasset.<br />
Harper's most notable publications. Lincoln could<br />
" Le Comte de Fersen." Perrin.<br />
** Le Culte de l'Incompétence." Bernard Grasset.<br />
not spare his bodyguard for army service, but kept<br />
"Les Lettres de Marque." P. V. Stock.<br />
him by him to the last.<br />
*Champs. Usines et Ateliers." Stock.<br />
Coming down to more recent times, we have<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
“Grover Cleveland : A Record of Friendship," Pollak's “ The Hygiene of the Soul,” though its<br />
based on Richard Watson Gilder's Century articles sanity may be too great for some of them.<br />
of 1909, his last prose work, and by no means his Prof. Trent's “ Longfellow and other Essays"<br />
worst.<br />
may be unpopular in some quarters on account of<br />
“ The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt," its sober estimate of the works of the author of<br />
a record of the life-work of the able Republican “Hiawatha," but will commend itself to the<br />
“ boss,” covers much ground, and is very frank and discerning.<br />
outspoken in tone. In fact, the book is what the Professor Brander Matthews has issued through<br />
man was, allowing for the reticence no longer Scribner an excellent life of Molière : and a<br />
necessary. The editor is Louis J. Lang.<br />
collection of Eugene Field's verse has been<br />
“Lincoln and Herndon,” by Joseph Foot Newton, published by the same house. They have also<br />
is based upon the correspondence of Theodore issued President Eliot's Barbourt-Page lectures,<br />
Parker and Herndon in the years 1854-9, and collected under the title “The Conflict between<br />
throws light upon the Douglas-Greeley compact Collectivism and Individualism."<br />
against Lincoln, amongst other events of the In the region of fiction nothing very sensational<br />
period.<br />
has happened of late. James Lane Allen's “The<br />
To the succeeding decade belongs “The Recol. Doctor's Christmas Eve ” deals attractively with an<br />
lections of Alexander H. Stephens," consisting for attractive theme which the writer has treated of<br />
the most part of his journal whilst a prisoner with before in another aspect; Jack London, in<br />
the Confederates.<br />
“Burning Daylight," has produced some strong<br />
The “Seven Great Statesmen," on whom the Hon. character studies, and he has also published some<br />
Andrew D. White has written studies, are Sarpi, good short stories ; but Mrs. Wharton's “ Tales of<br />
Grotius, Thomasius, Turgot, Stein, Cavour, and Men of Ghosts,” though displaying technical skill,<br />
Bismarck—a wide field well covered.<br />
is otherwise distinctly disappointing. Anne<br />
Before leaving the field of biography, Mrs. Douglas Sedgwick's “ Franklin Winslow Kane"<br />
Lothrop's “ Court of Alexander III.," the letters is ambitiously elaborated, but unattractive.<br />
of our ambassador in Russia's wife ; Theodore “Flamsted Quarries,” by Mary E. Waller, is strong<br />
Stanton's“ Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur" (with in construction and not deficient in characterisa-<br />
illustrations); and George Wharton James's tion. Mr. Louis J. Vance has again shown his<br />
“Heroes of California" should also be mentioned. narrative skill in “No Man's Land”; and Dr.<br />
Amidst the abundance of life studies showered Weir Mitchell has written four excellent short<br />
upon us, we had almost forgotten à volume of stories entitled “The Guillotine Club." “ The<br />
such world-wide interest as the “ Impressions” of Purchase Price," by Emerson Hough, is an exciting<br />
Madame Modjeska (Macmillan Co.), which range tale of the Civil War ; and Margaret Deland's<br />
from Poland in one continent to California in “The Way to Peace” solves a matrimonial<br />
another, and will have special attraction for difficulty by the aid of religion.<br />
students of the stage ; as well as the life story of Recent losses suffered by American literature,<br />
Edison and his work, which is given to the world besides those of Prof. William James, Mrs. Julia<br />
by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Ward-Howe, and John La Farge the artist, have<br />
Martin (Harper).<br />
included Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, novelist and<br />
Two more volumes of Emerson's Journals have mother of a novelist; the Rev. Louis Lambert<br />
also appeared this year, the period covered including (Father Lambert), Ingersoll's opponent; Major<br />
his voyage to the Mediterranean, his stay in England, J. Monroe Taylor, the best American authority on<br />
Paris and Italy, and his marriage after his return; doys ; and William Vaughan Moody, one of the<br />
and the Concord Sage's correspondence with thin line of American poets whose verse really<br />
William Henry Furness has been edited by the counted.<br />
latter's son.<br />
From the Yale Press have come several note-<br />
worthy historical works, such as Prof. Max REPRODUCTION OF MUSIC BY<br />
Farrand's “ Records of the Federal Convention of<br />
1787,” Major John Bigelow's strategic study, “The<br />
GRAMOPHONE.<br />
Campaign of Chancellorsville," and Prof. Charles<br />
Howard Molliwain's “The High Court of<br />
MONCKTON V. TAE GRAMOPHONE CO.<br />
Parliament and its Supremacy,” the last of which<br />
is certain to attract much attention across the TN this action another unsuccessful attempt was<br />
Atlantic.<br />
1 made to obtain for the musical composer con.<br />
The recent death of the founder of Christian trol over mechanical reproductions of his<br />
Science may help to gain readers for Gustav music.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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The plaintiff was Mr. Lionel Monckton, the well-<br />
known song-writer, and the author of a musical<br />
composition called “Moonstruck," which was<br />
first published in 1909, and was subsequently<br />
reproduced on gramophones by the defendant<br />
company.<br />
The action was brought for the purpose of<br />
obtaining a declaration that the plaintiff was<br />
entitled to the exclusive right of making grama-<br />
phone sheets for the reproduction of his musical<br />
work.<br />
It appeared that the registered proprietors of<br />
the copyright were Messrs. Chappell and Co. ; but<br />
the plaintiff did not base his claims upon statutory<br />
copyright, that point having been determined in<br />
the recent cases relating to perforated rolls.<br />
In Boosey V. Wright it was decided that a<br />
perforated roll for mechanical reproduction of<br />
music was not a “copy ” of a sheet of music, and<br />
that such reproduction was not an infringement<br />
of statutory copyright. Similarly, in Mabe v.<br />
Connor, it was held that a perforated music roll<br />
was not a “ pirated copy” of a musical compo-<br />
sition, and that the reproduction by such<br />
mechanical process was not an offence under the<br />
Musical Copyright Act, 1902.<br />
It was contended, however, on behalf of the<br />
plaintiff, that he had a common law right to con-<br />
trol the use of his musical work, and that this<br />
common law right continued after publication<br />
concurrently with the copyright provided by<br />
statute.<br />
Mr. Justice Joyce, in dismissing the action, said<br />
that the claim was made by the composer after his<br />
song had been published, and that after publication<br />
the only right was statutory copyright, which was<br />
not claimed by the plaintiff.<br />
It may be pointed out that under the new Copy-<br />
right Bill it is proposed to give the author of a<br />
musical work the right to make or authorise the<br />
making of any record, perforated roll, or other<br />
contrivance by means of which the work may be<br />
mechanically performed.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
perform the sketch written by the author entitled<br />
" " for a period of twelve months from the<br />
date of this agreement.<br />
Provided that the author shall have the right to<br />
license bona fide amateur performances of the said<br />
sketch in London during the continuance of the<br />
licence herein mentioned subsequent to the date<br />
of the first London performance and in any town<br />
within three months after the date of first<br />
performance in the said town.<br />
2. The author undertakes that during the con-<br />
tinuance of this agreement he will not authorise<br />
any other performance of the said sketch.<br />
3. In consideration of the said licence the pro-<br />
ducer undertakes to pay the author on the signing<br />
of this agreement a sum of £ which sum<br />
shall be taken towards the payment of royalties<br />
hereinafter mentioned, but shall not be repayable<br />
in any event.<br />
Note: This sum should be reckoned as the sum of<br />
royalties for about four weeks. (See further additional<br />
note at end of clause 6.)<br />
4. The producer undertakes to produce the<br />
sketch on or before<br />
5. The producer undertakes to pay the author<br />
the following royalties: £ per performance<br />
fore<br />
for each company performing the said sketch.<br />
Note :-Two performances in a night at one hall by the<br />
same company are generally counted as one performance,<br />
It is customary, if the same company performs the sketch<br />
at more than one hall in a night, that the usual fee shall<br />
be charged on the first performance and half the fee on the<br />
other performances, and in this case the clause should be<br />
added to accordingly.<br />
6. The producer undertakes to forward to the<br />
author detailed returns and accounts of all per-<br />
formances on the Tuesday following the week in<br />
which such performances shall have taken place.<br />
In rendering the accounts, if the amount paid in<br />
advance of royalties has been worked off by the<br />
number of performances, then the producer under-<br />
takes not only to pay the balance due, but to pay a<br />
further sum amounting to two weeks' royalties at<br />
the rate of £ per week at the same time as he<br />
renders the account, and shall continue to do so<br />
during the licence herein granted.<br />
General Note to Clause 6.-It has been suggested that<br />
these payments in advance are essential, as the performance<br />
of a sketch at a music-hall is illegal, and, therefore, if the<br />
amount is not prepaid the author has no means of recover-<br />
ing the money due.<br />
7. The producer shall perform the sketch for<br />
not less than weeks during the existence of<br />
this licence, and failing such performances, will<br />
make such payment to the author as shall make<br />
the amount received by him equal to the royalty<br />
on<br />
weeks' performances at the rate of<br />
£ per week.<br />
AGREEMENT BETWEEN AUTHOR AND<br />
PRODUCER OF A SKETCH.<br />
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made<br />
| this day of between<br />
hereinafter called the author of the one<br />
part and hereinafter called the producer of<br />
the other part<br />
WHEREBY IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS :-<br />
1. The author hereby licences the producer to<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
16. The licence contained in this agreement is<br />
personal to the producer, and shall not be trans-<br />
ferred by him to any other person without the<br />
previous sanction of the author in writing, such<br />
sanction to be entirely within the author's own<br />
discretion.<br />
17. The author hereby agrees to take what steps<br />
may be necessary to secure to the said producer<br />
the full enjoyment of the licence conveyed under<br />
this agreement, but only at the expense of the<br />
producer and when the producer nas<br />
producer and when the producer has guaranteed<br />
the author to the satisfaction of the author against<br />
any loss or expense he may be likely to incur in<br />
protecting the said licence.<br />
18. Should the producer at any time by himself<br />
or anyone acting on his behalf fail to fulfil or<br />
comply with any of the clauses and conditions<br />
herein set forth, or should he retire from business,<br />
or should he commit an act of bankruptcy, the<br />
author may forthwith by notice in writing ter-<br />
minate the licence contained in clause 3, and may<br />
grant the licence therein to another person not-<br />
withstanding anything in this agreement set forth.<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
This clause shall be read subject to the power of<br />
termination by the producer hereinafter contained.<br />
Note. For the guidance of those entering into a con.<br />
tract, it should be stated that twenty weeks is not an<br />
uncommon figure to fix for the number to be inserted in<br />
the above clause.<br />
8. The producer may terminate this agreement<br />
at the end of four weeks after the date of produc<br />
tion by giving notice in writing to the author any<br />
time within the said four weeks.<br />
Note.—The idea is to give the producer time to find out<br />
if he can book the piece ahead. If he should fail, the<br />
author will have had a trial of his piece and four<br />
weeks' pay.<br />
9. The name of the author shall appear in its<br />
customary form with due prominence on all play-<br />
bills, programmes, and advertisements of the sketch,<br />
and the producer shall be liable in liquidated<br />
damages to the author should he fail to carry out<br />
this portion of his agreement.<br />
10. The producer undertakes to provide a satis.<br />
factory and efficient company for the sketch, but<br />
the author shall have the right of veto against<br />
any member of the said company on the ground of<br />
unsuitability or inefficiency.<br />
11. The producer undertakes to stage the sketch<br />
in the style customary at first-class theatres dealing<br />
with this method of production.<br />
12. The producer shall not in any performance<br />
of the sketch under this licence make or allow<br />
any alterations, interpolations in, omissions from,<br />
or violations of the text and stage directions as<br />
supplied by the author without the previous written<br />
consent of the author.<br />
13. The author shall have the right, in case the<br />
producer fails to carry out the agreement with<br />
regard to the rendering of accounts and making<br />
the payments under the clauses herein set forth, to<br />
authorise the managers to deduct his fees from their<br />
payments to the producer and pay them to him direct,<br />
and the author shall further have the option of ter-<br />
minating the agreement forthwith by notice in<br />
writing, whereupon all rights (if any) herein con-<br />
veyed shall again become the author's property<br />
and the licence hereby granted shall cease.<br />
Vote.This clause will not necessarily bind the manager,<br />
but should the manager under this clause at the author's<br />
request send the author his fees, the producer would be<br />
unable to raise objection or bring an action for damages<br />
against the manager. This clause constitutes the best safe.<br />
guard for the author's protection.<br />
14. The author shall have the right to be present<br />
at all rehearsals for the first production of the<br />
sketch, and shall be summoned to such rehearsals<br />
by a call sent to his address.<br />
15. Should the producer fail to produce the<br />
sketch by the date fixed in clause 4 hereof, the<br />
author may cancel this agreement at his option.<br />
BLACKWOOD's MAGAZINE,<br />
Musings Without Method: A new Theory of Romance'<br />
Romance in Ancient Literature. The Humanity of Greece<br />
and Rome. The Individuality of the Poet. A Difference<br />
of Style and Structure.<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
Scimitar and Broadsword: Disraeli and Bright. By<br />
Walter Sichel.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
Anarchism in Literature, the Pest of Paradox. By<br />
E. Wake Cook.<br />
Anatole France-I. By Count S. C. de Soissons.<br />
The Pre Raphaelite-Brotherhood II. (Reprinted, with<br />
some omissions, from the Contemporary Reriew, May and<br />
June, 1886.) By W. Holman Hunt.<br />
Literary Supplement.<br />
Shakespeare's Moon. By Museus.<br />
English REVIEW.<br />
Paris Nights. By Arnold Bennett.<br />
Art, Science and Beauty. By Francis Grierson.<br />
The New Impressionism. By C. Lewis Hind.<br />
The Prospects of English Music. By Francis Toye.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. By Lewis<br />
Melville,<br />
The Position of Fine Art in the New Copyright Bill.<br />
By M. H. Spielmann.<br />
The Childhood of Rachael. By Francis Gribble.<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
Browning Biography. By Emily Hockey.<br />
The Place of Classics in Secondary Education. By Dr.<br />
W. H. D. Rouse.<br />
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Ideas of Modernism. by<br />
C. Delisle Burns.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY,<br />
1. T 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's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel'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' 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 />
6. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire.<br />
proof safe, The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of 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's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent withont 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,<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of mem bers.<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 £10 108. 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 “office expenses,"<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 means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in 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 />
means.<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 />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
V 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 />
CTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
I 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 />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
performed.<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
also in this case,<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
be reserved.<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but Society.<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed. a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantialcial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
.consideration,<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
is highly speculative : that he 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 />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first objectbehalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
tracts. those authors desirous of further information members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
MTEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
W 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 />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. I<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D 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 28. 6d. 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 registerel<br />
letter only.<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
and work, which might spring from the country's<br />
school of authors. The wider the circulation an<br />
author can obtain, unfettered by trade restrictions,<br />
PUBLISHERS AND MINOR RIGHTS.<br />
the larger will be the remuneration he will get for<br />
the production of his work, the larger reputation<br />
We have much pleasure in publishing in the<br />
he will get for the country of origin, and, in<br />
Correspondence a letter dealing with the question of<br />
consequence, the larger number of original thinkers<br />
publishers and minor rights, referring to an article<br />
will be persuaded to enter the literary profession.<br />
that appeared in last month's Author.<br />
If, therefore, a country desires to foster its native<br />
The writer appears to think that the publisher is<br />
literary genius, the fewer restrictions it places on<br />
the right man to act as agent for the sale of these<br />
authorship the better.<br />
minor rights. We contend, as we have always con-<br />
tended, that the publisher should only be employed<br />
as an agent for the publication of the work in book<br />
form. It is dangerous to hand over further rights<br />
MR. SYDNEY FISHER'S REMARKS.<br />
to the publisher. To give him exclusive power to<br />
In the issue of the paper to which we have<br />
deal with these rights is wholly absurd. We do not<br />
referred, Mr. Fisher is reported to have stated as<br />
agree either that he can deal with them more<br />
follows:<br />
satisfactorily than can the agent who makes it his<br />
sole business. In any event, if the publisher does “It is more than I expected. I was surprised at the<br />
succeed in placing these rights he should not be<br />
completeness of what I got. People in England were at<br />
first a little startled at the position I took, bnt they proved<br />
able to claim more than the agent, and, lastly, the<br />
to be amenable to reason. The conference that was held<br />
agent should not be entitled to claim his com this summer was presided over by Mr. Buxton, President of<br />
mission if he has consented to allow such a clause the Board of Trade. There were present representatives of<br />
to be inserted in the publishing agreement.<br />
the Foreign, Colonial, and other Offices. Lord Tennyson<br />
If<br />
represented Australia, Sir Richard Solomon South Africa,<br />
the publisher is to act as agent, then there should Sir William Hall-Jones New Zealand, and Sir Edward<br />
not be a double agency, but we have never known Morris Newfoundland. The Society of Authors has always<br />
the agent to take this view of the position.<br />
been a stumbling-block. I learned that it is now defunct.”<br />
We desire particularly to draw attention to the<br />
last two sentences. They refer, we conclude, not to<br />
· CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.<br />
the English, but to the Canadian Society of Authors.<br />
and Mr. Fisher seems to be pleased to have been<br />
The Canadian Bookseller and Stationer, a paper freed from the trammels which were thrown about<br />
issued from Toronto, has been discussing Mr. Sydney his action by the Canadian Society, in order<br />
Fisher's statement on the question of Canadian that he might have a free hand to deal with<br />
Copyright, which has already received some notice the trade issues. We are inclined to think that<br />
in the English papers.<br />
this is a bad omen for Canadian copyright legisla-<br />
There are various opinions put forward by the tion. It is the old story. The trades which would<br />
representatives of the printing and publishing not exist but for the authors who produce the pro-<br />
trades. Some of them foreshadow the danger that perty, wish to have control of property which is not<br />
may arise from separate Canadian legislation. their own. It would appear, therefore, that Mr.<br />
Some of them are wrapped up entirely in the Fisher thinks, that instead of fostering authors, if<br />
benefits they hope they may receive by Protection, he wants to produce a great Canadian literature he<br />
and the Canadian printers are evidently elated by must foster the printing trade. It seems to be a<br />
the prospect of raising a cry so dangerous to case of the tail wagging the dog. We trust, how-<br />
authors and copyright ideals. As The Author has ever, that the Canadian Authors' Society may have<br />
frequently pointed out, if the Canadian publishers read this paragraph, and will show that they are by<br />
take the trouble at the present time to make con- no means defunct, but will uphold their right<br />
tracts with English authors, the English authors when legislation comes before the Canadian Parlia-<br />
would be very willing to reserve their Canadian ment, to control their own property, unfettered by<br />
markets, and the Canadian printers would get the any trade regulations. But we are assured, and<br />
benefit they desire ; but there is very little benefit sincerely trust, that the promises which the Imperial<br />
to be derived from the printing of books until a Copyright Conference has given to the Imperial<br />
country has raised up its own school of authorship, Government, will be fully maintained in any legis-<br />
and even then it is unwise to force printing lation which may be carried through in the Colonies,<br />
in a special country. Such a course is con- and that Imperial-indeed, international-copyright<br />
trary to the great ideals of copyright legislation, may not be upset by the rash legislation of an<br />
and retards rather than fosters the original thought independent minister.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE AUTHORS' CLUB.<br />
WE regret, that space did not allow us to mention<br />
the annual ladies' dinner of the Authors' Club in<br />
the last number,<br />
The dinner was held under the chairmanship of<br />
Mr. Charles Garvice, and Sir Edward Brabrook<br />
occupied the vice-chair.<br />
The guest of the evening was Sir Walter<br />
Parratt, M.V.O., Mus.Doc.<br />
The company numbered some 320, and there<br />
was an excellent programme of music. The events<br />
of the evening, however, were Sir Walter Parratt's<br />
paper on Music in the Reign of Edward VII.,<br />
and a presentation to Mr. Charles Garvice, the<br />
chairman of the committee, by his fellow members<br />
of the club. The presentation consisted of his<br />
portrait, painted by Mr. A. D. McCormick, one of<br />
the members.<br />
Mr. Garvice has been chairman since the club<br />
oh<br />
was re-founded, and all members feel deeply grateful<br />
to him for the time and attention he has given to<br />
the details of the management and to the comfort<br />
of the members. It was with the greatest pleasure,<br />
therefore, that those who constantly use the club,<br />
and in consequence are especially interested in its<br />
good management, took this opportunity to show<br />
their appreciation of his self-denying labours.<br />
Members of the society will remember also that<br />
Mr. Garvice gave up no inconsiderable time to the<br />
the<br />
affairs of the society when he was on the sub-<br />
committee which dealt, at the beginning of the<br />
year, with the price of novels.<br />
abouts of the culprit. It is necessary to put these<br />
facts before members of the society and to draw<br />
certain conclusions.<br />
It is probable that the author could not have<br />
succeeded in an action against the agent, for as<br />
there was no copyright in the United States in the<br />
article anyone could reproduce it in the States.<br />
If the agent made any misrepresentations, and it<br />
seems from the evidence that he must have done,<br />
then an action would lie from the proprietor of<br />
the American magazine against the agent for<br />
misrepresentation.<br />
If the agent represented that he was acting as<br />
agent for the author, and money was paid by the<br />
proprietor because of this misrepresentation, the<br />
author would, no doubt, have a claim against the<br />
agent if he could discover his whereabouts.<br />
It is impossible, however, to find out any other<br />
details about the matter, and if any members of<br />
the society think it likely that they may be placed<br />
in regard to their work in a similar position, the<br />
secretary will be pleased to give the name of the<br />
agent concerned.<br />
We think it of importance that inembers should<br />
look alive, as there appears to be considerable<br />
illicit traffic by a certain class of agents and others<br />
in literary wares either pirated or stolen, and it is<br />
as well to put a stop to this kind of traffic before it<br />
spreads widely.<br />
spreads widely.<br />
COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br />
A CURIOUS CASE.<br />
A MEMBER of the Society of Authors suddenly<br />
received information that an article of his was<br />
appearing in one of the best known American<br />
magazines. The article referred to appeared<br />
originally in a magazine in England some years<br />
prior to its appearance in America, so that it<br />
would appear that there was no copyright in the<br />
article in the United States. The agent, there-<br />
fore, acting on behalf of the member concerned,<br />
wrote a letter to the magazine in the United<br />
States, as, owing to the standing of the magazine,<br />
it seemed unlikely, both to the author and the<br />
agent, that he would have intentionally pirated<br />
the article. The agent received a letter in reply<br />
to the effect that the magazine had purchased the<br />
article for the sum of $10 from an agent in<br />
London, whose name and address was given. The<br />
matter was then placed in the hands of the Society<br />
of Authors, but the secretary's letter to the agent<br />
who had sold the article was returned through the<br />
post. It was found impossible to trace the where-<br />
TN pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of<br />
I Association of the society, the committee<br />
give notice that the election of members of<br />
the Committee of Management will be proceeded<br />
with in the following manner :-<br />
(1) One-third of the members of the present<br />
Committee of Management retire from office in<br />
aceordance with Article 17.<br />
(2) The names of the retiring members are Sir<br />
Alfred Bateman, Mr. Douglas Freshfield, Mr.<br />
Maurice Hewlett, and Mr. W. W. Jacobs.<br />
(3) The date fixed by the committee up to<br />
which nominations by the subscribing members<br />
of candidates for election to the new committee<br />
may be made is the 15th day of February<br />
(3) Mr. Freshfield not seeking re-election, the<br />
committee nominate the following candidates, being<br />
subscribing members of the society, to fill the<br />
vacancies caused by the retirement of one-third of<br />
the committee, according to the new constitution :-<br />
Sir Alfred Bateman. Mr. W. W. Jacobs.<br />
Mr. Maurice Hewlett. Mr. Aylmer Maude.<br />
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The committee remind the members that, under<br />
Article 19 of the amended Articles of Association,<br />
* any two subscribing members of the society may<br />
nominate one or more subscribing members, other<br />
than themselves, not exceeding the number of<br />
vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent<br />
to the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed by<br />
the candidate or candidates expressing willingness<br />
to accept the duties of the post.”<br />
Members desiring to exercise their powers under<br />
this rule must send in the name of the candidate<br />
or candidates they nominate, not exceeding four in<br />
all, on or before the 15th day of February, together<br />
with an accompanying letter written by the candi-<br />
date or candidates expressing readiness to accept<br />
nomination. The complete list of candidates will<br />
be printed in the March issue of The Author.<br />
the end of July, 1907, was published in October<br />
of that year. This list was complete at the date<br />
of issue with the exception of the thirty-eight<br />
members referred to in the short preface. All<br />
further elections have been duly notified in The<br />
Author. They can easily be referred to, as members<br />
receive a copy every month.<br />
It will be as well, therefore, should any of the<br />
members desire to put forward a candidate, to take<br />
the matter within their immediate consideration.<br />
The general meeting of the society has usually<br />
been held towards the end of February or the<br />
beginning of March. It is essential that all<br />
nominations should be in the hands of the secretary<br />
before the 31st of January, 1911.<br />
THE COUNCIL MEETING.<br />
THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
M HE second meeting of the council during the<br />
present year was held at 20, Hanover<br />
TN accordance with annual custom, and in order<br />
Square, W., on Tuesday, November 22,<br />
to give members of the society, should they under the chairmanship of Mr. Maurice Hewlett.<br />
desire to appoint a fresh member to the The following members were present : Mr.<br />
Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has Maurice Hewlett (chairman). Sir Alfred Bateman.<br />
been thought advisable to place in The Author a Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Mr. Douglas Freshfield,<br />
complete statement of the method of election under Mr. A. Hope Hawkins, Mr. Jerome K, Jerome,<br />
the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund. Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Sir Alfred Lyall, Mr.<br />
Under that scheme the committee is composed of Bernard Shaw, Dr. S. S. Sprigge, Mrs. Humphry<br />
three members elected by the committee of the Ward.<br />
society, three members elected by the society at the After the minutes of the last meeting had been<br />
general meeting, and the chairman of the society read and signed, Mr. Hewlett asked Mrs. Humphry<br />
for the time being, ex officio. The three members Ward to move the resolution standing in her<br />
elected at the general meeting when the fund was name, which was the only matter on the agenda.<br />
started were Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. M. H. Spiel. The terms of the resolution were as follows:<br />
mann, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie. These have in turn "That this meeting of council protests against the<br />
during the past years resigned, and, submitting manner of appointment of those representatives of<br />
their names for re-election, have been unanimously the Society of Authors who acted on the so-called<br />
re-elected. Mr. M. H. Spielmann resigned and was “Joint Committee” which nominated the<br />
re-elected in 1910. This year Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Academic Committee recently formed by the Royal<br />
under the rules of the scheme, tenders her resigna- Society of Literature : that it desires to draw the<br />
tion, and submits her name for re-election. The attention of the society to the inadequacy of the<br />
members have power to put forward other names authority under which action was taken : to the<br />
under clause 9, which runs as follows :-<br />
ignorance of members of council on the subject,<br />
Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com- and to the exclusion of women from the Joint<br />
mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring Committee."<br />
member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing<br />
In support of her resolution Mrs. Humphry<br />
to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general<br />
meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the Ward then made the following statement. She<br />
nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by understood that at a meeting of the committee of<br />
at least three members of the society. A list of the names the Royal Society of Literature sometime towards<br />
of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members<br />
the end of last year, it had been proposed to form<br />
of the society, with the annual report of the Managing<br />
Committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes an Academy of Letters ; that Mr. Maurice Hewlett,<br />
at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the who was a member of that committee, naturally<br />
Pension Fund Committee.<br />
wished that the Society of Authors should have<br />
In case any member should desire to refer to the something to say in the appointment of this<br />
list of members, the list, taking the elections up to Academy, and had urged this point upon the Royal<br />
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Society of Literature ; and that the Society of without for another month or so. He was rery<br />
Literature had approved his suggestion. He had pleased to hear that Mrs. Humphry Ward did not<br />
then come to the Committee of Management of the desire to impair the harmony of the society; he<br />
Society of Authors explaining what he had done, considered it was a case in which the chairman of<br />
and the committee forthwith had appointed a sub- the committee might be asked to give more fully<br />
committee to negotiate with the Royal Society of the reasons for the action he had taken.<br />
Literature. She understood that at the first Mr. Maurice Hewlett, as the mouthpiece of the<br />
meeting of the council this year Mr. Hewlett had committee, then proceeded to state exactly what<br />
reported what steps had been taken in the matter, had taken place, not as taking part one way or the<br />
but that no notice was placed on the agenda of other, for he felt that, as chairman, he could not<br />
the council meeting that this question was to be do so. He said that, being a member of the<br />
brought forward, and that those members of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, he<br />
council who were not present knew nothing what. attended a meeting of that body in November<br />
ever of what was going on until they opened their of last year, when resolutions were proposed<br />
Times one morning later and saw that the towards the formation of an Academy of Letters<br />
Academic Committee had been formed by the (subsequently modified into an Academic Com-<br />
Society of Authors and the Royal Society of mittee). He had explained at once that he was<br />
Literature. That this was the case was confirmed chairman for the time being of the Society of<br />
by the fact that one of the members of the Authors, and could not regard any such proposal<br />
Academic Committee had been asked to join that as practical in the consideration of which that<br />
body, in a circular letter stating that he was invited society had no part. After a short discussion, Mr.<br />
to do so by the two societies—the Society of Authors Hewlett's name was added to a sub-committee to<br />
and the Royal Society of Literature, in joint session. consider the whole question; and finally the<br />
She was strongly of opinion that in such an impor- Committee of Management of the Society of<br />
tant matter the council, if not the whole society, Authors was requested to recommend fourteen<br />
should have been consulted. Mrs. Humphry members of its own body for nomination upon the<br />
Ward then referred to the question of the Academic Committee. The Committee of Manage-<br />
exclusion of women from the Joint Committee. ment selected Mr. Hewlett, Mr. Hawkins and Mr.<br />
She said that she did not want in any way to raise Freshfield as a sub-committee for this purpose, but<br />
the point of the exclusion of women from the Mr. Hawkins was unable to act. Mr. Hewlett<br />
Academic Committee. She considered that outside and Mr. Freshfield then joined the sub-committee<br />
the present discussion ; but she did consider that of the Royal Society of Literature (Mr. Freshfield<br />
as the Society of Authors was composed not upon invitation from it), and a list of twenty-eight<br />
only of men, but of women, not only ought the names was prepared in joint session which was ap-<br />
women of the council, but the women of the proved by the Committee of Management. Nothing<br />
society, to have been consulted, although she was done without the approval of the Committee of<br />
understood that there were two women on the Management, which believed itself competent to<br />
Committee of Management when the matter was deal with the matter. Mr. Hewlett justified the<br />
brought to its notice. She did not desire to drive action he had taken in the first instance, saying<br />
her resolution to any practical issue, but she did that as a believer in the importance and influence<br />
consider that the feeling of the council ought to be of the Society of Authors, he could not have acted<br />
put on record ; that this was an inadequate founda- otherwise than to insist upon the right of an<br />
tion for such an important matter ; and that association which numbered over 2,000 members,<br />
women ought to have been included among all writers, to intervene in any scheme which<br />
the representatives of the society on the sub- affected literature in England.<br />
committee.<br />
Mr. Douglas Freshfield pointed out that the<br />
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins seconded the terms of Mrs. Ward's resolution indicated that<br />
resolution. He said that he had not been in the her main incentive to the action she had taken<br />
past addicted to whittling down the powers of the was indignation at the exclusion, as she held, of<br />
executive committee, but he considered that the women from the committee which nominated the<br />
matter of the Academic Committee was one for fair original members of the Academic Committee. 16<br />
discussion by members of the council and that it seemed desirable, therefore, to emphasise the fact<br />
was rather outside the ordinary routine of the that every step taken by the former committee had<br />
committee. He did not consider the question been submitted for confirmation to the Committee<br />
was of such urgency that it need necessarily have of Management, on which two ladies were sitting,<br />
been dealt with by the committee alone. He and that those ladies were for all practical purposes<br />
thought that as the country had gone without an members of the nominating committee.<br />
Academy for so long a time it might have gone. Mrs. Ward's main contention, however, w<br />
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which the Council had to deal, was that it was a member, had full cognisance of the chairman's<br />
outside the functions of the Committee of Manage action.<br />
ment to take any share in the creation of an Mrs. Nesbit Bland confirmed Mrs. Belloc<br />
Academic Committee without the assent of the Lowdnes' statement, and in reply to Mrs. Hum-<br />
Council obtained at a meeting on the agenda of phry Ward's objection to the exclusion of women<br />
which the business had been notified. Mrs. from the Joint Committee, protested against the<br />
Ward's strong point, in fact her only point, was suggestion that women were necessarily always<br />
the omission of any such notice of the Academic best represented by women.<br />
Committee on the agenda of the meeting held in Mr. Bernard Shaw pointed out that Mrs.<br />
March last. Mr. Freshfield would not inquire Humphry Ward's resolution was impossible under<br />
whether the omission had been accidental, or the circumstances. It was no use moving a vote<br />
whether it was due to a desire to meet the urgent of censure on the Committee of Management in a<br />
request of their colleagues of the Royal Society of meeting in which members of the committee were<br />
Literature to take no step likely to lead to discussion in a majority of nearly two to one; and as the<br />
in the Press before the first list of acceptances of committee did not wish to use their obvious<br />
nominations to the Academic Committee could be superiority to defeat Mrs. Ward, the best way to<br />
published. Nor would be insist that it was the end the matter would be to withdraw the resolution.<br />
duty of councillors to attend the annual meeting of The council, by not attending, showed that they<br />
council without any special inducement, for he had no grievance. If councillors would not read<br />
was prepared to agree with Mrs. Ward that it The Author, and would not attend even the annual<br />
would have been better had the matter of the meeting, they might perhaps privately reproach<br />
Academic Committee been put on the agenda. the secretary for not indulging their remissness by<br />
He must, however, remind the council that it giving them a friendly unofficial hint that some-<br />
had already been three times referred to in The thing particular was going on ; but they really<br />
Author, and also in the Times.<br />
could not decently complain publicly and move<br />
Criticising the form of Mrs. Ward's resolution votes of censure. He (Mr. Shaw) did not always<br />
he concluded by saying that, in his opinion, she read The Author carefully ; but then he took the<br />
would have met the case by proposing that “where consequences, and did not blame the committee.<br />
any business of importance was to be brought The resolution was a vote of censure not only on<br />
before the council it should be notified on the their own committee but on the Academic Com-<br />
agenda" or words to that effect. She had, mittee. As such, it had better not be pressed.<br />
however, preferred to move a complex and com- Somebody had been indiscreet in announcing a<br />
bative resolution which it was impossible for the British Academy of Letters to the world whilst<br />
Committee of Management to accept. It was one, the arrangements were still in the provisional<br />
he thought, which it would be difficult for the stage. That announcement had taken the matter<br />
council to adopt. That body had never shown any out of their hands, and left the incomplete Academy<br />
desire to take an active part in the management of in a critical position in which an unfriendly word<br />
the society's affairs, and the proof of this would might be fatal to its chance of success. The<br />
be found in the list of attendances of councillors passing of the resolution would certainly be inter-<br />
not also members of the Committee of Management, preted as unfriendly; and—unless they desired to<br />
during the fourteen years for which he had served wreck the project, which he presumed was out of<br />
on the latter body. He recognised in Mrs. Ward the question-they should be content with having<br />
a sincere and serious well-wisher to the Authors' discussed the matter, and not press the resolution<br />
Society, but in the present instance her proposals to a division.<br />
seemed to him misjudged.<br />
Mrs. Ward expressed herself somewhat loath to<br />
Sir Alfred Bateman referred to one point in Mrs. withdraw her motion, but desired to know in what<br />
Humphry Ward's resolution which appeared to way the committee could meet the occasion.<br />
suggest that the Committee of Management were After further discussion Mrs. Humphry Ward<br />
not fully conversant with what was going on. He withdrew her motion. Sir Alfred Bateman pro-<br />
pointed out that the Committee of Management, on posed the following resolution as the outcome of<br />
which were two ladies--the lack of whom on the the debate :" That this meeting is of opinion<br />
joint committee had been referred to by Mrs. that it is desirable that all business deemed to be<br />
Humphry Ward-had full cognisance of everything of sufficient importance should be submitted to<br />
that was taking place. He personally thought that the council, and that all business submitted to the<br />
the chairman could not have conducted the affair council should be inserted on the agenda."<br />
in any other way<br />
This motion was put by Mr. Hewlett to the<br />
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes then confirmed the fact that meeting, seconded by Sir Alfred Lyall, and carried<br />
the Committee of Management, of which she was unanimously.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mrs. Humphry Ward then proposed a further everything that certain individuals may desire to<br />
resolution to the effect that “ This meeting regrets find, few will seek in the book anything that is<br />
that some representatives of women members of lacking, whilst those who use it will discover notes<br />
the Society of Authors should not have been of many kinds of aids and assistances to literary<br />
placed on the joint committee which nominated work of which they will probably have been pre-<br />
the Academic Committee.”<br />
viously ignorant. At the same time, a work with a<br />
This was not seconded, and could not therefore wide reputation, and one justly earned, lies under<br />
be put.<br />
an obligation to be in every respect worthy of its<br />
There being no further business, the council renown, and some particulars still remain in which<br />
meeting was adjourned.<br />
we should like to see an improvement. In the case<br />
of the London libraries, of which there is a very<br />
full list, it would be well if indications (very<br />
desirable in some cases) could be given of the<br />
special features which make particular collections of<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE FOR 1911.*<br />
books especially serviceable to writers engaged on<br />
work of particular kinds. Notwithstanding the<br />
“THE LITERARY YEAR-BOOK."<br />
special pleading of the Preface, we still remain very<br />
doubtful about the value of the suggestions offered<br />
“M H E Literary Year-Book " for 1911, the respecting contracts with publishers. The Conti-<br />
1 fifteenth annual volume, contains some nental information is neither so full nor so accurate<br />
additions and alterations, all of which are as it should be. In the list of foreign publishers<br />
to be welcomed as improvements. The “Obituary we miss the names of well-known firms whose<br />
Notices " are now transferred to Part II. and are addresses are no farther off than Paris, not to<br />
placed in alphabetical order after the “Nobel Prizes.” mention the names of others in more distant<br />
A new section enumerating training offices and localities. There is no reason for introducing the<br />
institutions (some of which formerly appeared letter W into Russian names, and neither at Rome<br />
under “ Agents”) has been added at the end of nor anywhere else is it usual to speak of the church<br />
Part I. Considerable additions have been made to of “Santa Maria Antigua” [sic], though some<br />
the list of societies by the inclusion of literary and Spanish writer might have used the term.<br />
dramatic clubs and other institutions of a similar We do not know what is intended to be con-<br />
nature. The list of Indian periodicals has been veyed by the enigmatic assertion in the Preface<br />
considerably increased, and in addition a separate that “ The Authors' Society is always at hand to<br />
list of Canadian publications is given-features try (and often to succeed) in moulding facts as<br />
which deserve special recognition. The names of they ought to be.” There appears to be here some<br />
agents, literary searchers and typists continue to intention of distinguishing between facts as they<br />
appear in the second part, where they are grouped are and facts as they ought to be. That facts as<br />
together under the general heading of “Authors' they are do, in this sublunary world, often differ<br />
Assistants," an arrangement which appears to be the considerably from facts as they ought to be is a<br />
most convenient possible.<br />
painful truth with which very few will be found to<br />
The many merits of " The Literary Year-Book" disagree. Why, however, anyone should wish to<br />
are so well known, however, that the work will mould “facts as they ought to be," when facts are<br />
hardly need any recommendation to the attention so kind as to take that form, it is difficult to<br />
of authors. The present issue will be found to be understand. In such rare and felicitous cases<br />
enlarged, and contains information of almost every facts are best left alone. In any case, we are in a<br />
kind that authors can require. In the difficult task position to assert positively that nothing is farther.<br />
of compression the editor has shown great dis-<br />
editor has shown great dis- from the aims and intentions of the Society of<br />
crimination, and in the solution of the perpetually Authors than any desire to mould facts so higay<br />
recurring problems of what should be inserted and satisfactory into any shape different from that<br />
what omitted, so that, although it must be nearly which they have at present. If it was desired to<br />
impossible to include in any work of reference say that the Society of Authors is always at<br />
hand to mould facts as they are into facts as they<br />
* “ The Literary Year.Book and Bookman's Directory." ought to be we are grateful for the compliment, but<br />
vol. xv., edited by Basil Stewart. London: George Rout. could wish that it had been more lucidly expresse<br />
ledge & Sons. “The Writers' and Artists' Year-Book : a<br />
Directory for Writers, Artists and Photographers." London :<br />
Adam and Charles Black. “Who's Who, 1911." London:<br />
“THE WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' YEAR-BOOK."<br />
A. and C. Black. “The English woman's Year Book and<br />
Directory, 1911," edited by G. E. Mitton. London: Adam<br />
“The Writers' and Artists' Year-Book" for<br />
and Charles Black.<br />
1911 presents a worthy continuation of previous<br />
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issues. We regard this little annual (whose modest cards and show cards. In the notes on Publishers<br />
price places it within the reach of those who are we note one or two inaccuracies, which seem to<br />
compelled to ask themselves how much they can indicate that the correction of the work has not<br />
afford to give for a book) as one of the most been brought up to date quite so carefully as might<br />
practically useful of publications intended to assist be desired; and we are of opinion that the note on<br />
literary and artistic workers. A superlative merit Copyright would have been better omitted. To<br />
of this annual is that it is not very large. How attempt to present, in little more than a single<br />
great an excellence this is can be realised only page, any idea of the complicated laws of copyright,<br />
when the scope of the book has been understood. is palpably absurd. We would venture to hope<br />
Practically the primary aim of the “ Writers' and that in a future issue (and every one will wish the<br />
Artists' Year-Book" is to assist the worker to find work“ many happy New Years”) there may be<br />
answers to the constantly recurring questions, substituted for the page on Copyright a few<br />
“ To whom sball I offer my work ?” “Where is paragraphs mentioning only the complicated nature<br />
work of such and such a kind likely to find accept- of the statutes, and recommending professional<br />
ance ?” and “What are the prospects of remunera- advice. We are, however, unwilling to dwell upon<br />
tion ?" The literary and artistic worker, when a very small blemish in a very useful work,<br />
confronted with these problems, is, generally and strongly recommend “The Writers' and<br />
speaking, painfully conscious of being able to find Artists' Year-Book” to all literary and artistic<br />
no solutions of them, saving such as are offered by workers.<br />
two extremes, both equally unpractical. The<br />
periodicals, publishing houses, and so forth, known<br />
to any single individual are usually but few, and<br />
“Who's Who.”<br />
his acquaintance with their demands and business<br />
rules more or less imperfect; with the result that This wonderful encyclopædia of contemporary<br />
he is painfully aware of being ignorant what his biography, whose contents and unpretending title<br />
opportunities really are. On the other hand, he is always appear to us to be far as the poles asunder,<br />
certain, in a vague way, that every publisher, continues to grow in dimensions ; awaking a wonder<br />
editor and agent is perpetually in need of new whether there can be actually in a single empire so<br />
work, and will pay for it nothing, or something, many people who really deserve to claim the atten-<br />
or tolerable or handsome prices. That neither of tion of their fellow creatures. It is true that the<br />
these kinds of ignorance affords any practical help particulars recorded amount only to the barest<br />
most workers know too well ; and it may, therefore, facts ; but these barest facts when they are accom-<br />
be boldly asserted that to all (excepting those who panied, as they always are accompanied in this<br />
have already secured their public, and consequently book, by accurate dates, are exactly the things<br />
find & perpetual demand for their work) “The which it is often most difficult to discover ; and we<br />
Writers' and Artists' Year-Book” is practically are, with each succeeding year, impressed by the<br />
invaluable. Nearly ninety pages-not too great a real historical value of a work that modestly<br />
number to be carefully perused-are devoted to an presents itself only as an annual. We have, on<br />
alphabetical index of periodicals; in which index previous occasions, expressed a wish for some dis-<br />
are, in all cases, carefully indicated the kind of tinction between the information that is provided<br />
matter that will be accepted, the average desired by the persons named, and that which is gathered<br />
length of literary contributions, the character of from other sources—in a word, to see biography<br />
illustrations, and the terms, or no terms, of remune- distinguished from autobiography. The editor at<br />
ration. That these pages cannot contain the titles, the same time gives so much that we must confess<br />
nor indeed a tithe of the titles of the world's to a certain shame in asking for more. Notwith-<br />
periodical literature, is self-evident. A very standing its reputation, we believe that “Who's<br />
practical selection has, however, been made, and Who” is still far from being as widely popular as<br />
the writer or artist with this little book in his it ought to be : the various kinds of information<br />
hands will find himself in a position very different to be gathered from its pages are so innumerable.<br />
from that of the man who knows neither where to We, for example, who are naturally most interested<br />
offer his work nor what sort of work he ought to in the literary articles, cannot help wondering how<br />
offer. A classified index at the end of the book many, or how few, of the people who are kind<br />
gives a résumé of the quarters in which different enough to have“ favourite authors ” clearly realise<br />
sorts of work are likely to find acceptance. The that if they want to know all the titles of the best<br />
volume contains also, among other things, indexes works which those authors have produced, they<br />
of syndicates for manuscripts, literary agents, have only to consult the pages of " Who's Who?"<br />
English, American and Canadian publishers and We have examined a number of the literary articles,<br />
colour printers, and notes on Christmas cards, post and find them excellent.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
“ THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S YEAR-Book." tinental fairs; Rousseau's troubles with the<br />
This valuable annual, which bas now been issued<br />
censorship; the difficulties which Diderot and<br />
for thirty years, once more presents a concise review<br />
d'Alembert encountered in producing their Encyclo-<br />
of the immense field of activity at present open to<br />
pædia ; the enthusiasm of the French Revolutionists<br />
women ; with admirably digested particulars of the<br />
for the rights of literary property :-here are a<br />
few of the topics on which we hope to see him<br />
requirements and prospects of remuneration in the<br />
case of various callings. The few pages (Section VI.)<br />
enlarge on a subsequent occasion. What he has<br />
actually done is sufficiently well done to make the<br />
devoted to literature and journalism of necessity<br />
form but a small part of the whole of the book,<br />
expression of the hope no idle compliment. He has<br />
and any woman who takes up her pen with the<br />
given us the modern as well as the ancient history<br />
intention of doing serious work is likely soon to<br />
of his subject, and related the fortunes of the great<br />
find herself in need of fuller information than can<br />
publishing firms of the present day as well as those<br />
be gathered from this volume—which, we hasten<br />
which flourished in the times of Shakespeare, Pope,<br />
Dr. Johnson, and Gibbon.<br />
to add, does not pretend to do more than to give<br />
literary work its just mention among the many<br />
The index is admirably copious, referring us to<br />
opportunities for women with brains. At the same<br />
subjects as well as to proper names, as is always<br />
time we are much impressed by the singular good<br />
desirable in a work of reference. We can look up<br />
sense of all that is said, and by the perfect sound-<br />
not only Cadell and Millar and Dodsley and Murray<br />
ness of all the advice that is offered. Any girl or<br />
and Bentley and Heinemann, but also “ Advertise-<br />
woman of mature years who believes that it would<br />
ments,” “ Almanacks," “ Auctions," “ Censorship,"<br />
be possible for her to earn something with her pen,<br />
“ Copyright,” “Catalogues,” “ Libraries,” “Novels,"<br />
or, which is of by far greater importance, that she<br />
“ Printing,” etc., etc. Pitching upon “ Copyright"<br />
has information to communicate, deserving of being<br />
as a subject specially congenial to our tastes, we<br />
placed before a wider audience than it is possible<br />
discover a reason why authors and publishers should<br />
be unanimous in their desire to see the limitation<br />
to reach in any other way, cannot, before sitting<br />
of the Veto of the House of Lords. Whatever<br />
down to write, do better than study every word<br />
that “The English woman's Year-Book " bas to say<br />
defences there may be to be urged for the Upper<br />
on the subject of literature ; taking to heart both<br />
Chamber, no one can vindicate it on the ground<br />
warnings and the advice, and seeking to make her<br />
that hereditary legislators bave taken a more liberal<br />
beginning, if it is possible for her to make her<br />
view than the representatives of the people of the<br />
beginning, exactly on the lines suggested in these<br />
rights of authors to the property which they create.<br />
excellent pages, upon every word of which we have<br />
There was a time when the belief prevailed, and<br />
pleasure in bestowing the highest commendation.<br />
was generally acted upon in the trade, that the<br />
principles of the common law made copyright<br />
perpetual. The Courts upheld the view, but an<br />
THE TRADE.*<br />
appeal to the Lords resulted in the reversal of their<br />
decision. The Commons then passed a Bill making<br />
copyright perpetual ; but the Lords threw it out,<br />
“M EN ordinary histories of kings and courtiers,”<br />
and so helped to “fill up the cup.” Moreorer, the<br />
I wrote Carlyle, “were well exchanged<br />
speech in which Lord Camden delivered judgment<br />
against the tenth part of one good history of book-<br />
was equally insolent to anthors and to the trade.<br />
sellers.” The want thus picturesquely noted Mr. “ Glors," he said. " is the reward of science, and<br />
Mumby endeavours to supply. Others have sur- those who deserve it scorn all meaner views; I<br />
veyed the ground, and even broken it before him ; speak not of the scribblers for bread who tease the<br />
but he has built on it. That he has built quite as Press with their wretched productions ; fourteen<br />
complete an edifice as his title suggests cannot be<br />
years is too long a privilege for their perishable<br />
vears is too<br />
said; but we note the limitations in no carping<br />
no carping trash.<br />
rash.<br />
It was not for gain that Milton, Bacon,<br />
It was no<br />
spirit. The history of bookselling is too vast a Newton, and Locke instructed and delighted the<br />
theme for any single volume. In passing straightworld: it would be unworthy such men to trajilo<br />
from Rome to Britain, Mr. Mumby has made a with a dirty bookseller.” One wonders whether<br />
necessary concession to the exigencies of space.<br />
es of space, the Duke of Beaufort took that view when he<br />
If he likes to return to the Continent, he will find<br />
edited the Badminton Library, or Lord Rosebery<br />
ample material for a second volume. The pro- when he negotiated for the publication of<br />
pagation of the principles of the Reformation by<br />
oy works on Napoleon, Pitt, and Chatham. It is a<br />
the costermongers who hawked books at the con-<br />
ne<br />
view at any ra<br />
view, at any rate, which amply justifies one side<br />
* “ The Romance of Bookselling : a History from the<br />
of the activities of the Society of Authors.<br />
Earliest Times to the Present Century,” by Frank A. Mumby.<br />
Mr. Mumby's book is of equal value (to different<br />
Chapman & Hall, 16s. net.<br />
classes of readers) for its erudition and its anecdotes.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
101<br />
He has raked in many memoirs, and got many good<br />
EDITORIAL DELAY,<br />
stories out of them. He tells us all about Martin<br />
Tupper's amazing sales ; all about the remark-<br />
DEAR SIR,—It may perhaps be interesting to<br />
able paper on which the Clarendon Press prints make a comparison between my treatment by an<br />
the Bible: all abont the experiments of Robert American editor and that of your correspondent, Mr.<br />
Buchanan and Sir Walter Besant in publishing at Arnold Bennett. In both cases the delay in publi-<br />
their own expense. He describes the rise of the cation may have arisen from the same cause-<br />
house of Mudie and of the rival house of Smith. a plethora of MS, arranged for and paid for, but<br />
The mention of the house of Longman recalls a unable to be used on account of the naturally<br />
good story of a lady who offered poetry, was per- straitened dimensions of a monthly magazine. In<br />
suaded to compose a cookery book instead, and that respect no doubt Harper's and the North<br />
made a fortune out of it. The section on the American Review are very much in the same position<br />
house of Tinsley relates the first failures, and the as Scribner's. Many years ago Dr. Holland, who is<br />
first success, of Mr. Thomas Hardy. The account not, I think, living now (will he forgive me if he is?),<br />
of the house of Murray includes a description of a famous editor of Scribner's wrote to ask me if I<br />
Mr. Murray's museum of Byron relics and other could oblige him by writing an article on Devon-<br />
literary curiosities. In the chapter on the house<br />
shire, and he offered me £20 for about 7,000 words.<br />
of Black we read how Adam Black declined the I agreed, sent the article in due course, and<br />
honour of knighthood. “To me,” he explained, received payment by return of post. The editor<br />
" the title would only have been an incumbrance ;<br />
asked me to select some “ electros ”—from an<br />
my wife had no desire to be called My lady,' and English magazine he indicated—for illustration.<br />
it wonld only have fostered vanity in my children." This I did, and the electros were duly despatched ;<br />
And so on and so forth, until we come to the but D<br />
appendix, which is an exhaustive bibliography of that be discarded the electros and sent artists<br />
the subject, reprinted by permission from "Notes from the States to make special drawings.<br />
and Queries.”<br />
The point, however, is that all this took time;<br />
and it was five years after I sent the MS. before<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
my article, entitled “The Fairest County of<br />
England," came out as the first in a special<br />
AMERICAN SLANG.<br />
Christmas number, I think. Mr. Bennett says that<br />
he (rather unreasonably, I fancy) declined to revise<br />
SIR,— With reference to the paper on American<br />
his article. My complaint was that, though I<br />
Slang in the December Author, is it possible that<br />
pressed for a proof, none was sent me; and to my<br />
Mr. Philip Walsh really imagines the word “may.<br />
horror I found that “ Fingle Bridge "came out as<br />
bem” (“ How about this eight thousand or so that<br />
“ Tingle Bridge "_“the snake lies rolled in the<br />
you committed mayhem on Filmore to get ?") to<br />
cheerful sun ” as “the smoke lies rolled,” etc. ;<br />
be an American slang word ? Certainly he says<br />
but worse than all, my mention, five years before, of<br />
that what is mayhem he has no idea. But<br />
a proposed new Eddystone lighthouse had been put<br />
American or any other kind of slang. the word is<br />
out of date by the erection of the new lighthouse,<br />
not. Any reputable dictionary will contain it and<br />
about which there was not a word in the article !<br />
its meaning. It is an English legal term, and of<br />
quite respectable antiquity, signifying the offence<br />
There were similar errors—all under my name in<br />
full ! That was the annoying part of it.<br />
of depriving a person by violence of any member,<br />
What happened-clearly-was this. I understood<br />
limb or organ, or otherwise mutilating his body-<br />
at the time that Scribner's had invested £3,500 in<br />
maiming, in fact.<br />
MS. it had not room for ; and perhaps the busy<br />
Possibly Mr. Walsh's ignorance of the word is<br />
and embarrassed editor had not looked at mine<br />
due to the fact of its infrequent appearance in<br />
for the whole five years, and when he did, as<br />
English writings owing to the crime seldom being<br />
amends to me, he put it in the front position,<br />
committed. In America, unfortunately, the offence<br />
with special illustrations that were certainly very<br />
is more common. Hence the more frequent use<br />
beautiful. But the “dollars," as I have said, came<br />
of the word.<br />
by return mail without my asking for them; and<br />
The verse from Mr. Gelett Burgess's “ Purple<br />
Cow," by the way, runs :-<br />
after all, that is an important point.<br />
Whilst on this subject, may I allude to a matter<br />
“ I never saw a purple cow ;<br />
of great interest to all authors, and suggest<br />
I never wish to see one.<br />
But I can tell you, anyhow,<br />
opinions ? My impression is that payment for<br />
I'd rather see than be one."<br />
magazine contributions in this country is not made<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
until publication, instead of immediately upon<br />
PERCY LONGHURST. acceptance. Is this fair to the writer ? The<br />
<br />
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102<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
printer is paid directly his work is done-I mean look out for and develop all possible avenues of<br />
the compositor. Why is not the writing-composersale. Even The Author will probably agree with<br />
who originates employment for the printer and that statement. His paragraphs to the Press, his<br />
profit for the publisher treated with equal justice ? advertisements, his sale lists and catalogues, his<br />
For books, of course, authors often get (and I travellers in London, the provinces, on the Conti-<br />
always ipsist upon) an advance of royalty.<br />
nent and in the colonies, and the free copies he<br />
FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH.<br />
distributes so lavishly, are all sent forth with one<br />
object to call attention to the book and the<br />
author.<br />
I am not revealing any secret when I say that<br />
our dramatists and theatrical managers have scores<br />
PUBLISHERS AND MINOR RIGHTS.<br />
of books sent them for perusal every season by<br />
publishers in the hope that they may be found<br />
SIR,—The tone of The Author is as a rule so suitable for stage adaptation. Similarly, copies<br />
distinctly hostile to all who have to do with<br />
for perusal are sent to continental, colonial, and<br />
the publication of books, that I doubt while I<br />
American “readers” and others. Publishers<br />
am penning this letter whether it will be permitted<br />
are hopeful men, otherwise they would succumb<br />
to see the light. But I am impelled to write you<br />
under the hundreds of failures they meet in<br />
on the subject of publishers and minor rights,<br />
attempting to create markets and utilise rights<br />
because of The Author's inability hitherto to under- available for sale under their agreements. We<br />
stand the chief point in regard to the clause to<br />
hear occasionally of a success on these lines, but<br />
which objection is taken. Minor rights are minor<br />
we do not hear of the many, many failures.<br />
rights, and mean trifling sums picked up here and<br />
Writing with some knowledge of the cost entailed<br />
there at wide intervals and often after very strenuous by a publisher in following out his ideas and push-<br />
effort.<br />
ing his books, it does not seem to me that there<br />
Let us take them in the order in which the<br />
is anything wrong with the clause.<br />
is anything wro<br />
The better<br />
clause names them -- American, colonial, conti- the publisher and The more energetic he is admitted<br />
nental, foreign, translation, serial and dramatic. to be, the more does he deserve success in regard<br />
Words, words, words. Probably many authors<br />
to these minor rights and their sales, and the more<br />
signing an agreement for the publication of a book<br />
pleased should an author be to find his work has<br />
had no idea until they read some such printed<br />
been brought to the notice of business people from<br />
clause in their agreement, that the book to be whom he never expected to hear.<br />
published possessed so many and such varied<br />
If an author asked himself the question whether<br />
rights. But it is one thing to have the power to it were better to leave such minor rights in the<br />
sell, and another thing to have the opportunity. hands of an agent on a 10 per cent. commission<br />
In an agent's hands the above rights for anbasis, and effect no sales (which is practically the<br />
average sort of book would be absolutely worthless.<br />
position), or cede them to a publisher and share<br />
Probably, if the author offered the whole of the equally with him whatever proceeds there may be<br />
above rights to his agent for two guineas, cash<br />
from such sales, I do not think he would be long<br />
down, no agent would purchase them. He knows in answering the question. And this 18<br />
that the chances of sale are indescribably remote problem which has to be dealt with in ninety-nine<br />
and that the rights would be valueless to him.<br />
out of a hundred cases.<br />
A publisher, however, is in a totally different<br />
John NAYLER.<br />
position from an agent. The book when published<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
is in his hands. He has responsibilities in regard<br />
to it and be appreciates these fully. He has put<br />
time and thought, energy and money into its pro-<br />
duction and publication, and it is “up against<br />
him” (excuse this lapse into American slang<br />
after a perusal of your December number) to THE Editor of The Author begs to inform mem-<br />
make the book a literary success. Some people bers of the society and advertisers that the<br />
appear to think a publisher sits in his office committee have entered into different arrange-<br />
twiddling his thumbs waiting for people to come ments in regard to the advertisements.<br />
in and buy quantities of his books. Nothing is The tariff for advertisements remains the same,<br />
further from the truth. He has an office, it is true, but the advertising agents are Messrs. Belmon!<br />
and he is probably to be found working there Co., of 29, Paternoster Square, E.C. Communica<br />
before some of his critics have sat down to break- tions respecting advertisements should be sent to<br />
fast. In any case, he knows it is his business to them or to the offices of the society.<br />
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