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ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br />
- published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
6d., post free 71d. It includes elections to July,<br />
1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
of the Society only.<br />
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end of the list for the convenience of those who<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
It does not include either donations given prior<br />
to October 1st, nor does it include subscriptions<br />
paid in compliance with promises made before it.<br />
The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br />
appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
received four bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
on the matter.<br />
Bankers' Order for 108. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the Union of<br />
London and Smiths' Bank, Clifton, Bristol.<br />
Bankers' Order for 5s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
£ $. d.<br />
0 100<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
N February 1, the trustees of the Pension<br />
Fund of the society-after the secretary<br />
had placed before them the financial<br />
position of the fund—decided to invest £250 in<br />
the purchase of Consols.<br />
The amount purchased at the present price is<br />
£312 13s. 4d.<br />
This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d.<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom-<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im-<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
Consols 21%.......... ............ £1,312 13 4<br />
Local Loans .............<br />
500 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli.<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ...............<br />
291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
ture Stock ....................<br />
250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ........... 200 0 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 32% Inscribed<br />
Stock .............................<br />
200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
4% Preference Stock..........<br />
New Zealand 32% Stock............... 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
1927-57 ........<br />
................<br />
438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock......... 120 121<br />
Dcminion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Grant Stock, 1938........... ...... 198 3 8<br />
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Oct. 5, Bungey, E. Newton<br />
Oct. 6, Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson . .<br />
Oct. 12, Hannay, J. 0.<br />
Oct. 12, Mrs. Humphry Ward, an addi-<br />
tional subscription for 1912<br />
-13 .<br />
Nov. 9, Dailey, R. H. .<br />
Nov. 10, McCormick, E. B.<br />
Nov. 10, Salter, Miss E. K.<br />
Nov. 14, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpool<br />
Nov. 20, Snell, Miss Olive . .<br />
Nov. 24, Locke, W.J. .<br />
Nov. 24, Gosse, Edmund . .<br />
Nov. 25, Larken, E. P. .<br />
Nov. 25, Underdown, Miss E. .<br />
Nov. 25, Walkley, S. . . . .<br />
Nov. 25, Masefield, John .<br />
Nov. 25, Thurston, E. Temple<br />
Nov. 25, Rittenberg, Max,<br />
Nov. 25, Paull, H. M. .<br />
Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald.<br />
Nov. 25, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton.<br />
Nov. 25, Barne, Miss M. C.<br />
Nov. 25, Sedgwick, Anne Douglas .<br />
(Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)<br />
Nov. 25, Larden, Walter . . .<br />
Nor. 25, Channon, Mrs. Frances ..<br />
Nov. 25, Toynbee, Paget, ..<br />
Nov. 25, Hood, Miss Agnes Jacomb.<br />
Nov. 25, Gilliat, The Rev. E. . .<br />
Nov. 25, Macdonald, Greville , .<br />
Nov. 25, Allen, Rev. The G. W.(2y ars)<br />
Nov. 25, Russell, G. H. . .<br />
Nov. 25, Osgood, Mrs. Irene<br />
uspood, Nrs. Trene . .<br />
Nov. 25, Trench, Herbert , ,<br />
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subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br />
by, or promised to, the fund from October 1st to<br />
December 22nd.<br />
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Nov. 25, Murdoch, W. G. Burn . 0 15 0 Dec. 11, Orczy, The Baroness . .<br />
Nov. 25, Knowles, Miss Margaret<br />
1 1 0 Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold .<br />
Nov. 25, Bond, R. Warwick . . 1 1 0 Dec. 12, von Holst, Gustav . :<br />
Nov. 25, Stockley, Mrs. .<br />
: 0 10 6 Dec. 16, Cromartie, The Right Hon.<br />
Nov. 27, Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor.<br />
0 10 0<br />
the Countess of (additional<br />
Nov. 27, Prideaux, Miss S. T. . 1 0 0<br />
subscription) . .<br />
Nov. 27, Sedgwick, Prof. A. (5 years 1 1 0 Dec. 16, Laurance, Lionel . .<br />
.<br />
Nov. 27, Arnold, Mrs. J. 0. . . 0 10 0 Dec. 16, Allen, Mrs. Grant. .<br />
Nov. 27, Weaver, Mrs. Baillie<br />
0 10 0 Dec. 18, Haultain, Arnold .<br />
.<br />
Nov. 27, Drake, F. Maurice<br />
0 5 0 Dec. 18, Pollock, The Right Honble.<br />
Nov. 27, Stewart, J. C. MacDougall: 0 5 0<br />
Sir Frederick, P.C. ,<br />
Nov. 27, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . . 1 1 0 Dec. 20, Carr, Miss Mildred E. , .<br />
Nov. 27, Lucas, E. V. ..<br />
1 0 0 Dec. 20, Lewis, The Rev. Arthur<br />
Nov. 27, Hollins, Miss Dorothea , 010 0<br />
Nov. 27, Bagnall, Miss L. T. .<br />
5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Young, Ernest . . . 0 5 0<br />
Donations.<br />
Nov. 27, de Mattos, Alexander Teixeira 0 6<br />
Nov. 27, Collier, The Hon. John<br />
10 Oct. 10, Guthrie, Anstey. .<br />
Noy. 27, Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. .<br />
0 5 0 Oct, 11, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . .<br />
Nov. 27, Orde Ward, The Rev. F. W. 0 5 0 Oct. 19, Romanne-James, Mrs. C.<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice . . 2 2 0 Oct. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey"<br />
. :<br />
Nov. 28, Carlyle, The Rev. A. J. 0 5 0 Nov. 3, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (3rd<br />
Nov. 28, Montrésor, Miss F. F. . 1 1 0<br />
tion) . .<br />
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Nov. 28, Jones, Henry Arthur . . 1 1 0 Nov. 3, Tanner, James T. (5th I<br />
Nov. 28, Pryor, Francis<br />
4 4 0<br />
tion)<br />
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Nov. 28, Whiteing, Richard . . 0 10 0 Nov. 3, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton . .<br />
Nov. 28, Caine, William<br />
. 1 1 0 Nov. 4, Cayzer, Charles (3rd Donation)<br />
Nov. 28, Tuttiett, Miss M. G. . . 1 1 0 Nov. 6, LeRiche, P. J.<br />
Nov. 28, Caulfeild, Mrs. Kathleen 0 5 0 Nov. 6, Daniell, Mrs. E. H.<br />
Nov. 28, Breaknell, Miss Mary. 0 5 0 Nov. 13, Anon. . .<br />
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Nov. 28, James, Miss S. Boucher<br />
1 10 Nov. 18, Hichens, Robert (in addition<br />
Nov. 28, Martin, Miss Violet<br />
1 0 0<br />
to subscription of £1)<br />
0 £1) .<br />
Nov. 29, Pakington, The Hon. Mary. 0 5 0 Nov. 20, Grant, John G. .<br />
Nov. 29, Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis<br />
Nov. 24, Jacobs, W. W. . . .<br />
Nathaniel . . . 0 5 0 Nov. 24, Roberts, Morley , . .<br />
Nov. 29, Skrine, The Rer. John H.. i 0 0 Nov. 24, Eckersley, The Rev. J. :<br />
Nov. 29, Travers, Miss Rosalind.<br />
5 0 Nov. 25, Besant, W. H. .<br />
Nov. 29, Graves, Alfred P.. .<br />
5 0 Nov. 25, Hill, J. Arthur<br />
Nov. 29, Shaw, Fred. G. . . 0 5 0 Nov. 25, Tansley, A. G. .<br />
Nov. 29, Narramore, William<br />
0 5 0 Nov. 25, Gysi, Max,<br />
Nov, 29, Waldstein, Charles<br />
1 1 0 Nov. 25, Lyttelton, Hon. Mrs<br />
Nov. 29, Rutter, Frank ..<br />
0 5 0 Nov, 25, Savile, Frank .<br />
. .<br />
Dec. 1, Lee, The Rev. Albert<br />
0 5 0 Nov. 25, Skeat, Prof. W. W.<br />
Dec. 1, Romanes, Mrs. Ethel<br />
0 10 0 Nov. 27, Hood, Francis .<br />
Dec. 1, Wilton, Margaret W. .<br />
50 Nov. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey"<br />
Dec. 2, Holme, Miss. .<br />
0 10 0 Nov. 27, Moffatt, Graham ,<br />
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Dec. 4, Thomson, Lieut.-Col. S. J. 0 5 0 Nov. 27, Mainwaring, Mrs. . .<br />
Dec. 4, Begbie, Harold .<br />
10 Nov. 27, Maunder, J. H..<br />
Dec. 4, Giles, Miss Edith J. F.<br />
50 Nov. 27, Kennedy, E. B..<br />
Dec. 4, Coulton, G. G. .<br />
5 0 Nov. 27, Galsworthy, John (in addition<br />
Dec. 4, Heath, Sidney<br />
to subscription) . .<br />
Dec. 5, Macnamara, Miss Mar<br />
Nov. 27, Oppenheim, E. P.<br />
Dec. 5, Clodd, Edward<br />
O Nov. 27, Harding, Commander Claud,<br />
Dec. 5, Little, Mrs. Archibald . 2<br />
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Nov. 28, McKellar, Campbell D. .<br />
Nov. 28, Wroughton, Miss Cicely .<br />
Nov. 28, Rankin, Miss F. M. . .<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice<br />
Nov. 28, Gould, Gerald ,<br />
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Nov. 28, Hardy, Thomas 0. M.<br />
Nov. 29, Maarten Maartens<br />
Nov. 29, Bolton, Clement .<br />
Nov. 29, Stutfield, H. E. M.<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
Nov. 29, Spurrier, Steven<br />
Nov. 29, Kinloch, Alexander<br />
Nov. 29, Webling, Peggy.<br />
Nov. 29, Barclay, Mrs. Hubert. :<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, Miss C. E. .<br />
Nov. 29, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite<br />
Nov. 29, Spielmann, Mr. and Mrs. M.H.<br />
Nov. 29, Begbie, Harold .<br />
Nov. 29, Spiers, Victor<br />
Nov. 29, Wentworth, Gerald<br />
Nov. 29, Pryce, Richard .<br />
Nov. 29, Watson, Mrs. Herbert .<br />
Dec. 6, Toplis, Grace . .<br />
Dec. 6, Percival, Helen A. .<br />
Dec. 7, Graham, Kenneth.<br />
Dec. 8, Falmouth, The Right Honble.<br />
the Viscountess . .<br />
Dec. 8, Ord, H. W. . .<br />
Dec. 10, Hawkins, A. Hope<br />
Dec. 10, Pennell, Mrs. E. R.<br />
Dec. 11, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit .<br />
Dec. 11, De Morgan, Wm.<br />
Dec. 12, D'Arcy, Ella Miss<br />
Dec. 16, Glenconner, Lady.<br />
Dec. 16, Royds, The Rev. T. F. .<br />
Dec. 18, Moore, Mrs. Stuart<br />
Dec. 18, J. P. P. .<br />
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Dec. 18, Bremner, Robert L. .<br />
Dec. 18, Dawson, Frank .<br />
Dec. 20. Tench, Miss Mary F. A. :<br />
Dec. 21, Clifford, Mrs. W. K. . .<br />
Dec. 22, Francis Beard ,<br />
Dec. 22, Horridge, Frank.<br />
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tions for the current year up to 288, the largest<br />
total in any one year, save 1909, since the founda-<br />
tion of the society. In 1909, 298 elections were<br />
recorded, in 1910, 276, and in 1911, as has been<br />
stated, 288. The committee have, however, to<br />
chronicle, with regret, 10 resignations.<br />
The solicitor of the society then reported on the<br />
cases in his hands.<br />
It may be remembered that in the last issue of<br />
The Author, a case was mentioned which it had<br />
been necessary to re-open owing to a mis-statement<br />
of the defendant revealed in his affidavit. This<br />
case has now been settled, the defendants paying<br />
500 guineas as damages and costs for infringement,<br />
in place of £400 and costs as preriously arranged.<br />
The next question referred to the bankruptcy of<br />
a literary agent, and the solicitor was instructed<br />
in the course which the committee wished to have<br />
taken. The solicitor reported the satisfactory<br />
settlement of a small county court case where the<br />
amount and costs had been paid. He also reported<br />
the successful termination of cases undertaken by<br />
the society against pirates of dramatic property.<br />
An injunction had been obtained against the<br />
defendant, who had been selling scripts of plays<br />
without the sanction of the owners. Forty-three<br />
scripts had been delivered to the solicitors and sent<br />
on to the members of the society, whose work<br />
had been damaged by their circulation, and the<br />
defendant had given an undertaking not to continue<br />
to circulate any further scripts of the works in<br />
question. The solicitor also obtained the names<br />
of some of the people to whom the scripts were<br />
sold, and if they are found producing these plays<br />
the society will proceed to take action against<br />
them.<br />
In another case of infringement of dramatic<br />
property an interlocutory injunction has been<br />
obtained. The society will now proceed to obtain<br />
the final injunction and an order for costs. The<br />
case was one of barefaced infringement.<br />
Two other small cases were reported as settled.<br />
In an action for account against a music publisher,<br />
as it had been impossible to obtain proper state-<br />
ments, a writ had been issued. The accounts<br />
have since been delivered. Another case for<br />
accounts and royalties had been settled without<br />
going into court, the accounts having been delivered<br />
with cheques for the sums shown due. The same<br />
report applies to a third case where an author had<br />
a running account with a publisher. A very<br />
difficult case, referring to a breach of agreement by<br />
a publisher, was next discussed, but the committee<br />
regretted they could not then come to a final<br />
decision, owing to the absence of an undertaking<br />
by the author to go into court, but they decided<br />
that on receipt of such an undertaking they would<br />
re-consider the matter.<br />
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COMMITTEE NOTES...<br />
MEETING of the Committee was held at<br />
the rooms of the Society of Arts, 18 John<br />
Street, Adelphi, W.C., on Monday, Decem-<br />
ber 4th, at 3 o'clock.<br />
The minutes of the previous meeting having been<br />
read and signed, the committee proceeded to the<br />
elections. They were pleased to elect 25 members<br />
and associates, bringing the total number of elec-<br />
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The question of the clerks' salaries and Christ-<br />
mas boxes was also considered, and the committee<br />
sanctioned certain expenditure for these items.<br />
In regard to advertisements in The Author it<br />
was decided to keep to the arrangement at present<br />
in force.<br />
The secretary mentioned to the committee the<br />
difficult position in which some writers of novels<br />
had been placed owing to recent legal decisions<br />
respecting the law of libel. The committee con-<br />
sidered that it would be inadvisable to take action<br />
at the present time, as they did not see any chance<br />
of getting a hearing, and the question was accord-<br />
ingly adjourned.<br />
A sub-committee was appointed to deal with the<br />
Agency Agreement. That sub-committee consists<br />
of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mr. Charles Garvice, and<br />
the secretary of the society. It may be recalled<br />
that not long ago the Dramatic Sub-Committee<br />
settled an agreement between dramatist and agent.<br />
The Literary Agency Agreement will probably be<br />
based on the dramatic agency agreement already<br />
settled.<br />
The committee have to thank Miss E. M. Symonds<br />
for a donation of £2 28. to the Capital Fund of<br />
the society.<br />
In a case of delayed delivery of a MS. by the<br />
post office, the committee regretted their inability<br />
to help the author, as cases dealing with this subject<br />
had clearly established that no redress was pro.<br />
curable in the circumstances.<br />
The secretary brought to the notice of the<br />
committee a number of agreements issued by a<br />
certain publishing house. He pointed out how<br />
objectionable these contracts, binding down authors<br />
to give a series of works to the publisher, were<br />
from the anthor's point of view; and how frequently<br />
similar agreements from the same house had been<br />
brought to him by members.<br />
The last case arose out of a dispute on an agree<br />
ment between a member and his publisher. The<br />
committee regretted their inability to proceed on<br />
behalf of the member, as they did not feel that the<br />
member's contention could be supported.<br />
Following the discussion of the cases, matters<br />
dealing with the Copyright Bill were considered.<br />
A letter from Sir Gilbert Parker, which had been<br />
sent to all the members of the committee, was<br />
laid on the table. The secretary reported the<br />
receipt of letters from Sir Frederick Macmillan, and<br />
from a Canadian correspondent, dealing with<br />
Colonial and Canadian copyright, and also the steps<br />
taken by Lord Tennyson to put forward the<br />
society's amendments to the Copyright Bill in the<br />
House of Lords.<br />
The committee settled their nominees for the<br />
Committee Election for 1912 to fill the vacancies<br />
caused by the retirements necessary under the<br />
constitution of the society. A notice of the pro-<br />
cedure appears in another part of this issue.<br />
The election to the Pension Fund Committee<br />
was also discussed. Members of the society may<br />
recall that the Pension Fund Committee is com-<br />
posed of three members nominated by the Committee<br />
of Management, and three elected by the society at<br />
the general meeting, with the chairman of the<br />
Committee of Management for the time being ex<br />
officio. One member of those elected by the<br />
Committee of Management, and one of those<br />
elected at the general meeting hare to retire<br />
annually. Mrs. Humphry Ward retired in rotation,<br />
and submitting her name to the Committee of<br />
Management for re-election, was re-elected. Mr.<br />
Morley Roberts, one of the members elected at the<br />
general meeting, retired, but did not seek re-election.<br />
Accordingly, the committee decided to ask Mr.<br />
Owen Seaman to allow his name to go forward for<br />
election at the general meeting to fill the vacancy.<br />
The committee are pleased to state that Mr. Owen<br />
Seaman will accept nomination. It is, however, in<br />
the power of any member of the society to nominate<br />
some other member to fill the position. Full par-<br />
ticulars as to procedure in this matter also appear<br />
in another part of The Author.<br />
COUNCIL MEETING.<br />
THE second statutory meeting of the council of<br />
the society during 1911 was held at 18, John Street,<br />
Adelphi, W.C., on Monday, December 4th, at 4.30.<br />
The first matter before the meeting was to<br />
receive and adopt the report of the Committee of<br />
Management to the council, setting out in detail<br />
the action they had taken in the matter of copy-<br />
right legislation. The report was unanimously<br />
approved and adopted. It is intended to print this<br />
for the benefit of members in the Annual Report of<br />
the society.<br />
The next matter was the question of the re-<br />
publication of the list of members. After carefully<br />
considering the few letters received from members,<br />
and discussing the pros and cons, the council came<br />
to the conclusion that no great desire for the<br />
list existed, and that in view of that fact, and of<br />
the expense entailed in keeping it up to date, it<br />
would be inadvisable to republish it. Moreover,<br />
the council considered that there were other and<br />
more pressing claims on the society's funds which<br />
should be met first.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The last meeting for 1911 of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Committee was held at the offices of the society on<br />
Friday, December 15, at 3 o'clock.<br />
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After the signing of the minutes the first ques- been elected with the full approval of the Swedish<br />
tion before the sub-committee was the Managerial Academy to collect the votes in this country of<br />
Treaty. The Chairman reported that the treaty persons entitled to vote for the Prize for Litera.<br />
had been discussed at the meeting of the Dramatists' ture, the Swedish Acadeiny, without consulting<br />
Club, and that a sub-committee of that club had them, had instituted a new system, and they<br />
been appointed to consider its various clauses. It considered, therefore, that the time had come to<br />
was understood that this sub-committee would in lay down their functions.<br />
turn report to the Dramatists' Club, and that that<br />
report would subsequently be laid before the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee. In these circumstances<br />
it was decided to adjourn further discussion until<br />
Cases.<br />
the report from the Dramatists' Club. had come TEN cases have been in the secretary's hands<br />
to hand. The Chairman, however, read certain since the last issue of The Author. Six have been<br />
letters he had received, which he laid on the table, claims for money, and of these it is pleasing to<br />
and a letter drafted by Mr. Bernard Shaw was also report that four have been satisfactorily settled,<br />
suggested as a preface to the Managerial Treaty. and the sums paid. The other two bare so<br />
The next matter before the committee was the recently come into the office that there has not<br />
correspondence with the Lord Chamberlain, and been time before going to press to complete the<br />
arising out of the correspondence, a resolution was negotiations.<br />
passed, which the secretary was authorised to send In the one claim for accounts and money, the<br />
to the Lord Chamberlain at the earliest opportunity. accounts and money have been delivered. There<br />
The committee decided it would be inexpedient to have been two claims for accounts. The anthor<br />
publish the resolution until the reply from the has received the accounts in one case, and in the<br />
Lord Chamberlain had been received.<br />
other the defaulter has answered the secretary's<br />
Some letters from Mr. Laurence Cowen were letter, although the accounts have not, as yet, been<br />
also read to the sub-committee, and the secretary rendered. In a claim for the return of a MS. the<br />
was authorised to reply.<br />
MS. has been recovered. Therefore, seven cases<br />
The conduct of the election of the Dramatic Sub- out of ten have been satisfactorily concluded, and<br />
Committee for 1912 was next considered. Notice there is every probability that the remaining three<br />
as to this will be sent to the dramatic section of the will be closed shortly.<br />
society in due course.<br />
It is satisfactory to report that of the foriner<br />
A letter received from Mr. Ligon Johnson, cases not one remains open, but two have had to<br />
counsel of the Theatrical Producing Managers of be transferred to the solicitors of the society.<br />
America, in regard to the Canadian Copyright Bill,<br />
the sub-committee referred to the Committee of<br />
Management, for their serious consideration.<br />
December Elections.<br />
The secretary then reported the cases that had<br />
been carried through for dramatists since the last Armitage, Mrs. E.<br />
meeting.<br />
Brown, M. F. . . . 5, Palmeira Avenue<br />
Hove.<br />
Caico, Signora Louise . Montedore (Caltanis-<br />
NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE.<br />
setta), Sicily.<br />
The meeting of the Nobel Prize Committee Cole, Sanford D. . . 68, Queen's Square,<br />
for 1911 was held at the offices of the society<br />
Bristol.<br />
on Thursday, December 14. After the minutes<br />
Conway-Gordon, Miss V. Longley House,<br />
of the former meeting had been read and signed, (Conway Vere)<br />
Rochester.<br />
Mr. Edmund Gosse put forward, at some length, Cunningham, J ph 60, Milton Park,<br />
the work of the Committee since its appoint-<br />
Thomas .<br />
Highgate, N.<br />
ment, with the approval of the Swedish Academy, Francis Beard .<br />
“R," 27, Langham<br />
in 1902. After some discussion, the following<br />
Street, W.<br />
resolution was proposed, seconded, and passed Heale, E. Newton . . 3, Barton Terrace,<br />
unanimously :-<br />
Alphington Road,<br />
“That the Committee of Management of the<br />
Exeter.<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors be requested to Higginbottom, W. Hugh. 74, Cathcart Studios,<br />
disband the Nobel Prize Committee elected by<br />
Redcliffe Road,<br />
them in 1902."<br />
Kensington, S.W.<br />
The Nobel Prize Committee gare the following Low, Sidney . . . 24, Marlborough Hill,<br />
reasons for this request. That although they had<br />
N.W.<br />
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Morgan, The Rev. J.<br />
Vyrnwy, D.D.<br />
Price, Frederick W. 133, Harley Street,<br />
W.<br />
Prior, Mrs. G. C. Melton , 12A, Carlyle Mansions,<br />
Cheyne Walk, Chel-<br />
sea.<br />
St. Quinton, Col. . . 34, Dover Street,<br />
Piccadilly, W.<br />
Rannie, David Watson . West Hayes, Win-<br />
chester.<br />
Stainforth, Miss Edith<br />
Steer, Miss Janette . . 53, Sloane Gardens,<br />
S.W.<br />
Stephenson, H. H., Worcester Park,<br />
Surrey.<br />
Symons, M. Travers . . 10, Cliffords Inn, E.C.<br />
Tippett, Mrs. Isabel C. . Rosemary Cottage,<br />
Wetherden, Suffolk.<br />
Watson, Malcolm<br />
44, Ridgmount Gar-<br />
dens, W.C.<br />
Williams, Harold . . Cobbaton House,<br />
Umbersleigh R.S.O.<br />
North Devon.<br />
JOHN OPIE AND HIS CIRCLE. By ADA EARLAND.<br />
93 x 61. 376 pp. Hutchinson. 218. n.<br />
ARCHBISHOP MACLAGAN. By F. D How. 94 x 6.<br />
430 pp. Wells Gardner. 168.<br />
TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS. Edited by HALLAM, LORD<br />
TENNYSON. 9 x 54. 503 pp. Macmillan 108. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
THE SOUL OF THE WORLD: A Mystery Play of the<br />
Nativity and the Passion. By Mrs. PERCY DEARMER.<br />
8 X 54. 65 pp. Mowbray.<br />
PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE. By W. B. YEATS. With<br />
Designs by GORDON CRAIG. 91 X 6. 224 pp. A. H.<br />
Bullen. 88. 6d. n.<br />
EMBLEMS OF LOVE. Designed in several Discourses. By<br />
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE. 74 X 5. 213 pp. Lane. 58. n.<br />
ON THE ART OF THE THEATRE. By E. GORDON CRAIG.<br />
8.4 X 64. 295 pp. Heinemann. 68. n.<br />
THE WAR GOD. By ISRAEL ZAYGWILL. A Tragedy in<br />
Five Acts. 83 x 54. 164 pp. 28. 6d. n.<br />
HINTS TO SPEAKERS AND PLAYERS. By ROSINI FILIPPI.<br />
7} * 5. 280 pp. Arnold. 38. 6d. n.<br />
A PLUME OF FEATHERS : A Comedy in One Act. By<br />
GULIELMA Penn and R. FITZJOHN. Samuel French. 60.<br />
PAGEANT AND PLAYS. By GRACE TOPLIS. 71 X 5. 20.<br />
pp. George Gill and Sons.<br />
A SICILIAN IDYLL and JUDITH. By T. Sturge Moore.<br />
84 X 54. Duckworth. 28. n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
SCHOOL AND COUNTRY. By R. K. CRAWFORD. 86 pp.<br />
Dublin : Hodges, Figgis. 38. 6d. n.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exbaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
ART.<br />
CHURCH EMBROIDERY. By ALICE DRYDEN. 6 x 41<br />
180 pp. (The Arts of the Church Series.) Mowbray.<br />
18. 6d. n.<br />
John LAVERY AND HIS WORK. By WALTER SHAW.<br />
SPARROW. With a Preface by R. B. CUNNINGHAME<br />
GRAHAM. 11 X 87. 209 pp. Kegan Paul. 103. 6d. n.<br />
LEONARDO AT MILAN. Being Part VII. of " The Renais-<br />
sance in Italian Art.” By SELWYN BRINTON. George<br />
Bell & Sons. 23. 60. n.<br />
SANDRO BOTTICELLI. By ADOLF P. OPPÉ. With 25<br />
Plates in Colour, Selected and Executed under the Super-<br />
vision of the Medici Society. 105 X 8. 72 pp. (The<br />
Arundel Library of Great Masters.) Hodder & Stoughton,<br />
158. n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
IRISH RECOLLECTIONS. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY. 9 x 6.<br />
279 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 108. 6d.n.<br />
THE STORY OF EMMA LADY HAMILTON. By JULIA<br />
FRANKAU. Two vols. 161 x 114. 107 and 114 pp.<br />
Macmillan. £31 108. n.<br />
J. S. BACH. By A. SCHWEITZER, D.Ph. English Trans-<br />
lation by E. NEWMAN. Two vols. 91 x 6. 428 +<br />
500 pp. Breitkopf & Hartel. 218. n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
THE COUNTRY HEART AND OTHER STORIES. By MAUD<br />
EGERTON KING. 7} X 5. 328 pp. Fifield. 68.<br />
OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER. By WILLIAM CAINE.<br />
74 x 5. 320 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
MRS. HORROCKS PURSER. By C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE.<br />
67 x 4. 292 pp. (Cheap reprint.) Nelson. 78. n.<br />
THE ARCHDEACON'S FAMILY. *74 5. 467 pp. 38. 6d. n.<br />
ROUND ABOUT A BRIGHTON COACH OFFICE. 74 x 5.<br />
209 pp. 38. 6d. n. CHRISTIAN'S WIFE: A Story of<br />
Granabünder. 64 X 4. 160 pp. 28. n. All by MAUD<br />
EGERTON KING. Fifield.<br />
EBB AND FLOW. By Mrs. IRWIN SMART. 7* X 54. 379 pp.<br />
Routledge. 68.<br />
THE LONG NIGHT. 379 pp. THE ABBESS OF VLAYE.<br />
391 pp. STARVECROW FARM. 345 pp. CHIPPINGE.<br />
375 pp. LAID UP IN LAVENDER. 344 pp. THE WILD<br />
GEESE. 384 pp. By STANLEY J. WEYMAN. 63 X 4.<br />
Smith Elder ; Longmans. 28. n. each.<br />
THE STORY OF CLARICE. By KATHARINE TYNAN. 75 X 5.<br />
320 pp. James Clarke. 6s.<br />
THE GOAL OF FORTUNE. By EDITH ETHEL TOWGOOD.<br />
74 x 5. 320 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. 68.<br />
LETTERS TO LOUISE : On Life, Love and Immortality.<br />
By JEAN DELAIRE. 74 x 5. 183 pp. Rider, 28. 6d. n.<br />
A BORDER SCOURGE. By BERTRAM MITFORD. 318 pp.<br />
(Popular Edition). John Long. 6d. n.<br />
INDIAN DETECTIVE STORIES. By S. B. BANERJEA.<br />
74 X 4f. 275 pp. Guy & Hancock. 18. n.<br />
GARDENING.<br />
ROSES AND ROSE GARDENS. By W. P. WRIGHT. 94 x 61.<br />
294 pp. Headley. 12s.6d, n.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
BRITISH BATTLES : BLENHEIM. By HILAIRE BELLOC.<br />
61 X 41. 144 pp. S. Swift. 18. n<br />
English Trang<br />
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TOURING IN 1600. A Study in the Development of<br />
Travel as a Means of Education. By E. S. BATES.<br />
9 x 5%. 418 pp. Constable. 128. 60. n.<br />
PILGRIM LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. BY SIDNEY<br />
HEATH. 9 x 58. Fisher Unwin. 108. 6d, n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE MOON LADY. By A. Eva RICHARDSON. 127 pp.<br />
S.P.C.K. 18. n.<br />
FLOOR GAMES. By H. G. WELLS. 8} x 64. 71 pp.<br />
H G WELLS 81 63 71 nn<br />
F. Palmer. 28. 68. n.<br />
OSCAR. The Story of a Skye Terrier's Adventures. By<br />
LACHLAN MACLEAN WATT. 74 X 51. 267 pp.<br />
Chambers. 38. 60.<br />
IN SEARCH OF Smith. By J. MACKIE. Illustrated by<br />
R. CATON WOODVILLE. 78 X 54. 294 pp. Grant<br />
Richards. 3s. 6d, n.<br />
FINN, THE WOLFHOUND. By A. J. Dawson. 84 x 51.<br />
487 pp. Grant Richards. 38.5d. n.<br />
THE BABY Scouts : THE TEDDY BEAR SCOUTS : THE<br />
DOLLY Scouts. Drawings by CHARLES ROBINSON.<br />
RAYMES, by JESSIE POPE. 21 x 54. Blackie. 4d. n.<br />
each.<br />
THE CALL OF HONOUR. A Tale of Adventure in the<br />
Canadian Prairies. By ARGYLL SAXBY. 71 x 5.<br />
318 pp. Partridge. 28.<br />
THE DOINGS OF DICK AND Dan. By SIR JAMES YOXALL,<br />
M.P. 74 X 51. 331 pp. Partridge. 38.6d. n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
SOME ASPECTS OF THACKERAY. By LEWIS MELVILLE.<br />
8 X 54. 281 pp. S. Swift. 128. 6d. n.<br />
MEDICAL.<br />
AUTO-INOCULATION IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.<br />
By MARCUS PATERSON. Medical Superintendent at<br />
Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, Frimley. 111 X 81.<br />
236 pp. Nisbet. 215. n.<br />
NAVAL.<br />
NORTH SEA FISHERS AND FIGHTERS. By WALTER<br />
WOOD. 9 X 64. 366 pp. Kegan Paul. 12x. 6d. n.<br />
SOME PRINCIPLES OF MARITIME STRATEGY. By<br />
JULIAN CORBETT, LL.M. 9 x 6. 317 pp. Long.<br />
mans. 98. n.<br />
PHILOSOPHY.<br />
RELIGION AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY. By J. A. HILL.<br />
73 x 5. 208 pp. Rider. 2x, 6d. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
BALLADS AND VERSES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. BY<br />
E. NESBIT, 75 X 5. 105 pp. Elkin Mathews. 48. 6d. n.<br />
MILESTONES. Songs from an Old House. By MARCIA<br />
KNIGHT. 7 X 54. 55 pp. Constable. 38. 6d. n.<br />
Six LYRICS FROM THE RUTHENIAN OF SCHEVCHENKO.<br />
By E. L. VOYNICH. 61 X 5. 64 pp. (Vigo Cabinet<br />
Series). Elkin Matthews 18. n.<br />
POEMS. By GERALD GOULD. 78 X 5. 86 pp. Sidgwick<br />
& Jackson. 13. 60, n.<br />
MAGYAR POEMS. Selected and Translated, with<br />
Biographical and Historical Notes, by DOROTHY M.<br />
STUART and NORA DE VÁLLYI. Foreword by PRO-<br />
FESSOR ARMINIUS VAMBERY, C.V.O., of Budapest<br />
University. 108 pp. E. Marlborough & Co. 28. n.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
THE CASE AGAINST WELSH DISENDOWMENT. By A<br />
NONCONFORMIST MINISTER (J. FOVARGUE BRADLEY).<br />
8 X 51. 85 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman. 1$. n.<br />
SEEMS So! A WORKING CLASS VIEW OF POLITICS. By<br />
STEPHEN REYNOLDS and BOB and Tom WOOLLEY.<br />
8 X 5. 321 pp. Macmillan. 58. n.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
THE ARAN ISLANDS. By J. M. SYNGE. With Drawing,<br />
by JACK B. YEATS (Library Edition). 81 X 54. 256 pp.<br />
Maunsell. 6s.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
"FALLING UPWARDS" (Leibniz). Christ, the Key to the<br />
Riddles of the Cosmos. By the REV. F.W.ORDE WARD.<br />
78 X 54. 296 pp. Simpkin Marshall. 58. n.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
MEMORIALS OF OLD GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Edited by<br />
P. H. DITCHFIELD. 9 x 58. 304 pp. Allen. 158. n.<br />
FLOREAT ETONA. Anecdotes and Memories of Eton<br />
College. By R. NEVILL. 9 x 58. .336 pp. Macmillan.<br />
158.n.<br />
THE STORY OF FORD ABBEY FROM THE EARLIEST<br />
TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. By S. HEATH. 10 x 73.<br />
78 pp. F. Griffiths. 108. 6d. n.<br />
THE PILGRIM'S WAY FROM WINCHESTER TO CANTER-<br />
BURY. By JULIA CARTWRIGHT. Illustrated by A. H.<br />
HALLAM MURRAY. New Edition. 84 x 61. 225 pp.<br />
Murray. 158. n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
IN THE MAORILAND Bush. By W. H. KOEBEL. 9 X 51.<br />
316 pp. Stanley Paul. 128. 6d. n.<br />
THE SURGEON's Log. Being Impressions of the Far<br />
East. By J. JOHNSTON ABRAHAM. With Forty-four<br />
Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. Chapman<br />
& Hall. 78. 6d. n.<br />
BENARES, THE SACRED CITY: Sketches of Hindoo Life<br />
and Religion. By E. B. HAVELL. 9 x 6. 226 pp.<br />
With many Illustrations. Second edition. W. Thacker<br />
& Co. 58. n.<br />
How to SEE ITALY BY RAIL. By DOUGLAS SLADEX,<br />
63 X 41. 566 pp. Kegan Paul. 78. 6d. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE EIGHT PILLARS OF PROSPERITY. By JAMES ALLEN.<br />
171 pp. L. N. Fowler. 38.6d. n.<br />
SCOTTISH GHOST STORIES. BY ELLIOTT O'DONNELL.<br />
7} x 5. 293 pp. Kegan Paul. 38. 60. n.<br />
SHADOWS CAST BEFORE : An Anthology of Prophecies<br />
and Presentiments. By CLAUD FIELD. 7} x 5. 223 pp.<br />
Rider. 28, 6d. n.<br />
DAY BY DAY WITH THE POETS. A Calendar and<br />
Treasury of English Verse, for any Year. By MARY A.<br />
WOODS. Floral Decorations by ELLEN M. WOODS,<br />
Eastbourne. E. S. Fowler. 7s. 6d. n.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
STYLE IN MUSICAL ART. By Sir C. HUBERT PARRY,<br />
Mus. Doc. 9 x 58. 438 pp. Macmillan. 108. n.<br />
Post VICTORIAN MUSIC. With other Studies and<br />
Sketches. By C. L. GRAVES. 87 X 54. 369 pp.<br />
Macmillan. 68. n.<br />
RUB-A-DUB DUB, AND FIVE OTHER ACTION SONGS FOR<br />
CHILDREN. By L. BUDGEN. Wickins & Co. 18. n.<br />
ENGLISH FOLK CAROLS: With Pianoforte Accompani.<br />
ment and an Introduction and Notes. Collected by<br />
CECIL J. SHARP. 11 X 81. 68 pp. Novello ; and<br />
Simpkin Marshall. 58. n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. Part 9. By G. E. H.<br />
BARRETT-HAMILTON. Illustrated by E. A. WILSON.<br />
10 X 67. Pp. 121–168. Gurney & Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
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S<br />
SPAIN RE-VISITED: A Summer in Galicia. By C.<br />
based upon a series of lectures planned while the<br />
GASQUOINE HARTLEY (MRS. WALTER M. GALLICHAN).<br />
9 x 54. 330 pp. Stanley Paul. 128. 6. n.<br />
author held the chair of music in the University of<br />
ITALIAN CASTLES AND COUNTRY SEATS. By TRYPHOSA<br />
Oxford. The lectures were not all delivered<br />
BATES BATCHELLER. 10 X 61. 512 pp. Longmans. because the pressure of other duties obliged Sir<br />
• 258. n.<br />
Hubert to resign the chair, but the present volume<br />
"Twixt LAND AND SEA. Sketches and Studies in North<br />
is intended to represent the entire scheme devised<br />
Africa. By CYRIL FLETCHER GRANT and L. GRANT,<br />
London, Sampson Low & Co.<br />
at the beginning of his tenure of the professorship.<br />
(2) “ Post Victorian Music," by Mr. C. L.<br />
Graves, arranged in three divisions. The first part,<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL under the heading of Post Victorian Music, dis-<br />
NOTES.<br />
cusses the Symphonia Domestica, Elektra, Salome,<br />
Pelléas et Mélisande, Elgar's First Symphony. In<br />
his second part the author gives a series of<br />
A N interesting little book entitled “Das eighteen “ Portraits and Appreciations," which<br />
Oxforder Buch Deutscher Dichtung" embraces some of the most notable figures in the<br />
covering selections from the twelfth to the world of music. The concluding section consists<br />
twentieth century, edited by H. Fiedler, with a of “ Studies and Sketches," and here the author<br />
preface by Gerhart Hauptmann, has been issued by deals in sympathetic fashion with many questions<br />
the Oxford Press. A somewhat similar work which must interest all lovers of music.<br />
was published years ago in the Golden Treasury We have been asked to note that the English<br />
Series by Messrs. Macmillan, edited by Professor Review, commencing with the January number,<br />
Buchheim, and up to the present time that was 1912, will be issued at the reduced price of 1s.<br />
undoubtedly the best selection that could possibly (12s. 6d. annual subscription, post free to all parts<br />
have been made from German lyrical poems. The of the world). We are assured that this change<br />
present selection, published by the Oxford Press, is, has been made owing to its continuous success and<br />
however, rather more ambitious, containing a to the repeated demands of the public for a high<br />
wider range of poems and a larger number of class literary review at a popular price.<br />
authors. In a book of this kind it is impossible Mr. George A. Birmingham has just published<br />
to include everything, but the judgment of the “ The Lighter Side of Irish Life," with sixteen<br />
editor is thoroughly trustworthy and reliable. Mr. colour illustrations by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A., at<br />
Gerhart Hauptmann's short preface is also the price of 58. net, from the house of T. N. Foulis.<br />
interesting, and we note with great pleasure his The book is written in Mr. Birmingham's best<br />
reference to Mr. George Meredith, the late vein, and has many good stories, but there is also<br />
President of the Society.<br />
a great deal of sound information about the people,<br />
Early in December Messrs. Macmillan & Co. their habits and customs. The illustrations are<br />
published “ Tennyson and his friends," a record quite first class and well reproduced.<br />
of the friendships of Tennyson and his son. It is “Milestones,” by Marcia Knight, is a collection<br />
edited by Hallam Lord Tennyson, and the chapters of poems, some of which have appeared in The<br />
have been planned and arranged by him to follow Gentlewoman, The Pall Mall Gazette, and Vanity<br />
the sequence of the poet's life. The contributors Fair. Many of them deal with nature and country<br />
include Emily Lady Tennyson, Mr. Willingham life, on which the author writes with sympathy.<br />
Rawnsley, Charles Tennyson, Sir Henry Craik, Dr. Messrs. Constable and Co. are the publishers.<br />
Warren, Edward Fitzgerald, Lady Ritchie, Mrs. Miss M. A. Woods has just published her<br />
Margaret L. Woods, Professor Jowett, Mr. H. G. monthly poetical Calendar in book form, under the<br />
Dakyns, Dr. Montagu Butler, Sir Charles Stanford, title “Day by Day with the Poets : a Calendar and<br />
Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Norman Lockyer, the Bishop Treasury of English Verse for any Year.” A copy<br />
of Ripon, and other notable people. The editor of the book has been accepted by Queen Alexandra.<br />
has inserted at appropriate points groups of well Mr. Clive Holland, the author of many novels<br />
known poems addressed to or describing friends and topographical works, has just been fêted at<br />
of Tennyson's early or later life.<br />
Bournemouth by his fellow townsmen, who through<br />
Mr. Ralph Nevill's new book, “ Floreat Etona," the medium of the Westbourne Literary Society<br />
while abounding in anecdote, is also an historical gave a dinner in his honour, at which a goodly<br />
record of various quaint customs and usages, so few number of the professional and business men of<br />
of which have lasted into the present age. There Bournemouth were present. Mr. Holland's health<br />
are eight illustrations in colour. Messrs. Macmillan was proposed, and the wide range of his work<br />
are the publishers.<br />
referred to by Mr. Harold Salt.<br />
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. publish also (1) “Style Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. will publish early in<br />
in Musical Art," by Sir Hubert Parry, which is the new year, “ The Life and Times of Countess<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Bentinck, 1715—1799," by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, Mr. Harry Tighe's last novel, * Intellectual<br />
who possesses many of Countess Bentinck's letters. Marie” (John Long), has gone into a second<br />
The two volumes will contain extracts from letters edition. In the Christmas Pall Mall Magazine he<br />
to Countess Bentinck from Frederick the Great, has an Eastern fairy story, "The Moon-Child-<br />
Voltaire, the Princess of Zerbst (Mother of Mother of the Fireflies," illustrated by Frank C.<br />
Catherine II. of Russia), who was a cousin of Papé.<br />
Countess Bentinck's, her intimate friend Count “Tales of Seven Islands," by Evelyn Adams, is<br />
Mercy d'Argenteau, and many other well-known a collection of stories with the life and incidents in<br />
people. While searching family archives in the Pacific. The scenes are laid variously, and the<br />
England, Holland and Germany, Mrs. Aubrey Le sphere of them embraces such different ways of life<br />
Blond came on the track of an historical mystery as are represented in places as widely apart as the<br />
connected with the Royal Family of France, which isles of the North Pacific and the southern limits<br />
she hopes to deal with in a later work, the time of Australia. Mr. Henry J. Drane is the pub-<br />
being long past when a full disclosure would be lisher.<br />
indiscreet. " The Life of Countess Bentinck” will Mr. J. Arthur Hill has written, and Messrs.<br />
be illustrated by photographs from pictures in William Rider & Son, Limited, have published, &<br />
various private collectiors, including those of book dealing with religion and modern psychology.<br />
Welbeck Abbey (the Duke of Portland), of Count It is a study of present tendencies, particularly the<br />
Bentinck (Holland), and Mr. H. Aldenburg religious implications of the scientific belief in<br />
Bentinck (India), and of Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, survival, with a discussion on Mysticism.<br />
nearly all, till now, unpublished.<br />
Miss May Crommelin's new novel, written in<br />
Mrs. L. Allen Harker's new novel “Mr. collaboration with Mr. Alfred Williams, and entitled<br />
Wycherley's Wards," was published last month by “ The Isle of the Dead,” was produced on<br />
Mr. John Murray in England, and Messrs. Charles November 15. The scene is mainly laid in an<br />
Scribners' Sons in the United States of America. island of the Alentian group, known to Mr. Wil-<br />
The Christmas edition of Miss Annie Matheson's liams, who is an American mining engineer, and<br />
poems having now been out of print for a year, the peopled by Indians differing from those on the<br />
publishers, The Oxford University Press, have mainland. Miss Crommelin has also used her own<br />
reprinted it in a new volume by Miss Matheson experiences in California, which she visited soon<br />
entitled “Roses, Loaves, and Old Rhymes,” in after the great earthquake at San Francisco.<br />
which have been included, also, ten later poems. Messrs. Nelson & Sons have published Miss Emily<br />
Of the latter several are simultaneously included in Underdown's new book “ The Gateway to Spenser:<br />
“ Leaves of Prose," and one has already appeared in Tales retold from the Fairy Queen," with sixteen<br />
“ By Divers Paths,” both volumes being interleaved coloured plates by Frank Papé, and numerous black<br />
with occasional verse, thus attaining among lovers and white ones. This book is issued uniform with the<br />
of prose a rather different audience.<br />
same author's “Gateway to Romance : Tales retold<br />
“Good Cheer." The romance of food and from The Earthly Paradise," published two years<br />
feasting, by F. W. Hackwood, deals with the food- ago.<br />
stuffs of all nations and the culinary practices of Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. announce the publica-<br />
all ages. The subject is approached from the tion of Miss Ada Earland's story of “ John Opie<br />
historic and picturesque side, reference is made to and his Circle.” Opie was the son of a Cornish<br />
the dietary of the Scriptures, a Roman banquet, and labourer, and received recognition of his extra-<br />
Old English fare: to seasonal festivals : to national ordinary gifts at an early age. He came to London<br />
dishes: to feasting and fasting, and the influence in the company of Dr. John Wolcot, better known<br />
of diet upon health and character. The volume is by his pen-name of “ Peter Pindar." Opie's work<br />
profusely illustrated. It is published by Mr. Fisher won the admiration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in<br />
Unwin, who will issue in 1912 another work from the present work the author has attempted to tell<br />
the pen of Mr. Hackwood. In this later volume, the story of the artist's life fully and adequately.<br />
Mr. Hackwood will deal with the life and times of The author has collected much new material, and<br />
William Hone, the writer on popular antiquities, many pictures are reproduced in the book for the<br />
compiler of “The Every Day Book,” “ The Year first time. A list of Opie's pictures forms a copious<br />
Book," and “The Table Book," and friend of appendix to the book.<br />
Charles Lamb, George Cruikshank and other A New Year poem from the pen of Alfred Smythe<br />
notabilities of his time. The biography has been appears in the January number of the Westminster<br />
authoritatively compiled from the family's private Review.<br />
papers.<br />
Part VII. of “The Renaissance in Italian Art,"<br />
Mr. W. L. George has been appointed literary by Selwyn Brinton, treats of Leonardo at Milan.<br />
editor of Vanity Fair.<br />
This volume ends the series, which gives a com-<br />
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plete account of the art of the Italian revival, natural specimens taken by Mr. T. Ernest Waltham,<br />
richly illustrated. Each volume—there are nine in by a new process of colour photography. The<br />
all—is published by Messrs. George Bell & Son, most improved methods of colour-printing will be<br />
at 28. 6d. net.<br />
employed in their reproduction.<br />
Mr. Martin Secker is about to publish “White Miss Beatrice Harraden's new novel, of which<br />
Webs," a new novel by Theo. Douglas (Mrs. H. D. Messrs. Nelson have also acquired the serial rights,<br />
Everett). The book will appear this month. It is will be published by them in the spring, in book<br />
a romance of Sussex, and deals with the Jacobite form, at 2s. They will also include it in their<br />
plottings which followed the rising of 1745.<br />
Continental Library. Messrs. Frederick Stokes & Co.<br />
A third edition of Mr. J. Johnston Abraham's are to be the publishers in America.<br />
recent volume “ The Surgeon's Log : being Impres- The Poetry Society, which was founded first<br />
sions of the Far East," is in the press.<br />
under the title of “The Poetry Recital Society,"<br />
The Council of the Library Association has in 1909, has published, monthly or quarterly, an<br />
arranged a course of lectures, to be delivered by official journal, under the provisional title, The<br />
Mr. R. A. Peddie, on “Reference Books for Poetical Gazette. Lately a committee has been<br />
Librarians and Readers." The lectures will be formed for the purpose of co-operating with the<br />
held (by permission of the Trustees) in the Lecture society in the production of a standing monthly<br />
Room of the British Museum, on Saturday after- review of poetic literature, in which the Gazette<br />
noons, at 3 P.M. The dates of the lectures still to will be incorporated. The first issue of the new<br />
be given are January 27, 1912, February 10, periodical will appear in January, 1912, under the<br />
February 24, March 23. Admission is free. No title The Poetry Review. The contents will be<br />
tickets are required.<br />
divided into four sections. The first will consist of<br />
Mrs. Perrin has been elected President of the articles on subjects connected with poetry and<br />
Society of Women Journalists for 1911–12. A poetic criticism and biography. The second will<br />
serial by Mrs. Perrin, called “Colour Blind,” is contain reviews of modern European poetry. Next,<br />
ronning in The Times Weekly Edition, and will be about six pages will be devoted to the publication<br />
published by Messrs. Methuen & Co. in the course of modern poetry, representing in each issue the<br />
of next year.<br />
work of only one individual poet. The fourth<br />
“The Woman Hunter " is the title of Miss section will be the Gazette of the society. The<br />
Arabella Kenealy's new novel published this month price of the Review will be 6d. All communications<br />
by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. The book has for should be addressed to the office of The Poetry<br />
its theme the degradation of love as a result of the Review, 93, Chancery Lane, W.C.<br />
monastic idea, and shows the higher awakening and “School and Country” is a little book by R. K.<br />
evolution of a libertine—the “Woman Hunter” of Crawford, written with the object of inculcating<br />
the title—by the power of a great passion. The a spirit of patriotism in the young. It describes,<br />
John Lane Co. of New York have recently in simple language, the services rendered by the<br />
issued an American edition of Miss Kenealy's State to its members, and emphasises the obligations<br />
novel “ The Mating of Anthea,” the first eugenics which are due to the State in return. Messrs.<br />
novel to be written.<br />
Hodges, Figgis & Co. are the publishers.<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. are publishing this<br />
month “ The Activities of Lavie Jutt," by Mar-<br />
DRAMATIC NOTES.<br />
guerite and Armiger Barclay. During the same<br />
month John Long & Co. will publish Oliver Sandys Mr. Cecil Raleigh and Mr. Paul Rubens are<br />
(Mrs. Armiger Barclay) new novel, “ Chicane;" writing the next piece for the Gaiety Theatre.<br />
and a second edition of “Letters from Fleet Street," Mr. Rubens will also be responsible for the music<br />
originally published anonymously by Frank Palmer, of the piece, while the lyrics will be in the hands<br />
will be issued under Mr. and Mrs. Barclay's joint of Mr. Arthur Wimperis.<br />
names. Twelve stories by Mr. and Mrs. Barclay The next Drury Lane drama will be the joint<br />
have appeared in Christmas numbers during 1911; work of Mr. Raleigh and Mr. Henry Hamilton.<br />
and as many more are due to appear in various What the drama will be about has not yet been<br />
English magazines within the next month or two. finally settled, but the authors have two dramas<br />
In the U.S.A. magazines these writers have recently sketched, one rather more of a domestic drama<br />
placed a variety of short stories and articles.<br />
than they have done at the Lane as yet.<br />
Messrs. E. T. & E. C. Jack announce a new Mr. Raleigh has also arranged with Mr. Arthur<br />
colour series for flower lovers, entitled “ Present- Collins to adapt his new French purchase “ Le<br />
Day Gardening." It is edited by R. Hooper Petit Café.”<br />
Pearson. Each volume will be illustrated by eight Mr. James Bernard Fagan's dramatisation of<br />
plates in colour, reproduced from photographs of Mr. Robert Hichens' novel, “ Bella Donna," was<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
produced at the St. James' Theatre on December 9.<br />
Mr. George Alexander, Mrs. Patrick Campbell,<br />
Mr. Athol Stewart, and Miss Mary Grey are in<br />
the cast.<br />
On Sunday, December 3, “ La Chute du<br />
Dieu,” “ La Femme de l'Acteur,” and “Le<br />
Lieutenant Felberg," three plays by B. Morley<br />
Steynor, were produced at the Theatre Français de<br />
Londres. The French actor from the Grand<br />
Guignol Théâtre, Louis Tunc, appeared in the plays<br />
and was supported by M. Pierre Maugue, M.<br />
Maurice Wick, Mlle. Nulsson Norva, and Mlle.<br />
Yvette Bariel.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
M HE Goncourt Academy has awarded its annual<br />
I prize to M. Alphonse de Chateaubriant for<br />
his novel entitled “M. des Lourdines.”<br />
The second volume of Pierre de Nolhac's<br />
“ Histoire du Château de Versailles" has just<br />
been published. This volume is Versailles sous<br />
Louis XIV. No author could be better qualified<br />
than M. de Nolhac to treat this subject. As Curator<br />
of the Château of Versailles, he is living in the<br />
palace surrounded by all the pictures and documents<br />
relating to the past history of Versailles. The<br />
volume is illustrated with many hitherto unpublished<br />
sketches, some of which belong to the private collec-<br />
tion of the King of England.<br />
Pierre de Vaissière's new volume will be of<br />
interest to all who care to study the psychology of<br />
criminals. It is entitled “Récits du Temps des<br />
Troubles (XVI° siècle) De quelques Assassins.”<br />
The subjects treated are those concerning Jean<br />
Poitrot, Seigneur de Maurevert ; Jean Yanowitz,<br />
dit Besme ; Henri III. et les “ Quarante-Cinq”;<br />
and Jacques Clément.<br />
As an exact contrast to this is a book published<br />
by Georges Eliac entitled “Un après-midi chez<br />
Julie de Lespinasse." A preface has been written<br />
to this by the Marquis de Ségur.<br />
M. Xavier Paoli, ancien commissaire délégué<br />
auprès des souverains en France, publishes a book<br />
on “Leurs Majestés,” in which he gives his impres-<br />
sions of Elisabeth d'Autriche, Alphonse XIII., Le<br />
Shah de Perse, Nicolas II., Victor-Emmanuel III.,<br />
Léopold II., Edouard VII., Wilhelmine de Hollande,<br />
Georges 1er, Sisowath, Victoria d'Angleterre.<br />
Mme. W. Nicati publishes a study of “Elisabeth<br />
Browning, Femme et Poète."<br />
The “ Souvenirs de Ch. de Freycinet” will be<br />
read with great curiosity and interest. The truth con-<br />
cerning many political questions dating from 1848<br />
will be found in this volume.<br />
“L’Empire allemand et l'Empereur” is a<br />
study by Pierre Baudin, and “Derrière la Façade<br />
allemande," another study of Germany, which after<br />
the long Franco-German conflict on the Morocco<br />
question is also instructive. “ Allemands et<br />
Polonais," by Dr. Victor Nicaise, with a prerace<br />
by M. Henri Welschinger, is a study of the struggle<br />
of the Poles. The volume was presented by M.<br />
Welschinger to the Académie des Sciences Morales<br />
et Politiques at its November meeting. It is a<br />
comprehensive study and a dramatic story of the<br />
struggle of the Poles to preserve their language,<br />
and should be read by all who are interested in the<br />
struggle of civilisations and the psychology of<br />
children.<br />
A book which will be read with curiosity and<br />
interest by scientists is a volume recently published<br />
by Martin Kuckuck of St. Petersburg. It is entitled<br />
“L'Univers, être vivant” (La Solution des Pro-<br />
blèmes de la Matière et de la Vie à l'aide de la<br />
Biologie universelle). It is divided into four parts,<br />
(1) Cosmobiologie; la vie de l'univers ; (2) Plasmo-<br />
biologie; la vie de la substance; (3) Cytobiologie;<br />
la vie de la cellule ; (4) Géobiologie ; la vie de la<br />
Terre. Among the subjects treated are La Méthode<br />
du travail, L'essence de la vie, L'âme et l'esprit ;<br />
le sens propre de ces mots, etc.<br />
M. C. Wagner, the author of “The Simple Life”<br />
has just published a new book entitled “ Ce qu'il<br />
faudra toujours." Among the most striking of the<br />
chapters are the following : Choses abolies et<br />
choses qui demeurent.—De l'initiative-Valeurs<br />
marchandes et valeurs d'âme.<br />
“ La Crise du Français et la Réforme universi-<br />
taire " is the title of a little book by Abel Faure,<br />
in which the author assures us that there is no<br />
crisis, that the language is simply continuing its<br />
evolution. The book has come at the right moment,<br />
and the tone of it is optimistic.<br />
“Sous le Manteau Vénitien” (Silhouettes de la<br />
fin du XVIII° siècle) is the title of a book by<br />
Prince Frédéric de Hohenlohe Waldembourg.<br />
“L'Homme aux Papillons," by Théodore Cahu, is<br />
a charming book worthy of the author of “Doute<br />
mortel,” “L'Oubli ” and “ Vers la Paix,"<br />
Romain Rolland continues his long series of<br />
volumes. “Le Buisson ardent " is the second of<br />
“ La Fin du Voyage.”<br />
Among the volumes of poetry is one entitled<br />
“Souffles d'Océan,” containing some exquisite<br />
poems by the Duchesse de Rohan. A volume<br />
entitled “Le Temple du Rêve,” by the Baronne<br />
de Baye has also appeared recently.<br />
Another posthumous volume is announced con-<br />
taining the “ Lettres de Jeunesse " of Charles-<br />
Louis Philippe to Henri Vandeputte.<br />
Maurice Bouchor has just published a volume<br />
entitled “ Contes à lire ou à faire lire aux Enfants."<br />
M. Maurice Muret publishes a volume called<br />
orre<br />
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" Les Contemporains Etrangers ” in which he " Leurs Majestés” (Ollendorff).<br />
studies the following authors : Giosue Carducci,<br />
" Elisabeth Browning, Femmé et Poète" (Perrin).<br />
" Souvenirs de Ch. de Freycinet” (Delagrave).<br />
Antonio Fogazzaro, Mme. Annie Vivanti, A. Strind-<br />
“L'Empire allemand et l'Empereur" (Flammarion).<br />
berg, Selma Lagerlöf, George Bernard Shaw, G. “ Derrière la Façade allemande" (Chapelot).<br />
Hauptmann, C. Spitteler, Mlle. E. de Handel, “ Allemands et Polonais” (Marches de l'Est).<br />
Mazzetti and K. Schönherre.<br />
“L'Univers, être vivant” (Fischbacher).<br />
“ Ce qu'il faudra toujours à (Armand Colin).<br />
Never have foreign authors been so much read<br />
“La Crise du Français et la Réforme universitaire"<br />
in France as at the present moment. Bernard (Stock).<br />
Shaw and his plays are at present the subject of a " Sous le Manteau Vénitien ” (Bernard Grasset).<br />
series of lectures to be given at the Hôtel des<br />
“L'Homme aux Papillons " (Bernard Grasset).<br />
“Le Buisson ardent” (Ollendorff).<br />
Sociétés savantes and at the Sorbonne by M.<br />
“ Souffles d'Océan " (Calmann Levy).<br />
Augustin Hamon.<br />
“Le Temple du Rêve" (Perrin).<br />
A volume of Bernard Shaw's plays, translated “Lettres de Jeunesse" įRiviere).<br />
into French by Augustin and Henriette Hamon, is<br />
“ Contes à lire ou à faire lire aux Enfants" (Armand<br />
Colin).<br />
to be published in March.<br />
“Les Contemporains Etrangers ” (Fontemoing).<br />
A most amusing book for children has been “ Drôles de Bètes ” (A. Tolmer).<br />
written and illustrated by André Hellé. Its<br />
title is “Drôles de Bêtes," and, in the sketches,<br />
the artist has succeeded admirably in giving<br />
UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
children an idea of the outlines of the various<br />
animals. In an extremely witty way, he gives<br />
his comments on the scenes he depicts. The DCHOES hare reached England of the dis-<br />
whole book is most entertaining, and will be<br />
cussion which has been agitating the<br />
enjoyed by the grown-ups quite as much as by the<br />
literary world—or at least the commercial<br />
children.<br />
side of the literary world—in America during<br />
A curious legal case has just been tried in the past autumn ; the discussion, to wit, on the<br />
Paris. The proprietor of a financial journal took value of “best sellers." Perhaps it need hardly<br />
for his title La Revue Financière des Deux Mondes. be added that the point at issue was not the<br />
M. Francis Charmes, editor of the Revue des Deux artistic value of a very popular book, but its value<br />
Vondes, who considered that this would be detri- as a “ business proposition.”<br />
mental to his review, has won his case, and the Mr. Robert S. Yard, of Moffatt, Yard & Co..<br />
financial journal is compelled to omit the words set the ball rolling in an article in the Saturday<br />
Deux Mondes from his review and also from all Evening Post. He called this “ The Worst<br />
his bill heads, writing paper and telegraphic Business in the World,” dealing at large with the<br />
address. As the Revue des Deux Mondes dates dangers and drawbacks of the publishing pro-<br />
from 1829, it was considered that this new paper fession. But the most notable part of the article<br />
was about to trade on the fame which the older<br />
de on the fame which the older was the denunciation of best sellers, fortified by<br />
one had won.<br />
the opinion of “one of the most distinguished<br />
In the Revue de Paris, Albert Duchêne writes publishers in America," who declared that he<br />
on “Le Maroc et le Gouvernement de l'Afrique didn't want them, as they were too expensive, and<br />
française," and Auguste Gauvain on “L’Europe he couldn't afford them. This publisher marshalled<br />
d'aujourd'hui.” M. Houllevigue writes an article figures to prove that if a best seller reached a sale<br />
on "L'Observatoire du Mont Wilson.”<br />
of 100,000 copies in the course of its run, while its<br />
At the Odéon David Copperfield is still on profit to the author would be about £6,000, to the<br />
the bill.<br />
publisher it would only bring about £500. He<br />
“Les Sauterelles" is the title of M. Emile concluded : “Besides yielding no profit, it<br />
Fabre's piece, in five acts, now being given at the actually hogs the whole attention of the house<br />
Vaudeville.<br />
to the exclusion of the other and really important<br />
At the Porte Saint-Martin, “ La Flambée,” by books—the books that bulked together really<br />
M. Henry Kistemeckers, is being given.<br />
make profit, and the books that carry the dignity<br />
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is opening the season and the prestige and the power and the influence<br />
with “Lucrèce Borgia.”<br />
of the house. It eclipses them all.”<br />
A direct personal interest in the question of<br />
“M. des Lourdines” (Bernard Grasset).<br />
best sellers is, unfortunately, the lot of very few<br />
" Histoire du Château de Versailles" (Emile Paul). authors, in America or elsewhere. Nor can it be<br />
" Récits du Temps des Troubles (XVI. siècle) De quel.<br />
a great concern of theirs how such works affect<br />
ques Assassins (Emile Paul).<br />
“ Un après-midi chez Julie de Lespinasse" (Emile the publisher's pocket. But certainly they are<br />
Paul).<br />
entitled to feel uneasy at the thought of the best<br />
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sellers being allowed to “ hog the whole attention “The Ne'er-Do-Well” have already appeared in<br />
of the house.” At a Washington trial not long the best sellers list—though the third of these has<br />
ago the wife of a millionaire submitted in court not pleased the reviewers half as well as the reading<br />
an account of her monthly expenses ; from which public. In the late spring or early summer<br />
it appeared that she spent on an average $2012 per women writers were very active, notable books<br />
month, of which only the odd $2 were devoted to being “ The Colonel's Story," by Mrs. Roger<br />
books. Now, if the publisher thrusts on her Pryor; “A Big Horse to Ride," by (Miss) E. D.<br />
attention only his best sellers, calculate what Dewing; “ The Bramble Bush," by Caroline<br />
amount of support per annum the millionaire's Fuller; “ Kilmeny of the Orcbard," by L. M.<br />
wife contributes to the ordinary run of authors ! Montgomery ; “Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who<br />
To turn from so painful a thought to the Laughed,” by Edna Ferber ; and “The Iron<br />
actual question of the most successful books in Woman," by Margaret Delanů. Male authorship<br />
the United States during recent months : In the was represented by Jacques Futrelle's “ Secretary<br />
spring, the top places in the list of six best sellers of Frivolous Affairs ” ; “The Measure of a Man,"<br />
in fiction were occupied by the since-deceased by Norman Duncan (known previously as the<br />
Vaughan Kester's “ Prodigal Judge,” and Jeffery writer of “ Doctor Luke of the Labrador '') ;<br />
Farnol's “ Broad Highway." These two novels “Victor Olnee's Discipline," by Hamlin Garland ;<br />
remained in “ The Big Six” (as some of the “The Vintage,” by Joseph Sharts ; “ Tales of the<br />
papers sportingly call the list) right down to the Town,” by Charles Belmont Davis ; “ The Carpet<br />
end of August. H. S. Harrison's “ Queed," for from Bagdad,” by Harold MacGrath ; and<br />
which the critics all prophesied a great future, “Kennedy Square,” by F. Hopkinson Smith,<br />
fulfilled expectations, and, after running the two author of that masterpiece “ Colonel Carter of<br />
just-mentioned novels close, survived them into Cartersville.”<br />
September. Meanwhile in August “ The Winning More recent novels are "Mother Carey's<br />
of Barbara Worth" by Harold Bell, and “ The Chickens” by Kate Douglas Wiggin, and<br />
Ne'er-Do-Well ” by Rex Beach, came to the front, “Mother " by Kathleen Norris, both very senti-<br />
and in September they were first and third respec- mental, but none the less likely to succeed for<br />
tively, second place being taken by Robert W. that. Whether one should class Mr. Farnol as an<br />
Chambers with “ The Common Law,” which ran American author is doubtful; but anyhow his<br />
into three editions in its first month of life.<br />
“ Money Moon” bids fair to rival in the States<br />
Outside fiction, the books which have most the popularity of “ The Broad Highway.” In<br />
often appeared among the best sellers are “ The “As the Sparks Fly Upward,” Cyrus Townsend<br />
Doctor's Dilemma” and “How to Live on Twenty- Brady presents a Pacific island-wreck story ; in<br />
Four Hours a Day”—Messrs. Shaw and Arnold “ Philip Steele," J.O. Curwood, a romance of the<br />
Bennett thus continuing their wonderful success Canadian mounted police ; in “Rebellion," J. M.<br />
in the early part of the year and Olive Schreiner's Patterson (author of “A Little Brother of the<br />
“Woman and Labor”; while Price Collier's Rich"), a divorce problem novel. William Dubois,<br />
“ The West in the East," and the other Bennett's who gives us “The Quest of the Silver Fleece," is<br />
“ Mental Efficiency” take a high place, and a gentleman of colour, who writes exceedingly<br />
Wagner's “My Life" has commenced what is well about his own people. Detective novels are<br />
expected to be a long run. Nor must “ Paper represented by A. K. Green's “ Initials Only,"<br />
Bag Cookery" by M. Soyer, the chef, be forgotten. and by “ Average Jones,” whose creator, Samuel<br />
It will be seen that the native authors hold their Hopkins Adams, collaborated in “ The Mystery."<br />
own better in fiction than in other literature. George Barr McCutcheon's new story is “ Mary<br />
The general output of books has been tremen- Midthorne,” and Randall Parrish in “My Lady<br />
dous since the last “United States Notes” of Doubt " goes to the War of Independence for<br />
appeared in The Author, and supplies a curious his setting. The late Myrtle Reed left behind<br />
comment on Mr. Robert Yard's plaintive con- her“ A Weaver of Dreams," published after her<br />
tention that publishing is “ the worst business death.<br />
in the world.” It is rather difficult to decide Two translations from the German may be men-<br />
which works deserve special mention here, so many tioned : “ The Indian Lily," a collection of tales by<br />
are there to choose from, and it being impossible Sudermann, and Hauptmann's remarkable « The<br />
to read them all. But an attempt must be made Fool in Christ,” which will doubtless be seen in<br />
to give the names of the principal additions to England before long.<br />
American literature, at the risk of omitting some There has been a good crop of biographies in the<br />
which time may show to be better fitted to survive. second half of 1911. These include " Andrew<br />
To begin with fiction, “The Winning of Jackson,” by Professor John Spencer Bassett;<br />
Barbara Worth," “ The Common Law," and “Harriet Beecher Stowe," by Charles Edward and<br />
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Lyman Beecher Stowe, her son and grandson; Other social difficulties receive attention in<br />
“ The True Daniel Webster," by Dr. S. G. Fisher; “Half a Man," by Mary White Ovington, who<br />
« Statesmen of the Old South" (Jefferson, Calhoun, deals with the New York negro ; " The History and<br />
and Davis), by W. E. Dodd ;“ William H. Seward,” Problems of Organized Labor," by Dr. F. T. Carlton,<br />
by E. E. Hale, junior, and “Stephen A. Douglas," Professor of Economics and History at Albion<br />
by H. P. Willis, both in the American Crisis series. College ; and “The Passing of the Idle Rich," by<br />
The Yale University Press has issued Dr. W. S. Frederick Townsend Martin.<br />
Culbertson's “ Alexander Hamilton : An Essay." The travel-books of the second half of the past<br />
• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley," by Professor year hare not been very many. “Across South<br />
Everett Kimball, is a study of the colonial policy America,” by Hiram Bingham, is a diary of a trip<br />
of the Stuarts in New England. “The Diary of from Lima to Buenos Aires. “ Jungle Trails and<br />
Gideon Welles,” to wbich John T. Morse, junior, Jungle People," from the pen of Caspar Whitney,<br />
supplies an introduction, is said to be the only deals with the Far East. “A Woman's World<br />
account of the administrations of Lincoln and Tour in a Motor," by Mrs. Clark-Fisher, records<br />
Johnson from inside the cabinets of both statesmen. the experiences of 23,000 miles in a car. Another<br />
Historical works are “ France in the American motoring book is Lee Meriwether's “Seeing Europe<br />
Rerolution,” by James Breck Perkins (who, as the by Automobile.” “ The Cabin," written and illus-<br />
New York Nation points out, is one of the rare trated by Stewart Edward White, describes the<br />
scholars who have figured in Congress, having Sierras. “Through the Heart of Canada," by<br />
formerly been Congressman for New York); “ The Frank Yeigh, has come in for high praise.<br />
Indian Wars of New England,” by Herbert Milton “Florida Trails," by Winthrop Packard, perbaps<br />
Sylvester ; “ A Short History of the United States belongs to a class by itself. The author, Winthrop<br />
Navy," by Captain G. R. Clark and others; “ The Packard, has a big reputation in the United States<br />
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787," by as a writer about pature. An aspect of nature-<br />
Professor Max Farrand, of Yale; and “ Sectionalism study, under artificial conditions, is considered in<br />
in Virginia from 1776 to 1861," by Dr. C. H. Mrs. Alfred Ely's “ The Practical Flower Garden,"<br />
Amber. In this class may be put also Charles A. which attained to the dignity of a best-seller on its<br />
Hanna's - The Wilderness Trail,” which has the first appearance in the spring.<br />
rather portentous sub-title “ The Ventures and Among philosophical publications the first place<br />
Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the is naturally taken by the late Professor James's<br />
Allegheny Path, with some new Annals of the Old posthumous work, “Some Problems of Philosophy."<br />
West, and the Records of Some Strong Men and If we may be allowed to imitate the advertisement<br />
Some Bad Ones"! In “Studies : Military and editor and reserve a space for “unclassified or late,"<br />
Diplomatic," Charles Francis Adams writes about there are several noteworthy books which may here<br />
the strategy of the War of Independence and the be grouped together. For instance, there is General<br />
military and diplomatic aspects of the Civil War. Hiram Chittenden's “ War or Peace,” in which an<br />
The scope of “ The President's Cabinet," by H. B. American soldier argues very strongly on behalf of<br />
Learned, published by the Yale University Press, is peace. There is “American Addresses," a new<br />
sufficiently explained by its title—the President, of volume of essays by Joseph H. Choate. Richard<br />
course, being that of the United States.<br />
Le Gallienne is responsible for “ The Loves of the<br />
Books on the Woman Question have been Poets,” which its publishers describe as a “holiday<br />
numerous. Among them are Mrs. Pankhurst's book” and which handles the love-stories of such<br />
“ The Suffragette” ; “The Woman Movement in divers persons as the Brownings, Mary Stuart and<br />
America,” by Belle Squire, a very prominent Chastelard, Georges Sand and Chopin, Michel<br />
American suffragist ;“ What Eight Million Women Angelo and Vittoria Colonna. “ The Letters of<br />
Want,” by Rheta Childe Dorr ; "A Short History Sarah Orne Jewett” have been edited by Mrs.<br />
of Women's Rights” (from the Augustan age to James T. Fields. “The Greatest Street in the<br />
the present day), by Eugene A. Hecker; " The World,"—.., Broadway, New York—is written<br />
Women of To-morrow," by William Hard ; and about by Stephen Jenkins—and also by J. B.<br />
“ Woman's Part in Government,” by W. H. Allen. Kerfoot, who calls his book simply “Broadway."<br />
“A Woman Alone,” a true story of a girl's struggle “ Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing" is the<br />
to maintain herself in New York, is a consideration subject chosen by Dr. G. B. Cutten, President of<br />
of the question from a different point of view. And Acadia University, New York. And finally Paul S.<br />
“ The Girl that Goes Wrong" is different again, as Reinsch has produced “ Intellectual and Political<br />
will be understood when it is said that the author Currents in the Far East," which attempts to bring<br />
is R. W. Kauffman, who wrote the terrible and the history of the modern Orient right up to date.<br />
truthful novel “ The House of Bondage," mentioned The obituary of the past few months is unhappily<br />
in the last - United States Notes."<br />
rather large. On July 4th Vaughan Kester, author<br />
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of “ The Prodigal Judge,” died after a long illness; It appeared from the evidence that subscribers<br />
and on the same day Franklin Fyles, playwright to the Little French Theatre Society received<br />
and former dramatic editor of the New York Sun. tickets and were entitled to attend performances<br />
A month later died Lieutenant-Colonel L. L. Bruff, of plays at the theatre, as well as concerts, recital,<br />
one of the foremost writers on ordnance and explo- and lectures, and it was contended on behalf of the<br />
sives in America. On August 17th Mrs. Myrtle defendant, that the society was carried on in the<br />
Reed (McCullough) committed suicide after a period same way as other similar societies, such as<br />
of insomnia and depression, leaving a finished novel, the Stage Society, which was composed of mem-<br />
whose publication is noticed above. Her “Love bers whose subscriptions entitled them to admission<br />
Letters of a Musician " appeared first in 1899, when to the performances of certain plays, and that they<br />
Myrtle Reed was twenty-five. Before August closed, were private performances for members of the<br />
the death occurred of Edwin Asa Dix, author of society.<br />
several novels and a travel book. Another traveller, The magistrate, however, held that the Little<br />
John Milton Dillon, author of “Motor Days in French Theatre Society was merely a colourable<br />
England,” soon followed him. The September excuse, and that the performance of French plays,<br />
losses to American literature included Joel Benton, which were advertised in the public press, were in<br />
poet, critic, and lecturer ; Mrs. Elizabeth Edson fact public performances. There was no sugges-<br />
Evans, novelist, biographer, etc. ; and Charles tion that the plays were in any way improper, but in<br />
Battell Loomis, whose humour is well known in the interests of the public it was essential that a<br />
England. Mr. Loomis had only recently celebrated theatre, where public performances of plays took<br />
(in hospital) his fiftieth birthday when he succumbed place should be licensed so as to come under the<br />
to cancer. An accidental gunshot wound, self- inspection of the County Council, because that body<br />
inflicted while out after quail on October 6th, put was responsible for the protection of the public in<br />
an end to Philip Verrill Mighels, journalist, novel- case of fire. The charge against the defendant was<br />
writer, poet, and playwright. On October 29th considered to be proved, and he was ordered to pay<br />
died Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York a fine of £10.<br />
World-leaving, by his will, two million dollars to From the observations of the magistrate, it seems<br />
support a school of journalism at Columbia Univer that the offence, for which the defendant was fined,<br />
sity. And on November 21st Kellogg Durland, was “ keeping a house of public resort for the<br />
whose best-known writings dealt with labour public performance of stage plays without a<br />
questions, committed suicide on a train journey. licence"; because the other offence with which he<br />
PHILIP WALSH.<br />
was charged, namely, “ presenting a stage play for<br />
hire in an unlicensed place,” has nothing to do<br />
with the question as to whether the performance<br />
is public or private.<br />
STAGE PLAYS AND PRIVATE SOCIETIES. What constitutes the “ public performance" of<br />
a play is a question of some difficulty, but it may<br />
be described as a performance to which the general<br />
M H ERE appears to be some uneasiness among public can obtain admission. If certain qualiti-<br />
1 members of private societies, which give un- cations are required of members of a society,<br />
authorised dramatic entertainments, owing besides the mere payment of a subscription, it is<br />
to the summary proceedings in connection with probable that a performance before the members<br />
the performances of the Little French Theatre of such society would not amount to a public<br />
Society, at the Boudoir Theatre, in Kensington. performance. But in the case of the Little French<br />
Mr. Grey, who leased the theatre from Boudoir Theatre Society there appear to have been no<br />
Companies, Ltd., was prosecuted for keeping a restrictions, the advertisements invited the general<br />
house for the public performance of stage plays, public to subscribe, and the county couucil<br />
and for presenting a stage play without a licence inspector became a member merely on payment of<br />
from the London County Council.<br />
the subscription.<br />
The proceedings were instituted under the pro- The private societies, which give performances<br />
visions of the Theatres Act, 1843, and as the of stage plays, some of which are unlicensed, hare<br />
borough of Kensington is outside the authority of no need to be alarmed at the decision in this case,<br />
the Lord Chamberlain, the licensing of the Boudoir so long as their performances are given, as is<br />
Theatre comes within the jurisdiction of the County usually the practice I believe, in a theatre which<br />
Council. An inspector of the Council paid the has been duly licensed. Still, it is advisable that<br />
subscription of 31s. 6d., and became a member of they should give attention to section 15 of the Act,<br />
the Little French Theatre Society, in order to which makes it an offence to present “for hire”<br />
attend the performances of certain French plays. an unlicensed stage play ; for it has become the<br />
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no defence, and a conviction is inevitable even<br />
when it is admitted that the prosecution is<br />
influenced by ulterior motives. A few years ago<br />
there was quite an epidemic of such prosecutions ;<br />
when the law was set in motion, sometimes by the<br />
theatrical managers who realised that their<br />
interests were being affected by the developments<br />
of music-halls, sometimes by individuals who had<br />
a personal grievance, and in the recent case,<br />
referred to above, the Actors' Association prosecuted<br />
because their members had been prejudiced by the<br />
repudiation of contracts ; so that the law, instead of<br />
being consistently enforced, as it should be if it<br />
were reasonable, is left to the caprice of indivi-<br />
duals ; and, unless they choose to prosecute, its<br />
daily violation is regarded, so far as the authorities<br />
are concerned, with the indifference of those who<br />
have no veneration for antiquity.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
habit to give unauthorised performances of stage<br />
plays, as if the payment of a subscription, instead<br />
of payment at the doors, secured the actors and<br />
organizers from liability in respect of the heavy<br />
penalties provided by the Act.<br />
The important words of the section are " for<br />
hire," and their meaning is very wide. They<br />
include “every case in which any money or reward<br />
shall be taken or charged, directly or indirectly,<br />
or in which the purchase of any article is made a<br />
condition for admission." If subscriptions, there<br />
fore, are paid merely for the sake of obtaining<br />
admission to the performances of these plays, it<br />
would seem that every actor who takes part in the<br />
entertainment must be deemed to be acting “for<br />
hire.” Fortunately, the Censor, in spite of all the<br />
indiscretions attributed to him, is not over zealous<br />
in instituting proceedings. But it is well to bear<br />
in mind that anybody who pleases may prosecute,<br />
and the Act provides that the expenses of the<br />
prosecutor, who may be the “man in the street,”<br />
shall be paid out of the penalties imposed.<br />
Another recent case under the Theatres Act was<br />
the prosecution of the New Bedford Palace of<br />
Varieties, which was summoned, for keeping a<br />
house for the public performance of the stage play<br />
entitled, “The Money Spider," without a licence<br />
for such purpose ; and it was urged on behalf of<br />
the company that the piece had been played at<br />
eighteen music halls and only lasted twelve<br />
minutes. The company was fined £30, and it was<br />
ordered that fifteen guineas out of that sum<br />
should be paid to the prosecutor for costs. The<br />
prosecution had been undertaken by the Actors<br />
Association, and it was stated by way of explan-<br />
ation that actors were engaged by music-hall<br />
proprietors, and that when the latter broke their<br />
contracts they adopted the position of challenging<br />
the actors to enforce their rights, because they knew<br />
the agreement being illegal was unenforceable.<br />
The state of the law with regard to stage plays<br />
has for many years been denounced as unsatisfac-<br />
tory, and it is strange that no amendment has yet<br />
been made. The result has been, that the Theatres<br />
Act is openly set at defiance, and there is hardly<br />
a music-hall in London where stage plays are not<br />
performed erery night, and the proprietors are<br />
liable to heavy penalties, if anyone chooses to<br />
institute proceedings. The Theatres Act was<br />
passed long before the modern music-hall came<br />
into existence, and it is obvious that its provisions<br />
require alteration to suit the change of circum-<br />
stances and the requirements of the times. It<br />
appears to be nobody's duty to prosecute, when<br />
stage plays are notoriously performed at music-balls<br />
all over the metropolis in contravention of the<br />
statute ; yet whenever proceedings are instituted,<br />
heavy fines are inflicted, because there is generally<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
1 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 />
the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' 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 without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation,<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “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 />
(5.) 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 kno#<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 />
from the ont<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 />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
N 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 />
ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
H agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
I. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i,e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
9, Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that 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 />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
ited, and that for a novice the first obiect<br />
is to obtain adequate publication,<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
TITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writerg<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. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
CENARIOS, 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 23. 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 registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
THE COPYRIGHT ACT.<br />
The Copyright Bill has now passed both Houses<br />
of Parliament. It received the Royal Assent on<br />
December 16.<br />
Pension FUND.<br />
THE secretary would like to draw the attention of<br />
the members to the fact that four bankers' orders<br />
have been received in answer to the recent Pension<br />
Fund Appeal without any signature and without<br />
any mark by which the senders could be recognised.<br />
The secretary made mention of this fact under<br />
the list of additional subscriptions and donations to<br />
the society, but desires to do so again, as the matter<br />
is one of considerable importance.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the Union of<br />
London and Smiths' Bank, Clifton, Bristol.<br />
Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the London<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
guinea to Romeike & Curtice, Ltd., for 125 cuttings<br />
on a specified subject. By the 21st September<br />
only two cuttings had been sent, although the<br />
member was aware, from other sources, of a con.<br />
siderable number of important notices upon the<br />
subject. The member then interviewed Romeike &<br />
Curtice, Ltd., complained of the bad service, and<br />
ultimately it was agreed that half a guinea should<br />
be repaid and the number of cuttings reduced<br />
to sixty. Romeike & Curtice, Ltd., failed to<br />
repay the half guinea, the secretary got no satis-<br />
faction on applying to them, and finally the<br />
matter had to be placed in the hands of the<br />
society's solicitors. Upon their sending down a<br />
clerk, a distinct promise was made to forward the<br />
money, but nothing came. As all subsequent<br />
applications were ignored, a plaint was issued in<br />
applications were i<br />
the City of London Court, and judgment was<br />
obtained against the agency on the 23rd November.<br />
This judgment has now been satisfied.<br />
THE PENSION FUND CIRCULAR.<br />
We publish in another column the list of annual<br />
subscriptions and donations received since the<br />
beginning of October. The greater mass of these<br />
are in response to the Circular sent out the<br />
beginning of November. The Society must be<br />
congratulated on the result of that Circalar appeal<br />
On going to press £85 per annum have been<br />
added to the subscriptions and £164 19s. Od. to<br />
the donations. The long list of additional annual<br />
subscribers is most satisfactory, tending to<br />
show, as it does, the unity of the Society. The<br />
Society should be proud of the fact that the Com-<br />
mittee of the Pension Fund and the Committee of<br />
Management have looked upon the Fund, as<br />
indeed have all the members of the Society, as<br />
one raised by the Fellowship of Letters on behalf of<br />
those who are members. The fine result achieved<br />
in the 12 years the Fund has been running speaks<br />
well for the independence of the Society's action.<br />
A SATISFACTORY PUBLISHER.<br />
We have much pleasure in printing a clause<br />
which has been inserted in an agreement coming<br />
from one of the best and oldest established firms in<br />
England. Indeed we should have liked to have<br />
published the name of the firm.<br />
The clause referred to runs as follows:-<br />
“In the event of the publishers securing copyright for<br />
the work in the United States, or realising profits from the<br />
sale of serial or other rights in the United States, such<br />
profits shall, after deducting all expenses relating thereto,<br />
be placed to the credit of the author.”<br />
The attention of members has often been drawn<br />
to the fact that when agents hand over the serial<br />
rights and other minor rights to the publishers,<br />
whether in the United States or elsewhere, the<br />
publishers think themselves liberal if they pay the<br />
author 50 per cent. Even if the author was<br />
successful in placing the rights himself he would<br />
have to pay the publisher 50 per cent. The agent's<br />
charges would have to be reckoned in addition to<br />
this. If the agent is energetic enough to place<br />
these rights independently of the publisher he would<br />
charge 10 per cent., however large the figure, whereas<br />
the publisher, whose agreement is quoted, after<br />
deducting all expenses (these, we suppose, would<br />
amount to one or two letters backwards and forwards<br />
and perhaps a cablegram) credits the author with<br />
the full amount. This method of doing business<br />
cannot be sufficiently highly recommended. If it<br />
pays one publisher to do business on this basis it<br />
would pay all publishers, and we trust, therefore, to<br />
see the usual clause, which is so frequently inserted<br />
to the detriment of the author, struck out of future<br />
contracts.<br />
County COURT CASE.<br />
The following case will be of interest to authors<br />
who subscribe for Press cuttings :-On the 7th<br />
September last a member of the Society paid a<br />
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THE “ Chicago DIAL."<br />
included “in his list of New Novels," clearly<br />
The Chicago Dial is one of the soundest literary<br />
leading the public to suppose that the novels<br />
reviews published the other side of the Atlantic,<br />
produced were new novels. It would be interesting<br />
and a weekly perusal of its contents will enable<br />
if such a case could be decided from the point of<br />
anyone to keep abreast of the American output,<br />
view of literary libel, but we're afraid there is no<br />
but it has, apparently, like many literary reviews,<br />
immediate prospect of there being a legal remedy.<br />
its own staff which deals with its own books and<br />
its own literary subjects.<br />
We have this placed forcibly before us by the<br />
COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br />
following letter which the editor has asked us to<br />
insert :-<br />
November 17, 1911. TN pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of<br />
SIR-It might be doing a service to English writers if 1 Association of the society, the committee give<br />
you would allow me to state through your columns that<br />
potice that the election of members of the committee<br />
the Dial does not invite MSS. from England, the character<br />
of the journal being such as to make the sending of such<br />
of management will be proceeded with in the<br />
MSS. quite useless on the part of the sender, and a needless following manner :-<br />
waste and annoyance on all sides. From the large number (1) One third of the members of the present<br />
of unavailable MSS. received from England, I am led to<br />
committee of management retire from office in<br />
think that the Dial has been announced in some English<br />
journal as inviting miscellaneous MSS. from abroad ; hence<br />
accordance with Article 17.<br />
the apparent desirability of this correction.<br />
(2) The names of the retiring members are :-<br />
Yours very truly,<br />
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes,<br />
FRANCIS F. BROWNE, Editor.<br />
Mr. Arthur Rackham,<br />
Dr. S. Squire Sprigge,<br />
Mr. Sidney Webb.<br />
FRENCH LAW CASES.<br />
(3) The date fixed by the committee up to which<br />
nominations by the subscribing members of candi-<br />
THE action brought by Anatole France against dates for election to the new committee may be<br />
the publisher Lemere has been settled. The made is the 10th day of February.<br />
dispute arose owing to the publisher desiring to (4) Mr. Sidney Webb not seeking re-election,<br />
publish now for the first time an MS. written the committee nominate the following candidates,<br />
thirty years ago. The dispute, we understand, being subscribing members of the society, to fill<br />
has been settled by the publisher undertaking to the vacancies caused by the retirement of one third<br />
make a clear statement of the date of the com- of the committee, according to the constitution :-<br />
position, and that it is published now against the<br />
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes,<br />
wishes of the author.<br />
Mr. Hesketh Pritchard,<br />
This case is a most interesting one for authors, Mr. Arthur Rackham,<br />
and it is a pity it has not been decided in the<br />
Dr. S. Squire Sprigge.<br />
French Courts in order that authors all over the The committee remind the members that, under<br />
world might see how the French law dealt with article 19 of the amended Articles of Association<br />
the subject. We must state, with regret, that it “any two subscribing members of the society may<br />
not infrequently happens that publishers take up nominate one or more subscribing members other<br />
the early publications of a famous author, either than themselves, not exceeding the number of<br />
purchasing or holding the copyright themselves, vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent<br />
and produce the work without the author's sanction to the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed<br />
and, in many cases, opposed to the author's wishes. by the candidate or candidates expressing willingness<br />
They make no statement that it is a new publica- to accept the duties of the post.<br />
tion by the author, but then, on the other hand, The complete list of candidates will be printed<br />
10 statement that it is a republication in the March issue of The Author.<br />
of an early immature work. In the cases which<br />
the society has been able to investigate it was<br />
found that the only remedy in the author's hands<br />
THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
was to make an explanation in letters to the<br />
papers, but this is unsatisfactory, as, after all,<br />
these letters only reach a limited public, and if TN order to give members of the society, should<br />
the author is a popular author, not half of his I they desire to appoint a fresh member to the<br />
circle of readers is made aware of what has taken Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has been<br />
place. In one case the publisher went so near the the custom to place in The Author a complete state-<br />
line as to state that the work of Mr. “ — " was ment of the method of election under the scheme for<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
administration of the Pension Fund. Under that Askwith, who accompanied the late Sir Henry<br />
scheme the committee is composed of three Bergne to the Berlin Conference, and who after<br />
members elected by the committee of the society, his sad death there took charge of his duties in<br />
three members elected by the society at the general connection with the contemplated reform of the<br />
meeting, and the chairman of the society for the British Law of Copyright, and Sir Hubert Llewellyn<br />
time being, ex officio. The three members elected Smith, Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade,<br />
at the general meeting when the fund was first were also present, the gathering of members and<br />
started were Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mr. Morley Roberts, their friends being an exceptionally large one.<br />
and Mr. M. H. Spielmann. These have in turn The following ladies and gentlemen presided at<br />
during the past years resigned, and submitting their the various tables :-Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim,<br />
names for re-election, have been re-elected. This Mr. Robert Ross, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mr. W. W.<br />
year Mr. Morley Roberts retires under the scheme, Jacobs, Mrs. Humphreys (Rita), and Mr. G. H.<br />
but as he does not submit his name for re-elec- Thring (Secretary). Those not already mentioned,<br />
tion, the committee have nominated as a candi- who had seats allotted to them at the High Table<br />
date for the vacancy Mr. Owen Seaman.<br />
included, Lady Falmouth, Mr. R. J. Godlee (Presi-<br />
The members have, however, power to put dent of the Royal College of Surgeons), Mrs.<br />
forward other names under clause 9, which runs as Humphry Ward, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford,<br />
follows:-<br />
Mr. Theodore Cook, Professor Adam Sedgwick,<br />
"Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com-<br />
Sir Alfred Bateman, Mrs. Frank Elliott, Sir<br />
mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring Frederick Macmillan, Sir James and Lady Yoxall,<br />
member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle, the Reverend<br />
to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general<br />
E. S. Roberts (Master of Caius College), Mr.<br />
meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the<br />
nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by<br />
Anthony Hope Hawkins, Mrs. Squire Sprigge,<br />
at least three members of the society. A list of the names Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Comyns Carr, Sir Frederic<br />
of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members Hewitt, Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Miss May Sinclair,<br />
of the society, with the annual report of the managing<br />
and Mr. Ezra Pound.<br />
committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes<br />
at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the<br />
At the conclusion of dinner, and after the usual<br />
Pension Fund Committee."<br />
loyal toasts had been proposed by the Chairman<br />
In case any member should desire to refer to the<br />
and received with enthusiasm, Mr. J. W. Comyns<br />
list of members, the list taking the elections up to<br />
Carr rose to propose the toast of “the Copyright<br />
the end of July, 1907, was published in October of<br />
that year. This list was complete at the date of<br />
Mr. Comyns Carr said :Mr. Chairman, Ladies<br />
issue, with the exception of the thirty-eight mem-<br />
and Gentlemen,-I should account it in any cir-<br />
bers referred to in the short preface. All subse-<br />
cumstances an honour to be permitted to address so<br />
quent elections have been duly chronicled in The<br />
distinguished a company. But to-night the honour<br />
Author.<br />
is great indeed, for we are met to give welcome and<br />
It will be as well, therefore, should any member acceptance to the largest instalment of justice that<br />
desire to put forward a candidate, to take the<br />
has ever been conferred on Literature by the Parlia-<br />
matter within their immediate consideration. The ment of England. In the accomplishment of this<br />
general meeting of the society is usually held in<br />
result the Society of Authors has taken its full<br />
March. It is essential that all nominations should<br />
share of labour and responsibility, and I am there-<br />
be in the hands of the secretary before the 31st of<br />
fore justly proud to stand forward as their spokes-<br />
January, 1912.<br />
man in respect of the toast which I shall offer for<br />
your acceptance.<br />
I have spoken of this Bill as an instalment,<br />
THE DINNER.<br />
because I am not here to admit that even the<br />
great concessions we have obtained exhaust the<br />
legitimate demands and aspirations of the authors of<br />
M HE annual dinner of the Society was held this country. It is very possible, I think, that in<br />
I at the Criterion Restaurant on Friday, the future Literature, like Oliver Twist, may be<br />
December 8. Held earlier in the season found asking for more, possible also that, as the<br />
than has usually been the case, the dinner marked public conscience on this subject develops, more will<br />
the passing of the Copyright Bill through Parlia- be granted.<br />
ment, and the President of the Board of Trade Speaking for myself, I may frankly avow my<br />
(The Rt. Honble. Sydney Buxton), who had charge belief in perpetual copyright as the goal at which<br />
of it in the House of Commons, occupied a seat at we should aim, and if this were the time and place, I<br />
the right hand of the Chairman, Dr. S. Squire think it could be argued and could be proved that<br />
Sprigge, as the guest of the evening. Sir George the institution of perpetual copyright under proper<br />
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state control would not only prove of advantage to<br />
authors, but also and no less to the vast community<br />
which demands reasonable access to the master-<br />
pieces of literature.<br />
To many, I am well aware, this idea of mine will<br />
seem a vain dream, but let it be remembered that<br />
the dreams of to-day often take shape and substance<br />
among the realities of to-morrow, for as Shelley<br />
truly said, poets who are the great dreamers are the<br />
acknowledged legislators of the world.<br />
But a dream, even as far-reaching as this, is often<br />
no mere forecast of the future, but a remembered<br />
vision of what the past once owned and the present<br />
has allowed to lapse, and this I make bold to say is<br />
emphatically the case in regard to an author's<br />
property in the fruits of his labours.<br />
For almost from the invention of printing to<br />
the advent of the detestable statute of Queen<br />
Anne—the first and the worst of the enactments<br />
concerning our calling,-an author enjoyed in<br />
principle and in practice that perpetual copyright in<br />
his writing, which at some future day he may<br />
recapture.<br />
But the effect of the statute of Anne, with its<br />
grudging concession of fourteen years from the<br />
date of publication, and a further fourteen years if<br />
the author had the courage to survive the first<br />
period, was to throw back the whole conception of<br />
literary property into a condition of comparative<br />
barbarism.<br />
The root idea that an author has any title to the<br />
rewards to be derived from the creations of his own<br />
brain came to be regarded with more than suspicion,<br />
and so far did this feeling develop that in 1774, in<br />
a judgment which swept away the last remnant of<br />
an author's rights at Common Law, Lord Camden<br />
declared :-<br />
“That it was not for gain that Bacon, Newton,<br />
Milton, and their like instructed the world. It<br />
would be unworthy of such men to traffic with a<br />
dirty bookseller for so much a sheet of letterpress.<br />
When the bookseller offered Milton £5 for • Paradise<br />
Lost'he did not reject it, nor accept that miserable<br />
pittance as the reward of his labour. He knew<br />
that the real price of his work was immortality, and<br />
that posterity would pay it."<br />
In this connection he would only recall the<br />
caustic remark of Thomas Hood that “the author,<br />
apparently, is required to provide for everybody's<br />
posterity but his own." And further, and with<br />
equal point, he added, “cheap bread is as desirable<br />
as cheap books, but it has not yet been thought<br />
necessary to ordain that after a certain number of<br />
crops all cornfields ought to be public property.”<br />
The spirit which animated Lord Camden's words<br />
is not obsolete. It has cropped up during the<br />
recent debates in the House of Commons on the<br />
Copyright Bill, but I have often noticed that the<br />
philanthropists are never so eager as when they<br />
are disposing of other people's property.<br />
But now, continued Mr. Carr, the Copyright Bill<br />
was passed. The provisions of that Bill were an<br />
enormous advance upon anything which Parliament<br />
had hitherto conferred upon literature. In order<br />
to realise what had been gained he would like to<br />
try and illustrate what that advance was by reference<br />
to two names, but two of the mightiest that had<br />
adorned English letters during the last 150 years.<br />
Sir Walter Scott needed no eulogy from him.<br />
Beyond all men of his own or previous generations<br />
Scott won the favour of the world, but everyone<br />
knew how the later years of his life were broken<br />
and embittered by the calamity brought about by<br />
his confiding belief in the stability and integrity of<br />
his friends, and how he thereby incurred a pro-<br />
digious debt which not even his great income was<br />
adequate to meet. Scott set himself the task of<br />
paying off this debt. He did not live to achieve it.<br />
Writing in his diary in the year 1827, he says, “I<br />
see before me a long, tedious and dark path, but it<br />
leads to stainless reputation. If I die in the<br />
harrows, as is very likely, I shall die with honour :<br />
if I achieve my task I shall have the thanks of all<br />
concerned and the approbation of my own conscience.”<br />
What a weight would have been lifted off that<br />
mighty brow if the Bill which they were met to<br />
celebrate had been in force in Scott's time !<br />
He would have been able to face death with a<br />
full confidence that the debt which he had incurred<br />
would be paid off, because not only his latter works,<br />
but those which had first brought him immortality-<br />
his poems, and “ Waverley," would still have been<br />
in copyright, and would have brought in a fund<br />
sufficient to have met his stupendous debt.<br />
Continuing, Mr. Comyns Carr said : I will make<br />
only one more reference. Within the last four days<br />
a powerful appeal has been put forward on behalf of<br />
a magician surely not less in rank than Walter Scott<br />
himself. For if Scott threw a mantle of romance<br />
over the hills and ralleys of his native land, a spell of<br />
enchantment has been thrown by Charles Dickens<br />
over the dark alleys and narrow streets of our<br />
great city of London. To such an extent, indeed,<br />
that pilgrims from the other side of the Atlantic<br />
come to visit, not the capital of England, but the<br />
London of Charles Dickens. I can speak with<br />
knowledge that that appeal is urgent, and that that<br />
appeal is just. That it should have to be made<br />
stamps with shame the laws concerning literary<br />
property under which until now we have lived.<br />
For if this Bill which we are asked to celebrate<br />
to-night had been in existence when Dickens lived<br />
there is not one of his works, from the “Pickwick<br />
Papers” of 1837 down to the fragment of “ Edwin<br />
Drood” in 1870, which would not still be in<br />
copyright, and out of which there would already<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
have been derived a sum amply sufficient to have the public. Some appeared to believe that all<br />
provided for those grandchildren of his, on whose authors were geniuses, and others, equally errone-<br />
behalf this appeal is made.<br />
ously, believed that the only equipment necessary<br />
Charles Dickens rarely allowed himself to make for authorship consisted of a stylographic pen and<br />
his romances the medium of any personal protest, a few sheets of foolscap.<br />
but there is one exception in the earlier chapters of The committee, having the best intentions,<br />
“ Nicholas Nickleby," where he vehemently inveighs desired to arrive at a satisfactory solution on the<br />
against those pirates who before the author's novel basis of give and take, some being willing to do all<br />
was completed in its monthly parts, set a garbled the taking if the others would do all the giving.<br />
version of it upon the stage.<br />
There was generally a well-disposed feeling towards<br />
Let us then count our gains. We gain an added authors, although some thought that they ought to<br />
term of copyright; we count our gains in the be protected against themselves as well as against<br />
protection accorded to the novelist in regard to his publishers, and the feeling towards publishers<br />
dramatic rights; we count our gains in a hundred did not seem to be as tender as towards authors.<br />
different ways. Our gains are enormous, and I Many regarded publishers as hard, stern persons<br />
venture to make this prophecy, that if the Copy- who had the authors in their grip. On more than<br />
right Act of 1842 has come to us labelled as one occasion he himself had pointed out that<br />
“ Macaulay's Act”—not always to his credit—the publishers were not quite as black as they were<br />
Act which will soon receive the Royal Assent will painted. The committee had been, if not between<br />
go down to posterity as “ Buxton's Act."<br />
the devil and the deep sea, at any rate between<br />
I am asked to couple with this toast the name of Scylla and Charybdis, and more than once their<br />
the President of the Board of Trade. I do so barque had rubbed against the rocks and been in<br />
gladly, and with some knowledge of what he under- imminent danger of foundering. Finally, how-<br />
took in conducting this Bill to its successful con- ever, they had passed a measure which he believed<br />
clusion. I, with others, including my friend Sir would give general satisfaction and protect both<br />
Frederick Macmillan, to whom, as well as to the authors and publishers. In the course of a few<br />
Society of Authors, the interests of literature owe days the Bill would become an Act and, they would<br />
much, watched its progress through the House of agree, not before it was wanted. Anyone who bad<br />
Commons, and I know they will not contradict my studied the copyright laws knew how full the<br />
testimony when I say that the zeal, the patience, twenty-two Acts passed since 1735 were of com-<br />
and the courage with which Mr. Sidney Buxtonplexities, anomalies and anachronisms. In such<br />
conducted this Act to its triumph imposes upon us matters they had to seize the psychological moment<br />
a lasting debt of gratitude to him. Nor must I when time, opportunity, and driving force were<br />
forget the splendid help given in Grand Committee theirs. These requisites existed in the Berlin<br />
by Sir John Simon, and to the happy efforts in Convention, the Imperial Conference, and the<br />
other directions of Sir George Askwith and Sir necessity for domestic reforms. He was rather<br />
Hubert Llewellyn Smith. I give you the toast of proud of the fact that this would be an amending<br />
“ The Copyright Bill.”<br />
and consolidating Act which repealed no less than<br />
The toast was accorded full honours.<br />
eighteen other Acts of Parliament, and the greater<br />
Mr. Sidney Buxton, in responding, referred to part of four more, and which itself consisted of<br />
himself as having but steered the boat while others only twenty-seven clauses. They were all agreed<br />
pulled the labouring oar, and associated with the that authors ought to enjoy the legitimate fruits of<br />
task of remodelling the law of copyright the names their brains. Mr. Comyns Carr had said that he<br />
of Sir Henry Bergne, Sir George Askwith, Sir was in favour of perpetual copyright, a view shared<br />
Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Sir John Simon and others. with him as nations by the republics of Nicaragua<br />
They had painted the picture, he had not done very and Guatemala. In this country the desire had<br />
much more than make the frame; he referred his been to get reasonable control, and the period of<br />
hearers to Charles Keene's drawing in Punch of the fifty years after death was taken in order to bring<br />
frame-maker visiting the Royal Academy with his England into line as far as possible with other great<br />
wife and exclaiming, as they stood before the countries. But no one would support the claim<br />
picture of the year, “On the line again! Maria ! for such a period if he believed it to be injurious to<br />
on the line again!” The task of introducing and the public or likely to put a stumbling-block in the<br />
of passing the Bill had been a difficult one, way of cheap and easily accessible literature. The<br />
requiring delicate handling. Among the seventy or more opportunity he had had of studying the<br />
eighty members who considered the measure in question the more he had come to the conclusion<br />
Grand Committee, it seemed to him, were some that copyright, far from preventing the production<br />
who were over-zealous on behalf of authors and and cheapening of books, gave a stimulus to their<br />
publishers, and some over-strenuous on behalf of production. In his opinion the cheapening and<br />
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wide circulation of books in recent years had not might not require its services, still any author's day<br />
come about in spite of, but in consequence of, of trial might come. Then he would turn to the<br />
copyright. Some people thought the extension of society, and then, regardless of all business princi-<br />
the term of copyright was all that was gained by ples, the society would help him, because it was<br />
the Bill, but there were other advantages. For the society's business to maintain the rights of<br />
example, in the case of a play the farce of a copy. literary property. But it must be noted that this<br />
right performance was done away with, and action was hopelessly unbusinesslike though forced<br />
summary remedies for the infringement of copy- upon the society by its ideals. The subscription<br />
right were given. Copyright would now date from was a guinea, or a life subscription was ten guineas.<br />
death and not from publication, which would If a large proportion of writers joined only when<br />
enable authors to produce their complete works, in trouble, the society had to spend upon them,<br />
protecting them from piracy of their earlier ones. perhaps, the subscriptions of five years before their<br />
Mr. Comyns Carr had referred to the Bill as an contributions began to help the needs of other<br />
instalment. No doubt they were all as he sug- members. If any such resigned before the five<br />
gested, Oliver Twists looking to the future for years expired, the society would actually lose by<br />
more, but copyright was not an easy subject to deal them. He earnestly begged members to stay by<br />
with. On the contrary it was a very worrying the society for the good of every one for their<br />
subject, and as far as he was concerned he was own good ; for they never could tell when they<br />
content to leave it where it was—he did not propose might want the society's advice for the good of<br />
to revive the corpse.<br />
their colleagues, who could be more effectively helped,<br />
The Chairman (Dr. Squire Sprigge) referred to if the society were not compelled to spend its in-<br />
the custom of the society, that the chairman of the creasing income upon its increasing needs. Was<br />
committee for the year should, at the dinner, the there any character in novels more popular than the<br />
society's only social gathering, speak to the collective “strong silent man" or the “strong silent woman"?<br />
aims of its members, their doings and their hopes The society wanted the “strong silent member," and<br />
for the future. His responsibility in doing this lots of them, those who paid their guineas partly as<br />
was lightened by the fact that the annual report was insurance, and partly recognising that the society<br />
already drafted and would soon be laid before the must, espouse the cause of many who came to it in<br />
society with the authoritative weight of the Com- the first instance in trouble. Let members who<br />
mittee. The story to be told was one of progress knew of any who had strayed from the society's<br />
all along the line, of increased membership, of fold shepherd them back-let them impress upon<br />
increased income, of accretion to the Pension Fund, such to join again. Small as the losses might be<br />
and of success in legal transactions. The inter- compared with the gains, they were always a source<br />
vention of the society in a legislative matter of the of regret, and if any sort of common reason for<br />
first importance to all writers had been testified to resignations could only be arrived at, it could be<br />
by the President of the Board of Trade. He removed.<br />
(the Chairman) attributed a great share of this He gave the toast of the Society of Authors with<br />
success to the work of Mr. Thring, who had never the sincere hope and veritable belief that its pro-<br />
allowed the increase of his duties involved by the gress would be maintained. Its main object, the<br />
Copyright Bill to interfere with his performance of defence of literary property, had been steadily<br />
his regular work as Secretary of the society.<br />
followed for a quarter of a century, and the value<br />
Tarning, however, to a matter upon which he of its work had been enhanced by full recognition<br />
desired to express himself personally, he called of the justice of its principles. It was no longer<br />
attention to a serious drawback which ought to described by the quidnuncs as a ring to fight<br />
be remedied. The leakage from the ranks of the the publishers—the injustice of such a description<br />
society was too great. Every year a certain was proved by the presence of Sir Frederick<br />
number of resignations fell as cold douches upon Macmillan, chairman of the Publishers' Association,<br />
the ardour of the society's progress. They did not and by study of the reports of the past twenty<br />
stop progress, but they impeded it, and he called years. The society did not exist to bolster up<br />
upon those present to help to deal with the matter. incompetence, as had been urged against it. It<br />
It was the rarest thing for anyone to give a reason had often to espouse the cause of the weak, but<br />
for leaving the society, and he was driven to think it did so, harsh as it might sound, not because<br />
that resignations must be caused by lack of apprecia. an author was weak, but because the rights of<br />
tion of the nature of corporate spirit, and of the weak and the rights of the strong had the<br />
comprehension of the principles of insurance. It same basis, though not the same chances of<br />
should be remembered that to some extent the busi- establishing themselves.<br />
ness of the society must be on insurance lines, and Mr. Robert Ross, in proposing the health of the<br />
that although from year to year any given author Chairman, said that if he were to try to vivisect<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Dr. Sprigge, the editor of the Lancet, the society - some life to the views that he adopts, and should<br />
another society--would interfere, and moreover it revivify the dead bodies of the past. The historian<br />
would require the art of Mrs. Humphry Ward or who is merely a balancer of opinions and methods<br />
Mr. Henry James to do so. He would not there- and a chronicler of dry facts is, from our point of<br />
fore dwell upon the distinction with which Dr. view, useless ; from a child's point of view, he is<br />
Sprigge directed the fortunes of the leading scientific worse than useless."<br />
paper of the world, because those present knew how I shall not attempt to discuss with The Author's<br />
well he fulfilled the duty of presiding over a society reviewer in what manner children, in particular,<br />
of literary men and women. Metaphor prohibited should be taught history. The Platonic Socrates,<br />
him from saying that the wielder of a lancet it is true, although he admitted that it is the<br />
touched nothing that he did not adorn, and he practice to“ begin by telling children stories which,<br />
would boldly admit that the wielder of a lancet if not wholly destitute of truth, are in the main<br />
touched nothing without taking something away. fictitious," contended that we ought not to“ permit<br />
The Chairman would take away that evening the children to receive into their minds notions the<br />
good-will and gratitude of the Authors' Society, an very opposite of those which are to be held by them<br />
operation painlessly performed without the aid of when they grow up" (Republic, 377). This postu-<br />
any anæsthetic even in the form of an after-dinner late of Socrates might well be allowed to apply to<br />
speech. Only the committee, perhaps, knew the the teaching of history to children nowadays.<br />
value of Dr. Sprigge's services to the society over a But I am not intending any criticism of the<br />
period of twenty-one years. He was Mr. Thring's book which Messrs. Fletcher and Kipling have<br />
predecessor, but his enthusiasm and energy on collaborated to produce. It is with a statement of<br />
behalf of the society did not cease in the interval the reviewer that I am concerned, not with the<br />
between his retirement from the post of secretary subject of his review ; the statement, namely, that<br />
and his election as chairman. The so-called leisure “surely the soundest view is that the historian<br />
moments of an unselfish career he had given to the should be a partisan." This dictum must not be<br />
society's service. All did not perhaps realise that suffered to pass without protest. Of course, very<br />
Dr. Sprigge might have trod the path of mere much depends upon the meaning attached to the<br />
literature, that path by which you shift your word “partisan.” If it is to be interpreted as<br />
manuscript on a publisher, your health on a nothing worse than the opposite of “ merely a<br />
physician, and your grievances on the Authors' balancer of opinions and methods and a chronicler<br />
Society. He thought there was a hint of the Chair- of dry facts," then cadit quæstio. But such an<br />
man's real tastes in the last number of the Cornhill interpretation is not natural, and I do not imagine<br />
Magazine, in the delightful volumes of stories “Odd that it was in the mind of The Author's reviewer.<br />
Issues” and the “ Industrious Chevalier” rather “The New English Dictionary," I see, in its defini.<br />
than in those blood-curdling volumes “Medicine tion of Partisan, suggests “ One who takes part or<br />
and the Public” and “ The Methods of Publish- sides with another ... often in an unfavourable<br />
ing." Dr. Sprigge suppressed his love of fiction sense : One who supports his party through thick<br />
in literature in order to study the fiction of and thin'; a blind, prejudiced, unreasoning or<br />
publishers' accounts, and to insist upon the rights fanatical adherent."<br />
of the society's members. The Chairman was his I will not assume that the reviewer meant that<br />
(Mr. Ross's) nephew, but immune from the sus- the historian should be “a blind, prejudiced, un-<br />
picion of nepotism, he asked the society to drink reasoning or fanatical adherent ” ; but it will<br />
the health of Dr. Sprigge.<br />
probably be doing him no injustice to suppose that<br />
After the toast had been honoured with cheers, he admires a " thick and thin ” supporter, one who<br />
those present rose and proceeded to the adjoining is for “my country, my cause, or my hero, right or<br />
room, where the usual conversazione took place. (not ridiculously) wrong." This may be taken as<br />
the ideal attitude of the partisan. Is it the ideal<br />
attitude of the historian ? Doubtless it is a very<br />
THE SOUNDEST VIEW OF HISTORY.<br />
common attitude, adopted by historical writers<br />
whose names are household words; to take two<br />
great modern instances, Mommsen and Macaulay-<br />
TN the November issue of The Author, in the both of them, it may be noted in passing, made to<br />
1 course of a notice of the new “History of serve as text-books for the English schoolboy.<br />
England," by Messrs. Fletcher and Kipling, In considering the above-mentioned attitude, we<br />
there occur the following sentences :-<br />
are bound to ask, What are the requisites of a good<br />
“There are many views taken about the writing history ? Certainly we must admit that one is to<br />
of history, but surely the soundest view is that the “ give some life to the views [the historian] adopts,<br />
historian should be a partisan, that he should give and revivify the dead bodies of the past. A dull<br />
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history cannot be more than a text-book ; and a I cannot resist quoting the opening paragraph<br />
simple text-book is not literature, which history of the first chapter of “The New · Examen,”<br />
should be. But to accomplish this life-giving which originally appeared in serial form in Black-<br />
work, is it necessary for the author to be a partisan ? wood's Magazine for June, 1859 :-<br />
Is a fair mind a bar-I will not say to successful, " The peculiar charm of Lord Macaulay's writings (says<br />
but-to good historical writing ?<br />
Paget] arises from the fact that his vivid imagination<br />
The historian, it will be granted, must be “a enables him to live for the time amongst those whose<br />
balancer of opinions and methods” and “a chronicler<br />
portraits he paints. The persons of his drama are not<br />
cold abstractions summoned up from the past to receive<br />
of facts,” though not "a mere balancer," etc., or<br />
judgment for deeds done in the flesh; they are living men<br />
“a chronicler of dry facts” only. Well, having and women--beings to be loved or hated, feared or despised,<br />
the opinions, methods, facts of his period before with all the fervency which belongs to Lord Macaulay's<br />
him, must the historian then proceed to use them<br />
character. The attention of the reader is excited, his<br />
sympathies are awakened, his passions are aroused ; he<br />
in a partisan spirit ? Must he distort, mutilate,<br />
devours page after page and volume after volume with an<br />
select, and suppress ? I take it that if he does appetite similar to that which attends upon a perusal of<br />
not he is a poor partisan. But I hold that if he the most stirring fiction ; he closes the book with regret,<br />
does he is a poor historian Lam well arrare that and then, and not till then, comes the reflection that he<br />
has been listening to the impassioned barangue of the<br />
Macaulay distorts, mutilates, selects, and suppresses,<br />
and suppresses, advocate, not to the calm summing-up of the judge. It<br />
and that he is generally accounted a great historian. would be well if this were the worst. We are reluctantly<br />
The truth is that he is the most dangerous of all convinced that Lord Macaulay sometimes exceeds even the<br />
historical writers, and his - History of England” privileges of the advocate ; that when he arraigns a culprit<br />
before the tribunal of public opinion, and showers down<br />
a most improper text-book, seeing that it is the<br />
upon him that terrible invective of which he is so accom.<br />
scholastic custom to administer the bane without plished a master, evidence occasionally meets with a treat-<br />
the antidote."<br />
ment at his hands from which the least scrupulous prac-<br />
I do not suppose that many people at the present<br />
titioner at the bar would shrink. Documents are sup-<br />
day look at a work entitled “The New ' Examen':<br />
pressed, dates transposed, witnesses of the most infamous<br />
character are paraded as pure and unimpeachable, and<br />
or an Inquiry into the Evidence relating to certain even forgotten and anonymous slanders, of the foulest<br />
Passages in Lord Macaulay's History," by John description, are revived and cast on the unhappy object<br />
Paget, barrister-at-law (Blackwood, 1861). This of the historian's wrath.<br />
is a pity, for the book is both able and entertaining, Could we ask for a better portrait of the partisan<br />
and I wish that someone could have put it in my historian ?<br />
hands in my Macaulay-ridden schooldays. Mr. Macaulay himself, it may be remarked, recognised<br />
Paget-after having stated in his preface (a dedi- the evil of partisanship in other historians. Of<br />
catory letter to Sir John MNeill) that he was Bishop Burnet, although he maintains that he<br />
originally one of those who had placed an implicit was a far indeed from being the most inexact<br />
reliance in Lord Macaulay's representations and writer of his time,” he says that he “ viewed every<br />
had permitted himself to be carried away by the act and every character through a medium dis-<br />
eloquent torrent of his declamation, and that it torted and coloured by party spirit.” This was<br />
was not without many a struggle that he found the man of whom the exiled Queen Mary, wife of<br />
himself compelled, by a dry examination of facts, James II., told Baron Lansdowne that “the King<br />
to surrender the illusion by which he had been [Charles) and the Duke, and the whole Court,<br />
enthralled-proceeds to a very satisfactory demoli. looked upon him as the greatest liar on the face<br />
tion of Macaulay's partisan views on certain of the earth, and there was no believing one word<br />
characters and incidents in our history. A that he said.” The statement is rather strong; but<br />
defender, like Paget, of Marlborough, Claverhouse, Burnet is sipgularly unscrupulous in his treatment<br />
Penn, and of the Scottish nation in the seven- of the men and affairs of his day<br />
teenth century may perhaps himself be called a It will not be denied, even by the most ardent<br />
partisan of sorts. But Macaulay's castigator is admirer of picturesque historians, that it is a duty<br />
justified in boasting, at the end of his dedication : of history to get down to the facts, whererer dis-<br />
“I can, at any rate, say that I have pursued [my] coverable. Sometimes the process involves a great<br />
inquiry honestly, and that I have furnished every amount of patience, and much labour for small<br />
means of testing my accuracy”—a good hit at results; but the patience, the labour must be forth-<br />
Macaulay, who is notoriously loose in his references. coming. When the facts have been ascertained,<br />
* I am afraid that I do not know whether such a state-<br />
the historian is at liberty to express his views upon<br />
ment will cause more of the doctors to cry “Heresy" and them, to suggest interpretations of his documents,<br />
rend their academic garments, or to demand pityingly to make his period picturesque. But he is not at<br />
what is the good of flogging a dead horse. Of the most liberty to twist his facts to tally with his views.<br />
recent historians of the Stuart period some still follow<br />
Macaulay almost implicitly, others treat him as the sign.<br />
to insert his interpretation into the body of his<br />
post that points to the wrong road..<br />
documents, to substitute his idea of the proper<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
II.<br />
picture for the reality of the period. He may, even<br />
must, to a certain extent, combine the functions of<br />
December 8, 1911.<br />
judge and advocate. But he must not be a Judge SIR, -It would be unjust both to Mr. G. B. Shaw<br />
Jeffreys. He must have throughout a perfect and to the members of the Society who provide him<br />
regard for truth. For the historian there are no with his latest platform to allow the remarkable<br />
varying standards of truth. Truth is universal, discoveries which he announced in your last issue<br />
from Lhassa to London, from Birmingham toto pass without comment. ... The opinion of so<br />
Benin-if I may borrow a trope from Macaulay. great an author as Mr. Shaw is worth, to the<br />
And your partisan does not tell the truth.<br />
“ lesser lights," who are, presumably, the mass of<br />
PHILIP W. SERGEANT. the members of the Society, many more "raps<br />
than he administers to the parasitic agent. ...<br />
True, it proves that Mr. Shaw would make a very<br />
bad agent ; but that is what we should expect of so<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
very good (and great) an author. Now, perpend<br />
and observe :<br />
“... The root of the whole matter" is that<br />
“ The CRUX OF THE AGENT QUESTION”<br />
“ there are two ways of making profit by selling.<br />
One is to sell a single article every hour . . . at a<br />
profit of 100 per cent. The other is to sell 100 of<br />
the same articles every hour to 100 eager customers<br />
SIR, I am afraid it would be a sign of a<br />
at a profit of 24 per cent. on each. . . ." We<br />
dull and prosaic mind to criticise Mr. Shaw's<br />
need not point out that there are other ways of<br />
characteristic and delightful demonstration that a<br />
a “making profit by selling." ...<br />
literary agent's path to success and wealth lies in<br />
The interest of the theory lies not in Mr. Shaw's<br />
a complete and deliberate failure to perform the<br />
proof that he is utterly incapable of agenting for<br />
function for which he is mainly engaged—the<br />
anyone but himself, but in his view of the needs<br />
obtaining of good prices. Let us rather agree of the “ lesser lights.” The gravamen of his<br />
that it pays an agent better to make bad bargains<br />
charge is that the agent will not “ spend the day<br />
for twenty clients than good ones for five; that<br />
fighting one or two books up to a 25 per cent.<br />
it pays a lawyer better to lose cases for twenty<br />
wenty royalty," so long as he can get along with routine<br />
clients than to win cases for five; that it pays a<br />
transactions. The Superman, in fact, is being<br />
doctor better to kill twenty patients without<br />
neglected for the sake of the mere Man. But does<br />
trouble than laboriously to save five. Why not<br />
the Authors' Society exist for the benefit of Men or<br />
agree? It may all be quite true, and demonstrable of Super-men. if such a distinction is to be<br />
by all the arithmetic at Mr. Shaw's disposal ; and drown's<br />
it is at any rate quite an entertaining idea. It<br />
The wicked agent falls from depth to depth till,<br />
works, in fact, perfectly, subject to the trifling « finally, he settles down into an agent whose real<br />
assumption that when the agent, or lawyer, or<br />
of business is to procure books for publishers, articles<br />
business<br />
doctor, “ hurries off to get another dozen books "<br />
for editors, and plays for managers," and who,<br />
or law-suits, or medical cases—he will find them.<br />
horribile dictu, “ being able to push any author<br />
An assumption, because if it is that extra 5 or 10<br />
whom he may have reason to favour, naturally<br />
per cent. that “costs time and trouble,” it is<br />
sells his power.”<br />
the hope of that same extra 5 or 10 per cent.<br />
We are reluctant to remove a foundation-brick<br />
that brings authors to the agent's door.<br />
from so gorgeous an imaginative structure ; but<br />
A great author's opinion on agents and publishers<br />
shers when Mr. Shaw cites us in support of this decorative<br />
is not worth a rap to lesser lights, says Mr. Shaw.<br />
detail, a last spasm of truthfulness forces us to<br />
I am sure that most of us consider Mr. Shaw a<br />
confess that neither we nor any other agent<br />
great author, and are far from thinking his<br />
possesses such a magic key, nor in our wildest<br />
opinion on any subject not worth a rap. But<br />
dreams could we hare soared to such an ambition.<br />
here it does seem as if his ingenuity had outrun<br />
The fact is, of course, that throughout his enter-<br />
his commonsense. I think Mr. Gamage would<br />
taining speculation, whether he is calculating<br />
tell him that it pays to give your customer what<br />
prices or weighing influences, Mr. Shaw omits to<br />
your customer pays you to give him.<br />
take account of the chief factor, which is the<br />
Yours etc.,<br />
inherent value of the commodity. . . . If he knows<br />
Ex-MEMBER OF COMMITTEE.<br />
the market and understands the most various<br />
qualities of goods, the agent can usually make<br />
terms sufficiently above those the author would<br />
make to pay his own commission, and leave a<br />
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more or less substantial margin of benefit. That placing the work or not, the author must stand by<br />
is all he claims.<br />
his bargain, and if he is such a fool he deserves to<br />
“But now, mark.” There is an old rule for pay the penalty. But in the absence of such special<br />
economists in distress-play the Wage Fund theory agreement, when the agent returns the MS. to the<br />
And, sure enough, here is the Shavian version, author as unsaleable, the contract, at least so far as<br />
“ No agent can push a man into a job without that MS. is concerned, is at an end, and the agent<br />
pushing another man out of it.” He advances has no claim for a commission if the author after-<br />
Mr. Blank, at the expense of Mr. Dash, while wards succeeds himself in placing it. It might be<br />
“poor Mr. Ignotus is never mentioned at all.” otherwise if a publisher to whom the agent had<br />
The sad picture seems to contradict the original submitted the MS. and by whom it had been<br />
theory, which was that the agent will do justice to rejected afterwards came to terms directly with the<br />
a hundred routine cases, but not to the exceptional author. If an agent returns an MS. to the author,<br />
Mr. Blank whom we have called the Super-man. the act is an admission of his inability to place it,<br />
Let that pass. Is there anything in this proposi- and any subsequent claim for commission would be<br />
tion that there are only a limited number of affected by that admission. There are publishers<br />
“jobs”? If so, every author is the enemy of and editors who will not deal with the agent at all,<br />
every other ; every book is the rival of every other and even in ordinary business dealings many persons<br />
book; the Authors' Society has no economic basis, object to conduct their negotiations through an<br />
but is trying to take unlimited rises out of a limited agent. So, according to Mr. Shaw, we may have<br />
fund of publishing capital. ....<br />
an agent successfully claiming a commission on<br />
We are tempted to go further—to invite you to work sold by the author directly to a publisher or<br />
constitute a roll of agents from which proved mis- editor who would not deal with the agent. It is<br />
demeanants could be struck off (but this would more than probable that such a claim would not be<br />
imply a withdrawal of your original advice); to sustained. In agency the value of the introduction<br />
thank Mr. Shaw for his large categories of " cases is an important consideration. If A. wanting to<br />
where agents are useful, and even indispensable”; rent a house goes to B. an agent, and is by him<br />
to emphasise again the merits of that “routine introduced to C., who has a house to sell, and C.<br />
business ” which Mr. Shaw naturally scorns, but refuses to let, the contract is at an end. But if<br />
by which most of your readers must live ; and to subsequently A. consents to purchase the house, B.<br />
vindicate Besant and the other founders who is of course entitled to his commission, although A.<br />
“encouraged agents,” in no exploiting spirit, but and C. conclude the business independently of him.<br />
because they knew the facts of literary business. Much more could be written on this subject, but<br />
Enough said, however ; and we are,<br />
the point is that no author should sign an agree-<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
ment to pay the agent any commission unless<br />
(Signed) G. H. PERRIS, business results through his agency, nor should he<br />
C. F. CAZENOVE. pay the agent any commission in the case cited by<br />
[The dotted lines represent the fact that on<br />
Mr. Shaw, when the MS. has been returned to the<br />
account of limited space, and with the consent of<br />
author through the inability of the agent to place<br />
the writers, the Editor has had to delete portions<br />
it. It would be interesting if any of your readers<br />
of this letter.]<br />
could mention a case in which such a claim was<br />
successfully maintained.<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
H. A. Hinkson.<br />
SIR,—Mr. G. B. Shaw, in his otherwise admirable<br />
article on Commission Agency in MSS., makes one<br />
statement which is scarcely accurate, at least with SIR, -As an author who had twenty years'<br />
out qualification. He writes : “But when he (the experience of literary agents before I became an<br />
agent) can force you to do the same ( pay a com- agent myself, perhaps I may be permitted to con-<br />
mission) in the case of a work which he has failed tribute to this interesting discussion. It is chiefly<br />
to place, and which you yourself have succeeded as an author that I would like to speak. I<br />
in placing long after you have abandoned him, even employed three different agents at different periods<br />
the most enthusiastic agent fancier will admit that during those twenty years, and I heard talk about<br />
the law leans a little too much to the agent's side.” other agents who acted for my friends. Honestly,<br />
I have seen many unconscionable contracts, but I found these three agents helpful, especially<br />
none quite as bad as that suggested by Mr. Shaw, because I rarely came to London in those days.<br />
Of course, if the author has agreed with the agent They saved me time, and the cost of stationery<br />
to pay him his commission whether he succeed in and stamps, and relieved me from the irksome<br />
III.<br />
IV.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
business of waiting in publishers' ante-rooms, AGENTS, LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
while the publishers interviewed authors who were<br />
more popular than myself. What is more to the<br />
1.<br />
point, these agents placed books, short stories, and<br />
SIR,—You have done good service in admitting<br />
articles for me, and I am quite convinced that in<br />
to your columns the trenchant and telling article<br />
several cases they obtained higher prices than I<br />
on “ Authors' Agents," which appeared in your<br />
on Authors'<br />
could have obtained unaided. If I ever return to<br />
issue for October. Your contributor is absolutely<br />
the mountains of Wales, or to Dartmoor, to write<br />
justified alike in his strictures, his warnings and<br />
books, I shall entrust all my business to one of<br />
his counsel, What are agents for ?<br />
these useful persons.<br />
They are<br />
supposed, mostly on their own statements, to be<br />
Mr. George Bernard Shaw declares that an<br />
especially useful in obtaining openings for serials<br />
author who cannot conduct his own commercial<br />
and pushing the interests of authors with editors.<br />
affairs is a “nincompoop.” Now, to "run"<br />
But are they really useful ? Let me speak from<br />
oneself successfully as an artist in a very com-<br />
my own experience. Though all my later norels<br />
mercial age and in an inartistic country like our<br />
have appeared in good periodicals at good prices,<br />
own, it is necessary to be equipped with some of<br />
not one of them has been placed by an agent. And<br />
the qualities of the bagman, the instinct for<br />
it was after exasperating experience of agents and<br />
publicity of the press agent kind, a fluent tongue,<br />
their ways that I took matters into my own hands.<br />
and a very close knowledge of the market. If an<br />
Since then satisfactory serial arrangements have<br />
author lacks these essentials—if he is modest about<br />
been made for every one of my novels. In dealing<br />
his work, self-critical, and diffident in conservation<br />
with publishers the agent is not and never was in<br />
with men of business-he may still be free from the<br />
the least necessary. The truth is that if authors<br />
stupidity to which Mr. Bernard Shaw refers. One<br />
as a class were not the least business-like people in<br />
of our most eminent living novelists remarked to<br />
the world, the agent simply would not exist as he<br />
me : “I place all business matters in the hands of<br />
is to-day. Yet we pay him 10 per cent. A solicitor<br />
my agent. I have neither the time nor the in-<br />
or house agent will manage property, buy and sell<br />
clination to contend with the publisher about half-<br />
pennies.” I know several authors who hawk their<br />
houses, collect rents and so forth, for a commission<br />
of 2 per cent. And his work is more arduous,<br />
* copy” up and down Fleet Street, take up the<br />
more onerous, and requires qualifications that are<br />
time of busy editors by discussing unfruitful<br />
conspicuously lacking in the literary agent.<br />
“ ideas” for articles, and spend much energy<br />
Is it<br />
not high time that authors combined to put an<br />
in the wrong direction. An agent would save them<br />
end to the extortion of a 10 per cent. commission ?<br />
from this misdirected energy.<br />
I suggest that the Authors' Society take the matter<br />
As some of your correspondents have thrown<br />
up, and that a conference be held to consider the<br />
down a challenge to literary agents to justify their<br />
whole question of authors and their commission.<br />
calling, and to prove that they are able to help the<br />
Yours truly,<br />
literary novice, perhaps you will allow me to say<br />
NOVELIST.<br />
that the firm which I represent have materially<br />
assisted a number of young authors during the<br />
past three years. These authors are quite willing<br />
II.<br />
to confirm my statement to any inquirers.<br />
When our economic reformers succeed in revolu- DEAR SIR, - Feeling, as I do, that the agent<br />
tionising the methods of commerce, the literary question is one of deep interest and importance<br />
agent will no longer be needed. Until then, the to authors, it has occurred to me that perhaps a<br />
shrewd intermediary between the creator and the few facts and figures may be worth consideration.<br />
seller of literature has a perfectly reasonable I had published one book and was making a little<br />
justification for his existence as a middleman. over £200 a year when I first went to an agent.<br />
Regarding the alleged cases of dishonesty on the I was with that agent over two years. His efforts<br />
part of the agents, the way is plain for authors. on my behalf resulted as follows :-He“ placed ”<br />
Let them demand that the agent shall obtain his one long novel at an advance on royalties of £20<br />
commission from the publisher, and that the pub- in America, but offset this success by an arrange-<br />
lisher shall pay the royalties direct to the author, ment with an English publisher under which the<br />
less the commission.<br />
payment of royalties was to be postponed until<br />
The unscrupulous conduct is not always on the the book obtained a certain sale. He placed the<br />
part of the agent.<br />
serial rights (80,000 words) for £30 in America,<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
in England he failed to “market " them.<br />
WALTER M. GALLICHAN,<br />
When I went to this agent I had a good-even an<br />
"GALLICHAN & GASQUOINE.” excellent connection with two magazines. During<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
115<br />
IRPLAY.<br />
the two years previous to enrolling myself under When an agent is useful use him, but—in order<br />
the agent's flag I had received from one of these that you may not abuse him-never, without very<br />
magazines £215. The two years that followed serious consideration of your position, sign any<br />
saw but one story sold at £20, and two more to a agreement which places all your work in his<br />
rival magazine (a new market) at £25 each.<br />
hands without a clause allowing for the termina-<br />
From the second magazine of these I soon tion of the contract by three months' notice on<br />
received a formal note couched as follows :- either side. I cannot think that any agent has as<br />
“ Dear Sir, The — comes out only once a much “ pull ” as Mr. Shaw seems to believe, nor<br />
month. Mr. - (the agent) has favoured us do I imagine that any agent's influence can get<br />
with four of your papers since the first instant. stories accepted by the best magazines to an<br />
I am, Sir, yours faithfully --"<br />
extent which would make it worth the while of a<br />
The result of this was that being rather stung precocious author, however brilliant, to pay a fine<br />
up the agent sent no more of my work for some of 50 or 100 percent, commission, further, I do<br />
weeks—the magazine paid me £64 in the two not believe many agents would accept it.<br />
years. To these figures must be added a sum of<br />
I am, Sir, Yours etc.,<br />
£20 received for the serial rights of my first novel.<br />
This came from America, where that work had not<br />
seen the light. With royalties and various odds<br />
and ends I received from the agent about £85<br />
more, a total of £269, less £26 188. commission,<br />
leaving a balance in my favour of £242 28., or<br />
III.<br />
£121 1s. a year.<br />
At the end of the second year, emerging from DEAR SIR, I cannot quite understand why the<br />
my temporary insanity, I left the agent and all my literary agent is made such a point of. To my<br />
MSS. were returned. Among them was the typed way of thinking he is by no means a necessity.<br />
copy of a serial concerning which the agent notified In letters you have published, writers refer to<br />
me.“ This has been submitted to and rejected the practice of hawking stuff round editorial offices<br />
by the editors of the following magazines and as the alternative to using an agent. What is the<br />
periodicals." There followed a list which continued matter with the penny post ?<br />
well down the sheet of typing.<br />
I cannot conceive anything more simple than to<br />
In the second year of my regained freedom I enclose MSS. in an en relope and post them to the<br />
sold that serial to the editor of one of the editor of a periodical. I think I am correct in<br />
periodicals which had refused it through the agent saying that in nine cases out of ten the editor<br />
at over two and a half times the sum the agent prefers this method to interviewing authors, unless<br />
had asked for it. And the agent I am writing of there is a particular point needing discussion.<br />
is one who has a good record and a large number Furthermore, the majority of editors I have<br />
of successful authors on bis books.<br />
spoken to on the subject tell me that they prefer<br />
About four months after I left the fostering MSS. straight from the author rather than an<br />
care of an agent I found that my income had agent.<br />
materially increased.<br />
It must be understood that I am referring to<br />
I quite agree that my case may have been an magazine matter, not to novels, or any work of<br />
unusual one, but I put the agent's failure down to length.<br />
the simple fact that I brought in but £13 a year Soon after I found that I was selling a fair<br />
to him, and it was not worth his while to do more number of stories, I was approached by a gentle-<br />
than send out my work with a note, “ Dear Sir, man who had been chief reader in one of the<br />
I am sending you a touching short story by that largest publishing houses in the world. He had<br />
promising writer — I shall be glad if you left this appointment and opened a literary agency.<br />
will read it as soon as possible. Any proposal He took a fee from me as well as a number of<br />
you may wish to make I shall be pleased to lay MSS. ; in return he gave me glowing pictures of<br />
before my client. Yours faithfully - ".<br />
a Carnegie-like future, and, after the lapse of a<br />
On one occasion I know an MS. of mine was sent year, all the MSS. I had sent him.<br />
to a certain editor with half-a-dozen others and a Some time afterwards I was persuaded to try<br />
letter covering the lot.<br />
another agent, but I resolutely declined to pay a<br />
That is one agent. On the other hand I had fee. However, he took a number of stories on a<br />
dealings with another, who refused a large com- 15 per cent. commission basis, read them through,<br />
mission on sentimental grounds—a commission to went into raptures over them, but did not sell<br />
which he was legally entitled.<br />
one.<br />
The result of my experience comes to this : Now let me state that many of the stories<br />
<br />
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116<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
immediately perhaps, but steadily and surely, and<br />
can reckon upon an increasing number of followers.<br />
ARTHUR LOVELL.<br />
returned by these agents I have disposed of<br />
myself.<br />
Perhaps when I am making £10,000 a year, and<br />
do not want to be bothered by details, I shall<br />
employ an agent again.<br />
I am sorry for the prospects of the agent waiting<br />
for this post.<br />
Of course, for selling stuff out of England the<br />
agent is desirable. for the average author who<br />
knows the Fleet Street ropes would be at sea<br />
regarding, say, U.S.A. methods. But as regards<br />
disposing of stuff in England, I think the agent<br />
can very easily be dispensed with.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
E. NEWTON BUNGEY.<br />
THE AUTHOR'S CRAFT.<br />
SIR.—The article of Mr. Herbert W. Smith on<br />
“ The Hazard of the Pen” in your issue of Decem-<br />
ber has prompted me to utter a few remarks, not<br />
exactly in reply, but rather as a kind of protest,<br />
meant in an entirely friendly spirit, against what<br />
inot what<br />
seems to me a degradation of the craft of author.<br />
Though but a new member of the society, I am<br />
comparatively an old author, and therefore speak<br />
from a very wide experience.<br />
Mr. Smith's article is not only pessimistic in<br />
tone, but, if I may put it bluntly, entirely without<br />
point. If literature means anything at all, it means<br />
a compendium. or distilled essence of life itself.<br />
with its varied mixtures of good and evil, tragedy<br />
and comedy, etc. The craft of author consists in<br />
extracting the essence or spirit or soul of the<br />
mixture, and presenting it to the mind of another.<br />
The real author is the one who has something to say<br />
which must at all costs come out, whether the<br />
listeners are few or many. The author is the<br />
pioneer who enters strange lands, and writes down<br />
his experiences. From this standpoint, the author<br />
is the teacher and leader of mankind. If he puts<br />
himself the question which Mr. Smith recommends.<br />
“ Is it worth it ? ” he proclaims himself to be<br />
utterly unworthy of the craft of authorship; and<br />
it matters little what becomes of him, for his<br />
work can never stimulate or warm another soul,<br />
for it is the shining of brass instead of the glitter<br />
of gold. Brass there is abundance of, both in life<br />
and in literature. And the worst of it is that<br />
brass has an irresistible, because inherent, tendency<br />
to shine loudly and cry, “ Behold, I am gold !”<br />
The upshot of all is, the craft of author is<br />
the greatest and rarest craft, and therefore any<br />
individual author has great difficulties to contend<br />
with, far more than the craftsman who works by<br />
rule of thumb. But in these days any author who<br />
is worth his salt can get a fair hearing, not<br />
PUBLISHERS' METHODS.<br />
DEAR SIR,—In my letter which you published<br />
in your last number I intended but omitted to deal<br />
with the question of “remainders.”<br />
I think that authors should stipulate that their<br />
books are not to be remaindered until a certain<br />
date after publication, and then only in the event of<br />
the sales falling below a certain namber per year.<br />
I feel, rightly or wrongly, that the remaindering<br />
of a book creates an impression in the mind of the<br />
public that the book is not a good one, and con-<br />
sequently is being sold off cheap. Very often such<br />
is not the case, and the remaindering is due to the<br />
publisher's impatience. The selling of remainders<br />
is most unsatisfactory from a bookselling point of<br />
view, and should be discouraged as much as<br />
possible. I am convinced that what is stopping<br />
the sale of books more than anything is that the<br />
public waits for them as remainders, and generally<br />
succeeds in getting them !! And if my views are<br />
right this is a serious question for authors.<br />
I should like further to say that I consider<br />
authors should protect themselves against advertise-<br />
ments being inserted in their books without per-<br />
mission, and in advertisements I would include<br />
bookmarks of Insurance Companies. As a book-<br />
buyer I strongly object to being pestered with<br />
these, and I cannot understand why various high<br />
class publishers stoop to let such bookmarks appear.<br />
I admit that publishers, like other people, are<br />
supposed to be working to make money, but surely<br />
gold can be bought too dear ?<br />
There are other matters which I could write<br />
about concerning the dignity of a book, and that<br />
nothing should be done to interfere with it.<br />
Certainly this should receive the serious considera-<br />
tion of the author ?-Yours faithfully,<br />
HERBERT BATSFORD.<br />
[Both points to which Mr. Batsford draws attention<br />
are important. As a publisher of books of more per-<br />
manent value it is probable he does not remainder to<br />
the extent that publishers of novels remainder their<br />
publications. It is quite true that not only the<br />
remaindering of books, but the premature issue<br />
of cheap editions tends, very often, to decrease an<br />
author's circulation. In the matter of advertise-<br />
ments, in one case before the Society, the publisher<br />
of the cheap 6d. edition inserted advertisements<br />
opposite the letterpress in the last twenty pages of<br />
the book. Such action from the author's stand-<br />
point is impossible, and authors should guard<br />
against it.—ED.]<br />
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