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£ $. d.<br />
below :-<br />
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Oct. 6, Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson . 0 5 0<br />
Consols 23% ........<br />
.... £1,312 13 Oct. 12, Hannay, J. 0. .<br />
Local Loans..............................<br />
500 0 0 Oct. 12, Mrs. Humphry Ward, an addi-<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
tional subscription for 1912<br />
dated Inscribed Stock...<br />
291 19 11<br />
--13 . . .<br />
5 00<br />
London and North-Western 3%<br />
Nov. 9, Dailey, R. H. . . 0 5 0<br />
Debenture Stock .................... 250 ( 0) Nov. 10, McCormick, E. B. . . ( 10 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Nov. 10, Salter, Miss E. K.<br />
05 0<br />
Trust +°. Certificates ........ 20000 Nov. 14, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpool ( 5 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 34% Inscribed<br />
Nov. 18, Hichens, Robert.<br />
3 3<br />
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200 0 0 Nov. 20, Snell, Miss Olive . .<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Nov. 24, Locke, W. J. .<br />
2 2 0<br />
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228 0 0 Nov. 24, Gusse, Edmund.<br />
1 1 0<br />
New Zealand 31° Stock ............<br />
247 9 6 Nov. 25, Larken, E. P.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Irish Land Act 20%. Guaranteed<br />
Nov. 25, Underdown, Miss E.<br />
0 5 0<br />
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.... 258 (0) 0 Nov. 25, Walkley, S. . .<br />
05 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
Nov. 25, Masefield, John..<br />
1 1 0<br />
1927-57 ........<br />
+38 2 + Nov. 25, Thurston, E. Temple.<br />
Jamaica 31%. Stock, 1919-49 ...... 132 18 6 Nov. 25, Rittenberg, Max . . 0 5 0<br />
Mauritius 1° 1937 Stock ........ 120 121 Nov. 25, Paull, H. M. .<br />
( 10 6<br />
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Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald. .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Land Grant Stock, 1938.<br />
198 3 8 Nov, 25, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton. . 1 1 0<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
Nov. 25, Barne, Miss M. C. .<br />
5%. Preferred Stock ......... 237 00 Nov. 25, Sedgwick, Anne Douglas . 0 5 0<br />
Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br />
(Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)<br />
Stock ..<br />
232 0 0 Nov. 25, Lerden, Walter . .<br />
010 0<br />
Nov. 25, Channon, Mrs. Frances : 0 10 0<br />
Total .<br />
.... £4,816 19 Nov. 25, Toynbee, Paget. . . 0 10 0<br />
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Nov. 25, Macdonald, Greville , . 1 1 0 Dec. 5, Clodd, Edward .<br />
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Nov. 25, Knowles, Miss Margaret . 1 1 0 Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold . . . 5 0 0<br />
Nov. 25, Bond, R. Warwick . . 1 1 0 Dec. 12, von Holst, Gustav<br />
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Nov. 27, Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor. 0 10 0<br />
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Nov. 27, Arnold, Mrs. J. O. .. 0 10 0 Dec. 16, Allen, Mrs. Grant. . . 0 5 0<br />
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Nov. 28, Caine, William .<br />
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Nov. 28, Tuttiett, Miss M. G. .<br />
Jan. 8, Stayton, Frank ..<br />
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Jan. 12, Francis, René<br />
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Nov. 29, Pakington, The Hon. Mary. 0 5 0<br />
tion to present subscription) 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis<br />
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Nathaniel<br />
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Nov. 29, Graves, Alfred P..<br />
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Feb. 8, Annesley, Miss Maude. 0<br />
Nov. 29, Narramore, William .<br />
5 0 Feb. 9, O'Donnell, Miss Petronella : 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Waldstein, Charles . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 29, Rutter, Frank<br />
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Dec. 1, Wilton, Margaret W. . 0 5 0 Oct. 10, Guthrie, Anstey. .<br />
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Dec. 4, Thomson, Lieut.-Col<br />
0 5 0 Oct. 19, Romanne-James, Mrs. C.<br />
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10 6 Dec. 10, Pennell, Mrs. E. R. .<br />
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Nov. 29, Spurrier, Steven.<br />
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Nov. 29, Webling, Peggy.<br />
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Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br />
. 1 0 0 decided to instruct the society's Australian lawyers<br />
Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br />
0 10 0 to take action. Another case of infringement had<br />
Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James 1.<br />
1 1 0 been put down on the agenda, but the committee<br />
Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br />
0 10 6 were informed it had been settled. The secretary<br />
Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady<br />
5 0 0 also read a letter from one of the members<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. .<br />
0 5 0 respecting a claim against a paper for work done,<br />
Feb. 12, King, A. R.. .<br />
( 10 ) and the committee decided to instruct the solicitors<br />
Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. .<br />
. () 5 0 to proceed, subject to the author being willing to<br />
Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br />
0 5 0 co-operate.<br />
Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. W. E.<br />
1 1 0 The committee then discussed, at some length, an<br />
Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival<br />
5 0 article which appears in another column of "The<br />
Feb. 17, Raphael, Mrs. .<br />
. 0 5 0 Author," dealing with a publisher's forms of<br />
Feb. 19, Cabourn, John .<br />
. 0 5 0 agreement.<br />
Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
. 010<br />
An agency agreement wbich had been settled<br />
Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and Mrs. .'110 by a sub-committee, and circulated to the members<br />
of the Committee of Management, was next read,<br />
£228 6 6 and adopted. A vote of thanks was passed to the<br />
The Editor regrets that Mr. Robert Hichens'<br />
sub-committee for the work they had done. The<br />
agreement, which is based on an agency agree-<br />
contribution of £3 3s, was put down as a donation,<br />
ment, settled some time ago by the Dramatic<br />
whereas it should have been entered as an annual<br />
Sub-Committee, is printed on another page.<br />
subscription. He hastens to correct the mistake.<br />
The committee then proceeded to elect a com-<br />
posers' sub-committee, as it had been decided to<br />
form a separate section of the society for composers,<br />
to work on the same lines as the dramatic section<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
is working under the Dramatic Sub-Committee.<br />
The following gentlemen were elected and have<br />
consented to undertake the duties :-<br />
MEETING of the committee was held at the<br />
offices of the society on Monday, February<br />
Granville Bantock,<br />
5th. After the minutes of the last meeting<br />
Percy Buck,<br />
Thomas F. Dunhill,<br />
had been read and signed, the committee proceeded<br />
to elect 18 new members and associates whose<br />
Cecil Forsyth,<br />
John B. McEwen,<br />
names appear on another page. This is one of<br />
the largest elections which has ever taken place in<br />
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford,<br />
any one month, since the foundation of the society,<br />
Herbert, Sullivan,<br />
Howard Talbot,<br />
and having regard to the satisfactory election in<br />
January, it is felt that the year 1912 has opened in<br />
William Wallace.<br />
an auspicious manner.<br />
The question of the Nobel Prize Committee was<br />
The solicitor reported the cases dealt with again before the Committee of Management. A<br />
during the month. In one case, relating to a letter from Lord Avebury, the Chairman of that<br />
dispute between a member and a publisher, which committee, was read, together with a communication<br />
had been adjourned from the previous month, the which his lordship had received from the Swedish<br />
committee decided to appoint an arbitrator under Academy. The committee decided to refer the<br />
a clause in the agreement making arbitration whole matter to the Council of the Society at its<br />
necessary. In the next case against the same next meeting.<br />
publisher it was decided to take immediate action to The annual report, which had been settled by a<br />
maintain the author's rights. The next question sub-committee, was adopted, and will be issued to<br />
was one between an author and his agent, and here, members and associates with the usual notice of<br />
after careful consideration, it was decided that no general meeting.<br />
help could be given to the author as he was bound Letters from the advertisement agents of The<br />
by his agreement, although it was an exceedingly Author were read raising certain points in the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
delivery of their accounts. It was decided to refer<br />
them, with certain instructions, to the solicitors.<br />
It was decided to invest £150 of the Life<br />
Membership Subscriptions in the purchase of<br />
Antofogasta and Bolivia Railway Five per cent. Pre-<br />
ferred Ordinary Stock, and the secretary was<br />
authorised to carry out the committee's instructions.<br />
Two suggestions on minor points connected with<br />
the management of the society were considered, but<br />
it was felt that it would not be to the advantage of<br />
the members to adopt either of them.<br />
The secretary reported that two members had<br />
paid life membership subscriptions—Mrs. Stanley<br />
Wrench and Mr. Dudley Buxton.<br />
Cases.<br />
DURING the past month twelve cases have been<br />
placed in the hands of the secretary. Four of<br />
these refer to claims for the return of MSS., and<br />
in three cases the MSS. have been returned and<br />
forwarded to the members concerned. Two claims<br />
for accounts and money have been dealt with ; one<br />
has had to be transferred to the solicitors of the<br />
society, as the publisher refused to answer the letters<br />
which were written to him by the secretary ; the<br />
other case is still in course of negotiation, as the<br />
publisher, although he has answered the secretary's<br />
letters, has not as yet delivered the accounts. There<br />
was one case referring to breach of contract which<br />
has been satisfactorily settled, and one case in<br />
which accounts only were claimed. Two claims<br />
for money due to members are still open, as they<br />
have only recently come into the office. There<br />
was one case referring to the infringement of<br />
performing rights, which had to be taken in hand<br />
immediately. The secretary is glad to report that<br />
it has been terminated satisfactorily. There was<br />
also one case with regard to the settlement of the<br />
exact terms of a contract, which also has been<br />
negotiated. Seven cases out of the twelve are<br />
already at an end. This is a very healthy<br />
record.<br />
There are still three small claims open from the<br />
former months : the others have either been settled<br />
or handed over to the solicitors of the society.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The February meeting of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Committee of the Society of Authors was held at<br />
the offices of the society on Friday, the 16th.<br />
The minutes of the previous meeting having<br />
been read and signed, the secretary laid before the<br />
meeting an agreement which had been forwarded<br />
to the society by one of the members, purporting<br />
to be entered into between the Travelling Theatre<br />
Managers' Association and dramatic authors. The<br />
agreement was considered, and Mr. Raleigh explained<br />
at some length the position of the association. It<br />
was decided to appoint a sub-committee, consisting<br />
of Mr. Cecil Raleigh, Mr. R. C. Carton, and Mr. G.<br />
Bernard Shaw, to confer with the representative of<br />
the association, in order, if possible, to arrange<br />
satisfactory terms on behalf of the dramatists<br />
inside the society. The secretary received instruc-<br />
tions to enquire of the association's representative<br />
whether he would make an appointment to meet<br />
the sub-committee with a view to coming to some<br />
agreement.<br />
The contract for cinematograph productions,<br />
adjourned from the last meeting, was rediscussed.<br />
The secretary reported that he had as yet obtained<br />
no further information from the French society, as<br />
the report to be issued by that society was not yet<br />
completed, but would be forwarded when ready.<br />
The sub-committee decided to obtain information on<br />
the subject from other countries.<br />
The method of procedure to be followed in the<br />
settlement of the general treaty between the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee and the Dramatists' Club<br />
was discussed. It was decided to forward a letter<br />
to the secretary of the sub-committee appointed by<br />
that club to consider the treaty, and to enquire on<br />
what date the Dramatic Sub-Committee of the<br />
society and the Dramatists' Club Sub-Committee<br />
could meet in order to settle the final form of the<br />
treaty. The secretary was instructed to carry<br />
through the matter and report.<br />
February Elections.<br />
Atlay, J. B. .<br />
Athenæum Club, S.W.<br />
Ayre, Miss G. B. . Eastlemes, Colne,<br />
Lancashire.<br />
Baden-Powell, W., K.C.. 32, Princes Gate, S.W.<br />
Bayly-Jones, Miss Jane . 24, Torphichen Street,<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
Bernard, H. D'Oyly . . 101, Albert Bridge<br />
Road, S.W.<br />
Boys, Gerald E. Le Mesurier<br />
(Le Mesurier Boys) Barcelona, Spain.<br />
Brebner, Percy James . The Upways, Spencer<br />
Gardens, East Sheen,<br />
S.W.<br />
Brewin, The Rev. Robert. 106, Park Road,<br />
Loughborough.<br />
Bryan, Miss M. Theresa . Norden Court, Hen-<br />
don, N.W.<br />
Buchanan, Miss Emily H. Invera von, Christ-<br />
church, Hants.<br />
Buck, Percy C., M.A., Mus. 100, High Street,<br />
Doc., Oxon. .. Harrow-on-the-Hill.<br />
Buxton, Dr. Dudley W., 82, Mortimer Street,<br />
M.D. . . . . Cavendish Square,<br />
W.<br />
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Worthington, A. M., C.B.,<br />
F.R.S.<br />
Wright, William B. . . 14, Hume Street,<br />
Dublin.<br />
Yorke, Arnold . . . 30, First Avenue,<br />
Acton Park, W.<br />
Zangwill, Louis . . Authors' Club, S.W.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
mo<br />
Cantrill, Harold . . Dorridge, Warwick-<br />
shire.<br />
Chesser, Mrs. E. Sloan . Beauchamp House,<br />
Gloucester.<br />
Colvile, Rex . . . 15, Colinette Road,<br />
Putney.<br />
Dunhill, Thomas Frederick 17, Frances Road,<br />
Windsor.<br />
Forsyth, Cecil . . . Blandford Mansions,<br />
G., East Street,<br />
Baker Street, W.<br />
Fox, Esther T. . . . 69, Tressillian Road,<br />
St. John's, S.E.<br />
Freer, H. B. . . . Ardmore, Gravesend,<br />
Kent.<br />
Freestone, Saie. . . Hinton Chambers,<br />
Bournemouth.<br />
Gray, Miss Annabel . . 1, Mechlin Mansions,<br />
Brook Green, S.W.<br />
Griffiths, Miss N. . . Ridgeway, Dormans<br />
Land, Surrey.<br />
Hamilton, Cosmo . . L4 Uc. Albany, Picca-<br />
dilly, W.<br />
Hope, Graham . . . Women's Amalgama-<br />
ted Unionist and<br />
Tariff Reform<br />
Association, 39a,<br />
Maddox Street,<br />
Hanover Square,<br />
W.<br />
Jones, Hinton . . . 99, Hallam Street,<br />
Portland Place, W.<br />
Leigh, Miss Gertrude . Nesbit Cottage, Win-<br />
chelsea, Sussex.<br />
Livens, W. Howard<br />
(William Howard)<br />
coln.<br />
Morel, Jean . . . St. John's College,<br />
(Claude Odilé)<br />
H 2, Cambridge.<br />
O'Donnell, Miss Petronella Nelson Villa. The<br />
Beach, Clevedon,<br />
Somerset.<br />
Openshaw, Miss Mary . 37, Queen's Gate<br />
Gardens, S.W.<br />
Poole, M. C. Conway . E. I. United Service<br />
(Oslay)<br />
Club.<br />
Poore, Niss L. C. . . Rainhill, Liverpool.<br />
Simpson, Violet A.<br />
Sowerby, Getha.<br />
Spry-Palmer.<br />
Sugden, Charles . . 2c, Hyde Park Man-<br />
sions, N.W.<br />
Wallis, Arthur F. . . 15, Stanley Crescent,<br />
Webster, William H. . 31, Stratford Street,<br />
Dewsbury Road,<br />
Leeds.<br />
Whibley, Charles . . Wavenden Manor,<br />
Woburn Sands.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<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 />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
MRS. GASKELL: WITH SELECTIONS FROM HER WORKS.<br />
By MRS. ELLIS H. CHADWICK. Regent Library Series.<br />
7 X 44. 387 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 28. 6d. n.<br />
CHARLES DICKENS AS EDITOR. Being Letters written by<br />
Him to William Henry Wills, his Sub-Editor. Selected<br />
and Edited by R. C. LEHMANN. 9 x 51. 104 pp.<br />
Smith Elder. 128. 6d. n.<br />
A COSMOPOLITAN ACTOR : DAVID GARRICK AND HIS<br />
FRENCH FRIENDS. By F. A. HEDGECOCK. 9 x 57.<br />
412 pp. Stanley Paul, 10s. 6. n.<br />
CLASSICAL.<br />
CLASSIC MYTH AND LEGEND. By A. R. HOPE MON-<br />
CRIEFF. 83 x 51. 440 pp. Gresham Publishing Co.<br />
78. 64. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Two PLAYS,!By TCHEKHOF: THE SEAGULL, THE CHERRY<br />
ORCHARD. Translated by GEORGE CALDERON. 8 x 53.<br />
155 pp. Grant Richards. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE PIGEON. A Fantasy in Three Acts. By JOHN<br />
GALSWORTHY. 63 x 5. 83 pp. Duckworth. ls. 6d. n.<br />
CHAUCER REDIVIVUS. A Playlet for the open air or hall.<br />
By WILLIAM SCOTT DURRANT. George Allen & Co.,<br />
Ltd. 6d. n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL,<br />
WONDERS OF PLANT LIFE. By S. LEONARD BASTIN.<br />
Cassell & Co. 38. 6d.<br />
W.<br />
FICTION<br />
SUCCESS. By Una L. SILBERRAD. 7 x 5. 316 pp.<br />
Constable. 68.<br />
THE PRISON WITHOUT A WALL. By R. STRAUS. 73 x 5.<br />
307 pp. Heinemann. 68.<br />
THE DEVIL'S WIND. By PATRICIA WENTWORTH (MRS.<br />
G.F. DILLON). 73 * 5. 352 pp. Melrose.<br />
HONESTY. By M. E. FRANCIS. 74 . 320 pp. Hodder &<br />
Stoughton. 68.<br />
THE PRINCIPAL GIRL. By J.C. SNAITH. 73 x 5. 312 pp.<br />
Methuen. 68<br />
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THE CURE. A Psychological Farce. By DESMOND COKE.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
78 x 5. 310 pp. Chapman & Hall.<br />
HAVOC.<br />
MOTHERCRAFT. By MRS. ELLIS H. CHADWICK. 77 x 5.<br />
By E. P. OPPENHEIM. 7 x 5. 349 Pp. 126 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. lx.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
LETTERS TO LOO ISE ON LIFE, LOVE AND IMMORTALITY.<br />
A QUEEN OF CASTAWAYS. By John BARNETT. 77 x 5.<br />
By JEAN DELAIRE. 192 pp. William Rider & Son, Ltd.<br />
308 pp. Methuen. 38. 6d.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
RUTH OF THE ROWLDRICH. By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
78 * 5. 368 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
Exit ELIZA. By BARRY PAIN. 7 x 5. 120 pp. A FAIRY TALE. By THEODORE HOLLAND. Words by<br />
Cassell. 18.<br />
ROLAND CARSE. Boosey & Co., 295, Regent Street, W.<br />
THE SPINDLE. By ELIZABETH HARDEN. 356 pp. John MIRAGE. A Valse. By THEODORE HOLLAND. John<br />
Long. 68.<br />
Church Co., 45, Wigmore Street.<br />
THE RIGHT HAND. By J. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. Everett<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
& Co. 6s.<br />
DEAD MEN'S BELLS. Ry FREDERICK NIVEN. 310 pp. THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. By T. A. COWARD. The<br />
Martin Secker, 68.<br />
Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. 61 x 5.<br />
THE CHINK IN THE ARMOUR. By MRS. BELLOC 137 pp. Cambridge University Press. 18. n.<br />
LOWNDES. 73 x 5. 316 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS, How, WHERE AND WHEN TO<br />
THE COWARD. By R. H. BENSON. 73 x 5. 392 pp. FIND AND IDENTIFY THEM. By R. KEARTON. Part I.<br />
Hutchinson. 68.<br />
93 x 61. 32 pp. Cassell. 7d. n.<br />
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER. By E. F. BENSON. 78 X 5.<br />
338 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
FIRE IN STUBBLE. By THE BARONESS ORCZY. 73 X 5, HOME RULE. By HAROLD SPENDER. With a preface by<br />
410 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR EDWARD GREY, BART.<br />
ETERNAL GLORY. By CARLTON DAWE. 73 x 5. 352 pp. M.P. 7 X 5. 180 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 18. D.<br />
Eveleigh Nash. 68.<br />
SAM BRIGGS: His Book. By RICHARD MARSH. 7 x 5.<br />
REFERENCE BOOKS.<br />
304 pp. John Long. 68.<br />
Who's WHO IN SCIENCE (International). Edited by H.<br />
THE SINGING BONE. By R. AI'STIN FREEMAN. 78 X 5.<br />
H. STEPHENSON. 94 x 57. 323 pp. J. & A. Churchill.<br />
312 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 28. n.<br />
THE THREE ENVELOPES. By HAMILTON DRUMMOND.<br />
SCIENCE.<br />
73 X 43. 319 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
FOURTH REPORT OF THE WELLCOME TROPICAL RESEARCH<br />
CYNTHIA OF THE MINUTE. By L. J. VANCE. 78 x 5.<br />
LABORATORIES AT THE GORDON MEMORIAL COLLEGE.<br />
318 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br />
KHARTOUM. Vol. B. General Science. By A. BALFOCR,<br />
RUPERT OF HENTZAU. By ANTHONY HOPE. 61 X 4.<br />
M.D. 11 x 73. 333 pp. Published for the Department<br />
Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
of Education, Sudan Government, Khartoum. Ballière,<br />
MIRANDA OF THE BALCONY. By A. E. W. MASON.<br />
Tindall & Cox.<br />
256 pp. Macmillan. 7d. n.<br />
188. n.<br />
THE WOMAN HUNTER. By ARABELLA KENEALY, 7} x 5.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
334 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. By ERNEST THOMPSOS SETOS.<br />
ESTHER. By AGNES E. JACOMB. 74 x 5. 303 pp. 9 x 51. 415 pp. Constable. 12s. 60. 11.<br />
Heinemann. 6s.<br />
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY. Personal Narrative of<br />
HERITAGE. By VALENTINA HAWTREY. 7{ x 5. 389 pp.<br />
Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China.<br />
Constable. 6s.<br />
By M. AUREL STEIN. Two volumes. 94 X 64. 517 pp.<br />
FELIX ('HRISTIE. By PEGGY WEBLING. 73 5. 345 pp. Macmillan. 428. n,<br />
Methuen. 68.<br />
SCENTED ISLES AND CORAL GARDENS. Torres Straits,<br />
THE ENDLESS JOURNEY AND OTHER STORIES. By NETTA<br />
German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies. Br<br />
SYRETT. 73 X 43. 317 pp. Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
C. D. MACKELLAR. 9 X 54. 351 pp. Murray. 158. Il.<br />
THE GIFTED NAME. By MRS. FRED REYNOLDS. 73 x 5.<br />
307 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
THE CLOAK OF CONVENTION. By LESLIE MOORE. 75 X 5.<br />
326 pp. Alston Rivers. 68.<br />
THE OPEN VALLEY. By HELEN H. WATSON (MRS. BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
HERBERT A. WATSON). 78 X 5. 344 pp. Cassell. 68.<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
THIRTEEN. By TEMPLE THURSTON. 78 X 5. 279 pp.<br />
Chapman & Hall. 68.<br />
VEENI THE MASTER. - The Story of a Dream.” By<br />
ART.<br />
R. J. LAMPORT. 78 x 5. 305 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.<br />
TONY U'NREGENERATE. By JANET DODGE. 73 X 5. WHISTLER. By FRANK RUTTER. New York: Kennerler.<br />
312 pp. Duckworth. 68.<br />
$1 n.<br />
A BLIND ALLEY. By S. W. SAVI. 74 x 5. Digby Long.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
68.<br />
THE STORY OF EMMA, LADY HAMILTON. With 30<br />
BARTER. By GERTIE DE S, WENTWORTH JAMES. 8 x 5.<br />
Reproductiuns in Colour of famous Paintings and<br />
318 pp. Everett. tis.<br />
Engravings, and other Illustrations. 2 Volumes. By<br />
IN LOVE'S LAND. By EFFIE A. ROWLANDS. 73 x 5. FRANK DANBY. 107 + 113 pp. New York:<br />
319 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
Macmillan Co. $1.75.<br />
LORD OF TRONGRAY. By J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND. 7} x 5. THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. In 2 Volumes. Vol. I.<br />
365 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
1819-1860; Vol. II. 1860-1900. By E. T. COOK.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
540 + 615 pp. New York : Macmillan Co. $7 n.<br />
THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF SHELLEY AND THE SEQUEL. By<br />
WHERE THE HEDGEROWS END, AND OTHER FAIRY TALES. FRANCIS GRIBBLE. 387 pp. New York: Putnams<br />
By - ISH BEL." 64 pp. John Ouseley. 18, n.<br />
$4 n.<br />
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TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
VENICE AND VENETIA. By EDWARD HUTTON. With<br />
14 Illustrations in Colour by MAXWELL ARMFIELD, and<br />
12 other Illustrations. 324 pp. New York: Macmillan<br />
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THROUGH TRACKLESS LABRADOR. By HESKETH<br />
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Scribner. $2.50.<br />
THE SURGEON'S Log. Being Impressions of the Far<br />
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York : Dutton. $2.50 n.<br />
THE LEAVES OF THE TREE; STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY.<br />
By ARTHUR C. BENSON. 154 pp. New York: Putnam.<br />
$1.50 n.<br />
THE LIFE OF JAMES MACNEILL WHISTLER. By MRS. E.<br />
ROBINS. PENNELL & JOSEPH PENNELL. Phil. :<br />
Lippincott. $3.50 n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
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DE MATTOS. With 25 Illustrations in Colour by F.<br />
CAYLEY ROBINSON. 211 pp. New York : Dodd Mead.<br />
$1.50 n.<br />
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tions Designed by JOYCE BURGES. 352 pp. New York:<br />
Macmillan. $1.35 n.<br />
WHEN NO MAN PURSUETA. By M. A. BELLOC LOWNDES.<br />
396 pp. New York : Kennerley. $1.35 n.<br />
Havoc. By E. P. OPPENHEIM. With Illustrations in<br />
Colour by HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY. 323 pp.<br />
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DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER STORIES. By H. G.<br />
WELLS. New York: Kennerley. $1.50 n.<br />
CHRISTOPHER. By RICHARD PRYCE. 364 pp. Boston :<br />
Houghton Mifflin. $1.35 n.<br />
THE MONEY MOON: A ROMANCE. By JEFFERY FARNOL.<br />
330 pp. New York : Dodd Mead. $3.75 n.<br />
A BED OF ROSES. By W. L. GEORGE. New York.<br />
Brentanos. $1.35.<br />
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. By FRANCES HODGSON<br />
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N January 18, after a brief illness, Miss Ida<br />
Woodward died at Bournemouth, much<br />
regretted. She had been a member of the<br />
Authors' Society but for a short time, but not too<br />
short for her to have formed a high opinion of its<br />
utility. She was the writer of “ A History of<br />
Purbeck,” and of “ Five English Consorts of<br />
Foreign Princes,” published by Messrs. Methuen in<br />
1911. The book was very favourably received, and<br />
had the honour of being included in the list of<br />
those accepted by their Majesties for reading during<br />
the voyage to India.<br />
“Where the Hedgerows End, and other Fairy<br />
Tales," by “Ishbel," has been published by Messrs.<br />
John Ouseley. There are seven stories in the<br />
volume, besides the one from which it takes its<br />
title.<br />
A second edition of “ An Englishman," by<br />
Mary L. Pendered, is to appear shortly from the<br />
house of Messrs. Mills & Boon, through the courtesy<br />
of Messrs. Methuen & Co., who have kindly cancelled<br />
the agreement made by them in 1899, when the<br />
novel first appeared. “In My Garden," a little<br />
anthology and memorandum book for Nature lovers,<br />
compiled by the same author and Alice Stronach in<br />
collaboration, is also to be republished by Messrs.<br />
Perkins & Co., of Wellingborough ; London agents,<br />
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. This will be its<br />
third edition, making 6,000 copies. It is timed to<br />
appear at Easter.<br />
Count Plunkett, F.S.A., has been elected President<br />
of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He<br />
bas lately published. for the Dublin Museum of<br />
Science and Art, a thoroughly revised edition to<br />
Miss Stokes' “ Early Christian Irt in Ireland."<br />
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Mr. Vladimir Cernicoff, the Russian pianist, has subject; and some 250 authors in all are repre-<br />
included Mr. Theodore Holland's new pianoforte sented. The Anthology will appear in the Oxford<br />
pieces, “ Prelude” and “ Cradle Song," in his Editions of Standard Authors.<br />
recent tour in Germany.<br />
“ The Open Valley," a new novel by Mrs. Herbert<br />
Messrs. F. V. White & Co. published, last month, A. Watson (Helen H. Watson), has been published<br />
a theatrical novel by Gertrude Warden, entitled by Messrs. Cassell & Co. in February. Messrs.<br />
“ The Path of Virtue." Miss Warden has had Mills & Boon are issuing early in the new year<br />
seventeen years' experience of stage work in a cheap reprint of Mrs. Watson's novel “ The<br />
London, the provinces and America.<br />
Captain's Daughter."<br />
Two of Dr. Reinhardt's books are being issued We have been asked to note that the English<br />
by Stead's Publishing House, Kingsway. The Review, commencing with the January number,<br />
first is entitled “Science and the Soul," and deals 1912, will be issued at the reduced price of 1s.<br />
with a subject of universal interest. It is issued (12s. 6d. annual subscription, post free to all parts of<br />
at 2s. The other book is a new edition of Dr. the world).<br />
Reinhardt's ls, treatise, “ Diet and the Maximum Mr. George A. Birmingham has just published<br />
Duration of Life," of which upwards of ten “The Lighter Side of Irish Life,” with sixteen colour<br />
thousand copies have already been issued.<br />
illustrations by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A., at the<br />
“ Dead Men's Bells” is the title of Mr. Frederick price of 5s. net, from the house of T. X. Foulis.<br />
Niven's new book. Mr. Martin Secker is the The book is written in Mr. Birmingham's best<br />
publisher.<br />
vein, and has many good stories, but there is also a<br />
The World's Work for February contains great deal of sound information about the people,<br />
an article by Mr. H. F. Prevost Battersby on their habits and customs. The illustrations are<br />
“Tolstoy as a Schoolmaster.” The same issue con- quite first class and well reproduced.<br />
tains an article entitled “ Agricultural Education “Vagabond City," Miss Winifred Boggs' new<br />
vid the Dairy,” by “ Home Counties.” It treats of book, is published by Messrs. Putnams. The action<br />
aspects of dairying and agricultural progress in the of the story takes place in the New Forest.<br />
Netherlands.<br />
The Rev. F. T. Royd's new book, “ Job and the<br />
The Poetry Review for February has an article Problem of Suffering,” published by Messrs. Wells,<br />
on The Lyric, by Darrell Figgis.<br />
Gardner & Co., is designed to appeal alike to the<br />
Irene Osgood has published, through Messrs. general reader and the theological student. Special<br />
Weekes & Co., four songs, entitled respectively, attention is given to interesting and difficult<br />
“I Wonder," " Wood Violets,” “ The Coronation passages with the aid of the best modern Hebrew<br />
of the Pixies” and “ Petitions.”<br />
scholarships. Many parallels are quoted from<br />
“ Chaucer Redivivus” (Allen, 6d.) is a playlet by classical and modern literature, and an original<br />
Mr. Scott Durrant for the open air or hall. Its essay is included on the Problem of Suffering in<br />
appeal is to literary societies, senior schools, etc., the Light of Christianity and modern thought.<br />
and it presents, in not too archaic “Chaucerese," a Sir James Yoxall, M.P., was unanimously elected<br />
frolicsome story of the sixth wooing and marriage President of the British International Association<br />
of the Wyf of Bathe.<br />
of Journalists, at the recent annual meeting of that<br />
Mr. Scott Durrant has also an article in the body, particulars of which may be obtained from<br />
February issue of The Treasury on - The Children's the secretary, Mr. James Baker. The address of<br />
Crusade of 1212.”<br />
the Association is La Belle Sauvage, E.C.<br />
The “Literary Year Book” will, we understand, “ Henrietta Taking Notes," by Miss E. Crosby<br />
in future, be published by Mr. John Ouseley. Heath, gives the impressions of a little girl of<br />
Messrs. Chapman & Hall are publishing “ The eleven, daughter of a dramatic critic, concerning<br />
Fly in the Ointment,” a first novel by Frances her family and her friends. John Lane, the<br />
Hammond. The heroine is a young girl, Theo Bodley Head, is the London publisher. There is<br />
Hope, whose fortunate circumstances are discounted a mingling of humour and pathos in the book,<br />
by the fact that from birth she is doomed to be which is also published in America, where the<br />
"different.” The plot deals with the development publishers are the John Lane Co.<br />
of her character from the moment when she M r. J. Bloundelle Burton has recently published.<br />
realises her fate until, after many vicissitudes, she through Messrs. Everett & Co., a novel entitled<br />
attains happiness and peace of mind.<br />
“The Right Hand.”<br />
“The Book-Lovers' Anthology," edited, with Messrs. Chapman & Hall have just issued the<br />
notes, by R. M. Leonard, will be issued immediately fourth volume of the two-shilling edition of the<br />
by Mr. Frowde. It consists of passages in poetry " John Westacott" novels. This volume is Mark<br />
and prose relating to books in all their aspects, Tillotson,” the novel that deals with the Cornish<br />
libraries, and reading, grouped according to the coast and the river scenery of the Elbe, the charac-<br />
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ters being English, with the exception of the month. Messrs. John Church & Co. publish the<br />
Raphaellis. The author, James Baker, is now valse.<br />
engaged upon a volume upon Austria, to be illus- Mrs. Ellis H. Chadwick has published, through<br />
trated in colour by Donald Maxwell.<br />
Messrs. Herbert and Daniel, a volume on “Mrs.<br />
Miss Regina Miriam Bloch will give a reading of Gaskell : with Selections from her Works," which<br />
her own work at the Studio Theatre, 92, Victoria has been included in the Regent Library Series<br />
Street, Westminster, S.W., on March 10, at issued by that firm.<br />
8 p.m. She will be assisted by Mr. Julian Gade, Messrs. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons have<br />
Mrs. Norman Ma Owan (of “Monsieur Beau- published, at ls. “Mothercraft," another volume<br />
caire”), and others. The reading, which comprises from Mrs. Chadwick's pen.<br />
fantasies, stories, and poems, is under the patronage Mr. Andrew Melrose announces for immediate<br />
of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, the Hon. Lady B. publication, a volume by Mr. G. H. Perris dealing<br />
Fremantle, Mr. Israel Zangwill, and Mr. Theodore with Great Britain's foreign policy. Mr. Perris'<br />
Watts-Dunton. Tickets at 23. 6d. each can be aim has been primarily to provide in this volume a<br />
obtained from Miss R. M. Bloch, at 8, John Street, record of facts, and only secondarily a discussion<br />
Adelphi, W.C.<br />
of tendencies and principles. A detailed narrative<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have recently pub- of the Moroccan crisis of last autumn is given in<br />
lished an intimate study of the social and artistic the volume, which will be published under the title<br />
life of David Garrick, entitled “ David Garrick and of“ Our Foreign Policy and Sir Edward Grey's<br />
his French Friends,” by Dr. F. A. Hedgcock. The Failure."<br />
author deals largely with the great actor's friend- Mr. Heinemann published in February Agnes E.<br />
ships with the distinguished French men and Jacomb's new novel “ Esther.”<br />
women of his day. The dazzling society of the Mr. S. Leonard Bastin has published, through<br />
philosophic salons, and the tinsel glories of the Messrs. Cassell & Co., “Wonders of Plant Life.”<br />
Comédie Française of the period are made to live It is published at 3s. 6d.<br />
again by brief portraits of Diderot, d'Holbach, In “Letters to Louise on Life, Love and<br />
Borellet, Suard, Mme. Riccoboni, Mlle. Clairon, Immortality,” Madame Jean Delaire depicts much<br />
and others. Dr. Hedgcock has many stories to tell of the intellectual and emotional unrest of the<br />
of the great master of tragedy, comedy, and farce, present day, reflected in the mind of a brilliant<br />
and gives many examples of his drolleries, his witty woman of the world, who, in the form of letters<br />
sallies, and his amusing escapades. He also gives written to an old friend across the seas, reveals her<br />
a critical estimate of Garrick's histrionic achieve struggles towards truth, and a clear understanding<br />
ments.<br />
of the great world problems. Messrs. William<br />
" The Three Envelopes” is the title of a new Rider & Son, Ltd., are the publishers.<br />
novel from the pen of Mr. Hamilton Drummond Messrs. John Long, Ltd., have recently published<br />
which Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have just a novel called “The Spinale," which is from the<br />
published. In this story the author breaks fresh pen of Miss Elizabeth Harden.<br />
ground-touching the weird and supernatural. It A small book by a member of the society entitled<br />
tells of one Corley, who, weary of humdrum exist- “ The Land of Shadows : or Mad as à March<br />
ence, makes the acquaintance of a strange society, Hare," and commended to Mr. Lloyd George, has<br />
“ The Society for Promoting Queer Results,” and lately appeared. Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons<br />
of the many remarkable experiences which befall are the publishers, the price is 6d. The book is a<br />
him in consequence.<br />
skit on the present Government.<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have also published Two books by Professor Skeat have reached a<br />
" Veeni the Master," a new novel by R. Fifield second edition and are now ready ; viz. “ English<br />
Lamport. The dissolution of the world Earth Dialects ” (Pitt Press); and “ The Place-names of<br />
and the reincarnation in the world Zan, and the Cambridgeshire" (Cambridge Antiquarian Society).<br />
many subsequent strange events are its subject. Derek Vane is now writing a serial story for<br />
A new novel by “Rita” (Mrs. Desmond the National Press Agency, Ltd., and half a dozen<br />
Humphreys) will shortly be published by Mr. short stories for The Throne. Stories by the same<br />
Eveleigh Nash. It deals with that rather ticklish author are also shortly appearing in the ** London "<br />
subject, the “Nonconformist conscience.” The title and “Novel” magazines.<br />
is “ Grim Justice.”<br />
A new edition of Mr. Sidney Heath's “Our<br />
A new song by Mr. Theodore Holland, “A Fairy Homeland Churches and How to Study Them”<br />
Tale” (words by Rowland ('arse), was published will shortly be published by the Homeland Associa-<br />
last month by Messrs. Boosey & Co.<br />
tion. The text has been remodelled and lengthened ;<br />
A new valse by Mr. Holland, entitled “Mirage,” the illustrations have been revised, and now include<br />
is to come out at the Albert Hall on the 6th of this a series of architectural drawings by Mr. J. R.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Leathart. The new edition, which completes the Yeats' Morality “ The Hour Glass," Father Adder-<br />
ninth thousand of the book, will be issued in the ley's “ Twelfth Night” Interlude “ Epiphany," and<br />
form of the “Homeland” Pocket Books at half- Lady Gregory's Miracle Play “The Travelling<br />
a-crown nett.<br />
Man” were the plays produced. The cast included<br />
1: Mr. John Long will publish shortly a new novel Miss Edyth Latimer, Miss Margaret Halstan, Mr.<br />
from the pen of Mr. Charles Igglesden, author of William Haviland, Mr. James Hearn and Mr. W.<br />
“A Flutter with Fate," and several topographical G. Fay.<br />
works on Kent. “Clouds" is the title of Mr. A one-act play “The Lady Cashier," by H. M.<br />
Igglesden's new novel, which describes the efforts Paull, was produced at the Coronet Theatre on<br />
of the son of a tradesman to raise a farmhouse girl February 5, preceding “ Baby Mine” at that<br />
to the status that he himself holds. Mr. Igglesden, theatre. A lady cashier, coming into an unexpected<br />
in the course of the story, gives the reader glimpses inheritance from an uncle abroad, leaves her employ-<br />
of historic spots in Kent.<br />
ment and proceeds to spend her inheritance on the<br />
The third volume in Messis. G. P. Putnam's Continent. It appears, subsequently, that the<br />
Mauve Library is “ The End of a Song,” by money should have gone to a nearer relative, whose<br />
Jeannette Marks. It is a simple tale of life in a death had been too hastily assumed. Meanwhile,<br />
little Welsh village, and the theme is the love the lady has become engaged to a baronet, who<br />
between the heroine (a dear old woman) and the promptly throws her over on learning the truth as<br />
hero, a baby boy.<br />
to her fortune, and the lady returns to the restaurant,<br />
Mrs. Mary Gaunt's book “ Alone in West where she confides in one of the customers, a<br />
Africa ” was published by Mr. Werner Laurie on solicitor, who promises to act for her in a breach of<br />
January 15. Mrs. Gaunt made an overland promise action, without knowing that the defendant<br />
journey along the Gold Coast, and then turned is one of his clients. The baronet consults him,<br />
inland in a canoe up the little known Voltaa river, and the two endeavour to pacify the lady, even-<br />
and thence by paths across the hilly country into tually, with success. Miss Amy Willard, Mr. E.<br />
the German territory of Togo. She visited the Spencer Geach, and Mr. Edward Leith are in the<br />
sleeping sickness camp at Mount Klutow, made piece.<br />
her way to Lome, the capital, and thence overland Sir Arthur Pinero's comedy, in four acts, “ The<br />
again to Keta, in British territory, once more. Mind the Paint' Girl," was produced at the Duke<br />
She next visited Ashanti and journeyed to Sunyani, of York's Theatre on February 17. The play<br />
which now is one of the richest possessions of deals with the life, off the stage, of musical<br />
the British crown. Mrs. Gaunt's book is illus- comedy girls, as well as of their admirers. The<br />
trated with 100 plates from photographs taken by cast includes Mr. Allen Aynesworth, Mr. Nigel<br />
herself.<br />
Playfair, Miss Marie Löhr, and Miss Clare Greet.<br />
On February 23, Mr. Martin Secker published “In face of the Enemy,” by E. White, is a<br />
Mr. Laurence North's new novel “ The Golightlys, dramatic sketch in one act, and deals with an<br />
Father and Son." In this story Mr. North (Mr. episode during the war between France and<br />
J. D. Symon) has written in an entirely different Germany, just after the battle of Saarbruck. It<br />
vein from that of his former books—“Syrinx” and is published from The Booklet Press, Broadway,<br />
“ Impatient Griselda.”<br />
Amersham, Bucks.<br />
DRAMATIC<br />
Mr. John Galsworthy's new play, “ The Pigeon,"<br />
was produced at the Royalty Theatre last month.<br />
“ The Pigeon” is a great-hearted artist who hates<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
to see a fellow-being suffer. In consequence, he<br />
befriends a flower-girl, a broken-down cabman, and<br />
an alien interpreter. His efforts towards the re- “ CYATHERINE SFORZA (1463–1509): une<br />
demption of these three “ wasters” are not, how U Héroïne de la Renaissance italienne,” is<br />
ever, successful, and the vagrancy problem of<br />
a résumé of the famous book by Pier-<br />
which they are a part remains unsolved. The Desiderio Pasolini. It is very cleverly compiled<br />
cast includes Mr. Dennis Eadie, Miss Margaret by Marc Helys, who also writes an excellent intro-<br />
Morris, Mr. Whitford Kane, and Mr. Wilfrid duction to her work. Several historians hare<br />
Shine.<br />
written accounts of this wonderful woman. One<br />
The Morality Play Society presented a triple bill of Catherine's grandsons wrote the life of Jean de<br />
ast month at the Court Theatre, when four perform Médicis, and devoted several pages of this book to<br />
ances were given of plays by W. B. Yeats, the Ilon. the exploits of his ancestress. A Spanish monk,<br />
and Rev. J. G. Adderley, and Lady Gregory: Mr. the historian Burriel, on being exiled from his<br />
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country, took refuge at Forli, where he lived for departure by this talented writer. Up to the<br />
many years. He was the first to examine the present Pierre Mille is chiefly known for his clever<br />
archives relating to Catherine Sforza, so that it is psychological studies of Frenchmen in the colonies.<br />
to him we owe the first important biography of We have already drawn attention to Barnavaux<br />
this heroine. His admiration for her caused him in exile. In this new book we have a very<br />
to idealise her character and deeds to such a degree delicate and subtle pyschological study of a child.<br />
that his work does not give us a correct idea of We have the author's first conversation with Caillou,<br />
her. Towards the end of the nineteenth century a boy of five years old. From this first conversa-<br />
Count Pier-Desiderio Pasolini published a bio- tion he is able to understand something of the child's<br />
graphy of Catherine Sforza, which may be con- soul, of his character, his tastes, and his ideas.<br />
sidered as an authentic account of this celebrated As time goes on, he and Caillou find they have much<br />
Italian woman. The Pasolini family is as old as in common, and they confide in each other accord-<br />
the Sforza family, and they both came from the ingly. Pierre Mille makes the acquaintance of the<br />
same village. Count Pasolini has written many various friends of Caillou ; among others of Boulot<br />
historical works, and has exceptional opportunities and of a certain street Arab, whom they surname<br />
for examining the private archives of various Italian “La puce," and for whom they form a syndicate<br />
families. The Italian edition of Caterina Sforza is later on, in order that he may go to a convalescent<br />
in two huge volumes, and contains 1,435 documents, home. The pathos of this chapter is very touching.<br />
most of which had never before been published. Various books on the psychology of the child<br />
The work is splendidly illustrated, and is one of have been written, but none with a more true<br />
the most complete accounts in existence of the Italy intuition and such a delicate touch of humour.<br />
of that period, of the policy of its various States, “ La Renomée,” by Gaston Rageot, is a curious<br />
and of the life, intrigues and conspiracies of its and extremely complex psychological study. Lucien<br />
various Courts. The book at present is very rare, Mirar is a literary celebrity, a celebrity who makes<br />
as it is out of print, and the blocks of the illustra- copy of his various love affairs. His wife is a<br />
tions were destroyed in a fire. Marc Helys is to charming woman who had married at the age of<br />
be congratulated on the clever way in which she twenty, and whose romance had been a very brief<br />
has reduced this enormous work to a comparatively one. At the time when the story opens, she is<br />
small edition, giving us a story of real life as quite reconciled to her lot and has accepted the<br />
interesting as any novel.<br />
position of the wife of a literary celebrity. She has<br />
The titles of the chapters give an idea of some a child whom she adores, and she and her husband<br />
of the subjects touched upon : “ The Court of each live their own life.<br />
Milan,” “Catherine engaged to the Nephew of Presently a new interest comes into her 'existence.<br />
Sixtus IV.," " Assassination of the Duke of Milan," She makes the acquaintance of a certain Antoine<br />
“Sixtus IV. and his Court,” “His Death,” Bellême. They are soon on very friendly terms<br />
“Splendour and Misery of the Court of Forli," and they discover that they have many ideas in<br />
“ Intrigues of Lorenzo de Medicis,” “ Assassination common. As time goes on the two become all in<br />
of Catherine's Husband,” “ She and her Children in all to each other, and, just as the situation is becom-<br />
the Hands of the Assassins,” “Triumph and ing difficult, Lucien Mirar dies. The lovers marry,<br />
Vengeance of Catherine,” “ Her second Marriage," and it is after their marriage that the tragedy com-<br />
“ Her third Marriage," - Catherine and the Borgia mences. After the birth of their child, the mother<br />
Family,” “ Catherine a Prisoner of War,” “ She is realises how much more her first-born son is to her.<br />
accused of an attempt to Poison the Pope,” “Her An estrangement gradually begins between the two<br />
trial," " Her Liberation after fourteen months in parents, and when the younger child, feeling that<br />
Prison,” “Her Struggles and Intrigues to recover he is an unwelcome member of the family, leaves<br />
her States," “ The Education of her Youngest Son," home, the father follows him and the mother is left<br />
“ The Last Years and Death of Catherine.”<br />
with her first-born son and her memories of the<br />
The story of her youngest son is a novel in itself. past.<br />
He was the greatest warrior of his times, and is The book is well written, and the characters are<br />
known in history as “ Jean des Bandes Noires.” all very true to life and excellently portrayed.<br />
He was also called “ Foudre de Guerre,” “ le Grand Among pamphlets which should be extremely<br />
Diable," and, for the fame he brought to his country, interesting to the English at this juncture is one<br />
“ Italia.” In 1526 he was wounded while fighting, by M. Biard d'Aunet (Ministre plénipotentiaire) on<br />
and died as the result of an amputation at the age “La Ligue du Libre-Echange et la Liberté com-<br />
of twenty-eight.<br />
merciale."<br />
The whole book will be found as fascinating as M. Biard d'Aunet is Vice-President of this<br />
any work of fiction.<br />
League, and is a great authority on the subject on<br />
“ Caillou et Tili,” by Pierre Mille, is quite a new which he writes.<br />
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The pamphlet is very clear. The author first Trarieux, taken from Balzac ; “ L'Eternel Mari,"<br />
explains the title of his pamphlet. He then shows a four-act play by M. M. Alfred Savoir, and F.<br />
clearly the effects of protection, and who benefits by Nozière, from Dostoïevsky ; “ La Flambée," by<br />
protection. He gives some striking examples of Mr. Henry Kistemaeckers; “Les Sauterelles," a five-<br />
protection and the maritime industries. He gives act play, by M. Emile Fabre ; “ Les Favorites,"<br />
the objections raised by protectionists, and, after a a four-act play, by M. Alfred Capus ; " L'Amour<br />
very brief summing up, he explains fully the object en Cage," a three-act piece, by M. M. André<br />
and aim of the League over which he presides. de Lorde, Funck-Brentano and Jean Marsèle;<br />
In “ La Revue Hebdomadaire," the Marquis de “L'Accord parfait," a three-act comedy by M.M.<br />
Ségur writes an interesting study of Edmond and Tristan Bernard and Michel Provins; and“ Un Bean<br />
Jules de Goncourt, and Jules Lemaître a series of Mariage," a three-act comedy by M. Sacha Guitry.<br />
articles on Chateaubriand. M. Fernand Laudet<br />
Ahys HALLARD.<br />
gives us a biographical study of Augustin Cochin,<br />
and the Abbé Augustin Sicard an extremely interest “Catherine Sforza (1463-1509)” (Perrin).<br />
ing one on the “Grandes Abbayes et Grandes<br />
“ Caillou et Tili,” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
“ La Renomée," (Calmann Lévy).<br />
Abbesses à la veille de la Révolution.”<br />
Paul Bourget writes on "l'Art de Sully<br />
Prud'homme," and the Comtesse de Courson an<br />
article entitled “La Tragédie de Cawnpore."<br />
GRAMOPHONE RECORDS.<br />
M. Camille de Sainte Croix is giving a Shakes-<br />
peare season at the Athénée Theatre, which has<br />
MONCKTON V. TAE GRAMOPHONE Co. LTD.<br />
been placed at his service by M. Abel Deval. A<br />
performance is being given every Thursday as a M HIS was an appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice<br />
matinée until May. The season opened with a 1 Joyce in an action brought by Mr. Lionel<br />
“ Midsummer Night's Dream,” with the scenery Monckton, the well-known composer, who<br />
specially designed by M. Simas, and with an claimed the exclusive right to make or authorise the<br />
entirely fresh troupe of young actors. The plays making of gramophone sheets for the performance<br />
to be given are “ The Taming of the Shrew," of the song entitled “Moonstruck," the plaintiff<br />
"The Merchant of Venice," “ The Tempest," and being the author of the words and the music.<br />
“ The Merry Wives of Windsor.”<br />
The song was first published in Feburary, 1909,<br />
M. Camille de Sainte Croix also intends to put and the performing rights were assigned to Mr.<br />
on the famous Russian piece, “Boris Godounov." George Edwardes. The defendant company, which<br />
An action has been brought against Messrs. carries on the business of manufacturers and sellers<br />
Calmann-Lévy by Messrs. Fayard. The latter of gramophones, had copied, printed, or transcribed<br />
claim that the cheap books brought out as the the song for the purpose of reproduction by means<br />
“ Nouvelle Collection Illustrée" are constantly being of the company's gramophones.<br />
bought in mistake for the “Modern Bibliothèque," The plaintiff did not rely upon any statutory copy-<br />
published by Messrs. Fayard.<br />
right, but he claimed that he was entitled to a com-<br />
Messrs. Calmann-Lévy have won the case, as the mon law right of ownership in the composition, and<br />
Court holds that there is sufficient difference in the that he could prevent anyone from using the work<br />
titles of the publication and also in the names of to his detriment. Mr. Justice Joyce had held that<br />
the authors published by these two firms to make after publication no common law right existed,<br />
such mistakes unlikely.<br />
and dismissed the action.<br />
The French syndicate for the protection of intel The Master of the Rolls in his judgment said<br />
lectual property is extremely active, and has several that the appeal raised a point which had<br />
brilliant victories to announce. The Franco-Russian been so firmly settled that he was surprised<br />
Convention has been approved by the Chamber of that it had been brought before the Court. The<br />
Deputies and by the Senate. As a result of this, plaintiff was the composer of a song which had<br />
an important group of the Moscow University has been introduced into a dramatic performance, and<br />
signed a contract with the publishers, Armand he was undoubtedly entitled to the protection<br />
Colin, for the translation rights in the Russian afforded by the statutes relating to literary and<br />
language of a geological work by Professor Haug. dramatic rights. The defendants had not infringed<br />
Arrangements are now being made with a view to those statutory rights, but the plaintiff claimed that<br />
facilitating a convention with Greece, Chili and side by side with the statutory protection there<br />
other countries.<br />
existed at common law a perpetual right to restrain<br />
Among the plays that have been given this reason the defendant company from making use of the<br />
in the various theatres are the following : “Les musical ideas which the plaintiff had made public. On<br />
Brebis Perdus," a three-act piece by M. Gabriel principle he could see no justification for that view.<br />
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His Lordship referred to the cases dealing with stated in his evidence that he had never heard of<br />
an author's proprietary rights at common law, and the plaintiff ; but it was contended on behalf of the<br />
he quoted from the judgment of Lord Justice Far- latter that the story referred to the plaintiff as a<br />
well in Mansell v. Valley Printing Company. In vulgar person who imposed upon women, an<br />
that judgment Lord Justice Farwell said, “ Every adventurer who was in the habit of practising mean<br />
invasion of a right of property gives a cause of and petty tricks.<br />
action to the owner against the invader, whether The Lord Chief Justice, in his summing up,<br />
the invasion be intentional or not, and whether it quoted from the judgment in the “ Artemus Jones"<br />
be innocent or malicious . . . . It is an incorporeal case reported in the Author (January, 1910), and<br />
right of property giving to the author the fullest pointed out that the jury must be satisfied, if they<br />
rights not only of exclusion, but also of actual found for the plaintiff, that a reader of the paper<br />
enjoyment so far as they are compatible with non- would reasonably think that what was published<br />
publication. All his rights at common law are was a libel upon a real person. The fact that the<br />
limited until publication when they cease. Before name in the story was the same as the plaintiff's<br />
publication he may keep his work unseen or did not give a right of action. It was only one<br />
unheard; he may show or recite it to his friends ; of the circumstances in the case.<br />
he may deliver his lectures to students or allow his I t may be remembered that the article in the<br />
MS. play to be acted on special terms, provided Author dealing with the "Artemus Jones ”<br />
always that the use to which he puts it does not case called attention to some alarm which was<br />
amount to publication."<br />
caused by that decision among novelists and other<br />
The Court of Appeal held that both on principle writers of fiction ; and the result of the recent libel<br />
and authority the judgment of Mr. Justice Joyce action illustrates and confirms the statement, which<br />
was right, and the appeal was accordingly dismissed. was as follows:<br />
Under the new Copyright Act, of course, the law<br />
Novelists may feel some alarm lest the chance selection<br />
is altered in this respect, and provision is made for of a name for one of the characters in a novel may render<br />
musical composers with regard to the production of them liable for damages in a libel action brought by a<br />
their works by gramophones and other contrivances person whom they had no intention to defame, and whose<br />
by means of which sounds may be mechanically<br />
existence may have been unknown to them. Clearly some<br />
care is necessary in adapting names for imaginary characters,<br />
reproduced. Manufacturers are required, under<br />
but the alarm of novelists may be exaggerated. There is<br />
the Act, to pay to the owner of the copyright by a distinction between works of fiction and a newspaper<br />
way of royalties a certain percentage on the ordinary article purporting to describe an actual scene taking place<br />
retail selling price of all such contrivances sold by<br />
in real life at a seaside resort. A character in a novel is<br />
generally regarded as an imaginary person, whereas the<br />
them.<br />
mention of an individual by name in a descriptive<br />
HAROLD HARDY. narrative in a newspaper may reasonably be supposed to<br />
refer to a real person.<br />
The story in the Pall Mall Gazette was obviously<br />
fiction, and the jury very naturally took the view<br />
ACTION FOR LIBEL.<br />
that a reasonable reader would not regard it as a<br />
libel upon the plaintiff.<br />
HERO IN NEWSPAPER STORY.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
SHORT story entitled “ A Sad Affair " which<br />
was published in the Pall Mall Gazette, has<br />
been the subject of a ridiculous libel action<br />
which resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The<br />
FRENCH LAW CASE.<br />
plaintiff, Mr. George Charles Flanders, a motor car<br />
engineer carrying on business at Hitchin, claimed<br />
(PUBLISHER'S OBLIGATION TO PUBLISH.)<br />
damages for injury to his reputation by the pub-<br />
lication of the story, in which the name of the hero CASE of great importance to authors, or at<br />
bore the name of George Flanders.<br />
least to French authors, has been recently<br />
The incident in the story of which the plaintiff<br />
decided in Paris.<br />
complained had reference to a tea party in Hyde Park, It will be best first to mention the results of the<br />
where the hero, having invited two ladies to tea, at the decisions of the Court, the Tribunal Civil de la<br />
conclusion of the entertainment declared that he had Seine.<br />
come out without any money, and asked his guests When an author has delivered to a publisher the<br />
to pay on his behalf. They provided the money for manuscript of an historical work with a view to<br />
the tea and left their host in disgust.<br />
publication, the publisher is bound to publish the<br />
The story was purely fictitious, and the author work without delay. If, however, on the contrary,<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
he permits too long a period to elapse between the publication, and won his case ; respecting which<br />
delivery of the manuscript and the publication of the Gazette des Tribunaux makes the following<br />
the work, the publisher is liable to find himself pertinent remarks :-<br />
forbidden by the author the right to publish, and When a publisher receives a work for publication<br />
to be condemned to return the manuscript.<br />
he should publish it without delay, even although<br />
Any statements which the publisher may propose no date for publication has been fixed by the<br />
to place upon the wrapper, or upon the first page author. In the case reported the author explained<br />
of the work, respecting its date of composition, and that no date had been fixed in advance ; but it did<br />
the refusal of the author to sanction the tardynot thence follow that the publisher was at liberty<br />
publication, is inoperative, and can neither take to choose the date, and could postpone the publica-<br />
the place of the performance of the contract, tion until a time when it might be prejudicial<br />
formerly made between the author and the instead of advantageous to the author. The<br />
publisher, nor prevent the injury done to the general intention of the persons concerned (which<br />
author by tardy and inopportune publication. alone has here to be considered) was evidently that<br />
The facts of the case are as follows:-<br />
the work, seeing that it was an historical work,<br />
In 1869 M. Anatole France, being then five-and should be published without delay. The publisher<br />
twenty, entered into the employ of the publishing had, therefore, violated the contract by allowing<br />
house of Lemerre, where he remained until 1878, twenty-seven years to elapse before publication.<br />
as a reader of manuscripts. He received a small When, at the end of these twenty-seven years he<br />
salary, and, in addition to his other labours, desired to publish in spite of the author's dis-<br />
prepared to order (for trifling remuneration) approval, the statements which he proposed to<br />
notices and prefaces of books. Subsequently he place upon the wrapper or on the first page, could<br />
published, with Lemerre, in 1873, Les Poèmes not prevent the injury which would be done the<br />
Dorés, and in 1876 Les Noces Corinthiennes ; author. It was therefore not in virtue of his<br />
works which attracted wide public interest. moral right alone, but in virtue of common justice,<br />
Preriously to the termination of his engagement that the author could oppose this tardy and<br />
with Lemerre he was commissioned to prepare inopportune publication. These are conclusions<br />
several works, of which one was to be a History of in accordance with justice and equity.<br />
France (in two or three volumes) up to 1789, with<br />
an additional chronological table bringing the<br />
record up to the date of publication. The manu-<br />
script of the last of the volumes of this history was<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
delivered to Lemerre on February 25, 1882. On<br />
more than one occasion subsequently M. Anatole<br />
POETRY REVIEW.<br />
France had disagreements with Lemerre about<br />
The Lyric. By Darrell Figgis.<br />
books, and in 1906, in the course of a corre-<br />
Notes on Poetry. By Arthur Lynch, M.P.<br />
spondence respecting difficulties that had arisen, Prologomena. By Ezra Pound.<br />
Lemerre incidentally mentioned, “I say nothing<br />
BOOK MONTHLY.<br />
about the History of France in two volumes, for<br />
In Memory of Charles Dickens. By H. T. Jenkins.<br />
which you have received 3,000 francs, and ought<br />
Dickens in Paris.<br />
to revise ; have you not yourself told me that it is<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
not publishable in the form in which you delivered<br />
Vague Thoughts on Art. By John Galsworthy.<br />
it to me?" It is unnecessary here to enter into<br />
details of the arrangements ultimately made in<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
1906, and will suffice to say that they had nothing The Novels of Clara Viebig. By Florence B. Low.<br />
to do with the History of France; and that the<br />
The Supernatural in Literature.<br />
Court held that there had not been in 1896 any<br />
annulment of the original agreement regarding that<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
work. In 1909 Lemerre prepared to publish the<br />
History of France. M. Anatole France pointed (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
out that the book was now out of date, and<br />
Front Page<br />
opposed the publication. Lemerre then offered Other Pages<br />
... ... ... ... ... 3 0 0<br />
Half of a Page ...<br />
that the work should be published with an<br />
... I 10<br />
Quarter of & Page<br />
... O 15 0<br />
announcement to its rvaders of the date of its<br />
...O 7 6<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
per inch 0 6<br />
original composition, and a statement of the author's<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent for<br />
disapproral of its publication. To this also<br />
M. Anatole France objected. He returned the<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
3,000 francs, took legal proceedings to inhibit the BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor ; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on bebalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourse!f, 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 know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
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 tbe 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 />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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 />
(c.) 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 />
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 />
D 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; anu<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 />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
U assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' 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 />
M branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
CCENARIOS, 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 />
Smith Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
THE DRAMATIC SECTION.<br />
SOME two years ago members of the Society were<br />
invited to indicate, on a form which was despatched<br />
to them, what dramatic work (if any) they had<br />
produced. The enquiry was made in order to<br />
facilitate the preparation of a list of dramatists in<br />
the Society, with a view to their receiving com-<br />
munications relating to the work of the Dramatic<br />
Sub-Committee of the Society, and to other matters<br />
of interest to dramatists.<br />
As a result of that invitation, over 200 names<br />
were placed on the list.<br />
In order, however, that it may be kept up to<br />
date, those members who have since qualified to be<br />
entered on the Dramatic Roll of the Society are<br />
invited to advise the Secretary, accompanying their<br />
application with particulars of the dramatic work<br />
they have produced.<br />
It may be mentioned that the qualification for<br />
inclusion in the list is the public representation of a<br />
play otherwise than for copyright purposes in a<br />
place licensed for public entertainment.<br />
THE PUBLICATION OF BOOKS AND THE LIMITA-<br />
TION OF THE LICENCE<br />
THERE has been a growing tendency in past<br />
years for authors to grant to publishers the licence<br />
to publish in book form for the legal term of copy-<br />
right. . Such a licence may leave the author in a<br />
very difficult position. There should, at any rate,<br />
be a clause in the agreement by which, if the<br />
book goes out of print, the agreement should be<br />
terminated and all rights returned to the author,<br />
otherwise the author may find himself in the<br />
position of having to buy back from the publisher<br />
at the publisher's price. It is curious how a licence<br />
to publish a book, which as far as the publisher<br />
is concerned may have ceased to sell, rises in value<br />
if the author appears as purchaser : but even with a<br />
limitation of this kind the licence still remains far<br />
too wide. Especial thought must be given to the<br />
position, as the new Copyright Act will come into<br />
force shortly.<br />
Authors should be very careful to limit the<br />
licence either to a given number of editions, with<br />
power to purchase the remainder stock at remainder<br />
prices, in case the edition is not sold out within a<br />
reasonable time, or to a limited number of years.<br />
In the latter case the publisher should be restricted<br />
in the agreement from over-printing towards the<br />
end of the term of the agreement, for if some such<br />
restriction is not inserted, the publisher can make<br />
the time limit practically ineffective by over-<br />
printing the book in the last year. It has been<br />
decided in the Courts that a publisher has the<br />
right to sell any stock which remains on hand after<br />
the expiration of the term.<br />
In the case of technical works, if the licence is<br />
not limited, an author's position is hopeless.<br />
MUSICAL COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
A MUSICAL Composers' Sub-Committee having<br />
now been formed with a view to the consideration<br />
of matters affecting the interests of the musical<br />
composers of the society, it has been decided, in<br />
order to facilitate the working of this side of the<br />
society, to keep at the office a list of composers<br />
similar to the list of dramatists of which mention is<br />
made above.<br />
Members will assist the secretary materially in<br />
the compilation of this list if they will inform him<br />
of the publication of any musical works of which<br />
they are the composers.<br />
COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br />
THE LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
In another column of this issue we publish an<br />
agency agreement which has been settled by a<br />
special sub-committee and approved by the Com<br />
mittee of Management.<br />
This agency agreement has been based on an<br />
agreement settled some time ago by the Dramatic<br />
Sub-Committee, but as the marketing of dramatic<br />
and literary wares differs in some respects, so the<br />
agreement has been modified to meet the special<br />
requirements of literary agency. There has been<br />
however. but little alteration in the clauses, the<br />
main difference existing in the notes which the<br />
committee have thought fit to place before the<br />
members in order to warn them against possible<br />
dangers.<br />
In the January number of The Author a full<br />
statement was given with reference to the election<br />
of members to the Committee of Management for<br />
the current vear.<br />
The names of the committee's nominees for that<br />
election were : Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes, Mr. Hesketh<br />
Prichard, Mr. Arthur Rackham, and Dr S Savire<br />
Sprigge.<br />
OJ882<br />
February 10 was the last day on which the<br />
names of nominees could be received, and as no<br />
nominees were put forward by the members, the<br />
nominees of the committee are elected without<br />
opposition.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
A REMARKABLE AGREEMENT. the author's next three new novels, suitable for publication<br />
in 68. volume form, and if the publisher accepts all or any<br />
of them, he agrees to pay to the author and the author agrees<br />
to accept the following royalties.<br />
M HE Committee of the Society of Authors desire (a) A royalty of 15 per cent. of the nominal published<br />
1 to draw attention to the document printed<br />
price on all copies sold of the English 68. edition, after the<br />
sale of the first 750 copies of this particular 68. edition.<br />
below :-<br />
(b) A royalty of 71 per cent. of the nominal published<br />
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this twelfth day price on all copies sold of any cheaper edition or editions.<br />
of May one thousand nine hundred and nine between<br />
(c) A royalty of 50 per cent, of the net profits derived<br />
hereinafter termed the author of the one part and John from the sale of the American copyright (if any).<br />
Long of 12, 13 and 14 Norris Street, Haymarket, in the (d) A royalty of 50 per cent. of the net profits derivel<br />
County of London hereinafter termed the publisher, of the from the sale of the Foreign rights (if any).<br />
other part, whereby it is mutually agreed between the 11. The said three novels to be submitted to the publisher<br />
parties hereto for themselves and their respective executors shall be submitted one at a time, and only after the<br />
administrators and assigns (or successors as the case may publication of the one previously accepted.<br />
be) as follows:-<br />
12. The whole of the previous clauses in this agreement<br />
1. The publisher shall at his own expense produce and (except in respect of royalties) shall be deemed to apply to<br />
publish the work written by the author and at present<br />
the three new novels, as well as to the novel mentioned in<br />
entitled "<br />
the first part of the agreement.<br />
2. The publisher shall bave the exclusive right of pro 13. In the event of any copies of any of the novels pro-<br />
ducing and publishing the work throughout the world. vided for in this agreement, being sold as a remainder, that<br />
The publisher shall have the entire control of the produc is, when the demand for any such work has ceased, a<br />
tion and publication and sale and terms of sale of the work<br />
royalty shall be paid to the author, on any copies thus sold,<br />
and the author shall not during the continuance of this of two and a half per cent. (24%) of the net sum receivel.<br />
agreement (without the written consent of the publisher) As witness the hands of the said parties<br />
publish any abridgment translation or dramatised version of<br />
John LONG,<br />
the work.<br />
Witness : W.H.<br />
3. All copies sold of the said work within twelve months<br />
12, 13, 14, Norris Street, Haymarket, S.W.<br />
of the date of publication shall carry no royalty to the<br />
There are in the bands of the society a good<br />
author, but on all copies sold, after the expiration of the first<br />
twelve months after publication, the publisher agrees to<br />
many agreements between authors and Mr. John<br />
pay to the author and the author agrees to accept a royalty Long, and it would be instructive, perhaps, to print<br />
of i5 per cent. of the nominal published price on sales of the them all. To do this, however, would take up a<br />
6s. edition, and a royalty of 71 per cent. of the nominal<br />
great deal of space, though it may yet be con-<br />
published price on the sales of any cheaper edition or<br />
editions.<br />
sidered necessary. To print abstracts of these<br />
4. No royalties shall be paid on any copies given away agreements would not answer the same purpose, as<br />
for review or other purposes in the interests of the work. it might be thought by the suspicious that there<br />
5. Account sales shall be made up half-yearly at June<br />
were other clauses in the documents which had been<br />
thirtieth and December thirty-first and delivered and<br />
settled within five months of those dates. In making up<br />
suppressed and which would have put another com-<br />
accounts, thirteen copies shall be reckoned as twelve, in plexion on the arguments. It has been decided,<br />
accordance with trade usage.<br />
therefore, that one agreement should be clearly set<br />
6. The publisher shall undertake the expenses of the<br />
before the readers of The Author, with some hints<br />
author's proof corrections to the extent of £3 (three<br />
pounds), but should such expenses exceed this amount, the<br />
as to the probable difficulties that may arise out of<br />
author shall refund such excess to the publisher.<br />
it.<br />
7. If any difference shall arise between the author and<br />
COMMENTS ON THE AGREEMENT.<br />
the publisher touching the meaning of this agreement or<br />
the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same<br />
With regard to Clause 1 there is nothing to be<br />
shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons, (one to said.<br />
be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance In Clause 2 it is inadvisable that the publisher<br />
with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889.<br />
should have the exclusive right of producing the<br />
8. The term “ Publisher" through out this agreement shall<br />
be deemed to include the person or company for the time<br />
work throughout the world, or for the whole term<br />
being carrying on the business of the said John Long under of copyright. His right should be limited to the<br />
as well its present as any future style and the benefit of this exclusive licence to publish the work in book form<br />
agreement shall be transmissible accordingly.<br />
9. The author guarantees to the publisher that the said<br />
at the price of 68. (the book being a novel) in the<br />
work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing<br />
United Kingdom, in the English language, for a<br />
copyright and that it contains nothing of a libellous or period of, at most, five years certain. If any<br />
scandalous character and that he will indemnify the pub- other rights are given, such as the right of pub-<br />
lisher from all suits, claims, and proceedings, damages and<br />
costs which may be made, taken or incurred by or against<br />
lishing in cheap book form, then they should be<br />
him on the ground that the said work is an infringement guarded and made the subject of future con-<br />
of copyright or contains anything libellous or scandalous. ditions. The publisher should, of course, undertake<br />
10. That in consideration of the publisher undertaking to produce the work on or before a certain date.<br />
the entire risk of publishing the work herein before men-<br />
This is of the first importance to an author.<br />
tioned, the author agrees to give the publisher the first refusal<br />
from (sic) one month from date of delivery of the manu-<br />
The latter part of this clause should be care-<br />
script of the exclusive right of producing and publishing fully observed. An author reading this might<br />
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think, “Well, I have only to write to the publisher<br />
To country reviews.<br />
explaining the situation, should I get an offer for<br />
„, colonial . . . 48<br />
the translation rights, or otherwise, and he will<br />
,, special ,<br />
give his consent." This supposition would be<br />
,, travellers' samples<br />
entirely wrong. As a general rule, the author<br />
.. Stock on hand . . 91<br />
would find that if an offer was made him for the<br />
Leaving sold as under-<br />
translation rights and he applied to the publisher,<br />
13 copies counting as 12 . 1,234<br />
the publisher would answer, “I could not possibly Sales 1,149 home edition<br />
allow you to publish a translation unless you give<br />
85 colonial edition<br />
me 50 per cent. of the profits," which, judging by Sales from Jan. 3, 1910 to Jan. 2, 1911–<br />
Clause 10, is the course Mr. Long would take.<br />
1,146 home edition)<br />
Clause 3 contains, however, the most serious<br />
85 colonial editionſ bearing no royalty..<br />
part of the agreement. All publishers assert that Royalty 15 per cent. on 3 copies home edition, 28. 8d..<br />
the largest sales of a novel occur either on subscrip- The sales in the first year were sufficient to com-<br />
tion before publication, or within the first four pensate the publisher amply for the cost of pro-<br />
months after publication. Most publishers will duction ; he should have put a good profit into his<br />
inform an author that a book is dead at the end of own pocket. In the first six months, after becom-<br />
six months, and all publishers will inform an ing entitled to royalties, the author obtained a total<br />
author that the ordinary novel is dead at the end of remuneration of 2s. 8d, upon a 6s. book of which.<br />
twelve months, unless for some special reason- over 1,200 copies were sold.<br />
and it would be safe to say this does not occur once Clause 4 can pass without comment.<br />
out of 500 times—a book owes some larger With regard to Clause 5, articles have been<br />
vitality to the position of the author or to the written in The Author on the question of thirteen<br />
occurrence of some unforeseen circumstance, copies counting as twelve, to which readers are<br />
Therefore, the effect of a clause in an agreement referred. It means that the author is to allow the<br />
depriving the author of all royalties for the first publisher 8 per cent. discount on the royalties on<br />
year after publication would be to give the publisher all copies sold, though the publisher allows this<br />
the book for nothing, except in a minority of cases. discount to purchasers only when they purchase in<br />
If the author desires to give the publisher his work quantities of a dozen and upwards.<br />
for nothing, there is nothing to prevent him from In Clause 6 the amount allowed for correction is<br />
doing so ; but in that case he should execute a deed not very generous, but in these days of typewritten<br />
of gift. A publisher is not bound to explain the effect copies a margin of £3 may be sufficient.<br />
of an agreement to the author, however ignorant the Clause 7. Strong objection must be taken to.<br />
author may be of the present, possibly a handsome this clause. Arbitration is a very unsatisfactory<br />
one, that he is being asked to make. Moreover, method of dealing with a legal contract. It<br />
under such a clause, the publisher's and the author's is cumbersome and expensive. The greatest<br />
interests are not the same. In these days of rush objection of all is that a publisher aroids the pub-<br />
and hurry it occurs in the publishing business, just licity which is the main safeguard of the author<br />
as in any other business, that publishers want to and the publisher alike where either party has<br />
put novelties on the market-the output during the broken his contract or attempted to take unfair<br />
last two or three years sufficiently proves this fact. advantage of the other.<br />
In consequence, it would be quite likely to pay the Clause 8 is also unsatisfactory. An author<br />
publisher better to push a new work into circula- should agree to this clause only when he is con-<br />
tion than to use his efforts in keeping alive one vinced that no change could possibly be for the<br />
against wbich time was fighting. Save in the case worse, in which case it would be still better not<br />
of a very great success, it would pay him to drop to sign at all.<br />
the older book in order to make the way clear for Clause 9 is too wide in its scope. It is no doubt<br />
other publications. The appended statement of fair that if an author causes a publisher to publish<br />
account from Mr. John Long under the above in all innocence as a fiction what is really a libel on<br />
agreement tells its own story :-.<br />
an actual person, the author and not the publisher<br />
should suffer ; but both as to libel and obscenity,<br />
July 1st, 1911. Statement of sales to June 30th,<br />
sedition, or blasphemy, the publisher cannot con-<br />
1911-<br />
tract out of such responsibilities even if the author<br />
Jan. 1910. By number of copies printed . 1,500 consents to the attempt. In any case where<br />
To author .<br />
damages and costs may be incurred by the pub-<br />
,, presentation .<br />
lisher at the author's expense, the author should<br />
„, public libraries . 5<br />
have some control over the amount spent in the<br />
„ town reviews . . 63<br />
necessary defence.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Clause 10 is a clause against which authors Publishing enterprise, especially in the case of<br />
cannot be warned too strongly. It is fatal for an novels by beginners, doubtless contains a specu-<br />
author to bind himself to a publisher at fixed rateslative element, but up to an edition of 1,500<br />
for subsequent works, for it is impossible to tell copies, no novel which a publisher of any judg-<br />
until the accounts of one book come in whether ment would handle at his own expense runs<br />
the terms for later works are fair or not. Under any serious risk of being left on his hands a<br />
this agreement supposing the author's second complete failure. He should be able to push it<br />
book did not reach a sale of 750, no royalties through mechanically to that extent, if no further.<br />
would be paid ; if the second book was as It is therefore only beyond this point that the<br />
successful as the first, the author would receive transaction becomes speculative; and yet it is<br />
about £20, having made 2s. 8d. on the first book. practically to this point that Mr. Long asks his<br />
With regard to other headings of this clause, the clients to postpone any interest in their books.<br />
publisher should only have the right of publication We do not question Mr. John Long's right to<br />
in book form at certain prices, and the date of propose the above terms, or any others that may<br />
publication should be rigidly fixed ; he should not occur to him, to authors, who must learn to take<br />
take 50 per cent. profits on any of the rights out- care of themselves in business as other people do,<br />
side, whether they are American rights or foreign but we may say that those who accept such terms<br />
rights. If any of the outside rights are negotiated are unquestionably guilty of unprofessional con-<br />
for by the publisher under a contract approved and duct, because they are accepting terms which would<br />
signed by the author, then the publisher should take make it impossible for most novelists to live by<br />
the agency charge of 10 per cent. and no more. their profession. Further, the practice of other<br />
But with even the utmost correction in the author's publishers shows that no capable man of letters<br />
favour that the nature of the clause admits of, the need submit to such contracts; they are entered<br />
Society of Authors would still advise its members into by authors through ignorance, weakness, or<br />
not to agree to it. If a publisher cannot retain lack of professional conscience.<br />
his clients by satisfying them that they cannot do<br />
better elsewhere, he must be prepared to see them<br />
AN AGREEMENT FOR TEN NOVELS.<br />
go elsewhere.<br />
The criticism on Clauses 11 and 12 follows from A second agreement, this time between John<br />
that on Clause 10. It may be pointed out that no Long, Ltd., and an author, needs some comment.<br />
dates for publication being named in Clause 10, the It contains as many faults as the first, but in<br />
production of the subsequent novels might be a slightly different form. It is not all printed<br />
indefinitely delayed; when, as they are to be the here, but any member who desires to have further<br />
author's “ next three novels," the position might be information upon it can, on applying to the<br />
reached that the author could earn nothing at all! Secretary, be given the fullest details, by the<br />
With regard to Clause 13, no publisher should be permission of the author.<br />
allowed to “remainder" a book within three years Here the author binds himself to the publisher<br />
from the date of first publication. It should be for nine subsequent novels (making ten in all),<br />
distinctly set forth in the agremeent that, when a and agrees not to write any novels for, nor to<br />
book has been “remaindered," or is out of print and offer any novels for publication to any other<br />
off the market, the agreement should be cancelled publisher than Long during the term of his agree-<br />
and the licences for publication in book form, or ment. As the novels have to be handed in to<br />
otherwise, should be returned to the author.<br />
the publisher each succeeding nine months from<br />
To sum up, this is an agreement under which the date of the agreement, this means that for<br />
the author would be working for an indefinite time nearly seven years the author is bound to Mr. Long.<br />
for a pittance. He receives nothing, in the Again, whilst Mr. Long can determine the agree-<br />
instance given above, on the first 1,000 copies of ment after the publication of the first two books if<br />
the first book. He might expect to get some they do not prove a financial success for him, the<br />
thing later, but his second book is put on the author has no such right. The author is absolutely<br />
market, and the energies of the publisher may be bound at Mr. Long's option for nearly seven years,<br />
switched off to the sale of this, inasmuch as the although he has no guarantee that John Long,<br />
first 750 copies of this book bear no royalties. Ltd., will maintain their position in the pub-<br />
The third book and the fourth book might receive lishing world during that time.<br />
the same treatment. There is no reason why the Mr. Long does not merely take the right of<br />
author who has signed this agreement should ever publication in book form, but the exclusive right of<br />
receive more than 2s. 8d. each for four books! There publishing throughout the world. The terms for all<br />
is no reason why the publisher, who can publish the novels are the same. If the books are published<br />
when he likes, should ever owe or pay any royalties. at 6s. the author is not to receive any royalty on any<br />
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of them till after the sale of 900 copies, and then he The publisher would be getting, having been<br />
receives 2ů, in the shilling on the published price. paid or overpaid for the whole cost of production<br />
If the books are published at a lower price than 6s. and advertisements, half what the author receives,<br />
the author receives no royalty on the first 1,500 who has paid or overpaid the whole of the bill as<br />
copies, and afterwards 10 per cent. on the published well as created the wares to be sold. To state,<br />
price. The sale of 900 copies of a 6s. book however, that a 6s. book sells right through at half<br />
gives to the publisher a reasonable balance after price is by no means a correct statement, 3s, 2d.<br />
paying for the cost of production and advertise- to 38. 4d. is the average price.<br />
ments, so that when this number has been arrived<br />
at there is no further necessity for the publisher to<br />
push the book, if he thinks he can do better by<br />
exerting himself elsewhere. But if there is a<br />
success, some 60 per cent. of the later profits go to A LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
the publisher. And nine consecutive books are to<br />
be published on these terms.<br />
Further, Mr. Long offers 2d. per copy on all the A Sub-Committee of the Committee of Manage-<br />
Colonial sales and 15s. per 1,000 on all sales of the ment of the Society of Authors has had under<br />
sixpenny edition. With regard to the other proceeds consideration the principles which should be<br />
he claims, as before, 50 per cent. He inserts, as observed in drawing up a fair agreement between<br />
we have said, a clause allowing him to repudiate an author and a literary agent; it will be seen<br />
the agreement in case the first two novels are not a at once that the proposed agreement is closely<br />
financial success, but the author might see all his upon the lines of the dramatic agency agreement,<br />
ten books have a sale of 1,000 copies each and not which has been found by dramatic authors to<br />
be more than £50 in pocket as the total result of meet many difficulties hitherto encountered by<br />
seven years' work with a total sale of 10,000 copies. them.<br />
The Committee desire to impress upon authors<br />
THE AUTHOR PAYS.<br />
that it is advisable that they should consult the<br />
Authors' Society before entrusting their business<br />
In another proposal from John Long, Ltd. to an agent. There are good agents who are in<br />
we have a variant of no greater promise to the every way desirous of furthering the interests of<br />
author. The author pays £175-£100 on the their clients; but it must not be forgotten that per-<br />
signing of the agreement, which is to be spent in<br />
sons with no qualification whatever or no financial<br />
advertisement, £50 when the work is set up in stability may style themselves agents. In all<br />
type, and £25 from the author's share of sales. cases enquiries should be made of the Society<br />
He then transfers all the American, foreign, and<br />
which is in possession of information that will<br />
serial rights to tbe publisher on a 50 per cent. enable authors to form an accurate estimate of<br />
basis. He receives 15. 9d. per copy on the English an agent's status and capacity.<br />
68. edition up to 3,000 copies, and thereafter MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this day<br />
1s. 3d. a copy. The publisher wants all his next of One Thousand Nine Hundred and<br />
six novels on fixed terms, and in other matters Between (hereinafter called “The Author ") of<br />
the provisions are the same as shown in the the one part and (hereinafter called “The<br />
clauses of the agreement printed in full.<br />
Agent”) of the other part WHEREBY IT IS AGREED<br />
In another agreement Mr. Long, or rather AS FOLLOWS :-<br />
John Long, Ltd., produces the book on the pay-<br />
1. The author hereby appoints his sole agent<br />
ment to himself of £250, but he undertakes<br />
to advertise to the extent of £100.<br />
for the term of twelve months from the date of the<br />
This<br />
signing of this agreement for the sale of any of the<br />
leaves him £150 for the cost of production<br />
only, as no further advertising is likely to be<br />
rights whatsoever and wheresoever, in all the literary<br />
work that he desires to bring to market during the<br />
needed. Therefore he starts with all his cost of<br />
continuance of this agreement, subject to the condi-<br />
production covered and most probably with a sum<br />
tions hereinafter mentioned.<br />
of £50 or so in his pocket, as there is no stipulation<br />
as to the number of copies to be printed. The<br />
NOTE.—This clause is perhaps the most important clause<br />
in the agreement.<br />
author gets 28. a copy royalty on a 6s. book up to<br />
In regard to the time limit of twelve months, the<br />
4,000 copies, after which the royalty is ls. 6d. Committee would draw the attention of authors to the<br />
Taking the higher figure, the author receives 331 following points :--That whereas it is unfair that an agent<br />
per cent. of the published price. By the publisher's<br />
should have all the trouble of working up a connection for<br />
an author, who could then terminate the agreement and<br />
own calculations in a letter which lies before us,<br />
nes before us, take advantage of the agent's work, it is equally unfair to<br />
the nett selling price of a 6s. book is usually 3s. the author to be bound to an agent for a long period if the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
agent, for one reason or another, is unsuccessful in placing tract amounts to £ , and such commission shall<br />
the author's work, or appears to the author antagonistic to<br />
be the sole remuneration of the agent, and he sball<br />
his best interests. In some cases, therefore, the term of<br />
not have any claim<br />
twelve months might be an undesirable limit for the author,<br />
against the author for any<br />
whereas a term of less than twelve months might be an expenses incurred by him in the course of his agency<br />
undesirable limit for the agent. Authors, when entering under this agreement.<br />
into these contracts, will have to consider, therefore, what<br />
NOTE.--In regard to this clause the Committee wonld<br />
time limit should be inserted.<br />
If the author desires to reserve certain markets, these<br />
make the following remarks :- Where under any contract<br />
markets should be reserved in this clause. It often<br />
running through the years of copyright the agent's com-<br />
happens that an author has been dealing with an editor<br />
mission is likely to run into high figures, the agent's<br />
remuneration should be limited, as suggested in this clause.<br />
or publisher direct under amicable arrangements, and it is,<br />
therefore, much more convenient and much more profit-<br />
to a sum to be arranged between author and agent. It<br />
able to the author to continue these negotiations with<br />
may, however, be of importance to an author that the<br />
future work; but, in doing so, the author should be care-<br />
agent should continue to collect the moneys, and in that<br />
ful, supposing he is negotiating with a publisher for a book<br />
case when the limit has been reached, the Committee con-<br />
in a reserved market, that he is not giving the publisher<br />
sider that 5 per cent. shonld be charged for such collection.<br />
control over any rights in the same work which are in the<br />
5. Should the agent fail in any instance to carry<br />
agent's hands; the same advice applies to the author<br />
negotiating with an editor. The Committee consider that,<br />
out the provisions of the foregoing clause, this<br />
as a rule, it is advisable, subject to the limitations the agreement, so far as it deals with the agent's right<br />
author might specially desire to make, that the agent should to collect the moneys due, shall be at an end, and<br />
have control of all the author's literary output during the<br />
the agent as and from the date of such failure and<br />
continuance of the agency; otherwise the author and the<br />
agent may come into con tict in the same markets, and the default shall not be entitled to claim or deduct any<br />
author may not only lose his price but also his chance of a further sum by way of commission.<br />
bargain.<br />
6. Should the agent or any member of the<br />
2. The agent undertakes to use his best endea- agent's firm during the continuance of this agree-<br />
vours to obtain the fullest market in all conntries ment die or become bankrupt or enter into any<br />
and in all forms, and undertakes to furnish the arrangement with his creditors, then in that case<br />
author, as and when requested, with full informa- the author shall be at liberty forth with by notice<br />
tion as to his efforts to give effect to this clause, in writing to terminate this agreement.<br />
and the author shall not himself, during the continu NOTE.--Every contract with an agent must involve close<br />
ance of this agreement, enter into any contract personal relations ; therefore, in the event of an agent<br />
without the knowledge of the agent.<br />
having no partner, or a partner with whom the author had<br />
not transacted business, the contract should determine by<br />
3. The agent shall not enter into agreements on<br />
the death of that party with whom the author has had<br />
behalf of the author or in any way bind the author,<br />
dealings.<br />
but undertakes to submit to him any offer or agree-<br />
7. At the end of such period as may be decided<br />
ment which he may succeed in obtaining as agent in Clause I. hereof, either party to this agreement<br />
for the author, and no agreement shall be binding may terminate the same by three months' notice in<br />
on the author without his signature. Should the writing.<br />
agent violate this clause, then any agreement so 8. Upon the termination of this agreement by<br />
entered into by the agent shall be pull and void, time or from any of the causes set forth therein,<br />
and this agreement may forth with be terminated by save as set forth under Clause 5, when the special<br />
notice in writing, without prejudice to the author's arrangements as in that clause set forth shall pre-<br />
right to bring an action for damages or otherwise, vail, the agent shall have no claim whatever upon<br />
and on receipt of such notice, the agent's right for the author for any commission except in respect<br />
negotiating as agent for the author shall be at an<br />
of contracts signed by the author prior to such<br />
end.<br />
termination.<br />
4. The agent is hereby authorised to collect the NOTE.-- In the question of an agency agreement the<br />
moneys due to the author on any contract signed by<br />
author should be especially advised against the insertion of<br />
a clause in any agreement entered into between author and<br />
the author and negotiated by the agent during the<br />
publisher, whereby the agent is authorised by the parties to<br />
continuance of this agreement, and shall deliver all the agreement to collect moneys and settle accounts on<br />
moneys as and when received by him in respect of behalf of the author. The clause generally runs in the<br />
such contract, together with all documents, accounts,<br />
following form :- -<br />
"The author hereby empowers his agent to collect<br />
etc., relating thereto, within two weeks of the receipt<br />
and receive all sums of money payable to the author<br />
of the same, and shall bave the right of deductiny a under the term of this agreement and declares that<br />
commission of 10 per cent. from such sums as the agent's receipt shall be good and valid discharge<br />
accrue under any contracts arranged by him, and<br />
to all persons paying such sums to them. The author<br />
hereby authorises and empowers the publishers to treat<br />
signed by the author during the continuance of this<br />
with his agents on his behalf in all matters concerning<br />
agreement till the total commission on any such con this agreement in any way whatsoever.'<br />
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Sometimes the terms are more stringent, sometimes a<br />
little less stringent, but in no case should the clause be<br />
allowed except under some modification as suggested<br />
below. Members are referred to an article that appeared<br />
in the November (1906) number of The Author bearing on<br />
the subject.<br />
In no case should the words from “ The Author" down<br />
to "in any way whatsoever" be allowed to stand, for this<br />
reason if for no other. If any dispute arose between the<br />
author and the publisher, and it became necessary to put<br />
the matter into the hands of a lawyer or the Society of<br />
Authors, endless confusion and circumlocution would<br />
result, owing to the fact that all the matters would have to<br />
pass first through the hands of the agent.<br />
In regard to the first part of the clause, the Committee<br />
consider that the extreme danger mentioned might be<br />
avoided by adding, after the words " such sums to them,”.<br />
the words " provided, however, that the termination of this<br />
authority is to be governed by clauses contained in the<br />
contract dated day of and at present existing<br />
between the author and the agent."<br />
If the clause unaltered is admitted into the agreement<br />
between author and publisher, it is possible that all the<br />
precautions taken in the Agency Agreement may be nulli-<br />
fied. It cannot, therefore, be too strongly impressed upon<br />
the author how important it is that this clause should not<br />
be allowed to stand in the agreement between the author<br />
and publisher, and thus become irrevocable. The danger<br />
is increased ten-fold when, as in many modern agreements<br />
settled by agents, the author is bound to the publisher for<br />
future books. He then becomes similarly bound to the<br />
agent under this clause.<br />
THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AUTHORS,<br />
COMPOSERS AND MUSIC PUBLISHERS.<br />
of his own property, with the exception of the right<br />
of stating. whether or not he forbids the adapta-<br />
tion of his work to mechanical instruments, and (2)<br />
whether or not he forbids cuts and alterations, and<br />
that after all the expenses of collecting the fees have<br />
been covered, he is to give one-third to the publisher.<br />
It may be difficult to gauge what will be needed to<br />
cover expenses, but if the Board of Trade's rules<br />
for the payment of royalty under the gramophone<br />
clauses are sound and reliable, there ought to be<br />
little need of a society of this kind, and the<br />
composer ought to be able to collect his own fees<br />
and guard his own interests without much<br />
difficulty.<br />
That the music publishers are entirely in favour<br />
of obtaining one-third of what is the property of<br />
the composers, without any special labour and<br />
without any raluable consideration, is quite clear in<br />
the fact that seventeen music publishing firms<br />
have already subscribed the rules, and have shown<br />
their readiness to support this society, which<br />
conveys to them one-third of the fees. On the<br />
circular sent round there is not the name of one<br />
composer or one author. For many years the<br />
Society of Authors has been inveighing against<br />
the demands that music publishers have made upon<br />
composers to obtain the control of both their<br />
performing rights and their publishing rights, and<br />
it is not surprising, therefore, to see the suggestions<br />
set out in the rules and objects of the British Society<br />
of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. It<br />
would be as well also if this newly formed society<br />
took steps to change its name, not only to prevent<br />
confusion with other societies already established,<br />
but in order to give the public a better idea of its<br />
purposes and of the persons who are going to benefit<br />
by its formation. It is submitted, that it would<br />
be much better to have called it the Society<br />
of Music Publishers. The authors and composers<br />
could be added in small letters afterwards.<br />
Certain composers have, in their timidity,<br />
suggested that it is necessary to belong to this<br />
society, kept by and controlled by music pul)-<br />
lishers, as otherwise they will refuse to publish<br />
their works, but it should be pointed out (1) that<br />
there are still some well-known publishers whose<br />
names are not printed on the document, and (2) that<br />
no point was ever gained by timidity and cowardice.<br />
Now is the real moment for the composers to gather<br />
together and to take strong steps to establish a sound<br />
control over their own property. Already in the past<br />
year one or two publishers have come forward with the<br />
view of treating composers on more equitable lines,<br />
and when composers realise the strength of united<br />
force, they will not only be able to resist the absurd<br />
demands which have in the past been made upon<br />
them, but they will be able to resist the demands<br />
that they should join a society whose organisation<br />
NYERTAIX music publishing houses have been<br />
u circularising the composers for whom they<br />
publish with papers referring to the British<br />
Society of Authors, Composers and Music Pub-<br />
lishers, setting forward the objects with which the<br />
society is founded, and the rules by which it is<br />
proposed the society should be controlled.<br />
The objects for which the society is founded are,<br />
to gain control over all the rights of the composers<br />
in the mechanical reproductions of their works<br />
under the Copyright Act of 1911; to maintain<br />
those rights against all pirates and infringers, and<br />
to collect the fees due to the composers from those<br />
rights. It seems a curious thing that the pub-<br />
lishers who have no interests in those rights, should<br />
be so anxious to see the composers so well and<br />
strongly protected, for it is quite clear from the<br />
Act of 1911 that not only has the composer<br />
absolute control after the Act comes into force, but<br />
also that he has control, in spite of any assign-<br />
ment of his copyright prior to the passing of the<br />
Act ; the reason, however, is not far to seek after<br />
a further perusal of the new society's objects and<br />
rules, for it would appear that when the composer<br />
has joined it he is bound for a period of five<br />
years ; that he loses all control orer the governance<br />
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compels them to hand over to the music publishers<br />
one-third of those fees which are their own.<br />
In order that it may be quite clear that the<br />
society shall be managed on these inequitable<br />
principles, the committee is to consist of six com-<br />
posers and authors and six publishers. As the<br />
property which is to be controlled belongs, as far as<br />
as<br />
the music is concerned, entirely to the composers,<br />
and as far as the words are concerned-after all a<br />
small point, except in the case of songs—entirely<br />
to the authors, there seems to be no reason why the<br />
publishers should be on the committee at all.<br />
Indeed, such a society might have been very valu-<br />
able for both authors and composers, if the music<br />
publishers had been dropped out entirely, and there<br />
is no reason why such a society should not be<br />
formed by which the composers should control their<br />
own rights with regard to mechanical reproduc-<br />
uon and manage their own collection 01 Tees, paymg<br />
their own expenses, without being bound to give<br />
one-third to the music publishers. There is no<br />
reason why the music publishers should not have<br />
formed the society on this basis.<br />
It is a well-known axiom that the Government<br />
has the privilege to tax one class for the benefit of<br />
another, but we have never known this right to<br />
exist independently of Government authority until<br />
the rules and objects of the British Society of<br />
Authors, Composers and Music Publishers were laid<br />
before us.<br />
Sect. 5 of the Copyright Act of 1911, sub-sect. I,<br />
says:<br />
* The author of the work shall be the first owner of the<br />
copyright therein;"<br />
and sect. 1, sub-sect. 2 (d) defines copyright in a musical<br />
work as the sole right<br />
" to make any record perforated roll or other contrivance<br />
by means of which the work may be mechanically per-<br />
formed or delivered and to authorise any such acts as<br />
aforesaid."<br />
Sect. 19, sub-sect. 7 (c) specially confirms these rights to<br />
composers in their works mechanically reproduced before<br />
the Act in spite of any assignment made before the passing<br />
of the Act.<br />
Sufficient cause has been shown for warning composers<br />
against joining a Society founded on such a "basic moral<br />
principle," and we trust that no composer will sign the<br />
documents submitted to him without consulting with the<br />
Society of Authors and its Committee of Composers.<br />
The new Society by assuming the title of the British<br />
Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers, may<br />
possibly lead to confusion between it and the Society of<br />
Authors; the title should be altered to the Society of<br />
Music Publishers, Composers and Authors.<br />
I am, Sir, yours faithfully,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
Secretary, The Incorporated Society of Authors.<br />
COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS.<br />
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.<br />
SIR, -Mr. Herbert Thring's letter appearing in your<br />
issue of this morning, in which he claims that composers<br />
should fly to the Society of Authors for protection and not<br />
be misled by publishers on the question of their rights in<br />
mechanical instrument records, omits to note one or two<br />
vital facts.<br />
Although the new Act very properly gives to authors and<br />
composers an exclusive right in the new form of artistic<br />
property created, it has never been in «lispute that the sale<br />
of mechanical instrument records gravely prejudices the<br />
sale of printed copies of music, and by so doing directly<br />
affects the profit the publisher is entitled to make by<br />
reascn of his enterprise and the outlay of his capital. In<br />
no circumstances are gramophone records made of works<br />
until the publisher has first discovered them and spent<br />
money on making them popular. And are these efforts to<br />
count for nothing?<br />
Meanwhile what has the Society of Authors really done<br />
for the composers of popular music in this country? It<br />
has never moved hand or foot to protect them from the<br />
depredations of the music pirate. It was left to the efforts<br />
of one or two music publishing houses to fight day and<br />
night and to spend thousands of pounds to preserve any<br />
vestige of property in musical composition in this country<br />
at all. The Society of Authors has not been any more<br />
successful in obtaining for the composer under the new<br />
Copyright Act what is his undoubted right, the privilege to<br />
dispose of his musical work at his own terms, no matter<br />
in what form it is published. With the exception of Mr.<br />
Howard Talbot, the Society's list of composers serving on<br />
their Musical Committee does not contain a single name of<br />
a writer of popular music, and it would be interesting to<br />
know how many such composers are included in the<br />
membership of the Society.<br />
First let the Society of Authors do something practically<br />
useful for the cause of music, and then it will be quite time<br />
for Mr. Thring to dictate to those who have stood at the<br />
head of the battle and borne all the expense what are his<br />
views of “ proper moral basic principles."<br />
Yours, &c.,<br />
CHAPPELL & Co.<br />
50, New Bond Street, Feb. 20.<br />
II.<br />
M<br />
HE following correspondence, with the ex-<br />
1 ception of the last letter from the Society<br />
for which the Editor was unable to find<br />
room, appeared in the Morning Post last month.<br />
THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AUTHORS, COMPOSERS AND<br />
MUSIC PUBLISHERS.<br />
February 19, 1912.<br />
SIR, --The attention of the Society of Authors has been<br />
called to a circular issued by certain music publishers to<br />
members of the Society, and no doubt to others, inviting<br />
them (as composers) to join the British Society of Authors,<br />
Composers and Music Publishers. One of the objects of<br />
this proposed Society is to deal with the rights of its mem-<br />
bers in the reproduction of works by mechanical instruments,<br />
and another is to propagate and obtain recognition of the<br />
basic moral principle upon which all author's rights are<br />
founded. ..<br />
This moral principle is to be recognised by the composers<br />
and the authors giving one-third of their fees to the pub.<br />
lishers, for article 6 of the proposed rules runs as follows :-<br />
- All royalties and fees collected on behalf of the members<br />
shall be divided amongst the respective authors, composers<br />
and publishers of the works by thirds after deduction of<br />
all working expenses and expenses of collection. In the<br />
case of purely musical works where there is no author of<br />
words two-thirds will go to the composer and one-third to<br />
the publisher.”<br />
The rules have already been subscribed by seventeen<br />
music publishing houses. No authors' or composers' names<br />
appear on the circular.<br />
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COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS.<br />
emotions, the critical faculty has been but rarely<br />
SIR,-Messrs. Chappell & Co.'s letter diverts attention displayed ; at best, there is a bad record behind it.<br />
from the points at issue by raising wholly irrelevant matters.<br />
Time, we know, has a knack of adjusting every-<br />
The contention of the Society of Authors is that the pub-<br />
lishers of musical works have no right to claim a share of<br />
thing and of evening up the balance ; yet, how<br />
the gramophone fees of composers, and that a Society to<br />
often for a period has the wrong man been set up<br />
assist them to make such a claim should not be wanted by upon a pedestal, and how seldom has real genius<br />
anyone except the music publishers. It is clearly the<br />
been recognised at a glance. Just think of the<br />
purport of the Act that these fees should be taken out of<br />
the hands of the publishers, for under sect. 19, referred<br />
life story of Galileo and of Newton, of Turner and<br />
to in my former letter, in spite of assignment of copyright of Whistler, of Wagner and of Tschaikowsky : and<br />
before the Act comes into force, the gramophone fees are to 'this is to name but a tithe of those whom the<br />
be the absolute property of the composer. Had the Govern- critics failed to discover.<br />
ment intended the publishers to share in these gramophone<br />
Tschaikowsky-for it is of interest to take some<br />
rights they would not have inserted this special reservation<br />
in the Bill. Indeed, Mr. William Boosey, who is connected<br />
example more or less in detail-met at the begin-<br />
with the firm of Messrs. Chappell & Co., in a letter to Thening with but one man who understood him-<br />
Times of May 4th, 1911, wrote as follows:---<br />
Nicholas Rubinstein. Anton Rubinstein, the<br />
* To dispose of the final gramophone red-herring, that it<br />
celebrated pianist, and that clique of minor<br />
is the publishers, and not the composers, who will reap the<br />
benefit of this new statutory right, let the new Act of<br />
composers who formed musical opinion in the<br />
Parliament enact explicitly that the said right shall in all Russia of that day would have him at po price.<br />
cases be the property of the composer."<br />
Some of them—not Anton Rubinstein, I believe-<br />
Messrs. Chappell & Co. appear to have receded from that<br />
wrote for the Press. These were the critics whose<br />
position when advocating the formation of “The Society<br />
of British Authors, Composers and Music Publishers."<br />
duty it was to distinguish between good and bad ;<br />
Apart from the intention of the Legislature, however, and so intelligently did they do this, so whole-<br />
there is clearly no reason why the composer should share heartedly did they condemn Tschaikowsky that,<br />
the gramophone fees with the music publisher. The book<br />
both in St. Petersburg and in Paris, he suffered<br />
publisher might just as well demand to share the author's<br />
fees from the dramatic rights, or the editor of a magazine<br />
the bitter mortification of hearing his works first<br />
in which a work has been published serially ask to have a played and then-hissed! And, mark you, works<br />
share in the author's royalty on book publication.<br />
which are now delighting and enrapturing the<br />
Messrs. Chappell & Co. refer to the advantage which the<br />
entire musical world, works which in modern judg.<br />
composer gains by having his work placed on the market,<br />
but do not seem to recognise that it is the composer who<br />
ment are ear-marked for immortality.<br />
h given the publisher a marketable commodity.<br />
But, maybe, you will have it that this was no<br />
Music publishers are publishers of music, not patrons of fault of the critics, that the public is the real<br />
music ; they are not entitled to control the property of the judge and settles the matter for itself. Well, so it<br />
composer in every way because they may be his agents for<br />
does, of course-in the long run ; and, be it<br />
putting it in a certain form on the market.<br />
I am, yours faithfully,<br />
remarked in passing, in the long run it bas made<br />
(Signed) G. HERBERT THRING, few mistakes. But at the beginning it does not<br />
Secretary, Incorporated Society of Authors.<br />
judge on questions of this sort because it cannot<br />
judge ; genius is always a few stages ahead, and the<br />
public reqnires time-time and education—to<br />
enable it to arrive at comprehension. So, in the<br />
CRITICS AND CRITICISM.<br />
meanwhile, it turns to the critics—what less can it<br />
do ?-to those who presumably are more fitted to<br />
(HEN Schopenbauer roundly asserted, as he measure and appreciate and, in the early stages, it<br />
did, that “ for the most part there is no takes their teaching for the truth and gravely<br />
such thing” as “the critical faculty,” he swallows it. That is the simple and undeniable<br />
committed himself surely to a statement which, if fact, and criticism may not burke its responsi-<br />
not wholly inaccurate, is at any rate to be reckoned bility ; for better or for worse it carries an<br />
little better than a half-truth. Clear thinker unmistakable influence.<br />
though he was, and close observer of men and But we may, perhaps, gain a clearer view of the<br />
manners, it would seem nevertheless that he had apparent lack of the critical faculty by bringing<br />
been led astray by appearances and that he had the investigation nearer to our own doorstep, by<br />
jumped to a wrong conclusion when, in finding noting the happenings around us of last week and<br />
small outward evidence of the critical faculty, he this week, of yesterday and to-day. It is always<br />
decided forthwith that to all intents and purposes easier to get a grip upon an idea which fits in with<br />
the critical faculty did not exist.<br />
our own associations and habits.<br />
Of course, in so far as his observation went, he T urn, then, to the modern newspaper; and,<br />
was right. For, whether we speak of the critic in seeing that the production of a new novel or of a<br />
Science or of the critic in Art, of the things which new play occurs oftener than once in a blue moon,<br />
appeal primarily to the intellect or primarily to the the critic's work can be tested as an amusing and<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
instructive breakfast occupation on three mornings earned their place, and deservedly so. The others<br />
out of four. We may pass over the fact that the huge majority — are the evidence for<br />
disagreement is common amongst the authorities Schopenhauer.<br />
--for, needless to say, there are two sides to every But it is necessary to enquire whether this<br />
question and men can show discernment and evidence has really any bearing on the case. It is<br />
intelligence and, yet, disagree. What concerns purposeless to talk unless one talks to the point ;<br />
us more is when the critics are in solid agreement, and here, I think, we shall find that this army of<br />
and when the public just as solidly agree to differ. incompetents—a too mild description-are in no<br />
A play or a novel is hailed with a flourish of way pertinent to the argument.<br />
trumpets and a chorus of journalistic praise, yet To begin with, the very nature of things is such<br />
meets with the cold shoulder ; another play or that these men cannot in any way represent the<br />
another novel is crabbed from the commencement, critical faculty which does exist; they are merely<br />
but achieves an immediate success and within fish out of water, pitchforked into criticism through<br />
the limited period which, with rare exceptions, force of circumstances. For instance, I know a<br />
must be reckoned the life of any romance-lives on very estimable gentleman who served this is a few<br />
successfully. Here is food for thought ; for, the years back-on the staff of a well-known provincial<br />
public, we know, has proved the soundness of its newspaper, and who delivered judgment impartially<br />
judgment when once it understands; and, in this and weightily on music, literature, lawn-tennis and<br />
event, it does understand. It is another matter, prize-fighting. Now, of course, there is no con-<br />
obviously, when some genius in music, sculpture or ceivable reason why an individual should not be<br />
painting evolves unexpectedly some wholly fresh competent to speak with authority on all these<br />
conception in treatment, some unlooked-for develop- matters—there are many who could do so. This<br />
ment in the technique of his Art, or when some man, however, could not ; his limitations made that<br />
scientist proclaims a new discovery—then, the impossible ; he was, in fact, just an ordinary<br />
public must lie low and wait ; they cannot under- reporter, a scribbler of shorthand notes, lacking not<br />
stand. But in fiction, in romance, in story-telling only in artistic education and experience but, most<br />
-why, they have been brought up to it from the woefully, in any knowledge of the technique of his<br />
nursery! Every man, woman and child in this subjects. And this is typical of much criticism ;<br />
country and in every other country--there is no and, in the nature of things, I say that it must be<br />
getting away from it-is a born critic of romance. 80. For, quite apart from the fact that cheap<br />
How, then, when the professional critics think one criticism implies economy in newspaper production<br />
way and the public decides another-may we not an influence, of course, with editors and<br />
well beliere the critics to be wrong? Yet, the managers—there is the further fact that those men<br />
difference of opinion is by no means unusual. of greater parts, those whose qualifications would<br />
It would be easy to write down a lengthy more especially fit them for the task, are as a rale<br />
catalogue of critical errors in science and in art, to indisposed to follow the calling of a critic. These,<br />
give them in detail-a task as offensive as it would for the most part, we may well believe to be occupied<br />
certainly be ungrateful-and, filling a volume or rather in creative work.<br />
perhaps many volumes with the result, so establish But, even if we admit that the critic has some<br />
the proposition up to the hilt. But, quite apart aptitude for his job, there are still reasons why his<br />
from what has just been said and what might be talent should not disclose itself. It is, for example,<br />
said, it is common knowledge that criticism is not not a wholly unheard-of thing for a critic to write<br />
what it should be, that scmewhere there is a weak “to order.” Editors are human and, therefore,<br />
link in the chain. For, whether we study the peccable ; hence, in a business world where one<br />
present or the past, the same short-coming obtrudes must either get on or get out, it is not surprising.<br />
upon the notice, the same apparent absence of the however diegraceful it may be, to find the best<br />
critical faculty. What wonder, then, that Schopen- reviews going the way of the publishing firms<br />
hauer took things as he found them and jumped who advertise most largely. It is not always so,<br />
hastily to the conclusion that, “ for the most part." of course, but it happens.<br />
the critical faculty did not exist ?<br />
Then, critics have their friends and enemies like<br />
Now, there is no shade of a shadow of a doubt the rest of us ; and, from a personal point of view,<br />
that first-class critics do exist. In England alone the one can get along very nicely with an<br />
there is a band of men, all too small unluckily in undeserved leg up and the other with an equally<br />
its number, who have proved themselves over and undeserved kick down the hill. Then, why not<br />
over again, and who, by virtue of good work done, let them have it? Dishonest, no doubt! but the<br />
have reached that pinnacle whence they may issue temptation is strong and, anyway—these things<br />
a dictum wbich, without hesitation, the public may also happen.<br />
and does accept. These few—such a few-have And speaking of temptation brings a reminder.<br />
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169<br />
reaching the goal, seeing that this must surely<br />
be inevitable, then can any man doubt, with the<br />
facts before him, that the critical faculty, hide it<br />
and crush it how you will, must nevertheless be<br />
common enough? And not only common but in<br />
a state of very special cultivation.<br />
ARCHIBALD DUNN.<br />
THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1911.*<br />
It recalls a class of critics who, in some respects,<br />
may be said to stand in a category by themselves-<br />
I mean the critics of technical work. These<br />
reviewers, by the conditions under which they<br />
write, are apt to meet with a temptation quite<br />
beyond the ordinary. They are, of course, experts<br />
--that is essential ; and, if expert, then it will<br />
happen often that they, too, will have written books<br />
on the very subject of discussion-for, that is the<br />
way with specialists. How, then, when a fresh<br />
competitor enters the field ? In a land of milk and<br />
honey and plenty of it, the suggestion might pass<br />
unbeeded; but in the kingdom of literature there<br />
is no milk and honey-except for the chosen few-<br />
and precious little bread and butter. A man is a<br />
scoundrel, no doubt, who lets the thought enter his<br />
head at the crisis—yet, some have done it; for it<br />
is hard to hand over one's own bread and butter<br />
and stand by starving whilst another eats it.<br />
Pity, indeed, that the picture should thus paint<br />
itself so sordidly. But it cannot be helped. To<br />
reach the truth means, as a rule, cutting deep into<br />
the heart of things, and the inevitable wound can<br />
at best only be regretted—there is nothing else<br />
for it.<br />
The argument, then, so far as it has gone seems<br />
clear : of critics in general it may be said that the<br />
right men do not enter the lists, and of some<br />
critics in particular that they do not play the<br />
game. But this does not prove that “for the<br />
most part” the critical faculty does not exist,<br />
merely that it does not disclose itself.<br />
And, indeed, anyone who gives the matter a<br />
moment's serious thought must see that the<br />
critical faculty not only exists but must, more-<br />
ever, exist in great profusion. The whole tendency<br />
of the time leads that way. It is an age of higher<br />
education and of marked refinement, an age in<br />
wbich we are taught to consider and analyse and<br />
always to look sympathetically on our fellow men.<br />
And these are the qualifications of a critic. The<br />
true critic, in fact, is simply a philosopher-one<br />
who searches for the truth in the firm faith that<br />
there are two sides to every question. There is to<br />
be nothing narrow-minded about him, no fads or<br />
preconceived ideas ; he will concede, in art, that<br />
beauty may exist which has few charms for him<br />
and, in science, he will reckon to have found the<br />
truth when once the truth has been demonstrated-<br />
then, and not before. And, finally, in his formed<br />
opinion, he will be honest and courageous ; for, he<br />
plays the part of counsellor, guide and friend and,<br />
however interesting his criticisms may be to himself,<br />
they are not for himself.<br />
Such is an outline of the needs of criticism and<br />
of the conditions under which the critic's abilities<br />
are developed. And seeing that it is not possible<br />
to train humanity in one direction without many<br />
M HIS concise commentary upon the provisions<br />
1 of the new Copyright Act may safely be<br />
commended to the notice not only of lawyers<br />
but of “authors," in the wide sense in which the<br />
term is used in the first section, and of all whose<br />
business it is to deal in their productions. In<br />
form it follows that which is usually found most<br />
convenient in works of its class, and consists of a<br />
short introduction, which includes a brief but<br />
informing summary of the principal changes to be<br />
effected by the Act, a table of contents, the Act<br />
itself printed section by section with notes, the<br />
Revised Convention of Berne, signed at Berlin in<br />
November, 1908, and a carefully compiled index.<br />
The notes referred to follow immediately the sections<br />
to which they refer, and consist of comment upon<br />
the preceding section, followed by a summary of the<br />
existing law ; the section, the comment upon it and<br />
the note as to the existing law being distinguished<br />
by different types.<br />
The expression “ existing " law reminds us that<br />
the Act will not come into force in the United<br />
Kingdom until July 1 (unless some earlier date be<br />
fixed by Order in Council), and that consequently<br />
there is ample time for some to consider how they<br />
will deal with valuable rights prolonged by the Act,<br />
or in some instances to settle the question of more<br />
pressing importance, whether such rights will be<br />
still in existence at the date mentioned and so<br />
capable of prolongation. The representatives of<br />
deceased artists in particular, and those who hold<br />
their copyrights, should realise that they are among<br />
the most conspicuous gainers by the prolonged term,<br />
but the owners of existing rights affected will be<br />
many and varied, as is shown by Mr. MacGillivray<br />
* " 'The Copyright Act, 1911." Annotated, with Appendix<br />
containing the Revised Convention of Berne, by E. J.<br />
MacGillivray, LL.B., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law,<br />
and member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland.<br />
Author of " The Law of Copyright," " A Digest of the Law<br />
of Copyright,” and “ Insurance Law.” London : Stevens<br />
and Sons, Limited. 1912. Pp. 209. Price õs, net.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
on page 143, and authors of works that have long subject to which anyone may reproduce the work in<br />
been before the public are reminded that their question. The points arising as to this section are<br />
rights may be not only prolonged but enlarged, as rather too intricate for discussion here, but<br />
for example by the addition of exclusive rights of another matter of obscurity, more easily sum-<br />
recitation and dramatisation.<br />
marised, may be referred to. The new Act has a<br />
The enlarged protection accorded to authors very important effect upon the doubtful, and if<br />
by the Act will be much more fully grasped the expression may be allowed “tiresome,"condition<br />
by them after perusal of Mr. MacGillivray's volume of the existing law as to unpublished writings of a<br />
than by unaided study of the Act itself, and, deceased author, more especially in respect of letters.<br />
indeed, after such perusal they may be inclined At the end of the 17th section, relating to post-<br />
to congratulate themselves that his notes were not humous works, is a sub-section to the effect that the<br />
in the hands of those members of the Labour Party ownership of an author's manuscript after his death,<br />
to whose “ socialistic demands" the writer refers in jf acquired by his will, “ Shall be prima facie proof<br />
his introduction. Had it been so, the concessions of the copyright being with the owner of the<br />
which the Government granted might have been manuscript.” As Mr. MacGillivray observes, it<br />
more ample than in fact they were.<br />
would have been much more satisfactory if the<br />
When Mr. Sydney Buxton, at the dinner of the Act had provided explicitly that any bequest of the<br />
Authors' Society, referred with just pride to the manuscript should be deemed to pass the owner-<br />
conciseness of a statute which effected so much ship of the copyright. He submits that this would<br />
within the compass of thirty-seven sections, it might probably be the interpretation which the Court<br />
have been suggested in criticism that an Act of such would put upon the passage referred to, but he<br />
brevity, in spite of all the lucidity with which it may points out that doubt may well arise if a residuary<br />
be drafted, is likely to afford considerable scope for legatee were to claim to be as such the owner of<br />
legal argument and judicial decision in the future. a copyright, and to argue that his right as such<br />
A treatise upon it written before any such decisions residuary legatee was superior to the prima farie<br />
have been given naturally contains many suggestions right of the legatee taking the manuscript by<br />
as to doubtful questions and as to their probable specific bequest. The point is certainly by no<br />
solutions. It is to the consideration of problems means free from doubt, and may be commended to<br />
of this kind in the light of Mr. MacGillivray's the careful consideration of authors and of those<br />
observations that many will turn with interest, who may be entrusted with the drafting of their<br />
after satisfying themselves as to the matters of wills.<br />
interpretation with regard to which he expresses no In conclusion, reference may be made to the<br />
doubt. Instances can easily be given of doubtful important summary remedies given by the Act to<br />
points connected with transactions of not uncommon those authors, other than musical composers, who<br />
occurrence. Sub-section 6 of section 2, for example, find themselves aggrieved by infringement. We<br />
prevents the “reading or recitation in public of any are reminded that musical composers will remain a<br />
reasonable extract of any published work" from class exceptionally favoured, although less so than<br />
being an infringement of the sole right of public now, even when the Act comes into operation. It<br />
performance, for which a civil action may be main was sought, as Mr. MacGillivray reminds nis, to<br />
tained, but Mr. MacGillivray points out that in adopt the provisions of the Acts of 1902 and 1906<br />
section 11 (2), which makes an unauthorised public protecting composers, to the needs of other authors<br />
performance punishable on summary conviction, of all classes, but this was so strenuously opposed in<br />
this saving clause is not inserted, with the result that Grand Committee that a compromise became neces-<br />
the question arises whether the Court might not be sary, and now the authors of musical works retain<br />
bound to convict upon the prosecution of a per- the protection of their own Acts, which are<br />
former, although he could not be proceeded against unrepealed, and literary writers have to be content<br />
in a civil action. Again, attention is called to the with the principle of summary procedure applied<br />
possibility that a recitation in costume may be upon to other works in the much less drastic form in<br />
a different footing from one not so approximating which it appears" in section 11 of 1 & 2 Geo. 5 c. 16.<br />
to dramatic presentation. We do not here refer Mr. MacGillivray's exposition of that Act will be<br />
further to the exclusive right of " performance" found timely and helpful, as we have suggested,<br />
or oral delivery conferred by the Act upon non- not only by the profession which will draw direct<br />
dramatic works, or to the conditions and limitations profit from the difficulties to which it calls atten-<br />
imposed upon the exercise of those rights. Section 3 tion, but by those large and, if we may say so, more<br />
of the Act naturally affords material for comment important, classes of brain-workers, who before the<br />
in respect of the paragraph which modifies the passing of the great measure we have recently<br />
right of the owner of the copyright twenty-five welcomed, had received frequent but always<br />
years after the author's death, and states conditions inadequate attention from the Legislature.<br />
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171<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
returned” without having been before the judges-<br />
this was self-evident.<br />
NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br />
There can be little doubt as to the early accept-<br />
ance of the novel in question by any house of<br />
DEAR SIR,–I cannot help thinking the time has standing, and that its publication will bring its<br />
come when authors might venture to make some young author success. I cannot, of course, men-<br />
sort of protest against the manner in which certain tion either the name of the author or that of the<br />
“ novel competitions” are conducted.<br />
novel ; its author is, I fancy, rather an independent<br />
These competitions are, of course, the affairs of the sort of person, and prefers his work to make its way<br />
houses which institute them, and the conditions are by its own pure merits ; but this furnishes me with<br />
generally, I believe, clearly laid down, and so perhaps the example I required to point a few words on a<br />
their methods are hardly fully open to general subject that has often exercised my thoughts.<br />
criticism ; yet I think, considering the altogether My point is the evident unfairness of such a<br />
false standards their results are apt to produce in the system where any work sent in is at the mercy of<br />
eyes of the public in the ranks of the novelists, the sorter, who may have a corn that is trodden<br />
protest is not out of place.<br />
upon in the perusal of the first chapter, and con-<br />
And in one way in particular injustice is apt to sequently, if not a most fair-minded man, reject<br />
to be done to many of the contributors to the that work.<br />
schemes. It is, no doubt, necessary that the copy C an we wonder that the prize-winning stories are<br />
sent in should be subjected to a preliminary weeding, generally of so flat a nature that, after inspiring a<br />
and one could hardly expect the judges to wade few lukewarm notices, they expire early and their<br />
through the entire mass of MSS. submitted ; but it authors are so rarely heard of again?<br />
is in this preliminary process of selection that the There is another aspect: these competitions do<br />
evil, as it seems to me and many others, is apt to be undoubted harın by bringing temporarily to the<br />
done. The objection, to my mind, lies in the fact front writers who have usually no particular message,<br />
that the sorter bas the power of submitting to the and who are, by their sudden success, led to believe<br />
judges only such works as may happen to please themselves literary giants, to the discouragement of<br />
his own taste. The experience of most of us is that real talent and, occasionally, of genius. Surely the<br />
the publisher's reader is a being who is very far literary market is already overcrowded by the works<br />
from being infallible in his judgment of the wares of third-rate writers without its being necessary for<br />
he has to handle ; the history of nearly erery great publishers to hunt for fresh and doubtful talent.<br />
book has been the same-repeated rejections till It is by no means easy at the present day for the<br />
some lucky chance has brought it to light. And unknown writer of a really good book to get a<br />
the standard of acceptability according to the average hearing on respectable terms, and the awards of<br />
“ reader” of the present day seems to be a certain competitions not only do much to lower the standard<br />
conformity to a machine-made story carefully sifted of literature-bringing it down to a mere trade<br />
of any originality. Yet we are led to understand level, but crowd and lower the market standard<br />
that the publisher is ever on the lookout for dis- very seriously, in addition to creating a false ratio<br />
coveries in originality! Judges, also, I believe, have in the public eye.<br />
complained of the low level of the average of the But I for one, and I am not alone in my views,<br />
work submitted to competitions. Can we wonder certainly think that in such competitions all likely<br />
at it when they are only permitted to decide, work should be at least laid at the disposal of the<br />
apparently, upon a few works carefully chosen for judges. It would always be necessary to weed out the<br />
the purpose by the sorters ?<br />
copy which is hopelessly poor, but to weed out works<br />
A young friend of mine has lately sent to a cer- that are good and uncommon, clever and original<br />
tain competition a work which, in the opinion of because, possibly, of some prejudice on the sorter's<br />
several literary men of established reputation who part, seems to me to be prejudicial to fairness at<br />
know him, is a novel of unusual power. This work the start, and one would like to know upon what<br />
is undoubtedly very far above the average, most lines and roles the sorters are instructed to go.<br />
original, beautifully written and dealing with an In conclusion, I must say that after some experi-<br />
absorbing and altogether novel idea; in the opinion ence of competitions in the literary world and a<br />
of those competent to judge and who have read it, good deal of talk with candidates who bare entered<br />
in MS. it is certainly one of the freshest and for them, my advice to any writer with self-respect<br />
cleverest books that have been written during the and above all with any talent is—leave them strictly<br />
last five years. It might not stand any chance of alone.<br />
taking a prize, since it is, perhaps, too bold and too<br />
I am, Sir,<br />
outspoken, too original in theme to be greatly<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
popular ; but the point is that the MS. “ was quickly<br />
TAMEL,<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH COMPOSERS AND THE On every point that concerned the composer the<br />
COPYRIGHT ACT.<br />
society drafted memoranda, which were sent either<br />
SIR,- In last month's issue of The Author, page<br />
to the Board of Trade, to some member of the<br />
132, there is a paragraph referring to the Copyright<br />
Government, or to the private members who were<br />
Act, which is misleading. It runs thus :-<br />
giving special attention to the composer's welfare.<br />
Before the committee stage was over the society<br />
“The gramophone clauses are not altogether to the<br />
was invited by the President of the Board of Trade<br />
liking of composers, and the comuittee of the society<br />
regret that the Government have admitted the principle of<br />
to confer with him upon various points which had<br />
compulsory licence into these clauses, despite the objections<br />
arisen in discussions in committee, and this<br />
urged by the society on behalf of, though with one or two invitation was accepted in the light of official<br />
honourable exceptions, without much help from, musical recognition of the status of the society as<br />
composers."<br />
representing the composer alone.<br />
This conveys the impression that composers as a At the end of July, 1911, before the report<br />
body neglected to take steps to safeguard their stage was passed, the society, anticipating the<br />
inte rests under the new Copyright Act, and that form that the “gramophone clauses ” might, and<br />
the Society of Authors alone acted on their behalf. ultimately did, take, sent a circular to all its<br />
This is very far from being the case, for from members cautioning them against disposing of any<br />
the first the Society of British Composers took an of their mechanical-instrument rights before the<br />
active part in stating the case for the composer. Bill became law. At this date, further, the society<br />
In The Times of March 10th, 1909, it was first went fully into practical issues created by the<br />
announced that the Board of Trade had formed a “gramophone clauses "—issues, it may be added,<br />
Departmental Committee on Copyright, and as which are only now for the first time being<br />
composers had been overlooked and were not repre- considered.<br />
sented on the committee, the Society of British I think I have said enough to show that the<br />
Composers, without a moment's delay, entered a S. B. C., in spite of its restricting its membership<br />
protest against the injustice of ignoring them. to composers of serious aim, had sympathies<br />
Persistent efforts on behalf of the composer sufficiently wide to justify its efforts towards<br />
resulted in the society receiving an undertaking reform on behalf of all, although the majority of<br />
that its representative would be allowed to appear its members may never be affected by the<br />
before the committee and give evidence on certain<br />
“ gramophone clauses.” It is only fair to point<br />
points in the Revised Convention of Berlin, 1908. out that the S. B. C. has giren the Society of<br />
Thus it was largely owing to the action taken by Authors every facility for getting in touch with its<br />
the S. B. C. that the Departmental Committee, members, and the composers, realising that their<br />
whose duties were originally limited to an own special society had the copyright question<br />
examination and report upon that Convention, well in hand, were satisfied that their interests<br />
became in effect a Royal Commission, with power would not be neglected.<br />
to call witnesses. In July, 1909, one of the<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
members of the S. B. C. appeared before the<br />
WILLIAM WALLACE,<br />
committee and gave evidence. Nothing further Hon. Secretary, Society of British Composers,<br />
could be done till the Report of the committee<br />
19, Berners Street, W.<br />
was issued, and this was followed by the Copyright (Mr. Wallace's letter does not in any way refute<br />
Bill of 1910. The society then called a special the paragraph referred to. All honour must be<br />
meeting of its members to discuss, inter alia, this given to the Society of British Composers for the<br />
Bill, and invited members of the Society of work they have done, but the Society of British<br />
Authors to attend and speak. It subsequently Composers is not representative of all composers,<br />
printed and circulated a report of the proceedings. and we regret to state that some of the great<br />
At a later stage it reported to the Board of Trade composers have shown themselves utterly callous<br />
upon the Bill, and sent its own deputation to that and indifferent to the welfare of their fellow<br />
department, on which occasion it was represented craftsmen.<br />
by its prominent members, and its honorary We congratulate the Society of British Com.<br />
counsel discussed the points specially affecting the posers, whose excellent work in the passing of the<br />
composer.<br />
Copyright Act no one can deny, but it is still true<br />
Owing to the political situation the Bill of 1910 that the Society of Authors, considering the work<br />
could not be proceeded with, and that of 1911 was it has done, and is still doing, has received very<br />
introduced, the second reading taking place on little support from the great bulk of composers,<br />
April 7th, 1911. From that moment the S. B. C. many of whom are not, and cannot be included<br />
redoubled its vigilance, and the committee stage in the Society of British Composers under its<br />
was watched and reported upon unremittingly. regulations.—ED.)<br />
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ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
TYPEWRITING<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
To Authors, Clergymen,<br />
Playwrights, etc.-<br />
A WORD IN SEASON !<br />
Get all your work TYPED<br />
WELL-IT ADDS TONE.<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum,<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
WITH<br />
My work is always THE BEST.<br />
My prices are LOW.<br />
Send your order now.<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
All orders, large or small, receive<br />
my personal attention.<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
38, Norwood Road,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Loungee<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel—"Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—“Bookcraft, London."<br />
BRAINS Herne Hill,<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND. , AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
higently copied, from 1s. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
promptness; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
over 20,000, od. Plays ruled<br />
and bound, 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and General TYPEWRITING._Authors' mss. carefully<br />
typed at 10d. per 1,000<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli-<br />
Authors' MSS. carefully<br />
words (carbon copy free). -<br />
EXCELSIOR TYPEWRITING OFFICES,<br />
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20, Bucklorsbury, E.C.<br />
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK.<br />
"Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to the<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothmg<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
does her work.- FRANK SAVILE."<br />
64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.<br />
and Others.<br />
New Address :-<br />
15, WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX. thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
been done."<br />
Recommended by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen :" Many<br />
Print ed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
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