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The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br /> that the cases which are quoted in The Author are of one of these members, have decided to place<br /> cases that have come before the notice or to the this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br /> knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br /> those members of the Society who desire to have which these contributions may be paid.<br /> the names of the publishers concerned can obtain The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br /> them on application.<br /> Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br /> case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br /> ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br /> expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br /> ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br /> THE Editor of The Author begs to remind or in dealing with any other matter closely<br /> members of the Society that, although the paper connected with the work of the Society.<br /> is sent to them free of cost, its production would (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br /> be a very heavy charge on the resources of the increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br /> Society if a great many members did not forward needs of all the members of the Society.<br /> to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br /> the year.<br /> Communications for The Author should be<br /> LIST OF MEMBERS.<br /> addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br /> Queen Street, Storey&#039;s Gate, S.W., and should<br /> reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br /> month.<br /> 1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br /> Communications and letters are invited by the at the offices of the Society at the price of<br /> Editor on all literary matters treated from the 6d., post free 71d. It includes elections to July,<br /> standpoint of art or business, but on no other 1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br /> subjects whatever. 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XXII.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 174 (#618) ############################################<br /> <br /> 174<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> end of tbe list for the convenience of those who<br /> PENSION FUND.<br /> desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br /> from month to month in these pages.<br /> The list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br /> tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br /> subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br /> THE PENSION FUND.<br /> by, or promised to, the fund from January 1,<br /> 1912.<br /> It does not include either donations given<br /> TN January the secretary of the society laid<br /> prior to January 1, nor does it include sub-<br /> before the trustees of the Pension Fund the<br /> scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br /> accounts for the year 1911, as settled by the<br /> before it.<br /> accountants, with a full statement of the result of<br /> The full list of apnual subscribers to the fund<br /> the appeal recently made on behalf of the Fund.<br /> appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br /> After giving the matter full consideration the<br /> The secretary would like to state that he has<br /> trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum<br /> received three bankers&#039; orders in answer to the<br /> of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and<br /> recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br /> Bolivian Railway 5 Preferred Ordinary Stock<br /> He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br /> and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock.<br /> The amounts purchased at the present prices are<br /> may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br /> from their description, would write to the secretary<br /> £237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock.<br /> on the matter.<br /> The trustees desire to thank the members of the<br /> Bankers&#039; Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br /> society for the generous support which they have County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br /> given to the Pension Fund, and have much pleasure<br /> Bankers&#039; Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br /> in informing the Pension Fund Committee that<br /> Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br /> there is a further sum available for the payment of<br /> Bankers&#039; Order for 5s. drawn on the London,<br /> another pension in case any application should be<br /> made.<br /> County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br /> The money now invested amounts to<br /> £4,846 198. 4d., and is fully set out in the list<br /> Subscriptions.<br /> below :<br /> 1912.<br /> £ $. d.<br /> Consols 21°c<br /> .£1,312 13 4 Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice . .&#039; 0 5 0<br /> Local Loans.........<br /> 500 ( 0 Jan. 2, Sturt, George . . . . ( 5 0<br /> Victorian Government 3° &#039; Consoli-<br /> Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark (in addition t<br /> dated Inscribed Stock.......... 291 19 11<br /> present subscription).<br /> ( 5<br /> London and North-Western 39%<br /> Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H..<br /> Debenture Stock ..........<br /> 230 0 (). Jan. 3, Worsley, Miss Alice . .<br /> Egyptian Government Irrigation<br /> Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br /> Trust 4% Certificates .....<br /> 200 0 0<br /> to present subscription) . () 5 0<br /> Cape of Good Hope 31°. Inscribed<br /> Jan. 3, Hedgcock, F. A. .<br /> Stock .......................<br /> 200 0 0<br /> Jan. :), Matcham, Mrs. Eyre<br /> Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br /> Jan. 8, Stayton, Frank .<br /> : 0 5 0<br /> 10%. Preference Stock .<br /> 228 0 0 Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Estella . . 0 5 0<br /> New Zealand 31° Stock ..<br /> 247 9 6 Jan. 10, Ropes, A. R.. .<br /> 1 1<br /> Irish Land Act 21% Guaranteed<br /> Jan. 12, Francis, René .<br /> 0 10 0<br /> Stock ........<br /> 2.38 0 0 Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br /> Corporation of London 21. Stock,<br /> tion to present subscription) 05 0<br /> 1927-57 ..........<br /> 438 24 Jan. 27, Hutchinson, the Rev. H. N. . 1 1 0<br /> Jamaica 31° Stock, 1919-19 ...... 132 18 6 Feb. 7, L. M. F., per month during<br /> Mauritius 1°! 1937 Stock .<br /> 120 121<br /> 1912<br /> : :<br /> Try<br /> . 1 0 0<br /> Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 3!?!<br /> Feb. 7, Letts, Miss W.M..<br /> . 0 5 0<br /> Land Grant Stock, 1938............. 198 3 8 Feb. 8, Cooke, W. Bourne . . . 1 1 0<br /> Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br /> Feb. 8, Annesler, Miss Maude<br /> .<br /> .<br /> . ( 10 6<br /> 5% Preferred Stock ............... 237 () () Feb. 9, O&#039;Donnell, Miss Petronella : 0) 5 0<br /> Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br /> March 6, Curwen, Miss Maud . : 0<br /> Stock ..<br /> 232 ( 0) March 6, Anderson, Arthur . . 1 1 0<br /> — March 15, George, W. L. (in addition<br /> Total ....................£4,846 19 4<br /> to present subscription). ( 10 O<br /> ༌ ༤་<br /> ......<br /> ་ེ<br /> ་ ༌<br /> ༤་ ལ་ ༌<br /> ......<br /> ....<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 175 (#619) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 175<br /> erro<br /> ...........................<br /> er or<br /> Donations.<br /> 1912.<br /> Jan. 2, Risque, W. H. .<br /> Jan. 2, Dart, Miss Edith.<br /> Jan. 3, “K.&quot;<br /> Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur.<br /> Jan. 3, Durrant, W. Scott .<br /> Jan. 3, Tighe, Henry .<br /> Jan. 3, Grant, Lady Sybil .<br /> Jan. 4, Smith, Bertram<br /> Jan. 4, Buckrose, J. E.<br /> Jan. 4, Lathbury, Miss Eva<br /> Jan. 5, Wilson, Dr. Albert .<br /> Jan. 5, Craven, A. Scott .<br /> Jan. 6, Blundell, Miss Alice<br /> Jan. 6, Garbutt, W. H.<br /> Jan. 6, Serjeant, Miss Constance<br /> Jan. 9, Chamberlayne, Miss Effie<br /> Jan. 9, Hamel, Frank<br /> Jan. 10, Allen, W. Bird .<br /> Jan. 10, Crellin, H. X. .<br /> Jan. 10, Smith, Herbert W.<br /> •<br /> Jan. 12, Randall, F. J.<br /> Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K..<br /> Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W...<br /> Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M.<br /> Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney<br /> Jan. 20, M&#039;Ewan, Miss Madge.<br /> Jan. 2:2, Kave-Smith. Miss Sheila .<br /> Jan. 22, Mackenzie, Miss J. .<br /> Jan. 22, Reiss, Miss Erna . .<br /> .Jan. 22, Grisewood, R. Norman . .<br /> Jan. 23, Machen, Arthur.<br /> .Jan. 24, Williamson, C. N. and Mrs.(<br /> Jan. 26, Way, Miss Beatrice<br /> Jan, 30, Saies, Mrs. Florence H.. :<br /> Jan. 30, Weyman, Stanley (in addition<br /> to subscription).<br /> Jan. 30, S. F. G. . .<br /> Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br /> Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br /> Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James 1.<br /> Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br /> Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady<br /> .<br /> Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. .<br /> Feb. 12, King, A. R.. .<br /> Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. .<br /> Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br /> Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. E. W. .<br /> Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival . .<br /> Feb. 17, Raplmel, Mrs. .<br /> Feb. 19, Cabourn, John . .<br /> Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br /> .<br /> Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and Mrs. .<br /> Feb. 24, Hamilton, Cosmo<br /> Feb. 27, Plowman, Miss Mary . .<br /> Feb. 28, Aspinall, A. E. .<br /> .<br /> March 2, Montisole, Max. .<br /> £ s. d.<br /> £ s. d. March 9, Pickering, Mrs. Frank . 0 10 0<br /> 0 10 0 March 15, Trevanwyn, John . . 1 1 0<br /> 0 10 6 March 16, O&#039;Higgins, H. J. . . 1 1 0<br /> 10 0 March 18, Wallis-Healy, F. C. . . () 3 0<br /> 1 1 0 March 18, Schwarz, Prof. Ernest . 0 5 0<br /> 5 0 March 19, Wallace, Sir Donald Mac-<br /> ( 10 0<br /> kenzie, K.C.V.O. . . 5 5 0<br /> 0 March 21, Wharton, Leonard . () 5<br /> 20 0 0<br /> 1 1 0<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 0 10 0<br /> COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> 0 10 0<br /> 0 10 0<br /> M HE March meeting of the committee was held<br /> 0 5 0<br /> at the offices of the society on the 4th. The<br /> 0 5 0<br /> committee have much pleasure in reporting<br /> 1 1 0 32 elections, which brings the total of elections<br /> 1 1 0 for the current year up to 100. This number is<br /> 0 5 o considerably in excess of the number for the corre-<br /> 2 2 O sponding period of 1911. The issue of the first<br /> 1 0 applications for subscriptions in arrears brought as<br /> 2 2 0 usual a number of resignations, but though the<br /> 0 5 0 number was considerable, it was hardly above the<br /> 0 5 0 average of former years, and in percentage was<br /> 1 1 0 lower, owing to the increase in numbers of the<br /> ( 5 ( society.<br /> () 10 0 The solicitors made a report on the legal cases<br /> 0 5 0 handled during the month. In one case, where the<br /> committee had sanctioned the issue of a writ for the<br /> 0 5 0) return of a MS., the publisher had handed over the<br /> 1 1 0 MS., and the matter had been settled. In another<br /> 5 j ( case, involving a long dispute on accounts delivered<br /> 0 5 0 by a publisher, a settlement had been arranged and<br /> ( 8 6 a form of agreement dealing with the issues had<br /> been drafted and was only awaiting execution.<br /> 1 1 0 A question arising out of the infringement of an<br /> 1 1 0 author&#039;s dramatic rights had been settled. The<br /> 1 0 0 defendant had abandoned the production and with-<br /> 0 10 0 drawn the piece. A claim of a member, considered<br /> 1 1 0 at the previous meeting, for a quantum meruit<br /> 0 10 6 for work done against a newspaper had been satisfied.<br /> 5 0 0 The stipulated amount had been paid. Payment<br /> 5 () had also been made under a judgment obtained by the<br /> () society in another newspaper case. There was also<br /> a claiin by a member against a publisher for accounts<br /> 0 5 () which had not been rendered for some time, and for<br /> 1 1 0 payment of the sum due under those accounts. As<br /> 0 5 0 the publisher had neglected to answer the secretary&#039;s<br /> 0 5 0) letters, the matter had been transferred to the<br /> ( j ( solicitors, whose negotiations with the firm had<br /> 0 10 0 produced a promise of speedy settlement. The<br /> 1 1 0 Solicitors bad been forced to issue a writ in another<br /> 1 1 0 matter of accounts referred to them, as the defen-<br /> 26 dant had refused to produce a proper statement. In<br /> ( 10 ( a case in which the society had threatened a pub-<br /> () 10 ( lisher with the appointment of an arbitrator, under<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 176 (#620) ############################################<br /> <br /> 176<br /> THB AUTHOR.<br /> II.<br /> a clause in the publisher&#039;s agreement, the publisher The secretary reported that Lady Loraine, Mr.<br /> bad submitted a proposal which the committee Thomas F. Dunhill and Mr. Raymond Needham<br /> decided to advise the author to accept. The had joined the society as life members, and that<br /> solicitors were instructed to write to the member Mr. Gordon Craig had made a donation of £1 18.<br /> to that effect.<br /> to the Capital Account.<br /> The secretary then placed before the committee<br /> correspondence which had passed between himself<br /> and a member, following a decision of the com-<br /> mittee made at their previous meeting. The<br /> DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> committee, while approving the secretary&#039;s letters,<br /> decided that no further action could be taken. The<br /> I.<br /> verification of accounts between one of the members On Thursday, March 7, the Dramatic Sub-<br /> and a publisher extending over a series of years was Committee met a sub-committee of the Dramatists&#039;<br /> next considered, and the committee advised the Club and discussed with the latter the proposed<br /> member to ask the publisher, in the first instance, alterations in the Managerial Treaty. The two<br /> for further details, and next to allow an accountant committees went through the treaty clause by<br /> to be appointed to investigate the books. If the clause, and came to agreement, with very few<br /> publisher&#039;s answer was not satisfactory, the matter alterations and reservations. The points reserved<br /> was to be referred again to the committee.<br /> were then referred back in order to be discussed at<br /> After the cases had been considered, the committee the next meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Committee,<br /> discussed the question of Canadian copyright. A and it is hoped that a final settlement will be come<br /> letter was read from Sir Gilbert Parker to the to at that meeting.<br /> chairman expressing among other things his regret<br /> that he had been obliged to return to England, but<br /> stating that he hoped to put forward the views of The ordinary monthly meeting of the Dramatic<br /> the society when he visited Canada again in the Sub-Committee was held on Friday, March 15,<br /> summer. A letter from the Premier of Canada was at 3 o&#039;clock. After the ruinutes of the former<br /> also read, as well as one from a Canadian correspon- meeting had been read and signed, the alterations<br /> dent of the society, the last making a statement as and amendments to the Managerial Treaty sug-<br /> to the action in respect of copyright legislation gested at the joint meeting of the sub-committee<br /> which was being taken in the Dominion.<br /> and the Dramatists&#039; Club Sub-Committee, were<br /> The secretary reported what had been done, at considered, and the treaty was finally settled. The<br /> the suggestion of the Composers&#039; Sub-Committee, secretary was instructed to write to the secretary<br /> and with the sanction of the chairman of the Com- of the Dramatists&#039; Club Sub-Committee, with a full<br /> mittee of Management, respecting an organisation statement of what had taken place and with the<br /> which had originally called itself the Society of complete copy.<br /> British Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. The next question before the sub-committee was<br /> A full statement of the position appeared in the the date of the Annual Conference of Dramatists.<br /> March issue of The Author.<br /> The sub-committee decided that it would be best<br /> The committee undertook to watch carefully the to defer the selection of the date until the mandate<br /> rights of composers in regard to the question that which they had received at the last Conference to<br /> had been raised, namely, the collection of gramo deal with the Managerial Treaty had been carried<br /> phone fees.<br /> through, and the sub-committee were in a position<br /> A Music Publishing Agreement which had been to report to the Conference on this and other<br /> laid before the Committee of Management by the matters.<br /> Copyright Sub-Committee was referred back to the A small point touching the registration of<br /> sub-committee for re-consideration of one or two scenarios was also considered, and the sub-com-<br /> points which had been raised in committee.<br /> mittee decided that one copy of a scenario would<br /> A proposal in regard to the conduct of the suffice for purposes of registration, although the<br /> business of authors by literary agents was men- society would always be willing to stampa<br /> tioned, but the committee decided that it would be duplicate copy if the member so desired.<br /> inexpedient to take action in the matter at the The sub-committee then discussed a suggestion<br /> present time unless a specific charge could be made of one of the members, that a schedule of prices<br /> The committee authorised the affixing of the should lie at the society&#039;s office for reference. As<br /> society&#039;s seal to certain transfers dealing with the soon as the schedule is settled, notice will be sent<br /> purchase of stock on account of the Capital Fund of to dramatists who are members, in order that they<br /> the society, which purchase had been authorised at may have the advantage, when settling agreements,<br /> their previous meeting.<br /> of being able to consult the schedule and receive<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 177 (#621) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 177<br /> advice from the secretary. Such advice and infor- 2. Not to employ any agents or agencies without careful<br /> mation is already at the disposal of any member<br /> dienasol of any member enquiry into their financial position and stability.<br /> enquir<br /> who desires it, but the sub-committee considered it<br /> 3. Not to enter into any contract for sheet publication<br /> which contains any conditions whatsoever with regard to<br /> desirable to have a schedule authoritatively fixed. their rights of mechanical reproduction.<br /> The Society of British Composers, in hearty<br /> accord with the action of the sub-committee,<br /> COMPOSERS&#039; SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> allowed their names to be joined in the manifesto.<br /> A further question arose as to the probable rules<br /> and regulations of the Board of Trade for the<br /> The first meeting of the Composers&#039; Sub-Com- collection of fees for the reproduction by mechanical<br /> mittee of the Society of Authors was held on instruments, and it was decided to obtain all the<br /> Saturday, February 24. As The Author had information available on this point, for the sub-<br /> already gone to Press before the meeting was held committee agreed that it must depend upon the<br /> it was too late to chronicle it in the March issue. form of these rules and how far they might secure<br /> Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was unanimously the composer&#039;s rights what advice should be given<br /> elected chairman of the sub-committee, and after to composers about appointing agents to collect<br /> his election the committee proceeded to consider their fees.<br /> certain circulars which had been issued by The sub-committee considered an invitation from<br /> music publishing firms referring to the formation the publishers to attend a meeting at Bechstein Hall<br /> of the British Society of Authors, Composers, and called for the Tuesday following. They decided,<br /> Music Publishers. After a careful study of the however, in view of the line the publishers had<br /> objects and rules of the proposed society (to which chosen to adopt in dealing with the composers&#039;<br /> reference was made in the last issue of The Author), property, that it would be inadvisable to attend.<br /> the committee decided, subject to the approval of Mr. Arthur Somervell was elected a member of<br /> the Committee of Management, to issue a manifesto the sub-committee under the power of co-option<br /> on the situation, and after careful consideration of a given by the Committee of Management, and it was<br /> draft which had been prepared by the chairman, the decided to ask Mr. Sidney Jones to join. The<br /> manifesto assumed the following form :-<br /> resignation of one of the members already elected<br /> COMPOSERS AND GRAMOPHONE Rights.<br /> was laid before the sub-committee, and it was<br /> decided to ask the member to reconsider his<br /> Vanifesto from Composers&#039; Sub-Committee.<br /> decision.<br /> The Incorporated Society of Authors and the Society of<br /> British Composers desire to direct the attention of all the<br /> composers in the United Kingdom to their powers and<br /> rights in regard to the mechanical reproduction of their<br /> works, as defined by the Copyright Act of 1911, which<br /> A SECOND meeting was held at the offices of the<br /> declares that the composer has the sole right to authorise<br /> or prohibit the making of any mechanical reproduction of Society of Authors on March 9. After the<br /> his compositions. No matter what assignment of mechanical reading of the minutes of the previous meeting<br /> rights the composer may have made before the passing of the question of gramophone fees was discussed.<br /> the Act, the Act annuls such an assignment, and confers<br /> The position of the society, which originally called<br /> T<br /> solely upon the composer all royalties derived from such<br /> mechanical rights. In order to make the latter part of this itself the British Society of Authors, Composers<br /> statement quite clear, section 19, sub-section 7 (c) of the and Music Publishers, and the action that had been<br /> Act should be quoted in full : “ Notwithstanding any taken in regard to this society were reported.<br /> assignment made before the passing of this Act of the<br /> The secretary also reported that he had been in<br /> copyright in a musical work, any rights conferred by this<br /> Act, in respect of the making, or authorising the making,<br /> communication with the secretary of the Mechanical<br /> of contrivances by means of which the work may be Copyright Licenses Company, which was working<br /> mechanically performed, shall belong to the author or his with the German and French societies, and he read<br /> legal personal representatives and not to the assignee, and<br /> a letter from the secretary of the company pointing<br /> the royalties aforesaid shall be payable to, and for the<br /> benefit of, the author of the work or his legal personal<br /> out the advantages of the company and its methods<br /> representatives.&quot;<br /> of business. After a lengthy discussion the sub-<br /> From this it is obvious that the music publisher has no committee came to the conclusion that they were<br /> locus standi whatever in the matter, and he has no more bound to defer action until they were acquainted<br /> right to decide upon a division of the composer&#039;s royalties<br /> than upon a division of any other of his private property.<br /> with the rules to be issued under the Act of 1911<br /> It is certain that agencies for the collection of composers&#039; by the Board of Trade dealing with the collection<br /> royalties, for a reasonable consideration, will come into of gramophone fees, and that they could not advise<br /> existence. It is, therefore, strongly impressed upon all composers until these rules were before them. The<br /> composers :<br /> 1. Not to part with the property which is exclusively question was accordingly adjourned.<br /> .theirs by Act of Parliament.<br /> The next matter before the sub-committee was<br /> II.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 178 (#622) ############################################<br /> <br /> 178<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> the question of performing rights. Since the accounts were rendered and forwarded to the<br /> passing of the new (&#039;opyright Act this point has author. The second case had to be placed in the<br /> been one of increasing importance, owing to the hands of the society&#039;s solicitors, and the third has<br /> widened term of copyright and other matters dealing only just come into the office.<br /> with this special right under the new Act. Again, I&#039;here have been as many as nine claims for<br /> there was a very lengthy discussion, and the secre- money in the hands of the secretary, and it is<br /> tary and others reported how these rights were dealt satisfactory to report that in three of the cases the<br /> with in other countries and in England. It was money has been paid and forwarded to the author<br /> decided, if possible, to discuss the matter with concerned. In two of the remaining cases it was<br /> members of the Music Publishers&#039; Association at impossible to obtain satisfaction, as the company<br /> a subsequent meeting which the secretary was against which the claims were made is bankrupt.<br /> instructed to call. The sub-committee decided to As is usual in cases of bankruptcy, there is no<br /> ask a special chairman to preside at the meeting, money for the unfortunate author, whether he is a<br /> rather than that there should be any feeling of bias contributor to a paper or a claimant for royalties..<br /> such as might arise were a musical composer in the assets being all swept away by the claim of the<br /> the chair.<br /> debenture holders. Of the four remaining cases,<br /> Several names were mentioned, and the secretary one had to be placed in the solicitors&#039; hands and<br /> was instructed to arrange the details.<br /> bas since been settled ; one has only recently come<br /> A letter from a music publisher, together with into the office ; one is in the course of negotiation,<br /> his contract with a member of the society, was laid and it is hoped will be brought to a satisfactory<br /> before the committee for their consideration, and conclusion, and the last one, as the claim is in a<br /> the secretary was instructed to make a note in foreign country, will necessarily be prolonged.<br /> The Author on the matter.<br /> There were three claims for the return of MSS..<br /> These have all been settled. It has been frequently<br /> pointed out that it is sometimes difficult to sub-<br /> PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br /> stantiate a legal claim in cases where MSS, bave<br /> been forwarded to publishers, editors, and others,<br /> THE Pension Fund Committee of the society met<br /> but, as a general rule, they are very anxious to<br /> on Thursday, February 15, and after the minutes<br /> make what efforts they can to search for and return<br /> of the previous meeting had been signed, they<br /> the MSS.<br /> received from the secretary the report of the<br /> The last claim deals with the settlement of a<br /> trustees setting out the position of the fund.<br /> contract on behalf of one of the members who<br /> The secretary reported that £300 had been invested<br /> lives in a distant colony ; negotiations are being<br /> by the trustees (the investments appear in another<br /> carried through satisfactorily.<br /> column) and that a sum of £40 was at the disposal<br /> Of the cases left over from former monthis there.<br /> of the committee for pensions.<br /> are only two still outstanding in the hands of the<br /> After consideration, the committee decided to<br /> secretary. The others have either been placed with<br /> increase Miss Crommelin&#039;s pension by £20 per<br /> the solicitors or have been settled. Of the two in the<br /> annum, and Dr. J. Beattie Crozier&#039;s by £20 per<br /> hands of the secretary one refers to the settlement<br /> annum.<br /> of accounts, and the other refers to a case of<br /> infringement of copyright in one of the colonies.<br /> Cases.<br /> The latter has been a long time open, as letters<br /> necessarily take a long time going backwards and<br /> DURING the past month there have been fifteen forwards, but so far it must be stated with recret.<br /> cases placed in the hands of the secretary.<br /> in the hands of the secretary:. The<br /> The<br /> that no answer has been obtained.<br /> the<br /> number from month to month varies but little in<br /> spite of the large increase in membership. On the<br /> whole, perhaps, it is a good sign. It tends to show<br /> that either the authors, dramatists and composers,<br /> March Elections.<br /> or the publishers, editors and dramatic producers,<br /> are more careful in their contracts. It does not Anderson, Arthur . . +Belsize Lane,<br /> necessarily show that the contracts made are better<br /> Hampstead, N.W.<br /> contracts, though there is considerable evidence Arnold, Hugh . . . 63, Bedford Gardens,<br /> that this is the case in spite of the attention the<br /> committee have drawn from time to time to the Bainbrigge, Miss Marion S.<br /> strange contracts which some publishers issue. Beardsley, Elystan M.<br /> Three of the cases referred to the rendering of Bellairs, Ralph Hamon Balliol College, Ox-<br /> accounts. One was satisfactorily settled, the<br /> ford.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 179 (#623) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 179<br /> BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br /> las<br /> Birkhead, Alice . . 20, Kingdom Road,<br /> W. Hampstead,<br /> N.W.<br /> Chater, Arthur G. . . 41, Porchester Square,<br /> W.<br /> Common, Thomas . . 8, Whitehouse Ter-<br /> race, Corstorphine,<br /> Midlothian.<br /> Curwen, Maud . . . Workington, Camber-<br /> land.<br /> Denham, Arnold . . Perth Public Library,<br /> Perth, West<br /> Australia.<br /> German, Edward . . 5, Hall Road, N.W.<br /> Gregson, Mrs. Ada . . 5, Lawton Street,<br /> Newcastle-on-Tyne.<br /> Holland, Bryan T. . . Alfrick, Worcester.<br /> Ivimey, John . . . 1, Arundel Mansions,<br /> Fulham.<br /> Kingsland, Mrs. “Mabel The Haven, Devizes,<br /> King.&quot;<br /> Wilts.<br /> Lascelles, Mrs. K. “Pellen Ladies Athæneum<br /> Hawker.&quot;<br /> Club.<br /> Macnamara, Francis . . Ennistymon House,<br /> Co. Clare.<br /> McHugh, Martin J. . Caherush House<br /> Miltown - Malbay,<br /> Co. Clare, Ireland:<br /> Marshall, Archibald . . Playden Cottage, Play-<br /> den, Sussex.<br /> Mildred, Sister Mary, O.S.B. The Knoll, Sandling,<br /> Maidstone.<br /> Pickering. Mrs. Frank Springhill. Douglas.<br /> “ A. D. Pickering.&quot;<br /> Lanarkshire.<br /> WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br /> this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br /> some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br /> that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br /> by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br /> largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br /> other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br /> co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br /> particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br /> accurate.<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> NAPOLEON : Our Last Great Man. By ELYSTAN M.<br /> BEARDSLEY. (Revised Re-issue.) 71 x 41 184 pp.<br /> Digby Long. 38. 6d. n.<br /> THE COMEDY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. By FRANCIS<br /> GRIBBLE. 9 x 51. 336 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 158. n.<br /> THE REAL CAPTAIN CLEVELAND. By ALLAN FEA.<br /> 9 x 51. 256 pp. Martin Secker. 88. 6d. n.<br /> BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br /> THE PUBLIC Schools YEAR BOOK, 1912. Edited by H.<br /> F. W. DEANE and W. A. Evans. 71 5. 709 pp.<br /> The Year Book Press. 38. 6d. n.<br /> BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.<br /> AN ENGLISH CHURCH HISTORY FOR CHILDREN, VOL.<br /> III., A.D. 1500---1911. By MARY E. SHIPLEY. 73 x 5.<br /> 286 pp. Methuen. 28. 6d. n.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> CHAUCER REDIVIVUS : A Playlet for the Open Air or Hall.<br /> By W. S. DURRANT. 78 X 44. 32 pp. Allen. 6d. n.<br /> THE SECRET WOMAN. A Play in Five Acts. By EDEN<br /> PHILLPOTTS. 64 X 5. 90 pp. Duckworth. 28.<br /> THE NEXT RELIGION. By ISRAEL ZANGWILL. A Play<br /> in Three Acts. 81 x 51. 104 pp. Heinemann. 28. 6d. n.<br /> SHAKESPEARE&#039;S END AND OTHER IRISH PLAYS. By<br /> CONAL O&#039;RIORDAN (Norreys Connell). 73 x 5. 167 pp.<br /> Swift. 38. 60, n.<br /> THE BROWNIES AND OTHER SHORT PLAYS. By ELLA<br /> ERSKINE. 87 X 51. 36 pp. Truslove &amp; Hanson<br /> 2s. 6d. n.<br /> FICTION.<br /> LITTLE BROTHER. By GILBERT CANNAN. 77 x 5.<br /> 301 pp. Heinemann. 68.<br /> THE BODY OF HIS DESIRE: A Romance of the Soul. By<br /> MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED, 8 x õ. 344 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br /> THE VICTORIES OF OLIVIA AND OTHER STORIES. By<br /> EVELYN SHARP. 73 x 5 328 pp. Macmillan. 6s.<br /> TWINKLE. By ARTHUR H. HOLMES. 7 * 5. 313 pp.<br /> Duckworth. 68.<br /> THE GUESTS OF HERCULES. By C. N. and A. M.<br /> WILLIAMSON, 78 x 5. 461 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> THE MATADOR OF THE Five TOWAS, AND OTHER STORIES.<br /> By ARNOLD BENNETT. 73 x 51. 325 pp. Methuen.<br /> 68.<br /> THE RED MAN&#039;S SECRET. By F. FRANKFORT Moore,<br /> 78 X 5. 336 pp. Hutchinson. 6s.<br /> THE RIVER OF UNREST. By BERTRAM MITFORD. 7 x<br /> 5. 304 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br /> GRIM JUSTICE: Toe Study of a Conscience. By Rita.<br /> 78 x 5. 430 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 68.<br /> THE UNHOLY ESTATE. By DJUGLAS SLADEN. 78 X 43.<br /> 435 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.<br /> THE TRAGIC PRINCE. By R. K. WEEKES and A. R.<br /> WEEKES. 73 x 5. 350 pp. Melrose. 68.<br /> MEMORY CORNER. By TOM GALLON. 78 x 5. 352 pp.<br /> John Long. 6s.<br /> Millwall E.<br /> Richings, Emily Agnes. 42, Campden House<br /> Court, Kensington,<br /> W.<br /> Savill, Agnes F., M.D. . 66, Harley Street, W.<br /> Shortt, Miss L. M. . Manor House,<br /> Martinstown,<br /> Dorchester.<br /> Somervell, Arthur . . 1, Albert, Place,<br /> Kensington, W.<br /> Steegmann, Mary Gertrude 2, Carlisle Mansions,<br /> Westminster S.W.<br /> Troly-Curten, Marthe . 13, Eden Place,<br /> S. Kensington,<br /> S.W.<br /> Walker, Mary, “Anna Wood norton, May-<br /> Lynn.”<br /> field, Sussex.<br /> Wyman, Bernard . . Winnington Hall,<br /> Northwich.<br /> Wynn Williams, W. Lloyd<br /> * John Trevanwyn.&quot;<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 180 (#624) ############################################<br /> <br /> 180<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> FOR THE QUEEN. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. 78 x 5.<br /> 320 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br /> THE RUBY HEART OF KISHGAR. By ARTHUR W.<br /> MARCHMONT. 71 x 5. 296 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton.<br /> POMANDER WALK. By LOUIS N. PARKER. 78 X 5.<br /> 267 pp. Lane. 68.<br /> LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD. By the BARONESS<br /> ORCZY. 74 x 5. 344 pp. Cassell. 18.<br /> A MAN FROM THE NORTH. Reprint. By ARNOLD<br /> BENNETT. 73 x 5. 264 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> THE CHILD OF THE DAWN. By A. C. BENSON. 87 x 51.<br /> 314 pp. Smith, Elder &amp; Co. 78. 6d. n.<br /> COMMONERS&#039; RIGHTS. By CONSTANCE SMEDLEY (MRS.<br /> MAXWELL ARMFIELD). 74 x 5. 416 pp. Chatto &amp;<br /> Windus. 68.<br /> THE HOUSE ON THE MALL. By EDGAR JEPSON. 78 X<br /> 4. 314 pp. Hutchinson. 68.<br /> VIOLET FORSTER&#039;S LOVER. By RICHARD MARSH. 73 x<br /> 5. 342 pp. Cassell. 68.<br /> A LADDER OF SWORDS. By SIR GILBERT PARKER.<br /> 252 pp. 61 x 41. Everett. 7d. n.<br /> A CHORD ONCE STRUCK. By JOHN SOMERS. Murray and<br /> Evenden. 6s.<br /> THE HOUSE OF ROBERSHAYE. By EMMA BROOKE.<br /> 74 X 5. 370 pp. Smith, Elder &amp; Co. 68.<br /> THE FOREST ON THE HILL. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS.<br /> 74 x 5, 370 pp. Murray. 68.<br /> MANALIVE. By G. K. CHESTERTON 71 X 5. 383 pp.<br /> Nelson. 28. n.<br /> JOSEPH IN JEOPARDY. By FRANK DANBY. 73 x 5.<br /> 391 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> PAUL&#039;S PARAGON. By W. E. NORRIS. 78 x 5. 375 pp.<br /> Constable. 68.<br /> THE QUEST OF GLORY. By MARJORIE BOWEN. 78 x 5<br /> 311 pp. Methuen. 68.<br /> THE MALABAR MAGICIAN. By F. E. PENNY. 73 X 41.<br /> 344 pp. Chatto &amp; Windus. 68.<br /> THE MAN WHO STROKED Cats, and Other Stories. By<br /> MORLEY ROBERTS. 75 X 5. 286 pp. Nash. 68.<br /> THE TRIANGLE. By MARIE CONNOR LEIGHTON. 71 x 5.<br /> 315 pp. Ward, Lock. 6x.<br /> LOVE IN A SNARE. By CHARLES GARVICE. 73 x 5.<br /> 363 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 68.<br /> THE PATH OF VIRTUE. A Romance of the Musical<br /> Comedy Stage. By GERTRUDE WARDEN. 78 X õ.<br /> 311 pp. White. 68.<br /> THE OLD WIVES&#039; TALE. By ARNOLD BENNETT. A New<br /> Edition, with a Preface. 73 X 5. 612 pp. Hodder &amp;<br /> Stoughton. 68.<br /> ELEANOR. By MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. 64 x 47. 475 pp.<br /> Cheap Edition. Nelson, 7d. 11.<br /> AUSTIN&#039;S CAREER. BY VIOLET TWEEDALE. 78 x 5.<br /> 352 pp. John Long. 6x.<br /> BRAZENHEAD THE GREAT. By MAURICE HEWLETT.<br /> :7} x 5. 333 pp. Smith Elder. 38. 6d.<br /> MARK TILLOTSON. By J. BAKER. Popular Edition.<br /> 73 X 5. 536 pp. Chapman &amp; Hall. 28. n.<br /> LITERARY.<br /> THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN. A Guide to Social Aspi-<br /> rants. By HARRY GRAHAM. 78 X 5. 300 pp. Arnold. 6s.<br /> THE BOOK OF SIMPLE DELIGHTS. By WALTER RAY.<br /> MOND. Illustrated by H. COLE. 74 x 5. 288 pp.<br /> Dent. 38. 6d. n.<br /> ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE : THE ACADEMIC<br /> COMMITTEE : COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS ON SIR<br /> ALFRED COMYN LYALL. By G. W. PROTHERO. And<br /> on EDWARD HENRY PEMBER. By W. J. COURTHORPE.<br /> 8} x 51. 54 pp. Frowde. 18. n.<br /> MEDICAL<br /> NEW LIGHT ON CONSUMPTION. By A. LOVELL. 74 x 4.<br /> 140 pp. J. W. Williams.<br /> MISCELLANEOUS.<br /> ABSOLUTE Rot. By HENRY J. SWALLOW. 122 pp.<br /> Jarrold. 18. 63, n.<br /> NATURAL HISTORY.<br /> THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. By T. A. COWARD. 61 x<br /> 41. 137 pp. Cambridge University Press. 18. n.<br /> BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. By G. M. MATHEWS. Witherby<br /> &amp; Co., 326, High Holborn, W.C.<br /> ORIENTAL.<br /> A MANUAL OF THE KASHMIRI LANGUAGE, comprising<br /> Grammar, Phrase-Book, and Vocabularies. By G. A.<br /> GRIERSON, C.I.E. Two Volumes. 63 X 41. 160 +<br /> 211 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, London : Frowde.<br /> 128. n.<br /> POETRY.<br /> The Hill OF VISION. By J. STEPHENS. 7 5. 131 pp.<br /> Dublin : Maunsel. 38. 6d. n.<br /> THE LAMP OF ENGLAND, AND OTHER VERSES, By<br /> R. R. G. 81 x 54 125 pp. Foyle&#039;s Printing Works,<br /> 172, Askew Road, W. 38. 6d.<br /> A CALABASH OF Kola Nuts. West African Rhymes.<br /> By O. DAZI AKO (J. M. STUART-Young). 7 X 41.<br /> 126 pp. Lynwood. 28. 6d. n.<br /> POLITICAL.<br /> ASPECTS OF HOME RULE. Selected from the speeches<br /> of The Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour, M.P.<br /> 74 x 5. 256 pp. Routledge. 28. 6d. n.<br /> THINGS THAT MATTER. Papers upon subjects which<br /> are, or ought to be, under discussion. By L. G. CHIOZZA<br /> MONEY, M.P. 9 x 54. 299 pp. Methuen. 58. n.<br /> HISTORY.<br /> THE EARLY COURT OF QUEEN VICTORIA. By CLARE<br /> JERROLD. 9 X 54. 392 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 158. n.<br /> REPRINTS.<br /> THE WHITE WALLET. Filled by PAMELA GLENCOXXER.<br /> 8 X 54. 415 pp. Fisher Unwin. 58. n.<br /> MISCELLANEOUS PROSE. By CHARLES and MARY LAMB.<br /> Edited by E. V. Lucas. 68 x 41. 570 pp. Methuen. 58.<br /> IN PRAISE OF OXFORD. An Anthology in Prose and<br /> Verse. By T. SECCOMBE and H. SPENCER SCOTT.<br /> Vol. II. Life and Manners. 9 X 5. pp. 333-794.<br /> Constable. 68.<br /> POEMS. By WILLIAM SHARP. Selected and arranged by<br /> MRS. WILLIAM SHARP. 73 x 51. 323 pp. Heinemann.<br /> 5x, n.<br /> SCIENCE<br /> EARTHWORMS AND THEIR ALLIES. By F, E, BEDDARD.<br /> 64 x 44. 150 pp. Cambridge University Press. ls. 1.<br /> BOTANY, OR THE MODERN STUDY OF PLANTS. By<br /> MARIE STOPES, Ph.D. 61 x 41. 94 pp. Jack. 6d. n.<br /> EVOLUTION IN THE PAST. By H. R. KNIPE, 104 x 71.<br /> 242 pp. Herbert &amp; Daniel. 128. 6d. n.<br /> JUVENILE.<br /> A CHILD OF SURPRISES. By MABEL ESCOMBE, S.P.C.K.<br /> 18. n.<br /> LAW.<br /> THE COPYRIGHT Act, 1911. Annotated. With Appendix<br /> containing the Revised Convention of Berne. By E. J.<br /> MACGILLIVRAY, LL.B. 9 x 54. 201 pp. Stevens &amp;<br /> Sons. 58. n.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 181 (#625) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 181<br /> SOCIOLOGY.<br /> CHANGE IN THE VILLAGE. By GEORGE BOURNE. 74 x 5.<br /> 309 pp. Duckworth. 58. D.<br /> THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY UPON SOCIAL AND<br /> POLITICAL IDEAS. By A. J. CARLYLE, D.LITT. 71. X 5.<br /> 129 pp. Mowbray. 28. n.<br /> IN THE HAND OF THE POTTER : A Study of Christianity<br /> in Action. By HAROLD BEGBIE. (Popular Edition.)<br /> 71 x 41. 191 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 18. n.<br /> SPORT.<br /> THE MYSTERY OF GOLF. By ARNOLD HAULTAIN.<br /> Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 78 x 54<br /> 249 pp. New York : The Macmillan Co. 2s. 60, n.<br /> THE HUNTING YEAR. By W. S. Dixon. 7 * 57. 212 pp.<br /> Ham-Smith. 68. n.<br /> MISCELLANEOUS.<br /> THE PROBLEM OF RACE REGENERATION. By H.<br /> HAVELOCK ELLIS. 67 pp. New York: Moffat, Yard.<br /> 50 cents n.<br /> THE METHODS OF RACE REGENERATION. By C. W.<br /> SALEEBY, 64 pp. New York : Moffat, Yard. 50 cents n.<br /> MUSIC.<br /> MUSIC AND NATIONALISM. By CECIL FORSYTH. 359 pp.<br /> New York : Macmillan. $2 n.<br /> POEMS.<br /> EMBLEMS OF LOVE DESIGNED IN SEVERAL DISCOURSES,<br /> By LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE. 213 pp. New York :<br /> John Lane Co. $1.50 n.<br /> TRAVEL.<br /> THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. With four maps. By the Hon.<br /> MAURICE BARING. 366 pp. New York: Doran. $3.50 n.<br /> LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br /> NOTES.<br /> THEOLOGY.<br /> The VISITATION OF THE SICK : Some Practical Reflections<br /> for the Use of the Clergy and others engaged in Parochial<br /> Visitation. By the Rev. THEODORE JOHNSON (Introduc-<br /> tion by the BISHOP OF CHICHESTER). 63 X 44. 134 pp.<br /> Allen. 18. 60, n.<br /> SHORT LENTEN READINGS. By E. G. ROMANES. 54 X<br /> 39. 44 pp. Churchman&#039;s Penny Library, Mowbray.<br /> CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL ORDER. By R. J. CAMP-<br /> BELL. New and Cheaper Edition. 78 X 5. 283 pp.<br /> Chapman &amp; Hall. 28. n.<br /> THOUGHTS ON ULTIMATE PROBLEMS. By F. W. FRANK-<br /> LAND. Fifth and Revised Edition. 7 X 41. 133 pp.<br /> Nutt. 18. 6d. n.<br /> TRAVEL.<br /> THE BRITISH WEST INDIES : Their History, Resources,<br /> and Progress. By A. E. ASPINALL. 84 x 59. 435 pp.<br /> Sir Isaac Pitman. 18. 6d. n.<br /> OLD TOURAINE. The Life and History of the Chateaux of<br /> the Loire. By T. A. Cook, F.S.A. Sixth Edition.<br /> (With new Preface.) Two vols. 78 X 5. 287 + 279 pp.<br /> Rivington. 168. n.<br /> FINLAND : The Land of a Thousand Lakes. By. E. YOUNG.<br /> 9 x 51. 313 pp. Chapman &amp; Hall. 78. 6d. n.<br /> A WINTER HOLIDAY IN PORTUGAL. Ey CAPTAIN B.<br /> GRANVILLE BAKER. 9 X 51. 324 pp. Stanley Paul.<br /> 128. 6d. n.<br /> BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br /> MEMBERS.<br /> M R. WILLIAM HEINEMANN announces,<br /> uniform with “ The War God,&quot; by Mr.<br /> Israel Zangwill, produced at His Majesty&#039;s<br /> Theatre, the same author&#039;s prohibited play, “The<br /> Next Religion”; also the first volume of “ The<br /> Selected Writings of William Sharp,” edited by his<br /> wife Mrs Sham a series to be completed in fiya<br /> volumes, uniform with “The Works of Fiona<br /> Macleod,&quot; the pseudonyni under which the late<br /> William Sharp was so well known.<br /> Mr. John Galsworthy has published with the same<br /> house his first book of poetry, entitled “Wild Oats :<br /> Moods, Songs, and Doggerels.&quot; Uniform with this<br /> volume will be “ The Lure of the Sea,” by J. E.<br /> Patterson, the novelist, and author of the auto-<br /> biography “My Vagabondage,&quot; published in the<br /> autumn of last year.<br /> Mr. Hamilton Hartz has set to music the verses<br /> by Riccardo Stephens, “Sleep and Death,&quot; which<br /> lately appeared in the Westminster Gazette.<br /> Mr. Eveleigh Nash will publish Riccardo<br /> Stephen&#039;s forthcoming novel “ The Mummy,&quot; and<br /> his one-act tragedy, “The Right to Kill,” is to<br /> be played by the Oncomers at the Little Theatre, in<br /> June.<br /> “ The British West Indies : their History,<br /> Resources, and Progress,&quot; by Algernon E. Aspinall,<br /> was published last month by Messrs. Sir Isaac<br /> Pitman &amp; Sons, Ltd. The author gives a connected<br /> narrative dealing with the history, resources, and<br /> the recent rapid progress of the West Indian<br /> colonies, of interest to the general reader as well as<br /> to the intending tourist, settler, and capitalist.<br /> Chapters are also devoted to such live questions as<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> AN IMPERIAL VICTIM : MARIE LOUISE, ARCHDUCHESS<br /> OF AUSTRIA, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, DUCHESS OF<br /> KARMA. With 34 illustrations, including two photo-<br /> gravure frontispieces. In two volumes. By MRS. EDITH<br /> E. CUTHELL. 393 pp. New York : Brentanos. $6 n.<br /> FICTION.<br /> PARADISE FARM. By KATHARINE TYNAX. 272 pp. New<br /> York : Duffield. $1.20 n.<br /> THE TOLL BAR. By MRS. J. E. BUCKROSE. 363 pp.<br /> New York : Putnam. $1.35 n.<br /> THE LIGHT THAT LURES. By PERCY J. BREBNER.<br /> 319 pp. New York : H. K. Fly Co. $1.50.<br /> THE GREAT GAY ROAD. By Tom GALLON.<br /> POLLYHOOLY. By EDGAR JEPSON. 344 pp. Indianapolis :<br /> Bobbs-Merrill. $1.25 1.<br /> THE HOUSE OF ROBERSHAYE. By EMMA BROOKE. New<br /> York : Duffield.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 182 (#626) ############################################<br /> <br /> 182<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> als<br /> those of trade with Canada and Federation. A the romanticist, he must not &quot;chuckle in anticipa-<br /> map and twenty-fire full-page plate illustrations tion of results,&quot; and the issue must seem to be as<br /> are added.<br /> murh a surprise to him when it arrives as it was to<br /> Among the spring books to come from Messrs. the reader.<br /> Smith Elder &amp; Co. is “ Arabic Spam : Sidelights on Messrs. John Ouseley, Limited, have issued a<br /> her History and Art,&quot; by Mrs. Bernhard Whishaw, second edition of “The Bothers of Married Life,&quot;<br /> This book is the fruit of some nine years&#039; residence by S. H. Sadler.<br /> and study in Spain. Mrs. Whishaw is now at w.rk We have received the English Catalogue of Books<br /> on the forthcoming edition of the “Guide to Spain” for 1911. This publication is now in its 75th year<br /> for Herr Baedeker, to appear in 1913.<br /> of issue. It gives, under author and title, the size,<br /> The scene of Tom Gallon&#039;s new novel, entitled price, month of publication, and publisher of books<br /> “Memory Corner,” is to be found in Old Hamp- issued in the United Kingdom during 1911. In<br /> stead. Into a little house in Memory Corner the absence of a complete list of titles of published<br /> comes a boy with a marvellous tenor voice, exploited works, it remains the best reference book for the<br /> by an unscrupulous foreigner. The rise of the young guidance of authors who, in selecting titles for their<br /> singer, his triumphs, and the quaint tragedy of his publications, are anxious to avoid using a title<br /> love story form the theme of the book.<br /> already taken. By consulting the English<br /> A new novel by Violet Tweedale, entitled Catalogue, they may often avoid unintentional<br /> “ Austin&#039;s Career,” is published by Mr. John Llong. appropriation, and the rather disagreeable conse-<br /> It deals with the life of a young Guardsman, who quences which sometimes result. Messrs. Sampson<br /> early in his career gets into an entaliglement with a Low &amp; Co., are the publishers.<br /> young peeress, and the story describes the Bohemian “What Lay Bepeath,” by “Coo-ee,” is an<br /> lite led by the pair in Paris.<br /> Australian mining story, in which the bush life is<br /> Messrs Kegan Paul &amp; Co. announce the public presented to the reader, as well as pictures of the<br /> cation of a little anthology entitled &quot;The Friendly Commonwealth and its people. Messrs. John<br /> Dog,” by J. Parsons, who contributes also a short Ouseley are the publishers.<br /> original introduction. The poems included are The annual meeting of the R..ya! Literary Fund<br /> arranged chronologically, complete poems only being was held last month, Sir Alfred Bateman presiding.<br /> included. Poems from Alfred Cochrane, Rudyard In moving the adoption of the report, Sir Alfred<br /> Kipling, Sir A. T. Quiller-Cou h, George R. Sims, stated that so far from decreasing, the claims ou<br /> William Watson, among others, are included. the fund were rather on the increase. The receipts<br /> Messrs. Stanley Paul &amp; Co. have added to their of authors, even from novels, were very poor. He<br /> “Clear Type ” sixpenny series “The Apple of instanced the case of the author whose agreement<br /> Eden,” by E, Temple Thurston. The same pub- appeared in the last issue, and added that, from a<br /> lisliers announce the publication of a second edi ion financial point of view, literature was a very miser-<br /> of Miss Arabella Kenealy&#039;s new novel - The Woman able profession, until the suprrior rauks were<br /> Hunter.&quot;<br /> reached. During the year £2,125 had been voted<br /> Mr. Arthur Dillon’s forthcoming volume deals in grants to 38 applicants, while the total<br /> with early incidents in the mythical story of the sum distributed in grants since the foundation<br /> House of Tantalus. The pri sint revival of inte of the fund in 1790 amounted to £162,882.<br /> rest in the Greek drama should make the subject The chairman mentioned that Mr. Owen<br /> appeal to the public, since a knowledge of their Seaman would preside at the Annual Dinner on<br /> earlier history is assumed in so many of the May 16.<br /> tragedies of classical times.<br /> Captain Granville Baker&#039;s new book of travel,<br /> The New York Metropolitan Magazine will “A Winter Holiday in Portugal,&quot; is published<br /> shortly publish a series of articles on “ Antique by Messrs. Stanley Paul &amp; Co. In this volume<br /> Furniture,&quot; from the pen of Mr. Armiger Barclay. is described with pen, pencil and brush the scenic<br /> Se ections of Mr. and Mrs. Armiger Barclay&#039;s book, charm of Portugal, its claims as a winter resort,<br /> “Letiers from Fleet Street,” will shorıly appear in and its manifold attractions.<br /> Comædisa, the leading literary and theatrical daily Mr. Eveleigh Nash will shortly publish “ The<br /> of Paris.<br /> Radium Terrors,&quot; a novel by Albert Dorringt n.<br /> Professor A. C. Benson lertured before the Royal The American rights have been purchased by<br /> Society of Literature last month on “Realism in Doubleday Page, of Garden City, New York.<br /> English Fiction.” In the course of bis lecture, “The Radium Terrors ” appeared serially in the<br /> Professor Benson remarked that Realism was not Pall Mall Magazine, and with Frank A. Munsey,<br /> so much a new ideal, but a new method of viewing New York.<br /> and expressing life. The realist must allow things Messrs. Hutchinson &amp; Co. published in March a<br /> to appear before their significance appeared ; unlike new novel, “Stoneladies,&quot; by E. M. Channon (Mrs.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 183 (#627) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 183<br /> Francis Channon). It tells of two young girls who Volpé, Mr. Leonard Calvert, Mr. 0. B. Clarences<br /> go to live in a lonely part of Derbyshire with a and Miss Christine Silver.<br /> cousin who, owing to a disappointment in early Although the dramatic movement of the past<br /> youth, leads the life of a miser, and will allow no twenty years has produced, both in England and<br /> man to cross her doorstep.<br /> America, many valuable books of criticism, there<br /> Mr. Arthur Lovell has published, through Messrs. does not as yet exist in the Eoglish language any<br /> Simpkin, Marshall &amp; Co., a book entitled “ New recognised handbook of practical craftsmanship.<br /> Light on Consumption.” The book contains a “Play-making,” by William Archer, is an attempt<br /> historical résumé, and deals with the problem of to fill this gap. While fully admitting that no rules<br /> consumption, the attempts at reform, and State or prescriptions cau supply the place of talent, the<br /> sanatoria.<br /> author believes that inexperienced talent can be<br /> “ Absolute Rot&quot; is the title of a collection of greatly assisted by a study of the principles of<br /> articles by the Rer. H. J. Swallow, reprinted from dramatic effect, or, in other words, of what to do<br /> a Church magazine. The articles deal with“ Peace,&quot; and what to avoid in the endeavour to interest and<br /> “ Temperance,&quot; “ Disestablishment,” “ Science,” move an audience assembled in a theatre. This is<br /> “ Poetry,” among other subjects. Messi&#039;s. Jarrolds not, then, a book of criticism, but of discussion<br /> are the publishers.<br /> and practical suggestion. The plays mentioned in<br /> An article by Renée M. Deacon, entitled “Woman it are not criticised for their own sake, but for the<br /> and Love,&quot; appeared in the Lady&#039;s Pictorial for sake of the light they throw upon questions of<br /> March 16.<br /> method and expediency. The author has no belief<br /> Robert H. Sherard has just finished a new book in the “untheatrical theatre,&quot; and assumes<br /> of reminiscences, which will be published in the throughout that the playright addresses himself to<br /> spring under the title “ Adventures of a Journalist.” an audience of reasonable intelligence, indeed, but by<br /> He is at present engaged on a novel which he is no means to a narrow clique. It is hoped that all<br /> writing on commission.<br /> students of the drama, and more especially those<br /> “Birds of Australia,&quot; by G. M. Mathews, is a who desire to take part in the marked revival of<br /> work which Messrs. Witherby &amp; Co. are issuing in dramatic literature on both sides of the Atlantic,<br /> quarterly parts. Volume I. has already appeared, will find profit in a handbook, the lack of which<br /> forming parts from October, 1910, to October, 1911, has hitherto been felt and regretted. Messrs.<br /> or five numbers in all.<br /> Chapman and Hall are the publishers.<br /> “The Perfect Widow,&quot; a three-act comedy by<br /> DRAMA.<br /> Gilbert Cannan, was produced at the Gaiety<br /> Theatre, Manchester, on March 18. The Widow<br /> The first production of “The Next Religion,&quot; (Lady Marrable) has been persuaded by a publisher<br /> by Israel Zangwill, will be given by the New Players to prepare the biography of her late husband, a<br /> at two private performances (matinées) on Thursday man of some public importance and many private<br /> and Friday, April 18 and 19, at the Pavilion Theatre, failings. So engrossed does she become in the<br /> Piccadilly Circus. Particulars can be obtained work that she persuades herself that her husband<br /> from the Hon. Secretary, 19, Overstrand Mansions, possessed all the virtues which she ascribes to him<br /> Battersea Park, S.W.<br /> in the record of his career. John Tilford, who<br /> The condensed version of “The Geisha” was contemplates marriage with the widow, disapproves<br /> produced at the Palace Theatre on February 26. of the idea of the biography, recognising that it<br /> Mr. W. H. Risque is the author of this version. leaves the widow with neither time nor eyes for<br /> The composer, Mr. Sidney Jones, conducted the himself. Unable, however, to dissuade her from<br /> orchestra on the occasion.<br /> the undertaking, he goes abroad. During his<br /> A compressed version of “The Adventure of absence he has made the acquaintance of a “grass<br /> Lady Ursula ” was also played in February. The widow,&quot; whose presence in London on his return<br /> performance of Mr. Anthony Hope&#039;s comedy took kindles the widow&#039;s jealousy, with results entirely<br /> place at the Hippodrome, Manchester. Two scenes satisfactory to Tilford. The cast included Mr.<br /> were taken, and the cast included Miss Evelyn Charles Sugden, Viss Darraglı, and Mrs. Charles<br /> Millard and Mr. Herbert Waring.<br /> Sugden.<br /> The dramatic version of “Kipps &quot; was produced The next production at Wyndham&#039;s Theatre, due<br /> at the Vaudeville Theatre on March 6. The play early this month, is “ The Kangaroo,&quot; by H. A.<br /> opens in the emporium familiar to the readers of Vachell.<br /> the book, and traces, as did the book, the progress “Milestones,” by Arnold Bennett and Edward<br /> of Kipps following his sudden acquisition of wealth. Knoblaugh, now running at the Royalty Theatre,<br /> Mr. Wells and Mr. Rudolf Besier are responsible has been issued in book form by Messrs. Methuen<br /> for the play, which includes in its cast Mr. Frederick &amp; Co.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 184 (#628) ############################################<br /> <br /> 184<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> PARIS NOTES.<br /> is to be congratulated, not only on the fact that he<br /> has been awarded the Goncourt Academy prize, but<br /> because he has begun his career with a wider<br /> D EMMES aimées, Femmes aimantes,” by vision than so many of our present-jay novelists.<br /> | Charles Foley, is the title of a volume con- “L&#039;Inquiète Paternité,&quot; by Jean Schlumberger,<br /> taining a series of historical studies of is another novel on the favourite theme of the<br /> twenty-two famous women. Each study gives us ménage à trois, so dear to many writers, but in<br /> a picture of the epoch, of the surroundings in this book the chief interest centres in the question<br /> which the woman whose history we are reading of paternal instinct. The father believes that he<br /> moved. M. Foley has chosen for his subjects: sees in his son all his own faults. A little later, he<br /> Queen Bathilde (of the seventh century); Valentine makes the discovery that a friend of his is the father<br /> of Milan; Marie Stuart ; Diana of Châteaumorand; of this son. The curious phase of the case is that,<br /> Marion de l&#039;Orme ; Christine of Sweden ; La Grande in the years to come, this man feels deep paternal<br /> Mademoiselle ; Rose Launay; Marie Joséphe of affection for his wife&#039;s son, an affection which he<br /> Saxony ; Madame de Pompadour ; Princess Amelia ; would probably never have felt for a child of his<br /> Germaine Necker; Princesse de Lamballe ; Mes- own. The young man has inherited the lovable<br /> dames, Louis XV.&#039;s daughters ; Comtesse de Balbi ; qualities of his own father. The problem which the<br /> Mademoiselle Lange; Pauline Bonaparte ; Madame author evidently lays before us is whether the tie of<br /> Adélaïde ; Marceline Desbordes, and Mérimée&#039;s kinship must necessarily ensure affection ?<br /> celebrated Inconnue.<br /> “Le Buisson ardent,” by Romain Rolland, is<br /> Charles Foley has published thirty-three volumes certainly the most powerful of the series of volumes<br /> (novels and short stories) and six plays. His intensely by this author relating the history of Jean<br /> dramatic little tragedy, “ Heard at the Telephone,” Christophe. Weary of life among his fellow<br /> has been translated into various languages and given creatures, exasperated by their hostility, and having<br /> in many countries. M. Foley is also one of the lost faith in many things, he goes away to a quiet<br /> greatest authorities on all matters relating to the mountain village, and there, like Moses before the<br /> history of the Vendée, at the time of the French burning bush, the bush which burns without<br /> Revolution, as he has made a special study of this being consumed, he comes to himself once more.<br /> period and of this part of France. His short “ La Chasse à Courre,” by the Duchess d&#039;Uzès<br /> stories, sometimes inspired by touching or dramatic (née Mortemart), is a little volume that will be read<br /> episodes brought to his notice whilst studying the with interest by all lovers of hunting. It contains a<br /> archives of that epoch, are masterpieces of literature. portrait of the author, in her hunting attire, for it<br /> The present volume, “ Femmes aimées, Femmes will be remembered that she is master of the hounds.<br /> aimantes,&quot;contains sketches, in which the author has She also gives a portrait of Du Fouilloux, the great<br /> endeavoured, with a few strokes of the pen, to give authority on all matters connected with the chase<br /> us a lifelike portrait of women who, for one reason since the sixteenth century, some twenty-four photo-<br /> or another, have been famous in their time.<br /> gravures of hunting scenes taken in the Rambouillet<br /> “M. des Lourdines,” by Alphonse de Chateau- Forest, and the music for sixteen of the fanfares for<br /> briant, is not only a great literary success for the hunting horns best known in France.<br /> author ; it is also a refreshing book for the public. Before the publication of this little volume, the<br /> Weary of the eternal theme of the faithless husband Duchess d&#039;Uzès, who is President of the Lyceum<br /> or wife, it is indeed a pleasure to meet with a Club of France, gave a lecture there on the<br /> novelist capable of realising that there are other chase, which had such success, enlivened as it<br /> interests in life and other situations just as worthy was by the fanfares, blown by her gamekeepers,<br /> of consideration as the intrigues and jealousies of that she was obliged to repeat it several times, as<br /> the hundreds of individuals who marry in haste the rooms were too small for the audience. Since<br /> to repent at leisure.<br /> then the Duchess has given another causerie on Ram-<br /> M.de Chateaubriant also finds it possible for human bouillet and its History. At the invitation of the<br /> affections to be as intense elsewhere as in Paris. That, Lyceum Club of London, she is to give the lecture<br /> too, is refreshing. There is a breath of fresh air on the chase at the London Lyceum Club in May,<br /> through the book, an odour of forest trees, the taking over her own huntsmen to sound the fanfares.<br /> murmur of babbling brooks, and yet, in spite of all “Histoire de Prusse, Vol. I., Des Origines à la<br /> this, it is the human interest that is predominant. mort du Grand Electeur, 1688,&quot; par M. Albert<br /> The story is one of the ever-recurring tragedies of Waddington. The author dwells on the various<br /> family life, it is the modern version of the prodigal influences which have contributed to the formation<br /> son, and in this particular case we have the beart- of Prussia. He speaks of the geographical situation<br /> broken mother and the heroic father to give an of the country, of its State religion, and of the policy<br /> added pathos to the episode. M. de Chateaubriant of the Hohenzollerns. We have an account of the<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 185 (#629) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 185<br /> Thirty Years&#039; War, and the volume closes with the<br /> death of the Grand Electeur.<br /> * La Séparation des Eglises et de l&#039;Etat,” by<br /> Julien de Narfon, is a book which should be read<br /> by all persons who are interested in the religious<br /> evolution in France. As the question of Church<br /> and State is one of intense interest at present in<br /> England, the perusal of this book cannot fail to<br /> prove instructive. The author is an extremely<br /> broad-minded man, endowed with the courage of<br /> his opinions. With perfect impartiality he evokes<br /> past history, relates the events of recent date,<br /> analyses the immediate consequences, and endeavours<br /> to point out to us the probable consequences in the<br /> future.<br /> “L&#039;Orientation religieuse de la France actuelle”<br /> is the title of a book by M. Paul Sabatier, in which<br /> the author gives us very clearly his view of the<br /> present situation.<br /> &quot; Jacques Tissier, marsouin,&quot; by M. Pierre Rey,<br /> is a very simple story, but full of deep feeling. It<br /> is just the history of a brave young colonial soldier,<br /> his hardships and struggles and his simple belief in<br /> his duty to his country.<br /> &quot; Autour de Sainte-Hélène,&quot; by M. Frédéric Mas-<br /> son, is the title of the latest volume which this well-<br /> known writer devotes to the last days of Napoleon.<br /> The story of these last days is infinitely sad and<br /> tragic, and the author, very naturally, cannot resist<br /> reproaching England with the treacherous hospi-<br /> tality of the Bellerophon. The whole volume is most<br /> interesting, but, with regard to the harsh judgment<br /> of England&#039;s action, we can only say that M. Masson<br /> would find English authors who agree with him in<br /> certain of his criticisms, among others Elizabeth<br /> Barrett Browning, in one of the finest of her poems,<br /> entitled “ Crowned and Buried.”<br /> “La Musique,” by Théophile Gantier, is a study<br /> of the works of Weber, Berlioz, and Wagner. This<br /> volume has been published as a memento of the<br /> writer&#039;s centenary and contains hitherto unpub-<br /> lished matter.<br /> “La Politique de l&#039;équilibre-1907–1911,” is<br /> the title of a volume published by M. Gabriel<br /> Hanotaux. It is an account of the various impor-<br /> tant events which have taken place affecting the<br /> international situation during the last four years.<br /> M. Hanotaux shows that France ought not to be<br /> influenced by any foreign Power in its diplomatic<br /> arrangements and policy. M. Hanotaux touches<br /> on the entente cordiale, Turkish affairs, and on the<br /> questions concerning Bosnia and Morocco.<br /> “ La Duchesse d’Aiguillon, une grande dame de<br /> la cour de Louis XIV.,&quot; is the subject of an<br /> extremely interesting book by MM. Paul d&#039;Estrée<br /> and A. Callet.<br /> “Le Roman anglais contemporain,” by M. Firmin<br /> Roz, introduces to the French public George<br /> Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Humphry Ward,<br /> and other English writers. It is always interesting<br /> to note the impressions of the foreign critic. We are<br /> somewhat surprised to find certain names omitted<br /> which should certainly be included in a volume<br /> dealing with contemporary English novels.<br /> La Revue hebdomadaire publishes in one of its<br /> recent numbers a most charming and witty article<br /> by M. Fernand Laudet, entitled “ Contes Gascons.”&#039;<br /> These stories form a literature entirely apart and<br /> are full of shrewd observation and a keen sense of<br /> humour. M. Laudet gives us several specimens<br /> and finishes with a short sketch which is, in reality,<br /> a skit on many of the questions of the day.<br /> In other numbers of the same review Jules<br /> Lemaitre continues his studies of Chateaubriand,<br /> and Louis Barthou gives an article containing<br /> some extremely interesting letters from Lamartine,<br /> Alphonse Daudet, and other literary celebrities.<br /> George Brandès, the well-known critic, has been<br /> spending some months in Paris, and, at the request<br /> of his friends, he consented to give a lecture on<br /> Hans Andersen. M. Paul Leyssac, of the Vaude-<br /> ville Theatre, recited several of the fairy tales in<br /> the most admirable manner. We are told that<br /> George Brandès and this talented young actor are<br /> to repeat the lecture and recitations in London this<br /> season. If so, we would strongly recommend all<br /> those who have an opportunity to be present.<br /> Lectures are certainly the order of the day in<br /> Paris this season. Nearly everyone appears to be<br /> lecturing on every possible (and impossible) subject.<br /> Among the most interesting and varied of these<br /> lectures, outside the Sorbonne and College of France,<br /> are those organised by the Société des Conférences,<br /> the review entitled Foi et Vie, and also the lectures<br /> organised by Mme. Brisson, the daughter of Sarcey,<br /> for the University of Les Annales.<br /> Quite recently M. E. Boutroux gave one of the<br /> most remarkable lectures on “Pascal et le temps<br /> présent,” which will probably be published in a&#039;r<br /> early number of Foi et Vie.<br /> At the Comédie Française, “Le Ménage de<br /> Molière,” a five-act play by Maurice Donnay, in<br /> verse, is extremely interesting and curious. The<br /> staging is excellent, and the fête in the Versailles<br /> Park gives the public an opportunity of realising<br /> something of the magnificence of Court life in those<br /> days.<br /> At the Odéon, “ Esther,” a four-act play, also in<br /> verse, by MM. Andre Dumas and Sébastien-Charles<br /> Leconte, shows that there is a tendency to search<br /> for dramatic effects in the history of the past.<br /> There is certainly nothing in common between the<br /> Esther we know of Racine and this modern concep-<br /> tion of her.<br /> At the Renaissance the three-act play by MM.<br /> Alfred Capus and Pierre Veber, “En garde,” was<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 186 (#630) ############################################<br /> <br /> 186<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> received with applause. The plays of Alfred Capas “The Midsnmmer Night&#039;s Dream&quot; was exquisitely<br /> are sure to end happily, so that if things appear to staged, M. Simas, of the Opéra, being responsible<br /> be going wrong for a time, there is never any need for the scenery and its harmonious colouring,<br /> to despair, as we are sure that a reconciliation will M. Vidal for the musical adaptations, and Mme.<br /> take place.<br /> Jane Hugard, also of the Opéra, for the dances of<br /> At the Comédie Royale, “ Jean III. ou the fairies. “As You Like It” was quite as great<br /> l&#039;irrésistible vocation du fils Mondoucet,&quot; a three- a success, and these matinées are to be continued<br /> act play by Sacha Guitry, is the delight of the until the end of the month of May. M. Camille de<br /> public. The son of an ironmonger, who, in spite Sainte Croix is a dramatist and a poet who has<br /> of the prejudices of his bourgeois father, insists on thrown himself heart and soul into this revival of<br /> going on the stage, and, later on, initiates his fond the Shakespeare theatre, with the result that it is<br /> parents into the habits and customs of theatrical probable that these plays have never been given<br /> life, is extremely amusing.<br /> with such artistic perfection, such attention to<br /> &quot; Les Visiteurs nocturnes,” by Tristan Bernard, is detail, and such absolute ensemble. It is very pro-<br /> as full of humour as the well-known short stories by bable that when the French season is over the<br /> this writer. The nocturnal visitors in this case are Compagnie Française du Théâtre Shakespeare will<br /> thieves, who take the precaution to drug the lady go on tour.<br /> whose house they are about to rob. In the morn-<br /> ALYS HALLARD.<br /> ing, when the maid finds the victim and is about<br /> to call for the police, all that the victim asks is<br /> “Femmes aimées, femmes aimantes&quot; (Tallandier).<br /> &quot; M. des Lourdines” (Bernard Grasset).<br /> that the nocturnal visitors shall be found at any<br /> “Le Buisson ardent&quot; (Ollendorff).<br /> cost, as, suffering as she does from insomnia, she is “La Chasse à Courre&quot; (La Poétique).<br /> only anxious to find out how she can obtain more<br /> “Histoire de Prusse&quot; (Plon).<br /> of their drug.<br /> “ La Séparation des Eglises et de l&#039;Etat&quot; (Plon).<br /> &quot; Jacques Tissier, marsouin&quot; (Plon).<br /> At the Gymnase, “ L&#039;Assaut,&quot; by M. Henry<br /> * Autour de Sainte-Hélène&quot; (Ollendorff).<br /> Bernstein, has had tbe success which this author&#039;s ** La Musique&quot; (Fasquelle).<br /> pieces usually win. M. Bernstein has always * La Politique de l&#039;équilibre-1907-1911&quot; (Plon). ·<br /> something to say when he writes. It is the story<br /> of a man whose past has not been blameless, but<br /> who succeeds in making for himself a position in the UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT.<br /> world. Just as he has arrived, a supposed friend<br /> whispers abroad the story of his delinquency in the<br /> INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.<br /> past. The confidence of the girl he is to marry is DROCLAMATIONS have been issued by the<br /> his salvation, and the play ends satisfactorily for P President, under the United States Act<br /> the public.<br /> by which copyright protection is granted<br /> At the Athénée, “ Le (&#039;aur dispose,&quot; by Francis in the United States to works of authors who are<br /> de Croisset, is a play which seems likely to have a citizens or subjects of the countries named :<br /> long run. It is the story of a poor man who is July 1, 1891-Belgium, France, Great Britain<br /> ambitious, and who sets out in life as an arrivist, and her possessions, and Switzerland. (Stat. L.,<br /> firmly believing himself to be one. He is prepared vol. 27, pp. 981, 982.)<br /> to take advantage of all possible occasions for April 15, 1892-Germany. (Stat. L., vol. 27,<br /> climbing the ladder of fortune, but he reckons pp. 1021, 1022.)<br /> without his host, and his host in this case is his October 31, 1892—Italy. (Stat. L., vol. 27,<br /> own heart. He falls in love with the daughter of p. 1043.)<br /> the house, in which he is the paid secretary. The May 8, 1893— Denmark. (Stat. L., vol. 28,<br /> characters in this play are all well drawn, and each p. 1219.)<br /> one is a distinct psychological study. The author July 20, 1893— Portugal. (Stat. L., vol. 28,<br /> is to be congratulated on having written a play p. 1222.)<br /> in which there is nothing unpleasant and wbich, July 10, 1895—Spain. (Stat. L., vol. 29,<br /> nevertheless, is never dull.<br /> p. 871.)<br /> At the Athénée, M. Camille de Sainte Croix is February 27, 1896–Mexico. (Stat. L., vol. 29,<br /> continuing, every Thursday, his series of Shake- p. 877.)<br /> speare plays, admirably staged. He seems to have May 25, 1896-Chile. (Stat. L., vol. 29,<br /> found the secret of putting life into the plays p. 880.)<br /> of Shakespeare, and perhaps it is that he is October 19, 1899—Costa Rica. (Stat. L., rol.<br /> giving them with an ensemble such as one rarely 31, pp. 1955, 1956.)<br /> sees. The actors are all young and enthusiastic, November 20, 1899-Netherlands and posses-<br /> and there is not a slow moment in any scene. sions. (Stat. L., vol. 3), p. 1961.)<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 187 (#631) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 187<br /> November 17, 1903—Cuba. (Stat. L., vol. 33, it is an assignment by the composer of all his rights<br /> pt. 2, p. 2324.)<br /> in a song, the consideration for such assignment<br /> January 13, 1904—China. (Treaty of October 8, being, as stated, the payment of two guineas, and<br /> 1903, Article XI.) (Stat. L., vol. 33, pt. 2, a royalty per copy on every copy of the song sold.<br /> pp. 2208, 2213.)<br /> According to the custom in vogue, the composer<br /> July 1, 1905—Norway. (Stat. L., vol. 34, signs, this document and if he does not take the<br /> pt. 3, pp. 3111-3112.)<br /> trouble to retain a copy, he never gets a copy signed<br /> May 11, 1906–Japan. (Treaty of November 10, by the publisher, which he ought to receive in all<br /> 1905.) (Stat. L., vol. 34, pt. 3, pp. 2890-2891.) transactions of this kind. It is some time since the<br /> September 20, 1907-Austria. (But not in- pages of The Author have commented on these extra-<br /> cluding Hungary.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, pt. 2, ordinary documents, but the time has come when<br /> p. 2255.)<br /> attention should be drawn to them once again.<br /> April 9, 1908-Convention between the United The composer should never transfer the copyright<br /> States and or her powers on literary and artistic to the publisher when he, the composer, maintains<br /> copyrights, signed at the City of Mexico, January 27, a continuing interest in the sales. This point has<br /> 1902. (This treaty is effective from July 1, 1908, been brought forward over and over again, and in<br /> as between the United States and the following the book-publishing world we are glad to think that<br /> countries : Guatemala, Salvador, Costa Rica, Hon- the publishers are, save in exceptional cases, content<br /> duras, and Nicaragua.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, pt. 2, with a licence to publish in book form. The<br /> pp. 1934-1946.)<br /> music publishers should be content with a licence<br /> Angust 11, 1908–Japan. (Treaty of May 19, to publish in song form.<br /> 1908, for prott ction in China.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, So strong do the committee feel about this<br /> pt. 2, pp. 2044-2046.)<br /> assignment of the copyright, or even about an<br /> August 11, 1908-Japan. (Treaty of May 19, unlimited grant of the licence to publish during<br /> 1908, for protection in Korea.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, the whole term of copyright, that in the Annual<br /> pt. 2, pp. 2041-2043.)<br /> Report which was laid before the General Meeting<br /> April 9, 1910—Austria, Belgium, Chile, Costa on March 21, they have dealt very fully with the<br /> Rica, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Great matter. We do not desire to repeat these warnings,<br /> Britain and her possessions, Italy, Mexico, the so recently made, but suggest that if any member<br /> Netherlands and possessions, Norway, Portugal, has read the report carelessly, or failed to read it at<br /> Spain, and Switzerland.<br /> all, he should now go and study it with extra<br /> June 29, 1910--Luxemburg.<br /> consideration.<br /> May 26, 1911–Sweden.<br /> But it is not sufficient for the music publisher to<br /> ask for the copyright ; he also asks for the per-<br /> PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION UNDER<br /> forming right, and through his successful, or<br /> SECTION 1 (e).<br /> unsuccessful, methods of business he has, as far as<br /> England is concerned, almost destroyed its ralue to<br /> December 8, 1910–Germany.<br /> the composer, save in the case of comic opera and<br /> June 14, 1911—Belgium, Luxemburg, and<br /> those pieces which are performed in theatres. As<br /> Norway.<br /> it is wrong for the author to transfer his copyright,<br /> so it is wrong for the composer to transfer his<br /> performing right. It is worse at the present time<br /> A MUSIC PUBLISHER&#039;S AGREEMENT.<br /> than it has ever been, owing to the added rights<br /> that the composer will acquire under the Act of<br /> 46 TN consideration of the sum of Two Pounds 28. paid to 1911 when it comes into force.<br /> me this day, I hereby agree to assign to<br /> the The agreement, however, goes further and asks<br /> whole of my rights and interest, present, future<br /> that the royalties which accrue to the composer on<br /> and contingent in the words and music of my song entitled<br /> &#039;it being understood that I receive a royalty of Ban<br /> gramophone records and similar mechanical repro-<br /> per copy on all sold of the same in Great Britain,<br /> he same in Great Britain. ductions should be shared between composer and<br /> Ireland, and the Colonies (13 copies to count as 12), publisher.<br /> also five per cent. on the marked price of all copies sold in It is fortunate that the agreement was made<br /> the United States ; 200 copies in both countries to be free before the Act was passed. for under a clause in<br /> for novelty purposes.&quot;<br /> * Any royalties obtained on the sale of gramophone the Act, in spite of the document which has been<br /> records, or similar mechanical reproductions, in all signed, the rights to the gramophone royalties are<br /> countries to be equally divided between composer and the composer&#039;s property, for se, tion 19, sub-<br /> publisher.&quot;<br /> section 7 (C) contains the following proviso :-<br /> We have called the above a music publisher&#039;s “ Notwithstanding any assignment made before<br /> agreement, but it is not really an agreement at all; the passing of the Copyright Act, any rights<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 188 (#632) ############################################<br /> <br /> 188<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> conferred by the Act in respect of making, or<br /> authorising the making of contrivances by means<br /> of which the work may be mechanically performed<br /> belong to the author, or his legal representatives,<br /> and not to the assignee.”<br /> At the beginning it was stated that this was not<br /> really an agreement, and perhaps it would be as<br /> well to elucidate this point further.<br /> The composer assigns all his rights to the pub-<br /> lisher for a small consideration and a continuing<br /> royalty. What does the publisher undertake to<br /> do ? Absolutely nothing. He does not undertake<br /> to produce the work by a certain date ; he does not<br /> undertake to keep the work on the market, and he<br /> does not undertake to advertise the work. No<br /> doubt an implied contract to publish is carried in<br /> the assignment, otherwise the consideration would<br /> be of no avail. But it is quite clear that the<br /> implied contract could easily be met by what would<br /> really amount to a bogus publication.<br /> Now, in order that a composer may be treated<br /> fairly, even the most exacting of publishers would,<br /> without hesitation, assent to a few small plain<br /> clauses : (1) that he would put the work on the<br /> market in the usual form on or before a certain<br /> date ; (2) that he would push the work through the<br /> ordinary trade channels and advertise it; and<br /> (3) that if the work went off the market he would<br /> cancel the agreement and return the licence to<br /> publish (for it is understood that the composer would<br /> only grant a licence to publish) to the composer.<br /> The composer laid the document before the<br /> secretary of the Society of Authors. The secretary<br /> remonstrated, and, in addition, pointed out some of<br /> the difficulties which would arise from the signing<br /> of such a document, namely, that if the publisher<br /> made any other arrangement with regard to the<br /> song he would be at liberty to do so under his<br /> agreement, and there was no undertaking by the<br /> publisher to pay the composer anything on such<br /> fresh arrangement. This warning alarmed the<br /> composer, and he wrote to the publisher enquiring<br /> what his views on the matter were. To this letter<br /> he received the following reply :-<br /> DEAR SIR,—The questions you raise regarding the<br /> Agreement for “...&quot;are quite unnecessary.<br /> You assign to us the copyright of the song, and under<br /> our agreement we are not at liberty to make any other<br /> arrangement of it without consulting you.<br /> On the other hand, if you only assign us the right to<br /> publish the song for voice and piano, you would be able to<br /> make any other arrangement you thought fit, and this we<br /> could not agree to.<br /> In conclusion, we may mention that our agreement is<br /> never questioned.<br /> We are, Yours faithfully,<br /> Étc., etc.<br /> It is with the view of placing this reply before<br /> those composers who are members of the Society of<br /> Authors that the whole subject of music publishers&#039;<br /> agreements has been re-opened.<br /> The only excuse for this letter must be the<br /> ignorance of the publisher as to his legal position.<br /> It is impossible to think that a publisher of the<br /> standing of the firm who put forward the agree-<br /> ment and wrote the letter under consideration<br /> would wilfully have deceived the composer. Suffice<br /> it to say that the statement made by the publisher<br /> is absolutely incorrect. The firm states in our<br /> agreement we are not at liberty to make any other<br /> arrangement of the song, without consulting you.&quot;<br /> Not only is there nothing expressly stating this in<br /> the agreement, but there is nothing that would<br /> impliedly convey this statement under the terms of<br /> the contract. The conveyance of the copyright and<br /> the performing rights allow the publisher to make<br /> any other arrangement he thinks fit, and he is in<br /> no way bound to pay the author any royalty or any<br /> further consideration on the re-arrangement. He<br /> is only bound by the agreement to pay the composer<br /> a royalty on all copies of the song sold. With<br /> regard to the dictatorial and absurd statement<br /> contained in the last sentence in the letter, it is<br /> only necessary to suggest that the sooner the<br /> composers compel alteration the better. The<br /> composer should be warned never to sign an<br /> agreement of this kind, never to transfer his<br /> copyright, never to transfer his performing right,<br /> and, above all, to retain absolute control over his<br /> gramophone rights.<br /> MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br /> BLACKWOODS.<br /> Musings Without Method : George Borrow.<br /> BOOKMAN.<br /> Lady Thackeray Ritchie. By Lewis Melville.<br /> CONTEMPORARY.<br /> Celtic Nature Poetry. By A. P. Graves.<br /> ENGLISH REVIEW.<br /> Among My Books. By Frederic Harrison.<br /> The Theatre of the Future. By V. Ivanof.<br /> A New Study of English Poetry : Poetry and Rhythm.<br /> By Henry Newbolt.<br /> A Critical Calendar. By Walter Sickert.<br /> A Word on the Hammerstein Opera. 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The<br /> Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br /> special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br /> Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br /> deem it desirable, will obtain counsel&#039;s opinion without<br /> any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel&#039;s<br /> opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br /> is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br /> member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br /> 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br /> and publishers&#039; agreements do not fall within the experi-<br /> ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br /> the Society.<br /> 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br /> the document to the Society for examination.<br /> 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br /> you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br /> are reaping no direct benefit to 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&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br /> proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br /> confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br /> who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br /> (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br /> npon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br /> payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br /> lars of the Society&#039;s york 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 /> miast 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 18. per<br /> annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br /> obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br /> competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br /> the Society.<br /> II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br /> agreement).<br /> &#039;In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br /> (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br /> duction forms a part without the strictest investigation,<br /> (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for &quot;office expenses,&quot;<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> rights.<br /> (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 stam<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 /> N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br /> IV Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br /> petent legal authority.<br /> 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br /> the production of a play with any one except an established<br /> manager,<br /> 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br /> in three or more acts :-<br /> (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br /> is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br /> such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br /> for production of the piece by a certain date<br /> and for proper publication of his name on the<br /> play-bills.<br /> (TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br /> I agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br /> with literary property :--<br /> 1. Selling it Outright.<br /> This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper prive can be<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 190 (#634) ############################################<br /> <br /> 190<br /> 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 /> (0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br /> perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br /> nightly fees). This methou 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 inay 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 shoul, therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br /> the beginning.<br /> 11. An author inust 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 /> 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&#039;s fees<br /> from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br /> it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br /> very few agents who can do anything for an author<br /> that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br /> equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br /> is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br /> required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br /> fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br /> action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br /> individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br /> countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br /> in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br /> But the Society warns authors against agents who profes<br /> to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br /> who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br /> the author&#039;s rights. In any case, in the present state of<br /> the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br /> circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br /> Society,<br /> WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br /> T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br /> assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br /> authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br /> a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br /> composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br /> cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br /> property. The musical composer has very often the two<br /> rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br /> should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br /> an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br /> the warnings stated above.<br /> STAMPING MUSIC.<br /> The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br /> behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br /> of 100. The members&#039; stamps are kept in the Society&#039;s<br /> safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br /> Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br /> members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br /> THE READING BRANCH.<br /> REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br /> ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br /> CEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br /> branch of its work by informing young writers<br /> of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br /> treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br /> 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 /> OCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br /> o forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br /> a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br /> be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br /> tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br /> and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br /> of the scenario Thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br /> the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br /> Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br /> rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br /> at the price of 2s.6d. per act.<br /> The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br /> that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br /> All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br /> Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br /> letter only.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 191 (#635) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 191<br /> GENERAL NOTES.<br /> the author. In these cases it is hardly fair that<br /> the author should be bound to pay an agent&#039;s fee<br /> AGENTS AS PRINCIPALS.<br /> or that the agent should claim his fee if such<br /> commission does not arise through the agent&#039;s<br /> A MEMBER of the society has drawn our attention introduction, but cases have occurred where an<br /> to the fact that there are still some agents who author undertaking to place all his literary work in<br /> in addition to their agency work not infrequently the agent&#039;s hands during a fixed period has received<br /> act as principals. He draws attention to the a claim for commission from an agent on articles<br /> danger of such a position and urges us to warn that were supplied to a paper and other literary<br /> authors. The columns of The Author have already work, where the work was specially ordered, and<br /> on different occasions drawn attention to the matter, such order was not obtained through the agent&#039;s<br /> and some remarks on the point will be found in introduction. It will be as well, therefore, if the<br /> the article on authors&#039; agents in the October author should specifically except this work from<br /> number. There is the danger from the bonâ fide the agreement with the agent, stating that on<br /> agent and the danger from the fraudulent agent. commission work obtained outside the agent&#039;s.<br /> The fraudulent agent would get an offer from an introduction he should not be bound to pay the<br /> editor, publisher, or manager and then, going to agent&#039;s fee. This brings us to the second point<br /> the author, would pretend to him that he had some which has reference to the note to clause 1 on the<br /> difficulty in placing his work. He would suggest reservation by the author of special markets. Our<br /> that he should buy the rights, whatever they are, correspondent thinks that it should be made quite<br /> that the author is willing to sell for a sum down. clear that where an author lives by writing for<br /> If the author, as not infrequently happens, daily papers and by journalism, as well as by<br /> desires to have money and has faith in the agent, writing books and magazine articles, that he should<br /> he will possibly accept the offer, and the agent will except the journalistic market and that the agent<br /> then proceed to sell to the editor, the publisher, or should not be entitled to claim commission on this<br /> the manager at the enhanced price which he work. This, no doubt, was the idea of those who<br /> already knows he can obtain. But if an agent drafted the agreement when they advised the<br /> desires to be perfectly bona fide and desires some- author to reserve certain markets, but, perhaps, it<br /> times to act as principal and sometimes as agent, will be of advantage to members if the point is<br /> the danger is still very great, because it is only a put a little more clearly before them.<br /> natural law that when he is offering work to pub-<br /> lishers, editors, or managers he would desire to sell<br /> that which belonged to himself on which he might<br /> AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT.<br /> be able to get the return of capital already ex- In an article taken from the United States.<br /> pended with a profit, rather than to sell the Publishers&#039; Weekly, and printed on another page..<br /> author&#039;s work, on which he would obtain merely his the author states as follows :<br /> agency fees. The position is untenable, and there- “ Australia in 1905 asserted copyright indepen-<br /> fore, as our correspondent remarks, authors should dence from the mother country and passed a com-<br /> be warned never to deal in any way with an agent plete code which was not disallowed by the Crown,<br /> who is known to act as principal. This advice we and wbich has in fact become the model for recent<br /> are very glad to confirm.<br /> British and coming Canadian legislation.&quot;<br /> This statement is a little misleading. Australia<br /> in 1905 passed a copyright law which was binding<br /> THE LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT. on Australia only, and did not make Australia<br /> A CORRESPONDENT who has published many<br /> independent of Imperial legislation, Imperial copy-<br /> right still running in the Australian Colonies.<br /> books and has, therefore, read with interest the<br /> It<br /> is a mistake also to state that this Act has become<br /> literary agency agreement published in last month&#039;s<br /> Author, kindly sent us a communication bearing<br /> the model for recent British and coming Canadian<br /> on two points in the contract, which, perhaps,<br /> legislation, as the British (&#039;opyright Law, which is<br /> require a little further elucidation. (The reader is<br /> coming into force in 1912, has really had nothing<br /> referred to page 163 of last month&#039;s Author.) In<br /> to do with and is not based on the Australian Act.<br /> clause 1 of the agreement the author appoints his<br /> As far as (&#039;anada is concerned, it is impossible at<br /> as sole agent during a given period for the the present moment to say what the coming<br /> sale of all the literary work that he desires to legislation will be.<br /> bring to market during the continuancy of the<br /> agreement.<br /> GRAMOPHONE FEES.<br /> Now, there are many cases, as our correspondent In the last issue of The Author an article<br /> points out, in which work is commissioned from appeared referring to the claim which had been put<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 192 (#636) ############################################<br /> <br /> 192<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> forward by certain publishers to the gramophone history of the society, and the income for the year<br /> fees of composers.<br /> from subscriptions was actually the largest that had<br /> ! . We are glad to see from the following extract accrued. The loss of members for the past year<br /> from an agreement of an American publisher that from all causes amounted to 167, resignations<br /> although a similar compulsory licence exists in amounting to 87. He had ascertained by inquiry<br /> America, to that which will come into force under and comparison with the figures of other similar<br /> the new Copyright Law, the same demand is not bodies that this was a normal proportion, having<br /> made by the American publisher.<br /> regard to the nature of the society and the COL-<br /> “ Said . . . composer hereby reserves to himself the<br /> ditions of membership, but in order to ascertain<br /> exclusive right and licence to reproduce or cause to be whether there might be any removable cause for<br /> reproduced said composition on mechanical musical the resignations, he had written personally to the<br /> instruments and agrees that whenever he may make use of<br /> last 150 members who had resigned. In reply he<br /> such licence he and his sub-licensees will at all times attach<br /> had received only one letter that put forward any.<br /> to every copy of such mechanical reproduction of said<br /> composition the notice of copyright required or which may<br /> thing in the nature of a complaint. In practically<br /> be required by any copyright statute under which said all other cases the reason had been the desired<br /> composition is or may be protected.”<br /> economy of the guinea subscription, and several<br /> Musical publishers in England have, no doubt, had joined for a definite purpose, such as the<br /> for so long a time been taking the composers&#039; rights receipt of advice upon a single subject and had<br /> that they have got into the habit of considering then retired. Ten of these, upon having it pointed<br /> these rights their own, as a matter of course. It is out to them that upon the principle of insurance the<br /> time, however, that composers should assert their society could not reasonably be expected thus to<br /> authority, and publishers understand their position. give a full measure of assistance in consideration of<br /> a single premium, had voluntarily rejoined. Dr.<br /> Sprigge next referred to the very heavy work done<br /> by the Copyright Committee during the introduction<br /> THE ANNUAL MEETING.<br /> and passage of the Copyright Act, and to the number<br /> and variety of the questions which during that<br /> period were continually arising for consideration<br /> THE Annual General Meeting of the society owing to changes affecting the interests of authors<br /> was held on Thursday, March 21, in the being introduced unexpectedly into the Bill and<br /> rooms of the Society of Arts, 18, John to the necessity for safeguarding authors&#039; interests<br /> Street, Adelphi, at 4.45 p.m., some thirty to forty from infringement. The contentious work of the<br /> members being presenta somewhat smaller attend society during the year he described as heavy and<br /> ance than usual, being, no doubt, due to three causes, successful. Of the cases which had passed through<br /> the improbability that any controversial topic would the secretary&#039;s hands alone two-thirds had been<br /> arise for discussion, the fact that the place of meet- successfully carried through, and the total dealt<br /> ing was less centrally situated than that to which with might easily have been doubled by reckoning<br /> the society has been accustomed, and the inclemency disputes which had not been seriously maintained<br /> of the weather. The chairman of the Committee after the society&#039;s intervention. Forty-two cases<br /> of Management, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, presided, had been transferred from the hands of the secretary,<br /> and opened the business of the meeting by asking himself a solicitor, into the hands of the solicitors to<br /> the members present to consider in the first place the society, and of these a large proportion had ended<br /> the second and third items of the agenda, leaving successfully, the sum recovered for one member, in<br /> the discussion of the report to follow. Accordingly a matter where performing rights were concerned,<br /> Mr. Owen Seaman was declared duly elected as a amounting to £500. The Pension Fund invest-<br /> member of the Pension Fund Committee in placement in 1911 had amounted to £250. A special<br /> of Mr. Morley Roberts, resigned, Mr. Seaman appeal during the same year had been handsomely<br /> having been duly proposed by the committee, and responded to and had brought in £500 more for<br /> no other candidate having been nominated. investment in 1912. He concluded by inviting ques-<br /> Secondly, with regard to the appointment of tions and discussion upon any points in the report to<br /> scrutineers to count the votes under the society&#039;s which members might desire to call attention.<br /> constitution, no names having been proposed, the Mr. G. F. Wilson rose to ask whether in the<br /> chairman informed the meeting that the committee interests of authors the names of the parties might<br /> would appoint in due course. In commenting upon not be published in the summaries of cases taken up<br /> the report which was already in the hands of by the society, which appear in The Author. He<br /> members, Dr. Sprigge referred to the satisfactory suggested that this would give more reality to the<br /> conditions shown. The number of elections during reports in question, and referred to the article, * A<br /> the past year had only once been exceeded in the Remarkable Agreement,&quot; in The Author of March<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 193 (#637) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 193<br /> A PRIZE COMPETITION.<br /> in which the name of the publisher was given,<br /> asking if it would not be advantageous to dot the<br /> &quot;i&#039;s &quot; and cross the “t&#039;s ” in other articles of the<br /> same class. The result would be that members<br /> would know what editors and publishers to avoid,<br /> and editors and publishers would know what to<br /> si void also.<br /> The chairman replied that the proposition<br /> advanced had his sympathy to a considerable<br /> extent. There was always, however. a certain<br /> element of danger in giving names when criticising<br /> in the manner in which it was necessary to criticise<br /> in The Author, and there was also the fact that<br /> if the purchase of a number of The Author for 6d.<br /> cave a person outside the society all the information<br /> about an individual or a particular matter that he<br /> required, he might be tempted to content himself<br /> with buying The Author instead of joining the<br /> society and becoming entitled to the advice which<br /> he could obtain nowhere else.<br /> Mr. H.M. Paull asked whether the society might<br /> not find it advantageous to charge members a per-<br /> centage upon the sums obtained by it on their<br /> behalf.<br /> The chairman said that the subject was not new<br /> to him, but it had always been considered desirable<br /> that the society in recovering money for its members<br /> should occupy a position of disinterested indepen-<br /> dence in the matter, with no suggestion that it had<br /> any financial advantage to gain by the disputes in<br /> which it engaged.<br /> Mr. G. F. Wilson inquired whether the reissue<br /> of “The Cost of Production ” was likely to take<br /> place before long.<br /> The chairman said that this was a matter as to<br /> which he would prefer to consult the committee<br /> before replying definitely. He was not sorry to<br /> have the fact that the book was out of print<br /> brought to his attention. He had himself taken<br /> part in preparing the first edition of it, and he<br /> feared some of the figures had ceased to apply to<br /> modern conditions. There was, however, the fact<br /> that it was difficult to obtain accurate statistics<br /> for such a work, and that at the same time it was<br /> uncertain whether members would buy it when<br /> written.<br /> A vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed<br /> by Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, and, having been<br /> seconded by Mr. H. M. Paull, was carried<br /> unanimously; Dr. Sprigge, in thanking those<br /> present for their expression of approval, said that<br /> he associated with their vote of thanks to himself,<br /> their secretary, Mr. G. H. Thring, whose continuous<br /> labours on behalf of the society he knew were<br /> appreciated by it.<br /> COME months ago an article appeared in The<br /> Author on Prize Competitions, and a strong<br /> complaint was raised against the method in<br /> which these competitions were conducted. It was<br /> clearly shown how indefinite was the statement of<br /> terms in most cases, and that the editor must have<br /> been ignorant of the legal requirements of the case.<br /> Though it turned out that in most cases the<br /> editor wanted the whole copyright, yet generally<br /> he did not make this clear. Indeed, the editor, who<br /> asserted merely that he gave a prize for the best<br /> short story, would not necessarily have had the<br /> right to publish it even for one insertion in his own<br /> paper..<br /> Again, some editors, who were clear about what<br /> they wanted, were wholly unreasonable in giving no<br /> undertaking that the work should be published and<br /> no time limit for publication. In addition, they<br /> often claimed the right to publish any story sent up<br /> to them in connection with the competition, even<br /> though it should not gain the prize, again without<br /> giving any time limit for publication or making<br /> any price.<br /> This should not be the case; . A clear statement<br /> of the legal position is essential if the result is to be<br /> satisfactory, and there should be no sins of omission.<br /> The editor should throw his cards on the table ;<br /> then, if the contract is good, or if the contract is bad,<br /> the author knows the best or the worst, and if he<br /> sends up his MS. he has no right to complain<br /> subsequently.<br /> The following may be cited as an example of an<br /> error of omission.<br /> proprietor desires to purchase the copyright of<br /> a MS. for £200 and states this bare fact. The<br /> ordinary author would think that there was an<br /> implied contract to publish, but really there is<br /> nothing of the kind. It would have been much<br /> better, therefore, for the proprietor to state that the<br /> successful MS. will be published by him on or before<br /> a certain date.<br /> This preamble brings us to the Prize Competition<br /> published in the Era for the benefit of dramatic<br /> authors, the terms of which, so far as material for<br /> our purpose, are as follows :-<br /> The decision announced by the editor shall be final an<br /> binding upon all parties.<br /> Plays may be sent in at any time until the date for<br /> closing the competition, which will be duly announced, but<br /> which will not be before June 30th, 1912, at the earliest.<br /> The winner of the £100 prize will retain one-half interest<br /> in the copyright of his play.<br /> If the winning play be, in the opinion of the editor of<br /> the Era, of sufficient merit, it will be produced under the<br /> auspices of the Era, and will be known as “ the Era Play,&quot;<br /> the author&#039;s name appearing or not, as he or she wishes, on<br /> the programme of every performance.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 194 (#638) ############################################<br /> <br /> 194<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> The editor will not be responsible for the safety of any intentional. Does the editor reserve to himself<br /> manuscripts submitted, so that copies must be kept by the<br /> author. Every effort will be madle, however, to return all<br /> the exclusive right, or what does this paragraph<br /> manuscripts.<br /> mean? If he intends to reserve to himself the<br /> The editor reserves the right of arranging for the pro- exclusive right, then any person who sends in a<br /> duction of any play submitted, whether the winning play play may find himself in this difficult position<br /> or not; but should he decide to produce any such play, he<br /> that, if the editor who holds the right for arrang-<br /> will first arrange terms with the author.<br /> ing a production does not desire to use this right,<br /> We have taken the liberty of omitting some non the dramatist would be unable to make any use of<br /> essential parts of the conditions, that is, non-essen- his play himself. An author who sends in a play<br /> tial as far as the deductions desired to be drawn are and gets no prize receives no consideration what-<br /> concerned, though not non-essential from the point ever for the right which the editor acquires. The<br /> of the dramatist who is competing. The main condition further states, “but should the editor<br /> points to which we desire to draw attention are as decide to produce any such play, he will first<br /> follows :-<br /> arrange terms with the author.&quot;<br /> It is first stated that the decision announced by the We feel quite certain that the editor of the Era<br /> editor shall be final and binding upon all parties. desired to do everything that is fair, reasonable<br /> This is quite reasonable and fair, but there is no state- and just when this paragraph was drafted, but it is<br /> ment whatever as to when the decision will be made, impossible to conceive a paragraph more likely to<br /> or where it will be announced, surely an important lead to frequent disputes than this one. Supposing<br /> piece of knowledge in a competition of this kind. the winner of the prize does not want to arrange<br /> Competitors might send in their MSS. and find that terms with the editor, or suppose the authors of any<br /> they are held up for perhaps a year or more, during of the MSS, sent in do not want to arrange terms<br /> which time it would be impossible for them to take with the editor, or supposing they want to arrange<br /> any action in the matter of placing them.<br /> terms, but the editor considers the terms are<br /> It seems the very earliest date for closing the unreasonable, there then would appear to be a<br /> competition is June 30th, 1912. From this we deadlock.<br /> take it that all the plays that are sent in will come It should be clearly put forth, (1) either the exact<br /> under the new Copyright Act. This point is of terms for production, or (2) that the proprietor<br /> importance, for the next paragraph states that the should have the first refusal for, say one month,<br /> winner of the prize will retain one-half interest in the during which terms should be arranged. If these<br /> copyright of his play. The word “copyright&quot; under proposals are displeasing to the owner of the other<br /> the new Act as regards a play covers much more than half of the copyright, at any rate let him state<br /> under the present Act, where the right in a drama definitely what he does want.<br /> is divided into two parts, copyright and performing We think enoughi has been said to show how<br /> right. We see that the winner will obtain a £100 terribly indefinite all these points are. It is much<br /> prize. The natural deduction from this is that the better in these competitions to have the terms<br /> £100 will not be an advance on royalties on what clear, even though they are against the author,<br /> ever subsequent arrangement is made, but will be than to have them indefinite but tempting.<br /> £100 clear and distinct, practically amounting to We hope it may be possible before the competi-<br /> £100 payment for the half of the copyright. It tion closes for the rules and conditions to be more<br /> does not state who is to be the owner of this balf, definitely stated, and an opportunity given to those<br /> though it is not an unreasonable deduction to make who may have sent in the MSS. to withdraw should<br /> that it will belong to the proprietor of the Era. It they not care to accept the revised rules.<br /> might, however, be some bidden actor-manager as<br /> far as the public statement is concerned. This point<br /> should be made clear. There is no undertaking<br /> whatever that the proprietor of this half-copyright<br /> UNITED STATES NOTES.<br /> will use any endeavour to place the play on the<br /> market. He reserves to himself the right of making<br /> all arrangements ; though the author retains a half NEW YEAR&#039;S card issued by one of the great<br /> interest in the copyright, he could not do anything<br /> publishing firms of New York bore on it the<br /> with that interest under the conditions laid down.<br /> laudable sentiment, “ For 1912– Fewer and<br /> In the last paragraph of the terms a most extra- Better Books.” It might perbaps be assumed from<br /> ordinary provision appears, whereby not only does this that the year 1911 was remarkable for the great<br /> the cditor reserve to bimself the right of arranging output of books in the United States. As a matter<br /> for the production of the winning play, but also of of fact, the figure reached in 1911 was considerably<br /> any play submitted, whether the winning play or lower than that in 1910. In the latter year<br /> not. Surely this statement cannot possibly be 11,671 new books and 1,799 new editions appeared<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 195 (#639) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 195<br /> -total, 13,470. In 1911 there were 10,440 new<br /> books and 783 new editions—total, 11,123. So<br /> that, unlike what was the case in England (where<br /> a record output of 8,530 new books and 2,384 new<br /> editions—total, 10,914—was chronicled), in the<br /> United States there was a very distinct decrease in<br /> production from 1910 to 1911.<br /> Was the falling-off in numbers compensated for by<br /> an improvement in quality ? The critics say“Yes”;<br /> at least as far as fiction was concerned. The year<br /> 1911 has already been called an annus mirabilis of<br /> the American novel. Perhaps it would be better to<br /> wait a few years more before stating which are the<br /> novels that will live among those of last year. At<br /> present there is still too much of the glamour of<br /> the “ best-seller ” about some of them to allow us<br /> to judge dispassionately. In the meantime it may<br /> be conceded that if the motto for 1912 is really to<br /> be “ Fewer and Better Books,&quot; in fiction we may<br /> anticipate a good time coming<br /> I wrote at some length in the last issue of these<br /> “Notes” on the subject of best-sellers. It is, how-<br /> ever, so prominent a feature in connection with the<br /> sale of books in America that perhaps I may be<br /> pardoned for alluding to it again. The literary<br /> papers devoted some space in January to the<br /> collating of the monthly lists of successful works.<br /> It appears that the four novels most in demand in<br /> the States during the past year were Jeffry Farnol&#039;s<br /> &quot; The Broad Highway,” Vaughan Kester&#039;s “ The<br /> Prodigal Judge,” Harold Bell Wright&#039;s “The<br /> Winning of Barbara Worth,&quot; and H. S. Harrison&#039;s<br /> “Queed.” These four had a long lead over the<br /> next five, which were Gene Stratton Porter&#039;s<br /> &quot;The Harvester,” Margaret Deland&#039;s “ The Iron<br /> Woman,&quot; Mary Johnston&#039;s “The Long Roll,”<br /> Eleanor Hallowell Abbott&#039;s “ Molly Make-Believe,&quot;<br /> and Florence L. Barclay&#039;s “The Rosary.” In the<br /> non-fiction class Arnold Bennett&#039;s “ How to Live<br /> on 24 Hours a Day” and Price Collier&#039;s “ The<br /> West in the East &quot; were easily first.<br /> No one, of course, not even among the compilers<br /> of these lists, pretends that they furnish a guide to<br /> the necessarily best books of the year. Authors<br /> whose names and works do not get even a place,<br /> much less a leading place, on them, may very likely<br /> feel a grievance over their non-appearance. But<br /> that grievance is only legitimate against the<br /> American reading public, on whose demand for<br /> mental sustenance the lists are founded. It would<br /> be interesting if, side by side with the consensus of<br /> public opinion thus revealed, a consensus of critical<br /> opinion could be produced. It is not an unknown<br /> occurrence to find a best-seller being “roasted” in<br /> the columps of a literary review. Such a division<br /> of cash and credit as is represented by this state of<br /> affairs has its satisfactions, alike to the commerci.<br /> ally successful and to the commercially unsuccessful.<br /> To leave the recently past and come to the<br /> actually present, there are no indications of a change<br /> of public farour in 1912 to the detriment of the<br /> authors with the big circulations in 1911. For<br /> instance, “Queed” is still going strong, so are“ The<br /> Broad Highway” and Mr. Farnol&#039;s later American<br /> success, “The Money Moon.” So again is “ The<br /> Rosary,” which is helping the sale of Mrs. Barclay&#039;s<br /> other two novels, “ The Following of the Star&quot; and<br /> “The Mistress of Shenstone.&quot; “ The Winning of<br /> Barbara Worth&quot; is announced to appear in dramatic<br /> form at a New York theatre next fall. One feature<br /> of early 1912, however, is the rise of a new star<br /> - new in the United States, that is to say. All<br /> who see the American literary periodicals will know<br /> that this refers to Mr. G. A. Birmingham, who has<br /> been “discovered,&quot; let us hope to his great advan-<br /> tage. British authors certainly bare little to com-<br /> plain of when they do catch the eye of the American<br /> public. That this is so can be seen from the fact<br /> that both in the fiction and in the non-fiction<br /> classes last year the list was beaded by a Briton.<br /> And in addition it may be mentioned that J. M.<br /> Barrie&#039;s “ Peter and Wendy&quot; was the best-seller<br /> among juvenile books in December! Such a record<br /> is very nearly what the sporting journalist calls<br /> “the triple crown” for Great Britain.<br /> The early months of this year have been prolific<br /> in fiction, but not very notable in other respects.<br /> Novels may, therefore, be given first place in our<br /> catalogue-which must include some works pub-<br /> lished in 1911, but too late to be mentioned in the<br /> January number of The Author. Among these is<br /> “The Healer,&quot; by Robert Herrick, an author whose<br /> work is well known in England. Of Mr. Herrick<br /> a New York critic has said that he “comes nearer<br /> being a real novelist than any other American.”<br /> Certainly “The Healer” has had a wonderfully<br /> good reception from the Press, if it still awaits the<br /> distinction of getting among the Big Six. About<br /> the same time were published Theodore Dreiser&#039;s<br /> “Jennie Gerhardt” (an original and very powerful<br /> story, it may be noted), Julia Magruder&#039;s ** Her Hus-<br /> band,&quot; and Molly Elliot Seawell&#039;s &quot;The Jugglers,&quot;<br /> all of which have quickly made their mark. With-<br /> out attempting to preserve the chronological order,<br /> the early fictional output of 1912 must be dealt with<br /> as the names occur to the mind. In “ Riders of<br /> the Purple Sage,” Zane Grey deals with the Western<br /> Plains and Salt Lake City. “Toby,&quot; by Credo<br /> Harris, is a Kentucky novel. “ The Guardian,&quot; by<br /> F. 0. Bartlett, is concerned with the lumbermani<br /> and the great forests. In “The Heart of U&#039;s,” on<br /> the other hand, the background is a city; and the<br /> city Boston. Humour, varied in character, is the<br /> feature of “ Danny&#039;s Own Story,&quot; by Don Marquis<br /> (whom they compare to Mark Twain); of “A<br /> Knight in Denim,” by Ramsey Benson ; and of<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 196 (#640) ############################################<br /> <br /> 196<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Charles Sherman&#039;s “He Comes Up Smiling.” Grave and Gay.” Another book of recollections is<br /> “Georgette,” by Marion Hill, treats of the American entitled “Intimacies of Court and Society: an<br /> Stage (as a classic ofe which it has been hailed), not Unconventional Narrative of Unofficial Days,&quot; of<br /> so flippantly as “The Chorus Lady,” but none the which the author prefers to remain anonymous, but<br /> less amusingly. “From the Car Behind,&quot; by has suffered it to be made public that she is the<br /> Eleanor M. Ingram, is a frankly sensational piece of widow of an American diplomat.<br /> work--involving motors, as might be guessed.<br /> Social and political questions have engaged the<br /> Cyrus Townsend Brady has two new books, “ The attention of a few authors. “ Social Forces in<br /> Challice of Courage” and “ Secret Service”; the American History,” by A. M. Simons, may be callel<br /> latter a novelisation of William Gillette&#039;s famous a history of the United States with special reference<br /> play. Another novel derived from the stage is to the relations of Capital and Labour. Professors<br /> “ Bought and Paid for,&quot; Arthur Hornblow being J. W. Jenks and W. Jett Lauck deal with “The<br /> responsible for the version of George Broadhurst&#039;s Immigration Problem,” and particularly with the<br /> drama. George Barr McCutcheon&#039;s new story is subject of its restriction. President N. M. Batler,<br /> “ Her Weight in Gold”; Mary E. Mann&#039;s “There of Columbia University, asks of his countrymen the<br /> was a Widow&quot;; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman&#039;s “ The question “Why should we Change our Form of<br /> Butterfly House”; Meredith Nicholson&#039;s “A Government?&quot; The foreign affairs of the United<br /> Hoosier Chronicle.” Gouverneur Morris has a States are treated of in “ American-Japanese<br /> collection of twelve tales, entitled “It, and Other Relations,” by K. K. Kawakami—who has written<br /> Stories,” while with “The Man who could not Love” “ A Bookto Banish the Japan War Jingo,” according<br /> (which gives its title to the book), Richard Harding to the preliminary paragraph sent out by the pub-<br /> Davis gives us four other short stories.<br /> lisher ; and in “ The Relations of the United States<br /> “He who Passed,” of which the author still and Spain : The Spanish-American War,&quot; with<br /> remains anonymous, has already been heard of in two volumes on which Rear-Admiral Chadwick<br /> England. The writer of “ Betty Moore&#039;s Journal” concludes a notable work.<br /> is Mabel D. Carey, hitherto better known in the Two distinguished military men have also pro-<br /> social than in the literary world. Hers may be duced books—Lieutenant-General Nelson Miles<br /> called a problem novel, being concerned with mother having written “Serving the Republic&quot; (including<br /> hood among the pleasure-loving rich.<br /> recollections of the Civil War), and Brigadier-General<br /> At the risk of injustice to those mentioned, it Funston “Memories of Two Wars : Cuban and<br /> must suffice to give the names of seven more novels Philippine Experiences.” Another author from the<br /> as worthy of note among those that have recently same State as General Funston is S. J. Crawford,<br /> appeared :—“ The Maid of the Whispering Hills,&quot; War Governor of Kansas, who in his “ Kansas in<br /> by Virgie E. Roe ; “Tante,&quot; by Annie Douglas the Sixties &quot; speaks of both the Indian campaigns<br /> Sidgwick ; “ The Wrong Woman,&quot; by Charles D. in that State and of the Civil War. Professor F.<br /> Stewart; “ The Adjustment,&quot; by Marguerite L. Paxon, of Wisconsin University, makes the<br /> Bryant-already a very big seller ; “A Chain of latter war his subject-indeed entitling his book<br /> Evidence,” by Carolyn Wells ; “ John Rawn,&quot; by simply “ The Civil War.”<br /> Emerson Hough; and “ Five Thousand an Hour,&quot; Travel books are represented by Matthew<br /> by George Randolph Chester.<br /> Henson&#039;s “ A Negro Explorer at the North Pole,&quot;<br /> Biographical works have not been very numerous with a foreword by Peary and an introduction by<br /> of late, but there have been several produced which Booker Washington ; by Ernest Thompson Seton&#039;s<br /> make their appeal on both sides of the Atlantic “ The Arctic Prairies&quot;; by Charles Sheldon&#039;s “The<br /> Ocean. Among such may assuredly be put “ Robert Wilderness of the Upper Yukon&quot;; and by the<br /> Louis Stevenson in California,&quot; by Katharine D. oddly-named “ The Man Who Likes Mexico,&quot; in<br /> Osbourne; “Robert E. Lee : Man and Soldier,&quot; by which Wallace Gillpatrick gives his narrative of<br /> Thomas Nelson Page ; and the “Life of Bret six years&#039; wanderings. “Where Half the World is<br /> Harte,&quot; by H. C. Merwin. “ The Life Story of Waking Up,&quot; by C. H. Poe, deals, as might no<br /> J. Peirpont Morgan,” by Carl Hovey, has appeared doubt be guessed, with India and the Far East,<br /> in England as well as in America, I fancy. A where the author has put in a year&#039;s travelling.<br /> biography of Moses Coit Tyler, author and Cornell The two chief books of essays have been ex-<br /> University professor, comes from the pen of Jessie President Theodore Roosevelt&#039;s “Realizable Ideals,&quot;<br /> Tyler Austen, while the “Life and Labors of Bishop which were the Earl Lectures last year at the Pacific<br /> Hare, Apostle to the Sioux,” is by M. A. D. Howe. Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California ; and<br /> Two more volumes of the “ Journals of Ralph - The Way of Peace,&quot; by Reginald Wright Kauff-<br /> Waldo Emerson” have appeared, bringing the story man, author of “ The House of Bondage &quot;-or<br /> down to the year 1841. By way of contrast one “ Daughters of Ishmael,&quot; as the book is called in<br /> may read Mrs. Burton Harrison&#039;s “ Recollections England, I believe.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 197 (#641) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 197<br /> “ Truth and Reality : an Introduction to the will be produced under the supervision of his son.<br /> Theory of Knowledge,&quot; is, of course, a philo- Mr. Bigelow was for three years resident in Europe,<br /> sophical work. It is written by Professor John namely, during his tenure of the post of United<br /> Elof Boodlin, of Kansas. - Human Efficiency,” States Minister to France in 1864-7. But he was<br /> by Horatio W. Dresser, might be placed midway essentially an American, and one versed in all the<br /> between philosophy and economics, the author phases of public life in America, while the books<br /> endeavouring to get at the study of industrial con- by which he will be remembered all made their<br /> ditions ria psycbology. “The Principles of primary appeal to his own fellow-countrymen. An<br /> Economics,” by F. W. Taussig, the Harvard intensely hard-working novelist, who ultimately<br /> professor, explains itself by its title.<br /> succumbed to the results of her attempts to<br /> For the grouping together of the last two books relieve the strain on her nerves, passed away on<br /> which I am about to mention there is no justifica- December 22, in the person of Mrs. Margaret<br /> tion, except that neither of them falls conveniently Horton Potter-Black. She began writing very<br /> under any of the heads which have been hitherto early in life ; “ The Social Lion,&quot; by which she<br /> discussed. &quot; The Education of Women in China” first attracted attention, being so ingenuously<br /> is by Margaret E. Burton, general secretary of the daring that her family purchased every copy to<br /> Y.W.C.L. at Chicago University. The writer of remove it from circulation. Mrs. Potter-Black<br /> “Chess Tales and Chess Miscellapies” is Willard continued to write, however, until within a com-<br /> Fiske, who knew the great Paul Morphy—though paratively short time before her death, though ill-<br /> he does not tell us much that is new about him in health compelled her at last to retire to a sana-<br /> the present work.<br /> turium. Early in the new year another victim to<br /> Details of the gathering at Sherry&#039;s Restaurant, literature died, J. B. Peterson, who from being it<br /> New York, on March 2, to celebrate the seventy-fifth factory-hand rose to be a writer on philosophical<br /> birthday of William Dean Howells, have reached subjects. He was entirely self-educated until he<br /> England long ago. But I do not know that special managed to gain the sympathy of the late<br /> attention has been called to some notable words on Professor William James, who enabled him to<br /> American literature in the speech of the guest of receive some university training. But the kindness<br /> the evening. “There has been no hour of our lite- of James and other patrons could not help him to<br /> rary past, as I have lived it,&quot; Mr. Howells said, the “living wage,” which is essential to authors as<br /> “when I had the least fear for our literary future; well as to other men, and he died in very poor<br /> nor even when the good fight for reality in literary circumstances. On February 12 the death was<br /> art, which I believed myself fighting, seemed to be a recorded, in New York, of Louis Heilprin, an<br /> losing figbt, did I bate my breath.” For all his Hungarian by birth, but an American by more<br /> seventy-five years Mr. Howells avowed himself no than half a century&#039;s residence. The young<br /> laudator temporis acti, but declared that literature Heilprin&#039;s father, who brought him to the States,<br /> to-day is actuated by a clearer motive than ever was one of the editors of the American Cyclopedia,<br /> before. It has turned from “the vain effort of and so much did the son follow in the father&#039;s<br /> creating beauty&quot; and devoted itself to “ the effort footsteps that he was giren the task of the<br /> of ascertaining life.” What say the romanticists revision of the Cyclopedia&#039;s second edition. He<br /> to this ?<br /> contributed much to other works of a similar<br /> As usual, I must conclude with the melancholy character, but also made a name for himself in<br /> subject of the losses to literature caused by death journalism, writing for the Nation, and the<br /> during the past few months. On December 17 Erening Post, among other papers.<br /> Percival Pollard succumbed to neuritis of the brain<br /> PHILIP WALSH.<br /> in a hospital in Baltimore, in his forty-second year.<br /> Probably Pollard&#039;s brilliant work is but little known<br /> in England, and his journalistic career was matured<br /> THE COPYRIGHT PROGRESS OF FOUR<br /> in Chicago and New York. Yet England had<br /> something to do with the making of the man, for<br /> YEARS.<br /> he was educated at Eastbourne up to the age of<br /> fifteen, when he came to America. Besides one play (Reprinted from the U.S. Publishers&#039; Weekly, by kind<br /> (written in collaboration) many novels came from<br /> permission.)<br /> his pen, but they were not of sufficiently wide M HE past four years, 1908–1911, have been<br /> appeal ever to appear among “best sellers.&quot; more marked in the progress of copyright<br /> On December 19, John Bigelow breathed his last<br /> legislation than any period since copyright<br /> at his home in New York, at the advanced age of legislation began. Earlier in the twentieth<br /> 94, leaving unfinished his “ Retrospections of an century important steps were taken in several<br /> Active Life”—the remainder of which, it is stated, countries. Germany passed in 1901 the two laws<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 198 (#642) ############################################<br /> <br /> 198<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> which are the foundation of its present copyright<br /> system, and in 1907 its remarkable publishing<br /> law, while Austria in 1907 amended its existing<br /> copyright law. *Australia in 1905 asserted copy-<br /> right independence from the mother country and<br /> passed a complete code which was not disallowed<br /> by the Crown and which has in fact become the<br /> model for recent British and coming Canadian<br /> legislation. But 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911 were<br /> each marked by a leading event of first impor-<br /> tance. In 1908, the Berlin convention put inter-<br /> national relationships throughout the International<br /> Copyright Union on a new and more liberal basis,<br /> discarding all formalities except those in the<br /> country of origin and adopting life and fifty years<br /> as the international standard term. In 1909, the<br /> long campaign in the United States resulted in the<br /> new American code of 1909, thorouglily compre-<br /> hepsive, superseding all previous legislation, and<br /> on the whole a far-reaching improvement. In<br /> 1910, the Pan American Union adopted the<br /> Buenos Aires convention, closely patterning that<br /> of Berlin, which, though so far it has been ratified<br /> only by the United States, will probably form the<br /> future basis for copyright throughout South<br /> America. Finally, in 1911, the new British code<br /> was passed, second only in comprehensiveness to<br /> the American code, and superseding all previous<br /> laws except a few specified minor acts or provisions.<br /> Within the year 1912 Canada will possibly have<br /> passed its copyright code, now under discussion,<br /> thus making the fifth year of the period only less<br /> memorable than its predecessors.<br /> Within January, indeed, an international copy.<br /> right treaty between the Cnited States and Hungary<br /> has been signed, Brazil has passed an international<br /> copyright measure, and progress has been made<br /> towards relations with Mexico in the protection of<br /> mechanical music reproduction.<br /> These years were also fruitful in coprright<br /> advance in other countries, notably in the Orient<br /> Japan in 1910 passed an amendatory act of im-<br /> portance, broadening the scope of copyright, and<br /> China took its first step toward national copyright,<br /> while in 1911 Turkey adopted a new and comprehen-<br /> sive code. All three Scandinavian countries<br /> adopted amendatory acts within the four years,<br /> and Russia in 1911 passed a new domestic code,<br /> the first result of which was its first international<br /> relation through a treaty with France, and the final<br /> outcome of which will probably be its adherence to<br /> the Berlin convention.<br /> Holland began the discussion of a law which<br /> will probably be passed in 1912, rescinding its<br /> panufacturing clause and making possible adhe-<br /> rence to the Berlin convention, while Portugal in<br /> 1911 joined the family of nations bound together<br /> by that document. In South America, Bolivia in<br /> 1909 adopted a new copyright law, Argentina in<br /> 1910 also passed comprehensive legislation, and its<br /> example was followed by its neighbor, Paraguay,<br /> in 1911. The United States added substantially<br /> to its international relations, by help of the new<br /> code, until now twenty-five powers are &quot;pro-<br /> claimed ” or treaty countries, five of which are<br /> also in reciprocal relation with respect to mechanical<br /> music, having practically followed the American<br /> precedent in the code of 1909. This by no means<br /> includes all copyright legislation, for in several<br /> other countries laws of more or less importance<br /> have been passed ; but surely this is a remarkable<br /> record for the short space of four years.<br /> Throughout this legislation, the trend has been<br /> distinctively forward, though in the legislation of<br /> English-speaking countries there have been retro-<br /> gressive steps despite the general advance formu-<br /> lated in the respective American, British, Australian<br /> and proposed Canadian codes. Continental,<br /> Oriental and South American countries, that is to<br /> say the non-English folk, have been more liberal<br /> than we in their advance. For while all these four<br /> codes, except the British, embody manufacturing<br /> restrictions, Holland and other countries are freeing<br /> their authors, and foreign authors also, from such<br /> infringement of rights in intellectual property.<br /> The British code also introduces restrictions<br /> hitherto foreign to British law. Nevertheless, all<br /> these codes are 80 distinctively betterments that<br /> the restrictive features seem small in comparison.<br /> The International Copyright Union, with the<br /> proposed accession of Great Britain and Holland<br /> to the Berlin convention, and the probable adhe-<br /> rence of Russia, will presently include all the great<br /> European nations, besides such powers as Japan,<br /> Liberia, and on this side of the Atlantic, Haiti;<br /> while the Pan American Union brought together<br /> in the Buenos Aires conference all Latin American<br /> countries, save Bolivia, as well as the United<br /> States, and its Buenos Aires convention will ulti-<br /> mately bind together a family only second in<br /> importance to that of the International Copyright<br /> L&#039;nion. It will be some years before amendments<br /> can be secured to the present American code which<br /> will permit the United States to join the general<br /> family of nations, though it will be included in the<br /> Pan American brauch. The International Copy.<br /> right Union and the Pan American Union are so<br /> nearly on the same basis that a more comprehen-<br /> sive world union is almost sure to come about. The<br /> t&#039;nited States, Canada and Australia will then be<br /> the only great nations “out in the cold&quot;; in<br /> other words, the nations which should have led<br /> progress are not yet responsive to the leadership of<br /> other nations.<br /> * See General Note on Australian Copyright.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 199 (#643) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 199<br /> The friends of authors&#039; rights and of a firm basis to be too concise tends to inaccuracy. The Appen-<br /> for the business of publishing have abundant dices contain (1) the Fine Arts Copyright Act,<br /> reason to congratulate themselves on this progress 1862 ; the Canada Copyright Act, 1875 ; the<br /> of the past four years, and they may live in hopes Musical Copyright Acts, 1902 and 1906, and the<br /> that before the present generation has passed away, Copyright Act, 1911; (2) the Berlin Convention,<br /> Anierica and the other English-speaking countries 1908 ; the Berne Convention, 1886 ; and the<br /> will be ready to achieve the final step toward world Additional Act of Paris and Interpretative Declara-<br /> union. More than sixty years ago a Philadelpbian tion, 1896, collated with the Berlin Convention,<br /> publisher, Philip H. Nicklin, prophesied in his 1908; Countries which have ratified the Berlin<br /> little book on copyright &quot; a world-wide republic of Convention, 1908 ; (3) The United States Copyright<br /> letters,&quot; and this American dream will yet be Act, 1909 ; Rules and Regulations for the Registra-<br /> fulfilled by help of America.<br /> tion of Claims to Copyright in the United States ;<br /> Proclamation by the President of the United States.<br /> It seems hardly necessary to publish the Berlin<br /> Convention, 1908, in the original French and in<br /> THE COPYRIGHT LAW.<br /> translated form, and then to publish the translated<br /> form again collated with the Berne Convention.<br /> Mr. Hurrell&#039;s book fails owing to the fact that it<br /> CINCE Mr. Oldfield&#039;s and Mr. MacGillivray&#039;s attempts too much in too little space. Many state-<br /> D books on the Copyright Law have been pro- ments are made authoritatively in a few words which<br /> duced and passed in review two other books need much ampler treatment: to take one instance :<br /> have been placed on the market. &quot; The Law of “When an author agrees to give certain persons<br /> Copyright,&quot; by G. S. Robertson, published by the the sole power of printing and publishing a book for<br /> Oxford University Press, and “ Copyright Law and all time, that is parting with the copyright.&quot; If<br /> the Copyright Act, 1911,” by Henry Hurrell (with a the writer had said &quot;a work” instead of &quot; a book”<br /> Treatise on French Copyright Law, by Maurice he might have been nearer the mark, but even then<br /> Thery), published by Messrs. Waterlow &amp; Sons, other matters would have to be considered, as, for<br /> The first of these two books is the more ambitious; instance, the consideration paid. The work is not<br /> it does not pretend to deal merely with the new law satisfactory. The treatise on French Copyright Law<br /> of 1911, but with the general law of copyright; but (Appendix A.) is interesting, but again insufficient<br /> still, as the author mentions in the preface that “ the to be of any material use, and the Forms<br /> law in this book is stated as on the dates on which (Appendix C.) are inadequate and misleading.<br /> the Copyright Act, 1911, comes into operation,”<br /> there is little on which to pass comment beyond the<br /> Act itself ; indeed, the chapters on imperial and<br /> international copyright are not satisfactory or<br /> exhaustive, when the importance and the width<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> of the subject with which they deal are considered.<br /> The author has, according to his own state-<br /> THE EDITORIAL (&#039;OURTESY.<br /> mnent, rearranged in some sort of order the dis-<br /> orderly provisions of the Act. This procedure SIR,—The following may be of interest to your<br /> was hardly wise, for in the new Copyright Act, readers apropos of the long delay in returning or<br /> 1911, there is a definite order laid down in the accepting manuscripts.<br /> sequence of the sections, and Mr. G. S. Robertson&#039;s On October 20, in answer to an application<br /> book, in spite of its wider scope, really narrows for a story, I sent to The Bystander a manu-<br /> itself down to the Act of 1911. He may have script, at the same time asking for a speedy decision,<br /> gained some points : he has undoubtedly lost as I had several orders for stories, and Messrs. Mills<br /> many others, but the substance of the book is &amp; Boon were publishing a book of my short<br /> evidently the result of some study and no incon- stories this spring.<br /> siderable knowledge, and the methods of explanation On December 10, as I had not beard, I wrote<br /> are such as may be easily understood by the layman; a polite letter saying that &quot; I felt sure that it was by<br /> indeed, some concrete examples of delicate legal an oversight that they had not let me know about<br /> difficulties, such as the one on Limitations on Term the story I had sent in October in response to their<br /> of Copyright, are highly to be commended.<br /> request. That I was sorry to bother them, but I<br /> But the author seems to have lost some conciseness had many applications for stories, and being under<br /> in his desire to be clear on certain points. A law contract to my publishers for two long books, it left<br /> book is distinctly difficult to write, for to be too me so little time for stories, I knew that they would<br /> diffuse tends only to confuse the lay mind, whereas understand my difficulty.”<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 200 (#644) ############################################<br /> <br /> 200<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> On December 12 I received the following<br /> letter, and the MS. :-<br /> “TALLIS HOUSE,<br /> “WHITEFRIARS,<br /> “ December 11th, 1911.<br /> “ DEAR MADAM,-I note that you have very<br /> little time to write stories. We, for our part, have<br /> very little time to read them, and are not under any<br /> special obligation to do so. In view of the tone of<br /> your letter, I therefore return herewith the story<br /> entitled “The Mediator,&#039; in the hope that you will<br /> be successful in placing it elsewhere.<br /> “ Yours Faithfully,<br /> “The Editor,<br /> “ A.B.”<br /> “ The italics are mine. I make no comment !<br /> “Yours Truly,<br /> “ MAUD ANNESLEY.&quot;<br /> NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br /> I was glad to see “ Tamel&#039;s” letter about prize<br /> competitions and wish it could meet the eye of the<br /> dear, deluded, ordinary public. I wrote å briefer<br /> one on the same lines to a daily paper some time<br /> ago, but it did not appear.<br /> Mr. Andrew Melrose gave the case away last year<br /> when he explained his system to an interviewer, a<br /> most businesslike and reasonable system—from his<br /> point of view. All the competing novels, he said,<br /> were read first by his readers, and only those they<br /> considered “suitable&quot; were sent on to the judges.<br /> We know exactly what that means. We know that<br /> the first duty of a publisher&#039;s reader is to discover,<br /> not genius, or works of art, but the “best seller.&quot;<br /> We are familiar with the publisher&#039;s letter inform<br /> ing us that our work is of a very high character,<br /> but is regretfully returned because it is not likely<br /> to prove a popular, financial success. The initiated<br /> are, therefore, perfectly aware what kind of books<br /> will be weeded out before the rest are sent on to the<br /> judges. They are the books that are unconven-<br /> tional, unsensational, and artistic; the books that<br /> would not please the great mass of uneducated<br /> readers.<br /> This is not to say that a book may not be a work<br /> of art and yet please the larger public. Such a<br /> thing may happen, occasionally, we know. But the<br /> chances are all against the artistic work and in favour<br /> of mediocrity.<br /> I do not, however, agree with “Tamel” that<br /> either publisher or sorter&#039; indulges his own<br /> prejudices or taste in the matter. Both are ani-<br /> mated solely by business principles. The publisher<br /> engages the reader to pick out for him novels that<br /> will sell well; and, presumably, if the reader<br /> neglects to do this and merely consults his own taste,<br /> he will soon be asked to offer his services elsewhere!<br /> Nor do I think it will help matters if writers of<br /> talent decline to compete, for the fact will certainly<br /> not be advertised. My opinion is that the<br /> guardians of our &#039;self respect&#039; in this concern are<br /> the so-called “judges,&#039; and it rests with them<br /> whether or not publishers shall go on ‘spoofing<br /> the innocent public with their fiction of best<br /> novel&#039; competitions. That innocent public, of<br /> course, does not know the difference between a<br /> best novel&#039; and a best seller&#039;; it believes, and<br /> will continue to believe, that the two are identical,<br /> and that these competitions are for the encourage-<br /> ment of genins. But the chosen judges, if they<br /> are faithful to literary ideals, ought to rebel and<br /> protest. It is for them to insist on choosing the<br /> novel they think best out of the whole number sent<br /> in, and this not only in the interests of literature<br /> but in their own interests, for the sake of their own<br /> reputations. Surely they must often blush to see<br /> themselves advertised as sponsors of the common-<br /> place fiction that is the result of these prize com-<br /> petitions ! It is true they excuse themselves by<br /> declaring that most of the work they receive is of<br /> poor quality, and this is true enough, no doubt.<br /> But why does it not occur to them that they do not<br /> receive the best work sent in? Why do they allow<br /> themselves to have foisted upon them only such<br /> novels as the publishers&#039; readers think will sell ?<br /> It is time for those writers of quality who are<br /> honoured with this mission to maintain their dignity<br /> and the dignity of the office they are invited to<br /> fulfil; they should accept it only on conditior. that<br /> they may choose what they think best from all the<br /> novels sent in. It may take more time, but it<br /> would certainly add to, instead of detracting from,<br /> their reputations. If the publishers could get no<br /> man or woman of letters to aid them in their trade<br /> humbug, they might become public benefactors by<br /> finding out new talent. They might, moreover, do<br /> better for themselves than they are doing now. A<br /> judiciously advertised prize novel can always be<br /> made to pay, even if it does not positively cater for<br /> crude taste ; and should an immortal be discovered,<br /> what a &#039;scoop&#039; for the publisher ! Would it not<br /> be worth while to risk something on such a chance ?<br /> A NOVELIST.<br /> A BLACK LIST.<br /> SIR,–Would it not be possible to publish in The<br /> Author, from time to time, a black list of magazines<br /> and pubhishers :<br /> Yours, etc.<br /> [This matter has been considered frequently by<br /> the Committee, but there are very strong reasons<br /> against the publication of such a list. Moreover,<br /> information can always be obtained on application<br /> to the Secretary.-Ed.]<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 200 (#645) ############################################<br /> <br /> ADVERTISEMENTS.<br /> vii<br /> TYPEWRITING. 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