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434	https://historysoa.com/items/show/434	The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 09 (June 1912)	<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+09+%28June+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 09 (June 1912)</a>			<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a>								<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a>	1912-06-01-The-Author-22-9					227–254																		<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a>											<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-06-01">1912-06-01</a>							9			19120601	The Author.<br /> (The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. 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Preferred Ordinary Stock<br /> and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock.<br /> The amounts purchased at the present prices are<br /> £237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock.<br /> The trustees desire to thank the members of the<br /> society for the generous support which they have<br /> given to the Pension Fund, and have much pleasure<br /> in informing the Pension Fund Committee that<br /> there is a further sum available for the payment of<br /> another pension in case any application should be<br /> made. The money now invested amounts to<br /> £4,846 198. 4d., and is fully set out in the list<br /> below :<br /> Consols 21%<br /> To<br /> 4<br /> ..........................<br /> ...........................£1,312 13<br /> Local Loans..................<br /> 500 0 0<br /> Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br /> dated Inscribed Stock............... 291 19 11<br /> London and North-Western 3%<br /> Debenture Stock ........<br /> 250 0 0<br /> Egyptian Government Irrigation<br /> Trust 4% Certificates ...............<br /> 2000<br /> 0<br /> Cape of Good Hope 31% Inscribed<br /> Stock .............<br /> 200 0 0<br /> Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br /> 4% Preference Stock ........<br /> 228 0 0<br /> New Zealand 31% Stock ....... 247 96<br /> Irish Land Act 21% Guaranteed<br /> Stock .........<br /> 258 0 0<br /> Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br /> 1927-57 ....................<br /> ........ 438 2 4<br /> Jamaica 31° Stock, 1919-49 ...... 132 18 6<br /> Mauritius 49% 1937 Stock ..<br /> ..........<br /> 120 121<br /> Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31%<br /> Land Grant Stock, 1938.<br /> 198 3 8<br /> Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br /> 5°. Preferred Stock ...............<br /> 237 0 0<br /> Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br /> Stock<br /> 232 0 0<br /> 0<br /> 5<br /> 6<br /> 0<br /> 6<br /> 05 0<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 0 50<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 1 1 0<br /> 0 10 0<br /> .....<br /> Subscriptions.<br /> 1912.<br /> Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice .<br /> Jan. 2, Sturt, George . .<br /> Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark in addition to<br /> present subscription). .<br /> Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H. . .<br /> Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br /> to present subscription) .<br /> Jan. 3, Hedgcock, F. A. .<br /> Jan. 5, Matcham, Mrs. Eyre<br /> .<br /> Jan. 8. Stayton, Frank ..<br /> Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Estella<br /> Jan. 10, Ropes, A. R..<br /> Jan. 12, Francis, René .. .<br /> Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br /> tion to present subscription)<br /> Jan. 27, Hutchinson, the Rev. H. N. .<br /> Feb. 7, L. M. F., per month during<br /> 1912<br /> Feb. 7, Letts, Miss W.M..<br /> Feb. 8, Cooke, W. Bourne . .<br /> Feb. 8, Annesley, Miss Maude .<br /> Feb. 9, O&#039;Donnell, Miss Petronella .<br /> March 6, Curwen, Miss Maud , .<br /> March 6, Anderson, Arthur<br /> March 15, George, W. L. (in addition<br /> to present subscription).<br /> April 6, Bland, J. 0. P. .<br /> April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil.<br /> April 6, Forrester, J. Cliffe. .<br /> en<br /> 100<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 1 1 0<br /> 0 10<br /> 6<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 5<br /> 5<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 1<br /> 1<br /> 0<br /> Total ........<br /> .....£4,846 19<br /> 4<br /> 010 0<br /> 0 100<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 0 5 0<br /> PENSION FUND.<br /> ...<br /> The list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br /> tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br /> subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br /> by, or promised to, the fund from January 1,<br /> 1912.<br /> It does not include either donations given<br /> prior to January 1, nor does it include sub-<br /> scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br /> before it.<br /> The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br /> appeared in the November issue of The Author.<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 /> ...<br /> 0 10 0<br /> 0 10 6<br /> 0 10 0<br /> 1 1 0<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 0 10 0<br /> 1 0 0<br /> 20 0 0<br /> 1 1 0<br /> ..<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 229 (#687) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 229<br /> £ 8. d.<br /> 0 5 0<br /> 0 10 0<br /> 10 0<br /> £<br /> 1<br /> s. d.<br /> 1 0<br /> ·<br /> 0<br /> erne er com<br /> 0<br /> erero<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 1<br /> 1<br /> 5<br /> 5<br /> 1<br /> 1<br /> 5<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> March 25, Williams, Mrs. Illtyd .<br /> April 2, XX. Pen Club ..<br /> April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil . :<br /> April 6, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte<br /> April 10, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole<br /> April 10, Robbins, Alfred F. :<br /> April 10, Harris, Emma H. . .<br /> April 11, Ralli, C. Scaramanga . .<br /> April 11, Aitken, Robert . . .<br /> April 16, L. M. F. (£1 per month,<br /> February, March, April)<br /> April 22, Prior, Mrs. Melton . :<br /> May 2, Baden-Powell, Miss Agnes :<br /> 1<br /> 0<br /> 3<br /> 1<br /> 6<br /> 5<br /> 3<br /> 1<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 3 0<br /> 0 10<br /> 0 5<br /> 0<br /> 6<br /> 0<br /> 2 2<br /> 0 5<br /> 0 5<br /> errererererer ener<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> 0<br /> COMMITTEE NOTES.<br /> 0<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> .<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. N.<br /> Jan. 10, Smith, Herbert W.<br /> Jan. 12, Randall, F. J. .<br /> Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K. .<br /> Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W. .<br /> .<br /> Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M.<br /> M. . . .<br /> Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney .<br /> Jan. 20, M&#039;Ewan, Miss Madge.<br /> Jan. 22, Kaye-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.C<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 /> .<br /> Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James . . .<br /> Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br /> Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady .<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 /> :<br /> Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. W. E.<br /> Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival<br /> Feb. 17, Raphael, Mrs. .<br /> Feb. 19, Cabourn, John .<br /> .<br /> Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. ..<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 /> March 2, Montesole, Max . .<br /> March 9, Pickering, Mrs. Frank .<br /> March 15, Trevanwyn, John<br /> March 16, O&#039;Higgins, H. J. .<br /> March 18, Wallis-Healy, F. C..<br /> March 18, Schwarz, Prof. Ernest .<br /> March 19, Wallace, Sir Donald Mac-<br /> kenzie, K.C.V.O. .<br /> March 21, Wharton, Leonard .<br /> March 22, Holbach, Mrs. . . .<br /> March 23, Parks, H. C. . :<br /> · ·<br /> .<br /> · ·<br /> ·<br /> .<br /> .<br /> · ·<br /> .<br /> · · ·<br /> 0<br /> .<br /> M HE Committee of Management, instead of<br /> 0 5 0 1 holding its monthly meeting in May, held it on<br /> 0 5 0 April 29, meeting at the offices of the society<br /> 1 1 0 at the usual hour on that date.<br /> 5 5 0 After the minutes of the previous meetings hac<br /> 0 5 0 been read and signed the names of authors seeking<br /> 0 8 6 admission to the society were laid before the com-<br /> mittee. Twenty-three members and associates were<br /> 1 1 0 added to the list for the current year, bringing the<br /> 1 1 0 total elections for the year up to 156. Four<br /> 1 0 0 resignations were accepted by the committee with<br /> 0 10 0 regret.<br /> 1 1 0 The solicitor then laid before the committee the<br /> report of the cases. In one dispute which had been<br /> placed in his hands with the sanction of the chair-<br /> man during the month, he reported that he had<br /> 0 gone into the matter, and it seemed clear that<br /> the publisher had dealt with some rights belonging<br /> 0 5 0 to the member, without the member&#039;s sanction.<br /> 1 1 0 The issues were a little involved by other claims;<br /> O but after full discussion, the committee decided to<br /> O take action on behalf of the member, and the<br /> 0 5 0 solicitor was instructed accordingly. The solicitor<br /> 0 10 0 reported further on certain of the cases mentioned<br /> 0 in the last issue of The Author. In one instance<br /> 10 a claim for the recovery of money the money had<br /> 0 2 6 been obtained and the accounts had been settled.<br /> 10 0 Another dispute with a publisher had been settled<br /> also, the only point remaining over being the<br /> 0 checking of a charge for corrections in the<br /> 1 1 0 publisher&#039;s accounts. When the voucher was pro-<br /> 1 0 duced it was found that the publisher had charged<br /> 0 3 0 108. beyond the printers&#039; statement for his own<br /> 0 5 0 time and trouble. The committee instructed the<br /> solicitor to take steps to set aside this claim, giving<br /> 5 0<br /> at the same time authority to the secretary to ask<br /> 0 5 0 for formal vouchers where statements of account<br /> 0 5 0 containing a charge for corrections in the future<br /> 0 5 0 were forwarded from this publisher. In three<br /> Berreteroreroo<br /> .<br /> .<br /> · · ·<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> .<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 230 (#688) ############################################<br /> <br /> 230<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> small County Court cases against papers for non The secretary reported to the committee the result<br /> payment of sums due, the solicitors were glad to of the meeting of the Joint Committee of the Society<br /> report that the amounts had been paid and for- of Authors, the Copyright Association, and the<br /> warded to the members. In a dispute reported in Publishers&#039; Association. He stated that the society&#039;s<br /> last month&#039;s Author, between two members of the report on the regulations issued by the Board of<br /> society the solicitor stated that he was waiting for a Trade under the Copyright Act, 1911, had been<br /> further report. There were two or three claims approved by the Joint Committee; that some sug-<br /> against a publisher who gave the society some gestions in no way inimical to the society&#039;s altera-<br /> trouble last year. Particulars of the cases were tions, but calculated to strengthen the position of<br /> laid before the committee, and it was decided that authors and composers, had been passed, and that<br /> the cases should be taken in band, and that as soon Sir Frederick Macmillan, who was acting as Chair-<br /> as the solicitor could get a clear cause of action, man of the Joint Committee, had promised to put<br /> action should be taken. In the meantime the these additional proposals forward.<br /> other cases should be settled as far as possible. Two donations to the Capital Fund of the Society,<br /> Some of the disputes were so involved by delays (one of 108. 6d. from Mrs. Thornton Cook, and one<br /> and other issues that they were difficult to deal with, of £1 18. from the Baroness de Knoop) were grate-<br /> but the committee felt it essential that the fully acknowledged by the committee, and the receipt<br /> publisher should be pressed to carry out his con- of a life membership subscription from Mrs.<br /> tracts in a businesslike fashion, for the benefit of Curlewis (Ethel Turner) was reported by the<br /> the authors concerned. The secretary, who had secretary.<br /> brought before the committee a proposal to publish<br /> an article in The Author on a clause in a publisher&#039;s<br /> DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> agreement, reported that the matter was withdrawn<br /> as the author did not desire, at the present time,<br /> THE Dramatic Sub-Committee held its monthly<br /> that the article should be printed.<br /> meeting at the offices of the society on May 17.<br /> The secretary reported that he had obtained the The secretary reported that he had heard from the<br /> chairman s leave in another case to place it in the Society of West End Managers that the copies of<br /> hands of the society&#039;s American lawyers. It was a the “ Managerial Treaty ” which had been sent to<br /> small case of infringement of a member&#039;s rights, them had been forwarded to their members for<br /> and the committee confirmed the action that had consideration. The Dramatic Sub-Committee now<br /> been taken. The last legal matter dealt with the awaits a further reply. As one or two of the<br /> responsibility of an editor for articles which he had delegates named at the former meeting were unable<br /> ordered. The claim arose owing to the fact that the to act, the Dramatic Sub-Committee selected other<br /> articles had been ordered for a paper without the members from the society&#039;s dramatic section, and<br /> editor disclosing that the paper was run by a instructed the secretary to inquire whether they<br /> limited liability company, and the company having would be ready to undertake the duties.<br /> gone into liquidation, no money had been forth An agency agreement was laid before the com-<br /> coming for the author. The committee decided to mittee, and attention was drawn to the percentage<br /> support the member in a claim against the gentle it was proposed to charge for the collection of fees<br /> man who had ordered the articles.<br /> from amateurs. The secretary was instructed to<br /> The question of Canadian copyright was again write to the firm concerned, pointing out that the<br /> brought before the committee owing to the receipt Dramatic Sub-Committee considered the suggested<br /> of a letter from a Canadian correspondent of the fees exorbitant, and that if these fees were not<br /> society. The chairman kindly undertook to write reduced it would be impossible for the society to<br /> to Sir Gilbert Parker, who had consented to act as advise dramatists to place the collection of their<br /> the society&#039;s representative in Canada on his visit fees with the firm in question.<br /> there in June. The chairman further promised to The question of cineinatograph fees was again<br /> forward Sir Gilbert a copy of the letter which the before the sub-committee. It appeared from the<br /> society had already sent to the Premier and to the evidence collected that so far no definite standard<br /> Minister of Agriculture.<br /> of payınent bad been fixed in foreign countries.<br /> It was decided to have a series of articles in The The secretary was instructed to collect as much<br /> Author dealing with the subject of “The Cost of evidence as he could in order to guide the sub-<br /> Production.”<br /> committee as to the fees they should advise<br /> On the suggestion of one of the Nobel Prize Com- members of the society to accept. The question<br /> mittee it was decided to ask the chairman of that of cinematograph fees then brought the sub-<br /> committee (Lord Avebury) to convene a meeting to committee to the schedule of fees which it is<br /> discuss the present position, and the secretary was proposed to place at the disposal of the dramatic<br /> instructed to act accordingly.<br /> section of the society. The secretary was instructed<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 231 (#689) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 231<br /> II.<br /> to inquire of some dozen or so of the dramatists,<br /> members of the society, whether they would furnish<br /> the Dramatic Sub-Committee with a statement of<br /> their fees, for the guidance of their fellow dramatic<br /> authors. It was decided that the names of the<br /> dramatists furnishing such information should be<br /> kept confidential. It is hoped by means of the<br /> information thus collected to compile a schedule of<br /> prices which shall assist dramatists, many of whom<br /> enter into agreements and dispose of their rights at<br /> ridiculous prices, through sheer ignorance of their<br /> position. Several of the members of the Dramatic<br /> Sub-Committee present promised to forward their<br /> own list of prices.<br /> The secretary reported the receipt of certain<br /> letters touching the appointment of agents in other<br /> countries, but the consideration of the matter was<br /> adjourned.<br /> The dramatic competition in The Era was also<br /> before the sub-committee, and the secretary read<br /> the article that had appeared in the April issue of<br /> The Author. The action taken was approved by<br /> the sub-committee.<br /> The monthly meeting of this sub-committee<br /> was held at the offices of the society on Saturday,<br /> May 11. After the minutes of the previous<br /> meeting had been read and signed, the secretary<br /> reported the action of the Copyright Sub-Committee<br /> in the matter of Messrs. Curwen&#039;s agreement, and<br /> this action received the approval of the Composers&#039;<br /> Sub-Committee, to refer the agreement back to<br /> the Committee of Management in order to obtain,<br /> if possible, the approval of that body.<br /> The letter to be sent to the Music Publishers&#039;<br /> Association in regard to the fees for performing<br /> rights was finally settled, and it was decided to<br /> adjourn the question of the amount of the fees till<br /> the next meeting.<br /> The agreement of the Mechanical Copyright<br /> Licences Company was read to the committee, but<br /> discussion was again adjourned pending the issue<br /> of the regulations of the Board of Trade in their<br /> final form. It was decided, however, to send copies<br /> of the agreement to members of the Composers&#039;<br /> Sub-Committee that they might have time to consider<br /> it before the next meeting, when the question would<br /> be further discussed.<br /> The Composers&#039; Sub-Committee also sent a<br /> recommendation to the Committee of Management<br /> that, in addition to undertaking the stamping of<br /> composers&#039; music, the society should collect the<br /> gramaphone fees, subject to the payment of a per-<br /> centage, as the collection of these fees was likely to<br /> be a matter of importance under the new Act.<br /> Finally, the secretary placed before the Sub-Com-<br /> mittee a dispute between a composer of the society<br /> and a publisher, and the matter was referred to the<br /> Committee of Management, in the strong hope that<br /> action would be taken.<br /> COMPOSERS&#039; SUB-COMMITTEE.<br /> THERE was a special meeting of the Composers&#039;<br /> Sub-Committee on Saturday, April 27, at the<br /> Society&#039;s office, to meet delegates from the Music<br /> Publishers&#039; Association with a view to ascertaining<br /> how far, under the new Act, it would be possible<br /> for publishers and composers to secure some returns<br /> on the performing rights. The chairman of the<br /> committee of management, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge,<br /> kindly undertook to act as chairman at the<br /> meeting.<br /> Mr. Elkin, the delegate from the Music Pub<br /> lishers&#039; Association explained the matter as he<br /> understood it from the publishers&#039; point of view,<br /> and after considerable discussion it was decided to<br /> make out a list of all the music on which it was<br /> thought possible fees for performance could be<br /> claimed.<br /> The list, after keen debate, was agreed to by the<br /> Sab-Committee. The representative of the Music<br /> Publishers&#039; Association stated he would be very<br /> happy to put the question before the committee of<br /> his association at their next meeting, when he<br /> trusted it might be possible to decide upon some<br /> satisfactory joint action. The Secretary was<br /> instructed to forward the list, as settled, to the<br /> association, and at the same time the Sub-Committee<br /> suggested that the fees should be moderate. If an<br /> agreement can be reached on the matter of the<br /> performing rights no doubt a further meeting will<br /> be called in order to discuss the amount of the fees<br /> to be charged, and the machinery for collection.<br /> Cases.<br /> The usual tally of cases has passed through the<br /> offices of the society during the month of May. The<br /> numbers have varied but little from month to month<br /> during the present year. Fifteen cases have been<br /> dealt with. Four of these were claims for the<br /> return of MSS. ; in one the MS. has been returned :<br /> in one some of the MSS. have been handed in, and<br /> it is hoped that the rest will come, after a more<br /> careful search ; in another case the editor, who had<br /> control of the MSS., is at present away from the<br /> office on a holiday, but on his return the matter will<br /> receive his close consideration ; the last case is still<br /> open.<br /> There were four claims for moneys and accounts.<br /> Two have been satisfactorily settled ; one has been<br /> placed in the hands of the society&#039;s solicitors, and<br /> the last has only recently come into the office.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 232 (#690) ############################################<br /> <br /> 232<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Of two cases for infringement of copyright, one,<br /> rather a difficult matter, will, most probably, have<br /> to go before the committee and be placed in the<br /> hands of the society&#039;s solicitors ; the other, lying in<br /> India, will take some time in settlement.<br /> There has been one claim for accounts and<br /> money in which the accounts and cheque were<br /> forwarded to the author, but it was found that<br /> the accounts were wrong. The publisher, on<br /> having his attention drawn to the matter, imme-<br /> diately undertook to have them readjusted and<br /> a fresh cheque made out. It is a curious thing,<br /> however, that out of the many cases of wrong<br /> accounts none has come to the office where the<br /> mistake has been in favour of the author. No<br /> doubt from time to time clerks make mistakes<br /> and, accordingly, the accounts must be wrong, but<br /> it is strange that the mistakes should always be on<br /> one side.<br /> Of four claims for money one has been settled<br /> and the money has been forwarded to the author<br /> concerned ; one has only recently come into the<br /> office, and the other two will, most probably, have<br /> to be placed in the hands of the society&#039;s solicitors.<br /> There are very few cases left over from former<br /> months, and none of them is very important.<br /> During the month one or two matters have had to<br /> be placed in the hands of the society&#039;s solicitors,<br /> whose report will be laid before the committee at<br /> their meeting in June and will appear in the July<br /> Author.<br /> Knight, Alfred Ernest . Kingsley, Brunswick<br /> Road, Sutton,<br /> Surrey.<br /> . . Aldbourne, Wilts.<br /> Mackenzie, Miss Evelyn. Traverston, West<br /> Road, Cambridge.<br /> O&#039;Reilly, W. H. . . 47, Powis Square,<br /> Bayswater, W.<br /> Peacock, J. Wadham Rosslyn, Newman<br /> Road, Bromley,<br /> Kent.<br /> Price, Morgan Phillips Tibberton Court,<br /> Gloucester.<br /> Rankin, Amy Hale. . Kingswood, Warwick-<br /> shire.<br /> Rock, W. S.<br /> Rosman, Alice Grant : c/o Commercial Bank<br /> of Australia,<br /> Bishopsgate.<br /> Stanger, Mrs. H. Y. . New Brighton,<br /> Cheshire.<br /> Wilkinson, G. Jerrard . Caius House, Batter-<br /> sea Square, S.W.<br /> BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br /> Elections.<br /> Barney, Charles G., Jr. 20, West 8th Street,<br /> New York.<br /> Burrows. Arnold , Grosvenor House,<br /> Mold.<br /> Davson, Gordon . . 20, Ennismore Gar-<br /> dens, N.W.<br /> Davson, Major H.M., R.H.A. White&#039;s Club, St.<br /> James&#039;s.<br /> Denny, Ernest . . 36, Loudoun Road,<br /> St. John&#039;s Wood,<br /> N.W.<br /> Glass, Montague . . 504, West 143 Street,<br /> New York, U.S.A.<br /> Glyn, Miss Elinor . . c/o Messrs. Curtis<br /> Brown &amp; Massie,<br /> 5, Henrietta Street,<br /> W.C.<br /> Gritton, John.<br /> Hastings, Basil Macdonald Wella Willa, Pickwick<br /> Road, Dulwich<br /> Village.<br /> Hawthorne, Dr. Charles 0. 63, Harley Street, W.<br /> Jones, Sidney . . . Albany Chambers,<br /> 196, Regent Street,<br /> W.<br /> WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br /> this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br /> some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br /> that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br /> by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br /> largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br /> other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br /> co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br /> particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br /> accurate.<br /> BIOGRAPHY.<br /> CHARLOTTE SOPHIE, COUNTESS BEXTINCK ; HER LIFE<br /> AND TIMES, 1715-1800. By her descendant, MES.<br /> AUBREY LE BLOND. With over 70 illustrations from<br /> original paintings, facsimiles of letters, &amp;c. 2 Volumes.<br /> Hutchinson. 248. n.<br /> FOURTEEN YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC LIFE IN JAPAN.<br /> Leaves from the Diary of Baroness Albert D&#039;Anethan.<br /> With an Introduction by H. E. BAROX KATO. 9 x 51.<br /> 471 pp. Stanley Paul. 188, n.<br /> AN INJURED QUEEX, CAROLINE OP BRCXSWICK. By<br /> LEWIS MELVILLE. 84 x 54. 614 pp. Hutchinson.<br /> 218. n,<br /> BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br /> THE STATESMAN&#039;S YEAR BOOK, 1912. Edited by J.<br /> SCOTT KELTIE. Forty-ninth Annual Publication. 7 x<br /> 41 428 pp. Macmillan. 108. 60&#039; n.<br /> COOKERY.<br /> LETTERS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS. By MARIE DE<br /> JoncouRT. 77 x 5. 133 pp. Kegan Paul. Is. 6d. n.<br /> DRAMA.<br /> THE HERALDS OF THE DAWN. A Play in Eight Scenes.<br /> By WILLIAM WATSON, 8 X 51. 93 pp. Lane. 45. 64. n<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 233 (#691) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 233<br /> THE TRAGEDY OF AMY ROBSART. By HAROLD HARDY,<br /> 81 x 54. 95 pp. Robert Banks, Racquet Court, Fleet<br /> Street, E.C. 28. 6d. n.<br /> THE CLOUDS. By C. M. DOUGłty. 81 x 54. 146 pp.<br /> Duckworth. 58. n.<br /> FIVE LITTLE PLAYS. By ALFRED SUTRO. 7 x 5.<br /> 131 pp. Duckworth. 1s. 60, n.<br /> FICTION.<br /> A HEALTH UNTO HIS MAJESTY, By JUSTIN HUNTLY<br /> MCCARTHY. 74 x 5. 364 pp. Hurst &amp; Blackett. 68.<br /> LENA SWALLOW. By H. W. C. NEWTE. 7} X 5. 414 pp.<br /> Mills &amp; Boon. 18. n.<br /> ROGER&#039;S LUCK. By ROSAMUND SOUTHEY. 71 x 5.<br /> 320 pp. Ham-Smith. 68.<br /> WAR AND THE WOMAN. By MAX PEMBERTON. 78 X 5.<br /> 304 pp. Cassell. 68.<br /> WINTERING HAY. By John TREVENA, 510 pp. Con.<br /> stable. 68.<br /> THE INVIOLABLE SANCTUARY. By G. A. BIRMINGHAM,<br /> 7} x 5. 369 pp. Nelson. 28.<br /> THE SILVER MEDALLION. By PERCY JAMES BREBNER.<br /> 74 X 5. 346 pp. Mills &amp; Boon. 68.<br /> THE TOWER HILL MYSTERY. By A. WILSON BARRETT.<br /> 74 x 5. 320 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br /> A KING AND A COWARD. By EFFIE ADELAIDE Row.<br /> LANDS. 7 x 5. 316 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 68.<br /> PETER RAFF. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. 7} x 5.<br /> 247 pp. Hodder &amp; Stoughton. 28. n.<br /> THE GREAT SHADOW, AND OTHER NAPOLEONIC TALES.<br /> By ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. 64 x 41. 344 pp. Nelson<br /> nå.<br /> TESS OF THE D&#039;URBERVILLES. BY THOMAS HARDY.<br /> 9 x 54. 508 pp. Macmillan. 78. 6d. n.<br /> THE VICAR OF NORMANTON. 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Selected,<br /> with an Introduction by THOMAS SECCOMBE. 6 X 4.<br /> 320 pp. Blackie. 28. 68. n.<br /> THE MENAECHMI: The Original of Shakespeare&#039;s<br /> “Comedy of Errors.&quot; The Latin Text, together with<br /> the Elizabethan Translation. Edited by W. H. D.<br /> ROUSE, Litt.D. The Shakespeare Library. 7 X 51.<br /> 122 pp. Chatto &amp; Windus. 28. 6d. n.<br /> THEOLOGY.<br /> MIRACLES AND HISTORY. A Study of the Virgin Birth<br /> and the Resurrection. By The Rev. J. H. SKRINE.<br /> 9 x 6. 143 pp. Longmans. 38. 6d. n.<br /> THE FRIENDSHIP OF CHRIST. By ROBERT HUGH<br /> BENSON. 78 X 54. 167 pp. Longmans. 38. 6d. n.<br /> THE PATHWAY OF SALVATION. By THE REV. T. A. LACEY.<br /> 61 X 4. 52 pp. S.P.C.K. 6d.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 234 (#692) ############################################<br /> <br /> 234<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> MISCELLANEOUS.<br /> THE REVOLUTIONS OF CIVILIZATION. By PROF. W. 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By PATRICIA WENTWORTH, 427 pp.<br /> New York : Putnams. $1.35 n.<br /> LITERARY.<br /> SHAKESPEARE: A STUDY BY DARRELL FIGGIS. 345 pp.<br /> New York : Kennerley. $2 n.<br /> N the recommendation of the Academic Com-<br /> mittee, the Council of the Royal Society of<br /> Literature has determined to award the<br /> Gold Medal of the society to Mr. Thomas Hardy.<br /> The last recipient was George Meredith. The<br /> medal is now being struck, and will be presented<br /> to Mr. Hardy on his next birthday, June 2.<br /> Mr. Hubert Wales&#039; new book, &quot;The Spinster,&quot;<br /> was published by Mr. John Long at the end<br /> of last month.<br /> We regret that in the notice of Mr. Fred G.<br /> Shaw&#039;s book, “ Our Future Existence,&quot; published<br /> in our last issue, we omitted to mention that Messrs.<br /> Stanley Paul &amp; Co., of 31, Essex Street, Strand,<br /> W.C., were the publishers.<br /> Miss K. Everest has published her first book of<br /> poetry, entitled “ The Dreaming Antinous &quot; and<br /> other poems. The publisher is Mr. Erskine<br /> Macdonald, 17, Surrey Street, Strand, and the<br /> book is issued at 2s. 6d.<br /> Mr. Arthur E. Baker, of the Public Library,<br /> Taunton,&#039; has just completed, after seven years<br /> labour, a concordance to the works of the late<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 235 (#693) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 235<br /> Lord Tennyson. Messrs. George Routledge &amp; Sons But this practice of payment on publication,<br /> have undertaken to publish the work, provided a involving as it does a constant scrutiny by writers<br /> sufficient number of subscribers be obtained to of magazines which have accepted their MSS., is<br /> justify its publication. A fair number of sub- very irritating to authors. It is bad enough when<br /> scriptions have been received, but more are required the writer is, so to speak, on the spot, but<br /> &#039;before the work can be put into print. The when, as is the case of the British contributor to<br /> volume contains a verbal index to the poetical American magazines, he is miles away from the<br /> and dramatic works of the author comprised in market, it becomes practically intolerable. It<br /> the complete edition published by Messrs. Mac- clearly would not pay any author so situated to contri-<br /> millan &amp; Co., Ltd.; the poems contained in the bute to an American issue conducted on these lines.<br /> Life of Lord Tennyson by his son, and published It is satisfactory to note that payment on accept-<br /> by the same publishers; also to the suppressed ance is the rule in America, but because the less<br /> poems, edited by J. C. Thomson and arranged by satisfactory method of payment on publication<br /> Messrs. Sands &amp; Co. It contains approximately is being adopted by some of the American publica-<br /> 150,000 references or quotations, and is arranged tions, it behoves authors, and particularly British<br /> in strict alphabetical sequence : the different senses authors, to be sure of the practice of American<br /> of the same word are frequently distinguished magazines in this respect before submitting work<br /> under separate headings. The subscription price to them.<br /> is one guinea nett, to be increased to twenty-five Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond&#039;s new work, “Charlotte<br /> shillings nett upon publication.<br /> Sophie, Countess Bentinck,&quot; was issued last month<br /> We regret that a paragraph in our April issue by Messrs. Hutchinson &amp; Co. The subject of this<br /> conveyed the impression that Mrs. Bernard Whishaw work lived in an extremely interesting period of<br /> was preparing the new edition of “ Baedeker&#039;s European history. The assassinated King of Sweden<br /> Spain.” This is not the case. Mrs. Whishaw&#039;s had been her suitor ; she had lived at Berlin in<br /> work in connection with the Guide has been to close friendship with Frederick the Great, and at<br /> revise the selection relating to Seville.<br /> Vienna on terms of intimacy with Marie Thérèse.<br /> We have received from The Editor Company, Stanislaus of Poland was one of her friends, and<br /> Ridgewood, New Jersey, a little magazine, published amongst men of letters she included nearly every<br /> by that company, entitled The Editor. The April one of note.<br /> issue, which is before us, contains a good deal of The work is published in two volumes, and<br /> information useful to writers anxious to gain a foot- contains over seventy illustrations from original<br /> ing on the American magazine market. It pro- paintings, facsimiles of letters, etc.<br /> vides a monthly record of the requirements of the Mr. Frederic M. Halford has just issued, through<br /> American magazines, which, it would seem, alter Messrs. George Routledge &amp; Sons, a new book for<br /> too quickly to make an annual record of much use the dry-fly angler. It is called the “Dry-Fly<br /> to the author. It also gives particulars of the Man&#039;s Handbook : a Complete Manual,” including<br /> practices of the different magazines in regard to the The Fisherman&#039;s Entomology ; and The Making<br /> return of MSS., as well as the rates and times of and Management of a Fishery. There are forty<br /> payment and other matters important to the free photogravure plates, and numerous illustrations<br /> lance. For example, we learn from The Editor and diagrams printed in the text.<br /> that the Twentieth Century Magazine, of 5, Park “An Angler at Large” is the title of a new book<br /> Square, Boston, is not able, at present, “ to pay for which Messrs. Kegan Paul &amp; Co. are publishing<br /> its serious articles.” Whether, with this informa- for Mr. William Caine, who is known to readers of<br /> tion before them, writers will be wise to submit “The Field ” as a writer on angling under his<br /> humorous work (which probably would need to be pseudonym of “ W. Quilliam &quot; in the paper.<br /> .so marked to prevent dispute subsequently) is not At the Mechanics&#039; Institute, Bradford, on<br /> quite clear, nor, as The Editor points out, is any. April 29, recitals from the works of Mr.<br /> thing said of verse or fiction,<br /> Mackenzie Bell were given by Mr. William Miles.<br /> We regret to notice, also, that some of the Some half-a-dozen or so pieces were presented by<br /> American publications are adopting the practice of Mr. Miles, including “The Keeping of the Vow,&quot;<br /> paying for work after publication instead of on “ The Battle&#039;s Pause,” and “No Sun ever Rose<br /> acceptance. Moreover, in one case at any rate, it without Setting.”<br /> is quite frankly stated that “no certain date of Although the late Justin McCarthy&#039;s “ History<br /> publication can be promised.” It should be added, of Our Own Time” is so well known, there is a<br /> however, that failing publication within a reason- most attractive piece of annal writing which he<br /> able time from acceptance, the author would be wrote that has fallen out of sight. When the Daily<br /> entitled to payment, despite the rule of the editor Veur&#039;s attained its jubilee in the year 1890, he<br /> of the magazine.<br /> compiled, as a kind of souvenir of the event, a<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 236 (#694) ############################################<br /> <br /> 236<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> political and social retrospect of the fifty years of Messrs. Williams &amp; Norgate have published<br /> Queen Victoria&#039;s reign. It is now published by “The Quest: A Drama of Deliverance,&quot; by Miss<br /> Messrs. Sampson Low &amp; Co.<br /> Dorothea Hollins, author of “The Veiled Figure,<br /> Early in September Messrs. Mills &amp; Boon will and Other Poems” (Williams &amp; Norgate), “The<br /> publish “ The Swimmer,” a new novel by Louise Herbs of Medea” (Elkin Mathews), and other works.<br /> Gerard. It deals with the struggles in the life of a<br /> girl poet from her baby days to her womanhood,<br /> DRAMATIC.<br /> and contains many sketches of poverty in its varying<br /> phases.<br /> We have received from the Era office a pamphlet<br /> Mr. Bloundelle-Burton&#039;s new romance, “The on the Copyright Act, 1911, so far as the Act affects<br /> Sea Devils,” now ready, is somewhat of the nature Dramatic and Musical Copyright. It has been<br /> of “The Hispaniola Plate,&quot; by which he first compiled by Mr. A. A. Strong, who has quoted<br /> became known to the reading public, though there is sections of the Act likely to be of importance to<br /> no treasure-seeking—nor finding-in it. The story dramatists, adding explanations where explanations<br /> is laid in and around Lisbon, whence the Armada have seemed necessary.<br /> sailed, and to which it returned in woeful plight The repertory of the Abbey Theatre Company,<br /> some of it; and the Inquisition is also prominent during the season which will open at the Court<br /> in the narrative. The hero is himself an English Theatre on June 3, will include plays new to<br /> sailor, and the heroine is a Spanish girl, resident in London, by Mr. William Boyle, Mr. T. C. Murray<br /> Lisbon. Their love gets tangled, however, from and Mr. Lennox Robinson, besides Mr. W. B.<br /> the fact that, at first, the girl has believed her lover Yeats&#039;s “ The Countess Cathleen,&quot; in its new<br /> to be a Spaniard himself, and hence “woes version.<br /> unnumbered spring.” Naturally enough an English “Mrs. Dane’s Defence,&quot; by Henry Arthur Jones,<br /> sailor and his brother “sea-devils” know well was revived at the New Theatre on May 16. In<br /> enough how to put matters right at last. The the cast were Sir Charles Wyndham, Miss Mary<br /> book is published by F. V. White &amp; Co., Limited. Moore, Mr. Sam Sothern, and Miss Lena Ashwell.<br /> On May 10 Mr. Martin Secker published a first The Actor&#039;s Sword Club announce a special<br /> book by Lionel Allshorn, entitled “Stupor Mundi: matinee to be given on Thursday, the June 13,<br /> the Life and Times of Frederick the Second, at 3 p.m., on “ The Duel throughout the Ages,&quot;<br /> Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and from the gladiator combat of ancient Rome to the<br /> Jerusalem, 1194-1250 A.D.&quot; (16s. net.) The modern French duel. Between the itenis, Mr.<br /> chief interest of the subject lies in the dramatic Egerton Castle will briefly describe the development<br /> struggle between Frederick and the Popes. This of the weapons. Tickets may be obtained at the<br /> most gifted of the mediæral Emperors was the St. James&#039;s Theatre, from Mr. J. P. Blake, 147,<br /> object of a peculiarly violent hostility. He was Leadenhall Street, E.C., or from Mr. Gerald Ames,<br /> excommunicated again and again, and was finally Hon. Secretary Actor&#039;s Sword Club, 159, Brompton<br /> solemnly deposed from his thrones by Innocent IV. Road, S.W. The performance is in aid of the<br /> in the Council of Lyons. The historian Freeman Actors&#039; Benevolent Fund.<br /> has called him “the most gifted of the sons of “ The Double Game,&quot; by Mr. Maurice Baring,<br /> men ... in sheer genius the greatest Prince who was produced at the Kingsway Theatre on May 7.<br /> ever wore a crown.&quot; There is only one other book The play deals with the Russian revolutionary<br /> on the subject in the English language, and that movement, and the action centres round three<br /> was published half a century ago.<br /> characters, two men and a girl. The girl is a<br /> “The Norse King&#039;s Bridal,” ballads from the revolutionist to whom it falls to carry out the<br /> Danish and Old Norse, with original verses, by assassination of a hated official. After standing up<br /> E. M. Smith-Dampier, was published in March by for one of the men to whom she has given her heart,<br /> Andrew Melrose. 28. net.<br /> the girl is forced to realise that he is a police spy,<br /> Mr. Arthur Dillon&#039;s forthcoming book will con and tragedy follows her disillusionment. In the<br /> sist of a connected trilogy, or set of three tragedies cast were Miss Erniter Lascelles, Mr. Claude King,<br /> in a sequence. Mr. Elkin Mathews already has and Mr. Harcourt Williams.<br /> the volume in preparation.<br /> “ The Five Frankforters,” a comedy in three acts,<br /> The Hon. J. M. Creed, Member of the Legis- by Captain Basil Hood, was produced at the Lyric<br /> lative Council of New South Wales, delivered a Theatre on May 7. The play presents a picture<br /> paper, at the Royal Colonial Institute on May 14th, of the life of a wealthy Jewish family, and describes<br /> on the Settlement by “Whites” of Tropical their attempt to marry one of the girls to an<br /> Australia. The meeting was held at the Hotel impecunious duke. In the cast are Miss Henrietta<br /> Métropole, and the Duke of Marlborough was in Watson, Mr. Louis Calvert, Mr. C. M. Lowne, Miss<br /> the chair.<br /> Gladys Grey, and Mr. Leonard Quartermaine.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 237 (#695) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 237<br /> PARIS NOTES.<br /> volume is an account of the various insects which<br /> are harmful to agriculture. It is illustrated with<br /> sixteen photogravures.<br /> Among books of interest to English readers are<br /> “ Bernard Shaw et son (Euvre ” by Charles Cestre.<br /> “Sous la Neige,” by Edith Wharton, another<br /> novel by the author of « Chez les Heureux du<br /> Monde,” and “ Les Metteurs en scène.&quot;<br /> ALYS HALLARD.<br /> “Napoléon à Sainte Hélène&quot; (Ollendorf).<br /> “L&#039;Evolution du Dogme Catholique&quot; (Emile Nourry).<br /> “Le Droit de massacrer les Hérétiques&quot; (Emile Nourry).<br /> “Evolution de la France Agricole” (Armand Colin).<br /> “La Direction de la Guerre&quot; (Marc Imhaus &amp; René.<br /> Chapelot).<br /> “ Histoire universelle du Travail” (F. Alcan).<br /> “Les Ravageurs&quot; (Delagrave).<br /> “ Bernard Shaw et son Cuvre” (Mercure de France).<br /> “Sous la Neige&quot; (Plon-Nourrit).<br /> PUBLISHERS&#039; ROYALTY AGREEMENTS.<br /> “T&#039;ELÈVE Gilles,&quot; by M. André Lafon, has<br /> U won for its author a French Academy<br /> prize of ten thousand francs. It is a<br /> psychological study of a schoolboy, and with the<br /> exception of a painful domestic tragedy, there is not<br /> much incident. M. Lafon is quite young, and this<br /> is his first novel.<br /> The French Academy Gobert prize has been<br /> divided this year, and awarded to M. Louis Madelin<br /> for his book “ La Révolution,” and to M. Pierre<br /> Champion for his “ Vie de Charles d&#039;Orléans.”<br /> The Berger prize has been awarded to M. de<br /> Laborie for his “ Paris sous Napoléon.”<br /> “ Napoléon à Sainte Hélène (1815-1821)&quot; by<br /> Frédéric Masson, is the last of the volumes on this<br /> subject. The three volumes entitled “ Autour de<br /> Sainte Hélène ” gave us details with regard to the<br /> various persons who approached the Emperor during<br /> his captivity. In the present book we have an<br /> account of that captivity and of his death in<br /> 1821.<br /> A series of books is to be published on<br /> * L&#039;Evolution du Dogme catholique.&quot; The first<br /> one, on “Les Origines,” by Félix Goblet d&#039;Alviella,<br /> has appeared, and another volume is to be published<br /> each year,<br /> “ Le Droit de massacrer les Hérétiques&quot; is a<br /> reply by the author of the “ Mariage des Prêtres”<br /> to the Père Janvier, 0.P., after his lecture in the<br /> cathedral of Notre-Dame.<br /> In the series of books published as the<br /> “ Bibliothèque du Mouvement social contem-<br /> porain ” M. Michel Augé Laribe has just brought<br /> out his “ Evolution de la France agricole.” In<br /> this volume the author has endeavoured to explain<br /> the workings of the French agricultural systems,<br /> the progress realised by French agriculture, and the<br /> difficulties with which it has to contend.<br /> “ La Direction de la Guerre” (La liberté d&#039;action<br /> des généraux en chef), by the Commandant V.<br /> Dupuis, is an extremely instructive book for all who<br /> are interested in military questions. The author<br /> has received the Gobert prize from the French<br /> Academy.<br /> “La Guerre telle qu&#039;on la fait,&quot; by Lieutenant<br /> Jaray, is another book on a subject of universal<br /> interest.<br /> A series of twelve volumes is being published on<br /> the “ Histoire universelle du Travail.” Paul<br /> Louis has just published one of this series on “Le<br /> Travail dans le Monde romain,&quot; and F. Maury<br /> another on “Les Valeurs françaises depuis dix<br /> ans : leurs résultats, leurs garanties, and Etudes<br /> statistiques.” They are both books that will<br /> interest social economists.<br /> “ Les Ravageurs,” by JH. Fabre. This<br /> THE AUTHOR GRANTS.<br /> TN the evolution of the management of literary<br /> I and musical property, it has become almost<br /> a universal custom for publishers to submit<br /> their agreements to authors rather than for anthors<br /> to draft and submit their agreements to publishers.<br /> In consequence, a large number of publishers have<br /> made it part and parcel of their agreements to ask<br /> for everything they can possibly obtain, and unless<br /> the author is aware of the dangers and difficulties<br /> inherent in these agreements he may, unwittingly,<br /> sign away his birthright.<br /> In considering the question of agreements, there-<br /> fore, it will assist authors if the terms and clauses<br /> are taken from agreements which have been known<br /> to be offered for signature, and the difficulties of the<br /> clauses explained, rather than that a formal clause<br /> should be laid before them for their consideration.<br /> An agreement to be clear should be drafted in a<br /> certain specific form. It should begin with a recital<br /> of the parties. The first clause should indicate the<br /> rights the author grants; the second clause the<br /> duties the publisher undertakes, and the third clause<br /> the royalties (for this paper professes to be a con-<br /> sideration of a royalty agreement) and other<br /> considerations the publisher is willing to pay for<br /> the rights which the author grants to him.<br /> B efore the clauses, which have been taken from<br /> publishers&#039; agreements, are set out, it will be as well<br /> to state roughly what, as a general rule, it is wise<br /> an author should grant to a publisher.<br /> First it should be stated, and the statement can-<br /> not be too often repeated, that<br /> NO AUTHOR SHOULD TRANSFER HIS COPYRIGHT<br /> TO A PUBLISHER WHILE HE PRESERVES A CON-<br /> TINUING INTEREST IN HIS WORK.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 238 (#696) ############################################<br /> <br /> 238<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> What, then, should the author grant?<br /> His clause, which ought to be Clause I., should<br /> run somewhat on the following lines:<br /> &quot;The Author grants to the Publisher a licence to publish<br /> his work entitled<br /> &#039;in book form in format<br /> (or in a format agreed between Author and Publisher) at<br /> the published price of in the English language.&quot;<br /> This form should be slightly altered when it<br /> comes to a musical composition, but on the subject<br /> of agreements for musical compositions, readers are<br /> referred to the May (1910) issue of The Author.<br /> The clause printed above gives a rough idea of<br /> the model form of the clause which contains the<br /> author&#039;s conveyance. It is sometimes desirable<br /> to leave the format of the book to the discretion of<br /> the publisher. It is important that the pub-<br /> lisher should be limited to the publication of the<br /> work at a fixed price, say £1 18. ; 10s. 6d. ; 68. ;<br /> 58., etc., and it should be distinctly stated whether<br /> the price is “ nett” or subject to discount. The<br /> other limitations which this clause should contain<br /> are :<br /> (1) Limitations as to country (generally Great<br /> Britain and Ireland, the Colonies and<br /> dependencies thereof).<br /> (2) Limitations as to edition (an edition of 1,000,<br /> 2,000, or 3,000 copies).<br /> (3) Limitation as to time (for a period of three,<br /> five, or seven years);<br /> (4) Limitations which combine one or two of the<br /> former (Great Britain and Ireland for a<br /> period of seven years).<br /> It is now essential to set out, from the publishers<br /> own agreements what the publisher thinks the<br /> author ought to grant, and it will be convenient if<br /> we take, first, those clauses in which the publisher<br /> asks for the copyright. If any author finds any of<br /> these clauses in agreements submitted to him for<br /> signature, he will be able to ascertain, from the<br /> following criticisms, the grounds of objection to<br /> them from the author&#039;s standpoint.*<br /> C. That in consideration of the hereinafter mentioned<br /> payments the author hereby agrees to sell and assign to<br /> the publisher the copyright of the above work and the<br /> publisher agrees to purchase the said copyright with the<br /> exclusive right of printing and publishing the work in serial<br /> and book form with or without revision and abridgment<br /> in Great Britain and Ireland the British Colonies and<br /> Dependencies in the United States of America and on the<br /> Continent of Europe and in all other countries islands and<br /> continents.<br /> That should the publisher issue special editions for sale<br /> in the British Colonies and Dependencies only or on the<br /> Continent of Europe, he shall pay to the author on all<br /> copies of such editions sold a royalty of ten per cent. on the<br /> Colonial edition and five per cent. on the Continental<br /> edition, these royalties being on the net receipts of such<br /> sales and payable at the same time as the royalties provided<br /> for in C<br /> eof.<br /> That the publisher shall have the sole right to sell or<br /> assign the American, Colonial, Continental, Foreign, Trans-<br /> lation, Serial and Dramatic rights in the above work. He<br /> shall pay all costs of negotiating such sales and distributing<br /> copies of the work for such purposes, and the publisher<br /> shall pay to the author fifty per cent. of the receipts from<br /> the sale of the same, such amounts to be payable at the<br /> same time as the royalties provided for in Clause 5 hereof.<br /> That the publisher gives no guarantee of securing copy-<br /> right outside the United Kingdom and does not bind him-<br /> self, to issue special Colonial or Continental editions or<br /> to sell serial translation dramatic or other rights.<br /> D. The author agrees to transfer to the publishers the<br /> remaining copyrights and all other rights in the said stories<br /> for all foreign countries on the terms that the publishers<br /> shall pay to the author one half of the net profit which<br /> may be made by the publishers from the sale by them of<br /> any rights plates copies (bound or in sheets) for the pur-<br /> pose of publication of the said work abroad.<br /> E. The copyright of the work and of all editions thereof<br /> shall belong to the publisher his executors administrators<br /> and assigns.<br /> F. The publishers agree to purchase and the author<br /> agrees to sell the copyright in Great Britain and all other<br /> parts of the world of a work entitled &quot; ,&quot; hereinafter<br /> referred to as the said work the MS. of which the author<br /> has delivered to the publishers, and of all future editions<br /> thereof in consideration of the following payments, viz.,<br /> per cent, on all copies sold, thirteen copies being counted<br /> as twelve.<br /> The publishers shall have the right to sell copies of the<br /> said work, or the rights of translation thereof on any<br /> terms they shall think expedient to foreign countries and<br /> the author shall not be entitled to royalty in respect<br /> thereof, but the net amount realised therefrom shall be<br /> divided between the author and the publisher, in the<br /> following proportions, viz., 50 per cent. to the author<br /> 50 per cent. to the publishers.<br /> If the said work shall be included in any edition of<br /> works published in England for exclusive sale in India<br /> and the Colonies, the author shall be entitled to receive<br /> per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br /> If copies of the ordinary edition be sold to Colonial and<br /> other exporters or booksellers at a rate lower than the<br /> ordinary trade price the author shall be entitled to receive<br /> per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br /> Let us take for particular consideration the<br /> clauses printed above, in their order.<br /> A. The author agrees to assign to the publisher their<br /> successors and assigns the copyright and sole right of<br /> publication of the above work.<br /> To begin with, the publisher asks the author to<br /> CLAUSES SUBMITTED BY THE PUBLISHER.<br /> A. The author agrees to assign to the publishers their<br /> successors and assigns the copyright and sole right of<br /> publication of the above work.<br /> B. The copyright therein shall be the property of the<br /> publishers who may arrange as they think fit for the com-<br /> pletion and publication of the work.<br /> If any moneys are received from the sale of translation<br /> or other rights the net receipts after deduction of expenses<br /> relating thereto shall be divided in the following propor-<br /> tions, viz. : Sixty per cent. to the author and forty per cent.<br /> to the publishers.<br /> * It is difficult, owing to the lack of uniformity and<br /> simplicity in the drafting of the agreements, to prevent a<br /> division of clauses on these lines from overlapping. Some<br /> publishers have a curious method of making their agree-<br /> ments both complicated and confusing. When, therefore,<br /> principles have already been laid down they will not<br /> uecessarily be repeated.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 239 (#697) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 239<br /> assign to him, bis successors and assigns, the copy-&#039; and otherwise, were absurd. The author then<br /> right.<br /> joined the society and the secretary went into the<br /> NO AUTHOR SHOULD TRANSFER HIS COPYRIGHT matter with great care, but found there was no<br /> TO A PUBLISHER WHILE HE PRESERVES A CON- loophole of escape. On his advice the author<br /> TINUING INTEREST IN HIS WORK.<br /> refused to accept the terms, and proceeded to pur-<br /> This phrase will be quoted and re-quoted, until, chase back the copyright at the publisher&#039;s own<br /> it is hoped, the brain will receive an impression price, and to publish with an old established house,<br /> which cannot be deleted.<br /> paying for the cost of production himself. By this<br /> What are the reasons for reiterating the phrase means alone could he gain control of his increasingly<br /> with such vehemence? They are many and varied. valuable property. But all anthors are not in such<br /> In the first place, it is necessary to consider the a favourable position, and other examples might be<br /> point of view of writers on such matters, as, for quoted where the technical writer has had to accept<br /> example, theological, biographical, historical sub- the bad ternis offered by the publisher rather than<br /> jects, educational works, scientific, technical, medical, allow his work to continue before the public a slur<br /> and those thousand and one subjects which, owing on his reputation. But this arrangement may<br /> to the great advance in research, are in a constant preclude him from writing again on the subject<br /> state of change.*<br /> which is his life study.<br /> Although works of fiction are more popular with This is the main reason why authors of the works<br /> the public, financially their returns cannot compare mentioned cannot be too careful not to convey the<br /> with the returns from the works quoted. It is foolish copyright.<br /> to think, therefore, that the society deals only with There are other reasons which apply to all authors.<br /> writers of fiction-because they are more often in With the conveyance of copyright the actual pro-<br /> evidence, or that it is not fully aware of the vast perty is conveyed. A publisher can alter that<br /> property in other works—and writers on any of the property so long as he does not libel the author&#039;s<br /> above subjects should, by joining the society, be literary reputation. But the work is the author&#039;s,<br /> kept informed as to the value of their property and and what may not appear to a jury of tradesmen to<br /> the difficulties with which they have to contend. be a libel on the author&#039;s reputation, may be pure<br /> Many a suitable technical or medical work taken sacrilege from the author&#039;s point of view. A father<br /> up by educational centres sells steadily by its does not care to see his own child whipped by an<br /> hundreds, and sometimes by its thousands, a year alien hand.<br /> right through the whole term of copyright. Though Then, if the arguments already put forward<br /> this last paragraph is somewhat by the way, it still were not sufficient to convince any author, there<br /> contains a great truth, which the careless author have been cases tried in the Courts which make the<br /> should fully realise.<br /> conveyance of copyright, when the author retains a<br /> To return to Clause A. The reason for our continuing interest, suicidal.<br /> objection is not far to seek. It will be necessary The first was Warwick Deeping and Moring.<br /> to quote one instance merely, to convince any author Here, Mr. Warwick Deeping conveyed his copyright<br /> on the point.<br /> to Mr. Grant Richards, receiving a royalty on every<br /> A young medical man, who was making his mark copy of the book sold. Mr. Grant Richards went<br /> as a specialist, was swooped upon by a far-seeing bankrupt, and the trustee in bankruptcy assigned<br /> publisher to write a book for him on his special the agreement to Mr. Moring. The Court held<br /> subject. Ignorant of the value of his property, and that Mr. Deeping could not claim royalties from<br /> perhaps rather flattered by the compliment, he Moring &amp; Co., but could only claim damages<br /> wrote the book, conveyed the copyright to the for breach of agreement against the bankrupt<br /> publisher, and received a royalty.<br /> estate.<br /> Ten years afterwards, when he had become The second was on somewhat similar lines, but<br /> famous, he wanted to re-issue his book with the was not in the hands of the committee of the<br /> additions and alterations necessary on account of society. It was carried to the Court of Appeal,<br /> the changes that had been made in his particular and the decision of Mr. Justice Warrington in the<br /> study, and the wisdom he had collected by many court of first instance was upheld.<br /> fresh examples. He was unable to come to an . The plaintiff was the composer of certain songs,<br /> agreement with his publisher, who, knowing that he and he assigned his copyright to the defendants,<br /> held the copyright in the former book, refused to subject to the payment of a royalty of £d. on every<br /> make a re-issue, except on terms which, financially copy sold by the Defendant Company in the United<br /> States, and ld. on every copy sold by the Defendant<br /> * We use the words,“ technical works,&quot; as a synonym for<br /> Company elsewhere. The songs were published on<br /> all those books which for one reason or other need periodic<br /> revision. The range is very wide, and to give a detailed<br /> two occasions in the Weekly Dispatch by the Willis<br /> list would be very cumbersome.<br /> Music Company as an advertisement, and it was<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 240 (#698) ############################################<br /> <br /> 240<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> admitted that the publication was made with the There is something, however, beyond a transfer<br /> knowledge and approval of the defendants. The of copyright in this clause.<br /> plaintiff&#039;s claim was for royalties on the sales of When copyright has been transferred no altera-<br /> copies of the songs in the Weekly Dispatch. Mr. tions may be made by the assignee which would<br /> Justice Warrington held that the defendants were amount to a literary libel. But in this clause the<br /> not liable.<br /> publishers are allowed “ to arrange as they think fit<br /> The copyright was assigned to the defendants for the completion and publication of the work.&quot;<br /> subject only to the condition that they should pay It is very doubtful whether the author would have<br /> royalties on copies sold by them. The Weekly any remedy in these circumstances, however grievous<br /> Dispatch is the property of the Associated News- the alterations might be to his reputation.<br /> papers Limited, and was not sold by the Defendant The second clause under heading “B” calls also<br /> Company or its agents, and therefore no royalties for some serious comment.<br /> were payable in respect of copies contained in the When an author conveys the copyright without<br /> paper.<br /> limitation, he conveys the translation rights, the serial<br /> Lastly, it is possible, and this case would arise rights, and all the minor rights. These rights, if<br /> more frequently, perhaps, in the publication of properly marketed, are valuable. But if when<br /> music than in book publication, that a composer an author conveys the copyright he is only paid in<br /> may transfer his copyright to a publisher. Another the agreement a royalty on a definite form of pub-<br /> publisher, or, perhaps, another composer, if he is lication, say on the published price of the work in<br /> lucky enough to have retained his copyright, may book form at the price of 12s. 6d., he would not be<br /> turn round and say to the first publisher, &quot; The work entitled to claim anything on the sale of these other<br /> you have published is an infringement of my copy- rights unless a special stipulation to that effect were<br /> right.&quot; The composer when referred to may made in the agreement.<br /> retort: “Oh! No! It is not an infringement, and The question of allowing these minor rights to be<br /> I have the best musical opinion that it is not.&quot; marketed by the publisher, and the division of<br /> The publisher of the alleged piracy, as owner of the possible profits, is a matter which has been discussed<br /> copyright, may say, “I am not going to have the in the columns of this paper, and may be discussed<br /> worry and expense of a copyright action, and I later when considering other clauses in publishers&#039;<br /> must therefore, I regret to say, withdraw your com- agreements.<br /> position from the market.”<br /> It is very doubtful whether, in such circumstances,<br /> C. That in consideration of the hereinafter mentioned<br /> the composer would have any remedy whatever,<br /> payments the author hereby agrees to sell and assign to<br /> the publisher the copyright of the above work and the<br /> although his work might possibly have brought him publisher agrees to purchase the said copyright with the<br /> a steady income.<br /> exclusive right of printing and publishing the work in serial<br /> In further consideration of the clause the words<br /> and book form with or without revision and abridgment<br /> in Great Britain and Ireland the British Colonies and<br /> “and sole right of publication of the above work”.<br /> Dependencies in the United States of America and on the<br /> are surplusage and a sign of bad draftsmanship. Continent of Europe and in all other countries islands and<br /> They should be deleted, for as it is right that no continents,<br /> word should be omitted if it is necessary to define<br /> That should the publisher issue special editions for sale<br /> in the British Colonies and Dependencies only or on the<br /> any point accurately and make it beyond dispute,<br /> Continent of Europe, he shall pay to the author on all<br /> so it is right that no word should be added which<br /> copies of such editions sold a royalty of ten per cent, on<br /> should in any way tend to confuse the issues. An the Colonial edition and five per cent. on the Continental<br /> agreement to assign the copyright carries with it edition, these royalties being on the net receipts of such<br /> sales and payable at the time as the royalties provided for<br /> indisputably the sole right of publication.<br /> in Clause 5 hereof.<br /> B. The copyright therein shall be the property of the<br /> That the publisher shall have the sole right to sell or<br /> publishers who may arrange as they think fit for the com-<br /> assign the American, Colonial, Continental, Foreign, Trans-<br /> lation, Serial and Dramatic rights in the above work. He<br /> pletion and publication of the work.<br /> shall pay all costs of negotiating such sales and distributing<br /> If any moneys are received from the sale of translation<br /> copies of the work for such purposes, and the publisher<br /> or other rights the net receipts after deduction of expenses<br /> relating thereto shall be divided in the following propor-<br /> shall pay to the author fifty per cent. of the receipts from<br /> tions, viz.: Sixty per cent, to the author and forty per cent,<br /> the sale of the same, such amounts to be payable at the<br /> same time as the royalties provided for in Clause 5 hereof.<br /> to the publishers.<br /> That the publisher gives no guarantee of securing copy.<br /> Comment has already been passed on the transfer right outside of the United Kingdom and does not bind<br /> himself to issue special Colonial or Continental editions or<br /> of copyright. It may, however, be worth while to<br /> 10 sell serial translation dramatic or other rights.<br /> repeat that<br /> NO AUTHOR SHOULD TRANSFER HIS COPYRIGHT The latter part of Clause 1, with the exception<br /> TO A PUBLISHER WHILE HE PRESERVES A of certain words which will be mentioned, is sur-<br /> CONTINUING INTEREST IN HIS WORK.<br /> plusage, as the greater includes the less. The<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 241 (#699) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 241<br /> transfer of copyright includes the exclusive right of the sole right to negotiate these rights ! and that<br /> printing and publishing.<br /> he should generously pay the author 50 per cent. of<br /> The words, bowever, “ with or without abridg- the latter&#039;s profits !<br /> ment&quot; materially increase the author&#039;s danger and It is sorry evidence to put forward that a pub-<br /> difficulty, and practically hand over to the pub- lisher can openly have such printed clauses in his<br /> lisher that right of revision and abridgment which, agreement and ask the unfortunate author to pass<br /> being carried beyond literary libel, leaves the author them.<br /> with no protective power over his property.<br /> Clause 4 is further eridence, if further evidence<br /> It must be clearly understood, however, that were needed, of how far an anthor may throw him-<br /> nothing in the transfer to the publisher of the self into the power of a publisher.<br /> power of revision or abridgment will allow the An author might say—he would not be very wise<br /> publisher to commit a fraud on the public by putting —but still be might say, “ I will give you these<br /> forward one man&#039;s work as the work of another. rights if you will undertake to issue Colonial<br /> To the words “on the Continent of Europe in editions, to obtain United States copyright, and<br /> all other countries, islands and continents” we must will market my work serially and in translation<br /> also take exception. There are many countries not form.”<br /> in reciprocal treaty with Great Britain for the pro- But under this agreement he transfers the rights,<br /> tection of copyright, such as Russia and Turkey in and is content with no guarantee from the publisher<br /> Europe and the United States (unless certain drastic that the latter will do anything to utilise these<br /> formalities are complied with) and all the countries rights.<br /> of South America. These words then could prevent This is not the kind of agreement for an author<br /> the author from publishing in those countries, even to sign who has any respect for himself, or any<br /> although he had no rights there. Or, in other words, desire to obtain a suitable market for his property.<br /> the publisher might make a profit, until a pirate<br /> D. The author agrees to transfer to the publishers the<br /> stepped in, although the author had no copyright,<br /> remaining copyrights and all other rights in the said stories.<br /> but the author would be debarred from making a for all foreign countries on the terms that the publishers<br /> profit himself.<br /> shall pay to the author one half of the net profit which<br /> Clause 2 needs but little comment. But as it<br /> may be made by the publishers from the sale by them of<br /> any rights plates copies (bound or in sheets) for the pur-<br /> is drafted, it emphasises the fact of the author&#039;s<br /> pose of publication of the said work abroad. .<br /> servitude. The amount of royalty is exceedingly low.<br /> The author receiving 10 per cent on the English There is little to be said of this clause except<br /> edition, may think, if he is ignorant of the value of that the latter part carries considerable disadvan-<br /> literary property, that the same percentage on tages to the author. It may be possible to arrange<br /> Colonial editions is fair. But he should be warned an equitable division of profits on the sale of stereos<br /> in his ignorance that 10 per cent. is 1d. to 11d. a and other rights if the author is foolish enough to<br /> copy on the average prices received by publishers let the publisher handle them, but in no circum-<br /> for the ordinary sized book, whereas 3d. a copy- stances should he allow a profit-sharing arrange-<br /> one of the lowest royalties offered—pays the ment on the sale of bound copies or sheets in the<br /> publisher well. The royalties, however, will be Colonies or abroad to enter into an ordinary<br /> dealt with more fully, when the regular royalty royalty agreement. The reasons for this state-<br /> clauses are dealt with.<br /> ment have been put forward at some length in<br /> The word “should” at the beginning of the clause The Author for January, 1902.<br /> calls for remark, as the publisher does not undertake<br /> E. The copyright of the work and of all editions thereof<br /> to issue these editions, and may, in consequence, if<br /> shall belong to the publisher, his executors, administrators,<br /> he should so desire, totally neglect the author&#039;s best and assigns.<br /> interests, i.e., to widen his market and extend his<br /> reputation.<br /> There are only a few words in this clause that<br /> Clause 3, as well as a portion of the former clause, stand in need of separate comment.<br /> really refers to what ought to be the third clause in<br /> “And of all editions thereof.&quot;<br /> a properly drafted agreement. It cannot be discussed<br /> here.<br /> In a series of definitions relating to the book<br /> But it should be noted that the publisher has the trade issued by the Publishers&#039; Association, we<br /> sole right to do what no author should ever ask a believe “impression &quot; was taken to mean a reprint<br /> publisher to do except under certain limitations, and unaltered, &quot;edition” a reprint, but altered.<br /> that the rights mentioned include “dramatic rights.&quot; The publisher, therefore, in order to make<br /> That the author should ask the publisher to nego. himself doubly secure, can control the author in<br /> tiate his dramatic rights, indeed, reaches the last any alteration he may desire to make in his<br /> point of absurdity; that the publisher should have original text, can hamper or expedite any improve-<br /> “And of all cu<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 242 (#700) ############################################<br /> <br /> 242<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> ment, and can, so to speak, hold the author at his say so, and why does he use two different terms<br /> beck and call,<br /> in two succeeding clauses? “Net profits” has a<br /> Of the technical writer we have already made clear meaning. It is the profit realised after the<br /> mention. Such a clause as the above would hamper deduction of all expenditure, i.e., the net profits<br /> him, if possible, more than the mere transfer of on “the net receipts ” as opposed to &quot;the gross<br /> his copyright. It is bad for the writer of fiction; profits&quot; on &quot;the gross receipts.&quot;<br /> it is disastrous for the scientific and technical In the third clause the words “ordinary trade<br /> writer.<br /> price” are elusive. The ordinary trade price<br /> F. The publishers agree to purchase and the author varies considerably, as any bookseller will tell you.<br /> agrees to sell the copyright in Great Britain and all other Accuracy and finality are not secured by these<br /> parts of the world of a work entitled “ &quot;hereinafter doubtful phrases. They may all afford food for<br /> referred to as the said work the MS, of which the author<br /> bas delivered to the publishers, and of all future editions<br /> the lawyers. This is what the society is anxious<br /> thereof in consideration of the following payments, viz.,<br /> its members should avoid,<br /> per cent, on all copies sold, thirteen copies being counted<br /> as twelve.<br /> The publishers shall have the right to sell copies of the<br /> said work, or the rights of translation thereof on any<br /> MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br /> terms they shall think expedient to foreign countries and<br /> the author shall not be entitled to royalty in respect<br /> thereof, but the net amount realised therefrom shall be<br /> BLACKWOODS.<br /> divided between the author and the publisher, in the<br /> Musings without Method: Literary Anodynes--Alfred de<br /> following proportions, viz., 50 per cent. to the author<br /> Musset and La Sand—“A Strong Love Interest.”<br /> Mus<br /> 50 per cent. to the publishers.<br /> If the said work shall be included in any edition of<br /> BOOKMAN.<br /> works published in England for exclusive sale in India<br /> and the Colonies, the author shall be entitled to receive<br /> Robert Browning. By Professor George Saintsbury.<br /> Robert Browning&#039;s Father. By Sir W. Robertson Nicoll.<br /> per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br /> If copies of the ordinary edition be sold to Colonial and<br /> CORNHILL.<br /> other exporters or booksellers at a rate lower than the<br /> ordinary trade price, the author shall be entitled to receive Joan of Arc&#039;s Letters. By the Comtesse d&#039;Oilliamson.<br /> per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br /> With a Note by Andrew Lang.<br /> John Stuart Mill and Browning&#039;s “Pauline.&quot;<br /> In Clause 1 of this extraordinary combination<br /> By M. A.<br /> Phillips.<br /> the draftsmanship is slightly peculiar, as it throws Realism in Fiction. By A. C. Benson.<br /> into one clause what should have been dealt with<br /> ENGLISH REVIEW.<br /> in three. It is not in this that its&#039; real peculiarity<br /> Among My Books. By Frederic Harrison.<br /> consists, but in the fact that the publisher has<br /> Poetry and the Modern Novel By Compton Mackenzie.<br /> put himself as the first party. The man who Robert Browning. By Darrell Figgis.<br /> agrees to purchase has put himself before the man The Folk Song Fallacy. By Ernest Newman.<br /> who has the property to sell.<br /> FORTNIGHTLY.<br /> Clause 2 is evidently very badly drafted, for if<br /> For the Centenary of Robert Browning. By Alfred<br /> the publisher holds the entire copyright, as stated<br /> Noyes.<br /> on a former page, he certainly holds the rights English and French Attitudes towards Poetry. By<br /> included in this clause, as it was only necessary Professor Maurice Gerothwohl.<br /> for the publisher to state what he would pay the The Censorship. By John Pollock.<br /> author on the sale of these rights, if anything,<br /> NINETEENTH CENTURY,<br /> because it by no means follows because the author Recent German Fiction. By Madame Longard de<br /> has sold to the publisher his copyright that he Longgard (Dorothea Gerard).<br /> A<br /> I on all the various methods of publica- Robert Browning. By Francis Gribble.<br /> tion in England and abroad. An author may not<br /> NATIONAL<br /> understand these delightful intricacies ; it is a<br /> The Plots of Dickens By H. C. Biron.<br /> publisher&#039;s business to have them at his fingers&#039;<br /> ends.<br /> There is, however, a terrible lack of finality and<br /> SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br /> exactitude in the use of terms in this clause. The (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br /> publisher talks about the “net amount realised.&quot; Front Page<br /> Other Pages<br /> .. . *** *** **<br /> 3 0 0<br /> Does the publisher mean by this the net profit on<br /> Half of a Page<br /> the transaction ? If so, why does he not say so ? Quarter of &amp; Page<br /> ... 0 150<br /> Eighth of a Page<br /> In the next clause, and the clause following, he Single Column Advertisements :<br /> ... per inch 0 6 0<br /> speaks of the “net proceeds of such sales.” Is this Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Sis and of 25 per cent, for<br /> Twelve Insertions.<br /> equivalent to the “net amount realised,” that is,<br /> the “pet profit”?<br /> All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F,<br /> If so, again, why does he not Belmont &amp; Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br /> ...<br /> .. 1 10<br /> 0<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 243 (#701) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 243<br /> HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br /> 1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br /> D advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br /> lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br /> business or the administration of his property. The<br /> Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br /> special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br /> Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br /> deem it desirable, will obtain counsel&#039;s opinion without<br /> any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel&#039;s<br /> opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br /> is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br /> member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br /> 2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br /> and publishers&#039; agreements do not fall within the experi.<br /> ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br /> the Society.<br /> 3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br /> the document to the Society for examination.<br /> · 4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br /> you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br /> are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br /> advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br /> the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br /> 6. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br /> members&#039; agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br /> proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br /> confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br /> who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br /> (1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br /> upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br /> payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br /> lars of the Society&#039;s work can be obtained in the<br /> Prospectus.<br /> 6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br /> agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br /> consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br /> them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br /> them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br /> of the Society.<br /> 7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br /> must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br /> Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br /> 8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br /> referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80<br /> do some publishers. Members can make their own<br /> deductions and act accordingly.<br /> 9. The subscription to the Society is £1 15. per<br /> annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br /> obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br /> competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br /> the Society.<br /> II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br /> agreement).<br /> In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br /> (1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br /> duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br /> (2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br /> profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br /> in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br /> ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Not to allow a special charge for &quot;office expenses,&quot;<br /> unless the same allowance is made to the author,<br /> (4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br /> rights.<br /> (6.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br /> 16.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br /> As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br /> doctor!<br /> III. The Royalty System.<br /> This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br /> of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br /> what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br /> possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br /> truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br /> with royalties are published in The Author.<br /> IY. A Commission Agreement.<br /> The main points are :-<br /> (1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br /> (2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br /> (3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br /> General.<br /> All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br /> above mentioned.<br /> Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br /> Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br /> the Secretary of the Society.<br /> Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br /> Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br /> The main points which the Society has always demanded<br /> from the outset are :-<br /> (1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br /> means.<br /> (2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br /> to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br /> nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br /> withheld.<br /> (3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br /> WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br /> WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br /> OF BOOKS.<br /> EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br /> Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com.<br /> petent legal authority<br /> 2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br /> the production of a play with any one except an established<br /> manager.<br /> 3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br /> in three or more acts :<br /> (a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br /> is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br /> such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br /> for production of the piece by a certain date<br /> and for proper publication of his name on the<br /> play-bills.<br /> U ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br /> N agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br /> with literary property :-<br /> 1. Selling it Outright.<br /> This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 244 (#702) ############################################<br /> <br /> 244<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., ised<br /> nightly fees). This method should be always<br /> avoided except in cases where the fees are<br /> likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br /> other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br /> also in this case,<br /> 4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br /> better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br /> paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br /> important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br /> be reserved.<br /> 5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br /> be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br /> time. This is most important.<br /> 6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br /> should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br /> is of great importance.<br /> 7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br /> play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br /> holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br /> print the book of the words.<br /> 8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br /> ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br /> agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br /> consideration,<br /> 9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br /> drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br /> 10. An author should remember that production of a play<br /> r should remember that production of a play<br /> is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br /> delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br /> He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br /> the beginning.<br /> 11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br /> is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br /> is to obtain adequate publication.<br /> As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br /> account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con<br /> tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br /> are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br /> T<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 profess<br /> to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br /> who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br /> the author&#039;s rights. In any case, in the present state of<br /> the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br /> circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br /> Society.<br /> WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br /> T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br /> U assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br /> authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br /> &amp; rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br /> composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br /> cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br /> property. The musical composer has very often the two<br /> rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br /> should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br /> an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br /> the warnings stated above.<br /> STAMPING MUSIC.<br /> The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br /> behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br /> of 100. The members&#039; stamps are kept in the Society&#039;s<br /> safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br /> Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br /> members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br /> THE READING BRANCH.<br /> REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br /> ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br /> M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br /> V 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 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 /> D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br /> a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br /> be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br /> tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br /> and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br /> of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br /> the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br /> Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br /> rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br /> at the price of 28. 6d. per act.<br /> The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br /> that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br /> All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br /> Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br /> letter only.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 245 (#703) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 245<br /> GENERAL NOTES.<br /> mechanically, should be ready to supply the<br /> gramophone companies with stamps immediately<br /> THE ERA PRIZE COMPETITION.<br /> the Act comes into force at the beginning of July.<br /> We are pleased to notice that The Era has The Board of Trade has, we understand, come to<br /> devoted considerable space to dealing with the the following decision as to the shape and size of<br /> suggestions made in these columns in our issue of the stamp: “The adhesive label shall be an<br /> April 1 in respect of their Play competition. The adhesive paper label, square in shape, the design to<br /> form and substance of their answer is the most efficient be entirely enclosed within a circle, and the side of<br /> argument that could possibly have been given of the the label not to be greater than three-quarters of<br /> need of the comments made in The Author. The an inch in length.”<br /> editor comments in a laughing mood on the date on We give this note now so that members may be<br /> which our criticism appeared (April 1) as a signi- prepared for the sale of stamps on July 1st. The<br /> ficant one. We would point out that the date of four important points are : (1) adhesive paper<br /> the answer (April 30) is still more significant, as label ; (2) square in shape ; (3) design to be<br /> it prevented our dealing with the article in our entirely enclosed within a circle; (4) length of<br /> May number.<br /> side three quarters of an inch.<br /> Having read the whole of The Era&#039;s comments,<br /> it appears to us that none of our criticisms has<br /> really been answered at all. The Era says, “Possess<br /> UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT.<br /> your souls in patience, everything will come right PUBLISHERS in their agreements are often anxious<br /> in the end &quot;Zwe hope so; but such a result will to have the right to place authors&#039; books in America<br /> certainly not be due to the excellence of the con- and secure the copyright. In their contracts with<br /> ditions. The difficulties raised are still unsettled, the author they not only insert a clause to this effect,<br /> and the conditions of the competition still indeter- but also a clause by which if they fail in their negotia-<br /> minate. In particular the editor makes no satisfac- tions certain royalties are to be paid to the author<br /> tory answer to our objection, that he reserves the when the book is sold in sheets to the United States.<br /> right to arrange the production of any play sub- If an author employs an agent, it is that agent&#039;s<br /> mitted, whether the winning play or not. We still duty to negotiate for the American copyright, and<br /> see no reason why the dramatic author who sends in a in no circumstances should he allow the publisher to<br /> play under this competition should thereby appoint have the control. We regret, however, that this is<br /> the editor of The Era his perpetual agent for not always the view that the agent adopts. If the<br /> placing that play. The Era&#039;s only answer is that author does not employ an agent, then, for the<br /> * the organ of the Society of Authors will be quite following reasons, he should negotiate this American<br /> happy about the matter in the fulness of time.” publication himself. He has the whole range of the<br /> This very suggestion is an admission of the justice American market before him; he can try one<br /> of our complaint that the present terms of the com- American publisher after another until he is assured<br /> petition are indefinite, and it seems hardly fair to of success or failure ; whereas the English publisher<br /> ask dramatic authors to bind themselves to indefinite would, most probably, only write to his usual corre-<br /> terms without even the assurance given in the spondent in the United States, and if that publisher<br /> editor&#039;s comments “ that he (the dramatist) will be gave his refusal would not trouble any further ;<br /> quite happy in the fulness of time.” It surely con- indeed, there is no reason why he should trouble any<br /> firms the statement we have already made that the further, or, even while having the right of securing<br /> terms should be more clearly set out.<br /> the American copyright, he should even go so far.<br /> The fact that a large number of dramatic authors It often pays not only the English publisher but<br /> have already submitted plays is no justification for the American publisher better to deal in sheets from<br /> putting forward indefinite terms.<br /> the English market than to set the work up in the<br /> We are, however, indebted to The Era for their United States. This may be all very well for the<br /> article, and particularly for printing the rules two publishers concerned, but is bad business for<br /> immediately below, which will clearly show to the author, to whom the American copyright is a<br /> dramatic authors who read the issue of The Era for valuable asset. Besides, the English publisher<br /> April 30 the need of our criticism and its fairness, ought only to be the agent for the author for the<br /> and will emphasise the difficulties that they may production of the work in book form on the English<br /> encounter.<br /> and Colonial markets; he is not an agent for the<br /> placing of literary wares, and has not the facilities<br /> STAMPS ON MECHANICAL REPRODUCTIONS. or the necessary stimulus of the literary agent ; for<br /> THOSE composers and authors who are interested the agent&#039;s livelihood depends on his obtaining<br /> in the mechanical reproduction of their works, other markets, whereas they are a mere by-product<br /> whose works have been already reproduced of the publisher&#039;s business.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 246 (#704) ############################################<br /> <br /> 246<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> COPYRIGHT ACT, SECTION 5.<br /> We have just received notice that the proprietors<br /> SECTION 5 of the Copyright Act, 1911, runs as<br /> of The Bioscope, the cinematograph trade journal, are<br /> follows:<br /> organising certain invitation performances with the<br /> “ Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author<br /> object of demonstrating the value of the cinemato-<br /> of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright<br /> graph as an educational medium. These perform-<br /> therein.”<br /> ances are going to take place on the mornings of<br /> There are two provisos to this section. The<br /> Wednesday, June 5, Wednesday, June 12, and<br /> Saturday, June 15, from eleven to one o&#039;clock.<br /> second proviso (b) states :-<br /> It would be possible for the earnest student of<br /> ** Where the author was in the employment of some other<br /> natural history, instead of merely writing a book and<br /> person under a contract of service or apprenticeship and the<br /> work was made in the course of his employment by that<br /> taking photos, to make his own natural history films<br /> person, the person by whom the author was employed shall,<br /> of the insects, or birds or mammals, and then, by<br /> in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be the hiring out these different films, or by exhibiting them<br /> first owner of the copyright, but where the work is an himself, to obtain a decent livelihood and a fair<br /> article or other contribution to a newspaper, magazine, or<br /> similar periodical, there shall, in the absence of any agree-<br /> remuneration; but the performances to be given<br /> ment to the coutrary, be deemed to be reserved to the by the proprietors of The Bioscope will demonstrate<br /> author a right to restrain the publication of the work, matters of a somewhat different character. For<br /> otherwise than as part of a newspaper, magazine, or instance, we hear that amongst other things will<br /> similar periodical.”<br /> be demonstrated “ The amoeboid movement of a<br /> As there has been some question about this pro- leucocyte, relapsing fever, the phenomenon of<br /> viso, it is necessary to warn those who are under con- agglutination, examination of the stomach under<br /> tract of service or apprenticeship, that if any work X-rays, and the mosquito.&quot; If a doctor can gather<br /> is done by them which could hardly be said to money and reputation from writing a treatise on<br /> be done in the course of their employment, they these subjects there is no reason why he should not<br /> should take special care that they retain the equally obtain money and reputation as a teacher<br /> copyright in such work. A journalist on the through the cinematograph.<br /> staff of a paper mightbe employed to do certain Technical writers in all the various branches of<br /> journalistic work ; in his spare time he might write a knowledge and science should not neglect a new<br /> story, and the editor of the paper might offer to run opportunity.<br /> it as a serial. In a case of this kind it should be made<br /> clear, lest any dispute or doubt should arise, that<br /> the copyright in the serial story was not the pro-<br /> JUSTIN MCCARTHY.<br /> perty of the employer. It is to be hoped that the<br /> employer, in the absence of special contract, would<br /> not lay claim to the copyright, but it is always best V E much regret to have to record the death<br /> in matters of business that the terms should be set<br /> of Mr. Justin McCarthy, which occurred<br /> out with exactness. The employee should either be<br /> just before our May issue went to Press.<br /> careful not to offer work to his employer that he Mr. McCarthy&#039;s career as historian, novelist, Irish<br /> has done outside his course of employment and M.P., and Parliamentary journalist, has been so<br /> outside his contract of service or apprenticeship, or fully dealt with in the newspapers, and, indeed,<br /> if he does offer such work, that the terms as regards must be so familiar to our readers, that we need<br /> copyright should come under a separate agreement. add but little to the many tributes which have been<br /> The point is one of no small importance, judging paid to it in the Press and elsewhere during the<br /> from examples of the rights which some editors past month. His early work as a journalist-after<br /> demand from contributors who have through his first start as a young and unknown reporter -<br /> ignorance allowed them to publish without a proper was as editor of the Morning Star. But his daily<br /> contract.<br /> leader-writing on the Daily News from 1870 onwards<br /> through so many years, was his greatest claim to<br /> distinction in this line of literature. His essays in<br /> EDUCATION AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH.<br /> fiction were numerous, perhaps the best known being<br /> At the present time it is difficult to measure the “Dear Lady Disdain.&quot; But it is probably his work<br /> importance of cinematography to dramatic authors. as historian by which he is, as he deserves to be,<br /> It is possible that in the next few years its value familiar to most people. His “ History of Our Own<br /> will have more than doubled, and dramatists may Times,” finally completed in 1905–to the great<br /> be making a regular income from this form of cost, alas ! of his health, for the strain of constant<br /> reproduction, but there are other authors to whom labour on the book, coming on the top of his Parlia-<br /> and other methods in which cinematography may mentary struggles, made him an invalid for the rest<br /> become of great importance.<br /> of his life—was his principal achievement in this<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 247 (#705) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 247<br /> particular branch of learning. The writer of this<br /> paragraph well remembered the appearance of the<br /> first four volumes in the early &#039;Eighties, and how<br /> even among the thoughtless undergraduates of his<br /> University they raised an interest that is very rarely<br /> manifested in works of the kind there.<br /> Justin McCarthy was essentially a man of letters<br /> -in spite of his boyish connection with Irish revo-<br /> lutionary ideas—and he continued his devotion to<br /> literature almost to the last day of his life. His<br /> association with the Society of Authors dates from<br /> the year 1890, when he first joined its ranks.<br /> Although he was not actively identified with its<br /> executive side, he was elected to the Council, and<br /> served on it up to the time when death removed<br /> him from among us.<br /> We must congratulate the chairman on the<br /> success of the evening.<br /> There is no Fund in England which fills a similar<br /> position to that of the Royal Literary Fund ; the<br /> Fund is administered with great care and dis-<br /> crimination and with a very liberal and discerning<br /> hand. For over a hundred years it has supplied<br /> to those ill-paid workers very essential help in<br /> time of difficulty and distress. May the work<br /> which was begun so long ago continue in the future<br /> to those days when intellect or perhaps even genius<br /> is paid for by a living wage.<br /> COMPOSERS&#039; RIGHTS AND THE COLLEC-<br /> TION OF FEES FROM MECHANICAL<br /> REPRODUCTIONS.<br /> THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND.<br /> W E have now been able to peruse the draft<br /> M HE 122nd anniversary dinner of the Royal<br /> rules of the Copyright Protection Society<br /> L Literary Fund, under the popular chair-<br /> (Mechanical Rights) Limited, worthy<br /> mansbip of Mr. Owen Seaman, has been very successors to the original prospectus.<br /> successful.<br /> The front page in itself, containing the list of<br /> · The secretary announced that the list of dona. the committee, is interesting, and turning to<br /> tions was headed by 50 guineas from the King ; Article 28 we see that the committee is to be<br /> that the stewards that night had subscribed nearly composed of six publishers, three composers, and<br /> £1,600, and that the total sum, which had been thrce authors of literary and dramatic works, with<br /> exceeded only twice in the 121 years&#039; history of the in addition a chairman who is to be a composer.<br /> Fund, amounted to exactly £2,500.<br /> The publishers therefore, who under the Copy-<br /> There were many distinguished people present : right Act have no interest whatever in the<br /> those interested in literature from the outside mechanical rights, are given the largest repre-<br /> public, those who write themselves—authors, poets sentation upon the committee, a representation so<br /> and others—and those who act as agents for large that in all probability they will nearly always<br /> placing the work of the latter into the hands of the form a majority. Even Mr. William Boosey, who<br /> former.<br /> has been the moving spirit of this matter, does not<br /> The chairman&#039;s speech in support of the Fund put the publishers&#039; claim higher than 30 per cent. of<br /> and its work was sound and to the point.<br /> the profits, yet they get 50 per cent. of the com-<br /> The toast of “ Literature” was proposed by Mr. mittee. Inasmuch also as the authors of words for<br /> Arthur Balfour. It would have been difficult to songs are generally paid a sum outright by the<br /> find a proposer more suitable to the occasion. Not publisher, it seems unnecessary to give the authors<br /> only is Mr. Balfour&#039;s love of literature well known, an equal representation with the composers, to<br /> but he has shown himself as one of the leading whom the most valuable part of the property<br /> thinkers by the work which he has put before the belongs.<br /> public. His speech was naturally listened to with The most important part of the rules deals with<br /> great interest and was full of suggestive matter. the distribution of the royalties to be collected.<br /> “Do not let us look,” he states, “at artistic or The short effect is first to charge the sums collected<br /> literary production in too mechanical a fashion with the expenses of collection and the maintenance<br /> Literature is not the result of merely what are of the society, and then to distribute the balance,<br /> called sociological causes. It is determined by the 40 per cent. to the composer, 30 per cent. to the<br /> inter-action of those causes and the individual author (where there are copyright words), and<br /> genius which no scientific generalisation can class, 30 per cent. to the publisher, or in cases where<br /> which no scientific prophecy can foretell.”<br /> there are no copyright words 70 per cent. to the<br /> The toast was responded to by Sir Walter composer and 30 per cent. to the publisher. Now<br /> Raleigh.<br /> composers should consider, first of all, whether<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 248 (#706) ############################################<br /> <br /> 248<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> it is necessary to appoint any agents for the collec- enforcing his claims, for under rule 6, “no legal<br /> tion of fees ; but, assuming they think this desirable, proceedings shall be instituted or undertaken by<br /> they may be reminded that other companies are any member in respect of any work in which he is<br /> ready to collect the fees, not only in Great Britain interested without the sanction of the committee.&quot;<br /> and her colonies, but also on the Continent at a com This rule is not in terms limited to mechanical<br /> mission of 25 per cent. only of the fees, which covers rights alone, but would extend to all rights, and<br /> all expenses, the balance of 75 per cent. to go clear even if in practice it is treated as so limited it<br /> to the composer. Under the rules proposed to be deprives the member of all opportunity of defending<br /> issued by this limited company, the composers are his own property even at his own risk. Further,<br /> to have the amount of all the expenses of collec- under rule 2A a member is bound for the entire<br /> tion deducted from their fees when collected, and period of membership when called upon by the<br /> then to give to the publisher another 30 per cent. committee to transfer to the society the mechanical<br /> of what remains, so that the composer might lose instrument rights of his works which are or may<br /> a considerable percentage of his fees in expenses, be published (i.e., apparently all present and future<br /> and is then mulcted 30 per cent. of the balance, rights), and under clause 5, even in the event of<br /> which has to go to the publisher.<br /> his withdrawal or death, such rights shall continue<br /> The music publisher has claimed that he is to be vested in and exercisable by the company.<br /> entitled to a percentage of these fees because, by Secondly, the committee might decide to take<br /> publishing the composer&#039;s music, he makes the action in a case to which the composer might<br /> gramophone rights valuable. This may or may strongly object, and thirdly, the committee might<br /> not be the case, but if it is the case it is a matter take action in respect of the reproduction of the<br /> to be decided entirely between the composer and rights of one of its members, and get involved in a<br /> the publisher and not to be decided arbitrarily by complicated and expensive law suit, leaving the rest<br /> a company which is started on a business basis and of the members to bear the expenses of the proceed-<br /> not for the settlement of ethical questions. It is ings, however indiscreetly the committee may have<br /> certain, however, that in the near future it will be acted. The only limit upon the expenses is the<br /> the music publisher who will have to thank the total amount of all royalties collected. Generally<br /> mechanical reproducer for the advertisement, a society can only rely on the subscriptions received,<br /> rather than the mechanical reproducer the music and no member is liable for anything more. But<br /> publisher. Mechanical reproduction is going ahead here the whole income of the members for royalties<br /> very fast, and many owners of pianolas, gramo- on mechanical reproductions is at stake.<br /> phones, etc., go to the retail dealers and try these It is true that the society does not claim a<br /> reproductions, quite irrespective of the music percentage for the publisher where the work has<br /> publisher, and choose the reproduction for pur- not been published, but this does not lessen in any<br /> chase or hire, quite irrespective of whether they way the arguments wbich have been put forward.<br /> bave heard the original played from sheet music. It is possible, under rule 6B, that these rules<br /> This practice will become more and more common, may be altered and varied, but in that case the<br /> so that the music publisher&#039;s argument that he is alterations are “to be formulated by the com-<br /> entitled to a share in the mechanical instrument mittee” (on wbich, as we have pointed out, the<br /> rights, if ever it was good, grows less and less, but publishers will probably have a working majority),<br /> we do not admit it was ever good. The music wand approved at a general meeting of the<br /> publisher is the agent of the composer to reproduce society.&quot; It is probable, therefore, that any<br /> his work in a certain form according to contract, alterations made will not be for the benefit of<br /> and the author&#039;s royalty is based on this considera- composers.<br /> tion. He is not the principal, to claim from the Two points seem to be quite clear. Firstly,<br /> composer control over his rights. The editor of that it is inadvisable for any composer to become a<br /> a magazine might as well claim a share in the book member of this society ; and secondly, that com-<br /> production from the author, or the publisher of posers should be reminded, if they cannot undertake<br /> the book claim a share of the serial rights.<br /> what appears to be the not very difficult task of the<br /> But the draft rules contain other interesting collection of their own fees, that there are societies<br /> statements.<br /> ready to collect fees at much more reasonable rates<br /> The committee is to be allowed “to conduct or and without acquiring an interest in the composer&#039;s<br /> defend such legal proceedings as they may sanction,&quot; property. It is hoped to be possible to give full<br /> apparently, without reference to the composer, who details in another issue of this paper.<br /> is the owner of the rights. It seems that under this<br /> rule they might neglect, perhaps for financial<br /> reasons, to protect the composer&#039;s rights, and in<br /> that case the composer would have no means of<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 249 (#707) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 249<br /> THE HAZARD OF THE PEN.<br /> could than would have been his due had he allowed<br /> others to steal them, while he “paused &quot; in order<br /> that he might hug to his breast the bubble consola-<br /> NCE upon a time I might have felt flattered tion that he had written“ not for an age but for all<br /> by the amount of interest which appears time.”<br /> to have been excited by the publication of Alexander Pope performed in a masterly manner<br /> my brief article entitled “ The Hazard of the Pen,” at his desk, but he certainly demanded something<br /> in the columns of The Author for December, 1911. rather more mundane than the glow of achievement<br /> At the present moment my state of mind is merely as his guerdon ; and Dr. Johnson, greater as a man<br /> one of mild surprise at the spirit of optimism it than renowned as a writer (which means a good<br /> seems to have evoked.<br /> deal), had so little esteem for the bombastic airs of<br /> A cursory examination of the official organ of the the pretentious dilettante that he roundly declared<br /> Society of Authors for the past dozen years reveals “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for<br /> so many letters and articles retailing personal money.&quot; Now in almost every branch of art-<br /> experiences of ill-usage on the part of editors and whether it be music, painting, poetry, sculpture,<br /> publishers ; so many wails of despair at the trials romance, or any other form of it-the genius (with<br /> and disappointments of members in their attempts comparatively few exceptions) emanates from a<br /> to win public recognition ; so much heart-breaking home none too well blessed with worldly goods. A<br /> disaster as the sole result of honest endeavour, that diligent search through the pages of a biographical<br /> I am constrained to wonder how anyone claiming to dictionary will, I think, assure any doubter of the<br /> be a bona fide writer could be induced to question veracity of this statement. If then a child of the<br /> the sagacity of Robert Buchanan when he quietly Muses with his spiritual visions, his ethereal aims,<br /> summed up the whole case of his career in the his lofty ambitions, sets out to school and direct<br /> words,“ Is it worth it?&quot;<br /> the world-how is he to do it ?<br /> Commonsense and genius, unlike ignorance and I presume he must eat, and wear clothes, and find<br /> impudence, rarely go hand in hand. But in the somewhere to lay his head what time he transcribes<br /> person of Robert Buchanan, these two uncommon his dreams to paper ; but if he has no private<br /> mental gifts were compounded ; and he saw with source of income, how, I ask, is he to do it ?<br /> clear eyes that in whatever vineyard he may work, Publishers and editors will neither feed, clothe, nor<br /> the labourer is worthy of his hire.<br /> house him. The day of the patron has gone. He<br /> The writer who&#039;pretends that subsidiary sops to may consider himself well fitted to pose as “the<br /> his vanity in the shape of notoriety, adulation of teacher and leader of mankind ”-a modest pro-<br /> friends, self-sufficiency, egotism, and the like, position, by the way !—but with his belly filled<br /> furnish any real substitute for solid and material with the east wind, and no money to pay for a<br /> rewards for his industry, perseverance, and, per- night&#039;s lodging, he will come to learn that, in a<br /> chance, ability, is likely to be only a drag upon the civilised community, his place will be in course of<br /> ranks of authorship, seeing that he and such as he time, not among teachers and leaders but with waifs<br /> play into the hands of unscrupulous traders in and strays. During the past ten years one real poet<br /> literary property against whom the more sensible was actually herding with outcasts in the Strand,<br /> but less vainglorious members of the legion wage and two clever and original writers have elected to<br /> perpetual warfare, and to circumvent whose nefarious end the unequal battle of life by-suicide!<br /> aims the Society of Authors was, for one thing, What a man proposes and what the world<br /> founded.<br /> disposes are two cruelly opposite affairs in, say,<br /> Who could imagine Shakespeare as he wrote ninety-nine Cases out of every hundred.<br /> his immortal plays pausing to ask himself “ Is it “ But if we have had the smallest glimmer of<br /> worth it?”<br /> a vision that the calling of literature stands alone-<br /> As a matter of plain fact, Shakespeare wrote his above and beyond every other calling,&quot; etc. Above<br /> plays for a living; and, being what apparently some and beyond every other calling! A big order-<br /> few beginners in literary work affect to scorn, that a very big order !<br /> is to say, no mean man of business, contrived to Has the writer of this stupendous declaration<br /> elevate himself from a penniless lad into a person of ever stood before a masterpiece by å great artist,<br /> substance by the labour of his pen.<br /> and marvelled at the manner in wbich an historical<br /> I have no recollection that he claimed for himself event, a divine inspiration, a pathetic incident, nay,<br /> the prophetic gifts of a Merlin, or of his own the embodiment in lifelike form and colour of a<br /> creation, Prospero. How then was he to foretell that poet&#039;s dream, may be brought, by the magic of the<br /> posterity would acclaim his plays as “immortal” ? brush and the gift of artistic imagination and skill,<br /> : A thousand times more honour to the Swan of right before her eyes in a way no mere dealer in<br /> Avon for reaping what rewards of his genius he words could ever accomplish ?<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 250 (#708) ############################################<br /> <br /> 250 •<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Has she ever felt her pulses throbbing, her heart from whose book, “ The Private Papers of Henry<br /> beating more rapidly, a catch in her throat, and an Ryecroft,&quot; l venture to take the following serious<br /> inclination to relieve the tension of her soul by warning, which I most earnestly commend to<br /> tears when listening to a voice of superlative the notice of all entertaining inflated and wholly<br /> quality, or the wondrous orchestral tone poems of a erroneous ideas as to the powers and influence they<br /> Wagner ?<br /> imagine themselves able to wield by pursuing a<br /> Has she ever reflected that the medical profession literary career-a career whose limitations are only<br /> has again and again produced quiet, unassuming exceeded by its disillusionment.<br /> heroes who hare given their lives to the cause of “Innumerable are the men and women now<br /> science, and in their efforts to alleviate the agony of writing for bread, who have not the least chance of<br /> suffering humanity ?<br /> finding in such work a permanent livelihood. They<br /> No good purpose was ever, or could be, served took to writing because they knew not what else to<br /> by entertaining a tumid and quite fallacious view do, or because the literary calling tempted them by<br /> of the writer&#039;s profession, trade, or craft—as my its independence and its dazzling prizes. They will<br /> readers will have it..<br /> bang on to the squalid profession, their earnings<br /> Cacoethes scribendi may be, and not infrequently eked out by begging and borrowing until it is too<br /> is, a physical disease, as dangerous as measles or late for them to do anything else—and then ?<br /> fever--and as infectious; though novices of a “With a lifetime of dread experience behind me,<br /> certain type when they have caught it badly I say that he who encourages any young man or<br /> imagine themselves to be sanctified by a visitation woman to look for his living in literature commits no<br /> of the divine afflatus. And the distinctive point less than a crime”!<br /> of tbe whole argument lies in the fact that the truly Other and weighty testimony I could adduce in<br /> inspired authors and poets rarely, if ever, indulge support of the argument ; testimony from the silent<br /> in rodomontade concerning their art and parts. records of the mighty dead, from the records of the<br /> “ Here lies one whose name was writ in water,” said Royal Literary Fund, the Civil List, and the<br /> Keats, of whom the late Lord Tennyson wrote, “Had volumes of The Author at my side, from newspaper<br /> he lived, he would have been the greatest of us all.” extracts pasted in my book of cuttings, from<br /> “Greater than that of the parson, because the witnesses whose wretched stories I have gathered<br /> world is our parish, and of the schoolmaster, because by word of mouth—from my own personal experience<br /> our work is for all time”!<br /> and knowledge. But would it not look like piling<br /> Perchance the lady who penned these lines knows Pelion upon Ossa to do so ? :<br /> editors who welcome, publish and pay for “copy” For those who are not writing for bread, serious<br /> that is greater in its religious value than the toilers in the field of literature care very little, as<br /> prayers of the parish priest, and in its educational, the majority at least would pick no quarrel with<br /> than the dogmatics of the schoolmaster. Are they Dr. Johnson for using the epithet “blockhead &quot;<br /> to be found enshrined in the temples of Cassell or with regard to them. They are shielded from the<br /> Newnes, Pearson or Harmsworth, Hulton or Leng ? grisly spectre of starvation which has transformed<br /> Having been a penman of sorts for a quarter of so many rapturous “visions” into horrible night-<br /> a century, I had prided myself on possessing rather mares, and strangled more than one votary of the<br /> a wide knowledge of these Fleet Street idols. The Muse to his death within recent years. Let them<br /> overwhelming majority of those who control rhapsodise or gush! No one is injured-or deceived<br /> periodicals with large circulations and to exert by verbiage. When they have produced some-<br /> “ power over the minds and souls of men ” one thing in proof of the transcendental aims they are<br /> must take care not to be a mere voice crying in so voluble in professing, it will be time enough to<br /> the wilderness-seem to rely mainly on detective reconsider the sad reflection of one who at all events<br /> stories, narratives of criminals, highly spiced compelled admiration for the quality of his genius,<br /> “romances,&quot; on the one hand, or particularly and strove to live by its printed expression !<br /> nauseous sentimentality on the other, for their Finally, it cannot be too strenuously urged, or too<br /> staple fare.<br /> widely understood, that for one, beloved of the<br /> What does the vast multitude, composed as it is of gods, permitted to soar aloft on the wings of his<br /> shop girls, street lads, and the quarter-educated “grey goose quill ” in the regions of the blest, there<br /> products of an essentially self-satisfied and self- are—how many ? whose feeble flights end in<br /> seeking age, know of the illustrious ones? There dolorous attics, or land them with a sickening thud<br /> was one of them, an author who portrayed life as it in the mire and refuse of what is, after all, “a<br /> is, who neither glorified nor belittled his avocation, squalid profession” for the unlucky.<br /> who saw with the eyes of a keen observer, and Therefore I still repeat, it may be rather mourn-<br /> transcribed with the pen of a consummate master fully, the forceful query, “ Is it worth it ? ”<br /> of his craft-I allude to the late George Gissing-<br /> HERBERT W. SMITH.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 251 (#709) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 251<br /> ROBERT BROWNING.<br /> The Poetry Society&#039;s entertainment was arranged<br /> by Mrs. Kendal, and was contributed to by herself,<br /> Lady Tree, Mme. Ada Crossley, Lady St. Davids,<br /> N the 7th of last month was celebrated the Messrs. Laurence Irving and E. H. Coleridge. In<br /> first centenary of Robert Browning, born at conclusion, Browning&#039;s short play “ In a Balcony ”<br /> Camberwell on May 7, 1812. In London was performed.<br /> the chief feature of the programme in honour of An exhibition was opened at the Victoria and<br /> the event was a service at Westminster Abbey, Albert Museum in connection with the commemora-<br /> where, in Poet&#039;s Corner, his body was laid on the tion. Here was on view a collection of original MSS.<br /> last day of 1889. The chief feature of the Abbey and early editions of Browning, forming part of the<br /> service was the anthems—the first being taken Forster Bequest. It was to John Forster that<br /> from Browning&#039;s own “ Saul ” (canto 18) and set to Browning dedicated “Paracelsus,” in the words “ My<br /> music for the occasion by Sir Hubert Parry ; the book to my best friend. R.B.&quot;; and the original<br /> second, Mrs. Browning&#039;s “What would we give to MS. was presented by the author to him.<br /> our beloved,” with Sir Frederick Bridge&#039;s music, as The centenary was observed in Italy also. At the<br /> sung at the poet&#039;s funeral in 1889. Sir Frederick meeting in College Hall Professor Knight exhibited<br /> Bridge himself was at the organ.<br /> a copy of a placard which he had received from Mr. R.<br /> After the service a reception was held in the Barrett Browning, in which the Civic Council of<br /> College Hall of Westminster School, the Marquess Asolo, so frequently visited by the poet, invited the<br /> of Crewe presiding, and being supported by the citizens to pay their compliments to his memory on<br /> Italian Ambassador, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the day of his birth. On the 7th a street in the<br /> Lord Tennyson, Sir Sidney Lee, Professor Knight, town was named after him and a marble tablet<br /> and many others. After a letter had been read unveiled. A telegram was sent on the same day to<br /> from Mr. R. Barrett Browning, writing from his son at Asolo by the Syndic of Venice—“ Venice,<br /> Asolo (where he has long been ill) to express his where the great heart on wbich was carved the<br /> heartfelt thanks for the honour to his father&#039;s name of Italy beat its last &quot; ; while at Rome a<br /> memory, the chairman spoke on the subject of tablet was unveiled by the Mayor, Signor Nathan,<br /> Browning&#039;s poems, the best of which he claimed, as in the house formerly occupied by the Brownings,<br /> long as any English poetry remained the possession No. 43, Via Bocca di Leone.<br /> of mankind, would form no small part of that After the unveiling Sir Rennell Rodd read<br /> possession. Bishop Boyd Carpenter followed with passages from Browning at the Keats-Shelley<br /> a paper on “The Oral Interpretation of Browning,&quot; memorial house.<br /> pleading that his poems would be better understood, It would be out of place in this column to<br /> and regarded with a more intelligent admiration, if attempt any criticism, or even appreciation, of<br /> they were read aloud. Canon Rawnsley, Miss Robert Browning. But we may be permitted, per-<br /> Emily Hickey (a founder of the Browning Society), haps, to quote as felicitous the closing words of the<br /> Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Mr. H. C. Minchin, article on him in The Times Literary Supplement<br /> Mr. W. G. Kingsland, and Dr. Alexander Hill also of May 2. “ Browning&#039;s “active step&#039; and<br /> read papers or otherwise contributed their share to inquiring eye&#039; have added imperishably to Eng-<br /> the commemoration.<br /> lish literature, because the immense, unquestion-<br /> So much of the celebration may be called official. ing, unhesitating enjoyment of life which animated<br /> There were also a meeting called at Caxton Hall on them was wrought into masterful symbols-<br /> the same afternoon by the Academic Committee of dramatic monologue, dialogue, and specialised lyric<br /> the Royal Society of Literature, and an entertain- —of life delightedly conscious of its own powers.<br /> ment organised by the Poetry Society at the Court Art can find no greater work to do than that.&quot;<br /> Theatre on the following Saturday. Mr. Edmund<br /> Gosse took the chair at the Academic Committee&#039;s<br /> meeting, and made the opening speech. Sir Arthur RULES FOR COMPOSITORS AND READERS<br /> Pinero delivered an address on “ Browning as a<br /> Dramatist”—the line in which he achieved the<br /> AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD.*<br /> least success. Never, indeed, said Sir Arthur, was<br /> ambition in so great a man so hopelessly baffled W E have no hesitation about saying that this<br /> as Browning&#039;s dramatic ambition. Mr. Henry<br /> most valuable little work ought to be in<br /> James&#039;s address dealt with “ The Novel in The<br /> the hands of every author. Sufficient<br /> Ring and the Book,&#039;” and concluded with a evidence of its usefulness is given by the “ Table of<br /> quotation of what he considered the highest water-<br /> * &quot;Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University<br /> mark of Browning&#039;s imagination, fifty lines from Press. Oxford,&quot; by Horace Hart, M.A. London: Henry<br /> Guiseppe Caponsacchi&#039;s great speech.<br /> Frowde. 1912.<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 252 (#710) ############################################<br /> <br /> 252<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> Contents,&quot; which begins, “ Some Words ending in to read a novel right through, and he says: “Five<br /> -able. Some Words ending in -ible. Some novels will amount to sixteen hundred pages of<br /> Words ending in -ize. Some Alternative or printed matter. Reading at the rate of eight words<br /> Difficult Spellings arranged in alphabetical order,&quot; a second the reviewer would accomplish two pages<br /> and continues to enumerate just all those things a minute and sixteen hundred pages in thirteen<br /> which present difficulties to a man who is desirous hours and twenty minutes.&quot; If we allow another<br /> of writing accurately, or of correcting his proofs two hours and forty minutes for the remaining<br /> perfectly. Not only are the rules those which have novel the time as given by Mr. Bennett&#039;s own<br /> been for years past put into the hands of the com computation works out at sixteen hours.<br /> positors and correctors of the press of the Clarendon For this sixteen hours, or less than three days<br /> Press (whose superlative work needs neither our work, Mr. Bennett finds the fee of twenty pounds,<br /> commendation nor that of anyone else) but or twenty guineas, miserably inadequate. Yet, in<br /> authorities of the highest rank, such as Sir J. A. H. the same article from the Academy, from which I<br /> Murray and Dr. Henry Bradley, are guarantors for have already quoted, speaking on the subject of<br /> the correctness of the book. The booklet has been literary remuneration, he says : “ As a journeyman<br /> brought up to date, and how carefully this is done author, with the ability and inclination to turn my<br /> may be gathered from a passage in the preface. pen in any direction at request, I long ago established<br /> “The compiler has encouraged the proof-readers a rule never to work for less than ten shillings an<br /> of the University Press from time to time to keep hour piece-work. But every year I raise my price<br /> memorials of troublesome words. As each edition per hour.” Mr. Bennett has indeed raised his price<br /> of the book becomes exhausted such words are per hour, for, on his own reckoning, the publisher<br /> reconsidered, and their approved form finally is paying him at the rate of twenty-fire shillings an<br /> incorporated into the pages of the forthcoming hour.<br /> edition.”<br /> Continuing his diatribe in The Author, Mr.<br /> The booklet contains, as was to be anticipated, Bennett goes on to say, “ The reason for the con-<br /> pages dealing with French, German, Latin, and tinuance of these competitions is to my mind obvious.<br /> Greek, and is furnished with an excellent index, They are very profitable to the enterprising pub-<br /> which renders it easy for any author in a minute to lisher. I see no harın in that ; indeed, I rather<br /> satisfy himself respecting what ought to be done in admire the cleverness of the enterprising publisher;<br /> any of the cases which are occasions of perplexity. but I think that artistically reputable novelists<br /> should meditate long before they decide to dignify<br /> with their names a purely commercial project.&quot;<br /> Why is Mr. Bennett so indignant at being asked<br /> CORRESPONDENCE.<br /> to give his criticism and the weight of his name?<br /> Are Royal Academicians equally indignant when<br /> invited to act on the Hanging Committee ?<br /> NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br /> Novel Competitions undoubtedly give young<br /> authors a chance they would not have otherwise.<br /> I.<br /> Mr. Arnold Bennett himself started his London<br /> DEAR SIR, I am not a publisher or in any way literary career by winning a prize of twenty guineas.<br /> connected with any publishing firm, but I must say Grant Allen and many others have come before the<br /> that I think Mr. Arnold Bennett&#039;s letter on Novel public in the same way.<br /> Competitions both unfair and misleading.<br /> By all means let Mr. Bennett refuse a fee he con-<br /> He says, “I was recently invited with two very siders too low, but do not let him delude himself with<br /> well-known novelists to judge one of these competi- the idea that he is doing something “ artistically<br /> tions. The publisher&#039;s letter of invitation clearly reputable.&quot;<br /> stated that I should not have to read more than six When one calls to mind the literary men of the<br /> or seven manuscripts. I declined—I hope politely, past who were not for ever pricing their work at so<br /> to take part in such a farce.&quot;<br /> much an hour, when one thinks of Southey patiently<br /> Why should Mr. Arnold Bennett in becoming one writing helpful, kindly letters to the unknown<br /> of the judges in a Novel Competition be taking Charlotte Brontë, of Walter Besant, who was never<br /> part in a farce ?<br /> too busy to help the beginner, of Scott, who boasted<br /> His grievance seems to be that the judging of six that there was not one of all his schemes that did<br /> or seven manuscripts would entail &quot;a full week&#039;s not afford him the means of serving some poor<br /> tedious work.”<br /> devil of a brother author ; when one thinks of all<br /> This was not the opinion expressed in an article these men and how unselfish they were in the<br /> he contributed to the Academy some time back. practice of what ought to be one of the noblest<br /> He is discussing the time it would take a reviewer professions, one cannot but feel that it would not<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 253 (#711) ############################################<br /> <br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> 253<br /> mation<br /> bave taken away in the smallest degree from Mr. from their facts and figures. I hereby state my own<br /> Bennett&#039;s dignity had he consented to judge the experiences as my contribution to the question.<br /> competition in question.<br /> For my first novel, published in March, 1911, I<br /> The Novel Competition has lost one of our ablest obtained (on paper) a 10 per cent. royalty on the<br /> critics. But Mr. Bennett himself is also a loser. published price of the 6s. edition on all copies sold<br /> When Rudyard Kipling received a letter of up to 1.500 copies: 15 per cent. to a total sale of<br /> encouragement from Lord Tennyson, this is what 3,500 copies ; and 20 per cent. thereafter, 13 copies<br /> he wrote: “When a private is praised by his to be counted as 12; and 3d. per copy on the<br /> Colonel he does not presume to thank him but he Colonial edition, 12 copies to be counted as 12. On<br /> fights better next day.&quot; Had Mr. Arnold Bennett, the day of publication I was paid the sum of £25,<br /> as colonel, taken part in the review, he would prob- “in advance and on account of royalties.&quot;<br /> ably have earned the lifelong gratitude of some The sales and fiuancial profit to myself at the<br /> poor struggling private. And to help a human end of the year were as follows:<br /> being forward and to earn the gratitude of a human Copies of home edition sold, 586.<br /> being is something not to be reckoned in pounds, Copies of Colonial edition sold, 797.<br /> shillings and pence.<br /> Total sum received by me, £26 3s. 11d., from<br /> Yours truly,<br /> which must be deducted the 15 per cent. claimed<br /> “ DAVID.&quot; by my agent “ for the first novel sold in England.”<br /> The circumstances under which my first novel<br /> was published were practically similar to those of<br /> II.<br /> “A First and Second Novel.” I was absolutely<br /> SIR,-I was glad to see Mr. Arnold Bennett&#039;s<br /> unknown in the literary world, for though I had<br /> letter under this heading in the May issue of The<br /> had several short stories published in the magazines,<br /> Author, for Mr. Bennett strongly supports a point<br /> and had begun to be asked for more,&quot; I had<br /> made in my own contribution to the discussion in<br /> written them un ler my own name, while for my<br /> the same issue. Speaking of the contention that<br /> novel I took a pen-name. My sales, I suppose, ored<br /> the advertised judges in these competitions should<br /> a little to the private advertisements of my friends,<br /> read all the novels sent in, I asked what would be<br /> for to them I made no secret of my identity. I<br /> gained by making these judges cast a weary eye<br /> received about 40 reviews, all of which were more<br /> upon the stuff which the “sorters ” weed out.<br /> or less favourable ; none adverse, some highly<br /> Now Mr. Bennett makes it clear that to him it is<br /> encouraging, and these from the best papers. A<br /> second edition of the book (a second thousand) was<br /> not worth while to read even “important manu-<br /> issued ; but it will be observed that the home and<br /> scripts, already sifted from a mass,&quot; at a rate of<br /> Colonial sales added only reach a total of 1,383, 118<br /> remuneration equivalent to over £1,000 a year.<br /> having been given gratis in the course of advertise-<br /> What would he require for reading the mass,<br /> including the works which I have described (and, I<br /> ment, which brings the total of volumes disposed<br /> of to 1,501 ; therefore the 15 per cent. royalty was<br /> protest, with justice) as “crude, illiterate, and<br /> never reached by this book.<br /> artistically worthless”?<br /> READER.<br /> My second novel is yet in the proof stage, and is<br /> to be published between July and September, 1912,<br /> by the same publisher. I am to receive a royalty of<br /> A PUBLISHER&#039;S TERMS.<br /> 124 per cent. on the published price of 6s. on all<br /> copies sold up to 1,500 copies ; after which 15 per<br /> DEAR SIR,—The letter of “A First and Second cent. to a total sale of 3,000 copies ; 20 per cent.<br /> Novel” in your May issue supplies what is surely thereafter, 13 copies to be counted as 12. A<br /> a long-felt want, namely, a public comparison of royalty of 3d, per copy on the Colonial edition, 12<br /> notes as regards publishers&#039; terms between those copies to be counted as 12. I am to receive the<br /> beginning to make their way as novelists. Hitherto sum of £30 upon the day of publication, “in<br /> I have yearned in vain to know if my own experi. advance and on account of royalties.”<br /> ences were average, or peculiar in either a rich or a A much-contested clause in my second agreement<br /> meagre sense ; have harboured a devouring curiosity (which I omitted to trouble about in my first) was<br /> as to “how many sales constitute a successful first the following :—that in the event of my arranging<br /> novel ; what are the average sales of a first novel, for re-publication elsewhere, I should pay the<br /> and what the profit made by the author from the original publisher, X and X, 15 per cent, share in<br /> first venture.&quot; &quot;A First and Second Novel&#039;s” the net proceeds to me from such reprint. That is<br /> letter is most interesting and instructive, and it to say, that supposing X and X refused to issue a<br /> would be very satisfactory if more beginners would sixpenny or shilling reprint edition of the book, and<br /> follow suit, so that we might gain a sense of values some other publisher was willing to do so, I should<br /> <br /> <br /> ## p. 254 (#712) ############################################<br /> <br /> 254<br /> THE AUTHOR.<br /> be bound to hand over 15 per cent of the profits to point of view as author. One can at least squeeze<br /> X and X, though he had had nothing to do with the humour out of the business. I quote extracts from<br /> venture; his view being that it was owing to him that the first five reviews. “ Almost feminine beauty<br /> the book had reached a reprintable position. My and delicacy,” Bumpington Bugle; “ Virile,&quot; The<br /> point of view was that it was possible quite another Clock; “Well worth publishing,&quot; Bumpington<br /> book, not published by X and X, might be responsible Bugle ; “ Not worth publishing,” Morning Bleeder ;<br /> for the call for a reprint of a book originally published “Never lacking point and thought,” The Clock ;<br /> by them. Yet I should be obliged to part with “ Generally dull and lifeless,&quot; Provincial Scooper ;<br /> 15 per cent. of the profits, which to X and X would “ Versification,” Morning Bleeder; “ Distinct<br /> be unearned increment. My agent supported the reaching out of the spirit,” Friday Tyrant.<br /> publishers on this score, and I decided that, all I should add that I am a native of Bumpington.<br /> things considered, it was best to submit. It would<br /> Yours faithfully,<br /> be interesting to know if any other beginners have<br /> LEONARD INKSTER.<br /> had such a clause in their agreements, and, if so,<br /> what the outcome has been.<br /> I am not dependent upon writing for a living ;<br /> EDITORIAL COURTESY.<br /> but, at the same time, I am dependent on it for<br /> DEAR SIR,-Having a keen sense of justice I feel<br /> enlarging a slender income with no margin. Not<br /> impelled to give my testimony with regard to my<br /> until I employed an agent did I sell a book, though own experience as a contributor to the pages of the<br /> I had been assailing the publishers for between<br /> Bystander. I am not a well-known writer, as I<br /> eight and nine years. I am bound to my agent for prefer to publish all my work anonymously, and<br /> “all novels”; the agreement, as regards any unsold<br /> desire to advertise neither myself nor my wares, but<br /> book, being open to cancellation by mutual<br /> I am on the staff of a London paper and a con-<br /> consent, or on six months&#039; notice in writing by<br /> tributor to many other papers and magazines.<br /> either party.<br /> From the Bystander I have invariably received<br /> I, like &quot;* A First and Second Novel,” shall be<br /> the greatest courtesy. Accepted work has been<br /> very glad of “any enlightening comments or inserted in due course and paid for promptly; work<br /> conclusions” evoked by the above.<br /> that did not meet with acceptance was sent back to<br /> &quot;A BEGINNER.&quot; me by return of post.<br /> I found the editor, publisher, and management<br /> generally, exceedingly courteous, prompt, and<br /> AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS.<br /> thoroughly businesslike. I wish I could speak in<br /> SIR, -As an author and reviewer (though a young<br /> the same high terms of the management of all the<br /> one) I may be permitted to think I have sufficient other papers to which I contribute. If all journals<br /> experience to comment on “ Phokion&#039;s” article,<br /> were to copy the Bystander&#039;s methods in dealing<br /> “ Authors and Reviewers.&quot;<br /> with contributors—prompt acceptance or rejection<br /> As a reviewer, I naturally see the other side of of MSS., courteous replies to letters, when neces-<br /> the picture. Perhaps I am not sufficiently power- sary ; keen appreciation of intelligent, vivid or<br /> ful to commit some of the sins—for instance, the sin painstaking work ; smartness in detecting origin-<br /> of pluralism, attributed by Phokion to the tribe. ality ; and generous and prompt payment for<br /> First an author, I review and criticise because I am all accepted work, commissioned or otherwise, the<br /> interested in art, and because it is (one supposes)<br /> writer&#039;s life would be a less anxious and harassed<br /> necessary to live. However incompetent and one than it is at present. Yours etc..<br /> unjust I may be, I take the thing seriously, and<br /> L. H. H.<br /> labour more in my efforts to be just than in my<br /> own creative work. I know several reviewers.<br /> REGISTER OF SCENARIOS.<br /> They are all equally serious. The fact that a man SIR,- The Society has, I believe, a register of<br /> is severe in dealing with what he knows about is scenarios. Probably it is used, at present, mainly<br /> natural ; he has a high standard ; no doubt, if I by dramatists. It occurs to me, however, that<br /> reported a football match, I should be unduly novelists would also do well to make use of it.<br /> complimentary, because I do not know about it. The new Copyright Act gives them the sole power<br /> Some of my reviewer friends have recently to authorise the dramatisation of their novels. It<br /> reviewed a book of verses by me. One admitted also creates a new set of rights, namely, the film<br /> that he was harder on me than if he had not rights for cinematograph representation. The<br /> known me ; another did not admit it. No doubt advantages of filing a scenario of the plot of the<br /> there was log-rolling to start with, in that had they novel in view of these two circumstances are<br /> not known me they would probably not have obvious.<br /> Yours faithfully,<br /> reviewed me at all. And this brings me to the<br /> L. T. 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