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£8. dk:<br />
Bocsl Loans. 2.6.0.6 boss chien 500 0 0<br />
Victoria Government 3% Consoli-<br />
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London and North-Western 3%<br />
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Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
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Cape of Good Hope 34% Inscribed<br />
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Glasgow and South-Western Rail-<br />
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New Zealand 34% Stock ....... 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 24%<br />
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Dominion of Canada, C.P.R. 34%<br />
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Land Grant Stock, 1988 ...... 198 3 8<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
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Central Argentine Railway Or-<br />
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250 Edward Lloyd, Ltd., £1 5%<br />
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55 Buenos Ayres Great Southern<br />
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April 8, Caulfield-Stoker, T. . ;<br />
June 12, Wimperis, Arthur . :<br />
June 16, Ballantyne, J. W.<br />
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Novy. 7, Lang, Mrs. John<br />
Nov. 19, Langferte, Raymond<br />
Nov. 24, Webb, W. Trego<br />
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Oct. 9, Carroll, Sydney Wentworth<br />
Oct. 21, Troubetskoy, The Princess<br />
Oct. 27, Frankish, Harold :<br />
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Buckley, Reginald<br />
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Caillard, Miss E. M.<br />
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Cooper, Miss Marjorie<br />
Cotesworth, Miss L. E.<br />
Coulton, G. G. :<br />
Cox, Miss M. Roalfe<br />
Cromartie, Countess of .<br />
Crommelin, Miss May<br />
Crozier, Dr. J. Beattie<br />
Cuming, E. D.<br />
Curwen, Miss Maud<br />
Dailley, R. H. ;<br />
Dale, Miss Nellie .<br />
Darbishire, Otto .<br />
Davy, Mrs. E. M..<br />
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De Brath, Stanley<br />
De Morgan, William<br />
Desborough, The Lerd .<br />
Dillon, Mrs. .<br />
Dixon, A. F.<br />
Dixon, Miss H. M.<br />
Dixon, W. Scarth<br />
Dobson, Austin<br />
Drake, Maurice F.<br />
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Edgington, Miss May Haultain, Arnold .<br />
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Fagan, J. B. Heath, Sidney<br />
Felkin, A.L. Hecht, Mrs. Arthur<br />
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Fenwick, Miss Sik. Heming, Lieut.-Col. D. :<br />
Festing, Miss Henderson, R. W. Wright .<br />
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Fitzgerald, Colin . Hitchens, Robert .<br />
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COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
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HE Committee of Management held their<br />
November meeting on Monday, Novem-<br />
ber 8, at 1, Central Buildings, Tothill<br />
<br />
Street. After the reading of the minutes of the<br />
previous meeting, the committee proceeded<br />
with the election of members and associates.<br />
They are glad to record the election of thirty-<br />
eight members and associates. The full list<br />
appears elsewhere. The total elections for the<br />
year number 315. The committee accepted,<br />
with regret, three resignations.<br />
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The solicitors reported on the cases passing<br />
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through their hands during the month.<br />
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In a ease of breach of agreement by a pub-<br />
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lisher, the matter had been settled when the<br />
solicitors of the Society had given notice of an<br />
injunction. In the second case, against the<br />
proprietor of a magazine, the amount and costs<br />
paid into court had been accepted, and the<br />
matter was ended satisfactorily for the author.<br />
In two claims against a music publisher, the<br />
accounts had been delivered and the moneys<br />
paid. In a case against a magazine, an agreed<br />
sum had been paid and handed over to the<br />
author. There were two very small cases in<br />
which arrangements had been made for pay-<br />
ment by instalments. This statement will<br />
show that many of the cases open from the<br />
former month have now been closed. The<br />
solicitor reported on a serious question which<br />
had been mentioned at the former meeting,<br />
where a publisher had refused facilities for<br />
vouching his accounts. The publisher had<br />
2 since withdrawn his objection, and the solicitor<br />
VE was instructed to see that the accounts were<br />
'y duly vouched. Two cases were reported in<br />
‘+ which no final decision had been arrived at.<br />
One related to the infringement of authors’<br />
rights in America, and the other dealt with<br />
the rights of publication in England. The<br />
solicitor explained that it was necessary to wait<br />
for fuller information before any practical<br />
decision could be come to, and the matters<br />
were accordingly adjourned to the next<br />
meeting.<br />
<br />
A dispute between a member of the Society<br />
and her publisher respecting the publication<br />
of a book was fully discussed by the committee.<br />
The solicitor explained the details. The<br />
committee regretted that it was impossible to<br />
take any further steps than those which had<br />
already been taken, and instructed the solicitor<br />
that the member concerned should be informed<br />
of this decision. The last case mentioned by<br />
the solicitors was a dispute between author and<br />
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publisher as to the fulfilment of a contract<br />
commissioned by the publisher. After full<br />
consideration of the evidence, the committee<br />
decided it was not possible to proceed further,<br />
as it appeared that the author had no ground<br />
of action.<br />
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The secretary then reported one or two cases<br />
in his hands.<br />
<br />
He stated that an action for infringement of<br />
dramatic copyright in Winnipeg had_ been<br />
settled, and the author had offered to pay the<br />
Society’s expenses. The committee thanked<br />
the author for his generous acknowledgement<br />
of the Society’s work by the offer that he<br />
had made. A serious question of alleged<br />
infringement of dramatic copyright came<br />
before the committee, and after due considera-<br />
tion it was decided to give the member all<br />
possible assistance and to guarantee a sum<br />
towards counsel’s fees on certain conditions<br />
laid down by the committee. The next four<br />
eases related to complaints in America and<br />
Canada. In the first, against a dramatic<br />
agent, the secretary was empowered, if he did<br />
not receive satisfaction, to place the matter into<br />
the hands of the Society’s American lawyers.<br />
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The second, against an American magazine<br />
for breach of an author’s rights, it was decided<br />
to place into the hands of the Society’s Ameri-<br />
can lawyers immediately. In the third case<br />
the secretary reported that a_ satisfactory<br />
arrangement had been made by the American<br />
publishers for the payment of the debt by<br />
instalments each month, which arrangement<br />
had been accepted by the author. In the<br />
fourth case—against a Canadian publisher—<br />
the secretary was instructed to place the matter<br />
in the hands of the Society’s lawyers in Toronto,<br />
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A case against an English publisher con-<br />
cerning an agreement was discussed at full<br />
length, and the committee decided to instruct<br />
the Society’s lawyers to proceed, as it appeared<br />
to them that the agreement was wholly unfair<br />
and unreasonable. The secretary reported<br />
that, during the past month, on the authority<br />
of the chairman, an important case had been<br />
placed before counsel with reference to<br />
dramatic contracts, cinematograph rights, and<br />
international law. The committee confirmed<br />
the action taken. Another case, referring to<br />
the infringement of rights in Australia was<br />
deferred for further consideration.<br />
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Counsel’s opinion bearing on a difficult<br />
question of mechanical rights in Germany was<br />
placed before the committee. As that opinion<br />
was in favour of the member, it was decided to<br />
accept counsel’s advice and to commence<br />
action.<br />
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Lastly, the secretary was instructed to write<br />
to a publisher with reference to the alleged<br />
publication of an author’s books contrary to<br />
an existing agreement, and to ask for an exX-<br />
planation from the publisher.<br />
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The committee then proceeded to consider<br />
the question of the appointment of their<br />
nominees for the committee election at the end<br />
of the year. The names will appear in The<br />
Author in accordance with the Articles of<br />
Association. :<br />
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The secretary reported on the question of<br />
the appointment of nominees to mect the<br />
Societies of Composers with a view to obtaining<br />
their adhesion to the Society of Authors. At<br />
the suggestion of the Composers’ Sub-Com-<br />
mittee, Mr. Cecil Forsyth was elected a<br />
delegate, and Mr. Stanley Leathes was<br />
suggested as a second delegate to accompany<br />
Mr. Forsyth. Failing him, the secretary was<br />
instructed, in conjunction with the chairman,<br />
to choose some other member, and when the<br />
delegates had been finally settled to make<br />
arrangements to meet the Society of British<br />
Composers or any other Society acting for<br />
composers.<br />
<br />
The proposals put forward by the com-<br />
mittee in the matter of the banning of books<br />
by the libraries and referred back to that body<br />
next came forward for consideration. Mr.<br />
Maurice Hewlett kindly attended, and put<br />
before the committee one or two important<br />
points. The matter was then discussed at<br />
great length, and all the points raised by the<br />
Council were fully considered. The committee<br />
decided, after careful deliberation, to abandon<br />
the proposal which had been made to call a<br />
conference, as such proposals appeared con-<br />
trary to the desires and wishes of the Council<br />
of the Society.<br />
<br />
A draft circular respecting the Collection<br />
Bureau, which the committee propose to issue,<br />
was left for settlement between the chairman<br />
and the secretary. It will be sent to all<br />
members of the Society in due course.<br />
<br />
A royalty agreement was finally settled,<br />
subject to one small question which it was<br />
decided to refer to the solicitors of the Society.<br />
The agreement is now ready for those members<br />
who desire a copy. The question of the dinner<br />
guests was left to the chairman and ‘secretary.<br />
<br />
A proposition to bring the Society’s work to<br />
the notice of the younger members of the pro-<br />
fession was considered, and the secretary was<br />
instructed to make arrangements with a view<br />
to obtaining their names and addresses if<br />
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ossible.<br />
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The Publishers’ Association drew the atten-<br />
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tion of the committee to the Copyright Bill now<br />
before the Indian Legislative Council, with<br />
special reference to the Clause dealing with<br />
translation rights. It was decided to act with<br />
the Publishers’ Association, with a view to<br />
strengthening the rights of translators, and, if<br />
possible, to obtain for authors the same rights<br />
over their translation as are enjoyed under the<br />
Berne Convention.<br />
<br />
Certain letters from members were placed<br />
before the committee and the secretary was<br />
instructed to answer those that required<br />
answering.<br />
<br />
Two matters—loans to authors on contracts,<br />
and the International Gathering of Authors at<br />
San Francisco, 1915—were adjourned to the<br />
next meeting.<br />
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The committee thanked Miss Annesley<br />
Kenealy for a donation of £1 1s. towards the<br />
Capital Fund of the Society.<br />
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DRAMATIC SuB-COMMITTEE.<br />
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A MEETING of the Dramatic Sub-Committee<br />
was held at the offices of the Society on Friday,<br />
November 21, at three o’clock.<br />
<br />
After reading the minutes certain dramatic<br />
cages were considered. In the first case the<br />
secretary reported the action the Committee<br />
of Management had taken on the sub-<br />
committee’s recommendation, and he was<br />
instructed to try to obtain further witnesses<br />
for the plaintiff. Consideration of the second<br />
case—an infringement of copyright—was<br />
adjourned as the report necessary to lay before<br />
the sub-committee had not been received by<br />
the secretary. The third case, which raised<br />
the question of cinematograph reproduction,<br />
was fully discussed, but the sub-committee<br />
considered that, at present, any action would<br />
be premature, as the member concerned had<br />
no clear evidence to lay before the sub-<br />
committee that action had been taken against;<br />
him. The sub-committee decided to re-<br />
consider the case should the member’s fears<br />
be realised that his rights were being challenged.<br />
<br />
The question of providing powers of attor-<br />
ney in favour of lawyers in foreign countries<br />
to assist the Society in stopping infringements,<br />
which had been raised at the former meeting,<br />
was discussed, and it was decided, with the<br />
approval of the Committee of Management, to<br />
obtain powers of attorney which could be sent<br />
out with a carefully worded covering letter<br />
conveying the information that the . powers<br />
were not to be acted upon until cabled<br />
instructions were given from the Society’s<br />
office.<br />
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The secretary placed before the sub-com-<br />
mittee an agreement which had been submitted<br />
to certain members of the Society, and it was<br />
decided, with the approval of the Committee<br />
of Management, that an article should be<br />
published in The Author on the terms of this<br />
agreement.<br />
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The sub-committee regretted that the<br />
delegates from the Dramatic Clubs Association<br />
were unable to attend the meeting, but they<br />
discussed the resolutions that had been<br />
submitted to them, and the secretary was<br />
instructed to draft and to forward a reply.<br />
<br />
As the sub-committee understood from the<br />
Society of West End Managers that it was<br />
impossible to call a meeting at the present<br />
time, owing to the absence of Sir George<br />
Alexander, one of the delegates, the matter<br />
was adjourned pending the receipt of a further<br />
communication from the Society.<br />
<br />
The secretary was instructed to write to the<br />
members of the sub-committee in regard to<br />
<br />
the election of the sub-committee for 1914.<br />
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The sub-committee decided to appoint their<br />
nominees at the December meeting to be held<br />
on the 19th of that month.<br />
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Composers’ Sup-CoMMITTEE.<br />
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Tue November meeting of the Composers’<br />
Sub-Committee was held at the offices of the<br />
Society, 1, Central Buildings, Tothill Street,<br />
Westminster, S.W.<br />
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After reading the minutes of the pre-<br />
vious meeting, the secretary reported that<br />
the Committee of Management had confirmed<br />
the appointment of Mr. Cecil Forsyth as a<br />
delegate to meet the Society of British Com-<br />
posers with a view to conferring with that<br />
Society as to the best means of drawing into<br />
the Society of Authors, Composers not members<br />
of any existing Societies. He reported also<br />
that the Committee of Management had<br />
appointed Mr. Stanley Leathes to act with Mr.<br />
Forsyth, and that Mr. Leathes had expressed<br />
his willingness to serve. It was decided that<br />
the two delegates should meet at the Society’s<br />
office in order to discuss the preliminary steps<br />
to be taken.<br />
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The sub-committee then considered a para-<br />
graph to be inserted in the papers calling the<br />
attention of composers to the work the Society<br />
was willing to undertake on their behalf, and<br />
inviting them to join its ranks. Mr. Forsyth<br />
agreed to draft the paragraph according to the<br />
sub-committee’s wishes. It was decided that<br />
the paragraph, when drafted, should be sent to<br />
<br />
all the members of the sub-committee, and,<br />
when finally approved, inserted in the papers.<br />
<br />
Letters from the Ammre and _ the<br />
Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs, referring<br />
to the collection of mechanical instrument fees,<br />
were read. The consideration of the letter<br />
from the Ammre was adjourned. It was<br />
decided to accept the invitation contained in<br />
the letter from the Société des Auteurs et<br />
Compositeurs to send a representative to<br />
discuss the matter with the secretary of that<br />
Society, in the event of enquiries which the<br />
Society of Authors had already instituted<br />
producing no satisfactory result.<br />
<br />
The attention of the sub-committee having<br />
been called to the fact that stamps affixed to<br />
records under the Mechanical Instrument<br />
Clauses of the Copyright Act very often fell<br />
off the records when in the hands of the retailers,<br />
it was decided to collect all possible evidence<br />
on the matter, and to bring it to the notice of<br />
the Board of Trade.<br />
<br />
The prospectus of the Copyright Protection<br />
Society was considered by the sub-committee,<br />
The secretary was instructed to draft an article<br />
dealing with the Prospectus and to submit it to<br />
the members at their next meeting, when the<br />
article, as well as the position of composers in<br />
relation to that Society, would be re-discussed.<br />
<br />
A letter from Mr. J. B. McEwen was received<br />
by the sub-committee, in which Mr. McEwen<br />
regretted he was forced to resign owing to his<br />
inability to attend the meetings. The resigna-<br />
tion was accepted with regret.<br />
<br />
pep<br />
<br />
Cases.<br />
<br />
THE even roll of cases goes on from month<br />
to month. In spite of the monotony of the<br />
proceeding, they are chronicled in order that<br />
members may see the steady work the Society<br />
continues to perform on their behalf. To some,<br />
this chronicle may appear of little importance,<br />
but this is not so; all members should have<br />
an opportunity of seeing that the work is<br />
carefully and accurately attended to.<br />
<br />
The cases during the past month in the<br />
secretary’s hands number twenty-one, and<br />
there has been a considerable increase. in the<br />
number of those in foreign countries. We<br />
chronicle five claims for the return of MSS. ;<br />
one of these lies in the United States, another<br />
in South Africa. It has not, of course, been<br />
possible to complete these two within the<br />
month. In two other cases, the MSS. have<br />
been returned and forwarded to the authors.<br />
In the final case, as the Society could not<br />
<br />
<br />
responsible f<br />
<br />
all of which have<br />
Following this<br />
<br />
for money ;<br />
<br />
into the han<br />
<br />
on agreements.<br />
considerable amoun<br />
negotiations are being<br />
<br />
referring to t<br />
by degrees, as t<br />
<br />
on fixed dates.<br />
<br />
Bagley, Miss L. .<br />
Bentley, Edmund Cleri-<br />
<br />
‘<br />
<br />
Bridges, Robert .<br />
Burdett, Osbert .<br />
<br />
Calthrop, Dion Clayton<br />
Carter, Huntly .<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
in the courtesy of a reply, formal notice<br />
es to the lier that he would be held<br />
or any wrongful use of the MSS.<br />
There have been three claims for accounts,<br />
been successfully dealt with.<br />
there have been six claims<br />
f these have been transferred<br />
ds of the Society’s solicitors ; one<br />
has been settled and the money has been<br />
forwarded to the author ;<br />
so far that a definite date has been fixed for<br />
payment, and the last ha<br />
to the office. :<br />
There have been two claims for accounts and<br />
money, one of these lies in the United States,<br />
the other has been satisfactorily ended.<br />
estions arising<br />
copyright are bei<br />
<br />
one has been settled<br />
<br />
s only recently come<br />
<br />
from infringements of<br />
<br />
ng dealt with. One in<br />
Austria is in course of negotiation. It is hoped<br />
that the remaining one in England will be<br />
settled shortly.<br />
<br />
There were three cases arising from disputes<br />
These involve necessarily a<br />
t of correspondence, and<br />
carried on in two cases,<br />
while the third has only recently come to hand.<br />
<br />
The cases from former months are being<br />
closed up. One with a literary agent<br />
he return of MSS. is being settled<br />
he agent has to call in the MSS.<br />
that have been sent out to editors. There will<br />
be no difficulty.<br />
<br />
There is a claim for money from the United<br />
States, and this is being settled by payments<br />
Two instalments have already<br />
<br />
A third case dealing with a dispute over an<br />
agreement is still in the course of negotiation.<br />
The remaining cases have been settled, save<br />
those which had to be transferred to the<br />
Society’s lawyers.<br />
<br />
—— 4 —<br />
<br />
November Elections.<br />
Bagenol, Miss Violet E. Benekerry, Carlow,<br />
<br />
Ireland.<br />
<br />
Rock Bank, Whaley<br />
Bridge.<br />
<br />
28, Lymington Road<br />
N.W<br />
<br />
Chilswell, Oxford.<br />
<br />
Shotwick, Vernon<br />
Road, Bushey,<br />
Herts.<br />
<br />
7, Oakwood Court,<br />
Kensington, W..:<br />
Waverton Street,<br />
<br />
Mayfair.<br />
<br />
Clarke, Madame Emilie<br />
<br />
Down, W. Oliphant<br />
<br />
Elrington, Helen<br />
<br />
Foy, Slieve.<br />
<br />
Garland, A. P.<br />
<br />
Grogan, Gerald<br />
<br />
Hadath, Gunby, M.A.<br />
<br />
-Hemmerde,<br />
<br />
Hendley, Mrs.<br />
(I. E. Dawson)<br />
<br />
Hill, Walter (Adelphos)<br />
<br />
Howell, T. Francis<br />
<br />
Lancaster, G. B.<br />
<br />
Lang, Mrs. John<br />
<br />
Lauzerte Raymond<br />
<br />
Lawson, Lucy S. .<br />
<br />
Lounsbery, G. Constant<br />
<br />
Lulham, P. Habberton<br />
<br />
Mackenzie, Compton<br />
Nellen, Amy E. .<br />
Norton, Robert Doug-<br />
Peterson, Miss Margaret<br />
Roberts, Helen C.<br />
Robertson, H. R.<br />
Russell, E. 8.<br />
<br />
Sarmento, Vicomte de<br />
<br />
Steane, Bruce<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
24, Biddulph Man-<br />
sions, Maida Vale,<br />
W.<br />
<br />
Elmcroft, Gilling-<br />
ham, Dorset.<br />
<br />
6, Eaton Square<br />
Monkstown, Co,<br />
Dublin.<br />
<br />
70, Danecroft Road<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
<br />
S.E.<br />
Toorvagh, St. An-<br />
drews, N.B.<br />
<br />
12, Hallam Street,<br />
W.<br />
<br />
4, Loudoun Road,<br />
N.W.<br />
<br />
Trafalgar House,<br />
Leeds.<br />
<br />
22, Stafford Terrace,<br />
Kensington, W.<br />
C/o. Bank of New<br />
Zealand, London.<br />
2, Salisbury Road,<br />
<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
<br />
14, St. James’s Place,<br />
S.W.<br />
<br />
254, Albion Road,<br />
Stoke Newington,<br />
N.<br />
<br />
18, Rue Boissonade,<br />
Paris.<br />
<br />
11, Prince Albert<br />
Street, Brigh-<br />
ton.<br />
<br />
La Caterola, Capri,<br />
Italy.<br />
<br />
9, Clifton Road,<br />
Brighton.<br />
<br />
Argyll House, Chel-<br />
sea.<br />
<br />
3, Markham Square,<br />
Chelsea, S.W.<br />
<br />
Tudor Lodge, Wor-<br />
thing, Sussex.<br />
<br />
1, Steele’s Studios,<br />
N.W.<br />
<br />
Bryan’s Ground,<br />
Presteign, Rads.<br />
<br />
Lisbon.<br />
<br />
‘Prospect House,”<br />
<br />
Sundridge, Seven- _<br />
<br />
oaks Kent.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Taylor, G. R. Stirling . 1, Pump Court,<br />
Temple, E.C.<br />
<br />
Spondon, Derby.<br />
<br />
Volta House, Wind-<br />
mill Hill, Hamp-<br />
stead, N.W.<br />
<br />
Minsmere, Dunwich,<br />
Suffolk.<br />
<br />
Topham, Miss Anne .,<br />
Wanklyn, William Mce-<br />
Connel.<br />
<br />
Webb, W. Trego.<br />
<br />
ee<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
While every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list, and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate. .<br />
ART.<br />
<br />
Tue Art or Borricenii1. An Essay in Pictorial Criticism.<br />
By Laurence Bixyon. 144 x 104. 167 pp. Twenty-<br />
three Plates. Macmillan. £12 12s. n.<br />
<br />
Tue Arts anp Crarts or INDIA AND CEYLON. By<br />
Ananpa K. Coomaraswamy. 8 x 53. 252 pp. Foulis,<br />
6s. n.<br />
<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
<br />
Lapy Hester LucySrannorn. By ¥.Hamer. 9} x 6}<br />
348 pp. Cassell. 15s. n.<br />
<br />
A Book or Ducuzsszs. By<br />
Auice E. Rossrys. Melrose.<br />
10s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Tae Lire or Firorence Nicutincatz. By E. T. Coox.<br />
Two Vols. 9 x 53. xxxi.+507+ 510 pp. Mac-<br />
millan. 30s. n.<br />
<br />
Twenty-Five YEARS’ REMINISCENCES.<br />
Tynan (Mrs. H. A. Hinkson). 9 x 53. 355 pp.<br />
Smith, Elder. 10s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
My. ReEcotuections aND REFLECTIONS. Written and<br />
Illustrated by Yosuto Marxrno. 73 x 5. 262 pp.<br />
Chatto and Windus. 6s. n.<br />
<br />
Tax Beavtirut Lapy Craven. The Original Memoirs of<br />
Elizabeth Baroness Craven, afterwards Margravine of<br />
Anspach and Bayreuth and Princess Berkeley of the<br />
Holy Roman Empire (1750—1828). Edited by A. M.<br />
Broapiey and Lewis Metvitte. Two Vols. 8} x 5h.<br />
exliii. + 141 + 306 pp. Lane. 25s. n.<br />
<br />
ANDREW Jamuson, LoRD ARDWALL. By J. Bucwan.<br />
7% Xx 5. 155 pp. Blackwood. 38. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Tau Story or THE NorTHuMBRIAN SAINTS. By Exiza-<br />
Birth W. Grierson. 8 x 6. 131 pp. Mowbray.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Gotpwin Smita. His Life and Opinions. By A. Havt-<br />
TAIN. 9 X 52. 304 pp. Werner Laurie. 18s. n.<br />
<br />
Ganrie, Harvey’s Marornaia. Collected and Edited<br />
by G. C. Moorr Smrru. 94 x 6. xvi. + 327 pp.<br />
Shakespeare Head Press. 16s. n.<br />
<br />
Curistins or DENMARK. Duchess of Milan and Lorraine,<br />
1522—1590. By Juria Cartwricut (Mrs. Ady).<br />
9 x 5}. 562 pp. Murray. 18s, n.<br />
<br />
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG;<br />
<br />
Warty: A Wurtz Pupry. By Mrs. Ernest AMES.<br />
8 x 8. Duckworth. 1s. n.<br />
<br />
Studies in Personality.<br />
9 x 54. 339 pp.<br />
<br />
By KatHARINE<br />
<br />
73<br />
<br />
Boy Kryes anp Grrt QuEENs. By H. E. Marswaup<br />
83 x 53. 467 pp. Grafton. 5s. n.<br />
<br />
THE Bree Story AND Ts TEACHING FOR CHILDREN. By<br />
Baroness Frepa Dr Kwnoop. 82 x 64. 392 pp.<br />
Dent. 6s. n.<br />
<br />
THE WIND IN THE WILLows. By Kenneruo GRAHAME,<br />
Illustrated by G. P. Bransom. 72 X 6. 302 pp.<br />
Methuen. 7s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
THE CAMPBELLS oF ARGYLL. By<br />
144 pp. Nelson. Is.<br />
<br />
THe Great Arrsutp. A Tale of Adventure. By CapPrain<br />
F.S. Brereton. 73 x 5}. 360 pp. Blackie. 5s.<br />
SERGEANT Sixx. The Prairie Scout. By R. Leteuton.<br />
<br />
7% xX 5. 239 pp. Jarrold. 2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Masterman’s Mistake. By Tuomas Coss.<br />
240 pp. Wells Gardner. 2s,<br />
<br />
Brrp Cay. By H. Dr Vere Sracpoors.<br />
<br />
316 pp. Wells Gardner. 5s. n.<br />
<br />
Kine or Ranxeicu. A School Story. By Carrarn F. 8.<br />
BRERETON. 8} x 53. 416 pp. Partridge. 6s.<br />
<br />
Rover: Tur Story or a Doc. 96 pp. A Lrrrie<br />
Norman Map. 96 pp. Our Great ADVENTURE.<br />
96 pp. Brave Mareer. 96 pp. <A Srrrcn rm Tre.<br />
96 pp. CERDIC THE Saxon. 96 pp. (The Children’s<br />
Hour.) Edited by Herserr Srranc. Frowde and<br />
Hodder and Stoughton. 1s. n. each.<br />
<br />
Princess Bapours. A Tale from the Arabian Nights.<br />
Retold by Laurence Housman. [Illustrated by E.<br />
Dutac. 10} x 74. 113 pp. Hodder and Stoughton.<br />
10s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Derrick Ormn’s Scoot Days. By Epriru C. Kenyon.<br />
8 x 54. 382 pp. R.T.S. 35. 6d.<br />
<br />
HEROES oF THE EvRopEAN Nations. By A. RB. Hopz<br />
Moncreirr. 7} x 5}. 194 pp. Blackie. 2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Wir Hunter, TRAPPER, AND ScouT IN CAMP AND FIELD.<br />
Edited by A.H.Mimms. 8 x 53. 382pp. Holdenand<br />
Hardingham. 5s.<br />
<br />
Tue Story or AncELIna Wacks. By Mrs. CuayTon<br />
Patmer. Illustrated by Sypm Baruam. 8} x 63.<br />
71 pp. Wells Gardner. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
My Boox anout THE Post OFFICE.<br />
Illustrated by T. Somerriexp.<br />
Blackie. 1s. 6d.<br />
<br />
STORIES FROM THE BILE.<br />
Wutson. Illustrated by A.<br />
Blackie. 3s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Buacxre’s Porputar Nursery Ruymas. Illustrated by<br />
JoHN Hassatt. 10} x 8. Blackie. 2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Buackre’s YELLow Picture-Book or Nursery RuyMEs.<br />
Illustrated by Joun Hassan, 101 x 8. Blackie.<br />
ls. 6d.<br />
<br />
Just so Srorrms. For Little Children. By Rupyarp<br />
Kretine. With Illustrations by the Author and<br />
Coloured Plates by J. M. Gurmson. 94 x 7. 249 pp.<br />
Macmillan. 6s.<br />
<br />
Heimer anp Cowz. Stories of Monastic and Military<br />
Orders. By W.M.Lurts and M.F.S.Lerrs. 11 x 83.<br />
121 pp. Wells Gardner. 5s. n.<br />
<br />
Hitpa’s Exprrtences. By May Batpwin. 7} x 54.<br />
386 pp. Chambers. 5s.<br />
<br />
CHRISTINE, THE Hucurnot. By Enpitn ©. Kanyon.<br />
8 x 54. 31lpp. R.T.S. 3s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Tue Daveuter or THE Manor. By Katuarine TYNAN.<br />
7% x 5. 400 pp. Blackie. 6s.<br />
<br />
Cousins in Camp. A Lakeland Tale.<br />
Witson - Wirson. 7} X 5.<br />
2s. 6d.<br />
<br />
Tom Kenyon, Scnootpoy. By M. Harpine KELLY.<br />
7%} x 5. 320 pp. R.T.S. Is. 6d.<br />
<br />
Moruzr Goosz. The Old Nursery Rhymes.<br />
by A. Racxnam. 8} x 6.<br />
68. n.<br />
<br />
Hitpa T. Sxanr,<br />
<br />
7k Xx 5h.<br />
<br />
8i x 5B.<br />
<br />
By Eprru Rorarrs.<br />
103 x 73. 80 pp.<br />
<br />
Told by THropora Witson-<br />
A.. Dixon. 9 x 63.<br />
<br />
By TuHropora<br />
256 pp. Blackie.<br />
<br />
Illustrated<br />
160 pp. Heinemann.<br />
<br />
<br />
74<br />
<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
<br />
Diorronary oF National BroGRAPHY. Second Supple-<br />
ment Index and Epitome. Edited by Sre Sipyey Les.<br />
93 x 63. 129 pp. Smith, Elder. 3s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
DRAMA.<br />
<br />
TurJMoruer. A Play in Four Acts.<br />
ports. 6% x 5. 101 pp. Duckworth.<br />
Jur Pourticrans. A Comedy in Four Acts.<br />
G. Layton (‘‘ Stephen Andrew”). 72 X 43.<br />
Sidgwick and Jackson. ls. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Tue Saapow. A Play in Three Acts. By Eprn PHILL-<br />
potts. 6} x 5. 93 pp. Duckworth. 1s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Tar Sua Power or Enctanp. A Play for a Village<br />
<br />
With a Chorus<br />
<br />
By EpEn PHILL-<br />
ls. 6d.<br />
<br />
By Frank<br />
102 pp.<br />
<br />
Audience. By AMABEL STRACHEY. 1<br />
by Mr. Sr. Loz Srracwgy. 7 X 44. 83 pp. Curtis.<br />
2s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Tar Master. A Poetical Play in Two Acts. By W. G.<br />
Hous. 74 x 5. 55 pp. Erskine Macdonald. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Macro. By G. K. CHESTERTON. 6% x 5. 72 pp.<br />
Secker. ls. n.<br />
<br />
Tar Lirrur Stone Housz. A Playin One Act. By<br />
@.CaLpERoN. 7X 5. 32pp. Sidgwick and Jackson.<br />
6d. n.<br />
<br />
Miss TassEy.<br />
Sidgwick and Jackson.<br />
<br />
Tanks with Piaycorrs. By Henry Arruur JONES.<br />
No.1. Muntcrean aNp Rererrory TuHeatres. A<br />
Lecture delivered to the Sheffield Playgoers Society,<br />
Sept. 29th. 9 x 6. 34pp. Bell. 64d.<br />
<br />
Tarer Puays: THe SHapow. THe MoruHeEr.<br />
Smcret Woman. By EpeEn PHILLports.<br />
93 + 101 +90 pp. Duckworth.<br />
<br />
Tau Price or THomas Scott. A Playin Three Acts. By<br />
Evizaseth Baker. 7x 4}. 85 pp. Sidgwick and<br />
Jackson. 1s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Prarson’s Humorous Reciter anp Reaper. Choice<br />
Selections from the Writings of JERomE K. JEROME,<br />
<br />
By Evizazetu Baker. 7} x 5. 31 pp.<br />
<br />
6d. n.<br />
<br />
THE<br />
<br />
cK Ds<br />
<br />
W. W. Jacozs, and Others. 7} x 5. 351 pp.<br />
Pearson. ls. n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
Wuat is Epucation? By Srantey Leatuss, C.B.<br />
74x 5. xvi. +191 pp. Bell. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
ENGINEERING.<br />
Let me Expnarn. By A. Winuiams. 8} X 5}. 370 pp.<br />
<br />
Wells Gardner. 6s.<br />
<br />
OveRHEAD Etzectric PowErR TRANSMISSION, PRINCIPLES<br />
AND CatcuLations. A Book dealing with the theory<br />
and design of long-distance high pressure electric trans-<br />
mission lines. By Atrrep Stit1, Professor in the<br />
School of Electrical Engineering, Purdue University,<br />
Indiana. 9 x 6. 306 pp. McGray-Hill Book Co.<br />
12s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Tur PRINCIPLES OF THE APPLICATION OF Power TO Roap<br />
Transport. By H. E. Wimpuris. 7} Xx 5. 130 pp.<br />
Constable. 4s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Exectro-THermaL Metsops or [Ron anpD STEEL PrRo-<br />
puction. By J. B. C. Kersnaw, F.LC. With an<br />
Introduction by Dr. J. A. Fuemine, F.R.S. 8} x 5}.<br />
xxiii. + 239 pp. Constable. 8s, 6d. n.<br />
<br />
FICTION.<br />
<br />
A CHANGED Man, THe Waitine SuprER and other Tales,<br />
concluding with the Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid.<br />
ne Tuomas Harpy. 8} x 5}. 413 pp. Macmillan.<br />
<br />
3.<br />
<br />
Tue IreusistrsLe InrrRupER. By W. Carne. 7} x 5.<br />
324 pp. Lane. 6s.<br />
Tue Leacus or St. Louis. By D. WHITELaw. 7} x 5.<br />
<br />
306 pp. Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
Tyre THOUSANDTH Woman. By E. W. Hornune. 7% x 5.<br />
207 pp. Nash. 3s. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
Footor Apri. By Justin Huntty McCarruy. 7} x 5.<br />
448 pp. Hurst and Blackett. 6s.<br />
<br />
Aw IsLAND oF Epey. By Brerrram Mitrorp. 7§ xX 5.<br />
318 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tue Mrmorrs or SHERLOCK HOoLMEs.<br />
Doyun. (Cheap Reprint.) 6} x 44.<br />
Td. n.<br />
<br />
Crimson Litres. By May Crommetin; Tur Macnertic<br />
Girt. By Ricuarp Mars. 318 pp. 64 x 4. John<br />
Long. 7d. n.<br />
<br />
Tur VISION SPLENDID. By D. K. Broster and G. W.<br />
Taytor. 7} x 5. 499 pp. John Murray. 6s.<br />
<br />
Here are Lapies. By J. Srepenns. 7} X 5. 349 pp.<br />
Macmillan. 5s. n.<br />
<br />
Her Lapysuie’s Conscience. By ELLEN THORNEYCROFT<br />
Tower (the Hon. Mrs. Alfred Felkin). 73 x 5.<br />
311 pp. Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tar Parntep Lapy. By ARABELLA KENEALY.<br />
380 pp. Stanley, Paul. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tun JUDGMENT OF THE SWORD.<br />
<br />
By A. Conan<br />
384 pp. Nelson.<br />
<br />
7} x 43.<br />
<br />
By Mavp Diver.<br />
<br />
74 x 5. 640 pp. Constable. 6s.<br />
<br />
A Mipsummer Rose. By KatTuaRINnE TyNAN. 7] X 5.<br />
312 pp. Smith, Elder. 6s.<br />
<br />
One or THE Crowpv. By E. Marra ALBANESI. 7} X 5.<br />
352 pp. Chapman and Hall. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tumparom. By Frances Hopeson Burnett. 7j x 5.<br />
527 pp. Hodderand Stoughton. 6s.<br />
<br />
A HovsEnotp Sart. By Jerrarp SyRETtT. 7} X 4.<br />
<br />
320 pp. (Popular Edition.) J. Long. Ils. n.<br />
<br />
Tur Happy-go-Lucky Morgans. By Epwarp THomas.<br />
74 x 5. 299 pp. Duckworth. 6s.<br />
<br />
A Tarrer or ScarLet. Adventurous Episodes of the<br />
Commune in the Midi, 1871. By §. R. Crocker.<br />
7k x 5. 316 pp. Hodder and Stoughton. 6s.<br />
<br />
Fortune's Frown. A Romance of the Spanish Fury.<br />
By JouN BuounDELLE-Burton. 7} X 5. 320 pp.<br />
Everett. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tur Mystery oF THE GREEN Car. AvaustT WEISSL.<br />
Translated by A. Turxerra pe Martos. 7% X 5.<br />
379 pp. Nelson. 2s. n.<br />
<br />
Tm LOVERS OF MapEMOISELLE. A Romance of the Reign<br />
of Terror. By Crive Hoxtanp. 7} X 5. 344 pp.<br />
Hurst and Blackett. 6s.<br />
<br />
Tur Doc Star. By Coratre Sranton and HxatE<br />
Hosken. 73 x 5. 359 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
<br />
UnpER THE GREENWOOD TREE. A Rural Painting of the<br />
Dutch School. By THomas Harpy. Illustrated by<br />
Kerra Henperson. 8} x 6}. 271 pp. Chatto and<br />
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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
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<br />
N November 14 a new edition was pub-<br />
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lished of Mr. Rudyard Kipling’s “‘ Just<br />
<br />
So Stories,” with twelve plates in<br />
<br />
colours by Mr. Joseph M. Gleeson, in addition<br />
<br />
to the author’s original black-and-white illus-<br />
<br />
trations. The publishers were Messrs.<br />
Macmillan & Co.<br />
<br />
Mr. Edward Arnold is publishing a new and<br />
revised edition of Mr. Laurence Binyon’s<br />
“ Painting in the Far East,” in the preparation<br />
of which the author has been able to utilise a<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
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variety of new sources of information, while<br />
a fuller and more representative selection of<br />
illustrations is now possible. Mr. Binyon has<br />
also brought out, through Messrs. Macmillan,<br />
a work entitled “‘ The Art of Botticelli: an<br />
Essay in Interpretation ’’—a quarto volume<br />
with twenty-three collotype reproductions in<br />
colour and, as frontispiece, an original etching<br />
by Mr. Muirhead Bone. Of “ The Art of<br />
Botticelli” only 275 copies are being issued,<br />
and the price is £12 12s. net.<br />
<br />
Mr. Douglas Ainslie’s “‘ Philosophy of the<br />
Practical: Economic and Ethic,” the forth-<br />
coming publication of which was announced<br />
in the October Author, appeared on November 4<br />
(Macmillan). It is the second part of his<br />
translation from the Italian philosopher,<br />
Benedetto Croce.<br />
<br />
M. Maurice Bourgeois’s ‘‘ John Millington<br />
Synge and the Irish Theatre ” was issued on<br />
October 29 by Messrs. Constable in Great<br />
Britain, and by the Macmillan Co. in_the<br />
United States. It has sixteen full-page illus-<br />
trations by John B. Yeats, R.H.A., Jack B.<br />
Yeats, James Paterson, R.S.A., John Currie,<br />
and others, and the price is 7s. 6d. net.<br />
<br />
“The Western Rebellion of 1549” is the<br />
title of an account of the insurrections in<br />
Devonshire and Cornwall in the reign of<br />
Edward VI., by Frances Rose-Troup,<br />
E.R. Hist. S. (Smith Elder, 14s. net).<br />
<br />
Mrs. A. M. W. Stirling’s ‘‘ Macdonald of the<br />
Isles ” was published on November 25 (John<br />
Murray, 12s. net).<br />
<br />
Mr. W. H. Koebel is the author of the history<br />
of South America in Messrs. Black’s “ Making<br />
of the Nations ”’ series.<br />
<br />
Lady Dunbar is bringing out a book called<br />
“The Chow-Chow,” dealing with that breed<br />
of dog from the point of view of one who has<br />
had long and intimate acquaintance with its<br />
habits (Pitman).<br />
<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer Maude edit a new<br />
edition of Tolstoy’s ‘“ Plays,’’ which contains<br />
for the first time all the six plays written<br />
by Tolstoy, including the posthumous ones<br />
(Constable, 5s. net).<br />
<br />
Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson’s ‘‘ Old English<br />
China,” with sixteen coloured plates and<br />
sixty-four half-tone illustrations from photo-<br />
graphs, is published by Messrs. G. Bell & Sons<br />
at 25s. net.<br />
<br />
Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously<br />
pleased to accept a copy of Mrs. Charlotte<br />
Cameron’s travel-book ‘* A Woman’s Winter<br />
in Africa’ (Stanley Paul). .<br />
<br />
In connection with the new cinematograph<br />
film ‘“‘ Sixty Years a Queen,’’ which portrays<br />
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THE AUTHOR. 77<br />
<br />
the reign of Queen Victoria, Messrs. Stanley<br />
Paul & Co. published on November 10 a<br />
volume consisting of an account of the Queen’s<br />
reign specially written by Miss May Wynne,<br />
illustrated with fifty-five photographs taken<br />
from the film. The price is 1s. net.<br />
<br />
The first number of Mackirdy’s Weekly is to<br />
be published on the third Saturday of the New<br />
Year, January 24. The moving spirit of this<br />
new weekly is Mrs. Mackirdy, née Olive<br />
Christian Malvery, author of ‘The Soul<br />
Market.”<br />
<br />
Mrs. Irene Osgood publishes, through the<br />
firm of John Richmond, ‘‘ Where Pharaoh<br />
Dreams,” with illustrations by W. Gordon<br />
Mein. The same firm has issued ‘“‘ The Irene<br />
Osgood Thought Book ” and ‘“ An Anthology<br />
of Verse of Butterflies, Birds, and other W inged<br />
Things,” compiled by Irene Osgood and<br />
Horace Wyndham.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Edghill’s “‘ Is it Well with the Child ? ”<br />
—a book for mothers and for speakers to<br />
mothers—is published, with an introduction<br />
by the Bishop of Edinburgh, by Messrs. Wells,<br />
Gardner, Darton & Co.<br />
<br />
His Majesty the King has been graciously<br />
pleased to accept a copy of Mr. C. E.<br />
Gouldsbury’s new book, “ Tiger Land,” now<br />
in its second edition (Chapman & Hall).<br />
<br />
Mr. Rafael Sabatini’s “Life of Cesare<br />
Borgia ”’ is one of the first volumes of Messrs.<br />
Stanley Paul’s new Essex Library, a series<br />
which is to include ‘‘ recently published works<br />
that have attracted special attention as dealing<br />
authoritatively with subjects of serious in-<br />
terest,” and is to be issued, with illustrations,<br />
at a price convenient to all purses.<br />
<br />
Major P. T. Godsal brings out his ‘‘ Woden’s,<br />
Grim’s, and Offa’s Dykes,” through Messrs.<br />
Harrison & Sons. A map illustrating the<br />
conquest of the Dee valley accompanies the<br />
pamphlet.<br />
<br />
Mr. John B. C. Kershaw, F.I.C., is the author<br />
of a book on “ Electro-Thermal Methods of<br />
fron and Steel Production,” to which Professor<br />
Fleming, F.R.S., contributes an introduction<br />
(Constable, 8s. 6d. net).<br />
<br />
Messrs. Sidgwick and Jackson published last<br />
month a new novel called ‘* The Unconscious<br />
Quest,” by E. Reid Matheson. The scene of<br />
the story is laid in Egypt.<br />
<br />
The Burlington Magazine for October and<br />
November contains an article by Ethel Ross<br />
Barker, entitled ‘‘ The Symbolism of Certain<br />
Catacomb Frescoes.”’<br />
<br />
Miss Gladys Davidson has out a volume of<br />
original stories about birds, fully illustrated<br />
(David Nutt, 2s. 6d.).<br />
<br />
Mrs. C. Irwin Smart has a serial running in<br />
The Lady, entitled ‘The Long Lane.” She<br />
was the author of the “ Novel in a Nutshell ”<br />
in the Sketch of August 13.<br />
<br />
Mrs. Edith Wharton’s new novel is “The<br />
Custom of the Country,” of which Messrs.<br />
Macmillan are the publishers.<br />
<br />
The same firm has issued Mr. James<br />
Stephens’s new volume of fiction, “ Here are<br />
Ladies.”<br />
<br />
Wet Magic,” by E. Nesbit, author of “ The<br />
Treasure Seekers,” is published by Mr. Werner<br />
Laurie.<br />
<br />
H.M. the Queen has been graciously pleased<br />
to accept a copy of “ Weeds,”’ by Miss Olave<br />
Potter and Mr. Douglas Sladen.—A new 7s. 6d.<br />
edition is appearing of Mr. Sladen’s “‘ Oriental<br />
Cairo” (Hurst & Blackett).<br />
<br />
Messrs. Alston Rivers publish Miss Leslie<br />
Moore’s “The Peacock Feather”; and<br />
Mrs. Steuart Erskine’s “The Ring of<br />
Necessity.”<br />
<br />
Messrs. Duckworth & Co. have published<br />
“The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans,” a story in<br />
the essay manner, by Mr. Edward Thomas ;<br />
and Mr. George Bourne’s volume of village<br />
studies, ‘‘ Lucy Bettesworth.”’<br />
<br />
Mabel King’s ‘‘ The People of Ebenezer,”<br />
thirteen stories reprinted from The United<br />
Methodist, is published by Messrs. Drummond<br />
of Stirling, price 1s. The same author will<br />
have two serials appearing shortly, “‘ A Modern<br />
Midas,” in The British Messenger, and “‘ The<br />
Work God Gave Her,” in Wings, the organ of<br />
the Woman’s Total Abstinence Society.<br />
<br />
Mr. Albert Dorrington’s novel, ‘‘ The Radium<br />
Terrors,” has just finished its serial publication<br />
in the well-known Spanish journal La Ilustra-<br />
cion Artistica. The illustrations were by A. C.<br />
Michael. Two books by the same author,<br />
“The Half-God” and ‘‘A South Sea Buc-<br />
caneer,” will appear in a German edition<br />
early in 1914,<br />
<br />
“The Tale of a Shipwreck, a Brownie, and<br />
a Baby; and other Stories ” is Miss Amy Hale<br />
Rankin’s book for children (Cornish Bros.,<br />
Birmingham, 1s. net, illustrated).<br />
<br />
Miss Caecilia Moore’s novel, ‘‘ The Shadow<br />
of the Dragon,” is published by Messrs.<br />
Chapman & Hall.<br />
<br />
Miss Theodora Wilson-Wilson is publishing<br />
with Messrs. Blackie two books for children,<br />
one entitled ‘‘ Cousins in Camp ”’ (2s. 6d.), and<br />
the other a series of ‘‘ Stories from the Bible,”<br />
illustrated in colour by Arthur A. Dixon (8s. 6d.).<br />
She has also sold a children’s story to Messrs.<br />
Nelson & Son for publication next year. In<br />
the spring The Christian Age will serialise<br />
<br />
<br />
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78<br />
<br />
one of her novels entitled “A Navvy from<br />
<br />
King’s.”<br />
<br />
Mrs. T. P. O’Connor’s story, “ Little Thank<br />
You,” has a novel feature in the end-papers,<br />
which take the form of music and reproduce<br />
Little Thank You’s lullaby, “ Captain Kidd,”<br />
written and composed by Mr. Frederick<br />
Norton, composer of “ Pinkie and the Fairies.”<br />
<br />
Charlotte Mansfield’s story, ‘The Girl<br />
and the Gods,” is to be reissued by Messrs.<br />
Greening & Co. in their new Shilling Net<br />
series.<br />
<br />
The Westminster Review for November<br />
contained a poem by Mr. Alfred Smythe<br />
entitled “The Sentinel.’”” There was also a<br />
poem by Mr. Smythe, called ‘* A Yarn of the<br />
River,” in the Poetry Review.<br />
<br />
Mr. Erskine MacDonald is publishing at<br />
once in a shilling Christmas booklet, an<br />
“ Anthology of Little Poems,” compiled by<br />
E. Crosby-Heath, and including a_ critical<br />
essay.<br />
<br />
The same publisher has brought out “* Dreams<br />
of Arcady,” by Octavia Gregory, author of<br />
“The Garden Enclosed.”<br />
<br />
Mr. Erskine MacDonald further announces<br />
that he is publishing a poetic drama, “ The<br />
Master,” by Mr. W. G. Hole, with an intro-<br />
duction by Stephen Phillips, at 2s. 6d. net ;<br />
and Miss Maude Goldring’s new novel, ‘* The<br />
Wonder Year,”’ which deals with the effect of<br />
modern thought on country life.<br />
<br />
“ June ” is the title of the first poem, which<br />
gives its name to the book of verse by<br />
Miss Cicely Marshall, published by Arthur<br />
Stockwell.<br />
<br />
Jean Roberts, author of ‘‘ Musings on the<br />
Magnificat,’ etc, has out a new volume,<br />
entitled ‘‘ Hope: and Other Verses” (A. R.<br />
Mowbray, ls. 6d. net).<br />
<br />
““Songs Satanic and Celestial,” by Mr.<br />
Lewis Spence, is published by Mr. Elkin<br />
Mathews at 1s. net (cloth, 1s. 6d. net).<br />
<br />
Mr. K. C. Spiers brings out in one volume<br />
his play, ‘‘ The Soul of a Doll,” and a number<br />
of poems, of which “ The Madness of Lancelot ”’<br />
and two of the lyrics appeared originally in the<br />
Fortnightly Review. Messrs. Chapman & Hall<br />
publish the book at 2s. 6d. net.<br />
<br />
Miss Nora C. Usher issues, under the title<br />
of ‘‘ Swallow-Flights,”’ a collection of thirty-<br />
seven of her poems, some of which have<br />
appeared in The Queen, Chambers’s Journal,<br />
ete. The price is 1s., or 1s. 1}d., post<br />
free.<br />
<br />
_ “ Lone Age Epics,” by Mr. James Saunders,<br />
is published by Whitehead Bros., Wolver-<br />
hampton, at 2s. net.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
<br />
Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘ Great Catherine ’’ was<br />
produced at the Vaudeville Theatre for the<br />
first time on November 18.<br />
<br />
On November 21 Mr. Thomas Hardy’s ‘‘ The<br />
Three Wayfarers,” originally seen at Terry’s<br />
Theatre in 1898, was revived as a curtain-raiser<br />
before Mr. G. K. Chesterton’s ‘‘ Magic” at the<br />
Little Theatre.<br />
<br />
Sir J. M. Barrie’s “Quality Street” was<br />
revived at the Duke of York’s Theatre on<br />
November 25.<br />
<br />
It is announced that a new three-act play<br />
by Mr. Israel Zangwill, entitled «Plaster<br />
Saints,” will be produced at a West end<br />
theatre early in the New Year.<br />
<br />
Mr. Bernard Shaw’s ‘‘ Doctors’ Dilemma,”<br />
and Mr. John Galsworthy’s ‘Silver Box,” are<br />
among the plays which Mr. and Mrs. Granville<br />
Barker are to revive before the end of their<br />
repertory season just commencing at the<br />
St. James’s Theatre.<br />
<br />
M. Maurice Bourgeois’s French version of<br />
Synge’s ‘‘ Playboy of the Western World ”’ is<br />
being performed at the Théatre Antoine by<br />
M. Lugné-Poe’s Théatre Subventionné. The<br />
title of the play in French is “‘ Le Baladin du<br />
Monde Occidental.”<br />
<br />
Among the five one-act pieces produced by<br />
the Leverton Players at the Court Theatre, on<br />
the afternoon of November 21, was “‘ England<br />
Expects,” by Mr. F. Leonard A Gibbs, to<br />
which the Navy League has extended its<br />
patronage.<br />
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<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
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+<br />
<br />
o HRETIENNE ” is the title of the new<br />
novel by Madame Adam (Juliette<br />
Lamber), whose salon has been the<br />
<br />
favourite rendezvous of the Parisian literary<br />
<br />
and political élite for very many years.<br />
<br />
Madame Adam’s own evolution has been<br />
<br />
shown by her recently published memoirs.<br />
<br />
Years ago she wrote her novel * Paienne,”’<br />
<br />
and this present volume is a fitting epilogue to<br />
<br />
the former novel.<br />
<br />
The key to ‘“‘ Le Roman Merveilleux ” by<br />
the late Pierre de Coulevain is given by the<br />
author in her preface. ‘“ The Wonderful<br />
Romance,” she says, “‘ is not one of those that<br />
the human brain produces. It is the romance<br />
which the Divine Powers are elaboratirig in the<br />
depths of the Infinite. It is the romance<br />
which we are all living, from morning to night<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
and from night to morning; the one in which<br />
we are the heroes and the martyrs. It is the<br />
romance of this earth of ours. . Thanks<br />
<br />
to my age, I now find myself on the boundary<br />
line of two worlds. My impressions on leav-<br />
ing the one world, and my intuitions with<br />
regard to the world beyond, may, thanks to<br />
their absolute sincerity, have some value. . . .”<br />
This author’s works have had phenomenal<br />
success in France, and have been translated<br />
into nine languages. “Sur la Branche”’<br />
<br />
i is now in its 179th edition. The present<br />
<br />
-y volume has been awaited with impatience<br />
<br />
|. for the last three years and was completed<br />
| just two months before the author’s death.<br />
<br />
: The book now published in volume form by<br />
) Camille Piton, entitled ‘‘ Le Costume Civil en<br />
| France,” will be invaluable to artists. It<br />
» contains over 700 illustrations from authentic<br />
<br />
sources.<br />
‘“‘ Napoléonette ” is quite a new departure<br />
ot for Gyp. It is a kind of historical novel, in<br />
<br />
*. which the author allows herself plenty of<br />
~{- latitude as regards local colour, probability, etc.<br />
-| Napoléonette is a girl who has been brought<br />
up by her military father as a boy. She has<br />
accompanied her father everywhere and is<br />
quite at home on the battle-fields. Napoleon<br />
is her god-father and she is a devoted admirer<br />
of ‘‘ The Emperor.” Her father is killed and<br />
she is compelled to accept the hospitality of<br />
her aunt and uncle, who hold high office at the<br />
Tuileries Palace under Louis XVIII. The<br />
description of Napoléonette’s various escapades<br />
and of her friendship with the king is highly<br />
entertaining, but the dialogue is distinctly in<br />
twentieth century style.<br />
<br />
‘Pour l’Empereur”’ (Pages d’histoire na-<br />
tionale) is the title of Frédéric Masson’s latest<br />
volume. The volume treats of events from<br />
1796 to 1821.<br />
<br />
The second volume of “Souvenirs” by<br />
Ch. de Freycinet has just been published. It<br />
takes in the years 1878 to 1893, and treats,<br />
among other subjects, of the Resignation of<br />
Marshal MacMahon, of the death of Gambetta,<br />
Boulangism, the Egyptian question, etc.<br />
<br />
The first volume of these Souvenirs takes in<br />
the years from 1848 to 1898.<br />
<br />
“Henri Rochefort (1831-19138) ” by Camille<br />
Ducray gives some idea of the agitated life<br />
of the celebrated journalist and _ politician<br />
about whom so much has been written.<br />
Ernest La Jeunesse has written the preface.<br />
<br />
At the Variétés, Alfred Capus is having his<br />
customary success with his new play<br />
“L’ Institut de Beauté.” It is distinctly<br />
amusing, and, as usual with this author, the<br />
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79<br />
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piece is the result of shrewd observation and<br />
great knowledge of life.<br />
<br />
Mr. Philip Carr’s idea to start a_ Little<br />
English Theatre in Paris, bringing over English<br />
plays and English artistes once a month, is<br />
welcomed by the French as well as by the<br />
English and American colonies. Two meetings<br />
have been held and a large number of sub-<br />
scribers has been the result.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
“ Chrétienne.” (Plon.)<br />
<br />
“ Le Costume Civil en France.’’ (Flammarion.)<br />
<br />
“ Napoléonette.” (Calmann-Lévy.)}<br />
<br />
“ Pour ’Empereur.”’ (Ollendorff.)<br />
<br />
“Souvenirs.” (Delagrave. )<br />
<br />
“ Henri Rochefort (1831-1913).” (L’Edition Moderne.)<br />
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<br />
CORELLI v. GRAY.<br />
<br />
—~<—<br />
<br />
EFORE the Master of the Rolls, Lord<br />
Justice Swinfen Eady and _ Lord<br />
Justice Phillimore; this was an appeal<br />
<br />
by the defendant from an order by Mr.<br />
Justice Sargant, granting an injunction: re-<br />
straining him from performing a play called<br />
“The People’s King,” which the plaintiff<br />
claimed was an infringement of the copyright<br />
in her novel “‘ Temporal Power.”<br />
<br />
In his judgment given in the lower court<br />
Mr. Justice Sargant took the view that the<br />
similarities in the play and the book were not<br />
due to coincidence, but must be taken to have<br />
resulted from appropriation or copying by the<br />
defendant from the plaintiff.<br />
<br />
The Master of the Rolls in the course of his<br />
judgment expressed his concurrence with the<br />
judgment of Mr. Justice Sargant, stating that<br />
he thought they must approach the case on<br />
the footing that the defendant Gray had the<br />
plaintiff's book either under his eyes or in his<br />
memory when he wrote the sketch.<br />
<br />
Dealing with a possible suggestion that the<br />
matter alleged to have been taken from the<br />
plaintiff's book was not matter which could be<br />
held to be the subject of copyright, his Lordship<br />
stated that when, as in the present case, it<br />
appeared that not merely one or two stock<br />
incidents, but that a number of such incidents<br />
had been taken, it would be an unreasonable<br />
view of the law to say that the plaintiff was<br />
not entitled to succeed.<br />
<br />
The new copyright law gave protection not<br />
merely to the form of words in a novel but to<br />
the situations contained in it. In this case,<br />
however, his Lordship did not accept the view<br />
that the situations were stock situations :<br />
some of them were distinctly original.<br />
<br />
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<br />
The Lord Justices delivered judgments to<br />
the same effect, and the appeal was dismissed<br />
with costs.<br />
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<br />
UNITED STATES LAW.<br />
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<br />
N interesting matter touching the<br />
A validity of copyright in the United<br />
States is being at present heard in<br />
the courts of that country. We are informed<br />
that there is little probability of the case being<br />
decided before the expiration of seven or eight<br />
months, but as the facts must of necessity be<br />
of great interest to English as well as to<br />
American authors, it may be as well to put<br />
forward some details.<br />
<br />
Mr. Jack London entered into a contract<br />
with the Balboa Amusement Co., of Los<br />
Angeles, California, by which that company<br />
acquired the right to produce in moving<br />
pictures all of Mr. London’s past work and all<br />
his work up to and including 1915. In that<br />
contract there was a clause providing that the<br />
contract should be forfeited if the company<br />
took no steps to fulfil their part before a fixed<br />
date. This they failed to do, and Mr. London<br />
declared the contract forfeited. In spite of<br />
forfeiture, the company proceeded to produce<br />
in moving-picture form his novel entitled<br />
““The Sea Wolf,” and Mr. London thereupon<br />
brought suit in Los Angeles against the<br />
company in the Federal Court of that district,<br />
for breach of contract and infringement of his<br />
copyright. His next step was to apply for a<br />
preliminary injunction. Upon the hearing of<br />
this application, the defence has been set up<br />
on the suggestion of the lawyers—copyright<br />
specialists—that Mr. London’s copyright is<br />
invalid, that his work, having appeared in<br />
magazine form, is thereby dedicated to the<br />
public so far as subsequent rights are concerned.<br />
This defence appears to be based upon the<br />
case of Dam v. Kirk La Shelle Company, which<br />
indirectly, apparently laid down the doctrine<br />
that, if an author sells his serial rights in his<br />
story to a magazine, reserving to himself all<br />
other rights, and the magazine copyrights the<br />
issues, that is, the magazine rights, then all<br />
other rights must be unprotected and aban-<br />
doned to the public. It is also claimed that the<br />
copyright notices in some of Mr. London’s<br />
books are insufficient, and misleading, and that,<br />
therefore, the books are not properly copy-<br />
righted. Mr. London’s preliminary application<br />
for an injunction was denied, after the court<br />
had heard the objections advanced against<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
his copyright on the ground that Mr. London<br />
has insufficiently established his ownership.<br />
The court, however, granted permission to<br />
Mr. London to renew his application after he<br />
had obtained more definite information about<br />
his copyrights. Ifthe theory is upheld that<br />
the publication in a magazine in America<br />
<br />
only covers the editor’s rights, the position — :<br />
<br />
is very serious, both to American and<br />
English authors, as it would leave those<br />
authors that publish in serial form absolutely<br />
unprotected, and book publishers would have<br />
no rights in their books whatsoever. It does<br />
not appear probable, after a careful reading of<br />
the Act, that this theory can be maintained.<br />
The second point of the defence, namely, the<br />
inadequacy of the copyright notices calls for<br />
special comment. It has always been the<br />
case when any technicalities are required under<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
i”<br />
U<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
a copyright law, that the first point at which — | ser<br />
<br />
the defendants strike is the technical defi- —<br />
We are glad to think that in the ©<br />
present English Act, technicalities have been ~<br />
abandoned, but the position is still very serious —<br />
in the United States, and we trust that Mr. —<br />
Jack London will not lose his copyrights owing _<br />
<br />
ciencies.<br />
<br />
to these deficiencies.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
The former question is by far the most : i ah<br />
<br />
important. Technical difficulties can be over-<br />
<br />
come with care, but legal difficulties can only<br />
be overcome by an amendment to the Act. -<br />
We wait with anxiety to hear the final result<br />
If it should go against Mr. —<br />
<br />
of the action.<br />
London, the American Copyright Act migh<br />
almost, as far as the writers in magazines ar<br />
concerned, be torn up.<br />
<br />
9<br />
<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
<br />
te<br />
<br />
British REVIEW.<br />
<br />
Dramatists of To-day. I. H. Granville<br />
II. John Galsworthy. By Edward Storer.<br />
Leeds Musical Festival. By Sir Home Gordon, Bart.<br />
<br />
CoNTEMPORARY.<br />
<br />
Christina Rossetti. By George Lowther.<br />
Poetry in Drama. By William Poél. '<br />
<br />
6 a Child and Education in Shakespeare. By Hubert<br />
rd.<br />
<br />
Barker.<br />
<br />
EneuisH REVIEW.<br />
<br />
Art in America. By Aleister Crowley.<br />
Editorial Amenities. By The Editor.<br />
<br />
FoRTNIGHTLY.<br />
<br />
A Literary Cham and His Court. By T. H.-S. Escott.<br />
Trish Dramatists and Their Countrymen. By H. M.<br />
Walbrook.<br />
<br />
An Apostle of Melodrama. By George Paston.<br />
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<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
<br />
—<br />
<br />
1, VERY member has a right toask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel’s<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers’ agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors, Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
<br />
8. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
<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 />
<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members’ agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society’s work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
<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 />
<br />
This<br />
The<br />
<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements.<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution.<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £4 1s. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
<br />
2<br />
<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
<br />
et<br />
<br />
ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
agreement, There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :—<br />
<br />
I. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
<br />
obtained, But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
<br />
Il. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement),<br />
<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
<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 />
<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,”<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
<br />
(to Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
ae well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
<br />
octor |<br />
<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
<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 Zhe Author,<br />
<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
<br />
The main points are :—<br />
<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
<br />
General.<br />
<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :—<br />
<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
<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 />
<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
<br />
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<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
<br />
8<br />
<br />
EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
N Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
<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 />
<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :—<br />
<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 />
<br />
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<br />
(>.) 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 />
<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (‘.c., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
<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 />
<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 />
<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 />
<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 />
<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed-<br />
ingly valuable. ‘'hey should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
<br />
10. An author should-remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative: that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
<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 />
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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 />
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REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
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ne typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
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be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to theauthor<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 />
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Original Plays may also be filed subj<br />
( ject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a pl ill<br />
at the price of 22. 6d. per act. Ve cee eee ie<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
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RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author’s fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, de<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
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WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
er Ss<br />
ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the twe<br />
tights 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 />
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STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
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The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members’ stamps are kept in the Society’s<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble,<br />
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THE READING BRANCH.<br />
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EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach, The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea,<br />
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REMITTANCES.<br />
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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 Taio of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only. .<br />
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COLLECTION BUREAU.<br />
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HE Society undertakes to collect accounts and money<br />
due to authors, composers and dramatists.<br />
1. Under contracts for the publication of their<br />
works.<br />
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2. Under contracts for the performance of their works<br />
and amateur fees.<br />
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3. Under the Compulsory Licence Clauses of the Copy-<br />
right Act, i.e., Clause 3, governing compulsory licences for<br />
books, and Clause 19, referring to mechanical instrument<br />
records.<br />
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The Bureau is divided into three departments :—<br />
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1. Literary.<br />
2. Dramatic.<br />
3. Musical.<br />
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The Society does not desire to make a profit from the<br />
collection of fees, but will charge a commission to cover<br />
expenses. If, owing to the amount passing through the<br />
office, the expenses are more than covered, the Committee<br />
of Management will discuss the possibility of reducing the<br />
commission.<br />
<br />
For full particulars of the terms of collection, application<br />
must be made to the Collection Bureau of the Society.<br />
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AGENTS.<br />
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Holland ; . A. REYDING.<br />
United Statesand Canada. WALTER C. JORDAN.<br />
Germany . Mrs PoeGson.<br />
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The Bureau is in no sense a literary or dramatic<br />
agency for the placing of books or plays.<br />
<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
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PUBLISHERS’ AGENTS.<br />
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Ir is the practice of certain agents to act<br />
both for publishers and authors. In many<br />
of these cases, there is no attempt at conceal-<br />
ment from the author. Indeed, the agents,<br />
not infrequently, boast that the author’s<br />
chances of a market are increased by the fact<br />
that the publisher is also a client of them.<br />
As agent of the publisher, the literary agent<br />
claims to have unique opportunities of placing<br />
the works of his authors. This is the excuse<br />
invariably made by the agent who is found in<br />
the service of two masters.<br />
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Here is a possible example.<br />
<br />
The publisher comes to his agent and asks<br />
him, say, to find a writer to undertake<br />
work for a series which he, the publisher, is<br />
issuing. The agent has on his books an author<br />
who is quite capable of undertaking the work,<br />
but, in many cases, the author is given no<br />
opportunity, the agent preferring to use the<br />
offer in order to attract another writer—not on<br />
his books—to place his literary work in the<br />
agent’s hands. Having succeeded in drawing<br />
in the new writer, that writer, when the next<br />
<br />
opportunity “of placing the works of his<br />
authors ” occurs, is forgotten, while the agent<br />
goes in search of the fresh client.<br />
<br />
But the real objection to the agent acting<br />
for the publisher and the author is not merely<br />
that the author seldom gains anything by the<br />
process, but that it is impossible, however<br />
honest and straightforward the agent may be,<br />
for him to act fairly to both parties.<br />
<br />
If the agent does his duty to the author, his<br />
second principal, the publisher, must suffer.<br />
If the publisher’s interests are looked after,<br />
then the author suffers.<br />
<br />
In a recent case brought to the notice of the<br />
Society, a literary agent refused to take any<br />
payment from the author, stating that he, the<br />
agent, was paid by the publisher.<br />
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If every literary agent acted in this way, we<br />
should not so much object to the position, so<br />
long as the agent made his position clear before<br />
attempting to advise the author; but we<br />
should still have to warn authors against the<br />
danger of treating with publishers’ agents—<br />
especially if the author were paying for the<br />
production of his book. In such a case it is<br />
almost inevitable that the publisher’s estimate<br />
would be increased by the amount which the<br />
agent would receive.<br />
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UNITED STATES Dramatic RIGHTS.<br />
<br />
SomME time ago we printed in The Author<br />
instructions from the Library of Congress,<br />
Washington, as to the filing of copies for<br />
registration (1) when a dramatic work is for<br />
sale in the U.S.A.; (2) when it is not for sale.<br />
<br />
The registrar was kind enough when the<br />
notice was printed to forward a number of<br />
copies for the benefit of members of the<br />
Society, and whenever a requisition is made, a<br />
copy is handed out.<br />
<br />
Mr. Maquarie, a member of the Society, has<br />
drawn attention to the fact that it might be<br />
useful not only to have the forms of instructions<br />
from the registrar at this office, but also the<br />
actual forms under which various works are<br />
registered ; as he has received a number from<br />
Washington, he has kindly deposited them at<br />
the offices of the Society. The secretary has<br />
written to the registrar on the matter, and it<br />
is hoped that in future a good: supply will be<br />
ready to hand.<br />
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_Piays AND THE Ricut TO TITLE.<br />
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Wirth reference to this article which appeared!<br />
in last month’s Author, one of the members has,<br />
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been kind enough to draw attention to the<br />
fact that in 1910, “The Stage Cyclopedia of<br />
Plays,” containing an alphabetical list of<br />
50,000 play-titles, was published, and that in<br />
addition, every year “‘ The Stage Year Book ’<br />
publishes an alphabetical list of pieces pro-<br />
duced in all the principal foreign countries as<br />
well as in England and America. It would<br />
appear, therefore, that with a little research it<br />
would not be difficult for dramatists to avoid<br />
trespassing on the property of other dramatists<br />
as regards the question of title. We hope this<br />
information may be of use to members of the<br />
Society.<br />
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THE DINNER.<br />
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YHE annual dinner of the Society of<br />
Authors was held at the Criterion<br />
Restaurant on Thursday, November<br />
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27, Mr. H. Hesketh Prichard, the chairman,<br />
presiding over a gathering of about 250<br />
members and friends. The guest of the<br />
evening, Field-Marshal the Karl Roberts,<br />
V.C., K.G., ete., sat on the chairman’s right,<br />
and the others seated at the high table were<br />
Mrs. Humphry Ward, Mr. Anthony Hope<br />
Hawkins, Lady Elizabeth Hesketh Prichard,<br />
Miss Marie Corelli, Major Lewin, R.A., Mr.<br />
and Mrs. Reginald Smith, Mr. and Mrs. P. W.<br />
Everett, Sir George Forrest, K.C.1E., Sir<br />
Donald Mackenzie Wallace, K.C.V.O., Mr.<br />
W. W. Jacobs, Lady Florence Bourke, Mr.<br />
Ernest Davies, Mr. Thomas Marlowe, Sir James<br />
and Lady A. C. Wilson, General Wilson, C.B.,<br />
D.S.O., and Mrs. Wilson, Mr. A. Cherry<br />
Garrard, Mrs. Jopling Rowe, Mr. and Mrs.<br />
Temple Thurston, Major-General and Mrs.<br />
Saward, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garvice, Mr.<br />
R. D. Blumenfeld, and the Rev. P. H.<br />
Ditchfield. At the seven lower tables Mr.<br />
E. W. Hornung, Mr. Francis Gribble, Dr. S.<br />
Squire Sprigge, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir<br />
Frederick Hewett, Mr. Phillips Oppenheim, and<br />
Mr. G. H. Thring presided.<br />
<br />
At the conclusion of the dinner the usual<br />
loyal toasts were given by the chairman, who<br />
then rose again to propose the health of ‘‘ The<br />
Society of Authors.” He drew attention to<br />
the fact that their numbers were increasing,<br />
and there were now 2,500 members and<br />
associates. Last year 345 had joined the<br />
Society, and this year, so far, 338, so that<br />
there were hopes of breaking the record. He<br />
would like to mention one or two points about<br />
their progress apart from numbers. Their<br />
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relations with publishers and editors were<br />
excellent. It was noteworthy that this year<br />
one publisher, having a dispute with an author,<br />
had offered to submit the case to the committee<br />
of the Society, which showed in what estima-<br />
tion he held the Society’s sense of fairness.<br />
Things had changed since the days of George<br />
Borrow. ‘‘ What, do you eat meat, sir?”<br />
asked the publisher then. ‘‘ Yes,” said the<br />
author. ‘‘ You should eat bread !’’ was the<br />
reply.<br />
<br />
There had been a round-table conference<br />
this year between the committee and_ the<br />
editors in connection with the question of the<br />
prompter payment for magazine articles, and<br />
most of the editors had agreed to a resolution<br />
that payment should be made on acceptance<br />
or within six months’ time.<br />
<br />
Then there was the matter of the library<br />
censorship. The committee had heard several<br />
schemes proposed, but none of them promised<br />
great success. He regretted that the sugges-<br />
tion of a round-table conference between<br />
delegates of the Publishers’ Association, the<br />
booksellers, the Library Association, and the<br />
Society, though brought up before the council,<br />
had been referred back for further considera-<br />
tion, and that therefore nothing had yet been<br />
done. A certain number of members wanted<br />
the question of the ban upon books to be taken<br />
up, but it was impossible for the Society to<br />
deal with individual cases. Its duty was to<br />
look at the question broadly, from the point<br />
of view of all its members. He, as chairman,<br />
had even been obliged to deny himself the<br />
pleasure of reading the censored books !<br />
<br />
He mentioned that letters of regret at<br />
inability to be present had been received from<br />
Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Sir Rider Haggard,<br />
Mr. Owen Seaman, Mr. Egerton Castle, Mr.<br />
Gathorne Hardy, and Mr. Sydney Holland ;<br />
and that Lord Roberts had, during the<br />
dinner, received a telegram from Yorkshiremen<br />
gathered at Skipton Town Hall that evening,<br />
wishing him all success in his great patriotic<br />
work. :<br />
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In conclusion, the chairman congratulated<br />
the Society on the possession of one of the best<br />
—if not the best—of secretaries in the world.<br />
<br />
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle then proposed the<br />
health of “The Guests.” It was a pleasant<br />
duty, he said, when they had with them so<br />
numerous and distinguished a company, among<br />
them Mr. Cherry Garrard, who was with the<br />
lamented Captain Scott in the Antarctic, and<br />
Mr. Reginald Smith, the publisher, who came<br />
to show that the lion could lie down with the<br />
lamb. There was, however, one guest who,<br />
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short of Royalty, must always take the first<br />
place in any gathering of their countrymen, the<br />
first, not only in rank and in distinction, but in<br />
the grateful love and veneration of Englishmen.<br />
The qualities of Earl Roberts were well known.<br />
He had given in youth the strength of his right<br />
arm to his country, in middle life the genius of<br />
his generalship, and in later years the matured<br />
wisdom of his whole life. Now that he had<br />
earned his rest, he had thrown it aside and<br />
embarked on a most difficult and arduous task<br />
for purely unselfish and patriotic motives—a<br />
campaign in which, whether they agreed with<br />
him or not, they must admit there had been a<br />
dignity and restraint and moderation of<br />
utterance which was an example for all time.<br />
Since, at the age of 19, he joined the Indian<br />
Army, his life might be looked on, if one could<br />
visualise it, as a sort of cinematograph proces-<br />
sion of British history. There was first the<br />
Indian Mutiny; then the Afghan War; and<br />
they all had seen his work in South Africa—<br />
work not only as a soldier, but as a statesman<br />
and diplomatist. Lord Roberts had had a<br />
great deal to do with the reconciliation of South<br />
Africa. The speaker himself well recalled how,<br />
when he was in Bloemfontein, they were not<br />
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's . allowed to loot the villas of the Boers around<br />
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them. Those houses would have made nice<br />
little cribs, and at the time they chafed at the<br />
prohibition, but as he looked back he saw how<br />
at every point of that great crisis Lord Roberts<br />
prevented just those things that would have<br />
left a rankling feeling which might have<br />
retarded the reconciliation of the two races.<br />
<br />
As an author, it might be said of Lord<br />
Roberts that his ‘‘ Forty-one Years in India ”’<br />
was an unique record. His style was that of<br />
aman of action. The book was an index of<br />
its writer’s thoughts, so infused throughout<br />
with gallantry, fine spirit, and patriotism<br />
that all who had sons must be glad that they<br />
could read such a book as that.<br />
<br />
Earl Roberts, rising to respond, said that he<br />
was highly honoured by being invited to<br />
become the guest of the Society, and it was a<br />
great pleasure to him to find himself weleomed<br />
by such a distinguished gathering of men and<br />
women. His own claim to be an author was<br />
very small, and he could not imagine himself<br />
being in the slightest degree representative of<br />
literature. He was nearly sixty years of age<br />
<br />
-when the idea entered his head that he might<br />
some day at his leisure write an account of his<br />
Indian experiences. The idea was suggested<br />
to him, while walking on the Maidan at Cal-<br />
eutta, by a friend to whom he had been talking<br />
of the Mutiny and the second Afghan War.<br />
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He had never kept a regular diary, and he had<br />
no record of events except what he put down in<br />
letters to his father and mother in the Indian<br />
Mutiny, and later to his wife. He had not,<br />
therefore, at the time, responded to the invita-<br />
tion to write a book. But not long after that<br />
his service in India came to an end, and he had<br />
to bid farewell to a country in which he had<br />
spent forty-one most interesting and happy<br />
years. It was a sad parting, not only because<br />
of the innumerable friends he left behind, but<br />
because it looked as if his career as a soldier was<br />
coming to an end—a thought which was most<br />
distressing to any soldier. It was with a heavy<br />
heart that he left the land that he had learned<br />
to love so well. When he arrived in England<br />
he found himself unemployed for a considerable<br />
time, and as the days hung rather heavily on<br />
his hands he bethought himself of theidea which<br />
his friend in Calcutta had put before him.<br />
Looking over his letters he found that they<br />
were more numerous and more comprehensive<br />
than he had expected, and it seemed that the<br />
task of writing his life would, perhaps not be<br />
so formidable. His wife, who had been with<br />
him for thirty-three of his forty-one years in<br />
India, was blessed, like himself, with a good<br />
memory, and was able to help him. He there-<br />
fore set to work to produce the book to which<br />
he supposed he must attribute the honour they<br />
had paid him that evening. In spite of his<br />
small claim to that honour, he returned his<br />
sincere thanks, and was much touched by the<br />
way in which they had received him.<br />
<br />
He had not intended to say more; but the<br />
chairman had called upon him that evening as<br />
he was dressing for the dinner and had told<br />
him that he hoped he would not confine him-<br />
self in his speech to the returning of thanks.<br />
So, though he had previously not the slightest<br />
idea of talking—especially on a festive occa-<br />
sion like this—about a subject in which they<br />
knew him to be deeply interested, he would<br />
endeavour briefly to explain to them and<br />
place before them what he thought was the<br />
remedy for the danger in which this country<br />
stood. He hoped that those who were<br />
opposed to his views would not object to his<br />
expressing these now.<br />
<br />
It was difficult to begin and difficult to<br />
end. But they had as a starting-point the<br />
report of the deputation which waited on Mr.<br />
Asquith the day before. That clearly showed<br />
the opinion of those men who had spent four<br />
or five years working very hard to make the<br />
Territorial Force a success. It was greatly<br />
to their honour and credit though the majority<br />
of those men were not of the same political<br />
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opinions as Lord Haldane and the Government.<br />
They had worked for it as if it had been their<br />
own child. He himself had even at_ times<br />
expostulated with them. He had said: “I<br />
can hardly conceive why you should take the<br />
trouble to support a Force with which you<br />
have nothing to do at the start. You have<br />
certainly carried out this duty in a manly<br />
manner, but are you quite right in supporting<br />
a Force which you yourselves know can never<br />
be of any use?” They had read what the<br />
deputation said before Mr. Asquith the day<br />
before—how they had pointed out that the<br />
Territorial Force which now existed was of no<br />
use. They asked that some more money<br />
might be given them. It was a very difficult<br />
thing indeed for men to forego their pleasure,<br />
to give up their time, and wear out their boots<br />
and clothes for the public good, although the<br />
numbers who came forward were comparatively<br />
few, and, as Mr. Asquith said, the burden was<br />
not equally borne. But the remedy which<br />
they proposed was not sufficient. More money<br />
would not do what was required. More money<br />
might possibly fill up the number of officers<br />
and men that Lord Haldane laid down, but<br />
it would not make them efficient. If they<br />
doubled or trebled the money that was given,<br />
and doubled or trebled the number of men who<br />
came forward, those men would not be of the<br />
slightest use in war unless they were trained<br />
as soldiers. He would tell all those among<br />
them who did not agree with what he was<br />
saying that, if they were patriots, if they loved<br />
their country and desired it to remain the<br />
great country that it was, and if they desired<br />
to maintain the integrity of that great country,<br />
they should not trust to men who were not<br />
trained to fight. Untrained men were no<br />
better than a body of schoolboys. Panic<br />
would spread among them on the shortest<br />
notice. They could not be trusted, no matter<br />
what their individual courage might be, to<br />
fight a trained enemy unless they too were<br />
trained. He could give them many instances<br />
of what could be done by a very few trained<br />
soldiers, men who believed in their own skill<br />
with their arms and who trusted their comrades<br />
alongside them, or even at great distances<br />
apart. Fighting in modern days was quite a<br />
different thing from what it was even in the<br />
days of the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny,<br />
or the Peninsular War. The first battle he<br />
was in was under the walls of Delhi. At that<br />
time they were in close order, touching each<br />
other in fact. The non-commissioned officers<br />
and men were shoulder to shoulder, and the<br />
firing commenced, as at Waterloo, at forty or<br />
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fifty yards’ distance.~On the Heights of<br />
Abraham, Wolfe did not give the word until<br />
the French were within forty yards. Now<br />
they came within the fire-zone at 2,000 yards,<br />
and from that time until he came to close<br />
quarters every man was going along, not in<br />
close order, nor constantly advancing, but<br />
lying down to take cover, getting up again,<br />
and so on. The strain on each individual<br />
soldier, knowing every moment that he was<br />
being fired at, was enormous, and could only<br />
be borne by trained men. He would defy the<br />
whole of the Ministry and the Army council<br />
to assert that untrained could fight against<br />
trained men in modern times, and unless the<br />
country insisted on some system being devised<br />
by which the men, however few in numbers,<br />
could be properly trained, and by which, they<br />
could be made to have confidence in their<br />
comrades, and more particularly reliance on<br />
their officers, the Territorial Force might just<br />
as well be disbanded.<br />
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One could always trust trained men, if only<br />
a few thousand in number, to hold their own<br />
against hundreds of thousands. He had him-<br />
self felt no anxiety lest defeat should occur in<br />
Afghanistan, because he knew that his men<br />
could be trusted. They never showed the<br />
least sign of alarm at the hordes around them.<br />
He remembered four or five days’ hard fighting<br />
among the hills once, when he could not see<br />
into the valley beyond the highest hill in front<br />
of them. He signalled to the officer in charge<br />
of the outpost on the height, asking for the<br />
number of the enemy in the valley, and the<br />
answer came back by signal—it was in the days<br />
long before the field telephone—* They are like<br />
Epsom on Derby Day!” He had with him<br />
only 6,000 or 7,000 men, but those few were<br />
perfectly willing to stand up against any num-<br />
ber, because they had been properly trained.<br />
This was the necessary point, which he wanted<br />
the country to realise. For defence we want<br />
trained men, who can be trusted to hold their<br />
own against any number.<br />
<br />
Mr. E. W. Hornung gave the toast of “‘ The<br />
Chairman.” He had accepted the task pro-<br />
posed to him by Mr. Thring, he said, with a<br />
certain indecent alacrity, because his old friend,<br />
Mr. Hesketh-Prichard, was a man who re-<br />
commended himself to them all in various and<br />
romantic ways. He recalled the first story he<br />
had read in Cornhill, years ago, over the signa-<br />
ture of E. and H. Heron, and how he had been<br />
told that it was from the pen of “‘ a young giant<br />
who writes in collaboration with his mother ”—<br />
a fact in itself sufficient to impress the heart.<br />
Then he had played on cricket fields terrorised<br />
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by the prowess of a certain fast bowler—their<br />
chairman. Then again, there was a mighty<br />
hunter ; and it was in this capacity that Mr.<br />
Hesketh Prichard was most famous to-day. He<br />
wondered whether he would be able as chair-<br />
man of the Society, to add to his trophies of the<br />
hunt the scalp of one wicked publisher; but<br />
perhaps that would not be considered hand-<br />
some enough to figure among the antlers and<br />
heads.<br />
<br />
The chairman replied briefly, thanking<br />
Mr. Hornung for the kind way in which he had<br />
proposed his health. However long he lived,<br />
he said, no honour would ever befall him equal<br />
to that of sitting next to Lord Roberts that<br />
night.<br />
<br />
After the speeches had come to an end, the<br />
members and their guests moved to the adjoin-<br />
ing room for the conversazione, at which a num-<br />
ber of members of the Society were present who<br />
had not taken part in the dinner.<br />
<br />
ee<br />
<br />
THE NOBEL PRIZE.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
ABINDRANATH TAGORE, who has<br />
R lately been awarded the Nobel prize<br />
for literature, came to England in the<br />
summer of 1912, and, at Mr. William Rothen-<br />
stein’s suggestion, translated during the voyage<br />
some of his lyrics into English. During the<br />
summer he worked hard at these, and the<br />
result was the book which he called “‘Gitanjali”’<br />
(Song Offerings), of which a small edition was<br />
published by the India Society in November.<br />
This was received with a chorus of approval,<br />
and Messrs. Macmillan published a second<br />
edition last spring which has gone through<br />
several impressions. The ‘‘ Gardener,”’ a col-<br />
lection of love poems dating from an earlier<br />
period, appeared this autumn, as well as some<br />
lectures entitled ‘“‘ Sadhana,” which Mr. Tagore<br />
had delivered at the Caxton Hall. <A book of<br />
child’s poems, ‘‘ The Crescent Moon,” with<br />
illustrations, has just appeared.<br />
<br />
Mr. Tagore comes of a literary and artistic<br />
family who have lived for generations in<br />
Calcutta. He has for many years been<br />
recognised as the foremost poet of Bengal,<br />
perhaps of India. His advice is eagerly<br />
sought and followed by many of his fellow-<br />
countrymen. He superintends, and himself<br />
largely supports, at Bolpur, in Bengal, a<br />
school which has made a name for itself<br />
as turning out boys of strong character.<br />
He has returned there now to his home at<br />
<br />
Shantiniketan (the abode of peace), a little<br />
tired after a most interesting year of foreign<br />
travel, and not altogether sorry to be at rest<br />
again.<br />
<br />
COPYRIGHT AND ‘‘THE LADY.”<br />
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—+—<—9<br />
<br />
ie the May issue of The Author in the<br />
<br />
current year an article was printed<br />
<br />
under the above title setting out a form<br />
of receipt issued from the office of The Lady.<br />
A special covering letter from the editor was<br />
sent with the receipt. The following is a<br />
reprint of the letter and the form of the<br />
receipt :—<br />
<br />
39 and 40, BepForpD STREET,<br />
Srranp, W.C.<br />
March 13, 1913.<br />
<br />
Dear Mapam,—The manager has requested me to send<br />
you the enclosed for your signature. The idea, so I<br />
understand, is to save contributors the trouble of sending<br />
him a special form of acknowledgment on receipt of each<br />
cheque. Once the enclosed has been signed, the endorse-<br />
ment on the cheque will be the only receipt required by<br />
the manager.<br />
<br />
Yours truly,<br />
Tue Epiror.<br />
[ENCLOSURE]<br />
<br />
To the Proprietor of ‘‘ The Lady’’ Newspaper.<br />
<br />
In consideration of your publishing in your newspaper<br />
or purchasing any article or drawing written or made by<br />
me, I hereby assign and transfer to you the original and<br />
the copy therein and also agree to assign and transfer to<br />
you the original of and the copyright in all future articles<br />
and drawings written or made by me which may hereafter<br />
be purchased by you or published in your newspaper.<br />
<br />
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Date<br />
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There is really no need to pass fresh<br />
comment. Those who know will only need to<br />
be reminded. Those who do not know can<br />
easily refer to the article.<br />
<br />
The proprietor of The Lady has now taken<br />
a fresh line, perhaps as a result of that<br />
article. It may be that many contributors<br />
<br />
reading the article altered the receipt and’<br />
<br />
cashed whatever cheque they may have<br />
received. But it is of the utmost importance<br />
to set before members and others the newer<br />
methods which the proprietary of The Lady<br />
has adopted. On the back of the cheques<br />
runs the following story :—<br />
<br />
Received from the Proprietors of The Lady newspaper<br />
the sum written on the face of this cheque in payment for<br />
my contributions or drawings and copyright thereof<br />
published in The Lady newspaper up to and including the<br />
<br />
issue dated ;<br />
Signature<br />
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The signature is intended to be an indorsement of the<br />
cheque as well as a receipt for the amount.<br />
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Under the Copyright Act, 1911, any assign-<br />
ment of copyright must be in writing. Whether<br />
the endorsement of the cheque amounts to<br />
such an assignment in writing the proprietors<br />
of The Lady must find out for themselves.<br />
But it is a fair deduction to make that they<br />
intend it to be so.<br />
<br />
On other occasions articles have appeared in<br />
The Author explaining this insidious method<br />
adopted by proprietors of magazines to obtain<br />
rights from authors.* Sometimes, where the<br />
contract has been completed before publication,<br />
these rights have never been conveyed.<br />
Sometimes they were never intended to be<br />
conveyed.<br />
<br />
What is the reason that editors and pro-<br />
prietors cannot deal in a more reasonable and<br />
businesslike spirit with their contributors ?<br />
<br />
Why cannot they say before they print the<br />
article (a stereotyped letter is all that is<br />
required): The editor accepts the article<br />
<br />
at the price of £ per thousand<br />
words, subject to the transfer of all the<br />
copyright ?<br />
<br />
Or why cannot they, if they desire to print<br />
the article, and have no time to communicate<br />
with the author, claim only that which it is in<br />
the mind of the author to give, and which is<br />
the only real value to themselves—the first<br />
serial use ?<br />
<br />
The answer is plain. No author when<br />
sending an article to a monthly or weekly paper<br />
intends to sell the copyright. Nor does the<br />
editor or proprietor desire to use the article<br />
except in one issue of the magazine. If in<br />
exceptional cases he should desire more, then<br />
he should state so before and not after pub-<br />
lication.<br />
<br />
It would seem, therefore, that he endeavours<br />
to obtain control of the copyright only in order<br />
that, sitting as a dog in the manger, he may<br />
obtain a return of part of the moneys from the<br />
author should the author desire to republish<br />
in other form.<br />
<br />
This position, from the author’s standpoint,<br />
is very serious, especially if he is a technical<br />
writer, or happens to have specialised in any<br />
subject.<br />
<br />
The position is unfair to the author and a<br />
great hardship, because, as a rule, the bankers<br />
have directions not to cash the cheque if the<br />
endorsement is altered.<br />
<br />
The author, in many cases, either being in<br />
need of the money or being unwilling to offend<br />
the editor signs the document.<br />
<br />
If all authors refused to sign these endorse-<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
* June, 1913.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
ments, however trivial the amount in dispute,<br />
the matter would be remedied almost immedi-<br />
ately, but in many cases, when the article is of<br />
ephemeral value, it is not worth the author’s<br />
while, and in other cases an author may not<br />
care to appear in a county court.<br />
<br />
The solution of the difficulty lies, however,<br />
to a great extent in the author’s hand. He<br />
must send a formal letter—keeping a copy—<br />
with his article stating exactly what he is<br />
willing to licence—generally first serial use in<br />
a ‘“‘mentioned” magazine. If, then, the article<br />
is published without further reference to the<br />
author it will be held to be published on the<br />
terms of his letter of which the editor has had<br />
notice. If, then, the cheque is sent with the<br />
endorsement referred to it would be as well<br />
to return the cheque at once and, if the editor<br />
disputes the position, to take immediate action<br />
by placing the case before the Committee of<br />
Management of the Society.<br />
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<br />
PENS, PAST AND PRESENT.<br />
<br />
oe<br />
(Reprinted by kind permission of the Family Herald.)<br />
<br />
HE earliest kind of pen known is that used by<br />
the ancients—a style of bone or metal, with<br />
which letters were sketched on a_ tablet<br />
<br />
covered with wax. When the use of coloured<br />
liquids was adopted, a reed took the place of the<br />
bodkin, giving place afterwards to the quill. Egypt<br />
was famous for the most beautiful reeds ; there were<br />
fine reeds to be obtained near Cnidus, in Caria, Asia<br />
Minor ; the marshes of Persia also furnished a good<br />
supply. They grew to the height of a man, and<br />
were filled with a pith which could be removed<br />
when dry, so as to allow of a point being cut. Had<br />
the old Greeks known of goose quills they might<br />
perhaps have dedicated the goose instead of the owl<br />
to Minerva. ‘There is indeed a portrait of Aristotle<br />
in a manuscript in the Vienna Library, showing<br />
him with a book and quill before him, but the<br />
manuscript was not written until 1457, and the<br />
writer drew largely on his imagination.<br />
<br />
But the use of the quill seems to date from not<br />
earlier than the sixth century. It is related that<br />
Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, could not learn<br />
to write four letters at the bottom of his edicts, so<br />
four letters were cut out for him in a plate of gold,<br />
which was laid on the paper, and he traced out the<br />
letters with a quill. The Emperor Justin used a<br />
plate of wood, but his case was so much worse that<br />
one of his secretaries had to guide his hand. The<br />
oldest certain account is, however, that of St. Isidore,<br />
who died A.D. 636, wherein he mentions reeds and<br />
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feathers.<br />
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In the same century St. Aldhelm, the<br />
English pioneer of Latin verse, wrote a small poem<br />
on a quill pen. The gospel manuscripts of the<br />
ninth century depict the evangelists with quills in<br />
their hands.<br />
<br />
When the Romans were in what is known to-day<br />
as the Netherlands they are said to have paid special<br />
attention to the catching of geese ; an old poet said<br />
that this was because they could not get Egyptian<br />
reeds and wanted to procure goose quills, but Pliny<br />
says that it was because they wanted to eat roast<br />
goose and lie on feather beds.<br />
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REEDS AND QUILLS.<br />
<br />
Reeds and quills were both used in the eighth<br />
<br />
century in the French diplomatic documents, while<br />
the papal Acts and those of the synods were written<br />
with reeds until much later. The monks used<br />
reeds for text and initials, while they preferred<br />
quills for smaller writing. Johann Reuchlin, a<br />
great light in the Reformation and Renaissance,<br />
was so severely attacked and persecuted that he had<br />
to flee for safety, leaving all his writing materials<br />
behind him; a letter is extant in which he asks a<br />
friend, Porkheimer, to send him some good paper,<br />
pen-knives, and peacock feathers. His letter of<br />
acknowledgment says :—<br />
. “J asked you for peacock feathers for writing ;<br />
you have presented me with the choicest swan<br />
quills, and, that nothing might be wanting to your<br />
friendly offices, you sent also reeds from the Nile,<br />
or, a8 | rather think, from Cnidus—more easy for<br />
writing—and the most excellent paper-knives.”<br />
<br />
Reuchlin sent three of these reeds to Erasmus,<br />
who writes full of gratitude for such a desirable<br />
present, saying that such is the most acceptable<br />
gift possible, adding the request that if Reuchlin<br />
has any more he will send some to a mutual friend<br />
in England, with a hint that more would be welcome<br />
sent to himself.<br />
<br />
_ For some reason writing quills were very scarce<br />
in Vienna in 1433; Ambrosius Traversarius, a<br />
monk of Carmaldule, sent a bunch of quills to his<br />
brother from Vienna, saying :—<br />
<br />
_ “They are not the best, but such as I received<br />
im a present. Show the whole bunch to friend<br />
Nicholas that he may choose a quill ; for they are<br />
éven scarcer in this city than in Florence.”<br />
<br />
The feathers of various birds have been used for<br />
pens, but in this respect the goose has always been<br />
the main contributor to literature. The swan,<br />
crow, eagle, owl, hawk, turkey, and peacock have<br />
all supplied the pen market to some extent. Swan<br />
quills are better and more costly than goose quills,<br />
while those of the crow are more suitable for fine<br />
lines. The only useful feathers of the goose are the<br />
five on the outer part of the wing, and of these the<br />
Second and third are the best. Quills from the left<br />
<br />
wing are more suitable than those of the right wing,<br />
because they curve outwards and away from the<br />
writer.<br />
<br />
How QUILLS ARE PREPARED.<br />
<br />
Preference is always given to quills secured in<br />
the spring from living birds, but those taken from<br />
dead geese, especially if fattened, are comparatively<br />
worthless. The quills are greasy and covered with<br />
little pellicles of skin ; this is removed by heating<br />
them in a fine sand-bath to one hundred and thirty<br />
to one hundred and eighty degrees Fahrenheit.<br />
They are then scraped, and while they are still soft<br />
and hot can be stamped with designs and names.<br />
Care must be taken that they are finished hard and<br />
elastic.<br />
<br />
Joseph Bramab, the lock inventor, in 1809, made<br />
and patented a machine for manufacturing quill<br />
nibs ; the barrel of the quill was slit into three or<br />
four parts and then cut across into two, three, four,<br />
and even five lengths. The nibs were used in a<br />
holder something similar to the present holder.<br />
Dickens, it will be remembered, speaks of the time<br />
when quill feathers were cut and cut again by the<br />
writer ; Miss Squeers, in her anxiety to see the<br />
new usher of Dotheboys Hall, enters the schoolroom<br />
on the pretext of wanting her pen mended.<br />
<br />
Nine years after Bramah’s patent Charles Watt<br />
obtained a patent for gilding nibs, thereby antici-<br />
patiug the gold pen. But in 1822 a step further<br />
was made; Hawkins and Mordan patented the<br />
application of horn and tortoiseshell to the forma-<br />
tion of nibs, making the points durable by impress-<br />
ing them into small pieces of diamond and ruby ;<br />
another part of the process was lapping a small<br />
piece of thin sheet gold over the tip of the tortoise-<br />
shell, and there were other ways of hardening the<br />
point.<br />
<br />
Merauic PEns.<br />
<br />
Metallic pens appear to have been slightly known<br />
to the Romans, but it is certain that they were not<br />
in use, nor were they at all common until after the<br />
meeting of the British Association at Birmingham<br />
in 1839. A steel pen was made and sold in London<br />
in 1803, but it cost five shillings, and was not a<br />
success. Bryan Donkin brought out another<br />
metallic pen in 1808. Doctor Priestley had had a<br />
steel pen made at the end of the previous century<br />
by a manufacturer of split-rings, named Harrison,<br />
who was eventually associated with Sir Josiah<br />
Mason in the industry ; but it was not until after<br />
Perry’s invention in 1830 and Gillott’s in 1831<br />
that pen-making became a paying industry. —<br />
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Pens were made of silver, zinc, German silver,<br />
aluminium, and aluminium bronze. Doctor<br />
Wollaston, the celebrated physicist, whose advice<br />
was so useful to Herschel, used the first gold<br />
iridium-tipped pe on record.<br />
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Joseph Bramah again was in the forefront with<br />
his fountain-pen. He had several designs ; one<br />
was a tube of soft silver that could be pressed to<br />
allow a flow to the nib, and another was a tube<br />
with a piston sliding down the ink-barrel. John<br />
Scheffer, in 1819, made a pen with a button, which<br />
the writer pressed when he wanted more ink at the<br />
nib.’ The Americans were the pioneers of stylo-<br />
graphs, with iridium points, but Birmingham took<br />
and retains the lead for good ordinary pens.<br />
<br />
A few words on the actual making will not be<br />
out of place. The finest quality of cast steel in<br />
rolled sheets is used, this being the product of<br />
Swedish charcoal iron. The sheets are cut into<br />
strips and then tempered in a furnace before being<br />
pickled in weak sulphuric acid to remove the<br />
oxidised scale. The strips are again rolled, and<br />
then cut, stamped, and embossed by band fly-<br />
presses with the trade-mark and perforated. Until<br />
pow the embryo pen is flat; next follows the<br />
rounding into a semi-circular shape.<br />
<br />
After once more being heated the pens are<br />
plunged into oil and then polished by mixing with<br />
sand in rotating cylinders. Small emery-wheels<br />
then grind the point, and the slit from the perfora-<br />
tion to the tip is made ; on this depends the whole<br />
perfection of the pen, the desired flexibility being a<br />
sine quad non. ‘The surface of the pen is then<br />
coloured in a revolving cylinder over a charcoal<br />
fire, and finally varnished with a solution of shellac.<br />
And the result is—a pen at less than a farthing<br />
infinitely superior to one formerly sold at five<br />
shillings.<br />
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A. Kirxuam HaMILton.<br />
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THE REAL “MOTHER DAMNABLE.”<br />
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N a case in the law-courts some months ago<br />
the allegation was made—though it was<br />
contradicted at the time and has since<br />
<br />
been strongly denied—that Roman Catholics,<br />
or at least members of the Jesuit order,<br />
sometimes speak of the Church of England as<br />
‘¢ Qld Mother Damnable.”’ (A correspondent<br />
in the Observer claims that ‘‘ the epithet was<br />
first brought into prominence, if not actually<br />
invented, by one of the early Tractarian<br />
seceders to Rome, and a friend of Newman’s,<br />
namely, the Rev. John Pye, who married a<br />
daughter of Bishop Samuel Wilberforce ”’.)<br />
It would be curious if the name were ever<br />
used in this connection, for it once had very<br />
different, and by no means religious, associa-<br />
tions. Whether one is justified in speaking<br />
of a real Mother Damnable is perhaps open to<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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dispute ; but, at any rate, there is a traditional<br />
personage who bears the stigma of the title and<br />
lingers on as a faint memory in a far from<br />
romantic quarter of London as we now know it.<br />
<br />
Near the end of the eighteenth century that<br />
industrious combination of author, print-<br />
collector, and print-seller, James Caulfield,<br />
published his “ Portraits, Memoirs, and<br />
Characters of Remarkable Persons from the<br />
Reign of Edward the Third to the Revolution.”<br />
To this work we owe some details, of doubtful<br />
authenticity, concerning the career of ‘‘ Beau ”<br />
Feilding, for a brief while the second husband<br />
of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland.<br />
Another of the memoirs deals with Mother<br />
Damunable.<br />
<br />
‘“Of the shrew thus denominated,” says<br />
Caulfield, ‘‘ whose real name has not reached<br />
posterity, nothing farther is known than the<br />
following lines annexed to her portrait—<br />
‘London, printed in the year 1676 ’—inform<br />
us. ... It is perhaps not unreasonable to<br />
conjecture that she might be the original<br />
Mother Red Cap and kept the public-house<br />
near Kentish Town, known for a century past<br />
by the sign of her head ; in rivalship of which<br />
a Mother Black Cap appeared nearly opposite :<br />
which ale-houses were, within these few years,<br />
almost the only dwellings on that spot, now<br />
covered with extensive piles of building.”<br />
<br />
We may for the present leave the lines<br />
quoted by Caulfield, while we follow the<br />
identification suggested by him. This is<br />
supported by a statement in a valuable and<br />
entertaining collection of reminiscences called<br />
‘““A Book for a Rainy Day.’ The author,<br />
John Thomas Smith, up to his death in 1833,<br />
keeper of the prints and drawings in the British<br />
Museum, preserved in this much antiquarian<br />
information which might otherwise have been<br />
lost. Writing of the year 1778, he mentions<br />
the Mother Red Cap, “‘a house of no small<br />
terror to travellers in former times,’’ and adds :<br />
“Tt has been stated that Mother Red Cap was<br />
the ‘ Mother Damnable’ of Kentish Town in<br />
early days; and that it was at her house the<br />
notorious ‘Moll Cutpurse,’ the highway-<br />
woman of the time of Oliver Cromwell,<br />
dismounted and frequently lodged.”<br />
<br />
Those who go to Camden Town nowadays<br />
by the Underground Railway may see “ The<br />
Mother Red Cap” over against the station,<br />
at the corner of the Camden Road. There is<br />
nothing ancient, however, about the house<br />
to-day, except its name. It was rebuilt in the<br />
late eighteenth century, according to J. a:<br />
Smith. An old gentleman with whom the<br />
present writer is acquainted remembers it fifty<br />
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years ago, when it was one of the most<br />
picturesque inns in the London neighbourhood,<br />
celebrated for its old ale and Welsh rarebits,<br />
with a parlour where every seat was conse-<br />
erated to a regular customer, and with a paved<br />
space in front which could accommodate thirty<br />
or forty coaches. Since then it has_ been<br />
rebuilt at least once, and it is now almost<br />
aggressively modern. In this respect it is at<br />
least in harmony with its surroundings ; for,<br />
where once highwaymen resorted, the chief<br />
danger to life at the present day arises from the<br />
unceasing streams of motor-omnibuses and<br />
trams which run in all directions. Of the<br />
““Mother Black Cap” there is no _ trace,<br />
although two public-houses—the authorities<br />
have been prodigal with licences hereabouts—<br />
may be described as standing nearly opposite.<br />
It is a rather strange coincidence that a<br />
newspaper of 1776, mentioned in Besant’s<br />
Survey of London, states that the space facing<br />
the ‘“‘Mother Red Cap” was at one time<br />
designed for a second Tyburn. This is sugges-<br />
tive of the black cap, it must be admitted.<br />
<br />
Another of the community of witches is<br />
obviously the heroine of a pantomime produced<br />
at the Sans Pareil Theatre in the Strand in<br />
March, 1809—‘‘ Mother White Cap, or Hey<br />
up the Chimney !”’ But she was perhaps only<br />
a parody of her red and black sisters.<br />
<br />
There appears to be little local tradition of<br />
Mother Red Cap surviving in Camden Town,<br />
beyond that she was “‘ a witch-sort-of-thing.”’<br />
Mother Damnable’s portrait, reproduced by<br />
Caulfield, is an unpleasing representation of an<br />
old hag kneeling down by her grate, in a much<br />
soiled or patched skirt and shawl, stick in hand,<br />
with a spilt pot of ale and a clay pipe on the<br />
floor behind her, while on the wall hangs a<br />
scutcheon with a black and a white cat sus-<br />
pended by their tails. In the modern ‘‘ Mother<br />
Red Cap ”’ a picture presents the dame quite<br />
otherwise, as only of middle age, in a red dress<br />
and a red hat with peaked crown. Across it<br />
is pasted the legend, “Champagne, 6d. a<br />
glass’?! But it is red wine which stands in a<br />
decanter at her side, and a glass of it is in her<br />
hand.<br />
<br />
The story, though its origin is difficult to<br />
trace, is that Mother Red Cap, or Damnable,<br />
was a brickmaker’s daughter in Kentish Town,<br />
very wild in her girlhood—like Mary Frith,<br />
alias Moll Cutpurse, according to her earliest<br />
biographer, “‘a very tomrig or rumpscuttle,”’<br />
“delighting only in boys’ play and pastime,<br />
not minding or companying with the girls ””—<br />
who, when she grew up followed Marlborough’s<br />
army to the wars, and ended by becoming a<br />
<br />
witch, as well as an inn-keeper, and being<br />
carried off by the Devil.<br />
<br />
The verses saved from oblivion by Caulfield<br />
are plainly directed against an unpopular<br />
landlady and do not allude to any traffic with<br />
the Black Art. They run as follows :—<br />
<br />
*Y° have often seen (from Oxford tippling house)<br />
Th’ effigies of Shipton-faced Mother Louse,<br />
Whose petty pranks (though some they might excel)<br />
With this old trot’s ne’er galloped parallel.<br />
*Tis Mother Damnable! that monstrous thing,<br />
Unmatched by Mackbeth’s wayward women’s ring,<br />
For cursing, scolding, fuming, flinging fire<br />
I’th face of madam, lord, knight, cit, gent, squire :<br />
Who (when but ruffled into the least pet)<br />
Will cellar door-key into pocket get.<br />
Then no more ale: and now the fray begins !<br />
*Ware heads, wigs, hoods, scarfs, shoulders, sides, and<br />
<br />
shins !<br />
<br />
While these dried bones, in a Westphalian bag,<br />
(Through th’ wrinkled weasan of her shapeless crag)<br />
Sends forth such dismal shrieks and uncouth noise<br />
As fills the town with din, the streets with boys ;<br />
Which makes some think this fierce she-dragon fell<br />
Yan scarce be matched by any this side hell.<br />
So famed, both far and near, is the renown<br />
Of Mother Damnable, of Kentish Town.<br />
Wherefore this symbol of the cats we’ll give her,<br />
Because, so curst, a dog would not dwell with her.”<br />
<br />
“Mother Louse,” it may be noted, is<br />
described in another of Caulfield’s memoirs<br />
as the keeper of an ale-house near Oxford,<br />
called Louse Hall. She was ‘ well known to<br />
the gentlemen of that university, who called<br />
her Mother Louse, and a portrait of her was<br />
engraved from the life by David Loggan,<br />
engraver to the University and friend of<br />
Antony Wood. It represents her with a ruff,<br />
which she was said to be the last woman in<br />
England to wear. Oddly, the picture of<br />
Mother Red Cap in the modern house gives<br />
her a ruff about her neck.<br />
<br />
Probably there is no reason to doubt the<br />
existence, once upon a time, of these two<br />
shrewish landladies. George Savile, Marquess<br />
of Halifax, speaks, in his essay upon the choice<br />
of Parliament-men, of ‘“‘a wet popularity ”<br />
as a frail title to fame. An alehouse-keeper,<br />
on the other hand,<br />
<br />
*“ Who (when but ruffled into the least pet)<br />
Will cellar door-key into pocket get—<br />
Then no more ale,”<br />
<br />
was sure of a dry unpopularity, which,<br />
embalmed in verse, might last centuries when<br />
there was a collector about with Caulficld’s<br />
<br />
love for the quaint.<br />
Puitre W. SERGEANT.<br />
<br />
—_——_1—<br />
<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
<br />
MR. GOSSE’S ESSAYS.*<br />
eae<br />
<br />
HE second volume of Mr. Gosse’s<br />
<br />
collected essays will be welcomed<br />
<br />
alike by those who made the ac-<br />
quaintance of these particular essays when<br />
they first appeared, and by those to whom they<br />
are new. Few writers, past or present, can<br />
invest with so much charm the critical and<br />
anecdotal saunter round the shelves of a<br />
book-room as our author. Few, too, have such<br />
sane views of what a library should be—“ a<br />
small one, where the books are carefully<br />
selected and thoughtfully arranged in accord-<br />
ance with one central code of taste, and intended<br />
to be respectfully consulted at any moment by<br />
the master of their destinies.”’ If fortune made<br />
him possessor of one book of excessive value,<br />
Mr. Gosse tells us, he would hasten to part<br />
with it. This is true wisdom. The first<br />
quarto of ‘‘ Hamlet” may be left to the<br />
Transatlantic millionaire.<br />
<br />
The essays before us range over a vast<br />
period of literary history. From Camden’s<br />
‘‘ Britannia,”’ early in the sixteenth century,<br />
they travel by degrees to Meredith’s “ Shaving<br />
of Shagpat.’? The first and the last, it will be<br />
seen, deal with well-known works. Perhaps<br />
the most pleasing, however, are those which<br />
take as their subject obscure or forgotten<br />
books — such as Wither’s ‘‘ Shepheards<br />
Hunting,” Lady Winchilsea’s “ Miscellany<br />
Poems,” Farquhar’s ‘“‘ Love and Business,”<br />
and that extraordinary panegyric on prize-<br />
fighting, “‘ The Fancy,” of which the author<br />
was Keats’s friend, John Hamilton Reynolds,<br />
disguised under the alias of Peter Corcoran.<br />
The last-named essay—for it takes its title<br />
from the title of .Reynold’s book—is an<br />
admirable example of the man of letters at the<br />
ring-side. With what gusto does Mr. Gosse<br />
quote Corcoran’s apology to his lady-love :—<br />
<br />
“‘ Forgive me, and never, oh never again,<br />
<br />
T’'ll cultivate light blue or brown inebriety ;<br />
<br />
Tl give up all chance of a fracture or sprain,<br />
<br />
And part, worst of all, with Pierce Egan’s society.”<br />
and explain that ‘“‘ heavy brown with a dash<br />
of blue in it”? was the fancy phrase for stout<br />
mixed with gin !<br />
<br />
There may be those to whom it seems<br />
grotesque to turn the pen to discourse of such<br />
things as these. To them may be commended<br />
the lines from Samuel Daniel’s “* Musophilus,”<br />
which Mr. Gosse quotes as the motto of his<br />
book, beginning<br />
<br />
*O blessed Letters, that combine in one<br />
<br />
All ages past, and.make one live with all. . . .”<br />
<br />
* “Gossip in a Library,” by Edmund Gosse, C.B.<br />
London; William Heinemann.<br />
<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
<br />
—_-—< 2 —<br />
“* ONLY.”<br />
<br />
Srr,—The irritating misuse of the word<br />
“only ’’ to which your correspondent “ Richard<br />
Free ” called attention in your last issue, is by<br />
no means confined to careless writers. Many<br />
who denounce the split infinitive have not yet<br />
had their grammatical consciousness awakened<br />
to this solecism. For example, I have culled<br />
the following three passages from the latest<br />
edition of “‘The King’s English,” the best<br />
book we have on the ill-treatment of English.<br />
<br />
‘“ We shall now only make three general<br />
remarks before proceeding to details.”<br />
<br />
“The mistakes are nearly always on one<br />
side, the infinitive being the form that should<br />
only be used with caution.”<br />
<br />
“ For a person’s name can only require a<br />
defining cause to distinguish him from others<br />
of the same name.”<br />
<br />
The intended meanings are certainly not<br />
‘only make,” “ only require,’ or ‘“ only be<br />
<br />
used,” as a moment’s analysis shows.<br />
This is perhaps the commonest error in both<br />
spoken and written English at the present day ;<br />
<br />
once perceived, it is undoubtedly one of the<br />
most irritating, and your correspondent<br />
deserves thanks for calling attention to it.<br />
I am,<br />
Your obedient servant,<br />
Ernest A. Baker.<br />
<br />
—1+——+—_<br />
<br />
New AND AMUSING TRICK OF THE<br />
LITERARY AGENT.<br />
<br />
Dear Sir,—The literary agent has found a<br />
new way of amusing his authors. He has a<br />
special cheque printed with a receipt upon the<br />
back which requires a penny stamp. He pays<br />
his author with one of these cheques and of<br />
course does not stamp his receipt. The author<br />
is abroad, or he has only embossed envelopes<br />
upon his desk, and the fun begins. Publishers<br />
are taking up this delightful little novelty.<br />
<br />
‘The author finds on the back of the publisher’s<br />
<br />
cheque a printed receipt, in which he is invited<br />
to make over to the publisher all sorts of rights<br />
he never sold’ when the. bargain was made.<br />
Any alteration of the receipt invalidates the<br />
cheque. Letters, explanations, recriminations.<br />
What an infernal nuisance all this<br />
smartness is ! |<br />
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