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241<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
WING to the Whitsuntide holiday, the June<br />
meeting of the committee was postponed<br />
till Monday, June 12. The committee are<br />
pleased to state that there has been another very<br />
satisfactory election, thirty-six members and<br />
associates being elected. The list appears in<br />
another column. This keeps the elections for the<br />
current year above the average of former years, as<br />
151 members and associates have been elected<br />
since January. There were six resignations,<br />
bringing the resignations for the current year<br />
up to fifty-seven. After the elections the cases<br />
were considered, the solicitor of the society being<br />
present.<br />
Cases. The first case considered referred to the<br />
interpretation of an agreement between author and<br />
publisher. The solicitor reported that he had given<br />
his opinion that a good case existed. This bad<br />
. been forwarded to the author, who was living in<br />
America. The committee determined to wait<br />
until they had received a further letter from<br />
him. If he desired to carry the case further the<br />
matter would be reconsidered in July. The second<br />
case also had reference to a dispute on an agree-<br />
ment between author and publisher. The society<br />
decided to take the matter up as the author had<br />
failed to obtain any of the money due in answer<br />
to her applications as well as the applications of<br />
her solicitors. The solicitor then reported on a<br />
case which had been in the Courts already, and<br />
asked for instructions as to the future line of<br />
action. The committee decided to leave the<br />
matter in the solicitor's hands to go forward with<br />
the action unless it was possible to come to some<br />
satisfactory settlement. There were two other<br />
cases in which an author had got into difficulties<br />
with two different publishers. The first claim,<br />
which was a small one, the committee decided to<br />
take up, and to arrange a suitable settlement with<br />
the publisher if possible. In the second case it was<br />
impossible for the committee to come to a conclusion<br />
as to the best course to take, owing to the lack<br />
of sufficient evidence. The solicitor was instructed<br />
to enquire what further evidence the author would<br />
produce. The last case was very difficult. It<br />
was not an infringement of copyright but breach<br />
of confidence. It was alleged that the author's<br />
ideas had been taken. The solicitor reported<br />
that he had seen the gentleman concerned and<br />
had gone into the matter with him, and that<br />
from the evidence produced he could not advise<br />
the committee to take the case up. The committee<br />
discussed the issues at considerable length on the<br />
evidence that had been forthcoming, and decided<br />
to adopt the solicitor's advice, unless some further<br />
evidence was received.<br />
The committee then turned their attention to the<br />
Copyright Bill.<br />
The secretary laid before the committee the steps<br />
that had been taken since the last meeting, and the<br />
work that had been done to guard the interests of<br />
the members of the society. He had met the<br />
President of the Publishers' Association and others<br />
interested in the issues ; and he had been in<br />
communication with the Board of Trade on certain<br />
points. It appeared that the most serious matter<br />
now left was the question of the reproduction of<br />
gramophone, pianola and mechanical records under<br />
a compulsory licence. The secretary read the<br />
resolution which had been passed by the Joint<br />
Committee of the Society of Authors, the Copyright<br />
Association, the Publishers' Association and the<br />
Music Publishers' Association. The resolution was<br />
to the following effect :<br />
“ That this meeting is unanimously opposed to any<br />
scheme of dealing with mechanical instrument records<br />
that does not give to the composer the right either<br />
to withhold his work altogether or to make his first<br />
bargain on his own terms; and is of opinion that no<br />
compulsory licence should operate on terms less favourable<br />
to the composer than those of the original bargain."<br />
He reported that Sir Frederick Macmillan had<br />
forwarded a copy of the resolution to the President<br />
of the Board of Trade. He read, also, a letter<br />
that Mr. William Boosey, of Messrs. Chappell &<br />
Co., had written on the same matter, and as the<br />
issues were so serious the committee decided to ask<br />
the President of the Board of Trade if he would<br />
receive a depntation. The deputation, subject<br />
to their consent, was to comprise the following<br />
gentlemen :-<br />
Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, Chairman of the Com-<br />
mittee of Management.<br />
Mr. J. W. Comyns Carr.<br />
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Mus. Doc.<br />
Mr. Herbert Sullivan.<br />
Mr. Paul Reubens.<br />
It was decided, if possible, to get the Labour<br />
Members to meet the Committee of Management in<br />
order to discuss some of the issues of the Bill.<br />
Various other letters that the secretary had received,<br />
and the secretary had written, were laid before the<br />
committee.<br />
The publication of the list of members came up<br />
for discussion, and the committee decided that, at<br />
present at any rate, they would not authorise the<br />
publication of the list, as the expense to the society<br />
was considerable and was not justified by the sales.<br />
It was decided to “ waste " the surplus copies of<br />
the publications of the society.<br />
The Canadian Copyright Bill then came up for<br />
discussion, but it was thought impossible to deal<br />
with the matter till after the settlement of the<br />
English Bill which was at present taking up all the<br />
energies of the committee.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
As the sitting of the committee had lasted a with lists of English plays produced in foreign<br />
considerable time the question of the agency agree countries, and that the lists had proved so far very<br />
ment was adjourned till the next meeting.<br />
useful and would be of great benefit to the drama-<br />
The secretary laid before the committee various tists of the society.<br />
letters he had received during the past month.<br />
Finally, the Geueral Treaty was reconsidered,<br />
and all the clauses already passed were read through.<br />
Other clauses were also passed, and a few remain-<br />
ing were left for discussion in October.<br />
DRAMATIC SU’B-COMMITTEE.<br />
The last meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br />
mittee before the vacation took place on June 16<br />
Cases.<br />
at the society's offices. After the minutes of the<br />
previous meeting had been read and signed, it was FIFTEEN cases have come into the hands of the<br />
decided that the next meeting should be held in secretary during the last month. Three of these<br />
October, but the chairman was empowered to deal relate to the loss of MSS. In one the MS. has been<br />
with any emergency question which should arise returned to the member concerned, and the other<br />
during the vacation.<br />
two are still in course of negotiation. There have<br />
The secretary then reported the position of the been five cases where money owing to members<br />
Copyright Bill, and drew the Sub-Committee's has not been paid. One of these has been settled ;<br />
attention to various concessions which the society one has been placed in the hands of the society's,<br />
had obtained for dramatists.<br />
solicitors, as it was impossible to come to any<br />
The question of sketch production was then<br />
arrangement ; one is still in course of negotiation,<br />
touched on by the chairman, who suggested that and the remaining two have only come into the<br />
the secretary should collect as many instances of office just before going to press. In two claims<br />
sketch prosecution as possible.<br />
for money and accounts the accounts have been<br />
Another letter from the counsel of the National rendered and the money paid. One case relating<br />
Association of Play Producing Managers of America to a dispute on an agreement has been settled<br />
was laid before the Sub-Committee, in which the Of four claims for accounts, three are still in course<br />
writer explained his procedure in stopping piracies of negotiation, as it often happens that some little<br />
of dramatic pieces in the States, and proceeded to time must elapse, the publisher having to go<br />
make fresh proposals to the Sub-Committee. The through his books in order to collect the figures ;<br />
secretary was instructed to continue the corre- the remaining one has been placed in the hands of<br />
spondence, as the real difficulty was one of finance. the solicitors,<br />
It may be necessary, at a later date, in dealing with There are still three cases open from last month.<br />
this question, to circularise the dramatists inside One refers to loss of a MS. in the United States,<br />
the society. The matter will be rediscussed at the and it is possible may remain unsettled owing<br />
meeting in October, and laid before the Committee to the impossibility of enforcing the member's<br />
of Management.<br />
demand; one relates to accounts which the<br />
The next question related to the infringement of publisher has promised to render, and the last<br />
dramatic rights in England through MS. reproduc- refers to a dispute on a contract which is still in<br />
tion of plays by touring companies. The secretary course of negotiation.<br />
was instructed to write to his correspondent for<br />
further particulars.<br />
The next case had already been discussed by the<br />
Committee of Management, and the action which<br />
June Elections.<br />
that body proposed to take, as reported by the<br />
secretary, was confirmed by the Sub-Committee. Alexander, Mrs. Evelyn · Newtown, Straffan, co.<br />
A letter which had been received from one of<br />
Kildare, Ireland.<br />
the members of the society from a representative Argyll, Saxby, C. F., M.A. “ Brooklyn,” Wade-<br />
dramatist in the United States, dealing with<br />
bridge, Cornwall.<br />
Canadian copyright, was also laid before the Sub. Belloc, Hillaire<br />
King's Land, Shipley,<br />
Committee, and the secretary was instructed to<br />
Horsham.<br />
refer it to the Committee of Management at their Bertolini, Gino<br />
Hotel Regina, San<br />
next meeting.<br />
Moite, Venice.<br />
The secretary then reported that an arrangement Charter, Miss Edith A. , “Peggotty," Woking-<br />
had been come to with the Board of Trade by<br />
ham, Berks.<br />
which consular reports were sent to the society, Clark, Alfred.<br />
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Hackwood, Frederick 129, Heathfield Road,<br />
William . . .<br />
Handsworth, Bir-<br />
mingham.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
Hamilton, Henry.<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
Hicks, Seymour.<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br />
Holst, Gustar von . . 10, The Terrace, by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
Barnes, S.W.<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
Horlick, Mrs. Ernest . 60, Grosvenor Square,<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
Ingram, John H. . . 53, Ethesley Road, accurate,<br />
West Green, N.<br />
ANTHROPOLOGY.<br />
Kenealy, Miss Annesley, South Lancing, Sussex,<br />
MARRIAGE, TOTEMISM AND RELIGION. An Answer to<br />
Macauliffe, Max Arthur. 10, Sinclair Gardens,<br />
Critics. By THE RIGHT Hon. LORD AVEBURY.<br />
8 X 54. 243 pp. Longmans. 48. 6d. n.<br />
Kensington, W.<br />
Massey, Stewart Marsden. Belcamp, Faling, W.<br />
ART.<br />
Money, Leo George Chiozza "Tyhurst,' Chaldon, THE POST-IMPRESSIONISTS., By C. LEWIS HIND.<br />
Caterham.<br />
104 x 7. 94 pp. Methuen. 7s. 6d. n.<br />
Newman, Miss Emma : Hazel Dell, Mussoorie,<br />
U.P. India.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
O'Brien, Aubrey, Major, c/o Messrs. H. S. King THE MYSTIC BRIDE. A Study of the Life Story of Catherine<br />
of Siena. By MRS. AUBREY RICHARDSON, 9 x 51.<br />
C.I.E. (Boa). . . & Co., 65, Cornhill,<br />
339 pp. Werner Laurie. 128. 6d. 1.<br />
E.C. (Occasional), THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED AUSTIN. Two vols.<br />
Boa.<br />
83 x 54. 325 + 308 pp. Macmillan. 248. n.<br />
O'Connor, T. P., M.P. 5, Morpeth Mansions,<br />
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER. An Estimate and a<br />
Biography By FRANK RUTTER. 63 X 41. 159 pp.<br />
Grant Richards. 28. n.<br />
O'Conor, Lady . . 14, Harley House,<br />
THE NELSONS OF BURNHAM THORPE: A Record of a<br />
N.W.<br />
Norfolk Family. Compiled from l'npublished Letters<br />
Plowman, Miss Mary . 2, Wellington Place, and Note-books, 1787–1812. By M. EYRE MATCHAM.<br />
St. Giles, Oxford.<br />
81 X 51. 306 pp. Lane. 168. n.<br />
JAMES JOHN GARTH WILKINSON. A Memoir of his<br />
Rideing, William Henry · c/o Youth's Com Life, with a Selection from his Letters. By C. J.<br />
panion, Boston, WILKINSON. 9 X 53. 303 pp. Kegan Paul. 10s. n.<br />
Mass., U.S.A.<br />
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 4 vols.<br />
Rosebery, the Right Hon. 38, Berkeley Square,<br />
Edited by SIDNEY COLVIN. 61 X 4. 293 + 325 + 334.<br />
370 pp. Methuen. 58. n, each.<br />
the Earl of, K.G., etc. W.<br />
Sabatini, Rafael . . 32, Cyril Mansions,<br />
COOKERY.<br />
Davversed Tark,<br />
Battersea Park,<br />
THE GOURMET'S GUIDE TO EUROPE. By LIEUT.-COL.<br />
Tu<br />
S.W.<br />
VEWNHAM DAVIS. Third Edition. 61 X 41. 400 pp.<br />
Sil-Vara, G. . . . 22, Granville Place, Grant Richards. 58. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Stobart, Mrs. St. Clair . 3, Reynolds Close,<br />
Hampstead Garden<br />
PAINS AND PENALTIES. The Defence of Queen Caroline.<br />
Suburb, N.W.<br />
By LAURENCE HOUSMAN. 7} * 5. 89 pp. Sidgwick &<br />
Jackson. 3.5. 6d, n.<br />
Thompson, the Rev. J. M. Magdalen College,<br />
Oxford.<br />
ECONOMICS.<br />
Veale, Edward Woodhouse Langford, R.S.O.,<br />
GRANTS IN AID: A Criticism and a Proposal. By<br />
SIDNEY WEBB. 9 x 57. 135 pp. Longmans. 58. n.<br />
Somerset.<br />
THE SCIENCE OF WEALTĀ. By J. A. HOBSON. 63 X 41.<br />
Webster, Mrs. C. A. . 6, Stanthorpe Road,<br />
256 pp. (Home University Library.) Williams &<br />
Streatham, S.W. Norgate. 18. n.<br />
S.W.<br />
W.<br />
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MUSIC.<br />
A HYMN OF LOYALTY. Words and Music. By MARGARET<br />
PEDLER. Stanley Webb.<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
THE GIRLS' SCHOOL YEAR BOOK (PUBLIC SCHOOLS).<br />
The Official Book of Reference of the Association of Head<br />
Mistresses. The Year Book Press, 25, High Street,<br />
Bloomsbury, W.C. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN FROM THE STANDPOINT<br />
OF THEOSOPHY. By RUDOLF STEINER. Authorised<br />
Translation by Max Gysi. The Theosophical Publishing<br />
Society, 161, New Bond Street, W. 18. n.<br />
POLITICAL<br />
CANADA OF TO-DAY. By WILLIAM MAXWELL. Jarrold &<br />
Sons. 18, n.<br />
PATRIOTISM. A Biological Study. By H. G. F. SPURRELL.<br />
71 X 5. 168 pp. G. Bell. 28. 60. n.<br />
THEOLOGY. :<br />
LIFE TRANSFIGURED. By LILIAN WHITING. 7 X 44.<br />
314 pp. Gay & Hancock. 48. 60, n.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY,<br />
NOOKS AND CORNERS OF OLD ENGLAND. By ALLAN FEA.<br />
7 X 5. 274 pp. Martin, Secker. 58. n.<br />
THE WELSH BORDER : Its Churches, Castles and<br />
Dyke. By M. A. HOYER and M. L. HEPPEL. 74 x 5.<br />
238 pp.. Nutt. 38. 6d. n.<br />
TRAVEL<br />
URUGUAY. By W. H. KOEBEL. 9 X 51. 350 pp.<br />
Fisher Unwin. 108. 6d. n.<br />
THE FAIR DOMINION. By R. E. VERNEDE. 8} x 51.<br />
296 pp. KEGAN PAUL. 78. 6d. n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
THE ESCAPE AGENTS. By C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE. 71x<br />
5. 323 pp. Werner Laurie.' 68.<br />
TWIN SISTERS. By RICHARD MARSH. 71 x 5. 326 pp.<br />
Cassell. 68.<br />
LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER. By C. N. and A. M.<br />
WILLIAMSON. 61 X 44. 280 pp. (Cheap Reprint.)<br />
Methuen. 18. n.<br />
UNDER THE SALAMANDER. By J. BLOUNDELLE BURTON.<br />
73 x 5. 320 pp. Everett. 68.<br />
THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG. The Novel of the Play.<br />
By H. SIMPSON. 71 X 44. 226 pp. Mills & Boon.<br />
18. n.<br />
THE MUZZLED Ox. A Romance of Riches. By CORALIE<br />
STANTON and HEATH HOSKEN. 78 X 5. 331 pp.<br />
Stanley Paul. 6s.<br />
THE Divine FIRE. By MAY SINCLAIR. 71 x 5.667 pp.<br />
Nash. 28. n.<br />
THE GIFT. By S. MACNAUGHTAN. 61 x 4. 284 pp.<br />
Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
THE MARRIAGE OF BARBARA By F. FRANKFORT<br />
MOORE. 7} 5. 378 pp. Constable. 68.<br />
THE BROKEN PHIAL. By PERCY WHITE. 73 x 5.<br />
296 pp. Constable. 68.<br />
THE CHOICE OF THEODORA. By THOMAS COBB. 73 x 5.<br />
307 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
AN EXCHANGE OF Souls. By BARRY PAIN. 78 x 5.<br />
256 pp. Nash. 28. n.<br />
THE HEATH HOVER MYSTERY. By BERTRAM MITFORD.<br />
7 x 5. 320 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
THÚS SAITH MRS. GRUNDY. By ANNESLEY KENEALY,<br />
7 X 5. 320 pp. John Long. 38. 6d.<br />
GENTLEMAN ROGER. By M. E. FRANCIS. 78 x 5.<br />
282 pp. Sands. 28. n.<br />
PHYLLIS. By L. G. MOBERLY. 78 X 5. 302 pp. Ward,<br />
Lock. 68.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
CALENDAR OF STATE PAPERS, COLONIAL SERIES,<br />
AMERICAN AND WEST INDIES, 1701. Preserved in the<br />
Public Record Office. Edited by CECIL HEADLAM,<br />
103 X 77. 818 pp. Wyman. 158.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
LONELY ENGLAND, By MAUDE GOLDRING, 77 x 5.<br />
240 pp. Swift. 58. n.<br />
“M HE Fair Dominion” is the title of Mr. R. E.<br />
Vernede's new book, containing the record<br />
of his Canadian impressions and observa-<br />
tions, published by Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co.<br />
There are twelve illustrations in colour by Cyrus<br />
Cuneo.<br />
Messrs. Kegan Paul have also published “Letters<br />
from Finland,” by Rosalind Travers. The letters<br />
deal with various aspects of life in the Grand<br />
Duchy, social, educational, artistic, political, and<br />
racial. The volume is profusely illustrated, not<br />
only with views of Finland but with reproductions<br />
of the work of some of the best Finnish artists.<br />
Through the same publishers Mr. Douglas Sladen<br />
is publishing a new book, “How to See Italy by<br />
Rail.” The work is the result of Mr. Sladen's long<br />
experience of Italy, in which a great part of his<br />
time during the last twenty years has been spent.<br />
It contains a chapter on railway routes, which<br />
shows how to see every important place in the<br />
country, while in treating of scenery, architecture,<br />
painting, and sculpture, he points out all the most<br />
splendid examples to be found in each district,<br />
after first giving the characteristics of Italian<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
IMPERIAL TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION. BY CHARLES<br />
BRIGHT. 212 pp. P. S. King.<br />
THE SUBMERGED CONTINENTS OF ATLANTIS AND<br />
LEMURIA : Their History and Civilization. Being<br />
Chapters from the Akashic Records. By RUDOLF<br />
STEINER. Authorised Translation by Max Gysi. The<br />
Theosophical Publishing Society. 38. 6d, n.<br />
TO THE ARABS. By L. FLORENCE FFOULKES. With a<br />
Preface by H.R.H. PRINCESS FREDERICA OF HANOVER,<br />
George White, Printer, 396, King's Road, Chelsea, S.W.<br />
1s. n.<br />
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scenery and art. There are a map and 160 possible solution of such a mystery. “ The Race,'<br />
illustrations in the volume.<br />
“Elixir Vitæ,” and “The Discontinued Mail” are<br />
Mr. Maurice Hewlett has contributed a Preface each characteristic productions. The short sketch<br />
to a volume of Poems by Mr. Wilfrid Thorley, which “How to Live on Nothing a Year in Oaxaca"<br />
Mr. Elkin Mathews has published. “Confessional shows Mr. Hyne in a more pensive mood, and inci-<br />
and Other Poems” is the title of Mr. Thorley's dentally reveals his enthusiasm for Mexico, but<br />
volume.<br />
the bulk of the book is dominated by Napoleon, the<br />
Miss Annesley Kenealy's first novel, “ Thus stroke of whose anger is responsible for six of the<br />
Saith Mrs. Grundy,” has just been published by yarns. Mr. Werner Laurie is the publisher.<br />
Mr. John Long. “Smart Set ” Intrigues, sex Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have completed<br />
questions and love problems weave themselves into negotiations with Mrs. Charlotte Cameron to publish<br />
the story, the plot of which develops an anomaly of two books from her pen. “A Passion in Morocco "<br />
the Marriage and Divorce Laws.<br />
will appear early in July. In “ A Woman's Winter<br />
In“ Auvergne and Its People" Miss Frances M. in South America ” Mrs. Cameron relates a journey<br />
Gostling deals with the country as it is to-day, of some 24,000 miles, the crossing of a continent<br />
relates the quaint customs and lingering supersti- on two occasions, viz., Buenos Aires to Valparaiso,<br />
tions of the people, while at the same time making up the west coast, and from Panama to Colon,<br />
the reader acquainted with the history of the Photographs and descriptions of the Incar Indians<br />
province. Messrs. Methuen & Co. publish the of Peru are features of the work. It is the first<br />
book, which has eight illustrations in colour, time this entire coast has been written of from a<br />
as well as thirty-two other illustrations and a woman's point of view.<br />
map.<br />
An article on the subject of “ Women and Work"<br />
The Treasury for June contains an article by appears in The Fortnightly for May. Mrs. Alec<br />
Miss F. Bayford Harrison, entitled “Before Penny Tweedie is the writer of the article, and in it she<br />
Postage."<br />
shows how wide is the field of industry now covered<br />
“A Hymn of Loyalty " is a song, the words and by women and pleads for an extension of this policy.<br />
music of which are by Margaret Pedler, published Mrs. Tweedie has been put on the councils of the<br />
by Mr. Stanley Webb. A copy of the song, which Eugenics Society and the Cremation Society of<br />
is being sung by Miss Lucie Johnstone, has been England.<br />
accepted by Her Majesty the Queen.<br />
Miss Amy McLaren's new novel is called “The<br />
Mr. Charles Garvice's long-promised book of the Yoke of Silence.” It will appear early in August<br />
Devon countryside will be published by Messrs. through Messrs. Mills and Boon.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton early in the autumn. As An appeal to the Arabs to treat their beasts of<br />
already announced, its title will be " A Farm in burden kindly and to refrain from an application<br />
Creamland," and it will be illustrated by a coloured of the lash to them has just been published by<br />
frontispiece and tail pieces by Mr. Alec Carruthers L. Florence Ffoulkes. It is entitled “To the<br />
Gould, R.B.A., and by numerous photographs. The Arabs,” and consists of two poems, set to music.<br />
price will be 10s, 6d.<br />
The poems, besides being printed in English, are<br />
The same firm will issue, later in the autumn, a also printed in Arabic characters, and the little<br />
68. novel by Mr. Charles Garvice, entitled “ The book has a preface by H.R.H. Princess Frederica<br />
Other Girl."<br />
of Hanover. Copies of the work, which is published<br />
Mr. Garvice's novel “ Just a Girl" is running, in at 1s. net, are obtainable from Mr. George White,<br />
serial form, under the title of “L'Australienne,” Printer, 396, King's Road, Chelsea.<br />
in La Liberté.<br />
Mrs. Havelock Ellis has a new volume of Cornish<br />
Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton are issuing several stories appearing in the autumn (published by<br />
reprints of Mr. Charles Garvice's novels, which have Stanley Paul at 68.) called “ The Imperishable<br />
appeared in 6s. form, in a uniform edition, bound Wing.” One of these, called “Trypbena Jane's<br />
in cloth with coloured vignettes, and published Revolt,” is appearing in the July Forum.<br />
at 28.<br />
The appeal at the recent dinner of the Royal<br />
As proof that the spirit of Captain Kettle still Literary Fund, presided over by Mr. Birrell,<br />
animates his heroes and heroines, Mr. Cutcliffe Hyne produced a sum of £1,600.<br />
includes an Algerian adventure from that series A meeting of the general committee was held at<br />
in his latest book, “The Escape Agents.” Even the chambers of the corporation, 40, Denison<br />
the last tale in the book, called “The Failure,” House, on Wednesday, June 14, when the sum of<br />
tells of a failure in nothing but name and the com £360 was voted to applicants.<br />
plete vindication of a much-misunderstood man, Albert Dorrington's Indian story “ Our Lady of<br />
who is the pathetic hero. The story “ Gemini” the Leopards," will appear with Messrs. Mills &<br />
will recall a recent shipping disaster, and suggest a Boon early in July. Mr. Dorrington has another<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
book with the Macaulay Company, New York, preted by a long caste in which were included Mr.<br />
entitled “Our Lady of Darkness."<br />
Charles V. France, Mr. Norman Page, Mr. Charles<br />
We are informed by Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton Maude and Miss Enid Rose.<br />
that they have decided to grant an extension of Ibsen's play“ Hedda Gabler,” translated by<br />
time for the submitting of MSS. under the terms Edmund Gosse and William Archer, was revived<br />
of their £1,000 Prize Novel Competition. The at the Kingsway Theatre towards the close of May.<br />
closing date, instead of being August 31, 1911, The caste included Mr. F. Kinsey Peile, Madame<br />
as first announced, will be January 1, 1912. Lydia Yavorska, and Miss Florence Haydon.<br />
Any MS. already submitted will be returned “The Algerian Girl," by Herbert Shelley, the<br />
immediately upon application should the competitor first of a series of musical comedies which is being<br />
desire.<br />
presented at the Kennington Theatre, was pro-<br />
Messrs. G. P. Putnams are publishing in duced at that theatre on June 5. The action of<br />
September the authorised translation of Dr. the play centres round a beautiful Italian girl who<br />
Rudolf Steiner's “Mystics of the Renaissance and has borrowed a large sum of money from the Bey of<br />
their Relation to Modern Thought,” which Mr. Algiers, which she has undertaken to repay within<br />
Bertram Keightley has prepared under the editorial a fixed time, or, in default, to marry the Bey. The<br />
supervision of Mr. Max Gyse. Dr. Steiner is caste includes Mr. Colin Coop, Miss Florence Beech,<br />
already known to American readers by the volume, Mr. Mark Lester and Miss Connie Emerald.<br />
“ Initiation and its Results.” In the essays that<br />
The company from the Abbey Theatre, Dublin,<br />
comprise the present volume he speaks about the has during June produced various plays at the<br />
Mystics from Meister Eckhart to Angelus Silesius, Court Theatre. The tour was opened with Mr. J.<br />
with a full measure of devotion and acquiescence. M. Synge's comedy “The Playboy of the Western<br />
“The Wonder of Love” is a new novel by World,” which was followed by “The Piedish,” a<br />
Madame Albanesi, which is to be issued in Messrs. one-act play by George Fitzmaurice, and on<br />
Stanley Paul's Clear Type Sixpenny Novel Series.<br />
June 7 * Mixed Marriage,” by St. John G.<br />
“ Imperial Telegraphic Communication,"<br />
Communication." by<br />
by<br />
Ervine, which has for its theme the bigotry of an<br />
Charles Bright, was published last month by Messrs. Irish Protestant and its effect upon a strike in a<br />
P. S. King & Co. In the main the book is made Belfast manufacturing district.<br />
up of papers, addresses and articles contributed,<br />
“ Birthright," a play in two acts, dealing with<br />
at different periods, to the British Association Irish peasant life, written by T. C. Murray, was<br />
for the Advancement of Science. the London staged on June 8, on which night also was<br />
Chamber of Commerce, The Quarterly Review, The<br />
included Mr. W. B. Yeat's tragedy “ Deirdre," and<br />
Fortnightly Rerieur, The Monthly Review, and Lady Gregory's humorous play “The Rising of the<br />
elsewhere.<br />
Moon."<br />
Miss Regina Miriam Bloch has written, and<br />
The second week of the company's visit opened<br />
Messrs. Greening & Co. have published, a<br />
with an adaptation of one of Molière's comedies.<br />
Coronation souvenir, entitled “The Vision of the The piece was a translation in three acts, by Lady<br />
King."<br />
Gregory, of “ Les Fourberies de Scapin," and<br />
“ Chopin," a discourse by I. J. Paderewski, has<br />
entitled “ The Rougueries of Scapin.” The same<br />
been translated from the Polish by Laurence Alma<br />
week saw the production, for the first time in<br />
Tadema, and published by W. Adlington, 18, Great<br />
London, of a three-act play “ The Casting Out of<br />
Marlborough Street, W.<br />
Martin Whelan," by R. J. Ray. On the<br />
same evening a one-act comedy “ Coats," by Lady<br />
Gregory, was produced. The humour of the piece<br />
DRAMATIC<br />
arises from an accidental exchange of coats<br />
between two rival editors, leading to the discovery<br />
Lord Dunsany's one-act piece was staged at the of obituary notices which each has written of the<br />
Haymarket Theatre on June 1. The action of other for use as occasion shall require.<br />
the play opens outside the walls of an eastern On the following evening Lady Gregory's one-<br />
city. The story briefly is this : Three beggars act comedy, concerning the superstitions of the<br />
plying their trade with little success, are persuaded peasants as to the influence of “The Full Moon,"<br />
to proclaim themselves the local deities and as was produced, as also on the same occasion was<br />
having come down from the hills. Many sacrifices « Harvest," by Lennox Robinson.<br />
in the shape of food are brought to them, and they A play in three acts, by William Boyle, entitled<br />
are able to deceive the people by virtue of the fact "The Mineral Workers," was staged on June 19.<br />
that the real gods are out and abroad. The The chief personage of the play is an Irishman<br />
close of the play shows the revenge taken on the who returns from America and acquires a farm<br />
beggars by the real gods. The play was inter- from his cousin in order to dig for iron which he<br />
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believes exists in the earth. The scheme is ridi. of mysterious novels in which Charles Foley is a<br />
caled by a local farmer who, however, gains a rich past màster. M. Foley began, side by side<br />
harvest by seiling his produce to the other's with his historical studies, a series of tragic and<br />
numerous employees. Eventually, the iron is extremely dramatic stories when he published<br />
reached, but almost immediately after the spring “ Au Téléphone ” some ten or twelve years ago.<br />
which provides the water-power dries up and the He is at present bringing out a collection of<br />
machinery is brought to a standstill. The only mysterious novels, the titles of which are : “Kowa<br />
way out is to divert the water from the lake, and la Mystérieuse," “ La Chambre au Judas,"<br />
to do this it is necessary to cut a channel through “ Divettes d'un soir," and " Au Téléphone.”<br />
the farmer's land. The farmer refuses to sell and containing also “Un Concert chez les Fous” and<br />
the resultant situation provides the problem for “ La Nuit Rouge.” The new volume is certainly one<br />
the dramatist.<br />
of the most mysterious and thrilling stories of the<br />
A tragedy in one act " The Clancy Name," by collection.<br />
Lennox Robinson, preceded Mr. Boyle's play.<br />
Among recent novels are “ Le Métier de Roi,"<br />
by Colette Yver, author of "Princesses de Science";<br />
“Juste Lobel, Alsacien,” by André Lichtenberger;<br />
“ La Demoiselle de La Rue des Notaires," by<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
Louis Latzarus ; “ La Prison de Verre," by Gaston<br />
Chérau.<br />
“Ce que mes Yeux ont vu ” by Arthur Meyer,<br />
"T A Ravageuse," by Louise Chasteau, is an is a book of souvenirs dating from 1870 to 1910.<br />
extremely simple story, athe strength of M. Meyer is manager of Le Gaulois, the royalist<br />
which lies in its absolute naturalness. It and ultra-Catholic newspaper, and these souvenirs<br />
is so human, so true to life that, among common- are certainly well worth reading. M. Faguet,<br />
place people, a similar experience must have been whose political opinions are totally different from<br />
made hundreds and hundreds of times. The those of M. Meyer, has written an admirable<br />
curious part about this book is that it should have preface.<br />
been written by Louise Chasteau, the mother of The first chapter is entitled “ La Chute de<br />
Marcelle Tinayre. It is dedicated : “ To my dear l'Empire," and begins with the year 1870. M.<br />
daughter Marcelle Tinayre in memory of those Meyer describes graphically the various scenes he<br />
hours when, full of loving hope, I taught her to witnessed up to the famous Fourth of September.<br />
write.” There is something almost pathetic in In the next chapter “ Les Premières Faillites de<br />
this book, which follows “ La Rebelle” and la République,” M. Meyer continues his description.<br />
“L'Ombre de l'Amour," by Marcelle Tinayre. Very graphically he tells us of his anguish on seeing,<br />
The daughter has learned to write, and in “La from the heights of St. Germain, the Louvre in<br />
Maison du Pêché” and “La Vie amoureuse de flames, and very pathetic is his account of the<br />
François Barbazanges” her style is admirable, but death of the Prince Imperial and the visit of<br />
there is one thing the mother possesses which she Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice to Chislehurst<br />
has not apparently succeeded in inculcating in her on the day of the funeral.<br />
daughter. « La Ravageuse " is distinctly a moral The finest chapter in the book is perhaps the<br />
book, although the episode on which the story is one on “Boulangisme.” M. Meyer tells us the<br />
based is adultery. “La Rebelle " and Marcelle whole tragic story. He tells us of the hopes of<br />
Tinayre's other books are distinctly amoral. It the royalists and of the fine generosity of the<br />
would seem in “ La Ravageuse” as though the Dowager Duchess d’Uzès, who took upon herself<br />
mother were giving her opinion with regard to the cost of the plan that had been devised, and who<br />
some of the theories set forth in her daughter's worked with enthusiasm for the restoration of the<br />
books. “Qui,” says one of her personages to his monarchy.<br />
friend who is being duped by an emancipated The other subjects treated are “ L'Anti-<br />
woman, “ le travail qui donne l'independance, le sémitisme,” “Le Drefusisme,” “ Paris autrefois et<br />
fameux moi' à développer ; c'est la complainte aujourd'hui,” “ Sa Majesté l'Argent,” and “ Sa<br />
moderne, air connu, etc.” As we have said, “ La Majesté la Presse.”<br />
Ravageuse” is only a simple story, but the charac- Altogether it is with regret that one comes to<br />
ters in it are very human, very true to life, and are the end of the volume, convinced though, with<br />
drawn with great accuracy and skill. It is the the author, that malgré ses défaillances Paris<br />
first book we have read by this author, but we shall conserve sa royauté dans le monde.<br />
await with interest her next novel, announced to “Les Mours et la Vie privée d'autrefois” is<br />
appear shortly.<br />
the title of a curious book by M. Humbert<br />
“Des Pas dans la Nuit" is another of the series de Gallier. From the chapter “Comment on<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
he Duce de fer-hours after being the Chatever the<br />
dépensait” we have some interesting information the volume of Lord Byron's “ Correspondence,"<br />
about the luxury and the everyday expenses of compiled by M. Jean Delachaume.<br />
former times. Hospitality was practised on a<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
scale which would amaze the hosts and hostesses of<br />
our times. We are told that it took thirty sheep “La Ravageuse" (Calman Levy).<br />
a month and 4,000 fowl a year for the table of<br />
" Des Pas dans la Nuit" (Jules Tallandier).<br />
the Duc de Choiseul. He employed 400 per-<br />
“Le Métier de Roi" (Calmann Lévy).<br />
“ Juste Lobel, Alsacien ” (Plon).<br />
sons and fifty-four of his domestics wore<br />
“La Demoiselle de La Rue des Notaires" (Calmann<br />
livery. We are told that in the Château of Lévy).<br />
Saverne, Rohan constantly put 700 beds at the “La Prison de Verre" (Calmann Lévy).<br />
disposal of his friends, and that he could put up “Ce que mes Yeux ont vu ” (Plon).<br />
“Les Meurs et la Vie privée d'autrefois ” (Calmann<br />
180 horses in his stables. The chapters on<br />
Lévy).<br />
marriage are also very instructive. “Comment "Etait-ce Louis XVII. évadé du Temple" (Perrin).<br />
on etait servi" is the title of six chapters, and "La Princesse de Lamballe" (Perrin).<br />
very curious are many of the stories told of the<br />
** La Conquête des Communes » (Perrin).<br />
“La Peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France" (Perrin).<br />
devotion and fidelity of some of the old retainers<br />
“Autour d'une Dame d'Honneur" (Calmann Lévy).<br />
of well-known families. “Comment on se soignait" “ Amitiés de Reine" (Emile Paul).<br />
is the title of the last eight chapters, and curiously "Monseigneur Duchesne" (E. Sansot).<br />
enough among other things we find that the<br />
influenza raged in 1782. Many of the remedies<br />
prescribed would amaze our modern medical men.<br />
UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
The book is distinctly interesting, and it seems<br />
almost incredible that manners and customs should<br />
have changed so radically in so comparatively short A T the beginning of the publishing season of<br />
a time.<br />
4 1911 in the United States a statement was<br />
Among other recent historical and biographical<br />
made—by a representative of the firm of<br />
works are the following :-“ Etait-ce Louis XVII. Harper Brothers, in answer to some questions asked<br />
évadé du Temple ? " by J. de Saint Léger, with a by the New York Times—which should have been<br />
preface by G. Lenotre. The author has studied many very gratifying to English authors, few of whom<br />
hitherto unpublished documents, and, with the help usually have much occasion for joy over American<br />
of this book and that on “ Madame Atkins," by M. book-sales. It was to the effect that a notable<br />
F. Barbey, it is at any rate possible for the reader tendency of recent seasons had been the extent of<br />
to have an opinion on the subject.<br />
English writers' appearances in America. As<br />
“La Princesse de Lamballe,” by Raoul Arnaud, though to confirm the good news, Mr. H. S.<br />
is another volume compiled with the greatest care Ridings, of the J. B. Lippincott Company, on his<br />
from many unpublished documents. It is illus- return to the States in May announced that he had<br />
trated with seven engravings, and gives many with him the finest lot of English authors he had<br />
details hitherto unknown.<br />
ever brought over. And in a recent list of “ best<br />
“ La Conquête des Communes," by M. E. sellers," an English novelist, Mr. Jeffery Farnol,<br />
Hocquart de Turtot, is a book which should be was in the first six in the fiction class, while<br />
studied by anyone interested in the History of the Messrs. Arnold Bennett and Bernard Shaw beaded<br />
Revolution. There are very many details given the non-fiction list with “How to Live on Twenty-<br />
in this volume which explain much that otherwise four Hours a Day” and “The Doctor's Dilemma.”<br />
appears involved.<br />
The publishers' advertisement pages in the various<br />
“La Peste de 1720 à Marseille et en France," literary organs of New York, Chicago, Boston, &c.,<br />
by M. Paul Gaffarel and Marquis de Duaranty, is furnish still further evidence of the capacity of a<br />
a curious study of the habits and customs of the great number of English authors to attract the<br />
epoch, and will doubtless be found interesting to American reader at the present moment. In fact,<br />
all who make a special study of the public health so many are the names that it would be invidious<br />
and of social economy.<br />
to select any of them for particular mention.<br />
“Autour d'une Dame d'Honneur," by Eugène It is clear, therefore, that the competition with<br />
Welvert, is the story of Françoise de Chalus, which the native-born writers in the United States<br />
Duchesse de Narbonne-Lara (1734–1821). have to cope is very severe, especially when “ Marie-<br />
“Amitiés de Reine,” by Jacques de la Faye, Claire ” and “ Jean Christophe” have had to be<br />
with a preface by the Marquis de Ségur.<br />
reckoned with lately as well as books from England.<br />
“ Monseigneur Duchesne," by Claude d'Hab. But, in spite of this, there are no signs of a slump<br />
loville.<br />
in American authorship or of diminished output in<br />
M. G. Clemenceau has written the preface for any branch of literature across the Atlantic, least<br />
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of all in fiction, although there one would imagine is a very interesting piece of work, and the critics<br />
the field particularly open to all-comers.<br />
have given it a warm welcome.<br />
On the contrary, the American novel is flourish Notable biographies and memoirs bave, perhaps,<br />
ing exceedingly. One of the two greatest successes been rather few so far this year. But “ Mark<br />
of the present year has been Vaughan Kester's Twain," by Archibald Henderson, and “ John La<br />
“The Prodigal Judge,” the scene of which is laid Farge," a memoir and study of the late famous<br />
in the Southern States eighty years ago and the artist, by Royal Cortissoz, have deservedly had<br />
central character of which is a really fine piece of many readers. A subject ever popular in the<br />
humorous characterisation. Judge Slocum ought United States is dealt with in “The Recollections<br />
to please English readers ; he certainly has delighted of Abraham Lincoln (1847–1865)," written by<br />
one. The other best-seller is “Molly Make- the late Ward Hill Lamon, and edited as well as<br />
Believe," by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott, which published by Dorothy Lamon Teillard. In the<br />
made quite a wonderful hit at the outset of American Crisis series of biographies the new<br />
its career and looks like having a prolonged run. volume is on William Lloyd Garrison, the author<br />
Then Henry Sydnor Harrison's “Queed ” has being Lindsay Swift, who has previously done<br />
been hailed as a typical specimen of American good work for this series. Another Garrison is<br />
fiction at its best, and “just what a novel should represented in a volume of " Letters and Memorials,"<br />
be"! “The Legacy," by Mary S. Watts, has viz., Wendell Phillips Garrison, who in 1906<br />
come in for almost as high praise. Owen Wister brought to an end forty-one years of editorship of<br />
in “ Members of the Family' has reintroduced the New York Nation.<br />
some of the characters in “ The Virginian,” to the A curiously manufactured, but extremely suc-<br />
satisfaction of his numerous admirers. In “The cessful, book is entitled “ The Corsican : A Diary<br />
Long Roll” Mary Johnston presents a very of Napoleon's Life in his own Words," with which<br />
ambitious tale of the struggle between North and R. M. Johnston has made his way into the select<br />
South, with Stonewall Jackson as the dominating circle of the six best-sellers outside the realm of<br />
figure in it. Another Civil War story is “Love fiction.<br />
under Fire," by Randall Parrish. George Barr Military and naval topics are dealt with in<br />
McCutcheon and Louis J. Vance with “What's. General F. V. Greene's “The Revolutionary War<br />
His-Name” and “ Cynthia-of-the-Minute "—the and the Military Policy of the United States”; in<br />
byphens are the authors', it may be remarked— Captain Beecham's “ Gettysburg : the Pivotal<br />
promise to rival their former popular triumphs. Battie of the Civil War”; and in Captain Mahan's<br />
Jacques Futrelle has a new thrill for his readers “The Interest of America in International Con-<br />
in “The High Hand.” Very stirring, too, is ditions.” But the last-named, perhaps, should<br />
“ Yellow Men and Gold,” by Gouverneur Morris, not be classed as a merely naval work. The<br />
which has been seen serially in this country. gallant author preaches to his countrymen on the<br />
Mention must be made also of “ John Sherwood, reality of the menace to them of Germany's grow-<br />
Ironmaster," by Dr. Weir Mitchell; “Robert ing power and her irritation over the American<br />
Kimberley," by Frank H. Spearman; “The Root claims advanced in the Monroe Doctrine and the<br />
of Evil," by Thomas Dixon ; “ She Buildeth a policy of the Open Door in the Far East.<br />
House," by W. Levington Comfort ; “The Cats "The United States from Within "might serve<br />
paw," by W. H. Osborne ; and Francis Perry as the name for a book by Simeon Strumsky,<br />
Elliott's “ The Haunted Pajamas," whose title is who in a series of satirical and humorous essays<br />
a clue to its frivolous character. On the other criticises his fellow countrymen and their ways.<br />
hand, Mr. Kauffman's “The House of Bondage" As a matter of fact, however, Mr. Strumsky<br />
is so grim that it hardly seems appropriate to class calls his collection “The Patient Observer.”<br />
it with the novels. No more powerful sermon in “The Soul of the Indian " deals with a very<br />
the guise of fiction has appeared for a very long small section of the American people, the people<br />
time, either in America or in Europe. Those whom in boyhood we were taught to call red-<br />
interested in the question of the removal of one of skins. The author, Dr. C. A. Eastman, as his<br />
the great social evils in the Western world should title indicates, is concerned with the religious<br />
make a note of this book.<br />
side of the American Indian's character ; and he<br />
“One Way Out," by an author who adopts the has produced an interesting study of it. Psychical<br />
pseudonym of William Carleton, is still less of a matters are also the subject of an oddly simple<br />
novel. Plainly it is veiled autobiography, describ- volume, “ The Gleam,” by Helen Albee, which has<br />
ing how a middle-class New England family been described as the autobiography of a woman's<br />
emigrated to America, i.e., began life again in a soul between the ages of six and forty-seven.<br />
big town on the bottom rung of the ladder, after Travel and adventure books have been well<br />
starting and failing higher up. “One Way Out” represented of late. Peary's famous North Pole<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Expedition—the Commander's own work, by the Copyright Act, it has been discovered that this will<br />
way, is still selling well—is recalled by “ A Tender" make Canada a paradise for pirates—to the loss<br />
foot with Peary," of which the author is George alike of Canadian, American and English authors.<br />
Borup, who was the “baby” of the expedition. The literary obituary since the beginning of the<br />
Mr. Borup handles his pen gaily and light- year includes David Graham Phillips (murdered by<br />
heartedly. Another arctic book is by Harry a lunatic in January), a posthumous work from<br />
Whitney, and its title, “Hunting with the whose penis announced; Mrs. Elizabeth Phelps Ward,<br />
Eskimos," leaves the hesitating reader in no whose “Gates Ajar " was a best-seller as long ago<br />
doubt as to what he will find within its covers. as 1868, when its writer was only twenty-four years<br />
Warmer realms supply the scene of ex-President of age; Dr. Maurice Fluegel, the polyglot author of<br />
Roosevelt's “ African Game Trails,” which is a some well-known books on historical, religious<br />
comparative newcomer in volume shape, although and scientific subjects ; Dr. W. R. A. Wilson,<br />
familiar in serial form on both sides of the novelist and writer for boys; and Colonel Thomas<br />
Atlantic. The ex-President also furnishes a com- Wentworth Higginson. Colonel Higginson, best<br />
mendatory foreword to “Lassooing Wild Animals remembered in England probably for his “ Whittier”<br />
in Africa,” which is written by Guy Scoll around in the Men of Letters Series, was one of the last<br />
“Buffalo " Jones's visit to the Dark Continent. survivors of the famous old group of New England<br />
Yet another book on the same part of the world authors. Not only did he write and fight, but he<br />
is “In Africa : Hunting Adventures in the Big had also been a minister of religion and a very<br />
Game Country.” The author, Mr. McCutcheon- strong abolitionist. As he was eighty-seven when he<br />
not George Barr, but John T., the cartoonist, died, even in his own land much of his high repute<br />
adorns his text with numerous specimens of his had been forgotten until his obituaries appeared.<br />
wit with the pencil.<br />
But the tributes to his memory last May were<br />
The Far East supplies the chief material for universal and generous.<br />
discussion in “The Obvious Orient,” by Professor<br />
Philip WALSH.<br />
Bushnell Hart (from letters written to the Boston<br />
Transcript two or three years ago); and in Price<br />
Collier's “ The West in the East from an American<br />
AUTHORS AND TYPISTS.<br />
Point of View."<br />
What is said to be one of the first of airship M o the present writer, a member for thirteen<br />
travel-books is appropriately from the pen of<br />
years of the Society of Authors, and the<br />
Walter Wellman, who calls it “ The Aerial Age.”<br />
owner for ten years of a typewriting office,<br />
This is likely to be the most generally read it seems that the above heading must suggest some<br />
American work on the air, perhaps ; but there points of interest to fellow-members. In view of a<br />
are numerous more technical books which appeal recent letter to The Author, complaining of gross<br />
to the actual aeroplaner.<br />
carelessness on the part of a type-writing firm, and<br />
Mention has already been made of the volume an able reply by a “A trained and certificated Typist,"<br />
on “ John La Farge.” There have been few a word or two on the subject may be acceptable.<br />
attempts to discuss Art with a large A. But There is no need, however, to agitate the question<br />
Irving Babbit in “The New Laokoon” has of price, which has been ably dealt with by the<br />
attacked the topic in a most courageous and latter correspondent. I am chiefly anxious to dwell<br />
stimulating way. He defines his work in a sub on a point which authors often do not understand,<br />
title as “ An Essay on the Confusion of the that the intelligent copying of literary or learned<br />
Arts.”<br />
work involves close 'attention (a trained faculty),<br />
The question of copyright has engaged a good accuracy (also a trained faculty), a great deal of<br />
deal of attention in the States in the early months hard manual work, and, above all, sound education<br />
of this year. An English correspondent's attack in the copyist. This is why the rates at present<br />
has caused the editor of The Dial to reiterate the charged even by the best offices do not enable them<br />
at it is “ deplorable and humiliating" to secure qualitied workers. “I thought anybody<br />
that his country, because of its absurd copyright could copy," is an idea widely prevailing and some-<br />
law, should be the only civilised nation excluded times expressed. Usually, as I shall try to show,<br />
from the benefits to accrue to civilisation froin the much besides mere copying is involved, of exactly<br />
Berne Convention's attempts to harmonise and sys- the kind which “ anybody ” cannot do.<br />
tematise the copyright requirements of the literary It is natural and reasonable enough that an<br />
world. Seeing that this is practically the riew of author should feel intense irritation on receiving a<br />
all reasonable people in the United States, it seems type-script disfigured by ignorant and what appear<br />
a pity that the deplorable humiliation should be to him idiotic mistakes. As an author I sympa-<br />
allowed to continue. With regard to the Canadian thize. The question is, however, whether those<br />
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mistakes are as idiotic as he thinks them-ignorant unknown. This does not mean that the writing is<br />
no doubt they are in many cases. About the com- upreasonably bad. I have often had to write, for<br />
mon difficulty of bad handwriting on the author's my own clerks to copy, masses of unfamiliar matter<br />
part I will say nothing at present. Most authors - proper names, botanical names, foreign matter-<br />
would admit that if their handwriting is illegible making every letter clear to a person absolutely<br />
the fault is with themselves. They do not so easily ignorant of the word and its derivation, and I know<br />
understand, however, that a hand of which their the difficulty of keeping it up.<br />
friends do not complain may still present difficulties “Oh, but,” says somebody, “you are talking<br />
to the typist. There are two important reasons about technical work.”<br />
for this.<br />
I am talking about words unfamiliar to the<br />
(1) One's friends are not obliged, as the typist ordinary typist; and any MS. which has any claim<br />
is, to decipher each word and each inflexion and to be in the least literary is certain to contain many<br />
present a copy.<br />
such words. Even when simple and homely they<br />
(2) Very often the typist is a half-educated girl. are often rare, or they are unfamiliar in the way<br />
This is by far the more serious consideration of the they are used, if it is at all imaginative. “In<br />
two.<br />
legal stuff you do know what the word's likely to<br />
I have said that her mistakes are not so idiotic be, but in a novel it might be anything," was the<br />
as is supposed. Very often she is a bright girl, and remark made to me by a clerk in a good type-writing<br />
applies surprising care and intelligence to studying office; the reason being, of course, that legal work<br />
the actual caligraphy of the MS. Her mistakes are requires only a very small vocabulary, which is<br />
such as a half-educated person cannot avoid. She soon learnt by any girl constantly engaged on it.<br />
has been taught something at school, but she comes I am conscious that much of this may sound<br />
from an illiterate, or at least a non-literary home, insulting to the average typist, who is nevertheless<br />
and is familiar with a very small vocabulary. a hard and conscientious worker, putting much<br />
She reads nothing, probably, but modern fiction, care and common sense into her work, for a very<br />
As for punctuation and paragraphing, they have no low salary. It is not remarkable if she does not<br />
real meaning for her.<br />
know how to spell, paragraph, or punctuate, seeing<br />
Now in copying accurately it is necessary to that a large number of people of good position do<br />
follow the sense of the MS. to some extent, and such not know either. My point is that at the present<br />
a girl cannot follow any sentence which is at all low rates which the public are prepared to pay<br />
involved or even long. She cannot be expected the heads of copying offices they have to employ<br />
therefore to supply paragraphing ; though, as many half-educated assistants.<br />
authors seem never to have heard of indenting the I said that I would speak only of clearly written<br />
first line of a paragraph or indicating it by any MSS. at first. Something should be said, however,<br />
recognised sign, the lypist often has no clue. Again, of the other sort. Few authors realise how much,<br />
a girl cannot be relied upon to read correctly words after all, that is not in the bond has been done for<br />
of which she has never heard. The context, which them by the despised typist. “Surely,” they may<br />
is often beyond her comprehension in subject-matter think, when they find lacunae in their MSS. where<br />
as well as in style, will not help her as it would the typist has given up the task of deciphering in<br />
help a better-read person. It may be said that she despair-and it is a long while before most typists<br />
works under supervision ; so she does ; under the do that—“Surely, if she had read on a bit she<br />
supervision of a principal who is herself over would have seen what it would be." Very likely ;<br />
whelmed with work, besides correspondence and but they do not propose (with a few honourable<br />
office management; but when it gets to the check- exceptions) to pay for the time spent in “reading<br />
ing stage the mistakes have been made and the on a bit.” Typists often spend time in reading<br />
work wasted ; if you are to help a girl with every on, looking back, and comparing different passages<br />
sentence as she goes along you may as well do her to determine the author's intentions when he<br />
work yourself; and the fact remains-principals of might himself have made them perfectly clear by<br />
offices know it only too well—unless you have an elementary attention to writing and punctuation.<br />
educated girl it is often hopeless.<br />
Time is money; and it seems to me better<br />
And let me say here that few people will believe economy for the person who knows the facts to<br />
how difficult it is to be sure of a word, even when make them clear, than for the person who does<br />
written in a good serviceable hand, of which you not know to guess them. Most of us have a<br />
really hare never heard and to which you have no tendency to think that our MSS. must be clear to<br />
clue. Even when the same word recurs again and other people, because we know what is in them<br />
again in a MS. it will not always look the same, & ourselves. I once said something to a distinguished<br />
fact which presents no difficulty when the word client about the practice of writing “u” and “n”<br />
is familiar, but a very real one when it is absolutely alike. “Oh, I don't do that," was the reply, with an<br />
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air of assured abhorrence. Her MS., which was soundly educated girls from cultured homes; but<br />
highly technical, was spattered with instances of they will not pay for them, and such girls, with such<br />
the familiar confusion. “I've marked this all the way homes, are generally able to get something better.<br />
through, so you won't have any difficulty,” is what<br />
I am often told about some alteration in the MS.<br />
Very seldom indeed has the thing really been done; THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CON-<br />
and consequently, when two or three typists are<br />
GRESS OF THE PRESS.<br />
set to work on different portions, unless they are<br />
warned, and are very careful, their copies are not<br />
consistent and have to be altered. There are M HE organisation now known as “ The Associ-<br />
people who expect you to know nothing, and<br />
ations of the Press” has grown from the<br />
take up precious minutes explaining to you that small beginning of the first International<br />
“ these passages, you see, which I've crossed out, Press Congress held at Antwerp in the year 1894,<br />
are not to go in"; and there are people who will into the organisation which under the Central<br />
rush in with a sheaf of unnumbered sheets of “Comité de Direction " this year at Rome drew<br />
different sizes, some written on one side only, some together delegates representing twenty-four<br />
on two, much transposed and thickly interlined, countries and 17,000 members.<br />
beg for a table and pen and ink, and remain any The holding of the Congress at Rome during<br />
time under an hour in your already crowded office, the celebrations of the National Fête of this<br />
making the Chinese puzzle more Chinese than Jubilee year of Italy's unity, was a compliment to<br />
when they brought it. There are those who will the Italian members, and the success of the gather-<br />
argue with you, longer than you can afford to argue ing proved the choice of place was satisfactory to<br />
with them, to the effect that carbon copies the associations represented.<br />
are made at the same time as the ink copy, and But the Comité felt that the historic attractions<br />
ought not to be charged for. They seldom have of Rome would be a strong temptation to delegates<br />
time, however, to listen to your explanation that to neglect the work of the Congress, and so some<br />
very great care is needed ; that the stroke must be matters which were down for discussion were post-<br />
slow and hard to get a clear impression ; that any poned, and the agenda, or “Questions a l'ordre du<br />
mistake made must be corrected afterwards in each jour du Congres,” were limited to eight, and<br />
copy—and these corrections will not all be made although the discussions were decidedly not so<br />
unless the principal sees that it is done ; and that heated as in other Congresses, yet the attendance<br />
the mere arranging of the paper and carbon sheets at the business gatherings was always good.<br />
for the machine—“packing the carbons ” as typists The English delegation consisted of Mr. D, A.<br />
call it-takes a large proportion of the whole time Louis, of the “ Comité de Direction"; Mr. James<br />
occupied. The work of a copying office requires Baker, the Hon. Sec. of the British International<br />
careful checking as well as manual dexterity—it Association of Journalists ; Sir James Yoxall, M.P.,<br />
should not be forgotten that a high speed also is Editor of the Schoolmaster ; Mr. J. H. Barnes, of<br />
constantly demanded—and every bit of it-carbon the Daily Mirror ; Mr. Walter Jerrold and Mr.<br />
copies and all—is produced by so much hard manual G. B. Burgin, and Mesdames Baker and Jerrold.<br />
labour, step by step. Some people seem to think The President of the Association, Mr. Arthur<br />
that the machine does it, and the typist only winds Spurgeon, unfortunately was prevented from<br />
a handle.<br />
attending<br />
Copying might be a career for educated girls ; On arrival at the charming Press Club in the<br />
at present it is not so. I say nothing about Palace Colonna at Rome, the delegates were<br />
shorthand, which is not largely required by literary presented with their tickets and documents in s<br />
people. But no educated girl will stay in a copy- portfolio representing an old folio volume bound<br />
ing office at the rate that office can afford to pay in old calf and elegantly tooled in gold, the ladies'<br />
her. She will come as a pupil, and stay a little portfolio taking the form of a bag. A most<br />
while at a low salary to gain experience ; but she useful accompaniment was a small card map of the<br />
is all the while looking out, and quite rightly, for Italian railways, which, when folded, formed a pass<br />
something better, and in a year or two at the out- entitling the bearer to travel as he would over all<br />
side she passes on, leaving the permanent burden the lines.<br />
of copying work to those who cannot do better. A Reception on the balcony, and in the rooms of<br />
The principal may supervise with all her strength, the Press Club, gave good opportunity for the<br />
and when girls have been a long time with her she mutual greetings of the Congressists, and the next<br />
effects something, but the want of a thorough morning His Majesty the King of Italy attended the<br />
grounding makes the effect very superficial. The opening of the Congress on the Capitol. The business<br />
public, if they only knew it, want the services of meetings were held in the handsome hall of the<br />
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Press Club on the Piazza Colonna. Their Although it will be seen that many weighty<br />
Majesties the King and Queen further honoured matters were omitted from the Rome programme,<br />
the Congress by giving a Garden Party at the yet the Congress proved that a great advance<br />
Quirinal, at which Members of the Diplomatic internationally has been made. Subjects were<br />
Corps and a brilliant gathering of the aristocracy debated in better order; there were no tumultuous<br />
of Italy were present. Their Majesties chatted for scenes of all talking at once. In spite of twenty-<br />
a long time with Herr Wilhelm Singer, the Presi four nations being represented, differences were<br />
dent of the Congress, and honoured many delegates set aside, and at least the journalists have proved<br />
of the Congress by conversing freely with them. they can meet for the common good of their order<br />
Although the subjects for debate had been cur- and lay aside all bitterness. This has largely been<br />
tailed by the Comité de Direction, amongst other brought about by the keen diplomacy of Herr<br />
matters postponed was the “ Facilities given to Singer, the veteran President of the Associations<br />
Pressmen in the Houses of Parliament;" yet of the Press, and by the immense amount of work<br />
amongst matters brought up for debate were the done by the Hon. Secretary, Monsieur Taunay.<br />
questions of “The Development of Institutions The social functions were brilliant and crowded,<br />
of Succour and Providence," "Professional Tribu- the Foreign Embassy reception being exceptionally<br />
nals," and of “The Shifting of the Place of Trial brilliant. Amongst others was present Prince<br />
for Journalistic Offences,” but the two subjects Pietro di Scalea of Sicily. Curiously enough the<br />
that aroused the greatest interest were “Pro- weather in Rome was wet and cold, and the Fras-<br />
fessional Secrecy in Press Matters,” and “Duelling cati excursion was marred by torrents of rain. The<br />
between Journalists in Connection with Press excursions to Naples, to Pompeii, and round the<br />
Matters.”<br />
Gulf were excellently organised. At Turin matters<br />
Upon the former question a warm discussion were rather mixed, as the programmes were not<br />
arose, and on behalf of the English Delegates, sent beforehand. The English section of the<br />
Mr. J. H. Barnes made an interesting speech, Exhibition is well worthy of a visit, and was ready<br />
pointing out that recent events in England had far before the other sections ; at Rome, where in<br />
greatly altered the position of Journalists, since the Borghese Gardens the art section of the Italian<br />
the speech made by Mr. J. R. Fisher in Berlin. Jubilee Exhibition is located, the English section<br />
Now there was no secrecy of the Press in England, stands out above all others, and is a glorious exposi-<br />
as the Judges in a recent case had enforced the tion of British Art from Turner's time to our day.<br />
divulging of the name of the writers, not accept- Sir Isidore Spielman, the British Commissioner,<br />
ing general responsibility. Some most interesting gave a luncheon to the English and Italian<br />
papers upon this intricate subject were written by Members of the Press Congress, and in an inter-<br />
His Excellence Dr. F. Klein, formerly Minister of esting speech gave a sketch of the development<br />
Justice of Vienna, Dr. Lubozynski, of Berlin, and of English art, and spoke of the importance of<br />
Monsieur. Camille de Saint Auban.<br />
the International Exhibition of Art now to be<br />
Upon the question of duelling a most heated seen at Rome. The writer had the honour of pro-<br />
discussion ensued, Signor Crispolli had brought posing prosperity to the Italian Press.<br />
forward a resolution that “ Tribunals of Honour” The Conference card, linked with the card of the<br />
shall be established to replace duels, but Herr G. railways, gave the members of the Congress not<br />
Schweitzer, the Vice-President and Hon. Treasurer only the advantage of travelling all over the State<br />
of the Association, opposed this, stating the matter Railways, but also of free entrance to all Museums<br />
was one the Congress could not take up, and as an and Collections, a privilege that was of immense<br />
old military man he spoke warmly on the question value to all studying or writing upon any Italian<br />
of honour. From the English point of view, or historical subject, and one that makes us all<br />
Mr. James Baker called attention to the fact that intensely indebted to our Italian hosts.<br />
what was called honourable fifty years ago in Eng-<br />
JAMES BAKER.<br />
land, would now be esteemed ridiculous, and that<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
" E VENDITA<br />
DVBRY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourse!f, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
6. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu.<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(6.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
76.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author,<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in 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 />
TTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
TITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
SCENARIOS, 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 />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 23. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
Members are reminded that The Author is<br />
not published in August or September. The<br />
next issue will appear in October.<br />
We have much pleasure in poting among the<br />
Coronation list of awards various honours conferred<br />
on Members of the Society, and others well known<br />
in the profession of letters.<br />
An Earldom of the United Kingdom has been<br />
conferred upon the Earl of Rosebery, as also upon<br />
The Lord Curzon of Kedleston. Sir Frederick<br />
Pollock, Sir John Rhys and Sir William Anson<br />
have been made Privy Councillors. A Baronetcy<br />
has been granted to Sir Robert Anderson and Prof.<br />
William Osler ; Knighthoods to Frederick H.<br />
Cowen, Frederic W. Hewitt, Sidney Lee, Prof.<br />
Walter Raleigh, J. E. Sandys, and Frederic G.<br />
Kenyon has been made a C. B.; while the Order<br />
of Merit-that most exclusive Order-has been<br />
conferred upon Sir George Otto Trevelyan.<br />
We see with great pleasure from a notice to hand<br />
from the Library of Congress, Washington, that a<br />
proclamation has been issued by the President by<br />
which the United States and Sweden are now in<br />
win<br />
copyright alliance. The United States are gradually<br />
coming forward, and it is hoped that the next move<br />
in copyright legislation will abolish the manu-<br />
facturing clause once and for all, and enable the<br />
United States to stand on an equal footing with<br />
the other civilised countries of the world.<br />
Mid-Victorian readers, and London Society, men-<br />
tioned as a magazine to which he was a frequent<br />
contributor, is not a name familiar to those<br />
brought up to the monthly perusal of the Strand<br />
and of its competitors junior to itself. Young<br />
Gilbert, however, followed a course still not without<br />
parallel, thinking of the army and giving it up,<br />
then passing from a clerkship in a Government<br />
office to Chambers at the Inner Temple, where he<br />
was called to the bar in 1864. As a young barrister<br />
he did as others have done before and since his day,<br />
who have been too impatient to wait in comparative<br />
inactivity devilling other men's briefs and picking<br />
up odd ones for themselves at quarter sessions, or<br />
who have succumbed to the necessity of earning<br />
a little money. He had been scribbling and<br />
drawing for the amusement of himself and his<br />
friends from early boyhood, and he is credited<br />
with at least fifteen plays, never accepted by<br />
managers, before he was twenty-four. His work<br />
for Fun, which is recorded by Mr. G. R. Sims as<br />
having been paid for, in common with that of all<br />
other contributors, at the rate of £1 a column, .<br />
fractions in proportion, may not have been very<br />
remunerative directly, but it had attracted a good<br />
deal of notice, and when he was commissioned by<br />
Miss Herbert, through Tom Robertson, to write<br />
“Dulcamara,” he was well qualified to make the most<br />
of the chance. He completed it in ten days and<br />
duly accepted a cheque in full payment for all<br />
rights, accompanied by the sound recommendation<br />
never again to sell as good a piece for £30.<br />
Needless to say there was no secretary of the<br />
Society of Authors in those days to administer<br />
counsel before the bargain was completed,<br />
and the opportunity may well have been worth the<br />
sacrifice. It is not necessary to recapitulate here<br />
in their correct order or with dates all the plays<br />
which followed, including “Robert the Devil,”<br />
which opened the career of the Gaiety in 1886.<br />
“An old Score,” “ Ages Ago," “ The Princess,"<br />
“Randall's Thumb," “ Creatures of Impulse," " A<br />
Sensation Novel,” “Happy Arcadia.” “ The Palace<br />
of Truth,” “Pygmalion and Galatea," “ The<br />
Wicked World,” and “Charity.” Of these his<br />
biographer in the Daily Telegraph records that<br />
Pygmalion ended by placing £40,000 to his credit,<br />
and some of the others must have been small gold<br />
mines to him at the time and for many years<br />
afterwards.<br />
“Happy Arcadia" was produced at the “Gallery<br />
of Illustration," where the German Reeds (better<br />
remembered by those not yet elderly as occupying<br />
St. George's Hall) catered for a public who were not<br />
theatre goers, and were responsible for the coming<br />
together of Gilbert and Sullivan. But for that<br />
introduction which took place some time in the<br />
early seventies, the sentence quoted at the opening<br />
SIR WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT.<br />
the days Whave to fac biographicalken us bon recen<br />
M HE whole English-speaking world will hear<br />
1 with deep regret of the death of Sir W. S.<br />
Gilbert.” So said the Times in a leading<br />
article, and none will gainsay the estimate thus<br />
given, though he may qualify it with the reflection<br />
that a generation of young playgoers has been<br />
born and has grown up since the Savoy Theatre<br />
first opened its doors, and that those whose<br />
memories of “ Pygmalion and Galatea” go beyond<br />
the days when Mary Anderson played in it at the<br />
Lyceum have to acknowledge rather more than<br />
middle age. The biographical notices of Sir<br />
William Gilbert have indeed taken us back to a<br />
period in history of the modern stage and of recent<br />
journalism which belongs in fact to the past. Not<br />
many entries into the world can now be recorded as<br />
taking place in Southampton Street, Strand, where<br />
he first saw daylight in 1836. We hardly recall<br />
Fun as a serious rival to Punch, capturing Gilbert<br />
and the Bab Ballads, because the yarn of the Nancy<br />
Bell was “too cannibalistic” for Mark Lemon's<br />
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of this note might never have been written. When librettist of light opera he is likely to wait long<br />
a few years later their partnership came into active for a rival. Combining, as he did, a sense of<br />
being, it was to produce plays calculated to bring poetry, which at times seemed to display itself in<br />
to the theatre a vast following of admirers of surroundings hardly conducive to its full apprecia-<br />
musical comedy, a large proportion of whom were tion, humour and individuality of thought and<br />
not playgoers as a general rule, but who were expression, with a polished grace and precision of<br />
ready to welcome the opportunity to attend form, which must have helped his composer<br />
theatrical performances witty and amusing, but, at enormously. His mastery of metre, the dexterity<br />
the same time, void of offence in every respect, of his rhymes, and his terseness of expression<br />
whether of plot, dialogue or costume. So the Giībert provided his quaint “ Gilbertian” with 80 well<br />
and Sullivan opera began at the Opera Comique adapted a vehicle that he may be estimated to<br />
with “ Thespis," and at the Gaiety in 1875, and have been for many years the most widely quoted<br />
continued with “Trial by Jury" at the Royalty living author in any language, an inventor of<br />
in 1876, and later made its first hit with the phrases which in some instances seem to have<br />
“ Sorcerer," and under D'Oyly Carte at the become part of the English language. A good<br />
Opera Comique scored heavily with the “Sorcerer," deal has been written recently as to his wit in<br />
and proceeded to make its first tremendous hit private life, but it hardly seems fair to him that<br />
with “H.M.S. Pinafore.” That the last named his reputation as a humorist should in any degree<br />
carried the fame of its authors wide through the depend upon the ready retorts of a inan who could<br />
English-speaking world may have been partly due not “suffer fools gladly," and whose naturally<br />
to an error which enabled it to be produced without caustic humour found rather too easily language<br />
royalties in the United States. At all events, in which to express himself. Like many other<br />
though somewhat intimately British in allusion, clever men inclined to be intolerant of shams and<br />
it was prodigiously popular there, and the error conventions, or merely gifted with a critical mental<br />
referred to was not repeated. The “ Pirates of outlook and a quick tongue, he has had sayings.<br />
Penzance" followed, and then “ Patience," after quoted, which in the repetition give an impression<br />
starting on its famous career at the older theatre, of discourtesy, and of rather aimless facetiousness.<br />
inaugurated “Savoy Opera” in 1882 by its Surely these had better be forgotten, however<br />
transference to the new house of that name, built amusing they may have been when originally<br />
for the associated trio, Gilbert, Sullivan, and uttered by the man himself. Mr. George Grossmith,<br />
D'Oyly Carte, and destined to be the house in than whom none would speak with fuller and more<br />
succeeding years of “Iolanthe,” “ Princess Ida," intimate knowledge, said of him in his interviews<br />
“The Mikado,” “Ruddigore," “ The Yeomen of published in the Daily Telegraph : “ As a matter<br />
the Guard,” and “ The Gondoliers." From the of fact he was a generous, kind, true gentleman-<br />
Savoy, it need hardly be said, the operas went all and I use the words in its purest and original<br />
over the world, “The Mikado" being credited sense. I do not mean one of those men who with<br />
with at least 10,000 performances in the United a little veneer pass as such.” This may be regarded<br />
States alone. Space does not permit of more than as suinming up his private life, and he is more fitly<br />
the mention of - The Mountebanks,” with music judged by his works, by what he did for the stage<br />
by Cellier, during a temporary disunion of the in the days of the old burlesques of the seventies<br />
two principal Savoy partners, or of “Utopia and early eighties, by what he wrote, whether acted<br />
Limited," after they had adjusted their differences, or not. By those who knew him thus he will be<br />
and of such works as, interspersed with those remembered with no less affection, if of a different<br />
already mentioned, “Sweethearts,” “Broken kind, than by his personal friends.<br />
Hearts," “ Tom Cobb," “ David Druce,” “En He was knighted in 1907. He joined the<br />
gaged,” “ His Excellency," “ The Wedding Society of Authors somewhat late in his career,<br />
“The Wicked World” transformed becoming a member in 1899, but he was warmly<br />
into comic opera in 1909. “The Hooligan,” a appreciative of the assistance rendered by the<br />
sketch, was a rather dreary last word played at the Society to Authors, and at the time of his death<br />
Coliseum quite recently, but his latest works had been a member of its council for many years.<br />
added little to their author's fame, and on<br />
May 29th Sir William Gilbert met with the death<br />
tragically unlooked for and sudden, but enviably THE ROLL OF THE AUTHORS' SOCIETY.<br />
swift and painless, the details of which have been<br />
recently recorded. As a writer he was thoroughly M HE list of the Society of Authors was last<br />
master of the requirements of the public for which 1 published in October, 1907, and all elections<br />
he wrote, witty and incisive, with a wit and satire<br />
s ince then, after each monthly committee<br />
original and peculiar to himself ; and as a meeting, have been chronicled in The Author.<br />
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More than 250 members have been elected in each look to them for protection from unnecessary<br />
of the last few years, and the society loses about intrusion upon them.<br />
100 to 120 annually in deaths, resignations and Finally, the committee believe that the sale of<br />
erasures for non-payment. It is clear, therefore, the list would in no way justify the annual issue,<br />
that by this time the list published in 1907 is for during the four years the list has been issued,<br />
entirely out-of-date. Indeed, any list would be with the exception of the first year, when, of course,<br />
out-of-date if it was not published annually. The it was correct, only about sixty have been sold,<br />
expense of publishing the 1907 list, when every while the sale in the first year did not cover the<br />
item is taken into consideration, was a heavy cost of labour and production. An annual issue<br />
pecuniary burden on the society and was in no way would not be quite so expensive to the society for<br />
justified by the number of copies that have been obvious reasons, but still the expense would be<br />
sold. The question has again been brought before considerable, and the committee press this point<br />
the committee whether it would be advisable to specially because there are so many claims on the<br />
publish a new list, but for the following reasons funds of the society which must be met. Such<br />
they are not inclined to incur the expense. Firstly, matters as the payment of solicitors' charges and<br />
there are a considerable number of members who the finding of inoney for fighting actions, whose<br />
have a strong objection to their names and issue will bring real benefit to the members, must<br />
addresses being printed, for although the list is have the first call on the funds, and the committee<br />
private and only sold to members of the society, consider that the publishing of a list, to the appear-<br />
yet any outside advertiser who desires to get a copy ance of which the majority of the members seem<br />
in order to circularise members can do so without indifferent, should await the time when the<br />
much difficulty. Members object to having their pecuniary position of the society is stronger. The<br />
mails added to by receipt of further circulars. committee would, however, like to have an expres-<br />
Secondly, the expense to the society of printing sion of opinion from members of the society<br />
the list is very substantial, especially as under generally and, accordingly, have authorised the<br />
present conditions if the list is to be of any use to insertion of this short article in The Author.<br />
members it ought to be produced annually. The The secretary will be pleased to hear from any<br />
yearly election of members is very large and it may member who desires to express his opinion about<br />
be anticipated that it will be maintained at its high the publication of an annual roll, as the committee<br />
figure. The number of erasures is also large, and will naturally be guided by the opinion of the<br />
this is inevitable as deaths and defaults in subscrip- members with regard to future action.<br />
tions occur. There are also resignations, and these,<br />
we are glad to say, are not so heavy as they have<br />
been. As our work gets more widely known there<br />
are fewer people who join the society merely for<br />
personal benefit, and leave it when they have used DINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF WOMEN<br />
the services of the society. The feeling that the<br />
JOURNALISTS.<br />
society is a co-operative association in which<br />
membere not in trouble can help those who are is<br />
growing. But still, the changes in the personnel M HE seventh annual dinner of the Society of<br />
of the society are very numerous, and the publica 1 Women Journalists, which took place at the<br />
tion of a yearly list would be a serious tax on the<br />
Criterion Restaurant on June 20, was one of<br />
funds and on the clerical staff. Nothing is more the most important gatherings ever brought together<br />
difficult to edit than such a list of names and under the auspices of that excellent institution.<br />
addresses. Thirdly, in the case of a member of Mrs. Bedford Fenwick, president for the year,<br />
the society wanting the names and addresses of his occupied the chair, and among the distinguished<br />
fellow members for reasons connected with the writers who supported her were M. Wesselitsky,<br />
business of the society, the committee consider that president of the Foreign Press Association ; Mrs.<br />
any member after sending proper notice to the Katherine Cecil Thurston, chairman of the Writers'<br />
secretary might be allowed to inspect the list, and Club ; Mr. Herbert Baily, editor of the Connoisseur,<br />
if he or she wanted to make copies of the names resplendent in the crimson robes of a cardinal-<br />
and addresses of members in order to circularise archbishop, a foretaste of the Shakspere ball to<br />
them on the society's business, it would be reasonable which several of those present were going later in<br />
to allow such copies to be made subject to the the evening ; Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mrs. Charles<br />
committee's sanction and on payment of the clerical Perrin, Miss May Sinclair, Mrs. Burnett Smith<br />
expenses ; the committee, naturally, would have to (Annie S. Swan), Miss Marjorie Bowen, Mr.<br />
know the purpose for which the member desires W. W. Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Thring,<br />
the names and addresses, as the members would Mr. Cosmo Hamilton, Mr. Arthur Diosy, Sir<br />
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259<br />
IV.<br />
Bindon and Lady Blood, and Mr. and Mrs. Hodder The Society is to be congratulated upon a highly<br />
Williams.<br />
successful Coronation dinner, upon an increasing<br />
The original intention had been to arrange small usefulness, an expanding membership, and upon<br />
tables, as well as a high table, to represent various the possession of an enterprising and energetic<br />
jouruals, but such was the demand for seats that staff of honorary officials.<br />
the scheme had to be abandoned, and only some<br />
half-a-dozen groups could be accommodated apart<br />
from the general company. These were The<br />
Englishwoman, distinguished by the presence of<br />
STYLE IN LITERATURE.<br />
Mrs. Henry Fawcett; The British Journal of<br />
Nursing, The Lady, The Woman at Home, at<br />
which, among others, sat Mrs. Baillie Saunders and<br />
By ARCHIBALD DUNN.<br />
Mr. Harold Child ; the Ladies' Army and Navy<br />
and the Lyceum Clubs also had tables allotted to<br />
[The commencement of this article, in the April issue.<br />
them. The heads of other tables were taken by<br />
spoke of the broad requirements of style. Continued in<br />
officials of the society, Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, vice the May number, the Laws of Economy, Climax and<br />
chair; Mrs. Willoughby Hodgson, hon. secretary : Variety were dealt with in detail. And, last month, some<br />
explanation was given of the need for Grace in writing-<br />
and Miss Burford Rawlings, hon. treasurer.<br />
for the introduction, that is, of the æsthetic].<br />
Mr. Joynson Hicks, M.P., spoke to the toast of<br />
the Three Estates of the Realm, while “ Our M HE methods by which images and symbols<br />
Guests," with a cordial reference to those from<br />
are created in literature may be set<br />
beyond the seas, was proposed from the Chair and<br />
down under four headings—Synecdoche,<br />
responded to by Sir Mortimer Durand, G.C.M.G., Metonymy, Simile and Metaphor; and however<br />
and Mrs. Thurston, who referred to the woman ungrateful the task of compiling a catalogue, there<br />
journalist as the most modern of modern products. is nothing for it here but to take these terms,<br />
“ The Society” was allotted to Mr. Israel singly and in order, and explain their meaning-<br />
Zangwill, who remarked that the distinction of course, as concisely as may be.<br />
between literature and journalism had long since Synecdoche, then, is the illustration of an idea<br />
broken down. They both had too much imagina- through mention of some constituent part of it.<br />
tion to be kept really separate. On behalf of the Thus, “an escort of a dozen sabres" paints a<br />
society Mrs. Baillie Reynolds made reply, while sharper picture and more immediately than if we<br />
supporting her was Miss MacMurchy, president of were to write “an escort of a dozen men.”<br />
the Canadian Women's Press Club, now affiliated Metonymy is the substitution of the concrete<br />
to the S.W.J., who dwelt upon the happy relations for the abstract, of the familiar and readily intel-<br />
that existed between the press of the Mother and ligible for the unfamiliar and less readily intelligible.<br />
Daughter Countries. The names of other promi. “He put his strength into it" is not so significant<br />
nent Canadian women journalists appearing on the as to say “ He put his back into it”-the latter is<br />
lists of those present were Mrs. FitzGibbon, Mrs. a definite picture, the former indefinite. And it<br />
Simpson Hayes, Miss Agnes Deans Cameron, and becomes easy to appreciate eren so abstract a thing<br />
Miss L. H. Birchall. Mr. Crawshay Williams, M.P., as “evening” if suggested to us by a master;<br />
in the picturesque negligé of a Greek fisherman, “When," as Stevenson says, “ the dew fell and the<br />
was responsible for a felicitous little speech in stars were of the party.” The dew and the stars<br />
honour of Mrs. Bedford Fenwick, who in her reply are familiar enough, and their association with the<br />
made mention of the invitation that had been closing of the day inevitable.<br />
extended to her as president to represent the Simile is a comparison obviously made : “ Like a<br />
society at the Coronation service in Westminster giant refreshed," * As still as death,” “ Fairer than<br />
Abbey a couple of days later. Earlier in the the lily," and so on.<br />
evening a telegram had been despatched to their Metaphor is a suggested comparison by means of<br />
Majesties the King and Queen :“We, the members some qualifying adjective or phrase. There is no<br />
of the Society of Women Journalists assembled in mistaking the sense and force of a “stony stare”<br />
honour of the Coronation, offer loyal and dutiful or of “I pinned him to the facts.” And when this<br />
devotion to your most gracious majesties,” to which idea comes to be still further elaborated, as it is<br />
the following reply arrived in due course :<br />
with polished writers, then we shall find a subtle<br />
“ The King and Queen sincerely thank the and beautiful picture of the stars and of the<br />
members of the Society of Women Journalists for heavens in Carlyle's phrase, “ Street lamps of the<br />
the loyal message and good wishes contained in City of God."<br />
your telegram which their Majesties have received Now it is at once noticeable that Synecdoche and<br />
with much pleasure.-BIGGE."<br />
Metonymy are first cousins. It is not quite safe,<br />
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for nstance, to assert very confidently that Steven- well-nigh perfect, but its complete significance is<br />
son's description of the evening—“When the dew not immediately obvious. It requires a period,<br />
fell and the stars were of the party "—is Metonymy though maybe a short one, to sink into the mind;<br />
rather than Synecdoche; the “ falling dew" and and, admitting this, we have come upon a clear<br />
the “stars," constituent parts certainly of an ordi- distraction from the main issue. Hence it seems<br />
nary evening, seem to demand the inclusion of the more likely that the greater force of Metaphor<br />
phrase under the heading of Synecdoche. And springs from another cause, its greater attractiveness.<br />
again, to speak of a “dozen sabres " instead of a “All men," says Dr. Whately, "are more gratified<br />
“dozen men” is clearly tu substitute the concrete for at catching the resemblance for themselves than in<br />
the abstract, and so to trench upon the ground of having it pointed out to them"; or, in other words,<br />
Metonymy. But whether we are to admit a large we are creatures of a small vanity, fond of<br />
distinction or a small one, or none at all, is not, discovering our own cleverness and of giving our-<br />
perhaps, of much moment; the more important selves an approving pat upon the back. So,<br />
consideration is that, from the definite and readily although we may bave committed & theoretical<br />
intelligible idea advanced in Synedoche and fault in construction, although we may have caused<br />
Metonymy, there results in the reader's mind an a passing delay and a break across the smooth<br />
immediate suggestion and explanation of the less current of thought towards the main idea, here is<br />
definite and less readily intelligible thought which an ample compensation and, we may believe, a<br />
the writer wishes to express.<br />
debt honestly due by every author to the weakness<br />
Simile and Metaphor derive their effectiveness of humanity.<br />
from the same source—the ease with which they But this thing must not be overdone. The aim<br />
enable a reader to recognise the full significance of and object of the whole business is, in the long run,<br />
the main idea. And here, again, we find an obvious enlightenment; and, if there be no enlightenment,<br />
relationship ; though, perhaps, not so close. Indeed, then most certainly does failure ensue. Thus, the law<br />
Herbert Spencer goes so far as to say that “Simile applying in the use of all figures of speech is first<br />
is in many cases used chiefly with a view to orna- and foremost-Simplicity. But, understand me,<br />
ment,” and, thereby, implies some shortcoming in with a qualification. For, what is simple to one<br />
its more practical value. Well, of course, it is may be unintelligible to another and, therefore, the<br />
possible, with looseness of language, to call any- extent of an author's licence in erudite figures of<br />
thing that is useful ornamental ; and, in that sense, speech is to be measured always by the capacity of<br />
the assertion might pass. But otherwise--and in his reader. What, for instance, would the poorly<br />
the absence of proof which is not forthcoming in educated reader make of this : "For Conservation,<br />
Spencer's article—the outstanding worth of Simile strengthened by that mightiest quality in us, our<br />
as a practical aid to the writer and to the reader is indolence, sits for long ages, not victorious only,<br />
too obvious, too patent to the logical mind, to allow which she should be ; but tyrannical, incommunica-<br />
of this be-littlement.<br />
tive. She holds her adversary as if annihilated ;<br />
The actual distinction between Simile and such adversary lying, all the while, like some buried<br />
Metaphor, the point at which they separate and Enceladus ; who, to gain the smallest freedom, has<br />
in a sense lose relationship, lies in the greater to stir a whole Trinacria with its Aetnas. Where-<br />
obviousness of the one than of the other. Simile is fore, on the whole, we will honour a Paper Age, too ;<br />
the comparison openly made ; Metaphor, a species an Era of hope! For in this same frightful process<br />
of stage “ aside" only to be caught by the quicker of Enceladus revolt; when the task, on which no<br />
witted. And experience has shown that Metaphor mortal would willingly enter, has become impera-<br />
is more effective than Simile, and is, as a rule, to be tive, inevitable—is it not even a kindness of Nature<br />
preferred.<br />
that she lures us forward by cheerful promises,<br />
In explanation, Herbert Spencer argues that, of fallacious or not; and a whole generation plunges<br />
the two, Metaphor has the advantage of greater into the Erebus Blackness, lighted on by an Era of<br />
economy ; and he instances the comparison between Hope ?”* Yet, though Carlyle may have been<br />
“Ingratitude ! thou marbled-hearted fiend” and right to indulge in this tirade because he wrote for<br />
“ Ingratitude ! thou fiend with heart like marble.” the student and for those highly cultured in litera-<br />
But if we turn from the simple metaphor which can ture, he would certainly have been very wrong<br />
be expressed by a qualifying word and examine that indeed to have expressed himself in such a manner<br />
which demands the qualifying phrase, if we con- had his appeal been to humbler folk. Here, for<br />
sider once again those“ Street lamps of the City of them, if not for others, is an incomprehensible<br />
God,” then economy—at any rate, of the reader's jargon, a collection of unfamiliar and unrecognised<br />
attention-is not so apparent. For, I do not think terms, expressions without meaning, the apotheosis<br />
it possible to realise this picture without some break<br />
in the continuity of thought. The Metaphor is<br />
* Carlyle's - French Revolution."<br />
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of bad style. “Some buried Enceladus" and “a whereas precedence of the substantive is apt to<br />
whole Trinacria with its Aetnas” convey nothing produce a misconception ; it follows that the one<br />
to those humbler folk and leave the picture blank. gives the mind less trouble than the other, and is<br />
And, beyond Simplicity, there is something more; therefore more forcible. . . . What is here said<br />
these figures of speech—whether of Synecdoche, respecting the succession of the adjective and sub-<br />
Metonymy, Simile, or Metaphor—have yet another stantive is applicable, by change of torms, to the<br />
law to bow to, they must form a distinctive part of adverb and verb." *<br />
the main thought. For it is clear, I think, that, All of which, we see, brings us to a curious<br />
had we spoken of “an escort of a dozen pairs of impasse. For, if this be philosophy founded on<br />
boots " instead of “an escort of a dozen sabres,” we nature, what shall we say to the Frenchman and<br />
should bave been as correct in the one case as in the German ? people as intelligent as ourselves and<br />
the other, but we should, nevertheless, have failed dependent for guidance on just the same dictates<br />
to paint the picture. And, why? Because “pairs of nature. The Frenchman finds it easier to under-<br />
of boots” are common to any escort-infantry, stand “the horse black”; and the German reads a<br />
police, a crowd of admirers or of ragamuffins—whilst sentence most comfortably, it would seem, when<br />
“ sabres” are distinctive of cavalry.<br />
the verb (governing and explaining the whole affair)<br />
is hidden from sight on the other side of the<br />
It remains now to say a word upon the position page.<br />
which qualifying phrases in general may most fitly But even ignoring this, and turning to the<br />
occupy in the formation of any sentence. At first argument itself, it is not easy to follow its logic. It<br />
sight, this would appear a question of small moment; is not easy to see that the word “black” is less<br />
first or last, or in the middle, what can it matter ? open to misunderstanding than is the word “horse."<br />
and in an ordinary way, in a passing remark or a So many things are black—a nigger, a look, a deed.<br />
sentence of no special import, it is hardly, perhaps, And, as it is the way with most of us to anticipate,<br />
of consequence. But, apart from this and in cir- the chance may fall upon a nigger ; then, presently,<br />
cumstances when the writer desires to emphasise when the word " horse" comes along, there follows,<br />
his point or to be impressive, then there is a maxim obviously enough, a very distinct “check to the process<br />
of Style in literature for his guidance which lays it of thought”—first, in the deletion of the nigger and,<br />
down that any qualifying word, epithet or phrase, then, in the fresh start off upon the picture of the<br />
shall precede the subject qualified.<br />
horse. Indeed, considering all things, there does<br />
The philosophical explanation of this is based on not appear to be any very satisfying reason why<br />
the assumption that such a process tends auto- the qualifying phrase should precede rather than<br />
matically to an easier sequence of thought and succeed the subject qualified ; in either case, the<br />
therefore, to an economy of effort on the part of the result may be a “check to the process of thought "<br />
reader. “If a horse black be the arrangement with one safeguard only—the rapidity with which<br />
(instead of a black horse), then immediately on the we read and, so, embrace the thought not in parts<br />
utterance of the word horse,' there arises, or tends but as a whole. .<br />
to arise, in the mind, an idea answering to that In such circumstances, then, the obvious course<br />
word ; and, as there has been nothing to indicate is to turn to experience ; and, here, there is no<br />
what kind of horse, any image of a horse may sug- doubt about the result. For, whatever may have<br />
gest itself. Very likely, however, the image will originated the habit amongst English-speaking<br />
be that of a brown horse ; brown horses being the people of thinking as they do, it is certain that, for<br />
most familiar. The result is that when the word them, the natural easy sequence of ideas has become<br />
• black ’ is added, a check is given to the process of nowadays that in which the qualifying word, epithet<br />
thought. Either the picture of a brown horse or phrase, is stated before the subject qualified ;<br />
already present to the imagination has to be and, therefore, as the mind works most smoothly, and<br />
suppressed, and the picture of a black one sum consequently with the greatest rapidity, under such<br />
moned in its place; or else, if the picture of a conditions. so, where impressiveness is desired, the<br />
brown horse be yet unformed, the tendency to form need for observance of this law grows imperative.<br />
it has to be stopped. Whichever is the case, some S ee how it applies in practice. “And then uprose<br />
hindrance results. But if, on the other hand, 'a the great Montrose” is sensibly dramatic, a picture<br />
black horse' be the expression used, no mistake can in strong colours ; but invert the verb (which<br />
be made. The word 'black,' indicating an abstract qualifies) and Montrose (who is qualified), and the<br />
quality, arouses no definite idea. It simply pre picture is wishy-washy in an instant—"And then<br />
pares the mind for conceiving some object of that the great Montrose uprose.” Or, perhaps, a some-<br />
colour ; and the attention is kept suspended until what longer quotation will point the moral better.<br />
that object is known. If, then, by precedence of<br />
the adjective, the idea is always conveyed rightly,<br />
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* And ever upon the topmost roof our banner of same time there are principles which, if they do<br />
England blew” grows weaker in steady proportion not actually set us on the right road, at least pre-<br />
as the subject is advanced without qualification, vent us wandering far from it ; and these principles<br />
thus ; “ And ever our banner of England blew upon depend on the philosophy which has stood through-<br />
the topmost roof” is feeble, yet one degree more out for the mainstay of this discussion. This, as<br />
forcible than “And our banner of England blew you know, is simply that the thought shall be<br />
ever upon the topmost roof.” (The important expressed so that the reader can grasp it at once and<br />
qualification is, of course, “ Erer upon the topmost without effort—there is to be no obscurity and no<br />
roof.")<br />
distraction through monotony. Hence, in a choice<br />
Where, however, many qualifications are applied of words, we are back again at the elementary laws<br />
to one subject, it will be found that, if an impor- of Simplicity and Variation.<br />
tant qualification be stated at once, if the mind be The simple words in the English language are<br />
set in this fashion into the proper train of thought, said to be Saxon ; and, no doubt, this is correct.<br />
then other qualifications may be added as effec- We are told, therefore, that Saxon words are to be<br />
tively after the subject as before it.<br />
preferred to words of Latin origin ; and again, no<br />
doubt, this is correct. But, somehow, the intro-<br />
With fingers weary and worn,<br />
With eyelids heavy and red,<br />
duction of such a problem suggests a complication ;<br />
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,<br />
for many a man and many an excellent writer, too,<br />
Plying her needle and thread-<br />
would be hard put to it to dissect his mother-<br />
Stitch-stitch-stitch!<br />
tongue. An easier way, then, must be found ; and<br />
In poverty, hunger and dirt.<br />
here it is — to speak not of “simple” but of<br />
The explanation is clear — the avoidance of “familiar” words. Every intelligent person is<br />
monotony and of too long a suspension of the agreed on the familiar word. It varies, of course,<br />
main thought.<br />
in different circles—in the nursery and in the<br />
But when discussion only is concerned, when academy-but there can never be a question as to<br />
there is no appeal to the feelings and no attempt at what is suitable in given surroundings. Yet,<br />
the impressive, when, in short, we speak directly to though we shall have short words and long words<br />
the reason, then observance of this sequence ceases according to the circumstances, words for the child<br />
to be strictly necessary-indeed, the inversion of it and words for the student, it is not to be forgotten<br />
is often the most effective. The reason for this that, in general, the short word will be the most<br />
has not yet, so far as I know, been suggested by effective---on account of the resulting economy of<br />
anyone; but it seems a tolerably fair assumption effort for the reader ; for, just as a long sentence<br />
that the logical mind-a thing distinct, one may creates a greater strain in its comprehension than<br />
believe, from the emotional mind—will demand does a short one, so will a word of many syllables<br />
first and foremost that it should know what the become a greater impediment to the progress of<br />
subject is which happens to be under discussion. thought than will a word of few syllables.<br />
For such a mind it is natural to commence with a This, however, may be qualified. The short<br />
definite pronouncement of the matter in debate. word is preferable for habitual use ; but where an<br />
For example : “ The first Lord of the Treasury was impressive effect is desired, where the object is to<br />
detested by many as a Tory, by many as a favourite, attract marked attention to some quality or subject,<br />
and by many as a Scot," is more direct and, there the long word produces a peculiar emphasis of its<br />
fore, more satisfying to the purely reasoning mind own. It may be that this is the outcome of the<br />
than the suspended thought created by this inver- size of the word itself—the larger impression on<br />
sion : “ As a Tory, as a favourite, and as a Scot, the the eye creating a correspondingly large impression<br />
first Lord of the Treasury was detested by many." on the seuses ; or it may be simply another instance<br />
And, finally, in the observance of these laws, where suspension of the thought can accentuate the<br />
there must always be variety.<br />
conclusion—the long word in this case playing the<br />
same part as parenthesis in the construction of a<br />
As to the handling of words, the selection of one sentence. But, whether either or both are to be<br />
rather than of another, it is certain that the word taken as the explanation, the value of the long word<br />
chosen must always be the most appropriate—this in certain circumstances remains a fact, Thus, to<br />
requires no argument; and, of all the many words give a practical illustration, to write of “a very<br />
that, out of a well-stocked vocabulary, might be heary man” is, obviously, to draw a somewhat indis-<br />
made to express the meaning in one fashion or tinct and feeble picture; wbilst, to write of "a<br />
another, only one of these can be the best, the most ponderous man” is to arouse an immediate concep-<br />
truly expressive. To a great extent, of course, the tion of unusual weight and bulk.<br />
aptitude for happy selection must be a natural gift Then, again, the specific word is more readily<br />
-one man has it and another has not. At the intelligible than the generic, and should therefore<br />
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be chosen when the alternative offers. For example, writer who obeys these precepts with sincerity has<br />
it will, as a rule, excite slight sympathy to say that in a manner proved himself and, to a degree at<br />
we are afraid of “ an operation ”—the generic term least, assured his position. Pity, then, that, if<br />
“ operation” being too vague and conveying too this be the limit of his literary grace, he should<br />
little to the minds of an average audience. But still be so far from ranking as a Master. For<br />
say, instead, that you are afraid of “the surgeon's there is the stage beyond. It is indescribable, I<br />
knife," and the horror of the whole business know, and like many other æsthetic effects in<br />
strikes the intelligence in a moment and creates a Nature incapable of analysis. You cannot say, for<br />
picture which cannot be misunderstood.<br />
instance, why one melody more than another is<br />
Hence we see, in the advantages of realism, the beautiful ; why one voice is the more soothing and<br />
importance to be attached to those words which are sympathetic ; or why some passing glance should<br />
in themselves illustrative. “ To smark the face," betoken before the world an ardent admiration or<br />
“ To splash into the water,” “To fall with a thud affection. These are the mysteries which humanity<br />
upon the ground," convey a strengthened mean- acknowledges but cannot explain. And so it is<br />
ing by the suggestiveness of the actual sound of with the music of words. Thus, there is nothing<br />
the words which are here italicised. We under- for it but to speak through the medium of examples<br />
stand their meaning, of course, at any time; but and leave the writer to work out his own salvation.<br />
we understand it all the more speedily and vividly This, then, is what Mark Twain says about the<br />
through this suggestiveness.<br />
ugliness of words—he is discussing Lake Tahoe-:<br />
Yet, not even the excellence of all these princi. “Sorrow and misfortune overtake the Legislature<br />
ples must ever tempt us into the indiscretion of that still from year to year permits Tahoe to retain<br />
riding them to death. The Saxon word, the short its unmusical cognomen! Tahoe! It suggests no<br />
word, the long word for impressiveness, the specific crystal waters, no picturesque shores, no sublimity.<br />
word rather than the generic and, finally, the illus- Tahoe for a sea in the clouds ; a sea that has char-<br />
trative word are to be the aim, throughout, of the acter and asserts it in solemn calms at times, at<br />
polished writer. But only at the risk of failure times in savage storms ; a sea whose royal seclu-<br />
shall he insist on them too much. For here, as in sion is guarded by a cordon of sentinel peaks that<br />
every branch of literary construction and literary lift their frosty fronts nine thousand feet above the<br />
style, is the law of Variation stepping in to forbid level world : a sea whose every aspect is impres-<br />
monotony. We may not weary the reader, and the sive, whose belongings are all beautiful, whose<br />
best of anything can become wearisome in tine. lonely majesty types the Deity! Tahoe means<br />
So--though it is quite impossible to fix upon a grasshopper. It means grasshopper soup. It is<br />
dividing line, to assert that just here or just there Indian, and suggestive of Indians. They say it<br />
a writer is carrying routine too far—it is perfectly is Piute—possibly it is Digger. I feel sure it is<br />
certain that now and then, at given intervals, the named by the Diggers — those low savages who<br />
first principles of good style must, for the sake of roast their dead relatives, then mix the human<br />
Variety, be set aside. And that is why so crude a grease and ashes of bones with tar, and .gaum’ it<br />
thing as deliberate repetition is forbidden and, yet, thick all over their heads and foreheads and ears,<br />
permissible. Repetition is, in its very essence, and go caterwauling about the hills and call it<br />
monotonous ; but, after a string of florid passages, mourning. These are the gentry that named the<br />
after a series of sentences artistically varied, then Lake.”<br />
the repetition of one idea and an insistence on it And this is what Stevenson says of the beauty of<br />
becomes, by force of contrast, the most startling words : “ The names of the States and Territories<br />
variety. There is no need for an example. You themselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic<br />
have but to recall the orator's trick of working to vocables : Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota,<br />
a climax, from the eloquent and verbose to the Iowa, Wyoming, Minnesota and the Carolinas :<br />
simple, from the magniloquent airing of ideas to there are few poems with a nobler music for the<br />
the blunt repetition of a statement—“I know that ear : a songful, tuneful land : and, if the new<br />
my cause is just ; I know that the law is just ; I Homer shall arise from the Western continent,<br />
know that just ice will be done.” And this, mark his verse will be enriched, his pages sing spon-<br />
you, is a double repetition—in the word and in the taneously, with the names of States and Cities<br />
setting of the phrase.<br />
that would strike the fancy in a business circular.”<br />
But all this is to say nothing of the music of It is nothing that we shall avoid the continuous<br />
words themselves, as distinct from their arrange- repetition of the same word, or of words with the<br />
ment. In all these principles, in all these maxims, same sound, or of words beginning or ending with<br />
there is something that is sure and practical in its the same letters, or of stock and hackneyed phrases<br />
result, something that will take the roughness off<br />
the edge and put a polish on the surface. The<br />
* . The Innocents Abroad."<br />
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—these are forbidden on the ground of an offence<br />
against Monotony. The aim is higher than this<br />
to select the expressive word which is, besides,<br />
melodious to the ear.<br />
And so, too, with sentences. Theoretically<br />
perfect perhaps, they may still be crude ; lacking<br />
the necessary rhythm, the even balance, the easy<br />
flow so delightful to the senses. They may satisfy<br />
the intellect of course, and yet fail most lamentably<br />
before the Court of the Emotions. But there is no<br />
man to give a Panacea for the Evil. This lies in the<br />
domain of Art, cloudy and obscure to most of us,<br />
and only the Artist is destined to triumph.<br />
Thus, in this maze of the sure and of the vague,<br />
there is ample encouragement; and, yet, matter for<br />
despair in the outlook. There is so much to see<br />
to, is there not ? so many obligations to fulfil in<br />
the practice of the Art of Writing ; and, as there<br />
is no place anywhere for even the semblance of<br />
blemish, so will failure in one particular be only<br />
too apt to mean failure in all. It is the build-<br />
ing of a house of cards where the single slip<br />
will bring the whole flimsy structure clattering<br />
to the ground. And, hence it is that one<br />
may concur most whole-heartedly in Stevenson's<br />
opinion. “We begin to see now," he says, *<br />
“ what an intricate affair is any perfect passage;<br />
how many faculties, whether of taste or pure<br />
reason, must be held upon the stretch to make<br />
it ; and why, when it is made, it should afford us<br />
80 complete a pleasure. From the arrangement of<br />
according letters which is altogether arabesque and<br />
sensual, up to the architecture of the elegant and<br />
pregnant sentence, which is a vigorous act of the<br />
pure intellect, there is scarce a faculty in man but<br />
has been exercised. We need not wonder, then, if<br />
perfect sentences are rare, and perfect pages rarer."<br />
giving utterance to the voices of the hills and dales.<br />
among which he lived.<br />
In recent years, as the study of Nature has grown<br />
more and more fashionable, when hardly a week<br />
passes that does not bring forth a book on wild<br />
birds or animals, on highways and byways all over<br />
the country, Wordsworth has come into his own<br />
again, and takes his place as the High Priest of<br />
Nature. Those apostles who have for years.<br />
worshipped him in silence now take courage and<br />
preach his gospel, acknowledging his teaching.<br />
One of the most interesting books dealing with<br />
Wordsworth, under the title of “ Wordsworthshire"<br />
(published by Chatto & Windus, 78. 6d, net), by<br />
Eric Robertson, M.A., is now before us.<br />
It would do for Wordsworth what Boswell bas.<br />
done for Johnson, if it can be imagined that<br />
the view point is exactly the opposite. Boswell is.<br />
exoteric ; Mr. Robertson is esoteric.<br />
He commences by giving an account of Words-<br />
worth's forbears and his surroundings, and then in<br />
most elaborate detail shows the effect of the lake<br />
influence—not only the lake influence, but the<br />
influence of every minute corner of the lakes where<br />
Wordsworth visited-upon his mental attitude.<br />
He shows again how this mental attitude is reflected<br />
in his poetry. It is a good book ; and Mr. Robert-<br />
son has proved himself a worthy apostle of his<br />
prophet. It is copiously and attractively illustrated<br />
from black and white wash drawings by Arthur<br />
Tucker. We would recommend the book to those<br />
who know, and more to those who, still ignorant, .<br />
desire to know, something of the beauties in the<br />
verse of the Great Poet of Nature.<br />
THE HISTORY OF THE NOVEL.*<br />
ON WORDSWORTH.<br />
NHIRTY or forty years ago Wordsworth was<br />
almost forgotten ; he was looked upon as<br />
an undistinguished poet who had lived<br />
among the English Lakes. It was acknowledged<br />
that he had written one or two good sonnets, but<br />
the rest of his poetry was swept away with a broad<br />
sweep of the hand as puerile and silly. There were<br />
still one or two fond admirers who believed in him<br />
and his writings, as the poet of Nature, as one<br />
TR. WILLIAMS is not the only Richmond<br />
in the field ; but we are inclined to think<br />
he is the best. His History of the English<br />
Novel is on a larger scale than that of Professor<br />
Raleigh, and it deserves all the laudatory epithets<br />
proper to such a work. The author knows his<br />
subject from A to Z—from Thomas Nash to<br />
Thomas Hardy—and his style is clear, attractive,<br />
and, at times, epigrammatic. Works of erudition<br />
too often give the reader a sensation of having<br />
finished his day's work when he has reached the<br />
end of a paragraph ; but the end of a paragraph, in<br />
this case, stimulates a desire for the next. We do<br />
not say that we endorse all the author's conclusions,<br />
-that result is only obtained when writer and<br />
* * Technical Elements of Style."<br />
† “ Wordsworthshire" by Eric Robertson, M.A., with<br />
forty-seven plates after the original drawings by Arthur<br />
Tucker, R.B.A., and maps. Published by Chatto &<br />
Windus. 78. 6d. net.<br />
* - Two Centuries of the English Novel," by Harold.<br />
Williams, M.A. Smith Elder. 7s.6d, net.<br />
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reader have an equal passion for the obvious ; but<br />
it is only possible to differ from him with respect<br />
and an apprehension lest, after all, he may turn out<br />
to be right. He is certainly right in maintaining<br />
that great men must be judged by results, and not<br />
by canons to which they deliberately refused to<br />
conform. The best English novels have seldom<br />
been the strongest in stage-carpentry. The<br />
-detached attitude, so splendidly adopted by<br />
Flaubert, does not seem to flourish on our side of<br />
the Channel. Even the followers of Flaubert, like<br />
Mr. George Moore, have shown a tendency to fall<br />
away from this method ; and it strikes us as curious<br />
that Mr. Moore's name is not mentioned in<br />
Mr. Williams's pages. He says little, it is true,<br />
about contemporary writers; but, if Mr. Moore<br />
does not claim attention as imperatively as<br />
Mr. Hardy, be is at least as entitled to it as Mr. W.<br />
D. Howells and Mr. Henry James, whose names do<br />
occur. Mr. Williams's critical standpoint is<br />
represented by his preference of Thackeray to<br />
Dickens and of Jane Austen to George Eliot and<br />
Charlotte Brontë. There are those who will wish<br />
to argue with him on both points; and Walter<br />
Besant would certainly have assigned a higher<br />
place than he does to Charles Reade. But no<br />
matter. The world would be a duller world than<br />
it is if everybody agreed with everybody else about<br />
everything. Mr. Williams's book is excellent for<br />
the general reader, and will also be useful to<br />
students who seek honours at the Universities in<br />
English Literature.<br />
point of view of one who may be anxious to read<br />
these authors, or may be led to read them by having<br />
his interest roused. The question then arises, will<br />
this book be of any use ? It contains studies of<br />
“ Pickwick Papers," “ Nicholas Nickleby," and<br />
“Vanity Fair." It is a revelation of the plot and<br />
characters included in these books with running<br />
comments by the author, but these comments hardly<br />
rouse one's interest, and it is possible that instead<br />
of stimulating the reader to peruse Dickens or<br />
Thackeray, they might deaden his interest, leaving<br />
him content with having obtained with little expen-<br />
diture of time, a superficial knowledge of the books<br />
concerned. In short, the essays do not rouse one<br />
to enjoy the wonderful fascination of the two<br />
writers concerned by pricking the curiosity suffici-<br />
ently. Instead of acting as an appetiser at the<br />
beginning of a dinner they have the effect of closing<br />
one's desires rather than increasing them. The<br />
comments are not enlivening : they lack originality.<br />
Take for instance the comments on “ Pickwick<br />
Papers." They give you no idea of the subtlety of<br />
Dickens's characters, of Pickwick, Weller, or<br />
Jingle, for it is the characters in these works rather<br />
than their plots which strengthen the desire for<br />
closer acquaintance with them. The essay on<br />
“Vanity Fair," which takes up considerably more<br />
than half the book, is, perhaps, the most illumin-<br />
ating from the point of view of the general<br />
reader, but tends, by giving the reader too much,<br />
to withdraw his interest from the book itself.<br />
We cannot say, therefore, that the book supplies<br />
a want, or accomplishes the purpose, for which it<br />
was written. To those who have already studied<br />
Dickens and Thackeray, who know the beauties of<br />
characterisation for which both these authors are<br />
famous, the book is useless. To those who are not<br />
students, to those in fact (of which there are many<br />
nowadays) who delight to get the plot of a book<br />
without any of the literary subtleness and marvels,<br />
the book is dangerous in that it will rather prevent<br />
that intimate study which is essential, than<br />
encourage a future perusal.<br />
DICKENS AND THACKERAY.*<br />
A STUDY.<br />
TT is a difficult matter to criticise the book<br />
1 which is the subject of this review. The<br />
Author, in a prefatory note, states that the<br />
work is not intended so much for those who are<br />
well acquainted with Dickens and Thackeray, as<br />
for the general reader to whom, he hopes, it may<br />
prove useful. Therefore one well acquainted with<br />
Dickens and Thackeray has an arduous task<br />
allotted to him, for beyond being an exposition of<br />
the plots and characters of “The Pickwick Papers,"<br />
“ Nicholas Nickleby,” and “Vanity Fair,” the<br />
-book sets forth little that is fresh and illuminating.<br />
It is necessary, however, to endeavour to view<br />
the work from the standpoint of the general reader,<br />
that is, 'from the standpoint of one who is not<br />
- acquainted with Dickens or Thackeray; from the<br />
I<br />
PRIZE COMPETITIONS.<br />
TN the June number of The Author an article<br />
1 appeared, entitled “Prize Competitions."<br />
This was written with the object of showing<br />
how indefinite editors and publishers usually are in<br />
framing the rules of these competitions, and how<br />
necessary it is for authors to have a correct under-<br />
standing of the terms before submitting their<br />
MSS. One of the competitions referred to in the<br />
article was the “Ten-Guinea Short Story Competi-<br />
tion” of The Sphere, although the name of the<br />
* " Dickens and Thackeray: Studied in Three Novels,”<br />
by the Hon. Albert G. Canning. T. Fisher Unwin. 108.6d.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
sher<br />
S<br />
mitted must be<br />
paper was not actually mentioned. We have now dated May 27th. There we find the notice of the<br />
received a letter from the editor objecting to the terms runs as follows :-<br />
criticism contained in our article. The letter is<br />
printed here at full length, in spite of the irrelevant "We pay Ten Guineas for every short story accepted for<br />
matter it contains. Indeed, the irrelevant part of<br />
this page. The stories must be between 2,000 and 3,000<br />
words in length. Whether written by the most distin.<br />
the letter is interesting. It may afford indirect<br />
guished novelist or the most obscure, the story will be<br />
testimony as to the attitude of the editor's mind<br />
when drawing up the terms for the “Ten-Guinea addressed The Story Editor, The Sphere, and must be<br />
Short Story Competition."<br />
typewritten. If not accepted the manuscript will be<br />
returned if accompanied by stamp for postage. Not more<br />
than one story may be submitted at a time. The Editor<br />
The Editor, The Author,<br />
June 20th, 1911. reserves to himself the right of republishing these stories in<br />
10, Bouverie Street, E.C.<br />
volume form with the authors' names attached."<br />
SIR, -In your issue of The Author for June I find<br />
the following statement :-<br />
It is impossible to ascertain what, in the mind<br />
" One well-known weekly paper which invites the send-<br />
ing in of short stories, for the acceptance of which ten of the editor, suggested the alteration 10 the<br />
guineas a story is promised, does not state in its offer that notices, but whether the first notice is taken or the<br />
the entire rights are required ; but at the bottom of the second notice is taken our comment is equally<br />
page on which the story appears there is printed in small<br />
accurate and conclusive. The first sentence we<br />
type • Exclusive copyright of — ' (the name of the<br />
paper)."<br />
repeat :<br />
I have always found in The Author many elements of<br />
humour, but I did not expect to find statements that border<br />
“We pay Ten Guineas for every short story accepted for<br />
on the libellous. Everything points in this paragraph to this page."<br />
The Sphere as being the journal referred to. It is true<br />
that at the end of each story The Sphere states that the From these words it is clear that only the serial<br />
said story is " Exclusive copyright," but it is not true that<br />
use of the story for The Sphere is asked for, whatever<br />
in its offer of ten guineas for each story it is not explicitly<br />
stated. Not only is it so stated, but before accepting any<br />
the editor's intention may have been. There<br />
given story I am in the habit of forwarding a reprint of is no mention whatever of the word “ copyright,"<br />
these conditions to every successful competitor. Not the nor is there anything to suggest either in the first<br />
most exigent champion for the rights of authors can pre-<br />
or the second notice that the editor demands all<br />
tend that ten guineas is not a fair price to pay for all<br />
rights in a story of 2,000 words by an unknown writer, and<br />
nd possible rights in the story. Indeed, to anyone<br />
it may interest you to know that on one occasion, quite who reads the paragraph carefully it would seem<br />
recently, when by a typist's mistake a successful competitor that the editor does not expect to get the copy-<br />
was informed that she would be paid three guineas for a<br />
right, or he would not have added (see notice 2):<br />
story, the author wrote back to say that she was quite<br />
willing to accept the three guineas, although very sorry<br />
that she had not been successful in the ten guinea com-<br />
“ The Editor reserves to himself the right of republishing<br />
petition. The author in question was promptly informed these stories in volume form with the authors' names<br />
that she would receive ten guineas for the story, and I quite attached."<br />
fail to see what possible grievance of authors can be<br />
extracted from this competition. But in your ill-advised What, then, is the legal interpretation of the<br />
crusade against editors you are not always careful to give<br />
notices? It is that the author who accepts the<br />
them full justice.<br />
I am, Sir,<br />
terms grants to The Sphere the serial use of his<br />
Your obedient Servant,<br />
story for the page referred to, and further grants,<br />
CLEMENT SHORTER, in the second notice, to the editor the right to<br />
Editor of The Sphere.<br />
republish the story (presumably with others) in<br />
book form. But the author, it is clear, retains the<br />
On turning to the issue of The Sphere of Feb-<br />
copyright and all other rights of reproduction,<br />
ruary 11th, which was before the writer of the article<br />
because neither the full serial rights nor the sole<br />
on Prize Competitions, we find that the notice of the<br />
and exclusive right of book publication are asked<br />
terms printed on the page which deals with “ Our<br />
for. If, therefore, the author wished to issue the<br />
Ten-Guinea Short Story 'runs as follows :-<br />
story in serial form at a later date, there would be<br />
“We pay Ten Guineas for every short story accepted for<br />
nothing to prevent him from doing so. If he<br />
this page.” Whether written by the most distinguished wished to republish the story in book form, with<br />
novelist or by the most obscure the story will be published others of his own writing, there would be nothing<br />
anonymously. All stories submitted must be addressed<br />
to prevent this. The only hint of a desire on the<br />
The Editor, The Sphere. Owing to the large number of<br />
short stories already received for this page it is requested<br />
part of the editor to have copyright, as mentioned<br />
that no more be sent in until the first week in March." in our article last month, is set out in the words at<br />
the end of the story in the February issue :<br />
In order to be quite sure that our deductions are “ Exclusive Copyright of The Sphere," in the May<br />
correct we turn to a subsequent issue of The Sphere, issue “ Complete Copyright of The Sphere." But<br />
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Mr. Shorter cannot be definite even in his own<br />
letter, which is printed above. He says :-<br />
"It is true that at the end of each story The Sphere<br />
states that the said story is Exclusive Copyright,' but it is<br />
not true that in its offer of ten guineas for each story it<br />
(sic) is not explicitly stated.”<br />
It is not quite clear what "it" may refer to.<br />
If the pronoun refers to the question of copyright,<br />
then, as we have already shown, there is no mention<br />
whatever of the transfer of the copyright in the<br />
terms as set out, and nothing to lead the author to<br />
think he is making such a transfer, unless, per-<br />
chance, he casts his eye down to the bottom of the<br />
page on which the stories appear.<br />
This statement will show that while the editor<br />
of The Sphere, like other editors, has been desirous<br />
of acquiring copyright in stories, he has failed,<br />
owing to the loosely drawn terms of the competi-<br />
tion, to attain his desire. The editor of The Sphere<br />
is not blamed, nor do we blame other editors, for<br />
are they not all honourable men ? But the difficulty<br />
has arisen owing to ignorance.<br />
It is hardly necessary to say anything about the<br />
letter as a whole. It is pleasing to learn that the<br />
writer has found elements of humour in The Author,<br />
but he certainly has not found statements that<br />
border on the libellous. That he should think<br />
so is, perhaps, further evidence of his lack of legal<br />
knowledge.<br />
It is not necessary to discuss the value of the<br />
prize given for the successful story. As far as The<br />
Sphere is concerned the article did not criticise the<br />
financial side of the bargain, nor did it for a<br />
moment suggest that the editor would not pay<br />
what he considered to be the moral obligations of<br />
the paper. The document to which the editor refers,<br />
as having been forwarded to successful competitors,<br />
is not within our ken, but if, as stated in the letter,<br />
it is a reprint of the notice which now appears at the<br />
head of the page on which the story is printed,<br />
then we can only repeat that it does not provide<br />
for purchase of copyright. If the editor desired<br />
to purchase the copyright, it is unfortunate that he<br />
did not state this in so many words.<br />
The letter from the editor of The Sphere, indeed,<br />
proves our wisdom in inserting in The Author the<br />
article entitled “Prize Competitions.”<br />
attention to two other contests in which authors<br />
have been invited to take part. Both of them<br />
illustrate the need for the exercise of care, on the<br />
part of authors, to which your contributor referred<br />
at the end of his article.<br />
The first of these two contests is being conducted<br />
by the proprietors of three monthly magazines.<br />
Three prizes of £50 and eleven prizes of £10 each<br />
are offered. And here, apparently, the matter ends.<br />
Nothing is said as to the fate of the successful<br />
stories ; there is nothing to indicate whether they<br />
are to be published, though this is hinted at. If<br />
they are to be published, there is still nothing to<br />
enable the authors to know when or where. An<br />
author may be quite willing to sanction the appear-<br />
ance of his work in one of the three magazines and<br />
yet very strongly object to its appearance in either<br />
of the remaining two. Still stronger may be his<br />
objection to its appearance (quite possible under<br />
the terms of this competition) elsewhere. If the<br />
proprietors want the copyright, it surely should be<br />
no difficult matter for them to say so. Similarly if<br />
they want the serial rights-either wholly or in<br />
part-they should mention this requirement. To<br />
leave all these questions to conjecture, is hardly<br />
fair to the author, while the further fact that there<br />
is no appeal from the decision of the judges makes<br />
the position still worse.<br />
Moreover, no date is mentioned by which a<br />
decision may be expected. This is the harder on<br />
the author in that the competition is being con-<br />
ducted on behalf of three different monthlies. The<br />
result may, quite conceivably, be announced at<br />
different dates in each. This would mean, unless<br />
the author happens to be near a library, a very large<br />
purchase of magazines, and though this principle<br />
as suggested in the former article may increase the<br />
circulation of the magazines it is hardly fair on<br />
the competing authors. Surely it is an unnecessary<br />
and unfair strain both on his purse and his patience !<br />
A little care would so easily have elucidated all<br />
these difficulties.<br />
The second competition is rather more definite.<br />
The prizes are 40 guineas for a Short Story, £10<br />
for a Poem and £7 78. for an Essay. Moreover, a<br />
further £25 is to be paid “ to the writer who has<br />
never written a story before or had a story accepted<br />
or published.” Presumably, the £25 is to go to<br />
the winner of the competition who is able to fulfil<br />
this condition. As the paragraph stands it offers<br />
a temptation to unscrupulous people, not being<br />
authors, to make embarrassing demands merely<br />
because they have either not written or have failed<br />
to publish a story.<br />
In both competitions there is the demand for an<br />
entrance fee, for which the unsuccessful will receive<br />
“valuable criticism and advice.” In the second<br />
competition, the competitor is told that though he<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
PRIZE COMPETITIONS.<br />
SIR,-In view of the publication of an article on<br />
this subject in your last issue, I venture to call your<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
must contribute “to the heavy expenses of the would feel that the practice I have mentioned, a<br />
examination, the entrance fee shall be 2s. 6d. only," practice which is in vogue in all our great cities,<br />
increased, in the case of the story, if not typewritten was a distinct fraud upon the author, and ought to<br />
to 3s. 6d. What does the hint of an additional be put down by the law wherever it is practised.<br />
contribution mean?<br />
I have the most complete proof of what I say,<br />
In addition, 100 short stories will be purchased but unhappily it was given me in confidence, so that<br />
at the rate of £2 28. per 1,000 words.<br />
I can only point out what is being done, and hope,<br />
A definite date is given for a decision, and the however faintly, that library committees may<br />
magazine for which the stories are required will develop something like a conscience.<br />
appear in the Autumn.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
It only remains for the would-be competitor to<br />
· F, T. BULLEN.<br />
assure himself of the financial standing of the<br />
people behind it.<br />
Yours, &c.,<br />
A WOULD-BE COMPETITOR.<br />
How BOOKS ARE BOUGHT.<br />
SIR,—The grotesque proposal to publish books<br />
without a fixed price was not met by the practical<br />
point of view of the buyer. I should never buy a<br />
book if no prices were stated in advertisements or<br />
A FRAUD UPON AUTHORS.<br />
reviews. A busy man has no time to pay chatty<br />
visits to booksellers and be squeezed by salesmen.<br />
SIR,—There be many grievances and hardships<br />
A few minutes over a review settles if the book is<br />
under which authors labour, and are likely to<br />
wanted, or a sight of an advertisement. If no price<br />
labour, generally in silence, but I know of none so<br />
is quoted the book is not ordered ; and unless some<br />
shamefully unjust and illegal as the one I am about<br />
advertisement of a price is seen later, it is probably<br />
to call attention to now. Among the multitude of<br />
forgotten in a few days, and there is the end of its<br />
Free Libraries founded by Mr. Carnegie and the<br />
chances.<br />
late Mr. Passmore Edwards, there are very many<br />
If there were a fluctuating price I should never<br />
where the local rate levied hardly does more thanh<br />
in buy until I had sufficient offers at various prices, to<br />
pay for the upkeep of the building and the salaries<br />
see which was best, so that would never work.<br />
of the librarian and his assistants. Very seldom<br />
The old system of a fixed price claimed in full at<br />
does any public spirited individual come forward<br />
railway bookstalls, or id. off at country booksellers',<br />
with a donation for the purpose of buying books,<br />
or 2d. off at town booksellers', or 3d. off at a few<br />
and when one does the genial committee managing<br />
managing cutting firms, is by far the best for all parties.<br />
the library (never by any chance does a literary<br />
The trouble of going to a cheap seller is compen-<br />
man appear among them) are only concerned to get<br />
sated, the advantages of large sales and small risks<br />
the greatest number of books for the smallest pos-<br />
by the big cheap house is shared by the public, and.<br />
sible expenditure.<br />
so increases the sales and the author's benefit.<br />
Now a clever librarian, not one, that is, who can<br />
Yours truly,<br />
guide readers, or who is a deeply read man, but<br />
A MEMBER<br />
one who understands the £ s. d. of his business,<br />
knows just where to buy, for next to waste paper<br />
price, Tauchpitz editions and Colonial editions of<br />
popular novels, both of which it is illegal to sell in<br />
INSURANCE OF CONTRIBUTORS.<br />
this country. A very little more money spent on<br />
binding (and many libraries do their own binding) SIR,—When an ordinary tradesman fails,<br />
and a number of books are put in circulation which there is generally something for the creditors in<br />
do not yield the author a groat. Later he has the the form of realisable stock. But of late years<br />
satisfaction of hearing that his books are in great various promoters of commercial gazettes and<br />
demand at certain libraries and wonders much why magazines of a business nature have sprung up<br />
it is that he is getting no royalties.<br />
like mushrooms and collapsed after a year or two,<br />
It seems almost a pity that when Mr. Carnegie leaving absolutely no convertible assets. Could<br />
made up his mind to endow many libraries he did not some seheme of insurance be organised whereby<br />
not give just a moment or two's thought to the men contributors to publications would be insured<br />
whose brains produced the books he proposed to against risk of non-payment ?<br />
hand out to readers gratis. But although he<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
apparently did not do so, I really believe that he<br />
ALGERNON WARREN.<br />
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ON COPYRIGHT FORMALITIES IN<br />
THE U.S.A.<br />
o<br />
[Printed from the United States Publishers' Weekly, with the kind permission of the Editor.]<br />
n<br />
COPYRIGHT may inhere as a natural right, deposit within a specified time, or false<br />
u as under English common law before the report as to manufacture, make the copy-<br />
Statute of Anne, without record or formali- right not valid.<br />
ties, but also without statutory protection; or The general provisions as to formalities are as<br />
formalities may be required only as a prerequisite follows (sect. 9): “That any person entitled thereto<br />
to protection by actions at law; or formalities may by this Act may secure copyright for his work by<br />
be required to validate and secure the copyright. publication thereof with the notice of copyright<br />
English formalities belong to the second class. required by this Act; and such notice shall be<br />
American formalities are of the third class and affixed to each copy thereof published or offered<br />
without them copyright does not exist.<br />
for sale in the United States by authority of the<br />
The American copyright law of 1909 prescribes copyright proprietor, except in the case of books<br />
exactly the method of securing copyright, and seeking ad interim protection under section twenty-<br />
makes clear the cases in which non-compliance one of this Act ; ” and (sect. 10): “That such<br />
in validates copyright. Previous to 1909 copy- person may obtain registration of his claim to<br />
right was secured by complying exactly with the copyright by complying with the provisions of this<br />
statutory requirements of (1) the delivery to the Act, including the deposit of copies, and upon such<br />
Librarian of Congress on or before the day of compliance the Registrar of Copyrights shall issue<br />
publication, in this or any foreign country, of a to him the certificate provided for in section fifty-<br />
printed (including typewritten) copy of title or five of this Act.”<br />
description of the work, (2) the insertion in every In the Act (sect. 62) the date of publication has<br />
copy published of the prescribed copyright notice, been fixed as “the earliest date when copies of<br />
and (3) the deposit not later (under the law of the first authorised edition were placed on sale,<br />
1891) than such day of publication (earlier law sold or publicly distributed by the proprietor of<br />
allowing ten days after publication) of two copies the copyright or under his authority.” This<br />
of the best edition of a book or other article, or a indirectly defines publication as the authorised<br />
photograph of a work of art (as to date of deposit public offer, sale or distribution of copies, and the<br />
of which last the law was not explicit), and any clause (sect. 9) requiring the copyright notice to be<br />
failure to comply literally and exactly with these affixed to each copy "published or offered for sale<br />
conditions forfeited the copyright.<br />
in the United States by authority of the copyright<br />
The American Code of 1909 substitutes an proprietor” confirms the principle that the copy-<br />
entirely different basis for securing copy right proprietor cannot be held responsible, nor<br />
right. Copyright now depends upon (1) pub- can copyright be voided because of copies “pub-<br />
lication with the notice of copyright, and lished," offered, sold or distributed without his<br />
(2) deposit of copies, these copies in the case authority.<br />
of books and certain other works to be The first step in securing copyright being pub-<br />
manufactured within the United States. lication “with the notice of copyright”" affixed<br />
The accidental omission of the copyright to each copy published or offered for sale in the<br />
notice from “a particular copy or copies" United States by authority of the copyright pro-<br />
does not invalidate the copyright as formerly, prietor," the method and form of this notice is of<br />
but only relieves an innocent trespasser first importance. The Act of 1909 provides (sect. 18)<br />
from penalty as an infringer; but failure to “That the notice of copyright required by section<br />
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nine of this Act shall consist either of the word additional year was claimed. This decision, how-<br />
* Copyright' or the abbreviation Copr.,' accom- ever, is not a safe precedent, as doubt was thrown<br />
panied by the name of the copyright proprietor, on it by Judge Wallace in the same year in Schu-<br />
and if the work be a printed literary, musical, or macher v. Wogram. The substitution for 1894 of<br />
dramatic work, the notice shall include also the the abbreviated '94 was held in 1895, in Snow v.<br />
year in which the copyright was secured by pub- Mast, to be within the law. A microscopic objec-<br />
lication. In the case, however, of copies of works tion that N. Sarony (instead of Napoleon Sarony<br />
specified in sub-sections (f) to (k), inclusive, of sec- was not a name was promptly quashed.<br />
tion five of this Act, the notice may consist of the An important safeguard new in copyright law is<br />
letter C inclosed within a circle, thus : (C), accom- enacted in the provision (sect. 20) “That where<br />
panied by the initials, monogram, mark, or symbol the copyright proprietor has sought to comply with<br />
of the copyright proprietor: Provided, That on some the provisions of this Act with respect to notice,<br />
accessible portion of such copies or of the margin, the omission by accident or mistake of the pre-<br />
back, permanent base, or pedestal, or of the sub- scribed notice from a particular copy or copies<br />
stance on which such copies shall be mounted, his shall not invalidate the copyright or prevent re-<br />
name shall appear. But in the case of works in covery for infringement against any person who,<br />
which copyright is subsisting when this Act shall after actual notice of the copyright, begivs an<br />
go into effect, the notice of copyright may be either undertaking to infringe it, but shall prevent the<br />
in one of the forms prescribed herein or in one of recovery of damages against an innocent infringer<br />
those prescribed by the Act of June eighteenth, who has been misled by the omission of the notice;<br />
eighteen hundred and seventy-four.”<br />
and in a suit for infringement no permanent<br />
Under the law of 1874, the prescribed notice was injunction shall be had unless the copyright pro-<br />
in the old form (Rev. Stat. 4962), “ Entered accord. prietor shall reimburse to the innocent infringer<br />
ing to Act of Congress, in the year by A. B., his reasonable outlay innocently incurred if the<br />
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Wash court, in its discretion, shall so direct."<br />
ington," with the optional alternative of the form It is further provided (sect. 19) “That the<br />
“ Copyright, 184, by A. B.” Under the new Code notice of copyright shall be applied, in the case of<br />
the latter form is preserved, with the alternative of a book or other printed publication, upon its title-<br />
the provision “Copr.," with date and name, but page or the page immediately following, or if a<br />
the longer form may be used on books copyrighted periodical either upon the title-page or upon the<br />
under the earlier Acts, even if reprinted after the first page of text of each separate number or under<br />
passage of the later Act. Except for books pre- the title heading, or if a musical work either upon<br />
viously copyrighted, the longer form is not now its title-page or the first page of music: Provided,<br />
the legal notice, and its use would be dangerous, That one notice of copyright in each volume or in<br />
as it does not contain the specific word copyright each number of a newspaper or periodical published<br />
or its abbreviation now made an obligatory part of shall suffice."<br />
the notice. The courts have been disposed to hold Although the Code of 1909 relieves the copyright<br />
that a longer notice embodying the required words proprietor from permanent forfeiture in the case of<br />
is merely pleonastic and not illegal ; but that any an accidental omission of the copyright notice from<br />
omission of either of the three requisites, certain copies (sect. 20), the statute is otherwise<br />
the word copyright or its abbreviation, the specific, and there seems to be no means of<br />
date in the case of printed works, and the relief where the copyright notice is, how-<br />
name of the proprietor, or in the case of ever innocently, in the wrong place or in<br />
works of art his sign, would make the notice the wrong form. Thus a book containing the<br />
void and of no effect. The exact phraseology copyright notice on the third page, i.e., on the<br />
and order of words must be followed, and it has second leaf or elsewhere than on the title-page<br />
been held that any inaccuracy in the name of or the page immediately following, might not<br />
the copyright proprietor (as in the English case be protectable in case of infringement. The<br />
of Low V. Routledge, by Vice-Chancellor Kin- copyright notice can probably, however, be placed<br />
dersley) or in the date of the entry (as in the safely and preferably on the first page, being<br />
American case of Baker v. Taylor, when 1847 was the title-page, of a specially copyrighted part<br />
put for 1846) makes the copyright ivvalid. A later of a book, as an introduction preceding a non-<br />
decision, in 1888, in Callaghan v. Myers, held, that copyrighted work or an index or appended notes,<br />
where a copyright notice gave the year 1866, while or upon specific illustrations ; and this is perhaps<br />
the true date was 1867, there was no harm done to preferable in copyrighting editions with such fea-<br />
the public, because a year of the copyright (which tures of works otherwise in the public domain. In<br />
really ended in 1895 instead of 1894) was given to the case of articles in a periodical or parts of a<br />
the public, whereas in the previous case an composite work separately copyrighted or registered<br />
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the copyright notice should appear on the same held that as the statute did not expressly prescribe<br />
page as the title heading. The copyright does not that the copyright notice should appear in succes-<br />
depend upon the imprint date but on publication ; sive volumes after the first, this was not necessary,<br />
thus the Copyright Office registered for copyright but the application of this doubtful decision under<br />
in 1910 a book bearing the imprint date 1904 on the new Code would be more than questionable. It<br />
the statement of the proprietor that it was not may be emphasised that publication with<br />
really published till 1910.<br />
notice is the first step in copyright under<br />
The proviso (sect. 19) that one notice of copy the present Code, and that registration on<br />
right in each volume or in each number of a periodi deposit is the secondary and completing<br />
cal shall suffice, is complementary to the provision act, and therefore no registry in the Copy.<br />
(sect. 3) by which a copyright protects all the right Office is necessary to authorise the<br />
copyrightable component parts of the work copy printing of the copyright notice, as was<br />
righted and gives to the proprietor of a composite formerly the case.<br />
work or periodical all the rights he would have if In the case of successive printings or editions of<br />
each part were individually copyrighted. It means a copyrighted book, the original copyright entry<br />
that there need be no repetition of the general must appear in every reprint of the first edition ;<br />
copyright notice on different pages of a book or and it would seem that this entry should also<br />
periodical.<br />
appear in every new edition newly copyrighted, as<br />
The proviso (sect. 61) “ that only one registra- well as the new notice, so long as it is desired to<br />
tion at one fee shall be required in the case of protect the matter contained in the old edition. A<br />
several volumes of the same book deposited at the decision by Justice Clifford, in Lawrence v. Dana,<br />
same time," indicates that one copyright entry in 1869, ruled this to be superfluous, but his decision<br />
suffices for several volumes simultaneously published, is contrary to the rule that a proprietor may not<br />
but each separate volume should contain the notice. claim through the copyright notice a longer term<br />
Volumes published separately not only in successive than the law permits, since a later date, referring<br />
years but at successive dates within the year, should only to new matter, but apparently comprehen-<br />
be separately registered, and if published separately sive of the whole contents, might be voided under<br />
in successive years, must each bear its copyright this rule. It is doubtful whether on a new edition<br />
notice for the year of publication-this being the with old and new matter one copyright notice with<br />
direct sequence from the provision that copyright two dates is safe, and the wiser course is to give<br />
dates from the specific date of publication and not both the earlier copyright notice and the later<br />
from the year or date of registration. The Copy- notice in proper sequence.<br />
right Office will, however, under the law, register It should be noted that the copyright<br />
for one fee volumes or parts deposited at the same notice is not required on books published<br />
time, though published at various times. In the abroad in the English language before<br />
case of a book issued in successive parts, of which publication in this country, entered for ad<br />
only the first part includes a title-page or title interim copyright, and therefore that within<br />
headings, the law is not specific, but it seems pro- sixty days after the publication abroad of a<br />
bable that, in default of copyright notice and book in the English language, such book<br />
registration for each part, the parts not bearing may be protected by American registration,<br />
copyright notice might be legally reprinted, and though containing no notice of copyright;<br />
that the safer course is to place the copyright and within this period inquiry at the Copy-<br />
notice on the first page of each part and register right Office is necessary to determine the<br />
each part separately, in which case the completed status of the book.<br />
work should have the date or dates of the year or It is provided (sect. 46) “ that when an assign-<br />
years within which the several parts were published. ment of the copyright in a specified book or other<br />
There seem to be no objections, within the law or work has been recorded the assignee may substitute<br />
from court decisions, to coupling two dates in the his name for that of the assignor in the statutory<br />
same notice, in such cases as “ Copyright, 1910, notice of copyright prescribed by this Act." This<br />
1911, by A.B.," though there is no specific decision applies only where the entire copyright has been<br />
on this point. Under the previous law a book assigned and the assignment duly recorded in the<br />
published in more than one volume or part, the Copyright Office as provided by law, and does not<br />
portions not complete in themselves, was probably permit a change of name in the copyright notice<br />
protected by copyright entry of the first part, all under any other circumstances, as where some par-<br />
parts being of course ultimately deposited, but the ticular right, as magazine publication or dramatisa-<br />
change in the new Code basing copyright on pub- tion, has been sold and assigned. A substitution<br />
lication with notice, changes this rule of practice. of name under such specific assignments would<br />
In the case of Dwight v. Appleton, in 1840, it was probably invalidate the copyright.<br />
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The method of registration, or rather of applica- of the Copyright Office, shall, upon payment of the<br />
tion therefor, is not specified in the law, for the prescribed fee, be given to any person making<br />
reason that under the code of 1909 deposit suc- application for the same, and the said certificate<br />
ceeding publication is made the act completing the shall be admitted in any court as prima facie<br />
securing of copyright, and registration is incidental evidence of the facts stated therein. In addition<br />
thereto instead of the first requisite, as was the to such certificate the Registrar of Copyrights shall<br />
case under the previous laws.<br />
furnish, upon request, without additional fee, a<br />
The Act provides (sect. 53): “ That, subject to receipt for the copies of the work deposited to<br />
the approval of the Librarian of Congress, the complete the registration.”<br />
Registrar of Copyrights shall be authorised to make The Copyright Office has accordingly prepared<br />
rules and regulations for the registration of claims blanks in library card form which are furnished<br />
to copyright as provided by this Act," and (sect. 54) applicants free of charge for the several classes of<br />
“ whenever deposit has been made in the Copyright applications mentioned in the law, the cards being<br />
Office of a copy of any work under the provisions in pink, except as hereafter stated, lettered and<br />
of this Act, he shall make entry thereof."<br />
numbered as follows: A (1) book by citizen or resi-<br />
It is provided (sect. 5) “ that the application for dent of the United States, A (2) edition printed in<br />
registration shall specify to which of the [stated] the United States of book originally published<br />
classes the work in which copyright is claimed abroad in the English language, both these being<br />
belongs,” but it is incidentally provided “nor shall double cards including affidavit of American manu.<br />
any error in classification invalidate or impair the facture—these being supplemented by blue cards<br />
copyright protection.”<br />
providing with specific instructions A (1) for<br />
Provision is specifically made against false notice separate affidavit of American manufacture from<br />
of copyright by the enactment (sect. 29): “That type set or plates made in the United States and<br />
any person who, with fraudulent intent, shall insert A (2) for lithographic or photo-engraving process<br />
or impress any notice of copyright required by this within the United States ; A (3) book by foreign<br />
Act, or words of the same purport, in or upon any author in foreign language, A (4) Ad interim copy-<br />
uncopyrighted article, or with fraudulent intent right-book published abroad in the English<br />
shall remove or alter the copyright notice upon any language, A (5) contribution to a newspaper or<br />
article duly copyrighted shall be guilty of a mis- periodical; B (1) periodical, B (2) newspaper or<br />
demeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than periodical to be continously registered, supple-<br />
one hundred dollars and not more than one thousand mented by a white blank for depositing single<br />
dollars. Any person who shall knowingly issue or subsequent issues ; C lecture, sermon or address<br />
sell any article bearing a notice of United States prepared for oral delivery ; D (1) published dramatic<br />
copyright which has not been copyrighted in this or dramatico-musical composition, D (2) dramatic<br />
country, or who shall knowingly import any article or dramatico-musical composition not reproduced<br />
bearing such notice or words of the same purport, for sale, D (3) published dramatico-musical com-<br />
which has not been copyrighted in this country, position; E (1) published musical composition,<br />
shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars," E (2) musical composition not reproduced for sale<br />
and the importation of any article bearing a notice these supplemented by a blue card U notice of<br />
of copyright when no American copyright exists is use on mechanical instruments; F published map;<br />
absolutely prohibited (sect. 30).<br />
G work of art (painting, drawing, or sculpture) ;<br />
It is further provided (sect. 55): “That in the or model or design for a work of art; H reproduc-<br />
case of each entry the person recorded as the tion of a work of art; I drawing or plastic work of<br />
claimant of the copyright shall be entitled to a a scientific or technical character; J (1) photograph<br />
certificate of registration under seal of the Copy- published for sale, J (2) photograph not reproduced<br />
right Office, to contain his name and address, the for sale; K print or pictorial illustration, R (1)<br />
title of the work upon which copyright is claimed, renewal of copyright subsisting in any work, R (2)<br />
the date of the deposit of the copies of such work, extension of a renewal copyright subsisting in any<br />
and such marks as to class designation and entry work. Thus an applicant for copyright on an<br />
number as shall fully identify the entry. In the American book should send for card A (1) on which<br />
case of a book the certificate shall also state the he may enter his application and also include affi-<br />
receipt of the affidavit as provided by section six- davit as to American typesetting, printing and<br />
teeu of this Act, the date of the completion of the binding ; if he wishes the affidavit to be separately<br />
printing, or the date of the publication of the book, made he should obtain also the special blue card<br />
as stated in the said affidarit. The Registrar of A (1), or if lithographic or photo-engraving is used<br />
Copyrights shall prepare a printed form for the he should obtain also special blue card A (2). A<br />
said certificate, to be filled out in each case as above dramatic applicant should send for card D (1) or<br />
provided for, which certificate, sealed with the seal card D (3), respectively, as he may prefer to specify<br />
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the work as a dramatic and non-musical work, or relation with the Copyright Office. Postage must<br />
to use the broader alternative phrase of the law ; be prepaid on the application blank, as there is no<br />
or for D (2) if he desires to copyright without provision for free transmission through the mails,<br />
reproducing for sale. The applicant for a musical such as applies to deposit copies. In practice the<br />
composition, as distinguished from a dramatico application with remittance and the deposit copies<br />
musical work, should send for card E (1) or E (2) should be simultaneously sent immediately after<br />
respectively. The art applicant should send for publication.<br />
card G for an original work of art, or card H for a The law provides that deposit copies shall be sent<br />
reproduction, or for a photograph card J(1) or promptly after publication and that tuo complete<br />
card J (2) respectively.<br />
copies of the best edition then published (or one copy<br />
Similar certificate cards, also of library size, in case of a contribution to a periodical or for iden-<br />
uniformly white, are provided for the several classes tification of a work not reproduced for sale) shall<br />
of registration, correspondingly lettered and num- be deposited ; and if a work is published with<br />
bered, except that in a few cases where one certifi- notice of copyright, and copies are not promptly<br />
cate blank serves for more than one class or sub- deposited, the copyright is voided and the pro-<br />
divisions, with the addition of a general form Z to prietor becomes subject to penalty three months<br />
cover anything unprovided for in the other certifi- (or in case of outlying possessions or foreign coun-<br />
cate blanks. The certificate bears on one side the tries six months) after formal demand by the<br />
uniform statement of the deposit of two copies Registrar of Copyrights for deposit copies. The<br />
or one copy of the article named herein, and of word“ promptly” is indefinite, and the status of<br />
registration for the first or renewal term, with the undeposited works published with copyright notice<br />
name of the claimant (printed in the case of a few and not formally demanded by the Registrar of Copy-<br />
of the publishers making most applications) and rights, is also not defined by the law. In such case<br />
on the other side the specification (following the the copyright has not been secured by the complet-<br />
wording of the application and the deposit copy) of ing act, and it would be impracticable to proceed<br />
the title or description, date of publication, receipt against an infringer and the proprietor might be<br />
of affidavit (where required), receipt of copies and liable to penalty for false notice of copyright. In<br />
entry number by class, together with the seal of the event of such a case arising, through careless-<br />
the Copyright Office.<br />
ness or otherwise, the courts would have to decide<br />
This certificate is sent without charge other than the question by definition of the word "promptly”<br />
the fees directly provided for in the law (sect. 61), and an interpretation of the implied provision that<br />
viz., "for the registration of any work subject to copyright is voided, meaning that the right to<br />
copyright, deposited under provisions of this Act, obtain copyright lapses, if the process is not com<br />
one dollar, which sum is to include a certificate of pleted without undue delay.<br />
registration under seal : Provided, That in the case The completion of the copyright by deposit of<br />
of photographs the fee shall be fifty cents where a copies is covered by the provision (sect. 12): “That<br />
certificate is not demanded. For every additional after copyright has been secured by publication of<br />
certificate of registration made, fifty cents. ... the work with the notice of copyright as provided<br />
For recording the extension or renewal of copyright in section nine of this Act, there shall be promptly<br />
provided for in sections twenty-three and twenty- deposited in the Copyright Office or in the mail<br />
four of this Act, fifty cents." The law no longer addressed to the Registrar of Copyrights, Washing-<br />
contemplates record before publication, and it is ton, District of Columbia, two complete copies of<br />
unnecessary and undesirable to send application or the best edition thereof then published, which<br />
money previous to sending of deposit copies. In copies, if the work be a book or periodical, shall<br />
fact, as the certificate must show date of publica- have been produced in accordance with the manu-<br />
tion, publication cannot be anticipated, and money facturing provisions specified in section fifteen of<br />
sent in advance is only an embarrassment to the this Act ; or if such work be a contribution to a<br />
Copyright Office. The only exception to this state- periodical, for which contribution special registra-<br />
ment is in the case of the successive copyrights of tion is requested, one copy of the issue or issues<br />
issues of a regular periodical, in which case the containing such contribution ; or if the work is<br />
Copyright Office will receive in advance a sum not reproduced in copies for sale, there shall be<br />
sufficient to cover registration for the successive deposited the copy, print, photograph, or other<br />
copies of a periodical through a specified period. identifying reproduction provided by section eleven<br />
The fee should be sent by money order, or can be of this Act, such copies or copy, print, photograph,<br />
sent in cash (but not in stamps), at the risk of the or other reproduction to be accompanied in each<br />
sender, as the Registrar of Copyrights cannot receive case by a claim of copyright. No action or pro-<br />
cheques except at his personal risk and there. ceeding shall be maintained for infringement of<br />
fore from persons known to him as in frequent copyright in any work until the provisions of this<br />
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Act with respect to the deposit of copies and regis- It should be noted that the deposit copies may<br />
tration of such work shall have been complied be deposited either in the Copyright Office or “in<br />
with."<br />
the mail, addressed to the Registrar of Copyrights,"<br />
In case of failure to deposit, the law of 1909 and it is provided (sect. 14): “That the post-<br />
provides for penalties and finally voiding of the master to whom are delivered the articles deposited<br />
copyright, as follows (sect. 13): “That should the as provided in sections eleven and twelve of this<br />
copies called for by section twelve of this Act not Act shall, if requested, give a receipt therefor and<br />
be promptly deposited as herein provided, the shall mail them to their destination without cost<br />
Registrar of Copyrights may at any time after the to the copyright claimant."<br />
publication of the work, upon actual notice, require Thus even if the deposit copies should not reach<br />
the proprietor of the copyright to deposit them, Washington, as in case they were burned in the<br />
and after the said demand shall have been made, mails, the copyright proprietor can validate his<br />
in default of the deposit copies of the work within claim by production of the postmaster's receipt in<br />
three months from any part of the United States, lien of deposit copies.<br />
except an outlying territorial possession of the In respect to foreign works, it should be noted<br />
United States, or within six months from any out- that “the original text of a work of foreign origin<br />
lying territorial possession of the United States, or in a language or languages other than English,"<br />
from any foreign country, the proprietor of the may be formally copyrighted and fully protected<br />
copyright shall be liable to a fine of one hundred by registration under the same formalities as<br />
dollars and to pay to the Library of Congress twice domestic works except that the deposit copies need<br />
the amount of the retail price of the best edition not be manufactured within the United States,<br />
of the work, and the copyright shall become thus giving the author the exclusive right of trans-<br />
void.”<br />
lation. Copies published in America must of course<br />
In the case of a printed book or periodical or of a hear the copyright notice. A translation into<br />
lithograph or photo-engraving, the copies deposited English from such text cannot be copyrighted<br />
must be manufactured in America, as set forth in unless the deposit copies of the English translation<br />
the manufacturing provision (sect. 15) as verified are manufactured within the United States.<br />
in the case of a book by affidavit (sect. 16) sepa In respect to books published abroad in the<br />
rately treated hereafter, and the book copyright is English language ad interim, protection is<br />
forfeited (sect. 17) in the event of false affidavit. assured by the provision (sect. 21): “That in<br />
Thus failure to deposit or, in the case of books, the case of a book published abroad in the<br />
false affidavit as to American manufacture are the English language before publication in this<br />
two lapses of formalities which work forfeiture of country, the deposit in the Copyright Office,<br />
copyright.<br />
not later than thirty days after its publica-<br />
In the case of works not reproduced for sale, tion abroad, of one complete copy of the<br />
copyright may be secured under the provision foreign edition, with a request for the<br />
(sect. 11): “ That copyright may also be had of the reservation of the copyright and a statement<br />
works of an author of which copies are not repro of the name and nationality of the author<br />
duced for sale, by the deposit, with claim of copy- and of the copyright proprietor and of the<br />
right, of one complete copy of such work if it be a date of publication of the said book, shall<br />
lecture or similar production or a dramatic or musi- secure to the author or proprietor an ad<br />
cal composition ; of a photograph or other identi- interim copyright, which shall have all the<br />
fying reproduction thereof if it be a work of art force and effect given to copyright by this<br />
or a plastic work or drawing. But the privilege of Act, and shall endure until the expiration of<br />
registration of copyright secured hereunder shall thirty days after such deposit in the Copy-<br />
not exempt the copyright proprietor from the right Office.”<br />
deposit copies under sections twelve and thirteen of On such works the provisional copyright<br />
this Act where the work is later reproduced in is made permanent under the provision<br />
copies for sale."<br />
(sect. 22): “That whenever within the period<br />
It should be noted that in this class of copyright, of such ad interim protection an authorised<br />
which is a common law copyright fortified by statu- edition of such book shall be published within<br />
tory protection, an ideal example of copyright law, the United States, in accordance with the<br />
double registration is required in case the unpub manufacturing provisions specified in section<br />
lished copyrighted work is published, requiring one fifteen of this Act, and whenever the pro-<br />
application fee and deposit of one identifying copy visions of this Act as to deposit of copies,<br />
for the unpublished work and a second applica- registration, filing of affidavit, and the print-<br />
tion fee and deposit of two copies promptly after ing of the copyright notice shall have been<br />
publication,<br />
duly complied with, the copyright shall be<br />
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extended to endure in such book for the full case of such foreign work in the English language,<br />
term elsewhere provided in this Act.”<br />
dates, it would seem, from the date of publication<br />
The ad interim provision requires the same for abroad rather than from the date of publication<br />
malities and fee as in the case of domestic works of the American-made edition ; but this would be<br />
except that only one copy of the foreign work in of importance only toward the expiration of the<br />
English need be deposited, and that this deposit original term and in connection with the renewal<br />
copy need not contain the statutory notice of term.<br />
American copyright. The claimant is given It should be noted that an American author<br />
thirty days after publication abroad in which to publishing his work abroad is not benefited by<br />
request reservation and a second thirty days after either of these provisions respecting foreign works.<br />
deposit of the foreign copy within which to publish The provision regarding works in other languages<br />
or cause to be published an edition manufactured is specifically confined to a work of foreign origin,<br />
in America, and thus to complete his copyright that is, not by an American author ; and he gains<br />
This gives a period of ad interim protection ranging nothing, if his work is in English, from ad interim<br />
from thirty days to sixty days within which to protection. Thus an American author publishing<br />
obtain permanent copyright, the exact period his work first in German in Berlin, must copyright<br />
depending upon the number of days elapsing after and deposit an American-made edition of his<br />
publication before deposit of the foreign copy in German text in this country to obtain American<br />
the Copyright Office. Thus a copy deposited on protection, without which his work in German<br />
the day of publication will have thirty days in all could be imported into this country without his<br />
within which to secure permanent copyright by consent and an independent translation of his text<br />
the publication of the American-made edition, into English and its publication in America could<br />
while a copy deposited on the thirtieth not be prevented.<br />
day after publication will have sixty days In view of the exact prescription of the method<br />
in all ; but the failure to deposit the foreign of securing copyright unless the statute is precisely<br />
copy within thirty days after publication, or the complied with, the copyright is not valid. Said<br />
failure to publish an American-made edition within Justice Sawyer, in Parkinson v. Laselle : “ There<br />
thirty days after such deposit, will forfeit the right is no possible room for construction here. The<br />
to obtain copyright protection and throw the statute says no right shall attach until these acts<br />
foreign work into the public domain, despite the have been performed ; and the court cannot say,<br />
ad interim registration. When an American-made in the face of this express negative provision, that<br />
edition with notice of copyright can be published a right shall attach unless they are performed.<br />
in America simultaneously with its publication Until the performance as prescribed, there is no<br />
abroad, ad interim protection is of course rendered right acquired under the statute that can be<br />
unnecessary; and such simultaneous publication is violated." And in the case of the play<br />
the simplest and best practice for publishers to “Shaughraun," Boucicault v. Hart, in 1875, Justice<br />
adopt. It may be emphasised that the notice of Hunt held, as regards copyrights in general :<br />
copyright can be omitted only from foreign-made “ Two acts are by the statute made necessary to<br />
copies and must be included in the American-made be performed, and we can no more take it upon<br />
edition. The American publisher desiring to ourselves to say that the latter is not an indispens-<br />
reprint a book published abroad in the English able requisite to a copyright than we can take it of<br />
language within sixty days after publication the former.” The Supreme Court laid down this<br />
without consent of the copyright proprietor, must general doctrine in Wheaton v. Peters, in refer-<br />
therefore assure himself, by inquiry from the ence to the statutes of 1790 and 1802, and the<br />
Copyright Office, whether the work has been later statutes are most explicit on this point. In<br />
registered ad interim. The printing of an American the same case of Wheaton v. Peters, Justice<br />
copyright notice on the foreign edition in antici. McLean, in delivering the judgment of the<br />
pation of the publication of an American-made Supreme Court, held that while the right<br />
edition and the deposit of copies thereof within the “accrues," so that it may be protected in<br />
statutory requirements is a questionable practice, chancery, on compliance with the first require-<br />
as a failure to publish American-made copies in ment of the prescribed process, it must be perfected<br />
the United States would make such notice a false by complying with the other requisites before a suit<br />
notice of copyright. The copyright term, in the at law for violation of copyright can be maintained.<br />
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COPYRIGHT BILL.<br />
(30 MARCH, 1911).<br />
ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES.<br />
PART I.<br />
IMPERIAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
Rights.<br />
.<br />
Clause.<br />
1. Copyright.<br />
2. Infringement of copyright.<br />
3. Term of copyright.<br />
4. Compulsory licences.<br />
5. Ownership of copyright, &c.<br />
Civil Remedies.<br />
6. Civil remedies for infringement of copyright.<br />
7. Rights of owner against persons possessing or dealing with pirated copies, &c.<br />
8. Exemption of innocent infringer from liability to pay damages, &c.<br />
9. Restriction on remedies in the case of architecture.<br />
10. Limitation of actious.<br />
Summary Remedies.<br />
11. Penalties for dealing with pirated copies, &c.<br />
12. Seizure of pirated copies being hawked about and arrest of hawker, &c.<br />
13. Search warrants.<br />
14. Appeals to quarter sessions.<br />
15. Extent of provisions as to summary remedies.<br />
Importation of Copies.<br />
16. Importation of copies.<br />
Delivery of Books to Libraries.<br />
17. Delivery of copies to British Museum and other libraries.<br />
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Registration.<br />
Clause.<br />
18. Registration.<br />
Special Provisions as to certain Works.<br />
19. Works of joint authors.<br />
20. Posthumous works.<br />
21. Collective works.<br />
22. Provisions as to photographs, records, &c.<br />
23. Provisions as to designs registrable under 7 Edw. 7 c. 29.<br />
24. Works of foreign authors first published in parts of His Majesty's dominions to<br />
which Act extends.<br />
25. Existing works.<br />
Application to British Possessions.<br />
26. Application of Act to British Dominions.<br />
27. Legislative powers of self-governing Dominions.<br />
28. Power of Legislatures of British possessions to pass supplemental legislation.<br />
29. Application to protectorates.<br />
PART II.<br />
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
30. Power to extend Act to foreign works.<br />
31. Application of Part II. to British possessions.<br />
PART III.<br />
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS.<br />
32. Abrogation of common law rights.<br />
33. Provisions as to Orders in Council.<br />
34. Saving of university copyright.<br />
35. Saving of compensation to certain libraries.<br />
36. Interpretation.<br />
37. Repeal.<br />
38. Short title and commencement.<br />
Schedules.<br />
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A BILL TO AMEND AND CONSOLIDATE THE LAW RELATING<br />
TO COPYRIGHT.<br />
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and<br />
consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament<br />
assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :-<br />
PART I.<br />
IMPERIAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
Rights.<br />
1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout the Copyright.<br />
parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends for the term herein-after<br />
mentioned in every original literary dramatic musical and artistic work, if—<br />
(a) in the case of a published work, the work was first published within such parts of .<br />
His Majesty's dominions as aforesaid ; and<br />
(6) in the case of an unpublished work, the author was at the date of the making of<br />
the work a British subject or resident within such parts of His Majesty's<br />
dominions as aforesaid ;<br />
but in no other works, except so far as the protection conferred by this Act is extended<br />
by Orders in Council thereunder relating to self-governing dominions to which this Act<br />
does not extend and to foreign countries.<br />
(2) For the purposes of this Act “copyright” means the sole right to produce or<br />
· reproduce the work or any substantial part thereof in any material form whatsoever and<br />
in any language ; to perform, or in the case of a lecture to deliver, the work or any<br />
substantial part thereof in public ; if the work is unpublished, to publish the work ; and<br />
sball include the sole right,-<br />
(a) in the case of a dramatic work, to convert it into a novel or other non-dramatic<br />
work ;<br />
(b) in the case of a novel or other non-dramatic work, to convert it into a dram atic<br />
work, either by way of multiplication of copies or by way of performance in<br />
public ;<br />
(©) in the case of a literary, dramatic, or musical work, to make any record,<br />
perforated roll, cinematograph film, or other contrivance by means of wbich<br />
the work may be mechanically performed or delivered,<br />
and to authorise any such acts as aforesaid.<br />
(3) For the purposes of this Act publication, in relation to any work, means the issue<br />
of copies of the work to the public, and does not include the performance in public of a<br />
dramatic or musical work, the delivery in public of a lecture, the exhibition in public of<br />
an artistic work, or the construction of an architectural work of art, but for the purposes<br />
of this provision photographs and engravings of paintings, drawings, works of sculpture,<br />
and architectural works of art shall not be deemed to be copies of such works.<br />
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Infringement 2.-(1) Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed by any person who,<br />
of copyright.<br />
without the consent of the owner of the copyright, does anything the sole right to do<br />
which is by this Act conferred on the owner of the copyright : Provided that the<br />
following acts shall not constitute an infringement of copyright :-<br />
(i) Any fair dealing with any work for the purposes of private study, research,<br />
criticism, or review :<br />
(ii): Where the author of an artistic work is not the owner of the copyright therein,<br />
the use by the author of any mould, cast, sketch, plan, model, or study made<br />
by him for the purpose of the work, provided that he does not thereby repeat<br />
or imitate the main design of that work :<br />
(iii) The making of paintings, drawings, engravings, or photographs of a work of<br />
sculpture or artistic craftsmanship, if situate in a public place or building, or<br />
the making of paintings, drawings, engravings, or photographs (which are not<br />
in the nature of architectural drawings or plans) of any architectural work<br />
of art :<br />
(iv) The publication in a newspaper of a report of a lecture delivered in public,<br />
unless the report is prohibited by notice given either-<br />
(a) orally at the beginning of the lecture, or if the lecture is one of a<br />
series of lectures given by the same lecturer on the same subject at the<br />
same place, at the beginning of the first lecture of the series ; or<br />
(6) by a conspicuous written or printed notice affixed before the lecture<br />
or the first lecture of the series is given on the entrance door of the build-<br />
ing in which the lecture or series of lectures is given, or in a place near the<br />
lecturer.<br />
(2) Copyright in a work shall also be deemed to be infringed by any person who sells<br />
or lets for hire, or exposes, offers, or has in his possession for sale or hire, or distributes or<br />
exhibits in public, or imports for sale or hire into any part of His Majesty's dominions to<br />
which this Act extends, any work which to his knowledge infringes copyright or would<br />
infringe copyright if it had been made within the part of His Majesty's dominions in or<br />
into which the sale or hiring, exposure, offering, or having in possession for sale or bire or<br />
importation took place.<br />
(3) Copyright in a work shall also be deemed to be infringed by any person who for<br />
private profit permits a theatre or other place of entertainment to be used for the perform-<br />
ance in public of the work without the consent of the owner of the copyright, unless he<br />
proves that he acted innocently.<br />
Term of copy. 3. The term for which copyright shall subsist shall, except as otherwise expressly<br />
right,<br />
provided by this Act, be the life of the author and a period of fifty years after his death,<br />
unless previously determined by first publication elsewhere than in the parts of His<br />
Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends.<br />
Compulsory 4.-(1) If at any time after the death of the author of a work which has been published<br />
licences.<br />
or performed in public a petition is presented by any person interested to the Comptroller-<br />
General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks alleging that, by reason of the withholding<br />
of the work from the public, the reasonable requirements of the public with respect to the<br />
work are not satisfied, and praying for the grant of a licence to reproduce the work or<br />
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perform the work in public, the Comptroller shall consider the petition, and if, after<br />
inquiry, he is satisfied that the allegations contained therein are correct, then, unless<br />
satisfactory reasons have been given for the with holding of the work, he may, if he thinks<br />
it just and equitable to do so, order the owner of the copyright to grant to the petitioner<br />
a licence to reproduce or perform the work in public on such terms and subject to such<br />
conditions as the Comptroller may think fit:<br />
(2) For the purposes of this section a work shall be deemed to be withheld from the<br />
public if, by reason of the excessive price charged for copies of the work or for the right to<br />
perform the work in public, or the undue limitation of the number of copies issued or<br />
performances given, the demand of the public for the work is not reasonably met :<br />
Provided that an order for the grant of a licence under this section shall not be made<br />
on the ground of such excessive price or such undue limitation before the expiration of<br />
twenty-five years from the date of the first publication or first performance in public of<br />
the work,<br />
(3) General rules under section eighty-six of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, may<br />
be made for regulating the procedure under this section, and the Comptroller shall in any<br />
proceeding before him under this section have power by order to award to any party such<br />
costs as he may consider reasonable, and to direct how and by what parties they are to be<br />
paid, and any such order may be made a rule of the High Court.<br />
(4) An order of the Comptroller directing the grant of a licence under this section<br />
shall, without prejudice to any other method of enforcement, operate as if it were embodied<br />
in a deed granting the licence and made between the parties to the proceeding.<br />
(5) Any decision of the Comptroller under this section shall be subject to appeal to<br />
a judge of the High Court, and the decision of that judge shall be final.<br />
(6) An order for the grant of a licence under this section shall not be made in<br />
respect of any work first published or performed in public in a self-governing dominion<br />
to which this Act extends, but the Legislature of any such dominion may provide for the<br />
granting of licences in respect of such works, which licences shall be operative in such<br />
parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends as may be specified in the<br />
licence.<br />
5.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author of a work shall be the first Ownership of<br />
owner of the copyright therein :<br />
copyright, &c.<br />
Provided that,<br />
(a) where in the case of an engraving, photograph, or portrait the work was<br />
ordered by some other person and was made for valuable consideration in<br />
pursuance of that order, then, in the absence of any agreement to the con-<br />
trary, the person by whom the work was ordered shall be the first owner of<br />
the copyright ; and<br />
(6) where the author was in the employment of some other person and the work was<br />
made in the course of his employment by that person, the person by whom<br />
the author was employed shall, in the absence of any agreement to the<br />
contrary, be the first ownes of the copyright.<br />
(2) The owner of the copyright in any work may assign the right, either wholly or<br />
partially, and either generally or subject to limitations to any particular country or place,<br />
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and either for the whole term of the copyright or for any part thereof, and may grant any<br />
interest in the right by licence, but no such assignment shall be valid unless it is in<br />
writing signed by the owner of the right in respect of which the assignment is made, or<br />
by his duly authorised agent.<br />
(3) Where under any partial assignment of copyright the assignee becomes entitled<br />
to any right comprised in copyright, the assignee as respects the right so assigned, and<br />
the assignor as respects the rights not assigned, shall be treated for the purposes of this<br />
Act as the owner of the copyright, and the provisions of this Act shall have effect<br />
accordingly.<br />
Civil Remedies.<br />
Civil remedies 6.—(1) Where copyright in any work has been infringed, the owner of the copyright<br />
for infringe-<br />
ment of copy.<br />
v. shall, except as otherwise provided by this Act, be entitled to all such remedies by way of<br />
right. injunction or interdict, damages, accounts, and otherwise, as may be conferred by law.<br />
(2) The costs in any proceedings in respect of the infringement of copyright shall be<br />
in the absolute discretion of the Court.<br />
(3) In any action for infringement of copyright in any work, the work shall be pre-<br />
sumed to be a work in which copyright subsists and the plaintiff shall be presumed to be<br />
the owner of the copyright, unless the defendant, in his pleadings in defence, states that<br />
he disputes the existence of the copyright, or, as the case may be, the title of the plaintiff,<br />
with the addition of a statement of the ground of such objection, and the name of the<br />
person (if any) whom the defendant alleges to be the owner of the copyright.<br />
Rights of<br />
7. All pirated copies of any work in which copyright subsists, and all plates used or<br />
zannst intended to be used for the production of pirated copies of such work, shall be deemed to<br />
persons<br />
possessing or be the property of the owner of the copyright, who accordingly may take proceedings for<br />
dealing with<br />
pirated copies, the recovery of the possession thereof or in respect of the conversion thereof.<br />
8. Where proceedings are taken in respect of the infringement of the copyright in<br />
Exemption of<br />
innocent any work and the defendant in his defence alleges that he was not aware of the existence<br />
infringer from<br />
liability to of the copyright in the work, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to any remedy other than<br />
pay damages, an injunction or interdict in respect of the infringement if the defendant proves that at<br />
the date of the infringement he was not aware and had not reasonable means of making<br />
himself aware that copyright subsisted in the work :<br />
Provided that if sufficient particulars were before the date of the infringement<br />
entered in a register established under this Act, or, in the case of a work first published<br />
in, or the author whereof was a resident in, a British possession under the laws of which<br />
a register has been established within that possession, if sufficient particulars have been<br />
entered in that register, the defendant shall be deemed to have had reasonable means of<br />
making himself aware that copyright subsisted in the work : but nothing in this proviso<br />
shall be construed as relieving a defendant from such onus of proof as aforesaid in any<br />
case where no such particulars have been entered in a register.<br />
9.—(1) Where a building or other structure which infringes or which, if completed,<br />
remedies in<br />
the case of<br />
would infringe the copyright in some other work has been commenced to be con-<br />
architecture. structed, the owner of the copyright shall not be entitled to obtain an injunction or<br />
interdict to restrain the construction of such building or structure or to order its<br />
demolition.<br />
&c.<br />
&c.<br />
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. (2) Such of the other provisions of this Act as provide that a pirated copy of<br />
a work shall be deemed to be the property of the owner of the copyright, or as<br />
impose summary penalties, shall not apply in any case to which this section<br />
applies.<br />
10. An action in respect of infringement of copyright shall not be commenced Limitation<br />
of actions.<br />
after the expiration of the three years next after the infringement.<br />
Summary Remedies.<br />
11.-(1) If any person-<br />
Penalties for<br />
dealing with<br />
(a) makes for sale or hire any pirated copy of a work in which copyright o<br />
pirated<br />
subsists; or<br />
copies, &c.<br />
(6) sells or lets for hire, or exposes, offers, or has in his possession for sale or<br />
hire any pirated copy of any such work; or<br />
(©) distributes or exhibits in public any pirated copy of any such work ; or<br />
(d) imports for sale or hire into the United Kingdom any pirated copy of any<br />
such work :<br />
he shall, unless he proves that he acted innocently, be guilty of an offence under this<br />
Act and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty shillings for<br />
every copy dealt with in contravention of this section, but not exceeding fifty pounds<br />
in respect of the same transaction ; or in the case of a second or subsequent offence,<br />
either to such fine or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not<br />
exceeding two months :<br />
• Provided that a person convicted of an offence under paragraph (b) of this<br />
sub-section who has not been previously convicted of any such offence, and who proves<br />
that the copies of the work in respect of which the offence was committed had printed<br />
or marked thereon in some conspicuous place a name and address purporting to be<br />
that of the printer or publisher, shall not be liable to any penalty under this section<br />
unless it is proved that the copies were to his knowledge pirated copies.<br />
(2) If any person makes or has in his possession any plate for the purpose of making<br />
pirated copies of any work in which copyright subsists, or for private profit causes any<br />
such work to be performed in public without the consent of the owner of the copyright,<br />
He shall, unless he proves that he acted innocently, be guilty of an offence under this Act,<br />
and be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or, in the case of<br />
a second or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment with or without<br />
hard labour for a term not exceeding two months.<br />
(3) The Court before which any such proceedings are taken may in addition order<br />
that all copies of the work or all plates in the possession of the offender, which appear to<br />
it to be pirated copies or plates for the purpose of making pirated copies, be destroyed<br />
or delivered up to the owner of the copyright or otherwise dealt with as the Court may<br />
think fit.<br />
• 12.—(1) Where a court of summary jurisdiction is satisfied by information on oath Seizure of<br />
that there is reasonable ground for believing that pirated copies of any work are being or<br />
about to be hawked or carried about, sold or offered for sale, it may issue an order about and<br />
arrest of<br />
authorising any constable-<br />
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(a) to seize without further warrant any copies of the work which may be found being<br />
hawked or carried about, sold or offered for sale ;<br />
(b) to arrest without further warrant any person who in any street or public place<br />
sells or exposes or has in his possession for sale any pirated copies of the work,<br />
or who offers for sale any pirated copies of the work by personal canvass or by<br />
personally delivering advertisements or circulars.<br />
(2) Where such an order has been made the person on whose application it was made<br />
may send a copy thereof (certified to be a true copy by the clerk of the Court which<br />
made the order) to the chief officer of police for any district within which the Court<br />
has jurisdiction, and thereupon any constable may seize any such copies and arrest any<br />
such person in accordance with the terms of the order.<br />
(3) Where the constable seizes any copies of a work in pursuance of such an order,<br />
he shall bring them before a court of summary jurisdiction, and that Court, on proof that<br />
the copies are pirated, may order that they be destroyed or delivered up to the owner of<br />
the copyright or otherwise dealt with as the Court may think fit.<br />
(4) All copies of orders sent to a chief officer of police under this section shall<br />
be open to inspection at all reasonable hours by any person without payment of any<br />
fee, and any person may take copies of or make extracts from any such order.<br />
(5) For the purposes of this section the expression “chief officer of police ”—<br />
(a) with respect to the City of London, means the Commissioner of City Police ;<br />
(6) elsewhere in England has the same meaning as in the Police Act, 1890 ;<br />
(c) in Scotland has the same meaning as in the Police (Scotland) Act, 1890 ;<br />
(d) in the police district of Dublin metropolis means either of the Commissioners<br />
of Police for the said district ;<br />
(e) elsewhere in Ireland means the District Inspector of the Royal Irish<br />
Constabulary.<br />
(6) A single order under this section may be made extending to several works.<br />
(7) An order under this section shall not authorise-<br />
(a) the arrest of any person selling or offering for sale ; or<br />
(b) the seizure of copies of,<br />
any newspaper or other periodical publication merely because it contains a pirated<br />
copy of a work, if such pirated copy is only an incidental feature and does not form<br />
a substantial part of the newspaper or periodical.<br />
53 & 54 Vict.<br />
C. 45.<br />
53 & 54 Vict.<br />
c. 67.<br />
Search<br />
warrants.<br />
13. A court of summary jurisdiction may, if satisfied by information on oath that<br />
there is reasonable ground for believing that an offence punishable summarily under this<br />
Act is being committed on any premises, grant a search warrant authorising the constable<br />
named therein to enter the premises between the hours of six of the clock in the morning<br />
and nine of the clock in the evening (and, if necessary, to use force in making such entry,<br />
whether by breaking open doors or otherwise) and to seize any copies of any work or any<br />
plates in respect of which he has reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under<br />
this Act is being committed, and may, on proof that the copies or plates brought before<br />
the Court in pursuance of the warrant are pirated copies or plates intended to be used for<br />
the purpose of making pirated copies, order that they be destroyed or delivered up to the<br />
owner of the copyright or otherwise dealt with as the Court may think fit.<br />
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14. Any person aggrieved by a summary conviction in England or Ireland of an Appeals to<br />
offence under the foregoing provisions of this Act may appeal to a court of quarter Sessions<br />
sessions.<br />
15. The provisions of this Act with respect to summary remedies shall extend only Extent of<br />
provisions as<br />
to the United Kingdom.<br />
to summary<br />
Importation of Copies.<br />
remedies.<br />
16.—(1) Copies made out of the United Kingdom of any work in which copyright Importation<br />
of copies.<br />
subsists which if made in the United Kingdom would infringe copyright, and as to<br />
which the owner of the copyright gives notice in writing by himself or his agent to the<br />
Commissioners of Customs and Excise, that he is desirous that such copies should not be<br />
imported into the United Kingdom, shall not be so imported, and sball, subject to the<br />
provisions of this section, be deemed to be included in the table of prohibitions and<br />
restrictions contained in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and<br />
that section shall apply accordingly.<br />
(2) Before detaining any such copies or taking any further proceedings with a view<br />
to the forfeiture thereof under the law relating to the Customs, the Commissioners of<br />
Customs and Excise may require the regulations under this section, whether as to<br />
information, conditions, or other matters, to be complied with, and may satisfy them-<br />
selves in accordance with those regulations that the copies are such as are prohibited by<br />
this section to be imported.<br />
(3) The Commissioners of Customs and Excise may make regulations, either general<br />
or special, respecting the detention and forfeiture of copies the importation of which is<br />
prohibited by this section, and the conditions, if any, to be fulfilled before such detention<br />
and forfeiture, and may by such regulations determine the information, notices, and<br />
security to be given, and the evidence requisite for any of the purposes of this section, and<br />
the mode of verification of such evidence.<br />
(4) The regulations may apply to copies of all works the importation of copies<br />
of which is prohibited by this section, or different regulations may be made respecting<br />
different classes of such works.<br />
(5) The regulations may provide for the informant reimbursing the Commissioners<br />
of Customs and Excise all expenses and damages incurred in respect of any detention<br />
made on his information, and of any proceedings consequent on such detention ; and<br />
may provide for notices under any enactment repealed by this Act being treated as notices<br />
given under this section.<br />
(6) The foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect as if they were part of<br />
the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 : Provided that notwithstanding anything in<br />
that Act the Isle of Man shall not be treated as part of the United Kingdom for the<br />
purposes of this section.<br />
(7) This section shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the importation<br />
into a British possession to which this Act extends of copies of works made out of that<br />
possession.<br />
Delivery of Books to Libraries.<br />
17.-(1) The publisher of every book published in the United Kingdom shall within Delivery of<br />
one month after the publication deliver, at his own expense, a copy of the book to the copies to<br />
trustees of the British Museum, who shall give a written receipt for it.<br />
Museum and<br />
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(2) He shall also, if written demand is made within three months after publication,<br />
deliver within one month after receipt of that written demand to some depôt in London<br />
named in the demand a copy of the book for, or in accordance with the directions of, the<br />
authority having the control of each of the following libraries, namely : the Bodleian<br />
Library, Oxford, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library of the Faculty of<br />
Advocates at Edinburgh, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.<br />
(3) The copy delivered to the trustees of the British Museum shall be a copy of the<br />
whole book with all maps and illustrations belonging thereto, finished and coloured in<br />
the same manner as the best copies of the book are published, and shall be bound, sewed,<br />
or stitched together, and on the best paper on which the book is printed.<br />
(4) The copy delivered for the other authorities mentioned in this section shall be on<br />
the paper on which the largest number of copies of the book is printed for sale, and shall<br />
be in the like condition as the books prepared for sale.<br />
(5) If a publisher fails to comply with this section, he shall be liable on summary<br />
conviction to a fine not exceeding fire pounds and the value of the book, and the fine<br />
shall be paid to the trustees or authority to whom the book ought to have been delivered.<br />
(6) For the purposes of this section the expression “ book " includes every part or<br />
division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of letter-press, sheet of music, map, plan, chart or<br />
table, but shall not include any second or subsequent edition of a book unless such edition<br />
contains additions or alterations either in the letterpress or in the maps, prints, or other<br />
engravings belonging thereto.<br />
Registration.<br />
18.—(1) There shall be kept in the Hall of the Stationers' : Company by an officer<br />
(hereinafter called the registrar) to be appointed by the Stationers' Company subject to<br />
the approval of the Board of Trade such one or more registers as may be prescribed, in<br />
which shall be entered the names or titles of works and the names of authors, and such<br />
other particulars as may be prescribed.<br />
(2) The author or publisher of, or the owner of or other person interested in the<br />
copyright in, any work may at any time cause the particulars respecting the work to be<br />
entered in the register, but it shall not be obligatory on him to do so.<br />
(3) In the case of an encyclopædia, newspaper, review, magazine, or other periodical<br />
work or work published in a series of books or parts, it shall not be necessary to make a<br />
separate entry for each number or part, but a single entry for the whole work shall<br />
suffice.<br />
(4) There shall also be kept in the Hall of the Stationers' Company by the registrar<br />
such indexes of the registers established under this section as may be prescribed.<br />
(5) The registers and indexes established under this section shall be in the pre-<br />
scribed form, and shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection, and any person shall<br />
be entitled to take copies of or make extracts from any such register, and the registrar<br />
shall, if so required, give a copy of any entry in any such register certified by him to be<br />
a true copy.<br />
(6) An entry in a register kept under this Act shall be primâ facie evidence of the<br />
facts thereby recorded, and an entry in a register may be proved by the production of a<br />
copy thereof certified to be a true copy by the registrar.<br />
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(7) There shall be charged in respect of entries in registers, the inspection of<br />
registers, taking copies of or making extracts from registers, and certificates by the<br />
registrar under this section, such fees as may be prescribed.<br />
(8) The Stationers' Company shall annually render to the Board of Trade such<br />
accounts of their receipts and expenditure under this section as may be prescribed.<br />
(9) The Board of Trade may make regulations prescribing any matters which under<br />
this section are to be prescribed, and generally for carrying this section into effect, and any<br />
such regulations-<br />
(a) may provide for the periodical publication and sale of lists of all works or of<br />
works of any prescribed class in respect of which particulars have been<br />
entered in any register since the publication of the last preceding list ; and<br />
(6) may provide for entries in any register kept under any enactment repealed by<br />
this Act being treated as entries in a register under this section ; and<br />
(c) may require that, in the case of an artistic work desired to be registered, there<br />
shall be furnished a representation of the work sufficient for the identification<br />
thereof.<br />
(10) If any person for the purpose of the registration of a work under this section<br />
makes or causes to be made any statement which is to his knowledge false in any<br />
particular, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall be liable on conviction to<br />
imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding two years.<br />
author<br />
Special Provisions as to certain Works.<br />
19.-(1) In a case of a work of joint authorship copyright shall subsist during the Works of<br />
life of the author who first dies and for a term of fifty years after his death, or during the joint<br />
life of the author who dies last, whichever period is the longer.<br />
(2) Where in the case of an unpublished work of joint authorship some one or more<br />
of the joint authors do not satisfy the conditions conferring copyright laid down by this<br />
Act, the work shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as if the other author or<br />
authors had been the sole author or authors thereof :<br />
Provided that the term of the copyright shall be the same as it would have been if<br />
all the authors had satisfied such conditions as aforesaid.<br />
(3) For the purposes of this Act “a work of joint authorship” means a work<br />
produced by the collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution of one<br />
author is not distinct from the contribution of the other author or authors.<br />
orks.<br />
20. In the case of a literary dramatic or musical work, or an engraving, in which Posthumous<br />
copyright subsists at the date of the death of the author or, in the case of a work of joint "<br />
authorship, at or immediately before the date of the death of the author who dies last, but<br />
which has not been published, nor, in the case of a dramatic or musical work, been<br />
performed in public, nor, in the case of a lecture, been delivered in public, before that<br />
date, copyright shall subsist till publication, or performance or delivery in public, which-<br />
ever may first happen, and for a term of fifty years thereafter, unless previously<br />
determined by first publication elsewhere than in the parts of His Majesty's dominions to<br />
which this Act extends.<br />
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Collective<br />
works.<br />
Provisions as<br />
to photo-<br />
graphs,<br />
records, &c.<br />
21. Where the work of an author is first published as an article or other contribution<br />
in a collective work (that is to say) =<br />
(a) an encyclopædia, dictionary, year book, or similar work ;<br />
(6) a newspaper, review, magazine, or other similar periodical ;<br />
(©) a work written in distinct parts by different authors ;<br />
and the proprietor of the collective work is not the owner of the copyright in the article<br />
or contribution, then, subject to any agreement to the contrary, the owner of the copy-<br />
right in each article or contribution shall retain his copyright therein, but the proprietor<br />
of the collective work shall at all times have the right of reproducing and authorising the<br />
reproduction of the work as a whole, and for a period of fifty years from the date of first<br />
publication of the collective work shall have the sole right of reproducing and authorising<br />
the reproduction of the work as a whole, and shall be entitled to the same remedies in<br />
respect of the infringement of the copyright in any part of the works as if he were the<br />
owner of the copyright.<br />
22. The term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs, and in records, per-<br />
forated rolls, and other contrivances by means of which a work may be mechanically<br />
performed or delivered, shall be fifty years from the making of the negative or plate, and<br />
the person who was owner of the original negative or plate from which the photograph or<br />
other contrivance was directly or indirectly derived at the time when such negative or<br />
plate was made shall be deemed to be the author of the work, and where such owner is a<br />
body corporate the body corporate shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to reside<br />
within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends if it has established<br />
a place of business within such parts.<br />
23.—(1) This Act shall not apply to designs capable of being registered under the<br />
Patents and Designs Act, 1907, except designs which, though capable of being so regis-<br />
tered, are not used or intended to be used as models or patterns to be multiplied by any<br />
industrial process.<br />
(2) General rules under section eighty-six of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, may<br />
be made for determining the conditions under which a design shall be deemed to be used<br />
for such purposes as aforesaid.<br />
24. If it appears to His Majesty that a foreign country does not give, or has not<br />
undertaken to give, adequate protection to the works of British authors, it shall be lawful<br />
for His Majesty by Order in Council to direct that such of the provisions of this Act as<br />
confer copyright on works first published within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to<br />
which this Act extends, shall not apply to works published after the date specified in the<br />
Order, the authors whereof are subjects or citizens of such foreign country, and are not<br />
resident in His Majesty's dominions, and thereupon those provisions shall not apply to<br />
such works.<br />
25.-(1) Where any person is immediately before the commencement of this Act<br />
entitled to any such right in any work as is specified in the first column of the First<br />
Schedule to this Act, or to any interest in such a right, he shall as from that date be<br />
entitled to the substituted right set forth in the second column of that Schedule, or to the<br />
same interest in such a substituted right, and to no other right or interest, and such<br />
substituted right shall subsist for the term for which it would have subsisted if this Act<br />
Provisions as<br />
to designs<br />
registrable<br />
under<br />
7 Edw. 7,<br />
c. 29.<br />
Works of<br />
foreign<br />
authors first<br />
published in<br />
parts of His<br />
Majesty's<br />
dominions to<br />
which Act<br />
extends.<br />
Existing<br />
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had been in force at the date when the work was made and the work had been one entitled<br />
to copyright thereunder :<br />
Provided that-<br />
(a) if the author of any work in which any such right as is specified in the first<br />
column of the First Schedule to this Act subsists at the commencement of<br />
this Act has before that date assigned the right or granted any interest<br />
therein for the whole term of the right, then at the date when but for the<br />
passing of this Act the right would have expired the substituted right con-<br />
ferred by this section shall, in the absence of express agreement, pass to the<br />
author of the work, and any interest therein created before the commence-<br />
ment of this Act and then subsisting shall determine ; but the person who<br />
immediately before the date at which the right would so have expired was<br />
the owner of the right or interest shall be entitled at his option either-<br />
(i) on giving such notice as hereinafter mentioned, to an assignment of<br />
the right or the grant of a similar interest therein for the remainder of<br />
the term of the right for such consideration as, failing agreement, may be<br />
determined by arbitration ; or<br />
(ii) without any such assignment or grant, to continue to reproduce or<br />
perform the work in like manner as theretofore subject to the payment of<br />
such royalties to the author as, failing agreement, may be determined by<br />
arbitration, or, where the work is incorporated in a composite work and<br />
the owner of the right or interest is the proprietor of that composite work,<br />
without any such payment;<br />
The notice above referred to must be given not more than one year nor<br />
less than six months before the date at which the right would have so<br />
expired, and must be sent by registered post to the author, or, if he cannot<br />
with reasonable diligence be found, advertised in the Lonilon Gazette and in<br />
two London newspapers :<br />
(b) where any person has, before the twenty-sixth day of July nineteen hundred<br />
and ten, taken any action whereby he has incurred any expenditure or<br />
liability in connexion with the reproduction or performance of any work in<br />
a manner which at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with a view<br />
to the reproduction or performance of a work at a time when such reproduc-<br />
tion or performance would, but for the passing of this Act, have been lawful,<br />
nothing in this section shall diminish or prejudice any rights or interest<br />
arising from or in connexion with such action which are subsisting and<br />
valuable at the said date, unless the person who by virtue of this section<br />
becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agrees to pay<br />
such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration.<br />
(2) For the purposes of this section the expression "author" includes the legal<br />
personal representatives of a deceased author, and the expression “composite work”<br />
means any work in which works or parts of works of various authors are incorporated.<br />
(3) Subject to the provisions of this Act as to copyright under the Copyright Act,<br />
1775, copyright shall not subsist in any work made before the commencement of this Act,<br />
otherwise than onder and in accordance with the provisions of this section.<br />
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British<br />
Application to British Possessions.<br />
Application<br />
26.—(1) This Act, except such of the provisions thereof as are expressly restricted to<br />
of Act to<br />
the United Kingdom, shall extend throughout His Majesty's dominions : Provided that it<br />
dominions. shall not extend to a self-governing dominion, unless declared by the Legislature of that<br />
dominion to be in force therein either without any modifications or additions, or with<br />
such modifications and additions relating exclusively to procedure and remedies or neces-<br />
sary to adapt this Act to the circumstances of the dominion as may be enacted by such<br />
Legislature.<br />
(2) If the Secretary of State certifies by notice published in the London Gazette that<br />
any self-governing dominion has passed legislation under which works, the authors whereof<br />
were at the date of the making of the works British subjects resident elsewhere than in<br />
the dominion or (not being British subjects) were resident in the parts of His Majesty's<br />
dominions to which this Act extends, enjoy within the dominion rights substantially<br />
identical with those conferred by this Act, then, whilst such legislation continues in force,<br />
the dominion shall for the purposes of the rights conferred by this Act be treated as if it<br />
were a dominion to which this Act extends ; and it shall be lawful for the Secretary of<br />
State to give such a certificate as aforesaid notwithstanding that the remedies for enforc-<br />
ing the rights, or the restrictions on the importation of copies of works, under the law of<br />
the dominion, differ from those under this Act.<br />
Legislative 27.—(1) The Legislature of any self-governing dominion may at any time repeal all<br />
self-governing or any of the enactments relating to copyright passed by Parliament (including this Act)<br />
dominions. so far as they are operative within that dominion : Provided that no such repeal shall<br />
prejudicially affect any legal rights existing at the time of the repeal and that on this Act<br />
or any part thereof being so repealed by the Legislature of a self-governing dominion,<br />
that dominion shall cease to be a dominion to which this Act extends.<br />
(2) In any self-governing dominion to which this Act does not extend, the enact-<br />
ments repealed by this Act shall, so far as they are operative in that dominion, continue<br />
in force until repealed by the Legislature of that dominion.<br />
(3) Where His Majesty in Council is satisfied that the law of a self-governing<br />
dominion to which this Act does not extend provides adequate protection within the<br />
dominion for the works (whether published or unpublished) of authors who at the time of<br />
the making of the work were British subjects resident elsewhere than in that dominion,<br />
His Majesty in Council may for the purpose of giving reciprocal protection direct that<br />
this Act, except such parts (if any) thereof as may be specified in the Order, and subject<br />
to any conditions contained therein, shall, within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to<br />
which this Act extends, apply to works the authors whereof were at the time of the<br />
making of the work resident within the first-mentioned dominion, and to works first<br />
published in that dominion ; but, save as provided by such an Order, works the authors<br />
whereof were resident in a dominion to which this Act does not extend shall not, whether<br />
they are British subjects or not, be entitled to any protection under this Act except such<br />
protection as is by this Act conferred on works first published within the parts of His<br />
Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends :<br />
Provided that no such Order shall confer any rights within a self-governing<br />
dominion, but the Governor in Council of any self-governing dominion to which this Act<br />
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extends, may by Order, confer within that dominion the like rights as His Majesty in<br />
Council is under the foregoing provisions of this sub-section authorised to confer within<br />
other parts of His Majesty's dominions.<br />
For the purposes of this sub-section the expression “a dominion to which this Act<br />
extends ” includes a dominion which is for the purposes of this Act to be treated as if it<br />
were a dominion to which this Act extends.<br />
28. The Legislature of any British possession to which this Act extends may modify Power of<br />
Legislatures<br />
or add to any of the provisions of this Act in its application to the possession, but, of British<br />
except so far as such modifications and additions relate to procedure and remedies, they pos<br />
pass supple-<br />
shall apply only to works the authors whereof were at the time of the making of the work mental legis-<br />
lation,<br />
resident in the possession and to works first published in the possession.<br />
29. His Majesty may by Order in Council extend this Act to any territories under Application to<br />
his protection and to Cyprus, and on the making of any such Order this Act shall subject<br />
to the provisions of the Order have effect as if the territories to which it applies or Cyprus<br />
were part of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends.<br />
protectorates.<br />
Part II.<br />
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
30.-(1) His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that this Act (except such parts, Power to<br />
if any, thereof as may be specified in the Order) shall apply-<br />
extend Act to<br />
foreign works.<br />
(a) to works first published in a foreign country to which the Order relates, in<br />
like manner as if they were first published within the parts of His Majesty's<br />
dominions to which this Act extends ;<br />
(b) to literary dramatic musical and artistic works, or any class thereof, the authors<br />
whereof were at the time of the making of the work subjects or citizens of a<br />
foreign country to which the order relates, in like manner as if the authors<br />
were British subjects;<br />
(©) in respect of residence in a foreign country to which the Order relates in<br />
like manner as if such residence were residence in parts of his Majesty's<br />
dominions to which this Act extends;<br />
and thereupon, subject to the provisions of this Part of this Act and of the Order, this<br />
Act shall apply accordingly :<br />
Prorided that,<br />
(i.) before making an Order in Council under this section in respect of any foreign<br />
country (other than a country with which His Majesty has entered into a<br />
convention relating to copyright) His Majesty shall be satisfied that that<br />
foreign country has made, or has undertaken to make, such provisions,<br />
if any, as it appears to His Majesty expedient to require for the pro-<br />
tection of works entitled to copyright under the provisions of Part I. of<br />
this Act:<br />
(ii.) the Order in Council may provide that the term of copyright within such<br />
parts of His Majesty's dominions as aforesaid shall not exceed that<br />
conferred by the law of the country to which the Order relates :<br />
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(iii.) the provisions of this Act as to the delivery of copies of books shall not<br />
apply to works first published in such country, except so far as is provided<br />
by the Order :<br />
(iv.) the provisions of this Act as to the grant of compulsory licences shall<br />
not apply to works first published or first performed in such country if<br />
His Majesty is satisfied that the laws thereof provide means for enabling<br />
the reasonable requirements of the public to be satisfied with regard to such<br />
works :<br />
(v.) the Order in Council may provide that the enjoyment of the rights<br />
conferred by this Act shall be subject to the accomplishment of such<br />
conditions and formalities (and if any) as may be prescribed by the<br />
Order:<br />
(vi.) in applying the provision of this Act as to ownership of copyright the Order<br />
in Council may make such modifications as appear necessary having regard<br />
to the law of the foreign country :<br />
(vii.) in applying the provisions of this Act as to existing works the Order in<br />
Council may make such modifications as appear necessary, and may provide<br />
that nothing in those provisions as so applied shall be construed as reviving<br />
any right of preventing the production or importation of any translation in<br />
any case where the right has ceased by virtue of section five of the<br />
International Copyright Act, 1886.<br />
(2) An Order in Council under this section may extend to all the several countries<br />
named or described therein.<br />
31.—(1) An Order in Council under this Part of this Act shall apply to all His<br />
Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends self-governing dominions and any other<br />
possession specified in the Order with respect to which it appears to His Majesty expedient<br />
that the Order should not apply.<br />
(2) The Governor in Council of any self-governing dominion to which this Act<br />
extends may, as respects that dominion, make the like orders as under this Part of this<br />
Act His Majesty in Council is authorised to make with respect to His Majesty's dominions<br />
other than self-governing dominions, and the provisions of this Part of this Act shall, with<br />
the necessary modifications, apply accordingly.<br />
(3) Where it appears to His Majesty expedient to except from the provisions of any<br />
order any part of his dominions not being a self-governing dominion, it shall be lawful for<br />
His Majesty by the same or any other Order in Council to declare that such Order and<br />
this Part of this Act shall not, and the same shall not, apply to such part, except so far<br />
as is necessary for preventing any prejudice to any rights acquired previously to the date<br />
of such Order.<br />
Part III.<br />
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS.<br />
32. No person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary<br />
dramatic musical or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than under<br />
and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or of any other statutory enactment for<br />
the time being in force.<br />
Application<br />
of Part II, to<br />
British<br />
possessions.<br />
Abrogation of<br />
low<br />
com<br />
rights.<br />
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33.—(1) His Majesty in Council may make Orders for altering, revoking, or varying Provisions as<br />
to Orders in<br />
any Order in Council made under this Act, or under any enactments repealed by this Act, Council.<br />
but any Order made under this section shall not affect prejudicially any rights or interests<br />
acquired or accrued at the date when the Order comes into operation, and shall provide for<br />
the protection of such rights and interests.<br />
• (2) Every Order in Council made under this Act shall be published in the London<br />
Gazette and shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament as soon as may be after it is<br />
made, and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.<br />
34. Nothing in this Act shall deprive any of the universities and colleges mentioned Saving of<br />
University<br />
in the Copyright Act, 1775, of any copyright they already possess or may hereafter Copyright<br />
acquire under that Act, but the remedies and penalties for infringement of any such 15 Geo. 3,<br />
c. 53.<br />
copyright shall be under this Act and not under that Act.<br />
35. There shall continue to be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of Saving of<br />
compensation<br />
the United Kingdom such annual compensation as was immediately before the commence- to certain<br />
ment of this Act payable in pursuance of any Act as compensation to a library for the loss libraries.<br />
of the right to receive gratuitous copies of books :<br />
Provided that this compensation shall not be paid to a library in any year unless the<br />
Treasury are satisfied that the compensation for the previous year has been applied in the<br />
purchase of books for the use of and to be preserved in the library.<br />
36.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires --<br />
Interpreta-<br />
tion.<br />
“ Literary work ” includes maps, charts, plans, and tables ;<br />
.“ Dramatic work” includes any piece for recitation, choreographic work or<br />
entertainment in dumb show the scenic arrangement or acting form of<br />
which is fixed in writing or otherwise, and any cinematograph production<br />
where the arrangement or acting form or the combination of incidents<br />
represented give the work an original character ;<br />
“ Literary work,” “ dramatic work,” and “musical work” include records,<br />
· perforated rolls, or other contrivances by means of which a work may be<br />
mechanically performed or delivered ;<br />
“ Artistic work ” includes works of painting, drawing, sculpture and artistic<br />
craftsmanship, and architectural works of art and engravings and<br />
photographs ;<br />
“ Work of sculpture " includes casts and models ;<br />
“ Architectural work of art” means any building or structure having an artistic<br />
character or design, in respect of such character or design, but not in respect<br />
of the processes or methods of its construction ;<br />
“ Engravings ” include etchings, lithographs, wood-cuts, prints, and other similar<br />
works, not being photographs ;<br />
“ Photograph” includes photo-lithograph and any work produced by any<br />
process analogous to photography;<br />
“ Cinematograph ” includes any work produced by any process analogous to<br />
cinematography ;<br />
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“ Pirated,” when applied to a copy of a work in which copyright subsists, means<br />
any copy made without the consent or acquiescence of the owner of the<br />
copyright, or imported in contravention of the provisions of this Act ;<br />
“ Performance ” means any acoustic representation of a work and any visual<br />
representation of any dramatic action in a work, including such a represen-<br />
tation made by means of any mechanical instrument ;<br />
“ Delivery,” in relation to a lecture, includes delivery by means of any<br />
mechanical instrument ;<br />
“ Plate ” includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix,<br />
transfer, or negative used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing<br />
copies of any work, and any matrix or other appliance by which records, per-<br />
forated rolls or other contrivances for the acoustic representation of the work<br />
are or are intended to be made ;<br />
“Lecture ”includes address, speech, and sermon ;<br />
“ Self-governing dominion ” means the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth<br />
of Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and<br />
Newfoundland.<br />
(2) For the purposes of this Act (other than those relating to infringements of copy-<br />
right), a work shall not be deemed to be published or performed in public, and a lecture<br />
shall not be deemed to be delivered in public, if published, performed in public, or<br />
delivered in public, without the consent or acquiescence of the author, his executors<br />
adıninistrators or assigns.<br />
(3) For the purposes of this Act a work shall be deemed to be first published within<br />
the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends, notwithstanding that it<br />
has been published simultaneously in some other place, unless the publication in such<br />
parts of His Majesty's dominions as aforesaid is colourable only and is not intended to<br />
satisfy the reasonable requirements of the public, and a work shall be deemed to be<br />
published simultaneously in two places if the time between the publication in one such<br />
place and the publication in the other place does not exceed fourteen days, or such<br />
longer period as may for the time being be fixed by Order in Council.<br />
(4) Where, in the case of an unpublished work, the making of a work has extended<br />
over a considerable period, the conditions of this Act, conferring copyright shall be<br />
deemed to have been complied with if the author was during any substantial part of that<br />
period a British subject or a resident within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to<br />
which this Act extends.<br />
(5) For the purposes of the provisions of this Act as to residence, an author of a<br />
work shall be deemed to be a resident in the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which<br />
this Acts extends if he is domiciled within any such part.<br />
Repeal<br />
37. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the enactments mentioned in the Second<br />
Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of<br />
that schedule :<br />
Provided that this repeal shall not take effect in any part of His Majesty's dominions<br />
until this Act comes into operation in that part.<br />
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38.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 1911.<br />
Short title<br />
and com-<br />
(2) This Act shall come into operation--<br />
mencement.<br />
(a) in the United Kingdom, on the first day of July nineteen hundred and twelve<br />
or such earlier date as may be fixed by Order in Council ;<br />
(b) in a self-governing dominion to which this Act extends, at such date as may<br />
be fixed by the Legislature of that dominion ;<br />
(c) in the Channel Islands at such date as may be fixed by the states of those<br />
islands respectively ;<br />
(d) in any other British possession to which this Act extends, on the proclamation<br />
thereof within the possession by the Governor.<br />
SCHEDULES.<br />
FIRST SCHEDULE.<br />
EXISTING RIGHTS.<br />
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Existing Right.<br />
Substituted Right.<br />
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(a) In the case of Works other than Dramatic and Musical Works.<br />
Copyright<br />
| Copyright as defined by this Act.*<br />
(6) In the case of Musical and Dramatic Works.<br />
Both copyright and performing right . | Copyright as defined by this Act.*<br />
Copyright, but not performing right . Copyright as defined by this Act, except the sole<br />
right to perform the work or any substantial part<br />
thereof in public.<br />
Performing right, but not copyright. The sole right to perform the work in public, but<br />
none of the other rights comprised in copyright as<br />
defined by this Act.<br />
For the purposes of this Schedule the following expressions, where used in the first column<br />
thereof, have the following meanings :-<br />
“ Copyright," in the case of a work which according to the law in force immediately before<br />
the commencement of this Act has not been published before that date and statutory<br />
copyright wherein depends on publication, includes the right at common law (if any)<br />
to restrain publication or other dealing with the work ;<br />
* Performing right," in the case of a work which has not been performed in public before<br />
the commencement of this Act, includes the right at common law (if any) to restrain<br />
the performance thereof in public.<br />
* In the case of an essay, article, or portion forming part of and first published in a<br />
review, magazine, or other periodical or work of a like nature, the right shall be subject to any<br />
right of publishing the essay, article, or portion in a separate form to which the author is<br />
entitled at the commencement of this Act, or would if this Act had not been passed have<br />
become entitled under section eighteen of the Copyright Act, 1842.<br />
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SECOND SCHEDULE.<br />
ENACTMENTS REPEALED.<br />
Session and Chapter.<br />
Short Title.<br />
Extent of Repeal.<br />
8 Geo. 2, c. 13. / The Engraving Copyright Act, 1734 | The whole Act.<br />
7 Geo. 3, c. 38. The Engraving Copyright Act, 1767 The whole Act.<br />
15 Geo. 3, c. 53<br />
The Copyright Act, 1775 .<br />
Sections two, four, and five.<br />
17 Geo. 3, c. 57 The Prints Copyright Act, 1777 . The whole Act.<br />
54 Geo. 3, c. 56 The Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814 . The whole Act.<br />
3 Geo. 4, c. 15. . The Dramatic Coypright Act, 1833 . The whole Act.<br />
5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 65 . The Lectures Copyright Act, 1835 . The whole Act.<br />
6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 59. The Prints and Engravings Copy The whole Act.<br />
right (Ireland) Act, 1836.<br />
6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 110. The Copyright Act, 1836 . . . The whole Act.<br />
5 & 6 Vict. c. 45 The Copyright Act, 1842 . . The whole Act.<br />
7 & 8 Vict. c. 12 . The International Copyright Act, The whole Act.<br />
1844.<br />
10 & 11 Vict. c. 95. The Colonial Copyright Act, 1847 . The whole Act.<br />
15 & 16 Vict. c. 12 . | The International Copyright Act, The whole Act.<br />
1852.<br />
25 & 26 Vict. c. 68 . The Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862 ., Sections one to six. In section<br />
eight the words “and pursuunt<br />
“to any Act for the protection<br />
“of copyright engravings."<br />
Sections nine to twelve.<br />
38 & 39 Vict. c. 12 . The International Copyright Act, The whole Act.<br />
1875.<br />
39 & 40 Vict. c. 36 . The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 Section forty-two, from “ Books<br />
“ wherein” to “such copy-<br />
“right will expire." Sections<br />
forty-four, forty-five, and one<br />
hundred and fifty-two.<br />
45 & 46 Vict. c. 40 . The Copyright (Musical Composi- The whole Act.<br />
tions) Act, 1882.<br />
49 & 50 Vict. c. 33. The International Copyright Act, The whole Act.<br />
1886.<br />
51 & 52 Vict. c. 17. The Copyright (Musical Composi- The whole Act.<br />
tions) Act, 1888.<br />
52 & 53 Vict. c. 42. The Revenue Act, 1889. . Section one, from “ Books first<br />
"published” to “as provided<br />
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VOLUME XXII.<br />
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Books published by Members<br />
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Dramatic Rights in America<br />
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Registration of Scenarios and Original Plays<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
Remittances<br />
General Notes<br />
Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall<br />
Books and their Published Price<br />
Prize Competitions<br />
Style in Literature ... ...<br />
Short Reviews<br />
Thirty-six Dramatic Situations<br />
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end of the list for the convenience of those who<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
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N February 1, the trustees of the Pension<br />
Fund of the society-after the secretary<br />
had placed before them the financial<br />
position of the fund—decided to invest £250 in<br />
the purchase of Consols.<br />
The amount purchased at the present price is<br />
rice is<br />
£312 13s. 4d.<br />
This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d.<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom-<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
as the<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
gear to declare another pension in case any im-<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
Consols 21%.............................. £1,312 13 4<br />
Local Loans ............................... 500 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
ture Stock .......<br />
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Trust 4% Certificates .... 200 0 0<br />
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Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock. ............... 120 121<br />
Dcminion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Grant Stock, 1938........... ....... 198 3 8<br />
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Feb. 21, Cameron, Mrs. (Charlotte) 110<br />
Feb. 21, Mulliken, Mrs. .<br />
March 9, Boughton, Rutland<br />
0 5<br />
March 10, Somers, John ..<br />
0 5 0<br />
April 6, Rawlings, Burford<br />
. 0 10 6<br />
April 11, Wicks, Mark . . . 0 5 0<br />
May 2, Walter, J. . .<br />
2 2 0<br />
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Jan. 2, Mackenzie, Miss J. . . 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur H. . . 1 1 0<br />
Jan. 3, Wasteneys, Lady.<br />
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Jan. 4, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
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Jan. 5, S. F. G..<br />
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Jan. 6, Blake, J. P...<br />
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Jan. 7, Douglas, James A..<br />
1 0 0<br />
Jan. 9, Grisewood, R. Norman . . 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 10, Wharton, Leonard C. . . 0 10 0<br />
Jan. 12, Tanner, James T..<br />
Jan. 16, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila : 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 17, Kemp, Miss Emily G.. 1 1 0<br />
Jan. 21, Greenstreet, The Rev. W.J.. 0 5 9<br />
Jan. 26, Blundell, Miss Alice . .<br />
Jan. 28, Benecke, Miss Ida . . 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 30, Wilkinson, The Rev. C.J. 1 1 0<br />
Feb. 2, Lawes, T. C. . . . .<br />
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Feb. 10, Dale, T. F. .<br />
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Feb. 13. Machen, Arthur<br />
0 10 0<br />
Feb. 21, Strachey, Lady i<br />
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Feb. 25, Humphreys, Mrs. (Ri<br />
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March 6, Haultain, Arnold.<br />
1 1 0<br />
March 9, Hardy, Harold<br />
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March 9. Hutton, E. . .<br />
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0 10 6<br />
March 30, Coke, Desmond.<br />
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April 7, Henry, Miss Alice . .<br />
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April 10, Ralli, Scaramanga<br />
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April 20, MacEwan, Miss.<br />
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Jan. 3, Yolland, Miss E. .<br />
Jan. 3, Bowen, Miss Marjorie .<br />
Jan. 9, Bolton, Miss Anna. .<br />
Jan. 13, Edginton, Miss May .<br />
Feb. 11, Canpan, Gilbert . .<br />
Feb. 15, Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie .<br />
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213<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
of the society. The committee had already taken<br />
counsel's opinion and found themselves unable to<br />
depart from the conclusion they had already come<br />
M HE May meeting of the committee was held to on a previous occasion. It was quite clear that<br />
on Monday, May 1st. After the minutes there was very little chance of the author<br />
of the previous meeting had been signed a establishing a legal right to stop publication.<br />
vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Maurice Hewlett, The Copyright Bill was next considered by the<br />
reference being made to the good work accom- committee. The chairman stated that since the<br />
plished during his chairmanship. The present last meeting it had been necessary for himself and<br />
chairman, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, was authorised the secretary to move rapidly and independently,<br />
to write to Mr. Hewlett and convey to him the as otherwise it would not have been possible to get<br />
feeling of the committee.<br />
the necessary amendments settled and into shape.<br />
Twenty-three members and associates were Fortunately the opinions of both the committee and<br />
elected, bringing the total elections for the current the sub-committee on copyright had been fully<br />
year up to 115. One resignation was accepted. ascertained, as well as those of important members<br />
The committee then considered the cases. The of the society. The chairman stated that after<br />
first related to an infringement by cinematograph the meeting of the Joint Committee, chronicled in<br />
performance in America. The opinion of the the May issue of The Author, the Copyright Sub-<br />
society's American lawyers, with full information Committee met and settled a report dealing with<br />
obtained from America respecting the infringe- the points brought forward at the Joint Committee<br />
ment, was laid before the committee, who decided meeting :—That Mr. E. J. MacGillivray, a<br />
to take the case up subject to the member con- member of the Copyright Sub-Committee, had<br />
cerned, when the full facts of the position were before kindly consented to draft a report in the form of<br />
him, fixing the figure which he desired to claim as amendments. This was done, and as the com-<br />
damages. The next case referred to the cancellation mittee of the House of Commons was commencing<br />
of a right to publish. The author had given its sittings immediately it became necessary for<br />
notice to terminate the agreement, but had found the secretary to see one of the members in order<br />
it impossible to get the book republished owing to to get the amendments put down. This also was<br />
the action of the original publisher who claimed done in time, the secretary attending at the House<br />
that he still had rights under the contract. After of Commons on one or two occasions and discussing<br />
discussing the legal aspects and hearing the matters with Mr. H. D. M‘Laren, in whose name<br />
opinion of the society's solicitor, the committee the society's amendments are now placed. The<br />
decided they were unable to take the matter chairman further reported that at a meeting of the<br />
further. A claim of a member against the English Joint Committee, consisting of representatives of<br />
Review under the old management was considered, the Publishers' Association, the Copyright Associa-<br />
and it was decided to put the facts of the case tion and the Society of Authors, appointed<br />
before the present proprietor, in order to see some time ago to watch the bill through Parlia-<br />
whether any sum could be obtained on behalf of ment, the society's amendments had been read<br />
the member.<br />
and were, on the whole, approved ; but that the<br />
The solicitor then reported the action taken up society's proposal in regard to Clause 4 of the<br />
by the society since the last meeting in regard to Bill had been overruled owing to an amendment<br />
the bankruptcy of Mr. H. Drare., The solicitor which, it was understood, the Government were<br />
mentioned to the committee a suggested proposal going to put down in regard to the clause.<br />
of settlement. It was decided to leave the matter The chairman reported fully all the steps that<br />
in his hands as sixteen or seventeen members had been taken, and laid on the table copies of the<br />
of the society were involved. The solicitor then various documents which had been settled. He<br />
reported a case which had been taken against an added that letters had been written to various<br />
agent who had neglected to pay over moneys he had members of the society, who were also members<br />
receired for contributions placed by him for the of the Committee considering the Bill, asking for<br />
author. It was decided to take what steps might' their support to the society's amendments when<br />
be necessary to throw the agent into bankruptcy. they came before the committee. The chairman<br />
A claim against the proprietor of an Indian paper stated that the work had been exceedingly heavy,<br />
was next considered, and the committee determined but that he was pleased to hear that the result, so<br />
with the approval of the author to take action in far, had proved distinctly satisfactory.<br />
the Indian Courts if the claim was not satisfied. The question of the settlement of an agency<br />
The committee regretted they were unable to take agreement, owing to the discussion of the Copy-<br />
up the next case which was a question of republi- right Bill having taken up much of the committee's<br />
cation by a publisher of an old work by a member time, was adjourned.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
The committee sanctioned the payment of a<br />
bill for rugs for the society's offices. They<br />
tendered a vote of thanks to Mr. C. Scaramanga<br />
Ralli for his donation of £3 38. to the capital<br />
fund of the society.<br />
The secretary reported the receipt of a letter<br />
from the secretary of the Board of Trade touching<br />
a proposal made by the Dramatic Sub-Committee<br />
that the Consuls at the various ports should send<br />
records of dramatic performances of English<br />
pieces. He reported that £170 78. 11d. of consols<br />
had been bought with the £140 which the Com-<br />
mittee had instructed him to invest.<br />
meeting for revision, not as to their substance,<br />
but as to their drafting. The remaining clauses,<br />
which were of a contentious nature, will be dis-<br />
cussed at the next meeting, one by one, until the<br />
draft is completed.<br />
A long letter from Mr. Cecil Raleigh to the<br />
chairman on the treaty, was read to the sub-<br />
committee.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Committee<br />
for May was held at the offices of the society on<br />
Friday the 19th. After the minutes of the<br />
previous meeting had been read and signed the<br />
sub-committee turned to the agenda.<br />
The first matter was the question of sketch pro-<br />
duction, and the secretary read an opinion he bad<br />
received from the solicitors, obtained on the instruc-<br />
tions of the committee at their last meeting, with<br />
regard to sketch prosecutions. Some discussion<br />
followed as to the line of action the committee<br />
should take.<br />
The next question was the practicability of<br />
stopping infringement of performing rights in<br />
America by criminal prosecution. The secretary<br />
read a letter he had received from the counsel of<br />
the National Association of Play-Producing<br />
Managers of America, and he was instructed to<br />
write to the counsel for further information.<br />
Certain vacancies having occurred in the sub-<br />
committee, the secretary was instructed to write to<br />
Mr. Justin Huntley McCarthy and Mr. C. Haddon<br />
Chambers, and inquire whether they would be will-<br />
ing to undertake the duties of the post. Subject<br />
to their acceptance their names were approved.<br />
The secretary reported the work during the past<br />
month on the Copyright Bill, stating what clauses<br />
had been inserted in the Board of Trade draft and<br />
what amendments had been set down.<br />
Finally, the question of the General Treaty<br />
between dramatists and managers was discussed.<br />
It may be remembered that the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Committee received authority from the dramatists<br />
assembled at the meeting held on March 31 to<br />
draft such a treaty, and to negotiate with the<br />
managers on their behalf. The secretary had<br />
drafted a series of clauses for the consideration of<br />
the sub-committee, and of these twelve were passed<br />
without any discussion. The secretary was in-<br />
structed to have these typed and sent to all the mem-<br />
bers of the sub-committee to be laid before the next<br />
Cases.<br />
THIRTEEN cases have been placed in the secre-<br />
tary's hands since the last issue. Three of these<br />
relate to accounts. In one the accounts have been<br />
rendered and forwarded to the author, and the<br />
other two are still in course of negotiation.<br />
Though the publishers have answered the secre-<br />
Though the publishe<br />
tary's letters, they have not had time as yet to get<br />
out the accounts. There have been five cases for<br />
the return of MSS. One of these lying with the<br />
publisher in the United States is still unsettled,<br />
two are lying with agents and will be returned in<br />
due course : one has been returned, but the last<br />
demand has only just come into the office. Of<br />
three applications for money two have been settled,<br />
the cheques having been received and forwarded to<br />
the authors. The third is still unsettled and it<br />
may be necessary to place it in the hands of the<br />
Society's solicitors. There is one case dealing with<br />
the settlement of terms of a contract. This is in<br />
course of negotiation ; and one case for infringe-<br />
ment of copyright which has only just come into<br />
the office. There are still several cases open from<br />
former months but there is not one in which<br />
negotiations are not going forward satisfactorily.<br />
It is hoped that they will be closed before the July<br />
number is printed.<br />
May Elections.<br />
Allen, Lily L. .... . “ Bryngoleu," Ilfra-<br />
combe.<br />
Arnold, Thomas Walker 24, Launceston Place,<br />
Kensington, W.<br />
Cator, Mrs. R. B. P. : c/o His Hon. Judge<br />
Cator, British<br />
Consulate, Con-<br />
stantinople.<br />
Chatterton, E. Keble . 195, Ladbroke Grove,<br />
W.<br />
Cochran, The Rev. A. H. . Merryhall, Ashstead,<br />
Surrey.<br />
Colville, Mrs. Arthur . 3, Eaton Place, S.W.<br />
Cox, Robert . . . 59a, South Audley<br />
Street, W.<br />
Eaton, Mrs. Florence . Maryville, Blackrock,<br />
Dublin.<br />
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Fernald, C. B. . . 4. Marlborough Road.<br />
N.W.<br />
Ghosh Sarath Kumar , 18, Elgin Avenue, W.<br />
Hartree, Clarence . . Havering, Tunbridge<br />
Wells.<br />
Higgins, Clifford . . 3, Derby Street,<br />
Poulton - le - Gylde,<br />
Lancs.<br />
Stephen Knott<br />
Rachel Martyn<br />
Martin, Miss C. I.<br />
Mathews, Gregory M. Langley Mount, Wat-<br />
ford.<br />
Pedler, Margaret (Mrs. W. Barons Wood Bow,<br />
J. Q. Pedler)<br />
N. Devon.<br />
Philips, F. C. . . . 12, King's Bench<br />
Walk, E.C.<br />
Romanné-James, Mrs. C.<br />
(George Rayne) Lyceum Club, London,<br />
W.<br />
Sheane, Hubert . . The Residency, Tife,<br />
N.E. Rhodesia.<br />
Virgo, Eustace F. A. . c/o Messrs. Cook &<br />
Son, Place de la<br />
Constitution,<br />
Athens.<br />
Wallace, G. Carlton . 27, Golder's Gardens,<br />
Golder's Green,<br />
N.W.<br />
(Two members object to the publication either<br />
of their name, pseudonym, or address).<br />
THE LIFE, TRIAL, AND DEATH OF FRANCISCO FERRIER.<br />
By WILLIAM ARCHER. 9 x 58. 332 pp. Chapman &<br />
Hall, 108. 6d. n.<br />
FRIENDLY FACES OF THREE NATIONALITIES. By M.<br />
BETHAM-EDWARDS. 9 x 54. 294 pp. Chapman &<br />
Hall. 108, 6d, n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
QUEEN HERZELEID, OR SORROW-OF-HEART. An Episode<br />
in the Boyhood of the Hero, Parzival. A Poetic Play in<br />
Three Acts. By ISABEL HEARNE. 78 pp. David<br />
Nutt.<br />
THREE PLAYS BY BRIEUX, With a Preface by BERNARD<br />
SHAW. The English Versions by MRS. BERNARD SHAW,<br />
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Hutchinson. 68.<br />
WHEN WE ARE Rich. By WARD MUIR. 74 x 5. 318 pp.<br />
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JUSTUS WISE. By ALFRED WILSON BARRETT. 74 x 5.<br />
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Lane. 68.<br />
Ivor. A Tale of Lundy Island and the West Country. By<br />
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THAT WICKED Miss KEANE. By F. C. PHILIPS. 78 x 5.<br />
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BIBLIOGRAPHY.<br />
JAGGARD (WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BIBLIOGRAPHY : A<br />
dictionary of every known issue of the writings of our<br />
national poet and of recorded opinion thereon in the<br />
English language. With historical introduction. Thirty<br />
facsimilies, portraits and other illustrations. 9 X 7].<br />
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Street, Stratford-on-Avon. Limited issue. 638. n. Or<br />
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BIOGRAPHY.<br />
RUSKIN : A STUDY IN PERSONALITY. By A. C. BENSON.<br />
84 x 51. 264 pp. Smith, Elder. 78. 6d. n.<br />
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HISTORY<br />
WILLIAM THOMSON LORD KELVIN : His WAY OF TEACH.<br />
YEAR-BOOKS OF THE REIGN OF KING EDWARD THE ING NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. By D. Wilson. 8} X 51.<br />
THIRD. Year 20. (Second Part.) Edited by LUKE 56 pp. Glasgow : J. Smith. 28. n.<br />
OWEN PIKE. 104 x 67. 627 pp. Wyman & Sons, for<br />
SPORT.<br />
His Majesty's Stationery Office.<br />
ANGLING FOR GAME FISH. By JOHN BICKERDYKE.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
Third edition, revised and enlarged. 75 X 41. 148 pp.<br />
ACROSS THE FOREST AND FAR AWAY. By GERALDINE Upcott Gill. 18. 6d. n.<br />
E. HODGSON, D.Litt. 74 X 5. 109 pp. Clifton : Baker.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
London : Simpkin, Marshall. 18. 6d. n.<br />
CHURCH SONGS. Collected by the Rev. S. BARING-<br />
LITERARY.<br />
GOULD. Music by the Rev. H. F. SHEPPARD and<br />
ENGLISH DIALECTS FROM THE EIGATEENTH CENTURY R. VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS, Mus.Doc. 71 X 5. 52 pp.<br />
TO THE PRESENT DAY. By the Rev. WALTER W. S.P.C.K. 6d.<br />
SKEAT, Litt.D. 67 x 43. 139 pp. (Cambridge Manuals<br />
TRAVEL<br />
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FROM A COLLEGE WINDOW. By A. C. BENSON. Seven-<br />
Blackwood. 68. n.<br />
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Smith, Elder. 38. 60, n.<br />
BARING-GOULD. 9 X 6.' 327 pp. Lane. 108. 6d. n.<br />
THOMAS HARDY. Penseur et Artiste. Par F. A. AR<br />
A ROMAN PILGRIMAGE. By R. E. ROBERTS. 9 x 5.<br />
HEDGCOCK. Docteur ès lettres, Paris. 508 pp. Hachette.<br />
274 pp. Methuen. 108. 6d. n.<br />
78. 6d.<br />
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HEDGCOCK. Docteur ès lettres, Paris. 283 pp. Hachette.<br />
ARGENTINE PLAINS AND ANDINE GLACIERS. Life on an<br />
58.<br />
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MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
LARDEN. 9 x 54 320 pp. Fisher, Unwin, 148, n.<br />
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episodes in the tale. There are as many pictures<br />
as poems-in colour and in black and white-<br />
drawn by Mr. Henry Ford, and seven maps. The<br />
volume will be publishea<br />
volume will be published at a very low price by<br />
the Oxford University Press in a few weeks'<br />
time.<br />
Messi's. Wyman & Sons have published the<br />
second part of the “ Year:book of the Reign of<br />
King Edward the Third,” under the editorship of<br />
Mr. Luke Owen Pike. The present volume com-<br />
pletes the Rolls series of year-books extending<br />
(in fifteen volumes) from the eleventh to the<br />
twentieth year of the reign, inclusive. In the<br />
introduction the editor has traced the beginning<br />
and development of the year-books (law reports<br />
in French) and has shown their relation to legal<br />
and social history in connection with other sources<br />
of information.<br />
Miss Grace Toplis's little plays for amateurs in<br />
schools and villages, after flourishing for twenty-<br />
five years, are still in large demand. They are being<br />
reissued by the publishers, Messrs. George Gill &<br />
Sons, with the addition of a pageant specially<br />
written for the coronation, and entitled “The Five<br />
Georges.”<br />
In his new novel “ John Verney,” Mr. Vachell<br />
gives a vivid picture of the political life of to-day,<br />
introducing the characters of “ The Hill," and<br />
the same theme, the eternal struggle between good<br />
and evil. Mr. John Murray is the publisher.<br />
Mr. J. W. Hollingsworth has published, through<br />
Messrs. Minchin & Gibbs, a poem entitled “Engle-<br />
side Towers."<br />
"A Holiday in South Africa" is the title of a<br />
book by Sir H. Mortimer Durand which Messrs.<br />
William Blackwoods & Sons have published. The<br />
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book consists of a series of sketches written during Mr. W. L, Courtney who has hitherto been<br />
a visit to South Africa in order to see the country known to the public as editor, dramatist, poet and<br />
and to watch on the spot the progress of the critic, is shortly to appear as novelist, Messrs.<br />
movement which has now resulted in the birth of Chapman and Hall announcing the publication of<br />
a new nation.<br />
his first novel, which will be called, “In Search of<br />
The Shakespeare Press, Stratford-on-Avon, have Egeria.”<br />
just published a Shakespeare bibliography com-<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
piled by Mr. William Jaggard. It contains on its<br />
730 pages 6,000 distinct entries and references, Mr. Matheson Lang is including in his repertoire<br />
including many hitherto unrecorded editions, with for his tour in South Africa Mr. Rafael Sabatini's<br />
thousands of illustrated notes and extracts. It play “Bardelys the Magnificent," founded on his.<br />
gives minute details and available locations of novel of that name. Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co.<br />
every known issue of Shakespeare's writings, also are the publishers of the novel, of which a 1s.<br />
of every article of Shakespearean comment, and edition has been issued.<br />
all engraved Shakespeare portraits, with market The Bernard Shaw Season at the Criterion<br />
values of the rarer entries. There are also Theatre commenced on May 18, when Mr. Shaw's<br />
many references to incidental Shakespearean “Arms and the Man” was re-staged. In the cast<br />
actors, actresses, biographers, celebrations, editors, were Mr. Arnold Daly, Miss Margaret Halstain,<br />
festivals, manuscripts, monuments, translators, Mr. Dawson Millward, and Miss Geraldine Oliffe.<br />
societies, theatres, &c. The volume is illustrated Other of Mr. Shaw's plays will be produced during<br />
with thirty facsimiles, portraits, and other appro- the season.<br />
priate plates.<br />
Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City,<br />
New York, have acquired the option upon the<br />
American rights of a story upon which Mrs.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
Janet Macdonald Clark, author of “ The Bourgeois<br />
Queen of Paris,” is now engaged.<br />
Morgan Douglas (the pseudonym of a Scottish<br />
TE have just returned from the terrible<br />
lady resident in France) has written a booklet<br />
tragedy of the Paris - Madrid aviation<br />
entitled “ A Corner of the Garden of France." It<br />
fête. For miles and miles all available<br />
deals descriptively and historically with the district<br />
places were thronged with people. Trees, telegraph<br />
lying around Loches, in the province of Touraine,<br />
posts, the roofs of houses and even the tops of the<br />
an historic town in an historical region. The<br />
trains were all utilized by the gay, good-humoured<br />
publishers are Reymond, Loches & Périeat, Tours.<br />
The price is 1f. 50c. (1s.)<br />
spectators. The first aviators mounted with admir-<br />
able dexterity and ease, and as each one passed over<br />
Mr. Werner Laurie is just publishing “ The<br />
Mystic Bride: a Study of the Life of Catherine of<br />
our heads was greeted with ringing cheers. The<br />
people for miles round on every vantage ground<br />
Siena," by Mrs. Aubrey Richardson. The book,<br />
awaited in vain the fifth one. With marvellous speed<br />
which will be fully illustrated, will be issued at<br />
128. 6d. net.<br />
the news of the terrible accident travelled miles in<br />
We understand that a new magazine called<br />
every direction, and with one accord the thousands<br />
and thousands of people who only a few minutes before<br />
The Blackpool Magazine is appearing early this<br />
had been cheering so lustily, now turned away from<br />
month under the editorship of Mr. Allen Clarke.<br />
the theatre of the accident and wended their way<br />
The new magazine will be published from Black-<br />
homewards. The printed supplements of two or<br />
pool, will appear monthly, and will be sold at 4d.<br />
Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons are to publish<br />
three newspapers were already in the streets before<br />
numbers of the spectators in the far distance had<br />
during the month a volume of poems, with the<br />
title “The Crucibles of Time."<br />
comprehended.<br />
Messrs. Mills and Boon are publishing “The<br />
Story of the British Navy,” by E. Keble Chatterton. One of the French literary prizes has been<br />
In this book, the author of "Sailing Ships," aims awarded to Constantin Photiadès for his book<br />
at telling in non-technical language the story of on “George Meredith.” It is an admirable study<br />
the British Navy from the earliest times up to the of the English author and of his work.<br />
present day. In addition to the historical detail M. Photiadès visited George Meredith at Box<br />
contained in the book, there are stories of sea fights Hill, and the latter confided to him his horror of<br />
and adventures. Messrs. Mills and Boon are the modern “ interviewer." He explained that the<br />
the publishers of the book which contains fifty fashion of interviewing everyone had come to<br />
illustrations in colour.<br />
England from America, and that English reporters<br />
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now copied the brutally rough way of acting of the been founded in Paris, it is curious to meet with<br />
Cow-boys and rough-riders of the press, and fondly this history of “a cosmopolitan actor " who was<br />
believed that their sans-gêne was force.<br />
such an excellent Shakespearean, and to find that<br />
As to journalists, Meredith declared that a young he was of French, Irish, and English extraction.<br />
author only had two courses open to him. He The writer of this volume gives us many interest-<br />
must either shun journalists or be diplomatic with ing details with regard to the acting and talent of<br />
them, and he confessed that critics gave him goose Garrick. He tells us of his first journey to France,<br />
flesh. Only the bare outline of Meredith's life is of the friends he made in the French capital, of his<br />
given, his biographer endeavouring, as far as life there and of his correspondence later on with<br />
possible, to explain by atavism the characteristic many celebrities of his time. There are also many<br />
traits of the great novelist.<br />
curious details with regard to various translations<br />
The story of his literary career, the long up-hill and adaptations of Shakespeare.<br />
struggle, the time when his masterpieces were un- In the midst of these most prosaic days, the<br />
read and when Mudie's Library refused “The French seem to have taken refuge in poetry,<br />
Ordeal of Richard Feverel,” all this seems Matinées devoted to poetry are greatly in vogue.<br />
incredible now.<br />
The review La Poétique, under the direction of<br />
M. Photiadès goes on to analyse some of his M. Saint Chamarand and M. E. Gignoux, gives<br />
works, criticising, explaining, and comparing in a one of these matinées every week. Quite recently<br />
way that shows how thoroughly he has studied his we have heard Jean Rameau, Jules Bois, the<br />
subject. He devotes a whole chapter to George Duchesse de Rohan, and many other poets recite<br />
Meredith's imagination, another one to his art, their verses there. The Duchessé de Rohan gave<br />
another to his doctrine, and by way of conclusion two very delightful matinées of this kind last<br />
he tells us that the author of “The Egoist " will month. Hélène Vacaresco recited some of her<br />
ever be read by posterity, and that by posterity he latest poems and Mme. Jules Martin two or three<br />
means the “imperishable élite of every generation of Mme. Alphonse Daudet's later ones.<br />
from one century to another.”<br />
Mme. Judith Gauthier has just published an<br />
“ Silhouettes Historiques,” by the Marquis de exquisite volume of “ Poésies,” and M. Jean<br />
Ségur, is a volume containing a series of short Monval has published a volume of Sonnets et<br />
historical sketches, many of which have been Poems, by his uncle the late François Coppée.<br />
treated more fully by authors who are introduced The volume is entitled “ Sonnets inédits et Poèmes<br />
to us by the compiler of this volume. Among the inédits,” and is a collection of poems composed<br />
titles of the various chapters are: “Le Louis XIII. between 1862 and 1908.<br />
de l'Histoire," "Le Médecin du Grand Condé," The Revue hebdomadaire is continuing its excel-<br />
- Les Etapes d'une faniille sous l'ancienne lent series of articles on the different ministries..<br />
monarchie," “ Les Filles de Louis XV.," “ La It has given the “ Ministères de la Marine," " de<br />
vraie Madame du Barry," " Les Déboires d'un la Guerre," “ de l'Intérieur," “ Postes et<br />
héros,” etc.<br />
Telegraphes," and the “Ministère du Travail."<br />
“Souvenirs sur Guy de Maupassant," by Maurice Donnay has now completed his ten<br />
François, his valet de chambre (1883–1893). lectures on Molière, which have all been reproduced<br />
In these days, when the literary works of an in this review, and Emile Ollivier writes on “ La<br />
author do not suffice for the public, it is advisable Légende de la Preparation Militaire.”<br />
for literary men to provide themselves with At the Comedie-Française “ Le Goût du Vice”<br />
domestics capable of writing their biographies. by Henri Lavedan is being given with great success.<br />
Guy de Maupassant seems to have been singularly It is a play in four acts, and is greatly belied<br />
fortunate in having a devoted attendant, who in by its title. It is an extremely literary and<br />
his spare time took notes, some of which are dis- brilliant piece with all the sparkling witty dialogue<br />
tinctly interesting. On the other hand, very to which this author has accustomed us.<br />
many of the details contained in this volume seem The Odéon has been extremely active this winter,<br />
decidedly superfluous. One is inclined to overlook and among its new pieces we have had “ Mère"<br />
all faults though, when we are told that the by Dick May, “ Maud " by M. Lecomte de Nouy,<br />
compiler of this little work wished to show that “Rivoli ” by M. René Fauchois, “La Lumière"<br />
his master, besides being a man of great talent, by M. Georges Duhamel, and “ Vers l'Amour " by<br />
was kind-hearted, straightforward, and loyal in the M. Léon Gandillot.<br />
highest degree.<br />
At the Renaissance “ La Gamine," a four-act<br />
“David Garrick et ses amis Français,” by F. A. play by M. M. Pierre Veber and Henry de Goisse<br />
Hedgcock, is an extremely interesting book and is has been drawing a crowded house.<br />
published at a most opportune moment. Just as The new society formed with a view to putting<br />
The Shakespearean or, rather, “ Ariel League ” has on more wholesome plays, “Les Amis de l'Art<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Dramatique,” gave a gala performance at the Maurice Hewlett George Gilbert Murray<br />
Renaissance Theatre. The profits were for the Henry James<br />
Henry Newbolt<br />
Society for the Preservation of the French William Paton Ker Edward Henry Pember<br />
Churches, founded by Maurice Barrès, and two Andrew Lang<br />
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero<br />
plays were given, “ Au Clocher ” by M. de Nion, Sir Alfred Comyn George Walter Prothero<br />
and the other “Le Médecin de Campagne" by Lyall<br />
Walter Raleigh<br />
Henry Bordeaux.<br />
John William Mackail Arthur Woolgar Verrall<br />
Madame Le Roy Liberge is taking a very Thomas Sturge Moore George Wyndham<br />
active part in this movement, and a series of Viscount Morley<br />
William Butler Yeats.<br />
excellent critical lectures is being given on the new<br />
plays by M. Jacques Duval.<br />
PROVINCE AND DUTIES.<br />
M. Camille de Sainte-Croix gave a gala perform- 1. To take all possible measures to maintain the<br />
ance of the “Merchant de Venice" by his Com purity of the English language, and to hold up a<br />
pagnie française du Théâtre Shakespeare, for the standard of good taste in style<br />
benefit of the Ligue Ariel and the monument<br />
2. To encourage fellowship and co-operation<br />
Beethoven. It is estimated that over 3,000 among those who are disinterestedly striving for the<br />
persons were present. The Recteur of the Sor-<br />
perfection of English literature.<br />
bonne gave orders for posters to be put up in the 3. By discourses of reception, and obituary<br />
Lycées or public colleges. The Duchess Rohan addresses to mark the current of literary history in<br />
and the Dowager Duchess d’Uzes each had<br />
this country.<br />
boxes, and the English Ambassador and Bishop<br />
4. To recommend the names of persons fitted to<br />
Ormsby, the Chaplain of the Embassy, bave joined receive the medals of the society.<br />
this Shakespeare Committee. Marc Helys, author 5. To make awards of merit to particular literary<br />
of “ Le Jardin Fermé,” has consented to be Italian<br />
works.<br />
correspondent for the Ariel League. Mlle. Cruz,<br />
RULES.<br />
daughter of the late Minister of Guatemala, and<br />
poetess herself, correspondent for South America. 1. Elections to the Academic Committee shall be<br />
An outdoor Shakespearean play is to be organised made as follows :—Whenever it is resolved by the<br />
for the month of Jūne, and it is probable that the Academic Committee to elect new members, every<br />
French Shakespeare Company will then start on candidate must be proposed and seconded in writing,<br />
a tournée, and may possibly begin its foreign tour and every such nomination must be read at a meeting.<br />
in England.<br />
Any member of the Academic Committee can pro-<br />
ALYS HALLARD. pose or second a candidate. The election thereafter<br />
shall be by ballot through the post, and only one<br />
“ George Meredith " (Armand Colin).<br />
candidate shall be elected at one time. A candi-<br />
" Silhouettes Historiques" (Calmann Lévy).<br />
date to be elected must have an absolute majority<br />
“ David Garrick et ses amis Français " (Hachette).<br />
of votes.<br />
“ Poésies" (Fasquelle).<br />
2. Not fewer than four ordinary meetings of the<br />
Academic Committee shall be held each year.<br />
Special meetings shall also be held at such times<br />
ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br />
as may be recommended by the General Purposes<br />
Committee, or at the recommendation of any three<br />
members of the Academic Committee.<br />
W E have much pleasure in publishing herewith<br />
3. A General Purposes Committee of not more<br />
the list of members of the Academic Com-<br />
than five members shall be appointed annually to<br />
mittee so far elected, their province and<br />
watch for occasions on which the Academic Com-<br />
duties, and the rules that will guide their actions.<br />
mittee may fitly take action, and to report to the<br />
We regret, however, to announce that since<br />
Academic Committee on any matters which they<br />
this list was issued two vacancies have been caused<br />
think it desirable to bring before them. Any two<br />
on account of the deaths of Sir Alfred Comyn<br />
members of the General Purposes Committee may<br />
Lyall and Mr. Edward Henry Pember, K.C.<br />
call upon the secretary to summon a meeting of<br />
Alfred Austin<br />
William John Courthope that committee. The quorum to be always three.<br />
Arthur Christopher Austin Dobson<br />
4. A sub-committee of three members shall be<br />
Benson<br />
Edward Dowden<br />
appointed annually to select from time to time one<br />
Laurence Binyon James George Frazer or more persons who, or one of whom, shall be<br />
Andrew Cecil Bradley Edmund Gosse<br />
appointed by the Academic Committee to deliver<br />
Robert Bridges<br />
Richard Burdon Haldane any such address as is contemplated in section 3 of<br />
Joseph Conrad<br />
Thomas Hardy<br />
province and duties.<br />
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5. Any three members of the Academic Com- a money order for $1.00 (entry fee) should be sent<br />
mittee may propose the name of a book or an author in the same parcel. The law provides that post-<br />
as deserving public recognition by the committee, masters to whom are delivered the copies to be<br />
and any such proposal shall thereon be referred for deposited shall, if requested, give à receipt<br />
report to a sub-committee appointed for that therefore, and shall mail them to their destination<br />
purpose.<br />
without cost to the copyright claimant.<br />
Address : The Register of Copyrights, Copyright<br />
Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.<br />
DRAMATIC RIGHTS IN AMERICA.<br />
THORVALD SOLBERG,<br />
Register of Copyrights.<br />
DRAMAS.<br />
Instructions for securing copyright registration<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
under the new law.<br />
M HE new copyright law effective on July 1,<br />
BLACKWOODS.<br />
1909, abrogates the former statutory A Mystery of Dickens. By Andrew Lang.<br />
provisions permitting the filing of the title About Marie-Claire. By Alfred Noyes.<br />
of a dramatic composition in advance of the<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
deposit of complete copies of the composition.<br />
Under the new law copyright registration may<br />
The English Bible. By Thomas Seccombe.<br />
be secured for a dramatic or dramatico musical com-<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
position by taking the following steps :-<br />
Antonio Fogazzaro. By Dora M. Jones.<br />
If the work is reproduced in copies for sale, two Programme Music By George Lilley.<br />
copies of the best edition published should be<br />
The Gardens of Chaucer and Shakespeare.<br />
sent to the Copyright Office, Washington, D.C.,<br />
CORNHILL.<br />
promptly after publication, together with an<br />
Charlotte Brönte's Street in Brussels. By Gerald<br />
application for registration and a money order for Cumberland.<br />
$1.00, payable to the Register of Copyrights, to The Scottish Homes and Haunts of Robert Louis<br />
cover the statutory fee for registration. Use for<br />
Stephenson. By Flora Masson.<br />
Charles Dickens. By G. W. E. Russell.<br />
this purpose application form “ D. 1."<br />
Sir Walter Scott. By Andrew Lang.<br />
If the work is afterwards reproduced in copies<br />
for sale, two copies of the best edition published<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
should also be deposited promptly after publication<br />
The Englishman in 18th Century French Comedy. By<br />
with application for second registration and fee,<br />
Prof. Gerothwohl and J. W. Eaton.<br />
Post Impressionism. By Roger Fry,<br />
as above. Application forms are supplied by this<br />
Thackeray as Historian. By Walter Sichel.<br />
office upon request.<br />
The Copyright Bill, 1911. By G. Herbert Thring.<br />
The Religious and Moral Status of Wagner. By Vernon<br />
NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT.<br />
NATIONAL.<br />
The law requires a notice of copyright to be The Portraits of Carmontelle. By Austin Dobson.<br />
affixed to each copy published or offered for sale in Why I Ceased to be a Dramatic Critic. By X.<br />
the United States. The notice required by law<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
In the case of pubnsned aramas consists. either. Our Debt to Latin. Poetry as Distinguished from<br />
the word “ Copyright” or the abbreviation Greek. II. Poetry of the Silver Age. By R. T. Tyrrell.<br />
* Copr. ” accompanied by the name of the copy-<br />
right proprietor and the year in which the copy-<br />
right was secured by publication. The notice<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
should appear upon the title page or the page<br />
immediately following.<br />
[ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
FEES.<br />
Front Page<br />
Other Pages ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 0<br />
Hall of a Page ...<br />
The statute fixes the fee for registration of a<br />
... ... 1 100<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
... O 15 0<br />
dramatic composition at $1.00, which includes the Eighth of a Page<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
per inch 0 0 0<br />
cost of a certificate of registration under seal.<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent, made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent. for<br />
Such certificate “ shall be admitted in any court as<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein."<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
The work, the application for registration and BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
Lee.<br />
£4 0 0<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
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***<br />
0<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
.T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
6. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu.<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
act should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. “It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed rovalt:<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for ‘an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author,<br />
IV. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author." We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
LTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
u agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
I. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case..<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
.very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
M branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 2s.6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
COLONIAL MARKETS.<br />
ADHESION OF PORTUGAL TO THE BERNE<br />
The marketing of Colonial rights presents some<br />
CONVENTION.<br />
extraordinary facts. Although the Colonial markets<br />
By a note, dated March 29, 1911, M. Alb. are vast and growing larger every day, yet the<br />
d'Olviera, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister<br />
sale of English books in all the Colonies put<br />
Plenipotentiary of Portugal, in Switzerland, has<br />
together seldom reaches the amount of copies<br />
notified to the Swiss Federal Council that the<br />
sold in England. We pointed out how dangerous<br />
Provisional Government of the Portuguese Republic<br />
the American book-agent had proved himself as<br />
has decided. for Portugal and its Colonies. to a competitor in Canada and Australia ; how he<br />
adhere to the Convention of Berne (as revised on<br />
usurped those markets and, naturally, pushed<br />
November 13, 1908) for the protection of literary<br />
the sales of the works of American authors. It<br />
and artistic property.<br />
seemed that there were two main causes for this<br />
This adhesion takes effect from March 29,<br />
result : (1) the lack of enterprise on the part of<br />
1911.<br />
Colonial publishers who wait till the books are<br />
Regarding contributions to the expenses of the brought to them. rather than make an effort to<br />
International Bureau, Portugal has requested to be<br />
secure the Colonial rights for themselves direct<br />
ranked in the third of the classes arranged by<br />
from the authors; and (2) the lack of enterprise<br />
article 23 of the Convention.<br />
on the part of English publishers who, snatching<br />
every right they possibly can from the author,<br />
neglect to market those rights to their full extent,<br />
caring little for the author's reputation and pros-<br />
COMMERCIAL EDITORS..<br />
perity so long as they recover the money they have<br />
put into the book, and turn over a fair percentage.<br />
THERE is a growing tendency on the part of the<br />
The publishers naturally repudiate these state-<br />
editors of the more commercial popular magazines ments and try to explain the labour and expense to<br />
to cheapen unduly the work of authors who are which they are willing to go to obtain a sale in the<br />
not very widely known. Several instructive experi- Colonies.<br />
ences have come under our notice and these, for<br />
II.<br />
the benefit of the craft, ought to obtain publicity.<br />
An author of some reputation, but moderate vogue, To show how true our conjectures have been<br />
received an offer of five guineas for a story of quite we relate with some chagrin the experience of a<br />
four thousand words. In a rash moment, thinking member of the society who has taken much interest<br />
to secure a “connection," he agreed. For the next in these issues. Last year he published a book and<br />
MS. of the same length he was offered three gave the American publishers the Canadian rights :<br />
guineas, and was told that the editor was not very the latter copyrighted the book in Canada, and.<br />
keen on the story, but if it were given at the sum although the sales in that country were, he con.<br />
named, an effort would be made to use it. Not fesses, not enormous, the American publishers sold<br />
being pressed for money, and regretting his initial more than the English publishers could sell in<br />
folly, the author refused, and said that in future he England. He did not transfer the Australian rights<br />
would not sell for less than two guineas per to the American publishers, although they asked<br />
thousand, a rate which he has no difficulty in for them. An Australian jobber sent to the<br />
obtaining elsewhere. From that day he has been American publishers an order for seven hundred<br />
unable to find acceptance with the editor in ques- and fifty copies which, of course, the American pub-<br />
tion. Soon after, he obtained satisfactory terms lishers could not fulfil. The author concludes with<br />
for the same MS. from an old-established journal. some bitterness, “ The net result to me is that by<br />
In another instance an author who offered a story upholding the English publisher I have lost not<br />
of more than four thousand words received to only some small return in loyalties, but, what is<br />
proposal of five guineas for all rights ! He was more important to me, the excellent opening in<br />
fortunately, a man of long practical experience in Australia along with the chante of becoming better<br />
editorial work, and knew the ways of the “ market” known to the public there."<br />
thoroughly, but his pen-name doubtless led the The conclusion seems clear that it may become<br />
editor to imagine that he was dealing with a worth the while of English tuthors not only to<br />
beginner and a greenhorn. These sidelights are secure the American copyright, but to transfer to<br />
not without their own humour, but they also the American publisher the Ausralian, New Zealand<br />
indicate a tendency which writers are bound to and Canadian rights. Thoughwe should desire all<br />
combat.<br />
authors to be patriotic, yet it is asking too much of<br />
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them at the same time to give up a great portion of<br />
their livelihood. Our correspondent informs us that<br />
the American house, besides giving over the English<br />
rights in the illustrations done by a well-known and<br />
expensive man, also offered, as a gift, the complete<br />
stereos of the same.<br />
Cannot the English publisher really put some<br />
more energy into the Colonial markets, which,<br />
though they may not pay him in 1911 or 1912,<br />
may, if fairly dealt with, bring him in his largest<br />
circulation in 1920.<br />
Unless by that time the United States are<br />
dealing with all the Colonial markets.<br />
their utmost to lay hold of these rights. What<br />
happens is this. The English dealers obtain all<br />
the serial rights from authors, and then sell to the<br />
American magazines at a price which pays the<br />
English dealers exceedingly well, underselling the<br />
American market. The dealer thereby gets the<br />
profit instead of the author. It does happen also,<br />
sometimes, that an American editor who might<br />
not be entirely patriotic, adopts a similar plan,<br />
coming direct to the author and offering him a<br />
sụm for the American use of his work which,<br />
though considerably in advance of the price the<br />
author might receive in England, does not reach<br />
as high as the price which would have been made for<br />
American work. This ought to be for the benefit<br />
of the English author, but while agents will not<br />
take the trouble to secure the American market,<br />
and while, in a good many cases, they consent to<br />
transfer these minor rights to the publisher, the<br />
English author is not likely to benefit. Again, we<br />
should impress upon the English author that if he<br />
works off his rights through an agent he must see<br />
that the agent is well up to his business ; he<br />
must see that the agent makes every effort to<br />
obtain the American serial and book rights before<br />
he places the English serial and book rights, and<br />
he must see also that the agent does not slack off<br />
in his efforts merely because it is harder, and there-<br />
fore, brings him in less profit, to place work in<br />
America than in England.<br />
AGENTS AS PRINCIPALS.<br />
We should like once more to put before our<br />
members the danger arising from placing work in<br />
the hands of those agents who undertake from time<br />
to time to deal with work as principals. “Once<br />
an agent always an agent” ; this should be the<br />
established motto.<br />
We do not discuss the question of an agent<br />
who, knowing he can sell an author's work for<br />
a certain price, turns to the author and says “I<br />
will purchase this from you," and then, having<br />
purchased, pockets the difference ; but we take the<br />
case merely of an author's agent who has a con-<br />
siderable amount of copyright property of his own<br />
which he has purchased. He will, naturally, desire<br />
to sell this in preference to the work of the authors<br />
for whom he acts, and again, may be tempted,<br />
when he receives anything particularly good from<br />
an author, to offer to purchase it-not because he<br />
has any special market at the moment where he<br />
knows he can sell at a profit, but because he knows<br />
from his experience that a handsome profit can be<br />
obtained. If, therefore, an agent offers to pur-<br />
chase outright from an author, the author should<br />
at once look upon that offer with considerable<br />
suspicion, and should be exceedingly careful of the<br />
agent's dealing in the future. If these instances<br />
had not arisen from time to time there would be<br />
no need to warn authors against them, but, un-<br />
fortunately, both dramatic and literary agents yield<br />
to the temptation to act as principals, and it is only<br />
right that authors should be made aware of the<br />
dangers.<br />
CHEAP BOOKS AND THE U. S. A. MARKETS.<br />
An American correspondent writes as follows :<br />
" The book market seems to be taking a trend towards<br />
the state of affairs in England. The output of mediocre<br />
novels is appalling, and they seem to sell at an average<br />
about 1,500 copies. A number of English books are put on<br />
the market by English publishers who get all rights'<br />
from an ignorant client, and these are offered to publishers<br />
here at as little as $100 ; which the English publisher<br />
of course pockets as found money. A book, fairly<br />
well adapted to American tastes and well published, can<br />
count on a sale of from 6,000 to 8,000 copies at $1.50, and<br />
if the cheap edition publishers take it up they will pay<br />
the usual five cent. royalty on from 15,000 to 20,000<br />
copies. The worst seller of the so-called six best sellers<br />
should, I am told, bring in royalties on about 40,000 copies<br />
of the $1.50 edition. And the best anything between<br />
100,000 and 200,000,<br />
“The cheap edition is threatening to scuttle the higher-<br />
priced one, especially as even the best seller cannot count<br />
on a year of life.<br />
It is quite clear that this issuing of cheap<br />
editions will, if it is not very carefully watched,<br />
kill the author's remuneration and fill book shops<br />
to such an extent that no space-room will be left.<br />
The Committee of the Society of Authors have<br />
warned authors over and over again against<br />
yielding to the temptation of the cheap edition<br />
SERIAL RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES<br />
OF AMERICA.<br />
The fact that English authors get much less for<br />
their serial work in England than in America is<br />
becoming known not only to the astute English<br />
dealers but also to American jobbers. Perhaps it<br />
is for this reason that we see the publishers trying<br />
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until their book has had three years' run at least;<br />
indeed, the longer an author can stop the issuing<br />
of his book in a cheap edition the more likely<br />
he will be to bave a success for his subsequent<br />
novels, but we are afraid too often £25 in the<br />
hand is better than £100 in the bush. The French<br />
market has already suffered tremendously from this<br />
cheapening process. In consequence, only those<br />
authors who can be certain of an enormous circu-<br />
lation can get put forward at the publishers'<br />
expense, and as an enormous circulation very often<br />
does not go to the producer of the highest literature<br />
till after thirty or forty years' struggle, and some-<br />
times not even then, the cheap edition really<br />
means, to a certain extent, depriving the public<br />
of the highest and best in the world of letters.<br />
MEMORIAL PORTRAIT OF THE LATE MRS. FLOWER<br />
OF AVONBANK, STRATFORD-UPON-Avon.<br />
On Monday, April 24, St. George's Day falling<br />
this year on a Sunday, there was handed over to<br />
the Governors of the Shakespeare Memorial at<br />
Stratford-upon-Avon a portrait of the late Mrs.<br />
Flower of Avonbank.<br />
To Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Flower, in<br />
chief, we owe the Memorial Theatre in Shakes-<br />
peare's native town, to which they devoted money<br />
and care without stint. But no portrait of her<br />
existed. With the help of photographs, Mr. Frank<br />
Carter painted, from memory, the present picture<br />
which is considered an excellent likeness, besides<br />
its qualities as a work of art. It was subscribed<br />
for and presented exclusively by those who had<br />
known Mrs. Flower personally. On the same<br />
occasion of the meeting of the Governors, a mural<br />
plaque, of beaten copper, designed to commemorate<br />
Mr. and Mrs. Flower, was deposited in the library,<br />
eventually to be fixed on the house of Avonbank,<br />
which, under the terms of her will, became the<br />
property of the Governors. The beaten work of<br />
this introduces the Monstera Delisciosa, a large<br />
variety of the arum lily, which Mrs. Flower, who<br />
took a great interest in botany, reared in the palm-<br />
house at Avonbank.<br />
Mrs. Flower was the third daughter of Peter<br />
Martineau, of Highbury, London.<br />
administrator, and scholar, there was the rare and<br />
enviable combination of man of action and man of<br />
letters.<br />
Probably only a few members of our Society know<br />
what large part Sir Alfred Lyall played in events<br />
now historical. Born in 1835, he went to Eton at<br />
the age of ten, and in 1853 to Haileybury. He<br />
entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1856, the vear<br />
before the terrible time of the Mutiny, in the sup-<br />
pression of which, as a member of the Volunteer<br />
Cavalry, he did heroic work. From that event<br />
onwards his record was one of continuous service<br />
in India in advancing grades until he reached the<br />
position of Lieutenant-Governor of the North-<br />
Western Provinces. His retirement from that<br />
post was followed by fourteen years' service as a<br />
member of the India Council. The results of his<br />
administrative labours are writ large in the history<br />
of British rule in India, but the details of these lie<br />
outside the scope of this notice, the space allotted<br />
to which is all too scanty to permit reference to<br />
Lyall other than as philosophic essayist and poet.<br />
No man knew the East au fond as he did ; and<br />
never has there been a more accurate, incisive, and<br />
sympathetic interpreter of Hindu beliefs and<br />
customs. His bent of mind, reflective, tinged with<br />
melancholy and steeped in uncertainty, found con-<br />
genial employment in study of the great religions<br />
which remain living forces ; factors so potent in<br />
life that a man is known by his creed more than by<br />
his race. There is not one India, but many Indias,<br />
and the various religions are their boundaries. In<br />
the districts where some of Lyall's work was centred<br />
it was his fortune not only to measure the power<br />
of ancient faiths, but to observe the continuous<br />
merging of the lower in the higher. No hard and<br />
fast dogmas, as in Western creeds, insulates the old<br />
from the new; there goes on to-day the absorption<br />
of barbaric conceptions by Brahmanism, the passage<br />
of dead, sometimes of living, men into the ranks<br />
of the deified, of ghosts into godlings to whom the<br />
venerable faith accords a place in its pantheon, to<br />
the retention of its own vitality. All this, and<br />
much cognate thereto, Lyall has described in the<br />
brilliant essays composing the two volumes of<br />
“Asiatic Studies,” every page revealing what<br />
appeal the magic and mystery of the East made to<br />
his contemplative, speculative temperament, where-<br />
from came hesitation to theorize, the more so as<br />
the complexity and tangle of the materials were<br />
borne in upon him. Lord Ripon is reported to<br />
have said, and the remark has independent con-<br />
firmation, that Sir Alfred Lyall saw so many sides<br />
to a question that he rarely reached a definite<br />
conclusion. “I am a born sceptic,” he would<br />
often say, and the more coherent any theory<br />
seemed, the more did he suspect its soundness, as,<br />
for example, is seen in his criticism of Dr. Frazer's<br />
SIR ALFRED COMYN LYALL<br />
(1835–1911).<br />
M HE brevity of the obituary notice of Sir Alfred<br />
| Lyall, which was due to the occurrence of<br />
- his death on the eve of the issue of the May<br />
number of this journal, is warrant for supplemental<br />
tribute to the memory of one in whom, as soldier,<br />
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“Golden Bough." If Montaigne's “Que sçais je ?" biography that he issues must be sold for & guinea<br />
is a fitting motto to “ Asiatic Studies," still more or two, or that a particular novel is a six-shilling<br />
applicable is it to the “ Verses Written in India," book or a three-and-sixpenny one. He would be<br />
some of the poems in which it was Sir Leslie regarded as an innovator of a somewhat startling<br />
Stephen's delight to recite again and again ; poems kind if he declined thus to dictate to sellers and<br />
whose keynote is struck in the opening stanza of buyers the price at which they must deal during the<br />
“Meditations of a Hindu Prince" :<br />
months or years of a book's effective existence, or<br />
during a period arbitrarily fixed to cover that exist-<br />
All the world over, I wonder, in lands that I never have<br />
trod,<br />
ence, but there is nothing but the prudence of a<br />
Are the people eternally seeking for the signs and steps of business man to prevent him from doing so. The<br />
a God?<br />
question whether books should be freed from the<br />
Westward across the ocean, and Northward across the<br />
contract as to sale price which is now customary<br />
snow,<br />
Do they all stand gazing as ever, and what do the wisest<br />
has been raised before, and it was discussed again<br />
know?<br />
at great length recently under the auspices of the<br />
London Branch of the National Book Trade<br />
A history of India worthy of the subject has yet<br />
Provident Society in a debate opened by Mr. J. H.<br />
to be written, but, once and for all, Lyall has told<br />
Crocket, who invited those present to affirm by<br />
the story of British conquest of, and, on the whole,<br />
their votes “ that in the opinion of this meeting<br />
beneficent rule over, the vast peninsula in his<br />
it is desirable in the interests of the trade that the<br />
“ Rise and Expansion of the British Dominion in<br />
published price of books should be abolished.” He<br />
India” in a manner showing that he had in him<br />
met with considerable opposition from other<br />
the makings of a great historian. His “Life of<br />
speakers led by Mr. J. G. Wilson, and secured only<br />
Lord Dufferin," published in 1905, had brief refer-<br />
six votes at the close of the discussion, but the full<br />
ence in the notice spoken-of above ; on a smaller<br />
report of the arguments used, which will be found<br />
scale, full of discriminating assessment of the poet's<br />
in the Publishers' Circular of March 18, does not<br />
place in Victorian literature, is his monograph on inform us how many were present to supply the<br />
Tennyson. At the time of his death, which came majority against him. It will be observed that the<br />
with the suddenness that he desired, he was pre-<br />
terins of the motion considered only the interests -<br />
paring an article on Edward FitzGerald, in whose<br />
of the trade (presumably the retail booksellers,<br />
paraphrase of Omar Khayyam's “Rubáiyát” are<br />
exclusively or principally), but the question is one<br />
thoughts and speculations to which his own were<br />
obviously affecting authors and of interest to them<br />
responsive. Nothing is said here, because nothing<br />
even though it cannot be deemed at present to<br />
can be communicated, concerning the ineffable<br />
be within the range of “practical politics.”<br />
charm of Sir Alfred Lyall in the intimacy of social<br />
Reference has been made above to the fall report of<br />
intercourse. His conversation and expression were<br />
debate, and only the principal arguments are<br />
marked by an old-world courtesy which is becoming<br />
quoted or summarised below. Mr. Crocket was<br />
a lost art; these, and all the kindred graces that<br />
aware that his proposal would meet with opposition<br />
attract a man to his fellows, were his full possession,<br />
from many in the trade, but he submitted that<br />
and their memory will abide till the end with those<br />
perhaps they might not have considered the matter<br />
who had the privilege and profit of his friendship.<br />
or might merely have conservative prejudices. It<br />
EDWARD CLODD. may here be said that so far as can be gathered<br />
from him and others the procedure which would<br />
follow upon abolition of the published price must<br />
almost necessarily be this. A publisher would issue<br />
BOOKS AND THEIR PUBLISHED PRICE.<br />
lists of new books with no prices named in them.<br />
With these lists he would furnish to the book-<br />
sellers particulars of the terms upon which he<br />
W E are so accustomed to every new book would supply them with the various books<br />
V being issued to the public at a retail specified. The booksellers would then show the<br />
price fixed by the publisher, and to this books stocked by them to their customers, or send<br />
being usually at the present time a “ net " price, them lists, and in doing so, or in reply to inquiries<br />
that we are apt to forget that the“ published price” addressed by them, would quote prices. The book-<br />
is a matter of custom only, and is dependent for its sellers in short would fix prices to suit their own<br />
existence upon a tacit convention between the trade as individuals.<br />
publisher and the retailer who are used to it, and In Mr. Crocket's opinion :-<br />
who rightly or wrongly are quite willing that it 1. The fixed price had not prevented under-<br />
should continue. There is no law that compels a selling.<br />
publisher to state that the book of travel or 2 . The fixed price had been directly responsible<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
rs.<br />
for underselling, because it was looked upon as bound books, Bibles, remainders, out of print<br />
official, and the bookseller who advertised his offer books, etc.<br />
to give 25 per cent. off all books (not being net 2. The omission of prices from advertisements<br />
books) could not do so if there was no published and reviews would mean much extra trouble and<br />
price as a standard. In that case he would have expense to the booksellers.<br />
to advertise his own price for each book.<br />
3. The recipient of a prospectus giving no price<br />
.3. The net system had been expected to would have to find it out from his bookseller or from<br />
revolutionise the trade, giving every one a living the publisher.<br />
profit ; it had failed to do so. Terms in the 4. There is already a tendency among some<br />
trade had never been better, but were not such as publishers to deal direct with members of the<br />
to induce investment in it. In the opinion of the public. Without a published price this mode of<br />
speaker no increase of profit was to be obtained doing business would be increased and could not<br />
from the publishers,-it must come from the public. be checked.<br />
4. If the publisher, instead of the bookseller, 5. The booksellers would have to consult one<br />
raised prices he would expect to share in the profit another in fixing prices, or make mistakes and lose<br />
obtained. It would be better for the retailer to be<br />
in the position to raise prices for himself, and so 6. Persons ordering from reviews which stated<br />
to secure all the benefit accruing from them. no price would cancel orders if they found the price<br />
5. The bookseller in raising prices all round 5 higher than they expected.<br />
to 71 per cent. would not diminish his sales, but 7. Large stores would send out their price lists<br />
would increase his profits, and would only be doing and capture the trade from smaller dealers.<br />
in the case of other books what he already does in 8. Heavy cutting of prices in particular would<br />
the case of bound books, Bibles and remainders. take place in dealing with libraries.<br />
6. In the speaker's opinion the differences 9. Those who remembered the trade before the<br />
would be so slight between individual shops that net system stopped universal discounts would say<br />
customers would not complain of them, nor would whether they wished to return to still worse com pe-<br />
they find it worth wbile to go from one bookseller to tition and cutting of prices.<br />
another and compare the prices asked by them.<br />
10. Under fixed prices and the net system book-<br />
7. The public would not follow the advertiser, sellers had a guaranteed 25 per cent. or thereabouts,<br />
but would go to the man who best advised his which might be lost without fixed prices.<br />
customers what to select.<br />
From the above authors will gather the nature<br />
8. The drapers and their underselling need not of the points put forward and will form their own<br />
be feared,—they dealt in fancy books for the good opinions. They will, however, observe that with<br />
of their other trade, and were not booksellers the increase of prices which it was suggested might<br />
at all.<br />
accrue to some retailers in the case of some books.<br />
9. Without official prices the advertising of the authors of those books would not be concerned.<br />
second-hand books by libraries at a reduction would To them, at any rate, the extra price would bring<br />
lose its effect, as comparison with the price of the no increased profit. The bookseller might, if he<br />
books when new would be impossible.<br />
could obtain such an increased price for a particular<br />
10. There would be no prices advertised or volume, make more out of it than he would by selling<br />
mentioned in reviews. These, if high, were apt to two copies at the lower price which a publisher<br />
scare the customer in the case of more or less would have fixed. This, however, would not con-<br />
expensive books, whereas if he went to a bookseller sole the author (or, indeed, the publisher), if, in<br />
to inquire as to the price of a book which, he fact, one copy were to be sold instead of two. It<br />
thought, might suit him, an expert salesman might was suggested that slightly increased prices (if<br />
effect a sale.<br />
increased by the booksellers) would not diminish<br />
11. Books would be given more often as presents sales. It would be strange if this were to be the<br />
if there were no means by which the recipient case. “Slightly” is a vague word, but the<br />
could know the price of the gift.<br />
tendency of raised prices must be to diminish<br />
12. Fixed price gave the public too much for output.<br />
their money. A higher price in some instances It is submitted for the consideration of the<br />
could be got if the public did not know that an author that under the present system he knows<br />
official price existed and what it was in the case of fairly exactly, before he enters upon his contract,<br />
a particular book.<br />
what the gross receipts of himself, the publisher and<br />
The principal points made in opposition to the the bookseller should be over every edition that<br />
above by Mr. J. G. Wilson and others were :- his agreement contemplates, if that edition is sold<br />
1. The question must be considered from the out. That knowledge is the basis of his estimate<br />
point of view of the new book only, leaving out of the respective net profits of the three parties<br />
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named upon wbich he founds his opinion as to the such articles as collars and books lies in the fact<br />
fairness of the terms offered to him. Without a that the buying public always know who the whole-<br />
sale price he will know apparently nothing beyond sale dealer is from whom they can obtain any<br />
the terms offered to him. He will not know more particular book, and so have no difficulty in getting<br />
as to the price obtained per volume by the publisher at him if he will sell to them. In the case of collars<br />
than the latter may be willing to tell him, and a man does not know who the manufacturer is who<br />
neither he nor the publisher will know what the book- makes the particular article that he fancies at his<br />
sellers are getting, or how much they may be hosier's, and probably he could not get supplied<br />
diminishing (or perhaps, in some cases, increasing) by him if he did know. The question of the public<br />
the sale of the book by putting its price up or down. taking to dealing direct with the publishers is<br />
It is also submitted that the tendency towards perhaps the most serious point for the consideration<br />
general competition introduced will be to put book- of booksellers. It is not easy for them to prevent it,<br />
prices down rather than up, and that as the cost of and quite easy for publishers to sell to the public<br />
a book, other than that portion of it which goes to at oply a trifle over their usual trade terms, if there<br />
the author, is more or less fixed by the terms of is no published price to bind them. Very pertinent<br />
printing and other trades which do not yield observations were made by a gentleman who opposed<br />
readily to pressure, the reduction will eventually be Mr. Crocket's motion, and who held that the net<br />
made in an unfair proportion at the expense of the system was in the best interests of bookseller, pub-<br />
author. . The amount of confusion likely to result lisher and author, when he said that Mr. Wilson<br />
from the system suggested is a matter of specula- “had made a serious charge, but a just one, that<br />
tion, but it is not likely to be inconsiderable. certain publishers were showing a tendency to<br />
The booksellers who discussed the matter seem supply retail orders direct. The explanation of<br />
to have been impressed with the danger of big this was that the bookseller, in spite of the growing<br />
firms getting a monoply in the book trade ; it is demand for books as the result of education, had<br />
submitted that their fear is not unreasonable. The not himself moved sufficiently rapidly with the<br />
big firm taking books in large quantities would, in times. The machinery for the distribution of<br />
the absence of fixed prices, probably command books was in an antiquated condition, and publishers<br />
preferential terms even more advantageous than it were constantly in receipt of letters regarding the<br />
is now in their power to do, and their opportunities difficulty experienced in getting information from<br />
for underselling and cutting out smaller competitors booksellers.” With this quotation the subject may<br />
wou ld be increased. In the discussion, the outline be left for the criticism of any authors who may<br />
of which has been given above, a speaker who think that the abolition of the published price of<br />
advocated open prices snggested the analogy of the their books is a question sufficiently within the<br />
trade in collars. His point was that the booksellers range of practical politics to be worth serious con-<br />
were in business to make money just like other sideration. If an individual not greatly affected<br />
tradesmen, and that, to take another trade as an as an author, but with some experience of trade,<br />
example, the inan who sold collars did not put may hazard any further opinion than those sug-<br />
a published price on them. He suggested a private gested above, the abolition in question would<br />
mark to show cost price being put upon a book. If introduce a state of uncertainty into the book<br />
this means anything, it recommends that a book- trade amounting to something like chaos, which<br />
seller should keep himself reminded by a private would be highly irritating and perplexing to the<br />
mark of what a book has cost him, and, subject to public, and financially detrimental to author,<br />
this precaution against selling below cost price, publisher and bookseller in possibly equal propor-<br />
should speculate upon the appearance or known tions. However, the last two may be trusted to<br />
peculiarities of his customer in asking him the best take care of themselves.<br />
price likely to be obtainable. It is submitted that<br />
E. A. A.<br />
such a method of doing business would not please<br />
book buyers, and that if it became general it would<br />
rapidly diminish the sale of books very consider-<br />
PRIZE COMPETITIONS.<br />
ably. A good many arguments were put forward<br />
against the collar analogy, including the forcible<br />
one, that two copies of a book are the same book VTOST people"commencing author"—to adopt<br />
although exposed for sale by two different book M the beautiful expression coined by some-<br />
sellers, but that two collars by the same manufac-<br />
body, presumably on the other side of the<br />
turer are not to be recognised by a customer as Atlantic Ocean—are likely to be attracted by the<br />
identical when he sees them at two different bait of a reasonable prize for the best novel, short<br />
hosiers. It was not, however, pointed out, as it story, poem or essay. And even writers who have<br />
might have been, that the main difference between already commenced are capable of being attracted<br />
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also if the prize offered appears of sufficient size. to be paid for his work. But here arises the<br />
It is not, therefore, unnatural that there should be necessity for the first warning. His eyes should be<br />
a growing tendency on the part of publishers and open to what he is giving in return for the prize.<br />
editors to organise prize competitions, with their It is to be feared, however, that they are often shut,<br />
terms often set forth in glowing language, for the though if only the competitor took care to read the<br />
benefit of the constantly increasing army of literary conditions he could not remain in ignorance. From<br />
and would-be literary persons. Nor can it be a few announcements of competitions now before me<br />
doubted that these competitions have an appreci. I take the following statements :-<br />
able influence in inducing the timid to submit their “This contract (which the successful author<br />
work to publishers and editors. Normally an must sign] will provide for the assignment of<br />
untried (and many a well-tried) author is appre- the entire copyright and all rights to the<br />
hensive of sending his productions to people whom publishers.<br />
he has no reason to believe at all anxious to look at “ The winners of the competition agree to cede<br />
them ; but when he sees a cordial invitation to to the publishers all rights of every kind in the<br />
submit them, coupled with a specious guarantee of prize-winning novels."<br />
perfectly impartial consideration, how can he resist “Payments will be made to successful writers as<br />
the temptation ?<br />
soon as the decision is made, when the copyright of<br />
This being so, it is, perhaps, not out of place in the stories becomes the property of” the proprietors<br />
the columns of The Author to put forward a few of a certain magazine.<br />
warnings to competitors in the many prize competi One well-known weekly paper which invites the<br />
tions which one sees advertised in newspapers, sending in of short stories, for the acceptance of<br />
magazines, and elsewhere. It is very human to which ten guineas a story is promised, does not<br />
enter upon a contest of any kind without due con- state in its offer that the entire rights are required;<br />
sideration of the real conditions ; and authors are but at the bottom of the page on which the story<br />
very human beings, in spite of the firm belief to appears there is printed in small type “ Exclusive<br />
the contrary in the unliterary world.<br />
copyright of — ” (the name of the paper).<br />
It may be reasonably assumed that a writer As far as I know, it is the invariable rule for the<br />
taking part in a prize competition expects certain · publisher or editor to demand, either beforehand or<br />
things as a matter of course. Reduced to their afterwards, the entire copyright in the prize-winning<br />
lowest terms, these seem to be: (1) a fair field; work. Readers of The Author, perhaps, do not need<br />
(2) a fair price ; (3) an assurance of publication to be reminded of the words which appear every<br />
if he wins a prize ; and (4) the return of his MS. month under the heading of “How to Use the<br />
if it is unsuccessful.<br />
Society," viz., “ Selling it [literary property out-<br />
Unless the first two conditions appear to exist, right. This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper<br />
it is extremely improbable that he will compete. price can be obtained. But the transaction should<br />
All organisers of these prize competitions are eager be managed by a competent agent, or with the<br />
to disclaim favouritism in the selection of the prize advice of the secretary of the society.” Unless,<br />
winner. They pay for their big names at other therefore, an author is himself fully capable of<br />
times, giving the big prices which are necessary to judging the value of the entire copyright of a<br />
secure them, with “no damned nonsense about successful novel in a big competition, he should<br />
merit” actually shown by the work apart from the similarly seek the advice of those whose business it<br />
author. But in the competitions it is the merit of is to know about such matters. Need it be said<br />
the work which alone is to count. It is usual to that $100 would not be adequate remuneration for<br />
announce the names of the adjudicator or adjudica- all the rights in a prize-winning novel, unless the<br />
tors at the same time as the competition itself. If, entries were very bad indeed ?<br />
therefore, anyone has an objection to the judges, he With regard to short stories, poems, etc., it would<br />
has an easy remedy, to abstain from submitting his be still more of a mistake to assign the copyright<br />
work to them. Where novels are concerned, more in return for a few guineas and thus preclude oneself<br />
over, it is the regular practice to ask that they from ever republishing them in book form without<br />
should be sent in under a pseudonym, or at least to the purchaser's consent. Moreover, cases have<br />
state that the author's real name will be concealed occurred, both in the past and recently, of the<br />
from the adjudicators after the preliminary weeding republication of juvenile work without the author's<br />
out has been done by readers employed by the consent, indeed much against his wishes, owing to<br />
publisher for that purpose.<br />
the assignment of copyright in such work at the<br />
Again, as to the fair price, the reward to the date of selling. When a writer disposes of all<br />
winners being announced beforehand, a competitor rights in any of his productions, however short, he<br />
knows what he will get if he is selected as best must be prepared for the possibility of annoyance<br />
second best, etc. He has formal notice of the price in the future. It ought not to be necessary to<br />
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insist on this, were it not that the lure of a prize of<br />
some guineas is apt to blind the eyes of the<br />
ordinary author to the existence of a small-type<br />
claim of exclusive copyright.<br />
Still less necessary ought it to be to say that any<br />
provision for the use of non-successful stories, etc.,<br />
at “ordinary” rates in the magazine offering prizes<br />
for competition should at once warn off writers,<br />
unless they know these rates and are prepared to<br />
accept them. They should discover, moreover,<br />
whether they are expected to sell the copyright or<br />
merely the serial rights in return for the ordinary<br />
rates of the magazine.<br />
The provisions as to the date of payment to<br />
successful competitors should be carefully con-<br />
sidered. The question of “payment on acceptance"<br />
has been discussed recently in The Author. It can<br />
easily be seen that prompt payment is even more<br />
desirable in the case of a prize-story, which is pre-<br />
sumably a more readily saleable thing than the<br />
ordinary story, seeing that it has won first place in<br />
an open field. Authors should, therefore, always<br />
look for a statement as to when the award will be<br />
made and the money paid. A reasonable latitude<br />
must, of course, be allowed, as the possibility of a very<br />
big entry makes it impracticable to name an abso-<br />
lately certain date for the award. But such<br />
indefinite wording “as soon as possible after the<br />
close of the competition” or the like is scarcely<br />
satisfactory.<br />
The third of the essential points is closely<br />
connected with the subject just mentioned. If<br />
one does not want to wait indefinitely for the<br />
publication of the award and the payment of the<br />
prizes, neither does one wish to be without an<br />
assurance that the prize-winning work will be<br />
published at all. Yet in one of the novel competition<br />
announcements before me there is nothing whatever<br />
about the publication of the successful novels.<br />
The authors cede all rights of every kind in them<br />
—and there, as far as the prospectus explains it,<br />
i he matter might end. Similarly, in connection<br />
with a short story competition of which I have the<br />
advertisement in front of me, there is no statement<br />
that the stories will ever be published. By impli-<br />
cation, it is true, it appears that they will come out<br />
in the magazine purchasing them ; just as it may<br />
be inferred that the novels awarded prizes will one<br />
day see the light. But there is no agreement to<br />
publish them by any particular date or at all.<br />
They might be bought and then buried, destroyed,<br />
or used in some way by some one other than the<br />
author. With regard to a novel, it ought at least to<br />
be specified that it will be published within a certain<br />
period from the date of the award. Nor should<br />
a short story, poem, or article, to which a prize is<br />
awarded, be hung up indefinitely.<br />
In the case of some authors it may be imperative<br />
to know that a novel shall not be published<br />
before a certain date, for it is not uncommon to<br />
include in a contract the provision that no other<br />
book by the writer shall be published within a<br />
fixed time.<br />
The return of unsuccessful MSS. seems generally<br />
to be arranged for, provided that stamps are sent<br />
in for the re-postage. But the weekly paper<br />
mentioned above, as only letting the competitors<br />
know indirectly that the full copyright is expected<br />
of the stories submitted for its prize page, also<br />
omits to say anything about the return of<br />
unsuccessful stories. It looks rather, from an<br />
announcement on the same page about a poetical<br />
competition that “ rejected poems will not be<br />
returned to the sender,” as if the short-story<br />
writers must expect the same fate for their MSS<br />
This, however, is surely not a matter on which<br />
competitors should be left in doubt. There are<br />
unwary authors who keep no copy, or at least none<br />
but a rough copy of work which they send out. It<br />
would certainly be unsafe for such people to enter<br />
for a prize competition where the editor does not<br />
promise to endeavour to send back all MSS.<br />
accompanied by stamps—and to send them back in<br />
a reasonable space of time, it may be added. Can<br />
it be looked upon as a legitimate way of adding<br />
to a paper's sales to induce the unhappy writer to<br />
go on purchasing copies indefinitely in the hope<br />
of seeing his work in print ?<br />
In short, before entering any of the numerous<br />
prize competitions, authors cannot be too careful<br />
in reading the conditions and seeing that they<br />
offer sufficient guarantees concerning the treatment<br />
which will be accorded to their work in event of<br />
either success or failure.<br />
STYLE IN LITERATURE.<br />
By ARCHIBALD DUNN.<br />
III.<br />
[The broad requirements of style were discussed in the<br />
April issue, and, last month, the laws of Economy, Climax<br />
and Variety—the laws of form-were dealt with in detail].<br />
D ASSING from Form in literature, as I have<br />
( ventured to call it, we have now to speak<br />
of Grace, which is the stage beyond. Up<br />
to a point-that point to which the rules of Form<br />
have carried us—our author's task, we may believe,<br />
is well and truly done ; it is concise, direct of pur-<br />
pose, clearly expressed and satisfying in its sequence,<br />
and so varied withal as not to be monotonous.<br />
Excellent, then ! in all those particulars within our<br />
knowledge ; and deserving of a very comforting pat<br />
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upon the back. But, presently, the vision changes; limitations of Form. As you see, it will suffice for<br />
and, as we read through the masterpiece again, the the presentation of the simple and familiar thought,<br />
fancy takes us and what is worse-grows upon us but, alone and unaided, it will not suffice for the<br />
that something is lacking. As we see it now, this more abstract and less familiar. And why?<br />
is the chrysalis and not the butterfly. At first, the Because the first, which is readily intelligible and<br />
precise character of the shortcoming is hardly dependent for its elucidation only on an orderly<br />
apparent ; we recognise the imperfect thing, and presentation, can be grasped by an appeal to the<br />
that is all. But, later, the mist clears; and then, reason ; whilst the latter, which is not exact by<br />
with a calmer judgment and in a brighter light, we nature and which can not, therefore, be explained<br />
perceive, though dimly perhaps, that the trouble in precise terms, can as a consequence only be<br />
lies in a certain coldness and unreality, that, though grasped by an appeal to the imagination; and the<br />
the rough-hewn figure is there, we have still to method of arousing the imagination is a thing<br />
attain to the finished and inspiring model. For, distinctive and apart.<br />
the early processes in any art are but the In illustration, consider the description of a<br />
labourer's work, it remains for the artist himself stormy night from two different points of view.<br />
to come and give the final touch—of life and According to the scientist, perhaps : “Rate of wind<br />
beauty. Thus, the aesthetic in literature ; but, forty miles an hour, rainfall two inches, tempera-<br />
at the same time, the practical—they are marching ture 30 degs. Fahr.," and the ordinary humdrum<br />
hand in hand. Which is all, of course, rather to individual would not think much of the stormy<br />
make assertions without proof and, so, to steer a night; there would be, no doubt, a certain interest<br />
passage for those troubled waters where we may in the meteorological details, but no actual vision of<br />
well heave-to and take our bearings.<br />
the scene. Described, however, by the novelist in<br />
This process in a literary question is, as we know, something after this fashion : “It was a wild night<br />
seldom a difficult matter. In other affairs than with the rain splasbing against the verandab, and<br />
literature there may be, and there generally are, the wind moaning dismally through the nooks and<br />
many considerations ; here there is only one-the crannies of the house," then it would be a very<br />
reader's requirement that the thought shall be remarkably humdrum individual indeed who failed<br />
adequately and attractively expressed, and so con- to become fully alive to the wet and boisterous con-<br />
veyed that it shall be easy of comprehension. That ditions outside. Or, again, speak of autumn, and<br />
was the author's business from the outset ; he had for a while the word is wanting in significance-it<br />
these conditions to satisfy, come what might. Are takes an effort to fulfil its meaning ; but speak of<br />
they, then, satisfied by an observance of the rules autumn as Collins does in his beautiful Ode to<br />
of Form, or is there need to supplement those rules Evening-"While sallow autumn fills thy lap with<br />
in any way? Is there, in fact, any solid reason for leaves ”—and the true sense of it all stands forward<br />
the aesthetic in Style in literature ? * That is the in an instant, the yellow fogs, the thinning foliage,<br />
problem, and such are the principles on which the the dying of the year.<br />
solution depends.<br />
A sure inference, then, I think, that the imagina-<br />
Well, this is how it stands. If you have a simple tion is aroused most certainly and most readily by<br />
business proposition to lay before me, and if you means of pictures which suggest and explain the<br />
will so state it that the principles of Form are main thought. On the evidence of our examples,<br />
observed throughout, I shall follow your meaning; the vague is made distinct by the introduction of<br />
but if, on the other hand, you would speak of some some familiar idea-autumn is realised at mention<br />
less definite idea—say, the emotions or a season of of the falling leaves, the stormy night comes home<br />
the year—and if (without resorting to other aids) to us when we think of the moaning wind and the<br />
you will again so state it that the principles of splashing of the rain-drops. And so, it would<br />
Form are observed throughout, I shall still follow seem, we have come direct to an obvious law : that<br />
you, but-not so completely. In the one case, the the less comprehensible in literature shall be<br />
whole thing is clear ; in the other it is only approached through the more comprehensible, the<br />
partially clear—the picture is incomplete. Now, less familiar through the more familiar, and that<br />
what is the meaning of this ? Why, surely, that this sball all be brought about by the use of suitable<br />
we have come straight to the bed-rock of the Symbols and Images.<br />
Thus we speak of the æsthetic, of the charm to<br />
* I have already pointed out the impossibility of dis-<br />
the senses in evolving the finished picture out of<br />
tinguishing exactly between the entirely æsthetic and the these symbols and images. At the same time we<br />
entirely practical, and I have explained that my division of are as certainly treating of the practical ; for, with<br />
the subject is arbitrary. It is, however, to be observed that<br />
Form- which becomes, by its orderliness, a charm to the<br />
a moment's thought, it is clear that the use of<br />
senses—is certainly to be considered æsthetic, if only,<br />
symbols and images tends to the fulfilment of the<br />
perhaps, in a modified sense.<br />
first principle in literature-economy of the reader's<br />
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attention. The “angry” man is an indefinite athlete, and there is a sure delight to the eye in<br />
affair ; the man standing with upraised fist" is the that delicacy of touch or grace of movement ;<br />
picture illustrated in two words. There is here a listen to a well-constructed piano-organ and,<br />
directness of purpose, a clear transparency of ex- mechanical and inartistic though the performance<br />
pression, which carries its own recommendation be, the ear will still dwell with pleasure on the accu-<br />
most fully in that it lightens the task of the reader. racy of the playing. Why, then, if this be the<br />
In place of much verbosity and of a wearisome common effect of excellence in any pursuit, deny<br />
explanation, the scene is sketched vividly, realistic- the same conditions in literature ? Why deny<br />
ally, by a stroke of the pen. Need we wonder, attractiveness in language, in the balancing of the<br />
then, that this ready means of suggesting an idea phrase, in the choice of words ? And if you still<br />
should have found in time a wider application, that tell me that this is not proof, I agree, of course ;<br />
so valuable an asset to the writer's account should but I take the liberty of adding that it is just<br />
have been pressed more fully into the service, and next door to it—a remarkably strong presumption.<br />
that, by degrees, its use should have extended from Besides, there is another thing which must not<br />
the obscure thought to the simple ? “ Black as be overlooked-the verdict of the cultured. It is<br />
night” strikes the imagination at once, whilst final, you know, in the world of Art, and there is<br />
“black” alone, though a simple enough thought, is no court of appeal beyond. The ill-educated taste<br />
never too definite in conception, because of the of the multitude may create, and often has created,<br />
many different conditions with which we are in the the success of a moment, and set a nonentity on a<br />
habit of associating it. And if this be a matter as pedestal. Similarly, the more advanced thought,<br />
much of emphasis as of interpretation, a distinction the original and unaccustomed idea, has not always<br />
as much as an explanation, well, what of it ? Take met with immediate approval ; and we find great<br />
it at that, if you please, its force as an aid to artists slow to reach acceptance, even critics<br />
comprehension is still not to be denied; and, so, it delaying the triumph of a Wagner and Tschai-<br />
follows that writing of any sort on any subject kowsky. And this is no matter for surprise, for<br />
must, in order to be good, abound freely in symbols the appreciation of any art depends largely on<br />
and images.<br />
education, and it is not likely, therefore, that even<br />
But that is not all. The conditions of the game the most talented will realise all in a moment<br />
are that the thought shall be presented as attrac- the complete beauty of an unfamiliar design. It<br />
tively as may be; and there is, therefore, still the takes time and study to cultivate the mind and<br />
attractiveness of language itself to be discussed. advance it to a pinnacle. Thus, in the earlier<br />
And this, believe me, is to step uncommonly near stages, the “penny dreadful” was the best book on<br />
a quicksand ; it is an attempt at cracking as hard earth, and “Pop goes the Weasel ” the best music.<br />
a nut as you would meet with in a month of The deeper insight came afterwards, as a rule, and<br />
Sundays. For here is a man coming along and the discovery to our surprise that there is some-<br />
asserting roundly that there is no charm in lan- thing more than incident in a story or than<br />
guage at all. "If there is,” he adds significantly, melody in music. Then, at once, with this advance-<br />
«prove it !” And then, in sober truth, there is ment arose naturally the demand for every subtle<br />
nothing for it but to stand down from the witness- nicety which could aid in beautifying the thought,<br />
box, silent and abashed.<br />
the demand that not only the thought itself should<br />
At the same time, a point or two calls for remark be well conceived but also that its treatment should<br />
and comment. You know, for instance, that it is be perfect in every detail. What wonder, then,<br />
possible to write very badly. We laugh at and when the cultured mind demanded, and very soon<br />
stumble over the halting ill-expressed essay of the found, beauty in the arrangement of words—the<br />
schoolboy ; you know that it is possible to write medium in literature through which the thought<br />
better--the schoolboy himself improves in a twelve- is conveyed-found it in their euphony and appro-<br />
month ; you know of a better stage still in the priateness, in their harmonious setting, in the<br />
fairly practised writer, and of one again beyond rhythmical swing of the phrase ? To the unlets<br />
this when you first experience the gratifying ease tered, of course, this is incomprehensible ; it i-<br />
and comfort of reading a work by Stevenson, meaningless, like the music of Wagner or the sun-<br />
Thus, without touching upon debatable ground, it set, perhaps, of a Turner ; but it is true, never-<br />
is at once obvious that one method of expression is theless. It is no question of a pose or affectation,<br />
better than another, and that we may believe the it is the genuine appreciation of an æsthetic effect.<br />
gamut of progression to move evenly from the very But if you tell me again that all this is proof of<br />
worst to the very best. But it is a fact that, in nothing—for these highly cultured people may be<br />
the accomplishment of anything, the “best” very sincerely and very whole-heartediy wrong--I<br />
creates invariably some sense of æsthetic charm. agree; it is not proof. But in the light of past<br />
Watch the expert billiard player or the champion experience, in the kuowledge that the verdict of<br />
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these cultured people has stood the test of time in Cresswell professed to teach in the course of this<br />
other artistic affairs, I submit that we have reached, book how authors may become successful. But<br />
at any rate, a second “strong presumption”—this, they expressly disclaim any intention of being<br />
too, on top of the first.<br />
“ didactic.” The word, it must be confessed, has<br />
With two presumptions, then, which are not a bad odour nowadays, and it would surprise us if<br />
reasonably to be denied, I shall take it that the any writer willingly branded his work as didactic.<br />
case is established, that language itself is capable Nevertheless, there are people who would not deny<br />
of creating an æsthetic charm ; and with this that something may be learnt from their writings,<br />
admitted, then at the same time the real practical and among these we suspect that our two present<br />
advantage of polished writing becomes obvious— authors may be classed. At any rate, we shall not<br />
its power to hold the reader's attention. Here is a scruple to state that there is much in the book<br />
thing a pleasure in itself—these words which run which is worth taking to heart.<br />
so smoothly to the eye and which, if spoken, The keynote of the advice which Messrs. Colles<br />
would slip so glibly off the tongue; there is no and Cresswell give is : Learn from the Great. To<br />
effort in following them, no more than in lazily help those who would learn, they have, to use their<br />
watching a river as it flows onward to the sea, but own words, collected from many sources such<br />
there is music surely, like the music of those counsels of writers of renown as may be serviceable<br />
rippling waters. And maybe the thought is but a to men of letters—not in the form of an anthology,<br />
poor affair and never much worth the trouble of but, as it were, in that of a sermon richly illustrated<br />
expressing at all ; indeed, wbere is the writer who by texts. They hold that “the pathway of author-<br />
has not uttered many thoughts to be rightly ship is no uncertain track, but a beaten road,<br />
scheduled in this category? Well, here is a saving trodden by many, and he who would walk in it<br />
clause ; here is a cloak to the nakedness; here is securely has only to follow the footprints of the<br />
the means of holding the reader's attention until great who have gone before him.” A counsel of<br />
the conception becomes more attractive in itself.* perfection, it might doubtless be objected; but are<br />
It only remains now to reduce generalities to not the best counsels always counsels of perfection ?<br />
particulars and to examine into the working details About the answer to the question “Who are the<br />
of the conclusions we have reached—that is, into Great” ? our authors feel no hesitation. They are<br />
the practical application of symbols and images, “the household names,” “the writers whose indis-<br />
and into such considerations as may help us in putable claim to attention is based upon their<br />
any way to the effective handling of words. works having found a response in the thoughts and<br />
feelings of millions." And we are warned against<br />
" the personal satisfaction which modern critics<br />
* It is not suggested, of course, that a writer can make a<br />
worthless book valuable by virtue of beauty of style—such<br />
derive from drawing some almost unknown writer<br />
a book is always worthless. My meaning is only this, that<br />
out of his obscurity, and demonstrating that his<br />
the value of a composition is enhanced by the charm of its work has merits of the rarest quality.” In other<br />
expression.<br />
words, we are recommended to the world's classics.<br />
(To be continued.)<br />
Well, we suppose this is sound doctrine ; though<br />
assuredly some of us will think with a sigh of some<br />
namus which are not household, but are certainly<br />
SUCCESS IN LITERATURE.*<br />
dear to us, of some works which do not touch the<br />
feelings of millions, but yet touch ours deeply.<br />
However, this is not the place for an argument on<br />
The joint authors of this little work are certainly the comparative value of the judgments of the<br />
to be congratulated on one point, which may be many and the few in the award of places among<br />
regarded as a proof of their success in collaborative the world's classics, so we will pass on, accepting<br />
literature. The style throughout is wonderfully our authors' interpretation of their precept, Learn<br />
homogeneous. It may be added that it is an from the Great.<br />
attractive style : at its best somehow faintly As to what we are to learn from the Great, the<br />
suggestive of the old “Spectator,” yet at the same two supreme lessons we are told are "to arrive at<br />
time of a directness and simplicity that is modern some adequate appreciation of the consummate<br />
in a good sense of the term.<br />
work of the masters” and “to perceive more or<br />
“ Success in Literature" sounds an ambitious less lucidly the art by which the effects are secured."<br />
subject to be tackled in a volume of 360 small Criticism of the weak points in the great master-<br />
pages. And so it would be if Messrs. Colles and pieces is deprecated, and the wisdom of a literary<br />
man is declared to lie in the opposite direction.<br />
* " Success in Literature," by W. Morris Colles and Henry<br />
He must be able to recognize in the works of the<br />
Cresswell-London : Methuen & Co.<br />
masters, not where they failed, but where they<br />
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were successful, and must reserve destructive Another passage, illustrative of the fact that a<br />
criticism for his own work.<br />
work of indisputable merit may be judged worth-<br />
Obviously the inculcation of admiration for the less before it becomes a classic-a consolation<br />
Great without insistance on the need of originality often to writers whose belief in themselves exceeds<br />
would be an incitement to merely imitative work. their literary income-we would gladly quote if<br />
So it is not surprising to find a whole chapter we had space. But perhaps enough has been said<br />
devoted to the subject of originality-and a very to show that “Success in Literature” is both an<br />
good chapter, too, though it does not readily interesting and an instructive work. Those who<br />
lend itself to quotation. It could be wished in want a handbook showing them how to construct<br />
these days, when the market (the word is volumes which will go at once into four large<br />
objectionable from the literary point of view, but editions will not find it here. If, however, some-<br />
so is the literature of which we are speaking) is thing is required which will stimulate profitably<br />
being swamped with weak books on all kinds of thought and at the same time please the literary<br />
subjects, that the writers would take to heart what judgment, then this book may be commended<br />
is here said on the desirability of asking oneself safely.<br />
the question, is what I am going to say worth Perhaps it should be added, in conclusion, that<br />
saying?<br />
“ Success in Literature ” is primarily addressed<br />
After laying down these two fundamental con- not (of course) to the big authors of to-day, nor<br />
ditions, that the great masters must be taken as yet to the beginners ; but to the men of letters<br />
our examples and that we must have something who have advanced a certain way and find a<br />
to say, the authors proceed to discuss the best difficulty in advancing further. Yet we believe<br />
methods in literary work, the equipment required that to the beginners, and to those who hare<br />
before engaging in it, appropriate style, and form arrived also, it will not be without its appeal. com<br />
and treatment, in all of which subjects they put<br />
most excellent advice before their readers, collected<br />
from authorities as far apart as Augustus and<br />
Anthony Trollope, Metastasio and Crombie,<br />
author of “ The Gymnasium,” and supplemented by THIRTY-SIX DRAMATIC SITUATIONS.*<br />
facts taken from the lives of literary men of<br />
various lands. To ourselves, we must confess,<br />
the latter furnish some of the most interesting TN our April issue we printed (quoting from a<br />
parts of the book. We cannot refrain from quoting 1 Chicago contemporary) a paragraph respecting<br />
one passage from the chapter entitled “ The the “ Thirty-six Dramatic Situations ” of the<br />
Worker and his Work.” After saying that exact Italian dramatist, Count Carlo Gozzi, with a<br />
records of the manner in which writers of note further mention of a treatise on the same subject<br />
have done their work, of their hours, and of the written by M. Georges Polti, and published in<br />
rules which they made for themselves, are not to Paris some fifteen years since. Want of space<br />
be easily had, our authors continue:<br />
forbade at the time any remarks of our own on<br />
the subject, to which we here revert, as the<br />
" William Beckford states that he wrote Vathek at a<br />
whole question is one of considerable interest to<br />
single sitting. • It took me three days and two nights of<br />
hard labour. I never took off my clothes the whole time.<br />
dramatists, and perhaps also of some importance to<br />
The severe application made me very ill.' This feat, if it novelists.<br />
was really accomplished, which is very doubtful, about At present Gozzi's assertion seems to rest on<br />
25,000 words is probably the largest single spell of literary<br />
the authority of Goethe. M. Polti quotes (without<br />
work with a pen on record. More has been dictated;<br />
naturally in less time. Zola's daily output of fiction was giving any reference) from Goethe's “ Entretiens<br />
four pages of print of Charpentier's edition of his work avec Eckermann" (presumably Eckermann's<br />
(about 1,300 words). He laid down his pen as soon as the “Gespräche mit Goethe "), “ Gozzi used to maintain<br />
four pages were completed-even if that was in the middle<br />
that there could not be more than thirty-six tragic<br />
of a sentence ; but he wrote the four pages in the morning<br />
directly after breakfast, every day. Anthony Trollope, all<br />
situations. Schiller gave himself a good deal of<br />
of whose work was conducted with extraordinary regu. trouble to find some more, but did not find so<br />
larity, and much of it written whilst he was a busy Post many as Gozzi.” It will be at once observed that<br />
office functionary, wrote a page of 250 words, and made<br />
“ tragic ” not “ dramatic" situations are here<br />
it a rule to produce a certain number of pages every week.<br />
The average was forty ; but he sometimes required of<br />
limited to thirty-six, a difference of considerable<br />
himself more, and sometimes only twenty. He rose at importance. Next, an evident first question is :<br />
five, and had his literary work finished before break “Whence has Goethe this information ? " Are<br />
fast. He regarded three hours as the limit of time for a<br />
single day's work. ... Sir Walter Scott had made<br />
himself a rule of six pages of close MS.=thirty pages of "Les Trente-six Situations Dramatiques," par Georges<br />
letterpresse about 6,450 words per diem,"<br />
Polti, Paris. 1895.<br />
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06<br />
these thirty-six situations mentioned anywhere in spirited scene at its conclusion when Pelasgus<br />
Gozzi's works (they fill twenty-two volumes); or repels the insolent attempt of the herald to seize the<br />
was this hearsay only, for Goethe (1749–1830) suppliants in the name of Aegyptus. In “ Hamlet”<br />
and Gozzi (1772-1806) are contemporaries. we should say that there is a highly dramatic<br />
Respecting this M. Polti gives us no information. “tragic situation " when the court, assembled to be<br />
It appears, however, that Gozzi did not mention entertained with a play, find themselves witness-<br />
what his thirty-six situations were. We learn ing a minutely accurate representation of the<br />
further from M. Polti (who again vouchsafes no murder by which the king obtained his throne.<br />
reference) that Gérard de Nerval occupied himself M. Polti groups “Hamlet” under “ Situation<br />
with the question of the number of possible XIII: Hatred between Relatives.” That such<br />
situations, and could find only twenty-four. He hatred might be naturally productive of “ tragic<br />
also does not mention what they were. All this situations "is evident ; but it does not appear to<br />
and much more may be read in M. Polti's us that it is itself a tragic situation. In short,<br />
preface, where little that is interesting is lacking, whilst admitting that there is much that is<br />
except correct references.<br />
interesting in M. Polti's work, we are unable to<br />
M. Polti thereafter devotes himself to the see that it offers any answer to the problem, “ What<br />
question of what the thirty-six situations are, and were Gozzi's thirty-six tragic situations ?”<br />
sets forth, in succession, the thirty-six enumerated<br />
in our April number.<br />
This mere enumeration, however, conveys no idea<br />
either of the gigantic labour, or of the very wide<br />
acquaintance with the world's literature which the ESSAYS ON RUSSIAN NOVELISTS.*<br />
little book shows. M. Polti having mentioned “Sup-<br />
plication ” (Implorer) as his first situation demon-<br />
strates how“ Supplication ” can assume as many" LISSAYS<br />
T SSAYS on Russian Novelists,” by Prof.<br />
as nine different aspects, and then quotes examples, D Phelps, is a work of which it is not easy<br />
in many cases several examples, of every one of<br />
to give a just estimate. Here is a great<br />
them. The number of dramas and other works of deal that is true and also very farniliar, yet hardly<br />
the imagination, classical and modern, European to be omitted from any work on Russian fiction<br />
and Oriental, quoted is astounding, and the toil intended for general perusal; a good deal that is<br />
involved in grouping them under the several open to debate,or, indeed, hardly defensible(theasser-<br />
“ situations ” must have been enormous. If tion, for instance, that Russian literature is a new<br />
precise results of laborious l'esearch merit any literature); and much that must be pronounced<br />
praise, M. Polti has deserved it.<br />
exaggerated, even after every allowance has been<br />
At the same time, whilst willingly according<br />
made for the author's exuberant enthusiasm for his<br />
M. Polti's labours all the admiration which they<br />
subject. The book produces an uncomfortable<br />
deserve, and freely admitting that his work may impression because it is nowhere made quite plain<br />
be perused with interest, we have always felt that that the author is not speaking at second hand ;<br />
the advantage to be derived from it is not very and relying merely on translations. If he is a<br />
great. The results reached are curious rather Russian scholar why is he so careful to mention by<br />
than illuminating.<br />
whom translations from the Russian have been<br />
We must also confess to having felt that made for him ? If he is not a Russian scholar<br />
M. Polti has entirely misunderstood what is what judge is he of the Russian style which bo<br />
meant by a “tragic situation.” We say this with praises in one case and condemns in another ? We<br />
all deference for the opinions of those who may are entirely unable to agree with the opening asser-<br />
think otherwise. and freely admit that unless tion that Russian fiction is the best in the world ;<br />
Gozzi's original statement, and what he himself and do not understand why that assertion is made<br />
meant by it, can be found, the interpretation of his by an author, who, later in his work, freely admits<br />
words must always remain a more or less open the “intense gloom” of Russian fiction, and justly<br />
question. To ourselves, however, the matter has describes reductio ad absurtlum as the characteristic<br />
always appeared thus : that “tragic situations” of Russian thought. That cannot be great which<br />
are the individual moments of a dramatic action, can see only the grey aspects of life. Notwith-<br />
many of which may occur in a play; and that standing the shortcomings of the book, the reader<br />
what M. Polti has been illustrating are rather the who is on his guard against being misled may,<br />
fundamental themes upon which various plays are however, gather much from it; for it brings into<br />
built. Thus, his first example of “ Supplication ”..<br />
is“ The Suppliants" of Aeschylus ; but it appears * William Lyon Phelps, Ph.D. : " Essays on Russian<br />
to us that the great situation of that play is the Novelists." New York : Macmillan Co. 1911.<br />
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one focus things that cannot be elsewhere found ditions in the States are not altogether so propitious<br />
together in any single English volume. The work as at some times, the woman's club of the New<br />
concludes with a bibliography (which we could wish England village through its president, Mrs. Henry<br />
more perfect) of the stories written by nine of the C. Rolfe, has been appealing to all lovers of Miss<br />
best-known Russian novelists, setting forth the Alcott's books to contribute toward a fund of at<br />
translations of them which have appeared in least £1,600 to guarantee the preservation and<br />
English, French and German. A note should maintenance of this ancient historic home. A<br />
have been added that the greatest caution in the portion of the fund has already been subscribed,<br />
selection of translations from Russian must be mostly in small amounts, and is in the hands of<br />
exercised by readers who desire to peruse faithful Henry F. Smith, junr., Middlesex Institution for<br />
renderings of the original texts.<br />
Savings, Concord, Massachusetts. In view of the<br />
international interest in Miss Alcott's works the<br />
management of the woman's club has felt itself<br />
justified in issuing an international appeal for<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
assistance.<br />
The Orchard House at Concord is situated near<br />
AUTHORS AND THE LIBRARIES.<br />
the house owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It<br />
was first occupied by Bronson Alcott and his family<br />
SiR, -As a new author, may I draw your in 1857. It continued to be their home for twenty-<br />
attention to the following facts.<br />
five years when it was sold to the late William T.<br />
My first novel, published about three months Harris, for many years United States Commissioner<br />
ago, received very favourable press notices, and of Education. In it were written "Little Women"<br />
was advertised as being obtainable at all libraries.<br />
and several others of Miss Alcott's best liked<br />
and<br />
Several of my friends, wbo belong to Mudie's, stories. On the woodwork, in places, may be seen<br />
repeatedly applied for it without success, until a little paintings and sketches by 6 Amy." Louisa's<br />
ek or so ago, when, in answer to a pointed note younger sister whose death, shortly after her happy<br />
of inquiry, Mudie's returned a reply "that, as the marriage to Ernest Nieriker, a young Swiss gentle-<br />
demand was so small, they had not as yet procured<br />
man, was one of the tragic events of the author's<br />
it. but would now do so." This action of Mudie's middle age.<br />
appears to me to amount practically to a boycott This house, about which cluster so many memo-<br />
of all new authors, the demand for whose work ries of one of the most helpful writers for the<br />
must necessarily be small at first; and if the small<br />
young, it is hoped not only to purchase but to<br />
demand, which should legitimately widen into a<br />
maintain as a permanent Alcott memorial.<br />
maintain as<br />
A plain<br />
larger, is baffled, what hope is there for the new wooden dwelling, after the fashion common in New<br />
author ? Such action nullifies any good which England, it is almost unchanged in its general<br />
laudatory reviews might have worked. Would features, but now so desolate as to move the com-<br />
even “Marie Claire,” for instance, have sold<br />
miseration or indignation of visitors who have<br />
largely if the supply had not responded instantly<br />
loved Miss Alcott's stories and the characters she<br />
to the demand ?<br />
has created. Restored to its original state it will<br />
It is but fair to say that I believe all the other charm the many people from overseas who include<br />
libraries stocked the book.<br />
in their American itinerary the most famous of<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
New England villages.<br />
A MEMBER.<br />
F. W. COBURN.<br />
Miss LOUISA ALCOTT.<br />
SIR,-It may interest some of the many English<br />
men and English women who as children enjoyed<br />
Louisa Alcott's “Little Women” and other stories,<br />
to know that at Concord, Massachusetts, U.S.A., a<br />
movement has been started to keep intact the<br />
Orchard House in which the Alcott family lived<br />
for many years. Americans of late have shown a<br />
disposition to preserve such literary and artistic<br />
shrines as there are in their country. The birthplace<br />
or former residences of Longfellow, Poe, Irving,<br />
Whittier, Whitman, Whistler and others have been<br />
commemorated. This year, although financial con-<br />
PROFESSIONAL TYPISTS.<br />
DEAR SIR,-May I, as a “ Professional Typist"<br />
of nearly fifteen years' experience, while offering<br />
my sincere sympathy to “A Member," ask him<br />
with all deference what else he could have expected<br />
at the price ? 85,000 words and a duplicate for £4!<br />
This means that the 85,000 or 84,000 words were<br />
typed at about 8d. per 1,000 words, the duplicate<br />
being charged at less than half price. He does not<br />
tell us if the paper was included—more than a ream<br />
would be required. Copying from MS. (even if fairly<br />
clear, and most author's MS. is anything but that),<br />
a thousand words would take a good typist from<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
half to three quarters of an hour, or longer in pro-<br />
CANADIAN MAGAZINES.<br />
portion to the difficulty of the MS. But in addition<br />
to this it should be read, carefully compared and<br />
SIR,-It may possibly interest some readers of<br />
checked with the MS., corrected, if necessary, and<br />
The Author, particularly when the question of the<br />
the words counted. This means over an hour's<br />
Canadian Copyright Bill is being discussed, to hear<br />
work for each 1,000 words. If there are duplicate the opinion of one Canadian editor with regard to<br />
copies, any errors have to be corrected separately English contributors. I quote from his letter :<br />
in each, taking still further time and work, and ail “ We could not use your work because it is too<br />
this is expected for less than a shilling! The English for us. We are essentially & Ca<br />
“ firm"has, moreover, to pay the typist employed, publication for the Canadian people, and our own<br />
to provide all necessaries for the work, i.e., ribbons big land has enough interest to provide exhaustless<br />
for machine (the best are 38. 6d. each), carbons for topics for stories and verse. You will readily<br />
duplicates (best 2s. 6d. per dozen), erasers, paper understand that Canadian people do not want an<br />
fasteners. packing materials. wear and repair of English magazine published in Canada. If they<br />
machines, and very often is expected also to provide wish to read magazines with English character they<br />
paper at from 28. 6d. to 38. or more a ream. He buy an English publication, but they have no use<br />
wants somehow to make a profit out of which to pay<br />
for a magazine which is part Canadian and part<br />
office rent, insurance. lights and heating, also board English. The fact that Englishmen who come to<br />
and lodging, travelling expenses, and all other items Canada constantly try to introduce their home<br />
incidental to one's being alive, including clothes. customs into Canada, instead of adapting them-<br />
How is this to be done at the price quoted ? Only, selves to those of the country, has built and fostered<br />
as “ A Member's " sad experience proves, by scamp- an antagonism to Englishmen."<br />
ing the work, employing uneducated, inefficient and Why an English writer should be rated for the<br />
“cheap" assistants, using cheap materials and third- failings of her countrymen who go to Canada is<br />
rate machines, and so sending out work which merits somewhat hard to understand. Evidently Canadian<br />
“A Member's” graphic description. I have had editors do not believe in free trade.<br />
reams of such useless stuff to re-type for other dis-<br />
Believe me, Yours faithfully,<br />
gusted authors who have made trial of the cheap<br />
EDITH DART.<br />
typist. Years ago I myself tried to give really good<br />
work at these low rates, to work up a “connection,"<br />
but I found that it meant literally starvation. I<br />
JOURNALISM AGAIN.<br />
am writing, therefore, in defence of those—most of SIR,—I regret to notice in a recent number of<br />
them well-educated and cultivated women—who are a certain illustrated weekly, the following state-<br />
trying to make a living and to put by something for ment by the writer of a literary letter published in<br />
their old age, by giving really good and honest work that journal, and signed “C. K. S.”<br />
at fair and reasonable rates. “ A Member" might “I have always looked upon the Royal Society<br />
easily have found the names of several of these of Literature as a ridiculous body, even worse than<br />
(even “ good wine " needs an alluring “bush ” in the Society of Authors.”<br />
these days of competition !), and would, in far less It is clear that C. K. S. is either wilfully<br />
time, have received accurate, well-typed, and well ignorant of the work that the Society of Authors<br />
turned-out work which would have rejoiced the has done, and is continuing to do for authors and<br />
hearts both of himself and his publisher. Authors dramatists, or that his remarks are merely the<br />
have, unfortunately, forced this cheap work into outcome of some spite or pique which he has<br />
the market by insisting on "lowest terms,” irre- against the society.<br />
spective of the quality of the work. Cheap type- The publication of such a statement, while it is<br />
writing is “cheap and nasty," and good work unlikely to injure, at this time of day, the prestige<br />
deserves fair pay.<br />
of the society which is now firmly established as the<br />
Should“ A Member” be so rash as to purchase a result of its work for authors, dramatists and<br />
suit at 18s. 6d. in the City Road, would he expect musicians, is scarcely calculated to aid the circula-<br />
the cut and style of Bond Street ? I think not. tion of the paper in which it appeared. The<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
paragraph I have quoted is much more likely to<br />
A TRAINED AND CERTIFICATED TYPIST. make Mr. C. K. S. appear ridiculous than the<br />
Society of Authors.<br />
P.S.-A hint to typists. It is said that a well- I write to direct your attention to the matter,<br />
known author, when asked to supply a certain though you may not consider it worth while to<br />
editor with a serial at a very cheap rate, replied take notice of it by printing this letter.<br />
briefly : “Dear Sir, I am not a charitable institu-<br />
Yours, etc.,<br />
A SYMPATHISER.<br />
tion.”<br />
<br />
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end of the list for the convenience of those who<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
Feb. 15, Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie . .<br />
Feb. 21, Rhys, Ernest ..<br />
Feb. 21, Cameron, Mrs. (Charlotte) .<br />
Feb. 21, Mulliken, Mrs.<br />
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March 9, Boughton, Rutland .<br />
March 10, Somers, John . . .<br />
April 6, Rawlings, Burford . ;<br />
April 11, Wicks, Mark<br />
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ON February 1, the trustees of the Pension<br />
U Fund of the society-after the secretary<br />
had placed before them the financial<br />
position of the fund—decided to invest £250 in<br />
the purchase of Consols.<br />
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mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
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of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
gear to declare another pension in case any im.<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
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London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
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Cape of Good Hope 3% Inscribed<br />
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Jan. 2, Northcote, The Rev. H.. . 050<br />
Jan. 2, Mackenzie, Miss J.<br />
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Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur H. .<br />
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Jan. 3, Wasteneys, Lady .<br />
Jan. 4, P. H. and M. K.<br />
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COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
and, in short, did not think anything more could<br />
be done by a professional auditor than he had<br />
done already. The committee decided, in these<br />
circumstances, that it would be a waste of money<br />
to send in a professional auditor.<br />
M HE April meeting of the Committee of The next question related to the infringement of<br />
I Management of the Society of Authors was the copyright of a member's work--work dealing<br />
held on Monday, April 3, at 4 p.m.<br />
with a technical subject by the publication of<br />
This was the first meeting after the Committee another book of a similar character. The solicitor<br />
Election for 1911. The present Committee of reported that as far as he had been able to look<br />
Management consists of the following:—Sir Alfred into the matter the infringement seemed clear, and<br />
Bateman, K.C.M.G., Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes, Mrs. that a breach of copyright had been committed.<br />
E. Nesbit Bland, J. W. Comyns Carr, Maurice The committee decided to support the action for<br />
Hewlett, W. W. Jacobs, Aylmer Maude, Arthur the member, taking the case through the courts if<br />
Rackham, G. Bernard Shaw, S. Squire Sprigge, necessary. A case of infringement of the dramatic<br />
M.D., Francis Storr, Sidney Webb.<br />
rights of one of the members by a performance of<br />
The first business before the Committee of his play in India was next discussed, and the<br />
Management was to elect a chairman for the secretary was instructed to place the matter in the<br />
carrent year. Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, who did so hands of the Indian solicitors of the society.<br />
much in the early days of the society under Sir The committee then discussed a dispute affecting<br />
Walter Besant's chairmanship, was, on the pro- some contributors to a magazine, and a paragraph<br />
posal of Sir Alfred Bateman, seconded by Mr. dealing with the matter will be found elsewhere in<br />
Bernard Shaw, and supported by Mr. Francis this issue of The Author. The magazine referred<br />
Storr, unanimously elected chairman for the to was The English Review.<br />
current year. After the minutes of the former The editor of an Indian paper having “ lifted”<br />
meeting had been read and signed, the committee a story by a member of the society which had been<br />
proceeded with the election of members. Twenty first published in The Westminster Gazette, and<br />
members and associates were elected, bringing the having in his letters to the secretary avoided<br />
total elections for the current year up to ninety-two. coming to any settlement on what appeared to be<br />
There were five resignations, bringing the total an unreasonable excuse, the committee decided to<br />
number of resignations for the current year up to commence proceedings.<br />
fifty. The committee are pleased to report that the The solicitor then made to the committee a<br />
elections are well up to the average of former report on the small cases which he had dealt with<br />
years, whereas the resignations are somewhat during the past month. In three claims against a<br />
below the number at the corresponding period of magazine it had proved impossible to obtain any<br />
1910.<br />
satisfaction, as there were no assets to meet the<br />
Cases.--The solicitor of the society attended the claims of the members. Two small cases for<br />
meeting and made a report of the cases in hand. recovery of money due had been satisfactorily<br />
The first matter related to the infringement of settled. One case for the recovery of a MS. had<br />
the dramatic rights of two members. This case, been settled, and in one case, where a portion of a<br />
the solicitor reported, had been settled by the MS. had been lost, the defendant had promised to<br />
payment of a sum after the society had issued a pay reasonable compensation. The solicitor, accord-<br />
motion for injunction, and is now closed. The ingly, was instructed to proceed in this case. In<br />
result illustrated forcibly the practical value of the regard to certain cases taken up by the society<br />
society's intervention.<br />
against Mr. Henry J. Drane, judgment was obtained<br />
The next case had been before the society for before Mr. Justice Eady. There was another case<br />
some months, the member concerned asking the taken in hand against a literary agent for money<br />
society to put in an accountant to check the due to one of the members, which the committee<br />
accounts of a firm with which he was dealing. In instructed the solicitor to settle as quickly as<br />
this case the society had already obtained a con-, possible by service of a writ.<br />
siderable gum from the publisher, with a full After theconsideration of the cases, the committee<br />
statement of account and of the copies printed, and discussed the question of the new Copyright Bill,<br />
the author had received the stock. The only which had just been printed and made public.<br />
question remaining was whether the printers' The committee instructed the secretary to send<br />
voucher for the number printed in the first copies of the Bill to members of the Committee of<br />
instance was correct. The solicitor added that Management and to the Copyright and Dramatic<br />
he had inspected the books of the publisher, Sub-Committees, and to refer the Bill to both the<br />
checked the sales' account and seen the invoices, last-mentioned sub-committees for report. The<br />
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Committee of Management decided also to have a The committee were glad to see that, with very<br />
special meeting for consideration of the Bill. few exceptions, all the suggestions made by the<br />
The re-election of the sub-committees followed, Society of Authors had been accepted. There<br />
and the Copyright and Art Sub-Committees were were, however, a few exceptions, of which one or<br />
re-elected in due course. The Committee of two were unimportant; but on two points, at least,<br />
Management accepted the recommendations of the committee considered that the views of the<br />
the dramatists of the society and elected the society must be pressed.<br />
persons whose names were laid before them, subject, (1.) (Members are referred to the bill which is<br />
of course, to their assent to undertake the duties. printed as a supplement to this number of The<br />
The Dramatic Sub-Committee for 1911 will be :- Author). As regards clause 2, sub-section 2, the<br />
Rudolph Besier, H. Granville Barker, R. C. Carton, society had suggested that the importation of<br />
Anstey Guthrie, Miss Cicely Hamilton, Captain copies should be illegal even though not “ for sale<br />
Basil Hood, Jerome K. Jerome, Henry Arthur or hire," and the Joint Committee considered that<br />
Jones, W. Somerset Maugham, Cecil Raleigh, G. this point should be still pressed upon the Govern-<br />
Bernard Shaw, Miss E. M. Symonds.<br />
ment as an amendment.<br />
The agency agreement was again laid before (2.) The Joint Committee considered that<br />
the committee, and after discussion the secretary clause 4 should not stand as drafted.<br />
was instructed to send fresh copies to the members Several proposals were made, and these will be<br />
of the committee, who decided to consider the considered at a subsequent meeting of the Com-<br />
terms and clauses at the next meeting.<br />
mittee of Management, when a definite report will<br />
The attention of the committee was called to be laid before them on these points. At the<br />
the letters in The Times on the subject of the meeting of the Joint Committee no form of com-<br />
Academic Committee, and to letters from members promise which seemed likely to be acceptable to<br />
on the subject of the library censorship.<br />
all parties was suggested.<br />
The secretary reported that he had received £3 (3.) It was felt that the proviso to clause 11<br />
from Miss Emma Brooke towards the capital fund should be withdrawn, as under that proviso it<br />
and £5 from Mr. A. Eggar towards the same fund, would be possible for any piratical printer to print<br />
and the committee decided to purchase £140 of a publisher's or printer's name on the pirated copy,<br />
consols out of the life membership account.<br />
and thus the onus probandi would be shifted from<br />
the pirate to prove innocence to the shoulders of<br />
the author to prove guilt. The Joint Committee<br />
considered that the alteration should be pressed.<br />
JOINT MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE OF<br />
(4.) With regard to clause 25, the Joint Com-<br />
MANAGEMENT AND THE COPYRIGHT mittee considered this clause as now drawn a<br />
SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
distinct improvement on the clause of the 1910<br />
bill, and were glad to see that several of their<br />
· suggestions had been accepted ; but they did not<br />
THE Chairman opened the proceedings by an approve section B. as it stood ; they decided to<br />
nouncing that there were no agenda before reconsider it at a subsequent meeting, when here,<br />
the meeting except to consider and report on too, they hoped it would be possible to suggest<br />
the Copyright Bill, and, accordingly, suggested that some compromise.<br />
in the first instance the broad lines to be adopted All these points of discussion arose out of the<br />
by the Society of Authors should be considered, report of the Committee of Management on the<br />
and that a report should then be formulated, con- bill when it was introduced in 1910.<br />
taining the suggestions which the Committee of Other matters in the bill were discussed, and it<br />
the Society of Authors considered should be made was settled that the Copyright Sub-Committee<br />
when the bill was being carried through Com should make a report to the Committee of Manage-<br />
mittee of the House of Commons. Mr. Mac- ment at their next meeting.<br />
Gillivray then proposed that he should go through<br />
the new bill of 1911, considering how far the<br />
report of the Committee of Management on the<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
bill of 1910 had been accepted and their sugges-<br />
tions and those of the Copyright Sub-Committee<br />
had been embodied in the present bill. This M HE first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br />
course was adopted, and Mr. MacGillivray went 1 mittee of the Society of Authors since its re-<br />
through the bill, indicating the alterations that election by the Committee of Management was<br />
had been made and the places where they con- held at the offices of the society on Friday, April 21.<br />
formed to suggestions of the society.<br />
The first business was to elect a chairman for the<br />
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Managers of America, which set out at length the<br />
procedure for stopping infringements of dramatic<br />
rights in that country. The secretary was<br />
instructed to write to the counsel, Mr. Ligon<br />
Johnson, for further particulars, and to lay the<br />
matter before the Sub-Committee at their next<br />
meeting.<br />
The consideration of the managerial treaty was<br />
adjourned to the next meeting, and in the<br />
meanwhile the secretary was instructed to draft<br />
a form of contract and to circularise the Sub-<br />
Committee with it that they might consider it<br />
carefully before they reassembled.<br />
THE MEETING OF DRAMATISTS.<br />
current year, and on the proposal of Mr. Granville<br />
Barker, seconded by Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. R. C.<br />
Carton was unanimously elected. After the<br />
minutes of the former meeting had been read,<br />
approved and signed, the Sub-Committee turned<br />
their attention to the agenda. The secretary laid<br />
before the Sub-Committee a report that Sir Alfred<br />
Bateman had received from the Advisory Com-<br />
mittee of Commercial Intelligence of the Board of<br />
Trade with regard to the applications he had been<br />
making for reports from the consuls and commer-<br />
cial correspondents touching the performance of<br />
English plays. The Sub-Committee thanked Sir<br />
Alfred for the steps he had taken and hoped he<br />
would be able to carry the matter through<br />
successfully.<br />
The secretary then reported the legal cases that<br />
had been taken in hand on behalf of the dramatic<br />
members of the society since the last meeting. In<br />
one case of a cinematograph performance in<br />
America, the secretary reported he had obtained<br />
the opinion of the society's American lawyer, and<br />
that he was now waiting for further evidence as to<br />
title, and that the matter would go before the next<br />
meeting of the Committee of Management when<br />
he hoped, on the recommendation of the Sub-<br />
Committee, the case would be taken up.<br />
The next case related to the infringement of<br />
dramatic rights in India, and the secretary<br />
reported that it had been placed in the hands of<br />
the society's Indian lawyer. The third case was<br />
one of the performance on a cinematograph of a<br />
dramatic work in England. After the society had<br />
applied to the courts for an injunction, the<br />
defendants settled the case by payment of a sum<br />
of 2001. Finally, the secretary reported that he<br />
had recovered MSS. of some plays which had been<br />
lying with the proprietor of an Indian theatre, and<br />
he read to the Sub-Committee a letter from the<br />
author of the plays expressing his thanks for the<br />
work the society had done.<br />
The Sub-Committee next considered the Copy-<br />
right Bill, and various points in it touching<br />
dramatic rights were discussed. The secretary<br />
was instructed to refer them to the Copyright<br />
Sub-Committee.<br />
A letter which Sir Arthur Pinero, the late<br />
chairman, had received from the Society of West<br />
End Managers was next read, and the secretary<br />
was instructed to acknowledge it. A letter from<br />
the Lord Chamberlain's office was also read, and<br />
it was decided at present not to take any steps,<br />
but to await the further action promised by the<br />
Lord Chamberlain, who had stated that no time<br />
he<br />
would be lost in putting forward the points raised<br />
by the Dramatic Sub-Committee.<br />
An important letter was then read from the<br />
general counsel of the Theatrical Producing<br />
MEETING of the dramatist members of the<br />
Society of Authors was held at 3.30 p.m. on<br />
Friday, March 31, in the Large Room of<br />
the Society of Arts, 18, John Street, Adelphi, Sir<br />
Arthur Pinero being in the chair. The agenda-list<br />
was as follows:-<br />
1. Sir Arthur Pinero, the chairman, will call on<br />
the secretary to announce the result of the ballot,<br />
and move that the result be communicated to the<br />
Committee of Management for its guidance in<br />
appointing the Dramatic Sub-Committee for the<br />
ensuing year. The motion will be seconded by<br />
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones, the vice-chairman.<br />
2. The Chairinan will present the report of the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee, and will, after a general<br />
discussion, move its adoption.<br />
3. Mr. Henry Arthur Jones will propose, and<br />
Mr. R. C. Carton will second, a motion “That the<br />
Government be called upon to carry out the recom-<br />
mendation of the Joint Committee by the establish-<br />
ment of single licence.”<br />
4. Mr. Bernard Shaw will propose, and Miss<br />
Cicely Hamilton will second, a motion “ That the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee take into early considera-<br />
tion the possibility of negotiating a general treaty<br />
with the Managers Association, embodying the<br />
clauses common to all dramatic authors' agree-<br />
ments, with a view to simplifying dramatic<br />
contracts."<br />
This was the first meeting of the dramatists, as<br />
apart from the other members of the Society, since<br />
the reconstitution of the Dramatic Sub-Committee<br />
two years ago.<br />
Proceedings commenced with the reading by<br />
the secretary, at the request of the chairman, of the<br />
result of the ballot, which was as follows:-<br />
1. Henry Arthur Jones .<br />
. 85<br />
2. R. C. Carton . . . . 82<br />
3. John Galsworthy . . . 79<br />
4. G. Bernard Shaw<br />
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5. H. Granville Barker.<br />
6. Anstey Guthrie<br />
7. Captain Basil Hood.<br />
8. W. Somerset Maugham<br />
9. Jerome K. Jerome .<br />
10. Cecil Raleigh. .<br />
11. Rudolph Besier .<br />
12. Miss Cicely Hamilton<br />
13. Miss E. M. Symonds .<br />
14. J. H. McCarthy .<br />
15. Mrs. K. C. Thurston.<br />
16. Mrs. Cohen . . . . 9<br />
The Chairman announced that Mr. John Gals-<br />
worthy had written to him to the effect that,<br />
living as he did in the country, he felt that he<br />
would be unable to serve on the sub-committee, and<br />
accordingly begged to withdraw his name. The<br />
vacancy thus created would be filled by, Miss<br />
E. M. Symonds, the thirteenth on the list.<br />
At this point Mr. R. C. Carton rose to express<br />
his regret that Sir Arthur Pinero had decided to<br />
retire from the Dramatic Sub-Committee. He<br />
hoped that the collective voice of those present<br />
would ask him to reconsider his decision.<br />
Sir Arthur Pinero was sorry to be unable to<br />
accede to this request. He had served for two<br />
years as chairman of the sub-committee and he now<br />
asked for a little holiday. Probably at some future<br />
date he would serve again if desired.<br />
Mr. W. J. Locke then proposed, and Mr.<br />
Cecil Raleigh seconded, that the result of the ballot<br />
should be communicated to the Committee of<br />
Management.<br />
The Chairman then, proceeding to the report<br />
of the Dramatic Sub-Committee, proposed that, as<br />
it was in the hands of all present, it should be<br />
taken as read.<br />
Mr. Cecil Raleigh having proposed, and Mr.<br />
Henry Arthur Jones having seconded, a motion that<br />
the report should be adopted,<br />
Mr. Anthony Hope said that Mr. Raleigh was too<br />
quick for his slow-moving brain. Before the report<br />
was adopted he would like to say a few words.<br />
Referring to the history of the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br />
mittee, he stated that at one time it was a question<br />
whether the dramatists of this country should<br />
not form themselves into a separate body to look<br />
after their interests. The members of the Society<br />
of Authors, however, had a strong feeling that there<br />
should be only one body in charge of the interests<br />
of all authors. The result of this was that the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society was formed<br />
which was in existence. He heartily congratulated<br />
all concerned on the procedure adopted.<br />
The Chairman said that the members of the sub-<br />
committee were very glad to receive Mr. Anthony<br />
Hope's congratulation, for which they thanked<br />
him.<br />
Mr. Bernard Shaw rose to point out that now<br />
was the time-during the discussion on the report-<br />
for anyone who had any grievance over what had<br />
been done to bring it forward.<br />
No one having anything further to say concern-<br />
ing the report, after a brief discussion as to who<br />
should properly move its adoption, Mr. Walkes<br />
proposed, and Mr. Hope seconded, that the report<br />
should now be adopted. The motion was put and<br />
carried unanimously.<br />
The Chairman then called upon Mr. H. A. Jones<br />
to propose the motion standing in his name, viz.,<br />
“That the Government be called upon to carry out<br />
the recommendation of the Joint Committee by the<br />
establishment of single licence.”<br />
Mr. Jones said that it was about time that this<br />
sketch business was settled. Nearly two years bad<br />
elapsed since the Parliamentary Committee reported<br />
on the point. That committee came to the con-<br />
clusion that the only way to settle the question was<br />
to institute a single licence. In the meantime,<br />
however, the scandal continued. Shakespeare and<br />
himself, he continued amid laughter, were consis-<br />
tently and foully boycotted at the music-halls.<br />
Mr. Lewis Waller's recent appearance at the<br />
Palladium cost £160, and the magistrate in charge<br />
of the case seemed to think that Mr. Waller and the<br />
management had done something criminal in pro-<br />
ducing the forum scene from “ Julius Cæsar."<br />
There could be no greater reductio ad absurdum of<br />
the whole business. His own “ Dolly ” sketch, an<br />
easily detachable scene from his comedy “Dolly<br />
Reforming Herself,” was refused just before at the<br />
Coliseum because of an agreement between the<br />
theatre and music-hall managers. For the present,<br />
therefore, he was deprived of his right over his own<br />
property. By this absurd agreement he must wait<br />
for fifteen years before his sketch could be produced<br />
on the music-hall stage. He pointed out that there<br />
were really four bodies of people to be considered in<br />
the matter—the two sets of managers, the authors,<br />
and the public. And why should theatrical<br />
managers object to the performance of the music-<br />
hall sketch ? He instanced the state of things<br />
prevailing elsewhere than in London. At the<br />
Theatre Royal, Dublin, they had a double licence,<br />
for stage-plays and music-hall performances. This<br />
was really only a clumsy way of having a single<br />
licence. If a manager could give a variety enter-<br />
tainment at certain seasons of the year, this would<br />
help him to carry on his theatrical business at<br />
others. Perhaps music-ball managers were afraid<br />
that the introduction of a single licence would<br />
enable the theatres to cut into their business. But<br />
really the public had a right to see whatever sort of<br />
entertainment they desired.<br />
Mr. R. C. Carton, seconding the motion, said<br />
he could add little to emphasize what Mr. Jones<br />
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had said. He could not imagine a more dangerous, their sketches, if they were free to produce them<br />
a more treacherous state of affairs than was pre- there. Music-halls in the provinces were, as a rule,<br />
vailing at present. It was a contemptible piece of far more attractive than the theatres, clean, bri gh<br />
treachery that the managers should have had and cheerful. The drama there had gone down,<br />
recourse to a miserable old law to prevent dramatic down, down until all that would draw good houses<br />
works being performed at the music-halls. He was something of the class of “ The Best Girl in<br />
could not say all that he thought on the subject, Birmingham ” or “ The Worst Woman in Wolver-<br />
for if he did his language would be such that the hampton.” In London what was wanted was a<br />
chairman would call him to order. Mr. Jones had double licence such as could be got in the provinces.<br />
soffered a particularly painful and cruel injustice ; Perhaps authors did not realise that in the present<br />
and Mr. Jones's late distinguished colleague, Mr. state of affairs no sketch agreement was even<br />
Shakespeare, was almost an equivalent sufferer. He legal.<br />
referred to the case of Mr. Seymour Hicks, who After calling attention to the fact that not only<br />
attempted to boil down“ Richard III.” into thirty had the sub-committee petitioned the Lord Cham-<br />
minutes. Mr. Hicks found his task an impossible berlain and received a reply, as mentioned in<br />
one, and the result was that he had to cancel bis the report, but also had made a second applica-<br />
engagement, and about two hundred poor supers, tion, and within the last three days received an<br />
who had their bread to earn, and did not find it answer to the effect that the Lord Chamberlain was<br />
easy to earn it nowadays, were thrown out of putting the proposals before the London County<br />
employment. He regretted to say that it was Sir Council-from which it would be seen that matters<br />
Herbert Tree, who had done more for Shakespeare were not standing still-Mr. Raleigh concluded by<br />
than anybody else, who, stepping in to say, “No, saying that what was wanted was one licence for<br />
this shall not be," was responsible for the existing entertainment, leaving the drink question to be<br />
anomaly. Not only in Dublin, but also in other settled by itself, since it was this question which<br />
provincial towns, the other system was in use ; and now apparently stood in the way. He hoped that<br />
the double licence worked very well. In conclusion, they would one day in the near future call a big<br />
he was glad to see that they had got their Dramatic public meeting of all parties interested to enforce<br />
Sub-Committee on a dimocratic footing. In the their rights.<br />
future the sub-committee would feel that they had The Chairman said that he had been going to ask<br />
something in the nature of a mandate behind Mr. Raleigh for a suggestion as to what further<br />
them ; and thy would not be unmindful of their measures they should take beyond their petition to<br />
responsibility.<br />
the Lord Chamberlain.<br />
Mr. Cecil Raleigh said that he had been called Mr. Raleigh said they (the dramatists) were the<br />
an “expert” on the sketch question, and as such people to call such a meeting as he had suggested.<br />
be was obliged to draw attention to the practical He would not hesitate even, democratic as he<br />
side of the matter, that the number of theatres in was, to present a petition direct to the King<br />
England was not as large as dramatists could wish, himself.<br />
and the music-halls offered them an opening for Mr. Locke said he would like to draw attention<br />
work by which they might earn money to pay to the fact that Sir Herbert Tree had only taken<br />
for their daily bread. The remuneration to be got steps in his capacity of Chairman of the Theatrical<br />
from the halls was desirable during those intervals Managers' Association to stop the representations<br />
when the actor-manager chose to produce the works referred to.<br />
of Shakespeare or some other blank-verse blackleg. The Chairman agreed that this was the case, and<br />
There were no fewer than 150,000 sketch Mr. Shaw said that Sir Herbert Tree in his<br />
performances in England every year—he could personal capacity had strongly advocated a single<br />
assure them of the correctness of the figure—and if licence.<br />
they took the estimate of £10 a week they could The motion was then put, and was carried<br />
work out the sum for themselves. It was a huge unanimously.<br />
industry and involved a capital of millions of Miss Cicely Hamilton, proposing the motion stand-<br />
pounds. Dramatists had a great grievance in the ing in her name, said that it was absolutely necessary,<br />
matter. The question was, what could they do in order to remedy the present state of affairs, that<br />
with their failures if the right of producing the Dramatic Sub-Committee should draw up a<br />
sketches was cut off ? In their worst plays there general treaty, which managers should be called<br />
was generally one good scene which could be used upon to accept, and it should then be an understood<br />
to make a sketch. Those present represented thing that when an author and a manager came to<br />
240 dramatists. But there were not in England terms the provisions of the general treaty were<br />
240 theatres suitable for putting on their plays. adopted ipso facto. This would mean a great<br />
There were, however, sufficient music-halls for saving of time, for one thing. There were a great<br />
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many general conditions which were essential in Mr. Carton having remarked that there had<br />
every contract, and to which no one could possibly already been a lot of consideration given to this<br />
object. She had herself suffered much from the point on the Dramatic Sub-Committee, Mr. Shaw<br />
absence of such a treaty. She was subject, as she said those present at the meeting might guess that<br />
supposed others too were subject, to hot fits and the spade-work had been done.<br />
cold fits concerning her work. And in a cold fit Mr. S. M. Fox bringing up the subject of con-<br />
one was ready to make the worst of bargains. tracts made by agents, Mr. Shaw derided the<br />
Mr. Bernard Shaw said that he seconded the pretensions of agents to place plays. Authors<br />
motion with great pleasure. Such an agreement as could do the work much better themselves.<br />
that suggested was badly needed. The condition Mr. Sydney Grundy, referring to Mr. Shaw's<br />
of affairs with regard to dramatic authors in this suggestion concerning the West End Managers'<br />
country was really extraordinary. The 240 Association, said that this was the right body to<br />
dramatist members of the Society of Authors were approach. It would be useless negotiating with<br />
practically all the dramatic authors in the country the “ Managers' Association."<br />
capable of producing actable stage plays. There The Chairman proposed to adopt this as an<br />
was no monopoly like it in the world, and they amendment, which was accordingly done.<br />
ought to be able by combining together to get Mrs. Cohen expressed her fear that the general<br />
almost any terms short of making the business treaty would be against the interests of the young<br />
unprofitable to the speculator. Yet only within author, whom it would prevent from obtaining a<br />
the last three weeks he had heard of the case of a hearing at all.<br />
dramatist who had a play produced at a first-class Mr. Grundy agreed that they must consider the<br />
London theatre and got one per cent. of the proceeds. position of untried authors. If he were a young<br />
The author appeared to have made no conditions beginner he would not hesitate to write across his<br />
whatever save with regard to this one per cent., play : “You may play this for nothing."<br />
from which he was likely to get less than he would Mr. Shaw said that what they wanted to do<br />
by working as a dock-labourer.<br />
was to discourage unscrupulous blacklegging and<br />
One of the difficulties he met with was that undercutting, and if they failed in this they would<br />
people said to him : " Oh, it's all very well for you, be broken like the sticks separated from the<br />
for Pinero, for the leading lights, to make your bundle.<br />
terms—but what about the beginner ? ” But this Mr. Charles Garvice asked if all well-known<br />
argument was all wrong. The beginner might dramatists would stand by the Society in whatever<br />
well be in a better position than Sir Arthur Pinero. action it might take.<br />
When the managers wanted plays, it was the Mr. Shaw said they might say : We will not<br />
opportunity of the young beginner.<br />
deal with any theatres not accepting this treaty.<br />
In a general treaty such as suggested at least Mr. Raleigh said that when they stuck together<br />
twenty clauses would be found necessary—and they would get their treaty, just as the music-hall<br />
could a young author each time he made a contract artistes recently gained their object by com-<br />
argue over twenty clauses ? A general treaty bination. But they would not get a trades union<br />
would include these clauses and obviate dis- in this country yet for dramatists. Let the<br />
cussion. He himself, when he dealt with managers, instruction of the meeting to the Dramatic Sub-<br />
put forward a long agreement and said : “ Will Committee be to go slowly and carefully.<br />
you sign these twenty clauses or will you argue Miss Festing bebought them not to be too bard<br />
them out with me?” The manager always said on the small people, whom trades unionism might<br />
he would sign.<br />
crush out of existence. Let them not make the<br />
It did not matter, Mr. Shaw continued, whether rules of the game too hard for the small people to<br />
they converted all the managers to accepting the play it.<br />
general treaty. Why not negotiate it with the The Chairman explained that during the past<br />
West End Managers' Association ? That would be two years the Dramatic Sub-Committee had<br />
sufficient. With regard to the general treaty always borne this in mind, and in the future also<br />
already in existence in France, it was of incredible they would never forget the interests of the young<br />
stringency. For instance, the French manager author.<br />
had to account to the author for every seat in the The resolution was put and carried unanimously.<br />
house, and in addition to furnish him with a large The proceedings then terminated.<br />
number of seats. He did not say that a general<br />
treaty on this model was needed here. Indeed he<br />
hoped that they would not be tyrannical. A good<br />
man of business would prefer a bargain that was<br />
good for both sides..<br />
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Cases.<br />
The statement of the cases in the solicitors'<br />
DURING the past month fifteen oases have been hands will be found in the committee notes.<br />
placed in the hands of the secretary, Perhaps it<br />
would be as well once again to explain the term<br />
“ cases." These are matters in which the secre-<br />
April Elections.<br />
tary, intervening between an author, dramatist Albanesi, Madame . 3, Gloucester Terrace,<br />
or composer, and the disputant on the other<br />
Hyde Park, W.<br />
side, takes up the matter in order to obtain a Arthur. Lady . . 23. The Boltons, S.W.<br />
settlement of the member's rights ; in opposition Bean, C. E. W. . . " Sydney Morning<br />
to those matters in which the society, through its<br />
Herald,” 40, King<br />
secretary, gives advice merely, or in opposition to<br />
Street, Cheapside,<br />
those matters which are placed in the hands of the<br />
E.C.<br />
solicitors of the society either for action or for Besier, Rudolf . . St. Augustine's Man-<br />
advice.<br />
sions, Westminster,<br />
There have been three cases dealing with the<br />
S.W.<br />
question of accounts. In all three the accounts E. M. Channon (Mrs.<br />
have been rendered. In one the matter has been Francis Channon) Eton College, Windsor.<br />
settled absolutely, but the other two are still in de Knoop. Baroness , 31, Rutland Gate, S.W.<br />
course of negotiation for particulars with regard to Fox, Miss Agnes . . Kippington Grange.<br />
certain items.<br />
Sevenoaks.<br />
There bas been one application for accounts Gamble, Frau Kathleen. Wullenweberstrasse. 7.<br />
and money. Here the accounts have been<br />
Berlin, N.W., Ger-<br />
rendered and the money paid.<br />
many.<br />
There have been four applications for money Kitts. Eustace John . Eversleigh, West<br />
only. In one of these, part of the money has been<br />
Worthing.<br />
paid, and the secretary has given fnrther time for Langworthy, Mrs. C. D.<br />
payment of the balance before the matter is placed (Ferrier Langworthy). The Fuchsias, Clay-<br />
in the hands of the society's solicitors. The other<br />
gate, Surrey.<br />
three cases only came into the office just before Palmer, G. Molyneux . Tullagee, Willingdon,<br />
going to press.<br />
Eastbourne.<br />
There have been two cases of infringement of Phibbs, Miss Lena Stan-<br />
copyright, one of which has been placed in the ley . . . . Helensdene, Church<br />
hands of the solicitors, and the other has been<br />
Road, St. Leonards-<br />
satisfactorily settled.<br />
on-Sea.<br />
Three applications have been made for the return Prothero, Miss J. K. . 17, Wolverton Gardens.<br />
of MSS. In two of these the MSS. have been<br />
West Kensington.<br />
returned by the editors to the office, and in the Robbins, Miss Alice E. . 57, Warrington Cres-<br />
other, a dispute with an agent, the matter is<br />
cent, W.<br />
practically settled, as the agent has undertaken Thorold, Rupert A. . Kildonagh, Sligo, Ire-<br />
to return the MS. as soon as it comes back from<br />
land.<br />
the publisher with whom it lies.<br />
Urquhart M. .<br />
One dispute on an agreement for publication is<br />
Visiak, E. H. (E.<br />
Vis<br />
H.<br />
still in course of negotiation. The matter needs Phrainly<br />
". 30, Cavendish - road,<br />
careful adjustment.<br />
Brondesbury, N.W.<br />
Finally, there is one case with regard to trans-<br />
Ward, Leslie . 279, Knightsbridge,<br />
lation rights in Germany, which the secretary is<br />
S.W.<br />
endeavouring to settle through the German<br />
Wicks, Mark . . 19, Liverpool Road,<br />
Consul.<br />
Thornton Heath.<br />
The cases from former months have been closing<br />
(One member does not desire publication.)<br />
up. Two cases in America are still open. A<br />
difficult matter dealing with the settlement and<br />
cancellation of an agreement is waiting for a<br />
board meeting of the Publishing Co. The only BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
case remaining open besides these, a case of money<br />
due from an editor, will have to be placed in the<br />
hands of the society's solicitors, as it has been<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
impossible to get any answer to the letters sent<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
from this office,<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br />
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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 />
AGRICULTURE.<br />
RURAL DENMARK AND ITS LESSONS. By H. RIDER<br />
HAGGARD. 9 X 54. 335 pp. Longman's. 6s. 6d. n.<br />
ART.<br />
OLD CHINESE PORCELAIN AND WORKS OF ART IN CAINA.<br />
By A. W. BAHR. 104 X 61. 160 pp. Cassell. 308.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
RACHEL : Her Stage Life and her Real Life. By FRANCIS<br />
GRIBBLE. 9 x 58. 276 pp. Chapman & Hall. 158. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
LYSISTRATA : A Modern Paraphrase from the Greek of<br />
Aristophanes. By LAURENCE HOUSMAN. 74 x 5.<br />
77 pp. The Woman's Press. 18. n.<br />
LADY PATRICIA : A Comedy in Three Acts. By RUDOLF<br />
BESIER. 78 X 51. 215 pp. Fisher Unwin. 28. n.<br />
"THE FOUNTAIN. By GEORGE CALDERON. 54 X 4. 161 pp.<br />
Gowans & Gray. 6d, n.<br />
ECONOMICS.<br />
SELLING SCHEMES FOR RETAILERS. Proved Methods<br />
which will Help the Retailer to do More Trade. By<br />
MAX RITTENBURG. 7} X 5. 188 pp. Routledge. 18.<br />
FICTION.<br />
BRAZENHEAD THE GREAT. By MAURICE HEWLETT,<br />
71 x 5. 333 pp. Smith, Elder. 68.<br />
THE STREET OF TO-DAY. By John MASEFIELD. 74 x 5.<br />
392 pp. Dent. 68.<br />
DOUBLE LIVES. By FRANCIS GRIBBLE. 71 X 5. 352 pp.<br />
Nash. 68,<br />
THE ELDEST SON. By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL. 7* X 51.<br />
344 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
DICK COMERFORD'S WAGER. By A. P. CROUCH. 74 X 5.<br />
283 pp. Robert Scott. 6s.<br />
THE SHADOW OF THE MALREWARD. By J. B. HARRIS-<br />
BURLAND. 78 X 5. 411 pp. Chapman & Hall. 68.<br />
THE SEA LION. "By PATRICK RUSHDEN. 78 x 5. 448 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
PHYLLIS IN MIDDLEWYCH. By MARGARET WESTRUP<br />
(MRS. W. SYDNEY STACEY). 71 x 44. 320 pp. Lane.<br />
1s.<br />
JOHN CHRISTOPHER: STORM AND STRESS. By ROMAIN<br />
ROLLAND. Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. 71 x 5.<br />
412 pp. Heinemann. 6s.<br />
VITTORIA VICTRIX. By W. E. NORRIS. 73 5. 283 pp.<br />
Constable. 68.<br />
LOVE IN PERNICKETTY Town. By S. R. CROCKETT.<br />
73 X 5. 320 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
CAPTAIN BLACK. By Max PEMBERTON. 78 x 5. 338 pp.<br />
Cassell. 6s.<br />
THE GENERAL PLAN. By EDMUND CANDLER. 74 x 5.<br />
306 pp. Blackwood. 68.<br />
A BED OF Roses. By W. L. GEORGE. 74 5. 384 pp.<br />
F. Palmer. 6s.<br />
LOVE IN THE BALANCE. By ALICE WILSON Fox. 77 x 5.<br />
311 pp. F. V. White. 68.<br />
THE PRICE. By GERTIE DE S.WENTWORTH JAMES. 78 X 5.<br />
319 pp. Everett. 68.<br />
A ROGUE IN AMBUSH. By HEADON HILL. 74 x 5. 316 pp.<br />
Ward, Lock, 68.<br />
DEAD MAN'S LOVE. By Tom GALLON. 74 x 5. 316 pp.<br />
Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
THE JEWESS. By MOLVY OUSELEY. 78 x 5. 366 pp.<br />
John Ouseley. 68.<br />
“THALLASSA I" By MRS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS. 61 X 45.<br />
320 pp. Hutchinson. 7d. n.<br />
THE GREAT GAY ROAD. By Tom GALLON. 7 x 47. 317 pp.<br />
Long. 1$. n.<br />
THE WOMAN IN THE FIRELIGAT. By OLIVER SANDYS.<br />
78 x 54. 283 pp. Jong Long. 68.<br />
MRS. THOMPSON. By W. B. MAXWELL. 74 x 5.383 pp.<br />
Hutchinson. 68.<br />
DIVIDING WATERS. By J. A. R. WYLIE. 74 x 5. 411 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
Two GIRLS AND A MANNIKIN. By WILKINSON SHERREN,<br />
74 X 5. 336 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
THE MAGIC OF THE HILL: A ROMANCE OF MONTMARTRE,<br />
By DUNCAN SCHWANN. 78 X 5. 284 pp. Heinemann. 68,<br />
JOHN VERNEY. By H. A. VACHELL. 71 X 5. 338 pp.<br />
Murray. 6$.<br />
JOAN OF THE TOWER. By WARWICK DEEPING. 74 x 5.<br />
399 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
THE SOCIALIST COUNTESS. By HORACE W. C. NEWTE.<br />
78 X 5. 312 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
Moil o' THE TOLL BAR. By THEODORA WILSON-WILSON.<br />
73 X 5. 350 pp. Hutchinson. 6s.<br />
THE GOVERNOR'S DAUGHTER. By NORMAN INXES.<br />
78 X 5. 352 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s.<br />
THE WOMAN IN IT. By CHARLES GARVICE. 71 x 5.<br />
349 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
HAUNTED. By GERTRUDE WARDEN. 74 X 5. 320 pp.<br />
Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
JANE. By MARIE CORELLI. 7 X 41. 142 pp. Methuen.<br />
18. n.<br />
TONO-BUNGAY. By H. G. Wells. 67 x 47. 383 pp.<br />
Macmillan. id.n.<br />
THE PILGRIMAGE OF DELILAH. By JOHN L. CARTER.<br />
74 X 5. 320 pp. John Long. 68.<br />
THE QUEEN'S HAND. By MRS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS.<br />
7 X 5. 344 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
THE YELLOW GOD: AN IDOL OF AFRICA. By H. RIDER<br />
HAGGARD. 78 X 5. 352 pp. Cassell. 18. n.<br />
THE WATERS OF JORDAN. By H. A. VACHELL. 64 X 44.<br />
281 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
THE HOUSE of INTRIGUE. By PERCY WHITE. 61 X 41.<br />
320 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 7d. n.<br />
A QUESTION OF QUALITY. By MADAME ALBANESI.<br />
64 X 41. 320 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 7d. n.<br />
THE GREAT BETRAYAL. By HAROLD WINTLE. 312 pp.<br />
John Ouseley, Ltd. 68.<br />
JOHN MERRIDEW. By F. ARTHUR. Longmans. 68.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
SUCCESS IN LITERATURE. By W. MORRIS COLLES and<br />
HENRY CRESSWELL. 7 x 41. 360 pp. Methuen. 58. n.<br />
SOME SUPPOSED SHAKESPEARE FORGERIES. By ERNEST<br />
LAW. 81 x 63. 80 pp. Bell. 38. 6d. n.<br />
LOVE AND EXTRĀs. By FRANK RICHARDSON. 78 X 6.<br />
305 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br />
MEDICAL.<br />
FAITH MEDICINE AND THE MIND. By CHARLES<br />
REINHARDT, M.D. 74 X 41. 281 pp. London<br />
Publicity Company.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
A SHORT HISTORY OF WAR AND PEACE. By G. H. PERRIS.<br />
63 X 41. 256 pp, Williams & Norgate. 18. n.<br />
MAN : KING OF MIND, BODY AND CIRCUMSTANCE, By<br />
JAMES ALLEN. 70 pp. William Rider & Son,<br />
NATURAL HISTORY,<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARRETT-<br />
HAMILTON. Part V. Gurney & Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
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193<br />
POETRY.<br />
Messrs. Chapman & Hall are publishing a new<br />
FLINTS AND FLASHES. By E. H. VISIAK. 7 * 47. 42 pp. novel by Mrs. Fred. Reynolds, entitled “The<br />
Elkin Mathews. ls. 6d. n.<br />
Horseshoe.” It deals largely with the life,<br />
POLITICAL<br />
customs and quaint beliefs of the Cornish people,<br />
for the study of whom Mrs. Fred. Reynolds has<br />
RUSSIAN FLASHLIGHTS. By JAAKOFF PRELOOKER. With<br />
a Biographical Sketch of the Author. 9 x 51. 310 pp.<br />
had exceptional opportunities, having recently<br />
Chapman & Hall,<br />
passed two years in a fisherman's cottage at<br />
REPRINT<br />
Sennen Cove, a tiny village under the granite<br />
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By GILBERT cliffs within a mile of Land's End.<br />
WHITE. With notes by R. KEARTON. 73 x 54. 294 pp. Mr. Elliot Stock is issuing "A Marriage<br />
Cassell. 3x. 6d.<br />
THE DOUBLE GARDEN, By MAURICE MAETERINCK.<br />
Hymnal,” by James Saunders, consisting of over<br />
Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS. eighty new hymns specially suited for weddings,<br />
(Pocket edition). 61 X 4. 293 pp. Allen. 28. 63, n. and fitted for a wedding present or souvenir.<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
A third West African novel from Miss Louise<br />
Gerard may be expected some time before the<br />
THE POSITION OF WOMAN: ACTUAL AND IDEAL. With a<br />
Preface by SIR OLIVER LODGE. 8 x 51. 170 pp. Nisbet.<br />
autumn. Messrs. Mills & Boon will publish the<br />
38. 60. n.<br />
novel, which will be called “A Tropical Tangle.”<br />
SPORT.<br />
Messrs. James Baker & Son (Clifton) will<br />
RACING AT HENLEY. From reports printed in The Field publish early in May a book of Fairy Tales of<br />
newspaper from 1903 onwards. Edited, with a Preface, Ashdown Forest, Sussex, called “ Across the<br />
by T. A. Cook. 7 X 44. 209 pp. Horace Cox. 38. 6d. n. Forest and Far Awas." by Geraldine E. Hodgson.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
D.Litt. The volume will contain three illustra-<br />
THE PLACE-NAMES OF BERKSHIRE. By the Rev. WALTER tions by Gerald G. Hodgson, M.R.C.S., and will be<br />
W.SKEAT. 67 x 43. 118 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. published at 1s, 6d. net.<br />
London : Frowde. 28. n.<br />
Miss Renée M. Deacon, whose book “ Bernard<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
Shaw as Artist Philosopher,” published in England<br />
AS EASTERN MISCELLANY. By the EARL OF RONALDSHAY,<br />
and America last year, was mentioned in these<br />
M.P. 9 x 58. 422 pp. Blackwood. 108. 6d. n. columns, was also represented in The Lady's<br />
Pictorial of October 1 and October 8, 1910,<br />
by two articles. To the former issue Miss Deacon<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
contributed an article on “ The Art of Life,” and to<br />
the latter one entitled “ The Spell of London.”<br />
NOTES.<br />
At a session held on the 10th instant, the Royal<br />
Academy of Arts of Madrid elected Mr. James<br />
6 THE NEW LIFE," by Dante, has been Baker as an Hon. Corresponding Member of<br />
l published by Messrs. Kegan, Paul & Co., England. Mr. Baker has written much upon<br />
in the Italian text with English transla- Spain.<br />
tion. The work is edited by Mr. Luigi Ricci. Miss A. E. Keeton will give a course of three<br />
We have also received the second and third<br />
lectures on the individuality of modern British<br />
volumes of the lectures of the Dante Society. music as shown in the songs of our younger school<br />
Among the lecturers we notice the names of the of composers, at 133, Queen's Gate, S.W. (by kind<br />
founder of the society, Mr. Luigi Ricci, Mrs. permission of Miss Douglas), on the three first<br />
Craigie, Mr. Alfred Austin, Dean Kitchin, and Friday evenings in May. Miss Grainger-Kerr will<br />
Mr. Gladstone.<br />
sing the vocal illustrations with Miss Marjorie<br />
At a meeting of the Sociological Society, held at Adam at the piano. At the head of the contem-<br />
the Royal Society of Arts, 18, John Street, porary school of British musicians, dealt with by<br />
Adelphi, W.C., on April 4, Dr. D. S. Margoliouth, Miss Keeton, stand in priority of age Elgar,<br />
Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford, Granville Bantock, Ernest Walker, and William<br />
read a paper on the Universal Races Congress. Wallace. Amongst the younger men are Ernest<br />
The chair was taken by Sir Edward Brabrook, Austin, Alfred Hale, J. Holbrooke, Frederick C.<br />
K.C.B.<br />
Nicholls, Norman O'Neill, Percy Rideout, Cyril<br />
“ The Great Betrayal” is the title of a new Scott, and R. Vaughan Williams. A group of<br />
povel by Mr. Harold Wintle, author of “The representative songs by British women composers<br />
Cleansing of the Lords.” The theme of the story is also included.<br />
is the efforts of a foreign Power to obtain British “The Evolution of Katherine," one of Mr. E.<br />
State secrets with the connivance of the Foreign Temple Thurston's novels, will shortly be issued<br />
Secretary. Messrs. John Ouseley, Limited, are the in sixpenny form in Mesars. Stanley Paul & Co.'s<br />
pablishers.<br />
Series of “ clear type” sixpenny novels.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mr. Arthur Beckett's new book is announced was produced at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, on<br />
for publication in July by Messrs. Mills & Boon. March 29. The play relates to the determination<br />
The volume is entitled “The Wonderful Weald, of a young lady to make a bold stand against con-<br />
and the Quest of the Crock of Gold.” It tells the vention by telling, however distasteful to the<br />
story of how the author and his companion made listeners, nothing but the truth. Miss Muriel<br />
a twentieth century pilgrimage in the Weald of Pope, Mr. Frank Dyall, and Miss Agnes Imlay<br />
Sussex in quest of the “crock of gold which lies were three members of the caste.<br />
at the foot of the rainbow." It is therefore a “The Sins of Society," by Cecil Raleigh and<br />
record of “high adventure" in the mediæval Henry Hamilton, was revived at Drury Lane<br />
manner. The pilgrims set out after the fashion Theatre on March 30. In the caste were Mr.<br />
of Don Quixote, with a donkey for their Rosinante. George Barrett, Mr. Frederick Ross, Miss Fanny<br />
The book is illustrated with twenty full-page Brough, and Mrs. Langtry.<br />
drawings in colour, and forty-one black-and-white Mr. C. Haddon Chambers' new play “ Passers<br />
chapter initials, illustrating Wealden incidents and By” was produced at Wyndham's Theatre on<br />
scenery, by the Sussex artist, Mr. E. F. Marillier. March 29. The play opens in a bachelor's apart-<br />
Mr. Bloundelle-Burton's new novel “ Under the ments in Piccadilly, and when the curtain rises it<br />
Salamander”-the badge of Francis 1.-deals, is seen that the bachelor's man has admitted a<br />
obviously, with the reign of that monarch, and, cabman and treated him to his master's cigars. At<br />
also, with the betrayal of France to Charles V. of first angry, the bachelor eventually repents, and, in-<br />
Spain by the notorious favourite, La Duchesse deed, goes so far as to call in other passers-by.<br />
Etampse. To a very considerable extent the The story begins when he calls in a woman with<br />
author has followed closely the manner of that whom he has had in the past a serious love affair,<br />
betrayal, while investing the hero, an actual and the rest of the play deals with situations arising<br />
character, with all the romantic adventure for out of this. In the caste were Mr. Gerald Du<br />
which the period was renowned. The heroine Maurier, Miss Irene Vanbrugh, and Mr. O.P. Heggie<br />
who, under another name, was also an existent “Queen Herzeleid," a poetic play in three acts,<br />
personage, also plays a strong part ; and, indeed, by Isabel Hearne, was produced by the Play Actors<br />
while trusting to his powers of construction and at the Court Theatre on Sunday, April 2. The<br />
invention, Mr. Bloundelle-Burton scarcely depicts caste included Miss Frances Wetherall, Mr. Frede-<br />
one character that did not exist at the period, rick Worlock, and Miss Adeline Bourne.<br />
from Francis downward. Everett & Co. are the “ The Master of Mrs. Chilvers," a comedy in four<br />
publishers.<br />
acts, by Jerome K. Jerome, was produced at the<br />
Mr. James Allen has just published, through King's Theatre, Glasgow, on April 10. The play<br />
Messrs. William Rider & Son in England. and treats of the women's franchise question, and the<br />
Messrs. T. W. Crowell & Co. in New York, a new two main characters are a politician and his wife,<br />
work entitled “Man: King of Mind, Body and who meet in conflict on the political field. Miss<br />
Circumstance."<br />
Mary Rorke, Miss Lena Ashwell, Mr. Dennis<br />
Dr. Charles Reinhardt's new book, “Faith, Eadie, and Mr. Leon Quartermaine are in the<br />
Medicine, and the Mind," published by the London caste.<br />
Publicity Company, is an attempt to offer a rational “At the Court of Xerxes," by Mildred Wetton,<br />
explanation of faith healing, hypnotism and kindred was produced at the Little Theatre on April 6. It<br />
phenomena. The author has, as far as possible, is a biblical play in four acts. It opens with the<br />
left subjects of religious opinion alone, whilst refusal of Queen Vashti to appear unveiled before<br />
endeavouring to throw some light upon the the king and his court. The second act is con-<br />
psychology of the faith that heals.<br />
cerned with Haman's successful plot to make<br />
Ahasuerus order the destruction of the Jews, and<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
the third and fourth acts deal with the final deliver-<br />
“James and John," a one-act play by Gilbert ance of the Jews at the intercession of Queen<br />
Cannan, was produced at the Haymarket Theatre Esther. The caste included Miss Marguerite<br />
on March 27. The theme is the return to his Walton, Miss Mary Whittall, and Miss Jean<br />
family of a man who has been sentenced to im- Colmer.<br />
prisonment for embezzlement, and the receptions The Women's Aerial League is organising per-<br />
which the different members of the family give to formances of Maeterlinck's “ Monna Vanna,"<br />
him on his arrival. The play was performed by translated by Alfred Sutro, on Thursday and<br />
a caste including Mr. James Hearne, Miss Helen Friday, June 1 and 2, at the Royal Court Theatre,<br />
Haye, and Mr. J. Fisher White.<br />
for the members of their league and their friends.<br />
Mr. Keble Howard's comedy “The Girl Who This is the first production in English of this<br />
Couldn't Lie,” based upon his story of that name, play.<br />
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195<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
Among the new books are “ Silhouettes his-<br />
toriques,” by the Marquis de Ségur; “ La Liseuse,”<br />
T the recent general meeting of the Société by Léon Frapié; “ Figures Littéraires,” by Lucien<br />
A des Gens de Lettres, M. Funck Brentano Maury.<br />
read the report.<br />
“ Visages d'hier et d'aujourd'hui," by André<br />
Prince Roland Bonaparte had placed at the Beaumier, is the title of the volume of sketches<br />
command of the society a second annuity of 1201. given by this author with great delicacy and cor-<br />
as a prize for literary work. The two annuities rectness. Among the “ visages d'hier” are the<br />
have been attributed this year to Georges Lecomte Vicomte de Vogüé, Jean Moréas, Albert-Vandal,<br />
and Louis Bertrand.<br />
Edouard Rod, Jules Renard, Mark Twain, Frémiet<br />
A biennial prize has been founded by Dr. Charles and Lombroso, whilst among the “ visages<br />
Richet, to be awarded “ without distinction of sex d'aujourd'hui” we have Henri Poincaré, Jules<br />
or nationality, to a doctor of medicine or of science Huret, Mgr. Duchesne, Gabriel Faure, Jules<br />
who has written within the preceding six years, in Lemaitre. M. Beaunier's portraits are always true<br />
the French language, the best literary work.” to life, and those contained in this volume are<br />
Jean Revel has founded a prize to be awarded to remarkably well drawn.<br />
a provincial writer whose work shall give the phy- “La Société française du XVI° siècle au XX ®<br />
siognomy, habits and customs of his province. The siècle” is another volume by M. Victor du Bled<br />
prize has been awarded this year to Hugues Lapaire. belonging to his eighth series of books on the sub-<br />
Among members of the society who have won ject of French society. This volume is just as<br />
Academy prizes this year are Mmes. Thélen, Leroy- interesting as his earlier ones, and will be read<br />
AHais, and Mlle. de Mestral-Combremont, Mme. eagerly by all those who have attended M. dn<br />
Delorme, Jules Simon, MM. Charles Géniaux, Bled's delightful lectures. The second part of the<br />
Fernand Dacre, Lucien Bonnefoy, Léon Barry, book contains an account of “Le Monde de<br />
Henri Allorge, Ernest Gaubert, and the Abbé Moïse l’Emigration.”<br />
Cagnac.<br />
Gyp has just published another of her amusing<br />
The decoration of the Legion of Honour has been volumes of dialogues, “L'Affaire Debrouillar-<br />
awarded to Henry Bordeaux, Ernest Gay, Eugène Delatamize.” The first one in the book, gives<br />
Le Mouël, Léon Riotor, Jules Troubat, and Camille its title to the volume. There are fifteen<br />
Vergniol.<br />
dialogues, and each one full of this author's<br />
The four great literary events of the year are brilliant wit, satire and humour.<br />
the rocognition of the literary rights of French “ La Revision des Valeurs de la Femme " is the<br />
authors in the Argentine Republic, in Portugal and title of a curious and interesting book of thoughts<br />
Brazil ; the founding of the fund for the widows and ideas by Léonie Bernardini-Sjoestedt. It is<br />
of authors, and of the loan fund for authors. divided into six parts : “ La Revision des Valeurs<br />
It is to Jules Huret, Pierre Baudin, and Georges de la femme,” “La Généalogie des Valeurs de la<br />
Clémenceau that French authors may attribute femme," “ L'inferiorité intellectuelle de la femme,”<br />
their triumph in the Argentine Republic, and largely “ La Mystique du Grand Amour," “ L'internelle<br />
to Jules Mary for the recognition of authors' rights consolation," " Le Catholicisme comme symbolique<br />
in Portugal.<br />
de l'amour,” “L'amour de l'enfant.” The post-<br />
Pierre Decourcelle is responsible for the founding script is entitled “L'Evangile de la femme.” The<br />
of the widows' fund, and Marcel Prevost for the book is written by a Frenchwoman, and some of<br />
authors' loan fund.<br />
the ideas contained in it are both new and pro-<br />
The list of deaths this year is long; Quentin found, whilst much of the psychology is extremely<br />
Bauchard, Albert Vandal, Jules Renard, André subtle.<br />
Chadourne, Des Granges, Boussenard, Bertol- “Marie Malibran," by Arthur Pougin, is the<br />
Graivil, Charles Legrand, Jules Breynat, José de story of this gifted woman's life.<br />
Campos, Armand Dubarry, Jean Lionnet, Léon The whole Garcia family have led interesting<br />
Bienvenu; Mme. Elise Michel, better known as lives, and have been so intimately connected with<br />
Jean Dalvy; Mme. Piazzi, who wrote as Leila England that the volume could not fail to give<br />
Hanoum ; and Mme. de Saint-Vidal.<br />
pleasure there. The book has been compiled with<br />
The Langlois prize for the best translation in great care, and many interesting letters are published.<br />
verse or prose of a work from the Greek or from Albert Besnard, whose fame as an artist is world-<br />
any modern language has been divided between wide, appears to be able to succeed in all he under-<br />
M. Pelisson, for his translation of “ Heine's Songs takes. At the exhibition of his collected pictures<br />
and Poems”; M. de Coussange, for “Indi. some years ago in Paris, it was a revelation to many<br />
vidualism,” by Ellen Key; and Georges Grappe, of his admirers that he had worked on so many<br />
for Barett Wendel's “ France of To-day.”<br />
· different lines. Widely different as the subjects,<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
styles, colouring, and technique were, the master donymous and non-copyright books, was decided<br />
hand could be traced unmistakably. The collec- by the Supreme Court of the State of New York in<br />
tion was a huge one; there seemed to be the work of favour of the defendants.<br />
two or three lifetimes on the walls, and since that Nathan Burkan appeared for the plaintiff.<br />
exhibition the great artist's hand has never been Andrew Gilhooly was counsel for Hurst & Co.<br />
idle. At present we are to see him under a new The following is the opinion of Judge Green-<br />
light. M. and Mme. Albert Besnard have been baum:<br />
travelling in India, and the painter is now giving “This action is brought under sections 50 and<br />
us a series of word pictures as graphic and as full 51 of the Civil Rights Law (1 Consolidated Laws<br />
of life and colour as his canvases.<br />
of 1909, page 308) to enjoin the publication and<br />
" De Marseilles à Port Saïd " is the first of the sale by defendants of certain books with the<br />
series, an admirable description of the impressions imprint of plaintiff's name on the covers in which<br />
of an artist accustomed to noting the details which they are bound and the wrappers in which they are<br />
count, and of rendering the values and effects with inclosed. The plaintiff is an author of standing<br />
inimitable skill and feeling.<br />
and reputation, who has written juvenile and<br />
Paul Bourget's play, “Le Tribun,” is still being historical works during the past forty years.<br />
given at the Vaudeville, and “L'Oiseau bleu” at Among his earlier juvenile works are two, entitled<br />
the Théâtre Rejane. At the Renaissance “ La “In the Apache Country and The White<br />
Gamine" is being played, and at the Théâtre des Mustang,' which he published in 1888 and 1889<br />
Arts “ Les Frères Karamazov."<br />
respectively under the assumed name of · Lieu-<br />
The Shakespeare League is now formed, and tenant R. H. Jayne,' and which have never been<br />
M. Camille de Sainte-Croix wishes to express his published by plaintiff or his authority in connection<br />
thanks to the readers of The Author who have sent with his own proper name. It appears that neither<br />
particulars of Shakespearean Societies in England. of these publications was ever copyrighted, and no<br />
À performance of “The Merchant of Venice" is claim in respect of said stories is made under the<br />
to be given in French by his Shakespeare Theatre copyright laws of the United States. Defendants,<br />
Company on May 11 as a matinée at the Trocadero. book publishers, have published and offered for<br />
Numbers of people are joining the league, the sale printed copies of each of said literary pro-<br />
object of which is to give publicity and help to the ductions of plaintiff under his nom de plume of<br />
Shakespeare Theatre, and also to attempt a recon- Lieutenant R. H. Jayne,' with the name of<br />
stitution of the literature and theatre of the “Edward S. Ellis' and 'Ellis' printed on the<br />
Shakespearean epoch in the various European covers and wrappers of the books. Plaintiff con-<br />
countries. By means of a théâtre comparé it is cedes that by reason of their dedication to the<br />
thought that an interesting literary revival may be public, the defendants had the right to ieprint,<br />
arrived at. A paper containing details will be sent publish and sell these books. It is contended,<br />
to any readers desirous to have further particulars, however, that the dedication is limited to the books<br />
on receipt of a post-card.<br />
as published under the nom de plume ; that in the<br />
ALYS HALLARD. absence of any permission or consent on the part<br />
60, Rue de Vaugirard, Paris.'<br />
of plaintiff to use or print his real name in con-<br />
nection with the publications in question, defen-<br />
* Silhouettes historiques” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
dants had no right to publish them with the<br />
“La Liseuse" (Calmann Lévy).<br />
“Figures Littéraires" (Perrin).<br />
imprint of his true name on the covers and<br />
“ Visages d'hier et d'aujourd'hui” (Plon).<br />
wrappers, and that this use of his name is in<br />
"La Société française du XVIe siècle au XXe siècle violation of the statute to which reference has been<br />
(Perrin).<br />
made. The statute reads as follows : Sec. 50,<br />
"L'Affaire Debrouillar--Delatamize” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
" Marie Malibran " (Plon).<br />
Right of Privacy.-A person, firm or corporation<br />
that uses for advertising purposes or for the pur-<br />
poses of trade the name, portrait or picture of any<br />
living person, without having obtained the written<br />
PUBLISHERS NEED NOT PRESERVE<br />
consent of such a person, or if a minor, of his or<br />
PSEUDONYMITY (U.S.A.).<br />
her parent or guardian, is guilty of a misdemeanor.'<br />
Section 51 confers a right of action for injunction<br />
(From the U.S.A. Publishers' Weekly.)<br />
and for damages in favor of the person aggrieved<br />
under the provisions of section 50.<br />
N action brought by Edward S. Ellis, the “Where a statute is doubtful or ambiguous<br />
A author, against Hurst & Company, involv- resort may be had to the title of the act (In the<br />
ing a number of interesting questions matter of Village of Middletown, 82 N. Y., 195,<br />
regarding publishers' and authors' rights in pseu- 199). In construing the broad language of the<br />
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court declaring the use for advertising purposes<br />
or for the purposes of trade' of the name, por-<br />
trait, or picture of any living person' without his<br />
written consent to be a misdemeanor, the court<br />
will consider the mischief which the statute was<br />
aimed at, and in order to give it effect words<br />
absolute in themselves and language the most<br />
broad and comprehensive may be qualified and<br />
restricted by other parts of the same statute, or by<br />
the facts and circumstances to which they relate<br />
(Blaschko v. Wurster, 156 N. Y., 437, 443).<br />
“In the light of this rule of construction it may<br />
be seriously doubted whether the statute was<br />
intended to cover every case of the unauthorised<br />
use of another's name, picture or portrait in con-<br />
nection with trade purposes, or whether it was<br />
intended to be limited to a class of cases where,<br />
before the enactment of the statute, no provision<br />
of law existed for redressing certain wrongs. The<br />
title of the act is “Right of Privacy,' and it is<br />
now a matter of general knowledge that the act<br />
was passed in consequence of the suggestions con-<br />
tained in the opinion in the case of Roberson v.<br />
Rochester Folding Box Co. (171 N. Y., 538), a view<br />
expressly recognised in the opinion of Rhodes v.<br />
Sperry & Hutchinson Co. (193 N. Y., 223, 227),<br />
the opening paragraph of which reads : 'In the<br />
case of Roberson v. Rochester Folding Box Co. (171<br />
N. Y., 538) this court determined that in the<br />
absence of any statute on the subject, the right of<br />
privacy as a legal doctrine enforcible in equity,<br />
did not exist in this State so as to enable a woman<br />
to prevent the use of her portrait by others for<br />
advertising purposes without her consent.' If we<br />
turn to the opinion in the Roberson Case (supra)<br />
we find that it discusses learnedly and at length<br />
the doctrine of the Right of Privacy,' and the<br />
incorporation of the phrase in the title of the act<br />
under review should therefore be given due signifi-<br />
cance.<br />
was evidently designed to forbid the<br />
unauthorised and wanton appropriation or use of<br />
a person's name, picture or portrait for trade or<br />
advertising purposes where such use is wholly un-<br />
related to the matters or things with which said<br />
name, picture or portrait is associated, and it may<br />
perhaps also have been intended to forbid the<br />
unauthorised use of one's name, portrait or picture<br />
when such use is asserted to be related to or con-<br />
nected with the things advertised or sold, but<br />
where such a relationship or connection is in fact<br />
unreal, unsubstantial, pretended or false. If the<br />
act were to be construed as broadly as here claimed,<br />
then one who advertises the sale of a well-known<br />
brand of flour by using without his written consent<br />
the name of the manufacturer of the flour would<br />
be guilty of a misdemeanor. Or if a clothier<br />
• advertises the sale of certain garments and uses in<br />
the advertisements the name of the person who<br />
manufactured the cloth from which the garments<br />
were made without the latter's consent, then would<br />
he be guilty of a misdemeanor. Instances might<br />
be multiplied showing the absurdity of construing<br />
the act in its broadest terms.<br />
“In the case at bar, the defendants concededly<br />
had the right to publish the books in suit with the<br />
nom de plume of plaintiff, and this right carried<br />
with it the right to state the true name of the<br />
author in such form in the book, either upon the<br />
title-page or otherwise, as to show who was the<br />
writer or author thereof' (the Mark Twain Case,<br />
14 Fed. Rep., 728, 730). The nom de plume of an<br />
author is but the synonym of his true name and,<br />
as was said in the Mark Twain Case (supra) at<br />
page 731, 'the invention of a nom de plume gives<br />
the writer no increase of right over another who<br />
uses his own name in the absence of a copyright.'<br />
In publishing the plaintiff's name on the volumes<br />
under consideration the defendants published a<br />
truthful statement, directly connected with the<br />
authorship of the books, which they had a right to<br />
print. This is therefore unlike the case of Eliot v.<br />
Jones (66 Misc., 95, aff'd without opinion by the<br />
Appellate Division, N. Y. Law Journal, October 29,<br />
1910), where President Eliot's name was used with<br />
respect to a publication not made by him or with<br />
his authority, and whicb was therefore a use based<br />
upon a false statement of fact and upon a decep-<br />
tion. The case of Collier v. Jones (66 Misc., 97).<br />
relied upon by the plaintiff, was not brought under<br />
the statute here invoked, but under the doctrine of<br />
unfair competition, and in the case of Victor Herbert<br />
v. Universal Talking Machine Co. (N. Y. Law<br />
Journal, March 9, 1904) it appears from an<br />
examination of the record that the defendant sold<br />
gramophone records, using in connection there-<br />
with the name of the plaintiff, who had nothing<br />
whatever to do with them. I am of opinion that<br />
the defendants' acts here complained of do not<br />
come within the prohibition of the statute here<br />
invoked and that the judgment should go for the<br />
defendants."<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
eive<br />
1. VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
a Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society,<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee bave arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire.<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
Lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br />
obtained But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro.<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation,<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author,<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
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WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com.<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills,<br />
TTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
u agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
I. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance,<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rigbts in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
bolding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author inust remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration.<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
UTEMBERS 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. Tbe<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 26. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittonces should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bunr, chanoery, Lane or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
transfer of the copyright from the unfortunate com<br />
poser-making a claim for infringement of his, the<br />
publisher's, copyright in a certain air, or setting<br />
AUTHORS AND INCOME TAX.<br />
of an air. The first publisher in these circum-<br />
In the April issue of the Publishers' Circular stances would, if he should find that his composer's<br />
we find a report of the Council of the Publishers' work is not selling and not catching on, at once<br />
Association. One item of this report must be of acknowledge the infringement and withdraw the<br />
interest to all authors. It runs as follows :<br />
composition from the market rather than face the<br />
expense and inconvenience of a complicated copy-<br />
THE REQUESTS OF INCOME TAX COLLECTORS FOR<br />
INFORMATION CONCERNING AUTHORS' ACCOUNTS.<br />
right action. The unfortunate composer who may<br />
“A member of the association received<br />
be entirely innocent of any infringement can take<br />
from an<br />
income tax collector a request to be furnished with par.<br />
no steps whatever to have his property re-estab-<br />
ticulars of payments to authors for the purpose of the lished, for the publisher, as owner of the copyright,<br />
assessment of their income. The council are advised that is not obliged to keep the work on the market if<br />
he had no right to make the request."<br />
he does not desire to do so. The position in this<br />
We are glad to see that the Council of the case is as ridiculous as in the case of the unfor-<br />
Publishers' Association have been firm on a matter tunate author who has to claim damages against a<br />
which is of most vital importance.<br />
bankrupt firm.<br />
We see from the same issue that Sir Frederick<br />
MacMillan has been appointed President of the<br />
Publisbers' Association for the current year ; Mr.<br />
THE “ENGLISH REVIEW."<br />
William Heinemann, Vice-President; and Mr. James In the March, 1910, issue of The Author a state-<br />
H. Blackwood has been appointed Treasurer.<br />
ment appeared to the following effect :-<br />
“We understand that Mr. Austin Harrison has been<br />
THE TRANSFER OF COPYRIGHT.<br />
appointed editor of the English Reriew which, in future,<br />
will be published from Messrs. Chapman and Hall's<br />
A new evil inherent in the transfer of copyright offices, 11, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W.C. We are<br />
has come to our notice.<br />
further informed that the unsatisfied claims of contributors<br />
Time without number in these columns the evils<br />
to the Review under the old management will be settled by<br />
the new management.<br />
connected with the assignment of copyright have<br />
"We are very pleased to be able to make this announce-<br />
been put forward, and especial emphasis has been ment officially, as it is not often that a new proprietor,<br />
laid on the case of an author engaged in technical taking over the assets of an old company, also takes over<br />
writing—a specialist in his own particular subject.<br />
its liabilities and undertakes to satisfy them."<br />
By such transfer he may be excluded from writing We are now able to report that the undisputed<br />
again on his subject unless he enters into an agree claims of members of the society placed in the<br />
ment wholly unfair and unsatisfactory with the hands of the secretary have been met under this<br />
holder of his own copyright; in fact, he may have promise, and we must thank Sir Alfred Mond for<br />
placed his whole reputation at stake owing to his settling the matter.<br />
ignorance or folly.<br />
We have also pointed out the danger of such<br />
SIR ALFRED LYALL.<br />
transfer when an author is remunerated by a royalty<br />
on the sales. Should the company or publisher go<br />
We regret to record the death of the Right Hon.<br />
into liquidation or become bankrupt, the author Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., D.C.L.,<br />
who has transferred his copyright can only obtain who joined the Society of Authors in 1905 and<br />
damages against the bankrupt estate. The position was elected to its council in 1908.<br />
is absurd. There are also other difficulties which We need not deal with his great talents and<br />
must not be lost sight of. But what has recently abilities as a worker in the Empire of India, as it<br />
come forward is the following case, and as it is not this side of his life which is of interest to<br />
occurred with regard to musical copyright it is readers of The Author, however distinguished it may<br />
perhaps more likely to re-occur with regard to this have been, but it is rather as a man of letters that he<br />
same property. A musical composer transferred will appeal to authors, and his work in the field of<br />
his copyright and performing right—unfortu. literature was no less distinguished than his public<br />
nately, most musical composers still refuse to band career. Perhaps the book by which he is best<br />
together against this demand of the publishers. known, and the book which is most likely to<br />
The composer was to receive a royalty on every endure, is his “ Life of Lord Dufferin," published in<br />
copy sold. The publishers were threatened by 1905, in two volumes. It is a great work, ably<br />
another publisher-it may be taken for granted written. He wrote, in addition, many other books<br />
that the other publisher had likewise obtained referring to India, and among these we would<br />
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mention his “ Life of Warren Hastings ” in the until at last one sensible man propounded the<br />
English Men of Action Series, published in 1889. i theory that a novel, like a pair of trousers, should<br />
He was also a poet of no mean distinction, his be cut to the measure of the material it was meant<br />
" Verses Written in India ” having been re- to contain. The correspondence closed shortly<br />
published quite recently, in a cheap edition. This afterwards.<br />
fact will tend to show how widely read his work Generally speaking, the public prefers a good<br />
has been.<br />
long novel to a good short one, as is only natural..<br />
Sir Alfred took considerable interest in the The more the buyer gets for his money, assuming<br />
affairs of the society from his election, and was the quality to be equal, the better he is pleased.<br />
prominent in the debates that occurred relative to But it is also true that the modern reader does not<br />
what is known as The Times Book War.<br />
want his attention taken off the main theme by any<br />
irrelevant matter. I do not think the ordinary<br />
COPYRIGHT Bill, 1911.<br />
consumer of novels to-day spends much time in read-<br />
ing the old masters. Most houses in London that<br />
THE Copyright Bill of 1911 is now before the<br />
have any library at all no doubt possess editions of<br />
public, and though it is not, from the author's<br />
Scott, Thackeray, and Dickens; but they are rarely<br />
point of view, a perfect bill, it is in a more advanced<br />
taken down from the shelves. If “ Quentin Dur-<br />
condition than the bill of 1910. The Society of<br />
ward,” or “ Vanity Fair,” or “ Martin Chuzzlewit"<br />
Authors may congratulate itself on the fact that<br />
were offered to the London trade to-day as new<br />
the Board of Trade not only gave every oppor-<br />
books by unknown authors I am confident they<br />
tunity to the society, through its committee,<br />
would be refused, not because of their mere length,<br />
to put its views before the Board, but accepted<br />
but because their authors had not learned the art of<br />
nearly all the important suggestions which it laid<br />
excluding matter not germane to the story. Scott's<br />
before them, and authors, whether members of the<br />
prefatory and introductory remarks alone would<br />
society or not, must be deeply indebted to the<br />
often fill as many pages as a modern novelist re-<br />
society for the work it has undertaken on their<br />
quires for his whole book. Thackeray, they would<br />
behalf.<br />
say, was always introducing long apostrophic reflec-<br />
tions on things in general. Dickens invented so.<br />
THE MODERN NOVEL AND ITS PUBLIC. many subsidiary characters and side-issues that he<br />
was forced, as it were, to strike a balance-sheet at<br />
the end of the book, telling his anxious readers in a<br />
(Reprinted from The Dial, Chicago.)<br />
few words what had become of all the secondary<br />
VHEN there is nothing of great importance personages who had fitted across his pages. I dare<br />
V happening, from the journalistic point of not imagine what the modern publisher would say<br />
view, our enterprising press has the of his other habit of interpolating whole stories, such<br />
pleasant habit now and again of starting a dis- as “The Stroller's Tale' in the third chapter of<br />
cussion and inviting correspondence on the subject “The Pickwick Papers."<br />
from interested readers. With a little judicious The fact is that, so far as construction goes, the<br />
fostering, and a certain number of letters written technique of the novel has been improved out of all<br />
in the office to indicate the best methods of treating recognition during the last thirty years. A great<br />
the topic, these arguments sometimes reach truly number of very poor novels are published year by<br />
formidable proportions, especially if they deal with year ; but, bad as they are, they do not generally err<br />
a religious or moral subject. With literature, the in the direction of technique. The plot may be thin<br />
general public is justly supposed to be less con the characters wooden, the writing undistinguished<br />
cerned ; and it is rare to find a paper “opening or even ungrammatical ; but the author has gener-<br />
its columns" (as the phrase runs) to any discussion ally the merit of keeping the story well in view from<br />
about the making of books. But a few months start to finish. He has discovered that the one thing<br />
ago the unexpected happened: the Westminster he must not do is to allow the reader's attention to<br />
Gazette did actually invite the opinions of its wander. It is far more likely to wander than it<br />
readers on the momentous question of the Length was in the old days; and this is not entirely due to<br />
of Modern Novels; and, curiously enough, this inferiority in the artist of the twentieth century,<br />
departure from the old tradition met with consider it is due rather to the rise of a new and half-educated<br />
able success. For some weeks the novelists of public, who have been fed on papers like Answers<br />
England entrusted their opinions on this fascinating and Tit-Bits—the babies' food of the young<br />
topic to the correspondence columns of our premier reader. It remains to be seen whether this public<br />
evening paper, commonly at a length inversely will ever be educated up to anything better ; but<br />
proportioned to the importance of the writer. The at present they are incapable of absorbing any para-<br />
diversity of opinion registered was remarkable ; graph of more than five or six lines in length. They<br />
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require a series of shocks to keep them awake, and fear that the great secret eludes analysis. Like many<br />
consequently the modern novelist has learned the so-called games of chance, the art of successful<br />
imprudence of indulging in prolixity. The page of novel-writing is a matter of fortune, with a re-<br />
a new novel must not even present a physical appear- servation in favour of the better player. The good<br />
ance of solidity : if a publisher sees the proofs come man will commonly achieve a modest independence<br />
from the printer with more than ten inches of un in time, if he goes on trying. For the rest, it is<br />
broken matter he is quite capable (as has bappened well for him not to be too much concerned with the<br />
more than once in my own case) of breaking up the commercial side of his work.<br />
paragraphs himself. Only a few of the old guard,<br />
E. H. LACON WATSON.<br />
such as Mr. Henry James, are permitted some lati-<br />
tude in this respect-probably because they were<br />
found to be incorrigible.<br />
STYLE IN LITERATURE.<br />
It is easy to theorise about the production of<br />
books, but it is still extraordinarily difficult to predict<br />
By ARCHIBALD DUNN.<br />
with any approach to accuracy how the public will<br />
receive any given specimen. Yet one can generally<br />
tell what sort of reception it will meet with from the [The commencement of this article, in last month's<br />
reviewers. Some years ago this would have been<br />
issue, discussed the broad requirements of style.]<br />
sufficient; there was a time when a few enthusiastic T CONOMY—the omission of the superfluous<br />
acclamations in the more important papers sent a<br />
word and the inclusion only of the neces-<br />
new book gaily forward on the road to success. In<br />
sary-hardly calls for justification ; seem-<br />
these days the criticisms of the press seem to have ingly, after what has been said, it carries its<br />
lost their effect. upon readers ; the reviewers may endorsement upon its face and there is no need for<br />
praise until they have exhausted every adjective in the introduction of more pbilosophy. Still, a good<br />
their vocabulary, yet the buyers will refuse to come cause, you know, is none the worse for being proved<br />
in. Sometimes I am almost inclined to think that up to the hilt, and a reasonable method is after all<br />
a chorus of commendation damps the ardour of better remembered when its reasoning is fully<br />
the public ; they suspect all sorts of things—an understood. Turning, then, to philosophy, we find<br />
organised attempt to boom the work of a personal the point argued most convincingly, perhaps, by<br />
friend, or perhaps even bribery. They have lost Herbert Spencer.* “ Language," he says, “ must<br />
their child-like faith in the infallibility of the critic be regarded as a hindrance to thought. ...<br />
that our forefathers possessed. It is a curious and Placing a finger on the lips is more forcible than<br />
instructive fact that the most popular writers of the whispering, ‘Do not speak. A beck of the hand is<br />
present day in the world of fiction are novelists for better than • Come here.' A shrug of the shoulders<br />
whom the reviewers never have a good word to say. would lose much by translation into words ..."<br />
The people are not only uneducated, then, but and so on. In short, there is danger in the use of<br />
obstinate ; they hear the voice of their master, but language at all ; action will convey the idea more<br />
deliberately stuff their ears with cotton-wool ; they readily ; and, consequently, we had better do<br />
do not wish to learn. And the critics can only without language altogether.<br />
sigh and point out for their own satisfaction. It is clear, however, that the possibilities of<br />
that in all branches of art the public has ever pantomime are limited. We can suggest “ Come<br />
admired, with a curious consistency, the worst that here” most dramatically by a gesture, but all the<br />
is put before it.<br />
gestures in the world will pot convey the sense of a<br />
What does sell a novel ? The irresponsible theological argument. It is in fact the elementary<br />
chatter of women at afternoon tea, say some of my thought, and nothing beyond the elementary,<br />
friends. I think it a fact that women have a great which thus lends itself to illustration by action ;<br />
deal to say in the matter. They read far more but in that event, we see, the significance of the<br />
novels than the men ; they take their reading more action reaches the intelligence more immediately<br />
seriously; and are more likely to discuss their and more forcibly than could the significance of<br />
favourites afterwards. Thus some of the literary the spoken or written word. So, though Herbert<br />
agents now lay it down as a cardinal rule that, in Spencer has come near the reductio ad absurdum,<br />
a successful story, the feminine interest should be he has taught a valuable lesson. Language is a<br />
dominant. Women, they argue, like to read about hindrance to thought, but-it is indispensable ;<br />
themselves, and especially to learn how they should very well, then, it shall be used—because it must<br />
behave in moments of emotional stress. There is be used—but in such fashion as to make it as<br />
thus a formula for the construction of the “big little of a hindrance as may be. Words, therefore,<br />
seller," if anyone could ever work to a formula, and "The Philosophy of Style,” to which the reader is<br />
if the literary agents are correct. Personally, I referred for more extended proof of the proposition.<br />
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shall be few, direct of meaning and expressive, come now to the treatment of the sentence and of<br />
familiar and, consequently, easy of comprehension, the paragraph, and here, again, we shall find that<br />
there is the treatment of them in the compass of a the whole aim and object is to make things easy<br />
putshell, the commonsense solution of the difficulty. for the reader.<br />
But, is this to say that the erudite is to be The position, then, is simply this. The elemen-<br />
taboo and that the nearer a writer approaches to tary thought is expressed in a single word—write<br />
the one-syllabled language of a child the greater “Halt!" and every reader recognises the command<br />
he shall be ? Is that the inference to be drawn to stop. But as the thought advances in com-<br />
from this law of simplicity and economy, the real plexity, the simple word will no longer suffice but,<br />
meaning of it all ? Well, surely not. For it is instead, a resort must be had to the use of many<br />
most obvious, I think, that much will depend upon words, and these words build up a sentence-with<br />
the circumstances. One would not, for instance, or without subsidiary clauses, as may be. Advance<br />
address a set of ploughmen as a gathering of the thought once more, and the single sentence<br />
students, or write a scientific text-book in the becomes inadequate ; the need has arisen now for<br />
phraseology of the nursery. There is the wide a group of sentences each helping to explain the<br />
distinction of the conditions, and the simple fact meaning and, when completed, forming an intelli-<br />
that what is incomprehensible to the one is often gible paragraph. It is, in fact, a steady increase<br />
the common language of the other. The whole in the quantity of units to be handled by the<br />
question, in short, is relative, regulated by the author; and, just as the management of a company<br />
subject, regulated again by the capacity of the of men is easier than the manoeuvring of an army,<br />
reader—both must be suited.<br />
80 will the problem grow for an author in propor-<br />
I know, of course, that amongst the illiterate it tion to the length and number of sentences<br />
is a mighty fine thing to use long words ; here, necessary to the expression of his thought. For<br />
forsooth, is the depth of profundity with so ignorant these sentences, unluckily, do not take position of<br />
a crowd. Yet, given a few shillings to spend, you themselves; but, with a most irritating perverse-<br />
may bay as much of this profundity as you please ness, tend to straggle and fall into a certain<br />
at any stationer's shop, and then, equipped with a confusion. It is not, perhaps, an actual disorder,<br />
Thesaurus of English words and phrases, safely but rather an absence of order and a species of<br />
unfurl the standard of pomposity and affectation. aimlessness, and this is what calls so imperatively<br />
There is a long word for everything, believe me, for the drill-sergeant--the author and demands<br />
to repay the mere trouble, the clerk's work, of of him that he shall set each one of these trouble-<br />
searching through the pages, and nothing in this some units into its fit and proper place. And,<br />
world but laziness to prevent you beating record failing this ? Why, then, depend upon it, we<br />
for a vocabulary. Yet, when all is said and done, have drifted back again in a twinkling to that Old<br />
what a travesty it comes to ! when, setting out to Man of the Sea in literature, to that bogey of a<br />
do one thing, another is gravely accomplished ! rule which will have the way paved smooth for the<br />
when, with the object of enlightening the reader, reader. Here is a blessed muddle ; and that was<br />
the end is to fuddle him! It is against this never a part of the bargain.<br />
danger that the law of economy and simplicity Thus it is clear that some definite order must be<br />
stands as the surest safeguard.<br />
decided upon ; some order whicb, by virtue of its<br />
Pity, then, that its fulfilment should be so natural sequence, shall seem the natural order to<br />
difficult! "To gather much thought into few the reader and so reduce his effort to a minimum<br />
words," says Schopenhauer, “stamps the man of in visualising the picture.<br />
genius"; and, amongst those who find their Now, in considering this, one essential is always<br />
livelihood or their pleasure in writing, there is not to be remembered—that a proposition must neces-<br />
one to contradict him. For somehow, by some sarily be discussed in one of two ways, either<br />
unlucky chance, the natural process of expression inductively or deductively; that is, we may first<br />
is seldom precise and to the point but something group together our facts and particolars and so<br />
of a wobble, to speak the truth, and ever ready to lead up to and prove the main proposition, or,<br />
go upon the wander ; and so it happens, as a rule, alternatively, we may begin by stating the propo-<br />
that it is only after years of training and an sition itself and then proceed to prove it. One or<br />
infinity of labour that a man learns in the end to say other of these methods must be adopted always in<br />
just exactly what he wants to say and nothing more. intelligent debate if the subject is to be brought<br />
definitely and sharply before the mind of an outside<br />
Climax (which necessarily implies sequence as a person. As to which is the better method autho-<br />
preliminary) brings us to a broader consideration rities are disagreed. Lewes* suggests that it<br />
of the subject of style. We have spoken of the<br />
treatment of the word-in a general sense ; we<br />
* “ Principles of Success in Literature."<br />
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depends upon the circumstances, and that certainly appeal direct to the reason. Unluckily, this is but<br />
seems the commonsense way of looking at it. “If half the task. For its completion there is still<br />
my object,” he says, “is to convince you of a another phase of the mind's activity to consider ; a<br />
general truth or to impress you with a feeling which phase which is of the emotional rather than the<br />
you are not already prepared to accept, it is obvious reasoning type.<br />
that the most effective method is the inductive, This is best illustrated by an example. Walk<br />
which leads your mind upon a culminating wave of suddenly from the sunshine into a shady corridor,<br />
evidence or emotion to the very point I aim at. and though perhaps there is light enough to read<br />
But the deductive method is best when I wish to by, the corridor will seem absolutely dark; or,<br />
direct the light of familiar truths and rouse again, remember how, in the unexpected presence<br />
emotions upon new particulars or upon details in of some horrible or startling sight, the mind is<br />
unsuspected relation to those truths.” In short, blinded sometimes wholly, always partially, to other<br />
then, to lighten the task of the reader, a proposition considerations. Common experiences such as these,<br />
likely to be accepted without question should be the effect of which cannot be denied, carry their<br />
stated at once and afterwards emphasised, whilst a own inference, and accepting it, as we must do, we<br />
proposition unlikely to be so accepted should first have this inevitable conclusion—that the mental<br />
be proved and then, as a consequence of such proof, faculties, like all our senses, are subject to a deaden-<br />
finally stated.<br />
ing reaction after any very vivid impression, and<br />
But whichever method is adopted-and the writer that the extent of the reaction is commensurate in<br />
will select according to the conditions of the some degree with the strength of the impression.<br />
moment—it is certain that the process in either It is a case, in fact, of the greater overshadowing<br />
case must be progressive. Here again it is a ques- the less; and when this occurs in literature need<br />
tion of the reader's comfort ; he shall not be left we wonder if a period of blankness ensues which,<br />
to disentangle the tangled threads. As Herbert if it does not actually destroy the power of appre-<br />
Spencer puts it, “the events should be stated in ciation, at least weakens it ? On the other hand,<br />
ench sequence that the mind may not have to go the trifle can claim attention when there is nothing<br />
backwards and forwards in order to rightly of more import to distract, and if the series be<br />
connect them.”<br />
allowed to move with a steadily increasing force<br />
That, however, is not the end of it; for you may each detail can be noted by the way. Moreover,<br />
have a sequence without a tangle and yet a sequence this is to heighten the final result ; for if you step<br />
which from its very nature is incomprehensible. I from the shady corridor into the sunlight the sun<br />
mean, of course, where a complex or unfamiliar will never look brighter; and, if you will explain to<br />
subject has been introduced too suddenly. And me beforehand the utmost possibilities of some<br />
this is the fault so common to bad writing, that the terrible danger, there is no surer means of in-<br />
author assumes the reader's knowledge to be equal creasing my fear, though, mark you! I shall have<br />
to his own. Then, in a moment, the mind as my wits about me when the time comes. Based,<br />
often as not, goes all abroad ; it has nothing to then, on the law of nature is the law of climax,<br />
catch hold of as a stand-by, nothing that it has that the progression of sentences shall not only<br />
ever come across before, no starting point to work follow in easy stages and in logical order, but that,<br />
from, nothing anywhere but an indescribable haze. in addition, they shall be cumulatire in effect.<br />
It is a blank, if ever there was one, hopeless and To point the moral, take an extract from<br />
complete. And yet it could be cleared up so easily Macaulay. This is what he says about Barère :-<br />
by starting just a little lower down the ladder of “Our opinion, then, is this : that Barère approached<br />
knowledge. Here is a complex matter, but its origin nearer than any person mentioned in history or in<br />
was simple. Then start with its origin if neces- fiction, whether man or devil, to the idea of con-<br />
sary, with simple and familiar facts, at any rate, summate and universal depravity. In him the<br />
and so, carrying the attention with you, lead on in qualities which are the proper objects of hatred<br />
a progressive and explanatory fashion to those facts and the qualities which are the proper objects of<br />
which are not so simple and not so familiar. It is contempt preserve an exquisite and absolute<br />
a question of easy stages, that is all, and when the harmony. In almost every particular sort of<br />
really complex is reached at last, believe me, there wickedness he has had rivals. His sensuality was<br />
will be nothing complex about it.<br />
immoderate; but this was a failing common to<br />
So far, then, as logical order is concerned, so far him with many great and amiable men. There<br />
as we have nothing else to do than follow out an have been many men as cowardly as he, some as<br />
explanatory system which can be readily grasped, cruel, a few as mean, a few as impudent. There<br />
the course is clear enough. We have a thought to may also have been as great liars, though we never<br />
convey and we convey it in the most obvious and met with them or read of them. But when we put<br />
most easily appreciable fashion ; we have made our everything together, sensuality, poltroonery, base-<br />
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ness, effrontery, mendacity, barbarity, the result is paragraph. It is a small thing, with the sense<br />
something which in a novel we should condemn as remaining just the same and the words too, but<br />
caricature and to which, we venture to say, no life and truth have gone out of the picture; for the<br />
parallel can be found in history."<br />
mind, tuned to the fever pitch, cannot drop back<br />
A writer less gifted than Macaulay in the art of thus suddenly to the inconsiderable. The thing<br />
building up a climax might have hesitated to begin that has really mattered all along, the thing that<br />
with so slashing and violent & sentence, lest those concerned the reader and held him, was the fate of<br />
others to follow should seem weak by comparison. Hiawatha, that was to be the culmination, the<br />
But, analysed, this sentence is no more than a end ; and yet, just as the secret is revealed, just as<br />
general statement preparing the mind ; and, then, the attention would dwell upon it and grasp its<br />
starting with the admission that Barère perhaps full significance and revel in it, why, just then,<br />
had individual rivals in individual forms of wicked- bless your heart! there comes a dig in the ribs and<br />
ness-a neat contrast—the crescendo treatment a silly, idiotic, distracting remark about a sunset<br />
goes steadily forward. And in the end, though we and a mist.<br />
have listened only to assertion without the backing<br />
of the shadow of a proof, that tempest of words<br />
To the Islands of the Blessed,<br />
and thoughts, that terrific whacking of the big<br />
To the Kingdom of Ponemah,<br />
To the land of the Hereafter!<br />
drum, each stroke heavier than the one before,<br />
In the glory of the sunset,<br />
must carry us along as in a whirlwind irresistibly.<br />
In the purple mists of evening.<br />
We may amend our judgment later on--and sball<br />
do, if the evidence be insufficient-but, meanwhile,<br />
Oh, the smallness of the thought! And the<br />
the art of the writer has triumphed, and, for the<br />
certainty, as you see, that romance must be<br />
moment at any rate, we condemn Barère. Illogical,<br />
scotched to find ourselves thus thrust back from<br />
you say? And so it is. At the same time, it is<br />
the fascinating dream—of ethereal things, which we<br />
very real human nature, and there is no getting<br />
believe to be beautiful and on which it is only<br />
away from that.<br />
natural for the imagination to rest-back again with-<br />
Clearly, then, if climax be essential to effective-<br />
out warning to the commonplaces of life, to the<br />
ness, anti-climax-a sequence in which the imposing everyday siidset, if you please, and a damp-I had<br />
thought is succeeded by the trivial-must be for-<br />
&<br />
near<br />
nearly written “damned”-unpleasant mist !*<br />
bidden. The strength of the one is sufficient<br />
As Longfellow has it, however, “the glory of<br />
evidence of the weakness of the other, and so there<br />
the sunset” and “the purple mists of evening” is<br />
is no need to go over the old ground of argument<br />
well-nigh perfect in its artistic setting. It has<br />
again. One inay, however, show in a given<br />
painted the scene, of course, and brought the<br />
instance how differently a passage will read and<br />
picture realistically before the eye; but more, it<br />
impress the mind when, without changing either<br />
has heightened the final effect by introducing a<br />
words or meaning, we get anti-climax instead of<br />
momentary suspension of the main thought. That<br />
this should be a source of strength rather than of<br />
climax; and, for this purpose, the final scene in<br />
“Hiawatha " suggests itself :<br />
weakness is not, at first sight, quite apparent.<br />
Here we have the law of economy and simplicity<br />
Thus departed Hiawatha,<br />
Hiawatha the Beloved,<br />
jogging at the elbow and demanding the direct and<br />
In the glory of the sunset,<br />
concise statement and putting us straightway in a<br />
In the purple mists of evening,<br />
troublesome quandary. But I would remind you<br />
To the regions of the home-wind,<br />
once again of the days of the nursery and of what<br />
Of the North-west wind Keewaydin.<br />
To the Islands of the Blessed,<br />
happened when that story you were listening to so<br />
To the Kingdom of Ponemah,<br />
attentively was unexpectedly interrupted. It was<br />
To the land of the Hereafter !<br />
just near the end, or at any rate at the crucial<br />
Is it possible to improve this picture ? to make moment-seeing that they were all crucial moments<br />
it more realistic ? more impressive? It is the<br />
—when nurse was called away and you were left<br />
closing of a beautiful life in glory—the glory of kicking your bare legs about<br />
the glory of kicking your bare legs about the floor. Do you re-<br />
the sunset: in sadness-the sadness of the mists of member, then, how you watched the door! how you<br />
evening : but in everlasting happiness, too. that crawled up to it and listened for a footstep? Do you<br />
Hiawatha should be journeying back to an Eternal<br />
remember how your excitement grew by degrees ?<br />
reward in the Islands of the Blessed, in the land<br />
You had been interested before, you know, but<br />
of the Hereafter! I do not know how this is to be * It is worth noting that the imposing thought succeeded<br />
get more emotionally or more truly. But I do by the trivial has a tendency towards the ridiculous. Hence<br />
know how it may be ruined by the mere stroke of there is some capital to be made out of it in humorous<br />
writing.<br />
a pen, by simply transposing the third and fourth<br />
That all-softening overpowering knell,<br />
lines and re-casting them for the conclusion of the<br />
The tocsin of the soul-the dinner-bell,<br />
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now your little brain was working into a fever.<br />
The end ! how the mystery and the wonder of it<br />
deepened with suspense! Ah! you remember?<br />
Very well, then, we have whittled down the pencil<br />
and come to the lead, for this idea of suspending<br />
the main thought in literature is only that same<br />
pleasant old idea resurrected from the nursery-<br />
though played of course more artistically nowa-<br />
days for the benefit of those bigger children, the<br />
grown-ups.<br />
But there is danger in it, nevertheless. For,<br />
just as the slight suspension can prove a source of<br />
strength, the really lengthy suspension is seldom<br />
anything but an impediment and a source of weak-<br />
ness. Supposing that Longfellow, instead of using<br />
only two lines to describe the scene, bad used<br />
twenty, what would happen ? Why, clearly the<br />
mind would wander from the main issue—the fate<br />
of Hiawatha—and become centred instead on the<br />
scene itself. So much so, indeed, that the final<br />
lines might seem out of place—in fact, for the<br />
moment, almost without meaning ; we might have<br />
to stop and worry it out for ourselves; we might even<br />
have to refer back to the first line of all to find a<br />
true connection in the passage. This is the danger,<br />
then, the risk of creating a deliberate distraction<br />
And now there is only this to add, that what<br />
applies to the paragraph applies also to the sentence.<br />
The sentence often enough contains a subordinate<br />
thought or series of thoughts within the main<br />
thought—it is, in fact, a miniature paragraph.<br />
Clearly, then, there must be a well-observed<br />
sequence in the order of the sentence as in the<br />
order of the paragragh, a well-defined progression<br />
to the climax, and never, under any circumstances,<br />
too long a suspension of the main issue. Subject<br />
to all this, then, for the sake of economy, the<br />
shorter the sentence the better.<br />
the one case, the case of a flower, the faculty of<br />
smell has been killed, so it seems; in the other, the<br />
case of the student, the mind has become so dulled<br />
that what is accomplished at all is accomplished<br />
with effort, less speedily than usual, less satisfactorily.<br />
What is the inference? Why, surely, that monotony<br />
has the knack of enfeebling the faculties and tends<br />
to make them inoperative.<br />
But, now, if we move from the flower to the<br />
neighbourhood of an open drain, there is no doubt<br />
that we shall smell the drain ; or, if the student be<br />
translated from his study to the chess-board, pro-<br />
vided of course that he cares for chess, there is no<br />
doubt about it that the brain will start again<br />
working as freshly and as vigorously as ever. Thus,<br />
there is a second inference to draw-that, whilst<br />
the faculties most certainly collapse in the presence<br />
of monotony, their real power remains unimpaired<br />
and they can be set going anew by merely resorting<br />
to a different stimulus.<br />
Such, then, is the explanation and justification<br />
of the law of Variety ; and there is little to be said<br />
concerning its practical use in literature that is not<br />
self-evident. It is a matter, you see, of avoiding a<br />
groove. Nothing, however good in itself, may be<br />
served up too often or in too regular an order. To<br />
give only the necessary word, the shortest possible<br />
intelligible sentence, the cumulative progression of<br />
events, is excellent. On the other hand to give<br />
them, paragraph after paragraph, page after page,<br />
with never a break in the routine of the catalogue,<br />
is to achieve a perfection of monotony against<br />
which no reader could hope to hold up his head for<br />
half-an-hour. Think of the bare statement and<br />
re-iteration of bare statements in a school-boy's<br />
essay; think of the author who at every turn is<br />
introducing the inevitable “ego"; think of<br />
Macaulay with the everlasting grand crescendo and<br />
see, in the end, how feeble he is. It was a fine<br />
thing that “crescendo," of course, the first time<br />
you met it, soul-stirring and apt to rouge one like<br />
a bugle-call ; but, later, it passed into a vexing<br />
irritation, and finally, like the bugle-call too often<br />
repeated, fell still-born on the senses. Such as this<br />
is dead-levelness with a vengeance and, depend<br />
upon it, so complete a flatness of presentation is not<br />
to be endured. So, in the art of writing-some-<br />
where, somehow, and at no infrequent periods-<br />
there must come those moments of relaxation, those<br />
short intervals of change, which shall serve as the<br />
fresh stimulus to keep the faculties alive.<br />
But it is a difficult job, as things go, to adjust<br />
so fine a balance ; for where, to be sure, does<br />
routine and stereotyped order cease to assist and,<br />
instead, begin to tire? We must observe the rules<br />
and we must break them--the trouble is to choose<br />
the fitting moment; and I do not know that the true<br />
pass-word to this tricky Sesame has yet been found.<br />
Variety, the third law of literature, brings us to<br />
a really strange and surprising result. For, it is<br />
now to appear that, if we shall bave been truly<br />
faithful to the laws of Economy and Climax, if we<br />
shall have followed these principles with a sturdy<br />
persistence and without ever once kicking over the<br />
traces, we shall at the same time have gone far<br />
towards becoming the very worst writers in the<br />
world ! Yes, it is astonisbing ; a direct contra-<br />
diction, seemingly, a building up of the edifice for<br />
the mere pleasure of knocking it down again! But,<br />
listen to the explanation.<br />
When a student bends his mind too intently to<br />
one subject, it is common knowledge that, in pro-<br />
cess of time, the intellect loses in rapidity and in the<br />
power of ready appreciation, and the student grows<br />
stale ; it is also common knowledge, as Herbert<br />
Spencer points out, that " if we hold a flower to the<br />
nose for long, we become insensible to its scent." In<br />
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Still, where the aim is at the practical, it does mean that we shall ever hope actually to imitate<br />
not do to throw up the sponge too readily. As him or that we should do so if we could, but that,<br />
we see, we cannot fix upon the definite border-line in process of time and after a fashion, something<br />
-that is certain. Very well, then, abandon the of the master's charm-it may be but a shadow of<br />
precise, turn to the more general, the broader con- it—will fall inevitably upon the student like a<br />
sideration, and here is a method which, whatever blessing. Under such circumstances, it will be<br />
its demerits, will nevertheless compel, more often found, the habit modifies and, if slowly none the<br />
than not, the accomplishment of the end in view less surely, takes a smoother turn; and, as the<br />
-Variety of Style. The suggestion comes from vocabulary widens day by day, as the niceties of<br />
Lewes.* “How," he asks, “is variety to be expression grow familiar with experience, so will<br />
secured ?" And, in answer, he says :-" It is for the appropriate word come more promptly to hand,<br />
the writer to obey the great cardinal principle of and the sentence round itself off more pleasantly<br />
Sincerity, and be brave enough to express himself to the ear.<br />
in his own way.”<br />
And for the other condition-an orderly pre-<br />
Lewes' idea, of course, is that no man can speak sentation of the thought-it seems that this must<br />
straight from the heart and speak montonously. spring primarily from clear vision on the author's<br />
In the impetuosity of the moment the meaning part. To explain, he must first have understood.<br />
is blurted out anyhow and, with words scarcely And, mark you ! not vaguely as in a fog, but with<br />
weighed and thoughts but indifferently considered, each detail sharply outlined in his own sight and<br />
monotony ceases to be possible. There may be a with its illustrative value distinctly set forth. He<br />
tangle—there generally is—and a good deal of has to picture a thought in which some things<br />
confusion, but at least there must be Variety too; matter more, others less, but a thought in which<br />
and no one is likely to quarrel with the contention. nothing must be blurred. Need we doubt, then,<br />
It is, however, just the very completeness of this that an author's business, before ever he puts pen<br />
proposition which brings about its downfall; for to paper at all, is to be sure of himself; to be sure<br />
what author, I ask you, will adopt a system which that he sees the finished picture and sees it aright,<br />
is likely to lead to confusion ? Clearly, none. too, through all the processes of its painting ?<br />
There must be order, that is essential. Then, can And, then? Then the practical consequence<br />
it be obtained whilst abandoning ourselves to “the seems inevitable ; he has assayed the worth of his<br />
great cardinal principle of Sincerity”? I think own material and instinctively, whether he will or<br />
80. In the simplest fashion, too; by an honest not, the trifles must drop into the background and<br />
reference back, time and again, to the laws of the features of real consequence stand prominently<br />
Economy and Climax—that is, an author shall forward. And, though this may not be order in<br />
submit his spontaneous effort to the test of those its finished state, it is at least a good commence-<br />
conditions and never pass it until the conditions ment in the right direction ; and to have gone so<br />
have been fulfilled.<br />
far is to have left little enough to do in the final<br />
But even this is, in a sense, unsatisfactory. polishing up.<br />
The disentangling and re-setting of a wholly ill. And just one more thing in regard to variety.<br />
expressioned composition is a wearisome and time. We have considered its application to language;<br />
wasting business and, in a labour-saving age, all we may well believe that it applies equally to the<br />
against the accepted view of practical affairs. The thought itself, that the character of the thought<br />
aim, as we understand it nowadays, mnst always be shall not remain in one groove for too long a period.<br />
to accomplish anything with the least possible You remember the home-coming of Rip Van<br />
expenditure of effort. This is the safeguard Winkle. He had been asleep for twenty years up<br />
against overstrain, the secret of many achieve in the Katskill Mountains and then, awaking, he<br />
ments in the short period of a life; and, therefore, trudged back to his native village, an old and<br />
the obvious law. Hence, to fulfil it, an author's broken man. Presently—as he stood puzzling<br />
endeavour shall be to so order his mind, to so train over the array of new buildings, the strange names<br />
himself, that the expression of a thought may always upon the doors, the absence of all the familiar land-<br />
tend to fall automatically into some sort of logical marks which had once meant his home-presently,<br />
sequence and an intelligible and pleasant phraseology. the young men and maidens gathered round him<br />
With regard to the latter requisite, there is a and, as is the frivolous way of youth, started<br />
ready suggestion—that we should study good nudging one another and giggling at sight of the<br />
models. For, believe me, there is no more con tattered rag-bag. Who could this stranger be ?<br />
tagious thing in the world than frequent inter- This quaint old man with the long white beard,<br />
course with a writer wbo can write. I do not the bent back and the vacant eye? Was he out<br />
of a show ? or what? And when, after a moment<br />
* * The Principles of Success in Literature.” he inquired for his former friends, those gay spark<br />
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with whom he had been wont to drink and make first list of the Academic Committee of the Royal<br />
merry in other days, the laugh burst out openly. Society of Literature without the editorial note,<br />
“Dead !"they cried. “ Dead! the whole drunken which, I venture to think, the occasion might have<br />
lot of them !" And when, a little later, he asked suggested.<br />
them for his wife, they held their sides in merri- The Committee of the Authors' Society did<br />
ment, and the answer came back at him in a shout. not, it is true, express any formal opinion on<br />
“ Gretchen! Old Gretchen! Why, dead of the question of the inclusion of women in the<br />
course, like the rest, and buried these nineteen Academic Committee. It seemed to most of us,<br />
years !” Then Rip Van Winkle laughed too. when the question was mooted, that the better and<br />
“That's funny,” he said, “that's damned funny! So less contentious way to carry out so important and<br />
damned funny it nearly breaks my poor old heart!”* possibly controversial a step would be by the<br />
There may be more affecting incidents than this co-option by the Academic Committee itself of its<br />
to be found in fiction, but I do not know of them. first lady members. Since a dozen vacant seats<br />
I do not know of any other which strikes more were left at the disposal of the nominated members,<br />
surely, more rapidly, more directly, straight to the and there are at present, I believe, at least ten<br />
heart-strings. And, as it seems to me, the strength vacancies, there can be no practical difficulty in<br />
of the situation lies wholly in the use of contrast, this course being followed. Speaking for myself,<br />
in the sudden change from gay to grave, from the as an interested outsider, I trust it may be, and<br />
humorous to the pathetic, and in the certain without delay.<br />
exaggeration of effect which results from the I may, however, as one who some years ago gave<br />
unexpected transformation in the point of view. up a not unimportant post for the sake of women's<br />
It is like the first breath of open air to the invalid, claim to admission to a scientific society, be allowed,<br />
the tonic of a fresh idea ; and the mind, startled perhaps, to take this opportunity to warn my former<br />
and stirred by the surprise, responds with an clients that if their cause is not more successful they<br />
unaccustomed alacrity and magnifies the picture. have largely themselves to thank. I am not now<br />
This, then, is the work of variation in thought, to referring to the too notorious exhibitions of intem-<br />
create an energetic capacity in the reader and to perate conduct and language, of petulance and<br />
stimulate his powers of insight and appreciation silliness, in the followers of the women's movement,<br />
to their most active state. That the home of which their friends have been recently the<br />
coming of Rip Van Winkle is sad enough at any reluctant witnesses. I have in my mind the<br />
time, no one will dispute ; but it needs the magic apparent incapacity not only to play the game<br />
wand of the artist, that little touch of antithesis in the conduct of affairs, but even to understand<br />
at the end, that “ opposition of two thoughts its rules, of which ill-timed examples have been<br />
which are the reverse of each other in some given us lately by ladies from whom we might have<br />
prominent trait,” just to emphasise the sadness, hoped for better things.<br />
just to let us grip the real truth of it; just to fill Miss Toplis tells us the bad behaviour of our<br />
the eyes with tears.<br />
Committee “dawned slowly” on her. This is<br />
To sum up, then, there are the two leading hardly the way in which “grave slights" and<br />
principles of economy and climax; and the third “indignities" generally strike their victims. Is it<br />
principle of variety which controls the other two, not possible that Miss Toplis has been deceived by<br />
or, if you please, the position may be transposed. a“ false dawn”? When real daylight reaches her,<br />
But, anyway, it is the suitable harmonising of all she will probably appreciate that her sex has<br />
three that makes the basis of good writing and the neither been “slighted” nor “subjected to in-<br />
first trouble of all writers.<br />
dignity” by the action of our Committee of<br />
Management in this business. On the contrary,<br />
* This scene, of course, is only given verbatim in respect<br />
to Rip Van Winkle's concluding remark, which contains<br />
the Committee has done its best to leave an open<br />
the whole point.<br />
door for women by which they may enter with<br />
(To be continued.)<br />
honour and without unseemly disputes into the<br />
coveted dignity.<br />
I am, Sir, Yours obediently,<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
DOUGLAS W. FRESHFIELD.<br />
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br />
SIR,-I must confess to some surprise that you<br />
have published the letter addressed to you by<br />
Miss Toplis on the absence of women from the<br />
II.<br />
SIR-I have read with interest the utterances<br />
of Mrs. Humphry Ward with regard to the<br />
Academic Committee. She deplores on many<br />
occasions that the unfortunate method of its<br />
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election will stand in the way of the trust which If my play is pirated, I instruct my agent to<br />
such a body ought to have from other members of sally forth and capture the pirate ; but pirate-<br />
the profession, and from the public generally. chasing annoys him, because, as likely as not, he is<br />
A king once raised a gentleman to the peerage chasing a future client, and your agent cannot<br />
on the advice of a certain Prime Minister. The afford to offend managers. All managers are<br />
Prime Minister, it was said, hoped that this honest, but some are absent-minded. The manager<br />
advancement would give the public the best who produces my play in New Zealand or India on<br />
argument for the abolition of the House of Lords. a royalty basis sends me returns for seventeen per-<br />
Is it possible that the Royal Society of Literature formances ; but how am I to know that he has not<br />
bas pursued this peculiar method in its election of given serenty? And there is that very fruitful<br />
an Academic Committee in order that it may give source of income—the Stock Company of America.<br />
the public the best argument in favour of the com If permission to perform a play, together with the<br />
mittee's abolition ?<br />
prompt-copy of that play, had to be obtained from<br />
Yours truly, ONE INTERESTED. the society's authorised representative, those<br />
managers who perform plays, and those agents<br />
who lease plays for stock work and forget to<br />
ALTERATIONS IN AUTHORS' MANUSCRIPTS. inform the author, could have “exeunt" written<br />
SIR,-Surely the statement that “no editor or before their names.<br />
publisher has a right to alter an author's MS." Managers cannot exist without plays : yet the<br />
in the April issue is too wide in its literal terms. author is the person to whom payment is most<br />
Read " an author's signed work." and I agree. grudged in times of box-office famine. Certain<br />
Both as contributor and editor, through a pretty managers look upon him as a kind of diseased<br />
long experience, I have always understood that an parasite, a being totally unnecessary to the success-<br />
editor of anonymous articles, being fully respon- ful working of a theatre. But if the dramatists as<br />
sible for the contents, is entitled to alter them. As an organised body went out on strike, what would<br />
a matter of courtesy and prudence he will consult become of the theatre as a commercial enterprise ?<br />
the writer so far as practicable. But in the case Personally, I cannot understand the selfishness<br />
of signed contributions an editor, except with the<br />
of the individual dramatist who objects to organisa-<br />
writer's consent, may only correct manifest errors, tion and co-operation. Whatever consideration he<br />
see to conformity in spelling and punctuation, and owes to his own interests, he still owes some to<br />
at need require objectionable matter to be omitted those of his profession. Naturally and rightly<br />
(but this is really a case of limited refusal to pub- dramatists of standing can demand larger fees than<br />
lisb, which is not on the same footing). Publishers those who still have their spurs to win; but any<br />
and proof-readers ought not to interfere except to dramatist can, and every dramatist should, demand<br />
stop, in emergency, a flagrant error which has an agreed-upon minimum percentage and certain<br />
escaped the author : such things do happen : but recognised conditions, one of which should be<br />
eren then they should be very careful.<br />
that if a manager, having requested an author to<br />
F. POLLOCK. send him a play, keeps that play beyond a certain<br />
send him a pl<br />
time-limit, it should be considered then that he has<br />
accepted that play, and that he is liable for a sum<br />
DRAMATISTS AND THE SOCIETY.<br />
in advance of royalties in connection with that play.<br />
SIR,—The average dramatist is incapable of If dramatists would stand together they would no<br />
looking after his own financial interests; so he longer be the victims of abuses ; they could demand<br />
employs an agent, and pays him a 10 per cent. and would obtain businesslike treatment and<br />
commission. But it seems to me that what the courtesy. But if they are to stand together they<br />
agents are doing the Society of Authors—if it is must do so under the banner of the society. And<br />
to represent us officially; if it is to become a although the scheme that I am suggesting would<br />
necessity to us; if the inducements to come in are entail infinite labour and much thinking, it is to<br />
to be so obvious that not to be a member is not to my mind the first and most important step towards<br />
exist as a dramatist-could do much better.<br />
real organisation and co-operation. All accom-<br />
And, from a purely commercial point of view, plishment that is worth while is difficult. It cannot<br />
why does the society philosophically accept the be done in a moment, but it can be done. There<br />
fact that a large portion of these commissions are born reactionaries—even amongst dramatists ;<br />
might, with a little trouble, be diverted to its own hopeless pessimists, content to let things slide,<br />
bank account? If it charged only 5 per cent. for fearful lest change should bring tyranny in its<br />
collecting royalties and drafting contracts, its wake. Such people have always been the brakes<br />
increased income would more than balance its on the wheel of human progress.<br />
increased expenditure.<br />
But it seems to me that if the society is to<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
represent dramatists as a body; if the induce that I brought no accusation of any kind against anybody.<br />
ments to come in are to be greater than the<br />
An agreement is an agreement, and an absolute sale is an<br />
absolute sale, no matter how the financial consequences<br />
temptations to stay out; the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br />
thereof may work out." (New Age, March 9.)<br />
mittee would be doing a very useful work both for the<br />
It would seem, then, that the “ expert " who is<br />
individual dramatist and for dramatists as a body<br />
if, during the coming year, it would draft a scheme<br />
good enough to assure the author that his foreign<br />
and translation rights are too trifling to be worth<br />
by which it could either shunt the agent and take his<br />
bothering about (and had therefore better be<br />
place, or appoint certain agents in various places<br />
entrusted to the said expert's sole care) is an<br />
who would act solely through and on behalf of the<br />
individual whose activities are not confined to this<br />
Society of Authors—men of experience, discretion<br />
side of the Channel.<br />
and integrity, who could keep in touch, through the<br />
Yours faithfully, WARD MUIR.<br />
theatrical papers or other sources, with the move-<br />
ments and productions of all classes of managers,<br />
and so safeguard the dramatist from unauthorised<br />
AUTHORS' AGENTS.<br />
performances of his work ; thus making itself not<br />
only a luxury to the individual dramatist, but a SIR,--Through a long and varied experience I<br />
necessity to all dramatists ; while the extra expense have found that the author's agent rather than the<br />
involved could be met by the percentage charged on author himself ruins the prospects of the minor<br />
the collection of fees.<br />
author. The Society of Authors is constantly<br />
This is only a suggestion, but I think it is worthy dinning into the ears of its members that they<br />
of consideration.<br />
should not write under a certain price per 1,000<br />
Yours truly, A DRAMATIST. words in periodical contributions ; that they should<br />
not publish their first or subsequent books at their<br />
own expense, and I think that many authors have<br />
MINOR (?) Rights.<br />
wisely, and to their benefit, followed the advice that<br />
SIR,—The following paragraph from the weekly<br />
has been given them. But what are they to do<br />
literary causerie, “ Books and Persons in London<br />
when the author's agent advises them to sign con-<br />
and Paris,” by “ Jacob Tonson” in The New Age,<br />
tracts at ruinons rates ; to sign contracts giving<br />
may be of interest to some of your readers.<br />
all their minor rights to the publisher ; to sign<br />
“ Jacob Tonson," having stated that 5,000 copies<br />
contracts for the payment of sums towards the<br />
of the English translation of “Marie Claire ” were<br />
production of their books, or for the production of<br />
sold within a week of publication, goes on to<br />
their books on a deferred royalty which, when it<br />
describe an interview which he has had with<br />
does come, is microscopically small ? The author<br />
Madame Audoux, the author of that work. After<br />
goes to an agent, being ignorant himself, as to a<br />
recording the commencement of their conversation,<br />
person who knows the market; he trusts his wealth<br />
“ Jacob Topson ” continues :-<br />
of literature to an agent with greater confidence<br />
"From work to prices, naturally! It was pleasing to<br />
than he would entrust his earnings to a stock-<br />
find that she (Madame Audoux] had a very sane and proper<br />
broker or his legal business to a solicitor-with<br />
curiosity as to prices and conditions in England. After I fatal results. The agent in many cases, in order<br />
had somewhat satisfied this curiosity she showed an equally to save himself trouble, gives advice which is wholly<br />
sane and proper annoyance at the fact that the English and<br />
unsatisfactory lest he should be asked to spend<br />
American rights of 'Marie Claire' had been sold outright<br />
for a ridiculous sum. She told me the exact sum. It was<br />
more time and energy in obtaining a sounder<br />
either £16 or £20-I forget which. If the success of the agreement. This refers not only to the rights<br />
book in America equals its success in England (and it will placed in England, but also to the rights in America<br />
probably surpass it), the author's profits under a proper and other countries. In fact, it has almost become<br />
agreement should be upwards of £800. Who is getting<br />
these profits I cannot say, but the author is not getting<br />
impossible to persuade an agent to obtain the<br />
them.” (New Age, March 2.)<br />
American rights for his client. The result in the<br />
It is fair to add that in his next week's causerie<br />
long run would be much better for the author to<br />
“ Jacob Tonson” published the following<br />
pay an agent 15 per cent. to 20 per cent. if he<br />
could be quite sure that the agent would conscien-<br />
paragraph :-<br />
tiously fight through his contracts with publisher<br />
"Last week, in spcaking of Marie Claire,' I said that<br />
or editor, but then the question would always be<br />
the author was not getting the author's share of the profits<br />
on the very successful sale of Marie Claire,' and that I in dispute whether by increasing the percentage<br />
did not know who was getting the author's share. Theyou increase the efficiency. As a general rule,<br />
publishers, Messrs. Chapman and Hall, have satisfied me when an author, or a body of authors, has estab-<br />
that they are paying quite proper royalties on the circulation<br />
lished his or their price, it is difficult to beat the<br />
(ten thousand copies up to date). I am very glad to make<br />
known this fact. Messrs. Chapman and Hall's contract. Price down again.<br />
however, is not with the author direct. I need not say<br />
Yours truly, A LITERARY WATCHER.<br />
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desire to add future elections as they are chronicled Feb. 21, Rhys, Ernest ,<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
Feb. 21, Cameron, Mrs. (Charlotte) . 1 1 0<br />
Feb. 21, Mulliken, Mrs. .<br />
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March 9, Boughton, Rutland . . 0 5 0<br />
March 10, Somers, John . . .<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Donations.<br />
N February 1, the trustees of the Pension<br />
1911.<br />
Fund of the society—after the secretary<br />
had placed before them the financial Jan. 2, Northcote, The Rev. H.. . ( 5 0<br />
position of the fund-decided to invest £250 in Jan. 2, Mackenzie, Miss J. .<br />
0 50<br />
the purchase of Consols.<br />
Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur H. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
The amount purchased at the present price is Jan. 3, Wasteneys, Lady<br />
0 5 0<br />
£312 13s. 4d.<br />
Jan. 4, P. H. and M. K. ..<br />
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This brings the invested funds to £4,377 19s. 4d. Jan. 4, Randall, F. J.<br />
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mend the payment of any further pensions, as the Jan. 5, Crellin, H. N.<br />
0 5 0<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted. Jan. 5, S. F. G..<br />
0 10 0<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members Jan. 6, Blake, J. P. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by Jan. 7, Douglas, James A. .<br />
1 0 0<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will Jan. 9, Grisewood, R. Norman.<br />
0 5 0<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
Jan. 10, Wharton, Leonard C. .. o) 10 0<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im. Jan. 12, Tanner, James T.. .<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
Jan. 16, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila . () 5 0<br />
Jan. 17, Kemp, Miss Emily G.. . 1 1 0<br />
Consols 24%...<br />
........... £1,312 13 4<br />
Jan. 21, Greenstreet, The Rev. W.<br />
0 5 9<br />
Local Loans ........<br />
... 500 0 0<br />
Jan. 26, Blundell, Miss Alice . . 0 5 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
Jan. 28, Benecke, Miss Ida . 0 5 0<br />
dated Inscribed Stock<br />
291 19 11<br />
Jan. 30, Wilkinson, The Rev. C.J. 1 1 0<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
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Feb. 3, Tweedie, Mrs. Alec<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ......<br />
Feb. 10, Dale, T. F. . .<br />
Cape of Good Hope 32% Inscribed<br />
Feb. 13, Machen, Arthur.<br />
( 10 )<br />
Stock ........................<br />
200 0 0<br />
Feb. 21, Strachey, Lady .<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Feb. 25, Humphreys, Mrs. (Rita)<br />
4% Preference Stock.<br />
228 0 0<br />
March 3, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
( 10 0<br />
New Zealand 32% Stock ............... 247 96<br />
March 6, Haultain, Arnold.<br />
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Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock<br />
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March 9, Hardy, Harold .<br />
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Corporation of London 2% Stock,<br />
March 9, Hutton, E. . .<br />
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March 10, Wilson, Albert .<br />
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Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49. ........ 132 18 6<br />
March 16, Ward, Dudley . . .<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock............<br />
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Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Grant Stock, 1938.......... .......... 198 3 8<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
Total ............... £4,377 19 4<br />
DHE March meeting of the Committee of the<br />
Subscriptions,<br />
society was held on the 6th ult., at the<br />
1911.<br />
£ $, d.<br />
society's offices, 39, Old Queen Street, S.W.<br />
After the reading of the minutes of the previous<br />
Jan. 3, Yolland, Miss E. .<br />
0 5 0 meeting, and arising out of them, Sir Alfred<br />
Jan. 3, Bowen, Miss Marjorie . 1 1 0 Bateman stated that he had drawn the attention of<br />
Jan. 9, Bolton, Miss Anna . . 0 5 0 the Advisory Committee on Commercial Intelligence<br />
Jan. 13, Edginton, Miss May . () 5 () of the Board of Trade to the large number of<br />
Feb. 11, Canpan, Gilbert . . . 0 10 6 dramas of British authors which were being<br />
Feb. 15. Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie . 0 5 0 produced in the chief cities abroad. He asked if<br />
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arrangements could be made by which Consuls or purpose, the secretary was instructed to apply to<br />
Commercial Correspondents could notify to the the member for the fullest information as to th<br />
Commercial Intelligence Branch for transmission ownership of the copyright, date of publication,<br />
to the Society of Authors the title of any English and other particulars necessary to make the case<br />
play mentioned in the local newspapers as being in clear. On the receipt of the opinion the matter<br />
the course of performance, so as to safeguard will be reconsidered by the committee.<br />
British authors' interests. He reported that the The solicitor then furnished the committee with<br />
matter was now being considered by the depart- a report of the work he had in hand for the society.<br />
ments concerned, and he hoped that good might Of ten small County Court cases four had been<br />
result.<br />
settled. In two others default summonses had been<br />
Following this statement, the committee turned issued and served. In one of the remaining cases<br />
to the election of members and associates. Twenty- they were waiting for the affidavit of the member<br />
five were elected, bringing the elections for the before issuing the default summons. One claim it<br />
current year up to seventy-two. There were ten had been necessary to abandon owing to the author<br />
resignations, bringing the resignations for the year being too ill to give evidence, and the two remain-<br />
up to forty-five. The number of elections is rathering claims had been arranged to the satisfaction of<br />
above, and the number of resignations rather below the authors. Three claims had been raised for the<br />
the average.<br />
return of MSS. ; one had been abandoned owing to<br />
Cases. The first case considered by the insufficient evidence. In another the paper had<br />
committee related to an alleged error in a publisher's gone into bankruptcy and matters were in a state<br />
accounts. In a statement prepared by the member of confusion, so that it was impossible at present<br />
he expressed his desire that the society should to obtain a satisfactory answer, though it was hoped<br />
pay for an accountant to investigate the publisher's that, in the end, the MS. would be found. In the<br />
books. After careful consideration, the committee last case a portion of the MS. had been returned.<br />
came to the conclusion that the case was hardly and it was hoped that the balance would be<br />
strong enough to justify such a course, and forthcoming.<br />
regretted they were unable to proceed with it, In one claim against a magazine for money due<br />
but stated that if the author could produce any for serial matter supplied, it had been arranged<br />
further evidence to establish his contention, they that some of the instalments should be paid for in<br />
would willingly reconsider the matter.<br />
full, but for the balance, owing to the liquidation<br />
In the next case—that of a bankrupt publisher of the magazine, the author would be bound to<br />
-twelve members were involved. The solicitor of prove in the bankruptcy.<br />
the society, having made a report of the history of After the conclusion of the cases, the committee<br />
the publishing concern, the committee decided, proceeded with the consideration of the ordinary<br />
after some discussion, to take steps to throw the business of the society. The first matter related to<br />
whole concern into bankruptcy, not only for the the Copyright Bill, and a letter from the president<br />
benefit of authors already involved, but also in of the Publishers' Association covering certain<br />
order to save other writers from becoming mixed resolutions from that body was laid before the<br />
up in this company.<br />
committee, together with correspondence that had<br />
The secretary reported a case laid before the passed between the secretary of the society and the<br />
society, by a member, in which he brought a charge permanent secretary of the Board of Trade. The<br />
against one of the big magazines. He stated that secretary was instructed to write to the president<br />
having investigated and considered the papers, he of the Publishers' Association, and also to<br />
had come to the conclusion that no claim could be communicate to the Board of Trade the view of<br />
established against the magazine in question, but as the committee on the important point that was<br />
the member had pressed for the case to go before under discussion.<br />
the committee, he had sent the papers to the society's The question of expenditure incidental to the<br />
solicitor, and the solicitor had expressed the same summoning of the Dramatists' Conference was next<br />
opinion as that given by the secretary. In the considered by the committee, who sanctioned pay-<br />
circumstances, the committee decided they could not ments for the hiring of the hall, printing of<br />
take the matter further.<br />
circulars, etc.<br />
The next case before the committee arose out of The literary agency agreement drafted by the<br />
the infringement of the dramatic rights of one of secretary was laid before the meeting, and it was<br />
the members, by a cinematograph performance of decided to adjourn discussion of this document, as<br />
the United States. In this case the committee well as the question of establishing a loan fund to<br />
decided to take the opinion of a United States the next meeting, when it was possible both matters<br />
lawyer so as to ascertain what relief (if any) could would be referred to a sub-committee.<br />
be obtained under the United States law. For this The secretary reported that two members of the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
society had become life members ; that Mr. Arnold a correct title, and how when that title is proved it<br />
Haultain had made a donation of £1 ls. to the is impossible to take action if the infringement has<br />
Capital Fund ; and Miss E. M. Ducat a donation occurred before registration. Holders of literary<br />
of £1 to the same fund, out of money recovered by copyright have, at least, the satisfaction of knowing<br />
the society.<br />
that they may register at any time before action is<br />
coinmenced, and thus far they have a considerable<br />
advantage over their unfortunate brethren, the<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
artists.<br />
There was one claim for the return of MSS., and<br />
A SPECIAL meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com this has been successful, and two matters came into<br />
mittee was held on Friday, March 3. After thethe Secretary's hands in regard to the duplication<br />
minutes of the previous meeting had been signed,<br />
of titles. These matters are very often difficult to<br />
the secretary placed before the members a case<br />
settle, but in the present instances, the Secretary<br />
which had recently come into his hands, with refer-<br />
was bound to advise the members that they had not<br />
ence to the infringement of a work of one of the<br />
established any property in their titles by user. In<br />
members by a cinematograph performance in the<br />
most of these cases, if any question arises before the<br />
United States of America. The sub-committee<br />
book is published or the play performed, it is<br />
referred the matter to the Committee of Manage-<br />
possible to come to some arrangement satisfactory<br />
ment, with a strong recommendation that the Com-<br />
to both parties, as the offending party is usually<br />
mittee of Management should give the matter their<br />
an innocent offender and is willing to fall in with<br />
earnest consideration, first, by ascertaining the exact<br />
the views of a brother author, if such views do<br />
legal rights of the member, and, secondly, by guard-<br />
not necessitate a heavy financial loss.<br />
ing those rights by an action for injunction and There were three demands for accounts. One of<br />
damages if it was possible to do so.<br />
these has terminated satisfactorily, and two are still in<br />
The next matter under discussion was a proposal the course of negotiation. There have been two<br />
to call a conference of the dramatists of the Society. disputes on agreements, one of which has had to<br />
It was decided that a vote should be taken with a be transferred to the solicitors, and one has been<br />
view to recommending to the Committee of Manage settled owing to the explanation given by the<br />
ment, candidates for appointment to the Dramatic<br />
publisher.<br />
Sub-Committee for the current year, and that the<br />
Nearly all the cases open from last month have<br />
report of the present Dramatic Sub-Committee either been closed, or placed in the hands of the<br />
should be laid before the conference for discussion, Society's solicitors. In two cases the Society was<br />
and that other subjects should be put forward on unable to carry the matters further, owing to lack<br />
which resolutions should be moved, one subject of of proper evidence on which to base a legal claim.<br />
particular interest to dramatists being the single Three cases that are still open refer two to matters<br />
licence for music halls and theatres.<br />
in the United States and one to an action in<br />
Germany. In these cases, the negotiations must<br />
necessarily take a long time.<br />
Cases.<br />
DURING the past month sixteen cases have been<br />
in the hands of the Secretary, when it has been<br />
March Elections.<br />
necessary for him to intervene between the author<br />
and the opposite party. The cases have been of Arnold, Mrs. G. 0. .. Broomfield, Sheffield.<br />
various kinds. Of two for accounts and money, Ayscough, John . . The Manor House,<br />
one has been settled and one is still in the course<br />
Winterbourne, Gun-<br />
of negotiation. Of five for money only two have<br />
ner, Salisbury Plain.<br />
been satisfactorily settled, and the remaining three Blair, H. B. . . . 17, Glover's Road,<br />
are in the course of negotiation. One, however,<br />
Reigate.<br />
is a serious matter which will have to come before Boughton, Rutland , Midland Institute,<br />
the Committee at their next meeting. One case<br />
Birmingham.<br />
dealing with the infringement of copyright, the Comins, Miss Catherine 39, Bond Street, Ealing,<br />
Secretary was obliged to advise the member could May Clapham<br />
W.<br />
not be carried forward owing to a defect in the Hutton, Edward . . 134, Lauderdale Man-<br />
title. It dealt with artistic copyright, and all those<br />
sions, W.<br />
who know anything about Copyright Law know Hynes-Hurst, Mrs. , Writers' Club, 10, Nor-<br />
how hopelessly unsatisfactory artistic copyright is<br />
folk Street, W.C.<br />
for the artist ; how it is almost impossible to prove Kinloch, Alexander Harrow-on-the-Hill.<br />
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Malim, Miss M. C.<br />
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BEOWULF AND THE FINNSBURG FRAGMENT. A Trans-<br />
lation into Modern English Prose. By John R. CLARK<br />
HALL. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 8 x 5.<br />
287 pp. Swan Sonnenschien & Co. 78. 6d. n.<br />
Matthay, Tobias<br />
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W.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
THE ADVENTURE: A Romantic Variation on a Homeric<br />
Theme. By HENRY BRYAN BINNS. 7} x 51. 104 pp.<br />
Firfield. 28. 6d. n.<br />
MUSIC-DRAMA OF THE FUTURE: UTHER AND IGRAINE<br />
CHORAL DRAMA. By R. BOUGHTON and R. R. BUCK-<br />
LEY. 8.1 x 51. 93 pp. Reeves. 28, n.<br />
Montesole, Max . . 1, Gordon Terrace,<br />
Wightman Road,<br />
Hornsey, N.<br />
Noble, T. Tertius. . Minster Court, York.<br />
Nye, Reginald R. . . 35, Westminster Palace<br />
Gardens, Victoria<br />
Street, S.W.<br />
Seaforth, E. A. . . 72, Lewisham Park,<br />
S.E.<br />
Smith, Miss Charlotte 25, Chenies Street<br />
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Chambers, Blooms-<br />
bury.<br />
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ford, Bristol.<br />
Southwell, Miss Edith H. Bastia, Corsica, France.<br />
Toye, Francis . . Bath Club, Dover<br />
. Bath Club,<br />
Street.<br />
Veer, Miss Lenore van der<br />
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MOTHERS AND FATHERS. By MRS. MAXWELL ARMFIELD<br />
(CONSTANCE SMEDLEY). 7.1 X 43. Chatto & Windus.<br />
68.<br />
Por AU FEU. By MARMADUKE PICKTHALL. 73 x 5.<br />
374 pp. Murray. 6s.<br />
THE STORY OF CECILIA. By KATHERINE TYNAN. 73 x 5.<br />
304 pp. Smith, Elder. 6s.<br />
KNIGHT CHECKS QUEEN. By Mrs. L. LOCKHART LANG.<br />
74 x 5. 325 pp. Alston Rivers, 68.<br />
JUST TO GET MARRIED. By CICELY HAMILTON. 8 x 5.<br />
309 pp. Chapman & Hall. 6s.<br />
THE PATRICIAN. By JOHN GALSWORTHY. 71 x 5. 339 pp.<br />
Heinemann. 68.<br />
SHADOW SHAPES. By MAUDE ANNESLEY. 73 x .<br />
312 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
OIL OF SPIKENARD. By E. M. SMITH-DAMPIER. 78 X 5.<br />
327 pp. Melrose. 68.<br />
TREVOR LORDSHIP. By Mrs. HUBERT BARCLAY. 78 X 53.<br />
389 pp. Macmillan. 68.<br />
THE LONELY ROAD. By A. E. JACOMB. 73 x 5. 307 pp.<br />
Melrose. 6s.<br />
A REAPER OF THE WHIRLWIND. By VIOLET TWEEDALE.<br />
74 x 5. 480 pp. John Long. 6.<br />
CANTACUTE TOWERS. By CECIL ADAIR. 78 X 5. 315 pp.<br />
Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
THE KESTREL. By REGINALD E. SALWEY. 73 x 5.<br />
288 pp. Digby Long. 6s.<br />
THE SECRET OF THE DRAGON. By MARY L. PENDERED.<br />
7 x 5. 347 pp. Harpers. 6s.<br />
THE STRANGER FROM IONIA. By W. P. KELLY. 78 X 5.<br />
426 pp. Routledge. 6s.<br />
A WILDERNESS OF MONKEYS. By FREDERICK NIVEN.<br />
78 x 5. 283 pp. Martin Secker. 6s.<br />
THE FALLING STAR. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM.<br />
78 x 5. 366 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
VICTIMISED. By C. E. BASEVI. 78 x 5. 320 pp. John<br />
Long. 6s.<br />
THE GREEN CURVE AND OTHER STORIES. By OLE LUK-<br />
OIE. Cheap edition. 7 X 5. 318 pp. Blackwood.<br />
IMPATIENT GRISELDA. By LAURENCE NORTH. Martin.<br />
Secker. 68.<br />
THE JEWESS. By Mulvy OUSELEY. 306 pp. John<br />
Ouseley. 6,<br />
THE LORD DOLLAR. By HARPER CURTIS. 319 pp.<br />
Blackwoods & Sons. 68.<br />
JANE OGLANDER. By Mrs. BELLOC LOWNDES. 73 x 5.<br />
268 pp. Heinemann. 6s.<br />
THE INTELLECTUALS : AN EXPERIMENT IN IRISH CLUB-<br />
LIFE. By CANON SHEEHAN, D.D. 84 X 52. 386 pp..<br />
Longmans. 68.<br />
THE BROKEN ROAD. By.A. E. W. Mason. Seventh<br />
Impression. (Second Edition.) 71 X 5. 352 pp.<br />
Smith, Elder. 38. 6d.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
Co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate,<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
IN CASTLE AND COURT HOUSE: Being Reminiscences of<br />
Thirty Years in Ireland. By RAMSAY COLLES. 9 x 53.<br />
320 pp. Werner Laurie. 128. 6d. n.<br />
TIMOTHE BRICH DOCTOR OF PHISICKE. A Memoir of<br />
" The Father of Modern Shorthand.” By WILLIAM<br />
J. CARLTON. With Photographs and Facsimiles. 87 X<br />
of. 205 pp. Elliot Stock. 108. 6d. n.<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
THE GREEN BOOK OF LONDON SOCIETY : February, 1911.<br />
Edited by DOUGLAS SLADEN and W. WIGMORE. 71 X 51.<br />
524 pp. Whittaker.<br />
A CONCISE ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH<br />
LANGUAGE. By the Reverend WALTER W. SKEAT,<br />
Litt.D., etc. New and Corrected Impression. 7 X 5..<br />
664 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. London: Frowde. 58. n.<br />
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VIXEN. By M. E. BRADDON. 73 X 41. 565 pp. Nelson.<br />
7d. n.<br />
POTIPHAR'S WIFE. By L. PARKES. (Popular Edition.)<br />
77 X 44. 303 pp. Milne. 18. n.<br />
THE DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD. By ROBERT HICHENS.<br />
71 x 5. 313 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
KING PHILIP THE GAY. By REGINALD TURNER. 71 x 5.<br />
349 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
SAMPSON RIDEOUT, QUAKER. By UNA L. SILBERRAD,<br />
71 x 5. 411 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
THE SWING OF THE PENDULUM. By X. MARCEL BOULE-<br />
STiN and FRANCIS TOYE. 78 X 5. 320 pp. Nash. 68.<br />
NEXT-OF-Kin. By M. BETHAM-EDWARDS. 6 X 4.<br />
316 pp. Collins. 31d. n.<br />
A BED OF ROSES. By W. L. GEORGE. Frank Palmer.<br />
SHAVINGS. By FRANK RICHARDSON. 78 X 5. 96 pp.<br />
Nash. 28. 6d. n.<br />
POLITICAL<br />
THE DANGER ZONE OF EUROPE : CHANGES AND PROBLEMS<br />
IN THE NEAR EAST. By H. C. WOODS, F.R.G.S. 9X<br />
54. 328 pp. Fisher Unwin. 108. 60, n.<br />
REPRINT.<br />
THE SENTIMENT OF THE SWORD : A Country House<br />
Dialogue. By the late CAPTAIN SIR RICHARD F.<br />
BURTON. Edited with notes by A. F. SIEVEKING, F.S.A.<br />
7 X 41. 151 pp. H. Cox. 28. 6d. n.<br />
SCIENCE.<br />
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE: Being an Account of Experiments<br />
with certain Superheated Saline Solutions in Hermetically<br />
Sealed Vessels. * By H. CHARLTON BASTIAN, M.D., F.R.S.<br />
10 x 61. 76 pp. With ten Plates. Containing numerous<br />
Illustrations from Photomicrographs. Watts & Co.,<br />
Johnson's Court, Fleet Street. 38. 6d. n.<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
A HISTORY OF FACTORY LEGISLATION. By B. L. HUT-<br />
CHINS and A. S. HARRISON. With a Preface by SIDNEY<br />
WEBB. 83 x 53. 304 pp. P. S. King. 68. n.<br />
68.<br />
GARDENING.<br />
POPULAR GARDEN FLOWERS. By WALTER P. WRIGHT,<br />
With six illustrations in colour and forty-eight photo-<br />
graphs. 81 x 54. 367 pp. Grant Richards. 68. n.<br />
CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. Part I. Edited by<br />
W. P. WRIGHT. 11 x 8. 48 pp. Cassell, 7d, n.<br />
LAW.<br />
PRINCIPLES OF CONTRACT. Eighth edition. By SIR<br />
FREDERICK POLLOCK, D.C.L. 83 x 51. 812 pp.<br />
Stevens & Sons. 288.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
APPRECIATIONS AND CRITICISMS OF THE WORKS OF<br />
CHARLES DICKENS. By G. K. CHESTERTON. 88 X 54.<br />
243 pp. Dent. 78. 6d. n.<br />
THE VINDICATORS OF SHAKESPEARE: A Reply to<br />
Critics. By G. G. GREENWOOD, M.P. 71 X 5. 220 pp.<br />
Sweeting. 35. n.<br />
THE BURIED TEMPLE. By MAURICE MAETERLINCK,<br />
Translated by ALFRED SUTRO. (Pocket Edition.) 68 x<br />
47. 276 pp. Allan. 28. 6d. n.<br />
MILITARY.<br />
THE OUTLINES OF MILITARY GEOGRAPHY. By Col. A,<br />
C. MACDONNELL. Two Volumes. With 19 Maps. 81x<br />
5. 227 pp. Hugh Rees, Ltd. 128. 6d. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
LONDON CLUBS : THE HISTORY AND TREASURES. By<br />
RALPH NEVILL. 9 x 51. 316 pp. Chatto & Windus.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
THE LOVE OF THE NIGHT FOR THE DAY. By KITTY<br />
EVEREST, Stanley Webb, 1s. 4d.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
A SAGA OF THE “SUNBEAM.” By HORACE G. HUTCHIN.<br />
SON. 9 x 51. 211 pp. Longmans. 6s. 6d. n.<br />
SOMALILAND. By ANGUS HAMILTON. 8 X 54. 366 pp.<br />
Hutchinson. 128. 6d. n.<br />
THE DANUBE WITH PEN AND PENCIL. By CAPT. B.<br />
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schien. 158.<br />
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83 X 51. 368 pp. Cassell. 58.<br />
PHILOSOPHY.<br />
THE WORLD OF DREAMS. By HAVELOCK ELLIS. 9 X 6.<br />
288 pp, Constable. 78. 6d. n.<br />
POETRY<br />
THE STORY OF NEFREKEPTA. From a Demotic Papyrus.<br />
Put into verse by GILBERT MURRAY. 98 x 7. 47 pp.<br />
Oxford : Clarendon Press. London : Frowde. 48. 60, n.<br />
SONGS OF THE ROAD. By A. CONAN DOYLE. 7 X 41.<br />
137 pp. Smith, Elder. 58.<br />
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF MAURICE BARING. 78 x 57,<br />
237 pp. Lane. 58. n.<br />
ART.<br />
ESSAYS ON THE PURPOSE OF ART ; PAST AND PRESENT<br />
CREEDS OF ENGLISH PAINTERS. By Mrs. RUSSELL<br />
BARRINGTON. 421 pp. New York : Longmans.<br />
$4.25 n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. By F. FRANKFORT<br />
MOORE. New York : Dutton, $3.50 n.<br />
THE FATE OF HENRY OF NAVARRE. By JOHN BLOUN-<br />
DELLE-BURTON. 349 pp. New York : John Lane.<br />
$4 n.<br />
BRAHMS. With 12 Illustrations. By J. A. FULLER-<br />
MAITLAND. 263 pp. New York: John Lane & Co.<br />
$2.50.<br />
THE GROWTH OF NAPOLEON: A Study in Environment.<br />
By NORWOOD YOUNG. With Portraits and Illustrations.<br />
418 pp. New York : Duffield. $3.75.<br />
FRENCH MEN, WOMEN AND Books : A Series of Nineteenth<br />
Century Studies. With 8 Portraits reproduced by special<br />
permission. By M. BETHAM-EDWARDS. Chicago :<br />
McClurg. $2.50 n.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
THE ADVENTURE. A Play by HENRY BRYAN BIxxs.<br />
New York: B. W. Huebsch. $1 n.<br />
THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA, GETTING MARRIED, and THE<br />
SHOWING UP OF BLANCO POSNET. By G. BERNARD<br />
SHAW. 443 pp. New York : Brentanos. $1.50 n.<br />
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LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
MASTER AND MAID. By Mrs. L. ALLEN HARKER.<br />
NOTES.<br />
315 pp. New York: Scribner & Sons. $1.25 n.<br />
BERENICE. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. 264 pp.<br />
Boston : Little, Brown. $1.25 n.<br />
W E must congratulate the Rev. Prof. Skeat<br />
THE HUMAN CHORD. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD,<br />
V on the fresh edition of his “ Etymological<br />
326 pp. New York : Macmillan. $1.50 n.<br />
THE NEW MACHIAVELLI. By H. G. WELLS. New York:<br />
Dictionary of the English Language,”<br />
DUFFIELD. $1.35 n.<br />
published at the price of 58. nett with thick paper,<br />
THE ANDERSONS. By S. MACNAUGHTAN. 372 pp. New<br />
6s. nett with thin paper, by the Oxford University<br />
York: Dutton. $1.25 n.<br />
THE RIDING MASTER. By DOLF WYLLARDE. 354 pp.<br />
Press. The dictionary was originally published in<br />
New York: John Lane & Co. $1.50.<br />
1882, and after passing through several editions,<br />
THE VENTURE: A STORY OF THE SHADOW WORLD. By appeared in 1901 so largely rearranged and re-<br />
R. NORMAN GRISEWOOD. New York: R. W. Fenno.<br />
written as to become practically a new book.<br />
TWO ON A TOWER. By THOMAS HARDY. 332 pp. New<br />
The present edition is a revision of the edition of<br />
York: Harper Bros. $1.25 n.<br />
THE GREEN CURVE AND OTHER STORIES. By OLE 1901.<br />
LUK-OIE. 313 pp. New York: Doubleday Page. There is no need to recommend this book to the<br />
$1.20.<br />
English student and the British public. The Rev.<br />
THE GIRL FROM NOWHERE. By Mrs. BAILLIE REYNOLDS.<br />
Prof. Skeat's position as an English scholar is so<br />
307 pp. New York : Doran. $1.20 n.<br />
THE LAME ENGLISHMAN. By WARWICK DEEPING.<br />
well known and his work has become so well estab-<br />
368 pp. New York: Cassell. $1.20 n.<br />
lished that the public is sure to welcome this fresh<br />
TREVOR LORDSHIP. By Mrs. HUBERT BARCLAY. 389 pp.<br />
New York : Macmillan. $1.20 n.<br />
DENRY THE AUDACIOUS. By ARNOLD BENNETT. 350 pp.<br />
Of the two different publications the edition<br />
New York: Dutton. $1.35 n.<br />
with thin paper is perhaps the more satisfactory;<br />
NONE OTHER GODS. By R. H. BENSON. St. Louis : it is easily handled, lighter, and does not lack dis-<br />
Herder. $1.50.<br />
tinctness or careful production.<br />
THE JUSTICE OF THE KING. By HAMILTON DRUMMOND.<br />
“ Oil of Spike nard,' a romance by E. N. Smith-<br />
335 pp. New York : Macmillan. $1.20 n.<br />
THE ROGUE'S HEIRESS. By TOM GALLON. 315 pp.<br />
Dampier, was published at the end of February by<br />
New York : Dillingham. $1.50.<br />
Mr. Andrew Melrose.<br />
THE PATRICIAN. By JOHN GALSWORTHY. 393 pp. New “Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in<br />
York : Scribner. $1.35 n.<br />
China,” by A. W. Bahr, contains illustrations and<br />
THE DWELLER ON THE THRESHOLD. BY ROBERT<br />
HICHENS. 273 pp. New York: Century Co. $1.10 n.<br />
brief descriptions of pottery, Porcelain, jade and<br />
THE CAMERA FIEND. By E. W. HORNUNG. 346 pp. other artıc'es selected from the first Art Exhibition<br />
New York : $1.25 n.<br />
held in China, viz., at Shanghai in 1908. There<br />
THE SINS OF THE CHILDREN. By HORACE NEWTE.<br />
are 12 coloured plates from the pictures by the<br />
407 pp. New York : John Lane Co. $1.50.<br />
THE INTELLECTUALS: AN EXPERIMENT IN IRISH CLUB<br />
Chinese artist, Wong Chun Hai, and more than<br />
LIFE. By The Rev. CANON P. A. SUEEHAN. New 100 black-and-white illustrations. Messrs. Cassell<br />
York : Longmans. $1.50 n.<br />
& Co. are the publishers.<br />
“The Great Betrayal,” by Harold Wintle, is a<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
novel that deals with the efforts of a foreign power<br />
WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER. By Mrs. ÆNEAS GUNN, to obtain British State secrets with the connivance<br />
340 pp. Macmillan. $1.50.<br />
of the Foreign Secretary. Messrs. John Ouseley,<br />
Limited, are the publishers.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
The new edition of Dr. Clark Hall's “ Beowulf”<br />
LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. By ASHMORE WINGATE. 203 pp.<br />
contains, besides a revised translation, a great deal<br />
Scribner. $1.<br />
of matter intended to form a sort of introduction<br />
DIMINUTIVE DRAMAS. By MAURICE BARING. 224 pp. to the study of the poem, and an interesting and<br />
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. $1.25 n.<br />
exhaustive index of the things mentioned in it,<br />
ALARMS AND DISCURSIONS. By G. K. CHESTERTON,<br />
New York: Dodd Mead. $1.50 n.<br />
with numerous illustrations. It is hoped that this<br />
illustrated index will be useful to archæologists as<br />
MEDICAL.<br />
well as to students of Beowulf. As an experiment,<br />
a metrical rendering of the Finnsburg Fragment<br />
ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY. BY SIR VICTOR<br />
HORSLEY and DR. MARY D. STURGE. 290 pp. New<br />
has been inserted, as well as the prose translation.<br />
York : Macmillan 40 cents n.<br />
Messrs. Swan Sonnenschien & Co. are the publishers.<br />
In “ A Small Collection of Japanese Lacquer,"<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
Mr. James Orage gives a brief account of the<br />
SOULS IN ACTION IN THE CRUCIBLE OF THE NEW LIFE:<br />
history and manufacture of lacquer and of the<br />
Expanding the Narrative of Twice-born Men. By various kinds of lacquer work, followed by a detailed<br />
HAROLD BEGBIE. 310 pp. New York : Doran. $1.25 n. description of the articles, which are of varied<br />
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objects, and include over 60 inros (medicine boxes). form in the summer. An article by the same<br />
All have been examined by Messrs. Y. Imaizumi, writer, entitled “ An Elephant Hunt” appeared in<br />
director, and S. Fujiya, assistant director of the the February issue of The Badminton Magazine,<br />
Department of Fine Arts, Imperial Museum, while Mrs. Vassel's lecture on the Philippines<br />
Tokyo. A limited edition of the book has been delivered in December, in Manchester, Liverpool,<br />
printed, and the publishers are The Times Book Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Rugby, and else.<br />
Club of 376-384 Oxford Street, W.<br />
where, was published in the Scottish Geographical<br />
Mr. J. C. Wright is shortly to publish through Magazine for February<br />
Mr. Robert Scott, his new book, “ Changes of a Mrs. Vassel is responsible also for the articles on<br />
Century." This is a continuation of his previous Paris which have been appearing in the Evening<br />
work "In the Good Old Times," and denls with Standard since June last, and now bear her signa-<br />
topics of social interest not touched in his previous ture. On January 6 she lectured at Burlington<br />
volume, contrasting present day life in England House on Annam for the Royal Geographical<br />
with that of a century ago.<br />
Society.<br />
Mr. T. Werner Laurie has just published Mr. Mr. George Hansby Russell's new novel will be<br />
Ramsay Colles' volume of reminiscences of thirty published by Mr. John Murray in April or early in<br />
years in Ireland, under the title of “ In Castle and May. The title will be “Ivor," and the story is of<br />
Court House." There is, besides the political North Devon and the Island of Lundy.<br />
interest in the book, much literary interest in con- The annual general meeting of the Royal Literary<br />
nection with the Young Ireland literary movement Fund was held on March 9. Sir Alfred Bateman,<br />
and the work of the Dublin University dons. in submitting the report, mentioned that among the<br />
Mr. Andrew Melrose announces the publication Fund's cases was one of an author, whose name was<br />
of A. E. Jacomb's new novel “ The Lonely Road.” not unknown, who was receiving only £10 for a<br />
Miss Lilian Whiting has just completed a book novel from his pen. Every month they had cases<br />
on “ The Brownings : Their Life and Art,” in which of authors whose literary work was valuable, though<br />
she has endeavoured to give the complete biography limited in its appeal, and for these writers exist-<br />
of each, separately, before their marriage, and his, ence on the proceeds of their works was impossible.<br />
again after death, from some new material gained The report showed that the income of the fund for<br />
from Miss Whiting's friendship with their son, the year amounted to £4,088, and that £2,770 was<br />
Mr. Barrett Browning. The book, comes from voted in grants to forty-one applicants. Since the<br />
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. in the autumn.<br />
society's foundation in 1790, the total sum dis-<br />
A serial, “ The Emotions of Martha,” by Mrs. tributed in grants was £160,757. Professor W. P.<br />
Maxwell Armfield, has been running in The Girls' Ker seconded the adoption of the report, which was<br />
Own Paper since October. 1910, and will be pub. carried. The chairman announced that the King<br />
lished in book form by the Religious Tract Society had consented to become patron of the society, and<br />
in September, 1911.<br />
that Mr. Birrell would take the chair at the dinner<br />
“The Polar Star" is the title of a new novel by on Thursday, May 18. Lord Tennyson was re-<br />
Lady Helen Forbes, which Messrs. Duckworth & Co. elected president of the society, and Sir Alfred<br />
have just published.<br />
Bateman was elected treasurer on the retirement of<br />
The first number of a new literary and patriotic Mr. Edward Dicey, who had held that post since<br />
journal“ Vestnik” for the promotion of travel, has 1888. Those present included Sir Edward Brabrook,<br />
just appeared in Prague, edited by Fr. Hlavacek. Mr. Percy M. Thornton, Mr. Richard Bentley,<br />
In it, space is given to an article from the pen of Mr. Sidney Lee, Mr. Maurice Hewlett, Mr. Edmund<br />
the Director of the Prague Art Museums, Imperial Gosse, Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, and Mr. M. H.<br />
Councillor Franz Borovsky, upon the numerous Spielmann.<br />
articles and books by James Baker. In this Miss K. Everest has just published her fourth<br />
article the names of Dr. Herbert Warren, John song, “ The Love of the Night for the Day.” It<br />
Addington Symons, Henry Whatley, the artist, is dedicated to Her Highness the Princess Pretiva of<br />
and Walter Crane are also mentioned.<br />
Cooch Behar. It is to be had from the publishers,<br />
A fourth and enlarged edition has been published Messrs. Stanley Webb, 10, Museum Street, London,<br />
of Mr. F. W. Frankland's series of short studies on W.C.<br />
theological and metaphysical subjects, under the “Impatient Griselda " is the title of Mr. Laurence<br />
title of “ Thoughts on Ultimate Problems." Mr. North's new novel which Mr. Martin Secker has<br />
David Nutt is the publisher.<br />
published recently. Mr. Laurence North has also,<br />
Mrs. Vassel's book “ On and off Duty in Annam," in the current number of the Oxford and Cambridge<br />
published by Messrs. Heinemann last year, is now Review, an article on “ The Earlier Oxford<br />
appearing in French in the “ Tour du Monde,” and Magazines.”<br />
will be published by Messrs. Hachette in volume Messrs. John Long have just published a 1s.<br />
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through Messrs. Constable & Co., à volume called<br />
“Shepherds of Britain : Scenes from Shepherd<br />
Life Past and Present," from the best authorities,<br />
by Adelaide L. J. Gosset. There are to be sixty<br />
illustrations from drawings and photographs.<br />
edition of Tom Gallon's popular novel, “ The<br />
Great Gay Road," a dramatised version of which<br />
has been produced and is now touring the<br />
provinces.<br />
Mr. Robert Scott announces for publication a<br />
new novel by A. P. Crouch (author of “A Wife<br />
from the Forbidden Land ") entitled “ Dick<br />
Comerford's Wager.” The scene of the story is<br />
laid in the country amidst the hunting gentry of a<br />
hundred years ago.<br />
The committee of the Imperial Club, Hove,<br />
hare arranged with Miss A. E. Keeton and Miss<br />
Keeton and Miss<br />
Grainger Kerr to give one of their studies of<br />
modern British song, at the club's premises, 2 and<br />
4 First Avenue, Hove, on Saturday afternoon,<br />
April 8. at 3.15. The illustrations include<br />
works by the following composers: Ernest Austin,<br />
Granville Bantock, Hubert Bath, William Wallace,<br />
R. Vaughan Williams, Dalhousie Young, and many<br />
others. Tickets are procurable from the honorary<br />
secretary of the club by members at 2s. 6d. each<br />
(five tickets half-a-guinea) and by non-members at<br />
3s. 6d. each (five tickets, 158.).<br />
At the annual meeting of the Bristol District of<br />
the Institute of Journalists held in Bristol on the<br />
10th ult., Mr. James Baker, F.R.G.S., the special<br />
correspondent and honorary secretary of the British<br />
International Association of Journalists, was<br />
unanimously elected as chairman of the district,<br />
the retiring chairman, Mr. R. J. Mickie, referring<br />
to Mr. James Baker's work for journalism in many<br />
countries. Mr. James Baker has been asked by<br />
the Comité de Direction to read a paper at the<br />
International Press Congress in Rome in May on<br />
the facilities given to journalists in the English<br />
Houses of Parliament. His novel “ John Westa-<br />
cott” has just been issued in the popular two<br />
shilling series.<br />
“Love's Privilege," the mystery story by Stella<br />
M. Düring, which won a £200 prize in the<br />
Chicago Daily News competition, and was after<br />
wards published in book form in America, is to be<br />
brought out in England this summer by Messrs.<br />
Cassell & Co. It has run serially in eight different<br />
English newspapers.<br />
“A Bed of Roses," by W. L. George, is the<br />
story of a woman's life, torn to shreds in the mere<br />
struggle for existence a story of shattered ideals<br />
and sorry triumpbs. The title of the novel is<br />
ironical in its application to the heroine's path,<br />
beset as it is with every kind of difficulty and<br />
danger. The book is published by Mr. Frank<br />
Palmer.<br />
Count Plunkett (author of “Sandro Botticelli,”<br />
&c.) has been nominated a vice-president of the<br />
Royal Irish Academy by the newly-appointed<br />
president, Dr. Mahaffy.<br />
Miss Adelaide L. J. Gosset is shortly to publish,<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
“ The Adventure" is a play by Mr. Henry<br />
Bryan Binns which was published last month<br />
simultaneously in London and New York, in the<br />
former city by Mr. A. C. Fifield and in the latter<br />
by Mr. B. W. Buesch. It is described as “a<br />
romantic variation on a Homeric theme." While<br />
the episode which suggested the play is told in the<br />
Odyssey, it belongs to the folk-lore of all times<br />
and races. It is symbolical rather than classical,<br />
and as such Mr. Binns has treated it with some-<br />
thing of the breadth and freedom demanded by its<br />
motive. There is a prospect of the play being<br />
seen on the London stage.<br />
“Rococo" is a one-act farce by Mr. Granville<br />
Barker which was produced at the Court Theatre<br />
last month. The piece relates to a quarrel in a<br />
middle-class home respecting the ownership of<br />
a rococo vase. The caste included Mr. Norman<br />
Page, Miss Kate Bishop, Mr. Montagu Love, and<br />
Miss Agnes Thomas. The same occasion witnessed<br />
the revival of Mr. John Masefield's play of peasant<br />
life, “The Tragedy of Nan.” It was interpreted<br />
by a company which included Miss Lillah<br />
McCarthy, Mr. Horace Hodges and Miss Mary<br />
Mr. Anthony Hope's play “The Prisoner of<br />
Zenda ” was revived at the Lyceum Theatre on<br />
March 1, where it was played by a caste which<br />
included Mr. Henry Ainley, Miss Ethel Warwick,<br />
and Mr. Fred Morgan.<br />
A one-act play by Sir William Gilbert, called<br />
“ The Hooligan,” was produced at the Coliseum at<br />
the end of February. Its theme is the agony of a<br />
condemned murderer, who, with apparently but<br />
two hours to live, works himself into such a state<br />
of mind torture that, when at length he learns of<br />
his reprieve, he falls dead. Mr. James Welch and<br />
Mr. Leslie Carter are in the caste.<br />
“The Caravanners,” a comedy in one act, by<br />
Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, was produced for the<br />
first time at the Gaiety Theatre, Hastings, on<br />
February 27. It relates how a lord, travelling<br />
incognito in a caravan, meets the lady of his heart.<br />
Mr. J. H. Lindell and Miss V. Vallis were two of<br />
the caste.<br />
“Peggy," Mr. George Grossmith's adaptation of<br />
Xamoff and Guérin's “L'Amorçage,” was produced<br />
at the Gaiety Theatre on March 4. Mr. George<br />
Grossmith, Mr. Edmund Payne, Miss Gabrielle<br />
Ray and Miss Phyllis Dare are in the caste.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mr. W. Somerset Maugham's new comedy The death of Roty, the celebrated French<br />
“ Loaves and Fishes” was produced at the Duke medallist, will be regretted by the whole French<br />
of York's Theatre on February 24. The chief nation. As M. Roger-Milés very aptly says :<br />
character is a Canon of the Church, and the action “The metallic history of a nation bears the exact<br />
of the piece centres round the various schemes of reflection of the psychology of that nation.” From<br />
this very worldly church dignitary for his social an almost uninhabited part of Africa, some years<br />
advancement. The play was interpreted by a caste ago, in reply to a letter bearing the new French<br />
which included Mr. Robert Loraine, Mr. Athol stamp with Roty's incomparable design of La<br />
Stewart, Miss Florence Haydon, and Miss Mary Semeuse (the simple figure of a woman scattering<br />
Barton.<br />
seed as she passes along with the rising sun<br />
A copyright performance of Mr. Spencer T. beyond her), I received an eloquent letter ending<br />
James' piece in one act, “ The Death-Trap," with the words : “ How is it that they do these<br />
took place at the Alexandra Hall, Leeds, on the things so much better in France ? Compare<br />
18th ult. The story concerns the trapping in a our postage stamps with theirs, our coins with<br />
London flat at midnight of an army officer by the theirs ..." The Semeuse design is, of course,<br />
sister of the girl whom he has ruined.<br />
the best known of Roty's works. To those visitors<br />
to Paris who wish to study “the metallic history<br />
of the nation,” we would recommend, among other<br />
collections, the series of Roty's medals in the<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
Luxembourg Museum and the interesting series by<br />
Mme. Merignac of the types of peasants in the<br />
various provinces of France, ordered from her by<br />
PRÈS l'Abandon de la Revanche," by the Mint for the Museum of the Monnaie.<br />
Madame Juliette Adam, describes many At the Sorbonne this winter two American<br />
political events from 1877 to 1880. In a professors are giving a series of lectures, one of<br />
life as active as that of Madame Adam, surrounded which consists of four lectures on Chaucer, Malory,<br />
as she has always been by the men who have made Spenser, and Shakespeare. When will there be an<br />
history, there is naturally very much that is English lecturer on English literature at the<br />
intensely interesting in this volume. The letters Sorbonne ?<br />
which she publishes add greatly to the value of the The French Academy has awarded one of the<br />
book.<br />
Gobert Prizes of nine thousand francs for the<br />
“ Valentine de Milan," by M. Emile Collas, is “most eloquent piece of French history" to<br />
a biography as interesting as a novel. This M. Brédier, professor at the College of France, for<br />
history of the first Duc and Duchesse d'Orléans his work “ Légendes épiques,” and another of one<br />
takes us back to the beginning of the fifteenth thousand francs to M. Louis Battifol for his work<br />
century. The story of Valentine de Milan is one “Le Roi Louis XIII. à vingt ans.” The reception<br />
of the most fascinating in French history.<br />
of General Langlois by the Academy is arranged<br />
“ La Plus Forte," by Alain Valvert, is an for June 15.<br />
extremely modern novel. We see the young girl in the Revue hebdomadaire M. Gabriel Hano-<br />
who, as a medical student, imagines her indepen- taux writes an article entitled “Il faut choisir ?<br />
dence is dearer to her than all else in the world. on the subject of the Triple Entente (Russia,<br />
She witnesses the results of the vaunted indepen- France, and England). M. Louis Bertrand pub-<br />
dence of some of her women friends. The whole lishes his lecture on Gustave Flaubert. An excel-<br />
book is an attractive psychological study.<br />
lent series of articles has been organised by this<br />
“ Visions d'Egypte," by Dr. A. Le Dentu, is Revue on the various French ministries. M. Jules<br />
another volume of impressions by a traveller who Méline writes the first one on the Ministry of<br />
gives us descriptions of the landscape, ruins, life Agriculture. The second article was written by<br />
as it is to-day, together with some notions of the M. René Millet on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<br />
past history, of the legends, myths, religion, and The third on the Colonial Ministry was by M. G.<br />
art of the Egyptians. The volume is written by a Demartial. These articles give the public an<br />
conscientious critic, and is illustrated with about excellent idea of the working of the various<br />
ten engravings.<br />
machines of Government. There is also an<br />
“ Le Milieu médical et la Question médico- extremely interesting article by the Marquis de<br />
sociale" is the title of Dr. Grasset's latest publica- Massa on General Bourbaki. M. Germain Breton<br />
tion, the summing up of which is contained in the writes on “ The Clergy and Politics,” M. Augustin<br />
last chapters under the heading of “ Necessity for Filon on “Le Prince Impérial,” and Comte Jean<br />
union and collaboration among doctors. Advice d'Elbée on “ Armand de Chateaubriand.”<br />
to future doctors.”<br />
M. Henry Bernstein has withdrawn his play<br />
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163<br />
" Après moi” from the programme of the Comédie<br />
Française.<br />
"L'Oiseau bleu" at the Théâtre Réjane is<br />
the great sensation at present. It certainly is<br />
admirably staged and, with Georgette Leblanc,<br />
Maeterlinck's play is all that could be desired.<br />
At the Gymnase “Papa,” a three-act play by<br />
MM. Robert de Flers et Armand de Caillavet, is<br />
being given. At the Varietés “ Les Midinettes,"<br />
a comedy in four acts by M. Louis Artus, is still<br />
being played.<br />
M. Camille de Sainte-Croix, founder of the<br />
Théâtre Shakespeare, gave “ Love's Labour's Lost”<br />
to a crowded house for two performances, and he is<br />
at present rehearsing “ The Merchant of Venice.”<br />
A Shakespeare League is now being formed, and<br />
M. Dujardin-Beaumetz, Sous-Secrétaire d'Etat<br />
aux Beaux Arts, and M. d'Estournelles Constant,<br />
Chef du Service des Théâtres, have both joined<br />
the Shakespeare Committee. As English delegate<br />
of this French Shakespeare League I should be so<br />
glad if any readers could give us particulars of<br />
existing Shakespearean Societies in England or in<br />
any other country.<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
60, Rue de Vaugirard, Paris.<br />
"Après l'Abandon de la Revanche" (Lemerre).<br />
" Valentine de Milan" (Plon).<br />
"La Plus Forte” (Perrin).<br />
" Visions d'Egypte" (Perrin).<br />
"Le Milieu médical et la Question médicosociale” (Ber-<br />
nard Grasset).<br />
some such name as Savourot. Let us call him<br />
Savourot.<br />
The question for the publisher was to resuscitate<br />
Savourot. Yes; but, as a fact, was Savourot dead ?<br />
There was no date on the book, which would help<br />
to form an approximate idea on the point; and the<br />
encyclopædias, eagerly consulted, were mute on the<br />
subject. A publisher's name certainly figured on<br />
the fly-leaf, but it was that of an unknown book-<br />
seller, of whom dozens come to light and die during<br />
the year. There was nothing to be found out in<br />
that direction.<br />
And yet there was one question, an all-important<br />
one, that arose : had Savourot's work become public<br />
property ? Certainly, the typographical appear-<br />
ance of the book and the author's style furnished<br />
some indications, but a respectable publisher cannot<br />
content himself with uncertain information. The<br />
courts protect—and rightly so— literary property.<br />
Now, we know that a work does not become public<br />
property until fifty years after the author's death.<br />
How was it to be ascertained whether fifty years<br />
had elapsed since the day when Savourot had<br />
departed this life? Without consulting the death<br />
registers of every parish in France and the colonies,<br />
it was not to be thought of.<br />
My friend was compelled, much against his will,<br />
to abandon his project; and at the same time the<br />
public was also deprived of an interesting literary<br />
exhumation.<br />
This demonstrates that the laws governing<br />
public property in the field of literature are<br />
defective. In what way are they defective ? In<br />
this respect, that the termination of literary copy-<br />
right ought only to be based upon the age of a<br />
work, and not on the death of its author.<br />
One literary work, in the event of its author<br />
dying the day after publication, remains private<br />
property for fifty years only ; whereas another, by<br />
the mere fact of the author living fifty years after<br />
its publication, will remain private property for a<br />
century. This is an anomaly which nothing can<br />
justify.<br />
The common-sense remedy would be to compel<br />
publishers to print on each volume the date* of<br />
publication ; and to decide that during a number<br />
of years, to be determined (say sixty years), the<br />
property of a literary work shall be vested in the<br />
author or his representatives. After sixty years<br />
the work should become public pr perty. In this<br />
way there would no longer be any uncertainty. On<br />
opening a book we should know immediately what<br />
was its position with regard to the public.<br />
It would be at once simple and quitable—two<br />
very good reasons against its adoption.<br />
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.<br />
[Translated from an article signed Fred Isly, appearing<br />
in Le Pèle. Véle, 92, rue St. Lazare, Paris, of March 12,<br />
1911, headed “ Domaine Public.”<br />
NE day a friend of mine, a publisher, was<br />
U looking through some second-hand books<br />
in a suburban brooker's shop; and so as<br />
not to disappoint the dealer, who was very attentive,<br />
he purchased a few volumes at random.<br />
In this there is nothing remarkable ; what is<br />
more remarkable is that he had the curio-ity to<br />
read these literary derelicts. And a still more<br />
remarkable thing is that one of these books seemed<br />
to him to be a very valuable work. The discovery<br />
of a masterpiece is always a treat for a publisher;<br />
and my friend at once conceived the idea of reveal-<br />
ing this neglected writer, who had fallen into<br />
oblivion, to the public.<br />
I have forgotten the writer's name. When I<br />
recall the incident, the most that comes into my<br />
mind is a vague sound which formulates itself into<br />
Date of first publication is probably meant, although<br />
the writer does not specify..<br />
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164<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
COPYRIGHT IN FICTION AND CINEMATO fusion. Anyone who named his work · Les<br />
GRAPH REPRESENTATIONS. Misérables' would be certainly intending to profit<br />
by a reputation that has been already made." M.<br />
Marcel Prévost, M. Francis de Croisset, Madame<br />
M WO cases in which the copyright of well Alfonse Daudet, and Madame Claude Farrère all<br />
1 known French novels was alleged to have expressed similar opinions. M. Leon Gandillot<br />
been infringed by cinematograph represen- declared, “ Success causes a title to cease to be<br />
tations have recently come before the French commonplace, and gives it a particular value.”<br />
courts, and present some features of interest.<br />
Such a consensus of opinions was, however,<br />
In the first case Madame Hémon, who holds insufficient to convince the court. The sentence<br />
rights in works by Prosper Mérimée brought an decreed that the success of a norel or a play (which<br />
action against “La Société des anciens établissements was really the point under discussion) has no<br />
Pathé Frères” for having published, and offered influence on the commonplace nature of a title, and<br />
for sale in a catalogue, under the title of “ Châti- rejected the demand of M. Paul Féval fils respecting<br />
ment de Corse," a cinematograph film reproducing the title “ Bossu.” At the same time it ordered<br />
the striking episodes of the well-known story that the bills exposed at the entrances of cinemato-<br />
“ Matteo Falcone."<br />
graph halls should in all cases exhibit the names<br />
The " Société Patbé” admitted the fact, and of the authors of the scenes represented ; and<br />
pleaded that the damage did not amount to more condemned the “ Société Pathé ” to pay costs.<br />
than 200 francs. The court, however, reaffirmed<br />
the decision that the reproduction of a work for<br />
the cinematograph constitutes an infringement of<br />
an author's rights, and condemned the defendants<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
to pay Madame Hémon one thousand francs<br />
damages.<br />
In the second case the same “Société Pathé”<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
was proceeded against by M. Paul Feval fils. The<br />
Arnold Bennett: An Appreciation. By F, G, Bettany.<br />
work' in question was à novel entitled “ Bossu.” Mark Twain as Psychologist. By Professor John Adams.<br />
The Société Pathé had given this title to a A great American Journalist. A Note on the Centenary<br />
cinematograph film, which, however, had no con- of Horace Geeley. By A. St. John Adcock.<br />
nection with M. Paul Feval's celebrated novel. In<br />
Book MONTHLY.<br />
a previous action against “ La Société Gaumont "<br />
Burns in London.<br />
respecting the title “ Le Fils de Lagadère "M. Paul<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
Feval had obtained a sentence that there was a<br />
distinction between a commonplace title, which<br />
What is Impressionism. By Wynford Dewhurst.<br />
Ben Jonson and Shakespeare. By the late Mary<br />
might be freely used, and a title of some originality s<br />
which was entitled to the protection of the law. Literary Supplement : Dame Eleanor and Lady Macbeth.<br />
The question now arose whether “Bossu" By J. E. G. de Montmorency.<br />
(Hunchback) was to be regarded as an original<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
title. The great majority of authors had no doubt<br />
about the answer which should be given. The Renan : The Romance of Religion. By Frank Harris.<br />
counsel conducting M. Paul Feval's case produced<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
a number of letters from leading literary men of the<br />
day addressed to his client. M. Clarette wrote, “ It<br />
Christina Rossetti. By Ford Madox Hueffer.<br />
would be a very bold thing to assert that any word<br />
The Musician as Composer. By Filson Young.<br />
The Theâtre Français in the Fifties. By Francis Gribble.<br />
becomes 'commonplace. ' Le Cid' would be<br />
Björnstjerne Björnson. By Robert Machray.<br />
commonplace and · Le Misanthrope.' It is true<br />
that an author cannot annex the dictionary when<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
he chooses a name or a word. But the celebrity<br />
attained by the word constitutes a property which<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
ought to be respected.” M. Edmond Rostand<br />
Front Page<br />
wrote, “ As you ask what are my views regarding<br />
Other Pages<br />
... ... 300<br />
property in the title of literary works, I am of Half of a Page ...<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
... O 15 0<br />
opinion that a title, howsoever commonplace it may<br />
0 7 6<br />
Single Column Advertisements ...<br />
per inch<br />
be, becomes the property of the author when it has<br />
60<br />
been consecrated by such a success that a stranger<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series w Six and of 25 por cont. for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
by adopting it reckons upon doing so to his<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
personal advantage, and hopes to profit by the con- BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
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Suddard.<br />
..<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
165<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for "office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor op<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secreta<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager,<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts:<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
TTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
n agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
I. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(o.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
.consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans.<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
the words.<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 two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
CEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction. but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea,<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
OCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at ibe price of 28. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society heys to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of posi.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
It has been the custom lately at Christmas to<br />
produce beautiful illustrated books in editions<br />
limited to 250 to 500 copies. The prices of<br />
ALTERATIONS IN AUTHORS' MANUSCRIPTS.<br />
these books range from £2 28. to £5 5s. The<br />
THE society has always contended that no tax, therefore, that is laid upon these editions, if<br />
editor or publisher has a right to alter an the book is £5 58., would be £26 58. ; if the book<br />
author's MS.<br />
Indeed, on behalf of one of the<br />
Indeed, on behalf of one of the<br />
is £2 28., the tax would be £10 10s.<br />
members of the society a very important case was<br />
This is a serious item to be considered by the<br />
taken through the Courts on this basis. An editor publisher and author in working out their financial<br />
of a responsible paper, who is also an author, has<br />
statements.<br />
been known to state that an editor has absolute<br />
right to alter an author's MS. should he so desire<br />
THIRTY-SIX DRAMATIC SITUATIONS.<br />
without reference to the author. On being asked<br />
what he would say if his own MS. during publica-<br />
An interestimg correspondence has been recorded<br />
tion was altered he is reported to have answered<br />
in the Chicago Dial with regard to thirty-six<br />
that the issue was not the same. We have only<br />
original dramatic situations.<br />
quoted this instance to show how authors rightly<br />
It appears that Goethe, in his conversation with<br />
consider any alteration in their MSS. as a personal<br />
Eckermann, under date of February 14, 1830,<br />
matter. In the days of duelling, no doubt, such<br />
attributed to Gozzi the statement that there could<br />
alterations might have been looked upon as a<br />
be but thirty-six “tragic" situations. This state-<br />
personal insult. But still cases do occur, and one<br />
ment of Goethe set Schiller off to see if he could<br />
has come to the notice of the society recently where<br />
not discover any more, but, according to the record,<br />
an anthor produced a book in England and America. he could not find so many, though he took much<br />
In England it was produced exactly as the author pains to do so.<br />
had meant it to be. For special reasons he had<br />
The question it appears was followed up by<br />
carefully avoided any headings to the chapters.<br />
Georges Polti, who published in 1895 in Paris a<br />
In America, however, some proof-reader, think-<br />
reader Think book called “ The Thirty-six Dramatic Situations."<br />
ing he knew better than the author how the<br />
In this book he digested the whole subject not only<br />
book should be laid before the public, at his own<br />
from the point of view of the drama, but from the<br />
discretion headed all the chapters. We are glad to<br />
point of view of literature and history. The<br />
report that the publisher has made amends<br />
correspondent of the Chicago Dial has set down the<br />
for this mistake, but at the same time we<br />
brief headings under which each group is analysed,<br />
think it necessary to call the attention of authors<br />
but suggests that such a list does but scant justice<br />
to the fact that such things as alterations in<br />
to Monsieur Polti's ingenuity and skill.<br />
authors' MSS. still occur.<br />
The list is as follows:-1. Supplication ; 2. The<br />
Saviour; 3. Vengeance pursuing crime ; 4. To<br />
avenge kinsman upon kinsman ; 5. The fugitive<br />
hunted ; 6. Disaster ; 7. A prey ; 8. Revolt ; 9.<br />
LIBRARY COPIES.<br />
Daring effort ; 10. Carrying off; 11. The riddle ;<br />
We see that a Deputation from the Committee 12. To obtain ; 13. Hatred of kinsmen; 14.<br />
of the Welsh National Library was received by Mr. Rivalry of kinsmen or friends ; 15. Murderous<br />
Sydney Buxton. The deputation asked that in the adulterer ; 16. Madness ; 17. Fatal imprudence ;<br />
new Copyright Bill there should be an obligation 18. Involuntary crime of love ; 19. To kill a kins-<br />
upon authors to send copies of their books to the man before recognition ; 20. To sacrifice to-<br />
Welsh Library. We can only trust that no extra the ideal ; 21. To sacrifice for kinsmen ; 22. To<br />
tax will be placed upon authors and publishers in sacrifice all to passion ; 23. To be obliged to<br />
the matter of supplying gratis copies. As the law sacrifice one's kinsmen ; 24. Rivalry of unequals ;<br />
stands at present, the tax comes very hard. If 25. Adultery ; 26. Crimes of Love ; 27. To learn<br />
any steps were taken, they should be towards the dishonour of one who is loved ; 28. Loves<br />
reducing rather than increasing the burden ; but, obstructed ; 29. To love an enemy; 30. Ambition ;<br />
perhaps, the Government will find it impossible to 31. Struggle against God; 32. Mistaken jealousy :<br />
go back upon the rights that have already been 33. Judicial error ; 34. Remorse ; 35. Recovery ;<br />
granted by statute to the five libraries.<br />
36. To lose one's kinsmen.<br />
In most cases the cost of supplying these gratis<br />
books comes heavier on the publisher than on<br />
the author, but still the matter is serious for the<br />
COPYRIGHT DURATION.<br />
author, and if he produces an expensive book In another column we publish an article taken<br />
in a limited edition the tax is almost impossible. from a French paper dealing with the question of<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
the duration of copyright. The author thinks it<br />
GENERAL MEETINGS.<br />
would be a better thing for copyright to run for a<br />
fixed time from the date of publication of the book<br />
I.<br />
rather than for the life of the author and a fixed<br />
time after his death, and his deduction is, that if<br />
THE COUNCIL MEETING.<br />
copyright runs for a fixed time after the death of<br />
D RIOR to the annual general meeting, held at<br />
the author, if the book is published just before<br />
f the Royal Society of Arts on Thursday,<br />
the author's death, it might only last for fifty<br />
March 23, the general meeting of the share-<br />
years. But in this argument he misses the chief holders, the Council of the Society, was held. The<br />
object of copyright legislation in all countries. meeting was a formal one to pass the annual<br />
namely, to secure to an author and his family the<br />
report of the Committee of Management, to elect<br />
benefit of that author's work for a certain time. If,<br />
the accountants for 1911, and to adopt the accounts<br />
therefore, perpetual copyright is outside the range<br />
for the past year.<br />
of practical politics, then the French author's sug.<br />
As the report and accounts had been circulated<br />
gestion is wholly unsatisfactory when the main<br />
they were taken as read, and the three items on<br />
object of copyright protection is kept in mind for,<br />
the agenda, put from the chair, were duly carried,<br />
if the copyright should run from the date of pub-<br />
Messrs. Oscar Berry & Co. being re-elected<br />
lication and it was the author's first book, his<br />
accountants.<br />
descendants might reap but little, perhaps no value<br />
from the length of duration, and that which the<br />
II.<br />
legislature set out to acquire would be lost. In addi-<br />
tion, the difficult question of the date of publication<br />
THE SOCIETY.<br />
would be constantly cropping up, and it might be The general meeting of the society was held on<br />
necessary to confirm the author's property to him- Thursday, March 23, at 4 p.m., Mr. Maurice<br />
self by registration, and any formalities tend to Hewlett, chairman of the Committee of Manage-<br />
endanger his position. Whereas, under the present ment, presiding.<br />
arrangement for a certain fixed time, the descen- The agenda on the paper were :-(1) To receive<br />
dants of an author must benefit by the work he has and, if desired, to discuss the accounts and report of<br />
done if it has any power of survival. We cannot the Committee of Management ; (2) To elect a<br />
help thinking that the present method, which is member of the Pension Fund Committee under the<br />
promulgated by the Berlin Convention, is the best scheme for the management of the Pension Fund,<br />
under existing conditions.<br />
Mrs. Alec Tweedie having resigned in due order,<br />
but submitting her name for re-election, while the<br />
name of no other candidate had been put forward ;<br />
(3) To appoint scrutineers to count the votes under<br />
the society's constitution.<br />
COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br />
The chairman proposed, as last year, to take<br />
Nos. 2 and 3 before proceeding to the main business<br />
of the meeting. No other candidate having been<br />
THE following is the signed statement of the proposed for the vacancy on the Pension Fund<br />
scrutineers, recording the votes for 1911 :-.<br />
Committee, Mrs. Alec Tweedie was automatically<br />
W. W. Jacobs .<br />
267<br />
re-elected. With regard to the appointment of<br />
Maurice Hewlett<br />
262<br />
scrutineers, no name being put forward and seconded<br />
Sir Alfred Bateman.<br />
at the meeting, the chairman announced that the<br />
Aylmer Maude . .<br />
209<br />
necessary appointment would be made by the<br />
committee.<br />
Mackenzie Bell . .<br />
123<br />
This business having been despatched, Mr.<br />
It may be worth while to repeat that one-third Hewlett said that the present occasion was the<br />
of the committee retires annually. Therefore, of a second time that he had presided over the general<br />
committee consisting of twelve members, four meeting of the society. It would als be the last,<br />
members have to retire. The committee have the as his annual tenure of office now closd. He con-<br />
right of nomination, or any two members of the fessed that it was with mixed feelīgs that he<br />
society may nominate a third member.<br />
looked back on the past year. The hairmanship<br />
The thanks of the society are due to the Reverend was a very difficult post, and one in 'hich it was<br />
Henry Cresswell, Mr. Francis Gribble, Mr. P. W. very easy to make mistakes. But he is glad to be<br />
Sergeant, and Mr. E. H. Lacon Watson, for their able to think that, thanks to the assiance of his<br />
kindness in sacrificing their time in order to act as colleagues on the committee and to M Thring, he<br />
scrutineers in the election.<br />
had kept the ship under way and off le rocks.<br />
CONSUILUIon.<br />
THE<br />
244<br />
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Turning to the report, Mr. Hewlett pointed to intervene in all schemes affecting literature in this<br />
the continued increase both in the membership of country.<br />
the society and in its income, which was now only Having alluded to the subject of the Pension<br />
£6 short of £2,000. Nevertheless, the member- Fund Committee and the gratitude which every<br />
ship of the society ought to be larger than it is, member of the society was bound to feel with regard<br />
for there were a great many more authors in to the generous action of Miss May Crommelin,<br />
England than in the ranks of the society. Also recorded in the report, Mr. Hewlett concluded by<br />
the society was liable to very heavy increases in its very sincerely thanking his colleagues on the Com-<br />
expenditure, which rendered necessary a consider mittee of Maoagement, and Mr. Thring, now as<br />
able increase in its income. With regard to this always the committee's right hand, for the sapport<br />
he felt hopeful, and he was confident that it would which they had given him throughout his second<br />
follow upon the growth of the society's prestige. term of office.<br />
He would not attempt to deal with the immensely At the close of the chairman's address, Mrs.<br />
difficult subject of copyright which was mentioned Humphry Ward raised again in the general meet-<br />
in part of the report. He would, however, say that ing, as she had already done in council, the question<br />
the new Bill did at least attempt to collect in one of the adequacy of the consultation of the society<br />
ambit or circuit of Parliament every process of with regard to the action taken in the formation of<br />
copyright. But the details of the Bill were now the Academic Committee. She submitted that a<br />
under consideration of the Government, and it paragraph in The Author was not sufficient official<br />
could not be hoped for this year. He had recently notice of intended action. She thought that the<br />
had an instructive conversation with his friend, Mr. authority and prestige of the society would be more<br />
William Heinemann, on the subject, and he sug. likely to be raised in the manner hoped for by<br />
gested that Mr. Heinemann should be invited to Mr. Hewlett if the council and the society in general<br />
attend a meeting of the Committee of Management were more fully consulted on important business.<br />
to discuss the very important objections to the Bill The Academic Committee, as it now stands, Mrs.<br />
as it now stands.<br />
Ward continued, had no representative authority,<br />
After calling attention to what the report had to personally distinguished though its members no<br />
say on the subject of the Musical Agreement as doubt were. The unfortunate procedure adopted<br />
settled between the society and Messrs. Stainer & stood in the way of the trust which ought to have<br />
Bell, Mr. Hewlett came to the appointment of the been given to the Academic Committee by the<br />
Academic Committee by the Royal Society of general body of authors. Then, as to the question<br />
Literature, on which matter he felt that he ought of women on the nominating committee, there cer-<br />
to speak as being partly responsible for the action tainly ought to have been a substantial representa-<br />
the society had taken in the matter. He said that, tion on that committee of the women of the Society<br />
being a member of the Council of the Royal Society of Authors. Mistakes had been made. Was it<br />
of Literature, he attended a meeting of that body impossible now to go back and, beginning again,<br />
in November, 1909, when it was proposed to form to form a really representative Academic Committee.<br />
an Academy of Letters, subsequently modified into Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, after complaining of the<br />
an Academic Committee. He had explained that sparse attendance at the general meeting, indicative<br />
as chairman of the Society of Authors he could not of the lack of interest on the part of the members,<br />
regard any such proposal as practical in which that supported Mrs. Humphry Ward.<br />
society was not considered. His name having then Mr. Bernard Shaw said that the members of the<br />
been added to a sub-committee to deal with the Committee of Management felt more strongly than<br />
whole question, finally a request was made to the anyone else the apparent impossibility of inducing<br />
Committee of Management of the Society of Authors most of the members to take any interest in the<br />
to recommend fourteen members of the society for society except when they wanted it to get them out<br />
nomination upon the Academic Committee. Mr. of some personal trouble. Mrs. Humphry Ward's<br />
Douglas Freshfield and he, having been selected by attempt to agitate the question of the Academic<br />
the Committee of Management as a sub-committee Committee was a case in point. The chairman put<br />
for this purpose, drew up a list of names and then that question fully before the council at a council<br />
joined the sub-committee of the Royal Society of meeting at the annual meeting of that body. Over<br />
Literature, in joint session with whom they prepared and above the members of the Committee of<br />
a list of twenty-eight names. Nothing was done Management there was exactly one member of the<br />
without the approval of the Committee of Manage council present; and that member was not Mrs.<br />
ment of the Society of Authors, and Mr. Hewlett Humphry Ward. Mrs. Ward later on appealed<br />
did not believe that, convinced as he was of the specially to the council to support the views she<br />
importance and influence of the society, he could had just expressed, and to censure the Committee<br />
have done otherwise than insist upon the right to of Management. The result was a council meeting<br />
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so thinly attended that the committee was in an views on the suffrage question, what other con-<br />
overwhelming majority, and the vote of censure clusion could be come to than the one he had<br />
could have been carried only by the votes of the expressed ?<br />
censured. No doubt this showed the confidence of Mr. Douglas Freshfield said he would only refer<br />
the society and of the council in its committee; to two points. In the first place, the Committee of<br />
but if the society and the council left everything to Management was in no way a free agent in the<br />
the committee, they must not complain when the matter of the constitution of the Academic Com-<br />
committee acted on its own responsibility. On the mittee : all that was possible was to make the best<br />
point raised by Mrs. Humphry Ward, however, she use of an invitation from the Royal Society of<br />
was virtually quite right ; the Academic Committee Literature to join in iis constitution and to<br />
had not been democratically constituted by the Society nominate a certain number of members to it out<br />
of Authors ; but the fault lay outside the society. of our own body ; next, that (as he had been at<br />
The chairman, in promptly insisting on the rights pains to point out in The Author) it was incorrect<br />
of the Society of Authors when the proposal was to allege that women had been excluded from the<br />
sprung on him, had done precisely the right thing constituting committee since every step taken by<br />
(Hear, hear); and the next steps were the forma the delegates of our Committee of Management<br />
tion of a provisional committee, the drawing up had been submitted to and ratified by the whole<br />
of a constitution for the proposed Academy, and Committee, two of the members of which were<br />
finally a list of the Academicians. These could women.<br />
have been submitted to a general meeting of the Mrs. Humphry Ward rose a second time to<br />
Society, which could thus have become one of the make a personal explanation, Mr. Shaw having<br />
constituents of the new body. But whilst this apparently misunderstood her. Whatever her<br />
was in progress—whilst drafts of statutes were objections to certain activities of women, she had<br />
actually being circulated among members of our the very strongest desire to see them represented<br />
Committee of Management—somebody wrote to in every way in the intellectual sphere.<br />
the Times announcing the provisional committee No other members having expressed a desire to<br />
as a full-fledged British Academy of Letters. speak, Mr. Hewlett said he would like to point out,<br />
This stroke of the anarchism characteristic of with reference to what Mrs. Ward and Mr. Shaw<br />
men of letters was completely successful. The had said, that the Society's sole part in the business<br />
Society of Authors could have immediately repu- of the Academic Committee was to nominate<br />
diated the whole affair and withdrawn from the members. It could not call upon the Academic<br />
project, as Mr. George Trevelyan did ; but that Committee to overhaul its past action. The<br />
would have simply knocked the whole affair on Society had no right or authority to do so. Its<br />
the head for a generation. There was nothing to róle was over when it had recommended names for<br />
be done but accept the situation, and allow the appointment to the committee. As for the repre-<br />
Academic Committee to make the best of itselfsentation of women, there was nothing to prevent<br />
without calling attention to its illegitimate origin. their being elected to the committee and there<br />
After all, there was no harm done as far as the was not the slightest doubt they would be elected.<br />
men were concerned : the Society could not have Mr. Charles Garvice moved à vote of thanks to<br />
improved materially on the present list, which the retiring chairman, and expressed a doubt as to<br />
contained a sufficient number of eminent men of whether the Society would be able to get anyone<br />
letters to give it dignity and authority. As to so good to succeed him. With regard to Mrs.<br />
the women, that exclusion was a scandal : an Baillie Reynolds' complaint, be said that members<br />
English Academy of Letters without women on it of this society were like those of all others—too<br />
was an absurdity. But even here the quaint apt to leave everything to the committee. He<br />
difficulty had arisen that Mrs. Humphry Ward, exhorted them to show an interest in the society's<br />
who championed the claims of the women of the affairs at other times than at the annual general<br />
society, wished to keep them off the committee. meeting.<br />
(Mrs. Humphry Ward dissented, explaining that Mr. Mowbray Marras seconded the vote of<br />
she had not dealt with that point, but had confined thanks, which was carried unanimously.<br />
herself to the question of the right of the women of Mr. Hewlett having briefly acknowleged this and<br />
the society to representation on the provisional com- again referred to the help he had received through-<br />
mittee.) Mr. Shaw, continuing, said that he had out his term of office, the meeting terminated.<br />
urged Mrs. Humphry Ward to secure the rote of The members present included : (Chairman) Mr.<br />
the council meeting in favour of having women Maurice Hewlett, E. S. Bates, C. (). Burge,<br />
Academicians, offering to support her if she would Mackenzie Bell, Dr. T. P. Beddoes, Sir Alfred<br />
move that. She had declined to do so ; and when Bateman, Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes, Miss R. M. Blods<br />
her refusal was taken along with her well-known L. N. Chase, Mrs. L. N. Chase, Miss B. Clements-<br />
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Henry, Mrs. Herbert Cohen, Joseph Fisher, of Stiggins in ‘Pickwick' was intended as an insult<br />
Douglas Freshfield, Charles Garvice, Anthony to all dissenters ; or that all the attorneys in the<br />
Hope Hawkins, Frank Hamel, J. F. Hunter, Miss empire were indignant at the famous history of<br />
E. M. Hine, Hubert Haes, Mrs. Willoughby Hodg- the firm of Quirk, Gammon, and Snap. Are we to<br />
son, C. Lincoln, Miss Mary G. Lowry, Mowbray be passed over because we cannot afford to be<br />
Marras, Gilbert S. Macquoid, H. G. Marshall, laughed at ? And if every character in a story is<br />
Conal O'Riordan, Charles Pendlebury, D. H. to represent a class, not an individual—if every<br />
Mountray Read, Mrs. Baillie Reynolds, P. W. Ser- bad figure is to have its obliged contrast of a good<br />
geant, G. Bernard Shaw, Mrs. G. Bernard Shaw, one, and a balance of vice and virtue is to be<br />
Francis Storr, Miss E. Tiddemann, Miss Grace struck—novels, I think, would become impossible,<br />
Toplis, G. F. Wilson, W. R. Walkes, E. S. Wey- as they would be intolerably stupid and unnatural,<br />
mouth, Mrs. Humphry Ward, W. H. Williamson. and there would be a lamentable end of writers and<br />
readers of such compositions.” Thirdly, he laughed<br />
to scorn the notion that men of letters as a class<br />
were looked at askance by the non-literary class.<br />
THACKERAY AND THE DIGNITY OF “Does any man who has written a book worth<br />
LITERATURE.<br />
reading—any poet, novelist, man of science--lose<br />
reputation by his character for genius or for learn-<br />
ing?” he asked. “Does be not, on the contrary,<br />
By LEWIS MELVILLE.<br />
get friends, sympathy, applause-money, perhaps ?<br />
all good and pleasant things in themselves, and not<br />
HACKERAY was always proud to hold a brief ungenerously awarded, as they are honestly won.<br />
1 for the dignity of his calling, and it was, That generous faith in men of letters, that kindly<br />
is therefore, with no little irritation that one regard in which the whole reading nation holds<br />
day early in 1850 he found himself arraigned by them, appear to me to be so clearly shown in our<br />
two London papers, the Examiner and the Morning country every day that to question them would be<br />
Chronicle ; by the latter for “ fostering a baneful as absurd as, permit me to say for my part, it<br />
prejudice” against literary men ; by the former would be ungrateful. What is it that fills mechanics'<br />
for“ stooping to flatter” this prejudice in the public institutes in the great provincial towns when<br />
mind, and condescending to caricature his literary literary men are invited to attend their festivals ?<br />
fellow-labourers in order to pay court to “the Has not every literary man of mark his friends and<br />
non-literary class." The attack was based upon his circle, his hundreds, or his tens of thousands, of<br />
the portrayal of the literary men who figured in readers ? And has not every one had from these<br />
the novel of “Pendennis." Thackeray's reply was constant and affecting testimonials of the esteem<br />
very much to the point. In the first place he in which they hold him ? It is, of course, one<br />
denied that the characters were exaggerated. “I writer's lot, from the nature of his subject or of his<br />
have seen the bookseller whom Bludyer robbed of genins, to command the syınpathies or awaken the<br />
his books ; I have carried money, and from a noble curiosity of many more readers than shall choose to<br />
brother man-of-letters, to some one not unlike listen to another author; but surely all get their<br />
Shandon in prison, and have watched the beautiful hearing. The literary profession is not held in<br />
devotion of his wife in that dreary place,” he wrote. disrepute ; nobody wants to disparage it; no man<br />
“Why are these things not to be described if they loses his social rank, whatever it may be, by prac-<br />
illustrate, as they appear to do, that strange and tising it. On the contrary, the pen gives a place in<br />
awful struggle of good and wrong which take place the world to men who had none before-a fair place,<br />
in our hearts and in the world ? ” In the second fairly achiered by their genius, as any other degree<br />
place, he expressed the opinion that he was entirely of eminence is by any other kind of merit.” The sub-<br />
justified in what he had written. “I hope," he stance of this passage he repeated when in the follow-<br />
said, “ that a comic writer, because he describes ing year he replied for literature at the Royal Literary<br />
one author as improvident and another as a Fund's Annual Dinner. “We don't want patrons,<br />
parasite, may not only be guiltless of a desire we want friends ; and I thank God we have thein ;<br />
to vilify his profession, but may really have its and as for any idea that our calling is despised by<br />
honour at heart. If there are no spendthrifts or the world, I do, for my part, protest against and<br />
parasites amongst us, the satire becomes unjust; deny the whole statement,” he declared. “I have<br />
but if such exist, or have existed, they are as good been in all sorts of society in this world, and I have<br />
subjects for comedy as men of other callings. I never been despised that I know of. I don't believe<br />
never heard that the Bar felt itself aggrieved there has been a literary man of the slightest merit<br />
because Punch chose to describe Mr. Dunup's or of the slightest mark who did not greatly advance<br />
notorious state of insolvency; or that the picture himself by uis literary labours. I see along this<br />
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august table gentlemen whom I have had the get are not so high as those which fall to men of<br />
honour of shaking by the hand, and gentlemen other callings—to bishops, or to judges, or to opera<br />
whom I should never have called my friends but singers and actors ; nor have they received stars<br />
for the humble literary labours I have been engaged and garters as yet, or peerages and governorships<br />
in. And therefore I say, don't let us be pitied of islands, such as fall to the lot of military<br />
any more.”<br />
officers.” Anthony Trollope has stated that<br />
Thackeray had little patience with those men of Thackeray held strong views that much was due by<br />
letters who suffered from the impression that they the Queen's Ministers to men of letters, and he<br />
were despised and with those who made strenuous added that Thackeray “no doubt had his feelings<br />
efforts to combat a prejudice that was non-existent. of slighted merit because no part of the debt was<br />
“ Instead of accusing the public of persecuting and paid to him. Thackeray probably would have<br />
disparaging us as a class, it seems to me that men liked a baronetcy or a barony, and as a representa-<br />
of letters had best silently assume that they are as tive man of letters he might well have been created<br />
good as any other gentlemen, nor raise piteous con- Lord Thackeray of Brompton. It was not, how-<br />
troversies upon a question which all people of sense ever, that he was particularly desirous of any such<br />
must take to be settled. If I sit at your table, I distinction for himself, but he thought if titles and<br />
suppose that I am my neighbour's equal, as that he stars and ribands are good for soldiers and sailors<br />
is mine. If I begin straightway with a protest and statesmen and artists and civil servants, why<br />
of “Sir, I am a literary man, but I would have you should they be withheld from authors ? He attri-<br />
to know I am as good as you,' which of us is it that buted the fact that the fountain of honour did not<br />
questions the dignity of the literary profession-my play upon men of letters to their comparative<br />
neighbour, who would like to eat his soup in quiet, poverty. “ Directly men of letters get rich they<br />
or the man of letters, who commences the argu- will come in for their share of honour too,” he<br />
ment ? ” Indeed, he thought the man of letters declared.<br />
received more sympathy than was due to him. “A While Thackeray thus declared that men of<br />
literary man," he wrote in “Pendennis," “ has often letters should share in the rewards for meritorious<br />
to work for his bread against time, or against his services distributed by the Government, he con-<br />
will, or in spite of his health, or of his indolence, or fessed frankly that he did not see how these honours<br />
of his repugnance to the subject on which he is were to be distributed. “I have heard, in a lecture<br />
called to exert himself, just like any other daily about George the Third, that, at his accession, the<br />
toiler. When you want to make money by Pegasus king had a mind to establish an Order for literary<br />
(as he must, perhaps, who has no other saleable men,” he wrote in a “Roundabout Paper." “lt<br />
property) farewell poetry and aerial flights : Pegasus was to have been called the Order of Minerva-I<br />
only rises now like Mr. Green's balloon, at periods suppose with an owl for a badge. The knights<br />
advertised beforehand, and when the spectator's were to have worn a star of sixteen points and a<br />
money has been paid. Pegasus trots in harness, yellow ribbon, and good old Samuel Johnson was<br />
over the stony pavement, and pulls a cart or cab talked of as President, or Grand Cross, or Grand<br />
behind him..Often Pegasus does his work with Owl of the society. Now about such an Order as<br />
panting sides and trembling knees, and not seldom this there certainly may be doubts. Consider the<br />
gets a cut of the whip of the driver. Do not let us, claimants, the difficulty of settling their claims, the<br />
however, be too prodigal of our pity upon Pegasus. rows and squabbles amongst the candidates, and<br />
There is no reason why this animal should be exempt the subsequent decision of posterity. Dr. Beattie<br />
from labour, or illness, or decay, any more than any would have ranked as first poet, and twenty years<br />
of the other creatures of God's world. If he gets after the sublime Mr. Hayley, would, no doubt, hare<br />
the whip, Pegasus very often deserves it, and I for claimed the Grand Cross. Mr. Gibbon would not<br />
one am quite ready to protest . . . against the have been eligible, on account of his dangerous<br />
doctrine which some poetical sympathisers are free-thinking opinions; and her sex, as well as her<br />
inclined to put forward, viz., that men of letters, republican sentiments, might have interfered with<br />
and what is called genius, are to be exempt from the knighthood of the immortal Mrs. Catherine<br />
the prose duties of this daily bread-wanting, tax- Macaulay. How Goldsmith would have paraded<br />
paying life, and are not to be made to work and pay the ribbon at Madame Cornelys' or the Academy<br />
like their neighbours.”<br />
dinner! How Peter Pindar would have railed at<br />
If, on the one hand, Thackeray vehemently pro- it! Fifty years later the noble Scott would have<br />
tested against the idea that those who followed the worn the Grand Cross and deserved it, but Gifford<br />
pursuit of letters required pity and sympathy, on would have had it; and Byron, and Shelley, and<br />
the other he was the first to admit that the status Hazlitt and Hunt would have been without it; and<br />
of men of letters as a class might be improved. had Keats been proposed as officer, how the Tory<br />
“The money prizes which the chief among them prints would have yelled with rage and scorn!<br />
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Had the Star of Minerva lasted to our present dition of literary men might be very soon changed<br />
time—but I pause, not because the idea is dazzling, by a manly literary union of this kind."<br />
but too awful. Fancy the claimants, and the row Thackeray towards the end of his life laid down<br />
about their precedence ! ..Fancy the once for all the qualities that ensure the dignity of<br />
struggle! Fancy the squabble! Fancy the dis- the calling to which he belonged. “What ought<br />
tribution of prizes !”<br />
to be the literary man's point of honour nowa-<br />
The bestowal of pensions was open to the same days ?” he wrote in a “ Roundabout Paper."<br />
objections. “Even that prevailing sentiment “Suppose, friendly reader, you are one of the craft,<br />
which regrets that means should not be provided what legacy would you like to leave to your<br />
for giving them leisure, for enabling them to children ? First of all (and by Heaven's gracious<br />
perfect great works in retirement, that they should help you would pray and strive to give them such<br />
waste away their strength with fugitive literature, an endowment of love, as should last certainly for<br />
etc., I hold to be often uncalled for and dangerous," all their lives, and perhaps be transmitted to their<br />
Thackeray had written in his appreciation of children. You would '(by the same aid and<br />
Blanchard. “I believe if most men of letters blessing) keep your honour pure, and transmit a<br />
were to be pensioned— I am sorry to say I believe- name unstained to those who have a right to bear<br />
they wouldn't work at all ; and of others, that the it. You would, though this quality of giving is<br />
labour which is to answer the calls of the day is one of the easiest of the literary man's qualities-<br />
the one best suited to their genius. Suppose Sir you would, out of your earnings, great or small, be<br />
Robert Peel were to write to you, and, enclosing a able to help a poor brother in need, to dress his<br />
cheque for £20,000, instruct you to pension any wounds, and, if it were but twopence, to give him<br />
fifty deserving authors, so that they might have succour. . . . You will, if letters be your vocation,<br />
leisure to retire and write 'great' work, on whom find saving harder than giving and spending. To<br />
would you fix ?”<br />
save be your endeavour too, against the night's<br />
The dignity of literature, however, depends not coming when no man may work ; when the arm<br />
on its rewards but upon the dignity of the men of is weary with the long day's labour; when the<br />
letters, and the contempt that was felt for Grub brain perhaps grows dark ; when the old, who can<br />
Street in the eighteenth century was, as Thackeray labour no more, want warmth and rest, and the<br />
was at pains to point out, largely the fault of Grub young ones call for supper.” In yet another<br />
Street, too many of the inhabitants of which “ Roundabout Paper " Thackeray, writing after<br />
were intemperate, improvident, and far from the deaths of Washington Irving and Macaulay,<br />
respectable, and not only the minor lights but some was happy to point his arguments on the dignity<br />
of the great men also. Things, happily, have of literature by showing how they fulfilled his ideal<br />
changed, and if Grub Street is still with us it is a of what a man of letters should be. “Be a good<br />
more temperate, more clean-living neighbourhood man, my dear! One can't but think of these last<br />
than ever it was before, and its inhabitants also, as words of the veteran Chief of Letters, who had<br />
well as the literary man in general, have a lofty ideal tasted and tested the value of worldly success,<br />
of their calling. Jealousy was once the bane of admiration, prosperity. Was Irving not good,<br />
the calling ; to-day that noxious passion is kept, and, of his works, was not his life the best part ?<br />
on the whole, well under control. The Croker- In his family gentle, generous, good-humoured,<br />
Macaulay feud could not to-day be fought out in the affectionate, self-denying ; in society, a delightful<br />
quarterlies. “Human nature is not altered since example of complete gentlemanhood ; quite un- ,<br />
Richardson's time, and if there are rakes, male and spoiled by prosperity ; never obsequious to the<br />
female, as there were a hundred years since, there great (or, worse still, to the base and mean, as<br />
are in like manner envious critics now, as then,” some public men are forced to be in his and other<br />
Thackeray wrote in his paper on Fielding. “How countries) ; eager to acknowledge every contem-<br />
eager are they to predict a man's fall, how un- porary's merit ; always kind and affable with the<br />
willing to acknowledge his rise! If a man write a young members of his calling ; in his professional<br />
popular work he is sure to be snarled at; if a bargains and mercantile dealings delicately honest<br />
literary man rise to eminence out of his profes- and grateful; one of the most charming masters<br />
sion all his old comrades are against him. They of our lighter language; the constant friend to us<br />
can't pardon his success : would it not be wiser for and our nation ; to men of letters doubly dear, not<br />
gentlemen of the pen to do as they do in France, for his wit and genius merely, but as an exemplar<br />
have an esprit de corps, declare that their body and of goodness, probity, and pure life. ... Here<br />
calling is as honourable as any other, feel their own are two examples of men most differently gifted :<br />
power, and instead of crying down any member of each pursuing bis calling ; each speaking his truth<br />
their profession who happens to light on a prize, as God bade him ; each honest in his life ; just<br />
support him with all their strength! The con- and irreproachable in his dealings ; dear to his<br />
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friends ; honoured by his country ; beloved at his out sword, and have at him.” In this passage<br />
fireside. It has been the fortunate lot of both to Thackeray outlined his own course. Truth was<br />
give unaccountable happiness and delight to the the first consideration in his eyes, and it was the<br />
world, which thanks them in return with an want of truth in such works as are commonly<br />
immense kindliness, respect, affection. It may grouped as the Newgate School of Fiction that make<br />
not be our chance, brother scribe, to be endowed him attack them as being dishonest and therefore<br />
with such, merit, or lewarded with such fame. immoral. “If truth is not always pleasant, at any<br />
But the rewards of these men are rewards paid to rate truth is best, from whatever chair-from those<br />
our service. We may not win the baton or the whence grave writers or thinkers argue, as from<br />
epaulettes ; but God give us strength to guard the that at which the storyteller sits,” Thackeray<br />
honour of the flag !"<br />
wrote in the Preface to “Pendennis," and else-<br />
To such qualities as these two men, to mention where, in the lecture on “ Charity and Humour,"<br />
no others, possessed, fame comes second. Fame is he enlarged on the theme. “I can't help telling<br />
an accident, a happy glorious accident, for those the truth as I view it, and describing what I see.<br />
upon whom its mantle falls. It may come with To describe it otherwise than it seems to me would<br />
a first book ; it may come in middle life; it be falsehood in that calling in which it has pleased<br />
may come at the end of a career hitherto Heaven to place me ; treason to that conscience<br />
obscure ; it may come after death ; it may come which says that men are weak ; that truth must be<br />
and go ; it may not come at all. A man can told ; that fault must be owned ; that pardon<br />
but do his best, and take such reward as may come must be prayed for ; and that Love reigns supreme<br />
his way. “The literary character, let us hope or over all.” Thackeray took his profession very<br />
admit, writes quite honestly, but no man supposes seriously, and never undervalued the responsibilities<br />
he would work perpetually but for money. And as of the writer, even of the novelist, who, in his<br />
for immortality, it is quite beside the bargain," opinion, should be a teacher. “I assure you these<br />
Thackeray wrote. “Is it reasonable to look for it, tokens of what I can't help acknowledging as<br />
or pretend that you are actuated by a desire to popularity, make me humble as well as grateful,<br />
attain it? Of all the quill drivers, how many have and make me feel an almost awful sense of the<br />
ever drawn that prodigious prize ? Is it even right to responsibility which falls upon a man in such a<br />
ask that many should ? Out of a regard for poor station. Is it deserved or undeserved? Who is<br />
dear posterity and men of letters to come, let us this that sets up to preach to mankind, and to<br />
be glad that the great immortality number comes laugh at many things which men reverence ? I<br />
up so rarely. Mankind would have no time other hope I may be able to tell the truth always, and to<br />
wise, and would be so gorged with old masterpieces, see to it aright, according to the eyes which God<br />
that they would not occupy themselves with new, Almighty gives me. And if, in the exercise of my<br />
and future literary men would have no chance of a calling, I get friends and find encouragement and<br />
livelihood." There are great men and little men sympathy, I need not tell you how very much I<br />
working in the field of letters, as in other fields, feel and am thankful for this kind of support.<br />
and all cannot hope for the spoils that come to the Indeed, I can't reply lightly upon this subject or<br />
victor. “In the battle of life are we all going to feel otherwise than very grave when people praise<br />
try for the honours of championship ? If we can me as you do.” Thus he wrote to Dr. John Brown,<br />
do our duty ; if we can keep our place pretty who had been instrumental in organising a testi-<br />
honourably ihroughout the combat, let us say Laus monial to him ; and in reply to the Rev. Joseph<br />
Deo at the end of it, as the firing ceases, and the Sortain, who had sent him a volume of sermons,<br />
night falls upon the field.” Thus the weekday “I want too,” he wrote, “ to say in my way that<br />
preacher on the chances of the literary profession. love and truth are the greatest of Heaven's com-<br />
* To do your work honestly, to amuse and instruct mandments and blessings to us ; that the best of<br />
your reader of to-day, to die when your time comes us, the many especially who pride themselves ou<br />
and go hence with as clean a breast as may be, their virtues most, are wretchedly weak, vain, and<br />
may these be all yours and ours, by God's will. selfish ; and to preach such a charity at least as a<br />
Let us be content with our status as literary crafts- common sense of our shame and unworthiness<br />
men, telling the truth as far as may be, hitting no might inspire, to us poor people." Therein may<br />
foul blow, condescending to no servile puffery, be found "Thackeray's confession of faith as a<br />
filling not a very lofty, but a manly and honourable novelist and weekday preacher.<br />
part.”<br />
LEWIS MELVILLE.<br />
“Ah! ye knights of the pen ! May honour be<br />
your shield and truth tip your lances ! Be gentie<br />
to all gentle people. Be modest to women. Be<br />
tender to children. And as for the Ogre Humbug,<br />
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STYLE IN LITERATURE.<br />
will become apparent later on. Meanwhile, it<br />
suffices to speak of examples which, in truth, are<br />
BY ARCHIBALD DUNN.<br />
here just as convincing as any logic. For, what<br />
would you say to the mathematician who wrote in<br />
I.<br />
the flowery language of the poet, or to the<br />
TF literature in its broadest meaning is to be bumourist who explained his joke as he went with<br />
I reckoned the written expression of a thought all the nice exactness of a scientific treatise ?<br />
—and I know of no better definition than Even a Scotsman—who, by the way, has been<br />
this—then the measure of style in literature can be much libelled in this matter of jokes--would not<br />
neither more nor less than the measure of expres- stand that. Then, again, there is the absurdity of<br />
siveness with which it conveys that thought. obscuring a simple subject - say, a text-book on<br />
Here is some fact or fancy, one supposes, in the come outdoor exercise-- with the incessant intro-<br />
author's brain ; it is to become equally fact or duction of quotations from the classics. I have<br />
fancy before the reader.<br />
such a book by me on the table and, despite a<br />
To this end, it may be said, there are two means, certain excellence, I have come to see nothing in<br />
Construction and Description; that is, first the it now but irritation ; for, when a man starts out<br />
marshalling of all the testimony into an effective to study cricket or golf, or whatever it may be, he<br />
order and then, with this accomplished, the subse- is not too well pleased to be interrupted on almost<br />
quent setting forth of that testimony in effective every page by Shakespeare's views on some other<br />
terms—a plan to begin with, whether in an essay subject. Apart from the distraction, it is a waste<br />
or in a fairy tale, then the expounding of that of time under the circumstances and a clear<br />
plan through the medium of written words. annoyance. So, too, with preciosity, with pom-<br />
Hence, to be a stylist in literature is to be a stylist posity, and with all the exaggerated verbiage so<br />
twice over. A mere mastery of language, a neat common amongst the earlier writers. These are<br />
dandling of words and epithets, a stringing the deadly sins that cannot be forgiven.<br />
together of musical phrases just as pretty as ever S o far, then, the position is obvious. But, now,<br />
you please, will not do when standing alone; a more troublesome issue arises when we ask our-<br />
admirable though it be and delightful enough to selves to decide the extent of an author's right to<br />
the æsthetic sense, here is an incomplete thing, a introduce his personality into his work? Of<br />
duty but half fulfilled. The real need, it is clear, course, understand me, I ain distinguishing be-<br />
goes beyond this again and the further demand tween personality and individuality.. Individuality<br />
comes that the stylist in authorsbip shall be —the natural habit of the man, the instinctive<br />
master. too, of a šrmpathetic selection in the method of thought and of expression, which<br />
treatment of his subject.<br />
must be different from the common method-<br />
Of this latter aspect of the question something is the first requisite in the equipment of<br />
has been said in another place. * It was there an author ; more than anything else, perhaps,<br />
pointed out that only a sympathetic temperament it can raise him from the ruck and, for better<br />
could ensure a sympathetic treatment and that, in or worse, stamp him indelibly as himself.<br />
fact, the artistic result would be limited in all Indeed, so highly is the virtue rated that, on the<br />
likelihood by the degree of artistic instinct evidence of our own eyes, it is the goal for which<br />
inherent in the writer. At the same time there the scribe is struggling day by day; and, as the<br />
remain certain practical considerations which can commodity is scarce and not to be attained by<br />
not be ignored; for, whilst a man may fail to see merely trying, so is the end of the pitiful hunt too<br />
all the beauties tbat are possible in treatment, he olten only cheap-jack mannerisms, affectations by<br />
may still with study and care aroid the perpetra- the score, or tricks of speech learnt parrot-wise<br />
tion of the ugly and the unsuitable. And though from better men. But, where this valuable asset<br />
this, perhaps, is not to achieve much, it is at any is a genuine property, where it is of that quality<br />
rate something ; one step forward, however small, which can distinguish rather than belittle, then,<br />
well in the right direction.<br />
surely, the more of it the better. Of course and<br />
The obligation then is clear, in the first place, this must never be forgotten—there is nothing in<br />
that a writer must rary his entire style with the all the world that cannot be overdone at times,<br />
circumstances and adapt it faithfully to the and there is no prompting of a man's soul which<br />
necessities and characteristics of the work on does not need to be held in check—that is why<br />
which he happens to be engaged at the moment. every art is governed by rules. But, admitting<br />
The philosophical reasons for this are simple and this restriction, it would be safe to believe that<br />
individuality should be played for all that it is<br />
* See papers in The Author, November, December, 1907; worth. Is the same to be said of personality ?<br />
February, March, May, June, 1908.<br />
May an author obtrude himself freely on the<br />
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printed page? And, if not, what are his statement of facts, without any skill in their pre-<br />
limitations ?<br />
sentation, without deception, without finesse, a clear<br />
Well, I don't know that anyone is going to and unmistakable exposition, in short, of a writer<br />
answer this question with any marked degree of writing a book, in what respect, I ask, are we<br />
confidence ; beyond doubt, it is something of a playing the game of make-believe? It is too<br />
conundrum. But, in discussing it, we may start thin, is it pot? A bit too obvious, a bit too plain<br />
off upon the assumption that the character of the and aboveboard, this pulling of the Peter-Waggies<br />
composition must have a bearing on the subject. by a string! Of course, were we children it might<br />
For instance, consider the different conditions not matter; for you may take away the heartbrug<br />
which obtain in an essay and in fiction. Here we which a child is laboriously crawling over for a<br />
touch upon the two extreme poles, as it were, of Sahara Desert and shake it out before his eyes and<br />
the writer's art—the former, an attempt to convey dust it and replace it and never trouble his faith in<br />
facts (sometimes, perhaps, of a speculative nature); that Sahara for a moment ; in two seconds he is<br />
the latter, an attempt to give fancies the semblance back again, crawling over it as laboriously and<br />
of facts, to impart an air of life to a set of imagined as delightedly as before ; because, you know, he has<br />
people and of reality to imagined incidents. The a strange and weird power of self-deception and<br />
one depends for its success, we see, primarily on can run the pleasantry off his own bat. But, later<br />
the extent to which it can convince the reason ; on, in a few short years, that blessed imagination<br />
the other, primarily on the extent to which it can will have passed away, scotched by the hard and<br />
stir up and convince the imagination.<br />
practical experiences of life, and when that child<br />
In the construction of an essay, therefore, the comes to read your novel he will look upon it,<br />
introduction of an author's personality, or the believe me, with the matter-of-fact eye ; he will see<br />
omission of it, would seem of small account.* Of merely the novelist in your clumsiness and sim-<br />
course, his individuality of thought—that is, if he plicity, the poor devil of a scribe earning his bread<br />
has any–will show itself at every turn. But, and butter and, as is right and proper in the case,<br />
whether he elect to make his address in the first precious little jam.<br />
person singular or (like Macaulay and the inflated How, then, will an author stand who advances<br />
critics of his time) in the more imposing plural; boldly to the footlights, sets his hand upon his<br />
whether he appear as “I” or as an amusing heart, and says in effect, “ Here am I, and I'm<br />
company called “we”; or whether he finally busy writing this book, remember, and I think<br />
decide to discard both and efface himself entirely, this, and I think that, and I think the other ! ”<br />
I do not know that anyone is going to care a single How does he stand when he ventures upon this<br />
solitary brass farthing. How can it matter, from without any attempt whatever at concealment? It<br />
the point of view of construction, how the subject is a delicate question, I know, because it throws<br />
of an essay be approached, provided only that the down the glove to many who are famous, and<br />
main need is attended to-that, in the end, we deservedly famous, in literature. There is<br />
have a sequence of ideas easy to follow, a clearness Thackeray, for example.<br />
which shall admit of no misunderstanding, a Now no one, I suppose, will deny that Thackeray<br />
brevity which shall expound the meaning with is a great writer ; no one will challenge his powers<br />
completeness and no more? This is the practical of observation, his knowledge of humanity, of the<br />
aim of the whole business that the facts shall be virtues and weaknesses of men and women, or his<br />
brought most comprehensively before the reader's ability to set these forth fairly and squarely upon<br />
mind.<br />
paper, together with an unmistakable picture of<br />
But with fiction it is, of course, another story. the period. That much, at least, must be conceded,<br />
Indeed, in a tale, in a romance which is to give a and these qualities are as toughened steel in an<br />
picture of life, it will often be the facts wbich most author's armour, bright with the promise of success.<br />
need hiding, or at any rate dressing up into such a Pity it is, then, that in this armour there should<br />
form that the real truth of them shall not be too bave been so large and gaping a flaw ; that the<br />
crudely apparent. For the art of fiction is the Achilles heel should show so transparently through<br />
juggler's art, a game of make-believe, in which the it all. For, in “ Vanity Fair,”- which is to take a<br />
actual happenings are as nothing unless, indeed, specific instance and, besides, a good specimen of<br />
they can be cloaked with an air of reality. Here Thackeray's work—there is the clearest proof. In<br />
are some puppets, men of straw, who have never it are all the fine qualities just enumerated but,<br />
lived ; but the reader, for his enjoyment, must have cheek by jowl with them and ready jumping to the<br />
faith in their existence. If, then, there is a bare eye, that one overwhelming defect-I mean, of<br />
* Later on, in discussing the Laws of Style, it will be<br />
course, that habit of walking deliberately before<br />
shown that too frequent an insistence of the author's<br />
the curtain, of grarely making a bow, and of<br />
personality must produce an unsatisfactory result.<br />
exclaiming, even with ostentation, “Here I am<br />
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again !” There is that most unfortunate Preface, characters or as the natural outcome of the action<br />
you may remember, where the author announces of the piece. A slight restriction at the most, it is in<br />
himself as a “showman” and his characters as this way that the semblance of reality is kept alive.<br />
“puppets.” A small thing, perhaps, if that were Then, for a last word, there is the chance that<br />
all, when a Preface is not of much account with an over-obtrusiveness may steal, as it were, upon<br />
most folks and is often left unread; still, for what the writer and take him unawares. There are certain<br />
it is worth, there it is. Later on, however, with terms of expression--such, for instance, as “I<br />
the introduction of the chapters, there follows a know," "believe me," "upon my word,” and so<br />
more real aggravation when direct reference back is forth-which would seem to bring him forward<br />
made every here and there to antecedent happen against his will ; or, again, in the diary form of<br />
ings, and that with so nice and exact a precision narrative, where the author speaks throughout<br />
that the reader is openly reminded that he is the from his note-book or his memory, there is the<br />
reader and that the story is no more than a story suggestion of his presence in nearly every word.<br />
invented and recited by a much self-evident writer. But this is hardly to state the truth ; for, the<br />
Nor is this to be the worst of it. For one may practical effect of these two conditions is not quite<br />
point to a page in “ Vanity Fair"--I have not the what it appears to be. Indeed, as you may observe,<br />
novel by me, and therefore cannot quote chapter there is no suggestion at all of personality in figures<br />
and verse—where Thackeray actually stops to make of speech which, as mere colloquialisms, must<br />
an address and explain how at this juncture some pass off well-nigh unheeded in the run of the<br />
particular character (Becky Sharp, I believe) might sentence ; whilst, in a story avowedly recorded by<br />
be presented quite easily in a dozen different the writer, his presence, if continuous, is soon for-<br />
fashions. Why, of course! that is as clear as a gotten in the more general interest ; provided<br />
pikestaff. But, ye gods and little fishes ! what always—and this is the important point-that he<br />
a wholesale rubbing of the gilt off the ginger- keeps within the confines of the actualities of life,<br />
bread! What a candid display of the ropes and that he arrogates to himself no Divine insight, that<br />
pulleys, the trapdoors and machinery! What a he depicts the minds of other people only, as is.<br />
suffocatingly level-headed douche upon romance ! humanly possible under the circumstances, by the<br />
What a final knock-out blow to the reader's evidence of their actions. But, once let him break<br />
imagination ! After this, if there remain a true away from this, once let him step beyond the<br />
and deep study of life—which is the fact—there possible, and the man and his abuse of logic, the<br />
does not remain anything that may be fairly called palpable unreality of it all, will startle us out of the<br />
a story. The exposure has gone too far, and one reverie with the suddenness of a whip-crack.<br />
has slipped back-inevitably and all against the “How," we ask - for, it is the inevitable question-<br />
natural desire-to the "showman" and his “can the silly fellow tell that?" And then, you<br />
* puppets.” At such a time it is that the grown know, the game is up.<br />
man will sigh for the bygone years when the<br />
impossible would pass for a reality, when the<br />
hearthrug was still Sahara.<br />
Turning to the Art of Description—the art, that<br />
It would seem, then, in the end, that the con- is, of expressing a thought in so many words—this<br />
clusion reaches further than we bad thought. It much at least is certain at the outset that the<br />
was to have been but a vague thing, this limit set by business of artistic writing must be two-fold, to<br />
construction on the author's outward show of satisfy the intelligence and to charm the esthetic<br />
personality ; it proves, after all, definable or nearly sense. There is the need of making the thought<br />
80. For in an essay, clearly, the author may beat comprehensible, of course ; and there is the further<br />
the drum, sound the trumpets and make his entry need of setting it forth, of adorning it, with such<br />
just as often and as ostensibly as ever he pleases ; attractions as may belong to the choice of effective<br />
whilst, in a story, he may try the same experiment words and the musical balancing of phrases. Thus,<br />
only at his peril, always at the risk of "showing we may say that there exists the technical side of<br />
his hand,” always at the risk of jacking-up irre- the subject and the beautiful; that is, in theory.<br />
trievably this deligbtful game of make-believe. In practice, it will be found that these two cannot<br />
Nor is this to say that he shall be tongue-tied in well be dissociated; for, it is clear, I think, that<br />
any way. He will, it may be supposed, have many the technical—the first step towards the beautiful<br />
weighty and important views and opinions to —is a necessary ingredient of the beautiful, and<br />
express. Very well, then, let them be expressed by that the beautiful which cannot arise at all without<br />
all means, but—with an eye fixed resolutely upon the technical must itself be part and parcel of the<br />
the danger ahead ; so that one might add this technical. At any rate, so closely are they allied that<br />
reservation, perhaps, that all extraneous matter shall it would not be possible to say just exactly wnere<br />
find its utterance only through the medium of the the functions of the one or the other begin to end.<br />
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Nevertheless, for the purpose B of clearer explana- in play at once and, during the earlier stages at<br />
tion, I propose to fix upon a dividing line and to least, there will be many dismal hours of failure.<br />
assume that the technical may be taken to Or, again, set a conversation rolling and listen the<br />
cover the broad principles which govern the con- while to some talker on another subject and, hey!<br />
struction of the sentence and the paragraph, and presto! there is confusion worse confounded. Or,<br />
that all other qualities in literature may be suitably finally, rub the top of your head horizontally and<br />
set down under the heading of the beautiful. Form, the pit of your belly with a circular motion and, in<br />
we might say, in one case ; Grace, in the other. a twinkling, the machinery comes to a dead-lock<br />
And, though this is not to be as precise as one and paralysis sets in. In short, ask the mind to<br />
could wish, it is always something in a discussion issue two distinct orders at once, and the simplest<br />
to have reduced the final issue to its component act is rnagnified into an achievement-it can only<br />
parts as near as may be ; it enables the attention be accomplished after incessant and often laborious<br />
to concentrate itself more restrictedly ; it makes practice. And why? Simply because the attention<br />
for a better understanding, I believe, in the long concentrated on the one endeavour distracts the<br />
run.<br />
attention which is necessary for the accomplishment<br />
This section, then, deals with the question of of the other: because, until advanced and perfected<br />
Form.<br />
by training, the human mind is apt to find its limit<br />
In making an inquiry into the laws of Style in in doing one thing at a time. What question then<br />
Literature, there are two main considerations which that, in this business of writing, the author shall<br />
at once suggest themselves—first, that we all prefer eliminate anything and everything that may distract<br />
to do things easily rather than with effort ; and, the reader ?<br />
second, that the mind works with greater facility But, just as it is not enough to stand aside from<br />
under one set of conditions than under another. the path of the over-wrought athlete or to refrain<br />
These—such obvious truisms that there is no need from pushing the drowning man still further<br />
to waste time in proving them lead to a valuable beneath the surface, so is it not enough that, in an<br />
.conclusion ; they teach us unmistakably that the appeal to the intellect, we should be content merely<br />
author's consideration must always be the comfort to put no impediment in the way. The intellect-<br />
of the reader. If the book is not read with com- the average intellect, that is requires something<br />
fort, it will be a rare occasion indeed on which more than a clear field in which to exercise, it needs<br />
it is not very promptly cast aside. Whence it some outside prompting to set it going, some<br />
follows, in the author's interest, and in that of his vigorous handling to arouse its energies. As we<br />
art, that he must first discover and then fulfil those meet it commonly, it is a half-developed thing ;<br />
conditions which enable the reader's mind to work receptive no doubt in a large measure, but only in<br />
thus easily and with the least expenditure of effort; a modest degree perceptive ; and so, though capable<br />
and so, by its very inevitableness, it must be just of appreciating a picture, seldom able to create one.<br />
this that comes Dearest the root of all that is good. Hence, if a thought is to be readily communicated,<br />
in writing.<br />
if it is to be visualised by the reader in all its full<br />
At first glance, then, we are upon the brink of a significance, then the further duty of the author<br />
most ponderous philosophical discussion. The stares him fairly and squarely in the face-he must<br />
human mind, indeed! with all its unfathomable lend a helping hand. The brief statement, we see,<br />
mystery! And, thinking thus, the temptation is may be insufficient for this lazy and too matter-of-<br />
to shut down the page, to close the volume and fact mind; therefore shall it be presented with a<br />
turn to simpler things. Strangely, though, wegreater completeness and with adequate detail lest,<br />
should not too readily tind them. For, as it happens, the omissiou of some particular, the whole become<br />
this problem is scarcely a problem at all ; barely obscure.<br />
worthy of the name when the truth comes out at In these two principles, then that the reader<br />
Jast and we learn that this most intricate affairshall in no circumstances be distracted, but in all<br />
depends for its elucidation on nothing more abstruse circumstances helped to a true and full understand-<br />
than the admission of one elementary fact—that jug---we find the basis of those laws which govern<br />
the mind can work more easily when concentrated Style in Literature. They are, as set forth by<br />
than when distracted. That is all ; a wet blanket Lewes, * five in number—the law of Economy, the<br />
on an outburst of great ideas; a trifle stowed away law of Simplicity, the law of Sequence, the law of<br />
in a nutshell.<br />
Climax, and the law of Variety. Five conditions,<br />
See for yourself how true this is. Consider the then, to be fulfilled, five terms to be noted, all suffi-<br />
first example that comes to hand. Juggle, for ciently alarming. But, as good luck will have it,<br />
instance, with a single ball and, in the innocence of these are again to be condensed and—with Economy<br />
your beart, you may count yourself a master-<br />
perhaps ; add a second to the trick, keep them both<br />
* * The Principles of Success in Literature."<br />
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embracing Simplicity, and Climax necessarily together the various clues. The indications given by<br />
implying Sequence-we fall back, on Lewes' sug- Dickens himself, therefore, are that the keeper of<br />
gestion, to three main headings only-Economy, the opium den (“the Princess Puffer"), Helena<br />
Climar, and Variety.<br />
Landless, Grewgious, and Datchery (the unknown<br />
(To be continued.)<br />
tracker) will somehow, singly or in combination,<br />
bring justice home to Jasper.<br />
To go back to our questions. (1) Was Edwin<br />
ABOUT EDWIN DROOD.*<br />
Drood dead? If he was not, what had become of<br />
him, for the story progresses to a point six months<br />
UITE a literature is growing up around after his disappearance ? Death alone would seem<br />
W Dickens's famous unfinished povel, to which to account for his silence. But if he was dead,<br />
the latest contribution, written by an anony- what was the meaning of one of the illustrations on<br />
mous author, “ H. J.," is an interesting addition. the cover to the monthly parts, which clearly shows<br />
The book is dated from Trinity College, Cambridge, Jasper entering a vaulted chamber with a lantern,<br />
which fact, together with the scholarly acumen and finding in that chamber the erect figure of<br />
displayed in the writing, puints an accusing finger at Edwin Drood ? It should be added here that Jasper<br />
a famous professor. There is no need, in commenting would naturally return to the scene of the crime, ass<br />
upon H. J.'s brochure, to tell in any detailed manner after his attempt on his nephew he found out that<br />
the story of Edwin Drood ; it is probably familiar to his action had been quite purposeless, that Edwin<br />
all readers of The Author , and, if it is not, they are and Rosa were no longer betrothed, but that the<br />
cordially recommended to remove the reproach of former carried upon him a ring, not given to Rosa<br />
their ignorance without delay. Something, how- as intended, which would ensure the identification,<br />
ever, must be said in the way of recapitulation of of the body. The first obvious explanation of this<br />
the plot to make any remarks on the subject intel- picture, which is reproduced in H. J.'s book, is.<br />
ligible. “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” tells of that Jasper, who had previously, as we know,<br />
the murder of the eponymous hero by a jealous removed from the body all the jewellery of whose<br />
uncle John Jasper, suspicion of the murder, if existence he was aware, had returned to the vault<br />
murder there has been, falling upon a lad named to recover the incriminating ring. One school of<br />
Neville Landless. The mystery does not lie in the critics says that the whole meaning is gone if Edwin<br />
anthorship of the crime, for almost from the first Drood is not dead ; these explain the cover of the<br />
we know that Jasper is guilty of an attempt to monthly instalment by saying that the figure in the<br />
murder his nephew, and believes that he has vault is not Edwin Drood at all, but someone made<br />
succeeded. The main vexed questions are (1) Was up to resemble him, or, and preferably, that the<br />
Edwin Drood dead ? and (2) By what machinery figure portrays a terrible hallucination of Jasper, and<br />
was the crime brought home to its author. The not a real flesh and blood presence. This latter, by<br />
fragment breaks off at the place where Edwin the way, is H. J.'s view. Another school of critics<br />
Drood has disappeared, but certain further informa- says that to put such a figure on the cover would<br />
tion is given which helps us to conjecture what the have been an unjustifiable artifice on the part of any<br />
reply of Dickens to the two questions formulated author, and unthinkable on the part of a romancer<br />
above would have been. Rosa, the heroine, and like Dickens, able, and conscious of being able, to<br />
Edwin Drood's sweetheart, for wicked love of make any explanation in the world possible to his<br />
whom Jasper, an opium fiend, is led into the crime, readers, and therefore under no obligation to cheat<br />
comes to suspect the identity of the villain. them from the outset by deliberately indicating that<br />
Grewgious, Rosa's guardian and Edwin's solicitor, a man was alive when he meant to show in the<br />
is also on the same track. Helena Landless, sister development of the story that he was dead. H. J.<br />
of the wrongfully accused Neville and confidante marshals fairly all the arguments that can be found<br />
of Rosa, is determined, in behalf both of her brother in favour of one answer and of the other to the<br />
and her bosom friend, that action must be taken question, “ Was Edwin Drood dead ?” with reference<br />
against Jasper. An old woman, who keeps the throughout to Mr. Cuming Walter's “ Clues to the<br />
opium den where Jasper goes for regular debauches, Mystery of Edwin Drood,” and Mr. Andrew Lang's<br />
has an unexplained grudge against Jasper, and “Puzzle of Dickens's last Plot.” He considers that<br />
possesses evidence against him the importance of Edwin Drood was dead, but gives much ground for<br />
which she does not know. A mysterious person disagreement in his conclusion to those who find<br />
named Datchery, obviously someone disguised, and such an issue improbable and disappointing.<br />
probably someone already pamed in the book, takes The second question—(2) “ By what machinery<br />
up his abode at Jasper's elbow and begins to gather was the crime brought home to its author ? ”-must<br />
be answered to some extent in relation to whether<br />
University Press. 1911. 90 pp., 4s, net.<br />
Edwin Drood was dead or no, and centres round.<br />
" " About Edwin Droo<br />
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II.<br />
the identity of Datchery. Datchery is clearly high, but the information is, as always, of an inter-<br />
tracking Jasper down—there is no mystery about esting character. In the present case the attention<br />
that. Some have suggested that he was Edwin of authors is likely to be particularly attracted by<br />
Drood himself ; some have thought that Datchery the sale of a number of autograph manuscripts of<br />
was an impersonation either by the solicitor George Meredith, of which all but one were the<br />
Grewgious, or by his clerk Bazzard, who appears in property of his nurse, Mrs. Nicholls. (Sotheby.<br />
the brief mention of him as a particularly foolish December 1, 1910. A miscellaneous collection.<br />
person, but with a theatrical bent of mind ; some Nos. 2008—2023). A minutely accurate descrip-<br />
have thought that Helena Landless was hidden tion of the MSS. is given ; and it will be found<br />
beneath Datchery's male disguise ; at least, one that they represent a great deal more than might<br />
American sequel to the book makes Datchery a be suspected from a mere enumeration of their<br />
new character, a professional detective introduced titles. For these most interesting particulars we<br />
by Edwin Drood's friends to spy upon Jasper. must refer our readers to the pages of“ Book-prices<br />
There is something to be said in favour of all these Current”: where it may be seen how widely<br />
theories, and more to be said against them. But George Meredith's published work often differed<br />
the various pros and cons will be found closely con from what he had at first written. The whole<br />
sidered by H. J., who plumps for Helena Landless, amount realised by the MSS. at the sale exceeded<br />
as Mr. Cuming Walters has done. This is, on the £1,500.<br />
face of it, the most preposterous solution of the<br />
puzzle of Datchery, but so well does H. J. support<br />
- John Adams Thayer : Getting On, The Confessions of<br />
it, and so cogent is his reasoning against any other<br />
er a Publisher.” London : T. Werner Laurie.<br />
theory, that he will find many supporters. In the<br />
course of his reasoning H. J. shows that the<br />
WHEN we admit that the sub-title of this work,<br />
probability of Helena Landless being Datchery<br />
“ The Confessions of a Publisher,” led us to<br />
would be greatly increased by the transposition of anticipate what we did not find in it, we shall<br />
Chapter XVIII. to a place immediately in front of probably appear to the author to have bestowed<br />
Chapter XXIII. (the last and unfinished chapter), upon his book the highest possible praise—it has<br />
and his pleading for their transposition as a legiti- a title which is calculated to push its sale. For<br />
mate correction is a very astute piece of criticism.<br />
while this work is on the one hand a history of a<br />
That the crime was brought home to Jasper seems<br />
plucky and successful struggle from small begin-<br />
undoubted, for from Forster's Life of Dickens " we nings to ease, it is on the other hand a painful<br />
learn that Jasper was intended to confess his crime exposition of the subordination of everything else<br />
unwittingly, while Sir Luke Fildes received instruc- to the scramble for remunerative advertisements.<br />
tions to prepare an illustration of Jasper in prison; The “ blessed word " advertisement makes its first<br />
but exactly how and by whom detection was brought appearance on the second page of the preface<br />
about is a mystery that still defies solution.<br />
(called “A Confidence”), and its last on the last<br />
Exactly where in some competitive order of<br />
page but one of the last chapter, and dominates the<br />
Dickens's works we should place “ The Mystery whole story. If anyone needs to be convinced that<br />
of Edwin Drood” is a matter of considerable at least periodical publication is becoming, or has<br />
dispute ; to many this fragment seems the promise already become, merely hoarding for adrertise-<br />
of the finest sensational novel in English. whilements, the evidence of that fact is here. That such<br />
others see in it indications of the author's weariness. a state of things is an evil absolutely destructive of<br />
We are wholly on the generous side, and welcome<br />
literature, is self-evident.<br />
H. J.'s interesting little book as being sure to<br />
secure readers for the grim tragedy of Cloisterham.<br />
III.<br />
It is a scholarly and thoroughly exciting note upon "The Dramatic Author's Companion,” by a Theatrical<br />
a very intriguing matter.<br />
Manager's Reader, with an introduction by Arthur<br />
Bouchier, M.A. Mills and Boon.<br />
FRANKLY admitting that “ to make" a dramatist<br />
SHORT REVIEWS.<br />
is impossible, the author of “The Dramatic Author's<br />
Companion” makes no pretence to doing more than<br />
unfolding to the man who has the right stuff in bim<br />
" Book.prices Current.” Part I. 1911. London : Elliot the technique of the difficult art of writing for the<br />
Stock.<br />
modern stage. An Introduction" by Mr. Arthur<br />
M H E first part of “ Book-prices Current for Bouchier is a sufficient guarantee of the value of<br />
1 1 911” contains a record of the sales from the little work which we have much pleasure in recom-<br />
October 6, 1910, to December 8, 1910. In mending. We have been particularly struck by<br />
many cases the prices do not appear to us to be very the lucid manner in which “theme," " plot," and<br />
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" construction" are distinguished, and not less<br />
impressed by the value of the rest of the advice in<br />
the book. The author is to be particularly con-<br />
gratulated upon having bad the sense to insist upon<br />
the importance to every dramatist of Aristotle's<br />
"Poetics.” That is evidence that the author under-<br />
stands the subject upon which he is writing.<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
GEORGE MEREDITH, O.M.<br />
DEAR SIR,—Will you allow me to correct an<br />
error in your account under “ General Notes ” of<br />
the presentation to Mr. William Meredith of the<br />
gold medal of the Royal Society of Literature which<br />
bad been voted during his lifetime to the late George<br />
Meredith ? It is there stated that the society's gold<br />
medal had been awarded on only two occasions,<br />
whereas this was the fifteenth occasion on which it<br />
has been presented.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
PERCY W. AMES,<br />
Secretary of the Royal Society<br />
of Literature of the United Kingdom.<br />
DRAMATISTS.<br />
SIR,-Had the opportunity been given at the<br />
annual meeting of the Society of Authors, on<br />
Thursday, March 23, I might have brought the<br />
subject of this letter before it, but it would then,<br />
perhaps, have reached a much smaller number of the<br />
public than it now will.<br />
What I wanted to say, and what I now wish to<br />
inform all the members and associates of this Society<br />
is that I feel that very inadequate—and, I must<br />
reluctantly add, what seem to me unjustly inade-<br />
quate-steps have been taken in deciding wbo are<br />
and who are not its dramatic members, for I am<br />
informed that it has been decided that they are<br />
those who have had a play produced, and that, there-<br />
fore, it was only to such that a notice of the pro-<br />
posed confereuce was sent. I wish to point out<br />
that, if that definition is accepted, the being a<br />
dramatist will become purely a piece of luck, depen-<br />
dent not upon what the writer—the member or<br />
Associate of the Society-has done (bas conceived<br />
and created), but upon what has been done by<br />
others with his or her work. It may be that it is<br />
just the existing condition of things that makes it<br />
difficult, or, perhaps, even impossible, for some<br />
members or associates to get their dramatic work<br />
produced, and which might, therefore, prevent such<br />
persons from ever being recognised as dramatists ;<br />
hence the inclusion among dramatists of such as<br />
have done dramatic work, although no play of<br />
theirs may have been before the public, might lead<br />
to some suggestions being made which would be of<br />
use to the dramatic world by making the road of<br />
production easier to the dramatist-the writer of<br />
the play.<br />
Some distinction might be made-if there is any<br />
real need for it-between those who have and have<br />
not had a play produced, inst as a distinction is<br />
made by means of the words “member” and<br />
“associate” between those authors who have and<br />
have not had a book published: some new designa-<br />
tör<br />
tion, even, might be devised.<br />
Every dramatic writer must have a beginning in<br />
the matter of production, just as every book-writer<br />
must in the matter of publication, but this seems<br />
to have been curiously overlooked in the very quarter<br />
in which one would have expected to have found it<br />
regarded, and so the inclusion of “unproduced”<br />
play-writers among “dramatists " may lead to the<br />
speedier introduction of a new era in the play-<br />
performing world.<br />
HUBERT HAES.<br />
[NOTE :—The writer of the above letter seems to<br />
argue that any person who has written a play<br />
should be entitled to be described as a dramatist.<br />
This view seems to us untenable. If, however, his<br />
argument is that a great many people who have<br />
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br />
DEAR SIR,- It only dawned on me very slowly<br />
to-day what a great slight had been shown to<br />
women writers by. their own Society of Authors by<br />
the fact that not a man of the council or com-<br />
mittee had thought it worth while to put any<br />
woman's name down on the list they recommended<br />
for the Academic Committee of the Royal Society<br />
demic Committee of the Royal Society<br />
of Literature. We women members of the Society<br />
of Authors could have promptly suggested at least<br />
three names, which even then would not have been<br />
a fourth of the representation the gentlemen kept<br />
entirely for themselves. They nominated not one!<br />
The pity on't! The harm it will do ! One is<br />
always sorry to see a chance missed! And this<br />
slight to their fellow-workers has been iniicted in<br />
the sight of the whole world. As one of the rank<br />
and file, it is impossible not to resent the undeserved<br />
indignity to the leaders of whom we--and all who<br />
love literature—are so justly proud. Can nothing<br />
be done to remedy so silly and mischievous a<br />
blunder ?<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
GRACE TOPLIS.<br />
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written plays but have not had them acted, are than two or three lines at a time and who pretend<br />
dramatists, there is a good deal in favour of the to improve our work, must be at the root of many<br />
argument; but if this view is to be adopted, in failures.<br />
order to arrive at any satisfactory settlement, it<br />
Yours truly,<br />
would be necessary for the Society to establish a<br />
A MEMBER.<br />
reading branch which should confine its work to<br />
deciding whether an unacted dramatist should be<br />
included in the company of dramatists or not.<br />
EDITORIAL DELAY.<br />
This proposition would seem to be equally unten.<br />
able. In consequence, it would seem to be much<br />
DEAR SIR,I was pleased to see that my sugges-<br />
better to draw the hard-and-fast line already tion in The Author as to "payment on acceptance"<br />
settled by the Dramatic Sub-committee.-Ed.] instead of “ payment on publication” for manu-<br />
scripts of magazine articles had met with approval;<br />
for I have little doubt that the support accorded<br />
to it in the letter of Mr. Frank E. Verney represents<br />
PROFESSIONAL TYPISTS.<br />
very wide concurrence amongst authors generally<br />
-in any case amongst magazine writers.<br />
DEAR SIR,— Without wishing to seem unreason. If, however, this question is one that should be<br />
ably exacting, I must say I should like to know taken up in the interests of what I may call the<br />
whether my experiences of professional typists are “Literary Brotherhood," what better instru-<br />
normal.<br />
mentality could there possibly be for effecting<br />
Early in January, I contracted with a firm I such a purpose than that excellent and powerful<br />
knew for the typing in duplicate of a book of about syndicate the Council of the Society of Authors ?<br />
84,000 words; I asked the typist to quote his It gives me, therefore, great pleasure to “move"<br />
lowest terms for a MS. of 85,000 words, and the that our influential Council should take this<br />
agreement was for £4. I had to wait over six course.<br />
weeks for the typescripts, though the work was No individual author, or group of authors, out-<br />
divided up and undertaken by different hands. side the Council could possibly have the same weight<br />
When I came to revising it and comparing it as our “Committee of Management” in so desirable<br />
with my MSS. (which I might add was clear and a movement.<br />
legible and ready for the printer) I found, in two. It is not, I think, possible to add to the argu-<br />
thirds of the book the following mistakes :-<br />
ments already used in favour of such a course ; and<br />
“Twenty sentences, of from three to twenty it would be well if editors and proprietors of English<br />
seven words, omitted.<br />
magazines were to consider whether the change<br />
“ Seventy single words omitted.<br />
proposed would not be distinctly for their own, as<br />
“ The punctuation and lengths of paragraphs well as for the author's benefit. The best pay and<br />
changed, and my sentences adjusted to Procrustes' the promptest payment naturally attract the best<br />
bed.<br />
work; and the quality of English “material ” is<br />
“Footnotes embodied into the matter of the very likely under the present English custom to<br />
book.<br />
suffer when that material is provided for English<br />
“Fifty-three of the typists' words were substituted publications.<br />
for mine." A few of the worst examples follow : I recall, when looking through for a friend, many<br />
MSS.<br />
TYPESCRIPT. years ago, the proof sheets of a book this friend had<br />
men<br />
those<br />
written on America, a means he had made of a<br />
heart . . . .<br />
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speeches.<br />
spectacles haphazard through the principal lines and ticking<br />
curiously<br />
seriously off from a list of American journals and magazines<br />
succumbing<br />
recovering those open to general contributions, I find in my list<br />
rempant.<br />
permanent of twenty-four no less than twenty which announce<br />
symptoms .<br />
sympathy. “payment on acceptance ” one of these says, " Pay-<br />
My handwriting, by the wildest stretch of ment from 3 cents. a word upwards on acceptance."<br />
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had placed before them the financial<br />
position of the fund-decided to invest £250 in Jan. 3, Yolland, Miss E. ..<br />
the purchase of Consols.<br />
Jan. 3, Bowen, Miss Marjorie . . 1 1 0<br />
The amount purchased at the present price is Jan. I, Bolton, Miss Anda. .<br />
£312 138. 4d.<br />
Jan. 13, Edginton, Miss May . . 0 5 0<br />
This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d. Feb. 11, Candan, Gilbert . . . 0 10 6<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom- Feb. 15. Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie. . 0 5 0<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
Donations.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
1910.<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
July 4, O'Higgins, Harrey.<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
1 0 0<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
July 5, Muir, Ward . .<br />
1 1 0<br />
July 5, Peacock, Mrs. . .<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im-<br />
. 2 2 0<br />
July 11, March, Miss A. M.<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
0 12<br />
July 18, Rulli, C. Scaramanga<br />
Consols 21%.............................. £1,312 13 4 July 20, Ellis, Havelock . . . ( 5 0<br />
Local Loans .............................. 500 0 0 Aug. 22, Myers, C. S. . . . 2 2 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
Sept. 9, Bristow-Noble, J. C. .<br />
. 076<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ...............<br />
291 19 11 Sept. 30, Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred . . 1 1 0<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
Oct. 4, Pakington, The Honourable<br />
ture Stock .......<br />
250 0 0 Mary . . . . . . 1 1 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Oct. 17, Caws, Lather W. .<br />
( 10 0<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ...........<br />
0 Oct. 11, Knowles-Foster, Miss Frances G. O 10 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 32% Inscribed<br />
Oct. 28, Tuite, Hugh. ..<br />
1 1 0<br />
Stock .............................<br />
200 0 0 Oct. 28, Margoliouth, George . . 0 7 6<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Oct. 31, Gribble, F., .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
4% Preference Stock........... 228 0 0 Nov. 1, Rankin, Miss. .<br />
• • . 0 5 0<br />
New Zealand 3% Stock................ 247 9 6 Nov. 5, Buckrose, J. E. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Irish Land Act 21% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0 Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden.<br />
2 2 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
Nov. 12, Buè, Henri . .<br />
0 11 0<br />
1927-57 ....................<br />
438 24 Nov. 19, Ellis, Mrs. Harelock<br />
0 5 0<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6 Nov. 28, Campbell, Cyril,<br />
0 10 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock............... 120 121 Dec. 1, Laws, T. C. . .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Dcminion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Dec. 10, Dalliba, Mrs. Kate<br />
Grant Stock, 1938....................... 198 3 8 Dec. 10, Douglas, James A.<br />
0 9 0<br />
Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold .<br />
2 2 0<br />
Total ................ £4,377 19 4 Dec. 13, Powell, Lieut.-Genl. Sir R<br />
Baden, K.C.B., etc. .<br />
. 3 3 0<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
Dec. 19, Watson, Mrs. Herbert .<br />
Dec. 21, Wallis-Healy, F. C.<br />
1910.<br />
£ f. d. Dec. 28, “ Olivia Ramsay". . . 0 10 6<br />
July 15, Stereni, William Barnes . 0 5 0<br />
Oct. 6, Graham, Capt. Harry . . 1 1<br />
1911.<br />
0<br />
Nov. 6, Capes, Mrs. Marion . 0 5 0 Jan. 2, Northcote, The Rev. H.. : 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden. . . 0 5 0 Jan. 2, Mackenzie, Miss J. . . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 11, Parry, Sir Hubert . . . 1 1 0 Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur H. . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 17, Coben, Mrs. Herbert. . 0 10 6 Jan. 3, Wasteneys, Lady . . 0 5 0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
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.......<br />
£ s d. after application from the secretary, and the com-<br />
Jan. 4, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
. 2 2 0 mittee sanctioned the transfer of the papers to the<br />
Jac. 4, Randall, F. J. .<br />
. 1 1 0 society's solicitors. The third case was one affecting<br />
Jan, 5, W.<br />
( 10 6 the dramatists of the society. Counsel's opinion<br />
Jan. 5, Crellin, H. N.<br />
0 5 0 had been obtained on questions relating to the<br />
Jan. 5, S. F. G..<br />
. 0.10 0 production of sketches, and the committee, alter<br />
Jan. 6, Blake, J. P. ,<br />
reading the opinion, referred the matter to the<br />
Jan. 7, Douglas, James A.. . . 1 0 0 Dramatic Sub-Committee, as it was at the direction<br />
Jan. 9, Grisewood, R. Norman<br />
( 5 0 of this sub-committee that the opinion had been<br />
Jan. 10, Wharton, Leonard C.<br />
0 10 0 obtained. The fourth and last case had also been<br />
Jan, 12, Tanner, James T.. . . 3 3 0 adjourned from the previous meeting in order that<br />
Jan. 16, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila : 0 5 0 the opinion of counsel might be obtained. Here,<br />
Jan. 17, Kemp, Miss Emily G..<br />
10 also, counsel advised that the author had no ground<br />
Jan. 21, Greenstreet, The Rev. W.J. 0 5 0 for legal action. The matter referred to the power<br />
Jan, 26, Blundell, Miss Alice , . 0 5 0 of a publisher to insert advertisements in a book<br />
Jan. 28, Benecke, Miss Ida .<br />
5 9 published on the author's behalf. The committee<br />
Jan. 30, Wilkinson, The Rev. C.J. 1 1 0 instructed the secretary to send a copy of the<br />
Feb. 2, Lawes, T. C. . . . . 0 5 0 opinion to the member concerned, with suggested<br />
Feb. 3, Dawson, Mrs. F. . . . 0 5 0 advice as to further action, and recommended that<br />
Feb. 3, Tweedie, Mrs. Alec<br />
. 1 1 0 an article should be published in The Author deal-<br />
Feb. 10, Dale, T. F..<br />
. () 5 0 ing with the subject, as it appeared from counsel's<br />
Feb. 13, Machen, Arthur.<br />
. 0 10 0 opinion that members could only guard themselves<br />
against this form of annoyance by a special clause<br />
in their contract.<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
The annual report for last year was laid on the<br />
table and passed by the Committee of Management.<br />
Letters were read from the Copyright Association<br />
M HE second meeting of the Committee of and from the Publishers' Association with reference<br />
Management for the current year was to the Joint Committee suggested at the previous<br />
held at the society's offices on February 6. meeting to deal with the Copyright Bill when it<br />
Twenty-two members were elected, bringing the comes before Parliament. After careful considera-<br />
elections for the current year up to forty-seven. tion the comınittee decided to act in conjunction<br />
Included in the elections the committee were glad with the Publishers' Association, who had nominated<br />
to notice the names of some old members, who, Mr. Heinemann and Mr. Longman as their repre-<br />
finding the work of the society of use, desired to sentatives.<br />
rejoin.<br />
The committee next considered a suggestion for<br />
Eight resignations were accepted with regret, providing a loan fund for authors, from which<br />
bringing the total number of resignations to money could be advanced to them on contracts at<br />
thirty-five. The number of resignations in the a reasonable rate of interest, in order that, not<br />
early months of the year is naturally greater than being pressed for want of means, they might be<br />
during the later months, but the number for the enabled to secure more satisfactory contracts from<br />
current year is not above the average, as in publishers, editors, theatrical managers, and others.<br />
February, 1910, thirty-six resignations had been The committee gave the matter their careful con-<br />
received.<br />
sideration, but while they saw that some advantages<br />
Cases. The first case was one which had been might be gained by the establishment of such a<br />
adjourned from the previous meeting in order that fund, they also saw that the whole matter was beset<br />
counsel's opinion might be taken on the issues. The with difficulties. The secretary was instructed to<br />
opinion was laid before the committee and carefully bring the question up again at the next meeting.<br />
considered. As counsel advised against the member's The action taken by the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br />
chance of success, the committee felt they were mittee in forwarding a petition to the Lord<br />
unable to take legal action on his behalf, but they Chamberlain on the question of theatrical licences<br />
instructed the secretary to forward the member å for music-halls was next reported by the secretary,<br />
copy of the opinion, with an intimation, having who added that he had received a reply to that<br />
regard to tbe importance of the case, of their petition.<br />
willingness to assist the member in any other A letter from the advertising agents of the<br />
course of action which it might be advisable to society was also laid before the committee, who<br />
adopt. The next dispute related to the non- instructed the secretary to reply to it.<br />
delivery of accounts and money from a publisher Two further life members were reported, bringing<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
the total number of those who had taken up life many of whom bare suffered from their inability<br />
membership since the commencement of the year to obtain any redress against touring managers<br />
to five.<br />
who constantly change their abode and have no<br />
A letter from the Public Trustee—the text of attachable property. Sir Arthur Pinero, Mr. H.<br />
which appears in another column-was laid on the Granville Barker, and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw were<br />
table.<br />
asked to act on behalf of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
A letter from a member of the society desiring Committee, and the secretary was instructed to<br />
the committee to re-issue the “Cost of Production" arrange for Thursday, February 2, if possible.<br />
was also read. The committee regretted that, The question of a deputation to the Home<br />
owing to the great pressure of work at the society's Secretary on the subject of granting to theatres<br />
office, they did not see their way to a re-issue at and music-halls either a double licence or a single<br />
present, but stated that those members who desired comprehensive licence was adjourned to the next<br />
information on questions relating to the cost of meeting of the sub-committee, when the delegates<br />
production of books, etc., could obtain it on applica- attending the meeting of theatrical managers would<br />
tion to the secretary.<br />
be able to report to the sub-committee the attitude<br />
taken up by the theatrical managers on that<br />
occasion.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The secretary reported he had been unable to<br />
I.<br />
obtain counsel's opinion on the two points regard-<br />
ing the music-hall sketches, but that the opinion<br />
THE third meeting of the Dramatic Sub- would be ready at the next meeting.<br />
Committtee during the month of January was<br />
held at the offices of the society on Thursday, the<br />
II.<br />
26th. After the minutes of the previous meeting<br />
had been signed, the secretary laid before the com A MEETING of the Dramatic Sub-Committee was<br />
mittee a letter he had received from the secretary held at the offices of the society on Friday, Feb-<br />
of the Theatrical Managers' Association desiring ruary 17. After the reading of the minutes, the<br />
to know whether the Dramatic Sub-Committee secretary laid before the meeting counsel's opinion<br />
would send a deputation to a meeting to be held at which had been taken in respect of certain phases<br />
the Whitehall Rooms of the Hotel Metropole on of music-ball sketch production. This opinion<br />
the following day to discuss the position under was read, and will be filed for the benefit of drama-<br />
the present law in regard to the production of tists who are making contracts for the production<br />
sketches at the music-halls. After some discussion of sketches. The secretary then reported the<br />
it was decided to accept the invitation, and Sir receipt of an answer from the Lord Chamberlain to<br />
Arthur Pinero, Mr. R. C. Carton, and Mr. the petition despatched to him from the snb-com-<br />
Granville Barker were appointed delegates to repre- mittee. After careful consideration of this answer,<br />
sent the sub-committee. A further point was then the sub-committee, on the proposal of Mr. Cecil<br />
considered—the line of action they should take on Raleigh, seconded by Captain Basil Hood, instructed<br />
behalf of the dramatic authors in the society, and the secretary to write to the Lord Chamberlain,<br />
a satisfactory course was decided upon.<br />
asking for information on certain matters referred<br />
The petition to the Lord Chamberlain touching to in his letter, if without any betrayal of confidence<br />
on the question of granting a theatrical licence to he felt himself able to accede to the sub-com-<br />
music-halls, which had been settled at the former mittee's request.<br />
meeting, was laid on the table for signature. After In the last statement of the sub-committee's work<br />
all the members present had signed, the secretary it was mentioned that certain delegates had been<br />
was instructed to obtain signatures of the few appointed to attend a meeting of the Theatrical<br />
absentees at the earliest possible opportunity and and Music-hall Managers on the subject of an<br />
transmit the petition to the Lord Chamberlain's agreement that had been arrived at relating to<br />
office,<br />
the production of sketches. The secretary read a<br />
The next question before the sub-committee letter from Sir Arthur Pinero, who was unable to<br />
related to the Copyright Bill in the hands of the attend the meeting of the sub-committee, and the<br />
Board of Trade, and it was decided to send a small chairman, Mr. R. C. Carton, who was also one of<br />
deputation in order to discuss the question of the the delegates, gave a detailed statement of what<br />
responsibility of managers and lessees of theatres took place. Among other points raised, it appeared<br />
for the infringement of the rights of dramatists by that the music-hall managers were opposed to the<br />
touring companies in the provinces and in the double licence. In view of the unsatisfactory<br />
dependencies of the United Kingdom. The result of the meeting with the managers, the sub-<br />
matter is of considerable importance to dramatists, committee decided to act independently in future.<br />
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The next matter for consideration was the to be placed in the hands of the society's solicitors.<br />
question of a deputation to the Home Secretary, to In one case the paper has gone into voluntary<br />
lay before him the grievances of dramatic authors, liquidation, and in all bankruptcy cases the<br />
with special reference to the licensing dispute. Solicitors carry the details through on behalf of<br />
The secretary was instructed to approach the Home the members. In the other two cases, the editors,<br />
Secretary with a request that he receive this although they promised to pay by a certain date,<br />
deputation, which will consist, subject to their have sent no cheque. In two of the remaining<br />
consent, of the following members :-Mr. J. M. cases the editors have promised to send cheques<br />
Barrie, Mr. R. C. Carton, Miss Cicely Hamilton, within a few days. If the money is not forth-<br />
Captain Basil Hood, Mr. Jerome K. Jerome, Mr. coming these also will be placed in the hands of<br />
Henry Arthur Jones, Mr. Cecil Raleigh, and Mr. our solicitors. The last case has only come into<br />
G. Bernard Shaw<br />
the secretary's hands recently. Of the four appli-<br />
It was regretted that, owing to his absence cations for manuscripts, two have been successful;<br />
abroad, Sir Arthur Pinero would be unable to one in Germany is still in course of negotiation. In<br />
attend the deputation, as the sub-committee the last, although the company who received the<br />
considered his presence would have been of great MS. has been corresponding with the secretary, it<br />
value.<br />
has been unable to find it. It is possible that the<br />
Arising out of the discussion, a proposal was society will be unable to take the matter further owing<br />
put forward, and unanimously adopted, that a con- to lack of evidence ; but the matter has been placed<br />
ference of the dramatists inside the society should before the solicitors in order to obtain their opinion.<br />
be called at the earliest possible moment, and a The agency matter is practically settled, and the<br />
sub-committee, consisting of Mr. R. C. Carton, money has been paid. Of the disputes on agree-<br />
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, and the secretary, was ments, two have been settled and two are still in<br />
appointed to consider the agenda to be laid before negotiation, and in the matter of accounts, the<br />
the meeting.<br />
accounts have been rendered and handed on to the<br />
Mr. G. Bernard Shaw, as one of the delegates author.<br />
on the deputation to the Board of Trade in regard Of the cases still open from the former month,<br />
to the Copyright Bill, reported what had taken one in America is unsettled owing to the time it<br />
place. The matter must be treated in confidence, takes for correspondence to go backwards and<br />
but it may be stated that the views of the deputa- forwards. One, with reference to accounts, will,<br />
tion were placed before the authorities and were it is hoped, be settled satisfactorily, as the pub-<br />
very favourably received.<br />
lishers have written to America for the details<br />
The question of piracy in the United States was required. Here, again, the fact of the matter rest.<br />
also considered, and the secretary reported a long ing with an American publisher makes rapid<br />
interview he had had with a gentleman from the settlement difficult. There is one case referring<br />
United States, who promised, on his return to that to the loss of a MS, still open, and here again, it<br />
country, to send to the sub-committee a full is possible, owing to lack of evidence, the society<br />
statement of the method he adopted in suppressing may be unable to take the matter further. Two<br />
piracy of dramatic works in that country. On of the remaining cases that were left open have<br />
receipt of the promised information the sub-com- been placed in the hands of the solicitors ; they<br />
mittee will consider whether it is possible to come deal with the collection of money.<br />
to an arrangement on behalf of English dramatists.<br />
Cases,<br />
February Elections.<br />
SINCE the last record was printed in the Boulding, J. Winsett . “Ilium,” Park Road,<br />
February number there have been nineteen fresh<br />
Chiswick.<br />
Cases placed in the hands of the secretary. This Canziani, Miss Estella . 3, Palace Green, W.<br />
is a large number for a short month, but as in the Carmichael, Montgomery Leghorn, Italy.<br />
month before the number was small, the increase Davies, Ernest<br />
will only keep up the average.<br />
Dawbarn, Charles . . 3, Place du Palais<br />
The cases inay be divided as follows :—Nine<br />
Bourbon, Paris.<br />
applications for money, four applications for Duval, Mrs. R. R. . . 27, Quai d'Orsay, Paris.<br />
manuscripts, one dispute with an agent, four Green, Mrs. C. D. B. . Penticton, British<br />
disputes on agreements, one application for<br />
Columbia.<br />
accounts. Of the cases for money, three have Green, Mrs. Alice Chayter 43, Queen Anne Street,<br />
terminated satisfactorily—the money has been<br />
Cavendish Square,<br />
paid and forwarded to the authors. Three have had<br />
W.<br />
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Haultain, Arnold . . 49, Springhurst Avenue,<br />
Toronto, Canada.<br />
Hullah, Miss Annette , 8, Aubrey Road, Camp-<br />
den Hill, W.<br />
Lawson, Mrs. Frank . 8, Cromwell Place, S.W.<br />
MacDonald, Greville, M.D. 85, Harley Street, W.<br />
MacEwan, Miss Madge<br />
(Clunie Maxton). . 50, Avonmore Road, W.<br />
Moggridge, Mrs. Dorothea 19, York Mansions,<br />
Battersea Park, S.W.<br />
Northcott, Miss Gladys M. Alderley, Church Road,<br />
- (Jean Talbot)<br />
W. Kirby, W. Birken-<br />
head.<br />
Paten, Miss Mabel Lillian via Red Hill, Brisbane,<br />
Walton<br />
Queensland.<br />
Pope, John R. • Runcorn.<br />
Salaman, Mrs. Redcliffe N. Homestall, Barley, near<br />
Royston, Herts.<br />
Smith, Adolphe, F.C.S.<br />
Tayler, E. Douglas, . “Inglescote,” Clifton<br />
Roud, Wallington,<br />
Surrey.<br />
Thomson, E. W. . . 361, Concession Street,<br />
hression Street.<br />
Ottawa, Ontario,<br />
Canada.<br />
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NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
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POETRY.<br />
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list of all the officers of the 10th Foot, with the<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
dates of their commissions and active service from<br />
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the days of Marlborough.<br />
the days of Marlborough.<br />
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TRAVEL.<br />
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THE High ROADS OF THE ALPS : a Motoring Guide to book.<br />
100 Mountain Passes ; with 106 Itineraries, 102 Photo. Mr. Elliot Stock has published a work by Mr.<br />
graphic Illustrations, and 11 Maps and Diagrams. By<br />
Harold Ford on “The Art of Extempore Speaking."<br />
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retaining ideas, preparing a discourse, memorizing,<br />
&c.<br />
Mr. Jaakoff Prelooker, whose new book “Russian<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
Flashlight” has just been published by Messrs.<br />
NOTES.<br />
Chapman & Hall, will lecture on the 14th inst.<br />
before the Geographical Society, Newcastle-on-<br />
Tyne, on “ The Native Folk-lore and Folk-songs of<br />
W E have received from the publishers, Russia.” The lecture will deal with such subjects<br />
Messrs. Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., “ The as geographical influence on imagination and senti-<br />
Public Schools' Year Book” for 1911. ment, the poetic genius in northern and southern<br />
The work, which is now in its twenty-second year Russia, religious crusades against musical instru-<br />
of issue, was adopted last year as the official book ments, influence of folk-lore on modern Russian<br />
of reference of the Headmasters' Conference. The literature and opera. The lecture will be illus-<br />
aim of the editors, Mr. H. F. W. Deane and Mr. trated by special gramophone records. On the<br />
W. A. Evans, has been to provide a record, at once 16th Mr. Prelooker will lecture before the Geo-<br />
comprehensive and concise, of all matters of educa- graphical Society, Liverpool, on “Old and New<br />
tional interest to parents, schoolmasters, and boys. Russia," with limelight illustrations.<br />
The first part of the book is devoted to a summary Mr. Maurice Hewlett is writing a preface to a<br />
of the work of the committee of the conference small volume of verse, entitled “Confessional, and<br />
and an abstract of the resolutions adopted at the other Poems,” by Wilfrid C. Thorley, which is<br />
last annual meeting, and to full information relative being brought out by Mr. Elkin Mathews.<br />
to public schools. There are also lists of prepara- “Trevor Lordship” is the title of a novel by<br />
tory schools and further matters of interest relating Mrs. Hubert Barclay which Messrs. Macmillan & Co.<br />
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are publishing this month in New York and in<br />
England.<br />
We are asked to state that the scene of Victoria<br />
Cross's new novel, “ Self and the Other," is not<br />
laid, as some critics have erroneously stated, at<br />
Oxford or at Cambridge, but, as is stated in the<br />
book, at one of the numerous London colleges<br />
where students prepare for the Indian Civil<br />
Service.<br />
Mrs. C. W. Barclay, author of “The Rosary,”<br />
has delivered to her publishers, Messrs. E. P.<br />
Patnams' Sons, a new story for publication in the<br />
autumn. It will be illustrated in colour by Mr.<br />
F. H. Townsend.<br />
Messrs. Putnams are also issuing the American<br />
edition of Amy McLaren's last novel, “ Bawbee<br />
Jock," almost immediately.<br />
“The Lord Dollar" is the name of a new novel<br />
by Harper Curtis, to be published soon by Messrs.<br />
William Blackwood & Sons. The scene is laid in<br />
a Spanish-American republic.<br />
The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society con-<br />
tains an article by Annette S. Beveridge, the title<br />
of which is “ The Bātar-Dāma, a passage judged<br />
spurious in the Haydarābād MS.”<br />
In our notice of Patrick Rushden's novel, “ The<br />
Sea Lion,” which appeared in the last issue of The<br />
Author, we regret we omitted to mention that<br />
Messrs. Mills & Boon are the publishers, and that<br />
it is to appear in March.<br />
Derek Vane's new serial story, “ The God of<br />
Pleasure," commenced in the first number of the<br />
Picture Paper, a new illustrated daily brought out<br />
by Sir W. C. Leng & Co. It is a close study of a<br />
man of no principles, but charming marners, who<br />
manages to get everything he wants, and his rival,<br />
a much more worthy but weaker character, who,<br />
driven to despair, drugs himself with morphia.<br />
We regret to hear that “Travel and Explora.<br />
tion,” to which we have referred in these notes on<br />
various occasions, has now come to an end. It is<br />
possible that the publication may appear under a<br />
fresh title in 1912, but we are not authorised to<br />
speak with certitude as to this.<br />
Mr. William Patrick Kelly's fourth volume of<br />
his series of historical romances, namely, “The<br />
Stranger from Ionia," a tale of ancient Athens,<br />
has just been brought out by Messrs. Routledge,<br />
uniform with the other three volumes of the series<br />
—“The Stonecutter of Memphis,” “ The Assyrian<br />
Bride," and " The Senator Licinius.” The series,<br />
as originally designed to illustrate, in entertaining<br />
fashion, the manners and customs, &c., of the most<br />
interesting peoples of antiquity, is now complete.<br />
The same author's tale, “ The House at Norwood,”<br />
has just completed serial publication in the Daily<br />
Telegraph, and will shortly appear in book form.<br />
We have received from Chicago copies of a new<br />
monthly magazine, called Life and Labour, being<br />
the organ of “ The National Women's Trade Union<br />
League of America.” Miss Alice Henry is the<br />
editor of the journal, and the copies before us con-<br />
tain a mass of information on the economic position<br />
of women in the United States and the various<br />
unions existent there for the guarding of their<br />
interests.<br />
The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain have<br />
just published No. 5 of the “Aeronautical<br />
Classics," edited by T. 0. B. Hubbard and J. H.<br />
Ledeboer. It is entitled “Gliding,' by Percy<br />
S. Pilcher, to which is added the Aeronautical<br />
Work of John Stringfellow.” The volume, pub-<br />
lished at one shilling, is profusely illustrated<br />
with photographs, diagrams, and portraits, and<br />
contains much matter never before published.<br />
There is a full memoir, with details of all his<br />
gliders, of Pilcher, the young English pioneer,<br />
whose lecture before the Military Society of<br />
Ireland is here reprinted for the first time. The<br />
section devoted to Stringfellow contains, inter alia,<br />
a complete account of the famous Henson-String-<br />
fellow monoplane, with the text of several unpub-<br />
lished letters from Henson and the original agree-<br />
ment and prospectus.<br />
In Messrs. Constable's series of " Old Roads," of<br />
which Mr. Belloc's “ The Pilgrim's Way” was the<br />
first, there will very shortly appear another volume<br />
on “ The Ickneald Way,” by Mr. Edward Thomas.<br />
Miss Wilson Wilson has arranged with Messrs.<br />
Hutchinson for the publication this spring of her<br />
new novel, “Moll o' the Toll-Bar.” She is also<br />
publishing with Messrs. Blackie & Son a Christmas<br />
children's book, entitled “ The Taming of Judith."<br />
Messrs. John Long, Ltd., will publish this month<br />
the third of Mr. Harry Tighe's novels through<br />
their firm. The book is entitled “Intellectual<br />
Marie.” The scenes are laid in London and on the<br />
shores of Lake Leman, Switzerland.<br />
“A Reaper of the Whirlwind,” to be shortly<br />
published by Mr. John Long, is a new novel by<br />
Mrs. Violet Tweedale, which deals with hereditary<br />
insanity.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
“Mr. Jarvis," a play in four acts by Leon M.<br />
Lion and Malcolm Cherry, an adaptation from<br />
Miss Beth Ellis' novel “ Madame, Will You Walk ?"<br />
was produced at Wyndham's Theatre on Feb-<br />
ruary 16. The period is the beginning of the<br />
eighteenth century, and the play describes how an<br />
illegitimate son of Charles II. is presented to and<br />
taken up by a family with strong Stuart sympathies.<br />
Included in the caste are Mr. H. V. Esmond, Miss<br />
Mary Rorke, Mr. Marsh Allen, and Miss Florence<br />
Harwood.<br />
Lord Dunsany's play “King Argimenes and the<br />
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Unknown Warrior” was first acted at the Abbey and A. Ribot, Comte d'Haussonville and Mgr.<br />
Theatre in Dublin on January 26.<br />
Duchesne, Anatole France, Etienne Lamy, Emile<br />
During the past month Mr. Granville Barker has Faguet and Frédéric Masson, Jean Aicard, Henry<br />
been appearing at the Palace Theatre in a sequence Houssaye and Francis Charmes, Jean Richepin,<br />
of dialogues by Arthur Schnitzler which Mr. Barker Pierre Loti, Denys Cochin, Paul Bourget, Jules<br />
has done into English. “Ask No Questions and Lemaître, Marquis de Ségur, René Bazin,<br />
You'll Hear No Stories” was the first of these Gabriel Hanotaux and Henry Roujon, Henri<br />
dialogues, and it was followed by “A Farewell Poincaré, Paul Deschanel and Paul Hervien,<br />
Supper” and “A Wedding Morning." Mr. Gran- E. Brieux, Henri Lavedan and Maurice Donnay,<br />
ville Barker in these sketches has been supported René Doumic and Raymond Poincaré, Maurice<br />
by Miss Lillah McCarthy, Mr. Nigel Playfair, and Barrès and Marcel Prévost, Henri de Régnier,<br />
Miss Gertrude Robins.<br />
Edmond Rostand.<br />
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's play “The Speckled The “ Journal d'Italie," by Stendhal, bas just<br />
Band” was revived at the Strand Theatre last been published by Paul Arbelet. It is a diary<br />
month. Mr. Lyn Harding, Mr. 0. P. Heggie, and which the author certainly never intended to give<br />
Miss Christine Silver were in the caste.<br />
to the public. The unfortunate part is that in<br />
Another revival last month was Mr. Somerset these impressions he is frequently extremely<br />
Maugham's play • Grace" at the Duke of York’s reserved, and, as he himself says, “ As soon as<br />
Theatre for a limited number of performances. my journey gets interesting my diary is not<br />
Mr. Dennis Eadie, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Miss interesting.” He went to Italy to see the<br />
Irene Vanbrugb, and Lady Tree were in the caste. Italians there, so that, unlike Chateaubriand,<br />
A dramatic version of Mr. W. W. Jacobs' short Byron, Hugo, and many other writers, instead of<br />
story “The Grey Parrot” was produced at the describing so many of the beauties of the country,<br />
Tivoli Music Hall last month.<br />
Stendhal was living his life there.<br />
“Promotion," a one-act play by Leon M. Lion In an unpublished fragment he explains the<br />
and Austin Philips, adapted from a story by the object of this journey. He went to Italy to<br />
latter, was produced for the first time at the Grand complete his knowledge of the human heart, which<br />
Theatre, Swansea, on January 30. It relates the was the study of his whole life.<br />
story of the promotion which came to a postmaster The great interest of the volume is, as M.<br />
after long neglect by the authorities, and the with. Arbelet says, in seeing how the future writer of<br />
drawal of a certain appointment which had been “Rome," "Naples et Florence," “Promenades<br />
offered him. The caste included Mr. Roy Byford, dans Rome," and “ La Chartreuse de Parme"<br />
Mr. Cyril Percy, and Miss Eileen Terrence.<br />
began to study, enjoy, and understand Italy.<br />
Mr. A. E. W. Mason's play in four acts, “Wit- “ La Petite Papacoda," by M. Paul Rebous, is<br />
ness for the Defence,” was produced at the St. a story the scene of which is laid in Naples. The<br />
James's Theatre on February 1. The play deals characters are all very living, particularly Gennaro<br />
with the shooting of an Indian official by his Visotti, the owner of the old curiosity shop, who<br />
wife, whom he had treated badly, and the events is so devoted to the old works of art he discovers<br />
subsequent to the tragedy on her return to her that he cannot bear to part with them, and<br />
native place in Sussex. Included in the caste are therefore invariably has copies made of these for<br />
Mr. George Alexander, Mr. Sydney Valentine, and foreign customers. Lorenzo is the artist who<br />
Miss Ethel Irving.<br />
works for him. Papacoda and her family are all<br />
interesting. It is a thoroughly Neapolitan novel<br />
and very human.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
“ Les Pâques véronaises,” by Paul Gaulot, the<br />
author of the famous book " Chemises Rouges,"<br />
has written a very dramatic historical novel of the<br />
V ITHIN the last few years there have been tragic times between 1792 and 1800.<br />
w many changes in the French Academy. "Les Exilés,” by Paul Acker, is a novel which<br />
At present all the forty fauteuils are appeared first as a serial in the Figaro. The<br />
occupied. The following is a list of the Academi exiles are the Alsatians. Maurice Barrès has<br />
ians, according to their respective ages :— treated the same subject from another point of<br />
M. Emile Ollivier is the eldest, as he is eighty-six view. This novel is the story of a child brought<br />
years of age, and M. Edmond Rostand, who is to France to be educated, who, on returning<br />
forty-three, the youngest ; Emile Ollivier, A. in after years to his native country, is stirred<br />
Mézières, Charles de Freycinet, Marquis de by patriotism and, in spite of his education in<br />
Vogüé, Thureau-Dangin, General Langlois, France, feels all the hardships of the conquered<br />
Jules Claretie, Comte de Mun, Ernest Larisse country under a foreign yoke.<br />
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Among translations is an excellent volume of for helping the Théâtre Shakespeare to make its<br />
short stories by Selma Lagerlof, entitled “Le way both in France and abroad.<br />
Vieux Manoin," and admirably translated into La Revue hebdomadaire publishes Maurice<br />
French by Marc Helys, the well-known author of Donnay's first lecture on “ Molière, L'Enfance et<br />
“Le Jardin fermé.” The Swedish authoress is l’Education." These lectures are continued in the<br />
fortunate in having her stories so well presented following numbers. Paul Bourget writes an<br />
to the public in France.<br />
article on “ Théophile Gautier,” and Charles Le<br />
The society “ Amis de l'Art dramatique” has Goffie an article entitled “Nos poètes.” M.<br />
arranged to have a series of lectures by M. Jacques Perrinquière writes on “L’Inventeur de la<br />
Duval, dramatic critic of the Revue française, on Télégraphies sans fil," so that Dr. Branly is at last<br />
the new plays. The first one was on “Le Vieil having justice done him on all sides. The Marquis<br />
Homme," and the lecturer was introduced by de Ségur publishes an article on “ Louis Veuillot,"<br />
M. Henry Bordeaux.<br />
and Max Turrmann on “ Les Transformations de la<br />
. "Les Affranchies,” by Mlle. Lenéru, is essentially publicité."<br />
à modern play, and the curtain falls on a note<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
of interrogation Philippe Alquier, a philo-<br />
sopher and positivist, is living a tranquil life with<br />
- Journal d' Italie" (Calmann Levy).<br />
his wife and daughter, when, thanks to the<br />
“ La Petite Papacoda” (Fasquelle).<br />
religious separation, his sister-in-law, the Abbess “Les Pâques véronaises ” (ollendorff).<br />
of Fontenault, comes to take refuge for a time at<br />
« Les Exilés" (Plon).<br />
his house. She brings with her a young novice<br />
Hélène. Before very long the philosopher and<br />
the novice are passionately in love with each other.<br />
Philippe is prepared to apply for a divorce, and AGENTS, LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
Hélène, believing herself quite emancipated, is<br />
almost ready to go away with him, when her con- TT is a certain fact that the literary and<br />
science proves to her that she is not as free as she 1 dramatic agent has come to stay. There are<br />
believed herself to be. The grief of the wife and several reasons for the appearance and inter-<br />
the stern judgment of the Abbess have the result ference of this middleman.<br />
of leading Hélène back to the yoke she was First, there are many authors, who desire to<br />
renouncing. The play has had great success at publish one or two books only, who are entirely<br />
the Odéon and still draws a full house.<br />
ignorant of literary values and literary markets.<br />
"Le Mariage de Mlle. Beulemann" by M.M. Secondly, there are many authors who have no<br />
Fonson and Wickeler, has had such success capacity for business, or for making bargains, while<br />
that it is travelling from theatre to theatre there are others who do not want to waste their<br />
in Paris. It was first given at the Renais- time on mere business transactions.<br />
sance, then at the Théâtre Réjane, and it is If we accept the fact, then, that to many the<br />
now at the Bouffes. It is a most amusing play. literary and dramatic agent is essential, it will be<br />
Suzanne Beulemann, a Belgian girl, is engaged to necessary to consider what duties he should<br />
Séraphin Meulemester, for whom she does not care, undertake.<br />
and is in love, without being aware of the fact, It seems to be uttering a mere platitude to state<br />
with a young Frenchman, Albert Delpierre, who that as he is an agent he must act as an agent, but<br />
is her father's clerk. It is an admirable and the statement is very pecessary, and all authors and<br />
delicate satire on Belgian manners and customs, dramatists must be very careful indeed on this<br />
and the beau rôle is certainly that of the young point. There are some so-called agents who mix<br />
Frenchman. It seems likely to have as great up two kinds of business, that of principals<br />
success at the Bouffes as elsewhere.<br />
with that of agents. Under the first heading they<br />
Among the new plays are: “Apres moi,” by are dealers and tradesmen in literary and dramatic<br />
M. Henry Bernstein, at the Comédie française ; wares ; under the second they are supposed to<br />
"Les Midinettes,” by M. Louis Artus, at the serve purely as middlemen. Even with the best<br />
Variétés ; “Le Vieil Homme,” by M. de Porto intentions on the part of the agent the position is<br />
Riche, at the Renaissance. The “Théâtre Sbake- unsatisfactory, and may be disastrous to the<br />
speare,” founded by M. Camille de Sainte-Croix, author.<br />
is giving “Peines d'amour perdues” (Love's There are some agents again who, while acting<br />
Labour Lost) on March 1 and 2. This enter- as agents, make such stringent agreements with<br />
prise is meeting with cordial support, and the authors who act without advice, that their power<br />
committee, which meets at the house of the is that of principals.<br />
Duchesse de Rohan, has various excellent schemes In such a contract the agent expressly states that<br />
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he need not obtain the author's approval, and law, but they are the result of indefinite contracts<br />
proceeds to obtain from the author the full power between the author and agent, and must be<br />
to sign and execute any agreement on his behalf. avoided. An agent's rights must be strictly<br />
There are someagents, again, who act for publishers limited; he must not be able to claim on a mere<br />
as well as authors. This produces another kind of introduction ; he must not be able to claim<br />
danger, as the following example will show. indefinite sums on indefinite contracts, either on<br />
Some authors are foolish enough to put their contracts that he could not carry through himself<br />
serial rights, translation rights, and minor rights or such as he should never have advised an author<br />
into the hands of publishers. Many a time has the to sign.<br />
danger of such action been emphasised in these “Humanum est errare.” The agent that makes<br />
columns. The publisher, who ought only to be the the fewest mistakes is naturally the best agent;<br />
agent for the author for book production, thinks but that they all make mistakes from time to time<br />
how he can handle the new control he has obtained is certain.<br />
and proceeds to put the matter into an agent's hand. It is clear, first, that an anthor must not be<br />
Thus one agent may be trying to sell an author's content with an indefinite verbal contract with an<br />
work at a price below what the author may be agent to the effect that he will take 10 per cent.,<br />
obtaining himself or through his usual agent, and or some other percentage.<br />
the consequences may be disastrous to the author. Secondly, it is almost as unsatisfactory to have a<br />
This is one of many arguments against giving contract in a letter or series of letters. It is<br />
publishers anything but book-rights. These con possible that a binding legal arrangement may<br />
clusions may be justly arrived at :-<br />
exist in a series of letters ; but the terms are<br />
1. Never deal with agents who act as principals. generally uncertain and difficult of interpretation,<br />
2. Never deal with agents who want to take too and the contract is likely to include, in addition to<br />
much control.<br />
its faults of commission, many faults of omission.<br />
3. Never deal with agents who also act for There are agents, as there are publishers, who<br />
publishers.<br />
assert that their letter is as binding upon them as<br />
Next comes the question of agency contracts. their word; but really this is not the question.<br />
Some agents say they do not make formal written The author, then, should avoid an agency contract<br />
contracts with their clients. They simply state that embraced in a series of letters.<br />
they charge the usual 10 per cent. ; but 10 per Finally, the author should have a formal agree-<br />
cent. on what ? On an introduction on the placing ment carefully drawn and supervised. An author<br />
of a book with a publisher, or a dramatic work with a should not accept a printed or typewritten doca-<br />
manager ? Or on each contract ? Again 10 per cent. ment thrust before him by the agent. Most of<br />
for how long, or up to what sum ? Agents who such contracts are unsatisfactory.<br />
don't make formal contracts may prove dangerous<br />
agents to deal with.<br />
An agent may give an author an introduction<br />
to a publisher or a theatrical manager, and a<br />
BRITISH COMPOSERS AND ROYALTY<br />
contract may be arranged for the publication of<br />
AGREEMENTS.<br />
a book or the performance of a piece. The agency<br />
may then be terminated, or at any rate the author<br />
may consider it terminated. He will naturally be S most of the musical papers are run in the<br />
astonished when the agent claims his fees on other<br />
interests of publishers, it is pleasing to see<br />
books placed with the same firm or other pieces<br />
the Musical Times take up the question of<br />
with the same manager. The agent again may royalty agreements and discuss the equities. It<br />
give an introduction, and contrary to all proper draws attention to a fact already well known to<br />
advice persuade the author to sign an agreement all readers of The Author, that the contract to pay<br />
giving an option on future books or plays.<br />
a royalty does not run with the copyright in<br />
The author subsequently makes a fresh contract the same way as a covenant to pay rent, or other<br />
himself, and the agent claims on the ground that covenant affecting land, runs with the land. The<br />
the second contract is the outcome of the first. result of this is that, while the original publisher<br />
Again an author may sell certain rights in a book on the assignment of his contract is often difficult<br />
or play through an agent. The agency is then or impossible to trace, his assignee, whether a<br />
terminated, or so the author thinks. Subsequently purchaser or a trustee in bankruptcy, becomes<br />
he sells other rights in the same book or play to entitled to the copyright without any concurrent<br />
the same person, and again he has to pay the obligation to pay the royalty<br />
agent's fees.<br />
The writer of the article to which we refer bas<br />
All these examples may or may not be good in pointed out that this question is a matter of contract<br />
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1 41<br />
? And if he will not<br />
the<br />
rather than a matter of copyright legislation. It the action, they may give written notice to that effect, and<br />
rests, therefore, with the British composer to insist<br />
on an undertaking on their part to pay an equal share in<br />
the entire costs of the litigation the composer shall join<br />
upon a more equitable contract, i.e., a contract not<br />
them as parties. In such case the composer shall diligently<br />
to transfer the copyright, not to transfer his per prosecute the action, but shall retain control of the pro-<br />
forming right, and to keep a proper control over ceedings, and may make any reasonable settlement with the<br />
his property, whilst giving the publisher a fair<br />
defendants in the interests of composer and publisher, and<br />
the damages, if any, recovered shall be firstly applied in<br />
return for putting his work on the market.<br />
payment of costs, and if there is any surplus, shall be<br />
Towards the end of the article the writer puts divided equally between the composer and publisher. If<br />
forward certain questions on the basis that a com the composer, after the infringement has come to his<br />
poser has not transferred his copyright, but has<br />
notice, refuses or neglects to take proceedings in respect<br />
thereof, the publishers shall be entitled to take proceedings,<br />
only given a licence to publish to the publisher.<br />
and on giving the composer a sufficient and reasonable in-<br />
The questions are as follows:<br />
demnity against liability for costs, shall be entitled to use the<br />
composer's name as a party to such proceedings. In such case<br />
1. If the composer retains his copyright, who will be<br />
the publishers shall retain control of the proceedings and may<br />
entitled to sue for infringements of the right ? Can a make any reasonable settlement in the interest of composer<br />
licensee sue or take criminal proceedings while the com. and publisher, and the damages, if any, recovered shall be<br />
poser retains the copyright ?<br />
firstly applied in payment of costs, and if there is any<br />
2. If not, will the composer undertake to sue when<br />
surplus, shall be divided in the proportion of one-third to<br />
called upon by the licensee to do so? And if her<br />
· the composer and two-thirds to the publishers.”<br />
give that undertaking, how is the licensee to protect him.<br />
self against infringements ?<br />
And this clause practically answers questions 2<br />
3. If the composer does not give the undertaking, and and 4.<br />
afterwards assigns his royalties, will the liability on that In answer to question 3. The personality of an<br />
undertaking bind the assignee of the royalties? If not,<br />
how is the licensee to protect himself against infringe<br />
agreement of this kind is personal to the publisher,<br />
ments and pirates ?<br />
but it is not personal to the composer in the same<br />
4. Who is to bear the costs of any legal proceedings for sense, for if the agreement deals with work which<br />
the protection of a copyright, having regard to the fact has already been done by the composer it would<br />
that at any moment, for various reasons, a licence may<br />
come to an end ?<br />
then become equally binding upon his personal<br />
5. Would the conversion of the business of a firm of representatives.<br />
publishers into a limited company, or the amalgamation of In answer to question 5. Everything must<br />
two or more firms into one partnership or company, with a depend upon the wording of the contract existing<br />
view to improving the financial position of all of them, be<br />
such an assignment as would involve the cancellation of all<br />
between the publisher and composer, but it<br />
the licences held by all of them ?<br />
seems quite clear that no composer would be fool<br />
6. If the object of the composers is merely to protect enough to take his work away if a change in the<br />
their royalties as against fraudulent or impecunious partnership was likely to be of benefit to the<br />
assignees, what will they do with the capital value of the<br />
publication, which will revert to them as an “ unearned<br />
parties concerned. To advise those publishers who<br />
increment " whenever a licence for any reason comes to<br />
read the Musical Times how to protect themselves<br />
an end.<br />
legally on a point of this kind would be a work<br />
7. Is it suggested that on the death or retirement of a of supererogation. Surely they are fully aware,<br />
publisher who has no partners, and who publishes exclu-<br />
from their constant business practice, how<br />
sively under royalty agreements, his entire catalogue is to<br />
to<br />
revert to the various composers whose works he published,<br />
protect themselves.<br />
and that his entire business is to be practically wiped out ?' Question 6 is not a practical question. We do<br />
It is quite clear from these questions that the<br />
not agree with the statement that the increment<br />
article must have been written without knowledge<br />
is unearned. The composer has a right to all the<br />
of the work the society carried through the<br />
profits that spring from the publication of his<br />
beginning of last year in settling an agreement for<br />
work with the exception of those which, for<br />
the benefit of those composers who are members. It<br />
business reasons, he may choose to pay away to<br />
is worth while, therefore, to bring forward the matter<br />
another. In no sense is there an unearned incre-<br />
ment as far as the composer is concerned, and it<br />
again, first by referring members to an article in<br />
the May (1910) number of The Author, and<br />
is impossible to say how the composer will care to<br />
secondly by answering the most vital of the<br />
deal with the capital value of his work.<br />
The answer to question 7 lies in the fact<br />
questions which the writer has put forward.<br />
that a business in which there is only one member<br />
Question 1 is answered by clause 12 of the draft<br />
agreement which was printed last year, and which<br />
is a rare occurrence nowadays, and it seems<br />
runs as follows:-<br />
hardly worth while, in dealing with general issues,<br />
to answer a question referring to a particular limi-<br />
"If either party bas reasonable cause for believing that tation. The composer makes no suggestion.<br />
the copyright in the said composition has been infringed,<br />
he or they shall give immediate notice to the other party.<br />
For many years the composer has suffered from<br />
If the composer takes proceedings in respect of the<br />
he his ignorance of market values and copyright limi-<br />
infringement and if the publishers desire to be joined in tations, while the publisher has taken advantage<br />
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of his extensive knowledge of business. For many<br />
years the composers have complained bitterly in the<br />
same way as authors complained bitterly in the past<br />
that their rights were taken away from them by<br />
men of keen business instinct, and that there was<br />
no society and no power to fight against this<br />
position. It is for the composers, therefore, to<br />
band together, and by the strength of combination<br />
to obtain better control and better value for the<br />
property which they are constantly creating.<br />
In a composition of music, unlike a work of<br />
literature, there are two rights—the right of<br />
reproducing copies, and the right of performance.<br />
In England, with the exception of tbe music for<br />
comic operas and for some few dramatic pieces,<br />
the performing rights bring no monetary returns<br />
whaterer to the composers. It behoves all com<br />
posers, therefore, to keep careful control not only<br />
of the rights of reproduction, but also of the rights<br />
of performance, and to obtain a just financial<br />
return for both rights..<br />
Mr. Justice Warrington held that the plaintiff's<br />
copyright had been infringed. The engraver of<br />
the blocks was told not to allow his design to<br />
appear to be a copy, and to change the position of<br />
the animals ; but substantial parts of the picture<br />
had been taken by the defendants. As to the<br />
registration, the first entry was not effective<br />
because the plaintiff was the owner of the copy.<br />
right, the drawings having been executed on<br />
his behalf, and Mr. Varley had no proprietary<br />
interest, but was registered under a mistake.<br />
The later registration, however, was sufficient.<br />
Under the provisions of the Fine Arts Copyright<br />
Act, 1862, the plaintiff could not recover damages<br />
for infringements committed before the proper<br />
registration. His Lordship granted an injunction<br />
with costs, and ordered delivery up of the prints<br />
complained of.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
ARTISTIC COPYRIGHT.<br />
WHITEHEAD v. WELLINGTON & Co.<br />
THIS was an action for infringement of copy-<br />
right in certain drawings entitled “ Cattle<br />
in Landscape and Head of a Highland Steer,"<br />
“ Cattle Group in Landscape and Head of Steer,"<br />
which were reproduced on oil paper used for<br />
Wrappers of meat.<br />
The plaintiff, Mr. Arthur Whitehead, of Brad-<br />
ford, trading as the Bradford Printing Com-<br />
pany, sued Messrs. Wellington & Co., printers, of<br />
Gloucester, for damages for infringement of his<br />
copyright, but owing to a mistake at the time<br />
when the copyright was registered at Stationers'<br />
Hall it was contended on behalf of the defendants<br />
that the registration was bad, and that the plaintiff<br />
therefore could not sue. It was also stated that<br />
the person employed to engrave the block for the<br />
defendants was instructed not to copy the plain-<br />
tiff's picture, and it was urged that the copyright<br />
had not been infringed.<br />
The drawings had been made on behalf of Mr.<br />
Whitehead, the plaintiff, but the copyright was<br />
originally registered in the names of the plaintiff<br />
and of Mr. James Varley (as if they were partners),<br />
trading as the Bradford Printing Company. Mr.<br />
Varley was connected with the firm, but was not a<br />
member of it. Subsequently Mr. Varley assigned<br />
to Mr. Whitehead such rights as he possessed (if<br />
any), and Mr. Whitehead, shortly before he com-<br />
menced the action, was registered as the proprietor<br />
of the copyright.<br />
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143<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourse!f, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer,<br />
6. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire.<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to :<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements,<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for "office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor |<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IV. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author.' We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com.<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
D<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 />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case,<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
1 assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
CEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea,<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
CENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis.<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 23. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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145<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
in the November issue of The Author, expressing<br />
her intention to leave a sum to the Pension Fund<br />
of the society on her death.<br />
On the ballot paper which accompanies The committee have now received a letter from<br />
this month's “Author” subscribers have full the Public Trustee in the following terms :-<br />
details as to the manner in which their votes<br />
DEAR SIR,—I have to inform you that by a settlement<br />
should be recorded. Those members who dated the 2nd December, 1910, Miss Crommelin has trans-<br />
have not received ballot papers with their ferred to the Public Trustee certain securities having the<br />
“Authors” are requested to write to the<br />
present approximate value of £650.<br />
Under the settlement the Public Trustee is directed to<br />
Secretary at once.<br />
pay the income of the Trust Funds to Miss Crommelin<br />
Associates are not qualified, under the during her life, and after her death to stand possessed of<br />
constitution of the Society, to vote for the<br />
the trust premises in trust for the Pension Fund Committee<br />
of the Authors Incorporated Society.<br />
election of the Committee.<br />
I am, dear Sir,<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
(Signed) Č. 'J. STEWART,<br />
Public Trustee.<br />
GENERAL MEETING<br />
MEMBERS and associates are reminded that the<br />
The committee desire to thank Miss Crommelin<br />
Annual General Meeting of the society will be held cordially for her generosity.<br />
on Thursday, March 23rd, at the rooms of the<br />
When the Pension Fund Committee, in the<br />
Society of Arts, 18, John Street, Adelphi, W.C.<br />
autumn of last year, granted Miss Crommelin a<br />
The chair will be taken at 4 o'clock.<br />
small pension, they did so absolutely without any<br />
Members and associates will receive the usual condition whatsoever, and they feel all the more<br />
notice with agenda in due course.<br />
strongly this act on Miss Crommelin's part, show-<br />
ing her earnest desire to help her fellow-writers in<br />
the future, a desire which the committee feel sure<br />
GEORGE MEREDITH, O.M.<br />
every member will appreciate.<br />
We are pleased to record that the Royal Society<br />
of Literature has done honour to the memory of<br />
the late President of the Society of Authors, by<br />
SIMULTANEOUS PUBLICATION.<br />
making a presentation to his son, Mr. William<br />
Meredith, at one of the dinners of the Society of In the last issue of The Author reference was<br />
Literature, when he was the guest of the evening. made not only to serial but also to book publica-<br />
After the toast of "The King," the chairman, tion in America, and emphasis was laid on the<br />
Sir Edward Brabrook, presented Mr. Meredith importance of guarding the copyright in the<br />
with the gold medal of the society, stating that United States.<br />
the society desired to honour the memory of his In order to make assurance doubly sure it is<br />
famous father, and mentioning that this gold medal absolutely essential to embody in the contract<br />
had only been presented on two occasions, the with the English publisher, or English editor, a<br />
former occasion being when it was presented to elause under which he undertakes either to give an<br />
Sir Walter Scott.<br />
exact date for publication, or to arrange a date<br />
On the obverse of the medal is the head of with the author. We mention this because<br />
George IV., and on the reverse stand three figures, one or two cases have come to the office in which,<br />
the central one holding a wreath under which the after the contract for publication in England has<br />
name of George Meredith is inscribed.<br />
been signed, the publisher or editor has stated he<br />
We congratulate the Royal Society of Literature would be only too pleased to give a date for<br />
that, in doing honour to our late President, they publication, but has given, no doubt inadvertently,<br />
have done honour to themselves, and though the a wrong date, publishing either before or after the<br />
presentation has come at this late date we feel date mentioned.<br />
sure that the descendants of George Meredith Either of these mistakes may lose the author his<br />
will appreciate this recognition of their father's American copyright. If the obligation of the<br />
work.<br />
editor or publisher to give the date had been part<br />
and parcel of the contract, then the author would<br />
have a good action for damages, but if the arrange-<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
ment is simply a matter of friendly correspondence,<br />
MEMBERS of the society may call to mind the then the author loses his American copyright and<br />
letter from Miss May Crommelin which appeared has no legal remedy.<br />
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146<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
COMPOSERS AND MUSIC-HALL SKETCHES. for, he added, he always understood that publishers<br />
It is time that composers turned their attention<br />
never advertised--at least, authors told him so.<br />
There are cases, however, in which publishers do<br />
to the “Opera in Little.” Some of the best drama-<br />
advertise, but in the wrong quarters, and in<br />
tists have written and are writing short sketches<br />
objectionable manner, and as the man of science<br />
for music-hall as well as theatre.<br />
describes mud as matter in the wrong place, so<br />
The musical-ball managers, on the look out for<br />
these wrongly-placed advertisements are nothing<br />
sound work and high-class entertainment, desire<br />
but mud to the authors whose books suffer.<br />
to turn their attention to little operas. Those<br />
Complaints have been made that publishers have<br />
who write classical music must not think the<br />
advertised by inserting their own catalogues of<br />
matter beneath them, for it is their work which<br />
books at the end of the 6s. novels or at the end of<br />
will be specially in demand.<br />
other books. This to some authors has been<br />
We desire to draw particular attention to this at<br />
exceedingly annoying, but the form of agreement<br />
the present time, for the music publishers are<br />
between author and publisher has precluded them<br />
moving, and if they succeed in getting a firm hold<br />
from taking any action. Indeed, in a case of this<br />
the unfortunate composer will again find he is<br />
kind, it may be a little pedantic to object unless<br />
losing his valuable rights and working to fill other<br />
the author can put forward some very special<br />
people's pockets. This is a great opportunity.<br />
reason. When, however, the publisher not only<br />
There is an important opening which should not<br />
advertises his own wares at the end of a book, but<br />
be neglected. Serious “ Opera in Little" will not<br />
canvasses for advertisements from soap or pill<br />
take long to become popular.<br />
manufacturers and others, as often happens in the<br />
Again, we must impress upon composers that,<br />
case of cheap editions, then there is nothing<br />
seizing their chance, they can work both their rights,<br />
pedantic in the author's objections. As the issue<br />
the right of performance as well as the right of<br />
of a cheap edition is seldom less than 20,000 copies,<br />
reproducing copies.<br />
there is no doubt that the publisher takes this<br />
At present the publishers, persuading the com-<br />
course in order to keep down the cost of production<br />
poser that there is no money in the former, take<br />
and to enable him to put some extra profits into<br />
both rights and market them to their own advan-<br />
his own pockets.<br />
tage. Even if they do not make money directly<br />
irectly The question of advertisements of the publisher's<br />
from the performing rights, they use them for<br />
own books may for the time be set aside, for though<br />
own<br />
advertising purposes, indirectly swelling their own<br />
they may spoil the appearance of the issue, whether<br />
profits.<br />
cheap or expensive, in the eyes of some authors,<br />
It is not like this in foreign countries with foreign<br />
gn they are, at any rate, advertisements of books.<br />
composers. Their works are not crushed out of<br />
a out of But to other advertisements two objections might<br />
Butto<br />
existence because they maintain a money value for be<br />
be raised-first the ideal, secondly the practical.<br />
their performing rights. What, therefore, can and<br />
From the author's point of view it might be<br />
has been done in one country can be done in another.<br />
· rightly argned, first, that the advertisements of<br />
rich<br />
It is the same story, the composer is timid in<br />
pills, soaps, toilet powders, etc., might damage and<br />
making an innovation. He thinks he will lose his<br />
perhaps destroy the dignity of the work that is<br />
livelihood. But let all composers, acting in com-<br />
being put on the market; secondly, the practical<br />
bination, make a stand, and the issues will not be<br />
point, that if it is the intention of the publisher to<br />
long in declaring themselves favourable to the<br />
obtain a large number of advertisements to fill up<br />
composer.<br />
the beginning and end of the book, he will thereby<br />
But let the composer be first in the field in this obtain considerable sums of money, and that the<br />
new outlet for his genius, let him get a few suitable<br />
author should be entitled, therefore, to a larger<br />
librettos at once, let him work on his composition,<br />
payment on the cheap issue as a fair reward for his<br />
and, without any middlemen to cut down his profits,<br />
larger popularity.<br />
deal direct with the music-hall manager.<br />
There is, however, a more serious method of<br />
advertising which has been adopted by some<br />
publishers in producing cheap editions, that is, the<br />
ON THE ETHICS OF ADVERTISING.<br />
introduction of advertisements on pages facing the<br />
literary matter of the book. The same arguments<br />
put forward against the ordinary advertisements<br />
NE of the members of the committee of the would hold good here also, but with trebly increased<br />
Society, in proposing the health of the force : first, that this method of advertising<br />
publishers at a public dinner, declared destroys entirely the dignity of the production,<br />
that it gave him the greatest satisfaction to pro- and secondly, the practical, that as a larger fee<br />
pose the health of the most modest of mankind, can be obtained for advertisements facing matter<br />
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than for ordinary advertisements at the end of the books that are written there are perhaps tens only<br />
book, therefore a still larger payment should be that have a life beyond the usual term of copyright,<br />
made to the author.<br />
but there is no reason why these teps should not<br />
Whatever view is taken, the ideal or the prac- be a valuable property in the hands of the descen-<br />
tical, it seems quite clear that, under the clause dants just as a piece of land bought, or a piece of<br />
which is not uncommon in publishers' agreements furniture made by one's own hands, is property<br />
affecting the publishers' control of the style and in the hands of the maker and his heirs and<br />
manner of production of the work, the author would representatives.<br />
hare little power to object. Publishers are, of Charles Dickens' own phrase runs as follows:<br />
course, tradesmen, and look upon the production “I rest my claims to the remembrance of my<br />
of books as any tradesman would look upon the country upon my published works"; and if the<br />
production and sale of other articles of commerce. country does not recognise this claim by the laws<br />
It is natural that they should look in the first in existence, then it is only right that the claim<br />
instance to the profits, and, in consequence, it is not should be recognised in some other way.<br />
surprising that these methods of advertisement There has been almost a unanimous expression<br />
should be employed. Members of the Society of in the papers of approval of the scheme. The<br />
Authors must be cautioned in the first place not to Times, the Morning Post, the Spectator, the Book-<br />
let the rights of reproduction in cheap form lie man, and some of the provincial papers are a few<br />
with the publisher who produces the 68. book. of those whose articles have given the scheme their<br />
There should always be a separate contract for the warm support. Sundry authors, too, have written<br />
right of reproduction in cheap form, as it is often their approval, but the question is so closely con-<br />
important for financial reasons that the same pub- cerned with the legal one of the period of copyright<br />
lisher should not have control of both.<br />
that it has been difficult to separate the two.<br />
Secondly, in a separate contract for the publica Mr. Hall Caine says “that copyright is a natural<br />
tion of a book in cheap form, the author should right, not created by the State but only ratified<br />
take particular care to insert a clause, if he desires by it.”<br />
to maintain the point of view of the dignity of Mr. Arthur Morrison says: “ The children and<br />
literature, that advertisements are not to be inserted, grandchildren of Charles Dickens have been robbed<br />
save with his sanction, and in no circumstances in due form of law according to a long-established<br />
facing the literary matter. If he desires to deal principle of civilisation. Authors and their depen-<br />
with the practical side, he should see that he obtains dants are weak in numbers, and the property they<br />
a share of the profit which, owing to the popularity have created is peculiarly easy of attack, which<br />
of his work, may be derived from the advertise- reasons are considered sufficient to sanctify the<br />
ments. The author should be especially careful, if pillage. It is true that we defer the date when the<br />
he is unable to keep the reproduction in expensive theft shall be legalised, much as though we cele-<br />
and cheap form separate, that these clauses should brate the seventh anniversary of a citizen's death<br />
be included in the one agreement which includes by authorising any footpad to snatch his watch<br />
both issues.<br />
from his orphan's pocket.”<br />
There are, no doubt, many and divers opinions<br />
upon this question of the duration of copyright,<br />
THE DICKENS COPYRIGHT STAMP.<br />
and it is not desirable at this moment to discuss<br />
the ethics of the same, but it does seem an astound-<br />
ing fact that the descendants of one of the greatest<br />
N O doubt nearly everyone has heard of the novelists that England has ever seen and the world<br />
I Charles Dickens Testimonial Stamp, but has ever known should be receiving State aid, and<br />
it is a duty also to make some mention of that there should be the necessity for the public to<br />
it in The Author.<br />
come forward with its support. Putting aside<br />
The idea was started by the Strand Magazine to all question of copyright, it is hoped the great<br />
issue a Dickens Stamp at the price of one penny, attachment everyone must feel to the writer of<br />
to be bought by everyone interested in the author's “Pickwick,” “Our Mutual Friend,” and “David<br />
novels, and to be inserted in their editions of his Copperfield ” will readily ensure a warm response<br />
works. The proceeds resulting from the sale are and a ready contribution.<br />
to be handed over to his descendants.<br />
The question certainly for all authors to ask<br />
This is the first practical step that has ever themselves is, “ Are there any volumes of Dickens<br />
been taken to secure to the heirs of an author a on my own shelves upon which the author or his<br />
benefit arising from the fame of his works not heirs have never received a farthing in the way of<br />
provided by copyright law.<br />
copyright?”<br />
It is quite true that out of the thousands of If so, then let each follow the example of<br />
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148<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mr. Hardy, Mr. Kipling, Mr. Andrew Lang, Sir A. effects produced by air in motion ; this is, there-<br />
Conan Doyle, and the leading authors of this fore, the term to be applied to the science of<br />
country and America, and affix these copyright aviation.<br />
stamps, which can be had of any bookseller, to his AEROSTATION_That part of aerial navigation<br />
volumes as a practical way of celebrating the dealing with gas-borne or "lighter-than-air"<br />
novelist's centenary. It is interesting to learn that machines.<br />
Mr. Lang's order for stamps amounted to 2,500, AVIATION—That part of aerial navigation<br />
that of Mr. William De Morgan 1,000, which dealing with dynamically-raised or “heavier-than-<br />
must, of course, not be taken as any indication of air " machines.<br />
the number of volumes of Dickens in their posses- AERONAUT-One who practises any branch of<br />
sion, but as some measure of their appreciation of aerial navigation.<br />
this movement, as were the almost equally large AVIATOR-One who practises aviation.<br />
orders of the King and the Royal Family through PILOT—An aeronaut qualified in aerial<br />
Messrs. W. H. Smith & Son.<br />
navigation.<br />
It may be as well for purchasers of Dickens to ENGINEER—In charge of the power plant.<br />
note that all volumes published by Messrs. Mac HELMSMAN—In charge of the steering.<br />
millan pay copyright, as they already bear the SHED—The use of the term shed is recommended<br />
Dickens Stamp.<br />
instead of hangar.<br />
The trustees of the Fund are the Earl of Rose HARBOUR-A natural or artificial shelter.<br />
bery, Lord Alverstone, and Hon. H. W. Lawson, AERODOME—A ground set apart for flying pur-<br />
M.P. The honorary secretary is Mr. Beckles Will poses. The committee do not recommend this<br />
son, 17—21, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C. term, but, in view of its somewhat general use,<br />
suggest that it should be employed only in the<br />
above sense. This suggestion is made without<br />
prejudice either to its derivation or to its application<br />
THE AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY AND in another sense by authors such as Langley,<br />
Lanchester, and Graham Bell.<br />
ENGLISH TERMINOLOGY.<br />
DIRIGIBLE-A power-driven balloon.<br />
AIRSHIP_This term having occasionally been<br />
W E have received from the Aeronautical<br />
Society a preliminary report of their<br />
of their mend its use only in the sense of dirigible in order<br />
“Technical Words Committee.” As this<br />
is to avoid confusion.<br />
may be of interest to students of the English<br />
HELICOPTER-A flying machine supported by<br />
language we print it below.<br />
one or more screw propellers rotating on vertical or<br />
The report tells us that a committee was appointed approximately vertical shafts.<br />
by the Aeronautical Society to draft a list and to<br />
ORNITHOPTER—A “ flapping-wing" machine.<br />
define the meaning of the terms in view of the<br />
FLYING MACHINE-A generic term denoting<br />
somewhat confused state of<br />
aeronantical machines used in ariation, as distinct from those<br />
aeronautical "<br />
terminology, and the committee hope that, as e<br />
employed in aerostation.<br />
uniformity is essential, all writers on aeronautical<br />
AEROPLANE-A flying machine provided with<br />
subjects will co-operate in the systematic use of<br />
fixed planes supported dynamically by its movement<br />
these terms.<br />
through the air.<br />
There must be several members of the Society of<br />
This term should not be used to denote the<br />
Authors who write on aeronautical matters. They<br />
planes themselves, but should only apply to the<br />
P<br />
will, no doubt, study the list with even greater care<br />
whole machine.<br />
"<br />
than the mere student of the English language.<br />
GLIDER-An aeroplane unprovided with motive<br />
Perhaps, in years to come, this may be as curious<br />
power.<br />
P<br />
MULTIPLANE-An aeroplane with two or more<br />
a document as the list of old hunting terms defined<br />
in the early hunting books.<br />
main planes orerlapping in plan-form.<br />
BIPLANE—An aeroplane with two superposed<br />
GENERAL TERMS.<br />
main planes overlapping in plan-form.<br />
MONOPLANE-An aeroplane with a single main<br />
AERONAUTICS—The entire science of aerial supporting plane, which may consist of a pair of<br />
navigation.<br />
wings outstretched on either side of a central<br />
AEROSTATICS—The science of buoyancy in body.<br />
air by means of displacement ; this is, therefore, TANDEM, STEPPED—In some cases aeroplanes<br />
the term to be applied to the science of aerostation. hare more than one pair of wings, which may or<br />
AERODYNAMICS—The science relating to the may not be on the same level ; such planes, if they<br />
"ecom-<br />
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ANTHOLOGIES.<br />
do not overlap in plan-form, must necessarily be<br />
arranged in “ tandem ”; when not on the same<br />
level they are said to be “stepped.”<br />
For instance, “an aeroplane having three pairs<br />
of wings stepped in tandem.”<br />
PRINCIPAL DIMENSIONS.<br />
AREA–This term is not a technical definition<br />
unless qualified by an adjective, as, for instance,<br />
“supporting " or " effective” area.<br />
By area is meant, in case of planes, the area of<br />
the plan-form, and is therefore measured in units of<br />
double surface. That is to say, both sides or surfaces<br />
are counted as one unit of area. Thus, by an area of<br />
500 square feet is implied a surface of twice 500<br />
square feet.<br />
SURFACE-Attention is drawn to the distinction<br />
that exists between surface and area. See AREA.<br />
WEIGHT_This being a general term, should only<br />
be used when qualified by an adjective, such as<br />
“net weight."<br />
NET WeighT—The weight of the complete<br />
machine exclusive of variable quantities, such as<br />
pilot, fuel, lubricants, &c.<br />
GROSS WEIGHT—The weight of the complete<br />
machine inclusive of all variable quantities, i.e.,<br />
pilot, fuel, lubricants, &c.<br />
LOADING—The loading of a machine is its gross<br />
weight in pounds divided by the supporting area in<br />
square feet.<br />
PRINCIPAL PARTS.<br />
PLANE-Any element of area used for dynamic<br />
support or control.<br />
In pure aerodynamics the term should only be<br />
used with a qualifying adjective such as “flat,"<br />
“ curved," or " cambered.”<br />
The prefix “aero" is restricted to the complete<br />
machine defined as an “ aeroplane."<br />
WING– The present use of this term, by analogy<br />
with natural flight, denotes each of a pair of planes<br />
ontstretched on either side of a central body, which<br />
wings, if continuous, would form a single plane.<br />
Body-In fying machines, the central longi-<br />
tudinal framework to which the planes and organs<br />
of control and propulsion are attached.<br />
CARRIAGE_That part of the machine beneath<br />
the body intended for its support on land or water.<br />
TAIL-In flying macbines, a plane or group of<br />
subsidiary planes, which may include both<br />
horizontal and vertical planes, behind the main<br />
planes.<br />
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ANTHOLOGISING is a time-honoured<br />
pursuit with a certain class of literary<br />
man, to whom apparently it comes as natural as<br />
ordinary flower-picking to a child in the country.<br />
Unless the Chinese anticipated the practice (as they<br />
anticipated most of the things on which we have<br />
long prided ourselves in the West), the Greeks were<br />
the first to think of making an anthology, by which<br />
they understood the weaving together of a wreath<br />
of poetical flowers. Since their time all nations who<br />
have had any claim to literary taste have followed<br />
their example, and there is no sign of any decline in<br />
the practice nowadays, in spite of the existence of<br />
such things as laws of copyright—which after all can<br />
be evaded by skilfully-worded appeals to an author's<br />
vanity.<br />
There is no necessary reason why anthology-<br />
making should be confined to poetry. Nor, indeed,<br />
is it, as we have abundant evidence at the present<br />
time. Volumes made up of tales from particular<br />
authors who have excelled in short story-writing<br />
have appeared lately, and there have, I believe,<br />
been collections of tales from different pens, bound<br />
up in one volume after the style of the celebrated<br />
French experiment, “ Soirées de Médan.”* Never-<br />
theless, when one speaks of an anthology, one<br />
nearly always means a collection of poems—and of<br />
short poems, it may be added, for happily the<br />
barbarity of tearing single passages from an epic<br />
or a play is appreciated by all save, perhaps, the<br />
authors of works for the Juvenile Reciter.<br />
So we will pay no attention here to any but<br />
anthologies of verse. The thought that was in the<br />
mind of the present writer when he set out the<br />
heading over this article was: Why should we<br />
anthologise ? Meleager, when he made the collec-<br />
tion to which he prefaced those immortal lines,<br />
likening the poems of various poets to different<br />
flowers,<br />
και Σαπφούς βαια μέν, άλλα ρόδα<br />
stated that he wore the wreath as a memorial to<br />
the illustrious Diokles. A few collectors have fol-<br />
lowed in his steps, but more often no such excuse is<br />
made, and the anthology is launched on the world<br />
without the aid of a pious fiction ; for this is what<br />
the dedication to a friend really is.<br />
Looking at anthology-making from a business-<br />
like point of view—if the artist will pardon the<br />
horrid phrase—we might be inclined to say that<br />
life is much too short to read all that is written<br />
* Strictly speaking, we should not call this an anthology<br />
however, as it is a collection not of picked examples of the<br />
various authors' works, but of special contributions from<br />
their pens.<br />
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150<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
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worth reading, and that therefore it is an obvious assembles poems from all sources and all kinds of<br />
advantage to have a kind person come forward and writers in the Greek tongue. The Palatine<br />
put together in one or two volumes the best he can Anthology was particularly justifiable, however<br />
find. Now we may freely admit that in this age of much of it we could have spared, for it has<br />
aeroplanes and motor cars anyone except the preserved a great many beautiful things by writers<br />
Troglodytic anchorite is liable to be snatched away who but for it would have entirely perished.<br />
from the world by a collapsed biplane or an erratic Nowadays, although litera scripta manet to a much<br />
16 horse-power 1910 model, fitted with elegant greater extent than in the antediluvian days before<br />
high-class landaulette body, before he has had time the cheap printing-press, oblivion can still overtake<br />
to get farther than the poetry of the Lake School. things worthy of preservation. Even in “The<br />
Nevertheless, we do not believe that, with average Sonnets of a Čentury” are a few poems by people<br />
luck and domestic habits, a great number of people whom we or nearly all of us, at any rate-would<br />
could not read as much poetry as is good for them, otherwise not know ever to have written a line of<br />
in the ordinary editions of the poets' works—if only verse in their lives. In some other collections this<br />
they had the taste and did not prefer reading the is still more the case.<br />
“ Daily Mail” or “ Star.” But it is quite certain Should the making of anthologies, then, be<br />
that the average man or woman does not want to encouraged ? If we could always be sure that the<br />
read poetry, and therefore it is not for him or her maker was worthy of trust, certainly the answer<br />
that anthologies are made.<br />
(in the Parliamentary phrase) would be in the<br />
Really their reasons for existence are two. First, affirmative. But there must not be too many<br />
the pleasure which they give to their maker ; and, anthologies ; for there is, after all, only a limited<br />
secondly, the desire which he has of introducing to supply of old material to draw from, and with<br />
others what has taken his own fancy. (I leave out regard to modern poetry Free Trade in authors'<br />
of account, of course, the commercial person who wares cannot appear to us a desirable thing if we<br />
makes an anthology because he sees in it his readiest<br />
" for a moment think<br />
way of getting money without much personal<br />
What scanty pittance comes from pen and ink."<br />
labour.) The two motives are commonly blended,<br />
as indeed they should be, though they are both<br />
P. W. S.<br />
very worthy in themselves.<br />
The pleasure to the collector alone is a sufficient<br />
reason, provided that he is a person of fine taste.<br />
Once upon a time, I believe, it was not rare for<br />
THE MUSICIAN'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA.*<br />
people to write out in a manuscript-book their<br />
favourite poems. Even young ladies did this and<br />
called them “Elegant Extracts,” but I am not M HE issue of the fifth volume of the revised<br />
referring to them. Now a collection so formed is<br />
edition of the late Sir George Grove's<br />
bound to be a valuable help in the estimation of the<br />
Dictionary of Music completes the impor-<br />
collector's character, and if he is an artist his choice tant work which the well-known musical critic of<br />
is sure to be charming. No doubt some modern the Times undertook some seven years ago. The<br />
anthologies are the direct descendants of these first of these five volumes was published in 1904,<br />
manuscript-books, and it is perhaps a matter for the subsequent volumes appearing on an arerage<br />
regret that every great man does not thus give to of about eighteen months after each other. To<br />
the public a collection of his favourite poems. He ensure, in such a series of volumes, absolute<br />
would not expect, naturally, that his choice should correctness in the thousands of statements made<br />
be universally approved. “The Golden Treasury" has, of course, been impossible. Hence the great<br />
was, perhaps, the most admired anthology of joy with which certain carping critics have pointed<br />
English verse down to a certain date. But its to printer's errors after diligent search for them.<br />
limitations have been freely criticised, and its To insinuate, however, that Mr. J. A. Fuller<br />
sequel did not win nearly so much commendation. Maitland is not one of the most careful and pains-<br />
If the anthologiser looks farther than the taking of editors is to convey an untruth. No<br />
immediate pleasure which he has felt in making his fewer than 184 writers have contributed to these<br />
collection, and wishes to rouse pleasure also in volumes. How many articles the editor himself<br />
others, he is (provided again that he is a person of has written we have failed to enumerate. It will<br />
fine taste) a benefactor of his kind. He may make suffice that bis industry is manifest on every page<br />
a selection from the works of one poet, as has been<br />
well done in the cases of Browning and Meredith,<br />
for instance; or he may gather together a real * Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by<br />
Anthologia, like that known as the Palatine, which J. A. Fuller Maitland, Vol. V. Macmillan & Co.<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
151<br />
of the 4,000 of which the entire work consists.<br />
The skill Mr. Maitland has displayed in guiding<br />
so many musical authorities in the right way, by<br />
checking here undue exuberance or over-garrulity,<br />
and correcting there inaccuracies which are as apt<br />
to make themselves unduly conspicuous in printed<br />
copy by catching the reader's eye (just as drops of<br />
oil which rise to the surface of water draw attention<br />
to their presence by reflecting the light), is worthy<br />
of all praise.<br />
When it is realised how indispensable Grove's<br />
Dictionary has become of late years, not only to<br />
the writer on musical subjects but to the per-<br />
former, the teacher, amateur, and general reader,<br />
it is difficult to imagine what the intelligent music<br />
lover would do if deprived of this monumental<br />
work. It is not as if reference to the subjects<br />
contained in Grove could be made through the<br />
usual encyclopædias, because it is well known that<br />
in such works less space is given to music than<br />
is accorded to many departments of far less<br />
importance.<br />
This volume deals with all musical matters<br />
beginning with the letter T to Z inclusive ; and,<br />
further, there are seventy-three pages devoted to<br />
an Appendix, recording data omitted in the body<br />
of the work, and errata which have come to the<br />
editor's notice, so as to bring as many articles<br />
as possible up to the date of the publication of<br />
this, the last volume. It is to be hoped that in<br />
due course an index to the entire work will appear,<br />
as was the case with the first issue of Grovera<br />
supplement which proved of infinite value to the<br />
student.<br />
As regards the chief articles in Volume V.,<br />
many of these are reprints from the former edition<br />
with editorial corrections. We have succinct<br />
biographies of Weber, Verdi, Wagner, the two<br />
Wesleys, Tchaikovsky, and so forth. Mrs. Rosa<br />
Newmarch is responsible for the last-named article<br />
-its first appearance—and exceedingly interesting<br />
it is. The way in which Mrs. Newmarch tells the<br />
story of the “Pathetic Symphony" is as sympathetic<br />
as it is delightful.<br />
Sir Walter Parratt's article on “ Touch” is<br />
reprinted, as it well deserved to be, although not a<br />
few pianiste, who have been smitten by a fever for<br />
queer technical verbiage which needs to be printed<br />
in a variety of types to convey the peculiarity of<br />
its meaning, may deplore that their own apostle of<br />
the keyboard has not been allowed to have his fling<br />
in the new Grove.<br />
The extra notes added to the article on Wagner<br />
by Mr. Herbert Thompson are valuable and<br />
interesting.<br />
Dr. Phillip Spitta's eighty columns concerning<br />
Weber are not spoilt by curtailment. To have<br />
treated 80 good" an essay in such a manner<br />
would have been sacrilege. By some critics it<br />
has been maintained that undue space has been<br />
allotted to certain subjects and names, whilst<br />
others have been dismissed with scant notice.<br />
It is easy to raise objections, but the late Sir<br />
George Grove was nothing if not an enthusiast,<br />
and the last person in the world to apply a foot-<br />
rule to his essays or count the number of words he<br />
wrote when the spirit moved him. If Mr. Fuller<br />
Maitland had cut down, as has been suggested,<br />
some of the longer biographies and had padded<br />
out others, he would have been unworthy of the<br />
task he undertook, to present as far as possible a<br />
corrected edition of Grove whilst adhering to the<br />
intentions and wishes of the late editor. Indeed,<br />
the best way not to have carried out such ideas<br />
would have been to have appointed a Board of<br />
Advisers, as has been mooted by certain musical<br />
wiseacres, who, no doubt, would have liked to<br />
have been chosen members of such a body.<br />
Sir Hubert Parry's article on Variations is<br />
admirable. It is one of the original contributions,<br />
supplemented by a brief editorial addendum.<br />
Mr. W. W. Cobbett has added to the article on<br />
violin-playing criticisms of no small value, and<br />
Mr. Barclay Squire is to be praised for his excellent<br />
contribution on Virginal Music, a subject he has<br />
long studied.<br />
But there is one article which might have been<br />
expanded with profit or entirely rewritten. We<br />
refer to the life of Vincent Wallace, whose extra-<br />
ordinary career, if properly told, would afford<br />
material for a thrilling and bulky romance. Had<br />
Wallace been a German, we should by this time<br />
have had the history of his life revealed to us<br />
through every document musical antiquarians<br />
could have collected concerning him. There<br />
would have been numerous footnotes to such<br />
volumes, and no doubt, long since, the original<br />
German would have been translated into English<br />
and French.<br />
About the Wind Band : the new Grove contains<br />
the same article by J. A. Kappey as before, and<br />
one cannot help feeling that this subject might<br />
have been supplemented. On the other hand, the<br />
editor's resolve was wise not to alter the articles of<br />
writers who have passed away, and unfortunately<br />
the obituary list of original contributors is now a<br />
long one. It is difficult to draw the line in such<br />
matters. If Kappey had been altered, Professor<br />
Ebenezer Prout might with equal reason have been<br />
amended ; but what an impertinence such revision<br />
would have been.<br />
A particularly praiseworthy feature of the appen-<br />
dix is that it includes the names of some three<br />
dozen British musicians hitherto unmentioned in<br />
the dictionary. Amongst these we notice Messrs.<br />
Hubert Bath, York Bowen, Percy Buck, Von Ahn<br />
<br />
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152<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
R.<br />
Carse, Benjamin Dale, Tertius Noble, Roger<br />
A CORRECTION.<br />
Quilter, Barclay Squire, and Richard Terry.<br />
Appreciations, nevertheless, of only a few out of SIR,—The final volume (vol. xxxiv.) of the col-<br />
many living British composers of merit may only lected edition of George Meredith's works published<br />
serve to accentuate jealousies. Truly, the position by Messrs. Constable (1910) includes a reprint of<br />
of a conscientious editor who will not be coerced to the obituary note on Sir Leslie Stephen, which our<br />
log-roll his friend's friends is unenviable! The late President contributed in April, 1904, to The<br />
knowledge of good work conscientiously performed Author. This note was written at the suggestion of<br />
must, however, be no small solace to Mr. Fuller our then chairman of committee, Mr. Douglas<br />
Maitland, who deserves the thanks of all English- Freshfield, as a prelude to a review of Sir Leslie<br />
speaking musicians for carrying through with so Stephen's work in literature, which he himself<br />
much courage the re-issue of Grove's Dictionary contributed to the same number. In the reprint<br />
of Music. Verily, the editor and Messrs. Mac- in question I note sundry small but not unimpor.<br />
millan can afford to smile at the many columns tant inaccuracies which call for correction. On<br />
of adverse criticism which appeared not long sincep. 189, line eleven, "proclamation " should be<br />
in one of the musical monthlies.<br />
proclamations. On p. 190, line six, our has been<br />
left out before " writers." On page 190, line fifteen,<br />
not has been inserted after “It would.” This<br />
insertion reverses the intention of the original<br />
sentence and destroys its connection with the<br />
context.<br />
Further, the “Lieutenant of Tramps "referred to<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
by Meredith is identified in a new footnote with<br />
his nephew and subsequent biographer, F. W.<br />
Maitland. This identification is inadmissible.<br />
The Pension Fund.<br />
Maitland (as he mentions in his “ Life and Letters<br />
of Sir L. Stephen” (published in 1906)), joined<br />
SIR,-It seems to me that we should not allow the Tramps on several occasions, but his removal<br />
such generosity as we have received from Miss May to Cambridge in 1884 and his subsequent ill-health<br />
Crommelin to go unnoticed. It was this writer's prevented him from going out with them for many<br />
intention to leave a certain sum to the Pension years before his death.<br />
Fund at her death. In the meantime, her Irish<br />
I am, Sir, yours obediently,<br />
rents having decreased greatly in value, she was<br />
AN ORIGINAL TRAMP.<br />
afraid it would be necessary to invest the money<br />
in buying an annuity. Hearing the circumstances<br />
of the case, and more especially in consideration<br />
of her contributions to literature, the Society<br />
of Authors granted her a pension of £25 a<br />
THE PUBLICATION OF SERMONS.<br />
year from the Pension Fund a few months<br />
ago.<br />
SIR,-I understand that an enterprising firm has<br />
There, in the ordinary course of events, the recently published a large collection of sermons in<br />
matter would have ended, but Miss Crommelin has several volumes, entitled the “Churchman's Pulpit,"<br />
done us signal service, for though the interest on to which a considerable number of living clergy<br />
the money remains hers till her death, she has have contributed, their remuneration being a purely<br />
already handed over to the Public Trustee the large honorary one, viz., copies of the volumes containing<br />
sum of £650, to be held by him on behalf of the their work. I would not insinuate for one moment<br />
Pension Fund. In other words, this means that that any one of these contributors was not dnly<br />
at her death we shall be in absolute possession of informed exactly to what extent he would be<br />
that suin, which is already standing in our remunerated ; nevertheless, I beg leave to enquire<br />
name.<br />
whether such methods of obtaining marketable<br />
No conditions were imposed on Miss Crommelin, material for the press are conducive to the interests<br />
therefore this act is purely one of courtesy on her of authors in general, or worthy of a respectable<br />
part, and shows her earnest desire to help fellow- firm in particular, especially considering the enor-<br />
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other members of the Society will appreciate most incomes of the publisher and of the minister of<br />
fully.<br />
the Gospel.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
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£ s d.<br />
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her present subscription)<br />
1911.<br />
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N N February 1, 1910, the trustees of the<br />
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tary had placed before them the financial<br />
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Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock.<br />
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Oct. 31, Gribble, F. . .<br />
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. 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 5, Buckrose, J. E. .<br />
Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden ..<br />
Nov. 12, Buè, Henri .<br />
. 011 91<br />
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O 100<br />
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£ 8. d. question of set-off in the publisher's account.<br />
Jan. 4, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
2 2 0 Counsel advised that he did not think any special<br />
Jan. 4, Randall, F. J. .<br />
1 1 0 principle was involved, as the case would have to<br />
Jan. 5, W. . .<br />
0 10 6 be decided on ipsissima verba of this particular<br />
Jan. 5, Crellin, H. N.<br />
0 5 0 contract. Accordingly, the committee instructed<br />
Jan. 5, S. F. G.. .<br />
• 0 10 0 the secretary to report counsel's opinion to the<br />
author concerned, and regretted that they were<br />
Jan, 7, Douglas, James A. .<br />
0 unable to take the matter further.<br />
Jan. 9, Grisewood, Norman<br />
0 5 0 In the next case, which was a question of the<br />
Jan. 10, Wharton, Leonard C. . . ( 10 0 right of a publisher to insert advertisements in<br />
Jan. 12, Tanner, James T.. .. . 3 3 0 an author's book without his consent, the committee<br />
Jan. 16, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila . 0 5 0 decided to take counsel's opinion, as this habit of<br />
Jan. 17, Kemp, Miss Emily G. . . 1 1 0 advertising without reference to the author was<br />
on the increase, and the committee considered the<br />
present example before them a good test case on<br />
which to obtain advice.<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
The difficulties which started the next case were<br />
as follows:<br />
A father, during his son's infancy and on his<br />
MHE first meeting of the Committee of Manage- behalf, entered into an agreement for the publication<br />
I ment for the year 1911 was held at the of his son's first book. This book had been<br />
offices of the society on Monday, January 9, practically out of print and dead for a long time.<br />
ut four o'clock.<br />
Another publisher had obtained an assignment<br />
Twenty-five members were elected, and the com- of this contract, and proposed to bring out a new<br />
pittee accepted with regret the resignation of edition of the work in direct opposition to the<br />
wenty-seven ; the number of both the elections author's wishes.<br />
ind resignations are about on an average with Similar difficulties have not infrequently arisen<br />
hat of previous years. The names of the new in years past, the publisher's aim being clearly to<br />
members are chronicled on another page.<br />
gain money on the advanced reputation of an<br />
Cases. The committee then considered a series of author. In some cases the author had been unable<br />
egal cases which had collected since the last meeting to take any step, and had to endure the republica-<br />
The first dispute under discussion arose out of a tion of his juvenile efforts without any public and<br />
question of account. It was so uncertain, owing to definite statement from the publisher setting out<br />
be vagueness of the contract between the author the facts. In consequence the public were led to<br />
ind the publisher, what view a judge and jury think that the book was a new issue. But this<br />
night take, that the committee decided further was not the only damage an author might suffer.<br />
iction was inadvisable at present, especially taking Such re-publication olten upset an author's existing<br />
nto account the fact that after the sale of a further contrats, and might also check considerably the<br />
100 copies of the book, which was still selling, the circulation of his later books. The committee<br />
atbor's demand would be quite clear. The considered that it was of the greatest importance<br />
ecretary was accordingly instructed to write to the to stop a case of this kind if it were possible to<br />
rathor, advising him to wait.<br />
do so, and, as it appeared that there might be a<br />
In the next case a publisher had failed on one chance owing to the peculiarity of the terms of the<br />
r two occasions to provide the author's volume contract, they decided to take counsel's opinion,<br />
when an order was sent in, returning the answer and further, if counsel's opinion was in favour of<br />
"Out of print.” The committee decided that, if the action, to take up an action to stop the re-publi-<br />
lathor was content to claim damages in accordance cation.<br />
with the advice of the society's solicitors, the The secretary then reported that the chairman<br />
lociety would take the matter up. If, however, the during the month had given leave to take action in<br />
uthor desired to claim damages in accordance with the Dublin Courts in a case of infringement of<br />
the statement now laid before the committee, they copyright by an Irish paper. The committee con-<br />
lelt it their duty to refuse to take the matter firmed the sanction given by the chairman, The<br />
fortber, as the case would fail, the claim for damages secretary stated that the matter was being carried<br />
being too remote.<br />
on satisfactorily, and would most probably be settled<br />
At the last meeting of the committee it very shortly, as the defendant had confessed to the<br />
had been decided to take counsel's opinion infringement.<br />
in the next dispute. This opinion was read . The secretary also reported that in another case<br />
by the secretary. The cause of action was a of infringement of copyright the infringement had<br />
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been acknowledged. This also would be settled as to be laid before Parliament were in harmony on<br />
soon as a satisfactory arrangement between the the main issues, and suggested that it might there-<br />
parties could be come to on the question of fore be worth while to have a joint committee<br />
damages.<br />
ready to take action when the Bill was passing<br />
The next question dealt with an infringement of through Parliament. It was quite clear, under<br />
dramatic copyright. It was found, however, when the present organisation, if each body had to report<br />
the society commenced investigation, that the back to its own committee the opportunity of<br />
alleged infringement had taken place under an taking action through members of Parliament, by<br />
authority given by the author's agent. The author opposing or proposing certain measures, might be<br />
allowed the authority to stand, deciding to settle lost. The secretary mentioned that he had sog.<br />
the matter himself with his agent.<br />
gested the idea to Mr. Heinemann, who had<br />
The next was also a dramatic case, and the approved it on behalf of the Publishers' Association.<br />
secretary was able to report that the case had been The committee adopted the suggestion, and<br />
settled satisfactorily, and read a letter from the nominated, subject to their consent, Sir Charles<br />
author giving her thanks to the society for the Villiers Stanford to represent the composers, Sir<br />
action it had taken.<br />
Arthur Pinero to represent the dramatists, and Mr.<br />
The last was another dramatic case, and another MacGillivray and the secretary to represent the<br />
infringement of performing rights. Again, as it Copyright Sub-Committee. The secretary was also<br />
might have been necessary to bring an action instructed to write to the Copyright Association<br />
for an injunction, the chairman had given his and to the Publishers' Association, and carry out<br />
leave to place the matter in the hands of the the points he had proposed.<br />
solicitors. This action the committee now con Certain issues regarding the legal work of the<br />
firmed. Tbe secretary was able to report that society and the society's solicitors were again<br />
the matter was virtually settled, the defendant discussed, and the matter was adjourned to the<br />
giving an undertaking not to play the piece February meeting.<br />
again.<br />
A suggestion that membership to the society<br />
One or two important points with regard to the should be made compulsory, on election, for 070<br />
production of sketches in music-halls, brought years, as was the case in the Italian Society of<br />
forward by one of the dramatic authors of the Authors, was rejected by the committee.<br />
society, were laid before the committee by the A hearty vote of thanks was unanimously passed<br />
secretary, and the committee decided to take to Mr. Douglas Freshfield for his work, both as<br />
counsel's opinion.<br />
committeeman and chairman of the committee,<br />
The other matters were taken in the following since 1897. Mr. Hewlett, as present chairman of<br />
order :-<br />
the cominittee, undertook to convey the resolution<br />
The committee instructed the secretary to pre- to Mr. Freshfield.<br />
pare a specimen draft agreement, as between agent The secretary reported that three members had<br />
and author, for the marketing of an author's taken up life membership, and finally, that &<br />
literary wares, which agreement would be settled donation of 10s. had been made by Miss Dorothy<br />
at a subsequent meeting of the committee. They Fox to the Capital Fund of the society.<br />
instructed the secretary to take this course, follow-<br />
ing in the footsteps of the Dramatic Sub-Committee,<br />
who had already drafted a similar agreement for<br />
dealing with dramatic property.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
A special sub-committee was appointed to settle<br />
I.<br />
the report for last year, which report will be placed<br />
before the members at the general meeting.<br />
A MEETING of the Dramatic Sub-Committee of<br />
The date for the return of the votes for the the Society of Authors was held at the offices of<br />
election of members to the committee was settled. the society on January 10th. The first business<br />
The date of the general meeting, and the place after the signing of the minutes was the report ou<br />
where it will be held, were provisionally settled. the theatrical cases that were in the hands of the<br />
These items will all be placed before the members solicitors of the society since the last meeting.<br />
of the society either through The Author or by The secretary mentioned that two cases had to<br />
circular.<br />
be dealt with without previous reference to the<br />
The secretary reported that at the meeting of Dramatic Sub-Committee, as it might have been<br />
the Copyright Sub-Committee with the Publishers' necessary to take immediate action and apply<br />
Association and the Copyright Association, it for an injunction. He stated that the defendants<br />
appeared that all the reports sent in to the Board in one case, after having received a communica-<br />
of Trade dealing with the Copyright Bill sbortly tion from the society's solicitors, had shown a<br />
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licence obtained from the agents of the dramatist sisting of some dramatists and the chief officials of<br />
of which the dramatist was ignorant. The the Authors' Society.<br />
matter accordingly had to be dropped, and the Another meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br />
dramatist decided to settle the issues with his mittee was then called for Thursday, the 26th inst..<br />
agent. In the other case the defendant had to decide upon the constitution of such deputation,<br />
acknowledged infringement, and had given an and the form in which the Home Secretary should<br />
undertaking not to deal illegally with the member's be approached.<br />
property again. The third case, which was a threat The secretary then laid before the sub-committee<br />
by the defendant to infringe the member's rights, the petition as settled by counsel, together with<br />
the secretary reported had been settled satisfac- counsel's opinion on the papers submitted to him,<br />
torily, the member thanking the society for the and after some slight discussion the petition was<br />
work it had done.<br />
agreed to. It was decided that it should be en-<br />
The next matter for discussion was the question grossed and sent to all the members of the Dramatic<br />
of the production of sketches in music halls. Sub-Committee for signature, and forwarded to<br />
After careful consideration it was decided to put the Lord Chamberlain at the earliest possible<br />
the whole matter before counsel, with an instruc- opportunity.<br />
tion to settle a petition to be presented to the<br />
Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Cases.<br />
Committee of the society. The secretary was<br />
instructed to take the matter in hand at once, SINCE the last issue of The Author there have<br />
and the Sub-Committee decided to meet on been only eleven fresh cases in the hands of the<br />
Tuesday, the 17th, to discuss the petition thus secretary. Four of these deal with the return of<br />
settled.<br />
MSS. ; two of them have ended satisfactorily, one<br />
The secretary reported that the Committee of refers to a matter in Germany, and, in consequence,<br />
Management had decided to take counsel's opinion will occupy some time in settlement, and the othe<br />
on two important points affecting the representa has only just come into the office.<br />
tion of dramatic property in music-halls, and the Of the three claims for money one has been<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee gave their approval to satisfactorily settled ; the remaining two reached<br />
the action taken by the Committee of Management. the office a few days before the magazine went to<br />
press.<br />
II.<br />
Of the three claims for accounts and money two<br />
have been settled, and the other is still in course<br />
of negotiation.<br />
The last case referred to the settlement of an<br />
agreement. The terms put forward have now<br />
been accepted.<br />
THE Dramatic Sub-Committee of the society<br />
met again at the offices of the society on Tuesday,<br />
January 17th, in order to discuss and settle finally<br />
the petition to the Lord Chamberlain which had<br />
been drafted by counsel. The secretary opened<br />
the proceedings by reading the correspondence<br />
that had passed between the chairman, Sir Arthur<br />
Pinero, and Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree in regard<br />
to the matter of the agreement between the<br />
theatrical and music-ball managers dealing with<br />
the question of the production of sketches in<br />
music-halls. Mr. Cecil Raleigh mentioned that<br />
he had heard indirectly, but upon good authority,<br />
that the chairman of the West End Managers'<br />
e West End Managers:<br />
Association was urging upon the Theatrical<br />
Managers' Association the advisability of striking<br />
ont of the agreement alluded to the clause affecting<br />
the rights of authors. In order thoroughly to<br />
defend the position of authors, however, Mr.<br />
Raleigh pointed out it was very necessary for<br />
authors to support the Bill relating to public<br />
amusements which Mr. Robert Harcourt shortly<br />
intended to lay before Parliament. To this end,<br />
it was deemed desirable that the Home Secretary<br />
should be invited to receive a deputation, con-<br />
Elections.<br />
Anstey, Mre. Helen . . 45, New Bond Street,<br />
W.<br />
Balfour, John Alexander. " Victoria Hall,"<br />
Byculla, Bombay,<br />
India.<br />
Bates, Albert Bonsteel . Credit Lyonnais,<br />
Paris.<br />
Blundell, Miss Alice . 42, Powis Square, W.<br />
Dart, Miss Edith .. The Orchard, Credi-<br />
ton, Devon.<br />
Edginton, Miss May . Merris Court, near<br />
Chipping Norton.<br />
Fletcher Banister . . 29, New Bridge<br />
Street, E.C.<br />
Gilfillan, Allen Daintree. Hampden Club,<br />
Phenix Street,<br />
N.W.<br />
Glancey, M. E. . . 7, Queen's Road,<br />
Tunbridge Wells.<br />
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Hill, W. Neave . . 49, Dover Street,<br />
Piccadilly, W.<br />
Iliowizi, Henry . . 63, Collingwood<br />
Avenue, Muswell<br />
Hill, N.<br />
Kemp, Emily G.<br />
Knight, E. F. . . Yorick Club, 30,<br />
Bedford Street, W.<br />
Lawrence, T.J. . . Upton Lovel Rectory,<br />
* Wilts.<br />
Lindemann, Miss Linda. Sidholme, Sidmouth.<br />
Maud, Mrs. Dorothy . 10, Pelham Street, S.W.<br />
ary, Robert E. i . c/o Messrs. Curtis,<br />
Brown and Massie,<br />
5, Henrietta Street,<br />
W.C.<br />
Scott-James, R. A. . 15, Porchester Gar-<br />
dens, W.<br />
Simpson, Horace J. - Beech Hill Cottage,<br />
Bury St. Edmunds.<br />
Wanless, M. V. , . c/o English, Scottish<br />
and Australian<br />
Bank, 38, Lombard<br />
Street, E.C.<br />
Wentworth, C. L. G.<br />
Wilson, Lady A. C. Ochilview, Crieff,<br />
N.B.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
SOUVENIR OF “ THE BLUE BIRD." By HERBERT TRENCH.<br />
84 x 11. John Long. 6d. n.<br />
THE MADRAS HOUSE: A Comedy in Four Acts. By<br />
GRANVILLE BARKER. 74 x 44. 144 pp. Sidgwick &<br />
Jackson. 1s. 6d. n.<br />
A MESSAGE FROM THE GODs. By MELCHIOR MACBRIDE.<br />
74 x 5. Hunter & Longhurst. 18. 6d. n.<br />
EARLY PLAYS FROM THE ITALIAN. Edited, with Essay.<br />
Introduction, and Notes, by R. WARWICK BOND. 72<br />
x 51. 332 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press. London :<br />
Frowde. 78. 60, n.<br />
MID-CHANNEL. A Play in Four Acts. By ABTHUR<br />
PINERO. 68 x 5. 351 pp. Heinemann. ls. 6d.<br />
LUCILLA. A Drama in Three Scenes. By SIR EDWARD<br />
DURAND. 72 pp. Doherty & Co., 6, Great Newport<br />
Street, W.C.<br />
EDUCATION<br />
A PROGRAMME OF EDUCATION. By NASAWANJI JIVANJI<br />
READYMONEY. Bombay : “ Times " Press.<br />
FICTION.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<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 effice<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 />
SELECTED EXAMPLES OF INDIAN ART. By A. K.<br />
COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc. Containing 40 Coloured and<br />
Collotype Plates of Indian Painting and Sculpture, either<br />
bound or in portfolio form, and with Introduction and<br />
Notes by the Author. Quaritch. €3 38.<br />
INDIAN DRAWINGS. By A. K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc.<br />
A Study of the Studies of Indian Artists of the Mughal<br />
and Rajput Schools. With 29 Collotype Plates and many<br />
Line Drawings in the Text. Probst bain & Co. Great<br />
Russell Street. 258.<br />
ESSAYS ON THE PURPOSE OF ART. Past and Present<br />
Creeds of English Painters. By MRS. RUSSELL<br />
BARRINGTON. 9 x 6. 421 pp. Longmans. 128. 6d. n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
MRS. E. M. WARD'S REMINISCENCES. Edited by ELLIOT<br />
O'DONNELL. 93 x 6. 296 pp. Pitman. 128. 6d. 1.<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
LITERARY YEAR BOOK AND BOOKMAN'S DIRECTORY.<br />
Edited by BASIL STEWART. 74 x 43.927 pp. Rout-<br />
ledge. 68. n.<br />
A DRAMA OF THE TELEPHONE. By RICHARD MARSH.<br />
7} x 5. 318 pp. Digby Long. 68.<br />
PAM THE FIDDLER. By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE. 74 x<br />
5. 379 pp. Werner Laurie. 6s.<br />
DOWN OUR STREET. A Provincial Comedy. By J. E.<br />
BUCKROSE. 74 X 5. 352 pp. Mills & Boon, 68.<br />
CHILDREN OF THE CLOVEN Hoof. By ALBERT DORRING-<br />
TON. 78 X 5. 316 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
GILEAD BALM. By BERNARD CAPES. 74 x 5. 320 pp.<br />
Fisher Unwin. 6s.<br />
PHYLLIDA. By THOMAS COBB. 74 x 5. 312 pp. Mills<br />
& Boon. 68.<br />
THE NEW MACHIAVELLI. By H. G. WELLS. 74 x 5.<br />
528 pp. Lane. 68.<br />
THE MARRIAGE OF COUNT MALORTO. By D. HUGH<br />
PRYCE. 8 x 5. 311 pp. Everett. 68.<br />
THE MATING OF ANTHEA. By ARABELLA KENEALY.<br />
73 x 5. 352 pp. John Long. 68.<br />
THE RIDING MASTER. BY DOLF WYLLARDE. 8 x 5.<br />
354 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
THE OTHER WIFE. By OLIVIA RAMSEY. 73 X 5.<br />
320 pp. John Long. 68.<br />
SELF AND THE OTHER. By VICTORIA CROSS. 71 x 5.<br />
303 pp. Werner Laurie. 68.<br />
A PRIESTESS OF HUMANITY. By MRS. STANLEY<br />
WRENCH. 73 x 5. 319 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
NATURE'S LADY. By EDMUND LEE. 73 x 5. 288 pp.<br />
Digby Long. 68.<br />
IN WASTE PLACES. By MRS. C. L. WOOLLASTON WHITE.<br />
7 x 5. 246 pp. Barnet : St. Andrews Press.<br />
THE QUAKER GIRL. By HAROLD SIMPSON. 71 x 5.<br />
255 pp. Mills & Boon. 18. n.<br />
THE DEUCE AND ALL. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH.<br />
298 pp. The Equinox, 124, Victoria Street, S.W.<br />
38. 6d. n.<br />
THE HISTORY OF A SOUL. An Attempt at Psychology.<br />
By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH, 296 pp. The Equinos,<br />
124, Victoria Street, S.W.<br />
ON THE LOOSE. By GEORGE RAFFalovich, The Equinox.<br />
124, Victoria Street, S.W. 18. n.<br />
IN WASTE PLACES. By Mrs. C. L. WOOLLASTON WHITE.<br />
74 x 51. With Illustrations. 250 pp. Barnet : St.<br />
Andrews Press. 38. n.<br />
Doctor GREY. By STEPHEN ANDREW. 71 X 5. 320 pp.<br />
Greening. 68.<br />
A CORN OF WHEAT. By E. H. Young. Heinemann. Gs.<br />
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109<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE GOLDEN BOOK OF YOUTH : Noble Deeds of Boys<br />
and Girls. By A. B. BARNARD, L.L.A. Pilgrim Press.<br />
35. 6d. n.<br />
MEDICAL<br />
ALCOHOL AND THE HUMAN BODY. BY SIR VICTOR<br />
HORSLEY, M.D., and MARY D. STURGE, M.D. 7 X 48.<br />
290 pp. Macmillan. 18. n.<br />
PHYSIOLOGY THE SERVANT OF MEDICINE : Chloroform in<br />
the Laboratory and in the Hospital : being the Hitch-<br />
cock Lectures for 1909, delivered at the University of<br />
California, Berkeley, Cal. By AUGUSTUS D. WALLER,<br />
M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., Director of the Physiological<br />
Laboratory of the University of London. London: The<br />
University of London Press. Hodder & Stoughton, War.<br />
wick Square, E.C. 58. n.<br />
SCIENCE.<br />
SCIENCE OF HISTORY OR SCIENCE OF NATURE HISTORY,<br />
A Line of Study for Assigning Places to all Events in<br />
Creation in order of time, showing their Genesis, which<br />
define themselves. By NASAWANJI JIVANJI READY-<br />
MONEY. Bombay : “ Times of India" Office. London<br />
Office, 121, Fleet Street, E.C.<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
REGENERATION. Being an Account of the Social<br />
Work of the Salvation Army in Great Britain.<br />
By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 78 X 51. 264 pp. Long-<br />
mans. 25. 6d. n.<br />
BROTHER EAST AND BROTHER WEST : A Searchlight<br />
on the Unemployed. By CONSTANCE MARRIOTT.<br />
Heinemann. 38. 6d.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
CHRIST IN THE CHURCH. A Volume of Religious Essays,<br />
By ROBERT Hugh BENSON. 78 X 54. 221 pp. Long-<br />
mans. 38, 60, n.<br />
REUNION AND ROME. By the REV. PERCY DEARMER.<br />
Mowbray. 18. 6d.<br />
EGYPT AND ISRAEL. By W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE.<br />
74 x 5. 150 pp. S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.<br />
THEOLOGY FOR PARENTS. By EIRENE WIGRAM. 8 x 51.<br />
181 pp. Mowbray.<br />
THE BOOK OF PEACE. Made by PAMELA TENNANT. 8 X 6..<br />
124 pp. Chiswick Press. 6s. n.<br />
MILITARY.<br />
THE MATABELE CAMPAIGN. By LIEUT.-GEN. SIR<br />
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL, K.C.B. 7 x 41 192 pp.<br />
Bennett, 4d. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
DOMESTIC HANDICRAFT AND CULTURE. A Lecture read<br />
before the Association of Teachers of Domestic Science.<br />
By ANANDA K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARRETT.<br />
HAMILTON. With Illustrations by E. A. WILSON.<br />
Part III. 10 x 7. Gurney & Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
WRERE BLACK RULES WHITE. A Journey Across and<br />
About Hayti. By H. H. PRICHARD, F.R.G.S.<br />
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION. Edited by EUSTACE<br />
REYNOLDS BALL, F.R.G.S. With 140 Illustrations from<br />
original Photographs. Vol. 4. July-December, 1910.<br />
8.3 X 61. 480 pp. Witherby. 7s.6d. n.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
ORIENTAL.<br />
SACRED BOOKS OF THE BUDDHISTS. Translated by<br />
Various Oriental Scholars. Edited by T. W. RHYS<br />
DAVIDS, LL.D. Vol. III. Dialogues of the Buddha.<br />
Translated from the Pāli of the Digha Nikäya. By T. W.<br />
and C. A. F. Rhys DAVIDS. Part II. 9 X 54. 382 pp.<br />
Frowde. 108. 6d.<br />
POETRY.<br />
Songs Of SUSSEX. By the Rev. F. W. ORDE WARD,<br />
74 x 54. 80 pp. E. Macdonald. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH POETRY. Being an Anthology of<br />
the Best Scottish Verse from the Earliest Times to the<br />
Present. Chosen and Edited by SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS,<br />
BART. 71 x 5. 928 pp. Unwin. 78. 6d. n.<br />
POEMS OF HEROISM AND DEVOTION. Selected from the<br />
Works of RICHARD TISSINGTON. 6 X 4. (The New<br />
Treasury.) Banks & Ashwell, 180, High Holborn, W.C.<br />
THE TRIUMPH OF PAN. By GEORGE RAFFALOVICH. The<br />
Equinox, 124, Victoria Street, S.W. 58. n.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH. By JAMES BRYCE.<br />
2 vols. New edition. Completely revised throughout,<br />
with Additional Chapters. 8 X 54. 742 + 962 pp.<br />
The Macmillan Co. 218. n.<br />
THE CANADIAN NAVAL QUESTION. Address delivered by<br />
CLIVE PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, F.R.C.S., Vice-President<br />
Navy League. 7} x . 70 pp. Toronto : Briggs.<br />
HE“ Concise Etymological Dictionary of the<br />
T English Language," by Professor Skeat,<br />
- after passing through three editions, was<br />
almost entirely re-written, and appeared in a much<br />
improved form in 1901. It has now been once<br />
more revised and corrected, to bring it more up to<br />
the level of the new edition of his larger Etymo.<br />
logical Dictionary that appeared in 1910. The<br />
new edition of ihe “Concise ” Dictionary will<br />
appear early in 1911.<br />
The Rev. Professor Skeat has completed a small<br />
treatise on “ Berkshire Place-names,” which will<br />
shortly be published by the Clarendon Press. It<br />
is written on the same lines as the Place-names of<br />
Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire<br />
and Hertfordshire, already published for him by<br />
the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and the East<br />
Hertfordshire Archæological Society,<br />
“L'Homme Vert, et Autres Contes de Fée,” is<br />
the title of Miss Jetta S. Wolff's last book of French<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
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464 pp. Sampson Low. 218. n.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
stories for young people. Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons English Translations,” in commemoration of the<br />
are the publishers.<br />
Tercentenary of the Authorised Version, 1611-<br />
“Down Our Street," by J. E. Buckrose, is the 1911. The author, Mr. S. F. Pells, of St. Mary's,<br />
comedy of a provincial town, and gives a picture Hove, is the editor of “The First English Transla-<br />
of middle-class life as it really is, not as people tion of the Septuagint," and the publishers are<br />
imagine it to be. There is some humour in the Messrs. Simpkin Marshall & Co., London.<br />
book, and the irrepressible Mrs. Bean is the chief Major P. T. Godsal has published through<br />
character, though the love story of Sophia supplies Messrs. Harrison & Sons “The Storming of<br />
the thread upon which the novel hangs. The London, and the Thames Valley Campaign." In<br />
whole narrative concerns the inhabitants of one this book the conquest of Britain by the Anglo-<br />
street, and the reader makes the acquaintance of a Saxons is for the first time treated as a military<br />
small social community, each character being question, and it is shown that all the evidence<br />
definitely pourtrayed. Messrs. Mills & Boon are indicates that they took London first, and settled<br />
the publishers<br />
round it, and that they then fought up the Valley<br />
“The Fortunes of Flot," by K. F. Purdon, is of the Thames.<br />
the story of an Irish mongrel, his hardships and We regret that, through an error of classification,<br />
joys. The object of the book is to induce owners we included in the last issue of The Author among<br />
of dogs to remember that these animals have rights the Juvenile Works, Mrs. C. L. Woollaston White's<br />
to be respected, and whatever trouble they give to novel “ In Waste Places." We have rectified the<br />
man is due to their being misunderstood and badly error in another column of this issue.<br />
trained.' The tricks taught to “Flot,” and referred “The Sea Lion,” by Patrick Rushden, is the<br />
to in the book, were taught to a dog known to the story of two half-brothers, one of whom has been<br />
writer without the introduction of a harsh word. to sea, and is the real “Sea Lion.” Through<br />
Mrs. Barclay's novel, “The Rosary," is shortly injuries he has become a paralytic, and is entirely<br />
to appear in a German translation. Messrs. G. P. dependent on his half-brother, who markets his<br />
Putnams' Sons have arranged also for the Nor- writings for him. They are extremely alike in<br />
wegian serial translation rights of this story. appearance, and the spurious “Lion” wins the love<br />
Mrs. Desmond Humphreys (“Rita ") has just of the heroine, Sybil Lethbridge, on the strength<br />
published her impressions of America, which she of this; she cared for the real "Sea Lion," Brian<br />
recently visited. The book is entitled “America Thornfield, who went out of her life; and transfers<br />
-Through English Eyes.” “Rita's” new novel her affections to the man who so forcibly reminds<br />
will be published by Messrs. Hutchinson early in her of the other. Stanley Thornfield lives luxuri.<br />
the spring. It is entitled “Half a Truth."<br />
ously and passes as the author of the writings of<br />
Mr. Laurence North, author of “Syrinx," has his half-brother—whom he keeps in a poor lodging,<br />
written for Mr. Martin Secker a new novel entitled and who is ignorant of the fact of the relationship.<br />
“Impatient Griselda.” The book, a comedy of In the end Stanley Thornfield is made to expose<br />
modern life, will be published early in the present his imposture through the hypnotic power of an<br />
year.<br />
old man who has exploited him for his own ends ;<br />
Mr. Werner Laurie published early in January and the dénouement is achieved in a dramatic and<br />
a new novel by Victoria Cross, called “Self and the tragic manner. The story ends in the spring sun-<br />
Other." It is a story of love and self-sacrifice, and shine of Florence, where the true “Sea Lion,"<br />
the scenes are laid at Cambridge University and almost a sound man after a dangerous operation,<br />
Constantinople.<br />
comes at last into his own.<br />
Messrs. Hugh Rees, Ltd., are the publishers “A Priestess of Humanity," by Mrs. Stanley<br />
of “Canada and Canadian Defence,” by Major- Wrench, published by John Long, is a psycho-<br />
General C. W. Robinson, C.B., which discusses logical study of a woman who has gone under, but<br />
closely the general character of naval and military who is reclaimed by the love of a good man. He,<br />
defence required under the circumstances of Canada a writer, unconsciously falls in love with a woman<br />
for the security of her frontier to-day—a subject of of the same calibre as himself, but rather than<br />
Imperial importance, to which the creation of a break faith with the woman of the under world,<br />
Canadian navy and the recommendations of the sacrifices himself as well as his art. The book<br />
Imperial Defence Conference of 1909, add special ends on a note of hopefulness, and is intended to<br />
interest. The grounds for the dictum of Wellington show “there is so much good in the worst of us."<br />
that naval, superiority on the lakes is a sine qua Miss A. E. Keeton will give, during the month<br />
non of success (even in defensive war) on the of February, three of her “Studies of Modern<br />
frontier of Canada are fully explained.<br />
British Song” at Hampstead, at Wimbledon and<br />
Among books shortly to be published may be at Camberley. Vocal illustrations will be sung by<br />
mentioned “The Great Texts of the Bible and our Miss Grainger-Kerr, accompanied by Miss Marjorie<br />
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dies will immest A Bright,<br />
Adam. The studies will include examples by the date of production of the two plays not as yet<br />
following composers :-Ernest Austin, Granville performed. The same writer is now working on<br />
Bantock, Hubert Bath, Dora Bright, Arthur another play.<br />
Barclay, Walford Davies, Katherine Eggar, Joseph An American edition of Edith Searle Gross-<br />
Holbrooke, Frederick C. Nicholls, Norman O'Neill, mann's novel, “ The Heart of the Bush," is being<br />
Roger Quilter, Katherine Ramsay (Marchioness of published by the John Lane Company, New York.<br />
Tullibardine), Percy Rideout, Jervis Read, Ethel “The Other Wife" is the title of Miss Olivia<br />
Smyth, Cyril Scott, Ernest Walker, William Ramsey's new novel, published by Messrs. John<br />
Wallace, R. H. Walthew, Dalhousie Young. Long. It relates the experiences of a young wife,<br />
In “ Love or Lucre," by Edith C. Gerrard, the introduced into London society after a dull and<br />
author deals with an important problem, which is isolated girlhood. This is Miss Ramsey's fifth<br />
faced in rastly different ways by 'the different novel.<br />
people whom it concerns. Messrs. F. V. White & “ The Reproof of Chance" is a novel by Mrs.<br />
Co. are the publishers.<br />
E. W. Savi, in which is presented a picture of the<br />
Messrs. S. W. Partridge & Co. announce the social life in Calcutta. Messrs. Digby Long & Co.<br />
publication of the fourth edition of "The Com- are the publishers. The same firm issue also Mr.<br />
plete Bible in Modern English,” by Ferrar Fenton. Reginald E. Salwey's new novel, “The Kestrel,”<br />
The same publishers have also Mr. Fenton's "New the scene of which is placed on the south-east<br />
Testament in Modern English ” (ninih edition); coast of England.<br />
“The Five Books of Moses” (fourth edition); Miss Regina Miriam Bloch, whose paper on<br />
“ The Six Historical Books”; “The Books of “Three Great American Poets" (Longfellow,<br />
the Prophets”; “ The Psalıns and Poetical Books Emerson and Poe) was recently delivered before the<br />
of the Bible”; “St. Paul's Epistles” (sixth Bedford Park Literary and Philosophical Society,<br />
edition). All of these, with the exception of the is giving several smaller readings during February,<br />
last-mentioned, are published at 28. 6d. The “St. whilst on March 5th she has been invited to<br />
Paul's Epistles” are issued at 1s., at which price Swansea, to deliver a critical essay on “ Heinrich<br />
also is published a special People's Edition of “The Heine.” She also contemplates giving a lecture at<br />
New Testament in Modern English.”<br />
Hampstead soon after her return.<br />
The proprietors of Travel and Exploration may Prison life as it affects the more highly-<br />
be cungratulated on their first issue for 1911, educated portion of the community is the theme<br />
which fully maintains the standard of this magazine of a novel which Mr. Roy Horniman has just<br />
since its inception. Among the contributors are completed. Mr. Horniman has also completed<br />
Mr. Edmund Forbes, who writes on “Malay Klongs another novel of a more sensational character.<br />
and Rivers ” ; Mr. Ernest Young, who describes A revised and cheap edition of “Lombard Street<br />
“ Bear Shooting in Finland”; and Mr. E. A. in Lent” is announced by Mr. Robert Scott. This<br />
Reynolds Ball, who has an article on “ Six Flemish re-issue is under the general editorship of the Rev.<br />
Percy Dearmer, and contains a new chapter from<br />
We have received a little volume by the Rev. Dr. his pen, as well as an introduction by the Rev.<br />
Lapsilell, called “Princess Alfrida's Charity.” Canon Scott Holland.<br />
Princess Alfrida was the third and youngest Mr. Morris Colles and Mr. Henry Cresswell have<br />
daughter of Alfred the Great, and the Grant made arrangements with Messrs. Methuen & Co.<br />
mentioned in the Charter, a copy of which Dr. in England, and Mr. Pitis Duffield in America,<br />
Lansdell obtained from the State Archives in for the simultaneous publication of a small work<br />
Ghent, details the princess's gift of her inheritance on " Success in Literature,” which is likely to<br />
of Lewisham, Greenwich and Woolwich. Dr. prove interesting to authors. The scope of the<br />
Lansdell traces the history of the Charity, in which book is to harvest and elucidate such counsels of<br />
is involved the history of the first five hundred the literary great as are accessible and likely to<br />
years of the reputed manor of Old Court, Green prove practically useful to authors in their work.<br />
wich, now the principal possession of the properties The book makes no didactic pretensions, the<br />
bequeathed to Morden College by the founder, Sir object of the compilers having been simply to<br />
John Morden, Baronet. Messrs. Burnside, Ltd., adduce, from many sources, such precepts, obser-<br />
of Blackheath, are the publishers.<br />
vacions, and thoughts as may serve to reveal the<br />
Mr. John Galsworthy's new novel, called “The secrets of success in literature. It is nearly ready.<br />
Patrician," will be published by Mr. Heinemann Mr. Lurence Irving contributes an introduction<br />
early in March. Later in the year Messrs. Duck- and appreciation of Fedor Dostoieffsky and his<br />
worth & Co. will publishi a volume of three plays, work to the Everyman Edition of his novel,<br />
already written (including “ Justice," by Mr. “ Crime and Punishment," wbich Messrs. J. M.<br />
Galsworthy), the date of issue depending on the Dent & Sons are publishing.<br />
Cities."<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Miss Agnes Deans Cameron was sent through Daly's Theatre on January 7. The present<br />
Canada by the Canadian Government to prepare version has been strengthened by certain altera-<br />
for lectures, which she has since delivered in tions introduced in the last act. The cast<br />
England, showing the desirability of emigration includes Mr. Robert Michaelis, Mr. W. H. Berry,<br />
The example of the Canadian Government has and Miss Lily Elsie.<br />
been followed by the Australian Government, who Mrs. Percy Dearmer's mystery play, “ The Play.<br />
have sent Miss Beatrice Grimshaw to explore mate," which was performed last year, has been<br />
Papua, while the British South African Company published by Messrs. Mowbray & Co., with illus-<br />
have also engaged a woman, Miss E. A. Maidmend, trations by Helen Stratton.<br />
to do agricultural promotion work for South Mr. J. B. Fagan has just completed a modern<br />
Africa.<br />
three-act play, “The Wheel," the scene of which<br />
Stephen Andrew, who wrote - The Serpent and is laid in India. The first act passes in a bungalow<br />
the Cross,” has published a new novel, “ Doctor in the Plains, the latter two in a Buddhist monas-<br />
Grey,” in which he describes the life of an average tery in the Himalaya of Bhutan. The play is a<br />
doctor of to-day. Incidentally the author has love tragedy. Mr. Fagan has also dramatised Mr.<br />
drawn sharp impressionist pictures of many little Robert Hichens' novel, “Bella Donna." This<br />
known sides of English life. Messrs. Greening & play will be produced later by Mr. George<br />
Co. are the publishers.<br />
Alexander.<br />
“ The Family and Heirs of Sir Francis Drake," "Lucilla" is a drama in three scenes by Sir<br />
by Lady Eliott-Drake, should prove interesting Edward Durand, published by Messrs. Doherty<br />
from many points of view. Hitherto unpublished & Co., 6, Great Newport Street, St. Martin's<br />
documents relating to Sir Francis' ancestry and Lane, W.C.<br />
circumnavigation, sidelights on national and Mr. H. Granville Barker's comedy in four acts,<br />
county history, local politics, and the fortunes of “The Madras House," was published last month<br />
several west country families—all based on recent by Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson.<br />
original research-come within the scope of two In consequence of Miss Neilson's and Mr. Terry's<br />
volumes. But wbilst presenting a continuous return to the New Theatre, Mr. Oscar Asche and<br />
record, century by century, of a typical county Miss Lily Brayton have transferred “Count<br />
family's patriotic participation in public and Hannibal ” to the Garrick Theatre.<br />
political affairs, space has been accorded to many Mr. Henry Arthur Jones's new play, “We Can't<br />
contemporary letters, which are as entertaining as be so Bad as all That !” had its first performance<br />
they are interesting.<br />
at the Naziomora Theatre, New York. It was also<br />
played at the London Scala on the same evening,<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
for copyright purposes.<br />
Mr. George Alexander will produce this month a<br />
Sir Arthur Pinero's new play in four acts, new play by Mr. A. E. W. Mason. It is a play of<br />
“ Preserving Mr. Panmure," was produced on political interest and is called “ For the Defence."<br />
January 19 at the Comedy Theatre. The play “Coats," a comedy, by Lady Gregory, was pro-<br />
relates how Mrs. Panmure, a lady with ideals, duced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in January.<br />
married a worn-out rake whom she hoped to reform ; The theme of the play is the rivalry between two<br />
how she was so far unsuccessful that her husband editors, each of whom has written an obituary<br />
was guilty of paying an osculatory attention to the notice of the other.<br />
family governess; how the governess endeavoured Mr. Roy Horniman bas arranged to dramatise,<br />
to persuade other males to take the guilt, in order for early production, a novel by Mr. Charles<br />
that she might spare Mrs. Panmure (whom she Garvice.<br />
loved) pain ; how an M.P.'s secretary, who is in<br />
love with the governess, takes the blame for the<br />
offence; and finally, how the governess obtains the<br />
member of Parliament for her husband. The<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
cast includes Mr. Arthur Playfair, Miss Lilian<br />
Braithwaite, Miss Marie Löhr, and Mr. Dion<br />
Boucicault.<br />
JULES HURET has just brought out<br />
“ Vice Versâ,” having been transferred from .. his fourth book on Germany. It is<br />
the Comedy Theatre to the Court, is now houscd<br />
entitled “ La Bavière et la Saxe."<br />
at the Strand Theatre.<br />
The former ones are “Rhin et Westphalie,"<br />
“A Waltz Dream,” the operetta in three acts, “ De Hambourg aux marches de la Pologne,"<br />
adapted for the English stage by Captain Basil and “ Berlin." Jules Huret does not write his<br />
Hood, with lyrics by Adrian Ross, was revived at books after a month's residence in the countries<br />
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113<br />
Orients ab instructive cardie les avocats are des<br />
he describes. He has been living in the various<br />
parts of Germany, and, as he is a keen observer,<br />
this work is a chef-d'ouvre of knowledge and shrewd<br />
observation. To all readers of the Figaro Jules<br />
Huret's investigations have been thoroughly<br />
appreciated for very many years. His book on<br />
literary questions, and another one on questions of<br />
social economy, were both eagerly read. At present,<br />
he is giving us a series of articles on the Argentine,<br />
which will be published later on in volume form.<br />
When he turns his attention to England it is pro-<br />
bable that he will tell us much of which we ourselves<br />
are ignorant.<br />
The book written by M. Joran entitled, “ Les<br />
Féministes avant le Féminisme” is curious and<br />
interesting, and might be read with profit by the<br />
saffragettes and the suffragists of to-day. The<br />
volume is dedicated to a woman and the preface is<br />
written by a woman. M. Joran endeavours to<br />
show the difference between the ideals of the<br />
women of former times and the demands of a large<br />
group of the women of to-day.<br />
The first chapter of this book is devoted to<br />
Christine de Pisan and her book, “ Le Trésor de la<br />
Cité des Dames," one of the works written by her<br />
between 1399 and 1405. It is interesting to find<br />
that so many centuries ago a woman should expect<br />
competence in so many different lines from women<br />
in various classes of society, for, according to the<br />
passages quoted, Christine de Pisan expected com-<br />
petence in matters of economics, in administration,<br />
agriculture and finance from the women for whom<br />
she wrote. The other chapters of the volume are<br />
on Erasmus, Corneille Agrippa, Agrippa d’Aubigné,<br />
Joseph de Maistre, De l'Escale, Mlle. de Gournay,<br />
Du Bosc, St. Gabriel, Decrues Goussault, Duchess<br />
de Liancourt and James Lawrence. Other books<br />
by this author are entitled : “Le Mensonge du<br />
Féminisme," " Autour du Féminisme," " Au Caur<br />
du Féminisine,” “La Trouée Féministe," and he is<br />
is at pre-ent writing “ Le Suffrago des Femmes."<br />
Among other new books are: “Les Femmes<br />
Auteurs," by Vicomte de Broc; “La Fosse aux<br />
Lions," by Emile Baumann; “La Bataille,” by<br />
Claude Farrère ; “Pour tuer Bonaparte," by<br />
Georges Ohnet.<br />
In the recent numbers of the Revue de Deux<br />
Mondes M. Faguet writes on “Liberalisme et<br />
Etatisme” : M. René Doumic studies the works of<br />
M. Alfred Capus, and M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu<br />
writes on “L'Eventualité d'une Révolution<br />
Syndicaliste."<br />
In Le Correspondant M. Tavernier gives an<br />
article on Tolstoi, and M. Thureau Dangin on<br />
" La Vie du Cardinal Vaughan et celle de Colonel<br />
Vaughan."<br />
La Rerue hebdomadaire has published some<br />
extremely interesting articles in recent numbers ;<br />
among others “ La Balance politique ; l'Europe en<br />
Orient” by M. Gabriel Hanotaux, and a very<br />
curious and instructive article by M. Ch. Cheñu,<br />
former Batonnier de l'Ordre des avocats, on “ Le<br />
Centennaire de la restauration de l'Ordre des<br />
avocats.”<br />
M. Guy de Montbel pnblishes the souvenirs<br />
of his grandfather, Comte de Montbel, under the<br />
title of “ Sur les routes de l'exil,” and Jules<br />
Lemaître's lecture on “Les Péchés de Sainte-<br />
Beuve ” is published in full.<br />
At the Odéon Roméo et Juliette is now being<br />
given.<br />
“L'Aventurier,” by Alfred Capus, is still on<br />
the bill at the Porte-Saint-Martin. Like all of<br />
this author's plays, the “ Aventurier" has a happy<br />
ending. Etienne Ranson, the scapegrace of the<br />
family, leaves the country in debt and comes back a<br />
wealthy man. He is then invited to come to the<br />
rescue of an uncle who is on the brink of ruin.<br />
He is willing to do this provided that his cousin<br />
Geneviève will marry him. She is engaged.<br />
Etienne is then inflexible, but when Geneviève's<br />
brother is about to commit suicide and his sister<br />
appeals to him, he finally yields and comes to the<br />
rescue of the family. Geneviève then discorers<br />
his real worth, breaks off her engagement and<br />
marries him.<br />
“Le Carnaval des enfants,” by M. Saint-<br />
Georges de Bouhélier, has had great success at the<br />
Théâtre des Arts.<br />
The centenary of Alfred de Musset was com-<br />
memorated at the Comédie Française with all the<br />
honours possible. A matinée and soirée entirely<br />
composed of the poet's works were both greatly<br />
appreciated by the admirers of Musset.<br />
One of the events of the season in the theatrical<br />
world has been the re-opening of the Shakespeare<br />
Theatre by M. Camille de Sainte-Croix with “ The<br />
Taming of the Shrew” (“L'Ecole de la Pie<br />
Grièche"). The play was given two nights, and<br />
every fortnight another of Shakespeare's plays is<br />
to be represented. Rarely is such an excellent<br />
ensemble seen. M. de Sainte-Croix has chosen each<br />
actor and trained the whole company specially for<br />
these plays. The result is admirable, and the<br />
Parisians are enthusiastic in their appreciation and<br />
praise. It is very probable that at the end of the<br />
French season M. de Sainte-Croix will take his<br />
company for a tour through England with his<br />
Shakespeare repertory.<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
“ La Bavière" (Fasquelle).<br />
" Les Feministes avant Féminisme (Arthur Savaète).<br />
" Les Femmes Auteurs” (Plon).<br />
"La Fosse aux Lions" (Bernard Grasset).<br />
“La Bataille” (Ollendorff).<br />
“ Pour tuer Bonaparte " (Ollendorff).<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
COPYRIGHT REGISTRATION IN U.S.A.<br />
DEPOSIT OF FRAGMENT OF BOOK.<br />
A PPLICATION for registration of copyright<br />
should be denied, (1) Where the ad interim<br />
deposit under sect. 21 of the Copyright<br />
Act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., 1080), is a com-<br />
plete book, and the permanent deposit under<br />
sect. 22 is only a part of such book ; (2) Where<br />
both the ad interim and permanent deposits are<br />
fragments of the work ; (3) Where the copy<br />
printed and bound in accordance with the manu-<br />
facturing provisions of sect. 15 of the Act and<br />
deposited in the first instance, is only a fragment<br />
of the work; and (4) Where a complete book is<br />
deposited, but the affidavit correctly indicates that<br />
only a part of the work is printed in the United<br />
States.<br />
The word “book," as used in sects. 21 and 22<br />
and in class (a) of sect. 5 and elsewhere in that<br />
Act, means the entire book and not a fragment<br />
thereof.<br />
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,<br />
Washington, February 9, 1910.<br />
SIR, --Your communication of January 18,<br />
1910, wherewith you transmit certain documents<br />
from the Librarian of Congress, was duly received.<br />
From the statement of the Librarian it appears<br />
that in a number of instances in attempting to<br />
comply with the provisions of the copyright law of<br />
March 4, 1909 (35 Stat., ,1080), only parts of<br />
books hare been deposited by applicants with the<br />
Register of Copyrights and copyrights applied for<br />
thereon ; and I am asked what action should be<br />
taken by the Register of Copyrights when an<br />
application is made which presents either of the<br />
following conditions :-<br />
1. Where the ad interim deposit under sect. 21<br />
is a complete book, and the permanent deposit<br />
under sect. 22 is only a part of such book.<br />
2. Where both the ad interim and permanent<br />
deposits are fragments of the work.<br />
3. Where the copy, printed and bound in<br />
accordance with the manufacturing provisions of<br />
sect. 15 of the Act and deposited in the first<br />
instance, is only a fragment of the work.<br />
4. Where a complete book is deposited, but the<br />
affidavit correctly indicates that only part of the<br />
work is printed in the United States.<br />
In reply to these questions I have the honour to<br />
say:<br />
The first two questions in rolve a construction<br />
of sects. 21 and 22 of the Copyright Act, which<br />
relate to procuring a copyright in a book published<br />
abroad in the Euglish language, while the last two<br />
involve the general provisions of the Act.<br />
Sects. 21 and 22 read as follows:<br />
Sect. 21. That in the case of a book published<br />
abroad in the English language before publication<br />
in this country, the deposit in the Copyright Office,<br />
not later than thirty days after its publication<br />
abroad, of one complete copy of the foreign edition,<br />
with a request for the reservation of the copyright<br />
and a statement of the name and nationality of the<br />
author and of the copyright proprietor and of the<br />
date of publication of the said book, shall secure to<br />
the author or proprietor an ad interim copyright,<br />
which shall have all the force and effect given to<br />
copyright by this Act, and shall endure until the<br />
expiration of thirty days after such deposit in the<br />
copyright Office<br />
Sect. 22. That whenever within the period of<br />
such ad interim protection an authorised edition<br />
of such book shall be published within the United<br />
States, in accordance with the manufacturing pro-<br />
visions specified in section fifteen of this Act, and<br />
whenever the provisions of this Act as to deposit of<br />
copies, registration, filing of affidavit, and the<br />
printing of the copyright notice shall have been<br />
duly complied with, the copyright shall be extended<br />
to endure in such book for the full term elsewhere<br />
provided in this Act.<br />
Does the word "book" as here used, mean the<br />
entire book, or a fragment of a book ? It appears<br />
to me that there can be but one answer to this<br />
question. The requirement in sect. 21 that a<br />
deposit in the Copyright Office within the time<br />
specified “of one complete copy of the foreign<br />
edition,” clearly indicates that in the enactment of<br />
these sections the entire book was in the minds of<br />
Congress, and not a fragment thereof.<br />
I am also of the opinion that the same meaning<br />
should be given the word “ book " as it appears in<br />
class (a), sect. 5, and elsewhere in the Act. When<br />
it was enacted in sect. 8 “ that the author or pro-<br />
prietor of any work made the subject of copyright<br />
by this Act ... shall have copyright for such<br />
work under the conditions and for the term speci-<br />
fied in this Act" it certainly was not intended<br />
that a chapter or two—a mere fragment of a book<br />
should fall within the meaning of the word<br />
“work." Such fragment is not a “ work," and<br />
cannot be so considered. It is only a part of a<br />
work. There is a special reason why this meaning<br />
should be given the words “ book” and “ work"<br />
in this Act which did not exist before the passage<br />
of the Act of March 3, 1891. The Copyright<br />
Acts before the one of that date contained no pro-<br />
visions with reference to where and on what type<br />
or plates the book should be printed. But by<br />
sect. 15 of the present Act it is provided in sub-<br />
stance that all the work in connection with the<br />
printing and binding of every book accorded pro-<br />
tection by the Act shall be done within the limits<br />
of the United States, and by sect. 31 the importa-<br />
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115<br />
tion of copyrighted books not manufactured in LICENCE TO COPY PHOTOGRAPHS.<br />
accordance with the provisions of sect. 15 is pro-<br />
hibited. Each part of the Act should be so con-<br />
strued as to give effect to the legislative intent in<br />
BOWDEN BROS. v. AMALGAMATED PICTORIALS, LTD.<br />
the enactment of every other part. And to hold<br />
that a mere fragment of a book could be copy M H E plaintiffs in this case are a firm of photo-<br />
righted, would open the door to the most extensive I graphers supplying photographs for publi-<br />
evasions of the manufacturing provisions of the Act. - cation in the Press at the usual trade price<br />
For illustration, the Librarian of Congress of 10s. 6d., and the defendant company is pro-<br />
transmits through you what appears to be a prietor of the papers called Throne and Country<br />
booklet in pamphlet form of fifty-one pages, on and Lotinga's Weekly.<br />
the last of which appear the words “ The end.” The plaintiffs supplied photographs to Mr.<br />
This has been filed with the Register of Copyrights Lotinga when he was proprietor of the Throne,<br />
under sect. 21 for ad interim protection. But as and agreed to a reduction in the price owing to<br />
a matter of fact, this pamphlet contains only the the financial condition of that paper. The price<br />
first four chapters of the book, and how many more for the first use of a photo was reduced to 5s., and<br />
there are and of how many volumes the entire for any subsequent reproduction the price was<br />
work consists there is nothing to indicate ; nor 2s.6d. In 1910, when Mr. Lotinga caused the<br />
could the extent of the work make any difference defendant company to be incorporated for the<br />
so far as the principle involved is concerned ; nor purpose of taking over the Throne and Lotinga's<br />
can the principle be affected by the fact that the Weekly, the plaintiffs pointed out that a statement<br />
pamphlet purports to be a complete work. If in the prospectus that their blocks were of great<br />
protection be afforded these four chapters, no other value was erroneous, as the permission of the<br />
publisher could afford to publish the remainder of plaintiffs was required for any reproduction of<br />
the book, and though not legally protected by their photographs.<br />
copyright get the protection of the remaining In April the plaintiffs terminated their arrange-<br />
portion would in fact be perfect. But at the same ments as to the supply of photographs for these<br />
time, peither the manufacturing provisions in papers. The defendants, however, continued to<br />
sect. 15 nor the prohibitions against importations use the photographs and blocks, and the plaintiffs,<br />
in sect. 31 would apply to the parts not copy who had registered their copyright in the photo-<br />
righted ; and the publisher could have the entire graphs which had been published, sued the<br />
remainder of the book printed abroad and im- defendants for infringement of copyright. As to<br />
ported, and here bound with the four chapters those photographs which had not been published,<br />
printed within the United States. If the law the plaintiffs claimed their common law right to<br />
should be construed to permit this, it is quite restrain publication, which was threatened and<br />
probable that the copyrighting of but a part of intended by the defendants.<br />
books which are not supposed to be of very sub- On behalf of the defendants it was urged that the<br />
stantial merit would become the custom. But contract entitled them to produce and reproduce<br />
independent of this consideration, there appears to the photographs which had been supplied to them ;<br />
be nothing in the statute which implies that but a and that they had an irrevocable licence to publish<br />
part of a work may be copyrighted, nor have I those which they had used, or selected for produc-<br />
been able to find any authorities showing that tion, on the terms arranged between the plaintiffs<br />
other similar statutes have been so construed. and Mr. Lotinga.<br />
For these reasons, I am of the opinion that an Mr. Justice Parker in his judgment said that<br />
application should be refused when the deposit is Mr. Lotinga no doubt convinced himself that the<br />
made as shown in either of the first three inquiries. arrangement entitled him to do what he claimed,<br />
And the same rule should be applied to the fourth; but the legal effect of it was that Mr. Lotinga<br />
because it is a necessary prerequisite to the regis- was not bound to use the photographs supplied,<br />
tration of the copyright that the book should be and until acceptance of any photographs the offer<br />
printed as required by sect. 15; and if nothing could be withdrawn. After acceptance and com-<br />
but the entire work can be copyrighted, then all munication thereof to the plaintiffs, there would be<br />
parts of it must be printed in accordance with the a concluded contract as to each photograph accepted,<br />
provisions of that section.<br />
but in the case of first user and in the case<br />
Respectfully,<br />
of subsequent user the offer could be withdrawn<br />
Geo. W. WICKERSHAM,<br />
before acceptance. The contention that the defen-<br />
The President.<br />
Attorney-General. dants had an unlimited right to use and re-use the<br />
P" Official Opinions of the Attorneys-General of the photographs was erroneous. The plaintiffs were,<br />
United States," Vol. 28, pp. 176-179.]<br />
therefore, entitled to an injunction. The damages<br />
<br />
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116<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
were assessed at 108. Gd. for each iŋfringement,<br />
and a penalty for the same amount was held to be<br />
sufficient, because the defendants bona fide believed<br />
they had a right to do what they had done.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
LIBEL IN A NOVEL.<br />
of being attacked by her. Some years ago she<br />
obtained an engagement in a chorus, in order to<br />
get knowledge and local colour for her story. The<br />
Bedford Hotel was certainly in her mind when she<br />
mentioned the “Cambridge Head." She had not<br />
depicted Belcher as a scamp, but he was so<br />
described by one of the characters in the story,<br />
being upset through jealousy. She chose the<br />
name “ Belcher" because it was euphonious, and<br />
“Harold” because it seemed to balance Belcher.<br />
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for<br />
£200 damages.<br />
This case recalls the recent decision in the<br />
House of Lords, when Mr. Artemus Jones recovered<br />
damages for libel : * and Mr. Justice Bucknill, in<br />
his summing up to the jury, pointed out that it<br />
was not necessary that there should have been an<br />
intention to libel the plaintiff, but that he was<br />
entitled to damages if they believed that people<br />
understood the story to refer to him. Novelists<br />
should bear in mind, however, that local surround-<br />
ings and coincidences are evidence from which the<br />
jury may infer that an author, in naming a charac-<br />
ter in a work of fiction, had a particular individual<br />
in mind ; and under such circumstances the jury<br />
might more readily conclude that that individual<br />
was understood to be referred to in the story.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
• Reported in The Author, January, 1910.<br />
BELCHER v. EDWARD LLOYD, LTD.<br />
M HIS was an action for libel, in which the<br />
1 plaintiff, Mr. Harold Belcher, a theatrical<br />
agent, claimed damages against the proprie-<br />
tors of Lloyd's Weekly News in respect of a serial<br />
story entitled “Motley and Tinsel,” which appeared<br />
in that paper.<br />
The story was written by Miss Ada Jones under<br />
the name of “ Margaret Hamilton," and the open-<br />
ing scene was laid in the offices of a theatrical<br />
agent called Harold Belcher, who was described as<br />
the most powerful agent in the world. The<br />
narrative dealt with Belcher's behaviour towards a<br />
girl, for whom he obtained an important part in a<br />
play, and the jealousy of her lover, an actor, who<br />
denounced Belcher as a scamp and a thief.<br />
The advertisement in the newspaper announcing<br />
the serial described it as “a story of the stage,<br />
revealing one of the most vivid pictures of stage<br />
life," and stated that the authoress “ had drawn<br />
on her own real experiences,” that the story was<br />
“true to life," and that "the characters were real<br />
men and women.”<br />
The plaintiff carried on his agency business in<br />
Maiden Lane. In the story reference was made to<br />
“Rule's," and the “ Bodega,” also to the “ Bedford<br />
Hotel,” under the name of the “Cambridge Head,"<br />
and several persons well known in the neighbour-<br />
hood were mentioned by their own or similar<br />
names. Mr. Marshall, the proprietor of the Bed-<br />
ford Hotel, for instance, stated that he considered<br />
that one of the characters named “ Marshall ”<br />
meant himself.<br />
A number of witnesses were called who said that<br />
they had read the story and thought it referred to<br />
the plaintiff, and that it had been a general topic<br />
of conversation in theatrical circies.<br />
On behalf of the defendants it was urged that<br />
“Motley and Tinsel,” was mere fiction in the form<br />
of a sensational novel, and that the most powerful<br />
agent in the world could not have been taken to<br />
be the plaintiff.<br />
Among witnesses called for the defence, Miss<br />
Jones, the authoress, stated that she had written<br />
about forty serials, and no one had ever complained<br />
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Anatole France II. By Count de Soissons.<br />
Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande. By George Lilley,<br />
Shakespearean Theatres. By the late Prof. Thornton<br />
Collins,<br />
Literary Supplement : Christ and Popular Imagination.<br />
CORNHILL<br />
Arabiniana. By Sir Frederick Pollock.<br />
J. K. Stephen. By A. C. Benson.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
Byron. By His Excellency the Hon. Whitelaw Reid.<br />
Tolstoy. By Francis Gribble.<br />
Two German Theatres. By H. Granville Barker.<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
The “ Modernism” of Thomas Aquinas. By the Rev.<br />
Francis Aveling, Ph.D.<br />
A Plea for the Nationalisation of our Sculpture. By<br />
W. Reynolds-Stephens.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. U VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, wili 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 iaken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers:<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author,<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor |<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IV. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
n agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance,<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to bave influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOS ERS.<br />
TITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
OCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 28. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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them.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
and other articles entering into the manufacture<br />
of books, for there is a decided public demand for<br />
the freeing of books, as well as works of art, from<br />
PAN-AMERICAN UNION.<br />
duty, and unless book materials are freed from<br />
excessive duties, the American publishers will be<br />
(Reprinted from the Publishers' Weekly (New York) by<br />
kind permission of the Editor.)<br />
placed in the inverted position, as manufacturers,<br />
of paying high duties on all their materials and<br />
THE President announces that he will lay before<br />
ore having their products subject to competition from<br />
the Senate, with a recommendation for ratification, countries where the materials of books are less<br />
the copyright convention adopted at the Pan<br />
burdened with tariff duties or altogether free from<br />
burdened<br />
American Congress at Buenos Aires. The United<br />
States is already a party by tardy ratification to<br />
the convention agreed upon at Mexico City in<br />
1902, which constituted a Pan-American Union<br />
on lines somewhat similar to the International The two paragraphs headed “Pan-American<br />
Copyright Union under the Berne convention of Union” and “ American Tariffs and Book Produc-<br />
1886 and the Paris agreement of 1896. The tion,” give an insight into the views taken by some<br />
Buenos Aires convention bears to the Mexico con-<br />
of the parties in the United States who are<br />
the same relation as the Berlin interested in these important questions.<br />
convention of 1908 bears to the Berne-Paris The Pan-American Congress may be an extra<br />
agreement. It provides that copyright should power to force the United States to do away with<br />
extend throughout the republics of the American the printing clause, and the greater the pressure<br />
continents without other formalities than those<br />
that is brought to bear the better will it be for<br />
required in the country of origin of a work : and all parties. It is not impossible that with the<br />
its broader lines make it difficult of ratification new freedom obtained by Canada with regard to<br />
under our copyright legislation of 1909. Under copyright legislation, a printing clause will be set<br />
that legislation the United States could accept it up by the Canadians against the Americans. Any<br />
only with reservation of the necessity of deposit<br />
retrograde step of this kind by any country is a<br />
and manufacture here. If any way could be found<br />
very serious blemish on the copyright ideals of the<br />
for its acceptance by early ratification, that is most<br />
world. It has been the policy of all countries<br />
to be desired, for there should be an increasing<br />
rather to bear patiently the burden imposed by this<br />
market in South America for American books in<br />
ignorant legislation than to step back from the<br />
the Spanish language, such as have already been<br />
ideals that they have laid before themselves.<br />
produced here in the educatioual field. If the Gradually this policy has borne good fruit. The<br />
Pan-American Union can be completed, with the countries standing outside the Berne Convention<br />
participation of the United States, the next and have given in their allegiance, and the countries<br />
indeed final step should be the consolidation of whose legislation has been backward have gradually<br />
the International Copyright Union and the Pan- gone forward towards the ideal.<br />
American Union in one body of world-wide rela Would it not be possible for England also to join<br />
tionship, like the Universal Postal Union.<br />
this Pan-American Union, the text of which is<br />
printed in another column ? If this were the case,<br />
no doubt, by the next meeting of the Delegates of<br />
International Copyright, the Berlin Convention<br />
AMERICAN TARIFFS AND BooK PRODUCTION.<br />
and the Buenos Aires Conference would be consoli-<br />
The President seeks to postpone tariff reduction<br />
dated into one, and copyright would practically<br />
until the tariff commission shall report on specific<br />
become worldwide. There will no doubt be a great<br />
schedules some time during the sessions of the sixty-<br />
market in the future for the sale of English books<br />
second Congress, 1911-1912. The President does<br />
in South America ; indeed, even at the present time<br />
pot seem to have heard from the country. The<br />
Tauchnitz editions sell well there.<br />
duties on wood pulp, for instance, have had more<br />
examination than any tariff board is likely to give<br />
them, and newspaper publishers, though to be sure<br />
GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES.<br />
interested parties, are unanimous in urging that<br />
wood pulp be made free of duty, which would We have received from the Library of Congress,<br />
afford some check to the paper trust. There is a Washington, a note stating that on the 8th day of<br />
serious danger before American book publishers December, 1910, a proclamation was issued by the<br />
unless the tariff should be reduced in the matter President of the United States under which<br />
of the materials for paper making, and all paper Germany and America are entitled to reciprocal<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
benefits under the American and German Copyright BOOK REGISTRATION IN THE U.S.A. AND<br />
Laws.<br />
ENGLISH SERIAL RIGHTS.<br />
It is to be hoped that with the extension of these<br />
reciprocal rights the United States will see their<br />
We have taken the liberty of publishing in<br />
way finally to join the Berne Convention, and<br />
full in another column the opinion of the Attorney-<br />
deliver themselves from the shackles which make<br />
General of the U.S.A. on the registration of a<br />
fragment of a book. All authors should read it<br />
them at present the laughing-stock of civilised<br />
with diligence and discernment, as many believe<br />
nations as far as copyright is concerned.<br />
that copyright can be obtained in the United States<br />
by such an incomplete registration. This opinion,<br />
ENGLISH AUTHORS AND U.S.A. COPYRIGHT. while it does not so much affect the ability to<br />
We have taken the liberty of printing in this<br />
register a work in book form, very seriously<br />
number of The Author statements referring to the<br />
affects the ability to register a serial which is<br />
American Copyright Law, and the position under<br />
running through an English magazine. There<br />
that law, from the report of the Register of Copy-<br />
appear to be only two ways of meeting the difficulty<br />
rights and from the Publishers' Weekly (New<br />
satisfactorily. The first is by running the serial<br />
York). As all these things are of the greatest<br />
production simultaneously through an American<br />
interest to English authors, we wish that they<br />
magazine (this again emphasises the importance of<br />
would realise more fully the importance of obtaining<br />
trying to secure the American contract to the<br />
full American copyright. We regret to say that<br />
English author well in advance); the other, by<br />
English publishers, in cases recently before the<br />
having the book set up in America and making a<br />
society, having insisted that the power to deal with<br />
formal publication of a certain number of copies in<br />
the American copyright should be included in their<br />
England while the story runs serially in an English<br />
agreement, have never made any effort to obtain it,<br />
magazine. Both these methods are unsatisfactory.<br />
but have merely sold an edition in sheets to the<br />
It is a great pity, when the American authorities<br />
United States market. We regret to say that many<br />
were drafting the new Bill, that they did not take<br />
agents have not only approved these agreements,<br />
into some consideration the question of serials<br />
but have thrown cold water on the wishes of their<br />
running through English magazines.<br />
authors that they should take up with keenness the<br />
Would it not be possible for the United States<br />
placing of their works with an American publisher.<br />
to bring forward a sinall Bill to cover this point,<br />
It is no doubt a matter which causes the agent con-<br />
which brings a serious hardship on English authors?<br />
siderable inconvenience and trouble, and, perhaps,<br />
It will be seen that if a serial is running monthly,<br />
in the first instance, will not bring in much money<br />
or even weekly, it is impossible to obtain the<br />
interim protection granted under the present Act,<br />
to the agent's pocket. It brings but little pecuniary<br />
return to the publisher, who gains more by the sale<br />
and even if it was issued daily it would be doubtful<br />
of the sheets. But in spite of this, we insist that<br />
whether a story of, say, 100,000 words could be<br />
all authors should begin early in their endeavour to<br />
run through a daily paper so as to make it possible<br />
secure the American market. If they began, say,<br />
for the author to file the complete story in<br />
three or six months before they allowed the agent,<br />
Washington within thirty days of the first issue.<br />
or the publisher, an offer of the English publication,<br />
it is most probable that the American market would<br />
be secured, and the author would receive in conse-<br />
quence a double payment for his work. If, however,<br />
MUSIC-HALL AND THEATRICAL<br />
the alternative course is pursued, that the English<br />
SKETCHES.<br />
publisher gets the first offer, and that then only the<br />
agent commences with the Ainerican negotiations,<br />
it is almost impossible to succeed in the time," A<br />
A ND whereas the multitude of places of entertain-<br />
ment for the lower sort of people is another great<br />
(necessarily limited) between the signing of the E<br />
cause of thefts and robberies, as they are thereby<br />
English contract and the date of English publica-<br />
tempted to spend their small substance in rioious<br />
tion. The fault lies primarily with the author pleasures, and in consequence are put on unlawful methods<br />
himself for not being more insistent ; secondly,<br />
of supplying their wants and renewing their pleasures ; in<br />
order, therefore, to prevent the said temptation to thefts<br />
with the agent; and thirdly, with the English pub-<br />
and robberies, and to correct as far as may be the habit of<br />
lisher. It does not lie, as some assert, in the fact idleness, which is become too general over the whole king.<br />
that Americans prefer to read American authors to dom, and is productive of much mischief and inconvenience,<br />
English anthors ; that it does not lie in this fact be it enacted,"<br />
is evident from the book reviews in America, and This is the preamble to the Act of 25 George II.,<br />
from the great number of books that are sent over chapter 36, which deals with music and dancing<br />
in sheets.<br />
licences and, accordingly, with music-halls. The<br />
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Act, therefore, which was passed for the protection singing or speaking characters, and should not<br />
of the public and for the raising of music-hall take longer than thirty minutes to perform ; and<br />
entertainments, it would appear has been arbitrarily (this is the point which materially affects dramatists)<br />
used by theatrical managers in an endeavour to no sketch should be taken or adapted from any<br />
debase these entertainments by preventing the stage play or dramatic entertainment which had<br />
performance of legitimate theatrical pieces. In a been licensed by the Lord Chamberlain, until<br />
few words the managers are, for their own selfish after the expiration of fifteen years from the first<br />
ends, utilising an Act for a purpose for which it performance.<br />
was never intended. Perhaps, although to most of This was an open attempt to deprive both the<br />
our readers they may be well known, it may be dramatist and the touring manager of the right to<br />
worth while to repeat the facts of the case.<br />
utilise a stage play as a sketch after its value as a<br />
When the performances at the music-ball reached stage play had been exhausted. Many a play con-<br />
the high standard which they at present hold, it tains a scene that would make an excellent sketch,<br />
struck the managers of the music-halls that it though the play as a whole may be a failure.<br />
might be worth while to produce sketches as one It seems an extraordinary thing that the<br />
of the “turns," instead of comic songs, dancing, managers of theatres and music-halls should have<br />
acrobats, etc., etc. The manager's idea naturally called this conference and entered into this agree-<br />
was to raise the tone of his performance, and, ment putting limitations on the use of another<br />
incidentally, to secure broader custom. The person's property without taking the trouble to<br />
theatrical managers, fearing that the custom might consult those who were the originators of this<br />
be taken away from the theatres, and wishing to property. It is the same spirit which animated<br />
crush out the competition which they were already those who called for the type-setting clauses in<br />
feeling, immediately saw a method of doing so by America, and which animates the public generally<br />
the fact that a theatrical performance at a music when they endeavour to legislate for the holders of<br />
hall was illegal and rendered the manager subject copyright.<br />
to prosecution. They, accordingly, carried through This agreement was faithfully followed for some<br />
a test case and were successful, using for their own time, but then again it began to be broken. It is<br />
ends an Act which was passed for an entirely different needless to mention the many cases in which it was<br />
purpose. This action on the part of the theatrical broken. Although Sarah Bernhardt and others<br />
managers naturally raised a stir amongst the music were allowed to produce dramatic pieces contrary<br />
hall managers, who found the kind of theatrical to the agreement, the wrath of the managers was<br />
entertainment that they were putting before their aroused when Seymour Hicks produced part of<br />
customers popular and successful. They realised, Richard III. No one could possibly say that Sarah<br />
however, that, strictly speaking, a stage play could Bernhardt's performance, or that Seymour Hicks'<br />
only be performed in a building that was licensed Richard III. was likely to lower the tone of music-<br />
for the purpose of presenting stage plays. The hall entertainment, so it was clear that the only<br />
music-halls had only music and dancing licences. end in view was the desire of the managers to<br />
The music-ball managers, therefore, excited the protect their own pockets. Another conference was<br />
interest of Captain Jessel, M.P., who brought then held, and again the dramatists were ignored.<br />
before Parliament a short Bill making the perform- The second conference appeared to be merely for<br />
ance of sketches in music-halls legal. This Bill the sake of confirming the first conference-it<br />
was blocked by the friends of the theatrical suggested, however, a reduction in the time limit<br />
managers, and being a Bill brought forward by to seven years—and for impressing upon the<br />
a private member, had little chance of being dis- members of the two associations that they were<br />
cussed; but as a great deal of ill-feeling and Press bound to act as gentlemen of honour in an agree-<br />
comment was excited at the time, a conference ment which was, on the face of it, illegal. Indeed,<br />
was called between the theatrical and music-hall the fact that the theatrical managers and the music-<br />
managers, at which a certain agreement was hall managers were somewhat afraid of the position<br />
arrived at, having for its object the end of sketch is shown by a letter signed by the three solicitors :<br />
prosecutions.<br />
(1) of the Society of West End Theatres, (2) of the<br />
The main points of this agreement were that not Theatrical Managers' Association, and (3) of the<br />
more than two sketches should be presented in any Entertainment Protection Association. We need<br />
one programme. Of these two sketches, one should not discuss the points of that letter except as far as<br />
not last more than twenty minutes, should be per- it deals with the legality of the position taken by<br />
formed in one scene, and should be represented by these associations, but the commencement of one<br />
only four characters. The second sketch might paragraph affords an amusing aspect of the views<br />
be presented with any number of scenes and supers, taken, as it misrepresents the position entirely.<br />
but should be represented by no more than six The paragraph runs as follows: “Having regard<br />
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to the fact that the present Act of Parliament has appear in the work any statement showing the<br />
by apparently the common consent of the authori- reservation of the property.<br />
ties been left to the parties interested to enforce, ART. 4. The right of property of a literary<br />
etc., etc.” This is an absurd view of the situation. or artistic work includes for its author or successors<br />
The authorities have not enforced action against the exclusive right to dispose of the same, to<br />
those who have run sketches at music-balls, because publish it, to sell it, translate it, or authorise the<br />
they saw that these sketches tended to raise the translation of it, and to reproduce it in any form<br />
entertainment and not to debase it, and it was only either in its entirety or partially.<br />
to protect the public against improper performances ART. 5. The following shall be regarded as the<br />
that the Act was passed, and if the authorities have author of a protected work, except when proofs to<br />
left the issue in the hands of the parties, interested, the contrary are produced. He whose name or<br />
why have not the dramatists been consulted ? pseudonym shall be expressed therein, and, conse-<br />
What, therefore, must be done from the drama- quently, the action brought by the author or his<br />
tist's point of view ? There are two main lines to representative against plagiarists or infringers,<br />
take : (1) to find out how far this action is illegal, shall be admitted before the courts of the several<br />
and if it is illegal to prevent it on the sound prin- signatory countries.<br />
ciple that no artist has a right to be hampered in ART. 6. Authors or their successors, whether<br />
the production of his art by the tradesmen who resident or foreign, shall enjoy, in the signatory<br />
exploit him ; (2) that every effort must be made to States, the rights granted by the respective laws,<br />
have the law altered in accordance with the view but said rights shall not exceed the period of<br />
already adopted by the Dramatic Sub-Committee protection granted in the country of origin..<br />
of the society, that places of entertainment should In the case of works consisting of several volumes<br />
be subject to one licence.<br />
which are not published together, as well as in the<br />
case of bulletins, serials or periodical publications,<br />
the term of the right of property shall commence<br />
to count with regard to each volume, bulletin,<br />
THE COPYRIGHT CONVENTION OF THE serial, or periodical publication, from the respective<br />
PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS AT date of its publication.<br />
BUENOS AIRES.<br />
ART. 7. The following shall be regarded as the<br />
country of origin of a work; that in which it was<br />
first published in America, and, in case said pub-<br />
(Reprinted from the Publishers' Weekly (New York) by lication has been simultaneously made in several of<br />
kind permission of the Editor.)<br />
the signatory countries, then it shall be the one<br />
M HE Fourth International American Con- which shall fix the shortest term of protection.<br />
1 ference, assembled in Buenos Aires, ART. 8. Any work that did not obtain its<br />
resolves :-<br />
literary property from the beginning shall not<br />
ART. 1. The signatory States recognise and acquire the same in its subsequent editions.<br />
protect the rights of literary and artistic property ART. 9. Authorised translations shall be pro-<br />
in conformity with the stipulations of the present tected in the same manner as original works.<br />
conventions.<br />
The translators of works in which there is no<br />
ART. 2. By “literary and artistic works" is guaranteed property or in which the same has<br />
meant the books, articles, pamphlets of all kinds expired, shall have the right to obtain-in so far<br />
--whatever may be the subject they deal with, and as the translations thereof are concerned—the<br />
whatever be the number of the pages thereof, right of property specified in article 3, but they<br />
dramatic or musical works ; those of a choregraphic shall not be able to prevent the publication of<br />
character, musical compositions with or without other translations of the work.<br />
words ; drawings, paintings, sculptures, and en- ART. 10. The speeches delivered or read in<br />
gravings ; photographic works, astronomical or deliberating assemblies, before the courts of justice,<br />
geographical spheres; plans, sketches or plastic or in public meetings, may be published in the<br />
works relating to geography, geology, topography, newspapers without any authorisation whatever,<br />
architecture or any science; and, finally, they also this right being subject to the provisions of the<br />
comprise every production that can be published internal laws of each State concerning the matter.<br />
by any printing or reproducing process.<br />
ART. 11. Literary, scientific, or artistic works,<br />
ART. 3. The recognition of the right of pro- whaterer may be the subject thereof, published in<br />
perty obtained in a State, in conformity with its newspapers or reviews of any of the countries of<br />
laws, shall fully and legally have its effects in the the Union, shall not be reproduced in the other<br />
other States, without the necessity of complying countries without the previous consent of the<br />
with any other formality, provided there shall authors. With the exception of the aforesaid<br />
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works, any newspaper article may be reproduced who led the way and scored a great success with<br />
by others, if this has not been expressly prohibited, “Eugene Aram.” Never before in an English<br />
and, in any event, the source from which said novel had a murderer been portrayed as an earnest<br />
article has been obtained should be duly cited. student of philosophy, of grave mien, gentle<br />
Such miscellaneous newspaper news which repre- manners, and noble heart; never before had<br />
sent merely Press reports shall not enjoy the there been depicted a murderer-a murderer who<br />
protection of this convention.<br />
murdered for money, to boot—whose character was<br />
ART. 12. The reproduction of fragments of so endearing and so sympathetic as to enslave most<br />
literary or artistic works in publications for of those who read about him. The book was<br />
educational purposes or chrestomathy does not favourably received in most quarters, but here and<br />
confer any right of property, and, consequently, there a dissentient voice was heard, and in Fraser's<br />
can be made freely in all the signatory countries. Magazine for August and September, 1832, a tre-<br />
ART. 13. For the purposes of civil responsi- mendous onslaught, in the form of a story called<br />
bility indirect appropriations, not authorised, of a “Elizabeth Brownrigge” (which dealt with the<br />
literary or artistic work not representing the murderess of that name), was made upon the<br />
character of the original work, shall be considered author of “ Eugene Aram," to whom it was<br />
unlawful reproductions.<br />
dedicated. “I am inclined to regard you as an<br />
The reproduction, in whatever form, of an entire original discoverer in the world of literary enter-<br />
work or of the greater part thereof, accompanied prise, and to reverence you as the father of a new<br />
by notes or comments, on the pretext of literary lusus nature school," so ran a passage in the<br />
criticism, or as extension or complement of said dedication of the satire. “There is no other title<br />
work, shall also be considered as unlawful.<br />
by which your manner could be so aptly designated.<br />
ART. 14. Every plagiarised work may be seized I am told, for instance, that in a former work,<br />
in the signatory countries wherein the original having to paint an adulterer, you described him as<br />
work has a right to be legally protected, this right belonging to the class of country curates, among<br />
being without prejudice to such indemnities or whom, perhaps, such a criminal is not met with<br />
punishment as the plagiarists may incur, in once in a hundred years ; while, on the contrary,<br />
accordance with the laws of the country where the being in search of a tender-hearted, generous,<br />
fraud has been committed.<br />
sentimental, high-minded hero of romance, you<br />
ART. 15. Each of the Governments of the turned to the pages of the “Newgate Calendar,"<br />
signatory countries shall preserve the right to and looked for him in the list of men who have<br />
permit, guard, or prohibit the circulation, repre- cut throats for money, among whom a person in<br />
sentation, or exhibition of such works or repro possession of such qualities could not have been<br />
dactions concerning which its constituted met with at all. Wanting a shrewd, selfish,<br />
authorities would have to exercise the aforesaid worldly, calculating valet, you describe him as an<br />
right.<br />
old soldier, though he bears not a single trait of<br />
ART. 16. The present convention shall com the character which might have been moulded by<br />
mence to be in force among such signatory States a long course of military service, but, on the con-<br />
as ratify the same three months after its ratifica trary, is marked by all the distinguishing features<br />
tion shall be communicated to the Argentine of a bankrupt attorney or a lame duck from the<br />
Government, and shall remain in force among all Stock Exchange. Having to paint a cat, you<br />
until a year after the date of denouncement. endow her with the idiosyncrasies of a dog."<br />
This denouncement shall be communicated to There is one other passage which must also be<br />
the Argentine Government and shall have no quoted : “ It is extraordinary that, as you had<br />
effect with regard to the country making the commenced a tragedy under the title of Eugene<br />
same.<br />
Aram,' I had already sketched a burletta with the<br />
title of Elizabeth Brownrigge.' I had, indeed, in<br />
my dramatic piece, been guilty of an egregious ani<br />
unpardonable error ; I had attempted to excite<br />
THACKERAY AND THE NEWGATE<br />
the sympathies of the audience in favour of the<br />
SCHOOL OF FICTION.<br />
murdered apprentices, but your novel has dis-<br />
abused me of so vulgar a prejudice, and in my<br />
present version of her case, all the interest of the<br />
TN the 'thirties of the last century arose the reader and all the pathetic powers of the author<br />
Newgate School of Fiction, which made will be engaged on the side of the murderess.”<br />
heroes of highwaymen and other offenders, At the end of the satire, there is an “ Advertise-<br />
and so created a false sympathy for the vicious and ment,” which runs :-“ The author of the foregoing<br />
criminal. The ingenious Bulwer-Lytton it was tale begs leave to state that he is prepared to treat<br />
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with any liberal and enterprising publisher, who<br />
may be inclined to embark in the speculation, for a<br />
series of novels, each in 3 vols. 8vo, under the<br />
title of Tales of the Old Bailey ; or, Romances of<br />
Tyburn Tree,' in which the whole Newgate<br />
Calendar' shall be travestied, after the manner of<br />
· Eugene Aram.' Letters (post-paid) addressed to<br />
X. Y. Z., 215, Regent Street (the offices of Fraser's<br />
Magazine], will receive immediate attention."<br />
" Elizabeth Brownrigge” was published anony-<br />
mously, and if it attracted any attention at the<br />
time, it certainly did not attract sufficient to make<br />
people desirous to discover the author. It may at<br />
the time of its publication have been attributed to<br />
this writer or to that, but it was not (as far as is<br />
known) until a month or two after Thackeray's<br />
death that Dr. John Brown in an article on the<br />
novelist in the North British Review (February,<br />
1864) attributed it to him—on what evidence he<br />
does not state, though he may well have had the<br />
information from the author. “Elizabeth Brown-<br />
rigge” is particularly interesting, because, whether<br />
Thackeray did or did not write the story, there can<br />
be no question but that it was directly responsible<br />
for “Catherine," which had the same object as the<br />
earlier story. “• Elizabeth Brownrigge' ought to<br />
be Thackeray's," Swinburne wrote to Mr. Richard<br />
Herne Shepherd in 1880, “ for if it is not, he stole<br />
the idea, and to some extent the style, of his<br />
parodies on novels of criminal life, from this first<br />
sketch of the kind.”<br />
A couple of years after “Eugene Aram ” was<br />
published, William Harrison Ainsworth came to<br />
the fore as an exponent or the Newgate School of<br />
Fiction. Lytton had taken a murderer for his<br />
hero ; Ainsworth selected highwaymen. Dick<br />
Turpin was his jeune premier in “ Rookwood," and<br />
that sorry young scoundrel Jack Sheppard gave his<br />
name to, and the raison d'être for, another book.<br />
These novels, too, caught the public taste, and were<br />
widely read and praised highly even by those who<br />
should have known better. Ainsworth’s recent<br />
biographer, Mr. S. M. Ellis, for one, can see<br />
no objection to the “ Jack Sheppard ” class of<br />
novel.“ The outcry against Ainsworth for having<br />
chosen a robber for a hero cannot seriously be<br />
justified,” he has written. “If it is inherently<br />
immoral to take a criminal for literary purposes<br />
and make him picturesque and interesting, then<br />
the greatest writers will have to stand in the same<br />
pillory as the author of Jack Sheppard.' The<br />
principal characters of Shakespeare's tragedies of<br />
* Hamlet,' of Macbeth,' of Othello,' are but<br />
murderers; Falstaff is a robber and worse. Scott<br />
must answer for 'Rob Roy’; Fielding for Jonathan<br />
Wild’; Gay for “The Beggars' Opera'; Schiller<br />
for The Robbers’; Hood for his magnificent<br />
· Eugene Aram’; Dumas for his “Celebrated<br />
Crimes,' and so on through literature of all times<br />
and countries. This brilliant band of criminals,<br />
illuminated and idealised by literary limelight,<br />
cannot deny the consanguineous claims of poor,<br />
abused · Jack Sheppard.'” It would, indeed, be a<br />
waste of time to dwell upon the fallacies of this<br />
argument; but it may be remarked that Ains-<br />
worth's enthusiastic defender has strangely misread<br />
" Jonathan Wild.” since he can mention that<br />
brilliant satire in connection with the Newgate<br />
School of Fiction ; he might as well have added to<br />
the list “ Catherine.” Mr. Ellis insists that the<br />
Newgate novels of Ainsworth are moral because<br />
the villains end on the gallows. He ignores the<br />
fact that, while they do go to the gallows, they go<br />
as heroes, not as malefactors ; but he inadvertently<br />
admits that Ainsworth “threw a romantic glamour<br />
over his merry sinners,” and so, in a line, he gives<br />
away the case he has fought so strenuously in<br />
many pages.<br />
Forster and Thackeray now led the attack<br />
against the Newgate School of Fiction. “ Bad as<br />
we think the morals, we think the puffs even more<br />
dangerous," Forster wrote in the Examiner.<br />
“Public morality and public decency have rarely<br />
been more endangered than by the trumpeted<br />
exploits of Jack Sheppard.'"<br />
In “Catherine,” Thackeray had something to<br />
say of one of Dickens's books. “No one,” he<br />
wrote, “has read that remarkable tale of Oliver<br />
Twist' without being interested in poor Nancy<br />
and her murderer ; and especially amused and<br />
tickled by the gambols of the Artful Dodger and<br />
his companions. The power of the writer is so<br />
amazing, that the reader at once becomes his cap-<br />
tive, and must follow him wherever he leads ; and<br />
to what are we led ? Breathless to watch all the<br />
crimes of Fagin, tenderly to deplore the errors of<br />
Nancy, to have for Bill Sikes a kind of pity and<br />
admiration, and an absolute love for the society of<br />
the Dodger. . . . A most agreeable set of rascals<br />
indeed, who have their virtues, too, but not good<br />
company for any man. We had better pass them<br />
by in decent silence ; for, as no writer can or dare<br />
tell the whole truth concerning them, and faithfully<br />
explain their vices, there is no need to give er parte<br />
statements of their virtue." It was, however,<br />
mainly against Rookwood" and "Jack Sheppard”<br />
the earlier part of which had appeared in Bentley's<br />
Miscellany), that Thackeray tilted in “Catherine,"<br />
which purported to be written by“ Ikey Solomons,<br />
Esq., jr."- Ikey Solomons having been a notori-<br />
ous “fence,"—and was dated from Horsemonger<br />
Lane, a particularly unsavoury district. Thackeray<br />
stated again that the writers of the Newgate School<br />
of Fiction did not dare to paint their heroes as the<br />
scoundrels he knew them to be. “In Freeny (the<br />
highwayman's) life," Thackeray wrote subsequently<br />
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in “The Irish Sketch Book” (ch. xv.), “one this source by letting lodgings. With two of the<br />
man may see the evil of drinking, another the lodgers, Woods and Billings, she became criminally<br />
harm of horse-racing, another the danger attendant intimate, and the three of them one night in March,<br />
on early marriage, a fourth the exceeding incon- 1726, made John Hayes drunk and killed him,<br />
venience of the heroic highwayman's life—which a cutting up the body and disposing of the different<br />
certain Ainsworth in company with a certain parts in different places. One portion of the<br />
Cruikshank, have represented as so poetic and remains was discovered and then another, and<br />
brilliant, so prodigal of delightful adventure, so eventually Mrs. Hayes and Billings were arrested<br />
adorned with champagne, gold lace, and brocade." for murder, and presently Wood was captured and<br />
Thackeray had no objection to a novelist taking a confessed. Hayes pleaded not guilty, but was con-<br />
villain for his principal character ; he himself victed of petty treason and sentenced to be burnt<br />
selected Barry Lyndon for one such post of alive. The men were sentenced to be hanged.<br />
honour, but he insisted that it was bad art, as Wood died in Newgate the day before the execu-<br />
well as dishonesty and immorality, to confuse tion, and Hayes made an abortive attempt to poison<br />
virtue and vice.“ Vice," he wrote in his paper herself. No story could be more sordid or un-<br />
on the author of Tom Jones,' “is vice, and is pleasant, and Thackeray deliberately mitigated the<br />
never to be mistaken for virtue in Fielding's horrors as little as possible. “Catherine" appeared<br />
honest downright books ; it goes by its name, and in Fraser's Magazine from May, 1839, to February,<br />
invariably gets its punishment. See the conse- 1840, and the author was heartily pleased when the<br />
quences of honesty! Many a squeamish lady of conclusion was reached. “ Having finished our<br />
our time would fing down one of these romances delectable meal,” he wrote, “it behoves us to say<br />
with horror, but would go through every page of a word or two by way of grace at its conclusion,<br />
Mr. Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard' with perfect and to be heartily thankful that it is over. It has<br />
comfort to herself. Ainsworth dared not paint his beeu the writer's object carefully to exclude from<br />
hero as the scoundrel he knew him to be ; he must his drama (except in two very insignificant<br />
keep his brutalities in the background, else the instances---mere walking gentlemen parts) any<br />
public morals will be outraged, and so he produces characters but those of scoundrels of the very<br />
a book quite absurd and unreal, and infinitely more highest degree. That he has not altogether failed<br />
immoral than anything Fielding ever wrote. Jack in the object he had in view is evident from some<br />
Sheppard' is immoral actually because it is decor- newspaper critiques which he has had the good<br />
ous. The Spartans, who used to show drunken fortune to see; and which abase the tale of Catherine'<br />
slaves to their children, took care, no doubt, that as one of the dullest, most vulgar and immoral<br />
the slaves should be really and truly drunk. Sham works extant. It is bighly gratifying to the author<br />
drunkenness, which never passed the limits of pro- to find that such opinions are al road, as they con-<br />
priety, but only went so far as to be amusing, would vince him that the taste for Newgate literature is<br />
be rather an object to excite youth to intoxication on the wane ; and that when the public critic has<br />
than to deter him from it, and some late novels right down undisguised immorality set before him,<br />
have always struck us in the same light.”<br />
the lowest creature is shocked at it, as he should<br />
Thackeray decided that his castigation of these be, and can declare his indignation in good round<br />
immoral novels should take the form of a story in terms of abuse. The characters of the tale are<br />
which all the principal characters were villains, immoral, and no doubt of it; but the writer<br />
portrayed, not indeed as so vile as the prototypes humbly hopes the end is not so. The public was,<br />
were, for that it was impossible to do in the page of a in our notion, dosed and poisoned by the prevailing<br />
magazine, but so nearly to life as the public could style of literary practice, and it was necessary to<br />
be expected to tolerate. With this object in view administer some medicine that would produce a<br />
he searched the “Newgate Calendar," and found wholesome nausea, and afterwards bring about a<br />
therein the very heroine for such a story as he more healthy habit. And, thank Heaven, this<br />
contemplated - Mrs. Catherine Hayes, whose effect has been produced in very many instances,<br />
history has been admirably summarised in the and that the Catherine' cathartic has acted most<br />
Dictionary of National Biography by Mr. efficaciously. The author has been pleased at the<br />
Alsager Vian. Catherine Hall was her maiden disgust which his work has excited, and has watched<br />
name, and she was born near Birmingham in 1690. with benevolent carefulness the wry faces that have<br />
At a very early age she was led into evil courses. been made by many of the patients who have<br />
At the age of sixteen she married a carpenter, John swallowed the dose.”<br />
Hayes, by whom (it is to be hoped) she had twelve “Be it granted,” so the book concludes, “ that<br />
children. Some years after the marriage, they Solomons is dull, but don't attack his morality ; he<br />
went to London, where near Tyburn they set up a humbly submits that, in his poem, no man shall<br />
small shop and supplemented their income from mistake virtue for vice, no man shall allow a single<br />
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sentiment of pity to enter his bosom for any ment of copyright. The third, by the Hon.<br />
character of the piece ; it being, from beginning to Andrew J. Peters, of Massachusetts, introduced on<br />
end, a scene of unmixed rascality performed by June 11, 1910, provided that the sale of a work<br />
people who never deviate into good feeling ; and, of art by a foreigner to a citizen of the United States<br />
although he doth not pretend to equal the great shall operate to permit the purchaser to repro-<br />
modern authors whom he has mentioned, in wit or duce the work when not for commercial use or sale.<br />
descriptive power ; yet, in the point of moral, he No action was taken on these bills, other than to<br />
meekly believes that he has been their superior ; refer them to the House Committee on Patents.<br />
feeling the greatest disgust for the characters he The full texts are printed as Addendum No. 1 to<br />
describes, and using his humble endeavour to cause the Report.<br />
the public also to hate them.”<br />
Act of July 1, 1909.-It was to be expected<br />
“It is a disgusting subject and no mistake,” that the new law would give rise to some questions<br />
Thackeray wrote to his mother. “It was a mis- of copyright interpretation, and certain provisions<br />
take all through. It was not made disgusting of the new legislation have been submitted, so the<br />
enough—that was the fact, and the triumph of it Report states, from time to time to the Attorney-<br />
would have been to make readers so horribly General for his opinion. The full text of these<br />
horrified as to cause them to give up or rather opinions rendered during the year, together with<br />
throw up the book and all its kind ; whereas you certain decisions of the Treasury department in<br />
see the author had a sneaking kindness for his regard to importation under the new copyright law,<br />
heroine, and did not like to make her quite worth- are printed in full as an appendix to the Report.<br />
less." Yet, in spite of the author's lament, The Attorney-General's opinions deal with the<br />
“ Catherine ” achieved its object, for Ainsworth<br />
gave way before the attack and made no further Importation of copyrighted books ; labels and<br />
contribution to the Newgate School of Fiction. prints for articles of manufacture ; post-card<br />
LEWIS MELVILLE. lithographs; renewal and extension of subsisting<br />
----. -- .<br />
copyrights ; deposit of complete book required ;<br />
re-importation<br />
THE UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT<br />
of copyrighted book re-bound<br />
abroad; copyright<br />
REGISTER<br />
proclamation ; typewritten<br />
copies of a book.<br />
The Treasury Department's opinions deal with the<br />
TF every State Department in the United States following:<br />
I was conducted as well and as ably as the Importation of a book upon abandonment of<br />
Register of Copyrights under the hands of copyright: importation of translation of American<br />
Mr. Thorvald Solberg, America, would, no doubt, copyright.<br />
be the best governed country in the world.<br />
We have received the report of the Register of<br />
SOME AMERICAN WRITERS.*<br />
Copyrights for 1909–10. It runs from July in<br />
the first year to the end of June in the second,<br />
There continues to be a steady increase in the work<br />
THE American novelists taken by Professor<br />
done by this department, and the increased business<br />
Erskine as representative leaders are Charles<br />
is carried off satisfactorily and methodically : But<br />
Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper,<br />
there are some points which are of considerably William Gilmore Simms, Nathaniel Hawthorne,<br />
greater interest than mere statistics—the course Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Bret Harte. This<br />
of copyright legislation, and the opinions of the selection, both by its inclusions and exclusions,<br />
Attorney-General on certain copyright questions will be a little puzzling to many. The name, for<br />
that have been laid before him.<br />
example, of Simms is practically unknown in<br />
Copyright Legislation. It is interesting to note England, while the readers of Charles Brockden<br />
that notwithstanding the new general consolidated<br />
Brown must be very few, although a new and fine<br />
Copyright Act which went into effect on July 1, edition of his works has been published com-<br />
1909, three new copyright bills have been intro- paratively recently. Why Edgar Allen Poe, who<br />
duced during the sixty-first Congress. The first certainly challenges Hawthorne's right to be con-<br />
was presented by the Hon. Philip P. Campbell, of sidered the principal novelist of America, has been<br />
Kansas, on July 23, 1909, providing for the omitted, and why, also, Oliver Wendeil Holmes's<br />
suspension of protection when any patent or copy- name does not appear, Professor Erskive does not<br />
right was owned, used, or leased by any trust or explain in the preface, where we looked for some<br />
monopoly. The second, by the Hon. George W.<br />
• "Leading American Novelists," by John Erskine, Ph.D.<br />
Gordon, of Tennessee, presented on May 13, 1910,<br />
London : George Bell & Sons. New York : Henry Holt &<br />
Lone<br />
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127<br />
80<br />
30<br />
30<br />
hint as to the limits which he had laid down for opinions expressed by my fellow workers with<br />
himself in writing this book. It seems to us a agreement mainly, with bare tolerance sometimes,<br />
pity that the author's design is not made clear, with protest rarely. Mr. John Nayler, in the<br />
as it is inevitable that the reader should desire current issue, is the first who has aroused and<br />
to challenge his title, which is not the title pre- sustained my indignation.<br />
fixed to this note; but that is the only word of Minor rights worth two guineas !<br />
grumbling we shall utter. All the six essays May I be permitted to assert, as the writer of<br />
which the author has given us are thoroughly what Mr. Nayler terms “average” books, that<br />
well written. The information for the one on THE (excuse capitals : no mere italics will give<br />
Hawthorne, which is far the longest, has been the emphasis I require) Minor Right—the Very<br />
drawn from many obvious sources. It does Minutest—in an ordinary 80,000 word story is<br />
justice to the powers of imagination, the irony that of British Book Publication. My experience<br />
and the truly poetical genius of its subject, leads me to place the values in any such work as<br />
coming throughout to commonly accepted con below :-<br />
clusions. The essay on Bret Harte and that on American Serial Publication - Upwards of 150<br />
Mrs. Stowe also run on obvious lines ; but Professor British<br />
Erskine's appreciation of Fenimore Cooper will Australian ,<br />
20<br />
somewhat surprise those of us who have fallen into Foreign<br />
20<br />
the bad habit of thinking that the day of the most American Bo cation<br />
100<br />
vigorous of American story-tellers is over. Professor Canadian ,<br />
,<br />
Erskine shows what an admirable raconteur Cooper British ,<br />
was, how easily he could display to the reader In fact, Mr. Nayler's “trifling sums " for the<br />
complicated scenes of action, and how skilfully he average book of the average writer of any experi-<br />
brought up personal experiences to bear upon the ence, in the hands of capable agents should amount<br />
situations in his romances. Simms was à south to not less than £300 and are easily worth as much<br />
country follower of Cooper, and suffered by com- more. In Mr. Nayler's idea the whole sum of<br />
parison with him, as Cooper did by comparison commercial acumen and commercial integrity is<br />
with Scott. Simms's life was a greater one than his concentrated in the hands of publishers. He gives<br />
novels would suggest, but undoubtedly the trials his reason. It is that the publisher is anxious<br />
and hardsbips of his career prevented him from “to develop all possible avenues of sale.” Of<br />
doing justice to a fine impulse towards roinance. course be is, but so is the agent, for his own<br />
The American novel is usually supposed to begin benefit and for the benefit of the author. Wherein<br />
with Charles Brockden Brown, the author of lies a great difference. The values of a story are<br />
“ Edgar Huntley," “ Wieland," “ Ormond," and much more likely to be ascertained and marketed by<br />
several other books, five of which were written con- an agent—he is selling them year in and year out.<br />
currently, when he was about twenty-eight years of A publisher gushes into such activities at inter-<br />
age. In many ways the chapter on Brown, with mittent intervals. I have asked myself Mr.<br />
which the book opens, is the most interesting, for Nayler's concluding question. Is it better to<br />
its subject was a highly romantic character, and leave such minor rights in the hand of an agent on<br />
the brief résumés of the novels make amusing a 10 per cent. commission basis, or to share equally<br />
reading. Those who tackle the books themselves, with a publisher ? It seems to answer itself. Why<br />
however, will, we think, be sadly disappointed, for, pay 50 per cent, for an accommodation when 10<br />
truth to say, Brown's invention is mechanical, his will suffice ?<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
psychological insight little, and his eloquent<br />
FRANK SAVILE.<br />
phrases rather boring.<br />
-<br />
In congratulating Professor Erskine on the book,<br />
EDITORIAL DELAY.<br />
we cannot help wishing that he would give us in<br />
a companion volume similar appreciations of the SIR,—May I venture to move that your corre-<br />
authors of " Arthur Gordon Pym,” “ The Epic of spondent Mr. Francis George Heath has opened a<br />
Wheat," “ Huckleberry Finn,” “Mr. Isaacs," and topic of considerable importance and keen general<br />
“Elsie Venner," to say nothing of living writers. interest to the profession of authorship in his<br />
allusion to the prevailing English custom of<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
“ payment on publication."<br />
From a business point of view the practice is<br />
bad ; ethically it is unjust and undesirable ; practi-<br />
PUBLISHERS AND MINOR (?) Rights. cally it is inconvenient and disliked. What is still<br />
SIR,—I have been a diligent reader of The more obvious, to a struggling author, possessed or<br />
Author for many years and have perused the no private means, it must always be a definite<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
T<br />
The cheque I asked for came to hand five or six<br />
months later.<br />
As a contrast to this, from nearly all the<br />
American periodicals to which I contribute a<br />
cheque arrives either with acceptance or is<br />
despatched at the end of month of acceptance.<br />
This is an “ Americanism” which I feel sure<br />
most, if not all, of the members of the Incorporated<br />
Society of Authors would like to see in use in this<br />
country. I am, dear Sir, Yours truly,<br />
FRANK E. VERNEY.<br />
“AMERICAN SLANG.”<br />
SIR,—I observe that in The Author for January<br />
2, 1911, it is stated that some have supposed<br />
the word “mayhem ” to be “ American slang,"<br />
whereas in fact it is an “English legal term.”<br />
Please allow me to add that it is merely one of the<br />
numerous old spellings of the word “maim."<br />
Your correspondent implies this, no doubt, but it<br />
may as well be definitely stated.<br />
WALTER W. SKEAT.<br />
i<br />
hardship ; and no doubt it is considered more than<br />
a nuisance at times to the author who is neither<br />
struggling nor lacking private means.<br />
Shorn of its dignified air of philanthropic<br />
promise, what does “ payment on publication”<br />
amount to?<br />
It amounts to this. The author is providing<br />
the capital for the “ advance" programme of the<br />
periodical.<br />
Apparently, modern conditions of periodical<br />
publication demand that a magazine shall be<br />
made up several months ahead. For instance, a<br />
Christmas number is often in hand in August.<br />
Who capitalises this post-preparation ? Not<br />
the proprietor. The author does, so far as the<br />
literary contents are concerned.<br />
As an illustration, your correspondent, referring<br />
to an American journal which pays on acceptance,<br />
says : “I understand at the time Scribners had<br />
invested £3,500 in MS. which it had not room<br />
for.” It needs no great financial acumen to<br />
deduce from this that in the case of the magazine<br />
which pays on publication the author is providing<br />
the capital. In other words more literally exact,<br />
the money to which the author is rightfully<br />
entitled upon the delivery of his completed work<br />
is held back until the purchaser himself (the editor)<br />
has sold the work (i.e., published it), which latter<br />
process takes place when it suits the editorial plans.<br />
Now this system would be excellent if authors<br />
were a class of men expressly engaged in looking<br />
for opportunities of financing journalistic enter-<br />
prises—purely from pleasurable motives--as a<br />
person would present a coin to a tumbler to turn<br />
a double somersault.<br />
So far as my acquaintance goes, this is not a<br />
correct definition of authorship. Therefore I<br />
think it is time concerted action was taken by<br />
literary men, and representations made to the<br />
English periodicals, in an effort to persuade a<br />
more equitable system into general adoption.<br />
It may be that an author can often get his<br />
is<br />
money by specially asking for it, but I think there<br />
is a natural objection to this course, apart from the<br />
not ill-founded feeling that such a request does<br />
not add to the felicity of future relations with the<br />
editor to whom it is put.<br />
In one case within my own experience I wrote<br />
to the editor of a prominent magazine requesting<br />
payment for a contribution which had been<br />
accepted several weeks before, explaining that I<br />
wished to clear up all my affairs before departing<br />
on an expedition through a certain tropical country<br />
where lethal dangers from climate and native were<br />
ordinary features and might possibly prevent return.<br />
In a footnote to a communication asking for<br />
further contributions my request was answered<br />
3<br />
thus : “ Payment is always made on publication.”<br />
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RELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G, BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAUBICB HEWLETT.<br />
G. R. SIMS.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.8. W. W. JACOBS.<br />
S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
THE Right Hon. JAN ES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
THE Right Hox. THE LORD BURGH. JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD,<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
J. W. COYYNS CARR.<br />
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SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
EQERTON CABTLK, F.S.A.<br />
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SHAW).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.<br />
8IR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. SIR ALFRED P.C., &c.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD CURZON LYALL, P.C.<br />
OF KEDLESTON, P.C.<br />
Mrs. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON).<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD.<br />
S, SQUIRE SPRIGGE,<br />
MR. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
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ns. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
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Chairman-SIR ARTHUR PINERO. Vice-Chairman-HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
H. GRANVILLE BABKER.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
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The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXI.-No. 4.<br />
JANUARY 2ND, 1911.<br />
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recognition of work that has been done for<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of The Author them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
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knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
end of the list for the convenience of those who<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
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THE PENSION FUND.<br />
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N February 1, 1910, the trustees of the<br />
Pension Fund of the society-after the secre-<br />
tary had placed before them the financial<br />
position of the fund-decided to invest £260 in<br />
the following securities : £130 in the purchase of<br />
Jamaica 33 per cent. Stock 1919-49, and £130 in<br />
the purchase of Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock 1937.<br />
The amount purchased is £132 188. 6d.<br />
Jamaica 34 per cent. Stock and £120 12s. id.<br />
Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock.<br />
This brings the invested funds to over £4,000.<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom-<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im-<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
Consols 21%...........<br />
.....£1,000 0 0<br />
Local Long .............................. 500 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ................<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
ture Stock ..........<br />
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250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Trust 4% Certificates<br />
200 0 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 3% Inscribed<br />
Stock .......<br />
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Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
4% Preference Stock................... 228 0 0<br />
New Zealand 3 % Stock............... 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land Act 27% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 2% Stock,<br />
1927-57 .......<br />
438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock.......... 120 121<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Grant Stock, 1938..................... 198 3 8<br />
£ 8 d.<br />
Nov. 11, Parry, Sir Hubert<br />
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Nov. 17, Coben, Mrs. Herbert<br />
0 10 6<br />
Dec. 8, de Morgan, William<br />
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Dec. 9, Sproston, Samuel . . . 1 1 0<br />
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July 5. Peacock. Mrs.<br />
2 2 0<br />
July 11, March, Miss A. M.<br />
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Mary . . .<br />
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Oct. 1i, Caws, Luther W..<br />
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Oct. 28, Tuite, Hugh. . .<br />
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Nov. 11, Philliotts, Eden .<br />
2 2 0<br />
Nov. 12, Buè, Henri . .<br />
( 11 0<br />
Nov. 19, Ellis, Mrs. Havelock<br />
05<br />
Nov. 28, Campbell, Cyril. . . ( 10 6<br />
Dec. 1, Laws, T. C. . .<br />
Dec. 10, Dalliba, Mrs. Kate<br />
Dec. 10, Douglas, James A.<br />
Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold .<br />
. 220<br />
Dec. 13, Powell, Lieut.-Genl. Sir Robert<br />
Baden, K.C.B. etc. . . . 3 3 U<br />
We have much pleasure in acknowledging, with<br />
apologies, a donation of 10s. from Mr. Harold<br />
Hardy on January 13, which, through an over-<br />
sight, had been omitted from the printed lists.<br />
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6<br />
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Nov. 6, Capes, Mrs. Marion<br />
Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden .<br />
£<br />
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5 0<br />
1 0<br />
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THE last meeting of the Committee of<br />
Management for the year 1910 took place<br />
on Monday, December 5. After the<br />
minutes of the previous meeting had been signed,<br />
the committee proceeded with the elections.<br />
Twenty-eight members and associates were elected,<br />
bringing the total for the current year up to 276.<br />
The committee desire to congratulate the society<br />
on its continued prosperity. With the exception<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
of last year this is the largest annual election since fourth nominee to fill the vacancy caused by the<br />
the society was incorporated.<br />
annual retirement. The names of the committee's<br />
The committee accepted with regret three nominees will be found elsewhere in this number.<br />
resignations, bringing the total resignations for Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins' retirement from<br />
the current year up to 77. Though the number is the Copyright Sub-committee was acknowledged<br />
high, the committee are glad to report that it is not with regret, and the committee proceeded to elect<br />
above the average. While the elections for the another member of the society to fill the vacancy<br />
current year are considerably above the average for caused by his resignation.<br />
the last ten years, the resignations remain about further letters were laid before the committee<br />
the same, and this the committee consider is a containing suggestions in respect of the library<br />
matter for congratulation.<br />
censorship, but though the committee are watching<br />
Following the elections and resignations, the the issues very carefully, they did not find any of<br />
legal cases came up for consideration.<br />
the suggestions made to them of a practicable<br />
The first matter before the committee was the nature, and accordingly felt bound to reserve their<br />
outcome of a complaint by one of the members course of action.<br />
that the advice of the secretary on a certain At the request of the secretary the committee<br />
agreement was unreasonable and unfair. In these set aside a certain sum to be devoted to Christmas<br />
circumstances the secretary thought it best to refer boxes for the staff, and finally acknowledged with<br />
the points in dispute to the committee. The thanks a donation from Mr. Cyril Campbell to the<br />
committee confirmed the opinion the secretary funds of the society.<br />
had expressed on the agreement.<br />
The next matter was one in which a dispute had<br />
occurred between a member of the society and a<br />
Cases.<br />
publisher under an agreement limited by time. It THERE is no stay in the stream of cases that<br />
appeared that the publisher did not take the same flows into the offices of the society.<br />
view of the agreement as was taken by the author. Since the publication of the last issue of The<br />
After the matter had been carefully considered the Author eighteen fresh cases have come under the<br />
secretary was instructed to place the papers in the secretary's notice. They may be catalogned as<br />
hands of the society's solicitors in order that they follows :-<br />
might obtain certain accounts and particulars 1. A dispute on contract. This has been<br />
necessary for the proper understanding of the satisfactorily settled between the author and the<br />
position.<br />
publisher by the society's intervention.<br />
A case of a publisher's settlement with his 2. Claims for money. There have been nine<br />
creditors under a deed of assignment was next con- cases for money claims. In two cases, the matter<br />
sidered, for it appeared that the deed of assignment has had to be placed in the hands of the society's<br />
had been entered into without reference to the solicitors as no satisfactory answer could be<br />
authors, who were creditors, and chiefly for the obtained to the secretary's letters. One case is<br />
benefit of the trade. The committee authorised still in course of negotiation, and there is every<br />
the solicitors to file a bankruptcy petition if it was chance that it will be settled without being referred<br />
necessary to do so, in order that authors, creditors to the legal advisers of the society. In two cases<br />
of the estate, should obtain fair treatment.<br />
the money has been paid and the claims satisfied.<br />
The next question related to a payment in As the three remaining cases only came into the<br />
advance of royalties, and the committee decided to office just before going to press, there has been<br />
take counsel's opinion on behalf of the member. no time to come to any settlement of the issues.<br />
Progress was reported by the secretary in a case 3. Claims for accounts. There have been two<br />
which had been before the committee on two cases in the office in both of which the publishers<br />
former occasions. The solicitors were instructed have rendered the accounts due.<br />
to write a further letter in order to elucidate the 4. Infringement of copyright. There have been<br />
issues which were complicated and difficult, and to two cases of infringement. One has been placed in<br />
report to the next meeting of the committee. the hands of the society's solicitors in Ireland, as<br />
The report of the council meeting, which appears the infringement occurred in that country. The<br />
on another page, was finally settled.<br />
other has only recently come to hand, and is still<br />
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins retired from the in course of negotiation.<br />
Pension Fund Committee, on which he had served as 5. Claims for MSS. Of the four claims that<br />
the nominee of the committee of management, and, have come in during this month, one had to be<br />
submitting his name for re-election, was unani. abandoned as the author could not prove that the<br />
mously re-elected.<br />
MS. had actually reached the office of the paper<br />
The committee then proceeded to elect their to which it was sent ; one has been partially<br />
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settled—that is, some of the MSS. claimed have O'Connor, Mrs. T. P. . 33, Warwick Square,<br />
been returned, and the editor has promised to<br />
S.W.<br />
search for the remainder ; and in one case, still Orange, James . . 3, Gray's Inn Square,<br />
unsettled, the editor has promised to make a<br />
W.C.<br />
thorough search, and the last case has only Preston, Chlöe . Middlethorpe Manor,<br />
recently come into the office.<br />
York.<br />
Of the cases published in the last number of The Queux, Wm. Le . . Devonshire Club, St.<br />
Author the majority have been settled, but we<br />
James's Street,<br />
regret to have to report that it was necessary to<br />
S.W.<br />
hand over as many as five different claims to the Savill, Mrs. . . . 3, Basil Street,<br />
solicitors of the society for them to deal with.<br />
Knightsbridge,<br />
S.W.<br />
Shepperson, Claude A., 18, Kensington Court<br />
A.R.W.S. . . . Place, W.<br />
December Elections.<br />
Smale, Fred. C. . . Vailima, Torquay.<br />
Sporston, Samuel, Junr. . Elm House, Nant-<br />
Bahr, Abel William . . 12A, Upper Hamilton<br />
wich.<br />
Terrace, N.W.; Teixeira de Mattos, Alex. 9, Cheltenham Ter-<br />
Hopkins, Dunn & ander<br />
race, S.W.<br />
Co.,Ltd., Shanghai,<br />
China.<br />
Bone, Florence. . . 13, Queen Street,<br />
Waterloo, Liver-<br />
pool.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
Carlton, William J. . . 47, Ravenswood Road,<br />
Balham, S.W.<br />
Clifton, Mrs... . Lytham Hall, Lyt. WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
ham, Lancs.<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
Colenso, Sophie J.. . Elangeni, Amersham.<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br />
Cameron, Agnes Dean . 11-12, Charing by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
Cross, S.W.<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
Dalliba, Kate Lyon (Kate- 6, Finchley Road,<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
Lyon-b-) . . . N.W.<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
Dick, Stewart . . . Studio E, Kensington accurate.<br />
Gardens Studio, -<br />
ARCHÆOLOGY.<br />
29 - 31, High THE ARTS AND CRAFTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT. By W. M.<br />
Street, Notting<br />
FLINDERS PETRIE. Second Edition, with additional<br />
Hill Gate, W.<br />
chapter. 8 X 51. 165 pp. Foulis, 58. n.<br />
Douglas, James A. '. . 70, Iverna Mansions,<br />
ARCHITECTURE.<br />
Kensington, S.W. SMALL COUNTRY HOUSES OF TO-DAY. Edited by<br />
Downes, Miss Marion Royal Insurance L. WEAVER. 111 X 84. 224 pp. Country Life Library.<br />
Buildings, 418,<br />
158, n.<br />
ART.<br />
College Street, Mel-<br />
THE COMMONSENSE COLLECTOR. By F. FRANKFORT<br />
bourne, Australia.<br />
MOORE. With fifty-two illustrations. 81 x 51. 220 pp.<br />
Hamilton, Norah . . 4, Elwick Road, Ash- Hodder & Stoughton. 108. 6d. n.<br />
ford, Kent.<br />
HOGARTH. By EDWARD GARNETT. 52 x 33. 208 pp.<br />
Hitchcock. Rev. F. R. The Rectory. Kin. Illustrated. (Popular Library of Art Series.) Duckwortu.<br />
28. n.<br />
Montgomery, M.A. . netty, King's Co.,<br />
SELECTED EXAMPLES OF INDIAN ART. BY ANANDA<br />
Ireland.<br />
K. COOMARASWAMY, D.Sc. Portfolio, 19 pp. xl. Plates.<br />
Johnston, R. F. . . Weihaiwei, China. Quaritch.<br />
Lowes, Emily L. . . Hillcrest. Brixton WILLIAM BLAKE. By G. K. CHESTERTON. 210 PP:<br />
Hill, S.W.<br />
HOGARTH. By RICHARD GARNETT, 208 pp. 6 X t.<br />
Duckworth. 28. n. each.<br />
Miller, Elizabeth York . 4, Clement's Inn, Woop CARVINGS IN ENGLISH CHURCHES. By FRANCIS<br />
. Strand, W.C.<br />
Bond. 9 X 54. 138 pp. Frowde. 6s. n.<br />
Morgan, Wm. De . . 127, Church Street,<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
Chelsea, S.W.<br />
THE GROWTH OF NAPOLEON. A Study in Environment.<br />
Moore, Frank Frankfort · Castlegate House,<br />
By NorwooD YOUNG. 9 x 51. 418 pp. Murray.<br />
Lewes.<br />
12s. n.<br />
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THE BEAUX AND THE DANDIES. Nash, Brummell, and<br />
D'Orsay, with their Courts. By CLARE JERROLD.<br />
9 x 51. 391 pp. Stanley Paul. 168. n.<br />
THE LIFE OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. By F. FRANKFORT<br />
MOORE. 9 X 6. 492 pp. Constable. 128. 6d. n.<br />
THE FATE OF HENRY OF NAVARRE. By JOHN<br />
BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. 9 x 54. 350 pp. Everett.<br />
10s. 6d. n.<br />
NOTES OF A LIFE. By JOHN STUART BLACKIE. Edited<br />
by his Nephew, A. STODART WALKER. 70 X 51.<br />
342 pp. Blackwood. 6s. n.<br />
GREAT ENGLISHMEN OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.<br />
By SIDNEY LEE. New Edition. 64 X 41. 382 pp.<br />
Nelson. 18. n.<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
THE CLERGYMAN'S READY REFERENCE DIARY AND<br />
KALENDAR. FOR 1911. Edited by the REV. THEODORE<br />
Johnson. 6 X 31. 367 pp. Allen.<br />
CLASSICAL.<br />
A COMPANION TO LATIN STUDIES. Edited for the<br />
Syndics of the University Press by J. E. SANDYS, Litt.D.,<br />
Fellow of St. John's College and Public Orator in the<br />
University of Cambridge. 97 x 6. 891 pp. Cambridge<br />
University Press. 188. n.<br />
DEMOSTHENES. Select Private Orations. Part II.<br />
Edited by J. E. SANDYS, Litt.D. 7} x 5. 288 pp.<br />
Cambridge University Press. 78. 6d.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
FIORALISA. A Romantic Drama in Three Acts and a<br />
Pageant. By A. MAQUARIE. 71 x 51. 102 pp.<br />
Bickers. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE DISCOVERER AND THE QUEEN'S ROOM. By F.<br />
FRANKFORT MOORE. 73 X 5. 189 pp. Elkin Mathews.<br />
48. 6d. n.<br />
THE WAY THE MONEY GOES. A Play in Three Acts.<br />
By LADY BELL, 71 X 45. 104 pp. Sidgwick &<br />
GEOGRAPHY<br />
AYRSHIRE. By J. FOSTER. 74 x ñ 175 pp. (Cambridge<br />
County Geographies.) Cambridge University Press.<br />
18. 6. n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE MAGIC CITY. By E. NESBIT. With Illustrations<br />
by H, R. MILLAR. 78 X 5. 333 pp. Macmillan. 68.<br />
THE BRITISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. By<br />
W. P. PYCRAFT, F.Z.S. 273 pp. Wells, Gardner.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
THE WITCHES' KITCHEN ; OR, THE INDIA RUBBER<br />
DOCTOR. By GERALD YOUNG. With Illustrations by<br />
WILLY POGÁNY. 83 X 7. 224 pp. Harrap. 58. n.<br />
IN WASTE PLACES. By MRS. C. L. WOOLLASTON<br />
White. A Story of Pioneer Life in the Far West.<br />
250 pp. Barnet : St. Andrew's Press. 38.<br />
THE CHILD OF THE AIR. By M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
Pictured by C. WILHELM. 8 X 61. 126 pp.<br />
Duckworth. 58. n.<br />
FIFTY-TWO STORIES OF CLASSIC HEROES. With con-<br />
tributions by HOPE MONCRIEFF and Others. Edited by<br />
FRANCIS STORR. 8 X 51. 400 pp. Hutchinson.<br />
58, n.<br />
A SCHOOLGIRL'S BATTLEFIELD. By RAYMOND JACBERNS.<br />
74 x 54. 387 pp. Chambers. 58. n.<br />
THE GIRL NEXT DOOR. By CHRISTINA GOWANS WHYTE.<br />
74 x 57. 336 pp. Partridge. 38. 6d.<br />
THE BOY'S BOOK OF CHIVALRY. By HAMMOND HALL.<br />
74 x 54. 332 pp. Partridge. 38. 6d.<br />
LOVE'S LESSONS. "By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Religious Tract<br />
Society. 28. 6d. n.<br />
ADVENTURES OF JASMIN. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Jarrold.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
NEXT DOOR GWENNIE. By L. E. TIDDEMAN, S.P.C.K.<br />
1s. 6d. n.<br />
ALL ABOUT ME. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Chambers.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
DOUGLAS JERROLD AND PUNCH. By WALTER JERROLD.<br />
9 x 58. 447 pp. Macmillan. 128. 6d, n.<br />
FIVE TYPES. By G. K. CHESTERTON. 70 pp. Humphreys.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
THE GLAMOUR OF OXFORD. Descriptive Passages in<br />
Verse and Prose by Various Writers. Chosen and<br />
Edited by PROF. W. KNIGHT. 74 x 51. 263 pp.<br />
Oxford : Blackwell. London: Frowde. 68. n.<br />
MILITARY.<br />
CANADA AND CANADIAN DEFENCE. The Defensive<br />
Policy of the Dominion in relation to the Character of<br />
her Frontier, the Events of the War of 1812–14, and<br />
her Position to-day. By MAJOR GENERAL C. W.<br />
ROBINSON, C.B. 89 x 54. 186 pp. Hugh Rees.<br />
68. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE SCIENCE OF ORGANISATION. By MARSHALL BRUCE-,<br />
WILLIAMS. 44 pp. With Charts and Tables. Chapman &<br />
Hall.<br />
GHOSTLY PHENOMENA. By ELLIOT O'DONNELL.<br />
7 x 5. 179 pp. Werner Laurie. 38. 6d. n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARRETT-<br />
HAMILTON. Part II. 10 x 64. 128 pp. Gurney &<br />
Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
PARTY PORTRAITS, AND OTHER VERSES. By C. L.<br />
GRAVES. 74 x 5. 68 pp. Smith Elder. 18. n.<br />
SONGS OF SUSSEX. By the REV. F. WORDE WARD.<br />
79 pp. Erskine Macdonald.<br />
Jackson. 18. D.<br />
FICTION.<br />
OUT OF THE DARK. By the COUNTESS OF CROMARTIE.<br />
74 x 51. 149 pp. Elkin Mathews. 38. 6d. n.<br />
Faxcy FARM. By NEIL MUNRO. 71 X 5. 318 pp.<br />
Blackwood, 68.<br />
CHAINS. By EDWARD NOBLE. 74 x 5. 312 pp.<br />
Constable. 68.<br />
EMPIRE OF THE WORLD. By C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE.<br />
8 x 5. 314 pp. Everett. 68.<br />
LOVE OR LUCRE. By EDITH C. GERRARD. 8 x 5.<br />
310 pp. F. V. White. 6s.<br />
THE BLACK ABOLITIONIST. By FOVARQUE BRADLEY.<br />
7} x 5. 317 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
LOST ENDEAVOUR. By JOHN MASEFIELD. 71 x 5.<br />
381 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
AN ADMIRAL'S YARNS. By VICE-ADMIRAL H. L.<br />
FLEET. 77 x 5. 302 pp. Sonnenschein. 58. n.<br />
THE BLUE LAGOON. By H. DE VERE STACPOOLE.<br />
84 x 54 326 pp. Fisher Unwin. 58. n.<br />
WINNING AND WAITING. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Pilgrim<br />
Press. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE GETTING OF WISDOM. By H. H, RICHARDSON.<br />
Heinemann. 68.<br />
BLACK HUMPHREY. By JAMES CASSIDY. 74 X 5<br />
295 pp. Walter Scott, '68.<br />
THE LESSON. A Story of Love, of Bohemia, and of<br />
Human Philosophy. By GERTIE DE S. WENTWORTH.<br />
JAMES. 74 x 57.319 pp. Everett. 68.<br />
THE ONE BEFORE. By BARRY PAIN. 64 x 41. 272 pp.<br />
Nelson. 78. n.<br />
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national history. There are three portraits in<br />
photogravure, three in colour, and thirty other<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
NON-CATHOLIC DENOMINATIONS. By the Rev. ROBERT<br />
HUGH BENSON. The Westminster Library. A Series<br />
of Manuals for Catholic Priests and Students. 73 x 5.<br />
217 pp. Longmans. 38. 6d. n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
NORTH ITALIAN FOLK. By MRS. J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
63 X 41. 282 pp. Macmillan. 18. n.<br />
VIA RHODESIA. By CHARLOTTE MANSFIELD. With<br />
150 Illustrations and Maps. Stanley Paul & Co.<br />
168. n.<br />
THE CALL OF THE SNOWY HISPAR. A Narrative of Ex<br />
ploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier<br />
of India. By W. H. WORKMAN and FANNY BULLOCK<br />
WOBKMAN. 94 x 61. 297 pp. Constable, 218. n.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
THE FATE OF HENRY OF NAVARRE. By John BLOUN.<br />
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THE GONDOLIERS, RUDDIGORE. By SIR W. S. GIL-<br />
BERT. Coloured and Illustrated by W. RUSSELL FLINT.<br />
254 pp. New York : Macmillan. $5 n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
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LITERARY.<br />
THE SILENT ISLE. By ARTHUR C. BENSON. 444 pp. New<br />
York : Putnam. $1.50 n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
LONDON ; with thirty-two Plates in Colour. By A, R.<br />
HOPE MONCRIEFF. 312 pp. $2.50 n.<br />
Miss K. Everest's third song, “That Evening in<br />
June” (dedicated to Miss Lillah McCarthy), was<br />
published last month by Messrs. Stanley Webb,<br />
10, Museum Street, W.C. Miss Everest's verses,<br />
“ Beyond these Voices," in memory of his late<br />
Majesty King Edward, have been graciously received<br />
by Queen Alexandra.<br />
Mr. Albert Dorrington, whose Australian novel,<br />
- Children of the Cloven Hoof." appeared serially<br />
in the Teaninh has another long story in the<br />
January Pall Mall Magazine, “ The Radium<br />
Terrors." The American serial rights of the latter<br />
work have been purchased by the Frank A. Munsey<br />
Company.<br />
“The Englishman in Greece " is a collection of<br />
the verse of many English poets, with an intro-<br />
duction by Sir Rennell Rodd, just issued by the<br />
Clarendon Press.<br />
We have received the first number of a publica-<br />
tion entitled “ Day by Day with the Poets,"<br />
calendar and treasury of English verse, compiled<br />
by Mary A. Woods, with floral illustrations by<br />
Ellen M. Woods. The calendar will be issued in<br />
twelve monthly parts. The January issue is<br />
published at 6d. ; those for February, April and<br />
December (double numbers) will be issued at 9d.,<br />
and the August (triple number) will be issued at<br />
18. All other months will be issued at 6d.' Copies<br />
can be obtained of E. S. Fowler, Cornfield Road,<br />
Eastbourne.<br />
“Maxims of Government” is a little book by<br />
Marshall Bruce Williams, published by Messrs.<br />
Chapman & Hall, and divided into five sections.<br />
The book contains the author's thoughts on<br />
government, reform and revolution, civilisation,<br />
aristocracy and democracy.<br />
Mr. Bruce-Williams has published through the<br />
same firm, “ Principles of the Science of Organisa-<br />
tion," a book of charts and diagrams, which<br />
contains an exposition of the principles upon which,<br />
in conjunction with an axiom, a science of<br />
organisation is founded.<br />
W. Harold Thomson's novel, “Heather o the<br />
Rivers," which was first published in 1908, is being<br />
brought out in a cheap edition by the Weekly<br />
Telegraph, on January 23. The scene of the novel<br />
is laid in West Perthshire, but such dialect as 15<br />
used is so written as to present no difficulties to<br />
the English reader.<br />
“The Kestrel” is the name of a new novel by<br />
Reginald E. Salwey, to be published soon by Digby<br />
Long & Co. The title has reference to the leading<br />
character in the story.<br />
Messrs. Longmans & Co. are the publishers of a<br />
diary by the Rev. T. A. Lacey, entitled "A<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
NNALS of a Yorkshire House,” by A. W.M.<br />
A Stirling, announced by Mr. John Lane<br />
for publication in November, has just<br />
been issued, the delay in publication being due to<br />
the General Election. It is published in two<br />
volumes, and contains the history for some two<br />
hundred years of two great Yorkshire families<br />
allied by intermarriage, and their cadets and<br />
intimates, drawn entirely from family papers. The<br />
book treats of the antecedents, life and surroundings<br />
of Walter Spencer-Stanhope, M.P., the Macaroni,<br />
the youth about town, the politician for nearly<br />
forty years during an enthralling period of our<br />
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Roman Diary, and other Documents Relating to cannot buy. Messrs. John Ouseley, Ltd., publish<br />
the Papal Inquiry into English Ordinations." The the story.<br />
diary is one which was kept by Mr. Lacey during Since the publication of Mr. G. K. Chesterton's<br />
two months of work in Rome, while rendering introductions, written for the “ Everyman "edition<br />
outside help to members of the Papal Commission of Dickens, Mr. Chesterton bas discovered a<br />
of Inquiry into English Ordinations in the year great deal more to say on the subject. Messrs.<br />
1886. * Round this he has gathered a considerable J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., have, therefore, to<br />
number of papers bearing on that inquiry and its announce that Mr. Chesterton has prepared a<br />
result. Most of them are from his own pen, but revised and enlarged edition of the “Everyman"<br />
they include a memorandum by Mr. Gladstone, an introductions, and collected them into one volume.<br />
elaborate criticism of his own pamphlet, “ De Re In addition, two entirely new chapters have been<br />
Anglicana,” by Dom Gasquet and Canon Moyes, written, one of which is entitled “An Introduction<br />
and letters of several correspondents.<br />
to Introductions." The book will contain some as<br />
Miss L. E. Tiddeman's Christmas books include yet unpublished portraits taken of Dickens by a<br />
“ Winning and Waiting," a story for adults, friend.<br />
written on Temperance lines, and published by the<br />
Pilgrim<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
Press ; ' “ Love's Lessons,” published by<br />
the Religious Tract Society; “ Adventures of<br />
“The Princess Clementina," by George Pleydell<br />
Jasmin,” published by Jarrold.<br />
and A. E. W. Mason, was produced at the Queen's<br />
“Next Door Gwennie,"published by the S.P.C.K.,<br />
Theatre on December 14. The cast includes Mr.<br />
and “All About Me,” published by Messrs.<br />
H. B. Irving, Miss Stella Patrick Campbell, and<br />
Chambers.<br />
Miss Dorothea Baird.<br />
Miss Arabella Kenealy's new novel,“ The Mating<br />
“Company for George,” by R. S. Warren Bell,<br />
of Anthea,” is published this week by Messrs. John<br />
started a short tour last month at Weymouth.<br />
Long, Ltd. This is the first novel to be written<br />
The company is under the direction of Miss May<br />
on engepics. Anthea 18 a young person who has Palfrey (Mrs. Weedon Grossmith) who ran the<br />
been reared by her guardian, a eugenics enthusiast, piece at the Kingsway<br />
in order that she may be the mother of that genius - Mr. John Masefield's play. " Pompey the Great,"<br />
for whom the world waits. Miss Kenealy's view is<br />
was produced by the Incorporated Stage Society<br />
that as all great men and women have been the<br />
at the Aldwych Theatre last month. The cast<br />
children of great mothers, the high variation of<br />
included Mr. Herbert Grimwood, Miss Jean<br />
included Mr.<br />
species which results in greatness, originates with<br />
Stirling Mackinlay, and Mr. Edward Gurney.<br />
the mother. On the other hand, women notable<br />
in the arts and professions, by diverting their<br />
powers, have produced inferior offspring, or have<br />
been childless.<br />
“Via Rhodesia," by Charlotte Mansfield, is a<br />
record of a journey undertaken by the author,<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
through Southern Africa. Messrs. Štanley Paul &<br />
Co. are the publishers.<br />
“The New North,” by Miss A. D. Cameron, “MTARIE-CLAIRE,” by Marguerite Audoux,<br />
published by Messrs. Appleton in London and New 1 is the book which has this year been<br />
York, is a book which deals with a journey made<br />
chosen by the Die Heureuse for the<br />
by the author down the Athabasca, Slave, and prize of 5,000 francs. The authoress is a dress-<br />
Mackenzie rivers to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. maker, and this book is her first publication. The<br />
The Hudson's Bay Company records are also a story is very simple, and is indeed more a diary<br />
feature of the book, to which there are many than story. It certainly is somewhat surprising<br />
illustrations from photographs, and at the end that an amateur, and particularly a woman, should<br />
some tables of distances, passenger and freight write a first book with such concision and brevity.<br />
tariffs, etc., and a small sketch map of the route There is not a word too much in the volume. It<br />
followed.<br />
has the simplicity of style that betokens long<br />
In " Blair's Ken," W. S. Walker (“ Coo-ee") experience, and an omission of unnecessary detail<br />
relates the romantic adventures in Australia (and which is almost miraculous for a woman writer,<br />
in many other parts of the Empire) of a spendthrift The only unreal part of the story appears to be<br />
young Highland laird, who, in fleeing from his the account of life in the convent. The episode<br />
debts and his ancestral weird, becomes a million- related detracts from the strength of the rest of<br />
aire, but finds there are some things which money the narrative.<br />
“ L'Ame des Anglais," by Jacque Vontade, is<br />
the Aloer. Herbend Mr.<br />
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à volume containing a series of articles which three historical studies. Much has already been<br />
were published first in the Figaro, under the written about the Comte de Fersen, but his<br />
signature of “Femina.” Some years ago this biographer has obtained fresh documents, and has<br />
author wrote a novel entitled “ La Lueur sur la compiled another account of one of the most<br />
cime," a very remarkable psychological study. interesting and attractive figures in history. The<br />
In the present volume the writer endeavours to book is thoroughly interesting, and the stories of<br />
explain the English to French readers. After the Charles Gustave de Lilienfeld and of the Princesse<br />
introduction, which the author styles “Excuses Augusta de Wurteinberg are as tragic as the one<br />
liminaires” for her “Hypothèses impertinentes,” she which gives its name to the volume.<br />
proceeds to introduce the inhabitants of England “Le Culte de l'Incompétence,” by Emil<br />
and to explain the influence which race and Faguet, is a book to be read with profit in other<br />
climate must necessarily have had on the present countries than in France. The following are the<br />
generation. According to Jacque Vontade, the headings of the chapters : –“ Principes des<br />
climate of the British Isles accounts in a great Régimes,” “Confusion des fonctions,” “Refuges<br />
measure for many of our characteristics. In de la Compétence," "Le Législateur compétent,"<br />
speaking of that intense love of home supposed to “ Les Lois en Démocratie," “ Incompétence<br />
be peculiar to the English, we are asked to notice gouvernementale,“ “ Incompétence judiciaire,”<br />
that of all Europeans the English travel the most, “Autres Incompétences,” “Mæurs générales,"<br />
and take up their abode more easily in other “Les Habitudes professionnelles," “Remèdes<br />
countries, than the people of any other nation. tentes," “ La Rêve.” M. Faguet not only shows<br />
The author therefore concludes that the real home up the incompetence which reigns at present, but<br />
of the Englishman is within himself; it is his own he endeavours to point out the remedy for the<br />
“ âme impénetrée !” A whole chaper is devoted to existing state of things.<br />
“L'insensibilité,” and another is entitled “Quelques The chapter on “Le Législateur compétent" is<br />
rêveries a propos de l'amour.” In this chapter love particularly instructive. If the legislators elected<br />
and friendship are treated. The other essays are could have the qualities which M. Faguet desires,<br />
on “Notre ascétisme et leur sensualité,” Fair all would be well with the countries governed by<br />
Play,” “ La Religion," "Le Sport," “Le sens them. In the summing up, “ La Rêve," we have<br />
esthétique,” « L'Amour des Jardins," and "L'Après- an ideal government proposed.<br />
midi morose.”<br />
“Le peuple où la plèbe est aristocrate et l'aristo-<br />
“Etudes anglaises,” by Raymond Laurent, is cratie démophile est le peuple sain," says the author.<br />
unfortunately only published after the death of the “La synergie sociale doit être aussi forte que la<br />
author. It is preceded by an introduction written synergie familiale, ... Il faut que les petits aiment<br />
by P. J. E. Tiddy. The volume contains essays la patrie dans les grands et que les grands aiment,<br />
on “Coleridge," " Le Preraphaélisme en Angle- la patrie dans les petits ; et que par suite les<br />
terre,” “ Walter Pater,” and “Oscar Wilde.” uns et les autres veuillent mêmes choses, repoussent<br />
The last of these essays is undoubtedly the finest les mêmes choses."<br />
in the volume. Criticism of this kind is a fine A curious book has just been published by<br />
art. The author knows his subject, and endea- M. Théodore Joran, entitled “Les Féministes avant<br />
vours, with an unbiassed mind, to set forth what le Feminisme." It is dedicated to Mademoiselle<br />
he sees. The psychological analysis is extremely Lya Berger, and the preface is written by Louise<br />
subtle. The strength and the weakness of Wilde Faure Favièr.<br />
are set forth. We follow him through all the “Les Lettres de Marque "appears to be an excellent<br />
various stages of his evolution. We see him translation by Albert Savine, of Rudyard Kipling's<br />
among that famous group of the disciples of book. The French public owes much to M. Savine<br />
preraphaelitism, a disciple and admirer of Pater, for the long list of translations he has already<br />
and we follow him through the various stages of made.<br />
his literary career until we come to the last “Champs, Usines et Ateliers," by Pierre Kropot-<br />
chapters, to the “ De Profundis.” The whole kine, is translated by M. Francis Leray from the<br />
volume is a valuable addition to literary criticism. English. This volume forms one of the series<br />
Some of the suggestions of the writer will probably entitled “ Bibliothèque Sociologique," published by<br />
not be accepted. Many of the disciples of Pater P. W. Stock.<br />
will refute the idea that their master was a In the Revue des Deux Mondes, of December 15,<br />
nominalist. There is perhaps too much generalisa- M. Emile Ollivier writes on “La Guerre de 1870,"<br />
tion in some of the chapters, but there is very and M. Leroy-Beaulieu on “Léon Tolstoï.”<br />
much that is well worth reading in each criticism. In La Revue A. Fouillée and Dr. Grasset write<br />
“Le Comte de Fersen," by Princesse Schanove. on “ La Criminalité et la Presse." There is also<br />
skoy-Strechneff, is the title of a volume containing an article on “ Bernard Shaw," by A. Hamon and<br />
DOCK.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
87<br />
one by G. Saint-Aubin on “La Catholicisme aux<br />
UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
Etats-Unis."<br />
In the recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire<br />
are some excellent articles by Jacques Bardoux on<br />
SWALD GARRISON VILLARD'S “John<br />
“Edward VII,” as king, man and politician. Brown : A Biography Fifty Years After," is<br />
There is also an article by Paul Pompéi on “Les<br />
no doubt an interesting and meritorious piece<br />
Causes de la Révolution en Portugal,” and Mlle. of work. But when it is described as “ One of the<br />
Halperine-Kaminsky gives some hitherto unpub-<br />
great biographies of our literature," and compared<br />
lished letters from Tolstoï.<br />
to Gibbons' “ Decline and Fall,” one calls out for<br />
At the Odéon “Les Affranchis” has been pro critical quarter. Yet these two judgments were<br />
nounced a success. “L'Aventurier” is still being delivered not by anonymous young lions of obscure<br />
given at the Porte Saint-Martin ; “La Fugitive" organs, but by two veterans of literature !<br />
at the Gymnase ; and “Elektra” at the Théâtre Perhaps a still more remarkable recent publica-<br />
de l'Euvre. Mr. Charles Foley's play, “Aution of the Houghton Mifflin Company is “The<br />
Téléphones," has just been put on again, at Digressions of V." The artist-autobiographer<br />
l'Ambigu, and is having greater success than describes his work—a medley of poems in art<br />
ever.<br />
lettering, discursive prose, and pictorial interpola-<br />
The Théâtre Shakespeare is now established in tions-as “written for his own fun and that of<br />
Paris, thanks to the enterprise and perseverance<br />
his friends." He tells of his early adventures in<br />
of M. Camille de Sainte-Croix. Last season seven Cuba ; sketches his student life at Rome, Paris and<br />
comedies and dramas were given here which had Florence, and indulges occasionally in self-criticism.<br />
never before been produced in France, and twelve Elihu Vedder, in fact, appeals equally to the lover<br />
fresh plays are now announced for Wednesday of art in books and on canvas.<br />
evenings at the Théâtre Femina, in the Champs Readers of The Author will probably have long<br />
Elysées.<br />
since made acquaintance with Mr. Howells's “ My<br />
M. de Sainte-Croix is devoting his life to the Mark Twain.” Literary biography has been a<br />
production of Shakespeare's works in French. He good deal in evidence of late. Besides the works<br />
is translating them himself, and his one ambition is already touched upon we have had Miss Lilian<br />
to put the thirty-four comedies and dramas on the Whiting's “ Louise Chandler Moulton," a notable<br />
French stage. M. Simas, the well-known scene memorial, containing numerous unpublished letters<br />
painter of the Opéra Comique, is responsible for<br />
from leading authors; "a posthumous auto-<br />
the stage scenery. He not only paints the back- biography” of Edmund Clarence Stedman, con-<br />
ground, but he combines the colouring of the cerning which the author, the subject's grand-<br />
costumes in order to ensure perfect harmony.<br />
daughter, affirms that her own personality has<br />
M. de Sainte-Croix is not only a prolific writer, been to such an extent mastered that she has<br />
but as a member of the Jury of Examiners of the constantly had the feeling that “he 'Stedman) was<br />
Conservatoire de Musique et Déclamation he has directing what I should say and what I should not<br />
admirable opportunities of selecting his artistes say, even sometimes contrary to my own planning";<br />
for the various rôles in these plays.<br />
“ The Japanese Letters of Lafcadio Hearn," with a<br />
The initiative is greatly appreciated here, and biographical and critical introduction by Elizabeth<br />
these Shakespearean evenings once a fortnight are Bisland; and Mr. H. J. Moors's “ With Stevenson<br />
highly in favour. The next play announced for in Samoa,” an appendix to the “ Vailima Letters.”<br />
January 12 is “The Taming of the Shrew," The year has also been pretty prolific in political<br />
under the French title of “L'Ecole de la Pie. biography of note. First place should probably be<br />
Grieche.”<br />
given to Dr. Allen McLane Hamilton's “Intimate<br />
A committee has been formed with the idea of Life of Alexander Hamilton," his grandfather,<br />
helping M. de Sainte-Croix in the task he has published by Scribner. Unpublished letters from<br />
assumed, and the Duchesse de Rohan is a most Martha Washington, General Schuyler, and others<br />
active and capable president.<br />
are included, and a graphic impression is given of<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
New York as it was when the great Federalist was<br />
in his prime.<br />
“Through<br />
“Maire-Claire.”<br />
Five Administrations,”<br />
Fasquelle.<br />
Colonel<br />
"L'Ame des Anglais." Bernard Grasset.<br />
Crook's record of service from Lincoln to Grant,<br />
“La Lueur sur la cime." Calmann Lévy.<br />
ably edited by Margarita Spalding Gerry, is one of<br />
"Etudes Anglaises." Bernard Grasset.<br />
Harper's most notable publications. Lincoln could<br />
" Le Comte de Fersen." Perrin.<br />
** Le Culte de l'Incompétence." Bernard Grasset.<br />
not spare his bodyguard for army service, but kept<br />
"Les Lettres de Marque." P. V. Stock.<br />
him by him to the last.<br />
*Champs. Usines et Ateliers." Stock.<br />
Coming down to more recent times, we have<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
“Grover Cleveland : A Record of Friendship," Pollak's “ The Hygiene of the Soul,” though its<br />
based on Richard Watson Gilder's Century articles sanity may be too great for some of them.<br />
of 1909, his last prose work, and by no means his Prof. Trent's “ Longfellow and other Essays"<br />
worst.<br />
may be unpopular in some quarters on account of<br />
“ The Autobiography of Thomas Collier Platt," its sober estimate of the works of the author of<br />
a record of the life-work of the able Republican “Hiawatha," but will commend itself to the<br />
“ boss,” covers much ground, and is very frank and discerning.<br />
outspoken in tone. In fact, the book is what the Professor Brander Matthews has issued through<br />
man was, allowing for the reticence no longer Scribner an excellent life of Molière : and a<br />
necessary. The editor is Louis J. Lang.<br />
collection of Eugene Field's verse has been<br />
“Lincoln and Herndon,” by Joseph Foot Newton, published by the same house. They have also<br />
is based upon the correspondence of Theodore issued President Eliot's Barbourt-Page lectures,<br />
Parker and Herndon in the years 1854-9, and collected under the title “The Conflict between<br />
throws light upon the Douglas-Greeley compact Collectivism and Individualism."<br />
against Lincoln, amongst other events of the In the region of fiction nothing very sensational<br />
period.<br />
has happened of late. James Lane Allen's “The<br />
To the succeeding decade belongs “The Recol. Doctor's Christmas Eve ” deals attractively with an<br />
lections of Alexander H. Stephens," consisting for attractive theme which the writer has treated of<br />
the most part of his journal whilst a prisoner with before in another aspect; Jack London, in<br />
the Confederates.<br />
“Burning Daylight," has produced some strong<br />
The “Seven Great Statesmen," on whom the Hon. character studies, and he has also published some<br />
Andrew D. White has written studies, are Sarpi, good short stories ; but Mrs. Wharton's “ Tales of<br />
Grotius, Thomasius, Turgot, Stein, Cavour, and Men of Ghosts,” though displaying technical skill,<br />
Bismarck—a wide field well covered.<br />
is otherwise distinctly disappointing. Anne<br />
Before leaving the field of biography, Mrs. Douglas Sedgwick's “ Franklin Winslow Kane"<br />
Lothrop's “ Court of Alexander III.," the letters is ambitiously elaborated, but unattractive.<br />
of our ambassador in Russia's wife ; Theodore “Flamsted Quarries,” by Mary E. Waller, is strong<br />
Stanton's“ Reminiscences of Rosa Bonheur" (with in construction and not deficient in characterisa-<br />
illustrations); and George Wharton James's tion. Mr. Louis J. Vance has again shown his<br />
“Heroes of California" should also be mentioned. narrative skill in “No Man's Land”; and Dr.<br />
Amidst the abundance of life studies showered Weir Mitchell has written four excellent short<br />
upon us, we had almost forgotten à volume of stories entitled “The Guillotine Club." “ The<br />
such world-wide interest as the “ Impressions” of Purchase Price," by Emerson Hough, is an exciting<br />
Madame Modjeska (Macmillan Co.), which range tale of the Civil War ; and Margaret Deland's<br />
from Poland in one continent to California in “The Way to Peace” solves a matrimonial<br />
another, and will have special attraction for difficulty by the aid of religion.<br />
students of the stage ; as well as the life story of Recent losses suffered by American literature,<br />
Edison and his work, which is given to the world besides those of Prof. William James, Mrs. Julia<br />
by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Ward-Howe, and John La Farge the artist, have<br />
Martin (Harper).<br />
included Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, novelist and<br />
Two more volumes of Emerson's Journals have mother of a novelist; the Rev. Louis Lambert<br />
also appeared this year, the period covered including (Father Lambert), Ingersoll's opponent; Major<br />
his voyage to the Mediterranean, his stay in England, J. Monroe Taylor, the best American authority on<br />
Paris and Italy, and his marriage after his return; doys ; and William Vaughan Moody, one of the<br />
and the Concord Sage's correspondence with thin line of American poets whose verse really<br />
William Henry Furness has been edited by the counted.<br />
latter's son.<br />
From the Yale Press have come several note-<br />
worthy historical works, such as Prof. Max REPRODUCTION OF MUSIC BY<br />
Farrand's “ Records of the Federal Convention of<br />
1787,” Major John Bigelow's strategic study, “The<br />
GRAMOPHONE.<br />
Campaign of Chancellorsville," and Prof. Charles<br />
Howard Molliwain's “The High Court of<br />
MONCKTON V. TAE GRAMOPHONE CO.<br />
Parliament and its Supremacy,” the last of which<br />
is certain to attract much attention across the TN this action another unsuccessful attempt was<br />
Atlantic.<br />
1 made to obtain for the musical composer con.<br />
The recent death of the founder of Christian trol over mechanical reproductions of his<br />
Science may help to gain readers for Gustav music.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
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The plaintiff was Mr. Lionel Monckton, the well-<br />
known song-writer, and the author of a musical<br />
composition called “Moonstruck," which was<br />
first published in 1909, and was subsequently<br />
reproduced on gramophones by the defendant<br />
company.<br />
The action was brought for the purpose of<br />
obtaining a declaration that the plaintiff was<br />
entitled to the exclusive right of making grama-<br />
phone sheets for the reproduction of his musical<br />
work.<br />
It appeared that the registered proprietors of<br />
the copyright were Messrs. Chappell and Co. ; but<br />
the plaintiff did not base his claims upon statutory<br />
copyright, that point having been determined in<br />
the recent cases relating to perforated rolls.<br />
In Boosey V. Wright it was decided that a<br />
perforated roll for mechanical reproduction of<br />
music was not a “copy ” of a sheet of music, and<br />
that such reproduction was not an infringement<br />
of statutory copyright. Similarly, in Mabe v.<br />
Connor, it was held that a perforated music roll<br />
was not a “ pirated copy” of a musical compo-<br />
sition, and that the reproduction by such<br />
mechanical process was not an offence under the<br />
Musical Copyright Act, 1902.<br />
It was contended, however, on behalf of the<br />
plaintiff, that he had a common law right to con-<br />
trol the use of his musical work, and that this<br />
common law right continued after publication<br />
concurrently with the copyright provided by<br />
statute.<br />
Mr. Justice Joyce, in dismissing the action, said<br />
that the claim was made by the composer after his<br />
song had been published, and that after publication<br />
the only right was statutory copyright, which was<br />
not claimed by the plaintiff.<br />
It may be pointed out that under the new Copy-<br />
right Bill it is proposed to give the author of a<br />
musical work the right to make or authorise the<br />
making of any record, perforated roll, or other<br />
contrivance by means of which the work may be<br />
mechanically performed.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
perform the sketch written by the author entitled<br />
" " for a period of twelve months from the<br />
date of this agreement.<br />
Provided that the author shall have the right to<br />
license bona fide amateur performances of the said<br />
sketch in London during the continuance of the<br />
licence herein mentioned subsequent to the date<br />
of the first London performance and in any town<br />
within three months after the date of first<br />
performance in the said town.<br />
2. The author undertakes that during the con-<br />
tinuance of this agreement he will not authorise<br />
any other performance of the said sketch.<br />
3. In consideration of the said licence the pro-<br />
ducer undertakes to pay the author on the signing<br />
of this agreement a sum of £ which sum<br />
shall be taken towards the payment of royalties<br />
hereinafter mentioned, but shall not be repayable<br />
in any event.<br />
Note: This sum should be reckoned as the sum of<br />
royalties for about four weeks. (See further additional<br />
note at end of clause 6.)<br />
4. The producer undertakes to produce the<br />
sketch on or before<br />
5. The producer undertakes to pay the author<br />
the following royalties: £ per performance<br />
fore<br />
for each company performing the said sketch.<br />
Note :-Two performances in a night at one hall by the<br />
same company are generally counted as one performance,<br />
It is customary, if the same company performs the sketch<br />
at more than one hall in a night, that the usual fee shall<br />
be charged on the first performance and half the fee on the<br />
other performances, and in this case the clause should be<br />
added to accordingly.<br />
6. The producer undertakes to forward to the<br />
author detailed returns and accounts of all per-<br />
formances on the Tuesday following the week in<br />
which such performances shall have taken place.<br />
In rendering the accounts, if the amount paid in<br />
advance of royalties has been worked off by the<br />
number of performances, then the producer under-<br />
takes not only to pay the balance due, but to pay a<br />
further sum amounting to two weeks' royalties at<br />
the rate of £ per week at the same time as he<br />
renders the account, and shall continue to do so<br />
during the licence herein granted.<br />
General Note to Clause 6.-It has been suggested that<br />
these payments in advance are essential, as the performance<br />
of a sketch at a music-hall is illegal, and, therefore, if the<br />
amount is not prepaid the author has no means of recover-<br />
ing the money due.<br />
7. The producer shall perform the sketch for<br />
not less than weeks during the existence of<br />
this licence, and failing such performances, will<br />
make such payment to the author as shall make<br />
the amount received by him equal to the royalty<br />
on<br />
weeks' performances at the rate of<br />
£ per week.<br />
AGREEMENT BETWEEN AUTHOR AND<br />
PRODUCER OF A SKETCH.<br />
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made<br />
| this day of between<br />
hereinafter called the author of the one<br />
part and hereinafter called the producer of<br />
the other part<br />
WHEREBY IT IS AGREED AS FOLLOWS :-<br />
1. The author hereby licences the producer to<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
16. The licence contained in this agreement is<br />
personal to the producer, and shall not be trans-<br />
ferred by him to any other person without the<br />
previous sanction of the author in writing, such<br />
sanction to be entirely within the author's own<br />
discretion.<br />
17. The author hereby agrees to take what steps<br />
may be necessary to secure to the said producer<br />
the full enjoyment of the licence conveyed under<br />
this agreement, but only at the expense of the<br />
producer and when the producer nas<br />
producer and when the producer has guaranteed<br />
the author to the satisfaction of the author against<br />
any loss or expense he may be likely to incur in<br />
protecting the said licence.<br />
18. Should the producer at any time by himself<br />
or anyone acting on his behalf fail to fulfil or<br />
comply with any of the clauses and conditions<br />
herein set forth, or should he retire from business,<br />
or should he commit an act of bankruptcy, the<br />
author may forthwith by notice in writing ter-<br />
minate the licence contained in clause 3, and may<br />
grant the licence therein to another person not-<br />
withstanding anything in this agreement set forth.<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
This clause shall be read subject to the power of<br />
termination by the producer hereinafter contained.<br />
Note. For the guidance of those entering into a con.<br />
tract, it should be stated that twenty weeks is not an<br />
uncommon figure to fix for the number to be inserted in<br />
the above clause.<br />
8. The producer may terminate this agreement<br />
at the end of four weeks after the date of produc<br />
tion by giving notice in writing to the author any<br />
time within the said four weeks.<br />
Note.—The idea is to give the producer time to find out<br />
if he can book the piece ahead. If he should fail, the<br />
author will have had a trial of his piece and four<br />
weeks' pay.<br />
9. The name of the author shall appear in its<br />
customary form with due prominence on all play-<br />
bills, programmes, and advertisements of the sketch,<br />
and the producer shall be liable in liquidated<br />
damages to the author should he fail to carry out<br />
this portion of his agreement.<br />
10. The producer undertakes to provide a satis.<br />
factory and efficient company for the sketch, but<br />
the author shall have the right of veto against<br />
any member of the said company on the ground of<br />
unsuitability or inefficiency.<br />
11. The producer undertakes to stage the sketch<br />
in the style customary at first-class theatres dealing<br />
with this method of production.<br />
12. The producer shall not in any performance<br />
of the sketch under this licence make or allow<br />
any alterations, interpolations in, omissions from,<br />
or violations of the text and stage directions as<br />
supplied by the author without the previous written<br />
consent of the author.<br />
13. The author shall have the right, in case the<br />
producer fails to carry out the agreement with<br />
regard to the rendering of accounts and making<br />
the payments under the clauses herein set forth, to<br />
authorise the managers to deduct his fees from their<br />
payments to the producer and pay them to him direct,<br />
and the author shall further have the option of ter-<br />
minating the agreement forthwith by notice in<br />
writing, whereupon all rights (if any) herein con-<br />
veyed shall again become the author's property<br />
and the licence hereby granted shall cease.<br />
Vote.This clause will not necessarily bind the manager,<br />
but should the manager under this clause at the author's<br />
request send the author his fees, the producer would be<br />
unable to raise objection or bring an action for damages<br />
against the manager. This clause constitutes the best safe.<br />
guard for the author's protection.<br />
14. The author shall have the right to be present<br />
at all rehearsals for the first production of the<br />
sketch, and shall be summoned to such rehearsals<br />
by a call sent to his address.<br />
15. Should the producer fail to produce the<br />
sketch by the date fixed in clause 4 hereof, the<br />
author may cancel this agreement at his option.<br />
BLACKWOOD's MAGAZINE,<br />
Musings Without Method: A new Theory of Romance'<br />
Romance in Ancient Literature. The Humanity of Greece<br />
and Rome. The Individuality of the Poet. A Difference<br />
of Style and Structure.<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
Scimitar and Broadsword: Disraeli and Bright. By<br />
Walter Sichel.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
Anarchism in Literature, the Pest of Paradox. By<br />
E. Wake Cook.<br />
Anatole France-I. By Count S. C. de Soissons.<br />
The Pre Raphaelite-Brotherhood II. (Reprinted, with<br />
some omissions, from the Contemporary Reriew, May and<br />
June, 1886.) By W. Holman Hunt.<br />
Literary Supplement.<br />
Shakespeare's Moon. By Museus.<br />
English REVIEW.<br />
Paris Nights. By Arnold Bennett.<br />
Art, Science and Beauty. By Francis Grierson.<br />
The New Impressionism. By C. Lewis Hind.<br />
The Prospects of English Music. By Francis Toye.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. By Lewis<br />
Melville,<br />
The Position of Fine Art in the New Copyright Bill.<br />
By M. H. Spielmann.<br />
The Childhood of Rachael. By Francis Gribble.<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
Browning Biography. By Emily Hockey.<br />
The Place of Classics in Secondary Education. By Dr.<br />
W. H. D. Rouse.<br />
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Ideas of Modernism. by<br />
C. Delisle Burns.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY,<br />
1. T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor ; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
6. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire.<br />
proof safe, The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent withont the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution,<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of mem bers.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(6.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form.<br />
of agreement. "It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2. Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
V Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2, It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays.<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills,<br />
CTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
performed.<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
also in this case,<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
be reserved.<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<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 />
time. This is most important.<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but Society.<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed. a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantialcial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
.consideration,<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
the warnings stated above.<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 />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first objectbehalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
tracts. those authors desirous of further information members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
MTEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
W 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. I<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
.at the price of 28. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post,<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registerel<br />
letter only.<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
and work, which might spring from the country's<br />
school of authors. The wider the circulation an<br />
author can obtain, unfettered by trade restrictions,<br />
PUBLISHERS AND MINOR RIGHTS.<br />
the larger will be the remuneration he will get for<br />
the production of his work, the larger reputation<br />
We have much pleasure in publishing in the<br />
he will get for the country of origin, and, in<br />
Correspondence a letter dealing with the question of<br />
consequence, the larger number of original thinkers<br />
publishers and minor rights, referring to an article<br />
will be persuaded to enter the literary profession.<br />
that appeared in last month's Author.<br />
If, therefore, a country desires to foster its native<br />
The writer appears to think that the publisher is<br />
literary genius, the fewer restrictions it places on<br />
the right man to act as agent for the sale of these<br />
authorship the better.<br />
minor rights. We contend, as we have always con-<br />
tended, that the publisher should only be employed<br />
as an agent for the publication of the work in book<br />
form. It is dangerous to hand over further rights<br />
MR. SYDNEY FISHER'S REMARKS.<br />
to the publisher. To give him exclusive power to<br />
In the issue of the paper to which we have<br />
deal with these rights is wholly absurd. We do not<br />
referred, Mr. Fisher is reported to have stated as<br />
agree either that he can deal with them more<br />
follows:<br />
satisfactorily than can the agent who makes it his<br />
sole business. In any event, if the publisher does “It is more than I expected. I was surprised at the<br />
succeed in placing these rights he should not be<br />
completeness of what I got. People in England were at<br />
first a little startled at the position I took, bnt they proved<br />
able to claim more than the agent, and, lastly, the<br />
to be amenable to reason. The conference that was held<br />
agent should not be entitled to claim his com this summer was presided over by Mr. Buxton, President of<br />
mission if he has consented to allow such a clause the Board of Trade. There were present representatives of<br />
to be inserted in the publishing agreement.<br />
the Foreign, Colonial, and other Offices. Lord Tennyson<br />
If<br />
represented Australia, Sir Richard Solomon South Africa,<br />
the publisher is to act as agent, then there should Sir William Hall-Jones New Zealand, and Sir Edward<br />
not be a double agency, but we have never known Morris Newfoundland. The Society of Authors has always<br />
the agent to take this view of the position.<br />
been a stumbling-block. I learned that it is now defunct.”<br />
We desire particularly to draw attention to the<br />
last two sentences. They refer, we conclude, not to<br />
· CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.<br />
the English, but to the Canadian Society of Authors.<br />
and Mr. Fisher seems to be pleased to have been<br />
The Canadian Bookseller and Stationer, a paper freed from the trammels which were thrown about<br />
issued from Toronto, has been discussing Mr. Sydney his action by the Canadian Society, in order<br />
Fisher's statement on the question of Canadian that he might have a free hand to deal with<br />
Copyright, which has already received some notice the trade issues. We are inclined to think that<br />
in the English papers.<br />
this is a bad omen for Canadian copyright legisla-<br />
There are various opinions put forward by the tion. It is the old story. The trades which would<br />
representatives of the printing and publishing not exist but for the authors who produce the pro-<br />
trades. Some of them foreshadow the danger that perty, wish to have control of property which is not<br />
may arise from separate Canadian legislation. their own. It would appear, therefore, that Mr.<br />
Some of them are wrapped up entirely in the Fisher thinks, that instead of fostering authors, if<br />
benefits they hope they may receive by Protection, he wants to produce a great Canadian literature he<br />
and the Canadian printers are evidently elated by must foster the printing trade. It seems to be a<br />
the prospect of raising a cry so dangerous to case of the tail wagging the dog. We trust, how-<br />
authors and copyright ideals. As The Author has ever, that the Canadian Authors' Society may have<br />
frequently pointed out, if the Canadian publishers read this paragraph, and will show that they are by<br />
take the trouble at the present time to make con- no means defunct, but will uphold their right<br />
tracts with English authors, the English authors when legislation comes before the Canadian Parlia-<br />
would be very willing to reserve their Canadian ment, to control their own property, unfettered by<br />
markets, and the Canadian printers would get the any trade regulations. But we are assured, and<br />
benefit they desire ; but there is very little benefit sincerely trust, that the promises which the Imperial<br />
to be derived from the printing of books until a Copyright Conference has given to the Imperial<br />
country has raised up its own school of authorship, Government, will be fully maintained in any legis-<br />
and even then it is unwise to force printing lation which may be carried through in the Colonies,<br />
in a special country. Such a course is con- and that Imperial-indeed, international-copyright<br />
trary to the great ideals of copyright legislation, may not be upset by the rash legislation of an<br />
and retards rather than fosters the original thought independent minister.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE AUTHORS' CLUB.<br />
WE regret, that space did not allow us to mention<br />
the annual ladies' dinner of the Authors' Club in<br />
the last number,<br />
The dinner was held under the chairmanship of<br />
Mr. Charles Garvice, and Sir Edward Brabrook<br />
occupied the vice-chair.<br />
The guest of the evening was Sir Walter<br />
Parratt, M.V.O., Mus.Doc.<br />
The company numbered some 320, and there<br />
was an excellent programme of music. The events<br />
of the evening, however, were Sir Walter Parratt's<br />
paper on Music in the Reign of Edward VII.,<br />
and a presentation to Mr. Charles Garvice, the<br />
chairman of the committee, by his fellow members<br />
of the club. The presentation consisted of his<br />
portrait, painted by Mr. A. D. McCormick, one of<br />
the members.<br />
Mr. Garvice has been chairman since the club<br />
oh<br />
was re-founded, and all members feel deeply grateful<br />
to him for the time and attention he has given to<br />
the details of the management and to the comfort<br />
of the members. It was with the greatest pleasure,<br />
therefore, that those who constantly use the club,<br />
and in consequence are especially interested in its<br />
good management, took this opportunity to show<br />
their appreciation of his self-denying labours.<br />
Members of the society will remember also that<br />
Mr. Garvice gave up no inconsiderable time to the<br />
the<br />
affairs of the society when he was on the sub-<br />
committee which dealt, at the beginning of the<br />
year, with the price of novels.<br />
abouts of the culprit. It is necessary to put these<br />
facts before members of the society and to draw<br />
certain conclusions.<br />
It is probable that the author could not have<br />
succeeded in an action against the agent, for as<br />
there was no copyright in the United States in the<br />
article anyone could reproduce it in the States.<br />
If the agent made any misrepresentations, and it<br />
seems from the evidence that he must have done,<br />
then an action would lie from the proprietor of<br />
the American magazine against the agent for<br />
misrepresentation.<br />
If the agent represented that he was acting as<br />
agent for the author, and money was paid by the<br />
proprietor because of this misrepresentation, the<br />
author would, no doubt, have a claim against the<br />
agent if he could discover his whereabouts.<br />
It is impossible, however, to find out any other<br />
details about the matter, and if any members of<br />
the society think it likely that they may be placed<br />
in regard to their work in a similar position, the<br />
secretary will be pleased to give the name of the<br />
agent concerned.<br />
We think it of importance that inembers should<br />
look alive, as there appears to be considerable<br />
illicit traffic by a certain class of agents and others<br />
in literary wares either pirated or stolen, and it is<br />
as well to put a stop to this kind of traffic before it<br />
spreads widely.<br />
spreads widely.<br />
COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br />
A CURIOUS CASE.<br />
A MEMBER of the Society of Authors suddenly<br />
received information that an article of his was<br />
appearing in one of the best known American<br />
magazines. The article referred to appeared<br />
originally in a magazine in England some years<br />
prior to its appearance in America, so that it<br />
would appear that there was no copyright in the<br />
article in the United States. The agent, there-<br />
fore, acting on behalf of the member concerned,<br />
wrote a letter to the magazine in the United<br />
States, as, owing to the standing of the magazine,<br />
it seemed unlikely, both to the author and the<br />
agent, that he would have intentionally pirated<br />
the article. The agent received a letter in reply<br />
to the effect that the magazine had purchased the<br />
article for the sum of $10 from an agent in<br />
London, whose name and address was given. The<br />
matter was then placed in the hands of the Society<br />
of Authors, but the secretary's letter to the agent<br />
who had sold the article was returned through the<br />
post. It was found impossible to trace the where-<br />
TN pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of<br />
I Association of the society, the committee<br />
give notice that the election of members of<br />
the Committee of Management will be proceeded<br />
with in the following manner :-<br />
(1) One-third of the members of the present<br />
Committee of Management retire from office in<br />
aceordance with Article 17.<br />
(2) The names of the retiring members are Sir<br />
Alfred Bateman, Mr. Douglas Freshfield, Mr.<br />
Maurice Hewlett, and Mr. W. W. Jacobs.<br />
(3) The date fixed by the committee up to<br />
which nominations by the subscribing members<br />
of candidates for election to the new committee<br />
may be made is the 15th day of February<br />
(3) Mr. Freshfield not seeking re-election, the<br />
committee nominate the following candidates, being<br />
subscribing members of the society, to fill the<br />
vacancies caused by the retirement of one-third of<br />
the committee, according to the new constitution :-<br />
Sir Alfred Bateman. Mr. W. W. Jacobs.<br />
Mr. Maurice Hewlett. Mr. Aylmer Maude.<br />
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The committee remind the members that, under<br />
Article 19 of the amended Articles of Association,<br />
* any two subscribing members of the society may<br />
nominate one or more subscribing members, other<br />
than themselves, not exceeding the number of<br />
vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent<br />
to the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed by<br />
the candidate or candidates expressing willingness<br />
to accept the duties of the post.”<br />
Members desiring to exercise their powers under<br />
this rule must send in the name of the candidate<br />
or candidates they nominate, not exceeding four in<br />
all, on or before the 15th day of February, together<br />
with an accompanying letter written by the candi-<br />
date or candidates expressing readiness to accept<br />
nomination. The complete list of candidates will<br />
be printed in the March issue of The Author.<br />
the end of July, 1907, was published in October<br />
of that year. This list was complete at the date<br />
of issue with the exception of the thirty-eight<br />
members referred to in the short preface. All<br />
further elections have been duly notified in The<br />
Author. They can easily be referred to, as members<br />
receive a copy every month.<br />
It will be as well, therefore, should any of the<br />
members desire to put forward a candidate, to take<br />
the matter within their immediate consideration.<br />
The general meeting of the society has usually<br />
been held towards the end of February or the<br />
beginning of March. It is essential that all<br />
nominations should be in the hands of the secretary<br />
before the 31st of January, 1911.<br />
THE COUNCIL MEETING.<br />
THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
M HE second meeting of the council during the<br />
present year was held at 20, Hanover<br />
TN accordance with annual custom, and in order<br />
Square, W., on Tuesday, November 22,<br />
to give members of the society, should they under the chairmanship of Mr. Maurice Hewlett.<br />
desire to appoint a fresh member to the The following members were present : Mr.<br />
Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has Maurice Hewlett (chairman). Sir Alfred Bateman.<br />
been thought advisable to place in The Author a Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Mr. Douglas Freshfield,<br />
complete statement of the method of election under Mr. A. Hope Hawkins, Mr. Jerome K, Jerome,<br />
the scheme for administration of the Pension Fund. Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Sir Alfred Lyall, Mr.<br />
Under that scheme the committee is composed of Bernard Shaw, Dr. S. S. Sprigge, Mrs. Humphry<br />
three members elected by the committee of the Ward.<br />
society, three members elected by the society at the After the minutes of the last meeting had been<br />
general meeting, and the chairman of the society read and signed, Mr. Hewlett asked Mrs. Humphry<br />
for the time being, ex officio. The three members Ward to move the resolution standing in her<br />
elected at the general meeting when the fund was name, which was the only matter on the agenda.<br />
started were Mr. Morley Roberts, Mr. M. H. Spiel. The terms of the resolution were as follows:<br />
mann, and Mrs. Alec Tweedie. These have in turn "That this meeting of council protests against the<br />
during the past years resigned, and, submitting manner of appointment of those representatives of<br />
their names for re-election, have been unanimously the Society of Authors who acted on the so-called<br />
re-elected. Mr. M. H. Spielmann resigned and was “Joint Committee” which nominated the<br />
re-elected in 1910. This year Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Academic Committee recently formed by the Royal<br />
under the rules of the scheme, tenders her resigna- Society of Literature : that it desires to draw the<br />
tion, and submits her name for re-election. The attention of the society to the inadequacy of the<br />
members have power to put forward other names authority under which action was taken : to the<br />
under clause 9, which runs as follows :-<br />
ignorance of members of council on the subject,<br />
Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com- and to the exclusion of women from the Joint<br />
mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring Committee."<br />
member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing<br />
In support of her resolution Mrs. Humphry<br />
to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general<br />
meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the Ward then made the following statement. She<br />
nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by understood that at a meeting of the committee of<br />
at least three members of the society. A list of the names the Royal Society of Literature sometime towards<br />
of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members<br />
the end of last year, it had been proposed to form<br />
of the society, with the annual report of the Managing<br />
Committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes an Academy of Letters ; that Mr. Maurice Hewlett,<br />
at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the who was a member of that committee, naturally<br />
Pension Fund Committee.<br />
wished that the Society of Authors should have<br />
In case any member should desire to refer to the something to say in the appointment of this<br />
list of members, the list, taking the elections up to Academy, and had urged this point upon the Royal<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Society of Literature ; and that the Society of without for another month or so. He was rery<br />
Literature had approved his suggestion. He had pleased to hear that Mrs. Humphry Ward did not<br />
then come to the Committee of Management of the desire to impair the harmony of the society; he<br />
Society of Authors explaining what he had done, considered it was a case in which the chairman of<br />
and the committee forthwith had appointed a sub- the committee might be asked to give more fully<br />
committee to negotiate with the Royal Society of the reasons for the action he had taken.<br />
Literature. She understood that at the first Mr. Maurice Hewlett, as the mouthpiece of the<br />
meeting of the council this year Mr. Hewlett had committee, then proceeded to state exactly what<br />
reported what steps had been taken in the matter, had taken place, not as taking part one way or the<br />
but that no notice was placed on the agenda of other, for he felt that, as chairman, he could not<br />
the council meeting that this question was to be do so. He said that, being a member of the<br />
brought forward, and that those members of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, he<br />
council who were not present knew nothing what. attended a meeting of that body in November<br />
ever of what was going on until they opened their of last year, when resolutions were proposed<br />
Times one morning later and saw that the towards the formation of an Academy of Letters<br />
Academic Committee had been formed by the (subsequently modified into an Academic Com-<br />
Society of Authors and the Royal Society of mittee). He had explained at once that he was<br />
Literature. That this was the case was confirmed chairman for the time being of the Society of<br />
by the fact that one of the members of the Authors, and could not regard any such proposal<br />
Academic Committee had been asked to join that as practical in the consideration of which that<br />
body, in a circular letter stating that he was invited society had no part. After a short discussion, Mr.<br />
to do so by the two societies—the Society of Authors Hewlett's name was added to a sub-committee to<br />
and the Royal Society of Literature, in joint session. consider the whole question; and finally the<br />
She was strongly of opinion that in such an impor- Committee of Management of the Society of<br />
tant matter the council, if not the whole society, Authors was requested to recommend fourteen<br />
should have been consulted. Mrs. Humphry members of its own body for nomination upon the<br />
Ward then referred to the question of the Academic Committee. The Committee of Manage-<br />
exclusion of women from the Joint Committee. ment selected Mr. Hewlett, Mr. Hawkins and Mr.<br />
She said that she did not want in any way to raise Freshfield as a sub-committee for this purpose, but<br />
the point of the exclusion of women from the Mr. Hawkins was unable to act. Mr. Hewlett<br />
Academic Committee. She considered that outside and Mr. Freshfield then joined the sub-committee<br />
the present discussion ; but she did consider that of the Royal Society of Literature (Mr. Freshfield<br />
as the Society of Authors was composed not upon invitation from it), and a list of twenty-eight<br />
only of men, but of women, not only ought the names was prepared in joint session which was ap-<br />
women of the council, but the women of the proved by the Committee of Management. Nothing<br />
society, to have been consulted, although she was done without the approval of the Committee of<br />
understood that there were two women on the Management, which believed itself competent to<br />
Committee of Management when the matter was deal with the matter. Mr. Hewlett justified the<br />
brought to its notice. She did not desire to drive action he had taken in the first instance, saying<br />
her resolution to any practical issue, but she did that as a believer in the importance and influence<br />
consider that the feeling of the council ought to be of the Society of Authors, he could not have acted<br />
put on record ; that this was an inadequate founda- otherwise than to insist upon the right of an<br />
tion for such an important matter ; and that association which numbered over 2,000 members,<br />
women ought to have been included among all writers, to intervene in any scheme which<br />
the representatives of the society on the sub- affected literature in England.<br />
committee.<br />
Mr. Douglas Freshfield pointed out that the<br />
Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins seconded the terms of Mrs. Ward's resolution indicated that<br />
resolution. He said that he had not been in the her main incentive to the action she had taken<br />
past addicted to whittling down the powers of the was indignation at the exclusion, as she held, of<br />
executive committee, but he considered that the women from the committee which nominated the<br />
matter of the Academic Committee was one for fair original members of the Academic Committee. 16<br />
discussion by members of the council and that it seemed desirable, therefore, to emphasise the fact<br />
was rather outside the ordinary routine of the that every step taken by the former committee had<br />
committee. He did not consider the question been submitted for confirmation to the Committee<br />
was of such urgency that it need necessarily have of Management, on which two ladies were sitting,<br />
been dealt with by the committee alone. He and that those ladies were for all practical purposes<br />
thought that as the country had gone without an members of the nominating committee.<br />
Academy for so long a time it might have gone. Mrs. Ward's main contention, however, w<br />
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which the Council had to deal, was that it was a member, had full cognisance of the chairman's<br />
outside the functions of the Committee of Manage action.<br />
ment to take any share in the creation of an Mrs. Nesbit Bland confirmed Mrs. Belloc<br />
Academic Committee without the assent of the Lowdnes' statement, and in reply to Mrs. Hum-<br />
Council obtained at a meeting on the agenda of phry Ward's objection to the exclusion of women<br />
which the business had been notified. Mrs. from the Joint Committee, protested against the<br />
Ward's strong point, in fact her only point, was suggestion that women were necessarily always<br />
the omission of any such notice of the Academic best represented by women.<br />
Committee on the agenda of the meeting held in Mr. Bernard Shaw pointed out that Mrs.<br />
March last. Mr. Freshfield would not inquire Humphry Ward's resolution was impossible under<br />
whether the omission had been accidental, or the circumstances. It was no use moving a vote<br />
whether it was due to a desire to meet the urgent of censure on the Committee of Management in a<br />
request of their colleagues of the Royal Society of meeting in which members of the committee were<br />
Literature to take no step likely to lead to discussion in a majority of nearly two to one; and as the<br />
in the Press before the first list of acceptances of committee did not wish to use their obvious<br />
nominations to the Academic Committee could be superiority to defeat Mrs. Ward, the best way to<br />
published. Nor would be insist that it was the end the matter would be to withdraw the resolution.<br />
duty of councillors to attend the annual meeting of The council, by not attending, showed that they<br />
council without any special inducement, for he had no grievance. If councillors would not read<br />
was prepared to agree with Mrs. Ward that it The Author, and would not attend even the annual<br />
would have been better had the matter of the meeting, they might perhaps privately reproach<br />
Academic Committee been put on the agenda. the secretary for not indulging their remissness by<br />
He must, however, remind the council that it giving them a friendly unofficial hint that some-<br />
had already been three times referred to in The thing particular was going on ; but they really<br />
Author, and also in the Times.<br />
could not decently complain publicly and move<br />
Criticising the form of Mrs. Ward's resolution votes of censure. He (Mr. Shaw) did not always<br />
he concluded by saying that, in his opinion, she read The Author carefully ; but then he took the<br />
would have met the case by proposing that “where consequences, and did not blame the committee.<br />
any business of importance was to be brought The resolution was a vote of censure not only on<br />
before the council it should be notified on the their own committee but on the Academic Com-<br />
agenda" or words to that effect. She had, mittee. As such, it had better not be pressed.<br />
however, preferred to move a complex and com- Somebody had been indiscreet in announcing a<br />
bative resolution which it was impossible for the British Academy of Letters to the world whilst<br />
Committee of Management to accept. It was one, the arrangements were still in the provisional<br />
he thought, which it would be difficult for the stage. That announcement had taken the matter<br />
council to adopt. That body had never shown any out of their hands, and left the incomplete Academy<br />
desire to take an active part in the management of in a critical position in which an unfriendly word<br />
the society's affairs, and the proof of this would might be fatal to its chance of success. The<br />
be found in the list of attendances of councillors passing of the resolution would certainly be inter-<br />
not also members of the Committee of Management, preted as unfriendly; and—unless they desired to<br />
during the fourteen years for which he had served wreck the project, which he presumed was out of<br />
on the latter body. He recognised in Mrs. Ward the question-they should be content with having<br />
a sincere and serious well-wisher to the Authors' discussed the matter, and not press the resolution<br />
Society, but in the present instance her proposals to a division.<br />
seemed to him misjudged.<br />
Mrs. Ward expressed herself somewhat loath to<br />
Sir Alfred Bateman referred to one point in Mrs. withdraw her motion, but desired to know in what<br />
Humphry Ward's resolution which appeared to way the committee could meet the occasion.<br />
suggest that the Committee of Management were After further discussion Mrs. Humphry Ward<br />
not fully conversant with what was going on. He withdrew her motion. Sir Alfred Bateman pro-<br />
pointed out that the Committee of Management, on posed the following resolution as the outcome of<br />
which were two ladies--the lack of whom on the the debate :" That this meeting is of opinion<br />
joint committee had been referred to by Mrs. that it is desirable that all business deemed to be<br />
Humphry Ward-had full cognisance of everything of sufficient importance should be submitted to<br />
that was taking place. He personally thought that the council, and that all business submitted to the<br />
the chairman could not have conducted the affair council should be inserted on the agenda."<br />
in any other way<br />
This motion was put by Mr. Hewlett to the<br />
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes then confirmed the fact that meeting, seconded by Sir Alfred Lyall, and carried<br />
the Committee of Management, of which she was unanimously.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mrs. Humphry Ward then proposed a further everything that certain individuals may desire to<br />
resolution to the effect that “ This meeting regrets find, few will seek in the book anything that is<br />
that some representatives of women members of lacking, whilst those who use it will discover notes<br />
the Society of Authors should not have been of many kinds of aids and assistances to literary<br />
placed on the joint committee which nominated work of which they will probably have been pre-<br />
the Academic Committee.”<br />
viously ignorant. At the same time, a work with a<br />
This was not seconded, and could not therefore wide reputation, and one justly earned, lies under<br />
be put.<br />
an obligation to be in every respect worthy of its<br />
There being no further business, the council renown, and some particulars still remain in which<br />
meeting was adjourned.<br />
we should like to see an improvement. In the case<br />
of the London libraries, of which there is a very<br />
full list, it would be well if indications (very<br />
desirable in some cases) could be given of the<br />
special features which make particular collections of<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE FOR 1911.*<br />
books especially serviceable to writers engaged on<br />
work of particular kinds. Notwithstanding the<br />
“THE LITERARY YEAR-BOOK."<br />
special pleading of the Preface, we still remain very<br />
doubtful about the value of the suggestions offered<br />
“M H E Literary Year-Book " for 1911, the respecting contracts with publishers. The Conti-<br />
1 fifteenth annual volume, contains some nental information is neither so full nor so accurate<br />
additions and alterations, all of which are as it should be. In the list of foreign publishers<br />
to be welcomed as improvements. The “Obituary we miss the names of well-known firms whose<br />
Notices " are now transferred to Part II. and are addresses are no farther off than Paris, not to<br />
placed in alphabetical order after the “Nobel Prizes.” mention the names of others in more distant<br />
A new section enumerating training offices and localities. There is no reason for introducing the<br />
institutions (some of which formerly appeared letter W into Russian names, and neither at Rome<br />
under “ Agents”) has been added at the end of nor anywhere else is it usual to speak of the church<br />
Part I. Considerable additions have been made to of “Santa Maria Antigua” [sic], though some<br />
the list of societies by the inclusion of literary and Spanish writer might have used the term.<br />
dramatic clubs and other institutions of a similar We do not know what is intended to be con-<br />
nature. The list of Indian periodicals has been veyed by the enigmatic assertion in the Preface<br />
considerably increased, and in addition a separate that “ The Authors' Society is always at hand to<br />
list of Canadian publications is given-features try (and often to succeed) in moulding facts as<br />
which deserve special recognition. The names of they ought to be.” There appears to be here some<br />
agents, literary searchers and typists continue to intention of distinguishing between facts as they<br />
appear in the second part, where they are grouped are and facts as they ought to be. That facts as<br />
together under the general heading of “Authors' they are do, in this sublunary world, often differ<br />
Assistants," an arrangement which appears to be the considerably from facts as they ought to be is a<br />
most convenient possible.<br />
painful truth with which very few will be found to<br />
The many merits of " The Literary Year-Book" disagree. Why, however, anyone should wish to<br />
are so well known, however, that the work will mould “facts as they ought to be," when facts are<br />
hardly need any recommendation to the attention so kind as to take that form, it is difficult to<br />
of authors. The present issue will be found to be understand. In such rare and felicitous cases<br />
enlarged, and contains information of almost every facts are best left alone. In any case, we are in a<br />
kind that authors can require. In the difficult task position to assert positively that nothing is farther.<br />
of compression the editor has shown great dis-<br />
editor has shown great dis- from the aims and intentions of the Society of<br />
crimination, and in the solution of the perpetually Authors than any desire to mould facts so higay<br />
recurring problems of what should be inserted and satisfactory into any shape different from that<br />
what omitted, so that, although it must be nearly which they have at present. If it was desired to<br />
impossible to include in any work of reference say that the Society of Authors is always at<br />
hand to mould facts as they are into facts as they<br />
* “ The Literary Year.Book and Bookman's Directory." ought to be we are grateful for the compliment, but<br />
vol. xv., edited by Basil Stewart. London: George Rout. could wish that it had been more lucidly expresse<br />
ledge & Sons. “The Writers' and Artists' Year-Book : a<br />
Directory for Writers, Artists and Photographers." London :<br />
Adam and Charles Black. “Who's Who, 1911." London:<br />
“THE WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' YEAR-BOOK."<br />
A. and C. Black. “The English woman's Year Book and<br />
Directory, 1911," edited by G. E. Mitton. London: Adam<br />
“The Writers' and Artists' Year-Book" for<br />
and Charles Black.<br />
1911 presents a worthy continuation of previous<br />
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issues. We regard this little annual (whose modest cards and show cards. In the notes on Publishers<br />
price places it within the reach of those who are we note one or two inaccuracies, which seem to<br />
compelled to ask themselves how much they can indicate that the correction of the work has not<br />
afford to give for a book) as one of the most been brought up to date quite so carefully as might<br />
practically useful of publications intended to assist be desired; and we are of opinion that the note on<br />
literary and artistic workers. A superlative merit Copyright would have been better omitted. To<br />
of this annual is that it is not very large. How attempt to present, in little more than a single<br />
great an excellence this is can be realised only page, any idea of the complicated laws of copyright,<br />
when the scope of the book has been understood. is palpably absurd. We would venture to hope<br />
Practically the primary aim of the “ Writers' and that in a future issue (and every one will wish the<br />
Artists' Year-Book" is to assist the worker to find work“ many happy New Years”) there may be<br />
answers to the constantly recurring questions, substituted for the page on Copyright a few<br />
“ To whom sball I offer my work ?” “Where is paragraphs mentioning only the complicated nature<br />
work of such and such a kind likely to find accept- of the statutes, and recommending professional<br />
ance ?” and “What are the prospects of remunera- advice. We are, however, unwilling to dwell upon<br />
tion ?" The literary and artistic worker, when a very small blemish in a very useful work,<br />
confronted with these problems, is, generally and strongly recommend “The Writers' and<br />
speaking, painfully conscious of being able to find Artists' Year-Book” to all literary and artistic<br />
no solutions of them, saving such as are offered by workers.<br />
two extremes, both equally unpractical. The<br />
periodicals, publishing houses, and so forth, known<br />
to any single individual are usually but few, and<br />
“Who's Who.”<br />
his acquaintance with their demands and business<br />
rules more or less imperfect; with the result that This wonderful encyclopædia of contemporary<br />
he is painfully aware of being ignorant what his biography, whose contents and unpretending title<br />
opportunities really are. On the other hand, he is always appear to us to be far as the poles asunder,<br />
certain, in a vague way, that every publisher, continues to grow in dimensions ; awaking a wonder<br />
editor and agent is perpetually in need of new whether there can be actually in a single empire so<br />
work, and will pay for it nothing, or something, many people who really deserve to claim the atten-<br />
or tolerable or handsome prices. That neither of tion of their fellow creatures. It is true that the<br />
these kinds of ignorance affords any practical help particulars recorded amount only to the barest<br />
most workers know too well ; and it may, therefore, facts ; but these barest facts when they are accom-<br />
be boldly asserted that to all (excepting those who panied, as they always are accompanied in this<br />
have already secured their public, and consequently book, by accurate dates, are exactly the things<br />
find & perpetual demand for their work) “The which it is often most difficult to discover ; and we<br />
Writers' and Artists' Year-Book” is practically are, with each succeeding year, impressed by the<br />
invaluable. Nearly ninety pages-not too great a real historical value of a work that modestly<br />
number to be carefully perused-are devoted to an presents itself only as an annual. We have, on<br />
alphabetical index of periodicals; in which index previous occasions, expressed a wish for some dis-<br />
are, in all cases, carefully indicated the kind of tinction between the information that is provided<br />
matter that will be accepted, the average desired by the persons named, and that which is gathered<br />
length of literary contributions, the character of from other sources—in a word, to see biography<br />
illustrations, and the terms, or no terms, of remune- distinguished from autobiography. The editor at<br />
ration. That these pages cannot contain the titles, the same time gives so much that we must confess<br />
nor indeed a tithe of the titles of the world's to a certain shame in asking for more. Notwith-<br />
periodical literature, is self-evident. A very standing its reputation, we believe that “Who's<br />
practical selection has, however, been made, and Who” is still far from being as widely popular as<br />
the writer or artist with this little book in his it ought to be : the various kinds of information<br />
hands will find himself in a position very different to be gathered from its pages are so innumerable.<br />
from that of the man who knows neither where to We, for example, who are naturally most interested<br />
offer his work nor what sort of work he ought to in the literary articles, cannot help wondering how<br />
offer. A classified index at the end of the book many, or how few, of the people who are kind<br />
gives a résumé of the quarters in which different enough to have“ favourite authors ” clearly realise<br />
sorts of work are likely to find acceptance. The that if they want to know all the titles of the best<br />
volume contains also, among other things, indexes works which those authors have produced, they<br />
of syndicates for manuscripts, literary agents, have only to consult the pages of " Who's Who?"<br />
English, American and Canadian publishers and We have examined a number of the literary articles,<br />
colour printers, and notes on Christmas cards, post and find them excellent.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
“ THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S YEAR-Book." tinental fairs; Rousseau's troubles with the<br />
This valuable annual, which bas now been issued<br />
censorship; the difficulties which Diderot and<br />
for thirty years, once more presents a concise review<br />
d'Alembert encountered in producing their Encyclo-<br />
of the immense field of activity at present open to<br />
pædia ; the enthusiasm of the French Revolutionists<br />
women ; with admirably digested particulars of the<br />
for the rights of literary property :-here are a<br />
few of the topics on which we hope to see him<br />
requirements and prospects of remuneration in the<br />
case of various callings. The few pages (Section VI.)<br />
enlarge on a subsequent occasion. What he has<br />
actually done is sufficiently well done to make the<br />
devoted to literature and journalism of necessity<br />
form but a small part of the whole of the book,<br />
expression of the hope no idle compliment. He has<br />
and any woman who takes up her pen with the<br />
given us the modern as well as the ancient history<br />
intention of doing serious work is likely soon to<br />
of his subject, and related the fortunes of the great<br />
find herself in need of fuller information than can<br />
publishing firms of the present day as well as those<br />
be gathered from this volume—which, we hasten<br />
which flourished in the times of Shakespeare, Pope,<br />
Dr. Johnson, and Gibbon.<br />
to add, does not pretend to do more than to give<br />
literary work its just mention among the many<br />
The index is admirably copious, referring us to<br />
opportunities for women with brains. At the same<br />
subjects as well as to proper names, as is always<br />
time we are much impressed by the singular good<br />
desirable in a work of reference. We can look up<br />
sense of all that is said, and by the perfect sound-<br />
not only Cadell and Millar and Dodsley and Murray<br />
ness of all the advice that is offered. Any girl or<br />
and Bentley and Heinemann, but also “ Advertise-<br />
woman of mature years who believes that it would<br />
ments,” “ Almanacks," “ Auctions," “ Censorship,"<br />
be possible for her to earn something with her pen,<br />
“ Copyright,” “Catalogues,” “ Libraries,” “Novels,"<br />
or, which is of by far greater importance, that she<br />
“ Printing,” etc., etc. Pitching upon “ Copyright"<br />
has information to communicate, deserving of being<br />
as a subject specially congenial to our tastes, we<br />
placed before a wider audience than it is possible<br />
discover a reason why authors and publishers should<br />
be unanimous in their desire to see the limitation<br />
to reach in any other way, cannot, before sitting<br />
of the Veto of the House of Lords. Whatever<br />
down to write, do better than study every word<br />
that “The English woman's Year-Book " bas to say<br />
defences there may be to be urged for the Upper<br />
on the subject of literature ; taking to heart both<br />
Chamber, no one can vindicate it on the ground<br />
warnings and the advice, and seeking to make her<br />
that hereditary legislators bave taken a more liberal<br />
beginning, if it is possible for her to make her<br />
view than the representatives of the people of the<br />
beginning, exactly on the lines suggested in these<br />
rights of authors to the property which they create.<br />
excellent pages, upon every word of which we have<br />
There was a time when the belief prevailed, and<br />
pleasure in bestowing the highest commendation.<br />
was generally acted upon in the trade, that the<br />
principles of the common law made copyright<br />
perpetual. The Courts upheld the view, but an<br />
THE TRADE.*<br />
appeal to the Lords resulted in the reversal of their<br />
decision. The Commons then passed a Bill making<br />
copyright perpetual ; but the Lords threw it out,<br />
“M EN ordinary histories of kings and courtiers,”<br />
and so helped to “fill up the cup.” Moreorer, the<br />
I wrote Carlyle, “were well exchanged<br />
speech in which Lord Camden delivered judgment<br />
against the tenth part of one good history of book-<br />
was equally insolent to anthors and to the trade.<br />
sellers.” The want thus picturesquely noted Mr. “ Glors," he said. " is the reward of science, and<br />
Mumby endeavours to supply. Others have sur- those who deserve it scorn all meaner views; I<br />
veyed the ground, and even broken it before him ; speak not of the scribblers for bread who tease the<br />
but he has built on it. That he has built quite as Press with their wretched productions ; fourteen<br />
complete an edifice as his title suggests cannot be<br />
years is too long a privilege for their perishable<br />
vears is too<br />
said; but we note the limitations in no carping<br />
no carping trash.<br />
rash.<br />
It was not for gain that Milton, Bacon,<br />
It was no<br />
spirit. The history of bookselling is too vast a Newton, and Locke instructed and delighted the<br />
theme for any single volume. In passing straightworld: it would be unworthy such men to trajilo<br />
from Rome to Britain, Mr. Mumby has made a with a dirty bookseller.” One wonders whether<br />
necessary concession to the exigencies of space.<br />
es of space, the Duke of Beaufort took that view when he<br />
If he likes to return to the Continent, he will find<br />
edited the Badminton Library, or Lord Rosebery<br />
ample material for a second volume. The pro- when he negotiated for the publication of<br />
pagation of the principles of the Reformation by<br />
oy works on Napoleon, Pitt, and Chatham. It is a<br />
the costermongers who hawked books at the con-<br />
ne<br />
view at any ra<br />
view, at any rate, which amply justifies one side<br />
* “ The Romance of Bookselling : a History from the<br />
of the activities of the Society of Authors.<br />
Earliest Times to the Present Century,” by Frank A. Mumby.<br />
Mr. Mumby's book is of equal value (to different<br />
Chapman & Hall, 16s. net.<br />
classes of readers) for its erudition and its anecdotes.<br />
<br />
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He has raked in many memoirs, and got many good<br />
EDITORIAL DELAY,<br />
stories out of them. He tells us all about Martin<br />
Tupper's amazing sales ; all about the remark-<br />
DEAR SIR,—It may perhaps be interesting to<br />
able paper on which the Clarendon Press prints make a comparison between my treatment by an<br />
the Bible: all abont the experiments of Robert American editor and that of your correspondent, Mr.<br />
Buchanan and Sir Walter Besant in publishing at Arnold Bennett. In both cases the delay in publi-<br />
their own expense. He describes the rise of the cation may have arisen from the same cause-<br />
house of Mudie and of the rival house of Smith. a plethora of MS, arranged for and paid for, but<br />
The mention of the house of Longman recalls a unable to be used on account of the naturally<br />
good story of a lady who offered poetry, was per- straitened dimensions of a monthly magazine. In<br />
suaded to compose a cookery book instead, and that respect no doubt Harper's and the North<br />
made a fortune out of it. The section on the American Review are very much in the same position<br />
house of Tinsley relates the first failures, and the as Scribner's. Many years ago Dr. Holland, who is<br />
first success, of Mr. Thomas Hardy. The account not, I think, living now (will he forgive me if he is?),<br />
of the house of Murray includes a description of a famous editor of Scribner's wrote to ask me if I<br />
Mr. Murray's museum of Byron relics and other could oblige him by writing an article on Devon-<br />
literary curiosities. In the chapter on the house<br />
shire, and he offered me £20 for about 7,000 words.<br />
of Black we read how Adam Black declined the I agreed, sent the article in due course, and<br />
honour of knighthood. “To me,” he explained, received payment by return of post. The editor<br />
" the title would only have been an incumbrance ;<br />
asked me to select some “ electros ”—from an<br />
my wife had no desire to be called My lady,' and English magazine he indicated—for illustration.<br />
it wonld only have fostered vanity in my children." This I did, and the electros were duly despatched ;<br />
And so on and so forth, until we come to the but D<br />
appendix, which is an exhaustive bibliography of that be discarded the electros and sent artists<br />
the subject, reprinted by permission from "Notes from the States to make special drawings.<br />
and Queries.”<br />
The point, however, is that all this took time;<br />
and it was five years after I sent the MS. before<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
my article, entitled “The Fairest County of<br />
England," came out as the first in a special<br />
AMERICAN SLANG.<br />
Christmas number, I think. Mr. Bennett says that<br />
he (rather unreasonably, I fancy) declined to revise<br />
SIR,— With reference to the paper on American<br />
his article. My complaint was that, though I<br />
Slang in the December Author, is it possible that<br />
pressed for a proof, none was sent me; and to my<br />
Mr. Philip Walsh really imagines the word “may.<br />
horror I found that “ Fingle Bridge "came out as<br />
bem” (“ How about this eight thousand or so that<br />
“ Tingle Bridge "_“the snake lies rolled in the<br />
you committed mayhem on Filmore to get ?") to<br />
cheerful sun ” as “the smoke lies rolled,” etc. ;<br />
be an American slang word ? Certainly he says<br />
but worse than all, my mention, five years before, of<br />
that what is mayhem he has no idea. But<br />
a proposed new Eddystone lighthouse had been put<br />
American or any other kind of slang. the word is<br />
out of date by the erection of the new lighthouse,<br />
not. Any reputable dictionary will contain it and<br />
about which there was not a word in the article !<br />
its meaning. It is an English legal term, and of<br />
quite respectable antiquity, signifying the offence<br />
There were similar errors—all under my name in<br />
full ! That was the annoying part of it.<br />
of depriving a person by violence of any member,<br />
What happened-clearly-was this. I understood<br />
limb or organ, or otherwise mutilating his body-<br />
at the time that Scribner's had invested £3,500 in<br />
maiming, in fact.<br />
MS. it had not room for ; and perhaps the busy<br />
Possibly Mr. Walsh's ignorance of the word is<br />
and embarrassed editor had not looked at mine<br />
due to the fact of its infrequent appearance in<br />
for the whole five years, and when he did, as<br />
English writings owing to the crime seldom being<br />
amends to me, he put it in the front position,<br />
committed. In America, unfortunately, the offence<br />
with special illustrations that were certainly very<br />
is more common. Hence the more frequent use<br />
beautiful. But the “dollars," as I have said, came<br />
of the word.<br />
by return mail without my asking for them; and<br />
The verse from Mr. Gelett Burgess's “ Purple<br />
Cow," by the way, runs :-<br />
after all, that is an important point.<br />
Whilst on this subject, may I allude to a matter<br />
“ I never saw a purple cow ;<br />
of great interest to all authors, and suggest<br />
I never wish to see one.<br />
But I can tell you, anyhow,<br />
opinions ? My impression is that payment for<br />
I'd rather see than be one."<br />
magazine contributions in this country is not made<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
until publication, instead of immediately upon<br />
PERCY LONGHURST. acceptance. Is this fair to the writer ? The<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
printer is paid directly his work is done-I mean look out for and develop all possible avenues of<br />
the compositor. Why is not the writing-composersale. Even The Author will probably agree with<br />
who originates employment for the printer and that statement. His paragraphs to the Press, his<br />
profit for the publisher treated with equal justice ? advertisements, his sale lists and catalogues, his<br />
For books, of course, authors often get (and I travellers in London, the provinces, on the Conti-<br />
always ipsist upon) an advance of royalty.<br />
nent and in the colonies, and the free copies he<br />
FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH.<br />
distributes so lavishly, are all sent forth with one<br />
object to call attention to the book and the<br />
author.<br />
I am not revealing any secret when I say that<br />
our dramatists and theatrical managers have scores<br />
PUBLISHERS AND MINOR RIGHTS.<br />
of books sent them for perusal every season by<br />
publishers in the hope that they may be found<br />
SIR,—The tone of The Author is as a rule so suitable for stage adaptation. Similarly, copies<br />
distinctly hostile to all who have to do with<br />
for perusal are sent to continental, colonial, and<br />
the publication of books, that I doubt while I<br />
American “readers” and others. Publishers<br />
am penning this letter whether it will be permitted<br />
are hopeful men, otherwise they would succumb<br />
to see the light. But I am impelled to write you<br />
under the hundreds of failures they meet in<br />
on the subject of publishers and minor rights,<br />
attempting to create markets and utilise rights<br />
because of The Author's inability hitherto to under- available for sale under their agreements. We<br />
stand the chief point in regard to the clause to<br />
hear occasionally of a success on these lines, but<br />
which objection is taken. Minor rights are minor<br />
we do not hear of the many, many failures.<br />
rights, and mean trifling sums picked up here and<br />
Writing with some knowledge of the cost entailed<br />
there at wide intervals and often after very strenuous by a publisher in following out his ideas and push-<br />
effort.<br />
ing his books, it does not seem to me that there<br />
Let us take them in the order in which the<br />
is anything wrong with the clause.<br />
is anything wro<br />
The better<br />
clause names them -- American, colonial, conti- the publisher and The more energetic he is admitted<br />
nental, foreign, translation, serial and dramatic. to be, the more does he deserve success in regard<br />
Words, words, words. Probably many authors<br />
to these minor rights and their sales, and the more<br />
signing an agreement for the publication of a book<br />
pleased should an author be to find his work has<br />
had no idea until they read some such printed<br />
been brought to the notice of business people from<br />
clause in their agreement, that the book to be whom he never expected to hear.<br />
published possessed so many and such varied<br />
If an author asked himself the question whether<br />
rights. But it is one thing to have the power to it were better to leave such minor rights in the<br />
sell, and another thing to have the opportunity. hands of an agent on a 10 per cent. commission<br />
In an agent's hands the above rights for anbasis, and effect no sales (which is practically the<br />
average sort of book would be absolutely worthless.<br />
position), or cede them to a publisher and share<br />
Probably, if the author offered the whole of the equally with him whatever proceeds there may be<br />
above rights to his agent for two guineas, cash<br />
from such sales, I do not think he would be long<br />
down, no agent would purchase them. He knows in answering the question. And this 18<br />
that the chances of sale are indescribably remote problem which has to be dealt with in ninety-nine<br />
and that the rights would be valueless to him.<br />
out of a hundred cases.<br />
A publisher, however, is in a totally different<br />
John NAYLER.<br />
position from an agent. The book when published<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
is in his hands. He has responsibilities in regard<br />
to it and be appreciates these fully. He has put<br />
time and thought, energy and money into its pro-<br />
duction and publication, and it is “up against<br />
him” (excuse this lapse into American slang<br />
after a perusal of your December number) to THE Editor of The Author begs to inform mem-<br />
make the book a literary success. Some people bers of the society and advertisers that the<br />
appear to think a publisher sits in his office committee have entered into different arrange-<br />
twiddling his thumbs waiting for people to come ments in regard to the advertisements.<br />
in and buy quantities of his books. Nothing is The tariff for advertisements remains the same,<br />
further from the truth. He has an office, it is true, but the advertising agents are Messrs. Belmon!<br />
and he is probably to be found working there Co., of 29, Paternoster Square, E.C. Communica<br />
before some of his critics have sat down to break- tions respecting advertisements should be sent to<br />
fast. In any case, he knows it is his business to them or to the offices of the society.<br />
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The Society's Funds<br />
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The Pension Fund<br />
Committee Notes<br />
Books published by Members<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes<br />
Unauthorised Alteration of a Picture<br />
Publishers' and Minor Rights<br />
Magazine Contents ...<br />
How to Use the Society<br />
Warnings to Producers of Books<br />
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Registration of Scenarios and Original Plays<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
Remittances<br />
General Notes<br />
The Society's Anniversary Ba<br />
The Rambling Essayist<br />
Some Beauties of Ainerican Slang<br />
Camille Lemonnier<br />
The French Renaissance<br />
Correspondence ...<br />
nane<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Octv. 6, Caphilpotto, Hubert<br />
.<br />
..<br />
:<br />
0<br />
0<br />
end of the list for the convenience of those who<br />
£ s. d<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled Jan. 14, Desborough, The Right Hon.<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
the Lord, K.C.V.O.<br />
1 1 0<br />
Jan. 27, Lion, Leon M. ..<br />
05 0<br />
Feb. 7, Fagan, J. B. . .<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
Feb. 10, Newton, Miss A. M. . 0 5 0<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
March 7, Smith, Bertram . . 5 0 0<br />
April 13, Dillon, Mrs. .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
May 6, Inkster, Leonard.<br />
• 0 5 0<br />
ON February 1, 1910, the trustees of the May 17, Truman, Miss Olivia Marie. 0 10 0<br />
Pension Fund of the society-after the secre- July 15, Steveni, William Barnes<br />
tary had placed before them the financial Oct. 6, Graham, Capt. Harry . . 110<br />
position of the fund—decided to invest £260 in Nov. 6, Capes, Mrs. Marion . : 0 5 0<br />
the following securities : £130 in the purchase of Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden . . . 0 5 0<br />
Jamaica 37 per cent. Stock 1919-49, and £130 in Nov. 11, Parry, Sir Hubert . . 1 1 0<br />
the purchase of Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock 1937. Nov. 17, Coben, Mrs. Herbert ..<br />
Vunen, Mrs. Herbert . . 0 10 6<br />
The amount purchased is £132 18s. 6d.<br />
Jamaica 31 per cent. Stock and £120 12s. ld.<br />
Donations.<br />
Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock.<br />
1910.<br />
This brings the invested funds to over £4,000. Jan. 1, Robinson, J. R.<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom- Jan. 1, Mackenzie, Miss J. (2nd dona-<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the tion) . .<br />
v<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted. Jan. 1, Northcote, H.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members Jan. 3, Watson, Mrs. Herbert A. . 0 5 0<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by Jan. 3, Fursdon, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
5 0<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will Jan. 3, Smith, Miss Edith A. . • 0 5 0<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the Jan. 4, Pryce, Richard .<br />
. 5 0 0<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im. Jan. 4, Wroughton, Miss Cicely.<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
Jan. 6, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila<br />
050<br />
Consols 21%........... ......... £1,000 0 0<br />
Jan. 6, Underdown, Miss E. M..<br />
Local Loans .............................. 500 0 0<br />
Jan. 6, Carolin, Mrs. . .<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
Jan. 8, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11<br />
Jan. 8, Crellin, H. R. .<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
Jan. 10, Tanper, James T..<br />
ture Stock .....................<br />
250 0 0<br />
Jan. 10, Miller, Arthur .<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Jan. 10, Bolton, Miss Anna<br />
Trust 4% Certificates .....<br />
Jan. 10, Parr, Miss Olive K.<br />
Cape of Good Hope 32% Inecribed<br />
Jan. 13, Hardy, Harold ..<br />
Stock .............................<br />
200 0 0<br />
Jan. 17, Harland, Mrs. .<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Jan. 21, Benecke, Miss Ida<br />
4% Preference Stock..................<br />
228 0 0<br />
Jan. 25, Fradd, Meredith .<br />
05<br />
New Zealand 32% Stock...............<br />
247 9<br />
Jan. 29, Stayton, F. .<br />
6<br />
.<br />
6<br />
. 0 10<br />
Irish Land Act 27% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Feb. 1, Wharton, L. C.<br />
0 10 0<br />
Corporation of London 2% Stock,<br />
Feb. 4, Bowen, Miss Marjorie . 1 1 0<br />
1927-57 ...................<br />
438 2<br />
Feb. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte<br />
4<br />
.<br />
0<br />
1 1<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 .........<br />
6<br />
132 18<br />
Feb. 7, Pettigrew, W. F. . .<br />
. () 5 0<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock............... 120 121<br />
Feb. 7, Church, Sir A. H. . .<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Feb. 8, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit.<br />
Grant Stock, 1938......<br />
198 3 8<br />
Feb. 8, The XX. Pen Club<br />
Feb. 10, Greenbank, Percy.<br />
Total ................ £4,065 6 0<br />
Feb. 11, Stopford, Francis .<br />
Feb. 11, Dawson, A. J. .<br />
05 0<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss Kathleen .<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
Feb. 16, W. D. .<br />
. .1<br />
1910.<br />
c . Feb. 16, Gibbs, F. L. A. . . . 0 10 0<br />
Feb. 17, Wintle, H. R. .. . 1 0 0<br />
Jan. 12, Riley, Miss Josephine .. . 0.7 6 Feb. 21, Thurston, E. Temple. . 110<br />
Jan. 13, Child, Harold H., , . 0 10 0 Feb. 23, Dawson, Mrs. Frederick<br />
....<br />
er er en o<br />
no er is<br />
.....<br />
200<br />
...<br />
.....<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
oriconco-<br />
Ewer er to creo Ewer<br />
..<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
55<br />
No crore Bong<br />
0<br />
s. d.<br />
Feb. 24, Williamson, C. N.<br />
2 0<br />
Feb. 24, Williamson, Mrs. C. X.<br />
0<br />
Feb. 25, Westell, W. P. . .<br />
O<br />
March 2, Toplis, Miss Grace ..<br />
March 3, Hawtrey, Miss Valentina<br />
March 5, Smith, Bertram .<br />
0<br />
March 12, Yould, A. . .<br />
O<br />
March 16, Loraine, Lady,<br />
0<br />
March 29, Macdonnell, Randall<br />
4 0 0<br />
April 6, Blake, J. P.. .<br />
. 2 2 0<br />
April 8, “ Patricia Wentworth "<br />
April 14. Hinkson, Mrs. K. Tynan<br />
0<br />
May 6. Greenstreet. W. J.. . . 0 5 0<br />
May 7, Cousin, John W. . . 0 5 0<br />
May 10, Zangwill, Israel.<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
May 19, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (Portion of<br />
money recovered by the Society as<br />
damages) :<br />
10 0 0<br />
June 3, Wynne, C. Whitworth.<br />
3 0<br />
June 15, Maunder, J. H. .<br />
1 0<br />
June 30, Atkinson, Harold<br />
0 6 0<br />
July 4, O'Higgins, Harvey . . . 1 0 0<br />
July 5, Muir, Ward . . . . 1 1 0<br />
July 5, Peacock, Mrs. .<br />
2 2 0<br />
July 11, March, Miss A. M.<br />
0 12 0<br />
July 18, Ralli, C. Scaramanga ..<br />
O<br />
July 20, Ellis, Havelock . .<br />
5 0<br />
Aug. 22, Myers, C. S.<br />
2 2 0<br />
Sept. 9, Bristow-Noble, J. C. .<br />
0 7 6<br />
Sept. 30, Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred . 1 1 0<br />
Oct. 4, Pakington, The Honourable<br />
Mary .<br />
Oct. 11, Caws, Luther W...<br />
0 10 0<br />
Oct. 11, Knowles-Foster, Miss Frances G. 0 10 0<br />
Oct. 28, Tuite, Hugh. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Oct. 28, Margolionth, George<br />
0 7 6<br />
Oct. 31, Gribble, F.. . . : 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 1, Rankin, Miss. . . . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 5, Buckrose, J. E. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 11, Phillpotts, Eden.<br />
2 2 0<br />
Nov. 12, Buè, Henri . .<br />
0 11 0<br />
Nov. 19, Ellis, Mrs. Havelock<br />
0 5 0<br />
We have much pleasure in acknowledging, with<br />
apologies, a donation of 10s. from Mr. Harold<br />
Hardy on January 13, which, through an over-<br />
sight, had been omitted from the printed lists.<br />
election. They proceeded to elect twenty-eight<br />
members and associates, bringing the elections for<br />
the current year up to 248. There were five<br />
resignations, which the committee accepted with<br />
regret. These bring the resignations for the<br />
current year to 74.<br />
The committee then considered the law cases.<br />
On the first case, which dealt with the loss of a score<br />
of music, the secretary reported that a settlement<br />
had been come to during the past month-the<br />
money had been paid to the composer for the loss<br />
and the claim had been satisfied-and that the<br />
composer had made a donation of £5 towards the<br />
Capital Fund of the society. The committee<br />
thanked Mr. McEwen, the member whose property<br />
had been lost, for the donation that he had made.<br />
On the second matter, which referred to disputes<br />
in which action had already been commenced in<br />
the courts, the solicitors reported progress, and the<br />
committee decided to adjourn the points brought<br />
forward to the next meeting in order that the<br />
accounts, which were the cause of action, might<br />
be adjusted before further steps should be con-<br />
sidered. The next matter dealt with a question<br />
of alleged collaboration. The committee decided<br />
to take the case up if, after a full investigation,<br />
the solicitors' opinion was in favour of such<br />
a course, and the secretary was instructed to<br />
write to the member concerned asking her to call<br />
upon the society's solicitors and give them full<br />
information, in order that they might be in a<br />
position to advise the society. In a question of<br />
infringement of copyright the committee decided<br />
to take the matter up, but as there was every<br />
prospect of a settlement they hoped it would not<br />
be necessary to take the case into court.<br />
After consideration of the disputes, the general<br />
matters before the committee were heard in the<br />
following order :-<br />
Reference bad again been made to the committee<br />
by some members of the society on the point of<br />
the censorship of books by the libraries. The<br />
committee instructed the secretary to report that<br />
the matter was having their earnest consideration,<br />
as they considered the issues of the greatest import-<br />
ance to authors; but the practical solution of the<br />
question they considered was surrounded with many<br />
difficulties.<br />
A general question of the legal work of the<br />
society was discussed, and the committee appointed<br />
Dr. S. Squire Sprigge and the secretary as delegates<br />
to confer with the solicitors.<br />
• The report of the Copyright Sub-committee on<br />
the Draft Bill was laid before the committee for<br />
criticism, and, after many points had been raised, it<br />
was decided, before any steps were taken to<br />
memorialise the Board of Trade, to refer the<br />
matter back to the Copyright Sub-committee, and<br />
erex<br />
:<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
M HE November meeting of the committee was<br />
1 held at the society's offices, on Monday,<br />
the 7th.<br />
After the minutes of the last meeting had been<br />
approved and signed, the committee considered<br />
the names of those who were before them for<br />
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of Management to empower the Copyright Sub.<br />
committee to deal with the Publishers' Associa-<br />
tion with a view of presenting a memorial<br />
to the President of the Board of Trade at the<br />
earliest opportunity. The Sub-committee asked<br />
also for full powers to consult and act with the<br />
Publishers' Association and any other bodies<br />
interested in copyright property, in order that the<br />
memorial to the Board of Trade should be as<br />
representative as possible. The Copyright Sub-<br />
committee urged the necessity of prompt action so<br />
that if the Board of Trade accepted any of the<br />
suggestions they might be embodied in the Bill<br />
when it was again laid before the House.<br />
the Committee of Management appointed Mr.<br />
G. Bernard Shaw and Mr. Comyns Carr to confer<br />
with the Sub-committee on certain important<br />
issues. When the matter had then been fully<br />
discussed by the parties mentioned, the Committee<br />
of Management gave to the Copyright Sub.com-<br />
mittee full authority to act with the Dramatic<br />
Sub-committee and to confer with the Publishers'<br />
Association with a view to appointing and regu-<br />
lating the deputation to the Board of Trade in<br />
order to put the views of the society and other<br />
bodies before those representatives of the Govern-<br />
ment, who are about to carry the law through.<br />
The arrangements for the dinner and conver,<br />
sazione were finally settled. It was decided to<br />
have no programme of entertainment at the dinner<br />
or at the conversazione.<br />
Three of the committee's candidates for next<br />
year's election were nominated. Their names will<br />
be printed in the January Author, in accordance<br />
with the articles of association of the society.<br />
The nomination of the fourth candidate was<br />
adjourned till the December meeting.<br />
The secretary reported, on the financial position<br />
of the society, that since the last meeting he had<br />
been able to gather in some large cheques, and that<br />
he thought there would be no need for an over-<br />
draft before the end of the year.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
1.<br />
The Copyright Sub-committee met on October 24<br />
to consider the Copyright Bill. Since the pre-<br />
vious meeting, reported in the November issue<br />
of The Author, Mr. E. J. MacGillivray had pre-<br />
pared a report on the Bill showing how far the<br />
Bill gave effect to the suggestions made by the<br />
Society of Authors when the Berlin Convention<br />
was under consideration, and how far it embodied<br />
the proposals of that Convention. The Sub-com-<br />
mittee expressed their deep gratitude to Mr.<br />
MacGillivray for the trouble he had taken in<br />
drafting his report, and then proceeded to consider<br />
it paragraph by paragraph. A few alterations were<br />
agreed to and the report passed.<br />
The Sub-committee then turned to the sugges-<br />
tions on the Bill made by the Publishers' Associa-<br />
tion, and considered these suggestions point by<br />
point and reported upon them, Mr. MacGillivray<br />
undertaking to look through the draft report before<br />
it was submitted to the Committee of Management.<br />
The secretary was instructed to lay the report<br />
when finally settled, and the report on the Pub.<br />
Jishers' suggestions, before the Committee of<br />
Management at the next meeting of that body.<br />
He was also instructed to ask the Committee<br />
II.<br />
The second meeting of the Copyright Sub-com-<br />
mittee was held on November 14, at the offices<br />
of the society. The report which had been laid<br />
before the Committee of Management was referred<br />
back to the Sub-committee, and Mr. Shaw and<br />
Mr. Comyns Carr were asked to attend the meeting<br />
of the Sub-committee in order to discuss certaa<br />
pont<br />
points.<br />
Mr. Shaw and Mr. Carr attended the meeting<br />
and put fully before the Sub-committee their<br />
views, but it was impossible, owing to the time<br />
spent in discussing the various points, for the Sub-<br />
committee to come to any final decision as to the<br />
course they should adopt. Accordingly this matter<br />
was adjourned to a subsequent meeting. It is<br />
intended, however, to carry the Report through<br />
with the smallest possible delay, so that the Sub-<br />
committee may be in a position to take such action<br />
as may be considered desirable in the interests of<br />
the society.<br />
II).<br />
A further meeting of the Copyright Sub-<br />
committee was held at the offices of the Society of<br />
Authors on Monday, November 21, when the<br />
report on the Copyright Bill to be submitted to<br />
the Board of Trade was finally settled.<br />
Mr. MacGillivray kindly undertook to add the<br />
alterations to the report already drafted, and it<br />
was decided to meet the Publishers' Association at<br />
the earliest possible moment, while the matter<br />
was fresh in the minds of all concerned.<br />
Delegates of the Copyright Sub-committee were<br />
appointed to meet to meet the Publishers' Associa-<br />
tion, and the secretary was instructed to write<br />
with a view to fixing up an early appointment. ;<br />
The secretary suggested that it would be a good<br />
thing, if possible, that the Authors' Society, the<br />
Publishers' Association, and other bodies interested<br />
in copyright should forward one report rather<br />
than three or four separate documents as the<br />
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reports covered very much the same ground. On<br />
Cases.<br />
this basis it is proposed to meet the Publishers' DURING the past month the secretary has been<br />
Association.<br />
asked to intervene on behalf of members of the<br />
society between themselves and publishers, editors,<br />
and others in seventeen cases. Three of these<br />
DRAMATIC COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
related to claims for money. The first has been<br />
The November meeting of the Dramatic Sub- placed in the solicitors' hands as no satisfactory<br />
committee was held on the 18th of that month. answer was forthcoming ; in the second the money<br />
After the minutes of the previous meeting had has been paid and forwarded to the member, and<br />
been read and signed, the Sub-committee con- the third has only recently come to the office.<br />
sidered the cases before them. The first case Three cases were demands for accounts. These<br />
related to a dispute between a member of are as yet unsatisfied, and it is possible that two<br />
the society, an agent and a collaborator. The of them will have to bo referred to the solicitors,<br />
secretary explained that the Committee of with two other clic:s against the same firm<br />
Management had decided to take the matter up, left over from last month. One demand for<br />
as it might have been necessary to apply for an accounts and money has been settled, the money<br />
injunction, and there was not time to wait for the having been sent and paid over to the member.<br />
decision of the Dramatic Sub-committee. The Two disputes occurred on agreements. One has<br />
details of the case were fully explained, and the been transferred to the solicitors, and with the<br />
secretary asked for their approval of the action sanction of the committee action will be taken if<br />
taken by the Committee of Management. This necessary. The other is unsettled, as the offending<br />
was readily given.<br />
party lives in the United States, and some time is<br />
The second case referred to performances in expended in the passage of letters to and from that<br />
music-halls, and the secretary was instructed to country.<br />
write to the Government Department, which had There were eight cases in which members of the<br />
been dealing with this question, to urge upon them society applied for assistance in the recovery of<br />
the need for immediate legislation.<br />
MSS. Three of these cases have been settled, the<br />
The next was a matter that referred to the MSS. having been returned to the authors. Three<br />
censorship of plays. The Dramatic Sub-committee of the remaining . cases have only recently come<br />
had been asked to recommend to the Committee of into the office. It is necessary to re-emphasise the<br />
Management that counsel's opinion should be taken difficulties surrounding the legal position when an<br />
on a point that a member had placed before them. application is made for a MS. In most cases the<br />
The Dramatic Sub-committee, after careful con- secretary has found editors, publishers, and others<br />
sideration of the point in question, came to the perfectly willing to do everything in their power<br />
conclusion that counsel's opinion in this particular to return MSS., but authors must remember that<br />
case was not necessary.<br />
it is essential that they should show that a MS. has<br />
The Dramatic Sub-committee considered then reached the office of the publisher or editor, and it<br />
its report on the Copyright Bill, and the appoint is not sufficient to show merely that it was posted.<br />
ment of delegates to represent the dramatists of In the great majority of these MS. cases the<br />
the society at the deputation to the Board of authors have no evidence that the MSS. have ever<br />
Trade. The committee approved an amendment reached the hands of responsible parties, and the<br />
suggested in a letter which had been sent them deduction of the author that the post is infallible<br />
by the secretary under the chairman's, Sir Arthur is not one which the law can recognise. We regret<br />
Pinero's, authority, and proceeded to nominate three to say that theatrical people are the worst offenders<br />
delegates. The secretary was instructed to write in the matter of the non-return of MSS. Pub-<br />
and ask for the consent of the members nominated. lishers and editors are generally glad to make a<br />
The secretary at the last meeting of the Sub- search when they are furnished with full particu-<br />
committee had been instructed to draft an agree- lars of the names of the MSS. and the dates on<br />
ment between the writer and producer of a sketch, which they were sent. The members of the<br />
for he bad pointed out the frequency with which theatrical profession, on the contrary, unless legal<br />
these contracts were coming before him. This steps can be taken against them, neglect to answer<br />
draft had been forwarded to the members of the letters or to return the MSS.<br />
Sub-committee with the notice calling the meet It is very satisfactory to report that the infringe-<br />
ing. It was carefully considered, and was passed, ment of copyright in New Zealand has been satis-<br />
subject to a few slight alterations, and will be factorily settled. In this case, as often happens,<br />
printed in one of the coming issues of The Author. the New Zealand paper had pirated from an<br />
The Dramatic Sub-committee then adjourned American paper without any intention of infringing<br />
ill December.<br />
the author's English copyright. As soon as the<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
matter was pointed out, the editor acknowledged<br />
his indebtedness.<br />
There are only a few cases remaining open from<br />
former months. These are either in the course of<br />
favourable settlement or have been transferred to<br />
the solicitors of the society.<br />
Walkes, William Robert. 17, Rutland Court,<br />
Knightsbridge<br />
S.W.<br />
Wetton, Miss Mildred C.. 100, Church Street,<br />
Kensington, W.<br />
Wilkins, Philip A. . . 14, Wilton Place,<br />
S.W.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
Ele tions.<br />
Barne, Miss Kitty . . Berrow, East-<br />
bourne.<br />
Bastian. H. Charlton, M.D., Chesha m Bois,<br />
F.R.S., F.R.C.P.<br />
Bucks..<br />
Bijejko, Tan Felix . . Liebigstr 311 C, Leip-<br />
zig, Germany.<br />
Bland, C. C. Swinton · Bishopton Close,<br />
Ripon.<br />
Bué, Henri . . . 73, Gloucester Ter-<br />
race, Hyde Park, W.<br />
Cohen, Mrs. Herbert. . 2, Orme Court, W.<br />
Dodge, Janet . . . Chipping Campden,<br />
Gloucester.<br />
Edgar, George . . . 54, Paulton's Square,<br />
Chelsea.<br />
Gorst, Mrs. Harold E. . 12, Foxmore Street,<br />
S.W.<br />
Graham-Burr, A. . . Hazeldene, Sunning-<br />
hill, Berks.<br />
Grantham, F. . . . 13, Cheyne Place,<br />
S.W.<br />
Hart, Dr. David Berry, 5, Randolph Cliff,<br />
F.R.C.P.<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
Jerrold, Clare . . . Jessamine House,<br />
Hampton-on-<br />
Thames.<br />
Lambert, Col. F. A. H. , Fairlawn House,<br />
Woodmansterne.<br />
Mozley, William E. (W.<br />
Clinton Ellis).<br />
Narramore, Wm., F.L.S. . “Devonia," Gt.<br />
Crosby, Lancs.<br />
Orr, Miss Janie B. W. . 3, New Parks Cres-<br />
cent, Scarborough.<br />
Parry, Sir Hubert H. . 17, Kensington<br />
Square, W.<br />
Phillpotts, Eden<br />
Eltiham, Torquay.<br />
Rittenberg, Max . . 158, Cromwell Road,<br />
South Kensington,<br />
S.W.<br />
Thomson, Gladys Scott 15, Palace Gardens<br />
Mansions, Bays-<br />
water.<br />
Tompkins, Edward S. De G. c/o Messrs. Brown,<br />
Shipley & Co.,<br />
123, Pall Mall,<br />
S.W<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the 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 />
NAPOLEON IN CARICATURE, 1795-1825. By A. M.<br />
BROADLEY. With an Introductory Essay on Pictorial<br />
Satire as a Factor in Napoleonic History. By J. HOLLAND<br />
ROSE. Two vols. 9 X 53. 391 + 441 pp. Lane. 424. n.<br />
HOGARTH. By C. LEWIS HIND. 8 x 6. 80 pp. Jack.<br />
18. 6d.<br />
ORIENTAL SILVERWORK-MALAY AND CHINESE. With<br />
O<br />
over 250 Original Illustrations. By H. LING ROTH.<br />
114 x 81. 300 pp. Truslove & Hanson. 218. n.<br />
SYMBOLISM OF THE SAINTS. Ry the Rev. P. H. DITCH-<br />
FIELD. (The Arts of the Church.) 6 x 41. 198 pp.<br />
Mowbray. ls. 6d. n.<br />
THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF MOVING OBJECTS AND HAND<br />
CAMERA WORK FOR ADVANCED WORKERS. By A.<br />
ABRAHAMS. 71 X 43. 153 pp. Routledge. 18. n.<br />
FRANK BRANGWYN AND HIS WORK. By W. SHAW<br />
SPARROW. 104 x 71. 259 pp. Kegan Paul. 108. 6d. n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
THE LIGHTER SIDE OF MY OFFICIAL LIFE. By SIR<br />
ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. 91 x 6. 295 pp. Hodder<br />
& Stoughton. 108. 6d. n.<br />
SHAKESPEARE AS A GROOM OF THE CHAMBER. By<br />
E. LAW, F.S.A. 87 x 61. 64 pp. Bell. 38. 6d. n.<br />
NOBLE DAMES AND NOTABLE MEN OF THE GEORGIAN<br />
ERA. By JOHN FYVIE. 9 X 54. 256 pp. Constable.<br />
108, 6d. n.<br />
WILLIAM SHARP (FIONA MACLEOD). A Memoir compiled<br />
by his Wife, ELIZABETH A. SHARP. 98 x 61. 433 pp.<br />
Heinemann. 168. n.<br />
THE FAIR QUAKER : HANNAH LIGHTFOOT AND HER<br />
RELATIONS WITH GEORGE III. By MARY L. PENDERED.<br />
9 x 51. 355 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 168. 1.<br />
DOUGLAS JERROLD AND "Punch." By WALTER<br />
JERROLD. Macmillan.<br />
FIGHTING ADMIRALS. By JOHN BARNETT. 75 X 5.<br />
339 pp. Smith Elder. 68.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
THE KILTARTAN MOLIERE. THE MISER. THE DOCTOR<br />
IN SPITE OF HIMSELF. THE ROGUERIES OF SCAPIN.<br />
Translated by LADY GREGORY, 74 x 51. 231 pp.<br />
Dublin : Maunsell. 38. 6d. n.<br />
READY ! A Play for Boys, in Two Acts. By Hox.<br />
M. A, PAKINGTON. 36 pp. John Heywood.<br />
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ECONOMICS<br />
THE INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM. An Inquiry into Earned<br />
and Unearned Income. By J. Å. HOBSON. (New<br />
and revised edition.) 84 x 54. 338 pp. Longmans.<br />
78. 60, n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
AX INTRODUCTION TO THE MAITHILI LANGUAGE OF THE<br />
BIHĀRĪ LANGUAGE, AS SPOKEN IN NORTH BIHAR.<br />
Part 1. Grammar. (Second Edition. Revised and<br />
Greatly Enlarged.) By GEORGE A. GRIERSON, C.I.E.,<br />
Ph.D., D.Litt. 10 x 67. 305 pp. Asiatic Society of<br />
Bengal, Calcutta.<br />
PARENT AND CHILD. A Treatise on the Moral and<br />
Religious Education of Children. By SIR OLIVER<br />
LODGE, D.Sc., F.R.S. 77 x 41. 73 pp. Funk &<br />
Wagnalls. 28. n.<br />
FRENCH AND EXGLISH NEW POCKET DICTIONARY.<br />
(Both Parts). By EDWARD LATHAM. 4 x 24. 275<br />
pp. Routledge. 18, n.<br />
THE INHERITANCE OF JOSEPH BIGGS. BF WILLIAM and<br />
WINIFRID GUN. Ouseley. 68.<br />
THE REPROOF OF CHANCE. By E. W. SAVI. 320 pp.<br />
Digby Long. 68.<br />
THE PROBATIONER. By A. M. IRVINE. 8 X 54. 300 pp.<br />
Partridge. 28, 6d.<br />
THROUGH THE CHRYSALIS. By F.F. MONTRÉSOR. 7} *<br />
5. 365 pp. Murray. 68.<br />
NONE OTHER Gods. By R. H. BENSON. 74 x 5. 347<br />
pp. Alston Rivers. 68.<br />
THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE, By FLORENCE L. BAR-<br />
· CLAY. 74 x . 340 pp. Putnam. 68.<br />
THE REVOLT AT ROSKELLY's. By WILLIAM CAINE.<br />
71 x 5. 316 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
MADAM MYSTERY. By MAY CROMMELIN. 71 x 48.<br />
368 pp. Hutchinson. 6s.<br />
BLAIR'S KEN. By WILLIAM SYLVESTER WALKER<br />
(** COO-EE"). 8 * 5. 333 pp. John Ouseley. 68.<br />
FICTION<br />
THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN GALLEON. By LUCAS<br />
MALET (MRS. MARY ST. LEGER HARRISON). 73 x 5.<br />
214 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 58.<br />
THE WONDERFUL BISHOP, AND OTHER LONDON ADVEN-<br />
TURES. By MORLEY ROBERTS. 74 x 5. 320 pp.<br />
Nash. 68.<br />
A DUAL RESURRECTION. By BERTRAM MITFORD.<br />
7 x 5. 320 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
THE SEARCH OF THE CHILD. By THEODORA WILSON-<br />
Wilsox 71 x 5. 254 pp. Headley. 28. n.<br />
BAWBEE JOCK. By AMY MCLAREN. 78 X 5. 359 pp.<br />
Murray. 68.<br />
THE ROGUE'S HEIRESS. By Tom GALLON. 73 x 5.<br />
309 pp. Hutchinson. 68.<br />
THE SPIDER OF ST. AUSTIN's. By NORMANDY VENNING.<br />
376 pp. Chapman & Hall. 68.<br />
THE HUMAN CHORD. By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD. 78x57.<br />
326 pp. Macmillan. 68.<br />
HOWARD'S END. By E. M. FORSTER.) 74 x 51. 343 pp.<br />
Arnold. 68.<br />
PANTHERS' CLUB. By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE.<br />
7} 3. 312 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
COTTAGE PIE: A COUNTRY SPREAD. By A. NEIL<br />
LYONS. 7 x 5. 362 pp. Lane. 68.<br />
THE LADY OF TRIPOLI. By M. BARRINGTON, 74 x 51.<br />
269 pp. Chatto & Windus. 58.<br />
THE CASE OF LADY BROADSTONE. By A. W. MARCH<br />
MONT. 74 X 5. 310 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
THE PATCHWORK PAPERS. By E. TEMPLE THURSTON.<br />
73 x ö. 268 pp. Chapman & Hall. 58. n.<br />
LOVE, THE INTRUDER. "By HELEN H. WATSON (MRS.<br />
HERBERT A. Watson). 456 pp. 8 X 54. Religious<br />
Tract Society. 28. n.<br />
THE MEN OF THE MOUNTAIN. By S. R. CROCKETT.<br />
84 x 52. 173 pp. (Cheap Reprint.) “The Leisure<br />
Hour.” 6d,<br />
THE MEN OF THE MOUNTAIN. By S. R. CROCKETT.<br />
8 X 54. 456 pp. Religious Tract Society. 28. n.<br />
THE SILVER Fox. By Ě. A. SOMERVILLE and MARTIN<br />
Ross. (Re-issue.) 7 x 5 350 pp. Bell. 68.<br />
THE GIRL'S HEAD. By EDGAR JEPSON. 71 x 5. 320<br />
Pp. Greening. 68.<br />
MASTER AND MAID. By MRS. L. ALLEN HARKER. 78 X<br />
5. 349 pp. Murray. 6s.<br />
AT THE ALTAR STEPS. By JEAN MIDDLEMASS. 74 x 5.<br />
288 pp. Digby Long. 68.<br />
THE CITY OF BEAUTIFUL NONSENSE. By E. TEMPLE<br />
THURSTON, (New and Illustrated Edition.) 84 X 6.<br />
458 pp. Chapman & Hall. 68. n.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
SEA-WOLVES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN. The Grand<br />
Period of the Moslem Corsairs. By COMMANDER<br />
E. HAMILTON CURREY, R.N. 9 X 54. 399 pp.<br />
Murray. 108. 6d, n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE FORTUNES OF FLOT. A DOG STORY, MAINLY FACT.<br />
By K. F. PURDON. 71 x 54. 318 pp. Nelson. 28, 6d.<br />
THE SLOWCOACH. A Story of Roadside Adventure. By E.<br />
V. LUCAS. 78 X 54. 284 pp. Wells Gardner. 68<br />
TRUE ALL THROUGH. By J. HARWOOD PANTING. 74 x 5.<br />
318 pp. Chambers. 38. 6d.<br />
THREE AMATEUR SCOUTS. By RAYMOND JACBERNS.<br />
7 X 54. 291 pp. Chambers. 38. 6d.<br />
OFF THE WICKET. A School Story. By HAROLD AVERY.<br />
8 X 54. 368 pp. Nelson. 38. 6d.<br />
PETER PAN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS. By J. M. BARRIE.<br />
Illustrated by ARTHUR RACKHAM. 87 x 6. 126 pp.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 68. n.<br />
THE STRANGE LITTLE GIRL. By BELLA SIDNEY WOOLF.<br />
Illustrated by P. B. HICKLING. 74 x 64. 129 pp.<br />
Duckworth. 18. 6d.<br />
THE BIG BOOK OF FAIRY TALES. Edited by WALTER<br />
JERROLD. Illustrated by CHARLES ROBINSON. 10 X 7.<br />
344 pp. Blackie. 78.6d.n.<br />
THE STORY OF A BRAVE CHILD. A Child's Life of Joan<br />
of Arc. By ANNIE MATHESON. 84 X 61. 140 pp.<br />
Nelson. 38. 6d.<br />
COO-EE! A STORY OF PERIL AND ADVENTURE IN THE<br />
SOUTH SEAS. By R. LEIGHTON. 8 * 54. 256 pp<br />
Pearson. 2.8. 6d.<br />
HEROINES OF THE HOME AND THE WORLD OF DUTY.<br />
Stories of Life Adventures. By F. W. ORDE WARD<br />
and Others. 8 x 51. 382 pp. Stanley Paul. 58.<br />
THE GREAT AEROPLANE. A Thrilling Tale of Adventure.<br />
By CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON. 73 x 51. 396 pp.<br />
Blackie. 68<br />
FIFTY-TWO STORIES OF THE SEA. By FRANK T. BULLEN<br />
and Others. 8 x 57, 512 pp. Hutchinson. 58.<br />
COMRADES THREE. A Story of the Canadian Prairies.<br />
By ARGYLL SAXBY. 74 X 5. 300 pp. Part idge. 28.<br />
INDIAN AND SCOUT. A Tale of the Gold Rush to Cali-<br />
fornia. By CAPT. F. S. BRERETON. 77 x 57. 368 pp.<br />
Blackie. 58.<br />
THE CRUISE OF THE “KINGFISHER.” A Tale of Deep-Sea<br />
Adventure. By H. DE VERE STACPOOLE. 74 x 57<br />
308 pp. Wells Gardner. 2s. 6d.<br />
MARTIN HYDE, THE DUKE'S MESSENGER. By JOHN<br />
MASEFIELD. 87 x 57. 303 pp. Wells Gardner. 65.<br />
Poor UNCLE HARRY. By RAYMOND JACBERNS. 74 X 51.<br />
275 pp. Chambers. 38. 60.<br />
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POETRY.<br />
WILD Fruit. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 7} 5. 158 pp.<br />
Lane. 68. n.<br />
PASSING POEMS. By J. W. PoE, 6 X 43. 64 pp.<br />
Henry J. Drane. 18.<br />
THE FLAME, AND OTHER POEMS. By E. HAMILTON<br />
MOORE. 64 x 54. 54 pp. Elkin Mathews. 18. n.<br />
MISREPRESENTATIVE MEN. By HARRY GRAHAM. (New<br />
and Enlarged Edition.) Illustrated by F. STROTHMAxx.<br />
7 X 51. 148 pp. Gay & Hancock. 28. 60, n.<br />
POEMS OF HEROISM AND DEVOTION. Selected from the<br />
Works of RICHARD TISSINGTON. 6 x 31. (The New<br />
Treasury.) Bank & Ashwell, 180, High Holborn,<br />
W.C. 6d.<br />
THE THIRD ROAD, AND OTHER SONGS AND VERSES. By<br />
KATHLEEN CONYNGHAM GREENE. 60 pp. Fifield.<br />
18. n.<br />
OUR BELOVED KING EDWARD. Poems by HELEN<br />
MATHERS, IRENE OSGOOD, CONSTANCE SUTCLIFFE,<br />
and Others. 64 x 44. 46 pp. Elkin Mathews.<br />
PEGGY D. 0. THE STORY OF THE SEVEN O'ROURKES.<br />
, By HELEN H. WATSON. 87 X 6. 312 pp. Cassell.<br />
r 38. 60.<br />
THE STORY OF FLIP AND Fuzzy. A Picture Book for<br />
Little Folk. Rhymes by JESSIE POPE. 10 x 7.<br />
BLACKIE. 18, 6d.<br />
LAW.<br />
THE CONTRACT OF AFFREIGHTMENT AS EXPRESSED IN<br />
CHARTER-PARTIES AND BILLS OF LADING. By SIR<br />
THOMAS EDWARD SCRUTTON. (Sixth Edition.) By the<br />
AUTHOR and F. D. MACKINNON, Barrister-at-Law.<br />
8} 51. 463 pp. Sweet & Maxwell. 188.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
ALARMS AND DISCUSSIONS. By G. K. CHESTERTON.<br />
7 X 41. 260 pp. Methuen. 5$.<br />
THE SECOND POST. A Companion to “ The Gentlest Art."<br />
By E. V. LUCAS. 7 X 41. 266 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
THE ROUND OF THE CLOCK. “ The Story of our Lives<br />
from Year to Year." By W. ROBERTSON NICOLL.<br />
71 X 44. 324 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68,<br />
BEHIND THE BLINDS. BY VESTA TERENCE. H. R.<br />
ALLENSON. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE LITERARY YEAR BOOK (1911). Fifteenth Annual<br />
Volume. Edited by BASIL STEWART. Cr. 8vo. 970 pp.<br />
Routledge. 68. n.<br />
FEMININE INFLUENCE ON THE POETs. By E. THOMAS<br />
84 x 51. 352 pp. Martin Secker. 108. 60, n.<br />
THE VIEWS OF “ VANOC." AN ENGLISHMAN'S OUTLOOK.<br />
By ARNOLD WHITE. 7 x 41. 419 pp. Kegan Paul.<br />
58. n.<br />
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The November number of Travel and Exploration Wisdom," published by Messrs. Everett & Co., is<br />
is certainly more varied than usual. There are in its third edition. The same writer's new book,<br />
no less than four exploration articles, dealing which is also published by Messrs. Everett & Co.,<br />
respectively with Macao, Tripoli, New Zealand, is called “ The Lesson," and is a story of a love<br />
and the Arctic regions, while in the Exploring idyll, and the lesson which the heroine learns is<br />
World there are some notes on Papua, by the the lesson of love.<br />
Governor, Mr. G. H. P. Murray. Miss Barnicoat Mr. Neil Munro's new novel, “Fancy Farm,” is<br />
deals at some length with the Alpine district of published by Messrs. Blackwoods. The characters<br />
New Zealand. A writer, who veils his identity are, for the most part, humorists—in the old<br />
under the synonym of “Circumnavigator,” gives meaning of the term'; that is to say, they are of<br />
an account of Portugal in China, that is Macao, the old type of Scottish men and women possessed<br />
described as the Monte Carlo of the Far East. of striking personalities and oddities of speech and<br />
“ Searchlight” again tackles his favourite subject, manner.<br />
Arctic exploration, taking as a peg Peary's Mrs. Russell Barrington has written a sequel to<br />
recently published “North Pole," as, by the courtesy her “Reminiscences of G. F.Watts," and her “ Life,<br />
of the publishers, advanced sheets were supplied Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton," which will<br />
so that a review might appear in the Novem- be issued by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co., in<br />
ber Travel and Exploration. Mr. Eustace Rey- the early days of January next. The book is in<br />
nolds-Ball, whose sporting paper, “ A Panther's the form of essays, and entitled “Essays on the<br />
Sanctuary," appeared in the October number, Purpose of Art ; or, Past and Present Creeds of<br />
describes a Sicilian puppet-show from the point of English Painters." The first of the seven essays<br />
view of a detached spectator. In “ Armchair deals with the fact that present conditions are<br />
Travel,” always an important feature of this unfavourable to the production of any art which<br />
magazine, the following important books are will maintain a position in the future among<br />
reviewed :-“ The Holy Land," by Robert national treasures. The last essay is entitled<br />
Hitchens; “ Uganda for a Holiday," by Sir “The Reality of the Spiritual Life in Art.” Two<br />
Frederick Treres ; “ Jungle Byways in India,” by other essays deal with “National Individuality,"<br />
E. P. Stebbing ; and Sir Claude de Crespigny's and “Personal Individuality in Art.” The<br />
“ Forty Years of a Sportsman's Life.”<br />
purpose of the book is to advocate the value of<br />
Miss T. Wilson-Wilson is re-writing for book permanent art versus temporary-a value which<br />
publication a story of 1801, entitled “Mollo' the teaching of Leighton and Watts enforced.<br />
the Toll-Bar," which is being serialised by The Besides quotations from the books on Watts and<br />
Northern Newspaper Syndicate. Messrs. Headley Leighton which Mrs. Barrington has written, she<br />
Bros. have also published Miss Wilson-Wilson's includes several from writings by her brother-in-<br />
book, “ The Search of the Child.” This book law, the late Walter Bagehot, Walter Pater, D. G.<br />
relates the vision of a child who has never lived MacColl, Arthur Symonds, Lowes Dickinson, and<br />
on earth save for a few hours, who finds sorrow in Miss Marie Cailliard, all bearing on the advantage of<br />
Paradise, and asks leave to return to earth to seek those things that come to stay in contradistinction<br />
for the reason of the sorrow in the eyes of God. to those which in the inevitable course of events<br />
Messrs. Blackie's annual has also an illustrated (to use Walter Bagehot's words) “ a gentle<br />
story from the same writer's pen.<br />
oblivion soon covers.”<br />
"To a Miniature" is a poem by Irene Osgood, Mr. Werner Laurie is about to publish a work<br />
which appears in “Our Beloved King Edward,” entitled “Ghostly Phenomena," by Mr. Elliott<br />
a volume which is edited by Miss Elizabeth O'Donnell. In this book the author cites &<br />
Woodruff, and contains various poetic tributes to number of his own as well as other people's<br />
King Edward. Mr. Elkin Mathews is the experiences with phantasms of the living and the<br />
publisher.<br />
dead, and with elementals, and gives evidence of<br />
The same publisher has also added to his cabinet the separate existence of spirit and body through<br />
series “The Flame, and other Poems,” by E. the testimony of those who have either successfully<br />
Hamilton Moore.<br />
projected themselves or witnessed the projections<br />
“ Behind the Blinds," by Vesta Terence, is a of others. The work concludes with a criticism on<br />
volume of studies or word-pictures on the under psychical research societies, and the author's own<br />
currents of life by a sympathetic observer, who views with regard to the hauntings of Glamis<br />
portrays many an interpretation of life's difficulties Castle, Berkeley Square, and the Oriental Depart-<br />
and problems to which all are subjected at one ment of the British Museum.<br />
time or another. Messrs. H. R. Allenson & Co. Mr. Walter Jerrold is the editor of “ The Big<br />
are the publishers.<br />
Book of Fairy Tales," published by Messrs. Blackie<br />
Mrs. de Wentworth James' last book, “White & Sons. He is also editing the first six volumes of<br />
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Ernest Nister's new series of children's classics. Mr. Harold Wintle's new novel, “ The Better<br />
“ Robinson Crusoe,” “The Swiss Family Robin- Thing,” will shortly be published by Messrs. John<br />
son," “ Andersen's Fairy Tales," “ Grimm's Fairy Ouseley, Ltd.<br />
Tales," “Old Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes," · "Fairy Plants” is the title of a fern book for<br />
and “Mother Goose's Nursery Tales."<br />
children by Francis George Heath, which Messrs.<br />
“Russian Flashlights" is a new work, practically Ouseley have just issued. The author's aim in<br />
completed, from the pen of Jaakoff Prelooker, writing the book has been to excite the interest of<br />
author of “ Heroes and Heroines of Russia.” the young in ferns, and to convey to the young mind<br />
It consists of a series of sensational and deeply something more than is usually taught of their<br />
instructive stories and studies from Russian life, growth. The book contains 180 illustrations of<br />
all throwing a “flashlight” on some purely fern subjects.<br />
Russian, or general, social, political or religious “The Bourgeois’ Queen of Paris," a novel by Janet<br />
problem. Perhaps the most unique of the Macdonald Clark, will be published in January by<br />
stories are “The Wonderful Buddhist Monk and Messrs. Greening & Co. It deals with the adven-<br />
Ways to “Shadai-Adonai,'” and the story illus- tures of an Englishman in France in the days of<br />
trating the psychology of a Russian aristocrat Henri deux and Catherine de Medici, the two<br />
turning revolutionary. Some of the stories have heroines being a daughter of Benvenuto Cellini<br />
already appeared in magazines, the Strand, Wide and the “ Bourgeois' Queen," a beautiful woman<br />
World, and others, but all have been revised. The of the people risen to power and place.<br />
name of the publishers will be announced shortly. “Douglas Jerrold and Punch," by Mr. Walter<br />
“ Dulall, the Forest Guard,” by C. E. Gouldsbury, Jerrold, was published last month by Messrs.<br />
formerly of the Indian police (Gibbings & Co.), is a Macmillan & Co. The book is of considerable<br />
story of life in the jungle, which is sure to appeal literary interest, for Douglas Jerrold was one of the<br />
to Englishmen with sporting instincts. Mr. most constant and voluminous of the original band<br />
Gouldsbury knows the forest life of India well, of contributors to Punch, and was the first writer<br />
and his descriptive powers are considerable ; nor whose personality was popularly identified with the<br />
does be ignore practical detail, which is almost a paper ; he was also the main political force-<br />
sine qua non nowadays in books of this sort. The « Prime Minister in Punch's Cabinet”-in those<br />
principal character is old Dulall, the forest guard, early years when the Fleet Street jester was wont<br />
whose loyalty to his friends is sure to make him a to hit out with the vigorous indignation of youth.<br />
general favourite.<br />
“Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures”—one of the<br />
The Cambridge University Press have published most successful works of nineteenth-century humour,<br />
the Rev. Dr. Edwin A. Abbott's new work, “ The and “The Story of a Feather," Douglas Jerrold's<br />
Son of Man ; or, Contributions to the Study of the most popular novel, appeared serially in Punch ;<br />
Thoughts of Jesus." The aim of the author has but he was the author of much else in the journal<br />
been to help Christians to study the thoughts of scarcely less notable. In this new book Mr. Walter<br />
Jesus as a whole, so far as they may be inferred Jerrold tells the story of his grandfather's con-<br />
from classifications and comparisons of passages in nection with Punch and the Punch men, prefacing<br />
the four Gospels, illustrated from Hebrew and it with some account of Douglas Jerrold's earlier<br />
Jewish literature.<br />
Punch in London-short-lived prototype of the<br />
" Black Humphrey” is a story of the old Punch-giving some particulars of his hitherto<br />
Cornish coaching and kidnapping days, by James unidentified contributions, and reproducing some<br />
Cassidy, of which the Walter Scott Publishing striking fresh material, including “ Our Honey-<br />
Co. are the publishers.<br />
moon."<br />
Mrs. Annie 0. Tibbits, author of “ Marquess The Rev. S. Claude Tickell has invented a new<br />
Splendid,” is preparing another novel for publica- system of shorthand differing from the modern<br />
tion in the spring. Messrs. Leng, of Sheffield, systems of phonography. Mr. Tickell's system is<br />
have lately brought out her “ Hunted Down" in a called the “Reverse of Clock” shorthand, and is<br />
cheap edition.<br />
published at 1s. net. Copies can be obtained direct<br />
Messrs. S. W. Partridge & Co. have published a from the author, c/o D. Wilton & Co., 11, Cursitor<br />
new novel by A. M. Irvine, entitled * The Pro- Street, W.C.<br />
bationer," in which the author paints in a realistic “The God of Pleasure" is the title of Derek<br />
and humorous style the first month of a pro Vane's new story, the serial rights of which have<br />
bationer's life in a hospital. This book would been bought by the proprietors of the Sheffield<br />
especially appeal to anyone who has undertaken Weekly Telegraph. Her last novel, “Lady<br />
the arduous work of a trained nurse, and to those Vereker,” has just finished in the Daily Telegraph<br />
contemplating the life. The volume is illustrated and will be published in volume form next year.<br />
by six pictures by P. B. Hickling.<br />
We have just received from Messrs. Routledge<br />
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and Sons a compact rhyming dictionary published in Gertie Millar, Mademoiselle Caumont, Mr. Joseph<br />
their Reference Library. The work is by Mr. P. Coyne and Mr. C. Hayden Coffin.<br />
R. Bennett. A book of this nature is, exceed. We have received a little play entitled “Ready,"<br />
ingly useful to a certain class of poetaster. by the Hon. M. A. Pakington. It is in two acts,<br />
Other rhyming dictionaries have preceded it; and is suitable for performance by boys. Messrs.<br />
but they have been, for the most part, large John Heywood are the publishers.<br />
in size and cumbersome. This volume can easily Mr. Cecil Raleigh's play, “Behind the Veil,"<br />
be placed in the pocket, and is published at was produced at the Coronet early in November.<br />
the very moderate price of 18. Budding poets The theme of the play is the conversion of a fast<br />
could not be recommended to a more useful young Parisian to better things. The cast<br />
production.<br />
includes Mr. Philip Desborough, Miss Viva Birkett,<br />
“ On the Middle Slopes” is a short story by and Miss Mildred Cottell.<br />
Mr. Frederick Niven, which appears in the “The Unwritten Law," Mr. Laurence Irving's<br />
Christmas number of T. Pi's Weekly. The same dramatisation of the Russian novel “ Crime and<br />
issue contains an article by Mr. G. K. Chesterton Punishment,” was produced at the Garrick Theatre<br />
entitled “ What's Right With the World,” as well on November 14. The play deals with the<br />
as stories and articles by Stephen Reynolds and murder of a man who has been cruel to a girl, by<br />
other writers.<br />
a young student, and the confession of guilt<br />
Messrs. Methuen & Co. hope to publish next extorted from the murderer by the examining<br />
year the edition of Madame du Deffand's letters to magistrate. In the cast are Miss Mabel Hackney<br />
Horace Walpole, upon which the late Mrs. Paget and Mr. Laurence Irving.<br />
Toynbee had been engaged for some years, and Mrs. Havelock Ellis has sold the whole rights of<br />
which was left nearly completed at her death. ber play, “ The Subjection of Kezia," to Miss Mar-<br />
The work, which has been prepared for the press bury's dramatic agency, of 10, Leicester Square, W.C.<br />
by Dr. Paget Toynbee, will contain nearly 500 Mr. R. C. Carton's play, “ Eccentric Lord<br />
unpublished letters of Madame du Deffand, besides Comberdene," was produced on November 19, at<br />
eleven recently-discovered letters of Horace Walpole the St. James' Theatre. In the cast of the play,<br />
to the Marquise.<br />
which is described as a novelette in three chapters,<br />
Messrs. Wells, Gardner & Co's. announcements are Miss Compton and Mr. George Alexander.<br />
include books by Mr. John Masefield and Mr. E. V. Two matiriées were given at the Haymarket<br />
Lucas. Mr. Masefield's book is called “A Book Theatre last month in aid of the funds of the<br />
of Discoveries," and in it the author gives an Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. The bill included<br />
account of two boys who “discovered” a small plays by George Paston, J. M. Barrie, and Bernard<br />
piece of England, and tells how they learnt to use Shaw, encitled respectively, “ The Kiss," “ A Slice<br />
their eyes and their minds, and to read, in their of Life,” and “ The Dark Lady of the Sonnets."<br />
discoveries, the story of the past as well as the “ The Home Coming," a play in one act by Miss<br />
present.<br />
Cicely Hamilton, was produced for the first time,<br />
“ The Slowcoach,” by Mr. E. V. Lucas, is a story for the benefit of the Women Writers' Suffrage<br />
dealing with a caravan journey through a beautiful League and the Actresses’ Franchise League, last<br />
part of England, including Oxford and Stratford- month. On the same occasion Miss Hamilton's<br />
on-Avon.<br />
“ Pageant of Great Women ” was revived.<br />
Mr. Henry Arthur Jones' comedy, “The Liars," “ Just to Get Married,” by Miss Hamilton, was<br />
was revived at the Criterion on October 27. In also produced at the Little Theatre during<br />
the cast was Sir Charles Wyndham, Miss Mary November.<br />
Moore, Mr. Alfred Bishop and Mr. Sam Sothern.<br />
Mr. Jones' one-act play, treating with the subject of<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
military service, was also produced last month at<br />
the Alhambra.<br />
Mr. Laurence Housman's play, “Pains and “T'IMPÉRATRICE JOSÉPHINE” is the<br />
Penalties," having been rejected by the Censor, D title of a volume by Baron de Méneval,<br />
Mr. Housman read parts of it at Bechstein Hall<br />
containing many interesting details<br />
last month, in aid of the funds of the Men's about Napoleon's first wife. The author explains<br />
League for Women's Suffrage.<br />
in his preface that, thanks to a quantity of<br />
“The Quaker Girl," a musical play in three acts, letters which have come into his possession,<br />
by James T. Tanner, was produced at the Adelphi he is able to give much hitherto unpublished<br />
Theatre on November 5. The lyrics of the play information. Many of these letters are from<br />
are by Adrian Ross and Percy Greenbank, and the Queen Hortense to Abbé Bertrand, and forty-<br />
music by Lionel Monckton. In the cast are Miss seven of them are from her son, destined to.<br />
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become Napoleon III., to Abbé Bertrand. In this large family of children life is one long struggle<br />
volume the author endeavours to show us how One of his daughters possesses a fine voice, and<br />
much Joséphine has been slandered. He gives us becomes an operatic singer. She is burnt in a fire at<br />
a brief outline of her life, and an account of her first Brooklyn, and her father inherits her money. His<br />
meeting with Napoleon. By the extracts from his one idea is to refuse it, but he is over-persuaded<br />
letters to her during his absence, we see how and accepts the legacy. There is a subtle analysis<br />
devotedly attached he was to her. The first eleven of character and a delicate irony throughout the<br />
chapters take us up to the time when the divorce whole story. The modern spirit is very evident,<br />
was first discussed. In a later chapter we have an The worship of the golden calf fills the church<br />
account of the divorce ceremony, and of the part which had been deserted. The poor pastor<br />
ing between Napoleon and Joséphine. A detailed realises all this, and his death occurs in the pulpit,<br />
account is also given of Joséphine's retreat to La There is very little story, but the whole sketch is<br />
Malmaison, and of the Czar's visit to her there. The extremely suggestive, and leaves much to be<br />
author concludes by affirming that Joséphine was thought out by the reader.<br />
Napoleon's good genius, and that she will always "Les Devoilées du Caucase," by the Duchesse<br />
be known as “la bonne Impératrice,” thanks to her de Rohan, is not only an account of the author's<br />
kindly nature, ber affability, and gentleness. travels in the Caucasus, but an attempt to give at<br />
It would be difficult indeed for any writer to the same time an idea of the mentality of its<br />
study more thoroughly the origin of fairy stories inhabitants. In many instances the author gives<br />
than Madame Lucie Félix-Faure Goyau has done us admirable translations of some of the poetry or<br />
in her exquisite book, entitled “ La Vie et la Mort folklore of the places she visits. The photographs<br />
des Fées.” It is very evident that the author has taken during the voyage help to make the volume<br />
spared no pains in her attempt to go to the very root still more interesting. There are no tedious guide-<br />
of her subject, and the writing of such a book must book descriptions, and the reader has a very clear<br />
mean some years of patient work and research. In vision of the seventeen or eighteen places visited,<br />
the admirable prologue the author gives us a from Berlin to Constantinople.<br />
subtle definition of fairy stories. She then intro “La Mort du Roi,” by Pierre de Vaissière, is<br />
duces us to the fairies of the Breton cycle, to an account of the last hours of Louis XVI. We<br />
Merlin, and to the Round Table. We then go on are told almost minute by minute all that took<br />
to the times of heroes and fairies, to Oberon, to place on the tragic day when the king was<br />
the fairy stories in the poems of Marie de France, conducted to the guillotine. The author of this<br />
to the legend of the Swans, to Brunhild, to book has discovered a number of fresh documents<br />
Mélusine, and to the last fairies of the Middle which have enabled him to give details which have<br />
Ages. We are then introduced into the fairy hitherto never been published.<br />
garden of the Italian Renaissance, to Spenser's “ La Robe de laine,” by M. Henry Bordeaux,<br />
** Faërie Queen,” to Shakespeare's fairies, and to has for its subject very much the same theme as<br />
the Neapolitan fairyland. After this we pass on to the “Princess of Thule.” Raymond Cernay, a<br />
the French fairies, and then to the Venetian fairy- wealthy young man, marries his steward's daughter<br />
land, to German fairy stories, and to the fairies of and transplants her with all her Puritan ideas to<br />
English poetry from Shelley to Tennyson. We Paris. Life there is very hard for her, as everything<br />
then return to France, and to George Sand's is a fresh surprise. The book is a fine psychological<br />
fairies, and after these are introduced, to the folk study. It is not until after her death that her<br />
lore of more northern countries, to Andersen, and husband realises the martyrdom she has endured,<br />
then to Wagner. In the epilogue the author thanks to her rigid notions and the difference of<br />
quotes Chesterton, speaks of “ Alice in Wonder- education between herself and her husband.<br />
land," of Barrie's “ Peter Pan," of W. B. Yeats, of The death of M. Robert Gangnat, general agent<br />
Maeterlinck, and in conclusion affirms that nothing of the Société des Auteurs, is an immense loss to<br />
is great except that " which comes from the soul the society. M. Gangnat had been president of<br />
and reaches the soul.” The whole book is charm the Cercle des Escholiers, secretary to M. Pichon,<br />
ing, and helps to make us appreciate more than and attaché to the Cabinet of M. Léon Bourgeois.<br />
ever our early friends the fairies<br />
Later on he was dramatic critic to the Matin, and<br />
“Le Pasteur pauvre,” by Edouard Rod, is on the death of M. Roger, in 1902, he was elected<br />
another of the psychological studies in which this agent-general to the Société des Auteurs. He was<br />
author was a past master. This time the prin- most active and energetic in his work there, and it<br />
cipal personage is a Protestant pastor, extremely is to his efforts that French anthors in Canada<br />
conscientious and consequently poor. As he is a can claim a certain amount of money for their<br />
temperance advocate, he considers it his duty to works there.<br />
uproot the vineyard which is his legacy. With a The Revue hebdomadaire publishes a remarkable<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
article by Dr. Grasset, of the Montpellier Univer The claim for penalties was made under the<br />
sity, entitled “La Crise Médico-sociale.” It is Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862, which created<br />
taken from a volume to be published shortly, copyright in paintings, drawings, and photographs.<br />
“Le milieu médical et la crise médico-sociale." Under the provisions of the Act the defendant<br />
In later numbers of the same Revue we have a most company, as proprietors of the copyright in the<br />
interesting study by the Vicomte de Reiset of drawing, had the exclusive right of copying,<br />
Catherine Worlée, Princesse de Talleyrand ; and engraving, and reproducing the picture and its<br />
an article by Pierre Baudin, “ Impressions design by any means and in any size. It is an<br />
d'Argentine.”<br />
offence, however, under the Act for any one to<br />
At the Comédie Française “ Les Marionnettes," knowingly publish a copy of the work with any<br />
by Pierre Wolf, is being given, and at the Théâtre alteration, if it is represented to be the unaltered<br />
Réjane “Le Mariage de Mlle. Beulemans” still work of the artist.<br />
fills the house. “L'Aventurier" is a success at Mr. Frank Dixie, the Royal Academician, and<br />
the Porte Saint-Martin. At the Théâtre Antoine Mr. E. T. Reed, the well-known contributor to<br />
“ César Birotteau " is being given.<br />
Punch, gave evidence as to the alterations appear-<br />
ALYS HALLARD. ing in the poster as compared with the original<br />
drawing by Mr. Garth Jones. It was stated that<br />
* L'Impératrice Joséphine” (Calmann Levy).<br />
“ La Vie et la Mort des Fées” (Perrin).<br />
the colours and the drawing would be damaging to<br />
“ Le Pasteur pauvre” (Perrin).<br />
the artist's reputation, but it was pointed out by<br />
“ La Mort du Roi ” (Perrin).<br />
the Court that there was no claim for damages, but<br />
only for the penalties recoverable under the Act in<br />
respect of the alleged offence.<br />
UNAUTHORISED ALTERATION OF A<br />
On behalf of the defendant company it was<br />
contended that, being proprietors of the copyright,<br />
PICTURE.<br />
they were entitled to reproduce the picture in an<br />
enlarged form ; that offences under the statute<br />
CARLTON ILLUSTRATORS AND JONES v. COLEMAN<br />
were acts which were done fraudulently, and fraud<br />
was not alleged ; and that the alleged offence being<br />
& Co.<br />
of a criminal nature for which a conviction could<br />
TN this action, which was of a novel character, be obtained, and the penalties recovered by proceed-<br />
1 the plaintiffs sued the defendant company for ings in a police court under the express provisions<br />
penalties in respect of the publication of a of the Act, an action was not the proper method<br />
large coloured poster, which purported to be a for recovery of the penalties.<br />
reproduction of a drawing, made by Mr. Garth Mr. Justice Channell, in giving judgment, said<br />
Jones, depicting the classic figure of a woman, and that there had been no decision in point during the<br />
entitled “Caution.”<br />
forty-eight years in which the Act had been in<br />
Carlton Illustrators is a firm carrying on the force. The firm of Carlton Illustrators had shown<br />
business of making and selling artistic illustrations no cause of action, as the artist was the person<br />
for the use of advertisers and others, and Mr. Garth aggrieved, who was entitled to recover the penalties.<br />
Jones, the artist, is associated with them in this On the question of fraud, some of the offences in<br />
work. The drawing in question was made by Mr. the statute related to fraudulent acts, but the<br />
Garth Jones for advertisement purposes, and was offence in question was “knowingly" doing what<br />
sold to the defendant company, who are the manu- was expressly prohibited. There was a breach of<br />
facturers of “ Wincarnis." The effect of the trans- the provisions of the statute if anybody represented<br />
action was that the copyright in the drawing passed as the work of a particular artist something which<br />
to the defendant company, who required it for an he knew had been altered so as not to be that<br />
advertisement, but there was no agreement as to artist's work. He thought it was apparent to any.<br />
the mode in which the picture should be repro- body that there had been an alteration in the<br />
duced. The poster complained of was an enlarged picture, because no one could look at the two things<br />
copy of the drawing, but it was alleged that the without seeing in the defendant's version the<br />
drawing had been altered both by colouring and in expression on the face of the woman was entirely<br />
line, the expression of the woman's face being different from that in the original drawing.<br />
entirely changed. The name of Mr. Garth Jones “ Alteration ” might be a word of ambiguous<br />
appeared upon the poster, and the defendant com- character, and it was possible that some alterations<br />
pany issued a circular in which Mr. Garth Jones might not come within the statute. Upon the<br />
was mentioned as the artist. The defendant com facts of the present case, colour being a very<br />
pany had offered to publish the poster without the important element in the matter, he had come to<br />
artist's name, but the offer was not accepted. the conclusion that there was an alteration which<br />
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was prohibited by the Act. He found that the<br />
defendant company had published the poster as<br />
Mr. Garth Jones' picture knowing that it had<br />
been altered. The plaintiff, Mr. Garth Jones, was<br />
entitled to an injunction, and there would be<br />
judgment for one penalty of £10.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
PUBLISHERS AND MINOR RIGHTS.<br />
together amount to something like 60 per cent.<br />
Even if the publisher's terms are cut down to 10<br />
per cent., still the agent's charges will have to<br />
be reckoned and another 10 per cent. added. No<br />
author should sign a contract containing a clause<br />
of this kind unless he is dealing direct with the<br />
publisher, and then only in the modified form<br />
suggested. If he is dealing with a publisher<br />
through an agent, he should in no circumstances<br />
sanction this double delegation. If an agent<br />
should recommend such a clause, then the only<br />
fair course would be for the agent to forego his<br />
fees : first, because he is advising his principal<br />
badly, and secondly, because he could not see his<br />
principal paying double fees when one agency fee<br />
should suffice. An author should watch carefully<br />
any agent who leads him into this entanglement.<br />
The agent exists for the placing of the author's<br />
literary worlag middleman hnt he does not<br />
exist to place the author's work into the<br />
hands of another middleman whom he asks<br />
to do the work for which he was himself<br />
appointed. Cases have occurred in which the<br />
publisher, owing to the fact that he is not a<br />
literary agent and has not the facilities for placing<br />
these minor rights when he has obtained control of<br />
them, has appointed an agent to place them for<br />
him. He may even be employing the very agent<br />
who, in the first instance, brought the work to<br />
him. The result would be three agents all doing<br />
the same work and all claiming a fee. When the<br />
position is carried to this point its absurdity should<br />
be clear to the dullest intellect.<br />
"That the publisher shall have the sole right to sell or<br />
assign the American, Colonial, Continental, foreign, trans-<br />
lation, serial and dramatic rights in the above work, he<br />
shall pay all costs of negotiating such sales and distributing<br />
copies of the work for such purposes, and the publisher<br />
shall pay to the author 50 per cent. of the receipts from<br />
the sale of the same, such amounts to be payable at the<br />
same time as the royalties provided for in Clause 5<br />
hereof."<br />
M HE clause printed above is a clause which<br />
I publishers endeavour to squeeze into their<br />
contracts with authors, and is a clause which-<br />
of but little benefit to the publisher-is very unsatis-<br />
factory from the author's point of view. The author<br />
should never give away the absolute control of these<br />
rights to a publisher. The publisher is not an<br />
agent, except for the publication of the work in<br />
book form. He has not the facilities for placing<br />
these rights, but if he does place them his<br />
remuneration should be the usual agency remunera-<br />
tion of 10 per cent. The clause, however, might be<br />
altered on the following lines in order to meet the<br />
difficulty : “If through the agency of the<br />
publisher any of the rights mentioned are sold,<br />
with the author's approval, and subject to a<br />
contract signed by the author, then, and in that case,<br />
the publisher shall be allowed the usual agency<br />
charge of 10 per cent.” An arrangement on this<br />
basis could be made when the author was dealing<br />
direct with the publisher, but if the author employs<br />
an agent then no such clause should stand, for the<br />
agent should see that the publisher has no control<br />
of the work beyond the publication in book form,<br />
and should retain for the author those rights which<br />
ich<br />
it is his, the agent's, duty, and his alone, to place.<br />
As a matter of fact, however, the agent not infre-<br />
quently advises the author to sign an agreement in<br />
which such a clause exists, pressing the author to<br />
this conclusion on the ground that the publisher<br />
will not take up the book unless he has control of<br />
all the rights. The result to the author is that on<br />
the sale of these rights he has to pay the publisher<br />
50 per cent. as a general rule, and the agent 10<br />
per cent., or, in other words, he has to pay two<br />
agents for placing his work, whose charges added<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
Charles Dickens and Reform. By B. W. Matz.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
Maeterlinck's Methods of Life and Work. By Madame<br />
Maeterling<br />
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. (Reprinted from the<br />
Contemporary Reriew of April, 1886.) By W. Holman<br />
Hunt.<br />
Hy<br />
Imagination and the Ideal. By E. M. Caillard.<br />
Copyright in Architecture. By Charles Tennyson.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW,<br />
Paris Nights. By Arnold Bennett.<br />
La Musique française depuis Berlioz. Camille Mauclair<br />
Alfred de Musset. By Prof. M. A. Gerothwohl, Litt.D.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
A King's Proctor for Plays. By Laurence Housman.<br />
"An Inspired Little Creature," and the Poet Wordsworth.<br />
By Rosaline Masson.<br />
The Passing of Pierrot. By Dion Calthrop.<br />
French Life and the French Stage.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. A VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub.<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu.<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus. .<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
Lct should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society ; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements,<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for " office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(6.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty mears to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2. Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
beans.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com.<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in 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 />
STERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
H agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
U Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fecs). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that be runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
U assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
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 />
M88, 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 />
tee 18 one guinea.<br />
. REMITTANCES.<br />
QCENARIOS, 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 />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 2s. 68. per act,<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
This paragraph hardly needs any comment. The<br />
S.P.C.K. is offering to purchase the whole copy-<br />
right of a work at 68. per 1,000 words.<br />
DRAMATIC CENSORSHIP.<br />
Many members of the Society may have for-<br />
We are requested by the Lord Chamberlain to gotten Sir Walter Besant's pamphlet written in<br />
publish the following list of gentlemen who have<br />
the early days of the society's incorporation,<br />
consented to serve on the Advisory Board dealing<br />
entitled “The Literary Handmaiden of the<br />
with the Censorship of Plays.<br />
Church.” Perhaps, in view of the S.P.C.K.'s<br />
President: The Earl Spencer, Lord Chamberlain circular, it would be as well to recall this pamphlet<br />
(ex-officio).<br />
to the notice of the members.<br />
Members : The Right Hon. Sir Edward Carson,<br />
K.C., M.P., Sir Squire Bancroft, Sir John Hare, DICTIONARY OF THE WAVERLEY Novels.*<br />
Prof. Walter Raleigh, S. O. Buckmaster, Esq., K.C.,<br />
Col. Sir Douglas Dawson, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., Lord<br />
A BOOK of exceeding interest to students of<br />
Chamberlain's Department (ex-officio).<br />
Walter Scott has been issued by Messrs. Routledge<br />
Whether such an Advisory Board will be<br />
& Co. and by Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co., New<br />
able to allay the clamour for reformation made<br />
York, entitled “ A Dictionary of the Characters in<br />
by the Dramatic Committee of the society and<br />
the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott,” com-<br />
others it is impossible to say at present, but,<br />
piled by M. F. A. Husband, B.A. It is, perhaps,<br />
whatever the result, one thing is certain, that the<br />
impossible that a book of this kind should have a<br />
position of the members of the Board is not a<br />
large circulation : first, no doubt, because Walter<br />
position to be envied, and we must consider it<br />
Scott is not so popular a novelist as he was in<br />
exceedingly self-sacrificing of them to have come<br />
the Victorian period ; and secondly, because those<br />
forward and undertaken such a grave responsibility.<br />
who do read novels read rather for pleasure than<br />
as students ; but books of reference well compiled<br />
can seldom fail to be interesting to those who use<br />
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br />
them rightly, and in this case there is no doubt<br />
that much careful labour has been spent.<br />
List of original members :- Alfred Austin,<br />
The author in his introductory note states that<br />
Laurence Binyon, Andrew Cecil Bradley, Robert the aim of the book is that of a dictionary and not<br />
Bridges, Samuel Henry Butcher, Joseph Conrad, that of an encyclopædia. He points out that in<br />
William John Courthope, Austin Dobson, James Scott's novels there are no less than 2,836<br />
George Frazer, Edmund Gosse, Richard Burdon characters. This is, indeed, a very large number,<br />
Haldane. Thomas Hardy. Henry James. William and without such a book as this it would have<br />
Paton Ker, Andrew Lang, Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall, been impossible to grasp the fertility and wide<br />
John William Mackail. The Viscount Norley of range of the stories of the “ Wizard of the<br />
Blackburn (president), George Gilbert Murray, North."<br />
Henry Newbolt, Edward Henry Pember (perpetual The price of the book is 8s. 6d. net.<br />
secretary), Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, George Walter<br />
We have also received from the same publishers<br />
Prothero, Walter Raleigh, Arthur Woollgar Verrall,<br />
a similar dictionary of the characters of Thackeray, t.<br />
William Butler Yeats.<br />
equally serviceable to students of the masters of<br />
English literature.<br />
THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN<br />
“ WHAT EDITORS WANT,” AND “HOW TO WRITE<br />
KNOWLEDGE.<br />
FOR THE PRESS.”<br />
The Society for Promoting Christian Know-<br />
We have had two small books sent us which<br />
ledge, Northumberland Avenue, W.C., issues contain useful information for many members of<br />
a printed circular to those authors whose MSS. the society, who work as free-lance journalists or<br />
it receives. The printed circular is signed by free-lance writers of fiction. They are entitled,<br />
Edmund McClure (secretary). The attention of “What Editors Want" and “How to Write for the<br />
members of the society is called to the last Press," and the price is 1s. net, in paper covers.<br />
paragraph :-<br />
“How to Write for the Press” is almost purely<br />
“If a MS. is accepted, payment is made for the copy.<br />
de for the copy.<br />
100 The use 01 Jourt<br />
for the use of journalists, and shows them, by<br />
right. The scale of payment varies according to the<br />
importance of the book, or to the price at which it is * “ Dictionary of the Waverley Novels." By M. F. A.<br />
published. For ordinary tales intended for Parochial Husband, B.A. Routledge. 8s. 6d. net.<br />
Libraries the scale is from £3 38. per 10,000 words. If it + “A Thackeray Dictionary." By Isadore Gilbert Mudge<br />
is declined, it is returned post free."<br />
and M. Earl Sears. Routledge. 88. 6d. net.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
71<br />
naming the kind of subjects with which the papers which he lived solitary with his wife or wives, and<br />
deal, how to be beforehand in the matter of family or families, and betook himself to the<br />
articles for the papers, and explains how to deal diked enclosures ostensibly for protecting himself<br />
with these subjects in journalistic fashion. The against beasts, but really for the purpose of more<br />
whole success of a free-lance journalist depends easily insulting his neighbours. (Laughter.) To<br />
upon his initiative and originality.<br />
anybody who interjected the criticism of such<br />
The second book is both for the journalist and historical details as the invention of printing and<br />
the writer of fiction, and contains a great deal of the successive invention of publishers, he replied<br />
useful information from the editors of magazines that it was perfectly true that unless printing had<br />
on the kind of article or kind of story they want been invented publishers would not have been<br />
for their papers.<br />
invented. Did they think that an author having<br />
We miss, however, a cross-index, which to us written his immortal work would undertake to<br />
would seem to be indispensable for a book of this disseminate it throughout the length and breadth<br />
kind. For instance, if a person desired to know of Great Britain ; they knew that when an author<br />
what papers took poems he would have to read had finished his second revision of a book nothing<br />
through the whole book, whereas if there was a would induce him to repeat a word of it. (Laughter.)<br />
cross-index at the end mentioning “ poems," and If there had been no publishers, did they think they<br />
referring to the various magazines, an enormous would have resorted to the rhapsodists? The<br />
amount of trouble would be saved, and it would bistory of the author and the publisher fell into<br />
help an author who was struggling for a market. two parts. In the first part, the first, having no<br />
To save trouble, as a rule, is to make money. money and having written a book, employed the<br />
publisher ; in the second part, the publisher, having<br />
money and nowits employed the author. (Laughter.)<br />
What would have been the position of the<br />
rhapsodists? They might imagine the complication<br />
THE SOCIETY'S ANNIVERSARY<br />
between the author and the rhapsodists in the<br />
earlier stages of their encounter. Imagine what<br />
DINNER<br />
the rhapsodists would have charged for reciting in<br />
England, Scotland, the Colonies and the United<br />
States, one of the works of Mr. William de Morgan<br />
M UE Twenty-sixth Anniversary Dinner of the or Mr. Arnold Bennett. Nearly as bad was to<br />
Society of Authors was held in the Criterion imagine two writers employing the same rhapso-<br />
Restaurant on Thursday evening.<br />
dists, for in that case the rhapsodists might to take<br />
The guests were received by Mr. Maurice<br />
one example-sandwich two or three of his lumber-<br />
Hewlett, and about two hundred sat down to ing pages into Mr. Anthony Hope's sparkling<br />
dinner under his presidency. The vice-chairmen dialogue. (Laughter.)<br />
were Sir Alfred Bateman, K.C.M.G., Mr. Charles<br />
Dealing with the work of the society, he asked<br />
Garvice, Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Charles<br />
whether they were making themselves unnecessary<br />
L. Freeston, Mr. W. W. Jacobs, Mr. S. S. Sprigge as a corporation. That was their only justification,<br />
and Mr. G. Herbert Thring.<br />
and they were on the way to do it. Relations<br />
In few and well-chosen words the chairman gave between themselves and the other industries which<br />
the toasts of “ The King” and “ The Queen and were affected by their art had certainly changed.<br />
Royal Family."<br />
Even in his short experience as chairman of the<br />
It now fell to him, the chairman said, to enact society, authors and publishers and booksellers had<br />
an important ceremony, which was to propose and sat at the same board of green cloth and discussed<br />
see that the company drank the health of the matters of common interest. They had with them<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors—a society to a publisher who looked happy-Mr. Heinemann, an<br />
which many of them had reason to congratulate exceptional publisher, who had maintained single-<br />
themselves they belonged, a society to which all handed a struggle against a common enemy he<br />
authors ought to belong and to which two thousand would not name. (Applause.)<br />
of them did belong. It had fulfilled the hopes of He could not forbear calling attention to the<br />
its part founder, Sir Walter Besant. He said part fact that the guest of the evening in a great many<br />
founder, for he was about to suggest an earlier senses was—he did not know whether to say the<br />
origin-an origin so old that it stretched back into veteran or the infant phenomenon of letters, Mr<br />
the misty vestibules of the House of Time. The William de Morgan. (Applause.)<br />
Society of Authors, and all societies he had ever H e called upon the company to drink to the<br />
heard of, had been founded in the nick of time prosperity of the Incorporated Society of Authors.<br />
when neolithic man forsook the cave dwelling in Sir Alfred Bateman proposed the toast of the<br />
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72<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
guests. After mentioning that Mr. de Morgan had of literature, we shall have to do as the poets did<br />
won fame in other fields of art before turning his in that country where the public refused to buy<br />
attention to fiction, he added that another of their sonnets that were quoted at over one shilling.<br />
guests, Mr. E. H. Pember, K.C., had not only pro- These poets were penny-a-liners, and ordinary<br />
duced some excellent verse but had been a guide, fourteen-line sonnets were one-and-twopence. Of<br />
philosopher, and friend in regard to literature. course the poets gave way and wrote only twelve-<br />
(Applause.)<br />
line sonnets. The consequence was that when nert<br />
Mr. William de Morgan, rising on the right hand the type-setters struck for a rise of wages, it was<br />
of the chairman, said: “The words of Mercury pointed out that the cost of printing was all the<br />
are harsh after the songs of Apollo.” My excuse fault of the authors, who scattered the type about<br />
for such a trite quotation is that I wish to vary it so. A compromise was come to, the type-setters<br />
slightly in the present case. If the words of Mer- consenting to resume work if they might put all<br />
cury are not, this time, harsh after the songs of the A's in the book in one place, all the B's in<br />
Apollo, it is not for want of inexperience of public another, and so on. Authors were no longer<br />
speaking on the part of Mercury-videlicet, myself. wanted. However, I am on the best of terms with<br />
In fact, I have up to now devoted myself exclusively Mudie's, so far as I know. Referring to them<br />
to the cultivation of private silence, not without reminds me that we are very old acquaintances, as<br />
success. Broadly speaking, if one of the patriarchs, I was first introduced sixty-five years ago to a depot<br />
Methuselah, or suppose we say Lamech-he was in Southampton Row, Russell Square, being then<br />
nearer my own age—had found himself, at the age very young indeed, and was told that the gentle-<br />
of 710, or thereabouts, responding to the health of man who handed a tri-volume to my mother over<br />
“ The Guests” at a public dinner, he would probably the counter was “ Mr. Mudie himself"! How sur-<br />
have done as the little boy did in the story of prised he would have been then to forsee my sequel !<br />
“ Helen's Babies.” You remember he had only to Let me conclude with my most grateful thanks<br />
say “ B-double 0—K Book," and he succeeded in for the honour that has been done me. I hope I<br />
saying instead, “ D-bubble 0–K.” Probably the have not diminished the gratitude of my fellow<br />
patriarch would have done something of the sort, guests, on whose behalf I have undertaken to<br />
for he had not even the advantage I had of speak, by so much irrelevant rambling. I should<br />
beginning with a quotation from Shakespeare, who ramble still more, though less irrelevantly, if I<br />
was not an incorporated author in those days. were to try to express to the full my sense of the<br />
Reference to books and authors reminds me of the generous hospitality, literal and metaphorical, that<br />
circulating libraries last year, and of the share a has been extended to a belated wanderer in the<br />
book of my own had in their rejection of books in fields of literature.<br />
two volumes. What I have to say is not criticism Mr. Pember said he found himself the temporary<br />
of the attitude of the libraries, but to disclaim any sort representative of another literary society with<br />
of commiseration for myself. I should be an impostor which the Society of Authors had been brought<br />
to pose as an object of pity, for the commercial into contact in the development of a common<br />
results were particularly satisfactory to me. All I project. At no time in history, he considered, had<br />
ever felt concerned about was that the question the literature of England been more thoroughly<br />
should not be mixed up with another question, that alive. They had poets, they had novelists, they<br />
of the proposed library censorship. It never would had historians, they had essayists. Personally, he<br />
have been if one or two ill-instructed subordinates of was of opinion that the topmost branches of the<br />
circulating libraries had not thought fit to say that very extensive literary plantation of the present<br />
the book was not in their list because it wasn't proper! day were both fine and well grown. (Applause.)<br />
It has been suggested that a good solution of the Mr. Charles Garvice, in proposing the toast of<br />
two-volume difficulty would be to cut very long - The Chairman,” said that Mr. Maurice Hewlett was<br />
stories in half, and give each half a title to itself. one of those novelists who appealed so directly to<br />
I did not feel sure that our chairman had not done<br />
the heart as well as to the mind, that he received<br />
this with his last book, as an experiment. When<br />
not only universal admiration but universal love.<br />
I came to read the book carefully I was glad to (Applause.).<br />
find that this was not the case. I say glad, because<br />
Alter the chairman had replied, a conversazione<br />
brilliant and original work should not be made the was held in the adjoining Victoria Hall.<br />
subject of hazardous experiments. A corpus vile<br />
should be used--the “average novel," if any one<br />
knows where to find it. However, I soon saw that<br />
no risks had been run with “Rest Harrow” and<br />
its predecessors of which it is a legitimate sequel.<br />
If commerce is to dictate the length and breadth<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
73<br />
THE RAMBLING ESSAYIST.<br />
heartily belauded by his followers—is just as<br />
thankful as he ought to be? I wonder if he<br />
By W. HAROLD THOMSON.<br />
appreciates to its full extent the ease, the comfort,<br />
tbe loftiness of his position ? I do not refer to his<br />
T HE work of the rambling essayist frequently financial position that may be good or it may be<br />
makes delightful reading, and I should poor. If it be poor I do not know that anybody<br />
- judge that to the author it makes delightful is to blame other than the essayist himself, but<br />
writing. The above title is applied to the literary assuredly there are those who will regard him with<br />
man who, having somehow or other, probably by still greater reverence should he chance to be in<br />
nothing more extraordinary than hard work, good debt; assuredly he will assume a more heroic, more<br />
work, and perseverance, won editorial approval and artistic pose.<br />
the attention of the more cultured reading classes, You may not have met the modern rambling<br />
is permitted to write upon whatever subject essayist-I mean in print. There are very many<br />
suggests itself to him as worthy of his pen and who have not done so ; and yet he raises his<br />
capable of being “worked up."<br />
melodious voice not only in dainty volunies, not<br />
He does not, when some choice subject whispers only in sober quarterlies and disdainful weeklies,<br />
to him seductively, say, “Sorry! I can't ! There's but in the democratic halfpenny Press. He is<br />
no money in you!" but dips his pen into the ink everywhere : even if one wished to do so, one<br />
pot and gets to work. He never deliberately could scarcely avoid him. In some ways I envy<br />
chooses a subject; the subject always comes to those who have never allowed themselves to read<br />
him. For the most part he writes about what are what the rambler has written ; they are still out-<br />
commonly thought to be trivial things, and it is side the close-meshed net; they are still ingloriously<br />
of course a tribute to his art that he is able to free. Their case is somewhat like the case of a<br />
hold one fascinated through two thousand words man who has never allowed himself to be tempted<br />
on such a subject. John Smith, preparing a paper by the offer of a cigar or a cigarette or a pipe.<br />
for the local literary circle, will thunder forth his The man who has never smoked fails to understand<br />
views on the prospects of a war with some foreign what possible pleasure smoking can give ; the man<br />
Power ; or, backed by a host of scientific facts and who has never accorded a hearing to the soft-<br />
phantasies, cheerfully predict the early end of the tongued essayist has no desire to do so. But the<br />
world or deplore the decline of religion. The essay-reader might say to the non-essay-reader,<br />
professional essayist of the type referred to here just as the smoker says to the non-smoker : “My<br />
will talk blandly of "A Tree in My Garden," or friend ! you do not know what you have missed."<br />
* The Good Night Pipe,” or “An Argumentative I scarcely think, however, that he would follow<br />
Man"-anything, in short, that occurs to him. with the smoker's usual and hypocritical advice :<br />
No doubt John Smith could write about a good. “Don't start! I wish that I had never started.”<br />
night pipe; no doubt the popular essayist could A rumour has gone forth that the essay is<br />
write feelingly about the probable end of the coming back into popular favour : that in the<br />
world; but the fact does not seem to strike them, course of time it will supersede fiction. If ever<br />
and perhaps it is just as well.<br />
that time should come, the gentlemen who dawdle<br />
How many of us there are who envy very so entertainingly down a column headed by their<br />
sincerely—though I hope not bitterly—this inan of name or brought to a close by modest initials,<br />
letters who may write just as he pleases on what will come into their own. That they have a king-<br />
ever subject he pleases, with the certainty that dom already is very true, but they wield a bland<br />
what he writes will be accepted, published, paid sceptre over a mild-mannered people. There is<br />
for, and read! How delightful to sit down of an perhaps a future for them, when the subjects over<br />
evening before a hearty fire, light one's pipe, and, whom they hold sway will be as ten times ten,<br />
with pencil in hand and note-book on knee, set and of a nature which at the commencement will<br />
about transcribing to paper the pleasant thoughts be more turbulent than mild, and will call for the<br />
that are stealing half-dreamily across one's brain. most skilful and tactful of handling.<br />
"To transcribe them just as one conceived them; What I love most about the rambling essayist,<br />
to eschew everything that offended one's ear, even and what he loves most about himself, is just this<br />
though it promised to please a great section of the very rambling. The serious, business-minded,<br />
public, and all the time to liave the sweet and get-to-the-point-at-once gentleman, who now and<br />
greatly-prized knowledge that just what one wrote then strides ferociously into print to explain that<br />
there by the fire would be just what thousands the country is hurrying to meet a certain celebrity<br />
would read a little later in the printed sheet ! with cloven hoofs, or who confuses us by juggling<br />
I wonder if such an essayist-known to fame, with bewildering masses of figures, is after all<br />
handsomely “retained ” by his publishers, and rather a boring companion. He pants along so<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
ceathlessly ; he piles the facts one upon the other material which we designate by the name of slang.<br />
quickly'; he is so eager to convince one that And although the Atlantic Ocean nowadays has<br />
hat he is saying is right, and to reach his whirling become but a mere skip, it is still wide enough to<br />
eroration, that, refusing to be bullied any longer, check the passage from shore to shore of great<br />
ne throws down the paper.<br />
hordes of neologisms which might otherwise force<br />
With the placid essayist how different it all is ! their way into the general speech of « Anglo-<br />
Ie says that he is going to take you into a country Saxondom.” (The inverted commas may serve to<br />
une which will lead you to a charming and register anew the protest of a three-quarter Celt.)<br />
eculiarly-formed lake, where there are water-lilies The constant interchange of music-hall and vaude-<br />
nd stately swans and all manner of delights. You ville artists doubtless does something to introduce<br />
re ready and eager to start.<br />
the latest slang of one land into the other ; and so<br />
Safely you step into the lane, prepared to walk would the interchange of novels by English and<br />
riskly to your goal, the lake. But your eccentric American authors, were it not that the increasingly<br />
ompanion refuses to hurry ; he will have none of protectionist attitude of publishers on both sides of<br />
. He straggles from side to side of the roadway; the Atlantic makes it difficult for an author to<br />
vinces childlike joy at discovering a dainty fern have an audience on more than one side. But,<br />
rowing in a crevice of the dyke ; wants to watch generally speaking, the slangs of Britain and the<br />
wren which is perched upon the hedge-top ; or United States are growing independently of one<br />
erhaps, more for his own pleasure than for yours, another.<br />
escribes with rapture a bud swaying shyly on a Doubtless it is better so. This at least insures<br />
wild rose tree. This over, he remembers the that an inhabitant of either country can, if his<br />
bject with which he started—remembers that tastes lie that way, have an intellectual treat when<br />
e is taking you to see the lake, and with he has any time to devote to the study of the<br />
nthusiasm he tells you of it. But soon he popular speech of the other country which pro-<br />
reaks otf—a cow in a field near hy has claimed fesses to bare the same mother-tongue. Person-<br />
is attention. He forgets the lake ; he calmly ally, I will confess, I derive infinite pleasure from<br />
Lirects your gaze to the cow. And with the cow the collection of the fine flowers of American slang,<br />
rou hare to be contented. “The lake ?-oh, some even when I am puzzled by the why-ness of a lot of<br />
ther time for the lake. The two thousand words it. I delight in its exuberance, its dash, its palpi-<br />
re written. It was difficult to get under weigh, tating absurdity. Perhaps those who read me now<br />
nd the lake was attractive ; but once one's pen (though I recognise the possibility of my baving no<br />
tarts its dipping into the ink pot, and its antics readers except the Editor of The Author) will not<br />
-pon the paper, words somehow accumulate and share my delight. But I cannot resist exhibiting<br />
he column fills up !<br />
a few of the gems across which I have come<br />
Well, he is a giant, this essayist; and a giant, recently, in the hope that they will appeal to at<br />
when he is mild and good-humoured, is an inspir- least a few others besides myself.<br />
ng companion for those of smaller stature than A notable feature in American slang is the use of<br />
aimself.<br />
that expedient known as the “ornate alias.” Thus<br />
the country may be described as “the hay-fever<br />
SOME BEAUTIES OF AMERICAN SLANG.<br />
district," a bottle of champagne as “buzz-water"<br />
or “a quart of bubbles," a diamond tie-pin as "a<br />
Tungstenlight boulder,". an elaborate dress suit as<br />
TT is a fact which has long been recognised by “the gladdest kind of an evening shell” or more<br />
1 intelligent observers of the two great nations simply as “glad rags." Still more hyperbolically<br />
which are commonly miscalled Anglo-Saxon in a very amusing book, “Young Wallingford,"<br />
-I speak as one who is three-quarters Celt-that by George Randolph Chester, a term of imprison-<br />
che English and American tongues, apart from the ment is spoken of as “the short-haired paleness<br />
nigh literary diction still preserved in both which comes from wearing horizontal stripes in a<br />
countries, are slowly but surely drifting apart. cement rooin," and swindling as “a game that<br />
The fact is embalmed in the now almost venerable has the brown-and-wbite striped clothes at the end<br />
cale about the shop-sign somewhere on the Con- of it.” We are reminded of the sandwichmen<br />
cinent, “English spoken : American understood." whom we have lately seen parading the streets in<br />
It is true even of the ordinary written languages ; advertisement of “ The Man from Mexico," as<br />
but it is even more emphatically true of the again when we read of “a guy that's got the<br />
Colloquial speeches of Great Britain and of the lock-step coming to him.” .<br />
United States.<br />
...o coman e The jargon of “crooks " is naturally particularly<br />
Now, colloquial speech progresses largely by rich, and also particularly recondite. The objec-<br />
means of the drafting into it of that vigorous raw tive "phoney”-as in “phoney business," “ the<br />
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phoney stuff” (flash notes), “the phoney pinch”<br />
(a bogus arrest), is in common use, but I do not<br />
know its origin. Another puzzler is enshrined in<br />
the question which one of Mr. Chester's characters<br />
pats to another. “How about this eight thousand<br />
or so that you committed mayhem on Filmore to<br />
get?” We may feel sure that the eight thousand<br />
or so was “easy money” or “the fat money," to<br />
get which is the ambition of all crooks; but<br />
what “ mayhem” is I have no idea. Perhaps some<br />
“ wise prop” can enlighten me, in intervals of<br />
relieving of his superfluous cash some “ Mr.<br />
Mark of Easyville" and "cold-decking " the<br />
unsophisticated “on the rural free delivery<br />
routes."<br />
“ Don't give me the marble mitt," exclaims a<br />
man to a maid in another recent American novel.<br />
The “ marble mitt" is perchance a continuation<br />
of the cold shoulder. But the maid to whom the<br />
remark was addressed was obdurate, because the<br />
man appeared to her a “ quitter," though she<br />
admitted that he “wasn't any pincher," i.e., was<br />
not stingy. I forget whether he was one of the<br />
people who suffered from an “ingrowing grouch."<br />
That complaint, howerer, was certainly rife among<br />
a set of men of whom a critic asked, “ Why do they<br />
hate themselves so? Why do they sit in the<br />
darkest corners and bark at themselves ?" Possibly,<br />
if one may hazard a conjecture, someone had been<br />
* handing them too much flossy talk." ;<br />
An informative contributor to the Press has told<br />
us over here lately that the latest fashionable<br />
endearment in the United States for one's best girl<br />
is simply “kid,” and that “peach” and the<br />
statelier “ peacherino” are dying out. This is sad,<br />
because there is a distinct lack of originality about<br />
“kid,” even when applied to a best girl.<br />
“ Little old New York” is caressing. So is<br />
“ my little old salary," of which the heroine of<br />
Miss Grace Luce Irwin's “ Diary of a Show Girl ”<br />
speaks. That heroine, by the way, is a constant<br />
joy, and has some charming friends, like the gentle-<br />
man who owned a horse that “won the tapeovitch<br />
by a face”—a close finish, to be sure. Someone<br />
else in the book “ felt like a ben that's gone back<br />
on its feed.” Even I once had a friend, a natural-<br />
ised American, who was frequently “madder than<br />
a wet hen.” He was inclined to be zoological, I<br />
remember, for he found many things “more fun<br />
than a barrel full of monkeys."<br />
"Not on your tin-type !" is an expression now<br />
familiar in this country. But “ Not on your three-<br />
sheet litho !" came fresh to me the other day. I<br />
am not certain that it was not “ the first live<br />
noise " I had heard for some time, though I believe<br />
that expression is properly applied to an invitation<br />
to have a drink, whether a plain " highball," which<br />
is whisky and soda, or the more expensive“ bottle<br />
of joy,” which is the same as the afore-mentioned<br />
“quart of bubbles."<br />
A “rubberneck" is an admirably expressive<br />
description of an inquisitive person. The term and<br />
its companion verb “to rubber” are, I fancy,<br />
fairly well known on this side of the Atlantic. A<br />
“butter-in” and “to butt in " have also probably<br />
come to stay. But have our racing prophets yet<br />
got to the refinement of “ a slice of hot dog,"<br />
which sounds like a really good tip? I am<br />
indebted for it to Mr. Chester, as also for recalling<br />
to methe word “lallapalooza," which I heard some<br />
seven years ago in the quaintly-mixed jargon<br />
prevalent in our Far Eastern colonies—a jargon<br />
compounded of English, American, and dashes of<br />
Chinese, Malay, Hindustani, and Portuguese. A<br />
“lallapalooza,” as applied to racing, seems to be<br />
the same as “a real good 'un.” It is even more<br />
indicative of admiration than the expression “a<br />
warm baby" when applied by one sport to fellow<br />
sportsmen.<br />
That one piece of slang should, as it were,<br />
become the parent of another is but natural.<br />
When people got tired of talking of “the limit”<br />
and “the absolute limit,” brains set to work to<br />
bring into the world of speech something better,<br />
and then we got “Well, if that isn't the pink<br />
penultimate !" whose acquaintance I first made in<br />
Mr. Gellett Burgess's taking novel of San Fran-<br />
cisco life, “The Heart Line," Possibly Mr.<br />
Burgess, being already known to fame as the<br />
father of the little poem on “ The Purple Cow," *<br />
was also directly responsible for the paternity of<br />
“the pink penultimate." Anyhow, it is a phrase<br />
full of colour, it cannot be denied.<br />
Occasionally the slang word, instead of being a<br />
periphrastic expansion of an older term, is a short<br />
corruption of the original name. Thus, since what<br />
we call motor-cars have from the first been called<br />
automobiles in the United States, we can under-<br />
stand why now they should be popularly styled<br />
bubbles." But why opium should be called<br />
“hop” I do not know, seeing that Americans<br />
pride themselves on not adding or dropping<br />
aspirates in the wrong places.<br />
To smoke opium, by the way, is to "hit the<br />
pipe.” Presumably it is an analogy that to drink<br />
to excess is to “hit the bottle.”<br />
But I have now, no doubt, given enough examples<br />
of a quaint development in language to satisfy the<br />
majority of my readers—especially if, as I have<br />
suggested, those readers reduce themselves upon<br />
* My memory is treacherous. I think the poem ran<br />
somewhat as follows :-<br />
I never saw a purple cow,<br />
I do not wish to see one,<br />
But this I know full well, that I<br />
Would sooner see than be one!<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
stricter investigation to one whose reading is a Hardy, but without his note of irony. To say that<br />
matter of compulsion, not of choice. So I will the two chief gods of Lemonnier were—and are<br />
cease before I am adjured, in American, to “get Rubens and Hugo, is enough to indicate the gulf<br />
under the carpet.”<br />
between his style and that of our English writers :<br />
PHILIP WALSH. they come of a long race of unquiet Puritans to<br />
whom the very stirring of the sensuous gifts is a<br />
presentiment of betrayal ; Lemonnier has no dread<br />
CAMILLE LEMONNIER.<br />
of the wine of life, he sees in Nature nothing but<br />
her beneficient opulence and full-blooded joy that is<br />
there for whomsoever has strength enough to clasp<br />
THOUGH probably unknown to the majority her unshrinking. The opening words of this book<br />
of those who may read these lines, there can strike the key-note of the whole, which may<br />
be no doubt that, of the many novelists, perhaps be heard even in translation.<br />
essayists, and critics now before the Belgian public, “A freshness arose from the earth, and all at<br />
the sovereign pontiff, acknowledged and acclaimed, once the silence of the night was broken. A slow,<br />
is Camille Lemonnier, the veteran Bruxellois who impalpable harmony was born on the horizon,<br />
is now approaching his seventieth year.<br />
hovered over the wood, drew nearer and nearer,<br />
Born in the year 1844 at Ixelles, a small town- then died away in a shiver of yellow leaves :<br />
ship on the outskirts of Brussels, now conterminous the enormous silence began again. It was as<br />
with the rapidly expanding capital, he studied, like though the air sought annihilation in the depths of<br />
Verhaeren, for the law, but with even less success. sleep. The beeches resumed their torpid stillness.<br />
At nineteen he began writing art criticisms, and A calm drowned foliage, herbs, all living things<br />
later made the acquaintance of Alfred Stevens, to that loitered in the pale shadow. For an instant<br />
whose work he has devoted one of his best known only. Once more the rumbling arose, louder this<br />
monographs. Stevens wanted to introduce him to time. The rigidity of the sleeping forms was<br />
the great Hugo, then in exile at Brussels, but he shaken by a shiver that spread, passing over things<br />
fled in terror on approaching the doorway of the like the stroke of scattered hands, and the earth<br />
deity.<br />
trembled.<br />
On the death of his father he retired into the “The morning broke. The tree-tops emerged<br />
country, having bought the old priory house of in the beginning of light; a paleness crept over<br />
Burnot in a valley midway between Namur and the sky; it increased, and was like a truant in full<br />
Dinant, on the banks of the Meuse. Here he daylight awaiting the return of darkness. A dis-<br />
settled down to the still life of a gentleman-farmer, tant and solemn music hummed through the thick-<br />
broken only by short spells of happy vagabondage ness of the underwood.<br />
with bosom friends.<br />
“ The milky clearness spread quickly like water<br />
Moved by the horrors of the Franco-Prussian when the flood-gates open. It flowed between the<br />
war, of which he had been a chance and unwilling branches, filtered through the leaves, slowly swamp-<br />
witness after Sedan, he wrote “Les Charniers” ing the darkness. A transparency lit the brakes ;<br />
(the Shambles), which has been described by the leaves were like a green sieve to the in-pouring<br />
J. K. Huysmans as “le plus terrifiant pampblet day; the gray trunks looked like priests wrapped<br />
qu'on ait jamais écrit contre la guerre." It was with their stoles in the incense of processions.<br />
praised by Goncourt, Maupassant, and the author And little by little the sky unsheathed in hues of<br />
of “ La Débâcle” long ere that work had been stainless silver.”<br />
written.<br />
Of the recognition which this work brought him<br />
What is at once his best known work and his perhaps the most prized expression was that of<br />
masterpiece, “Le Mâle," appeared in 1881, and Alphonse Daudet, who wrote -- Venez, vous verrez.<br />
caused a great stir both among the lettered and the chez moi Flaubert, Goncourt, Zola. Vous êtes de la<br />
unlettered : the former recognised the arrival of a famille.”<br />
new stylist, a rich painter in words, to whom the 1882 saw the publication of “La Mort,” which<br />
earth was indeed a mother ; while the latter were paints with the same ruthless insistence the drab<br />
startled by the frank animalism of this story of winter of human things ; and this work was<br />
the simple love of a poacher and a dairymaid, pulsing followed by several tales of horror dealing with the<br />
like the sap in the leaves of the woodland Eden hidden cesspools of life by which most of us-<br />
where the scene is laid.<br />
happily - pass unheeding. For “ L'Enfant du<br />
The sumptuousness of these pages recalls Crapaud” (1886) he was summoned before the<br />
Jefferies' “Pageant of Summer," but without tribunal of the Seine at Paris and fined. To this<br />
Jefferies' wistfulness; their directness and the class belongs also “ L'Homme qui tue les femmes"<br />
inherence of scene and action recall Thomas (1893), a story based on the Jack-the-Ripper out-<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
rages, which the authorities (this time Belgian) Ronsard. Daniel, Lodge and Constable also<br />
again considered to overstep the limits of public offended, and it was really with the drama that<br />
decency; but, after a protracted trial, he was English originality declared itself. Marlowe "framed<br />
acquitted.<br />
what, in spite of signs of French affinity, was<br />
Though it is pity and horror that move him and largely a new conception of tragedy ;” and after<br />
that he means to arouse in the reader, it must be Marlowe, “England broke away from leading<br />
admitted that his realism and his lack of reticence strings and passed unaccompanied ahead of her<br />
are as downright and unfliching as that of some of guides,” with the result that “when at a later<br />
the famous-or infamous—Flemish painters of an epoch the consummated type of Elizabethan drama<br />
earlier age. It may be questioned, too, whether he caught foreign attention it was condemned by<br />
has not sometimes weakened his appeal by over- foreign observers as barbarism.”<br />
insistence on the physical incidence of very moving That, in brief, is Mr. Lee's thesis, though he<br />
episodes.<br />
deals with prose as well as verse, with the Reforma-<br />
“ La Belgique,” a vivid topographical and tion as well as the Revival of Learning, and exhibits<br />
descriptive survey of his native land, appeared in our indebtedness to Calvin, who was no less great<br />
1888. After 1893 he reverted to the style of “Le as a stylist than as a theologian, as well as to the<br />
Mâle," producing “Ile Vierge,” “ Adam et Eve," Pleiad. His book admirably supplements the good<br />
“ Cæur frais de la forêt," all imbued with a quite work which he has already done in connection with<br />
Whitmanian sense of clean wide space, and the the literary history of the period. Though written<br />
glory of rudest things—even dunghills and swine for students, it is eminently readable.<br />
troughs—in the all-embracing sun.<br />
No one has given a more generous appreciation<br />
of Lemonnier than his great contemporary<br />
Maeterlinck, who says, “Il est, au royaume du<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
verbe, le berger qui mêne le troupeau le plus vaste,<br />
le plus divers, le plus docile, et le plus magnifique.”<br />
W. C. T.<br />
AGENCY CLAUSES IN PUBLISHERS' AGREEMENTS.<br />
SIR,—May I be permitted to point out an<br />
inevitable misconstruction arising out of the<br />
THE FRENCH RENAISSANCE.* wording of the article entited “ Agency Clauses in<br />
Publishers' Agreements,” in the November Author ?<br />
The writer says : “When an author has gone to<br />
“THE French Renaissance," writes Mr. Lee,<br />
an agent with an established reputation, and has<br />
" was known in Eogland almost exclu-<br />
settled a satisfactory contract with him, he then<br />
sively through its written word, and only<br />
most probably is quite ready to leave the manage-<br />
slightly and subsidiarily through its art." He<br />
ment of his business in the agent's hands."<br />
therefore gives his work the sub-title : “ An account<br />
He then goes on to suggest that the same agent<br />
of the literary relations of England and France in<br />
would slip into an agreement (without, of course,<br />
the sixteenth century." The period was one in<br />
the author's observing it) a clause giving him<br />
which France influenced England a good deal more<br />
powers which can be utilised so as to facilitate<br />
than England influenced France, though some of<br />
embezzlement, falsification, and conspiracy.<br />
the English work has proved to be the more vital Now, if the writer had made it clear that what<br />
and enduring. England, that is to say, needed to he intended to say was that such acts were possible<br />
be drawn into the main corrents of European in all cases except those in which a responsible<br />
thought and culture, though her voice when drawn<br />
agent had been appointed, little need have been<br />
there was really a voice and not an echo. At first,<br />
said. Obviously a butler, if also a burglar, may<br />
indeed, there was a good deal of plagiarism. The<br />
steal the spoons and--as apparently suggested in<br />
Elizabethan sonnet illustrates what Mr. Lee calls<br />
the article of all agents—"cover up his tracks.”<br />
the borrowing tendencies of the Elizabethan The fault would seem to lie in the selection of the<br />
muse," and many leaders of the literary profession butler rather than in “the principle of employing"<br />
in Elizabethan England “put forward as original<br />
a butler.<br />
compositions, and as declarations of personal feel.<br />
It is not quite easy to see how any agent, how-<br />
ing, a number of poems which prove on examina-<br />
ever felonious naturally, can receive moneys without<br />
tion to be literal translations from the French or<br />
accounting, nor accounts without reporting, nor<br />
Italian." Spepser, in early life, translated du Bellay.<br />
conspire with a publisher (who must be willing) to<br />
Sir Philip Sidney echoes both du Bellay and<br />
rob an author who pays him by results. For<br />
* " The French Renaissance in England," by Sidney<br />
really, it must be presumed that an author is an<br />
Lee. Clarendon Press. 108. 6d. net.<br />
intelligent being who reads agreements before<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
signing them, and requires the customary vouchers<br />
sent with accounts by any “responsible” agent.<br />
AUDI ALTERAM PARTEM.<br />
[Does an agent-he need not be a burglar-<br />
when inserting this dangerous agency clause in<br />
the agreement draw the author's attention to its<br />
dangers, as he would to the dangers of any clause<br />
proposed by the publishers ? We have never<br />
known an agent take this, the only fair course.<br />
A legal document should guard against every<br />
contingency-Ed.]<br />
LIBRARIES' CENSORSHIP.<br />
DEAR SIR,—If not too late for the November<br />
Author, I should be obliged if you would mention<br />
that my new book, “ Bracken,” has been refused by<br />
all the great libraries without any reason given.<br />
It seems to me that the time has come for the<br />
. Society to consider this matter, which is of the<br />
highest importance to its members, since at the<br />
present moment none are safe. I have long held<br />
the opinion that authors should publish their own<br />
works. It is now becoming imperative that they<br />
should distribute them.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
JOHN TREVENA.<br />
[This letter was unfortunately too late for the<br />
November Author. We publish it in the December<br />
issue just as it came to our hand.—ED.]<br />
Now, what moves me to this letter is rather the<br />
clumsiness than the price. If "A Project of<br />
Empire” were published in two editions, I would<br />
pay 78. 6d. for the small light one in preference,<br />
and be glad to get it. At the same time it is<br />
clear that books are published in the large and<br />
heavy form chiefly to produce an imposing effect<br />
and get an artificially high price out of the public.<br />
I don't for a moment grudge so much of the price<br />
as goes to the author (I am an author myself),<br />
and perhaps Messrs. Dent made a mistake in issu.<br />
ing their primers ” so cheap; but, say Prof.<br />
Shield Nicholson gets 2s. 6d. a copy on his book,<br />
probably 18. 6d, on a cheap edition would bring<br />
him in more. Add that on to the shilling at which,<br />
it is clear, the book could be printed in a reason-<br />
able style, and make the price half-a-crown. No<br />
doubt Prof. Nicholson, like everyone else who ash<br />
something to say, would like to reach as many<br />
readers as possible, provided his legitimate profit<br />
is not reduced. It is not clear that he might<br />
have that satisfaction, and a larger public the<br />
advantage of reading him, and that in greater<br />
comfort, if only we could get rid of the system of<br />
making books big and ostentatious ? Probably<br />
some publishers' profits would be reduced, but we<br />
could trust to commercial competition to get the<br />
books on the market anyhow; and, granted that<br />
condition, the things to aim at are popularity<br />
and influence for writers, comfort and economy<br />
for readers.<br />
R. A. L.<br />
EXPENSIVE Books.<br />
THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.<br />
SIR,—I wish to make, once more, a protest<br />
'SIR,—The following instance of editorial delay<br />
against the artificial exvensiveness and cumbrous. may interest members. In June, 1902, I was<br />
ness of English books. I have just been com-<br />
commissioned by Harper's Magazine to write an<br />
paring a new one with one of about the same<br />
article on “ The Future of the American Novel."<br />
length already published some years. Here is the<br />
I wrote it in July, 1902, and delivered it imme-<br />
comparison :<br />
diately. It was then at once, with my consent,<br />
Author<br />
transferred to the North American Review, between<br />
... Nicholson<br />
Jenks.<br />
Name<br />
... “Project of Empire." “ History of Politics."<br />
which review and Harper's Magazine there was<br />
Publishers ... Macmillan.<br />
Dent.<br />
some managerial connection.<br />
Length ... 70,000 words.<br />
70,000 words. · A few months ago (eight years after delivery) I<br />
Weight<br />
... 24 ozs.<br />
6 ozs.<br />
received a letter from the editor of the North<br />
Price<br />
... 78. 6d.<br />
1x.<br />
Type<br />
American Review stating that he had not yet<br />
Smaller, but equally<br />
... Large.<br />
clear and easy to<br />
printed the article, and requesting me to revise it<br />
read.<br />
and bring it up to date !<br />
Book postage 6d.<br />
1}d.<br />
I declined.<br />
Remarks ... Labour of cutting Neatly cut by ma-<br />
cut by, ma- It is true that I had taken the precaution of<br />
pages before one chinery. Clean,<br />
can read it. Cut opens flat, com<br />
getting paid on delivery. But supposing that I<br />
pages collect fortable and had desired, in the meantime, to republish the<br />
dust. Clumsy light to hold. article, which was fairly elaborate, in a volume of<br />
and wearying to Decorative effect lite<br />
the hand. Will<br />
literary essays ?<br />
better than the<br />
not lie open pro-<br />
Yours truly,<br />
other.<br />
perly.<br />
ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
<br />
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May 6, Inkster, Leonard.<br />
O N February 1, 1910, the trustees of the May 17, Truman, Miss Olivia Marie. 0 10 0<br />
Pension Fund of the society-after the secre- July 15, Stereni, William Barnes : 0 5 0<br />
tary had placed before them the financial Oct. 6, Graham, Capt. Harry . . 1 1 0<br />
position of the fund-decided to invest £260 in<br />
the following securities : £130 in the purchase of<br />
Donations.<br />
Jamaica 31 per cent. Stock 1919-49, and £130 in<br />
the purchase of Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock 1937.<br />
1910.<br />
The amount purchased is £132 188. 6d. Jan. 1, Robinson, J. R. .<br />
: :. 0 5 0<br />
Jamaica 34 per cent. Stock and £120 128. ld. Jan. 1, Mackenzie, Miss J. (2nd lona-<br />
Mauritius 4 per cent. Stock.<br />
tion) . . .<br />
0 5 0<br />
This brings the invested funds to over £4,000. Jan. 1, Northcote, H.<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom- Jan. 3, Watson, Mrs. Herbert A.<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the Jan. 3, Fursdon, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
inoome at their disposal is at present exhausted. Jan. 3, Smith, Miss Edith A. .<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members Jan. 4, Pryce, Richard . .<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by Jan. 4, Wroughton, Miss Cicely.<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will Jan. 6, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the Jan. 6, Underdown, Miss E. M..<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im. Jan. 6, Carolin, Mrs. .<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
Jan. 8, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
Consols 21%.<br />
0 0<br />
Jan. 8, Crellin, H. R.<br />
............ ...........£1,000<br />
.<br />
Local Loant's ...................<br />
500 0<br />
Jan. 10; Tanner, James T..<br />
0<br />
....................<br />
2. 2 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
Jan. 10, Miller, Arthur .<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11<br />
Jan. 10, Bolton, Miss Anna<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
Jan. 10, Parr, Miss Olive K.<br />
0 5 0<br />
ture Stock ......<br />
250<br />
Jan. 17, Harland, Mrs. .<br />
0 10 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Jan. 21, Benecke, Miss Ida<br />
2 5 4<br />
Trust 4% Certificates<br />
Jan. 25, Fradd, Meredith<br />
0 5 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 3% Inscribed<br />
Jan. 29, Stayton, F. . . . 0 JO 6<br />
Stock .............<br />
200 0 0<br />
Feb. 1, Wharton, L. C.<br />
0 10 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Feb. 4, Bowen, Miss Marjorie .<br />
1 1 0<br />
4% Preference Stock...................<br />
228 0 0<br />
Feb. 5, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte<br />
1 1 0<br />
New Zealand 32% Stock ............... 247 9 6<br />
Feb. 7, Pettigrew, W. F. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Irish Land Act 27% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Feb. 7, Church, Sir A. H. . .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Corporation of London 2% Stock,<br />
Feb. 8, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit.<br />
1927-57 ..............................<br />
438 24<br />
Feb. 8, The XX. Pen Club<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 .......... 132 18 6<br />
Feb. 10, Greenbank, Percy.<br />
. : 0 5 0<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock......... 120 121<br />
Feb. 11, Stopford, Francis .<br />
2 2<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Feb. 11, Dairson, A. J. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Grant Stock, 1938..................... 198 3 8<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss Kathleen<br />
Feb. 16, W. D.<br />
. . . . 1 1 0<br />
Total ............... £4,065<br />
Feb. 16, Gibbs, F. L. A.<br />
6 0<br />
Feb. 17, Wintle, H. R. ..<br />
Feb. 21, Thurston, E. Temple.<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
Feb. 23, Dawson, Mrs. Frederick<br />
1910.<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
Feb. 24, Williamson, C. N. . . 220<br />
.<br />
Feb. 24, Williamson, Mrs. C. X.<br />
Jan. 12, Riley, Miss Josephine . . ( 7 6 Feb. 27, Westell, W. P. . .<br />
Jan. 13, Child, Harold H.. . . 0 10 0 March 2, Toplis, Miss Grace . 0 5<br />
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NOC ON LOCO 5<br />
Nereo ON-OS coo<br />
0<br />
£ $. d. In one of the remaining cases judgment has been<br />
March 3, Hawtrey, Miss Valentina . 1 1 0 obtained but not satisfied, and it is now proposed<br />
March 5, Smith, Bertram .<br />
5 0 0 to issue a bankruptcy petition in order to bring<br />
March 12, Yould, A. . .<br />
5 0<br />
the matter to an issue. In another the defendant<br />
March 16, Loraine, Lady.<br />
company was in liquidation, and the society's<br />
March 29, Macdonnell, Randall .<br />
0 claim was met with the usual answer that the<br />
April 6, Blake, J. P..<br />
0 debenture holders had foreclosed, and there was<br />
April 8, “ Patricia Wentworth "<br />
1 0 not sufficient money to pay the ordinary creditors.<br />
April 14, Hinkson, Mrs. K. Tynan<br />
10 0 The last case, against a bankrupt paper, was one<br />
May 6, Greenstreet, W. J.. . . 0 5 0 in which the society had already acted for some of<br />
May 7, Cousin, John W. . . . 0 5 0 its members, and here again the assets of the<br />
May 10, Zangwill, Israel . . 1 1 0 defendant company had been claimed by the<br />
May 19, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (Portion of<br />
debenture holders, and the member was informed<br />
money recovered by the Society as<br />
after further investigation by the solicitors, that it<br />
damages)<br />
. 10 0 0 was useless to push the claim.<br />
June 3, Wynne, C. Whitworth<br />
3 0. There were two cases which had to be conducted<br />
June 15, Maunder, J. H. . . . 1 1 0 in foreign courts. One was in Germany-an<br />
June 30, Atkinson, Harold<br />
6 0 ordinary claim for work done. Judgment has<br />
July 4, O'Higgins, Harvey .<br />
1 0 0 been obtained but is not yet satisfied. The<br />
July 5, Muir, Ward . . .<br />
1 0 other, in Switzerland, related to an infringement of<br />
July 5, Peacock, Mrs. .<br />
0 copyright. It is still in course of settlement.<br />
July 11, March, Miss A. M..<br />
0 Those cases then came before the committee<br />
July 18, Ralli, C. Scaramanga<br />
which required their sanction, before further steps<br />
July 20, Ellis, Havelock . .<br />
O could be taken. The first related to an appeal<br />
Aug. 22, Myers, C. S. .<br />
0 from a judgment in the High Courts. The com-<br />
Sept. 9, Bristow-Noble, J. C.<br />
0 7 6 mittee were advised that the judgment had raised an<br />
Sept. 30, Sidgwick, Mrs. Alfred . 1 1 0 important issue to authors, namely, the legality of<br />
Oct. 4, Pakington, The Honourable<br />
the assignment of personal contracts. As the com-<br />
Mary<br />
. 1 1 0 mittee were so advised they decided to take counsel's<br />
Oct. ii, Caws, Luther W. .<br />
0 10 0 opinion, which opinion was read. Counsel's opinion<br />
Oct. 11, Knowles-Foster, Miss Frances G. 0 10 0 was strongly against making the appeal, as he did<br />
not think the case was a good one to adopt as a<br />
test case. The committee decided, therefore, not<br />
to take the matter further. The member of the<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
society concerned acquiesced in the decision.<br />
The next subject related to the making of certain<br />
voluntary payments to agents who had been instru.<br />
M he first meeting after the vacation was held mental in assisting the society to obtain a judg-<br />
1 at the offices of the society on Monday, ment against the defendants in the piracies of De<br />
October 3.<br />
Profundis ” which have already been referred to in<br />
When the minutes had been read and signed, a previous Committee Notes. The committee agreed<br />
large number of elections which had come in during on a payment, and passed a vote of thanks to the<br />
the vacation were laid before the committee, and Music Publishers' Association for the assistance<br />
64 members and associates were elected, bringing that had been given to the society. The last case<br />
the total number for the current year up to referred to the loss of a MS., but as negotiations<br />
220. The committee are very pleased to notice were proceeding for the payment of compensation<br />
the steady inflow of authors to the society, as the to the author, it was decided to adjourn the matter<br />
elections are well up to the average of former till the next meeting.<br />
years. Four resignations were accepted, with The consideration of the Copyright Bill was<br />
regret, bringing the total number of resignations referred by the Committee of Management to the<br />
to 69.<br />
sub-committees interested, as it was probable that<br />
Cascs.—The secretary then reported to the com- the Bill would be pushed forward during the next<br />
mittee the cases placed in the hands of the solicitors session.<br />
during the vacation. There were seven county The half-yearly meeting of the Council was<br />
court matters. Two of these have been settled and settled for Tuesday, November 22, when Mrs.<br />
the debt due has been paid. One is still in the Hurnphry Ward proposes to bring forward a<br />
course of negotiation. In another the summons motion referring to the Academic Committee, and<br />
has been issued, and is returnable in November. the action taken by the Committees of Management<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
A letter from the Publishers' Association, asking<br />
for the support of the society with a view to<br />
taking united action when the Bill should come<br />
before Parliament, together with a copy of the<br />
Copyright Bill containing certain amendments<br />
suggested by that body, was also considered. A<br />
report of the proceedings of the meeting on<br />
October 24 will appear in the December number.<br />
of the society in its formation. Notices will be<br />
sent to the Council in due course.<br />
The notices in regard to the dinner, the date of<br />
which has been fixed for November 24, will be sent<br />
round to members during the month.<br />
The financial position of the society was laid<br />
before the Committee of Management by the<br />
secretary, who explained that certain sums due to<br />
the society had not been paid, and in consequence<br />
had left the society with rather a small balance at<br />
the bank. The committee sanctioned an over-<br />
draft, in case the sums referred to were not received<br />
in due course. It was proposed, in order to increase<br />
the usefulness of the society and to make it more<br />
widely known, to pay an extra clerk to circularise<br />
with the society's papers those authors in the<br />
various branches of literature who were not already<br />
members.<br />
Mr. Henry James was unanimously elected a<br />
member of the Council.<br />
The committee decided, on the suggestion of the<br />
secretary, to purchase additional furniture for the<br />
office. This course had become necessary owing to<br />
the increase of papers incidental to the working of<br />
the many sub-committees.<br />
Various letters dealing with matters of interest<br />
to the society were laid before the committee and<br />
considered, and the committee have to thank<br />
W. Durran for a donation of £1 18. to the<br />
Capital Fund of the society.<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
The Committee of the Pension Fund met on<br />
Monday, October 17, at 39, Old Queen Street,<br />
and awarded to Miss May Crommelin a pension of<br />
£25 a year in recognition of her services to litera-<br />
ture, extending over many years.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-com-<br />
mittee after the Vacation was held at the offices of<br />
the society on October 21,<br />
After the minutes of the previous meeting had<br />
been read and signed, the chairman, Sir Arthur<br />
Pinero, proposed that an expression of condolence<br />
should be sent to Mrs. Marshall on the loss she<br />
had sustained by the death of her son, the late<br />
Captain Robert Marshall, until recently a member<br />
of this sub-committee. The secretary was accord-<br />
ingly instructed to convey this message to her.<br />
The secretary then reported the result of the<br />
circular which was sent round to dramatists in<br />
regard to the performances of plays in working<br />
men's clubs. Out of 102 answers received 89<br />
agreed to give the undertaking asked by the sub-<br />
committee ; five agreed to give it subject to certain<br />
conditions ; and seven refused to give it at all. The<br />
dramatists inside the society number some 250.<br />
The next question that arose was the appoint-<br />
ment of agents for dramatic authors in the various<br />
colonies and dependencies of Great Britain, and<br />
the secretary was instructed to write to the society's<br />
lawyers in India to request them to prepare and<br />
forward a return of the theatrical performances in<br />
Calcutta and other centres of the Indian Empire,<br />
over a period of six months, in order that the sub-<br />
committee may be in a position to judge to what<br />
extent piracy is prevalent in India.<br />
He was also instructed to see Messrs. French in<br />
the matter of the performances of dramatic pieces<br />
in South Africa.<br />
A question discussed at the last meeting of the<br />
sub-committee, in regard to a member of the<br />
society (since resigned), who had called into<br />
question the conduct of another member, was re-<br />
considered in the light of the statement of his<br />
complaint which had been received, and the<br />
secretary was instructed to forward a reply.<br />
The receipt of a letter from the Italian Society<br />
of Authors, which gave particulars of the work<br />
undertaken by that society for dramatic authors,<br />
was next reported.<br />
The secretary was instructed to get a translation<br />
made of the rules of the society and to lay it before<br />
the next meeting, when the question of the advisa-<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
A MEETING of the Copyright Sub-committee<br />
was held at the offices of ihe society on October<br />
13.<br />
The minutes of the previous meeting having<br />
been read and signed, the secretary explained that<br />
the Committee of Management had referred the<br />
new Copyright Bill to the Copyright Sub-<br />
committee with instructions to report thereon.<br />
After careful discussion Mr. MacGillivray kindly<br />
undertook to draw up a report to lay before the<br />
Sub-committee and to indicate in that report how<br />
far the draft bill satisfies the Society's recommenda-<br />
tions and to what extent it is in accord with the<br />
Berlin Convention. This report, it was decided,<br />
should be laid before the next meeting of the Sub-<br />
committee.<br />
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bility of English dramatists joining the society settled to the satisfaction of the authors and the<br />
would be considered. The recommendation of the other parties concerned.<br />
sub-committee will appear later in The Author. One case for infringement of copyright has been<br />
It was decided also to write to the French placed in the hands of the solicitors. In two cases<br />
Society of Dramatic Authors a letter indicating of non-delivery of accounts, one has been settled<br />
the readiness of the English Society of Authors and the other is still in the course of negotiation.<br />
to give what assistance was in its power in Three instances arose of unwarrantable delay in<br />
regard to the settlement of contracts and the busi- publication. In two of these, owing to the pressure<br />
ness arrangements for the production of French brought to bear by the society, the books have been<br />
plays in England.<br />
placed on the market, while in the third case a date<br />
The consideration of the Copyright Bill was has been fixed for publication.<br />
adjourned till the next meeting, owing to the fact There were five cases respecting money due for<br />
that the report on the Bill was not ready to lay work done. As yet none of these has been settled,<br />
before the sub-committee.<br />
but two have only recently come into the office. In<br />
The secretary then pointed out to the sub- the remaining three correspondence has passed and<br />
committee the need for a draft contract for music- they will probably be settled shortly, except where,<br />
hall sketches, assuring the sub-committee that in the case of one demand, the proprietor of the<br />
many music-hall sketch contracts came to the office, paper has gone into bankruptcy.<br />
and were, indeed, coming in increasing numbers. There are still sundry cases open from former<br />
The sub-committee instructed the secretary to months in which negotiations are being carried on<br />
prepare a contract and to lay the same before them with a view to a satisfactory settlement. They<br />
at one of their future meetings.<br />
are none of them of great importance.<br />
The consideration of the agreement for a run During the month one case in the German<br />
was adjourned till the settlement of the Music courts has been settled, the amount claimed by the<br />
Hall Agreement.<br />
society through its German lawyer having been<br />
The secretary then laid on the table a report of recovered and paid over to the member.<br />
the sub-committee of the Theatres Alliance upon<br />
the Censorship Committee's Report, and he was<br />
instructed to ask the Theatres Alliance to forward<br />
copies to lay before the different members of the<br />
Elections.<br />
sub-committee.<br />
Barnard, Amy B., L.L.A. 14, Manville Road,<br />
Upper Tooting,<br />
S.W.<br />
Block, Regina Miriam . 88, Duke's Avenue,<br />
The secretary has had in hand since the last<br />
Chiswick, W.<br />
issue of The Author twenty cases. Of these eight Broadley, A. M. . . The Knapp, Bradhole,<br />
were demands for MSS. It is as well to repeat the<br />
Bridport.<br />
difficulties, from the legal point of view, that arise Brodie-Innes, J. W.. . Milton Brodie, Torres,<br />
when a MS. is not returned. It must lie with the<br />
Scotland.<br />
author to show that the MS. has actually reached Campbell, Dr. Helen J. . Topsham, Devonshire.<br />
its destination and come into the hands of a Capes, Mrs. Hawtrey . 81, Royal Parade,<br />
responsible party, and that that party has not<br />
Eastbourne.<br />
handled it with ordinary care. It is very difficult Carter, J. L. J. . . Ifield Wood, Crawley.<br />
in some cases to prove these points, but the society Carter, Miss Edith . 215, Ebury Street,<br />
finds as a general rule that editors, publishers, and<br />
S.W.<br />
others will use their best endeavours to meet its Caws, The Rev. Luther W. Roslyn, Woodbury<br />
wishes by a careful search.<br />
Park Road, Tun-<br />
Two of the eight clairns will be handed over to<br />
bridge Wells.<br />
the solicitors, for in both these cases, although the Clappé, Miss Marion A. . “ Wa rrendale,”<br />
authors hold receipts, the parties to whom the<br />
Combe Lane, King-<br />
MSS. were sent have not only failed to comply with<br />
ston Hill, Surrey.<br />
the demands of the writers, but have also omitted Copping, Arthur E. . River View, near<br />
to accede to the request of the secretary. One case<br />
Thundersley, Essex.<br />
of the remaining six has been settled, and the Crawford, R. K. . . 31, Wellington Road,<br />
other five are still in course of negotiation.<br />
Dublin.<br />
Three disputes have arisen as to the interpreta- Dawson Forbes . . 23, Midmoor Road,<br />
tion of clauses under contracts. These have been<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
Cases.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Dodd, Miss Agnes F. . 3, Lincoln's Inn Ozaki, Madame Yukio . 225, Shinagawa,<br />
Fields, W.C.<br />
Tokyo, Japan.<br />
Douglas, Morgan (Madame Le Manoir, Loches, Peto, D. 0. G..<br />
Winterhalter)<br />
Indre et Loire, Poe, John William, . 7, Longfield Terrace,<br />
France.<br />
(Pater Padus)<br />
N.C.R., Dublin.<br />
Edwards, Albert H. . . 43, St. Paul's Road, Potter, Mrs. Frances S uire 57 28, Madison<br />
Bradford, Yorks.<br />
Avenue, Chicago,<br />
Edwards, Percy J. . . Authors' Club, White-<br />
III., U.S.A.<br />
hall Court, S.W. Ramsey, R. . . . Scaldhurst, Carewdon,<br />
Fisher, F. W. A. . . 38, Guildford Street,<br />
Rochford, Essex.<br />
Russell Square, Reynolds, Stephen , Western Town, Sid-<br />
W.C.<br />
mouth.<br />
Fleet, Vice - Admiral The Camber, Coley Rosen, Monsieur Jean H. 7, Av. du Grammont,<br />
Henry L.<br />
Avenue, Reading. de<br />
Lausanne, Switzer-<br />
Ford, Harold, LL.D., Taddington Rectory,<br />
land.<br />
D.C.L.<br />
Buxton.<br />
Skeaping, Emily J. . . Eccleston Park, Pres-<br />
Glover, Wm. . . . Plasnewydd School,<br />
cot, Lancs.<br />
Maesteg, R.S.O., Simpson, Mrs. Alicia Isabel 14, Cadogan Court,<br />
Glamorgan.<br />
S.W.<br />
Goetz, Mrs. Alma . . 26, Norfolk Crescent, Southey, Rosamond. . The Patch, Minehead,<br />
Hyde Park, W.<br />
Somerset.<br />
Graham, Capt. H. (Col. 5, Tedworth Square, Sowerby, Mrs. . . . Pali Hill, Bandra,<br />
D. Streamer)<br />
Chelsea, S.W.<br />
Bombay.<br />
Grant, L. (Mrs.) . New County Club, 21, Sturge, Miss M. Carta .<br />
Hanover Square, W. Sturt, George (George The Lower Bourne,<br />
Guérin, E. W. de . . 14, Barclay Road, Bourne) . .<br />
Farnham, Surrey.<br />
Fulham, S.W. Trites, W. B. . . Bala, Philadelphia.<br />
Hammerton - Gill, Mrs. Lower Green Road, Verney, Frank E. . . Cleveland, Combe<br />
Beryl A. . . . Rusthall,Tunbridge<br />
Martin, N. Devon.<br />
Wells.<br />
Waltham, Ernest . . 97, Upper Tulse Hill,<br />
Hodges, Henry . . 31, High Street,<br />
S.W.<br />
Christchurch, Hants. Wentworth-James, Mrs. “ The Turret," Wim-<br />
Hughes, The Rev. Geoffrey Woolston Vicarage,<br />
. bledon Park Road.<br />
Southampton. Wilkinson, Clement J. . 3, Osborne Villas,<br />
Hunter, Mrs.. ... The Lyceum Club,<br />
Windsor.<br />
128, Piccadilly, W. Woolf, Miss Flora 9, Clinette Road,<br />
James, Spencer Theodore 87, Brudenell Road, Sidney<br />
Putney, S.W.<br />
Leeds.<br />
Wylie, Ida A. R. . . Krieg "Strasse 99,<br />
J. E. Buckrose . . Hornsea, near Hull.<br />
Karlsruhe, Baden,<br />
Jameson, Mrs. Norab . Manasterwan, co. Kil-<br />
Germany.<br />
dare.<br />
Zulueta, Pedro de . .<br />
Keene, Viss Ursula . . 105, Elm Park Man-<br />
sions, Chelsea, S.W.<br />
Knowles · Foster, Miss St. James' Park, Har-<br />
Frances G. ,<br />
rogate.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
Lamport, Richard Fifield 24, St. John's Grove,<br />
Croydon.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
Lethaby, John W. . . Carisbrooke, Rother this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
field, Sussex.<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
MacDonnell, Col. A. C.,<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br />
F.R.G.S., A.M.I.E.E. Sandhurst, Farnham.<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
Menon, T. K. Krishma . Ernakulam, Cochin other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
• State, India.<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
Meredith, Mark . . 240, Anfield Road,<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
Liverpool.<br />
accurate,<br />
ᎪᎡᎢ .<br />
Methven, Paul . . . 117, Warwick Road,<br />
Philbeach Gardens,<br />
GEORGE MORLAND. Sixteen examples in colour of the<br />
artist's work. With an Introduction by E. D. CUMING.<br />
S.W.<br />
9.1 x 7. 12 pp. Black. 28. 6d. 17.<br />
G.<br />
<br />
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100 POPULAR PICTURES. Facsimile Reproductions in<br />
· Colour of Popular Pictures. Selected froin the World's<br />
Great Galleries. With an Introduction by M. H.<br />
SPIELMANN, and Notes by A. Fish. 15 x 104. 50 pp.<br />
Cassell. 12x.<br />
THE EXHIBITIOy of SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FLEMISH<br />
ART: BRUSSELS, 1910. By M. H. SPIELMANN. 11}x<br />
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THEOLOGY.<br />
Messrs. A. M. Gardner & Co. have published<br />
THE COMMUNION TABLE, By LAUCHLAN MACLEAN the 8th edition of Francis Bancroft's novel “ Of<br />
Watt. 2nd Edition. Purple Library. Hodder & Like Passions.” The present issue is published<br />
Stoughton. 28. 6d.<br />
THE LORD FROM HEAVEN : Chapters on the Deity of<br />
of at ls.<br />
Christ. By SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. Second<br />
Mr. Thomas Baker has just published a selection<br />
Edition (with New Preface). 84 * 51. 134 pp. Nisbet. from the works of the old English mystic and<br />
3s. 60.<br />
devotional writer, Richard Rolle, Hermit of Ham-<br />
SUNDAY EVENIXG. FIFTY-TWO SHORT SERMONS POR<br />
pole, in Yorkshire, in the reigns of Edward II. and<br />
HOME READING. By W. ROBERTSON NICOLL. 87x53.<br />
416 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 58. n.<br />
Edward III., comprising “ The Form of Perfect<br />
MESSAGES FROM THE THRONE. By MRS, HARDING KELLY Living,” “ Our Daily Work: A Mission of Dis-<br />
99 pp. Robert Scott.<br />
cipline,” “A Treatise on Grace," “ On Charity,”<br />
TOPOGRAPHY,<br />
“On Contrition, etc., etc. The selection has been<br />
LONDON. By A. R. HOPE MONCRIEFF. 91 x 7. 312 pp.<br />
rendered into modern English by Dr. Geraldine<br />
Black, 78. 6d. n.<br />
Hodgson. The book is not intended for the use of<br />
VANISHING ENGLAND. The Book by P. H. DITCHFIELD, those acquainted with Anglo-Saxon and Middle<br />
F.S.A. The Illustrations by FRED ROE, R.I. 9 x 6.<br />
English ; but for those who care for the thought,<br />
403 pp. Methuen. 158, n.<br />
OLD ENGLISH HOUSES. The Record of a Random Itinerary.<br />
especially the religious and devotional thought of<br />
By ALLAX FEA. 8} x 51. 273 pp. Martin Secker.<br />
our forefathers.<br />
108. 6d. n.<br />
A two-shilling edition of A. E. Jacomb's novel<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
“ The Faith of His Fathers” has been issued by<br />
THE SPELL OF EGYPT. By ROBERT HICHENS. 74 x 5.<br />
Mr. Andrew Melrose. The six-shilling edition was<br />
279 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
published some two or three years ago when the<br />
SANGIMIGNANO OF VAL D'ELSA IN TUSCANY. By novel was successful in Mr. Melrose's first Novel<br />
JEAN CARLYLE GRAHAM AND ELIZABETH M. DERBI. Competition.<br />
SHIRE. Rome : Ermano Loescher & Co. 128.<br />
Readers of “Pack of Pook's Hill" may be<br />
TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION. Edited by E. A. REY.<br />
NOLDS BALL. October, 1910. Witherby. 18. n.<br />
interested to hear that Mr. Rudyard Kipling's new<br />
book, “Rewards and Fairies," is a further collection<br />
of stories told to Dan and Una by certain interest-<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
ing personages of olden times, who, as in the<br />
previous book, are introduced to them by their<br />
NOTES.<br />
friend, Robin Goodfellow. Messrs. Macmillan &<br />
Co. are the publishers.<br />
TN his new book, “ Above Life's Turmoil,” Mr. Mr. W. E. Norris has a serial entitled “ Vittoria<br />
James Allen aims at showing how, surrounded Victrix,” running in the Daily Telegraph. It will<br />
by noise, we can still preserve a quiet mind, be published in book form next spring.<br />
and, through self-knowledge and self-discipline, Messrs. Macmillan have published Mr. Stephen<br />
rise above the turmoil of the world, and without Reynolds' new novel, “ Alongshore,” in which the<br />
shirking the duties and difficulties of life, fortify author aims, in a series of humorous and<br />
ourselves against anxiety regarding them. Messrs. descriptive chapters, to show the predominant<br />
G. P. Putnam's Sons are the publishers in England influence of the sea on a set of men who, even<br />
and in America.<br />
when they are not afloat, are always looking towards<br />
We have also received a work by Mr. Allen the sea for their daily bread : to bring out the<br />
entitled “From Passion to Peace.” Here, starting poetry, pathos, and jollity of the life without<br />
with a chapter on Passion, the lowest level of sacrificing its realism. The volume is illustrated<br />
human life, the reader is shown, in the chapter on by eight photographs by Mr. Melville Mackay.<br />
Aspiration, the way from the under darkness to L. Allen Harker's new novel, “ Master and<br />
the upper light. The causes leading to the birth Maid,” will be published this antuinn by Mr. John<br />
of aspiration are dwelt upon, and its character. Murray here, and Messrs. Charles Scribners' Sons<br />
istics described Temptation, the subject of the in America.<br />
third chapter, is shown to be the reversion in The central figure of the volume of seventeenth<br />
thought from purity to passion. Messrs. Wm. and eighteenth century letters, edited by Miss<br />
Rider & Son, of 164, Aldersgate Street, E.C., are Julia Longe, is Martha, Lady Giffard, the only<br />
the English, and Messrs. T. Y. Crowell & Co., of sister of Sir William Temple. The letters, which<br />
New York, the American publishers.<br />
are from various important people of the day,<br />
Miss Agnes M. Kelly provides 100 new and notably “ Sacharissa " Lady Temple (Dorothy<br />
original illustrations for a book entitled “ House- Osborn), the Duchess of Somerset, Sir William<br />
hold Foes," by Miss Alice Ravenhill, which Messrs. Godolphin, etc., are arranged chronologically and<br />
Sidgwick & Jackson are publishing,<br />
form a consecutive narrative. Judge Parry is<br />
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contributing a foreword, and the volume is properly contains an article entitled “In the Heart of an<br />
illustrated with original portraits of many of the Indian Forest," from the pen of Mr. C. E.<br />
writers, and autographs of Lady Giffard, Lady Gouldsbury. The same writer also has an article<br />
Temple, and Dean Swift. The publishers are in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic Neues<br />
Messrs. Allen.<br />
of September 24, called “Two Lucky Shots,"<br />
We have received a copy of a book entitled while “ Camp Life in Bengal,” which will appear<br />
“ Sangimignano of Val D. Elsa in Tuscany," by shortly in the current volume of Young<br />
Jean Carlyle Grahain and Elizabeth M. Derbishire. England, is another article from Mr. Gouldsbury's<br />
The scope of the book may be best described in pep.<br />
words of the anthors in the preface : “ There is Miss Regina Miriam Bloch's poem “ Song" has<br />
nothing finally dogmatic in our little book. We been included in “The Biographical Birthday<br />
merely present to you a sketchy series of observa- Book of Prominent Poets of the Period,” published<br />
tions, realist or impressionist as circumstances by Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co., Ltd.<br />
insist or as occasion demands. We go about and We have received a copy of the second edition<br />
talk of what we see, we gossip of the past, we of the Rev. J. C. Digges' “ Practical Bee Guide."<br />
digress at times, we wander at willi; but you will Many new paragraphs have been added to the new<br />
forgive, because with this we give you certain edition, treating of such subjects as the “ W. B.C."<br />
elucidating documents which have never hitherto hive, the “I. B. A. 1909” hive, “ Claustral<br />
been put into print ; also a plan of the city ; and Detention Chambers," “ Searching for the Queen,"<br />
above all, we offer you, by means of our pen-and- the “Isle of Wight Disease," “ Recent Investiga-<br />
ink illustrations, the veritable Sangimignano tions into the Cause of Foul Brood," etc., and a<br />
with its own peculiar rugged lines which no new chapter on “Exhibiting and Judging Bee<br />
camera and no brush have ever succeeded in Products" has been introduced. Twenty new<br />
reproducing." Messrs. Ermano Loescher & Co., blocks have been inserted in the new edition,<br />
of Rome, are the publishers. Only 300 copies have and fifty-three in the old edition disappear from<br />
been printed, and the published price of the work the present issue, their places being taken by<br />
is 12s.<br />
others more accurate, as Mr. Digges has deemed<br />
“The Fairbourn Papers," edited by Mr. G. E. it wise to rely upon pen and camera for the<br />
Webb, and published by Messrs. John Ouseley, illustration of manipulations, appliances, etc. The<br />
Ltd., relate the history and career of a solicitor London publishers are Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall<br />
residing in the City of London.<br />
& Co., while Messrs. Eason & Son, Ltd., are the<br />
"A Century of Ballads (1810–1910), their publishers in Dublin and Belfast.<br />
Composers and Singers,” by Harold Simpson, is Derek Vane's new novel, “ Lady Vereker,” is<br />
the story of popular song, told in a popular style. appearing first serially in the Daily Telegraph.<br />
It abounds in anecdotes about well-known songs, He has also recently been writing short stories for<br />
composers and singers, from the beginning of the the Bystander, Sicetch, and Black and White.<br />
19th century to the present day. It is illustrated His last novel, “ The Secret Door,” will shortly<br />
with photographs of all the best known composers, be brought out in a cheap edition by the Weekly<br />
singers and lyric writers, together with numerous Telegraph.<br />
facsimiles and autographs. Messrs. Mills & Boon Messrs. Longmans & Co. have just issued Mr.<br />
are the publishers.<br />
D. Haviland's book, “ Lives of the Fur Folk,” a<br />
G. P. Putnam's Sons announce a new novel by series of animal biographies dealing with the fox,<br />
Florence L. Barclay, author of "The Rosary," cat, rabbit, and badger in Ireland.<br />
now in its 120th thousand. The title is “ The Miss Maud Goldring's new novel, “ The Downs-<br />
Mistress of Shenstone,” and it is promised that man,” treats of the rivalry between a Socialist who<br />
many of the characters in “The Rosary” will comes down into Sussex and an enlightened<br />
appear again in the new story.<br />
representative of the old order, and will be found<br />
Messrs. Methuen & Co. have issued a volume on of interest to students of social conditions. At<br />
“ Francis Bacon," by Dr. G. W. Steeves. The the same time the romance is not overburdened<br />
aim of the author has been to sketch the chief with theories. Mr. Murray hopes to publish the<br />
events in the life of Bacon, freed as much as volume before Christmas.<br />
possible from general historical detail, followed by Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., announce a<br />
a “classification” and short description of Bacon's new work by W. Percival Westell, F.L.S. It is<br />
chief works, with certain considerations bearing on entitled “The Book of the Animal Kingdom,"<br />
his Life and Letters. Selected title pages of the and treats of over five hundred kinds of representa-<br />
earliest editions of Bacon's works appear in the tive mammals of the world, with a chapter on the<br />
volume by Dr. Steeves.<br />
four-footed beasts of Australia by Charles Barrett,<br />
The October issue of the Boys On Paper M.A.O.U. There will be fourteen coloured and<br />
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two hundred and sixty plain plates, chiefly from King's Fool” has returned once more to the<br />
photographs of the living animals, by W. S. Middle Ages, and has portrayed the soul's history<br />
Berridge, F.L.S. The work is divided into sixteen of a famous Troubadour Prince. It is a romance<br />
sections, and it has been the author's aim to eschew in which the reader breathes the dream-haunted<br />
dry and uninviting definitions, and to present his air of Aquitaine in the twelfth century, and is<br />
story in such a way that both young and old may symbolic of the fourfold quest of love, religion,<br />
be able to acquire a general knowledge of the wisdom, and ideal beauty.<br />
mammalian fauna of the world.<br />
“In Waste Places," a new story by Mrs.<br />
In Mr. John Bloundelle-Burton's new book, Woollaston White, will be issued in December.<br />
“ The Fate of Henri de Navarre,” which is not a The scene is laid in the early days of British<br />
novel, the true story of that king's death is told, Columbia, and chiefly concerns the thrilling ex-<br />
and the mystery of whether it took place as the periences of a young wife. It will be issued by<br />
outcome of a Court plot, or was solely the result of the St. Andrew's Press, Barnet.<br />
the diseased brain of the religious enthusiast, “ Messages from the Throne,” by Mrs. Harding<br />
Rasaillac, cleared up. The work will also contain Kelly, is a little book compiled for the use of<br />
an accurate description of the Paris of the time, district visitors who find a difficulty in speaking to<br />
an exhaustive description of Sully, and also of the the cottagers whom they visit. The readings are<br />
extraordinary manner in which, out of vanity, he intended to be suggestive, and to make the Bible<br />
appears to have endeavoured to identify himself more interesting and intelligible to the people.<br />
with the supposed poisoning of Gabrielle d'Estrées. Mr. Robert Scott is the publisher. Mrs. Harding<br />
Other leading characters of the time will also be Kelly has also issued, through the Religious Tract<br />
fully described, some of whoin, except to writers Society, a story entitled “ Philip Compton's<br />
on the period, are almost unknown to the reading Will."<br />
public-characters such as Henriette d'Entragues “The Second Elopement,” Mr. Herbert Flower-<br />
and the Duc d'Epernon. The book will be dew's 1910 novel, is being published in America<br />
full; illustrated with portraits and some rare by Messrs. Brentano. It is also being translated<br />
views of Paris, and will be published by Everett into German and Swedish. It successor, “The<br />
& Co.<br />
Third Wife,” is announced by Messrs. Stanley<br />
Messrs. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., announce Paul & Co, for publication early in 1911.<br />
a new addition of “ Aacassin and Nicolette” from Mr. Flowerdew has written an article on “The<br />
a translation by Mr. Eugene Mason. The edition Psychology of Tariff Reform,” for The English<br />
is illustrated in colour by Mr. Maxwell Armfield. Review', and an article from his pen on the price<br />
The book, which will, it is hoped, be the first of a of the novel will appear in an early number of The<br />
series of similar old romances, will be published Nineteenth Century and After.<br />
at the price of 2s. 6d. net.<br />
Mrs. Philip de Crespigny's book, “ The Valley<br />
Miss May Crommelin's autumn novel will shortly of Achor," published by Messrs. Mills & Boon, has<br />
be published by Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. under gone into a second edition. The November issue<br />
the title “ Madam Mystery.” The scene is laid in of The Story Teller contains a story by Mrs. de<br />
the Loire Valley, where a party of happy sightseers Crespigny.<br />
to the famous castles of Touraine are bewildered "Chains," a new novel by Edward Noble, will<br />
by a mysterious “ double” claiming the heroine's be published shortly by Messrs. Constable & Co.<br />
name. This puzzle, with love affairs and an It is a book dealing with the handicap imposed by<br />
under-plot involving some French country gentry, our divorce laws on women ; the impossibility of<br />
is the life-current playing round the rock-histories a woman obtaining freedom on the same grounds<br />
of the once English-owned châteaux.<br />
as a man, and incidentally exposing some aspects of<br />
In his new book, “Diet and the Maximum the White Slave traffic as seen in the seaports of<br />
Duration of Life,” Dr. Charles Reinhardt discusses South America.<br />
the advantages and disadvantages of various foods - Afghanistan, the Buffer State,” is a com-<br />
for those who would preserve robust health for the prehensive treatise on the entire Central Asian<br />
longest possible time. There are also chapters question by Captain Gervais Lyons. The book<br />
dealing with such matters as food in infancy, food has two maps fully illustrating the subject, and<br />
in disease, beverages, and one on dietetic systems, showing all frontiers and existing and projecting<br />
which should be read by those who have committed railways. There is also an introductory note by<br />
their digestions to any of these systems. The Lieut.-General Sir Reginald C. Hart. Messrs.<br />
London Publicity Co. are the publishers.<br />
Luzac & Co. are the publishers.<br />
Messrs. Chatto and Windus have just issued Mr. Miss Dorothy Margaret Stuart has just published,<br />
Michael Barrington's new romance, “ The Lady of through Messrs. Constable & Co., a romance entitled<br />
Tripoli.” In his new book the author of “The “ Martin the Mummer.”<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mrs. Perrin's novel, “The Charm," published on au XVII. Siècle," and the present volume is “ Le<br />
September 1 by Messrs. Methuen & Co., is now Roi Louis XIII. à Vingt Ans." The three<br />
in its third edition.<br />
volumes are marvels of conscientious work and<br />
give evidence of years of patient research.<br />
DRAMATIC<br />
Perhaps no prince has been so misunderstood as<br />
“The Tramp," a play in one act by Ursula<br />
Louis XIII. Thanks to the ambition and love of<br />
Keene, was produced at the Theatre Royal,<br />
power of his mother, Marie de Medicis, and the<br />
Margate, early last month. Ursula Keene's<br />
influence of Concini and his wife, Louis XIII., as<br />
suburban comedy, “ The Eldest Miss Darrell,” in<br />
a young man, was set aside. As be was powerless<br />
three acts, was produced at a special matinée at<br />
to obtain his proper position and was extremely<br />
the Court Theatre on October 28. At the same<br />
reserved, he remained apparently submissive and<br />
matinée was produced “ The Servants of Pan,” a<br />
resigned to his fate, and, for this reason, he has<br />
fantasy by Clarice Laurence, which was also<br />
been generally treated by historians as a nonentity.<br />
produced at the Theatre Royal, Margate, during<br />
M. Louis Batiffol has studied the archives of this<br />
the same week as witnessed the staging of “The<br />
epoch more thoroughly than most of the historians<br />
Tramp.” The cast at these performances included<br />
hitherto, and has unearthed many curious docu-<br />
Miss Ursula Keene and Miss Clarice Laurence.<br />
ments. He shows us how the young prince was<br />
“ Company for George” is a three-act farce by<br />
educated, and the lack of sympathy and affection<br />
Mr. R. S. Warren Bell, which was produced at the<br />
between him and his mother. "In her anxiety to<br />
Kingsway on October 15. The story it disclosed<br />
retain the regency she kept her son in the back-<br />
had to do with the reluctance of a University<br />
ground-treated him, at the age of sixteen, as a<br />
student to admit the existence of a time limit to<br />
mere child. Concini and his wife, the Queen's<br />
the hospitality which had been given him at a<br />
favourites, treated Louis with great insolence.<br />
country house to which he had been invited. The<br />
Things came to a climax after a violent fit of<br />
humour of the play is derived from the various<br />
anger on the part of the young prince at the age<br />
enjoyments which the unwelcome guest favours<br />
of fifteen. Concini saw that he had gone too far in<br />
during his stay. Mr. Kenneth Douglas, Miss<br />
his insolence, and left Paris for a time. From that<br />
Eva Moore and Mr. Fewlass Llewellyn are in the<br />
date forth, it is very evident that Louis had<br />
decided on his plan of action. Later on, when<br />
cast.<br />
Mr. W. Somerset Maugham's new four-act play,<br />
explaining his scheme to his friends, he said : “I<br />
“Grace,” was produced at the Duke of York's<br />
acted the child.” For the next five months he<br />
Theatre on October 15. The play deals with<br />
was silently preparing his plan, without taking<br />
the fall of the daughter of a gamekeeper, her<br />
anyone into his confidence. Charles d'Albert de<br />
banishment by the family owning the estate, and<br />
Luynes was the first of his friends to whom he<br />
the effect of the girl's subsequent suicide on the<br />
spoke of his intentions. Gradually a little group<br />
relations existing between husband and wife of the<br />
of faithful accomplices gathered round Louis. The<br />
family. The cast includes Mr. Dennis Eadie, Mr.<br />
whole nation was resenting the power and influence<br />
Leslie Faber, Miss Lillah McCarthy, Miss Irene<br />
of the foreign favourites, and Concini himself had<br />
Vanbrugh and Mr. Edmund Gwenn.<br />
gradually usurped many of the privileges which<br />
should have belonged to the young prince.<br />
In April, 1617, it was finally decided that<br />
Concini's arrest should take place. Louis had<br />
received letters from all sides promising help and<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
loyal service, and M. Batiffol's description of the<br />
plot to arrest and, if necessary, kill Concini is most<br />
graphically and dramatically told. He describes<br />
M HE death of Albert Vandal is another loss to the whole scene which took place in the courtyard<br />
I the French Academy and to French litera. of the Louvre, when the favourite, escorted by his<br />
ture. M. Vandal was formerly President of suite of young nobles, passed through the gate<br />
the Société des Gens de Lettres and he was known as the Porte de Bourbon. He was arrested<br />
essentially a historian. “ Louis XV. et Elisabeth “in the name of the king," and on attempting to<br />
de Russie" was one of his first books ; “Napoléon draw his sword was at once killed. The trans-<br />
et Alexandre I." and“L'Avénement de Bonaparte” formation which now took place in the apparently<br />
made him famous.<br />
submissive boy was a most remarkable one. With<br />
M. Louis Batiffol has now published his third the promptness and decision of a man three or<br />
volume on the period of Marie de Médicis. The four times his age, Louis XIII, now took his place<br />
first was “ Au Temps de Louis XIII.” The second in his kingdom. He appeared at one of the<br />
was entitled “ La Vie intime d'une Reine de France windows of the Louvre, thanked th e cheering crowd,<br />
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M. Pierre Berton ; “Montmartre," comedy in four<br />
acts by M. Pierre Frondaie ; “Sa Fille,” comedy<br />
in four acts by MM. Félix Duquesnel and André<br />
Barde ; “Crésus," comedy in three acts by M.<br />
Henri de Rothschild. At the Porte Saint-Martin<br />
“Chantecler" is still being given, and at the<br />
Théâtre Antoine “Cesar Bírotteau.”<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
" Le Roi Louis XIII. à Vingt Ans” (Calmann Levy).<br />
“Lady Hamilton” (Perrin).<br />
“Quarante Ans Après" (Fasquelle).<br />
** La Pologne Vivante" (Perrin).<br />
“Les Petits Joyeux” (Calmann Levy).<br />
AGENCY CLAUSES IN PUBLISHERS'<br />
AGREEMENTS.<br />
and told them that he was now their king. He<br />
refused to see his mother, but sent her word that he<br />
had now decided to take the government of the<br />
State into his own hands. From that time forth,<br />
until Richelieu was admitted into the State Council<br />
in 1624, the strong government and discipline of the<br />
boy king are a revelation to all who had been<br />
accustomed to thinking of Louis XIII. as a<br />
nonentity. It is to be hoped that M. Batiffol will<br />
continue the study of this king's character after<br />
1624, as the three volumes which take us up to<br />
this period only serve to make us wish to continue<br />
the study of history from authentic documents.<br />
“Lady Hamilton,” by A. Fauchier Magnan, is a<br />
biography which might very easily be taken for a<br />
novel. The writer gives us an account of this<br />
extraordinary woman's life in an extremely interest-<br />
ing manner. He begins with her early years in<br />
Cheshire and her first visit to London in 1777 at<br />
the age of fourteen. From this time forth we<br />
have all the romantic episodes of her life, her<br />
liaisons with Sir Charles Francis Greville, with Sir<br />
William Hamilton, her friendship with the Queen<br />
of Naples, and finally her liaison with Nelson. M.<br />
Fauchier Magnan takes us on to the very end. He<br />
tells us of her extreme poverty and of her death in<br />
a poorly furnished little room which she had<br />
rented in Calais. Many lives of Lady Hamilton<br />
have been written, but this French book gives us<br />
perbaps a more impartial study of this beautiful<br />
woman's career than some of the accounts written<br />
by her own compatriots.<br />
Among new books, Jules Clarétie's “ Quarante<br />
ans Après” is having great success. Marius Ary<br />
Leblond has written a very welcome volume, “La<br />
Pologne Vivante.”<br />
mohlished a new volume "Les<br />
Petits Joyeux."<br />
In the Revue des Deux Mondes of September<br />
there were some exceptionally interesting articles :<br />
“Morale et Religion," by M. Emile Boutroux;<br />
“Deux Conceptions de l'Histoire de la Révolution:<br />
Taine et M. Aulard,” by M. A. Albert-Petit.<br />
In the Revue hebdomadaire M. Emile Guillaumin<br />
writes on “ La Terre Delaissée.” In the same<br />
periodical of October 15, M. Gailly de Taurines<br />
gives us an interesting article on “Un Projet de<br />
Mariage dans la famille Bonaparte,” M. Ernest<br />
Seillière tells us “Le Roman d'un futur Empereur,"<br />
and Maurice Lanoire writes an interesting article<br />
on "Thackeray et la France."<br />
Among the new plays announced by M. Porel<br />
for this scason at the Vandeville are: “Le<br />
Marchand de Bonheur,” comedy in three acts by<br />
M. Henry Kistemaeckers ; “Rue de la Paix,"<br />
comedy in three acts by MM. Abel Hermant et<br />
de Toledo ; “Le Tribun,” comedy in four acts by<br />
M. Paul Bourget; "Raissa," play in four acts by<br />
new<br />
CLAUSE I.<br />
" ALL moneys due under this agreement shall be paid to<br />
A the author's representative, whose receipt shall be<br />
a full and sufficient discharge of the obligation, and<br />
the said agent is hereby empowered by the author to<br />
conduct all negotiations in respect of the said work with<br />
the publishers."<br />
CLAUSE II.<br />
"All accounts due and all moneys payable under this<br />
agreement shall be rendered and paid to<br />
and it is hereby agreed tbat their receipt shall be a full and<br />
sufficient discharge therefor and that shall have<br />
authority to treat for and on behalf of the said author in<br />
all matters under this agreement.”<br />
CLAUSE III.<br />
"All sums due under this agreement shall be paid to the<br />
author's representative, whose receipt alone shall be a full<br />
and sufficient discharge of the obligations, and this authority<br />
shall not be revocable by the author without the previous<br />
consent of his said representative.”<br />
It is the duty of agents to settle agreements<br />
between authors and publishers; but it may<br />
often be proper that in the first place the author<br />
should settle, and settle with care, an agreement<br />
with his agent. For if there are bad publishers<br />
and shifty authors, it is probable that there are<br />
careless, and possible that there are dishonest,<br />
agents.<br />
The Dramatic Sub-committee of the society,<br />
while expressing their disapproval of the principle<br />
of employing an agent at all (confer standing<br />
matter in The Author), have settled a contract<br />
between a dramatist and an agent.<br />
It is a fact that there is less need for the employ-<br />
ment of an agent to place dramatic works than to<br />
place literary works, if proper use is made of the<br />
society's assistance. But whether a writer is an<br />
author of works to be performed or of works to be<br />
read, he should be exceedingly careful of the<br />
contracts he makes with agents.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
There is, however, a danger beyond this, and the Now agents, unfortunately, among other clauses<br />
clauses printed at the head of this paper, taken which they have allowed to pass into currency,<br />
at random from a large collection of agreements, have not infrequently allowed a publisher to have<br />
are examples of this danger.<br />
the refusal of other books by the saine author,<br />
When an author has gone to an agent with an sometimes on terms to be subsequently settled,<br />
established reputation, and has settled a satisfactory sometimes on terms roughly agreed in the one<br />
contract with him, he then most probably is contract.<br />
quite ready to leave the management of his busi- The principle is a thoroughly wrong principle<br />
ness in the agent's hands. If the agent advises and should be fought on every possible occasion.<br />
him to accept certain terms and sign certain agree. But the issue as between author and publisher is<br />
ments he will do so, trusting to the agent's judg- not for discussion in this article. As between<br />
ment--the agent placing one of the above clauses author and agent it is also thoroughly bad, for<br />
in the contract as if it was a matter of course. under the above clause the author is obliged to let<br />
Yet this clause may bring all sorts of difficulties in work No. 2, and perhaps work No. 3, pass through<br />
its train.<br />
the agent's hands.<br />
Such a clause existing between the publisher Here is a great temptation, here is a premium<br />
and the author is “an authority coupled with an on dishonesty. For the agent, in order to secure<br />
interest,” and cannot be cancelled as between the the control of the author's next two works and<br />
parties to the contract. In consequence it gives secure his 10 per cent., may be tempted to induce<br />
the third party not a party to the contract a power the author to sign a clause giving away the refusal<br />
which he ought not to possess.<br />
of future work. In other words, he may possibly<br />
Let us study the clauses closer. In Clause I. neglect the author's interest to foster his own,<br />
the author's representative is to receive all moneys. The author may have many and crucial objec-<br />
However doubtful his financial position may be, tions after his first book has been published to the<br />
however an author may come to distrust his agent, further employment of an agent, but with the two<br />
even if the author may desire to change his repre- clauses, the one referring to the disposal of future<br />
sentative, still the publisher is bound to pay him work, the other to the agent's powers, he is bound<br />
the moneys. If the position happens to be still irrevocably. Should he, breaking the agreement,<br />
more serious, the author cannot get out of the do his own work or employ another agent, he<br />
clutches of this clause.<br />
would still be bound to pay to agent No. 1 the<br />
But worse follows, for the agent's receipt “ shall 10 per cent.<br />
be a full and sufficient discharge of the obliga- If it happened that an agent got an author to<br />
tion.”<br />
bind himself for his next nine books on the basis<br />
If an agent is careless, if an agent is deceitful, if of a contract similar to the one recently printed in<br />
an agent is fraudulent, he can still under this clause The Author, he would practically be able to go on<br />
give a sufficient discharge to the publisher ; and it is drawing his percentage through the ages, and the<br />
doubtful how far the author could open the accounts author would bear the burden of two old men of<br />
if the agent under such an authority had given a full the sea instead of one.<br />
receipt. But there is still worse to come, for the Little need be added in criticism of Clause III.<br />
agent is empowered to conduct all negotiations in to what has already been said. The revocability<br />
respect of the said work with the publishers. of the clause “only with the agent's consent "<br />
Practically, therefore, the agent can always be speaks for itself.<br />
covering up his own tracks and the author is The position is a serious one, and the real difficulty<br />
powerless. The author may communicate with the arises from the fact that while an agent in many<br />
publisher direct, and the publisher may say, and in cases may protect an author's interests most care-<br />
strict fairness is bound to say, I cannot communicate fully as between author and publisher, there is no<br />
with you, I can only conduct the business with the means of compelling him to turn to the author or<br />
agent.<br />
point out the difficulties and dangers surrounding<br />
Clause II. is even worse than Clause I.<br />
these and similar clauses.<br />
The remarks already made as to the payment of It may happen that no dispute will arise ; but<br />
and receipt for the money apply to this clause, but no author should put himself in chains, even if<br />
there is a subtle and important distinction in the they do not gall.<br />
last sentence.<br />
If the agent makes a fair statement of the case<br />
In Clause I. “the said work ” is referred to. It and the author, while unwilling to bind himself<br />
is clear that this would mean one book, but in under too stringent clauses with the publisher, is<br />
Clause II. the agent has authority “for and on willing to sign a stringent clause affecting the<br />
behalf of the said author in all matters under this agent, then nothing can be said.<br />
agreement.”<br />
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ? "<br />
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THE THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS OF THE enactments at present existing, would codify the<br />
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND legislation respecting copyright, and would repre-<br />
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATION.<br />
sent an immense progress ; notably by making<br />
uniform the duration of copyright for the life of<br />
LUXEMBURG, September 2-5, 1910.<br />
the author and fifty years afterwards ; by suppress-<br />
ing all formalities, as necessary for the exercise<br />
GEORGES MAILLARD, who presided of the author's rights ; by completely assimilating<br />
IVT over the thirty-second Congress of the translation and reproduction ; by forbidding the<br />
International Literary and Artistic Asso dramatisation of a novel, or the transformation of<br />
ciation, declares this to have been a “ little & drama into a novel, without the consent of the<br />
congress” of a friendly kind, similar to those author of the original; by declaring, without<br />
which have been, at various dates, held in various restrictions, that the right of a musical composer<br />
cities of Switzerland. The labours of the Congress includes the right of the reproduction of the work<br />
were grouped principally around a “ general by means of mechanical instruments ; by main-<br />
review of affairs relating to literary and artistic taining for photographs a protection identical with<br />
copyright from the diplomatic, legislative, and that given artistic works ; and by protecting<br />
judicial points of view," by Mr. Ernest Röthlis- architectural designs.<br />
berger. This report dealt with the Berlin Revision “ At the same time the International Literary<br />
of the Berne Convention, legislative movements and Artistic Association takes the liberty of draw-<br />
outside the direct action of the Berne Convention, ing the attention of the British Government to<br />
the development of international treaties, and certain particulars, which will form the subject of a<br />
various cases presented before the tribunals of special report which the executive committee of the<br />
different countries. In addition to this, Mr. K. association proposes to submit to the Government.<br />
Gahn, representing Denmark, explainod the “ In particular it would be especially regrettable<br />
reasons which had hitherto prevented his country that, after the death of the author, the Controller<br />
from ratifying the Convention of 1908. Mr. of Patents should have power to give a licence for<br />
Thorvald Solberg dealt with the present situation the reproduction of the work, not only when there<br />
in the United States. Signor A. Ferrari discussed shall be no more copies in circulation, but also<br />
the objection which has been raised in Italy when the price demanded for existing copies, or<br />
against the prolongation of dramatic copyright to for the rights of public performance, shall be con-<br />
eighty years after the date of first performance. sidered too high. This would amount to a grave<br />
M. T. G. Djuvara apologised for a delay in pro- infraction of the author's rights, and might lead<br />
gress in Roumania, which has been occasioned by to serious abuses.<br />
the Government having been compelled to give all “It is much to be desired that the English law<br />
its attention to the results of agrarian disturbances. should affirm the absolute principle that copyright<br />
The Count de Suzor, representing Russia, dis- originates (saving when there are agreements to<br />
cassed the opposition of the Russian Duma to the contrary) in the person of the creator of the<br />
wholesome copyright legislation. Among the work, and that the sale of a work of art shall not<br />
resolutions subsequently passed by the Congress, be presumed to involve of itself the sale of the<br />
one, which we give at full length below, will be of copyright.<br />
particular interest to English authors.<br />
" Also, that works of architecture shall be pro-<br />
Resolution respecting the new English Copyright tected without certain reservations contained in<br />
Bill in the following terms :-<br />
the Bill, and that it shall be clearly stated that in<br />
“ The International Literary and Artistic Con- works of architecture wbich are protected are in-<br />
gress thanks the Copyright Committee constituted cluded designs, plans, sketches, and plastic works<br />
by the British Government to draw up a Bill intended for architectural purposes.<br />
relating to copyright for having been so good as to “ Also, that the duration of the period for action<br />
consult the president of the association in the against piracy should not be less than three years.<br />
course of the inquiry, and has much satisfaction “ Also, that the duration of the protection of<br />
in finding in the admirable final report of the posthumous works, and of works produced by<br />
Copyright Committee an approval of the greater collaboration, should be fixed in conformity with<br />
number of the principles proclaimed by the the provisions of the typical law suggested by the<br />
association.<br />
association.<br />
“ The Congress is equally gratified by the Bill “ The Congress is of opinion that it is to be<br />
placed before Parliament by the President of the feared that the abrogation of the common law may<br />
Board of Trade in view of the adhesion of Great result (particularly when the new law is first put<br />
Britain to the Revised Convention of Berlin ; a Bill into force) in incompletenesses in the protection of<br />
which, by abrogating the different and incompatible the author.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
“The International Literary and Artistic Asso- of a charming letter concerning some work done for<br />
ciation particularly insists upon the necessity of him, he tells me that personally he likes my work<br />
protecting works of art applied to industry ; and very much, but that such work as mine is "never<br />
calls upon the executive committee to come to of special interest to advertisers." Adrertisers !<br />
an understanding with the Englishmen interested The cat is out of the bag. And what a cat!<br />
in this question to obtain protection for all works These are our censors, these the arbiters of an<br />
of the graphic and plastic arts, whatsoever may be author's destiny. Our struggling novelists are at<br />
the merit or destination of the works, and to get the mercy of a Non-Fat-Food Company, our<br />
this principle asserted in the English law.” crescent poets are the sport of Dr. Pink and his<br />
Pale Pills for Purple People.<br />
So now you know.<br />
THE CAT FROM THE BAG.<br />
X. Y, Z.<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
M HE taste of editors has long seemed so incal-<br />
1 culable, their standard so mysterious, their<br />
selection so erratic, that many of us have<br />
wondered whether they really exercise any discre-<br />
tion of choice-whether they do not rather madly<br />
mix in a hat all manuscripts bearing unknown<br />
names, and order the office boy to pull out as many<br />
as are needed for the make-up of the journal.<br />
But I now see that in these speculations we have<br />
wronged our editors.<br />
We have wondered sometimes whether it was<br />
possible that editorial taste could be at fault : that<br />
editors really did not know good stuff when they<br />
saw it; whether drivel really did and could appeal to<br />
them ; or whether it was merely that they knew<br />
their public, and knew that a good story, decently<br />
written, is the one thing which that public will<br />
not on any terms stand? We have speculated,<br />
we have questioned. And our speculation has<br />
remained unfruitful. Our questions have never<br />
been answered. Perhaps our questions never will<br />
be answered. For my part I care little whether<br />
they ever be answered, for I now see that they<br />
have nothing to do with the matter. There has<br />
been an unsuspected reason for the choices—the<br />
strange, amazing choices—made by editors. That<br />
reason has been a secret, and that secret is now<br />
mine. I know all about it. Nothing is hidden<br />
from me. I am an old hand at this game of<br />
author v. editor, and yet I never came near to<br />
guessing the riddle. And I venture to think that<br />
no one else on my side did either.<br />
Here is the secret. I make you a present of it.<br />
Editors do not choose to please themselves. Nor<br />
to please themselves. Nor<br />
do they choose to please their public. Their<br />
choice is made to quite another tune. And that<br />
tune is called, as most tunes are nowadays, by him<br />
who pays the piper—the Advertiser.<br />
The advertiser, it would seem, is the critic to<br />
whom editors defer; it is the advertiser's taste that<br />
must be considered, his distastes that must be<br />
avoided.<br />
I learn the great secret from the editor of a very<br />
well-known and prosperous journal. In the course<br />
BLACKWOOD's.<br />
“Hamlet” at a Bengal Fair. By R. E. Vernède.<br />
Musings Without Method : Journalists in Conclave-<br />
Dramatic Criticism-The Elizabethan Drama-A Stage<br />
for the Poets.<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
J. M. Barrie as Dramatist, By H. Granville Barker.<br />
J. M. Barrie and His Books. By James Moffatt.<br />
A. E. W. Mason. By A. St. John Adcock.<br />
Book MONTHLY.<br />
Beaconsfield's Life. By James Milne,<br />
Novels Long or Short. By X.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
Reminiscences of Holman Hunt. By W. M. Rossetti.<br />
The Modern Press and Its Public. By W. H, Massing.<br />
ham.<br />
Browning and Butler. By the late Professor Churton<br />
collins.<br />
CORNHILL.<br />
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. By A, W, Ward.<br />
Dr. John Brown, of Edinburgh. By Sarah A. Tooley.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
The Women of Shakespeare. By Frank Harris.<br />
"Une Promenade Sentimentale." By George Moore.<br />
Nihilism in Contemporary Russian Literature. By E. J.<br />
Dillon.<br />
The Vitality of Drama. By Darrell Figgis.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
Shakespeare in Fairyland. By Charles Zeffertt.<br />
William Holman Hunt, O.M. By Ford Madox Hueffer.<br />
A Forgotten Satirist,“ Peter Pindar." By Lewis<br />
Melville.<br />
Imperial Copyright. By G. Herbert Thring.<br />
The Night Thoughts of Robert Schumann. By A. E.<br />
Keeton.<br />
The Theatrical Situation. By William Archer,<br />
NATIONAL.<br />
The Dark Lady to Mr. William Shakespeare. By<br />
Bernard Holland.<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
The Genius of Gibbon. II. Gibbon the Historian. By<br />
the Rev. A. H. T. Clarke.<br />
The Sillon. By Abbé Ernest Dimnet.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
B advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
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 />
ist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu.<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
n otto<br />
anless the same allowance is made to the author..<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System,<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright,<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com.<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts:<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
n agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
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TIIE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This 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 (b.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
9, Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
T RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
U assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
MTEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 2s. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
THE DINNER OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
The Dinner of the Society of Authors will be<br />
held on November 24 at the Criterion Restaurant<br />
at 7 for 7.30 p.m. The chair will be taken by<br />
Mr. Maurice Hewlett, and the guest of the evening<br />
will be Mr. William de Morgan. Members desiring<br />
to be present are requested to make early applica-<br />
tion for tickets, which can be procured at the<br />
offices of the society. A conversazione will be<br />
held after the dinner as indicated in the notice of<br />
the dinner sent to all subscribers of the society.<br />
CANADIAN COPYRIGHT.<br />
We see that Mr. Fisher has not let the grass<br />
grow under his feet in taking steps with regard to<br />
Canadian Copyright. It is difficult to say exactly<br />
what he intends to do till the draft Bill is in our<br />
hands, but it would appear from his utterances that<br />
he intends to stop the protection awarded to<br />
United States Copyright books in Canada unless<br />
the printing is done in Canada, and that he is not<br />
going to penalise the English authors if they<br />
register their copyright at Ottawa.<br />
It will be interesting to see how Mr. Fisher<br />
proposes in his Bill to enforce this very difficult<br />
position. Personally, although we quite under-<br />
stand that the United States have brought this<br />
about through their own retrograde legislation, we<br />
think it a pity that any country which has gone<br />
forward on the great copyright ideals should now<br />
go back upon them.<br />
With regard to the registration of English works,<br />
we also think this a great pity. The action is<br />
retrogressive, not progressive. The less registra-<br />
tion, the safer is the property of an author ; but we<br />
hardly care to criticise until after we have seen the<br />
THE INFLUENCE OF REVIEWS.<br />
Bill.<br />
A. W. DUBOURG.<br />
We have to chronicle with regret the death of<br />
Mr. A. W. Dubourg, dramatic author. Another<br />
of the original members of the Society of Authors<br />
mio<br />
has fallen out of its ranks. He joined the society<br />
as a dramatic author, and was a very early member<br />
of the council. In the early days he supported<br />
the work the society was doing on behalf of<br />
his fellow dramatists, but this support. given so<br />
disinterestedly in the beginning, he was not able<br />
to continue during his later years, although<br />
on many occasions he showed his continued<br />
sympathy with the aims and objects of our<br />
organisation.<br />
BY A WOMAN NOVELIST.<br />
II.<br />
V OU sometimes hear it said that “No one<br />
I reads reviews," and this is both true and<br />
false, like its companion-saying, also<br />
frequently heard among literary people, that “No<br />
one buys books.” I believe that many people do<br />
read reviews, and that a very much larger number<br />
of people just glance through them.<br />
The length of a review is most important.<br />
Better a long review, with the name of your book<br />
at the top, even if, so to speak, it is all about<br />
nothing, than a notice of a few sentences, however<br />
enthusiastic.<br />
On the whole, I doubt whether bad reviews have<br />
ever stifled really good work, though of course.<br />
they have delayed its recognition.<br />
On the other hand, good reviews can to a certain<br />
extent sell bad stuff ; but in this case the rapid<br />
appearance of the poorly written books so reviewed<br />
in the second-hand market tells its own story.<br />
The supply has been greater than the demand,<br />
and the reading public have declined to digest<br />
the book.<br />
Most writers of norels soon become aware that<br />
reviews, as a whole, are peculiarly impartial. Just<br />
as you may be fondly attached to a human being,<br />
and think but very indifferently of his or her taste<br />
in art, or in such a more homely and every-day<br />
thing as taste in dress or house decoration, so every<br />
writer must have many friends and acquaintances<br />
whose literary work strikes them as far less admir-<br />
able in every way than that of either the character,<br />
nature or intellect of its creator.<br />
It coustantly happens—every editor will bear<br />
me out in what I say—that a book is returned by a<br />
reviewer with the plea that, knowing the author,<br />
he would prefer not to deal with it. Let us,<br />
however, boldly face the fact that in some cases.<br />
LIST OF DRAMATISTS.<br />
In view of the necessity of consulting the<br />
dramatists inside the Society of Authors on<br />
questions affecting their work, a separate list of<br />
dramatic authors has been compiled, and is kept<br />
at the office of the society.<br />
In order to keep the list comprehensive and<br />
accurate, members are asked to write to the<br />
secretary immediately they become qualified for<br />
inclusion in the list. The qualification for such<br />
inclusion is the public performance of a play<br />
(other than a performance for copyright purposes)<br />
in a place licensed for public entertainment.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
a book is given to a friend, and a friend who is regarded his work with that special touch of eager<br />
honestly anxious to extol the book as far as is and selfless enthusiasm. To have the power of<br />
possible. Yet such a review is very seldom satis- eroking such a sentiment is extremely valuable ;<br />
factory from the point of view of the author. It but it is a great mistake to suppose that it has<br />
is invariably better for any work of art to be anything to do with private friendship or personal<br />
judged apart from its creator. The personal popularity. It is often felt for a writer who is a<br />
element almost inevitably creeps in when judging recluse, and years may go by before the master<br />
a friend's work, and too often a friend's review and his disciple meet face to face.<br />
simply consists of that kind of mild praise which, Akin to this type of clique, but on a lower<br />
from the point of view of the writer-or perhaps plane, will be a group of clever young writers<br />
we should say of the publisher-is of infinitely who all hold together and praise each other's work<br />
less value than one which cuts up the volume in the honest conviction that nothing so good was<br />
under discussion in a way which was more fashion ever done before. This kind of group greatly<br />
able some years ago than to-day.<br />
influenced that period of French literature known<br />
Human nature being what it is, reviewers are of as Romanticism. Such a group“ puff” each<br />
course influenced, generally quite unconsciously, other—no other term is appropriate--in the fervent<br />
by certain facts concerning the author of the book conviction that their work is quite first-rate. On<br />
they are about to notice. Even a very poor novel the other hand, rival groups are apt to “ crab ”<br />
written by a well-known statesman, or by a woman the work so praised.<br />
who has made her fame in some other branch of How far can an author influence reviews, and<br />
art, will receive far more respectful treatment than what every publisher will tell him is most impor-<br />
can be hoped for by a masterpiece of an unknown tant-obtain early reviews ?<br />
writer. There are of course exceptions to every rule Unless he be gifted with a most unusual power<br />
—the masterpiece may find an appreciative reviewer, of “push," and of business capacity which would<br />
and the great man's or the famous woman's book make his fortune iu any walk of life except that of<br />
may be treated with complete candour ; but these literature, he would be well advised to make no<br />
will be exceptions, and will scarcely count among effort, especially with regard to a first book ; when<br />
the 69 to 100 reviews which every book issued by he has published several books, he can of course<br />
a leading firm of publishers can now hope to make some kind of effort to secure that the review<br />
obtain.<br />
copies are sent out to the various papers in good<br />
And this brings me to another important time. This, which would seem to be an elementary<br />
question. There is no doubt at all that reviewers part of a publisher's business, is done as a matter<br />
are impressed by the standing of the publisher, of course by certain houses ; but others—perhaps<br />
almost always they are quite candid about it ;-. because their managers do not regard early reviews<br />
that is, when a reviewer receives a batch of books as particularly important — take little or no<br />
from a newspaper, he picks out almost instinctively trouble in the matter.<br />
for early notice the books published by the good On the whole, editors and reviewers resent<br />
houses, Young writers should remember this special efforts being made to draw their attention<br />
when considering where to send their manuscripts, to a special book, though this resentment is<br />
and when thinking over the terms which have mitigated, even altogether removed, when the<br />
been offered them.<br />
advice rendered is absolutely disinterested. A<br />
Probably the most fortunate thing which can book, in a commercial sense, may be “made " by<br />
happen to a good writer, but which, so far as I an honest, enthusiastic admirer who, fortunately<br />
remember, may be said never to happen to a for the writer, happens to have a large acquaint-<br />
woman writer in this country with the one ance in the literary world. But though I have in<br />
exception of George Eliot-is the formation about my mind several such examples, I cannot call to<br />
him of a small devoted phalanx of admirers who mind a single example which was due to the<br />
whole-heartedly proclaim his merit both in print personal friendship of the admirer with the author.<br />
and in conversation. It has become the fashion Certain writers have a power of thus attracting<br />
nowadays to call this kind of group of unofficial sincere enthusiasm. A case in point, I repeat, was<br />
praisers a clique. Such a group, once formed, is that of Robert Louis Stevenson, who, it is quite<br />
of inestimable value, for it creates a demand for clear, never made the slightest personal effort to<br />
the often very special and unusual work which it secure a good or early review. But there was<br />
admires, and such a group is often the precursor something in his personality, as well as much<br />
of real popularity. This good fortune befel R. L. in his work, which aroused the enthusiasm of some<br />
Stevenson, and in spite of all that has been written of the best minds of the day.<br />
to the contrary, Mr. George Meredith always had I have left to the last the question of the<br />
a certain number of highly cultivated readers who honesty of reviewers.<br />
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Once when walking through a railway station E ven in its imperfect shape, the music publishers<br />
I noticed a newspaper bill bearing as its sole will have none of it.<br />
contents the ominous question, “ Are Book History repeats itself. About five-and-twenty<br />
Reviewers Honest ?" I immediately bought the years ago the leading publishers tried either to<br />
paper, feeling the interest which every writer of laugh down the Authors' Society as a society of<br />
books must feel in this question, but to my great amateurs, or to hold up their heads in lofty<br />
disappointment the author of the article had contempt at its work.<br />
nothing new to say, or even to suggest on the The music publishers desire to adopt the same<br />
subject-in fact, it was very clear that he was not position now. It is impossible to comment in<br />
a critic, and knew very few critics, for he asserted detail on the numerous letters that have been<br />
that the criticism of fiction is almost always published, but it will suffice to say that no minute<br />
entrusted to persons who are themselves novelists ; or serious criticism of the agreement has been put<br />
and he went on to say that most of these story- forward ; nothing but vague generalities and<br />
tellers know each other, and they naturally praise crude statements of facts relating to methods of<br />
each other, on the quid pro quo principle.<br />
publication in vogue a hundred years ago.<br />
But why should the honesty of book reviewers Here are some examples :-<br />
be discussed any more than the honesty of<br />
“We have only to say that our present agreement with<br />
butchers, or solicitors, or any other class in the composers works to both their and our mutual satisfaction."<br />
community? There are dishonest people in every<br />
profession and walk in life ; but as a matter of<br />
What a statement to come from a leading<br />
fact the modern critic has really less temptation to publishing house! Audi alteram partem is a legal<br />
be dishonest, and less excuse for vielding to that motto of which evidently this firm has never<br />
temptation, than almost any other professional heard. Why, the whole band of musical composers<br />
man or woman. His rewards, if he allows either<br />
is wild with discontent at the agreement put for-<br />
friendsbip or enmity to influence him, are ward by this and other houses,<br />
extremely meagre, and last but a very short time. “We do not propose to criticise the details of Messrs.<br />
For such a lack of impartiality can never be Stainer & Bell's inspiration, because it really does not<br />
hidden from those whose business it is to be on concern us at all."<br />
the watch for it, and even the cleverest critic, once But if the composers are in earnest—and of this<br />
tried and found guilty by his editorial judge, finds there is no doubt they will make it necessary for<br />
his' occupation gone. In reality those in a this firm to concern itself about the agreement..<br />
position to know the facts must feel it absurd to Now is the time to come into closer combination,<br />
discuss the question at all, for it is obvious that and by united effort to make firmer the advantage<br />
no man or woman capable of writing dishonest that has already been obtained.<br />
criticisms is likely to attain a position of any Another publisher says :-<br />
importance in the critical world.<br />
"In our nearly one hundred years' existence as a pub-<br />
lishing house, no composer has yet complained of assigning<br />
us his sole rights.”<br />
Here is a record to look back upon. Nearly one<br />
MUSIC PUBLISHERS AND THE SOCIETY'S hundred years, during which time the publisher has<br />
AGREEMENT.<br />
obtained the assignment of the composer's sole<br />
rights. It is indeed a glaring example of the<br />
ignorance of some owners as to the value of their<br />
COME stir has been made and is still being own property.<br />
made in the musical trade papers in regard - The Society of Authors may understand the production<br />
to the agreement that was settled by the of books, but music is a very different thing—the author of<br />
Copyright Sub-committee of the society with a book may spend months or years over the MS., but many<br />
Messrs. Stainer & Bell, and approved by the<br />
ner & Bell. and approved by the<br />
composers could<br />
composers could write a dozen pieces a day.'<br />
committee of management.<br />
This publisher does not affirm that the Authors'<br />
It is not a perfect agreement, as was explained Society does not understand the question of the<br />
in the May issue of The Author.<br />
production of music, for he could not do so, but he<br />
But to such an extent is it in advance of the carefully suggests that conclusion in his curiously<br />
present antiquated documents which most music ungrammatical sentence.<br />
publishers delight to issue, that the committee No publisher of books or music will ever be<br />
had no hesitation in accepting its terms and found to allow that the Authors' Society knows<br />
recommending them to those composers who are anything about the publication of books or music<br />
members of the society.<br />
or the value of the property of writers or composers,<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
vet there is clear eridence every day in the work ENGLISH WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS<br />
of the society that it is not so ignorant as the<br />
IN GALICIA (SPAIN).<br />
publishers would delight their public to think.<br />
The remark of the publisher quoted referring to<br />
BY JAMES BAKER, F.R.G.S.<br />
authors and composers might be reversed with<br />
equal truth. It is no argument for or against the<br />
M HE aim of the “International Associations<br />
agreement which has been published.<br />
1 of the Press” is to spread a knowledge of the<br />
Another publisher states that if a composer<br />
conditions of journalistic life and work in all<br />
assigns his copyright subject to a royalty he will<br />
lands, and to strive for a betterment of these con-<br />
get larger sales than if he enters into a publishing<br />
ditions. To work effectively for this aim, it is<br />
agreement on the royalty basis, only giving a necessary to knoir the life and language of the<br />
licence to publish, because " the publisher will do people of other countries. It is to gain this know-<br />
all he can to increase the value of his copyright.”<br />
ledge that the members of the British International<br />
The inference left with the reader is that the Association of Journalists have accepted invitations<br />
publisher will treat composer No. 2 with but scant to visit other countries. Accordingly the writer<br />
courtesy and fairness, as he has not thought fit to was glad to receive an invitation from some of the<br />
make himself the publisher's servant. It is a principal residents in Galicia, asking him to arrange<br />
candid and damaging confession.<br />
à visit of twenty-one members to the Galician<br />
But perhaps the most curious letter of all is one Province of Spain.<br />
issued from an important firm, and published in<br />
Most of those who joined the Booth S.S. Hilary<br />
the Music Trades Review of September 15. In that were journalists who were experts in special sub-<br />
the firm has passed beyond argument. In this case jects, and it was remarkable how almost daily each<br />
that saying might be quoted, so aptly applied by member had some interesting item of his subject<br />
Lord Beaconsfield to a political opponent, “that<br />
brought before him.<br />
petulance is not sarcasm, nor is insolence invective." At Vigo the first step in Galicia was made, and<br />
It is impossible to think that letters of this kind<br />
here, as indeed at all other places, the party was<br />
can do the writers any good or Messrs. Stainer & received by the dignitaries of the province and<br />
Bell, against whom they are written, any harm. town, and the ladies were presented with choice<br />
It would appear from a careful perusal of the bouquets. The president and the vice-president<br />
whole correspondence, that the publishers either of the Galician Tourist Society, Señors Oya and<br />
in ignorance fail, or wilfully do not desire, to grasp<br />
Barreras, at once took charge of their guests, and<br />
the importance of the position adopted by the proved indefatigable in their efforts, for these<br />
composers.<br />
Spanish gentlemen spoke English perfectly.<br />
If they do not think that the composers are in What a surprise was Galicia in August! Not a<br />
real earnest in raising these points, it is for the dried-up land ; but one of rich valleys, grey rocky<br />
composers to show them that they are mistaken. mountains, and wooded hills. As one motored<br />
Let the composers combine, and by a united front away from Vigo to Mondariz, what a sharp con-<br />
force the publishers to recognise the great issues at<br />
trast the scenery gave ! - palms and vines, heath<br />
stake. The composers, backed by the society, are not and maize, blackberry bush and mimosa grores.<br />
asking for anything unreasonable ; that this is the Dartmoor with its tors, and Greece with its silver-<br />
case, the attitude of Messrs. Stainer & Bell, the grey bills and deep blue bays. At Mondariz the<br />
publishers, attests. They do not desire to rob the idea that hotels in Spain are all bad was demolished ;<br />
publishers. All they ask is an equitable control of here was a palace, and in the ball-room the party<br />
their own property.<br />
was received by the Señors Peinador and a brilliant<br />
It is not infrequently the case that the public group of notables. “God Save the King” and<br />
and the individual who have been allowed the use the Spanish Royal March were played, and Mr.<br />
of other's property for a long time, impudently Campion, chairman of the delegation, and the hon.<br />
assert that it is their own. Many examples there<br />
secretary responded.<br />
are in history, and in history generally the strongest<br />
Mondariz and its vicinity proved full of the<br />
has succeeded.<br />
charms of pastoral scenery, archæological problems,<br />
Let the composers, then, show that they are the and mediæval history. The great feast of the<br />
stronger party, and then they will succeed, backed Virgin del Carmen was a picturesque scene of<br />
with the knowledge that justice is also on their peasants' devotion and gaiety, a strange mingling<br />
side.<br />
of prayer and dance to the drone of bagpipes and<br />
tap of drum. Lastly, a Salve Regina was sung<br />
before the bishop and monsignori clad in rich<br />
vestments, while the peasants in many colours, and<br />
the beau monile of Madrid, all bearing lighted<br />
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candles in the procession, formed a veritable scène population gave a hearty welcome-army and navy,<br />
d'opéra.<br />
Alcalde and councillors, and the “fashion " of<br />
From Mondariz, again in motors, the members Corunna, never forgetting the courteous Pressmen,<br />
were conducted through a richly varied country, who arranged so much, and so assiduously aided a<br />
first to Pontevedra, the town where the ship of better understanding of the local history and<br />
Columbus, the Santa Maria, was built, and customs. The grave of Sir John Moore, the house<br />
where the churches of the eleventh to the six- in which he died, and other places connected with<br />
teenth centuries were intensely interesting ; and the famous campaign, were full of interest. Then<br />
then to sylvan Lerez, a town famous for its rich the hosts of Corunna motored their guests to<br />
mineral springs, where the party was received Ferroll, where the dockyard authorities and the<br />
with flowers and music, and the vivas of the English firms who are building the new Spanish<br />
crowd.<br />
navy received them. Quitting northern Galicia<br />
From Pontevedra a run was made inland and they made for Vigo, whence had emanated so<br />
along the sea coast, to the island of La Toja. All much organisation for the tour ; here there were<br />
the motors halted at the entrance to the new fresh delights—courtesies from Alcalde, council and<br />
bridge, some 400 met. long, linking the island to other authorities, and from the Marquise Merced<br />
the mainland, which the members of the British del Paso at her castle of Montreal at Bayona. It<br />
International Association of Journalists were to was with regret that the party bade good-bye to<br />
open. On the island is a vast palace of an hotel, their friends of Galicia ; much had been learnt-<br />
and an extensive series of baths both for rich and the developments under great difficulties, the gay,<br />
poor. The waters here are of the greatest value yet hard lot of the peasants. Surely with such men<br />
for skin and other diseases. All Galicia makes to guide her, there is a great future in store for<br />
holiday in August. Here the local regattas with Galicia.<br />
twenty-four-oared fishing boats and the peculiar<br />
little sailing boats, Gallegan singers, and peasant<br />
dances and fireworks, afforded entertainment. The<br />
THE INSPIRATION OF POETRY.*<br />
Galician loves fireworks.<br />
Fortunately, cool rains and fresh breezes brought<br />
alleviation from the heat, otherwise the work M ais book is warrantably, even appropriately<br />
before the members, with Señor Barreras to goad I named. The first chapter is entitled " Poetic<br />
them on, might have been too much. It was in rain Madness," the last “ Inspiration,” and in one<br />
that they steamed round the island of Cortegada, as in the other the subject is not shirked or eyaded,<br />
which is soon to become the Osborne of Spain. but discussed. The discussion takes the form of<br />
From here a salute of homage was sent to their marshalling the testimony of the poets, and the<br />
Majesties the King and Queen of Spain, and at author's point of view is determined by his faith in<br />
Santiago a gracious reply was receired saying that the reliability of the evidence massed, and amounts<br />
their Majesties were deeply touched by the salute to remonstrance against the attitude, based on<br />
and homage.<br />
“ academic, second-hand practice," which would<br />
At Santiago-as everywhere-there was a warm “ deny reality to the poet's experience.” These<br />
welcome; the Press of the district, the learned chapters form a reminder of the constituent ele-<br />
Canon Eijo, Señor Don Oviedo, and the Alcalde ments of the waters at the fountain head of<br />
and councillors formally gare a greeting to the inspiration. The elements are the emotional and<br />
party. Three-and-a-half days were spent in this the intellectual, or, as Nietzsche synonymised them,<br />
vondrous city. So closely is it linked with English the Dionysiac and the Apollonian. Without over-<br />
history that the writer, speaking at the Ajunta- looking Apollo's share, the Dionysiac portion is<br />
miento, was able to give for the year 1395 the brought into greater conspicuousness than it has<br />
pames of the ships leaving Hartlepool, Dartmouth, appeared for a long time in such studies. From<br />
Newcastle, and, above all, Bristol, with pilgrims his definition of the poet as “under excitement,<br />
for Santiago ; no less than 660 pilgrims sailed presenting the phenomenon of a highly developed<br />
from Bristol alone.<br />
mind working in a primitive way,” Mr. Woodberry<br />
The churches, chapels, and hospitals, are full of is led into speculations on the history of emotion.<br />
wondrous detail, and the Cathedral and Church of as a result of which he suggests the theory that the<br />
San Martin demanded lengthened study. The emergence of man from the brute stage of life was<br />
swinging of the great cepser is an exciting and accompanied by an outburst and increase of<br />
strange rite, only gone through three times a year, emotional power, and he considers it plausible that<br />
but the visit was timed to see it. .<br />
-----<br />
After leaving mediaval Santiago the party ran "The Inspiration of Poetry," by George Edward<br />
northward to Corunna, where the whole of the Woodberry. New York: The Macmillan Co.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
such emotion was a main condition of the gradual<br />
advent of intellectual life.<br />
In the other chapters the general remarks illustra-<br />
tive of that passion and power of life in which<br />
poetic energy consists are applied specifically to<br />
Marlowe, Camoens, Byron, Gray, Tasso and<br />
Lucretius. The writer is aware of the apparent<br />
inconsistency of Gray's position in such company;<br />
contending nevertheless, that though the work of<br />
minor poets be in low relief, yet, if the theory is<br />
sound, they should show in their degree the traits<br />
of the grand style. The essay in itself is excellent,<br />
but the advisability of inserting it here without<br />
fuller explanation is open to doubt, as it ushers in a<br />
question separate from, albeit related to, the main<br />
thesis.<br />
The author's assignment of the poets treated to<br />
their places in literature is marked by catholicity<br />
of taste, breadth of scholarship, and an almost non-<br />
chalant, logical, if not irrefutable reasoning which<br />
lifts them from their traditionally allotted niches<br />
and insists upon their association with other regions.<br />
mental or physical, with which heretofore they have<br />
not been sufficiently identified. One of the most<br />
brilliant instances of this important characteristic<br />
of Mr. Woodberry's criticism is the skilfully sus-<br />
tained assertion of the fourth chapter : “It is an<br />
error to think of Byron as an English poet. ...<br />
He was rather a poet of the Mediterranean world.<br />
There he found the main material of his works—<br />
the motive, the stage, the incidents, and the inspira-<br />
tion ... the scene of bis imagination ranging<br />
from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Golden<br />
Horn."<br />
At the best the drawbacks and hindrances were<br />
serious: there was, firstly, the drawback of the<br />
patron, which as likely as not turned the author<br />
into a miserable whining tout ; but next, the draw-<br />
back of the Star Chamber, which might bring the<br />
unfortunate author to the torture-chamber or the<br />
prison ; and thirdly, the bitter monopolies of the<br />
Stationers Company and the publishers.<br />
The first chapters deal with the evils of the<br />
system of patronage, and many examples from<br />
contemporary writers are given of their unhappy<br />
lot.<br />
The whole picture would be contemptible if it<br />
were not at the same time so sad. There were one<br />
or two notable exceptious, in which the author was<br />
treated as friend, but generally he was handled worse<br />
than his master's dog. If, however, the author tried<br />
to be of free and independent spirit, that spirit was<br />
most probably crushed out of him by the official<br />
censors. These are dealt with in the second<br />
chapter.<br />
The most serious of these was the Privy Council<br />
and the Star Chamber. To breathe a word against<br />
their ruling was as likely as not to bring down<br />
their powers to crush the unfortunate. It no<br />
doubt took some real courage on the part of Milton<br />
to write his “ Areopagitica," courage which the<br />
presentgeneration is inclined to undervalue as<br />
they read his perfect and easy periods.<br />
There were a host of informers ready to prove<br />
that treason and sedition lurked in the most simple<br />
of statements and the most innocent allusions.<br />
Heresy was a frequent cause of complaint.<br />
Political topics were most risky. It was dangerous<br />
for the philosopher or the man of science or the<br />
scholar to put his learning before the public lest<br />
he should be arraigned and fined or tortured. It<br />
was indeed difficult for Christian to arrive at the<br />
Promised Land, for there were other censors still<br />
lurking, and if the author passed these the<br />
monopolies of Stationers' Hall or the publishers<br />
ruined him.<br />
It was little use to get £2 or £3 for a<br />
pamphlet if you had to pay £50 or £100 fine.<br />
- Dramatists appear to have had rather more<br />
freedom, but their pay was miserable, and even if<br />
their works were produced under the highest<br />
patronage, the risk remained.<br />
All the horrors of this hand-to-mouth existence<br />
are vividly put forth, in many instances from the<br />
mouths of the authors themselves.<br />
But the other sides of the literary profession are<br />
also dealt with lucidly, and show the result of<br />
careful research. Methods of advertisement,<br />
methods of publication, prices, theatrical takings,<br />
and book earnings. It is all a sordid tale.<br />
Lastly, the author has to explain the many<br />
supplementary means of livelihood employed by<br />
THE LITERARY PROFESSION IN THE<br />
ELIZABETHAN AGE.*<br />
BOOK dealing with the literary profession<br />
A must always be of interest to followers of<br />
that profession, and therefore to members of<br />
the society.<br />
But the literary professor in the Elizabethan<br />
Age is perhaps more interesting than at any other<br />
period, because at that time the birth of printing<br />
was bringing into existence new possibilities,<br />
wonderful and far-reaching, and—in the opinion of<br />
those in authority-full of fearsome and startling<br />
dangers. Men were beginning to live by their<br />
writings without the aid of any other profession;<br />
but at the best it was a poor livelihood. The<br />
dramatists seem to have had slightly the best of<br />
it, but that is not to raise the standard too high.<br />
* “ The Literary Profession in the Elizabethan Age," by<br />
Phoebe Shearyo, D.Litt. Published by the Manchester<br />
University Press.<br />
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with inscriptions, knocked down at the same sale<br />
for £101, having sold in July, 1908, for £270.<br />
As the preface points out, the present is a bad<br />
time for selling rare books, and a good time for<br />
purchasing them. “ Rare and expensive books<br />
have, in common with others of less interest,<br />
fallen very considerably in value as a whole."<br />
dramatists and authors in order to make both ends<br />
meet.<br />
Dramatists took shares in other theatrical<br />
ventures, some even shares in the house, i.e., the<br />
theatre itself. Some werc salaried by patrons.<br />
While authors of books went into the professions<br />
of clergymen, tutors private and at the Universities,<br />
or schoolmasters.<br />
The book has undoubted claims not only on all<br />
those who write, but also on all those who read.<br />
It is as well that those who have received at times<br />
infinite relaxation from the highest literature,<br />
should know with what heartburnings, from what<br />
misery, amid what sordid surroundings their<br />
pleasure has been manufactured.<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
BOOK-PRICES CURRENT. VOL. XXIV.<br />
NO. 5.<br />
T HIS is the concluding number of the 24th<br />
1 volume of “Book-Prices Current," and, as<br />
usual, contains in addition to very full general<br />
Index, a preface in which will be found interesting<br />
remarks respecting the sales of the season 1909-<br />
1910. The sales recorded are those from June 15,<br />
1910, to July 29, 1910, inclusively. Authors will<br />
probably find particularly interesting Sotheby's<br />
sale (July 18, etc.), which included a large pro-<br />
portion of belles lettres, as well as many books<br />
which seldom turn up. At Sotheby's sale, June 16<br />
and 17, Burns' original holograph MS. draft of<br />
his letter to William Pitt, entitled “ Address of<br />
the Scottish Distillers,” fetched £190 ; and at a<br />
sale by the same firm on July 26 another letter of<br />
his £235. At the same sale of June 16 the first<br />
Aldine edition of the “ Terze Rime” of Dante, the<br />
first Aldine, showing the well-known anchor, sold<br />
for £6 58. Collections, in the one case of eighteen<br />
and in the other of sixteen publications, of the<br />
Kelmscott Press were offered on June 18 and<br />
July 21 respectively by Sotheby. The preface<br />
remarks that an unusually large proportion of<br />
collections of books has been a feature of this<br />
season's sales. The Ruston sale (Sotheby, July 21-<br />
22) included a number of ancient MSS. from the<br />
Abbatial Library of Waltham Holy Cross, and the<br />
Monastic Library of St. Edmundsbury. The sale<br />
(Sotheby, July 21) for £38 of a copy of the first<br />
edition of Edward Fitzgerald's “ Omar Khayyam,”<br />
wanting the brown covers, will attract the notice<br />
of those who remember that Mr. Quaritch at one<br />
time found it difficult to persuade the public to<br />
purchase the work. An opposite phenomenon is<br />
presented (Sotheby, July 16-17) by " Purchas his<br />
Pilgramage," 3rd edit., 1617, presentation copy<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
To the Secretary of the Society of Authors.<br />
DEAR MR. THRING,— Will you kindly convey<br />
to the Chairman and committee of the Authors'<br />
Pension Fund my heartfelt thanks for their generous<br />
award to me, the wording of which touches me<br />
deeply, viz., that it is "the only recognition in<br />
their power, of my long services to literature and<br />
high example of sincerity and sound work." Pray<br />
assure them that I look upon this pension as an<br />
honour that gladdens my autumn of life, besides<br />
also a handsome staff that will greatly help me on<br />
the remaining stages of my road. For, however<br />
hopefully in mind I begin to discern the Gate<br />
looming nearer ahead, it is undeniable that declining<br />
strength of body makes my work less a happiness<br />
and more weight added to that of increasing years.<br />
For some time past the wish has been in my<br />
mind to help other writers like myself. To this<br />
end I destined certain earnings, some £600 in<br />
capital. It now seems to me that if the Authors'<br />
Pension Fund would see fit to accept this as a gift,<br />
allowing me the interest during my lifetime, I<br />
should joyfully hand it over to them now, instead<br />
of bequeathing it later.<br />
The Society has so often been of help to me, and<br />
I number so many of its members among my<br />
friends, that I trust this small gift may be accept-<br />
able, and accepted by them as a token of true<br />
sympathy, and in gratitude for their most kind act<br />
of comradeship.<br />
Once more thanking the committee,<br />
Believe me,<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
May CROMMELIN.<br />
THE EDITORIAL ATTITUDE.<br />
1.<br />
DEAR SIR,--I should like to add one or two<br />
experiences to those related by “A Contributor "<br />
which called forth “The Editorial Attitude."<br />
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The editor who wrote the latter, remarks, “The himself in the bankruptcy court or a lunatic asylum.<br />
waiting for years' notion is far from being any. It was by sheer chance Hardy stuck to a profession<br />
thing like the rule, sporadic cases notwithstanding, that carried him to the top of the tree ; and we all<br />
and with it may be bracketed the notion that know the history of Meredith and his works.<br />
editors publish contributions and try to wriggle We must not kick against the pricks. I hare,<br />
out of paying for them. I am writing of respon- myself, lately had the MS. of a book returned to<br />
sible editors of established journals."<br />
me with a most courteous refusal to publish. And,<br />
The experiences I refer to are as follows:-<br />
from a like courteous explanation, it is clear the<br />
(1) I was asked by an editor to write a short book has not been read-possibly because I told<br />
story, and did so. He received it two years ago. the publisher in question that, if successful, it<br />
It is yet unpublished. I wrote in March last to would be read by four people and four people only<br />
complain, and got a reply to the effect that the in England. But what complaint have I ? Some<br />
editor had been changed and the story mislaid. publishers don't produce books for my benefit bat<br />
(2) Another editor accepted a story in January, for their own : even the skilled labourer who is<br />
1909, but it is still unpublished.<br />
honest but starving has no right to demand<br />
(3) I sent an article to a paper ; the article was employment from any capitalist.<br />
published, but no proof was sent to me, and no And our revered clients, the public ? I will<br />
payment was made. Several months afterwards I describe for the benefit of “On-looker” an interest-<br />
learned of the publication, wrote for my fees and ing little experiment that he may try with certainty<br />
received them. A little later the same paper published of success-I have tried it more than once and<br />
another article in the same way ; I kept a look-out, never failed. Let him take any more or less<br />
saw the article, waited another month, and then unknown passage from some established romance<br />
wrote asking for payment.<br />
writer and read it to a chance audience with an<br />
The three papers referred to are all well known, expression of contempt. All those who don't<br />
and the names are enclosed for the benefit of the recognise the author will agree with him that what<br />
editor of The Author, who can show them to he has read is “rot."<br />
“ Editor" in confidence, if he thinks desirable. Publishers have not to deal with reasonable<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
customers ; we all-except myself and you who<br />
ERNEST Young, read-think under the gouvernance of authority<br />
and preconceived ideas. The Protestant, the<br />
Roman, the Unitarian, the Materialist—all, under<br />
the influence of preconceived ideas, see contradictory<br />
aspects of the same one thing they regard. If<br />
SIR,_" On-looker" in his paper going to prove drivel were possible from a Kipling his worshippers<br />
that editors “do not read the manuscripts of would adore it as the supreme ; if the supreme were<br />
unknown men" might perhaps have used for argu- presented to us from an unknown writer we should<br />
ment the early history of the MSS. of “Vanity require the guidance of authority to imbue us with<br />
Fair," “ Jane Eyre,” “ Vice Versâ” and, doubtless, preconceived ideas before we could worship it as we<br />
many others.<br />
ought.<br />
The fact is that any well-established firm of Let no one complain that publishers are trades-<br />
publishers is one which is skilled in making money men ; if they were not tradesmen, and successful<br />
by the publication of books, and any book by an tradesmen, they could not continue to exist.<br />
established author gives almost a certainty of profit, Personally, I have the greatest admiration for<br />
while the best of books by an unknown man may trade. And let every writer remember, too, that<br />
fall dead from the press. James Payn, to whom if he choose he can, even as a novelist, be a suc-<br />
* On-looker” refers, proved this. He wrote two cessful tradesman, as no few prove.<br />
novels ; one, with advice, he decided was by far B ut if he respect himself as an artist let him<br />
better than the other. The former he had published remember, too, that the crown of poverty<br />
anonymously : it fell dead from the press. The and ignominy honest artists, like the author<br />
latter had the success to be expected of a book of “ The City of Dreadful Night” and Clarence<br />
published under his name. When a writer has Maugan attained to, is a thousand times better<br />
established a reputation, then sheer drivel from his worth having than the crown of present and passing<br />
pen will, for awhile, be read with pleasure and pay social and monetary success which, as tradesmen,<br />
the publisher. This fact publishers who object to we hanker after. If any writer gamble for personal<br />
bankruptcy must take into consideration. On the success he must not complain of the rules of the<br />
other hand, should anyone of them, neglecting the table ; he chooses his own table. If he be a pure<br />
travlesman's view, publish books only because they artist-an investor, not speculator-he can sit down<br />
constitute sound literature, he would shortly find cheerfully to bread and cheese in his half-a-crown-<br />
II.<br />
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a-week room and write for God and his fellowmen.<br />
There will be no result. Why should there be? It<br />
is in honest striving, not in fulfilment, that we<br />
manifest the spiritual in us.<br />
F. C. CONSTABLE.<br />
work which has undergone any revision or altera-<br />
tion,” then the only objection seems to be in the<br />
definition of the term, and the term must be altered<br />
to the word “issue,” which he suggests in his<br />
letter ; but the fixing of a unit seems to be not<br />
only practicable but essential. Mr. Hubert Haes<br />
further says in his letter, “it really does not<br />
matter to the public how many copies constitute<br />
an edition or issue.” On this point I beg to take<br />
exactly the opposite view.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
ONE INTERESTED.<br />
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br />
SIR,--I looked in vain hope in last month's<br />
issue of The Author for some comment on the<br />
newly-constituted Academic Committee.<br />
If the Times is correct in stating that its object<br />
is “ to represent pure literature in the same way<br />
that (sic) the Royal Academy represents the fine<br />
arts, the Royal Society science, and the British<br />
Academy learning," then a most disastrous start<br />
has been made in the selection of the twenty-seven<br />
original members.<br />
How many of these can be accepted unchallenged<br />
as workers in “pure literature" as apart from<br />
“ learning"?<br />
Pure literature, per se, has nothing to do with<br />
historical or pre-historical research, or the evolution<br />
of a language, though it may contribute to both.<br />
It is noticeable also that many of the learned<br />
members whose interests are literary are critics and<br />
commentators of dead authors rather than creators<br />
or appraisers of living literature, and they are not<br />
likely to inspire confidence in the proposed awards<br />
to be made to aspiring authors.<br />
Is the claim of many foreign critics to be proved<br />
once and for all time true, that the Anglo-Saxons<br />
have no art, and that the seeming exceptions which<br />
might prove the contrary are due merely to<br />
ebnliitions of Celtic or Latin blood ?<br />
Our possession of Shakespeare without a single<br />
permanent répertoire theatre where his works may<br />
be seen is surely huge joke enough, without a new<br />
academy composed of worthy professors.<br />
Yours, etc.<br />
WAYFARER.<br />
CO-OPERATIVE PUBLISHING.<br />
I.<br />
SIR,—It is not without amusement that I have<br />
read in the October number of The Author the<br />
letter signed “ D. F." with regard to “ Co-operative<br />
Publication.” I should like to say that I think it<br />
would be an unwise thing for the society to have<br />
any interest whatever in any business concern.<br />
It might prevent the officials of the society from<br />
dealing in an independent fashion. They might<br />
feel bound to bolster up the society's own publish-<br />
ing venture. Even if this was not the case, those<br />
who were anxious to find fault with the society<br />
would always claim that the action and dealings<br />
of the society must be biassed if it was connected<br />
in any way with a publisher's or agent's business.<br />
I do not in any way agree with what your corre-<br />
spondent states about Mr. Thring's advice and the<br />
dictatorial position of publishers. I have found<br />
Mr. Thring's advice very useful and have found<br />
publishers willing to alter their agreements in<br />
order to meet the authors. I cannot say about<br />
other authors, but personally I have never been<br />
“ black-balled” by a publisher although he has<br />
known of my connection with the society. Indeed,<br />
if the publishers took it into their heads to “ black-<br />
ball ” all those who were members of the Society<br />
of Authors, there would be very few authors for<br />
whom they would be able to publish.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
MIDDLE-CLASS.<br />
THE UNIT OF AN Edition.<br />
SIR, -The letter under the signature of Mr.<br />
Hubert Haes in your last issue dealing with the<br />
* Unit of an Edition” is interesting, but the<br />
suggestion that it is impracticable to obtain such<br />
a upit seems to me absurd. What reason makes<br />
it impossible, if the unit was fixed at 1,000, if<br />
500 were published to say " half an edition pub-<br />
lished,” or “ quarter of an edition published"<br />
if 2.30 were published, or if 20,000 were published,<br />
“twenty editions"? If Mr. Hubert Haes inter-<br />
prets the term "edition” as “every issue of the<br />
II.<br />
SIR,—The subject of co-operative publishing, on<br />
which there has been some correspondence in The<br />
Author, is of surpassing interest to writers who,<br />
having adopted the usual methods of publication,<br />
have found themselves out of pocket by the trans-<br />
action, or, after the lapse of many months, in receipt<br />
of an exiguous remuneration for their labour.<br />
I gather from the letter of “ D. F.” in your last<br />
issue that he proposes that the Incorporated<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
Society of Authors should set up a publishing who have found by experience “that to get<br />
business for the benefit of such of its members as Mr. Thring's kindly and admirable advice is one<br />
might prefer to issue their works through the thing, but to get the slightest alteration in a<br />
society rather than through a private firm of publisher's dictatorial proffer is wholly another," I<br />
publishers. It is, I fear, only too clear that, as beg to say that co-operative publication in some<br />
“D. F.” says, the society, although giving the form seems to me to offer almost the only issue<br />
most admirable advice to authors in regard to the from the impasse in which authors who necessarily<br />
agreements they should enter into with publishers, appeal to a restricted circle of readers frequently<br />
can bring no influence to bear on the latter in find themselves. To this class belong the majority<br />
order to induce them to accept fair instead of writers even on popular science and philosophy,<br />
of unfair agreements. Authors who have not and practically all those whose works on either<br />
“arrived” are as completely at the mercy of subject are technical. Either they must sign a<br />
publishers as they were before the society was hopelessly unsatisfactory contract or they must<br />
founded.<br />
forego publication. It is a painful dilemma, and<br />
If, as is probable, the society is incorporated I cannot but think the suggestion of co-operative<br />
under the provisions of the Companies Acts publication is worthy of consideration. It is<br />
relating to associations formed for the advance- possible also that by a carefully-thought-out<br />
ment of art, science, etc., and not for profit, then scheme of the kind, the swamping of works of real<br />
“D. F.'s” proposal could not be carried out but not catch-penny merit might become less<br />
unless the society were reconstituted as a limited common than, according to the confession of most<br />
company.<br />
publishers, it now is. The business of publication<br />
A preferable course, I think, would be for the is bound to have a pronounced commercial aspect,<br />
society, after being assured by competent advisers but it is not the only one in which it should be<br />
that a young author's work possessed distinct regarded.<br />
merit and was likely to prove a success, to defray<br />
I am,<br />
the cost (or some portion thereof) of printing and<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
preparing it for publication on agreed terms as to<br />
repayment, and to leave the author to circulate the<br />
book as best he could.<br />
An instance has just come to my knowledge of<br />
COPYRIGHT IN PHOTOGRAPHS.<br />
a young writer who printed, at small cost to him- SIR,—The question of copyright must be looked<br />
self, a very short poem. The poem had undoubted at, not only from the personal point of view, but<br />
merit, though it was of a kind that appealed to a also from the point of the advance of knowledge.<br />
limited class of readers. The author also printed The real test of private rights should be that<br />
a simple but attractive leaflet which, with the the probable profits of the author should not be<br />
assistance of his wife, he addressed and posted to reduced. To uphold an entire right over every<br />
friends and likely customers. He also sent copies photograph for about eighty years, outside of every<br />
of the poem to various papers with some of which expected profit, is a detriment to knowledge,<br />
he had a slight journalistic connection. The without any reasonable gain.<br />
result bas so far been satisfactory. The total To give an instance, many continental writers<br />
amount of cash received has of course been small, desire to use one or two illustrations from books of<br />
but it has repaid the entire cost of printing and my own; one man took nearly half his illustrations<br />
publication, with a fair margin of profit. The from me without asking. I raise no objection, as<br />
poem has been well reviewed, and the author has it is all for the good of science. But when I want<br />
established communications with quarters which to use only a few portions of photographs made by<br />
give promise of remunerative literary employment Germans, I am met with copyright claims that bar<br />
in the future.<br />
the use, which could not in any way detract from<br />
I shall be glad to have your views and those of their expected profits. Why should a newspaper<br />
your readers on the prospects of this mode of be allowed for profit to pick the plums of a new<br />
publication on a larger scale.<br />
book in extracts, while for scientific publications<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
not a single detail may be used from a photograph<br />
CRUX. without payment? The benefit to the photographer<br />
would be safeguarded by allowing not more than<br />
ten per cent. of material in any book to be from<br />
III.<br />
copyright illustrations. No one could then pirate<br />
SIR,—I have read with interest and sympathy a work, or interfere with its sale.<br />
“D. F.'s ” letter on co-operative publication in the<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
October issue of The Author. As one of those<br />
GIVE AND TAKE.<br />
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Tearle, Christian .<br />
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Thorburn, W. M.<br />
O before they proceeded with the general business.<br />
Thorn, Ismay . .<br />
. 0 5 0 The first case related to the infringement of<br />
Thurston, Mrs. .<br />
1 1 0 copyright by street hawkers. The secretary<br />
Todd, Margaret, M.D.<br />
1 1 0 reported to the committee the action that had<br />
Toynbee, William<br />
0 10 0 been taken ; that after some delay warrants had<br />
Trevelyan, G. M..<br />
: 0 10 0 been executed and the delinquents arrested. There<br />
Trevor, Major Philip.<br />
0 5 0<br />
was nothing further to report at present. The next<br />
Truman, Miss Olivia M.<br />
case arose out of the non-satisfaction of a claim<br />
Tuckett, f. F. .<br />
1 1 0 against a bankrupt paper in America. The com-<br />
Torner, G. F. .<br />
. . 0 5 0 mittee authorised the secretary to place the case in<br />
Trycross, Miss M.<br />
. . : 0 5 0 the hands of the society's American solicitors in<br />
Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor<br />
10 0 order to ascertain whether the report that had been<br />
. 0. 5 0 received from the other side was correct, and, if so,<br />
Vachell, H. A. . . . . . 5 0 0 to take what action was possible to obtain satis-<br />
Vacher, Francis . . . . . 1 1 0 faction for the member involved. The next case<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
involved the claim of two members against a any departure from their usual practice not to allow<br />
publisher for accounts and settlement. It was slip advertisements between the pages of the<br />
decided to instruct the solicitors to carry the magazine.<br />
cases through, and to ascertain the responsible The chairman then read a letter he had received<br />
parties and the exact position of the members' from the president of the Publishers' Association<br />
property. The recent death of the publisher con- relating to piracy in Holland, and the secretary<br />
cerned added a fresh complication to the matter. was instructed to see whether it was possible to<br />
Another case which had been before the com- induce a member of the society, whose special case<br />
mittee at their last meeting, referring to a claim was quoted, to allow the society to take it up on<br />
against a limited liability company, was again his behalf. It is desirable, while Holland is out-<br />
brought forward, and the secretary reported the side the Berne Convention, to stop piracy there if<br />
action that had been taken during the past month. it is possible to do so, and the present case<br />
The committee instructed the secretary to inform appeared to the committee to afford a fitting<br />
the solicitors that immediate steps should be taken opportunity for testing the position.<br />
to throw the company into liquidation. In a At the suggestion of the Dramatic Sub-com-<br />
complicated case, relating to a dispute on the con- mittee, Mr. Anstey Guthrie, subject to his<br />
struction of an agreement and on the accounts, the acceptance of the position, was elected to that<br />
committee could not, after a perusal of the papers, sub-committee.<br />
ad vise the member involved to prosecute, but The committee sanctioned the re-decoration of<br />
sug gested he should come to an amicable settle- offices which had become necessary under the lease<br />
ment. A case which the society had been con- which the society beld.<br />
ducting in San Francisco had to be abandoned The question of underselling of authors' rights<br />
owing to complications likely to arise on the title in Sweden was referred to the committee, and the<br />
of the member under the United States Copyright secretary was instructed to send the information<br />
Act. A question of infringement of copyright in he had received to the Publishers' Association and<br />
a story by one of the members was considered, and to authors' agents in order, if possible, to prevent<br />
it was decided to prosecute the offender under the such underselling in future.<br />
criminal law if possible. The last case referred to Three letters received during the past month for<br />
a dispute between an author and an agent. After the consideration of the committee were read by the<br />
considering all the papers carefully the committee secretary.<br />
decided to advise the author that they could not<br />
take the case up on his behalf as it appeared on<br />
the papers before them that he had no legal<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
defence.<br />
The secretary pointed out to the committee The last meeting of the Dramatic Sub-com-<br />
that under the Articles of Association of the mittee before the vacation was held at the offices of<br />
society, it was necessary to have two meetings of the society on Tuesday, June 21. After the<br />
the council every year. It was decided by the reading of the minutes a question with regard to<br />
committee to hold the second meeting in the non-attendance of certain members of the sub-<br />
month of November. Formal notice will be sent committee was considered. It was decided, in<br />
to members of the council in due course.<br />
order to facilitate the attendance of members, to<br />
Thursday, November 24, has been fixed as the fix a day in each month for ordinary meetings,<br />
date of the annual dinner which was cancelled owing calling special meetings when necessary at other<br />
to the death of King Edward. A conversazione will times. The day fixed was the third Friday in<br />
be held after the dinner, which members will be each month.<br />
able to attend. Full information will be sent to The sub-committee decided to ask Mr. Anstey<br />
members and associates by circular.<br />
Guthrie to accept the duties to fill the vacancy<br />
The committee delegated to the chairman their caused by the resignation of Captain Robert<br />
powers to act during the vacation in cases of Marshall.<br />
urgency and importance.<br />
A circular, which it was decided at the last<br />
It was decided to invest the sum of £140 in meeting to issue to dramatists inside the society,<br />
Dominion of Canada 376% registered Stock 1930 to was put into final shape, and will be issued in due<br />
1950, bringing the investments of the capital fund course. It is hoped that all dramatists to whom<br />
up to about £2,100.<br />
the circular is sent will reply to the questions put<br />
The next business considered was a request from to them.<br />
A member of the society to be allowed to advertise The question of copyright in the Transvaal and<br />
in The Author by a slip advertisement, but the the appointment of agents there for the society was<br />
committee regretted they were unable to make next considered. The secretary reported that he<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
had been referred by the Colonial Office to Sir to an irregularity in the author's title (due to a<br />
Richard Solomon, the Agent-General for the transfer of copyright, and affording another<br />
Transvaal. Sir Richard had stated that, without illustration of the danger of such a transfer), while<br />
doubt, the Imperial Copyright Act ran over the the other is against a paper in New Zealand,<br />
Transvaal and Orange River Colony ; that, as far and is bound, in the nature of things, to take<br />
as the local Acts were concerned, the Orange River some time. There have been three disputes on<br />
Colony had no local Copyright Act, and that the accounts. In one of these the secretary is waiting<br />
Transvaal Copyright Act was antiquated and for figures which the publisher has promised, but<br />
unlikely to afford any assistance beyond that omitted to forward ; in the second case the death<br />
already procurable under the Imperial Act for those of the publisher has brought the negotiations for<br />
whose works were infringed.<br />
the time being to a standstill, while the last one is<br />
The question of the infringement of dramatic in the hands of the society's solicitors. The<br />
rights in Calcutta was also discussed, and the secretary has conducted one case on behalf of a<br />
secretary read a letter from the society's solicitors member desiring information relative to perform-<br />
in Calcutta in regard to the position of the ances of his play in Italy under a licence granted<br />
manager of the company who had been responsible to a resident of that country. The information<br />
for most of the infringements. In view of the has been received and the matter closed. Of two<br />
information contained in that letter the sub. cases relating to cancellation of contracts, one is<br />
committee regretted it was impossible to take still in the course of settlement, and the other has<br />
any useful steps at present, but instructed the been satisfactorily terminated by the cancellation<br />
secretary to watch events and, should a suitable of the agreement and the delivery up of the stock<br />
opportunity occur, to bring the matter before them to the author, who has since found a fresh publisher.<br />
again.<br />
The last case was one against a publisher who had<br />
The consideration of a complaint submitted to delayed publication of a book which he had agreed<br />
the Dramatic Sub-committee by a member of the to publish. There is every hope that the book<br />
society who had called into question the action of will shortly be on the market.<br />
another member was postponed owing to the fact There are three cases open from former months.<br />
that the member who had made the complaint had One of these remains in abeyance at the author's<br />
omitted to send in his statement of his case. The request. The second, in America, is in course of<br />
secretary was instructed to write for the statement settlement, while in the last the society's accountants<br />
so that it should be received in time for the next are in communication with the publisher.<br />
meeting.<br />
Cases.<br />
Elections.<br />
Since the publication of the July issue of The<br />
Author thirty cases have come into the hands of Adams, Evelyn .<br />
the secretary. Three were claims for the return Arlen, Charles R. . Chichester House,<br />
of MSS., and of these two were successful ; but<br />
Chancery Lane,<br />
one had to be abandoned as the periodical<br />
W.C.<br />
bad ceased publication and given up its offices. Binns, Henry Bryan.<br />
Nine claims for accounts were brought to the society. Burt, Major A.. . . 3rd Dragoon Guards,<br />
With the exception of one case, all of these were<br />
Aldershot.<br />
settled. The accounts were rendered, and forwarded Curlewis, Mrs. . . . Avenel, Mosman, Syd-<br />
to the authors. In the remaining case the accounts<br />
ney, Australia.<br />
have been promised, and will probably be to hand Fox, Miss Marion . . 118, Eaton Square,<br />
by the time this record is published. Of nine<br />
S.W.<br />
claims for money only two have been settled. Gordon-Smith, R. . . Arthurs' Club, St.<br />
Three have had to be transferred to the solicitors,<br />
James' Street, S.W.<br />
and will no doubt be satisfied when the delinquents Hearne, Miss Isabel . . Omeath, co. Louth,<br />
appreciate that action will be taken against<br />
Ireland.<br />
them. In one case some delay has occurred owing King, Alfred R. , . Willowdale Farm,<br />
to the difficulty of fixing the responsibility for the<br />
Stanton - Harcourt.<br />
debt, while in the remaining two, one is for a Koebel, Wm. Henry. . Authors' Club, 2,<br />
very insignificant sum due on account rendered,<br />
Whitehall Court,<br />
and the other has only just come into the office.<br />
S.W.<br />
There were two claims for infringement of copy. Leighton, Robert . . 10, Abbey Road,<br />
right, but one of these had to be abandoned owing<br />
N.W.<br />
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THE OLD TESTAMENT STORY. Told to the Young. By<br />
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PHILOSOPHY.<br />
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POETRY.<br />
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WATSON. 7* * 5. 48 pp. Nash. 28. 60, n.<br />
18, n.<br />
THE CHAINED TITAN: A POEM OF YESTERDAY AND<br />
TO-DAY. By W. G. HOLT. 74 x 54. 104 pp. Bell.<br />
43. 6d. n.<br />
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BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY Miss May Crommelin's last novel, “ Lovers on<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
the Green," of which Messrs. Hutchinson & Co.<br />
are the publishers, is now in a second edition.<br />
Long illness and a family bereavement have<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
prevented Miss Crommelin from doing very much<br />
EDWARD MARJORIBANKS, LORD TWEEDMOUTH. By literary work during the last two years : but she<br />
The Countess of Aberdeen. 158 pp. New York : Dutton.<br />
is now engaged on another novel, the scene of<br />
$2 n.<br />
ROBERT BLATCHFORD : THE SKETCH OF A PERSONALITY:<br />
which is laid in the Loire valley.<br />
AN ESTIMATE OF SOME ACHIEVEMENTS. By A. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons are the publishers of a<br />
O'NEIL LYONS. 189 pp. New York : John Lane & Co. work by the Rev. Percy Dearmer, entitled “ Body<br />
75 cents, n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
and Soul,” representing an inquiry into the effects<br />
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BURIED ALIVE. By ARNOLD BENNETT. 272 pp. New ment to the present day.<br />
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The unction of the sick, shrines, and pilgrim-<br />
A MOTLEY. By JOHN GALSWORTHY. 274 pp. New ages, amongst other things, are fully discussed,<br />
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AN ISLAND STORY: A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.<br />
at Nancy.<br />
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We have received Vol. 9 of “ A Saunter through<br />
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Kent with Pen and Pencil,” by Charles Igglesden,<br />
SCOTLAND'S STORY: A CHILD'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. which is published from the office of the Kentish<br />
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J. HASSALL, and J. SHAW COMPTON. New York :<br />
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Mr. Igglesden passes through Sissinghurst,<br />
LITERARY.<br />
Goodnestone-next-Wingham, Chartham, Loose,<br />
FULL FATHOM FIVE; A SEA ANTHOLOGY IN PROSE Coxheath, Bridge, and Patrixbourne. There are<br />
AND VERSE. By HELEN and LEWIS MELVILLE. 268 pp. many sketches of old houses and historic spots,<br />
New York : Macmillan. $1.50 n.<br />
and much that is interesting in regard to the<br />
ESSAYS MODERN AND ELIZABETHAN. By Professor E.<br />
DOWDEN. 380 pp. New York : Dutton. $2. n.<br />
We local traditions and legends of the places<br />
THE PASSIONS OF THE FRENCH ROMANTICS. By FRANCIS described.<br />
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James Hinton, F. Nietzsche, and Edward<br />
BERNARD SHAW AS' ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER.' By RENÉL Carpenter are the Three Modern Seers of whom<br />
M. DEACON. New York : John Lane Co.<br />
Mrs. Havelock Ellis treats in her book of that<br />
MEDICAL<br />
title published recently by Messrs. Stanley Paul<br />
THE LAWS OF HEREDITY. By G. ARCHDALE REID. New & Co.<br />
York : Macmillan. $5.50.<br />
Mrs. Ellis has chosen these three men as repre-<br />
sentatives of the various sides of the moral and<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
spiritual outlook of the age.<br />
STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK. Edited by J. SCOTT KELTIE :<br />
Messrs. Edmonston-Scott & Co., of Forth<br />
with the assistance of J. P. A. KENWICK. Forty-seventh<br />
annual publication : revised after official returns. New<br />
Street, Edinburgh, are the publishers of a work<br />
York : Macmillan. $3 n.<br />
by Mr. W. J. Edmonston-Scott, called “The<br />
Elements of Negro Religion.” The author's aim<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
has been to give a lucid account of the history of<br />
OXFORD. By F. D. How. Boston : Estes. $1.25.<br />
religious belief among the negroes, and to allow<br />
the negro, as far as possible, to tell his own tale<br />
in his own words.<br />
Mr. Richard Steel has just published a second<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL and revised edition of his book, “Imitation :<br />
NOTES.<br />
The Mimetic Function in Human Nature and in<br />
Nature.” The writer approaches the subject from<br />
many sides, starting with imitation in infant and<br />
M R S. M. H. Spielmann's new book is a child life, continuing in education, in later<br />
1 romantic fantasy, illustrated by Mr. C. youthful life, and early maturity. Other chapters<br />
Wilhelm. It will be published in the deal with imitation in ethics, religion, and politics,<br />
autumn by Messrs. Duckworth & Co.<br />
in language, poetry, and the fine arts, in<br />
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economics, in heredity and inorganic matter, while the New are worked out in the novel, which<br />
in an appendix the writer refers to imitation in the contains also some descriptions of life in the bush<br />
reasoning process. Messrs. Young & Sons in and Southern Alps of New Zealand. Messrs.<br />
Liverpool, and Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Sands & Co. are to publish the book on the 15th<br />
in London, publish the book, the published price of this month.<br />
of which is 3s. 6d. nett.<br />
Mr. T. Werner Laurie has published “The<br />
Mr. Maurice Hewlett's new novel, “Rest Old Testament Story: Told to the Young,"<br />
Harrow," was issued in September by Messrs. by Miss Gladys Davidson, whose “Stories from<br />
Macmillan & Co., the publishers of “ Open the Operas" were published by the same firm.<br />
Country," the leading characters of which re- The present work is written on broad lines, the<br />
appear in the new story.<br />
stories being treated in accordance with modern<br />
The same publishers have now the publishing views, yet strictly moderate in tone. It contains<br />
of Mr Stephen Reynolds' two books,“A Poor a complete outline of the Old Testament story,<br />
Man's House” and - The Holy Mountain.”<br />
special care having been taken to preserve the<br />
The raison d'être of “The Enemy of Woman," Oriental atmosphere, reverence, and beauty of the<br />
Miss Winifred Graham's new novel, is to portray narratives. The book is fully illustrated in double<br />
what disastrous consequences are engendered by a tone from pictures by old masters.<br />
mad desire for women's suffrage, and the bad Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co. are publish-<br />
effects on home life of unbalancing feminine minds. ing a new historical novel by Marie Hay. Its<br />
Messrs. Mills & Boon are the publishers.<br />
title is “ The Winter Queen,” and treats of the<br />
Messrs. Hurst & Blackett have published Miss unhappy history of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of<br />
Mary C. Rowsell's work on Ninon de L'Enclos Bohemia, Electress Palatine.<br />
and Her Century. Besides telling Ninon's story, “Sahib-log" is the title of a novel by Eva Mary<br />
Miss Rowsell provides the reader with a portrait Bell, published by Messrs. S. Duckworth & Co.<br />
gallery of the famous men and women of the It deals with the lives of a few of the ruling races<br />
times of Louis XIII., and the Grand Monarque. in India, and especially with those who have<br />
Miss C. C. Dyson's “Life of Marie Amélie” relations with the fighting races of that Empire.<br />
has just been published by John Long, Ltd. The officers of the Indian army and the native<br />
Marie Amélie was the last Queen of the French, officers and sepoys with their wives are among<br />
reigning from 1782 to 1866, and this rolume those of whom the writer treats.<br />
contains some account of the principal personages Mr. W. J. Wintle has resigned his position as<br />
at the Courts of Naples and France in her time, general manager of the Sunday School Union and<br />
and of the careers of her sons and daughters. has joined the staff of John Ouseley, Ltd., as<br />
It contains a photogravure portrait, and other managing director, succeeding Mr. John Ouseley.<br />
rare portraits and illustrations.<br />
Mr. E. Elliot Stock recently joined the same firm<br />
" 'T'he Devourers," by A. Vivanti Chartres, as manager of the technical department.<br />
published by Mr. William Heinemann, is in its “Peggy D. 0.," the new children's story by<br />
third edition. Messrs. Putnams & Sons are the Helen H. Watson (Mrs. Herbert A. Watson), at<br />
publishers in New York.<br />
present running as a serial in Little Folks, will be<br />
Messrs. Chatto & Windus published early in published in book form by Messrs. Cassell during<br />
September a new novel by Mrs. F. E. Penny, the coming autumn. Mrs. Watson is at present<br />
called “Sacrifice." The story is of the Meriah engaged on a sequel for older girls of this story,<br />
sacrifices of the Khonds, a hill tribe in the and arrangements for its publication are in course<br />
district of Ganjam, which is in the northern part of completion.<br />
of the Presidency of Madras. The ancient A pamphlet dealing with the scientific cause of<br />
custom of some primitive peoples of sacrificing the present rising and rebellion of womanhood<br />
young men and women to the Earth goddess, in against constitutional government, viewed in the<br />
order to bring good fortune and abundant light of Theosophy, has been published by Messrs.<br />
harvests to the tribe was observed among the Swan, Sonnenschien & Co. The pamphlet, written<br />
Khonds up to recent times. The Government of by J. E. Taylor, bears the title “The Suffrage<br />
India has put down the practice as far as it is able; Movement from its Evolutionary Aspect.”<br />
but occasional cases occur and have to be dealt Mr. Sydney Y. Ford has been appointed<br />
with by the watchful civil authorities.<br />
managing editor of the South African Insurance<br />
“ The Heart of the Bush ” is an idyllic story and Commercial Record—a monthly which is pub-<br />
of New Zealand bush life, by Edith Searle lished in the new parliamentary capital of South<br />
Grossmann. The heroine, educated in England, Africa.<br />
returns to her native land, and her perplexities His Majesty the King of the Hellenes has been<br />
between the attractions of the Old World and pleased to confer the Order and Insignia of the<br />
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Redeemer on the following gentlemen : Professor and of her courtiers, her enemies, and her lover,<br />
Samuel Henry Butcher, M.P. for the University Prince Louis of Taranto. Messrs. Mills & Boon<br />
of Cambridge, and President of the British Academy; are the publishers.<br />
the Hon. Canon Lyttelton, Headmaster of Eton Messrs. Briggs & Co., of Toronto, have forwarded<br />
College ; Mr. Walter Leaf, Vice-President of the to us a tastefully-produced volume entitled “The<br />
London Chamber of Cominerce ; and Mr. William Union Jack and Flags of the Empire." Mr. Barlow<br />
Angus Knight, of Malvern, Emeritus Professor of Cumberland, President of the Ontario Historical<br />
Philosophy in the University of St. Andrew's. Society, is the author of the work, and in it he<br />
This is the outcome of his Majesty's desire to explains the meanings of national ensigns, tracing<br />
draw the University of Athens into closer relations the development of the Jacks of England, Scotland,<br />
with the Universities of Great Britain. Mr. and Ireland, their union in the British Isles and<br />
Butcher is recognised as the most distinguished expansion in the dominions beyond the seas.<br />
of Greek scholars and teachers in England, and a There are nine coloured plates of flags and sixty-<br />
university representative of note ; Mr. Lyttelton nine engravings.<br />
is honoured as a scholar, and the head of England's The September number of Travel and Exploration<br />
most famous public school. The Order is given covers a fairly wide field, ranging from Morocco<br />
to Mr. Leaf as one of the founders of the London in the extreme west to the Burmo-Chinese frontier.<br />
Chamber of Commerce, from his eminence as a Colonel Beresford describes his tour through little-<br />
Greek scholar and his writings on Homer; and to known tracts in the Caucasus ; Mr. H. G. A.<br />
Mr. Knight from his numerous contributions to Leveson contributes a paper describing survey<br />
philosophy and literature, and his varied univer- work on the Burmo-Chinese frontier, while Mr.<br />
sity services.<br />
Eustace Reynolds-Ball (who edits the magazine)<br />
Miss Peggy Webling, whose book, “ The Story describes an amusing adventure with an Algerian<br />
of Virginia Perfect,” is now in its third edition, panther.<br />
has published another entitled “The Spirit of In the October number of the Westminster Review<br />
Mirth.” Both books are published by Messre. an article appears from the pen of Alfred Smythe,<br />
Methuen & Co. “The Spirit of Mirth” is a F.R.G.S., entitled “ Ancient Coinage from a Non-<br />
London story, and all the characters in it are, Commercial Standpoint.”<br />
more or less, sketched from life.<br />
“ Cross and Dagger," by W. Scott Durrant,<br />
Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond is now preparing for the published by Messrs. Methuen & Co. last month,<br />
press a large number of interesting letters written is the story of the amazing crusade of tens of<br />
between 1789 and 1800 by Sophia, Countess thousands of children in 1212 for the recovery of the<br />
Bentinck (whose husband was a son of the first Holy Places. It tells the adventures of two cousins,<br />
Earl of Portland), to her granddaughter, Sophia who are boys of fifteen and fourteen when the<br />
Hawkins-Whitshed (née Bentinck), and her grand- story opens. Mr. Arthur H. Buckland has illus-<br />
son by marriage, Admiral Sir James Hawking- trated the book.<br />
Whitshed. These letters were only recently “The Chained Titan," a poem of yesterday and<br />
discovered amongst family papers, and their great to-day, was published in September by Messrs.<br />
interest lies in their comments upon current events George Bell & Sons. It is the work of Mr. W. G.<br />
in Europe, and their frequent allusions to many Hole, and deals with some of the social problems<br />
public characters in Austria, Germany, Holland of the present day.<br />
and France. A journal by Admiral Sir James Raymond Jacberns' new books for juveniles<br />
Hawkins-Whitshed of a cruise by himself and his this season are“ A Schoolgirl's Battlefield," “ Three<br />
brother-in-law, William Bentinck, in 1799, has also Amateur Scouts,” and “Poor Uncle Harry.” They<br />
come to light, and may be included in the are all published by Messrs. W. & R. Chambers,<br />
volumes, together with some hitherto inaccessible the first one at 58. and the others at 3s. 6d. The<br />
letters from Lord Rodney found at the same time. same writer's new novel, “ An Everyday Romance,"<br />
Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond would gratefully welcome will be published shortly by Messrs. Wells, Gardner,<br />
the loan of any private letters of that period Darton & Co. at 58.<br />
relative to the family, and suggestions as to suitable A new historical biography by Mrs. Edith E.<br />
illustrations. Her address is Barming House, Cuthell, F.R.Hist. S., author of “ Wilhelmina<br />
near Maidstone.<br />
Margravine of Baireuth,” will be published early<br />
“ Jehanne of the Golden Lips,” a first novel by in the year by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co., that<br />
Frances G. Knowles-Foster, is a love story of of Marie Louise, Empress of the French, the first<br />
Queen Jehanne of Naples, in which history and wife of Napoleon I.<br />
romance are blended so as to give a human picture Amy McLaren's new novel, “Bawbee Jock,”<br />
of Jehanne-her heroism, her waywardness, her will be published at the close of this month by<br />
genius for dominion in her relations with everyone, Mr. John Murray. The scene is laid in the High-<br />
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lands of Scotland, and the story bears on the “Nobody's Daughter,” by George Paston, was<br />
clan-sentiment of patriotism and love of country produced at Wyndham's Theatre on September 3.<br />
which is so deeply rooted in the Celtic nature, It is the story of a manufacturer in the Midlands,<br />
Miss Jean Middlemass' novel, “At the Altar who discovers that his wife's supposed ward is, in<br />
Steps," having run as a serial by the National fact, her daughter born before marriage, the father<br />
Press Syndicate, will be published shortly by Messrs. being the manufacturer's friend and a visitor at<br />
Digby, Long & Co.<br />
the time of the discovery. The cast includes Miss<br />
Stella M. Düring's latest novel, “ The End of Rosalie Toller, Mr. Sydney Valentine, Mr. Marsh<br />
the Rainbow," published in England by Messrs. Allen, and Miss Lilian Braithwaite.<br />
Chapman & Hall, has been brought out in “The Eternal Question," Mr. Hall Caine's<br />
America by the J. B. Lippincott Co. of Phila- new play founded on his novel, “ The Eternal<br />
delphia. Two of her earlier novels, “Malicious City," was produced at the Garrick Theatre on<br />
Fortune ” and “Disinherited,” have also been August 27. The cast included Mr. Gay<br />
added to “ The Daily Mail Sixpenny Series.” Standing, Miss Tittell-Brune, and Mr. Halliwell<br />
Miss A. E. Keeton will lecture at the Women's Hobbes.<br />
Institute, 92, Victoria Street, S.W., on Wednesday, Mr. Stephen Grace has dramatised a short story<br />
October 5, at 4 p.m. The subject of her lecture which appeared in his volume of “Yarns." The<br />
will be “On Making a Musical Palate.”<br />
sketch will be produced by Mr. Henry Bagge, who<br />
Mr. George Hansby Russell's new novel, “Grit,” takes the part of Lient.-Commander Anson. The<br />
which Mr. John Murray publishes, is a story of action takes place on board a torpedo boat<br />
the wilds of south-east Africa. The reader is destroyer during an attack upon a hostile<br />
taken into the wild, untamed region lying between squadron, and is carried out with the utmost<br />
the great Limpopo river and the river of Inhambane, realism.<br />
where the savage tribes recognise no laws but their Mr. W. J. Locke's new play, “The Man from<br />
own. There are many thrilling incidents in the the Sea,” was produced at the Queen's Theatre<br />
story, which essays to prove that strict attention last month. In the cast are Miss Nina Bouci-<br />
to duty, implicit obedience and pluck go far cault, Miss Beryl Faber, Mr. Robert Loraine, and.<br />
towards the making up of the “grit” of the Mr. Arthur Lewis Vane Tempest.<br />
world pioneers and empire builders.<br />
“The High Road of the Alps” is the title<br />
of a Motoring Guide to One Hundred Mountain<br />
Passes by Mr. Charles L. Freeston. Published<br />
by Messrs. Kegan, Paul l& Co., it contains 102<br />
illustrations, for the most part from photographs<br />
“ DE PROFUNDIS.”<br />
by the author, together with several sketch maps<br />
indicating the relationship of the various groups<br />
of passes to each other, a specially prepared map CONSPIRACY TO INFRINGE COPYRIGHT.<br />
of Alping territory generally, and a specially<br />
designed cover. It is issued at 10s. 6d., net.<br />
T the Central Criminal Court, in July, six:<br />
men were charged with offences relating to<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
the sale of pirated copies of the late Mr.<br />
Oscar Wilde's book “ De Profundis.”<br />
The Walter Scott Publishing Co. bave published All the defendants pleaded guilty, with the<br />
a new work by Mr. Deane Ballynn entitled “The exception of Arthur Puddifoot, against whom no<br />
Price of Freedom.” It is a tale of to-day, which evidence was offered, and he was accordingly<br />
the author has cast in a new literary form. This discharged.<br />
form is described in an introduction to the volume It appeared from counsel's statement that the<br />
-an introduction which takes the form of a dis- defendants were concerned in a criminal conspiracy<br />
cussion between a dramatist, an old actor, an to infringe the copyright and to defraud the copy-<br />
actor-manager, and a publisher. Mr. Ballynn's right owner of the profits derived from a legitimate<br />
view is that the dramatist should write his play sale of the work.<br />
as a continuous narrative, and publish it before It is necessary to give the names to show the<br />
production, and this he has done in the work part that each defendant took in connection with<br />
under notice. A playright production of the play the conspiracy. The accused were :-John Wesley<br />
“ The Price of Freedom" was given at Hill Puddifoot, Arthur Puddifoot, Philip Fleming<br />
Theatre, Dundee, on Saturday, August 27, the Bokenham, Abraham Kinsett, Albert Bowden, and<br />
principal parts being taken by Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kelly.<br />
Karpe.<br />
It was stated that the book. “De Profundis,".<br />
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which was originally published by Messrs. Methuen With regard to Kelly, who was found selling<br />
in February, 1905, ran through a large number of copies in the street and pleaded guilty to being in<br />
editions, and the profits bad been sufficient to possession of pirated copies, it was stated that he<br />
enable Mr. Ross, the copyright owner and was prosecuted in order that street-sellers might<br />
administrator of the estate of the deceased author, know the risk they ran in selling books which bore<br />
to pay the latter's debts in full and to provide a no printer's or publisher's name upon them,<br />
considerable sum for the benefit of his children. especially when they were sold to them under<br />
In April last Mr. Ross discovered that pirated such conditions. The Court was asked to deal<br />
copies of the book were being sold in large numbers with him leniently, and he was released upon his<br />
in the streets at the price of id. Inquiries recognisances.<br />
were made and observation kept, with the result The Authors' Society is to be congratulated upon<br />
that sufficient evidence was obtained to enable the its successful exposure of this fraud, which ought<br />
Authors' Society to institute a prosecution against to put a check upon the organised sale by street-<br />
those who were principally concerned in the sellers of pirated works. The method of procedure<br />
conspiracy.<br />
in respect of pirated music is simpler, owing to the<br />
The printing of the pirated copies—which was Act of 1906; but it is important that hawkers<br />
traced to J. W. Puddifoot, who had been convicted should realise that a conspiracy to sell pirated copies<br />
in 1906 for a similar offence in connection with of any “book” is a criminal offence. No doubt<br />
pirated music was done upon the premises of special efforts are required to obtain evidence of<br />
what was called the “Milton Press, Ltd.," a com- conspiracy, and it is well that the Authors' Society<br />
pany merely in name, of which J. W. Puddifoot has not grudged the trouble and expense of making<br />
and his son Arthur were directors. Bundles of inquiries and setting a watch upon premises and<br />
these copies when printed, to the number of many upon the movements of street-sellers, in order to<br />
thousands, were sent in vans and stored in a room trace the method of distribution and bring to<br />
in Whitechapel, which was rented by Kinsett at justice the principal offenders.<br />
28. 6d. a week. At the time of the arrest some<br />
5,000 copies were found upon the premises.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
The method of distribution was systematic.<br />
Small parcels were taken from the store, as<br />
required from time to time, and left at a neigh-<br />
bouring coffee-house, of which Bowden was pro-<br />
EDITORIAL NOTICES.<br />
prietor, and the pirated copies were purchased at<br />
6d. a quire by hawkers visiting the house, and<br />
were sold in the streets at a considerable profit. “ All stories, articles, poems, photographs, drawings, &c.<br />
Bokepham, who had failed in the printing<br />
m who had failed in the printing submitted to the editor for consideration must bear the<br />
names and addresses of the senders and be accompanied<br />
business, was said to be the man who was most<br />
by stamped and addressed envelopes, otherwise they<br />
actively concerned in the conspiracy, though be cannot be considered or returned. MSS. must be folded-<br />
kept himself to some extent in the background. not rolled—and should be typewritten.<br />
He stood in the position of publisher. He had<br />
the nosition of publisher He had “The length of short stories submitted should be from<br />
1,000 to 4,000 words.<br />
taken a manuscript copy of the book to J. W.<br />
" It must be understood that while care is taken of<br />
Puddifoot and asked for a quotation for printing contributions submitted, they are sent at the author's<br />
20,000 copies, the quotation being £16. He had risk, and the editor is not responsible for their safe<br />
been previously convicted of offences in connection custody or return, nor does he invite contributions.<br />
with the sale of pirated copies of music, and was<br />
“The acceptance of articles, stories, illustrations, &c., is<br />
no guarantee that contributions will be published within<br />
sentenced on this occasion to six months' imprison- any given time, or at all."<br />
ment.<br />
J. W. Puddifoot, the printer, who had also been ITTE should like to draw attention to the<br />
previously convicted, was sentenced to one month's W Notices to Contributors that appear in<br />
imprisonment.<br />
many magazines, and print above one<br />
Kinsett, who acted with Bokepham in the taken at random. It is often put forward by<br />
distribution of the pirated copies, was sentenced editors that when they accept stories without any<br />
to two months in the second division.<br />
notice whatever as to the terms and price, the<br />
On behalf of Bowden, it was urged that he author is bound by the notice that appears in<br />
merely allowed copies to be distributed among the the magazine. It is very doubtful how far a<br />
hawkers who frequented his coffee-house, in order notice printed at the beginning of a magazine<br />
to obtain their custom; and that he made no could legally bind the author who has sent in his<br />
direct gain out of any transaction connected with contribution, unless the editor could show that the<br />
the sale of the pirated work. He was fined £20. notice had come to the author's attention.<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
If editors were more businesslike, a dispute of<br />
this kind could never have arisen, for the editorial<br />
letter of acceptance would have run somewhat<br />
as follows :-“We accept your article on the<br />
understanding that we pay you for the world<br />
copyright.” Most editors, however, know that<br />
no author would accept a contract on these<br />
conditions. We must emphasise the fact that if<br />
editors were more accurate and more careful in<br />
making contracts, half the disputes—nay, more<br />
than half the disputes-would never arise, and<br />
there would be very little reason for publishing<br />
in The Author papers dealing with the “Editorial<br />
Attitude," which have appeared in the last few<br />
numbers,<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
BLACKWOOD's.<br />
King James and the English Puritans : An Unpublished<br />
Document.<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. By Thomas Seccombe.<br />
Balzac. By Professor Saintsbury.<br />
In the notice which we print the editor would seem<br />
to have reserved to himself the right, after accepting<br />
a story for publication, to refuse to publish it. It<br />
is possible that by law he could not be compelled<br />
to publish, but, no doubt, if he refused to publish<br />
he would subject himself, in addition to a claim<br />
for payment, to an action for damages for non-<br />
publication. The absurdity of this clause in the<br />
notice would make the statement still more certain<br />
that an author would not be bound by such a<br />
notice unless his attention was specially drawn to<br />
it. Otherwise the editor might make arbitrary<br />
regulations by which he should not only have<br />
absolute control as to alterations of articles and<br />
stories, but should have also a right to the copyright.<br />
In fact, disputes on this point have from time to<br />
time arisen, not in consequence of the printing of a<br />
notice, but from an editor's demand after acceptance<br />
of a story without any terms being expressed.<br />
The following case will explain this point :-<br />
A member sent up a contribution to a paper,<br />
which was accepted and published. The natural<br />
deduction, when an author sends up a contribution<br />
to a magazine, is that he is offering to the editor<br />
the first serial use of that contribution for the<br />
magazine, but in this instance there was no<br />
expression on either side as to what rights actually<br />
passed. If the notice to contributors is to bind<br />
contributors, it should bind equally the editor of the<br />
magazine. Does the editor in this notice say that,<br />
when he accepts an article, he desires to purchase<br />
the world's copyright? Yet this is the position<br />
he often adopts when asked for payment by the<br />
contributor. Would any editor care to put such a<br />
claim to the world's copyright in his paper ?<br />
Surely not. No author sending up a contribution<br />
to a magazine would be willing to sell the whole<br />
copyright for the mere payment of a magazine<br />
contribution.<br />
But a worse feature comes to light when we<br />
see that a cheque issued in payment purport to be<br />
a receipt for the conveyance of the copyright.<br />
When signed by the author such receipt would not,<br />
of course, upset the contract which already existed,<br />
though it might be evidence—if signed without<br />
demur of the terms of the contract. An editor,<br />
on his attention being drawn to the matter after<br />
publication, states : “That the author never<br />
suggested anything about serial rights,'” and he<br />
continues as follows :-“In making the offer, as is<br />
customary, we included the copyright of it,” but<br />
there does not appear to be on the letters of<br />
acceptance any mention of the word “copyright,"<br />
or any indication of the desire to purchase the<br />
copyright, nor is there any indication in the notice<br />
to contributors that where articles are accepted<br />
it is the intention of the editor to include the<br />
copyright.<br />
Book MONTHLY.<br />
Topics of the Time : King Edward's Memoirs.<br />
A New Encyclopædia : Library Censorship.<br />
A Word on the Right Christening of Novel Heroines.<br />
By W. L. George.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
The Lady of the Salon. By Mrs. Geo. Haven Putnam.<br />
Some Irish Poetry. By Geraldine Hodgson, Litt.D.<br />
Children in English Poetry.<br />
CORNHILL.<br />
The Centenary of Mrs. Gaskell. By Sarah A, Tooley.<br />
Concerning Guide Books, By Claude S. Benson,<br />
A Polar Laureate : Sir Francis Doyle.<br />
Communicated by Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW,<br />
The Women of Shakespeare. By Frank Harris.<br />
The Handling of Words : Maurice Hewlett. By Vernon<br />
Lee.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW.<br />
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. By K. L. Montgomery.<br />
The Poetry of Yone Noguchis. By Arthur Ransome.<br />
NATIONAL REVIEW.<br />
The Libraries and their Critics. By an Old Subscriber.<br />
English Pictures in German Galleries. By W. Roberts.<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
The Centenary of Mrs. Gaskell. By Lewis Melville.<br />
The Genius of Gibbon. 1, Gibbon the Man. By the<br />
Rev. A. H. T. Clarke.<br />
Folk-Lore in Word-Lore. By the Rev. Dr. Smythe-<br />
Palmer.<br />
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HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. H VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favourable, and the sanction of the Committee<br />
is obtained, action will be taken on behalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourself, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
6. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, ar £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor 1<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed rovalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
beans.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author." We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
u agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
I. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
<br />
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THE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con-<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans.<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
L assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan.<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble.<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young 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 possi ole, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
QCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 28. 68. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
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GENERAL NOTES.<br />
strong support which, with the untiring energy of<br />
its founder, Sir Walter Besant, carried the society<br />
forward in difficult days on its fortunate career.<br />
All members, therefore, owe to Mr. W. Holman<br />
Hunt, O.M., a deep debt of gratitude.<br />
OUR PRESIDENT.<br />
We know that our members will learn with<br />
gratification that His Majesty has added the<br />
name of Thomas Hardy, our President, to the<br />
very select roll of the Order of Merit. To<br />
no writer of English could the distinction have<br />
come more appropriately, for in Thomas Hardy we<br />
have the finest expression of the literary man now<br />
remaining with us. While he maintained his<br />
his<br />
original rôle of novelist his work was a model alike<br />
for its breadth of conception and acate and delicate<br />
treatment. His descriptions of woodland and<br />
heath are veritable translations into words of the<br />
English countryside. His power of dealing with<br />
the gravest passions that shake the human soul make<br />
of him a great tragedian, and this power is all the<br />
more wonderful when we see it displayed alongside<br />
of his shrewd insight into rustic simplicity and<br />
broad appreciation of rustic wit. At a time when<br />
only our late President, George Meredith (himself,<br />
by the way, a member of the Order of Merit), dis-<br />
pated with him the supreme place as an English<br />
novelist, Mr. Hardy decided that his work as a<br />
novelist was over, and embarked upon his magnifi-<br />
cent epic exploit, “The Dynasts." It is no part of<br />
our business to attempt to praise the merits of this<br />
great work. We only allude to it in proof of the<br />
high and serious intent which has always charac-<br />
ich has always charac.<br />
terised our President's work and as furnishing a<br />
further reason why the King should have him in<br />
honour.<br />
THE NEW COPYRIGHT BILL.<br />
We publish as a supplement to this month's<br />
Author the memorandum on the Imperial Con.<br />
ference and the Copyright Bill.<br />
It is difficult to say what will be the result of<br />
the whole matter, as it is not only essential to<br />
wait till the Act is passed, but it is also essential to<br />
know what view the colonies will take on these<br />
important issues.<br />
It is useless to disguise the fact that there is<br />
some danger, if the colonies do not come into line<br />
with the mother country, that the English treaty<br />
with the United States may be upset and inter-<br />
national relations prejudiced.<br />
In regard to the Bill itself, we shall be pleased<br />
to receive criticism upon it for the benefit of the<br />
committees of the society that are interested in the<br />
subject, and, if necessary, for publication, but those<br />
who criticise the Bill must remember that the great<br />
point before the draftsman was to bring the statute<br />
law into uniformity with the Berlin Convention.<br />
The Bill, although not perfect, is not unsatis-<br />
factory when this point is taken into consideration.<br />
Conorio<br />
Copyright property is protected for a longer period<br />
than at present, and the definitions of it are con-<br />
siderably widened to the great benefit of the holders.<br />
THE PEnsion Fund.<br />
M. W. HOLMAN HUNT, O.M.<br />
In accordanoe with the wish of several members<br />
We hare, with deep regret, to record the death of the society, the Committee of Management have<br />
of W. Holman Hunt, 0.M., which occurred decided to publish, once every year, a full list of<br />
on September 7.<br />
the annual subscribers to the Pension Fund,<br />
His work in his own particular department of together with the amount subscribed.<br />
art is too well known to our readers to need Members will find the full statement on page 3.<br />
capitulation here.<br />
We would remind members that the regular lists<br />
His association with the Society of Authors of donors and subscribers printed monthly in<br />
dates practically from its commencement, as he The Author comprise only the fresh subscriptions<br />
joined its ranks in 1885. He was therefore among and fresh donations to the fund. We mention this<br />
the first, as well as among the most distinguished, now, as at the beginning of the year it happens,<br />
of those who have given the work of the society not infrequently, that the regular annual sub-<br />
their support. Although, latterly, increasing years scribers complain of the omission of their names<br />
prevented him from taking any active part in the in The Author.<br />
society's affairs, he was not without interest in its<br />
work, and, indeed, consulted the secretary from<br />
DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL LAW.<br />
time to time on points connected with the law of<br />
copyright.<br />
We have much pleasure in commending the<br />
The early support of such men as Holman third edition of a work on “ Dramatic and<br />
Hant was necessary to aid the society in surmount- Musical Law," by A. A. Strong, published from<br />
ing the obstacles placed in its path, and it was this the Era office. The writer states in his preface<br />
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that an endeavour has been made to explain in For book and serial rights it ought to be<br />
as simple a manner as possible such parts of the possible to get at least £15 in Sweden, and more<br />
law as relate to subjects with wbich the profession when the work is sold for the three Scandinavian<br />
is concerned, and that legal terms have as far as countries. We trust that authors will make a<br />
possible been avoided.<br />
careful note of this for their future guidance.<br />
Although the book bears principally on the<br />
contracts of actors and artists, yet there are some<br />
useful chapters for the consideration of dramatists THE INFLUENCE OF REVIEWS.<br />
and composers carried out along the lines laid upon<br />
himself by the author.<br />
We are glad to note that, in spite of the para-<br />
BY A WOMAN NOVELIST.<br />
graphs which have recently appeared in the Referee,<br />
PART I.<br />
Mr. Strong states that the society has done<br />
excellent service in many ways to dramatic authors.<br />
DRACTICALLY everyone is agreed that<br />
We can find no reference, however, to either of T reviews do influence to some extent the<br />
the cases Scholz v. Amasis and Colles v. Maugham,<br />
fortunes of a book, and the question there-<br />
in both of which the judge laid down very clearly fore becomes one of the degree in which they do<br />
some of the precepts of the laws which bind so. This is a problem of never-failing interest to<br />
dramatic authors and govern contracts with agents. all brothers and sisters of the pen, and it is perhaps<br />
It is possible, however, that the author, desirous of the one which they are the most fond of discussing<br />
doing away as far as possible with the mere formal among themselves. The most widely different<br />
parts of case law, intentionally omitted many of the views are held on it, and that, too, by the same<br />
cases he might have quoted.<br />
individuals at different periods of their literary<br />
careers ; there is indeed room for difference of<br />
opinion, for the nature of the problem is such<br />
TRANSLATION RIGHTS IN SWEDEN.<br />
that it can never be finally settled.<br />
“ How far do reviews influence the fortunes of a<br />
We should like to draw the attention of mem- book ?"<br />
bers to the prices paid for translation into the Writers are perhaps too fond of looking at the<br />
Swedish language.<br />
question from their own point of view as writers,<br />
A gentleman who has had great success in and it may therefore be useful if we consider it<br />
marketing these rights is constantly met by the from the point of view of the Press which publishes<br />
contention set up by publishers and editors of reviews of books.<br />
papers in Sweden that they can get the translation If we do this we shall at once perceive that<br />
rights of the best authors in England for the not every journal looks at literature from the same<br />
absurdly low figure of £5. Either, therefore, those angle.<br />
who are acting as agents for the author or the First, there are the papers which have a sincere<br />
authors themselves are underselling their market. respect for literature and are anxious to draw the<br />
Sometimes an author is foolish enough to hand attention of their readers only to the best work<br />
over the power to market his rights of translation of all kinds that comes out, ignoring the bad.<br />
to the publisher. If this is the case, it is quite These papers are rather fond of “discovering"<br />
possible that the publisher, who ought only to be and holding up to public admiration young and<br />
the agent for the production of the work in book unknown writers.<br />
form, will sell them for anything he thinks they Second, there are the papers which look upon<br />
will fetch, having little interest in keeping up the books as so much news material. They are not<br />
author's prices, and merely hoping to add a few interested in the vast majority of new publications,<br />
pounds without much trouble to the amount he the works of writers who are either unknown or<br />
has already received out of the book. If this was unsuccessful. But the new novel of the popular<br />
also the view that the bona fide literary agent took, author whose fame is established is a matter of<br />
the matter is more serious ; but we hardly think general interest and it must be reviewed ; that is<br />
that the agent is equally to blame, for an agent to say, the public must be told the plot, on the<br />
lives by the fees he obtains, and it is, therefore, to day of publication, just as the last new book of<br />
be presumed that it is to his advantage to keep gossipy reminiscences, or serious works—such,<br />
the market price as high as possible. But whether for instance, as Lord Cronner's monograph on<br />
the fault arises through the laxity of the agent or Egypt-are reviewed, so to speak, all hot from<br />
the publisher, the author should forbear to sign the press.<br />
any contract where these rights are practically The surest sign to a writer that he has “arrived”<br />
thrown away.<br />
are simultaneous notices in papers of this sort ;<br />
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and the surest sign that his day is over is when pathetic and wide-minded reviewing has created<br />
he no longer gets such notices.<br />
the supply, with the result that the work is now<br />
Third, there are the papers which are interested done largely by people of the sort who thirty or<br />
in other things, and only print from time to time forty years ago would have shrunk from the<br />
a few notices of books in a perfunctory sort of notion of "writing for the Press.”<br />
way.<br />
Reviewers are nowadays both better educated<br />
I might add several more classes, but I have and better paid than they were a generation ago.<br />
said enough to show that no book is likely to Editors have had to go pretty far afield in their<br />
receive the same treatment all round when it is search for people who possess all the varied<br />
regarded from so many points of view. Yet qualifications necessary, and though you will<br />
some young authors seem to expect universal sometimes hear the people thus discovered stig-<br />
eulogy-indeed, it is quite comic to hear them matised as “gifted amateurs," I am sure that<br />
wondering why the Literary Tomahawk, for the whole body of writers of books are to be<br />
instance, should have dismissed the masterpiece congratulated on the change. Call them amateurs<br />
in a few contemptuous lines, when the Daily if you like—it is certain that they write much<br />
Something Else had such an appreciative notice. better than the old-fashioned professional.<br />
There is little doubt that publishers, who Nevertheless, reviewers are by no means<br />
certainly ought to know, are on the whole inclined infallible. It is a most curious and also intruc-<br />
to think that a universal chorus of praise from tive occupation for a young author to consult the<br />
the Press on the day of publication is the best file of any well-known literary journal of ten or<br />
reception for a book.<br />
fifteen years ago, and just glance through the<br />
Next to the simultaneous burst of praise, I reviews to see what was then being praised. I have<br />
understand that publishers like a book to have, lately been doing this, and I have been really<br />
say, five or six good long reviews at the moment astonished to see how little has survived of much<br />
of publication, followed by a continual dropping that was then praised, and, as it seems to us now,<br />
fire of reviews lasting for two or three months. extravagantly praised ; also, what is more<br />
Here I may say in parenthesis that my remarks important, that sometimes really good work was<br />
should be understood to be applying on the whole inadequately noticed and even “slated.”<br />
to novels. In the case of other books, such as George Gissing is perhaps the most startling<br />
biographies, travels, and the like, there are no example of blindness on the part of the critics. He<br />
such extremes of success and failure as you see in is now acknowledged to have been one of the<br />
the fiction market ; it is also clear that their sales masters of later Victorian literature. The lack of<br />
are affected to a considerable extent by reviews, appreciation with which he was treated by his<br />
which are, on the whole, adequate and constant. contemporary critics seems to me to indicate very<br />
This brings us to the question, “ Who are the clearly the truth of the theory that modern<br />
critics? Who are those strange, shy, yet powerful criticism is divided into two hostile camps-one<br />
birds, the reviewers ?”<br />
composed of critics who only regard as seriously<br />
If we are to believe their enemies, who are worthy of consideration the advanced realistic<br />
chiefly unsuccessful authors, they resemble some school ; while the other consists of people who<br />
times that quaint Australian bird called the laugh- would bar to the writer of fiction the whole of<br />
ing jackass, and at other times the cruel and the sordid, the terrible, and I think we may add,<br />
carnivorous eagles and vultures. The truth is the passionate side of life. Gissing, like life itself,<br />
that reviewing has become a highly specialised held the balance even, or rather, like life itself, he<br />
branch of literary work, and although it has not found that the scale turned very heavily, for most<br />
yet with us attained to the dignity of a creative of the men and women who compose the world, on<br />
art, which it undoubtedly holds in France at this the darker side. But though he could deal, as he<br />
moment, yet it has made great progress, even showed in “ The Nether World” and “ The<br />
within my own recollection. I do not wish to be Unclassed,” with even the darkest of modern<br />
led into a long historical digression, but it is plain social problems, he was too true an artist to<br />
that the mid-Victorian method of reviewing, delight in the unrelieved darkness and horror to<br />
which I may briefly describe as alternate slabs of which a small group of modern novelists now<br />
praise and blame administered in a very con- exclusively turn their attention.<br />
descending tone and in very bad, hackneyed Would Gissing and his work be treated now as<br />
English, has gone out as completely as have horse- he was treated during his comparatively short,<br />
hair sofas and waxen fruit. Indeed, it practically labour-filled life? Probably not. Unfortunately<br />
survives only in stray corners of the London and for him, he wrote his best books—“ New Grub<br />
provincial Press.<br />
Street," “ In the Year of Jubilee," and so on-at<br />
The demand for more intelligent, more sym- a time when the battle was raging fiercely round<br />
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the so-called "sex" novel, and so busy were the His lordship accordinglydismissed the action, but<br />
critics of that day in either extolling or damning without costs, on account of the representation on<br />
the works of certain writers who are now, we may the book that it was printed and published by the<br />
venture to say, completely forgotten, that they had Daily Chronicle.<br />
no time to spare for the work of the author of In the course of the case it was stated that it is<br />
“ Demos."<br />
not unusual to put the name of the customer on<br />
the book as the printer and publisher, at the<br />
customer's request. His lordship expressed the<br />
LICENCE TO PRINT AND PUBLISH. opinion that if it is a common practice, the sooner<br />
it becomes uncommon the better.<br />
In cases of this kind, when the copyright owner<br />
Booth v. EDWARD LLOYD, LTD.<br />
is led to believe that his copyright has been<br />
M H E plaintiff in this case, Mr. Josiah Booth, infringed, it is advisable that he should com-<br />
was the composer of a musical composition municate at once with his licensee.<br />
entitled “ Commonwealth,” and the owner<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
of the copyright. In October, 1907, he gave a<br />
licence to Messrs. Reid Bros., music publishers,<br />
which was as follows:<br />
“Received from Messrs. Reid Bros., Ltd., the THE SPIRIT OF ROMANCE.*<br />
sum of £4 4s. for permission to print, publish,<br />
and sell separately and in book form my musical<br />
M HE Spirit of Romance” may be recom-<br />
setting of Elliott's words • When wilt thou save<br />
mended to a very wide circle of readers.<br />
the people,' and known as “Commonwealth.'<br />
Mr. Pound has found the wit to write,<br />
This permission is not withdrawable and is for<br />
on a most interesting subject, a book that will be<br />
the term of the copyright.”<br />
The composition was published by Reid Bros.<br />
perused with pleasure by the general reader, will<br />
prove an excellent introduction to romance studies<br />
in a book of sacred songs ; but, in January last,<br />
Sliby those who are first entering upon them, and<br />
the plaintiff discovered that the composition was<br />
will recommend itself to those who have long<br />
being circulated in a book of election songs,<br />
occupied themselves with those studies, on account<br />
which contained a statement on the front page<br />
of the very suggestive nature of many of the.<br />
that it was printed and published by the Daily<br />
author's remarks.<br />
Chronicle.<br />
Mr. Pound explains in his first chapter what he<br />
The plaintiff, therefore, instructed his solicitor,<br />
means by “ Romance," the languages derived from<br />
and in the correspondence which followed he was<br />
Latin, and the literature of those languages.<br />
informed by the defendants' solicitor that the book<br />
Roumanian is ignored, but even so the subject is<br />
had in fact been printed and published and sold<br />
immense, and could not be fully dealt with in an<br />
to the defendants by Reid Bros.<br />
The action was brought against the printers<br />
encyclopædia, to say nothing of a work of modest<br />
dimensions. That Mr. Pound at once admits.<br />
and publishers of the Daily Chronicle for an<br />
He also disclaims, and for definite reasons, all<br />
injunction and damages for infringement of<br />
copyright.<br />
philological questions; and we think his posi-<br />
tion—that there is such a thing as the study<br />
It appeared from the evidence that in December<br />
last the defendants gave Reid Bros. an order for<br />
of literature for the sake of the literature-both<br />
sound and worthy of very serious consideration.<br />
100,000 copies of the book of election songs, and<br />
It is the opposite of knowing all about books and<br />
that Reid Bros. had the copies printed and sold<br />
their authors without knowing anything about the<br />
them to the defendants, at whose request the<br />
words "printed and published by the Daily<br />
books themselves, of which humour we have at<br />
Chronicle” were inserted on the front page.<br />
present a great deal too much. Mr. Pound deals<br />
also with poetry only. That is a less justifiable<br />
Mr. Justice Neville, in giving judgment for the<br />
limitation ; but one, in the present case, very<br />
defendants, said that the question was whether<br />
pardonable, for we get a poet's thoughts about<br />
Messrs. Reid Bros. bad committed a breach of their<br />
licence by printing and selling the copies to the<br />
poets. Having thus cleared his ground, the author<br />
defendants, and he came to the conclusion that<br />
presents us with ten chapters, isolated sketches,<br />
they had not. The licence was in general terms.<br />
so to say, gathered from the immense perspective<br />
If the author intended to limit his licensee to<br />
opened by his subject--ranging from the Latin<br />
post-classical authors to the imitations of classical<br />
printing and publishing the work in his own<br />
name he should take care to insert words expressly " The Spirit of Romance," London, J. M. Dent &<br />
limiting the licensee to that personal right.<br />
Sons,<br />
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poetry written by the men of the Renaissance. Crawford's library fetched £6022s. It was of a<br />
Between the extreme limits, Provence, Italy, miscellaneous character, including well-known<br />
France, Spain, and Portugal all claim attention expensive books of reference, but nothing very<br />
in turn, and about every one of them Mr. Pound remarkable. A great part of Mr. Brough's library<br />
has interesting things to say and suggestive was sold in lots at small prices. An unusual lot<br />
thoughts to offer. The same authors appear that was Mrs. Inchbald's original autograph MS. of<br />
will be found in Sismondi’s “Literature of “Animal Magnetism.” Sotheby sold (April 25)<br />
Southern Europe.” They are the authors that for £8,650 a collection of MSS. (Correspondence,<br />
must appear if the work of the best is to be taken etc.), relating to the American Colonies during the<br />
into consideration ; but the things that Mr. Pound last quarter of the 17th century, including, inter<br />
remarks are full of originality, and many of his alia, the original draft of the grant made by<br />
observations deserving of profound consideration. Charles II. of the province of Pennsylvania to<br />
We were particularly struck by one that he makes William Penn, dated March 4,1681. Hodgson & Co.<br />
when writing of Quevedo :-<br />
sold (April 21) a first edition of “The Vicar of<br />
“Is there no one who reads the poetry of this Wakefield ” (2 vols., Salisbury, 1776-8), for £67.<br />
period for love's sake, and not for scholarship, who Among curious items may be mentioned two pro-<br />
will make us an anthology ; no one whose mind is hibitions of horse-racing put forth by Oliver<br />
undefiled by the pseudo-classicism of eighteenth- Cromwell (Feb. 24, 1645, and April 8, 1658), sold<br />
century opinion who will separate the Spanish by Sotheby for £5 and £13 respectively. Taken<br />
poetry of this time from the Spanish translations as a whole the most interesting of the sales was “a<br />
and imitations of every foreign writer from Anacreon further portion" of the library of Mr. J. W. Ford,<br />
to Tasso, and deliver their collection to those of us of Winchmore Hill (Sotheby, May 26 and three<br />
who love true poetry, and have not leisure for days following).<br />
original research?”.<br />
That sentiment is evidence of how really Mr.<br />
Pound has made himself acquainted with Romance<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
literature for the literature's own sake, and at the<br />
same time a most pertinent statement of a real<br />
need. Many of the Romance writers are neglected,<br />
THE FATE OF REVIEW COPIES.<br />
and the substantial merit of their original work SIR,—What ought we to do with review copies ?<br />
overlooked in consequence of the enormous amount We cannot keep them all, for lack of storage room.<br />
of derivative verse that most of them have produced. Ought we to destroy them? I do destroy some in<br />
No less pertinent is a quotation from Ercole Cuccioli, order to avoid responsibility for increasing the<br />
“Everyone recognises the period, but what is lacking circulation of a bad book, either by denouncing it<br />
is a careful study of the works themselves.” There or by leaving it to lie about. But the others-<br />
was never a date when that was more true of every what should we do with them? I have a con-<br />
literary period than it is at the present day. Mr. science against destroying a good book.<br />
Pound's book is, however, full of observations of<br />
Mr. Swallow says that the editor of a newspaper<br />
this sort, and we strongly recommend a "study of receives a review copy gratis from the publisher.<br />
the work itself.”<br />
Is that quite true ? Or is the value of a review as<br />
advertisement at least equal to the price of the<br />
book ? In that case the copy is well paid for. If<br />
BOOK PRICES CURRENT.<br />
that is not the case, why are copies sent out ?<br />
Editors' rooms and reviewers' studies are<br />
flooded with books which they do not want and<br />
Vol. XXIV., Part IV.<br />
of which they will take no notice. Why not leave<br />
them to purchase those they do want?<br />
M HOUGH “Book-Prices Current" (of which<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
we have received from Mr Elliot Stock the<br />
A REVIEWER.<br />
fourth part of Vol. XXIV.) is always<br />
interesting, the number of actually remarkable lots<br />
necessarily varies, and the part before us contains<br />
CO-OPERATIVE PUBLICATION.<br />
fewer than usual. The sales recorded are those SIR,-Mr. Swallow's letter in the last number of<br />
between the dates April 13 and June 11, 1910, inclu- The Author brings to the front again the question<br />
sively. The attention of authors is likely to be more of authors' co-operative publication. On looking<br />
particularly attracted by the sale (Sotheby, May 9) through the list of our Council and our Committee<br />
of the library of Mr. F. Marion Crawford, and that of Management I come across not a few names of<br />
of Mr. Lionel Brough (Sotheby, April 21). Mr. those who, on its own merits, believe in co-operative<br />
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movement ; and whose presence in our society number it would be stated that, say, only a fifth of<br />
certainly might be advanced as proof of their more an edition were being published, while in the case<br />
than merely perfunctory interest in browbeaten of a large number it would have to be stated that,<br />
authors. One would imagine, therefore, that these say, twenty editions were being brought out, and<br />
gentlemen would advance only too eagerly such a both would be misleading staternents, for each<br />
movement. A basis of operations is provided might be a complete edition.<br />
ready to hand in the society itself, working from This matter has been dealt with previously in<br />
which, well conducted, a publication department The Author ; in November, 1905, p. 34, under<br />
should not only provide extra profits to all, but “Committee Notes," it is stated that the advisability<br />
should materially aid the various funds of the of fixing the unit of an edition was under discussion,<br />
society. Nor would it mean any necessary and that it was decided to write to the Chairman<br />
“ patronage” from authors who can command of the Publishers' Association to obtain the opinion<br />
substantial sums from publishers in the ordinary of that body upon the subject. In the following<br />
way; for apart from the subsequent division of number, p. 96, appeared a letter from me, entitled<br />
profits they would still have agreements arranged “Unit of an Edition," and in that of March, 1906,<br />
on detailed business lines. They would not lose, p. 188, one from Mr. J. M. Lely with the word<br />
whereas younger and more harried authors would « The " added to the title. (The latter letter was<br />
gain enormously.<br />
entered in the index, wbile mine, for some reason,<br />
One would not like to minimise in any way the was not.) Mr. Lely refers to fixing a number and<br />
use of the society ; but, as things now are, how stating that, say, only a half or quarter of an edition<br />
many authors have found that to get Mr. Thring's were being produced, and lays great stress on the<br />
kindly and admirable advice as to a fair agreement importance of having the date of publication on the<br />
is one thing, but to get the slightest alteration in title-page.<br />
a publisher's dictatorial proffer is wholly another ? In my letter I suggested that it should be agreed<br />
And how many authors, having difficulty with to by publishers that the word “issue" should<br />
their publisher, shrink from turning to the society mean all those copies of a work published simul-<br />
for aid, as this means they will be " black-balled " taneously. The work, on appearing, should bear<br />
in future ?<br />
its date, and it could be stated that it be the first,<br />
The whole position is obvious. The society second' or any other issue thereof, and any word<br />
must needs fail in much of its professed intention, expressing more than “first” would show that it<br />
unless it is proposed to step forward and consider was a re-issue of a work in precisely the words in<br />
the prime question of publication. And why which it originally appeared. The alteration in<br />
should this not be done on co-operative lines ? the form of a work (type or arrangement) scarcely<br />
I venture to assert that this is not a windy needs to be notified to the public in the book itself;<br />
proposal, but a matter meriting the serious the important thing is to notify any change of<br />
attention of the management.<br />
matter. I suggested, further, that the word<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
"edition” should be reserved for every issue of a<br />
work which had undergone any revision or altera-<br />
tion ; so that, if it were stated that a book was<br />
the second, third, fourth or other edition of a work,<br />
EDITION AND ISSUE.<br />
one would know at once that it had undergone<br />
alteration once, twice, thrice or oftener. The date<br />
SIR, - In the February number of The Author, should appear on every edition ; and, if it were<br />
p. 142, under the heading “Publishers' Methods," desired-though it is not necessary-it could be<br />
occur the following words : “ We have often urged stated : Second Edition, Fourth Issue, or whatever<br />
that the Publishers' Association should agree to a number of each were correct. (It really does not<br />
unit for an edition.” In the April number, p. 195, matter to the public how many copies constitute an<br />
under the heading “The Unit of an Edition,” there edition or issue of any work.) I think that the<br />
is a letter from the Publishers' Association stating use of these two words in the sense suggested would<br />
that it does not appear to its Council “to be prac- overcome all existing difficulties and, with the date,<br />
ticable to fix any definite number of copies which give the public information very much desired.<br />
shall be regarded universally as the unit for an A committee of the Publishers' Association<br />
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so doing. The suggestion revived in the note pre- very little known and nothing appears to have<br />
ceding the letter : that a number should be agreed come of it. Its suggestions certainly do not appear<br />
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