| Omeka ID | Omeka URL | Title | Subject | Description | Creator | Source | Publisher | Date | Contributor | Rights | Relation | Format | Language | Type | Identifier | Coverage | Publisher(s) | Original Format | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Entry | Pages | Participants | Pen Name | Physical Dimensions | Position End Date | Position Start Date | Position(s) | Publication Frequency | Occupation | Sex | Society Membership End Date | Society Membership Start Date | Start Date | Sub-Committee End Date | Sub-Committee Start Date | Text | To | URL | Volume | Death | Biography | Birth | Committee End Date | Committee of Management End Date | Committee of Management Start Date | Committee Start Date | Committee(s) | Council End Date | Council Start Date | Date | Bibliography | End Date | Event Type | From | Image Source | Interactive Timeline | Issue | Location | Members | Ngram Date | Ngram Text | Files | Tags |
|---|
| 425 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/425 | Index to The Author, Vol. 22 (1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Index+to+%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+%281912%29">Index to <em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 (1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Index">Index</a> | 1912-The-Author-22-index | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Bradbury%2C+Agnew+%26+Co.">Bradbury, Agnew & Co.</a> | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912">1912</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=4&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=London">London</a> | | | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/4/425/1912-The-Author-22-index.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 426 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/426 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 01 (October 1911) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+01+%28October+1911%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 01 (October 1911)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1911-10-02-The-Author-22-1 | | | | | 1–28 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1911-10-02">1911-10-02</a> | | | | | | | 1 | | | 19111002 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.- No. 1.<br />
=<br />
OCTOBER 2, 1911.<br />
(PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
=<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGE<br />
: :<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
List of Members ...<br />
The Pension Fund ...<br />
Committee Notes ....<br />
Books published by Members,<br />
Books published in America by Members<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes ... ... ...<br />
Authors' Agents, Literary and Dramatic<br />
Publishers' Methods<br />
Cinematograph Performances<br />
Magazine Con ents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors...<br />
...<br />
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 late Jirs, Thurston<br />
The Foreign Reprints Act Again<br />
A Few Words on Expired Copyrights<br />
Sorrows of a Freelance ...<br />
Proposed Canadian Copyright Law ...<br />
The Concise Oxford Dictionary...<br />
Japanese Poetry<br />
Correspondence<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report for the current year. ls.<br />
2. The Author. Published ten months in the year (Angust and September omitted), devoted especially<br />
to the protection and maintenance of Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property. Issued<br />
to all Members gratis. Price to non-members, 6d., or 5s. 6d. per annum, post free. Back<br />
numbers from 1892, at 10s. 6d. per vol.<br />
3. Literature and the Pension List. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. 38.<br />
4. The History of the Société des Gens de Lettres. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. 18.<br />
8. The Cost of Production. (Out of print.)<br />
6. The Various Methods of Publication. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled from the<br />
papers in the Society's offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to<br />
Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the<br />
various kinds of fraud which have been made possible by the different clauses therein. 38.<br />
Addenda to the Above. By G. HERBERT THRING. Being additional facts collected at<br />
the office of the Society since the publication of the “ Methods." With comments and<br />
advice. 2s.<br />
7. Copyright Law Reform. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill of 1890. With<br />
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the<br />
American Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. 18. 6d.<br />
8. The Society of Authors. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By WALTER BESANT<br />
(Chairman of Committee, 1888–1892). 18.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland. By ERNST<br />
LUNGE, J.U.D. 2s. 6d.<br />
10. Forms of Agreement issued by the Publishers' Association ; with Comments. By<br />
G. HERBERT THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd Edition. 18.<br />
11. Periodicals and their contributors. Giving the Terms on which the different Magazines<br />
and Periodicals deal with MSS. and Contributions. 6d.<br />
12. Society of Authors. List of Members. Published October, 1907, price 6d.<br />
13. International Copyright Convention as Revised at Berlin, 1909. 1s.<br />
[All prices not. Apply to the Secretary, 39, ou Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S. W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. (#394) ################################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Tolegraphic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON.”<br />
Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O.M.<br />
COUNCIL<br />
SIB ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. | The Right Hon. THE LORD CORZON | JUSTIN MCCABTHY,<br />
SIBWM.REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. | OF KEDLESTON, P.C.<br />
THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
J. M. BARRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO,<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. SIR HORACE<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
H, RIDER HAGGARD,<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON (" LUCAS MALET'). OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIE ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
RELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G. R. SIMs.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND,<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
THE RIGHT HON, JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD,<br />
- THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BURGH JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD,<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
H. G. WELLS.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.B.8. PERCY WHITE.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (Miss FLOBA" L. FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT HON.<br />
W, MORRIS COLLES.<br />
Shaw).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
THE HON, JOHN COLLIER.<br />
MRS. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON). P.C., &c.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT,<br />
Chairman-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. MAURICE HEWLETT,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR,<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM<br />
RUDOLPH BESIER.<br />
H. GRANVILLE BARKER.<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. CARTON.<br />
| Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
| CECIL RALEIGH,<br />
CAPT. BASIL HOOD,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
1 MORLEY ROBERTS.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE.<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
| Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, I HERBERT SOLLIVAN.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
1 M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
The Hon. JOHN COLLIER.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
ART.<br />
JOHN HASSALL, R.I.<br />
J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
FIELD, Roscoe & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W. ſ Soucitors.<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Société dos Gens de Lettres.<br />
Legal Representatire in America—JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39 OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY'S GATE, S.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. (#395) ################################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
- PLAYS<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
Special Announcement to Authors!<br />
Many would be competitors in<br />
Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton's<br />
new £1,000 Novel Competition<br />
are prevented from entering simply<br />
because they cannot at once spare<br />
the money to have their MS. typed.<br />
REMARKABLE OFFER!<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors),<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
— NO THEORIES.<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
Address : 23, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
If you will send your MS. and<br />
P.O. for 10/-, together with a<br />
promise to pay the balance (at<br />
the rate of 1/- per 1,000 words,<br />
carbon duplicate 3d. per 1,000) in<br />
monthly instalments of £1, I will<br />
undertake to return you a per-<br />
fectly correct type-written copy.<br />
Absolute secrecy guaranteed.<br />
One of my numerous testimonials for Members of the Society of<br />
“I am especially pleased with your work.”<br />
Authors-<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Road, St. Albans, Herts.<br />
SAVE YOUR NUMBERS carefully<br />
until the Volume is complete<br />
.. BY USING ..<br />
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.<br />
By MRS. BARCLAY,<br />
Author of "The Rosary” (300th Thousand).<br />
" THE AUTHOR"<br />
MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
THE<br />
FOLLOWING OF THE STAR.<br />
6-<br />
Send for "The Throne of popularity" Circular concerning<br />
Mrs. Barclay's stories.<br />
By MISS WINIFRED BOGGS,<br />
Author of “ The Return of Richard Carr."<br />
VAGABOND CITY.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
Price 2/8 net.<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up.<br />
number by number, the numbers of The Author as they are<br />
published, and at the completion of the volume can be taken<br />
off and sent to the bookbinder-leaving the Mechanical Binder<br />
free for the next volume. Whether containing one number or<br />
a complete volume it has the appearance of, and handles the<br />
same as, an ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by<br />
which The Author can be instantly bound with the same<br />
facility as a single leaf, and there are no wires or elastic<br />
strings to get out of order,<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The<br />
Cloth Covers are made by leading London Bookbinders, and<br />
the Metal Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to<br />
break, it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few<br />
pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
ST. JAYES' BUDGET :-"The advantages of the Binder are so obvious ..."<br />
LEEDS MERCURY "An ingenious and accommodating invention."<br />
WESTMINSTER BUDGET "The construction of the Binder is simplicity<br />
itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end."<br />
LITERARY WORLD :-"A clever device-80 extremely simple and easy<br />
in applying."<br />
SHEFIELD DAILY TELEGRANTI:-"After use w can confidently<br />
recommend."<br />
29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
“ An effective blend of farce, pathos and tragedy."-Times.<br />
(2nd Impression.)<br />
By MISS EVELYN ST. LEGER.<br />
THE<br />
SHAPE OF THE WORD.<br />
6/-,<br />
A brilliant and witty first novel telling of a family<br />
curse and its consequences, tragic and humorous.<br />
24, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. (#396) ################################################<br />
<br />
iy<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
MESSRS, STANLEY PAUL & CO.'S LIST,<br />
AN IMPERIAL VICTIM.<br />
Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria, Empress of the French, and Duchess of Parma.<br />
By EDITH E. CUTHELL, F.R.H.S. In 2 Vols., Demy Svo, Cloth Gilt, with Illustrations. 24/- net the Set.<br />
THE FRANCE OF JOAN OF ARC.<br />
By LIEUT.-COLONEL ANDREW C. P. HAGGARD, D.S.O. Demy 8vo. Illustrated. 16/- net.<br />
OUR FIGHTING SEA MEN.<br />
By LIONEL YEXLEY. Large Crown 8vo. 6)- net.<br />
VERSES BY DOLF WYLLARDE.<br />
With Photogravure Frontispiece. Paper 1/6 net. Cloth 2/6 net.<br />
NEW SIX SHILLING NOVELS NOW READY.<br />
RUFÊLËS<br />
L. T. Meade.<br />
THE CARDINAL... ... ... Newton V. Stewart.<br />
HODSON'S VOYAGE ... ... W. H. Koebel.<br />
OUR GUESTS ...<br />
THE MARRIAGE OF LENORE... Alice M. Diehl.<br />
Matilde Serao.<br />
A PASSION IN MOROCCO ... Charlotte Cameron. THE CITY OF ENTICEMENT... Dorothea Gerard.<br />
THE IMPERISHABLE WING ... Mrs. Havelock Ellis. MARRIED WHEN SUITED ... Mrs. Henry Dudeney.<br />
A PRISONER IN PARADISE ... H. L. Vahey.<br />
CLIVE LORIMER'S MARRIAGE E. Everett-Green.<br />
WHEN SATAN TOOK FLESH ... A. J. Anderson. BECAUSE OF A KISS... ... Lady Constance.<br />
MADGE CARRINGTON ... ... “ Draig Glas."<br />
.<br />
St. John Trevor.<br />
THE DESIRE OF LIFE<br />
STANLEY PAUL & CO., 31, ESSEX STREET, LONDON.<br />
To Authors and Journalists.<br />
The writer, whether he aspires to write novels, short stories,<br />
or articles, often spends years in uncongenial work,<br />
rebuffs and drudgery being the only return for the time<br />
and labour spent.<br />
THE COURSE OF LITERARY TRAINING promoted by<br />
the Literary Correspondence College teaches the<br />
aspirant to serve his apprenticeship to Literature in the<br />
briefest time possible.<br />
The College also undertakes Literary Agency business of all<br />
kinds.<br />
For full particulars write at once for Pamphlet D. M. to the LITERARY<br />
CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE, 9, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
TYPEWRITING. 8d. per 1,000 words, with:<br />
one carbon copy free. Five years' experience.<br />
C. GIRTON, 2, Grove Lane, Camberwell, S.E.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
MISS A. B. STEVENSON, Yew Tree Cottage,<br />
SUTTON, MACCLESFIELD.<br />
Story Work, 9d. 1,000 words ; 2 copies, 1-; Plays, ruled and covered,<br />
1/-1,000 words.<br />
Copies of recent Testimonials:<br />
W. SHAW SPARROW : “ I'm glad I don't hear the steady noise of your machine,<br />
but I appreciate the excellence of your work."<br />
DANIEL WOODROFFE: "Miss A. B. Stevenson is very accurate in her tyre<br />
writing and most satisfactory in every way."<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
"First Lessons in Story Writing."<br />
By BARRY PAIN.<br />
2nd Edition. 28. 6d, net. 28. 8d. post free.<br />
f this work the Westminster Gazette writes: "The<br />
beginner who takes these lessons to heart may be quite<br />
assured of an advantage over his competitors.'<br />
MISS FOWLER, Maxwell House, Arundel<br />
Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
EXPERT IN DECIPHERING DIFFICULT HANDWRITING.<br />
Extract from Unsolicited Testimonial.--"I send your work coin-<br />
pared to which Egyptian hieroglyphics would be child's play, and you<br />
return the manuscript at the time requested without one single<br />
inaccuracy. It is nothing short of marvellous."<br />
" How to become an Author."<br />
By ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
1 Practical Guide; full of useful hints.<br />
2nd Edition. 5s, net. 58. 4d. post free.<br />
The Literary Correspondence College,<br />
9, Arundel Street, Strand, w.c.<br />
THE SURREY LITERARY AGENCY.<br />
Cooducted by a Practical Author on a Non-Commission<br />
Basis. Moderate Preliminary Fees only.<br />
Novels, plays, and short stories placed with London publishers<br />
managers, and journals. Suitable work only submitted. Expert<br />
ad vice given. Special attention to new authors. Mantıscripts criti.<br />
cised, revised and placed.<br />
Write for full particulars--<br />
" LOCKSLEY,”<br />
PRESBURG ROAD, NEW MALDEN, SURREY.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 1 (#397) ##############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 1.<br />
OCTOBER 2ND, 1911.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
I'ELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
AUTORIDAI), LONDON.<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
adrertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no uudesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
D OR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the anthors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
The Editor begs to inforın members of the<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of the Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the notice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
TROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may he cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incor heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin;<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of the Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
retorn articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
VOL XXII.<br />
THE List of Members of the Society of Anthors,<br />
1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
6d., post free 7d. It includes elections to July,<br />
1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
of the Society only.<br />
A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br />
end of tbe list for the conrenience of those who<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 2 (#398) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
5 .esܚܢ ܗܘ ܙ ܝ ܝܕܕܙܘ ܝܙ seܟ ܗܘ ܕ<br />
NOOCNO<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
£ $. d.<br />
March 9, Hardy, Harold .<br />
0 10 0<br />
March 9, Hutton, E. .<br />
0<br />
.<br />
5 0<br />
N February 1, the trustees of the Pension<br />
March 10, Wilson, Albert .<br />
0 5 0<br />
Fund of the society—after the secretary<br />
March 16, Ward, Dudley.<br />
6<br />
had<br />
0 10<br />
placed before them the financial<br />
March 30, Coke, Desmond .<br />
position of the fund-decided to invest £250 in<br />
April 1, The XX Pen Club<br />
0 1 9<br />
the purchase of Consols.<br />
April 6, Channon, Mrs. E. M.<br />
The amount purchased at the present price is<br />
April 7, Henry, Miss Alice<br />
£312 13s. 4d.<br />
April 10, Ralli, Scaramanga<br />
2<br />
This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d.<br />
2 0<br />
April 11, Robins, Miss Alice<br />
1 1<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom-<br />
April 20, MacEwan, Miss.<br />
0 10 0<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
April 20, C. N. and Mrs. Williamson .<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
April 21, Shirley, Arthur,<br />
1 1 0<br />
April 22, H. A. and Mrs. Hinkson 1 0 0<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
April 24, Toplis, Miss Grace<br />
0 10 0<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
May, Walter John<br />
;<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
.<br />
. : . 2 2 0<br />
May 19, An Old Member.<br />
.<br />
1<br />
. 0<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im.<br />
0<br />
I<br />
June 2, Wrench, Mrs. Stanley<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
July 3, Ingram, J. H.<br />
:<br />
..<br />
: : 0 5 0<br />
Consols 21%.......... ............ £1,312 13 4 July 13, Fell-Smith, Miss C.<br />
• . 0 5 0<br />
Local Loans ..................<br />
500 0 0 Sept. 18, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ............... 291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
ture Stock ............;<br />
250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ..... 200 0 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 3 % Inscribed<br />
M HE last meeting before the vacation was held<br />
Stock ............................. 200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
I on Monday, July 3, at the offices of the<br />
4% Preference Stock..................<br />
society, and the committee decided not to<br />
228 0 0<br />
meet again until October unless business of such<br />
New Zealand 31% Stock......... 247 96<br />
Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock<br />
vital importance to the society came up for con-<br />
258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
sideration that it could not be negotiated by the<br />
chairman with the assistance of the secretary and<br />
1927-57 .............................. 438 2 4<br />
the society's solicitors. The usual vacation powers<br />
Jamaica 34% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock...............<br />
were given to the chairman to act on behalf of the<br />
120 121<br />
committee in the absence of the members.<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Granı Stock, 1938...<br />
Three elections were chronicled, bringing the<br />
198 3 8<br />
total number for the year up to 154. There were<br />
Total.<br />
two resignations, bringing the total resignations<br />
... £4,377 19 4<br />
to 59.<br />
The solicitor of the society attended the meeting<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
and reported on the cases he had in hand. The first<br />
1911.<br />
£ & d. case, referring to the bankruptcy of a publisher in<br />
March 9, Boughton, Rutland . . 0 5 0 which many members were involved, he reported to<br />
March 10, Somers, John .<br />
5 0 be practically closed, as the contracts had either<br />
April 6, Rawlings, Burford<br />
10 6 been determined or re-settled. He reported the<br />
April 11, Wicks, Mark .<br />
5 0 steps he had taken to carry out the committee's<br />
June 15, Fitzgerald, Colin<br />
0 5 0 instructious in the cases chronicled in the last issue<br />
June 15, Fleming, Mrs. A. . . 2 0 0 of The Author. In one case further evidence was<br />
June 15, Sabatini, Rafael . .<br />
5 0 required before action could be taken. In another<br />
June 16, Hamilton, Henry .<br />
. 1 1 0 he reported that the defendant had been thrown<br />
into bankruptcy, and two other cases bad been<br />
Donations.<br />
settled finally and satisfactorily. One case of<br />
1911.<br />
infringement of copyright, started in the spring of<br />
March 3, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
. ( 10 0 the year, he stated could not be tried before the<br />
March 6, Haultain, Arnold.<br />
. 1 1 0 Long Vacation, and in another case, proceedings<br />
..<br />
. .<br />
.<br />
....<br />
. .<br />
.<br />
.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 3 (#399) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
which had been commenced by the society some was settled and thefagenda for that meeting were<br />
time ago had been closed by the payment of a small also discussed. The date of the annual dinner was<br />
sum and costs, without it being necessary to go into left open, it being agreed that, as usual, some day<br />
court.<br />
in the late autumn should be chosen.<br />
There was one case of a very difficult nature.<br />
which related to a publisher's accounts. The solicitor<br />
put forward very fully the issues involved, and<br />
after careful consideration the committee instructed<br />
Cases.<br />
the solicitor to come to a reasonable compromise if SINCE the last publication of The Author there<br />
it were possible to do so, and indicated one or two have been thirty-six disputes placed into the hands<br />
points which they considered should be an essential of the secretary. They may be divided as follows :<br />
part of any compromise reached.<br />
fourteen claims for money ; seven claims for the<br />
There were no fresh cases for the solicitors in return of MSS. ; seven claims for accounts and<br />
England, but the secretary reported that a case money ; three claims for accounts ; four disputes<br />
which the society was conducting in Switzerland on agreements ; one infringement of copyright.<br />
had been delayed in settlement, and instructions The average number of cases that come to the<br />
were received from the committee that proceedings office during any given month is from fifteen to<br />
should be taken at once, and that the Swiss lawyer twenty, so that the number that has come into the<br />
should be urged to bring matters to a prompt issue. society during the last two months shows no<br />
The next business before the committee was the diminution.<br />
consideration of the position of the Copyright Bill. Of the fourteen claims for money due to authors,<br />
The secretary reported the steps that had been taken five have been settled, and the cash has been<br />
by himself, the chairman of the society, and other forwarded ; seven have had to be placed in the<br />
members of the committee. The committee was hands of the solicitors. Of these we are glad to<br />
informed as to the meetings that had been held, report that five have been settled. Thus four are<br />
and the negotiations that had been carried through. left unsettled, two in the secretary's hands, and<br />
The secretary stated that all the clauses of the Bill two in the solicitors' hands. Of the seven claims<br />
had been passed in Committee with the exception for the return of MSS., one has been brought to a<br />
of the clauses dealing with the mechanical reproduc- satisfactory termination, two have had to be placed<br />
tion of musical work, which would be considered in the hands of the solicitors, and two, owing to<br />
immediately. He added that it had been arranged the claims being abroad—one in India, and one in<br />
to hold a meeting of the joint committee—that is, Australia—are still open, and two have only<br />
the committee comprising representatives of the recently come into the office. Members should<br />
Society of Authors, the Publishers Association, and not forget that the legal position in the case of<br />
the Copyright Association-after the Committee the return of MSS. is generally not very strong.<br />
stage of the Bill was at an end and before the It is not only necessary to show that the MSŠ.<br />
Report stage. The joint committee would then have come into the hands of a responsible party<br />
decide what further action, if any, was possible or in the office, but also that their loss is due to negli-<br />
desirable.<br />
gence. Unless these facts can clearly be established,<br />
The Canadian Copyright Bill was then discussed, it is hardly worth while to take action, when such<br />
and here the secretary reported the action taken by great facilities for making copies can be em-<br />
the Société des Gens de Lettres and the Société des ployed. Authors should always keep copies of<br />
Auteurs Dramatiques, and stated that he had their MSS. Of the seven ciaims for money and<br />
received letters from influential quarters in America accounts, four have been brought to a close, the<br />
asking for the society's support to carry through accounts having been rendered and the money<br />
certain amendments on the Bill. The committee paid. One has been partly settled, that is to say,<br />
decided to refer the matter to counsel (Mr. E. J. the accounts have been rendered, and part of the<br />
MacGillivray) with instructions to settle a report money has been paid : but the balance is still<br />
to be forwarded to the Canadian Government as disputed. One has been placed with the solicitors,<br />
from the Society of Authors.<br />
and two are still in the hands of the secretary. Of<br />
Then followed discussion of a question referred the three claims for accounts, one has been satis-<br />
to the Committee of Management by the Dramatic factorily settled, one has been placed with the<br />
Sub-Committee relating to the financial side of a solicitors, and one is still in course of negotiation.<br />
proposal for a dramatic agent in America. The Of four disputes on agreements, two have been<br />
committee expressed sympathy with the efforts of concluded. Two are still in course of negotiation.<br />
the dramatists, and promised to assist them by Matters of this kind sometimes take a long time if<br />
bearing some reasonable share of the cost.<br />
it is a question of cancelling the agreement and<br />
The date of the council meeting for the autumn winding up the whole matter.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 4 (#400) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
As the case of infringement of copyright has<br />
occurred in India, it will take some time before an<br />
answer can be obtained.<br />
There are two cases still remaining over from<br />
July. These are both cases of account and should<br />
be settled shortly. The delay has arisen owing to<br />
the transfer of the publishers' business.<br />
In addition to the matters placed with the<br />
London lawyers referred to above, there are other<br />
nogo<br />
cases which have had to be placed direct in their<br />
hich have had to be placed direct in their<br />
hands, besides two cases which have had to be<br />
referred to the United States lawyers, and one<br />
important issue to the lawyers in Germany.<br />
Very little can be done during the long vacation<br />
in the Courts, so that there is but little progress<br />
to report on the matters in the hands of the Society<br />
in which legal action has to be taken.<br />
July Elections.<br />
Haddon, John, M.A., M.D. (Edin.), Denholm,<br />
Hawick, Sot-<br />
land.<br />
Kennion, Major R. L.<br />
Varty Smith, J. C. . . Nandana, Penrith,<br />
Cumberland.<br />
. Nonetan<br />
Cumberla<br />
THE KALEVSKI MEMOIRS, 1869–1899. By ASHMORE<br />
WINGATE. 77 x 43. 149 pp. Glasgow : Vicoll.<br />
18. 6d. n.<br />
AN IMPERIAL VICTIM, MARIE LOUISE, ARCHDTCHESS<br />
OF AUSTRIA, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, DUCHESS OF<br />
Parma. By EDITH E. CUTHELL. Two volumes.<br />
9 x 51. 400 + 392 pp. Stanley Paul. 248. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
MARIAMNE. By F. STURGE MOORE. 83 x 51. 75 pp.<br />
Duckworth. 28. n.<br />
DESIDERIO. A Play in Three Acts. By MAURICE BARIXG.<br />
D<br />
7} x 5. 104 pp. Oxford: Blackwell ; London :<br />
Simpkin Marshall.' 18. n.<br />
THE LITTLE DREAM. An Allegory in Six Scenes. By<br />
JOHN GALSWORTHY. 61 x 5. 38 pp. Duckworth.<br />
18. 1.<br />
THE MASTER OF MRS. CHILVERS. An Improbable<br />
Comedy. By JEROME K. JEROME. 78 x 57. * 167 pp.<br />
Fisher Unwin. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE SALE OF SAINT THOMAS. By LASCELLES ABER-<br />
CROMBIE. 74 x 5. 29 pp. The Author : Ryton,<br />
Dymock, Gloucester.<br />
THE PASSING OF BALDUR; A WINTER'S MYSTERY. In<br />
two parts. Part I. Odin the Watcher. 31 pp. (68. n.).<br />
Part II, Forlorn Gods. 24 pp. (6d. n.). The Dweller<br />
in the Body. 34 pp. (1s. n.). Dawn; a Folk Miracle<br />
Play. 234 pp. (1x, n.). By HOPE REA (Garden City<br />
Folk Plays).* 73 x 43. Theosophical Publishing Society.<br />
ECONOMICS.<br />
HISTORY OF MONEY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE<br />
UNITED STATES. By AGNES F. DODD. 8 X 54. 356 pp.<br />
Longmans. 5x. n.<br />
THE BRITISH TRADE BOOKS. By J. HOLT SCHOOLING.<br />
(Fourth issue.) 10 x 67. 582 pp. Murray. 108. 6d. n.<br />
FICTION<br />
THE WONDER OF LOVE. By E. MARIA ALBANESI. 8} x 5.<br />
148 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
WHITE ABBEY. By EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS.<br />
8 X 58. 158 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
INTERPLAY. By BEATRICE HARRADEN. 61 x 1<br />
463 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
THE LONE ADVENTURE. By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE.<br />
7. X 5. 445 pp. Fisher Unwin. 68.<br />
INTELLECTUAL MARIE. By HARRY TIGHE. 8 x 51.<br />
319 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
THE BEACON. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 73 x 5383 pp.<br />
Fisher Unwin. 68.<br />
THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN. By G. K.<br />
CA ESTERTON. 73 x 5. 336 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
LOVE IN<br />
I<br />
A LITTLE Town. By J. E. BUCKROSE.<br />
78 x 5. 326 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
ENTER CHARMIAN. By HAROLD VALLINGS. 71 x 3.<br />
334 pp. Smith Elder. 6s.<br />
HILARY ONSLOW. By HORACE WYNDHAM. 74 x 3.<br />
323 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br />
TAE QUEEN'S FILLET. By the Rev. P. A. CAXOX<br />
SHEEHAN, D.D. 73 x 51.376 pp. Longmans. 68.<br />
A<br />
a<br />
CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP. By KATE DOUGLAS<br />
WIGGIN. 7 x 43. 96 pp. Gay & Hancock. 18. n.<br />
THE LITTLE MINISTER. By J. M. BARRIE. 71 X 5.<br />
340 pp. Cassell. ls. n.<br />
A STORM-RENT SKY. By M. BETHAM EDWARDS.<br />
8 X 51. 126 pp. Collins. 6d. n.<br />
THE DAWN OF ALL. By R. H. BENSON. 7} x 5. 339 pp.<br />
Hutchinson. 6s.<br />
THE CITY OF ENTICEMENT, By DOROTHEA GERARD.<br />
8 x 5. 320 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
Sylvia's CHAUFFEUR. By LOUIS TRACY. 73 X 5.<br />
320 pp. Ward, Lock, 6s.<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 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 />
ARCHÆOLOGY.<br />
OUT OF THE IVORY PALACES. By P. H. DITCHFIELD.<br />
73 X 5. 308 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
ART.<br />
THE PAINTERS OF JAPAN. By A. MORRISON. Two<br />
volumes. 153–127 pp. Jack. £55 n.<br />
IDEALS OF INDIAN ART. By E. B. HAVELL. Royal<br />
octavo. 188 pp. Introduction. xx. pp. 33 Full-page<br />
Plates. John Murray. 158. n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
THE DIARY OF DR. JOHN WILLIAM POLIDORI, 1816. Re.<br />
lating to Byron, Shelley, &c. Edited by W. M. ROSSETTI.<br />
73 X 5. 228 pp. Elkin Matthews. 48. 6d. n.<br />
THE LIFE OF OSCAR WILDE. By R. H. SHERARD. 9 x 57.<br />
403 pp. (New Edition). Werner Laurie.<br />
AN EARLY VICTORIAN HEROINE : The Story of Harriette<br />
McDougall. By M. BRAMSTON, S.T.L. 71 x 5. 95 pp.<br />
S.P.C.K. 1s. 6d.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 5 (#401) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE SHADOW OF A DWARF. By HOPE PROTHERO.<br />
74 x 5. 328 pp. Century Press. 68.<br />
THE REFUGEES. By A. CONAN DOYLE. 61 x 44.<br />
383 pp. Nelsons. 7d. n.<br />
THE GLORY OF CLEMENTINA WING. By W. J. LOCKE.<br />
7 x 5. 375 pp. Lane. 6s.<br />
THE SUMMER BOOK. By MAX PEMBERTON. 78 X 5.<br />
306 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
THE ARREST OF ARSÈNE LUPIN. By MAURICE<br />
LEBLANC. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE<br />
MATTOS. 71 X 5. 277 pp. Nash. 28. n.<br />
DESTINY. By ALICE and CLAUD ASKEW. 8 x 5.<br />
328 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 68.<br />
NIGEL FERRARD. By MRS. BAILLIE REYNOLDS. (New<br />
and Revised Edition.) 77 x 5. 380 pp. Mills & Boon.<br />
68.<br />
VIRGINIA PERFECT. By PEGGY WEBLING. 63 x 47.<br />
221 pp. (Cheap edition.) Metbuen. 18. n.<br />
THE GARDEN OF MYSTERY. By RICHARD MARSH.<br />
316 pp. John Long. 6d. n.<br />
MASTER CHRISTOPHER. By MRS. HENRY DE LA PASTURE<br />
(LADY CLIFFORD). 7 X 5. 393 pp, Smith Elder.<br />
68.<br />
IN SEARCH OF EGERIA. By W. L. COURTNEY. 78 x 5.<br />
330 pp. Chapman & Hall. 6s.<br />
OUR LADY OF THE LEOPARDS. By ALBERT DORRING-<br />
Tox. 73 x 5. 314 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
THE SHADOW OF LOVE. By MARCELLE TINAYRE.<br />
Translated by A. ALLINSON. 71 x 5. 310 pp. Lane.<br />
68.<br />
A GIRL WITH A HEART. By EFFIE ADELAIDE Row<br />
LANDS. 7 x 5. 304 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
THE ROMANCE OF A FRENCH PARSONAGE. By M.<br />
BETHAM-EDWARDS. (Cheap Reprint.) 67 x 4. 270 pp.<br />
Collins Clear Type Press. 3 d. n.<br />
MRS. MAXON PROTESTS. By ANTHONY HOPE. 74 x 5.<br />
351 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE NOTORIOUS Miss LISLE. By MRS. BAILLIE<br />
REYNOLDS. 78 X 5. 308 pp. Hodder & Stoughton,<br />
6x,<br />
THE YEAR'S ROUND. By MAUD RAWSON. 74 x 5.<br />
401 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
LOVE'S PRIVILEGE. By STELLA M. DÜRING. 74 x 5.<br />
376 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
ARDNAREE. The Story of an English Girl in Connaught.<br />
Told by herself and edited by RANDAL MCDONNEL.<br />
7* 5. Dublin : Gill.<br />
THE IMPERISHABLE WING. By MRS. HAVELOOK ELLIS.<br />
7 x 5. 283 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
Fox FARM. By WARWICK DEEPING. 7{ x 5. 403 pp.<br />
Cassell. 68.<br />
Hodson's VOYAGE. By W. H. KOEBEL. 73 x 5. 310 pp.<br />
Stanley Paul. 6s.<br />
THE BEES. By M. ELLEN THONGER. 7{ x 5. 312 pp.<br />
Chapman & Hall. 68.<br />
ROSE OF THE WORLD. By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE.<br />
61 x 47. 380 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
LALAGE'S LOVERS, By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM. 73 x 5.<br />
305 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
THERE WAS A WIDOW. By MARY E. MANN. 74 x 5.<br />
309 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE UNOFFICIAL HONEYMOON. By DOLF WYLLARDE.<br />
73 X 5. 312 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE RAJAH, By F. E. PENNY. 74 x 5. 398 pp.<br />
Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
PETER AND JANE; OR, THE MISSING HEIR. By S.<br />
MACNAUGHTAN. 73 X 5. 310 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
ALL AWRY. By MAUDE ANNESLEY. 78 X 5. 368 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
THE MILLER OF OLD CHURCH. By ELLEN GLASGOW.<br />
73 x . 432 pp. Murray. 68.<br />
THE HOUSE OF CHANCE. By GERTIE DE S. WENTWORTH<br />
JAMES. 73 5. 313 pp. Everett. 6s.<br />
BERTRAND OF BRITTANY. By WARWICK DEEPING,<br />
74 X 5. 370 pp. Cassell. 18. n.<br />
A LONELY LITTLE LADY. By DOLF WYLLARDE.<br />
61 x 47. 207 pp. Hutchinson. 7d. n.<br />
MR. INGLESIDE." By E. V. LUCAS. 63 41. 316 pp.<br />
(New Edition.) Methuen. 58.<br />
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND, AND OTHER STORIES.<br />
By H. G. WELLS. 78 X 5. 574 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
ANTHEA'S GUEST. By MRS. ALFRED SIDGWICK. 71 x 5.<br />
313 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE Cost. By L. G. MOBERLY. 74 x 5. 325 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon.' 68.<br />
A BLOOD-MOON; THE BUHL CABINET, AND STORIES<br />
FROM ALGIERS. By IRENE OSGOOD. 71 X 41. 254 pp.<br />
Everett. 28, n.<br />
THE RIGHT OF WAY. By SIR GILBERT PARKER.<br />
54 X 41. 378 pp. Nelson. 78. n.<br />
A BAVARIAN VILLAGE PLAYER. By FRANCES G.<br />
BURMESTER. Greening & Co. 68.<br />
RED Eve. By H. RIDER HAGGARD. 78 x 5. 296 pp.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
ABOVE YOUR HEADS. By FREDERICK NITEN. 73 x 5.<br />
299 pp. Martin Secker. 68.<br />
No MAN'S LAND. By L. J. VANCE. 73 x 51. 309 pp.<br />
Grant Richards. 68.<br />
THE LOST IPHIGENIA. By AGNES and EGERTON<br />
CASTLE. 78 X 5. 316 pp. Smith Elder. 68.<br />
THE WOMAN WINs. By R. MACHRAY, 75 X 5. 347 pp.<br />
Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
IN DIFFERENT Keys. By I. A. R. WYLIE. 74 x 5.<br />
320 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
A PASSION IN MOROCCO. By MRS. CHARLOTTE CAMERON.<br />
84 x 51. 126 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
THE SILENT HOUSE. By LOUIS TRACY. 7 X 5. 320<br />
pp. Nash. 28.<br />
THE LADY OF THE HUNDRED DRESSES. By S. R.<br />
CROCKETT. 73 X 5. 307 pp. Nash. 28.<br />
UNCONFESSED. Ry MAXWELL GRAY. 74 x 5. 352 pp.<br />
John Long. 68.<br />
LIFE EVERLASTING: A REALITY OF ROMANCE. By<br />
MARIE CORELLI. Methuen & Co. 68.<br />
HETTY : THE STORY OF AN ULSTER FAMILY. By SHAN<br />
F. BULLOCK. 73 X 41. 322 pp. Werner Laurie. 68.<br />
THE YOKE OF SILENCE. By Amy McLAREN. 73 x 5.<br />
306 pp. Mills & Boon. 58.<br />
HILDA LESSWAYS. By ARNOLD BENNETT. 74 x 5.<br />
408 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
DORMANT. By E. NESBIT. 73 x 5. 312 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
MY BEAUTIFUL NEIGHBOUR. By ARABELLA KENEALY.<br />
7 * 5. 352 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
THE EMOTIONS OF MARTHA. By CONSTANCE SMEDLEY<br />
(Mrs. Maxwell Armfield). 8 x 57, 317 pp. Religious<br />
Tract Society. 68.<br />
THE APPLE OF HAPPINESS. By ETHEL TURNER (Mrs.<br />
H. R. Curlewis). 73 5. 275 pp. Hodder & Stoughton.<br />
38. 6d.<br />
VAGABOND CITY. By WINIFRED BOGGS. 74 x 5.<br />
392 pp. Putnam. 68.<br />
THE BRIDE OF DUTTON MARKET. By MARIE C.<br />
LEIGHTON. 74 x 5. 320 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
BRITAIN'S RECORD. WHAT SHE HAS DONE FOR THE<br />
WORLD. By E. KEBLE CHATTERTON. 9 X 54. 301 pp.<br />
Sidgwick & Jackson. 78. 6d. n.<br />
A HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By C. R. L. FLETCHER and<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING. Pictures by R. H. FORD. 10 x 74.<br />
256 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press ; London : Frowde.<br />
78. 6d. n.<br />
CÆSAR'S CONQUEST OF GAUL. By T. RICE HOLMES.<br />
(Second edition. Revised and Largely Rewritten.)<br />
9 x 51. 872 pp. Oxford : Clarendon Press; London :<br />
Frowde. 248. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 6 (#402) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE ROMANTIC PAST. By RALPH NEVILL. 9 x 57.<br />
352 pp. Chapman & Hall. 128. 6d. n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE BOOK OF THE Zoo. By W. S. BERRIDGE, F.Z.S.,<br />
and W. P. WESTELL. With 8 coloured plates and 64<br />
photographs. 78 X 54. 304 pp. (The Recreation<br />
Library.) Dent. 58.<br />
Tom STAPLETON, THE Boy Scout. By CAPTAIN F. S.<br />
BRERETON. 74 X 5, 287 pp. Blackie. 38. 6d.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
VARSITY TYPES. Scenes and Characters from Under-<br />
graduate Life. By F. RUTTER. Second Edition (with<br />
new Preface). 73 x 5. Cambridge: Heffer; London,<br />
Simpkin, Marshall. 38. n.<br />
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.<br />
Edited by A. W. WARD, Litt.D., and A. R. WALLER.<br />
· Vol. VII. Cavalier and Puritan. 91 x 61. 553 pp.<br />
Cambridge University Press. 98. n.<br />
PRINCIPLES OF BIOGRAPHY. The Leslie Stephen Lecture<br />
delivered in the Senate House, Cambridge, February<br />
13th, 1911. By SIR SIDNEY LEE, Hon. D.Litt.<br />
7} x 5. 54 pp. Cambridge University Press.<br />
18. 6d, n.<br />
SAMUEL RICHARDSON. By SHEILA KAYE-SMITH.<br />
7 x 48.368 pp. (The Regent Library.) H. Daniel.<br />
28. 60. n.<br />
EAST AND WEST. By DAVID ALEC WILSON. 78 X 5.<br />
306 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VIGNETTES. By AUSTIN DOB.<br />
son. 64 X 4. 381 pp. Nelson. 18. n.<br />
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS. By A. E. LLOYD MAUNSELL.<br />
7} 5. 141 pp. Moring. 58. n.<br />
OLD LAMPS FOR NEW. By E. V. LUCAS. 64 x 41.<br />
258 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
MEDICAL.<br />
REFRACTION AND VISUAL ACUITY. By KENNETH<br />
SCOTT. 77 x . 191 pp. Rebman. 68. n.<br />
NATIONAL HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH. By<br />
CHARLES REINHARDT, M.D.7 x 41. 29 pp. London<br />
Publishing Co. Cloth, 6d. ; Paper, 2d.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. BARBETT<br />
HAMILTON. Part VII. 10 X 7. pp. 25–72. Gurney<br />
& Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
ALPINE PLANTS OF EUROPE. Together with Culture<br />
Hints. By H. S. THOMPSON, F.C.E. 81 X 51. 287<br />
pp. Routledge. 78. 6d. n.<br />
THE YOUNG ORNITHOLOGIST: A GUIDE TO THE<br />
HAUNTS, HOMES. AND HABITS OF BRITISH BIRDS.<br />
By PERCIVAL WESTALL, F.L.S. 71 X 5. 308 pp.<br />
Methuen. 58.<br />
ORIENTAL.<br />
THE FLIGHT OF THE DRAGON. By LAURENCE BINYOX.<br />
63 X 43. 112 pp. Murray. 28. 1.<br />
POETRY.<br />
THE CRUCIBLES ON TIME; AND OTHER POEMS. By<br />
DARRELL FIGGIS. 71 X 5. 115 pp. Dent. 38. 6d. n.<br />
PLUTO AND PROSERPINE. By JOHN SUMMERS STANLEY.<br />
Panl. 28. n.<br />
DREAMS AND GABLES. Sonnets. By E. HERRICK,<br />
London: J. R. Allenson. 18. n.<br />
BEFORE DAWN. (Poetry and Impressions.) By HAROLD<br />
MONRO. 74 X 51. 144 pp. Constable. 58. n.<br />
THE CALL OF THE Past. A Political Jingle. By A. H.<br />
COCHRAN. 73 x 43. 64 pp. Simpkin, Marshall.<br />
18. n.<br />
VERSES. By DOLF WYLLARDE. 6 x 41. 114 pp.<br />
Stanley Paul. 18. 6d. n. ; 2s.6d, n. (cloth).<br />
THE BALLAD OF THE WHITE HORSE. By G. K.<br />
CHESTERTON. 7 x 41. 182 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
REPRINTS<br />
THE FOOTPATH WAY. An Anthology for Walkers, with an<br />
Introduction. By HILAIRE BELLOC. 7 X 41. 240 pp.<br />
Sedgwick & Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
LETTERS FROM HELL. Given in English by JULIE<br />
SUTTER. With a Preface by G. MacDONALD, LL.D.<br />
7 x 41. 348 pp. Macmillan's Shilling Library.<br />
SCIENCE.<br />
THE TIDES AND KINDRED PHENOMENA IN THE SOLAR<br />
SYSTEM. By SIR GEORGE HOWARD DARWIN. (Third<br />
Edition.) 78 X 5. 437 pp. Murray. 78. 6d. n.<br />
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. By SIR GEORGE HOWARD DARWIN,<br />
K.C.B., F.R.S. Vol. IV.(and last). Periodic Orbits and<br />
Miscellaneous Papers. 104 x 69. 592 pp. Cambridge<br />
University Press. 158. n.<br />
SOCIOLOGY,<br />
THE PREVENTION OF DESTITUTION. BY SIDNEY and<br />
BEATRICE WEBB. 8} x 51. 348 pp. Longmans. 68. n.<br />
AT THE WORKS. A Study of a Manufacturing Town, By<br />
LADY BELL. 64 x 41 376 pp. Nelson. 18. n.<br />
SOCIOLOGY APPLIED TO PRACTICAL POLITICS. By<br />
• JOHN BEATTIE CROZIER. 9 x 53.320 pp. Longmans.<br />
MILITARY<br />
THE MILITARY LAW EXAMINER. By LIEUT.-COL. S. C.<br />
PRATT. (Eighth Edition.) 71 X 5. 306 pp. Gale &<br />
Polden. Às. 6d. 1..<br />
9s. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE EYE WITNESS. Edited by HILAIRE BELLOC. 6d.<br />
THE PROGRESS Book. An Illustrated Register of the<br />
· Development of a Child from Birth till Coming of Age.<br />
By J. J. PILLEY, PH.D. 8 x 62. 63 pp. Leadenhall<br />
Press.<br />
PATRIOTISM: A BIOLOGICAL STUDY. By H. G. F. SPUR.<br />
RELL, M.A. 168 pp. George Bell & Sons. 28. 6d. n.<br />
BLACKPOOL TO-DAY. By ARTHUR LAYCOCK. 10 x 71.<br />
48 pp. John Heywood. 3d.<br />
AN ANTHOLOGY OF Essex. Collected by ISABEL LUCY<br />
and BEATRICE MARY GOULD. Edited and arranged,<br />
with additions and a Biographical Index, by<br />
CHARLOTTE FELL SMITH. London: Sampson, Low &<br />
Co. 58. n.<br />
WHAT A LIFE! By E. V. L. and G. M. 77 x 41.<br />
126 pp. Methuen. Is. n.<br />
BRITISH RURAL LIFE AND LABOUR, By F. G. HEATH.<br />
84 x 58. 318 pp. P. S. King.<br />
SPORT.<br />
ANGLING FOR COARSE Fish. By JOHN BICKER'YKE.<br />
7x 5. 140 pp. (Third edition.) Upcott Gill. 18<br />
TOPOGRAPHY,<br />
HIGHWAYS AND HEDGES. Painted by R. BENGER<br />
. Described by H. A. MORRAH. 9 x 61. 144 pp. Black<br />
78. 6d. n.<br />
A BOOK OF THE WYE. By EDWARD HUTTON. 9 x 51<br />
292 pp. Methuen. 78, 6d. n.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
MORE MASTERINGERS. Studies in the Art of Music. By<br />
FILSON YOUNG. 8 X 51. 286 pp. Grant Richards.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 7 (#403) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE WONDERFUL WEALD, AND THE QUEST OF THE THE GARDEN OF ALLAH. By ROBERT HICHENS. 490 pp.<br />
CROCK OF GOLD. By ARTHUR BECKETT. Illustrated New York : Stokes. $1.50.<br />
by ERNEST MARILLIER, 9 x 51. 439 pp. Mills & THE SILENT BARRIER. By Louis TRACY. 350 pp. New<br />
Boon. 108. 6d.<br />
York : Clode. $1.25.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
Nova SCOTIA: THE PROVINCE THAT HAS BEEN PASSED.<br />
CÆSAR'S CONQUEST OF GAUL. By T. RICE HOLMES.<br />
By BECKLES WILLSON. 9 X 54. 256 pp. Constable.<br />
(Second edition, revised throughout and largely rewritten.)<br />
108. 6d. n.<br />
"CHICOT " IN AMERICA. By KEBLE HOWARD (" Chicot”.<br />
872 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $7.75 n.<br />
of “The Sketch.") 74 x 48. 204 pp. Hutchinson.<br />
POETRY.<br />
18. n.<br />
RECESSIONAL ; AND OTHER POEMs. By RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
THE LAND OF VEILED WOMEN. Some Wanderings in<br />
Algeria. By JOHN FOSTER FRASER. 72 x õ. 288 pp.<br />
62 pp. New York : Crowell. 35 cents.<br />
Cassell. 68.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
MEXICO AS I SAW IT. By MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE.<br />
A POOR MAN'S HOUSE, By STEPHEN REYNOLDS. 320 pp.<br />
61 x 47. 480 pp. Nelson. 18. n.<br />
New York : Macmillan. 50 cents n.<br />
RAMBLES AROUND FRENCH CHÂTEAUX. By FRANCES<br />
PATRIOTISM : a Biological Study. By H. G. F. SPURRELL.<br />
GOSTLING. 73 x 5. 372 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
RAMBLES IN THE BLACK FOREST. By I. A. R. WYLIE.<br />
168 pp. New York : Macmillan. $1 n.<br />
73 X 5. 325 pp. Mills & Boon, 68.<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
HOME LIFE IN HOLLAND. By D. S. MELDRUM. 9 x 59.<br />
SOCIOLOGY APPLIED TO PRACTICAL POLITICS. By J.<br />
375 pp. Methuen. 108. 6d. n.<br />
THE BELGIANS AT HOME. By CLIVE HOLLAND. With<br />
BEATTIE CROZIER. 320 pp. New York : Longmans.<br />
$3 n.<br />
16 Hlustrations in colour by DOUGLAS SNOWDON, and<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
Photographs. 9 X 51. 326 pp. Methuen. 10s. 6d. n.<br />
THE DANUBE. By WALTER JERROLD. 9 X 5. 307 pp. THE DANUBE. By WALTER JERROLD. With 30 illustra-<br />
Methuen. 103. 6d. n.<br />
tions by L. WEIRTER. 31.5 pp. New York: Stokes.<br />
$3.50 n.<br />
A ROMAN PILGRIMAGE. By R. ELLIS ROBERTS. 274 pp.<br />
New York : Stokes. $2.50.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
NOTES.<br />
AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MARQUISE: A STUDY OF<br />
EMILIE DU CHATELET AND HER TIMES. By FRANK<br />
HAMEL. New York : Pott. $3.50 n.<br />
TR. H. G. F. Spurrell has written, and<br />
TAE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED AUSTIN. 325 and M Messrs. George Bell & Sons have published,<br />
308 pp. New York. Macmillan. $7.50 n.<br />
a “ Biological Study of Patriotism.” Mr.<br />
CLASSICAL,<br />
Spurrell's aim, in this work, has been to explain the<br />
THE RISE OF THE GREEK EPIC : A Course of Lectures natural history of patriotism, and to furnish the<br />
delivered at Harvard University. Second edition, revised reader with a scientific analysis of a subject which<br />
and enlarged by G. G. A. MURRAY. 368 pp. New York:<br />
usually receives purely emotional treatment.<br />
Oxford University Press. $1.50 n.<br />
“To the Outside " is the title of a new novel by<br />
ECONOMICS.<br />
Miss A. Curtis Sherwood. It is described as a<br />
THE SCIENCE OF WEALTH. By J. A. HOBSON. 256 pp. “modern story and satire." An attempt to<br />
New York: Holt. 75 cents n.<br />
suppress it having been made, it is published in an<br />
FICTION.<br />
unusual way, post free for one shilling, from the<br />
address :<br />
A PLUCKY GIRL; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF "MISS<br />
A. Sherwood, Clifford R.S.O., Hereford-<br />
NELL.” By MAY BALDWIN. 314 pp. Philadelphia :<br />
shire; or can be ordered through a bookseller from<br />
McKay. 75 cents.<br />
the same address.<br />
THE QUEEN'S FILLET. By the Rev. Canon P. A. Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. have accepted a new<br />
SHEEHAN, D.D. 376 pp. New York: Longmans.<br />
novel by Miss Emma Brooke, which will probably<br />
$1.35 n.<br />
OPTE BOWEN be published in the early spring. The Windsor<br />
DEFENDER O<br />
366 pp. New York : Dutton. $1.35 n.<br />
Magazine had a story, entitled “Thirteen o' the<br />
THE LARGER GROWTH. By CONSTANCE ARMFIELD. Clock," by Miss Emma Brooke, in the June issue.<br />
382 pp. New York : Dutton. $1.35 n.<br />
The same magazine has accepted a second story by<br />
THE SHADOW: A Story of the Evolution of a Soul. By<br />
HAROLD BEGBIE. 490 pp. Chicago : Revell. $1.25 n.<br />
the same author. Miss Emma Brooke has also a<br />
THE GLOBY OF CLEMENTINA. By W.J. LOCKE. 367 pp. story in the July issue of Nash's Magazine, entitled<br />
New York : John Lane. $1.30 n.<br />
“ The Offer."<br />
THE SHIP OF CORAL. By H. de VERE STACKPOOLE.<br />
Mrs. Havelock Ellis' new book, “ The Imperish-<br />
311 pp. New York : Duffield. $1.20 n.<br />
Farable Wing," is a series of psychological studies in<br />
THE SECRET GARDEN. By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT.<br />
375 pp. New Yörk : F. A. Stokes. $1.35 n.<br />
Love and Passion and Death. They are Cornish<br />
F THE FAITH.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 8 (#404) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
stories, and will recall to Mrs. Ellis' readers her Dean Maitland,” in the Isle of Wight. The main<br />
book, “ My Cornish Neighbours." Messrs. interest is the effect of strong spiritual emotion-<br />
Stanley, Paul & Co. are the publishers.<br />
suddenly awakened by a missioner preaching in his<br />
The Anti-Socialist League have republished and own kitchen-on a prosperous middle-aged farmer,<br />
circulated an article from a Socialist paper, over ambitious, unimaginative, stubborn, hard ; but<br />
the signature of “A. E. Jacomb." Miss A. esteemed by his world as exceptionally upright,<br />
Jacomb-Hood—a member of the Society of just and sagacious.<br />
Authors—who writes under the name of A. E. Edith C. Kenyon's historical tale, “ Two Girls in<br />
Jacomb, desires it to be known that she is not the a Siege," a Welsh story of the siege of Chepstow, is<br />
person responsible for the article, and has no now being issued by the Religious Tract Society in<br />
knowledge of the writer.<br />
their sixpenny edition. Miss Kenyon's serial,<br />
A new collection of poems, entitled “Before “ Ashes of Honor," ended in the July number of<br />
Dawn," by Mr. Harold Monro, author of “Judas," the All Story Magazine.<br />
was published by Messrs. Constable & Co. in July. The Queen has graciously been pleased to accept<br />
We quote the dedication of the volume, which a copy of Mrs. Charlotte Cameron's new novel,<br />
seems to explain the title: “I dedicate this book “A Passion in Morocco." Her Majesty has also<br />
to those who, with me, are gazing in delight promised to accept a work of travel, entitled “A<br />
towards where on the horizon there shall be dawn. Woman's Winter in South America," from Mrs.<br />
Henceforth, together, humble thongh fearless, we Cameron, which is about to appear.<br />
must praise, worship, and obey the beautiful Messrs. Cassell & Co. have included in their<br />
Future, which alone we may call God."<br />
autumn list another story by Helen H. Watson,<br />
Mr. Wynford Dewhurst has received a second author of “Peggy, D.O.” The present story is<br />
mark of distinction from the French Government, called “Peggy, S.G.," and while the former book<br />
the Brevet and handsome gold insignia of “ Officier dealt with Peggy the “distinguished orthor," this<br />
de L'Instruction Publique et des Beaux-Arts, one has to do with her school career-hence the<br />
having been awarded him. Mr. Dewhurst has title “Peggy the School Girl." Messrs. Cassell<br />
been spending the summer in France, where he will also publish, in the early spring of next year, a<br />
has been busily painting. His work will be new novel by Mrs. Watson, entitled “ The Open<br />
shown in the Durand-Rueil Galleries, Paris, in Valley.”<br />
November next.<br />
“As Flows the River" is the title of Mrs. Fred<br />
Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted Reynolds' new book, of which Messrs. Chapman &<br />
a copy of “Pageants and Plays," by Miss Grace Hall are the publishers. The scene of the story is<br />
Toplis, under which title the old favourites for laid amongst the Welsh mountains in the neighbour-<br />
school and village entertainments have been hood of Llanbedr, a locality already utilised by<br />
reissued, with “ The Five Georges” as new matter, Mrs. Reynolds in .“ The Man with the Wooden<br />
for performance during the local festivities and Face,” “St. David of the Dust,” “The Lady in<br />
celebrations of the new reign.<br />
Grey," and other novels.<br />
Derek Vane's new novel, “ The Soul of a Man,” “The Bees” is the title of a new book recently<br />
is now running serially in The Throne and issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall. It is by<br />
Country. It is a study of a man of curious complex Miss M. Ellen Thonger, and describes the nursery<br />
nature-half-cynic, half-dreamer—who marries a adventures of a bunch of triplets, and belongs<br />
beautiful inexperienced girl, who thinks they are to the same category of books as “ Helen's<br />
going to live an ideal life.<br />
Babies."<br />
Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. are the publishers Miss Mary L. Pendered's new novel, “ Daisy the<br />
of an “ Anthology of Essex,” collected by Isabel Minx," is due, this month, from the publishing<br />
Lucy and Beatrice Mary Gould, and edited and house of Mr. Ham-Smith. The author describes it<br />
arranged, with additions and a “ Biographical as “ A Diversion," as it is somewhat different from<br />
Index,” by Miss C. Fell Smith. The method her usual work, being written rather in a spirit of<br />
which the editor has followed, in her work, has frolic. 7. P.'s Magazine for August contains a<br />
been to include any writers on the county, and the story from Miss Pendered's pen, wbich is entitled<br />
county writers on anything—that is, of course, on “ The Happiest of Men,” while the September Novel<br />
anything edifying or worth preserving. The reader Magazine also has a story from the same writer.<br />
may flit from the stained-glass conceits of Quarles Miss Pendered, in addition to these stories, has<br />
and Benlowes to the rude human nature, fresh recently finished a novel, to which she has given the<br />
from the soil, of to-day's farm labourer.<br />
title “ The Anklebiter."<br />
Maxwell Grey's new novel, which Mr. John Long Mr. Ditchfield, Rector of Barkham, has com-<br />
published in August, is called “Unconfessed," and pleted a volume of essays entitled “Out of the<br />
the scene is laid, as was that of “The Silence of Ivory Palaces," which will be pullished shortly by<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 9 (#405) ##############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Messrs. Mills & Boon. He has also written, for another copy was also accepted by H.R.H. the<br />
private circulation, a “ History of the Dawson Prince of Wales.<br />
Family" of Yorkshire, Berkshire, and America, A new humorous novel, entitled “ Hodson's<br />
compiled from family papers, letters and documents; Voyage," from the pen of Mr. W. H. Koebel,<br />
Messrs. George Allen & Co. being the publishers. appears from Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. Of<br />
For the same firm he has long been engaged upon recent years Mr. Koebel has been better known as<br />
a large work on the “Counties of England," a & writer of books of travel, but in taking up fiction<br />
review of their history and records. This will again he has returned to his first love. Mr. Koebel,<br />
appear this autumn, in two volumes. At the same has not, however, abandoned the writing of works<br />
time his “Memorials of Old Gloucestershire” will of travel, and he is engaged at the present time in<br />
appear as one of the volumes of the “ Memorial passing the proofs of a new book dealing with up-<br />
Series," of which thirty volumes have been published country life in New Zealand, which he has entitled<br />
under his editorship. Mr. Ditchfield has also “ In the Maoriland Bush." It is based on his own<br />
undertaken to write two more books for Messrs. personal experiences and observations, and includes<br />
Methuen & Co., who have been his principal pub- intimate descriptions of the humours and tragedies<br />
lishers for many years, and with whom he has had of the fascinating country of the “ back blocks."<br />
a literary connection since the foundation of that In response to a desire expressed by many readers<br />
firm in 1889. Miss Edna Lyall's book, “ Derrick of Miss Doll Wyllarde's novels, for the complete<br />
Vaughan," and Mr. Ditchfield's “ English Villages” poems from which she had quoted in her stories<br />
were the two first books published by that house. from time to time, Miss Wyllarde has decided to<br />
He is also editing the Journal of the British publish a collection of them in volume form, and is<br />
Archæological Association.<br />
adding a number of hitherto unpublished poems.<br />
A work on the agricultural and commercial Miss Wyllarde has entitled the book simply<br />
problems of sugar beet growing and beet sugar “ Verses.” The volume, wbich has a photogravure<br />
manufacture, by the writer on rural subjects who frontispiece, is also published by Messrs. Stanley<br />
uses the nom de guerre of “Home Counties," has Paul & Co.<br />
been published from the Field office. It extends to Mrs. Irene Osgood's latest volume, “ A Blood<br />
more than 400 pages, and contains a hundred Moon; and Other Stories," includes“ A Blood Moon,"<br />
illustrations. The aim of the author is to discuss “ The Bubl Cabinet” and “ Stories from Algiers."<br />
a difficult subject in an impartial spirit.<br />
The titular story tells of a devoted wife who<br />
« Above Your Heads" is the title given by Mr. surprised her husband and his paramour discussing<br />
Frederick Niven to a volume of short stories, which her lightly. “The Buhl Cabinet” consists of a<br />
he has published through Mr. Martin Secker. number of letters collected by a cynical old French<br />
None of the stories has been published previously, marquis, from women whose marriage had proved<br />
all of them having been rejected by editors mainly a failure through incompatibility of tastes or<br />
on the ground that they would not appeal to the temperament. “Stories from Algiers " are a subtle<br />
public. The author has, therefore, put them before study of the Algerine of to-day who retains many<br />
the public in volume form, in the hope that the of the characteristics of the corsairs from whom he<br />
editors' view may be proved erroneous.<br />
is descended.<br />
A new novel by Harold Avery, the author of “A Frank Hamel has chosen Jean de la Fontaine<br />
Week at the Sea,” entitled “Every Dog his Day," as the subject of her latest volume of biography.<br />
will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley La Fontaine has a unique place in French litera-<br />
Paul & Co,<br />
ture. He stands between the old and the new.<br />
G. P. Putnam's Sons published on September He possessed the humour of the Renaissance<br />
20, Miss Winifred Boggs' new story, “Vagabond period, and adapted it to the clear and sparkling<br />
City." It is the author's first novel since she won style of the grand siècle. He was closely in touch<br />
the Daily Mail Prize Novel Competition in 1907, with Boileau, Racine, and Molière, and his story<br />
for “The Return of Richard Carr.” “Vaga- must therefore appeal to all students of a remark-<br />
bond City” opens on the honeymoon of the able period of French literary history. The volume<br />
vagabond and his pretty conventional bride, and will be published immediately by Messrs. Stanley<br />
tells of their life in the New Forest, to which in Paul & Co.<br />
time is introduced the Genius, the woman artist, A second edition has recently been issued of<br />
his mate. The second edition of this book has “De Libris : Prose and Verse," by Mr. Austin<br />
just appeared.<br />
Dobson, with illustations by Hugh Thomson and<br />
“Gallant Wales," the fifth song Miss K. Everest Kate Greenaway. The new issue has an addi-<br />
bas produced, is published by Stanley Webb, tional chapter. Messrs. Macmillan & Co. are the<br />
10, Museum Street, W.C. A copy of this song publishers.<br />
was graciously accepted by H.M. The Queen, and Mr. Martin Secker announces the publication of<br />
G<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 10 (#406) #############################################<br />
<br />
10<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Michael Barrington's new book dealing with “ The Ogre," Mr. Henry Arthur Jones' new<br />
Grahame of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee. In play, was produced at the St. James' Theatre on<br />
this work--the result of long study of the con- the 11th. “The Ogre” is the head of a house-<br />
flicting elements of Restoration and Revolution hold, and is given this nickname by his wife and<br />
politics—the author shows the intrigues of 1688 children, who are in open rebellion against him.<br />
in a new light. The book contains also a vivid The dramatist describes the method by which the<br />
picture of the Highland campaign. New military husband “tamed” his household. The caste<br />
maps, an itinerary of the Highland campaign, and included Sir George Alexander, Mr. A. E.<br />
a copious bibliography are added to the volume. Matthewe, Mr. Sydney Valentine, Miss Kate<br />
The ordinary edition of nine hundred copies is Cutler, and Miss Gladys Cooper.<br />
issued at £1 108. net. There is also an edition de Mr. Alfred Sutro's new comedy, "The Perplexed<br />
luxe, strictly limited to fifty copies, numbered Husband,” was produced at Wyndham's Theatre,<br />
and signed by the author. The price of the copies on September 12. The play opens with the return<br />
in this edition is £3 38.<br />
of a tea merchant from a visit to Russia, and the<br />
“Nine English Consorts of Foreign Princes” is first act shows the nature of the reception given<br />
the title of Miss Ida Woodward's new book which to him by his wife. This lady has, apparently,<br />
Messrs. Methuen & Co. are publishing on the been reading Ibsen's “Doll's House ” during her<br />
12th inst.<br />
husband's absence, and the husband is perplexed as<br />
to the best way to meet the situation which has<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
arisen owing to the effect of the Norwegian<br />
Mr. Louis N. Parker's comedy, in three acts, dramatist on the relations between the pair. In<br />
“ Pomander Walk,” was staged at the Playhouse on the caste were Mr. Gerald du Maurier, Mr. E.<br />
June 29. The period of the play is 1805, and Lyall-Swete, Miss Maude Millett, and Miss<br />
* Pomander Walk » (in the neighbourhood of Henrietta Watson.<br />
Chiswick) is the centre of a comedy in which the Mr. Bernard Shaw's “ Man and Superman" was<br />
dramatist-introduces many character studies. The revived at the Criterion for a short run on Septem-<br />
caste included Mr. Cyril Maude, Mr. Norman ber 28. In the caste were Miss Pauline Chase, Mr.<br />
Forbes, Miss Winifred Emery and Mr. Frederick Robert Lorraine, Mr. Guy Standing, Miss Florence<br />
Volpe.<br />
Haydon, and Miss Agnes Thomas.<br />
"Sally Bishop,” a play in four acts, by E. Temple<br />
Thurston, was produced at the Prince of Wales<br />
Theatre on July 25. The caste includes Mr.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
Dennis Eadie, Mr. Holman Clark, Miss Agnes<br />
Thomas, and Miss Daisy Markham.<br />
Mr. John Pollock’s play, “ Rosamond,” which was NEW league has been founded in France<br />
produced in London last season at the Royalty and<br />
entitled The League against the lending of<br />
Kingsway Theatres, by Madame Lydia Yavoiska, books.<br />
has been translated into Russian by Prince One of the chief causes of the recent crisis in the<br />
Vladimir Bariatinsky, and accepted for production book trade is undoubtedly the ease with which<br />
at the Imperial Theatre at Moscow, which is known people obtain books to read without paying for<br />
as “ le théâtre de Molière Russe.”<br />
them.<br />
"The Hope," by Cecil Raleigh and Henry M. Paul Reboux and M. René Blum have<br />
Hamilton, was produced at Drury Lane Theatre therefore issued a manifesto, from which we quote<br />
last month. In their latest sporting drama, the a few extracts : “Our friends do not borrow our<br />
authors find their hero in an impecunious peer, and pictures, our cushions and our knick-knacks, but<br />
the play takes its title from a horse which, they do ask for our books. We have not the<br />
representing the only chance of saving the peer's courage to refuse to lend them, and our volumes<br />
house from ruin, is called “The Hope.” In the disappear and do not return to our shelves. ...<br />
caste are Mr. Cyril Keightley, Mr. Lyston Lyle, Every borrower may be considered as one buyer<br />
Miss Fanny Brough, and Miss Madge Fabian. less, whilst every would-be borrower to whom we<br />
Mr. Hail Caine's new play, “The Quality of refuse our books may be a buyer gained."<br />
Mercy," was produced at the Theatre Royal, Man- A French writer commenting on this movement<br />
chester, on September 4th. The play has for its says: “Public libraries should, of course, be<br />
central theme an intrigue similar to that recorded encouraged for those who cannot buy, but well-to-<br />
in Scripture, whereby King David disposed of do-people who only read books bought by others<br />
Uriah in order to become possessed of Bathsheba. should be discouraged. ... One of the objects<br />
In the piece were Miss Eille Norwood, Miss Hilda of the League is to help everyone to fight against<br />
Dick, and Mr. Thomas Holding.<br />
the tyranny of sponging friends."<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 11 (#407) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
11<br />
A great lover of books adds: “I quite approve Salon Carré was thronged with visitors, and<br />
this wise initiative, and I would add that, in order certainly never have any nails attracted more<br />
not to be impolite, when it is a lady who wants to attention than those upon which the favourite<br />
borrow a book, a man has only to reply that .it picture had hung so many years. The doors of<br />
shall be sent to her the following day.' He can the Museum and many of the rooms were guarded<br />
then buy her a volume without giving up his own by policemen, and very strict measures are being<br />
copy. Tactful people will soon take the hint, and taken in order to prevent the repetition of a similar<br />
this will teach them the way to the book shops." We theft.<br />
may add that the office of this new League is at In recent numbers of La Revue hebdomadaire<br />
42, Rue de Clichy, Paris, the annual subscription are articles by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer “ Théophile<br />
three francs, and that each member receives a little Gautier"; by Péladan, on · La Joconde et le Saint<br />
engraving on parchment to place on his bookshelf. Jean," and by Dr. Gustave Le Bon on “L'Evolution<br />
This little card is intended as a polite method of latine du Socialisme.”<br />
explaining that books cannot be lent.<br />
In the Revue de Paris are“ Lettres de Danemark<br />
Among recent books are “ Sonia et ses amis” (les et d'Allemagne," by Francois Coppée, and an article<br />
petits cahiers d'une etrangère, avec préface d'Emile on “Sedan” by Lieutenant-Colonel Picard. M.<br />
Berr”). “La Ville inconnue,” by Paul Adam, is one Maurice Muret writes on “Antonio Fogazaro et<br />
of the most remarkable of this author's books. It is son Oeuvre.” and Barbe Doukhorskoy gives a<br />
a story of the French in Africa, and of the influence chapter of his “ Souvenirs."<br />
of the climate and surroundings on certain officers The theatres are beginning to open their<br />
of the French army. A very dramatic episode is the doors for the winter season.<br />
arrival of two officers in an aeroplane.<br />
At the Comédie Française, “ Cher Maître," and<br />
In Marcelle Tinayre's new novel, “La Douceur “Le Goût du vice” have been given. At the<br />
de vivre," many of the qualities of her “ Maison de Renaissance, “Le mysterieux Jimmy,” by M.<br />
Péché” are to be found. Some of her descriptions, Armstrong. M. Abel Deval announces for his<br />
too, are very fine.<br />
theatre an adaptation of “Mr. Pickwick."<br />
“ Humour et Humoristes " is the title of a clever The outdoor theatres have had a brilliant season<br />
book by Paul Stapfer. In this volume we find an on account of the exceptional summer. M. Camille<br />
important study of Henry Fielding, another of de Sainte Croix has obtained permission to open<br />
Jean-Paul-Frederick Richter, a study of Anatole his Shakespeare Theatre in the St. Cloud Woods,<br />
France's work, and a well-drawn portrait of but it is probable that, on account of the delay in<br />
Mme. de Noailles.<br />
obtaining this, he will now wait for next season.<br />
An extremely instructive book has been written<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
by M. H. Joly, as a result of a mission with<br />
which the author was entrusted for the Académie<br />
“ La Ville inconnue” (Fasquelle).<br />
des Sciences Morales. It is entitled “L'Italie “ La Douceur de vivre” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
contemporaine, enquêtes sociales." The volume * Humour et Humoristes ” (Fischbacher).<br />
contains a great amount of reliable information “L'Italie contemporaine enquêtes sociales " (Bloud).<br />
about the social conditions of life in Italy.<br />
“Contre l'alcoolisme” is the title of a book by<br />
Joseph Reinach, in which he shows the terrible AUTHORS' AGENTS, LITERARY AND<br />
ravages made by alcoholism in France.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
English admirers of the work of Camille<br />
Flammarion may like to take part in his Jubilee<br />
Fête, when a souvenir is to be presented to the M HE subject is a very wide one. It is barely<br />
great astronomer in commemoration of the<br />
possible to go more than round the out-<br />
Foundation of the French Astronomical Society<br />
skirts in a short paper, and to state a few<br />
twenty-five years ago, and the publication of his facts—not always obvious to the author—without in<br />
first book fifty years ago.<br />
many cases giving examples or reasons ; to write<br />
The artist Zeitlin has been commissioned to fully on this subject would necessitate a small<br />
design the souvenir which is to be presented to him. volume.<br />
Over three hundred pounds have already been The first question is whether literary and<br />
subscribed, and further subscriptions are received dramatic agents are essential. It is necessary to<br />
by M. Monprofit, 31, Boulevard des Italiens. separate the two, for their duties are the same, yet<br />
The disappearanee of La Joconde from the so different. The majority of dramatists—to take<br />
Louvre Museum has made it necessary to institute the dramatic agent first-would declare that a<br />
various reforms in this celebrated picture gallery. dramatic agent is useless. There is no doubt that<br />
On the first day of opening after the theft, the a persevering individual who lives in or near<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 12 (#408) #############################################<br />
<br />
12<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
own does not need one. In any case, the dramatic why an agent should be free to take his full per-<br />
agent is not as necessary to dramatists as the lite- centage so long as the contract lasts. He will be<br />
rary agent is to the author. The dramatic market amply paid if his fees on any one play reach<br />
is exceedingly limited, the competition is exceedingly £500. These are hard statements of facts ; indeed,<br />
strong. The only way to place a dramatic piece is as already stated, the paper is full of these<br />
by persisteni personal pressure ; by obtaining per- statements. It is quite possible that an author or<br />
sonal introductions and by the aid of personal dramatist may refuse to accept them without fuller<br />
influence wherever possible, and, above all things, evidence, without some reason being forthcoming.<br />
by keeping up a good heart. It would be easy to The writer is stating nothing of which he is not<br />
quote five or six cases of dramatists now well known fully cognisant, and could in most cases, from the<br />
who had to wait for six, seven, or ten years before authors' and dramatists' points of view, show that<br />
they could get their work accepted. This process the deductions made are irrefutable. The agent,<br />
of forcing the strongholds of the managers is not perhaps, would traverse them.<br />
always pleasant, but then how many roads to suc- Of course, it should be an agent's business to see<br />
cess are? To dramatists who happen to be living that the contract between the dramatist and the<br />
abroad or some distance from London, who can get manager is a good contract for the dramatist ; but,<br />
no personal influence to bear on managers, the unfortunately, in many cases the agent's chief wish<br />
agent may no doubt be useful.<br />
is to get the contract off his hands, and with this<br />
So far for the dramatic agent. The literary end in view is sometimes inclined to give the author<br />
agent comes next. There are many more reasons bad advice. If, therefore, an author employs an<br />
why the author should employ a literary agent than agent he cannot be too careful about watching<br />
the dramatist a dramatic agent. The markets are every step he takes. This is where the Society of<br />
enormously wide; there are many rights to be Authors would be of use. No doubt, however, after<br />
marketed, and there are many markets of which the contract is made the agent can be useful in<br />
the author is ignorant; but, again, if a man is a collecting fees. After he has collected the full sum<br />
sound man of business and does not object to he is entitled to expect for his work in placing the<br />
market his own wares, and has time to market them, play, the agent might, perhaps, be allowed a small<br />
he can do so without the assistance of the agent. percentage for collecting the subsequent fees; but<br />
If, however, he loathes the business side of literary the author ought at all times to be able, if necessary,<br />
work, has such a heavy output that he cannot spare to insist upon the collection of moneys himself,<br />
the time and hates the trouble, then the literary subject to the claim of the agent to his commission,<br />
agent is useful.<br />
if any is still unpaid, and to be free to terminate the<br />
To those who undertake to place their own literary agreement in case, for any reason, he is dissatisfied<br />
and dramatic work the Society of Authors is essen- with the agent's method of doing business, or in<br />
tial, because the knowledge at the disposal of the case the agent has broken any part of his contract.<br />
society on contracts and prices which prevail is This is a matter of the greatest importance to<br />
useful to any dramatist or author who markets his rising dramatists, but space will not permit to go<br />
own work, and even enables an author or dramatist into further details. If necessary, the subject must<br />
to market his own work who could not do so other be dealt with in another article.<br />
wise. Indeed, even those authors who employ Next, the literary agent. Though to some<br />
agents will find the society's help essential. To authors his work is essential, again it should be<br />
begin with, there is the contract with the agent, exceedingly carefully watched. He is very often<br />
which is a most serious and important matter, and, under the thumb of a publisher. He not infre-<br />
to continue, it is very often necessary that the quently deals as principal himself, and has the<br />
work of the agent and the contracts he advises power—the very woeful power-of pitting one<br />
the author to make should be carefully gone over by author's work against another's, giving thereby<br />
some independent authority.<br />
success to one author to the detriment of another<br />
If it is agreed that in certain cases and in certain author whose work he may be handling.<br />
circumstances an agent is essential, it will be well The first point is the contract between the author<br />
to consider first the position of the agent and the and the agent. Here again the agent must be<br />
dramatist. The dramatist should be careful not to carefully watched. He must only be permitted to<br />
deal with any agent who buys work as a principal, draw his agency charges on contracts actually com-<br />
or is marketing his own work. He should be careful pleted by him. He must not be allowed, in any<br />
that the agent is an agent pure and simple, and one circumstances, to claim agency fees on introduc-<br />
who is quite independent of managers and syndi- tions merely. The author must be in a position to<br />
cates. Next, as to the agent's remuneration. terminate the contract at any time if he is dis-<br />
Sometimes the fees from a successful play reach a satisfied with the agent, and must be in a position<br />
very high figure. In such a case there is no reason to obtain control of the collection of moneys. In<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 13 (#409) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
13<br />
order to do so he must forbid the agent, in any the British market. If then he has failed he<br />
circumstances, to put in the contract with the should still not give up trying, but should attempt<br />
publisher a clause giving him, the agent, the right at the same time to market the work in England.<br />
to collect the moneys under the contract and to What happens now is, that as a rule, acting on the<br />
give a receipt in full discharge, a constant and agent's advice, the author lets the American rights<br />
most reprehensible practice.<br />
go to the English publisher who sells sheets to<br />
This naturally leads one to consider some of the America, and this, from the financial point of view<br />
contracts which agents do advise authors to sign proves a better bargain for the English publisher<br />
with publishers-contracts which cannot be con- than to allow the agent to place the American rights<br />
sidered fair to the authors, though they may save with an American house.<br />
the agent a great deal of trouble. And this, There is one further point in regard to markets<br />
apparently, is his only reason for recommending in which the agent is very strongly to blame, and<br />
them.<br />
that is, in allowing the publisher to handle all the<br />
The first point relates to the practice of binding minor rights. These are serial rights, translation<br />
the author to the publisher for future books. It rights, Continental rights, etc. Not only does he<br />
has been a growing custom of agents to pass allow the publisher to handle these rights, which<br />
contracts of this kind, and the agent puts forward it is his business as agent to handle, but he<br />
the usual temptation which the publisher has allows the publisher to charge the author for<br />
whispered into his ear, that the publisher will do handling them, sometimes as high a fee as 50<br />
so much better for the author if he has control of per cent. of whatever sum the rights realise.<br />
all his future work ; that the publisher cannot Thus the author has to pay 50 per cent. to the<br />
advertise one book to the same extent as he could publisher, and then another 10 per cent. of what.<br />
if he has the promise of three others; that it takes remains to the agent. The position is, on the face<br />
away from the author an immense amount of worry of it, absurd. Why does the agent do it? Because<br />
if he knows that his contracts for the next four it saves him trouble; and he tempts the author<br />
books are clear. All these statements are false, with the words of the publisher, who asserts that he<br />
and the danger of yielding to them is enormous; can do so much more for the book if he is allowed<br />
but there is one clear fact, and that is, that if the this wider control. This statement proves utterly<br />
agent can make one contract serve for four books false in practice. The really serious matter is this,<br />
he has not only saved himself a good deal of that it is not the publishers' business to carry his.<br />
trouble, but at one stroke has secured for himself labours beyond the publication of the work in<br />
commission on four books that are not written book form ; that he cannot, therefore, have the<br />
books which might not even have been placed same power to market these minor rights that the<br />
through his agency in the ordinary course of affairs. agent has, and, in consequence, is bound sometimes<br />
In one word, the agent benefits at the expense himself to place these rights in the hands of an<br />
of the author, and thus sares himself trouble rather agent, sometimes in the hands of the same agent<br />
than advantages the best interests of the author. who made the contract which gave them to the<br />
The next point is the question of the United publisher. It is exceedingly dangerous for an<br />
States market. It must be remembered that in author to employ an agent who is also acting as<br />
all these examples the agent's work with the agent for the sale of works or rights controlled by<br />
publisher is referred to only, and not the position a publisher. Moreover, in allowing the publisher<br />
of the author working for himself. The agent to have translation rights in his control, the agent<br />
constantly tells the author that English books will has prevented the author from exercising any<br />
not sell in America, and that it is no use to try to effective veto over the translation of his work which<br />
obtain American copyright. This statement is made, and has prevented him from satisfying<br />
again, is inaccurate. No market is better for the himself as to the skill of the translator, and his<br />
author than the American market. If a book competence for the work undertaken.<br />
touches the American market (and all good literature An author who employs an agent who is also<br />
should be universal), for one copy sold in England employed by a publisher may find that the agent<br />
four would be sold in America. Again, the agent is endeavouring to sell his work at different prices,<br />
advises the author from his, the agent's, point of as the publisher has no reason to keep the author's<br />
view, and not from the point of view of the author. price up. The agent, therefore, may be asking,<br />
It gives the agent a great deal of trouble to place on behalf of the publisher, for a smaller rate of<br />
work in America. It takes longer, and the agent, pay than he is asking on behalf of the author.<br />
like all men of business, is out to make money, The effect upon the author's rates cannot, in such<br />
and to make it quickly. An agent ought to give circumstances, fail to be disastrous.<br />
a good six months to obtaining the American Other rights which an agent sometimes allows<br />
market for an author before he attempts to obtain an author to sign away are dramatic rights. To<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 14 (#410) #############################################<br />
<br />
14<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
allow such assignment would seem so absurd that and never employ an agent who also acts for a<br />
it would hardly be worth while to mention it were publisher. Be careful that the agent is permitted<br />
it not the fact that such cases have occurred. only to collect moneys on contracts made by him<br />
Naturally, the publisher will try to get as many during the continuance of the agency. Never allow<br />
rights as he can. That is merely legitimate the agent to have an indefinite contract, so that at<br />
business ; but that the agent should allow an author some future date he may be able to claim moneys<br />
to concede these rights is criminal, for he is there on a contract that you yourself have made or some<br />
to protect the author and not to assist the publisher other agent has made for you, merely because he has<br />
to coin money.<br />
introduced you to the principal. Finally, against<br />
This then is the agent's position as between all these difficulties which cluster so thickly round<br />
author and publisher. It may be worth while to the employment of the agent, an author may guard<br />
make a few remarks as to the agent's position with himself by becoming a member of the society.<br />
the editor. It not in frequently happens that an Don't employ an agent; but if you do, watch him.<br />
editor will write to an agent for a serial story of a<br />
certain length. The agent, sitting on his judgment<br />
seat, will act as the proud arbiter as to which of his<br />
clients shall have the order. This position is very<br />
PUBLISHERS' METHODS.<br />
dangerous, for, however straightforwardly the agent<br />
may act, the author who is rejected does not have a<br />
fair run. In addition (as an agent naïvely remarked COME years ago the society was forced to<br />
to an author who brought him in a large income but D complain because a publisher had, on more<br />
determined to cut down his charges), “if such an than one occasion, submitted to authors a<br />
offer came to me, I should naturally give it to the form of agreement which he stated had received<br />
author who paid the highest agency fees.” This the approval of the society. By this means he<br />
may be business from the agent's point of view. obtained the author's signature, which he certainly<br />
It is exceedingly dangerous from the author's. Or would not have obtained had the agreement been<br />
again, the agent may sometimes go round to an referred to the secretary.<br />
editor and ask if he desires stories from certain When the society remonstrated the publisher<br />
authors-mentioning names, perhaps, not even on denied that he had made this wrongful use of the<br />
his books. If he gets an offer he will try to draw society's name, and was only brought to conviction<br />
the author into his hands and even, at times, from on being confronted with his own handwriting.<br />
another agent. If he does not succeed in drawing There is another method employed by publishing<br />
the author away from the agent, it may mean that houses which, while it is not damaging to the<br />
the author will have to pay commission to both reputation of the society, is equally with the one<br />
agents.<br />
already mentioned injurious to the business settle-<br />
Serial rights are often strangely neglected by ments of the author.<br />
agents. There are not merely first serial rights, A publisher, on an author objecting to some<br />
but second serial rights ; rights in the colonies, in very stiff clauses in his agreement, not infrequently<br />
America, and in the provincial papers. Indeed, says: “ This is my printed agreement from which<br />
the real literary agent to be of any real value ought this house never varies.” As is bound to happen<br />
to have an enormous field of communication and in a society with 2,000 members, cases of this kind<br />
knowledge, and, as far as possible, to be ubiquitous. are constantly brought to the secretary, who is able<br />
To sum up: preferably, don't use an agent. at once to show to the author that the publisher is<br />
If you are bound to employ one, be very careful of making, to use the mildest term, a mis-statement.<br />
your contract with him. Never give him too wide He has, perhaps, only a week before, made radical<br />
a control; never give him uncontrovertible authority alterations to the knowledge of the secretary, in<br />
to collect moneys; never, in any circumstances, allow one of his “unalterable” contracts. In fact, the<br />
him to insert a clause in your publishing agreement practice in one house grew quite notorious, the<br />
by which he is able, without restriction, to collect proprietor benefiting by forcing unfortunate authors<br />
royalties. If, when criticising an agreement with a into his contracts. The authors no doubt had<br />
publisher, he pointed out that the clause he proposed seen the names of other writers of renown publish-<br />
inserting dealing with his own position was a bad ing with the same house, and, naturally, drew the<br />
clause for the author, and if he gave the reasons, deduction from the publisher's statement that these<br />
clear and concise, then the author would have no authors were publishing under a similar agreement.<br />
reason to complain if he signed the agreement. But Another phrase frequently in the mouths of<br />
the agent never draws the author's attention to the publishers is, “ These agreements have been settled<br />
clause and never gives the reasons. Never employ by King's Counsel and approved by the Publishers'<br />
an agent who deals as principal as well as agent, Association." It is curious that such a statement<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 15 (#411) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
15<br />
should not repel rather than compel. The author, inherent in them. Then the publisher's reply to<br />
however, does not always grasp the fact that a King's the author's remonstrance can be discussed.<br />
Counsel will settle an agreement according to the The first clause practically transfers to the<br />
instructions of his client; and if the client is the publisher the copyright, and this position is further<br />
Publishers' Association, the agreements will be confirmed by clause 5. As under clauses 1 and 5<br />
settled wholly in favour of the publishers. This, the publisher holds the copyright it was, perhaps,<br />
indeed, was the case. The members of the society unnecessary for him to insert clause 2. It cannot<br />
are referred to “Forms of Agreement issued by the be too often repeated in these columns that the<br />
Publishers' Association, with Comments,” published publishers should have a licence to produce the<br />
from the society's offices. In this pamphlet the work in book form only at a fixed price only in<br />
whole question is fully dealt with.<br />
the English language. The clause might receive<br />
It is necessary, as these incidents recur, that even further limitations, limitations to a certain<br />
they should be recorded, and as the secretary number of editions or to certain countries. If<br />
of the society has recently received further evidence, such a licence had been granted, then the publisher<br />
the following facts are laid before the members. might have been, under clause 2, allowed an agency<br />
In one week two agreements from a certain fee for the sale of the rights mentioned under<br />
publisher were offered to authors. The agree- contracts signed and approved by the anthor if<br />
ments were on very similar lines. The books to obtained through the publisher's introduction.<br />
be published were important books of a technical That the publisher should have the exclusive<br />
character. The agreements, from the author's licence to place these rights without reference to<br />
point of view, were extremely bad. It is only the author, and on contracts made without consul-<br />
necessary to print some of the clauses to show tation with the author, is absurd. It is equally<br />
how bad they were.<br />
absurd that for mere agency business the publisher<br />
Clause 1.- The publisher shall during the legal term of<br />
should be allowed 50 per cent. Clauses 3 and 4<br />
copyright have the exclusive right of producing and pub- are both dangerous from the standpoint of the<br />
lishing the work in the English language throughout the writer of technical books. The great majority of<br />
world. The publisher shall have the entire control of the technical books dealing with modern science require<br />
publication and sale and terms of the sale of the book, and<br />
neither the author nor the publisher shall during the con-<br />
to be brought up to date from time to time as the<br />
tinuance of this agreement without the consent of the other<br />
knowledge at the disposal of the writers develops.<br />
publish any abridgment, extract, translation, or dramatised There is only one person who should have control<br />
version of the work.<br />
over these alterations. That person is the author.<br />
Clause 2.-In the event of the publisher realising profits<br />
Under the clause as it stands he would be bound<br />
from the sale of rights of translation, rights of production<br />
in other countries, serial rights, or plates, or from claims to revise, or have the book revised by another hand<br />
for infringement of copyright, fifty per cent. of the net if the publisher demanded such revision, even<br />
amount of such profits remaining after deducting all though he, the writer, might deem the process<br />
expenses relating thereto.<br />
wholly unnecessary.<br />
Clause 3.—The author agrees to revise the first, and, if<br />
necessary, to edit and revise every subsequent edition of It is a matter of no difficulty to draft clauses<br />
the work, and from time to time to supply any new matter to meet such a position, and the same house has on<br />
that may be needful to keep the work up to date.<br />
occasion altered its unalterable agreement, giving<br />
Clause 4.-In the event of the author neglecting to revise<br />
the author this essential control.<br />
an edition after due notice shall have been given to him, or<br />
in the event of the author being unable to do so by reason On clause 5 nothing further need be said, save<br />
of death or otherwise, the expense of revising and preparing that in no circumstances on the basis of a royalty<br />
each such future edition for press shall be borne by the remuneration should an author allow a publisher<br />
author, and shall be deducted from the royalties payable to<br />
to be the owner of the copyright.<br />
him.<br />
Clause 5.-During the continuance of this agreement the As to clause 6, it is only necessary to point out<br />
copyright of the work shall be vested in the publisher, who that if the book were published in January—not<br />
may be registered as the proprietor thereof accordingly. an unfavourable month for book publication-the<br />
Clause 6.-The publisher shall make up the account<br />
annually to December 31st, and deliver the same to the<br />
author would be out of his money for over twelve<br />
author within two months thereafter, and pay the balance<br />
months. This, indeed, is not so bad as in some<br />
due to the author on March 31st.<br />
forms of agreement, where it is posssible for the<br />
Clause 7.-If any difference shall arise between the author to be kept out of his money for nearly<br />
author and the publisher touching the meaning of this<br />
agreement, or the rights or liabilities of the parties there-<br />
eighteen months. It is, no doubt, a pleasant<br />
under, the same shall be referred to the arbitration of two arrangement which enables the publisher to run<br />
persons (one to be named by each party) or their umpire, his business on other people's money.<br />
in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, Clause 7 is an unsatisfactory clause, although it<br />
1889,<br />
appears in a great number of publishers' agreements.<br />
Perhaps it may be as well to pass a few comments Publishers assert that arbitration is a saving of<br />
on these clauses, and to explain in detail the faults money. This is not usually the case, as the arbitra-<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 16 (#412) #############################################<br />
<br />
16<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
tor's fees have to be paid, as well as the other costs. “The Still Alarm—The Greatest Fire Scenes<br />
It has also been claimed that it is an expeditious ever depicted-On view to all at our offices.”<br />
way of settling disputes. Generally it is cumber- Evidence was given by a witness, who bad<br />
some and unsatisfactory. The only real advantage attended the performance with a view to pur-<br />
gained—and this is the publisher's—is that he chasing the films, and it was contended on behalf<br />
shuns by arbitration that publicity which is so of the plaintiff's that there had been an infringe-<br />
necessary as a warning to other authors.<br />
ment of their dramatic rights in the fire scenes of<br />
Some of the clauses might have been passed by the play.<br />
an author who wished to yield gracefully some for the defendants it was virged that there could<br />
advantage to the publisher, but the majority of be no copyright protection in a mere scene, and<br />
the clauses quoted are such that no author should that the representation by cinematograph was not<br />
allow them to enter into any contract, in anyan infringement of dramatic rights.<br />
circumstances, between himself and the publisher. Mr. Justice Channell said that it was not neces-<br />
On the advice of the secretary the author wrote sary to decide whether the plaintiff had an exclusive<br />
drawing the attention of the publisher to the right to the representation of a portion of the play<br />
difficulties above mentioned, and, to his astonish- against anyone who might exhibit the films.<br />
ment, received a letter from which we quote the Sone day, he thought, it might be held that a<br />
following extract:-<br />
copying of a portion of a play in a cinematograph<br />
“ The form of agreement is one which we always exhibition, where there was payment, was within<br />
lise, and which experience has proved to give the statute. Upon the facts of this case, however,<br />
satisfaction to all concerned.”<br />
he was of opinion that the defendants did not<br />
A more extraordinary statement it would be represent the piece in a place of dramatic<br />
impossible to imagine. Over and over again have entertainment.<br />
contracts from this very house been brought to the<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
society, been criticised, and altered to suit the<br />
author's requirements, and to make such a state-<br />
ment in the face of this fact is not only unfair to<br />
the author, but a serious matter for the reputation<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
of the house. Besides, if the agreement had given<br />
satisfaction to all parties, there surely would be no<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
need for an arbitration clause. The publisher's<br />
position is untenable, but still authors may be, and<br />
Harriet Beecher Stowe. By Walter Jerrold.<br />
Fournier's “ Napoleon." By Dr. William Barry.<br />
probably will be, deceived.<br />
Book MONTHLY.<br />
Wanted: A New Mode of Literary Expression. By<br />
Adam Gowans Whyte.<br />
CINEMATOGRAPH PERFORMANCES.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
The Pictorial Art of Japan. By Count S. C. de Soissons.<br />
Literary Genius. By J. E. G. De Montmorency.<br />
GLENVILLE v. SELIG POLYSCOPE COMPANY.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
THE decision in this case, as to the meaning of Letters of Wagner to his Schoolfellow, Apel.<br />
“a place of dramatic entertainment," seems The Handling of Words (Thomas Hardy). By Vernon Lee.<br />
likely to be the subject of an appeal, as a<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
stay of execution was granted, and the Judge appears<br />
Some Aspects of the Celtic Renascence. By K. L.<br />
to have given special importance to the question of Moutgomery.<br />
payment.<br />
NATIONAL<br />
The plaintiff claimed damages and an injunction The Creed of an Agnostic Spiritualist. By J. Arthur Hill.<br />
to restrain the representation of certain scenes<br />
connected with a dramatic piece, entitled “The<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Still Alarm,” which had been originally performed<br />
in the United States and subsequently in England<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
at the Princess' Theatre. In 1904 the plaintiff<br />
Front Page<br />
... ..£4 0 0<br />
Other Pages<br />
... ... 3 0 0<br />
produced a new version with two “fire scenes”.<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
...<br />
added, and it was in respect of these scenes that an<br />
... 0 15 0<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
... O 7 6<br />
injunction was asked for.<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
per inch 0 6 0<br />
The defendants, who are manufacturers of cine Reduction of 20 per cent, made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent, for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
matograph films, issued an advertisement in the<br />
following terms :<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C<br />
Half of a Page ...<br />
110<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 17 (#413) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
17<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
N 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 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. 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 />
A void 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 />
UTERE 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 />
<br />
<br />
## p. 18 (#414) #############################################<br />
<br />
18<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<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 />
(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 />
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 />
& 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 />
he 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 />
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 23. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society hegs to give potice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Univn of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 19 (#415) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
19<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
NETT AND DISCOUNT Books.<br />
LOOKING recently down the literary column<br />
THE COPYRIGHT BILL.<br />
of a contemporary, we noticed an interesting<br />
We may congratulate the Government on announcement respecting a popular series inaugu-<br />
having carried the Copyright Bill through the rated by a well-known publishing house. The<br />
House of Commons. It would be inadvisable announcement was to the effect that, owing to an<br />
to say more about the matter until the Bill has increase in the cost of production of the series, the<br />
become law, but there does not appear to be any publishers had found it necessary to change the price<br />
vital reason why the Bill should meet with any of the volumes from 58.“ subject to discount,” to 5s.<br />
violent opposition, and be altered to any large nett. As it is conceivable that some may retort that<br />
extent from the form in which it emerged from the this alteration in price is a matter entirely between<br />
House of Commons. One or two small amend the publisher and the bookselling trade, we think<br />
ments, however, may be necessary.<br />
it desirable, in the interest of authors, to point out<br />
The Bill was ordered to be printed on the 18th of its importance to the writers employed in the manu-<br />
August of the present year, and when it becomes facture of the series. We do so with the less hesi-<br />
law it will be issued as a supplement to The tation, as we notice that over forty volumes so far<br />
Author, so that members of the Society may have have been issued at the lower price, and it seems<br />
an opportunity of studying its terms.<br />
to us that a consideration of the matter, as it<br />
During its passage through the Commons, the affects the payment of the writers, may not be<br />
Bill met with a considerable amount of opposition without interest. While we do not for one moment<br />
from wholly unexpected quarters ; indeed, from question the justification of the alteration in price,<br />
many whom one might have thought would have we do suggest that the author should share in the<br />
actively supported its principles.<br />
increased returns which will accrue to the pub-<br />
Apart from various details, there are two main lisher in consequence of the change.<br />
points which will make the passing of the Bill the As the alteration extends over a series of forty<br />
greatest benefit to authors; the first, that it will books, that increase cannot be dismissed as insignifi-<br />
enable Great Britain to join the Berlin Conven- cant. Whereas on a 5s. “subject" book the returns<br />
tion; the second, that it will bring into uniformity to the publisher would probably average about 2s. 8d.<br />
the law of copyright which, at present, is scattered per copy, on the 58. nett book they would come<br />
through twenty or more different enactments, out at something like 3s. 2d. per copy. It will be<br />
making its interpretation highly complicated and clear from this that a fair royalty on a 5s. book<br />
confusing<br />
issued “subject" might be rather poor on one<br />
issued at 58. nett. It may be, of course, that part<br />
of the “increased cost of production” is due to a<br />
THE COLONIAL MARKETS.<br />
demand for better terms on the part of the writers<br />
We have complained, from time to time, of the of the books yet to be produced in the series. If<br />
poor sales of books of English authors in the this is so, we shall be glad on their account—though<br />
Colonies, and have pointed out that this is appa- a little sorry for the earlier writers. It may even<br />
rently due to the supineness of the English be that the books in the series are being purchased<br />
publisher and to the activity of the American book outright; but apart from anything in this particular<br />
agent. The latter, on one occasion, went so far as case which may possibly render our comment un-<br />
to induce an Australian bookseller to allow him to necessary, we would add, for the general informa-<br />
decorate his window, and it may be taken for a tion of writers, that they should never, when<br />
certainty that he did not decorate the window with making their agreements, permit any alteration<br />
English books.<br />
of a “subject” to a “nett” published price without<br />
We now regret to see from the American Con- getting some quid pro quo. If the publisher wants<br />
sular Report that the American magazines are to make such an alteration, he should make a<br />
also pushing the English magazines out of the corresponding increase in the royalty payable to<br />
market. This, no doubt again, is owing to some the author.<br />
fault in the English distribution. It is really time<br />
that publishers, editors, and magazine proprietors<br />
woke up and bestirred themselves. It is not for<br />
THE NEW RUSSIAN COPYRIGHT LAW.<br />
us to advise them as to how to remedy the evil. It The new Russian Copyright Law came into<br />
is a part of their own business to find the cause force on March 20, 1911. It marks a consider-<br />
and the remedy. But it is a clear fact that unless able advance upon the previous legislation, but<br />
something is done speedily and with judgment the is far from being such as might be wished.<br />
Colonial market will be lost both for English books The following particulars are interesting. Copy-<br />
and magazines.<br />
right is accorded to all books published in<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 20 (#416) #############################################<br />
<br />
20<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Russia, independently of the nationality of the followed the publication of “ John Chilcot, M.P.,"<br />
author. The duration of copyright is for and she very early showed herself one of those<br />
life and fifty years (without any restrictions). writers—it is pleasant to think there are many<br />
Transformations of novels into dramas, and vice such—who take a generous interest in the work of<br />
versâ, without the author's consent are forbidden. those less fortunate and less successful than them-<br />
The exclusive right of translation exists for five selves.<br />
years only. If a translation is made within that Mrs. Thurston possessed a singularly agreeable<br />
limit, the translation has a copyright of ten years. and gentle personality. Her dark, glowing beauty<br />
In the case of simultaneous publication in several was of the type one associates with Irishwomen,<br />
languages, all the works enjoy equally the full term and her voice was low and exquisitely clear. She<br />
of copyright. Russian translations of all foreign had none of the exuberance, or the very natural<br />
works may be published without the consent of the desire to discuss herself and her work, which is so<br />
foreign author. These translations enjoy the full often typical of the literary temperament. Even to<br />
term of copyright, but the translator cannot forbid her intimates she seldom spoke of her books, and it<br />
other translations. Except in the case of stipula- would certainly have been possible for a stranger<br />
tions to the contrary, an author who has sold the to have been acquainted with her for a considerable<br />
copyright of his work may publish another edition time without discovering that she wrote. And yet<br />
as soon as the work is out of print, or, in any case, it is clear that her work must have meant a great<br />
as soon as tive years have elapsed since the date of .deal to her. Each of her stories, from “ The Circle"<br />
the first edition ; or, if he is preparing a complete onward, showed marks of conscientious care, and<br />
edition of his works, three years after that date. she once told the present writer that when engaged<br />
Piratical publication is punished with a minimum on a new book she found that it absorbed her to<br />
of three months imprisonment.<br />
the exclusion of everything else. This no doubt<br />
was why she preferred to work in the Irish home she<br />
THE ACADEMIC COMMITTEE.<br />
loved so well than when living her ordinary life in<br />
Owing to the fact that The Author does not<br />
London. As so often happens, the one of her<br />
appear in August or September, we are only now<br />
novels which most closely reflected the life she<br />
knew was that which her readers liked the least-<br />
in a position to chronicle the election of Lady<br />
Ritchie and Mr. G. Bernard Shaw to the Academic<br />
I refer to “The Fly on the Wheel," a close, and in its<br />
Committee.<br />
way, a very powerful study of a phase of Irish country<br />
town society. This story was an interesting “throw<br />
Lady Ritchie is the first lady to join the Com-<br />
mittee, which may be congratulated on an election<br />
back,” for Mrs. Thurstou did not begin to write<br />
till she came to England, and it is on record that<br />
which is sure to meet with general approval, and<br />
throughout a girlhood spent entirely at home she<br />
may also serve to put an end to the discontent felt<br />
never wrote a line with a view to publication.<br />
and expressed in some quarters, where it had been<br />
It may be doubted if even her closest friends<br />
assumed, quite erroneously, that the women were<br />
knew much of Mrs. Thurston's methods of work.<br />
ineligible.<br />
It is, however, a curious fact that “The Circle,''<br />
her first long novel, and a book which was much<br />
INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND ARTISTIC praised and commented on by the critics, though<br />
ASSOCIATION.<br />
it gave no promise of the immense success of its<br />
The International Literary and Artistic Asso- immediate successor, was founded on a short story<br />
ciation ask us to announce that in consequence of<br />
sequence of<br />
which<br />
which was an early imaginative effort.<br />
reports of an epidemic at Rome-reports it must<br />
be admitted which appear to be without foundation<br />
-the congress, which was to have taken place this<br />
autumn, will be postponed, and held at Rome in<br />
THE FOREIGN REPRINTS ACT AGAIN.<br />
the Easter week of 1912.<br />
ROYALTIES UNDER COMPULSORY LICENCE.<br />
THE LATE MRS. THURSTON.<br />
TN 1847 an Act was passed under the short title<br />
1 of the Colonial Copyright Act, 1847, more<br />
frequently known, however, as the Foreign<br />
By M. B. L.<br />
Reprints Act.<br />
TN Katherine Cecil Thurston, the Society of The circumstances that led up to the passing<br />
1 Authors loses a loyal member and a firm this Act were as follows:<br />
friend. Mrs. Thurston joined the Society in By section 17 of the Act of 5 & 6 Vict., which<br />
the full flush of her greatest success, that which Act covered all the Colonies, the importation into<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 21 (#417) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
21<br />
the Colonies of books unlawfully printed was for- into the colonies, and notably American reprints into the<br />
bidden, without the consent of the copyright<br />
Dominion of Canadla ; but no return, or returns of an<br />
absurdly small amount, have been made to the authors and<br />
owner. Ar<br />
owners. It appears from official reports that during the<br />
Owing to three causes, firstly, the rapacity of the ten years ending in 1876, the amount received from the<br />
pirates, who had no authors' royalties to pay whole of the nineteen colonies which bave taken advantage<br />
there was no United States Copyright Act in those<br />
of the Act was only £1,155 133. 2 d., of which £1,084 13s. 2 d.<br />
days, and International copyright was difficult and<br />
was received from Canada ; and that of these colonies<br />
seven paid nothing whatever to the authors, while six now<br />
involved ; secondly, owing to the lack of enter-<br />
and then paid small sums amounting to a few shillings.<br />
prise in the Colonial book trade ; and thirdly, owing<br />
to the supineness of the English publishers, the It will be seen from this quotation that if the<br />
Colonies complained that they were unable to get contribution from Canada is left out, there is<br />
English books.<br />
practically nothing from the other colonies, and<br />
Canada was the chief complainant, as she saw eren the sum received from Canada is absurdly small,<br />
the United States with their piratical trade flooded taking into consideration the number and popularity<br />
with English works which she was unable to of the authors. The Act is still in force in most<br />
obtain ; but the complaint was strong also in the of the Colonies ; but as Capada refused to collect<br />
other Colonies, because those who did read wanted the duties some twelve or thirteen years ago, as far<br />
to buy books, as they could not borrow them from as that Colony is concerned the Foreign Reprints<br />
circulating libraries, which did not exist.<br />
Act is in abeyance.<br />
The complaint was partly, no doubt, genuine, The absurdity of the whole situation has again<br />
but to a great extent, especially as far as Canada become prominent, and has been brought to the<br />
was concerned, was put forward as a political move. notice of The Author by Mr. Hall Caine, who<br />
The author has always been the slave of the recently received a payment of 8s. 10d. as an<br />
public, and as such is liable to be robbed of his amount due to him for royalties collected under<br />
property, first by one constriction and limitation this Act.<br />
and then by another ; so in this case, with a show of Mr. Hall Caine wrote for an explanation, and<br />
justice, the Foreign Reprints Act, which is still in received from the Treasury the following reply,<br />
force in many Colonies, was passed, enabling the with a statement, printed below, setting out the<br />
Crown, by Order in Council, to suspend the prohibi- Colonies involved and the percentage paid, and<br />
tion against importation into the English Colonies with a copy of the Act.<br />
of English copyright works under certain conditions,<br />
TREASURY CHAMBERS,<br />
one of the conditions being that certain Customs<br />
281h July, 1911.<br />
duties should be collected by the Government of SIR, I am directed by the Lords Commissioners of His<br />
the Colony adopting the Act, which duties should Majesty's Treasury to acknowledge the receipt of your letter<br />
be paid as royalty to the author. This really<br />
of the 18th instant, respecting a payment made to you on<br />
account of copyright in the Colonies.<br />
amounted, in other words, to a grant of the right to In reply I am to express their Lordships' regret that<br />
sell and the right to buy the author's books under it has not been found possible to trace in every case the<br />
a compulsory licence. A large number of Colonies books in respect of which payment was madle, but, so far<br />
adopted the Actin fact, all the important Colonies,<br />
as they have been able to discover them, the details are as<br />
follows :-<br />
with the exception of Australia, did so. Under<br />
the Act the publishers of English books were bound<br />
to forward catalogues to the Custom House<br />
Date and Place<br />
Title of Work. Duty Collected.<br />
authorities of the different Colonies, so that the of Entry.<br />
collection might be carried out properly, but, in<br />
the words of the author of “The Law of Copy-<br />
right" “ These measures were next to inoperative, Bermuda, 1897<br />
The Christian<br />
and the whole thing little better than a delusion.”<br />
1898 (Unknown)<br />
From time to time the absurdity of this Act,<br />
(Unknown)<br />
The Christian<br />
from the standpoint of the author, was pointed out<br />
1904 Eternal City<br />
in the papers, and figures were given to show how<br />
1905 Prodigal Son<br />
ineffective it was in operation.<br />
Jamaica, 1903<br />
Eternal City<br />
The reference to these figures it is impossible to<br />
1906 Prodigal Son<br />
1908 The Christian<br />
find at the moment, but it is sufficient to quote<br />
from the Report of the Royal Copyright Com-<br />
8 10<br />
mission, which sat in 1878:-<br />
So far as British authors and owners of copyright are<br />
concerned, the Act has proved a complete failure. Foreign In further explanation of these payments I am to transmit<br />
reprints of copyright works have been largely introduced the enclosed copy of a Return to the Order of the House of<br />
1900<br />
1901<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 22 (#418) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Commons, dated the 25th of August, 1857, and of a memo- general body of British Authors what the small<br />
randum prepared in this Department, which my Lords<br />
payments represent.” He passed some drastic<br />
trust will be of use to you.<br />
I am, Sir,<br />
comments on the Act and its working, and ended<br />
Your obedient Servant,<br />
his letter with the following words :<br />
T. L. HEATH. “I am afraid the statement you are good enough<br />
to send me, representing duties at 15 per cent.,<br />
COPYRIGHT IN THE COLONIES.<br />
amounting to 88. 10d. collected on nine books in<br />
Under Section 42 of the Customs Laws Consolidation Act, eleven years, casts a very sinister light on the<br />
1876 (39 and 40 Vict. c. 36), foreign reprints of copyright<br />
licensing clauses of the Government's new Copyright<br />
works, of which notice has been given to the Commissioners<br />
of Customs that the copyright subsists, are prohibited from<br />
Bill, showing that the receipts to the descendants<br />
being imported into the United Kingdom.<br />
of authors during the years of free licensing will<br />
Section 152 of the same Act also prohibits importation of probably be hardly sufficient to pay their washing<br />
reprints of such works into the British Possessions abroad, bills."<br />
but adds that this does not prevent Her Majesty from<br />
exercising certain powers vested in her under the Act<br />
One satisfaction to be obtained from the passing<br />
amending the law relating to the protection in the colonies of the new Copyright Law will be that this absurd<br />
of British Copyright Works (10 & 11 Vict. c. 95) to suspend Ordinance of 10 & 11 Victoria will be repealed,<br />
in certain cases such prohibition.<br />
along with numerous other Statutes dealing with<br />
These powers were that should the Legislative Authorities<br />
in any British possession be disposed to make provision for<br />
for<br />
co<br />
copyright property.<br />
n properu<br />
protecting the rights of British authors in that Possession It is necessary, however--and it is with this idea<br />
and pass an Act or Ordinance for that purpose, such before us that we have set out at length Mr. Hall<br />
Ordinance should be submitted for approval by Her<br />
Caine's case—to consider the application of the com-<br />
Majesty, and, provided that reasonable protection is thus<br />
secured to the British author, an Order in Council should<br />
pulsory licence in the present copyright legislation.<br />
be issued declaring that so long as the Ordinance remained It was obvious that the Governments of the<br />
in force the prohibition against importing, selling, letting separate Colonies were hopelessly incapable of<br />
out to hire, exposing for sale or hire, or possessing such carrying out the Act in a satisfactory manner for<br />
foreign reprints should be suspended as regards that<br />
the benefit of the unfortunate author, who was, in<br />
Colony.<br />
The Legislative Authorities in the following Colonies consequence, freely robbed. It is true that the<br />
duly passed the necessary protective Ordinances, which have compulsory licences, of which there are two in the<br />
been confirmed by Orders in Council :--<br />
present Bill, refer to Great Britain and Ireland<br />
Antigua.<br />
Jamaica.<br />
only, but it is possible that they may cover a good<br />
Bahamas,<br />
Mauritius.<br />
many of the Colonies as well. But this fact gives<br />
Barbados.<br />
Newfoundland.<br />
Bermuda.<br />
St. Lucia,<br />
us little hope that the compulsory licence will be<br />
British Guiana.<br />
St. Christopher and less dangerous from the author's point of view than<br />
Canada.<br />
Nevis,<br />
it was in the past.<br />
Cape of Good Hope and St. Vincent.<br />
All who have studied the Copyright Bill know that<br />
Natal.<br />
Trinidad.<br />
Grenada.<br />
there is a compulsory licence twenty-five years after<br />
the author's death, and there is a compulsory and<br />
The Ordinances in Canada, Cape of Good Hope, and<br />
Natal ceased to be effective on these Colonies becoming<br />
an unlimited licence on the unfortunate composers<br />
self-governing.<br />
who care to allow their works to be reproduced by<br />
The Ordinance of the Colony fixes the amount of the mechanical instruments.<br />
protection, and the title to this protection depends upon<br />
It will, of course, be argued that the two in-<br />
registration of the work, the name of the holder, and the<br />
period of the copyright, with the Commissioners of Customs,<br />
stances are not in the least parallel ; that in the<br />
who issue to the Colonial ports a list, supplemented from one case the royalty is to be collected by the<br />
time to time, of such works.<br />
Government and in the other by the author, but it<br />
• The Colony, on receiving the duties imposed, transmits<br />
is not so much the collection of the royalties that<br />
them to the Treasury, and that Department distributes<br />
them to the respective copyright holders as specified in the<br />
makes the compulsory licence impossible, but the<br />
Customs list.<br />
fact that the licence is compulsory. What has<br />
Until 1881 it was the practice of the Treasury to distribute proved such a distinct misfortune in the past in<br />
thesc sums, however small, but in that year it was decided<br />
slightly different circumstances will most prob-<br />
to retain small sums until they accumulated to a minimum<br />
of £1, reduced in 1903 to 108.<br />
ably prove a distinct misfortune in the future, and<br />
In view, however, of the numerous small amounts due to it may be that the author will obtain as little of his<br />
the various copyright holders, and to the time winich had true and just returns under the clauses in the Bill<br />
elapsed since these sums were collected, it was decided this at ni<br />
at present under discussion as he was able to<br />
year to pay over sums amounting in the aggregate to 48. or who<br />
under the Foreign Reprints Act.<br />
over.<br />
Even with all the protection which the Board<br />
To this letter Mír. Caine replied on July 29th of Trade may invent to guard the author's rights,<br />
He stated that he had forwarded all the papers it will be almost impossible to follow the number<br />
to the society that “ It may be made clear to the of different reproductions placed on the market,<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 23 (#419) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
23<br />
when any pirate who cares to may begin manu writers. Already there are copyright novels at<br />
facturing with little or no fear of detection, and sevenpence the copy, not reprints, but first editions,<br />
with still less fear of conviction.<br />
yet not two writers in a hundred can hope to earn<br />
bread by royalties on that price, being in constant<br />
competition both with lending libraries and with<br />
reprints of Dickens, of Scott, of Thackeray, and of<br />
A FEW WORDS ON EXPIRED many other perennialists. Besides, however low<br />
COPYRIGHTS.<br />
prices may be, the public is soon tired of their<br />
repetition and begins to think that they are<br />
expensive.<br />
BY CRUSADER.<br />
And another point is this, that when new copy-<br />
THEN a type of society becomes ordered and right books appear at a reasonable price they are<br />
V intricate, it retains a great deal of work published more often than not in little editions, so<br />
from the past and produces many new the cost per copy is greater than that in the large<br />
things in a traditional manner; then market reprints of popular classics ; and yet these reprints<br />
rivalries between old products and modern efforts are exempt from royalities, while to-day's own<br />
bring in their train many evils of their own. To books cannot be, as authors somehow fail to live<br />
speak figuratively, the young harvests have to without food and shelter, though many have had<br />
grow in fields already occupied by corn which time experience in the school of long hunger. I can<br />
has left unreaped and unharmed. Yet they are recall a time when stale dry bread was delicious<br />
expected not only to strike root under the shadow- after a week without anything to eat. Oh! In<br />
ing protection of the old corn, but to push their the battle of the books, in the war of the classic<br />
way upwards without being stifled, till they dead against their humble successors, “knock-<br />
ripen in the sunshine of a free air. Children are outs" are not in the the least enjoyable, at least to<br />
spared a lifelong competition with their parents, those of us who know how they act and how they<br />
but the generations are not, for they inherit so much are financed. To allow copyrights to lapse, with-<br />
living genius that the present is ever the past also, out paying royalities to the State, is not only to<br />
and it may be awed into imitation and unfreedom subsidise “the simple great ones gone,” giving<br />
by accumulated riches in great things.<br />
them unfair advantages in market competition ;<br />
Goethe counted himself lucky that he inherited besides that, which is bad enough, it endows<br />
a weak German literature, believing that an array publishers with a fruitful capital—a vast property<br />
of classic authors equal to the English would have of excellent books freed from royalities and from<br />
cooled his own ardour and hindered that growth of the need of much advertising ; and all this penalises<br />
character which comes from thinking freely and the daily efforts made by ourselves.<br />
acting independently. And who has not observed If an author is to earn a living with royalties on<br />
in Italy how the deification of the old masters has little editions, the royalties must be good and the<br />
enfeebled modern art among a race of men wonder- price rationally high, or else be will starve even<br />
fully equipped by nature with quick perception and when his publisher banks a profitable interest on a<br />
with skill of hand ? I think of this in connexion trifle of capital. It is not at all bad trade when a<br />
with the frenzied competition in the book market, publisher prints and sells a six-shilling novel in an<br />
where classic authors beg pleadingly for pence and edition of a thousand copies, gaining thereby a<br />
ha'pence. If the classics are not now a danger to profit of about £30, on an outlay of not more than<br />
our own work, what else are they ?<br />
£115. The author gets about as much under<br />
One trader in dead copyrights saved a fortune of a good agreement, and upon that he cannot<br />
£500,000. He had no royalties to pay, he knew live during five or six months of work, so his needs<br />
which classics had the greatest vogue, and it was as a citizen are opposed by the finance of publishing.<br />
easy to boom them into the market in large The opposition, too, is fundamental. Royalties on<br />
reprints and at little, wheedling prices, till the a book that takes much time and infinite pains are<br />
retail cost of copyright books seemed not only high your all, while a publisher's object is to use the<br />
by comparison, but wrongful also. Many publishers same working capital thrice in a year and to earn<br />
do the same thing now, and each tries to undercut a buoyant profit on each turnover. You are<br />
the dwindling standard of cheapness, as if in stricken, but your work is a godsend to your<br />
obedience to the belief that British homes are alms publisher. You know the “kuock-out” of small<br />
houses filled with paupers.And newspapers, too, editions, while your publisher is ready to go on<br />
are trading with the property of dead authors in with a thriving system of finance which in the<br />
the hope that they may be able to “ring" the course of a few years has built many palatial<br />
ordinary publishers. Meantime, you will note, it offices.<br />
fares very far from well with the majority of living Why is it, then, that the State favours the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 24 (#420) #############################################<br />
<br />
24<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
publisher to the injury of authors ? Why hand is not to her advantage nor to that of authors<br />
over to him all expired copyrights in order that he that rich tradesmen should be able to force the<br />
may issue them in reprints so cheap that they dis- weak hand of poverty ? Many publishers bunger<br />
credit the rational value of new productions? It for copyrights, and needy authors become the<br />
can no longer be said with any semblance of truth victims of that appetite, being unsupported by their<br />
that the people need such cheap reprints, for the self-made legatee, the State.<br />
poorest of the poor can well afford to read borrowed These anomalies, too, are in keeping with many<br />
books in these days of free libraries. Besides, the others. It is said, for instance, that properties of<br />
first duty of a State is to cherish within each gene- authorship are such inestimable gifts to mankind<br />
ration the hopeful courage that acts well, and the that the State is justified in claiming them for her<br />
higher aspirations that quicken and enlarge the people. This sounds like a principle of Socialism ;<br />
mind. You cannot have aviaries of singing birds it applies to all the many forms of property<br />
if you do not feed them, nor hives full of honey having more than a temporary and personal value.<br />
if you smother the bees. And we may depend upon To“koock-out" the author cannot be right while<br />
it that if we could suininon into the House of landowners and other property-holders can bequeath<br />
Commons a parliament of the simple great ones and entail their estates, without any regard at all<br />
gone, from Chaucer to Tennyson and Browning, for that poverty-born ideal which sets before us a<br />
very few votes would be given in support of their national ownership in all things fitted to produce<br />
present tyranny over the new breadwinners in wealth.<br />
literature. Milton would lead an overwhelming It is invaluable, in this connection, to think of<br />
opposition to it, seconded by the rich common the difference between Shakespeare and the great<br />
sense of Latimer and Johnson. If Shakespeare Elizabethan landowners. The dramatist from the<br />
si oke, aſter many invitations, would he not say first had no copyright, inheriting the laisser faire<br />
that the mind of England ought ever to be of a that the printing press took up from those cloistral<br />
piece with the many repetitions of herself with ages when books were manuscripts, and in a few<br />
which she has gemmed the seas? He could not copies circulated among the religious, mainly in<br />
like anything meagre, petty, diminutive, flurried, nunneries and monasteries. So, then, Shakespeare's.<br />
or cheap. He would expect English thoughts to own works were never his own ; they belonged to<br />
put a new girdle around the world each generation. England from the first; and not a farthing of<br />
The Lord Chief Justice, on November 1, 1909, royalty has yet been claimed by the Exchequer<br />
expressed the hope that Great Britain and her from the publishers and theatre managers who have<br />
Colonies would do all in their power to draw the traded with Shakesperian property. How com-<br />
civilised nations together in a common accession pletely different is this from the legal protection<br />
to the following principle, that the property in granted from age to age to such a family as the<br />
copyright and literary work belongs to the author. Cecils, whose landed estates have passed from heir<br />
It is pleasant to note that Lord Alverstone gladly to heir, gathering an increase of value from the<br />
admits that books and copyrights are property, nation's progress! Could anyone break through a<br />
and that this property belongs to those who call hedge of theirs without incurring a risk of legal<br />
them up into literary presence and give them a punishment ? And why is it that land, which<br />
fructiſying value in a nation's life and trade. Lord nature provides as a mother for the nursing of all<br />
Alversione hopes that Great Britain will support living creatures, should be handed on as property<br />
the requests of other nations to the extension of more real and more native to a family than are any<br />
the period of protection to life and fifty years, and fruitful works of imagination ? Had Shakespeare<br />
this certainly is a blessed compromise in the domain died as a child, England would have lost inestim-<br />
of illogic. For the State has no right to grant able riches, whereas the extinction of a great<br />
perpetuity of ownership to many forms of property family neither lessens the land nor makes it barren.<br />
and a very limited ownership to a few others. Mother Earth and true genins are equally stable<br />
Logic and justice demand that all property in a and equally bountiful as property ; the distinction<br />
civilised nation should enjoy under the law the between them is that genius merits the greater<br />
same protection and the same privileges.<br />
protection since the permanent worlds built by it<br />
And there is another point of vital interest. belong for all time to the rare workers who are at<br />
Since Great Britain from the first claims every once new and antique, and the contemporaries of<br />
authoi's property, allowing him only the use of it all the ages. For example, Chaucer is more<br />
for a small term of years, why is she not logical in marketable by far to-day than he was in his own<br />
her self-interest ? Why does she not enrich her time, for he lives in all countries where poetry is<br />
Exchequer by charging a royalty on her classics ? valued ; and each copy of his work everywhere is<br />
And why does she not forbid publishers to buy the Chaucer himself. Yet this great Englishman, and<br />
short-lived copyrights granted by her laws, since it many others, had no copyright in their generous<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 25 (#421) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
25<br />
property, and even now there is not the sinallest pangs of chronic rejection at their hands, may or may.<br />
chance that full justice will be done to authors and not endorse Lord Byron's view that : “ Barabbas<br />
artists, because no political party can win votes by was a-publisher,” still we can comprehend their<br />
asking the public to sanction fair copyright laws. disinclination as business men to purchase goods<br />
Indeed, the man in the street is quite indignant manufactured by untried makers.<br />
that anthors should want to bequeath to their The case against cditors is no whit more cheerful.<br />
families the right to demand royalties on all copies In periodicals in which only first-class matter is in-<br />
of their work issued by tradesmen for the purpose serted, a glance at an author's signature will suffice.<br />
of money-getting.<br />
“Popnlar” journals may and do here and there<br />
If the State had her own printing works, and use "copy" sent in by outside contributors ; but<br />
issued non-copyright books to the public at their they commonly make this concession in such an<br />
pet cost per copy, many “rings” and “knock- irregular and seemingly unaccountable manner, that<br />
outs" that now do harm to living authors would the freelance who relies upon them as a source of<br />
pass away, because the classics would be welcomed income will speedily perceive his conditiou to be<br />
as apart from trade speculations and the enrichment desperate.<br />
of tradesmen. There would be no competition The following incident may serve to illustrate<br />
then between the old and the new : in fact, the old this point. Having completed a short story during<br />
would enter for all time into the people's endowed the month of March, 1893, the writer submitted it<br />
education. This would be infinitely fairer to each in the following July to a respectable weekly, which,<br />
passing generation of harassed writers of books, for present purposes, we will call “The Flagstone."<br />
who bid to the public fancy for their livelihood. It was promptly returned. During an interval of<br />
To sum up, we hare seen that copyrights should four years the manuscript thenceforward fulfilled<br />
be protected at the least for life and fifty years, and its destiny as a rolling stone gathering no moss.<br />
that those which survive that period should be Then the writer, impelled by one of those curious<br />
published with all other classics by the State, as a impulses to which errant human nature is liable,<br />
part of the national education, or, if left free to all presented it for the second time to the journal<br />
speculators, should pay a fixed royalty to the which had dealt with it previously in so uncere-<br />
Exchequer, partly that the nation may benefit as a monious a fashion. The sands of the year 1897 rau<br />
whole by setting a time-limit to an author's owner- out, as did those of 1898—and the story neither<br />
ship in his own work, and partly in order to check, came back nor appeared. The year 1899 repeated<br />
as far as possible, the wrongful advantages now the process of its predecessors. Respectful enquiries<br />
given to publishers and newspapers in their pitting elicited curtnotes of an evasive tendency. Eventually<br />
of old books against the new.<br />
affairs were brought to a climax. After an interview<br />
with the editor early in 1900, the story made a<br />
belated bow to his subscribers. In June of that<br />
SORROWS OF A FREELANCE.<br />
year it was paid for. For four years it had been<br />
tossed about from pillar to post: for three it had<br />
T o the plain unvarnished fact that the sorrows languished in a sort of backwater, without either<br />
1 of Grub Street are to the full as poignant in rhyme or reason to account for its fate.<br />
the present as ever they were in the past no Nor was this the only instance of a manuscript<br />
writer of eminence has testified with greater force receiving the honour of acceptation at the hands of<br />
than the late George Gissing, whose novel, “ The one to whom it had at first proved to be “unsuitable."<br />
New Grub Street," every man or woman who com Editorial antics of this kind are preferable,<br />
templates embarking on a literary career should however, to those sometimes performed by men<br />
study closely and ponder deeply.<br />
not only unbusinesslike but also unscrupulous-not<br />
If the experience of the present writer, whose to use a stronger term—in their dealings with<br />
first attempts in that direction were taken twenty- obscure wielders of the pen. Take the case of a<br />
five years ago, may be accepted as corroboration, the booklet in twelve chapters posted to a certain social<br />
book should stand as a masterpiece of faithful weekly with a view to serial publication on<br />
portraiture.<br />
September 9, 1891. Neglect of the precaution to<br />
Casting an eye rather upon potential profits than register the parcel may have been responsible for its<br />
philanthropic encouragement of budding talent, complete disappearance, or not; but the simple fact<br />
publishers desire, in the main, to deal with authors remains that upon its quitting the author's hands<br />
already established favourites with the reading the MS. vanished into space, as though by a con-<br />
public. Speculative risk must, beyond dispute, play juring trick. A lawyer, whose services were<br />
a part in the launching of unfamiliar names upon requisitioned on the quest, attached no blame to the<br />
the book market—the quality of their wares apart. postal authorities. Though lost to the author, he<br />
Although, then, such of us as have suffered the believed the labour expended upon his MS. would<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 26 (#422) #############################################<br />
<br />
26<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
in all probability benefit- somebody. It would be least forty had been shipped off and—refused : the<br />
necessary to cultivate a like altruistic spirit, in last of them turning up with a precision somewhat<br />
order to survey with equanimity the loss of a story reminiscent of clockwork on December 22, 1907 !<br />
similarly dealt with by a monthly magazine on Yet consignments condemned — shall we say<br />
October 18, 1900. It could have been used advan- without the formality of examination-by this par-<br />
tageously later on, but the custodian to whose tender ticular, very particular, house, have been accepted<br />
mercies it had been committed denied cognisance not altogether with reluctance by its rivals!<br />
of the little stranger-and there was no duplicate. Lest these animadversions should be taken as<br />
By these and kindred devices fully one-half of the prejudiced or in any degree overstated, let us refer<br />
manuscripts despatched on their doleful journeys to a commentary made by the late James Payn in<br />
from the beginning onwards have, up to the present the Illustrated London News for November 16,<br />
moment, gone hopelessly and irretrievably astray- 1895. This gentleman, as editor of Chambers'<br />
fifty per cent of a man's merchandise proving of no Journal, and later on, of the Cornhill Magazine,<br />
greater value to him than so many soap-bubbles occupied an elevated position in the world of letters,<br />
bursting in the air !<br />
and although not infallible, as his rejection of<br />
Were these tribulations exceptional ? Read on “John Inglesant” would show, he undoubtedly<br />
before answering the question.<br />
lent a helping hand to many struggling, but talented,<br />
" Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone beginners.<br />
is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a “With some of the complaints of contributors to<br />
sort of social pariah. Nobody wants him. Every periodicals I entirely sympathise,” he wrote. “The<br />
body despises him. His efforts are derided ; his length of time their manuscripts are retained and,<br />
manuscripts are flung back to him unread.” after all, rejected, the smallness of the remuneration<br />
Wild words--gross exaggeration, you say. and the delay in its payment are genuine grounds<br />
But as there can be no smoke without fire, so of grievance.” And there has been a marked<br />
there can be no exaggeration where there is no deterioration as regards honesty, taste, discrimina-<br />
nucleus of solid truth. We have seen how MSS. tion and conrtesy in the editorial ranks since such<br />
may be simply kept indefinitely, and neither “flung men as he and Thackeray and Dickens ceased to<br />
back" nor handed back.<br />
uplift them.<br />
Now let us peep into this mystery of MSS.<br />
HERBERT W. SMITA.<br />
returning to the sender unreal. Long years after<br />
“ The Sorrows of Satan” (from which novel our<br />
quotation is borrowed) was first published, to be PROPOSED CANADIAN COPYRIGHT LAW.<br />
precise, so recently as August 31, 1907, a well-<br />
known journal dealing with the affairs of an<br />
extensive publishing business made the subjoined M R. FRANK WISE, president of the<br />
strictures upon its management. “ Will it be I Macmillan Company of Canada, has given<br />
credited," asked the investigator, “ that manu-<br />
to the Press a statement correcting some<br />
scripts submitted to the firm for consideration misconceptions already made, and putting forward<br />
were solemnly entered in a huge volume, and some points which he is afraid have escaped the<br />
then as solemnly returned to their senders often notice of the Hon. Mr. Fisher and a number of his<br />
without being looked at. Scores of pages of this associates, who, no doubt, while wishing to put<br />
volume may be turned over without finding a single Canadian copyright on a dignified basis, would be<br />
contribution marked as accepted. Shareholders the last ones to bring hardship and pecuniary loss<br />
should call at the offices and verify this for them- either to Canadian authors or their publishers.<br />
selves," etc.<br />
“The manufacturing clause in the present<br />
The writer's personal experience of the people American Bill,” says Mr. Wise," is a good example<br />
implied are in entire accord with the above. In of the maxim that might is right.'" It is well<br />
the year 1884, he forwarded one of his early known to publishers that the American manu-<br />
attempts to them under the belief its nature was facturing clause was inserted at the behest and<br />
of a kind to meet their requirements. His con- insistence of the Typographical Union, which is<br />
fidence was rudely shaken by its swift return, well known to be the strongest labour union in the<br />
accompanied by that familiar slip of paper so United States. Its primary inclusion and sub-<br />
dreaded by toilers with the pen. In due season sequent retention in the American Copyright Act<br />
he sent off another argosy to the same port, and were distinctly against the expressed wishes of<br />
another, and yet another. For a period of twenty- American publishers. It is a good thing, of course,<br />
three years he persevered in this enterprise, de- for American printers and paper makers, and it is<br />
spatching cargoes of this, that, and the other kind, looked upon by those engaged in either trade as a<br />
deeming them likely to suit their market, until, at very beneficent mode of protection, much better to<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 27 (#423) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
27<br />
the printers in fact than would be protection by There is the method of getting a learned lexico-<br />
tariff, since under the later arrangement importa grapher to go carefully through the book and of<br />
tion of foreign printed books could only be avoided obtaining a learned treatise from his pen. This<br />
by keeping the prices of the home-made books method present circumstances will not allow here<br />
down to that of the foreign printed books plus or elsewhere; and there is the modern method of<br />
duty. Under the form of protection by copyright choosing a certain number of words, looking them<br />
the public is prohibited from importing foreign out, checking them and seeing that they are<br />
printed books at any price.<br />
correct, and leaving the rest to luck. It is this<br />
At the time this manufacturing clause was made latter method that we acknowledge without shame.<br />
operative in the United States, they had a popula. There are two principal reasons why this<br />
tion of some seventy millions, which made a market Dictionary should be a good one : first, the adapta-<br />
of sufficient size to make profitable the setting up tion is made from the Great Oxford English<br />
and printing of an addition for consumption in the Dictionary; and, secondly, it is connected with the<br />
United States. Indeed, this would have been names of the two Fowlers. Are these reasons in<br />
possible, though, of course, to a lesser extent, with the proof good and sufficient? We have no<br />
a population of, say, twenty millons. With hesitation in giving an affirmative answer.<br />
Canada's population, however, of a possible eight The Dictionary is a Dictionary of Current Eng-<br />
millions, to be shown by the new census, printing lish ; and this makes its perusal a great source of<br />
in Canada for Canadian consumption is utterly out pleasure. The adapters themselves say in their<br />
of the question, since there is nothing like enough preface :-<br />
demand to make a Canadian edition financially a<br />
“One of these peculiarities is the large amount of space<br />
possibility. Our contention is, therefore, that there<br />
given to the common words that no one goes through the<br />
being only a limited market in Canada, now best day without using scores or hundreds of times, often dis-<br />
served by books imported preferably from England, posed of in a line or two on the ground that they are plain<br />
or, if must be, from the United States, and the<br />
and simple, and that every one knows all about them by<br />
limited market making a separate Canadian edition<br />
the light of nature; but, in fact, entangled with other<br />
words in so many alliances and antipathies during their<br />
unprofitable, neither paper makers nor printers can perpetual knocking about the world that the idiomatic use<br />
possibly have anything to gain by holding out for of them is far from easy."<br />
a manufacturing clause in the new Canadian Bill.<br />
As a matter of fact Canada has much more to lose<br />
This line of procedure at once rouses interest,<br />
and the checking the accuracy of this statement<br />
than to gain by following the bad example of our<br />
afforded infinite pleasure.<br />
neighbours to the south. In an admirable article<br />
It is so true that words in common use are so<br />
by Mr. Brander Matthews, published in the June<br />
often overlooked, and their meaning is distorted or<br />
number of the American Review of Reviews, he<br />
shows how American literature was stunted and<br />
misapplied. When suddenly a misuser is severely<br />
repressed almost to extinction by means of whole-<br />
censured it becomes difficult to check what is<br />
sale piracy, which same conditions would be<br />
apparently self-erident. Following out the principle<br />
of looking for common words in current use, we<br />
possible in Canada by the terms of the Copyright<br />
Bill as at present outlined.<br />
find the Dictionary is everything that its adapters<br />
claim.<br />
It is to be hoped that this matter of copyright<br />
Its purchase can be recommended without hesi-<br />
will be given very careful consideration, and that<br />
no person will be blindly persuaded that benefit will<br />
tation. Although 900 pages in length, it is not<br />
accrue to any Canadian industry by the inclusion<br />
a bulky volume. The type is clear, and the price<br />
of a manufacturing clause. It will not mean an<br />
moderate.<br />
increase in printing of 5 per cent. over the present<br />
amount now done, on the principle that “a full<br />
pitcher can hold no more."<br />
JAPANESE POETRY.*<br />
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY.*<br />
HERE are two distinct ways of reviewing a<br />
dictionary. We are not leading up to the<br />
self-evident and commonplace retort, “ Yes,<br />
the right way and the wrong way.”<br />
TN his preface Professor Chamberlain confesses<br />
1 that in the course of years his taste respecting<br />
translations has changed : “He has gone over<br />
to the camp of the literalists, and cares for no<br />
versions whether of prose or of poetry, unless they<br />
be scrupulously exact.” We are entirely of the<br />
* " The Concise Oxford Dictionary,” adapted by H. W.<br />
Fowler and F. G. Fowler, published by the Clarendon<br />
Press.<br />
Chamberlain.<br />
*" Japanese Poetry," by Basil Hall<br />
London : John Murray. 1911.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#424) #############################################<br />
<br />
28<br />
. THE AUTHOR.<br />
same opinion, and yet conscious that, in the case of To this we need only repls that the prize-<br />
poetry at least, the people are not a few who prefer winning stories will not appear elsewhere. Every<br />
a metrical version. Those on either side will be story will be published within the next few months<br />
able to find what they prefer in this new and much in one or other of the Magazines, and authors not<br />
enlarged edition of Japanese Poetry." Parts I., satisfied with this were not expected to compete.<br />
II., and III. of the volume are a reissue of the metri. Your correspondent proceeds next to deal with<br />
caltranslations published more than thirty years ago. the question of rights. There again no diffi-<br />
Part IV. contains a valuable essay on the Japanese culty will arise. While we shall, in the ordinary<br />
Poetical Epigram, and a number of absolutely literal way, expect to retain all rights in prize-winning<br />
translations of Japanese Epigrams accompanied by stories, we shall meet, in a reasonable spirit, authors<br />
the originals, in Roman character. This is how poetry who may desire to republish their stories<br />
ought to be translated ; and while the former part subsequently.<br />
of the work contains much that is neat in form and “No date is mentioned by which a decision may<br />
pleasing in substance, we have no hesitation in be expected,” complains "A Would-be Competitor."<br />
saying tbat the new translations represent the most Since some thousands of stories have been<br />
valuable part of the book. The terseness of Japanese entered for the competition, each of which, in case<br />
Epigram is remarkable, and by no means always of rejection, requires an individual letter of careful<br />
avoids obscurity. All the difficulties are here so criticism, it was obviously impossible, whilst the<br />
admirably elucidated that Professor Chamberlain's competition was still running, to announce the<br />
book must be regarded as one which no one who is date when the result would be published. The<br />
taking up Japanese seriously can neglect. As these feature of the competition was that those actually<br />
are however few, we have pleasure in adding that responsible for the editorial conduct of the three<br />
every one with a true sense of poetical value magazines should read the stories, and as the<br />
will find in this volume a great deal that will give number of these people is limited, and they have<br />
delight.<br />
their ordinary work in addition to the competition,<br />
a certain delay has been inevitable. Stories have<br />
been dealt with as rapidly as possible, however, and<br />
the full result of the competition will be announced<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
in the November numbers of the three magazines.<br />
I might add in conclusion that the terms of the<br />
competition have met with the approval of the<br />
PRIZE COMPETITIONS.<br />
competitors. This being so, the discontent of “A<br />
Would-be Competitor " is, if harder to understand,<br />
SIR,—As your correspondent, “A Would-be<br />
easier to endure.<br />
Contributor,” in your issue of July 1, obviously<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
refers to our £260 Story Competition, we shall be<br />
The Editors,<br />
glad if you will allow us to deal with the points he<br />
PEARSON'S MAGAZINE.<br />
raises.<br />
“Nothing," he remarks, “is said as to the fate<br />
THE ROYAL MAGAZINE.<br />
THE NOVEL MAGAZINE.<br />
of the successful stories ; there is nothing to<br />
indicate whether they are to be published, though<br />
this is hinted at."<br />
As the stated object of the competition was to<br />
INSURANCE.<br />
discover new authors, this criticism is somewhat SIR,—Following up my previous suggestion that<br />
curious. In any case it is difficult to imagine that a scheme for insuring contributors' payments should<br />
anyone would pay £50 for a story he did not intend be contemplated, I add that it seems patent that if<br />
to publish. But may we allay any fears in this once an assurance company could be got to specify<br />
direction by assuring all those who read these lines what publications it would undertake to cover in this<br />
that prize-winning stories, and those purchased at way, the controllers of “unincluded” organs would<br />
our ordinary rates, will all be published.<br />
for the most part find it expedient, for the sake of<br />
“There is nothing," continues “A Would-be prestige, to follow suit by getting a similar public<br />
Competitor," “ to enable the authors to know where form of cover. Otherwise they might lay them.<br />
or when the prize-winning stories will be published. selves open to suspicion of instability. When new<br />
An author may be quite willing to sanction the developments are organised, people often have to<br />
appearance of his work in one of the three magazines, come into line by adopting them, wbether they<br />
and yet object strongly to its appearance in either like it or not.<br />
of the remaining two. Still stronger may be his<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
objection to its appearance elsewhere.”<br />
ALGERNON WARREN.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#425) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
HUBBRT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhond, Surrey, writes :-<br />
“I have just completes the rovision of my novel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that tho manuscript was sent to you<br />
without baving been corrected or even read, and that my handwriting,<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required perception as well as care, something more than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a resulta result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
TYPEWRITING. AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
Please write before sending MSS.<br />
(Established 1898),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
EWART RICKETTS<br />
May be relied on to provide neat and<br />
accurate typewritten copies of Authors'<br />
MSS. Straightforward work, 10d. per<br />
1,000 words; two copies, 18.; specimen<br />
free.<br />
COTTERILL & CROMB<br />
Literary<br />
Agents,<br />
LENNOX HOUSE,<br />
LINDISFARNE, STONEHOUSE, GLOS.<br />
NORFOLK ST., STRAND,<br />
W.C.<br />
“ The Book Monthly is now enlarged and makes an exceedingly<br />
pleasant and readable publication."<br />
-CLAUDIUS CLEAR, in the British Weekly.<br />
Till March, 3/- weekly. Furnished Cottages, York-<br />
| shire. Suit two people. Season 30%. Lester, Askrigg.<br />
Yearly £15/1580. Town and Station 14 mile.<br />
, , THE ..<br />
BOOK MONTHLY.<br />
AUTHORS.<br />
Novels, Short Stories, Articles, Poems placed with 169<br />
(one hundred and sixty-nine) Publishers and Periodicals,<br />
at highest prices. £30 obtained from Review for first<br />
story! Prospectus free.<br />
CAMBRIDGE LITERARY AGENCY,<br />
115, STRAND, W.C. Telephone, 1648 Gerrard.<br />
You know the "Book Monthly" by name-you<br />
very often see it quoted in the papers. It is a<br />
brightly written, brightly illustrated magazine<br />
about the books and the literary affairs of the<br />
day. But as yet you have not taken it in!<br />
Well, you are missing something, and you<br />
should at once arrange to get it regularly.<br />
It is an instructing. entertaining “guide.<br />
philosopher and friend” for the reader near<br />
the centre of things or far away. Being now<br />
seven years old, and so grown up, it has just<br />
been enlarged, and made more popular and<br />
practical in contents and style. Read it, and<br />
you will know what to read : what's what and<br />
who's who in the book world.<br />
EXPERT TYPEWRITING.<br />
Authors' MSS., Etc., and General Typing. od, per<br />
1,000 words. (Quantity by contract.) Prompt and<br />
accurate. Specimen supplied. Estimates given.<br />
MRS. MASON,<br />
Easthorpe Rectory, KELVEDON, Essex.<br />
The Book Monthly is published on the first of each inonth by<br />
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Ltd., Stationers' Hall Court, London.<br />
It costs Sixpence, and it can be ordered from any Bookseller, Book.<br />
stall, or Newsagent. The Publishers will send it, post free, for a<br />
year, inland or abroad, on receipt of eight shillings. You can<br />
have a copy of the current number posted to you by forwarding<br />
6d., or a specimen back number for nothing.<br />
--A well-known MAGAZINE<br />
AUINUKO. EDITOR and PUBLISHER'S<br />
READER offers to advise and assist AUTHORS. Success<br />
secured.-EDITOR, c.o. Rudin's, 199, Strand, W.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#426) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
TYPEWRITING<br />
BRAINS.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
WIT!<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
My work is always the same—THE BEST. | Near the British Museum,<br />
INDIFFERENT COPY TYPED WELL stands a better<br />
chance with Editors and Publishers than<br />
GOOD WORK TYPED BADLY.<br />
I USE BRAINS as well as hands.<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
HIGH-CLASS WORK AT LOW CHARGES.<br />
Every Order I have executed has been followed Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Lounges<br />
by Repeats.<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
I have many Testimonials from Members of the<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
Authors' Society.<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
MY WORK IS MY BEST REFERENCE! Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
I work for Authors, Clergymen, Playwrights, Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 8/-.<br />
Business Houses, &c.<br />
SEND ME A TRIAL ORDER NOW.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
176, Loughborough Road, LONDON, S.W.<br />
Thackeray Hotel—“Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—"Bookcraft, London."<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND, I TYPEWRITING.<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE,<br />
Authors' MSS. from 11d. per 1,000<br />
words. Perfect carbon copies half<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C.<br />
price. 4th carbon free. Quantities,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883.<br />
Specifications, Legal, Dramatic work,<br />
etc.<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel. Note.-First 1,000 words typed free for new clients.<br />
ligently copied, from 18. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
Only first-class typewriters used.<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by<br />
Special terms for large contracts.<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken, Translations-French, German, Spanish, Italian, etc.<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
BASIL G. LEATHERDALE,<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son, 19, Leys Avenue, Letchworth, Herts.<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand, (Please mention this advertisement.)<br />
W.C.<br />
GOOD TYPEWRITING.<br />
MISS DE LA COUR<br />
(Society of Arts First-Class Certificate for Typewriting).<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000 Brendon, 16, Chalfont Road, South Norwood Hill, S.E.<br />
No inferior, cheap work sent out. Good, accurate, intelligent<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and Generaal work on good papers by trained, experienced typists at reason-<br />
able charges. Expert decipherers of difficult handwritings.<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli French and German. Excellent Testimonials from well-known<br />
authors.<br />
cation.<br />
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
"Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to the<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she | 64, VICTORIA STRELT, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
does her work.-FRANK ŠAVILE."<br />
Recommended by Mr. G, K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, and Others.<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen : "Man<br />
New Address<br />
thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
15, WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX.||<br />
Printed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
Typewriting and Secretarial Work.<br />
.<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
at 10, Bouverio Street, London, E.O.<br />
10, VINUDD RUD, LIDWOUDI, WIDDUUDUA1 been done.'- | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/426/1911-10-02-The-Author-22-1.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 427 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/427 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 02 (November 1911) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+02+%28November+1911%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 02 (November 1911)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1911-11-01-The-Author-22-2 | | | | | 29–56 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1911-11-01">1911-11-01</a> | | | | | | | 2 | | | 19111101 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.-No. 2.<br />
NOVEMBER 1, 1911.<br />
(PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
List of Memberina<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
List of Members.<br />
The Pension Fund ..<br />
Pension Fund-Complete List of Annual Subscribers<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
Books published by Members ...<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes ... ... ... ...<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books ..<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors...<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGE<br />
Registration of Scenarios and Original Plays<br />
45<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents ...<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
Stamping Music<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
Remittances. ... ... ... * *<br />
General Notes<br />
The First Snciety for the Protection of the Rights of authors...<br />
Book Prices Current<br />
The Boy Scouts' History of England ...<br />
Correspondence ... ... ... ... ... ...<br />
.<br />
..<br />
MRS. BARCLAY'S NEW NOVEL.<br />
THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR. 6s.<br />
BY<br />
FLORENCE L. BARCLAY.<br />
With Coloured Frontispiece by F. H. Townsend.<br />
OVER HALF-A-MILLION COPIES OF<br />
Mrs. Barclay's Previous Books<br />
HAVE BEEN SOLD.<br />
THE ROSARY. 6s.<br />
THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE. 6s.<br />
THE WHEELS OF TIME. 1s. net.<br />
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 24, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#428) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telegraphic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON.”<br />
Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br />
.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, 2. M<br />
COUNCIL<br />
SIB ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD CURZON<br />
SIB Wu.REYNELL ANSON, Bart.,D.C.L. OF KEDLESTON, P.C.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
J. M. BABRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD,<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN,<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
T. E, BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
H. RIDER HAGGABD,<br />
MRB. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON (“LUCAS MALET'').<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. AUGUSTINE BIB. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
BELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.8. W. W. JACOBS.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD BURGH. JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR,<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.8,<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (MISS FLORA L.<br />
W. MOBRIS COLLES.<br />
SHaw).<br />
THE HON. JOHN COLLIER.<br />
MRS. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON).<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
JUSTIN MCCARTHY,<br />
THE REV. C. H, MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. SIB HORACE<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
OWEN SEAMAN,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW,<br />
G. R, SIMS.<br />
S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD,<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD,<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
H. G. WELLS.<br />
PERCY WHITE.<br />
FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT Hox.<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
P.C., &c.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-S, SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. ' MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STOBB,<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND,<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAN.<br />
RUDOLPH BEBIER,<br />
H. GRANVILLE BARKER,<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE,<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. CARTON.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH,<br />
CAPT. BASIL HOOD.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
JEROME K, JEROME.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY,<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
MORLEY ROBERTS.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
H, A. HINKSON.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
The Hon. JOHN COLLIER,<br />
8IB W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
ART.<br />
| JOHN HASSALL, R.I.<br />
| J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM,<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
SAY<br />
FIELD, ROSCOE & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.).<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Société dos Gens de Lettres.<br />
Legal Representative in America_JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
Y OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY'S GATE, S.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#429) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
iii<br />
BEFORE YOU PUBLISH<br />
lof Authors),<br />
Consult Mr. WALTER M. GALLICHAN (Mem. Soc.),<br />
Literary Agent, Author and Journalist,<br />
Managing Director, GALLICHAN & GASQUOINE,<br />
- 188, STRAND, W.C. -<br />
Our success is due to keen literary judgment as well as business aptitude.<br />
This Agency has obtained a large number of commissions for clients<br />
through suggestions made by the firm to leading publishers. We find<br />
the right author for the publisher and the right publisher for the author.<br />
GALLICHAN & GASQUOINE secure remunerative contracts for writers of<br />
fiction, belles lettres, travel, sport, biography, science volumes, and every<br />
kind of literary work. We possess many gratifying testimonials from<br />
the foremost authors of the day, and from beginners in literature.<br />
Mrs. HENRY DUDENEY: “Our relations in the production of the book have been so exceedingly pleasant and free from worry."<br />
Mrs. L. T. MEADE; "I have absolute faith in your powers."<br />
GALLICHAN & GASQUOINE revise MSS. and undertake all kinds<br />
of translation and research work. - All branches of typewriting.<br />
Illustrations of every sort supplied for technical and other volumes, and for articles.<br />
--- Telephone 13291 Central. —<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE CURRENT YEAR. 18.<br />
2. THE AUTHOR. Published ten months in the year (August and September omitted), devoted specially to<br />
the protection and maintenance of Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property. Issued to all Members gratis.<br />
Price to non-members, 6 d., or 5s. 6d. per annum, post free. Back numbers from 1892, at 10s. 6d. per vol.<br />
3. LITERATURE AND THE PENSION LIST. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law. 38.<br />
4. THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES GENS DE LETTRES. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. 1s.<br />
5. THE COST OF PRODUCTION. (Out of print.)<br />
6. THE VARIOUS METHODS OF PÙBLICATION. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work, compiled<br />
from the papers in the Society's offices, the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers to Authors<br />
are examined, and their meaning carefully explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud which<br />
have been made possible by the different clauses therein. 38.<br />
ADDENDA TO THE ABOVE. By G. HERBERT THRING. Being additional facts collected at the office of<br />
the Society since the publication of the “ Methods." With comments and advice. 2s.<br />
7. COPYRIGHT LAW REFORM. An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill of 1890. With<br />
Extracts from the Report of the Commission of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the American Copyright<br />
Bill. By J. M. LELY. 1s. 6d.<br />
8. THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS. A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By WALTER BESANT<br />
(Chairman of Committee, 1888-1892). 1s.<br />
9. THE CONTRACT OF PUBLICATION IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY, AND<br />
SWITZERLAND. By ERNST LUNGE, J.U.D. 2s. 6d.<br />
10. FORMS OF AGREEMENT ISSUED BY THE PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION: WITH<br />
COMMENTS. By G. HERBERT TARING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd<br />
Edition, 1s.<br />
11. PERIODICALS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTORS. Giving the Terms on which the different Magazines<br />
and Periodicals deal with MSS. and Contributions. 6d.<br />
12. SOCIETY OF AUTHORS. List of Members. Published October, 1907, price 6d.<br />
13. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CONVENTION AS REVISED AT BERLIN, 1909. 18.<br />
[All prices net. Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#430) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
To Authors and Journalists.<br />
“The Book Monthly is now enlarged and makes an exceedingly<br />
pleasant and readable publication."<br />
-CLAUDIUS CLEAR, in the British Weekly.<br />
:THE ,<br />
The writer, whether he aspires to write novels, short stories,<br />
or articles, often spends years in uncongenial work,<br />
rebuffs and drudgery being the only return for the time<br />
and labour spent.<br />
THE COURSE OF LITERARY TRAINING promoted by<br />
the Literary Correspondence College teaches the<br />
aspirant to serve his apprenticeship to Literature in the<br />
briefest time possible."<br />
The College also undertakes Literary Agency business of all<br />
kinds.<br />
For full particulars write at once for Pamphlet D.M. to the LITERARY<br />
CORRESPONDENCE COLLEGE, 9, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
BOOK MONTHLY.<br />
"First Lessons in Story Writing."<br />
By BARRY PAIN.<br />
2nd Edition. 28. 6d. net. 28. 8d. post free.<br />
You know the "Book Monthly" by name-you<br />
very often see it quoted in the papers. It is a<br />
brightly written, brightly illustrated magazine<br />
about the books and the literary affairs of the<br />
day. But as yet you have not taken it in!<br />
Well, you are missing something, and you<br />
should at once arrange to get it regularly.<br />
It is an instructing, entertaining "guide.<br />
philosopher and friend" for the reader near<br />
the centre of things or far away. Being now<br />
seven years old, and so grown up, it has just<br />
been enlarged, and made more popular and<br />
practical in contents and style. Read it, and<br />
you will know what to read; what's what and<br />
who's who in the book world.<br />
this work the Westminster Gazette writes :-"The<br />
beginner who takes these lessons to heart may be quite<br />
assured of an advantage over his competitors."<br />
"How to become an Author."<br />
By ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
A Practical Guide; full of useful hints.<br />
2nd Edition. 5s, net. 58. 4d. post free.<br />
The Literary Correspondence College,<br />
9, Arundel Street, Strand, w.c.<br />
The Book Monthly is published on the first of each month by<br />
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Ltd., Stationers' Hall Court, London.<br />
It costs Sixpence, and it can be ordered from any Bookseller, Book.<br />
stall, or Newsagent. The Publishers will send it, post free, for a<br />
year, inland or a broad, on receipt of eight shillings. You can<br />
have a copy of the current number posted to you by forwarding<br />
6d., or a specimen back number for nothing.<br />
RIDER'S NEW PUBLICATIONS.<br />
Crown 8vo. Cloth, Gilt. 272 Pages. Price, 3s. 6d. Net.<br />
HEALTH FOR YOUNG AND OLD: ITS PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE.<br />
An Unconventional Manual. By A. T. SCHOFIELD, M.D., M.R.C.S., Author of "Nervousness," "How to Keep Fit," etc.<br />
JUST PUBLISHED. Crown 8vo. Cloth, Gilt Tops. 244 Pages. 38. 6d. Net.<br />
HE CAN WHO THINKS HE CAN, AND OTHER PAPERS ON SUCCESS IN LIFE.<br />
By ORISON SWETT MARDEN, Author of "Every Man a King."<br />
CONTENTS.-He Can who Thinks He Can-Getting Aroused !--Education by Absorption-Freedom at<br />
Any Cost-What the World Owes to Dreamers--The Spirit in Which You Work-Responsibility Develops from<br />
an Overmastering Purpose-Has Your Vocation Given Ungratified Approval?_Stand for Something-Happy,<br />
If Not, Why Not?-Originality-Had Money, but Lost It-Summing Up People-Does the World Owe You a<br />
Living ?-What Has Luck Done for You?-Success with a Flaw-Getting Away from Poverty.<br />
BYWAYS OF GHOSTLAND. Demy 8vo. Cloth, Gilt. 254 Pages. 38. 6d, Net.<br />
By ELLIOTT O'DONNELL, Author of “Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales," “ Haunted Houses of London,"<br />
"Dreams and Their Meanings." etc., etc.<br />
CONTENTS.-The Unknown Brain-The Occult in Shadows-Obsession, Possession-Occult Hooligans-<br />
Sylvan Horrors-Complex Hauntings and Occult Bestialities—Vampires, Were-Wolves, Fox Women, etc.---<br />
Death Warnings and Family Ghosts-Superstitions and Fortunes—The Hand of Glory—The Bloody Hand of<br />
Ulster-The Seventh Son-Birth Marks-Nature's Devil Signals-Pre-existence—The Future--Projection-<br />
Telepathy, etc.-Occult Inhabitants of the Sea and Rivers—Buddhas and Boggle Chairs.<br />
Crown 8vo. Cloth, Gilt. 168 Pages. Illustrated. Price, 2s. Net.<br />
THE KABALA OF NUMBERS. A HANDBOOK OF INTERPRETATION.<br />
By SEPHARIAL, Author of " A Manual of Occultism," "Kabalistic Astrology," "Prognostic Astronomy,"<br />
“New Manual of Astrology," etc., etc.<br />
CONTENTS.--The Power of Numbers--Geometrical Relations of Thought-Numerology-Various Methods<br />
of Kabalism--Number, Form, Colour, Sound-Names, Numbers, and Incidents--Chance Events -Reduction to<br />
Law-Number and Automatism--Thought Reading by Numbers-The Significance of Numbers-Of Things<br />
Lost-The Kabalism of Cycles--Success and Failure-The Law of Values-God Geometrises.<br />
Write for New Catalogue and Prospectuses to WILLIAM RIDER & SON, LTD., 164, ALDERSGATE ST., LONDON, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#431) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
AUTHORS, ATTENTION !<br />
Will this offer<br />
interest YOU?<br />
If you are entering for Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton's<br />
£1,000 Novel Competition, there is still time to take<br />
advantage of my special terms quoted below, but it is<br />
desirable to write early.<br />
A Charming Gift to a Church School.<br />
A REMARKABLE OFFER!<br />
Twelve copies, “ PROPER LESSONS<br />
TO BE READ AT MATINS AND<br />
EVENSONG ON THE SUNDAYS AND<br />
OTHER HOLY DAYS THROUGHOUT<br />
THE YEAR.” Leather, red and gilt<br />
edges; published at 1/6 and 2/-<br />
each by CLOWES. For 4/6,<br />
carriage paid, cash with order.<br />
If you will send your. MS. and<br />
P.O. for 10/-, together with a<br />
promise to pay the balance (at<br />
the rate of 1/- per 1,000 words,<br />
carbon duplicate 3d. per 1,000) in<br />
monthly instalments of £1, I will<br />
undertake to return you a per-<br />
fectly correct type-written copy.<br />
Absolute secrecy guaranteed.<br />
Read one of my latest testimonials :-<br />
Hill Cottage, Stanmore, Middlesex,<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
August 11th, 1911.<br />
I received the book, and now write to thank you for your<br />
prompt and excellent work, with which I am entirely satis-<br />
fied. I shall be pleased to send you my work in the future,<br />
and will recommend you to my friends.<br />
Yours sincerely (Signed) J. D. E. LOVELAND.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO.,<br />
29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Road, St. Albans, Herts.<br />
SAVE YOUR NUMBERS carefully<br />
until the Volume is complete<br />
.. BY USING . .<br />
Just out, 1/- paper, 2/- cloth, net.<br />
SMITH & Son, Renfield Street, Glasgow.<br />
WILLIAM THOMSON<br />
" THE AUTHOR"<br />
MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
(LORD KELVIN).<br />
His Way of Teaching Natural Philosophy,<br />
By DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
Price 2/8 net.<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up<br />
number by number, the numbers of The Author as they are<br />
published, and at the completion of the volume can be taken<br />
off and sent to the bookbinder-leaving the Mechanical Binder<br />
free for the next volume. Whether containing one number or<br />
a complete volume it has the appearance of, and handles the<br />
same as, an ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by<br />
which The Author can be instantly bound with the samo<br />
facility as a single leaf, and there are no wires or elastic<br />
strings to get out of order.<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The<br />
Cloth Covers are made by leading London Bookbinders, and<br />
the Metal Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to<br />
break, it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few<br />
pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
ST. JAMES' BUDGET: "The advantages of the Binder are so obvious ..."<br />
LEEDS MERCURY:-"An ingenious and accommodating invention."<br />
WESTWIXSTER BUDGET "The construction of the Binder is simplicity<br />
itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end."<br />
LITERARY WORLD :-“ A clever device-80 extremely simple and easy<br />
in applying."<br />
SREFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPI :-"After uso we can confidently<br />
recomiend."<br />
29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
ANECDOTES OF BIG<br />
CATS AND OTHER BEASTS.<br />
By DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
METHUEN & Co., 61-.<br />
Times._"Mr. Theodore Roosevelt can recount many<br />
stories of such scenes, while Mr. D. Wilson goes &<br />
step further ... by telling his readers something<br />
of the mental attitude of the quarry."<br />
Guardian._"Mr. Wilson is the right person to tell<br />
stories of sport."<br />
Pall Mall Gazette.-" Captivating and engrossing."<br />
Labour Leader.-" This book is one of the most<br />
delightful collections of animal stories it has been<br />
our lot to meet."<br />
Morning Post. -- “ Delightfully sympathetic ...<br />
Nothing is excluded, from the tiger and leopard to<br />
the domestic pussy-cat, from the bear to the buffalo,<br />
from the monkey to the elephant."<br />
Humanitarian.-“We advise all our friends to read<br />
this admirable book."<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 28 (#432) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
STANLEY PAUL'S LIST.<br />
THE BELOVED PRINCESS. CHARLES E. PEARCE, Author of "The Amazing Duchess,” &c. Illustrated :<br />
6.<br />
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAURENCE STERNE. LEWIS MELVILLE. 2 vols. Illustrated.<br />
28s. net the set.<br />
THE COBURGS. EDMUND B. D'AUVERGNE. Illustrated. 168. net.<br />
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE. FRANK HAMEL. Illustrated. 16s. net.<br />
A TOUR THROUGH OLD PROVENCE. A. S. FORREST. Illustrated with 108 Original Half-Tone<br />
and Line Drawings. Cloth Gilt. 6s. net.<br />
A WOMAN'S WINTER IN SOUTH AMERICA. CHARLOTTE CAMERON. Illustrated. 6s. net.<br />
AN IMPERIAL VICTIM. Edith E. CUTHELL. 2 vols. Illustrated. 24s, net.<br />
FRANCE OF JOAN OF ARC. Lt.-Col. ANDREW C. P. HAGGARD. Illustrated. 168. net.<br />
OUR FIGHTING SEA MEN. LIONEL YEXLEY. 6s net.<br />
THE WELSHMAN'S REPUTATIONBy “AN ENGLISHMAN.' 2s. Ednet.<br />
A.B.C. OF JAPANESE ART. J. F. BLACKER. Illustrated. 5s, net.<br />
SIX SHILLING NOVELS.<br />
THE DOLL. (2nd Edition.) VIOLET HUNT.<br />
OUR GUESTS. ST. JOHN TREVOR.<br />
THE LONG HAND. SIR WILLIAM MAGNAY.<br />
RUFFLES. L. T. MEADE.<br />
THE FREE MARRIAGE. J. KEIGHLEY SNOWDEN. HODSON'S VOYAGE. W. H. KOEBEL.<br />
RED REVENGE. CHARLES E. PEARCE.<br />
MARRIAGE OF LENORE. ALICE M. DIEHL.<br />
EVERY DOG HIS DAY. HAROLD AVERY.<br />
A PASSION IN MOROCCO. CHARLOTTE CAMERON.<br />
GOD DISPOSES. PELLEW HAWKER.<br />
THE IMPERISHABLE WING, MRS. HAVELOCK ELLIS.<br />
THE LOTUS LANTERN. MARY IMLAY TAYLOR. A PRISONER IN PARIS. H. L. VAHEY.<br />
THE LOVELOCKS OF DIANA. KATE HORN.<br />
WHEN SATAN TOOK FLESH. A. J. ANDERSON.<br />
THE CARDINAL. NEWTON V. STEWART.<br />
MADGE CARRINGTON. “DRAIG GLAS."<br />
STANLEY PAUL & CO., 31, ESSEX STREET, LONDON.<br />
From Mr. JOHN OUSELEY'S LIST.<br />
SIX SHILLING NOVELS.<br />
THE GREAT BETRAYAL. HAROLD WINTLE<br />
(Author of “ The Cleansing of the Lords, &c.").<br />
“One of the successes of the year."-Westminster Gazette.<br />
“A very powerful story."-The Academy.<br />
WHERE DAY BEGINS. ALFRED BUCHANAN<br />
(Author of “A Bubble Reputation," &c.)<br />
“The story grips you ... and successfully arouses an<br />
eager curiosity.”—The Times.<br />
"A strong book, it should not fail to attract and interest<br />
serious-minded readers." -The Scotsman.<br />
"A vigorous book ... and appeals to those of wide<br />
thought and large endeavour."--Morning Post.<br />
COMPLICATIONS AT COLLAROI, ROSE BOLDRE-<br />
WOOD (Daughter of Rolf Boldrewood).<br />
" The story is attractive from the start."--Literary World.<br />
"Sincerely to be congratulated on her first novel."— The<br />
THE INHÉRITANCE OF JOSEPH BIGGS, [Argus.<br />
WM. AND WINIFRED GUNN.<br />
“Pleasant to read, nothing being more infectious than<br />
enjoyment."-Westminster Gazette.<br />
AN ODD SITUATION. MRS. HENRY GREY GRAHAM.<br />
"Full of events and never wearisome."-The Times,<br />
Mrs. CHARTERIS. CONSTANCE HOWELL (Author of<br />
“Married in India," &c.).<br />
THE ALTAR OF MOLOCH. KINETON PARKES<br />
(Author of "Potiphar's Wife," &c.).<br />
THE TEMPLE OF DEMOS: A Dream. H. M.<br />
Bower.<br />
IN TIME'S STOREROOMS. ETHEL BALFOUR<br />
(Author of “A Winning Loser ").<br />
THÈ MINISTER'S MARRIAGE. MRS. ALICK FRASER.<br />
TWO SHILLING NOVELS.<br />
In Art Cloth and Pictorial Wrapper.<br />
VIEW THY TRESPASS. C. H. DUDLEY WARD.<br />
THE LAWS OF LEFLO. By the Author of “Miss<br />
Molly."<br />
THE TORCH OF LIFE. EDITH M. HARVEY.<br />
THE CHANCERY LANE TRAGEDY. RICHARD F.<br />
JUPP.<br />
GIRL LIFE IN THE HAREM. By a Native of<br />
Damascus.<br />
THE RING OF UG. E. ELLIOT STOCK.<br />
AS ONE FLESH. E. G. LEWIS.<br />
Verse.<br />
THE OFF WHEELER. "MOM'E.” 2/6 net.<br />
WILD FLOWERS, REGINALD ROGERS. 2/6 net.<br />
THE NAIAD and other Yerses. Rev. A. D. H.<br />
ALLAN, M.A. 2/6 net.<br />
SENTRY GO. CAPTAIN G. F. PORTER. 2)- net.<br />
NEMESIS and other Poems. JEANIE HAMILTON.<br />
3/6 net.<br />
THE QUEEN OF THE SOUTH and other Poems.<br />
C. W. PEARSALL. 2/6 net.<br />
RUS DIVINUM and other Poems. MAJOR W. A.<br />
ADAM. 2/6 net.<br />
EUDORA. L. HARLING FORD NORTH. 1/- pet.<br />
SONGS OF TWO. M. and N. FRIEND. 2/6 net.<br />
BLUE BELL AND HEATHER. “COILA.” 3/6 net.<br />
A splendid collection of Highland stories told with much<br />
charm.<br />
JOHN OUSELEY, LIMITED,<br />
6, Fleet Lane, Farringdon Street, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 29 (#433) #############################################<br />
<br />
The Elutbor.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 2.<br />
NOVEMBER 1st, 1911.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
OR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of The Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the notice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
TROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br />
1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
6d., post free 7}d. It includes elections to July,<br />
1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
of the Society only.<br />
A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 30 (#434) #############################################<br />
<br />
30<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
8-10 er erobercro<br />
AO<br />
end of the list for the convenience of those who<br />
£ s. d.<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled June 16, Hamilton, Henry<br />
1 1 0<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
Oct. 5, Bungay, E. Newton<br />
0 10 0<br />
Oct. 6, Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson. 0 5 0<br />
Oct. 12, Hannay, J. O. . . . 0 5 0<br />
Oct. 13, Ward, Mrs. Humphry (in<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
addition to her present subscrip-<br />
tion of £10 per annum for 1912<br />
N February 1, the trustees of the Pension<br />
and 1913) . . . . . 5 0 0<br />
U Fund of the society-after the secretary<br />
Donations.<br />
had placed before them the financial<br />
1911.<br />
position of the fund—decided to invest £250 in<br />
March 3, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
0 10 0<br />
the purchase of Consols.<br />
March 6, Haultain, Arnold.<br />
1 1 0<br />
The amount purchased at the present price is<br />
March 9, Hardy, Harold<br />
£312 13s. 4d.<br />
.<br />
March 9, Hutton, E. .<br />
0<br />
.<br />
5<br />
This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d.<br />
0<br />
March 10, Wilson, Albert .<br />
0 5<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom-<br />
0<br />
March 16, Ward, Dudley.<br />
0 10 6<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
March 30, Coke, Desmond .<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
April 1, The XX Pen Club<br />
0 1<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
April 6, Channon, Mrs. E. M..<br />
April 7, Henry, Miss Alice .<br />
0<br />
.<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
5 0<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
April 10, Ralli, Scaramanga . 2 2 0<br />
April 11, Robins, Miss Alice .<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im-<br />
. 1 1<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
April 20, MacEwan, Miss. . 0 10 0<br />
April 20, C. N. and Mrs. Williamson. 5 5 0<br />
Consols 21%........ ...............£1,812 13 4 April 21, Shirley, Arthur . . . 1 1 0<br />
Local Loans .............................. 500 0 0 April 22, H. A. and Mrs. Hinkson . 1 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
April 24, Toplis, Miss Grace .<br />
0 10 0<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ...............<br />
291 19<br />
May, Walter John . . . 2 2 0<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
May 19, An Old Member<br />
1 0 0<br />
ture Stock .......<br />
25000<br />
June 2, Wrench, Mrs. Stanley<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
July 3, Ingram, J. H. .<br />
Trust 4% Certificates<br />
0 0<br />
July 13, Fell-Smith, Miss C.<br />
• . 0 5 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 3% Inscribed<br />
Sept. 18, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
Stock .............................<br />
200 0 0 Sept. 24, Winter, C. Gordon . . . 0 5 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Oct: 10, Guthrie, Anstey. .<br />
:<br />
2 0 0<br />
4% Preference Stock.................. 228 0 0 Oct. 11, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred .<br />
New Zealand 3% Stock................. 247 96 Oct. 19. Romane-James, Mrs. C.. : 0 15 6<br />
Irish Land Act 22% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
1927-57 .......<br />
...... 438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock............... 120 121<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Grant Stock, 1938..<br />
COMPLETE LIST OF ANNUAL SUBSCRIBERS.<br />
£ $. d.<br />
Total ............... £4,377 19 4 A. L. M. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Abbott, The Rev. Edy<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
Adams, Newton..<br />
. 0 5<br />
1911.<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
Andrews, Miss C. C.<br />
March 9, Boughton, Rutland . 0 5 0 Armstrong, Miss Frances .<br />
March 10, Somers, John .<br />
0 5 0 Askew, Claude . . .<br />
April 6, Rawlings, Burford<br />
. 10 0 0<br />
April 11, Wicks, Mark .<br />
O B. C. . .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
June 15, Fitzgerald, Colin<br />
0 5 0 Bagnall, Miss L.'<br />
: 0 2 6<br />
June 15, Fleming, Mrs. A. D. • 2 0 0 Barnett, P. A. .<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
June 15, Sabatini, Rafael. . 0 5 0 Barrington, Mrs. R sell<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
11<br />
0<br />
200<br />
Co 19 0100OCNO<br />
et es o en 10 er OSOBO<br />
. .<br />
•<br />
.<br />
·<br />
. .<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
0<br />
܀ ܗܘ ܗܘ ܘ ܡ<br />
Nero er et or er<br />
0<br />
6<br />
B.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.....<br />
. .<br />
·<br />
. .<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 31 (#435) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
...<br />
en<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· · ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
enn er er<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· · ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
··<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
O<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
£ $. d.<br />
£ $. d.<br />
Bashford, H. H. .<br />
0 10 6 Durand, Sir H. M.<br />
1 1 0<br />
Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson<br />
10 0 Durand, Ralph .<br />
• 0 1 0<br />
Beeching, Canon . .<br />
. 0 5 0 Düring, Mrs.<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Bell, Lady .<br />
. 2 2 0 E. D. C.<br />
. . . 1 1<br />
Benecke, Miss Ida<br />
0<br />
• 1 1 0 Edgington. Miss i...<br />
Tiss May . . . . 0 5 0<br />
Benjamin, Lewis.<br />
1 1 0 E. H. .<br />
.<br />
.<br />
. .<br />
.<br />
.<br />
Bennett, Prof. W. H. ..<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
. 0 5 0 E. K. .<br />
: 0 2<br />
Berkeley, Mrs. F. R. ..<br />
: 0 5 0 E. M. C. .<br />
Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit.<br />
: 0 10 6 E. S. .<br />
1 1<br />
Bloundelle-Burton, John<br />
· 0 10 6 Ellis, Miss M. A.<br />
118, M188 M. A. . . . . 0 10 0<br />
Bolton, Miss Anna<br />
: 0 5 0 Esmond, H. V. .<br />
. 5 5 0<br />
Bosanquet, E. F.. .<br />
: 0 10 6 Fagan, J. B.<br />
agan, J. B. . . . . . . 0 10 0<br />
Boughton, Rutland ..<br />
( 5 0 Felkin, Alfred Laurence<br />
. 1 1<br />
Bowen, Miss Marjorie .<br />
:<br />
: 11<br />
· 1 1 0 Felkin, The Hon. Mrs. A. L. (Ellen<br />
Boycott, G. W. M. .<br />
. 0 10 6 Thornycroft-Fowler). . . . 1 0 0<br />
Brandon, Miss D.<br />
: 0 5 0 Fenn, Frederick .<br />
. . . . 1 1 0<br />
Brend, Charles C.<br />
O Festing, Miss Gabriel.<br />
Brinton, Selwyn .<br />
5 0 Field, The Rev. Claude<br />
Brodhurst, Spencer<br />
10 6 Fieldhouse, Arthur .<br />
Brown, R. Grant . .<br />
FitzGerald, Colin<br />
Budgen, Miss . .<br />
0 Fleming, Mrs. A. D. .<br />
.<br />
2. D.<br />
. . . 2 0 0<br />
Bungay, E. Newton .<br />
5 0 Forbes, The Lady Ellen<br />
. 1 0<br />
Burmester, Miss Frances G.. . . 1 1 0 Forrest, G. W. .<br />
. . . . 2<br />
C. L.<br />
2 0<br />
. . .<br />
5 0 Forster, R. H. .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Calderon, George<br />
. 0 5 0 Fox, A. D. ..<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Cameron, Mrs..<br />
10 Freshfield, Douglas<br />
. . . . 5 0 0<br />
Cannan, Gilbert .<br />
10 6<br />
Galsworthy, John<br />
. . . . 1 1<br />
Capes, Bernard .<br />
0<br />
0 10 0 Garnett, Edward .<br />
·<br />
1 1 0<br />
Capes, Mrs. (Marian Ha<br />
: 0 5 0 Garvice, Charles.<br />
: 1 1 0<br />
Carr, Miss M. E. . .<br />
0 Gaunt, Mary<br />
• . . . . 5<br />
Caulfield, Miss S. F. A.<br />
0<br />
0 10 0 Gay, Mrs. Florence<br />
. . . . 0 5 0<br />
Chesterton, G. K. .<br />
0 10 0 Geddes, Mrs.<br />
. . . . 0 5 0<br />
Child, Harold H. .<br />
0 10 0 George, W.L. .<br />
:<br />
:<br />
: 0 10<br />
Clifford, Lady<br />
0<br />
. . . . . . . 1 1 0 Gidley, Miss E. C.<br />
. . . . 0 10 6<br />
Clifton, Mrs. Talbot<br />
0 10 0 Gilson, Capt. Charles<br />
0 10 0<br />
Clough, Miss B. A. .<br />
. 0 10 6 Godfrey, Miss Elizabeth<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Cohen, Mrs. Herbert<br />
. 0 10 6 Gonne, Capt. C.<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Colquhoun, A. R.<br />
0 5 0 Graham, Capt. Harry.<br />
. . 1 1 0<br />
Cotesworth, Miss Lillias E. (“ Hester<br />
Greig, James .<br />
. . . 0 5 0<br />
White”). . .<br />
. . 0 5 0 Gribble, Francis ..<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
Cox, Miss Marion Roalfe<br />
o Grier, Miss Julia M. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Cromartie, Countess of<br />
100 Grogan, Walter E.<br />
. 0 10 6<br />
Crommelin, Miss May.<br />
10 0 Gurney, Mrs.<br />
. . . ( 10 0<br />
Cross, Victoria . .<br />
10 6<br />
Guthrie, Anstey.<br />
• 5 0 0<br />
Daveen, Francis . . . . . 0 5 0 H. A. . .<br />
. . . . . ( 10 6<br />
Dale, Miss Nellie . . . . . 0 5 0 H. M. D. .<br />
. . . 2 2 0<br />
Darbishire, Otto .<br />
10 6 Haggard, Mrs. .<br />
Davey, Mrs. E. M.<br />
0 10 6 Halford, F. W. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Dawson, Warrington .<br />
: 0 5 0 Hamilton, Henry .<br />
De Morgan, Wm..<br />
. 1 1 0 Hands, Mrs. Morris<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Desborough, The Right Hon. The rd,<br />
Hargrave, Mrs. Basil (Parry Truscott). 0 5 0<br />
P.C.<br />
10 Harraden, Miss Beatrice<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Dixon, A. F. .<br />
5 0 Harrison Austin . .<br />
2 0 0<br />
Dixon, W. Scarth<br />
5 0 Harrison, Mrs. Darent .<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
Dobson, Austin .<br />
2 0 Hawkes-Cornock, Mrs.<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Dummelow, Rev. J. R.<br />
5 0 Hawkins, Anthony Hope<br />
. 10 0 0<br />
Dunsany, The Lord .<br />
5 0 Heath, Miss E. .<br />
0 5 o<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
Ororo rererererno<br />
.<br />
·<br />
. . .<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 32 (#436) #############################################<br />
<br />
32<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
£<br />
S.<br />
d.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
· · ·<br />
0<br />
Petti<br />
· · ·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
2<br />
2<br />
0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
GE Green Boeroer<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
eter er<br />
.<br />
.<br />
Heath, Miss Helena .<br />
Hecht, Mrs. Arthur .<br />
Heming, Lieut.-Col. D.<br />
Hepburn, Thomas<br />
Hering, H. A. . .<br />
Hichens, Robert . .<br />
Hills, Mrs. Martha<br />
Hitchings, F. N. W. .<br />
Holmes, Miss Eleanor .<br />
Inkster, C. L. .<br />
Inman, Rev. H. T.<br />
J. A. R. : :<br />
J. K. J. .<br />
J. L. W. .<br />
Jacberns, Raymond<br />
Jackson, C. S.<br />
Jacomb, A. E. .<br />
James, Henry .<br />
Jessup, A. E.<br />
Jones, W. Braunston<br />
Jopp, Miss E. A. . .<br />
Keene, Mrs. . .<br />
Kelly, W. P.<br />
Kersey, William H.<br />
Kilmarnock, The Lord.<br />
Kipling, Rudyard<br />
Kitcat, Mrs. .<br />
Lack, H. Lambert<br />
Lambe, J. Laurence<br />
Laws, T. C..<br />
Lewis, T. C.<br />
Lion, Leon M.<br />
Logan, The Rev. Robert<br />
Longe, Miss Julia.<br />
M. M. B. . . .<br />
Mackenzie, Miss H.<br />
Macnaughton-Jones, Dr. H. .<br />
Macpherson, J. F. . .<br />
Malcolm, Mrs. Ian.<br />
“Malet, Lucas”.<br />
Mann, Mrs. Mary E..<br />
Maquarie, Arthur. .<br />
Marchmont, A. W.<br />
Marks, Mrs. Mary .<br />
Marriott, Charles . .<br />
Matheson, Miss Annie.<br />
Middlemass, Miss Jean.<br />
Miniken, Miss Bertha M. M.<br />
Moffatt, Miss B. , .<br />
Montgomery, Miss K. L.<br />
Morrah, H. A. . .<br />
Mulliken, Mrs. ..<br />
Nembhard, Miss M.<br />
Nicholls, F. C. ..<br />
Niven, Frederick .<br />
O'Brien, The Rev. G. E.<br />
Owen, Charles . .<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
. 0 5 0 P.<br />
: : . . . . 0 2<br />
50 Paget, Mrs. Gerald .<br />
. 1 0 0<br />
O Parr, Miss 0. K. . .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
10 6 Pearson, Mrs. Conny.<br />
. 2 20<br />
. 0 10 6 Pendered, Miss Mary L.<br />
. 0 10<br />
Pettigrew, W. F. . .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
0 Phillips-Wooley, Clive .<br />
. 1 1<br />
. 0 5 0 Phillpotts, Eden . . . . . 0 5<br />
5 0 Phipson, Miss Emma .<br />
. 0 5<br />
: 0 5 0 Pickthall, M. W.. .<br />
. 0 10 6<br />
. 0 5 0 Pinero, Sir Arthur .<br />
5 0 Plunkett, G. N., Count<br />
. 05<br />
. 5 0 0 Pope, Miss Jessie<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
O Portman, Lionel . .<br />
• 1 0<br />
0 Prelooker, J.<br />
. 0 5<br />
0 Prideaux, Miss S. T. .<br />
. 0 10<br />
. 0 5 0 Pryor, Francis .<br />
O Rawlings, Burford<br />
· 1 1 0 Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie .<br />
05<br />
· 0 5 0 Reynolds, Mrs. Fred..<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
. 0 5 0 Rhys, Ernest<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
0 Richardson, Mrs. Aubrey<br />
. . . 0 10 6<br />
· 0 10 0 Riley, Miss Josephine .. . . . 0 7 6<br />
: 0 5 0 Roberts, Morley . . . . . 0 10<br />
· 0 10 0 Roe, Mrs. Harcourt .<br />
. 5 0 0 Rorison, Miss E..<br />
05<br />
. 1 1 0 Rossetti, Wm. M.. .<br />
. 0<br />
. 0 10 0 Rumble, Mrs.<br />
1 1 0 Rumbold, the Right Honble. Sir Horace,<br />
0 5 0 Bart., G.C.B., G.C.M.G. .. . 1 1 0<br />
1 1 0 S. F. F. . . . . .<br />
O S. M. , .<br />
5 0 Sabatini, Rafael<br />
0 5 0 Saies, Mrs. .<br />
6 Salmond, Mrs. M. A. C.<br />
Salwey, Reginald E.<br />
0 Sanders, Miss E. K.<br />
10 0 Scott, G. Forrester<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
0 Scott, Mrs. C. .<br />
: 0<br />
0 Seaman, Owen .<br />
: 1<br />
0 10 6 Sedgwick, W.<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
6 Seton-Karr, H. W.<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
0 5 0 Shaw, Mrs. Bernard<br />
.<br />
. 3 3<br />
5 0 Shepherd, George H. ..<br />
· 0 10 0 Shera, Miss B. M.<br />
: 0 5<br />
. 0 5 0 Sherwood, Miss A. Curtis<br />
0 5 0 Shipley, Miss Mary . .<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
1 0 0 Simpson, W. J.<br />
. 0 5 0 Sinclair, Miss May<br />
2 2 0<br />
5 0 Skrine, Mrs. John H.<br />
. ( 10 0<br />
. 0 10 6 Slaughter, Miss F. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
. 0 5 0 Smith, Bertram .<br />
: 5 0 0<br />
: 0 5 0 Smith, Miss M. C.<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
· 0 5 0 Smythe, Alfred .<br />
. . . . 0 5 0<br />
. 0 5 0 Somers, John<br />
. . . . 0 5 0<br />
. 0 10 0 Somerville, E. E.<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
. 0 5 0 Speed, Lancelot .<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
er oor oor er er er er<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
o noso er erwer er en<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
•<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
- ·<br />
•<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
..<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
..<br />
.<br />
0<br />
0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
..<br />
Serverer Boaner er en or o co em<br />
.<br />
· · ·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.....si<br />
..<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
V<br />
·<br />
.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 33 (#437) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
33<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
•<br />
0<br />
·<br />
.<br />
ܟܨ ܨ ܝܝܘܕ ܝܙess<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
0<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
ܝܕ ܕܨ ܕܕܨ<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
er OOOOH<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
£ . d.<br />
Sproston, Samuel, Junr.<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Stanton, Miss H. M. E.<br />
. . 0 5 0<br />
Stawell, Mrs. Rudolf .<br />
: 0<br />
Steel, Richard . .<br />
. 0<br />
Stein, M. A. . .<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
Steveni, W. Barnes<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Stevenson, Mrs. M. E..<br />
0 5 0<br />
Stott, M. D. . .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Sullivan, Herbert<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Summers, J.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Sutherland, Her Grace The Duchess of. 2 2 0<br />
Sutro, Alfred ..<br />
2 0<br />
Tearle, Christian .<br />
O<br />
Teignmouth-Shore, The Rev. Canon . 1 1 0<br />
Thorburn, W. M.<br />
0<br />
Thorn, Ismay :<br />
Todd, Margaret, M.D.<br />
Toynbee, William<br />
10<br />
Trevelyan, G. M..<br />
Trevor, Major Philip<br />
Truman, Miss Olivia<br />
0 10 0<br />
Tuckett, F. F. .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Turner, G. F. .<br />
Ö<br />
Twycross, Miss M.<br />
0<br />
Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor<br />
0 10 0<br />
V.S.<br />
0<br />
Vachell, H.<br />
0 0<br />
Vacher, Francis<br />
. 1 i 0<br />
Vernede, R. E. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Voynich, Mrs. E. L. .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Voysey, The Rev. Charles .<br />
10 0<br />
Ward, Mrs. Humphry.<br />
· 10 0 0<br />
Warden, Madame Gertrude .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Watt, A. P.. ..<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Weaver, Mrs. Baillie<br />
0 10 0<br />
Wentworth, Patricia (Mrs. G. F. Dillon)<br />
lon) 1 1 0<br />
Westrup, Miss Margaret .<br />
• 0 5 0<br />
Weyman, Stanley J. .<br />
0 O<br />
Whishaw, Mrs. Bernhard . . . 0 5 0<br />
Wicks, Mark<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
Willard, Mrs.<br />
. 0 10 6<br />
Wills, The Rev. Freeman<br />
Winchilsea and Nottingham,<br />
Countess of .<br />
. . . . . • 1 0 0<br />
Woods, Miss Mary A. .<br />
5 0<br />
Woodward, Miss Ida .<br />
Wright, E. Fondi . . . . . 5 0.<br />
Yolland, Miss E. . .<br />
Young, Capt. Geo. F., C.B. .<br />
Young, W. Wellington . . . 0 5 0<br />
The total number of annual subscribers, there-<br />
fore, out of a membership of over 2,000, amounts<br />
to 284 ; the total amount of subscriptions to<br />
£231 14s. 6d.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
THE first meeting of the committee after the<br />
long vacation took place at the offices of the<br />
society on Monday, October 2nd.<br />
The first business before the meeting was the<br />
election of members and associates. The committee<br />
are pleased to report that the number of elections<br />
is well maintained ; 67 were elected at this meeting,<br />
bringing the total elections for the year up to 221.<br />
The names of those elected will be found on<br />
another page. The committee report, with regret,<br />
7 resignations, bringing the total resignations<br />
to 66.<br />
The solicitor of the society attended and reported<br />
the work done during the past three months. An<br />
important case of infringement of copyright,<br />
mentioned in last month's Author, has been settled,<br />
the defendant undertaking to pay the damages<br />
demanded by the plaintiff and costs. A case<br />
relating to the bankruptcy of an agent, also<br />
reported in the last issue of The Author, is pro-<br />
gressing, as the examination of one of the parties<br />
concerned will take place during the month. The<br />
solicitor also reported a few County Court cases<br />
which had been settled, and three matters in which<br />
it had been necessary to issue summonses, the<br />
summonses being returnable in October. In one<br />
case in which the society had undertaken to act for<br />
a member, matters had been somewhat delayed<br />
owing to the course the plaintiff had thought fit to<br />
adopt independently of the society's solicitor. The<br />
committee decided it would be impossible to<br />
continue to act if the member failed to put<br />
thorough confidence in the society, and instructed<br />
the solicitor to explain the position in order that he<br />
might be able to conclude the negotiations. A<br />
case of account would, the solicitor explained, be<br />
pressed when the defendant returned to London.<br />
He was at present travelling and nothing could be<br />
done.<br />
A case was mentioned in the July issue of The<br />
Author, in which the plaintiff's claim was based,<br />
not on infringement of copyright, but on breach of<br />
confidence. The solicitor had, during the vacation,<br />
gone into the matter very carefully, had obtained<br />
full evidence and counsel's opinion. He reported<br />
to the committee the result of the steps he had<br />
taken, but the committee decided, after careful<br />
consideration, that it was not a case that the<br />
society could pursue.<br />
The solicitor also reported that the society had<br />
advised on sundry cases during the vacation, and<br />
had recovered moneys in three or four cases without<br />
the necessity of taking out summonses or issuing<br />
writs.<br />
There were certain cases of dramatic piracy<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
er er or ero<br />
·<br />
·<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 34 (#438) #############################################<br />
<br />
34<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
brought forward at the meeting, which the com- council meeting was settled, together with a report<br />
mittee had decided to take steps to prevent. It is of the Committee of Management's action on the<br />
impossible, at present, to say anything more about Copyright Bill to be laid before that body at their<br />
these cases, as to do so would be likely to prejudice meeting. Formal notice will be sent to the council,<br />
the society's chances of success.<br />
together with a copy of the report, in due course.<br />
The secretary then reported the cases which were The date of the dinner was provisionally settled,<br />
under dispute in different countries.<br />
and the secretary was instructed to make the usual<br />
The first was an action taken on behalf of a arrangements. Notice of the dinner will be sent<br />
member against a publisher in Berlin for breach of round to all members at a later date.<br />
contract. He reported that the opinion of the The secretary then reported he had been enquiring<br />
society's German lawyer had been obtained, and as whether it would be possible to insure members of<br />
the opinion was favourable the matter had been the society—(1) against loss owing to non-payment<br />
pursued with the sanction of the chairman. Another from magazine editors and publishers, and (2)<br />
case, in Chicago, a claim for money due for an against the risks of action for libel. The issues<br />
article, had been settled and the money paid. A were fully discussed, and the matter was adjourned<br />
case of infringement of copyright, which had been till the next meeting, to enable the secretary to<br />
going on for some time in the Swiss Courts, had obtain further details of the schemes proposed.<br />
been carried considerably further. In the first The consideration of the settlement of the<br />
instance judgment had been delivered against the agreement between author and agent, owing to the<br />
member of the society, but application had been time occupied by other matters before the com-<br />
made by the society's lawyer to have the judgment mittee, had also to be adjourned.<br />
set aside, and at the time the result of the appli- The committee have to thank Mr. Horace J.<br />
cation was not known. A question dealing with Simpson and Mr. W. Victor Cook for donations to<br />
the infringement of a story by cinematograph per- the capital fund of the society.<br />
formance in America was fully discussed, and the<br />
secretary was instructed to ascertain the exact steps<br />
to secure the member's title to his property in the<br />
United States, as any flaw in his title would<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
immediately upset his claim ; and it was essential<br />
the society's lawyers should have clear evidence<br />
A MEETING of the Pension Fund Committee was<br />
before any action was commenced. The secretary<br />
held at the offices of the society on Friday,<br />
also reported that during the vacation the chairman<br />
October 13th. It was decided, after careful con-<br />
sideration, to send out a circular to members of the<br />
had authorised investigation by an accountant of a<br />
publisher's books, but although this investigation<br />
society, appealing for fresh support for the fund.<br />
was in progress, the accountant's report had not yet<br />
The form of the circular was carefully considered<br />
been received.<br />
and settled, and will be posted to members during<br />
The following matters were also discussed :-<br />
the month of November.<br />
In the July issue of The Author an article<br />
appeared on the subject of the publication of the<br />
Roll of the Society of Authors. In answer to the<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
request, contained in that article, for expressions of<br />
opinion as to the advisability of publishing a roll A MEETING of the Copyright Sub-Committee<br />
of membership, only some half a dozen letters was held on Friday, October 13th, to consider an<br />
had been received. The committee decided to agreement which had been laid before them by a<br />
place the matter before the council at their next firm of musical composers.<br />
meeting, when it would be discussed.<br />
It will be remembered that in the spring of 1910<br />
The present position of the Copyright Bill was Messrs. Stainer & Bell, desiring to meet those com-<br />
also discussed by the committee, and a letter posers who were members of the society, and to<br />
received from Mr. E. J. MacGillivray was read, arrange a more equitable form of contract than that<br />
relating to various important points which it might in common use in the music publishing trade, sub-<br />
be desirable to put forward when the Bill came before mitted an agreement which, after certain alterations,<br />
the House of Lords. The committee approved was approved by the Copyright Sub-Committee and<br />
Mr. MacGillivray's suggestions, and instructed the by the Committee of Management. This agreement<br />
secretary to proceed along the lines indicated. was printed in full in the May issue of The Author<br />
The question of Canadian copyright was next of that year.<br />
referred to, as the position had been altered owing The present agreement, submitted to the sub-<br />
to the recent Canadian elections and the defeat of committee with a similar object in view, has been<br />
Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Government. The date of the considered clause by clause, and it is hoped, with<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 35 (#439) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
35<br />
the consent of the publishers, to publish it in an In a case of piracy of dramatic pieces by illegal<br />
early issue of The Author. At the present time duplication of MS. copies, involving the property<br />
nothing further can be said save that it is a con- of three or four members of the society, the Dramatic<br />
siderable advance on the form of contract issued by Committee confirmed the action which had been<br />
many of the largest music publishing houses in taken by the society's solicitors during the<br />
London.<br />
vacation.<br />
Finally, the sub-committee considered the<br />
DRANATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
managerial treaty. The secretary read to the<br />
committee the clauses which had been passed<br />
The first meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com- already, and put before them a redraft of those<br />
mittee after the vacation was held at the offices of clauses which remained for discussion. Several<br />
the society on Friday, October 20, at 3 o'clock. fresh clauses were put forward, and it was decided<br />
When the minutes of the previous meeting had to have these printed, ready for the consideration<br />
been read and signed, the secretary reported the of a special meeting of the sub-committee when the<br />
position of the Copyright Bill in England and the treaty was to be settled. The line of conduct to be<br />
Copyright Bill in Canada.<br />
adopted by the sub-committee when the treaty was<br />
The next question before the sub-committee ready for negotiation was also discussed, and it is<br />
was the appointment of agents in the Colonies and hoped to be able to obtain the support of the<br />
in America. They again took into consideration a great majority of the dramatic authors of the<br />
proposition put forward by an American lawyer, society to the steps contemplated by the sub-<br />
but came to the conclusion, after careful considera- committee.<br />
tion, that the sum he asked for looking after the<br />
rights of dramatists who were members of the<br />
society was prohibitive. The sub-committee had<br />
Cases.<br />
to consider, first, the number of English dramatists ALTHOUGH the chronicle of the monthly list of<br />
whose plays are acted in America, and from these cases in the magazine may prove a weariness of<br />
the number whose works would have to be pro- the flesh to some of our readers, yet it is essential<br />
tected by their own effort, and not through the that such a chronicle should be made in order that<br />
agency of the theatrical manager who held the new members may see the work of the society and<br />
licence. From the letter of the American corre- old members be convinced of its continued activity.<br />
spondent it appeared that he would officially During the past month nineteen cases have gone<br />
represent the American managers, so that the through the secretary's hands. Of these three<br />
number of English dramatists unprotected would were for accounts. One has been satisfactorily<br />
be very small.<br />
settled, one is in course of negotiation (and by<br />
An offer submitted to the sub-committee from this is meant that the delinquent bas acknowledged<br />
an agent in India they were also unable to accept. the secretary's letter and is coming to terms), and<br />
In regard to the appointment of an agent in South one has only recently come to the office. There<br />
Africa they instructed the secretary to inquire have been six claims for the return of MSS., in<br />
whether the agent would be ready to accept a power four of which the MSS. have been recovered and<br />
of attorney, and to conduct the various cases on returned to their owners, while the two last cases<br />
the understanding that his legal expenses should be have only just reached the office. Of six claims for<br />
a first charge on any soms he recovered by way of money two have had to go into the solicitors' bands<br />
damages; the author and the society being, except for collection, three are in the course of satisfactory<br />
under special contract, in no way responsible.<br />
settlement, and one has only recently come to hand.<br />
The Sketch question was further considered, If the three mentioned are not settled through the<br />
Mr. Cecil Raleigh making a full report of the intervention of the society during the course of the<br />
negotiations that had been carried on and were month they will be transferred to the society's<br />
pending. Finally, a letter to the Lord Chamberlain solicitors. Two complicated questions as to the<br />
was settled, and the secretary was instructed to construction of agreements have had to be handed<br />
forward it at the earliest possible moment.<br />
over to the society's solicitors, and it is hoped that<br />
The secretary reported the dramatic cases which they will be satisfactorily settled. Two questions<br />
the society had taken in hand during the vacation have arisen respecting the property in titles. One<br />
There were three cases for recovery of fees due to has been settled and the other is in course of<br />
dramatists. One had been settled, and the other negotiation. Author's appear to have but a very<br />
two were being carried on. One case of alleged vague idea as to the nature of the property in<br />
breach of confidence the Committee of Management, book titles. A great many of them appear to<br />
after careful consideration, decided they could not think that a title is copyright. Speaking generally,<br />
support. The sub-committee confirmed this action, this is not so. Recently more complaints thau<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 36 (#440) #############################################<br />
<br />
36<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
W<br />
usual have come to the office in respect to similarity Evans, Frank Gwynne The Tower House,<br />
of title ; but in these matters the secretary has<br />
Woodchester,<br />
had to advise the members concerned that no<br />
Stroud.<br />
property existed.<br />
Enriquez, C. M. . . Barmu, N.-W. Fron-<br />
Three cases remain over from former months.<br />
tier Province, India.<br />
The others have either been placed in the bands Farnol, Jeffery. . . 71, Eltham Road,<br />
of the society's solicitors or have been brought to<br />
Lee, S.E.<br />
a conclusion. One case is an infringement of Fontenay, Charles . . Grand Hotel d'Italia,<br />
copyright in a foreign country ; one is a question<br />
Ruta, nr. Genoa.<br />
arising on an agent's agreement, and a settlement Footner, Hulbert . . 272, West Jackson<br />
will, no doubt, be arranged ; while the last is a<br />
Street, Hamilton,<br />
question of accounts and money. Here there bas<br />
Canada.<br />
been considerable correspondence, and if a satis- Foreman, Stephen . . 3, Redclyffe, Western<br />
factory answer does not come to band shortly the<br />
Road, Cork.<br />
matter will have to be placed in the hands of the Gould, Gerald . . . 54, St. Mary's Man-<br />
society's solicitors.<br />
sions, Paddington,<br />
Hannay, James 0. (George Westport, co. Mayo.<br />
October Elections.<br />
A. Birmingham)<br />
Abraham, J. Johnston . 144, Queen's Road, W. Harnett, St. Clair . . 15, Pelham Place,<br />
Antcliffe, Herbert . . 136, Crookesmoor<br />
S.W.<br />
Road, Sheffield. Heath, Sidney . . . 5, Victoria Avenue,<br />
Batt, Miss Ethel Dumaresq Woodleigh, Fleet,<br />
Upwey, Dorchester.<br />
R.S.O., Hampshire. Heath, J. St. George . Woodbrooke Settle-<br />
Beale, Mrs. Mary . . 2, Whitehall Court,<br />
ment, Selby Oak,<br />
S.W.<br />
Birmingham.<br />
Bell, Margaret C. . . Old Headington, Hopkins, Capt. L. E., R.E. Junior United Ser-<br />
Oxford.<br />
vice Club, S.W.<br />
Beresford, J. D.<br />
Hughes, Miss M. L. V. Woolston Vicarage,<br />
Breakell, Mary L. . . c/o Studio, 15, Rectory<br />
Southampton.<br />
Chambers, Church James, G. Kingston<br />
Street, Chelsea, S.W. Keith, Gerald . . . 18, Southampton<br />
Broster, Miss D. K. . . 22, Farndon Road,<br />
Street, Holborn,<br />
Oxford.<br />
W.C.<br />
Bungey, E. Newton . . Dunster Lodge, New Kenny,Mrs. Louise M. Stac- Sunnymount, Lime-<br />
Barnet, Herts.<br />
poole<br />
rick,<br />
Chamberlayne, Effie . Cranbury Park, Hants. King, Clifford<br />
. Mozart Villa, Port<br />
Clarke, Laurence . . 91, Church Row,<br />
Hall Road, Brigh-<br />
Hampstead.<br />
ton.<br />
Colum, Padriac . . 2, Frankfort Place, MacBride, MacKenzie . 36, Romford Road,<br />
Upper Rathmines,<br />
Stratford, Essex.<br />
Dublin.<br />
MacKinder, H. J., M.P.<br />
Craven, Arthur Scott . Hereward House, West- MacKirdy, Mrs. Archibald. Ha ha t - Munzil,<br />
ward Ho!N. Devon.<br />
Reigate, Surrey.<br />
Creed, The Hon. J. Mildred, (Member Legislative Martin, Edgar Walford . 72, Church Road,<br />
M.L.C.<br />
Council, N.S.W.),<br />
Moseley, Birming-<br />
Sydney, N.S.W.,<br />
ham.<br />
Australia.<br />
Mayo, Miss Margaret . 1672, Broadway, New<br />
d'Anethan, Baroness. . Park Gates Club,<br />
York City, U.S.A.<br />
Grosvenor Crescent Moffat, Graham . . 130, Elgin Avenue,<br />
S.W.<br />
Maida Vale, W.<br />
d'Arcy, Ella.<br />
Mignon-Gloria, Nevada, Greville Lodge, 33,<br />
Downer, The Rev. Arthur Somerden, Groom-<br />
Greville Road, Maida<br />
J. S.<br />
bridge, Kent.<br />
Vale, W.<br />
Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt 20, Vesey Street, New Moore Mrs. Stuart (Evelyn 50, Campden Hill,<br />
York, N.Y.<br />
Underhill) .<br />
· Square, W.<br />
Duffy, George Gavan 22, Basinghall Street, Moss-Blundell, A. S. · Crabwood, Sparsholt,<br />
E.C.<br />
Winchester.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 37 (#441) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
37<br />
Murdoch, Gladys H. Buckhurst, Woking- THE ELEMENTS OF British FORESTRY. A Handbook for<br />
bam.<br />
Forest Apprentices and Students of Forestry. By JOHN<br />
NISBET. 7} x 5. 345 pp. Blackwood. 58. 60. n.<br />
Nicholls, Henry J. . . 269, Longmoor Lane,<br />
Liverpool.<br />
ART.<br />
Nixon, Miss Marion . 6, Wellclose Mount, THE CONSOLATIONS OF A CRITIC. By C. LEWIS HIND.<br />
Leeds.<br />
83 X 51. 95 pp. Black. 35. 6d. n.<br />
Parkes, Kineton . . Barnfields, Leek,<br />
ONE HUNDRED POPULAR PICTURES (COLOURED REPRO-<br />
DUCTIONS). With an Introduction by M. H. SPIEL-<br />
Staffs.<br />
MANN, and Notes by ARTHUR FISH. 15 X 10..<br />
Peacock, Mrs. F. M. , Liskeen, Fortwilliam Cassell. 12s.<br />
Park, Belfast. THE IDEALS OF INDIAN ART. By E. B. HAVELL.<br />
Phelps, Sydney Katharine. 8, Ormonde Mansions,<br />
104 x 74. 188 pp. Murray. 158. n.<br />
PERUGINO. By EDWARD HUTTON. (The Popular Library<br />
100A, Southampton of Art.) 6 X 4. 200 pp. Duckworth. 18. n.<br />
Row, W.C.<br />
Pickering, James Edwin . 7, Montague Street,<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
Russell Square, THE SISTERS OF LADY JANE GREY, AND THEIR WICKED<br />
W.C.<br />
GRANDFATHER, By RICHARD DAVEY. 9 X 54. 313 pp.<br />
Chapman & Hall. 128. 60. n.<br />
Rice-Keller, Mrs. Inez . Lyceum Club, 128,<br />
THE FAIR LADIES OF HAMPTON COURT. By CLARE<br />
Piccadilly, W.<br />
JERROLD. 9 X 53. 320 pp. John Long. 128. 6d. n.<br />
Robinson, Lennox<br />
Abbey Theatre.Dublin FIVE ENGLISH CONSORTS OF FOREIGN PRINCES. By IDA<br />
Shute, Mrs. Cameron. . 28, Cheyne Walk, S.W.<br />
WOODWARD. 271 pp. Methuen. 12s. 6d. n.<br />
AUTOBIOGRAPHIC MEMOIRS. By FREDERIC HARRISON,<br />
Slayton, P. E. . .<br />
D.C.L., Litt. D., LL.D. Two volumes. 97 53.<br />
Smart, Mrs. Christabel Irwin Drynoch Lodge, Tain, 405 + 358 pp. Macmillan. 308. n.<br />
N.B.<br />
SIR WALTER RALEIGH. By JOHN BUCHAN. 87 x 67.<br />
Stead, William Force . 22, Low Pavement,<br />
236 pp. Nelson. 38. 6d.<br />
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE. By FRANK HAMEL. 9 x 51.<br />
Nottingham.<br />
389 pp. Stanley Paul. 168. n.<br />
Stewart, Colin MacDougall Clarendon Grove, GEORGE MEREDITH: His LIFE AND ART IN ANECDOTE<br />
(Colin Mac Dougall) Jersey, C.I.<br />
AND CRITICISM. By J. A. HAMMERTON. A new and<br />
revised edition. With 55 illustrations. 9 x 6.<br />
Tambyah, T. Isaac. . Gunatilleke Walawa,<br />
391 pp.<br />
Edinburgh : Grant. 12s. 6d. n.<br />
Skinner's Road<br />
South, Colombo.<br />
CLASSICAL.<br />
Townley, Miss Gladys M., Fulbourne Manor, THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE. Translated from the Greek<br />
Cambs.<br />
into English and from Arabic into Latin. With revised<br />
Vynne, Miss Nora. . 288, King's Road, text, introduction, &c., by D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, Laudian<br />
Chelsea. S.W.<br />
Professor of Arabic in the University of Oxford. 9 x 6.<br />
336 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 108. 6d. n.<br />
Walmsley, Luke S. . Deanley, Marine<br />
Drive, Fairhaven,<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Lytham.<br />
THE HONEYMOON: A COMEDY IN THREE ACTS. By<br />
Williams, Mrs. Antonia R. Queen Anne's Man ARNOLD BENNETT. 53 x 41. 121 pp. Methuen.<br />
sions, S.W.<br />
28. n.<br />
THE BLUE BIRD. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. By MAURICE<br />
Winter, C. Gordon . .<br />
MAETERLINCK. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA<br />
DE MATTOS. Illustrated in Colour by F. CAYLEY<br />
ROBINSON. 103 x 71. 211 pp. Methuen. 218. n.<br />
EXPERIMENTS IN PLAY WRITING. In Verse and Prose.<br />
By J. L. LAMBE. 8 X 5.. 379 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
TALKS WITH CHILDREN ABOUT THEMSELVES. By AMY<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
B. BARNARD. With frontispiece in colour by ELIZABETH<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
EARNSHAW. Cassell & Co. 38. 60, n.<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 />
ENGINEERING.<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
SMOKE PREVENTION AND FUEL ECONOMY. Based on the<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
German work of E. Schmatolla. By W. H. BOOTH, F.G.S.,<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
and J. B. C. KERSHAW. Second edition, revised and<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
enlarged. 89 x 51. 231 pp. Constable. 68. n.<br />
accurate.<br />
AGRICULTURE.<br />
FICTION.<br />
THE SUGAR BEET: SOME FACTS AND SOME ILLUSIONS. THE SONG OF RENNY. By MAURICE HEWLETT. 7} 5.<br />
A Study in Rural Thereapeutics. By “ HOME COUNTIES," 423 pp. Macmillan. 6s.<br />
(J. W. ROBERTSON SCOTT). 78 X 5. 424 pp, Cox. THE FRUITFUL VINE. By ROBERT HICHENS. 71 x 5.<br />
68. n.<br />
570 pp. Fisher Unwin. 68.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 38 (#442) #############################################<br />
<br />
38<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
GOD AND THE King. By MARJORIE BOWEN. 78 X 5. THE SMUGGLERS. The Odyssey of Zipporah Katti. Being<br />
376 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
some Chronicles of the last Raiders of Solway. By<br />
THANKS TO SANDERSON. By W. PETT RIDGE. 78 X 5. S. R. CROCKETT. 74 x 5. 320 pp. Hodder & Stoughton,<br />
308 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
68.<br />
THE TAMING OF JOHN BLUNT. By ALFRED OLLIVANT. FELLOW PRISONERS. By R. K. WEEKES. 7 X 44.<br />
73 x 5.<br />
314 pp. Alston Rivers. 6s.<br />
POLLYOOLY. By EDGAR JEPSON. 71 x 5. 297 pp. THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR. By FLORENCE L.<br />
Mills and Boon. 68.<br />
BARCLAY. 73 x 5. 426 pp. Putnams. 68.<br />
CAPTIVITY. By Roy HORNIMAN. 78 X 5. 316 pp. ONE OF THE FAMILY. By KEBLE HOWARD. 78 x 5.<br />
Methuen. 68.<br />
313 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
EVERY DOG HIS DAY. By HaroLD AVERY. 73 * 5. THE ALTAR OF MOLOCH. By KINETON PARKES. 71x41.<br />
319 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
326 pp. Ouseley. 68.<br />
DOUBLE FOUR. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. 77 x 5. THE WOOING OF MARTHA. By C. GUISE MITFORD.<br />
318 pp. Cassell. 68.<br />
73 x 5. 316 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 68.<br />
CARLTON'S WIFE. By EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS. VILLA RUBEIN AND OTHER STORIES. By JOHN GALS-<br />
78 X 5, 320 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s.<br />
worthy. 71 X 5. 398 pp. Duckworth. 28. 6d. n,<br />
THE POISON OF TONGUES. By M. E. CARR. (Nelson MOTLEY AND T'INSEL. By John K. PROTHERO. 271 pp.<br />
Library.) 61 x 41. 288 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
Stephen Swift.<br />
THE INFIDEL. A Story of the Great Revival. By M. E. THE TUPPENNY Box. By COLIN FITZGERALD. 73 x 5.<br />
BRADDON. 73 X 5. 341 pp. Simpkin, Marshall. 256 pp. Henry J. Drane. 6s.<br />
28. 6d.<br />
THE NOTORIOUS Miss LISLE. By MRS. BAILLIE<br />
HISTORY.<br />
REYNOLDS. 74 x 5. 308 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68. GARIBALDI AND THE MAKING OF ITALY. By G. M.<br />
ADRIAN SAVAQE. By LUCAS MALET. 74 X 5. 432 pp. TREVELYAN. 9 x 6. 390 pp. Longmans. 78. 6d. n.<br />
Hutchinson. 68.<br />
SHIP'S COMPANY. By W. W. JACOBS. 78 X 5. 272 pp.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 38. 6d.<br />
SYLVIA'S TRAVELS. BY CONSTANCE ARMFIELD:<br />
THE CHALLENGE. By HAROLD BEGBIE. 78 X 5. Illustrated by MAXWELL ARMFIELD. 84 X 61. - 255 pp.<br />
304 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
Dent. 68.<br />
THE EALING MIRACLE. By HORACE W. C. NEWTE. ROLF IN THE Woods. Adventures of a Boy Scout with<br />
78 x 51. 414 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
Indian Quonab and Little Dog Skookum. By E. THOM-<br />
The FAIR IRISH." By J. H. MCCARTHY. 8 x 5. 344 pp. SON SETON. 87 X 54. 437 pp. Constable. 68. n.<br />
Hurst & Blackett. 6s.<br />
ADVENTURES AMONG HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS. By<br />
THE BRACKNELLS : A FAMILY CHRONICLE. By FORREST ERNEST YOUNG. 8 x 52. 318 pp. Seeley, Service &<br />
REID. 74 x 5. 304 pp. Arnold. 6s.<br />
Co. 58. n.<br />
TROUBLED WATERS. By L. COPE CORNFORD. 73 x 5. MOTHER CAREY. By KATE DOUGLAS WIGgIx. 77 x 5.<br />
328 pp. Blackwood. 68.<br />
319 pp. Hodder & Stoughton, 68.<br />
DAISY THE Minx. A Diversion. By MARY L. PENDERED. HANS ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES. Translated by H.<br />
77 X 5. 269 pp. Ham, Smith. 6s.<br />
OSKAR SOMMER. With 24 pictures in colour by CECILE<br />
BARBARA'S LOVE STORY. By EFFIE ADELAIDE Row.<br />
WALTON. 9 X 61. 430 pp. Jack. 78. 6d. n.<br />
LANDS. 74 X 5. 302 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. BLACK MAN'S ROCK: A STORY OF THE BASUTO WAR<br />
38. 60.<br />
(1879—81). By J. MACKIE. 78 X 5. 242 pp. Nisbet.<br />
THE OUTCRY. By HENRY JAMES. 78 x 5. 311 pp. 23. 6d.<br />
Methuen. 68.<br />
MORE ABOUT THE TWINS IN CEYLON. By BELLA SIDNEY<br />
JIM Davis. By JOHN MASEFIELD. 73 X 5. 242 pp. WOOLF. 7 X 54. 131 pp. Duckworth. 18. 6d. n.<br />
Wells Gardner. 68.<br />
THE MOODS or DELPHINE. By L. E. TIDDEMAN, 8 X 51.<br />
DAN RUSSELL THE Fox. By E. (E. SOMERVILLE AND<br />
281 pp. R. T. S. 28.<br />
MARTIN Ross. 78 x 5. 340 pp. Methuen. 68. THE FORTUNES OF JOYCE. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. Jarrold.<br />
IN THE DAYS OF SERFDOM, AND OTHER STORIES. By 28. 6.<br />
LEO TOLSTOY. Translated by L. & A. MAUDE. 8 x 51. MOLLY'S DECISION. By L. E. TIDDEMAN. S.P.C.K.<br />
292 pp. Constable. 6s.<br />
As FLOWS THE RIVER. By MRS. FRED REYNOLDS. NANCY AND HER COUSINS. By L. E. TIDDEMAN.<br />
73 X 5. 311 pp. Chapman & Hall. 6s.<br />
S.P.C.K. 18. 6d.<br />
JOHN CHRISTOPHER IN PARIS. By ROMAIN ROLLAND. ADVENTURES AMONGST HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS. By<br />
Translated by GILBERT CANNAN. 73 x 5. 468 pp. ERNEST YOUNG, B.Sc., F.R.G.S. Seeley & Co. 58.<br />
Heinemann. 68.<br />
AN EARLY VICTORIAN HEROINE : THE STORY OF<br />
THE KEEPERS OF THE GATE. By SYDNEY C. GRIER. HARRIETTE MCDOUGALL. By M. BRAMSTON, S.P.C.K.<br />
74 x 5. 325 pp. Blackwood, 68.<br />
18. 60.<br />
IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE. By A. W. MARCHMONT. EMPIRES OF THE OLD WORLD, TO THE FALL OF ROME.<br />
7 x 5. 352 pp. Ward, Lock. 68.<br />
By M. BRAMSTON. Illustrated. Blackie. 38. 6d.<br />
COMPANY FOR GEORGE By R. S. WARREN BELL.<br />
7+ X 44. 254 pp. Greening. 18.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
LIKENESS. By EDITH DART. 7* X 5. 298 pp. Mills & MAURICE MAETERLINCK. By EDWARD THOMAS, 73 x 5.<br />
Boon. 68.<br />
333 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
THE OTHER GIRL. By CHARLES GARVICE. 74 x 5. FIRST AND LAST. By HILAIRE BELLOC. 63 X 4. 311 pp.<br />
338 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
Methuen. 58.<br />
LOVE, THE INTRUDER. By HELEN H. WATSON. 84 X 6. THE HUMOUR OF THE UNDERMAN AND OTHER ESSAYS.<br />
191 pp. (Cheap Reprint.) “ Leisure Hour" Library. By FRANCIS GRIERSON. 7 X 41. 204 pp. Swift.<br />
6d.<br />
38. 6d. n.<br />
MATED. By ISABEL SMITH. Digby, Long & Co. 68.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE COURTIER STOOPS. By J. H. YOXALL 7 X 5. THE FEAST OF CHRISTMAS. By EDITH A. CHARTER.<br />
366 pp. Smith, Elder. 68.<br />
71 pp. Elliot Stock.<br />
28.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 39 (#443) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
39<br />
BYWAYS OF GHOST-LAND. By E. O'DONNELL. 9 x 51. THE STORY OF COVENTRY. By MARY DORMER-HARRIS.<br />
246 pp. Rider. 38, 6d. n.<br />
Illustrated by A. CHANLER. 63 X 41. 356 pp.<br />
THE SIKH RELIGION : Its GURUS, SACRED WRITINGS, (Mediæval Towns.) Dent. 48. 60, n.<br />
AND AUTHORS. By MAX ARTHUR MACAULIFFE. In<br />
Six Volumes. Oxford : Clarendon Press, London :<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
Henry Frowde. 31. 38. n.<br />
A WANDERER IN PARIS. By E. V. LUCAS. (Seventh<br />
edition.) 63 X 41. 271 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY<br />
THE CHARM OF INDIA. An Anthology. Edited by CLAUD<br />
THE LIFE AND LOVE OF THE INSECT. By J. HENRI F IELD. 7 X 41. 370 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 38. 6d. n.<br />
FABRE. Translated by A. TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS.<br />
THE ROMANCE OF THE RHINE. By C. MARRIOTT.<br />
8 x 57. 262 pp. Black. 58. n.<br />
9 x 53. 313 pp. Methuen. 108. 6d. n.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H. MODERN Paris. Some Sidelights on its Inner Life. By<br />
BARRETT-HAMILTON. Part VIII. 10 x 63. 73–120.<br />
R. H. SHERARD. 9 x 51. 360 pp. Werner Laurie.<br />
Gurney & Jackson. 2s. 6d. n.<br />
128. 6d. n.<br />
PILGRIMS TO THE ISLES OF PENANCE : ORCHID GATHER-<br />
NAVAL.<br />
ING IN THE EAST. By MRS. TALBOT CLIFTON.<br />
FORE AND AFT. The Story of the Fore and aft Rig from<br />
9 X 54. 320 pp. JOHN LONG. 128. 6d. n.<br />
Two VISITS TO DENMARK, 1872, 1879. By EDMUND<br />
the Earlicst Times to the Present Day. By E. KEBLE<br />
GOSSE. Smith, Elder. 78. 6d. n.<br />
CHATTERTON. 98 x 7. 347 pp. Seeley, Service.<br />
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. By MAURICE BARING. 9 x 51.<br />
168. n.<br />
366 pp. Methuen. 158. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
IN THE HEART OF THE VOSGES AND OTHER SKETCHES :<br />
NEW POEMs. By KATHARINE TYNAN. 71 X 43. 67 pp. BY A “DEVIOUS TRAVELLER." By M. BETHAM<br />
Sidgwick & Jackson. 38. 6d. n.<br />
EDWARDS. 9 X 54. 327 pp. Chapman & Hall.<br />
THE CITY OF THE SOUL. By LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS. 108. 6d. n.<br />
Third edition. 73 x 5. 133 pp. Lane. 55. n.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
AFTERGLOW. By MRS. ALFRED BALDWIN. 7 X 44. CREED AND THE CREEDS. The Function in Religion. By<br />
112 pp. Methuen. 38. 6d. n.<br />
John HUNTLEY SKRINE. 9 x 57. 223 pp. Longmans.<br />
CANNED CLASSICS, AND OTHER VERSES. By Captain<br />
78. 6d. n.<br />
HARRY GRAHAM. 10 X 73. 144 pp. Mills & Boon. SERMONS ON SOCIAL SUBJECTS. Arranged and edited by<br />
38. 6d. n.<br />
the Rev. PERCY DEARMER, D.D. 71 X 5. 90 pp. R.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
Scott. 28. n.<br />
TROLLOPE'S PHINEAS FINN, THE IRISH MEMBER. Two THE PHILOCALIA OF ORIGEN. A Compilation of Selected<br />
Volumes. 364 + 366 pp. PHINEAS REDUX. Two Passages from Origen's Works, made by St. Gregory of<br />
Volumes. 367 + 360 pp. With an Introduction by Nazianzus and St. Basil of Cæsarea. Translated into<br />
FREDERIC HARRISON. 74 X 43. Bell. 38.6d. n. each. English by the Rev. GEORGE LEWIS, Rector of Icomb,<br />
THE VULGATE VERSION OF THE ARTHURIAN ROMANCES. Gloucestershire. 87 x 51. 242 pp. Edinburgh, T. & T.<br />
Edited from the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Clark. 7s. 6d. n.<br />
By H. OSKAR SOMMER. Vol. IV. LE LIVRE DE "ALL HAIL." Simple Teachings on the Bible. By<br />
LANCELOT DEL LAC. Part. II. 12 x 9}. 399 pp. BARONESS FREDA DE KNOOP. 10 x 71. 500 pp.<br />
Washington: The Carnegie Institute of Washington.<br />
Humphreys. 218. n.<br />
THE BOOK OF THE SEVEN AGES. An Anthology (Prose THE LIFE HEREAFTER : THOUGHTS ON THE INTERME-<br />
and Poetry) compiled by H. W. CLARK, 7 X 41. DIATE STATE. By TAE Rev. EDWARD HICKS, D.D.,<br />
312 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 38. 6d. n.<br />
D.C.L. 112 pp. Robert Scott. 28.<br />
A THACKERAY YEAR-BOOK. Compiled by HELEN AND<br />
LEWIS MELVILLE. 74 X 51. 179 pp. Harrap.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
SCIENCE.<br />
A TEXT Book OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY. LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
With Laboratory Exercises. By CHARLES S. MYERS,<br />
NOTES.<br />
University Lecturer in Experimental Psychology,<br />
Cambridge, &c. Second edition. Two Volumes.<br />
89 x 51. 204 pp. Constable. 6s. n.<br />
BREEDING AND THE MENDELIAN DISCOVERY. By A. D.<br />
M TR. Douglas Ainslie's “Mirage” (Elkin<br />
DARBISHIRE. 84 x 54. 282 pp. Cassell. 7s. 6d. n.<br />
V Mathews) has been a good deal discussed<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
in the Press and elsewhere. “A Friend<br />
THE PROBLEM OF RACE-REGENERATION. By HAVELOCK in Need," the longest poem it contains, is a<br />
ELLIS. 64 X 41. 70 pp. Cassell. 60. n.<br />
treatment in ballad form of a Portuguese legend.<br />
THE METHODS OF RACE-REGENERATION. By C. W.<br />
The remaining poems have been collected from<br />
SALEEBY. 69 x 4. 63 pp. Cassell. 6d. n.<br />
CHANGES OF A CENTURY. By J. C. WRIGHT, 9 x 59. reviews and anthologies, in which they have<br />
268 pp. Elliot Stock, 68. n.<br />
previously appeared. Mr. Douglas Ainslie supplies<br />
SPORT.<br />
a somewhat polemical introduction to his volume,<br />
BY MOUNTAIN, LAKE, AND PLAIN. Being Sketches of in which he preaches the gospel of Æsthetic<br />
Sport in Eastern Persia. By MAJOR R. L. KENNION. according to Croce. Mr. Ainslie's translation<br />
81 x 54. 283 pp. Blackwood. 108. 64. n.<br />
of the Italian philosopher's Estetica was first<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
brought into notice by Mr. Arthur Balfour's<br />
ROYAL PALACES OF SCOTLAND. By HELEN DOUGLASremarks in his Romanes lecture, and Mr. A. B.<br />
IRVINE. 9 x 6. 333 pp. Constable. 6s. n.<br />
Walkley in the Times has recently declared his<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 40 (#444) #############################################<br />
<br />
40<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
adherence to Croce's views. In America, Professor Anne, Duchess of Orleans, and adds a brief de-<br />
Springarn is an enthusiastic admirer of the Crocian scription of the political conditions of the countries<br />
Ästhetic, which he declares to be the only theory into which they married, and shows the effect<br />
that deals satisfactorily with the art fact as a upon their characters of the stirring events of their<br />
whole.<br />
times. Messrs. Methuen & Co. publish the book,<br />
Mr. R. H. Peddie will deliver his lecture on which has six illustrations.<br />
“ How to use the Reading Room of the British “Dan Russell, the Fox,” by E. E. Somerville<br />
Muscum” in the lecture room of the museum (by and Martin Ross, published by Messrs. Methuen<br />
kind permission of the trustees) on the following & Co. early last month, is now in its third<br />
Saturday afternoons at 3 p.m. :—December 2, 1911; edition.<br />
January 6, 1912 ; February 3, 1912, and March 2, Mr. Potter Briscoe, of Nottingham, is the joint<br />
1912. Specimens of the Catalogues and Indexes editor of a new official publication, “ The Public<br />
and Plans of the Reading Room will be exhibited. Official," a monthly issued under the auspices of<br />
Questions addressed to the lecturer at 36, St. the Local Government Officers' Association. The<br />
Martin's Court, St. Martin's Lane, W.C., up to first number was issued in October.<br />
the day before each lecture, will be dealt with so Mr. J. Bloundelle-Burton's new novel, “The<br />
far as time permits.<br />
Right Hand” (Everett & Co., Ltd.), deals with a<br />
“Pilgrims to the Isles of Penance," by Mrs. case of impersonation of one man by another,<br />
Talbot Clifton, is the record of a journey, under- both of whom were strangely alike, and each of<br />
taken by the authoress and her husband, in search of whom was minus his right hand. The idea was<br />
orchids, and of experience. The authoress de- adopted by the author from a trial which took<br />
scribes parts of Burma that touch the Chinese place in far back times in France, but has been placed<br />
frontier, and other portions in the extreme south, by him in the comparatively modern ones of the<br />
by Siam, where Burma breaks into a hundred isles. middle portion of the reign of Louis XV. This<br />
Several chapters deal with the negrito aborigines period embraces the wars of the “ Austrian sac-<br />
of the Andamans, members of the oldest race on cession," and the battle of Dettingen furnishes the<br />
earth, and others contain a description of the crux of the affair. Love, of course, plays its part<br />
Nicobar Islands. Mr. John Long is the publisher in the story, as do the trials of a loring woman who,<br />
of the book, which has fifty-four illustrations. until the dénouement, is unable to decide whether<br />
Mrs. Isabel Smith's new novel “Mated” has she loves the true man or the false. Meanwhile,<br />
just been published by Messrs. Digby, Long & Co. some character portraits are given of many persons<br />
It is a novel with a sex problem.<br />
whose fame in France has become lasting, but who,<br />
W. Harold Thomson's novel, “ Tan o' the Ben," to the majority of English readers of romance, are<br />
is being brought out on November 23 by Sir almost unknown, among them being that of the<br />
W. C. Leng & Co., Sheffield, in their popular Marshal de Belle-Isle.<br />
series of W. T. novels. The same writer has just The October issue of “T. P.'s Monthly" contains<br />
completed a new long novel, and is at present busy a short story from the pen of Mr. F. Niven, a note<br />
with short story work for the magazines.<br />
of whose volume of short stories, “ Above Your<br />
Prof. Max Macauliffe has just published, in six Heads," appeared in the last issue of The Author.<br />
volumes, a work on “The Sikh Religion : its “ Afterglow," by Mr. Alfred Baldwin, is a volume<br />
Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors." The Sikhs of verse written in many moods, and touching in a<br />
are distinguished throughout the world as a great simple and direct way on various subjects. Each<br />
military people, but little is known regarding their short poem is the expression of a single definite<br />
religion. There were no dictionaries of the sacred idea, and the reader is left to interpret the title of<br />
books of the Sikhs when the author commenced the book according to his own inclination. Messrs.<br />
his labours, and it was necessary, therefore, for himM ethuen & Co. are the publishers.<br />
to reside in India for many years, and work with The following lectures in connection with the<br />
the assistance of the few gyanis, or professional new chairs instituted by the Royal Society of<br />
interpreters of the Sikh canonical writings, who Literature will be given during the session 1911-<br />
now survive. In addition, Prof. Macauliffe has 1912 :-Professor A.C. Benson on English Fiction,<br />
submitted every line of his work to the most search- November 8 and March 13; Prof. Henry Newbolt<br />
ing criticism of learned Sikhs. The Clarendon on Poetry, December 13 and May 8; Prof. W. L.<br />
Press publish the work at £3 3s, nett.<br />
Courtney on Dramatic Literature, January 17 and<br />
“Five English Consorts of Foreign Princes,” by April 17 ; Prof. M. A. Gerothwohl on Comparative<br />
Ida Woodward, tells the life stories of Margaret Literature, February 14 and June 12. The lectures<br />
Tudor, Queen of Scotland ; Mary Tudor, Queen of will be delivered at 20, Hanover Square, at<br />
France ; Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia ; 5.15 p.m. A certain number of cards will be<br />
Mary Stuart, Princess of Orange, and Henrietta allotted to members of the Society of Authors in<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 41 (#445) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
41<br />
the order of their application to the Secretary, volume, containing a revised and enlarged reprint<br />
R.S.L.<br />
of the biographical sketch by Helena Frank,<br />
“ The Feast of Christmas” is the title of a little accompanying “Russian Flashlights," by Jaakoff<br />
book of readings in prose and verse, selected and Prelooker, published last spring by Chapman &<br />
arranged by Edith A. Charter. A copy has been Hall. There will be a number of illustrations, and<br />
accepted by H.M. the Queen. Mr. Elliot Stock is an original coloured cover design representing at a<br />
the pablisher.<br />
glance the different positions of the “ Bear and the<br />
A handbook on “ Badminton” has just been Lion” under the respective flags. An illustrated<br />
published by Messrs. George Bell & Sons. Its Russian Christmas story by M. Prelooker is added at<br />
author is Mr. S. M. Massey, who was joint holder the end of the book. J. F. Spriggs, of 21, Pater-<br />
of the All England's Men's Double Championships noster Square, E.C., will very shortly publish the<br />
in 1899, 1903, and 1905. Mr. Massey's book volume at the popular price of is., with the<br />
contains advice to beginners, and also much of permission of Messrs. Chapman & Hall.<br />
interest on the subject of clubs, tournaments, “Motley and Tinsel,” by John K. Prothero, has just<br />
Badminton Hall, &c. There are many illustra been issued as a book by Stephen Swift. This story,<br />
tions to the book, and several well-known players it will be remembered, was, at the time of its serial<br />
have contributed<br />
publication, the subject of a libel action, based<br />
Mr. Percy White has been appointed to the Chair solely upon the coincidence of names between the<br />
of English Literature at the Egyptian University, plaintiff in the action and one of the characters in<br />
Cairo, during the sessions November to June, the story. In the present volume, many well-<br />
1911-12, 1912–13, and 1913–14.<br />
known writers have allowed Mr. Prothero to use their<br />
Miss Mary E. Shipley's third and last volume of names for the characters in the book as a protest<br />
her work, “English Church History for Children," against the absurd state of the law of libel as it affects<br />
is now in the press, and will shortly be published members of the literary and dramatic professions.<br />
by Messrs. Methuen & Co. The period the Miss Amy B. Barnard is publishing, through<br />
volume covers is from A.D. 1500 to 191], a most Messrs. Cassell & Co., a volume of “ Talks with<br />
important time in the history of the English Children about Themselves.” The author's aim<br />
Church.<br />
has been to enable the parent to answer the<br />
“The Life Hereafter” is a volume of addresses increasing fusillade of dimly expressed doubtings,<br />
by the Rev. Edward Hicks dealing with the ques- fears, and questions that come from the lips of his<br />
tion of the intermediate state. The addresses are young son or daughter. There is a frontispiece in<br />
given in plain, popular language as they were colour by Elizabeth Earnshaw.<br />
delivered. Mr. Robert Scott is the publisher.<br />
“The Story of Sally Sixteen,” by Miss Peggy<br />
Dr. Marie C. Stopes, author of “A Journal for Webling, has been awarded the Royal Magazine<br />
Japan," has been asked by Messrs. Stanley Paul to prize of £50, in the competition arranged by<br />
contribute a preface to the “Love Letters of a Pearson's, the Royal, and the Novel magazines.<br />
Japanese,” recently published by them and edited Miss Webling is the author of “ A Spirit of Mirth”<br />
by G. N. Mortlake, and a second edition of which and “ Virginia Perfect.” Her new book, entitled<br />
was called for about a couple of months after the first “ Felix Christie,” will be published by Messrs.<br />
was published. Dr. Stopes writes on the psycho- Methuen & Co. early next year.<br />
logical problems raised by “mixed marriages."<br />
“The Tuppenny Box,” by Colin FitzGerald, the<br />
Mr. Aylmer Maude and his wife (L. and A. author of “ Ikona Camp,” published by Mr. Henry<br />
Maude) have recently completed a translation of J. Drane, is a humorous book full of odd characters<br />
Tolstoy's posthumous novel, “Hadji-Murat,” which whose drab lives are made to yield up their scintilla<br />
will shortly be issued by Nelson, in one of three of mirth. The story is told in quaint style by old<br />
volumes of his posthumous works which they are Daddy Dodderlong, the keeper of a second-hand<br />
bringing out. It is the chief story left by Tolstoy, book shop; and the ancient gentleman's philo-<br />
and deals with life in the Caucasus, as he knew it sophy and cheerful outlook on life, despite the<br />
in 1852. Mr. Maude is now engaged on a shorter dreariness of his outlook, make interesting reading.<br />
life of Tolstoy, to be called “A Life of Leo<br />
Tolstoy," and issued next spring by Messrs.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
Methuen. It will be about one-fifth the length of On Sunday, December 3, the Play Actors will<br />
his large two-volume “Life of Tolstoy," which ran produce, at the Royal Court Theatre, Mr. Raymond<br />
to nearly 1,200 pages.<br />
Needham's three-act comedy “ The Celibate.”<br />
The Oxford University Press has been awarded Mr. J. M. Barrie's comedy in four acts was<br />
eight Grands Prix at the Turin Exhibition, 1911. revived at the Duke of York's Theatre on October 21,<br />
“ Under the Russian and British Flags : A Story Mr. C. M. Hallard, Mr. Blake Adams, and Miss<br />
of True Experience,” will be the title of a crown 8vo. Hilda Trevelyan are in the cast.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 42 (#446) #############################################<br />
<br />
42<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
“ The Little Stone House," a play in one act, arrived at the same conclusion, but, on the other<br />
by George Calderon, was produced at the Gaiety hand, there are scientists who have gone further<br />
Theatre, Manchester, on October 9. The scene still, and seen more clearly than Michel Bedée, the<br />
of the piece is laid in a poor lodging-house in a sarant to whom M. Beaunier introduces us.<br />
Russian provincial town, in which resides Praskovya, “Le Sortilège ” is Hélène Vacaresco's latest<br />
a mother who is about to arrange for the erection of novel.<br />
a little memorial over the grave of her son, who has “Isabelle," by André Gide, is a novel written in<br />
apparently been murdered some 20 years before, the careful style to which the author has accustomed<br />
The son, in striking contrast to his mother's ideal us. Some of his descriptions are poems in prose.<br />
of him, is, in fact, a “ bad lot," and, withal, a “ Louise de Prusse, Princesse Antoine<br />
murderer, and his appearance at the moment when Radziwill ” (Quarante-cinq années de ma vie,<br />
his mother is making arrangements for the erection 1770-1815), is the diary of Queen Louisa of<br />
of the memorial produces the main dramatic Prussia. Two-thirds of the volume are taken up<br />
situation in the drama. Miss Hilda Davies, Mr. with events of the years 1806, 1807, and 1810.<br />
Milton Rosmer, and Miss Muriel Pratt were in the Very many episodes are touched on, and many<br />
cast. The play was performed also at the Royalty interesting persons are mentioned. The great<br />
Theatre, Glasgow.<br />
power and influence of Napoleon is felt throughout<br />
The triple bill was revived at the Little Theatre much of the volume. We have the famous Tilsitt<br />
on Tuesday, October 3, when “The Senti- interview described, and very many other events,<br />
mentalists,” by George Meredith, Mr. H. Granville until the moment arrived when, as Ē. B. Browning<br />
Barker's farce, " Rococo," and Mr. J. M. Barrie's so grapbically describes it, “kings crept out again<br />
comedy, “The Twelve Pound Look," were to feel the sun."<br />
performed. The cast included Miss Agnes “Etudes d'Histoire" is the fourth volume of this<br />
Thomas, Mr. Nigel Playfair, Mr. Edmund Swenn, series published by M, Arthur Chuquet. The<br />
Miss Lillah McCarthy, and Miss Cicely Hamilton. subjects treated are the following : “Roture et<br />
“The Honeymoon," by Arnold Bennett, was noblesse dans l'armée royale," “ Buzol et Madame<br />
produced at the Royalty Theatre on October 6. Roland," “L'armée de Sambre-et-Meuse en 1796."<br />
The play deals with an aviator whose desire to cut "Comment Bonaparte quitta l'Egypte,” “ Comment<br />
short his honeymoon in the interests of his business Kléber remplaça Bonaparte,” “Un Allemand à<br />
is resented by the lady mainly concerned. The Paris en 1801, “ Constant de Brancas, le fils de<br />
discovery of a hitch in the marriage of the couple, Sophie Arnould,” “La nourrice de l'Emperenr,"<br />
and the news of the failure of the rival aviator, “La Folie de Junot,” “ Mots et locutions de la<br />
help to the solution of the quarrel satisfactory to Grande Armée en 1812," “L’Emigré Anstett pen-<br />
both parties. Miss Marie Tempest, Mr. Dion dant la Campagne de Russie,” “Charles-Auguste de<br />
Boucicault, Mr. Denis Eadie, and Mr. Graham Weimar en 1814," “ Le Général Rostolland en<br />
Brown are in the piece.<br />
1815," “ Mérimée et la Correspondance de<br />
"Our Little Fancies,” a three-act comedy of Napoléon,” and “Le Prince rouge." -<br />
village life, by Miss Margaret Macnamara, will be Among the books of topical interest contained in<br />
produced at the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, on the Bibliothèque d'Histoire Contemporaine are<br />
November 13.<br />
“Le Congo français ” (La question internationale<br />
du Congo), by F. Challaye, “ L'Eveil d'un Monde"<br />
(L'Oeuvre de la France en Afrique Occidentale), by<br />
L. Hubert, “ La Conférence d'Algésiras” (Histoire<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
diplomatique de la crise marocaine), by M. A.<br />
Tardieut, premier secrétaire d'ambassade honoraire,<br />
and “Les Grands Traités politiques” (Recueil des<br />
* T 'HOMME qui a perdu son moi” is the principaux textes diplomatiques depuis 1815<br />
O curious title of an extremely curious novel jusqu'à nos jours), by M. P. Albin, with a preface<br />
by M. André Beaunier. It is a psychological by M. Herbette.<br />
study of the deepest interest—the story of a man "La Guerre avec le Japon," by Comte Witte,<br />
who gives up all for the sake of scientific research; ex-Minister of Finances in Russia, is a volume<br />
and, carried away by the fascination of his investi- published in reply to General Kouropatkine's work.<br />
gations and experiments, neglects the human side The circulation of this book was at first forbidden<br />
of life until the day comes when he realises the fact in Russia, but the Czar has now authorised it.<br />
that he is a man whose real inner self has been “Quarante-trois ans de vie militaire " is the title<br />
sacrificed to the cause of science. The book will, of a volume by Général Cuny, with a preface by<br />
no doubt, give rise to much discussion. There are, M. Gabriel Hanotaux.<br />
perhaps, hundreds of men of science who have “Judo (Manuel de Jiu-Jitsu)," by the Professors<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 43 (#447) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
43<br />
Yokoyama and Oshima of the Kano school of her services. She was received with great en-<br />
Tokio, translated from the Japanese into French thusiasm, and her magnificent rendering of Chopin<br />
by Le Prieur, officier de Marine.<br />
in the Sorbonne was another proof that is<br />
- En Argentine” (de Buenos-Aires au Gran the world of art there are no frontiers. Th<br />
Chaco) is another volume by Jules Huret, whose little society hopes in time to be able to buy<br />
remarkable books on Germany have been so Balzac's house, which has already been converted<br />
thoroughly appreciated. The Figaro has had the into a Balzac museum. The “ Amis de Balzac"<br />
good fortune to secure this author's work, and to welcome as members all admirers of the great<br />
publish first in serial form these excellent studies. novelist, and their little society already numbers<br />
The present volume treats of Buenos Aires—“La members from all parts of the world.<br />
Richesse présente," “ L'Elevage,” “ Grandes In the Revue de Paris of October 15 are<br />
Estancias," “ Provinces Subtropicales," “ La “ Souvenirs,” by Ernest Lavisse, an article entitled<br />
Canne à sucre et les Forêts vierges," "Les “La Jeunesse de Liszt,” by A. de Hevesy, the<br />
Cataractes de I'Iguazu," “ Richesse agricole," closing chapters of “Les Médecins de Napoléon à<br />
and “ Les Fortunes et la Terre.” For any one Sainte-Hélène," by Frederic Masson, and of “La<br />
visiting this country, such a book is invalu- Philosophie de M. Henri Bergson,” by René<br />
able.<br />
Gillouin.<br />
“L'art de lire” is an excellent little book by At the Comédie Française, “ Primerose" and<br />
Emile Faguet, telling us something about the art “ Le Goût du Vice" are still being given.<br />
of reading.<br />
The Odéon has an enormously long list of new<br />
Among the recent translations is an excellent one plays to produce this season. At present“ Musotte”<br />
of Mrs. Humphry Ward's “ Sir George Tressady,” is on the bill.<br />
by J. de Mestral-Combremont. This writer has At the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt “Le Typhon”<br />
received Academy prizes for original work, and has is being played, and at the Théâtre Réjane<br />
done several remarkable translations.<br />
“ L'Oiseau bleu.”<br />
“ La Ville Enchantée" is the title given to “Mr. Pickwick," an adaptation by M. M. Duval<br />
Mrs. Oliphant's book. M. Henri Brémond has and Charvay of Dickens's celebrated book, is having<br />
chosen this volume for translation into French, great success at L'Athénée.<br />
and M. Barrès writes the preface.<br />
At the Théâtre Grevin “ L'Honneur," by Suder-<br />
“ La Jeanne d'Arc de M. Hanotaux " is the title mann, translated by N. Valentin et M. Rémon, is<br />
of an admirable article by M. Georges Goyau filling the house, and at the Théâtre des Arts<br />
published in La Revue hebdomadaire. It is extremely “Les Frères Karamazov " seems likely to have a<br />
interesting to read M. Goyau's criticisms when long run.<br />
treating the “ Jeanne d'Arc" of Anatole France<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
and that of M. Gabriel Hanotaux. M. Goyau calls<br />
attention to the fact that the author does not<br />
• L'Homme qui a perdu son moi “ (Plon).<br />
attempt to draw certain conclusions. He stops<br />
" Le Sortilège" (Plon).<br />
and merely shows what seems inexplicable in the Isabelle” (Nouvelle Revue).<br />
wonderful story. M. Goyau considers that this is “ Louise de Prusse, Princesse Antoine Radziwill **<br />
merely a halt or a pause, and that after this halt it<br />
(Plon).<br />
“ Etudes d'Histoire" (Fontemoing).<br />
should be more easy to go on further.<br />
“ Bibliothèque d'Histoire contemporaine" (Alcan).<br />
In the Revue hebdomadaire M. Jacques Bardoux * La guerre avec le Japon” (Berger Levrault).<br />
writes on “ La Poussée révolutionnaire dans "Quarante-trois ans de vie militaire" (Plon).<br />
l'Angleterre contemporaine"; M. Hanotaux on<br />
" Judo (Manuel de Ji-Jitsu)” (Berger Levrault).<br />
“ En Argentine" (Fasquelle).<br />
“ La Négociation franco-allemande ”.; Mme. B.<br />
"L'art de lire” (Hachette).<br />
Van Vorst on “La Poursuite du bonheur aux “ La Ville enchantée” (Emile Paul).<br />
Etats-Unis" ; Mme. Emile Guillaumin on “ Charles "La Jeanne d'Arc de M. Hanotaux'" (Hachette).<br />
Louis Philippe”; M. Lucien Hubert on the<br />
" Situation financière de l'Allemagne”; and a few<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
extracts from N. Valentin's excellent translation of<br />
Richard Wagner's “Life” are given.<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
The Revué d'Europe et d'Amérique publishes<br />
Front Page<br />
...£4 0 0<br />
Other Pages ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 0 0<br />
three articles on Balzac by Gustave Rivet, M. de Half of a Page ...<br />
Royaumont, and Adolphe Boschot. These articles<br />
... ... 0 15 0<br />
... 0 7 6<br />
were the speeches made on the occasion of a Single Column Advertisements .. ... per inch 0 6 0<br />
literary fête organised at the Sorbonne by Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent. for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
the society styled “Les Amis de Balzac.” At<br />
this soirée the celebrated Nikto consented to give<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Sgnare, London, E.C.<br />
...<br />
... 1 10<br />
0<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 44 (#448) #############################################<br />
<br />
44<br />
THE AUTHOR.<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 bebalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi.<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination.<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourse!f, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire-<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Meinbers 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 />
giust 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 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 />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
W 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 />
LI ERE 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 />
<br />
<br />
## p. 45 (#449) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
45<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 (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 />
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 />
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 23. 6d. per act.<br />
The Seoretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 46 (#450) #############################################<br />
<br />
46<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
the office from a foreign correspondent, thanking<br />
the secretary for the advice and assistance he hail<br />
ANNUAL DINNER.<br />
given to his agent in the settlement of his agree-<br />
The annual dinner of the society will be held<br />
ment. Although he states in his letter the agent<br />
on Friday, December 8, at 7, for 7.30, at the<br />
complained of the “ troublesome pedantries"<br />
involved, the author continues :<br />
Criterion Restaurant, Piccadilly Circus. The<br />
chair will be taken by Dr. S. Squire Sprigge,<br />
“But I cannot help feeling that in a matter of this kind<br />
it is worth taking some trouble to get the best possible<br />
Chairman of the Committee of Management.<br />
advice upon a contract ; not only for one's own sake, but<br />
Formal notice, with the usual particulars as to also for that of authors in general. I am sure that if more<br />
the price of tickets, etc., will be sent to all people were willing to run the risk of losing a publisher<br />
members and associates of the society during<br />
for a matter of principle we should all eventually receive<br />
better terms. In this case, the wise action in submitting<br />
the month.<br />
the contract to you resulted in rather important altera-<br />
tions."<br />
We suppose these important alterations are the<br />
PENSION FUND).<br />
“ troublesome pedantries” referred to by the<br />
In accordance with the rule laid down by the agent.<br />
('ommittee, we publish on another page in The<br />
Author a full list of annual subscribers to the<br />
Pension Fund. This list, with the necessary<br />
PUBLISHERS AND THEIR ACCOUNTS.<br />
additions and deletions arising from the advent of THE account clause in publishers' agreements<br />
fresh subscribers, and the loss, for various reasons, must be familiar to every member of the Society of<br />
of old subscribers, is the same as was issued last Authors.<br />
vear. The names have been printed according to Some publishers, and the number is gradually<br />
the instructions then received by the Editor. but surely increasing, undertake to make up their<br />
The wishes of fresh subscribers have been acceded accounts every six months and to deliver and pay<br />
to and their names inserted in the list in accordance within three months after that time ; others under-<br />
with their instructions. The total sum in annual take to make up their accounts annually and to<br />
subscriptions is about £231. One-third of these deliver and pay within three months ; others, again<br />
the trustees are enabled to set aside for the (a most extraordinary arrangement), undertake to<br />
payment of pensions; the other two-thirds must be make up their accounts annually and to deliver and<br />
invested according to the rules laid down in the pay within six months afterwards. It has been fre-<br />
scheme.<br />
quently pointed out in these columns that this last<br />
In former years, on the publication of this list, arrangement might leave the author nearly eighteen<br />
some members have expressed surprise at the months before he receives any remuneration.<br />
absence of the names of many prominent members Moreover, it comes constantly to the notice of tbe<br />
of the society. Members should bear in mind, secretary that in spite of this clause and in spite of<br />
however, that when the fund was first started, and the publisher's undertaking the accounts are<br />
on various occasions since, prominent members of delayed ; if the accounts are not delayed, payment<br />
the society have in many cases made liberal of the cheque is, and this necessitates a great deal<br />
donations to the fund. These donations have of trouble to the author and to the society. It<br />
been chronicled in The Author as received, though seems a “regrettable incident" that a business<br />
they are not, of course, included in this list, which house, working its office on business principles,<br />
is of annual subscribers only.<br />
cannot keep to the terms of its contract, since all<br />
authors' accounts must be turned out at the same<br />
time. It would be interesting, with the consent<br />
of the Committee of Management, to print a list<br />
AGENTS : LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
somewhat on the following lines :<br />
In the correspondence column of The Author we<br />
publish a letter from an ex-member of the Com Messrs. ~ by agreement undertake to deliver<br />
mittee, criticising the article that appeared in the<br />
accounts made up to the 30th June on or before the end of<br />
September. No accounts received till the day of<br />
last number entitled “Agents : Literary and<br />
October, in spite of three letters from the author and a<br />
Dramatic." It has been suggested that the communication from the secretary of the society on the<br />
question would form an interesting subject for following dates :........<br />
Cheque for the same received on<br />
further correspondence, and we hope that those<br />
the day of<br />
members of the society who have anything to say<br />
November.<br />
will not hesitate to write their views of the matter. A few statements of facts tabulated in this form<br />
Curiously enough, a letter has recently come to would have a beneficial effect.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 47 (#451) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
47<br />
THE FIRST SOCIETY FOR THE PROTEC 6186. Register of the Society.<br />
TION OF THE RIGHTS OF AUTHORS.<br />
6187-6188. Minute Books. (Two rolames).<br />
6189. The Ledger of the Society.<br />
6190. A folio volume of letters.<br />
HERE would seem to be little possibility of 6191. A collection of all the Statutes, etc.<br />
doubt that “ The Society for the Encourage 6192. The Treasurer's accounts.<br />
ment of Learniny ” was the earliest associa Naturally there is a good deal of repetition in<br />
tion which had for its aim to secure for authors the the contents of these volumes, and the disentangle-<br />
profits of their works. It was certainly the earliest ment from them of the history of the society, and<br />
English society that had this object in view ; and still more of the signification of that history, is a<br />
if the condition of France, and Italy, at the same somewhat complicated task. Nor is the record,<br />
date, is taken into consideration it will seem highly though sufficient, altogether complete. In par-<br />
improbable that they had previously offered ticular the society does not appear to have kept a<br />
examples of organisations of the same kind. Out- ledger from the outset ; and the accounts contained<br />
side England, France, and Italy any such society in additional MS. 6189 and additional MS. 6192<br />
may with confidence be asserted not to have are such as might present a good many problems<br />
existed ; and thus English men of letters may even to a skilled accountant. Additional MS. 6190<br />
claim the honour of having been the first to is by no means a complete collection of the letters<br />
attempt to discover some remedy for the miserable addressed to the society, but contains selected<br />
remuneration of the author which had become letters only, and by whom or when selected is<br />
apparent almost as soon as the invention of not apparent. On the other hand, the evidence of<br />
printing led to a rapid multiplication of books. all the other volumes (of itself inevitably more or<br />
Whilst it is interesting to know that a hundred less confused) is admirably epitomised in Additional<br />
and fifty years before Sir Walter Besant (then Mr. MS. 6185.<br />
Besant) laid the foundations of “ The Society of This volume deserves particular description.<br />
Authors," and long even before the institution of In form it is a small quarto of 266 pages, of which<br />
the French “ Société des Gens de Lettres," an 246–266 are blank. It is written throughout,<br />
association had been formed with almost precisely exceedingly neatly, in the same hand, and has for<br />
similar objects, the history of “ The Society for title :<br />
the Encouragement of Learning" is also deserving Memoirs of the Society for the INCOURAGE-<br />
for its own sake of attention, and not devoid of MENT [sic] of LEARNING taken from the<br />
features which may still be regarded as instructive. register of their meetings and Minute Books of the<br />
The society was originated at a meeting of Committee.<br />
gentlemen interested in letters, which took place The MS. is written on both sides of the page,<br />
in London on August 1, 1735. Its life was and concludes with an appendix of selected letters<br />
short, and that alone is evidence that it did not twenty-one in number, of which the last is by<br />
succeed in accomplishing the purpose which its mistake numbered twelve.<br />
founders had in view. Its records (which have After a preliminary note, on the back of the title<br />
survived in a condition of remarkable completeness) page, this MS. (evidently compiled with extreme<br />
show also that failure was from the outset a care by some one who was intimately acquainted<br />
foregone conclusion, though why that was so with the history of the society and drew freely<br />
evidently escaped entirely the observation of its from the other volumes) tells the story of “The<br />
officials. It is impossible not to regret their Society for the Encouragement of Learning” from<br />
blindness ; for, had they perceived the difference its initiation to its winding up. It must have been<br />
between what circumstances rendered possible and written not long after the dissolution of the<br />
what they made impossible, they might have so society ; but by whom there is no evidence to<br />
modified their methods of procedure as to have show. The labours, however, of this unknown<br />
continued, to the great advantage of authors, their hand render most substantial assistance to any<br />
most unselfish labours. As it was, the society, one desirous of gathering and putting into shape<br />
conducted always with the highest motives, came the evidence contained in the whole collection of<br />
in a few years to an honourable end. It was the society's records.<br />
wrecked by publication.<br />
The Memorandum written on the back of the<br />
The records of the society, ultimately bequeathed title of this volume presents the local history of the<br />
to the British Museum, exist in nine volumes, society, and deserves to be quoted at length.<br />
Additional MSS. Nos. 6184-6192, whose contents “ The Society was first constituted and acted as<br />
are as follows:-<br />
a body on May 14, 1736, at Mr. Cock's great room<br />
6184. The original declaration.<br />
in Covent Garden, where they continued their<br />
6185. Memoirs of the Society.<br />
general meetings till April, 1737 ; and afterwards<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 48 (#452) #############################################<br />
<br />
48<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
at Mr. Bolney's great room : there to Michaelmas single sheets, but here gathered together in chrono-<br />
following, when they took their house in Saint logical order. The collection is asserted to be<br />
Martin's Lane. But the Committee soon after perfect, and to contain all the printed documents<br />
their election met first at the Meuse Coffee House put forth by the society. The volume has a MS.<br />
in Lancaster Court, till about Michaelmas 1736, title:<br />
and after that an apartment was hired in Bow “A Collection of all the Statutes or Rules and<br />
Street, Covent Garden, where they continued to meet other Printed Papers relating to the Management<br />
till the house was taken in Saint Martin's Lape of the Society for the Encourgement of Learning<br />
From which time all the meetings both of the from the first plan of it January 1, 1735, to its<br />
Society and Committee were held there till dissolution January 31, 1749."<br />
Christmas, 1747."<br />
It may be here mentioned that this is the only<br />
After this brief record of the various domiciles place in all the records of the society where the<br />
of the society it is best to turn next to additional actual dates of its initiation and dissolution are<br />
MS. 6184, “ The original declaration."<br />
mentioned.<br />
This is contained in a largish volume, the greater The first document in the volume bears date<br />
part of whose pages are blank. The MS. begins :- January 1, 1735, and is a single leaf, whose con-<br />
“To supply the Want of a Regular and Public tents are the founder's resolutions mentioned above,<br />
Acknowledgment of Learning;<br />
with a footnote referring to subscriptions, and<br />
“ To assist Authors in the Publication, and to mentioning an intention of adding each year's<br />
secure to them the entire Profits of their own balance to the capital.<br />
Works ;<br />
The next document is a “Sketch of the Plan"<br />
“To institute a Republic of Letters, for the for the management of the society to be read before<br />
Promoting of Arts and Sciences, by the necessary the first general meeting.<br />
means of profit, as well as by the Nobler Motives of The other contents of the volume are of less<br />
Praise and Emulation.<br />
interest; annual lists of members, reprints of the<br />
"1. We, whose names are undersigned, do agree statutes in the somewhat modified forms which<br />
to Form a Society, and to contribute the Sum of were subsequently given them, and similar docu-<br />
Ten Guineas Each, for the Purposes above men- ments.<br />
tioned.<br />
What has been thus far recorded represents the<br />
“2. We do also agree to pay the further sum of preliminary labours of the founders of the society ;<br />
Two Guineas Annually, for the support of the in- its history will now claim attention.<br />
tended Society, but that any Member may cease to The first general meeting was held on May 27,<br />
be Such, and be discharged from the Annual Pay- 1736, with Sir Thomas Robison in the chair.<br />
ment, upon giving Six Months' Notice.<br />
“ The Plan for the Management of the Society"<br />
“ 3. That this Agreement shall be void unless above-mentioned, containing twenty-seven statutes,<br />
a Thousand Guineas at least be subscribed before was carried unanimously. These statates incor-<br />
Midsummer Day next ensuing the date hereof." porate the original resolutions of the founders, and<br />
If the thousand guineas were forthcoming a also regulate a number of particulars. Four general<br />
general meeting was to be held and trustees meetings were to be held every year. (This number<br />
appointed. Finally, after some other provisions, was afterwards reduced to one.) Twenty-four<br />
it is agreed<br />
“managers" were to be elected, of which eight<br />
“That no Subscriber or Manager shall receive retired annually. Five form a quoruin. Deserving<br />
any Profit or Advantage from this Design.”<br />
of particular attention are the following statutes :-<br />
The date is August 1, 1753.<br />
“ Article 9. The Committee of Managers do ex-<br />
Ten columns of signatures follow, headed by amine and judge whether the copies proposed be<br />
Stanhope.<br />
proper to be printed by the Assistance of the Society;<br />
Harcourt.<br />
and whether they will answer the charges of printing.<br />
Hartford.<br />
... Such works as they shall direct shall be<br />
The number of the signatures is eighty-eight; Printed and Published at the Expense or by the<br />
but from a mention of this preliminary meeting in Assistance of the Society, and that they do settle<br />
the records of the society it appears that only the Prices for which such books shall be sold.”<br />
twenty-two of those who signed were actually T he consent of the general meeting was required<br />
present at the preliminary meeting.<br />
if the cost of production exceeded £200.<br />
The remainder of the volume after the ten “ Article 11. That every Author whose work<br />
columns of signatures is blank.<br />
shall be printed by the Assistance of the Society,<br />
Attention will be next claimed by the folio addi- do make over his Property in the same, and his<br />
tional MS. 6184. Thiscontains a collection of printed interests in the whole impression, to the Treasurer,<br />
statutes and other printed matter, originally all on in trust for the Society, or give such farther or<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 49 (#453) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
49<br />
other Security for reimbursing the Charges of the (May 14, 1736) the committee met weekly for the<br />
Printing and Publishing thereof, as shall be judged arrangement of details. The general meeting had<br />
proper by the Committee.”<br />
invited the Duke of Richmond to accept the<br />
A number of minor details, which it was neces- presidentship of the society; he did so on<br />
sary that the statutes of any society should settle, May 31, and afterwards generally presided in<br />
need not be here mentioned, but it is very important person. He was subsequently succeeded by the<br />
to observe that the statutes incorporated the original Duke of Leeds, who was president at the date of<br />
resolution, “ That no subscriber or manager shall the dissolution of the society. General meetings<br />
receive any profit or advantage from this design.” were held on August 5, 1736, and on November 4<br />
The full significance of this provision must on of the same year. The next was on February 3,<br />
no account be overlooked. The society, though 1737.<br />
one of its principal aims was to secure for authors At this meeting the committee presented a<br />
“the entire profits of their works,” was, by its report, in which are recorded several particulars<br />
fundamental constitution, not a society of authore, deserving of attention.<br />
but a society of noblemen and gentlemen, interested Messrs. Andrew Millar, John Gray, and John<br />
in letters, who were providing funds that should Nourse (all well-known London booksellers of that<br />
be applied to securing authors the profits of their date) had been appointed booksellers to the society.<br />
works. Put briefly the intention of these patrons An agreement had been made with them for one<br />
of letters was to print works of merit, to sell them, year ; and special articles had been drawn up regu-<br />
and to hand the authors whatsoever might remain lating the terms of agreement between the society,<br />
after the cost of production had been defrayed. authors, printers, and booksellers.<br />
No author was, in any case, invited to contribute The terms of agreement with authors include<br />
anything to the support of the society ; nor did the the following provisions : No book would be printed<br />
society, during its existence, publish any work by by the society for which the author had taken<br />
one of its own members. Its aims were wholly subscriptions. The committee were to determine<br />
disinterested ; and the subsidy which its members the form of the book and its price. The author<br />
proposed to offer the cause of literature was on a was to present one copy to the library of the<br />
very liberal scale. The pound sterling was in society. (That the society held the copyright was<br />
1735 relatively of much greater value than it at already provided by the statutes.)<br />
present has, and an entrance fee of ten guineas, to The articles of agreement with the printers<br />
be followed by an annual subscription of two (life stipulate for the use of “ the best Antwerp ink,"<br />
membership for ten guineas was sanctioned at a and paper and work of bigh quality.<br />
later date), represented a very generous contribu- The articles of agreement with the bookseller<br />
tion from men who were to have no return for their allow him 2s. 6d, in the pound commission. The<br />
money. At the same time these liberal-minded bookseller must not sell the books at a price<br />
gentlemen appear to have been absolutely blind to higher than that fixed by the committee. He<br />
two facts which certainly would not escape the is also to advertise books “ as often and in such<br />
observation of any one in these more commercial public papers as the committee shall direct."<br />
days. In the first place, they completely failed to Several books had been offered to the society.<br />
perceive that what they were doing really amounted Some of these had been refused; others were under<br />
to starting in London one more publishing house consideration. Up to this date none had been<br />
(which must necessarily come into competition with accepted.<br />
its predecessors), and a publishing house that was This report also contains the first mention of<br />
to conduct business on purely philanthropic lines; difficulties which subsequently increased and<br />
nor did they see that whilst they were proposing harassed the society during the whole period of its<br />
to themselves to print books and to sell them in existence. There was a difficulty in obtaining a<br />
such a way as to secure the whole of the profits for quorum at the meetings. (At å later date this<br />
the authors, they had no idea how they were going led to modifications of the statutes, and to the<br />
to sell these books. Some ingenuous notion (such reduction of the general meetings to one annual<br />
as could be in these days enjoyed only by the one.) The other difficulty, for which no cure was<br />
utterly inexperienced) that books, when once ever discovered, was that of unpaid subscriptions.<br />
printed, sell themselves, seems to hare been the On April 7, 1737, the society voted the publi-<br />
persuasion of them all.<br />
cation of their first book, Sir Thomas Roe's “ State<br />
The history of the society is the history of the Papers.” For the production of this book they<br />
inevitable consequences of embarking on a design voted £300.<br />
without any right apprehension of its real nature, Other books were subsequently accepted and<br />
or of its difficulties.<br />
money for their publication voted, and at the<br />
For a few weeks after the first general meeting annual meeting of February 2, 1739, the report of<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 50 (#454) #############################################<br />
<br />
50<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
the committee mentions as published by the (possibly one for which he could get no offers from<br />
society :-<br />
the trade) without his being put to any cost, and,<br />
“ Dissertatio de structura et motu musculari, after having repaid themselves, to return him<br />
auctore Alexandro Stuart, M.D." Published the copyright and the remainder to dispose of as he<br />
May 26, 1738. 500 copies, quarto.<br />
pleased.<br />
Sir William Smith." History of the British Yet the society was at this very date discovering<br />
Plantations in America.” Part I. Pablished that books are not always easily sold. Their agree-<br />
November 20, 1738. 1,000 copies, quarto.<br />
ment with their booksellers had lapsed; and the<br />
Thomas Carte. “A Collection of Original committec reports its labours in search of new<br />
Letters and Papers concerning the Affairs of agents. They had given notice to the trade that<br />
England from 1641 to 1660.” Published Novem- any booksellers might offer sealed proposals of the<br />
ber 17, 1738. 1,000 copies, octavo.<br />
terms on which they were willing to contract with<br />
The agreement with the booksellers was renewed. the society. Several proposals had been offered,<br />
The whole number of members who had paid their and of these, those of Messrs. Strahan, Valiant,<br />
subscriptions was 106.<br />
Baker and Brindley, were those most adran-<br />
The report of the annual meeting of the tageous to the society. An agreement was also<br />
following year (February 2, 1740) is one of the ultimately made with them, but not with them<br />
most interesting. The sale of Dr. Stuart's book alone.<br />
(published on May 26, 1738) had been completely For, though the society had been successful with<br />
successful, and an instance is presented, the only Dr. Stuart's book, it was finding the general<br />
instance fully recorded, of how the society dealt conditions of sales and the results accruing from<br />
in such cases with the author's profits.<br />
them in the highest degree unsatisfactory; and so<br />
The committee report :-<br />
much so that there is a special report, containing<br />
“ On October 19, 1739, the Society having been many considerations respecting the difficulties<br />
reimbursed the expenses they had been at in which the society found to be hampering the sale<br />
printing and publishing Dr. Stuart's book 'De of their publications, and various suggestions for<br />
Motu Musculari,' the committee directed the combating these difficulties. This report is dis-<br />
treasurer to deliver him the remaining copies, and tinctly complicated ; but the following passage<br />
release the right of impression, which was done will show that it does not mince matters :-<br />
accordingly.”<br />
“The Society being since last Michaelmas happily<br />
Whatsoever may have been thought in 1740, at disengaged from the former contract with their<br />
the present date this action of the society will three booksellers, Messrs. Millar, Nourse and Gray,<br />
certainly be considered unsatisfactory. Here was who by the enormous allowance of 33 per cent.,<br />
the case of a strictly scientific book which had if not more, for vending their books have<br />
sold well and quickly (it will be presently seen brought the affairs of the Society low, and<br />
that all the society's publications did not do this); defeated hitherto the generous intention of its<br />
but, after having recovered their expenses, the institution : for the removal of this evil it is now<br />
society makes no further effort to dispose of the proposed etc."<br />
rest of the edition, but simply returos it to the The proposals were these : First of all, not to<br />
author, as a kind of “remainder," at the same time allow the booksellers more than 15 per cent. com-<br />
releasing the right of impression, that is to say mission ; and afterwards that “the sale of the<br />
giviog the author back his copyright. This plainly Society's books be open to the trade in general, and<br />
amounted to leaving the author himself to secure an equal allowance of 15 per cent. given ” ; and<br />
“the entire profits of his work." The society finally, that the society should have a warehouse of<br />
might, no doubt, plead, “ The book has cost him their own, where they would sell to the booksellers<br />
nothing. Every copy that he now sells represents only, and only for cash.<br />
so much clear gain ; and what he succeeds in Each of these proposals is carefully discussed in<br />
selling represents actually 'the whole profit, the report, and an attempt (distinctly gentlemanly<br />
seeing that the previous sales merely covered the and not at all businesslike) made to forecast the<br />
cost of production.” This view of the situation, probable results. Meanwhile, any one who now<br />
however, is simply one more instance of the reads the report cannot fail to be impressed by the<br />
society's incapacity to perceive that in bookselling fact that no explanation is forthcoming to show<br />
the difficulty is to find the purchaser.<br />
how the booksellers' 2s. 6d. in the pound had<br />
At the same time the society's design here become “ 33 per cent. and more” (probably no<br />
comes clearly to light. They did not propose to explanation was to be found, except that tradesmen's<br />
pay the author a royalty on his sales, nor to hand commissions were as liable in 1740 as in 1911 to<br />
over to him the profits resulting from a successful assume unanticipated proportions); and also by<br />
transaction, but simply to produce his book the fact that whereas the original commission had<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 51 (#455) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
51<br />
been 121 per cent. (28. 6d. in 20s.),"the society in their service, were [sic] therefore of opinion that it<br />
now found itself compelled to offer 15 per cent. was entirely necessary for the interest of the Society<br />
How the various proposals were ultimately put [that] some reputable booksellers should be con-<br />
into practice, and with what results, may be seen tracted with ... provided it could be effected<br />
from the report of the committee at the annual upon easier terms than those on which it has been<br />
meeting on February 2, 1741.<br />
done formerly. For though the gentlemen, to<br />
Matters had not been improving, and the com- whom that affair was first committed, were them-<br />
mittee state “ The regulations of the last annual selves wholly strangers to the nature of it, yet they<br />
meeting in 1740 for reducing the profits of the were sensible that the terms insisted on by the<br />
booksellers from 354 to 15 per cent. for vend. booksellers were extravagant. . . . But when that<br />
ing has produced the desired effect, in saving contract was expired, it occurred to the Society to<br />
considerable sums to authors ... The opening come to a resolution of trying to vend their books<br />
also of a room in the Society's house for vending to at their own house without the assistance of any<br />
the trade has put our affairs on a better footing. booksellers. However, that method has been since<br />
... But though the appointing of six booksellers, found absolutely impracticable.”<br />
instead of three, for vending was expected to have Accordingly the society reverted to their previous<br />
been of great advantage towards increasing the policy of employing agents. They gave a com-<br />
sale . . . yet, after signing the contract with the mission of 20 per cent. on sales at home, and<br />
Society, and getting almost the whole executive 23 per cent. on sales abroad.<br />
part of our affairs into their own hands, most of The absolute impossibility of carrying out the<br />
them have shown very little willingness to promote society's design was, however, now evident; and<br />
the sale of our books ... from which it is natural the hopelessness of a publishing house that was to<br />
to conclude that most of the trade are in a plain do business on philanthropic lines. If the society<br />
opposition to the prosperity of this ... institution, did not make use of the intervention of the book-<br />
and will ... continue in combination against us, sellers they could not sell their books. If the<br />
unless the Society moving one or two steps further society did make use of the booksellers, the latter,<br />
[sic] than was done last year, effectually defeat the by discouraging the sale of the works, and by<br />
design by some such expedient as is here proposed demanding exorbitant commissions on what they<br />
for consideration.”<br />
sold, fatally crippled the society. Meanwhile, the<br />
This proposal was that, as soon as the contracts arrears of subscriptions, which had been always<br />
expired, the sale of the “ Society's books should be difficult to collect, were constantly increasing, and<br />
laid open to as many substantial dealers, at home the whole enterprise was drifting towards inevitable<br />
and abroad, as should be willing to serve."<br />
failure.<br />
The committee add :<br />
On February 2, 1744, it was announced that the<br />
“ It is further proposed that the sale of our society's funds were nearly exhausted, and that this<br />
books be open to gentlemen as well as to book- was not so much in consequence of expenses incurred<br />
sellers ... at the price fixed on the title-page, by the publication of books, as in consequence of<br />
which would unquestionably defeat all combina- an arrear in subscriptions amounting to £454 138.<br />
tions of the booksellers against the Society. For In this year the general meeting in May did not<br />
it has hitherto been a capital error to put the take place.<br />
whole executive part of our scheme into the hands At the annual meeting of February 2, 1745, there<br />
of our natural adversaries, by giving them the sole were not present sufficient members to form a<br />
power of vending our books as they think fit, quorum. The meeting was postponed until<br />
instead of reserving the sale for themselves." February 16. On that occasion the publication<br />
Accordingly, on the expiration of the contracts of books offered to the society was discussed.<br />
the society made no agreements with any particular Sir Isaac Newton's “Quadrature of Curves Ex-<br />
booksellers, but left the trade, or private individuals, plained ” came to the society“ very well recom-<br />
to apply at the society's warehouse for what they mended,” and an order was given to the printers<br />
wanted. The warehouse was, of course, proving à for 350 copies in quarto. A general statement of<br />
source of expense, and an occasion of a good deal the accounts of the society from its first establish-<br />
of additional care and labour, as well as responsi- ment was announced to have been drawn up by the<br />
bility, as the society's records plainly show; but committee, and another of arrears of subscriptions.<br />
what was the result of the new tactics may be read Neither, however, was ever presented.<br />
in the report of the committce presented to the At the annual meeting of February 3, 1746,<br />
annual meeting on February 2, 1743 :<br />
sufficient members to form a quorum were not<br />
“Having taken into consideration the sale of the present. The meeting was adjourned, but again<br />
Society's books, the committee find it greatly dimi- the number was insufficient to form a quorum.<br />
nished since there have been no booksellers employed On April 17 “A memorial of the present state of<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 52 (#456) #############################################<br />
<br />
52<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
the Society" was sent to all the members. It set “Book Prices Current" can be appreciated at its<br />
forth the difficulties beneath which the society was full value only by those who peruse its pages, to<br />
succumbing : (1) those, already fully described, that which it is impossible that any short notice should<br />
the society had encountered in its dealings with do justice. Limitations of space compel us to pick<br />
the booksellers ; (2) the small sale of the society's out a few only of the plums which it contains, and<br />
publications ; and (3) “what has principally con- that with a painful consciousness that what is<br />
tributed to reduce the affairs of the Society to passed over must be often exactly what readers of<br />
their present state," the great deficiency of the this or that taste would particularly wish to have<br />
annual payments.<br />
mentioned. The sale (1910. December 12, etc.<br />
This appeal, however, met with no response from Sotheby. £3,480) of the library of Mr. Hilton, of<br />
the members.<br />
Sale, offered a rich collection of beles-lettres, amongst<br />
Several attempts were afterwards made to get which were the first, second (two copies), third<br />
together a meeting of the society, but without and fourth folios of Shakespeare. On January 12,<br />
effect; and the officers and committee continued 1911, were sold (Sotheby) a number of books<br />
in office until the dissolution of the society on relating to, or printed in, Canada and the United<br />
January 31, 1749, when the balance of £20 12s. States. Specialists will recognise among them many<br />
that finally remained was presented to the Found- volumes of particular interest. In the sale of the<br />
ling Hospital.<br />
library of the Rev. J. H. Dent (January 24, etc.<br />
The works published by the society were : “Sir Hodgson. £2,422)) was included Gray's copy,<br />
Thomas Roe's State Papers ” ; “ Maximus Tyrius," with his autograph and manuscript notes, of Stow's<br />
with notes by Dr. Davies ; Dr. A. Stuart, “De “Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster."<br />
Motu Musculari” ; Carte's “ Original Letters of In a miscellaneous collection (February 1 and 2.<br />
English History, from 1641 to 1660”; Signor Hodgson) was offered the first edition of the three<br />
P. Rolli's “ Translation of Cicero's Letters ” ; Sir parts of “ The Ingoldsby Legends," all on thick<br />
William Keith, “ History of Virginia ” ; English paper (only a dozen copies of the first part were so<br />
Translation of Pluche's “ Histoire du Ciel ”; Prof. printed), with autograph inscriptions from the<br />
Campbell,“ Necessity of Revelation by Gronovius”; author. One of these is<br />
“ Aelian de Animalibus"; Sir Isaac Newton's<br />
“Quadrature of Curves” ; Bishop Tanner, “Notitia<br />
To Mrs. Hughes, who made me do 'em,<br />
Quod placeo (si placeo) Tuum.<br />
Monastica ” and “ Notitia Britannica.”<br />
The society thus certainly produced several To the third part are appended seven pages of<br />
books of substantial value. Whether these works manuscript, in the autograph of John Hughes,<br />
might not have seen the light without its assistance including a transcript of a poem by Barham. On<br />
is another question. If, in that case, the authors the 9th and following days of February was sold by<br />
would have received no adequate remuneration, or Sotheby for £4,086 the very remarkable collection<br />
no remuneration at all, it is not clear that the of printed books and other works illustrated by<br />
authors received very much substantial benefit George Cruikshank, formed by Captain Douglas.<br />
from the society. Several of the books failed to Many of these, as might be expected, fetched high<br />
reimburse the society for the expenses incurred in prices. A miscellaneous collection, more interesting<br />
producing them. In these cases the authors than miscellaneous collections generally are, was sold<br />
received nothing, and the booksellers alone March 15, etc., by Sotheby. Among other curiosities<br />
benefited. There is, however, no occasion to it contained four Horn Books, one of them a matrix<br />
waste space in commenting on what happened. cut in reverse for making gingerbread Horn Books.<br />
The history of the society and the lessons which it At this sale Tasso (The Falconieri Manuscript) letters<br />
conveys speak for themselves.<br />
and poems, dated 1556-1593, fetched only £49. Mr.<br />
HENRY CRESSWELL.<br />
Dawson gave 200 louis for it in Rome. The record<br />
of the sale of the first portion of the library of<br />
Mr. Charles Butler (April 5, etc. Sotheby. £7,569)<br />
is not yet completed, reaching only as far as “ The<br />
BOOK PRICES CURRENT.*<br />
Mirrour for Magistrates," but presents, of course, a<br />
wonderful array of rare English and Continental<br />
THE second and third numbers of “Book<br />
books. The mere description of them forms a<br />
1 Prices Current" for 1911 contain records<br />
feast. A very seasonable note of warning may be<br />
of the sales from December 8, 1910, to<br />
seen in the record at different dates of the sale of<br />
April 5, 1911. It is impossible to say too often that<br />
two copies of “ Encyclopædia Britannica," 1875–<br />
1903, 24 volumes, with the supplementary volumes,<br />
* "Book Prices Current,” Vol. XXV. Nos. 2 and 3.<br />
in all 35 volumes, sold for £6 on one occasion, and<br />
London, Elliot Stock.<br />
for £5 on another.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 53 (#457) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
53<br />
THE BOY SCOUTS' HISTORY OF This work should be very popular, not perhaps<br />
ENGLAND.*<br />
so much as a class book, but as a prize book or a<br />
gift book ; and in saying this we are paying the<br />
book the greater compliment, for it is something<br />
1. to the fact that The Author is not considerably more than a dry text-book.<br />
published in August and September, it has<br />
been impossible to give an earlier review of<br />
" The History of England," by. C. R. L. Fletcher<br />
and Rudyard Kipling, which reached the office at<br />
the beginning of July. We have read the book with<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
considerable interest, and have enjoyed its perusal.<br />
There are many different views taken about the<br />
writing of history, but surely the soundest view is AUTHORS' AGENTS-LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
that the historian should be a partisan, that he<br />
should give some life to the views that he adopts<br />
I.<br />
and should revivify the dead bodies of the past. The SIR,—I do not wish to examine in detail the<br />
historian who is merely a balancer of opinions and article on “ Authors' Agents” in your last number.<br />
methods and a chronicler of dry facts is, from our Many of the points are well taken, and many of the<br />
point of view, useless ; from a child's point of view warnings will be most useful in dealing with some<br />
he is worse than useless. This history is written agents, even if they be hardly necessary in relation<br />
for children. It puts forward high and patriotic to others. But when you sum up, “Don't employ<br />
ideals and will surely tend to interest, stimulate, an agent ; but if you do, watch him," I venture to<br />
and arouse the better feelings. This is why we think that the first part of the advice is too<br />
have taken the liberty of heading the article “ The broadly stated, and the second too—well, shall we<br />
Boy Scouts' History of England,” for what is most say unceremoniously ?<br />
striking in that movement is the high moral ideals As to the first, the society is a good watchdog.<br />
which are put before the boys in the code up to It can warn, advise, and guard. It cannot do the<br />
which they are bound, as true scouts, to live. This positive work for an author which a capable and<br />
is not a criticism of dry historical details. They zealous agent can. If it tried to, it would, in my<br />
may be all wrong; though Mr. Fletcher's name is opinion, soon find itself exposed to the same charges<br />
a guarantee that they are all right. It is indeed a of favouring one author as against another to which<br />
difficult matter to write something for children in agents are now exposed. An agent in good practice<br />
the shape of history which will interest while it acts as a literary exchange : he possesses a know-<br />
instructs, that “ gives to think” while it ceases to ledge of what wares are wanted, in what places, and<br />
bore ; but this appears to have been carried through at what prices, which few authors possess. This is<br />
successfully by the author, aided, of course, by the valuable knowledge-well worth paying for. He<br />
poems of Rudyard Kipling, and the illustrations knows whom to trust and whom not to trust-<br />
of H. Ford. Some of the poems are just right for knowledge very valuable in business. Neither shy-<br />
the boy who desires to have sound, stirring examples ness nor sentiment prevents him from asking and<br />
before him. Some, perhaps, are a little above his obtaining the proper market-price; one or both often<br />
head, but still, he will live to grow up to them. Of the prevent an author, when acting for himself. These<br />
many scattered throughout the book we should like are some of the considerations on the other side of<br />
to recommend two. The last, " The Glory of the the account.<br />
Garden," comes nearest to the hearts of all English As to the second, of course every man ought to<br />
men, although, perhaps, it may be considered to exercise a reasonable vigilance over his own<br />
have little to do with the history of England. interests and affairs—even though he were dealing<br />
The other one is “My Father's Chair,” which with an angel. But the attitude of mind indicated<br />
begins :<br />
by your “ Watch him” is hardly a promising basis<br />
“ There are four legs to my Father's Chair,<br />
for a business relation of a particularly confidential<br />
Priest and People, and Lords and Crown." nature. No doubt a man should * watch” his<br />
This is sound, historically, at any rate, at the<br />
solicitor-in a sense. But I do not think he<br />
present time, and for the past centuries, though<br />
would employ a solicitor whom he considered to<br />
it is impossible to say how soon it may be contro-<br />
need a great deal of “ watching." The position of<br />
an agent is very similar, and demands confidence as<br />
verted in the near future.<br />
well as “watching." There are, no doubt, solicitors,<br />
and there may very well be literary agents, who do<br />
* " The History of England," by C. R. L. Fletcher and<br />
Rudyard Kipling. Published by the Clarendon Press<br />
not deserve this confidence. In both professions<br />
Oxford. 78.6d, net.<br />
there are men who do, and as an author who has<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 54 (#458) #############################################<br />
<br />
54<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
II.<br />
employed an agent for nearly twenty years with most under cover of a public and, apparently, impartial<br />
satisfactory results, I think that the article in your association, honoured by such names as those of<br />
columns is one-sided, and, while containing (as I Mr. Thomas Hardy, Mr. Bryce, Mr. Birrell, and<br />
have said) much that is of value, might unduly Lord Curzon, to launch against a small group of<br />
p rej dice a young author against a profession reputable private traders charges which, when no<br />
which has, in my judgment, on the whole, and in names are given, are grossly unfair, and, if names<br />
the persons of its honourable members, done much were given, would bring you within the scope of<br />
for the commercial interests, and something for the libel law.<br />
the dignity, of authors.<br />
If sweeping generalities are to be indulged in at<br />
I do not think that any committee of the Society all, they should be based upon a width of experience,<br />
has ever taken up a hostile position towards agents which the writer of the article evidently does not<br />
as such. I should regret it if any committee ever possess. No one with any considerable knowledge<br />
did. On the other hand, there have been many of Anglo-American literary traffic could have<br />
cases where the Society and agents have acted written these two sentences : “ No market is better<br />
together in the interests of members, and it is for the author than the American market.” “If<br />
within my knowledge that in several instances a book touches the American market (and all good<br />
agents have advised authors to join the Society. literature should be universal), for one copy sold in<br />
There is, in fact, plenty of room for co-operation England, four would be sold in America." So<br />
between the society and an honest and capable untrue is this that we could name out of hand a<br />
agent, and, in my opinion, no reason why such dozen books, placed, not for editions in sheets, but<br />
co-operation should not exist. To show your for copyright production in the United States, of<br />
readers that I do not write altogether without which ten copies are sold in this country for every<br />
knowledge and experience, I will sign myself— one sold there. The writer may have been thinking<br />
Ex-MEMBER OF COMMITTEE.<br />
of a certain narrow kind of popular fiction ; but if<br />
so, why didn't he say so ?<br />
We do not, however, wish now to go into these<br />
details. Let us say a word about the contract<br />
between author and agent. Why not be perfectly<br />
honest, and admit that authors, like agents, are<br />
SIR,— We have just had the privilege of reading not angels ? But agents have to deal with many<br />
the extraordinary five-column attack on literary authors who are in or on the verge of financial<br />
agents in your last issue. It is unlikely that you straits. Without money-lending, the agent may,<br />
will give us five columns in which to reply to your and often does, help these struggling men and<br />
detailed points ; but you can hardly refuse to women in a crisis. It would be mean to deny this;<br />
publish this brief protest. For we imagine that it the statement can easily be proved. The reputable<br />
is very far from the intention of the eminent agent is, however, necessarily in a somewhat more<br />
authors composing the Council and Committees of substantial position than such an author, and to<br />
the Authors' Society that their names should be forbid him to collect moneys would, to that extent,<br />
used to cover campaigns, designed in the spirit of involve withdrawing from the most helpless class of<br />
the narrowest type of trade union official, against authors any benefits which literary agency can give<br />
legal and honest occupations. One of us is a them. Again, you say that “the agent must not<br />
member of the society, and for ten years past it be allowed in any circumstances to claim agency<br />
has been our own policy to encourage authors to fees on introductions merely.” ( wise young<br />
join it: Mrs. Thurston, of whom you print a judge ! “In any circumstances !” A young man,<br />
touching memorial notice, is an instance. Nor do perhaps a provincial or a recluse, desirous of obtain-<br />
we in the slightest degree object to reasonable ing a paid post as leader writer, or a regular<br />
criticism of the customs of literary agency, written connection as specialist contributor, is recommended<br />
with the facts clearly in view. It is perfectly well to apply to a certain agent, who, by reason of wide<br />
known to many, perhaps most, of the members of connections, may be able to make such an arrange-<br />
your society, that there are agents and agents. ment for him. The usual practice in such a case is for<br />
The fact is worth stating: but a random attack, the agent to charge a commission upon one or two<br />
based upon such texts as “Preferably don't use an years' salary. What wrong is there here? Where-<br />
agent” and “ Don't employ an agent---but, if you in does this differ in essence from commission upon<br />
do, watch him," is quite another thing. Again, we prepaid royalties? What becomes of your “in any<br />
cannot object to the office of the Authors' Society circumstances” when you look at the broad facts ?<br />
being used as a literary agency for its members in Let us, against your five columns, place two brief<br />
return for fees. But we have every reason to generalities. (1) Most of the eminent authors<br />
object to the officials so occupied being allowed, who are members of the society employ literary<br />
--<br />
---<br />
- =<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 55 (#459) #############################################<br />
<br />
THB AUTHOR.<br />
55<br />
agents. (2) Few of them attempt to treat their man whom he has entrusted with its marketing.<br />
agents as you propose.<br />
But, if, say, after a year's intercourse, he has found<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
his agent quite straightforward and honest in his<br />
THE LITERARY AGENCY OF LONDON, dealings, and sensible and fair-minded in his advice,<br />
G. H. PERRIS,<br />
is the author still never to cease from troubling<br />
C. F. CoSGROVE.<br />
suspicions as to his integrity ?<br />
The business manager that requires continual<br />
[The Authors' Society is not used as a literary<br />
watching is hardly worth the consideration of<br />
agency in return for fees, and does not undertake<br />
averagely sensible people. We make inquiries and<br />
the placing of MSS. and plays—the Agents' main<br />
take considerable thought before confiding our<br />
duty.-Ed.]<br />
affairs to a solicitor, why should it be taken for<br />
granted that we are less careful in the choice of<br />
an agent? We all know, most of us from sad<br />
III.<br />
experience, that there exist dishonest publishers<br />
and unsatisfactory and somewhat shady agents ;<br />
SIR,—I have read with surprise the article on but is the literary profession itself entirely com-<br />
“ Literary Agents” in the October number of posed of persons of the highest probity? It is a<br />
The Author.<br />
pity to condemn a whole class because one indivi-<br />
It seems to me not right that a number of dual's experience may have been unfortunate.<br />
gentlemen, whose work is of vital importance to In every profession the novice makes mistakes<br />
writing men, should be held up to odium in this from which no amount of excellent advice can<br />
manner.<br />
guard him. There are generally far more willing<br />
I say “ of vital importance," and I speak from and experienced persons to advise the young writer<br />
experience. Literary agents, and especially the than there are young writers willing to profit by<br />
agents who now do my business, have proved their advice. The young writer is above all things<br />
themselves to me so absolutely indispensable that, anxious to see himself in print, and any advice or<br />
reading your article, I send this protest.<br />
Cassandra-like utterance which suggests the delay<br />
To advise an author not to employ an agent is, of that happy consummation is regarded as timid or<br />
from my experience, bad advice; to advise him to pessimistic. Would it not be well if occasionally<br />
watch an agent is, from my experience, superfluous in the pages of The Author it was suggested that<br />
advice.<br />
even publishers and literary agents have their<br />
The modern author is a very wideawake person. living to get ? And that in launching an unknown<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
writer the one risks his capital; the other, his time<br />
H. DE VERE STACPOOLE. and his postage stamps.<br />
And it might be well to remind the discontented<br />
that even as a solicitor may be quite honest but<br />
rather stupid, so are there agents who, meaning quite<br />
IV.<br />
well by their clients, yet fail to grasp the essential<br />
quality of an author's work and to find the right<br />
SIR,-In the October number of The Author channel for it. The wise author gets rid of such<br />
there appeared an article on “ Authors' Agents, an agent as soon as possible.<br />
Literary and Dramatic,” which, to put it mildly, In an article that appeared in the Fortnightly<br />
seems rather one-sided. From it the young and Review some five years ago, Mr. Curtis Brown<br />
inexperienced author would gather that the literary sums up this vexed question of the use or futility<br />
agent is an unnecessary evil superimposed upon of the literary agent in a few terse sentences :-<br />
unfortunate authors against their will and better “Much that has been written about the literary<br />
judgment. Now, no author is compelled to employ agent has been futile, because the writers have not<br />
an agent, and if he does so it is certainly with the understood that authors can be divided into two<br />
hope of obtaining by this means better terms from classes : First, those whose work the publisher<br />
the publishers than he could get for himself. Should doesn't particularly want; and second, those whose<br />
he find this is not the case, surely the remedy is in work the publisher does want, or would want if<br />
his own hands, either to seek a more capable agent, he knew of it; and that it is only with the second<br />
or to transact his literary business in person. The class that a sound literary agent has, or should<br />
article concludes with the somewhat cryptic remark, have, much to do.”.<br />
“Don't employ an agent, but if you do, watch<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
him."<br />
L. ALLEN HARKER.<br />
Now even an author might be credited with<br />
sufficient interest in his own work to watch the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#460) #############################################<br />
<br />
56<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
PUBLISHERS' METHODS.<br />
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.<br />
MSS.<br />
SIR,—The Sorrows of a Freelance as set forth in<br />
SIR, I opened my letters this morning. One last month's Author, along with some notes on<br />
was a packet of patterns from a London shop, and The Colonial Markets and an article on the<br />
on each little set of patterns was printed a legend Proposed Canadian Copyright Law, have reminded<br />
to the effect that if they were not returned me of an English magazine I picked out at a rail-<br />
uninjured there would be a charge made for them. way bookstall not long ago, from among four or<br />
Another letter was from a publisher who had<br />
five American monthlies, all of which have already<br />
asked to see my new novel, and to whom I had made good their footing among us and in our<br />
sent my clean and dainty newly-typed MS. It<br />
Colonies. The cover-design of the English<br />
was merely a printed form, saying that the MS. magazine was the work of an American artist, and I<br />
was to hand, but that the publisher declined to do not doubt that the electros from which it was<br />
be responsible for it in any way if it should printed were made in America. The bulk of its<br />
happen to get damaged or lost while under his contents also were by American authors and<br />
care !<br />
artists.<br />
Comment is superfluous. I need only say that<br />
The last time I was in New York an American<br />
my MS. cost over £5 in hard cash to me for editor told me that one of our most lordly magazine<br />
typing alone.<br />
proprietors had been bemoaning there the falling<br />
I am thinking of sending to a West End shop<br />
off in the sales of what was—and, no doubt, still is,<br />
for a new coat on approval, and enclosing a printed<br />
though I do not buy it-one of our most popular<br />
form to the effect that I decline to be responsible<br />
fiction monthlies : whose circulation had fallen, I<br />
for its damage or loss. I don't know the law in understand, from over a million to under half a<br />
such a case, but I've a shrewd suspicion that if I million copies a month.<br />
damaged or lost that coat I should have to pay for<br />
May it not be that our public have had enough<br />
it. Food for reflection here, my co-mates and<br />
of the “pap" ladled out to them by the purveyors<br />
brothers in the craft !<br />
of “popular” magazines ? And that our sorrowing<br />
Yours truly,<br />
freelances have had enough of the unfair methods<br />
A MERE WRITER.<br />
of trading with them still in vogue in most English<br />
magazine offices ?<br />
Of course, we must remember that the products<br />
The American publisher is undoubtedly ousting<br />
of our brain are not our property in the accepted<br />
us in our Colonial markets. My own American<br />
sense. We can only command them for a short<br />
publishers sell as many of my books in Canada<br />
time and cannot bequeath them to our children.<br />
alone as my English publishers can dispose of in<br />
So different from a chair or table! My type-<br />
the rest of the British Empire, England included.<br />
writer can leave her machine to any one she likes,<br />
But it is scarcely our English publishers' fault that<br />
but the book it types cannot be left so. It is to<br />
our Colonial cousins prefer the more gaudy dress in<br />
belong to any publisher who likes to issue it at<br />
which light literature is shipped to them from<br />
4d. and so help to spoil the market for future<br />
America.<br />
authors !<br />
I can quite sympathise with the Canadians in<br />
their aggrieved attempt to combat the American<br />
Typographical Union : which our society might<br />
perhaps commend to the notice of President Taft<br />
as one of those “combinations in restraint of<br />
AMERICAN RIGHTS.<br />
trade" he is so busy “bursting." A Canadian<br />
acquaintance of mine published a book this year, in<br />
DEAR SIR,—Once upon a time I signed an<br />
Canada, the United States, and England ; but both<br />
agreement for three books with a publisher,<br />
the Canadian and English editions came from New<br />
who paid me a sum on account of, among other<br />
York, in sheets. American business policy has<br />
things, the American rights, of which I was to<br />
now become one of aggression : and why should we<br />
receive 10 per cent. after all expenses had been<br />
neglect “the noble art of self-defence ?<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
Two of these books did well in America, con-<br />
ROBERT AITKEN.<br />
sequently I received less than the publisher's<br />
American agent. And yet this publisher was [The remark in this letter about the American<br />
annoyed because I left him at the earliest oppor publisher is interesting when compared with the<br />
tunity.<br />
opinion put forward in the letter from the Literary<br />
H. W.C.N.<br />
Agency of London.--Ed.]<br />
paid.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#461) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
COTTERILL & CROMB<br />
<br />
HUBERT WALES. ESO., of Hindhead, Surrey, writes<br />
"I have just completes the revision of my novel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without having been corrected or even read, and that my handwriting,<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required perception as well as care, something more than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a result- & result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
Literary<br />
Agents,<br />
LENNOX HOUSE,<br />
NORFOLK ST., STRAND,<br />
W.C.<br />
MADAME IRIS<br />
| CINEMA PLOTS WANTED.<br />
MAKES<br />
Good stories suitable for moving pictures. Address<br />
by letter only,<br />
SIMPLE AND BEAUTIFUL GOWNS<br />
| MR. STANHOPE W. SPRIGG,<br />
at reasonable prices, embroidered in original designs.<br />
Literary Consultant,<br />
Each dress specially thought out and made becom-<br />
TRAFALGAR BUILDINGS, CHARING CROSS, LONDON, W.C.<br />
ing to the face and figure of the wearer.<br />
AUTHORS & PLAYWRIGHTS.<br />
Sensible and pretty frocks for children.<br />
Special facilities for placing work of every description.<br />
MADAME IRIS can be seen by appointment at Bay | Particulars from Manager, Literary Department,<br />
Trees, Erskine Hill, Golder's Green, N.W.; or, if<br />
WIENER AGENCY, LD.,<br />
desired, at Royalty Chambers, Dean Street, W.<br />
64, Strand, LONDON,<br />
AND NEW YORK.<br />
- PLAYS<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
TVDIN<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
promptness; d. per 1,000 ;<br />
over 20,000, 6d. Plays ruled<br />
and bound, 8s. Cheap duplicating.<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors),<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every | MISS FOWLER, Maxwell House, Arundel<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction. EXPERT IN DECIPHERING DIFFICULT HANDWRITING.<br />
Extract from Unsolicited Testimonial.-“I send you work com.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
pared to which Egyptian hieroglyphics would be child's play, and you<br />
return the manuscript at the time requested without one single<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the inaccuracy. It is nothing short of marvellous."<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
- NO THEORIES. —<br />
MISS A. B. STEVENSON, Yew Tree Cottage,<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
SUTTON, MACCLESFIELI).<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Story Work, 9d. 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/-; Plays, ruled and covered,<br />
1- 1,000 words.<br />
Copies of recent Testimonials:<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world, 'W. Shaw SPARROW: "I'm glad I don't hear the steady noise of your machine,<br />
but I appreciate the excellence of your work."<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
DANIEL WOODROFFE: "Miss A. B. Stevenson is very accurate in her type-<br />
writing and most satisfactory in every way."<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
-A well-known MAGAZINE<br />
P. EDITOR and PUBLISHER'S<br />
READER offers to advise and assist AUTHORS. Success<br />
Secured.-EDITOR, c.o. Rudin's, 199, Strand, W.C.<br />
Address : 23, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#462) #############################################<br />
<br />
viii<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
TYPEWRITING<br />
WITH BRAINS.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
My work is always the same—THE BEST. || Near the British Museum,<br />
INDIFFERENT COPY TYPED WELL stands a better<br />
chance with Editors and Publishers than<br />
GOOD WORK TYPED BADLY.<br />
I USE BRAINS as well as hands.<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
HIGH-CLASS WORK AT LOW CHARGES.<br />
Every Order I have executed has been followed Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor, Lounges<br />
by Repeats.<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
I have many Testimonials from Members of the and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
Authors' Society.<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
MY WORK IS MY BEST REFERENCE! Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
I work for Authors, Clergymen, Playwrights, Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 8/-.<br />
Business Houses, &c.<br />
SEND ME A TRIAL ORDER NOW.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-,<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
176, Loughborough Road, LONDON, s.w.<br />
Thackeray Hotel—"Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—"Bookcraft, London.”<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND, | AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone—8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel-<br />
London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
ligently copied, from 18. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Please write before sending MSS.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
W.C.<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
TYPEWRITING, 8d. a 1,000 words; in<br />
duplicate, 9d. Specimen and reference if desired.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
CLAUD GIRTON, 2, GROVE LANE, CAMBERWELL, S.E.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and General<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli-<br />
cation.<br />
One Of NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
u Miss M. R. HORNE bas typed for me literary matter to the<br />
64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing<br />
Recommended by Mr, G, K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with wbich she<br />
does ber work.-FRANK SAVILE."<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.,<br />
and Others.<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Typewriting and Secretarial Work.<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen: "Many<br />
New Address:<br />
thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
15, WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX. been done."<br />
Printed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/427/1911-11-01-The-Author-22-2.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 428 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/428 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 03 (December 1911) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+03+%28December+1911%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 03 (December 1911)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1911-12-01-The-Author-22-3 | | | | | 57–84 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1911-12-01">1911-12-01</a> | | | | | | | 3 | | | 19111201 | The El u tbor.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.- No. 3.<br />
DECEMBER 1, 1911.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAOR<br />
12<br />
::::<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
List of Members ..<br />
The Pension Fund ...<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
Books published by Members ...<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes ... ... ... ... ...<br />
United States Law Case ...<br />
Second Pan-American Convention, 1902<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books ...<br />
::::<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors...<br />
Registration of Scenarios and Origin<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents ...<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
Remittances<br />
General Notes<br />
The Crux of the Agent Question<br />
Authors and their Reviewers<br />
The Hazard of the Pen<br />
Samuel Richardson<br />
Correspondence<br />
:::::::<br />
ORDER AT ONCE of your Librarian or Bookseller JUST READY. The sweetest story ever told.<br />
By the Author of "THE BROAD HIGHWAY."<br />
Re Thoney moon<br />
Jekery Barnde<br />
Crown 8vo. Cloth Gilt. Price 6s.<br />
Those who have read * The Broad Highway ” will be sure to read this new work by Mr. Farnol. The same<br />
delightfully smooth style, the same romantic setting is to be found in "The Money Moon "as existed in the author's<br />
first work. It is romance of the purest, and as such forms an agreeable contrast to the realistic and somewhat<br />
fatiguing literature of modern times. Although it is a story which requires no stretching of the imagination,<br />
Mr. Farnol bere tells what can best be described as a fairy-tale for grown-ups. He tells it in such a way that we<br />
are left with the conviction that though it may not be fact, it is at any rate possible and even highly probable. The<br />
imagination of a child is not strained when it is asked to believe in spirits and fairies, witchcraft and m ic: it<br />
believes in them, revels in the beauty of the thoughts they engender, without requiring to be convinced heir<br />
reality. But as we grow older that power gradually dwindles till at length it seems to disappear altogether. The<br />
facts of life have killed it, or so we imagine. Mr. Farnol, however, steps in here to tell us that this is not so. His<br />
art consists in having discovered and unveiled this power which we still possess, though in a modified form ; his<br />
stories take us again into a land of make-believe, more mature, it is true, tban the fairy-land of our youth, but<br />
none the less beautiful, and far more consonant with the stage of development which our years and experience<br />
have brought us to. When we close the book we do not say : "<br />
were only possible," but )<br />
"How beautiful, and how very possible."<br />
THE ROMANCE OF THE NEW CENTURY.<br />
By Jeffery Farnol.<br />
66 THE BROAD HIGHWAY."<br />
Full Crown 8vo. 512 pages Cloth Gilt. Price 6s.<br />
A work that has met with such an extraordinary demand in so short a time all over the English-speaking world<br />
needs no recoinmendation. It is impossible to state the exact number of readers- 1,000,000 in twelve months would<br />
probably be a near estimate-and the demand for it continues. There is no doubt that it is the most popular and<br />
successful English novel of the year.<br />
A BORN STORY TELLER.<br />
UNDER WESTERN SKIES ; or, Life Pictures from Memory. By Francis Sin, lair,<br />
Author of "From the Four Winds," etc., etc. Large Crown svo. Cloth gilt, bandsomely bound. Price 6s.<br />
WRITE FOR ILLUSTRATED ANNOUNCEMENT LIST OF NEW BOOKS for Library or Presentation.<br />
London: Sampson Low. Marston & Co. Ltd. Overy House, 100, Southwark Strcet, S. e.<br />
on: Sampson LOW, Marston & Co., Ltd., and Tudor House, 32, Warwick Lane. E.c.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#464) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telegraphic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON.”<br />
Telephone No.: 374 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O.M.<br />
COUNCIL.<br />
SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. THE Right Hon. THE LORD CURZON JUSTIN MCCARTHY.<br />
SIB WM. REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. OF KEDLESTON, P.C.<br />
THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
J. M. BARRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESH FIELD.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.<br />
THE RIGHT HON, SIR HORACE<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
H, RIDER HAGGARD.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRB. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON ("LUCAS MALET"'). OWEN SEAMAN,<br />
THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
BELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G. R, SIMS.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT,<br />
S. SQUIRE SPBIGGE, M.D.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S,<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD,<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD BURGH: JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD,<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
H, G. WELLS.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.8.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.B.8. PERCY WHITE.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (Miss FLORA L. FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT Box.<br />
W. MORRIS COLLES.<br />
SHAW).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
THE Hon. JOHN COLLIER.<br />
MRS. MAXWELL (M, E. BRADDON). P.C., &c.<br />
SIB W. MARTIN CONWAY,<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. | MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR,<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND,<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB,<br />
J. W. COMENS CARR.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAN.<br />
RUDOLPH BESIER.<br />
H. GRANVILLE BARKER.<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. CARTON.<br />
| MISS CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH,<br />
CAPT. BASIL HOOD.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
JEROME K, JEROME.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
MORLEY ROBERTS.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
ANSTEY GUMTRIE.<br />
ANTHONY LE HAWKINS.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, HERBERT SOLLIVAN.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
ART.<br />
JOHN HASSALL, R.I.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM,<br />
J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
M. H, SPIELMANN.<br />
THE HON, JOHN COLLIER,<br />
BIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
FIELD, Roscok & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G, HERBERT THRING,<br />
G, HEBBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, 8.W. )<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Société des gens de Lettres<br />
Legal Representative in America_JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY'S GATE, 8.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#465) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
- PLAYS<br />
AUTHORS, ATTENTION !<br />
Whitaker's<br />
Almanack<br />
AND<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors),<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
- NO THEORIES.<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
Whitaker's<br />
Peerage<br />
WILL BE PUBLISHED ON<br />
DECEMBER 12th.<br />
- TWO INVALUABLE -<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
ORDER AT ONCE from your Bookseller.<br />
Address : 23, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
BARGAINS IN BOOKS.<br />
“The Book Monthly is now enlarged and makes an exceedingly<br />
pleasant and readable publication."<br />
---CLAUDIUS CLEar, in the British Weekly.<br />
,, THE ..<br />
BOOK MONTHLY.<br />
Terms-Cash with order. The Tissot Pictures illustrating<br />
the Life of Christ, £6 6s, net; Splendid Copy, absolutely<br />
good as new for £3 58. The Twentieth Century Practice<br />
of Medicine; an international Encyclopædia of Modern<br />
Medical Science by leading authorities of Europe and<br />
America ; 20 volumes, published 20 guineas; new, uncut,<br />
original binding, £7 108. Cross cheques and postal orders<br />
L. & S.W. Bank, Fleet Street Branch.-J. F. BELMONT<br />
& Co., 29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
You know the "Book Monthly" by name-you<br />
very often see it quoted in the papers. It is a<br />
brightly written, brightly illustrated magazine<br />
about the books and the literary affairs of the<br />
day. But as yet you have not taken it in!<br />
Well, you are missing something, and you<br />
should at once arrange to get it regularly.<br />
It is an instructing. entertaining "guide,<br />
philosopher and friend” for the reader near<br />
the centre of things or far away. Being now<br />
seven years old, and so grown up, it has just<br />
been enlarged, and made more popular and<br />
practical in contents and style. Read it, and<br />
you will know what to read : what's what and<br />
who's who in the book world.<br />
M S S.<br />
Typewritten.<br />
Accuracy and<br />
Appearance of Work studied.<br />
Price from 9d. per 1000 words.<br />
DE MOMET & WALKER, 3, Trafalgar Buildings,<br />
Charing Cross, W.C.<br />
Tel.: 7574 Gerrard.<br />
The Book Monthly is published on the first of each month by<br />
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., Ltd., Stationers' Hall Court, London,<br />
It costs Sixpence, and it can be ordered from any Bookseller, Book.<br />
stall, or Newsagent. The Publishers will send it, post free, for a<br />
year, ipland or abroad, on receipt of eight shillings. You can<br />
have a copy of the current number posted to you by forwarding<br />
6d., or a specimen back number for nothing.<br />
TYPEWRITING !<br />
Authors' MSS, neatly and accurately copied, 9d. per<br />
| 1,000 words, including Carbon Copy.<br />
Also General Copying, Plays, Actors' Parts, etc., at<br />
moderate charges.<br />
B. KERRY, 23, Abingdon Mansions, Kensington, W.<br />
(Please note change of address from Rohilla, Carshalton.)<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#466) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE<br />
SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report for the current | 7. Copyright Law Reform.<br />
year. Price 1s. net.<br />
An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copy-<br />
right Bill of 1890. With Extracts from<br />
2. The Author.<br />
the Report of the Commission of 1878,<br />
Published ten months in the year (August the Berne Convention, and the American<br />
and September omitted) devoted especially Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. Price<br />
to the protection and maintenance of 18, 6d. net.<br />
Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to all Members gratis. Price to<br />
non-members, 6d., or 58. 6d. per annum, 8. The Society of Authors.<br />
post free. Back numbers from 1892, at A Record of its Action from its Founda-<br />
10s. 6d. net, per vol.<br />
tion. By WALTER BESANT (Chairman of<br />
Committee, 1888–1892). Price 1s, net.<br />
8. Literature and the Pension List.<br />
By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany,<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland,<br />
By ERNST LUNGE, J.U.D. Price 2s. 6d. net.<br />
4. The History of the Société des Gens de<br />
Lettres.<br />
By 8. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. Price 18. net. 10. Forms of Agreement issued by the<br />
Publishers' Association; with Com-<br />
ments.<br />
8. The Cost of Production.<br />
. (Out of print.)<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING, and Illustrative<br />
Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd<br />
Edition. Price 1s. net.<br />
8. The Various Methods of Publication.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work,<br />
compiled from the papers in the Society's 11. Periodicals and their contributors.<br />
offices, the various forms of agreements Giving the Terms on which the different<br />
proposed by Publishers to Authors are<br />
Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS.<br />
examined, and their meaning carefully and Contributions. Price 6d. net.<br />
explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made<br />
possible by the different clauses therein. 12. Society of Authors.<br />
Price 3s, net.<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907,<br />
price 6d. net.<br />
Addenda to the Above.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being ad-<br />
ditional facts collected at the office of<br />
| 13. International Copyright Convention<br />
the Society since the publication of the<br />
as Revised at Berlin, 1909.<br />
“ Methods.” With comments and advice.<br />
Price 28. net.<br />
Price 1s, net.<br />
[All prices net. Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S. W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#467) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Romance of a State Secret.<br />
AUTHORS, ATTENTION !<br />
By W. TRAFFORD-TAUNTON. Author of “Silent<br />
Dominion," "The Threshold," "Igdrasil."<br />
"A very spirited and lively tale of the Escapades of<br />
Rochester in the London of Charles II.”—The Times.<br />
If you are entering for Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton's<br />
£1,000 Novel Competition, there is still time to take<br />
advantage of my special terms quoted below, but it is<br />
desirable to write early.<br />
Until the Day Breaks.<br />
A REMARKABLE OFFER!<br />
By A. KNIGHT HUNT.<br />
A delightful and pleasing story of when Love's<br />
young dream was estranged by the demon Jealousy.<br />
Under Love's Rule.<br />
By Miss BRADDON.<br />
Just added to the Author's Edition. Cloth Gilt Top, 2/6.<br />
The Call of the Past.<br />
If you will send your MS. and<br />
P.O. for 10/-, together with a<br />
promise to pay the balance (at<br />
the rate of 1/- per 1,000 words,<br />
carbon duplicate 3d. per 1,000) in<br />
monthly instalments of £1, I will<br />
undertake to return you a per-<br />
fectly correct type-written copy.<br />
Absolute secrecy guaranteed.<br />
Read one of my latest testimonials :-<br />
Hill Cottage, Stanmore, Middlesex,<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
August 11th, 1911.<br />
I received the book, and now write to thank you for your<br />
prompt and excellent work, with which I am entirely satis-<br />
fed. I shall be pleased to send you my work in the future,<br />
and will recommend you to my friends.<br />
Yours sincerely (Signed) J. D. E. LOVELAND.<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Road, St. Albans, Herts.<br />
A Political Jingle. By A. H. COCHRAN.<br />
" This call's in our blood, and it comes to each man."<br />
" From those others who can not awaken; WE CAN."<br />
ONE SHILLING NET.<br />
LONDON: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton,<br />
Kent & Co., Ltd.<br />
JUST PUBLISHBD.<br />
To Authors and Journalists.<br />
THE TUPPENNY BOX.<br />
The writer, whether he aspires to write novels, short stories,<br />
or articles, often spends years in uncongenial work,<br />
rebuffs and drudgery being the only return for the time<br />
and labour spent.<br />
THE COURSE OF LITERARY TRAINING promoted by<br />
the Literary Correspondence College teaches the<br />
Aspirant to serve his apprenticeship to Literature in the<br />
briefest time possible.<br />
The College also undertakes Literary Agency business of all<br />
kinds.<br />
For full particulars write at once for Pamphlet D.M. to the LITERARY<br />
CORRESPONDENOE COLLEGE, 9, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
"First Lessons in Story Writing."<br />
By Colin FITZGERALD. Author of " Ikona Camp."<br />
A FEW FIRST REVIEWS.<br />
Times.--"Studies written with some insight into character<br />
of humble or erring life, told by an old second-hand<br />
bookseller."<br />
Morning Post.-" The Tuppenny Box'is a quaint collection<br />
of chapters to which their author has given a puzzling title,<br />
but it will repay the reader to investigate them for himself.<br />
Mr. FitzGerald has a happy knack of showing good in all<br />
things, and from the point of human sympathy the book<br />
will deserve a better fate than a future hustling of<br />
neighbours in a tuppenny box."<br />
The People.--" The idea is good.”<br />
South Africa.-" This is a series of social sketches of a<br />
London now passed away. They are cleverly done. Get the<br />
book and make the acquaintance of Old Daddy Dodderlong.<br />
It is an education."<br />
Scotsman.-" There is so much humour in Old (Daddy<br />
Dodderlong's tales, and the pictures of commonplace, kindly<br />
people are so tenderly painted, that the book is never<br />
tedious."<br />
Birmingham Post.--"The volume is lightly written and very<br />
readable."<br />
Dundee Advertiser.-"Inimitable stories, and all well worth<br />
reading for their gentle irony, quaint conceits, and truth-<br />
fulness to types."<br />
By BARRY PAIN.<br />
2nd Edition. 28. 6d. net. 28. 8d. post free.<br />
of this work the Westminster Gazette writes :-"The<br />
beginner who takes these lessons to heart may be quite<br />
assured of an advantage over bis competitors."<br />
“How to become an Author."<br />
By ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
A Practical Guide; full of useful hints.<br />
2nd Edition. 58. net. 5s. 4d. post free.<br />
The Literary Correspondence College,<br />
9, Arundel Street, Strand, w.c.<br />
This is worth adding to your Library List.<br />
Published by ..<br />
HENRY J. DRANE,<br />
82a, Farringdon Street, LONDON, E.C.<br />
Crown 8vo. 6/-<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 56 (#468) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
From Mr. JOHN OUSELEY'S LIST.<br />
M the Holy Scriptus of the Authomire the res<br />
Health and Empire. FRANCIS FREMANTLE,<br />
F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P., etc. 7/6 net. Illustrated.<br />
The Standard, in a whole-column review says:-"Mr.<br />
Fremantle writes with ability and knowledge. ... The<br />
book is one to be read carefully."<br />
The Records Unrolled. Rev. E. S. BUCHANAN,<br />
M.A., B.Sc. 2/6 net. A new work on the Ancient MSS.<br />
of the Holy Scriptures. With Plates.<br />
The Catholic Times says of the Author "His work is inter-<br />
esting and well done.. . We admire the reverent love<br />
which prompted and the patient zeal which sustained<br />
him."<br />
Darwin and the Bible. H. ARMYTAGE.<br />
6/- net.<br />
(Ready shortly.<br />
The Royal Progress of Our Lord.<br />
Venerable Archdeacon TROTTER. 5/- net.<br />
[Ready shortly.<br />
Modern Views of the Bible. Rev. P. A.<br />
ELLIS. 2/- net. With an Introduction by the Dean of<br />
WELLS.<br />
The Daily Mail says :—"The book deserves to be widely<br />
read, and we warmly commend it to all."<br />
The Church Times says :-"A book to recommend."<br />
The Testimony of Jesus. A. BEREAN. 11-<br />
net, leather.<br />
Finger Posts to Animal Life. R. BROOKS<br />
POPHAM, M.D. 5/- net. A New Nature Book.<br />
The Anglo-American Arbitration<br />
Treaty. J. THOMPSON. 60, net. (Just ready.<br />
Wanderings in Many Lands. Sketches of<br />
Travel. Professor NELSON FRASER, M.A. 6/-net.<br />
(Ready shortly.<br />
Scrambles in Storm and Sunshine.<br />
E. Elliot STOCK. 6-net.<br />
“As thrilling a tale as the reader could wish for."- Daily<br />
Mail.<br />
"A delightful work."-Daily Graphic.<br />
“Parts of the book are far more enthralling than any story<br />
of adventure we have read."-Westminster Gazette.<br />
The Temple of Demos. H. M. BOWER, 6-.<br />
Fairy Plants. An Entirely New Work. Fully<br />
Illustrated. 2/- net. By FRANCIS GEORGE HEATH, Editor<br />
of “Forestry" and of the New Edition of Gilpin's<br />
“Forest Scenery." Author of “Sylvan Spring," "The<br />
Fern World," My Garden Wild," "Our Woodland<br />
Trees," "The Fern Paradise," "Burnham Beeches,”<br />
" Trees and Ferns," "Peasant Life," " Where to Find<br />
Ferns," "The English Peasantry," etc.<br />
Recreations with a Pocket Lens. By<br />
W. JAMES WINTLE, F.Z.S., Author of “ Armenia and Its<br />
Sorrows," " Paradise Row,” etc. Profusely Illustrated.<br />
2/-net.<br />
A charming introduction to one of the most delightful<br />
branches of nature study, written by one who has made the<br />
subject his own. The text is profusely illustrated, and is<br />
free from technical details.<br />
Bairnies. “CHANTICLEER." Author of "Garnered<br />
Sheaves," “ Prairie Chickens,"“Chicks A!" 2/6 net.<br />
I<br />
6, FLEET LANE, FARRINGDON STREET, LONDON, E.C.<br />
Save your Numbers carefully until the Volume is complete<br />
“ THE AUTHOR” MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
.. BY USING .<br />
“The<br />
Author"<br />
(The Official Organ of The<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors)<br />
MECHANICAL<br />
BINDER<br />
Cloth Gilt<br />
with Mechanism<br />
Complete.<br />
Price 2/8 net.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up, number<br />
by number, the numbers of The Author as they are published,<br />
and at the completion of the Volume can be taken off and sent<br />
to the Bookbinder-leaving the Mechanical Binder free for the<br />
next volume. Whether containing one number or a complete<br />
volume it has the appearance of, and handles the same as, an<br />
ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by which the<br />
Author can be instantly bound with the same facility as a single<br />
leaf, and there are no wires or elastic strings to get out of order.<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The Cloth<br />
Covers are made by leading London Bookbinders, and the Metal<br />
Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to break,<br />
it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
St. James' Budget: "The advantages of the Binder are so<br />
obvious ...<br />
Leeds Mercury :-"An ingenious and accommodating inven-<br />
tion.<br />
Westminster Budget:-"The construction of the Binder is<br />
simplicity itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end."<br />
Literary World :-"A clever device—so extremely simple and<br />
easy in applying."<br />
Sheffield Daily Telegraph :-"After use we can confidently<br />
recommend."<br />
<br />
THE BINDER OPEN.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO., 29, Paternoster Square, LONDON, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 57 (#469) #############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
( The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.-No. 3.<br />
DECEMBER 1ST, 1911.<br />
PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
T OR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of The Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the notice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
DROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
retorn articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
THE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br />
1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
6d., post free 71d. It includes elections to July,<br />
1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
of the Society oply.<br />
A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 58 (#470) #############################################<br />
<br />
58<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
end of the list for the conrenience of those who<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
£ s. d.<br />
0 5 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
June 15, Sabatini, Rafael . .<br />
June 16, Hamilton, Henry . .<br />
Oct. 5, Bungay, E. Newton<br />
Oct. 6, Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson. .<br />
Oct. 12, Hannay, J. O. . .<br />
.<br />
Oct. 13, Ward, Mrs. Humphry (in<br />
addition to her present subscrip-<br />
tion of £10 per annum for 1912<br />
and 1913) . . . . .<br />
Nov. 9, Dailey, R. H. .<br />
Nov. 10, McCormick, E. B. ,<br />
Nov. 10, Salter, Miss E. K. . .<br />
Nov. 14, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole<br />
5 0<br />
0 5<br />
0 10<br />
0 5<br />
0 5<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
on 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 />
is<br />
The amount purchased at the present price 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 />
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 />
..... £1,312 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 />
250 00<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ...<br />
Cape of Good Hope 32% Inscribed<br />
Stock .............................<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
4% Preference Stock............ 228 0 0<br />
New Zealand 32% Stock ............... 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land Act 21% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 2% Stock,<br />
1927–57 .......<br />
438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 33% 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.........<br />
198 3 8<br />
·<br />
0 10 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 100<br />
05 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 10 6<br />
1 0 0<br />
0 1 9<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
2 2 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
5 5 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
1 0 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
2 2 0<br />
· ·<br />
200<br />
200<br />
0<br />
0<br />
Donations.<br />
1911.<br />
March 3, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
March 6, Haultain, Arnold.<br />
.<br />
March 9, Hardy, Harold . .<br />
March 9, Hutton, E. . .<br />
March 10, Wilson, Albert .<br />
March 16, Ward, Dudley.<br />
•<br />
March 30, Coke, Desmond . . •<br />
April 1, The XX Pen Club<br />
:<br />
April 6, Channon, Mrs. E. M.<br />
April 7, Henry, Miss Alice . .<br />
April 10, Ralli, Scaramanga .<br />
April 11, Robins, Miss Alice . .<br />
April 20, MacEwan, Miss. . .<br />
April 20, C. N. and Mrs. Williamson<br />
April 21, Shirley, Arthur . .<br />
April 22, H. A. and Mrs. Hinkson<br />
April 24, Toplis, Miss Grace<br />
May, Walter John .<br />
..<br />
May 19, An Old Member.<br />
June 2, Wrench, Mrs. Stanley · ·<br />
July 3. Ingram, J. H.<br />
July 13, Fell-Smith, Miss C. .<br />
Sept. 18, Peacock, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
Sept. 24, Winter, C. Gordon .<br />
Oct. 10, Guthrie, Anstey. .<br />
Oct. 11, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred .<br />
Oct. 19, Romane-James, Mrs. C..<br />
Oct. 27. “ Olivia Ramsay ” ..<br />
Nov. 3, Sprigge, Dr. S. Squire (third<br />
donation) :<br />
Nov. 3, Tanner, James T. (fifth dona-<br />
tion) .<br />
Nov. 3, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton .<br />
Nov. 4, Cayzer, Charles (third donation)<br />
Nov. 6, Le Riche, P. J.<br />
Nov. 6, Daniell, Mrs. E. H. . .<br />
Nov. 13, Anon. . .<br />
Nov. 17, Hichens, Robert (in addition<br />
to annual subscription) . .<br />
Nov. 20, Grant, John G. . . .<br />
.<br />
6<br />
autey<br />
............<br />
er noen er oo<br />
2 0<br />
3 3<br />
0 15<br />
0 10<br />
0<br />
0<br />
6<br />
6<br />
Total ............... £4,377 19<br />
4<br />
. 10 00<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
1911.<br />
March 9, Boughton, Rutland .<br />
March 10, Somers, John . .<br />
April 6, Rawlings, Burford<br />
April 11, Wicks, Mark .<br />
June 15, Fitzgerald, Colin<br />
June 15, Fleming, Mrs. A. D. .<br />
£<br />
0<br />
0<br />
2 2 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
3 3 0<br />
0 10 6<br />
( 10 0<br />
0 90<br />
.<br />
$. d.<br />
5 0<br />
5 0<br />
6<br />
5 0<br />
5 0<br />
0 0<br />
0 10<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
0<br />
2<br />
.<br />
3 3<br />
0 10<br />
0<br />
6<br />
6<br />
•<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 59 (#471) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
59<br />
For<br />
The Editor regrets that in the publication in A case dealing with the bankruptcy of an agent<br />
the November issue of the full list of annual Sub- was then considered, and it was decided to follow<br />
scribers to the Pension Fund some mistakes occurred, the advice of the solicitor and go forward with the<br />
which he now takes the earliest opportunity of matter.<br />
correcting.<br />
Some important cases of dramatic piracy were<br />
Read<br />
discussed, relating to infringements of copyright<br />
Mrs. Cameron Mrs. Charlotte Cameron<br />
and performing rights both in England and Ireland.<br />
Miss Gabriel Festing Miss Festing<br />
The committee decided to take vigorous action in<br />
F. W. Halford F. M. Halford<br />
these matters, as some half a dozen members of the<br />
society were involved. They felt sure that once<br />
the pirates could be driven off the market, dramatic<br />
authors would reap a corresponding benefit by<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
legitimate performances of their plays.<br />
The solicitor was able to report that five cases<br />
dealing with infringement of copyright and pay-<br />
THE November meeting of the committee ment of moneys had been settled during the month<br />
was held at the offices of the society on by the recovery of the sums due to the members<br />
Monday the 6th.<br />
involved. One claim against an actor for fees due<br />
The committee are pleased to note another large on performances of a sketch was mentioned. The<br />
election, forty-two members and associates having solicitor informed the committee that he had<br />
come in since the previous meeting of the com- obtained part payment, and was now applying for<br />
mittee on October 2nd. This brings the total number proper accounts.<br />
of elections for the current year up to 263. If, An important case in the United States was<br />
during November, the elections come in at the same considered by the committee, and the action to be<br />
rate, then the elections for 1911 will be consider- taken was left for future consideration, it being<br />
ably in excess of those for 1910.<br />
understood that the chairman and secretary of the<br />
T'he committee registered, with regret, ten resig. society would discuss the position with the<br />
nations, bringing the resignations for the current author.<br />
year up to seventy-six.<br />
Another case in the United States—this time in<br />
While resignations are to be expected, the com- San Francisco—the committee decided to carry<br />
mittee are glad to note that with the increase of through.<br />
membership of the society, they do not appear to Both these cases dealt with dramatic copyright.<br />
increase proportionately, but maintain very much A case of alleged unfair criticism of a book was<br />
the same level as in past years.<br />
laid before the committee by a member. After<br />
The committee next considered the question of careful consideration, the committee came to the<br />
life membership<br />
conclusion that it would be impossible to take<br />
On many occasions members, having subscribed the action suggested by the member, and the<br />
for some years, have asked to have their subscrip- secretary was instructed to write to him to that<br />
tions capitalised into a life membership fee, but the effect.<br />
committee have felt, in view of the smallness of the Sir Gilbert Parker attended the meeting of the<br />
life membership subscription, that it is impossible committee in order to raise some points as to<br />
to depart from the rule which demands this pay the committee's action on the Copyright Bill,<br />
ment in one lump sum, and that no offer to pay the and to put forward further points in regard to<br />
subscription by instalments, or in any other manner Canadian copyright. The committee listened<br />
than that indicated, could be entertained. It sympathetically to Sir Gilbert Parker's statement.<br />
would be impossible for the society to continue its They further decided, as he informed them that he<br />
work, and preserve its financial stability, if a was going to Canada, to accept his good offices<br />
departure from the rule were permitted which there in connection with the Canadian copyright<br />
interfered with regular income.<br />
question, which has most important bearings for<br />
The next matter before the committee was the English authors.<br />
consideration of the legal cases. On these the The committee's nomination of representatives<br />
solicitor had a very favourable report to submit. for the election to the committee of management<br />
One case of infringement of copyright, which had in 1912 was adjourned till the December meeting.<br />
been closed by an undertaking on the part of the The committee regretted that their efforts in<br />
defendants to pay the sum claimed as damages, had regard to the insurance of members against loss<br />
to be reopened owing to the discovery that the incurred through defaulting magazines had been<br />
defendants had made an incorrect statement as to unsuccessful, as the figures in these cases were so<br />
the number of books they had printed.<br />
variable that it was impossible to fix upon any<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 60 (#472) #############################################<br />
<br />
60<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
standards of premium which would cover even large Three dramatic cases were next reported, at<br />
groups of cases.<br />
having been taken in band on behalf of members.<br />
It was decided to forward copies of a draft agree All three dealt with infringements of performing<br />
ment between authors and literary agents to rights, by touring managers who were running plays<br />
members of the committee, with a request that they without rendering accounts and without paymens<br />
should submit any suggestions they may have to of moneys to the persons concerned. The Dramatic<br />
offer in regard to it. It was proposed to codify Sub-Committee strongly recommended that these<br />
these suggestions and submit them to a sub- cases should be carried through by the Committee<br />
committee, who will report to the committee upon of Management.<br />
the matter.<br />
Cases.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
We are pleased to report that the cases in the<br />
On Friday, November 10, a special meeting of the hands of the secretary during the past month have<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee was held at 2, Brunswick only reached eight in number.<br />
Place, Regent's Park, N.W., by the kind invitation There was one case of alleged breach of contract.<br />
of Mr.Cecil Raleigh. The only matter discussed at Authors should remember that if a clause in an<br />
that meeting was the settlement of the Managerial agreement is broken it does not necessarily cancel<br />
Treaty. The committee commenced their sitting at the agreement, but as a rule only gives a right of<br />
eleven o'clock in the morning, and the Managerial action for damages. Even then, it is sometimes<br />
Treaty was finally settled at 5.30 in the after. difficult to prove that damages have been sustained,<br />
noon.<br />
and therefore it is not worth while to pursue the<br />
The next meeting was held on Friday, November case further. Again, it is valuable for an author<br />
17, when Mr. Haddon Chambers introduced to the to remember that if the breach of agreement has<br />
meeting Mr. Walter C. Jordan, of New York, who anything to do with the delay in publication it is<br />
desired to inform the sub-committee of the position sometimes best to settle the question diplomatically<br />
of authors' rights with stock companies in the United rather than to take the matter through the courts.<br />
States. Mr. Jordan explained how very valuable An action at law, while the book is on the market<br />
these rights might be if properly marketed, and or just about to be placed on the market, is not<br />
advised that in future contracts dramatists should likely to increase the publisher's anxiety to press<br />
be careful that they received suitable remuneration the book into a successful circulation. The case<br />
for these rights, or reserved them so that they might which has been in the secretary's hand has been<br />
deal with them separately through dramatic agents settled in as far as it was possible to settle a difficult<br />
in the United States. The sub-committee thanked matter without hurting the author's position.<br />
Mr. Jordan for his attendance and for the informa There have been two cases dealing with the<br />
tion he had given them.<br />
payment of money. In these the moneys have<br />
The secretary then laid before the sub-committee been paid and forwarded to the respective authors.<br />
the final draft of the Managerial Treaty, and it was One case of infringement of title has been<br />
decided to send a circular to members of the abandoned on the advice of the Secretary. It may<br />
Dramatists' Club, with a copy of the treaty, and be as well to repeat that there is no copyright in a<br />
subsequently, to send the treaty with a covering title, and only in exceptional cases is it possible to<br />
letter to members of the Dramatic Section of the advise authors to take action ; but any author who<br />
Society of Authors. This will be carried through is a member of the Society is entitled to a legal<br />
in the course of the next few weeks.<br />
opinion as to his position, as each case must be<br />
The secretary then reported that, on November 8, judged by the special evidence bearing on it.<br />
a deputation, consisting of Mr. R. C. Carton, Mr. Two cases have come into the office with regard<br />
W. J. Locke, Mr. Cecil Raleigh and himself, to the return of MSS. One is in course of negotia-<br />
attended a meeting of the Theatres and Music tion, and in the other, which bas only recently come<br />
Halls Committee of the London County Council in to hand, the delinquent has not had time to reply<br />
order to place before that committee the anomalies to the Secretary's letter,<br />
which occur in regard to sketch production, and in Two cases of infringement of copyright (both<br />
order to urge upon the council the necessity of dramatic cases) have only recently come into the<br />
granting double licences pending the introduction office. If the Secretary does not receive a satis-<br />
of some proper legislation to alter the present music factory answer to bis communication they will be<br />
hall law in this respect. The sub-committee are placed in the hands of the society's solicitors.<br />
pleased to report that the council have now in some There are at present a considerable number of<br />
cases granted the double licence where it had been cases of infringement of dramatic rights being<br />
applied for.<br />
dealt with by the solicitors.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 61 (#473) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
61<br />
Of the cases left open from former months three Reid, D. E. . . . H.B.M. Legation,<br />
have had to be placed in the solicitors' bands.<br />
Bangkok, Siam.<br />
One dealing with the payment of money is still Richardson, A. Eva . , Writers' Club, W.C.<br />
open, but part of the money has been paid, and the Ross, Miss Lina . . 22, Earl's Court<br />
Secretary trusts he will be able to obtain the<br />
Square, S.W.<br />
balance without referring the matter to the society's Sadler, Mrs. S. H. (S. H. S.) 5, St. Andrew's Place,<br />
lawyers.<br />
Regent's Park,<br />
N.W., and Lyceum<br />
November Elections.<br />
Club.<br />
Salter, Emily K. . . 225, Willesden Lane,<br />
Allshorn, L. . . . 33, Trebovir Road,<br />
Cricklewood, N.W.<br />
London, S.W. Sinnett, Alfred Percy 59, Jermyn Street,<br />
Castleton Robert<br />
S.W.<br />
Cross, Harold H. U. . c/o Society of Authors. Smith, Arthur . . . 9, Grand Parade, St.<br />
Dailley, Richard “ Crom- “Corona," Torquay,<br />
Leonards-on-Sea.<br />
well Clarke,"<br />
Devon.<br />
Snell, Olive . . . 5, Rutland Gate, S.W.<br />
Dorling, Lieut. Taprell . c/o Admiralty, White- Stiles, Leslie . . . 44, Duke's Avenue,<br />
hall, S.W.<br />
Chiswick, W.<br />
Eden Guy . . . 14, Eccleston Square, Stone, Christopher Rey. Lady Ham, Burford,<br />
S.W.<br />
nolds.<br />
Oxon.<br />
Forbes George, M.A., 11, Little College Waterbury, Mrs. (Jane 4, Chemin du Foyer,<br />
F.R.S.<br />
Street, West. Adams).<br />
Geneva, Switzer-<br />
minster, S.W. The<br />
land.<br />
Athenæum Club, Yearsley, Macleod, F.R.C.S. 59, Queen Anne<br />
S.W.<br />
Street, Cavendish<br />
Fraser Edward . . Fern Bank, Zig Zag<br />
Square, W.<br />
Road, Ventnor,<br />
I.W.<br />
Gooch, G. P. . . . South Villa, Campden<br />
Hill Road, W.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
Grierson Francis . . 380, Richmond Road,<br />
Twickenham.<br />
Heron-Maxwell, Miss Kath- 5, Sloane Court, S.W. WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
leen.<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
Jordan Humfrey . . Cambridge.<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 />
Leathes Stanley · . 5, Paper Buildings,<br />
· 5, Paper<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
Temple, E.C. largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
Lovell, Arthur . . . 94, Park Street, Gros- other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
venor Square, W.<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
Marks, Miss Jeanette South Hadley, Massa-<br />
accurate.<br />
chusetts, U.S.A.<br />
AGRICULTURE,<br />
McCormick, Ernest Boyd National Liberal Club,<br />
A FARM IN CREAMLAND. A Book of the Devon Country.<br />
S.W.<br />
side. By CHARLES GARVICE. 9 x 5}. 392 pp. Hodder<br />
Mendl, Gladys . . . 76, Gloucester Place, i & Stoughton. 78. 6d. n.<br />
Portman Square,<br />
ART.<br />
W.<br />
THE MASTERY OF LIFE. By G. T. WRENCH. 9 X 53.<br />
Millican, Dr. Kenneth, “ Lancet" Office,<br />
518 pp. Swift. 158. n.<br />
M.A., Captab..<br />
Strand, W.C. WILLIAM MORRIS TO WHISTLER : PAPERS AND ADDRESSES<br />
Oppenheim Stany Stany 86, rue de Miromesnil, ON ART AND CRAFT AND THE COMMONWEALTH. By<br />
WALTER CRANE. Illustrated. 71 x 5. 277 pp. Beli.<br />
Orbier) . .<br />
Paris.<br />
.<br />
68. n.<br />
Paterson, Marcus .<br />
Brompton Hospital LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT OLD FURNITURE: ENGLISH<br />
Sa natorium, FURNITURE. By J. P. BLAKE AND A. E. REVEIRS-<br />
Frimley.<br />
HOPKINS. Vol. I. Tudor to Stuart. 115 pp. Vol. II.<br />
Patterson, J. E. . . Billericay, Essex.<br />
The Period of Queen Anne. 115 pp. 73 X 5. Illus-<br />
trated. Heinemann. 28. 6d. n. each.<br />
Peers, Mrs. C. R. . . 14, Lansdowne Road,<br />
Wimbledon, S.W.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
Phillimore-Furness, E. C. 31, Merton Hall Road, LATER) LETTERS OF EDWARD LEAR. Edited by LADY<br />
Wimbledon,<br />
STRACHEY. 9 x 58. 392 pp. Fisher Unwin. 158. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 62 (#474) #############################################<br />
<br />
62<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE LEAVES OF THE TREE. Studies in Biography. By<br />
A. C. BENSON. 87 x 58. 332 pp. Smith, Elder,<br />
78. 6d. .<br />
PENELOPE RICH AND HER CIRCLE. By MAUD STEPNEY<br />
Rawson. 89 x 54. 351 pp. Hutchinson. 168. n.<br />
THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF SHELLEY AND THE SEQUEL. By<br />
FRANCIS GRIBBLE. 9 X 54. 387 pp. Nash. 158. n.<br />
ROYAL LOVE LETTERS. A Batch of Human Documents.<br />
Collected and Edited by E. KEBLE CHATTERTON. 9 X<br />
54. 321 pp. Mills & Boon. 108. 6d. n.<br />
THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. By E. T. Cook. Two<br />
Volumes. 89 x 51. 510 pp. + 625 pp. Allen. 218. n.<br />
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAURENCE STERNE. BY<br />
LEWIS MELVILLE. 9 x 54. 326 + 347 pp. Stanley<br />
Paul. 288. n.<br />
GRAHAME OF CLAVERHOUSE, VISCOUNT DUNDEE. By<br />
MICHAEL BARRINGTON. 113 x 71. 448 pp. Martin<br />
Secker. 218. n.<br />
WHEN LIFE WAS NEw. By H. G. HUTCHINSON. 87 x 5.<br />
302 pp. Smith, Elder.<br />
SOME RECOLLECTIONS. By T. TEIGNMOUTH-SHORE,<br />
Canon of Worcester Cathedral. 81 x 51. 343 pp.<br />
Hutchinson. 168. n.<br />
PROFESSOR ELMSLIE. By W. ROBERTSON NICOLL.<br />
64 X 41. 186 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 38. 6d.<br />
FOURTEEN YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC LIFE IN JAPAN.<br />
Stray Leaves from the Diary of BARON ESS ALBERT<br />
D'ANETHAN. With an Introduction by His EXCELLENCY<br />
THE JAPANESE AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST.<br />
JAMES. Stanley Paul & Co. 188. n.<br />
THE CASE OF RICHARD MEYNELL. By MRS. HUMPHRY<br />
WARD. 78 X 5. 525 pp. Smith, Elder. 68.<br />
BROKEN ARCS. By DARRELL FIGGIS, 71 X 41. 430 pp.<br />
Dent. 68.<br />
THE MOMENT. By ERNEST DAVIES. 71 X 43. Alston<br />
Rivers. 68.<br />
AS HE WAS BORN. By TOM GALLON. 74 X 5. 337 pp.<br />
Eveleigh Nasb. 68.<br />
THE STOLEN BRIDE. By W. H. WILLIAMSON, 74 x 5.<br />
320 pp. Melrose. 68.<br />
TANTE. By ANNE DOUGLAS SEDGWICK, 7 X 5. 390 pp.<br />
Arnold. 68.<br />
SAINTS, SINNERS, AND THE USUAL PEOPLE. By ST. JOHN<br />
LUCAS. 71 x 5. 333 pp. Blackwood. 68.<br />
JOHN TEMPLE, MERCHANT, ADVENTURER, CONVICT, AND<br />
CONQUISTADOR. By RALPH DURAND. 71 x 5. 371 pp.<br />
Macmillan. 68.<br />
LETTERS OF A SPINSTER. By WINIFRED JAMES. 73 X<br />
5. Chapman & Hall.<br />
THE WIND BLOWETH. By MARION MOLE. 7 X 5<br />
318 pp. Melrose. 68.<br />
A SWEEPING. By WINIFRED JAMES. 78 x 51. 160 pp.<br />
Fisher Unwin. 38. 60, n.<br />
THE TUPPENY Box. By COLIN FITZGERALD. 7 x 5.<br />
256 pp. Drane. 68.<br />
MOTLEY AND TINSEL. A Story of the Stage. By J. K.<br />
PROTHERO. 71 x 54. 272 pp. Swift. 68.<br />
THE DOLL. A Happy Story. By VIOLET HUNT. 74 X<br />
41. 308 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE. By ALICE AND CLAUD<br />
ASKEW. 8 x 5. 312 pp. F. V. White. 6s.<br />
PAUL THE MINSTREL AND OTHER STORIES. By A. C.<br />
BENSON. Reprinted from “ THE HILL OF TROUBLE,"<br />
and “ THE ISLES OF SUNSET." 87 x 53. 443 pp.<br />
Smith Elder. 78. 6d. n.<br />
THE AFFAIRS OF JOHN BOLSCVER. BY UNA L.<br />
SIBBERRAD. 61 X 41. 288 pp. Cheap Reprint. Nelson.<br />
7d. n.<br />
CARROW OF CARRODUFF. By Mrs. STACPOOLE KENNY.<br />
331 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
FORTUNE'S FOUNDLING. By L. G. MOBERLEY, 75 X 5.<br />
302 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
THE MAID OF ORLEANS. By R. H. BENSON. 71 X 5.<br />
95 pp. Longmans. 38. n.<br />
Two PLAYS. HARVEST: THE CLANCY NAME. By<br />
LENNOX ROBINSON. 71 X 5. 84 pp. Dublin :<br />
Maunsell. 23. 6d. n.<br />
THE PAGEANT OF THE BRUCE. By SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS.<br />
61 x 54. 87 pp. Glasgow : Maclehose.<br />
Four PLAYS. By MORLEY ROBERTS. 71 X 44. 159 pp.<br />
Nash. 28. 6d. n.<br />
ALICE IN GANDERLAND. A One-Act Play. By LAURENCE<br />
HOUSMAN. 71 X 44. 24 pp. The Woman's Press.<br />
3d. n.<br />
THE DAYS OF THE MAGNIFICENT. A Drama of Old<br />
Florence in blank verse and prose. By ARTHUR<br />
MAQUARIE. 74 X 51. 155 pp. Bickers. 38. 6d. n.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
PRINCESS ALFRIDA'S CHARITY. Part 2. By the Rev.<br />
HENRY LANSDELL. Blackheath : Burnside Ltd. 60. n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
A LIKELY STORY. By WILLIAM DE MORGAN. 78 x 5.<br />
344 pp. Heinemann. 68.<br />
THE GREEN CURTAIN. By M. E. BRADDON. 78 X 5.<br />
462 pp. Hutchinson. 68.<br />
CHRISTOPHER. By RICHARD PRYCE. 7f 5. 343 pp.<br />
Hutchinson. 68.<br />
THE REVENUES OF THE WICKED. By WALTER RAYMOND.<br />
7} * 5. 256 pp. Dent. 68.<br />
A ROMANCE OF THE SIMPLE. By MARY J. H. SKRINE.<br />
73 X 5. Arnold. 6s.<br />
THE ROAD. By FRANK SATILE. 61 x 41. 284 pp.<br />
Nelson, 7d, n.<br />
PETER THE GREAT. By FRED WHISHAW. 73 x 5.<br />
317 pp. Digby Long. 6s.<br />
BROWN FACE AND WHITE. A Story of Japan. By<br />
CLIVE HOLLAND. 78 x 5. 314 pp. `Hurst & Blackett.<br />
68.<br />
CUPID AND CARTRIDGES. By AUBREY O'BRIEN and<br />
REGINALD BOLSTER. 9 x 51. 334 pp. Blackwood.<br />
108. n.<br />
NO SURRENDER. BY CONSTANCE MAUD. 78 X 5.<br />
323 pp. Duckworth. 68.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE CHILDREN OF THE CLIFF. By A. V. DUTTON.<br />
Illustrated. S.P.C.K. 18. 6d. n.<br />
THE BOY'S GUIDE. By A. WILLIAMS. Illustrated by<br />
H. PENTON. 81 x 64. 560 pp. Nelson. 58.<br />
THE CALL OF HONOUR : A Tale of Adventure in Canadian<br />
Prairies. By ARGYLE SAXBY. 7 X 5. 318 pp.<br />
Partridge. 28.<br />
ELIZABETHAN ADVENTURES UPON THE SPANISH MAIN<br />
(Adapted from the “ Voyages " of Richard Hakluyt).<br />
By A. M. HYAMSON. 8 x 5. 399 pp. Routledge. 38. 68.<br />
DR. OWL'S ACADEMY. Drawn by F. A. WILLIAMS.<br />
Verses by JESSIE POPE. 10 X 7. Blackie. 18. 6d.<br />
BLACKIE'S CHILDREN'S ANNUAL STORIES BY EVELYN<br />
SHARP AND OTHERS. Illustrations by GORDON<br />
BROWN, R.I., AND OTHERS. 11 x 83. 200 pp. Blackie.<br />
33. 60.<br />
THE PEEK-A-Boos IN WINTER. BY CHLOE PRESTON.<br />
9 x 134. Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. 68. n.<br />
THE ADVENTURES OF JACK RABBIT. By R. KEARTON.<br />
78 x 51. 248 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
THE DRAGON OF ESSEX : A Story of the Days of Alfred.<br />
By the Rev. PERCY DEARMER. 87 x 51. 310 pp.<br />
Mowbray. 38. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 63 (#475) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
63<br />
MYSTICS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND THEIR RELATION<br />
TO MODERN Thought. By RUDOLF STEINER, Ph.D.<br />
(Vienna). Authorised Translation from the German. By<br />
BERTRAM KEIGHTLEY, M.A. Edited by Max Gysi<br />
London : Theosophical Publishing Society. 48. 6d. n.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
MUSICAL COMPOSITION: A Short Treatise for Students.<br />
By SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, 8 x 57. 193 pp.<br />
Macmillan. 38. 6d. n.<br />
AMONG THE HILLS : A Book of Joy in High Places. By<br />
REGINALD FARRER. 88 x 54. 326 pp. Headley Bros.<br />
108.6d. n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
THE LIFE OF THE BEE. By MAURICE MAETERLINCK.<br />
Translated by ALFRED SUTRO. Illustrated by EDWARD<br />
J. DETMOLD. 113 x 89. 235 pp. Allen. 218. n.<br />
THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG.Edited by R. LEIGHTON.<br />
Part 1. 11 X 81. 32 pp. Cassell. ls. n.<br />
FIVE OF THEM : A Tale of Fun and Adventure. By<br />
THEODORA WILSON WILSON. 78 X 5. 247 pp. Blackie.<br />
23. 6d.<br />
THE OLD MIRACLE PLAYS OF ENGLAND. By NETTA<br />
SYRETT. 78 X 54. 118 pp. Mowbray. 28. n.<br />
THE FLYING BOAT: A Story of Adventure and Misadven-<br />
ture. By HERBERT STRANG. 78 x 5. 271 pp. Frowde,<br />
and Hodder & Stoughton. 38. 6d.<br />
UNDER THE CHINESE DRAGON : A Tale of Mongolia. By<br />
CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON. Illustrated hy CHARLES<br />
M. SHELDON. 73 X 5. 363 pp. Blackie. 58.<br />
THE HERO OF PANAMA : A Tale of the Great Canal. By<br />
CAPTAIN F. S. BRERETON. Illustrated by WILLIAM<br />
RAINEY, R.I. 8 X 51. 384 pp. Blackie. 68.<br />
THE AIR SCOUT : A Story of National Defence. By<br />
HERBERT STRANG. lllustrated in colour by W. R. Š.<br />
STOTT. 81 x 54. 431 pp. Frowde, and Hodder &<br />
Stoughton. 6s.<br />
HERBERT STRANG'S ANNUAL. 101 x 73. 208 pp.<br />
Frowde, and Hodder & Stoughton. 58. n.<br />
THE SWORD OF FREEDOM : A Tale of the English<br />
Revolution. By CAPTAIN CHARLES GILSON. With<br />
eight illustrations in colour by FRANK GILLETT, R.I.<br />
420 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68. n.<br />
TALES FROM THE WOODS AND FIELDS. By GLADYS<br />
DAVIDSON WELLS. Gardner, Darton & Co. ls. 6d.<br />
ALL ABOUT “THE MAN IN THE MOON.” By GLADYS<br />
DAVIDSON, Dean & Son 6d.<br />
PINAFORE TALES. By GLADYS DAVIDSON. Sands & Co.,<br />
London and Edinburgh. 2s. 6d.<br />
THE SECRET GARDEN. By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT.<br />
Illustrated by C. ROBINSON. 87 x 6. 306 pp. Heine-<br />
mann, 68.<br />
THE WONDERFUL GARDEN, OR THE THREE C's. By E.<br />
NESBIT. Ilustrated by H. R. MILLAR. 74 X 51.<br />
402 pp. Macmillan. 68.<br />
A COMPLEAT SEA COOK. By F. T. BULLEN. 78 X 5.<br />
305 pp. Partridge. 38. 6d.<br />
NOT CRICKET. A School Story. By HAROLD AVERY<br />
84 x 51. 384 pp. Partridge. 58.<br />
A SOUTH SEA BUCCANEER. By A. DORRINGTON. 78 x 5.<br />
308 pp. Melrose. 6s.<br />
PADS, PAWS AND CLAWS. By W. P. PYCRAFT, F.Z.S.<br />
Illustrated by E. NOBLE, R.B.W. 11 X 81. 122 pp.<br />
Wells Gardner. 58. n.<br />
PHILOSOPHY.<br />
LAUGHTER : AN ESSAY ON THE MEANING OF THE COMIC.<br />
By HENRI BERGSON. Authorized Translation by<br />
CLOUDESLEY BRERETON and FRED ROTHWELL.<br />
8.1 x 54. Macmillan. 38. 6d. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
THE EVERLASTING MERCY. BY JOHN MASEFIELD.<br />
74 x 5. 90 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. 38. 60, n.<br />
POEMS. By C. GRANVILLE. 84 x 7. 149 pp. Swift.<br />
58. n.<br />
PSYCHE. By FRANCIS Courts. 73 x 5. 69 pp. Lane.<br />
38. 6d. n.<br />
TO THE ARABS. By L. FLORENCE FFOULKES, G. WHITE :<br />
396, King's Road, Chelsea ; and of the Author, 4, Nevern<br />
Square, S.W. 18.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
A WINDOW IN THRUMS. By J. M. BARRIE. Illustrated<br />
in Colour by A. C. MICHAEL. 8 x 6. 212 pp. Hodder<br />
& Stoughton. 6s. n.<br />
THE GARDEN OF SONG. An Anthology of Lyrics Set to<br />
Music. Edited by HAROLD SIMPSON. 7 X 41. 229 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon. 28. 6d. n.<br />
OLD ENGLISH CAROLS. From the Hill MS. Translated<br />
by JESSIE L. WESTON. 73 x 5. 44 pp. Nutt.<br />
1s. 6d. n.<br />
SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON (Oxford Edition). 74 x 5.<br />
310 pp. Frowde, 28.<br />
SPORT.<br />
SPORT ON THE RIVIERAS. Edited by EUSTACE REYNOLDS<br />
BALL and C. A. PAYTON (“Sarcella ” of The Field).<br />
With Illustrations from Original Photographs and a<br />
Map. Reynolds Ball Guides, 27, Chancery Lane, W.C.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
BADMINTON. By S. M. MASSEY. 154 pp. Bell.<br />
RACING. STEEPLECHASING, COURSING. By WILLIAM<br />
SCARTH Dixon. 15 X 11). “British Sports and Sports-<br />
men.” Knight, Covent Garden. £10 108.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
SHAKESPEARE. By DARRELL FIGGIB. 81 x 54. 345 pp.<br />
Dent. 58. n.<br />
THE SANITY OF ART : AN EXPOSURE OF THE CURRENT<br />
NONSENSE ABOUT ARTISTS BEING DEGENERATE. By<br />
BERNARD SHAW. 68 x 41. 104 pp. Constable. 18. n.<br />
THE FEAST OF ST. FRIEND. By ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
74 X 5. 98 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE A. G. WELLS CALENDAR. A Quotation from the<br />
Works of H. G. Wells for Every Day in the Year.<br />
Selected by ROSAMOND MARRIOTT WATSON. 100 pp.<br />
64 X 41. F. PALMER. 18. n.<br />
THE ARNOLD BENNETT CALENDAR. Compiled by F.<br />
BENNETT. 64 X 41. F. Palmer, 18.<br />
MILITARY.<br />
WELLINGTON'S CAMPAIGNS. Part III. Waterloo. Re-<br />
vised and Re-arranged By MAJOR-GENERAL C. W.<br />
ROBINSON, C.B. London: Hugh Rees. 38. 6d. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
QUEER LEARY NONSENSE. A Lear Nonsense Book.<br />
Edited by LADY STRACHEY. With an Introduction by<br />
the EARL OF CROMER, G.C.B. 10 x 73. 67 pp. Mills<br />
& Boon. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
OTHER SHEEP. A Study of the Peoples of India, with<br />
particular reference to the collision between Christianity<br />
and Hinduism. By HAROLD BEGBIE. 73 X 5. 344 pp.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
THE “FLOWER OF GLOSTER." By E. TEMPLE THURSTON.<br />
Illustrated by W. R. DAKIN. 8 X 61. 244 pp.<br />
Williams & Norgate. 78. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 64 (#476) #############################################<br />
<br />
64<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
THROUGH TRACKLESS LABRADOR. By H. HESKETH<br />
PRICHARD. With a Chapter on Fishing by G. M.<br />
GATHORNE-HARDY. 104 X 71. 254 pp. Heinemann.<br />
158. n.<br />
THROUGH THE HEART OF PATAGONIA. By H, HESKETH<br />
PRICHARD. 61 x 41. 375 pp. Nelson. 18. n.<br />
"TWIXT LAND AND SEA : SKETCHES AND STUDIES IN<br />
- NORTH AFRICA. By CYRIL FLETCHER GRANT and<br />
L. GRANT. Sampson Low & Co. 218. n.<br />
VENICE AND VENETIA. By EDWARD HUTTON. 74 x 5.<br />
324 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
ESTO PERPETUA : ALGERIAN STUDIES AND IMPRESSIONS,<br />
By HILAIRE BELLOC. 71 x 5. 191 pp. (The Readers'<br />
Library). Duckworth. 28. 6d. n.<br />
TOURING IN 1600. A Study in the Development of Travel<br />
as a means of Education. By E. S. BATES. Constable.<br />
123. 6d. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS,<br />
TOURING IN 1600. A Study in the Development of Travel<br />
as a Means of Education. By E. S. BATES. Boston :<br />
Houghton Mifflin. $3 and $10 n.<br />
MYSTICS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND THEIR RELATION<br />
TO MODERN THOUGHT. By RUDOLF STEINER, Ph.D.<br />
Authorised Translation by BERTRAM KEIGHTLEY.<br />
Edited by MAX Gysi. New York: Putnam.<br />
POETRY.<br />
THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH POETRY ; being an Anthology of<br />
the best Scottish Verse from the earliest times to the<br />
present. Edited by Sir GEORGE DOUGLAS, Bart.<br />
928 pp. New York : Baker. $3.50 n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
CANADA AS IT IS. By J. FOSTER FRASER. With an<br />
Introduction by THE RIGHT HONBLE. LORD STRATE-<br />
CONA, 4 plates in colour and 50 black-and-white<br />
illustrations. New York : Cassell. $1 75 n.<br />
THE SPELL OF EGYPT. By ROBERT HICHENS. 272 pp.<br />
New York: Century Co. $1.25 n.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
SOME ASPECTS OF THACKERAY. By LEWIS MELVILLE<br />
281 pp. Boston: Little Brown. $2.50 n.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
THE MAID OF ORLEANS. By the Rev. R. H. BENSON.<br />
95 pp. New York : Longmans. $1 n.<br />
POMANDER WALK. By LOUIS N. PARKER. 266 pp.<br />
New York : John Lane Co. $1.30.<br />
FICTION<br />
THE ELDEST Son. By ARCHIBALD MARSHALL. 375 pp.<br />
New York: Dodd Mead. $1.25 n.<br />
" A BLOOD MOON." By IRENE OSGOOD. New York :<br />
Broadway Publishing Co. $1.50 n.<br />
PETER AND WENDY. By J. M, BARRIE. Illustrated by<br />
F. D. BEDFORD. 267 pp. New York : Scribner. $1.50.<br />
THE CAGE. By HAROLD BEGBIE. 312 pp. New York :<br />
Doran. $1.20 n.<br />
WHOM GOD HATH JOINED. By ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
396 pp. New York: Doran. $1.20 n.<br />
SHIP's COMPANY. By W. W. JACOBS. With 34 illustra-<br />
tions. By WILL OWEN. 261 pp. New York: Scribner.<br />
$1.20 n.<br />
THE NOTORIOUS Miss LISLE. By Mrs. L. BAILLIE<br />
REYNOLDS. 291 pp. New York: Doran. $1.20 n.<br />
VERA OF THE STRONG HEART. By MARION MOLE.<br />
New York: Putnam's Sons.<br />
THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN. By G. K.<br />
CHESTERTON. 334 pp. New York: John Lane Co.<br />
$1.30.<br />
HENRIETTA. By E. CROSBY HEATH. 304 pp. New<br />
York : John Lane Co. $1. 25.<br />
ELIZA GETTING ON. By BARRY PAIN. 118 pp. New<br />
York : Cassell. $1 n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE BLUE ROSE FAIRY BOOK. By:MAURICE BARING<br />
260 pp. New York : Dodd Mead. $2.<br />
TEDDY AND LILY'S ADVENTURES. With 6 coloured<br />
illustrations by W. H. C. GROOME. By MAY BALDWIN<br />
Philadelphia : Lippincott. $1.50.<br />
THE PEEK-A-Boos. By CHLOE PRESTON. New York :<br />
Doran. $1.25 n.<br />
CHILDREN'S BOOKCASE. Edited by E. NESBIT, New<br />
York : Doran. 50 cents n.<br />
W E have received a batch of Christmas books<br />
from Mr. Henry Frowde and Messrs.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. Two of these books<br />
are from the pen of Herbert Strang. One is<br />
entitled " The Flying Boat," a story of adventures<br />
on the Yang-tse-Kiang during a revolt in China,<br />
and comes out very opportunely, since it must have<br />
been written long before the present Chinese revolu-<br />
tion. The other is a story of the Defence of<br />
Australia against an Armada of the Chinese<br />
Republic. We hope the revolution in China may<br />
keep the Chinese too busily employed and may<br />
take away any probability that the subject of the<br />
second will ever become a reality. Mr. Herbert<br />
Strang also edits another book entitled “The<br />
Romance of Australia.”<br />
The book from the pen of Capt. Charles Gilson,<br />
who is also a well-known writer of boys' books, is<br />
entitled “ The Sword of Freedom.” It is a rattling<br />
story of the seventeenth century, dealing with the<br />
adventures of the envoy of the Prince of Orange<br />
during the months ihat immediately preceded the<br />
Revolution. The price of these books is 6s. each.<br />
They are all beautifully illustrated and brought out<br />
in excellent form and in clear type, for which the<br />
publishers, Mr. Henry Frowde and Messrs. Hodder<br />
& Stoughton, are well known.<br />
The last book, Herbert Strang's Annual, needs no<br />
introduction. It would be difficult to find amongst<br />
Christmas books works more likely to attract the<br />
class to which they appeal.<br />
Messrs. Digby, Long & Co. are issuing a second<br />
edition of Mrs. Gerrard's book," The Unexplained :<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 65 (#477) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
65<br />
Five Indian Stories." Her Majesty the Queen<br />
graciously accepted a copy of the first edition.<br />
A new novel by Olivia Ramsey, entitled “Two<br />
Men and a Governess,” will shortly be published by<br />
Mr. John Long. This is Miss Ramsey's sixth novel.<br />
Mr. Wynford Dewhurst's pictures and crayon<br />
drawings have been on exhibition during the month<br />
at the Galerie Durand-Ruel, 16 Rue Laffitte, Paris.<br />
The Rev. Dr. Lansdell has just issued Part II. of<br />
his history of Princess Alfreda's Charity. Readers<br />
of the earlier volume will recall that it gave the<br />
story of the first 500 years (918 to 1414), of the<br />
reputed Manor of Old Court, Greenwich. Part II.<br />
continues the story of this property for 167 years<br />
under the Tudor and Stuart sovereigns of England,<br />
that is, from Henry VIII. to William III. The<br />
book is procurable from Messrs. Burnside, Limited,<br />
Booksellers, Blackheath, S.E.<br />
Miss Gladys Davidson's new autumn books<br />
include “Two Hundred Opera Plots," “ Tales<br />
from the Woods and Fields," “ All about the Man<br />
in the Moon,” and “Pinafore Tales." The first<br />
of these volumes contains detailed plots of 200<br />
well-known operas, including all those performed<br />
in London during recent years. It is illustrated<br />
by portraits of composers, and is published by Mr.<br />
T, Werner Laurie. “Tales from the Woods and<br />
Fields," which Messrs. Wells Gardner, Darton &<br />
Co. publish, is a Nature story-book for children,<br />
consisting of a series of stories of English animal<br />
life, each story containing a definite plot, or<br />
adventure, into which is woven Nature knowledge<br />
in a form suitable to children. “All about the<br />
Man in the Moon " is a child's picture toy-book,<br />
an original “Nonsense” book, dealing with the<br />
adventures of the Man in the Moon in up-to-date<br />
form. It is illustrated by Mr. W. Tarrant and<br />
published by Dean & Son. The last book,<br />
« Pinafore Tales," published by Sands & Co., is a<br />
volume of original story and verse for children,<br />
illustrated by Ď. E. Braham, Louis Wain, etc.<br />
Mr. Arthur Dillon has in preparation a revised<br />
version of an earlier romantic play, written in the<br />
Elizabethan manner. But this will not appear for<br />
the present. His next book will follow “ Leto<br />
Suppliant” in conforming to the attic model ; and<br />
will, in fact, comprise three consecutive plays,<br />
forming a trilogy. Mr. Elkin Mathews will<br />
publish this probably some time in 1912.<br />
“Sport on the Rivieras," edited by Eustace<br />
Reynolds-Ball and C. A. Payton (“Sarcella" of The<br />
Field) is the latest addition to the Reynolds-Ball<br />
Guide Books. In their introduction, the editors<br />
rightly point out that the purely recreative side of<br />
the French and Italian Riviera has hitherto been<br />
neglected, and their aim, in the present volume, has<br />
been to deal adequately and impartially with its<br />
sports and pastimes. Part I. of the work deals<br />
with the Riviera for sport and pleasure, and con-<br />
tains chapters on Golf (by Arthur S. Brown and<br />
Eustace Reynolds-Ball), Lawn Tennis (J. D. E.<br />
Loveland), Motoring (C. N. Williamson), Polo<br />
(Captain E. D. Miller), Cycling on the French and<br />
Italian Rivieras (A. W. Rumney and H. R. Rey-<br />
nolds), the Piedmontese Alps from a cycling<br />
standpoint (Eustace Reynolds-Ball), concluding<br />
with a chapter on Corsica as a winter cycling resort,<br />
by A. W. Rumney. “Sarcella” is responsible for the<br />
second part of the guide, which comprises chapters<br />
on trouting, sea-fishing and tunny angling. The<br />
volume is of a convenient size and well printed on<br />
good paper. There are, in addition, some dozen<br />
illustrations.<br />
Knowledge for November contains an article on<br />
“Psychical Research,” by J. Arthur Hill.<br />
Messrs. J. W. Arrowsmith announce for Spring<br />
publication a novel by Clara J. Martin, which will<br />
be called “A Little Aversion." For the same<br />
writer, Messrs. Ouseley will publish “ Where the<br />
Hedgerows End; and Other Fairy Tales," by<br />
Ishbel. Miss Clara Martin was also successful in<br />
winning one of the £10 prizes in the Pearson,<br />
Royal and Novel magazine competition.<br />
The English Review has just taken more com-<br />
modious offices. In future, the review will be<br />
published from Country Life Building, 17-21,<br />
Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C., where all<br />
communications respecting editorial matters should<br />
be addressed.<br />
“The Children of the Cliff,” by A. V. Dutton,<br />
is a story suitable for boys and girls of ten to<br />
twelve. It is published by the S.P.C.K.<br />
“'Twixt Sand and Sea," by Cyril Fletcher Grant<br />
and L. Grant, is a series of sketches and studies in<br />
North Africa. It is divided into two distinct but<br />
complementary parts. The first deals with the<br />
history of North Africa from the coming of the<br />
Phænicians, 750 B.C., to the arrival of the French,<br />
1830 A.D., and traces the great series of races and<br />
civilisations which have held sway there. The<br />
second part is more discursive, and treats of the<br />
natives as we find them now, and traces, in some<br />
detail, in their habits, faiths, and religion, many<br />
survivals of old, often prehistoric, belief and cults.<br />
Messrs. Sampson Low & Co. publish the book.<br />
Mr. Basil Tozer's new book, recently announced,<br />
“England's Actresstocracy; or, What Turvy Topsy<br />
Saw," will not be issued to the public.<br />
Mr. Melrose has lately published Miss Marion<br />
Mole's new novel, “The Wind Bloweth,” which is<br />
a study of the conflict between the logical and the<br />
æsthetic sides in a man's nature. Logic wins the<br />
day; the rest becoming but an imagined background<br />
to a life of distasteful duty. Miss Mole's first novel,<br />
“ Vera of the Strong Heart," took second place in<br />
the same publisher's novel competition last year.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 66 (#478) #############################################<br />
<br />
66<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mrs. Percy Dearmer has written a Christmas Red Cross work, the various travels and expeditions<br />
mystery play, “ The Soul of the World,” which is in the lovely interior of Japan, Court, official, and<br />
to be produced in the great hall of the University of religious functions, many no longer existing, and,<br />
London at the Imperial Institute, on the first two above all, the exciting incidents of the Russo-<br />
Fridays and Saturdays in December (December 1, Japanese War. Fully illustrated with photogravure<br />
2, 8, 9), at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Princess and half-tone illustrations, the book is published by<br />
Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein is president of Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co.<br />
the committee for the play, which includes Sir Messrs. Doubleday, Page & Co. will publish imme-<br />
Herbert Tree, Sir Oliver Lodge, Miss Ellen Terry, diately “Many Celebrities and a few others: a Bundle<br />
Sir Henry Wood, Sir Sidney Colvin, and Dr. of Reminiscences,” by William H. Rideing. In a long<br />
Vaughan Williams. The Archbishop of Canterbury editorial career, part of it spent as managing editor<br />
and the Bishops of London and Oxford are among of The North American Review, Mr. Rideing's<br />
the patrons. Tickets may be obtained from the friends and acquaintances have included such<br />
Hon. Sec., Morality Play Society, 57, Fellows Road, various people as Mr. Gladstone, Lord Wolseley,<br />
N.W., from whom further particulars can be James Payn, George H. Boughton, R.A., Thomas<br />
obtained.<br />
Bailey Aldrich, Mark Twain, R. D. Blackmore,<br />
“Five English Consorts of Foreign Princes," by E. A. Abbey, the late Marquis of Dufferin,<br />
Miss Ida Woodward, the publication of which we Wilkie Collins, Lady St. Helier, Lord Russell of<br />
announced last month, is a group of historical Killowen, Edmund Clarence Stedman and Harold<br />
studies of the lives and times of the two Tudor Frederic.<br />
and three Stuart Princesses who married foreign Mrs. Clare Jerrold's forthcoming book on “The<br />
Royalties. Messrs. Methuen & Co. are the publishers. Early Court of Queen Victoria " is to be published<br />
Her Majesty the Queen has graciously accepted a by Mr. Eveleigh Nash on January 11, 1912. It<br />
copy of the book.<br />
will deal with the influences which moulded the<br />
M. de Rosen has authorised Mr. Emanuel Moor, Queen's character, and with those years of her<br />
the composer of “ Wedding Bells," to make an reign-from 1837 to 1841—which were, as Her<br />
opera of“ Krishna," a dramatic poem written in late Majesty said, the most unsatisfactory of her life.<br />
French by M. de Rosen, and in two acts.<br />
Just prior to Their Majesties departure from<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. are publishing, this London for the Delhi Durbar, Queen Mary was<br />
month, an enlarged edition in English of Mr. F. A. graciously pleased to accept a copy of Mr. Colin<br />
Hedgecock's “ David Garrick et ses ames français.” Fitzgerald's new book “ The Tuppenny Box."<br />
For the same firm, Mr. Hedgecock is preparing The Theosophical Publishing Society in England,<br />
another study of Anglo-French relations. The and Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons in America,<br />
University of Birmingham has appointed Mr. have just issued Dr. Rudolf Steiner's work, “Mystics<br />
Hedgecock Lecturer in French Literature at that of the Renaissance,” in an authorised translation<br />
university.<br />
from the German by Bertram Keightley, edited by<br />
Miss Eleanor Tyrrell has brought out two little Mr. Max Gysi. The mystics included are Meister<br />
booklets on Colonial life for educated girls, entitled, Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme,<br />
“ Why should our Girls go to our Colonies ? ” and Giordano Bruno and others.<br />
“Wake up, English Girls !” They are to be had Major-General C. W. Robinson has just published<br />
from the writer at Hook Heath, Woking, price 2d. a fourth edition of Part III. of his “Wellington's<br />
each.<br />
Campaigns," now rearranged and confined to<br />
“Fourteen Years of Diplomatic Life in Japan, Waterloo-. Parts. I and II. finishing the Peninsular<br />
Stray leaves from the Diary of Baroness Albert War. The text and maps have been carefully<br />
d'Anethan," is a volume consisting of the diaries revised, and certain chapters have been rearranged;<br />
of the Baroness d'Anethan, widow of the late Baron and attention is called to certain points touched<br />
Albert d'Anethan, Envoy Extraordinary and upon in recent publications by Belgian, French,<br />
Minister Plenipotentiary of His Majesty the King and Italian writers. Messrs. Hugh Rees, Ltd., are<br />
of the Belgians at the Court of Japan. For the publishers.<br />
fifteen or sixteen years Baron d’Anethan held this Messrs. Chatto & Windus have in the Press<br />
position, and during the whole of that period the “Costumes, Traditions and Songs of Savoy," by<br />
Baroness, who is the authoress of several novels, Estella Canziani. It is illustrated with 50 repro-<br />
described day by day the events, historical, social, ductions of pictures by the author, and with many<br />
and official, in which she was taking part. The line drawings. An exhibition of the original<br />
Diary commences with her first day in the Far illustrations by Miss Canziani will be held at<br />
East, and deals with the stirring events of the Messrs. Dowdeswells' Galleries, New Bond Street,<br />
following years, the Japanese-Chinese War, the beginning in the early part of this month.<br />
tragedies of the Boxer trouble, experiences of the Theodora Wilson Wilson has just published<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 67 (#479) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
67<br />
“ Five of them ”—for children. Messrs. Blackie & play “Papa," by Armand de Caillavet and Robert<br />
Son. She is busy completing a new children's story, de Flers, was produced at the Playhouse on<br />
for publication next year, and is about to publish November 4. Mr. Cyril Maude, Mr. Sam Sothern<br />
a story in Chambers's Journal.<br />
and Miss Alexandra Carlisle are in the cast.<br />
Under the title of " Coeur As,” “The Scarlet A new version of Dumas' novel, “ The Three<br />
Pimpernel” has just been produced in Berlin. Musketeers,” by Arthur Shirley and Ben Landeck,<br />
The German version of the play, which is a very was produced at the Lyceum Theatre on<br />
close adaptation from the English original, has November 8. Mr. Austin Milroy, Mr. Lauderdale<br />
been prepared by Mr. A. H. Quaritsch. It is also Maitland, Miss Ethel Warwick and Miss Mary<br />
to be produced in Vienna immediately.<br />
Dibley are in the cast.<br />
Mr. Cecil Sharp has in preparation a collection<br />
of English Folk-Carols, with pianoforte accompani-<br />
ment and an introduction and notes. The volume<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
will contain twenty-one carols, collected by the<br />
editor in the course of the last few years in six<br />
different counties — Somerset, Worcestershire, NATOLE FRANCE has commenced a new<br />
Gloucestershire, Shropshire, Cambridgeshire and<br />
novel, “ Les Dieux ont soif," as a serial<br />
Kent. The book will be printed and bound<br />
in the Revue de Paris.<br />
uniform with the Five Series of Folk-Songs from “L'Envers du Décor" is the title of Paul<br />
Somerset. Messrs. Novello & Co. and Messrs. Bourget's new book, a volume of short stories.<br />
Simpkin & Co. are the publishers.<br />
The novel announced for publication next year<br />
Messrs. Digby, Long & Co. are bringing out a by M. Maurice Barrès is entitled “La Colline<br />
new novel by E. W. Savi, entitled “A Blind inspirée."<br />
Alley," a story of human interest, dealing with "Les Amities de Lamartine" is a volume pub-<br />
characters drawn from real life.<br />
lished by M. Léon Seché containing some hitherto<br />
Mr. B. M. Blackwell, Oxford, will publish unpublished documents relating to Louis de Vignet,<br />
shortly a volume of Sonnets, by Isidore Ascher, Eléonore de Canonge, Marianne Elisa Birch, and<br />
many of which have appeared in The Westminster Caroline Angebert. The book is illustrated with<br />
Gazette, The Evening News, Public Opinion, The portraits.<br />
Academy, and other papers.<br />
“ Madame de Genlis” (Sa vie intime et politique,<br />
1746—1830) is the title of a volume by Jean<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
Harmand, with a preface by Emile Faguet. The<br />
Mr. J. M. Barrie's play, “ The Twelve Pound author has compiled this work with the help of<br />
Look," has, during the past month, enjoyed the many hitherto unpublished documents.<br />
rare luxury of a double run. Besides being “ Les Noyades de Nantes” is another of the<br />
produced at matinée performances at the Little interesting historical studies by G. Lenotre.<br />
'i'heatre, it has been performed twice daily at the “ Les Hommes de Lettres au XVIII'. siècle," by<br />
Hippodrome, the casts, in each of the houses, Maurice Pellisson, is a curious study of the literary<br />
being distinct.<br />
men of that time.<br />
" Alice in Ganderland," a political skit by Mr. “La Passagère" is Guy Chanlepleure's latest<br />
Laurence Housman, was produced at the Lyceum novel.<br />
Theatre last month, under the auspices of the “Pour former une âme” is a volume by H.<br />
Actresses' Franchise League. All the political Ghotzky, translated by M. Valette-Monod, which<br />
parties are represented in the play. Alice, repre- we would strongly recommend to educationalists.<br />
senting Woman Suffrage, an unwelcome guest at "Les Sociétés concessionnaires du Congo français<br />
the tea party, finally clears up the tea table and depuis 1905 " is the title of a book on a subject of<br />
triuniphs completely. Miss Eva Moore, Mr. topical interest.<br />
Ernest Thesiger and Mr. G. Fay, with many others, " Paroles d'un Soldat," by General Bruneau,<br />
took part in the performance.<br />
treats the following subjects :-—“La Patrie," “La<br />
Mr. I. Zangwill's play, “The War God,” was Guerre,” “L'Armée française,” “L'Armée nouvelle<br />
produced at His Majesty's Theatre on November 8. de M. Jaurès,” and “L'Útopie des Milices."<br />
The scene of the play is laid in the State of “Mystères Païens,” by Maurice Bouchor, treats<br />
Gothia, and various influences at work in shaping of “ La Naissance du Bouddha," “ Les yeux de<br />
the destinies of that State are typified in the play. Kounâla,” and “Les Mystères d'Eleusis."<br />
The cast includes Sir Herbert Tree, Mr. Arthur “ Thomas Hardy, Penseur et Artiste,” is a<br />
Bourchier, Mr. A. E. George and Miss Lillah volume published by Mr. F. A. Hedgcock. It is<br />
McCarthy.<br />
a study and criticism of the works of Hardy by<br />
Captain John Kendall's English version of the an enthusiastic admirer, who sees, running through<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 68 (#480) #############################################<br />
<br />
68<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
UNITED STATES LAW CASE.<br />
the creations of this novelist, “a wider and more<br />
substantial philosophical system than that of any<br />
other English novelist.”<br />
This judgment will probably surprise the author<br />
himself, but the writer of the volume is certainly to<br />
be congratulated on having placed before the<br />
French public so comprehensive a résumé of the<br />
works of an English anthor greatly appreciated in<br />
France. The following novels by Thomas Hardy<br />
have been translated, and are well known here :<br />
“ Far from the Madding Crowd.” “ Tess o' the<br />
d'Urbervilles," “ Jude the Obscure,” and “Under<br />
the Greenwood Tree.”<br />
In the Revue hebdomadaire, M. Chaumeix draws<br />
our attention to a most extraordinary book entitled<br />
“Etude biographique de pathologique,” by Morton<br />
Prince, M.D., LL.D., specialist in nervous diseases<br />
of the Boston hospitals. The theme of the work<br />
is the dissociation of a personality. The author<br />
tells us of a case which came under his notice of a<br />
young girl with three distinct personalities. If the<br />
writer of the book were not a savant, the volume<br />
would certainly have success as a sensational novel,<br />
so curious are the episodes.<br />
In the same Revue M. Gabriel Hanotaux writes<br />
on “ L'Accord franco - allemand," and André<br />
Bellessort on “ Ferdinand Brunetière.”<br />
M. Victor du Bled also writes on “L'Académie<br />
français depuis 1789"; M. George Grosjean on<br />
"L'Impérialisme italien," and M. C. Ferrand an<br />
article entitled “Reflexions sur le Programme<br />
naval,” which will be read with interest at this<br />
time.<br />
Dickens is very much in favour at present in<br />
Paris.<br />
An excellent translation, entitled “Mr. Pick-<br />
wick,” has been made by Georges Duval. The<br />
volume contains twenty-five coloured illustrations<br />
by Frank Reynolds.<br />
The Pickwick play has had great success, and<br />
M. Abel Deval is to be congratulated, as the piece<br />
18 decidedly more wholesome than those being put<br />
on at the same time in some of the other theatres.<br />
“ David Copperfield” is having equal success at<br />
the Odéon at present.<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
1. COPYRIGHTS (SEC. 7)—SUBJECTS-CLASSIFI-<br />
CATION-DRAMATICO-MUSICAL COMPOSITION.<br />
A sketch, consisting of a series of recitations and<br />
songs, with a very little dialogue and action,<br />
and with scenery, and lights thrown upon the<br />
singer, is a dramatico-musical composition<br />
within the provisions of the copyright law.<br />
2. COPYRIGHTS (SEC. 7)—VALIDITY_CLASSIFI-<br />
CATION.<br />
Under copyright law (Act. Mar. 4, 1909<br />
chap. 320, 35 Stat., 1076 [U. S. Comp. St<br />
Supp. 1909, p. 1291]) section 5, providing that<br />
an error in classification shall not invalidate a<br />
copyright, the classification of a dramatico-<br />
musical composition as a dramatic composition<br />
does not affect the validity of the copyright.<br />
3. COPYRIGHTS (SEC. 42)-NATURE-RIGHTS<br />
ACQUIRED.<br />
Under copyright law (act Mar. 4, 1909, chap. 320,<br />
35 Stat., 1075 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1909,<br />
p. 1289] ) section 1, Subdivision D, giving the<br />
holder of a copyright the exclusive right to<br />
perform or represent the copyrighted work<br />
publicly if a drama, and Subdivision E, giving<br />
the exclusive right to perform the copyrighted<br />
work publicly for profit if it be a musical com-<br />
position, the holder of a copyright of a song<br />
constituting a part of a dramatic sketch, and<br />
those claiming under him, have the exclusive<br />
right to publicly present it.<br />
4. COPYRIGHTS (SEC. 66) — INFRINGEMENT-<br />
WHAT CONSTITUTES.<br />
Where one sings an entire copyrighted song with<br />
musical accompaniment, she is guilty of<br />
infringement, though she purports merely to<br />
mimic another.<br />
In equity. Suit by Irene Franklin Green and<br />
others against Edna Luby. Heard on motion for<br />
temporary injunction. Granted.<br />
Noyes, circuit judge. This is an application for<br />
a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendant<br />
from publicly singing an alleged copyrighted song<br />
entitled “ I'm a Bringing up the Family," which<br />
song, it is alleged, was written as a number or part<br />
of a copyrighted dramatic sketch entitled “The<br />
Queen of the Vaudeville."<br />
The defendant contends, in the first place, that<br />
the sketch “ The Queen of the Vaudeville" is a<br />
musical composition, and not a dramatic composi-<br />
tion, within the meaning of the copyright law<br />
of 1969 (act Mar. 4, 1909, chap. 320, 35 Stat.,<br />
1075 (U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1909, p. 1289]). There<br />
is much force in this contention. The work is<br />
essentially a series of recitations and songs to be<br />
recited or sung by the same person dressed in<br />
“ L'Envers du Décor " (Plon).<br />
“Les Amities de Lamartine” (Mercure de France).<br />
“Madame de Genlis " (Perrin).<br />
“ Les Noyades de Nantes" (Perrin).<br />
“Les Hommes de Lettres au XVIITe siècle” (Armand<br />
Colin).<br />
"La Passagère" (Pierre Lafitte).<br />
“ Pour former une âme" (Fischbacher).<br />
“Les Sociétés concessionnaires du Congo français depuis<br />
1905. (Bernard Grasset).<br />
" Paroles d'un Soldat '' (Henri Charles Lavauzelle).<br />
" Thomas Hardy, Penseur et Artist 0" (Hachette).<br />
“Mystères Païens" (Flammarion).<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 69 (#481) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
69<br />
different costumes. The action and dialogue in the copyrighted song was sung. Green v. Minzen-<br />
addition thereto are hardly sufficient to make a sheimer (decided by this court Mar. 19, 1909),<br />
dramatic composition. Still the work is something 177 Fed., 286, is distinguishable in that in that<br />
more than a mere musical composition. The singer case the defendant imitated the singer without<br />
dresses in costumes to represent the different musical accompaniment, and the testimony as to<br />
characters. There is very little dialogue or “patter,” just what she did was not clear.<br />
the latter being, apparently, the professional term. A preliminary injunction may issue as prayed for,<br />
There is also very little action. The singer gets upon the filing by the complainants of a bond, with<br />
out of a cradle. There is scenery, and lights are sufficient surety, in the sum of $2,000, conditioned<br />
thrown upon the singer. I think the sketch may that the complainants pay all damages sustained by<br />
fairly be classified as a “dramatico-musical com- the defendant, in case it be held that the com-<br />
position” within the meaning of the copyright act. plainants are not entitled to an injunction in the<br />
But the fact that the sketch was improperly final decree.<br />
classified as a dramatic composition in taking out (Green et al. v. Luby. Circuit court, southern<br />
the copyright would not affect its validity. The district of New York. December 21, 1909 (177<br />
copyright law expressly provides (sec. 5) that an Federal Reporter, pp. 287–288.)]<br />
error in classification shall not invalidate or impair<br />
a copyright. Moreover, the particular song in<br />
question-a number of the sketch-was copyrighted<br />
by the complainant Feist as a musical composition<br />
before the copyright of the sketch, and I do not SECOND PAN-AMERICAN CONYENTION,<br />
understand that any question is raised as to the<br />
1902.<br />
validity of such copyright.<br />
Regarding, then, the sketch as a dramatic com-<br />
position, the complainants have the exclusive right<br />
to publicly present it. Subdivision D of section 1 CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND<br />
of the copyright law gives the exclusive right“ to OTHER POWERS ON LITERARY AND ARTISTIC<br />
perform or represent the copyrighted work publicly COPYRIGHTS.<br />
if a drama.” And, regarding the song as a musical Signed at the City of Mexico, January 27, 1902.<br />
composition, the complainants have the exclusive Ratification advised by the Senate, January 31,<br />
right to publicly perform it. Subdivision E of 1908. Ratified by the President, March 16, 1908.<br />
said section gives the exclusive right “ to perform Ratification of the United States deposited with<br />
the copyrighted work publicly for profit, if it be a the Government of Mexico, March 31, 1908.<br />
musical composition.” It is not disputed that the Proclaimed, April 9, 1908.<br />
complainants Green have the right to produce the<br />
song under the copyright to the complainant Feist. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF<br />
The next question is one of infringement. The<br />
AMERICA.<br />
defendant admits that she sings the copyrighted<br />
song with musical accompaniment, but she says<br />
A PROCLAMATION.<br />
that she does so merely to mimic the complainant,<br />
Whereas a Convention on Literary and Artistic<br />
Irene Franklin Green. She contends that she gives<br />
Copyrights between the United States of America<br />
impersonations of various singers, including said<br />
complainant, and, as incidental to such impersona-<br />
and the Argentine Republic, Bolivia, Colombia,<br />
Costa Rica, Chile, the Dominican Republic,<br />
tions, sings the songs they are accustomed to sing.<br />
Ecuador, Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras,<br />
The mimicry is said to be the important thing ; the<br />
particular song, the mere incident. But I am not<br />
Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay,<br />
was concluded and signed by their respective<br />
satisfied that, in order to imitate a singer, it is<br />
Plenipotentiaries at the City of Mexico on the<br />
necessary to sing the whole of a copyrighted song.<br />
twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine<br />
" The mannerisms of the artist impersonated,” to<br />
hundred and two, the original of which Convention<br />
use the language of the defendant's brief, may be<br />
being in the English, Spanish, and French languages<br />
shown without words; and if some words are abso-<br />
is word for word as follows :<br />
lutely necessary, still a whole song is hardly required;<br />
and if a whole song is required, it is not too much<br />
to say that the imitator should select for impersona-<br />
Convention on Literary and Artistic Copyrights.<br />
tion a singer singing something else than a<br />
copyrighted song.<br />
Bloom v. Nixon (C. C. 25 Fed., 977, is dis- Who, after having communicated to each other<br />
tinguishable in that in that case the chorus only of their respective full powers and found them to be<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 70 (#482) #############################################<br />
<br />
70<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
in due and proper form, excepting those presented ART. 5TH. The authors who belong to one of<br />
by the representatives of Their Excellencies the the signatory countries, or their assigns, shall<br />
Presidents of the United States of America, Nica- enjoy in the other countries the rights which their<br />
ragua and Paraguay, who act “ad referendum," respective laws at present grant, or in the future<br />
have agreed to celebrate a Convention on literary may grant, to their own citizens, but such right<br />
and artistic copyrights, in the following terms: shall not exceed the term of protection granted in<br />
ART. 1st. The signatory States constitute them the country of its origin.<br />
selves into a Union for the purpose of recognizing For the works composed of several volumes,<br />
and protecting the rights of literary and artistic which are not published at the same time, as well<br />
property, in conformity with the stipulations of as for bulletins or instalments of publications of<br />
the present Convention.<br />
literary or scientific societies, or of private parties,<br />
ART. 2ND. Under the term “Literary and the term of property shall commence to be counted<br />
Artistic works,” are comprised books, manuscripts, from the date of the publication of each volume,<br />
pamphlets of all kinds, no matter what subject bulletin or instalment.<br />
they may treat of and what may be the number of ART. 6TH. The country in which a work is first<br />
their pages; dramatic or melodramatic works ; published, shall be considered as the country of its<br />
choral music and musical compositions, with or origin, or, if such publication takes place simul-<br />
without words, designs, drawings, paintings, sculp- taneously in several of the signatory countries, the<br />
ture, engravings, photographic works ; astronomical one whose laws establish the shortest period of<br />
and geographical globes ; plans, sketches and plastic protection shall be considered as the country of its<br />
works relating to geography or geology, topography origin.<br />
or architecture, or any other science; and finally, ART. 7th. Lawful translations shall be protected<br />
every production in the literary and artistic field, in the same manner as original works. The trans-<br />
which may be published by any method of lators of works, in regard to which there exists no<br />
impression or reproduction.<br />
guaranteed right of property, or the right of which<br />
ART. 3RD. The copyright to literary or artistic may have become extinguished, may secure the<br />
work consists in the exclusive right to dispose of right of property for their translations, as estab-<br />
the same, to publish, sell and translate the same, lished in art. 3rd, but they shall not prevent the<br />
or to authorize its translation, and to reproduce publication of their translations of the same work.<br />
the same in any manner, either entirely or ART, 8TH. Newspaper articles may be repro-<br />
partially.<br />
duced, but the publication from which they are<br />
The authors belonging to one of the signatory taken must be mentioned, and the name of the<br />
countries, or their assigns, shall enjoy in the other author given, if it should appear in the same.<br />
signatory countries, and for the time stipulated in ART. 9TH. Copyright shall be recognized in<br />
art. 5th, the exclusive right to translate their favour of the persons whose names or acknowledged<br />
works, or to authorize their translation.<br />
pseudonymns are stated in the respective literary<br />
ART. 4TH. In order to obtain the recognition of or artistic work, or in the petition to which art. 4th<br />
the copyright of a work, it is indispensable that of this Convention refers, excepting case of proof<br />
the anthor or his assigns, or legitimate representa to the contrary.<br />
tive, shall address a petition to the official Depart- ART. 10TH. Addresses delivered or read in<br />
ment which each Government may designate, deliberative assemblies, before the Courts of Justice<br />
claiming the recognition of such right, which and in public meetings, may be published in the<br />
petition must be accompanied by two copies of newspaper press without any special authorization.<br />
his work, said copies to remain in the proper ART. 11TH. The reproduction in publications<br />
Department.<br />
devoted to public instruction or chrestomathy, of<br />
If the author, or his assigns, should desire that fragments of literary or artistic works, confers no<br />
his copyright be recognized in any other of the right of property, and may therefore be freely made<br />
signatory countries, he shall attach to his petition in all the signatory countries.<br />
a number of copies of his work, equal to that of ART. 12TH. All unauthorized indirect use of<br />
the countries he may therein designate. The said a literary or artistic work, which does not present<br />
Department shall distribute the copies mentioned the character of an original work, shall be considered<br />
amung those countries, accompanied by a copy of as an unlawful reproduction.<br />
the respective certificate, in order that the copy. It shall be considered in the same manner<br />
right of the author may be recognized by them. unlawful to reproduce, in any form, an entire<br />
Any omissions which the said Department may work, or the greater part of the same, accompanied<br />
incur in this respect, shall not give the author, or by notes or commentaries, under the pretext of<br />
his assigns, any rights to present claims against literary criticism, or of enlargement or complement<br />
the State.<br />
of an original work.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 71 (#483) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
ART. 13TH. All fraudulent works shall be liable<br />
to sequestration in the signatory countries in which<br />
the original work may have the right of legal pro-<br />
tection, without prejudice to the indemnities or<br />
punishments, to which the falsifiers may be liable<br />
according to the laws of the country, in which the<br />
frand has been committed.<br />
ART. 14TH. Each one of the Governments of the<br />
signatory countries shall remain at liberty to permit,<br />
exercise vigilance over, or prohibit, the circulation,<br />
representation and exposition of any work or pro-<br />
duction, in respect to which the competent<br />
authorities shall have power to exercise such<br />
right.<br />
ART. 15TH. The present Convention shall take<br />
effect between the signatory States that ratify it,<br />
three months from the day they communicate their<br />
ratification to the Mexican Government, and shall<br />
remain in force among all of them until one year<br />
from the date it is denounced by any of said States.<br />
The notification of such denouncement shall be<br />
addressed to the Mexican Government and shall<br />
only have effect in so far as regards the country<br />
which has given it.<br />
ART. 1674. The Governments of the signatory<br />
States, when approving the present Convention,<br />
shall declare whether they accept the adherence to<br />
the same by the nations who have had no repre-<br />
sentation in the Second International American<br />
Conference.<br />
In testimony whereof the Plenipotentiaries and<br />
Delegates sign the present Convention and set<br />
thereto the Seal of the Second International<br />
American Conference.<br />
Made in the City of Mexico, on the twenty-<br />
serenth day of January nineteen hundred and two,<br />
in three copies written in Spanish, English and<br />
French respectively, which shaīl be deposited at the<br />
Department of Foreign Relations of the Govern-<br />
ment of the Mexican United States, so that certi-<br />
fied copies thereof may be made, in order to send<br />
them through thediplomaticchannel to the signatory<br />
And whereas the ratification of the said Con-<br />
vention by the United States was deposited with<br />
the Government of Mexico on March 31, 1908 ;<br />
Now, therefore, be it known that I, THEODORE<br />
ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of<br />
America, have caused the said Convention to be<br />
made public, to the end that the same and every<br />
article and clause thereof may be observed and<br />
fulfilled with good faith by the United States and<br />
the citizens thereof.<br />
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my<br />
hand and caused the seal of the United States of<br />
America to be affixed.<br />
Done at the City of Washington, this ninth day<br />
of April, in the year of our Lord one<br />
thousand nine hundred and eight, and<br />
(SPA) of the Independence of the United States<br />
of America the one hundred and thirty-<br />
second.<br />
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.<br />
By the President :<br />
ELIHU Root,<br />
Secretary of State.<br />
AL]<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
BLACKWOOD's.<br />
Sport in Fiction.<br />
Musings Without Method : Ben Jonson and Selden.<br />
BOOKMAN<br />
The Three Bensons. By James Moffatt, D.D., Litt.D.<br />
Mr. Pitt. By Thomas Seccombe.<br />
CORNHILL MAGAZINE.<br />
At the Sign of the Plough : Mr. Rudyard Kipling. By<br />
C. L. Graves.<br />
The Pilgrim's Progress. By Arthur C. Bensor.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW.<br />
Death. By Maurice Maeterlinck.<br />
Bitter Serenade : A Poem. By Herbert Trench.<br />
The Contemporary: Novel. By H. G. Wells.<br />
The Law of Audiences. By Charles McEvoy.<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
Shelley at Tan-yr-allt. By Margaret L. Woods.<br />
States.<br />
*<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
And whereas, it is provided by its Article XV.<br />
that the said Convention “shall take effect between<br />
the signatory States that ratify it, three months<br />
from the day they communicate their ratifications<br />
to the Mexican Govennment; ”<br />
And whereas the said Convention has been<br />
ratified by Guatemala, Salvador, Costa Rica,<br />
Honduras, and Nicaragua, and their ratifications<br />
were deposited with the Government of Mexico<br />
respectively as follows : April 25, 1902; May 19,<br />
1902 ; June 28, 1903 ; July 4, 1904 ; and<br />
August 13, 1904;<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.<br />
Front Page<br />
Other Pages<br />
". ... ...£4 0 0<br />
Half of a Page ...<br />
... ... ... 3 0 0<br />
...<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
... 1 10 0<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
Single Column Adverti<br />
... O 7 6.<br />
sements<br />
per inch 0 6 0<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent, made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent. for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 72 (#484) #############################################<br />
<br />
72<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. TD 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 />
iars of the Society's workj 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 21 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 rovalta<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is 20%<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 />
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 />
CERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
ul agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 73 (#485) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
73<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<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 />
(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 />
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 />
& 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 andertakes 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 />
V branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when 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 />
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 remittonces should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 74 (#486) #############################################<br />
<br />
74<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
fee. Under this labour-saving arrangement the<br />
author usually pays 50 per cent. to the publisher,<br />
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
and not infrequently 15 per cent. in addition to the<br />
agent.<br />
We desire to draw special attention on another<br />
page of this issue to the Convention between<br />
the United States and South America under the<br />
REVIEW COPIES.<br />
Pan-American Convention. This shows how far-<br />
We have had a letter from a correspondent who<br />
reaching International copyright has become. It<br />
• It<br />
calls<br />
calls our attention to the following facts :-<br />
would be worth while to consider whether the He is a subscriber to one of the big subscription<br />
Government could not make arrangements to join libraries, and quite recently, in applying for books.<br />
South America in their Convention, or to come to<br />
received copies containing the words “ compli-<br />
some agreement with the separate States, for there<br />
mentary copy" written across the page. In one<br />
is a large sale of cheap English copyright books<br />
case the slip indicating the publisher's desire<br />
going on there. Next month we hope to publish a<br />
for a review (evidently left there by the reviewer)<br />
list of all countries to which the President bas<br />
was found, wbilst in another, the reviewer had even<br />
issued his Proclamation.<br />
left his review in the book, possibly for the benefit<br />
of the library subscribers.<br />
This sale of review copies is very serious for<br />
THE SKETCH QUESTION.<br />
the author. Some publishers send out as many<br />
ALL dramatists will be glad to notice the remarks as 100 copies of each book for review, and that the<br />
of Mr. Cecil Raleigh at the 0. P. Club on Sunday, sale of copies bearing royalty should be cut down to<br />
November 12th, and will have noted the work which this extent is, to say the least, scarcely pleasing.<br />
the society, through its dramatic sub-committee has<br />
At the same time, it is difficult to know how to<br />
undertaken in order to put an end to the sketch avoid this sale of review copies, as reviewers are<br />
trouble. Though the matter is not entirely settled, so often sweated that they, naturally, seek to<br />
we are pleased to repeat Mr. Raleigh's information supplement their earnings by selling the books<br />
that the London County Council has granted double which they have reviewed. It is true that the<br />
licences to certain music halls which have applied publishers stamp these copies, thus preventing<br />
for them. This, at least, will show that the<br />
them from coming into competition with the sales<br />
absurdity of the present conditions is becoming of the new books by individual booksellers, but the<br />
patent to the officials who have to administer the fact that the copies are stamped does not preclude<br />
law on this subject.<br />
their circulation by libraries for loan as distinct<br />
from purchase.<br />
The experiences of other members of the society<br />
LITERARY AGENTS.<br />
would be interesting, and if there are any sugges-<br />
WE published in the November issue, and we<br />
„Wished in the Noromhon icomoond wo tions by which the practice could be stopped, no<br />
publish also in the current issue, correspondence on<br />
doubt the Committee of the Society of Authors<br />
the question of Authors and Agents, and would<br />
would be ready to consider them.<br />
gladly publish more letters on the same subject.<br />
From a careful perusal of these letters it does seem<br />
clear that some of the more drastic criticisms of the<br />
FRENCH LEGAL CASES.<br />
article published in October were justified That<br />
the authors with established reputations and wide We see from the Westminster Gazette that the<br />
markets are satisfied with their agents is natural, French Society of Authors has two important legal<br />
for the agent, being a man of business, necessarily cases which will shortly come before the French<br />
seeks to obtain the largest profits with the least Court. One arises out of the recent South American<br />
expenditure of trouble, and this he is able to do tour of the French actor Guitry. It would seem<br />
when handling the work of prominent writers. that before the company set sail an agreement was<br />
But it is the middle author who suffers most, and, arrived at to pay certain French dramatists on<br />
as was fully explained in the article published in plays produced in the Argentine Republic with<br />
October, the agent has adopted labour-saving which France has recently concluded a convention,<br />
devices which consist in binding the unfortunate and the refusal of M. Guitry's manager to pay the<br />
author to a publisher for a series of books, and in royalties forms the ground of the action. The<br />
giving the publisher the absolute right to handle second case, of a very different kind, but of con-<br />
the serial and minor rights. It is, of course, the siderable importance, raises the question of the<br />
agent's business to place them for the usual agency right of an author to put upon the stage characters<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 75 (#487) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
75<br />
representing famous people no longer living when day's work an agent can place a dozen books on a<br />
their descendants object to such representation. ten or fifteen per cent. royalty, he stands to get<br />
In this case the grand-daughter of George Sand is rich much faster than if he spends the day fighting<br />
seeking an injunction to restrain the production of one or two books up to a 25 per cent. royalty.<br />
a piece in verse called “L'Enfant du Siècle," which Now in bargaining with a publisher ten per cent. is<br />
has for its heroine the romantic novelist.<br />
a matter of course ; and fifteen per cent., except on<br />
a very cheap book, is to be had for very little<br />
asking. It is the five or ten per cent. in excess<br />
THE CRUX OF THE AGENT QUESTION.<br />
of this that costs time and trouble. Make the<br />
publisher a present of it, and be easy with him<br />
as to American or Colonial or foreign rights, or<br />
M HE extent to which some of our members any other perquisites he may have a fancy<br />
I have been taken aback by our advice to for, and the transaction will go through quickly<br />
them to dispense with an agent if possible, and easily, and the agent can hurry off to get<br />
and not in any case to abandon their affairs blindly to another dozen books through in the same way. But<br />
an agent's control, shows how very necessary that if the author happens to know that a much stiffer<br />
advice was. Agents are much more dangerous bargain could have been driven by holding out for<br />
nowadays than publishers, because every author the very top of the market, and if he reproaches<br />
knows that a publisher's interests are opposed to the agent for not having obtained it, the agent will<br />
his to the extent that the more the publisher gets first tell him that he is unreasonable, and then, if<br />
of the price paid for any given copy of a book, the pressed hard enough to lose his temper, will say<br />
less there is left for the author ; but many authors right out that it is not worth his while to give more<br />
still believe, and almost all agents allege, that the than a certain limited time to any one book.<br />
more the author gets the more the agent gets.. To make the interests of author and agent really<br />
This error is at the root of the whole matter; and identical, the agent should give the author a per-<br />
it is the first point that must be cleared up if centage on his annual profits from all the books he<br />
the controversy is to be followed intelligently. places. Until this system is adopted, which does<br />
At first sight it seems to young authors with no not seem very likely (I should rather like to see the<br />
experience of business that an agent's reasoning is face of an agent receiving such a proposal) it must<br />
conclusive when he says, as he always does say as be taken as a fact that it is the agent's interest to<br />
far as my experience goes, that because he is have a low rate of profit on many books, and the<br />
paid by a percentage on what the author receives, it author's to stand out for the highest attainable<br />
follows that the more the author receives the more rate of profit on his single book. That is, their<br />
he will receive. And taking each book by itself, interests are not identical, but, beyond a certain<br />
this is true.<br />
point, flatly opposed.<br />
But it is equally true that if you take any It certainly does follow therefore that if the<br />
separate article sold across the counter by Gamage author is a capable man of business (this means no<br />
or Whiteley, the more the purchaser pays for it the more than if he will take the trouble to find out,<br />
more Gamage or Whiteley receives. But if you go through the Society of Authors or otherwise, what<br />
on to argue that it is therefore Mr. Gamage's is the top price obtainable for his class of work in<br />
interest to extract the highest possible price for the market, and has sufficient character and resolu-<br />
each article, you have clearly arrived at a very tion to stand out for it), he will do much better<br />
different conclusion from that of Mr. Gamage, who for himself than it is worth any agent's while to do<br />
is in furious conflict with all his competitors because for him.<br />
he systematically cuts down his prices to the lowest Once the author grasps the fact that what pays<br />
possible point. The explanation is very simple. the agent is plenty of transactions quickly and<br />
There are two ways of making profit by selling. easily finished, he will see that it is much more<br />
One is to sell a single article every hour (possibly important to an agent to be on friendly and welcome<br />
after some hard bargaining with the reluctant terms with the editors and publishers and managers<br />
customer) at a profit of 100 per cent. The other than with any individual author. It will facilitate<br />
is to sell 100 of the same articles every hour to 100 relations between the agent and the publishers and<br />
eager customers at a profit of 2 per cent. on each. editors and managers if he gives away his authors<br />
Assuming that the cost of the article to the seller to a certain extent. Finally he settles down into<br />
is £1, in the first case be charges £2 and makes an agent whose real business it is to procure books<br />
£1 profit with difficulty in the hour ; and in the for publishers, articles for editors, and plays for<br />
second he charges £1 0s. 6d. and easily makes managers, though his ostensible business is to<br />
£2 10s.<br />
procure publishers for books, editors for articles,<br />
Precisely the same thing is true of agency. If in his and managers for plays.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 76 (#488) #############################################<br />
<br />
76<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
A further development of agency follows in- ordinary business pursuits or for literature. That<br />
evitably when publishers and editors and managers it will come is as certain as that the sun will rise<br />
become so accustomed to working through agents to-morrow.<br />
that an agent's introduction acquires a considerable One or two correspondents have asked why there<br />
value. The agent, being able to push any author is any greater objection to employing an agent<br />
whom he may have reason to favour, naturally sells than to employing a solicitor. At least two good<br />
his power. This practice has long been well reasons ought to be so obvious as to forestall the<br />
established among musical and theatrical per question. First, most men employ solicitors only<br />
formers' agents ; and the letter in the November in cases of special difficulty, and master and<br />
Author from the Literary Agency of London conduct the ordinary routine of their business<br />
suggests that the literary agents are finding it out. themselves, as an author should do. The second<br />
Before long we shall find that though any agent and main reason is that a considerable body of law<br />
will put us on his books for 10 per cent., or and etiquette has grown up to protect clients<br />
perhaps a small entrance fee, he will not push us against abuse of his position by a solicitor. A<br />
for that: why should he ? To get pushed for long solicitor may be struck off the rolls for misconduct;<br />
enough to secure a position as an acceptable writer, and he is expressly disabled from receiving certain<br />
the author will have either to pay a big fee, or benefits even when his client wishes to confer them<br />
consent during that period to 50 per cent. or even on him. There is no such protection for the client<br />
100 per cent. Why not? A position as a known of an agent. On the contrary, the law, acting on<br />
writer is a valuable commodity, like a medical precedents taken from house agency, and fortified<br />
practice or a milk-walk. The man who can help by verdicts of juries who always support parasitic<br />
you to it has as much right to sell his help as to middlemen, is so monstrously unjust to the author<br />
sell his house. I am not at all sure that if I were and favourable to the agent that no author should<br />
a beginner, and had the means, I should not try to place himself in the agent's hands without a<br />
find a really capable agent with a large practice stringent agreement. It is bad enough to have to<br />
and offer him a very considerable gum on condition pay 10 per cent. of the royalties on a successful<br />
that he would push my stories into all the magazines play or book to an agent for ever and ever even if<br />
for, say, six months. Many a professional singer he has done all the work of placing it. But when<br />
has jumped into a drawing-room practice in this he can force you to do the same in the case of a<br />
way, whilst her agent's more innocent clients were work which he has failed to place, and which you<br />
left out in the cold wondering why “some people yourself have succeeded in placing long after you<br />
have all the luck.”<br />
have abandoned him, even the most enthusiastic<br />
But now mark the effect of this system on the agent fancier will admit that the law leans a little<br />
author who may know nothing of it, and who, trusting too much to the agent's side.<br />
to his agent and the regular 10 per cent. arrange. I think it will now be apparent that the article<br />
ment, will make no effort to procure work for himself. in The Author for October was, if anything, rather<br />
The agent will actually become an instrument of too kind to agents. The general rule it laid down<br />
suppression. No agent can push a man into a was quite sound. But no general rule can cover<br />
job without pushing another man out of it. No special cases; and there are cases where agents are<br />
agent can say “Mr. Blank is the man for you: useful, and even indispensable. Leaving out of the<br />
everybody is talking about him : his story in question the cases in which the author is not<br />
such and such a magazine has been a great taken in by the usual pleas about the interests<br />
success ; and his great aunt knows a baronet and of author and agent being identical, and knows<br />
often invites people to meet him,” without im- thoroughly what he is about, and what the agent<br />
plying and sometimes actually saying “Mr. Dash is about, and how to take care of himself, there<br />
is no longer thought anything of : his work does are also cases in which agents are useful auto-<br />
not seem to hit it off somehow: he is a difficult matically, as it were, even to the most gullible<br />
man to get on with, etc., etc., etc.”; whilst as to authors.<br />
poor Mr. Ignotus, he is, of course, never mentioned There is the case of the author who, through<br />
at all. Remember, these are not fancy cases : shyness, or laziness, or credulity, or the amiable<br />
they occur in every department in which agency weakness that cannot say No to a publisher after<br />
has been established long enough to enable agents lunch (authors should not lunch with their<br />
to discover on which side their bread is buttered. publishers, by the way), takes half or quarter what<br />
If it has not come to that yet in literary agency his work is worth, or even lets himself be cheated<br />
-and I have no reason to suppose that it has out of it altogether. Now as an agent need seldom<br />
not-it is only because literary agency is a com- accept less than five-eighths or three-quarters of<br />
paratively new thing, and is a favourite resort of the top of the market to lubricate his bargain, it<br />
persons who have not ability enough either for will pay such an author to employ an agent, though<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 77 (#489) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
77<br />
it would pay him better to wake up and cure him- plenty of scope for an agent in routine business<br />
self of being a nincompoop.<br />
at routine prices, and that when the proportion of<br />
There is also the famous author whose name is so business to artistic production involved is very<br />
valuable to an agent as a bait for smaller fry, not to large, as in the case of short works, an agent is a<br />
mention the agent's pride and joy in the connection, necessity. For authors so illustrious that they<br />
that he will do his very best for him without regard reflect glory on all their retinue, he is that very<br />
to ordinary business considerations. The same thing acceptable luxury, a devoted slave. But let all<br />
is true of publishers, who have been known to pub- other authors, artists, and playwrigbts read what<br />
lish great men's books at a loss for the sake of their I have said above and ponder it very carefully<br />
names and even of their genius ; for publishers and before they reject the excellent advice given to<br />
agents are human, after all. Moral : a great them in the well-informed article which began<br />
author's opinion of an agent or a publisher, or of the present controversy.<br />
agents and publishers in general, is not worth a<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
rap as a guide to lesser lights. That is why every<br />
letter in this controversy should be signed.<br />
There is the young and enthusiastic agent who<br />
is building up his business, and who has not yet<br />
found out on which side his bread is buttered. All<br />
the agents were in this condition in the days of<br />
AUTHORS AND THEIR REVIEWERS.<br />
Besant, when the Society of Authors itself was<br />
young, and was encouraging agents. A clever<br />
" Reviewing work is too badly paid for any reasonable<br />
author can exploit an agent in this phase for a few being to think of making it either an art or a business."<br />
years with some profit.<br />
But above all--and here is the real field in which M H E above quotation is not from a classic<br />
agency is useful and sometimes indispensable I writer, so far as I know, and is the result of<br />
there is the mass of short stories, articles, drawings, neither research nor wide reading. It is<br />
photographs, etc., contributed by writers and artists one of the sentences cited in illustration of the<br />
of established practice to journals paying a regular uses of the verb "to review” in the Oxford<br />
price per thousand words or per picture, which have Dictionary, where its source is acknowledged as the<br />
à fixed market tariff, and can be disposed of with- “ Idler” of September, 1894. It occurs there not<br />
out any more haggling than a pint of milk or a box inappropriately in company with others, all, or<br />
of matches. From the half-guinea photograph to nearly all, of which point to the dissatisfaction of<br />
the play by Barrie or Pinero, there are thousands authors with their reviewers, ever since criticism of<br />
of literary and artistic wares which admit of no literature has supplied copy for the printer. I<br />
bargaining. Either the editor has a tariff or the doubt if I shall be contradicted if I say that the<br />
author has one. I do not need to send an agent dissatisfaction is fairly general, and very often, but<br />
round asking for offers : I know my fee like a not always, justifiable. Sometimes there are two<br />
Harley Street consultant. Were I to employ an sides to the question, as, for example, where the<br />
agent I should tell him how much to get and where reviewer, though neither well-paid nor making of<br />
to go for it; and the reason I do not employ one reviewing an art or business, is a well-qualified and<br />
(at least in England) is that I have found by possibly just critic, who differs from the author upon<br />
experience that even with these precise instructions a matter as to which each is entitled to his opinion.<br />
he makes a mess of the business, and adds to my As a rule, for example, scientific and technical<br />
la bours and my worry instead of saving me trouble. works reviewed in responsible scientific and tech-<br />
But a competent agent is not an impossi- nical journals, or, indeed, books of easily recognised<br />
bility: he is, so far, only an improbability. Given importance or special characteristics submitted to<br />
such an agent, it is clear that an author who pro- general newspapers of the better class, are handed<br />
duces a great number of short separate works which for the purpose of criticism to persons whose<br />
fetch practically fixed prices and require a separate knowledge of a special subject marks them as<br />
transaction to dispose of each, had much better competent to deal with books that discuss it. At<br />
leave their disposal to an agent at 10 per cent. than all events the editor selects someone who is more<br />
spend in selling manuscripts or drawings the time or less an expert. He may be a specialist who by<br />
he might employ in producing them. As a matter his known record is sure to disagree with the<br />
of fact there are certain departments in which an author, which will not be agreeable to the latter,<br />
author or artist could not make a living if he had particularly if the review be anonymous, and is<br />
to attend to the business side as well as the artistic therefore likely to be looked upon by a special<br />
side.<br />
public as the pronouncement of its special organ.<br />
The conclusion of the matter is that there is This is, however, hardly the fault of the editor or<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 78 (#490) #############################################<br />
<br />
78<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
of the critic. If the former chose a writer for the We are now approaching the Christmas season,<br />
task known to be a personal friend of the author of when a good many writers who have not yet had<br />
the book and known to acquiesce in his views, then the good fortune to “make a name," will be dis-<br />
the editor might be blamed for prejudging the work appointed by the absence of mention of their works<br />
in the author's favour—and might be wrong in so from the columns of newspapers, notice in which<br />
doing. A signed review in such cases would be would be of value to them. They will have to<br />
perhaps more fair, if the necessity for appending console themselves with criticisms in provincial<br />
a signature did not sometimes tend to render journals, in some of which reviews of new writers<br />
criticism too indulgent to be of value as a candid are prompter, and more carefully appreciative than<br />
opinion. However, the submission I make in in those more fully occupied with the affairs of the<br />
expressing purely personal views is that there is a nation. The fact that Parliament will be sitting<br />
class of reviewing which, whether the reviewer be to consider measures of great public interest, and<br />
well or ill paid in proportion to his qualifications, that there is promise of abundance of matter for the<br />
is on the whole fairly well done, and that a news columns, also seems likely to contribute to the<br />
large mass of criticism is not so satisfactorily curtailment of space for the consideration of mere<br />
performed, mainly for the reason that it is too books. At the same time there is this consolation<br />
badly paid to be worth undertaking by serious for those who complain of the brevity or paucity of<br />
readers who will do it seriously. Some editors, reviews, that the lengthy criticism is not always an<br />
no doubt, must share the blame for this, unmixed blessing. The reviewer to whom his<br />
but the lack of money at their disposal occupation is neither an art nor a business, or is,<br />
for literary notes and for the literary portions of perhaps, a business rather than an art, is often the<br />
their journals is a circumstance not always within one who has a fiendish knack of extracting the<br />
their control. I once asked the editor of an evening main incidents of the plot of a novel and of pre-<br />
newspaper to procure me compensation or revenge senting them in a baldly unattractive form, dénoue-<br />
for the pirating elsewhere of an article which he ment and all, marring the interest of the reader who<br />
had published. “Don't you keep a tame solicitor decides to obtain the book, and deterring others<br />
for such a purpose ?” I inquired. “ No, we keep a from attempting its perusal. Another reviewer of<br />
wild proprietor," was his reply. It is the wild and the same class will save himself trouble and fill<br />
uncontrolled proprietor, acting through the manager space by copious extracts not designed to whet the<br />
and cutting down expenses, the need for which fails reader's appetite for more, but rather to supply him<br />
to impress either of them, who is very often answer with all he wants to know about the book without<br />
able for the scanty remuneration of reviewers. One his having to read it. Such extracts are not likely<br />
has also heard of relatives of the proprietor (some- to be held to be infringements of the copyright,<br />
times also of the editor) whose talent for literature but are apt to verge on piracy while giving a general,<br />
was recognised by the distribution among them but not necessarily true, impression of the book as<br />
of books not absolutely demanding on account a whole. Either of these types of review is quite<br />
of their importance more experienced reviewers. as objectionable as an inaccurate statement of the<br />
The reason for this was, of course, that those author's propositions followed by demolition of<br />
responsible for the distribution looked upon review views which he has not put forward, for to this he<br />
ing as easy work “that anyone could do.” Another has some chance of being allowed to reply. How-<br />
circumstance conspiring to make reviewing a badly. ever, if reviewing is unsatisfactory from the author's<br />
paid profession, or at any rate rendering the pay point of view, because he is satisfied from reading<br />
ment per book insufficient to compensate for any his reviews that his book has not been read care-<br />
considerable expenditure of time in reading it, is fully and fairly dealt with, he has a certain measure<br />
no doubt, the existence of “publishing seasons," of consolation in the fact that almost any review is<br />
when books come out all at once with a rush, better than none at all, because it does secure a<br />
and when for many of them two to half-a-dozen certain amount of attention to the fact that he has<br />
lines per volume (paid for by the line) are written. He will be, to some extent, the better for<br />
all that the reviewer can expect to see printed. a notice markedly friendly or hostile, and the hostile<br />
I fancy that criticisms of this class usually dis- one will get him more readers than one which is<br />
appoint the author by their brevity, but are not mild and colourless. He may feel irritated against<br />
sufficiently long to offend him by observations the reviewer, but it is not always a case where the<br />
wbich he can denounce as unfair. They are blame should fall upon an individual. It is the<br />
generally mildly “favourable." The desire of the system that is to blame. Reviews form quite an<br />
publisher to have “a line to quote” secures & important part of a newspaper in the eyes of a<br />
fragment of laudation, which, so far as it goes, may large number of readers, who turn to them daily<br />
be deemed acceptable, but they are hardly worth for guidance as to what to read, whether they buy<br />
calling “reviews."<br />
books or get them from lending libraries. But in<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 79 (#491) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
79<br />
many instances their importance is not recognised, the importance is vital, since with them it is<br />
either financially or in the treatment allotted to essential that it should win them means of<br />
them when timely insertion would render them of subsistence.<br />
increased value to readers and author alike. The That it should, in a sweeping majority of<br />
worst of it is that the evil exists, but the remedy is instances, fail signally to achieve this indis-<br />
not easy to find. If proprietors and editors are pensable consummation until, at least, many bitter<br />
indifferent on the subject, they are not persons easy periods of futile industry and unrewarded per-<br />
to convince of their error, particularly when it is severance have been passed, is common knowledge<br />
remembered that such reviews as they publish among those versed in the subject of literary<br />
serve their purpose up to a certain point, and that biography. In proof of this assertion take the<br />
to obtain better work would mean expenditure not following examples, selected with no particular care<br />
only of money, but of trouble, without profits from an extensive list at hand.<br />
capable of immediate verification in the balance Jane Austen was a brilliant girl of but twenty-<br />
sheet. A parallel may be suggested in art criticism, one when she finished her masterpiece, “ Pride and<br />
which is conducted as a rule in modern times with Prejudice." She was a woman of thirty-seven<br />
considerable conscientiousness and knowledge by a before it saw the light of publicity. Four years<br />
large number of those who are engaged in it, but later, she lay in her grave, having only in her last<br />
of which the remuneration was described by one two or three years of life reaped any modest fruits<br />
of them to the writer as based upon a vague either of fame or worldly gain.<br />
editorial theory that art critics could make a Charlotte Brontë's Professor” was rejected nine<br />
living, like waiters, out of “tips."<br />
times. « Jane Eyre” met with kinder treatment,<br />
PASSER-By.<br />
but its laurel wreath arrived too late to be of<br />
practical service to its author and her almost equally<br />
gifted sisters.<br />
Harriet Martineau, again, tells us how for nearly<br />
THE HAZARD OF THE PEN.<br />
three weeks she tramped up and down London in<br />
search of a publisher for her book, " Illustrations."<br />
After cne memorable day of deep discouragement<br />
THE late Mr. F. Marion Crawford, in his novel, she wrote : "I could not afford to ride, but weary<br />
“ The Three Fates,” referred in graphic already I now felt almost too ill to walk at all. On<br />
phraseology to a section of the community the road, not far from Shoreditch, I became too<br />
at once ever growing and unfortunate, “who have giddy to stand without some support, and I leaned<br />
looked upon the ink when it was black and cannot over some dirty pailings, pretending to look at a<br />
be weaned from it, and whose nostrils have cabbage bed, but saying to myself as I stood with<br />
smelled the printer's sacrifice."<br />
closed eyes : “My book will do yet.'”<br />
At first blush, perhaps, “unfortunate” might The Publisher's Circular stated some years ago<br />
appear to be a rather inappropriate term to that Mrs. Gaskell's powerful novel, “ Mary Barton,"<br />
employ in the present connection, but before was offered to all, or nearly all, the publishers in<br />
substituting another in its place, let us withhold London and rejected.<br />
our judgment awhile, recognising at the outset, Thackeray, a literary Colossus, bears a name<br />
and without further preamble, that such force as with which to conjure among the brotherhood of<br />
this article may possess is meant to be concentrated, the pen ; yet, according to report, the MS. of his<br />
not upon those debonair personages who take up world-famed “ Vanity Fair " was ignominiously<br />
literary work of sorts as a species of congenial refused by no fewer than thirty-eight dealers in such<br />
hobby, nor yet upon those who pursue it in expecta- goods—some authorities place the figure at thirty-<br />
tion of gleaning some slight emolument wherewith nine !<br />
to supplement incomes derived from sources based Robert Louis Stevenson also, the exquisite stylist<br />
on solid foundations, but upon those who, believing and master of romance, what does he in this galley ?<br />
themselves to be endowed with the power as well Listen! “I was thirty-one. I was the head of a<br />
as the will to earn a livelihood in good earnest by family. I had lost my health. I had never yet<br />
the partnership of brains with pen, ink, and paper, paid my way, never yet made $200 a year: my<br />
throw themselves body and soul into the endeavour, father had quite recently bought back and can-<br />
and thereby elect to make it their sole life's work. celled a book that was judged a failure. I was<br />
With regard to those coming under the first and indeed close on despair.” At the moment of which<br />
second mentioned category, any hardship entailed he speaks,“ Treasure Island” was already half-<br />
by a steadily-growing disillusion as to the dividend written.<br />
earping capacity of their capital, may usually be Warren's “ Passages from the Diary of a late<br />
described as of secondary importance; to the third, Physician " was cold shouldered by both editors and<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 80 (#492) #############################################<br />
<br />
80<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
14<br />
publishers alike before Blackwood's accepted it. Yet himself when asked what he had to say upon the<br />
its success was instantaneous.<br />
subject of his profession. “Is it worth it?" were<br />
But when a “reader" of the calibre of the late his words.<br />
James Payn confesses to declining a work such as<br />
HERBERT W. Smith,<br />
“ John Inglesant”—a work of which Mr. Gladstone<br />
wrote that it was of real genius and of a class that<br />
interested him greatly—what consideration may the<br />
novice expect to receive at the hands of those who,<br />
for the most part, boast neither the insight nor<br />
SAMUEL RICHARDSON.*<br />
the literary acumen of the author of the “ Lost Sir<br />
Massingberd” ?<br />
It will be remembered how, in his early days, Dr.<br />
TISS Sheila Kaye-Smith contributes to a<br />
Johnson, on occasion, walked the streets of London<br />
small volume forming part of the series<br />
all night because he could not afford a bed, while<br />
published as “The Regent Library," a<br />
Goldsmith knew the necessity of pawning the<br />
scholarly and well-considered appreciation of<br />
clothes off his, lying with his head protruding<br />
Samuel Richardson as a writer, and a brief but<br />
from a slit in the mattress inside which he had<br />
suggestive biographical sketch. These form an<br />
thrust his person. Coleridge, even at a time when<br />
introduction to the study of a series of copious<br />
he had attained celebrity as a scholar, poet and<br />
extracts from Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles<br />
essayist, was in the saddest state of destitution.<br />
Grandison, which, it is to be hoped, will stimulate<br />
Dryden lived in poverty and distress. Steele waged<br />
the reader, to whom they introduce the novelist, to<br />
a ceaseless war against bailiffs. Keats slipped out<br />
read his works in a fuller form. In truth, it is<br />
of life under the impression his " name was writ in<br />
wonderful how comprehensive a birdseye view of<br />
water," and Otway perished of starvation.<br />
the story extracts so well selected are capable of<br />
Far from Genius being a help to the literary or<br />
providing, and the danger is lest the easy assimila-<br />
poetic creator in any material sense, at least during<br />
tion of the extract should lead young readers to<br />
the early stages of his career, it is a hindrance.<br />
postpone the weightier feast. In this they have as<br />
Mankind understands mediocrity, tolerates talent,<br />
their justification that the 19th century has followed<br />
but mistrusts genius. This reflection enables us to<br />
upon the 18th and left a plentiful supply of desir-<br />
explain why manufacturers of “shilling shockers,"<br />
able matter for their consumption, even if they<br />
and delineators of frenzied eroticism, obtain instant<br />
confine themselves to fiction. However, they will<br />
and widespread popularity for their productions,<br />
find that Miss Kaye-Smith's introduction will<br />
while a Francis Thompson sells matches in the<br />
convey more to them than they may already have<br />
streets of London, and à John Davidson performs<br />
ne read of the subjects with which she deals.<br />
read<br />
the last desperate act of renunciation.<br />
Defoe, Fielding, Smollett and Charlotte Brontë<br />
“For one man who succeeds in literature, a<br />
are selected on her first page for comparison, and<br />
thousand fail,” declared Mr. Crawford.<br />
her own knowledge of them is proved by her<br />
Authors who have passed through what is called<br />
critical references to their work in connection with<br />
" the mill ” could, no doubt, throw corroborative<br />
that of Richardson. The “ Short Bibliography"<br />
evidence on the statement, even though persever-<br />
with which her concluding pages are occupied is a<br />
ance, physical endurance, and, perchance, good<br />
fairly comprehensive one. Those who can find<br />
fortune may have combined to pull them through<br />
omissions from it will have to be well read in their<br />
the purgatory wherein they once groaned in subject.<br />
anguish, and to have in some degree toned down its<br />
memory. But what of those miserable wretches<br />
who never struggle out of it, but flounder hopelessly<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
to the end ?<br />
Literature, like marriage, is something of a<br />
lottery, and its prizes do not always fall to those AGENTS : LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
most worthy to receive them. When we hear of<br />
successful authors who have reached positions of<br />
competence, and even of affluence, we are apt to SIR,-Since you invite controversy, may I also<br />
overlook the thousands of hack writers whose lives protest against the somewhat sweeping attack on<br />
are spent in one continued struggle against Agents, Literary and Dramatic, in your October<br />
privation. All alike, however, the victors and number? No doubt there are dishonest agents,<br />
the vanquished, the winners and the failures,<br />
might do worse than pause awhile to cogitate over By Sheila Kaye-Smith, London. Herbert and Daniel,<br />
a remark of which Robert Buchanan once delivered 1911.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 81 (#493) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
81<br />
agents who play into the hands of the publishers<br />
against the interests of the author, agents who will<br />
serve one author to the prejudice of another, agents<br />
who will save themselves trouble by selling their<br />
clients into bondage, who will, in short, commit<br />
every one of the sins which your contributor has<br />
laid to the charge of their profession. It may be<br />
an author's misfortune if he encounters one of<br />
these, but it is also very much his fault. For there<br />
are plenty of people who can tell him where honest<br />
agents may be found.<br />
I, for one, can give the address not only of an<br />
honest agent, an agent innocent of these alleged<br />
perfidies, but an agent who, in my experience, has<br />
actually disregarded his own immediate interests in<br />
the interests of his clients. This honesty of his is<br />
no doubt his best policy; but I have also known<br />
him exert himself in ways where even policy<br />
could discern no profit. You may say, if you<br />
are cynical, that philanthropy was not his motive;<br />
but it is the agent's conduct, pot his motive, which<br />
is under criticism. I admit that he is guilty of<br />
inserting that clause in his contracts which autho-<br />
rises him to collect all monies, and accepts his<br />
receipts as sole and sufficient discharge ; but,<br />
except in the event of his immediate bankruptcy,<br />
I see no great harm in it. Either he does or he<br />
does not collect the monies; if he does he must be<br />
authorised. If the author objects to that clause,<br />
there is no reason in the world why he should sign<br />
it.<br />
Of course complaints will arise even against the<br />
honest agent, the trouble being that the market is<br />
overcrowded and that the honest agent, by reason<br />
of his honesty, is likely to have his hands full.<br />
There are several kinds of authors for whom he can<br />
do little or nothing. There is the author whom<br />
nobody wants just yet ; the author whom nobody<br />
erer will want; the “popular” author who has had<br />
his day and is no longer wanted; there is the one<br />
book author, and the author of books so many that<br />
nobody can keep up with him. And by all these<br />
people the agent is besieged. By all these people<br />
he is blamed if anything goes wrong. Possibly<br />
they would do as well or better without him; he,<br />
most certainly, would do better without them.<br />
Because of his helplessness in dealing with such<br />
cases, the question is often raised whether an agent<br />
is really any good to anybody except the already<br />
prosperous or established author ? Well, that<br />
depends on the agent; it depends also on the<br />
author; it depends very largely on the publisher.<br />
By knowing exactly where to place him, a good<br />
agent may be very useful to the promising unknown;<br />
by nursing a dying popularity into the semblance<br />
of a little life, he may still be useful to the too-well<br />
known. No doubt, with some firms, the unknown<br />
author will have a better chance, a perfectly fair<br />
chance, too, if he “deals direct.” For, in the<br />
beginning, he is a pure speculation to everybody<br />
concerned. Whether his chances will be equally<br />
fair when his commercial value is increasing, de-<br />
pends solely on the publishers' integrity. His<br />
exact commercial value is a thing no author at this<br />
stage of his career knows or can know. His pub-<br />
lishers themselves may not know it. But the<br />
agent may know. At any rate he knows what<br />
other firms are prepared to pay.<br />
And there is the crux of the whole matter. It<br />
raises all the problems of honour and obligation<br />
between author and publisher. It is where the<br />
agent's intervention may be most valuable or most<br />
disastrous.<br />
Whether an author will be wise—what is more,<br />
whether he will be right-in leaving the firm he<br />
knows (which may be paying him to the extent of<br />
its ability) for another firm which will pay him<br />
better, depends on conditions too hypothetical and<br />
too intricate to be considered here. It is as much<br />
a problem of individual conscience as of general<br />
policy. But it is one which is perpetually recur-<br />
ring; and on its moral side it is peculiarly harass-<br />
ing to the sensitive author. If he refuses to<br />
“deal direct," if he “ takes” an agent, he is<br />
supposed to betray a lack of confidence in his pub-<br />
lishers, who may be his very good friends. In vain<br />
he protests that he is nothing if not confiding;<br />
that he merely desires to delegate the sordid busi-<br />
ness details which he loathes; that it is because he<br />
holds friendship so dear, so sacred, that he must<br />
keep it pure. Nobody is deceived. The inference<br />
is obvious. He has parted with the happy confi-<br />
dence he had. And all this is terrible between<br />
friends.<br />
And yet it is all absurdly simple.<br />
The author is not justified in leaving his pub-<br />
lisher, even for better pay, if he is bound to him<br />
either by contract or by moral obligation. It is<br />
a little difficult to say where moral obligation<br />
begins and ends. Some publishers regard it as im-<br />
measurable and immutable. It should certainly<br />
cease when the author has reason to doubt either<br />
the integrity or the ability of his publisher. Per-<br />
Sonally, if a publisher's ability alone is in question,<br />
I would be for giving him a fair trial, pro-<br />
longed in proportion to the amount of moral obliga-<br />
tion incurred. On the other hand, if his integrity<br />
were suspect, he should have short shrift.<br />
Now, this sort of thing is brittle stuff for the<br />
Literary Agent to handle ; but, in my experience<br />
of him, involved, as we have been more than once,<br />
in a perfect network of scruples, he has always<br />
respected the delicate issues which it was his<br />
obvious interest to tangle or obscure. What<br />
more need be said ?<br />
MAY SINCLAIR.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 82 (#494) #############################################<br />
<br />
82<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
II.<br />
to confirm my idea that a young author's best friend,<br />
if he be not afraid, is himself. I have had dealings<br />
SIR, -Assuming that the article on “Authors' with several, but only in one solitary instance so<br />
Agents” in your October number was written for far to my profit. Whereas, acting on my own<br />
the benefit of such as still stand in need of advice behalf, I have succeeded in doing business on which<br />
on what is often a vexed and vexing question in I have had to pay to my agents, under various<br />
a young author's career-rather than for those very one-sided agreements with them, fees and<br />
eminent authors who find it pays to employ an commissions amounting to more than the total of all<br />
agent-perhaps a young author's experience of the royalties they have ever earned for me.<br />
agents may interest your readers.<br />
I sometimes think, indeed, that I would not be<br />
My first book was scarcely off the press before I quite such a young author now if, from the outset<br />
had fallen prey to my first agent. He was an of my career, I had not employed an agent at all-<br />
impostor. But please bear in mind that he managed and if I had watched still more closely some of the<br />
to impose on not a few of my elders and betters as agents I did employ.<br />
well as on me. In any case, it took me six months<br />
Yours faithfully.<br />
and some money to find out his true character;<br />
A PUPIL OF EXPERIENCE.<br />
and to escape from his clutches, with the society's<br />
help.<br />
My second book and my second agent appeared<br />
simultaneously also. My second agent afforded me<br />
III.<br />
further proof that the first was a plausible rascal,<br />
and for two long years I struggled against a SIR, I cannot understand why agents of such<br />
growing impression that there was very little to high reputation as Messrs. Cazenove and Perris<br />
choose between himself and his predecessor. Once should resent the advice given in the October<br />
satisfied that my suspicions were only too well number of The Author as to the choice of an agent.<br />
founded, I fought my way out of his hands in It is surely desirable that care should be exercised<br />
turn, and with the society's help again.<br />
in such choice. I did not understand the article<br />
By that time I had grown very gun-shy. But to be an attack on agents generally, but merely a<br />
when a third agent, of the very highest repute, warning against the unscrupulous. It is, of course,<br />
wrote me suggesting that I should entrust my a pity that authors can't do without a middleman,<br />
business to him, I did so. And during the four but it is plain enough that we cannot. The hawk-<br />
years I remained with him he placed four books ing round of our wares is a depressing, humiliating,<br />
for me-two well, and two unwisely, as it turned and time-wasting business. I must say I have<br />
been extremely grateful to the agents who have<br />
I left him then because by then he was doing so worked for me, both in England and America. I<br />
well for himself among eminent authors that I have always found them scrupulously honourable<br />
knew he could not, in common fairness to himself, and extremely courteous. Precious little have they<br />
devote to my modest affairs the time and attention ever made out of me, and I can only say that if<br />
still needed to make an eminent author of me; and, ever I made ten thousand pounds by a book I shall<br />
further, because I had finally learned that no agent rejoice at the amount my agent will pocket out<br />
should be expected in reason to fight a young of it !<br />
author's battles for him, as they must be fought to While I am writing, may I once more plead for<br />
win. No agent could long afford to carry on his an insurance scheme in connection with the<br />
business for the benefit of any one individual - Authors' Society, whereby through the payment of<br />
other than himself.<br />
a small yearly premium, an author who breaks<br />
These views my third agent frankly endorsed down in health can draw a few pounds to take a<br />
when we parted, in perfect amity. And he added rest or a holiday. There are times in the life of<br />
that, if I would give him my business again as every writing man or woman when a ten pound<br />
soon as I could become an eminent author on my note, or even a “fiver,” might be the means of<br />
own account, he would undertake to do far betteraverting a serious breakdown; and there are<br />
for me then than I could ever hope to do for cases where small debts, accumulating through a<br />
myself.<br />
few weeks of incapacity, harass the unfortunate<br />
Meantime, however, the fact remains that I have one into another illness. I sincerely hope the idea<br />
so far managed to make a good deal more money of an insurance fund may take root in some prac-<br />
for myself than even an agent of the very highest tical mind, and that a coinmittee may be formed to<br />
repute could make for me in four years during consider it.<br />
which he handled the bulk of my output.<br />
Yours,<br />
My experience of American agents has also gone<br />
MARY L. PENDERED.<br />
out.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 83 (#495) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
83<br />
IV.<br />
doing you harm. He sees a publisher, and the<br />
publisher says:<br />
DEAR SIR,_Literary agents may be useful to a “Colour books are still popular at Christmas.<br />
writer here and there. Let that writer give the Do you know some young writers and artists who<br />
tenth part of his income to an agent whom he will be easy to manage? Their inexperience<br />
trusts. There is nothing to prevent bim from doesn't matter. The books will pass muster in the<br />
giving 40 per cent. of his earnings to a good rush at Christmas, and the critics will be too busy to<br />
agent. But to say that agents are indispensable is do much harm. If we get artists of known name<br />
to argue that authors are unfit to market their own they insist upon colour work that is very hard to<br />
work. The agent flourishes only because a writer get, and known writers of art have terms that they<br />
bere and there is too lazy to spend three or four won't lower."<br />
hours a week in selling work that publishers want So inexperience is rushed into a market where<br />
to buy. I do not trust literary agents because their specialists should rule.<br />
trade is unbusinesslike in all its aims and methods. Already the colour processes—which G. F. Watts<br />
An author who earns a large income should have described as marvellous aids to the study of art-<br />
his own private agent, just as a theatrical manager have been so ill-used that they are sinking rapidly<br />
has his own business manager. To buy fragments to the level of trade catalogues. Authors and<br />
of a general agent's time and experience, paying a artists in a year or two will decline to have their<br />
tenth part of one's own income, is the folly of a work associated with colour reproductions. As to<br />
spendthrift.<br />
the writers who can write about art, whose work is<br />
Popular novelists must decide these questions valued throughout Europe, they find it ever the<br />
for themselves. But I can say with authority, more difficult to discover publishers whose aims<br />
without the least fear of being contradicted, that are not shoddy and degrading.<br />
for the placing of illustrated books, agents are An expert can give but one piece of advice to an<br />
worse than useless. Very often they are dangerous. carnest young writer of illustrated books. “ Do<br />
Such books are always commissioned, and their your own work in every detail. Never employ an<br />
writers and artists demand some payment in agent, for you will have to guide him in all negotia-<br />
advance of publication. The higher the payment tions, and you cannot afford to give your hard-won<br />
the more strenuously a publisher will push the book. experience to any tradesman. What you teach bim<br />
Two or three publishers are trying to ruin this he will use for the benefit of other clients, probably<br />
market, and I am told that certain agents have a your rivals."<br />
hand in the tactics. Unknown writers are chosen<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
and inexperienced artists; small prices are paid.<br />
" CRUSADER.”<br />
The illustrations are printed thirty-two at a time,<br />
and in a few years the picture book will be killed.<br />
Why are agents helping to destroy this market ?<br />
PUBLISHERS' METHODS.<br />
Because they do not understand the conditions of DEAR SIR,—I have read with interest the article<br />
art publications. A book on architecture or on art entitled “Publishers' Methods” in the October<br />
takes a long time to write, and it needs a thorough number of your paper. It occurs to me that you<br />
training. Its author is a specialist, and earns his may care to have the views of a publisher on two<br />
first reputation in the magazines and papers that or three of the points raised. Although it may be<br />
deal with his subjects. He cannot afford to give difficult to draft clauses satisfactory to both author<br />
his long experience to a publisher for nothing—not and publisher, and the latter is generally supposed<br />
even in a first book. He can no more afford to do to be trying to get the better of the former, I am<br />
that than an architect can afford to build a house sure that there are few cases in which a publisher<br />
for nothing. And two or three writers on art are desires to do other than what is right and fair.<br />
something more than known connoisseurs ; they The article mentions two agreements from a<br />
have studied all the processes, they have worked in publisher relating to books of a technical nature,<br />
printing rooms, they are able to guide the publisher and states that Clauses 3 and 4 are both “dan-<br />
in all technical details.<br />
gerous.” Clause 3 provides that the author agrees<br />
This profession is not in the least understood by to revise editions, and Clause 4 that, in the event<br />
literary agents, who regard their work from the of the author neglecting to revise, the expense of<br />
standpoint of popular fiction. If you give them a revision shall be borne by the author. The article<br />
project to market for an illustrated book, they do comments that there is only one person who should<br />
not know how to introduce it to a publisher. You have control over these alterations; that person is<br />
try again and again, discussing all the points, but the author. I suggest that it is an open question<br />
the subject is outside the agent's ken. You leave whether the author is the best judge as to whether<br />
him, of course, but you can't prerent him from revision is required, because being presumably an<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#496) #############################################<br />
<br />
84<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
D<br />
expert in the subject-matter of his book, it is<br />
difficult for him to differentiate between his know<br />
ledge and what he has written in his book.<br />
Furthermore, he may be disinclined, through calls<br />
of other business or even pleasure, to undertake<br />
the work when asked to do so. At the present<br />
moment I have a case on hand where an author,<br />
getting what I consider a high royalty on every<br />
book sold, declines, although he considers it<br />
necessary, to undertake the revision without pay-<br />
ment of a special fee, because there is no clause in<br />
the agreement (made some years ago) providing<br />
for the revision of the book by the author. I<br />
think it must be kept well in mind that a publisher<br />
would not ask for a revision of a book unless he<br />
felt the same was required, because the publishing<br />
of a new edition necessarily entails a considerable<br />
expense on his part.<br />
Clause 4. If an author, having agreed to revise,<br />
should neglect to do so, it follows that if a revision<br />
is to be made it must be by someone other than<br />
the author, and that person must of course be paid,<br />
:<br />
and as his employment is necessitated by the<br />
neglect of the author to revise, the author should<br />
bear the cost caused by his neglect. I agree that<br />
the revision should not be handed over to anyone<br />
without the author first being told by whom it is<br />
suggested the revision shall be made, because it<br />
would be quite possible for this revision to be<br />
given to someone without a proper knowledge of<br />
the subject or true sympathy with the author's<br />
work. I might add that I have recently had<br />
some difficulties with the revision of books, subject<br />
to royalties, written by deceased authors, which<br />
admittedly want revising, but the selection of the<br />
persons to make the revisions has caused consider<br />
able thought and anxiety.<br />
Clause 6. As to making up accounts: I con-<br />
sider that accounts should be delivered to authors<br />
half-yearly, and not yearly, and payments made<br />
within a month of the delivery of each account.<br />
I should like to add a few words about Clause 2,<br />
as to the application of profits from the rights of<br />
translation. No rule can be laid down as to the<br />
division of these profits beyond this, that the work<br />
done by the author and publisher respectively<br />
should be the basis of such division. For example,<br />
account must be taken of the causes which produce<br />
the demand for the translation. Possibly the pub-<br />
lisher's work in the production of the original<br />
book, especially if it be an elaborately illustrated<br />
one, may considerably help to the desire to trans-<br />
late and the use of illustrations being sought for.<br />
It may also be that the publisher, with his expert<br />
knowledge, is acquainted with special firms likely<br />
to want to publish translations, and it is only by<br />
his unique knowledge and experience that these<br />
translations are made.<br />
For very many years books have been published<br />
by the firm of “B. T. Batsford,” and I hope I may<br />
be permitted to express my pleasure in saying that<br />
there has never been any serious trouble with an<br />
author, certainly nothing in which legal pro-<br />
ceedings have ever been contemplated, but my<br />
view as to an arbitration clause is that it is better<br />
to leave the parties entirely free, 80 that in the<br />
unfortunate event of any dispute arising each may<br />
seek his remedy in open court, or if both so desire,<br />
they can, irrespective of anything in the agreement,<br />
settle their dispute by arbitration.<br />
I am, yours faithfully,<br />
HERBERT BATSFORD<br />
(the present head of the firm).<br />
[NOTE.—Touching the question of revision, the<br />
writer of the article merely desires that the method<br />
of revision and the terms of revision should not be<br />
absolutely and solely in the hands of the publisher,<br />
and as regards translation rights he thinks very<br />
decidedly that some rule can be laid down. If<br />
these rights are placed by the publisher under a<br />
contract signed and approved by the author then<br />
he is acting as the author's agent and doing the<br />
work of the ordinary literary agent, and is certainly<br />
entitled to an agency charge of 10 per cent. or<br />
15 per cent. If these rights are placed by the<br />
author the publisher should not be entitled to any<br />
claims whatever.-Ed.]<br />
ON THE WORDS " MODERN” AND “ MODERNITY."<br />
SIR,—I should like to call attention to the danger<br />
of the present use of the word modern and its<br />
derivative modernity.<br />
Modern work would appear to be work by men<br />
still living, or so lately dead as to count as<br />
our contemporaries. But, because a good many<br />
modern workers use an advanced realism, critics<br />
continually use the term as if it meant the same as<br />
realistic.<br />
But this merely leads to a confusion of thought.<br />
There have been realists in all ages, as there are<br />
idealising writers now. If the realism of to-day is<br />
very pronounced, symbolism and the reactionary are<br />
quite frequent also ; a living man who were to<br />
take as his master, say, Chaucer or John Bunyan,<br />
would be producing modern work while he was<br />
alive. It would only become ancient with lapse of<br />
time—it would always be and remain twentieth<br />
century work.<br />
In very many cases the modern and the realistic<br />
coincide: but by no means in all. I refrain from<br />
examples, lest I should seem to criticise any of my<br />
fellow members of the Society of Authors.<br />
ARTHUR DILLON.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#497) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING. Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhead, Surrey, writes :-<br />
+1 have just completed the revision of my novel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without having been corrected or even read, and that my hand writing,<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required perception as well as care, something more than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a resulta result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
-of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the wark of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/-<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1/- 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spanish typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): “I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work."<br />
MRS. TOM GODFREY: “I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
all authors who have the good fortune to hear of you, ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French.<br />
MRS. HINKSON(KATHARINE TYXAN): "I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and promptitude."<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq. : “ The work could not be better done."<br />
1. A. ST. JOHN. L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON.<br />
Bitterne Park,<br />
Cotterill & Cromb, Literary Agents,<br />
Lennox House, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
MISS A. B. STEVENSON, Yew Tree Cottage,<br />
SUTTON, MACCLESFIELD,<br />
Story Work, 9d. 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/- ; Plays, ruled and covered,<br />
1/- 1,000 words.<br />
Copies of recent Testimonials<br />
W. SHAW SPARROW: “ I'm glad I don't hear the steady noise of your machine,<br />
but I appreciate the excellence of your work."<br />
DANIEL WOODROFFE: "Miss A. B. Stevenson is very accurate in her type-<br />
writing and most satisfactory in every way."<br />
Authors who find their work does not for<br />
any reason prosper in their own hands,<br />
or in the charge of an agent, should consult Mr. STANHOPE<br />
W. SPRIGG, late editor of Cassell's and the Windsor Magazine,<br />
and for some years Hon. Literary Adviser to the Society of<br />
Women Journalists. Address : Trafalgar Buildings, Charing<br />
Cross, W.C.<br />
The Daily Mail says:-"In these days when there is so large an<br />
output of stories, articles, and other literary matter, and when many<br />
promising authors find more difficulty than ever in obtaining profitable<br />
publication, the services of a trustworthy literary consultant like<br />
Mr. Sprigg should prove useful, if not indispensable."<br />
AUTHORS & PLAYWRIGHTS.<br />
Special facilities for placing work of every description.<br />
Particulars from Manager, Literary Department,<br />
WIENER AGENCY, LD.,<br />
AND NEW YORK. 64, Strand, LONDON,<br />
BOOKS<br />
<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
MISS FOWLER, Maxwell House, Arundel<br />
Literary, Educational, Scientific, Medical,<br />
Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
Law, Theological, and on ALL other subjects<br />
EXPERT IN DECIPHERING DIFFICULT HANDWRITING.<br />
SECOND-HAND AT HALF PRICES!<br />
Extract from Unsolicited Testimonial.-"I send your work com.<br />
New at 25 per cent, Discount.<br />
pared to which Egyptian hieroglyphics would be child's play, and you<br />
Catalogue No. 144. Post Free. State Wants.<br />
return the manuscript at the time requested without one single<br />
naccuracy. It is nothing short of marvellous."<br />
Books sent on Approval.<br />
BOOKS BOUGHT : Best Prices Given.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
8d. per 1,000 words, with free carbon copy.<br />
W. & G. FOYLE, 135, Charing Cross Rd., London, W.C.<br />
One of many Testimonials.<br />
** Many thanks for all the trouble you have taken and<br />
for the neatness with which the typing has been done."'-<br />
Authors' Guides.<br />
MARK PERUGINI.<br />
C. A. GIRTON.<br />
MAKING MONEY BY THE PEN. Eleven Practical<br />
2, Grove Lane, Camberwell, LONDON, S.E.<br />
Lectures by R. A. H. GOODYEAR, originally sold at £2 2s,<br />
SHORT STORIES.<br />
course to Hundreds of delighted Students. 2s.6d. nett.<br />
THE WRITERS' BRAIN BOOK. An Album of<br />
Articles, Serials placed with over 170 Publishers and<br />
Inspiration for Authors. is. nett.<br />
Periodicals. Plays also placed. 16 page Prospectus free.<br />
TALE-WRITING FOR MONEY. By R. A. H. GOOD Cambridge Literary Agency, 115, Strand, w.c.<br />
YEAR. 70. nett.<br />
WHAT SHALL I WRITE ABOUT? By R. A. H. First-Class Typewriting.<br />
GOODYEAR, 7d. nett.<br />
101 MONEY-MAKING RECIPES FOR AUTHORS.<br />
7d. nett.<br />
Do you want good and accurate work ?<br />
Send to H. S. CHARLES, 12, Sunning,<br />
Obtainable POST FREE of the Publisher ONLY-<br />
hill Road, Lewisham, London, S.E.<br />
A. J. ACKLANDE, Grosvenor Chambers, Scarborough.<br />
10d. per thousand.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#498) #############################################<br />
<br />
viii<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
<br />
TYPEWRITING<br />
BRAINS.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
WITH<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum,<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
MISS RALLING wishes to inform<br />
her many clients and friends that<br />
she has moved her Typewriting<br />
Offices to—<br />
38, Norwood Rd.,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Lounges<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Fluors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 8/-.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel— Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel —"Bookcraft, London."<br />
Please note this for future<br />
correspondence.<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING. SHORTHAND, AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C.<br />
communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883.<br />
Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel-<br />
London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
figently copied, from 18. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
promptness : 7d. per 1,000;<br />
over 20,000, 6d. Plass ruled<br />
and bound, 8d.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
Cheap duplicating.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and Generaal<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli-<br />
cation.<br />
Typewriting and Secretarial Work.<br />
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
Recommended by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.,<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
and Others.<br />
15, WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX.<br />
" Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to the<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE."<br />
New Address :-<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen : "Many<br />
thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
been done."<br />
Printed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/428/1911-12-01-The-Author-22-3.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 429 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/429 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 04 (January 1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+04+%28January+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 04 (January 1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-01-01-The-Author-22-4 | | | | | 85–116 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-01-01">1912-01-01</a> | | | | | | | 4 | | | 19120101 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
Vol. XXII.--No. 4.<br />
JANUARY 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGE<br />
PAGE<br />
102<br />
103<br />
103<br />
103<br />
103<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
List of Members ...<br />
The Pension Fund ...<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
Council Meeting<br />
Books published by Members ..<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes ... ...<br />
United States Notes<br />
Stage Plays and Private Societie<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books ...<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br />
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 />
Committee Election<br />
The Pension Fund Committee<br />
The Dinner ...<br />
The Soundest View of History.<br />
Correspondence ...<br />
03<br />
:::::::::::::<br />
104<br />
105<br />
105<br />
106<br />
110<br />
12<br />
By Florence L. Barclay.<br />
THE FOLLOWING OF THE STAR. 6/=<br />
"A worthy successor to “The Rosary.<br />
and clever."--Evening Standard.<br />
It has the same charm and grip, whilst the plot is again unusual<br />
150TH THOUSAND,<br />
THE ROSARY.<br />
6/=<br />
" Jane Champion is one of the most lovable heroines that have ever stepped into the pages of a novel. ...<br />
* The Rosary' has wit, as well as grace.”-Pall Mall Gazette.<br />
350TH THOUSAND.<br />
THE MISTRESS OF SHENSTONE. 6/-<br />
" A youthful sentiment, fresh and romantic, flows through Mrs. Barclay's new book, and gives to the story<br />
some of the delicate odour of lavender and jessamine and old-fashioned flowers."-- Daily Graphic.<br />
150TH THOUSAND.<br />
THE WHEELS OF TIME.<br />
1/= net.<br />
“One of the most charmingly touching and truly pathetic stories we have met with for some time.”-Belfast<br />
Northern Whig.<br />
10TH IMPRESSION.<br />
* Send for List describing Mrs. Barclay's Books.<br />
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 24, Bedford St., Strand, London, W.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#500) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Tolograpbic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON."<br />
Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br />
P.C.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O. M.<br />
COUNCIL<br />
818 ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B.<br />
The Right Hon. THE EARL CURZON, JOSTIN MCCARTHY.<br />
BIB WM.REYNELL ANSON, Bart.,D.C.L.<br />
THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
J. M. BABRIE<br />
DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO.<br />
BIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.<br />
THE RIGHT HON, SIB HORACE<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
H. RIDER HAGGARD.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON (“LUCAS MALET''). OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,<br />
G, BERNARD SHAW.<br />
BELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G. R. Sims.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.8. W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
THE RIGHT HON, JANRS BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD,<br />
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BURGH. JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WABD.<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
H. G. WELLS.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.8.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. PERCY WHITE.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (Miss FLORA L. FIELD-MARSHAL The Right Hon.<br />
W. MORBIS COLLES.<br />
Shaw).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, 6. P.,<br />
THE HON. JOHN COLLIER.<br />
MRS. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON). P.C., &c.<br />
SIB W, MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR,<br />
MRS. E. N ESBIT BLAND.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB,<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM<br />
RUDOLF BESIER.<br />
H. GRANVILLE BARKER,<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE,<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. CARTON.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH.<br />
CAPT. BASIL HOOD,<br />
G, BERNARD SHAW.<br />
JEROME K, JEROME.<br />
MISS E, M, SYMONDS.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-S, SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
MORLEY ROBERTS.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
| MRS. HUMPARY WARD.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
1 M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
The Hon. John COLLIER.<br />
BIR W. MARTIN CONWAY,<br />
ART.<br />
JOHN HASSALL, R.I.<br />
| J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM,<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
FIELD, ROBCOK & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, 8.W. ) Solicitors,<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Société des Gens do Lettres.<br />
Legal Representative in America—JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STORBY'S GATE, S.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#501) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
- PLAYS<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
AUTHORS, ATTENTION!<br />
ACCURACY,<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors),<br />
ABSOLUTE SECRECY,<br />
PUNCTUALITY<br />
guaranteed by me in Typewritten<br />
copies of Manuscripts, eto.<br />
Terms : Is. per 1,000 words ; Carbon<br />
Duplicates, 3d. per 1,000.<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
and America. "Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
- NO THEORIES. —<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
Read what a satisfied Client says, and then send a<br />
trial order.<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
December 4th, 1911.<br />
I have to thank you for your prompt and most<br />
satisfactory work; the typing is excellent, and I am<br />
extremely pleased with it.<br />
(Signed) MRS. J. O. ARNOLD,<br />
Sheffield.<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Rd., St. Albans, Herts.<br />
Address : 28, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
"An indispensable book of reference<br />
journalists."-Daily Graphic.<br />
for authors and<br />
LITERARY YEAR-BOOK (1912)<br />
Will this offer<br />
interest YOU?<br />
Crown 8vo.]<br />
Price 6s. net.<br />
[995 pages.<br />
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS: — Authors' Directory ;<br />
Literary Agents ; Typists ; Indexers ; Translators ;<br />
Booksellers; Proof-correcting, etc.; Law and<br />
Letters ; British, American, Canadian, and Indian<br />
Periodicals (with a classified index and full<br />
particulars for contributors); Royalty Tables ;<br />
Publishers (British and Foreign) ; Classified List of<br />
Publishers' Requirements (now feature); Literary<br />
Societies and Clubs ; A classified list of cheap re-<br />
prints (93 different series).<br />
Opinions of Authors :-"Many thanks for the help which the<br />
Year Book now affords."--"The Year Book is a great boon to<br />
authors, and this year is better than ever." _“I have found The<br />
Literary Year Book a very valuable book of reference."--"I<br />
take this opportunity of telling you how great a help the book is<br />
to me as an author and as a working journalist."<br />
"A work with a wide reputation and one justly earned."-<br />
The Author.<br />
IMPORTANT TO AUTHORS.<br />
In the "Law and Letters " Saotion will be<br />
found a careful and able exposition of the<br />
now Copyright Act (1912).<br />
of all Booksellers, or of the Publishers,<br />
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd.,<br />
68, Carter Lane, London, E.C.<br />
A Charming Gift to a Church School.<br />
Twelve copies, “ PROPER LESSONS<br />
TO BE READ AT MATINS AND<br />
EVENSONG ON THE SUNDAYS AND<br />
OTHER HOLY DAYS THROUGHOUT<br />
THE YEAR.” Leather, red and gilt<br />
edges; published at 1/6 and 2/-<br />
each by ClowES. For 5/-,<br />
carriage paid, cash with order.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO.,<br />
29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#502) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE<br />
SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report for the current<br />
year. Price 1s, net.<br />
1. Copyright Law Reform.<br />
An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copy-<br />
right Bill of 1890. Witb Extracts from<br />
the Report of the Commission of 1878,<br />
the Berne Convention, and the American<br />
Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. Price<br />
1s. 6d. net.<br />
2. The Author.<br />
Published ten months in the year (August<br />
and September omitted) devoted especially<br />
to the protection and maintenance of<br />
Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to all Members gratis. Price to<br />
non-members, 6d., or 58. 6d. per annum,<br />
post free. Back numbers from 1892, at<br />
10s. 6d. net, per vol.<br />
8. The Society of Authors.<br />
A Record of its Action from its Founda-<br />
tion. By WALTER BESANT (Chairman of<br />
Committee, 1888–1892). Price 1s, net.<br />
8. Literature and the Pension List.<br />
By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law.<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany,<br />
Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland.<br />
By Ernst LUNGE, J.U.D. Price 28. 6d. net.<br />
4. The History of the Société des Gens de<br />
Lettres.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. Price 1s. net.<br />
8. The Cost of Production.<br />
(Out of print.)<br />
10. Forms of Agreement issued by the<br />
Publishers' Association ; with Com-<br />
ments.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRing, and Illustrative<br />
Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd<br />
Edition. Price 18. net.<br />
6. The Yarious Methods of Publication.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work,<br />
compiled from the papers in the Society's<br />
offices, the various forms of agreements<br />
proposed by Publishers to Authors are<br />
examined, and their meaning carefully<br />
explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made<br />
possible by the different clauses therein.<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
11. Periodicals and their contributors.<br />
Giving the Terms on which the different<br />
Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS.<br />
and Contributions. Price 6d. net.<br />
12. Society of Authors.<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907,<br />
price 6d. net.<br />
Addenda to the Above.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being ad-<br />
ditional facts collected at the office of<br />
the Society since the publication of the<br />
“ Methods.” With comments and advice.<br />
Price 28. net.<br />
| 13. International Copyright Convention<br />
as Revised at Berlin, 1909.<br />
Price 1s. net.<br />
[All prices not.<br />
Apply to the Secretary, 39, OW Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S. W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#503) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
<br />
E<br />
“ Always Complete.<br />
Never Finished.”<br />
il<br />
JP)<br />
lof<br />
lo<br />
lo<br />
8<br />
The ideal bookcase is one that can be extended vertically<br />
or horizontally as desired, with Units that can be<br />
locked together to form one complete piece of furniture.<br />
People nowadays add as many books to their collec.<br />
tion in a year as their grandfathers did in a lifetime,<br />
consequently, a type of Bookcase that did very well<br />
fifty years ago proves totally inadequate for present-<br />
day needs. What is now required is a Bookcase that<br />
grows-one quite large enough for the requirements<br />
of to-day, yet that can easily be extended to meet the<br />
greater needs of to-morrow. Such a Bookcase is<br />
actually made and used by many thousands of people<br />
in all parts of the World. It is known as the<br />
Globe Wernicke<br />
ELASTIC BOOKCASE.<br />
The Globe-Wernicke Elastic " Bookcase is built up<br />
of Units, so that you can buy just as many Units<br />
as you now need, and add to them as required.<br />
These Units are interlocked by a patent device.<br />
You can take them apart, move them from room to<br />
room, or house to house, build them up in numerous<br />
ways, and at every stage the Bookcase will be<br />
complete.<br />
Please note that the Units are interlocked vertically<br />
as well as horizontally—they are not merely placed<br />
against the others, as in imitation bookcases.<br />
The illustration shows just one of the many pleasing<br />
ways of building up a Bookcase made possible by the<br />
Globe-Wernicke Principle of interlocking Units.<br />
There are nine Book Units and one Desk Unit.<br />
The Desk Unit is an optional addition and not an<br />
essential feature of "G.W.” “ Elastic " Bookcases. It<br />
is very popular with Authors and all who have much<br />
writing to do, as it enables one to have books and<br />
papers right at hand.<br />
FREE BOOK, No. 27B, gives full particulars.<br />
Why not drop a line now for a copy?<br />
PACKING FREE. Orders of £2 CARRIAGE PAID to any Goods<br />
Station in the British Isles.<br />
The Globe-Wernicke Co.<br />
Office and Library Furnishers,<br />
44, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C.<br />
82, Victoria Street, S.W.<br />
98, Bishopsgate, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 84 (#504) #############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
From Mr. JOHN OUSELEY'S LIST.<br />
The Land of the Lord's Marchers. By The Woman Decides. "NOMAD." Author<br />
E. ELLIOT STOCK. Author of "Scrambles in of “The Milroys," " A Railway Foundling," &c., &c.<br />
Storm and Sunshine," &c. 5/- net.<br />
6/-,<br />
This is a book (profusely illustrated) containing a The Blood and its Third Anatomical<br />
record of six vagabond days among the Peaks and<br />
Element. By A. BÉCHAMP. Translated from<br />
Rivers of the West Country.<br />
the French by M. R. LEVERSON, M.A., Ph.D., M.D.<br />
Hearts and Spades. By C. C. L. 2/6 net. 6/- net.<br />
The Housewife's Book of Reference containing a Legally Dead. M. HAMILCAR. 5)- net. Contains<br />
cooking recipe, a gardening hint, and a helpful<br />
an important preface by Dr. Forbes Winsloo.<br />
quotation for each day of the year. A very<br />
The book deals with the urgent need for reform in<br />
acceptable book and one that has been long wanted.<br />
the treatment of the insane.<br />
Where the Hedgerows end, and other Shavings from a Shipyard, H. J. Ash.<br />
Fairy Tales. Illustrated. By “ISHBEL."<br />
CROFT. 3/6.<br />
1/- net.<br />
A charming collection of Fairy Tales which will<br />
The Supernatural in Shakespeare,<br />
receive a very warm welcome. À most dainty gift-<br />
H. H. STEWART. 2/- net.<br />
book.<br />
The Characters of Paradise Lost.<br />
Four Beautiful Presentation Books.<br />
M. A. WOODS. 2/- net.<br />
In crushed morocco, 7/6 net ; in velvet calf, Vain Tales from Vanity Fair. By the<br />
yapped, 5/- net ; in art cloth, gilt, 3/6 net.<br />
Author of " Tabloid Tales." 3/6.<br />
1. Classic Songs and Poems.<br />
Idealism Possible and Impossible. ALICE<br />
Selected by D. R. BROADBENT.<br />
2. Songs of Old England.<br />
BLUNDELL. 2/6 net.<br />
3, Pilgrim Songs on the King's Highway. The Bothers of Married Life. Mrs. S. H.<br />
4. Songs of Bonnie Scotland.<br />
SADLER. Author of “Jenny," &c., &c. 2 - net.<br />
All uniform. Profusely Illustrated.<br />
2nd Edition.<br />
6, FLEET LANE, FARRINGDON STREET, LONDON, E.C.<br />
Save your Numbers carefully until the Volume is complete<br />
“ THE AUTHOR” MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
.. BY USING<br />
.<br />
“The<br />
Author"<br />
(The Official Organ of The<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors)<br />
MECHANICAL<br />
BINDER<br />
Cloth Gilt<br />
with Mechanism<br />
Complete.<br />
Price 28 net.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up, number<br />
by nuinber, the numbers of The Author as they are published,<br />
at the completion of the Volume can be taken off and sent<br />
to the Bookbinder-leaving the Mechanical Binder free for the<br />
next volume. Whether containing one number or a complete<br />
volume it has the appearance of, and handles the same as, an<br />
ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by which the<br />
Author can be instantly bound with the same facility as a single<br />
leaf, and there are no wires or elastic strings to get out of order.<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The Cloth<br />
Corers are made by leading London Bookbinders, and the Metal<br />
Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to break,<br />
it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
St. James' Budget :-"The advantages of the Binder are so<br />
obvious ..<br />
Leeds Mercury :-—"An ingenious and accommodating inven-<br />
tion."<br />
Westminster Budget:-"The construction of the Binder is<br />
simplicity itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end."<br />
Literary World :-“A clever device—so extremely simple and<br />
easy in applying."<br />
Sheffield Daily Telegraph :—"After use we can confidently<br />
recommend.”<br />
<br />
THE BINDER OPEN.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO., 29, Paternoster Square, LONDON, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 85 (#505) #############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.–No. 4.<br />
JANUARY 1st, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
JOR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
I signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
The Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of The Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the potice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
TROM time to time members of the Society<br />
N desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br />
- published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
6d., post free 71d. It includes elections to July,<br />
1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
of the Society only.<br />
A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 86 (#506) #############################################<br />
<br />
86<br />
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 />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
It does not include either donations given prior<br />
to October 1st, nor does it include subscriptions<br />
paid in compliance with promises made before it.<br />
The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br />
appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
received four bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
on the matter.<br />
Bankers' Order for 108. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the Union of<br />
London and Smiths' Bank, Clifton, Bristol.<br />
Bankers' Order for 5s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
£ $. d.<br />
0 100<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
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 />
£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 />
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%.......... ............ £1,312 13 4<br />
Local Loans .............<br />
500 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli.<br />
dated Inscribed Stock ...............<br />
291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
ture Stock ....................<br />
250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ........... 200 0 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 32% Inscribed<br />
Stock .............................<br />
200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
4% Preference Stock..........<br />
New Zealand 32% Stock............... 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land Act 23% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
1927-57 ........<br />
................<br />
438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock......... 120 121<br />
Dcminion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Grant Stock, 1938........... ...... 198 3 8<br />
5 00<br />
0 5 0<br />
( 10 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
2 2 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
errerererer<br />
·<br />
0<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
Oct. 5, Bungey, E. Newton<br />
Oct. 6, Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson . .<br />
Oct. 12, Hannay, J. 0.<br />
Oct. 12, Mrs. Humphry Ward, an addi-<br />
tional subscription for 1912<br />
-13 .<br />
Nov. 9, Dailey, R. H. .<br />
Nov. 10, McCormick, E. B.<br />
Nov. 10, Salter, Miss E. K.<br />
Nov. 14, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpool<br />
Nov. 20, Snell, Miss Olive . .<br />
Nov. 24, Locke, W.J. .<br />
Nov. 24, Gosse, Edmund . .<br />
Nov. 25, Larken, E. P. .<br />
Nov. 25, Underdown, Miss E. .<br />
Nov. 25, Walkley, S. . . . .<br />
Nov. 25, Masefield, John .<br />
Nov. 25, Thurston, E. Temple<br />
Nov. 25, Rittenberg, Max,<br />
Nov. 25, Paull, H. M. .<br />
Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald.<br />
Nov. 25, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton.<br />
Nov. 25, Barne, Miss M. C.<br />
Nov. 25, Sedgwick, Anne Douglas .<br />
(Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)<br />
Nov. 25, Larden, Walter . . .<br />
Nor. 25, Channon, Mrs. Frances ..<br />
Nov. 25, Toynbee, Paget, ..<br />
Nov. 25, Hood, Miss Agnes Jacomb.<br />
Nov. 25, Gilliat, The Rev. E. . .<br />
Nov. 25, Macdonald, Greville , .<br />
Nov. 25, Allen, Rev. The G. W.(2y ars)<br />
Nov. 25, Russell, G. H. . .<br />
Nov. 25, Osgood, Mrs. Irene<br />
uspood, Nrs. Trene . .<br />
Nov. 25, Trench, Herbert , ,<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
•<br />
0 5<br />
0 10<br />
1 1<br />
1 1<br />
0 5<br />
0 5<br />
0<br />
6<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
Total .......... .... £4,377 19 4<br />
0<br />
10<br />
0<br />
0 10<br />
0<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
The list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br />
tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br />
by, or promised to, the fund from October 1st to<br />
December 22nd.<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
10 10 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 87 (#507) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
£<br />
1<br />
5<br />
0<br />
. d.<br />
1 0<br />
0 0<br />
5 0<br />
0 10<br />
0 5<br />
0 5<br />
1 1<br />
6<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
85<br />
7<br />
0<br />
2<br />
3<br />
0<br />
0<br />
6<br />
ong-<br />
10<br />
0<br />
2<br />
1<br />
3<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
6<br />
£ s. d.<br />
Nov. 25, Murdoch, W. G. Burn . 0 15 0 Dec. 11, Orczy, The Baroness . .<br />
Nov. 25, Knowles, Miss Margaret<br />
1 1 0 Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold .<br />
Nov. 25, Bond, R. Warwick . . 1 1 0 Dec. 12, von Holst, Gustav . :<br />
Nov. 25, Stockley, Mrs. .<br />
: 0 10 6 Dec. 16, Cromartie, The Right Hon.<br />
Nov. 27, Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor.<br />
0 10 0<br />
the Countess of (additional<br />
Nov. 27, Prideaux, Miss S. T. . 1 0 0<br />
subscription) . .<br />
Nov. 27, Sedgwick, Prof. A. (5 years 1 1 0 Dec. 16, Laurance, Lionel . .<br />
.<br />
Nov. 27, Arnold, Mrs. J. 0. . . 0 10 0 Dec. 16, Allen, Mrs. Grant. .<br />
Nov. 27, Weaver, Mrs. Baillie<br />
0 10 0 Dec. 18, Haultain, Arnold .<br />
.<br />
Nov. 27, Drake, F. Maurice<br />
0 5 0 Dec. 18, Pollock, The Right Honble.<br />
Nov. 27, Stewart, J. C. MacDougall: 0 5 0<br />
Sir Frederick, P.C. ,<br />
Nov. 27, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . . 1 1 0 Dec. 20, Carr, Miss Mildred E. , .<br />
Nov. 27, Lucas, E. V. ..<br />
1 0 0 Dec. 20, Lewis, The Rev. Arthur<br />
Nov. 27, Hollins, Miss Dorothea , 010 0<br />
Nov. 27, Bagnall, Miss L. T. .<br />
5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Young, Ernest . . . 0 5 0<br />
Donations.<br />
Nov. 27, de Mattos, Alexander Teixeira 0 6<br />
Nov. 27, Collier, The Hon. John<br />
10 Oct. 10, Guthrie, Anstey. .<br />
Noy. 27, Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. .<br />
0 5 0 Oct, 11, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . .<br />
Nov. 27, Orde Ward, The Rev. F. W. 0 5 0 Oct. 19, Romanne-James, Mrs. C.<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice . . 2 2 0 Oct. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey"<br />
. :<br />
Nov. 28, Carlyle, The Rev. A. J. 0 5 0 Nov. 3, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (3rd<br />
Nov. 28, Montrésor, Miss F. F. . 1 1 0<br />
tion) . .<br />
: :<br />
Nov. 28, Jones, Henry Arthur . . 1 1 0 Nov. 3, Tanner, James T. (5th I<br />
Nov. 28, Pryor, Francis<br />
4 4 0<br />
tion)<br />
; : .<br />
Nov. 28, Whiteing, Richard . . 0 10 0 Nov. 3, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton . .<br />
Nov. 28, Caine, William<br />
. 1 1 0 Nov. 4, Cayzer, Charles (3rd Donation)<br />
Nov. 28, Tuttiett, Miss M. G. . . 1 1 0 Nov. 6, LeRiche, P. J.<br />
Nov. 28, Caulfeild, Mrs. Kathleen 0 5 0 Nov. 6, Daniell, Mrs. E. H.<br />
Nov. 28, Breaknell, Miss Mary. 0 5 0 Nov. 13, Anon. . .<br />
.<br />
Nov. 28, James, Miss S. Boucher<br />
1 10 Nov. 18, Hichens, Robert (in addition<br />
Nov. 28, Martin, Miss Violet<br />
1 0 0<br />
to subscription of £1)<br />
0 £1) .<br />
Nov. 29, Pakington, The Hon. Mary. 0 5 0 Nov. 20, Grant, John G. .<br />
Nov. 29, Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis<br />
Nov. 24, Jacobs, W. W. . . .<br />
Nathaniel . . . 0 5 0 Nov. 24, Roberts, Morley , . .<br />
Nov. 29, Skrine, The Rer. John H.. i 0 0 Nov. 24, Eckersley, The Rev. J. :<br />
Nov. 29, Travers, Miss Rosalind.<br />
5 0 Nov. 25, Besant, W. H. .<br />
Nov. 29, Graves, Alfred P.. .<br />
5 0 Nov. 25, Hill, J. Arthur<br />
Nov. 29, Shaw, Fred. G. . . 0 5 0 Nov. 25, Tansley, A. G. .<br />
Nov. 29, Narramore, William<br />
0 5 0 Nov. 25, Gysi, Max,<br />
Nov, 29, Waldstein, Charles<br />
1 1 0 Nov. 25, Lyttelton, Hon. Mrs<br />
Nov. 29, Rutter, Frank ..<br />
0 5 0 Nov, 25, Savile, Frank .<br />
. .<br />
Dec. 1, Lee, The Rev. Albert<br />
0 5 0 Nov. 25, Skeat, Prof. W. W.<br />
Dec. 1, Romanes, Mrs. Ethel<br />
0 10 0 Nov. 27, Hood, Francis .<br />
Dec. 1, Wilton, Margaret W. .<br />
50 Nov. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey"<br />
Dec. 2, Holme, Miss. .<br />
0 10 0 Nov. 27, Moffatt, Graham ,<br />
.<br />
Dec. 4, Thomson, Lieut.-Col. S. J. 0 5 0 Nov. 27, Mainwaring, Mrs. . .<br />
Dec. 4, Begbie, Harold .<br />
10 Nov. 27, Maunder, J. H..<br />
Dec. 4, Giles, Miss Edith J. F.<br />
50 Nov. 27, Kennedy, E. B..<br />
Dec. 4, Coulton, G. G. .<br />
5 0 Nov. 27, Galsworthy, John (in addition<br />
Dec. 4, Heath, Sidney<br />
to subscription) . .<br />
Dec. 5, Macnamara, Miss Mar<br />
Nov. 27, Oppenheim, E. P.<br />
Dec. 5, Clodd, Edward<br />
O Nov. 27, Harding, Commander Claud,<br />
Dec. 5, Little, Mrs. Archibald . 2<br />
R.N. .<br />
Dec. 5, Morton, Michael . . . 1 i 0 Nov. 27, Moore, Miss E. Hamilton :<br />
Dec. 6, Meredith, Mark · ·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
0<br />
0<br />
5 0 Nov. 27, Pilley, John. .<br />
·<br />
Dec. 8, Broster, Miss D. K. . 0 5 0 Nov. 28, Martin, Mrs. Clara T. .<br />
0<br />
6<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
-0-0--NOTONOco ooo<br />
o NorerrorOONO er er on Ecococo no Erco<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
..............<br />
0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
,<br />
·<br />
·<br />
1<br />
1<br />
5<br />
·<br />
·<br />
0<br />
0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
ooer er er er<br />
2<br />
·<br />
0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
1 0 0<br />
0 10 6<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 10 6<br />
er<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 88 (#508) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
::::::..........<br />
novoro<br />
ven<br />
Nov. 28, McKellar, Campbell D. .<br />
Nov. 28, Wroughton, Miss Cicely .<br />
Nov. 28, Rankin, Miss F. M. . .<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice<br />
Nov. 28, Gould, Gerald ,<br />
.<br />
Nov. 28, Hardy, Thomas 0. M.<br />
Nov. 29, Maarten Maartens<br />
Nov. 29, Bolton, Clement .<br />
Nov. 29, Stutfield, H. E. M.<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
Nov. 29, Spurrier, Steven<br />
Nov. 29, Kinloch, Alexander<br />
Nov. 29, Webling, Peggy.<br />
Nov. 29, Barclay, Mrs. Hubert. :<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, Miss C. E. .<br />
Nov. 29, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite<br />
Nov. 29, Spielmann, Mr. and Mrs. M.H.<br />
Nov. 29, Begbie, Harold .<br />
Nov. 29, Spiers, Victor<br />
Nov. 29, Wentworth, Gerald<br />
Nov. 29, Pryce, Richard .<br />
Nov. 29, Watson, Mrs. Herbert .<br />
Dec. 6, Toplis, Grace . .<br />
Dec. 6, Percival, Helen A. .<br />
Dec. 7, Graham, Kenneth.<br />
Dec. 8, Falmouth, The Right Honble.<br />
the Viscountess . .<br />
Dec. 8, Ord, H. W. . .<br />
Dec. 10, Hawkins, A. Hope<br />
Dec. 10, Pennell, Mrs. E. R.<br />
Dec. 11, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit .<br />
Dec. 11, De Morgan, Wm.<br />
Dec. 12, D'Arcy, Ella Miss<br />
Dec. 16, Glenconner, Lady.<br />
Dec. 16, Royds, The Rev. T. F. .<br />
Dec. 18, Moore, Mrs. Stuart<br />
Dec. 18, J. P. P. .<br />
•<br />
Dec. 18, Bremner, Robert L. .<br />
Dec. 18, Dawson, Frank .<br />
Dec. 20. Tench, Miss Mary F. A. :<br />
Dec. 21, Clifford, Mrs. W. K. . .<br />
Dec. 22, Francis Beard ,<br />
Dec. 22, Horridge, Frank.<br />
Nero<br />
£ s. d.<br />
10 0 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 0<br />
1 0 0<br />
200 0<br />
5 0 0<br />
0 2 6<br />
100.<br />
0 10 6<br />
0 7 6<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 100<br />
0<br />
0<br />
2 2 0<br />
3 3 0<br />
5 0<br />
0<br />
3 0 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
5 0<br />
5 0<br />
0 0<br />
នននននននននននននននន នន<br />
2<br />
0<br />
6<br />
.<br />
tions for the current year up to 288, the largest<br />
total in any one year, save 1909, since the founda-<br />
tion of the society. In 1909, 298 elections were<br />
recorded, in 1910, 276, and in 1911, as has been<br />
stated, 288. The committee have, however, to<br />
chronicle, with regret, 10 resignations.<br />
The solicitor of the society then reported on the<br />
cases in his hands.<br />
It may be remembered that in the last issue of<br />
The Author, a case was mentioned which it had<br />
been necessary to re-open owing to a mis-statement<br />
of the defendant revealed in his affidavit. This<br />
case has now been settled, the defendants paying<br />
500 guineas as damages and costs for infringement,<br />
in place of £400 and costs as preriously arranged.<br />
The next question referred to the bankruptcy of<br />
a literary agent, and the solicitor was instructed<br />
in the course which the committee wished to have<br />
taken. The solicitor reported the satisfactory<br />
settlement of a small county court case where the<br />
amount and costs had been paid. He also reported<br />
the successful termination of cases undertaken by<br />
the society against pirates of dramatic property.<br />
An injunction had been obtained against the<br />
defendant, who had been selling scripts of plays<br />
without the sanction of the owners. Forty-three<br />
scripts had been delivered to the solicitors and sent<br />
on to the members of the society, whose work<br />
had been damaged by their circulation, and the<br />
defendant had given an undertaking not to continue<br />
to circulate any further scripts of the works in<br />
question. The solicitor also obtained the names<br />
of some of the people to whom the scripts were<br />
sold, and if they are found producing these plays<br />
the society will proceed to take action against<br />
them.<br />
In another case of infringement of dramatic<br />
property an interlocutory injunction has been<br />
obtained. The society will now proceed to obtain<br />
the final injunction and an order for costs. The<br />
case was one of barefaced infringement.<br />
Two other small cases were reported as settled.<br />
In an action for account against a music publisher,<br />
as it had been impossible to obtain proper state-<br />
ments, a writ had been issued. The accounts<br />
have since been delivered. Another case for<br />
accounts and royalties had been settled without<br />
going into court, the accounts having been delivered<br />
with cheques for the sums shown due. The same<br />
report applies to a third case where an author had<br />
a running account with a publisher. A very<br />
difficult case, referring to a breach of agreement by<br />
a publisher, was next discussed, but the committee<br />
regretted they could not then come to a final<br />
decision, owing to the absence of an undertaking<br />
by the author to go into court, but they decided<br />
that on receipt of such an undertaking they would<br />
re-consider the matter.<br />
.<br />
O<br />
.<br />
everomoru Bororoor oerer<br />
6<br />
.<br />
0<br />
.<br />
6<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
.<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
O<br />
0<br />
0<br />
6<br />
.<br />
0<br />
5<br />
0<br />
5<br />
5<br />
2<br />
.<br />
.<br />
£164 19 6<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES...<br />
MEETING of the Committee was held at<br />
the rooms of the Society of Arts, 18 John<br />
Street, Adelphi, W.C., on Monday, Decem-<br />
ber 4th, at 3 o'clock.<br />
The minutes of the previous meeting having been<br />
read and signed, the committee proceeded to the<br />
elections. They were pleased to elect 25 members<br />
and associates, bringing the total number of elec-<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 89 (#509) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
89<br />
The question of the clerks' salaries and Christ-<br />
mas boxes was also considered, and the committee<br />
sanctioned certain expenditure for these items.<br />
In regard to advertisements in The Author it<br />
was decided to keep to the arrangement at present<br />
in force.<br />
The secretary mentioned to the committee the<br />
difficult position in which some writers of novels<br />
had been placed owing to recent legal decisions<br />
respecting the law of libel. The committee con-<br />
sidered that it would be inadvisable to take action<br />
at the present time, as they did not see any chance<br />
of getting a hearing, and the question was accord-<br />
ingly adjourned.<br />
A sub-committee was appointed to deal with the<br />
Agency Agreement. That sub-committee consists<br />
of Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mr. Charles Garvice, and<br />
the secretary of the society. It may be recalled<br />
that not long ago the Dramatic Sub-Committee<br />
settled an agreement between dramatist and agent.<br />
The Literary Agency Agreement will probably be<br />
based on the dramatic agency agreement already<br />
settled.<br />
The committee have to thank Miss E. M. Symonds<br />
for a donation of £2 28. to the Capital Fund of<br />
the society.<br />
In a case of delayed delivery of a MS. by the<br />
post office, the committee regretted their inability<br />
to help the author, as cases dealing with this subject<br />
had clearly established that no redress was pro.<br />
curable in the circumstances.<br />
The secretary brought to the notice of the<br />
committee a number of agreements issued by a<br />
certain publishing house. He pointed out how<br />
objectionable these contracts, binding down authors<br />
to give a series of works to the publisher, were<br />
from the anthor's point of view; and how frequently<br />
similar agreements from the same house had been<br />
brought to him by members.<br />
The last case arose out of a dispute on an agree<br />
ment between a member and his publisher. The<br />
committee regretted their inability to proceed on<br />
behalf of the member, as they did not feel that the<br />
member's contention could be supported.<br />
Following the discussion of the cases, matters<br />
dealing with the Copyright Bill were considered.<br />
A letter from Sir Gilbert Parker, which had been<br />
sent to all the members of the committee, was<br />
laid on the table. The secretary reported the<br />
receipt of letters from Sir Frederick Macmillan, and<br />
from a Canadian correspondent, dealing with<br />
Colonial and Canadian copyright, and also the steps<br />
taken by Lord Tennyson to put forward the<br />
society's amendments to the Copyright Bill in the<br />
House of Lords.<br />
The committee settled their nominees for the<br />
Committee Election for 1912 to fill the vacancies<br />
caused by the retirements necessary under the<br />
constitution of the society. A notice of the pro-<br />
cedure appears in another part of this issue.<br />
The election to the Pension Fund Committee<br />
was also discussed. Members of the society may<br />
recall that the Pension Fund Committee is com-<br />
posed of three members nominated by the Committee<br />
of Management, and three elected by the society at<br />
the general meeting, with the chairman of the<br />
Committee of Management for the time being ex<br />
officio. One member of those elected by the<br />
Committee of Management, and one of those<br />
elected at the general meeting hare to retire<br />
annually. Mrs. Humphry Ward retired in rotation,<br />
and submitting her name to the Committee of<br />
Management for re-election, was re-elected. Mr.<br />
Morley Roberts, one of the members elected at the<br />
general meeting, retired, but did not seek re-election.<br />
Accordingly, the committee decided to ask Mr.<br />
Owen Seaman to allow his name to go forward for<br />
election at the general meeting to fill the vacancy.<br />
The committee are pleased to state that Mr. Owen<br />
Seaman will accept nomination. It is, however, in<br />
the power of any member of the society to nominate<br />
some other member to fill the position. Full par-<br />
ticulars as to procedure in this matter also appear<br />
in another part of The Author.<br />
COUNCIL MEETING.<br />
THE second statutory meeting of the council of<br />
the society during 1911 was held at 18, John Street,<br />
Adelphi, W.C., on Monday, December 4th, at 4.30.<br />
The first matter before the meeting was to<br />
receive and adopt the report of the Committee of<br />
Management to the council, setting out in detail<br />
the action they had taken in the matter of copy-<br />
right legislation. The report was unanimously<br />
approved and adopted. It is intended to print this<br />
for the benefit of members in the Annual Report of<br />
the society.<br />
The next matter was the question of the re-<br />
publication of the list of members. After carefully<br />
considering the few letters received from members,<br />
and discussing the pros and cons, the council came<br />
to the conclusion that no great desire for the<br />
list existed, and that in view of that fact, and of<br />
the expense entailed in keeping it up to date, it<br />
would be inadvisable to republish it. Moreover,<br />
the council considered that there were other and<br />
more pressing claims on the society's funds which<br />
should be met first.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The last meeting for 1911 of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Committee was held at the offices of the society on<br />
Friday, December 15, at 3 o'clock.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 90 (#510) #############################################<br />
<br />
90<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
After the signing of the minutes the first ques- been elected with the full approval of the Swedish<br />
tion before the sub-committee was the Managerial Academy to collect the votes in this country of<br />
Treaty. The Chairman reported that the treaty persons entitled to vote for the Prize for Litera.<br />
had been discussed at the meeting of the Dramatists' ture, the Swedish Acadeiny, without consulting<br />
Club, and that a sub-committee of that club had them, had instituted a new system, and they<br />
been appointed to consider its various clauses. It considered, therefore, that the time had come to<br />
was understood that this sub-committee would in lay down their functions.<br />
turn report to the Dramatists' Club, and that that<br />
report would subsequently be laid before the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee. In these circumstances<br />
it was decided to adjourn further discussion until<br />
Cases.<br />
the report from the Dramatists' Club. had come TEN cases have been in the secretary's hands<br />
to hand. The Chairman, however, read certain since the last issue of The Author. Six have been<br />
letters he had received, which he laid on the table, claims for money, and of these it is pleasing to<br />
and a letter drafted by Mr. Bernard Shaw was also report that four have been satisfactorily settled,<br />
suggested as a preface to the Managerial Treaty. and the sums paid. The other two bare so<br />
The next matter before the committee was the recently come into the office that there has not<br />
correspondence with the Lord Chamberlain, and been time before going to press to complete the<br />
arising out of the correspondence, a resolution was negotiations.<br />
passed, which the secretary was authorised to send In the one claim for accounts and money, the<br />
to the Lord Chamberlain at the earliest opportunity. accounts and money have been delivered. There<br />
The committee decided it would be inexpedient to have been two claims for accounts. The anthor<br />
publish the resolution until the reply from the has received the accounts in one case, and in the<br />
Lord Chamberlain had been received.<br />
other the defaulter has answered the secretary's<br />
Some letters from Mr. Laurence Cowen were letter, although the accounts have not, as yet, been<br />
also read to the sub-committee, and the secretary rendered. In a claim for the return of a MS. the<br />
was authorised to reply.<br />
MS. has been recovered. Therefore, seven cases<br />
The conduct of the election of the Dramatic Sub- out of ten have been satisfactorily concluded, and<br />
Committee for 1912 was next considered. Notice there is every probability that the remaining three<br />
as to this will be sent to the dramatic section of the will be closed shortly.<br />
society in due course.<br />
It is satisfactory to report that of the foriner<br />
A letter received from Mr. Ligon Johnson, cases not one remains open, but two have had to<br />
counsel of the Theatrical Producing Managers of be transferred to the solicitors of the society.<br />
America, in regard to the Canadian Copyright Bill,<br />
the sub-committee referred to the Committee of<br />
Management, for their serious consideration.<br />
December Elections.<br />
The secretary then reported the cases that had<br />
been carried through for dramatists since the last Armitage, Mrs. E.<br />
meeting.<br />
Brown, M. F. . . . 5, Palmeira Avenue<br />
Hove.<br />
Caico, Signora Louise . Montedore (Caltanis-<br />
NOBEL PRIZE COMMITTEE.<br />
setta), Sicily.<br />
The meeting of the Nobel Prize Committee Cole, Sanford D. . . 68, Queen's Square,<br />
for 1911 was held at the offices of the society<br />
Bristol.<br />
on Thursday, December 14. After the minutes<br />
Conway-Gordon, Miss V. Longley House,<br />
of the former meeting had been read and signed, (Conway Vere)<br />
Rochester.<br />
Mr. Edmund Gosse put forward, at some length, Cunningham, J ph 60, Milton Park,<br />
the work of the Committee since its appoint-<br />
Thomas .<br />
Highgate, N.<br />
ment, with the approval of the Swedish Academy, Francis Beard .<br />
“R," 27, Langham<br />
in 1902. After some discussion, the following<br />
Street, W.<br />
resolution was proposed, seconded, and passed Heale, E. Newton . . 3, Barton Terrace,<br />
unanimously :-<br />
Alphington Road,<br />
“That the Committee of Management of the<br />
Exeter.<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors be requested to Higginbottom, W. Hugh. 74, Cathcart Studios,<br />
disband the Nobel Prize Committee elected by<br />
Redcliffe Road,<br />
them in 1902."<br />
Kensington, S.W.<br />
The Nobel Prize Committee gare the following Low, Sidney . . . 24, Marlborough Hill,<br />
reasons for this request. That although they had<br />
N.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 91 (#511) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
91<br />
Morgan, The Rev. J.<br />
Vyrnwy, D.D.<br />
Price, Frederick W. 133, Harley Street,<br />
W.<br />
Prior, Mrs. G. C. Melton , 12A, Carlyle Mansions,<br />
Cheyne Walk, Chel-<br />
sea.<br />
St. Quinton, Col. . . 34, Dover Street,<br />
Piccadilly, W.<br />
Rannie, David Watson . West Hayes, Win-<br />
chester.<br />
Stainforth, Miss Edith<br />
Steer, Miss Janette . . 53, Sloane Gardens,<br />
S.W.<br />
Stephenson, H. H., Worcester Park,<br />
Surrey.<br />
Symons, M. Travers . . 10, Cliffords Inn, E.C.<br />
Tippett, Mrs. Isabel C. . Rosemary Cottage,<br />
Wetherden, Suffolk.<br />
Watson, Malcolm<br />
44, Ridgmount Gar-<br />
dens, W.C.<br />
Williams, Harold . . Cobbaton House,<br />
Umbersleigh R.S.O.<br />
North Devon.<br />
JOHN OPIE AND HIS CIRCLE. By ADA EARLAND.<br />
93 x 61. 376 pp. Hutchinson. 218. n.<br />
ARCHBISHOP MACLAGAN. By F. D How. 94 x 6.<br />
430 pp. Wells Gardner. 168.<br />
TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS. Edited by HALLAM, LORD<br />
TENNYSON. 9 x 54. 503 pp. Macmillan 108. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
THE SOUL OF THE WORLD: A Mystery Play of the<br />
Nativity and the Passion. By Mrs. PERCY DEARMER.<br />
8 X 54. 65 pp. Mowbray.<br />
PLAYS FOR AN IRISH THEATRE. By W. B. YEATS. With<br />
Designs by GORDON CRAIG. 91 X 6. 224 pp. A. H.<br />
Bullen. 88. 6d. n.<br />
EMBLEMS OF LOVE. Designed in several Discourses. By<br />
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE. 74 X 5. 213 pp. Lane. 58. n.<br />
ON THE ART OF THE THEATRE. By E. GORDON CRAIG.<br />
8.4 X 64. 295 pp. Heinemann. 68. n.<br />
THE WAR GOD. By ISRAEL ZAYGWILL. A Tragedy in<br />
Five Acts. 83 x 54. 164 pp. 28. 6d. n.<br />
HINTS TO SPEAKERS AND PLAYERS. By ROSINI FILIPPI.<br />
7} * 5. 280 pp. Arnold. 38. 6d. n.<br />
A PLUME OF FEATHERS : A Comedy in One Act. By<br />
GULIELMA Penn and R. FITZJOHN. Samuel French. 60.<br />
PAGEANT AND PLAYS. By GRACE TOPLIS. 71 X 5. 20.<br />
pp. George Gill and Sons.<br />
A SICILIAN IDYLL and JUDITH. By T. Sturge Moore.<br />
84 X 54. Duckworth. 28. n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
SCHOOL AND COUNTRY. By R. K. CRAWFORD. 86 pp.<br />
Dublin : Hodges, Figgis. 38. 6d. n.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exbaustive 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 />
CHURCH EMBROIDERY. By ALICE DRYDEN. 6 x 41<br />
180 pp. (The Arts of the Church Series.) Mowbray.<br />
18. 6d. n.<br />
John LAVERY AND HIS WORK. By WALTER SHAW.<br />
SPARROW. With a Preface by R. B. CUNNINGHAME<br />
GRAHAM. 11 X 87. 209 pp. Kegan Paul. 103. 6d. n.<br />
LEONARDO AT MILAN. Being Part VII. of " The Renais-<br />
sance in Italian Art.” By SELWYN BRINTON. George<br />
Bell & Sons. 23. 60. n.<br />
SANDRO BOTTICELLI. By ADOLF P. OPPÉ. With 25<br />
Plates in Colour, Selected and Executed under the Super-<br />
vision of the Medici Society. 105 X 8. 72 pp. (The<br />
Arundel Library of Great Masters.) Hodder & Stoughton,<br />
158. n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
IRISH RECOLLECTIONS. By JUSTIN MCCARTHY. 9 x 6.<br />
279 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 108. 6d.n.<br />
THE STORY OF EMMA LADY HAMILTON. By JULIA<br />
FRANKAU. Two vols. 161 x 114. 107 and 114 pp.<br />
Macmillan. £31 108. n.<br />
J. S. BACH. By A. SCHWEITZER, D.Ph. English Trans-<br />
lation by E. NEWMAN. Two vols. 91 x 6. 428 +<br />
500 pp. Breitkopf & Hartel. 218. n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
THE COUNTRY HEART AND OTHER STORIES. By MAUD<br />
EGERTON KING. 7} X 5. 328 pp. Fifield. 68.<br />
OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER. By WILLIAM CAINE.<br />
74 x 5. 320 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
MRS. HORROCKS PURSER. By C. J. CUTCLIFFE HYNE.<br />
67 x 4. 292 pp. (Cheap reprint.) Nelson. 78. n.<br />
THE ARCHDEACON'S FAMILY. *74 5. 467 pp. 38. 6d. n.<br />
ROUND ABOUT A BRIGHTON COACH OFFICE. 74 x 5.<br />
209 pp. 38. 6d. n. CHRISTIAN'S WIFE: A Story of<br />
Granabünder. 64 X 4. 160 pp. 28. n. All by MAUD<br />
EGERTON KING. Fifield.<br />
EBB AND FLOW. By Mrs. IRWIN SMART. 7* X 54. 379 pp.<br />
Routledge. 68.<br />
THE LONG NIGHT. 379 pp. THE ABBESS OF VLAYE.<br />
391 pp. STARVECROW FARM. 345 pp. CHIPPINGE.<br />
375 pp. LAID UP IN LAVENDER. 344 pp. THE WILD<br />
GEESE. 384 pp. By STANLEY J. WEYMAN. 63 X 4.<br />
Smith Elder ; Longmans. 28. n. each.<br />
THE STORY OF CLARICE. By KATHARINE TYNAN. 75 X 5.<br />
320 pp. James Clarke. 6s.<br />
THE GOAL OF FORTUNE. By EDITH ETHEL TOWGOOD.<br />
74 x 5. 320 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. 68.<br />
LETTERS TO LOUISE : On Life, Love and Immortality.<br />
By JEAN DELAIRE. 74 x 5. 183 pp. Rider, 28. 6d. n.<br />
A BORDER SCOURGE. By BERTRAM MITFORD. 318 pp.<br />
(Popular Edition). John Long. 6d. n.<br />
INDIAN DETECTIVE STORIES. By S. B. BANERJEA.<br />
74 X 4f. 275 pp. Guy & Hancock. 18. n.<br />
GARDENING.<br />
ROSES AND ROSE GARDENS. By W. P. WRIGHT. 94 x 61.<br />
294 pp. Headley. 12s.6d, n.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
BRITISH BATTLES : BLENHEIM. By HILAIRE BELLOC.<br />
61 X 41. 144 pp. S. Swift. 18. n<br />
English Trang<br />
BRITIS<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 92 (#512) #############################################<br />
<br />
92<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
TOURING IN 1600. A Study in the Development of<br />
Travel as a Means of Education. By E. S. BATES.<br />
9 x 5%. 418 pp. Constable. 128. 60. n.<br />
PILGRIM LIFE IN THE MIDDLE AGES. BY SIDNEY<br />
HEATH. 9 x 58. Fisher Unwin. 108. 6d, n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE MOON LADY. By A. Eva RICHARDSON. 127 pp.<br />
S.P.C.K. 18. n.<br />
FLOOR GAMES. By H. G. WELLS. 8} x 64. 71 pp.<br />
H G WELLS 81 63 71 nn<br />
F. Palmer. 28. 68. n.<br />
OSCAR. The Story of a Skye Terrier's Adventures. By<br />
LACHLAN MACLEAN WATT. 74 X 51. 267 pp.<br />
Chambers. 38. 60.<br />
IN SEARCH OF Smith. By J. MACKIE. Illustrated by<br />
R. CATON WOODVILLE. 78 X 54. 294 pp. Grant<br />
Richards. 3s. 6d, n.<br />
FINN, THE WOLFHOUND. By A. J. Dawson. 84 x 51.<br />
487 pp. Grant Richards. 38.5d. n.<br />
THE BABY Scouts : THE TEDDY BEAR SCOUTS : THE<br />
DOLLY Scouts. Drawings by CHARLES ROBINSON.<br />
RAYMES, by JESSIE POPE. 21 x 54. Blackie. 4d. n.<br />
each.<br />
THE CALL OF HONOUR. A Tale of Adventure in the<br />
Canadian Prairies. By ARGYLL SAXBY. 71 x 5.<br />
318 pp. Partridge. 28.<br />
THE DOINGS OF DICK AND Dan. By SIR JAMES YOXALL,<br />
M.P. 74 X 51. 331 pp. Partridge. 38.6d. n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
SOME ASPECTS OF THACKERAY. By LEWIS MELVILLE.<br />
8 X 54. 281 pp. S. Swift. 128. 6d. n.<br />
MEDICAL.<br />
AUTO-INOCULATION IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.<br />
By MARCUS PATERSON. Medical Superintendent at<br />
Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, Frimley. 111 X 81.<br />
236 pp. Nisbet. 215. n.<br />
NAVAL.<br />
NORTH SEA FISHERS AND FIGHTERS. By WALTER<br />
WOOD. 9 X 64. 366 pp. Kegan Paul. 12x. 6d. n.<br />
SOME PRINCIPLES OF MARITIME STRATEGY. By<br />
JULIAN CORBETT, LL.M. 9 x 6. 317 pp. Long.<br />
mans. 98. n.<br />
PHILOSOPHY.<br />
RELIGION AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY. By J. A. HILL.<br />
73 x 5. 208 pp. Rider. 2x, 6d. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
BALLADS AND VERSES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE. BY<br />
E. NESBIT, 75 X 5. 105 pp. Elkin Mathews. 48. 6d. n.<br />
MILESTONES. Songs from an Old House. By MARCIA<br />
KNIGHT. 7 X 54. 55 pp. Constable. 38. 6d. n.<br />
Six LYRICS FROM THE RUTHENIAN OF SCHEVCHENKO.<br />
By E. L. VOYNICH. 61 X 5. 64 pp. (Vigo Cabinet<br />
Series). Elkin Matthews 18. n.<br />
POEMS. By GERALD GOULD. 78 X 5. 86 pp. Sidgwick<br />
& Jackson. 13. 60, n.<br />
MAGYAR POEMS. Selected and Translated, with<br />
Biographical and Historical Notes, by DOROTHY M.<br />
STUART and NORA DE VÁLLYI. Foreword by PRO-<br />
FESSOR ARMINIUS VAMBERY, C.V.O., of Budapest<br />
University. 108 pp. E. Marlborough & Co. 28. n.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
THE CASE AGAINST WELSH DISENDOWMENT. By A<br />
NONCONFORMIST MINISTER (J. FOVARGUE BRADLEY).<br />
8 X 51. 85 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman. 1$. n.<br />
SEEMS So! A WORKING CLASS VIEW OF POLITICS. By<br />
STEPHEN REYNOLDS and BOB and Tom WOOLLEY.<br />
8 X 5. 321 pp. Macmillan. 58. n.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
THE ARAN ISLANDS. By J. M. SYNGE. With Drawing,<br />
by JACK B. YEATS (Library Edition). 81 X 54. 256 pp.<br />
Maunsell. 6s.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
"FALLING UPWARDS" (Leibniz). Christ, the Key to the<br />
Riddles of the Cosmos. By the REV. F.W.ORDE WARD.<br />
78 X 54. 296 pp. Simpkin Marshall. 58. n.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
MEMORIALS OF OLD GLOUCESTERSHIRE. Edited by<br />
P. H. DITCHFIELD. 9 x 58. 304 pp. Allen. 158. n.<br />
FLOREAT ETONA. Anecdotes and Memories of Eton<br />
College. By R. NEVILL. 9 x 58. .336 pp. Macmillan.<br />
158.n.<br />
THE STORY OF FORD ABBEY FROM THE EARLIEST<br />
TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY. By S. HEATH. 10 x 73.<br />
78 pp. F. Griffiths. 108. 6d. n.<br />
THE PILGRIM'S WAY FROM WINCHESTER TO CANTER-<br />
BURY. By JULIA CARTWRIGHT. Illustrated by A. H.<br />
HALLAM MURRAY. New Edition. 84 x 61. 225 pp.<br />
Murray. 158. n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
IN THE MAORILAND Bush. By W. H. KOEBEL. 9 X 51.<br />
316 pp. Stanley Paul. 128. 6d. n.<br />
THE SURGEON's Log. Being Impressions of the Far<br />
East. By J. JOHNSTON ABRAHAM. With Forty-four<br />
Illustrations from Photographs by the Author. Chapman<br />
& Hall. 78. 6d. n.<br />
BENARES, THE SACRED CITY: Sketches of Hindoo Life<br />
and Religion. By E. B. HAVELL. 9 x 6. 226 pp.<br />
With many Illustrations. Second edition. W. Thacker<br />
& Co. 58. n.<br />
How to SEE ITALY BY RAIL. By DOUGLAS SLADEX,<br />
63 X 41. 566 pp. Kegan Paul. 78. 6d. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE EIGHT PILLARS OF PROSPERITY. By JAMES ALLEN.<br />
171 pp. L. N. Fowler. 38.6d. n.<br />
SCOTTISH GHOST STORIES. BY ELLIOTT O'DONNELL.<br />
7} x 5. 293 pp. Kegan Paul. 38. 60. n.<br />
SHADOWS CAST BEFORE : An Anthology of Prophecies<br />
and Presentiments. By CLAUD FIELD. 7} x 5. 223 pp.<br />
Rider. 28, 6d. n.<br />
DAY BY DAY WITH THE POETS. A Calendar and<br />
Treasury of English Verse, for any Year. By MARY A.<br />
WOODS. Floral Decorations by ELLEN M. WOODS,<br />
Eastbourne. E. S. Fowler. 7s. 6d. n.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
STYLE IN MUSICAL ART. By Sir C. HUBERT PARRY,<br />
Mus. Doc. 9 x 58. 438 pp. Macmillan. 108. n.<br />
Post VICTORIAN MUSIC. With other Studies and<br />
Sketches. By C. L. GRAVES. 87 X 54. 369 pp.<br />
Macmillan. 68. n.<br />
RUB-A-DUB DUB, AND FIVE OTHER ACTION SONGS FOR<br />
CHILDREN. By L. BUDGEN. Wickins & Co. 18. n.<br />
ENGLISH FOLK CAROLS: With Pianoforte Accompani.<br />
ment and an Introduction and Notes. Collected by<br />
CECIL J. SHARP. 11 X 81. 68 pp. Novello ; and<br />
Simpkin Marshall. 58. n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. Part 9. By G. E. H.<br />
BARRETT-HAMILTON. Illustrated by E. A. WILSON.<br />
10 X 67. Pp. 121–168. Gurney & Jackson. 28. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 93 (#513) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
93<br />
S<br />
SPAIN RE-VISITED: A Summer in Galicia. By C.<br />
based upon a series of lectures planned while the<br />
GASQUOINE HARTLEY (MRS. WALTER M. GALLICHAN).<br />
9 x 54. 330 pp. Stanley Paul. 128. 6. n.<br />
author held the chair of music in the University of<br />
ITALIAN CASTLES AND COUNTRY SEATS. By TRYPHOSA<br />
Oxford. The lectures were not all delivered<br />
BATES BATCHELLER. 10 X 61. 512 pp. Longmans. because the pressure of other duties obliged Sir<br />
• 258. n.<br />
Hubert to resign the chair, but the present volume<br />
"Twixt LAND AND SEA. Sketches and Studies in North<br />
is intended to represent the entire scheme devised<br />
Africa. By CYRIL FLETCHER GRANT and L. GRANT,<br />
London, Sampson Low & Co.<br />
at the beginning of his tenure of the professorship.<br />
(2) “ Post Victorian Music," by Mr. C. L.<br />
Graves, arranged in three divisions. The first part,<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL under the heading of Post Victorian Music, dis-<br />
NOTES.<br />
cusses the Symphonia Domestica, Elektra, Salome,<br />
Pelléas et Mélisande, Elgar's First Symphony. In<br />
his second part the author gives a series of<br />
A N interesting little book entitled “Das eighteen “ Portraits and Appreciations," which<br />
Oxforder Buch Deutscher Dichtung" embraces some of the most notable figures in the<br />
covering selections from the twelfth to the world of music. The concluding section consists<br />
twentieth century, edited by H. Fiedler, with a of “ Studies and Sketches," and here the author<br />
preface by Gerhart Hauptmann, has been issued by deals in sympathetic fashion with many questions<br />
the Oxford Press. A somewhat similar work which must interest all lovers of music.<br />
was published years ago in the Golden Treasury We have been asked to note that the English<br />
Series by Messrs. Macmillan, edited by Professor Review, commencing with the January number,<br />
Buchheim, and up to the present time that was 1912, will be issued at the reduced price of 1s.<br />
undoubtedly the best selection that could possibly (12s. 6d. annual subscription, post free to all parts<br />
have been made from German lyrical poems. The of the world). We are assured that this change<br />
present selection, published by the Oxford Press, is, has been made owing to its continuous success and<br />
however, rather more ambitious, containing a to the repeated demands of the public for a high<br />
wider range of poems and a larger number of class literary review at a popular price.<br />
authors. In a book of this kind it is impossible Mr. George A. Birmingham has just published<br />
to include everything, but the judgment of the “ The Lighter Side of Irish Life," with sixteen<br />
editor is thoroughly trustworthy and reliable. Mr. colour illustrations by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A., at<br />
Gerhart Hauptmann's short preface is also the price of 58. net, from the house of T. N. Foulis.<br />
interesting, and we note with great pleasure his The book is written in Mr. Birmingham's best<br />
reference to Mr. George Meredith, the late vein, and has many good stories, but there is also<br />
President of the Society.<br />
a great deal of sound information about the people,<br />
Early in December Messrs. Macmillan & Co. their habits and customs. The illustrations are<br />
published “ Tennyson and his friends," a record quite first class and well reproduced.<br />
of the friendships of Tennyson and his son. It is “Milestones,” by Marcia Knight, is a collection<br />
edited by Hallam Lord Tennyson, and the chapters of poems, some of which have appeared in The<br />
have been planned and arranged by him to follow Gentlewoman, The Pall Mall Gazette, and Vanity<br />
the sequence of the poet's life. The contributors Fair. Many of them deal with nature and country<br />
include Emily Lady Tennyson, Mr. Willingham life, on which the author writes with sympathy.<br />
Rawnsley, Charles Tennyson, Sir Henry Craik, Dr. Messrs. Constable and Co. are the publishers.<br />
Warren, Edward Fitzgerald, Lady Ritchie, Mrs. Miss M. A. Woods has just published her<br />
Margaret L. Woods, Professor Jowett, Mr. H. G. monthly poetical Calendar in book form, under the<br />
Dakyns, Dr. Montagu Butler, Sir Charles Stanford, title “Day by Day with the Poets : a Calendar and<br />
Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Norman Lockyer, the Bishop Treasury of English Verse for any Year.” A copy<br />
of Ripon, and other notable people. The editor of the book has been accepted by Queen Alexandra.<br />
has inserted at appropriate points groups of well Mr. Clive Holland, the author of many novels<br />
known poems addressed to or describing friends and topographical works, has just been fêted at<br />
of Tennyson's early or later life.<br />
Bournemouth by his fellow townsmen, who through<br />
Mr. Ralph Nevill's new book, “ Floreat Etona," the medium of the Westbourne Literary Society<br />
while abounding in anecdote, is also an historical gave a dinner in his honour, at which a goodly<br />
record of various quaint customs and usages, so few number of the professional and business men of<br />
of which have lasted into the present age. There Bournemouth were present. Mr. Holland's health<br />
are eight illustrations in colour. Messrs. Macmillan was proposed, and the wide range of his work<br />
are the publishers.<br />
referred to by Mr. Harold Salt.<br />
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. publish also (1) “Style Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. will publish early in<br />
in Musical Art," by Sir Hubert Parry, which is the new year, “ The Life and Times of Countess<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 94 (#514) #############################################<br />
<br />
94<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Bentinck, 1715—1799," by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, Mr. Harry Tighe's last novel, * Intellectual<br />
who possesses many of Countess Bentinck's letters. Marie” (John Long), has gone into a second<br />
The two volumes will contain extracts from letters edition. In the Christmas Pall Mall Magazine he<br />
to Countess Bentinck from Frederick the Great, has an Eastern fairy story, "The Moon-Child-<br />
Voltaire, the Princess of Zerbst (Mother of Mother of the Fireflies," illustrated by Frank C.<br />
Catherine II. of Russia), who was a cousin of Papé.<br />
Countess Bentinck's, her intimate friend Count “Tales of Seven Islands," by Evelyn Adams, is<br />
Mercy d'Argenteau, and many other well-known a collection of stories with the life and incidents in<br />
people. While searching family archives in the Pacific. The scenes are laid variously, and the<br />
England, Holland and Germany, Mrs. Aubrey Le sphere of them embraces such different ways of life<br />
Blond came on the track of an historical mystery as are represented in places as widely apart as the<br />
connected with the Royal Family of France, which isles of the North Pacific and the southern limits<br />
she hopes to deal with in a later work, the time of Australia. Mr. Henry J. Drane is the pub-<br />
being long past when a full disclosure would be lisher.<br />
indiscreet. " The Life of Countess Bentinck” will Mr. J. Arthur Hill has written, and Messrs.<br />
be illustrated by photographs from pictures in William Rider & Son, Limited, have published, &<br />
various private collectiors, including those of book dealing with religion and modern psychology.<br />
Welbeck Abbey (the Duke of Portland), of Count It is a study of present tendencies, particularly the<br />
Bentinck (Holland), and Mr. H. Aldenburg religious implications of the scientific belief in<br />
Bentinck (India), and of Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, survival, with a discussion on Mysticism.<br />
nearly all, till now, unpublished.<br />
Miss May Crommelin's new novel, written in<br />
Mrs. L. Allen Harker's new novel “Mr. collaboration with Mr. Alfred Williams, and entitled<br />
Wycherley's Wards," was published last month by “ The Isle of the Dead,” was produced on<br />
Mr. John Murray in England, and Messrs. Charles November 15. The scene is mainly laid in an<br />
Scribners' Sons in the United States of America. island of the Alentian group, known to Mr. Wil-<br />
The Christmas edition of Miss Annie Matheson's liams, who is an American mining engineer, and<br />
poems having now been out of print for a year, the peopled by Indians differing from those on the<br />
publishers, The Oxford University Press, have mainland. Miss Crommelin has also used her own<br />
reprinted it in a new volume by Miss Matheson experiences in California, which she visited soon<br />
entitled “Roses, Loaves, and Old Rhymes,” in after the great earthquake at San Francisco.<br />
which have been included, also, ten later poems. Messrs. Nelson & Sons have published Miss Emily<br />
Of the latter several are simultaneously included in Underdown's new book “ The Gateway to Spenser:<br />
“ Leaves of Prose," and one has already appeared in Tales retold from the Fairy Queen," with sixteen<br />
“ By Divers Paths,” both volumes being interleaved coloured plates by Frank Papé, and numerous black<br />
with occasional verse, thus attaining among lovers and white ones. This book is issued uniform with the<br />
of prose a rather different audience.<br />
same author's “Gateway to Romance : Tales retold<br />
“Good Cheer." The romance of food and from The Earthly Paradise," published two years<br />
feasting, by F. W. Hackwood, deals with the food- ago.<br />
stuffs of all nations and the culinary practices of Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. announce the publica-<br />
all ages. The subject is approached from the tion of Miss Ada Earland's story of “ John Opie<br />
historic and picturesque side, reference is made to and his Circle.” Opie was the son of a Cornish<br />
the dietary of the Scriptures, a Roman banquet, and labourer, and received recognition of his extra-<br />
Old English fare: to seasonal festivals : to national ordinary gifts at an early age. He came to London<br />
dishes: to feasting and fasting, and the influence in the company of Dr. John Wolcot, better known<br />
of diet upon health and character. The volume is by his pen-name of “ Peter Pindar." Opie's work<br />
profusely illustrated. It is published by Mr. Fisher won the admiration of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and in<br />
Unwin, who will issue in 1912 another work from the present work the author has attempted to tell<br />
the pen of Mr. Hackwood. In this later volume, the story of the artist's life fully and adequately.<br />
Mr. Hackwood will deal with the life and times of The author has collected much new material, and<br />
William Hone, the writer on popular antiquities, many pictures are reproduced in the book for the<br />
compiler of “The Every Day Book,” “ The Year first time. A list of Opie's pictures forms a copious<br />
Book," and “The Table Book," and friend of appendix to the book.<br />
Charles Lamb, George Cruikshank and other A New Year poem from the pen of Alfred Smythe<br />
notabilities of his time. The biography has been appears in the January number of the Westminster<br />
authoritatively compiled from the family's private Review.<br />
papers.<br />
Part VII. of “The Renaissance in Italian Art,"<br />
Mr. W. L. George has been appointed literary by Selwyn Brinton, treats of Leonardo at Milan.<br />
editor of Vanity Fair.<br />
This volume ends the series, which gives a com-<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 95 (#515) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
95<br />
plete account of the art of the Italian revival, natural specimens taken by Mr. T. Ernest Waltham,<br />
richly illustrated. Each volume—there are nine in by a new process of colour photography. The<br />
all—is published by Messrs. George Bell & Son, most improved methods of colour-printing will be<br />
at 28. 6d. net.<br />
employed in their reproduction.<br />
Mr. Martin Secker is about to publish “White Miss Beatrice Harraden's new novel, of which<br />
Webs," a new novel by Theo. Douglas (Mrs. H. D. Messrs. Nelson have also acquired the serial rights,<br />
Everett). The book will appear this month. It is will be published by them in the spring, in book<br />
a romance of Sussex, and deals with the Jacobite form, at 2s. They will also include it in their<br />
plottings which followed the rising of 1745.<br />
Continental Library. Messrs. Frederick Stokes & Co.<br />
A third edition of Mr. J. Johnston Abraham's are to be the publishers in America.<br />
recent volume “ The Surgeon's Log : being Impres- The Poetry Society, which was founded first<br />
sions of the Far East," is in the press.<br />
under the title of “The Poetry Recital Society,"<br />
The Council of the Library Association has in 1909, has published, monthly or quarterly, an<br />
arranged a course of lectures, to be delivered by official journal, under the provisional title, The<br />
Mr. R. A. Peddie, on “Reference Books for Poetical Gazette. Lately a committee has been<br />
Librarians and Readers." The lectures will be formed for the purpose of co-operating with the<br />
held (by permission of the Trustees) in the Lecture society in the production of a standing monthly<br />
Room of the British Museum, on Saturday after- review of poetic literature, in which the Gazette<br />
noons, at 3 P.M. The dates of the lectures still to will be incorporated. The first issue of the new<br />
be given are January 27, 1912, February 10, periodical will appear in January, 1912, under the<br />
February 24, March 23. Admission is free. No title The Poetry Review. The contents will be<br />
tickets are required.<br />
divided into four sections. The first will consist of<br />
Mrs. Perrin has been elected President of the articles on subjects connected with poetry and<br />
Society of Women Journalists for 1911–12. A poetic criticism and biography. The second will<br />
serial by Mrs. Perrin, called “Colour Blind,” is contain reviews of modern European poetry. Next,<br />
ronning in The Times Weekly Edition, and will be about six pages will be devoted to the publication<br />
published by Messrs. Methuen & Co. in the course of modern poetry, representing in each issue the<br />
of next year.<br />
work of only one individual poet. The fourth<br />
“The Woman Hunter " is the title of Miss section will be the Gazette of the society. The<br />
Arabella Kenealy's new novel published this month price of the Review will be 6d. All communications<br />
by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. The book has for should be addressed to the office of The Poetry<br />
its theme the degradation of love as a result of the Review, 93, Chancery Lane, W.C.<br />
monastic idea, and shows the higher awakening and “School and Country” is a little book by R. K.<br />
evolution of a libertine—the “Woman Hunter” of Crawford, written with the object of inculcating<br />
the title—by the power of a great passion. The a spirit of patriotism in the young. It describes,<br />
John Lane Co. of New York have recently in simple language, the services rendered by the<br />
issued an American edition of Miss Kenealy's State to its members, and emphasises the obligations<br />
novel “ The Mating of Anthea,” the first eugenics which are due to the State in return. Messrs.<br />
novel to be written.<br />
Hodges, Figgis & Co. are the publishers.<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. are publishing this<br />
month “ The Activities of Lavie Jutt," by Mar-<br />
DRAMATIC NOTES.<br />
guerite and Armiger Barclay. During the same<br />
month John Long & Co. will publish Oliver Sandys Mr. Cecil Raleigh and Mr. Paul Rubens are<br />
(Mrs. Armiger Barclay) new novel, “ Chicane;" writing the next piece for the Gaiety Theatre.<br />
and a second edition of “Letters from Fleet Street," Mr. Rubens will also be responsible for the music<br />
originally published anonymously by Frank Palmer, of the piece, while the lyrics will be in the hands<br />
will be issued under Mr. and Mrs. Barclay's joint of Mr. Arthur Wimperis.<br />
names. Twelve stories by Mr. and Mrs. Barclay The next Drury Lane drama will be the joint<br />
have appeared in Christmas numbers during 1911; work of Mr. Raleigh and Mr. Henry Hamilton.<br />
and as many more are due to appear in various What the drama will be about has not yet been<br />
English magazines within the next month or two. finally settled, but the authors have two dramas<br />
In the U.S.A. magazines these writers have recently sketched, one rather more of a domestic drama<br />
placed a variety of short stories and articles.<br />
than they have done at the Lane as yet.<br />
Messrs. E. T. & E. C. Jack announce a new Mr. Raleigh has also arranged with Mr. Arthur<br />
colour series for flower lovers, entitled “ Present- Collins to adapt his new French purchase “ Le<br />
Day Gardening." It is edited by R. Hooper Petit Café.”<br />
Pearson. Each volume will be illustrated by eight Mr. James Bernard Fagan's dramatisation of<br />
plates in colour, reproduced from photographs of Mr. Robert Hichens' novel, “ Bella Donna," was<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 96 (#516) #############################################<br />
<br />
96<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
produced at the St. James' Theatre on December 9.<br />
Mr. George Alexander, Mrs. Patrick Campbell,<br />
Mr. Athol Stewart, and Miss Mary Grey are in<br />
the cast.<br />
On Sunday, December 3, “ La Chute du<br />
Dieu,” “ La Femme de l'Acteur,” and “Le<br />
Lieutenant Felberg," three plays by B. Morley<br />
Steynor, were produced at the Theatre Français de<br />
Londres. The French actor from the Grand<br />
Guignol Théâtre, Louis Tunc, appeared in the plays<br />
and was supported by M. Pierre Maugue, M.<br />
Maurice Wick, Mlle. Nulsson Norva, and Mlle.<br />
Yvette Bariel.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
M HE Goncourt Academy has awarded its annual<br />
I prize to M. Alphonse de Chateaubriant for<br />
his novel entitled “M. des Lourdines.”<br />
The second volume of Pierre de Nolhac's<br />
“ Histoire du Château de Versailles" has just<br />
been published. This volume is Versailles sous<br />
Louis XIV. No author could be better qualified<br />
than M. de Nolhac to treat this subject. As Curator<br />
of the Château of Versailles, he is living in the<br />
palace surrounded by all the pictures and documents<br />
relating to the past history of Versailles. The<br />
volume is illustrated with many hitherto unpublished<br />
sketches, some of which belong to the private collec-<br />
tion of the King of England.<br />
Pierre de Vaissière's new volume will be of<br />
interest to all who care to study the psychology of<br />
criminals. It is entitled “Récits du Temps des<br />
Troubles (XVI° siècle) De quelques Assassins.”<br />
The subjects treated are those concerning Jean<br />
Poitrot, Seigneur de Maurevert ; Jean Yanowitz,<br />
dit Besme ; Henri III. et les “ Quarante-Cinq”;<br />
and Jacques Clément.<br />
As an exact contrast to this is a book published<br />
by Georges Eliac entitled “Un après-midi chez<br />
Julie de Lespinasse." A preface has been written<br />
to this by the Marquis de Ségur.<br />
M. Xavier Paoli, ancien commissaire délégué<br />
auprès des souverains en France, publishes a book<br />
on “Leurs Majestés,” in which he gives his impres-<br />
sions of Elisabeth d'Autriche, Alphonse XIII., Le<br />
Shah de Perse, Nicolas II., Victor-Emmanuel III.,<br />
Léopold II., Edouard VII., Wilhelmine de Hollande,<br />
Georges 1er, Sisowath, Victoria d'Angleterre.<br />
Mme. W. Nicati publishes a study of “Elisabeth<br />
Browning, Femme et Poète."<br />
The “ Souvenirs de Ch. de Freycinet” will be<br />
read with great curiosity and interest. The truth con-<br />
cerning many political questions dating from 1848<br />
will be found in this volume.<br />
“L’Empire allemand et l'Empereur” is a<br />
study by Pierre Baudin, and “Derrière la Façade<br />
allemande," another study of Germany, which after<br />
the long Franco-German conflict on the Morocco<br />
question is also instructive. “ Allemands et<br />
Polonais," by Dr. Victor Nicaise, with a prerace<br />
by M. Henri Welschinger, is a study of the struggle<br />
of the Poles. The volume was presented by M.<br />
Welschinger to the Académie des Sciences Morales<br />
et Politiques at its November meeting. It is a<br />
comprehensive study and a dramatic story of the<br />
struggle of the Poles to preserve their language,<br />
and should be read by all who are interested in the<br />
struggle of civilisations and the psychology of<br />
children.<br />
A book which will be read with curiosity and<br />
interest by scientists is a volume recently published<br />
by Martin Kuckuck of St. Petersburg. It is entitled<br />
“L'Univers, être vivant” (La Solution des Pro-<br />
blèmes de la Matière et de la Vie à l'aide de la<br />
Biologie universelle). It is divided into four parts,<br />
(1) Cosmobiologie; la vie de l'univers ; (2) Plasmo-<br />
biologie; la vie de la substance; (3) Cytobiologie;<br />
la vie de la cellule ; (4) Géobiologie ; la vie de la<br />
Terre. Among the subjects treated are La Méthode<br />
du travail, L'essence de la vie, L'âme et l'esprit ;<br />
le sens propre de ces mots, etc.<br />
M. C. Wagner, the author of “The Simple Life”<br />
has just published a new book entitled “ Ce qu'il<br />
faudra toujours." Among the most striking of the<br />
chapters are the following : Choses abolies et<br />
choses qui demeurent.—De l'initiative-Valeurs<br />
marchandes et valeurs d'âme.<br />
“ La Crise du Français et la Réforme universi-<br />
taire " is the title of a little book by Abel Faure,<br />
in which the author assures us that there is no<br />
crisis, that the language is simply continuing its<br />
evolution. The book has come at the right moment,<br />
and the tone of it is optimistic.<br />
“Sous le Manteau Vénitien” (Silhouettes de la<br />
fin du XVIII° siècle) is the title of a book by<br />
Prince Frédéric de Hohenlohe Waldembourg.<br />
“L'Homme aux Papillons," by Théodore Cahu, is<br />
a charming book worthy of the author of “Doute<br />
mortel,” “L'Oubli ” and “ Vers la Paix,"<br />
Romain Rolland continues his long series of<br />
volumes. “Le Buisson ardent " is the second of<br />
“ La Fin du Voyage.”<br />
Among the volumes of poetry is one entitled<br />
“Souffles d'Océan,” containing some exquisite<br />
poems by the Duchesse de Rohan. A volume<br />
entitled “Le Temple du Rêve,” by the Baronne<br />
de Baye has also appeared recently.<br />
Another posthumous volume is announced con-<br />
taining the “ Lettres de Jeunesse " of Charles-<br />
Louis Philippe to Henri Vandeputte.<br />
Maurice Bouchor has just published a volume<br />
entitled “ Contes à lire ou à faire lire aux Enfants."<br />
M. Maurice Muret publishes a volume called<br />
orre<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 97 (#517) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
97<br />
" Les Contemporains Etrangers ” in which he " Leurs Majestés” (Ollendorff).<br />
studies the following authors : Giosue Carducci,<br />
" Elisabeth Browning, Femmé et Poète" (Perrin).<br />
" Souvenirs de Ch. de Freycinet” (Delagrave).<br />
Antonio Fogazzaro, Mme. Annie Vivanti, A. Strind-<br />
“L'Empire allemand et l'Empereur" (Flammarion).<br />
berg, Selma Lagerlöf, George Bernard Shaw, G. “ Derrière la Façade allemande" (Chapelot).<br />
Hauptmann, C. Spitteler, Mlle. E. de Handel, “ Allemands et Polonais” (Marches de l'Est).<br />
Mazzetti and K. Schönherre.<br />
“L'Univers, être vivant” (Fischbacher).<br />
“ Ce qu'il faudra toujours à (Armand Colin).<br />
Never have foreign authors been so much read<br />
“La Crise du Français et la Réforme universitaire"<br />
in France as at the present moment. Bernard (Stock).<br />
Shaw and his plays are at present the subject of a " Sous le Manteau Vénitien ” (Bernard Grasset).<br />
series of lectures to be given at the Hôtel des<br />
“L'Homme aux Papillons " (Bernard Grasset).<br />
“Le Buisson ardent” (Ollendorff).<br />
Sociétés savantes and at the Sorbonne by M.<br />
“ Souffles d'Océan " (Calmann Levy).<br />
Augustin Hamon.<br />
“Le Temple du Rêve" (Perrin).<br />
A volume of Bernard Shaw's plays, translated “Lettres de Jeunesse" įRiviere).<br />
into French by Augustin and Henriette Hamon, is<br />
“ Contes à lire ou à faire lire aux Enfants" (Armand<br />
Colin).<br />
to be published in March.<br />
“Les Contemporains Etrangers ” (Fontemoing).<br />
A most amusing book for children has been “ Drôles de Bètes ” (A. Tolmer).<br />
written and illustrated by André Hellé. Its<br />
title is “Drôles de Bêtes," and, in the sketches,<br />
the artist has succeeded admirably in giving<br />
UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
children an idea of the outlines of the various<br />
animals. In an extremely witty way, he gives<br />
his comments on the scenes he depicts. The DCHOES hare reached England of the dis-<br />
whole book is most entertaining, and will be<br />
cussion which has been agitating the<br />
enjoyed by the grown-ups quite as much as by the<br />
literary world—or at least the commercial<br />
children.<br />
side of the literary world—in America during<br />
A curious legal case has just been tried in the past autumn ; the discussion, to wit, on the<br />
Paris. The proprietor of a financial journal took value of “best sellers." Perhaps it need hardly<br />
for his title La Revue Financière des Deux Mondes. be added that the point at issue was not the<br />
M. Francis Charmes, editor of the Revue des Deux artistic value of a very popular book, but its value<br />
Vondes, who considered that this would be detri- as a “ business proposition.”<br />
mental to his review, has won his case, and the Mr. Robert S. Yard, of Moffatt, Yard & Co..<br />
financial journal is compelled to omit the words set the ball rolling in an article in the Saturday<br />
Deux Mondes from his review and also from all Evening Post. He called this “ The Worst<br />
his bill heads, writing paper and telegraphic Business in the World,” dealing at large with the<br />
address. As the Revue des Deux Mondes dates dangers and drawbacks of the publishing pro-<br />
from 1829, it was considered that this new paper fession. But the most notable part of the article<br />
was about to trade on the fame which the older<br />
de on the fame which the older was the denunciation of best sellers, fortified by<br />
one had won.<br />
the opinion of “one of the most distinguished<br />
In the Revue de Paris, Albert Duchêne writes publishers in America," who declared that he<br />
on “Le Maroc et le Gouvernement de l'Afrique didn't want them, as they were too expensive, and<br />
française," and Auguste Gauvain on “L’Europe he couldn't afford them. This publisher marshalled<br />
d'aujourd'hui.” M. Houllevigue writes an article figures to prove that if a best seller reached a sale<br />
on "L'Observatoire du Mont Wilson.”<br />
of 100,000 copies in the course of its run, while its<br />
At the Odéon David Copperfield is still on profit to the author would be about £6,000, to the<br />
the bill.<br />
publisher it would only bring about £500. He<br />
“Les Sauterelles" is the title of M. Emile concluded : “Besides yielding no profit, it<br />
Fabre's piece, in five acts, now being given at the actually hogs the whole attention of the house<br />
Vaudeville.<br />
to the exclusion of the other and really important<br />
At the Porte Saint-Martin, “ La Flambée,” by books—the books that bulked together really<br />
M. Henry Kistemeckers, is being given.<br />
make profit, and the books that carry the dignity<br />
Mme. Sarah Bernhardt is opening the season and the prestige and the power and the influence<br />
with “Lucrèce Borgia.”<br />
of the house. It eclipses them all.”<br />
A direct personal interest in the question of<br />
“M. des Lourdines” (Bernard Grasset).<br />
best sellers is, unfortunately, the lot of very few<br />
" Histoire du Château de Versailles" (Emile Paul). authors, in America or elsewhere. Nor can it be<br />
" Récits du Temps des Troubles (XVI. siècle) De quel.<br />
a great concern of theirs how such works affect<br />
ques Assassins (Emile Paul).<br />
“ Un après-midi chez Julie de Lespinasse" (Emile the publisher's pocket. But certainly they are<br />
Paul).<br />
entitled to feel uneasy at the thought of the best<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 98 (#518) #############################################<br />
<br />
98<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
sellers being allowed to “ hog the whole attention “The Ne'er-Do-Well” have already appeared in<br />
of the house.” At a Washington trial not long the best sellers list—though the third of these has<br />
ago the wife of a millionaire submitted in court not pleased the reviewers half as well as the reading<br />
an account of her monthly expenses ; from which public. In the late spring or early summer<br />
it appeared that she spent on an average $2012 per women writers were very active, notable books<br />
month, of which only the odd $2 were devoted to being “ The Colonel's Story," by Mrs. Roger<br />
books. Now, if the publisher thrusts on her Pryor; “A Big Horse to Ride," by (Miss) E. D.<br />
attention only his best sellers, calculate what Dewing; “ The Bramble Bush," by Caroline<br />
amount of support per annum the millionaire's Fuller; “ Kilmeny of the Orcbard," by L. M.<br />
wife contributes to the ordinary run of authors ! Montgomery ; “Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who<br />
To turn from so painful a thought to the Laughed,” by Edna Ferber ; and “The Iron<br />
actual question of the most successful books in Woman," by Margaret Delanů. Male authorship<br />
the United States during recent months : In the was represented by Jacques Futrelle's “ Secretary<br />
spring, the top places in the list of six best sellers of Frivolous Affairs ” ; “The Measure of a Man,"<br />
in fiction were occupied by the since-deceased by Norman Duncan (known previously as the<br />
Vaughan Kester's “ Prodigal Judge,” and Jeffery writer of “ Doctor Luke of the Labrador '') ;<br />
Farnol's “ Broad Highway." These two novels “Victor Olnee's Discipline," by Hamlin Garland ;<br />
remained in “ The Big Six” (as some of the “The Vintage,” by Joseph Sharts ; “ Tales of the<br />
papers sportingly call the list) right down to the Town,” by Charles Belmont Davis ; “ The Carpet<br />
end of August. H. S. Harrison's “ Queed," for from Bagdad,” by Harold MacGrath ; and<br />
which the critics all prophesied a great future, “Kennedy Square,” by F. Hopkinson Smith,<br />
fulfilled expectations, and, after running the two author of that masterpiece “ Colonel Carter of<br />
just-mentioned novels close, survived them into Cartersville.”<br />
September. Meanwhile in August “ The Winning More recent novels are "Mother Carey's<br />
of Barbara Worth" by Harold Bell, and “ The Chickens” by Kate Douglas Wiggin, and<br />
Ne'er-Do-Well ” by Rex Beach, came to the front, “Mother " by Kathleen Norris, both very senti-<br />
and in September they were first and third respec- mental, but none the less likely to succeed for<br />
tively, second place being taken by Robert W. that. Whether one should class Mr. Farnol as an<br />
Chambers with “ The Common Law,” which ran American author is doubtful; but anyhow his<br />
into three editions in its first month of life.<br />
“ Money Moon” bids fair to rival in the States<br />
Outside fiction, the books which have most the popularity of “ The Broad Highway.” In<br />
often appeared among the best sellers are “ The “As the Sparks Fly Upward,” Cyrus Townsend<br />
Doctor's Dilemma” and “How to Live on Twenty- Brady presents a Pacific island-wreck story ; in<br />
Four Hours a Day”—Messrs. Shaw and Arnold “ Philip Steele," J.O. Curwood, a romance of the<br />
Bennett thus continuing their wonderful success Canadian mounted police ; in “Rebellion," J. M.<br />
in the early part of the year and Olive Schreiner's Patterson (author of “A Little Brother of the<br />
“Woman and Labor”; while Price Collier's Rich"), a divorce problem novel. William Dubois,<br />
“ The West in the East," and the other Bennett's who gives us “The Quest of the Silver Fleece," is<br />
“ Mental Efficiency” take a high place, and a gentleman of colour, who writes exceedingly<br />
Wagner's “My Life" has commenced what is well about his own people. Detective novels are<br />
expected to be a long run. Nor must “ Paper represented by A. K. Green's “ Initials Only,"<br />
Bag Cookery" by M. Soyer, the chef, be forgotten. and by “ Average Jones,” whose creator, Samuel<br />
It will be seen that the native authors hold their Hopkins Adams, collaborated in “ The Mystery."<br />
own better in fiction than in other literature. George Barr McCutcheon's new story is “ Mary<br />
The general output of books has been tremen- Midthorne,” and Randall Parrish in “My Lady<br />
dous since the last “United States Notes” of Doubt " goes to the War of Independence for<br />
appeared in The Author, and supplies a curious his setting. The late Myrtle Reed left behind<br />
comment on Mr. Robert Yard's plaintive con- her“ A Weaver of Dreams," published after her<br />
tention that publishing is “ the worst business death.<br />
in the world.” It is rather difficult to decide Two translations from the German may be men-<br />
which works deserve special mention here, so many tioned : “ The Indian Lily," a collection of tales by<br />
are there to choose from, and it being impossible Sudermann, and Hauptmann's remarkable « The<br />
to read them all. But an attempt must be made Fool in Christ,” which will doubtless be seen in<br />
to give the names of the principal additions to England before long.<br />
American literature, at the risk of omitting some There has been a good crop of biographies in the<br />
which time may show to be better fitted to survive. second half of 1911. These include " Andrew<br />
To begin with fiction, “The Winning of Jackson,” by Professor John Spencer Bassett;<br />
Barbara Worth," “ The Common Law," and “Harriet Beecher Stowe," by Charles Edward and<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 99 (#519) #############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
99<br />
Lyman Beecher Stowe, her son and grandson; Other social difficulties receive attention in<br />
“ The True Daniel Webster," by Dr. S. G. Fisher; “Half a Man," by Mary White Ovington, who<br />
« Statesmen of the Old South" (Jefferson, Calhoun, deals with the New York negro ; " The History and<br />
and Davis), by W. E. Dodd ;“ William H. Seward,” Problems of Organized Labor," by Dr. F. T. Carlton,<br />
by E. E. Hale, junior, and “Stephen A. Douglas," Professor of Economics and History at Albion<br />
by H. P. Willis, both in the American Crisis series. College ; and “The Passing of the Idle Rich," by<br />
The Yale University Press has issued Dr. W. S. Frederick Townsend Martin.<br />
Culbertson's “ Alexander Hamilton : An Essay." The travel-books of the second half of the past<br />
• The Public Life of Joseph Dudley," by Professor year hare not been very many. “Across South<br />
Everett Kimball, is a study of the colonial policy America,” by Hiram Bingham, is a diary of a trip<br />
of the Stuarts in New England. “The Diary of from Lima to Buenos Aires. “ Jungle Trails and<br />
Gideon Welles,” to wbich John T. Morse, junior, Jungle People," from the pen of Caspar Whitney,<br />
supplies an introduction, is said to be the only deals with the Far East. “A Woman's World<br />
account of the administrations of Lincoln and Tour in a Motor," by Mrs. Clark-Fisher, records<br />
Johnson from inside the cabinets of both statesmen. the experiences of 23,000 miles in a car. Another<br />
Historical works are “ France in the American motoring book is Lee Meriwether's “Seeing Europe<br />
Rerolution,” by James Breck Perkins (who, as the by Automobile.” “ The Cabin," written and illus-<br />
New York Nation points out, is one of the rare trated by Stewart Edward White, describes the<br />
scholars who have figured in Congress, having Sierras. “Through the Heart of Canada," by<br />
formerly been Congressman for New York); “ The Frank Yeigh, has come in for high praise.<br />
Indian Wars of New England,” by Herbert Milton “Florida Trails," by Winthrop Packard, perbaps<br />
Sylvester ; “ A Short History of the United States belongs to a class by itself. The author, Winthrop<br />
Navy," by Captain G. R. Clark and others; “ The Packard, has a big reputation in the United States<br />
Records of the Federal Convention of 1787," by as a writer about pature. An aspect of nature-<br />
Professor Max Farrand, of Yale; and “ Sectionalism study, under artificial conditions, is considered in<br />
in Virginia from 1776 to 1861," by Dr. C. H. Mrs. Alfred Ely's “ The Practical Flower Garden,"<br />
Amber. In this class may be put also Charles A. which attained to the dignity of a best-seller on its<br />
Hanna's - The Wilderness Trail,” which has the first appearance in the spring.<br />
rather portentous sub-title “ The Ventures and Among philosophical publications the first place<br />
Adventures of the Pennsylvania Traders on the is naturally taken by the late Professor James's<br />
Allegheny Path, with some new Annals of the Old posthumous work, “Some Problems of Philosophy."<br />
West, and the Records of Some Strong Men and If we may be allowed to imitate the advertisement<br />
Some Bad Ones"! In “Studies : Military and editor and reserve a space for “unclassified or late,"<br />
Diplomatic," Charles Francis Adams writes about there are several noteworthy books which may here<br />
the strategy of the War of Independence and the be grouped together. For instance, there is General<br />
military and diplomatic aspects of the Civil War. Hiram Chittenden's “ War or Peace,” in which an<br />
The scope of “ The President's Cabinet," by H. B. American soldier argues very strongly on behalf of<br />
Learned, published by the Yale University Press, is peace. There is “American Addresses," a new<br />
sufficiently explained by its title—the President, of volume of essays by Joseph H. Choate. Richard<br />
course, being that of the United States.<br />
Le Gallienne is responsible for “ The Loves of the<br />
Books on the Woman Question have been Poets,” which its publishers describe as a “holiday<br />
numerous. Among them are Mrs. Pankhurst's book” and which handles the love-stories of such<br />
“ The Suffragette” ; “The Woman Movement in divers persons as the Brownings, Mary Stuart and<br />
America,” by Belle Squire, a very prominent Chastelard, Georges Sand and Chopin, Michel<br />
American suffragist ;“ What Eight Million Women Angelo and Vittoria Colonna. “ The Letters of<br />
Want,” by Rheta Childe Dorr ; "A Short History Sarah Orne Jewett” have been edited by Mrs.<br />
of Women's Rights” (from the Augustan age to James T. Fields. “The Greatest Street in the<br />
the present day), by Eugene A. Hecker; " The World,"—.., Broadway, New York—is written<br />
Women of To-morrow," by William Hard ; and about by Stephen Jenkins—and also by J. B.<br />
“ Woman's Part in Government,” by W. H. Allen. Kerfoot, who calls his book simply “Broadway."<br />
“A Woman Alone,” a true story of a girl's struggle “ Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing" is the<br />
to maintain herself in New York, is a consideration subject chosen by Dr. G. B. Cutten, President of<br />
of the question from a different point of view. And Acadia University, New York. And finally Paul S.<br />
“ The Girl that Goes Wrong" is different again, as Reinsch has produced “ Intellectual and Political<br />
will be understood when it is said that the author Currents in the Far East," which attempts to bring<br />
is R. W. Kauffman, who wrote the terrible and the history of the modern Orient right up to date.<br />
truthful novel “ The House of Bondage," mentioned The obituary of the past few months is unhappily<br />
in the last - United States Notes."<br />
rather large. On July 4th Vaughan Kester, author<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 100 (#520) ############################################<br />
<br />
100<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
of “ The Prodigal Judge,” died after a long illness; It appeared from the evidence that subscribers<br />
and on the same day Franklin Fyles, playwright to the Little French Theatre Society received<br />
and former dramatic editor of the New York Sun. tickets and were entitled to attend performances<br />
A month later died Lieutenant-Colonel L. L. Bruff, of plays at the theatre, as well as concerts, recital,<br />
one of the foremost writers on ordnance and explo- and lectures, and it was contended on behalf of the<br />
sives in America. On August 17th Mrs. Myrtle defendant, that the society was carried on in the<br />
Reed (McCullough) committed suicide after a period same way as other similar societies, such as<br />
of insomnia and depression, leaving a finished novel, the Stage Society, which was composed of mem-<br />
whose publication is noticed above. Her “Love bers whose subscriptions entitled them to admission<br />
Letters of a Musician " appeared first in 1899, when to the performances of certain plays, and that they<br />
Myrtle Reed was twenty-five. Before August closed, were private performances for members of the<br />
the death occurred of Edwin Asa Dix, author of society.<br />
several novels and a travel book. Another traveller, The magistrate, however, held that the Little<br />
John Milton Dillon, author of “Motor Days in French Theatre Society was merely a colourable<br />
England,” soon followed him. The September excuse, and that the performance of French plays,<br />
losses to American literature included Joel Benton, which were advertised in the public press, were in<br />
poet, critic, and lecturer ; Mrs. Elizabeth Edson fact public performances. There was no sugges-<br />
Evans, novelist, biographer, etc. ; and Charles tion that the plays were in any way improper, but in<br />
Battell Loomis, whose humour is well known in the interests of the public it was essential that a<br />
England. Mr. Loomis had only recently celebrated theatre, where public performances of plays took<br />
(in hospital) his fiftieth birthday when he succumbed place should be licensed so as to come under the<br />
to cancer. An accidental gunshot wound, self- inspection of the County Council, because that body<br />
inflicted while out after quail on October 6th, put was responsible for the protection of the public in<br />
an end to Philip Verrill Mighels, journalist, novel- case of fire. The charge against the defendant was<br />
writer, poet, and playwright. On October 29th considered to be proved, and he was ordered to pay<br />
died Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York a fine of £10.<br />
World-leaving, by his will, two million dollars to From the observations of the magistrate, it seems<br />
support a school of journalism at Columbia Univer that the offence, for which the defendant was fined,<br />
sity. And on November 21st Kellogg Durland, was “ keeping a house of public resort for the<br />
whose best-known writings dealt with labour public performance of stage plays without a<br />
questions, committed suicide on a train journey. licence"; because the other offence with which he<br />
PHILIP WALSH.<br />
was charged, namely, “ presenting a stage play for<br />
hire in an unlicensed place,” has nothing to do<br />
with the question as to whether the performance<br />
is public or private.<br />
STAGE PLAYS AND PRIVATE SOCIETIES. What constitutes the “ public performance" of<br />
a play is a question of some difficulty, but it may<br />
be described as a performance to which the general<br />
M H ERE appears to be some uneasiness among public can obtain admission. If certain qualiti-<br />
1 members of private societies, which give un- cations are required of members of a society,<br />
authorised dramatic entertainments, owing besides the mere payment of a subscription, it is<br />
to the summary proceedings in connection with probable that a performance before the members<br />
the performances of the Little French Theatre of such society would not amount to a public<br />
Society, at the Boudoir Theatre, in Kensington. performance. But in the case of the Little French<br />
Mr. Grey, who leased the theatre from Boudoir Theatre Society there appear to have been no<br />
Companies, Ltd., was prosecuted for keeping a restrictions, the advertisements invited the general<br />
house for the public performance of stage plays, public to subscribe, and the county couucil<br />
and for presenting a stage play without a licence inspector became a member merely on payment of<br />
from the London County Council.<br />
the subscription.<br />
The proceedings were instituted under the pro- The private societies, which give performances<br />
visions of the Theatres Act, 1843, and as the of stage plays, some of which are unlicensed, hare<br />
borough of Kensington is outside the authority of no need to be alarmed at the decision in this case,<br />
the Lord Chamberlain, the licensing of the Boudoir so long as their performances are given, as is<br />
Theatre comes within the jurisdiction of the County usually the practice I believe, in a theatre which<br />
Council. An inspector of the Council paid the has been duly licensed. Still, it is advisable that<br />
subscription of 31s. 6d., and became a member of they should give attention to section 15 of the Act,<br />
the Little French Theatre Society, in order to which makes it an offence to present “for hire”<br />
attend the performances of certain French plays. an unlicensed stage play ; for it has become the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 101 (#521) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
101<br />
-<br />
-<br />
- -<br />
-<br />
-<br />
no defence, and a conviction is inevitable even<br />
when it is admitted that the prosecution is<br />
influenced by ulterior motives. A few years ago<br />
there was quite an epidemic of such prosecutions ;<br />
when the law was set in motion, sometimes by the<br />
theatrical managers who realised that their<br />
interests were being affected by the developments<br />
of music-halls, sometimes by individuals who had<br />
a personal grievance, and in the recent case,<br />
referred to above, the Actors' Association prosecuted<br />
because their members had been prejudiced by the<br />
repudiation of contracts ; so that the law, instead of<br />
being consistently enforced, as it should be if it<br />
were reasonable, is left to the caprice of indivi-<br />
duals ; and, unless they choose to prosecute, its<br />
daily violation is regarded, so far as the authorities<br />
are concerned, with the indifference of those who<br />
have no veneration for antiquity.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
habit to give unauthorised performances of stage<br />
plays, as if the payment of a subscription, instead<br />
of payment at the doors, secured the actors and<br />
organizers from liability in respect of the heavy<br />
penalties provided by the Act.<br />
The important words of the section are " for<br />
hire," and their meaning is very wide. They<br />
include “every case in which any money or reward<br />
shall be taken or charged, directly or indirectly,<br />
or in which the purchase of any article is made a<br />
condition for admission." If subscriptions, there<br />
fore, are paid merely for the sake of obtaining<br />
admission to the performances of these plays, it<br />
would seem that every actor who takes part in the<br />
entertainment must be deemed to be acting “for<br />
hire.” Fortunately, the Censor, in spite of all the<br />
indiscretions attributed to him, is not over zealous<br />
in instituting proceedings. But it is well to bear<br />
in mind that anybody who pleases may prosecute,<br />
and the Act provides that the expenses of the<br />
prosecutor, who may be the “man in the street,”<br />
shall be paid out of the penalties imposed.<br />
Another recent case under the Theatres Act was<br />
the prosecution of the New Bedford Palace of<br />
Varieties, which was summoned, for keeping a<br />
house for the public performance of the stage play<br />
entitled, “The Money Spider," without a licence<br />
for such purpose ; and it was urged on behalf of<br />
the company that the piece had been played at<br />
eighteen music halls and only lasted twelve<br />
minutes. The company was fined £30, and it was<br />
ordered that fifteen guineas out of that sum<br />
should be paid to the prosecutor for costs. The<br />
prosecution had been undertaken by the Actors<br />
Association, and it was stated by way of explan-<br />
ation that actors were engaged by music-hall<br />
proprietors, and that when the latter broke their<br />
contracts they adopted the position of challenging<br />
the actors to enforce their rights, because they knew<br />
the agreement being illegal was unenforceable.<br />
The state of the law with regard to stage plays<br />
has for many years been denounced as unsatisfac-<br />
tory, and it is strange that no amendment has yet<br />
been made. The result has been, that the Theatres<br />
Act is openly set at defiance, and there is hardly<br />
a music-hall in London where stage plays are not<br />
performed erery night, and the proprietors are<br />
liable to heavy penalties, if anyone chooses to<br />
institute proceedings. The Theatres Act was<br />
passed long before the modern music-hall came<br />
into existence, and it is obvious that its provisions<br />
require alteration to suit the change of circum-<br />
stances and the requirements of the times. It<br />
appears to be nobody's duty to prosecute, when<br />
stage plays are notoriously performed at music-balls<br />
all over the metropolis in contravention of the<br />
statute ; yet whenever proceedings are instituted,<br />
heavy fines are inflicted, because there is generally<br />
CORNHILL.<br />
Medicine in Fiction. By Dr. S. Squire Sprigge.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
Fiction and Romance. By A. C. Benson.<br />
Literary Supplement : Public Libraries and National<br />
Education.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW,<br />
Among My Books. By Frederic Harrison.<br />
Conrad. By Ford Madox Hueffer.<br />
The Copyright Bill. By Charles Tennyson.<br />
Opera in England. By Francis Toye.<br />
Play of the Month. "The War God."<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
The Art of J. M. Synge.<br />
Reality in Poetry. By Laurence Housman.<br />
The American Yellow Press. By Sydney Brooks.<br />
NATIONAL<br />
A Plea for English Song By Paul England.<br />
Pictorial Art in South London. By A. Post-Impres.<br />
sionist Scribbler.<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY.<br />
Mrs. Humphry Ward's Novels. By Stephen Gwynn.<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
:<br />
:<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.]<br />
Front Page<br />
...<br />
Other Pages<br />
...£4 0 0<br />
Half of a Page.<br />
... ... 3 0 0<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
... ... ... 1 100<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
... 0 15 0<br />
... 0 7 6<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
per inch 6 6 0<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent. for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J, F.<br />
BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 102 (#522) ############################################<br />
<br />
102<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
1 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 />
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 1s. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation,<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise.<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to kno#<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 />
from the ont<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 />
N 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 />
H 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 />
-<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 103 (#523) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
103<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 (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 />
ited, and that for a novice the first obiect<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 />
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 writerg<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 />
<br />
<br />
## p. 104 (#524) ############################################<br />
<br />
104<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
THE COPYRIGHT ACT.<br />
The Copyright Bill has now passed both Houses<br />
of Parliament. It received the Royal Assent on<br />
December 16.<br />
Pension FUND.<br />
THE secretary would like to draw the attention of<br />
the members to the fact that four bankers' orders<br />
have been received in answer to the recent Pension<br />
Fund Appeal without any signature and without<br />
any mark by which the senders could be recognised.<br />
The secretary made mention of this fact under<br />
the list of additional subscriptions and donations to<br />
the society, but desires to do so again, as the matter<br />
is one of considerable importance.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the Union of<br />
London and Smiths' Bank, Clifton, Bristol.<br />
Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the London<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
guinea to Romeike & Curtice, Ltd., for 125 cuttings<br />
on a specified subject. By the 21st September<br />
only two cuttings had been sent, although the<br />
member was aware, from other sources, of a con.<br />
siderable number of important notices upon the<br />
subject. The member then interviewed Romeike &<br />
Curtice, Ltd., complained of the bad service, and<br />
ultimately it was agreed that half a guinea should<br />
be repaid and the number of cuttings reduced<br />
to sixty. Romeike & Curtice, Ltd., failed to<br />
repay the half guinea, the secretary got no satis-<br />
faction on applying to them, and finally the<br />
matter had to be placed in the hands of the<br />
society's solicitors. Upon their sending down a<br />
clerk, a distinct promise was made to forward the<br />
money, but nothing came. As all subsequent<br />
applications were ignored, a plaint was issued in<br />
applications were i<br />
the City of London Court, and judgment was<br />
obtained against the agency on the 23rd November.<br />
This judgment has now been satisfied.<br />
THE PENSION FUND CIRCULAR.<br />
We publish in another column the list of annual<br />
subscriptions and donations received since the<br />
beginning of October. The greater mass of these<br />
are in response to the Circular sent out the<br />
beginning of November. The Society must be<br />
congratulated on the result of that Circalar appeal<br />
On going to press £85 per annum have been<br />
added to the subscriptions and £164 19s. Od. to<br />
the donations. The long list of additional annual<br />
subscribers is most satisfactory, tending to<br />
show, as it does, the unity of the Society. The<br />
Society should be proud of the fact that the Com-<br />
mittee of the Pension Fund and the Committee of<br />
Management have looked upon the Fund, as<br />
indeed have all the members of the Society, as<br />
one raised by the Fellowship of Letters on behalf of<br />
those who are members. The fine result achieved<br />
in the 12 years the Fund has been running speaks<br />
well for the independence of the Society's action.<br />
A SATISFACTORY PUBLISHER.<br />
We have much pleasure in printing a clause<br />
which has been inserted in an agreement coming<br />
from one of the best and oldest established firms in<br />
England. Indeed we should have liked to have<br />
published the name of the firm.<br />
The clause referred to runs as follows:-<br />
“In the event of the publishers securing copyright for<br />
the work in the United States, or realising profits from the<br />
sale of serial or other rights in the United States, such<br />
profits shall, after deducting all expenses relating thereto,<br />
be placed to the credit of the author.”<br />
The attention of members has often been drawn<br />
to the fact that when agents hand over the serial<br />
rights and other minor rights to the publishers,<br />
whether in the United States or elsewhere, the<br />
publishers think themselves liberal if they pay the<br />
author 50 per cent. Even if the author was<br />
successful in placing the rights himself he would<br />
have to pay the publisher 50 per cent. The agent's<br />
charges would have to be reckoned in addition to<br />
this. If the agent is energetic enough to place<br />
these rights independently of the publisher he would<br />
charge 10 per cent., however large the figure, whereas<br />
the publisher, whose agreement is quoted, after<br />
deducting all expenses (these, we suppose, would<br />
amount to one or two letters backwards and forwards<br />
and perhaps a cablegram) credits the author with<br />
the full amount. This method of doing business<br />
cannot be sufficiently highly recommended. If it<br />
pays one publisher to do business on this basis it<br />
would pay all publishers, and we trust, therefore, to<br />
see the usual clause, which is so frequently inserted<br />
to the detriment of the author, struck out of future<br />
contracts.<br />
County COURT CASE.<br />
The following case will be of interest to authors<br />
who subscribe for Press cuttings :-On the 7th<br />
September last a member of the Society paid a<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 105 (#525) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
105<br />
THE “ Chicago DIAL."<br />
included “in his list of New Novels," clearly<br />
The Chicago Dial is one of the soundest literary<br />
leading the public to suppose that the novels<br />
reviews published the other side of the Atlantic,<br />
produced were new novels. It would be interesting<br />
and a weekly perusal of its contents will enable<br />
if such a case could be decided from the point of<br />
anyone to keep abreast of the American output,<br />
view of literary libel, but we're afraid there is no<br />
but it has, apparently, like many literary reviews,<br />
immediate prospect of there being a legal remedy.<br />
its own staff which deals with its own books and<br />
its own literary subjects.<br />
We have this placed forcibly before us by the<br />
COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br />
following letter which the editor has asked us to<br />
insert :-<br />
November 17, 1911. TN pursuance of Article 19 of the Articles of<br />
SIR-It might be doing a service to English writers if 1 Association of the society, the committee give<br />
you would allow me to state through your columns that<br />
potice that the election of members of the committee<br />
the Dial does not invite MSS. from England, the character<br />
of the journal being such as to make the sending of such<br />
of management will be proceeded with in the<br />
MSS. quite useless on the part of the sender, and a needless following manner :-<br />
waste and annoyance on all sides. From the large number (1) One third of the members of the present<br />
of unavailable MSS. received from England, I am led to<br />
committee of management retire from office in<br />
think that the Dial has been announced in some English<br />
journal as inviting miscellaneous MSS. from abroad ; hence<br />
accordance with Article 17.<br />
the apparent desirability of this correction.<br />
(2) The names of the retiring members are :-<br />
Yours very truly,<br />
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes,<br />
FRANCIS F. BROWNE, Editor.<br />
Mr. Arthur Rackham,<br />
Dr. S. Squire Sprigge,<br />
Mr. Sidney Webb.<br />
FRENCH LAW CASES.<br />
(3) The date fixed by the committee up to which<br />
nominations by the subscribing members of candi-<br />
THE action brought by Anatole France against dates for election to the new committee may be<br />
the publisher Lemere has been settled. The made is the 10th day of February.<br />
dispute arose owing to the publisher desiring to (4) Mr. Sidney Webb not seeking re-election,<br />
publish now for the first time an MS. written the committee nominate the following candidates,<br />
thirty years ago. The dispute, we understand, being subscribing members of the society, to fill<br />
has been settled by the publisher undertaking to the vacancies caused by the retirement of one third<br />
make a clear statement of the date of the com- of the committee, according to the constitution :-<br />
position, and that it is published now against the<br />
Mrs. Belloc Lowndes,<br />
wishes of the author.<br />
Mr. Hesketh Pritchard,<br />
This case is a most interesting one for authors, Mr. Arthur Rackham,<br />
and it is a pity it has not been decided in the<br />
Dr. S. Squire Sprigge.<br />
French Courts in order that authors all over the The committee remind the members that, under<br />
world might see how the French law dealt with article 19 of the amended Articles of Association<br />
the subject. We must state, with regret, that it “any two subscribing members of the society may<br />
not infrequently happens that publishers take up nominate one or more subscribing members other<br />
the early publications of a famous author, either than themselves, not exceeding the number of<br />
purchasing or holding the copyright themselves, vacancies to be filled up, by notice in writing sent<br />
and produce the work without the author's sanction to the secretary, accompanied by a letter signed<br />
and, in many cases, opposed to the author's wishes. by the candidate or candidates expressing willingness<br />
They make no statement that it is a new publica- to accept the duties of the post.<br />
tion by the author, but then, on the other hand, The complete list of candidates will be printed<br />
10 statement that it is a republication in the March issue of The Author.<br />
of an early immature work. In the cases which<br />
the society has been able to investigate it was<br />
found that the only remedy in the author's hands<br />
THE PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
was to make an explanation in letters to the<br />
papers, but this is unsatisfactory, as, after all,<br />
these letters only reach a limited public, and if TN order to give members of the society, should<br />
the author is a popular author, not half of his I they desire to appoint a fresh member to the<br />
circle of readers is made aware of what has taken Pension Fund Committee, full time to act, it has been<br />
place. In one case the publisher went so near the the custom to place in The Author a complete state-<br />
line as to state that the work of Mr. “ — " was ment of the method of election under the scheme for<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 106 (#526) ############################################<br />
<br />
106<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
administration of the Pension Fund. Under that Askwith, who accompanied the late Sir Henry<br />
scheme the committee is composed of three Bergne to the Berlin Conference, and who after<br />
members elected by the committee of the society, his sad death there took charge of his duties in<br />
three members elected by the society at the general connection with the contemplated reform of the<br />
meeting, and the chairman of the society for the British Law of Copyright, and Sir Hubert Llewellyn<br />
time being, ex officio. The three members elected Smith, Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade,<br />
at the general meeting when the fund was first were also present, the gathering of members and<br />
started were Mrs. Alec Tweedie, Mr. Morley Roberts, their friends being an exceptionally large one.<br />
and Mr. M. H. Spielmann. These have in turn The following ladies and gentlemen presided at<br />
during the past years resigned, and submitting their the various tables :-Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim,<br />
names for re-election, have been re-elected. This Mr. Robert Ross, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Mr. W. W.<br />
year Mr. Morley Roberts retires under the scheme, Jacobs, Mrs. Humphreys (Rita), and Mr. G. H.<br />
but as he does not submit his name for re-elec- Thring (Secretary). Those not already mentioned,<br />
tion, the committee have nominated as a candi- who had seats allotted to them at the High Table<br />
date for the vacancy Mr. Owen Seaman.<br />
included, Lady Falmouth, Mr. R. J. Godlee (Presi-<br />
The members have, however, power to put dent of the Royal College of Surgeons), Mrs.<br />
forward other names under clause 9, which runs as Humphry Ward, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford,<br />
follows:-<br />
Mr. Theodore Cook, Professor Adam Sedgwick,<br />
"Any candidate for election to the Pension Fund Com-<br />
Sir Alfred Bateman, Mrs. Frank Elliott, Sir<br />
mittee by the members of the society (not being a retiring Frederick Macmillan, Sir James and Lady Yoxall,<br />
member of such committee) shall be nominated in writing Sir Arthur and Lady Conan Doyle, the Reverend<br />
to the secretary at least three weeks prior to the general<br />
E. S. Roberts (Master of Caius College), Mr.<br />
meeting at which such candidate is to be proposed, and the<br />
nomination of each such candidate shall be subscribed by<br />
Anthony Hope Hawkins, Mrs. Squire Sprigge,<br />
at least three members of the society. A list of the names Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Comyns Carr, Sir Frederic<br />
of the candidates so nominated shall be sent to the members Hewitt, Mrs. E. Nesbit Bland, Miss May Sinclair,<br />
of the society, with the annual report of the managing<br />
and Mr. Ezra Pound.<br />
committee, and those candidates obtaining the most votes<br />
at the general meeting shall be elected to serve on the<br />
At the conclusion of dinner, and after the usual<br />
Pension Fund Committee."<br />
loyal toasts had been proposed by the Chairman<br />
In case any member should desire to refer to the<br />
and received with enthusiasm, Mr. J. W. Comyns<br />
list of members, the list taking the elections up to<br />
Carr rose to propose the toast of “the Copyright<br />
the end of July, 1907, was published in October of<br />
that year. This list was complete at the date of<br />
Mr. Comyns Carr said :Mr. Chairman, Ladies<br />
issue, with the exception of the thirty-eight mem-<br />
and Gentlemen,-I should account it in any cir-<br />
bers referred to in the short preface. All subse-<br />
cumstances an honour to be permitted to address so<br />
quent elections have been duly chronicled in The<br />
distinguished a company. But to-night the honour<br />
Author.<br />
is great indeed, for we are met to give welcome and<br />
It will be as well, therefore, should any member acceptance to the largest instalment of justice that<br />
desire to put forward a candidate, to take the<br />
has ever been conferred on Literature by the Parlia-<br />
matter within their immediate consideration. The ment of England. In the accomplishment of this<br />
general meeting of the society is usually held in<br />
result the Society of Authors has taken its full<br />
March. It is essential that all nominations should<br />
share of labour and responsibility, and I am there-<br />
be in the hands of the secretary before the 31st of<br />
fore justly proud to stand forward as their spokes-<br />
January, 1912.<br />
man in respect of the toast which I shall offer for<br />
your acceptance.<br />
I have spoken of this Bill as an instalment,<br />
THE DINNER.<br />
because I am not here to admit that even the<br />
great concessions we have obtained exhaust the<br />
legitimate demands and aspirations of the authors of<br />
M HE annual dinner of the Society was held this country. It is very possible, I think, that in<br />
I at the Criterion Restaurant on Friday, the future Literature, like Oliver Twist, may be<br />
December 8. Held earlier in the season found asking for more, possible also that, as the<br />
than has usually been the case, the dinner marked public conscience on this subject develops, more will<br />
the passing of the Copyright Bill through Parlia- be granted.<br />
ment, and the President of the Board of Trade Speaking for myself, I may frankly avow my<br />
(The Rt. Honble. Sydney Buxton), who had charge belief in perpetual copyright as the goal at which<br />
of it in the House of Commons, occupied a seat at we should aim, and if this were the time and place, I<br />
the right hand of the Chairman, Dr. S. Squire think it could be argued and could be proved that<br />
Sprigge, as the guest of the evening. Sir George the institution of perpetual copyright under proper<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 107 (#527) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
107<br />
state control would not only prove of advantage to<br />
authors, but also and no less to the vast community<br />
which demands reasonable access to the master-<br />
pieces of literature.<br />
To many, I am well aware, this idea of mine will<br />
seem a vain dream, but let it be remembered that<br />
the dreams of to-day often take shape and substance<br />
among the realities of to-morrow, for as Shelley<br />
truly said, poets who are the great dreamers are the<br />
acknowledged legislators of the world.<br />
But a dream, even as far-reaching as this, is often<br />
no mere forecast of the future, but a remembered<br />
vision of what the past once owned and the present<br />
has allowed to lapse, and this I make bold to say is<br />
emphatically the case in regard to an author's<br />
property in the fruits of his labours.<br />
For almost from the invention of printing to<br />
the advent of the detestable statute of Queen<br />
Anne—the first and the worst of the enactments<br />
concerning our calling,-an author enjoyed in<br />
principle and in practice that perpetual copyright in<br />
his writing, which at some future day he may<br />
recapture.<br />
But the effect of the statute of Anne, with its<br />
grudging concession of fourteen years from the<br />
date of publication, and a further fourteen years if<br />
the author had the courage to survive the first<br />
period, was to throw back the whole conception of<br />
literary property into a condition of comparative<br />
barbarism.<br />
The root idea that an author has any title to the<br />
rewards to be derived from the creations of his own<br />
brain came to be regarded with more than suspicion,<br />
and so far did this feeling develop that in 1774, in<br />
a judgment which swept away the last remnant of<br />
an author's rights at Common Law, Lord Camden<br />
declared :-<br />
“That it was not for gain that Bacon, Newton,<br />
Milton, and their like instructed the world. It<br />
would be unworthy of such men to traffic with a<br />
dirty bookseller for so much a sheet of letterpress.<br />
When the bookseller offered Milton £5 for • Paradise<br />
Lost'he did not reject it, nor accept that miserable<br />
pittance as the reward of his labour. He knew<br />
that the real price of his work was immortality, and<br />
that posterity would pay it."<br />
In this connection he would only recall the<br />
caustic remark of Thomas Hood that “the author,<br />
apparently, is required to provide for everybody's<br />
posterity but his own." And further, and with<br />
equal point, he added, “cheap bread is as desirable<br />
as cheap books, but it has not yet been thought<br />
necessary to ordain that after a certain number of<br />
crops all cornfields ought to be public property.”<br />
The spirit which animated Lord Camden's words<br />
is not obsolete. It has cropped up during the<br />
recent debates in the House of Commons on the<br />
Copyright Bill, but I have often noticed that the<br />
philanthropists are never so eager as when they<br />
are disposing of other people's property.<br />
But now, continued Mr. Carr, the Copyright Bill<br />
was passed. The provisions of that Bill were an<br />
enormous advance upon anything which Parliament<br />
had hitherto conferred upon literature. In order<br />
to realise what had been gained he would like to<br />
try and illustrate what that advance was by reference<br />
to two names, but two of the mightiest that had<br />
adorned English letters during the last 150 years.<br />
Sir Walter Scott needed no eulogy from him.<br />
Beyond all men of his own or previous generations<br />
Scott won the favour of the world, but everyone<br />
knew how the later years of his life were broken<br />
and embittered by the calamity brought about by<br />
his confiding belief in the stability and integrity of<br />
his friends, and how he thereby incurred a pro-<br />
digious debt which not even his great income was<br />
adequate to meet. Scott set himself the task of<br />
paying off this debt. He did not live to achieve it.<br />
Writing in his diary in the year 1827, he says, “I<br />
see before me a long, tedious and dark path, but it<br />
leads to stainless reputation. If I die in the<br />
harrows, as is very likely, I shall die with honour :<br />
if I achieve my task I shall have the thanks of all<br />
concerned and the approbation of my own conscience.”<br />
What a weight would have been lifted off that<br />
mighty brow if the Bill which they were met to<br />
celebrate had been in force in Scott's time !<br />
He would have been able to face death with a<br />
full confidence that the debt which he had incurred<br />
would be paid off, because not only his latter works,<br />
but those which had first brought him immortality-<br />
his poems, and “ Waverley," would still have been<br />
in copyright, and would have brought in a fund<br />
sufficient to have met his stupendous debt.<br />
Continuing, Mr. Comyns Carr said : I will make<br />
only one more reference. Within the last four days<br />
a powerful appeal has been put forward on behalf of<br />
a magician surely not less in rank than Walter Scott<br />
himself. For if Scott threw a mantle of romance<br />
over the hills and ralleys of his native land, a spell of<br />
enchantment has been thrown by Charles Dickens<br />
over the dark alleys and narrow streets of our<br />
great city of London. To such an extent, indeed,<br />
that pilgrims from the other side of the Atlantic<br />
come to visit, not the capital of England, but the<br />
London of Charles Dickens. I can speak with<br />
knowledge that that appeal is urgent, and that that<br />
appeal is just. That it should have to be made<br />
stamps with shame the laws concerning literary<br />
property under which until now we have lived.<br />
For if this Bill which we are asked to celebrate<br />
to-night had been in existence when Dickens lived<br />
there is not one of his works, from the “Pickwick<br />
Papers” of 1837 down to the fragment of “ Edwin<br />
Drood” in 1870, which would not still be in<br />
copyright, and out of which there would already<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 108 (#528) ############################################<br />
<br />
108<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
have been derived a sum amply sufficient to have the public. Some appeared to believe that all<br />
provided for those grandchildren of his, on whose authors were geniuses, and others, equally errone-<br />
behalf this appeal is made.<br />
ously, believed that the only equipment necessary<br />
Charles Dickens rarely allowed himself to make for authorship consisted of a stylographic pen and<br />
his romances the medium of any personal protest, a few sheets of foolscap.<br />
but there is one exception in the earlier chapters of The committee, having the best intentions,<br />
“ Nicholas Nickleby," where he vehemently inveighs desired to arrive at a satisfactory solution on the<br />
against those pirates who before the author's novel basis of give and take, some being willing to do all<br />
was completed in its monthly parts, set a garbled the taking if the others would do all the giving.<br />
version of it upon the stage.<br />
There was generally a well-disposed feeling towards<br />
Let us then count our gains. We gain an added authors, although some thought that they ought to<br />
term of copyright; we count our gains in the be protected against themselves as well as against<br />
protection accorded to the novelist in regard to his publishers, and the feeling towards publishers<br />
dramatic rights; we count our gains in a hundred did not seem to be as tender as towards authors.<br />
different ways. Our gains are enormous, and I Many regarded publishers as hard, stern persons<br />
venture to make this prophecy, that if the Copy- who had the authors in their grip. On more than<br />
right Act of 1842 has come to us labelled as one occasion he himself had pointed out that<br />
“ Macaulay's Act”—not always to his credit—the publishers were not quite as black as they were<br />
Act which will soon receive the Royal Assent will painted. The committee had been, if not between<br />
go down to posterity as “ Buxton's Act."<br />
the devil and the deep sea, at any rate between<br />
I am asked to couple with this toast the name of Scylla and Charybdis, and more than once their<br />
the President of the Board of Trade. I do so barque had rubbed against the rocks and been in<br />
gladly, and with some knowledge of what he under- imminent danger of foundering. Finally, how-<br />
took in conducting this Bill to its successful con- ever, they had passed a measure which he believed<br />
clusion. I, with others, including my friend Sir would give general satisfaction and protect both<br />
Frederick Macmillan, to whom, as well as to the authors and publishers. In the course of a few<br />
Society of Authors, the interests of literature owe days the Bill would become an Act and, they would<br />
much, watched its progress through the House of agree, not before it was wanted. Anyone who bad<br />
Commons, and I know they will not contradict my studied the copyright laws knew how full the<br />
testimony when I say that the zeal, the patience, twenty-two Acts passed since 1735 were of com-<br />
and the courage with which Mr. Sidney Buxtonplexities, anomalies and anachronisms. In such<br />
conducted this Act to its triumph imposes upon us matters they had to seize the psychological moment<br />
a lasting debt of gratitude to him. Nor must I when time, opportunity, and driving force were<br />
forget the splendid help given in Grand Committee theirs. These requisites existed in the Berlin<br />
by Sir John Simon, and to the happy efforts in Convention, the Imperial Conference, and the<br />
other directions of Sir George Askwith and Sir necessity for domestic reforms. He was rather<br />
Hubert Llewellyn Smith. I give you the toast of proud of the fact that this would be an amending<br />
“ The Copyright Bill.”<br />
and consolidating Act which repealed no less than<br />
The toast was accorded full honours.<br />
eighteen other Acts of Parliament, and the greater<br />
Mr. Sidney Buxton, in responding, referred to part of four more, and which itself consisted of<br />
himself as having but steered the boat while others only twenty-seven clauses. They were all agreed<br />
pulled the labouring oar, and associated with the that authors ought to enjoy the legitimate fruits of<br />
task of remodelling the law of copyright the names their brains. Mr. Comyns Carr had said that he<br />
of Sir Henry Bergne, Sir George Askwith, Sir was in favour of perpetual copyright, a view shared<br />
Hubert Llewellyn Smith, Sir John Simon and others. with him as nations by the republics of Nicaragua<br />
They had painted the picture, he had not done very and Guatemala. In this country the desire had<br />
much more than make the frame; he referred his been to get reasonable control, and the period of<br />
hearers to Charles Keene's drawing in Punch of the fifty years after death was taken in order to bring<br />
frame-maker visiting the Royal Academy with his England into line as far as possible with other great<br />
wife and exclaiming, as they stood before the countries. But no one would support the claim<br />
picture of the year, “On the line again! Maria ! for such a period if he believed it to be injurious to<br />
on the line again!” The task of introducing and the public or likely to put a stumbling-block in the<br />
of passing the Bill had been a difficult one, way of cheap and easily accessible literature. The<br />
requiring delicate handling. Among the seventy or more opportunity he had had of studying the<br />
eighty members who considered the measure in question the more he had come to the conclusion<br />
Grand Committee, it seemed to him, were some that copyright, far from preventing the production<br />
who were over-zealous on behalf of authors and and cheapening of books, gave a stimulus to their<br />
publishers, and some over-strenuous on behalf of production. In his opinion the cheapening and<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 109 (#529) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
109<br />
wide circulation of books in recent years had not might not require its services, still any author's day<br />
come about in spite of, but in consequence of, of trial might come. Then he would turn to the<br />
copyright. Some people thought the extension of society, and then, regardless of all business princi-<br />
the term of copyright was all that was gained by ples, the society would help him, because it was<br />
the Bill, but there were other advantages. For the society's business to maintain the rights of<br />
example, in the case of a play the farce of a copy. literary property. But it must be noted that this<br />
right performance was done away with, and action was hopelessly unbusinesslike though forced<br />
summary remedies for the infringement of copy- upon the society by its ideals. The subscription<br />
right were given. Copyright would now date from was a guinea, or a life subscription was ten guineas.<br />
death and not from publication, which would If a large proportion of writers joined only when<br />
enable authors to produce their complete works, in trouble, the society had to spend upon them,<br />
protecting them from piracy of their earlier ones. perhaps, the subscriptions of five years before their<br />
Mr. Comyns Carr had referred to the Bill as an contributions began to help the needs of other<br />
instalment. No doubt they were all as he sug- members. If any such resigned before the five<br />
gested, Oliver Twists looking to the future for years expired, the society would actually lose by<br />
more, but copyright was not an easy subject to deal them. He earnestly begged members to stay by<br />
with. On the contrary it was a very worrying the society for the good of every one for their<br />
subject, and as far as he was concerned he was own good ; for they never could tell when they<br />
content to leave it where it was—he did not propose might want the society's advice for the good of<br />
to revive the corpse.<br />
their colleagues, who could be more effectively helped,<br />
The Chairman (Dr. Squire Sprigge) referred to if the society were not compelled to spend its in-<br />
the custom of the society, that the chairman of the creasing income upon its increasing needs. Was<br />
committee for the year should, at the dinner, the there any character in novels more popular than the<br />
society's only social gathering, speak to the collective “strong silent man" or the “strong silent woman"?<br />
aims of its members, their doings and their hopes The society wanted the “strong silent member," and<br />
for the future. His responsibility in doing this lots of them, those who paid their guineas partly as<br />
was lightened by the fact that the annual report was insurance, and partly recognising that the society<br />
already drafted and would soon be laid before the must, espouse the cause of many who came to it in<br />
society with the authoritative weight of the Com- the first instance in trouble. Let members who<br />
mittee. The story to be told was one of progress knew of any who had strayed from the society's<br />
all along the line, of increased membership, of fold shepherd them back-let them impress upon<br />
increased income, of accretion to the Pension Fund, such to join again. Small as the losses might be<br />
and of success in legal transactions. The inter- compared with the gains, they were always a source<br />
vention of the society in a legislative matter of the of regret, and if any sort of common reason for<br />
first importance to all writers had been testified to resignations could only be arrived at, it could be<br />
by the President of the Board of Trade. He removed.<br />
(the Chairman) attributed a great share of this He gave the toast of the Society of Authors with<br />
success to the work of Mr. Thring, who had never the sincere hope and veritable belief that its pro-<br />
allowed the increase of his duties involved by the gress would be maintained. Its main object, the<br />
Copyright Bill to interfere with his performance of defence of literary property, had been steadily<br />
his regular work as Secretary of the society.<br />
followed for a quarter of a century, and the value<br />
Tarning, however, to a matter upon which he of its work had been enhanced by full recognition<br />
desired to express himself personally, he called of the justice of its principles. It was no longer<br />
attention to a serious drawback which ought to described by the quidnuncs as a ring to fight<br />
be remedied. The leakage from the ranks of the the publishers—the injustice of such a description<br />
society was too great. Every year a certain was proved by the presence of Sir Frederick<br />
number of resignations fell as cold douches upon Macmillan, chairman of the Publishers' Association,<br />
the ardour of the society's progress. They did not and by study of the reports of the past twenty<br />
stop progress, but they impeded it, and he called years. The society did not exist to bolster up<br />
upon those present to help to deal with the matter. incompetence, as had been urged against it. It<br />
It was the rarest thing for anyone to give a reason had often to espouse the cause of the weak, but<br />
for leaving the society, and he was driven to think it did so, harsh as it might sound, not because<br />
that resignations must be caused by lack of apprecia. an author was weak, but because the rights of<br />
tion of the nature of corporate spirit, and of the weak and the rights of the strong had the<br />
comprehension of the principles of insurance. It same basis, though not the same chances of<br />
should be remembered that to some extent the busi- establishing themselves.<br />
ness of the society must be on insurance lines, and Mr. Robert Ross, in proposing the health of the<br />
that although from year to year any given author Chairman, said that if he were to try to vivisect<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 110 (#530) ############################################<br />
<br />
110<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Dr. Sprigge, the editor of the Lancet, the society - some life to the views that he adopts, and should<br />
another society--would interfere, and moreover it revivify the dead bodies of the past. The historian<br />
would require the art of Mrs. Humphry Ward or who is merely a balancer of opinions and methods<br />
Mr. Henry James to do so. He would not there- and a chronicler of dry facts is, from our point of<br />
fore dwell upon the distinction with which Dr. view, useless ; from a child's point of view, he is<br />
Sprigge directed the fortunes of the leading scientific worse than useless."<br />
paper of the world, because those present knew how I shall not attempt to discuss with The Author's<br />
well he fulfilled the duty of presiding over a society reviewer in what manner children, in particular,<br />
of literary men and women. Metaphor prohibited should be taught history. The Platonic Socrates,<br />
him from saying that the wielder of a lancet it is true, although he admitted that it is the<br />
touched nothing that he did not adorn, and he practice to“ begin by telling children stories which,<br />
would boldly admit that the wielder of a lancet if not wholly destitute of truth, are in the main<br />
touched nothing without taking something away. fictitious," contended that we ought not to“ permit<br />
The Chairman would take away that evening the children to receive into their minds notions the<br />
good-will and gratitude of the Authors' Society, an very opposite of those which are to be held by them<br />
operation painlessly performed without the aid of when they grow up" (Republic, 377). This postu-<br />
any anæsthetic even in the form of an after-dinner late of Socrates might well be allowed to apply to<br />
speech. Only the committee, perhaps, knew the the teaching of history to children nowadays.<br />
value of Dr. Sprigge's services to the society over a But I am not intending any criticism of the<br />
period of twenty-one years. He was Mr. Thring's book which Messrs. Fletcher and Kipling have<br />
predecessor, but his enthusiasm and energy on collaborated to produce. It is with a statement of<br />
behalf of the society did not cease in the interval the reviewer that I am concerned, not with the<br />
between his retirement from the post of secretary subject of his review ; the statement, namely, that<br />
and his election as chairman. The so-called leisure “surely the soundest view is that the historian<br />
moments of an unselfish career he had given to the should be a partisan." This dictum must not be<br />
society's service. All did not perhaps realise that suffered to pass without protest. Of course, very<br />
Dr. Sprigge might have trod the path of mere much depends upon the meaning attached to the<br />
literature, that path by which you shift your word “partisan.” If it is to be interpreted as<br />
manuscript on a publisher, your health on a nothing worse than the opposite of “ merely a<br />
physician, and your grievances on the Authors' balancer of opinions and methods and a chronicler<br />
Society. He thought there was a hint of the Chair- of dry facts," then cadit quæstio. But such an<br />
man's real tastes in the last number of the Cornhill interpretation is not natural, and I do not imagine<br />
Magazine, in the delightful volumes of stories “Odd that it was in the mind of The Author's reviewer.<br />
Issues” and the “ Industrious Chevalier” rather “The New English Dictionary," I see, in its defini.<br />
than in those blood-curdling volumes “Medicine tion of Partisan, suggests “ One who takes part or<br />
and the Public” and “ The Methods of Publish- sides with another ... often in an unfavourable<br />
ing." Dr. Sprigge suppressed his love of fiction sense : One who supports his party through thick<br />
in literature in order to study the fiction of and thin'; a blind, prejudiced, unreasoning or<br />
publishers' accounts, and to insist upon the rights fanatical adherent."<br />
of the society's members. The Chairman was his I will not assume that the reviewer meant that<br />
(Mr. Ross's) nephew, but immune from the sus- the historian should be “a blind, prejudiced, un-<br />
picion of nepotism, he asked the society to drink reasoning or fanatical adherent ” ; but it will<br />
the health of Dr. Sprigge.<br />
probably be doing him no injustice to suppose that<br />
After the toast had been honoured with cheers, he admires a " thick and thin ” supporter, one who<br />
those present rose and proceeded to the adjoining is for “my country, my cause, or my hero, right or<br />
room, where the usual conversazione took place. (not ridiculously) wrong." This may be taken as<br />
the ideal attitude of the partisan. Is it the ideal<br />
attitude of the historian ? Doubtless it is a very<br />
THE SOUNDEST VIEW OF HISTORY.<br />
common attitude, adopted by historical writers<br />
whose names are household words; to take two<br />
great modern instances, Mommsen and Macaulay-<br />
TN the November issue of The Author, in the both of them, it may be noted in passing, made to<br />
1 course of a notice of the new “History of serve as text-books for the English schoolboy.<br />
England," by Messrs. Fletcher and Kipling, In considering the above-mentioned attitude, we<br />
there occur the following sentences :-<br />
are bound to ask, What are the requisites of a good<br />
“There are many views taken about the writing history ? Certainly we must admit that one is to<br />
of history, but surely the soundest view is that the “ give some life to the views [the historian] adopts,<br />
historian should be a partisan, that he should give and revivify the dead bodies of the past. A dull<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 111 (#531) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
111<br />
history cannot be more than a text-book ; and a I cannot resist quoting the opening paragraph<br />
simple text-book is not literature, which history of the first chapter of “The New · Examen,”<br />
should be. But to accomplish this life-giving which originally appeared in serial form in Black-<br />
work, is it necessary for the author to be a partisan ? wood's Magazine for June, 1859 :-<br />
Is a fair mind a bar-I will not say to successful, " The peculiar charm of Lord Macaulay's writings (says<br />
but-to good historical writing ?<br />
Paget] arises from the fact that his vivid imagination<br />
The historian, it will be granted, must be “a enables him to live for the time amongst those whose<br />
balancer of opinions and methods” and “a chronicler<br />
portraits he paints. The persons of his drama are not<br />
cold abstractions summoned up from the past to receive<br />
of facts,” though not "a mere balancer," etc., or<br />
judgment for deeds done in the flesh; they are living men<br />
“a chronicler of dry facts” only. Well, having and women--beings to be loved or hated, feared or despised,<br />
the opinions, methods, facts of his period before with all the fervency which belongs to Lord Macaulay's<br />
him, must the historian then proceed to use them<br />
character. The attention of the reader is excited, his<br />
sympathies are awakened, his passions are aroused ; he<br />
in a partisan spirit ? Must he distort, mutilate,<br />
devours page after page and volume after volume with an<br />
select, and suppress ? I take it that if he does appetite similar to that which attends upon a perusal of<br />
not he is a poor partisan. But I hold that if he the most stirring fiction ; he closes the book with regret,<br />
does he is a poor historian Lam well arrare that and then, and not till then, comes the reflection that he<br />
has been listening to the impassioned barangue of the<br />
Macaulay distorts, mutilates, selects, and suppresses,<br />
and suppresses, advocate, not to the calm summing-up of the judge. It<br />
and that he is generally accounted a great historian. would be well if this were the worst. We are reluctantly<br />
The truth is that he is the most dangerous of all convinced that Lord Macaulay sometimes exceeds even the<br />
historical writers, and his - History of England” privileges of the advocate ; that when he arraigns a culprit<br />
before the tribunal of public opinion, and showers down<br />
a most improper text-book, seeing that it is the<br />
upon him that terrible invective of which he is so accom.<br />
scholastic custom to administer the bane without plished a master, evidence occasionally meets with a treat-<br />
the antidote."<br />
ment at his hands from which the least scrupulous prac-<br />
I do not suppose that many people at the present<br />
titioner at the bar would shrink. Documents are sup-<br />
day look at a work entitled “The New ' Examen':<br />
pressed, dates transposed, witnesses of the most infamous<br />
character are paraded as pure and unimpeachable, and<br />
or an Inquiry into the Evidence relating to certain even forgotten and anonymous slanders, of the foulest<br />
Passages in Lord Macaulay's History," by John description, are revived and cast on the unhappy object<br />
Paget, barrister-at-law (Blackwood, 1861). This of the historian's wrath.<br />
is a pity, for the book is both able and entertaining, Could we ask for a better portrait of the partisan<br />
and I wish that someone could have put it in my historian ?<br />
hands in my Macaulay-ridden schooldays. Mr. Macaulay himself, it may be remarked, recognised<br />
Paget-after having stated in his preface (a dedi- the evil of partisanship in other historians. Of<br />
catory letter to Sir John MNeill) that he was Bishop Burnet, although he maintains that he<br />
originally one of those who had placed an implicit was a far indeed from being the most inexact<br />
reliance in Lord Macaulay's representations and writer of his time,” he says that he “ viewed every<br />
had permitted himself to be carried away by the act and every character through a medium dis-<br />
eloquent torrent of his declamation, and that it torted and coloured by party spirit.” This was<br />
was not without many a struggle that he found the man of whom the exiled Queen Mary, wife of<br />
himself compelled, by a dry examination of facts, James II., told Baron Lansdowne that “the King<br />
to surrender the illusion by which he had been [Charles) and the Duke, and the whole Court,<br />
enthralled-proceeds to a very satisfactory demoli. looked upon him as the greatest liar on the face<br />
tion of Macaulay's partisan views on certain of the earth, and there was no believing one word<br />
characters and incidents in our history. A that he said.” The statement is rather strong; but<br />
defender, like Paget, of Marlborough, Claverhouse, Burnet is sipgularly unscrupulous in his treatment<br />
Penn, and of the Scottish nation in the seven- of the men and affairs of his day<br />
teenth century may perhaps himself be called a It will not be denied, even by the most ardent<br />
partisan of sorts. But Macaulay's castigator is admirer of picturesque historians, that it is a duty<br />
justified in boasting, at the end of his dedication : of history to get down to the facts, whererer dis-<br />
“I can, at any rate, say that I have pursued [my] coverable. Sometimes the process involves a great<br />
inquiry honestly, and that I have furnished every amount of patience, and much labour for small<br />
means of testing my accuracy”—a good hit at results; but the patience, the labour must be forth-<br />
Macaulay, who is notoriously loose in his references. coming. When the facts have been ascertained,<br />
* I am afraid that I do not know whether such a state-<br />
the historian is at liberty to express his views upon<br />
ment will cause more of the doctors to cry “Heresy" and them, to suggest interpretations of his documents,<br />
rend their academic garments, or to demand pityingly to make his period picturesque. But he is not at<br />
what is the good of flogging a dead horse. Of the most liberty to twist his facts to tally with his views.<br />
recent historians of the Stuart period some still follow<br />
Macaulay almost implicitly, others treat him as the sign.<br />
to insert his interpretation into the body of his<br />
post that points to the wrong road..<br />
documents, to substitute his idea of the proper<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 112 (#532) ############################################<br />
<br />
112<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
II.<br />
picture for the reality of the period. He may, even<br />
must, to a certain extent, combine the functions of<br />
December 8, 1911.<br />
judge and advocate. But he must not be a Judge SIR, -It would be unjust both to Mr. G. B. Shaw<br />
Jeffreys. He must have throughout a perfect and to the members of the Society who provide him<br />
regard for truth. For the historian there are no with his latest platform to allow the remarkable<br />
varying standards of truth. Truth is universal, discoveries which he announced in your last issue<br />
from Lhassa to London, from Birmingham toto pass without comment. ... The opinion of so<br />
Benin-if I may borrow a trope from Macaulay. great an author as Mr. Shaw is worth, to the<br />
And your partisan does not tell the truth.<br />
“ lesser lights," who are, presumably, the mass of<br />
PHILIP W. SERGEANT. the members of the Society, many more "raps<br />
than he administers to the parasitic agent. ...<br />
True, it proves that Mr. Shaw would make a very<br />
bad agent ; but that is what we should expect of so<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
very good (and great) an author. Now, perpend<br />
and observe :<br />
“... The root of the whole matter" is that<br />
“ The CRUX OF THE AGENT QUESTION”<br />
“ there are two ways of making profit by selling.<br />
One is to sell a single article every hour . . . at a<br />
profit of 100 per cent. The other is to sell 100 of<br />
the same articles every hour to 100 eager customers<br />
SIR, I am afraid it would be a sign of a<br />
at a profit of 24 per cent. on each. . . ." We<br />
dull and prosaic mind to criticise Mr. Shaw's<br />
need not point out that there are other ways of<br />
characteristic and delightful demonstration that a<br />
a “making profit by selling." ...<br />
literary agent's path to success and wealth lies in<br />
The interest of the theory lies not in Mr. Shaw's<br />
a complete and deliberate failure to perform the<br />
proof that he is utterly incapable of agenting for<br />
function for which he is mainly engaged—the<br />
anyone but himself, but in his view of the needs<br />
obtaining of good prices. Let us rather agree of the “ lesser lights.” The gravamen of his<br />
that it pays an agent better to make bad bargains<br />
charge is that the agent will not “ spend the day<br />
for twenty clients than good ones for five; that<br />
fighting one or two books up to a 25 per cent.<br />
it pays a lawyer better to lose cases for twenty<br />
wenty royalty," so long as he can get along with routine<br />
clients than to win cases for five; that it pays a<br />
transactions. The Superman, in fact, is being<br />
doctor better to kill twenty patients without<br />
neglected for the sake of the mere Man. But does<br />
trouble than laboriously to save five. Why not<br />
the Authors' Society exist for the benefit of Men or<br />
agree? It may all be quite true, and demonstrable of Super-men. if such a distinction is to be<br />
by all the arithmetic at Mr. Shaw's disposal ; and drown's<br />
it is at any rate quite an entertaining idea. It<br />
The wicked agent falls from depth to depth till,<br />
works, in fact, perfectly, subject to the trifling « finally, he settles down into an agent whose real<br />
assumption that when the agent, or lawyer, or<br />
of business is to procure books for publishers, articles<br />
business<br />
doctor, “ hurries off to get another dozen books "<br />
for editors, and plays for managers," and who,<br />
or law-suits, or medical cases—he will find them.<br />
horribile dictu, “ being able to push any author<br />
An assumption, because if it is that extra 5 or 10<br />
whom he may have reason to favour, naturally<br />
per cent. that “costs time and trouble,” it is<br />
sells his power.”<br />
the hope of that same extra 5 or 10 per cent.<br />
We are reluctant to remove a foundation-brick<br />
that brings authors to the agent's door.<br />
from so gorgeous an imaginative structure ; but<br />
A great author's opinion on agents and publishers<br />
shers when Mr. Shaw cites us in support of this decorative<br />
is not worth a rap to lesser lights, says Mr. Shaw.<br />
detail, a last spasm of truthfulness forces us to<br />
I am sure that most of us consider Mr. Shaw a<br />
confess that neither we nor any other agent<br />
great author, and are far from thinking his<br />
possesses such a magic key, nor in our wildest<br />
opinion on any subject not worth a rap. But<br />
dreams could we hare soared to such an ambition.<br />
here it does seem as if his ingenuity had outrun<br />
The fact is, of course, that throughout his enter-<br />
his commonsense. I think Mr. Gamage would<br />
taining speculation, whether he is calculating<br />
tell him that it pays to give your customer what<br />
prices or weighing influences, Mr. Shaw omits to<br />
your customer pays you to give him.<br />
take account of the chief factor, which is the<br />
Yours etc.,<br />
inherent value of the commodity. . . . If he knows<br />
Ex-MEMBER OF COMMITTEE.<br />
the market and understands the most various<br />
qualities of goods, the agent can usually make<br />
terms sufficiently above those the author would<br />
make to pay his own commission, and leave a<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 113 (#533) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
113<br />
more or less substantial margin of benefit. That placing the work or not, the author must stand by<br />
is all he claims.<br />
his bargain, and if he is such a fool he deserves to<br />
“But now, mark.” There is an old rule for pay the penalty. But in the absence of such special<br />
economists in distress-play the Wage Fund theory agreement, when the agent returns the MS. to the<br />
And, sure enough, here is the Shavian version, author as unsaleable, the contract, at least so far as<br />
“ No agent can push a man into a job without that MS. is concerned, is at an end, and the agent<br />
pushing another man out of it.” He advances has no claim for a commission if the author after-<br />
Mr. Blank, at the expense of Mr. Dash, while wards succeeds himself in placing it. It might be<br />
“poor Mr. Ignotus is never mentioned at all.” otherwise if a publisher to whom the agent had<br />
The sad picture seems to contradict the original submitted the MS. and by whom it had been<br />
theory, which was that the agent will do justice to rejected afterwards came to terms directly with the<br />
a hundred routine cases, but not to the exceptional author. If an agent returns an MS. to the author,<br />
Mr. Blank whom we have called the Super-man. the act is an admission of his inability to place it,<br />
Let that pass. Is there anything in this proposi- and any subsequent claim for commission would be<br />
tion that there are only a limited number of affected by that admission. There are publishers<br />
“jobs”? If so, every author is the enemy of and editors who will not deal with the agent at all,<br />
every other ; every book is the rival of every other and even in ordinary business dealings many persons<br />
book; the Authors' Society has no economic basis, object to conduct their negotiations through an<br />
but is trying to take unlimited rises out of a limited agent. So, according to Mr. Shaw, we may have<br />
fund of publishing capital. ....<br />
an agent successfully claiming a commission on<br />
We are tempted to go further—to invite you to work sold by the author directly to a publisher or<br />
constitute a roll of agents from which proved mis- editor who would not deal with the agent. It is<br />
demeanants could be struck off (but this would more than probable that such a claim would not be<br />
imply a withdrawal of your original advice); to sustained. In agency the value of the introduction<br />
thank Mr. Shaw for his large categories of " cases is an important consideration. If A. wanting to<br />
where agents are useful, and even indispensable”; rent a house goes to B. an agent, and is by him<br />
to emphasise again the merits of that “routine introduced to C., who has a house to sell, and C.<br />
business ” which Mr. Shaw naturally scorns, but refuses to let, the contract is at an end. But if<br />
by which most of your readers must live ; and to subsequently A. consents to purchase the house, B.<br />
vindicate Besant and the other founders who is of course entitled to his commission, although A.<br />
“encouraged agents,” in no exploiting spirit, but and C. conclude the business independently of him.<br />
because they knew the facts of literary business. Much more could be written on this subject, but<br />
Enough said, however ; and we are,<br />
the point is that no author should sign an agree-<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
ment to pay the agent any commission unless<br />
(Signed) G. H. PERRIS, business results through his agency, nor should he<br />
C. F. CAZENOVE. pay the agent any commission in the case cited by<br />
[The dotted lines represent the fact that on<br />
Mr. Shaw, when the MS. has been returned to the<br />
account of limited space, and with the consent of<br />
author through the inability of the agent to place<br />
the writers, the Editor has had to delete portions<br />
it. It would be interesting if any of your readers<br />
of this letter.]<br />
could mention a case in which such a claim was<br />
successfully maintained.<br />
Faithfully yours,<br />
H. A. Hinkson.<br />
SIR,—Mr. G. B. Shaw, in his otherwise admirable<br />
article on Commission Agency in MSS., makes one<br />
statement which is scarcely accurate, at least with SIR, -As an author who had twenty years'<br />
out qualification. He writes : “But when he (the experience of literary agents before I became an<br />
agent) can force you to do the same ( pay a com- agent myself, perhaps I may be permitted to con-<br />
mission) in the case of a work which he has failed tribute to this interesting discussion. It is chiefly<br />
to place, and which you yourself have succeeded as an author that I would like to speak. I<br />
in placing long after you have abandoned him, even employed three different agents at different periods<br />
the most enthusiastic agent fancier will admit that during those twenty years, and I heard talk about<br />
the law leans a little too much to the agent's side.” other agents who acted for my friends. Honestly,<br />
I have seen many unconscionable contracts, but I found these three agents helpful, especially<br />
none quite as bad as that suggested by Mr. Shaw, because I rarely came to London in those days.<br />
Of course, if the author has agreed with the agent They saved me time, and the cost of stationery<br />
to pay him his commission whether he succeed in and stamps, and relieved me from the irksome<br />
III.<br />
IV.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 114 (#534) ############################################<br />
<br />
114<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
business of waiting in publishers' ante-rooms, AGENTS, LITERARY AND DRAMATIC.<br />
while the publishers interviewed authors who were<br />
more popular than myself. What is more to the<br />
1.<br />
point, these agents placed books, short stories, and<br />
SIR,—You have done good service in admitting<br />
articles for me, and I am quite convinced that in<br />
to your columns the trenchant and telling article<br />
several cases they obtained higher prices than I<br />
on “ Authors' Agents," which appeared in your<br />
on Authors'<br />
could have obtained unaided. If I ever return to<br />
issue for October. Your contributor is absolutely<br />
the mountains of Wales, or to Dartmoor, to write<br />
justified alike in his strictures, his warnings and<br />
books, I shall entrust all my business to one of<br />
his counsel, What are agents for ?<br />
these useful persons.<br />
They are<br />
supposed, mostly on their own statements, to be<br />
Mr. George Bernard Shaw declares that an<br />
especially useful in obtaining openings for serials<br />
author who cannot conduct his own commercial<br />
and pushing the interests of authors with editors.<br />
affairs is a “nincompoop.” Now, to "run"<br />
But are they really useful ? Let me speak from<br />
oneself successfully as an artist in a very com-<br />
my own experience. Though all my later norels<br />
mercial age and in an inartistic country like our<br />
have appeared in good periodicals at good prices,<br />
own, it is necessary to be equipped with some of<br />
not one of them has been placed by an agent. And<br />
the qualities of the bagman, the instinct for<br />
it was after exasperating experience of agents and<br />
publicity of the press agent kind, a fluent tongue,<br />
their ways that I took matters into my own hands.<br />
and a very close knowledge of the market. If an<br />
Since then satisfactory serial arrangements have<br />
author lacks these essentials—if he is modest about<br />
been made for every one of my novels. In dealing<br />
his work, self-critical, and diffident in conservation<br />
with publishers the agent is not and never was in<br />
with men of business-he may still be free from the<br />
the least necessary. The truth is that if authors<br />
stupidity to which Mr. Bernard Shaw refers. One<br />
as a class were not the least business-like people in<br />
of our most eminent living novelists remarked to<br />
the world, the agent simply would not exist as he<br />
me : “I place all business matters in the hands of<br />
is to-day. Yet we pay him 10 per cent. A solicitor<br />
my agent. I have neither the time nor the in-<br />
or house agent will manage property, buy and sell<br />
clination to contend with the publisher about half-<br />
pennies.” I know several authors who hawk their<br />
houses, collect rents and so forth, for a commission<br />
of 2 per cent. And his work is more arduous,<br />
* copy” up and down Fleet Street, take up the<br />
more onerous, and requires qualifications that are<br />
time of busy editors by discussing unfruitful<br />
conspicuously lacking in the literary agent.<br />
“ ideas” for articles, and spend much energy<br />
Is it<br />
not high time that authors combined to put an<br />
in the wrong direction. An agent would save them<br />
end to the extortion of a 10 per cent. commission ?<br />
from this misdirected energy.<br />
I suggest that the Authors' Society take the matter<br />
As some of your correspondents have thrown<br />
up, and that a conference be held to consider the<br />
down a challenge to literary agents to justify their<br />
whole question of authors and their commission.<br />
calling, and to prove that they are able to help the<br />
Yours truly,<br />
literary novice, perhaps you will allow me to say<br />
NOVELIST.<br />
that the firm which I represent have materially<br />
assisted a number of young authors during the<br />
past three years. These authors are quite willing<br />
II.<br />
to confirm my statement to any inquirers.<br />
When our economic reformers succeed in revolu- DEAR SIR, - Feeling, as I do, that the agent<br />
tionising the methods of commerce, the literary question is one of deep interest and importance<br />
agent will no longer be needed. Until then, the to authors, it has occurred to me that perhaps a<br />
shrewd intermediary between the creator and the few facts and figures may be worth consideration.<br />
seller of literature has a perfectly reasonable I had published one book and was making a little<br />
justification for his existence as a middleman. over £200 a year when I first went to an agent.<br />
Regarding the alleged cases of dishonesty on the I was with that agent over two years. His efforts<br />
part of the agents, the way is plain for authors. on my behalf resulted as follows :-He“ placed ”<br />
Let them demand that the agent shall obtain his one long novel at an advance on royalties of £20<br />
commission from the publisher, and that the pub- in America, but offset this success by an arrange-<br />
lisher shall pay the royalties direct to the author, ment with an English publisher under which the<br />
less the commission.<br />
payment of royalties was to be postponed until<br />
The unscrupulous conduct is not always on the the book obtained a certain sale. He placed the<br />
part of the agent.<br />
serial rights (80,000 words) for £30 in America,<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
in England he failed to “market " them.<br />
WALTER M. GALLICHAN,<br />
When I went to this agent I had a good-even an<br />
"GALLICHAN & GASQUOINE.” excellent connection with two magazines. During<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 115 (#535) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
115<br />
IRPLAY.<br />
the two years previous to enrolling myself under When an agent is useful use him, but—in order<br />
the agent's flag I had received from one of these that you may not abuse him-never, without very<br />
magazines £215. The two years that followed serious consideration of your position, sign any<br />
saw but one story sold at £20, and two more to a agreement which places all your work in his<br />
rival magazine (a new market) at £25 each.<br />
hands without a clause allowing for the termina-<br />
From the second magazine of these I soon tion of the contract by three months' notice on<br />
received a formal note couched as follows :- either side. I cannot think that any agent has as<br />
“ Dear Sir, The — comes out only once a much “ pull ” as Mr. Shaw seems to believe, nor<br />
month. Mr. - (the agent) has favoured us do I imagine that any agent's influence can get<br />
with four of your papers since the first instant. stories accepted by the best magazines to an<br />
I am, Sir, yours faithfully --"<br />
extent which would make it worth the while of a<br />
The result of this was that being rather stung precocious author, however brilliant, to pay a fine<br />
up the agent sent no more of my work for some of 50 or 100 percent, commission, further, I do<br />
weeks—the magazine paid me £64 in the two not believe many agents would accept it.<br />
years. To these figures must be added a sum of<br />
I am, Sir, Yours etc.,<br />
£20 received for the serial rights of my first novel.<br />
This came from America, where that work had not<br />
seen the light. With royalties and various odds<br />
and ends I received from the agent about £85<br />
more, a total of £269, less £26 188. commission,<br />
leaving a balance in my favour of £242 28., or<br />
III.<br />
£121 1s. a year.<br />
At the end of the second year, emerging from DEAR SIR, I cannot quite understand why the<br />
my temporary insanity, I left the agent and all my literary agent is made such a point of. To my<br />
MSS. were returned. Among them was the typed way of thinking he is by no means a necessity.<br />
copy of a serial concerning which the agent notified In letters you have published, writers refer to<br />
me.“ This has been submitted to and rejected the practice of hawking stuff round editorial offices<br />
by the editors of the following magazines and as the alternative to using an agent. What is the<br />
periodicals." There followed a list which continued matter with the penny post ?<br />
well down the sheet of typing.<br />
I cannot conceive anything more simple than to<br />
In the second year of my regained freedom I enclose MSS. in an en relope and post them to the<br />
sold that serial to the editor of one of the editor of a periodical. I think I am correct in<br />
periodicals which had refused it through the agent saying that in nine cases out of ten the editor<br />
at over two and a half times the sum the agent prefers this method to interviewing authors, unless<br />
had asked for it. And the agent I am writing of there is a particular point needing discussion.<br />
is one who has a good record and a large number Furthermore, the majority of editors I have<br />
of successful authors on bis books.<br />
spoken to on the subject tell me that they prefer<br />
About four months after I left the fostering MSS. straight from the author rather than an<br />
care of an agent I found that my income had agent.<br />
materially increased.<br />
It must be understood that I am referring to<br />
I quite agree that my case may have been an magazine matter, not to novels, or any work of<br />
unusual one, but I put the agent's failure down to length.<br />
the simple fact that I brought in but £13 a year Soon after I found that I was selling a fair<br />
to him, and it was not worth his while to do more number of stories, I was approached by a gentle-<br />
than send out my work with a note, “ Dear Sir, man who had been chief reader in one of the<br />
I am sending you a touching short story by that largest publishing houses in the world. He had<br />
promising writer — I shall be glad if you left this appointment and opened a literary agency.<br />
will read it as soon as possible. Any proposal He took a fee from me as well as a number of<br />
you may wish to make I shall be pleased to lay MSS. ; in return he gave me glowing pictures of<br />
before my client. Yours faithfully - ".<br />
a Carnegie-like future, and, after the lapse of a<br />
On one occasion I know an MS. of mine was sent year, all the MSS. I had sent him.<br />
to a certain editor with half-a-dozen others and a Some time afterwards I was persuaded to try<br />
letter covering the lot.<br />
another agent, but I resolutely declined to pay a<br />
That is one agent. On the other hand I had fee. However, he took a number of stories on a<br />
dealings with another, who refused a large com- 15 per cent. commission basis, read them through,<br />
mission on sentimental grounds—a commission to went into raptures over them, but did not sell<br />
which he was legally entitled.<br />
one.<br />
The result of my experience comes to this : Now let me state that many of the stories<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#536) ############################################<br />
<br />
116<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
immediately perhaps, but steadily and surely, and<br />
can reckon upon an increasing number of followers.<br />
ARTHUR LOVELL.<br />
returned by these agents I have disposed of<br />
myself.<br />
Perhaps when I am making £10,000 a year, and<br />
do not want to be bothered by details, I shall<br />
employ an agent again.<br />
I am sorry for the prospects of the agent waiting<br />
for this post.<br />
Of course, for selling stuff out of England the<br />
agent is desirable. for the average author who<br />
knows the Fleet Street ropes would be at sea<br />
regarding, say, U.S.A. methods. But as regards<br />
disposing of stuff in England, I think the agent<br />
can very easily be dispensed with.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
E. NEWTON BUNGEY.<br />
THE AUTHOR'S CRAFT.<br />
SIR.—The article of Mr. Herbert W. Smith on<br />
“ The Hazard of the Pen” in your issue of Decem-<br />
ber has prompted me to utter a few remarks, not<br />
exactly in reply, but rather as a kind of protest,<br />
meant in an entirely friendly spirit, against what<br />
inot what<br />
seems to me a degradation of the craft of author.<br />
Though but a new member of the society, I am<br />
comparatively an old author, and therefore speak<br />
from a very wide experience.<br />
Mr. Smith's article is not only pessimistic in<br />
tone, but, if I may put it bluntly, entirely without<br />
point. If literature means anything at all, it means<br />
a compendium. or distilled essence of life itself.<br />
with its varied mixtures of good and evil, tragedy<br />
and comedy, etc. The craft of author consists in<br />
extracting the essence or spirit or soul of the<br />
mixture, and presenting it to the mind of another.<br />
The real author is the one who has something to say<br />
which must at all costs come out, whether the<br />
listeners are few or many. The author is the<br />
pioneer who enters strange lands, and writes down<br />
his experiences. From this standpoint, the author<br />
is the teacher and leader of mankind. If he puts<br />
himself the question which Mr. Smith recommends.<br />
“ Is it worth it ? ” he proclaims himself to be<br />
utterly unworthy of the craft of authorship; and<br />
it matters little what becomes of him, for his<br />
work can never stimulate or warm another soul,<br />
for it is the shining of brass instead of the glitter<br />
of gold. Brass there is abundance of, both in life<br />
and in literature. And the worst of it is that<br />
brass has an irresistible, because inherent, tendency<br />
to shine loudly and cry, “ Behold, I am gold !”<br />
The upshot of all is, the craft of author is<br />
the greatest and rarest craft, and therefore any<br />
individual author has great difficulties to contend<br />
with, far more than the craftsman who works by<br />
rule of thumb. But in these days any author who<br />
is worth his salt can get a fair hearing, not<br />
PUBLISHERS' METHODS.<br />
DEAR SIR,—In my letter which you published<br />
in your last number I intended but omitted to deal<br />
with the question of “remainders.”<br />
I think that authors should stipulate that their<br />
books are not to be remaindered until a certain<br />
date after publication, and then only in the event of<br />
the sales falling below a certain namber per year.<br />
I feel, rightly or wrongly, that the remaindering<br />
of a book creates an impression in the mind of the<br />
public that the book is not a good one, and con-<br />
sequently is being sold off cheap. Very often such<br />
is not the case, and the remaindering is due to the<br />
publisher's impatience. The selling of remainders<br />
is most unsatisfactory from a bookselling point of<br />
view, and should be discouraged as much as<br />
possible. I am convinced that what is stopping<br />
the sale of books more than anything is that the<br />
public waits for them as remainders, and generally<br />
succeeds in getting them !! And if my views are<br />
right this is a serious question for authors.<br />
I should like further to say that I consider<br />
authors should protect themselves against advertise-<br />
ments being inserted in their books without per-<br />
mission, and in advertisements I would include<br />
bookmarks of Insurance Companies. As a book-<br />
buyer I strongly object to being pestered with<br />
these, and I cannot understand why various high<br />
class publishers stoop to let such bookmarks appear.<br />
I admit that publishers, like other people, are<br />
supposed to be working to make money, but surely<br />
gold can be bought too dear ?<br />
There are other matters which I could write<br />
about concerning the dignity of a book, and that<br />
nothing should be done to interfere with it.<br />
Certainly this should receive the serious considera-<br />
tion of the author ?-Yours faithfully,<br />
HERBERT BATSFORD.<br />
[Both points to which Mr. Batsford draws attention<br />
are important. As a publisher of books of more per-<br />
manent value it is probable he does not remainder to<br />
the extent that publishers of novels remainder their<br />
publications. It is quite true that not only the<br />
remaindering of books, but the premature issue<br />
of cheap editions tends, very often, to decrease an<br />
author's circulation. In the matter of advertise-<br />
ments, in one case before the Society, the publisher<br />
of the cheap 6d. edition inserted advertisements<br />
opposite the letterpress in the last twenty pages of<br />
the book. Such action from the author's stand-<br />
point is impossible, and authors should guard<br />
against it.—ED.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#537) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING. Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhead, Surrey, writes :-<br />
“I have just completed the revision of my lovel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Cousidering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without having been corrected or even read, and that my hand writing,<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required perception as well as care, something niore than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a resulta result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently beeu directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/-<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1/- 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spanish typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): “I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work."<br />
S. TOM GODFREY: "I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
ail authors who have the good fortune to hear of you, ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French."<br />
MRS. HINKSON (KATHARINE TYNAN): “I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and promptitude."<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq. : The work could not be better done."<br />
L. A. ST. JOHN. L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON.<br />
Bitterne Park,<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
Cotterill & Cromb, Literary Agents,<br />
Lennox House, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
MISS A. B. STEVENSON, Yew Tree Cottage,<br />
SUTTON, MACCLESFIELD).<br />
Story Work, 90, 1,000 words ; 2 copies, 1/- ; Plays, ruled and covered,<br />
1- 1,000 words.<br />
Copies of recent Testimonials:<br />
W. Shaw SPARROW: “I'm glad I don't hear the steady noise of your machine,<br />
but I appreciate the excellence of your work."<br />
DANIEL WOODROFFE: "Miss A. B. Stevenson is very accurate in her type-<br />
writing and most satisfactory in every way."<br />
MISS FOWLER, Maxwell House, Arundel<br />
Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
EXPERT IN DECIPHERING DIFFICULT HANDWRITING.<br />
Extract from Unsolicited Testimonial.-“I send you work com-<br />
pared to which Egyptian hieroglyphics would be child's play, and you<br />
return the manuscript at the time requested without one single<br />
inaccuracy. It is nothing short of marvellous.".<br />
TYPING.<br />
8d. per 1,000 Words ; in duplicate. Five years' experience.<br />
C. A. GIRTON, 2, GROVE LANE, CAMBERWELL, S. E.<br />
TADY requires post as Private Secretary:<br />
Shorthand, Typing, Plays; highest refer-<br />
ences.-Miss Cooke, 32, Alwyne Rd., Wimbledon.<br />
Literary, Educational, Scientific, Medical,<br />
Law, Theological, and ALL other subjects<br />
SECOND-HAND AT HALF PRICES!<br />
New at 25 per cent, Discount.<br />
Catalogue No. 144. Post Free State Wants.<br />
Books sent on Approval.<br />
BOOKS BOUGHT : Best Prices Given.<br />
W. & G. FOYLE,<br />
135, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.<br />
-A FUND OF ECONOMIC-<br />
MATERIAL FOR AUTHORS.<br />
WAR!!! FAMINE!!!<br />
, and .<br />
OUR FOOD SUPPLY!!!<br />
BARGAINS IN BOOKS.<br />
Illustrated. Coloured Diagrams. Crown 8vo.<br />
Cloth, 2/6 ; Paper Boards, 21-<br />
Special terms for quantities for distribution.<br />
Sample copy, post free, half price.<br />
Carriage Paid 0.K, only.<br />
Terms—Cash with order. The Tissot Pictures illustrating<br />
the Life of Christ, £6 68. net ; Splendid Copy, absolutely<br />
good as new for £2 198. The Twentieth Century Practice<br />
of Medicine; an interuational Encyclopædia of Modern<br />
Medical Science by leading authorities of Europe and<br />
America ; 20 volumes, published 20 guineas; new, uncut,<br />
original binding, £7 108. Cross cheques and postal orders<br />
L. & S.W. Bank, Fleet Street Branch.–J. F. BELMONT<br />
29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
& Co., 29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#538) ############################################<br />
<br />
viii<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
| TYPEWRITING<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
MISS RALLING begs to wish all<br />
her Clients and Friends a Very<br />
Happy and Prosperous New Year.<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum,<br />
1912 promises to be a very busy<br />
year for all branches of<br />
the LITERARY WORLD.<br />
A WORD IN SEASON !<br />
Get all your work TYPED<br />
WELL-IT ADDS TONE.<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
WITH<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
My work is always THE BEST.<br />
My prices are LOW.<br />
Send your order now.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every floor. Lounger<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel—"Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—“Bookcraft, London."<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
38, Norwood Road,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
| BRAINS, MONTE<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING. SHORTHAND. I AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C.<br />
communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
Figently copied, from 18. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
promptness ; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
over 20,000, od. Plays ruled<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
and bound, 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and General<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
Copying List and specimen of work on appli-<br />
cation.<br />
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
“Miss M. R. HORNE bas typed for me literary matter to the 64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothmg<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
Recommended by Mr, G, K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE.<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.,<br />
and Others.<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Typewriting and Secretarial Work.<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen:",<br />
New Address :<br />
thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with whic<br />
15, WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX. I been done.<br />
Printed by BRADBURY, AONEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED<br />
at 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/429/1912-01-01-The-Author-22-4.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 430 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/430 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 05 (February 1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+05+%28February+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 05 (February 1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-02-01-The-Author-22-5 | | | | | 117–140 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-02-01">1912-02-01</a> | | | | | | | 5 | | | 19120201 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 5.<br />
FEBRUARY 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGE<br />
PAGE<br />
117<br />
117<br />
...<br />
131<br />
117<br />
118<br />
120<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
List of Members ...<br />
The Pension Fund<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
The Dramatic Sub-Committee and the Lord Chamber<br />
Books published by Members ...<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes... ..<br />
United States Law Case<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books...<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br />
Registration of Scenarios and Original P<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents<br />
131<br />
131<br />
131<br />
132<br />
133<br />
133<br />
135<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
Remittances<br />
General Notes<br />
Sophia Jex-Blake, M.D....<br />
French Authors and Cinematogra<br />
A Question of French Copyright<br />
Book Prices Current ..<br />
"The Writers' and Artist Year-<br />
“ Who's Who," 1912<br />
“The Literary Year Book and Bookman's Directory" ...<br />
“ The English woman's Year Book" ...<br />
Analysis of Books Published in 1911...<br />
Correspondence ...<br />
122<br />
123<br />
124<br />
127<br />
128<br />
129<br />
136<br />
130<br />
137<br />
137<br />
137<br />
138<br />
139<br />
140<br />
130<br />
130<br />
131<br />
131<br />
DEDICATED TO H.R.H. THE PRINCESS ROYAL.<br />
Thoughts and Pastimes.<br />
<br />
By M. E. R.<br />
ILLUSTRATED BY MRS. HILLS-HARLEY, A.R.C.A.<br />
Crown 8vo, Cloth Gilt, Illustrated.<br />
Price 3/6 net.<br />
MHE Author of the above work is Miss Mary H. HOLME,<br />
- M.I.S.A., and it is published in the interests of the Sick<br />
Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, W.C. Over £40 has<br />
already been realised, and it is expected that at least £100 will<br />
be the outcome of the publication. The work has been well<br />
received by the Press. It is suitable for a gift book, or wedding<br />
or birthday present. Copies may be obtained direct from the<br />
Author, The Spa Hotel, Tunbridge Wells.<br />
OPINION OF THE PRESS.<br />
“Although the production of this choice book is primarily in the interests of charity, the poems dealing<br />
with homely themes and reminiscences of travel are quite above the average. There are some effective<br />
original illustrations by Mrs. Hills-Harley, A.R.C.A., and a reproduction of one of George Tinworth's pieces of<br />
sacred sculpture.”—Publishers' Circular.<br />
LONDON:<br />
KEGAN, PAUL, TRENCH & CO., CARTER LANE, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#540) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telegraphic Address : “ AUTORIDAD, LONDON."<br />
Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O.M.<br />
COUNCIL,<br />
SIR ROBERT ANDEREOX, K.C.B. The Right Hon. THE EARL CURZON, JUSTIN MCCARTHY,<br />
SIR WM.REYNELL ANSON, Bart.,D.C.L. P.C.<br />
THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKER, M.P.<br />
J. M. BARRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESH FIELD.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO,<br />
SIR ALFRED BATKMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LLD,<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. SIR HORACE<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
H. RIDER HAGGARD.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON (“LUCAS MALET''). OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. AUGUSTINE BIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
RELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G. R. SIMs.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD,<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD BURGH. JEROME K. JEROM K.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WABD.<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
H. G. WELLS.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.S. PERCY WHITE.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (Miss FLORA L. FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT HON.<br />
W. MORRIS COLLES.<br />
SHAW).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
THE HON. JOHN COLLIER,<br />
Mrs. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON). P.C., &c.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-S, SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. | MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
SIDNEY WEBB,<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
| ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
RUDOLF BESIER.<br />
H. GRANVILLE BARKER,<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE,<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. CARTON.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH.<br />
CAPT. BASIL HOOD,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-S, SQUIRE SPRIGGE, M.D.<br />
MORLEY ROBERTS.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB.COMMITTEE.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, I HERBERT SOLLIVAN.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
ART.<br />
JOHN HASSALL, R.I.<br />
| ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
The Hon. John COLLIER.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
FIELD, KOSCOX & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G, HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, 8.W. ) Solicitors.<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Société des Gens de Lettres.<br />
Legal Representative in America—JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES<br />
39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STORDY'S GATE, S.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#541) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
- PLAYS-<br />
Just out, 1/- paper, 2/- cloth, net.<br />
SMITH & Son, Renfield Street, GLASGOW.<br />
WILLIAM THOMSON<br />
(LORD KELVIN),<br />
His Way of Teaching Natural Philosophy,<br />
By DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors),<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
— NO THEORIES. -<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
ANECDOTES OF BIG<br />
CATS AND OTHER BEASTS.<br />
BY DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
METHLEN & Co., 6-<br />
Times.-"Mr. Theodore Roosevelt can recount many<br />
stories of such scenes, while Mr. D. Wilson goes a<br />
step further ... by telling his readers something<br />
of the mental attitude of the quarry."<br />
Guardian.--"Mr. Wilson is the right person to tell<br />
stories of sport."<br />
Pall Mall Gazette.-“ Captivating and engrossing."<br />
Labour Leader.-“This book is one of the most<br />
delightful collections of animal stories it has been<br />
our lot to meet."<br />
Morning Post.-"Delightfully sympathetic... Noth-<br />
ing is excluded, from the tiger and leopard to the<br />
domestic pussy-cat, from the bear to the buffalo,<br />
from the monkey to the elephant."<br />
Humanitarian.-“ We advise all our friends to read<br />
this admirable book.”<br />
Address : 23, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
LITERARY YEAR-BOOK (1912)<br />
Murray & Evenden's Recent -<br />
"An indispensable book of reference for authors and<br />
Six-Shilling Novels.<br />
journalists." -Daily Graphic.<br />
If it Were Come to Pass. By IVOR HAMILTON.<br />
Ordeal by Marriage. By CONWAY VERE.<br />
The Veldt Woman. By SYBIL C. SMITH.<br />
A striking Novel of Yorkshire Moor and African Veldt.<br />
Riguilda: A Romance of Barcelona. By MRS. KENDALL PARK.<br />
Crown 8vo.] Price 6s. net. [995 pages. A powerful and thrilling Novel, written with historic accuracy and<br />
great emotional power.<br />
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS : -- Authors' Directory;<br />
Michael. By EVELYN BARBER.<br />
A Novel of much power and beauty. The heroine is one of the<br />
Literary Agents ; Typists ; Indexers; Translators ;<br />
most delightful creations in recent fiction.<br />
Booksellers ; Proof-correcting, etc.; Law and<br />
Chord Once Struck. By JOHN SOMERS.<br />
Letters ; British, American, Canadian, and Indian<br />
An up-to-date Story of Smart Society.<br />
Periodicals (with a classified index and full<br />
particulars for contributors) ; Royalty Tables ; Murray & Evenden's New Pocket Series.<br />
One Shilling Net.<br />
Publishers (British and Foreign) ; Classified List of<br />
Publishers' Requirements (new feature); Literary<br />
The Son of a Gambler. By BEDA GERVAIS.<br />
Societies and Clubs ; A classified list of cheap re-<br />
Irresponsible Impressions of India.<br />
By E. GEO. TURNBULL.<br />
prints (93 different series).<br />
Full of rich humour and shrewd observation.<br />
Opinions of Authors:-" Many thanks for the help which the<br />
"A lively, readable, and well-observed essay on the outward aspects of<br />
Year Book now affords."-" The Year Book is a great boon to<br />
things in India as they strike the Occidental eye."--Scotsman.<br />
authors, and this year is better than ever."-"I have found The<br />
Aunt Ursula's Bequest. By NORTH GREENHOE.<br />
Literary Year Book a very valuable book of reference."-"I<br />
An enthralling story of a hidden hoard in a haunted house.<br />
take this opportunity of telling you how great a help the book is<br />
to me as an author and as a working journalist."<br />
Where the Shamrock Grows.<br />
Price 3/6<br />
By GEORGE HENRY JESSOP,<br />
"A work with a wide reputation and one justly earned."--<br />
Author of "My Lady Molly.". Shamus O'Brien," de.<br />
The Author.<br />
"A picturesque little story of Irish life ... told with a simple directness<br />
IMPORTANT TO AUTHORS.<br />
which makes the book very pleasant reading."--Daily Telegraph.<br />
Latent Impulse in History and Politics. Price 7/6<br />
in the “ Law and Letters " Soction will be<br />
By ROBERT VOEL BRADLEY, B.A. At all Libraries.<br />
found a careful and able exposition of the<br />
"There is a good deal of thought in the book-and the thought of a<br />
new Copyright Act (1912).<br />
well-stored mind."-The 'l imes<br />
Letters from China.<br />
Price 6/-<br />
Of all Booksellers, or of the Publishers-<br />
By JAY DENBY. Illustrated by H. W. G. HAYTER.<br />
"A screamingly funny collection of letters. The author's exposures of the<br />
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd.,<br />
tricks of the wily Chinese make capital reading." -Bailey's Magazine.<br />
68, Carter Lane, London, E.C. | MURRAY & EVENDEN. Ltd., Pleydell House, Pleydell St., Fleet St.,E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#542) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE<br />
SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report for the current<br />
year. Price 18. net.<br />
7. Copyright Law Reform.<br />
An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copy-<br />
right Bill of 1890. With Extracts from<br />
the Report of the Commission of 1878,<br />
the Berne Convention, and the American<br />
Copyright Bill. By J. M. LELY. Price<br />
18. 6d. net.<br />
2. The Author.<br />
Published ten months in the year (August<br />
and September omitted) devoted especially<br />
to the protection and maintenance of<br />
Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to all Members gratis. Price to<br />
non-members, 6d., or 58. 6d. per annum,<br />
post free. Back numbers from 1892, at<br />
10s. 6d. net, per vol.<br />
8. The Society of Authors.<br />
A Record of its Action from its Founda-<br />
tion. By WALTER BESANT (Chairman of<br />
Committee, 1888–1892). Price 18. net.<br />
8. Literature and the Pension List.<br />
By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law.<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany,<br />
Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland.<br />
By ERNST LUNGE, J.U.D. Price 28. 6d. net.<br />
4. The History of the Société des Gens de<br />
Lettres.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. Price 18. net.<br />
cu<br />
8. The Cost of Production.<br />
(Out of print.)<br />
10. Forms of Agreement issued by the<br />
Publishers' Association; with Com-<br />
ments.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING, and Illustrative<br />
Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd<br />
Edition. Price 18. net.<br />
11. Periodicals and their contributors.<br />
Giving the Terms on which the different<br />
Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS.<br />
and Contributions. Price 6d. net.<br />
6. The Yarious Methods of Publication.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work,<br />
compiled from the papers in the Society's<br />
offices, the various forms of agreements<br />
proposed by Publishers to Authors are<br />
examined, and their meaning carefully<br />
explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made<br />
possible by the different clauses therein.<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
Addenda to the Above.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being ad-<br />
ditional facts collected at the office of<br />
the Society since the publication of the<br />
“ Methods." With comments and advice.<br />
Price 28. net.<br />
12. Society of Authors.<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907,<br />
price 6d. net.<br />
13. International Copyright Convention<br />
as Revised at Berlin, 1909.<br />
Price 1s. net.<br />
[All prices not. Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S. W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#543) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
<br />
D<br />
Headquarters<br />
for Desks<br />
of all kinds<br />
If you are wanting a Roll<br />
Top or Flat Top Desk call<br />
at the Globe - Wernicke<br />
Showrooms, or send for the<br />
special Catalogue devoted<br />
to Desks. Nowhere else<br />
will you find such an ex-<br />
cellent and varied selection of Desks. In Roll Top Desks alone, we<br />
have over Fifty styles from which to choose.<br />
Globe-Wernicke Roll Top Desks.<br />
The illustration at the top of this announce-<br />
ment shows a High Roll Top Desk. It has<br />
raised panelled ends and back, and framed up<br />
writing bed. The interior of upper case con-<br />
tains pigeon-holes, filing boxes and a letter-file,<br />
and the spaces on either side have movable<br />
partitions, allowing the entire height for books.<br />
The bottom right-hand drawer is of double<br />
depth and is arranged to accommodate large<br />
books. Made in Quartered Oak. Drawing<br />
down the roll-cover locks the entire desk auto-<br />
matically.<br />
Packing Free. - Orders of £2 Carriage Paid<br />
to any Goods Station in the British Isles. Send for<br />
Catalogue No. 27D, free from<br />
The illustration at foot shows & Low Roll<br />
Top Desk, affording the occupant a clear view<br />
of the room. A very important feature about<br />
this desk is the pull-out writing bed, which not<br />
only permits a larger writing-bed surface, but<br />
enables one to examine maps, drawings, plans,<br />
and large papers of all kinds. Bottom right-<br />
band drawer is of double depth, to accommodate<br />
large books. Made in Quartered Oak and<br />
Mahogany. Can be used as a Table when closed.<br />
Drawing down the roll top locks the entire desk<br />
automatically, except centre drawer.<br />
<br />
S<br />
UJEN<br />
The Globe Wernicke Co.<br />
Office and Library Furnishers,<br />
44, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C. ;<br />
82, Victoria Street, S.W. ;<br />
98, Bishopsgate, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 116 (#544) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
THE<br />
AUTHORS, ATTENTION!<br />
ACCURACY,<br />
LAW OF COPYRIGHT.<br />
ABSOLUTE SECRECY,<br />
PUNCTUALITY<br />
guaranteed by me in Typewritten<br />
copies of Manuscripts, etc.<br />
Terms : Is. per 1,000 words ; Carbon<br />
Duplicates, 3d. per 1,000.<br />
The Copyright Act, 1911, being a King's<br />
Printer's copy of the Act bound up with the<br />
unrepealed Sections of earlier Acts and<br />
an Index to the whole, together with Tables<br />
showing where the corresponding sec-<br />
tions of the repealed Acts are to be<br />
found in the new Act, and vice versa, and<br />
an Introduction showing the more<br />
important changes in the law made<br />
thereby, by J. ANDREW STRAHAN, LL.B.,<br />
of the Middle Temple, Author of " Comments<br />
on Recent Copyright Cases,” and NORMAN<br />
OLDHAM, B.A., of the Inner Temple,<br />
Barristers-at-Law.<br />
Cloth, price 2/6 net, or by post, 2/9.<br />
Road what a satisfied Client says, and then send a<br />
trial order.<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
December 4th, 1911.<br />
I have to thank you for your prompt and most<br />
satisfactory work; the typing is excellent, and I am<br />
extremely pleased with it.<br />
(Signed) Mrs. J. O. ARNOLD,<br />
Sheffield.<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Rd., St. Albans, Herts.<br />
The Solicitors' Law Stationery Society,<br />
Limited,<br />
22, Chancery Lane, W.C.<br />
29, Walbrook, E.C. 6, Victoria Street, S.W.<br />
An Indispensable American Journal.<br />
“ Those who wish to know in a general way what is being done in the literary<br />
world in America cannot do better than subscribe to THE DIAL, a semi-monthly<br />
journal devoted entirely to literature. We will undertake to say that no one who<br />
is interested in literature would regret acting on our advice, and arranging for<br />
THE DIAL to rub shoulders twice a month with their Spectator, Atheneum, or<br />
Academy. . . . From whatever point of view you look at it-value of its literary<br />
contents, or its variety, or the excellence of its mechanical production—THE DIAL<br />
is entitled to a place with the best that any country can produce. . . . We again<br />
advise our readers who wish to keep the 100 millions of America in their eye to<br />
watch THE DIAL.”-THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR (London).<br />
Specimen copies of THE DIAL, together with a special offer for trial subscription, will be<br />
sent gratis to any reader of THE AUTHOR upon request.<br />
ADDRESS<br />
“THE DIAL” COMPANY, 410, SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 117 (#545) ############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
( The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
Vol. XXII.-No. 5.<br />
FEBRUARY 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
DoR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
I signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
A uthors' Society and other readers of The Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the notice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
WROM time to time members of the Society<br />
T desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
Vol. XXII.<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
are cartelle from other to the Society, cul" page<br />
M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br />
1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
6d., post free 71d. It includes elections to July,<br />
1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
of the Society only.<br />
A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 118 (#546) ############################################<br />
<br />
118<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
-<br />
-<br />
end of the list for the convenience of those who It does not include either donations given<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled prior to October 1st, nor does it include sub-<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br />
before it.<br />
The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br />
appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
received three bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
N February 1, 1911, the trustees of the<br />
recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
Pension Fund of the society-after the may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
secretary had placed before them the finan-<br />
from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
cial position of the fund-decided to invest £250<br />
on the matter.<br />
on the me<br />
in the purchase of Consols.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
The amount purchased at the present price is County and Westminster Bank. Maidstone.<br />
£312 13s. 4d.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
This brings the invested funds to £4,377 198. 4d. Provincial Bank of England Baker Street. W<br />
The trustees, however, have been unable to recom-<br />
Bankers’ Order for 58. drawn on the London,<br />
mend the payment of any further pensions, as the<br />
income at their disposal is at present exhausted.<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
They desire to draw the attention of the members<br />
of the society to this fact, in the hope that by<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
additional subscriptions and donations there will<br />
£ $. d.<br />
Oct. 5. Bungey, E. Newton<br />
be sufficient funds in hand in the course of the<br />
. . 010 0<br />
Oct. 6. Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson .<br />
year to declare another pension in case any im-<br />
.<br />
Oct. 12, Hannay, J. O. ; . : 0 5 0<br />
portant claim is forthcoming.<br />
Oct. 12, Mrs. Humphry Ward, an addi-<br />
Consols 21%..............................£1,312 13 4<br />
tional subscription for 1912<br />
Local Loans .............................. 500 0 0<br />
-13<br />
. . . . 5 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 8% Consoli-<br />
Nov. 9, Dailey, R. H. ..<br />
dated Inscribed Stock<br />
291 19 11 Nov. 10, McCormick, E. B. .<br />
• . 0 10 0<br />
London and North-Western 3% Deben-<br />
Nov. 10, Salter, Miss E. K.<br />
ture Stock .......<br />
25000 Nov. 14, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpool 0 5 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Nov. 20, Snell, Miss Olive .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Trust 4% Certificates<br />
200 0 0 Nov. 24, Locke, W. J. .<br />
Cape of Good Hope 32% Inecribed<br />
Nov. 24, Gusse, Edmund ..<br />
• • . 1 1 0<br />
Stock ..............................<br />
200 0 0 Nov. 25, Larken, E. P. .<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Nov. 25, Underdown, Miss E. . 0 5 0<br />
4% Preference Stock .........<br />
228 0 0 Nov. 25, Walkley, S. . .<br />
0 5 0<br />
New Zealand 31% Stock................ 247 96 Nov. 25, Masefield, John .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Irish Land Act 27% Guaranteed Stock 258 0 0 Nov. 25, Thurston, E. Temple. . 5 5 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
Nov. 25, Rittenberg, Max . . 0 5 0<br />
1927-57 .......<br />
438 2 4 Nov. 25, Paull, H. M. .<br />
. 0 10 6<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ......... 132 18 6 Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald.<br />
urner, Reginald. . . 1 1 0<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock................ 120 121 Nov. 25, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton . . 1 1 0<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31% Land<br />
Nov. 25, Barne, Miss M. C. . . 0 5 0<br />
Grant Stock, 1938...<br />
198 3 8 Nov. 25, Sedgwick, Anne Douglas : 0 5 0<br />
(Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)<br />
Total ................ £4,377 19 4 Nov. 25, Lerden, Walter .<br />
' .<br />
.<br />
: 0 10 0<br />
Nov. 25, Channon, Mrs. Frances<br />
Nov. 25, Toynbee, Paget.<br />
Nov. 25, Hood, Miss Agnes Jacomb.<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
Nov. 25, Gilliat, The Rev. E. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 25, Macdonald, Greville . 1 1 0<br />
The list printed below includes all fresh dona- Nov. 25, Allen, Rev. The G. W.(2 yea<br />
tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and Nov. 25, Russell, G. H. . .<br />
0 50<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received Nov. 25, Osgood, Mrs. Irene . 10 10 0<br />
by, or promised to, the fund from October 1st, Nov. 25, Trench, Herbert .<br />
0 10 0<br />
1911, to January 22nd, 1912.<br />
Nov. 25, Murdoch, W. G. Burn .<br />
0 15 0<br />
IIIscribed BLOCK ................<br />
·<br />
2<br />
0<br />
er er eterno eren er oero<br />
ervoor<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 119 (#547) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
119<br />
£ s. d.<br />
5 00<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 10<br />
0 5<br />
0 5<br />
1 1<br />
6<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1 1<br />
( 10<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
និនននន ននននននននននននន ននននន<br />
eper Everer - rerer<br />
PONOOOOOO<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
1 1 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 10 6<br />
0 10 0<br />
1 0 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
10 6<br />
1 C<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
2 2 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
4 4 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
( 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0<br />
0 5 0<br />
Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold, .<br />
Dec. 12, von Holst, Gustav .<br />
Dec. 16, Cromartie, The Right Hon.<br />
the Countess of (additional<br />
subscription) . . .<br />
Dec. 16, Laurance, Lionel . ..<br />
Dec. 16, Allen, Mrs. Grant.<br />
Dec. 18, Haultain, Arnold.<br />
.<br />
Dec. 18, Pollock, The Right Honble.<br />
Sir Frederick, P.C.. .<br />
Dec. 20, Carr, Miss Mildred E. .<br />
red E. . .<br />
Dec. 20, Lewis, The Rev. Arthur<br />
Dec. 30, Dodge, Miss Janet<br />
.<br />
Dec. 30, Fitzgerald, Menie Muriel .<br />
Dec. 30, Fuller, Sir Bamfylde . .<br />
1912.<br />
Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice .<br />
Jan. 2, Sturt, George . . . .<br />
Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark (in addition to<br />
present subscription) . .<br />
Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H. .<br />
Jan. 3, Worsley, Miss Alice .. .<br />
Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br />
to present subscription) .<br />
Jan. 3, Hedgcock, F. A. i<br />
Jan, 5, Matcham, Mrs. Eyre . .<br />
Jan. 8, Stayton, Frank .<br />
.<br />
Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Edith . .<br />
Jan. 10, Ropes, A. R.. .<br />
.<br />
Jan. 12, Francis, René . .<br />
Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br />
tion to present subscription)<br />
0<br />
0<br />
Nov. 25, Knowles, Miss Margaret .<br />
Nov. 25, Bond, R. Warwick<br />
Nov. 25, Stockley, Mrs. . . .<br />
Nov. 27, Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor<br />
Nov. 27, Prideaux, Miss S. T.,<br />
Nov. 27, Sedgwick, Prof. A. (5 years).<br />
Nov, 27, Arnold, Mrs. J. 0. .<br />
Nov. 27, Weaver, Mrs. Baillie . .<br />
Nov. 27, Drake, F. Maurice : .<br />
Nov. 27, Stewart, J. C. MacDougall .<br />
Nov. 27, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . .<br />
Nov. 27, Lucas, E. V. . .<br />
Nov. 27, Hollins, Miss Dorothea -<br />
Nov. 27, Bagnall, Miss L. T. . .<br />
Nov. 27, Young, Ernest . . .<br />
Nov. 27, Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander<br />
Nov. 27, Collier, The Hon. John<br />
Nov. 27, Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. .<br />
Nov. 27, Orde Ward, The Rev. F. W.<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice .<br />
Nov. 28, Carlyle, T'he Rev. A. J. .<br />
Nov. 28, Montrésor, Miss F. F. . .<br />
Nov. 28, Jones, Henry Arthur.<br />
Nov. 28, Pryor, Francis .<br />
Nov. 28, Whiteing, Richard<br />
Nov. 28, Caine, William . . .<br />
Nov. 28, Tuttiett, Miss M. G. . .<br />
Nov. 28, Caulfeild, Mrs. Kathleen .<br />
Nov. 28, Breaknell, Miss Mary.<br />
Nov. 28, James, Miss S. Boucher .<br />
Nov. 28, Martin, Miss Violet<br />
Nov. 29, Pakington, The Hon. Mary.<br />
Nov. 29, Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis<br />
Nathaniel .<br />
Nov. 29, Skrine, The Rev. John H..<br />
Nov. 29, Travers, Miss Rosalind. ..<br />
Nov. 29, Graves, Alfred P..<br />
Nov. 29, Shaw, Fred. G. .<br />
Nov. 29, Narramore, William ..<br />
Nov. 29, Waldstein, Charles<br />
Nov. 29, Rutter, Frank .<br />
Dec. 1, Lee, The Rev. Albert<br />
Dec. 1, Romanes, Mrs. Ethel<br />
Dec. 1, Wilton, Margaret W. .<br />
Dec. 2, Holme, Miss. .<br />
Dec. 4, Thomson, Lieut.-Col.<br />
Dec. 4, Begbie, Harold<br />
Dec. 4, Giles, Miss Edith J. F.<br />
Dec. 4, Coulton, G. G. .<br />
Dec. 4, Heath, Sidney .<br />
Dec. 5, Macnamara, Miss Margaret<br />
Dec. 5, Clodd, Edward<br />
. .<br />
Dec. 5, Little, Mrs. Archibald<br />
Dec. 5, Morton, Michael .<br />
Dec. 6, Meredith, Mark .<br />
Dec. 8, Broster, Miss D. K. . .<br />
Dec. 11, Orczy, The Baroness . .<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
werer er er et eraser<br />
.<br />
erer<br />
0 5<br />
0 5<br />
0 5<br />
1 1<br />
0 10<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
er o<br />
0<br />
5<br />
0<br />
6<br />
er er er er oer<br />
0<br />
6<br />
6<br />
erer<br />
.:: ci ·······<br />
0<br />
£91 5<br />
Donations.<br />
Oct. 10, Guthrie, Anstey . ..<br />
0 5 0 Oct. 11, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . . 3 3<br />
0 5 0 Oct. 19, Romanne-James, Mrs. C. : 0 15<br />
1 1 0 Oct. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey”<br />
·<br />
0 10<br />
ō Nov. 3, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (3rd Dona-<br />
0 5 0<br />
tion) .<br />
0 10 0 Nov. 3, Tanner, James T. (5th Dona-<br />
0 5 0<br />
tion) .<br />
. 2 2<br />
0 10 0 Nov. 3, Balme. Mrs. Nettleian .<br />
0 Nov. 4, Cayzer, Charles (3rd Donation)<br />
1 1 (0) Nov. 6, LeRiche, P. J. . . . 0 10<br />
Nov. 6, Daniell, Mrs. E. H.<br />
0 Nov. 13, Anon. .<br />
0 Nov. 18, Hichens, Robert (in addition<br />
to subscription of £1)<br />
1 0 0 Nov. 20, Grant, John G. . . . 0 10<br />
0 Nov. 24, Jacobs, W. W. . .<br />
10 Nov. 24, Roberts, Morley,<br />
0 5 0 Nov. 24, Eckersley, The Rev.<br />
0 5 0 Nov. 25, Besant, W. H. . . . 5 5<br />
1 1 0 Nov. 25, Hill, J. Arthur . . . 1 0<br />
...........<br />
0<br />
oereronco cono Estco o<br />
er ooererererer<br />
6<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
0<br />
0<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 120 (#548) ############################################<br />
<br />
120<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
..::<br />
19<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
oooorero 355<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
£ $. d<br />
£ $. d.<br />
Nov 25, Tansley, A. G. . . . 2 20 Dec. 18, Dawson, Frank.<br />
Nov 25, Gysi, Max . . · 1 1 0 Dec. 20, Tench, Miss Mary F. A. . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 25, Lyttelton, Hon. Mrs.. . 1 0 0 Dec. 21, Clifford, Mrs. W. K. , . 5 5 0<br />
Nov. 25, Savile, Frank . . . 10 0 0 Dec. 22, Francis Beard . . , 0 26<br />
Nov. 25, Skeat, Prof. W. W. . 1 1 0 Dec. 22, Horridge, Frank.<br />
. () 6 0<br />
Nov. 27, Hood, Francis . . 0 5 0 Dec. 28, Dawson, Forbes ..<br />
0 10 6<br />
Nov. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey”. . 1 1 0 Dec. 29, Longard, Madame de<br />
Nov. 27, Moffatt, Graham .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
thea Gerard).<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Mainwaring, Mrs.<br />
. 5 5 0 Dec. 30, Workman, Mrs. F. Bullock . 1 0 0<br />
Nov. 27, Maunder, J. H..<br />
. 1 1 0 Dec. 30, Swan, Miss Myra . . . 0 0<br />
Nov. 27, Kennedy, E. B..<br />
0 5 0 Dec. 30, Blake, J. P. . .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 27, Galsworthy, John (in addition<br />
1912.<br />
to subscription) . • 2 2 0 Jan. 2, Risque, W. H. .<br />
: 0 10 0<br />
Nov. 27, Oppenheim, E. P.<br />
1 1 0 Jan. 2, Dart, Miss Edith .<br />
. 0 10 6<br />
Nov. 27, Harding, Commander Claud,<br />
Jan. 3, “K."<br />
0 10 0<br />
R.N. . . .<br />
1 0 0 Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur.<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 27, Moore, Miss E. Hamilton 0 10 6 Jan. 3, Durrant, W. Scott<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Pilley, John. .<br />
. 0 10 0 Jau. 3, Tighe, Henry. .<br />
0 10 0<br />
Nov. 28, Martin, Mrs. Clara T. .<br />
6 Jan. 3, Grant, Lady Sybil .<br />
1 0 0<br />
Nov. 28, McKellar, Campbell D.<br />
0 Jan. 4, Smith, Bertram<br />
20 0 0<br />
Nov. 28, Wroughton, Miss Cicely 0 5 0 Jan. 4, Buckrose, J. E. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 28, Rankin, Miss F. M.<br />
5 0<br />
Jan. 4, Lathbury, Miss Eva<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Beatrice .<br />
Jan. 5, Wilson, Dr. Albert .<br />
0 10 0<br />
Nov. 28, Gould, Gerald ..<br />
Jan. 5, Craven, A. Scott .<br />
0 10 0<br />
Nov. 28, Hardy, Thomas 0. M.<br />
Jan. 6, Blundell, Miss Alice<br />
0 10 0<br />
Nov 29, Maarten Maartens<br />
5 0 0 Jan. 6, Garbutt, W. H. .<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Bolton, Clement ,<br />
• 0 2 6 Jan. 6, Serjeant, Miss Constance<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Stutfield, H. E. M.<br />
1 0 0 Jan. 9, Chamberlayne, Miss Effie<br />
0 5 0)<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, F. L. A. . . () 10 6 Jan. 9, Hamel, Frank .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 29, Spurrier, Steven ..<br />
0 7 6 Jan. 10, Allen, W. Bird .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 29, Kinloch, Alexander<br />
1 1 0 Jan. 10, Crellin, H. M. .<br />
() 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Webling, Peggy. . 0 5 0 Jan. 10. Smith, Herbert W.<br />
2 2 0<br />
Nov. 29, Barclay, Mrs. Hubert. 0 10 0 Jan. 12, Randall, F. J. .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, Miss C. E. .<br />
0 Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
220<br />
Nov. 29, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite<br />
0 Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W. .<br />
Nov. 29, Spielmann, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. 2 2 0 Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Begbie, Harold . .<br />
Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 29, Spiers, Victor .<br />
Jan. 20, M'Ewan, Miss Madge .<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Wentworth, Gerald . . 1 1 0 Jan. 22, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila . () 10 0<br />
Nov. 29, Pryce, Richard<br />
0 0<br />
Jan. 22, Mackenzie, Miss J. . . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Watson, Mrs. Herbert .<br />
5<br />
Jan. 22, Reiss, Miss Erna . . . 0 5 0)<br />
Dec. 6, Toplis, Grace . . .<br />
0 5 0<br />
Jan. 22, Grisewood, R. Norman .<br />
Dec. 6, Percival, Helen A. . . . () 5 0<br />
Dec. 7, Graham, Kenneth . . . 10 0 0<br />
£206 11 6<br />
Dec. 8, Falmouth, The Right Honble.<br />
the Viscountess<br />
2 20<br />
Dec. 8, Ord, H. W. . .<br />
: 0 10 6<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
Dec. 10, Hawkins, A. Hope . . . 10 10 0<br />
Dec. 10, Pennell, Mrs. E. R. . . 1 1 0<br />
Dec. 11, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit.<br />
M HE first meeting of the committee for 1912<br />
Dec. 11, De Morgan, Wm.<br />
1 was held at the offices of the society on<br />
Dec. 12, D'Arcy, Ella Miss .<br />
Monday January 8th.<br />
Dec. 16, Glenconner, Lady<br />
0 After the minutes of the last meeting had been<br />
Dec. 16, Royds, The Rev. T.<br />
O read and signed, the committee proceeded with the<br />
Dec. 18, Moore, Mrs. Stuart . 1 1 0 election of members and associates, twenty names<br />
Dec. 18, J. P. P. . . . 1 0 0 being added to the society's roll. The list of<br />
Dec. 18, Brémner, Robert L. . 0 5 0 elections appears on another page.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
oooCoro C19 ooooo<br />
Nero<br />
ordo<br />
er o<br />
ens ögonen oer er<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 121 (#549) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
121<br />
The solicitor reported on the cases he had in hand. Sir Gilbert Parker, who is at present in Canada, and<br />
One claim taken up against a paper for payment with the Premier of Canada, as well as the Minister<br />
for work done has been partly settled, and the for Agriculture, who controls copyright matters in<br />
solicitors are now pressing for the balance of the the Dominion. It was decided that the Chairman<br />
account. The committee decided to abandon of the Society of Authors should write to Sir<br />
another claim for damages against the same paper, Gilbert Parker in answer to the letter laid before<br />
as the solicitors advised that the claim put the committee at their previous meeting, drawing<br />
forward by the member could not be certainly his special attention to the present point at issue.<br />
maintained. The next case reported was one One of the members had proposed that the society<br />
involving the settlement of accounts. It has should act officially in the matter of the Dickens<br />
been running on for some months. The solicitors Centenary for the collection of subscriptions. The<br />
were able to inform the committee that the committee came to the conclusion that they conld<br />
matter was nearing completion. A further claim not move in the matter, as it was outside the scope<br />
against an editor for money had been settled, of the society's work. The secretary was instructed<br />
the sum dne having been paid. An important case to write to the member accordingly.<br />
of breach of agreement by a publisher was carefully The committee sanctioned the purchase of a<br />
considered by the committee and the legal issues cyclostyle, to deal with the great number of circulars<br />
discussed. The committee adopted the view of the which it had been found necessary from time to<br />
solicitors that a further letter should be written, time to issue.<br />
and it was agreed that the result of this communi- The question of the United States lawyers' costs<br />
cation should be reported to the next meeting was considered by the committee, who instructed<br />
An article drafted by the secretary for publication the secretary to obtain the necessary signatures for<br />
in The Author was carefully considered. It was the cheque.<br />
decided to have the article set up in type, and in The secretary informed the committee that Mrs.<br />
this form to submit it to the committee in time for Vassal and Mr. Edmund Candler had joined the<br />
the next meeting. The committee decided that an society as life members. He also reported a donation<br />
American case which had been very fully discussed of £2 28. to the Capital Fund from Mr. Frank<br />
with the society's American lawyers should be Heath.<br />
abandoned, but decided to take up a case against an<br />
American theatrical manager for money due to<br />
a member of the society on accounts rendered.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The date for the return of the voting papers for The first meeting for 1912 of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
the committee election, in case a ballot should be Committee was held at the society's offices on<br />
necessary, was settled. Due notice of this dateFriday, January 20th, at 3 o'clock.<br />
will appear on the ballot papers, which, if an election After the minutes of the previous meeting had<br />
takes place, will be circulated through The Author been signed, the secretary reported the result of<br />
to all members.<br />
the nomination for the sub-committee, explaining<br />
The date of the general meeting was fixed, and that as no additional names bad been sent in,<br />
due notice of this with the annual report will be the names nominated by the sub-committee<br />
issued.<br />
would go forward to the Committee of Manage-<br />
The committee decided to elect a musical sub- ment for election, when the sub-committees of the<br />
committee, to work on the same basis as the society are re-elected.<br />
Dramatic Sub-committee, in order to give to com- It was decided to hold the conference of the<br />
posers the same assistance, if they care to avail them- dramatists later in the spring.<br />
selves of it, as is given to authors and dramatists The next question for discussion was the<br />
who are members of the society. The aim of the Managerial Treaty. The chairman stated that he<br />
committee is to make the society represent as far as had received the report from the sub-committee<br />
possible all holders of copyright property.<br />
of the Dramatists' Club, but that it had arrived<br />
The secretary reported the action of the Nobel too late for discussion at that meeting. The secre-<br />
Prize Committee as set out in the last issue of The tary was instructed to see that copies of the report<br />
Author. The committee decided to adjourn the were circulated to the members of the sub-committee,<br />
matter to the February meeting in order that they and it was further decided that, if necessary, a<br />
might obtain further information on a point special meeting should be called to consider it.<br />
connected with the question.<br />
The secretary reported the receipt of a letter<br />
A point relating to Canadian copyright, submitted from the Lord Chamberlain on the Sketch Question.<br />
to the Committee of Management by the Dramatic and he was instructed to reply. The action of the<br />
Sub-committee, was next considered, and the Lord Chamberlain has already been made public<br />
committee decided to enter into communication with in the Press.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 122 (#550) ############################################<br />
<br />
122<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
The next matter related to the question of the<br />
contract it might be necessary for dramatists to<br />
adopt when dealing with cinematograph per-<br />
formances. The matter is-one which will become<br />
of growing importance under the new Copyright<br />
Act. The secretary was instructed to write to<br />
Paris and obtain as much information as possible,<br />
and to lay it before the next meeting of the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee.<br />
The steps taken by the Committee of Manage-<br />
ment on the subject of Canadian copyright were<br />
reported to the Dramatic Sub-Committee, and<br />
finally the secretary made a brief statement of the<br />
dramatic cases which had been placed in the hands<br />
of the solicitors of the society.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
A MEETING of the Copyright Sub-Committee<br />
was held on Thursday, January 18th, when Messrs.<br />
Curwen & Son's agreement was further considered.<br />
The committee went carefully through the points<br />
raised at the last meeting, and Messrs. Curwen's<br />
answer to their letter covering the points. After<br />
considerable discussion, the issues were narrowed to<br />
two clauses, and the Secretary was instructed to<br />
write to Messrs. Curwen & Co. in the hope that the<br />
difficulties arising from these clauses might be<br />
overcome.<br />
THE DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE AND<br />
THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN.<br />
TN the January number of The Author, under<br />
I the heading“ Dramatic Sub-Committee,” it<br />
was stated with reference to the resolution<br />
passed by that sub-committee which the Secretary<br />
had been authorised to send to the Lord Chamber-<br />
lain, that the sub-committee had decided it would be<br />
inexpedient to publish the resolution until the reply<br />
from the Lord Chamberlain had been received.<br />
The matter has now been made public in the<br />
papers, and therefore we have much pleasure in<br />
printing the resolution, which was as follows:-<br />
"That this Meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Committee of<br />
the Society of Authors respectfully requests the Lord<br />
Chamberlain to favour it with an assurance that none of<br />
the readers of plays in his lordship's department are per-<br />
mitted to retain any commercial or professional interest in<br />
the Theatre, and to sanction the publication of the<br />
assurance by the society."<br />
All those who are interested in dramatic work<br />
will see the importance of the question contained<br />
in the resolution that was forwarded by the sub-<br />
committee to the Lord Chamberlain. We now<br />
have much pleasure in printing the Lord Chamber-<br />
lain's reply which, from the dramatist's point of<br />
view, is satisfactory.<br />
The reply was as follows :<br />
SIR,—In reply to your letter of the 18th inst., I am desired<br />
by the Lord Chamberlain to give you his assurance that<br />
none of the Examiners of Plays in his Lordship's Depart.<br />
ment are permitted to retain any commercial or professional<br />
interests in the Theatre.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
(Signed) DOUGLAS DAWSON,<br />
Col.<br />
Comptroller.<br />
P.S.-The society is perfectly at liberty to publish this<br />
assurance.<br />
D. D.<br />
The Dramatic Sub-Committee may also pride<br />
themselves on the fact that the settlement of the<br />
Sketch question by the Lord Chamberlain's pro-<br />
clamation has been brought about, to a great<br />
extent, owing to their energetic work in various<br />
directions to bring the matter before the authorities.<br />
It is satisfactory also to know that the highest<br />
authority in England dealing with the question<br />
applied direct to the Dramatic Sub-Committee of<br />
the Society of Authors as the representatives of the<br />
dramatists in England.<br />
SUB-COMMITTEE TO SETTLE AN AGENCY<br />
AGREEMENT.<br />
I.<br />
Tur Sub.Committee of the Society of Anthors<br />
appointed to deal with the agreement between author<br />
and agent met at the Society's offices on Thursday,<br />
January 4th.<br />
The clauses of the agreement which had been<br />
drafted for the information of the sub-committee<br />
were considered one by one, and certain alterations<br />
and amendments were suggested. The Chairman<br />
consented to put the alterations into proper form,<br />
and it was decided to call another meeting on<br />
January 15th.<br />
II.<br />
The second meeting of this committee was held<br />
on January 15th. The amendments which had been<br />
drafted by the chairman, at the desire of the sub-<br />
committee, were considered. With some slight<br />
alteration the final form was passed and ordered<br />
to be printed that it might be laid before the<br />
committee of management at their February<br />
meeting.<br />
Cases.<br />
DURING the last two months the cases placed<br />
in the hands of the secretary have not been so<br />
numerous as during the previous months.<br />
Only eleven cases have come into the office<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 123 (#551) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
123<br />
Sheldon, Gilbert<br />
High Park, Bideford.<br />
Stockley, Colonel V. M. . 6, Bickenhall Man.<br />
sions, W.<br />
Taylor, Mary. . .<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
during the month of January. Three dealing with<br />
accounts, four dealing with the return of MSS.,<br />
and four dealing with money claims. Of these<br />
only two have been settled, both dealing with<br />
accounts. If the secretary obtains no satisfactory<br />
answers with respect to the other cases they will<br />
have to go into the hands of the society's solicitors.<br />
There are seven cases left open from former<br />
months. In most of these satisfactory negotiations<br />
are proceeding, that is, the secretary's letters have<br />
been answered by the other side : but there are two<br />
cases dealing with money claims in which the<br />
me in which the<br />
secretary has received no answer to his letters.<br />
These will have to go into the hands of the society's<br />
solicitors, as well as a claim in respect of a MS.<br />
which the publisher has refused to return.<br />
January Elections.<br />
Alcock, Miss Ethel Maria. 32, Londesboro' Road,<br />
Scarboro'.<br />
Aminoff, Baroness Leonie. Provender, Faver-<br />
sham...<br />
Bland, R. Henderson . 219A, Maida Vale, W.<br />
Burtt, Joseph . . . Greenhurst, Crick<br />
Common, Matlock.<br />
Butlin, F. M. . . . Old Headington,<br />
Oxford.<br />
Cleugh, Dennis . 217, West 45 Street,<br />
New York City.<br />
U.S.A.<br />
Cotterell, Howard H. . Foden Road, Walsall.<br />
Crossing, William . . Black Down, Mary<br />
Tavy, Devon.<br />
Emerson, P. H., B.A., Foxwold, South<br />
M.B. (Cantab.).<br />
bourne-on-Sea, nr.<br />
Christchurch,<br />
Hants.<br />
Francis, René . . . 22, Victoria Grove,<br />
Kensington.<br />
Frazer, Mrs. J. G. , . St. Keyne, Cambridge.<br />
Gordon, Hilda May. . The Boynes, Shanklin,<br />
I.W.<br />
Harris, Frances Helen . 27, Compton Crescent,<br />
Sutton Court, Chis-<br />
wick.<br />
Hulme, Thomas Ernest . 67, Frith Street, Soho<br />
Square, W.<br />
Holmes, Gordon . : 29, Wolseley Gardens,<br />
Chiswick, W.<br />
James, R. Basil . . 38, Digby Marsions,<br />
Hammersmith<br />
Bridge, W.<br />
Kett, George . . . Poste Restante, Bloem-<br />
fontein South<br />
Africa.<br />
King, Louis , , , Authors' Club, London.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
LAFCADIO HEARN. By NINA H. KENNARD. 9 x 54.<br />
397 pp. Nash. 128. 6d. n.<br />
MY LADY CASTLEMAINE. Being a Life of Barbara Villiers,<br />
Countess of Castlemaine, afterwards Duchess of Cleveland.<br />
By P. W. SERGEANT. 87 x 53. 355 pp. Hutchinson.<br />
168, n.<br />
THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA. By RAFAEL SABATINI.<br />
9 x 52. 465 pp. Stanley Paul. 168. n.<br />
DRAMA<br />
THE WATERS OF BITTERNESS, a Play in Three Acts; and<br />
THE CLODHOPPER, an Incredible Comedy. By S. M.<br />
Fox. 73 x 51. 206 pp. Fisher Unwin. 28. 6d. n.<br />
NIGATS AT THE PLAY. By H. M. WALBROOK. 73 x 5.<br />
224 pp. Ham Smith. 58. n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL<br />
COMPARATIVE GRAMMAR OF THE GREEK LANGUAGE<br />
By J. WRIGHT, Ph. D., Professor of Comparative<br />
Philology in the University of Oxford. 70 X 5. 384 pp.<br />
Frowde. 68. n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
AT THE COURT OF IL MORO. By LOUISE M. STACPOOLE<br />
KENNY. 78 x 5. 320 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
MR. WYCHERLY'S WARDS. By L. ALLEN HARKER.<br />
7 X 5. 282 pp. Murray. 68.<br />
THE ACTIVITIES OF LAVIE JUTT. By MARGUERITE and<br />
ARMIGER BARCLAY. 74 x 5. 288 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.<br />
PRINCESS KATHARINE. By KATHARINE TYNAN. 78 x 5.<br />
320 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
ANTON OF THE ALPS. By W. VICTOR COOK. 73 x 5.<br />
304 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
MAN AND DREAMS. By MARY E. MANN. 74 x 5.<br />
312 pp. Mills & Boon. 6s.<br />
IN TIME'S STOREROOMS. By ETHEL BALFOUR. 74 x 5.<br />
356 pp. Ouseley. 68.<br />
FIRE I TAE FLINT. By Mrs. J. O. ARNOLD. 329 pp.<br />
Alston Rivers. 68.<br />
STORIES IN GREY. By BARRY Paix. 7} x 43.320 pp.<br />
Werner Laurie.<br />
THE WAY OF AN EAGLE. By E. M. DELL: 74 x 5.<br />
368 pp. Fisher Unwin. 68.<br />
ENTER BRIDGET. By THOMAS COBB. 78 X 5. 312 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
A CHANGE OF SEX. By CHARLES KINROSS. 71 x 5.<br />
304 pp. John Long. 68.<br />
A MAN OF MARK. By ANTHONY HOPE. 61 x 4}<br />
282 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 124 (#552) ############################################<br />
<br />
124<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE ORDER OF RELEASE. By H. DE VERE STACPOOLE.<br />
71 x 7. 342 pp. Hutchinson. 6s.<br />
A GLORIOUS LIE. Ry DOROTHEA GERARD. 73 x 5.<br />
320 pp. John Long. 68. n.<br />
A GIVER IN SECRET. By THOMAS COBB. 7 + 5<br />
253 pp. Werner Laurie. 28. n.<br />
CHRISTINA. By L. G. MOBERLY. 74 x 6. 319 pp.<br />
Ward Lock. 68.<br />
ONLY AN ACTRESS. By “Rita.” (Cheap Reprint.)<br />
8} 54. 124 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
BRITISH BATTLES: MALPLAQUET. By HILAIRE BELLOC.<br />
63 X 41. 91 pp. Swift. 1s. n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
THE HIDDEN HIGHWAY. By FLORENCE BONE. Religious<br />
Tract Society. 68.<br />
THE WONDERFUL GATE. By FLORENCE BONE. Religious<br />
Tract Society. 28. 6d.<br />
LAW.<br />
INSURANCE LAW. Relating to all Risks other than Marine.<br />
By E. J. MACGILLIVRAY. 104 x 64. 1,142 pp. Sweet<br />
& Maxwell. £2 n.<br />
A DIGEST OF ENGLISH CIVIL LAW. By EDWARD JENKS.<br />
Book III. Law of Property. 10 X 61. 547 + 668 pp.<br />
Butterworth.<br />
LITERARY<br />
LA VIE ET LES HOMMES. Par FRANCIS GRIERSON.<br />
7 x 4!. 232 pp. Swift. 38. 6d. n.<br />
DANCE OF THE MONTHS. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. With<br />
Twelve Illustrations by MRS. ANNE T. BENTHALL.<br />
101 x 73. 170 pp. Gowans & Gray. 128. 60, n.<br />
THE DICKENS SOUVENIR, 1912. Edited by D. C. CAL-<br />
THROP and MAX PEMBERTON. 10 X 7. 236 pp.<br />
Chapman & Hall. 58. n.<br />
THE PRINCE. By Niccolo MACHIAVELLI. Translated<br />
into English by LUIGI RICCI. Henry Frowde. 28. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
POEMs. By GERALD GOULD. 86 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson.<br />
WINDFLOWERS. A BOOK OF LYRICS. By W. FORCE<br />
STEAD. 108 pp. Elliot Stock. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE LOST VOCATION. By MARIAN Fox. 6 x 41. 72 pp.<br />
ls. n.<br />
THE POETRY REVIEW. 93, Chancery Lane. 6d.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
THE TURCO-ITALIAN WAR AND ITS PROBLEMS. By<br />
SIR THOMAS BARCLAY. With an additional Chapter on<br />
Moslem Feeling. By THE RIGHT HONBLE. AMEER<br />
ALI, P.C. 84 X 54. 259 pp. Constable. 58. n.<br />
REFERENCE BOOKS.<br />
THE CLERGYMAN'S READY REFERENCE DIARY AND KALEN.<br />
DAR FOR 1912. Edited by THE REV. THEODORE JOANSON.<br />
6 x 31. George Allen & Co., Ltd. 38. 6d. ; 58. ; 68.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
MEMOIRS OF A HIGHLAND LADY. Edited by LADY<br />
STRACHEY. 8 X 5. 427 pp. Illustrated. Murray. 68. n.<br />
EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND. By MARGARET<br />
STOKES. Revised by G. N. COUNT PLUNKETT, F.S.A.<br />
106 Woodcuts. Dublin : Cahill & Co., 35, 36, 37, Great<br />
Strand Street. 18.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
PRINCESS AELFREDA'S CHARITY. By HENRY LANSDELL,<br />
D.D. Part I. Second Edition. 31 pp. Part II. 52 pp.<br />
63 X 4. Blackheath. Burnside. 60, each.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
BLACK'S GUIDE TO JERUSALEM. Second and Revised<br />
edition. Edited by EUSTACE REYNOLDS BALL. 210 pp.<br />
A. and C, Black. 28. 6d. 2.<br />
ALONE IN WEST AFRICA. By MARY GAUXT. 9 X 51.<br />
404 pp. Werner Laurie. 158. n.<br />
SHACKLETON IN THE ANTARCTIC. Being the Story of<br />
the British Antarctic Expedition, (1906–1909). By<br />
SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON, C.V.0. 74 X 41. 255 pp.<br />
Heinemann. ls. 60, n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS<br />
THE HOME AND THE CHILD. By E. W. MARTIN<br />
71 X 4f. 135 pp. Allen. 28. 6d.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
• MUSIC,<br />
THE ARISTOXENIAN THEORY OF MUSICAL RHYTHM<br />
By C. F. ABDY WILLIAMS. 191 pp. 91 X 61. Cam-<br />
bridge University Press. 128. 6d. n.<br />
Two EASTERN PICTURES. I. Spring. II. Summer. From<br />
a Poem of Kalidasa. For Female Voices and Harp (or<br />
Piano). By GUSTAV von HOLST. Stainer & Bell. 3d.<br />
CHORAL HYMNS FROM THE RIG VEDA. Three Hymns for<br />
Chorus of Mixed Voices and Orchestra. By GUSTAV VON<br />
HOLST. Tonic Sol-fa edition by H. J. TIMOTHY. Stainer<br />
& Bell. Staff Notation, ls, n. Tonic Sol-fa. 8d.<br />
KING ESTMERE. Old English Ballad for Chorus and<br />
Orchestra. By GUSTAV VON HOLST. Novello & Co.<br />
NAVAL.<br />
THE SUCTION CAUSED BY SHIPs. Explained in Popular<br />
Language and Illustrated by Simple Diagrams. And<br />
the Olympic-Hawke Collision. The Case analysed and<br />
cleared up with a Chart. By E. S, BELLASIS. 88. n.<br />
N E regret we were a little premature last month<br />
in our announcement of the publication<br />
of Mrs. L. Allen Harker's new novel,<br />
“Mr. Wycherly's Wards.” The novel was not<br />
published in December as our note suggested, but<br />
was ready for publication in January, during<br />
which month, it has, we understand, been published<br />
in America by Messrs. Scribners, and in Great<br />
Britain and Ireland by Mr. John Murray. Our<br />
apologies are due also to Mrs. L. Grant for an<br />
error in recording the title of her travel book.<br />
“ Twixt Sand and Sea " is the correct description,<br />
and we regret that we inadvertently referred to it<br />
as “Twixt Land and Sea.” Messrs. Sampson<br />
Low & Co. are the publishers.<br />
Messrs. George Allen & Co, have ready “ The<br />
Clergyman's Ready Reference Diary and Kalendar<br />
ORIENTAL.<br />
THE IRSHAD AL-ARIB ILĀ MA'RIFAT AL-ADIB, or<br />
DICTIONARY OF LEARNED MEN OF YAQUT. Edited by<br />
D. S. MARGOLIOUTH, Laudian Professor of Arabic in<br />
the University of Oxford. Vol. V. 93 x 61. 10s.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 125 (#553) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
125<br />
for 1912,” which is now in its twentieth year. It published by Foyle's Printing Works. The poem,<br />
is edited by the Rev. Theodore Johnson, and should from which the volume takes its title, is in the<br />
prove useful to the clergy and their parish workers. nature of an historical essay, and intended to<br />
Among its contents may be mentioned a visitation appeal to the patriotism of the ordinary reader.<br />
list, confirmation classes, occasional duty, sermons “Fire 1' the Flint," by Mrs. J. 0. Arnold,<br />
preached, diary of district visitors, choir attendances, author of “The Fiddler," is a romance of a<br />
etc. It is issued in cloth limp (38. 6d.); paste Morris dancer, whose social rise follows her<br />
grain, gilt edges (58.), and in the latter form with departure to London from the village in which<br />
pocket and tuck, or flap and elastic band (6s.). she is discovered at the opening of the story.<br />
Mr. Carlton Dawe's new novel, “ Eternal The work deals, incidentally, with various phases<br />
Glory," is announced for early publication by Mr. of the awakening of city and countryside to<br />
J. Eveleigh Nash.<br />
beauty and rhythm, and contains also descrip-<br />
Messrs. Macmillan & Co. will shortly issue tions of Morris dancing. Messrs. Alston Rivers<br />
* Examples and Exercises in English for Foreign are the publishers.<br />
Students,” by Wilfrid C. Thorley, this being a Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. will publish Miss<br />
sequel and supplement to the same writer's Emma Brooke's new novel, “ The House of<br />
* Primer of English for Foreign Students,” issued Robershaye,” on the 22nd of this month. Messrs.<br />
by them two years ago. The latter volume has Duffield will publish a small edition of the work in<br />
been accepted by the Belgian Ministry of Educa. New York.<br />
tion for the teaching of English in Government Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton will publish shortly<br />
schools, and is now being issued in a special Mrs. Fred Reynolds's new novel, “The Gifted<br />
edition for students in India, China and Japan. name," which tells how a young man inherits a<br />
“ Baby," by Edith C. Gerrard, is a little book of name made famous by some generations of clever<br />
poems, the keynote of which is the love for a men, how he tries in his turn to add lustre to the<br />
little child, whose photograph appears as a frontis- name, and how he through his failure finds<br />
piece in the book. The poems, thirty-one in success.<br />
number, appeal to the highest parental feeling, “Cupid and Cartridges,” by Aubrey O'Brien<br />
and express the joy created by the possession of and Reginald Bolster, tells the love story of the<br />
a little child. “Our Treasure in Heaven,” by the sister-in-law of a district officer of thc Westerni<br />
same writer, is a collection of poems, the raison Punjab. The setting of the story is the wild and<br />
d'étre of which was the death of a beloved child interesting country in and near the Indus, whose<br />
under distressing and tragic circumstances. The peasantry and curious hunting tribes, together<br />
poems were written during the first week of with the sport to be obtained in the locality, are<br />
tribulation. Both books are issued by Mr. Elliot described in the book which Messrs. Blackwood<br />
Stock.<br />
publish.<br />
* Sheila Donovan: a Priest's Love Story," by Mr. Herbert Trench's “ Lyrics and Narrative<br />
Gordon Pelham, has for its theme the sufferings of Poems,” which contain the “ Prelude to a Masque,”<br />
remorse in the soul of a penitent priest. It is spoken by Mrs. Patrick Campbell at the Coronation<br />
published at 68., and copies may be obtained of Gala Performance at His Majesty's Theatre,<br />
Dr. Ford, Taddington, Buxton, or of all book together with fifteen new poems, fourteen odes,<br />
sellers.<br />
fifty lyrical poems, and three narratives, including<br />
The January issue of Science Progress contains “ Apollo and the Seaman," has just been pub-<br />
an article by Mr. F. Carrel, entitled the “Inter- lished by Messrs. Hodder & Stoughton, in one<br />
pretation of Life."<br />
volume.<br />
Vol. 43 of the World's Classics is * The Prince,” Mrs. Gertie de S. Wentworth-James' new novel,<br />
by Niccolo Machiavelli. The translation is the “Barter," is now being issued by Messrs. Everett<br />
work of Mr. Luigi Ricci, from whom copies can & Co. Her last book, “ The House of Chance"<br />
be obtained at 38, Conduit Street, W., or from (which ran serially with Messrs. Newnes), has gone<br />
the publisher, Mr. Henry Frowde, of Amen into three English editions, and is sold to the<br />
Corner.<br />
Messrs. B. W. Dodge Co. for immediate publica-<br />
Mrs. Stanley Wrench's new story, “ Ruth of tion in America. " The Price” (published by<br />
the Rowldrich,” is to appear this month through Messrs. Everett & Co.) was brought out by<br />
Messrs. Mills & Boon. It is a story of a woman Mitchell Kennedy in America. She is now<br />
divided between her love of the country with the engaged writing “ The Escort,” which will be<br />
folk to whom she belongs, and the fascination of published later in the year. “The Lesson” (a<br />
the “life literary” into which she is drawn. eugenics novel published last year) is now issued<br />
* The Lamp of England, and other Verses,” in 1s. forin, and there is a possibility of “ Flossie"<br />
is a volume of verses by Capt. R. R. Gibson, (a story which ran in Throne and Country, and<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 126 (#554) ############################################<br />
<br />
126<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
appeared subsequently in 1s. book form) being 40, Lower Ormond Quay, 35, 36, 37, Great Strand<br />
dramatised for the musical comedy stage.<br />
Street, Dublin.<br />
A third and cheap edition of “The Truth about The Amateur Photographic News contains an<br />
Man," by a Spinster, is on the way, published by article on “ Colour Photography : A Visit to ihe<br />
Messrs. Hutchinson. This book, after appearing in Home of the Autochrome," by Alice Worsley.<br />
The Lady's Realm, ran through M. A. P. a few In the January issue of The World's Work<br />
years back, and in book form at 58. in 1905. “ Home Counties” writes an article entitled<br />
In November R. & T. Washbourne issued “ The “ Unsophisticated Jam,” wbich contains some<br />
Knight of the Green Shield,” a story of the Crusade interesting facts on jam as an article of food. In<br />
of the Saint-King-Louis the Ninth—by Louise the same magazine Mr. Harvey O'Higgins tells<br />
Stacpoole Kenny. The hero, Raoul de Châtillon, is Detective Burns' story of the arrest of the American<br />
a Knight Commander of the Order of the White Union officials accused of dynamite outrages in the<br />
Lady of the Green Shield, and after a severe cause of labour.<br />
mental struggle he decided to remain in France Miss Florence Bone has published, through the<br />
and fulfil the duties of that Order, devoting him- Religions Tract Society, two new books entitled<br />
self to the succour of distressed women and respectively “The Hidden Highway” and “The<br />
children. Later on he is called to take the Red Wonderful Gate.” Another book from the same<br />
Cross of the Crusader. He joins the Army at writer will appear in the spring, through the<br />
Damietta, is present at the battle of Mansourah, Religious Tract Society.<br />
and is rescued in a wonderful way from almost Miss Olivia Ramsey's new novel - Two Men and<br />
certain death. He accompanies the Saint-King to a Governess” has also been published by John<br />
the Holy Land, and after many adventures the Long. It is a story of romantic love and the sad<br />
story ends happily in France.<br />
consequences that follow.<br />
Mrs. Stacpoole Kenny's new novel, “ At the<br />
Court of Il Moro,” was published last month by<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
John Long. It is an historical romance of<br />
the days when Lodovico Sforza II Moro ruled “ The Waters of Bitterness," a play in three acts,<br />
Milan. The hero, a young Englishman, is Captain and “The Clodhopper,” an incredible comedy by<br />
of the Guard, at the Court of Duke Ercole d'Este, S. M. Fox, bave appeared in one volume by T.<br />
and escorts the wonderful child Beatrice d'Este on Fisher Unwin. It may be recalled that a one-act<br />
her wedding journey from Ferrara to Milan. version of the former play was produced by the<br />
Leonardo da Vinci, and his pupils, the beautiful Stage Society at the Imperial Theatre in June, 1903.<br />
Isabella d'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, the A new one-act naval play, “Calamity Jane R.N.,"<br />
irresistible Squire of Dames, Galeazzo di San by Major W. P. Drury, was produced at the Globe<br />
Severino, and many other distinguished people Theatre last month, preceding Mr. Anstey's play,<br />
form a picturesque background to a romantic story “ Vice Versa.” It dealt with the doings of four old<br />
of love and adventure.<br />
pensioned sailormen in their second childhood.<br />
A second edition is announced by Messrs. A. & “ The Lady with a White Hand," a romantic<br />
C. Black of their “Guide to Jerusalem,” edited by drama by Génile de Rénique, has been produced<br />
Eustace Reynolds-Ball. The work, which contains for copyright purposes at the Wimbledon Theatre.<br />
excursions to Bethlehem, Hebron, Jericho, the We have received the prospectus of the Molière<br />
Dead Sea and the Jordan, Nablous, Nazareth, etc., Society, which has been formed for the performance<br />
has been enlarged, with plan of Jerusalem, four of French dramatic works and the reading of<br />
maps, and five page illustrations.<br />
French classical poetry. Full particulars as to<br />
Miss Peggy Webling's new novel, entitled membership and performances may be obtained on<br />
“ Felix Christie,” is to be published by Messrs. application to the Hon. Secretary, Miss Constance<br />
Methuen & Co. on February 15.<br />
A. Meredyth, 10, Harley Street, W. The society<br />
Miss Margaret Stokes's “Sketch of Early Christian is shortly to produce Molière's comedy in five acts,<br />
Art in Ireland,” published for the Victoria and “Le Tartuffe,” to be followed by a new sketch<br />
Albert Museum, South Kensington, in 1887, has by Hilaire Belloc, entitled “The Candour of<br />
been re-issued under the auspices of the National Maturity."<br />
Museum of Science and Art, Dublin. The re-issue Mr. R. C. Carton's new play at the Comedy<br />
has been produced under the editorship of G. N. Theatre is a farcical comedy in four acts. It deals<br />
Count Plunkett. While the editor has, as far as with fashionable people, and the action takes place<br />
possible, preserved the wording of Miss Stokes, some in a West-End house. The cast includes Miss<br />
alterations in the text have been found necessary. Compton (who in the play is a leader of fashion),<br />
There are 106 woodcuts in the volume, which is Mr. Edmund Gwenn, Mr. Donald Calthrop, and<br />
printed for H. M. Stationery Office by Cahill & Co., Miss Mary Brough.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 127 (#555) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
127<br />
During the absence of Miss Horniman, who has<br />
sailed for Canada, whither she will shortly be<br />
followed by her repertory company, Miss Darragh<br />
will continue her repertory work for a seven weeks<br />
season at the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester—“The<br />
Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith," “ The Walls of Jericho,”<br />
66 Arms and the Man,” and “The Likeness of the<br />
Night" (the last mentioned re-written by the<br />
anthoress, Mrs. Clifford). In addition, “The Perfect<br />
Widow," an original play by Gilbert Cannan, " The<br />
Fountain,” by George Calderon, a new play by<br />
John Galsworthy, as well as several one-act plays,<br />
will be produced.<br />
The New Players are giving, by permission of<br />
Professor Gilbert Murray, his translation of the<br />
“ Medea " of Euripides at the Kingsway Theatre,<br />
on Monday, February 5, at 2.30. Applications for<br />
tickets should be addressed to the Hon. Secretary<br />
of the New Players' Society at 19, Overstrand<br />
Mansions, Battersea Park, s.W.<br />
During the past month. Professor Gilbert<br />
Murray's version of “ (Edipus Rex” has been<br />
produced with lavish expenditure and care at the<br />
Covent Garden Opera House. Mr. Martin Harvey<br />
has given a wonderful interpretation of the name<br />
part, and Miss Lillah McCarthy has ably seconded<br />
him in the character of Jocasta. The performance<br />
has been staged-managed by Mr. Max Reinhardt,<br />
who is also running “ The Miracle” at Olympia<br />
Sir Arthur Pinero's new play, to be produced at<br />
the Duke of York's Theatre, is to be entitled “The<br />
Mind—the Paint-Girl.” At the moment of going<br />
to press the exact date has not been fixed.<br />
the author of the work chosen by his jury. The<br />
book may be literary, artistic or scientific, but it<br />
must be published in the French language.<br />
“Madame de Genlis," by Jean Harmand, with a<br />
preface by Emile Faguet, is an extremely interesting<br />
account of this remarkable woman, who refused<br />
what the women of to-day are, perhaps wisely, not<br />
offered, an Academy fauteuil.<br />
“La Mère et l'Enfant,” by Charles-Louis Philippe,<br />
is a new edition of this book, containing much<br />
hitherto unpublished matter. The publication of<br />
this work makes us regret all the more deeply the<br />
premature death of its author. In its exquisite<br />
simplicity and deep feeling, it reminds one of the<br />
poem in which Sully Prudhomme describes his<br />
feelings when sent away to school for the first<br />
time. The whole book makes us realise how<br />
much the literary world lost by the death of this<br />
writer.<br />
“Les derniers jours de Paul Verlaine," by<br />
F. H. Cazals and Gustave Le Rouge, is a book<br />
that has attracted a great deal of attention.<br />
Maurice Barrès writes a preface to it. The life of<br />
the incorrigible Lelian was a veritable romance, and<br />
his biographers have written their account of his<br />
last days as their tribute to his memory.<br />
A work of great interest to archæologists is one<br />
just published by the Imprimerie Nationale,<br />
entitled “Fouilles à Samara, en Mesopotamie,<br />
Un Valois musulman du neuvième siècle," by<br />
H. Viollet, architecte diplômé par le Gouvernement.<br />
M. Viollet was entrusted with a mission by the<br />
Board of Education, and, with his intrepid wife<br />
and a collaborator, M. Godard, he set out for<br />
Mesopotamia in 1910. As he had already been<br />
there several times, it was more easy for him to.<br />
explore the region, and he was fortunate enough to<br />
be able to commence excavations about a hundred<br />
kilometres north of Bagdad, where he had dis-<br />
covered the ruins of a palace of the ninth century.<br />
It is an account of the result of these excavations<br />
which is now published by the Académie des inscrip-<br />
tions et belles-lettres.<br />
"Le Pelerinage de Sainte Brigitte," by Heiden-<br />
stam, translated by Mme. Palmer, is the account of<br />
the life of Ste. Brigitte, a story of real life as<br />
interesting as any novel.<br />
Among translations, “ Deux Yeux bleus," by<br />
Thomas Hardy, translated by Eve Paul-Mar-<br />
gueritte.<br />
The Revue Hebdomadaire publishes an article<br />
on Paul Lafargue, by Hubert Lagardelle. He<br />
styles the son-in-law of Karl Marx “the last<br />
idealist of materialism.” M. Gabriel Hanotaux<br />
writes on “L’Arrangement franco-allemand<br />
devant le Sénat," and Jacques Bardoux on “Le<br />
Maroc et la voie ferrée." Frédéric Barbey gives an<br />
instructive article on “Le Pekin de l'Empereur,"<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
M<br />
HE event of the past month in the literary<br />
world of Paris was undoubtedly M. Henri<br />
de Regnier's reception at the Académie<br />
Française.<br />
The newly-elected Academician made an admir-<br />
able speech in praise of the late Vicomte Melchior de<br />
Vogüé, giving a brief account of his life and works.<br />
The Comte de Mun's speech of welcome to M. de<br />
Regnier was greatly appreciated by the audience.<br />
M. de Regnier enters the French Academy by<br />
virtue of his poetry and of his prose writings, many<br />
of which are delightful stories. Among the best<br />
known of his works are “ Vacances du jeune homme<br />
sage,” “ La Cité des eaux,” and “Sandale ailée."<br />
M. Maeterlinck intends to found a literary prize<br />
with the money he receives for the Nobel prize<br />
It is his intention to make up the amount him.<br />
self, and to offer 16,000 francs every second year to<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 128 (#556) ############################################<br />
<br />
128<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
and Paul Adam writes on “La Science et la This is an appeal from a decree restraining an<br />
tradition.”<br />
alleged infringement of the copyright upon the late<br />
In an article entitled “En Chine : l'agonie d'un General Lew Wallace's book“Ben Hur," 169<br />
régime,” M. René Moulin gives an admirable Fed. Rep. 61 ; 94 C. C. A. 429. The case was<br />
description of the present crisis in China, and heard on the pleadings and an agreed statement of<br />
Comte Jean d'Elbee supplies us with much interest- facts, and the only issue is whether those facts<br />
ing information respecting “ Les Débuts de la constitute an infringement of the copyright upon<br />
France en Afrique occidentale ; Adauzon I. roi de the book. So far as they need to be stated here<br />
Guinée et Louis XIV."<br />
they are as follows. The appellant and defendant,<br />
“Les Favorites,” by Alfred Capus, is a success the Kalem Company, is engaged in the production<br />
at the Variétés. The plot is slight, but the of moving picture films, the operation and effect<br />
dialogue brilliant, as in all the plays by this author. of which are too well known to require description.<br />
M. Bourdolle, as Minister of Education, makes the By means of them, anything of general interest,<br />
unfortunate mistake of saying too much in public. from a coronation to a prize fight, is presented to<br />
The ministry falls, and an English Jew offers the public with almost the illusion of reality-<br />
M. Bourdolle the editorship of an important news- latterly even colour being more or less reproduced.<br />
paper entitled Heaven and Earth. Bourdolle's The defendant employed a man to read “ Ben<br />
private life is by no means blameless, and his wife Hur” and to write out such a description or<br />
leaves him. Very shortly after this he is appointed scenario of certain portions that it could be fol-<br />
Home Minister, whereupon his wife decides to lowed in action, these portions giving enough of<br />
return to bim. The whole virtue of the piece is in the story to be identified with ease. It then caused<br />
the psychological studies that it offers and in the the described action to be performed, and took<br />
brilliant dialogue.<br />
negatives for moving pictures of the scenes, from<br />
At the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, “Lucrèce which it produced filins suitable for exhibition.<br />
Borgia” has been given, and at the Porte Saint These films it expected and intended to sell for<br />
Martin “ La Flambée.” At the Renaissance “Pour use as moving pictures in the way in which such<br />
rivre heureux” has been filling the house, anà at pictures commonly are used. It advertised them<br />
the Chatelet “La Course aux dollars.” At the under the title “Ben Hur.” “Scenery and<br />
Théâtre Femina a literary fête has been given in Supers by Pain's Fireworks Co. Costumes from<br />
honour of Sarah Bernhardt. Twenty-three poems Metropolitan Opera House. Chariot Race by<br />
dedicated to her were read, and among the poets 3rd Battery, Brooklyn. Positively the Most<br />
were the Duchesse de Rohan, Jean Aicard, Edmond Superb Moving Picture Spectacle ever Produced<br />
Haraucourt, Mounet-Sully, Emile Blémont, and in America. In Sixteen Magnificent Scenes,” etc.,<br />
Fernand Gregh.<br />
with taking titles, culininating in “Ben Hur<br />
Mlle. Marie Lenéru, the author of "Les Victor.” It sold the films, and public exhibitions<br />
Affranchis,” has just had another brilliant success from them took place.<br />
with her play “Le Redoutable.” It was put on The sub-division of the question that has the<br />
admirably at the Odéon by M. Antoine.<br />
most general importance is whether the public<br />
“Rue de la Paix” is the title of the new piece exhibition of these moving pictures infringed any<br />
by MM. Abel Hermant and Marc de Toledo, now rights under the copyright law. By Rer. Stai.<br />
being played at the Vaudeville.<br />
sec. 4952, as amended by the Act of March 3,<br />
1891, C. 565, 26 Stat. 1106, authors have the<br />
“ Madame de Genlis” (Perrin).<br />
exclusive right to dramatise any of their works.<br />
- Le Pelérinage de Sainte Brigitte" (Perrin).<br />
So, if the exhibition was founded on a drama-<br />
tising of “ Ben Hur,” this copyright was infringed.<br />
We are of opinion that “Ben Hur" was drama-<br />
tised by what was done. Whether we consider<br />
UNITED STATES LAW CASE.<br />
the purpose of this clause of the statute, or<br />
the etymological history and present usages of<br />
KALEM COMPANY, APPELLANT, V. HARPER<br />
language, drama may be achieved by action as<br />
BROTHERS, MARC KLAW, ABRAHAM ERLAN-<br />
well as by speech. Action can tell a story, display<br />
GER AND HENRY L. WALLACE.<br />
all the most vivid relations between men, and<br />
depict every kind of human emotion, without the<br />
PPEAL from the United States Circuit aid of a word. It would be impossible to deny the<br />
1 Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. title of drama to pantomime as played by masters<br />
(November 13, 1911.)<br />
of the art (Daly v. Palmer, 6 Blatchf. 256, 264).<br />
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the But if a pantomime of “ Ben Hur" would be a<br />
Court.<br />
dramatising of “ Ben Hur," it would be none the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 129 (#557) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
129<br />
less so that it was exhibited to the audience by part in the final act. It is liable on principles<br />
reflection from a glass and not by direct vision of recognised in every part of the law: Rupp and<br />
the figures—as sometimes has been done in order Wittgenfeld Co. v. Elliott, 131 Fed. Rep. 730, 732;<br />
to produce ghostly or inexplicable effects. The Harper v. Shoppell, 28 Fed. Rep. 613; Morgan<br />
essence of the matter in the case last supposed is Envelope Co. v. Albany Paper Co., 152 U. S.<br />
not the mechanism employed but that we see the 425, 433.<br />
event or story lived. The moving pictures are I t is argued that the law construed as we have<br />
only less vivid than reflections from a mirror. construed it goes beyond the power conferred<br />
With the former, as with the latter, our visual upon Congress by the Constitution to secure to<br />
impression—what we see—is caused by the real authors for a limited time the exclusive right to<br />
pantomime of real men through the medium of their writings : Art. 1, sect. 8, ch. 8. It is<br />
natural forces, although the machinery is differeut suggested that to extend the copyright to a case<br />
and more complex. How it would be if the illu- like this is to extend it to the ideas as distin-<br />
sion of motion were produced from paintings guished from the words in which those ideas are<br />
instead of from photographs of the real thing may clothed. But there is no attempt to make a<br />
be left open until the question shall arise.<br />
monopoly of the ideas expressed. The law confines<br />
It is said that pictures of scenes in a novel may itself to a particular, cognate and well-known form<br />
be made and exhibited without infringing the of reproduction. If to that extent a grant of<br />
copyright and that they may be copyrighted monopoly is thought a proper way to secure the<br />
themselves. Indeed it was conceded by the right to the writings, this Court cannot say that<br />
Circuit Court of Appeals that these films could Congress was wrong. Decree affirmed.<br />
be copyrighted and, we may assume, could be<br />
exhibited as photographs. Whether this concession<br />
is correct or not, in view of the fact that they<br />
are photographs of an unlawful dramatisation of<br />
the novel, we need not decide. . We will assume<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
that it is. But it does not follow that the use of<br />
them in motion does not infringe the author's<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
rights. The most innocent objects, such as the<br />
mirror in the other case that we have supposed,<br />
Ruskin. By Basil de Selincourt.<br />
Mr. Henry James and His Prefaces. By Mrs. Sturge<br />
may be used for unlawful purposes. And if, as<br />
Gretton.<br />
we have tried to show, moving pictures may be Literary Supplement: The Spirit of Cæsar.<br />
used for dramatising a novel, when the photo-<br />
graphs are used in that way they are used to<br />
CORNHILL<br />
infringe a right which the statute reserves.<br />
A New Poem by Thackeray. Written at Weimar.<br />
But again it is said that the defendant did not At the sign of the Plough. Shakespeare : the Falstaff<br />
produce the representations, but merely sold the<br />
Cycle. By Sir Frederick Pollock, Bart.<br />
films to jobbers, and on that ground ought not to<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
be held responsible. Where an ordinary article<br />
of commerce is sold nice questions may arise as to<br />
Among My Books. By Frederic Harrison.<br />
the point at which the seller becomes an accomplice<br />
A New Study of English Poetry. By Henry Newbolt.<br />
The Puritan and The Theatre. By Haldane McFall.<br />
in a subsequent illegal use by the buyer. It has<br />
been held that mere indifferent supposition or<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
knowledge on the part of the seller that the buyer<br />
Literature and Journalism. By T. H. S. Escott.<br />
of spirituous liquor is contemplating such uniawful<br />
England's Taste in Literature. By Raymond Blathwayt.<br />
use is not enough to connect him with the possible<br />
unlawful consequences (Graves V. Johnson, 179<br />
Mass. 53), but that iſ the fale was made with a<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
view to the illegal resale the price could not be<br />
recovered (Graves v. Johnson, 156 Mass. 211).<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
But no such niceties are involved here. The<br />
Front Page<br />
defendant not only expected but invoked by Other Pages<br />
... ... 3 0 0<br />
...<br />
advertisement the use of films for dramatic repro-<br />
... 1 10 0<br />
Quarter of Peace<br />
... ... 0 15 0<br />
duction of the story. That was the most con-<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
... 0 7 6<br />
spicuous purpose for which they could be used.<br />
and the one for which especially they were made,<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent, made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent. for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
If the defendant did not contribute to the infringe-<br />
ment it is impossible to do so except by taking BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
"<br />
...<br />
...£4<br />
0<br />
0<br />
Half of a Page ...<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
per inch 0<br />
6<br />
0<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements shoull be addressed to J. F.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 130 (#558) ############################################<br />
<br />
130<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. ER<br />
TE 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 connsel's opinion without<br />
any cost to the member. Moreover, where counsel's<br />
opinion is favonrable, 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 £10 108. 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 />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
NTEVER 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 />
H 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 />
<br />
## p. 131 (#559) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
131<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<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 />
(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 />
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 />
& 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 />
CENARIOS, 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 />
<br />
<br />
## p. 132 (#560) ############################################<br />
<br />
132<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
each performance, just as they are paid a percentage<br />
on the gross receipts of performances of their plays.<br />
Another suggestion put forward is that they should<br />
receive so much per metre of film, the payment to<br />
be repeated every time the film is displayed.<br />
The question of the remuneration authors should<br />
receive for these rights is, of course, one of some<br />
difficulty. For the present, therefore, we would<br />
difficolto Fo<br />
only urge all authors whose work is likely to be<br />
adaptable to the cinematograph, not to part with<br />
their rights over this form of reproduction without<br />
advice.<br />
THE COPYRIGHT ACT.<br />
WE publish, as a supplement to this issue of The<br />
Author, the text of the new Copyright Law which<br />
will probably come into operation on July 1st.<br />
Most of our readers are probably fairly familiar<br />
with the main features of the new Act, but we<br />
recommend them to study its sections not the less<br />
carefully on this account. An Act which covers<br />
literary, dramatic, musical and artistic property<br />
is of vital in.portance to all members of the society,<br />
which includes in its ranks holders of all these<br />
separate forms of copyright work.<br />
In addition, however, to recommending our<br />
members generally to study the provisions of the<br />
Act, we would direct the particular attention of<br />
composers to the gramophone clauses, and of<br />
novelists, and dramatists to the question of cine-<br />
matograph performances, which, under the Act,<br />
they will now be able to control.<br />
The gramophone clauses are not altogether to<br />
the liking of composers, and the committee of the<br />
society regret that the Government have admitted<br />
the principle of compulsory licence into these<br />
clauses, despite the objections urged by the society<br />
on behalf of, though with one or two honourable<br />
exceptions, without much help from, musical<br />
composers. However, as the clauses are in the<br />
Bill, composers must study them carefully and<br />
decide as to the attitude they propose to take in<br />
regard to them.<br />
In order to help them, as well as to look after<br />
their interests generally, the committee of the<br />
society has authorised the formation of a sub-com-<br />
mittee to act for composers on the same lines as the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee acts for dramatists. That<br />
sub-committee is uow being formed, and will shortly<br />
begin its work on behalf of musical composers.<br />
SIR RIDER Haggard.<br />
No one will deny that Sir Rider Haggard<br />
well merits the honour conferred on him at the<br />
beginning of the year, and we feel sure that he will<br />
receive no warmer congratulations than those of<br />
his comrades in the profession of letters. Of his<br />
books, which are read universally, there is no need<br />
to make mention in these columns, but we desire<br />
to lay special stress on the work he has done for<br />
the society in the past-for his brother authors.<br />
He joined the society in its very early days, and was<br />
a member of the committee during a period of<br />
storm and stress, and in 1897-8 undertook the<br />
arduous duties of chairman.<br />
The society cannot grant honours, it can but<br />
offer him warm congratulations, and thanks for<br />
what he has done in past years.<br />
BANKERS' ORDERS.<br />
THE secretary would again like to call the<br />
attention of members to the fact that the three<br />
following bankers' orders are still lying unclaimed<br />
and unsigned at this office :<br />
Bankers' order for 10s. drawn on the London<br />
County & Westininster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' order for 10s drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' order for 58. drawn on the London<br />
County & Westminster Bank, Kensington. W.<br />
If this notice should chance to met the eyes of<br />
those who forwarded these orders the secretary<br />
would be much obliged if a communication is<br />
addressed to him.<br />
CINEMATOGRAPH RIGHTS.<br />
The question of the marketing of the cinemato-<br />
graph rights of writers and dramatists is also<br />
engaging the attention of the Dramatic Sub-Com-<br />
mittee. Already some information has been obtained<br />
from France showing the conditions prevalent in<br />
that country, where progress in the cinematograph<br />
theatre has been greater than in England. Hitherto,<br />
dramatists in that country have been content to<br />
accept payment for their works at the rate of so<br />
much per metre of film sold. But they are now<br />
beginning to realise that this method of remunera-<br />
tion, ignoring as it does all question of the number<br />
of performances or displays of the filın, does not<br />
give them a fair return for their work. They are<br />
now agitating for a percentage on the gross receipts of<br />
FRENCH COPYRIGHT.<br />
In another column we publish an article dealing<br />
with a question of French copyright, to which our<br />
attention was drawn by Mr. E. Latham, a member<br />
of the society.<br />
A s will be seen, the article was originally pub-<br />
lished in a French paper. The point is one of<br />
some interest, but we cannot agree with the French<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 133 (#561) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
133<br />
author. The fewer the formalities necessary in<br />
order to obtain title to copyright the better it is for<br />
all authors. Under the copyright law which has<br />
just been passed registration is unnecessary, the<br />
term of copyright running for the life of the author<br />
and fifty years after his death. There should be<br />
no difficulty in finding particulars of an author's<br />
death, as all civilised countries keep death registers.<br />
The only question that might arise would be in the<br />
case of posthumous works where the period of copy-<br />
right runs for fifty years from the date of publica-<br />
tion, but with a record, such as is kept by the<br />
authorities of the British Museum, it would not<br />
be difficult even then to ascertain the date.<br />
She had a beautiful speaking voice, and her<br />
intimate friends will never forget the evenings<br />
round her study fire when she would recite poem<br />
after poem from an apparently boundless repertory.<br />
Her little poetry bookcase is wide in its range-<br />
from Swinburne to Kipling, Christina Rossetti, and<br />
Mrs. Hamilton King ; but latterly, perhaps, she<br />
loved best a few of the poems of Whittier, and<br />
indeed his “ Autograph,” “My Psalm,” and “ The<br />
Light that is Felt" represent as nearly as any-<br />
thing can her attitude to life and to the things<br />
unseen.<br />
MARGARET TODD, M.D.<br />
SOPHIA JEX-BLAKE, M.D.<br />
FRENCH AUTHORS AND CINEMATOGRAPH<br />
THEATRES.<br />
Qo much has already been written in the daily (Report presented by M. André Henze, of the Pro-<br />
D press about the public life of Sophia Jex fessional Syndicate of Dramatic Authors and<br />
Blake, that it only remains to add here a few<br />
Composers.)<br />
lines about her relation to literature in general and M HE picture palace is the playhouse of the<br />
to the Society of Authors in particular.<br />
1 future : so declared the co nsulting engineer<br />
She joined the Society in 1892, and remained a of one of our most important cinematograph<br />
loyal and appreciative member up to the time of companies some years ago.<br />
her death. Her own published works include This prophecy, which so well expressed the ideal<br />
“ Medical Women,” “A Visit to the American in cinematograph exhibitions, will figure long as<br />
schools and Colleges," and a number of articles in an exordium on the title page of an important<br />
The Nineteenth Century, &c. Even on subjects professional journal, The Phono Cino Gazette. It<br />
that moved her deeply she wrote with dignity and was perfectly correct, as a walk along the<br />
restraint, and it is doubtful whether she ever penned boulevards to-day amply shows.<br />
a slovenly sentence in her life. Her style was If to-day the picture palace is not yet a theatre<br />
pellucid always, but she would have been the last in itself, it is at least a very important part of the<br />
to claim for her work any real place in literature. theatre.<br />
On the other hand, her appreciation for the work of It is no longer satisfied, as at the start of the<br />
others was extraordinarily keen. Never a rich invention of the cinematograph, to exhibit such<br />
woman, and economical both by tradition and pictures as “ A tram entering a station ” or “The<br />
personal taste, she always spoke of books as her one review of July 14th," but now offers to the public<br />
real extravagance. Her recent purchases include a veritable pieces, played by actors and written by<br />
fine copy of “ The Book of the Dead," and a some of the most celebrated dramatists. The<br />
quantity of scientific, historical, and polemical Academie Française and the Comedie Française<br />
works—these last being chiefly on the subject of itself does not hesitate to co-operate for the<br />
Modernism. Here Father Tyrrell was the prime greater glory of the picture palace.<br />
favourite, but Harnack, Loisy, and many others The most celebrated works and stories are daily<br />
are represented. She was a great believer in the represented in animated picture form in some<br />
restorative power of a good novel, and when people thousands of theatres, Molière, Corneille, Racine,<br />
came to her -as they often did-in trouble of body Shakespeare, Musset, Victor Hugo, Sardoni,<br />
or mind, her advice was very apt to close with the Lavedan, Rostand Henrique, etc., etc., have all<br />
words, “And now shall I lend you some novels ? " had their works exploited in this way. Powerful<br />
In addition to the established classics, one finds on companies armed with considerable capital have<br />
her shelves complete sets of Stevenson, Hardy, organised with a view to buying theatres<br />
Henry James, and numerous other living novelists and to constructing halls where cinematograph<br />
of distinction. She enjoyed a stirring story, but entertainments may be given.<br />
“San Celestino" was one of the favourites of recent In these circumstances, and in face of this<br />
days, and there was scarcely a living novelist whose activity, one may ask, not without some amazement,<br />
Work appealed to her more than did that of why the cinematograph theatre does not pay royalties<br />
Mrs. Wilfrid Ward.<br />
to authors as does any other theatre.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 134 (#562) ############################################<br />
<br />
134<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
How is it that an industry which each day The company's managers haring recognized the<br />
encroaches more and more on the province of the danger which they ran from the “ letter out" of<br />
theatre, which draws away from our big theatres films (a middle man who slipped in between the<br />
an increasing number of patrons, pays to the manufacturer and the directors of the theatres),<br />
authors no proportional royalty on the income they have started letting out films themselves, and<br />
which they obtain for it?<br />
this change is becoming more and more universal.<br />
Moreover, when it is remembered that the It is easy to understand now, by what process<br />
cinematograph theatre has practically no expenses, the dramatist is actually injured to the greater<br />
pays for neither scenery nor company, has scarcely profit of the hirer. Where fifty films for fifty<br />
any staff, uses next to no light, one is the more theatres were formerly necessary, not more than<br />
surprised at the fact that dramatic authors consent ten films are required to-day, and these films go<br />
to make over their works on terms infinitely the round of all the theatres. For the same<br />
inferior to those which they require from the number of representations the dramatist receives<br />
directors of theatres.<br />
one-fifth of his former income. It is clear from<br />
The takings of theatres and music halls this evidence that so long as the dramatist consents<br />
increased in Paris last year approximately to the to payment by the metre of films sold or put on<br />
sum of 30 million francs, on which sum authors the market he will certainly be victimised.<br />
and composers have drawn about 3,500,000 francs There is only one remuneration which is prac-<br />
in royalties.<br />
tical, just and equitable, i.e., that established some<br />
The receipts of cinematograph theatres during years since in all theatres. There is absolutely no<br />
the same year amounted to 8,500,000 francs. reason why dramatists should not receive royalties<br />
What have they paid in royalties to authors ? in proportion to the receipts of the cinematograph<br />
Hardly anything. And Paris, it should be company each time a film is exhibited.<br />
remembered, is concerned with only a small part If, as would appear, the interests of film producers<br />
of the proceeds of the cinematograph theatres over are inseparable from those of the dramatist, this<br />
the whole of France.<br />
should facilitate an arrangement for a fair division<br />
We anticipate the retort, “ You are wrong: of receipts.<br />
there do exist some companies which do protect I do not propose to deal with the petty objections<br />
their films, and pay authors' fees.” This retort, which certain interested persons might urge against<br />
unfortunately, is a little inexact, and it is of the this project. It is clear that, particularly at the<br />
greatest importance that dramatists should realise beginning, there would be some difficulties to over-<br />
that this apparent compensation is nothing more come, but having established, to begin with,<br />
than an illusion-a veritable sham.<br />
royalties proportional to the receipts for France,<br />
How, in reality, is the author of the film remune- where such an agreement could be easily reached<br />
rated ? He is paid so much per metre of film sold with the co-operation of the Society of Authors,<br />
But, and this is the essential part of it, what is we shall already have made a great step forward.<br />
important to dramatists is not the number of I believe I have made it clear that it is indis-<br />
metres of films sold, but the number of represen- pensable henceforth for dramatists, whose imagina-<br />
tations that each film furnishes. One film may tion furnishes the essential part of the material<br />
serve for a hundred representations.<br />
first necessary to the cinematograph theatre, to<br />
It is true that when the picture palaces first draw their royalties as in all other theatres.<br />
invited the co-operation of the dramatists, the If it were necessary to add reasons other than<br />
mode of remuneration proposed was perfectly fair. those which are concerned with the immediate<br />
But during the last few years a complete trans- interests of dramatists, I might add that the public<br />
formation has taken place in the cinematograph is realising, far more rapidly than is the dramatist,<br />
markets which has had the effect of diminishing the rapid development of the cinematograph theatre<br />
enormously the income of dramatic authors, and that for purposes of dramatic entertainment.<br />
in proportion as the success and popularity of their Further, the Society of Authors, Composers and<br />
works increased.<br />
Editors of Music have not failed to recognise the<br />
How has this paradoxical result been obtained ? rights for musical accompaniments of cinematograph<br />
Simply because the producers of films continue, pieces. This association has, in addition, adopted<br />
as formerly, to pay to the author by the metre of already a report, written by M. Joubert, its president,<br />
film sold, and the sale by this method has scarcely, upholding the rights of authors in regard to cine-<br />
if at, all increased. What has happened is that matograph productions.<br />
they have been content to lease the films. Formerly, The necessity, in the interests of dramatic<br />
the cinematograph theatre bought its films for authors, for deducting royalties, proportional to the<br />
its exhibition, while to-day it prefers to borrow takings appears, then, more and more evident. The<br />
them from the hirers.<br />
Society of Authors and Dramatic Composers must<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 135 (#563) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
135<br />
henceforth agitate for the recognition of these In the industrial world an invention is patented<br />
rights; any failure to do so would be regarded as a for a definite number of years, whatever may be<br />
regrettable negligence of which all authors would the term of life of the author, and this arrangement<br />
be the victims.<br />
is much more rational. All inventions are thus<br />
It is evident, moreover, that directors of theatres, placed on an equal footing, while in literature one<br />
aroused by the keen competition of the cinemato- work may remain private property for fifty years<br />
graph theatres, will ask some day, not without and another enjoy this privilege for one hundred<br />
reason, why they pay these royalties to authors years. A mediocre work may, in this way, bring<br />
who benefit so greatly their most formidable rivals. more royalty to the parties entitled thereto than a<br />
masterpiece. It is, I repeat, a lame piece of<br />
legislation and contrary to all common-sense.<br />
A QUESTION OF FRENCH COPYRIGHT.<br />
The way to remedy this state of things is, how-<br />
ever, very simple. The publisher should be com-<br />
pelled to print on the volume, at the time of putting<br />
(Published by the kind permission of the Editor of it into circulation, the date of publication. From<br />
Le Pêle-Mêle.)<br />
that moment the number of vears determined by<br />
IWO letters have reached me this week. bear the law (seventy years for instance) would begin to<br />
L ing a certain analogy to each other. One run. During that period the work would be the<br />
emanates from an inhabitant of Bastia property of the author or his successors ; and at<br />
named Albertini. This reader has in his hands an the end of that time it would become public<br />
engraving representing the entry into Paris of the property. From this alteration it would follow that,<br />
ashes of Napoleon I. Being desirous of making on seeing a copy of any literary work, we should<br />
this picture, which he considers a fine work of art, know the date of its becoming public property.<br />
known to the public, M. Albertini writes to us to The matter, as is evident, is not at all compli-<br />
know whether he may reprint it either on postcards cated. It answers to an idea of justice and sound<br />
or in any other manner. Now, the engraving bears logic. Are these sufficient reasons for its being<br />
both publisher's and author's names. The publisher taken into consideration ? I should not dare to<br />
apparently no longer exists, or at all events not maintain that they are, and in any case I impress<br />
under the same name. As to the author, there is no upon my correspondents that they should abstain<br />
mention of his name in any encyclopedia. Under from any literary or artistic resurrection until such<br />
these circumstances, what answer is to be given to time as the existing laws have been modified.<br />
M. Albertini ? To whom shonld he apply to obtain<br />
FRED. Isly.<br />
the information desired ? Not wishing to expose<br />
himself to any claim or legal proceedings, he will<br />
not carry out his idea. But this project, if the<br />
engraving really possesses the value attributed to it<br />
by my correspondent, constitutes a highly interest-<br />
THE LAW OF COPYRIGHT.*<br />
ing disinterment. The public, therefore, will be<br />
deprived of a work that is both artistic and his-<br />
torical. Does it not seem to ycu, the case frequently<br />
TT is generally the fact when persons hurry to be<br />
happening, that there is a gap in the laws concern-<br />
first on the market, or to be in advance of their<br />
ing artistic copyright?<br />
fellows, that some things are forgotten and<br />
The second letter comes from a bibliophile.<br />
many things are overlooked.<br />
Having in his hands a work which he would like<br />
Mr. L. C. F. Oldfield is the first to produce a<br />
to make known to his fellow-citizens, he has met,<br />
work on copyright dealing with the new Copy-<br />
like M. Albertini, with the name of an almost<br />
right Law of 1911, but the opening words of this<br />
unknown publisher and the name of an author<br />
article cannot be justified with regard to Mr. Old-<br />
known' still less. He also has given up the idea of<br />
field's book. It does not appear that in this case<br />
a literary resurrection. Here also our laws con-<br />
some things are forgotten or that many things<br />
cerning public property appear entirely defective<br />
are overlooked. It is true that some points might<br />
and unfavourable to our intellectual development.<br />
be amplified, but still the statements contained are<br />
These badly drawn-up laws call for reform ; and in<br />
clear for any person who is studying the question<br />
the first place it is absurd to let the date of a work<br />
of copyright property. The author's arrange-<br />
becoming public property depend on the date of<br />
ment of the book is, on the whole, satisfac-<br />
the author's death.<br />
tory. He has taken the new Copyright Law<br />
An author may disappear, expatriate himself,<br />
* "The Law of Copyright." By L.C. F. Oldfield, M.A.,<br />
change his name, go and die in some unknown F.c.s., of the Inner Temple and South Eastern Circuit,<br />
place, and his work never enters the public domain. Barrister-at-Law. Published by Butterworth & Co.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 136 (#564) ############################################<br />
<br />
136<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
section by section : he has expounded each section be upheld till something more certain has taken<br />
as he goes along, showing how it differs from the place in the Colonies.<br />
old law, how it meets the requirements of Inter- Interpretations of the wording in some of the<br />
national Law ; and he states definitely what points sections by judical decisions will be needed, and<br />
have been gained and what points have been lost. thus a supplementary book will have to be written<br />
This method of procedure would naturally entail a before finality can be obtained. As a book,<br />
considerable amount of cross-indexing, because it however, written immediately after the passing of<br />
is impossible that one section could stand by itself. the law, it will be of great benefit to those who<br />
This cross-indexing, though a little confusing, is are anxious to study a very intricate subject.<br />
carefully and accurately done, and can be followed<br />
by anyone who cares to follow it. In those<br />
instances where the case law of the past will stand<br />
BOOK PRICES CURRENT.*<br />
in the present Act, he has quoted the cases and<br />
has given the references. His paragraphs<br />
are clear and lucid, and the sections are handled<br />
T H E fourth and fifth parts of “ Book-Prices<br />
with as little complication as possible. As an<br />
Current" for 1911 complete the twenty-<br />
explanation of the new law, the method adopted is<br />
fifth volume of this very valuable work.<br />
perhaps the best method that could have been<br />
During the year covered by the volume the sales<br />
followed. The book is not a treatise on copyright<br />
have been fewer than in the year preceding, but<br />
property, as are some of the books now in existence the average price per lot has been slightly higher,<br />
dealing with the old law, but it explains the new,<br />
£2 14s. 5d. in 1911 against £2 98. ld. in 1910.<br />
and in doing so, effectively deals with the two<br />
The increase of price is due to several important<br />
most important points which have been omitted sales having taken place. Of particular interest to<br />
from the present law, that is, the abrogation of authors is the continually growing demand for<br />
the common law right and the cancellation of<br />
“Literary Manuscripts.” A single leaf of one of<br />
registration.<br />
the journals of Captain Cook sold at the Seton<br />
There is one point which we think Mr. Oldfield<br />
Veitch Sale (Sotheby, July 21, 1911) for £451.<br />
might have dealt with more fully, and one of special<br />
We have on more than one occasion called<br />
importance to all present holders of copyright pro- attention to the prices fetched by author's auto-<br />
perty, namely, what amplification of his present graph MSS. of recent popular works, and would<br />
rights an author or his representatives receives. urge upon all authors serious consideration of the<br />
For instance. take an unpublished artistic work great value that in certain cases attaches to theit<br />
the author of which has been dead for seven autograph manuscripts. It is a common thing<br />
years. Under the old law artistic copyright for authors, in their eagerness to secure publication<br />
endured for the life of the author and seven years<br />
vears<br />
and popularity,<br />
and popularity, to be entirely careless of their MSS.<br />
afterwards. Artistic works. with the exception in spite of the constantly recurring cases of auto-<br />
of engravings, do not come under posthumous graph MSS. selling for high prices. On June 12<br />
works in the new Act. Has the personal repres of the present year Messrs. Sotheby sold for $1,013<br />
sentative lost his copyright after the abrogation of<br />
ration of Fielding's original receipt for £600 for the cops-<br />
the common law right, or does he, on publication<br />
lication right of “ Tom Jones.”<br />
after the new Act comes into force, obtain a con-<br />
The Numbers IV. and V. before us cover the<br />
tinued right for fifty years after the author's death,<br />
sales from April 5 to August 1, 1911, and include<br />
instead of seven years ?<br />
a mention of the beginning of the sale of the<br />
The amplification of existing rights is in many library of the late Robert Hoe (sold by the<br />
cases difficult and complicated and is likely to lead to<br />
American Auction Company, New York), the<br />
much case law, but, after all, lapse of time will cure<br />
greatest sale which has hitherto taken place in any<br />
greatest sale which has<br />
this evil.<br />
country, but no enumeration of the lots (3,538),<br />
The question of international copyright meets<br />
which will be fully recorded in the “ American<br />
with clear and lucid treatment. The Berne Con-<br />
Book-Prices Current.” The bighest price paid<br />
vention and the Berlin Convention have been<br />
was £10,000 for a copy on vellum of “The<br />
printed side by side. The author has shown that Mazarin Bible" : Biblia Sacra Latina, Mayence,<br />
many sections in the Act of 1911 had to be passed<br />
Gutenburg and Faust, 1450-1455.<br />
in order to meet the requirements of the Berlin<br />
Among sales in England of private libraries are<br />
Convention, and he has shown how the draftsman particularly noteworthy the sale of a second portion<br />
and the Ministers who piloted the Bill through the of the library of the late Mr. Charles Butter<br />
House hare kept this point before them.<br />
* “ Book-Prices Current: A Bi-monthly Record of the<br />
He has also referred to the Colonial question.<br />
0 une colonial question. Prices at which Books have been Sold at Auction."<br />
Pri<br />
There is no doubt that the Colonial question must Part IV. and Part V. 1911. London : Elliot Stock.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 137 (#565) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
137<br />
(Sotheby, May 29—June 1), in which were con-<br />
tained a number of foreign works of particular<br />
interest, and the sale of the library of Sir<br />
Theodore Martin (Sotheby, June 28–29), rich<br />
in English works. The library of Dr. J. F. Payne,<br />
a library of an exceedingly important character,<br />
consisting mainly of medical works in English,<br />
German, and Latin, published during the six-<br />
teenth and seventeenth centuries, had the unusual<br />
good fortune to be sold en bloc for £2,300. In<br />
connection with what we have above said respect-<br />
ing the value of MSS., authors should look parti.<br />
cularly at pages 629—631, where, near the end of<br />
the volume, are recorded prices paid for MSS, by<br />
Oscar Wilde, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Dumas<br />
Père.<br />
THE “WRITERS' AND ARTISTS' YEAR-<br />
BOOK,” 1912.*<br />
one, whilst everyone must admire the ability with<br />
which this mass of information is kept under con-<br />
trol. This year the work is as full and precise as<br />
ever, while the volume has, of course, grown. The<br />
volume for 1912 exceeds that for 1911 by more than<br />
one hundred of the familiar closely-printed pages.<br />
We miss the names of some dramatic celebrities,<br />
but it is likely enough that their absence is due to<br />
the wishes of the bearers of the names.<br />
It should be particularly observed that this year<br />
“ Who's Who " appears accompanied by a much<br />
thinner companion volume, entitled “ Who's Who<br />
Year-Book for 1912-1913.” The two volumes<br />
are of the same format, so that anyone who wished<br />
could have them bound together. “Who's Who<br />
Year Book is made up of the tables which were<br />
formerly so popular a feature of “ Who's Who," but<br />
were afterwards omitted on account of lack of space.<br />
The preface of the “ Year-Book " speaks very<br />
modestly of the “underlying connection" with each<br />
other of the two publications, but they stand really<br />
in relations as close as those of the “ Encyclopaedia<br />
Britannica” and its concluding volume of indexes.<br />
Given that A is the president of some learned<br />
society, “ Who's Who " will furnish ample infor-<br />
mation about him. If, however, the question arises,<br />
“What is the name of the president of this Society?"<br />
that is not so easily to be found in “Who's Who."<br />
but can be immediately found in the “ Year-Book."<br />
The volume contains, also, among many others,<br />
tables which are not to be elsewhere found. “ a list<br />
of race meetings, with dates of their fixtures and<br />
names of the clerks of the course, a list of winning<br />
owners, of London theatres with their lessees and<br />
managers, and of all the professors of the United<br />
Kingdom.” We presume that the racecourse takes<br />
precedence of drama and learning out of regard for<br />
popular taste. The “ Year-Book” is, in fact, a<br />
most valuable publication, and should be in the<br />
hands of everyone who possesses - Who's Who."<br />
TE regard the “Writers' and Artists' Year-<br />
V Book” as the most practically useful of<br />
all publications intended to assist authors<br />
in the business aspects of their work. As is known,<br />
or should be known, to everyone, this annual is<br />
practically an address-book in which workers,<br />
whether with pen or brush, may find registered<br />
every opening that exists for the sale of their works.<br />
A mass of information is contained, elsewhere un-<br />
obtainable, and this year have been added lists of<br />
Australian, South African, and Indian publications,<br />
and a table of provincial journals which will consider<br />
outside contributions. How exact is the informa-<br />
tion given-particularly respecting payments, those<br />
most important considerations so often shrouded in<br />
impenetrable mystery-will be already known to<br />
everyone who has ever had this valuable annual in<br />
his hands; and no one who desires to sell copy<br />
should consider himself excusable for not possessing<br />
• The Writers' and Artists' Year-Book.” The<br />
assertion may seem a bold one, but we have no<br />
hesitation in asserting that if any man's work is<br />
saleable at all, the address of the purchaser will be<br />
found in this most valuable annual.<br />
THE “ LITERARY YEAR BOOK AND BOOK-<br />
MAN'S DIRECTORY.” *<br />
“ WHO'S WHO,” 1912. +<br />
W HO'S WHO” has become a household<br />
word, and one of the indispensable<br />
annuals. Of its contents there is no<br />
occasion to speak ; what they are is known to every-<br />
• The “ Writers' and Artists' Year Book," 1912. A<br />
Directory for Writers, Artists and Photographers.<br />
London: Adam and Charles Black<br />
† " Who's Who," 1912. London: A. and C. Black.<br />
“Who's Who Year Book, 1912-13." Same publishers.<br />
THE “ Literary Year Book " for 1912—the six-<br />
teenth year of issue-contains, in addition<br />
to the information published in previous<br />
years, which will be familiar to all our readers, a<br />
Classified List of Publishers, based on lines similar<br />
to those of the Classified List of Perioilicals which<br />
has appeared in the previous three years. This<br />
** The Literary Year Book and Bookman's Directory."<br />
London : Routledge and Sons. 1912.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 138 (#566) ############################################<br />
<br />
138<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
new list gives evidence of having been prepared leads to an omission such as that of any mention of<br />
with great care, and we hope that it may prove the Berlin modification of the original Berne Con-<br />
helpful to authors in doubt respecting the publish- vention it becomes misleading. It would be by far<br />
ing houses to which they may offer their copy with better if the “Literary Year Book," instead of<br />
the best chance of acceptance. Amid the astonish- attempting year after year to compress into a few<br />
ing production of new books, and the constant pages more matter than they can contain, would<br />
appearance of new firms, it becomes every year take in successive years various particulars or<br />
more and more difficult for an inexperienced author aspects of copyright law, and deal adequately with<br />
to know to whom he should offer his work ; and them one by one ; adding at the end an index of<br />
any guidance that may be had is to be welcomed. those subjects which have been surveyed in previous<br />
An important feature of the present volume is volumes. In this manner a body of legal infor-<br />
the article on Law and Letters dealing with the new mation, lucidly and adequately treated, might<br />
Copyright Act in addition to other cognate subjects. be gradually built up ; and the volumes of the<br />
Authors are likely to turn first to this part of “ Literary Year Book” would also acquire value as a<br />
the Year Book ; as they will naturally desire to collection, and not only as annuals.<br />
acquaint themselves as quickly as possible with the The “ Literary Year Book " is the only work of its<br />
new enactments which so intimately affect their kind published in English. It contains a great<br />
professional interests. Unhappily it has never deal of useful and a great deal of interesting<br />
been our good fortune to feel contented with the information—we can honestly add, a great deal of<br />
legal information contained in the “Literary Year indispensable information which is not to be else-<br />
Book” ; and we are sorry to find in the new volume where found. We wish the publication success,<br />
no advance upon what has been previously and regret that we are unable to bestow upon it the<br />
published. We shall pass over the pages devoted unqualified praise with which it would be a pleasure<br />
to Agreements. We have dealt with this subject to welcome its annual appearance.<br />
when noticing previous issues, and find that our<br />
views are not considered worthy of regard. The<br />
pages devoted to the new copyright enactments we<br />
cannot pass over. Our first doubt is respecting the “THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S YEAR BOOK."<br />
prudence, or indeed the possibility, of dealing with<br />
so large a subject, or, we might truly say, with so<br />
many large subjects, in so small a space. An M HE thirty-first issue of the “English woman's<br />
attempt is here made in twenty two pages to offer 1 Year Book” (23. 6d., London, Adam & Charles<br />
a summary of the new Act in all its bearings of Black), and edited by Miss G. E. Mitton,<br />
the application of the Act to British Possessions, of contains in Section VI., upon literature, an article<br />
Colonial Copyright, of Canadian Law, of Australian by the editor entitled The Author, one on journalism<br />
Law, of International Copyright, and of Copyright by Miss Dora d'Espaigne Chapman, and some<br />
in the United States. For all this twenty-two useful information upon the subject of copyright,<br />
pages could never suffice. They might have proof correcting, books by women authors, and<br />
contained a statement of a few salient particulars; societies and associations. There is also an article<br />
but that only so brief as to have made the informa- upon the dramatic profession by Miss Kittie Carson,<br />
tion of no practical use. The real test of the value who gives her ideas as to the lines those entering<br />
of legal information in a work such as the “ Literary the profession should adopt. Mrs. Aubrey le<br />
Year Book” is that what is said should be intelligible Blond writes upon Ice Sports, Mrs. Courlanden<br />
to the reader who is not a lawyer. What is here (Elsa Hahn) upon Fashion Drawing, Miss Ida<br />
presented is not intelligible. It is altogether ill. Smedley, D.Sc., and Miss R. Barrett upon Science.<br />
arranged, and inadequate, while what is said about There is a long list of expert contributors apon<br />
colonial law is above all the rest impenetrably such subjects as Factory Inspection, Motoring and<br />
obscure. Insufficient explanation of what is in- Aviation, Educational Matters, and Professions Open<br />
tended to be conveyed at places leads to contra- to Women Workers. The book contains 368 pages<br />
dictions. For example: “ Copyright ... shall with some blank leaves, at and on which the editor<br />
include the sole right ... in the case of a novel asks for any suggestions and corrections that may<br />
to convert it into a dramatic work” (p. 534). come to the mind of the reader, and finishes with a<br />
“ Dramatisation of novels is not an infringement of directory of well-known women engaged in public<br />
copyright” (p. 529). We are prepared to admit work. It ought to be of good use to those who do<br />
that some of these things may not be the fault of not already know the ropes.<br />
the author of the pages on Law and Letters. No<br />
one could elucidate in so few pages so much and so<br />
many things as are involved. Yet when brevity<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 139 (#567) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
139<br />
ANALYSIS OF BOOKS PUBLISHED IN 1911. Year.<br />
New books. New editions. Total.<br />
1909<br />
8,446<br />
2,279<br />
10,725<br />
(Published with the kind permission of the editor of The<br />
1910<br />
8,468 2,336 10,804<br />
Publishers' Circular.)<br />
1911<br />
8,530 2,384 10,914<br />
M HE number of books recorded as having been<br />
This year the statistical analysis of book produc-<br />
1 published during the last year is 10,914, an<br />
tion has been brought into line with the classified<br />
increase of 110 on the total for 1910. This<br />
table adopted by the International Congress of<br />
is the highest total ever recorded for a year's<br />
publishing in the United Kingdom. Owing to the table is more detailed and exact than the one<br />
Librarians at Brussels in August, 1910. The new<br />
events of the year, the rate of production has not hitherto used.<br />
been so steady as in average years, and the monthly So far as the<br />
So far as the two tables can be compared, the<br />
totals vary from 673 in June (the Coronation<br />
increase appears to be distributed evenly over all<br />
month) to 1,027 (a record) in October. The classes of literature. As year-books and pamphlets<br />
following are the totals for the last ten years and<br />
are now distributed over subjects, and not counted<br />
last year :-<br />
as separate classes as formerly, the exact figures of<br />
Year.<br />
New books. New editions. Total. increases or decreases cannot be supplied. The<br />
1901<br />
4,955 1,089 6,044 largest increases have occurred in the following<br />
1902<br />
5,839 1,542 7,381 classes : philosophy and religion; science and<br />
1903<br />
6,699 1,682<br />
8,381<br />
technology ; history and biography; and poetry<br />
1904<br />
6,456 1,878<br />
8,334<br />
and drama ; while it is probable that there have<br />
1905<br />
6,817 1,435<br />
been slight decreases (omitting year-books, etc.) in<br />
1906<br />
6,985 1,618 8,603 educational and philology, and medicine.<br />
1907<br />
7,701 2,213<br />
9,914<br />
The analytical tables appended supply further<br />
1908<br />
7,512 2,309 9,821 information regarding the year's publishing.<br />
8,252<br />
CLASSIFIED ANALYSIS OF Books PUBLISHED DURING THE YEAR 1911.<br />
New Books.<br />
New<br />
Editions.<br />
Total.<br />
New Books.<br />
Translations.<br />
Pamphlets.<br />
10<br />
128<br />
55<br />
209<br />
47<br />
89<br />
15<br />
31<br />
23<br />
108<br />
8<br />
:::::::::::::::::<br />
47<br />
18<br />
:::::::::::::::::::<br />
Philosopby<br />
Religion ...<br />
Sociology ...<br />
Law<br />
Education<br />
Philology ...<br />
Science ...<br />
Technology<br />
Medicine, Public Health, &c. ...<br />
Agriculture, Gardening...<br />
Domestic Arts ...<br />
Business ... ...<br />
Fine Arts...<br />
Music (Works about)<br />
Games, &c.<br />
Literature (General)<br />
Poetry and Drama<br />
Fiction ...<br />
Juvenile ...<br />
History ...<br />
Geography and Travel ...<br />
Biography<br />
General Works (Encyclopædias, Magazines, &c.)<br />
Total<br />
273<br />
930<br />
725<br />
303<br />
250<br />
187<br />
650<br />
52<br />
413<br />
169<br />
99<br />
151<br />
232<br />
1!1+ Enni<br />
26<br />
11<br />
10<br />
::::::::::::::::::::::<br />
194<br />
738<br />
457<br />
167<br />
202<br />
160<br />
481<br />
359<br />
274<br />
125<br />
78<br />
101<br />
208<br />
50<br />
94<br />
248<br />
388<br />
1,238<br />
475<br />
341<br />
480<br />
373<br />
437<br />
: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :<br />
17<br />
17<br />
2<br />
52<br />
20<br />
122<br />
345<br />
668<br />
2,215<br />
648<br />
429<br />
Riccion<br />
...<br />
...<br />
83<br />
22<br />
933<br />
135<br />
69<br />
100<br />
S+<br />
17<br />
19<br />
601<br />
476<br />
451<br />
6<br />
7,668<br />
190<br />
672<br />
2,384<br />
10,914<br />
8,530<br />
Total for 1910...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
8,162<br />
2,336<br />
10,804<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#568) ############################################<br />
<br />
140<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
ANALYTICAL TABLE SHOWING Books PUBLISHED EACH MONTH DURING 1911.<br />
Jan. | Feb. March. April. May. | June. July. Aug.<br />
Sept.<br />
Oct.<br />
Nov.<br />
Dee. · Total.<br />
... 551<br />
669<br />
1,161<br />
924 , 531<br />
New Books ...<br />
Translations<br />
Pamphlets<br />
23<br />
560 | 675 | 198<br />
121 71<br />
58 43<br />
440 444<br />
10<br />
48 92<br />
10<br />
401<br />
118<br />
814<br />
21<br />
4+<br />
33<br />
19<br />
7,668<br />
190<br />
672<br />
i<br />
16<br />
76'<br />
49<br />
43'<br />
36'<br />
No. of New Books ... I 608<br />
New Editions ...' 157<br />
600<br />
178<br />
745<br />
206<br />
548<br />
166<br />
768<br />
269<br />
498<br />
175<br />
546<br />
179<br />
526<br />
153<br />
879<br />
280<br />
1,243<br />
284<br />
986<br />
217<br />
383<br />
120<br />
8.530<br />
2,384<br />
Total ... ... 765<br />
Total for 1910 ... 712<br />
778<br />
777<br />
951 | 714<br />
849 953<br />
1,037<br />
788<br />
673<br />
998<br />
725<br />
843<br />
679 | 1,159<br />
610 1,262<br />
1,527 | 1,203<br />
1,342 1,154<br />
703<br />
516<br />
10,914<br />
10,804<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
were as shrewd in their business dealings as they<br />
were pre-eminent in their artistic creations.<br />
If, then, a writer of the genius of the late Robert<br />
THE AUTHOR'S CRAFT.<br />
Buchanan, reviewing the years he had passed in<br />
producing both prose and poetical “ ditilled<br />
Sir. That my article « The Hazard of the Pen” essences of life itself, with its varied mixtures” as<br />
may be described as “ pessimistic in tone: is true prescribed by Mr. Lovell, should meditatively pause<br />
enough, since every diligent student of literary to consider whether the reward received were<br />
biography, whether of contemporary or former adequate compensation for the sacrifices involved<br />
writers, if capable of any sort of reflection, could in the endeavour, does it not smack of something<br />
hardly fail to be impressed by the sorrows and perilously akin to impertinence for a much smaller<br />
privations, the disappointments and despair, which member of the same profession to declare him<br />
would seem to have dogged the footsteps of so “utterly unworthy of the craft of authorship" on that<br />
many, while treading the thorny path of author- account ? In conclusion, let me observe that Mr.<br />
ship: that it is “entirely without point” is, I Lovell's rhapsody on the ethereal aims of author-<br />
should hope, for the credit of the Authors' Society, ship leave me quite cold. I have heard the same<br />
Mr. Arthur Lovell's peculiar and private kind of thing ad nauseam, years and years ago.<br />
opinion.<br />
The inspired orators were always amateur authors,<br />
The artist, either in words or pigments, is no I should say. Men who live by their pens, don't<br />
more exempt from the necessity to coin money by rave about it.<br />
his labour-no matter how deeply inspired it may<br />
Faithfully Yours,<br />
be, or how lightly thrown off-than the artisan;<br />
HERBERT W. SMITH.<br />
albeit amateur authors and members of obscure<br />
Literary Societies sometimes talk as though such<br />
mundane affairs as meat, drink, clothing and so forth,<br />
“ UNITED STATES NOTES.”<br />
to say nothing of cash wherewith to pay rent, rates<br />
and taxes-fell, like manna from heaven, at his SIR,-I notice sundry errors in Mr. Philip<br />
feet.<br />
Walsh's “United States Notes ” in the January<br />
For a writer to pretend indifference to the number of The Author. One of them is as follows:<br />
business side of his craft is, in my opinion, to be Speaking of non-fictional “ best sellers," Mr. Walsh<br />
guilty of a specially obnoxious and fatuous brand of mentions my “ How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours<br />
affectation.<br />
a Day," and then the other Bennett's “ Mental<br />
Lord Tennyson though hardly perhaps reaching Efficiency.” There is no other Bennett. As I do<br />
Mr. Lovell's sublime standard of authorship, not wish it to get about that there are two Bennetts<br />
merited some slight amount of credit for his efforts under the terrible responsibility of having written<br />
in that direction; yet he did not disdain to take an “best sellers” in the United States, may I firmly<br />
interest in the profits received from the sale of his announce that I alone am the author of both these<br />
poetical“ distilled essences”: while, in allied books.<br />
branches of art we read that Sir Arthur Sullivan,<br />
Yours truly,<br />
Sir Henry Irving, and Sir John Millais, P.R.A.,<br />
ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#569) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING. Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhead, Surrey, writes :-<br />
“I have just completed the revision of my lovel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
withont having been corrected or even read, and that my handwriting.<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required perception as well as care, something more than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a result-a result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
nswers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/-<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1- 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spanish.typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): “I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work."<br />
MRS. TOM GODFREY: "I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
ail authors who have the good fortune to hear of you. ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French."<br />
MRS. HINKSON (KATHARINE TYWAN): "I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and promptitude."<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq.: " The work could not be better done."<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
I<br />
L. A. ST. JOHN. L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON.<br />
Cotterill & Cromb, Literary Agents,<br />
Lennox House, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
SOMETHING NEW!<br />
INK-ERASING PENCIL,<br />
Just the thing for Authors and Business Men. Removes<br />
writing and blots immediately, and without injury to<br />
paper.<br />
SEND P.O. 1/2 FOR SAMPLE.<br />
C. Herbert Cæsar, Homefield, St. Albans.<br />
MISS FOWLER, Maxwell House, Arundel<br />
Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
EXPERT IN DECIPHERING DIFFICULT HANDWRITING.<br />
Extract from Unsolicited Testimonial.--"I send you work com-<br />
pared to which Egyptian hieroglyphics would be child's play, and you<br />
return the manuscript at the time requested without one single<br />
inaccuracy. It is nothing short of marvellous.”<br />
on all subjects,<br />
including<br />
LITERARY,<br />
Educational,<br />
Commercial, Technical, Medical, Theological, etc., and<br />
for all examinations.<br />
<br />
BOO<br />
TYPEWRITING<br />
WITH<br />
CARE AND ACCURACY.<br />
Second-Hand at Half-Prices. New at 25 per<br />
cent, discount.<br />
Catalogues free. State Wants. Books sent on approval ; BOOKS<br />
BOUGHT. Best Prices Given.<br />
8d. per 1,000 words; with carbon-copy, 9d.<br />
W. & G. FOYLE,<br />
135, Charing Cross Road, London, W.c.<br />
C. A. GIRTON,<br />
2, Grove Lane, Camberwell, S.E.<br />
AUTHORS!<br />
Over 170 Publishers and Periodicals buy from us ! Original<br />
MSS. Wanted. Highest prices obtained. Prospectus free.<br />
Cambridge Literary Agency, 115, Strand, W.C. 1487 eldra<br />
1648 Gerrard<br />
BARGAINS IN BOOKS.<br />
Carriage Paid U.K. only.<br />
Terms—Cash with order. The Tissot Pictures illustrating<br />
the Life of Christ, £6 6s. net ; Splendid Copy, absolutely<br />
good as new for £2 198. The Twentieth Century Practice<br />
of Medicine; an international Encyclopædia of Modern<br />
Medical Science by leading authorities of Europe and<br />
America ; 20 volumes, published 20 guineas; new, uncut,<br />
original binding, £7 108. Cross cheques and postal orders<br />
L. & S.W. Bank, Fleet Street Branch.-J. F. BELMONT<br />
& Co., 29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
LITERARY AGENCY.<br />
THE WEINER AGENCY, LTD.,<br />
67, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.<br />
Every facility for placing work of all descriptions. Apply<br />
for prospectus, free, from Manager, Literary Department.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#570) ############################################<br />
<br />
viji<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
| TYPEWRITING<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
1912 promises to be a very busy<br />
year for all branches of<br />
the LITERARY WORLD.<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum.<br />
A WORD IN SEASON !<br />
Get all your work TYPED<br />
WELL-IT ADDS TONE.<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
WITH<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
My work is always THE BEST.<br />
My prices are LOW.<br />
Send your order now.<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
38, Norwood Road,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Lounges<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel—“Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—"Bookcraft, London."<br />
| BRAINS.<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND. , AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone—8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel. London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
Nigently copied, from 1s. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
promptuess ; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
over 20,000, od. Plass ruled<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
and bound, 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-, Plays and Generaal<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli-<br />
NOTICE TO AUTHORS.<br />
cation.<br />
"A Literary Agent's work stands for all practical purposes,"<br />
one of NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
says the Literary Year Book "on the same level as a solicitor's. He<br />
is called in by the author to carry through certain negotiations,<br />
"Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to the land at the close of these negotiations he should be required<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing I to send in his bill. There should be a scale of fees for his work."<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
This scale can be now obtained from<br />
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE.<br />
Mr. STANHOPE W. SPRIGG, Literary Consultant,<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Trafalgar Buildings, Charing Cross, W.C.<br />
New Address :-<br />
Late Editor of Cassell's and the Windsor Magazines. New writers<br />
15, WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX.<br />
given practical help.<br />
Printed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouyerie Street, London E.C. | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/430/1912-02-01-The-Author-22-5.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 431 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/431 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 06 (March 1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+06+%28March+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 06 (March 1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-03-01-The-Author-22-6 | | | | | 141–172 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-03-01">1912-03-01</a> | | | | | | | 6 | | | 19120301 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.- No. 6.<br />
MARCH 1, 1912.<br />
(PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGK<br />
...<br />
141<br />
141<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
List of Members<br />
The Pension Fund<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
Books published by Members ...<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes...<br />
Gramophone Records<br />
Action for Libel ...<br />
French Law Case ...<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books...<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br />
141<br />
142<br />
145<br />
147<br />
149<br />
152<br />
154<br />
155<br />
155<br />
156<br />
157<br />
157<br />
157<br />
PAGE<br />
Registration of Scenarios and Original Plays<br />
158<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents<br />
158<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
158<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
158<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
158<br />
Remittances<br />
158<br />
General Notes<br />
159<br />
Committee Election<br />
159<br />
A Remarkable Agreement<br />
160<br />
A Literary Agency Agreement<br />
The British Society of Authors, Composers, and Music<br />
Publishers .<br />
Critics and Criticism<br />
The Copyright Act, 1<br />
160<br />
Correspondence ...<br />
171<br />
:::::::::<br />
165<br />
167<br />
•<br />
Ø<br />
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.<br />
Ø<br />
“Good comedy, genuinely witty, and never vulgar.”—Daily Chronicle.<br />
THE SHAPE OF THE<br />
WORLD.<br />
6)=<br />
By EVELYN ST. LEGER..<br />
Author of “ Diaries of Three Women of the Last Century."<br />
mer<br />
THE MAUVE LIBRARY.<br />
A Series of short Novels of Sentiment-fresh, happy and innocent. Each with Frontispiece. 2/- net.<br />
“EVERYBODY'S LONESOME,” by Clara E. Laughlin.<br />
“A MELODY IN SILVER,” by Keene Abbott.<br />
“THE END OF A SONG," by Jeannette Marks.<br />
*** Authors are invited to send MSS. suited to this series. Please ask for Descriptive Circular.<br />
24, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#572) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telegraphic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON.”<br />
Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O.M.<br />
COUNCIL,<br />
SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. | THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL CURZON, JUSTIN MCCARTHY.<br />
SIR WM.KEYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. G.C.S.J.<br />
THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
AVEBUKY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKEL, M.P.<br />
J. M. BAKRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO,<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. Six HORACE<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
F. E. BEDDARI), F.R.S.<br />
SIR RIDER HAGGARD.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
Mrs. HARRISON (" LUCAS MALET'). ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. AUGUSTINE BIR. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
RELI., P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
G. R. SIMS.<br />
THK Rxv, PROF, BONNEY, F.R.S. W. W. JACOBS.<br />
DR. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE,<br />
The Right Hon. JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD BOBGH. JEROME K. JEROM E.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD,<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
Mus, Doc.<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. ScorT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD,<br />
J. W. COMENS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
H. G. WEILS.<br />
EGERTON CASTIK, F.S.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.8. PERCY WHITE.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (Miss FLORA L. FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT HON<br />
W. MORRIS COLLES.<br />
SHAW).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
THE HON. JOAN COLLIER.<br />
MRS. MAXWELL (M, E. BRADDON). P.C., &c.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman- Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. | MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBE.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND,<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
FRANCIS STOBR.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman--R. C. CARTON.<br />
RUDOLF BESIER.<br />
JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
| G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
W. J. LOCKE.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS,<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
JAMES T. TANNER.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
| MORLEY ROBERTS.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE,<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
GRANVILLE BANTOCK.<br />
CECIL FORSYTH,<br />
ARTHUR SOMERVELL.<br />
PERCY C. Buck, Mus. Doc.<br />
John B. McEwEN.<br />
HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
THOMAS F. DUNHILL.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, HOWARD TALBOT.<br />
Mus. Doc. / WILLIAM WALLACE.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, I HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
ART.<br />
The Hon. JOHN COLLIER,<br />
John HASSALL, R.I.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
Bir W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
FIELD, ROBOOK & Co., 36, Lincolu's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT THBING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, 8.W. ) Soncilors.<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Société des gens de Lettres<br />
Legal Representative in America—JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY'S GATE, 8.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#573) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
- PLAYS<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
Authors' MSS. carefully and accurately typed,<br />
8d. per thousand words ; paper extra.<br />
“ Remington ” machine.<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors),<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
MISS D. BARFOOT,<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Curdridge,<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
Botley, Hants.<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
ARTISTS<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE<br />
Capable of illustrating Books in Colour or Black and<br />
- NO THEORIES. —<br />
White, are invited to communicate by letter with<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical | Messrs. J F. BELMONT & CO.,<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
L 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
A BARGAIN.<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia.<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and Exquisite Photographic Enlargements, originally published<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & Co.,<br />
Address : 23, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
at £4 4s, net; a few slightly mount-soiled subjects from the set<br />
to be had at 2 - each, packing free, carriage forward.<br />
“An indispensable book of reference for authors and<br />
journalists."-- Daily Graphic.<br />
LITERARY YEAR-BOOK (1912)<br />
Crown 8vo.)<br />
Price 6s. net.<br />
[995 pages.<br />
PRINCIPAL CONTENTS : - Authors' Directory ;<br />
Literary Agents ; Typists ; Indexers ; Translators ;<br />
Booksellers; Proof-correcting, etc.; Law and<br />
Letters ; British, American, Canadian, and Indian<br />
Periodicals (with a classified index and full<br />
particulars for contributors); Royalty Tables ;<br />
Publishers (British and Foreign) ; Classified List of<br />
Publishers' Requirements (new feature); Literary<br />
Societies and Clubs ; A classified list of cheap re-<br />
prints (93 different series).<br />
Opinions of Authors: _"Many thanks for the help which the<br />
Year Book now affords."-" The Year Book is a great boon to<br />
authors, and this year is better than ever."-"I have found The<br />
Literary Year Book & very valuable book of reference."-"I<br />
take the opportunity of telling you how great a help the book is<br />
to me as an author and as a working jonrnalist."<br />
"A work with a wide reputation and one justly earned."-<br />
The Author.<br />
IMPORTANT TO AUTHORS.<br />
In the “ Law and Letters " Section will be<br />
found a careful and able exposition of the<br />
new Copyright Act (1912).<br />
Of all Booksellers, or of the Publishers-<br />
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd.,<br />
68, Carter Lane, London, E.C.<br />
What the Papers say about some of<br />
MURRAY & EVENDEN'S RECENT SUCCESSES.<br />
RIQUILDA, by MRS. KENDALL PARK.<br />
"Those who enjoy the historical novel will welcome “Riquilda,' which<br />
not only gives an interesting picture of life in Spain in the Tenth Century,<br />
but rings with the stir and clash of battle, the sacking of convents, and the<br />
mustering of brave men under the banner of the true Church, in defence of<br />
their country and their faith against the infidel Princess Riquilda, the<br />
daughter of the Sovereign count of Barcelona, is a very sweet and natural<br />
girl in spite of her royal birth, and of course she is loved by two men, one a<br />
brave and gentle knight, who wagen war against the invading Saracens, the<br />
other a traitor, who deserts to the Moorish camp and betrays his country<br />
into the hands of the enemy. But Felipe de Cerdana the traitor, is treated<br />
with a touch that is poetic, and his feverish passion for Riquilda, which is<br />
humble and tender, as well as cruel and revengeful, has something more<br />
living about it than one finds in the ordinary lover of the novel. The whole<br />
book is vivid and stirring, and succeeds very thoroughly in carrying with it<br />
the atmosphere of the early Middle Ages." The Morning Post.<br />
The author depicts with remarkable force and power the glorious past of<br />
old Barcelona, and on this warlike foundation she has based a stirring<br />
romance distinguished by many of the characteristics of the best historical<br />
fiction ... Mrs. Kendall Park's style possesses much animation, and her<br />
descriptive passages are excellent. From a historical as well as a romantic<br />
point of view, the book is a deeply interesting one, and cannot fail to be<br />
read with pleasure "-- New York Herald (Paris).<br />
MICHAEL, by EVELYN BARBER.<br />
"Michael Beresford. the hero, is a typical joung Sheffielder of his class<br />
whom Miss Barber has focussed with almost pitiless exactitude. Miss<br />
Barber s heroine is extremely attractive, and we have also little snapshots<br />
of quite delightful hamour-Rebecca Beresford, Uncle Horatio. Cousin<br />
Drucilla, and others. There are, too, some interesting passages anent the<br />
Boys Brigade, and others describing the work of a Women's Settlement in<br />
the slums. We read the book with so much interest and enjoyment as to<br />
cause us to look with pleasurable anticipation for its successor. Shefeld<br />
Daily Telegraph<br />
"Will make good reading in households that are not infected with the<br />
diseased forlu of the modern spirit.' It is fresh and wholesome. '-Scotaman.<br />
IRRESPONSIBLE IMPRESSIONS OF<br />
INDIA, by E. GEO. TURNBULL.<br />
"A chatty little volume which affords a wonderfully vivid view of Indian<br />
life and character. Mr Turnbull is observant, and his book is more<br />
meritorious than many more ambitious works. Dundee Adı ertiser<br />
"With all the sparkling wit and satire with which the little book teema,<br />
it conveys a bird's-eye view of Indian life, character, and custom, which is<br />
delightful to the man who knows not India-to the Anglo-Indian it will<br />
have a double attraction"- Derbyshire Times.<br />
MURRAY & EVENDEN,LTD., Pleydell House, +leydell St., Fleet St., E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#574) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Publications of the Society.<br />
1. THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE 8. THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.<br />
CURRENT YEAR. Price 1s net.<br />
A Record of its Action from its Foundation. By WALTER<br />
BESANT (Chairman of Committee, 1888–1892). Price<br />
2. THE AUTHOR.<br />
ls. not.<br />
Published ten months in the year (August and September<br />
omittel) devoted especially to the protection and main-<br />
9. THE CONTRACT OF PUBLICATION<br />
tenance of Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-inembers,<br />
IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY,<br />
8d., or 58. 6d. per annum, post free. Back numbers from<br />
AND SWITZERLAND. By ERNST LUNGE,<br />
1892, at 108. 60. net, per vol.<br />
J.U.D, Price 28, 60, net.<br />
3. LITERATURE AND THE PENSION<br />
LIST. By W. MORRIS COLLEB, Barrister-at 10. FORMS OF AGREEMENT ISSUED BY<br />
Law. Price 38. net.<br />
THE PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION ;<br />
4. THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIETE DES<br />
WITH COMMENTS By G. HERBERT<br />
THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER<br />
GENS DE LETTRES. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE,<br />
BESANT, 2nd Edition, Price 18, net.<br />
Price 1s, net.<br />
5. THE COST OF PRODUCTION.<br />
11. PERIODICALS AND THEIR CONTRI-<br />
(Out of print.).<br />
BUTORS. Giving the Terms on which the<br />
6. THE VARIOUS METHODS OF PUBLI-<br />
different Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS. and<br />
Contributions. Price 61. net.<br />
CATION. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this<br />
work, compiled from the papers in the Society's offices,<br />
the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers 12. SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.<br />
to Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907, price 61. net.<br />
explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud<br />
which have been made possible by the different clauses<br />
therein. Price 38. net.<br />
13. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CON-<br />
ADDENDA TO THE ABOVE.<br />
VENTION AS REVISED AT BERLIN,<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being additional facts<br />
nollented at the office of the Society since the publication<br />
1909. Price 1s. net.<br />
of the "Methods," With comments and advice. Price<br />
28. net.<br />
15. DRAMATIC AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
7. COPYRIGHT LAW REFORM.<br />
3d, net.<br />
An Exposition of Lord Monkswell's Copyright Bill of<br />
1890. With Extracts from the Report of the Commission<br />
of 1878, the Berne Convention, and the American Copy. 16. LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
right Bill. By J. M. LELY. Price 1s. 6d. net.<br />
34. net.<br />
[All prices net. Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.]<br />
ORDER IMMEDIATELY from your Library, Bookseller or Bookstall.<br />
JUST READY.-One of the most INTIMATE & INTERESTING Books of Tropical (and Topical)<br />
Verse ever published. By the author of "THE SEDUCTIVE COAST," Etc.<br />
A CALABASH<br />
OF KOLA NUTS<br />
By J. M. STUART-YOUNG.<br />
Demy 8vo, 126 pp., with an additional Glossary, 2s.6d. net.<br />
When, just about two years ago, Mr. Stuart-Young published "The Seductive Coast," rhymes dealing with life in<br />
Western Africa, there were not lacking critics to lift their hands in shocked amaze at what they termed the<br />
"exceptional daring" of the author's outlook on the moral and social conditions of life in Nigeria. The Birmingham<br />
Gazette gave the lead to a juster interpretation :- "Rarely do we meet with work which so unmistakably conveys the<br />
impression of spontaneity and sincerity, combined with an admirable technique. . . Mr. Stuart-Young is a man<br />
who feels strongly, who expresses what he feels, and who is skilled in verbal expression. As sheer art work his<br />
pages are admirable. There is a virility which commends his work where simpler sentiment would fail," and so on.<br />
The Daily Telegraph recognised that here "was no lover of sensationalism. Whether telling of white men and<br />
women, of their loves and their tragedies, or of the stranger folk among whom his lot is cast on the Niger Bank,<br />
the author always shows himself possessed of the best qualities of the story-teller." The Oxford Times found in the<br />
book "a subtle witchery which haunts the mind." while Reynolds acknowledged that here at last was someone who<br />
"appreciates the tragedy and pathos of native Africa."<br />
This new book is strangely appealing-it will be read by thousands of exiles,<br />
- and appreciated by thousands of their relatives in the Old Country. -<br />
LONDON: LYNWOOD & Co., Paternoster Row, Publishers.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#575) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
LOW<br />
callaw<br />
Indian<br />
thue<br />
| Letters, Documents, Clippings, found instantly by the<br />
Globe Wernicke<br />
Vertical Filing System.<br />
<br />
Suman<br />
Egyption<br />
English<br />
EG<br />
Dutch<br />
Orectore<br />
Chinese<br />
Beltis<br />
C<br />
-D<br />
Byzantine<br />
Buddhist<br />
Carts & brafts<br />
A-J<br />
You know, of course, the necessity for filing away<br />
correspondence, etc., so that you can turn to it at a<br />
moment's notice. The Globe-Wernicke Filing Cabinet<br />
enables you to keep a complete record of all corre.<br />
spondence, documents, political literature, reports of<br />
speeches, private notes, extracts from magazines, class<br />
publications, art portfolios, etc. Once installed, you<br />
will consider this Cabinet indispensable. It becomes<br />
what might be termed a private loose-leaf encyclopædia,<br />
providing, at all times, an absolutely up-to-date reference<br />
work from various authorities. The system permits of<br />
easy and immediate reference to any paper filed away,<br />
no matter how long ago. The Cabinet also possesses<br />
ingenious mechanical features not found in other<br />
Cabinets.<br />
<br />
Scrap B ooks are out of date.<br />
The illustration above<br />
shows the up-to-date<br />
— method of filing.-<br />
The extracts and clippings are put<br />
into tabbed folders which are alpha-<br />
betically arranged according to sub-<br />
ject. Handsomely finished Cabinets,<br />
mounted on leg bases, are furnished in<br />
Quartered Oak or Mahogany.<br />
Globe:1. zrnieke<br />
Note the hinged<br />
front which allows<br />
the whole drawer<br />
to open like a book.<br />
One-drawer, two-drawer, three-drawer, or<br />
four-drawer Cabinets can be supplied according<br />
to capacity required, and more “Units " can<br />
always be added. The Cabinet illustrated holds<br />
about 15,000 papers, with Folders and Guides.<br />
and, as an extra precaution against fire, can be<br />
had in steel, coloured and grained to resemble<br />
wood. See Catalogue (No. 27 V.F.) for full<br />
particulars, also Booklet on "How to File and<br />
Find Papers," free from:<br />
od<br />
The Globe-Wernicke Co.<br />
Office and Library Furnishers,<br />
44, Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C.;<br />
82, Victoria Street, S.W. ;<br />
98, Bishopsgate, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 140 (#576) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
<br />
THE SE<br />
ERA<br />
ON<br />
-<br />
U<br />
E<br />
VOCION<br />
DROIT<br />
TAVISTOCK STREET, STRAND, W.C.<br />
A Play Competition, on exceptionally favourable lines, is being<br />
inaugurated by The Era (for three-quarters of a century the organ of the<br />
Dramatic and Musical World).<br />
The Judges are SIR JOHN HARE, MR. CYRIL MAUDE and MR. GEORGE<br />
EDWARDES.<br />
Full particulars are given in The Era, published weekly on Saturday<br />
mornings.<br />
Articles on the technique of playwriting are now appearing in The<br />
Era. They are written by a play wright, and should be studied by all who<br />
desire to be successful in this branch of literature.<br />
See Saturday's “ Era.”<br />
mol<br />
An Indispensable American Journal.<br />
“Those who wish to know in a general way what is being done in the literary<br />
world in America cannot do better than subscribe to THE DIAL, a semi-monthly<br />
journal devoted entirely to literature. We will undertake to say that no one who<br />
is interested in literature would regret acting on our advice, and arranging for<br />
THE DIAL to rub shoulders twice a month with their Spectator, Athenæum, or<br />
Academy. . . . From whatever point of view you look at it—value of its literary<br />
contents, or its variety, or the excellence of its mechanical production—THE DIAL<br />
is entitled to a place with the best that any country can produce. . . . We again<br />
advise our readers who wish to keep the 100 millions of America in their eye to<br />
watch THE DIAL.”—THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR (London).<br />
Specimen copies of THE DIAL, together with a special offer for trial subscription, will be<br />
sent gratis to any reader of THE AUTHOR upon request.<br />
ADDRESS<br />
“THE DIAL” COMPANY, 410, SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 141 (#577) ############################################<br />
<br />
The Autbor.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 6.<br />
MARCH 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
D OR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
F signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of The Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the notice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
TROM time to time members of the Society<br />
n desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are : (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
The Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br />
1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
6d., post free 7d. It includes elections to July,<br />
1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
of the Society only.<br />
A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 142 (#578) ############################################<br />
<br />
142<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
end of the list for the convenience of those who<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
The list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br />
tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br />
by, or promised to, the ſund from October 1,<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
1911.<br />
It does not include either donations given<br />
prior to October 1, nor does it include sub-<br />
TN January the secretary of the society laid scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br />
I before the trustees of the Pension Fund the before it.<br />
accounts for the year 1911, as settled by the The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br />
accountants, with a full statement of the result of appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
the appeal recently made on behalf of the Fund. The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
After giving the matter full consideration the received three bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
Bolivian Railway 5%. Preferred Ordinary Stock may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock. from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
The amounts purchased at the present prices are on the matter."<br />
£237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock. Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
The trustees desire to thank the members of the County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
society for the generous support which they have Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
given to the Pension Fund, and have much pleasure Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
in informing the Pension Fund Committee that Bankers' Order for 5s. drawn on the London,<br />
there is a further sum available for the payment of County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
another pension in case any application should be<br />
made. The money now invested amounts to<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
£4,846 198. Hd., and is fully set out in the list<br />
£ $. d.<br />
below :-<br />
Oct. 5, Bungey, E. Newton<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
Oct. 6, Beale, Mrs. W. Phipson . 0 5 0<br />
Consols 23% ........<br />
.... £1,312 13 Oct. 12, Hannay, J. 0. .<br />
Local Loans..............................<br />
500 0 0 Oct. 12, Mrs. Humphry Ward, an addi-<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
tional subscription for 1912<br />
dated Inscribed Stock...<br />
291 19 11<br />
--13 . . .<br />
5 00<br />
London and North-Western 3%<br />
Nov. 9, Dailey, R. H. . . 0 5 0<br />
Debenture Stock .................... 250 ( 0) Nov. 10, McCormick, E. B. . . ( 10 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Nov. 10, Salter, Miss E. K.<br />
05 0<br />
Trust +°. Certificates ........ 20000 Nov. 14, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpool ( 5 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 34% Inscribed<br />
Nov. 18, Hichens, Robert.<br />
3 3<br />
Stock .........<br />
200 0 0 Nov. 20, Snell, Miss Olive . .<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Nov. 24, Locke, W. J. .<br />
2 2 0<br />
17. Preference Stock<br />
228 0 0 Nov. 24, Gusse, Edmund.<br />
1 1 0<br />
New Zealand 31° Stock ............<br />
247 9 6 Nov. 25, Larken, E. P.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Irish Land Act 20%. Guaranteed<br />
Nov. 25, Underdown, Miss E.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Stock ....................<br />
.... 258 (0) 0 Nov. 25, Walkley, S. . .<br />
05 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
Nov. 25, Masefield, John..<br />
1 1 0<br />
1927-57 ........<br />
+38 2 + Nov. 25, Thurston, E. Temple.<br />
Jamaica 31%. Stock, 1919-49 ...... 132 18 6 Nov. 25, Rittenberg, Max . . 0 5 0<br />
Mauritius 1° 1937 Stock ........ 120 121 Nov. 25, Paull, H. M. .<br />
( 10 6<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31%<br />
Nov. 25, Turner, Reginald. .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Land Grant Stock, 1938.<br />
198 3 8 Nov, 25, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton. . 1 1 0<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
Nov. 25, Barne, Miss M. C. .<br />
5%. Preferred Stock ......... 237 00 Nov. 25, Sedgwick, Anne Douglas . 0 5 0<br />
Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br />
(Mrs. Basil de Selincourt)<br />
Stock ..<br />
232 0 0 Nov. 25, Lerden, Walter . .<br />
010 0<br />
Nov. 25, Channon, Mrs. Frances : 0 10 0<br />
Total .<br />
.... £4,816 19 Nov. 25, Toynbee, Paget. . . 0 10 0<br />
༤༌ ༤་<br />
.<br />
0<br />
0<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
,.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
..........<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 143 (#579) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
143<br />
.<br />
2:2:,<br />
.<br />
0<br />
OroO-100olto<br />
eror eroro Ourer<br />
·'.<br />
.<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
£ s. d.<br />
Nov. 25, Hood, Miss Agnes Jacomb. 0 10 0 Dec. 4, Heath, Sidney . . : 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 25, Gilliat, The Rev. E. . . 1 1 0 Dec. 5, Macnamara, Miss Marg<br />
Nov. 25, Macdonald, Greville , . 1 1 0 Dec. 5, Clodd, Edward .<br />
Nov. 25, Allen, Rev. The G. W.(2 years) 0 5 0 Dec. 5, Little, Mrs. Archibald<br />
Nov. 25, Russell, G. H. . . . 0 5 0 Dec. 5, Morton, Michael<br />
nael . . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 25, Osgood, Mrs. Irene . . 10 10 0 Dec. 6, Meredith, Mark .<br />
: : 0 0<br />
Nov. 25, Trench, Herbert . . 0 10 0 Dec. 8, Broster, Miss D. K. . : 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 25, Murdoch, W. G. Burn. . 0 15 0 Dec. 11, Orczy, The Baroness . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 25, Knowles, Miss Margaret . 1 1 0 Dec. 12, Bennett, Arnold . . . 5 0 0<br />
Nov. 25, Bond, R. Warwick . . 1 1 0 Dec. 12, von Holst, Gustav<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 25, Stockley, Mrs. .<br />
0 10 6 Dec. 16, Cromartie, The Right Hon.<br />
Nov. 27, Tyrrell, Miss Eleanor. 0 10 0<br />
the Countess of (additional<br />
Nov. 27, Prideaux, Miss S. T. . 1 0 0<br />
subscription) . . 0 10 6<br />
Nov. 27, Sedgwick, Prof. A. (5 years). 1 1 0 Dec. 16, Laurance, Lionel . . . . 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Arnold, Mrs. J. O. .. 0 10 0 Dec. 16, Allen, Mrs. Grant. . . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Weaver, Mrs. Baillie .. () 10 0 Dec. 18, Haultain, Arnold .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 27, Drake, F. Maurice :<br />
5 0 Dec. 18, Pollock, The Right Honble.<br />
Nov. 27, Stewart, J. C. MacDougall<br />
5 0<br />
Sir Frederick, P.C...<br />
.. . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 27, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . . 1 1 0 Dec. 20, Carr, Miss Mildred E. . . 0 10 0<br />
Nov. 27, Lucas, E. V. . . 100Dec. 20, Lewis, The Rev. Arthur : 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Hollins, Miss Dorothea<br />
0 10 0 Dec. 30, Dodge, Miss Janet . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Bagnall, Miss L. T. . : 0 5 0 Dec. 30, Fitzgerald, Menie Muriel . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 27, Young, Ernest .<br />
0 5 0 Dec. 30, Fuller, Sir Bamfylde . : 0 10 0<br />
Nov. 27, Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander 0 10 6 1912.<br />
Nov. 27, Collier, The Hon. John<br />
1 1 C Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice . . ( 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Hughes-Gibb, Mrs. . : 0 5 0 Jan. 2, Sturt, George. : : 0 5<br />
Nov. 27, Orde Ward, The Rev. F.<br />
0 5<br />
Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark (in addition to<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Miss Beatrice : 220<br />
present subscription). . ( 5 0<br />
Nov. 28, Carlyle, The Rev. A. J.<br />
Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H. . .<br />
Nov. 28, Montrésor, Miss F. F. . 1 1 0 Jan. 3, Worsley, Miss Alice . .<br />
Nov. 28, Jones, Henry Arthur. 1 1 0<br />
Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br />
Nov. 28, Pryor, Francis .<br />
. . + 4 0<br />
to present subscription)<br />
Nov. 28, Whiteing, Richard . 0 10 0 Jan. 3, Hedgcock, F. A. .. . (50<br />
Nov. 28, Caine, William .<br />
• 1 1 0 Jan. 5, Matcham, Mrs. Eyre ..<br />
Nov. 28, Tuttiett, Miss M. G. .<br />
Jan. 8, Stayton, Frank ..<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 28, Caulfeild, Mrs. Kathleen<br />
Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Edith<br />
. . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 28, Breaknell, Miss Mary.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Jan. 10, Ropes, A. R..<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 28, James, Miss S. Boucher . 1 1 0<br />
Jan. 12, Francis, René<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
Nov. 28, Martin, Miss Violet . .<br />
Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br />
Nov. 29, Pakington, The Hon. Mary. 0 5 0<br />
tion to present subscription) 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Chase, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis<br />
Jan. 27, Hutchinson, the Rev. H. N. . 1 1 0<br />
Nathaniel<br />
5 0<br />
Feb. 7, L. M. F., per month during<br />
Nov. 29, Skrine, The Rev. John H. 1 0 0<br />
1912<br />
.<br />
.<br />
. 1 0 0<br />
:<br />
Nov. 29, Travers, Miss Rosalind.<br />
5 0 Feb. 7, Letts, Miss W. M. . . . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Graves, Alfred P..<br />
. ( 5 0 Feb. 8. Cooke. W. Bourne . . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 29, Shaw, Fred. G. . .<br />
Feb. 8, Annesley, Miss Maude. 0<br />
Nov. 29, Narramore, William .<br />
5 0 Feb. 9, O'Donnell, Miss Petronella : 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Waldstein, Charles . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 29, Rutter, Frank<br />
0 5 0<br />
£95 8 0<br />
Dec. 1, Lee, The Rev. Albert . 0 5 0<br />
Donations.<br />
Dec. 1, Romanes, Mrs. Ethel .. 0 10 0<br />
Dec. 1, Wilton, Margaret W. . 0 5 0 Oct. 10, Guthrie, Anstey. .<br />
20<br />
Dec. 2, Holme, Miss.<br />
0 10 0 Oct. 11, Baldwin, Mrs. Alfred . . 3 3 0<br />
Dec. 4, Thomson, Lieut.-Col<br />
0 5 0 Oct. 19, Romanne-James, Mrs. C.<br />
15 6<br />
Dec. 4, Begbie, Harold .<br />
. 1 1 0 Oct. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey"<br />
Dec. 4, Giles, Miss Edith J. F. . . 0 5 0 Nov. 3, Sprigge, Dr. S. S. (3rd Dona-<br />
Dec. 1, Coulton, G. G. . . . 0 5 0<br />
tion) . . . . 10 0 0<br />
0<br />
·<br />
(<br />
·<br />
༤་ ༄༅r ༤་ ༤r ༤་༤་ ༤ ༤་༤༤་<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
(<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
5<br />
0<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 144 (#580) ############################################<br />
<br />
144<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
£ $. d.<br />
£ $. d.<br />
Nov. 3, Tanner, James T. (5th Dona-<br />
Dec. 8, Falmouth, The Right Honble.<br />
tion)<br />
:<br />
.<br />
: : . 2 2 0<br />
the Viscountess<br />
220<br />
Nov. 3, Balme, Mrs. Nettleton.<br />
0 Dec. 8, Ord, H. W. . . . . ( 10 6<br />
Nov. 4, Cayzer, Charles (3rd Donation) 30 Dec. 10, Hawkins, A. Hope .<br />
10 0<br />
Nov. 6, LeRiche, P. J.<br />
10 6 Dec. 10, Pennell, Mrs. E. R. .<br />
Nov. 6, Daniell, Mrs. E. H.<br />
10 0 Dec. 11, Bland, Mrs. E. Nesbit .<br />
0 10 6<br />
Nov. 13, Anon. . . .<br />
90 Dec. 11, De Morgan, Wm. . 5 5 0<br />
Nov. 20, Grant, John G..<br />
0 10 6 Dec. 12, D'Arcy, Ella Miss<br />
0 10 6<br />
Nov. 24, Jacobs, W. W. .<br />
2 2 0 Dec. 16, Glenconner, Lady. .<br />
2 ? 0)<br />
Nov. 24, Roberts, Morley.<br />
1 0 0 Dec. 16, Royds, The Rev. T. F..<br />
Nov. 24, Eckersley, The Res. J.<br />
0 5 0 Dec. 18, Moore, Mrs. Stuart .<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nov. 25, Besant, W. H. . . 5 5 0 Dec. 18, J. P. P. . .<br />
Nov. 25, Hill, J. Arthur .<br />
100 Dec. 18, Bremner, Robert L.<br />
Nov. 25, Tansley, A. G. .<br />
. 2 2 0 Dec. 18, Dawson, Frank ..<br />
Nov. 25, Gysi, Max.<br />
10 Dec. 20, Tench, Miss Mary F. A.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 25, Lyttelton, Hon. Mrs . 1 0 0 Dec. 21, Clifford, Mrs. W. K. .<br />
Nov. 23, Savile, Frank<br />
0 0 Dec. 22, Francis, Beard . .<br />
Nor. 25, Skeat, Prof. W. W.<br />
10 Dec. 22, Horridge, Frank .<br />
Nov. 27, Hood, Francis . . . 0 5 0 Dec. 28, Dawson, Forbes . . . 0 10 6<br />
Nov. 27, “ Olivia Ramsey"<br />
. 1 1 0 Dec. 29, Longard, Madame de pro-<br />
Nov. 27, Moffatt, Graham .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
thea Gerard) .<br />
Nov. 27, Mainwaring, Mrs.<br />
5 5 0 Dec. 30, Workman, Mrs. F. Bullock : 100<br />
Nor, 27, Maunder, J. H. . . . 1 1 0 Dec. 30, Swan, Miss Myra . . . ( 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Kennedy, E. B.:<br />
. () 5 0 Dec. 30, Blake, J. P. . . . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 27, Galsworthy, John (in addition<br />
1912.<br />
to subscription) . . 2 2 0 Jan. 2, Risque, W. H. . . . 010<br />
Nov. 27, Oppenheim, E. P.<br />
1 1 0 Jan. 2, Dart, Miss Edith . . . 0 10 6<br />
Nov. 27, Harding, Commander Cl<br />
Jan. 3, “K.” . . .<br />
0 10 0<br />
R.N. . .<br />
0 0 Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur.<br />
1 1 0<br />
Nor. 27, Moore, Miss E. Hamilton . ( 106 Jan. 3, Durrant, W. Scott . . . 0 5 0<br />
Nov. 27, Pilley, John. ..<br />
0 10 0 Jan. 3, Tighe, Henry . .<br />
0 10<br />
Nov. 28, Martin, Mrs. Clara T...<br />
10 6 Jan. 3, Grant, Lady Sybil .<br />
1 0 0<br />
Nov. 28, McKellar, Campbell D.<br />
0 0 Jan. 4, Smith, Bertram .<br />
20 00<br />
Nov. 28, Wroughton, Miss Cicely . 0 5 0 Jan. 4, Buckrose, J. E. . . . 1 1 0<br />
Nov. 28, Rankin, Miss F. M. .<br />
5 0 Jan. 4, Lathbury, Miss Eva<br />
Nov. 28, Harraden, Miss Beatrice<br />
0 0 Jan. 5, Wilson, Dr. Albert .<br />
0 10 0<br />
Nov. 28, Gould, Gerald . . . 1 0 0 Jan. 5, Craven, A. Scott , .<br />
0 10 0<br />
Nov. 28, Hardy, Thomas 0. J. .<br />
0 0 Jan. 6, Blundell, Miss Alice<br />
0 10 0<br />
Nov. 29, Maarten Maartens<br />
5 0 0 Jan. 6, Garbutt, W. H.<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nov. 29, Bolton, Clement .<br />
0 2 6 Jan. 6, Serjeant, Miss Constance<br />
0 5 0<br />
Nor. 29, Stutfield, H. E. M.<br />
1 0 0 Jan. 9, Chamberlaype, Miss Effie<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, F. L. A... . ( 10 6 Jan. 9, Hamel, Frank<br />
Nov. 29, Spurrier, Steven.<br />
7 6 Jan. 10, Allen, W. Bird ..<br />
Nov. 29, Kinloch, Alexander<br />
1 1 0 Jan. 10, Crellin, H. M. .<br />
Nov. 29, Webling, Peggy.<br />
0 5 0 Jan. 10, Smith, Herbert W.<br />
Nov. 29, Barclay, Mrs. Hubert . ( 10 0 Jan. 12, Randall, F. J. .<br />
Nov. 29, Gibbs, Miss C. E. .<br />
0 Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
Nov. 29, Batty, Mrs. Braithwaite<br />
5 0 Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W...<br />
Nov. 29, Spielmann, Mr. and Mrs. M. 2 2 0 Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M. .<br />
Nov. 29, Begbie, Harold . . 3 3 0 Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney .<br />
Nov. 29, Spiers, Victor . .<br />
0 Jan. 20, M-Ewan, Miss Madge.<br />
Nov. 29, Wentworth, Gerald .<br />
Jan. 2.2, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila<br />
Nov. 29, Pryce, Richard . . 3 0 0 Jan. 22, Mackenzie, Miss J. . . (50)<br />
Nov. 29, Watson, Mrs. Herbert . . () 5 0 Jan. 22, Reiss, Miss Erna . . . () 5 0<br />
Dec. 6, Toplis, Grace . . . . 0 5 0 Jan. 22, Grisewood, R. Norman. . ( 5 )<br />
Dec. 6, Percival, Helen A. . . . 0 5 0 Jan. 23, Machen, Arthur . . . 1 1 0<br />
Dec. 7, Graham, Kenneth . . . 10 0 0 Jan. 24, Williamson, C. N. and Mrs. C.N. 5 5 0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·.<br />
·<br />
..<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
1<br />
1<br />
.<br />
0<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
ooooo<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 145 (#581) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
145<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·····<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
···<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
······<br />
0<br />
£ 8. d. bad one from his point of view. The solicitor also<br />
Jan. 26, Way, Viss Beatrice . ( 5 0 reported that one case dealing with accounts had<br />
Jan. 30, Saies, Mrs. Florence H.. : 0 8 6 been settled during the month.<br />
Jan. 30, Weyman, Stanley (in addition<br />
The secretary then mentioned a case of infringe-<br />
to subscription).<br />
1 0 ment of copyright in Australia by a bookseller who<br />
Jan. 30, S. F. G.<br />
1 1 0 had imported an American edition, and it was<br />
Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br />
. 1 0 0 decided to instruct the society's Australian lawyers<br />
Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br />
0 10 0 to take action. Another case of infringement had<br />
Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James 1.<br />
1 1 0 been put down on the agenda, but the committee<br />
Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br />
0 10 6 were informed it had been settled. The secretary<br />
Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady<br />
5 0 0 also read a letter from one of the members<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. .<br />
0 5 0 respecting a claim against a paper for work done,<br />
Feb. 12, King, A. R.. .<br />
( 10 ) and the committee decided to instruct the solicitors<br />
Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. .<br />
. () 5 0 to proceed, subject to the author being willing to<br />
Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br />
0 5 0 co-operate.<br />
Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. W. E.<br />
1 1 0 The committee then discussed, at some length, an<br />
Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival<br />
5 0 article which appears in another column of "The<br />
Feb. 17, Raphael, Mrs. .<br />
. 0 5 0 Author," dealing with a publisher's forms of<br />
Feb. 19, Cabourn, John .<br />
. 0 5 0 agreement.<br />
Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
. 010<br />
An agency agreement wbich had been settled<br />
Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and Mrs. .'110 by a sub-committee, and circulated to the members<br />
of the Committee of Management, was next read,<br />
£228 6 6 and adopted. A vote of thanks was passed to the<br />
The Editor regrets that Mr. Robert Hichens'<br />
sub-committee for the work they had done. The<br />
agreement, which is based on an agency agree-<br />
contribution of £3 3s, was put down as a donation,<br />
ment, settled some time ago by the Dramatic<br />
whereas it should have been entered as an annual<br />
Sub-Committee, is printed on another page.<br />
subscription. He hastens to correct the mistake.<br />
The committee then proceeded to elect a com-<br />
posers' sub-committee, as it had been decided to<br />
form a separate section of the society for composers,<br />
to work on the same lines as the dramatic section<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
is working under the Dramatic Sub-Committee.<br />
The following gentlemen were elected and have<br />
consented to undertake the duties :-<br />
MEETING of the committee was held at the<br />
offices of the society on Monday, February<br />
Granville Bantock,<br />
5th. After the minutes of the last meeting<br />
Percy Buck,<br />
Thomas F. Dunhill,<br />
had been read and signed, the committee proceeded<br />
to elect 18 new members and associates whose<br />
Cecil Forsyth,<br />
John B. McEwen,<br />
names appear on another page. This is one of<br />
the largest elections which has ever taken place in<br />
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford,<br />
any one month, since the foundation of the society,<br />
Herbert, Sullivan,<br />
Howard Talbot,<br />
and having regard to the satisfactory election in<br />
January, it is felt that the year 1912 has opened in<br />
William Wallace.<br />
an auspicious manner.<br />
The question of the Nobel Prize Committee was<br />
The solicitor reported the cases dealt with again before the Committee of Management. A<br />
during the month. In one case, relating to a letter from Lord Avebury, the Chairman of that<br />
dispute between a member and a publisher, which committee, was read, together with a communication<br />
had been adjourned from the previous month, the which his lordship had received from the Swedish<br />
committee decided to appoint an arbitrator under Academy. The committee decided to refer the<br />
a clause in the agreement making arbitration whole matter to the Council of the Society at its<br />
necessary. In the next case against the same next meeting.<br />
publisher it was decided to take immediate action to The annual report, which had been settled by a<br />
maintain the author's rights. The next question sub-committee, was adopted, and will be issued to<br />
was one between an author and his agent, and here, members and associates with the usual notice of<br />
after careful consideration, it was decided that no general meeting.<br />
help could be given to the author as he was bound Letters from the advertisement agents of The<br />
by his agreement, although it was an exceedingly Author were read raising certain points in the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 146 (#582) ############################################<br />
<br />
146<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
delivery of their accounts. It was decided to refer<br />
them, with certain instructions, to the solicitors.<br />
It was decided to invest £150 of the Life<br />
Membership Subscriptions in the purchase of<br />
Antofogasta and Bolivia Railway Five per cent. Pre-<br />
ferred Ordinary Stock, and the secretary was<br />
authorised to carry out the committee's instructions.<br />
Two suggestions on minor points connected with<br />
the management of the society were considered, but<br />
it was felt that it would not be to the advantage of<br />
the members to adopt either of them.<br />
The secretary reported that two members had<br />
paid life membership subscriptions—Mrs. Stanley<br />
Wrench and Mr. Dudley Buxton.<br />
Cases.<br />
DURING the past month twelve cases have been<br />
placed in the hands of the secretary. Four of<br />
these refer to claims for the return of MSS., and<br />
in three cases the MSS. have been returned and<br />
forwarded to the members concerned. Two claims<br />
for accounts and money have been dealt with ; one<br />
has had to be transferred to the solicitors of the<br />
society, as the publisher refused to answer the letters<br />
which were written to him by the secretary ; the<br />
other case is still in course of negotiation, as the<br />
publisher, although he has answered the secretary's<br />
letters, has not as yet delivered the accounts. There<br />
was one case referring to breach of contract which<br />
has been satisfactorily settled, and one case in<br />
which accounts only were claimed. Two claims<br />
for money due to members are still open, as they<br />
have only recently come into the office. There<br />
was one case referring to the infringement of<br />
performing rights, which had to be taken in hand<br />
immediately. The secretary is glad to report that<br />
it has been terminated satisfactorily. There was<br />
also one case with regard to the settlement of the<br />
exact terms of a contract, which also has been<br />
negotiated. Seven cases out of the twelve are<br />
already at an end. This is a very healthy<br />
record.<br />
There are still three small claims open from the<br />
former months : the others have either been settled<br />
or handed over to the solicitors of the society.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
The February meeting of the Dramatic Sub-<br />
Committee of the Society of Authors was held at<br />
the offices of the society on Friday, the 16th.<br />
The minutes of the previous meeting having<br />
been read and signed, the secretary laid before the<br />
meeting an agreement which had been forwarded<br />
to the society by one of the members, purporting<br />
to be entered into between the Travelling Theatre<br />
Managers' Association and dramatic authors. The<br />
agreement was considered, and Mr. Raleigh explained<br />
at some length the position of the association. It<br />
was decided to appoint a sub-committee, consisting<br />
of Mr. Cecil Raleigh, Mr. R. C. Carton, and Mr. G.<br />
Bernard Shaw, to confer with the representative of<br />
the association, in order, if possible, to arrange<br />
satisfactory terms on behalf of the dramatists<br />
inside the society. The secretary received instruc-<br />
tions to enquire of the association's representative<br />
whether he would make an appointment to meet<br />
the sub-committee with a view to coming to some<br />
agreement.<br />
The contract for cinematograph productions,<br />
adjourned from the last meeting, was rediscussed.<br />
The secretary reported that he had as yet obtained<br />
no further information from the French society, as<br />
the report to be issued by that society was not yet<br />
completed, but would be forwarded when ready.<br />
The sub-committee decided to obtain information on<br />
the subject from other countries.<br />
The method of procedure to be followed in the<br />
settlement of the general treaty between the<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee and the Dramatists' Club<br />
was discussed. It was decided to forward a letter<br />
to the secretary of the sub-committee appointed by<br />
that club to consider the treaty, and to enquire on<br />
what date the Dramatic Sub-Committee of the<br />
society and the Dramatists' Club Sub-Committee<br />
could meet in order to settle the final form of the<br />
treaty. The secretary was instructed to carry<br />
through the matter and report.<br />
February Elections.<br />
Atlay, J. B. .<br />
Athenæum Club, S.W.<br />
Ayre, Miss G. B. . Eastlemes, Colne,<br />
Lancashire.<br />
Baden-Powell, W., K.C.. 32, Princes Gate, S.W.<br />
Bayly-Jones, Miss Jane . 24, Torphichen Street,<br />
Edinburgh.<br />
Bernard, H. D'Oyly . . 101, Albert Bridge<br />
Road, S.W.<br />
Boys, Gerald E. Le Mesurier<br />
(Le Mesurier Boys) Barcelona, Spain.<br />
Brebner, Percy James . The Upways, Spencer<br />
Gardens, East Sheen,<br />
S.W.<br />
Brewin, The Rev. Robert. 106, Park Road,<br />
Loughborough.<br />
Bryan, Miss M. Theresa . Norden Court, Hen-<br />
don, N.W.<br />
Buchanan, Miss Emily H. Invera von, Christ-<br />
church, Hants.<br />
Buck, Percy C., M.A., Mus. 100, High Street,<br />
Doc., Oxon. .. Harrow-on-the-Hill.<br />
Buxton, Dr. Dudley W., 82, Mortimer Street,<br />
M.D. . . . . Cavendish Square,<br />
W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 147 (#583) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
147<br />
Worthington, A. M., C.B.,<br />
F.R.S.<br />
Wright, William B. . . 14, Hume Street,<br />
Dublin.<br />
Yorke, Arnold . . . 30, First Avenue,<br />
Acton Park, W.<br />
Zangwill, Louis . . Authors' Club, S.W.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
mo<br />
Cantrill, Harold . . Dorridge, Warwick-<br />
shire.<br />
Chesser, Mrs. E. Sloan . Beauchamp House,<br />
Gloucester.<br />
Colvile, Rex . . . 15, Colinette Road,<br />
Putney.<br />
Dunhill, Thomas Frederick 17, Frances Road,<br />
Windsor.<br />
Forsyth, Cecil . . . Blandford Mansions,<br />
G., East Street,<br />
Baker Street, W.<br />
Fox, Esther T. . . . 69, Tressillian Road,<br />
St. John's, S.E.<br />
Freer, H. B. . . . Ardmore, Gravesend,<br />
Kent.<br />
Freestone, Saie. . . Hinton Chambers,<br />
Bournemouth.<br />
Gray, Miss Annabel . . 1, Mechlin Mansions,<br />
Brook Green, S.W.<br />
Griffiths, Miss N. . . Ridgeway, Dormans<br />
Land, Surrey.<br />
Hamilton, Cosmo . . L4 Uc. Albany, Picca-<br />
dilly, W.<br />
Hope, Graham . . . Women's Amalgama-<br />
ted Unionist and<br />
Tariff Reform<br />
Association, 39a,<br />
Maddox Street,<br />
Hanover Square,<br />
W.<br />
Jones, Hinton . . . 99, Hallam Street,<br />
Portland Place, W.<br />
Leigh, Miss Gertrude . Nesbit Cottage, Win-<br />
chelsea, Sussex.<br />
Livens, W. Howard<br />
(William Howard)<br />
coln.<br />
Morel, Jean . . . St. John's College,<br />
(Claude Odilé)<br />
H 2, Cambridge.<br />
O'Donnell, Miss Petronella Nelson Villa. The<br />
Beach, Clevedon,<br />
Somerset.<br />
Openshaw, Miss Mary . 37, Queen's Gate<br />
Gardens, S.W.<br />
Poole, M. C. Conway . E. I. United Service<br />
(Oslay)<br />
Club.<br />
Poore, Niss L. C. . . Rainhill, Liverpool.<br />
Simpson, Violet A.<br />
Sowerby, Getha.<br />
Spry-Palmer.<br />
Sugden, Charles . . 2c, Hyde Park Man-<br />
sions, N.W.<br />
Wallis, Arthur F. . . 15, Stanley Crescent,<br />
Webster, William H. . 31, Stratford Street,<br />
Dewsbury Road,<br />
Leeds.<br />
Whibley, Charles . . Wavenden Manor,<br />
Woburn Sands.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
MRS. GASKELL: WITH SELECTIONS FROM HER WORKS.<br />
By MRS. ELLIS H. CHADWICK. Regent Library Series.<br />
7 X 44. 387 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 28. 6d. n.<br />
CHARLES DICKENS AS EDITOR. Being Letters written by<br />
Him to William Henry Wills, his Sub-Editor. Selected<br />
and Edited by R. C. LEHMANN. 9 x 51. 104 pp.<br />
Smith Elder. 128. 6d. n.<br />
A COSMOPOLITAN ACTOR : DAVID GARRICK AND HIS<br />
FRENCH FRIENDS. By F. A. HEDGECOCK. 9 x 57.<br />
412 pp. Stanley Paul, 10s. 6. n.<br />
CLASSICAL.<br />
CLASSIC MYTH AND LEGEND. By A. R. HOPE MON-<br />
CRIEFF. 83 x 51. 440 pp. Gresham Publishing Co.<br />
78. 64. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Two PLAYS,!By TCHEKHOF: THE SEAGULL, THE CHERRY<br />
ORCHARD. Translated by GEORGE CALDERON. 8 x 53.<br />
155 pp. Grant Richards. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE PIGEON. A Fantasy in Three Acts. By JOHN<br />
GALSWORTHY. 63 x 5. 83 pp. Duckworth. ls. 6d. n.<br />
CHAUCER REDIVIVUS. A Playlet for the open air or hall.<br />
By WILLIAM SCOTT DURRANT. George Allen & Co.,<br />
Ltd. 6d. n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL,<br />
WONDERS OF PLANT LIFE. By S. LEONARD BASTIN.<br />
Cassell & Co. 38. 6d.<br />
W.<br />
FICTION<br />
SUCCESS. By Una L. SILBERRAD. 7 x 5. 316 pp.<br />
Constable. 68.<br />
THE PRISON WITHOUT A WALL. By R. STRAUS. 73 x 5.<br />
307 pp. Heinemann. 68.<br />
THE DEVIL'S WIND. By PATRICIA WENTWORTH (MRS.<br />
G.F. DILLON). 73 * 5. 352 pp. Melrose.<br />
HONESTY. By M. E. FRANCIS. 74 . 320 pp. Hodder &<br />
Stoughton. 68.<br />
THE PRINCIPAL GIRL. By J.C. SNAITH. 73 x 5. 312 pp.<br />
Methuen. 68<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 148 (#584) ############################################<br />
<br />
148<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE CURE. A Psychological Farce. By DESMOND COKE.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
78 x 5. 310 pp. Chapman & Hall.<br />
HAVOC.<br />
MOTHERCRAFT. By MRS. ELLIS H. CHADWICK. 77 x 5.<br />
By E. P. OPPENHEIM. 7 x 5. 349 Pp. 126 pp. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons. lx.<br />
Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
LETTERS TO LOO ISE ON LIFE, LOVE AND IMMORTALITY.<br />
A QUEEN OF CASTAWAYS. By John BARNETT. 77 x 5.<br />
By JEAN DELAIRE. 192 pp. William Rider & Son, Ltd.<br />
308 pp. Methuen. 38. 6d.<br />
28. 6d. n.<br />
RUTH OF THE ROWLDRICH. By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
78 * 5. 368 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
Exit ELIZA. By BARRY PAIN. 7 x 5. 120 pp. A FAIRY TALE. By THEODORE HOLLAND. Words by<br />
Cassell. 18.<br />
ROLAND CARSE. Boosey & Co., 295, Regent Street, W.<br />
THE SPINDLE. By ELIZABETH HARDEN. 356 pp. John MIRAGE. A Valse. By THEODORE HOLLAND. John<br />
Long. 68.<br />
Church Co., 45, Wigmore Street.<br />
THE RIGHT HAND. By J. BLOUNDELLE-BURTON. Everett<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
& Co. 6s.<br />
DEAD MEN'S BELLS. Ry FREDERICK NIVEN. 310 pp. THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. By T. A. COWARD. The<br />
Martin Secker, 68.<br />
Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature. 61 x 5.<br />
THE CHINK IN THE ARMOUR. By MRS. BELLOC 137 pp. Cambridge University Press. 18. n.<br />
LOWNDES. 73 x 5. 316 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS, How, WHERE AND WHEN TO<br />
THE COWARD. By R. H. BENSON. 73 x 5. 392 pp. FIND AND IDENTIFY THEM. By R. KEARTON. Part I.<br />
Hutchinson. 68.<br />
93 x 61. 32 pp. Cassell. 7d. n.<br />
THE ROOM IN THE TOWER. By E. F. BENSON. 78 X 5.<br />
338 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
FIRE IN STUBBLE. By THE BARONESS ORCZY. 73 X 5, HOME RULE. By HAROLD SPENDER. With a preface by<br />
410 pp. Methuen. 6s.<br />
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR EDWARD GREY, BART.<br />
ETERNAL GLORY. By CARLTON DAWE. 73 x 5. 352 pp. M.P. 7 X 5. 180 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 18. D.<br />
Eveleigh Nash. 68.<br />
SAM BRIGGS: His Book. By RICHARD MARSH. 7 x 5.<br />
REFERENCE BOOKS.<br />
304 pp. John Long. 68.<br />
Who's WHO IN SCIENCE (International). Edited by H.<br />
THE SINGING BONE. By R. AI'STIN FREEMAN. 78 X 5.<br />
H. STEPHENSON. 94 x 57. 323 pp. J. & A. Churchill.<br />
312 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 28. n.<br />
THE THREE ENVELOPES. By HAMILTON DRUMMOND.<br />
SCIENCE.<br />
73 X 43. 319 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
FOURTH REPORT OF THE WELLCOME TROPICAL RESEARCH<br />
CYNTHIA OF THE MINUTE. By L. J. VANCE. 78 x 5.<br />
LABORATORIES AT THE GORDON MEMORIAL COLLEGE.<br />
318 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br />
KHARTOUM. Vol. B. General Science. By A. BALFOCR,<br />
RUPERT OF HENTZAU. By ANTHONY HOPE. 61 X 4.<br />
M.D. 11 x 73. 333 pp. Published for the Department<br />
Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
of Education, Sudan Government, Khartoum. Ballière,<br />
MIRANDA OF THE BALCONY. By A. E. W. MASON.<br />
Tindall & Cox.<br />
256 pp. Macmillan. 7d. n.<br />
188. n.<br />
THE WOMAN HUNTER. By ARABELLA KENEALY, 7} x 5.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
334 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. By ERNEST THOMPSOS SETOS.<br />
ESTHER. By AGNES E. JACOMB. 74 x 5. 303 pp. 9 x 51. 415 pp. Constable. 12s. 60. 11.<br />
Heinemann. 6s.<br />
RUINS OF DESERT CATHAY. Personal Narrative of<br />
HERITAGE. By VALENTINA HAWTREY. 7{ x 5. 389 pp.<br />
Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China.<br />
Constable. 6s.<br />
By M. AUREL STEIN. Two volumes. 94 X 64. 517 pp.<br />
FELIX ('HRISTIE. By PEGGY WEBLING. 73 5. 345 pp. Macmillan. 428. n,<br />
Methuen. 68.<br />
SCENTED ISLES AND CORAL GARDENS. Torres Straits,<br />
THE ENDLESS JOURNEY AND OTHER STORIES. By NETTA<br />
German New Guinea, and the Dutch East Indies. Br<br />
SYRETT. 73 X 43. 317 pp. Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
C. D. MACKELLAR. 9 X 54. 351 pp. Murray. 158. Il.<br />
THE GIFTED NAME. By MRS. FRED REYNOLDS. 73 x 5.<br />
307 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
THE CLOAK OF CONVENTION. By LESLIE MOORE. 75 X 5.<br />
326 pp. Alston Rivers. 68.<br />
THE OPEN VALLEY. By HELEN H. WATSON (MRS. BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
HERBERT A. WATSON). 78 X 5. 344 pp. Cassell. 68.<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
THIRTEEN. By TEMPLE THURSTON. 78 X 5. 279 pp.<br />
Chapman & Hall. 68.<br />
VEENI THE MASTER. - The Story of a Dream.” By<br />
ART.<br />
R. J. LAMPORT. 78 x 5. 305 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.<br />
TONY U'NREGENERATE. By JANET DODGE. 73 X 5. WHISTLER. By FRANK RUTTER. New York: Kennerler.<br />
312 pp. Duckworth. 68.<br />
$1 n.<br />
A BLIND ALLEY. By S. W. SAVI. 74 x 5. Digby Long.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
68.<br />
THE STORY OF EMMA, LADY HAMILTON. With 30<br />
BARTER. By GERTIE DE S, WENTWORTH JAMES. 8 x 5.<br />
Reproductiuns in Colour of famous Paintings and<br />
318 pp. Everett. tis.<br />
Engravings, and other Illustrations. 2 Volumes. By<br />
IN LOVE'S LAND. By EFFIE A. ROWLANDS. 73 x 5. FRANK DANBY. 107 + 113 pp. New York:<br />
319 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
Macmillan Co. $1.75.<br />
LORD OF TRONGRAY. By J. B. HARRIS-BURLAND. 7} x 5. THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN. In 2 Volumes. Vol. I.<br />
365 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
1819-1860; Vol. II. 1860-1900. By E. T. COOK.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
540 + 615 pp. New York : Macmillan Co. $7 n.<br />
THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF SHELLEY AND THE SEQUEL. By<br />
WHERE THE HEDGEROWS END, AND OTHER FAIRY TALES. FRANCIS GRIBBLE. 387 pp. New York: Putnams<br />
By - ISH BEL." 64 pp. John Ouseley. 18, n.<br />
$4 n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 149 (#585) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
149<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
VENICE AND VENETIA. By EDWARD HUTTON. With<br />
14 Illustrations in Colour by MAXWELL ARMFIELD, and<br />
12 other Illustrations. 324 pp. New York: Macmillan<br />
Co. $2 n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
THROUGH TRACKLESS LABRADOR. By HESKETH<br />
PRICHARD. With a Chapter on Fishing by G. M.<br />
GATHORNE HARDY. Illustrated with a Frontispiece. By<br />
LADY HELEN GRAHAM. A Map of the Route, and from<br />
photographs. 244 pp. New York : Sturgis. $4 n.<br />
THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. A Canoe Journey of 2,000 miles in<br />
search of Caribou. Being the Account of Voyage to the<br />
Region North of Aylmer Lake. 415 pp. New York :<br />
Scribner. $2.50.<br />
THE SURGEON'S Log. Being Impressions of the Far<br />
East. By J. JOHNSTON ABRAHAM. 388 pp. New<br />
York : Dutton. $2.50 n.<br />
THE LEAVES OF THE TREE; STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY.<br />
By ARTHUR C. BENSON. 154 pp. New York: Putnam.<br />
$1.50 n.<br />
THE LIFE OF JAMES MACNEILL WHISTLER. By MRS. E.<br />
ROBINS. PENNELL & JOSEPH PENNELL. Phil. :<br />
Lippincott. $3.50 n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
THE BLUE BIRD. A Fairy Play in Six Acts. By MAURICE<br />
MAETERLINCK. Translated by ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA<br />
DE MATTOS. With 25 Illustrations in Colour by F.<br />
CAYLEY ROBINSON. 211 pp. New York : Dodd Mead.<br />
$1.50 n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
THE BARON'S HEIR. A Sixteenth Century Romance for<br />
Young People. By ALICE WILson Fox. With Illustra-<br />
tions Designed by JOYCE BURGES. 352 pp. New York:<br />
Macmillan. $1.35 n.<br />
WHEN NO MAN PURSUETA. By M. A. BELLOC LOWNDES.<br />
396 pp. New York : Kennerley. $1.35 n.<br />
Havoc. By E. P. OPPENHEIM. With Illustrations in<br />
Colour by HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY. 323 pp.<br />
Boston : Little Brown. $1.25 n.<br />
DOOR IN THE WALL AND OTHER STORIES. By H. G.<br />
WELLS. New York: Kennerley. $1.50 n.<br />
CHRISTOPHER. By RICHARD PRYCE. 364 pp. Boston :<br />
Houghton Mifflin. $1.35 n.<br />
THE MONEY MOON: A ROMANCE. By JEFFERY FARNOL.<br />
330 pp. New York : Dodd Mead. $3.75 n.<br />
A BED OF ROSES. By W. L. GEORGE. New York.<br />
Brentanos. $1.35.<br />
LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY. By FRANCES HODGSON<br />
BURNETT. Newly illustrated by REGINALD BIRCH.<br />
246 pp. New York : Scribner. $2 n.<br />
THE COMPOSER. By AGNES & EGERTON CASTLE.<br />
289 pp. New York : Doubleday Page. $1.20.<br />
THE CASE OF RICHARD MEYNELL. By Mrs. HUMPHRY<br />
WARD. Illustrated by C. E. BROCK. 630 pp. New<br />
York : Doubleday Page. $1.35 1.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
CHILDREN'S STORIES FROM SHAKESPEARE. By E.<br />
NESBIT. 124 pp. New York: R. Tuck & Sons. $2.<br />
JOHN TEMPLE, Merchant Adventurer, Convict and Con-<br />
quistadore. By RALPH DURAND. 371 pp. New York:<br />
Macmillan. $1.25 n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
MORE LETTERS TO My Son. By WINIFRED JAMES.<br />
134 pp. New York : Moffat, Yard. $1 n.<br />
FLOREAT ETONA: Anecdotes and Memories of Eton<br />
College. By RALPH NEVILL. 336 pp. New York :<br />
Macmillan. $5 n.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
STYLE IN MUSICAL ART. By Sir HUBERT PARRY.<br />
439 pp. New York : Macmillan. $3.25 n.<br />
POST-VICTORIAN MUSIC. With other Studies and Sketches.<br />
By C. L. GRAVES. 369 pp. New York : Macmillan<br />
Co. $2 n.<br />
PoᎬᎢᎡY.<br />
PsychE. By FRANCIS COUTTS. 69 pp. New York :<br />
John Lane. $1.25 n.<br />
SCIENCE.<br />
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. Being an Account of Experiments<br />
with certain Superheated Saline Solutions in Hermetically<br />
Sealed Vessels. With 10 Plates, containing numerous<br />
illustrations from Photo-micographs. By H. CHARLTON<br />
BASTIAN. 119 pp. New York : Putnams. $1.50 n.<br />
N January 18, after a brief illness, Miss Ida<br />
Woodward died at Bournemouth, much<br />
regretted. She had been a member of the<br />
Authors' Society but for a short time, but not too<br />
short for her to have formed a high opinion of its<br />
utility. She was the writer of “ A History of<br />
Purbeck,” and of “ Five English Consorts of<br />
Foreign Princes,” published by Messrs. Methuen in<br />
1911. The book was very favourably received, and<br />
had the honour of being included in the list of<br />
those accepted by their Majesties for reading during<br />
the voyage to India.<br />
“Where the Hedgerows End, and other Fairy<br />
Tales," by “Ishbel," has been published by Messrs.<br />
John Ouseley. There are seven stories in the<br />
volume, besides the one from which it takes its<br />
title.<br />
A second edition of “ An Englishman," by<br />
Mary L. Pendered, is to appear shortly from the<br />
house of Messrs. Mills & Boon, through the courtesy<br />
of Messrs. Methuen & Co., who have kindly cancelled<br />
the agreement made by them in 1899, when the<br />
novel first appeared. “In My Garden," a little<br />
anthology and memorandum book for Nature lovers,<br />
compiled by the same author and Alice Stronach in<br />
collaboration, is also to be republished by Messrs.<br />
Perkins & Co., of Wellingborough ; London agents,<br />
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. This will be its<br />
third edition, making 6,000 copies. It is timed to<br />
appear at Easter.<br />
Count Plunkett, F.S.A., has been elected President<br />
of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He<br />
bas lately published. for the Dublin Museum of<br />
Science and Art, a thoroughly revised edition to<br />
Miss Stokes' “ Early Christian Irt in Ireland."<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 150 (#586) ############################################<br />
<br />
150<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Mr. Vladimir Cernicoff, the Russian pianist, has subject; and some 250 authors in all are repre-<br />
included Mr. Theodore Holland's new pianoforte sented. The Anthology will appear in the Oxford<br />
pieces, “ Prelude” and “ Cradle Song," in his Editions of Standard Authors.<br />
recent tour in Germany.<br />
“ The Open Valley," a new novel by Mrs. Herbert<br />
Messrs. F. V. White & Co. published, last month, A. Watson (Helen H. Watson), has been published<br />
a theatrical novel by Gertrude Warden, entitled by Messrs. Cassell & Co. in February. Messrs.<br />
“ The Path of Virtue." Miss Warden has had Mills & Boon are issuing early in the new year<br />
seventeen years' experience of stage work in a cheap reprint of Mrs. Watson's novel “ The<br />
London, the provinces and America.<br />
Captain's Daughter."<br />
Two of Dr. Reinhardt's books are being issued We have been asked to note that the English<br />
by Stead's Publishing House, Kingsway. The Review, commencing with the January number,<br />
first is entitled “Science and the Soul," and deals 1912, will be issued at the reduced price of 1s.<br />
with a subject of universal interest. It is issued (12s. 6d. annual subscription, post free to all parts of<br />
at 2s. The other book is a new edition of Dr. the world).<br />
Reinhardt's ls, treatise, “ Diet and the Maximum Mr. George A. Birmingham has just published<br />
Duration of Life," of which upwards of ten “The Lighter Side of Irish Life,” with sixteen colour<br />
thousand copies have already been issued.<br />
illustrations by Henry W. Kerr, R.S.A., at the<br />
“ Dead Men's Bells” is the title of Mr. Frederick price of 5s. net, from the house of T. X. Foulis.<br />
Niven's new book. Mr. Martin Secker is the The book is written in Mr. Birmingham's best<br />
publisher.<br />
vein, and has many good stories, but there is also a<br />
The World's Work for February contains great deal of sound information about the people,<br />
an article by Mr. H. F. Prevost Battersby on their habits and customs. The illustrations are<br />
“Tolstoy as a Schoolmaster.” The same issue con- quite first class and well reproduced.<br />
tains an article entitled “ Agricultural Education “Vagabond City," Miss Winifred Boggs' new<br />
vid the Dairy,” by “ Home Counties.” It treats of book, is published by Messrs. Putnams. The action<br />
aspects of dairying and agricultural progress in the of the story takes place in the New Forest.<br />
Netherlands.<br />
The Rev. F. T. Royd's new book, “ Job and the<br />
The Poetry Review for February has an article Problem of Suffering,” published by Messrs. Wells,<br />
on The Lyric, by Darrell Figgis.<br />
Gardner & Co., is designed to appeal alike to the<br />
Irene Osgood has published, through Messrs. general reader and the theological student. Special<br />
Weekes & Co., four songs, entitled respectively, attention is given to interesting and difficult<br />
“I Wonder," " Wood Violets,” “ The Coronation passages with the aid of the best modern Hebrew<br />
of the Pixies” and “ Petitions.”<br />
scholarships. Many parallels are quoted from<br />
“ Chaucer Redivivus” (Allen, 6d.) is a playlet by classical and modern literature, and an original<br />
Mr. Scott Durrant for the open air or hall. Its essay is included on the Problem of Suffering in<br />
appeal is to literary societies, senior schools, etc., the Light of Christianity and modern thought.<br />
and it presents, in not too archaic “Chaucerese," a Sir James Yoxall, M.P., was unanimously elected<br />
frolicsome story of the sixth wooing and marriage President of the British International Association<br />
of the Wyf of Bathe.<br />
of Journalists, at the recent annual meeting of that<br />
Mr. Scott Durrant has also an article in the body, particulars of which may be obtained from<br />
February issue of The Treasury on - The Children's the secretary, Mr. James Baker. The address of<br />
Crusade of 1212.”<br />
the Association is La Belle Sauvage, E.C.<br />
The “Literary Year Book” will, we understand, “ Henrietta Taking Notes," by Miss E. Crosby<br />
in future, be published by Mr. John Ouseley. Heath, gives the impressions of a little girl of<br />
Messrs. Chapman & Hall are publishing “ The eleven, daughter of a dramatic critic, concerning<br />
Fly in the Ointment,” a first novel by Frances her family and her friends. John Lane, the<br />
Hammond. The heroine is a young girl, Theo Bodley Head, is the London publisher. There is<br />
Hope, whose fortunate circumstances are discounted a mingling of humour and pathos in the book,<br />
by the fact that from birth she is doomed to be which is also published in America, where the<br />
"different.” The plot deals with the development publishers are the John Lane Co.<br />
of her character from the moment when she M r. J. Bloundelle Burton has recently published.<br />
realises her fate until, after many vicissitudes, she through Messrs. Everett & Co., a novel entitled<br />
attains happiness and peace of mind.<br />
“The Right Hand.”<br />
“The Book-Lovers' Anthology," edited, with Messrs. Chapman & Hall have just issued the<br />
notes, by R. M. Leonard, will be issued immediately fourth volume of the two-shilling edition of the<br />
by Mr. Frowde. It consists of passages in poetry " John Westacott" novels. This volume is Mark<br />
and prose relating to books in all their aspects, Tillotson,” the novel that deals with the Cornish<br />
libraries, and reading, grouped according to the coast and the river scenery of the Elbe, the charac-<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 151 (#587) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
151<br />
ters being English, with the exception of the month. Messrs. John Church & Co. publish the<br />
Raphaellis. The author, James Baker, is now valse.<br />
engaged upon a volume upon Austria, to be illus- Mrs. Ellis H. Chadwick has published, through<br />
trated in colour by Donald Maxwell.<br />
Messrs. Herbert and Daniel, a volume on “Mrs.<br />
Miss Regina Miriam Bloch will give a reading of Gaskell : with Selections from her Works," which<br />
her own work at the Studio Theatre, 92, Victoria has been included in the Regent Library Series<br />
Street, Westminster, S.W., on March 10, at issued by that firm.<br />
8 p.m. She will be assisted by Mr. Julian Gade, Messrs. Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons have<br />
Mrs. Norman Ma Owan (of “Monsieur Beau- published, at ls. “Mothercraft," another volume<br />
caire”), and others. The reading, which comprises from Mrs. Chadwick's pen.<br />
fantasies, stories, and poems, is under the patronage Mr. Andrew Melrose announces for immediate<br />
of Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, the Hon. Lady B. publication, a volume by Mr. G. H. Perris dealing<br />
Fremantle, Mr. Israel Zangwill, and Mr. Theodore with Great Britain's foreign policy. Mr. Perris'<br />
Watts-Dunton. Tickets at 23. 6d. each can be aim has been primarily to provide in this volume a<br />
obtained from Miss R. M. Bloch, at 8, John Street, record of facts, and only secondarily a discussion<br />
Adelphi, W.C.<br />
of tendencies and principles. A detailed narrative<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have recently pub- of the Moroccan crisis of last autumn is given in<br />
lished an intimate study of the social and artistic the volume, which will be published under the title<br />
life of David Garrick, entitled “ David Garrick and of“ Our Foreign Policy and Sir Edward Grey's<br />
his French Friends,” by Dr. F. A. Hedgcock. The Failure."<br />
author deals largely with the great actor's friend- Mr. Heinemann published in February Agnes E.<br />
ships with the distinguished French men and Jacomb's new novel “ Esther.”<br />
women of his day. The dazzling society of the Mr. S. Leonard Bastin has published, through<br />
philosophic salons, and the tinsel glories of the Messrs. Cassell & Co., “Wonders of Plant Life.”<br />
Comédie Française of the period are made to live It is published at 3s. 6d.<br />
again by brief portraits of Diderot, d'Holbach, In “Letters to Louise on Life, Love and<br />
Borellet, Suard, Mme. Riccoboni, Mlle. Clairon, Immortality,” Madame Jean Delaire depicts much<br />
and others. Dr. Hedgcock has many stories to tell of the intellectual and emotional unrest of the<br />
of the great master of tragedy, comedy, and farce, present day, reflected in the mind of a brilliant<br />
and gives many examples of his drolleries, his witty woman of the world, who, in the form of letters<br />
sallies, and his amusing escapades. He also gives written to an old friend across the seas, reveals her<br />
a critical estimate of Garrick's histrionic achieve struggles towards truth, and a clear understanding<br />
ments.<br />
of the great world problems. Messrs. William<br />
" The Three Envelopes” is the title of a new Rider & Son, Ltd., are the publishers.<br />
novel from the pen of Mr. Hamilton Drummond Messrs. John Long, Ltd., have recently published<br />
which Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have just a novel called “The Spinale," which is from the<br />
published. In this story the author breaks fresh pen of Miss Elizabeth Harden.<br />
ground-touching the weird and supernatural. It A small book by a member of the society entitled<br />
tells of one Corley, who, weary of humdrum exist- “ The Land of Shadows : or Mad as à March<br />
ence, makes the acquaintance of a strange society, Hare," and commended to Mr. Lloyd George, has<br />
“ The Society for Promoting Queer Results,” and lately appeared. Messrs. W. H. Smith and Sons<br />
of the many remarkable experiences which befall are the publishers, the price is 6d. The book is a<br />
him in consequence.<br />
skit on the present Government.<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have also published Two books by Professor Skeat have reached a<br />
" Veeni the Master," a new novel by R. Fifield second edition and are now ready ; viz. “ English<br />
Lamport. The dissolution of the world Earth Dialects ” (Pitt Press); and “ The Place-names of<br />
and the reincarnation in the world Zan, and the Cambridgeshire" (Cambridge Antiquarian Society).<br />
many subsequent strange events are its subject. Derek Vane is now writing a serial story for<br />
A new novel by “Rita” (Mrs. Desmond the National Press Agency, Ltd., and half a dozen<br />
Humphreys) will shortly be published by Mr. short stories for The Throne. Stories by the same<br />
Eveleigh Nash. It deals with that rather ticklish author are also shortly appearing in the ** London "<br />
subject, the “Nonconformist conscience.” The title and “Novel” magazines.<br />
is “ Grim Justice.”<br />
A new edition of Mr. Sidney Heath's “Our<br />
A new song by Mr. Theodore Holland, “A Fairy Homeland Churches and How to Study Them”<br />
Tale” (words by Rowland ('arse), was published will shortly be published by the Homeland Associa-<br />
last month by Messrs. Boosey & Co.<br />
tion. The text has been remodelled and lengthened ;<br />
A new valse by Mr. Holland, entitled “Mirage,” the illustrations have been revised, and now include<br />
is to come out at the Albert Hall on the 6th of this a series of architectural drawings by Mr. J. R.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 152 (#588) ############################################<br />
<br />
152<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Leathart. The new edition, which completes the Yeats' Morality “ The Hour Glass," Father Adder-<br />
ninth thousand of the book, will be issued in the ley's “ Twelfth Night” Interlude “ Epiphany," and<br />
form of the “Homeland” Pocket Books at half- Lady Gregory's Miracle Play “The Travelling<br />
a-crown nett.<br />
Man” were the plays produced. The cast included<br />
1: Mr. John Long will publish shortly a new novel Miss Edyth Latimer, Miss Margaret Halstan, Mr.<br />
from the pen of Mr. Charles Igglesden, author of William Haviland, Mr. James Hearn and Mr. W.<br />
“A Flutter with Fate," and several topographical G. Fay.<br />
works on Kent. “Clouds" is the title of Mr. A one-act play “The Lady Cashier," by H. M.<br />
Igglesden's new novel, which describes the efforts Paull, was produced at the Coronet Theatre on<br />
of the son of a tradesman to raise a farmhouse girl February 5, preceding “ Baby Mine” at that<br />
to the status that he himself holds. Mr. Igglesden, theatre. A lady cashier, coming into an unexpected<br />
in the course of the story, gives the reader glimpses inheritance from an uncle abroad, leaves her employ-<br />
of historic spots in Kent.<br />
ment and proceeds to spend her inheritance on the<br />
The third volume in Messis. G. P. Putnam's Continent. It appears, subsequently, that the<br />
Mauve Library is “ The End of a Song,” by money should have gone to a nearer relative, whose<br />
Jeannette Marks. It is a simple tale of life in a death had been too hastily assumed. Meanwhile,<br />
little Welsh village, and the theme is the love the lady has become engaged to a baronet, who<br />
between the heroine (a dear old woman) and the promptly throws her over on learning the truth as<br />
hero, a baby boy.<br />
to her fortune, and the lady returns to the restaurant,<br />
Mrs. Mary Gaunt's book “ Alone in West where she confides in one of the customers, a<br />
Africa ” was published by Mr. Werner Laurie on solicitor, who promises to act for her in a breach of<br />
January 15. Mrs. Gaunt made an overland promise action, without knowing that the defendant<br />
journey along the Gold Coast, and then turned is one of his clients. The baronet consults him,<br />
inland in a canoe up the little known Voltaa river, and the two endeavour to pacify the lady, even-<br />
and thence by paths across the hilly country into tually, with success. Miss Amy Willard, Mr. E.<br />
the German territory of Togo. She visited the Spencer Geach, and Mr. Edward Leith are in the<br />
sleeping sickness camp at Mount Klutow, made piece.<br />
her way to Lome, the capital, and thence overland Sir Arthur Pinero's comedy, in four acts, “ The<br />
again to Keta, in British territory, once more. Mind the Paint' Girl," was produced at the Duke<br />
She next visited Ashanti and journeyed to Sunyani, of York's Theatre on February 17. The play<br />
which now is one of the richest possessions of deals with the life, off the stage, of musical<br />
the British crown. Mrs. Gaunt's book is illus- comedy girls, as well as of their admirers. The<br />
trated with 100 plates from photographs taken by cast includes Mr. Allen Aynesworth, Mr. Nigel<br />
herself.<br />
Playfair, Miss Marie Löhr, and Miss Clare Greet.<br />
On February 23, Mr. Martin Secker published “In face of the Enemy,” by E. White, is a<br />
Mr. Laurence North's new novel “ The Golightlys, dramatic sketch in one act, and deals with an<br />
Father and Son." In this story Mr. North (Mr. episode during the war between France and<br />
J. D. Symon) has written in an entirely different Germany, just after the battle of Saarbruck. It<br />
vein from that of his former books—“Syrinx” and is published from The Booklet Press, Broadway,<br />
“ Impatient Griselda.”<br />
Amersham, Bucks.<br />
DRAMATIC<br />
Mr. John Galsworthy's new play, “ The Pigeon,"<br />
was produced at the Royalty Theatre last month.<br />
“ The Pigeon” is a great-hearted artist who hates<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
to see a fellow-being suffer. In consequence, he<br />
befriends a flower-girl, a broken-down cabman, and<br />
an alien interpreter. His efforts towards the re- “ CYATHERINE SFORZA (1463–1509): une<br />
demption of these three “ wasters” are not, how U Héroïne de la Renaissance italienne,” is<br />
ever, successful, and the vagrancy problem of<br />
a résumé of the famous book by Pier-<br />
which they are a part remains unsolved. The Desiderio Pasolini. It is very cleverly compiled<br />
cast includes Mr. Dennis Eadie, Miss Margaret by Marc Helys, who also writes an excellent intro-<br />
Morris, Mr. Whitford Kane, and Mr. Wilfrid duction to her work. Several historians hare<br />
Shine.<br />
written accounts of this wonderful woman. One<br />
The Morality Play Society presented a triple bill of Catherine's grandsons wrote the life of Jean de<br />
ast month at the Court Theatre, when four perform Médicis, and devoted several pages of this book to<br />
ances were given of plays by W. B. Yeats, the Ilon. the exploits of his ancestress. A Spanish monk,<br />
and Rev. J. G. Adderley, and Lady Gregory: Mr. the historian Burriel, on being exiled from his<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 153 (#589) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
153<br />
country, took refuge at Forli, where he lived for departure by this talented writer. Up to the<br />
many years. He was the first to examine the present Pierre Mille is chiefly known for his clever<br />
archives relating to Catherine Sforza, so that it is psychological studies of Frenchmen in the colonies.<br />
to him we owe the first important biography of We have already drawn attention to Barnavaux<br />
this heroine. His admiration for her caused him in exile. In this new book we have a very<br />
to idealise her character and deeds to such a degree delicate and subtle pyschological study of a child.<br />
that his work does not give us a correct idea of We have the author's first conversation with Caillou,<br />
her. Towards the end of the nineteenth century a boy of five years old. From this first conversa-<br />
Count Pier-Desiderio Pasolini published a bio- tion he is able to understand something of the child's<br />
graphy of Catherine Sforza, which may be con- soul, of his character, his tastes, and his ideas.<br />
sidered as an authentic account of this celebrated As time goes on, he and Caillou find they have much<br />
Italian woman. The Pasolini family is as old as in common, and they confide in each other accord-<br />
the Sforza family, and they both came from the ingly. Pierre Mille makes the acquaintance of the<br />
same village. Count Pasolini has written many various friends of Caillou ; among others of Boulot<br />
historical works, and has exceptional opportunities and of a certain street Arab, whom they surname<br />
for examining the private archives of various Italian “La puce," and for whom they form a syndicate<br />
families. The Italian edition of Caterina Sforza is later on, in order that he may go to a convalescent<br />
in two huge volumes, and contains 1,435 documents, home. The pathos of this chapter is very touching.<br />
most of which had never before been published. Various books on the psychology of the child<br />
The work is splendidly illustrated, and is one of have been written, but none with a more true<br />
the most complete accounts in existence of the Italy intuition and such a delicate touch of humour.<br />
of that period, of the policy of its various States, “ La Renomée,” by Gaston Rageot, is a curious<br />
and of the life, intrigues and conspiracies of its and extremely complex psychological study. Lucien<br />
various Courts. The book at present is very rare, Mirar is a literary celebrity, a celebrity who makes<br />
as it is out of print, and the blocks of the illustra- copy of his various love affairs. His wife is a<br />
tions were destroyed in a fire. Marc Helys is to charming woman who had married at the age of<br />
be congratulated on the clever way in which she twenty, and whose romance had been a very brief<br />
has reduced this enormous work to a comparatively one. At the time when the story opens, she is<br />
small edition, giving us a story of real life as quite reconciled to her lot and has accepted the<br />
interesting as any novel.<br />
position of the wife of a literary celebrity. She has<br />
The titles of the chapters give an idea of some a child whom she adores, and she and her husband<br />
of the subjects touched upon : “ The Court of each live their own life.<br />
Milan,” “Catherine engaged to the Nephew of Presently a new interest comes into her 'existence.<br />
Sixtus IV.," " Assassination of the Duke of Milan," She makes the acquaintance of a certain Antoine<br />
“Sixtus IV. and his Court,” “His Death,” Bellême. They are soon on very friendly terms<br />
“Splendour and Misery of the Court of Forli," and they discover that they have many ideas in<br />
“ Intrigues of Lorenzo de Medicis,” “ Assassination common. As time goes on the two become all in<br />
of Catherine's Husband,” “ She and her Children in all to each other, and, just as the situation is becom-<br />
the Hands of the Assassins,” “Triumph and ing difficult, Lucien Mirar dies. The lovers marry,<br />
Vengeance of Catherine,” “ Her second Marriage," and it is after their marriage that the tragedy com-<br />
“ Her third Marriage," - Catherine and the Borgia mences. After the birth of their child, the mother<br />
Family,” “ Catherine a Prisoner of War,” “ She is realises how much more her first-born son is to her.<br />
accused of an attempt to Poison the Pope,” “Her An estrangement gradually begins between the two<br />
trial," " Her Liberation after fourteen months in parents, and when the younger child, feeling that<br />
Prison,” “Her Struggles and Intrigues to recover he is an unwelcome member of the family, leaves<br />
her States," “ The Education of her Youngest Son," home, the father follows him and the mother is left<br />
“ The Last Years and Death of Catherine.”<br />
with her first-born son and her memories of the<br />
The story of her youngest son is a novel in itself. past.<br />
He was the greatest warrior of his times, and is The book is well written, and the characters are<br />
known in history as “ Jean des Bandes Noires.” all very true to life and excellently portrayed.<br />
He was also called “ Foudre de Guerre,” “ le Grand Among pamphlets which should be extremely<br />
Diable," and, for the fame he brought to his country, interesting to the English at this juncture is one<br />
“ Italia.” In 1526 he was wounded while fighting, by M. Biard d'Aunet (Ministre plénipotentiaire) on<br />
and died as the result of an amputation at the age “La Ligue du Libre-Echange et la Liberté com-<br />
of twenty-eight.<br />
merciale."<br />
The whole book will be found as fascinating as M. Biard d'Aunet is Vice-President of this<br />
any work of fiction.<br />
League, and is a great authority on the subject on<br />
“ Caillou et Tili,” by Pierre Mille, is quite a new which he writes.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 154 (#590) ############################################<br />
<br />
154<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
- -<br />
- ----<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
The pamphlet is very clear. The author first Trarieux, taken from Balzac ; “ L'Eternel Mari,"<br />
explains the title of his pamphlet. He then shows a four-act play by M. M. Alfred Savoir, and F.<br />
clearly the effects of protection, and who benefits by Nozière, from Dostoïevsky ; “ La Flambée," by<br />
protection. He gives some striking examples of Mr. Henry Kistemaeckers; “Les Sauterelles," a five-<br />
protection and the maritime industries. He gives act play, by M. Emile Fabre ; “ Les Favorites,"<br />
the objections raised by protectionists, and, after a a four-act play, by M. Alfred Capus ; " L'Amour<br />
very brief summing up, he explains fully the object en Cage," a three-act piece, by M. M. André<br />
and aim of the League over which he presides. de Lorde, Funck-Brentano and Jean Marsèle;<br />
In “ La Revue Hebdomadaire," the Marquis de “L'Accord parfait," a three-act comedy by M.M.<br />
Ségur writes an interesting study of Edmond and Tristan Bernard and Michel Provins; and“ Un Bean<br />
Jules de Goncourt, and Jules Lemaître a series of Mariage," a three-act comedy by M. Sacha Guitry.<br />
articles on Chateaubriand. M. Fernand Laudet<br />
Ahys HALLARD.<br />
gives us a biographical study of Augustin Cochin,<br />
and the Abbé Augustin Sicard an extremely interest “Catherine Sforza (1463-1509)” (Perrin).<br />
ing one on the “Grandes Abbayes et Grandes<br />
“ Caillou et Tili,” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
“ La Renomée," (Calmann Lévy).<br />
Abbesses à la veille de la Révolution.”<br />
Paul Bourget writes on "l'Art de Sully<br />
Prud'homme," and the Comtesse de Courson an<br />
article entitled “La Tragédie de Cawnpore."<br />
GRAMOPHONE RECORDS.<br />
M. Camille de Sainte Croix is giving a Shakes-<br />
peare season at the Athénée Theatre, which has<br />
MONCKTON V. TAE GRAMOPHONE Co. LTD.<br />
been placed at his service by M. Abel Deval. A<br />
performance is being given every Thursday as a M HIS was an appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice<br />
matinée until May. The season opened with a 1 Joyce in an action brought by Mr. Lionel<br />
“ Midsummer Night's Dream,” with the scenery Monckton, the well-known composer, who<br />
specially designed by M. Simas, and with an claimed the exclusive right to make or authorise the<br />
entirely fresh troupe of young actors. The plays making of gramophone sheets for the performance<br />
to be given are “ The Taming of the Shrew," of the song entitled “Moonstruck," the plaintiff<br />
"The Merchant of Venice," “ The Tempest," and being the author of the words and the music.<br />
“ The Merry Wives of Windsor.”<br />
The song was first published in Feburary, 1909,<br />
M. Camille de Sainte Croix also intends to put and the performing rights were assigned to Mr.<br />
on the famous Russian piece, “Boris Godounov." George Edwardes. The defendant company, which<br />
An action has been brought against Messrs. carries on the business of manufacturers and sellers<br />
Calmann-Lévy by Messrs. Fayard. The latter of gramophones, had copied, printed, or transcribed<br />
claim that the cheap books brought out as the the song for the purpose of reproduction by means<br />
“ Nouvelle Collection Illustrée" are constantly being of the company's gramophones.<br />
bought in mistake for the “Modern Bibliothèque," The plaintiff did not rely upon any statutory copy-<br />
published by Messrs. Fayard.<br />
right, but he claimed that he was entitled to a com-<br />
Messrs. Calmann-Lévy have won the case, as the mon law right of ownership in the composition, and<br />
Court holds that there is sufficient difference in the that he could prevent anyone from using the work<br />
titles of the publication and also in the names of to his detriment. Mr. Justice Joyce had held that<br />
the authors published by these two firms to make after publication no common law right existed,<br />
such mistakes unlikely.<br />
and dismissed the action.<br />
The French syndicate for the protection of intel The Master of the Rolls in his judgment said<br />
lectual property is extremely active, and has several that the appeal raised a point which had<br />
brilliant victories to announce. The Franco-Russian been so firmly settled that he was surprised<br />
Convention has been approved by the Chamber of that it had been brought before the Court. The<br />
Deputies and by the Senate. As a result of this, plaintiff was the composer of a song which had<br />
an important group of the Moscow University has been introduced into a dramatic performance, and<br />
signed a contract with the publishers, Armand he was undoubtedly entitled to the protection<br />
Colin, for the translation rights in the Russian afforded by the statutes relating to literary and<br />
language of a geological work by Professor Haug. dramatic rights. The defendants had not infringed<br />
Arrangements are now being made with a view to those statutory rights, but the plaintiff claimed that<br />
facilitating a convention with Greece, Chili and side by side with the statutory protection there<br />
other countries.<br />
existed at common law a perpetual right to restrain<br />
Among the plays that have been given this reason the defendant company from making use of the<br />
in the various theatres are the following : “Les musical ideas which the plaintiff had made public. On<br />
Brebis Perdus," a three-act piece by M. Gabriel principle he could see no justification for that view.<br />
-<br />
-<br />
-<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 155 (#591) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
155<br />
His Lordship referred to the cases dealing with stated in his evidence that he had never heard of<br />
an author's proprietary rights at common law, and the plaintiff ; but it was contended on behalf of the<br />
he quoted from the judgment of Lord Justice Far- latter that the story referred to the plaintiff as a<br />
well in Mansell v. Valley Printing Company. In vulgar person who imposed upon women, an<br />
that judgment Lord Justice Farwell said, “ Every adventurer who was in the habit of practising mean<br />
invasion of a right of property gives a cause of and petty tricks.<br />
action to the owner against the invader, whether The Lord Chief Justice, in his summing up,<br />
the invasion be intentional or not, and whether it quoted from the judgment in the “ Artemus Jones"<br />
be innocent or malicious . . . . It is an incorporeal case reported in the Author (January, 1910), and<br />
right of property giving to the author the fullest pointed out that the jury must be satisfied, if they<br />
rights not only of exclusion, but also of actual found for the plaintiff, that a reader of the paper<br />
enjoyment so far as they are compatible with non- would reasonably think that what was published<br />
publication. All his rights at common law are was a libel upon a real person. The fact that the<br />
limited until publication when they cease. Before name in the story was the same as the plaintiff's<br />
publication he may keep his work unseen or did not give a right of action. It was only one<br />
unheard; he may show or recite it to his friends ; of the circumstances in the case.<br />
he may deliver his lectures to students or allow his I t may be remembered that the article in the<br />
MS. play to be acted on special terms, provided Author dealing with the "Artemus Jones ”<br />
always that the use to which he puts it does not case called attention to some alarm which was<br />
amount to publication."<br />
caused by that decision among novelists and other<br />
The Court of Appeal held that both on principle writers of fiction ; and the result of the recent libel<br />
and authority the judgment of Mr. Justice Joyce action illustrates and confirms the statement, which<br />
was right, and the appeal was accordingly dismissed. was as follows:<br />
Under the new Copyright Act, of course, the law<br />
Novelists may feel some alarm lest the chance selection<br />
is altered in this respect, and provision is made for of a name for one of the characters in a novel may render<br />
musical composers with regard to the production of them liable for damages in a libel action brought by a<br />
their works by gramophones and other contrivances person whom they had no intention to defame, and whose<br />
by means of which sounds may be mechanically<br />
existence may have been unknown to them. Clearly some<br />
care is necessary in adapting names for imaginary characters,<br />
reproduced. Manufacturers are required, under<br />
but the alarm of novelists may be exaggerated. There is<br />
the Act, to pay to the owner of the copyright by a distinction between works of fiction and a newspaper<br />
way of royalties a certain percentage on the ordinary article purporting to describe an actual scene taking place<br />
retail selling price of all such contrivances sold by<br />
in real life at a seaside resort. A character in a novel is<br />
generally regarded as an imaginary person, whereas the<br />
them.<br />
mention of an individual by name in a descriptive<br />
HAROLD HARDY. narrative in a newspaper may reasonably be supposed to<br />
refer to a real person.<br />
The story in the Pall Mall Gazette was obviously<br />
fiction, and the jury very naturally took the view<br />
ACTION FOR LIBEL.<br />
that a reasonable reader would not regard it as a<br />
libel upon the plaintiff.<br />
HERO IN NEWSPAPER STORY.<br />
HAROLD HARDY.<br />
SHORT story entitled “ A Sad Affair " which<br />
was published in the Pall Mall Gazette, has<br />
been the subject of a ridiculous libel action<br />
which resulted in a verdict for the defendant. The<br />
FRENCH LAW CASE.<br />
plaintiff, Mr. George Charles Flanders, a motor car<br />
engineer carrying on business at Hitchin, claimed<br />
(PUBLISHER'S OBLIGATION TO PUBLISH.)<br />
damages for injury to his reputation by the pub-<br />
lication of the story, in which the name of the hero CASE of great importance to authors, or at<br />
bore the name of George Flanders.<br />
least to French authors, has been recently<br />
The incident in the story of which the plaintiff<br />
decided in Paris.<br />
complained had reference to a tea party in Hyde Park, It will be best first to mention the results of the<br />
where the hero, having invited two ladies to tea, at the decisions of the Court, the Tribunal Civil de la<br />
conclusion of the entertainment declared that he had Seine.<br />
come out without any money, and asked his guests When an author has delivered to a publisher the<br />
to pay on his behalf. They provided the money for manuscript of an historical work with a view to<br />
the tea and left their host in disgust.<br />
publication, the publisher is bound to publish the<br />
The story was purely fictitious, and the author work without delay. If, however, on the contrary,<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 156 (#592) ############################################<br />
<br />
156<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
he permits too long a period to elapse between the publication, and won his case ; respecting which<br />
delivery of the manuscript and the publication of the Gazette des Tribunaux makes the following<br />
the work, the publisher is liable to find himself pertinent remarks :-<br />
forbidden by the author the right to publish, and When a publisher receives a work for publication<br />
to be condemned to return the manuscript.<br />
he should publish it without delay, even although<br />
Any statements which the publisher may propose no date for publication has been fixed by the<br />
to place upon the wrapper, or upon the first page author. In the case reported the author explained<br />
of the work, respecting its date of composition, and that no date had been fixed in advance ; but it did<br />
the refusal of the author to sanction the tardynot thence follow that the publisher was at liberty<br />
publication, is inoperative, and can neither take to choose the date, and could postpone the publica-<br />
the place of the performance of the contract, tion until a time when it might be prejudicial<br />
formerly made between the author and the instead of advantageous to the author. The<br />
publisher, nor prevent the injury done to the general intention of the persons concerned (which<br />
author by tardy and inopportune publication. alone has here to be considered) was evidently that<br />
The facts of the case are as follows:-<br />
the work, seeing that it was an historical work,<br />
In 1869 M. Anatole France, being then five-and should be published without delay. The publisher<br />
twenty, entered into the employ of the publishing had, therefore, violated the contract by allowing<br />
house of Lemerre, where he remained until 1878, twenty-seven years to elapse before publication.<br />
as a reader of manuscripts. He received a small When, at the end of these twenty-seven years he<br />
salary, and, in addition to his other labours, desired to publish in spite of the author's dis-<br />
prepared to order (for trifling remuneration) approval, the statements which he proposed to<br />
notices and prefaces of books. Subsequently he place upon the wrapper or on the first page, could<br />
published, with Lemerre, in 1873, Les Poèmes not prevent the injury which would be done the<br />
Dorés, and in 1876 Les Noces Corinthiennes ; author. It was therefore not in virtue of his<br />
works which attracted wide public interest. moral right alone, but in virtue of common justice,<br />
Preriously to the termination of his engagement that the author could oppose this tardy and<br />
with Lemerre he was commissioned to prepare inopportune publication. These are conclusions<br />
several works, of which one was to be a History of in accordance with justice and equity.<br />
France (in two or three volumes) up to 1789, with<br />
an additional chronological table bringing the<br />
record up to the date of publication. The manu-<br />
script of the last of the volumes of this history was<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
delivered to Lemerre on February 25, 1882. On<br />
more than one occasion subsequently M. Anatole<br />
POETRY REVIEW.<br />
France had disagreements with Lemerre about<br />
The Lyric. By Darrell Figgis.<br />
books, and in 1906, in the course of a corre-<br />
Notes on Poetry. By Arthur Lynch, M.P.<br />
spondence respecting difficulties that had arisen, Prologomena. By Ezra Pound.<br />
Lemerre incidentally mentioned, “I say nothing<br />
BOOK MONTHLY.<br />
about the History of France in two volumes, for<br />
In Memory of Charles Dickens. By H. T. Jenkins.<br />
which you have received 3,000 francs, and ought<br />
Dickens in Paris.<br />
to revise ; have you not yourself told me that it is<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
not publishable in the form in which you delivered<br />
Vague Thoughts on Art. By John Galsworthy.<br />
it to me?" It is unnecessary here to enter into<br />
details of the arrangements ultimately made in<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
1906, and will suffice to say that they had nothing The Novels of Clara Viebig. By Florence B. Low.<br />
to do with the History of France; and that the<br />
The Supernatural in Literature.<br />
Court held that there had not been in 1896 any<br />
annulment of the original agreement regarding that<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
work. In 1909 Lemerre prepared to publish the<br />
History of France. M. Anatole France pointed (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
out that the book was now out of date, and<br />
Front Page<br />
opposed the publication. Lemerre then offered Other Pages<br />
... ... ... ... ... 3 0 0<br />
Half of a Page ...<br />
that the work should be published with an<br />
... I 10<br />
Quarter of & Page<br />
... O 15 0<br />
announcement to its rvaders of the date of its<br />
...O 7 6<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
per inch 0 6<br />
original composition, and a statement of the author's<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent for<br />
disapproral of its publication. To this also<br />
M. Anatole France objected. He returned the<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
3,000 francs, took legal proceedings to inhibit the BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 157 (#593) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
157<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 bebalf of the aggrieved<br />
member, and all costs borne by the Society.<br />
2. Remember that questions connected with copyright<br />
and publishers' agreements do not fall within the experi-<br />
ence of ordinary solicitors. Therefore, do not scruple to use<br />
the Society.<br />
3. Before signing any agreement whatever, send<br />
the document to the Society for examination,<br />
4. Remember always that in belonging to the Society<br />
you are fighting the battles of other writers, even if you<br />
are reaping no direct benefit to yourse!f, and that you are<br />
advancing the best interests of your calling in promoting<br />
the independence of the writer, the dramatist, the composer.<br />
5. The Committee have arranged for the reception of<br />
members' agreements and their preservation in a fire.<br />
proof safe. The agreements will, of course, be regarded as<br />
confidential documents to be read only by the Secretary,<br />
who will keep the key of the safe. The Society now offers :<br />
(1) To stamp agreements in readiness for a possible action<br />
upon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society's work can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
must be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
Secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 1s. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to :<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author.<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
TEVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in tbe contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
ITERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
H agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 158 (#594) ############################################<br />
<br />
158<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(c.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4, Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts. those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
D RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans.<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; anu<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profess<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author's rights. In any case, in the present state of<br />
the law, an agent should not be employed under any<br />
circumstances without an agreement approved of by the<br />
Society.<br />
WARNINGS TO MUSICAL COMPOSERS.<br />
T ITTLE can be added to the warnings given for the<br />
U assistance of producers of books and dramatic<br />
authors. It must, however, be pointed out that, as<br />
a rule, the musical publisher demands from the musical<br />
composer a transfer of fuller rights and less liberal finan-<br />
cial terms than those obtained for literary and dramatic<br />
property. The musical composer has very often the two<br />
rights to deal with-performing right and copyright. He<br />
should be especially careful therefore when entering into<br />
an agreement, and should take into particular consideration<br />
the warnings stated above.<br />
STAMPING MUSIC.<br />
The Society undertakes to stamp copies of music on<br />
behalf of its members for the fee of 6d. per 100 or part<br />
of 100. The members' stamps are kept in the Society's<br />
safe. The musical publishers communicate direct with the<br />
Secretary, and the voucher is then forwarded to the<br />
members, who are thus saved much unnecessary trouble,<br />
THE READING BRANCH.<br />
REGISTRATION OF SCENARIOS AND<br />
ORIGINAL PLAYS.<br />
M EMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
M branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS. includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
CCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 23. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smith Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 159 (#595) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
159<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
THE DRAMATIC SECTION.<br />
SOME two years ago members of the Society were<br />
invited to indicate, on a form which was despatched<br />
to them, what dramatic work (if any) they had<br />
produced. The enquiry was made in order to<br />
facilitate the preparation of a list of dramatists in<br />
the Society, with a view to their receiving com-<br />
munications relating to the work of the Dramatic<br />
Sub-Committee of the Society, and to other matters<br />
of interest to dramatists.<br />
As a result of that invitation, over 200 names<br />
were placed on the list.<br />
In order, however, that it may be kept up to<br />
date, those members who have since qualified to be<br />
entered on the Dramatic Roll of the Society are<br />
invited to advise the Secretary, accompanying their<br />
application with particulars of the dramatic work<br />
they have produced.<br />
It may be mentioned that the qualification for<br />
inclusion in the list is the public representation of a<br />
play otherwise than for copyright purposes in a<br />
place licensed for public entertainment.<br />
THE PUBLICATION OF BOOKS AND THE LIMITA-<br />
TION OF THE LICENCE<br />
THERE has been a growing tendency in past<br />
years for authors to grant to publishers the licence<br />
to publish in book form for the legal term of copy-<br />
right. . Such a licence may leave the author in a<br />
very difficult position. There should, at any rate,<br />
be a clause in the agreement by which, if the<br />
book goes out of print, the agreement should be<br />
terminated and all rights returned to the author,<br />
otherwise the author may find himself in the<br />
position of having to buy back from the publisher<br />
at the publisher's price. It is curious how a licence<br />
to publish a book, which as far as the publisher<br />
is concerned may have ceased to sell, rises in value<br />
if the author appears as purchaser : but even with a<br />
limitation of this kind the licence still remains far<br />
too wide. Especial thought must be given to the<br />
position, as the new Copyright Act will come into<br />
force shortly.<br />
Authors should be very careful to limit the<br />
licence either to a given number of editions, with<br />
power to purchase the remainder stock at remainder<br />
prices, in case the edition is not sold out within a<br />
reasonable time, or to a limited number of years.<br />
In the latter case the publisher should be restricted<br />
in the agreement from over-printing towards the<br />
end of the term of the agreement, for if some such<br />
restriction is not inserted, the publisher can make<br />
the time limit practically ineffective by over-<br />
printing the book in the last year. It has been<br />
decided in the Courts that a publisher has the<br />
right to sell any stock which remains on hand after<br />
the expiration of the term.<br />
In the case of technical works, if the licence is<br />
not limited, an author's position is hopeless.<br />
MUSICAL COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
A MUSICAL Composers' Sub-Committee having<br />
now been formed with a view to the consideration<br />
of matters affecting the interests of the musical<br />
composers of the society, it has been decided, in<br />
order to facilitate the working of this side of the<br />
society, to keep at the office a list of composers<br />
similar to the list of dramatists of which mention is<br />
made above.<br />
Members will assist the secretary materially in<br />
the compilation of this list if they will inform him<br />
of the publication of any musical works of which<br />
they are the composers.<br />
COMMITTEE ELECTION.<br />
THE LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
In another column of this issue we publish an<br />
agency agreement which has been settled by a<br />
special sub-committee and approved by the Com<br />
mittee of Management.<br />
This agency agreement has been based on an<br />
agreement settled some time ago by the Dramatic<br />
Sub-Committee, but as the marketing of dramatic<br />
and literary wares differs in some respects, so the<br />
agreement has been modified to meet the special<br />
requirements of literary agency. There has been<br />
however. but little alteration in the clauses, the<br />
main difference existing in the notes which the<br />
committee have thought fit to place before the<br />
members in order to warn them against possible<br />
dangers.<br />
In the January number of The Author a full<br />
statement was given with reference to the election<br />
of members to the Committee of Management for<br />
the current vear.<br />
The names of the committee's nominees for that<br />
election were : Mrs. Belloc-Lowndes, Mr. Hesketh<br />
Prichard, Mr. Arthur Rackham, and Dr S Savire<br />
Sprigge.<br />
OJ882<br />
February 10 was the last day on which the<br />
names of nominees could be received, and as no<br />
nominees were put forward by the members, the<br />
nominees of the committee are elected without<br />
opposition.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 160 (#596) ############################################<br />
<br />
160<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
A REMARKABLE AGREEMENT. the author's next three new novels, suitable for publication<br />
in 68. volume form, and if the publisher accepts all or any<br />
of them, he agrees to pay to the author and the author agrees<br />
to accept the following royalties.<br />
M HE Committee of the Society of Authors desire (a) A royalty of 15 per cent. of the nominal published<br />
1 to draw attention to the document printed<br />
price on all copies sold of the English 68. edition, after the<br />
sale of the first 750 copies of this particular 68. edition.<br />
below :-<br />
(b) A royalty of 71 per cent. of the nominal published<br />
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this twelfth day price on all copies sold of any cheaper edition or editions.<br />
of May one thousand nine hundred and nine between<br />
(c) A royalty of 50 per cent, of the net profits derived<br />
hereinafter termed the author of the one part and John from the sale of the American copyright (if any).<br />
Long of 12, 13 and 14 Norris Street, Haymarket, in the (d) A royalty of 50 per cent. of the net profits derivel<br />
County of London hereinafter termed the publisher, of the from the sale of the Foreign rights (if any).<br />
other part, whereby it is mutually agreed between the 11. The said three novels to be submitted to the publisher<br />
parties hereto for themselves and their respective executors shall be submitted one at a time, and only after the<br />
administrators and assigns (or successors as the case may publication of the one previously accepted.<br />
be) as follows:-<br />
12. The whole of the previous clauses in this agreement<br />
1. The publisher shall at his own expense produce and (except in respect of royalties) shall be deemed to apply to<br />
publish the work written by the author and at present<br />
the three new novels, as well as to the novel mentioned in<br />
entitled "<br />
the first part of the agreement.<br />
2. The publisher shall bave the exclusive right of pro 13. In the event of any copies of any of the novels pro-<br />
ducing and publishing the work throughout the world. vided for in this agreement, being sold as a remainder, that<br />
The publisher shall have the entire control of the produc is, when the demand for any such work has ceased, a<br />
tion and publication and sale and terms of sale of the work<br />
royalty shall be paid to the author, on any copies thus sold,<br />
and the author shall not during the continuance of this of two and a half per cent. (24%) of the net sum receivel.<br />
agreement (without the written consent of the publisher) As witness the hands of the said parties<br />
publish any abridgment translation or dramatised version of<br />
John LONG,<br />
the work.<br />
Witness : W.H.<br />
3. All copies sold of the said work within twelve months<br />
12, 13, 14, Norris Street, Haymarket, S.W.<br />
of the date of publication shall carry no royalty to the<br />
There are in the bands of the society a good<br />
author, but on all copies sold, after the expiration of the first<br />
twelve months after publication, the publisher agrees to<br />
many agreements between authors and Mr. John<br />
pay to the author and the author agrees to accept a royalty Long, and it would be instructive, perhaps, to print<br />
of i5 per cent. of the nominal published price on sales of the them all. To do this, however, would take up a<br />
6s. edition, and a royalty of 71 per cent. of the nominal<br />
great deal of space, though it may yet be con-<br />
published price on the sales of any cheaper edition or<br />
editions.<br />
sidered necessary. To print abstracts of these<br />
4. No royalties shall be paid on any copies given away agreements would not answer the same purpose, as<br />
for review or other purposes in the interests of the work. it might be thought by the suspicious that there<br />
5. Account sales shall be made up half-yearly at June<br />
were other clauses in the documents which had been<br />
thirtieth and December thirty-first and delivered and<br />
settled within five months of those dates. In making up<br />
suppressed and which would have put another com-<br />
accounts, thirteen copies shall be reckoned as twelve, in plexion on the arguments. It has been decided,<br />
accordance with trade usage.<br />
therefore, that one agreement should be clearly set<br />
6. The publisher shall undertake the expenses of the<br />
before the readers of The Author, with some hints<br />
author's proof corrections to the extent of £3 (three<br />
pounds), but should such expenses exceed this amount, the<br />
as to the probable difficulties that may arise out of<br />
author shall refund such excess to the publisher.<br />
it.<br />
7. If any difference shall arise between the author and<br />
COMMENTS ON THE AGREEMENT.<br />
the publisher touching the meaning of this agreement or<br />
the rights or liabilities of the parties thereunder, the same<br />
With regard to Clause 1 there is nothing to be<br />
shall be referred to the arbitration of two persons, (one to said.<br />
be named by each party) or their umpire, in accordance In Clause 2 it is inadvisable that the publisher<br />
with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1889.<br />
should have the exclusive right of producing the<br />
8. The term “ Publisher" through out this agreement shall<br />
be deemed to include the person or company for the time<br />
work throughout the world, or for the whole term<br />
being carrying on the business of the said John Long under of copyright. His right should be limited to the<br />
as well its present as any future style and the benefit of this exclusive licence to publish the work in book form<br />
agreement shall be transmissible accordingly.<br />
9. The author guarantees to the publisher that the said<br />
at the price of 68. (the book being a novel) in the<br />
work is in no way whatever a violation of any existing<br />
United Kingdom, in the English language, for a<br />
copyright and that it contains nothing of a libellous or period of, at most, five years certain. If any<br />
scandalous character and that he will indemnify the pub- other rights are given, such as the right of pub-<br />
lisher from all suits, claims, and proceedings, damages and<br />
costs which may be made, taken or incurred by or against<br />
lishing in cheap book form, then they should be<br />
him on the ground that the said work is an infringement guarded and made the subject of future con-<br />
of copyright or contains anything libellous or scandalous. ditions. The publisher should, of course, undertake<br />
10. That in consideration of the publisher undertaking to produce the work on or before a certain date.<br />
the entire risk of publishing the work herein before men-<br />
This is of the first importance to an author.<br />
tioned, the author agrees to give the publisher the first refusal<br />
from (sic) one month from date of delivery of the manu-<br />
The latter part of this clause should be care-<br />
script of the exclusive right of producing and publishing fully observed. An author reading this might<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 161 (#597) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
161<br />
.:•.<br />
think, “Well, I have only to write to the publisher<br />
To country reviews.<br />
explaining the situation, should I get an offer for<br />
„, colonial . . . 48<br />
the translation rights, or otherwise, and he will<br />
,, special ,<br />
give his consent." This supposition would be<br />
,, travellers' samples<br />
entirely wrong. As a general rule, the author<br />
.. Stock on hand . . 91<br />
would find that if an offer was made him for the<br />
Leaving sold as under-<br />
translation rights and he applied to the publisher,<br />
13 copies counting as 12 . 1,234<br />
the publisher would answer, “I could not possibly Sales 1,149 home edition<br />
allow you to publish a translation unless you give<br />
85 colonial edition<br />
me 50 per cent. of the profits," which, judging by Sales from Jan. 3, 1910 to Jan. 2, 1911–<br />
Clause 10, is the course Mr. Long would take.<br />
1,146 home edition)<br />
Clause 3 contains, however, the most serious<br />
85 colonial editionſ bearing no royalty..<br />
part of the agreement. All publishers assert that Royalty 15 per cent. on 3 copies home edition, 28. 8d..<br />
the largest sales of a novel occur either on subscrip- The sales in the first year were sufficient to com-<br />
tion before publication, or within the first four pensate the publisher amply for the cost of pro-<br />
months after publication. Most publishers will duction ; he should have put a good profit into his<br />
inform an author that a book is dead at the end of own pocket. In the first six months, after becom-<br />
six months, and all publishers will inform an ing entitled to royalties, the author obtained a total<br />
author that the ordinary novel is dead at the end of remuneration of 2s. 8d, upon a 6s. book of which.<br />
twelve months, unless for some special reason- over 1,200 copies were sold.<br />
and it would be safe to say this does not occur once Clause 4 can pass without comment.<br />
out of 500 times—a book owes some larger With regard to Clause 5, articles have been<br />
vitality to the position of the author or to the written in The Author on the question of thirteen<br />
occurrence of some unforeseen circumstance, copies counting as twelve, to which readers are<br />
Therefore, the effect of a clause in an agreement referred. It means that the author is to allow the<br />
depriving the author of all royalties for the first publisher 8 per cent. discount on the royalties on<br />
year after publication would be to give the publisher all copies sold, though the publisher allows this<br />
the book for nothing, except in a minority of cases. discount to purchasers only when they purchase in<br />
If the author desires to give the publisher his work quantities of a dozen and upwards.<br />
for nothing, there is nothing to prevent him from In Clause 6 the amount allowed for correction is<br />
doing so ; but in that case he should execute a deed not very generous, but in these days of typewritten<br />
of gift. A publisher is not bound to explain the effect copies a margin of £3 may be sufficient.<br />
of an agreement to the author, however ignorant the Clause 7. Strong objection must be taken to.<br />
author may be of the present, possibly a handsome this clause. Arbitration is a very unsatisfactory<br />
one, that he is being asked to make. Moreover, method of dealing with a legal contract. It<br />
under such a clause, the publisher's and the author's is cumbersome and expensive. The greatest<br />
interests are not the same. In these days of rush objection of all is that a publisher aroids the pub-<br />
and hurry it occurs in the publishing business, just licity which is the main safeguard of the author<br />
as in any other business, that publishers want to and the publisher alike where either party has<br />
put novelties on the market-the output during the broken his contract or attempted to take unfair<br />
last two or three years sufficiently proves this fact. advantage of the other.<br />
In consequence, it would be quite likely to pay the Clause 8 is also unsatisfactory. An author<br />
publisher better to push a new work into circula- should agree to this clause only when he is con-<br />
tion than to use his efforts in keeping alive one vinced that no change could possibly be for the<br />
against wbich time was fighting. Save in the case worse, in which case it would be still better not<br />
of a very great success, it would pay him to drop to sign at all.<br />
the older book in order to make the way clear for Clause 9 is too wide in its scope. It is no doubt<br />
other publications. The appended statement of fair that if an author causes a publisher to publish<br />
account from Mr. John Long under the above in all innocence as a fiction what is really a libel on<br />
agreement tells its own story :-.<br />
an actual person, the author and not the publisher<br />
should suffer ; but both as to libel and obscenity,<br />
July 1st, 1911. Statement of sales to June 30th,<br />
sedition, or blasphemy, the publisher cannot con-<br />
1911-<br />
tract out of such responsibilities even if the author<br />
Jan. 1910. By number of copies printed . 1,500 consents to the attempt. In any case where<br />
To author .<br />
damages and costs may be incurred by the pub-<br />
,, presentation .<br />
lisher at the author's expense, the author should<br />
„, public libraries . 5<br />
have some control over the amount spent in the<br />
„ town reviews . . 63<br />
necessary defence.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 162 (#598) ############################################<br />
<br />
162<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Clause 10 is a clause against which authors Publishing enterprise, especially in the case of<br />
cannot be warned too strongly. It is fatal for an novels by beginners, doubtless contains a specu-<br />
author to bind himself to a publisher at fixed rateslative element, but up to an edition of 1,500<br />
for subsequent works, for it is impossible to tell copies, no novel which a publisher of any judg-<br />
until the accounts of one book come in whether ment would handle at his own expense runs<br />
the terms for later works are fair or not. Under any serious risk of being left on his hands a<br />
this agreement supposing the author's second complete failure. He should be able to push it<br />
book did not reach a sale of 750, no royalties through mechanically to that extent, if no further.<br />
would be paid ; if the second book was as It is therefore only beyond this point that the<br />
successful as the first, the author would receive transaction becomes speculative; and yet it is<br />
about £20, having made 2s. 8d. on the first book. practically to this point that Mr. Long asks his<br />
With regard to other headings of this clause, the clients to postpone any interest in their books.<br />
publisher should only have the right of publication We do not question Mr. John Long's right to<br />
in book form at certain prices, and the date of propose the above terms, or any others that may<br />
publication should be rigidly fixed ; he should not occur to him, to authors, who must learn to take<br />
take 50 per cent. profits on any of the rights out- care of themselves in business as other people do,<br />
side, whether they are American rights or foreign but we may say that those who accept such terms<br />
rights. If any of the outside rights are negotiated are unquestionably guilty of unprofessional con-<br />
for by the publisher under a contract approved and duct, because they are accepting terms which would<br />
signed by the author, then the publisher should take make it impossible for most novelists to live by<br />
the agency charge of 10 per cent. and no more. their profession. Further, the practice of other<br />
But with even the utmost correction in the author's publishers shows that no capable man of letters<br />
favour that the nature of the clause admits of, the need submit to such contracts; they are entered<br />
Society of Authors would still advise its members into by authors through ignorance, weakness, or<br />
not to agree to it. If a publisher cannot retain lack of professional conscience.<br />
his clients by satisfying them that they cannot do<br />
better elsewhere, he must be prepared to see them<br />
AN AGREEMENT FOR TEN NOVELS.<br />
go elsewhere.<br />
The criticism on Clauses 11 and 12 follows from A second agreement, this time between John<br />
that on Clause 10. It may be pointed out that no Long, Ltd., and an author, needs some comment.<br />
dates for publication being named in Clause 10, the It contains as many faults as the first, but in<br />
production of the subsequent novels might be a slightly different form. It is not all printed<br />
indefinitely delayed; when, as they are to be the here, but any member who desires to have further<br />
author's “ next three novels," the position might be information upon it can, on applying to the<br />
reached that the author could earn nothing at all! Secretary, be given the fullest details, by the<br />
With regard to Clause 13, no publisher should be permission of the author.<br />
allowed to “remainder" a book within three years Here the author binds himself to the publisher<br />
from the date of first publication. It should be for nine subsequent novels (making ten in all),<br />
distinctly set forth in the agremeent that, when a and agrees not to write any novels for, nor to<br />
book has been “remaindered," or is out of print and offer any novels for publication to any other<br />
off the market, the agreement should be cancelled publisher than Long during the term of his agree-<br />
and the licences for publication in book form, or ment. As the novels have to be handed in to<br />
otherwise, should be returned to the author.<br />
the publisher each succeeding nine months from<br />
To sum up, this is an agreement under which the date of the agreement, this means that for<br />
the author would be working for an indefinite time nearly seven years the author is bound to Mr. Long.<br />
for a pittance. He receives nothing, in the Again, whilst Mr. Long can determine the agree-<br />
instance given above, on the first 1,000 copies of ment after the publication of the first two books if<br />
the first book. He might expect to get some they do not prove a financial success for him, the<br />
thing later, but his second book is put on the author has no such right. The author is absolutely<br />
market, and the energies of the publisher may be bound at Mr. Long's option for nearly seven years,<br />
switched off to the sale of this, inasmuch as the although he has no guarantee that John Long,<br />
first 750 copies of this book bear no royalties. Ltd., will maintain their position in the pub-<br />
The third book and the fourth book might receive lishing world during that time.<br />
the same treatment. There is no reason why the Mr. Long does not merely take the right of<br />
author who has signed this agreement should ever publication in book form, but the exclusive right of<br />
receive more than 2s. 8d. each for four books! There publishing throughout the world. The terms for all<br />
is no reason why the publisher, who can publish the novels are the same. If the books are published<br />
when he likes, should ever owe or pay any royalties. at 6s. the author is not to receive any royalty on any<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 163 (#599) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
163<br />
of them till after the sale of 900 copies, and then he The publisher would be getting, having been<br />
receives 2ů, in the shilling on the published price. paid or overpaid for the whole cost of production<br />
If the books are published at a lower price than 6s. and advertisements, half what the author receives,<br />
the author receives no royalty on the first 1,500 who has paid or overpaid the whole of the bill as<br />
copies, and afterwards 10 per cent. on the published well as created the wares to be sold. To state,<br />
price. The sale of 900 copies of a 6s. book however, that a 6s. book sells right through at half<br />
gives to the publisher a reasonable balance after price is by no means a correct statement, 3s, 2d.<br />
paying for the cost of production and advertise- to 38. 4d. is the average price.<br />
ments, so that when this number has been arrived<br />
at there is no further necessity for the publisher to<br />
push the book, if he thinks he can do better by<br />
exerting himself elsewhere. But if there is a<br />
success, some 60 per cent. of the later profits go to A LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
the publisher. And nine consecutive books are to<br />
be published on these terms.<br />
Further, Mr. Long offers 2d. per copy on all the A Sub-Committee of the Committee of Manage-<br />
Colonial sales and 15s. per 1,000 on all sales of the ment of the Society of Authors has had under<br />
sixpenny edition. With regard to the other proceeds consideration the principles which should be<br />
he claims, as before, 50 per cent. He inserts, as observed in drawing up a fair agreement between<br />
we have said, a clause allowing him to repudiate an author and a literary agent; it will be seen<br />
the agreement in case the first two novels are not a at once that the proposed agreement is closely<br />
financial success, but the author might see all his upon the lines of the dramatic agency agreement,<br />
ten books have a sale of 1,000 copies each and not which has been found by dramatic authors to<br />
be more than £50 in pocket as the total result of meet many difficulties hitherto encountered by<br />
seven years' work with a total sale of 10,000 copies. them.<br />
The Committee desire to impress upon authors<br />
THE AUTHOR PAYS.<br />
that it is advisable that they should consult the<br />
Authors' Society before entrusting their business<br />
In another proposal from John Long, Ltd. to an agent. There are good agents who are in<br />
we have a variant of no greater promise to the every way desirous of furthering the interests of<br />
author. The author pays £175-£100 on the their clients; but it must not be forgotten that per-<br />
signing of the agreement, which is to be spent in<br />
sons with no qualification whatever or no financial<br />
advertisement, £50 when the work is set up in stability may style themselves agents. In all<br />
type, and £25 from the author's share of sales. cases enquiries should be made of the Society<br />
He then transfers all the American, foreign, and<br />
which is in possession of information that will<br />
serial rights to tbe publisher on a 50 per cent. enable authors to form an accurate estimate of<br />
basis. He receives 15. 9d. per copy on the English an agent's status and capacity.<br />
68. edition up to 3,000 copies, and thereafter MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this day<br />
1s. 3d. a copy. The publisher wants all his next of One Thousand Nine Hundred and<br />
six novels on fixed terms, and in other matters Between (hereinafter called “The Author ") of<br />
the provisions are the same as shown in the the one part and (hereinafter called “The<br />
clauses of the agreement printed in full.<br />
Agent”) of the other part WHEREBY IT IS AGREED<br />
In another agreement Mr. Long, or rather AS FOLLOWS :-<br />
John Long, Ltd., produces the book on the pay-<br />
1. The author hereby appoints his sole agent<br />
ment to himself of £250, but he undertakes<br />
to advertise to the extent of £100.<br />
for the term of twelve months from the date of the<br />
This<br />
signing of this agreement for the sale of any of the<br />
leaves him £150 for the cost of production<br />
only, as no further advertising is likely to be<br />
rights whatsoever and wheresoever, in all the literary<br />
work that he desires to bring to market during the<br />
needed. Therefore he starts with all his cost of<br />
continuance of this agreement, subject to the condi-<br />
production covered and most probably with a sum<br />
tions hereinafter mentioned.<br />
of £50 or so in his pocket, as there is no stipulation<br />
as to the number of copies to be printed. The<br />
NOTE.—This clause is perhaps the most important clause<br />
in the agreement.<br />
author gets 28. a copy royalty on a 6s. book up to<br />
In regard to the time limit of twelve months, the<br />
4,000 copies, after which the royalty is ls. 6d. Committee would draw the attention of authors to the<br />
Taking the higher figure, the author receives 331 following points :--That whereas it is unfair that an agent<br />
per cent. of the published price. By the publisher's<br />
should have all the trouble of working up a connection for<br />
an author, who could then terminate the agreement and<br />
own calculations in a letter which lies before us,<br />
nes before us, take advantage of the agent's work, it is equally unfair to<br />
the nett selling price of a 6s. book is usually 3s. the author to be bound to an agent for a long period if the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 164 (#600) ############################################<br />
<br />
164<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
agent, for one reason or another, is unsuccessful in placing tract amounts to £ , and such commission shall<br />
the author's work, or appears to the author antagonistic to<br />
be the sole remuneration of the agent, and he sball<br />
his best interests. In some cases, therefore, the term of<br />
not have any claim<br />
twelve months might be an undesirable limit for the author,<br />
against the author for any<br />
whereas a term of less than twelve months might be an expenses incurred by him in the course of his agency<br />
undesirable limit for the agent. Authors, when entering under this agreement.<br />
into these contracts, will have to consider, therefore, what<br />
NOTE.--In regard to this clause the Committee wonld<br />
time limit should be inserted.<br />
If the author desires to reserve certain markets, these<br />
make the following remarks :- Where under any contract<br />
markets should be reserved in this clause. It often<br />
running through the years of copyright the agent's com-<br />
happens that an author has been dealing with an editor<br />
mission is likely to run into high figures, the agent's<br />
remuneration should be limited, as suggested in this clause.<br />
or publisher direct under amicable arrangements, and it is,<br />
therefore, much more convenient and much more profit-<br />
to a sum to be arranged between author and agent. It<br />
able to the author to continue these negotiations with<br />
may, however, be of importance to an author that the<br />
future work; but, in doing so, the author should be care-<br />
agent should continue to collect the moneys, and in that<br />
ful, supposing he is negotiating with a publisher for a book<br />
case when the limit has been reached, the Committee con-<br />
in a reserved market, that he is not giving the publisher<br />
sider that 5 per cent. shonld be charged for such collection.<br />
control over any rights in the same work which are in the<br />
5. Should the agent fail in any instance to carry<br />
agent's hands; the same advice applies to the author<br />
negotiating with an editor. The Committee consider that,<br />
out the provisions of the foregoing clause, this<br />
as a rule, it is advisable, subject to the limitations the agreement, so far as it deals with the agent's right<br />
author might specially desire to make, that the agent should to collect the moneys due, shall be at an end, and<br />
have control of all the author's literary output during the<br />
the agent as and from the date of such failure and<br />
continuance of the agency; otherwise the author and the<br />
agent may come into con tict in the same markets, and the default shall not be entitled to claim or deduct any<br />
author may not only lose his price but also his chance of a further sum by way of commission.<br />
bargain.<br />
6. Should the agent or any member of the<br />
2. The agent undertakes to use his best endea- agent's firm during the continuance of this agree-<br />
vours to obtain the fullest market in all conntries ment die or become bankrupt or enter into any<br />
and in all forms, and undertakes to furnish the arrangement with his creditors, then in that case<br />
author, as and when requested, with full informa- the author shall be at liberty forth with by notice<br />
tion as to his efforts to give effect to this clause, in writing to terminate this agreement.<br />
and the author shall not himself, during the continu NOTE.--Every contract with an agent must involve close<br />
ance of this agreement, enter into any contract personal relations ; therefore, in the event of an agent<br />
without the knowledge of the agent.<br />
having no partner, or a partner with whom the author had<br />
not transacted business, the contract should determine by<br />
3. The agent shall not enter into agreements on<br />
the death of that party with whom the author has had<br />
behalf of the author or in any way bind the author,<br />
dealings.<br />
but undertakes to submit to him any offer or agree-<br />
7. At the end of such period as may be decided<br />
ment which he may succeed in obtaining as agent in Clause I. hereof, either party to this agreement<br />
for the author, and no agreement shall be binding may terminate the same by three months' notice in<br />
on the author without his signature. Should the writing.<br />
agent violate this clause, then any agreement so 8. Upon the termination of this agreement by<br />
entered into by the agent shall be pull and void, time or from any of the causes set forth therein,<br />
and this agreement may forth with be terminated by save as set forth under Clause 5, when the special<br />
notice in writing, without prejudice to the author's arrangements as in that clause set forth shall pre-<br />
right to bring an action for damages or otherwise, vail, the agent shall have no claim whatever upon<br />
and on receipt of such notice, the agent's right for the author for any commission except in respect<br />
negotiating as agent for the author shall be at an<br />
of contracts signed by the author prior to such<br />
end.<br />
termination.<br />
4. The agent is hereby authorised to collect the NOTE.-- In the question of an agency agreement the<br />
moneys due to the author on any contract signed by<br />
author should be especially advised against the insertion of<br />
a clause in any agreement entered into between author and<br />
the author and negotiated by the agent during the<br />
publisher, whereby the agent is authorised by the parties to<br />
continuance of this agreement, and shall deliver all the agreement to collect moneys and settle accounts on<br />
moneys as and when received by him in respect of behalf of the author. The clause generally runs in the<br />
such contract, together with all documents, accounts,<br />
following form :- -<br />
"The author hereby empowers his agent to collect<br />
etc., relating thereto, within two weeks of the receipt<br />
and receive all sums of money payable to the author<br />
of the same, and shall bave the right of deductiny a under the term of this agreement and declares that<br />
commission of 10 per cent. from such sums as the agent's receipt shall be good and valid discharge<br />
accrue under any contracts arranged by him, and<br />
to all persons paying such sums to them. The author<br />
hereby authorises and empowers the publishers to treat<br />
signed by the author during the continuance of this<br />
with his agents on his behalf in all matters concerning<br />
agreement till the total commission on any such con this agreement in any way whatsoever.'<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 165 (#601) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
165<br />
Sometimes the terms are more stringent, sometimes a<br />
little less stringent, but in no case should the clause be<br />
allowed except under some modification as suggested<br />
below. Members are referred to an article that appeared<br />
in the November (1906) number of The Author bearing on<br />
the subject.<br />
In no case should the words from “ The Author" down<br />
to "in any way whatsoever" be allowed to stand, for this<br />
reason if for no other. If any dispute arose between the<br />
author and the publisher, and it became necessary to put<br />
the matter into the hands of a lawyer or the Society of<br />
Authors, endless confusion and circumlocution would<br />
result, owing to the fact that all the matters would have to<br />
pass first through the hands of the agent.<br />
In regard to the first part of the clause, the Committee<br />
consider that the extreme danger mentioned might be<br />
avoided by adding, after the words " such sums to them,”.<br />
the words " provided, however, that the termination of this<br />
authority is to be governed by clauses contained in the<br />
contract dated day of and at present existing<br />
between the author and the agent."<br />
If the clause unaltered is admitted into the agreement<br />
between author and publisher, it is possible that all the<br />
precautions taken in the Agency Agreement may be nulli-<br />
fied. It cannot, therefore, be too strongly impressed upon<br />
the author how important it is that this clause should not<br />
be allowed to stand in the agreement between the author<br />
and publisher, and thus become irrevocable. The danger<br />
is increased ten-fold when, as in many modern agreements<br />
settled by agents, the author is bound to the publisher for<br />
future books. He then becomes similarly bound to the<br />
agent under this clause.<br />
THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AUTHORS,<br />
COMPOSERS AND MUSIC PUBLISHERS.<br />
of his own property, with the exception of the right<br />
of stating. whether or not he forbids the adapta-<br />
tion of his work to mechanical instruments, and (2)<br />
whether or not he forbids cuts and alterations, and<br />
that after all the expenses of collecting the fees have<br />
been covered, he is to give one-third to the publisher.<br />
It may be difficult to gauge what will be needed to<br />
cover expenses, but if the Board of Trade's rules<br />
for the payment of royalty under the gramophone<br />
clauses are sound and reliable, there ought to be<br />
little need of a society of this kind, and the<br />
composer ought to be able to collect his own fees<br />
and guard his own interests without much<br />
difficulty.<br />
That the music publishers are entirely in favour<br />
of obtaining one-third of what is the property of<br />
the composers, without any special labour and<br />
without any raluable consideration, is quite clear in<br />
the fact that seventeen music publishing firms<br />
have already subscribed the rules, and have shown<br />
their readiness to support this society, which<br />
conveys to them one-third of the fees. On the<br />
circular sent round there is not the name of one<br />
composer or one author. For many years the<br />
Society of Authors has been inveighing against<br />
the demands that music publishers have made upon<br />
composers to obtain the control of both their<br />
performing rights and their publishing rights, and<br />
it is not surprising, therefore, to see the suggestions<br />
set out in the rules and objects of the British Society<br />
of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. It<br />
would be as well also if this newly formed society<br />
took steps to change its name, not only to prevent<br />
confusion with other societies already established,<br />
but in order to give the public a better idea of its<br />
purposes and of the persons who are going to benefit<br />
by its formation. It is submitted, that it would<br />
be much better to have called it the Society<br />
of Music Publishers. The authors and composers<br />
could be added in small letters afterwards.<br />
Certain composers have, in their timidity,<br />
suggested that it is necessary to belong to this<br />
society, kept by and controlled by music pul)-<br />
lishers, as otherwise they will refuse to publish<br />
their works, but it should be pointed out (1) that<br />
there are still some well-known publishers whose<br />
names are not printed on the document, and (2) that<br />
no point was ever gained by timidity and cowardice.<br />
Now is the real moment for the composers to gather<br />
together and to take strong steps to establish a sound<br />
control over their own property. Already in the past<br />
year one or two publishers have come forward with the<br />
view of treating composers on more equitable lines,<br />
and when composers realise the strength of united<br />
force, they will not only be able to resist the absurd<br />
demands which have in the past been made upon<br />
them, but they will be able to resist the demands<br />
that they should join a society whose organisation<br />
NYERTAIX music publishing houses have been<br />
u circularising the composers for whom they<br />
publish with papers referring to the British<br />
Society of Authors, Composers and Music Pub-<br />
lishers, setting forward the objects with which the<br />
society is founded, and the rules by which it is<br />
proposed the society should be controlled.<br />
The objects for which the society is founded are,<br />
to gain control over all the rights of the composers<br />
in the mechanical reproductions of their works<br />
under the Copyright Act of 1911; to maintain<br />
those rights against all pirates and infringers, and<br />
to collect the fees due to the composers from those<br />
rights. It seems a curious thing that the pub-<br />
lishers who have no interests in those rights, should<br />
be so anxious to see the composers so well and<br />
strongly protected, for it is quite clear from the<br />
Act of 1911 that not only has the composer<br />
absolute control after the Act comes into force, but<br />
also that he has control, in spite of any assign-<br />
ment of his copyright prior to the passing of the<br />
Act ; the reason, however, is not far to seek after<br />
a further perusal of the new society's objects and<br />
rules, for it would appear that when the composer<br />
has joined it he is bound for a period of five<br />
years ; that he loses all control orer the governance<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 166 (#602) ############################################<br />
<br />
166<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
compels them to hand over to the music publishers<br />
one-third of those fees which are their own.<br />
In order that it may be quite clear that the<br />
society shall be managed on these inequitable<br />
principles, the committee is to consist of six com-<br />
posers and authors and six publishers. As the<br />
property which is to be controlled belongs, as far as<br />
as<br />
the music is concerned, entirely to the composers,<br />
and as far as the words are concerned-after all a<br />
small point, except in the case of songs—entirely<br />
to the authors, there seems to be no reason why the<br />
publishers should be on the committee at all.<br />
Indeed, such a society might have been very valu-<br />
able for both authors and composers, if the music<br />
publishers had been dropped out entirely, and there<br />
is no reason why such a society should not be<br />
formed by which the composers should control their<br />
own rights with regard to mechanical reproduc-<br />
uon and manage their own collection 01 Tees, paymg<br />
their own expenses, without being bound to give<br />
one-third to the music publishers. There is no<br />
reason why the music publishers should not have<br />
formed the society on this basis.<br />
It is a well-known axiom that the Government<br />
has the privilege to tax one class for the benefit of<br />
another, but we have never known this right to<br />
exist independently of Government authority until<br />
the rules and objects of the British Society of<br />
Authors, Composers and Music Publishers were laid<br />
before us.<br />
Sect. 5 of the Copyright Act of 1911, sub-sect. I,<br />
says:<br />
* The author of the work shall be the first owner of the<br />
copyright therein;"<br />
and sect. 1, sub-sect. 2 (d) defines copyright in a musical<br />
work as the sole right<br />
" to make any record perforated roll or other contrivance<br />
by means of which the work may be mechanically per-<br />
formed or delivered and to authorise any such acts as<br />
aforesaid."<br />
Sect. 19, sub-sect. 7 (c) specially confirms these rights to<br />
composers in their works mechanically reproduced before<br />
the Act in spite of any assignment made before the passing<br />
of the Act.<br />
Sufficient cause has been shown for warning composers<br />
against joining a Society founded on such a "basic moral<br />
principle," and we trust that no composer will sign the<br />
documents submitted to him without consulting with the<br />
Society of Authors and its Committee of Composers.<br />
The new Society by assuming the title of the British<br />
Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers, may<br />
possibly lead to confusion between it and the Society of<br />
Authors; the title should be altered to the Society of<br />
Music Publishers, Composers and Authors.<br />
I am, Sir, yours faithfully,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
Secretary, The Incorporated Society of Authors.<br />
COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS.<br />
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST.<br />
SIR, -Mr. Herbert Thring's letter appearing in your<br />
issue of this morning, in which he claims that composers<br />
should fly to the Society of Authors for protection and not<br />
be misled by publishers on the question of their rights in<br />
mechanical instrument records, omits to note one or two<br />
vital facts.<br />
Although the new Act very properly gives to authors and<br />
composers an exclusive right in the new form of artistic<br />
property created, it has never been in «lispute that the sale<br />
of mechanical instrument records gravely prejudices the<br />
sale of printed copies of music, and by so doing directly<br />
affects the profit the publisher is entitled to make by<br />
reascn of his enterprise and the outlay of his capital. In<br />
no circumstances are gramophone records made of works<br />
until the publisher has first discovered them and spent<br />
money on making them popular. And are these efforts to<br />
count for nothing?<br />
Meanwhile what has the Society of Authors really done<br />
for the composers of popular music in this country? It<br />
has never moved hand or foot to protect them from the<br />
depredations of the music pirate. It was left to the efforts<br />
of one or two music publishing houses to fight day and<br />
night and to spend thousands of pounds to preserve any<br />
vestige of property in musical composition in this country<br />
at all. The Society of Authors has not been any more<br />
successful in obtaining for the composer under the new<br />
Copyright Act what is his undoubted right, the privilege to<br />
dispose of his musical work at his own terms, no matter<br />
in what form it is published. With the exception of Mr.<br />
Howard Talbot, the Society's list of composers serving on<br />
their Musical Committee does not contain a single name of<br />
a writer of popular music, and it would be interesting to<br />
know how many such composers are included in the<br />
membership of the Society.<br />
First let the Society of Authors do something practically<br />
useful for the cause of music, and then it will be quite time<br />
for Mr. Thring to dictate to those who have stood at the<br />
head of the battle and borne all the expense what are his<br />
views of “ proper moral basic principles."<br />
Yours, &c.,<br />
CHAPPELL & Co.<br />
50, New Bond Street, Feb. 20.<br />
II.<br />
M<br />
HE following correspondence, with the ex-<br />
1 ception of the last letter from the Society<br />
for which the Editor was unable to find<br />
room, appeared in the Morning Post last month.<br />
THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF AUTHORS, COMPOSERS AND<br />
MUSIC PUBLISHERS.<br />
February 19, 1912.<br />
SIR, --The attention of the Society of Authors has been<br />
called to a circular issued by certain music publishers to<br />
members of the Society, and no doubt to others, inviting<br />
them (as composers) to join the British Society of Authors,<br />
Composers and Music Publishers. One of the objects of<br />
this proposed Society is to deal with the rights of its mem-<br />
bers in the reproduction of works by mechanical instruments,<br />
and another is to propagate and obtain recognition of the<br />
basic moral principle upon which all author's rights are<br />
founded. ..<br />
This moral principle is to be recognised by the composers<br />
and the authors giving one-third of their fees to the pub.<br />
lishers, for article 6 of the proposed rules runs as follows :-<br />
- All royalties and fees collected on behalf of the members<br />
shall be divided amongst the respective authors, composers<br />
and publishers of the works by thirds after deduction of<br />
all working expenses and expenses of collection. In the<br />
case of purely musical works where there is no author of<br />
words two-thirds will go to the composer and one-third to<br />
the publisher.”<br />
The rules have already been subscribed by seventeen<br />
music publishing houses. No authors' or composers' names<br />
appear on the circular.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 167 (#603) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
167<br />
COMPOSERS AND PUBLISHERS.<br />
emotions, the critical faculty has been but rarely<br />
SIR,-Messrs. Chappell & Co.'s letter diverts attention displayed ; at best, there is a bad record behind it.<br />
from the points at issue by raising wholly irrelevant matters.<br />
Time, we know, has a knack of adjusting every-<br />
The contention of the Society of Authors is that the pub-<br />
lishers of musical works have no right to claim a share of<br />
thing and of evening up the balance ; yet, how<br />
the gramophone fees of composers, and that a Society to<br />
often for a period has the wrong man been set up<br />
assist them to make such a claim should not be wanted by upon a pedestal, and how seldom has real genius<br />
anyone except the music publishers. It is clearly the<br />
been recognised at a glance. Just think of the<br />
purport of the Act that these fees should be taken out of<br />
the hands of the publishers, for under sect. 19, referred<br />
life story of Galileo and of Newton, of Turner and<br />
to in my former letter, in spite of assignment of copyright of Whistler, of Wagner and of Tschaikowsky : and<br />
before the Act comes into force, the gramophone fees are to 'this is to name but a tithe of those whom the<br />
be the absolute property of the composer. Had the Govern- critics failed to discover.<br />
ment intended the publishers to share in these gramophone<br />
Tschaikowsky-for it is of interest to take some<br />
rights they would not have inserted this special reservation<br />
in the Bill. Indeed, Mr. William Boosey, who is connected<br />
example more or less in detail-met at the begin-<br />
with the firm of Messrs. Chappell & Co., in a letter to Thening with but one man who understood him-<br />
Times of May 4th, 1911, wrote as follows:---<br />
Nicholas Rubinstein. Anton Rubinstein, the<br />
* To dispose of the final gramophone red-herring, that it<br />
celebrated pianist, and that clique of minor<br />
is the publishers, and not the composers, who will reap the<br />
benefit of this new statutory right, let the new Act of<br />
composers who formed musical opinion in the<br />
Parliament enact explicitly that the said right shall in all Russia of that day would have him at po price.<br />
cases be the property of the composer."<br />
Some of them—not Anton Rubinstein, I believe-<br />
Messrs. Chappell & Co. appear to have receded from that<br />
wrote for the Press. These were the critics whose<br />
position when advocating the formation of “The Society<br />
of British Authors, Composers and Music Publishers."<br />
duty it was to distinguish between good and bad ;<br />
Apart from the intention of the Legislature, however, and so intelligently did they do this, so whole-<br />
there is clearly no reason why the composer should share heartedly did they condemn Tschaikowsky that,<br />
the gramophone fees with the music publisher. The book<br />
both in St. Petersburg and in Paris, he suffered<br />
publisher might just as well demand to share the author's<br />
fees from the dramatic rights, or the editor of a magazine<br />
the bitter mortification of hearing his works first<br />
in which a work has been published serially ask to have a played and then-hissed! And, mark you, works<br />
share in the author's royalty on book publication.<br />
which are now delighting and enrapturing the<br />
Messrs. Chappell & Co. refer to the advantage which the<br />
entire musical world, works which in modern judg.<br />
composer gains by having his work placed on the market,<br />
but do not seem to recognise that it is the composer who<br />
ment are ear-marked for immortality.<br />
h given the publisher a marketable commodity.<br />
But, maybe, you will have it that this was no<br />
Music publishers are publishers of music, not patrons of fault of the critics, that the public is the real<br />
music ; they are not entitled to control the property of the judge and settles the matter for itself. Well, so it<br />
composer in every way because they may be his agents for<br />
does, of course-in the long run ; and, be it<br />
putting it in a certain form on the market.<br />
I am, yours faithfully,<br />
remarked in passing, in the long run it bas made<br />
(Signed) G. HERBERT THRING, few mistakes. But at the beginning it does not<br />
Secretary, Incorporated Society of Authors.<br />
judge on questions of this sort because it cannot<br />
judge ; genius is always a few stages ahead, and the<br />
public reqnires time-time and education—to<br />
enable it to arrive at comprehension. So, in the<br />
CRITICS AND CRITICISM.<br />
meanwhile, it turns to the critics—what less can it<br />
do ?-to those who presumably are more fitted to<br />
(HEN Schopenbauer roundly asserted, as he measure and appreciate and, in the early stages, it<br />
did, that “ for the most part there is no takes their teaching for the truth and gravely<br />
such thing” as “the critical faculty,” he swallows it. That is the simple and undeniable<br />
committed himself surely to a statement which, if fact, and criticism may not burke its responsi-<br />
not wholly inaccurate, is at any rate to be reckoned bility ; for better or for worse it carries an<br />
little better than a half-truth. Clear thinker unmistakable influence.<br />
though he was, and close observer of men and But we may, perhaps, gain a clearer view of the<br />
manners, it would seem nevertheless that he had apparent lack of the critical faculty by bringing<br />
been led astray by appearances and that he had the investigation nearer to our own doorstep, by<br />
jumped to a wrong conclusion when, in finding noting the happenings around us of last week and<br />
small outward evidence of the critical faculty, he this week, of yesterday and to-day. It is always<br />
decided forthwith that to all intents and purposes easier to get a grip upon an idea which fits in with<br />
the critical faculty did not exist.<br />
our own associations and habits.<br />
Of course, in so far as his observation went, he T urn, then, to the modern newspaper; and,<br />
was right. For, whether we speak of the critic in seeing that the production of a new novel or of a<br />
Science or of the critic in Art, of the things which new play occurs oftener than once in a blue moon,<br />
appeal primarily to the intellect or primarily to the the critic's work can be tested as an amusing and<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 168 (#604) ############################################<br />
<br />
168<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
instructive breakfast occupation on three mornings earned their place, and deservedly so. The others<br />
out of four. We may pass over the fact that the huge majority — are the evidence for<br />
disagreement is common amongst the authorities Schopenhauer.<br />
--for, needless to say, there are two sides to every But it is necessary to enquire whether this<br />
question and men can show discernment and evidence has really any bearing on the case. It is<br />
intelligence and, yet, disagree. What concerns purposeless to talk unless one talks to the point ;<br />
us more is when the critics are in solid agreement, and here, I think, we shall find that this army of<br />
and when the public just as solidly agree to differ. incompetents—a too mild description-are in no<br />
A play or a novel is hailed with a flourish of way pertinent to the argument.<br />
trumpets and a chorus of journalistic praise, yet To begin with, the very nature of things is such<br />
meets with the cold shoulder ; another play or that these men cannot in any way represent the<br />
another novel is crabbed from the commencement, critical faculty which does exist; they are merely<br />
but achieves an immediate success and within fish out of water, pitchforked into criticism through<br />
the limited period which, with rare exceptions, force of circumstances. For instance, I know a<br />
must be reckoned the life of any romance-lives on very estimable gentleman who served this is a few<br />
successfully. Here is food for thought ; for, the years back-on the staff of a well-known provincial<br />
public, we know, has proved the soundness of its newspaper, and who delivered judgment impartially<br />
judgment when once it understands; and, in this and weightily on music, literature, lawn-tennis and<br />
event, it does understand. It is another matter, prize-fighting. Now, of course, there is no con-<br />
obviously, when some genius in music, sculpture or ceivable reason why an individual should not be<br />
painting evolves unexpectedly some wholly fresh competent to speak with authority on all these<br />
conception in treatment, some unlooked-for develop- matters—there are many who could do so. This<br />
ment in the technique of his Art, or when some man, however, could not ; his limitations made that<br />
scientist proclaims a new discovery—then, the impossible ; he was, in fact, just an ordinary<br />
public must lie low and wait ; they cannot under- reporter, a scribbler of shorthand notes, lacking not<br />
stand. But in fiction, in romance, in story-telling only in artistic education and experience but, most<br />
-why, they have been brought up to it from the woefully, in any knowledge of the technique of his<br />
nursery! Every man, woman and child in this subjects. And this is typical of much criticism ;<br />
country and in every other country--there is no and, in the nature of things, I say that it must be<br />
getting away from it-is a born critic of romance. 80. For, quite apart from the fact that cheap<br />
How, then, when the professional critics think one criticism implies economy in newspaper production<br />
way and the public decides another-may we not an influence, of course, with editors and<br />
well beliere the critics to be wrong? Yet, the managers—there is the further fact that those men<br />
difference of opinion is by no means unusual. of greater parts, those whose qualifications would<br />
It would be easy to write down a lengthy more especially fit them for the task, are as a rale<br />
catalogue of critical errors in science and in art, to indisposed to follow the calling of a critic. These,<br />
give them in detail-a task as offensive as it would for the most part, we may well believe to be occupied<br />
certainly be ungrateful-and, filling a volume or rather in creative work.<br />
perhaps many volumes with the result, so establish But, even if we admit that the critic has some<br />
the proposition up to the hilt. But, quite apart aptitude for his job, there are still reasons why his<br />
from what has just been said and what might be talent should not disclose itself. It is, for example,<br />
said, it is common knowledge that criticism is not not a wholly unheard-of thing for a critic to write<br />
what it should be, that scmewhere there is a weak “to order.” Editors are human and, therefore,<br />
link in the chain. For, whether we study the peccable ; hence, in a business world where one<br />
present or the past, the same short-coming obtrudes must either get on or get out, it is not surprising.<br />
upon the notice, the same apparent absence of the however diegraceful it may be, to find the best<br />
critical faculty. What wonder, then, that Schopen- reviews going the way of the publishing firms<br />
hauer took things as he found them and jumped who advertise most largely. It is not always so,<br />
hastily to the conclusion that, “ for the most part." of course, but it happens.<br />
the critical faculty did not exist ?<br />
Then, critics have their friends and enemies like<br />
Now, there is no shade of a shadow of a doubt the rest of us ; and, from a personal point of view,<br />
that first-class critics do exist. In England alone the one can get along very nicely with an<br />
there is a band of men, all too small unluckily in undeserved leg up and the other with an equally<br />
its number, who have proved themselves over and undeserved kick down the hill. Then, why not<br />
over again, and who, by virtue of good work done, let them have it? Dishonest, no doubt! but the<br />
have reached that pinnacle whence they may issue temptation is strong and, anyway—these things<br />
a dictum wbich, without hesitation, the public may also happen.<br />
and does accept. These few—such a few-have And speaking of temptation brings a reminder.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 169 (#605) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
169<br />
reaching the goal, seeing that this must surely<br />
be inevitable, then can any man doubt, with the<br />
facts before him, that the critical faculty, hide it<br />
and crush it how you will, must nevertheless be<br />
common enough? And not only common but in<br />
a state of very special cultivation.<br />
ARCHIBALD DUNN.<br />
THE COPYRIGHT ACT, 1911.*<br />
It recalls a class of critics who, in some respects,<br />
may be said to stand in a category by themselves-<br />
I mean the critics of technical work. These<br />
reviewers, by the conditions under which they<br />
write, are apt to meet with a temptation quite<br />
beyond the ordinary. They are, of course, experts<br />
--that is essential ; and, if expert, then it will<br />
happen often that they, too, will have written books<br />
on the very subject of discussion-for, that is the<br />
way with specialists. How, then, when a fresh<br />
competitor enters the field ? In a land of milk and<br />
honey and plenty of it, the suggestion might pass<br />
unbeeded; but in the kingdom of literature there<br />
is no milk and honey-except for the chosen few-<br />
and precious little bread and butter. A man is a<br />
scoundrel, no doubt, who lets the thought enter his<br />
head at the crisis—yet, some have done it; for it<br />
is hard to hand over one's own bread and butter<br />
and stand by starving whilst another eats it.<br />
Pity, indeed, that the picture should thus paint<br />
itself so sordidly. But it cannot be helped. To<br />
reach the truth means, as a rule, cutting deep into<br />
the heart of things, and the inevitable wound can<br />
at best only be regretted—there is nothing else<br />
for it.<br />
The argument, then, so far as it has gone seems<br />
clear : of critics in general it may be said that the<br />
right men do not enter the lists, and of some<br />
critics in particular that they do not play the<br />
game. But this does not prove that “for the<br />
most part” the critical faculty does not exist,<br />
merely that it does not disclose itself.<br />
And, indeed, anyone who gives the matter a<br />
moment's serious thought must see that the<br />
critical faculty not only exists but must, more-<br />
ever, exist in great profusion. The whole tendency<br />
of the time leads that way. It is an age of higher<br />
education and of marked refinement, an age in<br />
wbich we are taught to consider and analyse and<br />
always to look sympathetically on our fellow men.<br />
And these are the qualifications of a critic. The<br />
true critic, in fact, is simply a philosopher-one<br />
who searches for the truth in the firm faith that<br />
there are two sides to every question. There is to<br />
be nothing narrow-minded about him, no fads or<br />
preconceived ideas ; he will concede, in art, that<br />
beauty may exist which has few charms for him<br />
and, in science, he will reckon to have found the<br />
truth when once the truth has been demonstrated-<br />
then, and not before. And, finally, in his formed<br />
opinion, he will be honest and courageous ; for, he<br />
plays the part of counsellor, guide and friend and,<br />
however interesting his criticisms may be to himself,<br />
they are not for himself.<br />
Such is an outline of the needs of criticism and<br />
of the conditions under which the critic's abilities<br />
are developed. And seeing that it is not possible<br />
to train humanity in one direction without many<br />
M HIS concise commentary upon the provisions<br />
1 of the new Copyright Act may safely be<br />
commended to the notice not only of lawyers<br />
but of “authors," in the wide sense in which the<br />
term is used in the first section, and of all whose<br />
business it is to deal in their productions. In<br />
form it follows that which is usually found most<br />
convenient in works of its class, and consists of a<br />
short introduction, which includes a brief but<br />
informing summary of the principal changes to be<br />
effected by the Act, a table of contents, the Act<br />
itself printed section by section with notes, the<br />
Revised Convention of Berne, signed at Berlin in<br />
November, 1908, and a carefully compiled index.<br />
The notes referred to follow immediately the sections<br />
to which they refer, and consist of comment upon<br />
the preceding section, followed by a summary of the<br />
existing law ; the section, the comment upon it and<br />
the note as to the existing law being distinguished<br />
by different types.<br />
The expression “ existing " law reminds us that<br />
the Act will not come into force in the United<br />
Kingdom until July 1 (unless some earlier date be<br />
fixed by Order in Council), and that consequently<br />
there is ample time for some to consider how they<br />
will deal with valuable rights prolonged by the Act,<br />
or in some instances to settle the question of more<br />
pressing importance, whether such rights will be<br />
still in existence at the date mentioned and so<br />
capable of prolongation. The representatives of<br />
deceased artists in particular, and those who hold<br />
their copyrights, should realise that they are among<br />
the most conspicuous gainers by the prolonged term,<br />
but the owners of existing rights affected will be<br />
many and varied, as is shown by Mr. MacGillivray<br />
* " 'The Copyright Act, 1911." Annotated, with Appendix<br />
containing the Revised Convention of Berne, by E. J.<br />
MacGillivray, LL.B., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law,<br />
and member of the Faculty of Advocates in Scotland.<br />
Author of " The Law of Copyright," " A Digest of the Law<br />
of Copyright,” and “ Insurance Law.” London : Stevens<br />
and Sons, Limited. 1912. Pp. 209. Price õs, net.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 170 (#606) ############################################<br />
<br />
170<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
on page 143, and authors of works that have long subject to which anyone may reproduce the work in<br />
been before the public are reminded that their question. The points arising as to this section are<br />
rights may be not only prolonged but enlarged, as rather too intricate for discussion here, but<br />
for example by the addition of exclusive rights of another matter of obscurity, more easily sum-<br />
recitation and dramatisation.<br />
marised, may be referred to. The new Act has a<br />
The enlarged protection accorded to authors very important effect upon the doubtful, and if<br />
by the Act will be much more fully grasped the expression may be allowed “tiresome,"condition<br />
by them after perusal of Mr. MacGillivray's volume of the existing law as to unpublished writings of a<br />
than by unaided study of the Act itself, and, deceased author, more especially in respect of letters.<br />
indeed, after such perusal they may be inclined At the end of the 17th section, relating to post-<br />
to congratulate themselves that his notes were not humous works, is a sub-section to the effect that the<br />
in the hands of those members of the Labour Party ownership of an author's manuscript after his death,<br />
to whose “ socialistic demands" the writer refers in jf acquired by his will, “ Shall be prima facie proof<br />
his introduction. Had it been so, the concessions of the copyright being with the owner of the<br />
which the Government granted might have been manuscript.” As Mr. MacGillivray observes, it<br />
more ample than in fact they were.<br />
would have been much more satisfactory if the<br />
When Mr. Sydney Buxton, at the dinner of the Act had provided explicitly that any bequest of the<br />
Authors' Society, referred with just pride to the manuscript should be deemed to pass the owner-<br />
conciseness of a statute which effected so much ship of the copyright. He submits that this would<br />
within the compass of thirty-seven sections, it might probably be the interpretation which the Court<br />
have been suggested in criticism that an Act of such would put upon the passage referred to, but he<br />
brevity, in spite of all the lucidity with which it may points out that doubt may well arise if a residuary<br />
be drafted, is likely to afford considerable scope for legatee were to claim to be as such the owner of<br />
legal argument and judicial decision in the future. a copyright, and to argue that his right as such<br />
A treatise upon it written before any such decisions residuary legatee was superior to the prima farie<br />
have been given naturally contains many suggestions right of the legatee taking the manuscript by<br />
as to doubtful questions and as to their probable specific bequest. The point is certainly by no<br />
solutions. It is to the consideration of problems means free from doubt, and may be commended to<br />
of this kind in the light of Mr. MacGillivray's the careful consideration of authors and of those<br />
observations that many will turn with interest, who may be entrusted with the drafting of their<br />
after satisfying themselves as to the matters of wills.<br />
interpretation with regard to which he expresses no In conclusion, reference may be made to the<br />
doubt. Instances can easily be given of doubtful important summary remedies given by the Act to<br />
points connected with transactions of not uncommon those authors, other than musical composers, who<br />
occurrence. Sub-section 6 of section 2, for example, find themselves aggrieved by infringement. We<br />
prevents the “reading or recitation in public of any are reminded that musical composers will remain a<br />
reasonable extract of any published work" from class exceptionally favoured, although less so than<br />
being an infringement of the sole right of public now, even when the Act comes into operation. It<br />
performance, for which a civil action may be main was sought, as Mr. MacGillivray reminds nis, to<br />
tained, but Mr. MacGillivray points out that in adopt the provisions of the Acts of 1902 and 1906<br />
section 11 (2), which makes an unauthorised public protecting composers, to the needs of other authors<br />
performance punishable on summary conviction, of all classes, but this was so strenuously opposed in<br />
this saving clause is not inserted, with the result that Grand Committee that a compromise became neces-<br />
the question arises whether the Court might not be sary, and now the authors of musical works retain<br />
bound to convict upon the prosecution of a per- the protection of their own Acts, which are<br />
former, although he could not be proceeded against unrepealed, and literary writers have to be content<br />
in a civil action. Again, attention is called to the with the principle of summary procedure applied<br />
possibility that a recitation in costume may be upon to other works in the much less drastic form in<br />
a different footing from one not so approximating which it appears" in section 11 of 1 & 2 Geo. 5 c. 16.<br />
to dramatic presentation. We do not here refer Mr. MacGillivray's exposition of that Act will be<br />
further to the exclusive right of " performance" found timely and helpful, as we have suggested,<br />
or oral delivery conferred by the Act upon non- not only by the profession which will draw direct<br />
dramatic works, or to the conditions and limitations profit from the difficulties to which it calls atten-<br />
imposed upon the exercise of those rights. Section 3 tion, but by those large and, if we may say so, more<br />
of the Act naturally affords material for comment important, classes of brain-workers, who before the<br />
in respect of the paragraph which modifies the passing of the great measure we have recently<br />
right of the owner of the copyright twenty-five welcomed, had received frequent but always<br />
years after the author's death, and states conditions inadequate attention from the Legislature.<br />
W<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 171 (#607) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
171<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
returned” without having been before the judges-<br />
this was self-evident.<br />
NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br />
There can be little doubt as to the early accept-<br />
ance of the novel in question by any house of<br />
DEAR SIR,–I cannot help thinking the time has standing, and that its publication will bring its<br />
come when authors might venture to make some young author success. I cannot, of course, men-<br />
sort of protest against the manner in which certain tion either the name of the author or that of the<br />
“ novel competitions” are conducted.<br />
novel ; its author is, I fancy, rather an independent<br />
These competitions are, of course, the affairs of the sort of person, and prefers his work to make its way<br />
houses which institute them, and the conditions are by its own pure merits ; but this furnishes me with<br />
generally, I believe, clearly laid down, and so perhaps the example I required to point a few words on a<br />
their methods are hardly fully open to general subject that has often exercised my thoughts.<br />
criticism ; yet I think, considering the altogether My point is the evident unfairness of such a<br />
false standards their results are apt to produce in the system where any work sent in is at the mercy of<br />
eyes of the public in the ranks of the novelists, the sorter, who may have a corn that is trodden<br />
protest is not out of place.<br />
upon in the perusal of the first chapter, and con-<br />
And in one way in particular injustice is apt to sequently, if not a most fair-minded man, reject<br />
to be done to many of the contributors to the that work.<br />
schemes. It is, no doubt, necessary that the copy C an we wonder that the prize-winning stories are<br />
sent in should be subjected to a preliminary weeding, generally of so flat a nature that, after inspiring a<br />
and one could hardly expect the judges to wade few lukewarm notices, they expire early and their<br />
through the entire mass of MSS. submitted ; but it authors are so rarely heard of again?<br />
is in this preliminary process of selection that the There is another aspect: these competitions do<br />
evil, as it seems to me and many others, is apt to be undoubted harın by bringing temporarily to the<br />
done. The objection, to my mind, lies in the fact front writers who have usually no particular message,<br />
that the sorter bas the power of submitting to the and who are, by their sudden success, led to believe<br />
judges only such works as may happen to please themselves literary giants, to the discouragement of<br />
his own taste. The experience of most of us is that real talent and, occasionally, of genius. Surely the<br />
the publisher's reader is a being who is very far literary market is already overcrowded by the works<br />
from being infallible in his judgment of the wares of third-rate writers without its being necessary for<br />
he has to handle ; the history of nearly erery great publishers to hunt for fresh and doubtful talent.<br />
book has been the same-repeated rejections till It is by no means easy at the present day for the<br />
some lucky chance has brought it to light. And unknown writer of a really good book to get a<br />
the standard of acceptability according to the average hearing on respectable terms, and the awards of<br />
“ reader” of the present day seems to be a certain competitions not only do much to lower the standard<br />
conformity to a machine-made story carefully sifted of literature-bringing it down to a mere trade<br />
of any originality. Yet we are led to understand level, but crowd and lower the market standard<br />
that the publisher is ever on the lookout for dis- very seriously, in addition to creating a false ratio<br />
coveries in originality! Judges, also, I believe, have in the public eye.<br />
complained of the low level of the average of the But I for one, and I am not alone in my views,<br />
work submitted to competitions. Can we wonder certainly think that in such competitions all likely<br />
at it when they are only permitted to decide, work should be at least laid at the disposal of the<br />
apparently, upon a few works carefully chosen for judges. It would always be necessary to weed out the<br />
the purpose by the sorters ?<br />
copy which is hopelessly poor, but to weed out works<br />
A young friend of mine has lately sent to a cer- that are good and uncommon, clever and original<br />
tain competition a work which, in the opinion of because, possibly, of some prejudice on the sorter's<br />
several literary men of established reputation who part, seems to me to be prejudicial to fairness at<br />
know him, is a novel of unusual power. This work the start, and one would like to know upon what<br />
is undoubtedly very far above the average, most lines and roles the sorters are instructed to go.<br />
original, beautifully written and dealing with an In conclusion, I must say that after some experi-<br />
absorbing and altogether novel idea; in the opinion ence of competitions in the literary world and a<br />
of those competent to judge and who have read it, good deal of talk with candidates who bare entered<br />
in MS. it is certainly one of the freshest and for them, my advice to any writer with self-respect<br />
cleverest books that have been written during the and above all with any talent is—leave them strictly<br />
last five years. It might not stand any chance of alone.<br />
taking a prize, since it is, perhaps, too bold and too<br />
I am, Sir,<br />
outspoken, too original in theme to be greatly<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
popular ; but the point is that the MS. “ was quickly<br />
TAMEL,<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#608) ############################################<br />
<br />
172<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH COMPOSERS AND THE On every point that concerned the composer the<br />
COPYRIGHT ACT.<br />
society drafted memoranda, which were sent either<br />
SIR,- In last month's issue of The Author, page<br />
to the Board of Trade, to some member of the<br />
132, there is a paragraph referring to the Copyright<br />
Government, or to the private members who were<br />
Act, which is misleading. It runs thus :-<br />
giving special attention to the composer's welfare.<br />
Before the committee stage was over the society<br />
“The gramophone clauses are not altogether to the<br />
was invited by the President of the Board of Trade<br />
liking of composers, and the comuittee of the society<br />
regret that the Government have admitted the principle of<br />
to confer with him upon various points which had<br />
compulsory licence into these clauses, despite the objections<br />
arisen in discussions in committee, and this<br />
urged by the society on behalf of, though with one or two invitation was accepted in the light of official<br />
honourable exceptions, without much help from, musical recognition of the status of the society as<br />
composers."<br />
representing the composer alone.<br />
This conveys the impression that composers as a At the end of July, 1911, before the report<br />
body neglected to take steps to safeguard their stage was passed, the society, anticipating the<br />
inte rests under the new Copyright Act, and that form that the “gramophone clauses ” might, and<br />
the Society of Authors alone acted on their behalf. ultimately did, take, sent a circular to all its<br />
This is very far from being the case, for from members cautioning them against disposing of any<br />
the first the Society of British Composers took an of their mechanical-instrument rights before the<br />
active part in stating the case for the composer. Bill became law. At this date, further, the society<br />
In The Times of March 10th, 1909, it was first went fully into practical issues created by the<br />
announced that the Board of Trade had formed a “gramophone clauses "—issues, it may be added,<br />
Departmental Committee on Copyright, and as which are only now for the first time being<br />
composers had been overlooked and were not repre- considered.<br />
sented on the committee, the Society of British I think I have said enough to show that the<br />
Composers, without a moment's delay, entered a S. B. C., in spite of its restricting its membership<br />
protest against the injustice of ignoring them. to composers of serious aim, had sympathies<br />
Persistent efforts on behalf of the composer sufficiently wide to justify its efforts towards<br />
resulted in the society receiving an undertaking reform on behalf of all, although the majority of<br />
that its representative would be allowed to appear its members may never be affected by the<br />
before the committee and give evidence on certain<br />
“ gramophone clauses.” It is only fair to point<br />
points in the Revised Convention of Berlin, 1908. out that the S. B. C. has giren the Society of<br />
Thus it was largely owing to the action taken by Authors every facility for getting in touch with its<br />
the S. B. C. that the Departmental Committee, members, and the composers, realising that their<br />
whose duties were originally limited to an own special society had the copyright question<br />
examination and report upon that Convention, well in hand, were satisfied that their interests<br />
became in effect a Royal Commission, with power would not be neglected.<br />
to call witnesses. In July, 1909, one of the<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
members of the S. B. C. appeared before the<br />
WILLIAM WALLACE,<br />
committee and gave evidence. Nothing further Hon. Secretary, Society of British Composers,<br />
could be done till the Report of the committee<br />
19, Berners Street, W.<br />
was issued, and this was followed by the Copyright (Mr. Wallace's letter does not in any way refute<br />
Bill of 1910. The society then called a special the paragraph referred to. All honour must be<br />
meeting of its members to discuss, inter alia, this given to the Society of British Composers for the<br />
Bill, and invited members of the Society of work they have done, but the Society of British<br />
Authors to attend and speak. It subsequently Composers is not representative of all composers,<br />
printed and circulated a report of the proceedings. and we regret to state that some of the great<br />
At a later stage it reported to the Board of Trade composers have shown themselves utterly callous<br />
upon the Bill, and sent its own deputation to that and indifferent to the welfare of their fellow<br />
department, on which occasion it was represented craftsmen.<br />
by its prominent members, and its honorary We congratulate the Society of British Com.<br />
counsel discussed the points specially affecting the posers, whose excellent work in the passing of the<br />
composer.<br />
Copyright Act no one can deny, but it is still true<br />
Owing to the political situation the Bill of 1910 that the Society of Authors, considering the work<br />
could not be proceeded with, and that of 1911 was it has done, and is still doing, has received very<br />
introduced, the second reading taking place on little support from the great bulk of composers,<br />
April 7th, 1911. From that moment the S. B. C. many of whom are not, and cannot be included<br />
redoubled its vigilance, and the committee stage in the Society of British Composers under its<br />
was watched and reported upon unremittingly. regulations.—ED.)<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#609) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
vii<br />
TYPEWRITING. Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhead, Surrey, writes :<br />
"I have just completed the revision of my novel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without laving been corrected or even read, and that my hand writing,<br />
I am told. is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required perception as well as care, something niore than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a resulta result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/-<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1/- 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spanish typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): “I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work."<br />
MRS. TOM GODFREY: “I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
all authors who have the good fortune to hear of you. ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French."<br />
MRS. HINKSON (KATHARINE TYNAN): “I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and promptitude."<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq.: "The work conld not be better done."<br />
IST IOHN L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON<br />
Bitterne Park,<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
Cotterill & Cromb, Literary Agents,<br />
Lennox House, Norfolk St., Strand, W.C.<br />
SOMETHING NEW !<br />
INK-ERASING PENCIL.<br />
Just the thing for Authors and Business Men. Removes<br />
writing and blots immediately, and without injury to<br />
paper.<br />
SEND P.O. 1/2 FOR SAMPLE.<br />
c. Herbert Cæsar, Homefield, St. Albans.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
MISS FOWLER, Maxwell House, Arundel<br />
Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
EXPERT IN DECIPHERING DIFFICULT HANDWRITING.<br />
Extract from Unsolicited Testimonial.-"I send yon work com-<br />
pared to which Egyptian hieroglyphics would be child's play, and you<br />
return the manuscript at the time requested without one single<br />
inaccuracy. It is nothing short of marvellous."<br />
on all subjects,<br />
including<br />
LITERARY,<br />
Educational,<br />
Commercial, Technical, Medical, Theological, etc., and<br />
for all examinations.<br />
Second-Hand at Half-Prices. New at 25 per<br />
cent, disoount.<br />
Ca'alogues free. State Wants. Books sent on approval ; BOOKS<br />
BOUGHT. Best Prices Given.<br />
<br />
AUTHORS. ATTENTION!<br />
ACCURACY,<br />
ABSOLUTE SECRECY,<br />
PUNCTUALITY<br />
guaranteed by me in Typewritten<br />
copies of Manuscripts, etc.<br />
Terms : Is. per 1,000 words; Carbon<br />
Duplicates, 3d. per 1,000.<br />
W. & G. FOYLE,<br />
135, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.<br />
LITERARY AGENCY.<br />
THE WEINER AGENCY, LTD.,<br />
64, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.<br />
Every facility for placing work of all descriptions. Apply<br />
for prospectus, free, from Manager, Literary Department.<br />
Read what a satisfied Client says, and then send a<br />
trial order.<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
December 4th, 1911.<br />
I have to thank you for your prompt and most<br />
satisfactory work; the typing is excellent, and I am<br />
extremely pleased with it.<br />
(Signed) MRS. J. O. ARNOLD,<br />
Sheffield.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
8d. per 1,000 words ; with duplicate, 9d.<br />
C. A. GIRTON,<br />
2, Grove Lane, Camberwell, S.E.<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Rd., St. Albans, Herts.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#610) ############################################<br />
<br />
viii<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
TYPEWRITING<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
To Authors, Clergymen,<br />
Playwrights, etc.-<br />
A WORD IN SEASON !<br />
Get all your work TYPED<br />
WELL-IT ADDS TONE.<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum,<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
WITH<br />
My work is always THE BEST.<br />
My prices are LOW.<br />
Send your order now.<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
All orders, large or small, receive<br />
my personal attention.<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
38, Norwood Road,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Loungee<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel—"Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—“Bookcraft, London."<br />
BRAINS Herne Hill,<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND. , AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
higently copied, from 1s. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
promptness; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
over 20,000, od. Plays ruled<br />
and bound, 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and General TYPEWRITING._Authors' mss. carefully<br />
typed at 10d. per 1,000<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli-<br />
Authors' MSS. carefully<br />
words (carbon copy free). -<br />
EXCELSIOR TYPEWRITING OFFICES,<br />
cation.<br />
Tel.: Bank 82.<br />
20, Bucklorsbury, E.C.<br />
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK.<br />
"Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to the<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothmg<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
does her work.- FRANK SAVILE."<br />
64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.<br />
and Others.<br />
New Address :-<br />
15, WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX. thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
been done."<br />
Recommended by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen :" Many<br />
Print ed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouverio Street, London, E.C. | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/431/1912-03-01-The-Author-22-6.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 432 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/432 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 07 (April 1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+07+%28April+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 07 (April 1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-04-01-The-Author-22-7 | | | | | 173–200 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-04-01">1912-04-01</a> | | | | | | | 7 | | | 19120401 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 7.<br />
APRIL 1, 1912.<br />
(PRICE SIXPENOE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGE<br />
173<br />
173<br />
173<br />
174<br />
175<br />
179<br />
181<br />
184<br />
186<br />
187<br />
185<br />
189<br />
PAGE<br />
190<br />
190<br />
190<br />
190<br />
190<br />
190<br />
191<br />
<br />
:<br />
.<br />
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 Annual Meeting<br />
A Prize Competition<br />
United States Notes<br />
The Copyright Progress of Four Years<br />
The Copyright Law<br />
Correspondence<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
List of Members ...<br />
The Pension Fund<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
Books published by Members ...<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes...<br />
United States Copyright<br />
A Music Publisher's Agreement<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books...<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br />
:<br />
.<br />
192<br />
i<br />
:<br />
.<br />
193<br />
.<br />
194<br />
.<br />
.<br />
197<br />
199<br />
199<br />
K Five Large Editions required to fill orders in advance on the other side.<br />
Ready early in April.<br />
THE MOUNTAIN GIRL<br />
By PAYNE ERSKINE.<br />
Illustrated by J. DUNCAN GLEASON.<br />
Crown 8vo. 6s.<br />
This new novel bids fair to create an unusual amount of interest. Those who have read the<br />
advance sheets predict for it an immense success. It is the kind of novel that the public<br />
appreciate, because it is essentially true to life and pictures one of the sweetest and<br />
purest heroines ever portrayed.<br />
BUY THESE FROM YOUR BOOKSELLER or BORROW FROM THE LIBRARY.<br />
A novel that is having an immense sale eighteen months' after publication.<br />
THE BROAD HIGHWAY. By JEFFERY FARNOL.<br />
Over One Million Readers already. Crown 8vo. 6s.<br />
The sweetest story ever told by the Author of “The Broad Highway.”<br />
THE MONEY MOON. By JEFFERY FARNOL.<br />
Third Impression. Crown 8vo. 6s.<br />
*** Also an Edition de Luxe in specially designed cover printed in colours and gold, fully illustrated with over 50<br />
Illustrations, nearly half of which are full-page in colours by ARTHUR T. KELLER. Royal 8vo. 155. net.<br />
Also Crown 8vo, 6s. each.<br />
Ramona<br />
By HELEN HUNT JACKSON. | The Pharaoh and the Priest<br />
By ALEXANDER GLOVATSKI. 6s, net.<br />
The Human Compass By BART KENNEDY.<br />
The Innocent Murderers<br />
Under Western Skies By FRANCIS SINCLAIR. I<br />
By W. JOHNSON and P. WEST.<br />
Desmond Rourke, Irishman By JOHN HASLETTE.<br />
In the Shadow of Pa-Menkh By DORA LANGLOIS.<br />
Dunleary: The Humours of a Munster Town<br />
Lemuel of the Left Hand By ALFRED CLARK.<br />
By EDMUND DOWNEY.<br />
By<br />
Hu<br />
London : SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., Ltd.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#612) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telegraphic Address : “ AUTORIDAD, LONDON.”<br />
Telophone No. : 314 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O..M.<br />
COUNCIL<br />
BIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. THE RIGHT Hon. THE EARL CURZON, JOSTIN MCCARTHY.<br />
BIB WM.REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. G.C.S.L.<br />
THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
• AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIB GILBERT PARKEK, M.P.<br />
J. M. BARRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESHFIELD,<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO.<br />
SIR ALFKKD BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMOND GOBSE, LL.D.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. SIB BORAOE<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
SIR RIDER HAGGARD.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD,<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON (LUCAS MALET'). ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIR. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,<br />
OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
RELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT,<br />
G. R. Sims.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S. W. W. JACOBS.<br />
DR. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE,<br />
THE RIGHT HON, JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
The Right Hon. 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. COMYNS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
H. G. WELLS.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.8.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.8. PERCY WHITE.<br />
EDWARD CLODD,<br />
LADY LUGARD (M188 FLORA L. FIELD-MARSHAL THB BIGHT Hox.<br />
W, MORRIS COLLES.<br />
SHAW).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
The Hon. John COLLIER,<br />
MRS. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON). P.C., &c.<br />
BIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman - Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. | MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND,<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
FRANCIA STOBR,<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman--R. C. CARTON.<br />
RUDOLF BESIER.<br />
JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
W. J. LOCKE.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
JAMES T. TANNER.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE,<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD,<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-SiR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, Mus. Doc.<br />
GRANVILLE BANTOCK.<br />
CECIL FORSYTH.<br />
HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
PERCY C. Buck, Mus. Doc.<br />
JOHN B. MCEWEN.<br />
WILLIAM WALLACE.<br />
THOMAS F. DUNHILL.<br />
ARTHUR SOMERVELL.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, HERBERT SULLIVAN,<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
ART.<br />
The Hon. John COLLIER.<br />
| JOHN HASSALL, R.I.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
FIELD, ROSCOE & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, 8.W. Solicitors.<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Société des Gens de Lettres<br />
Legal Representative in America—JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STORLY'S GATE, 8.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#613) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
-PLAYS<br />
Just out, 1/- paper, 2/- cloth, net.<br />
SMITH & Son, Rentield Street, GLASGOW.<br />
WILLIAM THOMSON<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
(LORD KELVIN),<br />
His Way of Teaching Natural Philosophy,<br />
By DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors),<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
- NO THEORIES. —<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
ANECDOTES OF BIG<br />
CATS AND OTHER BEASTS.<br />
BY DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
METHUEN & Co., 6/-<br />
Times.--"Mr. Theodore Roosevelt can recount many<br />
stories of such scenes, while Mr. D. Wilson goes a<br />
step further ... by telling his readers something<br />
of the mental attitude of the quarry.".<br />
Guardian.--" Mr. Wilson is the right person to tell<br />
stories of sport."<br />
Pall Mall Gazette.—“Captivating and engrossing."<br />
Labour Leader.—“This book is one of the most<br />
delightful collections of animal stories it has been<br />
our lot to meet."<br />
Morning Post.—"Delightfully sympathetic... Noth.<br />
ing is excluded, from the tiger and leopard to the<br />
domestic pussy-cat, from the bear to the buffalo,<br />
from the monkey to the elephant."<br />
Humanitarian.-“We advise all our friends to read<br />
this admirable book."<br />
Address : 28, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W. |<br />
" An indispensable book of reference for authors and<br />
Journalists."-Daily Graphic.<br />
| MURRAY & EVENDEN'S NEW AND<br />
FORTHCOMING WORKS.<br />
LITERARY YEAR-BOOK (1912)<br />
Crown 8vo.]<br />
Price 6s. net.<br />
[995 pages.<br />
Now Ready-<br />
Morocco after Twenty-five Years, by Dr. Robert Kerr.<br />
Illustrated ... ... ...<br />
***<br />
10/6 net<br />
***<br />
Will be Ready Shortly-<br />
The Cup and the Lip. By Stephen Knott ... ... 61-<br />
A Daughter of Fate. By Edgar Leigh ... ... ... 6/-<br />
The Co-Respondent. By the author of “The Terror by<br />
Night"<br />
10<br />
.. .. . ... .. .<br />
The Reformer's Wife : A Story of Labour Troubles 100<br />
years ago ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 6/-<br />
Journeys End. By C. Lone ... ... ... ... ...1/- net<br />
Diana Woston: A Story of the Monmouth Rebellion...1/. net<br />
Cairn Lodge. By Antoine le Borovski ... ... ...2/- net<br />
Marooned in the South Seas: A Story for Boys... ...2/6 net<br />
If it were come to Pass. Second Edition. By Ivor<br />
***<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
6/.<br />
CONTENTS : – Authors' Directory; Literary<br />
Agents; Typists, etc.; Booksellers; Proof-correcting;<br />
Law and Letters [containing new Copyright Act<br />
(1911)]; British, American, Canadian, and Indian<br />
Periodicals (with a classified index and full<br />
particulars for contributors) ; Royalty Tables ;<br />
Publishers (British and Foreign); Classified List .of<br />
Publishers' Requirements; Literary Societies and<br />
Clubs; A classified list of cheap reprints (93<br />
different series).<br />
Opinions of Authors: _"Many thanks for the help which the<br />
Year Book now affords.""The Year Book is a great boon to<br />
authors, and this year is better than ever."-"I have found The<br />
Literary Year Book a very valuable book of reference."-"I<br />
take this opportunity of telling you how great a help the book is<br />
to me as an author and as a working journalist."<br />
“A work with a wide reputation and one justly earned."-<br />
The Author.<br />
Authors are invited to send their names<br />
and partioulars of their publications to<br />
the Editor for insertion in the next issue,<br />
Address : The Editor,<br />
c/o GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd.,<br />
68, Carter Lane, London, E.C.<br />
Hamilton<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
...<br />
..<br />
...2/- net<br />
...2/-net<br />
The Battle of Souls. Second Edition. By Hugh<br />
Naybard ... ... ... ...<br />
*** "* "* "<br />
Now Ready-<br />
The National Insurance Act Explained. By Oswald<br />
H. Cooke, M.A., B.C.L. Third Edition ... ... ...3d. net<br />
MURRAY & EVENDEN,<br />
Pleydell House, Pleydell Street,<br />
Fleet Street, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#614) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE<br />
SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report for 1911.<br />
1s, net.<br />
Price<br />
8. The Society of Authors.<br />
A Record of its Action from its Founda-<br />
tion. By WALTER BESANT (Chairman of<br />
Committee, 1888–1892). Price 1s. net.<br />
2. The Author.<br />
Published ten months in the year (August<br />
and September omitted) devoted especially<br />
to the protection and maintenance of<br />
Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to all Members gratis. Price to<br />
non-members, 6d., or 58. 6d. per annum,<br />
post free. Back numbers from 1892, at<br />
108. 6d. net, per vol.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany,<br />
Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland.<br />
By Ernst LUNGE, J.U.D. Price 28. 6d. net.<br />
3. Literature and the Pension List.<br />
By W. Morris COLLES, Barrister-at-Law.<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
10. Forms of Agreement issued by the<br />
Publishers' Association; with Com-<br />
ments.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRing, and Illustrative<br />
Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd<br />
Edition. Price 18. net.<br />
4. The History of the Société des Gens de<br />
Lettres.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. Price 18. net.<br />
11. Periodicals and their contributors.<br />
Giving the Terms on which the different<br />
Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS.<br />
and Contributions. Price 6d. net.<br />
6. The Cost of Production.<br />
(Out of print.)<br />
12. Society of Authors.<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907,<br />
price 6d. net.<br />
6. The Various Methods of Publication.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. lu this work,<br />
compiled from the papers in the Society's<br />
officeo, the various forms of agreements<br />
proposed by Publishers to Authors are<br />
examined, and their meaning carefully<br />
explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made<br />
possible by the different clauses therein.<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
13. International Copyright Convention<br />
as Revised at Berlin, 1909.<br />
Price 1s. net.<br />
100ve.<br />
18. Dramatic Agency Agreement. 3d. net.<br />
7, Addenda to the Above.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being ad-<br />
ditional facts collected at the office of<br />
the Society since the publication of the<br />
“ Metbods." With comments and advice.<br />
Price 28. net.<br />
Literary Agency Agreement. 3d. net.<br />
[All prices nat.<br />
Apply to the Sacretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Slorey's Gate, S. W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#615) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
SAVE YOUR NUMBERS carefully<br />
until the Volume is complete<br />
.. BY USING<br />
ARTISTS,<br />
Capable of illustrating Books in Colour or<br />
Black and White,<br />
"THE AUTHOR”<br />
MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
***<br />
ARE INVITED TO COMMUNICATE BY<br />
LETTER WITH<br />
Messrs. J. F. BELMONT & CO.,<br />
29, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,<br />
LONDON, E.C.<br />
A BARGAIN,<br />
The Great Barrier Reef of Australia.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
Price 2/8 net.<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up<br />
number by number, the numbers of The Author as they are<br />
published, and at the completior of the volume can be taken<br />
off and sent to the book binder-leaving the Mechanical Binder<br />
free for the next volume. Whether containing one uuinber or<br />
a complete volume it has the appearance of, and handles the<br />
same as an ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by<br />
which The Author can be instantly bound with the same<br />
facility as a single leaf, and there are no wires or elastic<br />
strings to get out of order.<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The<br />
Cloth Covers are inade by leading London Bookbinders, and<br />
the Metal Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to<br />
break, it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few<br />
pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
ST. JAMES BUDGET: "The advantages of the Binder are so obvious ..."<br />
LEEDS MERCEKY:"An ingenious and accommodating invention."<br />
WESTMINSTER BUDGUT:- The construction of the Bidder is simplicity<br />
itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end "<br />
LITERARY WORLD :-"A clever device-so extremely simple and easy<br />
in applying."<br />
SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH " After use we can confidently<br />
recommend."<br />
J. F. BELMONT & co., 29, Paternoster Sq., London, E.C.<br />
Exquisite Photographic Enlargements, originally published<br />
at £4 4s. net; a few slightly mount-soiled subjects from the set<br />
to be had at 2- each, packing free, carriage forward.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & co.,<br />
29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
8d. per 1,000 words with free<br />
duplicate copy.<br />
GIRTON, 2, Grove Lane, Camberwell, S.E.<br />
An Indispensable American Journal.<br />
“ Those who wish to know in a general way what is being done in the literary<br />
world in America cannot do better than subscribe to THE DIAL, a semi-monthly<br />
journal devoted entirely to literature. We will undertake to say that no one who<br />
is interested in literature would regret acting on our advice, and arranging for<br />
THE DIAL to rub shoulders twice a month with their Spectator, Athenæum, or<br />
Academy. . . . From whatever point of view you look at it—value of its literary<br />
contents, or its variety, or the excellence of its mechanical production—THE DIAL<br />
is entitled to a place with the best that any country can produce. . . . We again<br />
advise our readers who wish to keep the 100 millions of America in their eye to<br />
watch THE DIAL.”—THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR (London).<br />
Specimen copies of THE DIAL, together with a special offer for trial subscription, will be<br />
sent gratis to any reader of THE AUTHOR upon request.<br />
ADDRESS<br />
“THE DIAL” COMPANY, 410, SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO.<br />
*<br />
2<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 172 (#616) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
STANLEY PAUL & CO.'S LATEST 6/- NOVELS.<br />
RHODA BROUGHTON. DOUGLAS SLADEN.<br />
BETWEEN TWO STOOLS.<br />
THE UNHOLY ESTATE.<br />
ARABELLA KENEALY.. ARCHIBALD MARSHALL.<br />
THE WOMAN-HUNTER.<br />
THE MYSTERY OF REDMARSH FARM.<br />
MAIDS IN MANY MOODS ... H. Louisa Bedford<br />
DUCKWORTH'S DIAMONDS ... E. Everett-Green<br />
VEENI THE MASTER ... ... ... R. F. Lamport<br />
THE THREE ENVELOPES... Hamilton Drummond<br />
THEIR WEDDED WIFE ... ... Alice M. Diehl<br />
THE CHILDREN OF ALSACE (2nd Ed.) Rene Bazin<br />
THE ACTIVITIES OF LAVIE JUTT<br />
Marguerite and Armiger Barclay<br />
THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA.<br />
Rafael Sabatini. Illustrated. Second Edition. 16/- net.<br />
THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF THE VATICAN.<br />
Dr. Angelo S. Rappoport. Illustrated. Second Edition. 16/- net.<br />
A WINTER HOLIDAY IN PORTUGAL. Capt. Granville Baker ... ...<br />
DAVID GARRICK AND HIS FRENCH FRIENDS. Dr. F. A. Hedgcock...<br />
AN ACTOR'S NOTEBOOKS. Frank Archer ... ... ...<br />
WOMAN ADRIFT. The Menace of Suffragism. Harold Owen ...<br />
12/6 net.<br />
10/6 net.<br />
7/6 net.<br />
6.<br />
STANLEY PAUL & CO., 31, ESSEX STREET, LONDON.<br />
ORDER IMMEDIATELY from your Library, Bookseller or Bookstall.<br />
JUST READY-One of the most INTIMATE & INTERESTING Books of Tropical (and Topical)<br />
Verse ever published. By the author of "THE SEDUCTIVE COAST," Etc.<br />
A CALABASH<br />
OF KOLA NUTS<br />
By J. M. STUART-YOUNG.<br />
Demy 8vo, 126 pp., with an additional Glossary, 2s. 6d. net.<br />
When, just abont two years ago, Mr. Stuart-Young published “The Seductive Coast," rhymes dealing with life in<br />
Western Africa, there were not lacking critics to lift their hands in shocked amaze at what they termed the<br />
“exceptional daring" of the author's outlook on the moral and social conditions of life in Nigeria. The Birmingham<br />
Gazette gave the lead to a juster interpretation :-* Rarely do we meet with work which so unmistakably conveys the<br />
impression of spontaneity and sincerity, combined with an admirable technique... Mr. Stuart-Young is a man<br />
who feels strongly, who expresses what he feels, and who is skilled in verbal expression. As sheer art-work his<br />
pages are admirable. There is a virility which commends his work where simpler sentiment would fail," and so on.<br />
The Daily Telegraph recognised that here "was no lover of sensationalism. Whether telling of white men and<br />
women, of their loves and their tragedies, or of the stranger folk among whom his lot is cast on the Niger Bank.<br />
the author always shows himself possessed of the best qualities of the story-teller." The Oxford Times found in the<br />
book "a subtle witchery which haunts the mind," while Reynolds acknowledged that here at last was someone who<br />
“appreciates the tragedy and pathos of native Africa."<br />
This new book is strangely appealing-it will be read by thousands of exiles,<br />
- and appreciated by thousands of their relatives in the Old Country. -<br />
LONDON : LYNWOOD & Co., Paternoster Row, Publishers.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 173 (#617) ############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 7.<br />
APRIL 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
nae<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON. advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
NOTICES.<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
DoR the opinions expressed in papers that are if special information is desired.<br />
signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
DROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
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 />
cases that have come before the notice or to the this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have which these contributions may be paid.<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br />
them on application.<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper connected with the work of the Society.<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
LIST OF MEMBERS.<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each M HE List of Members of the Society of Authors,<br />
month.<br />
1 published October, 1907, can now be obtained<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the at the offices of the Society at the price of<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the 6d., post free 71d. It includes elections to July,<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other 1907, and will be sold to members and associates<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to of the Society only.<br />
retorn articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
A dozen blank pages have been added at the<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 174 (#618) ############################################<br />
<br />
174<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
end of tbe list for the convenience of those who<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
desire to add future elections as they are chronicled<br />
from month to month in these pages.<br />
The list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br />
tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
by, or promised to, the fund from January 1,<br />
1912.<br />
It does not include either donations given<br />
TN January the secretary of the society laid<br />
prior to January 1, nor does it include sub-<br />
before the trustees of the Pension Fund the<br />
scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br />
accounts for the year 1911, as settled by the<br />
before it.<br />
accountants, with a full statement of the result of<br />
The full list of apnual subscribers to the fund<br />
the appeal recently made on behalf of the Fund.<br />
appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
After giving the matter full consideration the<br />
The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum<br />
received three bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and<br />
recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
Bolivian Railway 5 Preferred Ordinary Stock<br />
He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock.<br />
The amounts purchased at the present prices are<br />
may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
£237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock.<br />
on the matter.<br />
The trustees desire to thank the members of the<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
society for the generous support which they have County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
given to the Pension Fund, and have much pleasure<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
in informing the Pension Fund Committee that<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
there is a further sum available for the payment of<br />
Bankers' Order for 5s. drawn on the London,<br />
another pension in case any application should be<br />
made.<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
The money now invested amounts to<br />
£4,846 198. 4d., and is fully set out in the list<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
below :<br />
1912.<br />
£ $. d.<br />
Consols 21°c<br />
.£1,312 13 4 Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice . .' 0 5 0<br />
Local Loans.........<br />
500 ( 0 Jan. 2, Sturt, George . . . . ( 5 0<br />
Victorian Government 3° ' Consoli-<br />
Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark (in addition t<br />
dated Inscribed Stock.......... 291 19 11<br />
present subscription).<br />
( 5<br />
London and North-Western 39%<br />
Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H..<br />
Debenture Stock ..........<br />
230 0 (). Jan. 3, Worsley, Miss Alice . .<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br />
Trust 4% Certificates .....<br />
200 0 0<br />
to present subscription) . () 5 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 31°. Inscribed<br />
Jan. 3, Hedgcock, F. A. .<br />
Stock .......................<br />
200 0 0<br />
Jan. :), Matcham, Mrs. Eyre<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
Jan. 8, Stayton, Frank .<br />
: 0 5 0<br />
10%. Preference Stock .<br />
228 0 0 Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Estella . . 0 5 0<br />
New Zealand 31° Stock ..<br />
247 9 6 Jan. 10, Ropes, A. R.. .<br />
1 1<br />
Irish Land Act 21% Guaranteed<br />
Jan. 12, Francis, René .<br />
0 10 0<br />
Stock ........<br />
2.38 0 0 Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br />
Corporation of London 21. Stock,<br />
tion to present subscription) 05 0<br />
1927-57 ..........<br />
438 24 Jan. 27, Hutchinson, the Rev. H. N. . 1 1 0<br />
Jamaica 31° Stock, 1919-19 ...... 132 18 6 Feb. 7, L. M. F., per month during<br />
Mauritius 1°! 1937 Stock .<br />
120 121<br />
1912<br />
: :<br />
Try<br />
. 1 0 0<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 3!?!<br />
Feb. 7, Letts, Miss W.M..<br />
. 0 5 0<br />
Land Grant Stock, 1938............. 198 3 8 Feb. 8, Cooke, W. Bourne . . . 1 1 0<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
Feb. 8, Annesler, Miss Maude<br />
.<br />
.<br />
. ( 10 6<br />
5% Preferred Stock ............... 237 () () Feb. 9, O'Donnell, Miss Petronella : 0) 5 0<br />
Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br />
March 6, Curwen, Miss Maud . : 0<br />
Stock ..<br />
232 ( 0) March 6, Anderson, Arthur . . 1 1 0<br />
— March 15, George, W. L. (in addition<br />
Total ....................£4,846 19 4<br />
to present subscription). ( 10 O<br />
༌ ༤་<br />
......<br />
་ེ<br />
་ ༌<br />
༤་ ལ་ ༌<br />
......<br />
....<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 175 (#619) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
175<br />
erro<br />
...........................<br />
er or<br />
Donations.<br />
1912.<br />
Jan. 2, Risque, W. H. .<br />
Jan. 2, Dart, Miss Edith.<br />
Jan. 3, “K."<br />
Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur.<br />
Jan. 3, Durrant, W. Scott .<br />
Jan. 3, Tighe, Henry .<br />
Jan. 3, Grant, Lady Sybil .<br />
Jan. 4, Smith, Bertram<br />
Jan. 4, Buckrose, J. E.<br />
Jan. 4, Lathbury, Miss Eva<br />
Jan. 5, Wilson, Dr. Albert .<br />
Jan. 5, Craven, A. Scott .<br />
Jan. 6, Blundell, Miss Alice<br />
Jan. 6, Garbutt, W. H.<br />
Jan. 6, Serjeant, Miss Constance<br />
Jan. 9, Chamberlayne, Miss Effie<br />
Jan. 9, Hamel, Frank<br />
Jan. 10, Allen, W. Bird .<br />
Jan. 10, Crellin, H. X. .<br />
Jan. 10, Smith, Herbert W.<br />
•<br />
Jan. 12, Randall, F. J.<br />
Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K..<br />
Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W...<br />
Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M.<br />
Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney<br />
Jan. 20, M'Ewan, Miss Madge.<br />
Jan. 2:2, Kave-Smith. Miss Sheila .<br />
Jan. 22, Mackenzie, Miss J. .<br />
Jan. 22, Reiss, Miss Erna . .<br />
.Jan. 22, Grisewood, R. Norman . .<br />
Jan. 23, Machen, Arthur.<br />
.Jan. 24, Williamson, C. N. and Mrs.(<br />
Jan. 26, Way, Miss Beatrice<br />
Jan, 30, Saies, Mrs. Florence H.. :<br />
Jan. 30, Weyman, Stanley (in addition<br />
to subscription).<br />
Jan. 30, S. F. G. . .<br />
Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br />
Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br />
Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James 1.<br />
Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br />
Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady<br />
.<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. .<br />
Feb. 12, King, A. R.. .<br />
Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. .<br />
Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br />
Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. E. W. .<br />
Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival . .<br />
Feb. 17, Raplmel, Mrs. .<br />
Feb. 19, Cabourn, John . .<br />
Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
.<br />
Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and Mrs. .<br />
Feb. 24, Hamilton, Cosmo<br />
Feb. 27, Plowman, Miss Mary . .<br />
Feb. 28, Aspinall, A. E. .<br />
.<br />
March 2, Montisole, Max. .<br />
£ s. d.<br />
£ s. d. March 9, Pickering, Mrs. Frank . 0 10 0<br />
0 10 0 March 15, Trevanwyn, John . . 1 1 0<br />
0 10 6 March 16, O'Higgins, H. J. . . 1 1 0<br />
10 0 March 18, Wallis-Healy, F. C. . . () 3 0<br />
1 1 0 March 18, Schwarz, Prof. Ernest . 0 5 0<br />
5 0 March 19, Wallace, Sir Donald Mac-<br />
( 10 0<br />
kenzie, K.C.V.O. . . 5 5 0<br />
0 March 21, Wharton, Leonard . () 5<br />
20 0 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
M HE March meeting of the committee was held<br />
0 5 0<br />
at the offices of the society on the 4th. The<br />
0 5 0<br />
committee have much pleasure in reporting<br />
1 1 0 32 elections, which brings the total of elections<br />
1 1 0 for the current year up to 100. This number is<br />
0 5 o considerably in excess of the number for the corre-<br />
2 2 O sponding period of 1911. The issue of the first<br />
1 0 applications for subscriptions in arrears brought as<br />
2 2 0 usual a number of resignations, but though the<br />
0 5 0 number was considerable, it was hardly above the<br />
0 5 0 average of former years, and in percentage was<br />
1 1 0 lower, owing to the increase in numbers of the<br />
( 5 ( society.<br />
() 10 0 The solicitors made a report on the legal cases<br />
0 5 0 handled during the month. In one case, where the<br />
committee had sanctioned the issue of a writ for the<br />
0 5 0) return of a MS., the publisher had handed over the<br />
1 1 0 MS., and the matter had been settled. In another<br />
5 j ( case, involving a long dispute on accounts delivered<br />
0 5 0 by a publisher, a settlement had been arranged and<br />
( 8 6 a form of agreement dealing with the issues had<br />
been drafted and was only awaiting execution.<br />
1 1 0 A question arising out of the infringement of an<br />
1 1 0 author's dramatic rights had been settled. The<br />
1 0 0 defendant had abandoned the production and with-<br />
0 10 0 drawn the piece. A claim of a member, considered<br />
1 1 0 at the previous meeting, for a quantum meruit<br />
0 10 6 for work done against a newspaper had been satisfied.<br />
5 0 0 The stipulated amount had been paid. Payment<br />
5 () had also been made under a judgment obtained by the<br />
() society in another newspaper case. There was also<br />
a claiin by a member against a publisher for accounts<br />
0 5 () which had not been rendered for some time, and for<br />
1 1 0 payment of the sum due under those accounts. As<br />
0 5 0 the publisher had neglected to answer the secretary's<br />
0 5 0) letters, the matter had been transferred to the<br />
( j ( solicitors, whose negotiations with the firm had<br />
0 10 0 produced a promise of speedy settlement. The<br />
1 1 0 Solicitors bad been forced to issue a writ in another<br />
1 1 0 matter of accounts referred to them, as the defen-<br />
26 dant had refused to produce a proper statement. In<br />
( 10 ( a case in which the society had threatened a pub-<br />
() 10 ( lisher with the appointment of an arbitrator, under<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 176 (#620) ############################################<br />
<br />
176<br />
THB AUTHOR.<br />
II.<br />
a clause in the publisher's agreement, the publisher The secretary reported that Lady Loraine, Mr.<br />
bad submitted a proposal which the committee Thomas F. Dunhill and Mr. Raymond Needham<br />
decided to advise the author to accept. The had joined the society as life members, and that<br />
solicitors were instructed to write to the member Mr. Gordon Craig had made a donation of £1 18.<br />
to that effect.<br />
to the Capital Account.<br />
The secretary then placed before the committee<br />
correspondence which had passed between himself<br />
and a member, following a decision of the com-<br />
mittee made at their previous meeting. The<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
committee, while approving the secretary's letters,<br />
decided that no further action could be taken. The<br />
I.<br />
verification of accounts between one of the members On Thursday, March 7, the Dramatic Sub-<br />
and a publisher extending over a series of years was Committee met a sub-committee of the Dramatists'<br />
next considered, and the committee advised the Club and discussed with the latter the proposed<br />
member to ask the publisher, in the first instance, alterations in the Managerial Treaty. The two<br />
for further details, and next to allow an accountant committees went through the treaty clause by<br />
to be appointed to investigate the books. If the clause, and came to agreement, with very few<br />
publisher's answer was not satisfactory, the matter alterations and reservations. The points reserved<br />
was to be referred again to the committee.<br />
were then referred back in order to be discussed at<br />
After the cases had been considered, the committee the next meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Committee,<br />
discussed the question of Canadian copyright. A and it is hoped that a final settlement will be come<br />
letter was read from Sir Gilbert Parker to the to at that meeting.<br />
chairman expressing among other things his regret<br />
that he had been obliged to return to England, but<br />
stating that he hoped to put forward the views of The ordinary monthly meeting of the Dramatic<br />
the society when he visited Canada again in the Sub-Committee was held on Friday, March 15,<br />
summer. A letter from the Premier of Canada was at 3 o'clock. After the ruinutes of the former<br />
also read, as well as one from a Canadian correspon- meeting had been read and signed, the alterations<br />
dent of the society, the last making a statement as and amendments to the Managerial Treaty sug-<br />
to the action in respect of copyright legislation gested at the joint meeting of the sub-committee<br />
which was being taken in the Dominion.<br />
and the Dramatists' Club Sub-Committee, were<br />
The secretary reported what had been done, at considered, and the treaty was finally settled. The<br />
the suggestion of the Composers' Sub-Committee, secretary was instructed to write to the secretary<br />
and with the sanction of the chairman of the Com- of the Dramatists' Club Sub-Committee, with a full<br />
mittee of Management, respecting an organisation statement of what had taken place and with the<br />
which had originally called itself the Society of complete copy.<br />
British Authors, Composers and Music Publishers. The next question before the sub-committee was<br />
A full statement of the position appeared in the the date of the Annual Conference of Dramatists.<br />
March issue of The Author.<br />
The sub-committee decided that it would be best<br />
The committee undertook to watch carefully the to defer the selection of the date until the mandate<br />
rights of composers in regard to the question that which they had received at the last Conference to<br />
had been raised, namely, the collection of gramo deal with the Managerial Treaty had been carried<br />
phone fees.<br />
through, and the sub-committee were in a position<br />
A Music Publishing Agreement which had been to report to the Conference on this and other<br />
laid before the Committee of Management by the matters.<br />
Copyright Sub-Committee was referred back to the A small point touching the registration of<br />
sub-committee for re-consideration of one or two scenarios was also considered, and the sub-com-<br />
points which had been raised in committee.<br />
mittee decided that one copy of a scenario would<br />
A proposal in regard to the conduct of the suffice for purposes of registration, although the<br />
business of authors by literary agents was men- society would always be willing to stampa<br />
tioned, but the committee decided that it would be duplicate copy if the member so desired.<br />
inexpedient to take action in the matter at the The sub-committee then discussed a suggestion<br />
present time unless a specific charge could be made of one of the members, that a schedule of prices<br />
The committee authorised the affixing of the should lie at the society's office for reference. As<br />
society's seal to certain transfers dealing with the soon as the schedule is settled, notice will be sent<br />
purchase of stock on account of the Capital Fund of to dramatists who are members, in order that they<br />
the society, which purchase had been authorised at may have the advantage, when settling agreements,<br />
their previous meeting.<br />
of being able to consult the schedule and receive<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 177 (#621) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
177<br />
advice from the secretary. Such advice and infor- 2. Not to employ any agents or agencies without careful<br />
mation is already at the disposal of any member<br />
dienasol of any member enquiry into their financial position and stability.<br />
enquir<br />
who desires it, but the sub-committee considered it<br />
3. Not to enter into any contract for sheet publication<br />
which contains any conditions whatsoever with regard to<br />
desirable to have a schedule authoritatively fixed. their rights of mechanical reproduction.<br />
The Society of British Composers, in hearty<br />
accord with the action of the sub-committee,<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
allowed their names to be joined in the manifesto.<br />
A further question arose as to the probable rules<br />
and regulations of the Board of Trade for the<br />
The first meeting of the Composers' Sub-Com- collection of fees for the reproduction by mechanical<br />
mittee of the Society of Authors was held on instruments, and it was decided to obtain all the<br />
Saturday, February 24. As The Author had information available on this point, for the sub-<br />
already gone to Press before the meeting was held committee agreed that it must depend upon the<br />
it was too late to chronicle it in the March issue. form of these rules and how far they might secure<br />
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was unanimously the composer's rights what advice should be given<br />
elected chairman of the sub-committee, and after to composers about appointing agents to collect<br />
his election the committee proceeded to consider their fees.<br />
certain circulars which had been issued by The sub-committee considered an invitation from<br />
music publishing firms referring to the formation the publishers to attend a meeting at Bechstein Hall<br />
of the British Society of Authors, Composers, and called for the Tuesday following. They decided,<br />
Music Publishers. After a careful study of the however, in view of the line the publishers had<br />
objects and rules of the proposed society (to which chosen to adopt in dealing with the composers'<br />
reference was made in the last issue of The Author), property, that it would be inadvisable to attend.<br />
the committee decided, subject to the approval of Mr. Arthur Somervell was elected a member of<br />
the Committee of Management, to issue a manifesto the sub-committee under the power of co-option<br />
on the situation, and after careful consideration of a given by the Committee of Management, and it was<br />
draft which had been prepared by the chairman, the decided to ask Mr. Sidney Jones to join. The<br />
manifesto assumed the following form :-<br />
resignation of one of the members already elected<br />
COMPOSERS AND GRAMOPHONE Rights.<br />
was laid before the sub-committee, and it was<br />
decided to ask the member to reconsider his<br />
Vanifesto from Composers' Sub-Committee.<br />
decision.<br />
The Incorporated Society of Authors and the Society of<br />
British Composers desire to direct the attention of all the<br />
composers in the United Kingdom to their powers and<br />
rights in regard to the mechanical reproduction of their<br />
works, as defined by the Copyright Act of 1911, which<br />
A SECOND meeting was held at the offices of the<br />
declares that the composer has the sole right to authorise<br />
or prohibit the making of any mechanical reproduction of Society of Authors on March 9. After the<br />
his compositions. No matter what assignment of mechanical reading of the minutes of the previous meeting<br />
rights the composer may have made before the passing of the question of gramophone fees was discussed.<br />
the Act, the Act annuls such an assignment, and confers<br />
The position of the society, which originally called<br />
T<br />
solely upon the composer all royalties derived from such<br />
mechanical rights. In order to make the latter part of this itself the British Society of Authors, Composers<br />
statement quite clear, section 19, sub-section 7 (c) of the and Music Publishers, and the action that had been<br />
Act should be quoted in full : “ Notwithstanding any taken in regard to this society were reported.<br />
assignment made before the passing of this Act of the<br />
The secretary also reported that he had been in<br />
copyright in a musical work, any rights conferred by this<br />
Act, in respect of the making, or authorising the making,<br />
communication with the secretary of the Mechanical<br />
of contrivances by means of which the work may be Copyright Licenses Company, which was working<br />
mechanically performed, shall belong to the author or his with the German and French societies, and he read<br />
legal personal representatives and not to the assignee, and<br />
a letter from the secretary of the company pointing<br />
the royalties aforesaid shall be payable to, and for the<br />
benefit of, the author of the work or his legal personal<br />
out the advantages of the company and its methods<br />
representatives."<br />
of business. After a lengthy discussion the sub-<br />
From this it is obvious that the music publisher has no committee came to the conclusion that they were<br />
locus standi whatever in the matter, and he has no more bound to defer action until they were acquainted<br />
right to decide upon a division of the composer's royalties<br />
than upon a division of any other of his private property.<br />
with the rules to be issued under the Act of 1911<br />
It is certain that agencies for the collection of composers' by the Board of Trade dealing with the collection<br />
royalties, for a reasonable consideration, will come into of gramophone fees, and that they could not advise<br />
existence. It is, therefore, strongly impressed upon all composers until these rules were before them. The<br />
composers :<br />
1. Not to part with the property which is exclusively question was accordingly adjourned.<br />
.theirs by Act of Parliament.<br />
The next matter before the sub-committee was<br />
II.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 178 (#622) ############################################<br />
<br />
178<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
the question of performing rights. Since the accounts were rendered and forwarded to the<br />
passing of the new ('opyright Act this point has author. The second case had to be placed in the<br />
been one of increasing importance, owing to the hands of the society's solicitors, and the third has<br />
widened term of copyright and other matters dealing only just come into the office.<br />
with this special right under the new Act. Again, I'here have been as many as nine claims for<br />
there was a very lengthy discussion, and the secre- money in the hands of the secretary, and it is<br />
tary and others reported how these rights were dealt satisfactory to report that in three of the cases the<br />
with in other countries and in England. It was money has been paid and forwarded to the author<br />
decided, if possible, to discuss the matter with concerned. In two of the remaining cases it was<br />
members of the Music Publishers' Association at impossible to obtain satisfaction, as the company<br />
a subsequent meeting which the secretary was against which the claims were made is bankrupt.<br />
instructed to call. The sub-committee decided to As is usual in cases of bankruptcy, there is no<br />
ask a special chairman to preside at the meeting, money for the unfortunate author, whether he is a<br />
rather than that there should be any feeling of bias contributor to a paper or a claimant for royalties..<br />
such as might arise were a musical composer in the assets being all swept away by the claim of the<br />
the chair.<br />
debenture holders. Of the four remaining cases,<br />
Several names were mentioned, and the secretary one had to be placed in the solicitors' hands and<br />
was instructed to arrange the details.<br />
bas since been settled ; one has only recently come<br />
A letter from a music publisher, together with into the office ; one is in the course of negotiation,<br />
his contract with a member of the society, was laid and it is hoped will be brought to a satisfactory<br />
before the committee for their consideration, and conclusion, and the last one, as the claim is in a<br />
the secretary was instructed to make a note in foreign country, will necessarily be prolonged.<br />
The Author on the matter.<br />
There were three claims for the return of MSS..<br />
These have all been settled. It has been frequently<br />
pointed out that it is sometimes difficult to sub-<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
stantiate a legal claim in cases where MSS, bave<br />
been forwarded to publishers, editors, and others,<br />
THE Pension Fund Committee of the society met<br />
but, as a general rule, they are very anxious to<br />
on Thursday, February 15, and after the minutes<br />
make what efforts they can to search for and return<br />
of the previous meeting had been signed, they<br />
the MSS.<br />
received from the secretary the report of the<br />
The last claim deals with the settlement of a<br />
trustees setting out the position of the fund.<br />
contract on behalf of one of the members who<br />
The secretary reported that £300 had been invested<br />
lives in a distant colony ; negotiations are being<br />
by the trustees (the investments appear in another<br />
carried through satisfactorily.<br />
column) and that a sum of £40 was at the disposal<br />
Of the cases left over from former monthis there.<br />
of the committee for pensions.<br />
are only two still outstanding in the hands of the<br />
After consideration, the committee decided to<br />
secretary. The others have either been placed with<br />
increase Miss Crommelin's pension by £20 per<br />
the solicitors or have been settled. Of the two in the<br />
annum, and Dr. J. Beattie Crozier's by £20 per<br />
hands of the secretary one refers to the settlement<br />
annum.<br />
of accounts, and the other refers to a case of<br />
infringement of copyright in one of the colonies.<br />
Cases.<br />
The latter has been a long time open, as letters<br />
necessarily take a long time going backwards and<br />
DURING the past month there have been fifteen forwards, but so far it must be stated with recret.<br />
cases placed in the hands of the secretary.<br />
in the hands of the secretary:. The<br />
The<br />
that no answer has been obtained.<br />
the<br />
number from month to month varies but little in<br />
spite of the large increase in membership. On the<br />
whole, perhaps, it is a good sign. It tends to show<br />
that either the authors, dramatists and composers,<br />
March Elections.<br />
or the publishers, editors and dramatic producers,<br />
are more careful in their contracts. It does not Anderson, Arthur . . +Belsize Lane,<br />
necessarily show that the contracts made are better<br />
Hampstead, N.W.<br />
contracts, though there is considerable evidence Arnold, Hugh . . . 63, Bedford Gardens,<br />
that this is the case in spite of the attention the<br />
committee have drawn from time to time to the Bainbrigge, Miss Marion S.<br />
strange contracts which some publishers issue. Beardsley, Elystan M.<br />
Three of the cases referred to the rendering of Bellairs, Ralph Hamon Balliol College, Ox-<br />
accounts. One was satisfactorily settled, the<br />
ford.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 179 (#623) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
179<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
las<br />
Birkhead, Alice . . 20, Kingdom Road,<br />
W. Hampstead,<br />
N.W.<br />
Chater, Arthur G. . . 41, Porchester Square,<br />
W.<br />
Common, Thomas . . 8, Whitehouse Ter-<br />
race, Corstorphine,<br />
Midlothian.<br />
Curwen, Maud . . . Workington, Camber-<br />
land.<br />
Denham, Arnold . . Perth Public Library,<br />
Perth, West<br />
Australia.<br />
German, Edward . . 5, Hall Road, N.W.<br />
Gregson, Mrs. Ada . . 5, Lawton Street,<br />
Newcastle-on-Tyne.<br />
Holland, Bryan T. . . Alfrick, Worcester.<br />
Ivimey, John . . . 1, Arundel Mansions,<br />
Fulham.<br />
Kingsland, Mrs. “Mabel The Haven, Devizes,<br />
King."<br />
Wilts.<br />
Lascelles, Mrs. K. “Pellen Ladies Athæneum<br />
Hawker."<br />
Club.<br />
Macnamara, Francis . . Ennistymon House,<br />
Co. Clare.<br />
McHugh, Martin J. . Caherush House<br />
Miltown - Malbay,<br />
Co. Clare, Ireland:<br />
Marshall, Archibald . . Playden Cottage, Play-<br />
den, Sussex.<br />
Mildred, Sister Mary, O.S.B. The Knoll, Sandling,<br />
Maidstone.<br />
Pickering. Mrs. Frank Springhill. Douglas.<br />
“ A. D. Pickering."<br />
Lanarkshire.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the office<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
NAPOLEON : Our Last Great Man. By ELYSTAN M.<br />
BEARDSLEY. (Revised Re-issue.) 71 x 41 184 pp.<br />
Digby Long. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE COMEDY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. By FRANCIS<br />
GRIBBLE. 9 x 51. 336 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 158. n.<br />
THE REAL CAPTAIN CLEVELAND. By ALLAN FEA.<br />
9 x 51. 256 pp. Martin Secker. 88. 6d. n.<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
THE PUBLIC Schools YEAR BOOK, 1912. Edited by H.<br />
F. W. DEANE and W. A. Evans. 71 5. 709 pp.<br />
The Year Book Press. 38. 6d. n.<br />
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.<br />
AN ENGLISH CHURCH HISTORY FOR CHILDREN, VOL.<br />
III., A.D. 1500---1911. By MARY E. SHIPLEY. 73 x 5.<br />
286 pp. Methuen. 28. 6d. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
CHAUCER REDIVIVUS : A Playlet for the Open Air or Hall.<br />
By W. S. DURRANT. 78 X 44. 32 pp. Allen. 6d. n.<br />
THE SECRET WOMAN. A Play in Five Acts. By EDEN<br />
PHILLPOTTS. 64 X 5. 90 pp. Duckworth. 28.<br />
THE NEXT RELIGION. By ISRAEL ZANGWILL. A Play<br />
in Three Acts. 81 x 51. 104 pp. Heinemann. 28. 6d. n.<br />
SHAKESPEARE'S END AND OTHER IRISH PLAYS. By<br />
CONAL O'RIORDAN (Norreys Connell). 73 x 5. 167 pp.<br />
Swift. 38. 60, n.<br />
THE BROWNIES AND OTHER SHORT PLAYS. By ELLA<br />
ERSKINE. 87 X 51. 36 pp. Truslove & Hanson<br />
2s. 6d. n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
LITTLE BROTHER. By GILBERT CANNAN. 77 x 5.<br />
301 pp. Heinemann. 68.<br />
THE BODY OF HIS DESIRE: A Romance of the Soul. By<br />
MRS. CAMPBELL PRAED, 8 x õ. 344 pp. Cassell. 6s.<br />
THE VICTORIES OF OLIVIA AND OTHER STORIES. By<br />
EVELYN SHARP. 73 x 5 328 pp. Macmillan. 6s.<br />
TWINKLE. By ARTHUR H. HOLMES. 7 * 5. 313 pp.<br />
Duckworth. 68.<br />
THE GUESTS OF HERCULES. By C. N. and A. M.<br />
WILLIAMSON, 78 x 5. 461 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE MATADOR OF THE Five TOWAS, AND OTHER STORIES.<br />
By ARNOLD BENNETT. 73 x 51. 325 pp. Methuen.<br />
68.<br />
THE RED MAN'S SECRET. By F. FRANKFORT Moore,<br />
78 X 5. 336 pp. Hutchinson. 6s.<br />
THE RIVER OF UNREST. By BERTRAM MITFORD. 7 x<br />
5. 304 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
GRIM JUSTICE: Toe Study of a Conscience. By Rita.<br />
78 x 5. 430 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 68.<br />
THE UNHOLY ESTATE. By DJUGLAS SLADEN. 78 X 43.<br />
435 pp. Stanley Paul. 6s.<br />
THE TRAGIC PRINCE. By R. K. WEEKES and A. R.<br />
WEEKES. 73 x 5. 350 pp. Melrose. 68.<br />
MEMORY CORNER. By TOM GALLON. 78 x 5. 352 pp.<br />
John Long. 6s.<br />
Millwall E.<br />
Richings, Emily Agnes. 42, Campden House<br />
Court, Kensington,<br />
W.<br />
Savill, Agnes F., M.D. . 66, Harley Street, W.<br />
Shortt, Miss L. M. . Manor House,<br />
Martinstown,<br />
Dorchester.<br />
Somervell, Arthur . . 1, Albert, Place,<br />
Kensington, W.<br />
Steegmann, Mary Gertrude 2, Carlisle Mansions,<br />
Westminster S.W.<br />
Troly-Curten, Marthe . 13, Eden Place,<br />
S. Kensington,<br />
S.W.<br />
Walker, Mary, “Anna Wood norton, May-<br />
Lynn.”<br />
field, Sussex.<br />
Wyman, Bernard . . Winnington Hall,<br />
Northwich.<br />
Wynn Williams, W. Lloyd<br />
* John Trevanwyn."<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 180 (#624) ############################################<br />
<br />
180<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
FOR THE QUEEN. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. 78 x 5.<br />
320 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
THE RUBY HEART OF KISHGAR. By ARTHUR W.<br />
MARCHMONT. 71 x 5. 296 pp. Hodder & Stoughton.<br />
POMANDER WALK. By LOUIS N. PARKER. 78 X 5.<br />
267 pp. Lane. 68.<br />
LADY MOLLY OF SCOTLAND YARD. By the BARONESS<br />
ORCZY. 74 x 5. 344 pp. Cassell. 18.<br />
A MAN FROM THE NORTH. Reprint. By ARNOLD<br />
BENNETT. 73 x 5. 264 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE CHILD OF THE DAWN. By A. C. BENSON. 87 x 51.<br />
314 pp. Smith, Elder & Co. 78. 6d. n.<br />
COMMONERS' RIGHTS. By CONSTANCE SMEDLEY (MRS.<br />
MAXWELL ARMFIELD). 74 x 5. 416 pp. Chatto &<br />
Windus. 68.<br />
THE HOUSE ON THE MALL. By EDGAR JEPSON. 78 X<br />
4. 314 pp. Hutchinson. 68.<br />
VIOLET FORSTER'S LOVER. By RICHARD MARSH. 73 x<br />
5. 342 pp. Cassell. 68.<br />
A LADDER OF SWORDS. By SIR GILBERT PARKER.<br />
252 pp. 61 x 41. Everett. 7d. n.<br />
A CHORD ONCE STRUCK. By JOHN SOMERS. Murray and<br />
Evenden. 6s.<br />
THE HOUSE OF ROBERSHAYE. By EMMA BROOKE.<br />
74 X 5. 370 pp. Smith, Elder & Co. 68.<br />
THE FOREST ON THE HILL. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS.<br />
74 x 5, 370 pp. Murray. 68.<br />
MANALIVE. By G. K. CHESTERTON 71 X 5. 383 pp.<br />
Nelson. 28. n.<br />
JOSEPH IN JEOPARDY. By FRANK DANBY. 73 x 5.<br />
391 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
PAUL'S PARAGON. By W. E. NORRIS. 78 x 5. 375 pp.<br />
Constable. 68.<br />
THE QUEST OF GLORY. By MARJORIE BOWEN. 78 x 5<br />
311 pp. Methuen. 68.<br />
THE MALABAR MAGICIAN. By F. E. PENNY. 73 X 41.<br />
344 pp. Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
THE MAN WHO STROKED Cats, and Other Stories. By<br />
MORLEY ROBERTS. 75 X 5. 286 pp. Nash. 68.<br />
THE TRIANGLE. By MARIE CONNOR LEIGHTON. 71 x 5.<br />
315 pp. Ward, Lock. 6x.<br />
LOVE IN A SNARE. By CHARLES GARVICE. 73 x 5.<br />
363 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
THE PATH OF VIRTUE. A Romance of the Musical<br />
Comedy Stage. By GERTRUDE WARDEN. 78 X õ.<br />
311 pp. White. 68.<br />
THE OLD WIVES' TALE. By ARNOLD BENNETT. A New<br />
Edition, with a Preface. 73 X 5. 612 pp. Hodder &<br />
Stoughton. 68.<br />
ELEANOR. By MRS. HUMPHRY WARD. 64 x 47. 475 pp.<br />
Cheap Edition. Nelson, 7d. 11.<br />
AUSTIN'S CAREER. BY VIOLET TWEEDALE. 78 x 5.<br />
352 pp. John Long. 6x.<br />
BRAZENHEAD THE GREAT. By MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
:7} x 5. 333 pp. Smith Elder. 38. 6d.<br />
MARK TILLOTSON. By J. BAKER. Popular Edition.<br />
73 X 5. 536 pp. Chapman & Hall. 28. n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN. A Guide to Social Aspi-<br />
rants. By HARRY GRAHAM. 78 X 5. 300 pp. Arnold. 6s.<br />
THE BOOK OF SIMPLE DELIGHTS. By WALTER RAY.<br />
MOND. Illustrated by H. COLE. 74 x 5. 288 pp.<br />
Dent. 38. 6d. n.<br />
ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE : THE ACADEMIC<br />
COMMITTEE : COMMEMORATIVE ADDRESS ON SIR<br />
ALFRED COMYN LYALL. By G. W. PROTHERO. And<br />
on EDWARD HENRY PEMBER. By W. J. COURTHORPE.<br />
8} x 51. 54 pp. Frowde. 18. n.<br />
MEDICAL<br />
NEW LIGHT ON CONSUMPTION. By A. LOVELL. 74 x 4.<br />
140 pp. J. W. Williams.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
ABSOLUTE Rot. By HENRY J. SWALLOW. 122 pp.<br />
Jarrold. 18. 63, n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. By T. A. COWARD. 61 x<br />
41. 137 pp. Cambridge University Press. 18. n.<br />
BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA. By G. M. MATHEWS. Witherby<br />
& Co., 326, High Holborn, W.C.<br />
ORIENTAL.<br />
A MANUAL OF THE KASHMIRI LANGUAGE, comprising<br />
Grammar, Phrase-Book, and Vocabularies. By G. A.<br />
GRIERSON, C.I.E. Two Volumes. 63 X 41. 160 +<br />
211 pp. Oxford: Clarendon Press, London : Frowde.<br />
128. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
The Hill OF VISION. By J. STEPHENS. 7 5. 131 pp.<br />
Dublin : Maunsel. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE LAMP OF ENGLAND, AND OTHER VERSES, By<br />
R. R. G. 81 x 54 125 pp. Foyle's Printing Works,<br />
172, Askew Road, W. 38. 6d.<br />
A CALABASH OF Kola Nuts. West African Rhymes.<br />
By O. DAZI AKO (J. M. STUART-Young). 7 X 41.<br />
126 pp. Lynwood. 28. 6d. n.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
ASPECTS OF HOME RULE. Selected from the speeches<br />
of The Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour, M.P.<br />
74 x 5. 256 pp. Routledge. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THINGS THAT MATTER. Papers upon subjects which<br />
are, or ought to be, under discussion. By L. G. CHIOZZA<br />
MONEY, M.P. 9 x 54. 299 pp. Methuen. 58. n.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
THE EARLY COURT OF QUEEN VICTORIA. By CLARE<br />
JERROLD. 9 X 54. 392 pp. Eveleigh Nash. 158. n.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
THE WHITE WALLET. Filled by PAMELA GLENCOXXER.<br />
8 X 54. 415 pp. Fisher Unwin. 58. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS PROSE. By CHARLES and MARY LAMB.<br />
Edited by E. V. Lucas. 68 x 41. 570 pp. Methuen. 58.<br />
IN PRAISE OF OXFORD. An Anthology in Prose and<br />
Verse. By T. SECCOMBE and H. SPENCER SCOTT.<br />
Vol. II. Life and Manners. 9 X 5. pp. 333-794.<br />
Constable. 68.<br />
POEMS. By WILLIAM SHARP. Selected and arranged by<br />
MRS. WILLIAM SHARP. 73 x 51. 323 pp. Heinemann.<br />
5x, n.<br />
SCIENCE<br />
EARTHWORMS AND THEIR ALLIES. By F, E, BEDDARD.<br />
64 x 44. 150 pp. Cambridge University Press. ls. 1.<br />
BOTANY, OR THE MODERN STUDY OF PLANTS. By<br />
MARIE STOPES, Ph.D. 61 x 41. 94 pp. Jack. 6d. n.<br />
EVOLUTION IN THE PAST. By H. R. KNIPE, 104 x 71.<br />
242 pp. Herbert & Daniel. 128. 6d. n.<br />
JUVENILE.<br />
A CHILD OF SURPRISES. By MABEL ESCOMBE, S.P.C.K.<br />
18. n.<br />
LAW.<br />
THE COPYRIGHT Act, 1911. Annotated. With Appendix<br />
containing the Revised Convention of Berne. By E. J.<br />
MACGILLIVRAY, LL.B. 9 x 54. 201 pp. Stevens &<br />
Sons. 58. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 181 (#625) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
181<br />
SOCIOLOGY.<br />
CHANGE IN THE VILLAGE. By GEORGE BOURNE. 74 x 5.<br />
309 pp. Duckworth. 58. D.<br />
THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY UPON SOCIAL AND<br />
POLITICAL IDEAS. By A. J. CARLYLE, D.LITT. 71. X 5.<br />
129 pp. Mowbray. 28. n.<br />
IN THE HAND OF THE POTTER : A Study of Christianity<br />
in Action. By HAROLD BEGBIE. (Popular Edition.)<br />
71 x 41. 191 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 18. n.<br />
SPORT.<br />
THE MYSTERY OF GOLF. By ARNOLD HAULTAIN.<br />
Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 78 x 54<br />
249 pp. New York : The Macmillan Co. 2s. 60, n.<br />
THE HUNTING YEAR. By W. S. Dixon. 7 * 57. 212 pp.<br />
Ham-Smith. 68. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE PROBLEM OF RACE REGENERATION. By H.<br />
HAVELOCK ELLIS. 67 pp. New York: Moffat, Yard.<br />
50 cents n.<br />
THE METHODS OF RACE REGENERATION. By C. W.<br />
SALEEBY, 64 pp. New York : Moffat, Yard. 50 cents n.<br />
MUSIC.<br />
MUSIC AND NATIONALISM. By CECIL FORSYTH. 359 pp.<br />
New York : Macmillan. $2 n.<br />
POEMS.<br />
EMBLEMS OF LOVE DESIGNED IN SEVERAL DISCOURSES,<br />
By LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE. 213 pp. New York :<br />
John Lane Co. $1.50 n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE. With four maps. By the Hon.<br />
MAURICE BARING. 366 pp. New York: Doran. $3.50 n.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
The VISITATION OF THE SICK : Some Practical Reflections<br />
for the Use of the Clergy and others engaged in Parochial<br />
Visitation. By the Rev. THEODORE JOHNSON (Introduc-<br />
tion by the BISHOP OF CHICHESTER). 63 X 44. 134 pp.<br />
Allen. 18. 60, n.<br />
SHORT LENTEN READINGS. By E. G. ROMANES. 54 X<br />
39. 44 pp. Churchman's Penny Library, Mowbray.<br />
CHRISTIANITY AND THE SOCIAL ORDER. By R. J. CAMP-<br />
BELL. New and Cheaper Edition. 78 X 5. 283 pp.<br />
Chapman & Hall. 28. n.<br />
THOUGHTS ON ULTIMATE PROBLEMS. By F. W. FRANK-<br />
LAND. Fifth and Revised Edition. 7 X 41. 133 pp.<br />
Nutt. 18. 6d. n.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
THE BRITISH WEST INDIES : Their History, Resources,<br />
and Progress. By A. E. ASPINALL. 84 x 59. 435 pp.<br />
Sir Isaac Pitman. 18. 6d. n.<br />
OLD TOURAINE. The Life and History of the Chateaux of<br />
the Loire. By T. A. Cook, F.S.A. Sixth Edition.<br />
(With new Preface.) Two vols. 78 X 5. 287 + 279 pp.<br />
Rivington. 168. n.<br />
FINLAND : The Land of a Thousand Lakes. By. E. YOUNG.<br />
9 x 51. 313 pp. Chapman & Hall. 78. 6d. n.<br />
A WINTER HOLIDAY IN PORTUGAL. Ey CAPTAIN B.<br />
GRANVILLE BAKER. 9 X 51. 324 pp. Stanley Paul.<br />
128. 6d. n.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
M R. WILLIAM HEINEMANN announces,<br />
uniform with “ The War God," by Mr.<br />
Israel Zangwill, produced at His Majesty's<br />
Theatre, the same author's prohibited play, “The<br />
Next Religion”; also the first volume of “ The<br />
Selected Writings of William Sharp,” edited by his<br />
wife Mrs Sham a series to be completed in fiya<br />
volumes, uniform with “The Works of Fiona<br />
Macleod," the pseudonyni under which the late<br />
William Sharp was so well known.<br />
Mr. John Galsworthy has published with the same<br />
house his first book of poetry, entitled “Wild Oats :<br />
Moods, Songs, and Doggerels." Uniform with this<br />
volume will be “ The Lure of the Sea,” by J. E.<br />
Patterson, the novelist, and author of the auto-<br />
biography “My Vagabondage," published in the<br />
autumn of last year.<br />
Mr. Hamilton Hartz has set to music the verses<br />
by Riccardo Stephens, “Sleep and Death," which<br />
lately appeared in the Westminster Gazette.<br />
Mr. Eveleigh Nash will publish Riccardo<br />
Stephen's forthcoming novel “ The Mummy," and<br />
his one-act tragedy, “The Right to Kill,” is to<br />
be played by the Oncomers at the Little Theatre, in<br />
June.<br />
“ The British West Indies : their History,<br />
Resources, and Progress," by Algernon E. Aspinall,<br />
was published last month by Messrs. Sir Isaac<br />
Pitman & Sons, Ltd. The author gives a connected<br />
narrative dealing with the history, resources, and<br />
the recent rapid progress of the West Indian<br />
colonies, of interest to the general reader as well as<br />
to the intending tourist, settler, and capitalist.<br />
Chapters are also devoted to such live questions as<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
AN IMPERIAL VICTIM : MARIE LOUISE, ARCHDUCHESS<br />
OF AUSTRIA, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH, DUCHESS OF<br />
KARMA. With 34 illustrations, including two photo-<br />
gravure frontispieces. In two volumes. By MRS. EDITH<br />
E. CUTHELL. 393 pp. New York : Brentanos. $6 n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
PARADISE FARM. By KATHARINE TYNAX. 272 pp. New<br />
York : Duffield. $1.20 n.<br />
THE TOLL BAR. By MRS. J. E. BUCKROSE. 363 pp.<br />
New York : Putnam. $1.35 n.<br />
THE LIGHT THAT LURES. By PERCY J. BREBNER.<br />
319 pp. New York : H. K. Fly Co. $1.50.<br />
THE GREAT GAY ROAD. By Tom GALLON.<br />
POLLYHOOLY. By EDGAR JEPSON. 344 pp. Indianapolis :<br />
Bobbs-Merrill. $1.25 1.<br />
THE HOUSE OF ROBERSHAYE. By EMMA BROOKE. New<br />
York : Duffield.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 182 (#626) ############################################<br />
<br />
182<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
als<br />
those of trade with Canada and Federation. A the romanticist, he must not "chuckle in anticipa-<br />
map and twenty-fire full-page plate illustrations tion of results," and the issue must seem to be as<br />
are added.<br />
murh a surprise to him when it arrives as it was to<br />
Among the spring books to come from Messrs. the reader.<br />
Smith Elder & Co. is “ Arabic Spam : Sidelights on Messrs. John Ouseley, Limited, have issued a<br />
her History and Art," by Mrs. Bernhard Whishaw, second edition of “The Bothers of Married Life,"<br />
This book is the fruit of some nine years' residence by S. H. Sadler.<br />
and study in Spain. Mrs. Whishaw is now at w.rk We have received the English Catalogue of Books<br />
on the forthcoming edition of the “Guide to Spain” for 1911. This publication is now in its 75th year<br />
for Herr Baedeker, to appear in 1913.<br />
of issue. It gives, under author and title, the size,<br />
The scene of Tom Gallon's new novel, entitled price, month of publication, and publisher of books<br />
“Memory Corner,” is to be found in Old Hamp- issued in the United Kingdom during 1911. In<br />
stead. Into a little house in Memory Corner the absence of a complete list of titles of published<br />
comes a boy with a marvellous tenor voice, exploited works, it remains the best reference book for the<br />
by an unscrupulous foreigner. The rise of the young guidance of authors who, in selecting titles for their<br />
singer, his triumphs, and the quaint tragedy of his publications, are anxious to avoid using a title<br />
love story form the theme of the book.<br />
already taken. By consulting the English<br />
A new novel by Violet Tweedale, entitled Catalogue, they may often avoid unintentional<br />
“ Austin's Career,” is published by Mr. John Llong. appropriation, and the rather disagreeable conse-<br />
It deals with the life of a young Guardsman, who quences which sometimes result. Messrs. Sampson<br />
early in his career gets into an entaliglement with a Low & Co., are the publishers.<br />
young peeress, and the story describes the Bohemian “What Lay Bepeath,” by “Coo-ee,” is an<br />
lite led by the pair in Paris.<br />
Australian mining story, in which the bush life is<br />
Messrs Kegan Paul & Co. announce the public presented to the reader, as well as pictures of the<br />
cation of a little anthology entitled "The Friendly Commonwealth and its people. Messrs. John<br />
Dog,” by J. Parsons, who contributes also a short Ouseley are the publishers.<br />
original introduction. The poems included are The annual meeting of the R..ya! Literary Fund<br />
arranged chronologically, complete poems only being was held last month, Sir Alfred Bateman presiding.<br />
included. Poems from Alfred Cochrane, Rudyard In moving the adoption of the report, Sir Alfred<br />
Kipling, Sir A. T. Quiller-Cou h, George R. Sims, stated that so far from decreasing, the claims ou<br />
William Watson, among others, are included. the fund were rather on the increase. The receipts<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. have added to their of authors, even from novels, were very poor. He<br />
“Clear Type ” sixpenny series “The Apple of instanced the case of the author whose agreement<br />
Eden,” by E, Temple Thurston. The same pub- appeared in the last issue, and added that, from a<br />
lisliers announce the publication of a second edi ion financial point of view, literature was a very miser-<br />
of Miss Arabella Kenealy's new novel - The Woman able profession, until the suprrior rauks were<br />
Hunter."<br />
reached. During the year £2,125 had been voted<br />
Mr. Arthur Dillon’s forthcoming volume deals in grants to 38 applicants, while the total<br />
with early incidents in the mythical story of the sum distributed in grants since the foundation<br />
House of Tantalus. The pri sint revival of inte of the fund in 1790 amounted to £162,882.<br />
rest in the Greek drama should make the subject The chairman mentioned that Mr. Owen<br />
appeal to the public, since a knowledge of their Seaman would preside at the Annual Dinner on<br />
earlier history is assumed in so many of the May 16.<br />
tragedies of classical times.<br />
Captain Granville Baker's new book of travel,<br />
The New York Metropolitan Magazine will “A Winter Holiday in Portugal," is published<br />
shortly publish a series of articles on “ Antique by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. In this volume<br />
Furniture," from the pen of Mr. Armiger Barclay. is described with pen, pencil and brush the scenic<br />
Se ections of Mr. and Mrs. Armiger Barclay's book, charm of Portugal, its claims as a winter resort,<br />
“Letiers from Fleet Street,” will shorıly appear in and its manifold attractions.<br />
Comædisa, the leading literary and theatrical daily Mr. Eveleigh Nash will shortly publish “ The<br />
of Paris.<br />
Radium Terrors," a novel by Albert Dorringt n.<br />
Professor A. C. Benson lertured before the Royal The American rights have been purchased by<br />
Society of Literature last month on “Realism in Doubleday Page, of Garden City, New York.<br />
English Fiction.” In the course of bis lecture, “The Radium Terrors ” appeared serially in the<br />
Professor Benson remarked that Realism was not Pall Mall Magazine, and with Frank A. Munsey,<br />
so much a new ideal, but a new method of viewing New York.<br />
and expressing life. The realist must allow things Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. published in March a<br />
to appear before their significance appeared ; unlike new novel, “Stoneladies," by E. M. Channon (Mrs.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 183 (#627) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
183<br />
Francis Channon). It tells of two young girls who Volpé, Mr. Leonard Calvert, Mr. 0. B. Clarences<br />
go to live in a lonely part of Derbyshire with a and Miss Christine Silver.<br />
cousin who, owing to a disappointment in early Although the dramatic movement of the past<br />
youth, leads the life of a miser, and will allow no twenty years has produced, both in England and<br />
man to cross her doorstep.<br />
America, many valuable books of criticism, there<br />
Mr. Arthur Lovell has published, through Messrs. does not as yet exist in the Eoglish language any<br />
Simpkin, Marshall & Co., a book entitled “ New recognised handbook of practical craftsmanship.<br />
Light on Consumption.” The book contains a “Play-making,” by William Archer, is an attempt<br />
historical résumé, and deals with the problem of to fill this gap. While fully admitting that no rules<br />
consumption, the attempts at reform, and State or prescriptions cau supply the place of talent, the<br />
sanatoria.<br />
author believes that inexperienced talent can be<br />
“ Absolute Rot" is the title of a collection of greatly assisted by a study of the principles of<br />
articles by the Rer. H. J. Swallow, reprinted from dramatic effect, or, in other words, of what to do<br />
a Church magazine. The articles deal with“ Peace," and what to avoid in the endeavour to interest and<br />
“ Temperance," “ Disestablishment,” “ Science,” move an audience assembled in a theatre. This is<br />
“ Poetry,” among other subjects. Messi's. Jarrolds not, then, a book of criticism, but of discussion<br />
are the publishers.<br />
and practical suggestion. The plays mentioned in<br />
An article by Renée M. Deacon, entitled “Woman it are not criticised for their own sake, but for the<br />
and Love," appeared in the Lady's Pictorial for sake of the light they throw upon questions of<br />
March 16.<br />
method and expediency. The author has no belief<br />
Robert H. Sherard has just finished a new book in the “untheatrical theatre," and assumes<br />
of reminiscences, which will be published in the throughout that the playright addresses himself to<br />
spring under the title “ Adventures of a Journalist.” an audience of reasonable intelligence, indeed, but by<br />
He is at present engaged on a novel which he is no means to a narrow clique. It is hoped that all<br />
writing on commission.<br />
students of the drama, and more especially those<br />
“Birds of Australia," by G. M. Mathews, is a who desire to take part in the marked revival of<br />
work which Messrs. Witherby & Co. are issuing in dramatic literature on both sides of the Atlantic,<br />
quarterly parts. Volume I. has already appeared, will find profit in a handbook, the lack of which<br />
forming parts from October, 1910, to October, 1911, has hitherto been felt and regretted. Messrs.<br />
or five numbers in all.<br />
Chapman and Hall are the publishers.<br />
“The Perfect Widow," a three-act comedy by<br />
DRAMA.<br />
Gilbert Cannan, was produced at the Gaiety<br />
Theatre, Manchester, on March 18. The Widow<br />
The first production of “The Next Religion," (Lady Marrable) has been persuaded by a publisher<br />
by Israel Zangwill, will be given by the New Players to prepare the biography of her late husband, a<br />
at two private performances (matinées) on Thursday man of some public importance and many private<br />
and Friday, April 18 and 19, at the Pavilion Theatre, failings. So engrossed does she become in the<br />
Piccadilly Circus. Particulars can be obtained work that she persuades herself that her husband<br />
from the Hon. Secretary, 19, Overstrand Mansions, possessed all the virtues which she ascribes to him<br />
Battersea Park, S.W.<br />
in the record of his career. John Tilford, who<br />
The condensed version of “The Geisha” was contemplates marriage with the widow, disapproves<br />
produced at the Palace Theatre on February 26. of the idea of the biography, recognising that it<br />
Mr. W. H. Risque is the author of this version. leaves the widow with neither time nor eyes for<br />
The composer, Mr. Sidney Jones, conducted the himself. Unable, however, to dissuade her from<br />
orchestra on the occasion.<br />
the undertaking, he goes abroad. During his<br />
A compressed version of “The Adventure of absence he has made the acquaintance of a “grass<br />
Lady Ursula ” was also played in February. The widow," whose presence in London on his return<br />
performance of Mr. Anthony Hope's comedy took kindles the widow's jealousy, with results entirely<br />
place at the Hippodrome, Manchester. Two scenes satisfactory to Tilford. The cast included Mr.<br />
were taken, and the cast included Miss Evelyn Charles Sugden, Viss Darraglı, and Mrs. Charles<br />
Millard and Mr. Herbert Waring.<br />
Sugden.<br />
The dramatic version of “Kipps " was produced The next production at Wyndham's Theatre, due<br />
at the Vaudeville Theatre on March 6. The play early this month, is “ The Kangaroo," by H. A.<br />
opens in the emporium familiar to the readers of Vachell.<br />
the book, and traces, as did the book, the progress “Milestones,” by Arnold Bennett and Edward<br />
of Kipps following his sudden acquisition of wealth. Knoblaugh, now running at the Royalty Theatre,<br />
Mr. Wells and Mr. Rudolf Besier are responsible has been issued in book form by Messrs. Methuen<br />
for the play, which includes in its cast Mr. Frederick & Co.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 184 (#628) ############################################<br />
<br />
184<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
is to be congratulated, not only on the fact that he<br />
has been awarded the Goncourt Academy prize, but<br />
because he has begun his career with a wider<br />
D EMMES aimées, Femmes aimantes,” by vision than so many of our present-jay novelists.<br />
| Charles Foley, is the title of a volume con- “L'Inquiète Paternité," by Jean Schlumberger,<br />
taining a series of historical studies of is another novel on the favourite theme of the<br />
twenty-two famous women. Each study gives us ménage à trois, so dear to many writers, but in<br />
a picture of the epoch, of the surroundings in this book the chief interest centres in the question<br />
which the woman whose history we are reading of paternal instinct. The father believes that he<br />
moved. M. Foley has chosen for his subjects: sees in his son all his own faults. A little later, he<br />
Queen Bathilde (of the seventh century); Valentine makes the discovery that a friend of his is the father<br />
of Milan; Marie Stuart ; Diana of Châteaumorand; of this son. The curious phase of the case is that,<br />
Marion de l'Orme ; Christine of Sweden ; La Grande in the years to come, this man feels deep paternal<br />
Mademoiselle ; Rose Launay; Marie Joséphe of affection for his wife's son, an affection which he<br />
Saxony ; Madame de Pompadour ; Princess Amelia ; would probably never have felt for a child of his<br />
Germaine Necker; Princesse de Lamballe ; Mes- own. The young man has inherited the lovable<br />
dames, Louis XV.'s daughters ; Comtesse de Balbi ; qualities of his own father. The problem which the<br />
Mademoiselle Lange; Pauline Bonaparte ; Madame author evidently lays before us is whether the tie of<br />
Adélaïde ; Marceline Desbordes, and Mérimée's kinship must necessarily ensure affection ?<br />
celebrated Inconnue.<br />
“Le Buisson ardent,” by Romain Rolland, is<br />
Charles Foley has published thirty-three volumes certainly the most powerful of the series of volumes<br />
(novels and short stories) and six plays. His intensely by this author relating the history of Jean<br />
dramatic little tragedy, “ Heard at the Telephone,” Christophe. Weary of life among his fellow<br />
has been translated into various languages and given creatures, exasperated by their hostility, and having<br />
in many countries. M. Foley is also one of the lost faith in many things, he goes away to a quiet<br />
greatest authorities on all matters relating to the mountain village, and there, like Moses before the<br />
history of the Vendée, at the time of the French burning bush, the bush which burns without<br />
Revolution, as he has made a special study of this being consumed, he comes to himself once more.<br />
period and of this part of France. His short “ La Chasse à Courre,” by the Duchess d'Uzès<br />
stories, sometimes inspired by touching or dramatic (née Mortemart), is a little volume that will be read<br />
episodes brought to his notice whilst studying the with interest by all lovers of hunting. It contains a<br />
archives of that epoch, are masterpieces of literature. portrait of the author, in her hunting attire, for it<br />
The present volume, “ Femmes aimées, Femmes will be remembered that she is master of the hounds.<br />
aimantes,"contains sketches, in which the author has She also gives a portrait of Du Fouilloux, the great<br />
endeavoured, with a few strokes of the pen, to give authority on all matters connected with the chase<br />
us a lifelike portrait of women who, for one reason since the sixteenth century, some twenty-four photo-<br />
or another, have been famous in their time.<br />
gravures of hunting scenes taken in the Rambouillet<br />
“M. des Lourdines,” by Alphonse de Chateau- Forest, and the music for sixteen of the fanfares for<br />
briant, is not only a great literary success for the hunting horns best known in France.<br />
author ; it is also a refreshing book for the public. Before the publication of this little volume, the<br />
Weary of the eternal theme of the faithless husband Duchess d'Uzès, who is President of the Lyceum<br />
or wife, it is indeed a pleasure to meet with a Club of France, gave a lecture there on the<br />
novelist capable of realising that there are other chase, which had such success, enlivened as it<br />
interests in life and other situations just as worthy was by the fanfares, blown by her gamekeepers,<br />
of consideration as the intrigues and jealousies of that she was obliged to repeat it several times, as<br />
the hundreds of individuals who marry in haste the rooms were too small for the audience. Since<br />
to repent at leisure.<br />
then the Duchess has given another causerie on Ram-<br />
M.de Chateaubriant also finds it possible for human bouillet and its History. At the invitation of the<br />
affections to be as intense elsewhere as in Paris. That, Lyceum Club of London, she is to give the lecture<br />
too, is refreshing. There is a breath of fresh air on the chase at the London Lyceum Club in May,<br />
through the book, an odour of forest trees, the taking over her own huntsmen to sound the fanfares.<br />
murmur of babbling brooks, and yet, in spite of all “Histoire de Prusse, Vol. I., Des Origines à la<br />
this, it is the human interest that is predominant. mort du Grand Electeur, 1688," par M. Albert<br />
The story is one of the ever-recurring tragedies of Waddington. The author dwells on the various<br />
family life, it is the modern version of the prodigal influences which have contributed to the formation<br />
son, and in this particular case we have the beart- of Prussia. He speaks of the geographical situation<br />
broken mother and the heroic father to give an of the country, of its State religion, and of the policy<br />
added pathos to the episode. M. de Chateaubriant of the Hohenzollerns. We have an account of the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 185 (#629) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
185<br />
Thirty Years' War, and the volume closes with the<br />
death of the Grand Electeur.<br />
* La Séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat,” by<br />
Julien de Narfon, is a book which should be read<br />
by all persons who are interested in the religious<br />
evolution in France. As the question of Church<br />
and State is one of intense interest at present in<br />
England, the perusal of this book cannot fail to<br />
prove instructive. The author is an extremely<br />
broad-minded man, endowed with the courage of<br />
his opinions. With perfect impartiality he evokes<br />
past history, relates the events of recent date,<br />
analyses the immediate consequences, and endeavours<br />
to point out to us the probable consequences in the<br />
future.<br />
“L'Orientation religieuse de la France actuelle”<br />
is the title of a book by M. Paul Sabatier, in which<br />
the author gives us very clearly his view of the<br />
present situation.<br />
" Jacques Tissier, marsouin," by M. Pierre Rey,<br />
is a very simple story, but full of deep feeling. It<br />
is just the history of a brave young colonial soldier,<br />
his hardships and struggles and his simple belief in<br />
his duty to his country.<br />
" Autour de Sainte-Hélène," by M. Frédéric Mas-<br />
son, is the title of the latest volume which this well-<br />
known writer devotes to the last days of Napoleon.<br />
The story of these last days is infinitely sad and<br />
tragic, and the author, very naturally, cannot resist<br />
reproaching England with the treacherous hospi-<br />
tality of the Bellerophon. The whole volume is most<br />
interesting, but, with regard to the harsh judgment<br />
of England's action, we can only say that M. Masson<br />
would find English authors who agree with him in<br />
certain of his criticisms, among others Elizabeth<br />
Barrett Browning, in one of the finest of her poems,<br />
entitled “ Crowned and Buried.”<br />
“La Musique,” by Théophile Gantier, is a study<br />
of the works of Weber, Berlioz, and Wagner. This<br />
volume has been published as a memento of the<br />
writer's centenary and contains hitherto unpub-<br />
lished matter.<br />
“La Politique de l'équilibre-1907–1911,” is<br />
the title of a volume published by M. Gabriel<br />
Hanotaux. It is an account of the various impor-<br />
tant events which have taken place affecting the<br />
international situation during the last four years.<br />
M. Hanotaux shows that France ought not to be<br />
influenced by any foreign Power in its diplomatic<br />
arrangements and policy. M. Hanotaux touches<br />
on the entente cordiale, Turkish affairs, and on the<br />
questions concerning Bosnia and Morocco.<br />
“ La Duchesse d’Aiguillon, une grande dame de<br />
la cour de Louis XIV.," is the subject of an<br />
extremely interesting book by MM. Paul d'Estrée<br />
and A. Callet.<br />
“Le Roman anglais contemporain,” by M. Firmin<br />
Roz, introduces to the French public George<br />
Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Mrs. Humphry Ward,<br />
and other English writers. It is always interesting<br />
to note the impressions of the foreign critic. We are<br />
somewhat surprised to find certain names omitted<br />
which should certainly be included in a volume<br />
dealing with contemporary English novels.<br />
La Revue hebdomadaire publishes in one of its<br />
recent numbers a most charming and witty article<br />
by M. Fernand Laudet, entitled “ Contes Gascons.”'<br />
These stories form a literature entirely apart and<br />
are full of shrewd observation and a keen sense of<br />
humour. M. Laudet gives us several specimens<br />
and finishes with a short sketch which is, in reality,<br />
a skit on many of the questions of the day.<br />
In other numbers of the same review Jules<br />
Lemaitre continues his studies of Chateaubriand,<br />
and Louis Barthou gives an article containing<br />
some extremely interesting letters from Lamartine,<br />
Alphonse Daudet, and other literary celebrities.<br />
George Brandès, the well-known critic, has been<br />
spending some months in Paris, and, at the request<br />
of his friends, he consented to give a lecture on<br />
Hans Andersen. M. Paul Leyssac, of the Vaude-<br />
ville Theatre, recited several of the fairy tales in<br />
the most admirable manner. We are told that<br />
George Brandès and this talented young actor are<br />
to repeat the lecture and recitations in London this<br />
season. If so, we would strongly recommend all<br />
those who have an opportunity to be present.<br />
Lectures are certainly the order of the day in<br />
Paris this season. Nearly everyone appears to be<br />
lecturing on every possible (and impossible) subject.<br />
Among the most interesting and varied of these<br />
lectures, outside the Sorbonne and College of France,<br />
are those organised by the Société des Conférences,<br />
the review entitled Foi et Vie, and also the lectures<br />
organised by Mme. Brisson, the daughter of Sarcey,<br />
for the University of Les Annales.<br />
Quite recently M. E. Boutroux gave one of the<br />
most remarkable lectures on “Pascal et le temps<br />
présent,” which will probably be published in a'r<br />
early number of Foi et Vie.<br />
At the Comédie Française, “Le Ménage de<br />
Molière,” a five-act play by Maurice Donnay, in<br />
verse, is extremely interesting and curious. The<br />
staging is excellent, and the fête in the Versailles<br />
Park gives the public an opportunity of realising<br />
something of the magnificence of Court life in those<br />
days.<br />
At the Odéon, “ Esther,” a four-act play, also in<br />
verse, by MM. Andre Dumas and Sébastien-Charles<br />
Leconte, shows that there is a tendency to search<br />
for dramatic effects in the history of the past.<br />
There is certainly nothing in common between the<br />
Esther we know of Racine and this modern concep-<br />
tion of her.<br />
At the Renaissance the three-act play by MM.<br />
Alfred Capus and Pierre Veber, “En garde,” was<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 186 (#630) ############################################<br />
<br />
186<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
received with applause. The plays of Alfred Capas “The Midsnmmer Night's Dream" was exquisitely<br />
are sure to end happily, so that if things appear to staged, M. Simas, of the Opéra, being responsible<br />
be going wrong for a time, there is never any need for the scenery and its harmonious colouring,<br />
to despair, as we are sure that a reconciliation will M. Vidal for the musical adaptations, and Mme.<br />
take place.<br />
Jane Hugard, also of the Opéra, for the dances of<br />
At the Comédie Royale, “ Jean III. ou the fairies. “As You Like It” was quite as great<br />
l'irrésistible vocation du fils Mondoucet," a three- a success, and these matinées are to be continued<br />
act play by Sacha Guitry, is the delight of the until the end of the month of May. M. Camille de<br />
public. The son of an ironmonger, who, in spite Sainte Croix is a dramatist and a poet who has<br />
of the prejudices of his bourgeois father, insists on thrown himself heart and soul into this revival of<br />
going on the stage, and, later on, initiates his fond the Shakespeare theatre, with the result that it is<br />
parents into the habits and customs of theatrical probable that these plays have never been given<br />
life, is extremely amusing.<br />
with such artistic perfection, such attention to<br />
" Les Visiteurs nocturnes,” by Tristan Bernard, is detail, and such absolute ensemble. It is very pro-<br />
as full of humour as the well-known short stories by bable that when the French season is over the<br />
this writer. The nocturnal visitors in this case are Compagnie Française du Théâtre Shakespeare will<br />
thieves, who take the precaution to drug the lady go on tour.<br />
whose house they are about to rob. In the morn-<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
ing, when the maid finds the victim and is about<br />
to call for the police, all that the victim asks is<br />
“Femmes aimées, femmes aimantes" (Tallandier).<br />
" M. des Lourdines” (Bernard Grasset).<br />
that the nocturnal visitors shall be found at any<br />
“Le Buisson ardent" (Ollendorff).<br />
cost, as, suffering as she does from insomnia, she is “La Chasse à Courre" (La Poétique).<br />
only anxious to find out how she can obtain more<br />
“Histoire de Prusse" (Plon).<br />
of their drug.<br />
“ La Séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat" (Plon).<br />
" Jacques Tissier, marsouin" (Plon).<br />
At the Gymnase, “ L'Assaut," by M. Henry<br />
* Autour de Sainte-Hélène" (Ollendorff).<br />
Bernstein, has had tbe success which this author's ** La Musique" (Fasquelle).<br />
pieces usually win. M. Bernstein has always * La Politique de l'équilibre-1907-1911" (Plon). ·<br />
something to say when he writes. It is the story<br />
of a man whose past has not been blameless, but<br />
who succeeds in making for himself a position in the UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT.<br />
world. Just as he has arrived, a supposed friend<br />
whispers abroad the story of his delinquency in the<br />
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.<br />
past. The confidence of the girl he is to marry is DROCLAMATIONS have been issued by the<br />
his salvation, and the play ends satisfactorily for P President, under the United States Act<br />
the public.<br />
by which copyright protection is granted<br />
At the Athénée, “ Le ('aur dispose," by Francis in the United States to works of authors who are<br />
de Croisset, is a play which seems likely to have a citizens or subjects of the countries named :<br />
long run. It is the story of a poor man who is July 1, 1891-Belgium, France, Great Britain<br />
ambitious, and who sets out in life as an arrivist, and her possessions, and Switzerland. (Stat. L.,<br />
firmly believing himself to be one. He is prepared vol. 27, pp. 981, 982.)<br />
to take advantage of all possible occasions for April 15, 1892-Germany. (Stat. L., vol. 27,<br />
climbing the ladder of fortune, but he reckons pp. 1021, 1022.)<br />
without his host, and his host in this case is his October 31, 1892—Italy. (Stat. L., vol. 27,<br />
own heart. He falls in love with the daughter of p. 1043.)<br />
the house, in which he is the paid secretary. The May 8, 1893— Denmark. (Stat. L., vol. 28,<br />
characters in this play are all well drawn, and each p. 1219.)<br />
one is a distinct psychological study. The author July 20, 1893— Portugal. (Stat. L., vol. 28,<br />
is to be congratulated on having written a play p. 1222.)<br />
in which there is nothing unpleasant and wbich, July 10, 1895—Spain. (Stat. L., vol. 29,<br />
nevertheless, is never dull.<br />
p. 871.)<br />
At the Athénée, M. Camille de Sainte Croix is February 27, 1896–Mexico. (Stat. L., vol. 29,<br />
continuing, every Thursday, his series of Shake- p. 877.)<br />
speare plays, admirably staged. He seems to have May 25, 1896-Chile. (Stat. L., vol. 29,<br />
found the secret of putting life into the plays p. 880.)<br />
of Shakespeare, and perhaps it is that he is October 19, 1899—Costa Rica. (Stat. L., rol.<br />
giving them with an ensemble such as one rarely 31, pp. 1955, 1956.)<br />
sees. The actors are all young and enthusiastic, November 20, 1899-Netherlands and posses-<br />
and there is not a slow moment in any scene. sions. (Stat. L., vol. 3), p. 1961.)<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 187 (#631) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
187<br />
November 17, 1903—Cuba. (Stat. L., vol. 33, it is an assignment by the composer of all his rights<br />
pt. 2, p. 2324.)<br />
in a song, the consideration for such assignment<br />
January 13, 1904—China. (Treaty of October 8, being, as stated, the payment of two guineas, and<br />
1903, Article XI.) (Stat. L., vol. 33, pt. 2, a royalty per copy on every copy of the song sold.<br />
pp. 2208, 2213.)<br />
According to the custom in vogue, the composer<br />
July 1, 1905—Norway. (Stat. L., vol. 34, signs, this document and if he does not take the<br />
pt. 3, pp. 3111-3112.)<br />
trouble to retain a copy, he never gets a copy signed<br />
May 11, 1906–Japan. (Treaty of November 10, by the publisher, which he ought to receive in all<br />
1905.) (Stat. L., vol. 34, pt. 3, pp. 2890-2891.) transactions of this kind. It is some time since the<br />
September 20, 1907-Austria. (But not in- pages of The Author have commented on these extra-<br />
cluding Hungary.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, pt. 2, ordinary documents, but the time has come when<br />
p. 2255.)<br />
attention should be drawn to them once again.<br />
April 9, 1908-Convention between the United The composer should never transfer the copyright<br />
States and or her powers on literary and artistic to the publisher when he, the composer, maintains<br />
copyrights, signed at the City of Mexico, January 27, a continuing interest in the sales. This point has<br />
1902. (This treaty is effective from July 1, 1908, been brought forward over and over again, and in<br />
as between the United States and the following the book-publishing world we are glad to think that<br />
countries : Guatemala, Salvador, Costa Rica, Hon- the publishers are, save in exceptional cases, content<br />
duras, and Nicaragua.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, pt. 2, with a licence to publish in book form. The<br />
pp. 1934-1946.)<br />
music publishers should be content with a licence<br />
Angust 11, 1908–Japan. (Treaty of May 19, to publish in song form.<br />
1908, for prott ction in China.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, So strong do the committee feel about this<br />
pt. 2, pp. 2044-2046.)<br />
assignment of the copyright, or even about an<br />
August 11, 1908-Japan. (Treaty of May 19, unlimited grant of the licence to publish during<br />
1908, for protection in Korea.) (Stat. L., vol. 35, the whole term of copyright, that in the Annual<br />
pt. 2, pp. 2041-2043.)<br />
Report which was laid before the General Meeting<br />
April 9, 1910—Austria, Belgium, Chile, Costa on March 21, they have dealt very fully with the<br />
Rica, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Great matter. We do not desire to repeat these warnings,<br />
Britain and her possessions, Italy, Mexico, the so recently made, but suggest that if any member<br />
Netherlands and possessions, Norway, Portugal, has read the report carelessly, or failed to read it at<br />
Spain, and Switzerland.<br />
all, he should now go and study it with extra<br />
June 29, 1910--Luxemburg.<br />
consideration.<br />
May 26, 1911–Sweden.<br />
But it is not sufficient for the music publisher to<br />
ask for the copyright ; he also asks for the per-<br />
PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION UNDER<br />
forming right, and through his successful, or<br />
SECTION 1 (e).<br />
unsuccessful, methods of business he has, as far as<br />
England is concerned, almost destroyed its ralue to<br />
December 8, 1910–Germany.<br />
the composer, save in the case of comic opera and<br />
June 14, 1911—Belgium, Luxemburg, and<br />
those pieces which are performed in theatres. As<br />
Norway.<br />
it is wrong for the author to transfer his copyright,<br />
so it is wrong for the composer to transfer his<br />
performing right. It is worse at the present time<br />
A MUSIC PUBLISHER'S AGREEMENT.<br />
than it has ever been, owing to the added rights<br />
that the composer will acquire under the Act of<br />
46 TN consideration of the sum of Two Pounds 28. paid to 1911 when it comes into force.<br />
me this day, I hereby agree to assign to<br />
the The agreement, however, goes further and asks<br />
whole of my rights and interest, present, future<br />
that the royalties which accrue to the composer on<br />
and contingent in the words and music of my song entitled<br />
'it being understood that I receive a royalty of Ban<br />
gramophone records and similar mechanical repro-<br />
per copy on all sold of the same in Great Britain,<br />
he same in Great Britain. ductions should be shared between composer and<br />
Ireland, and the Colonies (13 copies to count as 12), publisher.<br />
also five per cent. on the marked price of all copies sold in It is fortunate that the agreement was made<br />
the United States ; 200 copies in both countries to be free before the Act was passed. for under a clause in<br />
for novelty purposes."<br />
* Any royalties obtained on the sale of gramophone the Act, in spite of the document which has been<br />
records, or similar mechanical reproductions, in all signed, the rights to the gramophone royalties are<br />
countries to be equally divided between composer and the composer's property, for se, tion 19, sub-<br />
publisher."<br />
section 7 (C) contains the following proviso :-<br />
We have called the above a music publisher's “ Notwithstanding any assignment made before<br />
agreement, but it is not really an agreement at all; the passing of the Copyright Act, any rights<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 188 (#632) ############################################<br />
<br />
188<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
conferred by the Act in respect of making, or<br />
authorising the making of contrivances by means<br />
of which the work may be mechanically performed<br />
belong to the author, or his legal representatives,<br />
and not to the assignee.”<br />
At the beginning it was stated that this was not<br />
really an agreement, and perhaps it would be as<br />
well to elucidate this point further.<br />
The composer assigns all his rights to the pub-<br />
lisher for a small consideration and a continuing<br />
royalty. What does the publisher undertake to<br />
do ? Absolutely nothing. He does not undertake<br />
to produce the work by a certain date ; he does not<br />
undertake to keep the work on the market, and he<br />
does not undertake to advertise the work. No<br />
doubt an implied contract to publish is carried in<br />
the assignment, otherwise the consideration would<br />
be of no avail. But it is quite clear that the<br />
implied contract could easily be met by what would<br />
really amount to a bogus publication.<br />
Now, in order that a composer may be treated<br />
fairly, even the most exacting of publishers would,<br />
without hesitation, assent to a few small plain<br />
clauses : (1) that he would put the work on the<br />
market in the usual form on or before a certain<br />
date ; (2) that he would push the work through the<br />
ordinary trade channels and advertise it; and<br />
(3) that if the work went off the market he would<br />
cancel the agreement and return the licence to<br />
publish (for it is understood that the composer would<br />
only grant a licence to publish) to the composer.<br />
The composer laid the document before the<br />
secretary of the Society of Authors. The secretary<br />
remonstrated, and, in addition, pointed out some of<br />
the difficulties which would arise from the signing<br />
of such a document, namely, that if the publisher<br />
made any other arrangement with regard to the<br />
song he would be at liberty to do so under his<br />
agreement, and there was no undertaking by the<br />
publisher to pay the composer anything on such<br />
fresh arrangement. This warning alarmed the<br />
composer, and he wrote to the publisher enquiring<br />
what his views on the matter were. To this letter<br />
he received the following reply :-<br />
DEAR SIR,—The questions you raise regarding the<br />
Agreement for “..."are quite unnecessary.<br />
You assign to us the copyright of the song, and under<br />
our agreement we are not at liberty to make any other<br />
arrangement of it without consulting you.<br />
On the other hand, if you only assign us the right to<br />
publish the song for voice and piano, you would be able to<br />
make any other arrangement you thought fit, and this we<br />
could not agree to.<br />
In conclusion, we may mention that our agreement is<br />
never questioned.<br />
We are, Yours faithfully,<br />
Étc., etc.<br />
It is with the view of placing this reply before<br />
those composers who are members of the Society of<br />
Authors that the whole subject of music publishers'<br />
agreements has been re-opened.<br />
The only excuse for this letter must be the<br />
ignorance of the publisher as to his legal position.<br />
It is impossible to think that a publisher of the<br />
standing of the firm who put forward the agree-<br />
ment and wrote the letter under consideration<br />
would wilfully have deceived the composer. Suffice<br />
it to say that the statement made by the publisher<br />
is absolutely incorrect. The firm states in our<br />
agreement we are not at liberty to make any other<br />
arrangement of the song, without consulting you."<br />
Not only is there nothing expressly stating this in<br />
the agreement, but there is nothing that would<br />
impliedly convey this statement under the terms of<br />
the contract. The conveyance of the copyright and<br />
the performing rights allow the publisher to make<br />
any other arrangement he thinks fit, and he is in<br />
no way bound to pay the author any royalty or any<br />
further consideration on the re-arrangement. He<br />
is only bound by the agreement to pay the composer<br />
a royalty on all copies of the song sold. With<br />
regard to the dictatorial and absurd statement<br />
contained in the last sentence in the letter, it is<br />
only necessary to suggest that the sooner the<br />
composers compel alteration the better. The<br />
composer should be warned never to sign an<br />
agreement of this kind, never to transfer his<br />
copyright, never to transfer his performing right,<br />
and, above all, to retain absolute control over his<br />
gramophone rights.<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
BLACKWOODS.<br />
Musings Without Method : George Borrow.<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
Lady Thackeray Ritchie. By Lewis Melville.<br />
CONTEMPORARY.<br />
Celtic Nature Poetry. By A. P. Graves.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
Among My Books. By Frederic Harrison.<br />
The Theatre of the Future. By V. Ivanof.<br />
A New Study of English Poetry : Poetry and Rhythm.<br />
By Henry Newbolt.<br />
A Critical Calendar. By Walter Sickert.<br />
A Word on the Hammerstein Opera. By Henry Hardinge.<br />
The Censorship Scandal. By S. 0.<br />
SCALE FOR DUVERTISENENTS.<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 90 PER CENT.)<br />
Front Page<br />
...24 0<br />
Other Pages<br />
Hall of a Page ...<br />
10 0<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
... O 15 0<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
... per inch 0 6 0<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 189 (#633) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
189<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. T VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
1 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 />
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 />
npon them. (2) To keep agreements. (3) To enforce<br />
payments due according to agreements. Fuller particu-<br />
lars of the Society's york can be obtained in the<br />
Prospectus.<br />
6. No contract should be entered into with a literary<br />
agent without the advice of the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Members are strongly advised not to accept without careful<br />
consideration the contracts with publishers submitted to<br />
them by literary agents, and are recommended to submit<br />
them for interpretation and explanation to the Secretary<br />
of the Society.<br />
7. Many agents neglect to stamp agreements. This<br />
miast be done within fourteen days of first execution. The<br />
secretary will undertake it on behalf of members.<br />
8. Some agents endeavour to prevent authors from<br />
referring matters to the Secretary of the Society; so<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 18. per<br />
annum, or £10 108. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
'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 stam<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
N EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
IV Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com-<br />
petent legal authority.<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager,<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :-<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
(TERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
I agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :--<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper prive can be<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 190 (#634) ############################################<br />
<br />
190<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., fixed<br />
nightly fees). This methou should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case.<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights inay be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration.<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He shoul, therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author inust remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con.<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author's fees<br />
from it. As far as the placing of plays is concerned,<br />
it may be taken as a general rule that there are only<br />
very few agents who can do anything for an author<br />
that he cannot, under the guidance of the Society, do<br />
equally well or better for himself. The collection of fees<br />
is also a matter in which in many cases no intermediary is<br />
required. For certain purposes, such as the collection of<br />
fees on amateur performances, and in general the trans-<br />
action of frequent petty authorisations with different<br />
individuals, and also for the collection of fees in foreign<br />
countries, almost all dramatic authors employ agents; and<br />
in these ways the services of agents are real and valuable.<br />
But the Society warns authors against agents who profes<br />
to have influence with managers in the placing of plays, or<br />
who propose to act as principals by offering to purchase<br />
the author'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 />
CEMBERS will greatly assist the Society in this<br />
branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when it is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
OCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
o forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario Thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 2s.6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 191 (#635) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
191<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
the author. In these cases it is hardly fair that<br />
the author should be bound to pay an agent's fee<br />
AGENTS AS PRINCIPALS.<br />
or that the agent should claim his fee if such<br />
commission does not arise through the agent's<br />
A MEMBER of the society has drawn our attention introduction, but cases have occurred where an<br />
to the fact that there are still some agents who author undertaking to place all his literary work in<br />
in addition to their agency work not infrequently the agent's hands during a fixed period has received<br />
act as principals. He draws attention to the a claim for commission from an agent on articles<br />
danger of such a position and urges us to warn that were supplied to a paper and other literary<br />
authors. The columns of The Author have already work, where the work was specially ordered, and<br />
on different occasions drawn attention to the matter, such order was not obtained through the agent's<br />
and some remarks on the point will be found in introduction. It will be as well, therefore, if the<br />
the article on authors' agents in the October author should specifically except this work from<br />
number. There is the danger from the bonâ fide the agreement with the agent, stating that on<br />
agent and the danger from the fraudulent agent. commission work obtained outside the agent's.<br />
The fraudulent agent would get an offer from an introduction he should not be bound to pay the<br />
editor, publisher, or manager and then, going to agent's fee. This brings us to the second point<br />
the author, would pretend to him that he had some which has reference to the note to clause 1 on the<br />
difficulty in placing his work. He would suggest reservation by the author of special markets. Our<br />
that he should buy the rights, whatever they are, correspondent thinks that it should be made quite<br />
that the author is willing to sell for a sum down. clear that where an author lives by writing for<br />
If the author, as not infrequently happens, daily papers and by journalism, as well as by<br />
desires to have money and has faith in the agent, writing books and magazine articles, that he should<br />
he will possibly accept the offer, and the agent will except the journalistic market and that the agent<br />
then proceed to sell to the editor, the publisher, or should not be entitled to claim commission on this<br />
the manager at the enhanced price which he work. This, no doubt, was the idea of those who<br />
already knows he can obtain. But if an agent drafted the agreement when they advised the<br />
desires to be perfectly bona fide and desires some- author to reserve certain markets, but, perhaps, it<br />
times to act as principal and sometimes as agent, will be of advantage to members if the point is<br />
the danger is still very great, because it is only a put a little more clearly before them.<br />
natural law that when he is offering work to pub-<br />
lishers, editors, or managers he would desire to sell<br />
that which belonged to himself on which he might<br />
AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT.<br />
be able to get the return of capital already ex- In an article taken from the United States.<br />
pended with a profit, rather than to sell the Publishers' Weekly, and printed on another page..<br />
author's work, on which he would obtain merely his the author states as follows :<br />
agency fees. The position is untenable, and there- “ Australia in 1905 asserted copyright indepen-<br />
fore, as our correspondent remarks, authors should dence from the mother country and passed a com-<br />
be warned never to deal in any way with an agent plete code which was not disallowed by the Crown,<br />
who is known to act as principal. This advice we and wbich has in fact become the model for recent<br />
are very glad to confirm.<br />
British and coming Canadian legislation."<br />
This statement is a little misleading. Australia<br />
in 1905 passed a copyright law which was binding<br />
THE LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT. on Australia only, and did not make Australia<br />
A CORRESPONDENT who has published many<br />
independent of Imperial legislation, Imperial copy-<br />
right still running in the Australian Colonies.<br />
books and has, therefore, read with interest the<br />
It<br />
is a mistake also to state that this Act has become<br />
literary agency agreement published in last month's<br />
Author, kindly sent us a communication bearing<br />
the model for recent British and coming Canadian<br />
on two points in the contract, which, perhaps,<br />
legislation, as the British ('opyright Law, which is<br />
require a little further elucidation. (The reader is<br />
coming into force in 1912, has really had nothing<br />
referred to page 163 of last month's Author.) In<br />
to do with and is not based on the Australian Act.<br />
clause 1 of the agreement the author appoints his<br />
As far as ('anada is concerned, it is impossible at<br />
as sole agent during a given period for the the present moment to say what the coming<br />
sale of all the literary work that he desires to legislation will be.<br />
bring to market during the continuancy of the<br />
agreement.<br />
GRAMOPHONE FEES.<br />
Now, there are many cases, as our correspondent In the last issue of The Author an article<br />
points out, in which work is commissioned from appeared referring to the claim which had been put<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 192 (#636) ############################################<br />
<br />
192<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
forward by certain publishers to the gramophone history of the society, and the income for the year<br />
fees of composers.<br />
from subscriptions was actually the largest that had<br />
! . We are glad to see from the following extract accrued. The loss of members for the past year<br />
from an agreement of an American publisher that from all causes amounted to 167, resignations<br />
although a similar compulsory licence exists in amounting to 87. He had ascertained by inquiry<br />
America, to that which will come into force under and comparison with the figures of other similar<br />
the new Copyright Law, the same demand is not bodies that this was a normal proportion, having<br />
made by the American publisher.<br />
regard to the nature of the society and the COL-<br />
“ Said . . . composer hereby reserves to himself the<br />
ditions of membership, but in order to ascertain<br />
exclusive right and licence to reproduce or cause to be whether there might be any removable cause for<br />
reproduced said composition on mechanical musical the resignations, he had written personally to the<br />
instruments and agrees that whenever he may make use of<br />
last 150 members who had resigned. In reply he<br />
such licence he and his sub-licensees will at all times attach<br />
had received only one letter that put forward any.<br />
to every copy of such mechanical reproduction of said<br />
composition the notice of copyright required or which may<br />
thing in the nature of a complaint. In practically<br />
be required by any copyright statute under which said all other cases the reason had been the desired<br />
composition is or may be protected.”<br />
economy of the guinea subscription, and several<br />
Musical publishers in England have, no doubt, had joined for a definite purpose, such as the<br />
for so long a time been taking the composers' rights receipt of advice upon a single subject and had<br />
that they have got into the habit of considering then retired. Ten of these, upon having it pointed<br />
these rights their own, as a matter of course. It is out to them that upon the principle of insurance the<br />
time, however, that composers should assert their society could not reasonably be expected thus to<br />
authority, and publishers understand their position. give a full measure of assistance in consideration of<br />
a single premium, had voluntarily rejoined. Dr.<br />
Sprigge next referred to the very heavy work done<br />
by the Copyright Committee during the introduction<br />
THE ANNUAL MEETING.<br />
and passage of the Copyright Act, and to the number<br />
and variety of the questions which during that<br />
period were continually arising for consideration<br />
THE Annual General Meeting of the society owing to changes affecting the interests of authors<br />
was held on Thursday, March 21, in the being introduced unexpectedly into the Bill and<br />
rooms of the Society of Arts, 18, John to the necessity for safeguarding authors' interests<br />
Street, Adelphi, at 4.45 p.m., some thirty to forty from infringement. The contentious work of the<br />
members being presenta somewhat smaller attend society during the year he described as heavy and<br />
ance than usual, being, no doubt, due to three causes, successful. Of the cases which had passed through<br />
the improbability that any controversial topic would the secretary's hands alone two-thirds had been<br />
arise for discussion, the fact that the place of meet- successfully carried through, and the total dealt<br />
ing was less centrally situated than that to which with might easily have been doubled by reckoning<br />
the society has been accustomed, and the inclemency disputes which had not been seriously maintained<br />
of the weather. The chairman of the Committee after the society's intervention. Forty-two cases<br />
of Management, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, presided, had been transferred from the hands of the secretary,<br />
and opened the business of the meeting by asking himself a solicitor, into the hands of the solicitors to<br />
the members present to consider in the first place the society, and of these a large proportion had ended<br />
the second and third items of the agenda, leaving successfully, the sum recovered for one member, in<br />
the discussion of the report to follow. Accordingly a matter where performing rights were concerned,<br />
Mr. Owen Seaman was declared duly elected as a amounting to £500. The Pension Fund invest-<br />
member of the Pension Fund Committee in placement in 1911 had amounted to £250. A special<br />
of Mr. Morley Roberts, resigned, Mr. Seaman appeal during the same year had been handsomely<br />
having been duly proposed by the committee, and responded to and had brought in £500 more for<br />
no other candidate having been nominated. investment in 1912. He concluded by inviting ques-<br />
Secondly, with regard to the appointment of tions and discussion upon any points in the report to<br />
scrutineers to count the votes under the society's which members might desire to call attention.<br />
constitution, no names having been proposed, the Mr. G. F. Wilson rose to ask whether in the<br />
chairman informed the meeting that the committee interests of authors the names of the parties might<br />
would appoint in due course. In commenting upon not be published in the summaries of cases taken up<br />
the report which was already in the hands of by the society, which appear in The Author. He<br />
members, Dr. Sprigge referred to the satisfactory suggested that this would give more reality to the<br />
conditions shown. The number of elections during reports in question, and referred to the article, * A<br />
the past year had only once been exceeded in the Remarkable Agreement," in The Author of March<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 193 (#637) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
193<br />
A PRIZE COMPETITION.<br />
in which the name of the publisher was given,<br />
asking if it would not be advantageous to dot the<br />
"i's " and cross the “t's ” in other articles of the<br />
same class. The result would be that members<br />
would know what editors and publishers to avoid,<br />
and editors and publishers would know what to<br />
si void also.<br />
The chairman replied that the proposition<br />
advanced had his sympathy to a considerable<br />
extent. There was always, however. a certain<br />
element of danger in giving names when criticising<br />
in the manner in which it was necessary to criticise<br />
in The Author, and there was also the fact that<br />
if the purchase of a number of The Author for 6d.<br />
cave a person outside the society all the information<br />
about an individual or a particular matter that he<br />
required, he might be tempted to content himself<br />
with buying The Author instead of joining the<br />
society and becoming entitled to the advice which<br />
he could obtain nowhere else.<br />
Mr. H.M. Paull asked whether the society might<br />
not find it advantageous to charge members a per-<br />
centage upon the sums obtained by it on their<br />
behalf.<br />
The chairman said that the subject was not new<br />
to him, but it had always been considered desirable<br />
that the society in recovering money for its members<br />
should occupy a position of disinterested indepen-<br />
dence in the matter, with no suggestion that it had<br />
any financial advantage to gain by the disputes in<br />
which it engaged.<br />
Mr. G. F. Wilson inquired whether the reissue<br />
of “The Cost of Production ” was likely to take<br />
place before long.<br />
The chairman said that this was a matter as to<br />
which he would prefer to consult the committee<br />
before replying definitely. He was not sorry to<br />
have the fact that the book was out of print<br />
brought to his attention. He had himself taken<br />
part in preparing the first edition of it, and he<br />
feared some of the figures had ceased to apply to<br />
modern conditions. There was, however, the fact<br />
that it was difficult to obtain accurate statistics<br />
for such a work, and that at the same time it was<br />
uncertain whether members would buy it when<br />
written.<br />
A vote of thanks to the chairman was proposed<br />
by Mr. Anthony Hope Hawkins, and, having been<br />
seconded by Mr. H. M. Paull, was carried<br />
unanimously; Dr. Sprigge, in thanking those<br />
present for their expression of approval, said that<br />
he associated with their vote of thanks to himself,<br />
their secretary, Mr. G. H. Thring, whose continuous<br />
labours on behalf of the society he knew were<br />
appreciated by it.<br />
COME months ago an article appeared in The<br />
Author on Prize Competitions, and a strong<br />
complaint was raised against the method in<br />
which these competitions were conducted. It was<br />
clearly shown how indefinite was the statement of<br />
terms in most cases, and that the editor must have<br />
been ignorant of the legal requirements of the case.<br />
Though it turned out that in most cases the<br />
editor wanted the whole copyright, yet generally<br />
he did not make this clear. Indeed, the editor, who<br />
asserted merely that he gave a prize for the best<br />
short story, would not necessarily have had the<br />
right to publish it even for one insertion in his own<br />
paper..<br />
Again, some editors, who were clear about what<br />
they wanted, were wholly unreasonable in giving no<br />
undertaking that the work should be published and<br />
no time limit for publication. In addition, they<br />
often claimed the right to publish any story sent up<br />
to them in connection with the competition, even<br />
though it should not gain the prize, again without<br />
giving any time limit for publication or making<br />
any price.<br />
This should not be the case; . A clear statement<br />
of the legal position is essential if the result is to be<br />
satisfactory, and there should be no sins of omission.<br />
The editor should throw his cards on the table ;<br />
then, if the contract is good, or if the contract is bad,<br />
the author knows the best or the worst, and if he<br />
sends up his MS. he has no right to complain<br />
subsequently.<br />
The following may be cited as an example of an<br />
error of omission.<br />
proprietor desires to purchase the copyright of<br />
a MS. for £200 and states this bare fact. The<br />
ordinary author would think that there was an<br />
implied contract to publish, but really there is<br />
nothing of the kind. It would have been much<br />
better, therefore, for the proprietor to state that the<br />
successful MS. will be published by him on or before<br />
a certain date.<br />
This preamble brings us to the Prize Competition<br />
published in the Era for the benefit of dramatic<br />
authors, the terms of which, so far as material for<br />
our purpose, are as follows :-<br />
The decision announced by the editor shall be final an<br />
binding upon all parties.<br />
Plays may be sent in at any time until the date for<br />
closing the competition, which will be duly announced, but<br />
which will not be before June 30th, 1912, at the earliest.<br />
The winner of the £100 prize will retain one-half interest<br />
in the copyright of his play.<br />
If the winning play be, in the opinion of the editor of<br />
the Era, of sufficient merit, it will be produced under the<br />
auspices of the Era, and will be known as “ the Era Play,"<br />
the author's name appearing or not, as he or she wishes, on<br />
the programme of every performance.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 194 (#638) ############################################<br />
<br />
194<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
The editor will not be responsible for the safety of any intentional. Does the editor reserve to himself<br />
manuscripts submitted, so that copies must be kept by the<br />
author. Every effort will be madle, however, to return all<br />
the exclusive right, or what does this paragraph<br />
manuscripts.<br />
mean? If he intends to reserve to himself the<br />
The editor reserves the right of arranging for the pro- exclusive right, then any person who sends in a<br />
duction of any play submitted, whether the winning play play may find himself in this difficult position<br />
or not; but should he decide to produce any such play, he<br />
that, if the editor who holds the right for arrang-<br />
will first arrange terms with the author.<br />
ing a production does not desire to use this right,<br />
We have taken the liberty of omitting some non the dramatist would be unable to make any use of<br />
essential parts of the conditions, that is, non-essen- his play himself. An author who sends in a play<br />
tial as far as the deductions desired to be drawn are and gets no prize receives no consideration what-<br />
concerned, though not non-essential from the point ever for the right which the editor acquires. The<br />
of the dramatist who is competing. The main condition further states, “but should the editor<br />
points to which we desire to draw attention are as decide to produce any such play, he will first<br />
follows :-<br />
arrange terms with the author."<br />
It is first stated that the decision announced by the We feel quite certain that the editor of the Era<br />
editor shall be final and binding upon all parties. desired to do everything that is fair, reasonable<br />
This is quite reasonable and fair, but there is no state- and just when this paragraph was drafted, but it is<br />
ment whatever as to when the decision will be made, impossible to conceive a paragraph more likely to<br />
or where it will be announced, surely an important lead to frequent disputes than this one. Supposing<br />
piece of knowledge in a competition of this kind. the winner of the prize does not want to arrange<br />
Competitors might send in their MSS. and find that terms with the editor, or suppose the authors of any<br />
they are held up for perhaps a year or more, during of the MSS, sent in do not want to arrange terms<br />
which time it would be impossible for them to take with the editor, or supposing they want to arrange<br />
any action in the matter of placing them.<br />
terms, but the editor considers the terms are<br />
It seems the very earliest date for closing the unreasonable, there then would appear to be a<br />
competition is June 30th, 1912. From this we deadlock.<br />
take it that all the plays that are sent in will come It should be clearly put forth, (1) either the exact<br />
under the new Copyright Act. This point is of terms for production, or (2) that the proprietor<br />
importance, for the next paragraph states that the should have the first refusal for, say one month,<br />
winner of the prize will retain one-half interest in the during which terms should be arranged. If these<br />
copyright of his play. The word “copyright" under proposals are displeasing to the owner of the other<br />
the new Act as regards a play covers much more than half of the copyright, at any rate let him state<br />
under the present Act, where the right in a drama definitely what he does want.<br />
is divided into two parts, copyright and performing We think enoughi has been said to show how<br />
right. We see that the winner will obtain a £100 terribly indefinite all these points are. It is much<br />
prize. The natural deduction from this is that the better in these competitions to have the terms<br />
£100 will not be an advance on royalties on what clear, even though they are against the author,<br />
ever subsequent arrangement is made, but will be than to have them indefinite but tempting.<br />
£100 clear and distinct, practically amounting to We hope it may be possible before the competi-<br />
£100 payment for the half of the copyright. It tion closes for the rules and conditions to be more<br />
does not state who is to be the owner of this balf, definitely stated, and an opportunity given to those<br />
though it is not an unreasonable deduction to make who may have sent in the MSS. to withdraw should<br />
that it will belong to the proprietor of the Era. It they not care to accept the revised rules.<br />
might, however, be some bidden actor-manager as<br />
far as the public statement is concerned. This point<br />
should be made clear. There is no undertaking<br />
whatever that the proprietor of this half-copyright<br />
UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
will use any endeavour to place the play on the<br />
market. He reserves to himself the right of making<br />
all arrangements ; though the author retains a half NEW YEAR'S card issued by one of the great<br />
interest in the copyright, he could not do anything<br />
publishing firms of New York bore on it the<br />
with that interest under the conditions laid down.<br />
laudable sentiment, “ For 1912– Fewer and<br />
In the last paragraph of the terms a most extra- Better Books.” It might perbaps be assumed from<br />
ordinary provision appears, whereby not only does this that the year 1911 was remarkable for the great<br />
the cditor reserve to bimself the right of arranging output of books in the United States. As a matter<br />
for the production of the winning play, but also of of fact, the figure reached in 1911 was considerably<br />
any play submitted, whether the winning play or lower than that in 1910. In the latter year<br />
not. Surely this statement cannot possibly be 11,671 new books and 1,799 new editions appeared<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 195 (#639) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
195<br />
-total, 13,470. In 1911 there were 10,440 new<br />
books and 783 new editions—total, 11,123. So<br />
that, unlike what was the case in England (where<br />
a record output of 8,530 new books and 2,384 new<br />
editions—total, 10,914—was chronicled), in the<br />
United States there was a very distinct decrease in<br />
production from 1910 to 1911.<br />
Was the falling-off in numbers compensated for by<br />
an improvement in quality ? The critics say“Yes”;<br />
at least as far as fiction was concerned. The year<br />
1911 has already been called an annus mirabilis of<br />
the American novel. Perhaps it would be better to<br />
wait a few years more before stating which are the<br />
novels that will live among those of last year. At<br />
present there is still too much of the glamour of<br />
the “ best-seller ” about some of them to allow us<br />
to judge dispassionately. In the meantime it may<br />
be conceded that if the motto for 1912 is really to<br />
be “ Fewer and Better Books," in fiction we may<br />
anticipate a good time coming<br />
I wrote at some length in the last issue of these<br />
“Notes” on the subject of best-sellers. It is, how-<br />
ever, so prominent a feature in connection with the<br />
sale of books in America that perhaps I may be<br />
pardoned for alluding to it again. The literary<br />
papers devoted some space in January to the<br />
collating of the monthly lists of successful works.<br />
It appears that the four novels most in demand in<br />
the States during the past year were Jeffry Farnol's<br />
" The Broad Highway,” Vaughan Kester's “ The<br />
Prodigal Judge,” Harold Bell Wright's “The<br />
Winning of Barbara Worth," and H. S. Harrison's<br />
“Queed.” These four had a long lead over the<br />
next five, which were Gene Stratton Porter's<br />
"The Harvester,” Margaret Deland's “ The Iron<br />
Woman," Mary Johnston's “The Long Roll,”<br />
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott's “ Molly Make-Believe,"<br />
and Florence L. Barclay's “The Rosary.” In the<br />
non-fiction class Arnold Bennett's “ How to Live<br />
on 24 Hours a Day” and Price Collier's “ The<br />
West in the East " were easily first.<br />
No one, of course, not even among the compilers<br />
of these lists, pretends that they furnish a guide to<br />
the necessarily best books of the year. Authors<br />
whose names and works do not get even a place,<br />
much less a leading place, on them, may very likely<br />
feel a grievance over their non-appearance. But<br />
that grievance is only legitimate against the<br />
American reading public, on whose demand for<br />
mental sustenance the lists are founded. It would<br />
be interesting if, side by side with the consensus of<br />
public opinion thus revealed, a consensus of critical<br />
opinion could be produced. It is not an unknown<br />
occurrence to find a best-seller being “roasted” in<br />
the columps of a literary review. Such a division<br />
of cash and credit as is represented by this state of<br />
affairs has its satisfactions, alike to the commerci.<br />
ally successful and to the commercially unsuccessful.<br />
To leave the recently past and come to the<br />
actually present, there are no indications of a change<br />
of public farour in 1912 to the detriment of the<br />
authors with the big circulations in 1911. For<br />
instance, “Queed” is still going strong, so are“ The<br />
Broad Highway” and Mr. Farnol's later American<br />
success, “The Money Moon.” So again is “ The<br />
Rosary,” which is helping the sale of Mrs. Barclay's<br />
other two novels, “ The Following of the Star" and<br />
“The Mistress of Shenstone." “ The Winning of<br />
Barbara Worth" is announced to appear in dramatic<br />
form at a New York theatre next fall. One feature<br />
of early 1912, however, is the rise of a new star<br />
- new in the United States, that is to say. All<br />
who see the American literary periodicals will know<br />
that this refers to Mr. G. A. Birmingham, who has<br />
been “discovered," let us hope to his great advan-<br />
tage. British authors certainly bare little to com-<br />
plain of when they do catch the eye of the American<br />
public. That this is so can be seen from the fact<br />
that both in the fiction and in the non-fiction<br />
classes last year the list was beaded by a Briton.<br />
And in addition it may be mentioned that J. M.<br />
Barrie's “ Peter and Wendy" was the best-seller<br />
among juvenile books in December! Such a record<br />
is very nearly what the sporting journalist calls<br />
“the triple crown” for Great Britain.<br />
The early months of this year have been prolific<br />
in fiction, but not very notable in other respects.<br />
Novels may, therefore, be given first place in our<br />
catalogue-which must include some works pub-<br />
lished in 1911, but too late to be mentioned in the<br />
January number of The Author. Among these is<br />
“The Healer," by Robert Herrick, an author whose<br />
work is well known in England. Of Mr. Herrick<br />
a New York critic has said that he “comes nearer<br />
being a real novelist than any other American.”<br />
Certainly “The Healer” has had a wonderfully<br />
good reception from the Press, if it still awaits the<br />
distinction of getting among the Big Six. About<br />
the same time were published Theodore Dreiser's<br />
“Jennie Gerhardt” (an original and very powerful<br />
story, it may be noted), Julia Magruder's ** Her Hus-<br />
band," and Molly Elliot Seawell's "The Jugglers,"<br />
all of which have quickly made their mark. With-<br />
out attempting to preserve the chronological order,<br />
the early fictional output of 1912 must be dealt with<br />
as the names occur to the mind. In “ Riders of<br />
the Purple Sage,” Zane Grey deals with the Western<br />
Plains and Salt Lake City. “Toby," by Credo<br />
Harris, is a Kentucky novel. “ The Guardian," by<br />
F. 0. Bartlett, is concerned with the lumbermani<br />
and the great forests. In “The Heart of U's,” on<br />
the other hand, the background is a city; and the<br />
city Boston. Humour, varied in character, is the<br />
feature of “ Danny's Own Story," by Don Marquis<br />
(whom they compare to Mark Twain); of “A<br />
Knight in Denim,” by Ramsey Benson ; and of<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 196 (#640) ############################################<br />
<br />
196<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Charles Sherman's “He Comes Up Smiling.” Grave and Gay.” Another book of recollections is<br />
“Georgette,” by Marion Hill, treats of the American entitled “Intimacies of Court and Society: an<br />
Stage (as a classic ofe which it has been hailed), not Unconventional Narrative of Unofficial Days," of<br />
so flippantly as “The Chorus Lady,” but none the which the author prefers to remain anonymous, but<br />
less amusingly. “From the Car Behind," by has suffered it to be made public that she is the<br />
Eleanor M. Ingram, is a frankly sensational piece of widow of an American diplomat.<br />
work--involving motors, as might be guessed.<br />
Social and political questions have engaged the<br />
Cyrus Townsend Brady has two new books, “ The attention of a few authors. “ Social Forces in<br />
Challice of Courage” and “ Secret Service”; the American History,” by A. M. Simons, may be callel<br />
latter a novelisation of William Gillette's famous a history of the United States with special reference<br />
play. Another novel derived from the stage is to the relations of Capital and Labour. Professors<br />
“ Bought and Paid for," Arthur Hornblow being J. W. Jenks and W. Jett Lauck deal with “The<br />
responsible for the version of George Broadhurst's Immigration Problem,” and particularly with the<br />
drama. George Barr McCutcheon's new story is subject of its restriction. President N. M. Batler,<br />
“ Her Weight in Gold”; Mary E. Mann's “There of Columbia University, asks of his countrymen the<br />
was a Widow"; Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's “ The question “Why should we Change our Form of<br />
Butterfly House”; Meredith Nicholson's “A Government?" The foreign affairs of the United<br />
Hoosier Chronicle.” Gouverneur Morris has a States are treated of in “ American-Japanese<br />
collection of twelve tales, entitled “It, and Other Relations,” by K. K. Kawakami—who has written<br />
Stories,” while with “The Man who could not Love” “ A Bookto Banish the Japan War Jingo,” according<br />
(which gives its title to the book), Richard Harding to the preliminary paragraph sent out by the pub-<br />
Davis gives us four other short stories.<br />
lisher ; and in “ The Relations of the United States<br />
“He who Passed,” of which the author still and Spain : The Spanish-American War," with<br />
remains anonymous, has already been heard of in two volumes on which Rear-Admiral Chadwick<br />
England. The writer of “ Betty Moore's Journal” concludes a notable work.<br />
is Mabel D. Carey, hitherto better known in the Two distinguished military men have also pro-<br />
social than in the literary world. Hers may be duced books—Lieutenant-General Nelson Miles<br />
called a problem novel, being concerned with mother having written “Serving the Republic" (including<br />
hood among the pleasure-loving rich.<br />
recollections of the Civil War), and Brigadier-General<br />
At the risk of injustice to those mentioned, it Funston “Memories of Two Wars : Cuban and<br />
must suffice to give the names of seven more novels Philippine Experiences.” Another author from the<br />
as worthy of note among those that have recently same State as General Funston is S. J. Crawford,<br />
appeared :—“ The Maid of the Whispering Hills," War Governor of Kansas, who in his “ Kansas in<br />
by Virgie E. Roe ; “Tante," by Annie Douglas the Sixties " speaks of both the Indian campaigns<br />
Sidgwick ; “ The Wrong Woman," by Charles D. in that State and of the Civil War. Professor F.<br />
Stewart; “ The Adjustment," by Marguerite L. Paxon, of Wisconsin University, makes the<br />
Bryant-already a very big seller ; “A Chain of latter war his subject-indeed entitling his book<br />
Evidence,” by Carolyn Wells ; “ John Rawn," by simply “ The Civil War.”<br />
Emerson Hough; and “ Five Thousand an Hour," Travel books are represented by Matthew<br />
by George Randolph Chester.<br />
Henson's “ A Negro Explorer at the North Pole,"<br />
Biographical works have not been very numerous with a foreword by Peary and an introduction by<br />
of late, but there have been several produced which Booker Washington ; by Ernest Thompson Seton's<br />
make their appeal on both sides of the Atlantic “ The Arctic Prairies"; by Charles Sheldon's “The<br />
Ocean. Among such may assuredly be put “ Robert Wilderness of the Upper Yukon"; and by the<br />
Louis Stevenson in California," by Katharine D. oddly-named “ The Man Who Likes Mexico," in<br />
Osbourne; “Robert E. Lee : Man and Soldier," by which Wallace Gillpatrick gives his narrative of<br />
Thomas Nelson Page ; and the “Life of Bret six years' wanderings. “Where Half the World is<br />
Harte," by H. C. Merwin. “ The Life Story of Waking Up," by C. H. Poe, deals, as might no<br />
J. Peirpont Morgan,” by Carl Hovey, has appeared doubt be guessed, with India and the Far East,<br />
in England as well as in America, I fancy. A where the author has put in a year's travelling.<br />
biography of Moses Coit Tyler, author and Cornell The two chief books of essays have been ex-<br />
University professor, comes from the pen of Jessie President Theodore Roosevelt's “Realizable Ideals,"<br />
Tyler Austen, while the “Life and Labors of Bishop which were the Earl Lectures last year at the Pacific<br />
Hare, Apostle to the Sioux,” is by M. A. D. Howe. Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California ; and<br />
Two more volumes of the “ Journals of Ralph - The Way of Peace," by Reginald Wright Kauff-<br />
Waldo Emerson” have appeared, bringing the story man, author of “ The House of Bondage "-or<br />
down to the year 1841. By way of contrast one “ Daughters of Ishmael," as the book is called in<br />
may read Mrs. Burton Harrison's “ Recollections England, I believe.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 197 (#641) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
197<br />
“ Truth and Reality : an Introduction to the will be produced under the supervision of his son.<br />
Theory of Knowledge," is, of course, a philo- Mr. Bigelow was for three years resident in Europe,<br />
sophical work. It is written by Professor John namely, during his tenure of the post of United<br />
Elof Boodlin, of Kansas. - Human Efficiency,” States Minister to France in 1864-7. But he was<br />
by Horatio W. Dresser, might be placed midway essentially an American, and one versed in all the<br />
between philosophy and economics, the author phases of public life in America, while the books<br />
endeavouring to get at the study of industrial con- by which he will be remembered all made their<br />
ditions ria psycbology. “The Principles of primary appeal to his own fellow-countrymen. An<br />
Economics,” by F. W. Taussig, the Harvard intensely hard-working novelist, who ultimately<br />
professor, explains itself by its title.<br />
succumbed to the results of her attempts to<br />
For the grouping together of the last two books relieve the strain on her nerves, passed away on<br />
which I am about to mention there is no justifica- December 22, in the person of Mrs. Margaret<br />
tion, except that neither of them falls conveniently Horton Potter-Black. She began writing very<br />
under any of the heads which have been hitherto early in life ; “ The Social Lion," by which she<br />
discussed. " The Education of Women in China” first attracted attention, being so ingenuously<br />
is by Margaret E. Burton, general secretary of the daring that her family purchased every copy to<br />
Y.W.C.L. at Chicago University. The writer of remove it from circulation. Mrs. Potter-Black<br />
“Chess Tales and Chess Miscellapies” is Willard continued to write, however, until within a com-<br />
Fiske, who knew the great Paul Morphy—though paratively short time before her death, though ill-<br />
he does not tell us much that is new about him in health compelled her at last to retire to a sana-<br />
the present work.<br />
turium. Early in the new year another victim to<br />
Details of the gathering at Sherry's Restaurant, literature died, J. B. Peterson, who from being it<br />
New York, on March 2, to celebrate the seventy-fifth factory-hand rose to be a writer on philosophical<br />
birthday of William Dean Howells, have reached subjects. He was entirely self-educated until he<br />
England long ago. But I do not know that special managed to gain the sympathy of the late<br />
attention has been called to some notable words on Professor William James, who enabled him to<br />
American literature in the speech of the guest of receive some university training. But the kindness<br />
the evening. “There has been no hour of our lite- of James and other patrons could not help him to<br />
rary past, as I have lived it," Mr. Howells said, the “living wage,” which is essential to authors as<br />
“when I had the least fear for our literary future; well as to other men, and he died in very poor<br />
nor even when the good fight for reality in literary circumstances. On February 12 the death was<br />
art, which I believed myself fighting, seemed to be a recorded, in New York, of Louis Heilprin, an<br />
losing figbt, did I bate my breath.” For all his Hungarian by birth, but an American by more<br />
seventy-five years Mr. Howells avowed himself no than half a century's residence. The young<br />
laudator temporis acti, but declared that literature Heilprin's father, who brought him to the States,<br />
to-day is actuated by a clearer motive than ever was one of the editors of the American Cyclopedia,<br />
before. It has turned from “the vain effort of and so much did the son follow in the father's<br />
creating beauty" and devoted itself to “ the effort footsteps that he was giren the task of the<br />
of ascertaining life.” What say the romanticists revision of the Cyclopedia's second edition. He<br />
to this ?<br />
contributed much to other works of a similar<br />
As usual, I must conclude with the melancholy character, but also made a name for himself in<br />
subject of the losses to literature caused by death journalism, writing for the Nation, and the<br />
during the past few months. On December 17 Erening Post, among other papers.<br />
Percival Pollard succumbed to neuritis of the brain<br />
PHILIP WALSH.<br />
in a hospital in Baltimore, in his forty-second year.<br />
Probably Pollard's brilliant work is but little known<br />
in England, and his journalistic career was matured<br />
THE COPYRIGHT PROGRESS OF FOUR<br />
in Chicago and New York. Yet England had<br />
something to do with the making of the man, for<br />
YEARS.<br />
he was educated at Eastbourne up to the age of<br />
fifteen, when he came to America. Besides one play (Reprinted from the U.S. Publishers' Weekly, by kind<br />
(written in collaboration) many novels came from<br />
permission.)<br />
his pen, but they were not of sufficiently wide M HE past four years, 1908–1911, have been<br />
appeal ever to appear among “best sellers." more marked in the progress of copyright<br />
On December 19, John Bigelow breathed his last<br />
legislation than any period since copyright<br />
at his home in New York, at the advanced age of legislation began. Earlier in the twentieth<br />
94, leaving unfinished his “ Retrospections of an century important steps were taken in several<br />
Active Life”—the remainder of which, it is stated, countries. Germany passed in 1901 the two laws<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 198 (#642) ############################################<br />
<br />
198<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
which are the foundation of its present copyright<br />
system, and in 1907 its remarkable publishing<br />
law, while Austria in 1907 amended its existing<br />
copyright law. *Australia in 1905 asserted copy-<br />
right independence from the mother country and<br />
passed a complete code which was not disallowed<br />
by the Crown and which has in fact become the<br />
model for recent British and coming Canadian<br />
legislation. But 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911 were<br />
each marked by a leading event of first impor-<br />
tance. In 1908, the Berlin convention put inter-<br />
national relationships throughout the International<br />
Copyright Union on a new and more liberal basis,<br />
discarding all formalities except those in the<br />
country of origin and adopting life and fifty years<br />
as the international standard term. In 1909, the<br />
long campaign in the United States resulted in the<br />
new American code of 1909, thorouglily compre-<br />
hepsive, superseding all previous legislation, and<br />
on the whole a far-reaching improvement. In<br />
1910, the Pan American Union adopted the<br />
Buenos Aires convention, closely patterning that<br />
of Berlin, which, though so far it has been ratified<br />
only by the United States, will probably form the<br />
future basis for copyright throughout South<br />
America. Finally, in 1911, the new British code<br />
was passed, second only in comprehensiveness to<br />
the American code, and superseding all previous<br />
laws except a few specified minor acts or provisions.<br />
Within the year 1912 Canada will possibly have<br />
passed its copyright code, now under discussion,<br />
thus making the fifth year of the period only less<br />
memorable than its predecessors.<br />
Within January, indeed, an international copy.<br />
right treaty between the Cnited States and Hungary<br />
has been signed, Brazil has passed an international<br />
copyright measure, and progress has been made<br />
towards relations with Mexico in the protection of<br />
mechanical music reproduction.<br />
These years were also fruitful in coprright<br />
advance in other countries, notably in the Orient<br />
Japan in 1910 passed an amendatory act of im-<br />
portance, broadening the scope of copyright, and<br />
China took its first step toward national copyright,<br />
while in 1911 Turkey adopted a new and comprehen-<br />
sive code. All three Scandinavian countries<br />
adopted amendatory acts within the four years,<br />
and Russia in 1911 passed a new domestic code,<br />
the first result of which was its first international<br />
relation through a treaty with France, and the final<br />
outcome of which will probably be its adherence to<br />
the Berlin convention.<br />
Holland began the discussion of a law which<br />
will probably be passed in 1912, rescinding its<br />
panufacturing clause and making possible adhe-<br />
rence to the Berlin convention, while Portugal in<br />
1911 joined the family of nations bound together<br />
by that document. In South America, Bolivia in<br />
1909 adopted a new copyright law, Argentina in<br />
1910 also passed comprehensive legislation, and its<br />
example was followed by its neighbor, Paraguay,<br />
in 1911. The United States added substantially<br />
to its international relations, by help of the new<br />
code, until now twenty-five powers are "pro-<br />
claimed ” or treaty countries, five of which are<br />
also in reciprocal relation with respect to mechanical<br />
music, having practically followed the American<br />
precedent in the code of 1909. This by no means<br />
includes all copyright legislation, for in several<br />
other countries laws of more or less importance<br />
have been passed ; but surely this is a remarkable<br />
record for the short space of four years.<br />
Throughout this legislation, the trend has been<br />
distinctively forward, though in the legislation of<br />
English-speaking countries there have been retro-<br />
gressive steps despite the general advance formu-<br />
lated in the respective American, British, Australian<br />
and proposed Canadian codes. Continental,<br />
Oriental and South American countries, that is to<br />
say the non-English folk, have been more liberal<br />
than we in their advance. For while all these four<br />
codes, except the British, embody manufacturing<br />
restrictions, Holland and other countries are freeing<br />
their authors, and foreign authors also, from such<br />
infringement of rights in intellectual property.<br />
The British code also introduces restrictions<br />
hitherto foreign to British law. Nevertheless, all<br />
these codes are 80 distinctively betterments that<br />
the restrictive features seem small in comparison.<br />
The International Copyright Union, with the<br />
proposed accession of Great Britain and Holland<br />
to the Berlin convention, and the probable adhe-<br />
rence of Russia, will presently include all the great<br />
European nations, besides such powers as Japan,<br />
Liberia, and on this side of the Atlantic, Haiti;<br />
while the Pan American Union brought together<br />
in the Buenos Aires conference all Latin American<br />
countries, save Bolivia, as well as the United<br />
States, and its Buenos Aires convention will ulti-<br />
mately bind together a family only second in<br />
importance to that of the International Copyright<br />
L'nion. It will be some years before amendments<br />
can be secured to the present American code which<br />
will permit the United States to join the general<br />
family of nations, though it will be included in the<br />
Pan American brauch. The International Copy.<br />
right Union and the Pan American Union are so<br />
nearly on the same basis that a more comprehen-<br />
sive world union is almost sure to come about. The<br />
t'nited States, Canada and Australia will then be<br />
the only great nations “out in the cold"; in<br />
other words, the nations which should have led<br />
progress are not yet responsive to the leadership of<br />
other nations.<br />
* See General Note on Australian Copyright.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 199 (#643) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
199<br />
The friends of authors' rights and of a firm basis to be too concise tends to inaccuracy. The Appen-<br />
for the business of publishing have abundant dices contain (1) the Fine Arts Copyright Act,<br />
reason to congratulate themselves on this progress 1862 ; the Canada Copyright Act, 1875 ; the<br />
of the past four years, and they may live in hopes Musical Copyright Acts, 1902 and 1906, and the<br />
that before the present generation has passed away, Copyright Act, 1911; (2) the Berlin Convention,<br />
Anierica and the other English-speaking countries 1908 ; the Berne Convention, 1886 ; and the<br />
will be ready to achieve the final step toward world Additional Act of Paris and Interpretative Declara-<br />
union. More than sixty years ago a Philadelpbian tion, 1896, collated with the Berlin Convention,<br />
publisher, Philip H. Nicklin, prophesied in his 1908; Countries which have ratified the Berlin<br />
little book on copyright " a world-wide republic of Convention, 1908 ; (3) The United States Copyright<br />
letters," and this American dream will yet be Act, 1909 ; Rules and Regulations for the Registra-<br />
fulfilled by help of America.<br />
tion of Claims to Copyright in the United States ;<br />
Proclamation by the President of the United States.<br />
It seems hardly necessary to publish the Berlin<br />
Convention, 1908, in the original French and in<br />
THE COPYRIGHT LAW.<br />
translated form, and then to publish the translated<br />
form again collated with the Berne Convention.<br />
Mr. Hurrell's book fails owing to the fact that it<br />
CINCE Mr. Oldfield's and Mr. MacGillivray's attempts too much in too little space. Many state-<br />
D books on the Copyright Law have been pro- ments are made authoritatively in a few words which<br />
duced and passed in review two other books need much ampler treatment: to take one instance :<br />
have been placed on the market. " The Law of “When an author agrees to give certain persons<br />
Copyright," by G. S. Robertson, published by the the sole power of printing and publishing a book for<br />
Oxford University Press, and “ Copyright Law and all time, that is parting with the copyright." If<br />
the Copyright Act, 1911,” by Henry Hurrell (with a the writer had said "a work” instead of " a book”<br />
Treatise on French Copyright Law, by Maurice he might have been nearer the mark, but even then<br />
Thery), published by Messrs. Waterlow & Sons, other matters would have to be considered, as, for<br />
The first of these two books is the more ambitious; instance, the consideration paid. The work is not<br />
it does not pretend to deal merely with the new law satisfactory. The treatise on French Copyright Law<br />
of 1911, but with the general law of copyright; but (Appendix A.) is interesting, but again insufficient<br />
still, as the author mentions in the preface that “ the to be of any material use, and the Forms<br />
law in this book is stated as on the dates on which (Appendix C.) are inadequate and misleading.<br />
the Copyright Act, 1911, comes into operation,”<br />
there is little on which to pass comment beyond the<br />
Act itself ; indeed, the chapters on imperial and<br />
international copyright are not satisfactory or<br />
exhaustive, when the importance and the width<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
of the subject with which they deal are considered.<br />
The author has, according to his own state-<br />
THE EDITORIAL ('OURTESY.<br />
mnent, rearranged in some sort of order the dis-<br />
orderly provisions of the Act. This procedure SIR,—The following may be of interest to your<br />
was hardly wise, for in the new Copyright Act, readers apropos of the long delay in returning or<br />
1911, there is a definite order laid down in the accepting manuscripts.<br />
sequence of the sections, and Mr. G. S. Robertson's On October 20, in answer to an application<br />
book, in spite of its wider scope, really narrows for a story, I sent to The Bystander a manu-<br />
itself down to the Act of 1911. He may have script, at the same time asking for a speedy decision,<br />
gained some points : he has undoubtedly lost as I had several orders for stories, and Messrs. Mills<br />
many others, but the substance of the book is & Boon were publishing a book of my short<br />
evidently the result of some study and no incon- stories this spring.<br />
siderable knowledge, and the methods of explanation On December 10, as I had not beard, I wrote<br />
are such as may be easily understood by the layman; a polite letter saying that " I felt sure that it was by<br />
indeed, some concrete examples of delicate legal an oversight that they had not let me know about<br />
difficulties, such as the one on Limitations on Term the story I had sent in October in response to their<br />
of Copyright, are highly to be commended.<br />
request. That I was sorry to bother them, but I<br />
But the author seems to have lost some conciseness had many applications for stories, and being under<br />
in his desire to be clear on certain points. A law contract to my publishers for two long books, it left<br />
book is distinctly difficult to write, for to be too me so little time for stories, I knew that they would<br />
diffuse tends only to confuse the lay mind, whereas understand my difficulty.”<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#644) ############################################<br />
<br />
200<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
On December 12 I received the following<br />
letter, and the MS. :-<br />
“TALLIS HOUSE,<br />
“WHITEFRIARS,<br />
“ December 11th, 1911.<br />
“ DEAR MADAM,-I note that you have very<br />
little time to write stories. We, for our part, have<br />
very little time to read them, and are not under any<br />
special obligation to do so. In view of the tone of<br />
your letter, I therefore return herewith the story<br />
entitled “The Mediator,' in the hope that you will<br />
be successful in placing it elsewhere.<br />
“ Yours Faithfully,<br />
“The Editor,<br />
“ A.B.”<br />
“ The italics are mine. I make no comment !<br />
“Yours Truly,<br />
“ MAUD ANNESLEY."<br />
NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br />
I was glad to see “ Tamel's” letter about prize<br />
competitions and wish it could meet the eye of the<br />
dear, deluded, ordinary public. I wrote å briefer<br />
one on the same lines to a daily paper some time<br />
ago, but it did not appear.<br />
Mr. Andrew Melrose gave the case away last year<br />
when he explained his system to an interviewer, a<br />
most businesslike and reasonable system—from his<br />
point of view. All the competing novels, he said,<br />
were read first by his readers, and only those they<br />
considered “suitable" were sent on to the judges.<br />
We know exactly what that means. We know that<br />
the first duty of a publisher's reader is to discover,<br />
not genius, or works of art, but the “best seller."<br />
We are familiar with the publisher's letter inform<br />
ing us that our work is of a very high character,<br />
but is regretfully returned because it is not likely<br />
to prove a popular, financial success. The initiated<br />
are, therefore, perfectly aware what kind of books<br />
will be weeded out before the rest are sent on to the<br />
judges. They are the books that are unconven-<br />
tional, unsensational, and artistic; the books that<br />
would not please the great mass of uneducated<br />
readers.<br />
This is not to say that a book may not be a work<br />
of art and yet please the larger public. Such a<br />
thing may happen, occasionally, we know. But the<br />
chances are all against the artistic work and in favour<br />
of mediocrity.<br />
I do not, however, agree with “Tamel” that<br />
either publisher or sorter' indulges his own<br />
prejudices or taste in the matter. Both are ani-<br />
mated solely by business principles. The publisher<br />
engages the reader to pick out for him novels that<br />
will sell well; and, presumably, if the reader<br />
neglects to do this and merely consults his own taste,<br />
he will soon be asked to offer his services elsewhere!<br />
Nor do I think it will help matters if writers of<br />
talent decline to compete, for the fact will certainly<br />
not be advertised. My opinion is that the<br />
guardians of our 'self respect' in this concern are<br />
the so-called “judges,' and it rests with them<br />
whether or not publishers shall go on ‘spoofing<br />
the innocent public with their fiction of best<br />
novel' competitions. That innocent public, of<br />
course, does not know the difference between a<br />
best novel' and a best seller'; it believes, and<br />
will continue to believe, that the two are identical,<br />
and that these competitions are for the encourage-<br />
ment of genins. But the chosen judges, if they<br />
are faithful to literary ideals, ought to rebel and<br />
protest. It is for them to insist on choosing the<br />
novel they think best out of the whole number sent<br />
in, and this not only in the interests of literature<br />
but in their own interests, for the sake of their own<br />
reputations. Surely they must often blush to see<br />
themselves advertised as sponsors of the common-<br />
place fiction that is the result of these prize com-<br />
petitions ! It is true they excuse themselves by<br />
declaring that most of the work they receive is of<br />
poor quality, and this is true enough, no doubt.<br />
But why does it not occur to them that they do not<br />
receive the best work sent in? Why do they allow<br />
themselves to have foisted upon them only such<br />
novels as the publishers' readers think will sell ?<br />
It is time for those writers of quality who are<br />
honoured with this mission to maintain their dignity<br />
and the dignity of the office they are invited to<br />
fulfil; they should accept it only on conditior. that<br />
they may choose what they think best from all the<br />
novels sent in. It may take more time, but it<br />
would certainly add to, instead of detracting from,<br />
their reputations. If the publishers could get no<br />
man or woman of letters to aid them in their trade<br />
humbug, they might become public benefactors by<br />
finding out new talent. They might, moreover, do<br />
better for themselves than they are doing now. A<br />
judiciously advertised prize novel can always be<br />
made to pay, even if it does not positively cater for<br />
crude taste ; and should an immortal be discovered,<br />
what a 'scoop' for the publisher ! Would it not<br />
be worth while to risk something on such a chance ?<br />
A NOVELIST.<br />
A BLACK LIST.<br />
SIR,–Would it not be possible to publish in The<br />
Author, from time to time, a black list of magazines<br />
and pubhishers :<br />
Yours, etc.<br />
[This matter has been considered frequently by<br />
the Committee, but there are very strong reasons<br />
against the publication of such a list. Moreover,<br />
information can always be obtained on application<br />
to the Secretary.-Ed.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#645) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
vii<br />
TYPEWRITING. Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhead, Surrey, writes :-<br />
"I have just completed the rovision of my novel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without liaving been corrected or even read, and that my hand writing,<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required perception as well as care, something niore then simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a result-a result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/-<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1/- 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spaoish typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): “I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work.'<br />
MRS. TOM GODFREY: “I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
all authors who have the good fortune to hear of you. ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French."<br />
MRS. HINKSON (KATHARINE TYNAN): “I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and promptitude."<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq.: “ The work could not be better done."<br />
L. A. ST. JOHN. L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON.<br />
Bitterne Park,<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
LITERARY AGENCY.<br />
THE WEINER AGENCY, LTD.,<br />
64, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.<br />
Every facility for placing work of all descriptions. Apply<br />
for prospectus, free, from Manager, Literary Department.<br />
NOTICE TO AUTHORS.<br />
Authors in need of a good, sound, and reliable Agent should<br />
note that the New Agency Agreement of the Society of Authors<br />
has been adopted in its entirety by Mr. Stanhopo W.<br />
Sprigg (late Editor of Cassell's and the Il'indsor Magazine, and<br />
for some years Hon. Literary Adviser to the Society of Women<br />
Journalists), Trafalgar Buildings, Charing Cross, London, W.C.<br />
Every facility for placing Literary Work.<br />
SOMETHING NEW !<br />
INK-ERASING PENCIL,<br />
Just the thing for Authors and Business Men. Removes<br />
writing and blots immediately, and without injury to<br />
paper.<br />
SEND P.O. 1/2 FOR SAMPLE.<br />
C. Herbert Cæsar, Homefield, St. Albans.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
The most difficult handwriting and involved copy<br />
accurately deciphered by experts.<br />
MISS FOWLER,<br />
Maxwell House, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
on all subjects,<br />
including<br />
LITERARY,<br />
Educational,<br />
Commercial, Technical, Medical, Theological, etc., and<br />
for all examinations.<br />
Second-Hand at Half-Prices. New at 25 por<br />
cent, discount.<br />
Catalogues free. State Wants. Books sent on approval ; BOOKS<br />
BOUGHT. Best Prices Given.<br />
AUTHORS, ATTENTION !<br />
ACCURACY,<br />
ABSOLUTE SECRECY,<br />
PUNCTUALITY<br />
guaranteed by me in Typewritten<br />
copies of Manuscripts, etc.<br />
Terms : 1s. per 1,000 words; Carbon<br />
Duplicates, 3d. per 1,000.<br />
W. & G. FOYLE,<br />
135, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
MSS. of every description copied accurately<br />
and promptly,<br />
9d. per 1,000 Words<br />
(Paper and Postage inclusive).<br />
- WELL-KNOWN AUTHORS TESTIMONIALS.-<br />
Read what a satisfied Client says, and then send a<br />
trial order.<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
December 4th, 1911.<br />
I have to thank you for your prompt and most<br />
satisfactory work; the typing is excellent, and I am<br />
extremely pleased with it.<br />
(Signed) MRS. J. O. ARNOLD,<br />
Sheffield.<br />
MISS JACOBS,<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Rd., St. Albans, Herts.<br />
York Villa, Maybank Road, s. Woodford, Essex.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#646) ############################################<br />
<br />
viii<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
|| TYPEWRITING<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
To Authors, Clergymen,<br />
Playwrights, etc.-<br />
A WORD IN SEASON !<br />
Get all your work TYPED<br />
WELL-IT ADDS TONE.<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum.<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
WITH<br />
My work is always THE BEST.<br />
My prices are LOW.<br />
Send your order now.<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
All orders, large or small, receive<br />
my personal attention.<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
38, Norwood Road,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Lounge<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/--<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel—“Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—“Bookcraft, London."<br />
1 BRAINS<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND. AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
ligently copied, from 1s. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
promptness; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
over 20,000, od. Plays ruled<br />
and bound, 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and General TYPEWRITING.—Auth<br />
<br />
<br />
typed at 10d. per 1,000<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli words (carbon copy free). -<br />
EXCELSIOR TYPEWRITING OFFICES,<br />
cation.<br />
Tel.: Bank 82.<br />
20, Bucklersbury, E.C.<br />
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK.<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
and Others.<br />
New Address :-<br />
15. WIMPOLE ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX. thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
been done."<br />
Authors' MSS. carefully<br />
"Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to tbo<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE."<br />
Recommended by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms.<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.,<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen : "Many<br />
Printed by BBADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/432/1912-04-01-The-Author-22-7.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 433 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/433 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 08 (May 1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+08+%28May+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 08 (May 1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-05-01-The-Author-22-8 | | | | | 201–226 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-05-01">1912-05-01</a> | | | | | | | 8 | | | 19120501 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.–No. 8.<br />
MAY 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGS<br />
201<br />
201<br />
201<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
The Pension Fund<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
Books published by Members<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes...<br />
A Curious Suggestion<br />
United States Law<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books...<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br />
Registration of Scenarios and Origin<br />
203<br />
206<br />
207<br />
210<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
Remittancos ...<br />
General Notes ...<br />
United States Copyright<br />
Poet and Composer<br />
Authors and Reviewers ...<br />
Is It Worth It? ...<br />
“ Copyright: Its History and Its Law"<br />
The Art of the Dramatist<br />
Correspondence<br />
PAGE<br />
215<br />
215<br />
215<br />
215<br />
215<br />
216<br />
217<br />
219<br />
220<br />
212<br />
213<br />
213<br />
221<br />
223<br />
214<br />
214<br />
214<br />
215<br />
224<br />
225<br />
| G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS' LIST.<br />
THROUGH THE POSTERN GATE : A Romance in Seven Days.<br />
With nine full-page Illustrations in colour by F. H. TOWNSEND. Crown 8vo, cloth<br />
extra, os.<br />
“Mrs. Barclay writes, if you think of it, with an intuition which is nothing short of genius."—Daily Chronicle.<br />
THE SHAPE OF THE WORLD.<br />
By EVELYN ST. LEGER, Author of " Diaries of Three Women of the Last Century,”<br />
etc. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s.<br />
A story of an old county family darkened by the obstinate egoism of the men and saved by<br />
the love and spiritual strength of good women.<br />
“ Brightly written ... neither dull nor ordinary, humour and wit in the telling." -Nation.<br />
THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER.<br />
By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, Author of “ Little Lord Fauntleroy.” Crown<br />
8vo, cloth extra, is, net.<br />
A sunny little story with a message of happiness which will charm every reader.<br />
*** This is uniform with Mrs. Barclay's “ The Wheels of Time.”<br />
THE RELENTLESS CURRENT.<br />
By MAUD E. CHARLESWORTH. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s.<br />
“There are several fine characters and dramatic situations in the book, and the story is full of interest<br />
from the first page to the last."-Scotsman.<br />
IRISH FOLK HISTORY PLAYS.<br />
By LADY GREGORY. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth. 58. net each volume.<br />
Vol. 1.—THE TRAGEDIES : Grania, Kincora, Dervorgilla. Vol. II.—THE TRAGIC<br />
COMEDIES : The Canavans, The White Cockade, The Deliverer.<br />
24, BEDFORD ST., STRAND, W.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#648) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telographic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON."<br />
Telephone No. : 314 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O..M.<br />
COUNCIL,<br />
BIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. | THE RIGHT HON, THE EARL CURZON, I JUSTIN MCCARTHY.<br />
SIR Wm.REYNELL ANSON, Bart., D.C.L. G.C.S.I.<br />
THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKEK, M.P.<br />
J. M. BARRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESH FIELD.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO.<br />
SiR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. SIR HORACE<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY,<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.8.<br />
SIR RIDER HAGGABD.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
MR. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON ("LUCAS MALET"). ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIR. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
RELL, P.O.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
G. R. SIMS.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNKY, F.R.S.<br />
W. W. JACOBS,<br />
DR. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE,<br />
THE RIGHT HON. JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
THE Right Hon. 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. COMYNS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
H. G. WELLS.<br />
EGERTON CABtLK, F.8.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.8. PERCY WHITE.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (Miss FLORA L. FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT Hon.<br />
W. MORRIS COLLES.<br />
Shaw).<br />
THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
THE HON. JOAN COLLIER.<br />
Mrs. MÁXWELL (M. E. BRADDON). P.C., &c.<br />
BIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-DR. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MBS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
FRANCIS STORB,<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. CARTON.<br />
RUDOLF BESIER.<br />
| JEROME K. JEROME,<br />
| G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
C, HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
W. J. LOCKE.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MOCARTHY,<br />
JAMES T. TANNER,<br />
MISS CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE.<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN,<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
ChairmanSIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, Mus. Doc.<br />
GRANVILLE BANTOCK.<br />
CECIL FORSYTH.<br />
HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
PERCY C. BUCK, Mus. Doc.<br />
JOHN B. MCEWEN.<br />
WILLIAM WALLACE.<br />
THOMAS F. DUNHILL.<br />
ARTHUR SOMERVELL.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, | HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
ART.<br />
THE HON. JOHN COLLIER,<br />
| JOHN HASSALL, R.I.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
BIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
FIELD, ROSCOk & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W. ) Solo<br />
Solicitor in England<br />
La Société des Gens de Lettres.<br />
Legal Representative in America—JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STORDY'S GATE, 8.W.<br />
ps.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#649) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
jii<br />
- PLAYS-COTTERILL & CROMB.<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors).<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
. ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
- NO THEORIES. –<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
Literary Agents,<br />
Lennox House, Norfolk Street,<br />
-Strand, W.C.-<br />
During the past year Messrs. Cotterill & Cromb have placed<br />
literary work (Books, Serials and Short Stories) for the<br />
following Authors:--<br />
COSMO HAMILTON,<br />
GUNBY HADATH,<br />
DEREK VANE,<br />
FRANCIS MARLOWE,<br />
GEORGE EDGAR.<br />
W. HAROLD THOMSON,<br />
ANNESLEY KENEALY, HILDA COWHAM,<br />
CHARLES PROCTER,<br />
ROGER POCOCK,<br />
SEUMAS MACMANUS,<br />
REEVES SHAW,<br />
RUBY M. AYRES,<br />
MARK ALLERTON,<br />
R. MURRAY GILCHRIST. JOHN HASLETTE,<br />
BERTRAM ATKEY,<br />
CLIVE HOLLAND,<br />
F. ST. MARS<br />
NORMAN INNES,<br />
PAUL URQUHART,<br />
Etc., Etc.<br />
Each MS. receives the personal attention of Mr. Cotterill and<br />
Mr. Cromb, who have a unique knowledge of the Book and<br />
Serial Market.<br />
WRITE FOR TERMS. INTERVIEWS BY APPOINTMENT,<br />
Telephone : GERRARD 1093.<br />
FRANK HENRY RICE,<br />
Authors' Agent,<br />
50, CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK.<br />
Terms, 10 Per Cent.<br />
No Reading Fee.<br />
I do not Edit or Revise MS.<br />
Address : 28, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
"An indispensable book of reference for authors and<br />
Journalists."-Daily Graphic.<br />
MURRAY & EVENDEN'S NEW AND<br />
FORTHCOMING WORKS.<br />
LITERARY YEAR-BOOK (1912)<br />
Orown 8vo.]<br />
Price 69. net.<br />
[995 pages.<br />
CONTENTS : -- Authors' Directory; Literary<br />
Agents; Typists, etc.; Booksellers; Proof-correcting;<br />
Law and Letters [containing new Copyright Act<br />
(1911)]; British, American, Canadian, and Indian<br />
Periodicals (with a classified index and full<br />
particulars for contributors) ; Royalty Tables ;<br />
Publishers (British and Foreign); Classified List of<br />
Publishers' Requirements; Literary Societies and<br />
Clubs; A classified list of cheap reprints (93<br />
different series).<br />
Opinions of Authors:-“Many thanks for the help which the<br />
Year Book now affords."-" The Year Book is a great boon to<br />
authors, and this year is better than ever." "I have found The<br />
Literary Year Book a very valuable book of reforence."-"I<br />
take this opportunity of telling you how great a help the book is<br />
to me as an author and as a working journalist."<br />
"A work with a wide reputation and one justly earned."<br />
The Author.<br />
Authors are invited to send their names<br />
and particulars of their publications to<br />
the Editor for insertion in the next issue,<br />
Address : The Editor,<br />
c/o GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, Ltd.,<br />
68, Carter Lane, London, E.C.<br />
Morocco after Twenty-five Years, by Dr. Robert Kerr.<br />
Illustrated<br />
.. ....*°70/6 net<br />
The Cup and the Llp. By Stephen Knott ... ... 61-<br />
A Daughter of Fate. By Edgar Leigh ... ... ... 61-<br />
The Co-Respondent. By the author of “The Terror by<br />
Night"<br />
The Reformer's Wifo : A Story of Labour Troubles 100<br />
years ago ... ... ..<br />
... ... ... ... 6/.<br />
Journeys End, By C. Lone ... ... ... ... ...1/- net<br />
Diana Weston: A Story of the Monmouth Rebellion...1/- net<br />
Cairn Lodge. By Antoine le Borovski ... ... ...2/- net<br />
Marooned in the South Seas: A Story for Boys... ...2/6 net<br />
If it were come to Pass. Second Edition. By Ivor<br />
Hamilton ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...2/- net<br />
The Battle of Souls. Second Edition. By Hugh<br />
Naybard ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1/- net<br />
The National Insurance Act Explained. By Oswald<br />
H. Cooke, M.A., B.C.L. Third Edition ...<br />
...30. net<br />
MURRAY & EVENDEN,<br />
Pleydell House, Pleydell Street,<br />
Fleet Street, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#650) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
PUBLICATIONS OF THE<br />
SOCIETY.<br />
1. The Annual Report for 1911.<br />
ls. net.<br />
Price<br />
8. The Society of Authors.<br />
A Record of its Action from its Founda-<br />
tion. By WALTER BESANT (Chairman of<br />
Committee, 1888–1892). Price 1s, net.<br />
-<br />
2. The Author.<br />
Published ten months in the year (August<br />
and September omitted) devoted especially<br />
to the protection and maintenance of<br />
Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to .all Members gratis. Price to<br />
non-members, 6d., or 58. 6d. per annum,<br />
post free. Back numbers from 1892, at<br />
108. 6d. net, per vol.<br />
9. The Contract of Publication in Germany<br />
Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland.<br />
By ERNST LUNGE, J.U.D. Price 28. 6d. net.<br />
8. Literature and the Pension List.<br />
By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-Law.<br />
Price 38. net.<br />
10. Forms of Agreement issued by the<br />
Publishers' Association; with Com-<br />
ments.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING, and Illustrative<br />
Examples by Sir WALTER BESANT. 2nd<br />
Edition. Price 18, net.<br />
4. The History of the Société des Gens de<br />
Lettres.<br />
By 8. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. Price 18. net.<br />
11. Periodicals and their contributors.<br />
Giving the Terms on which the different<br />
Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS.<br />
and Contributions. Price 6d. net.<br />
6. The Cost of Production.<br />
(Out of print.)<br />
12. Society of Authors.<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907,<br />
price 6d. net.<br />
6. The Yarious Methods of Publication.<br />
By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this work,<br />
oompiled from the papers in the Society's<br />
offices, the various forms of agreements<br />
proposed by Publishers to Authors are<br />
examined, and their meaning carefully<br />
explained, with an account of the various<br />
kinds of fraud which have been made<br />
possible by the different clauses therein.<br />
Price 33. net.<br />
18. International Copyright Convention<br />
as Revised at Berlin, 1909.<br />
Price 1s. net.<br />
14. Dramatic Agency Agreement. 3d. net.<br />
7, Addenda to the Above.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being ad-<br />
ditional facts collected at the office of<br />
the Society since the publication of the<br />
“ Methods." With comments and advice.<br />
Price 28. net.<br />
18. Literary Agency Agreement. 3d. net.<br />
[All prices not. Apply to the Secretary, 89, OW Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S. W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#651) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Will this offer<br />
interest YOU?<br />
ARTISTS,<br />
Capable of illustrating Books in Colour or<br />
Black and White,<br />
ARE INVITED TO COMMUNICATE BY<br />
LETTER WITH<br />
Messrs. J. F. BELMONT & CO..<br />
29, PATERNOSTER SQUARE,<br />
LONDON, E.c.<br />
A Charming Gift to a Church School.<br />
Twelve copies, “ PROPER LESSONS<br />
TO BE READ AT MATINS AND<br />
EVENSONG ON THE SUNDAYS AND<br />
OTHER HOLY DAYS THROUGHOUT<br />
THE YEAR.” Leather, red and gilt<br />
edges; published at 1/6 and 21-<br />
each by ClowES. For 5/-,<br />
carriage paid, cash with order.<br />
A BARGAIN.<br />
The Great Barrier Reef<br />
of Australia.<br />
Exquisite Photographic Enlargements originally<br />
published at £4 4s. net; & few slightly mount-soiled<br />
subjects from the set to be had at 2- each, packing free,<br />
carriage forward.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO.,<br />
29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO.,<br />
29, Paternoster Square, E:C.<br />
-A FUND OF ECONOMIC-<br />
MATERIAL FOR AUTHORS.<br />
THE COAL WAR.<br />
OIL! OIL ! OIL !<br />
Where to get it Within the Empire.<br />
Read COO-EE'S “BLAIRS KEN.”<br />
WAR !!! FAMINE!!!<br />
ROOM FOR MILLIONS.<br />
. and.<br />
OUR FOOD SUPPLY!!!<br />
Healthy, Happy, Industrial Homes for the Unemployed.<br />
Read “COO-EE'S"<br />
THE SILVER QUEEN.<br />
London : JOHN OUSELEY, Ltd.<br />
Illustrated. Coloured Diagrams. Crown 8vo.<br />
Cloth, 2/6 ; Paper Boards, 2-.<br />
Special terms for quantities for distribution.<br />
Sample copy, post free, half price.<br />
BARGAINS IN BOOKS.<br />
Terms—Cash with order. The Tissot Pictures illustrating<br />
the Life of Christ, £6 68. net; Splendid Copy, absolutely<br />
good as new for £2 198. The Twentieth Century Practice<br />
of Medicine; an international Encyclopædia of Modern<br />
Medical Science by leading authorities of Europe and<br />
America ; 20 volumes, published 20 guineas; new, uncut,<br />
original binding, £7 10s. Cross cheques and postal orders<br />
L. & S.W. Bank, Fleet Street Branch.-J. F. BELMONT<br />
& Co., 29, Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO.,<br />
29, Paternoster Square, E.C. |<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 200 (#652) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Save your Numbers carefully until the Volume is complete<br />
“ THE AUTHOR” MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
.. BY USING. .<br />
"The<br />
Author”<br />
(The Official Organ of The<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors)<br />
MECHANICAL<br />
BINDER<br />
Cloth Gilt<br />
with Mechanism<br />
Complete.<br />
Price 2/8 net.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up, number<br />
by number, the numbers of The Author as they are published,<br />
and at the completion of the Volume can be taken off and sent<br />
to the Bookbinder-leaving the Mechanical Binder free for the<br />
next volume. Whether containing one number or a complete<br />
volume it has the appearance of, and handles the same as, an<br />
ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by which The<br />
Author can be instantly bound with the same facility as a single<br />
leaf, and there are no wires or elastic strings to get out of order.<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The Cloth<br />
Covers are made by leading London Bookbinders, and the Metal<br />
Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to break,<br />
it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
St. James' Budget :-"The advantages of the Binder are so<br />
obvious ...<br />
Leeds Mercury :-"An ingenious and accommodating inred-<br />
tion.'<br />
Westminster Budget: -"The construction of the Binder is<br />
simplicity itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end."<br />
Literary World :-"A clever device—so extremely simple and<br />
easy in applying."<br />
Sheffield Daily Telegraph :-"After use we can confidently<br />
recommend."<br />
<br />
THE BINDER OPEN.<br />
J. F. BELMONT & co., 29, Paternoster Square, LONDON, E.C.<br />
An Indispensable American Journal.<br />
“ Those who wish to know in a general way what is being done in the literary<br />
world in America cannot do better than subscribe to THE DIAL, a semi-monthly<br />
journal devoted entirely to literature. We will undertake to say that no one who<br />
is interested in literature would regret acting on our advice, and arranging for<br />
THE DIAL to rub shoulders twice a month with their Spectator, Athenæum, or<br />
Academy. . . . From whatever point of view you look at it—value of its literary<br />
contents, or its variety, or the excellence of its mechanical production—THE DIAL<br />
is entitled to a place with the best that any country can produce. . . . We again<br />
advise our readers who wish to keep the 100 millions of America in their eye to<br />
watch THE DIAL.”—THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR (London).<br />
Specimen copies of THE DIAL, together with a special offer for trial subscription, will be<br />
sent gratis to any reader of THE AUTHOR upon request.<br />
ADDRESS<br />
“THE DIAL” COMPANY, 410, SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 201 (#653) ############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 8.<br />
: MAY 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON. advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
NOTICES.<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
T OR the opinions expressed in papers that are if special information is desired.<br />
T signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
TROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the 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 />
cases that have come before the notice or to the this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have which these contributions may be paid.<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br />
them on application.<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper connected with the work of the Society.<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would (2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each TV January the secretary of the society laid<br />
month.<br />
1 before the trustees of the Pension Fund the<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the accounts for the year 1911, as settled by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the accountants, with a full statement of the result of<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other the appeal recently made on behalf of the Fund.<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to After giving the matter full consideration the<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 202 (#654) ############################################<br />
<br />
202<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
received three bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
on the matter.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' Order for 58. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and<br />
Bolivian Railway 5%. Preferred Ordinary Stock<br />
and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock.<br />
The amounts purchased at the present prices are<br />
£237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock.<br />
The trustees desire to thank the members of the<br />
society for the generous support which they have<br />
given to the Pension Fund, and have much pleasure<br />
in informing the Pension Fund Committee that<br />
there is a further sum available for the payment of<br />
another pension in case any application should be<br />
made. The money now invested amounts to<br />
£4,846 198. 4d., and is fully set out in the list<br />
below :<br />
Consols 21%<br />
4<br />
$70 ...........................£1,312 13<br />
Local Loans..............................<br />
500 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
dated Inscribed Stock..<br />
...........<br />
291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3%<br />
Debenture Stock .........<br />
250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ......... 2000<br />
Cape of Good Hope 31% Inscribed<br />
Stock .........<br />
200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
4% Preference Stock ..<br />
228 0 0<br />
New Zealand 31%. Stock ........ 247 9 6<br />
Irish Land Act 21% Guaranteed<br />
Stock .................................<br />
258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
1927-57 ......<br />
438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ...... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4% 1937 Stock ........ 120 121<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31%<br />
Land Grant Stock, 1938............. 198 3 8<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
5°. Preferred Stock ............... 237 0 0<br />
Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br />
Stock ...<br />
232 ( 0)<br />
ལ་<br />
་ ༧<br />
NOCK ....<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
1912.<br />
£ s. d.<br />
Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice . . 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 2, Sturt, George . .<br />
0 5 0<br />
Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark (in addition to<br />
present subscription). . 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H.. 06 6<br />
Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br />
to present subscription) : 050<br />
Jan. 3, Hedgcock, F. A. .<br />
Jan. 5, Matcham, Mrs. Eyre .<br />
Jan. 8, Stayton, Frank .<br />
. : 0 5<br />
Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Estella . . 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 10, Ropes, A. R.. .<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
Jan. 12, Francis, René .<br />
0 100<br />
Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br />
tion to present subscription) 0 5 0<br />
Jan. 27, Hutchinson, the Rev. H. N... 1 1 0<br />
Feb. 7, L. M. F., per month during<br />
Feb. 7, Letts, Miss W. M. . . .050<br />
Feb. 8, Cooke, W. Bourne . . . 1 1 0<br />
Feb. 8, Annesley, Miss Maude . . ( 10 6<br />
Feb. 9, O'Donnell, Miss Petronella : 0 5 0<br />
March 6, Curwen, Miss Maud . . 0 5 0<br />
March 6, Anderson, Arthur . . 1 1 0<br />
March 15, George, W. L. (in addition<br />
to present subscription). 0 10 0<br />
April 6, Bland, ). O. P. .<br />
. 0 10 0<br />
April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil. . . 0 5 0<br />
April 6, Forrester, J. Cliffe. . . 05<br />
1912<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
Total<br />
... £4,846 194<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· .<br />
THE list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br />
tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br />
by, or promised to, the fund from January 1,<br />
1912.<br />
It does not include either donations given<br />
prior to January 1, nor does it include sub-<br />
scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br />
before it.<br />
The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br />
appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
Donations.<br />
1912.<br />
Jan. 2, Risque, W. H. .<br />
Jan. 2, Dart, Miss Edith .<br />
Jan. 3, “K.” .<br />
Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur.<br />
Jan. 3, Durrant, W. Scott<br />
Jan. 3, Tighe, Henry :<br />
Jan. 3, Grant, Lady Sybil .<br />
Jan. 4, Smith, Bertram<br />
Jan. 4, Buckrose, J. E. .<br />
·<br />
( 10<br />
0 10<br />
( 10<br />
1 1<br />
· · ·<br />
0<br />
6<br />
0<br />
0<br />
.<br />
· · ·<br />
·<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
0 100<br />
. 1 0 0<br />
· 20 00<br />
. 1 1 0<br />
·<br />
·<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 203 (#655) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
203<br />
. .<br />
:<br />
er co<br />
. .<br />
£<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
0<br />
1<br />
0<br />
3<br />
1<br />
s. d<br />
1 0<br />
3 10<br />
5 0<br />
1<br />
5 0<br />
6 0<br />
5 0<br />
3 0<br />
1 0<br />
£ s. d.<br />
0 5 0 March 25, Williams, Mrs. Illtyd . .<br />
0 10 0 April 2, XX. Pen Club .<br />
10 0 April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil .<br />
10 0 April 6, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte<br />
0 5 0 April 10, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole<br />
0 5 0 April 10, Robbins, Alfred F. .<br />
0 5 0 April 10, Harris, Emma H. .<br />
.<br />
10 April 11, Ralli, C. Scaramanga.<br />
1 10 April 11, Aitken, Robert . .<br />
0 5 0 April 16, L. M. F. (£1 per month,<br />
2 2 0<br />
February, March, April)<br />
April 22, Prior, Mrs. Melton . .<br />
2 2 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
c.<br />
O<br />
. .<br />
.<br />
. .<br />
oget<br />
. ·<br />
3 0<br />
0 10<br />
0<br />
6<br />
· ·<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
er er en oerer er<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
Jan. 4, Lathbury, Miss Eva<br />
.<br />
Jan. 5, Wilson, Dr. Albert .<br />
Jan. 5, Craven, A. Scott .<br />
Jan. 6, Blundell, Miss Alice<br />
Jan. 6, Garbutt, W. H. .<br />
Jan. 6, Serjeant, Miss Constance<br />
Jan. 9, Chamberlayne, Miss Effie<br />
Jan. 9, Hamel, Frank<br />
Jan. 10, Allen, W. Bird .<br />
Jan. 10, Crellin, H. N.<br />
Jan. 10, Smith, Herbert W.<br />
Jan. 12, Randall, F. J.<br />
Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
•<br />
Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W... . ,<br />
Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M. . .<br />
Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney .<br />
Jan. 20, M'Ewan, Miss Madge.<br />
Jan. 22, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila<br />
Jan. 22, Mackenzie, Miss J. .<br />
Jan. 22, Reiss, Miss Erna . .<br />
Jan. 22, Grisewood, R. Norman.<br />
Jan. 23, Machen, Arthur.<br />
Jan. 24, Williamson, C. N. and Mrs. J. N.<br />
Jan. 26, Way, Miss Beatrice .<br />
Jan. 30, Saies, Mrs. Florence H. .<br />
Jan. 30, Weyman, Stanley (in addition<br />
to subscription).<br />
.<br />
Jan. 30, S. F. G. . . . .<br />
Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br />
Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br />
Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James.<br />
Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br />
Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady .<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. . .<br />
Feb. 12, King, A. R. . .<br />
Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. .<br />
Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br />
Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. E. W.<br />
Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival<br />
Feb. 17, Raphael, Mrs. .<br />
.<br />
Feb. 19, Cabourn, John .<br />
Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A.<br />
Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and M<br />
Feb. 24, Hamilton, Cosmo<br />
Feb. 27, Plowman, Miss Mary.<br />
Feb. 28, Aspinall, A. E. . .<br />
March 2, Montesole, Max,<br />
March 9, Pickering, Mrs. Frank .<br />
March 15, Trevanwyn, John .<br />
March 16, O'Higgins, H. J. .<br />
March 18, Wallis-Healy, F. C...<br />
March 18, Schwarz, Prof. Ernest<br />
March 19, Wallace, Sir Donald M<br />
kenzie, K.C.V.O..<br />
March 21, Wharton, Leonard .<br />
March 22, Holbach, Mrs. . . .<br />
March 23, Parks, W. C. . .<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
errerer Bu06-<br />
.<br />
.<br />
O m HE committee met at the offices of the society<br />
on April 1st. According to the usual custom,<br />
the chairman for the current year was elected<br />
1 1 0 at this meeting, being the first meeting after the<br />
5 5 0 annual general meeting, when the committee<br />
0 5 0 election takes place. Dr. S. Squire Sprigge, on the<br />
( 8 6 proposal of Sir Alfred Bateman, seconded by Mr.<br />
Hesketh Prichard, was elected chairman for 1912.<br />
1 1 0 The committee then proceeded with the election of<br />
1 1 0 members and are glad to report another large<br />
10 0 increase, thirty-three members and associates being<br />
0 100 added to the list, making the total election for the<br />
1 1 0 year 133. There were six resignations.<br />
( 10 6 The solicitors then laid before the committee a<br />
0 0 report of the legal work done during the month.<br />
0 5 0 At the last meeting they reported that a writ had<br />
O been issued for the recovery of royalties. They were<br />
0 5 0 now happy to state that the royalties and costs had<br />
0 been paid and the matter settled. In the second<br />
1 1 0 case, reported also at the last meeting, where a writ<br />
0 had been issued, the accounts had now been<br />
0 5 0 obtained. The solicitors having elicited a full<br />
0 5 0 statement from the other side, now reported that<br />
O they were in a position to settle. In another case,<br />
chronicled last month, the advice of the committee<br />
0 had been accepted by the member concerned and<br />
0 2 6 the case was closed. The solicitors reported that<br />
0 10 0 in a bankruptcy case which the society had taken<br />
6 up on behalf of one of its members, they were<br />
0 afraid no money would be forthcoming. A certain<br />
1 1 0 number of actions had been taken against a paper<br />
1 1 0 on behalf of contributors whose payments were in<br />
3 0 arrear. One had been settled, and the solicitors<br />
0 5 0 hoped to report the settlement of another next<br />
month as judgment had been signed. In a case of<br />
5 5 0 dramatic work, where judgment had been signed<br />
0 5 0 on behalf of one of the members of the society, the<br />
5 0. solicitors had got into touch with the defendant<br />
0 5 0 and hoped to be able to make some satisfactory<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 204 (#656) ############################################<br />
<br />
204<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
settlement. Upon another case, also for a dra- without alteration, but Mr. Hall Caine, subject to<br />
matist, the solicitors reported at some length. It his being willing to undertake the duties, was elected<br />
related to a dispute between two members of the to the Copyright Sub-Committee in recognition of<br />
society. The legal position, which, originally, had his work on the Copyright Bill.<br />
been very complicated, had been made clearer by An enquiry was made of the committee as to<br />
the explanation of the complaining party, and the their action in respect of the literary and the<br />
solicitors set out the facts in detail. The com- dramatic censorships. The secretary was instructed<br />
mittee gave the whole matter very careful con- to write to the member making the enquiry,<br />
sideration and authorised the solicitors, if possible, explaining the work which the committee had done.<br />
to settle the dispute, acting as arbitrators between It would be inexpedient to set out fully the action<br />
the two parties. If, however, they found it of the committee, but it may be as well to state<br />
impossible to settle, they were to refer it back to that matters of such importance to authors and<br />
the committee.<br />
dramatists had not escaped their consideration.<br />
The secretary then laid before the committee A resolution from the Nobel Prize Committee<br />
a letter one of the members had received from a requesting their disbandment was next considered.<br />
publisher. He was instructed, with the member's The committee decided, having obtained the opinion<br />
authority, to write to the publisher on the matter. of the chairman, Lord Avebury, and having care-<br />
In another case the secretary put before the fully considered the whole situation, that they could<br />
committee the desire of a member that the society not accept the resolution, and instructed the Nobel<br />
should take steps to discover whether his book was Prize Committee to that effect. The committee<br />
being pirated in the Colonies. It is necessary to considered that the society should still maintain:<br />
state, in regard to this case, that the society had its position, recognised by the Swedish Academy,<br />
already taken action at the request of the member as the agent for the collection of the votes in<br />
to stop an infringement which had occurred in England.<br />
England, and had obtained a large sum for him The question of Russian copyright was next<br />
as damages for such infringement. The committee discussed, and the secretary reported that Russia<br />
instructed the secretary to point out that it was and France had signed a treaty for copyright<br />
outside the society's scope to act as detectives with protection. He mentioned the steps which had<br />
a view to discovery of infringements of copyright, been taken in order, if possible, to obtain a treaty<br />
but that in the circumstances if the member was between Great Britain and Russia, and was<br />
willing to pay a certain sum to defray out-of- instructed to press the matter forward.<br />
pocket expenses the society would do its best to The suggestions put forward at the general<br />
assist bim.<br />
meeting by various members were next considered.<br />
A member laid before the committee a complaint They were as follows:-<br />
against a publisher, arising out of an agreement 1. That further articles should be published in<br />
which he had signed. While the committee gave the The Author dealing with publishers' agreements.<br />
matter their serious consideration, they instructed 2. That the society should claim for the general<br />
the secretary to express their regret that they did fund a commission on sums of money recovered for<br />
not see how they could interfere, as the member members.<br />
must be bound by the terms of his contract.<br />
3. That a fresh issue of The Cost of Production<br />
The secretary mentioned also an action which had should be published.<br />
come before the City of London Court, in which All these matters had the committee's serious<br />
His Honour had referred the issues to the arbitra- consideration. After considering the first, they<br />
ment of the secretary of the society. The com- decided to print further agreements from time to<br />
mittee authorised the secretary to act.<br />
time, with comments.<br />
Following the cases came the question of the They did not think, in the matter of the second<br />
re-election of the sub-committees, which also takes proposal, that it would be possible for them to ask<br />
place at the first meeting of the Committee of for commission on moneys recovered for members.<br />
Management following the general meeting.<br />
They considered that such a claim, even if it could<br />
The sub-commitees were re-elected. Mr. W.J. be made legally, would be undignified. At the<br />
Locke and Mr. James T. Tanner were elected to same time they wish to chronicle the fact that some<br />
fill the vacancies on the Dramatic Sub-Committee members have recognised the work of the society<br />
caused by the retirement of Mr. Granville Barker by donations to its capital fund.<br />
and Captain Basil Hood. These gentlemen had In the matter of The Cost of Production the<br />
been approved by the dramatic section of the committee think it may be possible, first through<br />
society. The Composers' Sub-Committee having the columns of The Author, and finally in book<br />
only recently been elected, the election was con- forn, to issue some articles on this subject, but in<br />
firmed. The other sub-committees were re-elected view of the expense it will involve the committee<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 205 (#657) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
205<br />
feel that before they can undertake the work, it will cases which had been taken in hand by the society.<br />
be necessary, by means of a subscription list, to One case of no small importance referred to the<br />
ascertain what support they may expect from the infringement of a member's copyright in Canada.<br />
members. They desire, however, to add that any The second matter for discussion referred to the<br />
particulars touching the cost of production can question of fees from the managers of portable<br />
always be obtained on application to the secretary. theatres, and a letter was read which had been<br />
A letter from the advertisement agents was read received from the secretary of the Travelling Theatre<br />
to the committee, and the committee decided to Managers' Association in which it was stated that<br />
continue under the present agreement which is that association would communicate with the<br />
binding on the agents and the society for another Dramatic Sub-Committee when the matter under<br />
two years.<br />
discussion had been placed before the annual<br />
Authority was given for the affixing of the seal general meeting of that association, which would<br />
of the society to a divident warrant.<br />
take place in June.<br />
The Managerial Treaty, which had taken so<br />
much of the time of the sub-committee and the<br />
Dramatists' Club, was finally settled. The draft<br />
JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING.<br />
of a letter to be sent to the chairman of the Society<br />
of West End Managers by the chairman of the<br />
“ COPYRIGHT ACT REGULATIONS."<br />
Dramatic Sub-Committee was considered and<br />
JUST before the Easter holidays the Board of settled, and the secretary was instructed to obtain<br />
Trade forwarded to the Society of Authors the draft the chairman's signature and to forward the letter.<br />
of the statutory rules and orders provided under The sub-committee also chose certain gentlemen to<br />
section 3 and section 19, subsection 6, of the undertake-subject to their consent—the duties of<br />
Copyright Act, 1911. As there was no time to call delegates to meet the representatives of the Society<br />
a meeting till after the Easter holidays, the Chair- of West End Managers, and the secretary was<br />
man, to whom the secretary referred the matter, instructed to enquire whether they would be willing<br />
decided to obtain a report from counsel-Mr. E. to serve.<br />
J. MacGillivray_and to call a meeting of the three The settlement of the schedule of fees referred to<br />
committees together to consider the report when it at the last meeting of the sub-committee was<br />
came to hand. As the time allowed by the Board adjourned for further discussion, as also was the<br />
of Trade for submitting any suggestions on the question of the collection of fees for amateur rights,<br />
rules was short, the meeting was called for Thurs- and the percentages that should be paid to agents<br />
day, April 18. Previous to the meeting Mr. for such collection.<br />
MacGillivray's report was forwarded with a copy<br />
of the rules and orders to every member. The<br />
Cases.<br />
meeting was held at the rooms of the Society of<br />
Arts. The Chairman opened the meeting by<br />
OWING to the Easter Vacation falling in the<br />
reading the report, and then placed it before the<br />
month of April, there are few cases for that<br />
committees paragraph by paragraph. The prin-<br />
month to record in this issue. In only nine<br />
ciples laid down in the report were accepted. The<br />
matters has the secretary intervened. Three of<br />
chairman then invited the members present to<br />
these referred to the settlement of accounts. One<br />
indicate any other directions in which they thought<br />
has been settled, and in the other two cases matters<br />
the interests of copyright holders should be pro-<br />
are still in the course of negotiation. In one case<br />
tected under these rules. There was some discussion,<br />
the publisher has offered and the author is con-<br />
and finally certain points to be embodied in the<br />
sidering certain proposals of settlement. In the<br />
report were agreed to. The secretary was instructed<br />
other case the publisher has pleaded, first, that the<br />
to draft the report, and Mr. MacGillivray was kind<br />
principal was abroad, and, secondly, that certain<br />
enough to undertake the work of revising it before<br />
changes were being made in the firm. Another<br />
it was sent to the Board of Trade.<br />
case, remaining over from the previous month, lies<br />
against the latter firm, and the secretary has been<br />
obliged to press for immediate settlement, failing<br />
which it will be necessary to transfer the claims to<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
the society's solicitors. In one case for the return<br />
of a MS. the MS. has been returned. There have<br />
THE April meeting of the Dramatic Sub-Com- been two demands for money. One has been<br />
mittee was held at the offices of the society on the settled and the other has so recently come into the<br />
19th. After the minutes of the previous meeting office that there has been no time for a reply to the<br />
had been read the secretary reported the dramatic secretary's letter. Two out of three disputes on<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 206 (#658) ############################################<br />
<br />
206<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
minor points in agreements have been settled, the Quarrell, Mrs. E. A.. . Ladies' Army and<br />
publishers having given the necessary explanations.<br />
Navy Club, Bur-<br />
The third is rather a difficult matter, as it refers<br />
lington Gardens,<br />
to a question of whether work done by a printer is<br />
W.<br />
up to sample and according to contract, but as Robbins, Alfred F. . . Dunheved, Villa<br />
negotiations are proceeding it is hoped it will be<br />
Road, S.W.<br />
closed by next month.<br />
Sargent, Frederic . . 162, Portsdown Man-<br />
There is a case open, beyond the one already<br />
sions, W.<br />
mentioned from the former month, but as the Smith, Miss Annie Burns. 227, Kenelm Road,<br />
member lives in South Africa the matter must<br />
Small Heath, Bir-<br />
necessarily be delayed.<br />
mingham.<br />
Two matters have been placed in the hands of Speer, William H., M.A., Poweyscourt, Bal-<br />
the society's solicitors forth with without the inter- Mus.Doc. .<br />
. combe, Sussex.<br />
vention of the secretary, and these matters will be Spottiswoode, Sybil . . 2, Sion Hill Place,<br />
referred to in the Committee Notes in the June<br />
Bath.<br />
issue of The Author.<br />
Sterrey, Charles Ernest . West Hill, Manor<br />
Avenue, Kidder-<br />
minster.<br />
Elections.<br />
Taylor, Mrs, Basil (Harriet Holland Lodge, 35,<br />
Osgood)<br />
. . Addison Road, W.<br />
Anderton H. Osmond . Hermitage, Broad Webb, Mrs. David (Anne<br />
Meadow, King's Weaver).<br />
Norton.<br />
Wood, Mrs. A. E., clo J. B.<br />
Bilsborough, Katie Bank Cottage, Grass Wood, Esq., C.I.E. . Indore, Central India.<br />
Florence . . . ington, Yorkshire.<br />
Black, Miss Clementina.<br />
Bland, John Otway Percy The Clock House,<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
Shepperton-on-<br />
Thames.<br />
Bridge, Frank . . . 23, Foster Road, WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
Chiswick, W. this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
Corbett-Smith, Capt.<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
Arthur.<br />
Middle Temple, E.C.<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 />
Dunkler. Charlwood. . 5, Chesterfield Place, largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
Weymouth.<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
Forrester, J. Cliffe. . 42, Argyle Road,<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
West Ealing.<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate,<br />
Forsythe, R. . . . 6, Salisbury Road,<br />
ART.<br />
Godstone, Surrey. SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL SOUVENIR OF THE SHAKE-<br />
Guest, Mrs. Carmel Haden 16a, John Street, SPEARE BALL. Edited by MRS. GEORGE CORNWALLIS-<br />
Adelphi.<br />
WEST18 x 113. F. Warne. £5 58. n.<br />
Harris, Mrs. E. H. . . Grey Abbey, Cocker-<br />
ART AND THE COMMON WEAL. By WILLIAM ARCHER.<br />
(Conway Memorial Lecture, delivered at South Place<br />
mouth, Cumber Institute on February 23rd, 1912.) 63 X 44. 76 pp.<br />
land.<br />
Watts, 9d. n.<br />
Jarvis, Winifrede (Oliver<br />
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.<br />
Dryasdust)<br />
FIVE SHORT PLAYS FOR CHILDREN. By ANTONIA R.<br />
Jebb, Miss Eglantyne . 6, Harvey Road,<br />
WILLIAMS. 74 x 44. 44 pp. Year Book Press. 60.n.<br />
Cambridge.<br />
Jefry, John.<br />
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.<br />
Keate, Miss . . . Hampton Court LETTERS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS. By MARIE DE<br />
Palace.<br />
JONCOURT (MRS. W. PHIPSON BEALE). A Supplement<br />
to WHOLESOME COOKERY, by the Samé Author.* 74 x 5.<br />
Kenny, Rowland . . New Reform Club.<br />
133 pp. Kegan Paul. 18. (Paper); 13. 6d. (Cloth).<br />
Linecar, Arthur, (Arthur<br />
Grim).<br />
DRAMA,<br />
Mackay, Mrs.<br />
PLAY-MAKING : A Manual of Craftsmanship. By WILLIAM<br />
Miller, Miss Dorothy 4, Hova Court, Hove,<br />
ARCHER, 9 X 54. 371 pp. Chapman & Hal. 78.6d. n.<br />
MILESTONES : A Play in Three Acts. By ARNOLD BENNETT<br />
Blanche<br />
. Sussex.<br />
and E. KNOBLAUCH, 63 X 44 126 pp. Methuen.<br />
O'Neill, Miss Mary.<br />
28. n.<br />
AKING X 56. o Three Acts..126<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 207 (#659) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
207<br />
FICTION.<br />
POETRY.<br />
IN COTTON WOOL. By W. B. MAXWELL. 78 X 5. 396 pp. THE ISCARIOT. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 8 X 54. 55 pp.<br />
Hutchinson. 68.<br />
Murray. 38. 6d. n.<br />
FOUR CHIMNEYS. By S. MACNAUGHTAN. 74 x 44. POEMS. ' By CLIFFORD KING. 400 pp. Kegan Paul.<br />
314 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
58. n.<br />
THROUGH THE POSTERN GATE. By FLORENCE L, BAR- MOODS, SONGS, AND DOGGERELS. By John GALSWORTHY.<br />
CLAY. 74 X 5. 269 pp. Putnam. 68.<br />
9 x 54, 96 pp. Heinemann. 58. n.<br />
THE VOICE FROM THE NIGHT. By CHARLES E. STERRY.<br />
74 x 5. 438 pp. George Allen. 68.<br />
POLITICAL<br />
THE APPLE OF EDEN. By E. TEMPLE THURSTON. 8 X<br />
CHINA IN TRANSFORMATION. By A. R. COLQUHOUN.<br />
54. 127 pp. Stanley Paul. 6d.<br />
THE GARDEN OF SWORDS. By MAX PEMBERTON. 71 x 5.<br />
Revised and Enlarged. With Two Maps. 78 X 5.<br />
328 pp. Cassell. 1s. n.<br />
299 pp. Harper. 58. n.<br />
THE FAMILY LIVING. By E. H. LACON WATSON. 71 X<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
· Ō. 371 pp. Murray. 68.<br />
THE NIGHT LAND. By WM. HOPE HODGSON. 73 x 5. AN EASTER ANTHOLOGY. Collected, Arranged, and Edited<br />
583 pp. Nash. 68.<br />
by W. KNIGHT. 7 x 4?. 218 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson,<br />
SON OF THE IMMORTALS. By LOUIS TRACY. 73 x 5. 28. 6d. n.<br />
316 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
THACKERAY'S BOOK OF SNOBS. With an Introduction by<br />
THE STOLEN BACILLUS. By H. G. WELLS; THE GIANT G. K. CAESTERTON. 260 pp. 6 X 4. Blackie. 28. 6d. n.<br />
FISHER. By MRS. HUBERT BARCLAY; THE THREE<br />
KNAVES. By EDEN PHILLPOTTS. 6 X 4. Macmillan's<br />
SPORT.<br />
Sevenpenny Series.<br />
SPORTSMEN AND OTHERS. By R. C. LEHMANN. 78 X 5.<br />
THE FOUR FEATHERS. By A. E. W. MASON. 61 X 41.<br />
226 pp. Kegan Paul. 38. 6d. n.<br />
379 pp. (Library of Copyright Fiction.) Nelson. 6d. n.<br />
THE HUNTING YEAR. By WILLIAM SCARTH Dixon.<br />
THE MAJOR'S NIECE. By G. A. BIRMINGHAM. 71 x 5.<br />
Illustrated. London : W. J. Ham Smith. 68. n.<br />
302 pp. Smith, Elder. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE FAITH OF HIS FATHERS. A Story of Some Idealists.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
By A. E, JACOMB. 7 X 41. 339 pp. Melrose. ls. n.<br />
THE CUP AND THE LIP, By STEPHEN KNOTT. 71 x 5.<br />
BAHAISM : The Religion of Brotherhood and its Place in<br />
Murray & Evenden. 68.<br />
the Evolution of Creeds. By F. H. SKRINE. 77 x 5.<br />
THE DEWPOND. By CHARLES MARRIOTT. 8 X 5. 344 pp.<br />
72 pp. Longmang. 18. 6d.<br />
Hurst & Blackett. 68.<br />
THE ORDINARY MAN AND THE EXTRAORDINARY THING.<br />
A BACHELOR'S COMEDY. By J. E, BUCKROSE. 73 x 5.<br />
By HAROLD BEGBIE. 73 x 5, 256 pp. Hodder &<br />
307 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
Stoughton. 68.<br />
ELIZABETH IN RETREAT. By MARGARET WESTRUP<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
(MRS. W. SYDNEY STACEY.) 7.1 x 5. 428 pp. Lane. 6s. THE LONDON MUSEUM AT KENSINGTON PALACE. Being<br />
LOVE GILDS THE SCENE AND WOMEN GUIDE THE PLOT. an Historical Guide to the Palace and its Contents. By<br />
By AGNES and EGERTON CASTLE. 78 X 5. 339 pp. E. LAW, F.S.A. 71 X 54. 179 pp. Hugh Rees.<br />
Smith, Elder. 63.<br />
THE ISLE OF WIGHT. Described by EDWARD THOMAS.<br />
THE GOVERNESS. By MRS. ALFRED HUNT and VIOLET<br />
9 x 63. 64 pp. Blackie. 28. n.<br />
HUNT. With a Preface by FORD MADOX HUEFFER. WINCHESTER. Described by SIDNEY HEATH. 94 x 68.<br />
73 X 44. 315 pp. Chatto & Windus. 68.<br />
64 pp. Blackie. 28. n.<br />
THE KING's Kiss. An Historical Romance. By L. M.<br />
STACPOOLE KENNY. 74 x 5. 288 pp. Digby, Long. 68.<br />
THE WOMAN WHO TEMPTED. By GERTRUDE WARDEN.<br />
7 x 5. 304 pp. Ward, Lock. 6s.<br />
A GIRL FROM THE SOUTH. By CHARLES GARVICE. 7*X<br />
5. 340 pp. Cassell. 18. n.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
TRYPHENA IN LOVE AND YOUNG SAM AND SABINA. By<br />
NOTES.<br />
WALTER RAYMOND. 78 X 5. 295 pp. Dent. 38. 6d.<br />
JOHN INGERFIELD AND OTHER STORIES. By JEROME K.<br />
JEROME. 6 X 44. 220 pp. (Cheap Reprints.) F.<br />
Palmer. 18, n.<br />
"M ESS of the d'Urbevilles” and “Far from the<br />
GEOGRAPHY.<br />
1 Madding Crowd ” are the first two volumes.<br />
OXFORDSHIRE. By P. H. DITCHFIELD. 218 pp. Cam.<br />
published in the new Wessex edition of the<br />
bridge University Press.<br />
works of Mr. Thomas Hardy in prose and verse,<br />
with preface and notes. The edition will be com-<br />
LITERARY.<br />
pleted in twenty volumes, price 78. 6d. nett each.<br />
LEAVES OF PROSE. By ANNIE MATHESON. With Two<br />
Each volume is to contain a frontispiece in photo-<br />
Studies. By MAY SINCLAIR. 75 X 5. 315 pp. S.<br />
Swift. 58. n.<br />
gravure, and a map of the Wessex of the novels<br />
MEDICAL.<br />
and poems. The author has written a new general<br />
THE MOTHER'S BOOK ON THE REARING OF HEALTHY preface for the present edition, which appears in<br />
CHILDREN. By FLORENCE STACPOOLE. 7 X 4. 120 pp. « Tess of the d'Urbevilles.” Messrs. Macmillan &<br />
Wells, Gardner. ls.<br />
Co. are the publishers.<br />
PHILOSOPHY.<br />
In “Our Future Existence” or “ The Death-<br />
THE KINGDOM OF MAN. By SIR RAY LANKESTER. New purviving VOSCIOUSNESS Olmal, Dy Dulo<br />
Surviving Consciousness of Man," by Mr. Fred. G.<br />
and Revised Edition. 8} 51. 114 pp. Watts. 18.n. Shaw, the author's primary object is to establish<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 208 (#660) ############################################<br />
<br />
208<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
the reality of a death-surviving consciousness and the end of March. The same author has a story in<br />
to prove that this consciousness is distinct from Pearson's Magazine for April. The story, which is<br />
and has a separate existence from the normal con- called “Cupid, Librarian,” won a £10 prize in the<br />
sciousness of our everyday life. The book is issued £260 Story Competition run by that magazine.<br />
at 10s. 6d. nett, and copies may be obtained from Mrs. Charlotte Cameron, whose last book, “A<br />
the author, whose address is Neville Court, Abbey Woman's Winter in South America,” was published<br />
Road, N.W.<br />
by Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co., is about to publish<br />
The scene of Louise M. Stacpoole Kenny's new a novel on the Delhi Durbar. Mrs. Cameron was<br />
novel, entitled “The King's Kiss” (Digby, Long & special correspondent for The Lady's Pictorial<br />
Co.), is to be found in the France of the seven- during that period.<br />
teenth century. Many of the characters of her Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously<br />
previous novel: Love is Life” (Greening & Co.) pleased to accept a set of Mrs. Alice Perrin's Anglo-<br />
appear in this historical romance. The heroine, Indian novels, specially bound.<br />
Iseult Marquise de Saint-Armand, relates the story Mrs. Fred. Reynolds will publish shortly, through<br />
of the kiss she was forced to receive from Louis Messrs. Chapman & Hall, her twenty-first novel.<br />
Quatorze in order to save the life of her Irish It is entitled “ The Grey Terrace," and deals largely<br />
cousin Harry Macnamara, who as a Whig and a with the problem as to how far a man must hold<br />
Protestant had acquired the enmity of some mem- himself responsible for the accidental slaying of<br />
bers of the French Court. Her husband, Victor de another. The greater part of the book, like "The<br />
Saint-Armand, passionately resents the king's Horseshoe,” by the same author, has its setting in<br />
embrace, throws his wife from him, and, riding to Cornwall.<br />
Versailles, has a stormy scene with Louis. As a Messrs. John Ouseley will shortly publish a new<br />
result the Marquis disappears, and Iseult, left in novel, “Until That Day," by Harold Wintle,<br />
ignorance of his fate, gets brain fever, and when F.R.G.S.<br />
she recovers goes through many trials. The K. L. Montgomery's new novel, “ The Gate-<br />
story of the love of Alain Vicomte de Lescure openers," will shortly be published by Mr. John<br />
- Iseult's brother—for Aileen Macnamara and Long. “The Gate-openers," the germ of which<br />
for his former sweetheart Yvonne Duchesse de ran in serial form through the Sunday Chronicle,<br />
Nevers, is interwoven with the romance, and many under the title of “ A Rebekah Rioter," deals with<br />
famous personages besides the Roi Soleil appear in the history of the toll agitations in South Wales<br />
its pages, amongst others James II., his Queen, during the “Hungry Forties.”<br />
Mary of Modena, and Frances, Duchess of Mr. W. L. George's new novel, “ The City of<br />
Tyrconnel.<br />
Light : a Story of Modern Paris," published here<br />
In the United States, Benziger Brothers, New last month by Messrs. Constable & Co., will be<br />
York, have published Louise M. Stacpoole Kenny's published very shortly in the United States by<br />
'A Knight of the Green Shield. A romance of Messrs. Brentano.<br />
the days of Saint Louis.” This firm previously Mr. E. A. Reynolds-Ball published last month a<br />
issued for her “St. Charles Borromeo. A sketch new work, entitled “Outfit and Equipment for the<br />
of the Reforming Cardinal,” and “ Francis de Sales. Traveller, Explorer, and Sportsman." The work<br />
A Study of the Gentle Saint.”<br />
contains a chapter on outfit and equipment by Ralph<br />
“ Corn in Egypt” is the title of a new book by Durand ; one on health for the traveller, by Mr.<br />
Mr. E. Newton Bungey, which Messrs. Lynwood & Reynolds-Ball; one on equipment for the big<br />
Co. are publishing. The scene is laid in an English game sportsman, by F. C. Selous, as well as other<br />
village, and the corn in Egypt" is the new rector, chapters on matters of interest to travellers.<br />
who is a bachelor. There is a considerable golfing A second edition of Mr. Reynolds-Ball's “ Guide<br />
element in the story.<br />
to Jerusalem " has also appeared. It has been<br />
H.M. Queen Alexandra has graciously accepted revised and enlarged, with plan of Jerusalem, four<br />
a copy of Mr. Isidore Ascher's volume of sonnets, maps, and five page illustrations. It is published<br />
which Mr. Arthur H. Stockwell has just published. by Messrs. A. & C. Black.<br />
Mr. Robert H. Sherard has recently finished a "A Free Farmer in a Free State," by J. W.<br />
new novel entitled “My French Husband,” told in Robertson-Scott (Home Counties) is a study of<br />
the first person by the heroine. Mr. Sherard's rural life and industry in Holland. The author<br />
novel “After the Fault” is being translated into has visited Holland at intervals during the past<br />
French by Monsieur Georges Bazill, and will appear quarter of a century, and has made a study of the<br />
as a feuilleton in Le Temps newspaper.<br />
agriculture and horticulture in every one of its<br />
"A Little Aversion," by Clara J. Martin, was provinces, special facilities being afforded him by<br />
published by Messrs. Arrowsmith, of Bristol, and the Dutch Department of Agriculture. The book<br />
Messrs. Simpkin, Marshall & Co., London, towards is illustrated from a number of photographs, which<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 209 (#661) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
209<br />
show not only the details of agricultural organisa Messrs. Maunsel & Co., Ltd., of Dublin, the<br />
tion, but also the intimate life of the rural publishers of the works of J. M. Synge and of<br />
population. Mr. William Heinemann publishes other notable books by Irish writers, inform us that<br />
the book.<br />
they are extending the scope of their business so as<br />
Mrs. Alec Tweedie has an article on “Eugenics” to include in their catalogue works by British and<br />
in the May Fortnightly. It is particularly well- American authors generally, and that they have<br />
timed, as the first International Congress of now opened London offices at Oakley House,<br />
Eugenics is to be held in London in July, opening Bloomsbury Street, W.C.<br />
with a banquet on the 24th, which will be attended by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. have just pub-<br />
prominent men and women from all over the world lished a volume entitled “Some Things We Have<br />
who are interested in the betterment of the race. Remembered," by Percy M. Thornton. The object<br />
“The Girl's Book about Herself” is the title of pursued by the author has been to record various<br />
a volume which Messrs. Cassell & Co. are publish- matters of public interest in the century covered by<br />
ing for Miss Amy B. Barnard, L.L.A. Written in a father and a son, members of the family of<br />
a chatty, personal, and confidential style, its pur- Thorntons, of Birkin, in Yorkshire.<br />
pose is to give helpful advice to girls in their middle Admiral Thornton's experiences in the French,<br />
and later teens. The book is issued at 3s 6d. net, American and Burmese Wars form the staple part<br />
uniform with “Talks with Children About of the earlier chapters, although intertwined with<br />
Themselves.”<br />
the family records and narratives concerning naval<br />
Mr. Alfred Hurry's novel, “ The Man Who Came friends. Then follow reminiscences of Harrow and<br />
to Life," has just been republished in cheap form Cambridge times, and the author's experience in<br />
by the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph.<br />
Municipal and Parliamentary life.<br />
Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. announce that in The last chapter is devoted to athletics, and con-<br />
future, commencing with the May issue, they will tains, among other things, an account of the contest<br />
publish “The Librarian and Book World,” the first between the Jesus College, Cambridge, oarsmen and<br />
number of which appeared under the title of the Belgian crew, which took place at Ghent, in<br />
“The Librarian ”about two years ago. The journal, May, 1911.<br />
in which several new features are being introduced, Mr. Russell Barrington's book, “ Through Greece<br />
is an independent one and representative of the and Dalmatia," is about to be published by Messrs.<br />
whole profession, and should appeal to the librarian, A. & C. Black. The book is illustrated from photo-<br />
publisher, bookseller, and bookbuyer alike, as well graphs and drawings by Mrs. Barrington.<br />
as to the curator of museum and art gallery. To “War and a Woman" is the title of Mr. Max<br />
the general reader it should be of assistance, as Pemberton's new book, to be published by Messrs.<br />
* Best Books," a classified and annotated monthly Cassell & Co. on May 2nd.<br />
causerie on all the best books published in this Mr. J. D. Beresford, whose first two novels,<br />
country during the year, provides an unfailing index “ The Early History of Jacob Stab]” and “The<br />
of the progress made in every department of Hampdenshire Wonder," appeared last year, has a<br />
science, art, and literature. In addition each new volume, “A Candidate for Truth," appearing<br />
number contains nearly 20,000 words on all matters through Messrs. Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd.<br />
of interest to everyone connected with books.<br />
Mr. Rafael Sabatini has chosen for the title of<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
his new novel “ The Justice of the Duke.” In this<br />
story Mr. Sabatini presents the real Cesare Borgia “The Finishing Touch,” by “Rita,” an episode<br />
as he visualises him, but in settings purely arti- of school life, was produced on March 28 at a<br />
ficial. Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. are the dramatic entertainment on behalf of the National<br />
publishers. They have added also to their “ Two Service League, given at S. Ambrose Hall, West-<br />
Shilling ” Series, Miss Dolf Wyllarde's novel “ The bourne. It was followed by another play by “ Rita,"<br />
Riding Master,” a story of modern London life, with entitled “Stamp Day in the Kitchen."<br />
a sporting interest, now in its sixth edition.<br />
Mr. William Boyle's new play, “ Family Failing,"<br />
A new addition to Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co.'s was produced at the Abbey Theatre on March 28.<br />
“Clear Type” Sixpenny Series is “The Dream The play is one of Irish rural life, and the theme<br />
and the Woman,” by Tom Gallon.<br />
the laziness of a certain family of Irish farmers who<br />
Mr. Keighley Snowden's new novel, “Bright neglect their land until they are almost without any<br />
Shame," follows “ The Free Marriage,” with the food supplies. The arrival of a relation from<br />
same publishers, Messrs. Stanley Paul & Co. It is America re-establishes the family credit, tempo-<br />
the story of a prodigal father confronted with a son rarily due to an erroneous idea that he is a man of<br />
unawares, whose parentage he has bimself to verify substance, instead of one with an almost equally<br />
and claim. An afterword pleads for bolder morals. strong aversion to industry as themselves. In the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 210 (#662) ############################################<br />
<br />
210<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
cast were Mr. Arthur Sinclair, Miss Eileen “George Sand, sa vie et ses (Euvres," by<br />
O'Doherty and Mr. Fred O'Donovan.<br />
Vladimir Karénine. This is the third volume of a<br />
Mr. G. Carlton Wallace's play, “ The Apple of work which undoubtedly stands first in value<br />
Eden," originally produced at the Elephant and amongst all the books that have been written on<br />
Castle Theatre, on August 22, 1910, was staged, that “large-brained woman and large-hearted man,<br />
last month, at the New Princes Theatre. Its plot self-called George Sand," as the gifted author is<br />
deals with the flight of Queen Margaret of Slavonia styled by the English poetess Elizabeth Browning.<br />
from the country, in the government of which she It is some years since the other two volumes were<br />
is supposed to be associated with her consort, King published, and many admirers of George Sand have<br />
Ferdinand, whose unbridled debaucheries drive her been waiting with impatience the conclusion of a<br />
forth in disgust. The cast includes Mr. Stephen E. work which will probably take its place as the<br />
Scanlan, Mr. Henry Lonsdale, and Miss Nora Lerin. definite and authentic account of one of the most<br />
prolific of French women writers and one of the<br />
most remarkable of women.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
“La Vie économique,” by Frédéric Passy, member<br />
of the French Institute, is the title of a small pub-<br />
M HE Franco-Russian treaty for the protection lication by the eminent writer, who is such an<br />
T of French literary property has now been ardent pacificist. The name of the author is a<br />
ratified by the Czar and the French Govern- sufficient guarantee of the value of the little work.<br />
ment. When the signatures have been exchanged “ La Locomotion à travers le temps, les meurs,<br />
the law will come into force at the end of six et l'espace," by Octave Uzanne, is, as the sub-title<br />
months.<br />
tells, a picturesque and anecdotal résumé of the<br />
A lawsuit has been brought against the Pathé history of the various terrestrial and aerian means<br />
Cinematograph Company by Madame Hémon, who of transport. In this book we have some twenty<br />
is the proprietor of Prosper Mérimée's works. A illustrations showing the most primitive styles of<br />
story of his had been adapted for the Cinemato- chariots and vehicles of various kinds. There are,<br />
graph without permission. The company has been later on, the sedan chairs and all kinds of public<br />
requested to take the number in question from its and private conveyances, post-chaises, and finally<br />
catalogue and to pay Madame Hémon 1,000 francs trams, railway carriages above and below ground,<br />
and the costs of the lawsuit.<br />
automobiles, cycles, and all the various inventions<br />
“Pages de Critique et de Doctrine,” by Paul hitherto tried for soaring in the sky. The volume<br />
Bourget, is the title of this author's latest book. contains some twenty-two coloured and 200 black<br />
“ Anthologie des Humoristes français contem- and white illustrations.<br />
porains," by Pierre Mille. This little book, by “Un Champ d'Or,” by Paul Bernot. This little<br />
the well-known author of “ Barnavaux," is a col volume may be used as a guide by intending explorers<br />
lection of some of the most amusing pages of in search of a country in which they may make<br />
French writers during the last hundred years. Not money. The enormous natural resources of the<br />
only is the little volume of the greatest interest to Argentine Republic point to the fact that it must<br />
the ordinary reader, it will be found invaluable to be a veritable “Land of Canaan" for an intelligent<br />
the entertainer in search of monologues and amusing colonist.<br />
stories for recitation. Among others, we would “L'Argentine au XXeSiècle," by Albert Martinez,<br />
especially mention the pages from authors such as Under-Secretary of State, and Maurice Lewandowski,<br />
Maurice Donnay, Tristran Bernard, Alfred Capus, D.L. (docteur en droit). The Argentine Republic<br />
Alphonse Allais, Courteline, and “Les Poeles seems to be greatly in favour at present, if we are<br />
mobiles,” by MacNab; “Le Hareng saur," by to judge by the amount of literature published<br />
Charles Gros; “Le Guillotine par persuasion," by quite recently on the subject. The volume which<br />
Chavette ; and “ La Levrette en paletôt,” by we are now recommending to our readers has been<br />
Auguste de Chatillon.<br />
approved by the French Academy, and its authors<br />
“Quelques (Euvres et quelques Ouvriers," by have been awarded the Fabian prize. M. Emile<br />
Etienne Lamy, of the French Academy. This book Levasseur, Member of the French Institute, writes<br />
is valuable on account of its historical interest and the preface, and M. Ch. Pellegrini, ex-President of<br />
the amount of absolutely reliable information it the Argentine Republic, an introduction. The<br />
contains. The language in which the information fourth edition has been revised and brought quite<br />
is conveyed is an example of the most admirable up to date, and two maps give an added interest to<br />
French prose.<br />
the volume.<br />
“Le Règne intérieur," by Henri Bataillé, is a “La Philosophie de M. Henri Bergson," by René<br />
volume containing a selection of thoughts by this Gillouin, is a book that will be read with interest by<br />
author and an introduction by Denys Amiel. all who are following the present day evolution of<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 211 (#663) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
211<br />
thought. It is now some eight years since<br />
C. Coignet gave us that little masterpiece of<br />
erudition and conciseness, entitled “Nouvelle Philo.<br />
sophie, Bergson," published by Girardi et Audebert,<br />
of Dole. In that little pamphlet we had a clear and<br />
simple exposition of the first principles of Bergson.<br />
The headings of the three divisions of the little work<br />
were “Kant et Bergson,” “Données immédiates de la<br />
Conscience,” and “Matière et Memoire.” This little<br />
pamphlet was written at a time when the philosophy<br />
of Bergson was just making its way, and would be<br />
invaluable to his disciples on account of the extreme<br />
clearness with which the exposition is given. In<br />
this volume by M. Gillouin we have the Bergson of<br />
to-day, and we see the gradual evolution of his<br />
ideas. It is certainly a book to be read by all who<br />
are interested in metaphysics.<br />
“ Souvenirs," by Ch. de Freycinet, Member of<br />
the French Academy, and ex-President of the<br />
Council. This volume is a cheaper edition of the<br />
work which attracted such attention some little<br />
time ago. Thirty years of the history of France,<br />
embracing one of the most agitated periods of the<br />
Nineteenth Century, written by an eminent man of<br />
letters, a savant, and a celebrated statesman, could<br />
not fail to interest the public, and the publication<br />
of a cheaper edition, making it more possible for<br />
the book to be read by the general public, is a wise<br />
idea.<br />
“ Universitaires d'aujourd'hui,” by Pierre<br />
Leguay, gives us, in six studies, an idea regarding<br />
the tendencies of some of the professors of the<br />
Sorbonne, exercising an immense influence over the<br />
French youth of to-day. Ernest Lavisse, Gustave<br />
Lanson, Charles Seignobos, Henri Lichtenberger,<br />
Charles Victor Langlois, and Emile Durkheim, are<br />
the professors chosen by the author of this study<br />
(Euvre social de l'Etat Belge (Les Catho-<br />
liques au pouvoir),” par Georges Goyau, presents<br />
some interesting details with regard to the immense<br />
progress that has been made in this country since<br />
1884. The titles of the chapters give an idea of<br />
the subjects treated, and all who know the thorough-<br />
ness and the conscientious work of this author will<br />
realise that the little pamphlet contains a store of<br />
valuable information. “L'avènement des Catho-<br />
liques : Leur programme social. La Protection<br />
ouvrière. La Représentation ouvrière. La Pré-<br />
voyance. La Protection et le Relèvement des Petits<br />
Paysans. Le Relèvement des Petits Metiers ” are<br />
among the subjects treated. In conclusion, M.<br />
Goyau tells us that in 1907 Belgium did more<br />
business in proportion to its inhabitants than any<br />
country in the world. The statistics are as<br />
follows :- Belgium 754 francs per head, Great<br />
Britain 512 francs, Germany 263 francs, and<br />
France 246 francs. The little pamphlet is well<br />
worth reading and is quite a revelation.<br />
“ 1871. La Commune à Paris et en Province<br />
(Fevrièr – Mai)," is a book written by Lieutenant-<br />
Colonel Rousset, who took an active part as<br />
lieutenant in the military events of that Revolu-<br />
tion.<br />
“Le Mystère d'Agadir," by André Tardieu,<br />
is a book which will throw much light on the<br />
mystery of the diplomatic crisis of 1911. Various<br />
hitherto unpublished documents add considerably<br />
to the interest and value of this volume.<br />
The works of the late M. Henri Brisson will be<br />
read with interest, as they are most instructive.<br />
“La Congrégation. Opinions et Discours (1871—<br />
1901),” is a volume containing the speeches made<br />
by M. Brisson, and his various projects. He speaks<br />
of the Congregations, and he gives some inte-<br />
resting opinions on the subject of education,<br />
which he considers a great social problem.<br />
A curious book is published by M. Georges<br />
Polti, entitled “L'Art d'inventer les Personnages."<br />
T he remarkable book by David Jayne Hill,<br />
formerly American Ambassador to Berlin, has been<br />
admirably translated by Mme. Emile Boutroux.<br />
The title in French is “L'Etat Moderne et l'Orga-<br />
nisation internationale." A preface has been<br />
written by M. Louis Renault, member of the<br />
Institute. Madame Boutroux has rendered great<br />
service to her compatriots by translating this book.<br />
At the Odéon Théâtre, “L'Honneur japonais”<br />
has been put on admirably. Madame Sarah<br />
Bernhardt has given the “ Reine Elisabeth,”<br />
which the public had been anxiously awaiting for<br />
some time; at the Théâtre Antoine " Au Soleil ; les<br />
Petits,” and at the Athenee the “Midsummer<br />
Night's Dream” has been admirably put on in<br />
French by M. Camille de Saint-Croix, who is<br />
authorised to give some outdoor performances of<br />
the Shakespeare plays in the Saint Cloud Park.<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
“Pages de Critique et de Doctrine" (Plon-Nourrit).<br />
“Anthologie des Humoristes français contemporains"<br />
(Delagrave).<br />
• Le Regne Intérieur " (Sansot).<br />
“George Sand, sa vie et ses euvres" (Plon).<br />
“La vie économique" (Larousse).<br />
"La Locomotion à travers le temps, les meurs et<br />
l'espace” (Ollendorff).<br />
"Un Champ d'Or” (Louis Michaud).<br />
“L'Argentine au XXe siècle" (Armand Colin).<br />
“La Philosophie de M. Henri Bergson " (Bernard<br />
Grasset).<br />
“Souvenirs” (Delagrave).<br />
“ Universitaires d'aujourd'hui " (Bernard Grasset).<br />
" 1871. La Commune à Paris et en Province (Fevrièr-<br />
Mai)” (Tallandier).<br />
"Le Mystère d'Agadir" (Calman Levy).<br />
“La Congrégation” (Cornély).<br />
“L'Art d'inventer les Personnages ” (Figuière).<br />
"L'Etat Moderne et l'Organisation internationale"<br />
(Flammarion).<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 212 (#664) ############################################<br />
<br />
212<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
A CURIOUS SUGGESTION.<br />
shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be<br />
the first owner of the copyright, but where the work is a<br />
IN the March number of The Author an article<br />
contribution to a newspaper, magazine, or similar periodi-<br />
cal, there shall, in the absence of any agreement to the con-<br />
1 appeared showing how a company promoted trary, be deemed to be reserved to the author a right to<br />
by certain music publishers was proposing to restrain the publication of the work, otherwise than as a<br />
make the new Copyright Act an excuse for collect part of a newspaper, magazine, or similar periodical.<br />
ing gramophone royalties, on the condition that It does not appear under this section that the<br />
one-third of the royalties so collected should be proprietor of a newspaper is entitled to the copyright,<br />
handed over to the publishers. It is needless to except in the case where a photograph is ordered by<br />
repeat the details of the matter, as any member of the proprietor or where an author is on the staff of<br />
the society can refer to them in The Author. the paper under a contract of service or apprentice-<br />
The attention of the members of the society must ship. In that case the copyright in the photograph<br />
now be drawn to a letter issued by Messrs. Sir W. ordered or the work done by the member of that<br />
C. Leng & Co., Ltd., proprietors of the Sheffield staff belongs to the owner of the newspaper, as a<br />
Daily Telegraph, in which, again, the new Copy- matter of course, subject to the proviso that the<br />
right Act is cited as a reason for a suggestion newspaper owner cannot publish the work in<br />
inimical to the interests of authors. The letter separate form. But the work of occasional or<br />
runs as follows :-<br />
casual contributors, or anyone who is not in the<br />
Owing to the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1911, it employ of the paper, does not come under section 5<br />
is necessary that it should be understood by all occasiona, at all, and there is no reason whatever for authors,<br />
contributors to newspapers, that the newspaper or periodi' in fact it is contrary to the best interests of all<br />
cal which accepts such contributions should have th<br />
copyright formally conveyed to them by the anthor or<br />
authors, to assign their copyright in any work to the<br />
contributor.<br />
proprietor of a paper. It therefore seems to us the<br />
We presume, therefore, you will have no objection to reference to section 5 of the Copyright Act in<br />
agreeing that from this date onward, by Section 5 of the<br />
Messrs. Leng's letter is misleading.<br />
Copyright Act, 1911, we are to be entitled to all rights of<br />
every description in any article, sketch, photograph, or<br />
But more than that, to say that the assignment<br />
other contribution written or prepared by you on our<br />
of such a copyright is a mere formality required by<br />
behalf, unless, of course, definite arrangements relating to the Act and does not make any alteration in the<br />
any particular article or photograph are made between us conditions existing prior to the Act is also quite<br />
to the contrary.<br />
We shall be glad to have your assent to this arrange-<br />
inaccurate.<br />
ment, which is a mere formality required by the Copyright<br />
Under the law as now existing a newspaper pro-<br />
Act, and does not make any alteration in the conditions prietor acquires by section 18 of the Copyright Act<br />
existing prior to the Copyright Act of 1911, when the<br />
of 1842 a limited copyright only in the work of the<br />
copyright of such articles or photographs was also vested<br />
members of his staff and of those authors who are<br />
in the newspaper or periodical in which they appeared.<br />
(Signed) Sir W. C. LENG & Co., LTD.<br />
specially commissioned to write articles. As regards<br />
casual contributions he acquires only such rights as<br />
The communication might lead the person to<br />
whom it is sent to make an entirely wrong deduc-<br />
he bargains and pays for. But what Messrs. Leng<br />
tion. If the proprietor of a newspaper desires to<br />
& Co. now propose is that the whole copyright given<br />
obtain the copyright in the contributions from an<br />
by the new Act (in itself much more extensive than<br />
author he has only to state when ordering the<br />
under the existing law) should be vested in them<br />
article or story, or in accepting it when offered, that<br />
absolutely! The author's existing right of separate<br />
he is willing to pay so much on condition that the<br />
publication after twenty-eight years would be<br />
copyright is conveyed to him, but this form of con-<br />
extinguished, and apparently Messrs. Leng would<br />
tract has nothing to do with the Copyright Act of<br />
be able to publish the work in any form whatever.<br />
1911, nor with any other Act. So far as that Act<br />
The last paragraph of the letter, therefore, as the<br />
is concerned the section to which the letter refers<br />
first, is in our opinion distinctly misleading. The<br />
society would strongly advise authors in no circum-<br />
(section 5) runs as follows :-<br />
stances to make a formal assignment of the copyright<br />
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author of a<br />
work shall be the first owner of the Copyright therein :-<br />
in accordance with the terms of the letter under<br />
(a) where in the case of an engraving, photograph, or consideration. The matter is not one of mere<br />
portrait the plate or other original was ordered by some other formality, but of serious importance to the owners<br />
person, and was made for valuable consideration in pur- of copyright property, and all members of the<br />
suance of that order, then, in the absence of any agreement<br />
to the contrary, the person by whom such plate or other<br />
society must be strongly warned against assigning<br />
original was ordered shall be the first owner of the copy their copyright—so much enlarged under the Act<br />
right; and<br />
of 1911—to newspaper proprietors or others with-<br />
(b) where the author was in the employment of some<br />
out taking advice. They should look with great<br />
other person under a contract of service or apprenticeship<br />
and the work was made in the course of his employment by<br />
distrust on any letters sent out by publishers,<br />
that person, the person by whom the author was employed whether of music or of books, or by proprietors of<br />
wwUrave.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 213 (#665) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
213<br />
<<br />
papers or periodicals which refer to the Act of 1911 them. In order to enable a person to set up a<br />
in such terms as those contained in the letter quoted defence in such a case that he copied a copyrighted<br />
above. After all a newspaper proprietor does not article in good faith when it had no notice of copy-<br />
need for his protection more than the right to right upon it, he must show that the publication<br />
publish the work in his columns, and an agreement which he copies from and which had no copyright<br />
by the author not to republish it in any other form notice upon it was permitted or was authorized by<br />
for a certain time afterwards, which would vary the owner of the copyright.”<br />
with the nature of the paper ; and those who ask for But, because the question of intent to infringe<br />
more than is necessary must be dealt with carefully. bears directly upon the amount of damages recover-<br />
The society constantly advises authors that they able, Judge Holt added : “ Upon that question<br />
should never assign the copyright in their work about the knowledge of defendant whether these<br />
under any circumstances. If they desire to assign pictures were copyrighted you have the evidence,<br />
the right of serial reproduction they should do so, on one hand, of, the gentleman who testified here<br />
but they should be very careful not specifically to that he did not know that they were copyrighted,<br />
assign the copyright on the suggestion that it is a and he did not know that they were published in<br />
mere formality. It is quite clear from the terms of Life, as I recall his evidence. On the other hand,<br />
the section referred to that such assignment is a you have the fact that they were published in Life,<br />
matter for the most serious consideration.<br />
that the Mail and Express was on the exchange<br />
list of Life, so that a copy of Life was sent to them<br />
every week, and that there was put in each of these<br />
UNITED STATES LAW CASE. numbers sent to them this blue slip, which contained<br />
a specific notice in addition to the copyrighted<br />
“ LIFE” v. “MAIL AND EXPRESS."<br />
notice at the head of the paper, that all the pictures<br />
in Life were covered by the copyright and must not<br />
IFE” has just won a suit for copyright be used without special permission. In addition<br />
U infringement against the New York Mail to that there is the evidence in this case in respect<br />
and Express.<br />
to this change in the edition containing the last<br />
The Mail issues an illustrated Saturday supple- picture which was issued.”<br />
ment, a proportion of the matter of which is, it The jury found for the plaintiff and the judg-<br />
seems, pirated—or, in the language of the Juil, ment was confirmed by the Court of Appeals,<br />
“ got from ”–certain foreign papers not copy the amount of damages being assessed at $1,043.14.<br />
righted in this country.<br />
It seems that in turn some of these papers had<br />
pirated certain illustrations from Life, so that the<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
Vail, in reprinting the pictures again on this side<br />
were plainly infringing Life's copyright.<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
The Mail's case was aggravated by the fact that<br />
Robert Louis Stephenson. By Neil Munro.<br />
it had infringed a third time after a warning from<br />
Borrow. By Thomas Seccombe.<br />
two previous infringements, and while reparation<br />
for the first infringement was in settlement.<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
Suit for damages was brought by Life in the<br />
Among My Books. By Frederic Harrison.<br />
Circuit Court for the Southern District of New<br />
The Crisis in London Journalism. By R. A. Scott-James.<br />
York, and, on losing there, the Mail carried the<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
case to the Circuit Court of Appeals. The defences George Meredith and His Relatives. By S. M. Ellis,<br />
of the Mail were involved and various. The only William Cobbett. By Lewis Melville.<br />
one of moment, however, was that of ignorance of<br />
NATIONAL.<br />
the existence of American copyright in the illustra-<br />
tions complained of.<br />
Gray's Biographer. By Austin Dobson.<br />
On this point Judge Holt, in his charge to the<br />
jury said : “ If the defendant had knowledge that<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
these pictures were copyrighted, the fact that they (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
were published over there without any notice of Front Page<br />
... ...£4 0 0<br />
... ...<br />
copyright or any other paper would be entirely<br />
3 0 0<br />
immaterial, and the fact that they did not have<br />
... 0 15 0<br />
knowledge that they had been copyrighted is Single Column Advertisements<br />
ti per inch 0 6 0<br />
immaterial unless those English copies had been Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent. for<br />
published with the consent of the Life Publishing<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
Company and without any notice of copyright upon BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
Other Pages<br />
Hall of a Page ...<br />
Quarter of a Pago<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
... 1 10<br />
***<br />
"*<br />
0<br />
7<br />
6<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 214 (#666) ############################################<br />
<br />
214<br />
THE AUTHOR.<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 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 />
in his ow<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
ments. Therefore ke<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for “office expenses,"<br />
unless the same allowance is made to the author,<br />
(4.) Not to give up American, Colonial, or Continental<br />
rights.<br />
(5.) Not to give up serial or translation rights.<br />
(6.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher,<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production.<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book,<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author,<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are:-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
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 tbe contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
TTERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
il 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 />
<br />
## p. 215 (#667) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
215<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
16.) 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., axed<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 />
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 />
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, Chanoery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 216 (#668) ############################################<br />
<br />
216<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
we have made will suffice to show the position of<br />
authors whose works have not been adapted to<br />
mechanical instruments, whether such works have<br />
COMPOSERS AND GRAMOPHONE RIGHTS. been published prior to, or after, the Act.<br />
It is clear from enquiries made of the secretary The position in regard to works which have<br />
by composers, during the past few weeks, that some been adapted to mechanical instruments prior to the<br />
uncertainty exists as to the effect of the Gramo- Act is, however, a little different. In the case of<br />
phone Clauses in the Copyright Act. The question such mechanical reproductions the composer has<br />
most frequently asked is, How far do these clauses no power to stop their continued sale, nor has he<br />
give composers control over the mechanical repro- power to object to any alterations in, or omissions<br />
duction of music which they have published prior from, his music in these contrivances. Moreover,<br />
to the Act ?<br />
the increase of the royalty from 24 per cent. to<br />
The answer to this question depends upon 5 per cent. provided for in section 19, sub-section<br />
whether such music has or has not been adapted 3 (b), which has been quoted, does not apply to such<br />
to a mechanical instrument. If it has not been reproductions. He is further limited to the extent<br />
adapted then the composer, even if he has assigned that-<br />
the copygright to the publisher, can prevent any no royalties shall be payable in respect of contrivances<br />
reproduction by mechanical instruments. If, how sold before the 1st day of July, 1913, if contrivances<br />
ever, he allows one firm to make such a repro-<br />
reproducing the same work had been lawfully made, or<br />
placed on sale within the parts of His Majesty's Dominions<br />
duction (which reproduction may be made on to which this Act extends before the 1st day of July, 1910.<br />
whatever terms the composer is willing to accept)<br />
then any other mechanical reproducer may similarly<br />
In the case, however, of any mechanical repro-<br />
In<br />
mlarly ductions of such works made by a manufacturer,<br />
adapt his work subject to the following provisions :-<br />
after the first day of July, 1910, while the composer<br />
Section 19, sub-section 2: That he has given the pre-<br />
would have no power to stop the continued sale of<br />
scribed notice of his intention to make the contrivances,<br />
and has paid in the prescribed manner to, or for the<br />
such works, or to exercise any control as to<br />
benefit of, the owner of the copyright in the work royalties<br />
alterations or omissions, and would only be entitled<br />
in respect of all such contrivances sold by him calculated to the 21 per cept. royalty, his royalty would<br />
at the rate hereinafter mentioned.<br />
start from the commencement of the Act (July,<br />
Provided that-<br />
(i.) nothing in this provision shall authorise any altera-<br />
1912) and not as in the other cases, from July,<br />
tions in, or omissions from, the work reproduced, unless<br />
1913.<br />
contrivances reproducing the work subject to similar<br />
alterations and omissions have been previously made by,<br />
or with the consent or acquiescence of, the owner of the<br />
PUBLISHERS' TERMS.<br />
copyright, or unless such alterations or omissions are<br />
reasonably necessary for the adaptation of the work to the In the Correspondence we publish a letter from<br />
contrivances in question ; and<br />
(ii.) for the purposes of this provision, a musical work<br />
one of our members referring to the terms obtained<br />
shall be deemed to include any words so closely associated for a first and second novel. Information of this<br />
therewith as to form part of the same work, but shall not kind is of the greatest value, not only to the<br />
be deemed to include a contrivance by means of which secretary, but also to members of the society.<br />
sounds may be mechanically reproduced,<br />
It happens, from time to time, that members,<br />
Sub-section 3: The rate at which such royalties as afore-<br />
said are to be calculated shall-<br />
without taking advice, are inclined to undersell<br />
(a) in the case of contrivances sold within two years the literary market, owing to ignorance of current<br />
after the commencement of this Act by the person making prices and current terms. The more widely,<br />
the same, be 21 per cent. ; and<br />
therefore, these terms are made known, not only to<br />
(b) in the case of contrivances sold as aforesaid after<br />
the expiration of that period 5 per cent. on the ordinary<br />
those who live by writing, but also to those who<br />
retail selling price of the contrivance calculated in the write for pleasure, the better it will be for all who<br />
prescribed manner, so however that the royalty payable in engage in literature as a profession.<br />
respect of a contrivance shall, in no case, be less than<br />
We are not quite clear what is meant by the<br />
a halfpenny for each separate musical work in which<br />
copyright subsists reproduced thereon, and, where the<br />
statement that the writer received nothing for the<br />
royalty calculated as aforesaid includes a fraction of a copyright, but it may be repeated that in no<br />
farthing, such fraction shall be reckoned as a farthing. circumstances should a writer sell his copyright<br />
There are one or two other sub-sections such as when he retains a continuing interest in the<br />
one providing for a reconsideration of the rates by publication of the work. It is quite the exception,<br />
a public inquiry by the Board of Trade, seven though not unheard of, for an author to receive a<br />
years after the commencement of the Act, and sum of money except as in advance of royalties<br />
another empowering the Board of Trade to issue under the agreement.<br />
regulations in order to give effect to the clause,<br />
but they need not be quoted here, as the quotations<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 217 (#669) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
217<br />
BOARD OF TRADE RULES AND REGULATIONS.<br />
The Board of Trade have now sent in the draft<br />
of the rules and regulations under sections 3 and 19,<br />
sub-section 6, of the new Copyright Act of 1911.<br />
It will be seen on another page that there has been<br />
a committee meeting to deal with the draft report.<br />
As soon as the rules and regulations come through<br />
in their final shape they will be published, with<br />
explanations, in the columns of The Author.<br />
SWEDISH RIGHTS.<br />
We understand that an attempt is being made<br />
by certain publishing houses in Sweden to obtain<br />
the rights in English stories for very low figures.<br />
Some time ago we mentioned that no author should<br />
permit the sale of the book rights for Sweden of an<br />
ordinary full-length novel for less than a £10 note,<br />
and that for serial rights alone of a similar work it<br />
is possible to obtain £5.<br />
Sweden is a small country, but the people are<br />
great readers—particularly of foreign authors. It<br />
is of the greatest importance, therefore, that writers<br />
should not rashly accept any statement made to<br />
them respecting the value of translation rights in<br />
Sweden, but should stand out for the higher<br />
figures. £15. and even £20, have been given for<br />
more popular books. These figures do not, of<br />
course, compare with the figures given for transla-<br />
tion rights in Germany and France, but it must be<br />
remembered that in Germany and France the<br />
circulation is much larger.<br />
not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars ; but<br />
this shall not deprive the copyright proprietor of<br />
any other remedy given him under this law, nor<br />
shall it apply to infringements occurring after<br />
actual notice to a defendant, either by service of<br />
process in a suit or other written notice serred upon<br />
him.<br />
“Nor shall it apply to infringements of dramatic<br />
or dramatico-musical compositions actually and for<br />
profit being produced upon the stage in the United<br />
States at the time of such infringement."<br />
HEARINGS BEFORE COMMITTEE.<br />
At a former hearing before the House Committee<br />
on Patents, George Haven Putnam, on behalf of<br />
the American Publishers' Copyright League, gave<br />
a strong defence of the existing law. At the<br />
hearing this week, representatives of the Society of<br />
American Dramatists and Composers, and other<br />
theatrical organizations, were heard. They are<br />
bitterly opposed to the proposed measure, declaring<br />
that it opens the way to wholesale piracy of books<br />
and plays by the moving-picture interests.<br />
MR. TOWNSEND'S DEFENCE.<br />
In a newspaper interview, Mr. Townsend thus<br />
defends his Bill : “As the law stands, if the<br />
proprietor of a moving-picture theatre exhibits a<br />
film made from a copyright story he is liable to a<br />
penalty of one hundred dollars for the first perform-<br />
ance and fifty dollars for each subsequent perform-<br />
ance. As there are usually at least six performances<br />
daily at which the same film is thrown on the<br />
screen, the proprietor of a moving-picture theatre<br />
is liable to a penalty of $350 if he used a scenario<br />
from a copyright story. As there are produced<br />
from forty to fifty reels for each film made, it can<br />
be readily understood that strike suits may bring<br />
ruin to the moving-picture business.<br />
“My Bill provides that if suit is brought for the<br />
violation of a copyright, the proprietor of a moving-<br />
picture theatre must prove that he had no know-<br />
ledge of the existence of copyright in the story<br />
upon which it is based, and had no reasonable<br />
means of ascertaining that copyright existed. The<br />
burden of proof is upon the violator of the copy-<br />
right. If he can prove innocence he must pay one<br />
penalty only—provided he ceases, upon notifica-<br />
tion, to continue the performance. Should he fail<br />
to heed the notice he is still subject to the penal-<br />
ties provided in the present. At the same time, it<br />
is specifically stipulated that a plea of innocence<br />
shall not be considered in any case where a drama<br />
or play which has been produced is concerned.<br />
“The enactment of the proposed law certainly<br />
cannot prove unjust to any playwright. Nor is<br />
there any reason why the owner of a copyright in<br />
a book or a story will be injured, for he can collect<br />
UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT BILL.<br />
M<br />
(Reprinted by kind permission from the U. S. Publishers<br />
Weekly.)<br />
HE Bill of Representative Townsend, of New<br />
1 Jersey, providing for a practical annulment of<br />
the Copyright Code, so far as it applies to<br />
moving pictures, came up for hearing before the<br />
House Committee on Patents, March 13.<br />
The Bill was originally introduced in January,<br />
The modified draft of it, introduced February 21,<br />
1912 (H. R. 20596), adds to section 25 (b), fourth,<br />
of the Copyright Act of 1909, the following<br />
proviso:<br />
“ Provided, that in the case of infringement of a<br />
dramatic or dramatico-musical composition, or of a<br />
work adaptable for dramatization or portrayal or<br />
exhibition through or by means of motion pictures,<br />
talking machines, phonographs, or other mechanical<br />
devices or combinations thereof, where the defen-<br />
dant proves that he was not aware that he was<br />
infringing a copyright work and could not reason<br />
ably have foreseen that he was so infringing, the<br />
entire recovery by the copyright proprietor shall<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 218 (#670) ############################################<br />
<br />
218<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
from every theatre using the film made from such similar provisions of the copyright statutes of other<br />
book or story, and can protect himself against civilised states.<br />
further reproduction by the simple means of notify- “ These provisions have for their purpose the<br />
ing the owner of the theatre.<br />
carrying out under statute of the interpretation<br />
“Inasmuch as nearly every newspaper publishing of property rights which have for centuries been<br />
original matter to-day is copyrighted, it is apparent accepted, and as far as practicable enforced by the<br />
that the manufacturers of films for moving-pictures courts, on both sides of the Atlantic, under the<br />
and the proprietors of theatres in which those films principles of the common law.<br />
are used cannot possibly know whether each and “A performer having occasion to utilise the plot,<br />
every scenario offered to them is protected by copy- theme, characters, or arrangements of scenes which<br />
right. A conspiracy is easily possible whereby a have come into existence in a story need have no<br />
playlet may be made from a story published in a difficulty in securing, under an equitable business<br />
copyrighted newspaper of Seattle, for instance, arrangement with the producer or the copyright<br />
The film maker is an innocent purchaser. Then owner, the right to make such use. He is in a<br />
a suit is instituted, and hundreds of thousands of position similar to that of the newspaper publisher<br />
dollars demanded for reproduction in moving- who desires to bring into print in a periodical the<br />
picture form of a scene which the author would be text, or some portion of the text, or some rearrange-<br />
only too glad to sell outright for fifty dollars. It ment of the text, of books that have been duly<br />
is to protect such possibilities that the amendment entered for copyright. Authorization for such<br />
is proposed in my Bill.”<br />
special use of the entire material, or of portions<br />
selected from such material, are given in the<br />
OBJECTIONS TO TIIE BILL.<br />
ordinary course of business in consideration of<br />
such payment as is warranted by the market value<br />
All interested in the protection of copyright feel, of the material, that is to say, by its probable earn-<br />
however, that the effect of Mr. Townsend's Billing power, first, for the original owner, and second,<br />
would be so to emasculate that portion of the copy- for the person desiring to make a special use of the<br />
right law covering moving-pictures as to render it same.<br />
practically valueless.<br />
“There is no reason why such property should be<br />
In his letter to the Committee on Patents, Mr. utilised without due compensation. The fact that a<br />
Putman said :-<br />
producer or owner may occasionally be unreasonable<br />
“ Feb. 3, 1912. in his estimate of the value of his property is as<br />
“ MY DEAR SIR : Senate Bill 4233, bearing the true for all other classes of property, but at best or<br />
name of Senator Briggs, was introduced on the at worst affects but a few individual cases. An<br />
8th of January and was referred to the Committee equitable compensation is arrived at safely under<br />
on Patents. This Bill is identical in purpose and business competition and with the usual oppor-<br />
in phraseology with House Bill No. 15,263, which tunity for bargaining.<br />
bears the name of Representative Townsend, and “The Briggs-Townsend Bills give opportunity for<br />
which was introduced on the 9th of December, and the collection, in case of an appropriation such as<br />
in like manner, referred to the House Committee that above referred to, of a penalty • not exceeding<br />
on Patents.<br />
the sum of one hundred dollars. Such a provision<br />
“I am writing on behalf of the publishers of the would mean simply that the protection proposed<br />
country who are associated together in The Ameri- under the law had been practically cancelled.<br />
can Publishers' Copyright League, and on behalf “With the one hand our government gives to the<br />
also of the authors whose business interests are in producer of a copyrighted property a monopoly,<br />
the hands of these publishers and who depend upon that is to say, an absolute control over the thing<br />
the publishers to do what is necessary to protect produced, while with the other, if a measnre like<br />
their copyrights, to express the hope that your com- this should become law, this monopoly or property<br />
mittee will not give its approval to this measure control is practically taken away. The suggestion<br />
and that it may fail to secure enactment. The that such nominal penalty might meet the require-<br />
purpose of the two bills is to remove, or materially ments is connected with the condition that such<br />
to lessen, the obstacles that under the present infringement could not reasonably have been<br />
statute stand in the way of the appropriation' foreseen.'<br />
for dramatic or dramatical musical purposes of the “We point out that this is a contingency that<br />
ideas, themes, and characters that have been created cannot properly be considered by a court. The<br />
by the producers—authors, composers, or artists. motives by which a business man is influenced in<br />
“The protection given by the statute of 1909 is in the attempt to utilise property created by some-<br />
line with (although as a matter of fact is not quite body else, or the actual status of his knowledge of<br />
so comprehensive as) the protection accorded in the the history of such property right, is something<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 219 (#671) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
219<br />
that is not open to evidence. It is concealed We are all aware that art in its highest form<br />
within the consciousness of the individual in ques- must be worked out quite independent of sordid<br />
tion. If a person is willing to appropriate without commercial details, but when the artistic work is<br />
compensation property that has been created by completed the sordid commercial details are bound<br />
somebody else, he is equally willing to certify that to arise, and if the composer or the poet is inade-<br />
he did not have knowledge as to the exact owner- quately paid, then he will cease to exist. It is of<br />
ship, or as to the fact that there was any question. these commercial details in connection with the<br />
A plea of this kind is too trivial to be permitted to growth of these two arts that we should like<br />
find place in a provision of a United States statute to speak.<br />
It may in fact fairly be assumed that any book or There is a strong body of young composers spring-<br />
work of art which bears the record of copyright is ing up in England full of that vitality, that striving<br />
the property of somebody. It may also fairly be after new modes of expression, that unrest which is<br />
assumed that any person having sufficient intelli- at present rampant over the whole world. Equally,<br />
gence to shape a reproduction of such material in there is a strong body of poets giving utterance to<br />
one form or another has sufficient intelligence to this fresh, vigorous, pushing life. The composer,<br />
verify, if necessary, by application to the Bureau stirred by the words of a song, may desire to set<br />
of Copyrights, the record of the term for which the it to music. If he is met, after his just request to<br />
material is protected.<br />
be able to use the words with his music, by an<br />
“It may be answered that an intelligent and trust- extravagant demand from the poet, then the poet<br />
worthy court could be depended upon to protect the will lose the increased vitality which is offered to<br />
interests of the producers against a wrongful appli- him, and the composer's work will drop lifeless.<br />
cation of this provision. If this be true, however, In years gone by composers hardly ever paid<br />
for copyright property, it should be equally true sums to the poets, and this, no doubt, is one of the<br />
for all classes of property.<br />
reasons why a great lyric writer like Heine has<br />
“The first thing is that the law itself shall be so become so popular. Not only one, but many of the<br />
worded as to concede adequate protection which in great school of German composers have set the<br />
other divisions of the law it is proposed to concede. same song of Heine's to music. While it cannot<br />
The courts should not have placed upon them any be fair that the poet should obtain no reward, yet<br />
further responsibility than that of enforcing the it seems reasonable that he should be content with<br />
interpretation of a law wbich is in itself not only a moderate fee for an ordinary song, allowing it to<br />
equitable in purpose, but effective in its phraseology. be produced with the composer's music ; he should<br />
"This objection is respectfully submitted for the not be bound to give the composer an exclusive<br />
consideration of your committee. I ain,<br />
licence for production with the music, for, as in<br />
“ Yours respectfully,<br />
Heine's case, it may turn out that many composers<br />
“GEO. HAVEN PUTNAM.” are inspired by his words, in which case the poet<br />
should reap the benefit of the inspiration which he<br />
has conveyed, and should gain the interpretative<br />
POET AND COMPOSER.<br />
advantage of the advertisement, for if five com-<br />
posers set the same song to music it might happen<br />
that only two of them became popular, the others<br />
HERE are, perhaps, no two arts so closely falling dead.<br />
interwoven as the art of music and the art It is very necessary to impress this view, for the<br />
of poetry. As they both appeal to the sense poet, in his desire for adequate remuneration, must<br />
of hearing, they have become inseparable in song, also look upon the remuneration which the com-<br />
opera and oratorio.<br />
poser is able to obtain. Unfortunately, under the<br />
Now, this close connection is naturally one of present system of music publishing, the composer<br />
great importance both to composers and to poets. is paid very poorly, and reaps but little return for<br />
It is of importance to poets because of the enormous the work he gives. If, therefore, the poet makes a<br />
popularity which may be given to their words by claim for an unreasonable payment for the licence<br />
the music to which they are set, and it is of import- to use his words, as already pointed out, the poet<br />
ance to composers, for it is not infrequently the loses the increased vitality given by the composer<br />
case that the words inspire the music. If, therefore, and the music is practically lifeless. A sum down<br />
there happens to be a great forward movement should be sufficient to compensate a poet, who would<br />
embodying the life, thought and character of a race be able to repeat his licences indefinitely if his<br />
in any period of its evolution, it is of importance songs were popular.<br />
that these thoughts as expressed by the youthful Again, if the life-force of the composer of any<br />
composer should be able to link themselves with generation is compelled into the wrong channel, if his<br />
the thoughts expressed by the youthful poet. music has to be set to the words of other generations<br />
M<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 220 (#672) ############################################<br />
<br />
220<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
and other times, the composer may fail entirely in tions, however, that I am speaking, but of books<br />
inspiration, and may, in consequence, be forced to which, by the testimony of the inajority of critics,<br />
write on lines which are not truly interpretative merit at least polite attention. Most writers, I<br />
of the generation in which he lives. It is like the expect, have experienced at some time or other the<br />
marriage of winter and summer. Such marriages fate of finding themselves passed over in complete<br />
are not usually happy.<br />
silence by some or other organ of the Press. It<br />
Let the poet, therefore, be moderate in his can be no satisfaction to them to know that a<br />
demands, first for the sake of his art, and secondly possible explanation is that their publisher does not<br />
for the sake of his pocket. For his art that his advertise sufficiently in that particular organ to<br />
poem may receive an adequate interpretation from please the editor and that therefore his authors are<br />
contemporary composers, for his pocket that his doomed to suppression.<br />
popularity, increased by the musical setting, may Cases of complete ignoring of a book sent out for<br />
bring a wider circle of admirers and a wider public notice, it may be granted, are comparatively few.<br />
for the purchase of his work.<br />
Coming now to the subject of those which do<br />
receive attention, we may lay it down that the<br />
most desirable qualities in a reviewer are fairness<br />
and competence. Unfortunately the two qualities<br />
AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS. are hard to find in combination. The best-equipped<br />
critic of a particular work might appear to be one<br />
who has specialised in the subject with which the<br />
M HE plaint of the writer of books against the author is dealing. Now it speaks ill for human<br />
I man who reviews him in the Press is a very nature: but it is a fact that a reviewer in the<br />
old one, but it cannot be said that it gets same “ line of business " as the author is generally<br />
less bitter with the lapse of time. Rather it the least inclined to be just. I would not like to<br />
grows in intensity as the number of professedly suggest that there is often the sordid reason that<br />
literary columns or pages increases. The multipli- he sees in the author a competitor to whom he has<br />
cation of critics, potentially either friendly or a safe opportunity of doing an ill turn. But I fear<br />
unfriendly, is like the simultaneous multiplication that this is sometimes so. For this cause a paper<br />
of the pleasures and pains of life, it would appear. professedly written by experts may be the unfairest<br />
The added pains more than counterbalance the to authors. Of late years there has grown fashion-<br />
added pleasures ; the new wounds are more felt able a particularly atrocious form of critical attack.<br />
than the new balms appreciated. Some authors The old style of slashing review was painful, for-<br />
there may be who are so happily constituted as<br />
to be proof against criticism, except when it is<br />
The boldest start from public sneers,<br />
Afraid of shame, unknown to other fears.<br />
favourable. Like the sundial they may say, Horas<br />
non numero nisi serenas. But I venture to think But at least there was something to be learnt<br />
that such are rare. Most of the irritable race are from a full-blown review, however hostile, of a book.<br />
very sensitive to the acid of reviews. Now, were Now we see in some critical journals under the<br />
every critic fair-minded, honest, and intelligent, heading of “New Books," “Books Received," or the<br />
the matter would not be much. The effect of the like, a “ short notice," which “ does not necessarily<br />
medicine on the patient would be salutary, and preclude a lengthier review." Here in one blighting<br />
the review columns would be an excellent hospital paragraph the critic may damn whom he likesor,<br />
for authors. Perhaps it need hardly be said that rather, dislikes. I hope I may be pardoned if I<br />
that is scarcely the case to-day ; least of all in quote a personal experience. There is a periodical<br />
England, I am inclined to believe. Writers, which I will call the Parthenon, an august publica-<br />
indeed, have many fierce grievances against those tion which prides itself particularly on its expert<br />
who are entrusted with the task of reviewing their criticism. Hither were sent for review copies of<br />
works.<br />
two books of mine in succession. After the first<br />
It may sound paradoxical to say that the worst (although it sold well enough to cover a three-<br />
notice is no notice at all ; and it is not true, in any figure advance and was excellently received by the<br />
case. There is, nevertheless, from the author's Press in general) had been left unreviewed, the<br />
point of view a real injustice in being compelled to second was treated to half-a-dozen lines of short<br />
send out a copy it may be of an expensive net notice, which made not the slightest pretence to<br />
book) for review, to find the book ignored and thus deal with it. About this time the Parthenon<br />
lose the royalty on that copy to no purpose. It is abounded in these “short notices” full of spleen<br />
easy to say that the work was not worth notice; against quite respectable authors in one particular<br />
and doubtless there are shoals of such published line of writing. As far as any knowledge of the<br />
every year. It is not of these worthless produc- books themselves was concerned, these paragraphis<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 221 (#673) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
221<br />
might have been written by the office-boy after the pulpit. You cannot reply to him on the spot,<br />
inspection of the covers. But the style was not and so you do not make your appeal to the original<br />
office-boy's ; and, further, why should an office- audience. You are lucky if you are permitted to<br />
boy nurse such malice ? Again, I know the case reply at all. An editor will occasionally, it is true,<br />
of an author to whom a journal (which may be insert a letter from the author answering the<br />
called the Thunderer) always meted out these short attack upon him—but very often, be it noted, with<br />
damnatory paragraphs until one day he published a concurrent retort from the reviewer or else an<br />
a book under an alias ; when, behold! he received editorial “ crusher,” which makes your case seem<br />
an excellent review. Can any explanation be worse than before.<br />
suggested in such cases except that of personal Is there then no amelioration to be looked for in<br />
spite on the part of some critic ?<br />
the sad lot of the reviewed ? None, it is to be<br />
The incompetent reviewer is a grievance to the feared, except through the growth of a sense of<br />
author, but à less dangerous affliction than the justice in the critic or of intelligence in the reading<br />
unjust one. Happily he is very frequently aware public. And who among the authors is optimistic<br />
of his deficiencies, and, although his notice is enough to hope for so much in our dear friends ?<br />
worthless critically, he does not wish to give him- Probably the only remedy is to<br />
self away, so contents himself with mild patronage<br />
and plentiful quotation of passages which seem<br />
Learn to deride the critic's starch decree<br />
to him interesting ; particularly from the introduc- and, when the opportunity occurs,<br />
tion, if there is one, for why should he read<br />
further ? Such reviews may very likely benefit the<br />
Break him on the wheel he meant for me.<br />
author by increasing the sale of the book—some Which line of conduct, of course, is very immoral<br />
consolation, at least, for the absence of intelligent<br />
appreciation.<br />
Phokion.<br />
There is a complaint which has often been made,<br />
but without the effect of removing the grievance.<br />
IS IT WORTH IT?<br />
In fact, that grievance is greater at the present day<br />
than ever before, and is increasing as periodicals<br />
multiply. I am speaking of the pluralist reviewer. TN Mr. Herbert Smith's article—“ The Hazard<br />
The unsophisticated reader, confronted with a mass 1 of the Pen," in a past number—we have one<br />
of reviews, probably imagines quot sententiæ tot and all been asked to cogitate upon Robert<br />
homines. Whereas, on the contrary, the fact is Buchanan's reply “Is it worth it ? ” when asked<br />
that one man, who may be an enemy, has some what he had to say about his calling, and in<br />
times the chance of noticing your book in half-a- Mr. Arthur Lovell's protest upon the question<br />
dozen columns; with the result that you get six we have been reminded that “the author is the<br />
hostile criticisms which the public takes to be teacher and leader of mankind.” And our<br />
independent.<br />
answer will be exactly in accordance with our<br />
Nor is this an evil for which the remedy is conception of the calling of literature. If we<br />
provided by signed reviews. The pluralist reviewer conceive of it as a genteel and dignified trade, in<br />
has many signatures. These may be known to the which we may do well unto ourselves that men may<br />
author if he is familiar with the coulisses of the speak good of us, in which the capital is brains, and<br />
literary world. But the general reading public does the sole purpose to make money, and to make it<br />
not dream of identifying, say, “ X.Z.," “ Polonius quickly, then we shall most certainly answer that it<br />
Redivirus." and “A Blankshire Map," whose is not worth it, and, if we are wedded to the ink,<br />
criticisms he sees in various columns. Undoubtedly we would do well to turn to some craft of penman-<br />
we should get fairer and more careful reviews if ship which is not literature, such as advertisement<br />
the writer were obliged to append his actual name writing, which opens out immense possibilities for<br />
to them ; and we should abolish the undue influence the wielding of words to express the excellencies of<br />
of the pluralist critic. But anonymity, or at the trade commodities at a rate of payment which is<br />
very least pseudonymity, is still a great fad in certain and highly satisfactory, and therefore indeed<br />
English journalism, and editors cling desperately to worth it. But if we have had the smallest glimmer<br />
the "we" that has been consecrated to their use of a vision that the calling of literature stands alone,<br />
Try as he may, not even G. K. Chesterton has been above and beyond every other calling by reason of<br />
able to slay the editorial We.<br />
its power over the minds and souls of men--greater<br />
But even an editor is not all bad, it may be than that of the parson, because the world is our<br />
objected. He will allow the criticised author, parish, and of the schoolmaster, because our work<br />
smarting under the sense of wrong, to defend him- is for all time--if we have at all conceived that the<br />
self. Yes, but a reviewer is like a preacher in author is the teacher and leader of mankind, we<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 222 (#674) ############################################<br />
<br />
222<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
shall be slow to answer in the negative. If we enters upon it without being aware of the privations<br />
have in any degree grasped the awful burden of and sufferings it entails, privations which will in<br />
responsibility for our influence upon the thoughts most cases undermine his health and cripple his<br />
and actions of our fellow men which we as authors usefulness. And wbat is equally serious is that he<br />
must bear, whether we will or no, we shall begin to is always under the temptation to write poor un-<br />
realise that in the nature of things our work can worthy stuff because, sad to say, that is to a beginner<br />
never be adequately paid for in the coin of the what pays the best. But the author, who follows<br />
realm. That author who has glorified the cowardly some other vocation for his living and writes at the<br />
act of suicide in his novel is responsible for the same time, proves, to use Mr. Lovell's words, that<br />
suicide from suggestion which is the result—the “he is a real author who has something to say which<br />
blood is on his head. And that author, who has must at all costs come out whether the listeners are<br />
inspired the souls of his fellows and turned many to few or many," and if the output be less the work<br />
righteousness, sball shine as the stars of heaven- will be greater. Mr. Herbert Smith will murmur,<br />
he shall have his reward. For by reason of the “ Amateur authors." But no one would call<br />
solidarity of mankind the influence of the written Spenser, or Thomson, or Wordsworth, or Matthew<br />
word is never ending, not alone through the Arnold amateur authors. And yet each of these<br />
immortal literature of the great, read by the few, pursued some other vocation as help to a livelihood<br />
but, alas, through the trivial fiction of mushroom -Spenser and Thomson, secretaryships, Words-<br />
growth, read by the many–from which minds un- worth, a distributor of stamps, Matthew Arnold an<br />
consciously receive impressions which react on other inspectorship of schools. When Matthew Arnold's<br />
minds, only to react again and again. Thus it is old friend, Dr. Fitch, asked him why he accepted<br />
not in the nature of things that work of eternal an inspectorship he replied, “ Because I wanted to<br />
value can receive its due in gold and silver. When marry." There is of course a special kind of<br />
one goes to buy a coat one considers the sum of sacrifice involved in choosing the wiser course.<br />
guineas it will cost and asks, “ Is it worth it? Will There is a peculiar joy in doing the thing for<br />
it last a certain length of time ? ”—because the coat which you were made and doing it habitually ; in<br />
will in due time perish. And if one buys it the feeling the thought spring to birth upon the pen-<br />
tailor has his reward. In this case I give my a joy the like of which is felt in no other profession.<br />
money for something of material value, and I do Until he had beaten his music out of it, Matthew<br />
well to ask if it is worth it. But when I give Arnold found little that was congenial in the<br />
myself for work of eternal value, I know that it is inspection of schools, when he had to accept<br />
worth it, and my question shall rather be—“Is it hospitality from the noncomformist of his day, who,<br />
worthy?”<br />
in loving zeal and pity for his ignorance, made<br />
We owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Herbert Smith mention of him in the family prayer as “our poor<br />
for bringing this question forward, for until we as misguided brother."<br />
authors settle it each for oneself we shall be able to It is most saddening to think of the heart-<br />
accomplish no great work. Who could imagine breaking disappointments and privations that great<br />
Shakespeare, as he wrote his immortal plays, writers have had to face, but let this not make us<br />
pausing to ask himself—“Is it worth it?" or pessimistic. Let us rather be thankful for their<br />
Bunyan, as he wrote his immortal allegory in noble example of pluck and endurance, ard resolv-<br />
Bedford jail, being troubled with doubts as to ing to try to emulate them, take heart again. Did<br />
whether it would ultimately bring him an adequate the world ever appreciate the message of those who<br />
monetary reward ? And both of these immortal would save it best? It has been ever the same all<br />
writers were in their day as poor and obscure as any down the pages of history, from the voice of the<br />
struggling author to-day.<br />
prophet to that of the Divine Son. Let us learn to<br />
Yet withal authors must live, and it is quite realise the treasures of darkness, that we too must<br />
true that food and raiment and cash for the rates suffer if we would do great work, that we, like all<br />
and taxes will not fall like manna from heaven, and the truly great, must be<br />
an author who is harassed by butcher's and baker's<br />
Heated hot with burning fears,<br />
bills can never give of his best to the world. But<br />
And dipt in baths of hissing tears,<br />
the point to be weigbed is this. While there are<br />
And battered with the shocks of doom<br />
so many other openings by which people with<br />
To shape and use,<br />
brains can earn an income-certain even if it be for 6 he that suffers most has most to give"<br />
small-18 it justifiable for authors without private Robert Buchanan asked the question. Is it<br />
means to launch upon such a precarious enterprise worth it?" That question was a little less than<br />
as authorship as a sole means of livelihood ? Is it<br />
Robert Buchanan. Yes, it is worth it, after all.<br />
fair to those dependent on him ; is it even fair to<br />
himself ? For no such author in the present day<br />
VIOLET GLADE<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 223 (#675) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
223<br />
“ COPYRIGHT : ITS HISTORY AND ITS misprinting them, and pleading for legislation<br />
LAW.”*<br />
to protect literary works. The issue of ancient<br />
classics under printers' privileges led to the grant<br />
of an exclusive right to print the works of contem-<br />
THIS is a valuable and comprehensive work on<br />
porary authors, and in this way printers and authors<br />
1 copyright, being thoroughly up to date and<br />
acquired a copyright in the modern sense of the<br />
dealing with the law of copyright in all<br />
term.<br />
countries. It contains a summary of the principles<br />
A chapter on the history of copyright in the<br />
and practice relating to copyright, with special United States contains a summary of the salient<br />
reference to the American Code of 1909 and the features of the new American law of 1909. Under<br />
British Code of 1911.<br />
this code copyright is effected by publication with<br />
· The publication of the work at the present time<br />
the copyright notice, and completed by registration<br />
is particularly interesting, because it marks the<br />
and deposit of two copies sent to the Register of<br />
an<br />
new stage of copyright developments. The<br />
Copyrights at Washington “promptly after<br />
American Code and the British Code, which have<br />
publication.<br />
oblication<br />
The manufacturing clause is con-<br />
The<br />
taken the place of all previous legislation on copy-<br />
tinued and extended, by the requirement of printing<br />
right, show a gratifying advance upon the earlier<br />
and binding as well as typesetting in the United<br />
laws. Portugal bas joined the International Copy-<br />
States. The musical composer is given control<br />
right Union by adherence to the Berlin Convention<br />
over mechanical reproductions, subject to the<br />
in 1911, and there are hopeful indications that all<br />
provision for a compulsory licence in case he permits<br />
the countries of Europe will soon realise the<br />
any such reproduction. The copyright term is<br />
advantage of uniformity and join the Copyright<br />
twenty-eight years with a like renewal term,<br />
Union. With this object in view Russia has<br />
making fifty-six years in all. Rights of perform-<br />
already shaped, and Holland is shaping, domestic<br />
ance are included under copyright, and unpub-<br />
legislation. Even in the East there has been some lished works are specifically protected by special<br />
progress, for China in 1910 decreed copyright registration<br />
protection throughout her vast empire of ancient In the second part of the work the author deals<br />
and reviving letters. Another further step is the<br />
with literary and general copyright, chiefly with<br />
Buenos Aires Convention of 1910, already ratified<br />
reference to the provisions of the new American<br />
by the United States, which made a new basis for Code, but incidentally mentioning analogies of the<br />
copyright protection throughout the Pan-American<br />
English law. This includes the scope and subject-<br />
Union.<br />
matter of copyright, its ownership and duration,<br />
The first part of this work contains matters of<br />
the formalities as to notice, registration and deposit,<br />
academical interest, dealing with the nature and<br />
and the manufacturing clauses.<br />
origin of copyright, the early history of printing<br />
Dramatic, musical, and artistic copyright is the<br />
and its monopolies, showing how the exclusive subject of the third part of the work : while the<br />
privilege of multiplying copies was first granted to fourth part deals with infringement and remedies.<br />
the person who made an accurate copy of some<br />
importation, and the methods and practice of the<br />
classic work and obtained a certificate of the<br />
copyright office.<br />
correctness of his copy. The earliest incunabula<br />
Under International and Foreign Copyright the<br />
came from Germany, the cradle of the art of new British Code is summarised, and a chapter<br />
printing, and some decades later printing<br />
deals with copyright in other countries, both those<br />
privileges were developed in Italy. Aldus which belong<br />
which belong to, and those which are outside, the<br />
Manutius was given the privilege of printing any Copyright Union.<br />
Greek texts for a term of twenty years, and A useful table called a " Conspectus of Copyright<br />
another privilege of printing works in italics, an by Countries” sets out the formalities as to regis-<br />
invention of his own modelled on the handwriting tration and deposit in all countries, the requisites<br />
of Boccaccio, as a quasi-patent. The rights for<br />
as to notice, the terms of copyright, and Inter-<br />
other languages were granted to other printers.<br />
national treaties. This is exactly on the lines of<br />
In Venice there was a provision, similar to the the table in “ Playright and Copyright in all<br />
modern manufacturing clause, which made the Countries” by Colles and Hardy, to whom the<br />
privilege dependent upon the works being printed author gratefully acknowledges his indebtedness.<br />
in that city. In 1528 Luther raised his voice As a matter of policy, in dealing with such a<br />
against the wrongs of authors, complaining that complicated subject as copyright, it seems pre-<br />
many printers were engaged in spoiling books by ferable to keep the law, as it exists at the present<br />
* “Copyright: Its History and its Law," by Richard<br />
time, distinct and separate from the history of its<br />
Rogers Bowker. Houghton Wifflin Company, The River<br />
development, and it is probable that this book<br />
side Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A. 208.<br />
might be of more practical service, if certain<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 224 (#676) ############################################<br />
<br />
224<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
chapters had been confined to the historical growth early page, not only that he does not write plays, but<br />
of copyright and the other chapters had dealt also that he feels incapable of writing them. More-<br />
exclusively with the existing law. For in using a over, though he has carefully analysed the methods<br />
work of reference with a view to ascertaining the of the men who write plays both successfully and<br />
law of copyright in a particular country, it is unsuccessfully, he finds those methods so various<br />
embarrassing to find the introduction of paragraphs and contradictory that he feels it very difficult, if<br />
relating to what the law used to be, or what amend- not absolutely impossible, to deduce a code of rules<br />
ments were proposed while the Bill was before from them. But that is no great matter. The art<br />
Parliament. The chapter on" Copyright through- of writing plays, like all the arts, is, or should be.<br />
out the British Empire” furnishes an illustration progressive, and progresses, or should progress, by the<br />
of this confusion ; for it contains the provisions breaking of old rules and the substitution of new<br />
of the new code of 1911, which are stated some ones therefor. The rules which suited Sardou would<br />
what too generally for practical purposes, while by no means suit Mr. Bernard Shaw. Either of<br />
here and there are interspersed references to the those two dramatists would probably have failed if<br />
previous law, and eren detailed statements of the he had taken the other for his model ; both of them<br />
modifications of the Copyright Bill in the Committee by going their own way, have succeeded, -the one<br />
stage and the proposals it contained in its earlier employing a rigid but complicated technique, the<br />
form.<br />
other flinging technique to the winds, and trusting<br />
“ Copyright law is exceptionally confused and to wit, audacity, and the kind of paradox which he<br />
confusing," as the author tells us in his “ Fore- himself professes to regard as platitudinous troism.<br />
word,” and the dominating idea arising from a All that is common to them is the habit, natural or<br />
perusal of this work is the regret that so much acquired, of thinking in terms of the theatre; and<br />
history should be introduced into the chapters no man, of course, can teach another man to do that,<br />
which appear to be primarily intended to give a though he may sometimes be able to point out to him<br />
clear exposition of the existing law. Historical that he is not doing so.<br />
references, which are illuminating, and are made It follows that the possibilities of usefulness of<br />
for the purpose of explaining the meaning of some such a manual as Mr. Archer has produced are<br />
statutory phrase or expression, undoubtedly serve limited. It does not follow that it is useless ; and<br />
a useful purpose ; but this work contains perhaps we imagine that, though it will help the neophyte<br />
too much historical detail, and there is some con- very little, the most practised dramatic hands will<br />
fusion in its arrangement. It is difficult, however, be able to derive profit from its perusal. All of<br />
for one who has during the last twenty-five years them have had their failures, comparative if not<br />
participated in copyright development, in the absolute; and by no means have all of those compara-<br />
conferences and the draftings of the new American tive failures been glorious in the sense of being due<br />
Code, to entirely separate comment from exposition. to a subtlety or an artistry which the public was too<br />
The author has, moreover, included some of the inartistic or too stupid to appreciate. In many<br />
historical material of the Bowker-Solberg volume cases they have been attributable to defects of<br />
of 1886, which has been carefully verified, extended, craftsmanship wbich might have been avoided, and<br />
and brought up to date. The work is evidently can easily be detected by the looker-on who sees<br />
the result of a wide experience and great industry, most of the game. Mr. Archer's analyses of the<br />
and will be of use and interest to authors, pub- causes of the conspicuous failures of certain plays<br />
lishers, and others in helping them to realise their which have been by no means devoid of merit con-<br />
rights and to secure protection in all copyright tain many valuable hints, both express and implied:<br />
countries for every form of intellectual property. and so—though in a less degree-do his analyses of<br />
HAROLD HARDY. the means by which certain notable effects have<br />
been produced. We might name as particalarly<br />
illuminating his remarks on the elaborate ingenuity<br />
THE ART OF THE DRAMATIST.*<br />
with which Oscar Wilde, though a mere beginner,<br />
raised curiosity and expectation to fever heat in the<br />
final passage of the first act of Lady Windermere's<br />
M HE reviewer, not being a dramatist, cannot<br />
Fan.<br />
undertake to say whether better plays are M r. Archer's counsels have the logical complete-<br />
likely to be written by people who read Mr.<br />
ness which one has long associated with his work as<br />
Archer's manual than by people who do not read it.<br />
a dramatic critic. He deals in separate * books,".<br />
It is, at any rate, doubtful; and the doubt seems to with the beginning" the middle and the end<br />
be shared by Mr. Archer himself, who states, on an<br />
of plays. He discusses the point of attack": he<br />
* " Play-making : A Manual of Craftsmanship," by<br />
shows how “ curiosity” is sustained and how<br />
William Archer. Chapman and Hall. 78. 6d. net.<br />
• interest” is aroused. He shows that it is better<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 225 (#677) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
225<br />
to “ foreshadow" than to “forestall” the climax to<br />
which the writer is working up; he warns us against<br />
the danger of “blind alley themes," discourses of<br />
“ character and psychology” and “ dialogue and<br />
details," and insists upon the superiority, for dra-<br />
matic treatment, of those subjects which involve that<br />
* peripety " first spoken of by Mr. A. B. Walkley's<br />
favourite philosopher. It is all exceedingly interest.<br />
ing-to the playgoer, no less than to the playwright;<br />
and novelists who propose to dramatise their novels<br />
will be able to learn something from it. It will not,<br />
indeed, introduce them to any royal road to fortune,<br />
but it may help to save them from many of the<br />
mistakes to which their habit of working in another<br />
and more plastic medium makes them prone.<br />
power,” vouched for by “several literary men of<br />
established reputation,” send in his valuable work<br />
to a competition unless he felt that winning it<br />
would be a stepping-stone in his career not to be<br />
despised? Would not his book, if so “unusual,”<br />
be strong enough to stand (or fall) by itself, without<br />
the advertisement of winning a competition ?<br />
I only remember at this moment the works of<br />
one winner. She has certainly established a literary<br />
reputation for herself, and if not in the first flight<br />
is hardly in the ranks of the “third-rate." I also<br />
saw the published opinion of Mr. A. C. Benson<br />
and his fellow judges on the winning book in<br />
Messrs. Lane's last competition, and they did not<br />
complain of the “low level ” of the books submitted<br />
to them.<br />
I fancy if I were a “sorter,” which might, or<br />
might not, be a pleasant task, I should grasp very<br />
joyfully the merest hint of inspiration. Think of<br />
the many, many books that are written without it.<br />
Yours truly,<br />
“ A WRITER.”<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br />
DEAR SIR, -In reference to the letters of<br />
**Tamel ” and “A Novelist," I should like to say<br />
that I was recently invited, with two very well-<br />
known novelists, to judge one of these competitions.<br />
The publisher's letter of invitation clearly stated<br />
that I should not have to read more than six or<br />
seven manuscripts. I declined—I hope politely-<br />
to take part in such a farce. Another point: -I<br />
have been a publisher's reader, and I know that an<br />
important manuscript, already sifted from a mass,<br />
cannot be read and comparatively estimated in less<br />
than a day. The publisher was therefore offering<br />
me a full week's tedious work. The fee which he<br />
suggested was either twenty guineas or twenty<br />
pounds—I forget which. I should be interested to<br />
know whether the writers who were to collaborate<br />
with me considered twenty guineas to be suitable<br />
payment for a week's work, with the lustre and<br />
sanction of their renown thrown in.<br />
The reason for the continuance of these com-<br />
petitions is to my mind obvious. They are very<br />
profitable to the enterprising publisher. I see no<br />
ħarm in that ; indeed I rather admire the clever-<br />
ness of the enterprising publisher ; but I think that<br />
artistically reputable novelists should meditate long<br />
before they decide to dignify with their names a<br />
purely commercial project.<br />
Yours truly,<br />
ARNOLD BENNETT.<br />
III.<br />
SIR,—The letters which you have published in<br />
the two last numbers of The Author on the subject<br />
of “novel competitions " inflict-quite unintention-<br />
ally, no doubt—a great injustice on the publisher's<br />
reader. If one were to judge from what “ Tamel”<br />
and “A Novelist " say of him, one would take that<br />
individual to be a mechanical drudge, devoid of any<br />
artistic feeling and inspired only with commercial<br />
zeal. I do not, of course, know with what readers<br />
the two letter-writers are acquainted. I happen to<br />
have been acquainted, more or less intimately, during<br />
the past twenty years, with a great number of<br />
readers, and wish to state emphatically that I have<br />
found them a better educated and more cultured<br />
class of men (or women) than the average writer of<br />
novels. Self-respect compels me to state that I<br />
have myself been a “sorter," and that I am quite<br />
willing to have my artistic taste compared, by any<br />
impartial jury, with that of the novelists of to-<br />
day. “Tamel” and “A Novelist " seem to think<br />
that if the judges, as advertised, read all the books<br />
sent in for competition, the verdict would be fairer<br />
than it is when the sorters weed out the list for<br />
them. I presume that neither of your correspon-<br />
dents has read for a prize competition. Otherwise<br />
he would know what a lot of “impossible” books<br />
are sent in-crude, illiterate, and artistically worth-<br />
less. It is hard on the sorter to be compelled to<br />
read even a few chapters of such. I totally fail to<br />
see what would be gained by asking the supreme<br />
judges to cast a weary eye upon them. As for the<br />
deliberate rejection by the sorters of artistic novels,<br />
there is no justification for this charge at all in the<br />
II.<br />
DEAR SIR,-I am not a member of the Society<br />
of Authors, or a prize winner in a “Novel Com-<br />
petition," but I venture to say that I think<br />
* Tamel's " letter to The Author (in the March No.)<br />
not a little unfair to the winners of such competi-<br />
tions. Why did the author of a book of “ unusual<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 226 (#678) ############################################<br />
<br />
226<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
competitions organised by any reputable publisher. appointment, remorses, humiliation, health and<br />
The fact is that an author and his personal friends strength, youth and courage, these are what the<br />
are not necessarily the best judges of what is artistic. author may receive and give-but even then the<br />
There are numberless authors, and their friends, price of his giving and getting are his own secret.<br />
richement doués de suffisance et d'insuffisance, who I write now of the purely business aspect of a book.<br />
arrogate to themselves the gift of infallible taste. For my first novel, published June, 1910, I<br />
It is precisely to check the extravagant pretensions received nothing for the copyright, but I obtained<br />
of such people that the poor sorter exists.<br />
a 15 per cent. Royalty on all copies sold of the<br />
“A Novelist ” says : “The initiated are perfectly English edition (price 6s.), and 3d. on every copy<br />
aware what kind of books will be weeded out before sold of the Colonial edition ; thirteen copies being<br />
the rest are sent on to the judges. They are the counted as twelve.<br />
books that are unconventional, unsensational, and The sales, and the financial profit to myself, after<br />
artistic ; the books that would not please the great the book had been a year on the market, were as<br />
mass of uneducated readers.” Sir, the initiated follows, viz :-<br />
know nothing of the sort. The initiated know that Copies of Home edition sold, 1,262.<br />
the writer of an "unconventional” book invariably Copies of Colonial edition sold, 1,151.<br />
deems it to be “ artistic.” The initiated also know Total sum received by me, £73 3s. 2d. (seventy-<br />
that many unconventional books, while they show three pounds).<br />
promise, are both artistically and commercially im The circumstances under which the novel was<br />
possible and would stand no chance of a prize in published were briefly these-I was absolutely un-<br />
any competition, except where the author and his known in the literary world, and to all journalists,<br />
friends packed the bench. Why then should the critics, and fellow authors. I write under a nom<br />
competition judges be asked to waste their time in de plume. So the sales—such as they were, owed<br />
looking at these crude productions ?<br />
nothing to my friends and acquaintances in the way<br />
It is an unpleasant shock, no doubt, to have your of creating a public. The secret of my identity was<br />
supposed masterpiece “weeded out.” But you well kept till four months or so after the book was<br />
should not be so self-centred as to imagine that published.<br />
the only reason possible for such a catastrophe is It received about thirty or so reviews: these were<br />
that the sorters are base commercial persons. Let favourable, and one or two were of sufficient weight<br />
us see the claims of the masterpiece substantiated to call some attention to the novel perhaps. But the<br />
by successful publication, after it has failed to pass rest were devoid of all criticism of any weight or<br />
the test of the preliminary reader, and then we shall value, and merely gave a curiously unattractive<br />
have proof of the sorters' incompetence.<br />
outline of the contents of the book.<br />
READER. I published a second novel last month through<br />
the same publisher. I received nothing for the<br />
A PUBLISHER'S TERMS.<br />
copyright, and exactly the same royalties as for the<br />
first novel. I have, however, been paid the royalties<br />
SIR,-I gather from the list of new members of for all copies subscribed for up to date of publica-<br />
the Author's Society, published in The Author, that tion. On the date of publication I received £24.<br />
many of them are, like myself, beginners in their For those whose terms for the publication of a<br />
literary career. As such they may be beset with first and second novel have been less or more<br />
questions to which their own inexperience can find favourable than mine I add the following informa-<br />
no answer. It is probable that some feel that theytion : I am not dependent on writing for my living,<br />
suffer from a lack of exact information with regard but under certain circumstances I might find myself<br />
to the-not unimportant-financial side of success with an income of only £100 to live on. I employ<br />
for a new novel. Perhaps, like myself, they would an agent, who under my present circumstances 15<br />
like to know how many sales constitute a “success- not handicapped by my requiring him to obtain<br />
ful first novel," and what is the average sales of a cash for me on the first terms that offer. I am<br />
first novel, and what the average profit made by obliged for years at a time to live out of Europe and<br />
the author from the first venture. In fact, the have not been in England since February, 1910, 80<br />
beginner wants to know the state of the market. I find an agent very necessary. I am bound to him<br />
Could not The Author give us data upon which to for "all novels" unless the contract is broken by<br />
base an appreciation of financial success or failure, “mutual consent.” To my publisher I am in no<br />
and the chances of a future income from a second or wise bound for any other novel I may write.<br />
third novel ? This may sound sordid, but the I should he very glad of any enlightening com.<br />
writer is far indeed from thinking that an author's ments or conclusion drawn from the above facts<br />
work can be priced by £ s. d. alone ; the joy of and figures.<br />
conception and execution, fame, praise, one's dis-<br />
"A FIRST AND SECOND NOVEL."<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 226 (#679) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
vii<br />
TYPEWRITING. Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhond, Surrey, writes :-<br />
"I have just completed tho rovision of my novel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without having beon corrected or even read, and that my hand writing,<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
required percoption as well as care, something more than simple<br />
mochanical accuracy, to produce such a resulta rosult which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be tho best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
tho work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words ; 2 copies, 1/-.<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1/- 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spanish typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): “I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work."<br />
MRS. TOM GODFREY: “I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
all authors who have the good fortune to hear of you. ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French."<br />
MRS. HINKSON (KATHARINE TYNAN): “I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and pre<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq. : “ The work conld not be better done."<br />
L. A. ST. JOHN. L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON.<br />
Bitterne Park,<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
(ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
Front Page<br />
... ... £4 0 0<br />
Other Pages<br />
Half of a Page...<br />
... ... 300<br />
... ... 1 100<br />
Quarter of a Page<br />
... 015 0<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
0 7 6<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
por inch 0 6 0<br />
Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent. for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to<br />
J. F. BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
NOTICE TO AUTHORS.<br />
Authors in need of a good, sound, and reliable Agent should<br />
note that the New Agency Agreement of the Society of Authors<br />
has been adopted in its entirety by Mr. Stanhope W.<br />
Sprigg (late Editor of Cassell's and the Windsor Magazine, and<br />
for some years Hon. Literary Adviser to the Society of Women<br />
Journalists), Trafalgar Buildings, Charing Cross, London, W.C.<br />
Every facility for placing Literary Work.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
The most difficult handwriting and involved copy<br />
accurately deciphered by experts.<br />
SOMETHING NEW !<br />
INK-ERASING PENCIL,<br />
Just the thing for Authors and Business Men. Removes<br />
writing and blots immediately, and without injury to<br />
SEND P.O. 1/2 FOR SAMPLE.<br />
0. Herbert Cæsar, Homefield, St. Albans.<br />
MISS FOWLER,<br />
Maxwell House, Arundel Street, Strand, w.c.<br />
paper.<br />
BOOKS<br />
on all subjects,<br />
including<br />
LITERARY,<br />
Educational,<br />
Commercial, Technical, Medical, Theological, etc., and<br />
for all examinations.<br />
Sooond-Hand at Half-Prices. Now at 25 por<br />
cont, disoount.<br />
Catalogues free. State Wants. Books sent on approval ; BOOKS<br />
BOUGHT. Best Prices Given.<br />
AUTHORS, ATTENTION !<br />
ACCURACY,<br />
ABSOLUTE SECRECY,<br />
PUNCTUALITY<br />
guaranteed by me in Typewritten<br />
copies of Manuscripts, eto.<br />
Terms : 1s. per 1,000 words; Carbon<br />
Duplicates, 3d. per 1,000.<br />
<br />
W. & G. FOYLE,<br />
135, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
Stories, Novels, Articles, Plays, &c.,<br />
8d. per 1,000 words; with FREE Carbon<br />
Copy. Additional Carbon Copies, ld. extra<br />
per 1,000 words, each copy.<br />
Road what a satisfied Client says, and then send a<br />
trial order.<br />
Dear Sir,<br />
December 4th, 1911.<br />
I have to thank you for your prompt and most<br />
satisfactory work; the typing is excellent, and I am<br />
extremely pleased with it.<br />
(Signed) MRS. J. O. ARNOLD,<br />
Sheffield.<br />
Over 5 years' experience in copying MSS. C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
C. A. GIRTON, 2, Grove Lane, Camberwell. s.c. || Homefield, Woodstock Rd., St. Albans, Herts.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 226 (#680) ############################################<br />
<br />
viii<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
To Authors, Clergymen,<br />
Playwrights, etc.-<br />
A WORD IN SEASON !<br />
Get all your work TYPED<br />
WELL-IT ADDS TONE.<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum.<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
WITH THE<br />
My work is always THE BEST.<br />
My prices are LOW.<br />
Send your order now.<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
All orders, large or small, receive<br />
my personal attention.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Loungee<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel— "Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—"Bookcraft, London."<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
38, Norwood Road,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
| BRAINS.<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND, AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
36, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
ligently copied, from 18. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by I to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
promptness ; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
over 20,000, 6d. Plays ruled<br />
and bound. 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
; in quplicate, 1/-, Plays and General | TYPEWRITING.-Authors MSS. carefully<br />
typed at 10d. per 1,000<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli words (carbon copy free).<br />
EXCELSIOR TYPEWRITING OFFICES,<br />
cation.<br />
Tel.: Bank 82.<br />
20, Bucklersbury, E.C.<br />
One Of NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
* Miss M. R. HORNx bas typed for me literary matter to the<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK.<br />
64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE."<br />
Recommended by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms.<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.,<br />
and Others.<br />
New Address :-<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen : " Many<br />
5, PADCROFT ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX. thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
been done."<br />
Printed by BBADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C. | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/433/1912-05-01-The-Author-22-8.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 434 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/434 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 09 (June 1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+09+%28June+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 09 (June 1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-06-01-The-Author-22-9 | | | | | 227–254 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-06-01">1912-06-01</a> | | | | | | | 9 | | | 19120601 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.-No. 9.<br />
JUNE 1, 1912.<br />
(PRICE SIXPENE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAGE<br />
227<br />
227<br />
Nouces . ... ..<br />
..<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
The Pension Fund<br />
Committee Notes ...<br />
Books published by Members ...<br />
Books published in America by Members<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes... ...<br />
Publisher's Royalty Agreements<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of Books...<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br />
Registration of Scenarios and Original F<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents<br />
227<br />
229<br />
232<br />
234<br />
234<br />
237<br />
237<br />
PAGHZ<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
244<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
244<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
244<br />
Remittances<br />
244<br />
General Notes .<br />
245<br />
Justin McCarthy ..<br />
246<br />
The Royal Literary Fund<br />
247<br />
Composers' Rights and the Collection of<br />
of Fees from Mecha<br />
Reproductions<br />
The Hazard of the Pen<br />
249<br />
Robert Browning...<br />
251<br />
Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press,<br />
Oxford ... ...<br />
251<br />
Correspondence ...<br />
252<br />
247<br />
242<br />
243<br />
243<br />
243<br />
244<br />
244<br />
Publications of the Society.<br />
1. THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1911.<br />
Price 1s. net.<br />
8. THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.<br />
A Record of its Action from its Foundation, By WALTER<br />
BEBANT (Chairman of Committee, 1888-1892). Price<br />
1s, net.<br />
2. THE AUTHOR.<br />
Published ten months in the year (August and September<br />
omitted) devoted especially to the protection and main-<br />
tenance of Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-inembers,<br />
6d.. or 58. 6d. per annum, post free. Back numbers from<br />
1892, at 108. 6d. net, per vol.<br />
9. THE CONTRACT OF PUBLICATION<br />
IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY,<br />
AND SWITZERLAND. By ERNST LUNGE,<br />
J,U,D, Price 28, 6d, net,<br />
8. LITERATURE AND THE PENSION<br />
LIST. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-<br />
Law. Price 38. net,<br />
10. FORMS OF AGREEMENT ISSUED BY<br />
THE PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION ;<br />
WITH COMMENTS. By G. HERBERT<br />
THRING, and Illustrative Examples by Sir WALTER<br />
BESANT, 2nd Edition, Price 18. net.<br />
4. THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIETÉ DES<br />
GENS DE LETTRES. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE,<br />
Price 18. net.<br />
6. THE COST OF PRODUCTION.<br />
(Out of print.).<br />
11. PERIODICALS AND THEIR CONTRI-<br />
BUTORS. Giving the Terms on which the<br />
different Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS. and<br />
Contributions. Price 6d. net.<br />
12. SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907, price 60. net.<br />
6. THE VARIOUS METHODS OF PUBLI-<br />
CATION. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this<br />
work, compiled from the papers in the Society's offices,<br />
the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers<br />
to Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully<br />
explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud<br />
which have been made possible by the different clauses<br />
therein. Price 38, net.<br />
13. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CON-<br />
VENTION AS REVISED AT BERLIN,<br />
1909. Price 18. net.<br />
14. DRAMATIC AGENCY AGREEMENT,<br />
34. net.<br />
7. ADDENDA TO THE ABOVE.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being additional facts<br />
collected at the office of the Society since the publication<br />
of the "Methods." With comments and advice. Price<br />
28. net.<br />
15. LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
31. net.<br />
[All prices net. Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 226 (#682) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telegraphic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON."<br />
Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY,<br />
COUNCIL.<br />
SIB ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. BIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. SIR WM. REYNELL THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL CURZON, THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WAKE.<br />
ANSON, Bart., P.C., M.P., D.C.L.<br />
G.C.S.I.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKEK, M.P.<br />
AVEBURY, P.C.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO.<br />
J. M. BARRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESH FIELD.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. SIR HORACE<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, LL.D.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
SJR RIDER HAGGABD.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
MRS. HARRISON (“LOCAS MALET"). OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. AUGUSTINE BIB. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS,<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
RELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G. R. SIMs.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT,<br />
DR. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE,<br />
THE REV, PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
The Right Hon. JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STAXTORD,<br />
TôE RIGHT Hon. THE LORD BURGH JEROME K, JEROME.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES.<br />
MRS, HUMPHRY WABD.<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
H. G. WELLS.<br />
J. W. COMENS CARR.<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
PERCY WHITE.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.S.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANKESTER, F.R.8. | FIELD-MARSHAL THB RIGHT Hos.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (M188 FLORA L. THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, K.P.,<br />
W. MORRIS COLLES.<br />
SHAW).<br />
P.C., &c.<br />
The Hon. JOHN COLLIER,<br />
Mrs. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON).<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman-DR. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. | MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND,<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
FRANCIS STOBB.<br />
J. W. COMENS CARR.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
RUDOLF BESIER.<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. CARTON.<br />
| JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
| G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
W. J. LOCKE.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
JAMES T. TANNER.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH,<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
OWEN SEAMAN.<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE,<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, Mus. Doc.<br />
CECIL FORSYTH.<br />
| ARTHUR SOMERVELL.<br />
SIDNEY JONES.<br />
HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
JOHN B. MCEWEN.<br />
WILLIAM WALLACE.<br />
GRANVILLE BANTOCK.<br />
PERCY C. BUCK, Mus. Doc.<br />
THOMAS F. DUNHILL.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, I HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
E. J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
| M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
ART.<br />
THE HON. JOAN COLLIER.<br />
| John HASSALL, R.I.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
| J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
FIELD, ROSCOR & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C.<br />
Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT THRING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W. } Soliators.<br />
Solicitor in England<br />
La Société dos Gony do Lettre.<br />
Legal Representative in America— JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A.<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39 OLD QUEEN STREBT, STOBBY'S GATE, S.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 226 (#683) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
- PLAYS<br />
COTTERILL & CROMB.<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors).<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction.<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
stage.<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
- NO THEORIES. –<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
Address : 28, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W.<br />
Literary Agents,<br />
Lennox House, Norfolk Street,<br />
-Strand, W.C.<br />
During the past year Messrs. Cotterill & Cromb have placed<br />
literary work (Books, Serials and Short Stories) for the<br />
following Authors:<br />
COSMO HAMILTON,<br />
GUNBY HADATH,<br />
DEREK VANE<br />
FRANCIS MARLOWE,<br />
GEORGE EDGAR<br />
W. HAROLD THOMSON,<br />
ANNESLEY KENEALY, HILDA COWHAM,<br />
CHARLES PROCTER,<br />
ROGER POCOCK,<br />
SEUMAS MACMANUS.<br />
REEVES SHAW,<br />
RUBY M. AYRES,<br />
MARK ALLERTON,<br />
R. MURRAY GILCHRIST. JOHN HASLETTE,<br />
BERTRAM ATKEY,<br />
CLIVE HOLLAND,<br />
F. ST. MARS,<br />
NORMAN INNES,<br />
PAUL URQUHART,<br />
Etc., Etc.<br />
Each MS. receives the personal attention of Mr. Cotterill and<br />
Mr. Cromb, who have a unique knowledge of the Book and<br />
Serial Market.<br />
WRITE FOR TERMS. INTERVIEWS BY APPOINTMENT.<br />
Telephone : GERRARD 1093.<br />
FRANK HENRY RICE,<br />
Authors' Agent,<br />
50, CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK.<br />
Terms, 10 Per Cent.<br />
No Reading Fee.<br />
I do not Edit or Revise MS.<br />
Just out, 1/- paper, 2)- cloth, net.<br />
SMITH & SON, Renfield Street, Glasgow,<br />
WILLIAM THOMSON<br />
(LORD KELVIN),<br />
His Way of Teaching Natural Philosophy,<br />
By DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
ANECDOTES OF BIG<br />
CATS AND OTHER BEASTS.<br />
BY DAVID A. WILSON.<br />
METHUEN & Co., 6/-<br />
Times.-"Mr. Theodore Roosevelt can recount many<br />
stories of such scenes, while Mr. D. Wilson goes &<br />
step further ... by telling his readers something<br />
of the mental attitude of the quarry.".<br />
Guardian.-" Mr. Wilson is the right person to tell<br />
stories of sport."<br />
Pall Mall Gazette.— “Captivating and engrossing."<br />
Labour Leader.-"This book is one of the most<br />
delightful collections of animal stories it has been<br />
our lot to meet."<br />
Morning Post.-"Delightfully sympathetic ... Noth-<br />
ing is excluded, from the tiger and leopard to the<br />
domestic pussy.cat, from the bear to the buffalo,<br />
from the monkey to the elephant.”<br />
Humanitarian.—“We advise all our friends to read<br />
this admirable book.”<br />
WHAT OUR AUTHORS AND OTHERS ARE<br />
SAYING ABOUT OUR BOOKS.<br />
THE AUTHOR OF “THE CO-RESPONDENT" WRITES :<br />
DEAR SIRS,<br />
May 10th, 1912.<br />
We thank you for the copies of The Co-Respondent,"<br />
received this morning. We were pleased to get them<br />
carlier than the date you named, and we like the get-up<br />
immensely.<br />
THE AUTHOR OF “CAIRN LODGE" WRITES :<br />
May 15th, 1912.<br />
“ Begs to acknowledge the books sent to her, she is very<br />
pleased with the way they are got up.".<br />
THE REVIEWER IN “THE MORNING LEADER" DESCRIBES<br />
“AUNT URSULA'S BEQUEST":<br />
"A little book which deserves mention for several<br />
reasons. 'Aunt Ursula's Bequest' is bound in very<br />
pleasing paper boards. It contains original new fiction<br />
about 30,000 words of it-and it costs a shilling. This is a<br />
good idea in the way of pocket volumes. It is also good<br />
intrinsically. It is a capital little tale ... excellently<br />
written in a sober, unpretentious way."<br />
MURRAY & EVENDEN,<br />
Pleydell House, Pleydell Street,<br />
Fleet Street, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 226 (#684) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Save your Numbers carefully until the Volume is complete by using<br />
“THE AUTHOR” MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
"The<br />
Eluthor"<br />
(The Official Organ of The<br />
Incorporated Society of Authors)<br />
MECHANICAL<br />
BINDER 0802<br />
Cloth Gilt<br />
with Mechanism<br />
Complete.<br />
Price 2/8 net.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up, number<br />
by number, the numbers of The Author as they are published,<br />
and at the completion of the Volume can be taken off and sent<br />
to the Bookbinder--leaving the Mechanical Binder free for the<br />
next volume. Whether containing one number or a complete<br />
volume it has the appearance of, and handles the same as, an<br />
ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by which The<br />
Author can be instantly bound with the same facility as a single<br />
leaf, and there are no wires or elastic strings to get out of order.<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The Cloth<br />
Covers are made by leading London Bookbinders, and the Metal<br />
Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to break,<br />
it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
St. James' Budget:-"The advantages of the {Binder are so<br />
obvious ...<br />
Leeds Mercury :-"An ingenious and accommodating in ven-<br />
tion."<br />
Westminster Budget:-"The construction of the Binder is<br />
simplicity itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end."<br />
Literary World :-"A clever device--so extremely simple and<br />
easy in applying."<br />
Sheffield Daily Telegraph :-"After use we can confidently<br />
recommend."<br />
J. F. BELMONT & CO., 29, Paternoster<br />
Square, LONDON, E.C.<br />
BARGAINS IN BOOKS.<br />
Terms-Cash with order. The Tissot Pictures illustrating<br />
the Life of Christ, £6 6s. net ; Splendid Copy, absolutely<br />
good as new for £2 198., The Twentieth Century Practice<br />
of Medicine; an international Encyclopædia of Modern<br />
Medical Science by leading authorities of Europe and<br />
America ; 20 volumes, published 20 guineas; new, uncut,<br />
original binding, £7 108. Cross cheques and postal orders<br />
L. & S.W. Bank, Fleet Street Branch.-J. F. BELMONT<br />
& Co., 29. Paternoster Square, E.C.<br />
<br />
THE BINDER OPEN.<br />
TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK<br />
(Shorthand.)<br />
Authors' Manuscripts & other work promptly<br />
and accurately copied.<br />
Terms : 10d. per 1,000 Words./<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Rev. H. W. CLARK.<br />
MISS I. U. BAILEY, WESTWICK, HARPENDEN, HERTS.<br />
An Indispensable American Journal.<br />
“Those who wish to know in a general way what is being done in the literary<br />
world in America cannot do better than subscribe to THE DIAL, a semi-monthly<br />
journal devoted entirely to literature. We will undertake to say that no one who<br />
is interested in literature would regret acting on our advice, and arranging for<br />
THE DIAL to rub shoulders twice a month with their Spectator, Athenæum, or<br />
Academy. i . . From whatever point of view you look at it-value of its literary<br />
contents, or its variety, or the excellence of its mechanical production—THE DIAL<br />
is entitled to a place with the best that any country can produce. ... We again<br />
advise our readers who wish to keep the 100 millions of America in their eye to<br />
watch THE DIAL.”—THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR (London).<br />
Specimen copies of THE DIAL, together with a special offer for trial subscription, will be<br />
sent gratis to any reader of THE AUTHOR upon request.<br />
“THE DIAL” COMPANY, 410, SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO.<br />
ADDRESS<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 227 (#685) ############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.-No. 9.<br />
JUNE 1, 1912.<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
VERTISEMENTS.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
· AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
advertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
DIOR the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of The Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the notice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
FROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this permanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 58. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
TN January the secretary of the society laid<br />
I before the trustees of the Pension Fund the<br />
accounts for the year 1911, as settled by the<br />
accountants, with a full statement of the result of<br />
the appeal recently made on behalf of the Fund.<br />
After giving the matter full consideration the<br />
trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 228 (#686) ############################################<br />
<br />
228<br />
THB AUTHOR.<br />
The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
received three bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
on the matter.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' Order for 5s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
£ s. d.<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
er er<br />
of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and<br />
Bolivian Railway 5%. Preferred Ordinary Stock<br />
and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock.<br />
The amounts purchased at the present prices are<br />
£237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock.<br />
The trustees desire to thank the members of the<br />
society for the generous support which they have<br />
given to the Pension Fund, and have much pleasure<br />
in informing the Pension Fund Committee that<br />
there is a further sum available for the payment of<br />
another pension in case any application should be<br />
made. The money now invested amounts to<br />
£4,846 198. 4d., and is fully set out in the list<br />
below :<br />
Consols 21%<br />
To<br />
4<br />
..........................<br />
...........................£1,312 13<br />
Local Loans..................<br />
500 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3% Consoli-<br />
dated Inscribed Stock............... 291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3%<br />
Debenture Stock ........<br />
250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ...............<br />
2000<br />
0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 31% Inscribed<br />
Stock .............<br />
200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
4% Preference Stock ........<br />
228 0 0<br />
New Zealand 31% Stock ....... 247 96<br />
Irish Land Act 21% Guaranteed<br />
Stock .........<br />
258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
1927-57 ....................<br />
........ 438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 31° Stock, 1919-49 ...... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 49% 1937 Stock ..<br />
..........<br />
120 121<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31%<br />
Land Grant Stock, 1938.<br />
198 3 8<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
5°. Preferred Stock ...............<br />
237 0 0<br />
Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br />
Stock<br />
232 0 0<br />
0<br />
5<br />
6<br />
0<br />
6<br />
05 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 50<br />
0 5 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
.....<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
1912.<br />
Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice .<br />
Jan. 2, Sturt, George . .<br />
Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark in addition to<br />
present subscription). .<br />
Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H. . .<br />
Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br />
to present subscription) .<br />
Jan. 3, Hedgcock, F. A. .<br />
Jan. 5, Matcham, Mrs. Eyre<br />
.<br />
Jan. 8. Stayton, Frank ..<br />
Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Estella<br />
Jan. 10, Ropes, A. R..<br />
Jan. 12, Francis, René .. .<br />
Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br />
tion to present subscription)<br />
Jan. 27, Hutchinson, the Rev. H. N. .<br />
Feb. 7, L. M. F., per month during<br />
1912<br />
Feb. 7, Letts, Miss W.M..<br />
Feb. 8, Cooke, W. Bourne . .<br />
Feb. 8, Annesley, Miss Maude .<br />
Feb. 9, O'Donnell, Miss Petronella .<br />
March 6, Curwen, Miss Maud , .<br />
March 6, Anderson, Arthur<br />
March 15, George, W. L. (in addition<br />
to present subscription).<br />
April 6, Bland, J. 0. P. .<br />
April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil.<br />
April 6, Forrester, J. Cliffe. .<br />
en<br />
100<br />
0 5 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 10<br />
6<br />
0<br />
0<br />
5<br />
5<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
1<br />
0<br />
Total ........<br />
.....£4,846 19<br />
4<br />
010 0<br />
0 100<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
...<br />
The list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br />
tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br />
by, or promised to, the fund from January 1,<br />
1912.<br />
It does not include either donations given<br />
prior to January 1, nor does it include sub-<br />
scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br />
before it.<br />
The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br />
appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
Donations.<br />
1912.<br />
Jan. 2, Risque, W. H. .<br />
Jan. 2, Dart, Miss Edith<br />
Jan. 3, “K."<br />
Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur .<br />
Jan. 3, Durrant, W. Scott .<br />
Jan. 3, Tighe, Henry . .<br />
Jan. 3, Grant, Lady Sybil.<br />
Jan. 4, Smith, Bertram .<br />
Jan. 4, Buckrose, J. E.<br />
...<br />
0 10 0<br />
0 10 6<br />
0 10 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
1 0 0<br />
20 0 0<br />
1 1 0<br />
..<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 229 (#687) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
229<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
0 5 0<br />
0 10 0<br />
10 0<br />
£<br />
1<br />
s. d.<br />
1 0<br />
·<br />
0<br />
erne er com<br />
0<br />
erero<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
1<br />
5<br />
5<br />
1<br />
1<br />
5<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
March 25, Williams, Mrs. Illtyd .<br />
April 2, XX. Pen Club ..<br />
April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil . :<br />
April 6, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte<br />
April 10, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole<br />
April 10, Robbins, Alfred F. :<br />
April 10, Harris, Emma H. . .<br />
April 11, Ralli, C. Scaramanga . .<br />
April 11, Aitken, Robert . . .<br />
April 16, L. M. F. (£1 per month,<br />
February, March, April)<br />
April 22, Prior, Mrs. Melton . :<br />
May 2, Baden-Powell, Miss Agnes :<br />
1<br />
0<br />
3<br />
1<br />
6<br />
5<br />
3<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
3 0<br />
0 10<br />
0 5<br />
0<br />
6<br />
0<br />
2 2<br />
0 5<br />
0 5<br />
errererererer ener<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
0<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
Jan. 4, Lathbury, Miss Eva<br />
Jan. 5, Wilson, Dr. Albert .<br />
Jan. 5, Craven, A. Scott .<br />
Jan. 6, Blundell, Miss Alice<br />
Jan. 6, Garbutt, W. H. .<br />
Jan. 6, Serjeant, Miss Constance<br />
Jan. 9, Chamberlayne, Miss Effie<br />
Jan. 9, Hamel, Frank<br />
Jan. 10, Allen, W. Bird .<br />
Jan. 10, Crellin, H. N.<br />
Jan. 10, Smith, Herbert W.<br />
Jan. 12, Randall, F. J. .<br />
Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W. .<br />
.<br />
Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M.<br />
M. . . .<br />
Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney .<br />
Jan. 20, M'Ewan, Miss Madge.<br />
Jan. 22, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila<br />
Jan. 22, Mackenzie, Miss J. .<br />
Jan. 22, Reiss, Miss Erna . . .<br />
Jan. 22, Grisewood, R. Norman. .<br />
Jan. 23, Machen, Arthur . . .<br />
Jan. 24, Williamson, C. N. and Mrs.C<br />
Jan. 26, Way, Miss Beatrice .<br />
Jan. 30, Saies, Mrs. Florence H..<br />
Jan. 30, Weyman, Stanley (in addition<br />
to subscription).<br />
Jan. 30, S. F. G. . .<br />
Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br />
Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br />
.<br />
Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James . . .<br />
Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br />
Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady .<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. .<br />
Feb. 12, King, A. R. . .<br />
Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. ..<br />
Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br />
:<br />
Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. W. E.<br />
Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival<br />
Feb. 17, Raphael, Mrs. .<br />
Feb. 19, Cabourn, John .<br />
.<br />
Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. ..<br />
Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and Mrs.<br />
Feb. 24, Hamilton, Cosmo<br />
Feb. 27, Plowman, Miss Mary .<br />
Feb. 28, Aspinall, A. E. .<br />
March 2, Montesole, Max . .<br />
March 9, Pickering, Mrs. Frank .<br />
March 15, Trevanwyn, John<br />
March 16, O'Higgins, H. J. .<br />
March 18, Wallis-Healy, F. C..<br />
March 18, Schwarz, Prof. Ernest .<br />
March 19, Wallace, Sir Donald Mac-<br />
kenzie, K.C.V.O. .<br />
March 21, Wharton, Leonard .<br />
March 22, Holbach, Mrs. . . .<br />
March 23, Parks, H. C. . :<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· ·<br />
.<br />
· · ·<br />
0<br />
.<br />
M HE Committee of Management, instead of<br />
0 5 0 1 holding its monthly meeting in May, held it on<br />
0 5 0 April 29, meeting at the offices of the society<br />
1 1 0 at the usual hour on that date.<br />
5 5 0 After the minutes of the previous meetings hac<br />
0 5 0 been read and signed the names of authors seeking<br />
0 8 6 admission to the society were laid before the com-<br />
mittee. Twenty-three members and associates were<br />
1 1 0 added to the list for the current year, bringing the<br />
1 1 0 total elections for the year up to 156. Four<br />
1 0 0 resignations were accepted by the committee with<br />
0 10 0 regret.<br />
1 1 0 The solicitor then laid before the committee the<br />
report of the cases. In one dispute which had been<br />
placed in his hands with the sanction of the chair-<br />
man during the month, he reported that he had<br />
0 gone into the matter, and it seemed clear that<br />
the publisher had dealt with some rights belonging<br />
0 5 0 to the member, without the member's sanction.<br />
1 1 0 The issues were a little involved by other claims;<br />
O but after full discussion, the committee decided to<br />
O take action on behalf of the member, and the<br />
0 5 0 solicitor was instructed accordingly. The solicitor<br />
0 10 0 reported further on certain of the cases mentioned<br />
0 in the last issue of The Author. In one instance<br />
10 a claim for the recovery of money the money had<br />
0 2 6 been obtained and the accounts had been settled.<br />
10 0 Another dispute with a publisher had been settled<br />
also, the only point remaining over being the<br />
0 checking of a charge for corrections in the<br />
1 1 0 publisher's accounts. When the voucher was pro-<br />
1 0 duced it was found that the publisher had charged<br />
0 3 0 108. beyond the printers' statement for his own<br />
0 5 0 time and trouble. The committee instructed the<br />
solicitor to take steps to set aside this claim, giving<br />
5 0<br />
at the same time authority to the secretary to ask<br />
0 5 0 for formal vouchers where statements of account<br />
0 5 0 containing a charge for corrections in the future<br />
0 5 0 were forwarded from this publisher. In three<br />
Berreteroreroo<br />
.<br />
.<br />
· · ·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 230 (#688) ############################################<br />
<br />
230<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
small County Court cases against papers for non The secretary reported to the committee the result<br />
payment of sums due, the solicitors were glad to of the meeting of the Joint Committee of the Society<br />
report that the amounts had been paid and for- of Authors, the Copyright Association, and the<br />
warded to the members. In a dispute reported in Publishers' Association. He stated that the society's<br />
last month's Author, between two members of the report on the regulations issued by the Board of<br />
society the solicitor stated that he was waiting for a Trade under the Copyright Act, 1911, had been<br />
further report. There were two or three claims approved by the Joint Committee; that some sug-<br />
against a publisher who gave the society some gestions in no way inimical to the society's altera-<br />
trouble last year. Particulars of the cases were tions, but calculated to strengthen the position of<br />
laid before the committee, and it was decided that authors and composers, had been passed, and that<br />
the cases should be taken in band, and that as soon Sir Frederick Macmillan, who was acting as Chair-<br />
as the solicitor could get a clear cause of action, man of the Joint Committee, had promised to put<br />
action should be taken. In the meantime the these additional proposals forward.<br />
other cases should be settled as far as possible. Two donations to the Capital Fund of the Society,<br />
Some of the disputes were so involved by delays (one of 108. 6d. from Mrs. Thornton Cook, and one<br />
and other issues that they were difficult to deal with, of £1 18. from the Baroness de Knoop) were grate-<br />
but the committee felt it essential that the fully acknowledged by the committee, and the receipt<br />
publisher should be pressed to carry out his con- of a life membership subscription from Mrs.<br />
tracts in a businesslike fashion, for the benefit of Curlewis (Ethel Turner) was reported by the<br />
the authors concerned. The secretary, who had secretary.<br />
brought before the committee a proposal to publish<br />
an article in The Author on a clause in a publisher's<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
agreement, reported that the matter was withdrawn<br />
as the author did not desire, at the present time,<br />
THE Dramatic Sub-Committee held its monthly<br />
that the article should be printed.<br />
meeting at the offices of the society on May 17.<br />
The secretary reported that he had obtained the The secretary reported that he had heard from the<br />
chairman s leave in another case to place it in the Society of West End Managers that the copies of<br />
hands of the society's American lawyers. It was a the “ Managerial Treaty ” which had been sent to<br />
small case of infringement of a member's rights, them had been forwarded to their members for<br />
and the committee confirmed the action that had consideration. The Dramatic Sub-Committee now<br />
been taken. The last legal matter dealt with the awaits a further reply. As one or two of the<br />
responsibility of an editor for articles which he had delegates named at the former meeting were unable<br />
ordered. The claim arose owing to the fact that the to act, the Dramatic Sub-Committee selected other<br />
articles had been ordered for a paper without the members from the society's dramatic section, and<br />
editor disclosing that the paper was run by a instructed the secretary to inquire whether they<br />
limited liability company, and the company having would be ready to undertake the duties.<br />
gone into liquidation, no money had been forth An agency agreement was laid before the com-<br />
coming for the author. The committee decided to mittee, and attention was drawn to the percentage<br />
support the member in a claim against the gentle it was proposed to charge for the collection of fees<br />
man who had ordered the articles.<br />
from amateurs. The secretary was instructed to<br />
The question of Canadian copyright was again write to the firm concerned, pointing out that the<br />
brought before the committee owing to the receipt Dramatic Sub-Committee considered the suggested<br />
of a letter from a Canadian correspondent of the fees exorbitant, and that if these fees were not<br />
society. The chairman kindly undertook to write reduced it would be impossible for the society to<br />
to Sir Gilbert Parker, who had consented to act as advise dramatists to place the collection of their<br />
the society's representative in Canada on his visit fees with the firm in question.<br />
there in June. The chairman further promised to The question of cineinatograph fees was again<br />
forward Sir Gilbert a copy of the letter which the before the sub-committee. It appeared from the<br />
society had already sent to the Premier and to the evidence collected that so far no definite standard<br />
Minister of Agriculture.<br />
of payınent bad been fixed in foreign countries.<br />
It was decided to have a series of articles in The The secretary was instructed to collect as much<br />
Author dealing with the subject of “The Cost of evidence as he could in order to guide the sub-<br />
Production.”<br />
committee as to the fees they should advise<br />
On the suggestion of one of the Nobel Prize Com- members of the society to accept. The question<br />
mittee it was decided to ask the chairman of that of cinematograph fees then brought the sub-<br />
committee (Lord Avebury) to convene a meeting to committee to the schedule of fees which it is<br />
discuss the present position, and the secretary was proposed to place at the disposal of the dramatic<br />
instructed to act accordingly.<br />
section of the society. The secretary was instructed<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 231 (#689) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
231<br />
II.<br />
to inquire of some dozen or so of the dramatists,<br />
members of the society, whether they would furnish<br />
the Dramatic Sub-Committee with a statement of<br />
their fees, for the guidance of their fellow dramatic<br />
authors. It was decided that the names of the<br />
dramatists furnishing such information should be<br />
kept confidential. It is hoped by means of the<br />
information thus collected to compile a schedule of<br />
prices which shall assist dramatists, many of whom<br />
enter into agreements and dispose of their rights at<br />
ridiculous prices, through sheer ignorance of their<br />
position. Several of the members of the Dramatic<br />
Sub-Committee present promised to forward their<br />
own list of prices.<br />
The secretary reported the receipt of certain<br />
letters touching the appointment of agents in other<br />
countries, but the consideration of the matter was<br />
adjourned.<br />
The dramatic competition in The Era was also<br />
before the sub-committee, and the secretary read<br />
the article that had appeared in the April issue of<br />
The Author. The action taken was approved by<br />
the sub-committee.<br />
The monthly meeting of this sub-committee<br />
was held at the offices of the society on Saturday,<br />
May 11. After the minutes of the previous<br />
meeting had been read and signed, the secretary<br />
reported the action of the Copyright Sub-Committee<br />
in the matter of Messrs. Curwen's agreement, and<br />
this action received the approval of the Composers'<br />
Sub-Committee, to refer the agreement back to<br />
the Committee of Management in order to obtain,<br />
if possible, the approval of that body.<br />
The letter to be sent to the Music Publishers'<br />
Association in regard to the fees for performing<br />
rights was finally settled, and it was decided to<br />
adjourn the question of the amount of the fees till<br />
the next meeting.<br />
The agreement of the Mechanical Copyright<br />
Licences Company was read to the committee, but<br />
discussion was again adjourned pending the issue<br />
of the regulations of the Board of Trade in their<br />
final form. It was decided, however, to send copies<br />
of the agreement to members of the Composers'<br />
Sub-Committee that they might have time to consider<br />
it before the next meeting, when the question would<br />
be further discussed.<br />
The Composers' Sub-Committee also sent a<br />
recommendation to the Committee of Management<br />
that, in addition to undertaking the stamping of<br />
composers' music, the society should collect the<br />
gramaphone fees, subject to the payment of a per-<br />
centage, as the collection of these fees was likely to<br />
be a matter of importance under the new Act.<br />
Finally, the secretary placed before the Sub-Com-<br />
mittee a dispute between a composer of the society<br />
and a publisher, and the matter was referred to the<br />
Committee of Management, in the strong hope that<br />
action would be taken.<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
THERE was a special meeting of the Composers'<br />
Sub-Committee on Saturday, April 27, at the<br />
Society's office, to meet delegates from the Music<br />
Publishers' Association with a view to ascertaining<br />
how far, under the new Act, it would be possible<br />
for publishers and composers to secure some returns<br />
on the performing rights. The chairman of the<br />
committee of management, Dr. S. Squire Sprigge,<br />
kindly undertook to act as chairman at the<br />
meeting.<br />
Mr. Elkin, the delegate from the Music Pub<br />
lishers' Association explained the matter as he<br />
understood it from the publishers' point of view,<br />
and after considerable discussion it was decided to<br />
make out a list of all the music on which it was<br />
thought possible fees for performance could be<br />
claimed.<br />
The list, after keen debate, was agreed to by the<br />
Sab-Committee. The representative of the Music<br />
Publishers' Association stated he would be very<br />
happy to put the question before the committee of<br />
his association at their next meeting, when he<br />
trusted it might be possible to decide upon some<br />
satisfactory joint action. The Secretary was<br />
instructed to forward the list, as settled, to the<br />
association, and at the same time the Sub-Committee<br />
suggested that the fees should be moderate. If an<br />
agreement can be reached on the matter of the<br />
performing rights no doubt a further meeting will<br />
be called in order to discuss the amount of the fees<br />
to be charged, and the machinery for collection.<br />
Cases.<br />
The usual tally of cases has passed through the<br />
offices of the society during the month of May. The<br />
numbers have varied but little from month to month<br />
during the present year. Fifteen cases have been<br />
dealt with. Four of these were claims for the<br />
return of MSS. ; in one the MS. has been returned :<br />
in one some of the MSS. have been handed in, and<br />
it is hoped that the rest will come, after a more<br />
careful search ; in another case the editor, who had<br />
control of the MSS., is at present away from the<br />
office on a holiday, but on his return the matter will<br />
receive his close consideration ; the last case is still<br />
open.<br />
There were four claims for moneys and accounts.<br />
Two have been satisfactorily settled ; one has been<br />
placed in the hands of the society's solicitors, and<br />
the last has only recently come into the office.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 232 (#690) ############################################<br />
<br />
232<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Of two cases for infringement of copyright, one,<br />
rather a difficult matter, will, most probably, have<br />
to go before the committee and be placed in the<br />
hands of the society's solicitors ; the other, lying in<br />
India, will take some time in settlement.<br />
There has been one claim for accounts and<br />
money in which the accounts and cheque were<br />
forwarded to the author, but it was found that<br />
the accounts were wrong. The publisher, on<br />
having his attention drawn to the matter, imme-<br />
diately undertook to have them readjusted and<br />
a fresh cheque made out. It is a curious thing,<br />
however, that out of the many cases of wrong<br />
accounts none has come to the office where the<br />
mistake has been in favour of the author. No<br />
doubt from time to time clerks make mistakes<br />
and, accordingly, the accounts must be wrong, but<br />
it is strange that the mistakes should always be on<br />
one side.<br />
Of four claims for money one has been settled<br />
and the money has been forwarded to the author<br />
concerned ; one has only recently come into the<br />
office, and the other two will, most probably, have<br />
to be placed in the hands of the society's solicitors.<br />
There are very few cases left over from former<br />
months, and none of them is very important.<br />
During the month one or two matters have had to<br />
be placed in the hands of the society's solicitors,<br />
whose report will be laid before the committee at<br />
their meeting in June and will appear in the July<br />
Author.<br />
Knight, Alfred Ernest . Kingsley, Brunswick<br />
Road, Sutton,<br />
Surrey.<br />
. . Aldbourne, Wilts.<br />
Mackenzie, Miss Evelyn. Traverston, West<br />
Road, Cambridge.<br />
O'Reilly, W. H. . . 47, Powis Square,<br />
Bayswater, W.<br />
Peacock, J. Wadham Rosslyn, Newman<br />
Road, Bromley,<br />
Kent.<br />
Price, Morgan Phillips Tibberton Court,<br />
Gloucester.<br />
Rankin, Amy Hale. . Kingswood, Warwick-<br />
shire.<br />
Rock, W. S.<br />
Rosman, Alice Grant : c/o Commercial Bank<br />
of Australia,<br />
Bishopsgate.<br />
Stanger, Mrs. H. Y. . New Brighton,<br />
Cheshire.<br />
Wilkinson, G. Jerrard . Caius House, Batter-<br />
sea Square, S.W.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
Elections.<br />
Barney, Charles G., Jr. 20, West 8th Street,<br />
New York.<br />
Burrows. Arnold , Grosvenor House,<br />
Mold.<br />
Davson, Gordon . . 20, Ennismore Gar-<br />
dens, N.W.<br />
Davson, Major H.M., R.H.A. White's Club, St.<br />
James's.<br />
Denny, Ernest . . 36, Loudoun Road,<br />
St. John's Wood,<br />
N.W.<br />
Glass, Montague . . 504, West 143 Street,<br />
New York, U.S.A.<br />
Glyn, Miss Elinor . . c/o Messrs. Curtis<br />
Brown & Massie,<br />
5, Henrietta Street,<br />
W.C.<br />
Gritton, John.<br />
Hastings, Basil Macdonald Wella Willa, Pickwick<br />
Road, Dulwich<br />
Village.<br />
Hawthorne, Dr. Charles 0. 63, Harley Street, W.<br />
Jones, Sidney . . . Albany Chambers,<br />
196, Regent Street,<br />
W.<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
that many of the books mentioned are not sent to the cffice<br />
by the members. In consequence, it is necessary to rely<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
accurate.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
CHARLOTTE SOPHIE, COUNTESS BEXTINCK ; HER LIFE<br />
AND TIMES, 1715-1800. By her descendant, MES.<br />
AUBREY LE BLOND. With over 70 illustrations from<br />
original paintings, facsimiles of letters, &c. 2 Volumes.<br />
Hutchinson. 248. n.<br />
FOURTEEN YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC LIFE IN JAPAN.<br />
Leaves from the Diary of Baroness Albert D'Anethan.<br />
With an Introduction by H. E. BAROX KATO. 9 x 51.<br />
471 pp. Stanley Paul. 188, n.<br />
AN INJURED QUEEX, CAROLINE OP BRCXSWICK. By<br />
LEWIS MELVILLE. 84 x 54. 614 pp. Hutchinson.<br />
218. n,<br />
BOOKS OF REFERENCE.<br />
THE STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK, 1912. Edited by J.<br />
SCOTT KELTIE. Forty-ninth Annual Publication. 7 x<br />
41 428 pp. Macmillan. 108. 60' n.<br />
COOKERY.<br />
LETTERS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS. By MARIE DE<br />
JoncouRT. 77 x 5. 133 pp. Kegan Paul. Is. 6d. n.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
THE HERALDS OF THE DAWN. A Play in Eight Scenes.<br />
By WILLIAM WATSON, 8 X 51. 93 pp. Lane. 45. 64. n<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 233 (#691) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
233<br />
THE TRAGEDY OF AMY ROBSART. By HAROLD HARDY,<br />
81 x 54. 95 pp. Robert Banks, Racquet Court, Fleet<br />
Street, E.C. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THE CLOUDS. By C. M. DOUGłty. 81 x 54. 146 pp.<br />
Duckworth. 58. n.<br />
FIVE LITTLE PLAYS. By ALFRED SUTRO. 7 x 5.<br />
131 pp. Duckworth. 1s. 60, n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
A HEALTH UNTO HIS MAJESTY, By JUSTIN HUNTLY<br />
MCCARTHY. 74 x 5. 364 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 68.<br />
LENA SWALLOW. By H. W. C. NEWTE. 7} X 5. 414 pp.<br />
Mills & Boon. 18. n.<br />
ROGER'S LUCK. By ROSAMUND SOUTHEY. 71 x 5.<br />
320 pp. Ham-Smith. 68.<br />
WAR AND THE WOMAN. By MAX PEMBERTON. 78 X 5.<br />
304 pp. Cassell. 68.<br />
WINTERING HAY. By John TREVENA, 510 pp. Con.<br />
stable. 68.<br />
THE INVIOLABLE SANCTUARY. By G. A. BIRMINGHAM,<br />
7} x 5. 369 pp. Nelson. 28.<br />
THE SILVER MEDALLION. By PERCY JAMES BREBNER.<br />
74 X 5. 346 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
THE TOWER HILL MYSTERY. By A. WILSON BARRETT.<br />
74 x 5. 320 pp. Ward Lock. 68.<br />
A KING AND A COWARD. By EFFIE ADELAIDE Row.<br />
LANDS. 7 x 5. 316 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
PETER RAFF. By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM. 7} x 5.<br />
247 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 28. n.<br />
THE GREAT SHADOW, AND OTHER NAPOLEONIC TALES.<br />
By ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE. 64 x 41. 344 pp. Nelson<br />
nå.<br />
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES. BY THOMAS HARDY.<br />
9 x 54. 508 pp. Macmillan. 78. 6d. n.<br />
THE VICAR OF NORMANTON. By EDWARD NOBLE.<br />
75 X 5. 523 pp. Constable. 68. n.<br />
THE CITY OF LIGHT: A Novel of Modern Paris. By<br />
W. L. GEORGE. 71 x 5. 343 pp. Constable. 6s.<br />
A CANDIDATE FOR TRUTH. By J. D. BERESFORD. 71 x 5.<br />
403 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. 6s.<br />
JULIA FRANCE AND HER TIMES. By GERTRUDE ATHER-<br />
TON. 7} * 5. 516 pp. Murray. 6s.<br />
THE JUSTICE OF THE DUKE. By RAFAEL SABATINI.<br />
7} x 41. 286 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
IN THE VORTEX. By CLIVE HOLLAND. 8 x 5. 348 pp.<br />
Hurst & Blackett. 6s.<br />
KINGFISHER BLUE. By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE. 74 x 5.<br />
321 pp. Smith, Elder. 6s.<br />
THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER. By FRANCES<br />
HODGSON BURNETT. 77 x 43. 62 pp. Putnams. ls. n.<br />
MY LORD THE FELON. “By HEADON HILL. 73 x 5.<br />
320 pp. WARD, LOCK. 68.<br />
THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. By A. CONAN<br />
DOYLE. 7 X 41. 293 pp. Smith, Elder & Co. Cheap<br />
Edition. 18. n.<br />
FORTUNE. By J. C. SNAITH. 67 4. 365 pp. Cheap<br />
Reprint. Nelson, 7d. n.<br />
LOVE's OUTLAWS. By ARCHIBALD B. SPENS. 304 pp.<br />
Digby, Long & Co. 6s.<br />
HISTORY.<br />
A HISTORY OF THE INDIAN MUTINY. Revised and<br />
Illustrated from the Original Documents. By G. W.<br />
FORREST, C.I.E. Vol. III. 9 x 31. 651 pp. Black.<br />
woods. 208. n.<br />
SOCIETY AT ROYAL TUNBRIDGE WELLS IN THE 18TH<br />
CENTURY AND AFTER. By LEWIS MELVILLE. 9 X 51.<br />
315 pp. Nash. 10s. 6d. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE GIRL'S BOOK ABOUT HERSELF. By AMY B, BARNARD.<br />
8 X 51. 224 pp. Cassell. 38, 6d. n.<br />
BROKEN EMPIRES OF THE PAST. Shall Britain join them?<br />
Six Lectures primarily intended for Village use by<br />
SURSUM CORDA. London: McCorquodale & Co. 6d.<br />
MUSIC, vzrok<br />
ORGAN PLAYING. By PERCY C. BUCK, Mus. Doc. 121 x<br />
94. 102 pp. (The Musician's Library). Macmillan, and<br />
Stainer & Bell. 43. n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
A YEAR IN THE COUNTRY. By W. PERCIVAL WESTELL,<br />
F.L.S. 74 X 5. 164 pp. Headley. 28. 6d. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
THE DREAMING ANTINOUS, AND OTHER POEMS. By<br />
K. EVEREST. 266 pp. Erskine Macdonald, 17 Surrey<br />
Street. Cloth. 28. 62.<br />
THE SEA KING'S BRIDE AND OTHER POEMS FOR RECI-<br />
TATION. By PETRONELLA O'DONNELL. 104 pp.<br />
Alexander Moring.<br />
IN MANTLE BLUE. By F. GWYNNE EVANS. 127 pp.<br />
Elkin Mathews.<br />
THE PHANTOM SHIP AND OTHER POEMS. By E. H.<br />
VISIAK. With an Introduction by W. H. HELM. Elkin<br />
Mathews. Cloth, 1s. 6d. ; Wrapper, 1s.<br />
THE BRAIN OF THE NATION, AND OTHER VERSES. By<br />
C. L. GRAVES. 71 x 5. 118 pp. Smith, Elder. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE CALL OF THE PRESENT. A Political Jingle. By<br />
A. H. COCHRAN. 7 x 44. 64 pp. Simpkin, Marshali.<br />
18. n.<br />
THE NORSE KING'S “ BRIDAL." Ballads from the Danish<br />
and Old Norse. By E. N. SMITH-DAMPJER. Melrose.<br />
28. n.<br />
VALE. A Book of Verse. By LEONARD INKSTER. Fifield.<br />
18.<br />
POLITICAL.<br />
HOME RULE. By HAROLD SPENDER. With a Preface by<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. SIR EDWARD GREY, BART.,<br />
M.P. Second Edition, with the Text of the Home Rule<br />
Bill, 1912, 75 X 5. 191 pp. Hodder & Stoughton.<br />
1s. n.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
STUDIES AND APPRECIATIONS. Selected Writings of<br />
William Sharp. Uniform Edition. Arranged by MRS.<br />
WILLIAM SHARP. Vol. II. 78 X 54. 424 pp. Heine-<br />
mann. 58. n.<br />
FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD. By THOMAS HARDY.<br />
9 x 54. 464 pp. Macmillan. 78. 6d. n.<br />
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF HENRIK IBSEN. Vol. XII.<br />
FROM IBSEN'S WORKSHOP: NOTES, SCENARIOS, AND<br />
DRAFTS OF THE MODERN PLAYS. Translated by<br />
A. G. CHATER. With Introduction by WILLIAM<br />
ARCHER. 71 x v. 528 pp. Heinemann. 48.<br />
PLAYS AND POEMS. By OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Selected,<br />
with an Introduction by THOMAS SECCOMBE. 6 X 4.<br />
320 pp. Blackie. 28. 68. n.<br />
THE MENAECHMI: The Original of Shakespeare's<br />
“Comedy of Errors." The Latin Text, together with<br />
the Elizabethan Translation. Edited by W. H. D.<br />
ROUSE, Litt.D. The Shakespeare Library. 7 X 51.<br />
122 pp. Chatto & Windus. 28. 6d. n.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
MIRACLES AND HISTORY. A Study of the Virgin Birth<br />
and the Resurrection. By The Rev. J. H. SKRINE.<br />
9 x 6. 143 pp. Longmans. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE FRIENDSHIP OF CHRIST. By ROBERT HUGH<br />
BENSON. 78 X 54. 167 pp. Longmans. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THE PATHWAY OF SALVATION. By THE REV. T. A. LACEY.<br />
61 X 4. 52 pp. S.P.C.K. 6d.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 234 (#692) ############################################<br />
<br />
234<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE REVOLUTIONS OF CIVILIZATION. By PROF. W. M.<br />
FLINDERS PETRIE. 135 pp. New York: Harpers.<br />
75 cents, n.<br />
THE MASTERY OF LIFE. By G. T. WRENCH. 518 pp.<br />
New York : Kennerley. $4 n.<br />
EARLY ESSAYS AND LECTURES. By CANON P. A. SHEE.<br />
HAN. 354 pp. New York : Longmans. $1.60 n.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
THE SEA WALLS OF THE SEVERN. By SANDFORD D.<br />
COLE. 8! x 51. 31 pp. Bristol : Printed for private<br />
circulation.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
WANDERINGS IN ARABIA. By C. M. DOUGHTY. Being<br />
an abridgment of “ Travels in Arabia Deserta."<br />
Arranged with Introduction by E. GARNETT. Two<br />
Volumes. 84 x 54. 309 + 293 pp. Duckworth. 58. n.<br />
each volume.<br />
THE MANTLE OF THE EAST. By E. CANDLER. 61 x 41.<br />
372 pp. Nelson's Shilling Library.<br />
JERUSALEM. A Practical Guide. By EUSTACE REYNOLDS<br />
BALL. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 68 x<br />
44. 238 pp. Black. 28. 6d. n.<br />
AGRA AND THE TAJ: A Handbook to Agra and the Taj,<br />
Sikandra, Fatehpur-Sikrî, and the Neighbourhood. By<br />
E. B. HAVELL. 8 x 5. 147 pp. Longmans. 58. n.<br />
POETRY<br />
THE EVERLASTING MERCY AND THE WIDOW IN THE<br />
BYE STREET. By John MASEFIELD. 230 pp. New<br />
York : Macmillan Co. $1.50 n.<br />
ROSES, LOAVES AND OLD RHYMES. By ANNIE MATHESON.<br />
152 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $1.80 n.<br />
THEOLOGY,<br />
THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY UPON SOCIAL AND<br />
POLITICAL IDEAS. BY THE REV. A. J. CARLYLE.<br />
Milwaukee, Wis. : Young Churchman. 60 cents. n.<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED IN AMERICA BY<br />
MEMBERS.<br />
TRAVEL<br />
THE BRITISH WEST INDIES : THEIR HISTORY, RESOURCES<br />
AND PROGRESS. By ALGERNON E. ASPINALL. 434 pp.<br />
Boston : Little, Brown. $3 n.<br />
CHINA IN TRANSFORMATION. By A. R. COLQUHOUX.<br />
Revised and enlarged, with two maps. 299 pp. New<br />
York : Harper. $1.50 n.<br />
BY DESERT WAYS TO BAGDAD. With Illustrations and a<br />
Map. By LOUISA JEBB (MRS. ROWLAND WILKINS).<br />
New York : Scribner. $2 n.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
ART.<br />
JOHN LAVERY AND HIS WORK. By WALTER SHAW<br />
SPARROW. With a Preface by R. B. CUNNINGHAME<br />
GRAHAM. 209 pp. Boston : Estes. $3.50 n.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
LIFE AND LETTERS OF LAURENCE STERNE. By LEWIS<br />
MELVILLE. Two Volumes. New York : Appleton,<br />
$7.50 n.<br />
OSCAR WILDE: A CRITICAL STUDY. By ARTHUR<br />
RANSOME. New York : Kennerley. $2.50 n.<br />
MY LADY CASTLEMAINE : BEING A LIFE OF BARBARA<br />
VILLIERS, COUNTESS CASTLEMAINE, AFTERWARDS<br />
DUCHESS OF CLEVELAND. With 16 illustrations,<br />
including a photogravure frontispiece. By P. W.<br />
SERGEANT. 356 pp. Boston. $3.50 n.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
THE GREY STOCKING, AND OTHER PLAYS. By MAURICE<br />
BARING. 366 pp. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. $1.25 n.<br />
FICTION.<br />
THE REAL MRS. HOLYER. By E. M. CHANNON. 327 pp.<br />
New York : Doubleday Page. $1.20 n.<br />
JULIA FRANCE AND HER TIMES. By GERTRUDE<br />
ATHERTOX. 533 pp. New York : Macmillan. $1:35 n.<br />
THE MARRIAGE OF CAPTAIN KETTLE. By C. J.<br />
CUTCLIFFE HYNE. 373 pp. Indianapolis : Bobbs-<br />
Merrill. $1.23 n.<br />
THE VICTORIES OF OLIVIA, AND OTHER STORIES. By<br />
EVELYN SHARP. New York : Macmillan. $1.35 n.<br />
BLINDS Down. By H. A. VACHELL. 329 pp. New<br />
York : Doran. $1.20 n.<br />
THE GUESTS OF HERCULES. By C. N. & A. M. WILLIAM<br />
SON. 633 pp. lllustrated by M. LEON BRACKER and<br />
ARTHUR H. BUCKLAND. New York : Doubleday Page.<br />
$1.35.<br />
EBB AND FLOW. By Mrs. IRWIN SMART. 279 pp.<br />
Boston : Estes. $1.25 n.<br />
THE DEVIL'S WIND. By PATRICIA WENTWORTH, 427 pp.<br />
New York : Putnams. $1.35 n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
SHAKESPEARE: A STUDY BY DARRELL FIGGIS. 345 pp.<br />
New York : Kennerley. $2 n.<br />
N the recommendation of the Academic Com-<br />
mittee, the Council of the Royal Society of<br />
Literature has determined to award the<br />
Gold Medal of the society to Mr. Thomas Hardy.<br />
The last recipient was George Meredith. The<br />
medal is now being struck, and will be presented<br />
to Mr. Hardy on his next birthday, June 2.<br />
Mr. Hubert Wales' new book, "The Spinster,"<br />
was published by Mr. John Long at the end<br />
of last month.<br />
We regret that in the notice of Mr. Fred G.<br />
Shaw's book, “ Our Future Existence," published<br />
in our last issue, we omitted to mention that Messrs.<br />
Stanley Paul & Co., of 31, Essex Street, Strand,<br />
W.C., were the publishers.<br />
Miss K. Everest has published her first book of<br />
poetry, entitled “ The Dreaming Antinous " and<br />
other poems. The publisher is Mr. Erskine<br />
Macdonald, 17, Surrey Street, Strand, and the<br />
book is issued at 2s. 6d.<br />
Mr. Arthur E. Baker, of the Public Library,<br />
Taunton,' has just completed, after seven years<br />
labour, a concordance to the works of the late<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 235 (#693) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
235<br />
Lord Tennyson. Messrs. George Routledge & Sons But this practice of payment on publication,<br />
have undertaken to publish the work, provided a involving as it does a constant scrutiny by writers<br />
sufficient number of subscribers be obtained to of magazines which have accepted their MSS., is<br />
justify its publication. A fair number of sub- very irritating to authors. It is bad enough when<br />
scriptions have been received, but more are required the writer is, so to speak, on the spot, but<br />
'before the work can be put into print. The when, as is the case of the British contributor to<br />
volume contains a verbal index to the poetical American magazines, he is miles away from the<br />
and dramatic works of the author comprised in market, it becomes practically intolerable. It<br />
the complete edition published by Messrs. Mac- clearly would not pay any author so situated to contri-<br />
millan & Co., Ltd.; the poems contained in the bute to an American issue conducted on these lines.<br />
Life of Lord Tennyson by his son, and published It is satisfactory to note that payment on accept-<br />
by the same publishers; also to the suppressed ance is the rule in America, but because the less<br />
poems, edited by J. C. Thomson and arranged by satisfactory method of payment on publication<br />
Messrs. Sands & Co. It contains approximately is being adopted by some of the American publica-<br />
150,000 references or quotations, and is arranged tions, it behoves authors, and particularly British<br />
in strict alphabetical sequence : the different senses authors, to be sure of the practice of American<br />
of the same word are frequently distinguished magazines in this respect before submitting work<br />
under separate headings. The subscription price to them.<br />
is one guinea nett, to be increased to twenty-five Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond's new work, “Charlotte<br />
shillings nett upon publication.<br />
Sophie, Countess Bentinck," was issued last month<br />
We regret that a paragraph in our April issue by Messrs. Hutchinson & Co. The subject of this<br />
conveyed the impression that Mrs. Bernard Whishaw work lived in an extremely interesting period of<br />
was preparing the new edition of “ Baedeker's European history. The assassinated King of Sweden<br />
Spain.” This is not the case. Mrs. Whishaw's had been her suitor ; she had lived at Berlin in<br />
work in connection with the Guide has been to close friendship with Frederick the Great, and at<br />
revise the selection relating to Seville.<br />
Vienna on terms of intimacy with Marie Thérèse.<br />
We have received from The Editor Company, Stanislaus of Poland was one of her friends, and<br />
Ridgewood, New Jersey, a little magazine, published amongst men of letters she included nearly every<br />
by that company, entitled The Editor. The April one of note.<br />
issue, which is before us, contains a good deal of The work is published in two volumes, and<br />
information useful to writers anxious to gain a foot- contains over seventy illustrations from original<br />
ing on the American magazine market. It pro- paintings, facsimiles of letters, etc.<br />
vides a monthly record of the requirements of the Mr. Frederic M. Halford has just issued, through<br />
American magazines, which, it would seem, alter Messrs. George Routledge & Sons, a new book for<br />
too quickly to make an annual record of much use the dry-fly angler. It is called the “Dry-Fly<br />
to the author. It also gives particulars of the Man's Handbook : a Complete Manual,” including<br />
practices of the different magazines in regard to the The Fisherman's Entomology ; and The Making<br />
return of MSS., as well as the rates and times of and Management of a Fishery. There are forty<br />
payment and other matters important to the free photogravure plates, and numerous illustrations<br />
lance. For example, we learn from The Editor and diagrams printed in the text.<br />
that the Twentieth Century Magazine, of 5, Park “An Angler at Large” is the title of a new book<br />
Square, Boston, is not able, at present, “ to pay for which Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co. are publishing<br />
its serious articles.” Whether, with this informa- for Mr. William Caine, who is known to readers of<br />
tion before them, writers will be wise to submit “The Field ” as a writer on angling under his<br />
humorous work (which probably would need to be pseudonym of “ W. Quilliam " in the paper.<br />
.so marked to prevent dispute subsequently) is not At the Mechanics' Institute, Bradford, on<br />
quite clear, nor, as The Editor points out, is any. April 29, recitals from the works of Mr.<br />
thing said of verse or fiction,<br />
Mackenzie Bell were given by Mr. William Miles.<br />
We regret to notice, also, that some of the Some half-a-dozen or so pieces were presented by<br />
American publications are adopting the practice of Mr. Miles, including “The Keeping of the Vow,"<br />
paying for work after publication instead of on “ The Battle's Pause,” and “No Sun ever Rose<br />
acceptance. Moreover, in one case at any rate, it without Setting.”<br />
is quite frankly stated that “no certain date of Although the late Justin McCarthy's “ History<br />
publication can be promised.” It should be added, of Our Own Time” is so well known, there is a<br />
however, that failing publication within a reason- most attractive piece of annal writing which he<br />
able time from acceptance, the author would be wrote that has fallen out of sight. When the Daily<br />
entitled to payment, despite the rule of the editor Veur's attained its jubilee in the year 1890, he<br />
of the magazine.<br />
compiled, as a kind of souvenir of the event, a<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 236 (#694) ############################################<br />
<br />
236<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
political and social retrospect of the fifty years of Messrs. Williams & Norgate have published<br />
Queen Victoria's reign. It is now published by “The Quest: A Drama of Deliverance," by Miss<br />
Messrs. Sampson Low & Co.<br />
Dorothea Hollins, author of “The Veiled Figure,<br />
Early in September Messrs. Mills & Boon will and Other Poems” (Williams & Norgate), “The<br />
publish “ The Swimmer,” a new novel by Louise Herbs of Medea” (Elkin Mathews), and other works.<br />
Gerard. It deals with the struggles in the life of a<br />
girl poet from her baby days to her womanhood,<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
and contains many sketches of poverty in its varying<br />
phases.<br />
We have received from the Era office a pamphlet<br />
Mr. Bloundelle-Burton's new romance, “The on the Copyright Act, 1911, so far as the Act affects<br />
Sea Devils,” now ready, is somewhat of the nature Dramatic and Musical Copyright. It has been<br />
of “The Hispaniola Plate," by which he first compiled by Mr. A. A. Strong, who has quoted<br />
became known to the reading public, though there is sections of the Act likely to be of importance to<br />
no treasure-seeking—nor finding-in it. The story dramatists, adding explanations where explanations<br />
is laid in and around Lisbon, whence the Armada have seemed necessary.<br />
sailed, and to which it returned in woeful plight The repertory of the Abbey Theatre Company,<br />
some of it; and the Inquisition is also prominent during the season which will open at the Court<br />
in the narrative. The hero is himself an English Theatre on June 3, will include plays new to<br />
sailor, and the heroine is a Spanish girl, resident in London, by Mr. William Boyle, Mr. T. C. Murray<br />
Lisbon. Their love gets tangled, however, from and Mr. Lennox Robinson, besides Mr. W. B.<br />
the fact that, at first, the girl has believed her lover Yeats's “ The Countess Cathleen," in its new<br />
to be a Spaniard himself, and hence “woes version.<br />
unnumbered spring.” Naturally enough an English “Mrs. Dane’s Defence," by Henry Arthur Jones,<br />
sailor and his brother “sea-devils” know well was revived at the New Theatre on May 16. In<br />
enough how to put matters right at last. The the cast were Sir Charles Wyndham, Miss Mary<br />
book is published by F. V. White & Co., Limited. Moore, Mr. Sam Sothern, and Miss Lena Ashwell.<br />
On May 10 Mr. Martin Secker published a first The Actor's Sword Club announce a special<br />
book by Lionel Allshorn, entitled “Stupor Mundi: matinee to be given on Thursday, the June 13,<br />
the Life and Times of Frederick the Second, at 3 p.m., on “ The Duel throughout the Ages,"<br />
Emperor of the Romans, King of Sicily and from the gladiator combat of ancient Rome to the<br />
Jerusalem, 1194-1250 A.D." (16s. net.) The modern French duel. Between the itenis, Mr.<br />
chief interest of the subject lies in the dramatic Egerton Castle will briefly describe the development<br />
struggle between Frederick and the Popes. This of the weapons. Tickets may be obtained at the<br />
most gifted of the mediæral Emperors was the St. James's Theatre, from Mr. J. P. Blake, 147,<br />
object of a peculiarly violent hostility. He was Leadenhall Street, E.C., or from Mr. Gerald Ames,<br />
excommunicated again and again, and was finally Hon. Secretary Actor's Sword Club, 159, Brompton<br />
solemnly deposed from his thrones by Innocent IV. Road, S.W. The performance is in aid of the<br />
in the Council of Lyons. The historian Freeman Actors' Benevolent Fund.<br />
has called him “the most gifted of the sons of “ The Double Game," by Mr. Maurice Baring,<br />
men ... in sheer genius the greatest Prince who was produced at the Kingsway Theatre on May 7.<br />
ever wore a crown." There is only one other book The play deals with the Russian revolutionary<br />
on the subject in the English language, and that movement, and the action centres round three<br />
was published half a century ago.<br />
characters, two men and a girl. The girl is a<br />
“The Norse King's Bridal,” ballads from the revolutionist to whom it falls to carry out the<br />
Danish and Old Norse, with original verses, by assassination of a hated official. After standing up<br />
E. M. Smith-Dampier, was published in March by for one of the men to whom she has given her heart,<br />
Andrew Melrose. 28. net.<br />
the girl is forced to realise that he is a police spy,<br />
Mr. Arthur Dillon's forthcoming book will con and tragedy follows her disillusionment. In the<br />
sist of a connected trilogy, or set of three tragedies cast were Miss Erniter Lascelles, Mr. Claude King,<br />
in a sequence. Mr. Elkin Mathews already has and Mr. Harcourt Williams.<br />
the volume in preparation.<br />
“ The Five Frankforters,” a comedy in three acts,<br />
The Hon. J. M. Creed, Member of the Legis- by Captain Basil Hood, was produced at the Lyric<br />
lative Council of New South Wales, delivered a Theatre on May 7. The play presents a picture<br />
paper, at the Royal Colonial Institute on May 14th, of the life of a wealthy Jewish family, and describes<br />
on the Settlement by “Whites” of Tropical their attempt to marry one of the girls to an<br />
Australia. The meeting was held at the Hotel impecunious duke. In the cast are Miss Henrietta<br />
Métropole, and the Duke of Marlborough was in Watson, Mr. Louis Calvert, Mr. C. M. Lowne, Miss<br />
the chair.<br />
Gladys Grey, and Mr. Leonard Quartermaine.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 237 (#695) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
237<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
volume is an account of the various insects which<br />
are harmful to agriculture. It is illustrated with<br />
sixteen photogravures.<br />
Among books of interest to English readers are<br />
“ Bernard Shaw et son (Euvre ” by Charles Cestre.<br />
“Sous la Neige,” by Edith Wharton, another<br />
novel by the author of « Chez les Heureux du<br />
Monde,” and “ Les Metteurs en scène."<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
“Napoléon à Sainte Hélène" (Ollendorf).<br />
“L'Evolution du Dogme Catholique" (Emile Nourry).<br />
“Le Droit de massacrer les Hérétiques" (Emile Nourry).<br />
“Evolution de la France Agricole” (Armand Colin).<br />
“La Direction de la Guerre" (Marc Imhaus & René.<br />
Chapelot).<br />
“ Histoire universelle du Travail” (F. Alcan).<br />
“Les Ravageurs" (Delagrave).<br />
“ Bernard Shaw et son Cuvre” (Mercure de France).<br />
“Sous la Neige" (Plon-Nourrit).<br />
PUBLISHERS' ROYALTY AGREEMENTS.<br />
“T'ELÈVE Gilles," by M. André Lafon, has<br />
U won for its author a French Academy<br />
prize of ten thousand francs. It is a<br />
psychological study of a schoolboy, and with the<br />
exception of a painful domestic tragedy, there is not<br />
much incident. M. Lafon is quite young, and this<br />
is his first novel.<br />
The French Academy Gobert prize has been<br />
divided this year, and awarded to M. Louis Madelin<br />
for his book “ La Révolution,” and to M. Pierre<br />
Champion for his “ Vie de Charles d'Orléans.”<br />
The Berger prize has been awarded to M. de<br />
Laborie for his “ Paris sous Napoléon.”<br />
“ Napoléon à Sainte Hélène (1815-1821)" by<br />
Frédéric Masson, is the last of the volumes on this<br />
subject. The three volumes entitled “ Autour de<br />
Sainte Hélène ” gave us details with regard to the<br />
various persons who approached the Emperor during<br />
his captivity. In the present book we have an<br />
account of that captivity and of his death in<br />
1821.<br />
A series of books is to be published on<br />
* L'Evolution du Dogme catholique." The first<br />
one, on “Les Origines,” by Félix Goblet d'Alviella,<br />
has appeared, and another volume is to be published<br />
each year,<br />
“ Le Droit de massacrer les Hérétiques" is a<br />
reply by the author of the “ Mariage des Prêtres”<br />
to the Père Janvier, 0.P., after his lecture in the<br />
cathedral of Notre-Dame.<br />
In the series of books published as the<br />
“ Bibliothèque du Mouvement social contem-<br />
porain ” M. Michel Augé Laribe has just brought<br />
out his “ Evolution de la France agricole.” In<br />
this volume the author has endeavoured to explain<br />
the workings of the French agricultural systems,<br />
the progress realised by French agriculture, and the<br />
difficulties with which it has to contend.<br />
“ La Direction de la Guerre” (La liberté d'action<br />
des généraux en chef), by the Commandant V.<br />
Dupuis, is an extremely instructive book for all who<br />
are interested in military questions. The author<br />
has received the Gobert prize from the French<br />
Academy.<br />
“La Guerre telle qu'on la fait," by Lieutenant<br />
Jaray, is another book on a subject of universal<br />
interest.<br />
A series of twelve volumes is being published on<br />
the “ Histoire universelle du Travail.” Paul<br />
Louis has just published one of this series on “Le<br />
Travail dans le Monde romain," and F. Maury<br />
another on “Les Valeurs françaises depuis dix<br />
ans : leurs résultats, leurs garanties, and Etudes<br />
statistiques.” They are both books that will<br />
interest social economists.<br />
“ Les Ravageurs,” by JH. Fabre. This<br />
THE AUTHOR GRANTS.<br />
TN the evolution of the management of literary<br />
I and musical property, it has become almost<br />
a universal custom for publishers to submit<br />
their agreements to authors rather than for anthors<br />
to draft and submit their agreements to publishers.<br />
In consequence, a large number of publishers have<br />
made it part and parcel of their agreements to ask<br />
for everything they can possibly obtain, and unless<br />
the author is aware of the dangers and difficulties<br />
inherent in these agreements he may, unwittingly,<br />
sign away his birthright.<br />
In considering the question of agreements, there-<br />
fore, it will assist authors if the terms and clauses<br />
are taken from agreements which have been known<br />
to be offered for signature, and the difficulties of the<br />
clauses explained, rather than that a formal clause<br />
should be laid before them for their consideration.<br />
An agreement to be clear should be drafted in a<br />
certain specific form. It should begin with a recital<br />
of the parties. The first clause should indicate the<br />
rights the author grants; the second clause the<br />
duties the publisher undertakes, and the third clause<br />
the royalties (for this paper professes to be a con-<br />
sideration of a royalty agreement) and other<br />
considerations the publisher is willing to pay for<br />
the rights which the author grants to him.<br />
B efore the clauses, which have been taken from<br />
publishers' agreements, are set out, it will be as well<br />
to state roughly what, as a general rule, it is wise<br />
an author should grant to a publisher.<br />
First it should be stated, and the statement can-<br />
not be too often repeated, that<br />
NO AUTHOR SHOULD TRANSFER HIS COPYRIGHT<br />
TO A PUBLISHER WHILE HE PRESERVES A CON-<br />
TINUING INTEREST IN HIS WORK.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 238 (#696) ############################################<br />
<br />
238<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
What, then, should the author grant?<br />
His clause, which ought to be Clause I., should<br />
run somewhat on the following lines:<br />
"The Author grants to the Publisher a licence to publish<br />
his work entitled<br />
'in book form in format<br />
(or in a format agreed between Author and Publisher) at<br />
the published price of in the English language."<br />
This form should be slightly altered when it<br />
comes to a musical composition, but on the subject<br />
of agreements for musical compositions, readers are<br />
referred to the May (1910) issue of The Author.<br />
The clause printed above gives a rough idea of<br />
the model form of the clause which contains the<br />
author's conveyance. It is sometimes desirable<br />
to leave the format of the book to the discretion of<br />
the publisher. It is important that the pub-<br />
lisher should be limited to the publication of the<br />
work at a fixed price, say £1 18. ; 10s. 6d. ; 68. ;<br />
58., etc., and it should be distinctly stated whether<br />
the price is “ nett” or subject to discount. The<br />
other limitations which this clause should contain<br />
are :<br />
(1) Limitations as to country (generally Great<br />
Britain and Ireland, the Colonies and<br />
dependencies thereof).<br />
(2) Limitations as to edition (an edition of 1,000,<br />
2,000, or 3,000 copies).<br />
(3) Limitation as to time (for a period of three,<br />
five, or seven years);<br />
(4) Limitations which combine one or two of the<br />
former (Great Britain and Ireland for a<br />
period of seven years).<br />
It is now essential to set out, from the publishers<br />
own agreements what the publisher thinks the<br />
author ought to grant, and it will be convenient if<br />
we take, first, those clauses in which the publisher<br />
asks for the copyright. If any author finds any of<br />
these clauses in agreements submitted to him for<br />
signature, he will be able to ascertain, from the<br />
following criticisms, the grounds of objection to<br />
them from the author's standpoint.*<br />
C. That in consideration of the hereinafter mentioned<br />
payments the author hereby agrees to sell and assign to<br />
the publisher the copyright of the above work and the<br />
publisher agrees to purchase the said copyright with the<br />
exclusive right of printing and publishing the work in serial<br />
and book form with or without revision and abridgment<br />
in Great Britain and Ireland the British Colonies and<br />
Dependencies in the United States of America and on the<br />
Continent of Europe and in all other countries islands and<br />
continents.<br />
That should the publisher issue special editions for sale<br />
in the British Colonies and Dependencies only or on the<br />
Continent of Europe, he shall pay to the author on all<br />
copies of such editions sold a royalty of ten per cent. on the<br />
Colonial edition and five per cent. on the Continental<br />
edition, these royalties being on the net receipts of such<br />
sales and payable at the same time as the royalties provided<br />
for in C<br />
eof.<br />
That the publisher shall have the sole right to sell or<br />
assign the American, Colonial, Continental, Foreign, Trans-<br />
lation, Serial and Dramatic rights in the above work. He<br />
shall pay all costs of negotiating such sales and distributing<br />
copies of the work for such purposes, and the publisher<br />
shall pay to the author fifty per cent. of the receipts from<br />
the sale of the same, such amounts to be payable at the<br />
same time as the royalties provided for in Clause 5 hereof.<br />
That the publisher gives no guarantee of securing copy-<br />
right outside the United Kingdom and does not bind him-<br />
self, to issue special Colonial or Continental editions or<br />
to sell serial translation dramatic or other rights.<br />
D. The author agrees to transfer to the publishers the<br />
remaining copyrights and all other rights in the said stories<br />
for all foreign countries on the terms that the publishers<br />
shall pay to the author one half of the net profit which<br />
may be made by the publishers from the sale by them of<br />
any rights plates copies (bound or in sheets) for the pur-<br />
pose of publication of the said work abroad.<br />
E. The copyright of the work and of all editions thereof<br />
shall belong to the publisher his executors administrators<br />
and assigns.<br />
F. The publishers agree to purchase and the author<br />
agrees to sell the copyright in Great Britain and all other<br />
parts of the world of a work entitled " ," hereinafter<br />
referred to as the said work the MS. of which the author<br />
has delivered to the publishers, and of all future editions<br />
thereof in consideration of the following payments, viz.,<br />
per cent, on all copies sold, thirteen copies being counted<br />
as twelve.<br />
The publishers shall have the right to sell copies of the<br />
said work, or the rights of translation thereof on any<br />
terms they shall think expedient to foreign countries and<br />
the author shall not be entitled to royalty in respect<br />
thereof, but the net amount realised therefrom shall be<br />
divided between the author and the publisher, in the<br />
following proportions, viz., 50 per cent. to the author<br />
50 per cent. to the publishers.<br />
If the said work shall be included in any edition of<br />
works published in England for exclusive sale in India<br />
and the Colonies, the author shall be entitled to receive<br />
per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br />
If copies of the ordinary edition be sold to Colonial and<br />
other exporters or booksellers at a rate lower than the<br />
ordinary trade price the author shall be entitled to receive<br />
per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br />
Let us take for particular consideration the<br />
clauses printed above, in their order.<br />
A. The author agrees to assign to the publisher their<br />
successors and assigns the copyright and sole right of<br />
publication of the above work.<br />
To begin with, the publisher asks the author to<br />
CLAUSES SUBMITTED BY THE PUBLISHER.<br />
A. The author agrees to assign to the publishers their<br />
successors and assigns the copyright and sole right of<br />
publication of the above work.<br />
B. The copyright therein shall be the property of the<br />
publishers who may arrange as they think fit for the com-<br />
pletion and publication of the work.<br />
If any moneys are received from the sale of translation<br />
or other rights the net receipts after deduction of expenses<br />
relating thereto shall be divided in the following propor-<br />
tions, viz. : Sixty per cent. to the author and forty per cent.<br />
to the publishers.<br />
* It is difficult, owing to the lack of uniformity and<br />
simplicity in the drafting of the agreements, to prevent a<br />
division of clauses on these lines from overlapping. Some<br />
publishers have a curious method of making their agree-<br />
ments both complicated and confusing. When, therefore,<br />
principles have already been laid down they will not<br />
uecessarily be repeated.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 239 (#697) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
239<br />
assign to him, bis successors and assigns, the copy-' and otherwise, were absurd. The author then<br />
right.<br />
joined the society and the secretary went into the<br />
NO AUTHOR SHOULD TRANSFER HIS COPYRIGHT matter with great care, but found there was no<br />
TO A PUBLISHER WHILE HE PRESERVES A CON- loophole of escape. On his advice the author<br />
TINUING INTEREST IN HIS WORK.<br />
refused to accept the terms, and proceeded to pur-<br />
This phrase will be quoted and re-quoted, until, chase back the copyright at the publisher's own<br />
it is hoped, the brain will receive an impression price, and to publish with an old established house,<br />
which cannot be deleted.<br />
paying for the cost of production himself. By this<br />
What are the reasons for reiterating the phrase means alone could he gain control of his increasingly<br />
with such vehemence? They are many and varied. valuable property. But all anthors are not in such<br />
In the first place, it is necessary to consider the a favourable position, and other examples might be<br />
point of view of writers on such matters, as, for quoted where the technical writer has had to accept<br />
example, theological, biographical, historical sub- the bad ternis offered by the publisher rather than<br />
jects, educational works, scientific, technical, medical, allow his work to continue before the public a slur<br />
and those thousand and one subjects which, owing on his reputation. But this arrangement may<br />
to the great advance in research, are in a constant preclude him from writing again on the subject<br />
state of change.*<br />
which is his life study.<br />
Although works of fiction are more popular with This is the main reason why authors of the works<br />
the public, financially their returns cannot compare mentioned cannot be too careful not to convey the<br />
with the returns from the works quoted. It is foolish copyright.<br />
to think, therefore, that the society deals only with There are other reasons which apply to all authors.<br />
writers of fiction-because they are more often in With the conveyance of copyright the actual pro-<br />
evidence, or that it is not fully aware of the vast perty is conveyed. A publisher can alter that<br />
property in other works—and writers on any of the property so long as he does not libel the author's<br />
above subjects should, by joining the society, be literary reputation. But the work is the author's,<br />
kept informed as to the value of their property and and what may not appear to a jury of tradesmen to<br />
the difficulties with which they have to contend. be a libel on the author's reputation, may be pure<br />
Many a suitable technical or medical work taken sacrilege from the author's point of view. A father<br />
up by educational centres sells steadily by its does not care to see his own child whipped by an<br />
hundreds, and sometimes by its thousands, a year alien hand.<br />
right through the whole term of copyright. Though Then, if the arguments already put forward<br />
this last paragraph is somewhat by the way, it still were not sufficient to convince any author, there<br />
contains a great truth, which the careless author have been cases tried in the Courts which make the<br />
should fully realise.<br />
conveyance of copyright, when the author retains a<br />
To return to Clause A. The reason for our continuing interest, suicidal.<br />
objection is not far to seek. It will be necessary The first was Warwick Deeping and Moring.<br />
to quote one instance merely, to convince any author Here, Mr. Warwick Deeping conveyed his copyright<br />
on the point.<br />
to Mr. Grant Richards, receiving a royalty on every<br />
A young medical man, who was making his mark copy of the book sold. Mr. Grant Richards went<br />
as a specialist, was swooped upon by a far-seeing bankrupt, and the trustee in bankruptcy assigned<br />
publisher to write a book for him on his special the agreement to Mr. Moring. The Court held<br />
subject. Ignorant of the value of his property, and that Mr. Deeping could not claim royalties from<br />
perhaps rather flattered by the compliment, he Moring & Co., but could only claim damages<br />
wrote the book, conveyed the copyright to the for breach of agreement against the bankrupt<br />
publisher, and received a royalty.<br />
estate.<br />
Ten years afterwards, when he had become The second was on somewhat similar lines, but<br />
famous, he wanted to re-issue his book with the was not in the hands of the committee of the<br />
additions and alterations necessary on account of society. It was carried to the Court of Appeal,<br />
the changes that had been made in his particular and the decision of Mr. Justice Warrington in the<br />
study, and the wisdom he had collected by many court of first instance was upheld.<br />
fresh examples. He was unable to come to an . The plaintiff was the composer of certain songs,<br />
agreement with his publisher, who, knowing that he and he assigned his copyright to the defendants,<br />
held the copyright in the former book, refused to subject to the payment of a royalty of £d. on every<br />
make a re-issue, except on terms which, financially copy sold by the Defendant Company in the United<br />
States, and ld. on every copy sold by the Defendant<br />
* We use the words,“ technical works," as a synonym for<br />
Company elsewhere. The songs were published on<br />
all those books which for one reason or other need periodic<br />
revision. The range is very wide, and to give a detailed<br />
two occasions in the Weekly Dispatch by the Willis<br />
list would be very cumbersome.<br />
Music Company as an advertisement, and it was<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 240 (#698) ############################################<br />
<br />
240<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
admitted that the publication was made with the There is something, however, beyond a transfer<br />
knowledge and approval of the defendants. The of copyright in this clause.<br />
plaintiff's claim was for royalties on the sales of When copyright has been transferred no altera-<br />
copies of the songs in the Weekly Dispatch. Mr. tions may be made by the assignee which would<br />
Justice Warrington held that the defendants were amount to a literary libel. But in this clause the<br />
not liable.<br />
publishers are allowed “ to arrange as they think fit<br />
The copyright was assigned to the defendants for the completion and publication of the work."<br />
subject only to the condition that they should pay It is very doubtful whether the author would have<br />
royalties on copies sold by them. The Weekly any remedy in these circumstances, however grievous<br />
Dispatch is the property of the Associated News- the alterations might be to his reputation.<br />
papers Limited, and was not sold by the Defendant The second clause under heading “B” calls also<br />
Company or its agents, and therefore no royalties for some serious comment.<br />
were payable in respect of copies contained in the When an author conveys the copyright without<br />
paper.<br />
limitation, he conveys the translation rights, the serial<br />
Lastly, it is possible, and this case would arise rights, and all the minor rights. These rights, if<br />
more frequently, perhaps, in the publication of properly marketed, are valuable. But if when<br />
music than in book publication, that a composer an author conveys the copyright he is only paid in<br />
may transfer his copyright to a publisher. Another the agreement a royalty on a definite form of pub-<br />
publisher, or, perhaps, another composer, if he is lication, say on the published price of the work in<br />
lucky enough to have retained his copyright, may book form at the price of 12s. 6d., he would not be<br />
turn round and say to the first publisher, " The work entitled to claim anything on the sale of these other<br />
you have published is an infringement of my copy- rights unless a special stipulation to that effect were<br />
right." The composer when referred to may made in the agreement.<br />
retort: “Oh! No! It is not an infringement, and The question of allowing these minor rights to be<br />
I have the best musical opinion that it is not." marketed by the publisher, and the division of<br />
The publisher of the alleged piracy, as owner of the possible profits, is a matter which has been discussed<br />
copyright, may say, “I am not going to have the in the columns of this paper, and may be discussed<br />
worry and expense of a copyright action, and I later when considering other clauses in publishers'<br />
must therefore, I regret to say, withdraw your com- agreements.<br />
position from the market.”<br />
It is very doubtful whether, in such circumstances,<br />
C. That in consideration of the hereinafter mentioned<br />
the composer would have any remedy whatever,<br />
payments the author hereby agrees to sell and assign to<br />
the publisher the copyright of the above work and the<br />
although his work might possibly have brought him publisher agrees to purchase the said copyright with the<br />
a steady income.<br />
exclusive right of printing and publishing the work in serial<br />
In further consideration of the clause the words<br />
and book form with or without revision and abridgment<br />
in Great Britain and Ireland the British Colonies and<br />
“and sole right of publication of the above work”.<br />
Dependencies in the United States of America and on the<br />
are surplusage and a sign of bad draftsmanship. Continent of Europe and in all other countries islands and<br />
They should be deleted, for as it is right that no continents,<br />
word should be omitted if it is necessary to define<br />
That should the publisher issue special editions for sale<br />
in the British Colonies and Dependencies only or on the<br />
any point accurately and make it beyond dispute,<br />
Continent of Europe, he shall pay to the author on all<br />
so it is right that no word should be added which<br />
copies of such editions sold a royalty of ten per cent, on<br />
should in any way tend to confuse the issues. An the Colonial edition and five per cent. on the Continental<br />
agreement to assign the copyright carries with it edition, these royalties being on the net receipts of such<br />
sales and payable at the time as the royalties provided for<br />
indisputably the sole right of publication.<br />
in Clause 5 hereof.<br />
B. The copyright therein shall be the property of the<br />
That the publisher shall have the sole right to sell or<br />
publishers who may arrange as they think fit for the com-<br />
assign the American, Colonial, Continental, Foreign, Trans-<br />
lation, Serial and Dramatic rights in the above work. He<br />
pletion and publication of the work.<br />
shall pay all costs of negotiating such sales and distributing<br />
If any moneys are received from the sale of translation<br />
copies of the work for such purposes, and the publisher<br />
or other rights the net receipts after deduction of expenses<br />
relating thereto shall be divided in the following propor-<br />
shall pay to the author fifty per cent. of the receipts from<br />
tions, viz.: Sixty per cent, to the author and forty per cent,<br />
the sale of the same, such amounts to be payable at the<br />
same time as the royalties provided for in Clause 5 hereof.<br />
to the publishers.<br />
That the publisher gives no guarantee of securing copy.<br />
Comment has already been passed on the transfer right outside of the United Kingdom and does not bind<br />
himself to issue special Colonial or Continental editions or<br />
of copyright. It may, however, be worth while to<br />
10 sell serial translation dramatic or other rights.<br />
repeat that<br />
NO AUTHOR SHOULD TRANSFER HIS COPYRIGHT The latter part of Clause 1, with the exception<br />
TO A PUBLISHER WHILE HE PRESERVES A of certain words which will be mentioned, is sur-<br />
CONTINUING INTEREST IN HIS WORK.<br />
plusage, as the greater includes the less. The<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 241 (#699) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
241<br />
transfer of copyright includes the exclusive right of the sole right to negotiate these rights ! and that<br />
printing and publishing.<br />
he should generously pay the author 50 per cent. of<br />
The words, bowever, “ with or without abridg- the latter's profits !<br />
ment" materially increase the author's danger and It is sorry evidence to put forward that a pub-<br />
difficulty, and practically hand over to the pub- lisher can openly have such printed clauses in his<br />
lisher that right of revision and abridgment which, agreement and ask the unfortunate author to pass<br />
being carried beyond literary libel, leaves the author them.<br />
with no protective power over his property.<br />
Clause 4 is further eridence, if further evidence<br />
It must be clearly understood, however, that were needed, of how far an anthor may throw him-<br />
nothing in the transfer to the publisher of the self into the power of a publisher.<br />
power of revision or abridgment will allow the An author might say—he would not be very wise<br />
publisher to commit a fraud on the public by putting —but still be might say, “ I will give you these<br />
forward one man's work as the work of another. rights if you will undertake to issue Colonial<br />
To the words “on the Continent of Europe in editions, to obtain United States copyright, and<br />
all other countries, islands and continents” we must will market my work serially and in translation<br />
also take exception. There are many countries not form.”<br />
in reciprocal treaty with Great Britain for the pro- But under this agreement he transfers the rights,<br />
tection of copyright, such as Russia and Turkey in and is content with no guarantee from the publisher<br />
Europe and the United States (unless certain drastic that the latter will do anything to utilise these<br />
formalities are complied with) and all the countries rights.<br />
of South America. These words then could prevent This is not the kind of agreement for an author<br />
the author from publishing in those countries, even to sign who has any respect for himself, or any<br />
although he had no rights there. Or, in other words, desire to obtain a suitable market for his property.<br />
the publisher might make a profit, until a pirate<br />
D. The author agrees to transfer to the publishers the<br />
stepped in, although the author had no copyright,<br />
remaining copyrights and all other rights in the said stories.<br />
but the author would be debarred from making a for all foreign countries on the terms that the publishers<br />
profit himself.<br />
shall pay to the author one half of the net profit which<br />
Clause 2 needs but little comment. But as it<br />
may be made by the publishers from the sale by them of<br />
any rights plates copies (bound or in sheets) for the pur-<br />
is drafted, it emphasises the fact of the author's<br />
pose of publication of the said work abroad. .<br />
servitude. The amount of royalty is exceedingly low.<br />
The author receiving 10 per cent on the English There is little to be said of this clause except<br />
edition, may think, if he is ignorant of the value of that the latter part carries considerable disadvan-<br />
literary property, that the same percentage on tages to the author. It may be possible to arrange<br />
Colonial editions is fair. But he should be warned an equitable division of profits on the sale of stereos<br />
in his ignorance that 10 per cent. is 1d. to 11d. a and other rights if the author is foolish enough to<br />
copy on the average prices received by publishers let the publisher handle them, but in no circum-<br />
for the ordinary sized book, whereas 3d. a copy- stances should he allow a profit-sharing arrange-<br />
one of the lowest royalties offered—pays the ment on the sale of bound copies or sheets in the<br />
publisher well. The royalties, however, will be Colonies or abroad to enter into an ordinary<br />
dealt with more fully, when the regular royalty royalty agreement. The reasons for this state-<br />
clauses are dealt with.<br />
ment have been put forward at some length in<br />
The word “should” at the beginning of the clause The Author for January, 1902.<br />
calls for remark, as the publisher does not undertake<br />
E. The copyright of the work and of all editions thereof<br />
to issue these editions, and may, in consequence, if<br />
shall belong to the publisher, his executors, administrators,<br />
he should so desire, totally neglect the author's best and assigns.<br />
interests, i.e., to widen his market and extend his<br />
reputation.<br />
There are only a few words in this clause that<br />
Clause 3, as well as a portion of the former clause, stand in need of separate comment.<br />
really refers to what ought to be the third clause in<br />
“And of all editions thereof."<br />
a properly drafted agreement. It cannot be discussed<br />
here.<br />
In a series of definitions relating to the book<br />
But it should be noted that the publisher has the trade issued by the Publishers' Association, we<br />
sole right to do what no author should ever ask a believe “impression " was taken to mean a reprint<br />
publisher to do except under certain limitations, and unaltered, "edition” a reprint, but altered.<br />
that the rights mentioned include “dramatic rights." The publisher, therefore, in order to make<br />
That the author should ask the publisher to nego. himself doubly secure, can control the author in<br />
tiate his dramatic rights, indeed, reaches the last any alteration he may desire to make in his<br />
point of absurdity; that the publisher should have original text, can hamper or expedite any improve-<br />
“And of all cu<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 242 (#700) ############################################<br />
<br />
242<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
ment, and can, so to speak, hold the author at his say so, and why does he use two different terms<br />
beck and call,<br />
in two succeeding clauses? “Net profits” has a<br />
Of the technical writer we have already made clear meaning. It is the profit realised after the<br />
mention. Such a clause as the above would hamper deduction of all expenditure, i.e., the net profits<br />
him, if possible, more than the mere transfer of on “the net receipts ” as opposed to "the gross<br />
his copyright. It is bad for the writer of fiction; profits" on "the gross receipts."<br />
it is disastrous for the scientific and technical In the third clause the words “ordinary trade<br />
writer.<br />
price” are elusive. The ordinary trade price<br />
F. The publishers agree to purchase and the author varies considerably, as any bookseller will tell you.<br />
agrees to sell the copyright in Great Britain and all other Accuracy and finality are not secured by these<br />
parts of the world of a work entitled “ "hereinafter doubtful phrases. They may all afford food for<br />
referred to as the said work the MS, of which the author<br />
bas delivered to the publishers, and of all future editions<br />
the lawyers. This is what the society is anxious<br />
thereof in consideration of the following payments, viz.,<br />
its members should avoid,<br />
per cent, on all copies sold, thirteen copies being counted<br />
as twelve.<br />
The publishers shall have the right to sell copies of the<br />
said work, or the rights of translation thereof on any<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
terms they shall think expedient to foreign countries and<br />
the author shall not be entitled to royalty in respect<br />
thereof, but the net amount realised therefrom shall be<br />
BLACKWOODS.<br />
divided between the author and the publisher, in the<br />
Musings without Method: Literary Anodynes--Alfred de<br />
following proportions, viz., 50 per cent. to the author<br />
Musset and La Sand—“A Strong Love Interest.”<br />
Mus<br />
50 per cent. to the publishers.<br />
If the said work shall be included in any edition of<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
works published in England for exclusive sale in India<br />
and the Colonies, the author shall be entitled to receive<br />
Robert Browning. By Professor George Saintsbury.<br />
Robert Browning's Father. By Sir W. Robertson Nicoll.<br />
per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br />
If copies of the ordinary edition be sold to Colonial and<br />
CORNHILL.<br />
other exporters or booksellers at a rate lower than the<br />
ordinary trade price, the author shall be entitled to receive Joan of Arc's Letters. By the Comtesse d'Oilliamson.<br />
per cent. of the actual net proceeds of such sales.<br />
With a Note by Andrew Lang.<br />
John Stuart Mill and Browning's “Pauline."<br />
In Clause 1 of this extraordinary combination<br />
By M. A.<br />
Phillips.<br />
the draftsmanship is slightly peculiar, as it throws Realism in Fiction. By A. C. Benson.<br />
into one clause what should have been dealt with<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
in three. It is not in this that its' real peculiarity<br />
Among My Books. By Frederic Harrison.<br />
consists, but in the fact that the publisher has<br />
Poetry and the Modern Novel By Compton Mackenzie.<br />
put himself as the first party. The man who Robert Browning. By Darrell Figgis.<br />
agrees to purchase has put himself before the man The Folk Song Fallacy. By Ernest Newman.<br />
who has the property to sell.<br />
FORTNIGHTLY.<br />
Clause 2 is evidently very badly drafted, for if<br />
For the Centenary of Robert Browning. By Alfred<br />
the publisher holds the entire copyright, as stated<br />
Noyes.<br />
on a former page, he certainly holds the rights English and French Attitudes towards Poetry. By<br />
included in this clause, as it was only necessary Professor Maurice Gerothwohl.<br />
for the publisher to state what he would pay the The Censorship. By John Pollock.<br />
author on the sale of these rights, if anything,<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY,<br />
because it by no means follows because the author Recent German Fiction. By Madame Longard de<br />
has sold to the publisher his copyright that he Longgard (Dorothea Gerard).<br />
A<br />
I on all the various methods of publica- Robert Browning. By Francis Gribble.<br />
tion in England and abroad. An author may not<br />
NATIONAL<br />
understand these delightful intricacies ; it is a<br />
The Plots of Dickens By H. C. Biron.<br />
publisher's business to have them at his fingers'<br />
ends.<br />
There is, however, a terrible lack of finality and<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
exactitude in the use of terms in this clause. The (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
publisher talks about the “net amount realised." Front Page<br />
Other Pages<br />
.. . *** *** **<br />
3 0 0<br />
Does the publisher mean by this the net profit on<br />
Half of a Page<br />
the transaction ? If so, why does he not say so ? Quarter of & Page<br />
... 0 150<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
In the next clause, and the clause following, he Single Column Advertisements :<br />
... per inch 0 6 0<br />
speaks of the “net proceeds of such sales.” Is this Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Sis and of 25 per cent, for<br />
Twelve Insertions.<br />
equivalent to the “net amount realised,” that is,<br />
the “pet profit”?<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F,<br />
If so, again, why does he not Belmont & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
...<br />
.. 1 10<br />
0<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 243 (#701) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
243<br />
HOW TO USE THE SOCIETY.<br />
1. D VERY member has a right to ask for and to receive<br />
D advice upon his agreements, his choice of a pub-<br />
lisher, or any dispute arising in the conduct of his<br />
business or the administration of his property. The<br />
Secretary of the Society is a solicitor; but if there is any<br />
special reason the Secretary will refer the case to the<br />
Solicitors of the Society. Further, the Committee, if they<br />
deem it desirable, will obtain counsel'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 ; 80<br />
do some publishers. Members can make their own<br />
deductions and act accordingly.<br />
9. The subscription to the Society is £1 15. per<br />
annum, or £10 10s. for life membership.<br />
obtained. But the transaction should be managed by a<br />
competent agent, or with the advice of the Secretary of<br />
the Society.<br />
II. A Profit-Sharing Agreement (a bad form of<br />
agreement).<br />
In this case the following rules should be attended to:<br />
(1.) Not to sign any agreement in which the cost of pro-<br />
duction forms a part without the strictest investigation.<br />
(2.) Not to give the publisher the power of putting the<br />
profits into his own pocket by charging for advertisements<br />
in his own organs, or by charging exchange advertise-<br />
ments. Therefore keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Not to allow a special charge for "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 />
16.) Not to bind yourself for future work to any publisher.<br />
As well bind yourself for the future to any one solicitor or<br />
doctor!<br />
III. The Royalty System.<br />
This is perhaps, with certain limitations, the best form<br />
of agreement. It is above all things necessary to know<br />
what the proposed royalty means to both sides. It is now<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures connected<br />
with royalties are published in The Author.<br />
IY. A Commission Agreement.<br />
The main points are :-<br />
(1.) Be careful to obtain a fair cost of production,<br />
(2.) Keep control of the advertisements.<br />
(3.) Keep control of the sale price of the book.<br />
General.<br />
All other forms of agreement are combinations of the four<br />
above mentioned.<br />
Such combinations are generally disastrous to the author.<br />
Never sign any agreement without competent advice from<br />
the Secretary of the Society.<br />
Stamp all agreements with the Inland Revenue stamp.<br />
Avoid agreements by letter if possible.<br />
The main points which the Society has always demanded<br />
from the outset are :-<br />
(1.) That both sides shall know what an agreement<br />
means.<br />
(2.) The inspection of those account books which belong<br />
to the author. We are advised that this is a right, in the<br />
nature of a common law right, which cannot be denied or<br />
withheld.<br />
(3.) Always avoid a transfer of copyright.<br />
WARNINGS TO DRAMATIC AUTHORS.<br />
WARNINGS TO THE PRODUCERS<br />
OF BOOKS.<br />
EVER sign an agreement without submitting it to the<br />
Secretary of the Society of Authors or some com.<br />
petent legal authority<br />
2. It is well to be extremely careful in negotiating for<br />
the production of a play with any one except an established<br />
manager.<br />
3. There are three forms of dramatic contract for plays<br />
in three or more acts :<br />
(a.) Sale outright of the performing right. This<br />
is unsatisfactory. An author who enters into<br />
such a contract should stipulate in the contract<br />
for production of the piece by a certain date<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills.<br />
U ERE are a few standing rules to be observed in an<br />
N agreement. There are four methods of dealing<br />
with literary property :-<br />
1. Selling it Outright.<br />
This is sometimes satisfactory, if a proper price can be<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 244 (#702) ############################################<br />
<br />
244<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(0.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (i.e., ised<br />
nightly fees). This method should be always<br />
avoided except in cases where the fees are<br />
likely to be small or difficult to collect. The<br />
other safeguards set out under heading (6.) apply<br />
also in this case,<br />
4. Plays in one act are often sold outright, but it is<br />
better to obtain a small nightly fee if possible, and a sum<br />
paid in advance of such fees in any event. It is extremely<br />
important that the amateur rights of one-act plays should<br />
be reserved.<br />
5. Authors should remember that performing rights can<br />
be limited, and are usually limited, by town, country, and<br />
time. This is most important.<br />
6. Authors should not assign performing rights, but<br />
should grant a licence to perform. The legal distinction<br />
is of great importance.<br />
7. Authors should remember that performing rights in a<br />
play are distinct from literary copyright. A manager<br />
holding the performing right or licence to perform cannot<br />
print the book of the words.<br />
8. Never forget that United States rights may be exceed.<br />
ingly valuable. They should never be included in English<br />
agreements without the author obtaining a substantial<br />
consideration,<br />
9. Agreements for collaboration should be carefully<br />
drawn and executed before collaboration is commenced.<br />
10. An author should remember that production of a play<br />
r should remember that production of a play<br />
is highly speculative : that he runs a very great risk of<br />
delay and a breakdown in the fulfilment of his contract.<br />
He should therefore guard himself all the more carefully in<br />
the beginning.<br />
11. An author must remember that the dramatic market<br />
is exceedingly limited, and that for a novice the first object<br />
is to obtain adequate publication.<br />
As these warnings must necessarily be incomplete, on<br />
account of the wide range of the subject of dramatic con<br />
tracts, those authors desirous of further information<br />
are referred to the Secretary of the Society.<br />
T<br />
RAMATIC authors should seek the advice of the<br />
Society before putting plays into the hands of<br />
agents. As the law stands at present, an agent<br />
who has once had a play in his hands may acquire a<br />
perpetual claim to a percentage on the author'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 />
& 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 />
V branch of its work by informing young writers<br />
of its existence. Their MSS. can be read and<br />
treated as a composition is treated by a coach. The term<br />
MSS, includes not only works of fiction, but poetry<br />
and dramatic works, and when is possible, under<br />
special arrangement, technical and scientific works. The<br />
Readers are writers of competence and experience. The<br />
fee is one guinea.<br />
REMITTANCES.<br />
OCENARIOS, typewritten in duplicate on foolscap paper<br />
D forwarded to the offices of the Society, together with<br />
a registration fee of two shillings and sixpence, will<br />
be carefully compared by the Secretary or a qualified assis-<br />
tant. One copy will be stamped and returned to the author<br />
and the other filed in the register of the Society. Copies<br />
of the scenario thus filed may be obtained at any time by<br />
the author only at a small charge to cover cost of typing.<br />
Original Plays may also be filed subject to the same<br />
rules, with the exception that a play will be charged for<br />
at the price of 28. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post.<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 245 (#703) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
245<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
mechanically, should be ready to supply the<br />
gramophone companies with stamps immediately<br />
THE ERA PRIZE COMPETITION.<br />
the Act comes into force at the beginning of July.<br />
We are pleased to notice that The Era has The Board of Trade has, we understand, come to<br />
devoted considerable space to dealing with the the following decision as to the shape and size of<br />
suggestions made in these columns in our issue of the stamp: “The adhesive label shall be an<br />
April 1 in respect of their Play competition. The adhesive paper label, square in shape, the design to<br />
form and substance of their answer is the most efficient be entirely enclosed within a circle, and the side of<br />
argument that could possibly have been given of the the label not to be greater than three-quarters of<br />
need of the comments made in The Author. The an inch in length.”<br />
editor comments in a laughing mood on the date on We give this note now so that members may be<br />
which our criticism appeared (April 1) as a signi- prepared for the sale of stamps on July 1st. The<br />
ficant one. We would point out that the date of four important points are : (1) adhesive paper<br />
the answer (April 30) is still more significant, as label ; (2) square in shape ; (3) design to be<br />
it prevented our dealing with the article in our entirely enclosed within a circle; (4) length of<br />
May number.<br />
side three quarters of an inch.<br />
Having read the whole of The Era's comments,<br />
it appears to us that none of our criticisms has<br />
really been answered at all. The Era says, “Possess<br />
UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT.<br />
your souls in patience, everything will come right PUBLISHERS in their agreements are often anxious<br />
in the end "Zwe hope so; but such a result will to have the right to place authors' books in America<br />
certainly not be due to the excellence of the con- and secure the copyright. In their contracts with<br />
ditions. The difficulties raised are still unsettled, the author they not only insert a clause to this effect,<br />
and the conditions of the competition still indeter- but also a clause by which if they fail in their negotia-<br />
minate. In particular the editor makes no satisfac- tions certain royalties are to be paid to the author<br />
tory answer to our objection, that he reserves the when the book is sold in sheets to the United States.<br />
right to arrange the production of any play sub- If an author employs an agent, it is that agent's<br />
mitted, whether the winning play or not. We still duty to negotiate for the American copyright, and<br />
see no reason why the dramatic author who sends in a in no circumstances should he allow the publisher to<br />
play under this competition should thereby appoint have the control. We regret, however, that this is<br />
the editor of The Era his perpetual agent for not always the view that the agent adopts. If the<br />
placing that play. The Era's only answer is that author does not employ an agent, then, for the<br />
* the organ of the Society of Authors will be quite following reasons, he should negotiate this American<br />
happy about the matter in the fulness of time.” publication himself. He has the whole range of the<br />
This very suggestion is an admission of the justice American market before him; he can try one<br />
of our complaint that the present terms of the com- American publisher after another until he is assured<br />
petition are indefinite, and it seems hardly fair to of success or failure ; whereas the English publisher<br />
ask dramatic authors to bind themselves to indefinite would, most probably, only write to his usual corre-<br />
terms without even the assurance given in the spondent in the United States, and if that publisher<br />
editor's comments “ that he (the dramatist) will be gave his refusal would not trouble any further ;<br />
quite happy in the fulness of time.” It surely con- indeed, there is no reason why he should trouble any<br />
firms the statement we have already made that the further, or, even while having the right of securing<br />
terms should be more clearly set out.<br />
the American copyright, he should even go so far.<br />
The fact that a large number of dramatic authors It often pays not only the English publisher but<br />
have already submitted plays is no justification for the American publisher better to deal in sheets from<br />
putting forward indefinite terms.<br />
the English market than to set the work up in the<br />
We are, however, indebted to The Era for their United States. This may be all very well for the<br />
article, and particularly for printing the rules two publishers concerned, but is bad business for<br />
immediately below, which will clearly show to the author, to whom the American copyright is a<br />
dramatic authors who read the issue of The Era for valuable asset. Besides, the English publisher<br />
April 30 the need of our criticism and its fairness, ought only to be the agent for the author for the<br />
and will emphasise the difficulties that they may production of the work in book form on the English<br />
encounter.<br />
and Colonial markets; he is not an agent for the<br />
placing of literary wares, and has not the facilities<br />
STAMPS ON MECHANICAL REPRODUCTIONS. or the necessary stimulus of the literary agent ; for<br />
THOSE composers and authors who are interested the agent's livelihood depends on his obtaining<br />
in the mechanical reproduction of their works, other markets, whereas they are a mere by-product<br />
whose works have been already reproduced of the publisher's business.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 246 (#704) ############################################<br />
<br />
246<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
COPYRIGHT ACT, SECTION 5.<br />
We have just received notice that the proprietors<br />
SECTION 5 of the Copyright Act, 1911, runs as<br />
of The Bioscope, the cinematograph trade journal, are<br />
follows:<br />
organising certain invitation performances with the<br />
“ Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author<br />
object of demonstrating the value of the cinemato-<br />
of a work shall be the first owner of the copyright<br />
graph as an educational medium. These perform-<br />
therein.”<br />
ances are going to take place on the mornings of<br />
There are two provisos to this section. The<br />
Wednesday, June 5, Wednesday, June 12, and<br />
Saturday, June 15, from eleven to one o'clock.<br />
second proviso (b) states :-<br />
It would be possible for the earnest student of<br />
** Where the author was in the employment of some other<br />
natural history, instead of merely writing a book and<br />
person under a contract of service or apprenticeship and the<br />
work was made in the course of his employment by that<br />
taking photos, to make his own natural history films<br />
person, the person by whom the author was employed shall,<br />
of the insects, or birds or mammals, and then, by<br />
in the absence of any agreement to the contrary, be the hiring out these different films, or by exhibiting them<br />
first owner of the copyright, but where the work is an himself, to obtain a decent livelihood and a fair<br />
article or other contribution to a newspaper, magazine, or<br />
similar periodical, there shall, in the absence of any agree-<br />
remuneration; but the performances to be given<br />
ment to the coutrary, be deemed to be reserved to the by the proprietors of The Bioscope will demonstrate<br />
author a right to restrain the publication of the work, matters of a somewhat different character. For<br />
otherwise than as part of a newspaper, magazine, or instance, we hear that amongst other things will<br />
similar periodical.”<br />
be demonstrated “ The amoeboid movement of a<br />
As there has been some question about this pro- leucocyte, relapsing fever, the phenomenon of<br />
viso, it is necessary to warn those who are under con- agglutination, examination of the stomach under<br />
tract of service or apprenticeship, that if any work X-rays, and the mosquito." If a doctor can gather<br />
is done by them which could hardly be said to money and reputation from writing a treatise on<br />
be done in the course of their employment, they these subjects there is no reason why he should not<br />
should take special care that they retain the equally obtain money and reputation as a teacher<br />
copyright in such work. A journalist on the through the cinematograph.<br />
staff of a paper mightbe employed to do certain Technical writers in all the various branches of<br />
journalistic work ; in his spare time he might write a knowledge and science should not neglect a new<br />
story, and the editor of the paper might offer to run opportunity.<br />
it as a serial. In a case of this kind it should be made<br />
clear, lest any dispute or doubt should arise, that<br />
the copyright in the serial story was not the pro-<br />
JUSTIN MCCARTHY.<br />
perty of the employer. It is to be hoped that the<br />
employer, in the absence of special contract, would<br />
not lay claim to the copyright, but it is always best V E much regret to have to record the death<br />
in matters of business that the terms should be set<br />
of Mr. Justin McCarthy, which occurred<br />
out with exactness. The employee should either be<br />
just before our May issue went to Press.<br />
careful not to offer work to his employer that he Mr. McCarthy's career as historian, novelist, Irish<br />
has done outside his course of employment and M.P., and Parliamentary journalist, has been so<br />
outside his contract of service or apprenticeship, or fully dealt with in the newspapers, and, indeed,<br />
if he does offer such work, that the terms as regards must be so familiar to our readers, that we need<br />
copyright should come under a separate agreement. add but little to the many tributes which have been<br />
The point is one of no small importance, judging paid to it in the Press and elsewhere during the<br />
from examples of the rights which some editors past month. His early work as a journalist-after<br />
demand from contributors who have through his first start as a young and unknown reporter -<br />
ignorance allowed them to publish without a proper was as editor of the Morning Star. But his daily<br />
contract.<br />
leader-writing on the Daily News from 1870 onwards<br />
through so many years, was his greatest claim to<br />
distinction in this line of literature. His essays in<br />
EDUCATION AND THE CINEMATOGRAPH.<br />
fiction were numerous, perhaps the best known being<br />
At the present time it is difficult to measure the “Dear Lady Disdain." But it is probably his work<br />
importance of cinematography to dramatic authors. as historian by which he is, as he deserves to be,<br />
It is possible that in the next few years its value familiar to most people. His “ History of Our Own<br />
will have more than doubled, and dramatists may Times,” finally completed in 1905–to the great<br />
be making a regular income from this form of cost, alas ! of his health, for the strain of constant<br />
reproduction, but there are other authors to whom labour on the book, coming on the top of his Parlia-<br />
and other methods in which cinematography may mentary struggles, made him an invalid for the rest<br />
become of great importance.<br />
of his life—was his principal achievement in this<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 247 (#705) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
247<br />
particular branch of learning. The writer of this<br />
paragraph well remembered the appearance of the<br />
first four volumes in the early 'Eighties, and how<br />
even among the thoughtless undergraduates of his<br />
University they raised an interest that is very rarely<br />
manifested in works of the kind there.<br />
Justin McCarthy was essentially a man of letters<br />
-in spite of his boyish connection with Irish revo-<br />
lutionary ideas—and he continued his devotion to<br />
literature almost to the last day of his life. His<br />
association with the Society of Authors dates from<br />
the year 1890, when he first joined its ranks.<br />
Although he was not actively identified with its<br />
executive side, he was elected to the Council, and<br />
served on it up to the time when death removed<br />
him from among us.<br />
We must congratulate the chairman on the<br />
success of the evening.<br />
There is no Fund in England which fills a similar<br />
position to that of the Royal Literary Fund ; the<br />
Fund is administered with great care and dis-<br />
crimination and with a very liberal and discerning<br />
hand. For over a hundred years it has supplied<br />
to those ill-paid workers very essential help in<br />
time of difficulty and distress. May the work<br />
which was begun so long ago continue in the future<br />
to those days when intellect or perhaps even genius<br />
is paid for by a living wage.<br />
COMPOSERS' RIGHTS AND THE COLLEC-<br />
TION OF FEES FROM MECHANICAL<br />
REPRODUCTIONS.<br />
THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND.<br />
W E have now been able to peruse the draft<br />
M HE 122nd anniversary dinner of the Royal<br />
rules of the Copyright Protection Society<br />
L Literary Fund, under the popular chair-<br />
(Mechanical Rights) Limited, worthy<br />
mansbip of Mr. Owen Seaman, has been very successors to the original prospectus.<br />
successful.<br />
The front page in itself, containing the list of<br />
· The secretary announced that the list of dona. the committee, is interesting, and turning to<br />
tions was headed by 50 guineas from the King ; Article 28 we see that the committee is to be<br />
that the stewards that night had subscribed nearly composed of six publishers, three composers, and<br />
£1,600, and that the total sum, which had been thrce authors of literary and dramatic works, with<br />
exceeded only twice in the 121 years' history of the in addition a chairman who is to be a composer.<br />
Fund, amounted to exactly £2,500.<br />
The publishers therefore, who under the Copy-<br />
There were many distinguished people present : right Act have no interest whatever in the<br />
those interested in literature from the outside mechanical rights, are given the largest repre-<br />
public, those who write themselves—authors, poets sentation upon the committee, a representation so<br />
and others—and those who act as agents for large that in all probability they will nearly always<br />
placing the work of the latter into the hands of the form a majority. Even Mr. William Boosey, who<br />
former.<br />
has been the moving spirit of this matter, does not<br />
The chairman's speech in support of the Fund put the publishers' claim higher than 30 per cent. of<br />
and its work was sound and to the point.<br />
the profits, yet they get 50 per cent. of the com-<br />
The toast of “ Literature” was proposed by Mr. mittee. Inasmuch also as the authors of words for<br />
Arthur Balfour. It would have been difficult to songs are generally paid a sum outright by the<br />
find a proposer more suitable to the occasion. Not publisher, it seems unnecessary to give the authors<br />
only is Mr. Balfour's love of literature well known, an equal representation with the composers, to<br />
but he has shown himself as one of the leading whom the most valuable part of the property<br />
thinkers by the work which he has put before the belongs.<br />
public. His speech was naturally listened to with The most important part of the rules deals with<br />
great interest and was full of suggestive matter. the distribution of the royalties to be collected.<br />
“Do not let us look,” he states, “at artistic or The short effect is first to charge the sums collected<br />
literary production in too mechanical a fashion with the expenses of collection and the maintenance<br />
Literature is not the result of merely what are of the society, and then to distribute the balance,<br />
called sociological causes. It is determined by the 40 per cent. to the composer, 30 per cent. to the<br />
inter-action of those causes and the individual author (where there are copyright words), and<br />
genius which no scientific generalisation can class, 30 per cent. to the publisher, or in cases where<br />
which no scientific prophecy can foretell.”<br />
there are no copyright words 70 per cent. to the<br />
The toast was responded to by Sir Walter composer and 30 per cent. to the publisher. Now<br />
Raleigh.<br />
composers should consider, first of all, whether<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 248 (#706) ############################################<br />
<br />
248<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
it is necessary to appoint any agents for the collec- enforcing his claims, for under rule 6, “no legal<br />
tion of fees ; but, assuming they think this desirable, proceedings shall be instituted or undertaken by<br />
they may be reminded that other companies are any member in respect of any work in which he is<br />
ready to collect the fees, not only in Great Britain interested without the sanction of the committee."<br />
and her colonies, but also on the Continent at a com This rule is not in terms limited to mechanical<br />
mission of 25 per cent. only of the fees, which covers rights alone, but would extend to all rights, and<br />
all expenses, the balance of 75 per cent. to go clear even if in practice it is treated as so limited it<br />
to the composer. Under the rules proposed to be deprives the member of all opportunity of defending<br />
issued by this limited company, the composers are his own property even at his own risk. Further,<br />
to have the amount of all the expenses of collec- under rule 2A a member is bound for the entire<br />
tion deducted from their fees when collected, and period of membership when called upon by the<br />
then to give to the publisher another 30 per cent. committee to transfer to the society the mechanical<br />
of what remains, so that the composer might lose instrument rights of his works which are or may<br />
a considerable percentage of his fees in expenses, be published (i.e., apparently all present and future<br />
and is then mulcted 30 per cent. of the balance, rights), and under clause 5, even in the event of<br />
which has to go to the publisher.<br />
his withdrawal or death, such rights shall continue<br />
The music publisher has claimed that he is to be vested in and exercisable by the company.<br />
entitled to a percentage of these fees because, by Secondly, the committee might decide to take<br />
publishing the composer's music, he makes the action in a case to which the composer might<br />
gramophone rights valuable. This may or may strongly object, and thirdly, the committee might<br />
not be the case, but if it is the case it is a matter take action in respect of the reproduction of the<br />
to be decided entirely between the composer and rights of one of its members, and get involved in a<br />
the publisher and not to be decided arbitrarily by complicated and expensive law suit, leaving the rest<br />
a company which is started on a business basis and of the members to bear the expenses of the proceed-<br />
not for the settlement of ethical questions. It is ings, however indiscreetly the committee may have<br />
certain, however, that in the near future it will be acted. The only limit upon the expenses is the<br />
the music publisher who will have to thank the total amount of all royalties collected. Generally<br />
mechanical reproducer for the advertisement, a society can only rely on the subscriptions received,<br />
rather than the mechanical reproducer the music and no member is liable for anything more. But<br />
publisher. Mechanical reproduction is going ahead here the whole income of the members for royalties<br />
very fast, and many owners of pianolas, gramo- on mechanical reproductions is at stake.<br />
phones, etc., go to the retail dealers and try these It is true that the society does not claim a<br />
reproductions, quite irrespective of the music percentage for the publisher where the work has<br />
publisher, and choose the reproduction for pur- not been published, but this does not lessen in any<br />
chase or hire, quite irrespective of whether they way the arguments wbich have been put forward.<br />
bave heard the original played from sheet music. It is possible, under rule 6B, that these rules<br />
This practice will become more and more common, may be altered and varied, but in that case the<br />
so that the music publisher's argument that he is alterations are “to be formulated by the com-<br />
entitled to a share in the mechanical instrument mittee” (on wbich, as we have pointed out, the<br />
rights, if ever it was good, grows less and less, but publishers will probably have a working majority),<br />
we do not admit it was ever good. The music wand approved at a general meeting of the<br />
publisher is the agent of the composer to reproduce society." It is probable, therefore, that any<br />
his work in a certain form according to contract, alterations made will not be for the benefit of<br />
and the author's royalty is based on this considera- composers.<br />
tion. He is not the principal, to claim from the Two points seem to be quite clear. Firstly,<br />
composer control over his rights. The editor of that it is inadvisable for any composer to become a<br />
a magazine might as well claim a share in the book member of this society ; and secondly, that com-<br />
production from the author, or the publisher of posers should be reminded, if they cannot undertake<br />
the book claim a share of the serial rights.<br />
what appears to be the not very difficult task of the<br />
But the draft rules contain other interesting collection of their own fees, that there are societies<br />
statements.<br />
ready to collect fees at much more reasonable rates<br />
The committee is to be allowed “to conduct or and without acquiring an interest in the composer's<br />
defend such legal proceedings as they may sanction," property. It is hoped to be possible to give full<br />
apparently, without reference to the composer, who details in another issue of this paper.<br />
is the owner of the rights. It seems that under this<br />
rule they might neglect, perhaps for financial<br />
reasons, to protect the composer's rights, and in<br />
that case the composer would have no means of<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 249 (#707) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
249<br />
THE HAZARD OF THE PEN.<br />
could than would have been his due had he allowed<br />
others to steal them, while he “paused " in order<br />
that he might hug to his breast the bubble consola-<br />
NCE upon a time I might have felt flattered tion that he had written“ not for an age but for all<br />
by the amount of interest which appears time.”<br />
to have been excited by the publication of Alexander Pope performed in a masterly manner<br />
my brief article entitled “ The Hazard of the Pen,” at his desk, but he certainly demanded something<br />
in the columns of The Author for December, 1911. rather more mundane than the glow of achievement<br />
At the present moment my state of mind is merely as his guerdon ; and Dr. Johnson, greater as a man<br />
one of mild surprise at the spirit of optimism it than renowned as a writer (which means a good<br />
seems to have evoked.<br />
deal), had so little esteem for the bombastic airs of<br />
A cursory examination of the official organ of the the pretentious dilettante that he roundly declared<br />
Society of Authors for the past dozen years reveals “no man but a blockhead ever wrote except for<br />
so many letters and articles retailing personal money." Now in almost every branch of art-<br />
experiences of ill-usage on the part of editors and whether it be music, painting, poetry, sculpture,<br />
publishers ; so many wails of despair at the trials romance, or any other form of it-the genius (with<br />
and disappointments of members in their attempts comparatively few exceptions) emanates from a<br />
to win public recognition ; so much heart-breaking home none too well blessed with worldly goods. A<br />
disaster as the sole result of honest endeavour, that diligent search through the pages of a biographical<br />
I am constrained to wonder how anyone claiming to dictionary will, I think, assure any doubter of the<br />
be a bona fide writer could be induced to question veracity of this statement. If then a child of the<br />
the sagacity of Robert Buchanan when he quietly Muses with his spiritual visions, his ethereal aims,<br />
summed up the whole case of his career in the his lofty ambitions, sets out to school and direct<br />
words,“ Is it worth it?"<br />
the world-how is he to do it ?<br />
Commonsense and genius, unlike ignorance and I presume he must eat, and wear clothes, and find<br />
impudence, rarely go hand in hand. But in the somewhere to lay his head what time he transcribes<br />
person of Robert Buchanan, these two uncommon his dreams to paper ; but if he has no private<br />
mental gifts were compounded ; and he saw with source of income, how, I ask, is he to do it ?<br />
clear eyes that in whatever vineyard he may work, Publishers and editors will neither feed, clothe, nor<br />
the labourer is worthy of his hire.<br />
house him. The day of the patron has gone. He<br />
The writer who'pretends that subsidiary sops to may consider himself well fitted to pose as “the<br />
his vanity in the shape of notoriety, adulation of teacher and leader of mankind ”-a modest pro-<br />
friends, self-sufficiency, egotism, and the like, position, by the way !—but with his belly filled<br />
furnish any real substitute for solid and material with the east wind, and no money to pay for a<br />
rewards for his industry, perseverance, and, per- night's lodging, he will come to learn that, in a<br />
chance, ability, is likely to be only a drag upon the civilised community, his place will be in course of<br />
ranks of authorship, seeing that he and such as he time, not among teachers and leaders but with waifs<br />
play into the hands of unscrupulous traders in and strays. During the past ten years one real poet<br />
literary property against whom the more sensible was actually herding with outcasts in the Strand,<br />
but less vainglorious members of the legion wage and two clever and original writers have elected to<br />
perpetual warfare, and to circumvent whose nefarious end the unequal battle of life by-suicide!<br />
aims the Society of Authors was, for one thing, What a man proposes and what the world<br />
founded.<br />
disposes are two cruelly opposite affairs in, say,<br />
Who could imagine Shakespeare as he wrote ninety-nine Cases out of every hundred.<br />
his immortal plays pausing to ask himself “ Is it “ But if we have had the smallest glimmer of<br />
worth it?”<br />
a vision that the calling of literature stands alone-<br />
As a matter of plain fact, Shakespeare wrote his above and beyond every other calling," etc. Above<br />
plays for a living; and, being what apparently some and beyond every other calling! A big order-<br />
few beginners in literary work affect to scorn, that a very big order !<br />
is to say, no mean man of business, contrived to Has the writer of this stupendous declaration<br />
elevate himself from a penniless lad into a person of ever stood before a masterpiece by å great artist,<br />
substance by the labour of his pen.<br />
and marvelled at the manner in wbich an historical<br />
I have no recollection that he claimed for himself event, a divine inspiration, a pathetic incident, nay,<br />
the prophetic gifts of a Merlin, or of his own the embodiment in lifelike form and colour of a<br />
creation, Prospero. How then was he to foretell that poet's dream, may be brought, by the magic of the<br />
posterity would acclaim his plays as “immortal” ? brush and the gift of artistic imagination and skill,<br />
: A thousand times more honour to the Swan of right before her eyes in a way no mere dealer in<br />
Avon for reaping what rewards of his genius he words could ever accomplish ?<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 250 (#708) ############################################<br />
<br />
250 •<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Has she ever felt her pulses throbbing, her heart from whose book, “ The Private Papers of Henry<br />
beating more rapidly, a catch in her throat, and an Ryecroft," l venture to take the following serious<br />
inclination to relieve the tension of her soul by warning, which I most earnestly commend to<br />
tears when listening to a voice of superlative the notice of all entertaining inflated and wholly<br />
quality, or the wondrous orchestral tone poems of a erroneous ideas as to the powers and influence they<br />
Wagner ?<br />
imagine themselves able to wield by pursuing a<br />
Has she ever reflected that the medical profession literary career-a career whose limitations are only<br />
has again and again produced quiet, unassuming exceeded by its disillusionment.<br />
heroes who hare given their lives to the cause of “Innumerable are the men and women now<br />
science, and in their efforts to alleviate the agony of writing for bread, who have not the least chance of<br />
suffering humanity ?<br />
finding in such work a permanent livelihood. They<br />
No good purpose was ever, or could be, served took to writing because they knew not what else to<br />
by entertaining a tumid and quite fallacious view do, or because the literary calling tempted them by<br />
of the writer's profession, trade, or craft—as my its independence and its dazzling prizes. They will<br />
readers will have it..<br />
bang on to the squalid profession, their earnings<br />
Cacoethes scribendi may be, and not infrequently eked out by begging and borrowing until it is too<br />
is, a physical disease, as dangerous as measles or late for them to do anything else—and then ?<br />
fever--and as infectious; though novices of a “With a lifetime of dread experience behind me,<br />
certain type when they have caught it badly I say that he who encourages any young man or<br />
imagine themselves to be sanctified by a visitation woman to look for his living in literature commits no<br />
of the divine afflatus. And the distinctive point less than a crime”!<br />
of tbe whole argument lies in the fact that the truly Other and weighty testimony I could adduce in<br />
inspired authors and poets rarely, if ever, indulge support of the argument ; testimony from the silent<br />
in rodomontade concerning their art and parts. records of the mighty dead, from the records of the<br />
“ Here lies one whose name was writ in water,” said Royal Literary Fund, the Civil List, and the<br />
Keats, of whom the late Lord Tennyson wrote, “Had volumes of The Author at my side, from newspaper<br />
he lived, he would have been the greatest of us all.” extracts pasted in my book of cuttings, from<br />
“Greater than that of the parson, because the witnesses whose wretched stories I have gathered<br />
world is our parish, and of the schoolmaster, because by word of mouth—from my own personal experience<br />
our work is for all time”!<br />
and knowledge. But would it not look like piling<br />
Perchance the lady who penned these lines knows Pelion upon Ossa to do so ? :<br />
editors who welcome, publish and pay for “copy” For those who are not writing for bread, serious<br />
that is greater in its religious value than the toilers in the field of literature care very little, as<br />
prayers of the parish priest, and in its educational, the majority at least would pick no quarrel with<br />
than the dogmatics of the schoolmaster. Are they Dr. Johnson for using the epithet “blockhead "<br />
to be found enshrined in the temples of Cassell or with regard to them. They are shielded from the<br />
Newnes, Pearson or Harmsworth, Hulton or Leng ? grisly spectre of starvation which has transformed<br />
Having been a penman of sorts for a quarter of so many rapturous “visions” into horrible night-<br />
a century, I had prided myself on possessing rather mares, and strangled more than one votary of the<br />
a wide knowledge of these Fleet Street idols. The Muse to his death within recent years. Let them<br />
overwhelming majority of those who control rhapsodise or gush! No one is injured-or deceived<br />
periodicals with large circulations and to exert by verbiage. When they have produced some-<br />
“ power over the minds and souls of men ” one thing in proof of the transcendental aims they are<br />
must take care not to be a mere voice crying in so voluble in professing, it will be time enough to<br />
the wilderness-seem to rely mainly on detective reconsider the sad reflection of one who at all events<br />
stories, narratives of criminals, highly spiced compelled admiration for the quality of his genius,<br />
“romances," on the one hand, or particularly and strove to live by its printed expression !<br />
nauseous sentimentality on the other, for their Finally, it cannot be too strenuously urged, or too<br />
staple fare.<br />
widely understood, that for one, beloved of the<br />
What does the vast multitude, composed as it is of gods, permitted to soar aloft on the wings of his<br />
shop girls, street lads, and the quarter-educated “grey goose quill ” in the regions of the blest, there<br />
products of an essentially self-satisfied and self- are—how many ? whose feeble flights end in<br />
seeking age, know of the illustrious ones? There dolorous attics, or land them with a sickening thud<br />
was one of them, an author who portrayed life as it in the mire and refuse of what is, after all, “a<br />
is, who neither glorified nor belittled his avocation, squalid profession” for the unlucky.<br />
who saw with the eyes of a keen observer, and Therefore I still repeat, it may be rather mourn-<br />
transcribed with the pen of a consummate master fully, the forceful query, “ Is it worth it ? ”<br />
of his craft-I allude to the late George Gissing-<br />
HERBERT W. SMITH.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 251 (#709) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
251<br />
ROBERT BROWNING.<br />
The Poetry Society's entertainment was arranged<br />
by Mrs. Kendal, and was contributed to by herself,<br />
Lady Tree, Mme. Ada Crossley, Lady St. Davids,<br />
N the 7th of last month was celebrated the Messrs. Laurence Irving and E. H. Coleridge. In<br />
first centenary of Robert Browning, born at conclusion, Browning's short play “ In a Balcony ”<br />
Camberwell on May 7, 1812. In London was performed.<br />
the chief feature of the programme in honour of An exhibition was opened at the Victoria and<br />
the event was a service at Westminster Abbey, Albert Museum in connection with the commemora-<br />
where, in Poet's Corner, his body was laid on the tion. Here was on view a collection of original MSS.<br />
last day of 1889. The chief feature of the Abbey and early editions of Browning, forming part of the<br />
service was the anthems—the first being taken Forster Bequest. It was to John Forster that<br />
from Browning's own “ Saul ” (canto 18) and set to Browning dedicated “Paracelsus,” in the words “ My<br />
music for the occasion by Sir Hubert Parry ; the book to my best friend. R.B."; and the original<br />
second, Mrs. Browning's “What would we give to MS. was presented by the author to him.<br />
our beloved,” with Sir Frederick Bridge's music, as The centenary was observed in Italy also. At the<br />
sung at the poet's funeral in 1889. Sir Frederick meeting in College Hall Professor Knight exhibited<br />
Bridge himself was at the organ.<br />
a copy of a placard which he had received from Mr. R.<br />
After the service a reception was held in the Barrett Browning, in which the Civic Council of<br />
College Hall of Westminster School, the Marquess Asolo, so frequently visited by the poet, invited the<br />
of Crewe presiding, and being supported by the citizens to pay their compliments to his memory on<br />
Italian Ambassador, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the day of his birth. On the 7th a street in the<br />
Lord Tennyson, Sir Sidney Lee, Professor Knight, town was named after him and a marble tablet<br />
and many others. After a letter had been read unveiled. A telegram was sent on the same day to<br />
from Mr. R. Barrett Browning, writing from his son at Asolo by the Syndic of Venice—“ Venice,<br />
Asolo (where he has long been ill) to express his where the great heart on wbich was carved the<br />
heartfelt thanks for the honour to his father's name of Italy beat its last " ; while at Rome a<br />
memory, the chairman spoke on the subject of tablet was unveiled by the Mayor, Signor Nathan,<br />
Browning's poems, the best of which he claimed, as in the house formerly occupied by the Brownings,<br />
long as any English poetry remained the possession No. 43, Via Bocca di Leone.<br />
of mankind, would form no small part of that After the unveiling Sir Rennell Rodd read<br />
possession. Bishop Boyd Carpenter followed with passages from Browning at the Keats-Shelley<br />
a paper on “The Oral Interpretation of Browning," memorial house.<br />
pleading that his poems would be better understood, It would be out of place in this column to<br />
and regarded with a more intelligent admiration, if attempt any criticism, or even appreciation, of<br />
they were read aloud. Canon Rawnsley, Miss Robert Browning. But we may be permitted, per-<br />
Emily Hickey (a founder of the Browning Society), haps, to quote as felicitous the closing words of the<br />
Mr. Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Mr. H. C. Minchin, article on him in The Times Literary Supplement<br />
Mr. W. G. Kingsland, and Dr. Alexander Hill also of May 2. “ Browning's “active step' and<br />
read papers or otherwise contributed their share to inquiring eye' have added imperishably to Eng-<br />
the commemoration.<br />
lish literature, because the immense, unquestion-<br />
So much of the celebration may be called official. ing, unhesitating enjoyment of life which animated<br />
There were also a meeting called at Caxton Hall on them was wrought into masterful symbols-<br />
the same afternoon by the Academic Committee of dramatic monologue, dialogue, and specialised lyric<br />
the Royal Society of Literature, and an entertain- —of life delightedly conscious of its own powers.<br />
ment organised by the Poetry Society at the Court Art can find no greater work to do than that."<br />
Theatre on the following Saturday. Mr. Edmund<br />
Gosse took the chair at the Academic Committee's<br />
meeting, and made the opening speech. Sir Arthur RULES FOR COMPOSITORS AND READERS<br />
Pinero delivered an address on “ Browning as a<br />
Dramatist”—the line in which he achieved the<br />
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD.*<br />
least success. Never, indeed, said Sir Arthur, was<br />
ambition in so great a man so hopelessly baffled W E have no hesitation about saying that this<br />
as Browning's dramatic ambition. Mr. Henry<br />
most valuable little work ought to be in<br />
James's address dealt with “ The Novel in The<br />
the hands of every author. Sufficient<br />
Ring and the Book,'” and concluded with a evidence of its usefulness is given by the “ Table of<br />
quotation of what he considered the highest water-<br />
* "Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University<br />
mark of Browning's imagination, fifty lines from Press. Oxford," by Horace Hart, M.A. London: Henry<br />
Guiseppe Caponsacchi's great speech.<br />
Frowde. 1912.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 252 (#710) ############################################<br />
<br />
252<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Contents," which begins, “ Some Words ending in to read a novel right through, and he says: “Five<br />
-able. Some Words ending in -ible. Some novels will amount to sixteen hundred pages of<br />
Words ending in -ize. Some Alternative or printed matter. Reading at the rate of eight words<br />
Difficult Spellings arranged in alphabetical order," a second the reviewer would accomplish two pages<br />
and continues to enumerate just all those things a minute and sixteen hundred pages in thirteen<br />
which present difficulties to a man who is desirous hours and twenty minutes." If we allow another<br />
of writing accurately, or of correcting his proofs two hours and forty minutes for the remaining<br />
perfectly. Not only are the rules those which have novel the time as given by Mr. Bennett's own<br />
been for years past put into the hands of the com computation works out at sixteen hours.<br />
positors and correctors of the press of the Clarendon For this sixteen hours, or less than three days<br />
Press (whose superlative work needs neither our work, Mr. Bennett finds the fee of twenty pounds,<br />
commendation nor that of anyone else) but or twenty guineas, miserably inadequate. Yet, in<br />
authorities of the highest rank, such as Sir J. A. H. the same article from the Academy, from which I<br />
Murray and Dr. Henry Bradley, are guarantors for have already quoted, speaking on the subject of<br />
the correctness of the book. The booklet has been literary remuneration, he says : “ As a journeyman<br />
brought up to date, and how carefully this is done author, with the ability and inclination to turn my<br />
may be gathered from a passage in the preface. pen in any direction at request, I long ago established<br />
“The compiler has encouraged the proof-readers a rule never to work for less than ten shillings an<br />
of the University Press from time to time to keep hour piece-work. But every year I raise my price<br />
memorials of troublesome words. As each edition per hour.” Mr. Bennett has indeed raised his price<br />
of the book becomes exhausted such words are per hour, for, on his own reckoning, the publisher<br />
reconsidered, and their approved form finally is paying him at the rate of twenty-fire shillings an<br />
incorporated into the pages of the forthcoming hour.<br />
edition.”<br />
Continuing his diatribe in The Author, Mr.<br />
The booklet contains, as was to be anticipated, Bennett goes on to say, “ The reason for the con-<br />
pages dealing with French, German, Latin, and tinuance of these competitions is to my mind obvious.<br />
Greek, and is furnished with an excellent index, They are very profitable to the enterprising pub-<br />
which renders it easy for any author in a minute to lisher. I see no harın in that ; indeed, I rather<br />
satisfy himself respecting what ought to be done in admire the cleverness of the enterprising publisher;<br />
any of the cases which are occasions of perplexity. but I think that artistically reputable novelists<br />
should meditate long before they decide to dignify<br />
with their names a purely commercial project."<br />
Why is Mr. Bennett so indignant at being asked<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
to give his criticism and the weight of his name?<br />
Are Royal Academicians equally indignant when<br />
invited to act on the Hanging Committee ?<br />
NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br />
Novel Competitions undoubtedly give young<br />
authors a chance they would not have otherwise.<br />
I.<br />
Mr. Arnold Bennett himself started his London<br />
DEAR SIR, I am not a publisher or in any way literary career by winning a prize of twenty guineas.<br />
connected with any publishing firm, but I must say Grant Allen and many others have come before the<br />
that I think Mr. Arnold Bennett's letter on Novel public in the same way.<br />
Competitions both unfair and misleading.<br />
By all means let Mr. Bennett refuse a fee he con-<br />
He says, “I was recently invited with two very siders too low, but do not let him delude himself with<br />
well-known novelists to judge one of these competi- the idea that he is doing something “ artistically<br />
tions. The publisher's letter of invitation clearly reputable."<br />
stated that I should not have to read more than six When one calls to mind the literary men of the<br />
or seven manuscripts. I declined—I hope politely, past who were not for ever pricing their work at so<br />
to take part in such a farce."<br />
much an hour, when one thinks of Southey patiently<br />
Why should Mr. Arnold Bennett in becoming one writing helpful, kindly letters to the unknown<br />
of the judges in a Novel Competition be taking Charlotte Brontë, of Walter Besant, who was never<br />
part in a farce ?<br />
too busy to help the beginner, of Scott, who boasted<br />
His grievance seems to be that the judging of six that there was not one of all his schemes that did<br />
or seven manuscripts would entail "a full week's not afford him the means of serving some poor<br />
tedious work.”<br />
devil of a brother author ; when one thinks of all<br />
This was not the opinion expressed in an article these men and how unselfish they were in the<br />
he contributed to the Academy some time back. practice of what ought to be one of the noblest<br />
He is discussing the time it would take a reviewer professions, one cannot but feel that it would not<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 253 (#711) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
253<br />
mation<br />
bave taken away in the smallest degree from Mr. from their facts and figures. I hereby state my own<br />
Bennett's dignity had he consented to judge the experiences as my contribution to the question.<br />
competition in question.<br />
For my first novel, published in March, 1911, I<br />
The Novel Competition has lost one of our ablest obtained (on paper) a 10 per cent. royalty on the<br />
critics. But Mr. Bennett himself is also a loser. published price of the 6s. edition on all copies sold<br />
When Rudyard Kipling received a letter of up to 1.500 copies: 15 per cent. to a total sale of<br />
encouragement from Lord Tennyson, this is what 3,500 copies ; and 20 per cent. thereafter, 13 copies<br />
he wrote: “When a private is praised by his to be counted as 12; and 3d. per copy on the<br />
Colonel he does not presume to thank him but he Colonial edition, 12 copies to be counted as 12. On<br />
fights better next day." Had Mr. Arnold Bennett, the day of publication I was paid the sum of £25,<br />
as colonel, taken part in the review, he would prob- “in advance and on account of royalties."<br />
ably have earned the lifelong gratitude of some The sales and fiuancial profit to myself at the<br />
poor struggling private. And to help a human end of the year were as follows:<br />
being forward and to earn the gratitude of a human Copies of home edition sold, 586.<br />
being is something not to be reckoned in pounds, Copies of Colonial edition sold, 797.<br />
shillings and pence.<br />
Total sum received by me, £26 3s. 11d., from<br />
Yours truly,<br />
which must be deducted the 15 per cent. claimed<br />
“ DAVID." by my agent “ for the first novel sold in England.”<br />
The circumstances under which my first novel<br />
was published were practically similar to those of<br />
II.<br />
“A First and Second Novel.” I was absolutely<br />
SIR,-I was glad to see Mr. Arnold Bennett's<br />
unknown in the literary world, for though I had<br />
letter under this heading in the May issue of The<br />
had several short stories published in the magazines,<br />
Author, for Mr. Bennett strongly supports a point<br />
and had begun to be asked for more," I had<br />
made in my own contribution to the discussion in<br />
written them un ler my own name, while for my<br />
the same issue. Speaking of the contention that<br />
novel I took a pen-name. My sales, I suppose, ored<br />
the advertised judges in these competitions should<br />
a little to the private advertisements of my friends,<br />
read all the novels sent in, I asked what would be<br />
for to them I made no secret of my identity. I<br />
gained by making these judges cast a weary eye<br />
received about 40 reviews, all of which were more<br />
upon the stuff which the “sorters ” weed out.<br />
or less favourable ; none adverse, some highly<br />
Now Mr. Bennett makes it clear that to him it is<br />
encouraging, and these from the best papers. A<br />
second edition of the book (a second thousand) was<br />
not worth while to read even “important manu-<br />
issued ; but it will be observed that the home and<br />
scripts, already sifted from a mass," at a rate of<br />
Colonial sales added only reach a total of 1,383, 118<br />
remuneration equivalent to over £1,000 a year.<br />
having been given gratis in the course of advertise-<br />
What would he require for reading the mass,<br />
including the works which I have described (and, I<br />
ment, which brings the total of volumes disposed<br />
of to 1,501 ; therefore the 15 per cent. royalty was<br />
protest, with justice) as “crude, illiterate, and<br />
never reached by this book.<br />
artistically worthless”?<br />
READER.<br />
My second novel is yet in the proof stage, and is<br />
to be published between July and September, 1912,<br />
by the same publisher. I am to receive a royalty of<br />
A PUBLISHER'S TERMS.<br />
124 per cent. on the published price of 6s. on all<br />
copies sold up to 1,500 copies ; after which 15 per<br />
DEAR SIR,—The letter of “A First and Second cent. to a total sale of 3,000 copies ; 20 per cent.<br />
Novel” in your May issue supplies what is surely thereafter, 13 copies to be counted as 12. A<br />
a long-felt want, namely, a public comparison of royalty of 3d, per copy on the Colonial edition, 12<br />
notes as regards publishers' terms between those copies to be counted as 12. I am to receive the<br />
beginning to make their way as novelists. Hitherto sum of £30 upon the day of publication, “in<br />
I have yearned in vain to know if my own experi. advance and on account of royalties.”<br />
ences were average, or peculiar in either a rich or a A much-contested clause in my second agreement<br />
meagre sense ; have harboured a devouring curiosity (which I omitted to trouble about in my first) was<br />
as to “how many sales constitute a successful first the following :—that in the event of my arranging<br />
novel ; what are the average sales of a first novel, for re-publication elsewhere, I should pay the<br />
and what the profit made by the author from the original publisher, X and X, 15 per cent, share in<br />
first venture." "A First and Second Novel's” the net proceeds to me from such reprint. That is<br />
letter is most interesting and instructive, and it to say, that supposing X and X refused to issue a<br />
would be very satisfactory if more beginners would sixpenny or shilling reprint edition of the book, and<br />
follow suit, so that we might gain a sense of values some other publisher was willing to do so, I should<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 254 (#712) ############################################<br />
<br />
254<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
be bound to hand over 15 per cent of the profits to point of view as author. One can at least squeeze<br />
X and X, though he had had nothing to do with the humour out of the business. I quote extracts from<br />
venture; his view being that it was owing to him that the first five reviews. “ Almost feminine beauty<br />
the book had reached a reprintable position. My and delicacy,” Bumpington Bugle; “ Virile," The<br />
point of view was that it was possible quite another Clock; “Well worth publishing," Bumpington<br />
book, not published by X and X, might be responsible Bugle ; “ Not worth publishing,” Morning Bleeder ;<br />
for the call for a reprint of a book originally published “Never lacking point and thought,” The Clock ;<br />
by them. Yet I should be obliged to part with “ Generally dull and lifeless," Provincial Scooper ;<br />
15 per cent. of the profits, which to X and X would “ Versification,” Morning Bleeder; “ Distinct<br />
be unearned increment. My agent supported the reaching out of the spirit,” Friday Tyrant.<br />
publishers on this score, and I decided that, all I should add that I am a native of Bumpington.<br />
things considered, it was best to submit. It would<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
be interesting to know if any other beginners have<br />
LEONARD INKSTER.<br />
had such a clause in their agreements, and, if so,<br />
what the outcome has been.<br />
I am not dependent upon writing for a living ;<br />
EDITORIAL COURTESY.<br />
but, at the same time, I am dependent on it for<br />
DEAR SIR,-Having a keen sense of justice I feel<br />
enlarging a slender income with no margin. Not<br />
impelled to give my testimony with regard to my<br />
until I employed an agent did I sell a book, though own experience as a contributor to the pages of the<br />
I had been assailing the publishers for between<br />
Bystander. I am not a well-known writer, as I<br />
eight and nine years. I am bound to my agent for prefer to publish all my work anonymously, and<br />
“all novels”; the agreement, as regards any unsold<br />
desire to advertise neither myself nor my wares, but<br />
book, being open to cancellation by mutual<br />
I am on the staff of a London paper and a con-<br />
consent, or on six months' notice in writing by<br />
tributor to many other papers and magazines.<br />
either party.<br />
From the Bystander I have invariably received<br />
I, like "* A First and Second Novel,” shall be<br />
the greatest courtesy. Accepted work has been<br />
very glad of “any enlightening comments or inserted in due course and paid for promptly; work<br />
conclusions” evoked by the above.<br />
that did not meet with acceptance was sent back to<br />
"A BEGINNER." me by return of post.<br />
I found the editor, publisher, and management<br />
generally, exceedingly courteous, prompt, and<br />
AUTHORS AND REVIEWERS.<br />
thoroughly businesslike. I wish I could speak in<br />
SIR, -As an author and reviewer (though a young<br />
the same high terms of the management of all the<br />
one) I may be permitted to think I have sufficient other papers to which I contribute. If all journals<br />
experience to comment on “ Phokion's” article,<br />
were to copy the Bystander's methods in dealing<br />
“ Authors and Reviewers."<br />
with contributors—prompt acceptance or rejection<br />
As a reviewer, I naturally see the other side of of MSS., courteous replies to letters, when neces-<br />
the picture. Perhaps I am not sufficiently power- sary ; keen appreciation of intelligent, vivid or<br />
ful to commit some of the sins—for instance, the sin painstaking work ; smartness in detecting origin-<br />
of pluralism, attributed by Phokion to the tribe. ality ; and generous and prompt payment for<br />
First an author, I review and criticise because I am all accepted work, commissioned or otherwise, the<br />
interested in art, and because it is (one supposes)<br />
writer's life would be a less anxious and harassed<br />
necessary to live. However incompetent and one than it is at present. Yours etc..<br />
unjust I may be, I take the thing seriously, and<br />
L. H. H.<br />
labour more in my efforts to be just than in my<br />
own creative work. I know several reviewers.<br />
REGISTER OF SCENARIOS.<br />
They are all equally serious. The fact that a man SIR,- The Society has, I believe, a register of<br />
is severe in dealing with what he knows about is scenarios. Probably it is used, at present, mainly<br />
natural ; he has a high standard ; no doubt, if I by dramatists. It occurs to me, however, that<br />
reported a football match, I should be unduly novelists would also do well to make use of it.<br />
complimentary, because I do not know about it. The new Copyright Act gives them the sole power<br />
Some of my reviewer friends have recently to authorise the dramatisation of their novels. It<br />
reviewed a book of verses by me. One admitted also creates a new set of rights, namely, the film<br />
that he was harder on me than if he had not rights for cinematograph representation. The<br />
known me ; another did not admit it. No doubt advantages of filing a scenario of the plot of the<br />
there was log-rolling to start with, in that had they novel in view of these two circumstances are<br />
not known me they would probably not have obvious.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
reviewed me at all. And this brings me to the<br />
L. T. J.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 254 (#713) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING. Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhend, Surrey, writes :-<br />
"I have just completed the rovision of my novel ... which you<br />
typed, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without having been corrected or even read, and that my hand writing,<br />
I am told. is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
rogaired perception as well as care, something more than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a resulta result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words ; 2 copies, 1/-,<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1/- 1,000 words ; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spanish typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. XESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): “I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work."<br />
MRS. TOM GODFREY: “I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
all authors who have the good fortune to hear of you. ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French."<br />
MRS. HINKSON (KATHARINE TYNAN): "I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and promptitude."<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq. : “ The work could not be better done."<br />
I ST JOHN L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON.<br />
Bitterne Park,<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1898),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
L. A. ST. JOHN, L'ls!<br />
THE COAL WAR.<br />
OIL! OIL ! OIL<br />
Where to get it Within the Empire.<br />
Read COO-EE'S “BLAIRS KEN.”<br />
TYPEWRITER-COPYING.<br />
8d. 1000 Words (free carbon copy.)<br />
C. GIRTON, 2, GROVE LANE, CAMBERWELL, S.E.<br />
TYPEWRITING. Authors' MSS. copied by<br />
Experienced Operator.<br />
DUPLICATING. Attendance locally for dictation.<br />
MISS SOLLY, 378, Shirley Road, Southampton.<br />
· ROOM FOR MILLIONS.<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
Healthy, Happy, Industrial Homes for the Unemployed.<br />
Read “COO-EE'S"<br />
THE SILVER QUEEN.<br />
London : JOHN QUSELEY, Ltd.<br />
The most difficult handwriting and involved copy<br />
accurately deciphered by experts.<br />
MISS FOWLER,<br />
Maxwell House, Arundel Street, Strand, w.c.<br />
on all subjects,<br />
including<br />
LITERARY,<br />
Educational,<br />
Commercial, Technical, Medical, Theological, etc., and<br />
for all examinations.<br />
<br />
Booond-Hand at Half-Prices. Now at 25 por<br />
oont. disoount.<br />
Catalogues free. State Wants. Books sent on approval ; BOOKS<br />
BOUGHT. Best Prices Given.<br />
WANTED<br />
By an Invalid, unable to walk.)<br />
TYPEWRITING and DUPLICATING<br />
IN ANY QUANTITY.<br />
AUTHORS' MSS. a Speciality.<br />
W. & G. FOYLE,<br />
135, Charing Cross Road, London, W.0<br />
MISS MORGAN'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND,<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICES,<br />
. Dunster House, Mark Lane, London, E.C.<br />
Every description of Typewriting, Authors' MSS., Sermons,<br />
&c., undertaken at from 10d. per 1,000 words. Special<br />
terms for large quantities or regular work.<br />
Meetings Reported on Moderate Terms. Accuracy and<br />
Promptness guaranteed.<br />
Telephone : 12137 Central.<br />
Accuracy,<br />
Absolute Secrecy,<br />
Prompt Attention, and<br />
Satisfaction Guaranteed.<br />
Trial Order earnestly solicited.<br />
Full Price List and Testimonials on application.<br />
Nothing Too Small ! ?<br />
Nothing Too Large!<br />
What does the World say about Your Book ?<br />
THE ATHENÆUM Press Cutting, Book Review and<br />
1 Literary Agency (Established 1895) will tell you.<br />
Literary and Dramatic Reviews supplied at very low rates.<br />
Thorough and Reliable.<br />
Write to F. C. GUEST, 15, Palace Chambers,<br />
Westminster, S.W.<br />
TELEPHONE : VICTORIA, 367.<br />
C. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Road, St. Albans, Herts.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 254 (#714) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
| TYPEWRITING<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
To Authors, Clergymen,<br />
Playwrights, etc.-<br />
A WORD IN SEASON !<br />
Get all your work TYPED<br />
WELL-IT ADDS TONE.<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum.<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
WITH<br />
My work is always THE BEST.<br />
My prices are LOW.<br />
Send your order now.<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
All orders, large or small, receive<br />
my personal attention.<br />
MISS RALLING,<br />
38, Norwood Road,<br />
Herne Hill,<br />
LONDON, S.E.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor Lounges<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita-<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telographic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel—"Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel—"Bookcraft, London."<br />
U BRAINS<br />
W.C.<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND, AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone-8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
Nigently copied, from 18. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
promptness; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
over 20,000, 6d. Plays ruled<br />
and bound, 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and General TYPEWRITING.–Authors'. MSS. carefully<br />
typed at 10d. per 1,000<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli-<br />
words (carbon copy free).-<br />
EXCELSIOR TYPEWRITING OFFICES,<br />
cation.<br />
Tel.: Bank 82.<br />
One Of NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS. TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK.<br />
"Miss M. R. HORNX has typed for me litorary matter to the<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothmg MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE."<br />
64, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
Recommended by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.<br />
and Others.<br />
New Address :-<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen : "Many<br />
5. PADCROFT ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
'been done."<br />
Printed by BRADBURY, AQNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C.<br />
20, Bucklorsbury, | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/434/1912-06-01-The-Author-22-9.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 435 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/435 | The Author, Vol. 22 Issue 10 (July 1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3EThe+Author%3C%2Fem%3E%2C+Vol.+22+Issue+10+%28July+1912%29"><em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 10 (July 1912)</a> | | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-07-01-The-Author-22-10 | | | | | 255–284 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-07-01">1912-07-01</a> | | | | | | | 10 | | | 19120701 | The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
VOL. XXII.-No. 10.<br />
JULY 1, 1912.<br />
(PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
CONTENTS.<br />
PAOR<br />
255<br />
255<br />
255<br />
257<br />
260<br />
PAGE<br />
271<br />
272<br />
272<br />
272<br />
272<br />
262<br />
Notices<br />
The Society's Funds<br />
The Pension Fund<br />
Cornmittee Notes ...<br />
Books published by Members ...<br />
Literary, Dramatic and Musical Notes<br />
Paris Notes... ... . .. ...<br />
United States Notes ...<br />
Copyright in a Newspaper Article ...<br />
United States Law Case<br />
A Dangerous Clanse ...<br />
Magazine Contents<br />
How to Use the Society ...<br />
Warnings to the Producers of B<br />
Warnings to Dramatic Authors<br />
Registration of Scenarios and Origins<br />
Dramatic Authors and Agents<br />
Warnings to Musical Composers<br />
Stamping Music ...<br />
The Reading Branch<br />
Remittances<br />
General Notes<br />
Obituary ...<br />
Composers' Agreements...<br />
The Proposed New Copyright Law of Holland<br />
British Writers and Journalists in Touraine<br />
Inspiration... ...<br />
Correspondence<br />
272<br />
272<br />
273<br />
264<br />
265<br />
267<br />
268<br />
269<br />
270<br />
271<br />
271<br />
274<br />
275<br />
278<br />
280<br />
281<br />
282<br />
Putnam's Shilling Fiction<br />
The Wheels of Time .<br />
.<br />
.<br />
1/- net.<br />
net.<br />
(100,000 copies sold.)<br />
By FLORENCE L. BARCLAY, Author of “The Rosary."<br />
" It is an honest little story and well written.”—Times.<br />
Wayfarers<br />
1/- net.<br />
net.<br />
.<br />
. By LENORE VAN DER VEER.<br />
A winter story of life and death and love in Switzerland.<br />
[Just Published.<br />
The Land of the Blue Flower<br />
.<br />
1/- net.<br />
net.<br />
By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT,<br />
Author of “Little Lord Fauntleroy."<br />
“This dainty little story ... is exceedingly well told ... Mrs. Hodgson Burnett<br />
has once again given her thousands of readers cause to love her.”-Sphere.<br />
[Third Impression.<br />
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS,<br />
24, BEDFORD STREET, STRAND, W.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 254 (#716) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
The Society of Authors (Incorporated).<br />
Telegraphic Address : "AUTORIDAD, LONDON.”<br />
Telephone No. : 374 Victoria.<br />
PRESIDENT.<br />
THOMAS HARDY, O..M.<br />
COUNCIL.<br />
SIR ROBERT ANDERSON, K.C.B. SIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. SIR WM. REYNELL THE RIGHT Hox. THE EARL CURZON, THE REV. C. H. MIDDLETON-WARE.<br />
ANSON, Bart., P.C., M.P., D.C.L.<br />
G.C.S.I.<br />
SIR HENRY NORMAN, M.P.<br />
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD AUSTIN DOBSON.<br />
SIR GILBERT PARKEK, M.P.<br />
AVEBURY, P.O.<br />
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE.<br />
SIR ARTHUR PINERO.<br />
J. M. BARRIE.<br />
DOUGLAS FRESH FIELD.<br />
THE RIGHT Hox. SIR HORACE<br />
SIR ALFRED BAT EMAN, K.C.M.G. EDMUND GOSSE, C.B., LL.D.<br />
PLUNKETT, K.P.<br />
ROBERT BATEMAN.<br />
SYDNEY GRUNDY.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
F. E. BEDDARD, F.R.S.<br />
SIR RIDER HAGGARD.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDFS.<br />
MRS. HARRISON (“Lucas MALET"). OWEN SEAMAN."<br />
THE RIGHT Hon. AUGUSTINE BIB ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW,<br />
RELL, P.C.<br />
E. W. HORNUNG.<br />
G. R, SIMs.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
MAURICE HEWLETT.<br />
DR. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
THE REV. PROF. BONNEY, F.R.S. W. W. JACOBS.<br />
FRANCIS STORR.<br />
The Right Hon. JAMES BRYCE, P.C. HENRY JAMES.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLERS STAXPORD,<br />
THE RIGHT Ilon. THE LORD BORGH. JEROME K. JEROM R.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
CLERE, P.C.<br />
HENRY ARTHUR JONES,<br />
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD,<br />
HALL CAINE.<br />
J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D.<br />
H, G. WELLS.<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR,<br />
RUDYARD KIPLING.<br />
PERCY WHITE.<br />
EGERTON CASTLE, F.8.A.<br />
SIR EDWIN RAY LANK ESTER, F.R.8. FIELD-MARSHAL THE RIGHT le n.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
LADY LUGARD (M188 FLORA L. THE VISCOUNT WOLSELEY, R.P.,<br />
W. MORRIS COLLES.<br />
SHAW).<br />
P.C., &c.<br />
Thk Hon. John COLLIER,<br />
Mks. MAXWELL (M. E. BRADDON).<br />
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.<br />
Chairman- Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
SIR ALFRED BATEMAN, K.C.M.G. I MAURICE HEWLETT,<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
MRS. BELLOC-LOWNDES.<br />
W. W. JACOBS.<br />
G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND.<br />
AYLMER MAUDE.<br />
FRANCIS STORR,<br />
J. W. COMYNS CARR.<br />
HESKETH PRICHARD.<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-R. C. Carton.<br />
RUDOLF BESIER.<br />
JEROME K. JEROME.<br />
I G. BERNARD SHAW.<br />
C. HADDON CHAMBERS.<br />
W. J. LOCKE.<br />
MISS E. M. SYMONDS.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY.<br />
JAMES T. TANNER.<br />
Miss CICELY HAMILTON.<br />
CECIL RALEIGH.<br />
PENSION FUND COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-Dr. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
ANSTEY GUTHRIE.<br />
OWEN SEAMAN,<br />
MRS. ALEC TWEEDIE,<br />
ANTHOXY HOPE HAWKINS.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
Mrs. HUMPHRY WARD.<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
Chairman-SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, Mus. Doc.<br />
GRANVILLE BANTOCK.<br />
CECIL FORSYTH.<br />
ARTHUR SOMERVELL.<br />
PERCY C. BUCK, Mus. Doc.<br />
SIDNEY JONES.<br />
HERBERT SULLIVAN.<br />
THOMAS F. DUNHILL.<br />
JOHN B, MCEWEN.<br />
WILLIAM WALLACE.<br />
COPYRIGHT SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
H. A. HINKSON.<br />
SIR CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD, HERBERT SULLIVAN,<br />
E, J. MACGILLIVRAY.<br />
Mus. Doc.<br />
SIR JAMES YOXALL, M.P.<br />
M. H. SPIELMANN.<br />
ART.<br />
The Hon. John COLLIER.<br />
John HASSALL, R.I.<br />
ARTHUR RACKHAM.<br />
BIR W. MARTIN CONWAY.<br />
J. G. MILLAIS.<br />
M. H, SPIELMANX.<br />
FIELD, ROSCOK & Co., 36, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.O.<br />
- Secretary-G. HERBERT THRING,<br />
G. HERBERT TUBING, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, 8.W.)<br />
Solicitor in England to<br />
La Sociste des Gens de Loutre,<br />
Legal Representative in America—JAMES BYRNE, 24, Broad Street, New York, U.S.A,<br />
OFFICES.<br />
39, OLD QUEEN STREET, STOREY'S GATE, 8.W.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 254 (#717) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
iii<br />
- PLAYS<br />
MR. FORBES DAWSON<br />
COTTERILL & CROMB,<br />
Literary Agents,<br />
Lennox House, Norfolk Street,<br />
(Member of the Incorporated Society of Authors).<br />
-Strand, W.C.-<br />
During the past year Messrs. Cotterill & Cromb have placed<br />
An Actor of over 25 years' experience in every<br />
literary work (Books, Serials and Short Stories) for the<br />
following Authors:<br />
class of character, play, and theatre.<br />
COSMO HAMILTON,<br />
GUNBY HADATH,<br />
DEREK VANE,<br />
FRANCIS MARLOWE,<br />
Master of Stage Craft & Play Construction, GEORGE EDGAR,<br />
W. HAROLD THOMSON,<br />
ANNESLEY KENEALY, HILDA COWHAM,<br />
CHARLES PROCTER,<br />
ROGER POCOCK,<br />
Author of plays produced in Great Britain<br />
SEUMAS MACMANUS,<br />
REEVES SHAW<br />
and America. Adapter of several novels to the<br />
RUBY M. AYRES,<br />
MARK ALLERTON,<br />
R. MURRAY GILCHRIST, JOHN HASLETTE,<br />
stage.<br />
BERTRAM ATKEY,<br />
CLIVE HOLLAND,<br />
F. ST. MARS<br />
NORMAN INNES,<br />
GIVES PRACTICAL ADVICE UPON PLAYS.<br />
PAUL URQUHART,<br />
Etc., Etc.<br />
ADAPTS STORIES TO THE STAGE.<br />
Each MS. receives the personal attention of Mr. Cotterill and<br />
---- NO THEORIES. —<br />
Mr. Cromb, who have a unique knowledge of the Book and<br />
No charge for reading and giving a practical<br />
Serial Market.<br />
opinion on a play.<br />
WRITE FOR TERMS. INTERVIEWS BY APPOINTMENT.<br />
Telephone : GERRARD 1093.<br />
Knows the best people in the dramatic world,<br />
and has gained the necessary experience for this<br />
TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK<br />
(Shorthand.)<br />
class of work on the stage itself, in association<br />
Authors' Manuscripts & other work promptly<br />
with the best dramatists, producers, actors, and<br />
and accurately copied,<br />
stage managers of his time.<br />
Terms : 10d. per 1,000 Words.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Rev. H. W. CLARK.<br />
Address : 23, MIDMOOR ROAD, WIMBLEDON, S.W. MISS I. U. BAILEY, WESTWICK, HARPENDEN, HERTS.<br />
Publications of the Society.<br />
1. THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1911.<br />
Price 18. net.<br />
8. THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.<br />
A Record of its Action from its Foundation, By WALTER<br />
BESANT (Chairman of Committee, 1888-1892). Price<br />
18. net.<br />
2. THE AUTHOR.<br />
Published ten months in the year (August and September<br />
omitted) devoted especially to the protection and main.<br />
tenance of Literary, Dramatic, and Musical Property.<br />
Issued to all Members gratis. Price to non-members,<br />
6d., or 59. 60. per annum, post free. Back numbers from<br />
1892, at 108. 6d, net, per vol.<br />
9. THE CONTRACT OF PUBLICATION<br />
IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA, HUNGARY,<br />
AND SWITZERLAND. By ERNST LUNGE,<br />
J.U.D. Price 28, 60, net.<br />
8. LITERATURE AND THE PENSION<br />
LIST. By W. MORRIS COLLES, Barrister-at-<br />
Law. Price 38. net,<br />
4. THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIÉTÉ DES<br />
GENS DE LETTRES. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE.<br />
Price 1s. net.<br />
5. THE COST OF PRODUCTION.<br />
(Out of print.).<br />
10. FORMS OF AGREEMENT ISSUED BY<br />
THE PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION ;<br />
WITH COMMENTS. By G. HERBERT<br />
THRING, and Hlustrative Examples by Sir WALTER<br />
BESANT, 2nd Edition Price 1s, net.<br />
11. PERIODICALS AND THEIR CONTRI-<br />
BUTORS. Giving the Terms on which the<br />
different Magazines and Periodicals deal with MSS. and<br />
Contributions. Price 6d. net.<br />
6. THE VARIOUS METHODS OF PUBLI 12. SOCIETY OF AUTHORS.<br />
CATION. By S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE. In this<br />
List of Members. Published October, 1907, price 6d. net.<br />
work, compiled from the papers in the Society's offices,<br />
the various forms of agreements proposed by Publishers 13. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT CON-<br />
to Authors are examined, and their meaning carefully<br />
explained, with an account of the various kinds of fraud<br />
VENTION AS REVISED AT BERLIN,<br />
which have been made possible by the different clauses<br />
1909. Price 1s. net<br />
therein, Price 3snet.<br />
7. ADDENDA TO THE ABOVE.<br />
14. DRAMATIC AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
3d, net.<br />
By G. HERBERT THRING. Being additional facts<br />
collected at the office of the Society since the publication<br />
of the “Methods." With comments and advice. Price<br />
15. LITERARY AGENCY AGREEMENT.<br />
28. net.<br />
3d, net.<br />
[All prices net. Apply to the Secretary, 39, Old Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W.]<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 254 (#718) ############################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
SAVE YOUR NUMBERS carefully until the<br />
- Volume is complete by using<br />
THE AUTHOR”<br />
MECHANICAL BINDER<br />
THE COAL WAR.<br />
OIL! OIL ! OIL !<br />
Where to get it Within the Empire.<br />
Read COO-EE'S “BLAIRS KEN.”<br />
ROOM FOR MILLIONS.<br />
(Symons' Patent).<br />
Price 2/8 net.<br />
This useful invention enables subscribers to bind up<br />
number by number, the numbers of The Author as they are<br />
published, and at the completion of the volume can be taken<br />
off and sent to the book binder-leaving the Mechanical Binder<br />
free for the next volume. Whether containing one number or<br />
a complete volume it has the appearance of, and handles the<br />
same as, an ordinarily bound book. It is the only method by<br />
which The Author can be instantly bound with the same<br />
facility as a single leaf, and there are no wires or elastic<br />
strings to get out of order.<br />
The whole invention is of English Manufacture. The<br />
Cloth Covers are made by leading London Bookbinders, and<br />
the Metal Fittings by a well-known West End Firm.<br />
Should an accident cause any part of the mechanism to<br />
break, it can be replaced by return of post at the cost of a few<br />
pence.<br />
A FEW PRESS OPINIONS.<br />
ST. JAMES' BUDGET:-"The advantages of the Binder are so obvious ..."<br />
LEEDS MEROCRY:"An ingenious and accommodating invention."<br />
WESTMINSTER BUDGET:- The construction of the Binder is simplicity<br />
itself, and is serviceable from beginning to end"<br />
LITERARY WORLD :-"A clever device--so extremely simple and ensy<br />
in applying."<br />
SHEFFIELD DAILY TELEGRAPH :-“After use we can confidently<br />
recommend."<br />
Healthy, Happy, Industrial Homes for the Unemployed.<br />
Read “COO-EE'S"<br />
THE SILVER QUEEN.<br />
London: JOHN OUSELEY, Ltd.<br />
FRANK HENRY RICE,<br />
Authors' Agent,<br />
50, CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK.<br />
Terms, 10 Per Cent.<br />
No Reading Fee.<br />
I do not Edit or Revise MS.<br />
WITH THANKS FOR THE CARE AND ACCURACY YOU HAVE SHOWN."<br />
THANKING YOU FOR ALL THE TROUBLE YOU TAKE."<br />
Ertracts from Letters received.<br />
The same care and trouble will be taken with your MSS. if placed with<br />
THE PARLIAMENTARY AND GENERAL BUREAU LTD.,<br />
<br />
48/49, QUEEN ANNE'S CHAMBERS (Ground Floor),<br />
Or with the Manageress: Miss F. R. SILVER<br />
"TOTHILL STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.<br />
(Private Address), 4, Stapleton Hall Road, Stroud Green, N.<br />
who will be pleased to call at any address in London on receipt of postcard.<br />
An Indispensable American Journal.<br />
“Those who wish to know in a general way what is being done in the literary<br />
world in America cannot do better than subscribe to THE DIAL, a semi-monthly<br />
journal devoted entirely to literature. We will undertake to say that no one who<br />
is interested in literature would regret acting on our advice, and arranging for<br />
THE DIAL to rub shoulders twice a month with their Spectator, Atheneum, or<br />
Academy. . . . From whatever point of view you look at it-value of its literary<br />
contents, or its variety, or the excellence of its mechanical production—THE DIAL<br />
is entitled to a place with the best that any country can produce. . . . We again<br />
advise our readers who wish to keep the 100 millions of America in their eye to<br />
watch THE DIAL.”—THE PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR (London).<br />
Specimen copies of THE DIAL, together with a special offer for trial subscription, will be<br />
sent gratis to any reader of THE AUTHOR upon request.<br />
“THE DIAL” COMPANY, 410, SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO.<br />
ADDRESS<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 255 (#719) ############################################<br />
<br />
The Author.<br />
(The Organ of the Incorporated Society of Authors. Monthly.)<br />
FOUNDED BY SIR WALTER BESANT.<br />
VOL. XXII.—No. 10.<br />
JULY 1, 1912,<br />
[PRICE SIXPENCE.<br />
TELEPHONE NUMBER :<br />
374 VICTORIA.<br />
TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS :<br />
AUTORIDAD, LONDON.<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS,<br />
As there seems to be an impression among<br />
readers of The Author that the Committee are<br />
personally responsible for the bona fides of the<br />
adrertisers, the Committee desire it to be stated<br />
that this is not, and could not possibly be, the case.<br />
Although care is exercised that no undesirable<br />
advertisements be inserted, they do not accept, and<br />
never have accepted, any liability.<br />
Members should apply to the Secretary for advice<br />
if special information is desired.<br />
NOTICES.<br />
nor the opinions expressed in papers that are<br />
signed or initialled the authors alone are<br />
responsible. None of the papers or para-<br />
graphs must be taken as expressing the opinion<br />
of the Committee unless such is especially stated<br />
to be the case.<br />
THE SOCIETY'S FUNDS.<br />
THE Editor begs to inform members of the<br />
Authors' Society and other readers of The Author<br />
that the cases which are quoted in The Author are<br />
cases that have come before the notice or to the<br />
knowledge of the Secretary of the Society, and that<br />
those members of the Society who desire to have<br />
the names of the publishers concerned can obtain<br />
them on application.<br />
IROM time to time members of the Society<br />
desire to make donations to its funds in<br />
recognition of work that has been done for<br />
them. The Committee, acting on the suggestion<br />
of one of these members, have decided to place<br />
this perinanent paragraph in The Author in order<br />
that members may be cognisant of those funds to<br />
which these contributions may be paid.<br />
The funds suitable for this purpose are: (1) The<br />
Capital Fund. This fund is kept in reserve in<br />
case it is necessary for the Society to incur heavy<br />
expenditure, either in fighting a question of prin-<br />
ciple, or in assisting to obtain copyright reform,<br />
or in dealing with any other matter closely<br />
connected with the work of the Society.<br />
(2) The Pension Fund. This fund is slowly<br />
increasing, and it is hoped will, in time, cover the<br />
needs of all the members of the Society.<br />
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.<br />
THE Editor of The Author begs to remind<br />
members of the Society that, although the paper<br />
is sent to them free of cost, its production would<br />
be a very heavy charge on the resources of the<br />
Society if a great many members did not forward<br />
to the Secretary the modest 5s. 6d. subscription for<br />
the year.<br />
Communications for The Author should be<br />
addressed to the Offices of the Society, 39, Old<br />
Queen Street, Storey's Gate, S.W., and should<br />
reach the Editor not later than the 21st of each<br />
month.<br />
Communications and letters are invited by the<br />
Editor on all literary matters treated from the<br />
standpoint of art or business, but on no other<br />
subjects whatever. Every effort will be made to<br />
return articles which cannot be accepted.<br />
THE PENSION FUND.<br />
TN January the secretary of the society laid<br />
I before the trustees of the Pension Fund the<br />
accounts for the year 1911, as settled by the<br />
accountants, with a full statement of the result of<br />
the appeal recently made on behalf of the Fund.<br />
After giving the matter full consideration the<br />
trustees instructed the secretary to invest the sum<br />
VOL. XXII.<br />
pued.<br />
*<br />
2<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 256 (#720) ############################################<br />
<br />
256<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
The secretary would like to state that he has<br />
received three bankers' orders in answer to the<br />
recent appeal, unsigned, without any covering letter.<br />
He would be glad, therefore, if those members who<br />
may have sent in these orders, recognising them<br />
from their description, would write to the secretary<br />
on the matter.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Maidstone.<br />
Bankers' Order for 10s. drawn on the National<br />
Provincial Bank of England, Baker Street, W.<br />
Bankers' Order for 5s. drawn on the London,<br />
County and Westminster Bank, Kensington, W.<br />
of £500 in the purchase of Antofagasta and<br />
Bolivian Railway 5%. Preferred Ordinary Stock<br />
and Central Argentine Railway Ordinary Stock.<br />
The amounts purchased at the present prices are<br />
£237 in the former and £232 in the latter stock.<br />
The trustees desire to thank the members of the<br />
society for the generous support which they have<br />
given to the Pension Fund, and have much pleasure<br />
in informing the Pension Fund Committee that<br />
there is a further sum available for the payment of<br />
another pension in case any application should be<br />
made. The money now invested amounts to<br />
£4,846 198. 4d., and is fully set out in the list<br />
below :-<br />
Consols 21% ...........................£1,312 13 4<br />
Local Loans........<br />
.......... 500 0 0<br />
Victorian Government 3°%Consoli-<br />
dated Inscribed Stock... ............ 291 19 11<br />
London and North-Western 3%<br />
Debenture Stock ......<br />
250 0 0<br />
Egyptian Government Irrigation<br />
Trust 4% Certificates ...<br />
200 0 0<br />
Cape of Good Hope 31% Inscribed<br />
Stock ....................<br />
200 0 0<br />
Glasgow and South-Western Railway<br />
4. Preference Stock<br />
228 0 0<br />
New Zealand 31% Stock ....... 247 .9 6<br />
Irish Land Act 27% Guaranteed<br />
Stock ........<br />
258 0 0<br />
Corporation of London 21% Stock,<br />
1927-57 ......<br />
438 2 4<br />
Jamaica 31% Stock, 1919-49 ...... 132 18 6<br />
Mauritius 4° 1937 Stock ....<br />
120 121<br />
Dominion of Canada C.P.R. 31%<br />
Land Grant Stock, 1938............ 198 3 8<br />
Antofagasta and Bolivian Railway<br />
5%. Preferred Stock .......<br />
237 0 0<br />
Central Argentine Railway Ordinary<br />
Stock ...........<br />
232 ( 0)<br />
£<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
s. d.<br />
5 0<br />
5 0<br />
5 0<br />
༠ ༤་<br />
(<br />
༤་ ༠ ༠ ༤་<br />
0<br />
0<br />
5<br />
0<br />
0 10<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
5<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
Subscriptions.<br />
1912.<br />
.<br />
Jan. 1, Worsley, Miss Alice . .<br />
Jan. 2, Sturt, George . . . .<br />
Jan. 2, Wicks, Mark (in addition to<br />
present subscription). .<br />
Jan. 3, Northcote, The Rev. H.'. .<br />
Jan. 3, Phipson, Miss E. (in addition<br />
to present subscription) .<br />
Jan. 3. Hedgcock, F. A. . . .<br />
Jan. 5, Matcham, Mrs. Eyre ..<br />
Jan. 8, Stayton, Frank .<br />
Jan. 8, Canziani, Miss Estella .<br />
Jan. 10, Ropes, d. R..<br />
Jan. 12, Francis, René .. .<br />
Jan. 15, Pollock, Miss Edith (in addi-<br />
tion to present subscription)<br />
Jan. 27, Hutchinson, the Rev. H. N. .<br />
Feb. 7, L. M. F., per month during<br />
1912<br />
„ . . . .<br />
Feb. 7, Letts, Miss W.M. . .<br />
Feb. 8, Cooke, W. Bourne . . .<br />
Feb. 8, Annesley, Miss Maude.<br />
Feb. 9, O'Donnell, Miss Petronella .<br />
March 6, Curwen, Miss Maud . .<br />
March 6, Anderson, Arthur . .<br />
March 15, George, W. L. (in addition<br />
to present subscription).<br />
April 6, Bland, J. 0. P.<br />
April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil<br />
.<br />
April 6, Forrester, J. Cliffe. .<br />
June 6, Probert, W. S. .<br />
June 6, Wheelhouse, Miss M. V.<br />
June 6, Acland, Mrs. C. 1). . .<br />
June 6, Spurrell, Herbert (from 1912<br />
to 1915).<br />
· .<br />
June 6. Spens. Archibald B. .<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1 0<br />
5<br />
1 1<br />
0 10<br />
0 5<br />
05<br />
1 1<br />
6<br />
0<br />
0<br />
Total .......<br />
.£4,846 194<br />
010 0<br />
()<br />
0<br />
PENSION FUND.<br />
ēr er er<br />
0<br />
0<br />
5<br />
0<br />
0<br />
5<br />
0<br />
The list printed below includes all fresh dona-<br />
tions and subscriptions (i.e., donations and<br />
subscriptions not hitherto acknowledged) received<br />
by, or promised to, the fund from January 1,<br />
1912.<br />
It does not include either donations given<br />
prior to January 1, nor does it include sub-<br />
scriptions paid in compliance with promises made<br />
before it.<br />
The full list of annual subscribers to the fund<br />
appeared in the November issue of The Author.<br />
Donations.<br />
1912.<br />
Jan. 2, Risque, W. H.<br />
Jan. 2, Dart, Miss Edith ..<br />
Jan. 3, “K.”<br />
0 10 0<br />
. 0 10 6<br />
, 010 0<br />
,<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 257 (#721) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
257<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
0 5 0<br />
5<br />
0<br />
·<br />
0<br />
()<br />
1<br />
·<br />
ce cometer errore<br />
es el so ON<br />
0<br />
0<br />
.<br />
·<br />
0<br />
0<br />
£ 8. d.<br />
1 1 0 March 18, Schwarz, Prof. Ernest<br />
05 () March 19, Wallace, Sir Donald Mac-<br />
0 10 0<br />
kenzie, K.C.V.O., .<br />
1 0 0 March 21, Wbarton, Leonard . .<br />
20 0 0 March 22, Holbach, Mrs. . .<br />
1 1 0 March 23, Parks, H. C. . . .<br />
0 5 0 March 25, Williams, Mrs. Illtyd . .<br />
0 10 0 April 2, XX. Pen Club .<br />
0 10 0 April 6, Taylor, Mrs. Basil . . .<br />
10 0 April 6, Cameron, Mrs. Charlotte<br />
0 0 April 10, Kenny, Mrs. L. M. Stacpoole<br />
0 April 10, Robbins, Alfred F. .<br />
0 5 0 April 10, Harris, Emma H. .<br />
April 11, Ralli, C. Scaramanga . .<br />
1 10 April 11, Aitken, Robert . . .<br />
0 April 16, L. M. F. (£1 per month,<br />
2 2 0<br />
February, March, April)<br />
0 April 22, Prior, Mrs. Melton . .<br />
0 May 2, Baden-Powell, Miss Agnes<br />
May 25, Koebel, W. H. . .<br />
0 5 0 May 28, Harland, Mrs. Henry . .<br />
1 1 0 May 28, Wood, Mrs. A. E.<br />
0 5 0 June 4, Hornung, E. W. .<br />
( 10 ) June 4, Ward, Dudley .<br />
.<br />
0 5 0 June 6, Worrall, Lechmere .<br />
0 5 0 June 13, Robbins, Miss Alice E. .<br />
..<br />
19 orrererer<br />
0<br />
05<br />
3 3<br />
1 1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
.<br />
er ve BTN<br />
3 0 0<br />
0 10 6<br />
05 0<br />
0 10<br />
( 10 0<br />
0<br />
.<br />
0 19<br />
5 0<br />
.<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
5<br />
5<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
.<br />
5<br />
0<br />
Jan. 3, Church, Sir Arthur .<br />
.<br />
Jan. 3, Durrant, W. Scott .<br />
Jan. 3, Tighe, Henry.<br />
• .<br />
Jan. 3, Grant, Lady Sybil . •<br />
Jan. 4, Smith, Bertram<br />
Jan. 4, Buckrose, J. E. .<br />
Jan. 4, Lathbury, Miss Eva<br />
:<br />
Jan. 5, Wilson, Dr. Albert .<br />
•<br />
Jan. 5, Craven, A. Scott .<br />
.<br />
Jan. 6, Blundell, Miss Alice<br />
Jan. 6, Garbutt, W. H. .. .<br />
Jan. 6, Serjeant, Miss Constance<br />
Jan. 9, Chamberlayne, Miss Effie<br />
Jan. 9, Hamel, Frank<br />
Jan. 10, Allen, W. Bird .<br />
Jan. 10, Crellio, H. N. .<br />
Jan. 10, Smith, Herbert W.<br />
Jan. 12, Randall, F. J.<br />
Jan. 13, P. H. and M. K. .<br />
Jan. 15, Clark, Henry W...<br />
Jan. 17, Rankin, Mrs. F. M. , .<br />
Jan. 18, Paternoster, Sidney<br />
.<br />
Jan. 20, M‘Ewan, Miss Madge.<br />
Jan. 22, Kaye-Smith, Miss Sheila .<br />
Jan. 22, Mackenzie, Miss J. . .<br />
Jan. 22, Reiss, Miss Erna . . .<br />
Jan. 22, Grisewood, R. Norman .<br />
Jan. 23, Machen, Arthur.<br />
Jan. 24. Williamson, C. N. and Mrs. C. N.<br />
Jan. 26, Way, Miss Beatrice .<br />
.<br />
Jan. 30, Saies, Mrs. Florence H. .<br />
Jan. 30, Weyman, Stanley (in addition<br />
to subscription) . .<br />
Jan. 30, S. F. G. . .<br />
.<br />
Feb. 3, Douglas, James A. .<br />
Feb. 6, Parker, Mrs. Nella .<br />
Feb. 6, Allen, Mrs. James.<br />
Feb. 10, Whibley, C. . .<br />
.<br />
Feb. 12, Loraine, Lady .<br />
Feb. 12, Ainslie, Miss K. .<br />
Feb. 12, King, A. R. . .<br />
Feb. 13, Ayre, Miss G. B. .<br />
Feb. 14, Gibson, Miss L. S.<br />
Feb. 15, Henley, Mrs. W. E.<br />
Feb. 15, Westall, W. Percival .<br />
Feb. 17, Raphael, Mrs.<br />
. .<br />
Feb. 19, Cabourn, John .<br />
Feb. 19, Gibbs, F. L. A. .<br />
Feb. 21, Hinkson, H. A., and Mrs.<br />
Feb. 24, Hamilton, Cosmo<br />
Feb. 27, Plowman, Miss Mary .<br />
Feb. 28, Aspinall, A. E. . .<br />
March 2, Montesole, Max.<br />
March 9, Pickering, Mrs. Frank .<br />
March 15, Trevanwyn, John . .<br />
March 16, O'Higgins, H. J. . .<br />
March 18, Wallis-Healy, F. C. . :<br />
1<br />
5<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
5<br />
5<br />
8<br />
0<br />
0<br />
0<br />
6<br />
COMMITTEE NOTES.<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
ܝܕ ܗܕܝܕܘܕ ܙ 5 ܙ ܙ<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
·<br />
.<br />
.<br />
.<br />
1 1 0 M HE June meeting of the Committee was held<br />
1 1 0 1 at the offices of the Society, on Monday,<br />
1 0 0<br />
June 3. Again, there was a considerable<br />
0 10 0 accession to the membership, 25 members and<br />
0 associates being elected, bringing the total for the<br />
0 10 6 current year up to 180—that is, an average of 30<br />
0 per month for the first six months of the year.<br />
0. There were seven resignations. The Committee<br />
0 have to regret that this year there have been a<br />
0 large number of resignations, but it is satisfactory<br />
0 5 0<br />
to note that these resignations are not due to any<br />
1 1 0 lack of sympathy with the Society's work, and<br />
0 5 0 that the members who have retired have made no<br />
( 5 0 financial drain on the Society's resources-indeed,<br />
0 5 0 in most cases, have received nothing beyond the<br />
() 10 0 usual advice which can be obtained at the<br />
1 1 0 Society's office.<br />
The Society's solicitor gave a report of the cases<br />
0 2 6 in his hands. One difficult matter between a<br />
O member and a publisher, relating to a breach o?<br />
6 contract by the latter had been settled, £15<br />
0 10 0 having been paid to the author as damages. The<br />
1 1 0 Secretary read a letter from the author in which<br />
1 1 0 the author expressed his thanks to the Society for<br />
0) 3 0 its assistance. A dispute which had ariser<br />
.<br />
.<br />
--Eclerer<br />
.<br />
0<br />
T<br />
.<br />
.<br />
0 10<br />
.<br />
V<br />
.<br />
.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 258 (#722) ############################################<br />
<br />
258<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
between two members of the Society, adjourned In another matter, arising out of a dispute on an<br />
from the former meeting, was again adjourned agreement, it was decided by the Committee to<br />
pending the receipt of some further material publish an article in The Author setting out the<br />
information. A claim of one member which had dangers of the clause which the author had signed.<br />
not been satisfied had, during the month, been Another difficult matter of accounts was before the<br />
pressed, and the defendant thrown into bankruptcy, Committee. If it was impossible to come to a<br />
but the Committee heard with regret that it was satisfactory settlement in this case they decided<br />
improbable that any money would be forthcoming that the matter should be placed in the hands of the<br />
In another difficult case between a member of the solicitors, and an accountant appointed to investigate<br />
Society and a publisher on a question of accounts the publisher's books.<br />
and the exact terms of a contract, the Committee The Committee received a deputation from the<br />
strongly advised, as notice of termination of the Copyright Sub-Committee and the Composers' Sub-<br />
contract had been given, that the publication Committee, with reference to an agreement which<br />
should be transferred to another house, and had been settled between the Copyright Sub-<br />
undertook to support the member in case of Committee and a firm of music publishers. An<br />
further dispute. The solicitor reported that a article which appears elsewhere in this issue of<br />
member, having entered into a contract for the The Author explains this matter.<br />
publication of his work with a music publisher, The question of the collection of fees was then<br />
had been met with a refusal on the part of the considered, and it was decided, subject to the<br />
music publisher to carry out his contract. The possibility of obtaining a guarantee from members<br />
Committee decided to take action. Another interested to cover expenses to start a collection<br />
claim was discussed, which concerned a member bureau, not only for those authors who, under<br />
and a company which had gone into liquidation their literary contracts, might desire this collec.<br />
The solicitor reported that the matter was being tion, but also for dramatists and composers who<br />
carried through, and that the member's interests desire their fees collected for the dramatic per-<br />
would be watched closely. In another case a formances and for their mechanical rights. This<br />
dispute had arisen owing to the fact that the branch of the Society's work will require preliminary<br />
proprietors of a periodical, which had originally organization, and it may not be put into shape till<br />
published a set of verses by one of the members, 1913. It is hoped, however, to make a start in<br />
had granted rights of republication of the the autumn.<br />
verses with music, to a music publisher. The The election to the Council was again adjourned,<br />
member maintained, and the solicitor of the as also was the question of the Nobel Prize<br />
Society advised, that the paper had transferred Committee, the adjournment in the latter case<br />
rights which it did not hold, and the Committee being necessitated owing to the illness of the<br />
decided, accordingly, to take action against the chairman of that committee, Lord Avebury.<br />
publisher for infringement of copyright. The A letter from the Society's United States'<br />
music publisher was, no doubt, an innocent lawyers, in regard to the conduct of legal business<br />
infringer, but it was felt by the Committee that in the United States, was read, and the Secretary<br />
the only way to impress upon the proprietors of was instructed to reply.<br />
the periodical that they must not transfer rights The Committee acknowledged with pleasure, a<br />
which they did not hold was to take action, though donation of 5s. from Mrs. Wentworth-James to the<br />
against the innocent infringer, who, it is hoped, capital fund of the Society. The Secretary<br />
will enforce a claim against the guilty party reported that G. N. Count Plunkett and Mr. R.<br />
Some time ago the Society commenced an action, Denley James had joined the Society as life<br />
on behalf of one of its members, for infringement members.<br />
of copyright in Switzerland. The member having<br />
to be examined in the English Court, under<br />
commission, through the Foreign Office, it was<br />
DRAMATIC SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
decided to brief counsel on his behalf. There The Dramatic Sub-Committee of the Society of<br />
were two other cases of dispute on agreements, Authors met on Friday, June 21. After the<br />
both dealing with performing rights. On the minutes of the previous meeting had been signed,<br />
advice of the solicitor, as the cases seemed hardly the first matter laid before the members was the<br />
matters for action, it was decided to negotiate a answer from the Society of the West End Managers,<br />
settlement in each instance, if possible. The in regard to the Managerial Treaty which had<br />
Committee decided also to take action for infringe- been settled by the joint action of the Dramatists'<br />
ment of copyright in India on behalf of one of its Club and the Dramatic Sub-Committee. A draft<br />
members, and the Secretary received instructions letter in reply was before the meeting, and finally<br />
to put the case before the Society's Indian lawyers. was accepted with some slight alterations. The<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 259 (#723) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR. .<br />
259<br />
secretary was instructed to forward it to the Society article appears on another page. He also read a<br />
as early as possible.<br />
letter from the Music Publishers' Association about<br />
The next question raised was the appointment of performing rights in answer to a communication<br />
agents in foreign countries. The secretary read, addressed to them from the sub-committee, and he<br />
letters he had received, and was instructed to reply, was instructed to reply thereto. The sub-committee<br />
to the effect that it was hoped to discuss the matter then discussed an agreement proposed by the<br />
in the autumn, when the sub-committee was meet- Mechanical Copyright Licences Company for the<br />
ing again. The chairman of the sub-committee collection of gramophone fees. The secretary first<br />
was granted powers to act during the vacation, and referred to the article that appeared in last month's<br />
it was decided to re-assemble on the third Friday issue of The Author, and suggested that an article<br />
in October.<br />
should be printed in the present number dealing<br />
Letters received from the French, German, and with the agreement now before the Composers' Sub-<br />
American Dramatic Societies on the subject of cinema. Committee. After considerable discussion, it was<br />
tograph productions and fees were read. The secre- decided to write to the agent of the company in<br />
tary was instructed to obtain further information on England and enquire whether it would be possible to<br />
the matter if possible, and it was decided to get one of discuss certain points in the agreement before it<br />
the members of the sub-committee to draft a report was finally accepted or rejected. Accordingly, the<br />
which might be circulated to the societies of other Committee went through the agreement, clause by<br />
countries.<br />
clause, and the secretary was instructed to draft a<br />
A letter received from the Travelling Theatre letter embodying the suggestions of the sub-<br />
Managers' Association was read and the secretary committee on the agreement.<br />
was instructed to reply, asking them what financial It was decided to hold the next meeting of the<br />
terms they proposed to offer on performances, and sub-committee on July 13—the last meeting before<br />
whether they would undertake the responsibility the vacation.<br />
and expense of collection.<br />
At the May meeting of the sub-committee, the<br />
secretary had been instructed to enquire of<br />
Cases.<br />
certain dramatists, members of the society for The number of cases which passed through the<br />
particulars of their fees for the confidential con- hands of the secretary during the last month is con-<br />
sideration of the sub-committee, with a view to siderably above the average. None of them is of<br />
enable them to settle a schedule of fees. The very great importance, most of them being small<br />
answers to these enquiries were laid before the sub- claims for unpaid contributions and for the return<br />
committee, showing how freely and courteously of MSS. Of the former twelve claims have been<br />
members had responded to the sub-committee's taken in hand ; two of these have been terminated<br />
request. It was decided that these replies should satisfactorily, four are in course of negotiation, and<br />
be tabulated and copies forwarded to the members in the remaining six cases the secretary's letters are<br />
of the sub-committee, in confidence, and for so far unanswered, but three of them have only<br />
consideration by them at a later meeting.<br />
recently come into the office.<br />
A letter received from Messrs. Samuel French, Three of the unsettled claims have been against<br />
in answer to a communication addressed to that one paper, and the secretary has received note of<br />
firm by the sub-committee, from the last meeting two more claims against the same paper.<br />
was read.<br />
Under the claims for money that have pressed<br />
during the last month, one point of importance<br />
has arisen. It is a point of importance to all<br />
COMPOSERS' SUB-COMMITTEE.<br />
authors. Three editors have claimed exemption<br />
A MEETING of the Composers' Sub-Committee from payment until the work accepted is published.<br />
was held at the Society's offices on Saturday, In one of these cases the work has been in the<br />
June 15. After the minutes of the previous meet- editor's hands for over a year. Of course, this<br />
ing had been signed, the secretary reported that the position is untenable. As soon as an MS. is<br />
Committee of Management had taken up a case, accepted the money is due. It is true that authors<br />
which had been recommended to them by the sub- sometimes waive their right to claim for the con-<br />
committee, against a publisher for non-fulfilment venience of the editor until the work is published,<br />
of contract. The secretary also reported that but it is equally true that they could bring an<br />
the Committee of Management had decided to action for the amount due if they desired to do so.<br />
print an article in The Author dealing with Even if an editor in his contract stipulates that<br />
Messrs. Curwen's agreement, which had been the work shall be paid for on publication, this does<br />
settled between the Copyright Sub-Committee and not mean that he would be legally entitled to delay<br />
Messrs. Curwen, and been finally approved. This the publication indefinitely. Editors should carry<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 260 (#724) ############################################<br />
<br />
260<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
through their duties in a more businesslike manner Hughes, Rupert . . Bedford Hills, New<br />
and save themselves and the authors endless<br />
York, U.S.A.<br />
trouble and worry. It is needless to say, however, Jenkins, Herbert . 12, Arundel Place,<br />
that this excuse for delay in payment does not<br />
Haymarket, S.W.<br />
arise in the case of first-class journals, though there Knight, William Stanley 8, King's Bench Walk,<br />
are even exceptions to this rule.<br />
Macbean .<br />
Temple.<br />
There have been seven claims for the return of Liddle, Samuel . . 55, Ordnance Roail, St.<br />
MSS. Of these four have been satisfactorily<br />
John's Wood, N.W.<br />
settled, the other three still being in the course of McComas, Miss I. V. Feniton, Farnborough,<br />
negotiation.<br />
(H. B. Somerville)<br />
S.O., Kent.<br />
In one claim for accounts and money the pub- Nightingale, L. H. Shore.<br />
lisher has rendered the accounts and the amount Rimmer, Oswald . . 76, Grafton Street,<br />
has been agreed, but the cheque has not yet come (Quirote Shades)<br />
Fitzroy Square, W.<br />
to hand.<br />
Spens, Archibald B. . Caledonian Club, St.<br />
Of three claims for accounts two have been<br />
James', S.W.<br />
closed, and in the third, although another question Stokes, Hubert . . c/o R. Bleazby C. E.,<br />
which has arisen in the dispute has been dealt with,<br />
Richardson Avenue,<br />
the accounts are not yet to hand. The matter may<br />
Claremont, West<br />
have to be transferred to the solicitors.<br />
Australia. .<br />
Another matter, involving the closing up and Spurrell, Herbert . . Ivy Cottage, Heavi-<br />
cancellation of an agreement has been carried<br />
tree, Exeter.<br />
through.<br />
Thompson, Fred . . 5E, Portman Mansions,<br />
The last case, a dispute about translation rights,<br />
Baker St., W.<br />
is still open, and it may take a little time to com Tragett, Mrs. B. C.. . 63, Wynnstay Gardens,<br />
plete, as both the author and the translator live (largaret Larminie) Kensington, W.<br />
abroad.<br />
Wavell, A. J. B. . . 7, Egerton Gardens,<br />
Of the disputes left open from last month, one,<br />
S.W.<br />
referring to a claim for money from the United Wheelhouse, Miss M. V. . 3, Pomona Studios,<br />
States, has been settled ; four cases have had to be<br />
111, New King's<br />
put into the hands of the solicitors, two dealing<br />
Road, S.W.<br />
with the rendering of accounts, one with a lost MS., Whetham, Mrs. W.C. D.. Upwater Lodge, Cam-<br />
and one with the infringement of copyright. In<br />
bridge,<br />
another case an accountant has been appointed to Worrall, Lech mere. Blenheim Mansions,<br />
check the accounts, and in another matter dealing<br />
Queen Anne's Gate,<br />
with the return of a MS. the author has to wait<br />
S.W.<br />
owing to the absence of the editor in whose<br />
possession the MS. is.<br />
It is possible that some of the claims for money<br />
that have come in this month will have to be placed<br />
in the solicitors' hands. Of these cases there can<br />
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MEMBERS.<br />
be no report until the October issue, as the maga-<br />
zine is not published during the months of August<br />
WHILE every effort is made by the compilers to keep<br />
and September.<br />
this list as accurate and exhaustive as possible, they have<br />
some difficulty in attaining this object owing to the fact<br />
Elections.<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 />
Acland, Mrs. Theodore 19, Bryanston Square,<br />
largely upon lists of books which appear in literary and<br />
other papers. It is hoped, however, that members will<br />
W.<br />
(C.C.G.)<br />
co-operate in the compiling of this list and, by sending<br />
Ash, Edwin Lancelot , 56, Seymour Street, particulars of their works, help to make it substantially<br />
Portman Square, W. accurate.<br />
Blane William, M.I.M.E., Constitutional Club,<br />
ART.<br />
M.I.Mech.E. .<br />
W.C.<br />
ONE HUNDRED FAMOUS PAINTINGS. Reproduced in<br />
Davis, Mrs. Ruth Helen. 11, East 79th Street, Colour, with an Introduction by G. K. CHESTERTOX.<br />
New York City. Part I. 152 x 111. Four Plates. Cassell. 7d. n.<br />
Hudson, Robert . . “Sea View," Ryhope,<br />
Sunderland.<br />
BIOGRAPHY.<br />
Gray, Wilson . . .“ Ravensmere," Has MANY CELEBRITIES AND A FEW OTHERS. By W. H.<br />
socks, Sussex.<br />
RIDEING. 93 x 67. 335 pp. Nash. 108. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 261 (#725) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
261<br />
BRIGHT SHAME. By KEIGHLEY SNOWDEN. 74 x 5.<br />
276 pp. Stanley Paul & Co. 6s.<br />
How 'Twas. Short Stories and Small Travels. By<br />
STEPHEN REYNOLDS. 8 x 51. 382 pp. Macmillan.<br />
58. n.<br />
COOKERY.<br />
LETTERS TO YOUNG HOUSEKEEPERS. By MARIE DE<br />
JONCOURT (MRS. W. PHIPSON BEALE). 71 x 5.<br />
133 pp. Paper covers, 18.; cloth, ls. 6d. Kegan<br />
Paul & Co.<br />
DRAMA.<br />
IRISH FOLK-HISTORY PLAYS. By LADY GREGORY.<br />
First Series. The Tragedies Grania Kincora, Dervorgilla.<br />
Second Series, the Tragic-Comedies The Canavans, The<br />
White Cockade, The Deliverer. 71 X 5. 207 + 198 pp.<br />
2 Vols. Putnam. 10s, n.<br />
JOYZELLE. By MAURICE MAETERLINCK. Translated by<br />
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE Mattos. 64 X 41. 168 pp.<br />
Allen. 28. 60, n.<br />
LOVE--AND WHAT THEN. By B. MACDONALD HASTINGS.<br />
7 X 4f. 94 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson. ls. 1.<br />
THE LAND OP HEART'S DESIRE. By W. B. YEATS,<br />
Vol. II. of Dublin Plays. 74 x 5.45 pp. Fisher.<br />
Unwin. ls. n.<br />
PATRIOTS. By LENNOX ROBINSON. 49 pp. Dublin :<br />
Maunsel, 18. n.<br />
EDUCATIONAL.<br />
PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT A GLANCE. Part I. (Boarding<br />
Schools at £80 a Year and Over). A Guide for Parents<br />
and Guardians in Selecting a Public School for their<br />
Boys. Edited by MRS. BEVERLEY USSHER. The<br />
Association of Standarised Knowledge, 15, Buckingham<br />
Street, Adelphi, W.C.<br />
THE CAILD'S PRIMER OF THE THEORY OF MUSIC. By<br />
C. A. WEBSTER. New and Revised Edition. 70 pp.<br />
Norello. 18. n.<br />
THE LIVING PLANT FROM SEED TO FRUIT. By ALFRED<br />
E. KNIGHT and EDWARD STEP, F.L.S. A Fully Illus-<br />
trated re-issue in eighteen 7d. parts, of the Author's<br />
Work, “ The Living Plant.” Hutchinson.<br />
FICTION.<br />
EVE: AN INCIDENT OF PARADISE REGAINED. By<br />
MAARTEN MAARTENS. 7} * 5. 359 pp. Constable.<br />
68.<br />
PHRYNETTE MARRIED. By MARTHE TROLY.CURTIN.<br />
73 x š. 313 pp. Grant Richards. 68.<br />
THROUGH THEİVORY GATE. By REGINALD FARRER.<br />
74 x 5. 296 pp. F. Palmer. 68.<br />
NIGHTS AND DAYS. By MAUD ANNESLEY. 73 x 57.<br />
308 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
ANNE OF THE BARRICADES. By S. R. CROCKETT. 78 X<br />
5. 312 pp. Hodder & Stoughton. 68.<br />
IMPERTINENT REFLECTIONS. By Cosmo HAMILTON.<br />
77 x 5. 339 pp. Stanley Paul. 28.<br />
THE SPINSTER. By HUBERT WALES. 7) X 5. 320 pp.<br />
John Long. 6s.<br />
PRINCE AND PRIEST. By BERYL SYMONS. 74 x 5.<br />
-<br />
319 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
SAVE US FROM OUR FRIENDS. By WILLIAM CAINE.<br />
74 x 43.320 pp. Greening. 68.<br />
THE LAST RESORT. By H. F. PREVOST BATTERSBY.<br />
7} x 5. 320 pp. John Lane. 68.<br />
ORDINARY PEOPLE. By UNA L. SILBERRAD. 6 X 44.<br />
378 pp. Nelson. 7d. n.<br />
THE UNCOUNTED Cost. By MARY GAUNT. 74 x 49<br />
290 pp. Werner Laurie. 18. n.<br />
THE ADVANCED GUARD. By S. C. GRIER. (Cheap<br />
Reprint.) 74 x 5. 332 pp. Blackwoods. 18. n.<br />
HYPOCRITES AND SINNERS. By VIOLET TWEEDALE<br />
64 X 4. 318 pp. John Long. 6d. n.<br />
THE GREY TERRACE. By MRS. FRED REYNOLDS. 73 x 5.<br />
320 pp. Chapman & Hall. 68.<br />
EXOTIC MARTHA. By DOROTHEA GERARD. 78 x 5.<br />
335 pp. Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
OUT OF THE WRECK I RISE By BEATRICE HARRADEN.<br />
71 x , 383 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
PILLARS OF SMOKE. By MRS. STANLEY WRENCH,<br />
74 X 5. 320 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
THE SEA DEVILS. By John BLOUNDELLE BURTON.<br />
8 X 5. 310 pp. F. V. White. 68.<br />
MAN IS FIRE; WOMAN IS Tow, AND OTHER STORIES.<br />
By HELEN MATHERS. 71 x 5. 318 pp. Jarrold.<br />
68. n.<br />
THE CONSIDINE LUCK. By H. A. HINKSON. 73 x 57.<br />
Stephen Swift.<br />
His LITTLE GIRL. By L. G. MOBERLY. 74 * 5.<br />
296 pp. Ward, Lock.<br />
THE DAUGHTER OF BRAHMA. By I. A. R. WYLIE.<br />
73 x 5. 400 pp. Mills & Boon. 68.<br />
BRASS Faces. By CHARLES McEvoy. 78 x 5. 296 pp.<br />
Stanley Paul. 68.<br />
JESSIE BAZLEY. By BERNARD CAPES. 74 x 48.<br />
304 pp. Constable. 68.<br />
The GREEN OVERCOAT. By HilAIRE Belloc. 7} 5.<br />
333 pp Arrowsmith. 68.<br />
THE WOMAN BETWEEN. By EDMUND BOSAN QUET.<br />
8 x 5. 320 pp. John Long. 6s.<br />
HESTER TREFUSIS. By EFFIE ADELAIDE ROWLANDS.<br />
78 x 5. 340 pp. Hurst & Blackett. 68.<br />
THE HISTORY OF MR. POLLY. By H. G. WELLS.<br />
64 x 47. 274 pp. Nelson's Sevenpenny Library.<br />
THE WOMAN IN THE FIRELIGHT. "By OLIVER SANDYS.<br />
7 x 43. 283 pp (Popular Edition.) John Long.<br />
18. n.<br />
LAW.<br />
THE GENIUS OF COMMON LAW. By THE RIGHT HONBLE.<br />
Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART.<br />
THE LAW OF TORTS.<br />
THE LAW OF TORTS. BY THE RIGHT Hon. SIR<br />
BY THE<br />
FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., D.C.L. Ninth Edition.<br />
84 x 54. 716 pp. Stevens & Sons. 258.<br />
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW. By EDWARD<br />
JENKS. Principal and Director of Legal Studies of the<br />
Law Society. 9 * 5. 396 pp. Methuen. 108. 6d. n.<br />
LITERARY.<br />
HENRIK IBSEN. A Critical Study. By R. Ellis ROBERTS.<br />
9 x 6. 205 pp. Martin Secker. 78. 6d. n.<br />
THE FOUR MEN. A Farrago. By HILAIRE BELLOC.<br />
7 x 5. 310 pp. Nelson. 28. n.<br />
THE THREE BRONTES. By MAY SINCLAIR. 87 X 51.<br />
257. Hutchinson bien<br />
HIEROGLYPHICS. A note upon Ecstacy in Literature.<br />
By ARTHUR MACHEN. Ï x 41. 202 pp. (New<br />
Edition.) Martin Secker. 2s.6d, n.<br />
MILITARY.<br />
British BATTLES : WATERLOO. By HilAIRE BELLOC.<br />
64 X 44. 206 pp. S. Swift. 1s. n.<br />
MISCELLANEOUS.<br />
THE HANDBOOK FOR GIRL GUIDES, OR How GIRLS CAN<br />
HELP BUILD THE EMPIRE. By AGNES BADEN-POWELL.<br />
in Collaboration with LIEUT.-GENERAL SIR ROBERT<br />
BADEN-POWELL, K.C.B. 67 x 41. 472 pp. Nelson.<br />
18. n.<br />
THE OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF Blood. An Esoteric<br />
Study. By RUDOLF STEINER, PH.D, Vienna 7 x 4!.<br />
48 pp. T. P. S. 6d, n.<br />
08.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 262 (#726) ############################################<br />
<br />
262<br />
THE AUTHOR. .<br />
MUSIC.<br />
FIRST SUITE FOR PIANOFORTE, OP. 16. i. Prelude,<br />
D Flat ; ii. Berceuse ; iii. Scaramouche (Tarantella). By<br />
THEODORE HOLLAND, John Church Co.<br />
VALSE 6 ASPHODEL." By THEODORE HOLLAND. John<br />
Church Co.<br />
MIGNONETTE. Dance Intermezzo, for Pianoforte or<br />
Orchestra. By THEODORE HOLLAND. John Church Co.<br />
THE WESTMINSTER HYMNAL. The Music Edited by<br />
R. R. TERRY, 8 X 6. 410 pp. Washbourne. 38. 6d. n.<br />
THEOLOGY.<br />
THE HONOUR OF HIS NAME. By SIR ROBERT ANDERSON,<br />
K.C.B. 8 X 57. 39 pp. Nisbet. 28. 6d.<br />
MIRACLE AND HISTORY: A STUDY IN THE VIRGIN BIRTH<br />
AND THE RESURRECTION. By the Rev.John HUNTLEY<br />
SKRINE, D.D., Vicar of St. Peter-in-the-East, Oxford<br />
• Bampton Lecturer in 1911. 8vo. 48 pp. Messrs. Long.<br />
mans & Co. Paper covers, 18. n.; cloth, 28. n.<br />
NATURAL HISTORY.<br />
WILD FLOWERS OF THE HEDGEROW. 93 pp. WILD<br />
FLOWERS OF THE Woon, 95 pp. (WILD FLOWERS IN<br />
THEIR HOMES.) By W. P. WESTELL. Illustrated by<br />
C. F. NEWALL. Werner Laurie. 18, n.<br />
A HISTORY OF BRITISH MAMMALS. By G. E. H.<br />
BARRETT-HAMILTON. Part XI. June 1912. 10 X 6.<br />
217—264 pp. Gurney & Jackson. 28, 60, n.<br />
TOPOGRAPHY.<br />
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL AT CHELSEA. By LIEUT.-COL.<br />
NEWNHAM-DAVIS. 98 x 74. 32 pp, Raphael Tuck.<br />
18.<br />
TRAVEL.<br />
THROUGH GREECE AND DALMATIA. A Diary of Impres-<br />
sions Recorded by Pen and Picture. By MRS. RUSSELL<br />
BARRINGTON. 8.1 x 54. 263 pp. Black. 78. 60, n.<br />
OUTFIT AND EQUIPMENT FOR THE TRAVELLER,<br />
EXPLORER AND SPORTSMAN. Edited by E. A.<br />
REYNOLDS BALL. Contributions from Sir Harry<br />
Johnston, Douglas Sladen, “Wirt Gerrare," Ralph<br />
Durand and others. Reynolds Ball's Guides, 27, Chancery<br />
Lane, W.C.<br />
ORIENTAL.<br />
BURNING AND MELTING. Being the Sūz-u-Gudāz of<br />
Muhammad Rizā Nau'i of Khabūshān. Translated into<br />
English by MIRZA Y. DAWUD, of Persia, and ANANDA<br />
K. COOMA RASWAMY, of Ceylon. The Story of a Hindu<br />
Sati, in the Reign of Akbar. With three collotype<br />
reproductions from an MS. in the British Museum.<br />
8 X 51. Scarlet silk. Luzac. 68.<br />
LITERARY, DRAMATIC, AND MUSICAL<br />
NOTES.<br />
PHILOSOPHY.<br />
THE GATES OF KNOWLEDGE. By RODOLF STEINER,<br />
Ph.D.Vienna. 78 X 5. 194 pp. Theos. Publ. Soc.<br />
38. 6d. n.<br />
POETRY.<br />
THE LURE OF THE SEA. By J. E. PATTERSON. 9 x 58.<br />
102 pp. Heinemann. 58. n.<br />
VERSES BY THE WAY. By M. H. BOURCHIER. 58 pp.<br />
Elkin Mathews,<br />
THE CAP OF CARE. By JAMES E. PICKERING. 64 pp.<br />
Fifield.<br />
PHILISTIA AND A SOUL. A Poem by ALFRED E. KNIGHT.<br />
338 pp. Macmillan & Co.<br />
THE WIDOW IN THE BYE STREET. By JOHN<br />
MASEFIELD, 74 x 43. 97 pp. Sidgwick & Jackson.<br />
38. 6d. n.<br />
POLITICAL<br />
THE GROWTH OF FREEDOM. By H. W. NEVINSON.<br />
94 pp. 64 X 41. Jack. 6d. n.<br />
TRIPOLI AND YOUNG ITALY. By CHAPWORTH, in<br />
Collaboration with Miss HELEN ZIMMERN. 87 x 53.<br />
347 pp. S. Swift.<br />
THE GREAT STATE ESSAYS IN CONSTRUCTION. By H. G.<br />
WELLS, FRANCES EVELYN WARWICK, L. G. CHIOZZA-<br />
MONEY AND OTHERS. 74 X 5. 379 pp. Harper. 68.<br />
M ESSRS. MACMILLAN & CO. have published<br />
a second edition of " Aristotle's Constitu-<br />
tion of Athens,” by Sir John Edwin Sandys,<br />
Litt.D., F.B.A. The text, critical notes, testimonia<br />
and commentary have been carefully revised, need.<br />
less repetitions removed, and supplementary notes<br />
inserted. About fifteen pages have thus been<br />
added to the commentary and about the same<br />
number to the Greek index. The introduction has<br />
also been revised and supplemented. It ends with<br />
an enlarged bibliography, showing that, since the<br />
publication of the previous edition, the number of<br />
writers of scattered articles on the text or subject-<br />
matter has risen from 135 to 240.<br />
“ The Lover's Calendar," compiled by Mrs. H.<br />
Havelock Ellis, was published last month by<br />
Mosors Koron Paul<br />
Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co.<br />
Mr. Wynford Dewhurst has received intimation<br />
from the Ministry of Fine Arts, Paris, of the<br />
purchase by the French Government of one of his<br />
pictures for the Luxemburg Gallery. It is a land-<br />
scape with figures, and has been on view at the<br />
Duand-Ruel Galleries, Paris.<br />
The lecture on “ How to use the British Museum<br />
Reading Room,” delivered on several occasions<br />
during 1911-12 at the Museum by Mr. R. A.<br />
Peddie, has now been revised and enlarged for<br />
noblimation and will he jeened hr Mosors Crofton<br />
publication, and will be issued by Messrs. Grafton &<br />
Co., 69, Great Russell Street, London, W.C., before<br />
the end of the month in popular book form.<br />
REPRINTS.<br />
JUDE THE OBSCURE. 494 pp. THE RETURN OF THE<br />
NATIVE. 485 pp. The Wessex Edition of the Works of<br />
Thomas Hardy. 9 x 54. Macmillan. 78. 6d. n. each.<br />
THE WAY OF INITIATION ; OR, HOW TO ATTAIN KNOW-<br />
LEDGE OF THE HIGHER WORLDS. With a foreword<br />
by ANNIE BESANT and some biographical notes of the<br />
author by EDOUARD SCHURÉ ; RUDOLF STEINER, PH.D.,<br />
Vienna." Third Edition. 78 x 5. 237 pp. Theos.<br />
Publ. Soc. 38. 6d. n.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 263 (#727) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
263<br />
Mrs. Stanley Wrench's new novel “ Pillars of its ancient monuments and modern scenes, from<br />
Smoke” was published last month by Messrs. John the aesthetic and picturesque side, rather than the<br />
Long. It is a story of a woman's love and sacri- archaeologist or “guide-book ” point of view. The<br />
fice, and in it the homely folk of the Midlands are object of the author has been to bring out the<br />
sympathetically portrayed.<br />
relation of Egyptian to other ancient and modern<br />
Mr. Edward Booth has just completed a new art in a general sense, and to make a living record<br />
novel which Mr. Arnold is to publish. The scene of what he has seen rather than a mere catalogue<br />
is principally laid at a popular seaside resort called of dates and sites ; it is really a series of<br />
“Spaforth.”<br />
vivid impressions of much that is interesting,<br />
Captain Harry Graham, author of “ The Perfect both old and new, in a singularly interesting<br />
Gentleman," lately published by Mr. Edward country.<br />
Arnold, wishes to point out that Mr. Somerset A translation into Swedish of Mr. W. L. George's<br />
Maugham's new play of the same name is not a “A Bed of Roses" was this month issued by<br />
dramatised version of his work, but is founded on Gebers, of Stockholm. Mr. George's first book,<br />
Molière's play “ Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme." “Engines of Social Progress," has been sold to the<br />
“ The Memoirs of Babur,” a new translation of Japanese Government to be translated and made a<br />
the Babur-nama, incorporating Leyden and text book for their local authorities.<br />
Erskine's of 1826 A.D., by Annette S. Beveridge, is Mr. J. C. Wright, author of “In the Good old<br />
announced by Messrs. Luzac & Co. This book Times," is publishing through Messrs. Headley<br />
has been prepared because the earlier English Bros. a collection of articles that have appeared<br />
translation (out of print) can now be revised by from time to time in well-known journals. The<br />
the help of the Haidarabad Codex. It is hoped to title of the book will be “Life's Many Colours.”<br />
follow it by an imprint of the Turki text, and thus A little book, with illustrations, compiled by<br />
to facilitate the study of Turki in one of its classics. Miss Agnes Baden-Powell entitled “How Girls can<br />
It is planned to include an introduction, notes, help Build up the Empire" (a concise course of<br />
index and maps.<br />
character training for girls of all classes), is now<br />
Messrs. Lynwood & Co., 12, Paternoster Row, ready and can be obtained from the Secretary,<br />
have published “The Searchlight on the Throne," Girls' Guides Headquarters, 116, Victoria Street,<br />
by A Peeress. The tale is a sequel to “ The S.W.<br />
Shadow on the Purple," by the same author, Mrs. Theodore Bent and Mrs. Hobson, the wife<br />
published by the same firm, and now in its fourth of the Rev. Chancellor Hobson, have devised a<br />
edition.<br />
series of maps for Bible teaching, which are being<br />
Miss K. Everest's book of poems, “ The Dreaming published by Messrs. Keith Johnson. Instead of<br />
Antinous," has been graciously accepted by Her all the names and boundaries mentioned being all<br />
Majesty the Queen.<br />
on one map, to the confusion of the scholars a<br />
Mr. Arthur Dillon has aaded a satyric play to different map is used for each period, and the maps<br />
his trilogy which Mr. Elkin Mathews is bringing can be bought fir 1s. each, separately, as wanted.<br />
out; thus expanding his book to a complete They are 30 by 40 inches. In fact, they are<br />
tetralogy, and attempting the full dramatic form of wonderfully cheap and distinctly printed, and will<br />
the ancients.<br />
prove invaluable in schools.<br />
Mr. Rene Francis has just published “The “In the Footsteps of Richard Cæur de Lion "<br />
Temptation of St. Anthony," and “ Egyptian is the title of a new book by Maude M. Holbach<br />
Aesthetics," the first through Duckworth & Co., (the author of “ Dalmatia - the Land where<br />
and the second through Martin Secker.. The East meets West") just published by Messrs.<br />
* Temptation " is a translation of Flaubert's well- Stanley Paul. Mrs. Holbach visited Palestine last<br />
known work, but Mr. Francis has chosen the year with her husband to scudy the scenes of the<br />
1849-1856 version, which was never published Third Crusade, and the volume is illustrated with<br />
even in the original until 1908. This version has photographs by Mr. Holbach, and has a photo-<br />
a special interest for Flaubertists in that it marks gravure frontispiece from the portrait of Richard at<br />
what we may almost call the pre-Flaubert period. It South Kensington. The publication of this book<br />
is in most striking contrast to the 1874 edition. The coincides with the winning of the Newdigate Prize<br />
volume is precedel by a preface from the pen of by a poem on “ Richard I. before Jerusalem," by<br />
Sir Gaston Maspero, also by an introduction by Wiliam Chase Greene, an American Rhodes scholar.<br />
Monsieur Louis Bertrand, who edited the original; Another result of Mr. and Mrs. Holbach's visit to<br />
it has notes by the translator and very full Palestine will be the publication a little later on<br />
appendices of the authorities consulted by Flaubert by Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co. of a book on “ Bible<br />
in the prepararion of his book. The Egyptian Ways in Bible Land,” which is their joint<br />
book is the result of several years' study of Egypt, work.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 264 (#728) ############################################<br />
<br />
264<br />
THB AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC.<br />
Mr. Kineton Parkes has dramatised an episode<br />
in his North Staffordsbire novel of seventy years<br />
ago, “ Potiphar’s Wife.” The play is in one act, and<br />
bears the same title as the story. Mr. Wilfrid<br />
Eaton, who knows the North Staffordshire dialect,<br />
customs and scenery well, intends to produce the<br />
play in London shortly.<br />
Sir Arthur Pinero's farcical romance “ The<br />
Amazons ” was revived on June 14, 1912. It<br />
is some twenty years ago since the date of the<br />
original production of this piece. In the present<br />
cast are Mr. Weedon Grossmith, Mr. Godfrey<br />
Tearle. Mr. Dion Boucicault. Miss Pauline Chase.<br />
and Miss Marie Löhr.<br />
“Ann" by Lechmere Worrall was produced at<br />
the Criterion on June 18. Ann is a transatlantic<br />
lady journalist, and the main interest of the play<br />
is her pursuit of a noted author, whom she<br />
eventually brings down, after detaching him from<br />
the lady to whom. more to oblige his parents than<br />
for any other reason, he has become engaged<br />
. The cast includes Mr. E. Holman Clark. Miss<br />
Fay Davis, and Miss Renée Kelly.<br />
PARIS NOTES.<br />
Messrs Stanley Paul & Co., published last month<br />
Mr. Charles McEvoy's first novel “ Brass Faces."<br />
Wladimia Cerricoff, the Russian pianist, intro-<br />
duced Mr. Theodore Holland's suite for pianoforte<br />
at his recital at the Æolian Hall on June 13.<br />
“The Swelling of Jordan,” by Coralie Stanton<br />
and Heath Hosken, is announced for early publica-<br />
tion by the same publishers. A story in which<br />
greed, a supposed murder, and love play important<br />
parts.<br />
Messrs. Novello & Co. have issued a new and<br />
revised edition of “ The Child's Primer of the<br />
Theory of Music," by C., A., Webster; .A.M.,<br />
author of “The Groundwork of Music." The<br />
book is intended as a first step for pianoforte<br />
pupils.<br />
“Comrades Three," by Argyll Saxby, published<br />
by Messrs. S. W. Partridge & Co., is a tale of<br />
Cornish boys in Canada.<br />
“ Outfit and Equipment for the Traveller,<br />
Explorer, and Sportsman," is a volume edited by<br />
E. A. Reynolds Ball, intended primarily for<br />
explorers, big game shooters, and travellers in<br />
uncivilised or semi-civilised countries generally.<br />
At the same time, it is hoped that it may also<br />
prove of some service to pioneer-colonists, mis-<br />
sionaries, prospectors, etc. Mr. Reynolds-Ball has<br />
had in this work the co-operation of Sir H. H.<br />
Johnston, Mr. F. C. Selous, Mr. Harry de Windt,<br />
“Wirt Gerrare," and Cit. Payton (“Sarcelle ') who<br />
have contributed chapters embodying experiences<br />
in all parts of the globe. The volume is published<br />
from 27, Chancery Lane, W.C.<br />
Mr. Wilkinson Sherren's new novel, “ Windfrint<br />
Virgin," will be published by Mr. Ham-Smith some<br />
time in the early autumn. It is a love story of the<br />
present day, related in a subsidiary way to some of<br />
the feminist stir and stress of the period. Most of<br />
the action takes place in London, though there are<br />
a few country episodes.<br />
“The Royal Road,” being the story of the Life,<br />
Death, and Resurrection of Edward Hankey, of<br />
London, is the name of a new novel by Alfred<br />
Ollivant, author of “ Owd, B.A.," to be published<br />
by Messrs. Methuen this autumn.<br />
Mr. James Baker, F.R.G.S., has been invited by<br />
the Lord Mayor of Prague to be the guest of the<br />
“Golden City” for the celebrations connected with<br />
the unveiling of the statue on July 1, to the<br />
great Bohemian historian, Francis Palacky, a writer<br />
whose work the Eoglish author has utilised in his<br />
historical works and fiction, dealing with Bohemia<br />
and her people. The celebrations last for four days,<br />
and are linked with a great demonstration of the<br />
National Sokol movement ; an atbletic and<br />
gymnastic organisation that will have 12,000<br />
members drilling at once, in the remarkable evolu-<br />
tions and bodily exercises the Sokol has originated.<br />
“ T ES Dieux ont Soif” is the title of the latest<br />
U novel by Anatole France. The epoch is that<br />
of the Revolution, and the theme more or<br />
less the fickleness of a woman. We have a whole<br />
series of pictures of those days of terror and madness,<br />
and the author has chosen his types admirably. The<br />
story has all the delicate irony to which Anatole<br />
France has accustomed us in his books. Each<br />
personage stands out in relief, and each one is<br />
typical of a whole theory of human beings,<br />
fashioned by the times. There is very little that<br />
can be called ennobling in the volume. It is a<br />
story that is of the earth earthy, but it is intensely<br />
clever. Selection is carried to a fine art, as regards<br />
incident, character and dialogue. There does not<br />
appear to be a superfluous word in the whole book.<br />
Each one carries, just as each gesture tells. It is<br />
a clever but cruel novel, one that will remain in<br />
the memory, thanks to the vividness of each picture<br />
drawn. There are a few touches of tenderness to<br />
relieve the cruelty, but only just enough of such<br />
touches to make one wish for more.<br />
The lectures which M. Jules Lemaître has been<br />
giving this season on Chateaubriand are now<br />
published in volume form. The lectures were witty<br />
and brilliant, but the irony with which the subject<br />
is treated is regrettable as the note is too frequent<br />
and becomes irritating.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 265 (#729) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
265<br />
“Le Marquis René de Girardin," (Le dernier also to be given, and several other plays are being<br />
ami de J. J. Rousseau) (1735—1808), is a book rehearsed.<br />
written from hitherto unpublished documents by<br />
ALYS HALLARD.<br />
André Martin Decaen,, with a preface by André<br />
Hallays.<br />
“Les Dieux ont Soif” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
“ Chateaubriand " (Calmann Lévy).<br />
“ Chateaubriand, Ambassadeur à Londres,” is an<br />
“Le Marquis Réné de Girardin" (Perrin).<br />
account written by the Comte d'Antioche, from " Chateaubriand, Ambassadeur à Londres” (Perrin).<br />
papers that bave never before been published.<br />
“ Paris pous Louis XV." (Mercure de France).<br />
* in Paris sous Louis XV.,” by Camille Piton, is the<br />
" La Vie tragique de Geneviève” (Calmann Lévy).<br />
"Pour une autre” (Bernard Grasset).<br />
fourth volume on this subject by an author who is “ Une Philosophie nouvelle, Henri Bergson " (Alcan).<br />
one of the best informed. In this volume we have “ The Guarded Flame" (Plon).<br />
reports of the police inspectors annotated by Camille<br />
Piton.<br />
“La Vie tragique de Geneviève ” is a story so<br />
UNITED STATES NOTES.<br />
life-like that it resembles an episode taken from<br />
life rather than an imaginary story. It is written TT is rather curious to find--in view of what I<br />
by Louise Compain, the author of “L’un vers 1 wrote in the opening paragraphs of my last<br />
l'autre," a book which won for its writer an “ United States Notes " about the suggested<br />
Academy prize. “Les Femmes dans les organisa- motto for 1912, “ Fewer and Better Books ”-<br />
tions ouvrières" is also written by Madame Com- that the American publishers have been com-<br />
pain, and from this volume it is evident that plaining bitterly of the lack of good books, in the<br />
the writer of “La Vie tragique de Geneviève” early part of this year at least. Apparently, how-<br />
has seen much of the world she describes in this ever, it is rather of English than of American<br />
volume.<br />
works that they discovered the want. One of the<br />
“ Pour une autre," by Marianne Damad, is the big firm's representatives went so far as to say, this<br />
third volume by this writer. Jules Lemaître writes spring : “ There never was such a dearth of good<br />
the preface to the present one. In these studies the books on the English inarket as at the present<br />
author endeavours to show the effects produced by time, and never so many American publishers<br />
the meeting of individuals of totally different rank absolutely hungry for good stuff as this year.<br />
in the world. Her first book was entitled “Ren- Every leading American publishing house either<br />
contres,” her second “ Chez Eux," and the present has or has had its representative in London looking<br />
one is composed of a series of short studies, some of for saleable books, and most of them are simply<br />
which have appeared in such publications as the having trouble for their pains." This is pretty<br />
“ Revue des Deux Mondes,” the “ Journal des strong, it must be confessed. But, here is the<br />
Debats,” and “L'Echo de Paris.” The story, testimony of another house's representative:<br />
entitled “Un grand amour," is the most dramatic “ The spring list of English publishers is absolutely<br />
of those contained in “ Pour une autre."<br />
poverty stricken. It is lacking in any books of any<br />
“ Une Philosophie nouvelle, Henri Bergson”. consequence. Usually the spring lists contain<br />
by Edouard Le Roy, is another book which serves books of importance, historically or biographically,<br />
as an introduction to Bergson's own works. but these are entirely missing this year.”<br />
Some ten years ago Madame C. Coignet wrote one What have English publishers, and still more<br />
of the best introductions to Bergson's works. English authors, to say to this?<br />
Among translations, W. G. Maxwell's “ The However, it is not with the English work in<br />
Guarded Flame” has at last appeared in French, America that we are here concerned, but with the<br />
and will no doubt have more success in France native product of the United States. It cannot be<br />
than most English novels, as the psychology said that there has been any noticeable falling off<br />
contained in the volume will appeal to French in the numbers of books issued so far--though,<br />
readers.<br />
statistics not yet being available, we have to wait<br />
At the Porte Saint-Martin “ La Flambée" is until the end of the year before we know whether<br />
still on the bill, and L'Athenée is also still giving the figures have actually been maintained as they<br />
“ Le Cœur dispose.” It has now had its 150th appear to have been. With regard to quality, if<br />
representation.<br />
we had to judge only by publishers' advertisements,<br />
The Shakespeare Theatre is giving “ The Taming we might imagine that 1912 had already justified<br />
of the Shrew" in French in the Saint-Cloud Park its claim to celebrity in literary annals. But,<br />
once a week. The scenery has been designed by then, who pays much attention to the “puff pre-<br />
M. Simas of the Opéra, and an ideal spot has been liminary” and the “ front page ad. ” as a guide<br />
discovered with the trees meeting overhead and to literature ? Probably it will be realised, a year<br />
forming a dome. The “ Merchant of Venice " is hence, that the first half of 1912 was humdrum<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 266 (#730) ############################################<br />
<br />
266<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
rather than epoch-making. Which is not the same year. Nor is H. S. Harrison's “Queed " far behind.<br />
as denying that—to use the ugly commercial phrase The two last-named hare indeed had a long innings.<br />
—some quite good stuff was put on the market in It is usually easy to say what is fiction and what<br />
the period under notice. Otherwise I should feel is not. But it is by no means easy to classify<br />
considerable diffidence in proceeding to mention accurately “non-fiction " under its proper sub-<br />
the names of any authors below!<br />
heads. Biography, even if taken to include auto-<br />
The serried ranks of the novelists may be put in biography and reminiscences, is not over-well<br />
the forefront as usual ; but once again I must represented among recent American publications.<br />
disclaim any attempt to speak of all the works Mention must, however, be made of Professor Josiah<br />
worthy of notice since I last wrote. Nor shall I Royce's “ William James,” which is the first and<br />
try to arrange the names in any order of merit or principal item in a series of addresses delivered in<br />
of popularity. Of all the following it may be said the past and now collected in book form ; of<br />
that they both attracted attention and, according to “Marcus Alonzo Hanna, His Life and Work,” by<br />
their publishers, sold well :-John B. Ellis's Herbert Croly, an attempt to draw the real Mark<br />
“ Fran"; Lefroy Scott's “ Counsel for the Hanna ; and “The Philanthropic Work of<br />
Defense"; Frederick Isham's “ A Man and Josephine Shaw Lowell,” edited by Professor<br />
his Money ” ; the late Vaughan Kester's “ The Rhinelander Stewart, President of the New York<br />
Just and the Unjust ” ; Maria T. Davies's “ The State Board of Charities. Then there are “ The<br />
Melting of Molly ” ; Avery Abbott's “ Captain Reminiscences of James Burrill Angell," late<br />
Martha Mary” ; Corra Harris's “ The Recording President of Michigan University; “Out of the Rut,<br />
Angel ” ; Kate Langley Bosher's “ The Man in a Business Life Story," by John Adams Thayer ;<br />
Lonely Land”; L. J. Vance's “ The Bandbox"; and “ The Promised Land,” by Mary Antin, a<br />
G. C. Shedd's “ the Isle of Strife " ; Will Leving. Russian Jewess, who tells how she “discovered "<br />
ton Comfort's “ Fate Knocks at the Door”; Owen America, like so many other young emigrants.<br />
Johnson's “ Stover at Yale” ; C. A. Maclean's “The House of Harper," by Joseph Henry<br />
“ The Mainspring ”; Samuel Merwin's “ The Harper, explains itself by its title ; and, besides,<br />
Citadel” ; W. R. Castle's “ The Green Vase"; the book is well known in England by now, as well<br />
Charles Egbert Cradock's “The Raid of the as on the other side of the Atlantic.<br />
Guerilla ” ; John Reed Scott's “ The Last Try.” Under history we find “ The Contest for Cali-<br />
The following may be grouped together as strong fornia in 1861 ” by Elijah R. Kennedy ; and<br />
in local colour :-Frederick Palmer's “ Over the “American Colonial Government, 1696—1765,"<br />
Pass” (Arizona); B. M. Bower's “ Lonely Land” by Oliver Morton Dickerson. Politics and social<br />
(Montana) : Payne Erskine's “ The Mountain Girl” life in the United States are dealt with in “The<br />
(North Carolina): Alice L. Lee's “ Capt'n Joe's New Democracy,” by W. E. Weyl; in “Social<br />
Sister ” (Maine) ; J.O. Curwood's “ Flower of the Forces in American History," by A. M. Simons ;<br />
North”. (Hudson's Bay); Anna A. Chapin's in “ Changing America," by Professor E. A. Ross,<br />
“ The Under Trail ” (Virginia); and Mary R. author of " The Changing Chinese”; in “The<br />
Bangs's “ High Bradford” (Cape Cod fifty years Initiative, Referendum, and Recall," edited by<br />
ago). Gertrude Atherton has brought out “ Julia Professor W. B. Munro, with chapters by Colonel<br />
France and her Times”; Mary E. Wilkins Free Roosevelt and others; and in "The Coming<br />
man, “ The Butterfly House,” about which some Generation,” by W. B. Forbusb. Robert Grant's<br />
of the critics freely express their disappointment; “Convictions of a Grandfather," which are cast in<br />
and Reginald Wright Kauffman, “ The Sentence essay form, discuss the subject of the last book as<br />
of Silence,” which displays more humour and less well as other family problems in America.<br />
grim tragedy than he has hitherto given us. Two “The Tariff in Our Times,” which Miss Ida M.<br />
volumes of short stories are Professor Brander Tarbell brought out originally in the American<br />
Matthew's - Vistas of New York,” and Edna Magazine, is of course fiscal. “The American<br />
Ferber's “Buttered Side Down."<br />
Transportation Question,” by S. 0. Dunn, editor of<br />
Dorothy Canfield's “ The Squirrel Cage” is on the Railway Gazette, is a volume of importance in<br />
its way to becoming a “best seller ”-a distinction, its technical way.<br />
by the way, which has already been attained by In “ A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil,"<br />
"Counsel for the Defense” and “ The Mountain Miss Jane Addams (called by the London Times<br />
Girl," mentioned above. The latest lists of best "easily the foremost woman in America '') discusses<br />
sellers show the pride of place in fiction falling to bravely the white slave question, with particular<br />
Gene Stratton Porter's “ The Harvester,” Meredith reference to Chicago, the city of such evil notoriety<br />
Nicholson's “ A Hoosier Chronicle," Emerson in the matter.<br />
Hough's “Jolin Rawn," and H. B. Wright's “ The A still wider human problem is dealt in V. L.<br />
Winning of Barbara Worth,” which did so well last Kellog's “ Beyond War," which is intended as a<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 267 (#731) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR. .<br />
267<br />
Cameron Rogers, the Californian poet, is best<br />
known as the author of “ The Rosary," a lyric<br />
which, though known everywhere in its original<br />
form or through translation, never profited him a<br />
penny. At the end of the month the death<br />
occurred, in the Far East, of the Rev. Dr. G. W.<br />
Knox, for fifteen years a missionary in Japan, and<br />
writer of numerous books on religion, on Japan,<br />
and on the two subjects combined. At the<br />
beginning of May Homer Davenport, animal story-<br />
writer and cartoonist as well as breeder of Arabian<br />
horses, succumbed to pneumonia in New York, and<br />
Julia Harris May, poetess, died, at the age of 79,<br />
in the Maine, of whose woods she sang. Another<br />
Maine author, Dr. Willis Judson Beecher, of the<br />
Auburn Theological Seminary, died about the same<br />
time, only five years younger.<br />
PHILIP WALSH.<br />
COPYRIGHT IN A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE.<br />
chapter in the natural history of mankind, and<br />
preaches peace on biological grounds.<br />
Among books of travel and description there<br />
have been a number of more than transient interest.<br />
Apart from Mabel Lomis Todd's “ Tripoli the<br />
Mysterious," they are mainly concerned with things<br />
at home. Noteworthy are “ The Yosemite," by<br />
John Muir; “Travel and Camp in the Rockies,”<br />
by Dillon Wallace; “ The Spell of the Rockies,” by<br />
Enos A. Mills ; "Three Wonderlands of the<br />
American West," by T. D. Murphy ; “The Pipe-<br />
smoke Carry," by Bert Leston Taylor ; and “ The<br />
Wonders of the Colorado Desert,” by G. W. James.<br />
In the realm of the arts, Professor C. H. Wright<br />
of Harvard (and also formerly of Trinity College,<br />
Oxford) is the author of "A History of French<br />
Literature.” Edward Bliss Reed, Assistant Professor<br />
of English at Yale, is responsible for a work on<br />
“ English Lyrical Poetry.” “On the Laws of<br />
Japanese Painting” is the title of a book by<br />
H. P. Bowie, who has long resided in Japan.<br />
· A practical side of literature provides the material<br />
for “ Copyright, its History and Law," from the<br />
pen of Richard Rogers Bowker, editor of the<br />
American Publishers' Weekly and Vice-President of<br />
the American Authors' Copyright League, which is<br />
the first work of its kind-dealing especially with<br />
the American aspect of the question-for over<br />
thirty years.<br />
Probably not much attention is paid in England<br />
to contemporary American verse, and perhaps<br />
nothing very recent has called for particular atten-<br />
tion. But in “ Hard Labour, and Other Poems,"<br />
there is a certain rareness of flavour which merits<br />
notice. The author is or was a convict in the<br />
Minnesota State Prison.<br />
The obituary, unhappily swelled by the awful<br />
disaster to the Titanic, is rather large for the short<br />
period under notice. In March died Ernest<br />
Jarrold (“ Mickey Finn "), English by birth, but<br />
American by life and training, a writer of short<br />
stories and travel sketches and a regular con-<br />
tributor to the New York Sun. Next month saw<br />
the death, at the age of 90, of Clara Barton,<br />
founder of the American Red Cross Association and<br />
author of several works on the movement. The<br />
Titanic wreck involved the loss of Francis Davis<br />
Millet, painter and war correspondent for both<br />
American and English journals ; of Ward Stanton,<br />
likewise both an artist and a journalist ; and of<br />
Jacques Futrelle, whose success with the detective<br />
novel gained for him the name of the American<br />
Conan Doyle. Futrelle's wife, whose first novel,<br />
“ Secretary of Frivolous Affairs," appeared in<br />
1911, happily escaped from the sinking ship.<br />
Brigadier-General Farley, who died in South<br />
Carolina at the age of 73, wrote a book on “West<br />
Point in the Early Sixties” among others. Robert<br />
WHITFIELD V. PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPERS, LTD.<br />
THE plaintiff, in this action, Mr. Lionel Whit-<br />
1 field, sued the proprietors of the Weekly<br />
T'imes and Echo for damages, for republishing<br />
without his consent certain articles which he had<br />
contributed to the paper in 1901.<br />
The articles were written by the plaintiff under<br />
an agreement made in 1898, by which he was<br />
employed to contribute a weekly article on chess,<br />
billiards, and draughts. The contract came to an<br />
end in 1906, and when the defendants acquired<br />
the paper in 1910 they proceeded to republish<br />
some of the articles, which had been contributed by<br />
the plaintiff under his agreement.<br />
It was admitted that the defendants were the<br />
owners of the copyright ; but under the peculiar<br />
provisions of s. 18 of the Copyright Act, 1842, their<br />
copyright was of a limited character. It is<br />
expressly provided by that section that the news-<br />
paper proprietor, under the circumstances of the<br />
case, is not at any time entitled to publish the<br />
articles " separately or singly ” without the author's<br />
consent ; but the author has the right of publish-<br />
ing them “in a separate form ” after the expiration<br />
of twenty-eight years, from the date of their first<br />
publication in the newspaper.<br />
It was contended on behalf of the plaintiff,<br />
that the defendants had published the articles<br />
“ separately ” ; because the later issues of the<br />
paper contained other matter than that which<br />
appeared with the articles when they were originally<br />
published in 1901.<br />
On the other hand, it was submitted on behalf of<br />
the defendants, that as the articles were republished<br />
with other matter in the same journal, in which<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 268 (#732) ############################################<br />
<br />
268<br />
• THE AUTHOR.<br />
they first appeared, they were not "separately Act with respect to the deposit of copies and<br />
published."<br />
registration of such work shall have been complied<br />
Mr. Justice Hamilton came to the conclusion with.”<br />
that there had been a “separate publication," and The opinion of Judge Lacombe, in fall, reads :-<br />
granted the plaintiff an injunction and 40s.<br />
damages.<br />
JUDGE LACOMBE'S OPINION.<br />
It is clear that the words “separately ” and<br />
“singly" are not synonymous, and according to This proceeding grew out of a transaction referred<br />
the cases an article or story may be "published to in the decision on motion for preliminary injunc-<br />
separately," although it is in a volume with other tion. The order to show cause included a restrain-<br />
articles or stories. In the case of Johnson v. ing order or temporary injunction, and it is charged<br />
Newnes, Mr. Justice Romer said :<br />
that defendant published an account of Amundsen's<br />
“ If you find in a volume separate parts, each journey to the South Pole, which was a colourable<br />
distinguished or perfectly distinguishable from the copy of its copyrighted narrative.<br />
other parts, and the volume is published, each part Many points have been argued, but it will not be<br />
that is separate and clearly distinguished in the necessary to discuss them all.<br />
volume is " separately published.”<br />
The bill was verified March 8; it stated that<br />
Similarly, in Smith v. Johnson, in 1863, where complainant “is about to file two complete copies<br />
certain tales entitled " The Chronicles of Stanfield of the best edition when published.” The order<br />
Hall ” were contributed to the London Journal, it to show cause and restraining order were signed<br />
was held that the subsequent publication of the March 8, and were served on someone in the office<br />
tales in a weekly supplement was a “separate publi- of the defendant about midnight the same day.<br />
cation” within the meaning of s. 18 of the Very early in the morning of March 9 the publica-<br />
Copyright Act.<br />
tion of complainant's copyrighted narrative and of<br />
HAROLD HARDY. defendant's paraphrase thereof appeared in their<br />
respective newspapers. The two copies of the copy-<br />
righted work were filed in the office of the Register<br />
UNITED STATES LAW CASE.<br />
of Copyright, Washington, D. C., on March 9, on<br />
or after the opening of that office on that day.<br />
On these facts the question arises, Was com-<br />
(Printed with the kind permission of the Editor of the plainant entitled to maintain an action such as<br />
United States Publishers' Weekly.)<br />
this, when the order was served at midnight on<br />
March 8?<br />
JUDGE LACOMBE DECIDES THE TEMPORARY<br />
The action is based upon the statute,<br />
INJUNCTION IN THE “ TIMES” COPYRIGHT<br />
and the answer to this question must be found in<br />
SUIT WAS GRANTED PREMATURELY-COPY-<br />
its provisions. Sect. I of the Act of March 4, 1909,<br />
RIGHT ITSELF NOT AFFECTED.<br />
provides :-<br />
“ That any person entitled thereto by this Act<br />
UDGE LACOMBE, in the Federal District may secure copyright for his work by publication<br />
Court, denied the application of the New thereof with the notice of copyright required by<br />
York Times Company for the punishment this Act," etc.<br />
for contempt of the Star Company, publisher of the The bill shows that such a publication had been<br />
New York American, for violating an injunction made before it was verified ; complainant thereby<br />
granted by Judge Holt on March 8, restraining the had then secured its copyright.<br />
publication of either the text or a colourable version Ownership of copyright and the vindication of<br />
of Roald Amundsen's story of his discovery of the such ownership by suit are different things. The<br />
South Pole, the copyright of which the Times had latter is provided for in sect. 12, which reads :-<br />
purchased for the United States and Canada.<br />
“That after copyright has been secured by publi-<br />
The Court recognises that a valid copyright can cation of the work with the notice of copyright, as<br />
be secured by publishing a work with a copyright provided in sect. 9 of this Act, there shall be<br />
imprint (and was secured by the Times in the promptly deposited in the Copyright Office, or in<br />
Amundsen narrative in the present case), but holds the mail, addressed to the Register of Copyright,<br />
that the right to a copyright is distinct from the Washington, District of Columbia, two complete<br />
right to maintain an action to enforce the same. copies of the best edition thereof then published.<br />
The ruling against the validity of the temporary ... No action or proceeding shall be maintained<br />
injunction was made under sect. 12 of the copy- for infringement of copyright in any work until<br />
right law, which provides that “no action or pro- the provisions of the Act in respect to the deposit<br />
ceeding shall be maintained for infringement of of copies and registration of such work shall have<br />
copyright in any work until the provisions of this been complied with.”<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 269 (#733) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
269<br />
The subject of statutory copyright being one “action or proceeding for the infringement of copy-<br />
wholly within the powers of Congress, it had full right," and there is no apparent reason for constru-<br />
power to restrict, in any way it chose, the main- ing the act so as to exempt such suits from the<br />
taining of such actions or proceedings in the courts operation of the prohibition of sect. 12. No hard-<br />
as are concerned with the subject of infringement ship to the owner of a copyright results from the<br />
of the rights secured by such statute. A prohibi- construction here followed. At the time the person<br />
tion so broad as this goes to the jurisdiction of the entitled to copyright publishes his work, with the<br />
courts to entertain such actions or proceedings, and notice required, presumably he has copies of it in<br />
if the prohibition were operative, when the injunc- his possession and could at once deposit in the mail<br />
tion was served, the latter would be void because the two copies required, addressed as the statute<br />
made in an action which could not be maintained prescribes. That act on his part would seem to be<br />
and of which the courts could not have jurisdiction. a compliance with sect. 12, sufficient to entitle him<br />
The papers submitted indicate that at midnight to maintain his action or proceeding. But until<br />
of March 8, when the injunction was served, the he does this, the prohibition of that section is<br />
two copies had not yet been “ deposited in the imperative.<br />
Copyright Office, or in the mail, addressed to the Without considering the other questions presented,<br />
Register of Copyright”; at that time, therefore, the application is denied.<br />
this action or proceeding could not be maintained, The T'imes itself, in its discussion of the case,<br />
and the injunction being issued in an action whose makes the important point that, if registration were<br />
maintenance was prohibited, could be of no binding an essential formality to the initiation of an action<br />
force.<br />
at law, that there would result an interim of non-<br />
Complaint refers to sects. 34, 35, and 36, which protection between the deposit of copies in the mails<br />
read as follows :<br />
and the necessary registration in Washington-an<br />
“ Sect. 31. That all actions, suits, or proceedings interim that in the case of daily newspaper material<br />
arising under the copyright laws of the United would be vital.<br />
States shall be originally cognizable by the Circuit The Court, however, expressly held that this<br />
Courts of the United States, the District Court of question was not involved, that the mere depositing<br />
any Territory, the Supreme Court of the District of the books in the mails, addressed to the Register<br />
of Columbia, the District Courts of Alaska, Hawaii of Copyright, accompanied presumably by application<br />
and Porto Rico, and the Courts of first instance of for registration and affidavit of manufacture, suffices<br />
the Philippine Islands.<br />
to constitute a compliance with sect. 12. This<br />
“Sect. 35. That civil actions, suits, or proceed- ignores the provision of that section with regard to<br />
ings arising under this Act may be instituted in registration, possibly on the theory that only the<br />
the district of which the defendant or his agent is acts required to be performed by the owner of the<br />
an inhabitant or in which he may be found.<br />
copyright must precede institution of the actiou.<br />
“ Sect. 36. That any such court or judge thereof<br />
shall have power, upon bill in equity filed by any<br />
party aggrieved, to grant injunction to prevent and<br />
restrain the violations of any rights secured by<br />
A DANGEROUS CLAUSE.<br />
said law, according to the course and principles of<br />
courts of equity on such terms as said court or judge<br />
may deem reasonable. Any injunction that may ROM time to time the Committee have urged<br />
be granted restraining and enjoining the doing of T upon authors the danger of granting to pub-<br />
anything forbidden by this Act may be served on lishers, in a contract for one book, the right<br />
the parties against whom such injunction may be to publish future books on stated terms. Authors<br />
granted, anywhere in the United States, and shall should not even grant the refusal of the publication<br />
be operative throughout the United States, to be of future books to a publisher upon terms to be subse-<br />
enforceable by proceedings in contempt or other- quently agreed, though this may not be so dangerous.<br />
wise by any other Court or judge possessing juris- Articles have appeared in The Author demon-<br />
diction of the defendants.”<br />
strating how seriously clauses dealing with rights<br />
It does not seem that this last-quoted section in in future books may hinder the author in his<br />
any way qualified the prohibition of the twelfth career and affect his property before it is created.<br />
section. The Court or judge is given express In most agreements drafted on these lines the<br />
authority to grant an injunction to prevent a viola- author is only bound for a certain number of books,<br />
tion of a copyright which has been secured by the though in one of the cases published in The<br />
party aggrieved ; this injunction may be granted Author recently a clause proposed to bind the<br />
upon a bill of equity—that is, in an equity suit. author for a period of seven years.<br />
But such an equity suit is covered by the phrase In an agreement coming from the office of Messrs.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 270 (#734) ############################################<br />
<br />
270<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
George Allen & Co., Limited, a clause runs as tion of agents. The custom, if it is a growing one,<br />
follows:-<br />
must be opposed with all the vigour possible by<br />
“ The Author shall give the publishers the first refusal<br />
members of the Society of Authors.<br />
of ". ..." and any future novels written by him. Should The reasons given by those publishers who are<br />
he be able to obtain better terms for these than the terms the most just in their attitude towards authors, for<br />
the Publishers suggest he shall offer the book to the desiring to bind authors for future work, are not<br />
Publishers on the terms named to him by other publishers."<br />
satisfactory. A publisher who has bound an author<br />
This is a most inadvisable arrangement for an by such a clause, knowing that the latter is pledged<br />
author to enter upon. The clause practically binds to him, may and does get careless in the matter of<br />
the author to offer to the publisher during the publication. As long as he turns over his money<br />
term of his literary life every novel that he may and gets a fair percentage he becomes quite<br />
produce, and it is so worded that the author would indifferent to the author's success. If an author,<br />
have great difficulty in obtaining release.<br />
unshackled with regard to his future contracts, is<br />
It is almost impossible for an author, at any rate treated well by bis publisher, he will be only too<br />
in the present condition of the literary market, to glad to leave the publication of future works in that<br />
go to a second publisher and say, “ What terms will publisher's hands. If an author is not treated well<br />
you give me for my book ?” and at the same time by his publisher, then to be forced to place all his<br />
to explain to that publisher that he cannot accept books with him, while convinced that he is an<br />
the terms, however good, without referring the unsatisfactory man of buisness, is an intolerable<br />
matter back again to the original publisher to position.<br />
whom he is bound under such a clause as that All members of the Society must, once again, be<br />
quoted.<br />
warned not to sign any agreement binding them-<br />
No doubt a second publisher might be willing to selves for future work, and must take special care<br />
offer terms for the book were the author in a not to sign a clause drafted on the lines of the one<br />
position of freedom, but he would not keep the offer quoted above.<br />
open if he understood that he was being made use of<br />
in order to give a competitor in the same trade a<br />
chance of taking up the book on similar terms. If<br />
MAGAZINE CONTENTS.<br />
he was not told why his terms were sought he<br />
would be receiving unfair treatment at the hands<br />
ENGLISH REVIEW.<br />
of the author, and of his fellow publisher whose A New Study of English Poetry. By Henry Newbolt.<br />
work of discrimination he is discharging.<br />
The Royal Academy. By Walter Sichert.<br />
The clause, in most cases, would mean that the<br />
Poetry: Arthur Symons, Ezra Pound, D. H. Lawrence,<br />
L. Abercromby.<br />
author who signed it would be bound to the same<br />
publisher for the whole of his literary life, practically<br />
NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER.<br />
unable to refuse any offer that that publisher placed Metrical Versions of the Odes of Horace. By Dr. R. G.<br />
before him. The publisher has only to say, “I will Tyrrell.<br />
Pauline de Beaumont. By Edith Sichel.<br />
offer you 10 per cent. on the sales of your books,”<br />
At the Salon and the Royal Academy. Ry H. Heath-<br />
to obtain the writer for ever at this figure. If cote Statham.<br />
the author refused such an offer, thinking he was<br />
BLACKWOODS.<br />
entitled to a higher royalty, he would then be bound, Musings Without Method. From Ibsen's Workshop.<br />
under the clause in question, if he acted fairly to<br />
BOOKMAN.<br />
any other publisher before whom he laid the matter, Wilkie Collins. By A. Compton Rickett.<br />
to state “I bave been offered a royalty-10 per<br />
The Centenary of John Forster. By Berric Twede.<br />
cent.—will you give me better terms ? but I must<br />
Recent History. By T. Seccombe.<br />
inform you that any offer you make must be referred<br />
NATIONAL.<br />
back to my former publisher to see if he will give<br />
The “ Dugdale" Engraving of the Stratford Monument.<br />
me similar or better terms.” Surely the answer<br />
By Geo. Greenwood, M.P.<br />
from the second publisher would be to decline to<br />
SCALE FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
make any offer, and the author would have to<br />
accept the 10 per cent. royalty proposed by his (ALLOWANCE TO MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY 20 PER CENT.)<br />
original publisher. This would be a serious position Front Page<br />
300<br />
enough if it only referred to one or two books, but<br />
it becomes disastrous when it refers to any future<br />
novel that an author may write.<br />
Single Column Advertisements<br />
... per inch 0 6 0<br />
It has been stated that the binding of an author Reduction of 20 per cent. made for a Series of Six and of 25 per cent for<br />
for future work is becoming a more usual demand<br />
All letters respecting Advertisements should be addressed to J. F.<br />
amongst publishers. It has also received the sanc- BELMONT & Co., 29, Paternoster Square, London, E.C.<br />
Other Pages<br />
Hall of a Page ...<br />
Quarter of & Page<br />
Eighth of a Page<br />
...<br />
***<br />
.. 1 10 0<br />
... 015 0<br />
T'welve Insertions.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 271 (#735) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
271<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 />
eure 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 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 slamp 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 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 rovalty means to both sides It in<br />
possible for an author to ascertain approximately the<br />
truth. From time to time very important figures conpected<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 />
with held.<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 pi-ce by a certain dare<br />
and for proper publication of his name on the<br />
play-bills,<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 />
<br />
<br />
## p. 272 (#736) ############################################<br />
<br />
272<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
DRAMATIC AUTHORS AND AGENTS.<br />
(6.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of percentages on<br />
gross receipts. Percentages vary between 5<br />
and 15 per cent. An author should obtain a<br />
percentage on the sliding scale of gross receipts<br />
in preference to the American system. Should<br />
obtain a sum in advance of percentages. A fixed<br />
date on or before which the play should be<br />
performed.<br />
(o.) Sale of performing right or of a licence to<br />
perform on the basis of royalties (1.2., 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 bands 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 />
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 />
CYCENARIOS, 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 28. 6d. per act.<br />
The Secretary of the Society begs to give notice<br />
that all remittances are acknowledged by return of post,<br />
All remittances should be crossed Union of London and<br />
Smiths Bank, Chancery Lane, or be sent by registered<br />
letter only.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 273 (#737) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
273<br />
GENERAL NOTES.<br />
The Editor of “The Author” begs to<br />
remind Members that there is no issue of<br />
the magazine during the months of August<br />
and September. He has inserted this notice,<br />
as letters from Members frequently come to<br />
the office asking why the magazine has not<br />
been sent to them during those months.<br />
COPYRIGHT IN HOLLAND.<br />
It is with great pleasure we hear that there is a<br />
Bill before the Dutch Parliament to enable Holland<br />
to join the Berlin Convention. Tbis is very satis-<br />
factory, as Holland has been too long outside the<br />
Convention of Continental nations. If the Bill is<br />
passed into law we understand it will come into<br />
force the beginning of August, but it is impossible<br />
at present to say what will be the ultimate result.<br />
If the Bill does pass into law, it will afford a very<br />
important protection to the property of English<br />
copyright holders, as much English work is at<br />
present published in Holland, and many dramatic<br />
pieces performed there.<br />
in order to secure their rights. Hitherto, the<br />
dramatist has had, in addition to his Common<br />
Law rights in his work, two distinct rights under<br />
the Statute, (a) copyright, or the sole right of<br />
multiplying copies, and (b) performing right, or<br />
the sole right of authorising performances. The<br />
former was secured by publication and the latter by<br />
a public performance. These performances often<br />
proved a source of much trouble and expense to<br />
the dramatist, and, in many cases, of very little<br />
pleasure to his friends who made up the audience.<br />
These three rights (Common Law, copyright, and<br />
performing right) are now included in the term<br />
“copyright,” which is defined by the Act as the<br />
sole right “to produce or reproduce the work or<br />
any substantial part thereof in any material form<br />
whatsoever, to perform, or in the case of a lecture<br />
to deliver, the work or any substantial part thereof<br />
in public ; if the work is unpublished, to publish<br />
the work or any substantial part thereof." There<br />
are certain subsidiary rights existent in the<br />
copyright, such as rights of translation, mechanical<br />
reproduction rights, which are dealt with in the<br />
Act, but for the purpose of the present note, all we<br />
desire to impress upon the dramatist is, that his<br />
copyright starts immediately he has finished his<br />
play, and he is able, in consequence, to proceed<br />
against anyone making wrongful use of his<br />
work either before, or after publication or per-<br />
formance.<br />
COPYRIGHT ACT, 1911.<br />
We print, as a supplement to this issue of The<br />
Author, the Statutory Rules and Orders issued by<br />
the Board of Trade with reference to sect. 3 and<br />
sect. 19, sub-sect. 6, of the Copyright Act, 1911.<br />
We publish these as a supplement so that members<br />
may be able to retain them separately from the<br />
magazine in case they wish to do so. It will, no<br />
doubt, be of great importance to many of our<br />
members to have these copies. It is too early, yet,<br />
to speak with certainty on the point of how these<br />
rules and regulations will work. The most im-<br />
portant are those relating to the composer's property<br />
and the compulsory reproduction license. If this<br />
mechanical reproduction is kept in the hands of a<br />
few firms the rules may work efficiently, but if<br />
such reproduction becomes cheapened, as is quite<br />
possible, by pianola records and by future inven-<br />
tions, and gets into the hands of smaller concerns<br />
or even pirates, there will be no guarantee that the<br />
·authors' or composers' royalties will be secured. At<br />
present, howerer, all that can be done is to wait<br />
and see.<br />
THE GRAMOPHONE.<br />
We have mentioned the position which the<br />
cinematograph is taking in the matter of education<br />
and educational problems; but it is also true that.<br />
the gramophone is going to play no unimportant<br />
part. Many records are being produced, designed<br />
to teach French and other foreign languages, and<br />
it is quite certain that at no distant date the<br />
lectures of celebrated professors will also be given<br />
to pupils through the same methods.<br />
Under the new Copyright Act it is therefore of<br />
great importance that writers of technical books<br />
and lecturers on educational subjects should be<br />
careful that their rights are not infringed.<br />
IRELAND AND COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION.<br />
We are glad to notice that the Home Rule Bill<br />
leaves the question of copyright legislation with the<br />
Imperial Parliament, and that Irish self-government<br />
will not include the right to legislate on the subject<br />
of copyright. This limitation is a very wise one,<br />
as the difficulties which might have ensued, par-<br />
ticularly in regard to International copyright<br />
relations, if Ireland had been permitted separate<br />
DRAMATIC RIGHTS.<br />
We desire to remind dramatic authors that,<br />
under the new Copyright Act, copyright per-<br />
formances of their plays are no longer necessary<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 274 (#738) ############################################<br />
<br />
274<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
copyright legislation, would have been a source of Authors can be of any assistance the Committee of<br />
much trouble to the owners of copyright property, Management will only be too willing to work in<br />
both in Ireland and in other parts of the kingdom. harmony with the American society.<br />
We wish it had been possible when passing the<br />
Act of 1911 to have made the same reservation<br />
with regard to the Colonies.<br />
BIRTHDAY HONOURS.<br />
WE must congratulate those members of the<br />
society who have received the King's birthday<br />
THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS. honours.<br />
Professor Waldestein, now Sir Charles Walde-<br />
It is with great pleasure we record the fact stein, late Head Professor of Fine Art, Cambridge,<br />
that American authors have at last decided to and for many years connected with the excavations,<br />
organise themselves into a society founded on the not only in Greece but also in Italy : Mr. Edmund<br />
model in some ways of our own society, and the Gosse, C.B., the librarian of the House of Lords,<br />
Société des gens de Lettres. As our society, who was one of the original members of the society,<br />
basing itself to some extent on the lines of the and has been on the council since its foundation ;<br />
Société des gens de Lettres differs from it in certain Mr. Marc Auriel Stein, now Sir Marc Auriel Stein.<br />
details, no doubt, the American Society will, again, K.C.I.E., whose explorations in Central Asia have<br />
differ from the societies whose action it purposes<br />
extended over many years, and whose latest dis-<br />
to follow. It purposes to include, as our society<br />
coveries have only this year been placed before the<br />
endeavours to include, not only writers and<br />
public; and Mr. Andrew Balfour, G.C.B., Director of<br />
dramatists, but also composers and, perbaps, Government Research Laboratory in the Gordon<br />
artists as far as they are illustrators of books. Memorial College, Khartoum.<br />
We are glad to think that the moving spirit in<br />
forming the organisation is Mr. Louis J. Vance,<br />
the author of “The Brass Bowl” and “ The Black<br />
Bag.” Mr. Vance was over in England some years<br />
ago and joined the Society of Authors. He was<br />
OBITUARY.<br />
impressed with the methods of the society, and has<br />
done a good deal to help the society by rendering<br />
it efficient information on questions that have<br />
HENRI MOREL.<br />
arisen in the United States.<br />
TT is with deep regret that we record the death<br />
The American Society does not propose to be a 1 at Bex, on May 18 last, of M. Henri Morel,<br />
social body in any way, and we think this action is Director of the International Bureau for the<br />
very wise; it is to be a business body, pure and simple, Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, a man<br />
and if it is thoroughly well organised as such is who merited the regard of authors of all nations.<br />
bound to succeed. Amongst those who have given M. Morel presented an instance of a man who rose<br />
the Society their support, the following are mem- from humble beginnings. Originally an engraver,<br />
bers of the Society of Authors :-Ellen Glasgow, he entered public service first in the Swiss Canton<br />
Harvey J. O'Higgins, Louis J. Vance, Langdon of Neuenburg. Later he was engaged as a railway<br />
· Mitchell, and Miss Kale Douglas Wiggin. If such official ; and then, having turned his attention to<br />
a society is successful it is impossible to gange the law, became a barrister. Thereafter he was in turn<br />
advantage and assistance that it may be to our Chief Judge at La Chaux-de-Fonds, member of the<br />
society. Confidential reports can be sent back- Neuenburg Cantonal Court, and President of the<br />
wards and forwards, and matters dealing with Criminal Court. Upon the foundation (in a some-<br />
members' property on both sides of the water can what summary fashion) of the international Bureau<br />
be discussed with a view to strengthening the of Industrial Property in 1884. M. Droz was<br />
position of the owners of that property. In appointed as the first director, and when at the<br />
addition, it may be possible, subject to some end of 1887 there was adjoined to this institution<br />
financial arrangement, for each society to carry a new bureau, that for the International protection<br />
through in its respective country the work of the of copyright, the necessity of some more complete<br />
other society for its members. It, no doubt, will organisation becoming apparent, M. Morel was<br />
be of great advantage also to those who have got appointed, with the title of “Secretary General,"<br />
markets on both sides of the Atlantic to be members to work under M. Druz. Five years later, in 1892,<br />
of both societies if the organisation for carrying out he was appointed director. His post was, at the<br />
the business is efficient and reliable.<br />
outset, one of considerable difficulty, and demanded<br />
We wish Mr. Vance and his confrères every unusual tact. International offices were a novelty,<br />
success, and feel confident that if the Society of and regarded in some quarters with mistrust, and<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 275 (#739) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
275<br />
in others with antipathy. M. Morel showed that tingent in the words and music of my song entitled<br />
he fully appreciated bow delicate was his position, "<br />
"it being understood that I receive a royalty of<br />
per copy on all sold of the same in Great Britain,<br />
and that he possessed also the abilities necessary<br />
Ireland, and the Colonies (13 copies to count as 12), also<br />
to cope with its perils. The consolidation of both five per cent. on the market price of all copies sold in the<br />
the unions over which he presided was principally United States ; 200 copies in both countries to be free for<br />
due to his discretion and his excellent influence.<br />
novelty purposes."<br />
In the numerous conterences in which he took part,<br />
“Any royalties obtained on the sale of gramophone<br />
records or similar mechanical reproductions. in all<br />
the clearness of his mind, his tact, his extensive countries to be equally divided between composer and<br />
knowledge, and his personal charm, were universally publisher."<br />
appreciated. He was wont in jest to call himself<br />
"an international pointsman." The Conference of It is hardly necessary to comment on the absurdity<br />
Berlin may be described as the last great effort of of this bargain from the composer's standpoint.<br />
bis life. It was one that appears to have overtaxed The one party assigns all his rights and the other<br />
his strength, for after it his forces began to fail party undertakes no responsibility except the bare<br />
visibly. He suffered less, however, from the responsibility of publication, subject to a royalty.<br />
malady that was overpowering him than from a It has been so often repeated in The Author that<br />
regret that he was unable to continue his labours. a composer should not assign his rights, either<br />
It had been always his ambition to die in harness. his performing right or his copyright, but should<br />
Circumstances forbade his accomplishing his wish; only grant a licence to perform and publish, that<br />
and. on April 1 last, he found himself com- it is hardly worth while to repeat the warning<br />
pelled to resign his directorship. His name must again, or give the reasons for it. So important, how<br />
be inserted among those of the workers whose toil ever, is the matter that the Committee of Manage-<br />
has been long and beneficial to mankind. This is ment included a long statement of the danger of<br />
the only praise and the only recompense that he<br />
this assignment in last year's report, which was<br />
ever desired.<br />
sept out to all the members of the Society. Under<br />
the agreement printed above, which is one of<br />
the usual pattern, the publisher, with a view no<br />
COMPOSERS' AGREEMENTS.<br />
doubt to the new Copyright Act which will come<br />
into force this month, is trying to claim more than<br />
the copyright and performing right, namely, a<br />
COME two years ago the Society of Authors was portion of the gramophone fees. This side of<br />
D approached by a firm of music publishers who the question has also been discussed by the Com-<br />
desired to arrange an agreement more equi. posers' Sub-Committee, who deemed it advisable<br />
table to composers than the usual document placed to have the following notice published in the daily<br />
before them by the best music publishers in papers :<br />
London. The matter was referred by the Com-<br />
The Incorporated Society of Authors and the Society<br />
mittee of Management to the Copyright Sub-<br />
of British Composers desire to direct the attention of all<br />
Committee. An agreement was put forward, many the composers in the United Kingdom to their powers<br />
meetings were held, and after full discussion à and rights in regard to the mechanical reproduction of<br />
contract was finally settled which was approved by<br />
their works, as defined by the Copyright Act of 1911,<br />
which declares that the Composer has the sole right to<br />
the Committee of Management and printed, with<br />
authorise or prohibit the making of any mechanical<br />
comments, in The Author of May, 1910.<br />
reproduction of his compositions. No matter what assign.<br />
Another firm has approached the Society and ment of mechanical rights the composer may have made<br />
declared its willingness to put forward an equi-<br />
before the passing of the Act, the Act annuls such an<br />
assignment, and confers solely upon the composer all<br />
table agreement. This contract has been submitted<br />
royalties derived from such mechanical rights. In order<br />
to the Copyright Sub-Committee, and after some to make the latter part of this statement quite clear,<br />
negotiation the agreement printed below was section 19, sub-section 7 (c) of the Act should be quoted in<br />
settled. The Committee of Management desire to<br />
full:--.<br />
give their approval to this document not because<br />
“Notwithstanding any assignment made before the<br />
passing of this Act of the copyright in a musical work,<br />
it is a perfect contract between composer and any rights conferred by this Act, in respect of the making,<br />
publisher but because it is far in advance of the or authorising the making, of contrivances by means of<br />
usual music publishers' agreement, as may be seen<br />
which the work may be mechanically performed shall<br />
by reading the following, which may be called the<br />
belong to the author or his legal personal representatives<br />
and not to the assignee, and the royalties aforesaid shall be<br />
prevalent method for the disposal of much musical payable to, and for the benefit of, the author of the work<br />
work.<br />
or his legal personal representatives."<br />
From this it is obvious that the music publisher has no<br />
“In consideration of the sum of Pounds paid to locus standi whatever in the matter, and he has no more<br />
me this day, I hereby agree to assign to<br />
the right to decide upon a division of the composer's royalties<br />
whole of my rights and interest, present, future and con- than upon a division of any other of his private property.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 276 (#740) ############################################<br />
<br />
276<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
It is certain that agencies for the collection of com-<br />
posers' royalties, for a reasonable consideration, will come<br />
into existence. It is, therefore, strongly impressed upon all<br />
composers :-<br />
1. Not to part with the property which is exclusively<br />
theirs by Act of Parliament.<br />
2. Not to employ any agent or agencies without careful<br />
enquiry into their financial position and stability:<br />
3. Not to enter into any contract for sheet publication<br />
which contains any conditions whatsoever with regard to<br />
their rights of mechanical reproduction.<br />
THE SUGGESTED AGREEMENT.<br />
The following agreement has been submitted to<br />
the society by Messrs. J. Curwen & Sons, with<br />
whose permission we are enabled to print it. It<br />
will be seen to contain the principle of the licence<br />
in place of the highly objectionable total surrender<br />
of all rights.<br />
MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT made this day of<br />
one thousand nine hundred and between<br />
of<br />
hereinfter called the Composer<br />
of the one part and J. Curwen & Sons Limited of 24<br />
Berners Street London W. hereinafter termed the Pub.<br />
lishers of the other part whereby it is mutually agreed<br />
between the parties hereto for themselves and their<br />
respective heirs administrators and assigns as follows :<br />
1. Assignment of licence to publish.—That in consideration<br />
of the hereinafter mentioned payments and subject to the<br />
termination clauses hereinafter mentioned the Composer<br />
hereby agrees to sell and assign to the Publishers an<br />
exclusive licence during the whole period of the copyright<br />
(including any renewals and extensions thereof) to print<br />
publish and sell copies of the composition of the Composer<br />
at present intituled<br />
hereinafter called<br />
the Work or of any part thereof in Great Britain and<br />
Ireland her Colonies and Dependencies and further agrees<br />
that during the currency of this agreement neither himself<br />
nor his heirs executors cr assigns shall print or publish<br />
any copies of the said Work or any part thereof or of any<br />
adaptation or arrangement thereof within the said limits<br />
and shall sell only such copies as are obtained from the<br />
Publishers and the Publishers shall not publish any<br />
arrangement of alteration in or variation in or of the<br />
music of the said Work without the consent in writing of<br />
the Composer. But subject to the rights hereinbefore<br />
granted the Composer retains the copyright and per-<br />
forming rights of the Work.<br />
2. Publication.—The Publishers shall bear the whole<br />
cost of printing publishing and advertising the said Work<br />
and shall use their best endeavours to print and publish<br />
the said Work within months of the date of this<br />
agreement and to sell copies of the same in accordance<br />
with their usual course of business.<br />
3. Form and price.--The Publishers shall issue the Work<br />
in form at the price of<br />
or if occasion<br />
requires in such other form or at such other prices as may be<br />
mutually agreed between the Composer and the Publishers.<br />
The general management of the production publication<br />
reprinting and sale of the Work shall be left to the judg.<br />
ment and discretion of the Publishers.<br />
4. American Copyright.-The publishers shall print on<br />
each copy of the Work the notice required by law of the<br />
reservation of copyright in the United States of America<br />
and shall on publication of the Work duly deposit the<br />
necessary copies and enter the copyright in the Copyright<br />
Office at Washington.<br />
5. Performing Right.- If required in writing by the<br />
Composer before the signing of this agreement the Pub-<br />
lishers shall comply with the provisions of the law relating<br />
to notice of reservation of performing rights.<br />
6. Satutory Copies.--The Publishers shall provide and<br />
deposit the copies required by statute for the public<br />
libraries.<br />
7. Payment of Royalties.-- The Publishers shall pay the<br />
Composer his heirs executors or assigns a royalty of of<br />
the full published price of all copies sold in either notation<br />
thirteen copies being counted as twelve but no royalty<br />
shall be paid to the Composer on complimentary copies<br />
given to him or on copies given away for the purpose of<br />
advertisement.<br />
8. Statement of Account.-The publishers shall make up<br />
the statement of accounts annually to the 31st day of May<br />
in each year and shall render the account and pay the<br />
Composer the amount due within three calendar months<br />
from the said date.<br />
9. Copies for Composer: -- The Composer shall be sup-<br />
plied with copies of the Work for his personal use at the<br />
full trade discount.<br />
10. Work not a violation of other rights.—The Composer<br />
guarantees to the Publishers that the said Work is an<br />
original work and is in no way whatsoever a violation of any<br />
copyright belonging to any other person or persons<br />
partnership firm or incorporated company and that it<br />
contains nothing of an objectionable or libellous character<br />
and agrees that he and his legal representatives shall and<br />
will hold harmless and keep indemnified the Publishers<br />
from all suits and all manner of claims proceedings and<br />
expenses which may be taken or incurred on the ground<br />
that the said work is such violation or contains anything<br />
objectionable or libellous.<br />
11. Prvofs.-The Composer undertakes to correct the<br />
proofs of the Work within fourteen days of their receipt.<br />
And should he fail to do so then the Publishers shall be at<br />
liberty to make such corrections as they shall consider<br />
necessary.<br />
12. Infringements.--If either party has reasonable cause<br />
for believing that the copyright in the said composition<br />
has been infringed he or they shall give immediate notice<br />
to the other party. If the Composer takes proceedings<br />
in respect of the infringement and if the Publishers desire<br />
to be joined in the action they may give written notice<br />
to the Composer to that effect and on an undertaking on<br />
their part to pay an equal sbare in the entire cost of the<br />
litigation the Composer shall join them as parties. In such<br />
case the Composer shall diligently prosecute the action<br />
but shall retain control of the proceedings and may make<br />
any reasonable settlement with the defendants in the<br />
interests of Composer and Publishers and the damages if<br />
any recovered shall be firstly applied in payment of costs<br />
and if there is any surplus shall be divided equally between<br />
Composer and Publishers. If the Composer after the<br />
infringement has come to his notice refuses or neglects<br />
to take proceedings in respect thereof the Publishers sball<br />
be entitled to take proceedings and on giving the Composer<br />
a sufficient and reasonable indemnity against liability for<br />
costs shall be entitled to use the Composer's name as a<br />
party to such proceedings. In such case the Publishers<br />
shall retain control of the proceedings and may make any<br />
reasonable settlement in the interests of Composer and<br />
Publishers and the damages if any recovered shall be<br />
firstly applied in payment of costs and if there is any<br />
surplus shall be divided in the proportion of one-third to<br />
the Composer and two-thirds to the Publishers.<br />
13. Termination of licence by publishers' liquidation.-<br />
In the event of the Publishers going into liquidation the<br />
licence hereunder to make print publish and sell shall<br />
cease from the date of the winding-up order but in the<br />
event of the Publishers reconstructing their company or<br />
amalgamating themselves with another company or<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 277 (#741) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
277<br />
firm the Composer bis heirs executors or assigns shall too, that under tbe Act of December, 1911, copy.<br />
without further consideration grant a licence in similar right means much more than it did under the old<br />
form to such reconstructed or other company or firm<br />
unless he states in writing his objection to the nature of<br />
Act, where the rights were divided ; and, although<br />
the reconstruction or amalgamation. And in the event of the suggested agreement in its first clause gives the<br />
his making such statement of objection he shall not make exclusive licence during the whole term of copy-<br />
an agreement with any other publisher whereby he shall<br />
right, this licence is very strictly limited in the<br />
be entitled to receive higher royalties or any larger<br />
other clauses.<br />
remuneration than that to which he is entitled under this<br />
agreement.<br />
The position of the composer is not under this<br />
14. Termination of licence by notice. If the Publishers agreement one of absolute freedom, such as may be<br />
shall at the end of three years from the date of publication<br />
looked for in the future, but his more advantageous<br />
or at any time thereafter give written notice to the<br />
Composer that in their opinion the demand for the Work<br />
attitude will appear on further consideration. If he,<br />
has ceased or if the publishers shall have at any time under the usual agreement, assigns his copyright, then<br />
allowed the same to be out of print or off the market for a the publisher can publish any arrangement or altera-<br />
period of not less than six calendar months and shall<br />
tion of the music so long as such arrangement or<br />
receive written notice from the Composer to that effect<br />
then if within three months of such written notice having<br />
alteration does not amount to a libel on the com-<br />
been received by either party as the case may be the poser's reputation. Under Messrs. Curwens' agree-<br />
Publishers do not print an edition or use the ordinary ment the publisher is absolutely forbidden to do<br />
methods for putting the work again on the market the<br />
so, and it is expressly stated that the composer<br />
licence hereunder to make print publish and sell shall<br />
retains the copyright and the performing right in<br />
cease.<br />
15. In the event of the cesser of this licence under the work and, in consequence, he would also retain<br />
either of the preceding clauses of this agreement the any fees that come to him from reproduction on<br />
Composer shall have the option of purchasing the plates of<br />
mechanical instruments, which are his under the<br />
the said Work and all unsold copies at an agreed valuation.<br />
Provided that if the Composer does not exercise that<br />
Act of 1911—for he does not undertake to sell or<br />
option within three months of the cesser of the said licence assign these to the publisher in any part of the<br />
the Publishers may at any time thereafter dispose of such agreement. The publisher is also limited with<br />
plates and copies as they may think fit.<br />
regard to country, so that no publication can be<br />
16. Execution of further assurances.--- The Composer<br />
made in America or abroad. The composer can<br />
agrees for himself his heirs executors and assigns to execute<br />
such further assurances of the premises hereby assigned as either enter into a contract direct with a foreign<br />
may reasonably be required.<br />
publisher, or make a fresh arrangement with<br />
17. Throughout this agreement words denoting the male the English publisher. Under clause 3 the pub-<br />
gender shall be held to connote the female gender.<br />
18. Interpretation.--This agreement wherever made shall<br />
lisher is further limited in his rights to print,<br />
be construed according to English law.<br />
publish and sell both as to the format in which the<br />
As Witness the band of the Composer and the hand of<br />
work is to be produced and as to the price at<br />
on behalf of the Publisher the day and which it is to be sold. No alterations can be made<br />
year first above written.<br />
in the format or price without mutual agreement.<br />
Signature of Composer. This clause is a most satisfactory clause from the<br />
composer's point of view.<br />
Witness to the above signature.<br />
Clause + is also satisfactory as the publisher is<br />
Name.<br />
thereby bound to add words necessary to reserve<br />
Address.<br />
the copyright in the United States, and bound to<br />
go through the necessary technicalities to secure<br />
Occupation.<br />
the copyright in that country. As most composers<br />
Signed for J. Curwen & Sons Limited,<br />
know, the printing of music in the l'nited States is<br />
Director,<br />
not essential under the l'nited States Act.<br />
Witness to the above signature.<br />
Clause 5, under the Act of 1911, will be<br />
ineffective and can be taken out of the agree-<br />
Name.<br />
ment when that Act comes into force.<br />
Address.<br />
Clauses 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 may pass with but<br />
little comment. It is true that in inost cases it is<br />
Occupation,<br />
satisfactory to have semi-annual accounts, but an<br />
The Composer should note that he has the right at<br />
exception was made in this special agreement by<br />
common law to inspect the books of the Publishers which<br />
refer to his Works published under this agreement.<br />
the Copyright Sub-Committee after discussion of<br />
the point with Messrs. Curwen & Sons.<br />
The Committee of Management recognise the Clause 11 is almost identical with the clause<br />
first clause of the agreement as being a great which stands in the agreement which was before the<br />
advance. It does away with the transfer of copy. Committee in May, 1910, the view of the composer<br />
right demanded by the document printed at the and the publisher being that the corrections<br />
beginning of this article. It should be mentioned, necessary would be mere printer's errors.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 278 (#742) ############################################<br />
<br />
278<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
Clause 12 is rather complicated, but this is due in making a move to enter the Copyright Union,<br />
to the intention of being very inclusive in the pro- and is proposing such a revision of the national<br />
visions. It will not be so important under the Act copyright law as shall make this step possible.<br />
of 1911.<br />
The projected statute is presented in an official<br />
Clause 13 was discussed at considerable length document : “ Session of 1911–1912. No. 227.<br />
between the Copyright Sub-Committee and the New Regulation of Copyright." This document<br />
representative of Messrs. Curwen & Sons. To the consists of two parts, the “ Proposed New Law,"<br />
casual observer it also may seem complicated, but and an “Explanatory Memoir," both of which are<br />
the reason for its being drafted on the present lines of a highly interesting character.<br />
is as follows :-The publishers have the exclusive The “ Explanatory Memoir " should be read first.<br />
right to publish during the whole term of copy. It contains a lucid explanation of why the present<br />
right. The Sub-Committee desired that the agree Dutch copyright law requires to be revised before<br />
ment should be terminated under the circumstances Holland can join the Berlin Convention, and dis-<br />
set out. Messrs. Curwen wanted the licence to cusses in a manner admirable for its profundity and<br />
continue, and urged that if the author has the exactness the reasons for the various dispositions<br />
option to terminate the agreement he might merely which the Legislature proposes. Among other<br />
do so with a view of raising his financial remu particulars set forth in the memoir the following<br />
neration against a reconstructed firm. The Sub- deserve special attention. The Dutch government<br />
Committee argued that the composer might desire that their new law shall not be a servile<br />
object strongly, for reasons which could not be imitation of what has been proposed to the European<br />
stated under an ordinary arbitration, to allow his nations by the Berlin Convention, but shall hare<br />
work to be published by the reconstructed company original merits of its own. The proposed law is<br />
or firm. In order to meet the views of both parties consequently in several respects in advance of<br />
the last sentence was inserted. This clause is more previous legislation, and at the same time in several<br />
stringent and more to the disadvantage of the com- respects simpler. As an instance of the latter feature<br />
poser than the corresponding clause in the agree- may be mentioned a remark made regarding enact-<br />
ment which is printed in The Author of May, 1910. ments regulating cinematographic representations.<br />
The clause runs as follows:---<br />
The memoir observes, with much reason, that<br />
practically the legislation which rules the copyright<br />
"In the event of the publishers, or any of them,<br />
becoming bankrupt (in the case of a limited company<br />
and exhibition of photographs, rules at the same<br />
substitute “going into liquidation ") the licence hereunder time the copyright and exhibition of cinemato-<br />
to make, print, publish and sell shall cease from the date graphic representations. The cinematograpbic<br />
of the adjudication (or in the case of a limited company<br />
theatre in reality throws upon the screen merely a<br />
substitute “winding-up order ').<br />
number of successive photographs. These, indeed,<br />
There is nothing that need be said about the follow one another with a rapidity too great for the<br />
remaining clauses which are self-explanatory. The human eye to be able to distinguish between them,<br />
Committee would impress upon those composers but are, after all, only a number of different photo-<br />
who are members of the Society that the contract graphis presented to view in rapid succession ; so<br />
set up by the agreement is far more advantageous that any legislation which duly regulates the<br />
for composers than the customary absurd contracts multiplication and exhibition of photographs ipso<br />
which are offered to them. The ruinous assign- facto rules the cinematographic theatre. The whole<br />
ment of copyright is absent.<br />
exhibition is only, as the memoir remarks,“ a form<br />
It must be again insisted that composers shonld of presentation to view by a magic lantern.” The<br />
nerer assign their copyright which, under the Act new Dutch law will, in this particular, be simpler<br />
of 1911, will include their perforining right, and than any other which has dealt with the same<br />
should never assign to the publishers the gramo subject. Respecting artistic copyright new ground<br />
phone rights to which they are wholly entitled seems to be broken in the discussion of the right<br />
under that Act.<br />
of reproduction of portraits. There are here com-<br />
plications arising from the artist's copyright in the<br />
portrait, and the admitted right of the living<br />
THE PROPOSED NEW COPYRIGHT<br />
original to forbid the multiplication and exhibition<br />
of bis portrait, and the discussion in the memoir<br />
LAW OF HOLLAND.<br />
of these crossing rights (if the term may be used)<br />
is fuller than we have elsewhere seen. A different<br />
FTER many years of hesitation, and after problem is presented by the question of the artist's<br />
many disputes respecting the probable right to make replicas of his own work, a right<br />
advantage or disadvantage of adhesion to which the Dutch law will reserve to him. Very<br />
the Berlin Convention, Holland is at last engaged interesting also is the discussion of a question<br />
A<br />
many<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 279 (#743) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
279<br />
which, to the best of our knowledge, has not been the Dutch criminal code, the act will also apply to<br />
hitherto determined in all its aspects, namely, how the Dutch East Indies.<br />
far does copyright impede the right to produce the Of the proposed new law itself, lack of space<br />
same idea in an entirely different form? A very compels us to mention only some salient particu-<br />
simple case of this is the dramatisation of novels ; lars. In general its provisions are such as those<br />
a case in which all modern legislation reserves to elsewhere established. Copyright will be personal<br />
the original author an inhibitive right. This property, and transmissible, but only by writing.<br />
elementary case is, howerer, one in which the Inherited unpublished copyright is not subject to<br />
author's rights are obvious. By no means SO seizure. Copyright is accorded to books, pamphlets,<br />
obvious is the case of a painting of a sculpture. newspapers, journals, and all other writings; dramas,<br />
To come to the extreme instance possible, how will dramatic music, lecturers, choregraphic works and<br />
the case stand when some incident in a novel or pantomimes whose conduct is described in writing<br />
poem is described by the author with the fullest or otherwise ; music, with or without words ;<br />
particulars of surrounding scenery and of the situa- sketches, paintings, architectural designs, sculp-<br />
tion of the dramatis personæ at a given moment, tures, lithographs, engravings and other works on<br />
and an artist paints a picture representing exactly plates ; geographical maps, plans, designs and<br />
what he has read? In the illustration of books it plastic works bearing on arcbitecture, geography,<br />
is not an uncommon phenomenon to find that it is topography and other sciences ; photographic and<br />
difficult, or even impossible, to bring the illustra- cinematographic works, and works of a similar<br />
tions into harmony with the text ; and this may character; artistic works of a commercial character,<br />
suggest that the above assumption is a very un- and in a word to any product belonging to the<br />
likely one; only, presuming it to be verified, has the provinces of literature, science or art, whatsoever<br />
artist infringed the author's copyright ? He has may be its manner of production. Collected works<br />
certainly been picking the author's brains.<br />
of any kind will be regarded as a single work.<br />
The memoir accepts as indisputable the author's There is no copyright in laws, judicial decrees and<br />
“moral right”—that is to say his right to interdict public announcements.<br />
any modification of the work which he has pro. Reproduction of news published in journals will<br />
duced. This right is so far removed from any not be regarded as an infraction of copyright if<br />
commercial interests, and has been only so recently the source is indicated, but reproduction may be<br />
postulated and discussed, that it may appear to forbidden.<br />
many to be wholly imaginary ; though there are Also will be regarded as no infraction of copy-<br />
few authors or artists who will not immediately right the reproduction of a portrait, by or at the<br />
declare in favour of it. Here the new Dutch law command of the person represented, or by his<br />
boldly defends what is one of the highest, though relatives after his death, provided that the repro-<br />
one of the most intangible rights of an author. At duction differs widely in size from the original.<br />
the same time it fully admits the impossibility of The possessor of the copyright of a portrait<br />
its universal practical enforcement. The new law cannot publish it without the consent of the person<br />
proposes to accord copyright to “ commercial represented, but the possessor of architectural<br />
art"--objects designed for practical use and here designs may exbibit then for sale.<br />
again sanctions one of the most recent views. The modification of any copyright work by the<br />
respecting copyright; but the memoir appositely purchaser, or at his command, is forbidden (except<br />
observes that both in the case of objects of this in the case of buildings and trade designs) unless<br />
sort and in the case of architectural designs, it will the author gives his consent to the modification.<br />
be practically impossible to insist upon “moral The author retains this right as long as he lives.<br />
copyright” in the sense in which it can be accorded The author, if he applies for them within a month<br />
to the literary author, the painter, or the musical after seizure, may claim to have pirated works<br />
composer. Practical needs or improvements may handed over to him, and may put them on the<br />
compel the modification of a commercial design, or market.<br />
of a building, and in such cases protection cannot The term of copyright is life and fifty years. In<br />
be given the designer.<br />
the case of collaboration the fifty years are calcu-<br />
The memoir concludes with an expression of the lated from the date of the death of the last surviving<br />
desirability of the new act's coming into force as collaborator. Anonymous works have a copyright<br />
soon as possible after it shall have been passed; of fifty years. The right of translation lapses if<br />
and the concluding article of the new act itself not exercised within ten years from the last day of<br />
declares that it shall come into force in the Dutch the year in which the work was first published, for<br />
Kingdom in Europe on the first day of the month the languages in which the author has not given his<br />
following its passing. With the exception of permission for translation in one of the countries<br />
certain modifications which the act will involve in belonging to the international copyright union.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 280 (#744) ############################################<br />
<br />
280<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
The same rule applies to translation for dramatic increased through M. de Cardonne and M. Dufay,<br />
performance.<br />
the learned librarian of Blois.<br />
Photographic copyright has a term of fifty years. At Chambord ample time was given to explore its<br />
A work is regarded as published only when it is halls and double staircase, and to get many a hint<br />
manifolded for sale. The performance of a dramatic on the architecture of this “forest of campaniles,<br />
work, or of a piece of music, or the exhibition of chimneys, domes, towers, etc.” and to learn the<br />
a picture is not publication.<br />
meaning of the “Salamander" they were to meet<br />
with so often. From Chambord the drive was con-<br />
tinued through the forest and pretty villages, to the<br />
picturesque castle of Cheverny. Particular note was<br />
BRITISH WRITERS AND JOURNALISTS taken of the garden produce cultivation en route. At<br />
IN TOURAINE.<br />
Cheverny the fine tapestries, arms, and armour,<br />
and the interesting room, such as the Salle des<br />
Gardes and the Bedchamber of Henri IV. were<br />
M HE expeditions into foreign countries by the critically explained and examined, and then came<br />
1 members of the British International Associa- the return to Blois, and a reception at the Hôtel de<br />
tion of Journalists have produced important Ville by the Mayor and authorities; at which Sir<br />
results, not only in the shape of numerous articles James Yoxall, in the language of the country,<br />
in journals and magazines, but also in the issue responded to many pleasant words. of greeting. The<br />
of volumes topographical, historical, and of fiction, following day the fêtes in honour of the 500th<br />
dealing with the people and homes of the lands anniversary of Joan of Arc's martyrdom were<br />
visited. Some of these expeditions, brought celebrated, and Blois and its cathedral were en féle<br />
about by invitations from the foreign authorities, for the commemoration. The morning was devoted<br />
have been extensive, entailing some weeks of to a careful study of Blois Castle, under the guid-<br />
travel. To meet the wishes of the members whose ance of M. Dufay, who brought out every point of<br />
time is limited, a short tour in Touraine was architecture and history. This with the Joan of Arc<br />
suggested by the president, Sir James Yoxall, M.P., services and processions gave them much subject-<br />
whose knowledge of French and France gave matter and a new insight into Blois bistory. The<br />
weight to his suggestion, and although this was not next morning they left the city with regret, and<br />
the occasion of an important invitation being halted at Onzaine, en route for Tours, to study the<br />
accepted, the authorities in Touraine, and especially Château of Chaumont, where again M. de Cardonne<br />
the Presidents of the “Syndicat de l'initiative," at and M. Dufay were their historical guides. In the<br />
Blois and Tours, M. M. de Cardonne and Cheverel, evening Tours was reached, and at the Hôtel de<br />
greeted the idea heartily, and in a small space of l'Univers all were cordially received by M. Cheverel,<br />
time ensured a most successful reception and pro- the president of the Syndicat, and M. Mockers, the<br />
gramme. The whole plan was to be contained in leading journalist, aud the other officials of the<br />
a useful, enjoyable journey of eight days, one that city, who had arranged a comprehensive three days'<br />
would largely increase the knowledge of the programme by motors to all the principal châteaux<br />
travellers. The South Eastern and Chatham and the of Touraine, including Chinon, Chenonceaux,<br />
Paris-Orleans railways made such careful arrange. Amboise, Azay le Rideau, Laugeais, Loches, etc.<br />
ments that the journey to Touraine via Paris was A whole delightful day was devoted to Chinon and<br />
accomplished sans fatigue. A day's halt in Paris the castles en route, and over all these historic<br />
allowed the president and officials of the association wonders of architecture local gentlemen gave their<br />
to be received by the Minister of Public Works, services as guides, and thus enhanced the value<br />
Senator Jean Dupuy, and greetings were received of the tour enormously. The specialist in<br />
from such well-known journalists as Count Etienne architecture, or history, agriculture, or folklore,<br />
de Naleche, M. Adrien Hebrard, M. Victor all had their questions answered, and the balts in<br />
Taunay, M. A. Humbert.<br />
these romantic castles gave keen delight to the<br />
An early morning train from Paris landed the English travellers. After the day at Chenonceaux<br />
party in Blois by 10 A.M. Here at once was and Amboise, a reception was given by the Mayor<br />
apparent the cordiality of the reception by M. Henri and Council at Tours at the New Town Hall,<br />
de Cardonne and the authorities, who had arranged which was illuminated for the occasion. In the<br />
an interesting and comprehensive programme for artistically decorated salons, a Vin de'honneur was<br />
the time to be spent at Blois. At 1 P.M. the party proferred by the Maire, who proposed the health of<br />
were en route in carriages for Chambord, driving His Majesty King George, to which Sir James<br />
along the banks of the Loire, and soon found that Yoxall responded by proposing the French President,<br />
their knowledge of the link between French and in a speech that proved his thorough knowledge of<br />
English history was to be widely and delightfully the history of Touraine. M. Mockers, who on<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 281 (#745) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
281<br />
behalf of “ La Presse Tonrangelle" proposed the the writer explain? Why doesn't the reader<br />
English Press, was replied to by the writer, who, guess ? But instead of blaming one another, they<br />
in his turn, gave the Press of France, and especially would do better to blame the age in which they<br />
that of Tours and Touraine.<br />
live. For their conversation is peculiarly modern.<br />
In the morning the librarian, M. Gaston Collon, It never occurred in the past. Then, if the writer<br />
gave much time in showing the most remarkable was questioned, he would reply quite simply and<br />
MSS. treasures of the library, some unique, all very. cheerfully, “Apollo inspired me." The reader<br />
beautiful and deeply interesting. In returning answered, “ Praised be Apollo !” and all was well.<br />
from Amboise a halt was made at the new golf Both parties assumed the intervention of a god,<br />
club house, where the Marquis de Beaumont, the who, duly invoked, poured something into the<br />
president, gave a cordial reception and afternoon worshipper that human converse cannot produce,<br />
tea. The new discoveries at Loches keenly interested and made him a channel for exciting and extra-<br />
the British writers, and as at Amboise so here ordinary words. They believed in inspiration.<br />
everyone felt the expedition was not only delightful To-day we have dethroned A pollo. But it may<br />
but educative. After the official tour was ended, be questioned whether we have put any adequate<br />
some availed themselves of facilities to visit Poitiers, theory in his place. Science—as usual-is not<br />
where M. Robuchons, president of the Syndicat de quite ready. She has one or two more facts about<br />
l'initiatif, received them, and explained the monu- psychology and physiology to master before she<br />
ments of the wondrons old city; other members can ascend Parnassus and explain exactly how<br />
visited other parts of France, including the George books are written. And while she is mastering<br />
Sand country, Bourges, Clermont-Ferrand, the Puy these facts, and the one or two hundred other facts<br />
de Dôme district, gaining thus much additional to which they will lead her, the reader gets at cross<br />
knowledge of France and the French nation.<br />
purposes with the writer, and the writer says<br />
JAMES BAKER.<br />
“Er-er-" Is it possible to forestall science<br />
and to give some answer from our own experience ?<br />
Experiences vary, but most writers when they<br />
compose seem to go through some such process as<br />
INSPIRATION.<br />
follows. They start pretty calın, promising their<br />
wives they will not let the fire out or be late for lunch.<br />
They write a few sentences rery slowly and feel<br />
TOST of us, either as reader or writer constricted and used up. Then a queer catastrophe<br />
1 must have taken part in the following happens inside them. The mind, as it were, turns<br />
conversation :<br />
turtle, sometimes with rapidity, and a hidden part<br />
Reader : It is a great pleasure to meet you. of it comes to the top and controls the pen.<br />
I have admired your books so much ; do you mind Quicker and quicker the writer works, his head<br />
talking about them ?<br />
grows hot, he looks far from handsome, he spoils<br />
Writer : Oh, thank you, I don't think so.—No. the lunch and lets out the fire. He is not exactly<br />
Reader : Because I wanted to ask you. How do “rapt”; on the contrary he feels inore himself<br />
you set about them? How do they come ? Do than usual, and lives in a state which he is con-<br />
you plan out a book beforehand ? Or do you make vinced should be his normal one, though it isn't.<br />
it up as you go along ?<br />
On returning to his normal state, he reads over what<br />
Writer : I can't quite remember. A little of he has written. It surprises him. He couldn't do<br />
both perhaps.<br />
it again. He can't explain to the reader how it was<br />
Reader : I see. You start with a plan, but leave done. He can't remember whether plot or character<br />
yourself quite free to alter it as the story develops. was considered first, whether the work was con-<br />
Writer: That does sound an awfully good way. ceived as a whole or bit by bit. If he started with<br />
I wonder.<br />
a plan it is all forgotten and faded, just as our<br />
Reader : Won't you tell me? Well, I mustn't anticipations about a new place or person fade<br />
pry into the secrets of your craft.<br />
as soon as we have had the experience of<br />
Writer : Oh please we've no secrets.<br />
seeing that place or person. The reality has<br />
Reculer : Then tell me this: Which do you con- swallowed it up. It is a reality outside his<br />
ceive first ; the characters or the plot ?<br />
ordinary self. He has created it but contains it no<br />
Writer : Er--1-a little of both perhaps-er- longer ; to use the backneyed comparison, his<br />
er-<br />
relation to it is that of a parent to a child. And<br />
Reader (afterwards) : Yes, I've met him at last. this, by the way, accounts for a phenomenon which<br />
A disappointment; a very great disappointment. often repels the reader; writers are capable o<br />
It is indeed a disappointment. Reader and perusing their own works with interest and eve<br />
writer part with mutual annoyance. Why can't with admiration. No doubt it is absurd of them to<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 282 (#746) ############################################<br />
<br />
282<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
D<br />
do this, but it is the absurdity of a fond father<br />
CORRESPONDENCE.<br />
who rejoices in the extension of his individuality,<br />
and trusts that it will survive when he is gone. Of<br />
all forms of conceit, it is the least narrowing.<br />
THE HAZARD OF THE PEN.<br />
Here, then, is the process, termed by the ancients<br />
“inspiration," and one wishes that the term was<br />
1.<br />
still in use, for it is far nearer the truth than most<br />
DEAR SIR,-May I say “ Hear, hear!” to<br />
accounts. In modern usage, inspiration is still practically every word contained in the excellent<br />
allowed to poets and a few historians, but the papers of Mr. Herbert W. Smith, and at the same<br />
smaller fry, such as novelists, are denied it. How time add a suggestion of my own?<br />
unfair! If one writer can be inspired, are we not<br />
In my experience one of the main difficulties of<br />
all inspired, every one of us? The quality of our authorship is the financing of one's commissions.<br />
inspiration_that is another matter : ' Apollo Thus, I have been asked to undertake a 100.000<br />
always was unreliable. But are we not all capable word serial and half-a-dozen short stories, enough<br />
of getting into a state where we put down words that work to keep one going the best part of a<br />
we shouldn't put down ordinarily? And is not year. Assuming one has sufficient capital to<br />
this capability the first step towards producing good<br />
work ? When one recalls the anecdotes about<br />
an author to find himself with five or six<br />
great writers-how Jane Austen composed in the<br />
hundred pounds outstanding and not a pound to<br />
hubbub of the rectory drawing-room, how Balzac his credit in the bank. He may have to endure<br />
saw from his summer-house the Comédie Humaine this state of destitution for five or six weeks,<br />
disentangling and entangling against the shrubs during which time he and his household have to<br />
that surrounded him, how Coleridge (the extreme rub along somehow. The irony of the situation<br />
case) prolonged into waking his vision of Kubla lies in the fact that the people who owe him money<br />
Khan-it is tempting to conclude that they all are mostly millionaires.<br />
went through the same process, diverse as were the<br />
Now, in any other trade or profession he could<br />
results to which it brought them, and most go to his bank and say that X and Y and Z, all<br />
tempting to conclude that we, too, can go through firms of the very highest standing, owe him so<br />
that process, with results however bad.<br />
many pounds, due on various dates, and, giren<br />
For—to repeat-inspiration need not imply certain assurances, his banker would be glad to let<br />
genius. The vain shallow writer is also inspired, him overdraw. In our craft, unfortunately, we<br />
and perhaps with the greater facility. He too can have no such facilities. I have not tried it, but I<br />
put down words when his poor little mind has feel sure that if I went to my bank and said to the<br />
turned turtle, and can declare afterwards that they manager, “Here is evidence that X and Y and Z<br />
are good words. There is a story of a man who, owe me £528; may I overdraw to half that<br />
like Coleridge, dreamt a poem of superhuman amount ?" the manager would shake his head and<br />
splendour. It was not cumbersome like Kubla say, “Impossible.”<br />
Khan, but consisted of a single immortal stanza, The author's brother who is in the Army or<br />
which he managed to write down and preserve for Navy or the Church, and who is making half the<br />
literature. When he was quite awake he read the author's income, labours under no such difficulty.<br />
little gem. It ran as follows:<br />
I know, of course, that literary agents and<br />
publishers are often willing to finance an author,<br />
Walker with one eye,<br />
but does not this mean that the author is<br />
Walker with two.<br />
Something to live for,<br />
sacrificing his independence and his power to<br />
Nothing to do.<br />
bargain ? You can't very well stand out for a<br />
good price and at the same time borrow money off<br />
Are not many of our awakenings similar ? The<br />
the man with whom you are dealing. Again, one<br />
inspiration seemed splendid at the time, but<br />
can borrow from friends; yet isn't this rather<br />
criticism must relegate it to the waste paper<br />
rough on both author and friends ?<br />
basket. It is pure balderdash. There is just this<br />
The remedy for this position does not strike me<br />
comfort: we mayn't get far with it, but we<br />
as being beyond the powers of the Society. I<br />
shouldn't get anywhere without it. Perseverance,<br />
would suggest that the Society either arranges<br />
benevolence, culture, and all the other qualities that<br />
with one or two first-class banks, that, in addition<br />
pose as good writing, are worthless if they are<br />
to keeping a member's account, they should be<br />
not rooted in the underside of the mind.<br />
willing to permit an overdraft on such security as<br />
the author himself possesses. The money out-<br />
standing might very easily be made over to the<br />
banker who would provide funds for this purpose.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 283 (#747) ############################################<br />
<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
283<br />
Or perhaps the Society might persuade our leading<br />
editors and publishers, if not to pay immediately<br />
on acceptance, at least to furnish the author with<br />
some negotiable instrument which he could<br />
discount or not discount as his necessities dic-<br />
tated.<br />
I would like to get the opinion of other authors<br />
on this very vital matter, and especially I would<br />
like to get the opinion of an author-banker, such<br />
as Mr. Edward Clodd.<br />
Yours very truly,<br />
ALBERT KINROSS.<br />
(NOTE.—We have submitted a copy of Mr.<br />
Kinross's letter to Mr. Clodd. and have received<br />
the following reply, which Mr. Clodd has kindly<br />
permitted us to print in these columns) :—<br />
II.<br />
DEAR SIRS,—Bankers do not make advances<br />
against book debts, because they are intangible<br />
securities. Firms of the highest repute are some-<br />
times granted loans without security, but in each<br />
case the banker knows that repayment is assured.<br />
Failing ability to deposit negotiable securities,<br />
such as railway stocks, foreign bonds, etc., the only<br />
way in which an author can anticipate payment is<br />
to draw a bill on his publisher, which, if the<br />
if the<br />
acceptor be a man of fair business standing, would<br />
be discounted by the author's banker.<br />
But I gather that publishers are shy in giving<br />
their acceptances.<br />
EDWARD CLODD.<br />
it must be lost. So I re-wrote my MS., and sent it<br />
elsewhere. Five months later-a year and two<br />
months after submitting it-I received my sup-<br />
posedly lost MS. back again with the usual printed<br />
form of refusal.<br />
So evidently your correspondent has had better<br />
luck with The Bystander than either Miss Annesley<br />
or myself. But I observe that he is on the staff of<br />
a London paper. Is it possible that that explains<br />
it? I wonder. Persorally I am not on the staff of<br />
a paper. I am a mere free lance and there are<br />
some editors who seem to think that free lance and<br />
door mat are convertible terms. Fortunately such<br />
editors are very few in number.<br />
I am in doubt whether to sign this letter with<br />
my name. If I do I shall be told that I am trying<br />
to advertise myself. If I do not I shall be told<br />
that an unsigned letter is unworthy of considera-<br />
tion. But I think I will risk this last retort and<br />
will merely content myself with observing that I<br />
am a very humble individual who has earned a bare<br />
and laborious living by his pen for the last ten<br />
years, and that I enclose my name and address for<br />
the information of the editor of The Author.<br />
Only if every writer who receives such really<br />
discourteous treatment as that accorded to Miss<br />
Annesley would complain in public, those few<br />
editors who apparently do not know how to behave<br />
would soon be brought up to the level of the very<br />
great majority who do.<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
X. Y. Z.<br />
11.<br />
* EDITORIAL COURTESY.<br />
SIR,-For how long should an author consider it<br />
necessary to reserve a manuscript to the considera-<br />
SIR,—The enthusiastic tribute paid in the June<br />
tion of one editor ? I use the word “necessary"<br />
Author by one of your correspondents to the prompt,<br />
instead of “ reasonable," because in my experience<br />
courteous, and business-like treatment accorded him very few editors give a contributor a decision within<br />
by The Bystander, is indeed interesting.<br />
a reasonable time. At the present moment three<br />
He explains that everything he sends to that editors of periodicals have the same number of<br />
paper is either accepted or sent back by return of short poems of mine in their hands. One poem has<br />
post. He is a lucky man. For my part I have been retained three months, another six weeks, and<br />
contributed to The Bystander as to the majority of the third a fortnight. To the first editor I have<br />
other papers publishing fiction. But I do not addressed three or four letters without effect. My<br />
think I have ever once had a MS. decided on so poem is neither published nor returned.<br />
promptly by The Bystander people. I remember As the editor myself of two publications, I know<br />
önce sending them a MS. I waited seven months perfectly well that a decision on a short manuscript<br />
and then, having heard nothing about it. I ventured can be made very shortly after it is received, pro-<br />
to ask for a decision. I received no reply so I viding one's work is carried through with method.<br />
wrote again. And again. And again. In fact I Why, then, should a contributor be kept waiting an<br />
wrote six letters and one postcard_all. I assure unreasonable time for a decision ? It is neither<br />
you, polite, even painfully polite, communications fair nor businesslike.<br />
--and then at last I received a nicely written<br />
Yours truly,<br />
answer to the effect that my MS. could not be<br />
AN EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTOR.<br />
found and that if it had ever been received by The *** Undoubtedly very many editors are unbusi-<br />
Bystander, of which there was no trace, they fearednesslike and some though these at any rate nowadays<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 284 (#748) ############################################<br />
<br />
284<br />
THE AUTHOR.<br />
are, we think, few in number—are oblivious of the obliged if you will kindly give me—although not<br />
position of the author who sends in contributions a member of the Society of Authors—space in<br />
on the chance. But it is not quite possible for an which to answer it.<br />
editor to apply what might be called a strict Mr. Bennett may have spoken of “taking part in<br />
business routine to uncommissioned manuscripts; a farce," because he considered it absurd that the<br />
he cannot accept at once just as many as he has “best” half-dozen novels should be picked out<br />
room for and post the others back immediately. without reference to his judgment, and that he<br />
The manuscripts must be read and their suitability would be expected to choose from these not the<br />
ascertained. It frequently happens that a manu- most finished artistic production, but the book<br />
script has no paramount claim for immediate likely to have the best sale. That is as it may be,<br />
insertion, but has, at the same time, qualities which but it is absolutely ninfair to infer that his attitude<br />
might, if space allowed, ensure its insertion later. in this affair proves him to be a man who is too<br />
If such an article is returned at once the author indifferent and selfish to " serve some poor devil of<br />
loses a chance ; if later that chance disappears, a brother author.” Mr. Arnold Bennett-and I<br />
owing to pressure on space or closer inspection of am glad to have an opportunity of pablicly<br />
the work, and the manuscript is returned, the editor acknowledging it—"discovered" me, and went out<br />
is too often held to be discourteous. We recom- of his way to advise me and help me to find a<br />
mend that the author should carefully study the market when I was an absolutely unknown writer,<br />
pages of the periodical to which he proposes to and before his own first book was published.<br />
contribute, so that he may not send an article which Years ago I could have shown “ David” letters<br />
is manifestly unsuitable either in subject, treatment, from Mr. Bennett as kindly and helpful as those<br />
or size. Then, having decided that his chance of be speaks of which were written by Southey, Scott,<br />
insertion is reasonable on such grounds, he should and Besant to their literary godchildren, and I<br />
write to the editor and ask whether he may submit do not for a moment suppose that I am the only<br />
the manuscript. This is a trouble for him as it writer he has ever been kind to. There are other<br />
will be a trouble for the editor, but future and better ways of helping beginners than the<br />
disappointment may in this way be avoided. One very doubtful way of acting as a judge in a Nove<br />
more hint ; authors should always retain copirs of Competition.<br />
their manuscripts, and should always send them in<br />
Yours faithfully,<br />
typewritten.—ED.<br />
M. PENROSE.<br />
A SUGGESTION.<br />
AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER.<br />
Sir,—We hear so much of the openhearted<br />
publisher somehow getting the better of the simple<br />
o getting the better of the simple<br />
author that it might be as well to avoid this unhappy<br />
consummation, and to this end I have the follow-<br />
! I have the follow<br />
ing suggestion to make :—That directly a book is<br />
announced by a new writer an old copy of The<br />
Author should be forwarded to him, and his<br />
attention called to the advice it gives in every issue.<br />
I know, in my own case, that had I possessed<br />
such knowledge I should be many hundred pounds<br />
in pocket, and there must be many more whose<br />
ignorance has cost them dearly.<br />
Yours, etc.,<br />
HORACE W. NEWTE.<br />
DEAR SIR,--Is it correct to make use of your<br />
small space to ask whether some woman-member-<br />
presumably alone in life—with some means, however<br />
slender, would correspond with the writer who has<br />
in view to form a syndicate rest-house in the<br />
country? The leading idea would be to gain a sunset<br />
home for ageing writers, hoping that one or, better<br />
still, two workers in the domain of art might join,<br />
ensuring variety of interests. And in case this<br />
should succeed, a guest-room would form part of<br />
the scheme to which invalided or tired members of<br />
the Authors' Society could be invited for repose<br />
and fresh air, when unable otherwise to afford<br />
these. (Two artists or other workers joining must,<br />
of course, share the right to show hospitality in<br />
turn to their comrades.) Such a combination,<br />
with strict economy, should reduce expenses to<br />
less than a cheap cottage for one ; whilst bringing<br />
sweet air, week-end holidays and country pleasures<br />
to both men and women fellow toilers.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
AN OLD MEMBER.<br />
NOVEL COMPETITIONS.<br />
DEAR SIR, I have just read “ David's ” letter<br />
commenting on Mr. Arnold Bennett, and I shall be<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. (#749) ################################################<br />
<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
TYPEWRITING, Literary & Dramatic Typewriting.<br />
"I have just comple<br />
HUBERT WALES, ESQ., of Hindhead, Surrey, writes:<br />
"I have just completed the revision of my novel ... which you<br />
typod, and I should like to thank you for the admirable way the<br />
work was done. Considering that the manuscript was sent to you<br />
without having been corrected or even read, and that my hand writing.<br />
I am told, is not always particularly legible, it is obvious that it<br />
roquired perception as well as care, something more than simple<br />
mechanical accuracy, to produce such a result-a result which, in<br />
conjunction with your moderate charges, seems to me to be the best<br />
of answers to the criticisms which have recently been directed upon<br />
the work of typists in the columns of The Author."<br />
Novels & Story work, 9d. 1,000 words ; 2 copies, 1/-,<br />
Plays, ruled and covered, 1/- 1,000 words; 2 copies, 1/4.<br />
(French and Spaoish typed.)<br />
Opinions selected from letters received during the past twelve years :-<br />
MRS. E. NESBIT BLAND (E. NESBIT): "I am extremely<br />
pleased ... It is beautiful work."<br />
MRS. TOM GODFREY: “I think you must be a treasure trove to<br />
all authors who have the good fortune to hear of you. ... You<br />
certainly evince an intimate knowledge of French."<br />
MRS. HINKSON (KATHARINE TYNAN): "I have never met with<br />
anything approaching your intelligence, carefulness and promptitude."<br />
RICHARD PRYCE, Esq. : “The work could not be better done."<br />
T IOHN L'Isle, Dimond Road, SOUTHAMPTON<br />
L. A. 01. UUNN, Bitterne Park,<br />
SIKES and SIKES,<br />
The West Kensington Typewriting Offices<br />
(Established 1893),<br />
223a, HAMMERSMITH ROAD, LONDON, W.<br />
NEAT AND CAREFUL<br />
9d. per 1,000 words, with free<br />
Carbon copy.<br />
F. J. CROS8 : "I am obliged by your cour and for the manner<br />
in which you have dealt with Empire Ms."<br />
C, A. GIRTON,<br />
2, Grove Lane, Camberwell, LONDON, 8.E.<br />
SY<br />
U<br />
LITERARY AGENCY, CRITICISING and<br />
REVISING Novels, Stories, Articles, Poetry.<br />
Chief Critic: G. F. LEATHERDALE, M.A., Oxon.<br />
TRANSLATIONS :<br />
French, German, Spanish, Italian.<br />
TYPEWRITING:<br />
Authors' MSS., Specifications, Dramatic Work.<br />
CARBON COPIES a speciality.<br />
DUPLICATING :<br />
Circulars, Notices, Specifications, etc.<br />
ULO III<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
SPECIAL TERMS FOR LARGE ORDERS IN ANY DEPARTMENT.<br />
The most difficult handwriting and involved copy<br />
accurately deciphered by experts.<br />
B. G. & M. E. LEATHERDALE. 128, UXBRIDGE RO..<br />
· EALING, W.<br />
(Late of Garden City, Herts.)<br />
(When applying for prospectuses please mention this Advertisement.)<br />
MISS FOWLER,<br />
Maxwell House, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.<br />
on all subjects,<br />
including<br />
LITERARY,<br />
Educational,<br />
Commercial, Technical, Medical, Theological, etc., and<br />
for all examinations.<br />
<br />
BOO:<br />
WANTED.<br />
(By an Invalid, unable to walk.)<br />
TYPEWRITING and DUPLICATING<br />
IN ANY QUANTITY.<br />
AUTHORS' MSS. a Speciality.<br />
Second-Hand at Half-Prices. New at 25 per<br />
cent, discount,<br />
Catalogues free. State Wants. Books sent on approval ; BOOKS<br />
BOUGHT. Best Prices Given.<br />
W. & G. FOYLE,<br />
135, Charing Cross Road, London, W.C.<br />
Accuracy,<br />
Absolute Secrecy,<br />
Prompt Attention, and<br />
Satisfaction Guaranteed.<br />
Trial Order earnestly solicited.<br />
Full Price List and Testimonials on application.<br />
TYPEWRITING. Authors' MSS. copied by<br />
Experienced Operator.<br />
DUPLICATING. Attendance locally for dictation.<br />
MISS SOLLY, 378, Shirley Road, Southampton.<br />
Nothing Too Small !<br />
Nothing Too Large!<br />
MISS MORGAN'S TYPEWRITING, SHORTHAND,<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICES.<br />
Dunster House, Mark Lane, London, E.C.<br />
Every description of Typewriting, Authors' MSS., Sermons,<br />
&c., undertaken at from 1 Od. per 1,000 words. Special<br />
terms for large quantities or regular work.<br />
Meetings Reported on Moderate Terms. Accuracy and<br />
Promptness guaranteed.<br />
Telephone : 12137 Central.<br />
c. HERBERT CÆSAR,<br />
Homefield, Woodstock Road, St. Albans, Herts.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. (#750) ################################################<br />
<br />
vi<br />
ADVERTISEMENTS.<br />
.<br />
Two popular Hotels in Central London.<br />
Opposite the British Museum.<br />
THACKERAY HOTEL<br />
Great Russell Street, London.<br />
Near the British Museum,<br />
WHAT OUR AUTHORS AND OTHERS ARE<br />
SAYING ABOUT OUR BOOKS.<br />
THE AUTHOR OF "THE CO-RESPONDENT " WRITES :<br />
DEAR SIRS,<br />
May 10th, 1912.<br />
We thank you for the copies of " The Co-Respondent,"<br />
received this morning. We were pleased to get them<br />
carlier than the date you named, and we like the get-up<br />
immensely.<br />
THE AUTHOR OF “CAIRN LODGE" WRITES:<br />
May 15, 1912.<br />
“ Begs to acknowledge the books sent to her, she is very<br />
pleased with the way they are got up."<br />
THE REVIEWER IN " THE MORNING LEADER" DESCRIBES<br />
"AUNT URSULA'S BEQUEST":<br />
"A little book which deserves mention for several<br />
reasons. 'Aunt Ursula's Bequest' is bound in very<br />
pleasing paper boards. It contains original new fiction<br />
about 30,000 words of it--and it costs a shilling. This is a<br />
good idea in the way of pocket volumes. It is also good<br />
intrinsically. It is a capital little tale ... excellently<br />
written in a sober, unpretentious way."<br />
KINGSLEY HOTEL<br />
Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London.<br />
Passenger Lifts. Bathrooms on every Floor. Lounges<br />
and Spacious Dining, Drawing, Writing, Reading, Billiard<br />
and Smoking Rooms. Fireproof Floors. Perfect Sanita.<br />
tion. Telephones. Night Porters.<br />
Bedroom, Attendance, and Table d'Hote<br />
Breakfast, single, from 5/6 to 7/6.<br />
Table d'Hote Dinner, Six Courses, 3/-.<br />
Full Tariff and Testimonials on application.<br />
Telegraphic Addresses :<br />
Thackeray Hotel—"Thackeray, London."<br />
Kingsley Hotel —"Bookcraft, London."<br />
MURRAY & EVENDEN.<br />
Pleydell House, Pleydell Street,<br />
Fleet Street, E.C.<br />
MRS. GILL'S TYPEWRITING. SHORTHAND. | AUTHORS wishing to make arrange-<br />
AND TRANSLATION OFFICE, ments for Publishing are invited to<br />
35, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E.C. communicate with LYNWOOD & Co.,<br />
Telephone—8464 Central.<br />
Established 1883. Ltd., Publishers, 12, Paternoster Row,<br />
Manuscripts of every description promptly and intel-<br />
London, E.C., who will be pleased<br />
ligently copied, from 1s. per 1,000 words; special success<br />
with work rendered indistinct by hasty writing and by to consider MSS. and advise (free).<br />
corrections. French and German typewriting undertaken,<br />
and typewritten translations supplied. Testimonials Please write before sending MSS.<br />
from authors, scientists, engineers, architects, barristers.<br />
Reference kindly permitted to Messrs. A. P. Watt & Son,<br />
CATALOGUE OF PUBLICATIONS<br />
Literary Agents, Hastings House, Norfolk Street, Strand,<br />
POST FREE ON APPLICATION.<br />
W.C.<br />
Neatness and accuracy, with<br />
promptness ; 7d. per 1,000;<br />
TYPEWRITING.<br />
over 20,000, 6d. Plays ruled<br />
and bound, 8d. Cheap duplicating.<br />
Authors' MSS. copied from 9d. per 1,000<br />
DRACUP, 21, Millbrook Road, BEDFORD.<br />
words; in duplicate, 1/-. Plays and General TYPEWRITING.–<br />
typed at 10d. per 1,000<br />
Copying. List and specimen of work on appli words (carbon copy free).-<br />
EXCELSIOR TYPEWRITING OFFICES,<br />
cation.<br />
20, Bucklersbury, E.C.<br />
ONE OF NUMEROUS TESTIMONIALS.<br />
TYPEWRITING & SECRETARIAL WORK.<br />
MISSES CONQUEST & BUCHANAN,<br />
but praise for the accuracy, speed and neatness with which she<br />
84, VICTORIA STREET, S.W. Telephone : No. 5537 Westminster.<br />
Recommended by Mr. G. K. Chesterton, Baron de Worms,<br />
MISS M. R. HORNE,<br />
New Address :-<br />
Many Testimonials, of which the following is a specimen : “ Many<br />
5, PADCROFT ROAD, YIEWSLEY, MIDDLESEX. ||<br />
thanks for the excellent work and the promptness with which it has<br />
been done."<br />
TVDCWDITIAN<br />
Authors' MSS. carefully<br />
Tel.: Bank 82.<br />
# Miss M. R. HORNE has typed for me literary matter to the<br />
extent of some hundreds of thousands of words. I have nothing<br />
does her work.-FRANK SAVILE."<br />
Miss Gertrude Tuckwell, Canon Swallow, Hilaire Belloc, Esq.,<br />
and Others,<br />
Printed by BRADBURY, AGNEW, & Co. LD., and Published by them for THE SOCIETY OF AUTHORS (INCORPORATED)<br />
at 10, Bouverie Street, London, E.C.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 1 (#751) ##############################################<br />
<br />
The Author<br />
(THE ORGAN OF THE INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF AUTHORS).<br />
SUPPLEMENT.<br />
COPYRIGHT ACT, 1911.<br />
[1 & 2 Geo. 5. CH. 46.]<br />
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.<br />
PART I.<br />
IMPERIAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
Rights.<br />
Section,<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 infringing 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 actions.<br />
Summary Remedies.<br />
11. Penalties for dealing with infringing copies, &c.<br />
12. Appeals to quarter sessions.<br />
13. Extent of provisions as to summary remedies.<br />
Importation of Copies.<br />
14. Importation of copies.<br />
Delivery of Books to Libraries.<br />
15. Delivery of copies to British Museum and other libraries.<br />
Special Provisions as to Certain Works.<br />
16. Works of joint authors.<br />
17. Posthumous works.<br />
18. Provisions as to Government publications.<br />
19. Provisions as to mechanical instruments.<br />
20. Provision as to political speeches.<br />
21. Provisions as to photographs.<br />
22. Provisions as to designs registrable under 7 Edw. 7, c. 29.<br />
23. Works of foreign authors first published in parts of His Majesty's dominions to which<br />
* Act extends.<br />
24. Existing works.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 2 (#752) ##############################################<br />
<br />
( 2 )<br />
Application to British Possessions.<br />
25. Application of Act to British Dominions.<br />
26. Legislative powers of self-governing Dominions.<br />
27. Power of Legislatures of British possessions to pass supplemental legislation.<br />
28. Application to protectorates.<br />
PART II.<br />
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT,<br />
29. Power to extend Act to foreign works.<br />
30. Application of Part II. to British possessions.<br />
Part III.<br />
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS.<br />
31. Abrogation of common law rights.<br />
32. Provisions as to Orders in Council.<br />
33. Saving of university copyright.<br />
34. Saving of compensation to certain libraries.<br />
35. Interpretation.<br />
36. Repeal.<br />
Short title and commencement,<br />
SCHEDULES.<br />
37. She<br />
An Act to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Copyright.<br />
[16th December, 1911.]<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 1.<br />
IMPERIAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
Rights.<br />
Copyright.<br />
1.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, copyright shall subsist throughout the<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<br />
of 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, to<br />
perform, or in the case of a lecture to deliver, the work or any substantial part thereof in<br />
public; if the work is unpublished, to publish the work or any substantial part thereof;<br />
and shall include the sole right,-<br />
(a) to produce, reproduce, perform, or publish any translation of the work ;<br />
(6) In the case of a dramatic work, to convert it into a novel or other non-dramatic<br />
work ;<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 3 (#753) ##############################################<br />
<br />
(c) in the case of a novel or other non-dramatic work, or of an artistic work, to<br />
convert it into a dramatic work, by way of performance in public or otherwise •<br />
(d) 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 which the<br />
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 an<br />
artistic work, or the construction of an architectural work of art, but, for the purposes of<br />
this provision, the issue of photographs and engravings of works of sculpture and archi-<br />
tectural works of art shall not be deemed to be publication of such works.<br />
2.-(1) Copyright in a work shall be deemed to be infringed by any person who, Infringement<br />
without the consent of the owner of the copyright, does anything the sole right to do which of copyright.<br />
is by this Act conferred on the owner of the copyright : Provided that the following acts<br />
shall not constitute an infringement of copyright :-<br />
(i) Any fair dealing with any work for the purposes of private study, research,<br />
criticism, review, or newspaper summary :<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 or publishing of paintings, drawings, engravings, or photographs of<br />
a work of sculpture or artistic craftsmanship, if permanently situate in a<br />
public place or building, or the making or publishing of paintings, drawings,<br />
engravings, or photographs (which are not in the nature of architectural draw-<br />
ings or plans) of any architectural work of art :<br />
(iv) The publication in a collection, mainly composed of non-copyright matter, bonâ<br />
fide intended for the use of schools, and so described in the title and in any<br />
advertisements issued by the publisher, of short passages from published literary<br />
works not themselves published for the use of schools in which copyright sub-<br />
subsists : Provided that not more than two of such passages from works by the<br />
same author are published by the same publisher within five years, and that the<br />
source from which such passages are taken is acknowledged :<br />
(v) The publication in a newspaper of a report of a lecture delivered in public,<br />
unless the report is prohibited by conspicuous written or printed notice affixed<br />
before and maintained during the lecture at or about the main entrance of the<br />
building in which the lecture is given, and, except whilst the building is being<br />
used for public worship, in a position near the lecturer ; but nothing in this<br />
paragraph shall affect the provisions in paragraph (i) as to newspaper<br />
summaries :<br />
(vi) The reading or recitation in public by one person of any reasonable extract from<br />
any published work.<br />
(2) Copyright in a work shall also be deemed to be infringed by any person who-<br />
(a) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire; or<br />
b) distributes either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect<br />
prejudicially the owner of the copyright; or<br />
(c) by way of trade exhibits in public; or<br />
id) imports for sale or hire into any part of His Majesty's dominions to which this<br />
Act extends,<br />
any work which to his knowledge infringes copyright or would infringe copyright if it had<br />
been made within the part of His Majesty's dominions in or into which the sale or hiring,<br />
exposure, offering for sale or hire, distribution, exhibition, or importation took place.<br />
- (3) Copyright in a work shall also be deemed to be infringed by any person who for<br />
his private profit permits a theatre or other place of entertainment to be used for the per-<br />
formance in public of the work without the consent of the owner of the copyright, unless he<br />
was not aware, and had no reasonable ground for suspecting, that the performance would<br />
be an infringement of copyright,<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 4 (#754) ##############################################<br />
<br />
(4)<br />
Term of copy-<br />
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 />
Provided that at any time after the expiration of twenty-five years, or in the case of a<br />
work in which copyright subsists at the passing of this Act thirty years, from the death of<br />
the author of a published work, copyright in the work shall not be deemed to be infringed<br />
by the reproduction of the work for sale if the person reproducing the work proves that he<br />
has given the prescribed notice in writing of his intention to reproduce the work, and that<br />
he has paid in the prescribed manner to, or for the benefit of, the owner of the copyright<br />
royalties in respect of all copies of the work sold by him calculated at the rate of ten per<br />
cent. on the price at which he publishes the work; and, for the purposes of this proviso,<br />
the Board of Trade may make regulations prescribing the mode in which notices are to be<br />
given, and the particulars to be given in such notices, and the mode, time, and frequency<br />
of the payment of royalties, including (if they think fit) regulations requiring payment in<br />
advance or otherwise securing the payment of royalties.<br />
Compulsory 4. If at any time after the death of the author of a literary, dramatic, or musical work<br />
licences.<br />
which has been published or performed in public a complaint is made to the Judicial Com-<br />
mittee of the Privy Council that the owner of the copyright in the work has refused to<br />
republish or to allow the republication of the work or has refused to allow<br />
the performance in public of the work, and that by reason of such refusal the work<br />
is withheld from the public, the owner of the copyright may be ordered to grant a licence<br />
to reproduce the work or perform the work in public, as the case may be, on such terms<br />
and subject to such conditions as the Judicial Committee may think fit.<br />
Ownership of 5.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the author of a work shall be the first<br />
copyright, &c. owner of the copyright therein :<br />
Provided that,<br />
(a) where, in the case of an engraving, photograph, or portrait, the plate or other<br />
original was ordered by some other person and was made for valuable considera-<br />
tion in pursuance of that order, then, in the absence of any agreement to the<br />
contrary, the person by whom such plate or other original was ordered shall be<br />
the first owner of the copyright; and<br />
(6) where the author was in the employment of some other person under a contract of<br />
service or apprenticeship and the work was made in the course of his employ-<br />
ment by that person, the person by whom the author was employed shall, in the<br />
absence of any agreement to the contrary, be the first owner of the copyright,<br />
but where the work is an article or other contribution to a newspaper, magazine,<br />
or similar periodical, there shall, in the absence of any agreement to the contrary,<br />
be deemed to be reserved to the author a right to restrain the publication of the<br />
work, otherwise than as part of a newspaper, magazine, or similar periodical.<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 the United Kingdom or any self-<br />
governing dominion or other part of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends,<br />
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 or grant shall be valid unless it is<br />
in writing signed by the owner of the right in respect of which the assignment or grant is<br />
made, or by his duly authorised agent :<br />
Provided that, where the author of a work is the first owner of the copyright therein,<br />
no assignment of the copyright, and no grant of any interest therein, made by him (other-<br />
wise than by will) after the passing of this Act, shall be operative to vest in the assignee<br />
or grantee any rights with respect to the copyright in the work beyond the expiration of<br />
twenty-five years from the death of the author, and the reversionary interest in the copy-<br />
right expectant on the termination of that period shall, on the death of the author,<br />
notwithstanding any agreement to the contrary, devolve on his legal personal representatives<br />
as part of his estate, and any agreement entered into by him as to the disposition of such<br />
reversionary interest shall be null and void, but nothing in this proviso shall be construed<br />
as applying to the assignment of the copyright in a collective work or a licence to publish<br />
a work or part of a work as part of a collective work.<br />
(3) Where, under any partial assignment of copyright, the assignee becomes entitled<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 5 (#755) ##############################################<br />
<br />
( 5 )<br />
to any right comprised in copyright, the assignee as respects the right so assigned, and the<br />
assignor as respects the rights not assigned, shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as<br />
the owner of the copyright, and the provisions of this Act shall have effect accordingly.<br />
Civil Remedies.<br />
6.-(1) Where copyright in any work has been infringed, the owner of the copyright Civil reme-<br />
shall, except as otherwise provided by this Act, be entitled to all such remedies by way of dies for<br />
injunction or interdict, damages, accounts, and otherwise, as are or may be conferred by of<br />
infringement<br />
law for the infringement of a right.<br />
(2) The costs of all parties in any proceedings in respect of the infringement of<br />
copyright shall be in the absolute discretion of the Court.<br />
(3) In any action for infringement of copyright in any work, the work shall be<br />
presumed to be a work in which copyright subsists and the plaintiff shall be presumed<br />
to be the owner of the copyright, unless the defendant puts in issue the existence of the<br />
copyright, or, as the case may be, the title of the plaintiff, and where any such question is<br />
in issue, then-<br />
(a) if a name purporting to be that of the author of the work is printed or otherwise<br />
indicated thereon in the usual manner, the person whose name is so printed or<br />
indicated shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed to be the author<br />
of the work ;<br />
(6) if no name is so printed or indicated, or if the name so printed or indicated is not<br />
the author's true name or the name by which he is commonly known, and a<br />
name purporting to be that of the publisher or proprietor of the work is<br />
printed or otherwise indicated thereon in the usual manner, the person whose<br />
name is so printed or indicated shall, unless the contrary is proved, be presumed<br />
to be the owner of the copyright in the work for the purposes of proceedings in<br />
respect of the infringement of copyright therein.<br />
7. All infringing copies of any work in which copyright subsists, or of any substantial Rights of<br />
part thereof, and all plates used or intended to be used for the production of such infringing owner against<br />
copies, shall be deemed to be the property of the owner of the copyright, who accordingly persons<br />
ooonvorsin possessing or<br />
may take proceedings for the recovery of the possession thereof or in respect of the conversion<br />
thereof.<br />
infringing<br />
8. Where proceedings are taken in respect of the infringement of the copyright in copies, &c.<br />
any work and the defendant in his defence alleges that he was not aware of the existence Exemption<br />
of innocent<br />
of the copyright in the work, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to any remedy other than an<br />
all infringer from<br />
injunction or interdict in respect of the infringement if the defendant proves that at the liability to<br />
date of the infringement he was not aware and had no reasonable ground for suspecting that pay damages,<br />
copyright subsisted in the work.<br />
9.-(1) Where the construction of a building or other structure which infringes or Restriction on<br />
which, if completed, would infringe the copyright in some other work has been commenced, remedies in<br />
the owner of the copyright shall not be entitled to obtain an injunction or interdict to the case of<br />
architecture.<br />
restrain the construction of such building or structure or to order its demolition.<br />
(2) Such of the other provisions of this Act as provide that an infringing copy of a<br />
work shall be deemed to be the property of the owner of the copyright, or as impose<br />
summary penalties, shall not apply in any case to which this section applies.<br />
10. An action in respect of infringement of copyright shall not be commenced after Limitation<br />
the expiration of three years next after the infringement.<br />
of actions.<br />
&c.<br />
Summary Remedies.<br />
11.-(1) If any person knowingly-<br />
(a) makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in which copyright Penalties for<br />
subsists ; or<br />
dealing with<br />
(b) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire any<br />
any infringing<br />
infringing copy of any such work ; or<br />
(c) distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade<br />
or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of the copyright ; or<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 6 (#756) ##############################################<br />
<br />
( 6<br />
)<br />
(d) by way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy of any such work; or<br />
() imports for sale or hire into the United Kingdom any infringing copy of any."<br />
such work :<br />
he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and be liable on summary conviction to a<br />
fine not exceeding forty shillings for every copy dealt with in contravention of this section,<br />
but not exceeding fifty pounds in respect of the same transaction ; or, in the case of a second<br />
or subsequent offence, either to such fine or to imprisonment with or without hard labour<br />
for a term not exceeding two months.<br />
(2) If any person knowingly makes or has in his possession any plate for the purpose,<br />
of making infringing copies of any work in which copyright subsists, or knowingly and<br />
for his private profit causes any such work to be performed in public without the<br />
consent of the owner of the copyright, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and<br />
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 hard<br />
labour for a term not exceeding two months.<br />
(3) The court before which any such proceedings are taken may, whether the alleged<br />
offender is convicted or not, order that all copies of the work or all plates in the possession<br />
of the alleged offender, which appear to it to be infringing copies or plates for the purpose<br />
of making infringing copies, be destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the copyright or<br />
otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit.<br />
2 Edw. 7,<br />
(4) Nothing in this section shall, as respects musical works, affect the provisions of<br />
c. 15. the Musical (Summary Proceedings) Copyright Act, 1902, or the Musical Copyright Act,<br />
6 Edw. 7,<br />
1906.<br />
c. 36.<br />
Appeals to<br />
12. Any person aggrieved by a summary conviction of an offence under the foregoing<br />
quarter provisions of this Act may in England and Ireland appeal to a court of quarter sessions<br />
sessions. and in Scotland under and in terms of the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts.<br />
Extent of '13. The provisions of this Act with respect to summary remedies shall extend only.to<br />
provisions as the United Kingdom.<br />
to summary<br />
remedies.<br />
Importation of Copies.<br />
Importation 14.-(1) Copies made out of the United Kingdom of any work in which copyright<br />
of copies. subsists wbich if made in the United Kingdom would infringe copyright, and as to which<br />
the owner of the copyright gives notice in writing by himself or his agent to the Com-<br />
missioners of Customs and Excise, that he is desirous that such copies should not be imported<br />
into the United Kingdom, shall not be so imported, and shall, subject to the provisions of<br />
this section, be deemed to be included in the table of prohibitions and restrictions contained<br />
39 & 40 Vict. in section forty-two of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, and that section shall apply<br />
c. 36.<br />
accordingly.<br />
(2) Before detaining any such copies or taking any further proceedings with a view to<br />
the forfeiture thereof under the law relating to the Customs, the Commissioners of Customs<br />
and Excise may require the regulations under this section, whether as to information, con-<br />
ditions, or other matters, to be complied with, and may satisfy themselves in accordance<br />
with those regulations that the copies are such as are probibited by this section to be<br />
imported.<br />
(3) The Commissioners of Customs and Excise may make regulations, either general or -<br />
special, respecting the detention and forfeiture of copies the importation of which is prohibited<br />
by this section, and the conditions, if any, to be fulfilled before such detention and forfeiture,<br />
and may, by such regulations, determine the information, notices, and security to be given,<br />
and the evidence requisite for any of the purposes of this section, and the mode of verification<br />
of such evidence.<br />
(4) The regulations may apply to copies of all works the importation of copies of which<br />
is prohibited by this section, or different regulations may be made respecting different<br />
classes of such works.<br />
(5) The regulations may provide for the informant reimbursing the Commissioners of<br />
Customs and Excise all expenses and damages incurred in respect of any detention made on<br />
his information, and of any proceedings consequent on such detention ; and may provide for<br />
notices under any enactment repealed by this Act being treated as notices given under this<br />
section,<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 7 (#757) ##############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
7<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 that<br />
Act, the Isle of Man shall not be treated as part of the United Kingdom for the purposes<br />
of this section.<br />
(7) This section shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the importation into<br />
a British possession to which this Act extends of copies of works made out of that possession.<br />
Delivery of Books to Libraries.<br />
15.—(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 />
British<br />
Museum and<br />
(2) He shall also, if written demand is made before the expiration of twelve months other<br />
after publication, deliver within one month after receipt of that written demand or, if the libraries.<br />
demand was made before publication, within one month after publication, to some depôt<br />
in London named in the demand a copy of the book for, or in accordance with the<br />
directions of, the authority having the control of each of the following libraries, namely :<br />
the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library of the<br />
Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and<br />
subject to the provisions of this section the National Library of Wales. In the case of an<br />
encyclopædia, newspaper, review, magazine, or work published in a series of numbers or<br />
parts, the written demand may include all numbers or parts of the work which may be<br />
subsequently published.<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 the<br />
same manner as the best copies of the book are published, and shall be bound, sewed, or<br />
stiched 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) The books of which copies are to be delivered to the National Library of Wales<br />
shall not include books of such classes as may be specified in regulations to be made by the<br />
Board of Trade.<br />
(6) If a publisher fails to comply with this section, he shall be liable on summary<br />
conviction to a fine not exceeding five 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<br />
delivered.<br />
(7) 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 table<br />
separately published, but shall not include any second or subsequent edition of a book unless<br />
such edition contains additions or alterations either in the letterpress or in the maps,<br />
prints, or other erigravings belonging thereto.<br />
Special Provisions as to certain Works,<br />
16.-(1) In the 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 authors.<br />
life of the author who dies last, whichever period is the longer, and references in this Act<br />
to the period after the expiration of any specified number of years from the death of the<br />
author shall be construed as references to the period after the expiration of the like number of<br />
years from the death of the author who dies first or after the death of the author who dies<br />
last, whichever period may be the shorter, and in the provisions of this Act with respect to<br />
the grant of compulsory licences a reference to the date of the death of the author who<br />
dies last shall be substituted for the reference to the date of the death of the author.<br />
(2) Where, in the case of a work of joint authorship, some one or more of the joint<br />
authors do not satisfy the conditions conferring copyright laid down by this Act, the work<br />
shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as if the other author or authors had been the<br />
sole author or authors thereof :<br />
Provided that the term of the copyright shall be the same as it would have been if all<br />
the authors had satisfied such conditions as aforesaid.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 8 (#758) ##############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
8<br />
(3) For the purposes of this Act, “ a work of joint authorship” means a work pro-<br />
duced by the collaboration of two or more authors in which the contribution of one author<br />
is not distinct from the contribution of the other author or authors.<br />
(4) Where a married woman and her husband are joint authors of a work the interest<br />
of such married woman therein shall be her separate property.<br />
Posthumous 17.-(1) In the case of a literary dramatic or musical work, or an engraving, in which<br />
works.<br />
copyright subsists at the date of the death of the author, or, in the case of a work<br />
of joint authorship, at or immediately before the date of the death of the author who<br />
dies last, but which has not been published, nor, in the case of a dramatic or musical work,<br />
been performed in public, nor, in the case of a lecture, been delivered in public, before<br />
that date, copyright shall subsist till publication, or performance or delivery in public,<br />
whichever may first happen, and for a term of fifty years thereafter, and the proviso to<br />
section three of this Act shall, in the case of such a work, apply as if the author had died<br />
at the date of such publication or performance or delivery in public as aforesaid.<br />
(2) The ownership of an author's manuscript after his death, where such ownership<br />
has been acquired under a testamentary disposition made by the author and the manuscript<br />
is of a work which has not been published nor performed in public nor delivered in public,<br />
shall be primâ facie proof of the copyright being with the owner of the manuscript.<br />
Provisions as 18. Without prejudice to any rights or privileges of the Crown, where any work has,<br />
to Govern-<br />
whether before or after the commencement of this Act, been prepared or published by or<br />
ment pub-<br />
lications.<br />
under the direction or control of His Majesty or any Government department, the copyright<br />
in the work shall, subject to any agreement with the author, belong to His Majesty, and in<br />
such case shall continue for a period of fifty years from the date of the first publication of<br />
the work.<br />
Provisions as 19.—(1) Copyright shall subsist in records, perforated rolls, and other contrivances by<br />
to mechanical<br />
means of which sounds may be mechanically reproduced, in like manner as if such contri-<br />
instruments.<br />
vances were musical works, but the term of copyright shall be fifty years from the making<br />
of the original plate from which the contrivance was directly or indirectly derived, and the<br />
person who was the owner of such original plate at the time when such plate was made<br />
shall be deemed to be the author of the work, and, where such owner is a body corporate,<br />
the body corporate shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to reside within the parts<br />
of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends if it has established a place of business<br />
within such parts.<br />
(2) It shall not be deemed to be an infringement of copyright in any musical work for<br />
any person to make within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends<br />
records, perforated rolls, or other contrivances by means of which the work may be<br />
mechanically performed, if such person proves-<br />
(a) that such contrivances have previously been made by, or with the consent or<br />
acquiescence of, the owner of the copyright in the work ; and .<br />
(6) that he has given the prescribed notice of his intention to make the contrivances,<br />
and has paid in the prescribed manner to, or for the benefit of, the owner of the<br />
copyright in the work royalties in respect of all such contrivances sold by him,<br />
calculated at the rate herein-after mentioned :<br />
Provided that,<br />
(i) nothing in this provision shall authorise any alterations in, or omissions from, the<br />
work reproduced, unless contrivances reproducing the work subject to similar<br />
alterations and omissions have been previously made by, or with the consent or<br />
acquiescence of, the owner of the copyright, or unless such alterations or<br />
omissions are reasonably necessary for the adaptation of the work to the<br />
contrivances in question ; and<br />
(ii) for the purposes of this provision, a musical work shall be deemed to include any<br />
words so closely associated therewith as to form part of the same work, but<br />
shall not be deemed to include a contrirance by means of which sounds may<br />
be mechanically reproduced.<br />
(3) The rate at which such royalties as aforesaid are to be calculated shall-<br />
(a) in the case of contrivances sold within two years after the commencement of this<br />
Act by the person making the same, be two and one-half per cent. ; and<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 9 (#759) ##############################################<br />
<br />
( 9 )<br />
(6) in the case of contrivances sold as aforesaid after the expiration of that period<br />
five per cent.<br />
on the ordinary retail selling price of the contrivance calculated in the prescribed manner,<br />
so however that the royalty payable in respect of a contrivance shall, in no case, be less<br />
than a half-penny for each separate musical work in which copyright subsists reproduced<br />
thereon, and, where the royalty calculated as aforesaid includes a fraction of a farthing,<br />
such fraction shall be reckoned as a farthing :<br />
Provided that, if, at any time after the expiration of seven years from the commence-<br />
ment of this Act, it appears to the Board of Trade that such rate as aforesaid is no longer<br />
equitable, the Board of Trade may, after holding a public inquiry, make an order either<br />
decreasing or increasing that rate to such extent as under the circumstances may seein<br />
just, but any order so made shall be provisional only and shall not have any effect unless<br />
and until confirmed by Parliament; but, where an order revising the rate has been so<br />
made and confirmed, no further revision shall be made before the expiration of fourteen<br />
years from the date of the last revision.<br />
(4) If any such contrivance is made reproducing two or more different works in which<br />
copyright subsists and the owners of the copyright therein are different persons, the sums<br />
payable by way of royalties under this section shall be apportioned amongst the several<br />
owners of the copyright in such proportions as, failing agreement, may be determined by<br />
arbitration.<br />
(5) When any such contrivances by means of which a musical work may be<br />
mechanically performed have been made, then, for the purposes of this section, the owner<br />
of the copyright in the work shall, in relation to any person who makes the prescribed<br />
inquiries, be deemed to have given his consent to the making of such contrivances if he<br />
fails to reply to such inquiries within the prescribed time.<br />
(6) For the purposes of this section, the Board of Trade may make regulations<br />
prescribing anything which under this section is to be prescribed, and prescribing the<br />
mode in which notices are to be given and the particulars to be given in such notices, and<br />
the mode, time, and frequency of the payment of royalties, and any such regulations may,<br />
if the Board think fit, include regulations requiring payment in advance or otherwise<br />
securing the payment of royalties.<br />
(7) In the case of musical works published before the commencement of this Act, the<br />
foregoing provisions shall have effect, subject to the following modifications and<br />
additions :-<br />
(a) The conditions as to the previous making by, or with the consent or acquiescence<br />
of, the owner of the copyright in the work, and the restrictions as to alterations<br />
in or omissions from the work, shall not apply :<br />
(6) The rate of two and one-half per cent. shall be substituted for the rate of five<br />
per cent. as the rate at which royalties are to be calculated, but no royalties<br />
shall be payable in respect of contrivances sold before the first day of July,<br />
nineteen hundred and thirteen, if contrivances reproducing the same work had<br />
been lawfully made, or placed on sale within the parts of His Majesty's<br />
dominions to which this Act extends before the first day of July, nineteen<br />
hundred and ten :<br />
(c) Notwithstanding any assignment made before the passing of this Act of the copy-<br />
right in a musical work, any rights conferred by this Act in respect of the<br />
makiny, or authorising the making, of contrivances by means of which the<br />
work may be mechanically performed shall belong to the author or his legal<br />
personal representatives and not to the assignee, and the royalties aforesaid<br />
shall be payable to, and for the benefit of, the author of the work or his legal<br />
personal representatives :<br />
(d) The saving contained in this Act of the rights and interests arising from, or in<br />
connexion with, action taken before the commencement of this Act shall not be<br />
construed as authorising any person who has made contrivances by means of<br />
which the work may be mechanically performed to sell any such contrivances,<br />
whether made before or after the passing of this Act, except on the terms and<br />
subject to the conditions laid down in this section :<br />
@) Where the work is a work on which copyright is conferred by an Order in<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 10 (#760) #############################################<br />
<br />
( 10 )<br />
Council relating to a foreign country, the copyright so conferred shall not,<br />
except to such extent as may be provided by the Order, include any rights with<br />
respect to the making of records, perforated rolls, or other contrivances by<br />
means of which the work may be mechanically performed.<br />
(8) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, where a record, perforated roll, or other<br />
contrivance by means of which sounds may be mechanically reproduced bas been made<br />
before the commencement of this Act, copyright shall, as from the commencement of<br />
this Act, subsist therein in like manner and for the like term as if this Act had been<br />
in force at the date of the making of the original plate from which the contrivance was<br />
directly or indirectly derived :<br />
Provided that<br />
(i) the person who, at the commencement of this Act, is the owner of such original<br />
- plate shall be the first owner of such copyright ; and<br />
(ii) nothing in this provision shall be construed as conferring copyright in any such<br />
contrivance if the making thereof would have infringed copyright in some.<br />
other such contrivance, if this provision had been in force at the time of the<br />
making of the first-mentioned contrivance.<br />
Provision as 20. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it shall not be an infringement of copy-<br />
to political<br />
right in an address of a political nature delivered at a public meeting to publish a report<br />
speeches.<br />
thereof in a newspaper.<br />
Provisions as<br />
21. The term for which copyright shall subsist in photographs shall be fifty years<br />
to photo-<br />
graphs.<br />
from the making of the original negative from which the photograph was directly or<br />
indirectly derived, and the person who was owner of such negative at the time when<br />
such negative was made shall be deemed to be the author of the work, and, where<br />
such owner is a body corporate, the body corporate shall be deemed for the purposes<br />
of this Act to reside within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act<br />
extends if it has established a place of business within such parts.<br />
Provisions as 22.-(1) This Act shall not apply to designs capable of being registered under the<br />
to designs<br />
Patents and Designs Act, 1907, except designs which, though capable of being so<br />
registrable<br />
registered, are not used or intended to be used as models or patterns to be multiplied by<br />
under<br />
7 Edw. 7,<br />
any 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 />
Works of<br />
23. If it appears to His Majesty that a foreign country does not give, or has not<br />
foreign undertaken to give, adequate protection to the works of British authors, it shall be lawful<br />
authors first for His Maja<br />
for His Majesty by Order in Council to direct that such of the provisions of this Act as<br />
published in<br />
parts of<br />
a confer copyright on works first published within the parts of His Majesty's dominions<br />
His Majesty's to which this Act extends, shall not apply to works published after the date specified in<br />
dominions to the Order, the authors whereof are subjects or citizens of such foreign country, and are<br />
which Act<br />
not resident in His Majesty's dominions, and thereupon those provisions shall not apply<br />
extends.<br />
to such works.<br />
Existing<br />
24.-(1) Where any person is immediately before the commencement of this Act<br />
works.<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 />
had been in force at the date when the work was made and the work had been one<br />
entitled 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 this<br />
Act has, before that date, assigned the right or granted any interest therein for<br />
the whole term of the right, then at the date when, but for the passing of this<br />
Act, the right would have expired, the substituted right conferred by this section<br />
c. 29.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 11 (#761) #############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
11<br />
shall, in the absence of express agreement, pass to the author of the work, and<br />
any interest therein created before the commencement of this Act and then<br />
subsisting shall determine ; but the person who immediately before the date at<br />
which the right would so have expired was the owner of the right or interest<br />
shall be entitled at his option either-<br />
(i) on giving such notice as hereinafter mentioned, to an assignment of the<br />
right or the grant of a similar interest therein for the remainder of the term<br />
of the right for such consideration as, failing agreement, may be determined<br />
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, if<br />
demanded by the author within three years after the date at which the right<br />
would have so expired, of such royalties to the author as, failing agreement,<br />
may be determined by arbitration, or, where the work is incorporated in a<br />
collective work and the owner of the right or interest is the proprietor of that<br />
collective work, without any such payment.<br />
The notice above referred to must be given not more than one year nor less<br />
than six months before the date at which the right would have so expired, and<br />
must be sent by registered post to the author, or, if he cannot with reasonable<br />
diligence be found, advertised in the London Gazette and in two London<br />
newspapers:<br />
(6) where any person has, before the twenty-sixth day of July nineteen hundred and<br />
ten, taken any action whereby he has incurred any expenditure or liability in<br />
connexion with the reproduction or performance of any work in a manner which<br />
at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with a view to the reproduction<br />
or performance of a work at a time when such reproduction or performance would,<br />
but for the passing of this Act, have been lawful, nothing in this section shall<br />
diminish or prejudice any rights or interest arising from or in connexion with<br />
such action which are subsisting and valuable at the said date, unless the<br />
person who by virtue of this section becomes entitled to restrain such reproduc-<br />
tion or performance agrees to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may<br />
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.<br />
(3) Subject to the provisions of section nineteen subsections (ū) and (8) and of section<br />
thirty-three of this Act, copyright shall not subsist in any work made before the<br />
commencement of this Act, otherwise than under, and in accordance with, the provisions<br />
of this section.<br />
Application to British Possessions.<br />
25.-(1) *This Act, except such of the provisions thereof as are expressly restricted to Application<br />
the United Kingdom, shall extend throughout His Majesty's dominions : Provided that it of Act to<br />
shall not extend to a self-governing dominion, unless declared by the Legislature of that<br />
dominions<br />
dominion to be in force therein either without any modifications or additions, or with such<br />
modifications and additions relating exclusively to procedure and remedies, or necessary<br />
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<br />
it 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<br />
enforcing the rights, or the restrictions on the importation of copies of works, manu-<br />
factured in a foreign country, under the law of the dominion, differ from those under<br />
this Act,<br />
British<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 12 (#762) #############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
12<br />
Legislative<br />
powers of<br />
self-govern-<br />
ing<br />
dominions.<br />
26.-(1) The Legislature of any self-governing dominion may, at any time, repeal<br />
all or any of the enactments relating to copyright passed by Parliament (including this<br />
Act) 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, that<br />
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 enactments<br />
repealed by this Act shall, so far as they are operative in that dominion, continue in force<br />
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 making<br />
of the work, resident within the first-mentioned dominion, and to works first published in<br />
that dominion ; but save as provided by such an Order, works the authors whereof were<br />
resident in a dominion to which this Act does not extend shall not, whether they are<br />
British subjects or not, be entitled to any protection under this Act except such protection<br />
as is by this Act conferred on works first published within the parts of His Majesty's<br />
dominions to which this Act extends :<br />
Provided that no such Order shall confer any rights within a self-governing dominion,<br />
but the Governor in Council of any self-governing dominion to which this Act extends,<br />
may, by Order, confer within that dominion the like rights as His Majesty in Council is,<br />
under the foregoing provisions of this subsection, authorised to confer within other parts<br />
of His Majesty's dominions.<br />
For the purposes of this subsection, 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 />
27. The Legislature of any British possession to which this Act extends may modify<br />
or add to any of the provisions of this Act in its application to the possession, but except<br />
so far as such modifications and additions relate to procedure and remedies, they shall<br />
apply only to works the authors whereof were at the time of the making of the work,<br />
resident in the possession, and to works first published in the possession.<br />
28. His Majesty may, by Order in Council, extend this Act to any territories under<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 />
Power of<br />
Legislatures<br />
of British<br />
possessions<br />
to pass sup.<br />
plemental<br />
legislation.<br />
Application<br />
to protec-<br />
torates.<br />
PART II.<br />
INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT.<br />
Power to<br />
extend Act<br />
to foreign<br />
works.<br />
29.-(1) His Majesty may, by Order in Council, direct that this Act (except such<br />
parts, if any, thereof as may be specified in the order) shall apply-<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 />
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<br />
a foreign country to which the Order relates, in like manner as if the authors<br />
were British subjects;<br />
(c) in respect of residence in a foreign country to which the Order relates, in like<br />
manner as if such residence were residence in the parts of His Majesty's<br />
dominions to which this Act extends;<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 13 (#763) #############################################<br />
<br />
( 13 )<br />
and thereupon, subject to the provisions of this part of this Act and of the Order, this<br />
Act shall apply accordingly :<br />
Provided that,<br />
(i) before making an Order in Council under this section in respect of any<br />
foreign country (other than a country with which His Majesty has entered<br />
into a convention relating to copyright), His Majesty shall be satisfied<br />
that that foreign country has made, or has undertaken to make, such<br />
provisions, if any, as it appears to His Majesty expedient to require for the<br />
protection of works entitled to copyright under the provisions of Part I<br />
of 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 conferred<br />
by the law of the country to which the order relates ;<br />
(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 Order in Council may provide that the enjoyment of the rights conferred<br />
by this Act shall be subject to the accomplishment of such conditions<br />
and formalities (if any) as may be prescribed by the Order ;<br />
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<br />
regard to the law of the foreign country;<br />
(vi) 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 498.5<br />
in any case where the right has ceased by virtue of section five of the c. 33.<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 />
30.-(1) An Order in Council under this part of this Act shall apply to all His Application<br />
• Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends ex pt self-governing dominions and any of Part 11. to<br />
other possession specified in the order with respect to which it appears to His Majesty<br />
✓ British<br />
o possessions.<br />
expedient that the Order should not apply.<br />
(2) The Governor in Council of any self-governing dominion to wbich this Act<br />
extends may, as respects that dominion, make the like orders as under this part of this Act<br />
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,<br />
with 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 as<br />
is necessary for preventing any prejudice to any rights acquired previously to the date of such<br />
Order.<br />
PART III,<br />
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS.<br />
31. No person shall be entitled to copyright or any similar right in any literary, Abrogation<br />
dramatic, musical, or artistic work, whether published or unpublished, otherwise than of common<br />
under and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or of any other statutory enact- law<br />
ment for the time being in force, but nothing in this section shall be construed as<br />
abrogating any right or jurisdiction to restrain a breach of trust or confidence.<br />
32.-(1) His Majesty in Council may make Orders for altering, revoking, or varying Provisions as<br />
any Order in Council made under this Act, or under any enactments repealed by this Act, to Orders in<br />
but any Order made under this section shall not affect prejudicially any rights or interests Council.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 14 (#764) #############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
14<br />
tion.<br />
acquired or accrued at the date when the Order comes into operation, and shall provide<br />
for 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 />
faring of<br />
33. Nothing in this Act shall deprive any of the universities and colleges mentioned<br />
university in the Copyright Act, 1775, of any copyright they already possess under that Act, but the<br />
copyright.<br />
remedies and penalties for infringement of any such copyright shall be under this Act and<br />
15 Geo. 3,<br />
c. 53.<br />
not under that Act.<br />
Saving of<br />
34. There shall continue to be charged on, and paid out of, the Consolidated Fund<br />
compensation of the United Kingdom such annual compensation as was immediately before the com-<br />
to certain mencement of this Act payable in pursuance of any Act as compensation to a library for<br />
libraries.<br />
the loss 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 />
Interpreta-<br />
35.—(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—<br />
* Literary work" includes maps, charts, plans, tables, and compilations ;<br />
“ Dramatic work” includes any piece for recitation, choreographic work or entertain-<br />
ment in dumb show, the scenic arrangement or acting form of which is fixed in<br />
writing or otherwise, and any cinematograph production where the arrangement or<br />
acting form or the combination of incidents represented give the work an original<br />
character;<br />
“Artistic work” includes works of painting, drawing, sculpture, and artistic crafts-<br />
manship, and architectural works of art and engravings and 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, or any model for such<br />
building or structure, provided that the protection afforded by this Act shall be<br />
confined to the artistic character and design, and shall not extend to processes or<br />
methods of 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 process<br />
analogous to photography;<br />
“ Cinematograph” includes any work produced by any process analogous to<br />
cinematography;<br />
* Collective work” means-<br />
(a) an encyclopædia, dictionary, year book, or similar work;<br />
(6) a newspaper, review, magazine, or similar periodical; and<br />
(c) any work written in distinct parts by different authors, or in which works or<br />
parts of works of different authors are incorporated;<br />
* Infringing," when applied to a copy of a work in which copyright subsists, means<br />
any copy, including any colourable imitation, made or imported in contravention<br />
of the provisions of this Act;<br />
* Performance” means any acoustic representation of a work and any visual repre-<br />
sentation of any dramatic action in a work, including such a representation made<br />
by means of any mechanical instrument;<br />
* Delivery,” in relation to a lecture, includes delivery by means of any mechanical<br />
instrument;<br />
“ Plate” includes any stereotype or other plate, stone, block, mould, matrix, transfer,<br />
or negative used or intended to be used for printing or reproducing copies of any work,<br />
and any matrix or other appliance by which records, perforated rolls or other con-<br />
trivances for the acoustic representation of the work 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 of<br />
Australia, the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, and<br />
Newfoundland.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 15 (#765) #############################################<br />
<br />
( 15<br />
)<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 />
administrators 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 has<br />
been published simultaneously in some other place, unless the publication in such parts of<br />
His Majesty's dominions as aforesaid is colourable only and is not intended to satisfy the<br />
reasonable requirements of the public, and a work shall be deemed to be published<br />
simultaneously in two places if the time between the publication in one such place and the<br />
publication in the other place does not exceed fourteen days, or such longer period as may,<br />
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 deemed<br />
to have been complied with, if the author was, during any substantial part of that period,<br />
a British subject or a resident within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this<br />
Act extends.<br />
(5) For the purposes of the provisions of this Act as to residence, an author of a work<br />
shall be deemed to be a resident in the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act<br />
extends if he is domiciled within any such part.<br />
36. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the enactments mentioned in the Second Repeal.<br />
Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that<br />
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 />
· 37.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 1911.<br />
Short title<br />
(2) This Act shall come into operation-<br />
and com-<br />
(a) in the United Kingdom, on the first day of July nineteen hundred and twelve or mencement.<br />
such earlier date as may be fixed by Order in Council ;<br />
(6) in a self-governing dominion to which this Act extends, at such date as may be<br />
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 />
<br />
<br />
## p. 16 (#766) #############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
16<br />
SCHEDULES.<br />
Section 24.<br />
FIRST SCHEDULE.<br />
EXISTING RIGHTS.<br />
Existing Right.<br />
Substituted Right,<br />
(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<br />
Copyright, but not performing right<br />
. Copyright as defined by this Act.*<br />
. Copyright as defined by this Act, except the sole<br />
right to perform the work or any substantial part<br />
thereof in public.<br />
| The sole right to perform the work in public, but<br />
none of the other rights comprised in copyright<br />
as defined by this Act.<br />
Performing right, but not copyright<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 />
“Perforining 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 review,<br />
magazine, or other periodical or work of a like nature, the right shall be subject to any right of<br />
publishing the essay, article, or portion in a separate form to which the author is entitled at the<br />
commencement of this Act, or would, if this Act had not been passed, have become entitled<br />
under section eighteen of the Copyright Act, 1842.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 17 (#767) #############################################<br />
<br />
( 17 )<br />
SECOND SCHEDULE.<br />
Section 36.<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 The Copyright Act, 1775 . .<br />
The whole Act.<br />
17 Geo. 3, c. 57 The Prints Copyright Act, 1777<br />
The whole Act.<br />
54 Geo. 3, c. 56 The Sculpture Copyright Act, 1814 . . The whole Act.<br />
3 & 4 Will. 4, The Dramatic Copyright Act, 1833. . The whole Act.<br />
c. 15.<br />
5 & 6 Will. 4, The Lectures Copyright Act, 1835. . The whole Act.<br />
c. 65.<br />
6 & 7 Will. 4, | The Prints and Engravings Copyright The whole Act.<br />
C. 59.<br />
(Ireland) Act, 1836.<br />
6 & 7 Will. 4, The Copyright Act, 1836 . . . . The whole Act.<br />
c. 110.<br />
5 & 6 Vict. The Copyright Act, 1842 . . . . The whole Act.<br />
c. 45.<br />
7 & 8 Vict. The International Copyright Act, 1844 . The whole Act.<br />
c. 12.<br />
10 & 11 Vict. The Colonial Copyright Act, 1847 . :) The whole Act.<br />
c. 95.<br />
15 & 16 Vict. The International Copyright Act, 1852 . The whole Act.<br />
c. 12.<br />
25 & 26 Vict. The Fine Arts Copyright Act, 1862 . . Sections one to six. In section<br />
C. 68.<br />
eight the words "and pursuant<br />
“to any Act for the protection<br />
“of copyright engravings,"<br />
and “and in any such Act as<br />
“aforesaid.” Sections nine to<br />
twelve.<br />
38 & 39 Vict. The International Copyright Act, 1875 . The whole Act.<br />
c. 12.<br />
39 & 40 Vict. The Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 . Section forty-two, from “ Books<br />
c. 36.<br />
“wherein " to " such copy-<br />
“ right will expire.” Sections<br />
forty-four, forty-five, and one<br />
hundred and fifty-two.<br />
4. & 46 Vict. The Copyright (Musical Compositions) The whole Act.<br />
c. 40.<br />
Act, 1882.<br />
49 & 50 Vict. The International Copyright Act, 1886 . The whole Act.<br />
c. 33.<br />
51 & 52 Vict. The Copyright (Musical Compositions) The whole Act.<br />
c. 17.<br />
Act, 1888.<br />
52 & 53 Vict. The Revenue Act, 1889 . . . . Section one, from “ Books first<br />
c. 42.<br />
"published” to “as provided<br />
“in that section."<br />
6 Edw. 7, c. 36 The Musical Copyright Act, 1906 . . In section three the words “and<br />
“which has been registered<br />
“in accordance with the pro-<br />
“visions of the Copyright Act,<br />
“ 1812, or of the International<br />
“ Copyright Act, 1844, which<br />
“ registration may be effected<br />
“notwithstanding anything in<br />
“the International Copyright<br />
“ Act, 1886."<br />
A.S.<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. (#768) ################################################<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 1 (#769) ##############################################<br />
<br />
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1912.—No. 532.<br />
COPYRIGHT,<br />
THE COPYRIGHT ROYALTY SYSTEM (GENERAL) REGULATIONS, 1912.<br />
DATED JUNE 7, 1912.<br />
The Board of Trade, in pursuance of the powers<br />
conferred by Section 3 of the Copyright Act, 1911,<br />
hereby make the following regulations :-<br />
PRELIMINARY.<br />
(1.) These Regulations may be cited as the Copy-<br />
right Royalty System (General) Regulations, 1912,<br />
and shall come into operation on the 1st day of<br />
July, 1912.<br />
NOTICE.<br />
(2.) The notice required by Section 3 of the<br />
Copyright Act, 1911, shall contain the following<br />
particulars :-<br />
(a.) The name and address of the person<br />
intending to reproduce the work;<br />
(6.) the name of the work which it is intended<br />
to reproduce and (if necessary) a descrip-<br />
tion sufficient to identify it;<br />
(c.) the manner in which it is intended to<br />
reproduce the work (e.g., whether by<br />
printing, lithography, photography, &c.);<br />
(d.) the price or prices at which it is intended<br />
to publish the work ;<br />
(e.) the earliest date at which any of the copies<br />
will be delivered to a purchaser.<br />
(3.) The notice shall, not less than one month<br />
before any copies of the work are delivered to a<br />
purchaser, be sent by registered post or published by<br />
advertisement as follows :-<br />
(a.) If the name and an address within the<br />
United Kingdom of the owner of the<br />
copyright, or his agent for the receipt of<br />
notice, are known or can with reason-<br />
able diligence be ascertained, the notice<br />
shall be sent to such owner or agent at<br />
such address;<br />
(6.) if such name and address are not known<br />
and cannot with reasonable diligence<br />
be ascertained the notice shall be<br />
advertised in the London Gazette ; the<br />
advertisement in the London Gazette<br />
shall give the particulars required by<br />
paragraphs (a.) and (b.) of Regulation (2.),<br />
and shall also state an address from<br />
which a copy of the notice described in<br />
Regulation (2.) may be obtained.<br />
PAYMENT OF ROYALTIES.<br />
(4.)–(a.) Unless otherwise agreed royalties shall<br />
be payable by means of adhesive labels purchased<br />
from the owner of the copyright and affixed to the<br />
copies of the work.<br />
After the person reproducing the work has given<br />
the prescribed notice of his intention to reproduce<br />
the work the owner of the copyright shall by<br />
writing sent by registered post intimate to him<br />
some reasonably convenient place within the United<br />
Kingdom from which adhesive labels can be<br />
obtained and on demand in writing and tender of<br />
the price shall supply from such place adhesive<br />
labels of the required denominations at a price equal<br />
to the amount of royalty represented thereby.<br />
Subject to these regulations, no copy of the work<br />
shall be delivered to a purchaser until such label or<br />
labels denoting the amount of royalty have been<br />
affixed thereto.<br />
(6.) In cases when royalties are payable by<br />
means of adhesive labels if at any time labels of the<br />
required denomination are not available either<br />
because<br />
(i.) after the expiration of fourteen days from<br />
the date of the prescribed notice the<br />
owner of the copyright has not duly sent<br />
to the person reproducing the work an<br />
intimation of some reasonably convenient<br />
place within the United Kingdom from<br />
which such labels can be obtained ; or<br />
(ii.) the owner of the copyright refuses or<br />
neglects to supply such labels within<br />
fourteen days after demand duly made,<br />
copies of the work may be delivered to purchasers<br />
without having labels affixed thereto ; and the<br />
amount of royalties shall be a debt due from the<br />
person reproducing the work to the owner of the<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 2 (#770) ##############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
2<br />
copyright, and the person reproducing the work shall the design to be entirely enclosed within a circle<br />
keep an account of all such copies sold by bim. and the side of the label not to be greater than<br />
(c.) For the purposes of this regulation “the i inch in length. The label shall not bear the<br />
date of the prescribed notice ” means-<br />
effigy of the Sovereign or any other person, nor any<br />
(i.) in cases when the notice is required to be word mark or design such as to suggest that the<br />
sent by registered post, the date when label is issued by or under the authority of the<br />
the notice would in ordinary course of Government for the purpose of denoting any duty<br />
post be delivered ;<br />
payable to the Government.<br />
in cases when the notice is required to be<br />
advertised in the London Gazette, the<br />
INTERPRETATION.<br />
date of such advertisement.<br />
(d.) Where royalties are by agreement payable in<br />
(6.) In these Regulations the expression “ owner<br />
any other mode than by means of adhesive labels<br />
labels of the copyright” has the same meaning as in<br />
the time and frequency of the payment shall be<br />
Section 3 of the Copyright Act, 1911.<br />
such as are specified in the agreement.<br />
Dated this 7th day of June, 1912.<br />
(e.) The adhesive label supplied as aforesaid<br />
H. LLEWELLYN SMITH,<br />
shall be an adhesive paper label, square in shape,<br />
Secretary to the Board of Trade.<br />
(ii.)<br />
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1912.—No. 533.<br />
COPYRIGHT.<br />
THE COPYRIGHT ROYALTY SYSTEM (MECHANICAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS)<br />
REGULATIONS, 1912. DATED JUNE 7, 1912.<br />
The Board of Trade, in pursuance of the powers<br />
conferred by Section 19 (6) of the Copyright Act,<br />
1911, hereby make the following regulations :<br />
PRELIMINARY.<br />
(1.) These Regulations may be cited as the Copy-<br />
right Royalty System (Mechanical Musical Instru-<br />
ments) Regulations, 1912, and shall 'come into<br />
operation on the 1st day of July, 1912.<br />
NOTICE.<br />
(2.) The notice required by Section 19 (2) of the<br />
Copyright Act, 1911, sball contain the following<br />
particulars :<br />
(a.) The name and address of the person<br />
intending to make the contrivances ;<br />
(b.) the name of the musical work which it is<br />
intended to reproduce and of the author<br />
(if known); aud (if necessary) a descrip-<br />
tion sufficient to identify the musical<br />
work ;<br />
(c.) the class of contrivance on which it is<br />
intended to reproduce the musical work<br />
(e.g., whether discs, cylinders or music<br />
rolls) ;<br />
(d.) the ordinary retail selling prices of the<br />
contrivances, and the amount of the<br />
royalty payable on each contrivance in<br />
respect of the musical work;<br />
(e.) the earliest date at which any of the<br />
contrivances will be delivered to a<br />
purchaser ;<br />
(f.) whether any other work is to be repro-<br />
duced on the same contrivance with the<br />
musical work specified in accordance<br />
with paragraph (b.).<br />
(3.) The notice shall, not less than 10 days<br />
before any contrivances on which the musical work<br />
is reproduced are delivered to a purchaser, be sent<br />
by registered post or published by advertisement as<br />
follows :-<br />
(a.) If the name and an address within the<br />
United Kingdom of the owner of the<br />
copyright, or his agent for the receipt of<br />
notice, are known or can with reasonable<br />
diligence be ascertained, the notice shall<br />
be sent to such owner or agent at such<br />
address ;<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 3 (#771) ##############################################<br />
<br />
(<br />
)<br />
3<br />
(6.) if such name and address are not known making the contrivances to the owner of the copy-<br />
and cannot with reasonable diligence be right and the person making the contrivances shall<br />
ascertained, the notice shall be advertised keep an account of all such contrivances sold by<br />
in the London Gazette; the advertise him.<br />
ment in the London Gazette shall give (c.) For the purposes of this Regulation “ the<br />
the particulars required by paragraphs date of the prescribed notice" means<br />
(a.) and (b.) of Regulation (2.), and shall (i.) in cases where the notice is required to be<br />
also state an address from which a copy<br />
sent by registered post, the date when<br />
of the notice described in Regulation (2.)<br />
the notice would in ordinary course of<br />
may be obtained. Any number of<br />
post be delivered ;<br />
musical works may be included in the (ii.) in cases where the notice is required to<br />
same advertisement.<br />
be advertised in the London Gazette, the<br />
The notice may be given either before<br />
date of such advertisement.<br />
or after the 1st day of July, 1912.<br />
(d.) in cases where royalties are payable on con-<br />
trivances made before the commencement of the<br />
PAYMENT OF ROYALTIES.<br />
Copyright Act, 1911, the person making such con-<br />
(4.)—(a.) Unless otherwise agreed, royalties shall<br />
trivances may give notice of his intention to sell<br />
be payable by means of adhesive labels purchased<br />
them, containing mutatis mutandis the same par-<br />
from the owner of the copyright and affixed in the ticulars and given in the same manner as is pre-<br />
manner provided by these Regulations.<br />
scribed by these Regulations in the case of the<br />
After the person making the contrivances has notice required by Section 19 (2) of the Copyright<br />
given the prescribed notice of his intention to make Act, 1911.<br />
or sell the contrivances, the owner of the copyright (e.) Where royalties are by agreement payable in<br />
shall by writing sent by registered post intimate to any other mode than by means of adhesive labels,<br />
bim some reasonably convenient place within the the time and frequency of the payment shall be<br />
United Kingdom from which adhesive labels can such as are specified in the agreement.<br />
be obtained and on demand in writing and tender (1) The adhesive label supplied as aforesaid<br />
of the price shall supply from such place adhesive<br />
shall be an adhesive paper label, square in shape,<br />
labels of the required denominations at a price<br />
the design to be entirely enclosed within a circle<br />
equal to the amount of royalty represented thereby.<br />
reby and the side of the label not to be greater than<br />
and the side of the<br />
Subject to these Regulations no contrivance shall<br />
inch in length. The label shall not bear the<br />
be delivered to a purchaser until such label or effigy of the Sovereign or any other person, nor<br />
labels denoting the amount of royalty have been<br />
any word, mark, or design such as to suggest that<br />
affixed thereto, or in the case of cylinders, to which<br />
the label is issued by or under the authority of the<br />
it is not reasonably practicable to affix the labels,<br />
Government for the purpose of denoting any duty<br />
until such label or labels have been affixed to a payable to the Government.<br />
carton or box enclosing the cylinder.<br />
(b.) In cases where royalties are payable by<br />
ORDINARY RETAIL SELLING PRICE.<br />
means of adhesive labels if at any time labels of<br />
the required denominations are not available either (5.) The ordinary retail selling price of any con-<br />
because<br />
trivance shall be calculated at the marked or<br />
(i.) after the expiration of five days from the catalogued selling price of single copies to the<br />
date of the prescribed notice of the public, or, if there is no such marked or catalogued<br />
intention of the person making the con- selling price, at the highest price at which single<br />
trivances to make or sell such contri. copies are ordinarily sold to the public.<br />
vances the owner of the copyright has<br />
not duly sent to the person making the<br />
INQUIRIES<br />
contrivances an intimation of some<br />
reasonably convenient place within the (6.) The inquiries referred to in Section 19 (5)<br />
United Kingdom from which such labels of the Copyright Act, 1911, shall be directed to the<br />
can be obtained ; or<br />
owner of the copyright by name or (if his name is<br />
(ii.) the owner of the copyright refuses or not known and cannot with reasonable diligence be<br />
neglects to supply such labels within ascertained) in general terms to “the owner of the<br />
three days after demand duly made, copyright " of the musical work in respect of which<br />
contrivances may be delivered to purchasers the inquiries are made, and shall contain-<br />
without having labels affixed thereto or to the (a.) a statement of the name of the musical<br />
carton or box enclosing the same ; and the amount<br />
work in respect of which the inquiries<br />
of royalties shall be a debt due from the person<br />
are made and of the author (if known),<br />
<br />
<br />
## p. 4 (#772) ##############################################<br />
<br />
( 4 )<br />
and (if necessary) a description sufficient<br />
to identify it;<br />
(6.) a statement of the name, address and<br />
occupation of the person making the<br />
inquiries ;<br />
(c.) an allegation that a contrivance has<br />
previously been made by means of which<br />
the musical work may be mechanically<br />
performed, with the trade name (if<br />
known) and a description of such<br />
contrivance ;<br />
(d.) an inquiry whether the contrivance so<br />
described was made with the consent or<br />
acquiescence of the owner of the copy-<br />
right.<br />
(7.) The inquiries shall be sent by registered<br />
post or published by advertisement as follows ;-<br />
(a.) if an address within the United Kingdom<br />
of the owner of the copyright is known<br />
or can with reasonable diligence be<br />
ascertained the inquiries shall be sent to<br />
such address ; or<br />
(6.) if such address is not known and cannot<br />
with reasonable diligence be ascertained<br />
the inquiries shall be advertised in the<br />
London Gazette.<br />
(8.) The prescribed time for reply to such<br />
inquiries shall be :-<br />
(a.) in cases where the inquiries are required<br />
to be sent by registered post seven days<br />
after the date when the inquiries would<br />
in ordinary course of post be delivered ;<br />
(6.) in cases where the inquiries are required to<br />
be advertised in the London Gazette seven<br />
days after the date of such advertise-<br />
ment.<br />
INTERPRETATION.<br />
(9.) In these Regulations the expression “ owner<br />
of the copyright” has the same meaning as in<br />
Section 19 (2) of the Copyright Act, 1911.<br />
Dated this 7th day of June, 1912.<br />
H. LLEWELLYN SMITH,<br />
Secretary to the Board of Trade | https://historysoa.com/files/original/5/435/1912-07-01-The-Author-22-10.pdf | publications, The Author |
| 436 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/436 | Copyright Act, 1911 (1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3ECopyright+Act%2C+1911%26nbsp%3B%3C%2Fem%3E%281912%29"><em>Copyright Act, 1911 </em>(1912)</a> | A reprint of the Copyright Act as amended 16 December 1911. | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | <a href="https://historysoa.com/The-Author-Issues/1912-07-01-The-Author-22-10">Supplement to <em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 10</a> | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-07-01-Supplement-22-10-Copyright-Act-1911 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-07-01">1912-07-01</a> | | | | | | | 10 | | | 19120701 | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/4/436/1912-07-01-Supplement-22-10-Copyright-Act-1911.pdf | copyright, international, publications, The Author |
| 437 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/437 | Copyright: The Copyright Royalties System (General) Regulations (1912) | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=%3Cem%3ECopyright%3A+The+Copyright+Royalties+System+%28General%29+Regulations%3C%2Fem%3E+%281912%29"><em>Copyright: The Copyright Royalties System (General) Regulations</em> (1912)</a> | Dated 7 June 1912. | | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015039402600</a> | | | | | <a href="https://historysoa.com/The-Author-Issues/1912-07-01-The-Author-22-10">Supplement to <em>The Author</em>, Vol. 22 Issue 10</a> | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Publication">Publication</a> | 1912-07-01-Supplement-22-10-Statutory-Rules-and-Orders-1912 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=89&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=22">22</a> | | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=76&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1912-07-01">1912-07-01</a> | | | | | | | 10 | | | 19120701 | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/4/437/1912-07-01-Supplement-22-10-Statutory-Rules-and-Orders-1912.pdf | copyright, publications, The Author |